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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1927.

HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD

AND

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.

on

Fu

un

TO BE HELD AT

the Fair.

LEE GARDENS

OCTOBER Ist, 1927

from 3.30 p.m. to 12.00 mid-night.

Do you want Music ?

There will be three Military Bands, Massed Pipers, and

"1812" played by the Massed Bands, Fireworks at II.00 p.m.

Do you want to. Dance ?

There will be dancing to

Whitey Smith and his Majestic Music Masters. from 8.00 p.m. to 12.00 mid-night.

Do you want Food ?

There will be Open-air Tea Gardens,

Chinese Chow, and the Kandy Kids Stall.

Do you want Fun ?

THEN COME TO THE FAIR.

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OBITUARY.

ISADORA DUNCAN

Nice, Sept. 18. ". The colebrated dancer Isadora Duncan has been killed in a motor accident. Her scarf became en twined around one of the wheels of the vehicle, with the result that her back was broken.-Indo-Pacific. Colourful Career.

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SHANGHAI BOWLS.

GORDON WRIGHT WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

generalship

THE SCHNEIDER CT

PRESTIGE ENHANCED.

London, Sept. 2

Displaying splendid and

The Schneider Cup result... a consistency that surprised immensely enhance the prest oven his most forvent admirers of British aviation as the fact Gordon Wright deservedly won his Britain held none of the 6 match in the final of the Shanghai world records has been unfay Lawn Bowls Singles Championship ably commented on in other on the 8.R.0. greens, by the convin- trios. It is noteworthy that cing score of 21-9. It required year's contest was between o soventeen ends to accomplish the two countries possessing inder Isadora Duncan, the Americah feat of wresting the honours from dent Air Forces, and the Bri dancer, was born in San Francisco such an accomplished bowler as MR entry for the first time was in May, 1878, and educated there, Harrison, who bas held the title for tirely borne by the Air Mini réceiving special training in dane. the past two years, and only re- ing. In 1890 she made her first quired a further leg to win the which is unofficially reported

handsome trophy outright

have spent £80,000 on the cont appearance. aaral dancer. She

The Arat and saw Harrison claim The Napler Lion engines a went to Chicago in 1895 and later a single, but Wright then gathered a in both Webster's and Worsh joined Augustin Daly's company three and steadily forged ahead to machines are a devolopment of in New York, taking dancing rules. lead 8-1 at the finish of, the sixth normal 450 horse power Na When she performed in London end. The seventh end proved the Lion used in the Air Force. in 1899, she was enthusiastically only lapse. on the part of Wright, makers increased the power received and she made a tour of who allowed a maximum score nearly 900 horse power for the principal capitals and art con-against himself, and with Harrison Schneider race, tres of Europe:

again bowling splendidly in the The creator of the Super-Mar eighth to claim two, the score assum With her brother Raymond she ed an interesting nature by reading seaplanes which alone finished was the ploneer' in reviving the 8-7 in favour of Wright,

the 32-year-old R. J. Mitch interest in Greek dancing: They The tenth end produced some real. whose record-breaking mach studied thousands of designs only excellent bowling on the part of was wrecked on the eve of Greek vases and reproduced the both players, but from then on 1925 Schneider contest in Aheri poses shown on them. In 1904 Wright never lost his grip on the Reuter. she started a school of classical game and ran out an easy winner. dancing near Berlin, where she began the training of the girls who later became known as the Duncan Dancers. Padded shoes and ballet skirts gave way to bare feet classical, tunics and flowing draperies. In place of toe-danc- ing there was stately movement, from one deliberate Greek pose to another to the accompaniment of

Webster maintained his stup music, always carefully chosen, from the works of some famous the British Grand Prix at Brooklands oiL He immediately drank a glo Three Italian Fist ears entered for of an hour and landed black w dous speed for over three quarte musician. It had the air of being on October 1, have been withdrawn asof milk and was apparently easy and natural, but was the cut the mechanics, have bean wholly oc- the fleat condition. come of much thought and train-cupied in preparing the aere engines ing. Isadora Duncan's dancing for the Schneider contest and the was not taken seriously by the American entry has also been with motor cars will not. be ready The profession, until she arrived in drawn. Hence, the racing will be Petrograd in 1907. There the British and French due, in which old style and the new reacted on interest is intense. It is expected one another and a new form that nine French cars, including two emerged the Fokine ballet which combined: the best of the two cars will represent: schools and superseded both.

Reuter.

In the "Nude,

:

THE GRAND PRIX.

BRITISH AND FRENCH DUEL AT BROOKLANDS.

London, Sept. 27.

Why Britain Won.......

London, Sept. 27 The English and Italian Pr is full of praise for Webste achievement in the Schneider C race in which Britain and It have new secured three victor each, the United States two, B France one.

The sky-blue British machin tore past the packed beach with and the blood-red Italian on velocity suggestive of shells, t chriek of the engines immediate dying away into a whine. official teams, will competedoubtedly connected with t The British victory is u superior tactica adopted in neg tiating the acute-angled turns the end of the course. Th were taken widely, the machin banking steeply a few feet abo the water. The Italians spectac larly zoomed aloft, spun round cartwheel fashion and then div back along the course British method proved the quick of the two Reuter.

YACHT RACING.

THE SCANDINAVIAN GOLD

CUP.

Kinkhead's

Bad Luck

It was in accordance with her teaching that the best composers and painters were brought to write for and decorate the new bal- lets and that these were cut down so that three or four could be played in one evening. Though) the old technique was not aban-

Oyster Bay, Sept.' 27. doned, it was modified by the ad- The Swedish yacht "Maybe" finish- dition of many of the Duncaned first in the race for the Segnding-

London; Sept. movements and the bare feet and van Gold Cup, being 72 seconds

Flight Lieutenant Worsley ahead of "Lea," ́America." Greek tunic began to alternate,

second in a Supermarine Napier Representatives of the United chine, which had an average spend with the traditional ballet "uni-States Holland, Finland, Norway 439.47 kilometres for seven cirent form"...

and Danmark lodged an objection of the course. Highest speed alleging that the second stakeboat any one circuit was obtained by was a mãe from the true position British pilot, Flight Lieutenant Kin 闽 Router's American Service, Ne

head in a Gloster biplano, the on MAYA Later. biplane in the "ace, f $65,40 IT Reuter's American Service.

The objection was disallowed-metres, 289.76 miles per hour. Kim

Isadora" while in Paris charmed artists like Robin and almost all the poets, but had against her the corps de ballet and the commis- sioner of police, for on several occasions ahe appeared as a nak ed bacchant. In 1908 she bought the villa at Neuilly, bullt by the painter Gervex and gave brilliant parties there till the tragic day in 1913 when her children and their nurse left it for a drive in s motorcar, which as the result of an accident, plunged into the Seine, all the occupants being drowned.

BILLIARD LEAGUE.

STEEL AND COULSON COMPETITIONS.

The following table shows the

When the Russian revolution success of the tearns: playing in the

head retired after six of the lapa, at through any engine fallure, but owin to a cono-shaped piece of metal ove the propeller boss to give a strea lino effect to the fusilage, workin loose under the

under the strain of the terrif apced.

The Italian pilot De Bernardi, Rome-Tokyo fight fame and a popula figure in Italy, did not complete first lap, Do Bernardi, who won th cap from America last year, complete one circult only at 428.64, and Quag zolli, who retired after a cirenit, ha

broke out, she became for the Steel and Coulson Billiard League: an average speed of 416.47 kilometre time being a sympathiser with

P. W. L Pts. As Pu. None of the pilots had

the Bolsheviks and, on the invita-0. S. B...

Gart, S. Mes tion of the Soviet Government, Eoekgard Roc went to Moscow where she start St Patricks

Warder's ed a big school of dancing and Queens married the eccentric "Russian Corps

Follse poct, Serge Yessenin, although it a neither could speak the other's Northant's

R&R. C..B**** language. He was very violent

in his cups and ill-treated her. Disillusioned as regarda Bolshe

2

2

2.4

24

For Azst from cornering 12 2480 2020

1 10 8204 2808 Bir

any Il-effect

Britis

Philip Sassoon, Bri 2179 1751 Under Secretary for Air, repre 8 1313 2015 senting the British Government after

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4 2018 2283 the race expressed gratification in the 42878 6316 result and the

220422100 tribute to the design of the gracefully 2018-2136 machines and magnificent fights Us

pllots, and pald 2571 $448 Mined winning machine, which has been so much admired and which was

1838. 2208

the work of a young Englishman, D. J Mitchell, thirty-two years old who

vism, she returned to Paris and that I shall have still more adven was also responsible for the well eventually divorced her husband,tures." She has had many from

Southampton Napier Bring

who committed suicide at Petro-the early days when she starved in the Royal Air Force, which

grad in Dec. 1925, leaving his in London, studying, the Elginticipated in the Scanda

last poem written, in blood.

Bankrupt.

Marbles in the British Museum,vian tour and are next month to leave living on penny buns and pawn- England for a 25,000 miles tod ing her grandmother's Jewels. cluding Singapore and Australia. I In Nov. 1926, her house at fires and road accidents, while her eal place of engineering with a thing She had narrowly escaped death by the Supermarine, Napler, Mitchell end ceeded in combining a highly techni Neuilly was sold to liquidate her eccentricities were notorious: of debts-160,000 fcs."

Up to the present partic! She had do Once on visiting the Parthenon at pation had been left to private entries

beauty clared that she was penniless, but Athens she began to dance to the of British aircraft. The engine refused property valued at 300,- deiiglit of the tourists and the con-ployed in the winning machine was 000 fes, left her by Yessenin and fusion of the gendarmas, whom the Napler Lion British Wireleno.

awarded to her by the Soviet. A Informed that this was how she wor- og number of friends began to raise shipped at the shrine of the Acro- money to buy back the house, the polls. In 1924 she announced

uptor Bouredelle vending her that she contemplated publishing

a model of his

MR. L.A. ROSE.

famous Bac-1,000 of her love-letters, saying chante", which, he said, should that she would "show the writers realise 30,000 fes. Meanwhile "P" they arranged for her to spend the winter on the Riviera. She and her young accompanist inaugurat- ed a large studio at Nice where she gave performances. All went well till an American girl arrived on the scene and took his fancy One evening in Jan. 1927, Tandora gave a dinner at which the wine circulated freely. Towards the at the Kowloon Hospital yesterday end of the feast the accompanist, of Mr. Louis Augustus Rose, It is said, paid marked attention well-known resident of the Colony. to the fair American with the re- Hongkong 66 years ago, and has The late Mr. Rose was born in sult that the dancer clad in her remained here ever since, Ho classical robes, walked down to

Death of Well-Known Local Architect.

The death took place suddenly

the BeaTanagra under the was an architect by profession. moon. She did not stop at the He was keenly interested in the edge of the water, but waded in which he had been a member for Craigengower Cricket Club, of till it reached her shoulders. She very many years; being an was taken from the sea by an in-enthusiastic lawn bowls player valid English officer. Then, while He leaves a widow and two lying on her Greek couch with daughters, with whom the greatest incenne smoking on the tripods sympathy will be extended by a around her she remarked to her Inrte circle of friends and ac frienda"Ah woll, it is written. quaintances in their bereavement.

INTERPORT POLO.

HONGKONG TO MEET

SHANGHAI:

The Interport polo match between Hongkong and Shanghal for th Keswick Challenge Gup will be a Causeway Bay on Thursday Octo her 6, play starting at 4 pm.

In the event of a postponement o account of weather conditions, will take place on the following at the same time.

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