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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936,

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Hongkong

"this

awfully refined place

has no real Club life.

wonder if anyone can tell

me where to find real club life in Hongkong?

hopes of learning one or other of these games and of meeting some- body friendly enough to take a little pains over his tuition.

"

I do not include the clubs which exlab solely for particular nation- ala but the many sporting institu- tions open to all when I say that club life in this Colony needs' a vastly different treatment if it is to calor for the stranger in our midst. In most instances, by the time a man has got to know any- body well enough to regard him as a friend he has finished his. con- tract and has to leave. Even the Woppenshaw teams these days. have a tendency to be cliquish!.

*** WHAT is wanted is a new lead from the old hands. Admit some of the youngsters to the com-

says this recent arrival in the Colony, who has been on an un- successful search for friendship

amongst strangers.

mittees and let them have a hand in running the club. You will sus- tain their interest and - increase members hip that way, besides traini ing them to a sense of responsibility. As for the champions and run- ners-up in sport competitions,

WITH the experience of several Banking on the security of long let them spare an hour or two

It is a question I have.. often heard 'asked but one that I have never found satis- factorily answered for the truth is, I really believe, that there is no such thing here.

Club life, in my opinion, com- weeks in several clubs I have membership and the seniority prises a community easy of access found that the only introduction to which rightly accompanies it, of their time to play with to the stranger desirous of making the older members is through an these old timers forget that they new or young members who can't friends; a place where he will expensive course of elbow-lifting owe a duty to the club quite apart give them such a good game as have no difficulty in finding part as satisfactory a method to me from the prompt payment of sub- they are accustomed to but who ners for recreation; a club where as others, 1 grant you, but the scriptions and the supervision of are probably very nice people to Stubbs Rd. he can go most times to relax in kind of recommendation that I its economic runcing. They for meet. They will improve against a convivial atmosphere and talk would prefer to be the exception gel that, the success of any club your better play and they will feel. freely of the nothingnesses with rather ran the rule.

depends not on the achievements you want them in the club instead which the average man re-moulds Otherwise, club' membership is of a few but on an enthusiastic of merely tolerating them as so this world hearer to the heart's irrevocably divided into little set young following which will be much revenue. desire."

coteries into which it is practically able in time to take the places of Finally, get to know new mem- to break without the present fenders in recreation hers, Fam aware that when any- All the three necessary pro- impossible visions of a club can be obtained marrying one of the number! and administration and which body is put up for membership his These grotips. INTO formed of should be encouraged, even train- proposer always introduces him to in Hongkong. To put it cynically as it can be put without people who know each other well ed, by them in preparation for a certain number of gentlemen diverging from the truth: friends because they were all born in the their turn." can be found by those willing to Colony or work on the same firm spend money; recreation can be or have always been acquainted. had if you are prepared to barge They have their tennis and bridge your way into the cliques of estab. session, sit in a circle for their conversation always flows freely members of committees catering and the beginners; but that is not don't have to enquire into his A club should be family history to know whether he where drink will keep place with for the particular sport in which what I mean.

they are interested,

an institution where each; member is fond of billiards or tennis or SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936.

Invariably they are re-elected, is prepared to put in as well as even of a good yarn about nothing This may seem to be stretched THANKFULNESS · a little ton far to stand the test they select the same personel for take out. This applies to the much

man. The of veracity with anyone who has league matches week after week, "full-blown" club Universal feelings of surprise not troubled seriously to consider they continue to dice comfortably buildings and grounds were not and thankfulness have been the question of club life here. with the people they know and to laid out on his subscriptions alone aroused by the reports of the But take a few examples and avaid with the placid charm of and in taking every advantage of

the conservative Hongkongite any its tennis courts, cricket and foot- IN this awfully refined place it is still possible to make sincere attempt on the life of His Majesty

"now". aequaintance of less than ball grounds, squash, swimming, six months' standing.

pold, badminton, billiards and friends and that in itself is suf- Regarded superficially, this in- cheap drinks he should be willing ficient reward for a little incon- such a foul deed, and thankfulness NOTES OF THE DAY animate course of life seems to co-operate with those less skill-venience.

harmless enough. Actually it is ed member who are paying an devitalising and vicious,

Bereavement.

The

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(generally committee men very conscious of their position but it is much more important to let the know that one answer to this fellow feel that you want to meet would be to employ profes him after you had to make his

You

Hongkong Telegraph.lished players; and the convivial drinks: perhaps one or two are stomis to teach the youngsters perfunctory acquaintance.

it.

think them over.

| King Edward VIII—surprise that anyone should ever contemplate

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 2840 Die Meistersinger-Prelude, Act 3 (Wagner)

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that harm to His Majesty was London Palladium Orchestra averted. Actually, it is not at all Among the resolutions adopted clear that the man concerned in by the International Labour Con- the incident harboured any mur-on June 4. that on unemployment ference which opened at Geneva derous intention: he seems to submitted by the two Government have thrown a harmless missile delegates of the United States is of some sort at the King's horse,ution points out that in spite of

particularly important. The resu whilst almost simultaneously a re-apparent economic recovery in volver was knocked out of his many countries, "re-employment S America, too, is er chole, un als work of art, with lampolacks ie Vere Cole in Piccadilly Circus they hand. Mahon himself says he did appears to be lagging behind | not want to injure the King in rising production thus pointing/who digs up thoroughfares and the class into the main the lampblack hole, held up traffic, and then had n

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HE'S A CHAMPION HOAXER

has its cham-¡like large, feet, then covered of encampment. Like When the professor walked out of broke up the road surface, dug their

was soon, washed away, leaving two break for lunch from which they did apparently flat, bare feet to embar- not return."

ass the unfortunate lecturer.

Mere_original_were his exploits with a park bench. With his same friends he was seen carrying away a bench in Central Park, New York.

A zealous policeman took him off MR. TROY (645x the New York to the police station charged with Mery had not ton arrived in New removing, public

Io n property. the bench to be his own, returned to York before he tried the old stunt of once produced a bill of sale proving road mending.

With a couple of friends he appear- the Park and was in no time back at ed outside the Rockefeller mansion, the station in charge of another dressed in overalls, carrying picks, red oficer. He kept reappearing through-- legs, rope and the other paraphernalia out the day at the same police station,

cach time with a different constable, until finally thoy had to be from, the park altogether,

excluded

towards a continuance of serious plays jokes on the authorities.

He is Hugh Troy, graduate of any-way-that-he-acted-an-he-did unemployment-of-a-structural asa "protest." The probability rather than a eyelical type." 1 Cornell University. man about

Countries town and practical - joker - in-Į is that he was labouring under which are concerned about this chief. some sort of delusion--a case of type of unemployment and wish to Mr. Troy set about nequiring his a man with a real or imagined combat it are desirous of obtain-reputation while still at College. Of grievance, which he permitted to ng more knowledge of the charac- his early jokes the one that gives him ter and causes of unemployment in most pride was his treatnicirt of a play on his mind to an extent general and so-called technological professor of architecture. This pro which temporarily deprived him unemployment in particular; and fensor went about everywhere, wel or One wet day young Troy picked on One thing is calls on the I.LO, to enquire into fine, in rubber goloshes. abundantly clear, namely, that the the effects of technological pro- those rubbers, painted them to look Kress on unemployment and in- act has not the least significance, ficate remedies. In his report to political or otherwise, and the the Conference, Mr. Butler, Direc-] horror and indignation aroused tor of the International Labour Office, emphasised the same point. anfongst those who thought it a In his second chapter, which deals deliberate attempt on the King's particularly with unemployment, life are a true reflection of the he emphasises the crucial import. nation's feeling, of deep anxiety ance of the problem, and the| for Hia Majesty's personal failure to cope with it. For in-1 safety. But it is not only instance, although the United States

A local window display shows | It is rumoured that the gentis- Britain and throughout the whole private industry has reabsorbed

of Kowloon street I

took a strong dislike and deter- Empire that thankfulness is felt some five million workers since golf clubs and lawn bowls to man who complained of the in-

March 1933, there are still nearly gether. This combination should adequacy at the King's escape from injury eight million totally unemployed.

east that old favourite ditty, "I'm bearable. He decided that he could from all nations come warm-merica is not the only example prove ideal for some golfers we lighting, is to be invited to broad-mined somehow to make her life un hearted expressions of real relief Almost everywhere re-employment

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Afraid to Go Home in the Dark" best de this by making her what he called "Turkey Conscious," By overy 口 ☐ that the incident has had no un- has failed to keep abreast of the Cabin de luxe parties are all the happy consequences. It would improvement in production and assuredly have been'n tragic irony) trade. "Although there has been age at the Lido just now.

good to us.

monarch and popular world figure, unemployment it by no means cor-

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It is said that lobsters should ther. We should have thought The Council met in solemn state, that they were just the thing for

an cat-wave. The C.S. rend the minute;

Mr. Troy has 10 merey on his friends either. He once had a big chuckle when he watched the guests

at

a dinner party avidly collecting

small pearls out of their oysters. He had bought them that morning at 6d. each, and slipped them into the shells. before his guests arrived.

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o ono New York hostess Mr. Troy

shows. Te sent her turkeys, He

The most famous tricks of the

Brish hoaxer, Mr. de Vere Cole, who died this year, involved his Impersona- ting various celebrities.

We understand that the well-ot he sent her notices of poultry known resident who stated that he sent her telegrams reading "Gobble, so Gobble, Gobble," He telephoned her had never had prickly heat His Excellency's versatility in badly, is, however, feeling well up and talked turkey. His friends took up the cry and for all air. Troy knows so soon after his accession to the responds to what might reasonably assuming the role of llongkong's to scratch.

turkeys are now ruling and ruining have been expected. In countries

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the poor woman's life. Throne, been struck down by an like Belgium, Germany, Great Poet Laureate at the opening of assassin's hand or through the Britain, Sweden and the United the Eu Tong-sen Gymnasium, in foolish act of a mentally-deranged States, where under the impulsion spires us to perpetrate the follow not be eaten during the hot wea. individual. Such an upshot of an expansionist policy a mark would have thrown the whole cd upswing has taken place, the world into grief and deprived unemployed figure still remains Britain of the services of a King abnormally and disproportionately who, bath as Prince of Wales and high. This disturbing phenomenon during the brief period of his cannot be conjured away and can- rule, has displayed rare qualities not be regarded as of negligible

dimportance," Mr. Butler. of leadership, qualities which cludes that there will remain a were never more needed than they hard core of unemployment due are to-day. No-one who has to technical progress, and pleads read the accounts of the incident carucatly for full enquiry into the can have failed to be impressed possibilities of removing It. by the calm and collected inanner

in which His Majesty bore him-

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Soon after he left Cambridge he returned disguised as the Sultan of And followed then a long debnic, Some for-and some ng'in it. A London doctor asserts that Zanzibar, was received by the univer H.E. with eloquence supreme, sausages are one of the best forma sity and town authorities with thre a magistrate whom a form proviously Said "Gentlemen we owe it- of concentrated nourishment. He civic pomp and even lunched next to "This Fragrant Isle, this Eastern seerns to make no bones about it. he had Interviewed in a very different

capacity. dream,

"Must have its master poet." Then Dr. Kotowall took the floor, In recitative fashion, Enthusiastic to the care,

He rose to heights of passion.. "Your Ex" said ko,'

"Say not that we

"A Poct haven't gotl

"I beg suggest your modesty "Forgets our Caldecott."

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self in this grim moment of his These qualities, coupled with life, a miner so typically the happy knowledge that no characteristic of the man. His harm has come to their beloved

ruler, will

yet further endear His when anything Majesty to his

and people might have happened, will heighten the regard and respect thing say that she had never peel- call forth the admiration for the Throne which he so graced so badly as this summer. She of his subjects everywhere.ously adorns.

Wo overheard a bright young

certainly appealed to us,

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Most old residents are convinced that this is the worst summer we've had this year.

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"Powers Reach. Accord." Lel's! hope they don't hang themselves with it.

*** WITH the help of some friends once

Weverly disguised, he posed as a diplomatic official conduct- ing two Abyssinian princes on a tour of England. He arrived at Ports- mouth and officially inspected the D O Now that "du Mauriers" have battleship Dreadnought. He and his arrived, you can do muro o yerely charges were granted all the and ceremony due to their amoking than you did.

rank-a very different story to the present reception of the real royni It is to bo hoped that South exiles from the same country, China gets some rain 'soon to stop this threatened war.

Paul Reilly