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No. 22651. WILSEIF Я*** HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931. - Price) Single Copy. 10 cts.

SPRING MEETING.

DIARY OF LOCAL HOW CHEVALIER ROSE

EVENTS.

To-day.

(February 28.)

Annual Meeting, Hong Kong and‹ Shanghai Banking Corporation, City Hall, 13.30

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Sunday.

(March 1.)

TO FAME.

· SOME EARLY STRUGGLES IN PARIS.

THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT WINS

THROUGH.

narice Chevalier gave the fol lowing account of his early life and struggles, in the course of a recent interview. Speaking of his first home in a Paris suburb ho anid :-

To a taxi-driver. in Caunes, 1 said: “I wish to go to the home of M. Maurice Chevalier at La Borca. Do you know ig?"

At first he did not answer. In- steal, he turned to a friend who was lounging near by and remark ed in. tones of gentle satire

Ecoutez-le done onsieur is asking whether one knows the home of Maurice Chevalier!"

They both laughed sympathetic- ally,

Then, as he liek wide the door of his vehicle for, a to limb in, the taxi-driver explained: Par don-but it is though one ap proached Monsieur in the streets of London to inquire the address of the King of England 1!",

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"Automatically, I memorised ene or two of the most popular songs. And, with a boy's natural desire to initate-I was six years old when mother first took me to the Palais-soon began to imagine myself singing them..

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It was not long before Maurice sang his first song in public. Alas! the time and place were ill-chosen. At school, during the arithmetic lesson, he scrambled our to a desk and piped out the beginning of a Invourite comie chorus. His teach. er, who

music-hall was not habitué, expelled him from the elast.

Georgetto...

"A terrible blow, fell upon our old," said Maurice," for then my family when I was eleven years father died. I had to find work, to earn what little I could. 'My first job was that of an apprentice car- penter,"

His first job for he lind tonny. jobs in quick succession. Maurice was full of mischief and humour, n playboy of Paris. Employers found him well, over-exuberant.

So we drpse, sidng a winding, painfringed and to the drowsyable proprietor of the paint shop

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Queen's „Theibe," "TreeUs Be

pro brought in tv, he jar of corouted villa with sky blue shatters, and that was the home of 31. Maurice Chern lier,

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European Mail-Inward: Europe vie Siberia (Tjikarang),

Londay.

(3arch e.)

Bank Holiday. Racing-Annual Race Meeting (Happy Valley), 11.30 a,m,

Fencing: Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, 5.13 p.rp.

Queen's Theatre, "Let Us be Gny."

World Theatre: "Exalted Flap Star Theatre: "The Show," Tea Dango: H.K. Hotel, 4.20 p.m. Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotele, 8.30. p...

European Mail:-Outward: Europe riu Siberia (Pres, Lincoln),

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Tuesday,

(March 3.) Racing:--Annual Race Meeting

(Happy Valley):

Take, for example, the respect-

to which Maurice became attached after failing in turn as carpenter, electrician, and printer's devil.

One day, when approaching: hie premises, the tradesinan, beard: a shrill young Voice raid-i asenti-- mental ditty. The singer was Mau. Five minutes later, when my

rice. Smiling and gesticulating as visiting card and I had been grimlyeg, he stood among the paint- inspected by a middle-aged French pots facing a blushing blonde aged

ten, named Georgette. scevast, Chevaljer kinwolf was tell. ing me about the first home he ever kuow, in the grey Paris suburb of Mezilmontant.

in a Parts Suburb.

Have you ever been in Menil- montant," Maurice began. "I sup. pose not. Wellŝt is just a plain working-class district of Paris, and nurs was a working-class home. We lived, in fact, in two rooms.

It was Chevalier's first love-song. Backed on the spot, he left beam- ing his arm linked with Geor- ette's..

Not a Model Apprentios. ·

A doll factory engaged him. He was supposed to paint schoolgirl complexions on the faces of dolls. "Just a delicate touch of colour,” advised the foreman.. "Don't overdo it,"

"Father was a house painter. 1

At first Maurice worked well, de- was the ninth of his ten children.corating each pale porcelain check To-day but three of us remain.

with the authentic bloom. "Life was hard enough in Menthe painted a doll to resemble a Then, in an experimental moment, mordant, ut it had compensations. theatrical puppet, with glaring One of these was the Palais de dabs of crimann Travail, a workpeople's music-hall, to which my mother took me regu- larly.

The foreman saw it, and disap proved. He remembered that in more ways than one this young artists appearing in

"Now, there were many splendid | Chevalier had not been an ident

the pro

employce for example, he had a habit of turning up in the mornings. with a bind eye, sometimes two. Maurice was interested in boxing.

"You are dismissed," apid the foreman,

Cricket.-Kowloon C.C. z. Volun.grammes at that music-hall, and they sang, some splendid old songs. teers, 2.m.

Fencing-Hong Kong Fencing The audiences, always high-spirited, Club Meet, 5.15 p.n

were lavish with theire applause, Queen's Theatre: "Let Us be and nobody shouted more frantie. Gay.

ally for an encore than 1.

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