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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, APRIL 8. 1935.

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AMERICANS PUZZLED

MR. SHAW'S LATEST "MYSTERY”''

DISAPPOINTS. NEW YORK

New York. British playwrights have been to their puzzling this season American faithful. No sooner had,

fair degree of recovery from the shock occasioned by Mr. Noel Coward's abandonment of caviar for raw 'ment set in than Mr. Ber- nard Shaw came forth with The

Simpleton of the Unexpected falen The Theatre Guild, with an under- standable measure of pride, gave Mr. Shaw's play its first night, and this New Yorkers become the first to wonder what the aging prophet In this time talking about. Mr. Shaw's own countrymen will be given an opportunity for similar bemusement at the Malvern Festi- val.

PATRIOTS CAN'T HAVE

CURLS

MONEY WASTED ON

"PERMANENTS"

CHIANG'S ORDER

Kaifeng, Hoaan. Without doubt the officers of the New Life Association here deserve nedals. They have solved one of the must ticklish socl-legal pro- bothered the lens that hus country in years--that of curled hair for women.

the

Some time [it) Genridistimo Chiang Kai-shek issued a circular order to all the provincial authori tles to the effect that in future no woman should be allowed to curt her hair artificially. In the first place it was unbecoming, ex travagant and indicated an un- seemly preoccupation in mere out- The doubls were not, however, ward appeurance and frivolity. about the quailty of the play. | Life="New Life"-in China Ja There is a general, sorrowful agree real and earnest, not a thing to ment that The Simpleton is a dis-be frittered away lightly in beauty appointment, whatever may have parlours, harber shops and at mah been the precise message Intended jong teas. Futhermore, by Mr. Shaw for his pupils. Two ukase stated, "permanents" and acts of the three, one of which the other methods of curling the fair author calls a prologue, are HO were definitely detrimental to the trivially thin that one eritle was fed

health and hence not to. Be to the view that the only astonish tolerated. ing things about the play were the authorship and the willingness of the Guild to offer it in a season which has not so far been any too #ccessful. In the third act. Mr. Shaw losses out a handful of keys, with which those sufficiently inter ested may unlock the secrets of what has gone before. With this rather belated assistance from the author The Simpleton in revealed as an Intriente, rather confused, alle Kory. The confusion, it seems, partly arises from a simple lack of passive. There was consider- clarity in the writing and partly able grumbling. Pinally onc from a certain fading of the prominent pulpite official, greatly symbols into and out of one (LST- other, so that a prophet and a pre-in view of the fact that the new

flaring, ventured the opinion thất. pheter, after two acts of - repre- senting the East, are suddenly dis-constitution guaranteed personal covered to be really Man and Wo-liberty and expressly stipulated The Unexpected Isles, how that women were to be on an equal

footing with men, it would b

mon,

THE STORY

Reaction to this order was slow in coming. Nanking, sensitive to every wish and whim of the forthwith ordered Generallssimo,

its barbers to cease and desist from the immoral practice of making straight hair curly. Fierce fines were threatened, statisticians computed how many thousands of dollars were "wasted" annually in this way.

But the women were not entire-

and

te

ever, remain the world, aveat practically unconstitutional such moments as they represent legislate the straight-hult order the British Empire.

into law. However, he hastened to add, now that it had been called j to their attention, patriotic women The play shows first, beside the would no doubt be glad to give up prophet and prophetess, a young their WAYCS

ringlets.- English Colonial official, an Eng-Huited PresAK, Hish girl with a faint trace of Cock- ney-which may, of course, have beon the Idea of the actress playing the role-a Colonial Governor and his lady. These six, by the second act, have Involved themselves in a marriage experiment in which everyone is the wife or kusband of everyone else. This is the marti age of the East and the West, and

BOMBAY TRAGEDY

'BIG FIREWORK FACTORY

EXPLOSION

Bobay, Apr. 7. Sixteen persons were killed in a

their children are, Mr. Shaw terrific explosion to-day in a fre ports, Love, Herolam. Empire, and Pride. An English clergyman who work factory on the outskirts of wanders in and is enticed to philombay, where many of the fire- ander with the children and their works destined jurenis is, one suspects, simple Juhile celebrations were England, led to the dalliance of made.

for the

Silver

being

Empire. In the fat act an Angel The explosion precipitated a comes to judge, Dr. Inge havingandslide from the hill near the! suggested that the English should factory, which wiped out a small De first in the order of arenting vilings necupied by potters, Those who cannot prove their worth Many of these potters, and

Members of various units of the Settlement Fire Brigade practised on an Imaginary fire which broke out in the old premises of the Bank of China on the Bund, whore an exhibition of the priceless Chinse treasures destined for the London Exhibition y "I soon be held. Traffic was routed as thought real fire-fighting was taking place, while the firemen clin with hoses to the upper storeys of the old building. Our picture shows an extension ladder reaching the third floor, where the precious relics aro

kept in a strong roam,

Amid the cheers of a large crowd of Chinese and Japanese people, the "Asah!" "Goodwill" area. plann landed at Lungwhe Aerodrome not long ago: Our photos show (left top) General Wu Ta-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, and Mr. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister to China, and others, welcoming the fiers) (right top) drinking tusst in celebration of the successful fight at a party held afterwards at the re aidence of Mr. Ishii, Japanese Consul-Generals (left bottom) presentation of an exquisito Chinese flower vase to the “Alabi" men by the Chinese Flier Association; (right bottom) Japanese school-child- ran who assembled at Lungwha to welcome the aviators, waving their pational (laga.

Little Bride's The elder Haiens agreed; even

Sacrifice

HUSBAND DIED ON WEDDING EVE

'Peiping.

in the world quietly disappear Tranumber of women and children was deperately i last week. He

it. The four children are among were injured.--Renter,

the first to go, along with most of

the members of the House of Com-

dul. It is nicely neted by a cast

is now, at long last, convinced of her power as an actress, and the

the most deadly illnesses had been known to yield to such treatment.

REGISTRY WEDDING

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MANAGER MARRIES Scores of guests came, were feast- ed, and the bridegroom perforce Mr. Abdul Hamid, eldest son of must drink with them, must thank Mrs. S. Ismail, and Miss Ngo Pui-, each of them with kowtows. At wah, fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ngo Yat-shan, were married on last it was all over.

Saturday morning at the Registrar's Office, Supreme Court.

But it had been too much. A certain young Mr. Huang living near one of the city rates Before midnight luang was dend of tuberculosis. Ami befors was not well six months ago when dawn the bride had banged her ho was betrothed to Miss Hsieh, self with her girdle. but recently the doctors have been

The bridegroom is the manager of the Arts Advertising and Publishing Hongkong Employment Co., and Agency at No. 10 Queen's Road Central. The bride's father is a busl- mess merchant residing at 105, Bon- Han Strand East.

Fortunately, or otherwise, the mens and all but two or three re-create a dozen years ago by the ahaking their heads. Tiger-claw! mother-in-law came into the bridal sident in the West End. It is late Jeanne Eagels, she makes her pills, batwing broth and other chamber carly, and cutting down The bride, who wore a white silk jumbled. Intricate, and in a first unqualifient success since her specifics had falled to reduce the the young bride widow saved her wedding gown and carried white and literate fashion, of course--rather return to the country.

Everyone fever.

attended by two life. Friends say they fear she red roses, was

bridesmaids, the Misses Bilkees Khan There was only one thing to do may attempt suicide again, and and Ngo Yuk-wing.

The bride was given away by her next necessity is to find new plays and Hunng's parents did it. They with reason, for in a land where for her. Rain, not much weathered sought the permission of the widows are outenata if they re father, Mr. Ngo Yat-shan, while the by the years, does well enough for Hsien family to have the wed-marry, 20-year old Mrs. Huang has duties of best men were undertaken Other absolutely nothing to look forward by Messrs. K. B. Sheikh and Sik the moment, but many are disturb-ding performed at once. ed by the report that Miss Bank-remedies had failed utterly, surely to but a life of polite drudgery in Kwok-sin head intends to appear next autumn the happiness of marriage would the house of her mother-in-law.

the young man's malady.-United Press.

in which Mr. Romney Breat and Mme. Nazimova are prominent.

Recent weeks have seen, in addi- tion to the Shaw play, Mies Tallu Jah Bankhead in a revival of Ruin, In the part of Sadie Thompson,

in other revivals.

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HEATH

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After the ceremony, reception was, held at the bridegroom's home, No, 343 Hennessy load.

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