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GRAND RECITALS

of the Celebrated Spanish Artist ASUNCION GRANADOS World-renowned Dancer and Spanish Guitarrist from the biggest theatres and concert halls of Europe, China and Japan,

Accompanied at the Piano by the famous Spanish planist.

JOSE Ma. GIL SERRANO.

BIG-VARIED PROGRAMMES—BIG Works of famous authors, ALBENIZ, TARREGA, FALLA, FONTY DE ANTA, GRANADOS, MONREAL, ROMERO, MALATS, NIN, VIVES, SORS, GUERRERO, CANO, TURINA, SERRANO, CHAPI, MORENO TORROBA and others.

at the

PENINSULA HOTEL, Rose Room

on

FRIDAY, 28th July, 1933 at 9 p.m. and the

HONGKONG HOTEL, Roof Gardon

оп

MONDAY, 31st July, 1933 at 9. p.m.

PRICES:

(Front Seats $4.40

(Back Scate $3.30 (Including Tax).

BOOKING AT THE PENINSULA HOTEL..

Exclusive Manager,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.^ WEDNESDAY,

THE WORLD

OF WOMEN

35

"Abolish

All Honeymoons!”

$30

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Across

1 Peter told (anag).

Fully dressed in an old fashion.

0 Highest happiness.

10 Many an exterior of this sort

hides a kind heart.

11 Suggest

the country

fencing and shamrock,

12 More wet still.

13 Oh yeah!

and

7 Untwist, twist, untwiat (and

bear the composer no mallco).

8 Putting off here is right.

14 Becomes entitled to.

36 Companions...

10 ls appended to grants (two

words).

17 This shows that the feminino is

greater than the masculino.

18 South Coast cereal,

16 Two words which Dick Whitting-21

18

ton of the legend might have

spoken when asked to what he ascribed his good fortune.

back.

19 Spoil a man.

26 Although it's a party, It's given

half in angor.

22 And now you see the result.

Employ with a sailor for vita- peration.

24

26 Pertaining to a leading citizen. 27 To make such gift the poor

girl is In extremities.

30 Showing which

31 To be this would be the longed for result of much application.

The honeymoon is anything but a heavenly prelude to long marital bliss as Mary Borden (centre)-ex-32 Programme items. amines it in her new book, "The Technique of Marriage." Her verdict draws lusty huzzahs from Vicki Baum (left), Viennese author, and Howard Chandler Christy (right) famous illustrator and protrait painter.

"Wrong Start," Says London Novelist; "Too Costly," Adds Author of "Grand Hotel"

This is the first of two articles on the question: "Should the Honeymoon be Abolished?" Here are the views of those who answer "Yes." The next article will carry the views of the honeymoon's de- fenders.

woman.

charming and interesting people they meet along the way.

"Right now, in the middle of the depression, don't forget the econo- mie side of it. A honeymoon is a luxury of the past. There are many better ways young couples can spend their money?"

If women feel this way about By, Julia Blanshard ¡and mutual interests, is painful honeymoons, how about the men? romantle? Are Abolish all honeymoons and and dificulta disappointing ex-Are they more

hove young couples vill

a real perience both to the man and the they the sentimentalists behind this universal convention called chance at happy marriage!

the honeymoon? Mary Borden, distinguished London novelist, makes shocking statement, right in the middle of the year's best honor- moon period.

"It is an utterly useless, abnor- that mal and unfair test of their love

for each other."

Not at all, answers Howard Chandler Christy. It's just a good old custom that everybody makes too much fuss over and Vicki Baum, Viennese author of nobody has the courage to buck! "Grand Hotel," supports Mias "Newlyweds who honeymoon "Marriages that might have

Borden's view with astonishing get a wrong start toward the begun and continued happily get

daily grind of house-keeping, go- vigour.

ing to work, arranging their time off-to-the wrong start because of the honeymoon.". Miss Borden "I am against honeymoons-so they can have leisure":"for""

friends, entertainment, reading asserts, along with a lot of other emphatically," Miss Baum states and going about together. startling and sensible bite of ad-"I have been happily married for vice in her new book, "The Techni- 17

"They establish too high a pitch slight at suspicion of a honey.in their clothes, their spare time que of Marriage."

moon. And I firmly think my spend. When they come home Itogether, the money they will to "Few women will admit, even marriage would probably not have they have a distinct let-down. to themselves that their honey turned out so well if my husband moon was a atrain, t bore, n and I had spent the first fortnight nerve-racking period of adjust or month of it, in hotels, sleepers ment or a miserable failure that!

and sight-seeing buses. has estranged them tomporarily and made their married life un- necessarily difficult," the novelist

Anye.

·

and years

never had the

•

hus-

develop the feeling that they are It is no wonder that many brides

being. "slighted," that their bands don't really love them. "To travel together is the hardest test of any human rela-They started out wrong--when he was entirely carefree and -could tionship. I am sure that many devote his every thought and mo young people who have quarrels,ment to his bride., arguments and misunderstandings in Havana, In Bermuda or Atlantic City would be perfectly happy and peaceful in their own new home

*

A

"The convention of bliss in

"The abnormal leisure life they connection with the honeymoon ia

have at first, on the honeymoon, reminds me of athletes who deve 80 strong that vanity forbids

lop too quickly. They key them- people to admit that it was any

selves to such a pitch that they thing less than the most heavenly 'As I understand it, the idea of can't keep up their records. experience of their lives. They a honeymoon is to take a young | Married people, like athletes, often succeed in seeing it that way couple out of their usual environ-should start normally, in

ment into one of seclusion, but normal atmosphere, with their in retrospect!

where can a young couple find work, their friends, their play. "But I believe that this holiday, more privacy than within their By sixty they should be ready for whose only, reason for existence la OWN four, walls? It is no secret honeymoons." pleasure, la very often not pleasant that honeymooners are a target for ridicule for everyone from the

tho

Next: Abolish honeymoons?"

at all, but, removed as it is from porter, fellow passengers, waiter, "Never," four famous folks re- their home-setting, their friends! hotel manager and even the nice, tort,

SALESMAN SAM

Sam Has Company!

33 Its Teathefa, are so warming,

Down

•

1 An insect in a root may tell you

when to cross, 2 Aspect.

3 Prayers in which certain rela-

tions are made..

4 In this manner, to

colloquially.

5 Imagines.

0 Like a tiger.

speak

A reaped cornfield is practically. 23 A craftsman.

24 The difference between a full

cask and one not full.

26 Gone away!

28 Take it up to get it loose. 29 A rise in prestigo (rev.),

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