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"WHY SAILORS GO WRONG."

ALL COMEDY PROGRAMME "AT THE QUEEN'S."

A DELIGHTFUL DESERT ISLAND.

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, 1928.

[UT OUR FILM CRITIC.] There is an amusing programme at the Queen's to-day which is well worth seeing if you are in the mood for laughter. Why sailors go Wrong is one of the funniest comedies of Sammy Cohen and Ted Macnamara principally because it does not try to be clever, and just avoids being too broad-only just

shang- Sammy and Ted ars haied' aboard a private yacht with a brutal skipper and suffer there many ridiculous wrongs, until they are finally shipwrecked on a desert island. On the island a linas, savages and alligators and the two heroes tumble out of one misadventure into another. They are both, probably, in real life very simple minded people; at all events

THE GUARDS GO BACK.

SOLEMN HOUR ON A HILL OF

MANY MEMORIES.

SOMME MEMORIAL, UNVEILED IN RAGING WIND..

GINGRY, October 21st. The guarda réturned to the Somme this morning, writes the Daily Express correspondent, and for a brief hour the world clock stood still. We were back in 1918, in the mouth of September, when the Guards stormed and took the ridge. and left 7,000 men and 350 officers,

a little black and then erected wooden cross by the wayside

The Guards 'unveiled a memorial,

a granite cross "erected about 200 yards away from the wooden cross; and right on the summit of the ridge.

It has been my fortune to be present at many of these unveiling ceremonies. I have seen big men choke with tears, and this morning I stood in a muddy field in a raging wind and saw a similar spectacle once again.'

MAXIMS FOR WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

*

DR. HOLLANDER ON THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

*

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLING

BY AIRPLANE. ·

EAST AFRICAN COTTON TRADE PUSH.

Commersial travelling by air plane is the latest idea.

"The unsuitable matches that we ace all about us," said Dr. Bernard Hollander, in his lecture on “The Agents for cotton goods in Paychology of Matrimony," deliver- Uganda and Kenys are already ed in London last month to the using Moths to travel quickly from Ethological Society, **are daily illustrations that men are not guid point to point-Now a super-agent ad in choosing a wife by reason, in London proposes to visit Kenya appropriateness, common senso, good judgment, or any of the other evidences of sanity that they dis play in deciding the other problems

of life.

goods to Kenya, Uganda, Tangan yika, and Central Africa.

THE KAISER'S MOTHER.

"AVILLIE

THE DESPOT.

SENSATIONAL LETTERS.

NOSE.

Had she had her way how much that is tragic might have been changed! It is curious to note that one of those who most cruelly insulted her wae Genera Winterci feldt. It fell to his son many years. later to sit sobbing-át that table in Fooh's saloon car at Compiègne, where the terms of the amnistice were dictated Such is the irony of history.

The Empresa's letters end with s SMUGGLED UNDER KAISER'S note of apprehension. William, she moet despotic and arbi- Bars, is

*Like Diary in all his instinets," a balloon, if one did not hold him fast on a string. he would go no one knows whither." One of his obiter diets is recorded with scorn:

Scathing criticisms of her son the Colony in an Imperial Airways ox-Kaiser William II are wontain- machine, carrying with him a large ed in a book" Letters of the Em- quantity of samples of cotton goods, press Frederick," published by Mac

He is Mr. J. L Dickinson, “of | millan. "For example, the widower, with small children, who need a mother's Messrs. Dickinson & Co., overseas These letters of the daughter of wise counsel and care, in many shippers, and is keenly interested Queen Victoria who became Em- cases does not select the woman of the supply of British cotton aiature age who shows that she has the Macoons nature by the way in

press of Germany have been edited by her godson, Sir Frederick Pon- which she mothers animals and other people's infants.

sonhy, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, who smuggled them to this country under the ex-Kaiser's nose, "Examples of the outspoken way Kovement in which she scorned the ex-Kaiser

William is as blind and green, wrong-headed, and violent on politics as can be.

#

His object is twofold:-To create On the contrary, he often de liberately selects a willy girl who an immediate sensation in East makes an inferno of family life, Africa by British enterprise, and quarrels with his offspring, and drives the boys from home and the thus to book large orders-To girls into running of with, the first initiate a speed up

generally, and man who asks them.

to African possessions that the Old Country is alive and ready to do business.

"The poor young man who bas his way to make in the world does not marry the economical thrifty

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are:

He is so headstrong, so ini-

that

it is quite useless to attempt to calighten him.

One hundred and fifty officers and they seem to understand and cajor men of the Brigade of Guards "came girl, who would help him to make

There is no air service to Kenya this type of comedy a great don't back" and marched once again up his fortune, but often an extra-

vagant and Fashionable

patient of any control young and Uganda," said Mr. Dickinson' better than the more elaborate the line. Out from Amiens, along kind. The audience yesterday fol- that well-known road which dips woman who makes him slave all his

and turns. through former craters he to provide her with comforts to a Press representative, "but the with enjoyment and will be sure to

which are now pastures again, past and luxuries. The Choice of the give a hearty welcome to these two

"actors when their next picture is ponds where there are ducks, fields where cows graze. thanks to Great shown.

Britain, through Albert, where a CONNOISSEUR

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A Memory,

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CANON WANTS TO ABOLISH NEWSPAPERS.

Imperial, Airways have given me an option on a machine in January to take me and a ton of goods to Nairoby, vid Cairo.

He was as rude, as disagreeable and impertinent to me as pos

Most despotic and ghitrary in

all his instincts.

Change Of Character. "TWO facts," he

Bible. continued, must ever be kept in view. The

Three Colonies. one is that while man's character in wedlock need not undergo any

"I shall then get in touch with change, the girl, being transformed into a woman, may have her whole the trade, native and British, over disposition altered.

MOTHER'S GRIEF. EX-KAISER'S IMPERTINENCE

"

TO MOTHER.

One of the most amazing transic- tions recorded in this sensational Our trade in cotton goods in book, is the manner in which the Central Africa is in jeopardy. The diary of the Emperor Frederick Germans are flooding Tanganyika then Crown Prince and lying ill at

land. He was surrounded by-

Second, whatever the character the three colonies, Tanganyika, husband and wife having to live Uganda, and Kenya, partly by together day after day and year means of agents who are using after year, every secret feeling.

Moth airplanes," trait, and purpose will out. There can be no permanent deceit. Their lives will with certainty be laid bars to each other. There will be no long-continued restraint possible.

"The plain object, then, of mat-with cheaper cotton goods, and San Remo, was smuggled to Eng. We were a human square, noting, so far as it concerns the hap Japan, Germany, and Holland are more than 300 of us, including the piness of the individual,

one man and one woman so con capturing the trade elsewhere. Guards. Ancient French women in

stituted by nature and so modified rusty black, with unrolled brellas, strode through the mud, for by culture that they can live to gratitude. Thening at every ons gether in life's joy, sustain each they at least remember us with gether, work together, rejoice to other in misfortune and grief, always, increasing each other's bap according to their own natural im piness, and all this by simply living pulses. An almost impossible task, of course, but that is the ideal.

of these

ceremonies-there

were.

those strange ghosts of the battle- truth that old soldiers never die, fields, the living witness to the the men who were demobilised in France, who get & living somehow doing odd jobs--somehow.

Grounds For Divorce.

to find

Major-General Sir Geoffrey Field-

Dr. Hollander advocated divorce The ing arrived at eleven sharp.

for lunacy, habitual drunkenness, or detachments of the Guards, includ drag-taking, and where there exists in Grenadiers, Irish, Welsh, Cold-aly absolute hatred between the stream, and Scots, stood like frozen then. General the Earl of Cavan, TELEPHONES," WIRELESS AND on behalf of the committee of the Guards Division Memorial, invited CINEMA TOO.

Major-General Fielding to unveil the memorial, a simple cross of granite, built in a small square of

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"Brave Enemy."

A stardy little man in black sat beside the fire in the Chapter House of St. Paul's Cathedral and, shak-green lawns ng his head sadly over the follies of the modern world, advocated as He made a brief and soldierly the drastic cure newspapers, no speech which began with a tribute cinemas, no telephones, no wireless to a brave enemy." Then Major-

He was Caron Alexander, a league of the Gloomy Deta." On General Fielding spoke, praised cur the previous day, in the pulpit of French ally, and unveiled the me

morial. St. Paul's, he had attacked modern

The Major of Ginchy spoke, and journalism, and suggested that no

then came an address by General newspapers should appear for Barthelemy, representing the French month. I called to ask him if he Army. really meant this, writes a Daily Erpres, representative.

"Wrong Direction," "The world is moving in the wrong direction, the canon replied in soft tones. His voice was just audible--no more.

"People don't think enough. It is the age of the tabloid intellect. And it is not a good thing. Great ecclesiastics must appear on plat forms and at ceremonies to satisfy the world that they are lulating their duties. That is wrong, too.

flection

R

But surely, I suggested quiet- ly, you use the telephone and read newspapers ?"!

"Yes," he admitted,

After the dedication came the ceremony of placing the wreaths. Lord Cavan announced that the King had comanded him to lay a wreath-poppies of Flanders. One was laid on behalf of the Prince of Wales, and another for the Duke of Connaught.

"

"Cotton is grown in Uganda and is ginned' (cleaned and gin factories laid down by the seeded) by Brig:ish money in the British Empire.

"This cotton, however, the Lan- cashire mills will not treat (apin and weave) for two reasons:-

1. The cotton is of inferior grade;

It has to be woven with fancy colours in the borderings, etc. The Lancashire mill people, partners." He condemned free love paid by results, find this more. unions-"I can understand men trouble. They can do better with being willing parties to them, but the finer American cotton, spun and can see nothing but disadvantages woven into less glaring patterns." These do not appeal to the natives, to women."

and are dexter when supplied by. us.

He concluded by stating some of the psychological conditions for happiness in matrimony

"The woman should remember to make her home beautiful, act only for her visitors, but also for her husband, and should take her share of the work as seriously as the man She should not hold her has band responsible because her friends are better off than. herself.

does, his.

2

"She should remember that her lover who sees her, only for an hour can make it his business to be agree. able to her, whereas the husband sees ber all day and in all moods.

"She should remember, if her busband has deceived her, that a man can be unfaithful with a woman whom he neither loves nor likes.

"Home Life Tirst."

1

-There followed the most pathetic The husband should put home wreaths of them all. Little girls life first and give his wife more of and boys of the village came with his spare time, He should not blame her for everything that goes their carefully preserved flowers.

wrong in the home.

Suddenly and dramatically an

DUST THE ENEMY OF MOVING "but I

MACHINERY.... could well do without. The earnest. nese of conversation is lost on the telephone:

Victorian Era.

servants and officials in the pay of Prince Bismarck, and it was realised that to attempt to send away documenta by ordinary methods would simply result in their falling in the hands of the Chancellor (Bismarck).

.....

The future Empress Frederick took an English doctor, Hovell, into her confidence.^.

I asked W. whether he would He not have liked a daughter, answered girls were useless crea tures. He did not want one, and far preferred to be without. LETTERS SMUGGLED TO ENGLAND.

$

SIR. F. PONSONBY'S DRAMA-

TIC ADVENTURE..

The letters, as Sir Frederick Pön- sonby discloses in his introduction, came into his possession in 1901 in a curious and dramatic manter.

equerry.in-

When the Empress was dying King Edward went to Germany to see his sister, accompanied by Sir Frederick, then waiting.

Three days after their arrival at Friedrichshof the dying Empres sent for Sir Frederick and told him that she wished him to take her private correspondence back, to England, as she was surrounded by apica.

When he consented she said that she would send the letters to his room at one o'clock in the morn ing, and added:

I don't want a soul to know that they have been taken away, and certainly Willie (her son, the ex-Kaiser William II] must not have them, nor must he ever know that you have got them.. At 1 am.

The castle clock had boomed one and Sir Frederick was writing in his room when there was a quiet knock on his door "and four men came in carrying two boxes about the size of portmanteaux, and covered with black oil-cloth.

meant a

Sir Frederick had assumed that the expression letters packet that could easily be conceal ed in his own luggage.

These large corded boxes were To quite another matter, adopt any method of concealment and attempt to smuggle them away was to court disaster, as the whole place was fall of secret police, but on the other hand, to account for these boxes which had apparently dropped from the skies was no easy matter.

I therefore wrote on the label of ope Books with Care" and on the other China with Care," with my privato address, and placed them in the passage with my empty boxes without any at- tempt at concalment,

For several days the three volumes of the diary were placed ostensibly on the table of her principal drawing-room. Sudden ly one night Dr. Hovell received Hurriedly he an urgent call packed his things, disturbing only his valet. At the last moment passing through the drawing-room he took the three volumes and started off post baste to visit his mythical patient. Early next Under The Kaizoz'a Kose.. "The Dutch werker, as an ex-morning the hue and ory was

On the day of departure Sir raised.

Frederick was talking to the Kaiser ample, is net paid by piece, and

Secret Police Bafled,

in the ball when he saw these two the Dutch will turn out as much

The German secret police strain black boxes, looking very conspicu of the finished cotton grown in British subsidy as they can get. British territory and ginned' by ed every nerve to track him and us, being carried down the staire Every port and and out to the wagon, under his host's nose. At any moment be ́ex- "Japanese, too, capture great bis luggage, quantities of this African cotton, every important railway junction pcbed. the Kaiser to notice them, en route for England was covered." but he was holding forth on some

subject that interested hirn. apin and weave it by cheap labour, readyginned, take it to Japan,

But Dr. Hovell was too dever for Frederick got the papers to Eng and then return with the cheati

the police. He went direct to Ber: land without misadventure, and article..

lin, where no one expected him, they wema deposited in a safe place. After the Empress's death it was and "handed over the diary to thediscovered that her private letters British Ambassador, who sent it by special messenger to London."

4

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THE CHINESE NOTE IN PARIS.

FROCKS IN LACQUER RED.

The Chinese note has been struck in a large number of winter crea tions now being shown at the Paris couturiers,

8.5

"

**Rude And Disagreeable, When it was discovered that her husband was stricken with cancer

and the future Empress Frederick was accused of trying to hide the truth, and sacrificing her husband and the German doctors to

her

She wrote to Queen" Vie

You ask how Willy was when he was here! He was as rude, se disagreeable, and as impërtin- ent to me da possible when he arrived, but I pitched into him with, I am afraid, considerable violence, and he became quite nice and gentle and amiable (for him).... flects.

William never

Sir

and papers had disappeared. Every room in the castle was ransacked by special police while cavalry sur rounded the grounds.

Locked Up For 2 Years. The letters were, in fact, locked up in Sir Frederick's private house, Cell Farm, at Old Windsor, and Daring all this time (writes Sir there they remained for 27 years.

Frederick) the question what the Empress intended me to do with thera has constantly occurred to me. The curious part is that she should not have confided her in- tention to her brother, King Edward, or given him any hint of what she had in her mind.

A

re-COMPREHENSIVE AND COM.

PLETE REPORT

At the moment of the Emperor Frederick'e death.

Not only does the general sil- houette hint strongly of Chinese Englishwoman in a scarlet cloak "He should tell his wife her induence, but colors, embroidery It is all the result of sensationalism stepped forward with a tiny boy in faults in friendly words, and uct and the smaller details of line, ambition, she received no help from a blue woollen suit. In his small in front of others, and take her such as collars, sleeves and bem- which has been fostered by your the carried a tiny posy of pop-part when strangers are present, lines. The result is modernized her son.

Chinese costume, made to suit the toris: cinemas, newspapers, your

your pics and heather, and hesitatingly even though she be in the wrong telephones, and your wireless,

"He should remember that to de- necessities and tastes of the pra "They should be abolished, the laid it before the cross, while the

as well canch added upon a moment's rewind howled and whistled and the mand that a woman should always sent-day Occidental woman. The

russct leaves fell like tears.

remain young is just as absurd na idea is ingenious, to wish that a fruit tree should re- thoroughly practical and effective. in lac Charming frocks come main covered with flowere all the year round, and that, if he finds itquerred and Chinese greens and an agony to see the same woman blues in bits of embroidery deftly at breakfast for three hundred and introduced in girdles, neck-bands, sixty-five days in the year, the single motifs on the skirt of a dark In the history of the bicycle and chances are that she is just as much frock, in the sleeves and yoke of

gowns and evening wraps. still later, of the motor-car and bored by him.

Plain straight little bodices. are lorry, we can trace a gradual pro

"Finaly, if such partners would "We didn't have these "astru cess of guarding against the en- study each other, respect each other, like a Chinaman's jacket and bits ments of sensationalism a few years trance of dust to all working parts. and if cross, be angry one at a of jade are used for buckles and A dinner gown in black satiu ago. People thought more then- In the earlier motor-cars the gears

in marriage."

has a deep girdle. edged with a there was less of the superficial in the gearbox were exposed to dust. time, there would be fewer failures brooches.

band of Chinese The early Victorian era was much cylinders bad open ends, big-end more individual than ours, and I'm and main bearings, timing geare not such that they didn't think and valves were all open to the the parts to receive attention as a broidery extending nearly half dust of the road. One by one all matter of standard practice is the way to the edge of the skirt which more in the Elizabethan days."

"What," I asked, would you these parts have been covered. so cylinder. For some curious reason is unusually long and tied in a Bell-shaped mandarin costa are introduce to take the place of the that no grit can enter, with, as one says The Commercial Mator, the knot at the side of back.

would naturally expect, satisfactory effect of wear due to no effort being newspaper ".

made to arrest dust from entering appearing for evening wear. They "Nothing," the canon replied, results. still pensive,

"but I do not "want Makers of steam lorries, who in the cylinder is not so marked as have round necklines flush, to the to discuss that side of the question. earlier days appeared to ignore the one might expect, considering that neck and pagode sleeves. One in I simply state that they are leading effect. of dust on exposed working a large surface of oily metal is ex-bright blue in trimmed with two with the air, but, Another is black satin has a pink the country in the wrong direc parts, have been compelled to fall posed to any dust that may be shades of blue to match the fabric.

into line with their competitors drawn in

that is crying loudly for a remedy, the lining of a high fur collar. Canon Alexander gently refused and are gradually guarding all although the evil may not be one embroidered yoke which matches to take his plan any further. It parts against the ingress of dust

Everything points to the fact that an evil is undoubtedly present, and The lining is piped vertically sa was his firm conviction that he was right, he had stated his opinion, dusta ja harmful and should be kept when one considers how simple a that the effect is extremely rich. and that ended it. He led me out a procSKO of guarding | devico is needed to minimize this The Bat Chinese panel is used on through a dark, silent hallway and against ita intrusión has gone on evil, if not to cure it entirely its great many gowns, both for after door te stop fret the gears then is curious that some form of air noon and evening. The wathing opened the front door,

Ab," he said faintly, and with the engine bearings, then the timing teiner, fax note box Etted 2 girdle on a taffeta gown ends in the end of, which fall at the sides. I see gears and valvee, but last of all standard on every Britfel commer-a-large outstanding battery bompren Man wiched to see the people just a trace of satisfaction,

(Continued at foot of next culiams.)cial vehicle. it is raining."

tion."

Darrow

ext-

cordon of soldiers was secretly drawn round Friedrichskron, so that no documents might be re- moved without the knowledge of the new Emperor... Vainly to him; equally vainly did she did the Empress Frederick appeal request Bismarck the day after the Emperor's death, to grant her an interview.

--- General's Insult. All was finished with her bus band's death:

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