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THE HONGKONG

MONDAY, TELEGRAPH.

APRIL

AMERICANS PUZZLED

MR. SHAW'S LATEST

"MYSTERY"

DISAPPOINTS NEW YORK

New

York.

PATRIOTS CAN'T HAVE

CURLS

MONEY WASTED ON

"PERMANENTS"

CHIANG'S ORDER

British playwrights have been to their puzzling this season

Kaifeng, Jonan. American faithful. No Rooner had

Without doubt the officurs of the fair degree of recovery from the New Life Association here deserve shock occasioned by Mr. Noc medals. They have solved one of Coward's Abandonment of cavlar for raw meat act in then Mr. Ber-the most leklish sock-legal pro- that has bothered tog nard Shaw came forth with The blems Simpleton of the Unerjected Isles. country in years that of curleit The Theatro Gulid, with an under-hair for women,

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standable measure at pride, gave Some time ago Genrallsaimo Mr. Shay's play its first night, and Chiang Kai-shek issued a circular the New Yorkers become the first order to all the provincial authori to wonder what the aging prophetties to the effect that in future- is this time talking about. Mr.no woman should be allowed to Show's own countrymen will be curl her hair artificially. In the given an opportunity for similar Orst place it was unbecoming, ex- Demusement at the Malvern Festl-travagant and indicated an un- seemly preoccupation in more out-

val.

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the

Reaction to this order was slow in coming. Nanking, sensitive to.

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

frivolity, The doubts were not, however, ward appearance and about the quality of the play. Life-"New Life"-in Ohina is There is a general, sorrowful agree-roal and earnest, not a thing to ment that The Simpleton is a dis- be frittered away lightly in beauty appointment, whatever may have parlours, barber shops and at mah been the precise message intended

tonns teas. Futhermore, by Mr. Show for his pupils. Two ukase stated, "permanents" and acts of the three, one of which the other methods of curling the hair author calls a prologue, are were dellaitely detrimental to the trivially thin that one critic was led health and hence not to be to the view that the only astonish tolerated. ing things about the piny were the authorship and the willingness of the Guild to offer it in a sendon which has not so far been any too successful. In the third net Mr. Shaw tosses vut a handful of keys, with which those sufficiently inter ested muy unlock the secrets of what has gone before. With this rather belated assistance from the author The Simpleton is revealed us an Intricate, rather confused, alle- gory. The confusion, it seeme,

But the women were not entire- partly arises from a simple lack of clarity in the writing and partlyly passive. There was consider. grumbling. Pinally one from a certain fading of the able symbols into and out of one an- prominent public official, greatly daring, ventured the opinion that other, so that a prophet and a pro- phetess, after two acts of repre-in view of the fact that the new senting the East, are suddenly dis- constitution guaranteed personal covered to be really Man and Woherty and expressly stipulated The Unexpected Isles, how-that women were to be on an equal ever, remain the world, save at fooling with men, it would be such moments as they represent practically

mall.

the British Empire.

THE STORY

BOMBAY TRAGEDY

BIG FIREWORK FACTORY EXPLOSION

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unconstitutional legislate the straight-hair order into law. However, he hastened to add, now that it had been called 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 wavex

and ringlets. English Colonial official, an Eng-United Press. lish girl with a faint trace of Cock- ney which may, of course, have been the idea of the uctress playing the role--a Colonial Governor and his lady. These alx, by the second act, have involved themselves in a marriage experiment; in which everyone is the wife or husband of everyone else. This is the marti- age of the East and the West, and -their-children-are-Mr.Shaw-re- ports. Love. Heroism, Empire, and Pride. An English clergyman who wanders in and is enticed to phil ander with the children and their parents is, one suspects, simple England, led to the dalliance of Empire. In the last act an Angel comes to judge, Dr. Inge having suggested that the English should be first in the order of accounting, Those

who cannot prove their worth In the world quietly disappear from it. The four children are among were injured.---Reuter. the first to go, along with most of

Bombay, Apr. 7. Sixtoon-persons-were-killed-in.a terrific explosion to-day in a fire work factory on the outskirts of Bombay, where many of the fire- the Sliver works destined for Jubilee celebrations were belak}

made.

Members of various unite-of the Settlement Fire Brigade practised on an imaginary fire which broke out in the old premises of the Bank of Chica on the Bund, where an exhibition of the priceless Chinse treasures destined for the London Exhibition will soon be held. Traffic was routed as though real fire-fighting was taking place, while the firemen climbed with hoses to the upper atorays of the old building. Our picture shows an extension ladder reaching the third floor; where the precious relics are kept in a strong room.

Amid the cheers of a large crowd of Chinese and Japanese people, the "Asahi" "Goodwill" areo- plane landed at Lungwha Aerodrome not long ago. Our photos show (loft top) General Wa Te-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, and Mr. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister to China, and others, welcoming the Blors; (right top) drinking a toast in calabration of the successful flight at a party held afterwarde at the re- sidence of Mr. Ishii, Japanese Consul-General: (left bottom) presentation of an exquisite Chinese Blower vase to the "Asah!" men by the Chinese Flier Association: (right bottom) Japanese school-child- ran who assembled at Lungwha to welcome the aviators, waving their national flege.

Little Bride's the most deadly illnesses had been

Sacrifice

HUSBAND DIED ON WEDDING EVE

Peiping.

the members of the House of Com-coated a dozen years ago by the shaking their heads. Tiger-claw

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Scores of guests came, were feast-

Mr. Abdul Hamid, ellest ed, and the bridegroom perforce must drink with them, must thank Mrs. S. Ismail, and Mias Ngo Pui- each of them with kowtows. Atwah, fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ngo Yat-slan, were married on last it was all over.

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

But

The explosion precipitated a landslide from the hill near the factory, which wiped out a small

A certain young Mr. Huang

It had been too much. village occupied by potters.

The bridegroom is the manager of Many of these potters and a living near one of the city gates Before midnight Huang was dead

And before the Arts, Advertising and Publishing number of women and children was deperately ill last week. He of tuberculosis.

and Hongkong Employment was not well six months ago when dawa the bride had hanged her Co.

Agency at No. 10 Queen's Road ho was betrothed to Miss Hsieh, solf with her girdle.

Central. The bride's father is a busi but recently the doctors, have been

Fortunately, or otherwise, the merchant residing at 108, Bon-

ham Strand East. mons and all but two or three re- stdent in the West End. It

Islate Jeanne Eagels, she makes her pills, batwing broth and other mother-in-law came into the bridal

chamber early, and cutting down The bride, who wore a white silk jumbled intricate, and in a first unqualified success since her specifics had failed 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 rever.

life. Friends any they fear she red roses, was attended by iwo bridesmaids, the Misses Bilkees Khan is now, at long last, convinced of

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 Huang's parents did it. They with reason, for in a land where

of the widows are outcasts if they refather, Mr. Ngo Yat-shan, while the for her. Rain, not much weathered sought the permission by the years, does well enough for Hsien family to have the wed-marry, 20-year-old Mrs. Huang han duties of best men were undertaken the moment, but many are disturb-ding performed at once. Other absolutely nothing to look forward by Messrs. K. B. Sheikh and ed by the report that Mies Bank-remedies had failed utterly, surely to but a life of polite drudgery in Kwok-sit

After the ceremony, n reception hend intends to appear next autumn the happiness of marriage would the house of her mother-in-law. was held at the bridegroom's home,

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No. 343 Honnessy Road.. young man's malady.

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in which Mr. Romney Brent and Alme, Nazimova are prominent.

Recent weeks have seen, in addi-

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lah Bankhead in a revival of Rain,

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