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Then we have the City Hall It at least possesses a fine-sound-

Talking to Mr. Holloway the At odd times, I grant you, wa ing title, suggestive of that

other night, at the first mention read of ill-conditioned poets and "civic responsibility" which is

of Drinkwater's "Abraham play - actors being disco VSTV- supposed to exist in the breast of

windows · sighing. Linoola I was naturally intared beneath The Empress of Australia is toasted in having his opinion of to the moon and in divers many & Hongkong residant.

be employed by the Canadian that talented dramatist's latest corners dying for the love of her. Actually, it is too small, and-too Pacife Steamship Co. on pleasure stage venture, Mary Stuart Homage, if you like, but not freely besat with corners and cruissa next winter.

Mary, I have you know, was rejected because of any high in- my first love; in a literary sense, tellectual idealism; even in those. pillars, for a decantly comfort-

Baron Digby, Lady Digby, the that is, for I wasn't very old days & Queen could not hope for able dance. When the Prince of Hon. V. J. Digby and Lady when I took upon myself the task the opportunities of the serving Wales was here the authorities Belper arrived here from Austra-of telling an indifferent world maid and the kitchen wencht had to erect a temporary pavilion, lia by the Yoshino Maru.

what an unhappy and much 'mis- And now we come to the understood woman she was. My minstrel-secretary, Rizzio; good. Stuart, A Defence," ness knows, a thowises enough The health retura for yester" Mary public hall was inadequate to

never saw book creature. His portraits, whether day shows three cases of cerebro- although it meet the occasion. Our public spinal fever and one each of seller's shelf, lacked nothing in conceived by brush or pen, con library would do a little credit to smallpox and enterio fever. All the way of overweening pre flict in their testimony. By some sumption. Partial as I am still, he is depicted a bunch-back but a provincial town at Home, per-ware Chinese.

to Mary, yet I'm the first to at least one portrait exists which, haps, but that is about all. We

that the posthumous shows him as being quite the re- *It has been proclaimed by admit have seen better libraries scatter-order of His Excellency the fascination of a female historical verse-perhaps the syncophantic ed about small towns under the Governor-in-Council that Saigon parsonage becomes less permanent effort of a Court painter's for the Carnegie benefaction scheme, is a place at which an infectious as the years roll by. Not, mind artists of the period were not you, that marriage has altogether wont to fatter their subjects. disease prevails.

and Last, but by no means least, is

diramed the poetised reflection of Still anon, his is a face her temporary influence, but still form scarcely worth beeding, the museum. It is so much

There will be a Cinematograph it must be admitted that our ideal another proof that one cannot be to a joke, even serious Entertainment at the Helens

notions all suffer in the interim, certain where a blister micht minded

in persons,

fact, May Institute

that

almost hesitate to March 22nd, at 9 p.m. for Mem. Think now of meeting our boy- licht! What just exactly were hood's Cleopatra in Wiseman's, his personal relations with the bers and their friends, either discuss it here. Its exhibits.adies or gentlemen.

Tickets, for instance! Our musky,dusky, royal mistress he served so well, such as they are, range even to fifty cents each, are obtainable glittering dream of Egyptian will ever be a matter for doub". passion could only give place to Cortainly here we have the pro- model of the Tower Bridge at from the Secretary.

the impression of swarthy, pinquity, "the ever-ready flatter- least we seem to remember:

jingles, over-dressed, hysterical ing sympathetic ear, and that Leopold Godowsky, the world. bag, Et subject for the movies or much goes far in conquering aven seeing something of the kind

Let it be famous pianist, is again in Hong the asylum. No, with all our Queens. when we last visited the place. kong. He is giving a recital at prosaic, so-called level-headed may, Darnley did him the DA SILVA.-On March 15th. Very interesting to a few persons, Macao on Sunday night, for which materialism, we must keep in honour of showing an unhealthy at 9.45 a.m. at his residence, 5 Salisbury Avenue, Candido Con perhaps, but somewhat out of purpose be will take his special our hearts at least broken-off jealousy towards and declared

between the c-icao, da Silva Funeral will place side by side with a stuffed concert grand piano with him. corner of our dreams. Otherwise indelicately enough that the

We sincerely trust that it will be there can be no apology found relations

proad and bar pass the Monument at 8 s.m. to- orang-outang or drawer of possible for him to play again in for sin, no palliation for what Queen of the Scots,

Chinese coins. Possibly the Hongkong before he leaves these must be the inevitable result of secretary were not always con-

beauty and misguided affections. 'fined to business. Unfortunate=" museum problem will eventually parts.

What Mr. Holloway had to ly, the iungendo survived and wea solve itself when the various.

"Mary on more than one Occasion Local music-lovers will be in- say of Drinkwater's specimens have all mouldered terastol to hear that Professor Stuart," played last year in Lon levelled at the learned head of the well-known don for the first time, can find James VI., "the wisest fool in away to dust. But it would save Sklarevski, time, and whatever expenditure pianist, who is having a most no echo here. Mr. Drinkwater's Christendom."

must be considered The result of it all was swift successful season in Java, intende feelings visiting Hongkong towards the as well as his own. It is, perhape, tragedy, for one night Davis was say that "Mary lugged furth the bed-chamber by fatter end of this month. He will snough to later tour the United States, Stuart may still be dead so far an armed band, squealing his where he has already made ajas Hongkong is concerned: I terror to the accompaniment of name for himself by previous rather imagine, too, after waiting over nearly three score dagger so long, that we would prefer not thrusts. So ended the second tto see her as a sentimental act of the great drama of Mary

A baggage," yes, Stuart's life. This morning the police, on the "bigtbrow."

It was at the lists at the Cross receipt of information, raided voluptuary, of course, but, of flat cccupied by Japanese at No. certainty, not a George Sands or of Greenside that the Queen's" 61, Praya East, and arrested three Ninon de l'Enclos! Rather than Grace first sat eyes on the vain- Japanese women and two Japan-bave her so represented, I prefer to gloriously rash and hazardous ess males following the discovery keep my dreams, memory merging young man, James Hepburn, Earl It would appear that Mr. John Mary's first real "lova. On his of seven mausers and 900 rounds into fancy and mystery all around. of Bothwell I fancy Bothwell was of ammonition, of German manu- facture. The prisoners will be Drinkwater's idea of Scotland's part, no great lover and a bit of brought before the Magistrate to ill-fated Queen was that she was a bully with it, nevertheless, he an idealist in love, unhappy in stood out from the riff-raff" "and her choice of men, one who, some her letters prove how completely where there is crying need for for four wickets against We learn that Mr. Leo Podol. how or other, got mixed up with the royal heart was lost. No the wrong kind of folk An idealistic, intellectual attachment centrate, for the purposes of this the making of four individual sky, Miss Vera Mirova and Mis idealist in love-but with no either, for although Bothwell was

centuries in cae innings (as by 400 El-Tour, who recently

luck. Him. Yes. I guess there's already married, wa read of her article, on just one.example of Victoris on this occasion) without visited Holland, are at present in something in her being out of hurrying across country, “skelp- what we have in mind the block parallel. In first-class cricket Berlin, where Mr. Podolaky sad

humau, not. bighbrow and to be with him when he was con- of public buildings comprising there are some four instances of Miss El-Tour have secured on-lack, but through it all she was ing on through dub and aire the Theatre Royal and City Hall the kind on record, the latest, Regements at the New Conserva-wasn't it just because she was fined to his bed through some prior to the pae ander notice, toire. Miss Mirova has recently human that she drew so many small bodily hurt. In a hundred.

against recovered from an illness and

blanks? "Her first and housing the library and being by Middlesex

useum. Hongkong can boast Sussex at Lords three years ago. now intends going to Dresden for of being the fifth largest port in There is, in fact, one record even some time, the world so far as shipping goes, cricket-namely, New South

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HONGKONG. 15th March, 1923.

BEHIND THE TIMES,

is involved, if it were closed tight away. The city quires a new building, with proper provision for, all the needs we have met tioned; and-it has the funds.

Most people in Hongkong per- haps do not realise that the city is behind the times in certain Cricket Records. respects. That is probably be.

Whilst Victoria's feat of scoring Cause they have grows 30 617 ruas against the M.C.C. is e used to its shortcomings. Is performance of which

proud, it is by po not it time, though, that the record. there being innumerable people here began to bestir them instances in which better scores selves a little, and persuade have been made of one innings the most outstanding, prob somebody to "get a move on"

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was and one ways she revodied a con- in- ber. venture. with the duct neither distinguished "by Dauphin, an undeveloped pup rense nor proper spirit. Her who subsequently died in the dis was a fierce elemental passion.

A report which is considered temper. Ar, that was bad luck, Nothing "highbrow" here. Moray yet lage bebind most other cities Wales five separate centuries in doubtful by the Police has been right enough, but no more unlucky in banishment, Bizzio dead and in the world in the glaring one innings when playing against made by Tam Tak-cho, to the than the average marriage de con- her busband weary with the Be- smallpox, she made the most of South Australia at Sydney in effect that whilst on a visit to a cenience usually turns out. inadequacy of its theatrical and 1930. We believe that this is the friend's house at No. 26, Upper sidas, she was a mere lassie in her chance. Followed swiftly What only instance of its kind in Lascar Row last night he was her middle teeps at the time, and Darnley's exit; Bothwell's divorce, accommodation. possibly served a past generation first-class cricket, though in set upon by a number of men and I misdoubt her sorely if she her third marriage, the farce at two robbed of his black crepe silk suit hadn't a healthy girl's aversion Carberry Hill A prisoner in hardly suffices nowadays, and midor matches there are

cases of a like nature-Padding and a sum of money. He says to the rumpling and infantile Edinburgh, Mary, trambling with certainly will fall far short of ton against Burwood at Sydney that two or three of his assailants snuggling amid unsympathetic indignation, flang it in the surroundings-an attempted con- face of the Confederate Lords requirements even in the near in 1895, and Melbourne University were armed with daggers.

summation-without the necessary that she thouglit Bothwell ä better "The Cinema Murder," which

man than any one of them-the apprenticeship. Theatre first. The stage is not these recurring centuries is that the management of the Star Her next dip into the matri- man she would go around the quite as large as it might be; and most of them have been made in Theatre in Kowloon are present-monial bran-tub was also, to all world in a white shift to be beside, the accommodation for players is Australia-the land of good bats-ing to their patrons today, is a intenta and purposes, drawn for Here with a vengeance was heart screen version of a well-known her, and in course of time she had over-riding wit; Mary in the role decidedly cramped. The audi-men.

novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim as bed-mate the "lang lad of grande amoureuse. Unless we torium is much too small for all Going too Far?

And it is therefore not necessary Darnley," the boy king-consort, can see "Mary Stuart" limbed as requirements. True, it is not We confess that we have not to add that it contains lots of degenerate and unmitigated cad euch we prefer to keep our often one sece every seat occupi- much patience with men of the thrills. Marion Davies has the who was wont, on occasion, to go dreams, for here also was courage, ad, but there are other influences type of Mr. Darbishire, the former part of the heroine, a young about town singing bawdy songs the woman fighting for her mate..

This combina. She must have known the Singapore merchant who is now actress who becomes involved in concerning her. operating in that direction. Were an M.P., who argue that Britain & murder mystery, whilst Nigel tion of man of straw and would tremendous fatality of the act and there, gay, twice the seating is acting contrary to the epirit Barrie is the leading man. The beeport," she had on the sur- the harm it would do her cause. of the Washington agreement film has been produced on a very face to be nice to, so was it to be Such also was her defiance to the wondered that she didna' let people who misunderstood har capacity, the charges for seats!

by developing naval facilities elaborate scale. could be so regulated as to return at Singapore. What we

the tear doon-fa' overmuch when and hated her. It was at, once no less whilst attracting a much doing there, as Mr, Amery The fifth Congress of the Far he ascended sky-ward-in bita- the justification and indictment

of her life, greater audience. And there are pointed out, is to restore to the Eastern Association of Tropical at Kirk o-Field? always occasions when the place Navy, in these days of oil fuel, Medicine is to open at Singapore the mobility which it enjoyed in on September 3rd., 1923. The ob might be taxed to its "utmost the days of coal and small ships. jects of this Association are to limits. Then, there is the almost) If our naval strength and bases promote the science and art of unbelievable absence of anything had been cut down to a point tropical medicine in the Far which rendered protection of our East, to promote friendly inter- intercourse among even remotely resembling

Imperial intereste difficult, basi-national

ta elevate the cloakroom. We wonder what nois men in the East (and Mr. physicians, newcomers to the place think Darbishire amongst them if he standard of medical education, to

st, one o'clock on Sunday, pro- when they have to pile their hats were still an exile) would be the enlighten and direct public opin- Record Party By "Empress first to protest. As we see mation in regard to the problem of

ceeding to Manila. From that and overcoats on a dusty table ters, the Government has already hygiene, to "form habits which

The Canadian Pacific Steam- place they will go to Balavia, in a corner of the building. gone quite far enough in applying may conduce to the preven

the axe," and, as for running tion of disease among the native ship Company's Atlantic liner, then to Singapore, and, touching Calcutta and what We recollect

contrary to the spirit of the population and to present to the the Empress of France, arrived at Rangoon, thought, and said, when we Washington understanding, Bri-world the results of such scienti in port about half past twelve Bombay, they will take the Suez were newcomers ourselves. Ittain bas surely given ample fic observations. We have re- to-day, bringing between seven Canal route to England. The seerns absurd to think that no-tangible evidence of her sincerity.ceived a copy of most interest and eight hundred round-the-tour is scheduled to terminais at

This Washington idea can very ing booklet issued in connection world tourists, the largest party Southampton on May 16th.

The Empress of France, a two- body has attempted to erect a easily be overdone. And it seems with the coming Congress, which which has as yet visited the

fauneffed steamer of roughly the partitioned-off space, or even to to us thet Britain is already mak can be obtained free of charge by Colony.

The tour started a New York, same dimensions as the Empress

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of France."

22od. The route taken was through the Panama Canal, and up to San-Francisco, Calls were made at all the big. Pacifio ports with theexception of Sheng- a: The party leave Hongkong

fir, & few pegs on which one ing even greater sacrifices than any medical practitioner interest which port was left on January of Russia, ir berthed at Kowloon,

led in the Association. could hang up one's things. Are needed or even politic.