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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL

ed is non-existent. success

4.

1933.

registered was not the result of THE CABARET QUESTION

it was the outcome

of a settled policy, and that

polley was "dictated by the British national character. Britain might, had she cared,

11. A Night at a Cabaret

M

The Very Idea

THREE STAR FINAL

By Eddie "De Milla" Kally.

(In this, the second of a series of have Included us in a bright look have held on to the mandate | articles on the subject, "Controvershe cast. our way, and who we So many films have been shown much longer. But that was not list" gives his impressions of a thought was adaptable to our own in Hongkong of the jungle, and her conception of a Mandatory night at a local Cabaret).

peculiar style of dancing, wo were heroes having an all-in wrestling. Power's dutica. She has acted] The door of the Dancing Acade- almost carried off our feet by a match with a lion or an elephant- in the spirit under which the my we visited was not closed, but tremendous rush. We found our for two, that we've decided to write power was entrusted to her by an attendant with a quick look of selves in a crown converging fm 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 is plain for all to seekiness of our wallet, in a casual secured our intended partrier. We People are sick of seeing flat-

and matter-of-fact way mentioned suspect he took a mean advantage chested he he men chastrig 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

Our film will be a Tarzan story this to be admission money until the orchestra struck up, and bad reverse the procedure he hastened to explain that it got a good start. Bewildered and reversed. It will be called "The would purchase a ticket for "re with the breath almost knocked out Chimp" and will be about an ape. The plan proposed for the freshments. We stopped in the of us, we returned to our seats and who is brought up from birth on housing of the working classes process of industriously exploring "assisted" in the dansant from the 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 trife 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-to become a Compradore, or to devolve on the nation; that it is ing of the hospitality of the place, lished distance speed records in write for the Edward Kelly column, far too important to be left to so we complied, our thoughts of our time and were resolved not too he foolishly invests his money Steering Safety.

the speculative enterprise of saving that extra dollar melting be qutdone in agility on this ocean Ice House Street. At the end Rockne Six steering wheels scattered individuals; that it is before certain rhythmic sounds sion. In the next practice, we got of twenty years he dies a rich as yet in our partner and'into the fun.. taipan, worth at least $500,000 are of the three-spoke, steel-expert work which demands the emanating from an

dollars, which he amassed through How long it lasted we could not working hard all his life, and core safety type. Their diameter use of the highest intelligence visible orchestra in the interior.

and access to wide markets; and A second attendant led us into say. The is 17 inches.

orchestra was good, through a rich nunt leaving him. that it can be done most effi- a long and rather narrow hall, to reputed to be one of the best dan- $600.000 in her will a few months ciently by a national organisa- a vacant table at one end, which cing combinations in the Colony, previously. tion closely in touch with local we reached by threading with ex- and what with one thing and an- Anyway, if producers agencies. Construction on a scalettare caution through a maze of other we lost touch of time and it pictures like that, he would end interlocked couples 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 bad 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 a shock to the paper about the gangster films in direct and indirect employ- take clearer stock of our sur 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 end. might advantageously be tried IN DISTINGUISHED out on a national scale in Eng-COMPANY land. The essence of the pro- MOTHERSILL--In

Rightaway we found ourselves in | PARSIMONIOUS Edgar J. Motheraill, who died poan) is large-scale co-ordination April 4, 10:32,

under the control of a body distinguished company. At the

Now in no sense are tre par- working on strictly business next table but one to us we persimonious, nor do we grudge other ceived a well-known local medico. lines but exclusively in the At another, an equally well-known people their means of securing an petrated shorly after we saw Mar- public interest. The British Go- lawyer. Further away was one honest livelihood. The expendi- lene Dietrich in a cabaret scene. vernment has decided that the

the ture of money in ratio to our in-We hate to admit that the aim in-

See and drive the New Rockne Six to-day! THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

#tebbe Bost

Happy Valle

IN MEMORIAM.

The

..memory

of

WE ARE NOT

J

ware.

To give you a few examples. We "remember once seeing a film of.a crook stowing away on an Atlantic liner, and belitve it or not, next day we crossed the harbour on the Star Ferry without paying our fare. Another horrible crime was par-

Hongkong Telegraph. time has now come to abolinin whose care-free air but lied on come on that night struck us as out fuenced us, but immediately after

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.

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MAD MELODY.

Twas midnight on the opon sta

'Twas midnight on the shors: The village clock struck ten to nixe

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

'Twas twenty-five to four.

The nightingale was neighing His love-song to the moon; The farmer in kit pig-sty

dancing the subsidy, which has enabled closer inspection turned out to be of reasonable proportion. Of course we saw the picture we went to one.

of those. terrible much building to be done in in the eclect group popularly we were not bound to spend: so academies.

We hate to think what we will Great Britain in recent years. termed "captains of industry." In much. but budgetary considera- It has been generally admitted the narrow circle in which we tions particularly where it included do when we see the bath-tab scene

move in Hongkong, daily contact but limited amount under in-in "Sign of the Cross". that the effect of public grants is not only to be looked for but also come are of account in the cir- THE BRITISH IDEA

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, say 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 a wooden and CX- Power under the League of Na-ganizations, and in one case preserved tions is likely in the near future on 2 very large scale by pressionless countenance positive. between the practices, and adding ly discouraging all attempts at ft to the 3 minutes duration of the industrial to be the subject of considerable an.

housing or.

recognition or familiarity. We dances, our arithmetic exercises for controversy. There have, from ganization which began its confessed to a profound astonish that evening works out as 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 dances. ing that these territories are shire. Under its auspices whole weary us, with other and more regarded as the spoils of war, towns and villages were built. pleasant diversion in view, and that Japan has no intention Clever architects were employ.

Along the length of the room, of surrendering them.. It is ed. Building schemes were de- on the other side against the wall, pertinent, therefore, to considervised on the largest scale. Good were a row of chairs. On the for a moment Britain's concep-materials were advantageously chairs were a row of Chinese tion of a Mandatory Power's bought direct from the pro- girls dressed in gaudy silks sport months!

On rush nights, the cabarets duties, which was well illustrat- ducers. Staffs were kept in ing the new modern trend in

fashions-long-necked | veritably carry on to the last

Now the Test series is over, it ed in the case of Irak. As a re-regular employment. It

was Chinese . 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 formellas yet undefined, may not come part played in our brave lade

"dancing instructresses" giving before 4 a.m

The cost of tuition victory by Concepcion Perez, the was freed from the Turks, re- lower price than anyone before tuition" at a "dollar for, three for the dance-crazed habitue can slim and lovely Argentine who was such a familiar figure on every cognised as an independent State, had deemed possible. The ex-practices". The fact was gently then become startling!

Test playing pitch. and allotted to Britain under the perience thus gained has led to brought to our notice by an

In the course of the evening, we

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At $1 for 3 practices, our solution is $4 for one hour, $16 for the whole soiree of 4 hours. The mind reels at the thought of unlimited possibilities by a fur- ther multiplication of nights and

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

Soon after seven-thirty "twas

At twenty-five to eight I met a drunken paperhanger

Sitting on a gate.

I said, "It looks like thunder," and He sadly answered “Quate}"

DONA CONCEPCION.

It was Dana Concepción'a devour-

mandates system. What has the idea of setting up an or official; and in due course with the

requisite rubbed shoulders with the doctoring love for Mr. Bradman that got

co-ordinating

Astronomy 'in an Umbrella

of the

the production a book of "practice

or

tickets" Was forthcoming. It looked as if an, enjoyable evening was ahead of us.

A TREMENDOUS RUSH

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

since followed provides an out-ganization standing example of the un-building efforts of the whole amount, 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 umbrella is no and a year later the Com-

proclaimed Emir longer to be despised. No mat- missioner 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 ar- Mr. Gaylord Johnson in a popu ranged to regulate the relations lar science monthly which of Britain and Irak for the dura brings the higher astronomy tion of the mandate, and within the reach of everybody.

telescope the No expensive 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: training in self-government "That constellation, my dear, which probably no other nation you will be happy to learn, is could have given. Under the Cassiopeia." It sounds very old Turkish administration, fascinating.. Just a few chalk inside of any old practically no roads were safe, marks and no foreign traveller or na umbrella 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 rehellious 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 pocket a member of the League of Na-hiding place with

aspyglass and got a medal from tions. This is assuredly 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 umbrella may spring another a wondering ing imperialism with which Copernicus upon Britain is 'so often falsely charg-world.

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and he thawed to the extent of him out for a duck more than once. "Mi almal" aha would murmur nodding, a greeting while wrest- what we were led to believe were wicket. "Mi corazon!" ling through the intricacies of languorously, sauntering across the 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 fire of her, silence.

southern blood.

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

grown up."

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

"It isn't RIGHT," he said.

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YES, GIRLS,

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 is 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 Hooghhaugh, 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 suit in reseda and scarlet.

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

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

O Tempera, o Morria-Oxford.

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4. Who never did what again when he heard of the wreck of the what?