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THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH. 1926.

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CHRISTMAS MATINEES

The Theatre Royal

DECEMBER 22nd & 23rd

AT

4.30 PM.

IN AID OF

THE MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE

AND

THE SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

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“SONS OF THE SHEIK."

PLEASANT PENZANCE PIRATES.

THREE DESERT WEDDINGS.

MOROCCAN CAPITAL EN FETE.

PERFORMING IN THEATRE NOT AT-SEAL

XMAS MAIL'S..

TO THE U.S.A. AND CANADA,

The Christmas mails for the United

ONE OF THE JOLLIEST GILBERT States and Canada alosed yesterday morning, and were despatched by the SULLIVAN'S.

Blue Funnel Line as. Protérilaur.

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Word

MERRIE ENGLAND

MODERN

TIMES.

LIVELY DEBATE AT EUROPEAN YMCA

SOME PITHY EPIGRAMS.

The long road from Casa Blanca to Marrakesh the Red, the southern capital

Here in Hong Kong it is not so ear There were 2 registered packages in The opening debate of the winter of Morocco, has become a racing-track, as in England to see the humorous side of

of the Literary and Debating says a recent number of the Daily Mail Firacy. However, it has one, so at least eight bags; and 74 bags of other mail, se5905 Streams of motor-cars and motor-coaches those doughty knights of the gallant all letters and papers, with the exception Society of the European YMCA, Kow- Victorian age Sir William Gilbert and of seven bags containing parcels. Twenty-loon, was held on Thursday night, when are rushing with passengers to the a-Sir Arthur Sullivan fully believed, and two of the bags were from Hongkong. the Rev. HA Wittenbach in moving cient city to witness the festivities at bringing their heads together the impact tending the marriages on October 28th caused a delightful result: "The Pirates On the previous day the 1. President the resolution said that "the days of Madison carried Christmas mails, Merris England were happier than those of Penzance. of the Sultan of Morocco's three sons to

Suppose it had happened here-that it amounting to 921 registarod packages in of the Y.M.0.A. Literary and Debating their first cousing

"wonderful Marrakesh presented

was solemnly and amicially reported, in spectacle. Natives from all parts of the newspapers and government gazettes that 15 bags; and 391 bags of other mail, Society." "Happiness," he said, "is peace and contentment, but there is no country arrived in thousands, about 500 another British ship was pirated in the including 57 bage of parcels,

The Macedonia brought 419 bags of peace and contentment to-day. The old caids came mostly in motor-cars, bring waters of the Colony a day or so ago,

apresenta of money to help the celebra- but on the pirate band finding that the mail from Hame and Europe, of which days, when young men and women were tions. Others rode in mounted upon oflcers, passengers and crew magnificently caparisoned steeds, with orphans, they wept bitterly, and released 1 bags contained letters and papers happy to dance round the Maypole, care saddles of woven gold and crimson the ship with many apologies! All who from the United Kingdom. She also free and unrestrained, have been replaced

know their Gilbert-Sullivan are aware making a gorgeous sight."

that this is, in brief, the plot of The brought 71 bags of parcels from Home. by a striving for speed and yet more The Karmala arrived yesterday morn-speed. The care-free yokels of the old Pirates or Penzance," which the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society is presenting ing with 204 bags of mail from the days have been replaced by blaze young next month.

North, which included eight bags from Honte vid Siberia, and 14 hags from the men, who go through life perpetually

route. The bored... Continent via the same Karmala takes the outward Home mail

Modern inventions, he urged, had not to-day.

made life happier. Nothing was more fraying to the nerves.than the telephone the motor-car had introduced a few more lars into the world; and steamships had drawn folks away from the family circle. The swain of old serenaded his lady love from below the window. The modern young man breezes round and dins out a mournful note on his motor horn.

Tribal War-Cry. Any European observer was struck by the mixture of the old and the new order of things. A rich caid threading his way However, the whole story is more ola. in an immense limousine through a crowdborate than that. Little Frederick was of tribesmen from the Atlas mountains, apprenticed to a pirate, instead of a pilot, who twirl their long guns above their by Ruth the Pirate Maid of all Work, heads and shout their tribal warcry, who thought that the two words were would be followed by a party of young so much alike," has when our story shopkeepers in a very cheap Americanepens just become twenty-one and on at motor-car, adding to the dust and din." taining this age proposes to leave the Then would come à dignified old manband and devote himself to their exter with a long white beard and a venerable nation. He wishes to leave Ruth be aspect, riding a mule and wrapped in the hind, but the "Pirate King insists that atmosphere of a previous generation. he takes her with him. However, on see-

The activity in the native markets was

ing the "Bevy of Beauteous Maidens" enormous, and the shopkeepers soon

he finds that Ruth, the only, woman be made enough to compensate them for the has aver sen, and always insisted on contributions previously levied.

her youth and beauty, has deceived him, that she is old and ugly and Mabol is his true love...

The Wedding Day. "The crash of big gunfire followed by bursts of riile fire at the break of dawn ushered in the wedding day of the three sons of the Sultan, of Morocco.

Shortly afterwards horsemen came into the city of Marrakesh to escort the three bridegrooms to their father and the wait ing brides.

The pirates band then eaters and cap.. ture the ladies, who are all daughters of Major-General Stanley, but on finding that the latter. is an orphan, release. them, at the same time electing them

Members of our band.".

At the beginning of the second act we Within the great red walls the din and have the old Major-General in the throes dust were terrifc, with donkeys camels, of, remorse, for having told a regular mules, horse cabs, and motor-cars all terrible story in that he is not an pushing their way through crowds of orphan boy, but Mabel consoles him by of pedestrians in the narrow streets. reminding him that Frederick's devoted Thereupon the The Sultan's vast parade grounds, sur- followers are at hand.

"Policemen's Chorus" enters, rounded by high red walls, groves of famous olives, cypresses and palms, artificial which although ready to do it's duty, lakes and green-tiled summer-houses, doesn't like too much danger attached to were packed with spectators. On duy it. "We go! We go," they sing again as police were the Sultan's famous guards and again until the exasperated general in their scarlet uniforms, white turbans,exclaims, "but damn you don't go." and white Highland spats, their band Frederick, who is to lead the gallant marching from square to square playing police, is stopped by Ruth and the King, who inform him, that as he is only five native and European tunes.

This afternoon the as President Jackson (Admiral Oriental Lone) is due with mail from U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai.

EASTERN PORTS' HEALTH BULLETIN,

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The health bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending November 5th, states:

PLAGUE

15 enses at Mauritius. 2 cases at Rangoon.

CHOLERA

34 cases at Calcutta,

1 case at Negapatam.

2 cases at Singapore. 27 cases at Haiphong. 6 cases at Tourane. 3 cases at Bangkok.

SMALL-POX.

4 cases at Durban. 10 cases at Calcutta.

1 case at Singapore. cases at Bangkok,

1 care at Kobe.

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Mr. Wittenbach's final point was that to-day people were striving to restore the old folk dances with a view to recaptur ing the spirit of old days.

Mr. W. Walker who seconded said that dissatisfaction was caused by modern inventions. Employers

expected the modern young man to be a oog in the wheel of a machine which grinded con- tinually.

For the other side Mr. Sapsed made a very clever defence of modern times. He stressed the atrides made in education. and said large numbers of men were never happier than when overhauling machine.

CHINESE FRESCOES AT BRITISH of the speakers.

MUSEUM.

Some of the most remarkable paintings in the world are being prepared for er- Ahibition at the British Museum on Decem-

ber 17th.

In the biggest of these squares, with and a little bit over by birth-days, having crowds lined up an every side, the been born on February 29th, he is still Sultan sat in the upper storey of a sorta member of the band, and he being of turret, his wives on each side of him Slave to Duty" admits this, and betrays

the General.

They are archaic Chinese frescoes and behind a silk veil.

Thousands of rifles were fired as the The pirates enter and, in their encoun,

are the property of Mr. George Eumor bridegrooms, superbly mounted," rode ter with the police, defeat the latter, fopoulos, a millionaire Greek merchant, solemnly with their hoods drawn over only when commanded In Queen Vic-who owns what is believed to be the most valuable collection of Oriental their faces, surrounded by some of their taria's name" to submit in their turn. closest friends, also covered, and their The General then orders them to be china pottery in the world. The frescoes attendants on either side waving off the taken away to the bar, but on being in- are invaluable, had of such a size that Bies with silk scarves. There was a wild formed by Ruth thatThey are all great difficulty was experienced in bring. "orders them to ing them from Chins, and all were coa rush by spectators, to get, closer, but the noblemen gone wrong princes, followed by a crowd of the prin-"Resume their legislative duties" at the veyed from the interior of the province cipal native chiefs of Morocco, were able same time "handing them his daughters. of Chihli in sections. to continue their ride towards the Sultan. The opera ends happily with the fair Ruth The paintings represent Buddha in attitude's, and are highly On the left of the Sultan was a stand of summers forty-seven, reclining on the varying in which were M Steeg, the Frenchmanly breast of the Sergeant of Police. Resident-General. în Morocco, Mme. The opera, apart from its burlesque, has Steeg, and the French staff.

some clever parodies of well known airs from Italian opera, and these take some singing, and are real gems of light operatic music.

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As the princes approached the Sultan wave after wave of horsemen crossed the square at full gallop; the music grew louder and louder, the shooting became almost continuous. Clouds of dust and smoke obscured the view of almost every- one til the princes entered the palace for the cficial ceremony.”

October 28th was chosen for the mar riage because traditier, supposed to have been handed down from the prophets, says that high-class natives have always married on Sunday or Thursday. Prefer- ence is given to the latter day.

Since Iolanthe" was performed last December, the Society has lost some of their principals, Mr. G. H. Pierey, Mr. and Mrs. Collett, and Mrs. Mathieson, Of the old having left the Colony. bands," Mrs Bowes-Smith, who was Phyllis in "Iolanthe" is taking the strenuous part of Mabel, Mr. Brock again plays the Harry Lytton part of Major-General Stanley, one of Gilbert's typically humorous studies. Mr. Richards, is Frederick, the apprentice. Mr. Keown, whose fine baritone has been often heard on. the concert platform is to be the Pirate King, and Mr. R. C. Watt is singing Ruth. The Sergeant of Police is must humorous portrayed by. Eng.- Lieut. Bedella, HN. Mr. Fleming wields the baton and under his supervision an excellent chorus has been gathered to- gether. The Society's Orchestra is aug- lan-mented by the "Ubique Orchestra, which has been trained by Mr. D. 8. Hill Booking opens on Monday next at Anderson's, the prices being 83, and

A feature of the feasting that started on the Thursday night and were kept up the next 10 or 12 days was the perpetual drinking of green tea flavoured with ambergris.

After the marriage ceremony which was strictly in private the bridegrooms were conducted to their brides. They were taken in a procession of many thousands of people, including women and children, all carrying torches and coloured terns, making a dazzling sight..

TWO V.C.'S IN COURT.- ONE DEFENDS THE OTHER.

Two holders of the Victoria Cross figured recently in a case at West Ham Police Court,

They were Job Henry Charles Drain, a motor-omnibus driver, of Barking, who was summoned by the West Ham Cor- poration for obstructing & tramway track

$1, soldiers and sailors in uniform being admitted half price to the $2 and $1 seats. Tae dates are inserted elsewhere in this issue, and we advise our readers to book early.

A MAYORAL PUZZLE. HUSBAND AS DEPUTY MAYOR TO WIFE_

with his omnibus, and Mr. B. Mackay A mayoress, whose mother is a mayor, Cloutman, who defeaded him.

whose father is a deputy mayor, and whose younger sister is a deputy mayoress, will be married early next year to an ex-Oxford rowing Blue.

The driver wore his decoration, one of the first awarded in the Great War at Le Cateau on August 28th, 1914, for helping to save guos under fire from She is Miss Aileen Cottrell, and her hostile infantry only 100 yards away. Mr. mother has been elected at the mayoral Cloutman" gained mis, the last to be clections as mayor of West Bromwich. earned on the Somme, on November 8th, Her father, who has been mayor for the 1918, for swimming alone across a river past two years, automatically becomes and under heavy fire cutting away the deputy mayor, nod Miss Aileen Cottrell, leads from a bridge which the enemy has been chosen to act as mayoress to had prepared to blow up

her mother. Her younger sister, Miss It as stated that Drain's omnibus Grace Cottrell, who is only fifteen, and kept on the track in front of a tramway-is at school at Clifton, has been chosen car for about half a mile despite the re by her father as deputy mayoress.

The engagement has been kept pestar se, of the gong by the way, secret, Mr. Cottrell said to a newspaper Drain, who has been employed by the representative. I wish," he added.

his beer London General Omnibus Company for that we could have kept this tangled some years, said he could not draw clear story of mayors and their deputies secret of the tramway line because erclists were as well. in the way. **

It is disconcerting, to say the least Mr St. John Morrow, the magistrate, of it. Letters come to the house address- dismissing the case," said it should nevered the mayoress: my wife,

who is still have been brought, and he awarded £2 28. mayoress, opens them, and finds that they conts against the prosecution.

are meant for my elder daughter."

tramway

coloured.

Mr. A. S. D. Cousland who presided expressed pleasure at the high standard of the debate. He was glad to see that' it had been treated in light vein by some The rating resulted in the motion being lost by 18 votes to 17.

On the Target. Some pithy epigrams were made, among them the following:

"The dignity of the minuet may have been suitable for those days, but give me the one-step."

When Friar Tuck wanted ham and eggs, he just took his weapon and crown- ed some one for it. Those days must have been far superior to those of to- day."

A man cannot take pride in screwing ene nut on a Ford car; I don't know what he can think of the finished article." "Some-one spoke of gramophones, but he cannot possibly live in the Y.M.C.A."

"Old music was beautiful and romaa- tic; jazz is merely passionate distortion."

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