THE HONG KONG DAILY
PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1929.
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS-THE PARKING PROBLEM
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
WILLYACY
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
A man is as old as he feels, but a woman is what her neighbours say she is.
Sarcastic Diner: Waiter, did this jugged hare come from the White City!"
When a man proposes he loses his mental balance, after marri- age he loses his bank balance.
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I be of nervous disposition "" I should say not, he's harder to rattle than a feather pillow."
Host: Hare n whisky and sodai Quest: Thanks.
Host: How do you like it? Guest: Half and half-plenty of water.-
Algy "Fools repent the pro- verbs which wise men make."
Alice: "Who was the author of that one?"
"Shay, waiter, find my hat."
It's on your head, sir." Don't bother, then; P'li look for it myself."
Doctor: James, is that a patient in the waiting room i
James: Oh no, sir, he comes once a week to read the magazines.
Whilebaum (on telephone)-Hel- lo, is this the druggist's How about my sleeping powder. Do you think I'm going to stay awake all night waiting for it?
Surgeon—Yes, my bill for sewing that scalp will be $30.
Patient patient-My word, Doc. all I wanted was sewing, not hem- stitching, and embroidery
Question: Explain the expression Not a Bene.'
Answer thy one candidate): "The Nots Bene" is an expression Americanishi and is equivalent to the English "penniless."
S.MO. He seems much better. Hayr you taken his temperature?
Orderly: Yes, sir; I put the barometer on his chest, and it said. Very dry. So I gave his a pint of beer, an' he went to sleep.
The annual dinner was a very She:
"Darling, do you think jovial and festive one indeed, and there can be people in the moon 1". when the liqueur stage was reach-
He:" "How
could there bated one of the convives turned to his Where would they go when there neighbour and in a husky tone in is no moon 7"
quired, Shay, ole man, wha' time is it pi
Ten to nine," was the reply. night; I'll put that down
said the to I don't forgerrit," other, laboriously inscribing the time on his mean card.
Assistant: Yes, sir, those socks will give perfect satisfaction. I've worn them myself for the last two months."
Customer: "Have you E pair
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like them that you haven't worn so A Highlander who prided him. long "
self on being able to play any tune on the pipes perched himself on the A crowd of small boys gathered side of one of his native hills one at the entrance of a circus tent. A Sunday morning and commenced burly man with a stick stood watch-blowing for all he was worth. ing them. With an air of author- ity, he said to the man taking the
money-
"Now let all these boys in and count them."
The collector did as he was told.
When all the boys had gone in he said to the burly man, twenty-eight, air,'
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Good!" said the man, as he walk- ed away. "I thought I'd guessed right."
Presently the minister came along and, going up to MacDougall with the intention of severely repri manding him, naked in a very harsh voice, MacDougall, the Ten Coronam, do you know MacDougall scratched his chin for a moment, and then, in aa equally harsh voice, said:
D'ye think you've beat met Jost whistle the first three or four bars, and I'll bae a try"at it."
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1-Infant's food.
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4-To switch (railroad),
9.-Drinking counter.
12.-Poem.
13.-Drunkard."
14. To be vader obligation.
15.Very warm.
17. Having false hair.
10.-Tune.
21.-Conjunction.
22-Command to a cat. 23.-Age
27.-Unites.
31. Sunburn. 32.-Usable. 34. Comparative.
36. A metal:
36.--Vast ago.
38.-Woman's garment.
41-Golfer's mound.
42-To spill, -
43.-Resinous substance.
44.-Expense.
45.-While.
47.-Roman emperor,
48. To blind by brilliancy.
53.-Oath taker.
57.-Self.
58. To dispossess.
60. Pastry.
61.-Prefix: modern.
62-North Europeans. 03-Colloquial: a child.
1.- Vessel.
2.---Fuss.
3.-By.
Vertical.
4.-To.agitate.
23.-Bong. 24-Article.
20.--Sour fermentation. 28.--Six hundred.
20.-Ladies.
20. Icy rain.
32-To transfix.
33-Part of shoe.
35.-A jewel. 39.-Behold.
40. Variant of Joba.
41.-Toward. 44.-Bed.
40--Snow vehicle.
MS.-Lecays.
49.---Lair.
30. To mature. 31.-Colloquial wild animal col-
lection.
5-Girl's name. 54.-Likely.
55-Spanish for river. 36.--Still.
50.--Within.
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SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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6.--Above.
7. Recent.
8. Group of three.
0:-Marsh.
10. Respect.
11.-A colour.
16.-A rodent.
18. Small particle. 20.--A constellation. 92.-Walks.
QUE BLUE BEL GODE 17IZE PIE IN · ADEP. HEE
PA ENGL ELDE
ÖDIUN BEEL EE ROAKED COZEEE NO BARK, FLEIE SEA EAXD EDEB ONKO BEAF EF- ****** DEE LEDE EL ORI | IGIE ■ POEL JBR TØEB ECEE
ON TURNING CORNER, SEES THREE CARS PARKED IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. MUST BE A SEWING CIRCLE OR BRIDGE CUB MEETING
FEELS TOO TIRED AND DIRTY TO MEET A LOT OF WOMEN.
PECIDES HELL JUST WALK AROUND ILL THEY'VE
SONE
TWENTY MINUTES LATER CARS ARE
STILL THERE
SITS ON STEPS OF VA- CANT HOUSE AND READS EVENING PAPER "HIRCOGH
AGAIN
EXTRA!
A
Story right out of TOURowa Heart Tou-Yourself-Will bo the "Boy" or the' Girl”, as the case may be There are only two Persons in the Cast-but Thons. rands in the Picture.
A Love Story that will Grip Your Every Emotion 1:
LONESOME
GLENNY TRYON AND BARBARA KENT
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CARS STILL THERE : CHINS FOR QUARTER.
OF AN HOUR WITH' MILT GRIGSBY..CUT
IN HIS YARD
CAN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER. DECIDES TO SNEAK IN BACK DOOR.
(Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndicats, Inc.)
HOUSE IS STRANGELY SI- FINDS THE PARTY IS AT LENT. IS TIP-TOEING UP STAIRS WHEN WIFE ASKS WHAT MAKES HIM SO LATE
PICTURES AND
THE PERLEY'S, NEXT DOOR, BUT THERE WAS A “TRUCK) IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE 50 THE PEOPLE. HAD TO PARK HERE
AND PLAYS.
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Ten
years ago it would have been dif- cult to pat such a savage picture of feminine infidelity on the screen.
There were strange happenings in
Therese lives with a shopkeeping | performance is magnificent. aunt, who has a weakling aon.. The son covets the big, strong, healthy girl, and, to please the aunt, she marries him. There comes into her life as artist, and with artists, as all picturegoers know, no woman Malvern, that quiet English inland is safe. He steals the strapping spa, when, in the hall in which Mr. wife from the silly husband, whom Baldwin addressed his constituents they decide to drewn, rather as one on the eve of the poll, the chair- might drown a rat. No suspicion man of the urban district council fails on them. Even the police are formally adopted Bernard Shaw, sympathetic. Then the black she-that great dramatist," as more dow of remorse creeps over their or less the patron saint of the town. lives. The portrait of the murder- ed man, painted by the artist him- self, stares them from the din- ing-room wall, and the weakling at quires in death a dignity which he never had in life.
"Show Life," which features An- na May Wong, the Piccadilly" star, is described by its exploiters as a drama in which the great soul of a little dancing girl shines like a beacon light in a sea of hate, greed, lust and revenge." Never theless, it is a film that can be com- mended, if only for the reason that it was produced by Richard Elch berg, one of the few German diree- tors who have acquired what the cinema industry calls an interna tional outlook, which means, in effect, the Holloywood mentality.
Although it was Sunday, there In Show Life" the sample of
was a dress rehearsal of Shaw's womanly fidelity is taken from the
new play, "The Apple Cart" underworld of the theatrical pro-
which was attended by hundreds of fession. She is a half-caste devot
people from all over the country, ed to blind knife-thrower who
including Edith Craig, Dame Ellen Terry's daughter, and Bernard loses his sight while trying to steal money for another woman, who de
Shaw himself, who sat in the circle, serts him. The half-caste pretends The guilty couple find that they hiding and refusing to take a call. outside to be the woman for whom the blind
cannot get rid of the deed as easí. Curious people stood man is always crying, but he dis ly as they got rid of the dead. watching this breach of the Sab- covers the deception and thrustaThey quarre, and the murdered bath, new to an English províncial her from him. His sight is restor- man's inother overhears them dis- town, There is now at Malvern an ed through her agency, and he goes cussing the crime. She has a fit exhibition of Shaw's stage designs, to acknowledge her devotion, but and becomes a hopeless paralytic, portraits, and other things connect- his entrance startles her during anable to speak, walk or write. She ed with his life is on view in the sword dance and she is accidental can tell no one about the murder.public library, and humorists are ly killed. There is an alternative But the two criminals go on quar happy ending, in deference to the relling, and in the end seek to kill "international outlook."
each other sceretly. Finally they have a moment of revelation in which they see that the only way of escape is suicide for beth. So they drink poison under the dreadful eyes of the mother, an appalling figure of gagged and helpless jus. tice.
Miss Wong is marvellous, but hardly less so is Heinrich George as the brutal-minded knife-thrower. Only the acting of this inspired pair lifts Show Life" above the common rut of films of this type.
What Paris thinks about women in more accurately reflected in "Thou Shalt Not," based on the Zola novel, Therese Raquin." This Jacques Feyder production is one of the classica of the screen.
Thou Shalt Not" is superbly acted by Gina Manes as Therese, H. A. Schiettow is the lover, Jean- "ne Marie-Laurent as the paralysed mother, and by Wolfgang Zilzer as the futile husband. Mr. Ziler's
already choosing for him a birth- place, so that he will be for all time associated with the town. Shaw is now a local idol-á ma who a few years ago was attacked everywhere and called a traitor, and now hailed as a genius, and in Mr. Baldwin's own constituency of Bewdley.
The Apple Cart," which was produced in Warsaw recently, deals with England in 1900, and, deals humorously with the abdication of a king under England'a monarchi a system, and also forecasts poli- tical" and international happenings.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
THE FASCINATION OF DRESS EXPERIMENTS.
EY THE DOWAGER LADY SWAYTHLING.
What makes a woman win the compliment of being really well dressed "Following the fashion," would probably be the answer of the majority.
But when you think of the friends whose appearance is most pleasing you will realise that blindly fol- lowing the fashion is certainly no elue to the mystery of looking supremely "right" in one's clo- thes.
the same tenacity, the prime mo.. tive of the chic Frenchwoman is to adhere exclusively to certain styles and models, simply because it is the Fashion.
They are, in fact, slaves to Fas hion, while Englishwomen remain individualists.
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There is endless fascination in the blending of colours. Whether it is Indian red with amber, pea- cock blue with ocean green, or some other attractive alliance, experi. menting with colour is an exhi larting part of dress-designing.
When I was in Cairo I was im- Sametides I have wondered in mensely struck by the lovely colour. what way each excels? For thoughings. These combinations of un- the Frenchwoman is more stereotyp usual shades, still to be found in the tombs fresh as on the day they cd than we are, she possesses, think, a hatural good taste which were painted, have been annexed we all too commonly lack. This by the lever dress designers and In the good taste comes up primarily in christened "Egyptian.” the creation of the new fashions museum at Alexandria there are which all the world, more or less, exquisite Tangra 1gares, follows, It also appears in the and, it would be difficult to find actual making of beautiful clothes, more perfect drapery or varied and or still more so in the wearing of bewitching styles of hairdressing. them.
Woman the Unconventional
To me the most important thing You only have to watch the effect I do not agree with the general in the art of dressing seems the of the same clothes worn by two assumption that the joy of wearing ability of expressing one's indivi- different people to know exactly gay colours is a feminine mono- duality freely, whatever Fashion what I mean. Notice how the Pari-poly. decrees. For I believe the English sian, by some subtle touch, will If the truth were known I fancy woman cannot readily conform to achieve just the right chic. Sko men enjoy bright tones every bit as type, and excels only when she is interprets intuitively the dream of much. On the slightest provocation allowed some degree of indepen a great dress designer, and com- they display, multi-coloured swea- dence and escape from standardisa-pletes his creation. She has power ters, and indulge themselves freely tion.
to make a quite simple toilette look in remarkable shades for socks and distinctive, and, in arranging and ties. displaying draperies, she has a po sitive genius. As to her style in the manipulation of shawls and scarves, she shows a grace which few Englishwomen can equal.
This rather "raises the question of the difference between French women and Englishwomen in their attitude towards dress. From my observations, though I admire the daabing charm of the French wo
n's dress, I think her a distinct- ly more conventional follower of fashion than her sister on this side
of the Channel,
- Conservative Frenchwomen.
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But on the whole I suspect that conventionality is far too strong in the average man to allow him to let himself run riot in unusual dressing, even if he tonged to do But this is no disparagement to i so.
Woman is in this supreme-she Englishwomen, who, during recent,; years have advanced from the can be unusual or conventional, er- dowdy fastnesses they were said to tistic, original or fashionable; she inhabit. Nowadays Englishwommesa follow the style of the year, or study French fashions, following her own inclination, but in each, them only as far as they are sui- if she excel, she can be a thing of table.
beauty.
For example, a poor Freachwo man, hardly ever altera, from one generation to another, her style of To me, one of the most interest clothing or hairdressing. Bimilar ing features in the study of clo ly during each season, and with thes is the use of colour.
And it is beauty of line, colour, and effect which should be every woman's duty and pleasure.
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