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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18; 1938.-PAGE 7

WOMEN'S PAGE PRINCE'S

Helena May Pantomime

NEW PRODUCTION OF

THREE BEARS”

At the request of the Council of the Helena May Institute, Mrs. O, C. Womack has pro- mised to revive her little Pantomime "The Three Bears” this Christmas. Produced In 1932, "The Three Bears" was actually Hongkong's very first. pantomime and was rather in the nature of an experiment. Much to the author's surprise. Hongkong children flocked to see it, and gave the show such a fer- vant reception that it was follow- ed up with a second pantomime for children in 1933, "The Queen of Hearts," which played for three days to packed houses.

Kowloon fallowed with the Arst Y.M.C.A. Pantomime: a well-staged show or a more sophisticated type calculated to appeal to the "grown- ups." Since then, these perform- ances have been an annual affair. REHEARSALS PROCEEDING

At the Helana May, however, the

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TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING

Picture laken at the Races at Happy Valley. (Photo by

Loice).

PUT YOUR HOUSE

IN ORDER

Pantomimes are still put on with CHECK UP, CLEAN UP, POLISH UP,

the definite idea of pleasing the youngsters, and this year's per- rmance should be just what the children adore.

FOR THE NEW SEASON

Windows, Pictures, Mirrors

Already rehearsals are in full swing, and a brilliant cast is hard at work every Tuesday and Thurs- as day.

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Silver needs cleaning

If they are not so much dirty Use a good brand of polish, and dusty treat them ke this, a soft plate brush for setting into Soak a rag in paraffin and let it openwork and engraving.

FRIDAY'S:

MENU

BREAKFAST

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Melon Cereal

Lamb Hash Steamed Eggs

Rye Bread Toast Coffee LUNCHEON

Navy Bean Soup Cold Crab Mayonnaise Garoupe Pot Pie Creamed Turnips Rice and Butter Sauca Pineapple and Cookies Tea

DINNER

Tomatoe, Juice Cocktail

Waldorf Balad

Roast Chicken

Sweet Potatoes Mashed Potatoes Hot Asparagus“,

Sour Jelly Lemon Chiffon Pie Coffee

PEACE PLEDGE UNION

Peace

The Hongkong group of the Pledge Union completed yesterday their "Peace Week," November 10 to 17. a week devoted to the spread of the gospel of world peace.

The chief comedy leads are to be dry. played by Mrs. Cox and Mr. V. C. Not only will it remove the dust

Then use it for dusting. Net curtains Labrum. Other well-known people more effectively than an ordinary taking part are Miss Suzette Comp-custer but leave a good polish be-washing. If you use a little starch And lace ones, too, do feed ton, Miss Betty. Pestonji, Mas hind

and then put them up wet-after tngs from 5.30 p.m. at the Chal- The speakers at the daily meet- squeezing out all the water you lenge Book Shop were, on succeed- can, you'll only have half the working days, the Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Pull them into shape and arranger. J. Russell, Mrs. P. P. Thomp them and, when they're dry, they son. Mr. 5. A. Gray. Mr. Hugh look as though they've been ironed. Beirnc. Miss J. Staniforth, the Your Bath

Rev. H. D. Rosenthall and Dr. K. L. Reichelt.

Aileen Purves, Mr. T, R. Rowell, Mr. The "Carpets Dick Labrum and Mrs M L De Ville, while one of the juvenile leads will be played by little Do them well with the

They look dull and dispirited. Vivien Ralston.

vacuum cleaner first, then make a good, There will be two performances soapy Iruth and wish them over only, un December 27 and 21, and, with a brush, rinsing with a damp booking will be opened shortly at cloth. the Helena May Institute.

You can use soap fakes, or a special carpet soap or carpet shampoo.

DEATH OF MAJOR

A.M. DINIZ

Well-known Volunteer

In Shanghai

Polished Furniture

It has suffered from

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never appear if you always drop a That rim of dirt round It will

The P.P.U. will continue to hold handful of fine household oatmeal the winter season, either weekly periodical mectings throughout. Into the water whenever you take. a bath. The oatmeal's good for

or fortnightly. sticky your skin, too,

Angers, wet glasses, and surface Cat Glass. scratches. Treat it to a pick-me-

up with a good furniture polish,

You can remove most stains by

and if the glass rings and scrat-half fling the decanter or glasses One of the largest Portuguese ches prove difficult see how quick-with crushed egg shells and salt funerals in Shanghai in a long ly they respond to a little warm in equal proportions, adding cold time took place on November 12 seed oll

water and shaking well, Tangled String

when the remains of the late | Newspaper Cuttings Major Antonio "Maria Diniz were

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into a

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PLATE

Lasts

a Lifetime

{Guaranteed Iquality should outweigh all consideration in your purchase of Spoons, Fork al Cutlery. In Prince's Plate you have the Soest quality at an economic price,

Below is illustrated the "Pembury " Design, one which interprets all that is smart and modern. It brings to the table that air of distinction and modernity which is the right of every hostess.

THE PEMBURY PATTERN

BY APPOINTME^T

MAPPIN&WEBB

Fatd.

Sole Agents: LANE CRAWFORD, LID

NEWSETTES

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Morriss family have returned to

lald to rest at the Pahsienjao You've left them strewn about in Cemetery."

the drawer. Stick them

Your drawer's full of it, odd Miss A, Rontgen left on the Im- Major Diniz was born at Shang- cutting book-It will only cost you parcels; yet you never can find a for a visit to Bangkok yesterday Shanghai in the Lloyd Triestino

lengths "which you've saved from perial Airways plane "Delphinus" and

Diner m. v. Victoria from Europe.

hai on May 4, 1865, and

was very little.

educated at St. Francis Xavier's Telephone Cords - College under the French Jesult

wind

Fathers. At an early age he en- They are tied up into horrible tered the Hongkong & Shanghai knots Banking Corporation where he was to

Get a bobbin round which employed for forty-five years, re- about is. or so. And the same re- them; it'll only cost tiring on March 2, 1938, où account mark refers to the slack wires of of falling health,

your lamps.

He is the widower of the late Mrs. Sarah Marla Gutteres Diniz, "who died about two years ago. He

is survived by two daughters, Miss

The door thai always slams

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suitably long piece from among morning. the tangle when you want it. on the wall, place in it a new ball vember 3, at Hang an ordinary kitchen funnel A daughter was born on No- The funeral took place in Shang- of string with the loose end come Home, Oxford,

Castle Nursing hal of Mr. Michael Jordan, whose

you'll always have some

to Mrs. Mary death occurred after a short il ing out through the point," and Anderson wife of Mr. W. J. Ander-ness. Deceased, who was 13 years of

good, son of Hongkong.

age, carne to Shanghat in, the be- untangled string at hand for parcels.

ginning of this year from. Cincin- Lady Dalton, Lady Stuart, the nati Ohio, U. S. A with his son Hot Kettle Handle

Rev. H T. Stonelake, Mr. A. EMr. R. M. Jordan who is attached Bates and Mr. C. W. Mantan: will te the printing Dept of the

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You can retorn it by hanging No need to burn your fingers pass through Hongkong on board Shanghai Municipal Gaol Marguerite Diniz and Mrs. Marie handle to the other. It may slamnlum kettle off the fife. Bind the 8 for Shanghai and Yokohama

long narrow pad from one every time you take that alumi- the P. and O. Chitral on December Reed, of Hongkong, and 's con. Dr. then, but you won't hear it. A. P. Diniz. He leave also two brothers here, Father F. X. Diniz Metal candlesticks

and Mr. J. M. Diniz. and two sis ters, one in Hongkong.

JAPANESE FATHER WANTS RETURN OF DOWRY

Daughter Died Soon After Marriage

"Has a bridegroom the ob- ligation to return the belong- ings of a bride who dies short- ly after marriage? “

this will keep them bright for some time. Treat metal ashtrays in the same way. Old brasse's

These can be cleaned quickly by using ammonia. Scrub them with a brush and rinse in clear water.

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

are

Cutting The Christmas

Wedding Cake

The cutting of the cake ap pears to be a version of the ancient ceremony of breaking the cake over the bride's head, a rite which is still sometimes performed in the north of England.

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handle with raffa over, string 50

The Reverend W. R. E. Addison that you can safely hold it, and

has just retired from the Army. The Committee of the Women's He was Senior Chaplain at Bor- treat your saucepan handles in the A. R. P. Union Clean them up permanently by same way.

announce that, don, is a V. C. and also has the painting them with a colourless

except for the Tuesday evening Order of St. George. He won his lacquer atter thoroughly cleaning

course, sil lectures in Kowloon V. C. for gallantry at Banniyat in them. Or, if you like, rub a little

being cancelled till after Mesopotamia. He served in the olive oil over them after cleansing

Army for 23 years in Shanghai. Khartum, Malta and other stations, Princess Litnokalani Kawana- and was the only "padre" serving nakoa of Honolulu, Hawaii, the to hold the coveted Cross. flance of Mr. Charles Lee; con- nected with, the Associated Press Miss Ruth F. Woodsmall, general- in Hongkong, will arrive on the secretary of the World's Y. W. C. A. Empress of Asia to-day from the will be a visitor to Shanghai-next Talands.

week. Miss Woodsmall, whose headquarters are in Geneva, comes Formerly of the Sino-German from the World's Y., W. C. A. University at Tungchi, Shanghai, Council meetings held recently at four German professors, Dr. Edwin Muskoka, Canada, She is now en When Lord Clydesdale brought Fever. Dr. Max Fink, Professor route to the Madras Conference of his bride, Lady Elizabeth Percy, to Eberhard Fleigner, and Professor the International Missionary Coun- his ancestral home at Strathaven. Eugen Flegler, passed through cil Lanarkshire, after their honey-Hongkong yesterday in the N. D.-L. the same steamer will be Mr. Returning to Shanghal on moon last December, a Scots han-teamer Gneischau on their way J. H Sun, one of China's members nock was broken over the bride's home Mr. Alexander Toohey Dow, mer head for luck as the bridegroom

on, the World's Council of the » Furio Kiyooka, the cantile assistant residing at Wat-carried her over the threshold.

Y. W. C. A., who together with daughter of the plaintiff, was son

Rev. J. R. Higgs, the popular Mrs. Huang Blu-feng of Hongkong, Apartments, Watson Road, After breaking the cake over the Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, is represented the Y. W. C. A. of married to Mr. Fuefud in Feb- North Point, to Miss Edith May bride's head, according to ancient due back in the Colony on Decem-China ruary. Five months later the Noble of No, 31, Ollespie Crecent custom, the pieces were given to ber 8 by the a. s. Chitral. He will meetings in September."

at the Canada Council tride died. Mr. Kiyooka now de- Edinburgh, mands the return of her belong Mr. Chu Hok-yuen clerk of the were supposed to dream that night evening of Baturday, December 10, onlookers, who, receiving them, preach at St. Andrew's on the ings,

Defendant holds that he has no at No. 150, Hennesy Road. to Mi

Bank of Communications, residing of their future spouse,

after which a reception in his Smollett describes how "A cake honour will be held in the Church

POPPY DAY FUND obligation to return the belongings Leang Lok-ching, teacher reading being broken over the head of Hall" calling the plaintars attention to at No. 158, Lockhart Road;

Previously acknowledged $14,747,82 | Mrs. Tabitha Lismahago, the frag- the fact that his wife addressed

Royal Hongkong" Golf him a letter at the time of mar-Mr. Leung Tau-man salesman bystanders, according to the cus- Hongkong from Singapore on board HMS. "Daring"

ments were distributed among the Passengers due to arrive in Club (Sales) riage saying:Please accept all residing at No. 84, Yiu Wah Street, tom of the ancient Britons, on the the P. and 0. Chitral on December H.MS. "Diamond" these things for ever."

to Miss Chang Yu-chia of No. 37, supposition that every person who 8 are Fastor C. C. Ireson, Mr. M. D. HM.8. "Diana" Council for the plaintiff asserts Wyndham Street,

ate of this hallowed cake should Knapp and Mr. T H. Muscio R.A.F. Kai Tak this letter was sent merely in ac- Mr. Lawrence Woo, teacher re-that "night have cordance with custom, while the siding at No. 8, King's Terrace, to man or woman whom Heaven de- HL Shaw, Dr. D. J. Valentine.

a vision of the From Ceylon will come Captain Union Church brido died before the family re- Mike Ivy Wong of No. 382; Lockhart signed should be his or her wedded Deputy Director of Medical Ser- gistration had been altered.

mate."

vices, and the Rev. W. P. Williams.

The Osaka District Court must answer the question in a "case brought by &T Osaka family

The following forthcoming mai- "against Mr. Rokubet Fueluki, 2

wealthy resident of Sangenya, ages are announced.

Osaka.

Miss

Boad

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32. 30,-

21.89

21.09

16:22

63.19

$14,932.21

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