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No. 22792, AXIAñA. ƉĦ±ƒ1⁄2‡‡‡ HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931. # BARA** Price

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

(August 13.)

Annual Meeting of H.K. Foot ball Club (Chamber of Commeros. room), 5:30 pm,

British Legion Annual Meeting, Jardino's Boardroom, 5.15 p.m.

Lammert's Anction of Cadillac Motor Car, Sales room, 12 noon.

Queen's Theatre: "Sins of Chil- dren."

World Theatre: "The Fairy Sistors" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre; " Dough Boy." Central Theatre: The Bilent Enemy."

Majestic Theatre: "Men on Call King's Theatre: Scotland

Yard

Prince's Theatre:Girl From Havana,'

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels

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Friday, (August 14.)

Queen's Theatre: "Sins of Chil- dren."

World Theatre: "The Fairy Sisters" (Chinese picture).

"BACHELOR GIRLS"

THEY ARE TOO SELF CENTRED AND

SELFISH?

BUT “THE MOST INSPIRITING PRODUCT

OF THIS ERA."

I have so often taken up the Whether she, in generous or not cudgels on her behall that nobody financially depends upon her in will. I trust, acous me of catering dividual temperament, and it on- upon this subject with a prejudice tiesly outside the scope of these against the most inspiriting pro- remarka, duct of this or the bachelor girl, writes Mabel Ellams Hope, the well-known dramatist in the Lon- dos Morning Post, I mean the girl who sets forth upon a career with great thoroughness, regarding the prospect

of matrimony as a fascinating sideline instead of an objective.

Nevertheless, to admire a person is not necessarily to be blind to their defects, although one is, of

To revert to the social side, how. ever, my experience of bachelor girls extends from those who live in hostels to those who are able to live, assisted by privato incomes, in private hotels, and I have found that without exception they only visit the houses of their friends when they have nothing better to do elsewhere.

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Star Theatre: Redemption." course, reluctant to see and admit King's Theatre: Scotland them. That is why I have tried Yard."

Central Theatre: "The Silent for so long to convince myself that Enemy."

the bachelor girl is not self-centred and selfish. I have been in close association with the typo ever since

Prince's Theatre: "Girl. From

Hi.ana,"

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and

Peninsula Hotels.

Tides:High at 8.12 and 11.00 Low at 2,20 and 4.10.

European Mall Inward: Europe in Siberia (Rajputxua).

Saturday,

(August 15.)

unflatteringly frank, in fact- about their intentions, for most of my contingent, when asked to grace the festive board on a specific, if not exactly riotous occasion, aay that they will come if there is

it existed, although I disqualified" nothing else on. The more rather too early in life ever to be thotful ones do not actually us regarded as a member of the sister these words, but they imply that hood, fee

such is the case.

Embarrassing Independence. If, on the other hand, the affair My sympathics are all with the to which they have been biddin by: ideala and aspirations of the bache me looks like being a bit unusual, Lawn Bowls:-First Division': Kowloon Docks Craigengower; or girl; but the many I have enter. I suppose somebody else is thrown K.C.CK.A.G.C. Police v. Retained and numbered among my over at the last minute in order crelo; C.S.C.C. v. Taikoo. Second friends have made me secretly that I may be honoured. I find, for Division: Taikoo Yacht Club; C.C.C. v. K.C.C.; Recreio v. thankful for the few married friends instance, that spars theatre tickets C.A.C.C..E.BG.C. A.KE,C. I have also. The latter do not are very rarely declined; but this

Central Theatre: The Silentuso" and nearly so much,

Enemy."

Star Theatre: "Redemption." ". By this statement I do not mean Central Theatre" The Silent to infer that the bachelor girl docs Enemy."

King's Theatre: "Scotland not pay her way. On the contrary, she is anxious almost to an em barrassing degres to be in nebody's debt; and, by the same token, she gives very little in the social sense.

Yard."

Prince's Theatre: "Girl From Havana."

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