1923-08-04 — Page 9

SATURDAY STATICS.

And Thursday's Trial,

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the "Hongkong

Telegraph."}

The Late President,

TH HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

AL FRESCO CONCERT.

Enjoyable Evening at V.D.C. Headquarters.

BY ROBT, MACWHIRTER]

A large numbor attended the en- joyable al fresco concert given I've had two very BAITOW

Sir, The American people last night on the Hongkong escapes this week. First of all when tested by any outstanding Volunteer Defence Corps parade Janet, ehe, who had been talking calamity are in the main just ground, showing that an enter all last week about going to folks." The death of our belovedtainment of this type is much Shanghai for a month, very nearly President has left each of us with appreciated by music-lovere in changed bor mind but thought sense of personal less. You see the Colony. All the items were batter of it at the last minute. our Presidents are just one of pleasingly rendered, and the But the escape that brought the ourselves. What I set out to do, audience were not slow in cold sweat out on my forehead howover,

Was to thank the showing their enthusiasm with

more respect.

was at yon radio broadcasting Telegraph for the very fine way rounds of well-deserved applause." fares at the Volunteer Drill Hall in which you announced the sad The major portion of the pro- the other pight. You know, the news yesterday. It was a worthy gramme was contributed by the day previous they asked me to tribute to a worthy man. Ifyour Band of the King's Regiment. give a monologue from the Pastown King had passed over, you under the able direction of Band- Office Building, the idea being no could not possibly have shown master H.D. Hansley. The bib 'doubt, to cause a bit of a diversion

quality of the King's Band is now for the sake of those of not too

well-known to Hongkong, and lest serious and scientific a turn of

night they played with that feel- ing and technique which is now expected of them. Thanks are due to Col. W. A. Blake, C.M.G. for kindly permitting the Band to perform.

Yours, etc.

AMERICA.

mind. I don't know what made Hongkong, August 4th, 1923.. mo hold back (I'll admit

- right away it wasna' modesty)|

but somehow or other I waena'

altogether sure in my own mind;

Canton Conditions.

Sir, If I may be pardoned for that yon broadcasting business was likely to pan out all right.doing so, I should much like to. And it was just as well, for by the point out that Mr. Eugene Chen's Hokey Fly, the only thing the recent reply to the Telegraph was abow had to recommend it was not quite correct. I'll only point that its promoters had the godd out one instance the impress sense no to make a charge for ont of coolies. So far from this "admission. That saved them from ony possible demands for a return of the gate money.

saving stopped, the prees gangs commenced again on Tuesday and this time it is even worse than ever. One cannot but help sympathising with the coolies, becauso so few of them ever see Canton city again.

poor

".

Those responsible for the vocal portion of the evening's entertain ment also are familiar to most local residents. Mrs. N. Mathie- son's contributione were rendered. with much sympathy and feeling. and made a great appeal to those! present. Mr. and Mrs. 8. Collett gavo a delightful rendering of Edward Gorman's dust, "Love in A lucky escape. I'll tell the

is Meant to make us glad," from world. Yon opening speech was

Merry England." Mr. Osmond all right except that you couldna'

Skinner, the possessor of a very make out a word that was said. It is hard to say how many fine tenor voice, contributed "On If you was Donnithorne speaking were taken on Tuesday, but I the day I get to Heaven," and "A then he must have had a bad have heard that an order came Conundrum," which numbere time, poor chap. Gumboils are ter-out to-day to impress 1,500. Now, were greatly appreciated. Mr. I. rible sometimes, even on another why so many? This number Zelienaky was as funny as ever man's faca. After his experience cannot be required for ordinary with his clever impersonations, of Thursday night you may eat manual labour, so the conclusion and succeeded in keeping his down the first President of the one is forced to in that they are listeners in roars of laughter. Hongkong Radio Association as meant for the fighting line. As Another artist who was

martyr to science. I've only one who was reared in Liberty, amusing was Mr. W. A. Hannibal, got one consolation. If Mac-1 protest against this seizing whose song. "I do like an egg Whirter had given a monologue of innocent poople in the streets. with my tes," made a great hit. nobody would ever have known Such actions are morally wrong: The accompanists were Messra it. Challenged afterwards. I'd they are contrary to the most V. R. Janes, and George Grimble. bave pleaded an alibi and gotten sacred traditions of true Liberty. away wi' it. I'd have sworn If conscription is really necessary, I was at Walchow at the time then let it be done on ordered lines. selling tramway rails to Chan There can never be any excuse for Kwing-ming. A warlike business forcible seizure of pedestrians. If you like, but one not so likely to cause as much suffering as you calterwaulering did.

very

"THE IRON TRAIL."

Coronet's Railroad Drama.

Let me call attention also to another new stunt, which is car ried out under the name of the After bit, * voica in Internal Revenue Bureau." Only the Chewingumese dialect, and this morning when certain people

When Rex Beach had his first amelling faintly of peppermint, took delivery of a motor truck on look at the acanes of the dim, squawked out something about which duty had already been paid. The Iron Trail." an adaptation Sarah Flutt and a Lost Chord. their copresentative was held up from his famous narative of the Fun no' much of a musician, but I by some soldiers demanding that same name, he expressed his ap have an idea from the row that further 214 per cent must be proval in two words: "That's followed that Sarah had some paid. As the representative hap- Alaska. The scenes which the little difficulty in finding it and pened to be a foreigner, he was author saw were those forming the didn' seem to bo in the best of eventually allowed to pass. If he climax of the picture, where the tempere the while. Yon's a per- had been a Cantonese, you can fact abame to show up a body's guess what would have happened. infrinities in publio yon way.

Enclosing my card,“

Yours etc. You know, every time 1.800 4

AMERICAN CITIZEN, bora like yon it reminds one of Canton, August 2nd, 1923. the story of the charabanc tour. ing through Kent. At the fore

MISUNDERSTOOD.

mighty crush of the ice in the river starts to sweep all before it on its. rush from the glaciers to the sea,; and the scenes of the toppling rail- road bridge over the Salmon River with the men working desperate- ly to save it from destructio», Other parts of the film, abowing the action at the railroad cross- ing where the big mob. ht occurs, were also shown, and while these pieces of film were in

and of the contraption a man "I want my photograph takon." wi' a megaphone kept shouting "Certainly, sir. Would you like a but the places of interest after it carte or a cabinet?" The pres was too late to see them. Sudden-pective customer wriggled uncasi y he shouted, "Now, ladies and ly. "It doesn't matter much the rough, without tinting, titling gentlemen, we are just passing, whether there is a cart or a cab or any pretence at continuity, Mr. in our right, the oldest public in it," he answered. "As I'm a Beach, who knows Alaska house in England," whereupon a sexton I should like if you could probably does no other writer, eat Haszow.like voice in the rear manage to put a church in it."

aid "What for?"

Mind ye, I woukina", go so far

tensoly interested, mentally carried back to the land of adven- turo in the far north. No more

s to say that you broadcasting horn arrangement. Mac had a avere critic could have passed loy was altogether a failure, for shot as well. We even got the judgment on the scenes, and the ne thing, it showed that our Chinose quartermaster to try out eritiviem of the well-known Folunteer Drill Hall can be put hie voice. He had once upon a author in his two words, "That's 3 some use after all. But time been in America, so natural- Alaska," should be a sufficient. il the same, you sort o' thing ly bis contribution was somewhat guarantee as to the excellence of bunded terribly like д man mixed.

the film. "The Iron Trail," as the midst o' arguing wi' imself. Of course, that didna' Coming up to Hongkong, I most picture goers probably know. other me. I'm used to it. You see noticed the wax cylinder bad is a railroad tale. It is one of anet, but what the odds, she's been the sea air, of course, but and the film is faithful in every turned green. That might have Rex Beach'e strongest stories, bing to Shanghai next month nyway. All the same I'd much MacPherson, even yet, he's very detail to the spirit of Mr. Beach's boner sit and listen to yon than fond of onions and aye breathes writing. ave to pass the time reading very heavy when he's singing.

Mac, he was in fine fettle the

bout pure Portuguese or in- ependence for the fruitful night we landed at Kowloon and

hilippines.

THE STAR.

"A Thousand to One."

right reason or none he would! have me come to his house to You know this business '20s Mrs. MacPherson enjoying! beaking into a horn brings me the song that he had made bie rribly in mind o' the first time ownself. When abe beard Mac's saw one o' yon voice reproduc- voice singing what he thought. ig gadgets attached to a phono- was "My Ain Folk" she The big picture in the Star's raph. I mind it fine, as if it said he couldna' have had change of programme to-morrow ere only yesterday. We were much respect for thera or be is a screen adaptation of Max Haiphong at the time, and wouldns' have gotten into such Brand's novel, Fate's Honey. LacPherson, he brought it aboard a state as yon. Maybe she was moon," entitled 'A Thousand etween two and three of a Sun- right but Mrs. MacPherson, like to One." It is a high class produc- ay morning.

Goodness only lots of other women, doesna' know tion, containing some wonderful nows how the man managed to everything. She didna' know, for scenic effects. A Thousand to it, Mao being born and bred instance, that Mac in his excito-One" is the story of a man's re- ithina stone's throw o' Aberdeen.ment had let the whole three of generation from the loose sense of ut that's neither here nor there us sing onto the same wax honour of a weakling who is ready Forget the name of the machine cylindert No wonder "My Ain to use base meane to cover his at that's maybe just as well, for Folk sounded kinda' interas-transgressions, to the strong; self.

was French, and you know Itional!

sacrificing uprightness of man. ver was good at speaking. Ay, as a tost, yon broadcasting hood. Hobart Bosworth, in the rench, me having broken both was very neatly quite as success-leading role, portrays a character ywelets when I was a boy.

ful. The only complaint I've got of a type in which he has his own

10 1yway, the next day we tried to make is that at ony other trial screen 'honours. The climax, hand down our voices to rung I've been at up to now, there|when Bosworth, for the sake of turity, taking turns to sing into was always a drink going. But the woman he loves, puts up a

• machine. At the time I was maybe that'll come in time. The fight with the mutineering minors, ry fond o'ringing "The Spanish day may not be far distant when shows an exceptionally realistic valler" 80, of course, I had to it will be possible to broadcast piece of acting and provides a lige, bellowing like mad into the boer as well,

rattling good thrill.

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