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head of the Republic has to Two Chinese cases of entoria (one "QUALITY STREET shoulder duties that in England are | imported) were notified on Wednes-

day.

AT THE QUEEN'S.

BARRIE'S CHARMING

UNREALITY.

A reception will be held on Tues- day, June 10th in the St. Andrew's Church Hall Kowloon, to bid fare- ELEANORE NINON AND LEO well to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin,

MANTON,

shared by the Prime Minister, the King and the whole Royal Family. Mr. RoosEVELT, with his amazing vitality and cowboy physique posi

He tively rejoiced in his task, was able to rattle through routine business at a speed that left his secretaries aghast, he could always speak up to top form without a moment's preparation, and, above

Sir James Harrie's tenderly all, his iron fist could endure the Canton Road, Kowloon, yesterday

ridiculous "Quality Street" bas thousand handshakes a day that morning. A twelve-year-old Chi unavoidably suffered in the sophis are a form of positive torture to nese girl was injured by a motorticated atmosphere of Hollywood, Royalty and prominent public men lorry and she died before medical

2 There was motor fatality Lo

aid could be summoned.

robbery of two boxes of gold ingots from the steam launch. Wo Fat

but most of all to the President of democratic America. The met culous WOODROW WILSON took, to

The Chiness who was brought himself the added, burden of per-

io foreign back front Canton to face a charge senal participation affairs.

But Mr. WILSON had of having been concerned in the illusion about the high office whose burdeá killed him. "The Presi dent." he said bitterly, "is only a national exhibit. There are bless. ed moments when I am able to forget," he added. "One means is to get after some criminal in a rattling detective story and chase him to the end." One day while OK-ing the usual swarm of in- significant documents Wixsor chal lenged a group of callers as to the origin of the eiga. Some thought

Shing in the harbour, was commit ted for trial by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy.

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[BY OUR FILM CRITIC]

I remember seeing the play per- formed by a girls' school. They were excoptionally lucky in the a quite competeąt

inclusion in

| caste of one young lady of rea

talent. Despite various crudities and home made stage properties, this performance will always repre- sent" Quality Street" to me, and I believe that if the author had witnessed it be would have agreed that the spirit of his play" could" not have been better expressed. Perhaps the male characters were rather absurd, but then most of Barrie's men are, particularly. Dr. Valentine Brown

Through the courtesy of

Mr. Conrad Nagel is very hand- Manager of the H.K. Amusement come and dashing but I felt that Co. the Sacred Heart College will he was irked by the pompous and rather ridiculous words of bis script. He liked his uniform but

hold the Annual Distribution of

inst. at 11 am. Mr. Wong Kwong Tin will distribute the rizes.

it the "Oll Korrect" of ANDREWprizes and the Celebration of the very much disliked having to con- JACKSON of a less cultured day. sixth Anniversary of the College at form to the primness demanded by the genteel, females who lived in "No," answered the echolarly the Star Theatre on Saturday, 16th Quality Street. President and be spelled the word "O-k-e-h." That is a real may- ing in the Choctaw dialect and means "it is so." "The Exhibit," then went on O K-ing documents to the delectation of a deeply in preesed delegation, Sixty years

Probate of the will of the late Mr. Roderick Mackenzie Gray, who died at Cherrywood, Leden, Col-

ago when this sort of thing was

chester, England, on December beginning ABRAHAM LINCOLN had a

13th, 1997, has been granted to Mr. rougher way with pushers and P. C. Potts, of Messrs. Benjamin bores. He would regale them with and Potts, sharebrokers, who is the one of his endless fund of stories. attorney for deceased's' widow and But the anecdotes of the supposed-ach, now residing in England. "The ly simple "Abe" were not of late Mr. Gray, left, Hong Kong drawing room order and the effect estate valued at $36,600. of their Rabelaisian flavour was

"often electric, LINCOLN, however, did things which would have meant impeachment or an asylum for a lesser man

at

Before Mr. Justice P. Jacks the Summary Court yesterday th Messrs. John Gibbs & Company of No. 18, Des Voeux Road Central, made a claim for 947.19 against

And then there is Phoebe Throa sel herself. Barrie's Phoebe is a "old child always even when maid of 30.” - She plays at romance, at gentility, and later, as old age Never and being a school marm. for a moment is she quite genuine, and that is why it is essentially a part for a child rather than for a

woman like sophisticated young Marion Davis. Miss Davis made a most competent school mistress, she played her part of Miss Livvy " with verve and complete composure, never the but her Phoebe was imaginative child of Barrie's mind.

So much for a memory. As a fim "Quality Street" bas much to recommend it, and no doubt the gentlemen who have their fingers constantly on the pulse of the box office realised that Sir James Bar- rie was not a paying proposition unless brought up to date. The which the action takes place, and charmingly reconstructed village in the excellence of the costumes were sufficient to give the atmosphere of the period, and to explain the attitude of mind of Phoche and

The theory seems to be that the President is the nation's property, the defendants Messrs. Dragon/her eister which must be very

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Delivery Service at No. 24, Destion who no longer read Jane Aus

Marion Davis looks tin. may be the first citizen, every

Voeux Road Central, for goods sold pretty in her curls and directoire other citizen is essentially his

"Dr. V. B. would lieve that. equal. Thus the individual Senator and delivered. Mr. F. X. d'Almada dresses and makes it hard to be- and Congressman of the separate Castro who appeared on be really have left her without having assemblies of the forty-eight States, half of the defendants informed "declared." has as a matter of duty and right, his Lordship that his clients had his interview and handshake if he consented to judgment. His Lord- happens to pass through Washing-skip accordingly entered judgment ton. Every service commission and for the plaintiffs with costs. most civil appointments must bear the august signature and no "office chop or less "fiat" will suffice.

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NOT RUN."

The great army of cranks. as well

OBITUARY.

Perhaps it was "Shaan

a pily to make a queer old maid, the chorus of the Willoughby women and Patty the cook was sufficient; but possibly Miss Davis will brook no rirals, stars have been koown to refuse to shine unless alone...

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Quality Street" is a pleasing production and many of the scenes are exceptionally pretty. It is a pleasant change after a series of

ae political supporters and import MRS. EMMELINE PANKHURST, films in which trick photography of

ant people generally is only partial- ly kept at arms length by a series of "General Receptions"

one sort or another have played an important part, to return to an unsophisticated little story played in agenteel tempo.

The death is announced of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the mother

SONG AND DANCE. of the famous. Women's suffragist leaders Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, and herself founder A LIVELY ENTERTAINMENT. and treasurer of the W.S.P.U.,

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But beyond this ocean of triviality WHY MR. COOLIDGE "WILL the President has real responsibility for the nation's affairs. His deeds are by no means his ministers' and

Mrs. Pankhurst was the widow bered to his resolution "not to plead that he was O King docu run" in the Providential election. ments, shaking hands with a of R. M. Pankhurst, LL.D. Barris Despite the wish of his party and deputation of Arizona cowboys or ter at law. of the nation, who know that they being bothered by a party of Mer- have in him an exceptionally good mon elders from Salt Lake City. man, nothing will induce him to But perhaps with the example of face a third period of office. No one president being killed by over- one believes that this is due to an work and over-handshaking (Mr. over-delicate regard for constitu- Depew declared this latter was a tional custom; if he wished this contributory came of Woodrow technical stumbling block would be WILSON's final breakdown), and W

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Eleanore-Ninon and Leo Mantin, whom we rather suspect of being

Mr. and Mrs. Clark of Ohio." gave a lively little entertainment fast night at the 9.20 performance.. at the Queen's. It consisted of a number of songs by M. Mantia and dances by both performers,

The dances are of that extraordi- nary modern school which appears to satisfy its artistic soul with angular poses and extreme agility. but "the successors never fail to gam ap plause, and certainly these two dancers were as clever at their job as any we have seen.

"Back bottom!!. and its

Mlle. Ninon is very attractive The depression is moving north- eastward to Hokkaido. A trough and her dresses startling without being too "bizarre. We Forget or low proesure extends from Tong which one of them it is which is king to the E. of the Bashi Chan-said to be insured for a large rum, if it is that she wears in the second nel. There are indications of a item the value must be in the cut

that have soured his temper and Considering the world position of depression at its Western extremity, rather than in costly material! made him prematurely old. He is the United States it is certainly a Local Forecast: E. or variable making his protest against the con-matter of international importance winds, moderate at fret, some rain No. 2 of 1897, made An Order Lámíting KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through ditions under which the President that the man who is entrusted with

that the Court has, by virtue of THE HONG

the Provisions of Bestion 58 of Ordinance

scootzmodation

available,

almoet dictatorial power should be the Time for Creditors and Others to their London Office, at 91, Barra I, of the United States has to live.

Owing to a variety of circumfree to devote a reasonable portion end in their Claims against the above FLEET Braker, Ed. 4, are prepared to Katate to the 18T DAY OF JULY, 1923, gire Babeenbers and Vitors advice

stances the Presidential duties have of his time to matters of statecraft All Creditors and Others are accord regarding ingly hereby required to wand in their motoring facilition, suitable shopping never been effectively, modified and upon which issues of the widest Claims to the Undersigned on or before centres, etc..

I, when at home, they will call dr delegated and the office remains in importance may depend. What a that Date.

telephone to the above address,

they will receive the atmost assistance and the essentials what it was in Washing-pity it is that Mr. CoOLIDGE cannot latest available information on all sub-ton's time. The result is that with accept nomination for a third jects of enquiry will be placed at their

the enormous national growth the period of office on his own terms. disposal.

DEACONS, Bolicitors for the Executers, No. 1, Des Your Road Central, Hong Kong.

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Typhoon Message, A message dated 9 pm yesterday states that a typhoon is in about Loog. 129 E., Lat. 22 N,

There is a typhoon in about Long. 117 E., Lat. 18 N. The direction

is unknowa.

The Spanish Love Dance" was particularly well done and gained much applause, the "Aero-Doodle" is not we think likely to catch on. in Hong Kong, it is clever and attractive, but the practise that must be entailed to arrive at such amazing agility will prevent it penetrating to the ball room.

There was no doubt that Inst night's audience approved, of this sprightly revue turn, as a preface

the 9.20 house « will - probably be to their cinema entertainment, and, well filled to-night and to-morrow.