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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933.

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Vocal refrain by Mac Quentel.j 24250 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).

22728 Black Eyes-Foxtrot

Troos-Foxtrot

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22512 You will remember Vionna-Waltz

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22869 The Night was made for Love-Foxtrot

She didn't say "Yos"—Foxtrot

24142 My Darling-Foxtrot

Along came Love-Foxtrot

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NOTES OF THE DAY SHALL I EVER MARRY? BULLS AND INNERS

The longer we ponder the sug- gestion for a Lide on the Chathum Rond seafront, the greater do its cbvious attractions appeal. There is great. scopo hero for an enter. prising company, if only oflefal Banction can be obtained: and there is beneft to be derived all

round, the Government and the romoters In revenue and the pub.

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BACHELOR FREEDOM

ISN'T EVERYTHING

By COLLIE KNOX

From the Office Butts

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In mercantile marine circles there appears to be a controversy. as to whether a navigating officer should boar expert signaller. We are of the opinion that it should

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The Hongkong Brewery, opens.

on Wednesday. Say when, 'sday.

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TURNING over this business of who had walked through life hand-not-be-difficult-to-tell-his-scopa l- TURNING over this business of who had walked through to hand "SYNCHRO-le in the facilities afforded. Of night, I put the following ques-was good and wholesome,

this there can be very little doubt. tion to myself: "Shall I ever This made me think... and I The one essential of the scheme is marry 7 And I found my ques-wish it hadn't, MESH HAS that it should be big in conception distinctly impertinent. Then I recall a week-end I spent

tion. Produced a miniature

For, after all, why on earth in a house-a little four-years- BANISHED scale, the project would lose most should. I marry? Why should I old girl. A blue-eyed enchantress of its value. There is little ques-a bachelor for some 30 years, and who honoured me with her un- tion of a gamble, except upon n denly saddio myself with a life- divided attention. Her name is certainty; it is merely a matter of long encumbrance which, though Bubbles. Indulging the courage of convic-doubtless not without its charms,

EMPTY FREEDOM. would cost me a great deal of

As I dressed for dinner the first money? To say nothing of my night I thought how delightful it spare time.

would be to have someone

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PRIMARY OBSTACLE

"Vinjar" assures us that the

book he is at prosent writing, to be titled "Wild Life of Hong- kong" does not refer to cabarets.

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made extremely cosy. Everything drank a great deal of port, and ings at Vimbledon constitute pains and self-sacrifice, I have Then I went down to dinner,

We notice that this year's tak

Is as I want it.... and I like that.

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Wo are reliably informed that A ONE-MAN HOME.

like a local golfing novice recently I mean-for thus did I rather Bubbles all to myself. It would went round Fanling in 203 strokes. A primary obstacle to schemes petulantly argue with myself her grow up. It would be grand formance relates to swimming the be such fun, I mused, watching Even. so, we still think the per- designed for the commonwent in am set in my ways. I have a little to live for ever with an enchan- harbour. Hongkong is the tendency, foster-house of my own which, at some

tress. towards defentism when it is felt ed, perhaps, by rueful experience

the project may clash with Gover ›› ment polley. It is not, therefore, surprising to hear the Lido scheme outlined in the "Telegraph" yes torday warmly commended by the | vast majority, such approval being accompanied and tempered by | scepticism regarding the likelihood of Government sanction being ob tained. The attitude is easy t understand, but more difficult to condong. One may be quite sure that no tentative scheme will over

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1983.

IS ISOLATIONISM

PATRIOTIC?

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Were I to invite, a comparative forgot all about Bubbles until sho stranger permanently to take up woke me up the next morning with record. Net Profits! her abode in my home there would four dolls, teddy bear, and a toy be far less room for me. My fire-engine. books would be thrown on the floor .. my servant would resent taking orders from a woman my wife would probably hate my cats.. and she would want to chatter when, after a hard day's work at the office, I would be long- ing to be left alone.

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We overheard a Peak tram pas- And this bachelor freedom-it's a bit empty, really. •

senger remark that her child What it comes to is that one has never received a reward for being the freedom to go home to a house good. It must be good, for and go out ngain. One goes out,

nothing! probably because either one feels

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We learn that a London Pole company. There is not much named Poinovitchovsky made a I know all this sounds selfish. glory in freedom such as this.

name for himself. He changed it made to sound public opinion ang It is selfish, I suppose. But it is It is odd that one only hears of to Smith. to test the altitudo of govern-my way.

the unusual folk who delight not

D 口 ment. No good ever came of sub- I have travelled much over the in the accepted pursuit of hap- mission to the spirit of "it cannot world. I have, in the course of an¦piness and peace of mind but It's all very well letting grass be done. Surprising things have unusually full life, met most of rather in a ceaseless seeking for grow under your feet if you make "happoned and can occur again. the people worth knowing, and too excitement and thrills in peculiar hay, of it, while the sun shines.

Even governments have been many of those not worth knowing ways.

口 known to be reasonable, when public at all. But only once have I ever opinion is vociferous enough.

met anyone with whom I could ple are, their doings are blazoned. We understand that the K.C.C. conceivably settle down...

abroad and devoured eagerly by Black-faced Glee Singers aro busy the young of both sexes-to their practising "My Coal Black Mam-. very great disadvantage

my" for the next concert.

MONSTER PETITION

re-

LOSS OF FRIENDS.

But, fatuous though these peo-

But these unusuals only form a very small circle in a very largo world. Like you, I forget that

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Quite a number of local tennis. players believe in the power of the press.

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Were I to marry 1 would, pre-fact. force, have to give up many of my

THE HAPPY MASSES. hard-won comforta. My friends There are thousands of married would stop coming to see me. couples whose names are never They would not wish to talk to my heard, whose actions, thoughts, This Week's Ferry Tale.-"No, wife. Why should they?

and hopes are never chronicled, I'm afraid I won't have time to go who make of marriage a blessing out to the Brewery on Wednes-

.. instead of a curse.

dny 1" While some few of my acquain-

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of the divorce court, I know many After waggling her neck from more who have had the courage side to side, wo understand that a and good sense to make a succese local lady expressed the opinion of a marriage contract.

that tennis gave her a pain in

face

it

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Nobody is game to tell the owner of the Casanova Dancing Academy that it's a fine night for dancing.

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I am in a job which interests me and takes up almost all my time. The Chinese community does not | My leisure I prefer spending in intend to remain quiet regarding | my own fashion. the Government's plans for sumption of the North Polat bath- ing beaches. A monster petition Is being drawn up and signatures canvassed in. all walks of life. The justice or otherwise of the The policy of Isolation is again Government's case here hinges Oh, this is not so conceited as it being strenuously urged in cer- entirely upon its plans for the sounds. I have lost sight of too site when the bathing clubs have many friends through marringe tain quarters, and the advo- been turned out. On this paint, not to know what I am talking cates of the faith gain many hitherto, Government has

been about. adherents by reason of their singularly allent. Mention is Why should I give up so much insistence on the ability of the made of a need for development of for some girl? She would nut British Empire, as a whole, to the site, but no hint is given re- understand me in the least be made self-supporting to the garding the lines this will follow. not, any way, for a drearily long One couple I know live bliss- the neck. uttermost detail by internal It may be that definite plans have time. And then, when she did fully and bring up two children interchange without the necessi- been formulated, likely to conform eventually understand me, she on £6 a week. The struggle is ty to rely at all on trade from to social necessitles. But if the would get bored, and go off "un intense. But they consider

-worth-while.-- without the Empire. Great play alte-is-merely-to-be-sold-to-a-derstanding-some-other-man.

No, to the limbo with marriageli Like so many others of the great is made with phrases such as "peculator for reclamation pur- "independent of the Americanses, to be cluttered up later with It is a hectic and belligerent state unadvertised, they look life in the

the random and aqualid "develop. I would rather not visit.

and answer it back. dollar and French. franc", "the ment" in which the land-jobber

And yet, I don't know.

One is the perfect complement

"Coal dump scandal." As a creation of new Dominion mar- und

the building gambler Of course, wherever I go I hear of the other. They are, in a matter of fact, enough gas has kota" and "orders for our idle collaborate, we cannot too strong of marriages turning out disne-word, complete.

been generated over the coal dump factories and work for our un-ly condemn the proposal.

trously. Wherever I lunch

But the tiresome little "circle" to develop 100 acandal-power. employed millions". So that

dine out I am assailed with boring votes them dull... they are not patriotic minds are immediately

detalla of why Jim left Clara or.necounted of any worth because intrigued with the policy of CLEAR UNDERSTANDING

more modernly, why Clara left Jim; they are not "exciting," "devasta- "splendid isolation”.

"Never get married, my boy," ting," or "shattering," or any of course, refers to some of - those Without

It is well known and understood grunts a cynic on my left. I in the names for Insincerity.. even troubling to discuss the that when the Chinese bathing variably sit near a cynic at dinner correctness or falsity of these clubs entered upon their tonancy parties.)

A PROBLEM UNSOLVED. "Keep your freedom. predictions and contentions, the of the North Point region, it was

And here am I seeing two sides A girl will only spend your sof a question, fact remains that such a policy made perfectly

.. and people who to drink. clear that the Ings, and drive you paradoxical though it may ap- privileges would be extended to Besides, no modern girl wants do that are admirable, and usually

a curse to their friends. pear at first sight, is definitely twelve months at a time and no bables. Too much of a

What was it Disraeli wrote: unpatriotic. Such Isolation longer and that, in the event of Bah!"

"Every woman should marry would, as its advocates urge, Government's desire to resume, no I am fed full of this brand of

...and no man."

"I'm drowning my sorrows in comprise lofty aloofness from compensation would be payable in ment.

drink", as the man said when he the interests and tendencies of respect of any permanent or semi-

Why is it that I never hear tell

How delightful to be able to throw his six kids into the vat at all nations outside the Empire. permanent structures erected. of marriages that are happy?

Nevertheless, Sir Cecil Clementi's The other day I had ten in a prove that great wit wrong for the Hongkong Brewery. Indeed. It is freely postulated officini participation in the opening lovely garden with an old couplel once! that one of the planks of Isola- of the first of the excellent club- tion would be immunity from houses, may be reasonably in- agreements or treaties which terpreted as giving sanction to a might drag us into any wars belief that the clubs were not which might transpire outside likely to be disturbed for some the Empire. The great point considerable time. We aro pre- that is invariably ignored, either pared to admit that this is of little by design or through sheer consequence if an adequate ron- blindness, by Isolationists is that son can be advanced for giving although Sweden, Norway, Den-otice to quit, but we cannot agree mark, Holland (and America an idealfess, agency intent purely that the surrender of the land to also during the first three years) upon snatching a quick profit remained neutral during the should be regarded as adequate Great War, every single one of Justification for an expulstori or- them is to-day suffering from der.

economic reaction caused by the

War, to an even greater extent EMPIRE MARKETING

than Britain, herself a protago-

nist. In other words, it is f

of the name to occur anywhere without the entire world, whe ther the particles are involved in the war or not, being subjected

The Empire Marketing Board is

day impossible for a war worthy to be allowed to die for lack of support by the countries to whom most beneft accrued. It is, how ever, more than likely that the organisation' has outlived its use to the resultant adverse con- Dominions have budgetary pro

fulness, and, in any event, all the sequences. It should be pal-bleme precluding them from em pable, therefore, that true pat- barking upon new expenditure. riotism should compel Britons to The E.M.B. was established pri realise that their own interests marily for the purpose of en- demand co-operation with the couraging the purchase of Empire nations of the world. in every goods in the United Kingdom at possible effort to evolve a basis a tinie when Imperial Preference of international disarmament was in its infancy and artificial and a code of international law was perhaps, necessary: Ottawa stimulation of Inter-Imperial trade The truth is that countries of ald much to remove the obstacles the world to-day have a respon which the EM.B: had to over sibility one to the other and it is como In the circumstancos, the a responsibility that cannot be lack of onthuelaam by the Domin evaded. All are compelled to ions will cause no hard feelings take an intervb in International incur heitelje pity that much of KOLKATA dokatha padowerje done

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""Typhoon Misses." This,

breezy Peak girl friends Edward Kelly is always talking about,

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On Wednesday, Eddie Kelly will bo a case of "Beer To-day and gone to horrors."

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The Empire Marketing Board is to be abolished.-Board stiff?

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We notice a contemporary is

giving a ZBW questionnaire. We're

often felt like giving them the air, too.

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Has anyone heard "There's no

place like home," played by the

Cabaret banned.

Now Bathing altes. We've often

felt that way about some of these

1933 backlcés módols.

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"What game are we up to now?”?

as the Englishman said at Forest Hille yesterday. Holon Jacobsi

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Poodle-faking. is not what it

used to be. The film broke at the King's Théatre the other day and

several couplos noticed it.

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Now Definition: Consistency is

the faculty of starting as you

moan to begin and then continuing

as you intend to go on,

Though Kowloon growl

coal,

kud antalup. they made it