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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Determined Lady: "Have that red light, taken of the rear of the ör I can't be interested in

Salesman: What's wrong with it 7"

Determined Lady: "Why, any one can see that it doesn't match the color scheme!"

He had been receiving anonymous letters. Nasty ones. Though the handwriting was decidedly indivi- dual, detectives had not been able to trace the poison-penner.

He went to fancy-dress ball re- cently. In asking for a dance from a fair damsel, he noticed on her programme a signature with the exact handwriting of the anony mous writer. He waited, Soon a fellow dressed as a lion came along.

Things are now even more anony Juous. All he knows further is that fellow dressed as a lion sockel him.

Picture Dealer: "An American offered me £9.000 for this picture" Customer: "1 wouldn't ofter more than 25,7%-

Dealer: Tase it-we must not let all our old masterpieces go out of the country.”

Besides a cook it is necessary in Central Africa to have a plate- washer and pot-washer.

A resident whose dog had Been accidentally drowned heard sounds of mobbing during the night, and en inquiring what was amiss he was told it was the plate-washer crying because the dog was dead.

Deeply touched, the master went to the boy and asked him if he had loved the dog very dearly.

"No." was the reply; but who will now lick the plates clean for me?"

The day after Mr. Newrich had sent his two children to school, the bookseller's representative called.

Now that your children go to sehcol," he said, you ought to buy them an encyclopaedia.

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The victim of the accident' had been patched up, Both broken legs had; been set : he had six stitches under the chin and a plaster cast round his chest. The tired surgeon gave a last. satitfied look at his handiwork.

Doctor." whispered the patient. "I don't know just when I shall be able to pay you for all you have done. I've got a few handreda put in the bank-but, to tell you the truth. I'm saving that for some emergency.

"The sort of husband she wants

is

a

a strong forceful, silent man-- ruler, in fact."

That's right somebody to show her where to draw the line."

decided to fight a duel,

Two Spaniards quarrelled and

In order to do this without ut- tracting too much attention, they took a train into the country.

The first Spaniard booked a re- turn ticket, but his opponent took only a single.

Caramba!" exclaimed the first. You expect not to come back- ch, my friend! I always get à re turn.'

"I never do," answered the other quite calmly. "I always take the returo half from my adversary". "

First Sailor: How do you like life in the Navy Quite a few turns for a fellow to get used to,

aren't there

Second Sailor: "I should say so. At night you turn is, and just as you are shout to turn over

somebody turas up and shouts,

Turn out!"

Actress: In the advertisements you call me the peerless nitress."

it'?"

Manager: "Well, what about

I know as many peers as any other I want you to understand that actress."

"I asked her if I could see her

Buy 'em an encyclopaedia "home." was the reply. "Let 'em walk, like ..I did!”1

"My bay," remarked the father, henceforth I am going to treat you with unremitting kindness."

This looks," replied the prodgi

like a total éclipse of the son?"

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"And what did she say?"

Said she would send me a pic-

ture of it."

I wander Doris docan't feel cold in that skimpy frock."

Oh, she's all right; she's wrapp- ed up in herself,**"

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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17

30

36

1.-Mad. 6.-Scolis.

Horizontal.

11-To purify. 12-Groups of eight,

14.--Spirit.

15.-Urns. 17.-Sun god. 18.--Equality.

19.--Farce.

20.-Set of false hair.

21-French for and,

2. Operings..

23.-Colloquial: narcotic. 24.-Erudite.

26-Likes greatly... 27-Musical instrument.

28.-Fury.

29-Heavenly being.

31.-Retailiation,

34.---Noisy.

35.-Rescoes.

36.Correlative of either."

37.—Part of shoe.

38.--Wanders.

20.-Address of respect.

40.-While..

41.-To spur.

42.Very small amount. 43.—To take up again. 45.-Cheered up.

47.Having round roof, 48.Not so well cooked..

Vertical.

-To tell:

At a distance. 3-Storage box. 4.Within.

-Ardent. "6.-Flowers-

-Maple tree,

Paressive pronoun "French-tittel: 10.-Streak.. 11-To drive back.. 13-Wise men,

16-Filled with respect. 10.-Jury list 20.-Entwined. 99.--Avarice.

23.-Old Venetian rulers. 23-To debate heatedly.

20.-Washes.

22.-Carouser. 23.-Place of sacrifice. 30.-Looped. 31.-To rant. 32-Growth in back. --33.--Mistook.

35.-Scattered aced. 35.-European capital. 30. Location.

41.-Liquor. 42.-Stomach.

44.-Therefore. 46.-Musical note. „

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929.

THE FAMILY ALBUM-THE COOL SPOT

FAMILY CALLS WHY "DOESN'T HE. COME OUT ON THE VERANDA, IT'S NICE AND COOL. AND THERE'S A BREEZE

HAS GOT VERY HOT CARRYING CHAIR OUT. ACKS WHERE THE BREEZE 15

SAYS HE'S COOL AND COMFORTABLE WHERE HE IS

· FAMILY DECIDES BREEZE MUST HAVE SHIFTED. DRAGA CHAIR TO OTHER END OF VERANDA

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

FAMILY CONTINUES TO URGE HIN TO COME OUT FINALLY MOVES RE- LUCTANTLY AND FINDS THERE'S NO CHAIR FOR HIM

FAMILY DECIDES IT'S VERY QUEER BUT BREEZE SEEMS TO HAVE DIED AWAY ENTIRELY. FINDS LIGHT 15 FADING TOO

(Copyright, 1929. by The Bell Syndicate, [nc.).

PICTURES AND

Mr. Archie Pitt's new revue. The Show's the Thing" which was presented at the Theatre Royal, duction, is a laughter show. Birmingham, prior to London pro-

Miss Gracie Fields, more than any one, has the art of crossing and tragedy and comedy without allow recrossing the borderline between. ing the sense of the incongruous to upset balance. She has the gauge of her audience all the time she ia on the stage.

The book of the piece is extremely good, the music is tuneful, and the settings colourful.

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The diversity of a aation's dialects was emphasised at Wynd- ham's Theatre when amateur dramatic societies competed in the finals of the third National Festival of Community Drama.

Five of the six plays were in local dialects. The exception was of the period 1400 AD. This play, "The Devil Among the Skins," won the Lord Howard de Walden trophy for the Liverpool Playgoers' Club.

Miss Sybil Thorndike, in present- ing the cup, said the amateurs were bringing the theatre back to its

OWD.

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It seems possible that the first pi lingual all-talking film will be pro- duced in a British studio. Mr. E.

60ES BACK IN AND” STRUGGLES OUT WITH

CHAIR,

GOES BACK INTO- HOUSE AND FINDS MILDRED IN POS" SESSION OF HIS COMFORTABLE CHAIR

PLAYS.

There will thus be two sets of players, the German-speaking com pany taking the place of the British cast as each scene is "shot," an arrangement allowing obvious economies in regard to sets ** and so forth.

It has been reported that the Ufs, the largest German producing com- pany, intended to adopt the same procedure for the programme of sound-films upon which is has just begun work, but no definite an nouncement has yet been made. British International Pictures are closely associated with Süd-Film A.G.. a large German producing and distributing concern, and thus have an open channel to the Get- man market.

Berlin has only just seen its first talking flm--if one excepts the ex- perimental productions so far avai lable from German studios. This WLS The Singing Fool" which was a great success. An all-talking picture in German has yet to be scez aad heard. The interest shown leaves little doubt that "talking films, when they arrive, will have a box-office success in Germany simi- lar to that which they have had in

other countries..

The astonishing extent of public interest aroused by the "talkies"

Was

A Dupont, who has just left Ber-in England may be gathered from lia, states that one of the first talk the fact that on one day recently ing films to be made by British In Alias Jimmy Valentine ternational Pictures, Atlantic," played to nearly 10,000 people. the production of which is to be- Each day the previous week it had gin under his direction this week, been performed before over 12,000 is to be made in two versions, Bri-people.The talking version is vast. tish and German. During his stay ly inferior to the legitimate play. in Berlin Mr. Dupon engaged a The principal actor, William Hai number of German players for thisnes, in the part of. the sentimental purpose, including Herr Fritz crook, buffoons and clowns the Kortner, who will take the chief character out of all seriousness, and part in the German version, to be the only tolerable bit of acting called Der Untergang der Titanic comes from Lionel Barrymore as (The Sinking of the Titanic). the Detective Doyle. The more one

sees of Lionel Barrymore the more one realises what & really fine in- terpreter of character this player ia. He has a richness and ripeness of method reminiscent of the old- school with all the natural unfcreed charm of the modern. The big Swede-Karl Dane-gives a very good representation of himself, and Acte with his usual sturdy consci. entiousness.

The picture has been directed by Jack Conway, and it is a Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer film. This is their first full length fenture film with spoken dialogue

Arrangements have been conclud- ed to revive the late Mr. Wilson Barrett's play "The Sign of the Cross" in the West End, and there is a stipulation in the contract that the cast must be changed every three months. ̈***

Miss Wilson Barrett, daughter of the author, who made this stipula tion in the contract with Mr. Philip Ridgeway, the producer of the play, believes that no actor or actress can do justice to a part after he or she has appeared in it for three

months.

"I rather agree with her," said Mr. Ridgeway. "I once played four hundred times in one part, and I know how difficult it was to do justice to the role. I think it would be a good idea if every per son who played an important part for three months were given a week's boliday.'

It is also Miss Barrett's wish that no member of the audience should be admitted to the theatre wearing evening dress. Her reason for this is that business people after their day's work do not feel like chang ing into evening dress. This, she says, they are cow obliged to do if they desire to sit in the stalls or dress circle.

THE WOMAN'S CORNER.

| WHITEAWAY'S SALE.

These Children

Of Ours.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S SALE.

Lane, Crawford's summer sale is always looked forward to, and there

A BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR THE will be many of you who are going

BABY.

"Celebrating the baby's birthday

there to-day. I noticed that there were some really charming evening and afternoon frocks marked down is a happy, occasion: Mother into a very small price, and hats are vitas her friends and some of their also much reduced. There are big young children perhaps. Yet con- reductions too, in the men's depart- sider the poor two-year-old, who ment. watches with delight the tiny can-

The big summer sale at Whiteaway, Laidlaw's begins to-day, and offers a real chance of saving money. Look! out for the articles marked with a red star, they are all exceptional bargains and useful things. Anong other things I noticed were child- ren's aboes and hats at very much This puzzle took 10 minutes to reduced prices. For their mothers solve. See how long it will take you there are 500 hate troia §1 'and &

dles which celebrate his special day, The baby's initials and the date to solve it.

yet must make no protest when the may be cut from an orange peel large selection of cotton voile, linen grownups ens up the lovely cake and placed upside down on the bot and gingham dresses very much and the baby like Mother Habbard's tom of the mold, so that they will dog, gets none. Of course Mother be on top when the jelly is turned marked down. "For men, among is quite right in passing him by. out. Candles may be put in hold- other bargains, are pumps and dress A piece of cake would do him no ers cut from rounds of orange skin shoes, all slightly shop soiled at 81 good, and probably a good deal with a hole in the center. You may of harm. But can't something be have fortunes too if you like. A a pair.

done so that the baby can share dollar sign, a button, a horseshoe, a heart, a ring and a ship cut from in the celebration!

Why not make a cake of gela ozange skin and put into the jelly tine? Foften two tablespoonsful when it is partially set, will be a of gelatine in one-half cup of cold delightful surprise to the older chil water and add one cup of boiling dren and grown-ups present. water, stirring until dissolved. This recipe may of course be used Then add one cup of sugar, one with many variations which will and one-half cups of orange juice suggest themselves to experienced and three tablespoons of lemon mothers. As the child gets older

·cake... mare, juice. Stir until the sugar is dis- you can make the self, the children, or the house, be-solved, then set in cool place until elaborate, uning chopped fruit.and. Flare going to multawayo andet she crie count of postcake with layars.ofitma get them all there at bargain prices gelatine is used so that it will set or more colours of gelatine is always very effective and sure, to be solid enough to cut, in slices. during the sale.

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