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AND

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HOTELS,

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In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lits, Peking.

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Telephone Central 373,

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KOWLOON

HOTEL

Premier Hotel in Kowloon

RATES:- Daily $5.00 Upwards

Monthly $120.00 do

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MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and 'Telephones to each floor, SALOON BAR & BUFFET,

Manager's personal attention. Tels: K. 608 & K. 609... Tel. Addross "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong

Tal Address:

"Glenealy". Hongkong,

GLENEALY HOTEL,

8 & 4, Glonenly

Wm. Harold Parry,

Manager.

"Telephone C. 980.

(Near Dairy Farm). Splendidly situated with

A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel, in easy walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Caleine under the personal supervision of the Proprietress. Monthly and family rates at moderate terms.

For further particulars apply to:

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MRS. FREDERICKS, Propristros.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon "Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans through. out. Every Room with Private Bath. Loungo, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under, the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to familles on application to:

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EUROPE

.After-dinner dancing every

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Singapore.

HOTEL

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director..

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and

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHTM

WIRELESS WONDERS.

GREAT POSSIBILITIES AHEAD.

Rugby, Dec. 10.

Sonator Marconi believes that during the next quarter of a gen- tury the developments in the means" of obtaining directional wireless transmission and reception wiil probably be as great as the ad- vances made in other directions since trans-Atlantic wireless com- munication was. established twenty-five years ago.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926.

OPERA PIRATES.

PHILHARMONIC'S BIG SUCCESS.

· LAST NIGHT'S TRIUMPH.

Truthfully, it can be said that the Hongkong Philharmonic Society has scored no greater success than" If did last night when it presented Gilbert and Sullivan's favourite

In an interview to-day, he em- opera "The Pirates of Penzance." phasised the advantageous posi- That was the unqualified verdict tion of modern investigatora com-of all prosent. pared with that of pioneers who were without valves, amplifiers, and song, the, opera is one of the Abounding with delightful story super-sensitivo heterodyne sets, happiest of all the famous works of directional transmitters and re the two great collaborators, and the ceivers and the means of making present Hongkong production is continuous. Wavos. Apart from

most excellently staged, dressed and, ordinary transmission and recep- produced. Good principals, à roal tion of wireless messages, there triumph of a. chorus and a "live" was a possibility that the trans- supporting orchestra go to make up mission of power over inoderate

a production on which all, and es- distances might be developed in pecially Mr. R. R. Davies (tho the near future and that television Director), can be heartily congra would become an actuality tulated. It is not often given to British Wireless.

CORRESPONDENCE.

HOSPITAL CHARGES.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.1

amateurs to combine in all depart- ments so well as do those taking. part in the production under notice,. and we gladly pay special tribute to a special achievement.

"Surely Gilbert was never in wite tier nor more brilliantly satirical mood than when he wrote "The Pirates," and, Sullivan, that mas- Sir, I make no apology for ask-ter of melody, rose to great heights ing you to reopen the discussion in his score. So much of the music on the Government's decision to of the opera has become familiar increase local hospital charges in that, hearing it again, one is im- order to meet the objections of pressed by the fact of knowing so private practitioners, because I much. The orchestra, under Mr. feel that the matter should, and W. R. Fleming, is of a much higher must be, discussed further. standard than attained formerly, and all the beauties of the music can be enjoyed unmarred,

THE PRINCIPALE,

The man-in-the-street in Hong- kong is too spineless, and accepts with surprising resignation what-]

ever conditions of life the Gov-1 The arduous role of Frederic. ernment may see fit to impose upon who was mistakenly apprenticed by him. Surely it is time that an his nursemaid as a pirate instead organised protest were made, if of a pilot, is carried with great not to the local Authorities, cer-credit by Mr. D. M. Richard 4, tainly to the Home Government..

whose acting has the merit I know that my case is repre-of being natural and who sentative of many others in this

can handle the difficult tenor solos Colony, hat, as I am not a Gov with fair ability. There is much. ernment servant, being merely an high register work which proves ordinary member of the British difficult, but Mr. Richards comes community; 1. am supposed to through unperturbed. neither hold an opinion nor pro- test against the glaring examples, of official indifference and call- ousness which are meted out to my class.

My salary is $500 per mensem, and the following is a true ac count of my expendiutre during

1925:

Medical expenses....$ 800.00 House Rent

1,800.00 Provisions

2,400,00 Servants

684.00

Total

$5,484.00

Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith, who has previous successes to live p to, is really splendid as Mabel, pro- ving fully adequate to sustain in charming voice the many exacting solos. Sullivan did not sacrifice beauty of song to vocal indifference, and Mrs. Bowes-Smith is one of the few Iccal sololats who could have taken the part so splendidly. She will have much commendation, dur- ing the season.

Mrs. G. Watt, as Ruth, the Pir- ate-Maid-of-all-Work, is also very good indeed, and Miss D. Puncheon, Mrs. W. R. Fleming and Miss V. M. Jefford, who complete the lady soloists, ably support.

As Sergeant of Police, Engr Lieut. A. S. Bedella, is, perhaps," the outstanding success of the pro- duction, though in saying so much one runs the risk of being invidious, He is, at any rate, most excellent 'in manner, voice and general "pre-

T

SEAK

TO-DAY at 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. . FINAL PERFORMANCES OF THE

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY ONLY at: 5,15 & 9.15 p.m.

CONRAD NAGEL

MAE

MAE BUSCH in

BUSCH.

PAULINE FREDERICK

PAUUNE, FREDERICK AND CONRAD NAGEL IN MARRIED FLIRTS

MARRIED FLIRTS

WORLD

THE DARK SWAN

It will thus be seen that I was left with the lordly sum of $516 with which to pay for other items for my wife, myself and two chil- drent Needless to say. I am in debt, although, fortunately, not to a serious extent. What I do say, is that it is a crying shame that the Government should" agree to fall into line with the suggestion from private doctors that the hospital sence." He leads a well-voiced rates should be increased in order posse, who provide a great treat to justify those doctors in main- with their rollicking chorus. taining an extorionate scale of Scarcely less worthy is the work fces.

of Mr. A. J. Brock, as the Major- True, the Medical Officer in General, and Mr. R. M. Keown, as: charge has been authorised to the Pirate King. Both are really modify charges according to a good and do much to make the pro- CHAUFFEUR'S DODGE. patient's means, but I very much duction the success it is, Mr. R. object to the idea of pleading my poverty. As a matter of fact, people do not necessarily have to onter a hospital whenever they happen to be ailing, but in cases

S. W. Paterson mäkes a good lieut- PIRATE NUMBER ON PUBLIC enant.

SPLENDID CHORUS.

It is in the chorus work where

CAR.

Public vehicles are not allowed to. ply for hire in the early hours of the morning, and to avoid this re- gulation a Chinese hit on the fn- genious idea of removing his public vehicle number plates and substi- tuting private car plates which had

of necessity, they are to be bled the production so obviously excels, white, not only from the physical and the many daughters of General aspect which cannot be helped, Stanley, the pirates and the police but also from the financial aspect, are all to be congratulated. from a heartless and thoughtless ensembles are well-done and there Government, which is both unfair is a delightful lack of self-consci- been taken from a car which was

ousness.

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and unwarranted.

sold to a man in Canton. He was Even the old rate of $8 per day. The chorus consists of Mesdames charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, was scandalous. Fancy paying Farrar,

Alabaster, Carr, Clark, Cornaby, at the Central Magistracy this Greenway, Hayward, morning, with using a public car nearly a pound sterling per diem Hooper, Horder, Hollidge. Hurst, for hire during prohibited hours, in our hospitals at Home! If the Millard, Magill, Marcel, Strange, using private number plates on a Government is so poverty-stricken Wallace; Misses Aris, Cole, Dunn,

that it cannot finance local hos-McClay, Razavet, Shaw, Spanton, public car, and with attempting to pitals, why not ask organisers of Stuart, und Stabbings and Messrs. bribe an Indian constable.". functions in aid of London hos pitals to devote the proceeds of such functions to our hospitals in Hongkong?

A policeman saw the defendant Alimann-Ward, Baldwin, Barnet, Bennett, Best, Brown, Hargreaves taking up passengers at 3.30 this Brown,, Bray, Harmon, Halward, morning in front of a restaurant at Harvey, Hoare, Jefford, Jeffreys, the bottom of Hill Road, and notic- Pethick, Provan, Rycroft, Rushton, Ing the plates indicated a private

THE MYSTIC MAZE

∙By WALTER B. GIBSON

4

I feel very strongly on this mat- Speneelayn, Sutherland, Taylor car, be arrested the man and took ter, and think that unless the Go-R. D. Thomas. E. C. Thomas, Thom him to the Police Station, where vernment reconsidera its decision, son and Westlake.

the proper number plates were] which came at a moment when The scenery, designed by Mr. found in one of the pockets of the A picture from an Oriental country business is at the lowest ebb, and R. S. W. Paterson, and painted by door of the car.

is concealed in today's mystic maze. wages affected accordingly, repre- Mr. Chan Slu-fung, and the stage "A constable also alleged that the It is there before your eyes, but it; sentation, should be made to the lighting offects by Mesars. Colos Home Authorities. I for one shall and Derrick are excellent. The defendant offered him three one is hard to find until you solve the puzzle; then the picture will develop in full certainly submit a protest, both to Bame can also be said of the men's dollar notes as a bribe.

the picture take

poncil To And Costumes by Burkinshaw (Livor- For the first two offences, the the Home Press and to other quar pool), Ah Men and Hing Cheong, defendant was fined $25, or four and start at one of the entrances' to and the ladies dresses by Ah Hung teen days, and $50 or six weeks on the maze. Trace your way through Apologising for taking up 80 and too. Pioneer Silk Store.

the third, all the sentences to run the maze until you find the propor course--the only course, that will much of your space, but at the Mr. Davies, the Stage Manager consecutively if the fines were not bring you back to the starting point same time assuring you that you and Producer, has son, Mrs. J. Bald have never devoted space to a from Mrs. H. Harrison, Mrs. J. H. — more vital question. Yours, etc. Shaw, Mr. G. W. Avenell and Mr. Friday and Saturday cyrnings will be there in outline. Till in the

SPEECHLESS,

E. P. Lenfesty, and others.

next, and on Wednesday afternoon, outing and the hidden picture will P.E-What are the Residènta"

There should be large pudiences. stand out clearly.; Associations doing about it?

ters.

The opera is, being given again this evening and also on Monday,

without crossing a barrier:A

When you have finished the picture

Last Saturday's picture-The Dir