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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

WOMEN'S PAGE

SUCCESSFUL

FUNCTION IN

ROOF GARDEN

Miss Fok Wing-yee's Engagement

noon

The Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel was the, venue -of-an-informal. but none-the less brilliantly successful. 50- cial function yesterday after- on the occasion of the engagement of Miss Fok Wing- yee, the seventh daughter of Mr. Fok Chi-ting. muld- millionaire and well-known philanthropist of Canton,` to Mr. Ku Chung-shui, of the Bank of Canton.

Mr. Fok had decided that with! China at war, this party, instead of being conducted in the grand old Chinese style. should be just AN Informal tea party, where, apart from a few distinguished | guests, a large number of personal friends were present.

During tea pleasing music was played, to the strains of which the guests danced in an atmosphere) as enjoyable as it was informal,

Miss Fok looked radiant as she guided smoothly on the dance floor with her fance. She was, dressed in an exquisite gown of white satin with printed circular designs of red and blue. A beautiful red Tose. which added greatly to her already charming person. adorned her hair.

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GUESTS THANKED Mrs. Tang Min-yan entertained the guests with a delightful piano solo of jazz music and Mr. Fok Po-chol, the brother of Miss Fuk Wing-yee, gave a short speech, on behalf of his father, thanking the guests for their presence.

Among the well-known persons present we could detect quite a few familiar faces from Shanghal Hongkong and Canton facial circles, included in which were Madame T. V. Soong, looking chic in a printed floral frock, and Mrs. George Wi (former Miss Elsie Kwok, the Miss Shanghai of a few years ago). 100king as well grooth- ed as ever in a black georgette creation with white embroidered "flowers. Lack of space prevents a description of the dresses of the other ladies.

Others 'present included Mr. and Mrs. Tang Min-yan, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Lo, Mr. and Mrs. Tang Man- chun and many others.

Wedding At Hotel Cecil

Lingnam College

Graduate

HER MOTTO SAFETY FIRST

This fair bather at the 'U.S.R.C. believes in safety, first.

BOOK ON HONGKONG

Many Good Photographs

Delightful Publication

Right into our too hardly dying summer, with depressing legends

in the news sheets and mocking leaden dry skies overhead--the-des- pair of our water powers-come cheerfly along Ellen. Therbecke and Schiff with their broad splashed colours of gay scenes and happllv bright figurettes, from the slightly caustic smile of the caddie on the first page to the crimson hotel child at the end.

This blue book like its dry name-burnished lad or the beach? Do I sake has its statistical information not know that hat? The New Ter from which we learn that Hongtory gets que notice and there is kong is a free port for women." a jolly Hakka hat on page 48. Un "There are no import duties except galant I. I should say face under on spirits, tobacco and bullets." a hat. but I wonder what the left handed

AMAH ROCK man on page 59 is going to give | The Amah Rock stands, clear that blue giri to drink.

against the skyline, flanked by a

The "bullets are presumably for sailing opposite number from life the comle opera pirate of Bias Bay and the tale of Kam Tin Gates 13 pointing his unwieldy weapon alustrated by a good picture. The the Canzon-Kowloon"Railways rin Feng Shan has the last too with a bon of unwontedly white smoke few thoughtful words (Schiff, where were thy sable plg. common

about its basis for an affinity of ments?)

faiths. In this tris hued Hongkong lifeblood tell us in coerulean and a

Figures of shipping, the Colonys there are schools (grim thought) university complete with ines of our solitary Hungarian with no named make Reckitt green as Its grassy ships including the such blue hills behind as would

port of origin to satisfy the curious foreground, mind.

Our island's law and order has "LET NUT KOWLOON SMART" a pamgraph and on its opposite The Island struggled out of the page a forceful "beauty show from waters" many million years agu. Central Police Station belles the It is still so struggling in ungeo-old song. for they look a happy lot, logical reclamation. The Peak is This little book indicates simply "the smartest residential quarter. what can be done by "friendly but let not Kowloon smart for collaboration of different races in perchance, the depicted tennis order to achieve common progress players are Pealites drawn from and prosperity." life. The Peak camel, fore-runner of to-day's tram. is mourned; but, regrettably unlimned.

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GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS There are lots of really good photographs. rickshawa, ladder- like streets, photographs of junks supplying a long felt want), sea, land and street scapes all jostling with entertaining bits of Jigsaw letterpress.****

Kowloon's page is headed with its fearsome nine in scarlet and zreen but, for our second city the photograph is hardly adequate. ----Hongkong's fleet of motor cars

"horseless vehicles, the coughing public nuisance" of the day before yesterday have "Increased like rab- Buy the book of course. It is bits. There are certainly many a blue book, but, wonder more than there used to be.

homoeopathy, a cure for the blue.

Well, what are you going to do about it?

of

A distinguished gathering attended the wedding at the Hotel Cecil yesterday of Mr. Yeung Chung-fun, well-known Chinese business man and

A fanciful Tytam shows a sheet- Why not Christmas presents for

·graduate of Lingnam College,

like overfall, Alas, 'tis but fancy friends in the courless north- Shanghai, and Miss Foo Yust-

The fair optimist tells us of the west? They will probably rush to tzol, sister of Dr. Fog Ping-

water pipes "which bring health visit you, hoping in their turn to sheung, of the Legislative Yuan.

and hygiene to every house in a scintillate in, scarlet and green and. The Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall cool never ceasing stream." Yes, blue like the pretty little people in amciated at the ceremony and of course. Yet there is plenty of Ellen Thorbacke and Schiffs de- made a short speech felicitating water of the saline kind at the pelightful Kitle publication'---' D.M.” the happy couple.

tured Lido, Who is the sun- (1.é. G. P. de Martin); ELW-J.

Amongst those noticed at the wedding were Mr. Ho Kom-zong.

Mr. Wong Hiu-lai, Chairman of the Shanghai Chinese Chamber of Com- merce, Madame C. C. Wu, Mrs. Ho Fak-ping. Messrs Fung Heting- chuen, Parkson Chan and many commercial, · social and political Aigures.

THE KING'S LANDLADY

The King and Queen, at Bal- maral, have been seeing, a good deal of their friend and "landlady"" Mrs. Myrtle Farquharson of Inver- cauld. She was their guest at the Braemar gathering.

The King leases three seperate moors and forests from her each season, and recently purchased from her a small school-house which is to be used as a shelter during the royal shoots.

Mrs. Farquharson, formerly Mrs. Robin D'Erlanger, recently reverted to the maiden name on succeeding to the Invercauld, estates on her father's death.

She is a racy convertionalist, has shot big game, and has sung and danced on the stage. ·

Tropical Hues For Dresses

Women are to-wear tropical colone schemes in 1939. Thit rose, coral pink, oasis green, palm belge, manilla, cascade and clipper green are among new colours for women's spring and summer wear next year.

Candid Shots Of Yourself

Candid camera addicts who ilke to try their skill, with themselves as subjects, will soon be able to do so by using a device perfected by Christian Rub, noted character actor. After years of experiment, Rub. nas perfected a mechanism which, attached to the camera, places the

The new shades are suggestive of hot sands, sea foam, the rolling as he snaps. The contrivance pro- camera operator directly in focus

main and tropical skies.

bably will be patented and placed Button-makers, shoe and hat on the market, Rub reports, designers, milliners and makers of

To test the new device, Rub dress ornaments will follow these made himsef up as Grumpy of schemes with tropical colour motifs. "Snow White and the Seven Other new shades are glen grey,himself from all angles. He is re- crayon pink, and basque green." ported to have obtained a series of

remarkable pictures.

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Autumn tints this year include “moon dusk," a beautiful shade of

will mingle with subtle shades of blue, and "dawn gold” New blues

green and brown.

Dwarfs” fame, and photographed

SOON TO MARRY The following forthcoming mar- riage is announced:-

Mr. Robert King Sun Lee, mer The colours of gowns for dance chant, residing at No. 21. Gilman's and dinner wear will include such Bazaar, ground floor, to Miss Wong names as dianthus, fold dust, larch, Ngan-yiek of Kongmoon district; Miami blue, and blue feather, *.**. |Kwangtung: Province.

SOCIAL

TO FIGHT

MALARIA

IN CONGO

Dr. R.B. Jackson Leaves Colony

The recipient, of "an O.B.E.. which was conferred on him on Tuesday for work in Malaya and Hongkong. Dr. R. B. Jackson. Government malarlologist, left the Colony on the P. and O. Sarpedon yesterday, in response to a request from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to proceed to Rhode- sla' to take charge of the fight against a. virulent outbreak of malaria in the copper mining res glors there.

It is expected that his head- quarters for the next six months will be at Ndolo, on the Congo River.

Mrs. Jackson is not accompany- ing her husband, but will leave in a few weeks' time for England. where Dr. Jackson hopes to re-join her early next year..

INDIAN DOCTORS IN CANTON

Mr. Chee Kwong-lo, Direc- tar of the Canton Sanitary Bureau (wearing glasses) greets members of the Indian Medical".Mission.

Newsettes

Mr. Hau Hao, director of the Chinese. Government Fini. Censor. ship Bureau, gave a reception to local Chinese film producers Monday. Mr. Hsu is seeking to abolish the making of films con- trary to national 'Interests.

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Mr. David W. K. Au, of Messrs, Bütterfeld and Swire, has left for Canton on a business visit.

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Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. H. G. St. J. Bury, of 'H.M.S. Tamar, who were married. In the Colony in the early part of September re- turned from their honeymoon. "in Indo-Chnia via. Air France plane yesterday afternoon.

of the

The Jacobean. Room Hongkong Hotel on Monday even- ing was the background for à very gay birthday party of 40 guests honcuring Lieut. J. Whittaker.

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LUNCHEON

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A BOUNCING BOY

We hear from home that Lieut. Dr. Alan Maberley told the Sum- J. D. Greene, late of H. M. 8: Par-mer School of the British Social thian and Miss Pamela Jonas were Hygiene Council recently that a married on September 10 at For-child of one or two years could fall dingbridge, Hampshire. Miss Do- and do itself little injury and that, reen Oldfield was bridesmaid.

in fact these falls were often bene- Among the guests were Mrs. Actal. Frances Coltart, wife of Captain The sooner the child had a fall Cyril Coltart. late Captain of the better, for much was learned

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H. M. S. Medway. Lient-Comman- from falling. He had recently der Jonas, bride's brother, Captain of allowed a child of 18 months to fall H. M. 8. Odin. Commander and into a pond, and the unly results Mrs. Teddy Lolley, laté Captain of were that it gained a healthy res H. M. S. Westcott, Lieutenant Gus pect for the pond and that it did Steward, late of E. M 8. Medway, hos fear the pond. It merely lay and Lieutenant Ronnie and Mrs: perfectly still until it was rescued, Clarke of H. M. 8. Parthian.

and was happy about it.

Balance WELS another thing Lieutenant Gus Stewart has which it was necessary for a child bought an old house in Plymouth to learn. The normal child, left tÓ which he intends to convert and itself and not frightened about redecorate.

falling, moved astonishingly easily, but if there was anyone there Lieut.-Commander J. W. Stud-warning it it lost its balanco. holme. late Captain of H. M.'S, '' Parthian, we regret to hear, fell off a wall in Scotland, fracturing his ankle.

Lieutenant Robin Jenks, late H. M. S. Parthian, has arrived Home and is running a sporta M. G.

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Major Douglas Etcers. R. E... who organised the Hongkong Rife

Association so well, is back in Eng- land and has a large house at Shrivenham in Wiltshire.

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Lieutenant Ronnie Clarke has just recently had to undergo an operation for appendicitis, which was successful, and is now in Wilt- shire on a month's sick leave.

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