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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933

ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS

TSUN WAN GHOST MOTOR INCIDENT AT

STREET HAUNTED "

AFTER DARK

KOWLOON TONG

WOMAN DRIVER SUMMONED

Mr. G. Fowler of the S.P.C.A. summoned Mrs. K. T. Loke of No. C3, Robinson Road before Mr. Butters at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for failing to signal while negotiating a bend at Kow- loon Tong on April 9.

It was alleged that as Mrs. Loke Road into Waterloo Road, she fail was turning her car from Suffolk

to reply to Mr. Fowler's signal with the result that there was near- ly a collision.

It is an old complaint that Hong Kong is not intellectual and that no ne seems to care for the arte, But this is not quite true. There is an There is a part of the Now enthusiastic

Art Club, Amateur Territories which no Chinese will Dramatic Company and Phil pass after dark. It is a narrow harmonic Society, and concerts by street just before one reaches Toun local amateurs are of fairly re- Wan. There are several house in gular occurrence, But when it it, but not a soul lives in any one comes to supporting an artist who of them, though they are in good visits our shores a curious apathy candition. Many years ago a rich seems to cloud the enthusiasm of merchant was strangled in his sleep The intellectual and artistic section in one of these houses and it is of the community. Even so fine an believed in the locality that his artist us Lydia Michel drew & num- tormented spirit haunts the district! her that hardly filled the Roof Gar-in its search for the murderer.

Mr. Fowler said that about 8.20 den of the Hong Kong Hotel. Nobody has actually scen the us as the following letter from a have detected a "presence" which several members of his family when And yet there may be artists among ghost," but many people say they.. on April 9, he was driving his ear along Waterloo Road with Kowloon enthusiast would suggest cast a shadow on their minds and he saw defendant's car turning into and if his onthusiasm can bring made them hesitate to go further.

Waterloo Road from Suffolk Road. them together the Colony will long Lights have been seen in

He sounded his horn and proceeded, be in his debt. Thus he puts for the windows of these houses, but no

but to his surprise he found she ward his ples -

one has ever had the courage to

Sho did not heed his signal. investigate. It is possible that sone rounded the bend and he had to Kowloon is blessed with a num-

poor coolie who has never heard of ber of individuals who are alert the rumour takes advantage of the

swerve violently in order to avoid for the more essential, teas transient houses' isolation to spend his nights about 23 miles an hour while de- a collision. He was driving at things of life; to whom the tenet there: whoever he is, he does not fendant was going at about 15. of getting and spending" is not

appear to have been molested by

Ernest Fowler, a son of the com- all-embracing in their thoughts, evil spirits. No moans or shrieks and to whom the hours of leisure are said to have been heard and plainant said he did not know what that occur when office-work is done indeed, there is very little material "peed the cars were being driven can be spent, in a more intellectual for a good ghest story in this rum- at.

* Mrs Leke giving evidence stated cur of the haunted street. It is that she sounded her horn, but np. way than by visiting a Wild West fin performance or in one of the not easy to understand people he-parently complainant did not hear hotel lounges. Known to us there ing frightened of an eerie atmos- are dozens of men and womed who phere," but the people of Tsun Wan her. Her husband was in the car are possessed of really fine minds, evidently think they have some occasionally creative, but who, be-grounds for their superstition. cause they have not been given. a pattern to weave, waste their time on frivolous subjects. There are

one of

scores of young artists on the Main KOWLOON NEWS IN Jand-Reginald Woolley for one- who never meet each other to ex- change ideas; there are people who write but never publish their work,

BRIEF

people who talk and read philo The wedding will shortly take sophy and people who browse among belle lettres. Yet there ispace between Mr. Harry Samuel na collectivism here and the result Chapman of the Chinese Maritime ie that people with intrinsic cub Custoins, residing at 47, Peking Road, and Mrs. Nina Lisneiskaya tare shrive! up and at the best are of Haroi, who is en route to Hong shaken into expressing a few shy Kong. thoughts

at the time, but as he was having his University examinations he could not appear in Court.

The case was adjourned for a week for Mr. Loke to give evidence.

ORGAN RECITAL AT

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

presented a varied and delightful Mr. Frederick Mason last evening

programme of organ music at the Cathedral, paying due regard to the limitations of the instrument and the acoustics of the building He was ably assisted by Mrs. N. Mathieson, whose fine contralto was heard to advantage in two" songs;

Pardon

us gracious Lord (Bach) and What though I trace each herb and flower" (Handel).

The programme began with the somewhat gloomy, almost depress-

"Marche ing,

Solennelle of

"God forbid thut Kowloon should Two further cases of persons being ever become a Chelsea with long-bitten by dogs were reported to the haired Chinese students in black Polies on Thursday. A European velours, and split-skirted demi-lad, Jimmy Winyard, was the victim mondes presiding over salons in in one case, the dog concerned be which the ideas of Lao-Taze are ing a fox terrier belonging, it is speeded-up to the twentieth century reported, to Mr. Nelson of 16, Jor- and swallowed to the accompani dan Road. The other victim was ment of Barcardi cocktails. We an earth coolie at Chaiwan, can at least be rational in our in- tellectualism, and there should be

A stone-breaker was injured by Tschaikowsky, followed, in sharp no reason why a few dozen men and women could not discuss serious a rock while employed on the pre-contrast, by two light and delicate matters in a polite and non-fantas-paration of a site in Prince Edward tic manner without being sentimen-Road. tal on the one hand, or flamboyant

on the other.

morceau of Brahms. Mr. Mason deserves our thanks for his reader- ing of the Andantino in G minor of

A return water. polo match be- César Franck, that all-too-seldom- "There is a soporific in the East tween the YM.C.A. and the Com-heard composer and master of the which drugs our minds and atroy" bath at 6 pm. on Monday.

hined Navy will be played in the organ.

Mrs. Mathieson did greater jus. phies the desire to create fine thoughts. How few of us, after In their previous encounter the tice to the Handel aris than to the Bach excerpt, which cannot com- three years in this hot land, have sailors won by five goals to four

pare with the former for pare time or even inclination to read a serious review from first to last

melody. page, or do more than skip through a biographical memoir or a book on China!

Seaman Perlett of the U.S.S. Canopus was sent to the Kowloon Hospital on Thursday night, suffer- ing from bruises and contusions, allegedly received in a brawl with. "Would it not be an excellent another sailor of the same ship. 2 thing for people who are not Drink is said, to, have been the ashamed to use their brains on men- cause of the trouble! commercial questions to meet to-

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gether on occasions, and pray gent- A woman coolie fell from the 3. ly for an armistice in the war third floor of a building under con- against thinking which the Djins struction at the junction of Hai- forever wage against the white man phong and Nathan Roads on Thurs in the tropics The English So-day and was conveyed to Hospital oiety upholds the traditions of ac- in a dying condition, ademic literature but surely some- thing more is needed. We badly need a school of Art where those of creative instincta can express their innermost feelings without fear of being squeezed in straight- jackets, though it is possible that if Epstein or Shaw lived amongst us their lives would not be above suspicion."

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Marche Golennelle..Tschaikowsky Chorale Preludes:

(a) A rose breaks into bloom and (b) O world, I c'en must leave theo...... Brahms Contralto Aria:-Pardon-us,

Bach gracious Lord Allegro Maestoso, from

Sonata No. 5. Rheinberger

5. Andantino in G minor

Cesar Franck

6. Contralto Aria:-What tho' I trace each herb. and

*Handel flowers 7. Minuet, from Berenice...Handel ......Handel 8. Largo in G

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