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A few selected titles from an

interesting consignment

of

Victor "H.M.V" Records

just unpacked.

B-6039 "Leave the rest to Nature"

Ambrose & His Orchestra.

22859 "I'm a Specialist"

1550 "Cuban Love Song"

Frank Crumit.

Lawrence Tibbett,

B-6061 "You can't stop me from loving you"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932.

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1531 Dancing Virgins of Delphi"

B-3794 "Any Little Fish'

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DAY BY DAY

Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron arrived here by the Empress of Asia to-day.

N°

BAD MANNERS.

Cult of Stage and Screen. By S. R. LITTLEWOOD,

Chamberlain provides for draw. backs, it is true, but not in respect of the ten per cent.; only of the higher duties lavied on selected articles. How, therefore, he can argue, as he has done, that a re-

I HAVE ALWAYS SPOKEN WITH venue tarif levied on most of the NAKED CANDOUR AND EVEN WITH

THE MULTITUDES TOT ALL those of us who have refusing to be either patronlagil ' raw and semi-finished materials of HRUTALITY TO Industry is Hikely to stimulate ex- THAT 18 A DISTINCT CONTRAST TO

regularly to represent the or bored?

But the vogue of mere vulgarity CONTEMPTIBLE COURTSHIP

publle in the theatre and' ports, it is difficult to see. ...THE

THE

cinema have agreed with Mr. Gil- and indencency now current in a vary different matter. It does not There are many other aspects of MADE FOR THEIR FAVOUR BY

POLITICAL PARTIES OF EVERY TIME

bort Chesterton's recent pro- bear any genuine relation to social the matter which could be gono

AND EVERY LAND-Mussolini,

the descent truth. There are somo three or nouncement about into, but it will suffice if wo put forward a very sane view which

"from Olympus." If Homer sang four worda now in constant use has been expressed on this tariff

aright, the gods of Greece had on the West End stage which no lower standard of humour than clean-minded host would allow.tu problem. Admitting that

But with which no respectable news- thing was needed over and above Mr. Thoman Fox has been appoinally permitted by the Lord Cham- be used at his dinner table, and the departure from the goldted managing director of the Slumberlain or by Mr. Shortl

good taste and good manners of umns. The bringing in of these standard and the restrictions which Observer Preen, Ltd. He is at pre- about the descent from a level of paper has as yet defiled its col- which we in England had only a has nothing to do with art at all. existed on

Imports, the plen Is advanced that any measure adopted

few years ago every reason to be It is simply a "publicity stunt" should have been strictly tempor

proud no doubt can exist. Thero enjoyed all too readily by the ary, and all semblance of a bargain-

is prevalent just now a cult of stupider sort of theatro patrons, stupidity, vulgarity, and bad man- who get what is described as ing tariff should have been care-

nera for their own sake-even in "new-kick" out of a hitherto for- the

· fully avoided. Secondly, thero

the highest class of comedy-bidden phrase thrown over should have been no general triff

which does urgently need purging footlights. applicable to raw or semi-finished

by an enlightened public opinion.) materials vital to British industry. Thirdly, it would have been better to proceed farther on the lines of the Abnormal Importations Act, by | means of almost prohibitive duties en a narrow range of articles, thin to impose protection over a wide field; and It would have been far wiser, in certain cuses at least. to Through taking an overdose

licensing oplam, woman named Yung Yuen, of 870, Nathon Road, was inken to system similar to that of the the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday Dyestuffs Art than by the impost- for treatment. It is stated that she

restrict imports by л

tion of duties.

the sou

need not

1102 Korgeous

Rent visiting ilongkong.

Messrs, Alex. Roes & Co. (China) Ltd., advertise that Mr. W. F. Webb has been appointed manager of their Kowloon Garage, Salisbury Road.

King's College annual sports are to be held on the South China football ground, Caroline Jin, on the 24th instant. The prizes are to be dis tributed by Mrs. G. P. de Martin.

of

The annual general meeting members of the Hongkong Automobile Association will be held in the Board Itoum of Messrs. Jarline, Matheson & Co., on Tuesday, March 29, at 5.30 p.m.

attempted to commit suicide.

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To mo nothing la more painfur The old notion that the stage is there to set a good example in than to hear the shout of apparent manners haa, of course, long dis-mass approval with which a first- Gone is the tradition night nudience occasionally wei- appeared. by which it was expected to sux-comes some "bold" allusion, which gest, if it did not fulßl, a roman- not one of the applauders would tie ideal of courtesy, of loyalty, individually make or tolerate in of grace. Our comedy has forfeit- his or her home. If the public ed at once respect for age anil re-like these things how helpless their No longer ambassadori Happily, the so-called gard for innocence.

a "broad- lves a grande dume of the type "old English" vocabulary of nasty represented so memoraby by the words sanctioned by where young people approached exhausted. It is possible that the late Rose Lecturcq rule in a court minded" Censor is now becoming each other with chivalrous reserve. | always-uxigent demand for novelty-

may thus cancel itself. convicted

So, too, with the "undressing A small boy who was Those Scrawling Signatures.

yesterday of obstructing the pollee

a modern Every time father becomes was again produced at the Kowlonenmedies, for instance, which net" which have come to be re-

he many atill remember gratefully garded as essential to

bad manners. They critical of his son's handwriting a Magistracy this morning when

was sentenced to six strokes and to and vividly-how impossible, if comedy of

scem also are not concerned with actual displayed in his latest school com- position, perhaps he will do well sign a bond of $100 to be of good not laughable, they would

behaviour for 12 months. The pollee now! When the late George Alex-social conduct. In Commander to consider what kind of signature verified his statement that he had no ander greeted Miss Julla Neilson, Kimmins's "When Parents Sleep" in Sir Arthur Pinero's pleasant to take one example-a Colonial he himself attached during the relatives in Hongkong.

play, with "Tina has flown high Governor's wife takes off her dream afternoon to his pile of outgoing

St. John's Hall, Hongkong Univer-nbove your head, Princess," he in the drawing-room Ho letters. If father's signature is ni

sity, is organising a charity concert trucks,

in aid of the Shanghai Relief Fund. sponking a different language, confer with her lovor nt greater all the average pen

Even Sir Geralti da Mau-1 scone has been halled with de- feel greatly The concert will take place on 1st & moving in a different world, from case in her underclothing. This ashamed. Probably son's hand- 2nd April, at 8 p.m. in St. Paul's

College.

The items will be contribu-rler, our present mirror of good light by large sections exhibit ted by writing does

well-known artists. There breeding, would be constrainedt 10 public. But it is ridiculous assort- will bo also a painting exhibition to give his old acquaintance an audi-protend that the wives of Colonia! such

dates in the ble siap upon her shoulders, anty- Governors are really in the habit be held on the same ELA meat of angles and curlicues

Callego from 2 p.m. to 7 pm. The ing, "Five years older and you of disrobing in this way. And if father's, but it is doubtless more

exhibition will consist of over look every minute of it, my dear" the language used represents that

paintings by Italian!

or words to 'some such candid of a ward-room In his Majesty's printlike, more restful to the eye. hundred oll

Navy, one can only be sorry for The increased momentum of the artists, being the collection of Mr.

effect.

course, it. Luigi De-Dionigi, ex-Vice-Consul of

It may be argued, of business day, the

for Italy. necessity

The reason behind it all is sim that life is no longer a minuet-)

noply that the success of "high signing letters in job lots, has played havoc with present-day' A most enjoyable concert was given that a modern heroine has

the Helena May Institute last time to receive homage with her comedy" has ceased to depend up script, declare teachers of penman-at

It may be held that the whose manners it is supposed to ship. The copperplate dignity and evening, the contributors to the pro-train twisted into a pool in front on the comparatively small class

gramme being Mm. A. M. Bowes- of her."

ostrich-fan, reflect. In order to exist at all legibility that characterized the Smith (soprano) Mrs. N. Mathieson nice conduct of an correspondence of a former genera- (contralto), Mr. H. G. Annies (Lonor), the perfect pose upon a Louis the West End theatre has to de- THE TARIFF QUESTION. tion is now studled under a glass Dr. L. T. Ride (baritone), Mr. Quinze settec, simply do not mat-pend upon hosts of people whe Barton (bass), Mins Dalay Ma case, along with the feathered pen (pianist), with Mr. F. Mason A.R.C.ter in comparison with the urgency know nothing about the manners and the bowl of blotting sand... LT.C.L., accompanying. Vocal of current problema and passions of this class, and have to be al- Only lately I saw the leading tracted by shocks, surprises, and Items predominated, the quartettes,

ait thrills of one sort or another. Mr. Lloyd George envisages the

Our jiggling chirography is but quinteties and ducts being especially lady in a West End theatre National Government remaining in

another striking example of the appreciated, particularly the delightful down in front of the audience with Hence words and scenes which can I need only attract through the rumour office for a period of four years, modern demand for fast work. No numbers from "Merrie England." Theher toes visibly turned in. during which time, it is to be pre-

inaist final concert of the season is being not give the name of the distin- of naughtiness. Hence also the wonder army regulations

hold on March 31st.

gulshed culprit, but her perform-parade of mechanical spectacle- somewhat outmoded. The sumed, Ita tariff polley will be ex-

that all official correspondence must

almont universally now

wonder is, in these circumstances, tended rather than contracted. In

have the typewritten mame of the

a play Sentences amounting to one year's praised. the meantime, the former 'Liberal

writer in close proximity to the hard labour in all were imposed on

For all this there is something that now and again

and merit-like "Journey's End" Premier is prepared to lend the

inked signature, so that no time a young Chinese who appeared before to be said. Times change

at the Central anti-tariff section of his party in a

will be wasted in deciphering Mr. Wynne Jones

Police Court this morning on charges manners with them. The leisurely "The Barretts of Wimpole Street fight for the restoration of Free

In this fact and in the persist- scrawling penmanship. Indeed, of theft of three boxes of Ornadin, and self-conscious development of-docs appeal and survive them, Trade. What impression will be

this system might well be adopted from the King's Dispensary of 94. the old school may have given is a matter

two boxes of place to something better in the ont encouragement of true made on the country

in many civilian organisations. It Queen's Road and

a new comedy of manners, reflect- chocolates from the M. Y. San Cui eager sincerity, the courage, and lies the hope that we shall create also of returning from banishment comradeship, which the youth Detective Sergeant D. Fitches, said our period does at its best supply. Ing the new generation at its bert were the defendant was a gang of three No one need take umbrage at a and as it really la. Who

shop-lifters. One of them would go faithful reflection of life as it is what new graces and splendours. Into the premises and pretend to make a commit the thefts. His

The

(Debussy) Paderewski. Hongkong Telegraph.

(Cochran's 1931 Revue) Noel Coward.

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for speculation. Much will depend, we Imagine, on the effects of the tariff on living costs. Mr. Lloyd George is naturally angry with

is fortunate that the typewriter

and telephone have come to the aid of the busy taipan. If he compelled to drive a pen

many

дисе was

of

or

ari,

knows

he re-

those Liberals who have made hours a day, recipients of his let-purchases whilst the other two would of changes, for example, intof character, which are there all

possible the breach with the coun try's traditional seal policy. He has grounds for being so, In view of the probability that every endeavour will be made by the Government to retain tariffs per- manently.

. "

ters would probably require

Worship domestic ritual. Need we blame the time, would not then board of high-salaried puzzle, ex-described the defendant as a klep-children for calling their parents vealed?

tomaniac, remarking that he was by their Christian names especi. perts to interpret their meaning. afraid the man was a hopeless case. ally if the parents like it-or for As it is, many a majestic signa- ture needs the swift attention of the well-known pruning knife.

DEATH OF MR. A. MCCALLUM.

RAILWAY OFFICIAL PASSES AWAY.

It is with much regret that we McCallum, Per- have to chronicle the death of Mr. Archibald

of the manent Way Inspector Kowloon-Canton Rallway, which took place at the Kowloon Hospital late last night.

born

As we read the position, the.only mandate which the Government had for a tariff was one for a merely emergency measure, design- ed to rectify the adverse balance of trade and payments. It is, of course, to be admitted that the Conservatives, who predominate in the Government, wanted a tariff long before the emergency, The emergency gave them their chance of getting it. They now appear to have no intention of letting it slip.

The deceased, who was The Government decisions repre-

near Dundee and was only 58 sent a "two-decker," or rather a

years of age, came to the Colony "three-decker" tariff in view of the In August, 1924, as second-class provision for special discriminat-overseer in the Public Works De- ing duties. This as a permanency, partment, which post he held un-

when he and not merely as a means of til April 1926, rectifying the balance of trade. transferred to the Railway

acting Permanent. Way Inspector, There in the general, or almost being promoted to the substantive general, tariff for revenue, levied post in August of the same year. at n flat rate. This revenue He was admitted to hospital-on tariff, it is to be noted, is totally Saturday, suffering from pneumo- different from tho proposal nia, and despite every medical at sponsored some time back by Mr.tention he passed away last night. The late Mr. McCallum saw ser

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A

J. M. Keynes, the noted economist,vice during the war with the Although Engineers.

keenly interested

| Mr. Kaynes' proposal was put for Royal

ward mainly as a means of offset- he was ting the over-valuation of sterling in sport, ho took no active. part consequent on the return to the in'nny games in the Colony, but was a member of the Kowloon gold standard. But Britain le no longer on the gold standard, so that Football Club and the Engineers'

Institute. He was not married. argument has gone. Moreover, Of a genial disposition, he made Mr. Keynes,

tho recognising

numerous friends, who will doop. danger of the proposal to exportly regret his passing..s trade, proposed to combine the re-

The funeral takes place this

venue tariff with a corresponding evening, passing the Monument at bounty on exports. Mr. Neville 5 p.m.

JAKES

SHOE REPAIR

SHOP

THIS MUS GECAL

Shoes SOLD

ANO HEELED

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ROCT

CAFETER

A DANCED HEAL

"Sure, you have seen me lotsa times I was on the stage for years before I became an advertising man.

even

The same is true in an larger measure of the cinnrua, for ara only which in England we partially responsible, save in an unfortunate and belated imitation of America's mistakes. Here a things are, the tall wags the dog" The logically and inevitably. gangster-film, with its gutter-bred gunman, living in luxury and Jursuing criminal adventures to hercle end, and the filma that revel in crude horror and sensuous allurement, are commodities. nu- turally and, definitely "traded" to a half-educated public, who seem sometimes to have pe power to appreciate anything better. The higher class patrons of the key- cinemas in the big towns are more publicity-pawns in the game of getting at the masses on both sides. of the Atlantic,

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Yet even here the leaven in work- Ing. A good, clean, beautiful Alm doos got its response now and again, whatever its language. It is possible that from the point of vlew of convenience, the passing of the Consorship Into the Lord Chamberlain's

control

would

modify the present chaos. It might tend to raise the standard of the talk-Alm to that of the theatre such as it is. But first, Inst, and always the real Censorship lies in ofton and the public mind, ao

"never vastly disappointing, yet without its gern of good.

The steam launch Cormorant and Junk which was being lowed by the steam launch Kwong Bin came into collision in the karbour at noon yester.. day. The junk was being towed from Kowloon to Hongkong and a the Cormorant was staaming from west. to east Damage to the extent of $400 was caused to the Junit, which was insured.