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A few selected title from an

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Victor

of

Records G "H.M V

just unpacked.

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Ambrose & His Orchestra.

22859 "I'm a Specialist"

1550 "Cuban Love Song"

Frank Crumit.

Lawrence Tibbett.

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Ambrose Orch..

1531 Dancing Virgins of Delphi"

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

IT HE DOER REALLY THINK THAT THERE IS NO DISTINCTION DETWEEN viтEE AND VICE, WRY, SIR, WHEN HE LEAVES OUR HOUSES LET US COUNT OUR SPOONS.-Samuel John- son.

11 ..

The President of the St. Patrick's Society of Hongkong, assisted by members of the Committee, will las March 17, at 9.15 1.11. a wreath on the Cenotaph to-morrow,

THE BLIGHT OF SNOBBERY.

BY W.H.L.

NOBBERY—what a host of liberately happy in this life; one

bilter, humiliating memories must bunish all thought." Whn-

made

that up knew the word can ennjure an over

what he (or she) won. talking

ie A

it πολ, pity. How our cheeks burn at the recol-[about.

some subtle cruelty that we have to clone.our eyou and tection of recalled from out of the dim past ears to the dirty, choap little No necessity, indeed, to delve into things that go on round about us, times gone by for examples of It seems to be the only way at pre- such inhuman ignorance, for the sent,

fire is a present-day reality would become unbearable. The

postwar from the world and its people which appears to have grown more sensitive shut themselves away hence we have that sorry figur, and mare prevalent in

the recluse.

times,

and one little ways earth,

status

however,

otherwise

to

life

decent exposure, "by bathing or otherwise near any public place jor dwelling houso" is an infringe- ment of the Summary Offender Ordinance. The term "publicsNES BIENCE INDOORKANTINERI place" is so comprehensively de fined for the purposes of the Or- dinance as to include "all pler, thoroughfares, streets, TORE, Janes, alleys, couris, squares, arch- ways, passages, paths, ways' and places to which the public have

The staff and pupils of Quarry Bay Recess either continuously

School have issued Invitations for the the periodically, whether the same are Spring Festival to be held at the property of the Crown or pri- | tchool on Wednesday, March 23, at vate person.” It might be urged, of course, that a bench at some onllying spot is not a place to which the public ordinarlly has access, but the fact remains that the publie would have a right to

It is rampant to-day in our Uni-

The remedy then is in our own visit such a spot. stud. what is

The calvotar of the University of

versitles amongst both students more, that it would be difficult to Hongkong for 101% has been published prefensors, and heaven pity hands, and if we were but to make

is now on sale. The calendar hide it from the gaze of prople includes interesting information con the needy student who does not the effort, He could be very much with mere pleanant than it is nt pre- tancerning the University, and ful affect an artficial tloat. There is moreover,

great big "bat"

onlin * All the Incaltick the particulars

which to disguise his poverty, fur sent-But, and further point that.

According to the calendar, the present otherwise his life under the Alma at that, to obtan suceras, centre became known, persons of

enraiment is about 350, of whom 280 Mater can be made in a thousand co-operation, as with everything

else, would be necessary, hell on insten. moral

01 are Chinese, and 10 are women. questionable

Edinburgh, look yourself; whom some are to be found in

The Dutch stenmer Tinegurn bat- every community, would

which arrived in Hongkong yesterday Can the blame be fald on the free yourself from the unsavoury reputation which in associated tracted thereto, thus making it from Sourabaya, hat a very eventful shoulders of the present modern with your name: kill that "it isn'

Or, again, is it some royage nerarding to a report made at generation? which would.

ut the cult the Harbour Office by the master. foul offspring of the World War? done" spirit and above much the devotees

Weide, Arcaveling { the

of yourself, God alone knows the source

If this little article should lead night rest the net, have moral. Capsai

report, one Chiness passenger died, ly unhealthy reactions.

and another jumped overband, but snobbury. Our city of Edinburgh prompt measures were taken by the is credited with a large amount of to public thought, then indeed it We are folly acquainted with crew and he was rescued. Twins were snobbery, and surely there can be will have not been in vain. all the stock arguments in faxony born to a Chinese woman passenger denying it; Indeed, of the movement; they do not in-One was still-born and the ather died

about two hours later. JP 119, perkaily In view of Gie phasis which is being laid local-

insi Saturday night not going to deal with England, different for we are racially ly on the mixed character of the Canton for a period of ten years,

young Chinese who returned to the people with different tempera 3 4* - Cut. There

Therefore, let Colony almost immediately after was mente. parts of the world establishments arrested

marting And yesterday

with or ain folks, where on-bathing

other brought before Mr. Wynne Jones at forms of nudism are practised, the Central Police Court to-day on a War Pals

charge of breach of the Banishment but with a mixing of the sexes,

Ordinance, Inspector E A. Vincent and under conditions which

informed his Worship that the defen round about Christmas I recalled, with a timekeeper. It's an unofficini sure the utmost privMY. If thedant had Just had a look at Canton and wat passing down Sauchiehall: unpaid position, and those who and then returned to the Colony. Street when 1 saw a sight I have, are unlucky enough to hold it have Their friends local movement ཝཱཏྟཾངྒཱརྫེསྭཱབྷཱཝཎྞསཾ of such a

Sentence of the one your's hard labour never forgotten-that of a well-a pretty thin time. possible objection nature.

todo business gentleman chatting tolerate them beenuse they Bef could be taken to it

it

pleasantly to a man selling mat necessary evils although nobody afterwards would admit as much), but for The something totally differeul.

ches, the pair, as Found out, having been together sheer unpopularity they've got fact that mixed Naked Cukure la

in the same regiment during the tennis club secretaries beaten to a permitted in certain parts of the

War. A more striking display of frazzle. work is neither here nor there.

comradeship could scarcely be I'm one of them. My chief fault Against that we place the me

imagined, and I am told that this is that I take clocks seriously. If compelling fnet that Hougkmy

isolated exception. someone invites me to dinner nud be associated does not want to

We may with such a crazy ind.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

THIS NUDIST NONSENSE.

ht

in

however

he old-fashioned, but we prefer to 'err, if at all, on the side of the proprieties. Not so long ago. nt Jest two separate enses

vame

Bruisbed

was imposed.

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NO PERMIT FOR AIR RIFLE.

YOUTH FINED AT THE MAGISTRACY.

one

has

only to visit our worthy but less beautiful neighbour Glasgow to

all be

note a striking differenes. I am WHY BE PUNCTUAL?

119

deal |

I unre visited (asgow, 31 wres

Pase was 10 Without a doubt, Glasgow 18

By L. C. MOORE.

VERY Bttle eircle of friends

EX

and relations is blessed (or. as they would say, cursed)

am

for

ya. "Blow along at seven," then A young Chinese recently arriv-whole is by far a more natural get a real kick out of ringing the ed from Batavia appeared Ifore city than ours; they have found door bell just us the church clock

is chiming the hour. Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central a way to a evrtain happiness,

"Quite a," you reply, "the com- Unfortunately, however, no one Police Court this morning on a charge of being in possession of a

That,elay seems to have the same pan- B.SA, air rifle without a permiterial spirit of course." before our magistrates in which from the Inspector General of however, is not the point at all alan for punctuality; the other

If the commercial men can adopt guests haven't arrived, and coolles enjoying 11 bathe en Police.

a "hal fellow well met" attitude, about an hour I represent a pro- naturelle were fined for Indecent

Inspector F. Shaftain said the why not the professional? Problem to my host and hostess. They exposure. In each instance, if defendant was staying in a board-fessional'superiority is greatly in aren't nearly rendy themselves.

were remember rightly, the men

ing house. Yesterday evening he evidence to-day, and in a canker yet they feel they must entertain was seen walking from the ship to which should be obliterated. There me, and altogether things are alone. Yet they were held to have braken the law. If these convic the boarding house in Connaught is no ignoring the cloak of superi- rather strained. Common sense. tions rested on a helief that publ. Road carrying the rifle quite ority which lawyers and account-1 know, auggests that I should outragalpely except that it was wrapped ants don is the presence of the change my ways. I know that, susceptibilities were

in a covering. The police were ordinary business man and yet because I've been told it so many what shall we say of the effects not taking a serious view of the where would they be but for the times. But I can't, because I was

No Se torn that way. of a movement, both on the parti-ease as he had only just arrived employment he provided?

in Hongkong and was taking The cialist or extremist am 1 who pens ripants aut on others who may be

It is women who hate my punct- a friend. this indictment against such crass made aware of its activities, which rifle to the country for socks to establish mixed nudium The police were not even pressing folly merely one who has come uality moat.

for the confiscation of the rifle through the mill slightly ambitelocks in the house, and they all it on an organised

It was probable that if he applied tered and with a nasty taste in say something different, a woman will believe the one that favours he would be given a permit to take my mouth.

her most.

;

wente in

Everybody's Hobby.

Although Mr. George Eastman

32 out of the Colony,

A fine of $10 was imposed.

Love of Luxury

If there arc six

Ff the hands point to five-thirty. will light-heartedly spend

When the focal nudist mwement was first mooted, there was [general inclination to treal

rather as a subjeël for tumour imidet? than to be taken seriously. Now, however, that it is beginning to

It would be of great interest if she nastim concrete form, there is a

it were possible to obtain statis- three-quarters of an hour on drea- widespread feeling, with which we

film in 1890, changed all this; the ties of the number of people who sing, and expect to find the hands are in entire sympathy, that it is

cumbersome équipment, with its starve their stomachs in order to in the same position when she high time the authorities indicat whose tragic death was reported tent and water bottles, sou gave indulge in fashionable luxuries, comes down. Cursed as I am, i be call up at intervals of five minutes, ed their, displeasure at the Iden. Festerday, could not claim to place to the bandy daylight-loati-Possibly the figures would

the and am always accused (n) of art surprising, especially We take our stand purely on the the inventor of photography, fewing Kodak. From a secret

trying to frighten her, and (b), ground that much farm to public would avestion his right to a for- photography evolved into a read itse of women.

I once read, I forget where, when she comes down and acca for morality can be done by granting most place among the moderoy understandable prices that has

quotation which said: "To be de-herself, of having altered the hands. Punctuality in getting to which | pioneers of the art. France ele become everybody's hobby. facilties to a movement

places is bad enough, but the of photo. has many objectionable features, brated the centenary

timekeeper makes himself more unpopular when it comes to leaving.

IM

another.

of

80 in

In saying so much, we do not denygraphy in July, 1925; commemorat- in 1825, M. that sun-bathing and apen-air exing the fact that ercises in the nude can be wholly Joseph Nicephore Niepee invented bencficial, but to concede so much the Bitumen Process. In 1924,

one thing whilst to admit memurial tablet was unveiled - 8 either the necessity or the desir-the Royal Photographic Society. ability of the sexes mixing collec London, to the "Father of Photo- tively for such purposes is quite graphs." Henry Fox Talbot, who, produced a permanent negative on rival So far as we can gather, the paper in 1839. To these Government has not yet defined its claims must be added those of attitude on the subject, holding Josiah Wedgwood and Sir Hum- that the matter does not call for phrey Davy, who obtained resulta decision unless and until applica-by coating paper with a solution 1802. tion is made for a site on which of silver nitrate prior to the cult may be practised. There may be cited, too, the in- the other hand, it is stated that vention of the Camera Obscura, the Superintendent Crown ancestor of the modern Kodak, by Landa has held out hopes to the J. D. Porta, in the year 1569, and sponsors of the movement that it is worth recording that the first there should be no difficulty in lens was discovered in the ruins in the securing the use of a beach in of Nineveh and is now

For over fifty some outlying part of the Colony. British Museum. How far he reflects the official years from the production of the viewpoint remains to be seen. The first negative, "photography re general public, however, if we mained a mysterious art practised are to judge from expressions of by professional specialists and a opinion heard on all hands, enter few amniours whose enthusinam- tains the hope that the Govern carried them over the difficultica ment will, without much further of the process. Outdoor photo- ado, prevent the possibility of the graphy was a toilsomo and tedious going beyond the exercise. The travelling outfit, hounds of strictly private obser- for instance, included a bulky view vance. Indeed, it is open to ques- | camera, heavy, tripod, equally tion whether the authorities heavy and burdensome plates, could, without amendment of the dark tent for loading and sensitiu- existing law, allunate for the pur- ing plates before exposure, pose of mixed nudism any of the nitrate bath, and

evon a water

"Hello, Doxtor the youngster in acting up again and I Benches of the Colony, no matter barrel, Mr. George Eastman, by where they may be situated. In his invention of the flexible roll want you to give him a talking to.”

movement

A

"

oven

A woman will tell her husband that if they go to the Browns' pince they must leave not a minute later than ten; she's hard quite enough late nighta recently. Good enough, The punctual hus- hand had been hoping to stay untli eleven or so, hut if ten is to be the time, that's O.K. with him. When ten draws nigh his wife shows not the slightest sign of getting ready to go: she is prob- ably in the middle of an Involved conversation over maids, or whe- ther one can buy French beans and still bo patrotic. The wretch- ed man clears his throat; looks at his watch several times, and at inst interrupts the conversation. At which she tells him that it can- not possibly be ten yet, and will cheerfully argue that his watch and all the clocks in the house are wrong.

The man then has two options.. Either he can behave like a cat on hot bricks until he gets his wife out of the house, or he can shrug his shoulders and any no mord.

If he chooses the first they wili leave about ten fifteen, and his wife will bully him all the way home for ruahing away so,

If, on the other hand, he chooses the second option, they will leave about midnight, and his wife will bully him all the way home for kooping her there when the dis tinctly said she wanted to get away early.

LO. Hoore