HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Jeff : Here's a line of chatter I scribbled down, and I think this sort of stuff ought to make a hit with you, Mutt.".
Mutt: Make a hit with me.. Bathing In the first place. this is too bloomin' long. If I remember right, Julius Caesar, after conquer, ing the Guals read a message of bus three words to the Romans, Tini, Vici, Vidi. Yet the words turned the trick."
Jeff: How foolish of Julius! He could have said seven more words for two-bits in a Western Union message."
District Vistor--" What are the morals of this village like "
Resident Excellent! So good, in fact, that several of our sewing. parties have failed for want of scandal.'
At a small country church a new- ly-married couple were receiving, some advice.
It is the husband's duty to pro. teet his wife whenever an occasior. ariam; and a wife niust love and honour and obey her husband, and follow him wherever he goes.”
But pleaded the young bride. I haven't finished yet remark ed the clergyman. She must
"But, please"-in desperation- can't you alter that last part! My husband is a postman.”
Yes, suh, dat al' clock kep" good enough time til Mose done bough: dat radio.?!
What happened ?"
"Well, now, every time dey no- "nounces de time he always has to set the clock forward a couple of houahs."
"To think that we're reduced to
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Little Willie: Look at that rhinoceros !"
Little Alfred: "That ain't a rhinoceros; that's a hippopotalans. Can't you see it ain't got a radiator enp 1"
Counsel: You admit you enter- the house by the back door at two o'clock in the morning. What usiness had you there at that time 7"
Prisoner thought it was my own house,"
Then why did you, when this lady approached leap through the window, jump into the cistern, and hide yourself
"I thought she way toy wife,"
Er was a walking fund of ques-
tina.
Daddy, why he began for the tenth time that morning.
"I say, young man,' said daddy, have you ever heard the story of the little boy who asked so many questions that he turned into a question mark 7"
Erie bad not heard of this little boy, and pondered deeply on the
matter.
But, daddy," asked at bength,how did he manage to keep the dot noder himself?"
I've just shot a dog." "Was he mad **-
Well, he wasn't very pleased
Mike and Pat were arguing about their ability to carry loads. Pat claimed he could carry 200 pounds.
ed Pat.
then
But I did it yesterday," persist-
Did fez carry a barrel of four,
asked Mike.
I did not. But I carried an automobile tire over each shoulder sivin blocks for the boss. And I
pounds of air in each wan By thim."
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929.
THE FAMILY ALBUM-QUIET
BUTAS NILLACTS
SAYS IT'S ALLRIGHT, SHE CAN HEAR PERFECTLY, THE FAMILY ARE ALL QUIET UPSTAIRS
SCHEONE STARTS DRAWING A TUB OF WATER FULL BLAST WITH BATHROOM DOOR OPEN
WILFRED IMMEDIATELY STARTS
·PRACTICING A TAP DANCE IN HIS ROOM OVER HEAD
CALLS FOR PITY'S SAKE TO SHUT OFF THE WATER, SHE CAN'T HEAR A THING
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STOPS THE TAP DANCE AND . RESUMES TELEPHONE CON·
VERSATION
AFTER SOME MINUTES" OF SHOUTING BACK AND TORTH UPSTAIRS, WILFRED FINALLY CONVINCES MILDRED THAT MOTHER WVANS WATER SHUT OFF
CALM SHATTERED BY HOWES FROM FATHER WHO, IN OPENING BUREAU DRAWER, HAS PULLED IT OUT AND DROPPED IT ON TDĚ
FOLLOWS PERIOD OF COMPARATIYE CALM EXCEPT FOR BURSTS OF WHISTLING BY WILFRED
(Cepyright, 1929. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
PICTURES AND
this," said the fur coat during the heard the man say there was 100 This is what Miss Mae Busch, the
summer sale...
Teacher: "Napoleon once, said there was no such word as 'can't
'." Foice from the back of the class: Please, miss, I wonder what he would have said if he had tried to strike a match on a piece of soup "ing the chicken.
Husband (testily, after going down badly at bridge): You might have guessed I had no heart." Wife: "Quite; but I thought you had a brain, darling W
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There were guests at dinner. Charles, aged waited long and anxiously to be served, for his father had some difficulty in carv
At last, when he received his plate, he had the same experience as his father in cutting his portion, so he turned to his mother and said: Mother, I know now why they call them Plymouth Rocks, "*"
CROSSWORD PUZZLE."
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1.-Unit of work.
4A parent (Colloquial).
6. To exist.
8.-Recompense.
11-Brought up. 13.-Live coals. 13. Part of church. 16.-Nocturnal bird.
18.-Sweet potatoes. 19.-Aloft. 20.-Cavalry unit. 22.-Musical note. 3.-Pronoun. 24.-Sbone.
20.-Symbol for nickel.
23.-Rapice expert, 30-Classifies.
32. Goddess of dawn.
33.-To weep. 34.-Bends. 37.Bed coverings. 40.-Conjunction.
41.-Slang: arrests. 43-Masculine pronoun.
44.-Part of "
40.-Scorches.
to be."
47-French article.
48.-Curved moulding.
50.-Prior to.
31.Plate,
33.-Acrid.
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55.-Twin in Comedy of Errors." '57.--Ta cool.
68.--Like.
39.-Symbol for samarium.
60.-A serpent.
Vertical.
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14.-Alongside.
17.---Sorrow.
20.-Inventor of tragedy. 21.-Sits.
23. Supposing that.
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27-Exista. 29.-Prefix: new. 31.-Colouring material. 34.-Therefore.
23. Involving calamity. 38.-Scoffs. 37.-Small pieces. 33.-Essay. 39.-Compass point. 42.-Vehicle.
45. To award.
47.-Capital of Peru. 48.-West Indian magie. 49.French for and, 51.-To perform. 62.-Colloquial: dance. 54. Abbreviation: each. 53-Egyptian god.
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"I'm broke because I'm a fool!"
famous film star, has just revealed in a Los Angeles court. She had only £90 to her name, she said. The film actress went to court to ask for the release of an attachment Aled by ais ngent for that, eura." Miss Busch stated that if the attach-
ment were not released she and her
sick father, whom she supports, would suffer real want. I am not worried over the fact that I am virtually broke," continued Mae. "I have thrown away thousands and thousands of dollars. but I am coming back,' and I am" going to save my money from now on. I've learned my lesson-learn- ed that trying to keep pace with Hollywood doesn't pay.
Judge Marshall F. McComb re- leased the attachment on her "tor- tune." That money, declared Mae, will keep both her and her father until she gets another job. Be- fore I came to Hollwood I did not know what wealth and luxury were," Miss Busch said. "Then I went into pictures and met with al- most inediate success. Before I realised what was happening more money than, I had ever dreained of started pouring in on me. I guess having so much money turned, my head. I started spending it reek- lessly without a thought of the fu- ture. My chief ambition was to out-
business. And since there are many do every one else in the picture others with the same idea it proved to be a difficult task. If one of my friends gave a party, I would give one a week or so later on an etten more lavish scale. And if I sw another actress riding in a car which east more than mine, I couldn't rest until I had bought an even more expensive one. I never stopped to wok that some day the flow of gold would stop."
The Court of Appeal held recent. ly that the author of a musical work who had assigned bis copy- right and performing rights was not himself entitled under the Copy right Act of 1911 to prevent the performance in public of part of his work by film.
The case was a test case, in which Warner Brothers Pictures, Ltd., im porters of The Singing Fool," and the Hyde Park Cinema, Ltd., appealed from a judgment of Mr. Justice Astbury restraining the production of part of Billy Mer sen's song. The Spaniard that Blighted my Lite."
Among the recent releases are:- Monkeynuts."Betty Balfour in a French circus film, with Wal- ter Bulter (called Byron in U.S. A). A jolly good family show.
FINISHES TALK WITH FINGER IN I EAR AND HANGS UP. HOUSE IMMEDIATELY BECOMES QUIET
AS A TOMB
PLAYS.
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enda and Charles Murray. Broad Vamping Venus."-Louise Faz- fun.
Half a Bride."-Eather Ralston and Gary, Cooper. Strong, silent
man romance.
"Across to Singapore."-Ramon Novarro, with Ernest Torrence and Joan Crawford in sea drama.
"Underground."-By Authony Asquith. Highbrow melodrama, but full of interesting points. Elissa Landi, Noral Baring, Brian Aherne, and Cyril McLaglen. A film of young people, all worth get- ting to knew.
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Miss Jeanne de Casalis, who made her name as an actress in "vamp parts, made one of her rare appear- ances on the music-hall stage at the Coliseum recently in a new sketch, "The Blood-Stained Sables," trans- later from the French.
A dramatist, wanting a leading lady for his new play, is visited at. midnight by a woman who threatens him with a revolver, then tells him that she cannot kill him as she has always loved him, and expresses in bewildering succession love, anger, hate, and jealousy, finally stabbing herself. Then she sits up and asks. "Shall I do for the part in your play?"
The little piece afforded Miss de Casalis an opportunity of display- ing versatility.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
Your Home and Mine.
FRUIT COCKTAILS AND APPETIZERS.
be served in grape fruit caps or
baskets.
A very attractive cocktail served What shall I serve for my open-Use one cup of boiling water to in orange cups is made as follows; ing course is the question every hostess asks herself as she begins. mentally tabulating the menu of the approaching luncheon or dinner
party.
But to choose that first would be like selecting a necklace and making the more important detalla of your costume fall in line. Just as you first pick your dress as the basis from which to work out the colour and kind of accessories, so it is the main meal that must first be decided upon. And it is in-con- sideration of that, that the ap- petizer, soup or cocktail, is made I to lead off in the most satisfactory
manner.
If the meal is rather heavy, à bouillon or consomme would be in much better taste than a thick cream soup. Or a frait cocktail would be very nice, provided you had not planned to serve a fruit salad
Mehus DINNERS.. Tomato Bouillon Fillet of Lamb
Scalloped Potatoes
French Peas
Hot Rolls Pear Salad Coffee Mousse! Coffee
Grapefruit Cocktail Roast Beef Grated Horseradish.
Stuffed Totintoes Browned Potatoes
Lettuce with Thousand Island Dressing Apricot Ice
Coffee.
SAVOURY RECEIPES.
Here is a savoury way of cooking
eggs.
Take one egg for each person-dr more if they like a lot-and a fire- china soufe cases will do as well, proof egg poacher for each egg. Or
small, individual ones, of course.
Butter the poachers or cases, and in the bottom of, each put a few drops of Worcester sauce.
Break the eggs, one into each case, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and put a small piece of butter on top of each.
Place in a modern oven and bake until the egg whites are set.
Sweetbreads.
William For presents
VICTOR McLAGLEN
In
STRONG BOY
Lastrice Joy Clyda Cook
Story by Frederick H. Brennan
JOHN FORD production
AT THE
THE HILARIOUS
ADVENTURES OF A
ROUGH AND READY "RAILWAY LUGGAGE PORTER. A COMEDY AND FULL OF UNUSUAL TWISTS
SPLENDID CLIMAX!
MC LAGLEN AT HIS BEST!
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS. TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
New excitement, gorgeous romance in another thrilling story of adventu. a Action from first to last!
TIM
McCOY
IN
OF
RIDERS DARK
AT THE
WORLD
THE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 5.15 & 8.20 Only.
2.80 & 7.15-Chinese Picture,
£1
The Invisible Bride."
LAUGHS & THRILLS ON A LINER !
Reginald
DENNY
AT THE
STAR
DEATH AGREEMENT OF TWO LOVERS.
with** MARIAN NIXON
OUT ALL NIGHT
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 5.30 & 8.20.
Detective Sergeant Emment read. statements, alleged to have been made by Hill and Robinsor at the police station in the course of
GIRL'S FATHER ADVISED TO which Hill said that the girl sold
him of her condition.
ALLOW A MARRIAGE.
THAMES DRAMA.
Think it over. If they are fond This is a delicious dainty, when of each other, they will marry, you want to have a special treat. whether you care or not. The court Sonk sweetbreads, three or four, has dealt leniently with them.” in tepid water for half an hour. These words were addressed to Then blanch them by plunging in the father of the girl at Feltham boiling water and boil them for ten Police Court when Harry Hill, minutes, then plunge in cold water. aged 16, of Wickersley Road, Remove all fat and skin from them.
more.
Dry thoroughly, and coat with Batterica, and Ada Dorothy Robin- son, aged fifteen, of Heaton Road, beaten egg, then roll in bread- crumbs; repeat this treatment twice Peckham Rye, reappeared on the Place them in a pan and charge of attempting to commit pour over them carefully two ounces suicide by drowning in the Thames
at Teddington. of melted butter, cover closely and roast from balf to three-quarters of an hour.
Serve the sweetbreads on toast, and over, them pour a good brown gravy, thickened with tomato sauce
Of the more nourishing appetizers, dissolve one package of lemon- a few are: anchovies with olives flavoured gelatin. Add one cup of on toast, or anchovies combined orange juice and two tablespoons of with cheese, hard-boiled eggs or sugar. Chill, and when the gelatin tomatoes; egg with sardellen, crab begins to thicken, add one-half cup meat or lobster canapes; sardines of cubed pineapple, one-half cup of and a little finely chopped onion to on toast, herring, caviar with egg white grapes, halved and seeded. and canape of chicken liver.
and one-half cupof... maraschino.
tarte.
Canapes of eggs and anchovies are made with anchovy butter, the chopped yolks and whites of eggs, and minced picklea. Garnish with
The chairman asked Hill if he was willing to marry the girl when she became sixteen in August, and Hill said that be was.
The girl's father, when asked if ae were willing to agree to Hill marrying his daughter, replied, No. It does not seem much of a le for either of them.
"Grievous Bin,"
I shall give to-day, suggestions cherries. Chill, and when firm, put for preparing several appetizers, in orange cups, or in glasses, if you and directions for making two fruit prefer.
Mr. Horace Garland, the magis- cocktails. Of the latter, grapefruit
For an appetizer, try sometime
trate, in discharging Hill and cocktail is probably the most used. the following: Saute chicken livers
Robinson, and putting them under It is made as a rule with equal parts in hot fat with small onion until a stuffed clive. The anchovy butter the care of the probation officer, of grape fruit pulp, diced pine-apple they are, tender. Then chop and is made by pounding the anchovies said, God gave you life. It was and stoned white eberries Let it smooth to a paste, adding cayenne and yolks of hard-boiled eggs, in a grievous sin against God to stand in its juice for several hours. pepper, salt, butter and anchovy the proportion of two to one, until attempt to do what you did. Both and serve very cold in cocktail essence to taste. Serve on smail' they are smooth enough to be pass of you remember what you have glasses with tiny bits of mint sousses or triangles al tocat
done, bitt Int your friends fprzet cherries in each ginys." "O- It-way (Continued, at foot of next column).
cil through... sirve. Add nevern) tablespoons of butter and paprika.
The statement added:-
"We walked about till 9.43, and then we went close to the bank, for a few minutes. Then we agreed to go right now, so I took off my coat, which contained' the letters, and took my handizer- chief from my pocket.
"We then between us tied. our wrists together. We went down some steps towards the river, ond then I said to Ada, 'Do you still 'want to go?".
"She said, "Yes, Harry, so we stepped out into the river. It was not very deep, so we walked out till the way covered our knees. I then asked her if abe stil wanted to go," and she said, 'Yes.' again.
**We kissed each other and then went backwards into the river. I don't know how long we were in the water, but all at once the handkerchief came undone and ther, a couple of seconds later, I came to the top, and Ada way already above the water
"She said, 'I can't do.. it, Harry. It is no good." Let's go back. I was only too glad, as I had had enough of trying to drown myself. We stepped out of the river all wet and cold. I felt a silly fool to myself."
Hill was stated to be of good. character, and his former employers were prepared either to take him back or assist in finding him
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