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MUSIC

GRIEG'S LYRICS

BEETHOVEN SONATAS

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MOZART SONATAS...

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JEAN MARAT GRADED

PIECES

DILLER QUAIL

TEACHING SERIES

EARLY ENGLISH

HARPSICHORD MUSIC.

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HONG KONG DAILY FRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932.

COLLIERS SING TO VEREY LIGHTS OFF

PRINCE GEORGE.

LONG TOUR OF SOUTH WALES PITS.

Prince George during his visit to the depressed mining areas of South Wales mude long tours of the

Rhondda Valley, and the Fonty) pridd district. In the course of one day he

Saw unemployed minera' sons repairing boots with old motor tyres, and being trained in wood- work and metal work:

Listened to the singing of a pit choi, hasbly mustared from the workings, their faces still-black with coal dust:"

Shook hands with voleran collier, who proudly told him that he had shaken hands with King Edward; and

Inspected a huge pit-head baths. with accommodation for 1,900

inet.

Throughout his

Prinos tour George hoved freely among the colliers and chatted with many of them. It was at the Miners! Con- valescent Finment Talyzan that ho met Byear-old Tom Davies, oľ

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Training Workless Boys.

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In the Pontypridd district, where 5.00 out of 10,000 men are idle, he inspected a juvenile training centre, administered by the Ministry of Labour, which in Sve years has trained Oco boys in woodwork, metal work, boot repairing, and other trades. The hors gave a dig play of physical drill and played games and sang before the Prince,

Act

LAMMA ISLAND.

A FARCE IN SEVEN FLARES.

One.-Scene R.A. Officers' Moss,

1st Gunner Officer:T, don'c think we can range on that bench on Lamma Island with our new guna Bring Troni Shekke."

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ASSASSINATION?

MYSTERY.

DID MURDERER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ESCAPE?

EVIDENCE FROM A MUMMY.

Chicago, Dec. 18.-Stories which have been long current among many sections in this country that John Wilkes Booth, the actor, who 4th Ditto: "What will the dearshot President Abraham Lincoln,

public say if we lob a few

2nd Bitto: I think we can." 3rd Ditto: "Let's try, anyway."

hundred weight of Lyddite escaped and that an innocent man onto their nice, clean beach was extouted in his stend, may be. 5th Ditto "What about using proved trus by solence.

star-shells at night.??...

THE ORACULAR BACHELORS.

THEIR JUDGMENTS ON HUSBANDS.

MR. JUSTICE SWIFT AND "ONLOOKERS."

"The position of husbands is al ways most authoritatively declared. i I have found, by those who are not husbands. It is the onlooker who sees most of the game, and that' applies to other walks of life,"

This comment was made by Mr. Justice Swift in the King's Bench

- Seven-physjgiáns here-to-day-an-Division when hearing argumenta

1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Offers innounced that they are virtually to which litigang in the '68-

chorus: Cay du M.

convinced that a battered mummy,pvagant wife" one should pay for 29 years a freak hun sideshow, the costs of the husband. is the body of the real assassin.

Act Two-Scene: R.A. BRAC Shekke. Time: Monday night, Battery of field guns fring star- shells, to the accompanimens of language customary on with ncessions. The 0.0. reports that the shells look YOŻY pretty bursting over Lamma ays they might almost be mistaken for Verry Lights Later: A pick up and go to bed like good aupers, haying uard up allowance of shells.

Act

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Judgment had been given ea list for Miss "Alice Marin Knight. trading as M. E. Lovell, court dressmaker, New Bond-street, W. against Mrs. May Gordon, of House, Shrivenham,

A serien -ray examinations of one of the mummy's legs prove that it was broken at exactly the same plater as was Booth'a when the murderer leaped from the railing Shrivenhain. outside Lincoln's box in Ford's Berks,, for £908 P8, 60, for dresses Theatre in Washington, GD the and furs supplied to her. night of April 14, 1885, after hav

Mrs. Gordon's husband, who lives ing fron shot into the Pre-if Calcutta, was also sued, but indgment was given for him with coste.

sident's brain.

Three-Scene: Cheung Chan Police Station. ime: Mon-

On that tragic occasion, the day night:

netur gained the stage despite thei Policeman observes strange go-leg fracture, ran into the wings, ingam he vicinity of escaped through a rear door

Lamana Teluid,

Wonders if

the Aurora Borealis has lost where his horse, was waiting, and its WAY and como too galloped away. fai unth Decides it might be Verdy Lights.fired from a ship: perkaps the skipper has lost his hat overboard and is having dificulty in Snding it in the dark. Later: Mora lights appear; decides to do things about it. Telephones bad to be correct, mys that he Wates Police Station

a barn 12 days way cornered in gous to bed, having, done-duty as laid dows in The Com- later, wounded and later resated. plete Poliersian page ninety Following his execution, says his paragraph ix sub-section fourteen which see.

Tory, the body was buried" secretly in Baltimore under cover of dark

Innumerable:"stories and legends since have declared that he made good his escape and roamed the country a free man for "9 years.

The historical version hitherto

then

Four. Scene: Water Police nem Station. Time: Monday night.

Wireless operator feverishly work- ing brasmitter enlling up police launch hunting pirates somewhere at sea. Having received reply resumes recital of spicey story with. Officer in

At Treorchy ho visited a number of boys' clubs and other welfare centres, the recreation ground and children's playing field established by a group of colliery companies, and a hospital At the end of the tour he motor to Bridgend, where he took the train for Badminton, to Act stay with the Duke and Ducheas of Beaufort

WHAT G.B.S. SAW IN RUSSIA.

THE WOMEN-TWO STYLES:

Charge.

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Five. --Scene: Police Launch

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Alleged Confession.

The mummy had been regarded that of John St. Helen, who ommitted suicide in Oklahoma" ar 1002. - *

Counsel now argued as to the me" thrd by which Mr. Gordon should. receive his costa.

Mr. J. E. Singleton, K., suid') that Mr. Garden had been making i voluntary allowance to his wife, but on October 1 lust, în view s his decreased income, he reduced

the lowance to £150 a month.

Mr. F. Laskey, for Mrs. Gor-

don, said that if an order was

baade for her to pay her husband's costs now he did not say that she would necessarily have no prospect. before her but starvation, but it

was possible, because it would be technically possible for the hus- band to stop payment to her.

Mr. Justice Swift, The rogistrar! who makes the order will see to v thes she ie not starved. There is sufficient out of £2,100 a year for her to pay the husband's costs without starving.

Future of Daughter.»

The theory that Booth escaped

Mr. Laskey suid that the amount after the wrong man had paid the Mrs. Gordon received was £150 penalty for his dead is supported month. There were a number of Helen, who said to have, mur people might obtain judgment and by the alleged confession of St

other claims against her, and cther mured before he died: I am Johan order for costs. The allowance Wilkes Booth.".

was not only for Mrs. Gordon, bui for the maintenance and education of her daughter who had lived with her since, the returned from Gordon to pay the costa might re India in 1981. An order for Mrs.

suit in hardship for the child, hanged, and the actor's family The judge said that, so far na suffered the deepest humiliation. Invective was heaped upon Maryland doctor who set the fugitive'; fractured leg.

No. 9, somewhere at AZA. Time: Monday night. Master of vessel receives. message Booths' murderous act aroused from wireless operator. Im the nation to feverish excitement mediately weighs anchor, and indignation. The woman shivers his timbers, aplices all whose bearding house the plot was in the mainbruces he can lay said to have been hatched was hands on, and dashes off at top speed for Lamma Lanud muttering meanwhile: Lights, lights, what the -,"

Six-Seone! Water Police Station. Time: Tuesday

Mr. George Bernard Shaw has Art written an account of his recens visit to Russia..

From the first part of it (which. appears in. Nasle's-Pull Mall Magn- zine he evidently enjoyed himrel. and found nothing, he wys, dreadful."

very

In Moscow he noted two kinds of women-old style and new.

The old style women he saw in the streets were rather careworn. and scantily dressed," and carried heavyish sacks, and were evidently no happier than "the human bensts of burden" in other countries,"

The Only Bullet. He Saw. Near the station, however, he says he "found something new"-a bery, of girls armed with long-handled; spades.

There was neither stocking, sock, nor shoe among them," he writea, and their athletic free. dom of limb and fearleg, air, which marked even the youthfully shy ones, had such a pleasant effect that we at pace crowded round them and began talking to them as a matter of müra

he know, there had been no pro: &ceedings to determine the custody of the child, who was still under 18. An order for restitution conjugal rights was mado.

Even the name of Edwin Booth, beloved Shakespearean actor and norring.

brilliant brother of the assassin, Newspaper Reporter, to Officer in was for many months under il Charge: "Have you any furcloud, although when he appeared ther information with regard on the New York stage in "Hame to the mysterious lights sight " a year later the audience ed at Cheung Chau laat night showed by unstinted applause its and believed to be emanating conviction that "the glory of one from a vessel in distress a full brother would never be imperille: report of which appeared in Thy the infory of another. our issue of this morning price ten cents on sale at a}} { " book-stalls 7" 1

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Mr. Laskey said he understood the girl was 14 or 15.

His Lordship: The child is a diability which he cannct shirk. The fact that the child is living. with the mother does not deprive the father of the custody of the

child:

Mr. Laskey: It is a right he has never assorted.

Lord Charnwood's View.

The judge asked Mr. Laskey "if it would help him if a stay of Lord Charnwood, who is the execution for a month was granted. Officer in Charge: We know author of e work entitled

Mr. Laskey replied that proceed- nothing about it. There is "Abraham Lincoln," stated when ings fet permanent alimony could nothing to report. I have no shown this statement: The only not be completed in that time. It further information concern thing I can point out is that no-would, suit his case if a stay bf ing this matter. What are body was executed, strictly speak execution was granted for two you talking about anyway?" ing A man, supposed to be John months.

Act

Wilkes Booth,' was shot down Mr. Singleton. The only result Seven. Seene: Newspaper while trying to escape arrest in of getting Mr. Laskey out of his Offer. Time, just before is rendered and was afterwards hang. company with a man who sur- goes to press.

ed as one of the conspirators. pa Reporters writing frantically Such. at least, is the story about unsolved mystery of given by John G. Nicolay. Lin- unearthly tights sighted offel's Giographer and secretary, Laruna Island. Parts on head who was in Washington at the ing: "Sensation of the year." Itime.

'CURTAIN

CLUBS' RIGHT TO SUE.

UN PAID FEES.

"I do not know what possibility there was of mistake a to the identity of the man who was shot, and of course, në much fuller u

unt of the evidence on which it). ik, now denied that he was Booth would lie necesenry before I could en anything further about it. There is not. I believe, the smallest bubs that John Wilkes Booth was

"They were doing railway work) as holiday volunteers, and the

Clubs are entitled to recover unthenolual assassin." spade were for unloading the paid pulcriptions, according to the

decision of Mr. Registrar Friend were talking amat Clerkenwell County Court.

freight trains. "Whilst we chaffing a freight train came in. Instantly these girls sprang to their foot and bounded to the train with a rhythmic grace and vigour that would have delighted Dinghileff.

It was the only Russian ballet

Geld Cricket Club, of, Swaine-lane, He gave judgment for the Broom

Highgate, which and Aloe Fulle.. of Tufnell Park-road, N., a Civi seription of £1 10s and 30s. Od. Servant, for his membership suh,

entrance fee.

Fuller wrote to the Court that he was dissatisfied with his treat for ment by the club.

MISS POLA NEGRI OPERATED ON.

HER CONDITION CRITICAL Sauta Monica (Cal) Mise Pola Negri, the famous film star, who has been lying here seri- ously ill, underwent an operation

the relict of acute in-i testinal obstruction. For cond: The Registrar said that if tion is critical. The contrast between these girls named that someone had spoken the cause of her illness. At first raember of the Athenmum" Clúb There had been some doubt na to "as they dashed at the freight bars more than twice in a month, an it was believed that she was suffer- with their spades and the old style there was too much noise, he did ing from tomaine poisoning, bu women with their burdens' wan not think, it would be any defence this was found to be an incstreet irrosistiblo," adds. Mr. Show.... for not. paying his subscription diagnosin

we say in Russia."

from table to home

-from home to table.

Eroubles in this way would be to as a defendant, Bar was beand to dofont the husband's claim against | dok sá, "che

Under the old praction thers

anyone.

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His lordship, giving judgment, would usedly have heada said that the only matter for him judgment as to costa for Mr. Gor te determine was what order shoudon against Mike Knight, who The made a taveen the three par would have had the right to add ties. The notion all through had the costs paid to the husband to been fought between husband those recovered from the wife. His and wifo, and not On thelordship was attisfied that, in jus ground that Miss Knight's claim tice to all three parties in the case, was in any way wrong. He had the husband's" romedy should bo exprossed the view before, and he¦ against the wife, declared in to be his finding of He therefore made an order for: fact that Mia Knight was not only the wife to pay Mr. Gordon his reasonable in joining Mr. Gordon costs direct, d

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