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A lover of opera goes to as La Bohème, after it has passed through the hands of a cinema pro- ducer, with some trepidation; but the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Company is to be most highly congratulated on their success and thanked for giving thousands the pleasure that La Bohème, sa opera, can give to comparatively faw, The pathetic appeal of the story is often marred, even for music lovers, by the in-
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The match on the Club ground LA BOHEME AT THE QUEEN'S. VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDS- Cast Saturday was a very interest-} ing one and there was quità' a' thrilling finish. It is possible that shock of being put in by the Single shock the Married up. All the same they managed, thanks to Pearce, Bridgeland and Gardner, to collect a useful 209, though there very useful bata-Hayward, Morris (who had a bad patch), and Evers-failed to come off. But the bowling of the Married was pretty wonk, and the Single pulled it off, though only by one wicket
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The Becond Division,--
The poor old Hong Kong Second gos a bad beating from the Univer- sity II. but they were two short. But I confess I never expected Tamar to put it across the Kowloon second string, But Tamar appear to have their cars wall back at pro sent, and I should not be entirely surprised to see them beat H.K.C.C II. to-morrow.
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