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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.

ROUZZE

Refinements

Feature

Rockne

Six

Models

THE CABARET QUESTION

II. A Night at a Cabaret

The Very Idea!

THREE STAR FINAL

By Eddie "De Mills* Kolly.

ed is non-existent. The success registered was not the result of good luck it was the outcome of a settled" policy, and that policy WAS dictated by the British national character. Britain might, had she cared, (In this, the second of a series of have included us in a bright look have held on to the mandate article on the subject, "Controver she cast our way, and who are So many Alms have been shown: much longer. But that was notsialist giver his impressions of thought was adaptable to our own in Hongkong of the jungls, and peculiar style of dancing, we were harves having an all-in wrestling her conception of a Mandatory night at a local Cabaret),"age Power's duties. She has acted The door of the Dancing Acade almost carried off our feet by a match with a llon or an elephant in the spirit under which the my we visited was not closed, but tremendous rush. We found our- or two, that we've decided to write power was entrusted to her by an attendant with a quick look of selves in a crowd converging from a scenario about it ourselves.

We think the producers have got. the League of Nations. The appraisal which appeared to take the various tables, and in that rush

in everything including the bul- one who had got in ahead of us hold of the wrong end of the stick. example la plain for all to seekiness of our wallet, in a casual secured our intended partner. We People are sick of seeing "flat

and matter-of-fact way mentioned suspect he took a mean advantage chested he-be men chasing monkeys A National Housing that it would be a dollar. We took by being already on his legs before and other wild-jungle fowl. Let's

Scheme

this "to be admission money until the orchestra struck up, and had reverse the procedure. he hastened to explain that it got a good start. Bewildered and Our film will be a Tarzan story would purchase a ticket for "re-with the breath almost knocked out reversed. It will be called "The The plan proposed for the freshments." We stopped in the of us, we returned to our seats and Chimp" and will be about an ape, housing of the working classes process of industriously exploring assisted" in the dansant from the who is brought up from birth on the Peak, and except for the fact in Great Britain rests on the our inner pockets, and pointed out distant position of a spectator.

that he is a trifle whiskery, he that we had just had dinner and in concept that the housing of the other ways were well nourished. -But the first experience had put grows up just like a human being. He hasn't got enough intelligence people is a duty which should Firmly he insisted on our partakus on our mettle. We had estab Duble-Drop "X" Frame

devolve on the nation; that it is ing of the hospitality of the place, lished distance speed records in to become & Compradors, or to Steering Safety.

far too important to be left to so we complied, our thoughts of our time and were resolved not to write for the Edward Kelly column, so he foolishly invests his money the speculative enterprise of saving that extra dollar melting be outdone in agility on this occain Ice House Street. At the end Rockne Six steering wheels scattered individuals; that it is before certain rhythmic aounda sion. In the next practice, we got of twenty years he dies a rich

as yet in our partner and into the fun. are of the three-spoke, steel-expert work which demands the emanating from an

taipan, worth at least $500,000 core safety type. Their diameter use of the highest intelligence visible orchestra in the interior.

How long it lasted we could not dollars, which he amassed through is 17 inches.

and access to wide markets; and A second attendant led as into any. The orchestra was good, working hard all his life, and that it can be done most effi-a long and rather narrow hall, to reputed to be one of the best dan-through a rich aunt leaving him See and drive the New Rockne ciently by a national organisa- a vacant table at one end, which cing combinations in the Colony $600,000 in her will a few months

tion closdy in touch with locale reached by threading with ex- and what with one thing and an- previously.

Anyway, if producers gave us THE HONGKONG HOTEL agencies. Construction on a scale interlocked couples sheilating to other we lost touch of time and it pictures like that, it would, end oscillating to became of no account. One clear all this talk about the film being a commensurate with national a tango waltz, and always in impression was carried away, this had influence on people. Too long needs would receive a fresh in- danger of collision. Presently being that each practice limited to have we famous producers stood by petus, and money cheaply bor- the lights went up at the end of three minutes, appeared to be all while people have lambasted us in rowed would be profitably spent the dance and we were able to too short. It came as shock to the paper about the gangster films in direct and indirect employ- take clearer stock of our aur discover that the book of tickets causing the crime wave, and the ment. The plan is one which roundings.

we had purchased had come to an sex films causing the heat wave. might advantageously be tried IN DISTINGUISHED

end. out on a national scale in Eng-COMPANY land. The essence of the pro-

Rightaway we found ourselves in PARSIMONIOUS who died posal is large-scale co-ordination

under the control of a body distinguished company. At the

Now in next table.but one to us we per- working on strictly business ceived a well-known local medico. ¡ simonious, nor do we grudge other lines but exclusively in the At another, an equally well-known people their means of securing an petrated shortly after we saw Mar- public interest. The British Go-lawyer. Farther away was one honest livelihood. The expendi- lene Dietrich in a cabaret scene. vernment has decided that the whose care-free air belied the ture of money in ratio to our in- We hate to admit that the film i time has how come to abolish economic depression but who on a come on that night struck us as out Auenced us, but immediately after the subsidy, which has enabled closer inspection turned out to be of reasonable proportion. Of course we saw the picture we went to one dancing much building to be done in in the select group popularly we were not bound to spend so of those; terrible

Six.. to-day!

GARAGE.

Stabbe Bond

ני

Happy Yaling

IN MEMORIAM..

|MOTHERSILL-In memory

Edgar J. Mothersill, April 4, 1932.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.

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WE ARE NOT

To give you a few examples. We Femember once seeing a flm of a crook stowing away on an Atlantic liner, and believe it or not, next day we crossed the harbour on the no sense are, kve par-Star Ferry without paying our fare.:

Another horrible crime was per

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MAD MELODY,

"Tucus midnight on the open 260,

Twas midnight on the shore: The village dock struck ten to minė

At Marsten-in-the-Moor; But down in Ashby-de-la-Zouche

'Twas twenty-five to four,

Great Britain in recent years. termed "captains of industry." In much, but budgetary considera academica.

We hate to think what we will It has been generally admitted the narrow circle in which we tions particularly where it included

move in Hongkong, daily contact but a limited amount, under in- do when we see the bath-tub scene THE BRITISH IDEA

that the effect of public grants is not only to be looked for but also come are of account in the cfr.in "Sign of the Cros has been to keep up the price to be welcomed as a means for the cumstance, and so we proceeded to OF A MANDATE · of construction and to discourage expansion of one's natural and calculate how much an evening of competitive private building, genial self. Yet these and other cabaret enjoyment, any for the Japan's attitude over the especially in the case of smaller people whom we detected and re-whole four hours up till closing question of the Pacific islands dwellings. Experiments have cognized in the new environment time, can strain the purse.. which she holds as Mandatory been made by several or appeared not to know us. They Allowing for a minute's interval Power under the League of Na-ganizations, and in one case preserved a wooden and tions is likely in the near future on a very large scale byly discouraging all attempts at it to the 3 minutes duration of the pressionless countenance positive-between the practices, and adding to be the subject of considerable an industrial housing or.

or familiarity, We dancea, our arithmetic exercises for recognition controversy. There have, from ganization which began its confessed to a profound astonish-that evening works out on follows: time to time, emanated from operations in the mining areas ment, being not a little shocked, 60 mins, to the hour divided by Tokyo numerous reports suggest of Yorkshire and Nottingham- but soon ceased to let the thought| 4 gives 12 dancez. ・・・ ing that these territories are shire. Under its auspices whole weary us, with other and more At $1 for 3 practices, our regarded as the spoils of war, towns and villages were built. pleasant diveraton in view.

solution is $4 for one hour, and that Japan has no intention Clever architects were employ- Along the length of"the room, $16 for the whole soiree of 4 hours. of surrendering them. It is ed. Building schemes were de on the other side against the wall, The mind reels at the thought of pertinent, therefore, to consider vised on the largest scale. Good were row of chairs. On the unlimited possibilities by a fur- for a moment Britain's concep- materials were advantageously chairs were a row of Chinese ther multiplication of nights and tion of a Mandatory Power's bought direct from the pro- girls dressed in gaudy silks sport months!

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The nightingale was neighing His love-song to the moon; The farmor in his pig-sty

Was reading "Lorna Ďaono;" A curious thing to do upon The thirty-first of June.

Soon after seven-thirly Itwas

At fiventyfive to eight

I met a drunken paperkanger .

Sitting on a gate,

I said, "It Looks like thunder," and

Ho sadly answered "Quats!

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DONA CONCEPCION.

Now the Test series is over, it

duties, which was well illustrat- ducers. Staffs were kept in ing the new modern trend in On rush nights, the cabarets ed in the case of Irak. As a re-regular employment. It was Chinese fashions-long-necked veritably carry on to the last sult of the Great War, Irak found that good and attractive dresses with slit skirts according customer and the closing hour, is possible to reveal the romantic (then known as Mesopotamia) houses could be erected at a far well with their slender forms-allas yet undefined, may not come part played in our brava lads was freed from the Turks, re- lower price than anyone before "tuition" at a "dollar for three for the dance-crazed habitue

"dancing instructresses" giving before 4 a.m. The cost of tuition victory by Concepcion Perez, the can slim and lovely Argentine who was cognised as an independent State, had deemed possible. The ex-practices". The fact was gently then become startling!

euch a familiar figure on every and allotted to Britain under the perience thus gained has led to brought to our notice by an

Test playing pitch. mandates system. What has the idea of setting up an or- oficial, and in due course with the rubbed shoulders with the doctor In the course of the evening, we since followed provides an out-ganization co-ordinating the production of. the requisite standing example of the un- building efforts of the whole amount, A book of "practice and he thawed to the extent of

tickets" w38 forthcoming. It looked as if an enjoyable evening was ahead of us. Astronomy in an Umbrella

selfish and entirely constructive country. character of British imperialism. The war destroyed a Govern- ment which had existed for three hundred years, but in 1920 a Council of State was formed,

The ancient unibrella is no and a year later the Com- missioner proclaimed Emir longer to be despised. No mat- Faisal as King of Irak, as the re-ter how old, it may have an sult of a plebiscite in which 96 honourable career. The reason per cent, of the people voted in is to be found in an article by his favour. A treaty was arMr. Gaylord Johnson in a popu

monthly which ranged to regulate the relations lar science

or

of Britain and Irak for the dura- brings the higher astronomy tion of the mandate,. and within the reach of everybody.

the No. expensive telescope Britain began to train native officials. Even nine years magnifying lens is required. ago it could be said that there All that is needed is an old um- was not a British official in the brella and a bit of white chalk. country who issued an order; the With such simple equipment King and his Council were re-and a few walks abroad on star- sponsible for the government of lit nights the budding astrono- the country, and their decisions mer may decorate the sentimen- were carried out by native offi- tal moonlight dialogue with such cials. The upshot has been a casual and erudite remarks as: self-government "That constellation, my dear, training in

which probably no other nation you will be happy to learn, is It sounds very could have given. Under the Cassiopele."

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old Turkish administration, fascinating. Just a few chalk

of any

old practically no roads were safe, marks inside and no foreign traveller or na umbrells to place the sixteen tive of distinction moved with-most important stars. A little out an escort. Even the Tigris practice as it is rotated counter- route was subject to constant clockwise to correspond with the interruption from rebellious rotation of the earth and soon! tribes. All this has been chang- the umbrella is a picture of the ed, and an era of safety usher-sky. And there is always the ed in. British tact, forebear possibility of discovering ance and self-denial have been planet the great observatories evidenced on all hands, and now have missed. It has been done. Britain has renounced the man- An English clergyman routed date and Irak been admitted a new star out of its age-long a member of the League of Na- hiding place with a pocket tions. This is assuredly aspyglass and got a medal from triumph for the British way of the Royal Astronomical Society. doing things. Indeed, the case With embryo, astronomy break. of Irak, is proof, if any were ing out everywhere, the family needed, that the selfish, grasp umbrells may spring another a wondering ing imperialism with which Copernicus upon Britain is so often falsely charg-world.

A TREMENDOUS RUSH

But at the first attempt to reach an "instructress" who appeared to

of

ing love for Mr. Bradman that got It was Dona Concepcion's devour- him out for a duck more than once. "Mi alma!" she would murmur nodding a greeting while wreat- ling through the intricacies

languorously, sauntering across the what we were led to believe were wicket. "Mi corazon!" the "blues". Another day, en- On one occasion she flung two countering him in the street, he passionate white arms round Mr. was tolerably sociable, but over Bradman's neck just as the ball the doings of that night at the was delivered by Larwood. "I love cabaret he preserved complete you, I love you, I love you," she breathed with all the fra of her silence.

southern blood.

"I often wonder if we aren't all just little infants who have

'grown up.”

The wicket then fell with a crash. Mr. Bradman, highly incensed, displayed what amounted to anima- tion at this contretemps,

“It isn't RIGHT," he said.

YES, GIRLS.

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Frocks this year have all got names, like battleships. That's rather a facer, isn't it, for those who say there's no progress?

Last Over the Sticks in a delight- ful ensemble in tan leather. "It can be worn at race meetings; or, for that matter, anywhere else.

A rose-pink plush creation is Does Your Mother Know You're Out! This is not everybody's frock. Old Heoghhaugh, for instance, would look silly in it."

More delicate in its suggestion is Just a Touch of Chypre Behind the Ears. This is a filmy pyjama 'sult. in reseda and scarlet.

And what about The Last Bus to Bayswater? Scoloped organdie,

and then some. I'm getting one on tick, for my fiancee.

O Tempera, o Morria-Oxford,

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