Rush To
Issue
MAGIC- MAKER MALINI
New Stamps
Three Dominions'
Rivalry
GREAT BRITAIN'S
DESIGN
·
A race to issue the first King Edward VIII, stamps is likely to develop. between Canada, Australia and South Africa..
I understand (writes a London representative) that although official sources are reticent on the subject, these Dominions have prepared designs for the new stamps and they wil probably be issued before the end of this year.
Thero is also a possibility that the be new Great Britain stamps may Issued this year considerably curlier than was expected.
The work of the Committee set up to select the design has been inter- rupted by the holidays, but they whi probably make their decision early next month. The design will then be submitted to the King for approval.
South Africa achieved the dilatize- tion of insuing the first stump bearing: the head of the late King on Novem- ber 4, 1910, only six months after he hnd succeeded to the Throne, and seven months before the Coronation. This was a 214d. stamp, but it is not! rure, and in valued at about two shillings.
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AIR MAIL STAMP
South Africa, also, has already pre- pared the design for the 151⁄2d, stimp; to be used on the new Empire Air
Mail Service, and these will be issued
as soon as the service is inaugurated, "It is hoped," acending to the Gener- al Post Office, "some fime
nexi
year.'
The introduction of stamps of the! new reign gives an added interest]
years while
to those issued in the 25 King George was on the Throne.
The highest values are naturally associated with the two greatest events of the period-the Great War and the development of aviation. A few other stamps with some minute peculiarity are of unknown rarity and have no catalogue price.
The highest-priced stamps of the Just reban are:
The "Hawker" Newfoundland
Issued stimp.
for correspondence carried by Hawker and Grieve on the first hitempted Atlantic flight in May, 1910. (They came down in the sea -near Ireland and were picked up, Only 95 of these stamps were used, 18 were destroyed, 11 were presenta tion caples, and 76 were sold in utd of the Marine Disasters Fund.
HAWKER'S FLIGHT
This did not rank as a stressful Atlanile Might, but the stamps are
6200 -valued nt...£350 unused and
used.
The De Pinedo Air. Mail Stamp, 1997 (recalling the great Italian air- man who was killed three years ago), a 60 cent Newfoundland, overprintel is valued at £500.
Certain stumps, issued by a then enemy country and overprinted after British occupation or capture, fetch
high prices. The Samos German
stamp, surcharged just after the island's surrender in August, 1014. "GJI, One Shillings," of
of which only about 100 are known to exist, is valued at £80. The
same stamp etly, "One Shilling,"
surcharged, coaches £200.
only 35 existing.
to
Toxoland, Arat greupied by the British and then handed over France, produced a stamp, in the first period, valued at £175.
SMALLER VALUES Besides these high values, the £12 Falkland Islands centenary stamp, the E6 Cyprus 50th anniversary, and the Fill Islands Postage Bue stamp worth £20, became insignifleant; but there is a political interest in stamps of the Irish Free State in its curliest daya. Several printers undertook the overprinting of British stamps, and ns the result of alight variations and mistakes in their settings, some of these stumps are valued at from £7 to £35.
Among the "accidental" rarities of King George's reign a high place is taken by the Jamatea one-shilling stamp of 1020, in which the "frame" is inverted. Its value is given £300.
AS
Already there are indientions that Jubilee stamps may reach very high values. Little more than a year after their issue, a set of the Crown Colon- les' Jubilee stamps, which could be bought for about £4 18., is now. priced at £9 10s., and the one rupee Mauritius stamp, not included in this set, is worth £3.
Quins Receive
141,342 Visitors
Sixty-seven buses and 39,210 cars? took 141,312 sightseers to the home! of the Dionne Quins last month.
he
General Chiang King-wen, Com- mander-in-Chief of Fukten Province, having completed the conference with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to which was specially summoned, returned to Hongkong on Monday. Yesterday he called on the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kote- wall; with whom he had an hour's conversation, and Jater-in the day Mr. Kotewall returned the call at Uie Hotel Cecil.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1936.
CARD WIZARD
TELLS OF HIS LIFE
MAX MALINI, MAGICIAN DE LUXE, IN HONGKONG
THIS
RADIO BROADCAST
New Z.B.W. Dance Band
From the Studio;
THE MOANA BEACH BOYS
From 2. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 p.m. A Concert. Pianoforte Solos–E
-Elude in A Minor
Winter Wind) (Chopin, Op. 25); Etude No. 3 in
in F Minor: Elude No. 3 in D flat major (Chopin indour Scharter; Son
Songs Chanson
Koubiizly) (Tenor),
.Ireno
Alexandre
is the story of a wizard with a million-dollar pair of hands. Hongkong knows him well. lo (Song of India from Sauko") first visited here 23 years ago, has fre-sky-Korsakov): Hepak-Melodiła
Russe (Moussorgsky) Violin Solo- quently made this Colony "with the Caprite, Op. 1 No. 24 (Paganini).... most hospitable people in the world" Heifetz; Songs-Song of the Thames. -his home. His name is Max Malini. (Morrison).... Peter Dawson (Bass-
Last night, in between pulling playing cards out Baritone). of the air, and extracting coins from my pocket Quotations. (marvellous!) Max told me the story of his life. Thirty years before he made his first, visit to Hongkong, Max Malini was born in an obscure and unpronounceable little village in Austria.
His parents were poor and humble Jews. All their lives, it seemed, they had been seraping and Having, for they, like millions of other Europeans of the poverty-stricken. post-Franco-Prussian war Strange tales were period, had but one ambition. being brought back from across the Atlantic of a New World, where men were equal and there was no oppression,
'ROBOT' HEART TO BEAT
FOR A WEEK WHILE
,
SCIENTISTS
WATCH
Copenhagen, Sept. 3.
COLONEL CHARLES LINDBERGH and Dr. Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize winner, demonstrated the "robot heart," of which they are the joint designers, to 200 scientists in Copenhagen to-day.
Lindbergh entered the ennference hall with Mrs. Lindbergh, eluding: an inquisitive crowd, and they modestly took seats at the back of the hall.
The "hgarl," which beals sixty times a minute, is a chamber of glass
LONDON
PRIEST
JAILED
SA Special Correspondent.
FATHER
Cologne, Sept..7. B. O'DONOVAN, fifty-five years old, of St. Helen's Roman Catholic Church, Stockwell, London, SW., a former chaplain at Brixton Pri- son, was to-day sentenced to two months imprisonment by a Cologne Court for immoral of fences.
"Tallier “O'Donovan ̋who" "tiespite his seven weeks in a remand prison,
tubes, in which animal tissues can, it is claimed. be kept alive, apart from the body, by "feeding" them with a continuous strrain of blood substitutes,
Dr. Carrel WIN scheduled to operate on an antruni for an organ to be placed in the chamber, where the scientists will watch results. The machine will, work throughout the week.
was in the best of spirits during to- day's trial, pleaded guilty.
Bad Health Plea
Dr. W. Oppenhoff, kis lawyer, gave as an excuse Father O'Dono~ van's bad bealth. He produced a letter from the priest's bishop show ing his good elurmeter.
The public prosecutor, however, demanded
sentence a
of three months.
*The judge sentenced Father O'Donovan to two months. He said that the seven, wedu" bi“ prisón” would be taken into account.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN
IN EVERY PERSON WHO COMES NEAR YOU, LOOK FOR WHAT 15 GOOD AND STRONG; HONOUR THAT; REJOICE IN IT-
tushin.
A dinner dance will be held u7 th open roof of Repulse Buy Lido weather permitting and at Repulse Bay Hotel in the event of bad wea ther, to-day at 9 p.m.
Kwok Lal-yee, 24, at tallur, sesid- ing at No. 162- Third Streel, has been admitted to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from the effects of Lysol poisoning, said to have been self-administered.
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Ho Leung-so, 30 coolie ployed at the Green Island Cement Company, was admitted to the Kow- lom Hospital yesterday suffering from Injuries caused when ክር accidentally fell into the manhole of a grinding machine.
Loen! estate to the value of $10,200 was left by the late Mr. Andrew Shewan, formerly of 30 Bromfeld Street, Poplar, Middlesex, who died on November 24, 1935. An applicu- tion by Mr. H. J. Armstrong, solici- lor, the lawful attorney, for sealing grant of probate of the will, wus allowed.
The following forthcoming wed- dings are announced: Mr. Romney Lyle Pearce, accountant, of 11 Star- ford Rond, Kowloon, and Mies Geraldine Frances Meagher, teacher, of Seattle, Wash.; Mr. Ernst Muck, import and export secretary, of 11-3 Tekaramachi, Tokyo, and Miss Maris Liliana Monti, of 112 Waterloo Road, Kowloon.
Plending guilty to a charge of having fraudulently converięð $51, the property of Ip Wing-to, Kwan Po, aged 38, odd job cootle, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magis- tracy this morning. Sergeant Byron said defemlant formerly en- ployed by the complainant, the manager of the ip Wing On shop
man
was
dealers in sewing machines. On April 20, defendant,
under in- structions of complainant,
took a machine and delivered it to a cus- tomer, in payment for which he received $51. Defendant absconded with the money, but was arrested yesterday in the street.
BRIEF
The P. and O. liner Chitral is due here from Shanghal at Cum. Friday,
•
on
H.M.S. Dainty and HMS: Dianu returned to Hongkong this morning from Welhalwei.
An aged man, Kwok Chun. 62, collapsed in Des Voeux Road West yesterday afternoon, and died at the Government Civil Hospital about two hours later. Death was due to natural causes.
Cheung Chun, 46, residing at Tai Chung Street, Un Loli W05 nd- mitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from minor in- jurles caused in a motor accident. It appears he was riding in ear No. 134 when it struck against tree near Fanling. Be was injured by the wind-screen splintering:
Chan Taog, ned 26, unemployed. appeared on remand before. Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- fracy this morning, charged with the possession of two forged $10 bank- notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on September Flat Reclamation Street. Detective- Inspector A. H. Elston was for the prosecution. Hering of the ense was fixed for 2.30 p.m. on Friday.
For importing unmanifested wol- frum ure into the Colony, Tsui Tim, mess boy, was ordered to pay a fine of $5, with an order for the con- fecation of the ore, by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy this morning. C.R.O. A. Grimmitt explained that the ore was carried in two frult barrels and the total amount was one picul. He added that price of wolfram ore was in- creasing owing 10 demand by Japanese buyers,
Ku Sin-king, aged 23. married woitan, appeared before Mr. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Mugistracy this morning, on two counts of abduction of children. She was charged with taking Chung Yer, aged 13, girl, from the custody of her aunt, Chung Ying-ho, on Septem ber 12, and with inking Au Nui,, aged 11, girl, from the custody of her mother, Ku Ying, also on September 12. Detective-Inspector A. H. Elston asked for a remand of 40 laurs, which was granted, s
So, in 1883, a small ill-clothed, under-nourished young boy stood
day with his parents and
gazed with wide-eyed wender up the city of New York.
He could neither read nor write, and in the years that passed before he, grew into manhood, had little ume to learn.
One day he paid a dime to see a toale at work. Ambition magician hold of Max Malia) from that day. An old pack of playing cards and u few copper coins were his acces-
suries.
(Alan Murray)....The Air Pilot
7.30 D.BL
Closing Loent Stock
7.33 p.m. Song Memories, Songs of Home; Songs that every-
body should know: Noel Coward Medley; It was a lover and his lasa, 8 p.m. Time, Weather and an- nouncements.
1.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio, "The New Z. B. W. Dance Or- chestra,"
Programme. Tiger Rag; 2. I'm a fool for lovin' you; 3. Lady and the Fan; 4. A Waltz was born in Alaron; 5. Vienna; €. Twilight on the Trail; 7. Don't mean a thing: 8. Speak to me of love; 1. Sweet and Slow; 10. Poor Butterfly; 11. Sweet Sur.
8.45 p.m.
m. Three Songs by Millza Korjus (Soprano).
1. Funicull-Funicula (Denza); 2. La Danza (Rossini); 3. Bell Sonr ("Laime") (Dellbes).
0 p.m. News and Announcements from Lontion.
9.20 p.m. From the Studio, Howallan Selections by Moana Beach Boys."
Trogramme.
The
1. Kuu Ipo; 2. I want to go back to my little grass shack: 3. School- day Sweethearts; 4. A nyncopated Buln love song: Kumnaina: €. Te you Sweetheart, Alolin.
5.
9.40 p.m. The London Palla- dium Orchestra.
Japanese
He decided, delectedly, that he could never be the kind of mugician who produces elephants with the wave of a wand, or takes dozens of white rabbits from a top hat. Ele-
Carnival (Andre de Bas- phants and rabbits cost money.
Newspaper-vendors and streetque); Marche Symphonique (Savine); urchins were his Arst audiences. A Birthday Serenade (Lineke); Les SUCCESS CAME SLOWLY Sylphides (arr. Lotter); Old Viennu Success' came slowly.
It was a Moon (arr. Cardew); Live. Laugh fur cry from the days of his child- and Love ("Congress Dances"),
to the hood Mapene to
when days he made
eyes pop with amaze- ment in Europe, or appeared before four Presidents of the United States.
Education, like success, came at ter Max had reached manhood.
"Most
of my education came from
1. Waitz Llewellin....Wledoft; 2. six Serenade Badine........Marie; the experience I've gained on
3. Humoreske...Dvorak; 4. Saxophone tours around the world,'
he told me. To-day, there are few corners of Fantasin... the word that do not know the 10.15 p.m. A Variety Programme.
famed 5-foot high magician, whose
10 p.m. Big Ben from London. From the Bludlo. A Light Classical programme by L Palapa (Saxophone) accompanied by F. Gonzalez.
Programme.
Rosebrook.
Song-He's an Angel..
Elaic Cor-
worth sleeping in!
These pyjamas, made of soft
spun artificial silk, cut on free and cosy lines to avoid any
"drag" in wear.
Plain light blue, red, medium
blue and biscuit.
$13.50
Less 10% cash discount
Other qualities in plain colours
and striped designs.
From $8.50
Lens 10% cush discount
A LARGE ASSORTMENT
OF SLIPPERS
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS
"The Maid of the Mountains
VOCAL SCORE
at
ANDERSON'S
collection of appreciative letters in-isle; Vocal Polly Wolly Doodle; Big O
Rocky Candy Mountain...The Rocky Mountaineers, Humorous Contes-
clude the signatures of Presidents McKinley, "Teddy Roosevelt, Hard- States, Royalty of Europe and the uristocracy of Britain.
.Max
ing and Coolidge of the United slons of a Cheeky CMiddle of a
Malini has gleefully watched amazed expressions of two the British Monarchs before whom he has appeared.
One was the late King Edward "VII)"the"other" Lie Tule Khig George
His greatest ambition was to op- pear before British Royalty. He tald
me last night how he fulfilled that ambition.
lle. went to England with the ex-
Connle
Miller; Songs-In the Kiss: You're all I need.....C Boswell;
Banjo Solos-La Vivandlere; Joy Dance....Ernest Jones; Vocal I'm all alone....Les Allen and his
Canadian Bachelors; Orchestra-Six Eight Medley....Harry Roy and his Orchestra: Song-Blazin' the Trad
Len Bermon: Organ Solos-Gipsy Love Song; Indian Love Call....Sig- mund Krumgold.
11 p.m. Close Down,
press intention of playing before MISS BADEN-POWELL'S
King Edward VII. But everywhere Matini met with British conser- vatism.
"Discouraged, I made up my
he
to return to the United States," snld. "As
a last resort, I thought I'd try the American Ambassador.
LINER ROMANCE--
AND A COINCIDENCE
the nineteen-
AFTER a four months courtship He couldn't help me to play before starting on a liner, Miss Betty St. the King, but he did ask me to give Clair Baden-Powell. a private party for himself. The year-old daughter of Lord and Lady. Premier, Mr. Balfour, and other Baden-Powell, is to be married on members of the House of Commons September 24 at the parish church were present.
near her home at Bentley, Surrey. The day after the marriage she "Next day, I received a communi- will be on the high sens again-- bound for her new home on the cution from the Royal Agent, George banks of the Zambesi river in Ashton, asking me to call and see Northern Rhodesia. Jim,
DISAPPOINTMENT
DINNER
DANCE
In
the
"Gripps"
---(GRILL-ROOM)-.
HONGKONG
HOTEL
Till
FEATURING ---
'MR. J. A. ANDREW & MISS PAT SYKES
--ARTISTIC BALLROOM DANCING EXPONENTS
and. CABARET
SATURDAY 19th SEPT.
$1.00 PER COVER
RESERVATIONS PHONE 3028).
NE
a.m.
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Her fance, Mr. Gervas. Charles "Excitedly, I went around, but, to Robert Clay, aged 20, elder son of my disappointment, it was only a Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Arden Clay, of request to give performance at Albury, Surrey, will return to 154 Lord Derby's residence.
post 03 District Omeer In the "However, I went. Then, when I Northern Ithodesia Administrative arrived, I found out that the Prince Service after five months' leave, of Wales (inter King George V) was Lady Baden-Powell told of the present.
links of coincidences between her ས་ was bamboozled. did not daughter's courtship with her own. know what to do or say when I "Mr. Clay and my daughter met mel His Royal Highness. I was in April while we were returning only a poor boy without schooling. from South Africa," she said. "My4006088288888888SJESE
and knew nothing about Royal eti-husband first met mne on board a tiner quette.
They told me the Prince of Wales! was ready. Tremblingly, I walked over to him with the pack of cards in my hand..
*MR. WALES"
"Mr. Wales,' I said, 'take a card. "I couldn't understand the laugh-
also.
A DISCOVERY
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
couple found that |POOR LOVER
They My
The both had the same birthday. husband and I discovered the
same coincidence about our own KILLS RICH
birthdays when we met Arst on board skip,"
ter. and felt sick and discouraged. I had retired, in fact, until one night But I finished my performance.
when I was dancing with a little
GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD:
YOUTH ADMITS GRAVE CRIME
SHIRLEY TEMPLÈR "THREATENED :
New York Sept. 10.
Allanta, Ga., Sept: 15. WEST, re-MURIEL LUCILLE
Frank Stephens, 10, arraigned to- nineteen-year-old Hollyday, nonchufantly admitted that he wood society beauty, was found mother of the little fim star, Shirley, hud written a letter to Mrs. Temple, strangled to death in her apart. demanding, $25,000 and threatening
to kidnap the screen prodigy. ment this morning,
"The Prince of Wales' must have told his father, because next day. I sir! six and a half years old. received a request to appear before dance well enough for you?
Mr. Malini," she asked, 'do I His Majesty King Edward VII,"
Malini counts his appearance be-
"You dance beautifully, 1. fore the grandfather of our present plied, with an old crack 62 years of King as the greatest experience in
Öge.
"She looked at me. Why, Mr. him life.
Malini," she said gravely, you're "Since then I feel more at ease just commencing to live!' with Royally," he told me, with a "So I decided to come back to quiet laugh. I've learnt to read Hongkonst commence .tgain."
write, and experience has and
Max Malini started one of his taught me that all you have to do first world tours from Hongkong to make people be nice to you is to almost a quarter of a century ago. be nice to them.
On that occasion, hard-bitten news- "That was my mother's Golden papermen in this Colony presented Rule, and I've always followed it. him with a gold watch as a token
"A pack of cards, a couple of of their esteem. coins and a few wine glasses Jinve His Hongkong season on this oc- comprised this paraphernalia. that 'casion, however, will be a limited. t:ns brought me a life-time of one. Max is combining pleasure experiences rich `In memories-{ with business, and will give public, memories that I would not trade | performances twice only, on Sep-
tember 30 and October 2, for life fiself.
The per- "Now I'm 02 years of age. I sup-formances. will be given at pose I should have retired long ago, Gloucester Hotel,
He was released on a $500 bond -Detectives trying to revive and will probably be sent to a re- Miss West were interrupted by a fornitory.—United Press, young man who explained be was Winston Gardiner, a radio operator aboard the U.S. warship Maryland....
"I killed her! 1 killed her!"* cried, "I love her so much couldn't live without her,"
he
ship that her love was growing coltl,"
"We had planned to be married when I had left the Navy and estabi→ Ilished myslí,
"When I arrived To poller, Gardiner elaborated his yesterday morning Muriel told me with the Fleet. story.
...point-blank that she was through. "I knew our romance. was over,"
"She went to leave seized her, I couldn't he said. "I could feel from letters control myself the
and radiograms I received aboard) jerked a towel round her throat..
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