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"Dream Street.**

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH;

STAYING AT HOME,

Long Residence in One House.

There is always something in.)

Mr. Josaph Jewsbury, who has teresting and distinctive about the died at Measham (Leicesterabirs), settings of D.

of the

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

W. Griffith's at the age of ninety-three, in the BUTTER IS ALL FOOD & NO WASTE'

Use it in every way possible in preparing and cooking

other foods. · ·

By doing so you not only improve their favour, but

add tremendously to their food value..

"THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER'

Think of it as vital food and not as a luxury.

pictures but that of "Dream same house in which he was born Street," one of the most recent and in which he lived all his life, EXECUTIONERS ON STRIKE and most notable of his screen is a stationary figure who rebukes There is a strike of executioners achievements, which is being the restlessness of the age. It is at Canton. A bigger capitation-shown at the Coronet all next not so easy in these days to resist or rather decapliation-grant is week, possesses a charm that is the violent forces which tend to their cry, and fewer

beyond description. In a fore- uproot one from one's birthplace, The chopper- ff

word to the film he says it is not and to shunt ons about the business bas Limehouse no: London, Penny country, or the world, for reasons never been so active before-ields nor High Street-that is irresistible and inscrutable. It is What with Boxers and a little pictured. It is in truth just one fortunate for us that, in the words ground game, in the shape of a pirate or two, the daily has is Yowhere that Mr. Griffith so well like a tree, dato make Man better fascinating lands of of Ben Jonson, "It is not growing wary heavy. You would expect

for the times are beadmen normally to be on the and with such imaginative re be;"

favourable to quiescebes. Life strike," would you not? But the sourcefulness invents, curious thing is that when they A trinity of characters in theems to be reverting to the idea

of the pilgrimage. are, they are not. It is just persons of a young girl. Gypsy then they are not striking. It Fair, "Spike" McFadden, and It is only the very rich and the seems there are "black-legs "Billie," his brother, are the very poor, that can defy the even in the execution line. youthful people around whose unsettling process. The late Lord Some poor-spirited Chinamen, lives is wrapped a romance filed Rothschild was born at 148, with no sense of the dignity of with poetic visions and governed Piccadilly,

died there the calling, bave offered to daj by the Good and Evil isluences seventy-five years later. Not long the work for half the money. It of this world, symbolised in two 3gos Mrs. Mary King, of Letch- is clearly a "cutting" business, very remarkable characters.worth, came near beating Mr. No self-respecting Boxer, bow-Good is personified by s street Jewsbury's record by inhabiting THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. ever, ought to suffer himself to preacher and Evil by a street the same house for ninety-two be executed for a paltry 25 cents, fiddler. Another notibla figure years; and Mr Robert Brain died By the way, it does remind one in the drama is Sway Wan, a at Croydon in 1916 under the of the enterprising undertaker's Chinese gambler who plots to get announcement, "Why trouble to the girl for himself.

live when you can be buried so cheaply? Why, indeed.

REGISTRATION OF

C XSWAINS.

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same roof beneath which ha was born in 1831. If there are any they should be looked for in the rivals to these feats of immobility,

Villages rather than in London.

CHRISTMAS VERSES.

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many

An Innocent Adventuress." Elsie Ferguson's picture "The Counterfeit, which is proving a big attraction at the Star Theatre, We are pleased to see that the will be succeeded to-morrow at Government has taken in hand both the matinee and night per the question of the registra-formance by "An Innocent Adven- Hon of the coxawaios of the turess, "Vivian Martin's latest differact launches plying in the starring vehicle, which is said to An Offer to Tennyson. waters of the Colony. Hitherto, be perhaps the best photo-play in we believe that it was possible for which she has been seen this Apparently some kind of facul- A man to bave disaster after season. Vivian Martin is one of ty is required for the successful| disaster recorded to bis credit the most charming, of Paramount writing of verses for Christimas Bod yet, so soon as the last period stars whose popularity has won pards and of words for popular. for which his certificate had for ber an enormous army of ballads. Mr. F. E. Weatherler, been suspended had expired, to admirers. She is unequalled in who since 1859 has published go and obtain employment as her particular feld-that of the over six hundred songs locos- though nothing had happened, portrayal of young girl types slonally writing both words and his new owners being under the of an unsophisticated and lov-rousic), bas daring the greater impression that they were en-able character. She is indisput-part of that period drawn a steady gaging a thoroughly trustworthy ably one of the s.reen's drawing income from the roskers of and careful man. A reference to cards, because her appeal is to all Christmas cards: the new regulations, which we classes. Her admirers will be "I have written so publish elsewhere, will show that delighted with her work in "An Christmas-card Yerges," Mr. this will no longer be possible, Innocent Adventuress," for its Weatherley confesses, "that I and we trust that this very wise story is dramatic, and its situs-have long since last count of piece of legislation will result in tions have distinct heart appeal them." Mr. Clifton Bingbam, the careless and incompetent cox- Comedy, pathos, drama, are all who wrote the words of "In Old swains being gradually weeded welded into a stirring sad timely Madrid." "The Dear Homeland," oat. Of course every man is story, and in it Miss Martin is as fiable to bad fortune at times and charming and attractive as ever. may have an accident, but the average Chinese coxswain is a

and very

CASUS) navigator, and the results ecquiries into launch collisions held at the Harbour Office willi fully bear out our statement. The mere suspension of a certificate: means very little to a Chinaman.! but when he finds that a bad

Not long before Tennyson's racord mesus want of employ- Mr. George Bernard Shaw's death a firm of Christmas-cards ment, he will see that he must recent reference to the advis-askers offered him a thousand either end bis ways or starve. ability of "razing Eton, Harrow, guineas for eight verses of four QUEEN VICTORIA'S DEATH.

Winchester. Oxford and Cain-lines each. In a letter to a friend) bridge to the ground." telling bim of this offer Tennyson The arst intimation that Hong-drew

reply from

Sir remarks: You can imagine: kong received of the death of Her A. Quiller Couch ("Q") at the with what regret I bave forfeited Majesty Queen Victoria was in Cornwall Secondary School this opportunity of world-wide

prize the fact of the Royal Standard distribution at Truto last month. fame; for, beyond a doubt, these being hoisted at half-mast at Gov-

- Sir Arthur, who is Professor of way into many far corners of the verses would have found their) ernment

House, Headquarter English Literature at Cambridge earth where I cannot fatter my- House and on H. M. Ships Camar University, said that invective of self even my name is known." and Barfleur. This occurred at that sort by a man of Mr. Shaw'e about a quarter past nine this genius was deplorable. ruorning and was quickly followed

of

"Q" AND G. B. S.

Substitute for "Razed " Universities.

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by the half-masting of the ensigns Not only did it dishearten mer of the various ships in port, the who were really trying to reform flags of the various Consulates and those great schools and

Un-

the house flags of the different iversities from the inside: not

and many other popular songs.) claims to be able to turn out. verses for Christmas cards a: lightning speari.

"I csa write them at any time and in any place." Mr. Bingha:1 says. "I have often written as. many as fifty different Christmas greetings without rising from my

desk."

WEATHER REPORT.

firms. The sad significance of the only did it antagonise instead Jan. 26d. 12h. 33m.-Pressure flags was immediately understood of persuading, but it encouraged has increased slightly at the and the news spread like wildfire every whipper-snapper to imitate majority of reporting stations. throughout the town, those of the this kind of writing, though. The saticyclone remains cen- various European stores which bo

O judgment attral to the north of the lower

had

"Q" asked Mr. Shaw:-

to

What did he propose substitute for what he would

A There is no information to hand concerning the Yap typhoon. It may have curved to northward Fresh to strong monsoon may expected along the S.E. cost of China and over the N. China Se&. Irishman why just now he should heurs ending at 10 am, to-day,

He might also ask him as a

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 be 80 much concerned with 100 inch. Total since January

TAZE?

possessed shuiters promptly put-all, and no evidence or know-Yangtze Valley. ting them up as a sign of mourn-ledge on which to form ing. At the Supreme Court, as 40- judgment. nounced in another column, the sitting was abandoned and all amusement for to-night, in the shape of the performances at the Theatre and the Circas, ware cancelled. The Masonic Ball bad been abandoned, as announced elsewhere, and it is said that the Oxford and Cambridge and their 1st. 0.13 inches, against Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders and the Hongkong Volunteers will both abandon the balls for which preparations were in active progress. -

BAD TASTE.

In the Gazelle Extraordinary, announcing the sad news of the

sites.

The implications of Mr. Shaw were simply not true, and Sir Arthur had no patience with men who talked as Mr. Shax dið.

death of Her Majesty the Queen, outward sign of mourning about His Excellency the Governor them. We hope that these per- requested the residents of the sons are not British subjects. If Colony to wear mourning for a they are, then, more shame to period to be specified in a fulare them for an exhibition of the Gazelle. Not particular form of most execrable taste or the most mourning was prescribed, but the astonishing ignorance of the us

ficers of the Navy and Army ages of decent society. We would I sve adopted black bands on the remind these people that their left arm and we are pleased to want of common decency reflects zee that this mark of reapart for no credit either upon themselves the memory of Her Late Majesty or their country, and can only has been almost generally follow. tend to debase them in the eyes d. Still, we are sorry to note that of foreigners who have themselves several persons, men only, are to shown their sympathy and re- be seen about the streets in colour-spect by voluntarily wearing ed, neckties and without any mourning for our late Queen.

an

verage of 1.02 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS

ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District

Forecast. N.E. winds.

! Formoss Channel strong.

South coast of

Chin between

H.K & Lamocks. N.E. winds,)

3 Hongkong to fresh;

Gap Rock......... i fine. South coast of f China between 3.K. & Hainan. }

I. F. CLAXTON. Director K.Observatory, Jan. 26, 1923.

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