1932-05-14 — Page 1

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Hongkong

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TOTTOE

QLOUC

In the best placer.

No. 2802

all be true that I do think"

ESTABLISH

bered a Newspaper, at VEF Post Offios in the United Kingdom.

830A44F HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1932. Я BALEXIARIA

DIARY OF LOCUL EVENTS

Recreation

LONDON CITY OF UGLY STATUES.

DRIVE

Cine Cloneral Post

Jeprovingly

Copy Month.

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Phone No. 26894.

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Phone 22492 for Cakes and Pastri

Entirely under Foreign Management

Alphonse J. Hand, Manager

five reasons why men drink;

friend or being

Or lest we should be by-and-by:

Or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich (1647),

WHATEVER THE REASONI

THE CONNOISSEUR COMES TO

CALDBECK'S"

<WHOLESALE & RETAIL WINE-MOROHANTS.” PRINOR'S BUILDING (GROUND FLOOR), TOR HOUSE STREET.

Telephone 20075.

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SPECIÁL SERVICE, SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Dáily a£ 8 am de 5,80 pake

(Sundays excepted). BAILINGS From MA CAO-Daily at 3 am & 2pm

(Bundays excepted).

SPECIAL WHIT EXCURSIONS

ON SUNDAY, 157H MAY; 1930

S.S. "SUI TAI"

will leave. Hong Kong at 9am and Macao at 4:00 p.m.

and on MONDAY, 10TM MAY

abdin, and from Macao at 3 pm.

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS. -Singlet $3.00; Return i 35.00. EXCURSIONS--Single: $2.50; Heturn: $400,

BOT-All:Stemmboat Combinaya Aboamera are Etted with Wireland:

Hong Kong Weekly Press

Armistice Signed at Shanghai

Storm Clouds at Canton

Water Shortage at Hong Kong

Local Sport

Interport Trial, Bowls, Racing, etc.

and

Other Interesting Features.

THE PAPER WITH THE YELLOW COVER

Price: 30 Cents.

Annual Subscription: Hong Kong, 813 Post Free to any address 818 Quarterly Subscription, 84.50. Orders should be sent to the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD., TELEPHONE: 84251.

Whitaun Eve.

Icing Birth Extra Ron Mact- ing, Happy Valley.

WHY NOT START A NATIONAL

MONUMENTS

It is not without reason that tha

word #Tolly' is so often perceded i Plise the founder, of the by the Adjective “monumental:*::

Publių monumente usually

Athletics: Todis Club Annual Athletic Sporm and Distribution of Cricket and Tennis Shields, Medals and prices.

Lawn Bowls.-Division I.: Police

Taikoo, Kowloon 0.0. v. Crai-nation, at that delicate degrés" or gengower, Kowloon Docks, v. Kow-foolishness which tremales between

the richonious and the sublima, loon B.G.C., Civil Service Re eroio; Division. II.: Taikoo Civil Service, Club de Recreio v. Yacht Club, Kowloon B.G.C. v. Kowloon C.C., Craigengewer v. EX. Elec, trib.

Cricket: Interport. Team leaves for Shanghai.

general HonTY

Beneath him a frisse of reliefs, with touching indifference fo incongruity, is carved to represent successively Courage, Good News, Sympathy, Bad News, Justice, Post Offon and India.

The -Nineteenth Century was por culiarly susceptible to bis form of

it in Vauxhall Park. folly, and the Nineteenth Century prowned with terracotta laurels by English were nobly loyal to their winged Victory. bage. They ranmoked the world for the materiale of self-perpetuation They quarried the granite of Scotland, the slate of Wales, the marble of Italy, the stone of Portland; they smelted bin and lead and copper; they poured out plaster in torrents; and even (fred- by the inspired geniva of Mme. Tussaudy melted wax like lard in hogsheads in order to preserve for An admiring posterity the stern Roman prodis, the tremendous Roman austerity, the avid and the King's Theatre This Reckless martial virtues of their godliko

eltizona Age,"

Address by Dr. Anna Selig to League of Nations Bociety, 9 p.m.

Opening of The University Club's clubhouse, King's Theatre Building (Roof) by Sir William Hornell, 0.30

pim,

Queen's Theatre: "Alias French Gertic"

Central Theatre; "The Painted Desert,"

World Theatre: “Trail of 98. Star Theatre; “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,"

Ton Dances at King's Restaurant wad Hana JERANAS Dances at Bong Kong Hotel, Re pulse Eny Hotel, Península Hotel and King's Restaurant."

Tides:-High at 144 Law at

23.06.

1.

European Mail-Inward Europe ria Suez (Kumsang); Outward: Europe via Suez (Suwa Maru), 9.30' a.m.; Europe in Suet. (Somali), 10.30 a.m. Europo i Siberia

SUNDAY.

(May 15.)

SWISS-ROLL SPEECHES

But these are comparatively in- offensive members of the Stone con- gregation. For a more formidable eruption of frock costs and bath towels, side whiskers and Swiss ralis trousers and togan, you-nfusi search, as I searchod, in the Blodm- sbury squares.

A CEMETERY OF STONE. The fifth Date of Bedford, hiz Nera-like brow laurelled in bay It is to this outhamt of a belated. leaves (or possibly vine leaves) rises: passion for publicsthat. Londen sobly among the plane trees owes its strange maropolis of sta Russell square, spurting with tues; a graveyard enormous, bronza foot the advadess of a gam Pressive, fantaatio and sublime, abolling group of nympha, „In comatery of stone twisted into Quen-square the adoptred and shapes something more than bun crowned figure of Queen Charlotte/ and somethingy mentesa, then is immortalised in load,

of Aberdeen granite bronze busts, statues, tablets, bar roliofa, friezes and inscriptions than would,, if minted down into useful pence, cous, pfennige, conte: simi, cash or other humbiè coin, be required to redeem the nation debt of more than one post-war re public.

was actual monopy of t folly of London some Trafalgar Square is a stone sar cophagus. There avery lion pleases and, only man is vile. The Mali Poffers its broad. perspective through the statue-crowned orifices of the Admiralty Arch, and on its right one can glimpse the superb colles- The statues of London stand intion of Whitehall Place, vory our streets like frozen soldiers of damping ground of stone a dead army. Thoy rise grimly bronze, whose larger than lifesize through the fog, or alumber wanly figures are, nevertheless, dwarfed

Whit. Sunday, 'Pentecost.. Kowloon Union Church Sunday School Anniversary Services,

Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 11 o'clock !" some a.m. to 9 p.m.

i

... and

(Shinyo Maru); Europe viz Brinin the malight, like sentinels by the York Column, which oefe disi (Conto Rosso), 6 pm?"

asleep at their posts. The squares brates at once a general who never are encumbered with them. Traffle win a battle and a hishop who divides into saparate streams at never wore a cope. their base. They provido a con- Waterloo Place is a veritable venient brooding ground for pige museum of realistic sculpture.. ons, da in „an sarlier day they Bronze and red grauite, plinths, would have provided a convenient pedestals, Britannias, telescopes, hitching post for horses, or a ren laarela, olive branches, whiskered: dezvous for lovers Meet me un- lions, whiskered generals, boots, der Cobden's statue at eight | chargers, spurs, batous, swords, agonised laver at rrups, Florence Nightingale, and might have urged in a friendlier lump. Nothing is mbaing, age And the frock-coated, wide Speeted in a corner, as if by an trouered old Free Trader, baid afterthought, in the stark, heroie headed, and baggy at the knees, figure of the explorer Boatt He with his side-whiskers, his fringe, should not have been here, one

· mournfully - triumphant on his reßeota, among these landsman, pedestal in Camden Town, carved spurred and booted, but some- with porn sheaves and garnered where along the banks of Thames fruits, might have turned a stony River, staring southwards over ear to their murmurod confidences gfby water and whirling' fog;"

But no modern lovers could But if he must stay in Waterloo- "⠀⠀⠀ identify Cobden among the host of place, and Colin Campbell, and

Central Theatre: Happy Stars" (Chinese film).

Queen's Theatre Lord: Babs." King's Theatre: "Over the Hill" Star Theatro: "The Dawn Patrol."

World Theatre: Three French (Girls'

Tes Dances at King's Restaurant high collared, oravated, frock coat Florence Nightingale with him, let ed and gesticulating: gentlemen, Jus make room for this gallant com- and Repulse Bay Hotel Dinner striking's House of Commona asti-pany, give them more sproe, a Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, tude with one hand, and clutching wider air. Let us disperes the dull Feninsula Hotel and King's Hosa Swiss-roll stone speech with the assembly of Victorian philanth

other, who adorn our streets to the ropists, aldermen, politicians, mer- taurant..

amusement of the world and the † chanta, dukes and Hanoverian Tides High at 6.40 and 16.16; bewilderment posterity

kings who now usurp the squares Low at 10,39 and 23.10.

and public places of the capital. HOW TO DISPOSE OF THEM.

MONDAY

(May 10.):

Whit Monday.

FORGOTTEN FIGURES:

They flaunt

rook conta And fringes from Canning Town to.] Kew from Southwark to Hemp stead Heath

The float-eyed Chinamen, and the Anniversary of Death of Con dark cars of the Feat Indl

fucius (Shing-tau-zik)!

Bank Holiday....

Dook-road look

enormous bronES, a

Let them be sold at auction, dia tributed; among the other cities of Lugland, Scotland and Wales, lent to Madame Tussaud's, re-rected" at intervals along our new arterial the der Toads, or sant to parade the pro nourish mum

Foremost in Dollar for Dollar Falue

NEW REFINEMENTS

2 · YEAR

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I am tuturonted in your HÄST" LATURIT PLAN now in effwot

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COMMENCING

TO-MORROW

the

QUEEN'S THEATRE

LORD BABS

with

Sixth Race Meeting (Becond Day) ceased and · forgotten Bichard vince as a perambulatory and BOBBY HOWES & JEAN COLIN

Happy Valley.

La Salla College Annual Athletic Sports, College ground, 1 p.m...

Fencing: Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, 15 pi

Queen's Theatre Lord Babs King's Theatre: "Oyer the Hill”| Central Theatre: "Happy Stars” (Chinese ilm),

World Theatre: Three renca

Star Theatre:

Patrol J

↑ Tea Dancos sa Kinfe

Fond: Hong Kong-

Dances Podluli Ho

taurant

11, lon Hoven Braaie.

Hong

Green, square-iowled, well seated in bis offled ed, sternly philanth

hungrily fawned upon vourite doganale The children in deni watch, with an eination, the pronari crown on this band Victoria The

Or, better still, let them be erect anded in the suburbs of London, in a his fa- kind of National Monumenta Park, as organised on a commercial basis | on Gazlike the National Car Park in the fas gardens of Lansdowne House, read There the unwanted staines of Queen London, shabby, neglected and un

waabed, should stand cheek by ader of fowl in a sort of Biegeseller, máss

ed in sormed, zank like the tured bombs in. Pahan Li

idiop

long rows of froc

A GAINSBOROUGH LAUGH FEASTI THERE IS NEVER A DULL JOYOUS MOMENTEN THIS

COMEDY-

IT MADE THE CRITICS

CHUCKLES

BOOK FAREY