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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Dur. 17, 1930.

DAY BY DAY

ed to a Government ofclol. No doubt if a reasonable case could be made out to suggest the necessity or desirablity of the step, this gentleman would not object to the

THERE ARE MORE FAULTS IN THE assistance of a lady colleague, but

HUMOUR THAN IN THE MIND-L« we do not think it can be seriously | Rochefoucauld, contended that any such necessity exista.

The Ben Line 3.8. Benvenue. from 1ome ports via the Straits, is due here to-morrow.

Charged before Mr. Williams. at the Central Police Court thin

If there are ladies in this Colony who want to find avenues of service to the community, we aurgeat that there are already quite a number in which they could be far more profitably employed than in bother- ing about the censoring of cinema Alma. Mother Grundyism is the last thing we want to see flourish. ing in Hongkong. There are numerous local organisations which could do with more lady helpera, but if it is felt that the scope is too limited, why not start an agita- tion for lady jurora, or lady mem- hers of the Legislative Council or Sanitary Board? When we come to look around, the opportunities seem endless, But, until there in

At the Kowloon Magistracy, be- something really serious to com- fore Mr. Butter, this morning,, plain about our cinema films, we do Mrs. Maria G. D'Azevedo trust that we shall hear nu more of moned Messrs. T. II. Da Silva and Daniel Da Silva for alleged as this idea of well-meaning but pouli and disorderly conduct withi sibly 14:13 straight-laced ladies neking to decide what we shall and shall not see on the silver screen.

Lords v. Commotis.

D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS points out the

CURSE of the COCKTAIL.

agems that in New York one ing, wrench off the knobs, and kick can now buy, jocularly or in the paneis in one thing. To otherwise, cards containing a set of collect the wreckage, pile it in the Students of the Central British printed formulae for the use of middle of the drawing-room floor, School, Rowinon, are holding guests the morning after a party, and set fire to the whole is quito fancy dress party at the Peninahin Clearly auch carda are not in-another." Hotel to-morrow from 4 to 7 pmtended for American

gentlemen, I said: "And how does one know for anyone who has come in con- exactly where to stop?" The forthcoming wedding to an-tact with the American gentleman He said rather coldly: "A man noticed of Capt. Frank Southwell pur sang knows his manners to be of breeding knows by instinct Weir, of H.M. land forces, to Miss comparable only with the manners where to stop. Roberts Brackenbridge Paterson, of the Spanish hidalge: These In such circumstances, therefore, Chicago, Illinois U.S.A..

earda, printed in double column, any excess may be justly attributed are for the use of the others, and to the cocktail, which dulls the run as follows:

finer perceptions, obfuscates the Mr...very much regrets hia social sense, breeds rancour and morning, with being in possession deplorable conduct as a guest at confusion of thought, and is de- of a quantity of dutiable tobacco, Sour

finitely brutalising. Dance Party.....at....day! One of the few places left in Chinese woman who arrived in Honkong on one of the dully tow evening last, and humbly asks your Europe where you may still hear bonts which call here, was fined pardon for the offences against Freud and his Aedipus-complex

in the spoken of with respect is a Blooma $100 or six weeks' hard labour in good manners enumerated

bury cocktail party: a very pretty default.

example of the maleficent effect of mixed fire-waters impinging on the vernal innocence and suburban naiveto of the Bloomsbury mind.

In Chelsen, whore I was recently at a cocktail party, this Impact may take a more direct form, and I have seen a discussion on the art of Andre Gide almost ruined by the host's dinging those gucals whose views were odious to him violently out into the street. the drink instead been

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intent to commit breach of the peace in Jardan Road on Decem- ber 9. Mr. Butters remanded the ense for one werk.

to the

column below.

Striking hostean with bottle; Boxing hostess or guest (lady)

on the car; Entering drawing-room

all-fours;

Excessive drunkenness; Excessive destruction of furni-

tere:

Total loss of equilibrium; Insulting guests;

Indiscreet preferences; Pouching hostess'a servants;

or even claret, what What urbanity What clarity!

The ines not applicable are What flowering of thought! What

the mind with eivilised mind!

the

There is to be a physical culture display on Friday and Saturday For the sake of peare, it is anti-afternoons of this week from 3 tn struck out and the card is sent by harmonious murmuring contact of cipated, the Government will recom. p., in the Diocesan Girls' School

The generic term post.

for mend the House of Commons to grounds. Tickets may be had at

contents of the lower column

Very accurately does Keyserling 50 cents accept the amendment of the Upper school. Pupils from every class in

on application

ls, or used to be. "winopre." And

call the cocktail a joyless thing. Chandler ensuring that the Dye-the school are taking part. This is cocktail, which I see Count Key pleasant on cocktails. The great the first cause is, of course, the Nobody has ever produced anything stuffs Act will remain in operation the first display of its kind that the

Blackstone) "BAD" CINEMA FILMS. for another year, In other words, school has given, and it should beurvey in a recent rather grizzling Blackstone ("Biffer"

Survey of America

calla

some wrote his "Commentaries on measure bolstering up a compara. of interest to all friends of the |what eccentri manifestation of Laws of England" on port. The

"-for the count is of tively small ilustry at the expenseschool and to other school children Puritanism

great Descartes wrote his "Discours For reasons which are not made of one of Britain's basic trades,

opinion that the intention of the de la Methode" on claret. An un- Herbert apparent in its annual report, the must continue on the Statute Book Lam Tring was charged before cocktail is evil but joyless,

ele of mine who knew Religious Committee of the Helena ngainst the wishes of the Cabinet Mr.

Count Keyserling is right. The Kowloon

He Spencer, the Victorian thinker, s- ས་

surch me that he composed hia May Institute appears to be some-and the majority of the House of Magistracy this morning, with the may not be too sound on the des-sur

of tiny of Europe, but he is right as "Social Staties" singing at the top reens いら 360 packets

le the nature of the cocktail. What concerned over the screening Commons.

It is not the first time cigarettes, a pair of serge trousers complete case against the cocktail bottle of Mouton Rothschild "76 in The of his voice, with ivy in his hair, a of what it describes as "batt Tory Peers have sought to in-

A suit of grey clothing, a black

is not so much that it is

is alcoholic his left

hand, and half the terfere in the alumnistration, andvercoat, from a hawkers' stall-in but that it is cinema films in this Colony. The possibly it will not be the last.

barbarous bar Alhambra ballet throwing red roses пдория Keramation Street.

The arous as those ugly Yahoos in at him. It was at this period that matter would appear to have been But all is grist that comes to the tobet value of the stolen articles Anglo-Saxondor who would des Spencer wrote his well-known the subject of more than one refill of those demanding the reform amounted to $42,50. The defen-cribe a fine Chambertin or Clos drinking song which begins:

and was de Vougeot or a Lafite of the golden presentation by the Committed to of the House of Lords, and the enddant pleaded guilty

Institute.of the Conservative Party's "lue-senteneed to six weeks' imprison-year as "alcohol," God forgive us

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other political netparties may come sooner than those atigst gentlemen imagine. As a matter of fact their choice of wea-

ment.

Butters, at

It.

question has evidently been brought inpe at the termination of "ten Pressing the charge against Iwo of gentle juices for on her suave,)

t th notice of the Connell on a previous necasion.

years and no more" was dictated by complaints of industrialists in the textile industry that the operation of the l was detrimonial to the other twn, their interests. The dye-industry employa some four or five thousan workers. The textile industries the objection is an moral gromicis,ibrare over a million. A strong

It would be interesting to know in what respect the Committer con- siders that some of the Bims shown in Hongkong are bad." Possibly,

Excuse me, Mrs. Tweendale, but I think

I should like something really nice to drink;

With a bow, wow, wote (etc.). If you can think of anything balt good inspired by the cocktail I should be glad to hear it.

1930 EQUALS 13.

"I

The cocktail is barbarous because

the matter • Zl

Ten Chinese women pleaded fancy mixture of iced alcohols taken on fasting stomach deals guilty, before Mr. Butters at the Nature such a blow that she takes Tar leen disclosed. ean only presume that it has taken pon for reviving the conflict was to a charge of trespassing manently as any heavy-weight.

Kowloon Magistracy this morning the floor, to speak, as instan- no action, inasmuch as the general not very well judged. We have it Government plantation

behind is nu use coughing, grimacing, or yearly report makes no mention of on the authority of Mr. William Kowloon City. Mr. J. J. Hirst shuffling with your feet: 1

I have! the point. This is somewhat aur-iraham, the President of the said that some of them were this fram an authority on dietetics. Phipps finds that prising in view of the fact that the Board of Trade, that the decision cutting grass while others were Jast as Nature has carefully pre-

in the Dyestuffs Act to picking pine needles. He was not pared and set (to alie

the assimilation of the defendants, who were small well-cooked food and fine wines, girls, Mr Butters fined eight of the down washes the icy flood of assort SUPPOSE you realise," maid defendants $15, or two

weeks ed

poison and turns the stomach-

the stulistician, wiping, his imprisonment each, and discharged coating into corrugated tin.

Whole evenings devoted to the pince-nez, "that the world depres absorption of such philtres lead not ult of any

sion of 1930 has not been the re- one economic factor. only to chronic dyspepsia, dilation

of Over-production. of the liver, melancholia and suicide a Noldie sport, introduced from Germany about the year 1540-but The Royal Observatory reports sec. to beating ladies with the

Itruction of furniture. of Blms are conducive to the spread of protection, but in addition, theod and is now rentrai over S.W.

done. In order to make this article ne- of criminal ideas. In any event, it plain fact emerges that the dye in Japan. Moderate monsoon will curate I consulted an anthority on would be illuminating to know dustry has grown from insiguifi- prevail along the S.E. coast of etiquette concerning the exact force whether the Committee's ideas arent dimensions in pre-war days to China and over the North China of that word "extensive." He said,

a position where it not only sup

The local forecast Is:---N.E.Jafter some deliberation: based on personal observation or plies British requirements but merely on hearsay. We will agree expoets Barge quantities of |that there is a great deal of what dyes and other chemicals, my bo termed "sex appeal" in If in the past ten years, fully pro-

or, equally, it may be that the Contense could be made out on thesis

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FINER WEATHER,

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world depression at meals," I told "I wish you wouldn't talk about

statistician. Seme ..raw

mittee considers that certain types grands alone for the withdrawal that the anticyclone has weaken-bolles and to the excessive des materials may have been

most of the products of Hollywood, tected, it has not prepared itself for the now conditions appearing on but it objection is to be taken on

the expiry of the Act, the industry his ground. we fear that ninety

is not entitled to the slightest per cent. of the films would have sympathy. There is reason to be to be banned. So far our own time, however, that it has and that observation goes, whilst we must the nation of the Lords was guided confess surprise that the public by insistence on a Tory principle should find some of these "sex" filme and not by any real concern for the in any way satisfying or even worth dye industry.

seeing at all, there is no evidence

that public morals are likely to

be seriously corrupted by the ple

3....

COST OF THE NAVY.

tures released for display in Hong-FRACTION OF ONE PER CENT. kong. Inane and full of sloppy

OF CARGOES.

nentinientality some of them may · Vice-Admiral Frederic C. Dreyer' be, but nothing worse than that. and Sir Arthur Rostroi, Com- As is generally known, every filmmodore of the Cunard fleet, were the guests of the London Press Club exhibited in this Colony has first ut an "Atlantic night" 'dinner re- to pass through the Censor's hands,cently. and we will at any rate give that there were 80,000 miles of Empire Vice-Admiral Dreyer anid that

official credit for scoing that any trade routes, on which 4,400 mil- thing really, offensive is expunged. Hona sterling of goods were carried, Many pictures which are shown in for that the country paid, in the upkeep of the Navy, innur- their entirety elsewhere are, weance premium of 134 of 1 per cent. understand, subjected to consider- Sir Arthur Rostron aald that sible "cutting" in Hongkong. The whatever chip might be built in the future, he believed no ather would Helena May Committed appears to carr on so consistently as the think that the inspection of Alms Mauretania had done throughout her existence. On four consecutive hora is carried out by a Censor

voyages from. New York to Che Board, hence its suggestion that a bourg there was only a total dif- woman member be added. In point ference of ten minutes in the dura. of fact, however, there is no such tion of the voyages. The longest

difference was 61⁄2 minutes. body, the consoring being entrust-i

Sea.

winds, muterate; overcast at first, "To broak off the legs of a Louis

fine later.

(1) A BHEIR SPONGE VOGA

+

XV. escritoire, to smash the eary

"I don't want to break off with him so near Christmas, so I told him I'd be mad if he didn't answer this letter."

over-

produced, but my chop is under. "Incidentally, the gloom of 1930 was inevitable. You your logarithm-tables to discover that 1930 added up comes to 13.”

don't need

The statistician's pince-nez fell into his soup. "You don't mean-”

"I do. It's a Hoodoo year." That is what I told the statis tician yesterday, and I feel convinc. ed there's something it it.

A Few of the Crisen,

Compared to 1930 the average Russian drama seems an exquisite little piece of optimism. Here is a list of a few of the outstanding crises of the year:

Opening of dumping season. Wall-street crash [a]. Unemployment goes up. Hotel Cecil comes down, Mr. Thomas loses

Llandudno. Wall-street crash [b].

seat at

Arsenal run out of pocket money. Wall-street crash (c).

Mr. Lloyd George has hla kaly cut. (17 carioonista jump off Beachy, Hend.)

don't mind · admitting that. I kavo spent most of 1930 chanting litanies for deliverance from ghoulics and ghosties, long but coloured schedules, and things that go bump on the Stock Exchange.

Even when I invested in button

shares I was undone.

And it's all on account of that confounded little ploce of arith

(Q.E.D.)

metic:

1+9+3+0=13.

There is one consolation, though. There cannot be another "18" year until 2020, by which time all our obituary notices will long since have been used for wrapping up

ah.

I can hardly wait until the New Year's Eve party. It seems a preposterously long time before wo can "ring out the old, ring in the now.") In 1980's casa I feel like wringing its neck.