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tho fact that sales and develop- mont arrangements are said to be in accordance with the recom mendations of the now defunct Town-Planning Committee, the fact remains that there is inter- minable delay in making grants. Obviously this should not be the

case,

to

The Commissioners refer complaints of such delays, and we have ourselves often heard them. We have, indeed, a case in mind

DAY BY DAY

CONCISE PHASES MAKE FANA- TICs.—Morlen,

WHAT IS A

Sir Shou-son Chow has completely WI

recovered from hia, recent indis- position.

Bay.

Whilst tending to a military horse at the Camp at Shanshulpo, yester- day, Pie Gillicaple, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was bitten by the animal. Ife was Inter treated by the military medical nuthoritles.

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

".

to

also to

who have inspired artists, started lady. I should like my readers look carefully at the legends, und contributed portrait by Ingros of Mme. Aymon, known as "La Belle Zelle," which history.

Creatures

nais particularly Interesting since it as superintive Joyce Wethered and Shakespeare, represents a renowned beauty of Bobby Jones and Sappho, Lindram that time whom I do not think we or Bradman, Einstein or Newton, should so class to-day, for our taste

has changed. Mary Queen of Scots, Titian or Velazquez. Good Looks.

By GERALD KELLY, the Portrait Painter.

about like who had such immense power THEN people usk.mo

beauties I carefully Inquire over Loula XV. and the taste of

his time.

There is also Mme. Recamier, whether they mean pretty and at- tractive creatures, which is

who was known for her wit, hor The many friends of Mr. E. R. subject easy to chatter about and grace, and her beauty, and who

to dolightful

investigate, or had the last of the salona, People Chille, of China Underwriters, will bej glad to learn that ho has now left} in which efforts have been made inspital after his recent operation. whether they really mean Beauti- raved about her, Gerard painted to secure a plot of land for indus-Ile has taken up residence at Repulse ful Women, outstanding figures a superb picture of this exquisite trial purposes, but so far without anything tangible accruing. This is lnd from many standpoints. In the first place, it hampers trade development, and, in the second, it deprives the Government of Developments in needed revenue. other parts of the Far East seem

Mr. B. Paul will speak on "From enhance likely to

Hongkong's Atlantis to England at the usual prestige as a bustnega ́and indus-weekly public lecture of the Hongkong trial centre, but the Colony will Ladge, the Theosophical Society, 17, Queen's Rond Central, to-day at 8 pm. this This lecture was postponed from lust nnt derive full benefit from

of Mr. owing to the death trend unless it offers every fact week lity to those seeking grants of land for the purpase of development. The proposals advanced by ne Commissioners should much of the prenent delay, for which reason we entertain hope that the Government" AI reconsider its decision. rute, some definite overhauling of སྐ་་་ག།༥། an the existing methods urgent necessity.

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Boat Races, Rosettes and Ties, Sartorially the varsity man all the world over is a curious crea- ture. Take his attitude, for exam- Ernest

ple, toward such things as rosettes Anitie

On the morning Stith and ties.

DEATH.

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Fed when I first sat up and on the Sal On, he disappeared,

notien. number of letters, leaving behind one of which was addressed to his wife at Canton. The matter was re- ported by the master to the police

Was

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woman

took

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lovely women, the have cause they imposed on a Chinese who appeared us is no tor, we you there of they have little or no success

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Indeed, in the past there have been changes of tanto. They tell me, for example, that in Queen no dark-haired Elizabeth's time

I wonder Because I am a painter, and woman had a chance. primarily a portrait painter, it is whether that was 807 How odd unwise for me to express quite it seems. Was it a kind of Battery candidly what I think about the for that red-haired Queen? Or This is one of the did they really not like them duck? The hollowed-out, interior of n ham-people I see.

which everybody's

Balzac must be Any reader of boo pole was discovered by Revenue questions in

natural opinion, trained or

struck with the namby-pamby type searchers yesterday to be the recep- dutinhle tacle for Д half-gallon of

trained, is the best for him.

he thought lovely. The pure eval wing. The would-be snug- Chinese

The appeal of good looks is to of the face, alightly prominent thegler, a coolie, was brought by Re

venue Ward before Mr. Wynne-Jones the instinct; it comes to people at the Central Magistracy to-day, and before they have collected crudi- yes, the tiny mouth (shrunk per-

words As prunes of such was fined $10, with the option of a tion and, thank God, stays with as by the constant pronunciation them all their life. I really do know an enormous lot that I did pristus?) seems to suggest a kind of

lurd. An unknown Chinese is believed to not know, but I can recognise and be remluicent of a bag of Anyone who looks at the women suicide yesterday what I think in a pretty morning, when, travelling as when i see one just ng well ni

in the big picture by Ingres, "Le Martyre de Saint Symphorien."

I am trying what ace The one thing that men have

It is almost incredible describe. always been interested in into think that M. de Nucingen Beautiful Women, and 1 cannot ruined himself for such a ninny. on the arrival of the bout here.

imagine how it can ever cease to And isn't it tragle had luck,for be so.

that tradition and the girls who to-day resemble that A no of $7,000, with the alterna-literature have brought down to type? Born too late, poor tive of one year's hard labour,

are considered to Boat Race Saturday everyone in

before Mr. Schofield at the London wears a huge rosette in-

I think the "Raphnetesque" type dirating whether Oxford or Cam. Polier Court this morning on a charge given, and the damage they have without character.

The was

Freated

Only in the Old Testament does! was rather blown upon by the time prepared spiem. bridre is the flattered possessor of being in possession of 65 laels of done.

When I the leave wharf

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to be it scarcity. I began to take notice, of his sympathy. Everyone, that when about to

Jowesses Cath Ie 80 was young people were inclined to is, except those whose youth has waterfront. The defendant informed here seem

his Worship that as his mother and though been spent at other of the two intended to sell his young brother he lovely. I can only think of the denigrate prettiness, which

spread, universities, these being distin- had decided to assist her financially Queen of Shoba and Esther and considered slightly vulgar. Money was not widely rushed amongst the crowds who by carrying the opium for another Bathsheba,

But In Greece, oh my! First and even among the rich many did And after the not inake the best of themselves, throng Piccadilly and the Strand

The naman meeting of the League there was Helen. LAND GRANT DELAYS, by the elaborate ostentation with

which they are not wearing roself Nations, Hongkong branch, will be stories told of her vome the in- but people really did discuss the with held to-morrow at 5.15 p.m. in the numberable stories told of a great beauties, and in London the tes. Yet that connexion

St. John's Cathedral Hail, to hear the multitude of women celebrated by lovely Duchess of Leinster, Lady Secretary's report, the Treasurer's the Greeks, who were exquisite Dudley, Mary Anderson, and Mrs.

address, and

Al supreme thue of the proposals put for learning which the university man

fol- profoundly occupied with beauty contemporaries, ward by the Retrenchment Comcefuses to admit in a rosette he report, the President's

will be lowing resolution

proposed. mission which the Government has whispers in his college tie, so that for the election of officers. To connoisseura. Other nations less Langtry simply towered above their

"That this Annual Meeting of the than were the Greeks have left us among them was Lily Langtry. not felt disposed to adopt is the the eurious situation arises that,

and as the time bengue of Nations Society, Hong-written records of-thair express its whole- women. kong, desires ta

to our

People seem to have gone wild creation of a permanent Zoning while he rejoices to

hearted rapport of the objects and nearer

about her, and strong men got up | Committee for the purpose of map-citizens of Londan boldly carrying

But what a tragic pity that we on little green chairs in the Park ping out areas in which Crown the rosette either of his own uni- general policy of the League of mounts up magnificently.

versity or of the other place, if Nations, and in particular of its ef-

What should we think of land is available for development. he perecives a single one of them forts to dent with the present situa-have no record of what they look so as to be able to get a glimpse

ed like I wonder what we should of her.

Mrs. Langtry if we could see her It is be regretted that the sug-

think if we could ace them? gestion has not been more favour-wearing calbeit in innocent ignor. tion in the Far East."

It so happens that there are in now as she was at her loveliest and. House now 'some with the hdvantages of modern ably received, inasmuch as, with ance) a college tie to which he in not entitled, he is moved to in-

THE EARTH'S CORE. Burlington

authentic portraits of renowned frocks? What would they think of Would she The complementary proposals ac-

beauties, and, apart from ques- her at Hollywood? companying it, the idea appears to dignation and distress, and even to writing to the papers about it. be eminently sound. The

should be visited by all enthusi- Such is the situation disclosed in a REPRODUCTION ATTEMPT BY tions of painting, this exhibition overwhelm the beauties of to-day?

Hongkong Telegraph.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.

Re

correspondence

Mee

the

narrow

TRAR,

SCIENTISTS.

own

famous comes the total

The Loveliest Women.

Was

1

And I have just

I think the loveliest women trenchment Commission urged that

in the recent areas be mapped out in advanco,

London press. The difficulty of

A five-year study of the nature at of "the female form divine." ever saw wore Lina Cavalieri and, and, further, that the Government

of earthquakes has been begun by When or where in ancient Greece, after her, Lady Diana Manners.

was there a lovelier body than after her from time to time publish in the course results Trem the fact that

the ordinary man's choice in ties Harvard scientists, with an attempt or anywhere else in the world, and after her, Kay Francis. And

Rheat Gozette particulars of such areas,

to reproduce, artificially,

And yet it seems almost ridicul- Source"?

ous not to mention Lily Elsie, who thus preventing applications for is restricted to quite

was more than pretty. Remember sites which are not available. The dimensions because so many com- pressure comparing with that of that represented in Ingres's "La seen Annabella, the French star.

binatlons of attractive and taste the earth's core.

It is expected that the project Tastes Have Changed. will reveal how the earth is built standing Zoning Committee, it was

Though Mme. de Pompadour this is not a discussion about pretty more them there aro urged, should be under the chair ful stripes and colours have al-

about now than ever. We are not manship of the Director of Public ready been appropriated by schools and minerals created, and how they

or colleges. These places of may be found. The scientists are was not so lovely as Phryne, and girls; of

was not so great

visitors to occupied with the good club player Works, with expert unoffic inf presentatives serving on it. The education might nobly save the using apparatus which has squeezed Bouchar

a form as the Royal Academy can gather whose handicap is about two, but with the champion class, plus four some fair idea of what she was and better. There may be se whole scheme strikes us as being day by following the example of a water into five different solid forms artist as Praxiteles, society in a famous Oxford cal- and pressed air into businesslike in character, and, if put into operation, it sliould, as thefege, which goneorted a tie of such a remarkable collection of colours, enable Commission suggests.

of yellow and purple, and green, speedy grants of sites without the and heliotrope, that No rational present multiplicity of reference, citizen could ever have been temp which inevitably creates delay,

ted to remove it from a shop win- dow. But there is a sung about a tie such as this: no single mem-

re-

It is, indeed, on this point of delay that the Commissioners base

ever persuaded to wear it.

Sub-ROMAN CATHOLICS IN

ENGLAND.

ITALIAN PRESS ON IN- CREASED NUMBERS.

Rome, Mar. 6. Discussing "the continued pro- Kress in England of conversion to Catholicism." the Roman Catholic L'Avenire d'Italia печарарет argues that the major cause of this is the question of the Prayer

their recommendations. The rea-ber of the society in question was son, apparently, does not lie so much in individual officers, but is rather the result of the unwieldy ayatem whereby applications have to be referred to no many departments. What is obviously needed is a simplification of the procedure, which would result not only in saving of time, but would also put the whole matter of land The grants on a better footing. Government, in rejecting the pro- posals, points out that there was 1 Town previously in existence Planning Committee doing work almilar to that suggested for the Zoning Committee, but it conseil to meet nine years ago.. Further Book town-planning schemes are now "The question of the Prayer helng prepared, and the Govern- Book which has go aroused An- arelican clories and laymen Booms ment says that when these

to have made wider than ready they can be scrutinised by a

the road for an overflowing ad- specially appointed Committee, vance of Roman Catholicism in adding that only when large new England." areas are opened up for develop.

Discussing otatistical figures ment would a permanent Com- published in La Liberte the Ital mitteo he required. We cannot fan Journal continues: see that these arguments dispose has favoured this orientation of of the case put forward by the the English spirit towards Rome Commissioners. Apart altogether is undoubtedly the undecided, if not cold and disconcerting, at- from big town-planning ache nus,titude of the Anglican Church and there are constant applications bo-the eternal question of the Indle- ing made for land, and, despite solubility of marriage."

over

**yhat

dense us water.

"Toll the Horberts, darling, what all you said to that frosh elovator boy."

who attain thlu class by sheer physical perfection, but, of course, the outstanding creatures are those who in addition to loveliness of or in- body bring grace, charm, dividual character, and it is pro- bably the absence of these extra qualities that make us call certain- women pretty instead of beautiful. When I think of the women who were marvellous to look at and im possible to forget I must add the and names of sweet Ellen Terry Pavlova and Pastora Imperio. Was it the voice with Miss Terry, the grace of Pavlova, the wit and passion of Pastora?

I suggest that we can each of us Luke a much more intelligent in- terest in this thrilling question than could our fathers have done. For the cinoma has come and shown. us so many more lovely creatures than we should have seen without it; our interest has been aroused, and our taste and standards must now be much higher.

Let those who will take the trouble to go to Burlington House- and see the pictures that I have mentioned, and then, remembering Romney's paintings of lovely Lady Hamilton to add to their personal experience at home and in the cinema, they can proceed to settle this Important question.

Fashion decrees the nature and type of what we, rate highly, and Fashion fe cunatantly changing. Probably in questions of Beauty we are also the slaves of Fashion. But at least wo are leaving to our descendante very complete re- cords of what we deem beautiful. Will they like them, or even bother to keep them?

GERALD KELLY..