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ARE YOU SUSCEPTIBLE TO COLDS?

"THE CIRCUS,”

CHARLIE CHAPLIN AT THE QUEEN'S.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Peasant Pottery.

MAIN INSPIRATION, THE BARNYARD.

pieces, they, assumo different poscs, bringing with them. that amusing. note that this nonchal- ant age demands."

Artificial Silk,

LORD ROTHERMERE'S PROPHECY.

OUR GROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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Now is the season for colds and Bome people, are more subject to them than others under identical conditions. This is duo in a large

The one and only. "Charlie" is measure to the person's vital power, the ability of the system to again on the screen at the Queen's resist attacks. The treatment of Theatre allthis week, appearing in colds therefore should be directed The Cireus," a Alm-story written, to preventing them, which is best produced and directed. by himself. done by invigorating the system This clever comedy is at present and ballding up the general drawing big houses in London and New York, and the Hongkong health.

The dict should be generous but Amusements, Ltd., are to be com- nat stimulating and articles of mended on their enterprise in

For instance, there is the Quim- esey digestion should be chosen.securing such a quick release here. At yesterday's screenings, there Eight hours, at least, of sleep, pre-were packed audiences, and no

per peasant candlestick, the same ferably in the early part of the doubt this will be the rule for the

Breton figure posing with a holder. night, are essential. For medi-romainder of the season.

Penannt pottery and glassware an his head. He is a husky man,

The artificial silk industry la cino Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are Whilst it may be that Charlie from France, Italy and Czechowith a gay polka-dotted, skirt, and the most promising industry espaially adapted because they Chaplaia has been seen in more Slovakia now comes to cheer the striped trousers, the same peasant which this country has developed build up the blood, strengthen the excruciatingly funny pictures, it heart of the modern and add a as of old, but with a new idea.

for a generation, saya a writer in nerves and tone up the organs of can certainly be said that "The touch of colour to his contem- A Prancing Candle-stick.

a Home paper, and at a time when digestion. You can get them at Circus" shows him in his most|porary,fufniture.

several new works are starting your chemist, or post free, $1.50 characteristic moods, And it is Amusing, useful

For another candle-stick holder; production it is distinctly grati ner bottle, $8.00 for 6 bottles, from these typical "Charlie touches" mental, these odd pieces of pottery these peasants originate a grotesfying to learn, from evidence The Dr. Williams' Medleine Co., that make Chaplin so universally look to mundane things for their que little prancing horse in bright given before the Board of Trade's 00, Kinngse Road, Shanghai,

popular. A film critic, writing it inspiration and reflect a reallem blues and yellows with a touch of inquiry into the position of the regard to "The Circue," asked: "It there anyone else in the fim that is instinctive with the simple that deep, pleasing red that their hosiery trade, that the, popularity flowers give. They use their of artificial silk" de rapidly and flowers and a few sprays of green continuously growing. Tho world whose every gesture must Peasants who make them. be watched with the closest at- Unlike old pieces of pottery that to dress up the horse and very fea-dull finish which manufacturers tention for full appreciation of sometimes were merely decorative indeed is he with a coloured are now giving to their products, making them, except to an expert, gay additions acrve a purpose,

indlatinguishable from silk, was Czecho-Slovakią goes in for pit-stated by one witness to have led 1 Artificial light containers. Odd pitchera come in for their chers and decanters In much of to a very marked increase in the 5 Dash into splinters. share of popularity. Candlesticks, its new pottery and glassware. demand for artificial silk stock-11 Produce figures on copper. flower bowls, holders for lowers A new kind of crackled pottery ingu, and a corresponding decline 12 Plea which avers was in another in low bowls, hook-ends, ash trays, and a novel flecked glass both in the demand for cheap foreign 13 Wild west horse show. sauce bonts, and sugar and cream suggest the feathers of fowls and hosiery.

owla, rooters, hens, ducks, and all

RECORDS.

and orna-

THE SEASON'S HITS acting?" It has always been so, tivo and ornamental, these how candle on liis back.

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Forgive Me Pick a Rose-

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Red Lips Kiss My Blues

{Hello Culic

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(Charmaine

C'est Yous

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(Hallelujah

Gonna Get a Girl..

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Me and My Shadow

u a Street

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i Dreaming of Brown Eyes-

flere am I Broken-hearted

Magnolia

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Barbara

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Mediterranean Bines Honey Bird

he says, with Charlie Chaplin, and it is the case in this film.

All through the film, from the very first moment when he ap-

pears, Charlie attracts attention

by his whimsicalities and artistry.

One of the very best touches is

when he earries tabie into the circus ring and actions, too. eldentally gives the whole. show away by pressing a button which releases rabbits, pigs, pigeons and ducks from silk hats. His frantic endeavours to capture the live- slock must be acen to be appre- ciated. Then, in his tight-rope act, he is funniness Itself, even al-I though the climax is rather over- done.

a magician's erg all have their new interpreta- are used appropriately to fashion

And so one could go on recalling the numerous incidents which give Charlie full scope for his or

ginality. But it is noodless to add niore, for no doubt every film- fan will make a special point of seeing "The Circus" this week.

From the technical point of view; the film is Arst-class produc- tion, and the supporting cast is a that could be wished.

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MR. ORMSHY GORE CANNOT VISIT COLONY.

In response to a letter by Sir Henry Pollock, recently, the Colonial Secretariat annonnees that the Hongkong Government despatched a telegram to

the

| Secretary of State for the Colonics on February 17, and received a telegram in reply on February 27, regarding the Hon. Mr. Ormsby Gore's visit to the Colonies. The felegrams follow:,

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Translation of code telegram, from the Governor, Hongkong, Le the Secretary of State, London.. Date, 17th February, 1928:

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The steady expansion of this 10 Species of antelope,

18 Daub. 20 Obscures.

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European peasants send these barnyard animals Into the modern home: (1) Czecho- Slovakian Iridescent potlery duck serves as a dressing boat; (2) Italy conceives two pre- historic horses in colourful pottery as ideal book enda; (3) A gaudy penguin with red wings, head and feet is really a docanter; (4) Breton peasants make a prancing, Quimper wore horse into a candlestick; (5) a tan crackle ware owl, with unblinkine black eyes, is the kind of pitcher children love.

"Unofficial Members of Execu- tive and Legislative Councils. unanimously request that Mr.. Ormsby Gore may extend hjx journey so as to include visit to heartily support

Nature's Colour.

kinds of birds that, when tipped, industry, in which the safeguard- this request.-Governor.”

Translation of code telegram,

pour forth not song but food and ing duty imposed two years ago has played its part, is of the from the Secretary of State, Lon this pottery. look no farther than

Usually the peasants who make drink.

greatest benefit to the nation, done to the Governor, Ilongkong. their own barnyards for inspira

One glass penguin decanter has which has suffered . in recent tion of their designs. A strutting gaudy red head, legs, wings and a years from the depression in the "Your telegram 17th February. cock is quite as decorative to them roving grey eye. A crackled pot: textile industries, always one of Much appreciate invitation extend- as some intricately worked out tery owl pitcher has soft brownish the chief foundations of ite pros- ed to Ormsby Gore to visit Hong imaginative animal or other de-beige body with a black handle perity. Lord Rothermere's pro- kong but regret that time will not sign. And they see

humour and an unblinking black eye, phecy in 1924 that at no very dis- permit this, as important that be the pets of their own backyard. Italy shows its flair for imagina- tant date "half of the clothing of should return for last part of Ses- For none of these new pieces istive interpretations of ordinary the world will be made, wholly or sion.-Secretary of State."

without a certain amusing note.

things in its new horse designs, partly of artificial silk," has come

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As for the colour, the blue of some of which are used for book with every year nearer to fulfil- Titania, passed away at the Royal Italy's skies, or the brown and ends. A pair of pre-historic look-ment. Naval Hospital on Saturday last. green of Brittalny are as truly ing animals, with extravagant

Czecho- necks, stand as they might in con- No solid colour is this useful little There was a large gathering of given as the gaudy

versational mood under a pasture crenture as he sits, apparently naval officers and men at the Slovakian reds and yellows,

tree and no book can slip by them, just floating along on a pond. He funeral, which took place yester:

From France come some de- These are in gorgeous reds, bluck has, the frridescent, gleam of col-

day afternoon, the remains being lightful new additions to the ever- and browna, interred at the Protestant Ceme popular Quimper ware from Brit

tory. A profusion of wrenthe

tainy.

The same little peasant's For Salad Dressing, a Duck.

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ours, in blucs, greys, greens and black that any duck has.

Bach, piece is distinctive. One is an addition to any table. A browns, greys, dark reds, greens. Another Italian, contribution is menagerie would be most useful and and yellow appear. But in the now the low duck salad dressing boat, decorative in any font.

were laid on the grave. The figures, in home-spun clothes of firing party was provided by mem bere of ILMS, Titanic.

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26 Vegetable.

26 Period,

20 Guards.

31 Situation.

34 Contended.

35 Guided.

30 Turkish Judge.

38 Female horse.

19 Single things.

42 Bordered.

44 Species of deer.

45 Beants of burden.

47 Tidal wave.

48 Mid-day.

43 Existence.

50 Welsh emblema.

2 Past,

3 Pares.

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4 Porch.

0 Emmets,

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8 Ingredient,

9 Additional clause.

10 Rows.

MY POP DOESN'T SING!!

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17 Being in the north.

19 Wako-robin

21 Decline.

22 Common name for twining plants.

24 Kind of lettuce.

27 Encroachments,

28 Ceaseless.

30 Sorry.

32 Successor of Mohammed.

33.Newspaper managers,

38 Healed.

137 Funeral hymn.

38 Intervening (Law).

40 Percelves.

41 Vascular crytograms.

42 Bald-eagle.

43 Prison.

|40 Species of deer.

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