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THE HONGKONG, TELEGI APH

DAIRY FARM NEWS

HARBOUR RACE.

WORLD THEATRE.

SOUL OF THE FIGHTER.

*THE LITTLE 'FRAID LADY."

EXCITING FINISH IN CHINESE CONTEST.

B ΠΙΣ

Richtofen's Remarkable

Book, and Others..

The festure of the first Chinese As delightful a combination of

We all like stories of adventure;| harbour race, held under the comedy, pathos and drama as was how Little Red Riding Hood auspices of the V.RO yesterday ever filmed, is "The Little Fraid went through the wood; bow. afternoon. Was the exciting Lady," the new Robertson Cole she knocked on the door: how starring Maeisha beheld in bed, instead of her finish, there being only 3 25,super-special seconds difference in the times Marsh, which will be shown at grandmother the fearsome wolf of the first and second man, and the World Theatre, beginning. .. But, as we grow up tha the third competitor gaining his today for

of four centre of our interest shifts, says position by the margin of only one days. This unusual story which Hubert Grinth in a Home paper.

brings Miss Marsh back to the In reading such stories we are: screen after a long absence was less interested in the adventure; The sea was a little choppy adapted to the silver sheet from itsef- the dashing eyes, the but the tide was much more Marjorie Benton Cooke's popular grinding teeth-than in the favourable than most previous novel, "The Girl Who Lived in precise emotions the young lady years, allowing the competitors the Woods," The quality of the felt when she first saw them.

second.

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to swim a practically straight production is further assured with In other words, we want, the course. Those who faced the the knowledge that it was direct-psychology of adventure. We are starter were M.T. Sin, Leunged by John G. Adolfi.

more interested in a man who Sui-man, Young Ping-kwai. "The Little Fraid Lady can describle vividly his feelings; Leung Tit-sang, Ip Kue-ying carries the audience through the when jumping on to a moving Chan Kwong-shing. Wong Kam great outdoors of the far west motor-bus than in a man who fan, Tong Wing-kwong. La into the busy marts of trade and says he has nearly been eaten Sze-chai, Pang Kan-wing, C. Fa Greenwich village atmosphere. alive by sweaty sharks, but who Yuen, Ng Hon-sang and Miss Marsh, giving one of her cannot convey to us any of the

Mak Kai. Of these, nine covered very best portrayals, is seen as a emotion the adventure caused The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

the full course, the first eight young girl of many moods who him. True, adventure lies in the touching the Praya wall within has more. than her share mind of the man that sees it.) a few minutes of one another. of the adventure that ordin- I have been reading three The swimmers started off in aarily come to the individual. adventure books recently: the cluster and for the first few In order to show this talented life of the prize-fighter. Carpen hundred yard kept fairly well actress at her best, great care tier, by himself; the life of the together. Then Leung Sui-man was taken in the selection of jockey. Tad Sloan, by himself: and Yeung Ping-kwai took the story, the cast, the settings and and the life of Baron von Richt- lead and kept in whilst some of the entire production in general hofen, the crack fighter of the the less strong swimmers com- Miss Marsh is shown as a German Flying Corps, also by menced to drop our und had to little "city" girl who has been himself, published during the be picked up. Leung and Young disillusionized with regard to the war. The first two of them seem raced practically "neck-and world and its charity in generalfed to me not worth the paper neck" the last two hundred and has sought the solitude of the they were written on. The third yards or so, the former touching wild country to develop her taleut still seems to me one of the in 34 mins. 3 secs, and Yeung as an artist. The individual who finest books I have ever read. 323 secs. later. The finish is directly responsible for the The difference between the Leung Tit-sang and Tong Wing disillusionment is one of the books lies precisely in this point: kwong was even more thrilling closest of kin to the "little 'fraid Richthofen describes what it! Both made a gallant spurt for lady." As the story unfolds itself. feels like to do the things he third place, but Leung, whose it is apparent she had just cause writes abou:: Sloan and Carpen- time was 34 mins. 3s secs for seeking solitude. However, tier merely describe the thing finished one second ahead. Tong the spectre of the things she de-itself. it may be mentioned, swam tested pursues her, and she arises breast stroke the whole distance to the various occasions that pre about it. Sloan was perhaps the They tell one nothing fresh The competitors for to-day's sent themselves with the courage crack jockey of his time: ho had a and tmorrow's races are:

of a martyr. A complete charac-meteoric career, he became

Ladies: Misses S. Smith. M ter revolution, as written in the by word (for success, and for his Groundwater, G. Ramsay, Dstory, gives Miss Marsh an ex-own patent" forward seat"! before Withchell, M. Blansdon. P. Han: cellent opportunity to display her he had been a season in England) and D. Hunt.

Open: Messrs. Leung Sui-| man, Yeung Ping-kwai, Sung Ju- tak. B. Assumpcao, G. R. Razavet,į

D. Lyon. A. May, E. A. Norocha.

B. L. W. Dunnet, C. B. Eastbrook,

A. Busschaert. W. Tillery, V.

talent as an actress.

THE TRUTHFUL WITNESS.

And 300 large pages tell us al- most nothing that passed through bis mind. The book is a list of wins. of bets, of pigeon shooting of "Lord So-and-So came up and spoke to me but of the speed and jostle and passionate excite-

victory over other thoroughbreds

scarcely a line.

Ramsay, Leung Tit-sang, Gr. Me- A Rara Avis of the Courts. mert of riding throughbred u

Dade. W. Wrod, Kusazo. Kojima, Soejima. H. Lorrie, A. H. George. S. P. Hill, Pte. D. Jones (King Reg.), W. Matchin, R. Patton.

The officials are as follows:

see

one come

the that

to

The registrar of Bloomsbury| Country Court has lost faith in

Carpentier is almost as bad. The human probity. Seventy-five per book is a record of the externals of cent, he says, of the people who, his life, a list of his fights, some! so into the county courts do not details of his training, a few Referee: Mr. W. Logan. tell the truth. This utterance theories about fighting, and about Starters: Rev. G.T. Waldegrave, was provoked by the statement other fighters. It is interesting Mr. R. C. Witchell and Mr. A. Eof one of the parties to a case that to those who know the gume, or Alves.

he was man of honour and who have seen this very brilliant Time Keepers: Mr. T. Meek. Mr. would not tell the registrar an practitioner of the game at work. G. T. May, Mr. A. E. Alves. Lt. untruth. That is the sort of It general interest is almost nil. Chester, R.G.A., Mr. W. Anderson speech which, however it be And then and Mr. J. C. Fletcher.

sincere and true, provokes a Richthofen: Truly one neel not Capt. crushing rejoinder. We instine have flown in aeroplanes nor. Competitors Stewards: Pilkington, fr. P. W. Ramsay, tively distrust the man who pro-indeed. take any interest in Mr. S. H. Garrod, Staf Sat. claims his veracity. The Lodd Baigent, Mr. H. Hyndman and Mr. thing is that while so many people planes themselves at all t high-spirited are willing to believe falsehood. chattaring of this by the was E. T. Crocker.

A number almost as large refuse only 26 when he was Shot down I believe the truth. What on the Somme, and the book is truth? A wise judge in court written throughout in the style unce pointed out that though of the conversation of a school- every day witnesses might be boy) is the perfect revelation of heard giving on ath testimony an adventurous soul. which was irreconcilable, it was He tells us what he thought of ***PMADIANINES TER wrong to assume that one or the himself he was frankly delighted In the sentence shown above, ther was necessarily guilty of his achievements, and had there are foar groups of letters perjury: Ther might both he scarcely a suspicion of conceit. missing. Each group is composed speaking what they believed to He tells us what he thought of of the same three letters; but no be the truth. No one can possi-his enemy, the British B.F.C.- letter appears twice in the same bly do more than that, and none and the tributes he pays them individual group. "In each case who has not had to ransack his should make us keep a the three letters form a separate memory to recall eircumstance corner in our hearts for him for syllable, and they form a word in and actions which at the time ever. He tells us all the jokes themselves. Can you complete seemed unimportant, will realize that were going, all the spiritual

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the sentence?

Yesterday's answer:

Wall

how extremely difficult it is to exhilaration that aerial combat exclude the assistance of the was to him, and all-though it is imagination in making the search only implied of his passionate for truth. Moreover, memory love of life and enjoyment of good | plays such tricks upon us that! comradeship.

nothing short of absolute proof He was a curious phenomenon. will convince us sometimes that He was a "born fighter": one she has misled us. The marvel is who only began to live, in the got so much that witnesses in full sense, on the day war was courts of law contradict each declared. Such people will have other on matters of fact, but that no place in the future of European they come through the ordeal of civilisation. But it is well that cross-examination so well. Even

one of the finest of them has left the man who has taken careful us so live and glowing a record. observation of events with the knowledge that he must give evi- dence regarding them is liable

WOMEN OF REFINEMENT

Seven points can be success- quite innocently, to err. What, fully crossed by observing the then of him or her called unex. following rule: Start at any point, pectedly to speak of happenings follow across and cross out an-little, if at all, regarded at the prefer the beauty arising from other. But on your second move, time! The truthful witness does perfect health to that obtained by start from a point that will enable his best to assist the Court to artificial means. Pinkettes are you to follow across and cross out come at the truth. Conflict of eri-beauty's most natural aid. for the point from which you moved dence will occur be the witness they ensure daily regularity, the time before, (Example: glever so upright. It is the jury clear the skin of pimples and from 1 to 4: 6 to 1; 3 to 6: 8 to 3that has to speak, the verdict 5 to 8:2 to 5:7 to 2)

the true word at the end. - Daily Telegraph.

MONDAY, October 29th.

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