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St. Michael, and All Angele Michasimas Day,
Totary Club Tiffin,, Lane, Craw ford's Restaurant, 1 paņ
St. Andrew's Society Meeting, City Hall, 5:45 pm.
Football: Hong Kong Chinese v Maluyon Chinese, Caroline Hill; &. p.m. SAN MART
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Queen's Theatre: "The Deyil To
Star Theatre; The Girl Said No,"
King Theatre: Forbidden Adventure."
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THE WORLD WAITING FOR A SOPHOCLES,
A SHAKESPEARE, A DISRAELI.
[BY EDWARD MARJORIBANKS, M.P]
We live in an age of empty 1014. As be paced the floor of his throw and vacant pedestals. Is room in the Foreign Ofen in that our generation lias lost the August, 1814, his brain was tortured feelings of reverence and hero-wor-by the question, "Was there any ship, or that there is no one now thing that he and his friends could alive able to arouso such senti have done which they had not done mental Is there no one who can and which might have averted the The Bigbend for us the bow of Odyssens, catastrophe '". No one could doubt Stolen and restore order and deccoes to who reads that page of history but the mad revelry of Ithica Or that this wise and good man did would his voice not be heard in everything in his power to save bubbub or his prowess noticed in Europe from the awial conflict that the kaleidoscope of modern litet ensued.
Central Theatre: Dracula." Prince's Theatre: Party"
Majestic Theatre:
Heaven.
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels
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Hockey.-- Hong Kong Hockey Club . Argylls, 3,20 p.m.
Hong Kong Amusements, Annual General Meeting, noon.
Cigil Service Cricket Club, an- nuni general meeting." 6.30 p.m.
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Queen's Theatre: "The
Pay,
No,"
But merely let us exerciss a con. Countless gifts have indeed been showered upon our generation by ventional fantasy and put in his the inventore of mechanical science; placo Gladstone, with his zeal and continent converses with continent; fire, and mighty name, Dizzy, with we speak to each other and hear his wiles and foresight, or even. music across the world and through that stout old Gascon Pam, and the air we fly like eagles, and; then it is not difficult for us to wherever we choose, we watch at imagine how the murder at Sera- our case moving photographs that jevs might have become an obscure talk. Now, as never before, there international event and the death are foreca at work which make not of the Archduke less
interesting only for uniformity but unity in the than that of his cousin, the Crown world.
Princo Rudolph, and of, moment only to Court historians. But the war was allowed to grow out of it, a gigantic soldiers' and citizens' battle of four yehrs. No supreme military naval or political genius arose in all that time for the ad- miration of posterity. No single
When before did artists, actors,
entro The Devil To dramatists, preachers, poets, sige,
Star Theatre: "The Girl Said
Central Theatre :) Dracula," King's Theatre Forbidden Ad- venture
Prince Party."
Majestic Theatro
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statesmen have such instruments at their command, auch rostrum for their "eloquence, such a field for their carnest endeavour? But with “Theatre i "The Big all these advantages in the aphere
Stolen of statesmanship, after he greatest man was entitled to repeat Wel- calamity of history and following a lington's naive, modest but abso much-reviled but not unsuccessful lutely truthful boast to Creevey Administration by a loyal team of after Waterloo. (It was the elderly public school boys, we closest shaved thing you ever saw in governed for the second time by your life. By Gad, sir, I do be well-meaning schoolmasters and believe, that if I hadn't been there; wildered trades union officials. | we shouldn't-have dono" it!").
Heaven.und
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Was the War Avoidable?
Culture Begets Achievement.
Bat where are the great ones!
And since the war our statesmen Where is our Gladstone, who could have been preoccupied in "insur make this nation of shopkeepers ing against revolution" by a vin dream dreams and ace visions 11 competition of showing how much Where is our Disraeli, who pos- they have spent, will" spent," or Entries Close for Ninth Extra sessed an equally great magic, the would, if only they could, spend on Race Meeting, noon.
power to awaken the nation from material benefits for the people, Queen's Theatre: Sinners Holi, its illusions. (For there were pre- The ancient British practical day."
Star Theatre: The Bellamy phets in Israel in those days.) idealism which freed the slaves, Trial.
I remember being very impressed protected small nations, and ruled Dracula
the memoirs of the East, has made way for an im Murder By by a passage.
one of our foremost statesmen of (Continued on Page.10.)
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