1928-04-19 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NEW AMERICAN

TAL

GIRL ALONE

CHAPTER XIV.

and

"Right this way, ladies gen-tle-men! Step right up and seo Boffo, the ostrich man, ent glass, nails, toothpicks, lead pipe, or what have you! He chews 'em up and awallowa 'em like a kid ente candy! Boffo digeats. anything and everything from horseshoes to Jack-knives! Any gentlemen pre sent gol a jack-knife for Boffo's dinner? Come on, folk! Don't be bashful! Don't let Воло hungry!"

go

The crier's voice went on and on, challenging; commanding, ex-

horting, bullying the gaping crowd of country people who surged after

him like sheep. Admission to "The

Palace of Wonder, a tent which housed a score of freaks and fakers, was 25 cents. It still seemed won- derful to Sally that she was, there without having paid admission, that she-she, Silly Ford, runaway word of the state!-was one of the many attractions which the farm. ers and villagers had paid their hard-earned money to nee.

Dimly through the crowd came the volen of the ticket seller in his Lall; red, scarred box outside the tent: "All right, all right! Here you are! Only a quarter-25 cents two bits-to sce the big show? Performance just started Step right upi All right, boys, this why! Don't let your girls' call you piker! Two bits pays for it all! See the half- man-bif-woman: See the girl nobody can lift! Try and lift her,

By ANNE AUSTIN, Author of "Saint and Sinner."

It did not seem possible that she was Sally Ford.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928.

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

(Continued from Page 7.j

So far, Harry Ore has composed the following:

(1) Pat Pan Tau

(2) Mai Cha Fou

(3) Sul Sin Fa

Lady Angela Forbo's name has been used by a cheque swindler. Having ascertained that Lady Angola has been a customor at a large West-end store the man. pro sented a cheque there for over £40. and said he had called to pay £10 of the accounts. Ho was handed the change.

Mr. Grobler, Administrator of

(These three are combined as a the Orange Free State, states that

"South China Fantasy").

(4) Yui Ta Ba Chiu

(5) Lan Yu Kam

(6) Man Tak_ Yuen Yueng

(7) Seung Fel Co Tip

(8) Seung Sing Hun- (The last-ramed aro Three Lyric Pieces from South Chinn.)

Of these, the South China Suite has been accopted by Paxtons of, London and the Three Lyrle Pieces are with Ries and Erler, Berlin.

As far as Western appreciation is concerned, Mr. Ore has every where met with acclamation when he has played these pieces at con- certs or at friends' houses. Per- sonally, I find them very attractive. MoiBel- Mr. Ore played them to witch (who had included on hla programme so-called Chinese pieces by Abram Chasina) and he very pleased with them, walking off with a copy of the manuscript.

As regards Chinese opinion, which is still more important, It

is most enthusiastie. All the Chinese to whom he has. played them and whỏ make any preten-

a vast oilfield might be discovered in the Free State. American ex- perts have reported very favour- ably on the prospects, and a power- ful company has taken options on a number of farme.

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

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sions at piano-playing naturally| HEAR MUSIC PLAYED BY THE want copies as soon as they are available. But those who know nothing of the piano are. most intrigued, also, as were my house- boy and coolie when the pieces' were played at my house. And when Mr. Harry Ore Included them in a concert programme up in Canton, the enthusiasm such that he had to repeat them in their entirety..

WAR

All this, I repeat, is of great significance. What Mr. Orc. to gother with Mr. Pun In-tat (who is helping him to discriminate Chinese between good and bad music, idioms, cadences and so on). are doing is pioneer work; they boys! Little and pretty as a pic-men, and as she wondered she To her gravely expressed doubts are trying to find some common ture, but heavy as lead! All right, gazed upward inte Jan's face and of the authenticity of her Turkish basis of anoreclation in Eastern right in! Don't crowd caught something of an, answer to costume Mrs. Bybee had replied and Western music; to convince ILoom for everybody! See Princess her question. For Jan's great, hel-curtly, contemptuously: "My Europeana that Chinese string in- Lall, the Harem Crystal Gazer) low eyes, set in a skeleton of a face, Gawd! Who knows or cares strumentalists play, not a mean- Sees all, knows all! See Pitty were the saddest she had ever seen, whether Turkish, dames dress like inglens jumble of notes in any sort Sing, the smallest woman in the but patiently sad, as if the little-this? It's pretty, ain't it? Them of order (as they seem to, to many) world"

boy soul

that hid somewhere in women may wear turbans and what- Incredible! On Saturday, just had resigned itself to eternal sor-hair of yours ain't going to

that terribly abnormal body of his mots for all I know, but that black but rhythmic melodies, with a true sense of form, which are quite two days ago, the had been peelingrow and loneliness.

covered up with no towel around stood; and to bring home to as pretty' when the scale is under- apples to make ples for the Carson family. Today she was a member

many Chinese as possible the vast of a carnival troupe, under the

field of musical enjoyment which' protection of Winfield Bybee, owner

is opened up by the development of all these weird erentures aluat

of harmony and counterpoint, and whom the crier was chanting.

the ability to receive two or three was too unreal to be true,

tone-impressions at the same time.

confided to Sally that she only let these boy's see what a Turkish "Stand up, Princess Lalla, and weighed 380 pounds, though she was billed as "tipping the scales" princess looks like! Don't crowd at 620, had patiently drunk glase now, boys!"

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The immediate influence of this development may not seem to make much headway in point of num- bers, but if these two musicians continue their good work, the cf- fects of it may very well have fruitful results, long after they have ceased their labours. It what will be interesting to sec

with when they have been placed on the market and possibly popu larised by certain star-artists with whom Mr. Harry Ore is able to get in touch.

DARING SHANGHAI

ROBBERY.

(Continued from Page 7.)

At the request of the crier Jan your hend stalked, like a seven-league-boots And no, circling her brow and creature of a fairy tale, up and holding the scrap of black lace nose down the little platform, then, still veil in place, was a crudely fashion Itsad-faced, patient, he folded up his fed but gaudily. pretty crown amazing legs and relaxed in his studded with imitation rubles and great chair with a sigh. He was emeralds and diamonds as big as There had been 12 solid hours silently and indifferently offering bird's eggs. Her feet felt very tiny of sleep. Then had come a mar-postcard pictures of himself for and strange in red sandals, whose velously satisfying supper in the sale when the erler turned toward pointed toes turned sharply upward dining car, or "privilege" car, with Sally, cajoling the crowd away from and ended roguishly in fluffy silk Bybee himself introducing her to the giant: those astonishing people whom the crier was now exhibiting to the "And here, la-dies and gen-tlo- "I declare, you make a lot bet curious country people. The giant, men, we have the most beautiful ter Princess Lalla than Minnie a Hollander named Jan something girl that ever escaped from a Brooks did," Mrs. Bybee had com- or other, had bent from vist Turkish harem-the Princess Lalla, mented After outfitting Sally; heights to take her hand; the tiny Right here, folks! Here's a real She took down with appendicitis male midget, a flawaiian billed treat for you! They may come in Sioux City and we ain't had a success the compositions meet merely as Noke, had gravely asked bigger but they don't come prettiert crystal gazer since-one of the big her, in a tiny, piping voice, if she I've saved the Princess Lalla for hits of the show, too." would sow a button on his minia-the last because she's the best. I ture coat for him; the bearded know all you sheiks will agree with But the crier was going on and "lady" was a man, after all, a man me" Embarrassed shers of on, giving her a fearful and won endowing her with a naturally fatmelto voice and laughter interrupted him. "That's derful tiny hands and feet. Boff, the right boys. And if the Princess with gifts"... Yes, sir, folks, human ostrich, had disappointed Lalla don't show up tonight I the Princess Lalla sees all, knows her by being satisfied with a very know that some good-looking Stan all-sees all in this magic crystal ordinary diet of corned beef and ton boy has eloped with her. of hers. She sees past, present and

future, and will reveal alf to any cabbage. The fat girl, who had

platform and be convinced. Just one who cares to step up on this

cents, folks, one lonely lituo quarter, and you'll have past, pre- sent and future revealed to you by the Turkish sceress, favourite for

Bandits Get $30,000. had been consumed-all in the in- advanced a pace or two toward the tune-teller of the Sultan of Turkey, terest of keeping her weight up edge of the platform, her knees who'll be first, boys and girls? by armed bandits in the Settle- One of the largest hauls secured and adding to it.

trembling so she could scarcely Stop right up."

ment for a considerable time was Then Bybee had taken her to walk.

As he exhorted and harangued; obtained shortly after midday his wife, a thin, hatchet-faced 11 did not seem nossible to her the erier, whom Sally had heard on Friday when gix men hold up shrew of a woman who seemed to that the glamorous, beautiful figure called Gus, was busy arranging the a shroff-paymaster of a cotton suspect everything in petticoats of to whom the erier had made a little pine table, covered with black mill-as he was returning to the having designs on her husband, deep and ironic salaam was Sally velvet embroidered in gold thread mill with the firm's pay roll in a and who, in turn, seemed, to feel Ford. She wondered if all those with the signs of the Zodiac. On motor car. They drove off in the ear equally sure that every man must people staring at her with wide, the table stood a crystal ball, with a bag containing $30,000 in envy him the possession of such curious eyes or with envy really mounted on a tarnished gilt pedes wonderful woman as his wife. His believed she Was the Princess tal, and covered over with a blacknotes and silver after one shot had deference toward her touched Sally Lalla, an escaped member of the square. Gus

whisked off the been fired by the robbers. even as it amused ber.

At about 10 minutes past noon, harem of the Sultan of Turkey. square and revealed the "magic Mrs. Bybee was too good a bust-She made herself see herself as crystal" to the gaping crowd. the paymaster of the Hon Sung rounded, Then, with another deep salaam, he Cotton Mill at 22 Lay Road In the ncas woman, however, to let jeal-they saw hers alim, ousy interfere with her judgment young-girl figure in fantastic pur conducted the "Princess Lalla" to Yangtzepoo District after visiting. the show was concerned. ple setin trousers, wrapped close her throne-like chair. She seated a bank in the elty was returning She had demurred a little, then about her legs from knee to ankle herself and cupped her brown with the money in a bag. He was had abruptly agreed to Bybee's with ropes of imitation pearla; a painted hands with their gilded driven to the bank in a car and returned in the same car. When plans for Sally. Hours of sharp- green satin tunic-blouse, sleeveless nails over the large glass bowl.

A young man vaulted lightly up about to enter the gates of the mill tongued instruction from Mrs. By edged with gold fringe, half-reveal-on

the platform, followed by six men rushed at the car from bee had resulted in Sally's belug ing and half-concealing her delicate giggles and slangy words of encour different directions as it was slow on the platform, now, nervously young curves; a provocative lace agement. Sally's eyes, mercifully Awaiting her turn:

vell dimming and, making myste shielded by the black Ince veiling down and drawing pistola terror. Her hands forced the driver to proceed past rlous the brilliance of her wide, widened with

trembled so as they hovered over the mill.*. childish eyes.

the crystal that she had an almost All six men climbed into the She wondered if any of the more irrestintiblo impules to cover her skeptical would mutter that the face with them. Then she remem vehicle and with pistols pointed golden-olive tint of her face, neck bered that the black lace vell and at the driver and the other occupant drove off but not before and bare arms had come out of a the brown powder did that,

after glass of milk, until a gallon Sally slipped from her chair and

where

The crowd surged nearer to Sally's platform. The crier was introducing the giant now, and Jan was rising slowly from his enor- mous chair, unfolding his incred- ible length, standing erect at last, so that his head touched and slight ly raised, the sloping canvas roof

of the tent.

and embroidered' with sequins and

can of burnt-alenna powder, ap For the first to demand an ex-an attempt was made to halt the plied thickly and evenly over a film hibition of her powers as a eceress car by a Chinese watchman of the of cold cream. The mock-jawel was Ross Willis, Pearl Carson's mills. One shot was fired by the

She wondered, as she gazed pity-wrapped ropes of her blue-black-boy friend," Ross Willia who bad robbers before the car disappear- ingly and a little fearfully at Jan, hair, however, were real, and the not asked her to dance because she ed. how it felt to be three feet taller felt their beauty as they lay was the Carsons" "hired girl" from than even the tallest of ordinary against her slowly rising and fall the orphanage.

ing breast,

(To Be Continued.)

The money in the bag consisted of $29,000 in notes and the remain- fler in silver.

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