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261 "Betty Boop" (A cartoon on a record)

Vocal refrain by Mae Questel. 250 Ich Liebe Dich, My Dear (from the Film-

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I Love you' so much that I hate you (from the Film-

"Perfect Understanding").

(Both sung by Gloria Swanson).;

728 Black Eyes-Foxtrot

Trees--Foxtrot

Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra.

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512 You will remember Vionna-Waltz

Leo Reisman & His Orchestra,

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1 Bring a Love Song-Foxtrot

869 The Night was made for Love-Foxtrot

Sho didn't say "Yos"-Foxtrot

142 My Darling-Foxtrot

Along came Love-Foxtrot

Reisman & His Orchestra.

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Don Bestor & His Orchestra.

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Richard Crooks. Only My Song (Lehar)

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TO-MORROW

AUG.

the

4TH.

LAST DAY OF SALE

21%

Off

ALL KITCHEN UTENSILS, BROOMS & BRUSHES, GARDEN TOOLS & MOWERS, STOVES, ETC.

CHINAWARE & GLASSWARE

„NUMEROUS ITEMS ARE SOLD AT

Half Marked Pricos

In

CHINA & CLASS" AND HARDWARE DEPTS;

ANE CRAWFORD, LTD.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

"I NOW REALISE the FULL JOY of MOTORING”

"I have owned and driven cars for over 20 years and not all I purchased my Cadet have I realised the full joy of motoring... That's one owner's opinion of the Cadet and Synchro-Mesh. There's magic in the gearbox. The power and flexibility of the Cader engine, perfect steering and declive braking give you confidence and perfect control.

There is true comfort in the roomy coachwork and everything about the appearance of the Cadet expresses good breeding.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

The popularity attending tho Introduction of small-car taxleabs in Kowloon largely accounts for the operating company's willing- ness to reduce fares for the larger vehicles. The existence of the. small taxis has had the effect of reducing the demand for the large vehicles to a minimum and whon the requests. for stationing the

AT A HONGKONG AUCTION SALE

THE "TEAHOUSE. GANG” By C.V.L.

One of the most curious busi-|A NECESSARY

The Very Idea!

TO PANT OR NOT TO. PANT

W

By Eddie Kelly, Panther THEN we talk about pants, we are not re- ferring to the hot weather. we are experiencing.

nesses plied in Hongkong is that EVIL

But as a necessary evil they by a broker or speculator in second-'| hand furniture. It consists of much of the stuff from the auc- have to be endured. They sell buying old furniture, generally at tioneer's rooms to the second-hand We are referring to the Nothing as simple as that.

baby-cars at the ferry became auctions, and selling it to in-goods stores at Wellington St, and

the difference in prices being the profitable trade has been

more and more insistent, it was dividuals or second-hand stores, Hollywood Road. An even more Marlene Dietrich vogue.

realised that something would

have to be done. The solution

proffered means that there will be

comparatively little difference in the cost of transport by one as against the other-and that the public will benefit considerably.

brokers nover

Month after month our hend-

carried

For years and years we margin on which he makes a von with Canton, Amoy, Foochow

and other southern porte. That have stood for feminine. ing.

was until the recent rise in Chin- These

encroachments upon our mascu- hurry ese tariff duties. Now with some matters, or allow themselves to 40 per cent. increased duties to line preserves. be hurried, since there is no point add to the cost, bringing the to rushing about in two coolle prices within the range of new power rickshas. When not on articles, it has not been worth ache has raided our pockets. the daily round of the auction while continuing the export trado. Week after week we have rooms, they betake themselves to The yum cha gang are feeling the ten-house for talk which goes the pinch, and they are

more listened to nothing but gab and down well with unlimited cups of subdued in action. The teahousa scandal, green tea..

now resounds with maledictions On account of this peculiarity against certain political busy-these women wearing less and less Day after day we have scen It is easy to foresee that com they have come to be known as the

clothing. yum cha gang, by which is meant parisons are likely to be made be-people given over to the tenhouse tween taxi fares in Hongkong and habit, and it is a term which has

fitted more than any other. those in Kowloon' 'when the

COMPARISONS

Prices from £295. Let us give you a trial. | authorities have sanctioned the Kowloon request for a reduction.

Given a proper appreciation of the term, the rest of the none too prepossessing portrait is complete: Ill-mannered, short-coated gentle-

VAUXHALL Doubtless a cass can be made out men, raucous of voice and aggres

CADET

THE CAR WITH THE BILKY PERFORMANCE HONGKONG Hotel, garaGE, (SHOWROOM) Stubbs Road.... Phone 27778-9.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.

GANDHI'S FOLLY

in the matter of dress and per-

effect,

bodies.

THE

LAST OF GRAND JURIES

By A BARRISTER.

of

Night after night

But

why bring that up, as St. Pete said to the saxophonist.

Before we were married we used to like wine, women and song.

Now we get woman and whine. But that's by the way.

last Last month saw the salesrooms and by a mo88

What we are discussing now is carry off the business by storm. grand juries. For although the Furniture values rise or tumble new Administration of Justice women in men's trousers. It's got

will. Indirectly at their

they Act (which abolishes them) will to stop. Soon they won't even control much of the auctioneer's not come into operation until the know what a dress is. business, and with it the hopes first day of September next, no and fortunes of tonny on un-assizes will be held between the fortunate individual,

end of July and October. MUSEUM OF LOST HOPES.

for also reducing rates on the sive in a deal, they. invade the Hongkong side. There has been a substantial reduction in the price of petrol, and the rising dollar should be providing some relief in maintenance charges. But condi- tions on the two sides of the har- bour are not strictly comparable.

the Island are

Vehicles on

sonal conduct, he invariably | AUSTRIA'S FIGHT chooses the most tortuous path when he concerns himself in

1

Except for the vigorous protest of Mr. Justice Avory and some of his judicial colleagues, thus passes, almost unnoticed, another ancient institution,

Magg

The other day we asked our girl friend what a hairpin was, and she said it was a dangerous bend in the road,

Besides the ignorance it breeds in them, we have goveral ob- jections against women wearing pants-our pants, we mean.

When a man's breath comes in

The litter of goods and chattels rein an auctioneer's, arranged with quired to do, a considerable little distinction, only strict regard

ECONOMY AND TIME-SAVING amount of hill-climbing, thrusting for economy of space, convoys to the

mind little of the personal touch The grounds upon which the heavy wear and tear upon engines gone with its acquirement. Yet, abolition is sought to be justified and using up

fuel in greater each ancient article from long as are economy and the saving of

sociation, may be said to have grand jurors' time. But a learnlittle, short pants, that's passion. quantity for milcage covered, derived something of the person- cd judge recently pointed out that But when a woman gets into little, will be the short pants, that's plain, cussed There is, therefore, justification ality of its late owner, and if it the only economy Mr. Gandhi runs true to form

could only speak, the variety of saving of a few guests at the efminacy. and learns nothing from his les-for a higher scale, though not per axperience, tragic or otherwise, High Sheriff's luncheon-to which

Our objection Isn't against wo- sons. Half-saint and half-fana-haps to the extent ruling.

unfolded, would make facts seem the grand jurors were always in- tic, with simplicity as a fetish

stranger than fletion.

vited and a few postage stamps men wearing shorts, however, be- I cannot go through an auc-in the despatch of the precepts; cause we have often boon short tioneer's salesrooms without being while, on the other ground, so far ourself. What we object to is the obsessed by a sensation of being as is known, no grand jury has way the masculine cult is getting steeped in an atmosphere com-ever made a presentment to the France's logical mind has quick parable to a museum, except that judge suggesting their extinction. into its strides. politics. His challenge to any ly seized upon Austria as the key instead of the skeletons of pri- It is a centuries-old tribunal to If a man walked down Pedder solution offering an easy way out

mordial ages, the exhibits are the which important duties have been Street clad in a split skirt, he'd be ́· of a difficulty is automatic. But to the situation in Europe. Hence remains of lost hopes and discard assigned. No other body. is to run in for indecent behaviour. If for Gandhi, Congress would by her effort, announced to-day, to ed affections. How much careful take its place. And, in future. woman walks down the street in now have totally abandoned civil remove the causes of friction be-discrimination it may be supposed instead of bills of indictment be disobedience unconditionally.

has gone to the selection of this ing signed by the foreman of the pair of men's pants, she should The best minds of the National tween Germany and Austria. It particular piece, or of that collec-grand jury, that duty will be dis-also be arrested for a breeches of ist organisation would have been is likely to prove formidable tion of pieces now dispersed, its charged by "the proper officer of the peace.

individuality lost in a mechan the Court," on the direction of the Besides, said he virtuously, wo- given to the task of moulding In- | task. But for Dr. Dollfuss, ical and souliess system of in- judge or chairman of the Court. men should preserve the dignity of dia's new constitution into the Austria would have been crushed ventory numbers

and upset

their aex. What Sex Appeal is form likely to meet with widest approval. And without Congress, already. The fist of Hitler would prices?

For that reason, if for no olher, the new constitution cannot be have run to Vienna. His emiss- it has been difeult to bring my- Bill-it is expected to be an Act/ there in a pair of pants? A man's given a fair start. That is the aries thought they had an easy self round to any marked degree in a few days-relates to common We men have got to stand to-

of cordiality towards the gentle-juries. And this is a real reform tragedy of Gandhi's intransig-task and neted as though Austria men known as the "Tea House" urgently needed in the interesta gether on ence. No-one imagines that India, under the regime of the White were an annexed country, until Gung, for whom these relies have of longsuffering common

no sentimental value. The aver-special jurors. After September Paper or any other Constitution, Dr. Dollfuss dared to resist. The gion is natively awakened when 1, except in certain specified cases. Your King and Country Knees will live happily ever after, as it result has been an intensification they sit on our best easy chairs, it will be within the discretion of You! Britons never, never, never, collision; jealousy and misunder- of effort by the Nazis but along presumably to test the springs, the Court or a judge to determine shall be slaves. Dicu Et Mon Droit, standing; racial and communal more covert lines. This is, how- and roll up their trouser legs in whether or not an action shall and the same to you, with knobs

indolent caac. If they had been be tried by a jury.

This removes the power of one passion and economic conflict. It ever, yet another of Herr Hitler's in a private residence, where, like would indeed be a favoured land;

mistakes. Austria of her own the bailiffs, their presence could or other of the parties to have a neither confer distinction nor be case tried by a jury, and will, it la which could witness such a com- pleto change in its political freewill might have joined Ger- really welcomed, we could imagine believed, not only save the calling structure without disturbance, many, But to submit to forceful the irate housewife rising in her of jurors, but will contribute to hwrath to chase them willy-nilly out a more speedy despatch of busi- With Congress prepared to co-measures went against the grain. with the handle of a floor-mop. Iness in the Courts. operate, the outlook would be happier and the efforts of Mr. Winston Churchill and Lord

were. There will be friction and

1

Lloyd to make the British elec-AUSTRIA AND THE NAZIS tor's flesh creep over India would

The recent history of the Nazi

be the subject of jokea rather than serious debate. Not that campaign in Austria is worth recali- the latest developments will in- fluence Britain's policy.

ing. Early in April the Dollfuss! We shall go ahead. We have rais- Cabinet decided to prohibit wirolcas ed expectations and defined ob-propaganda by the agents of Dr. jectives that we cannot now de- Goebbels, tho Gorman Minister of sert except at the forfeiture of Propaganda The Austrian National our moral authority and good Socialists attempted in vala to name.

The White Paper em- retaliato by acts of anbotago, and bodies the essence of what we Dollfuss' Cabinot at the same time. are committed to by a long disbanded the Bocialist Schutzband series of words and deeds. It without resistance shown. The scono expresses the measure of trust shifted to Romo, whither Dollfuss! on which wo are prepared to hurried in the wake of Hitler. and embark and its generosity has Gooring, to ascertain what, if any, appealed to all the sanerolinago in Mussolini's views on Aus- elements in India. The marked trian annexation had, resulted from moderation in the attitude of it. He found the Duce Fosolutely Congress is an obvious sign of the good impression made and, opposed to Hitler's nima ne regards in these circumstances, it may Austrin, having no desire to see at not be altogether unfortunate if lus door a nationalistio State, at- Mr. Gandhi elects to incur the tracting to it thousands of Tyrolene displeasure of the authorities Germana revolting from Italian and passes into political oblivion. Fascism. This Gandhi's influence is clearly wan-: Mussolini is very welcome to Dollfuss ing but it is still suficiently sinco Hitler dare not at this junc- powerful to prevent many who turo antagonizo the Duco. Austria geo-the-folly-of-unreasoning now has two-powerful groups_op- hostility from striking out on a posod to Anschluur-the Noman now path. In their innermost Catholics who four the loss of their hearts, there are many Congress pronont power, and the Boolalists leaders and close friends of 915 Thave plesined from Germany Gandhi who believe it wond$3

detormination of

FEWER JURY CASES. Another provision of the now

and

home is his castle.

this

subject. WE WANT LEGS!! ENLIST NOW!

onl

BAR!

BEER I

We have just received our invitation to the opening of the Hongkong Brewery on Wednesday next. We are pleased to note that cars will be available at the Star Ferry, Kowloon, to take the guests out to the Brewery, but, personally, are not interested in this aspect.

-Wo

What we want to know is, will cara be available to carry us home from the Brewery?

KELLY STUMBLES OVER $20,000,000

Wo doprecate all this fuss over

a mere 820,000,000.

Doubtless

the after- you saw math lato yesterday afternoon. When the Editor of the Tole- graph told us what he was going to put on his poster we had fore- bodings. Our forebodings were correct,

The matter la now in the hands of our Solicitor. Bosides the damage done to our prestige.by the subsequent invasion of shroffs, wo sustained, in the fight to get away, one (1) torn cont, one (1) torn pair of pants, one (1), black eye, and one (1) overwhelming thiratka

BeWo took the poster across to the A Mongkong Hotel when we es

escaped. from the shroits, but even with

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