1935-08-30 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG

At the

REPULSE BAY

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HOTEL

RESUMPTION OF THE AUTUMN

WEEK-END DINNER DANCES

COMMENCING ——

Saturday, 31st August

DANCING TILL 1 A.M.

THE

"REVELLERS" DANCE ORCHESTRA

WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE

It Will

Be Hot Until Mid-October

BUT TWO WARMEST

MONTHS HAVE

PASSED

HONGKONG residents need

not expect relief from summer humidity and heat until the end of October. Meteorological records disclose that the cooling North-East. Monsoons rarely set in before the beginning of November.

But the two hottest months have passed. The mean normal temperature gradually creeps up after April until July-August, when it commences to recede again.

Statistics disclose that the mean average temperature and the mean maximum temperature for the summer months is as follows:

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935.

THE WEANING OF JUBILEE

TRADE

NATIONAL

MARK

NATIONAL String INSTRUMENTS.

We stock National Steel Guitars,. Ukuleles. Mandolines and alf National accessories such as cases, strings, slides, and picks.

Send for an illustrated booklet or better still call and inspect the instruments or accessories you are interested in.

Prices:

16

Dinner $3.50 per Cover

Reservations

78.7

Menn Maximum Mean Average April

74.8

May

85.8

61.6

Phone 27775

June

87.2

85.3

July

89.7

86.8

August

K9.5

86.7

September

87.3

October

84.3

13.4 80.7

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

OUR BRITISH

CROSSWORDS

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30

36

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ACROSS

3D they provide horses with

names?

8 Threat in draughts and curd

lernis.

Nu, pantomime fairy.

10 A Baltic port.

11 Acid.

12 Dominion capital.

13 Yes! About fifty-fifty.

16 Their number in England is

colossal, and their Near-Eastern

associations are, too.

10 Thin ang lifts up its volce.

22 Genuine in a native way.

Being obstinate, doesn't work

freely

24 23 Across.

25 In that direction,

28 A "wolf-cab in old Home.

20 Awful rown! The Lely's been

mutilated.

32 A phase of fashion and its anu-

Kramı.

35 Bird.

38 Variety of Keltic.

37 Planet.

38 Course introduced what sounds

like it.

30 Deserved.

40 This is true.

DOWN

1 Come, if not kept in order, about eleven to find jart of America, 2 The girl has fairly got round the

doctor in a foreign capital. Something to be thankful for.

4 Not the old, old story, evidently.

5 Can they be played from the last

har to the firstt

,G One thing we take a wife for..

Study method in a still-walled

7

town.

$30

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sports item two words, 4 and 3).

16 One of a number in flight.

17 A couple of tens in the man- that's the obvious truth! ing: Closely examiner,

I

1 Proverbially brown,

20 Worth

from

six and eight to few

shillings in Old England.

21 Hold by the merry.

127 Retire from the stage.

28 How a rocket goes off.

30 Asking for more.

31 They toil not, neither do they

spin.

32 Proverbially true.

|34 An imposing display.

34 Woman's name.

In November, when the North- East Monsoons set in, the tempera- ture rapidly drops, the mean aver- age being 74.3 and the mean maxi- November Is also the mum 76.9.

most agreeable month as regarils Humidity, the mean average drop- ping to 68.2. This in fact, is the lowest mean for the year, the average in all other months except December being well above 70. The average for the whole year is 78.6.

Most Pleasant Month November is in many respects the most pleasant month of the year in the Colony. It is in this month that we got must pleasant enat nuushine days, the maximum aunotant of 294.6 hours being record- ed in November,

From now until the end of the year we should expect very little more rain, the average for the last four months of the year being less than 7 Inches, of which 10 inches fals during the current math:

Art

Jubilee-the appropriately named and intensely human til. chimpanzee who was born to Boo Boo at the London Zoo on February 15 of this year, has progressed rapidly and is now the possessor of nine * Fellow of teeth. Many gifts have been showered upon her

christening

which, mur bought her the Zoological Society

A

as the above picture reveals, her mother is showing her how to use in the approved manner.

Another Hongkong Girl

Is Achieving Fame

MISS AILEEN HYNES TO BROADCAST

A Hongkong girl who won a singing scholarship three years ago this month is achieving fame in London. She was chosen to fill a role in a West End play at the Haymarket Theatre, one of the leading theatres in Lon- don and has already made several gramophone record- ings.

Aileen Hynes is the girl. Two of her recordings will be broadcast to-night by ZBW, át which broad- casting station she was once an Announcer, and on scrvral occasions a broadcaster of popular studio copeerts.

Situated just within the northern limits of the tropics and occupying Insular position immediately math of the great land mass of ALLEEN, who is the second China, Hongkong's climate is very daughter of Mr. and Mrs, T. materially affected by the direction Hynes, of the General Post Office the prevailing winds. The in Hongkong, was born in New North East Monsoons blow from Zealand, coming to this Colony November to April and during this with her parents many years period the weather is dry and cool

jago. ind invigorating. From May until October, the sensout of the South- West Monsoon, the air is highly charged with moisture and the climate is hot, muggy and enervat City Hottest July, August and September are the typhoon months.

inx.

WAS

She

educated at the Central British School, where she showed extraordinary stage talent in the school plays. One of her roles was that of the mail, the lealing part. in the play "Between the Soup and The City of Victoria is the hot-Savory," which was staged at test part of the Colony. Situated the School's Christmas Party in on the north side of the Island it the Peninsula Hotel in 1930. sets all the heat of the South West Monsoon, but not the breeze, which

is cut off by the mountains behind the city.

PERMANENT TINTS FOR THE FACE

BEAUTY TREATMENT LASTS FOR YEARS

Wins Scholarship

the

showed

Shortly after this party, Aileen, loft for Home and in September, 1932, when she was AILEEN HYNES 17 years old, entered the com- extraordinary talent. petition for the Marianne Rowe Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London.

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A local anaesthetic is given, and the pigment is injected beneath the skin.

This competition was open to women-Sopranos and Mezzo- Sopranos-between the ages of

Council have awarded her an ex- tension of one year.

Was

A little while ago she chosen to fill a role in a West End Play, called "Libel," at the Ifay- market Theatre, London,

Alleen, who has 2 mezzo-

ZBW Broadcast To-night soprano voice, was the winner,! despite the fact that she was In addition, she has made

the youngest competitor, and her several gramophone records, and only training was six lessons some of these are now available in from a Professor of Voice Pro- the Colony. duction shortly before compet-

ing

A slight "peeling" takes effect The scholarship was awarded three years, ending this during the next few days. The for new skin is then formed, and at the month. Alleen's progress during end of a week or two the trans- the three years has been so satis formation is perfect.

Factory, however that the College:

SALESMAN SAM

́ ́JES' BECAUSE BEN ĮSLAPPUM BLACKENED | MY EYES, AN' I CAN'T SEE SO WELL, I'M ON "TH BENCH, AN' HE'S PLAYIN' LEFT FIELD! |HUH! HE CAN'T GET. AWAY WITH THAT!

|MIGOSH! "CHAL

ALL I'M DOIN THIS AFT

- MISSIN' 'EM · WHAZZA MATTER WITH ME? I GOT TH' CREEPS ER SUMPIN'!

Two of the recordings will be broadcast, by Z.R.W. at 8.5 p.m. to-night. One, sung in German. Is Auf Dem Kirchhofe," by Brahms. The other, sung in French, is "Ouvre tes yeux bleus," by Massenet.

Cause for Creeps

Guitars ...from HK.$145.00

Ukuleles $105.00 & $200.00

Mandolines $150.00 $220.00

LARGE DISCOUNTS FOR CASH.

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