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1933.
GREEN TROUSERS AND
RAKISH HATS
By MARGARET LANE
if Europe is again plunged into chaos, Britain will suffer just as other nations will. It is in or- der to stave off this threat that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has gone on his "Peace Club" campaign. At all costs, a fresh crisis must be prevented. To allow matters to drift will inevitably mean
So men are being given another colours, some of the dressing gowns disaster. If France and Ger- many will but fall into line, in chance! Really, they hardly de-are dotted all ever with designs the spirit animating the Anglo-serve it. Italian conversations, fears may
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of aeroplanes, motor-cars, billiards They have gone on for so long cues, playing cards, and dice-all.
most reassuringly manly,
One silk gown, of a rich plum be finally dispelled. The alter-dressing in the same drab, careless, that it
colour, appears to be designed for native is too gravely disturbing none too fastidious way
would serve them right if they were convivial occasions, being sprinkled to contemplate.
condemned to modern dress for all over with a pattern of wine
Legends-Exploded but Significant
Thongkong Telegraph poor boy, was the so
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1933.
RESTLESS EUROPE ·
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The Very Idea!
PETE PLAYS POKER
By Edward "Four Flesh" Kelly,
Our LARGE, ADMIRING- and . INTELLIGENT public will have now realised that to us, Pete is a friend of whom we can be proud. And when we say is, we don't mean may- be, but was.
Together with Pete wo have faced the first of every month
glasses. The next little model is But ro. The manufacturers of covered with intertwined greca bravely, as only the Kellys can face situations made delicate by men's clothing out of the good-dragons.
A
VIEWS HONGKONG
SUN, FUN, AND NO INCOME TAX
BY G. WARD PRICE
Cross Gibraltar with Naples and
sampans [native
when, in a misguided moment of bon hommie, we suggested that Pete should join our Poker school (Edward Kelly rules to be strictly observed),
that
ness of their hearts, opened Next year, it is to be hoped, there seekers after dough in lieu of Men's Wear Exhibition recently to will be another exhibition of men's goods supplied. We have, in fact, coax man out of his sartorial wear, and a slightly more daring faced innumerable dangers (sec. It is a mistake to suppose that lethargy, and show him just what one than this.. Perhaps stocks will previous references to snakes, the twentieth century merely a proud peacock he can become. be restored to faveur, and coloured shroffs, headaches (female gen destroys legends. It also starts
A hundred years ago you could waistcoats, and pleasing touches of der) and editors (neuter gender), them, writes a Christian Science tell when a young man was in lovene linen" about shirts; and per- and except for a loss of dignity, Monitor commentator. Some by the brilliance of bis waistcoats. (haps men's dress will gradually dollars and cents, "face" and tem- times it does both at once. A To look at young men now, you flatter the masculine figure rather per, we have come through them new talkie concerned with the might with reason imagine they than conceal it, and look a little unscathed.
We say here and now that we romantic, instead of merely useful.
valued: Fete's friendship and the burning of Rome does not let its spent all their time at funerals,
The Men's Wear. Exhibition is an
fact that we could use his own Nero fiddle during the conflagra-
name on our chita. That is, we tion. Thus is a celebrated leheroic effort to restore the days All models of the new Rockne gend exploded. On the other when man took a little pride in the A FAMOUS WRITER valued it until Saturday night, colour and freshness of his clothes.: Six line are equipped with hand, the film Nero plays an in-
DASHING, CURLY BRIMS. improved free wheeling in all strument somewhat resembling
They offer hira flannels of a do forward speeds, plus synchroa lyre. Thus is a new legend shift and silent, second.
invented to replace the old one. licate shade of pale Lovat" green, See and drive the New Rockne for it is rather more than doubt-shirts of a vernal greenish-grey,
Pete gave us warning of im Six to-day!TM
ful whether Nero indulged his ke the underside of a leaf, hata with a dashing curl to the brim,
pending trouble when he sald he musical inclinations at all on which lend their own rakish level on
preferred to play et the But the head, and ties of every gay
Y.M.C.A. because the Associa... THE HONGKONG HOTEL that renowned occasion.
professors are not as kind-shade known to the wiles of manu-
tion's rules wouldn't permit GARAGE.
bearted as film producers. The facturers
him to lose any money. learned lecturer who a few days The average man is a little in-you get a fair idea of Hongkong,
We asked him if he thought the ago exploded the famous story clined to be a slut about his clothes. Britain's Colonial outpost in this Far of Dick Whittington and his cat He clings to dark colours, not be-East where the next great chapter of Y.M.C.A., rules stood an earthir and their marvellous attainment cause they suit him, but-dark the world's history will manifestly be against the Kelly rules. You
might just as well suggest of fame and fortune by proving the dirt. His dry-cleaning bills Britain, as we steamed in the dawn Bradman. Pete reluctantly, we
secret-because they don't show written.
From the bridge of the Empress of Larwood couldn't bowl out to an audience of children that compare unfavourably with through the narrow neck of water Whittington, far from being a wife's.
known as the Lycmoon Pass, one saw thought, saw the supreme logic of of one of He clings to the same old hat for the great harbour ahead swarming this simile.
Apart from the fact that Pete London's richest burgesses, fail-years, as if there were some kind of with little sailing janks.
Cautiously the Empress of Britain would persist in opening a Jack ed to suggest any alternative le- loyalty involved, and at the idea
that reached her moorings in mid-channel pot on a pair of deuces, that he gend. Perhaps after all, however, of anything bright and gay
between Hongkong leland and the threw in a royal routine in din- the matter is not very serious. might be a little more trouble to Kowloon Peninsula, and was immonds because "they are my un-
himself he shies like a startled mediately The story of Dick Whittington, fawn. It is a pity!
by swarms of though not such as to satisfy In the exhibition are a few relics women and tive boats) 6lled with lucky Bult" and dealt six cards equipped for every time he had a bad hand, the George Washington of the of better times, when men were maritime mendicancy with long-Pete showed himself not only The intervention of the Bri- cherry tree now considered a not afraid to set off a fine wrist handled shrimp-nets which they possessing a remarkable working the with a linen frill, and when shirts thrust clamorously at everyone ap-knowledge of the rudiments of the tish Prime Minister in the fiction-is as accurate as
About 75,000 Hongkong's sport, pastime and/or game, but a Disarmament Conference, taken story of Hamlet, and will perhaps really added to a man's attractions pearing at the gangway. in conjunction with the alacrity
live as long. Many pantomimes, by a crisp ruffle in the bosom of the
1,000,000-spcad proaching in distant years to come, will coat. There are old beaver hats, population--which is rapidly ap keen apprecition of the Australian
their language in its aboriginal state. with which he accepted the in- almost certainly continue to tall and curly brimmed, in pale. entire lives in these craft, sheltered vitation to meet Signor Mus-give it place upon the stage. dandyish colours; there are the only by an awning of straw-matting.
little curly, shallow. "derbies" that
HONGKONG AMUSED. solini in Rome, is invested with And even for sober historians went with Guards' moustaches and
We found the Hongkong people more than ordinary significance the legend has its uses. If not mash-notes; there is even a "brown from the fact that the atmos-evidence about the people con- Derby-proving that Al Smith's amused by the extraordinary sug
gestion made in a London newspaper that if the Japanese do not get their phere in Europe is at the moment cerning whom they are told. is not the only one in existence.
legends are at least evidence con-
way in Manchuria they will "blow highly charged. It has, indeed, cerning the people by whom
Beside these gnieties the new up" Hongkong. The British popula
here beileves it been stated that the outlook has they are believed. Were noth-Camber hat" evolved after six-place in the For to be the enfest been used to talking people out of
East. not been so grave since 1918, and ing else, for example, known months exhausting research by the The fact
their game, but we reminded him that Europe is fast degenerating about mon doyle, hang into another crisis. A variety save that they invented this tion looks mild. It is very much which of causes is at the bottom of the legend of a poor young man who, like all the hats one sees in their Colony
in the Chinese hinterland. through his own merit, rose to way to work every day, except that the mainland whenever trouble starts piqued? trouble, but they may be sum-high fame and fortune, it would it is cleaner.
True, the brim has a more lordly med up by stating that there is reveal them to be at heart a
evening, which prompted mutual all-round suspicion and people democratic enough to re-curl, and that is a step in the right they under the British fing thated that he hadn't had a hand all
direction. True, it is a little longer in Hongkong.
George, who is always trying to distrust. This, coupled with the cognize courage and persever- from the front to back, and will only. It is Hongkong's ambition to be usurp our position as the wag of intense national feeling which ance in individuals as warrant-tolerate being at musical-come the Far Eastern terminus of a the party, to exclaim that it wea
comedy angle. The hatters' research Channel, so that through trains may
railway starting at the English a good piece of handiwork. has been developing latterly, is ing fame and achievement.
students realise they must go run here. from Calais. It would only Pete finally broke up sufficient to cause the sparks of
slowly with the modern màn, He be necessary to join up the present friendship by suggesting that we hostility to be fanned into flame To Make a Market for must be coaxed gradually into look line to Canton, and so link up with play Manila Poker. Manila Po-
ing presentable. on sufficient pretext being forth-
the Trans-Siberian, and then Heng-ker, he explained, was the game in The first step towards making kong might, it hopes, become a For which the first card dealt was coming. The recent invasion of
man colour-conscious is in, the
winter resort for rich Earop common to all. hands. We felt Eastern
aying excellent hotels and all Kehl by Nazi storm-troops, and
The US. liquor trade is fast dressing-gown department. Here eans, having exe
emanated sun probably the friction which arose between stepping out from behind the the exhibition shows us a rich and the romance of China without its prompted to suggest that it had
"Dark riak, fine yachting, plenty of Poland and Danzig over the screen which more conscientious sinister garment called-
shine, no frost and no income taxi Soviet. Orchid,"
To these advantages are at present Discouraged, Pete put forward despatch of Polish troops to the sections of the wet cause have
DOTTED WITH AIRCRAFT.
added great cheapness, for the ex-the proposition that the block incidents provided for it. Such camouflages Westerplatte,. are
change value of the Hongkong dollar, gevens and red fours should be "reduc- symptomatic of the state of un- as "true temperance,"
Lest our heroes should feel ner has fallen with that of silver, wild. We said if that's the case, rest which prevails. Germany, tion of crime" and "saving yous about wearing such lovely which it is linked. demanding a fundamental revi-youth" look pretty thin in the sion of the Versailles Treaty, light of the liquor trade's labours under the belief that a varnished attitude toward the tendency exists to form a united possibilities of its future märket. anti-German front in Europe, Now it drops any pretension of whilst France still insists on the a desire to decrease the con- need for "security" and views (sumption of beer. An indica- with mixed feelings any plan for tion of its intentions is a large serious revision of the war-time dsplay advertsement, appearing settlement. It is obvious, how- in the Brewing Industry, insert- ever, as Signor Mussolini points ed by an advertising agency, and out, that no real progress can be appealing to the brewers to take made in Europe until the mutual advantage of "half the expected distrust between France and market for beer" which they Germany is removed and ex-say "does not exist to-day." this advertise- enemy countries are raised from "Obviously,"
Liquor
un-
their present state of inferiority. Iment says, "there must be a The British plans for sweeping campaign of education," and the disarmament cannot, of course, one field in which this can be have any immediate effect on the conducted is, fortunately, the situation, except insofar as their most important of all for imme- approval in principle would in-diate and future business-the dicate a. pacific spirit on the colleges. They propose to satisfyi part of those principally con-not only the small existing de- cerned. The efforts to strength-mand but to encourage a new and en the Paris Pact have a value, increased demand. Hardly an but here also there can be no effective way to decrease drink- immediate reaction.. Much more ling and further "true temper- may be expected from the pro-jance." Of equal importance, per- ject advanced by Signor Mus-haps, is the fact that in develop- solini in favour of a Four-Power ing this new market there will be understanding, consultative in available the highly potent character, under which, at any facilities of modern advertising. time major issues became acute If such "education". is to be In Europe, Britain, France, Ger- thwarted, either the legalization many and Italy would confer, of beer must be blocked or at There may be those who will least advertising restrictions be doubt the expediency of Britain provided so that temperance can becoming entangled in any Con- be taught with some degree of tinental understanding, but the effectiveness, says a commenta- point to be kept in mind is that tor.
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Pete said he worked on the belief that although the cards always speak, his voice carried further. In proof of this a neighbour three blocks away- rushed in to enquire where the fight was.
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Pete said that he had always
opinion is the arm by gape Canan the Penke sat tanlaying bridge on
pour into this Crown just then.
its leased territories on Need we say that Pete was
After losing $20 Pete announc. Sa cager are the Chinese to invest
Own 80 per cent, of the property the
"Now, don't go smearing candy all over them Rembrandts,"
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from
our
the
are we wild. Peter wild away the next half hour by telling us about Peruvian Poker, the chief advantage of which being that the Kings were no better than the Jacks so far as the Queens were concerned.
This appealed to us, and past experience, made us willing to taise the ante a couple of times o:i the accuracy of it. At 4.30 a.m. Pete had lost his breath, hie money and his latest Australian definitions pertaining to colloquial- Poker.
the
The game, he said, winding up- conversazione In typicalTM style, is not worth the candle. And truth to tell, we had lost. those as well.
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CASH UP NO TICKI Another millionaire and ourself, were discussing the American Lurline visitors at present giddily good-willing themselves around Hongkong. #
Mention was made of the fact that most of our fellow million- aires were stoney-broke because their good American drafts werd looked on with suspicion by the local money changers, bankers, compradores, shroffs and other enemies of the public.
Pete Watkins said that, speak- ing collectively, he didn't see why there visiting millionaires should make such a fuss about not being able to change a thousand dollar bank draft. He knows Eddie Kelly and dozens and dozens of other -local celebrities who couldn't got a ten buck draf; cashed,
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