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WOMEN'S PAGE

Social Dancing

**LAMBETH WALK”

NUN'S FACE DRAWS MURDER CONFESSION

The saintly face of a young nun has just caused 4 New Orleans man to confess to a

English & American murder be committed eighteen

Innovations

and

The "Lambeth Walk" its successors have destroyed the tyranny of the foxtrot which for 20 years has made the ball-room an unsociable place.

years ago.

Carl Vonhennik, aged thirty- beautiful four, gasing into the face of the nun as she tended him in hospital, cried: "At last I've courage to confess my sin." Lodged in

prison a

cell for drunkenness, Vonhennik, haunted for years by the crime, tried to hang himself. Cut down alive he was taken to the hospital.

Then he sent for

detectives.

more In America the need for social dances has led to some thing like the revolusion of new folk dances-the "Big Apple" be- ing the most familiar of them. told them how, as a sailor, in 1921 Now come Mr. and Mrs. Douglas he killed a naval officer. He said Kennedy with a book of American that the nun's saintlike face and gentle ministrations had given him Square variety of figures whose order is courage at last to relieve his con-

of science. determined at the discretion

Dances,

the "caller."

well-

which

have

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Set 18

The Kentucky Running

known in England from Its use by folk dancers, but the Square dances are carried out at

a slower tempo. One result of this is that some of the Lunes published in this new book have two different metronome figures

PRINCESS JULIANA

assigned to them. The basic step FAIRY GODMOTHER

is a walking step-note the affinity TO REFUGEES

to the Lambeth Walk,

NATURE OF DANGE

The nature of the dance is also 'described by its orgin, which the Kennedys trace from two diffe- rent sources-one, of less impor- tance, the sophisticated set dance! or the nineteenth century known! variously as the Quadrilles, Cotil- lions, and Caledonians; the other and richer source,

"the folk tradition of round and chain dances of long ago."

Princess Jullana has put a despairing Hungarian Jew and his family On the road to new life in a Dutch colony be- cause his baby girl was born on the same day as Princess Beatrix, her daughter-Jan- "uary 31 last year,

Mr. and Mrs, E. C. Fredericks photographed at the Second Extra Race meeting held at the Happy Valley. (Photo by Lelca).

SOCIAL

CECIL RHODES' NIECE AS GODMOTHER

A niece of Cecil Rhodes, the ex- plorer, Miss Georgia Rhodes, will be the only godmother to the son and heir of Lord St, Davids, who was born lecently. Mr. T: Horsford will be one of two godfathers.

The christening took place to London, Lord and Lady'St. Davids chose the family names of Colwyn Jestyn John.

John was the name of Lord St. Davids's ancestor. Sir John Philips, the first baronet, who wis M.P. (OL Pembroke in 1507. It has been given to many of the eldest sons of successive generations. Colwyn 1s after Lord. St. Davids's uncle, and Jestyn is his own name. Mr. H. C. Pih, the Jocal jockey,

Lord St. Davids'a great hobby is left for Shanghai yesterday to at- sailing. Last summer he and Lady Davids spent their holidays tend the wedding of his brother. St.

Mr. H. M. Pih. Mr. Pin was ac-voyaging Dutch waterways in their companied by his wife, the former red-sailed barge, "The Herbert Miss Gloria Mck, and their chil-Gordon," on which he has given dren.

parties on the Thames.

NEWSETTES

A meeting of the Urban Council i will be held to-morrow in the pointed Coyne Chamber at 4.15 p.m.

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Mr. Lewis Mason, a regional director, of the Y's Men's Club, who was in Hongkong recently. has returned to Shanghai.

H. E. the Governor has ap

the following to be Analysts for the purpose of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance No. 8 of 1937-Mr. Victor Cecil Branson, Mr. John Redman, Mr. Paul Hannay Symons and Mr. Alexander Kurrik

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A meeting of the Board of H. E. the Governor, in accor- When Alois Siegfried, n dierk in Directors of the Hongkong Rotary dance with instructions received Debreczin, a Hungarian country Club will be held to-day, at 5.15 from the Secretary of State for town, lost his job, he wrote in p.m. In the Jacobean Room of the the Colonies, has been pleased to despair to Princess Juliana, ask. Hongkong Hotel.

recognize Mr. Cedric Blaket pro- In America these two elements

visionally and pending the issue have now met and mingled and ing her to help him emigrate be-

The cause, as a Jew, he had no chance.

of His Majesty's Exequatur as Honorary Consul of Sweden at Hongkong.

issued in this rich variety of com- He told her how his daughter paratively simple but elastic and expandable social dances. The shared, the birthday of the same combination of elements, the Princess.

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YMCA tennis courts at Kings Park will be closed for re- turfing until farther notice. They will probably not be available for play until the end of May. ·

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AUTHORESS MARRIED

Saturday's Wedding

At Registry

A wedding of considerable in- terest to "many circles in the Far East took place at the Registry. Supreme Court, on Saturday, when Mr. Charles Henri Lauru, former adviser to the Chinese Govern- ment, was married to Miss Phoebe Minna Hayes.

time

The bride is generally known under her pen-name, Helen Hayes. while Mr. Lauru 'was formerly married to the late Jullet Bredon. author of "The Moon Year" and other books on China and daughter of the late Sir John Bredon, onc Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, and The Hongkong and South China Lady Bredon."

Fund for Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy Regis- Miss Phylla Harrop, Lady As-branch of the British

trar of Marriages, officiated at the ceremony, and the witnesses were W. Stanton and E. B. Stanton.

Two other marriages were Mr. solemnised at the Registry.

Blue Kwan Poon-lap, of, No. 28 Pool Road, was married to Miss Wong Kit-yu of No. 4 Sam Wul Road, and Mr. Wong Cheung-wan. No. 45 Pelho Street, was married to Miss Wong Gee-kit, of No. 124 Fa Yuen Street.

folk, and the sophisticated, gave Soon came a letter from The England in the seventeenth century Hague containing three first-class the enormous corpus of dances tickets to Banting, in Batavia, and sistant to the Honourable Secre-Relief of Distress in China decid to be found in the many editions a personal letter of recommendatary for Chinese Affairs, will reed, during a meeting at the Chinese of "Playford's "The Dancing Mastion from Princess Juliana to the sume duty as from to-day, having General Chamber of Commerce on ter." Many of these dances, which Governor of Batavia, in which the recovered from her recent illness. Friday, to launch a drive to raise are known to, and practised by. Princess requested the Governor

from $100,000 to $150,000. More folk dancers, are suitable to the to give the refugees every, assis-

Mr. James Smith, a member of than 60 leading Chinese merchants modern ball-room.

the Hongkong Rotary Club, visited in Hongkong were present. The letter also contained a land- the Rotary Chub of Brisbane on

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permit for the Siegfried family Mar. 6 and the Rotary Club of

In Banning, and a substantial Rockhampton on Mar. 15.

cheque for other expenses.

To prevent certain increases in prices of foodstuffs in Nationalist Chinese territory, owing to specu-' The Princess's letter wave them Mr. C. B. Erown will be thelation of profiteers, Generalissimo best wishes for their future.

speaker at to-morrow's weekly Chiang Kai-shek has appointed The generosity of Princess Ju-meeting of the Hongkong Rotary's special committee entrusted with lana has impressed all Hungary, Club. His subject will be "An the task of reducing the prices of Articled Clerk in the City of Lon-food to a level which the popula- don Thirty Years Ago."

tion can afford to "pay.

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A FAMILY |COINCIDENCE

An Interesting April wedding will

be that of a baronet's sister who is to be married to his brother-in- law.

Another curious coincidence is that April was his own wedding month.

Last April Sir Archibald Hope, baronet of Craghail, married Miss Ruth Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davis, of Storrington. Sussex. His sister, Miss Anne Hope, is to be married on April 29

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The speaker at Thursday's meet- The following members of the ing of the Hongkong Y's Men's Hongkong Volunteer Defence Club will be Mr. Y. L.' Lee, who Corps have been awarded the will address the Club, on his im- Eelency Medal: Company Ser-

1.

Men Teachers Don't Want Women

pressions of Chungking, the war-geant-Major Marciano Francisco 'Heads'

time capital of China.

Baptista, Company Quartermasteş Sergeant Augusto Jose Vieira

H. E. the Governor has approved Ribeiro, Company Quartermaster the relinquishment by Lient Sergeant Carlos Germano de süva Guildford Charles Dudley of his and Sergeant Manuel Commission in the Hongkong Baptista.

Naval Volunteer Force 35 April 13, 1939.

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from

Mr. Cyril Champkin has been

Alberto

Gen. Ma Pu-fang, chairman of the Chinghai Provincial Govern- ment, telegraphed Generalissimo

to Mr. Raymond Davis, brother of appointed a Member of the UrbanChiang Kai-shek on Saturday that

Lady Hope.

Miss Hope's wedding will be in Edinburgh. She and Mr. Davis

became engaged last July.

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FARMER'S WILL

REQUEST

Wife Asked Not To Re-Marry

from April 14, 1939.

Only a nation heading for the madhouse would force men to serve under spinster head mistresses. declared Mr. W. Barford, during his presi- dential address at the annual conference of the National -Association » of Schoolmasters at Naftingham on April 8. "Nearly 4000 women are teach- ing purely boys' classes," he pointed out.

Saying that there were still many bad school buildings, Mr. Barford declared,

Council during the absence from the Colony of Mr. Leonard Charles the spiritual mobilization of the Fenton Bellamy, M. C. with effect people of Kokonor has begun in accordance with the general out- lines recently announced by the Central Government, More than 40,000 people at Bining, Gen. Ma "They stand like Bastilles in down-town areas, where Indecent

"The

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Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, C. B. E., has been appointed a Member of the Medical Com-reported, took their oath of loyalty

to the National Government at a habitations, squalor, "child mor- mittee. Tung Wan Hospitals,

recent mass meeting. during the absence on leave of Dr. Li Shu-im with effect from April 15, 1939.

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The Director of Medical Ser- vices. Hon. Dr. P. & Selwyn- Clarke will give a lecture on The the Governor has no Medical Organization in connec- H. E. inated Bir Vandeleur... Grayburn ASHFORD (Middlesex) Al- and Mr. Philip Stanley Cassidy on with "Air Raid Precaution be had been married as Members of the Court of the and similar States of Emergency at the Hongkong University Untor afty-three years and had eleven University of Hongkong for a

Assembly Room on Thursday,

though

and Mascara (cream with brush children and thirteen grand-call-further period of three years with | Anzli 27, at 8.30 p.m. The lecture"

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dren, seventy seven year old effect from April 1990. George John Andrews, farmer, of. The Orchards, Feltham Hill-road, Ashford; was so afraid that his little white-haired wife of seventy- one would remarry that he wrote Hin his will

and 23, respectively.

tality and social disintegration form the eternal enemies of teachers and child.

"A falling birth rate has always downfall of an preceded the Empire," he said later. "We are in danger of becoming prisoners of freedom which has been our boast and pride."

30 LIMIT WANTED Urging a "square deal" for will be under the auspices of the school children, Mr. G. Chipper- Hongkong University Medical | field, of Hull, in his presidential

address to the annual conference

Mr. Walter Heathcote Lock and society. Mr. Li Tae-fong have also been

of the National Union of Teachers nominated a Members of the Mr. William 2. L gang, vice at Llandudno, on Saturday, Court of the University of Hong-president of St. John's, University. suggested that "30 limit signa kong for a further period of three Shanghai, and general secretary might be borrowed from the * make a special request to my dear wife not to re-marry,”

years with effect from April 18 or the China National Amateur Ministry of Transport to place at Mr. Andrews left £9,495. He

Athletic Association, who has been the door of every classroom, bequeathed all his money and

visiting Hongkong and the interior "We believe that 30 paplis per property to his wife during widow- Mr. Huang Pao-hsien, general of China, returned to the northern teacher is a reasonable standard bood, or the income from half for manager of the China National port yesterday in the 88. Conte at which to aim in schools of Life in the event of her re-mar- Aviation Corporation flew from Blancamano. Mr. Bung is the son every grade," he said, riage.

Chungking te Rangoon on Thurs of the first Chinese over to be. The President of the Board of Up till now I did not know day to further negotiate with the consecrated a bishop of the An- Education, after borrowing the "30 how much my husband had left Imperia) Airways on the formal gilean Church which is now limit" signs might follow it up by me," Mrs. Andrews said.oval megk inauguration of the China-Burma amalgamated with other American appoining his Majesty's Inspec

He often asked me never to air service. He will stay in and Canadian missions of the torate as a courtesy squad to see marry again, and I can assure Rangoon for about three days be-same order and now known as the that the limit is not exceeded." you I never will:

[fore returning to Chungking. Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, 21"(Laughter.)

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