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THE JONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1926,

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Bombing planes are here shown giving a picturesque demonstration of crossing each other

in the air at the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon.

ACT OF MUTINY.

(Continued from Page 1).

work under guard, but they were so Intimidated by the accused that they could not work under any circumstances.

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PUT IN IRONS.

MANILA, STRIKE..

Continued from Page 1).

EMPLOYERS" VIEWPOINT.

In asking their employee's t3] agree on a wage cut of from 20 to 30 per cent. the manufacturers

THEATRICAL TASTE.

THE DECLINE OF PUKKA.

[By Alan Bott.]

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Entertainments.

TODAY at the CINEMAS

Queen's

The stage may or may not mir-i feel that they are making a reason-ror life, but its tendencies in any able request. They now are pay period reflect that period's mood. Continuing, Captain Burton saiding from 30 to 60 per cant. higher This is so much a platitude that that at seven o'clock he had the than what is paid in the smaller is hardly necessary to recall accused put in irons. They called establishments in Manila. The the witty bawdiness of the Restor on the loyal man for rescue and ultimately he hall them removed from the ship. They were housed in a place of detention and sent to Hongkong on the President The rate paid to the cigar makers Jackson."

for the United States' brands of

present scale, which is the same for all the latge concerns, was put into effect in 1920 and has re mained unchanged since then.

{ation dramatists, the fine-manner- ed Comedies of late in the eighteenth century, or the stern, Joh-so-noble dramas of the middle

of the nineteenth.

Consider "pukka," first in terms of the English outlook. The "Interrupting, Lieut. Commdr.five cent cigars is from PE to P16

Code, you know, and the publie Hole said the men had evidently per 1,000. The average cigar schoo! spirit. Huntin', shootin',

conspired to impede the navigation maker receives about P12 per shin and the squirearchy.

of the vessel.

He would add a week. The

disobey the master's orders,

The Chief Engineer corriborate-

manufacturers feel younger sons carving the far- farther charge of combining to that since employees in other flung corners of Empire. Kipling. factories are receiving so much Sahibs, Kitchener. Beautiful, in- less, their men can afford to! nately decent women that yet, on Recept a cut which still will leave occasion, dare all for love.. Tight- them on a considerably higher lipped. innately chivalrous men scale than the former. Otherwise, i no work at all, says the

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ADMISSIONS.

One of the men, who swore facturer.

the Koran, and spoke

on behalf of the others.' ad- mitted the refusal to work, and said that the firemen were refused. passes, while the sailors had been granted passes. Their point was. that they were all part of the

. et dona ferentes. In 'tele- manu-graphic sententes" half-nodded to their friends, they hint a moment's and there the matter ends.

CHINESE WAR.

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All this had a good innings on the English stage. It was drama- tised by Sir Arthur Pinero, sen- Limentalised by Sir James Barrio, analysed by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones. Even Oscar Wilde magni

crew of the same ship and if the movements of the Revolutionary fied it through its foibles. Mr. sailors were granted passes, the Army, but on the contrary, the in-Bernard Shaw was the first play. firemen should also have that pri-undations around Tungting Lake, wright to have a hearty whack at vilege. They denied interference which eovers a vast with other men.

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Shadows of Paula.

The original Paula Tanqueray

PRIZES FOR LARGE FAMILIES.

FATHER OF 17′ WINS. Substantial prizes are annually

uren of it. Pukka 'contains a great deal territory, are preventing the that is admirable, but praise of it. tions built around Sir Arthur The second engineer, Mr. Northern Army from getting had been exaggerated into absur- Pinero's Paula Tarqueray is only Thomas, McKinney, went into the into- touch with the forces dity.

to declare that they did what box at the request of the Marine under Yeung Sum, which It did not need much of a shove Shakespeare often did; Magistrate. He told the Court are working down from Szechuan from Mr. Bernard Shaw in playa that he instructed one of the loyal to join the new defeated forces of and, prefaces, from Mr. Beerbohm men to stoke up a fire, but the Ho Yew-tsu. Furthermore, by and other in humorous art, from man was prevented by five of the suspending hostilities the the Bergsonians in philosophy, was an adventuress pitchforked accused mon.

regions of the Tung Ting Lake, and the Fabiana in politics, to by marriage amid pukka corres given in Lincolnshire for big the Revolutionary Army can now start a reaction. This was inten-titude and intolerance. Since she families and long service, and the SECOND ENGINEER OBSTRUCTED.

devote a greater part of its sified by the disillusion after the was created in the age of pukka, awards for this year, were made energy to Kiangsi. It is stated war, when the word changed its Sir Arthur loaded the dice in He endeavoured to raise steam in the camps of the Revolutionary status in the sense that the Vic-favour of the country English at the opening of the Lincolnshire himself, but when he opened the Army that success of arms in torian adjective "genteel had women when it came to a contest jAgricultural Society's Show at air valves, five of the men in dock Kiangsi is assured, owing to the changed.

for sympathy between them and Louth. In the class for big. closed them. They told him that state or unpreparedness of the they would not allow steam to be Kiangsi forces, and the fact that raised..

the promised reinforcements from Wu Pel-fu and Sun Chuan-fang Lieut. Commdr.' Hole said he was satisfied with the evidence. are not yet in sight. He found all the prisoners guilty

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Harlequin of Modern Männers.

Shadows of Paula crowded the families Joseph Maltby, of Lin- barlequin of twentieth century we have no more seen the last of children born, fourteen of whom Enter, then, Mr. Noel Coward, plays between 1894 and 1914, and coln, won premier honours with 17 manners, Punchinello with her than we have of Mrs. Cheyney had been brought up, and thirteen string of gay, lurid sausages taken Indeed, Mr. Lonsdale's Mrs. Chey placed in situations without ze- from the stall of post-war precio-ney is a bit of a Paula. She is sity.

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on both charges.

an unwilling crook manoeuvred ceiving parochial relief. There Mr. Andrews

Brighton Town Council has Mr. Coward's lightning. success into a puklin house-party. Note were ten entrants, and the total. drew his Wor bought the Saddlescombe estate, happened in part because he has ship's attention to the fact that some five miles to the north of the

the change. The audience is number of children was 230, giving the Company held money due to town. The estate, comprises over cause he is an almost too briliant the pukkas are obliged to save her

rich sense of comedy and be persuaded to champion her, and an average of 18 for each family. The long-service records includ- 700 acres, extending from the young man. Another reason was good name and nominate one of

ed 54 years by an agricultural "Sentencing them several te Brighton side of the Devil's Dyke that he managed to turn theatri themselves to make an honest wo- labourer named Walter Brown, of four wecks' hard labour on to the parish of Saddlescombe, cal pukka inside out.

Narborough. first ecunt and twelve and adjoins the parish of Poyn-

hard - labour

He showed us, in "The Vortex," of her. on the ings, which nestles under the a group of people who ten years swung furthest away from ad- Meanbile, pukka seems to havë second, Lieut. Commdr. Hole South Downs. The deal is in cartier would

have been repre-miration in Mr. "Coward's "Easy travesty. As for Cannes, Deau directed that their wages be used connection with the town's Rented as sahib-sinners that, in Virtue." as maintenance while the men scheme for development and ex- the

Here the Paula is a ville and so forth-heavens! the end, either paid the wages French divorcee who has known pretentiousness, the cupidity and were in prison,-the residue to go tension.

of sin or else overcame theld own men and cities-If you can call fundamental stupidity that fre- towards the cost of their re-

weaknesses. The G patriation to Bombay.

Cannes and Deauville cities. She quently exist beneath the surface Miss Eleanor Leigh, organiser of Mr. Coward's way was to turn has married a young pukkn whose poise and "understanding which the Equal Citizenship Political them into contemporary versions mother and sister. uro, dull, juhe plorifies through his Fouln. Rights demonstration in Hyde of Moliere's precieuses ridicules, tolerant, relentless and silly. They "When I said that. I would not letter from Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's sexual duality.. They were very recrimination and drive hor backed the end of "on swing of the

Park has received the follow'ng plus dope" and

suggestion of overwhelm her with st. picion and So perhaps pukk, having reach- give a acaman more than three secretary Mr. Bernard Shaw amusing, quite pathetic, and they, to the men and the artificial cities. pendulum of theatrical taste, is months' imprisonment," concluded desires me to say that women must vaguely pointed a casual-moral. A his Worship, "I referred to the fight their own battles. He is not new, or apparently new, genre of Paula, "is English country life! Indeed I believe that in mannera "So this," says the French about, to swing back into favour. count on which they were then to be lured into the ridiculous stage puppets have been made Alas, poor pukkat

as well as on the stage wo, shall charged, which I regard 48,0 position of their male champion. out of the classes that formerly

aoon note revival in modified technical one. The charge which He is not sure that an agitation provided "pukka" characters.

Pukkn an Underdog, was added amounts to very much for raising the voting age to 30 The decline of pukka on the stage in that Mr. Coward and the rest. And it may be that Mr. Coward,

There is again hope for pukka,

pukka.. more than that. It is an act of for males would not be the most is shown yet more clearly through of its satirista have loaded the when his streak of bitterness. has mutiny and I cannot take any effective way of drawing public the different versions of "The Sec- other view than a most serious attention to the discrepancy. As end Mrs. Tanquerary," which has uice far more heavily than did the thinned down and his abundant one. In the course. of ten years the

peercases havo now the been written again and again. It Pre-Pinero dramatists, We now talent Has mellowed, will grant on the bench, this is the first case Times on their side, and Lord is no necusation of any sort to sympathise with Pakka, as with it the right to exist. I hope so, of this sort which has come be Birkenhead has virtually thrown say that a dramatists has used all under-doge for his and our anked. It is no For Mr. Coward's portrayal of easy for a Young Master to be foró me.

I have never known up the sponge, they do not need themes used by carior dramatists.

any annistance from Mr. Shaw," To declare that Mr. Lonsdala and English country life is not a porcome an Old Fogey when h worse case."

the letter concludes.

Mr. Coward have echoed the situa-traft, nor even a caricature. It is reaches the thirties,

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