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Hector: Cat Aboш Town Notorious Gossip

It was in Mount Street, W., at about 1.30 am, that two old school-fellows who had been din- ing noticed a little dog" running wildly about in the obfuscated way which lost dogs have.

"Poor 1 feller's lost," com- mented one. "Pick him up and see if there's a name and address un his collar."

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THE GENIUS OF DIARY OF LOCAL

WALT DISNEY

World Of Fun And

Happiness

London, Dec

"Mickey Mouse is the only pub- le ngure in the world to-day who is universally beloved," said Mr. David · Low in introducing. Mr. Francis Meynell to the English Speaking Union

at Grosvenor

There was. The address WHA somewhere in Wimbledon, but the.. noble "fellows never hesitated. Full of philanthropy and mixed fruit, they decided that the lost pet should at all costs be restored to nis sorrowing mistress. It was a long and dreary' drive, but at last the sulky taxi-driver pulled up out-House yesterday afternoon. It was side a darkened house. Much fitting that Mr. Low, a cartoonist knocking and ringing-brought a from a different aphere, should

· kind of caretaker to the door. speak first on the subject of MY. "Mrs. Kerjones? yawned the Walt Disney, who, although, he is runctionary. "She did live 'ere, never concerned with a world of but she left on Monday. She's politics and strife, can yet add gorn to live in Mount Street, in something of Mr. Low's satire to the West Dind."

| his own world of make-believe. ·

Caller (inquiring for son of the house): "Whṣur's young Angus, Mr. McFee?"

Mr. Mcre "He's awa' doon in the shed sharpening the gr-r ramophone needles, as we're gly ing a wee party the, nicht **

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Sandy and Jean decided to adopt a child, and asked at the orphan age for a nice little girl. One was produced, and Jean was about to close the bargain, when Bandy Whispered:

"Jean, woman, let's have a boy. Ha'e ye forgotten the lad's cap

we found in the train?"

IN TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN

DEATH OF DR. J. H. BREASTED

Defied Famous Curse

EVENTS

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. Anniversaries and Holidays.---- Feast of the Holy Innocents

Cinemas.

King's :-- "Metropolitan.” Queen's:-"The Broadway Gondo-

Her.

Central: "Chinese Picture.'. Oriental:-"Happiness Ahead." World:-"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:–“Iditie Big Shot." Majestic:-"Roberta "** Star:-"Black Fury,"

Entertainment Mme Lotte Gordon's Concert, at St. Andrew's Hall: 9 pm.

Meetings.-Mèmbers of the Man Kwok Hotel Co., Ltd, at 67 Des Voeux Road Central, first floor, 3 0.001.

- Miscellaneous,--Kowloon Union Church Sunday School Christmas Tree, 3. p.m.

Social Crafgenkower Cricket

Club Whist Drive, 9 p.; Tombola en board H.MS. Tamar, 7:15 pm. Whist Drive at Cheers Club, 8,30 p.m.

SATIRE NOT FOREIGN But satire is yet foreign to Mr. Disney's nature. Mr. Meynell spoke of a man who is essentially kind ly and unassuming "a gmad tema. man who has read very little, seeri very little, heard very little." His is a world of fun and happiness, where not only the virtubus reap je their reward, but where the dnful also reach a happy ending. Aesop kied the lazy cricket, but Mr. Disney finds no place for death in his work, and in "The Grasshop per and the Ants" the grasshopper is nursed back to health and use fulness. In years to come, when most names which are now a by-gower C.C. (L word will have long been forgot- ten, it is probable that Mr. Cha pin and Mr. Disney will be re membered as the only two really great artists of this present aim

era.

DISNEY'S AIMS

Sports

Oelaket. Triangular Tourn ment Hong Kong-C.Cv Axtny First Division, Indian RC. v. Civil service Co. (L) Kowloon C.C. v. Craigengewer: C.C.); Recond Division, Civil Service C.C. v. In- dian R.C. (L); University v. Hong Kong C.C. (L); Police v. Craigen-

FbothaFirst Division, South China "B" v. Club (Caroline Hill), 4 p.m.; Kowloon v. St. Joseph's. (Kowloon Ground), 1 p.m.; Club de Recreio v. Lincona (King's Park Ground), 4 p.m.; Royal Artillery. Lyemun v. Royal Artillery, Stone- cutters (Sookunpoo), 4 p.m.; Bec- Mr. Meynel went on to speak of Mr. Disney's aims and of his me ond Division, East Lancashires v thods of the staff of 200 of whom Club, 2.30 p.m.; University v he is the head or "the conductor," Navy, 2.30 p.m.; Kowloon 7. Club and of the weeks of work thất go

de Recreto, 2.30 pm; Lincolns v. to the making of a film which Chinese Athletic, 4 pm; RABC. lasta only eight minutes on the and R.A.0.0. v Royal Engineers, 4 screen--and mentioned his first Pm; Third Division, Chinese Pol full-length fim, "Snow White, lice. Lincolns, 2.30 p.m.; Liga which he is now making. Mr. Dis Portuguesa 7. St. Joseph's, 4 p.: ney, he said, had believed that the Royal Air Force v. RA.MÓ. 4 p.m. extraordinary Success of "The Rugby. -- Triangular" Tourna- Three Little Pigs" was due to its ment, Club T Navy (Happy moral, and for that reason Mr. Valley), 4 pp. Disney then made King Midea This he believed to be a mistake. It was not the moral but the "art- ist's wonderful sense of fun and fantasy which made his work so refreshing in a troubled world The doctor, states a Reuter mes People could forget reality in s sage from New York, was reputed Mickey Mouse cartoon or a Billy to have been the man who per- Symphony, but could yet laugh at suaded the Egyptian authorities to characters which bore a distorted -permit the excavation His death resemblance to those in their own

has supposed to be associated with live, One may echo the words all those connected with the open-üf Toscanini, who, after seeing ing of Tutankhamen's tomb.

London, Lec 3. Within two days of the 13th an- niversary of the opening of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile, on Nov. 30, 1922, Dr. James Henry Breasted, the distinguished Egyptologist, died in New York yesterday of streptococcus infection.

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"The Band Concert" for the first time, turned to the lecturer and said: "I, too, have my Donna Lucks!"

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Hot New of the Oriental Institute of Chic- GRAIN | ago University, was taken ill with a mysterious disease on board the Italan liner Conte di flavola last week on the way to New York from Rome, where he had been at- tending, the Orientalists' Congress. His liners was at frat diagnosed as tropical malaria, but was later described as an undetermined ma- | aged Lady. T The secrecy which was ob

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