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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBEY 7, 1986.

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GILBERT & SULLIVAN Complete Operas

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DVORAK

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ELGAR

210 FAURE

195 LALO

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216 MOZART

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84 RACHMANINOFF

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68 SCHUBERT

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54

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192 STRAUSS

114-TCHAIKOWSKY

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. V. F.D'Azevedo and family wish to thank all their relatives and friends and the Sea and Boy Scouts for their atten- dance at the funeral of their only son, George Victor, also for the letters of condolence re-

many and the doctor and sisters

of the Kowloon Hospital for their kindness and sympathy.

BIRTIL.

HIGGS-At the Matilda Hospital,

on December 7th, 1930, to Mary

Higgs, the gift of a son.

Catherine, wife of the Rev. J. n.

MARRIAGE.

THOMAS-PETTITT. On theth December, 1930, of the Union Church, Kennedy Road, Jack, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas, of Toronto, New South Wales, Australia, to Nance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H., Pettitt, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and late of Adelaide, Australia,

_The_

Around This American Woman, Who Once Lived In Hongkong, May Revolve The Destiny

of a Great Empire

HOW an American journalist has studied the personal life

and characteristics

an American whose name,

has

: of

been in every newspaper recently is shown in the articles written by Jane Dixon, of New York.

She traces the history of Mrs. Ernest Simpson from a humble home in the minor American city of Baltimore to her place in the brightest of London society and on the front pages of the journals of the world.

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It is interesting to note that Mrs. Simpson lived in Hongkong and Canton with her first husband, Lieut. Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., shortly before she divorced him in 1925.

[RS. SIMPSON is medium in height and

is thinnish.

MR

She pushes aside cakes, but takes champagnes and wines, which, though they may add a bit to poundage, are fine whet- stones for wit.

Neither by classical nor by professional standards is she a beauty. Her features are too sharp. The Spartan diet to which she adheres has taken its toll. Her chin is pointed. So is her nose, with a hint of a crook in it.

She has acute facial angles, and she has the driving energy which, when baulked, becomes ill-natured.

it

Her hair is deep black. She parts Thongkong Telegraph in the middle and draws it back in wide waves to a small chignon-at-the-nape of the

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1930.

BRITAIN NOT DETERIORATING

neck.

Her coiffure always is in perfect order but is never "set." Her eyes are deep and dark and almost uncomfortably alert. They belie her speech, which is a soft Southern drawl. Time and again it has been remarked, "She has the most beautiful" voice in the world."

Friends characterise her as "snappy." an ultimate in compliments to the smart-set woman. She lends chic to the plainest attire. She has a flair for repartee and peppers it with bright quips and potent slang,

Those who pride themselves on being abreast of the latest word or phrase that puts a firm finger on a spot-especially if it is of American origin-are highly amused by "Toby's" facility in the art of "slanguage." To intimates she is "Toby.". She appears to speak out loud in church, to say exactly what she thinks, but this is a carefully cultivated posc.

In Mrs. Simpson, dance addicts find a peerless

· partner.

She is graceful, rhythmic and tireless, and is an adept at every modern step, whether swinging a fox-irot in one of London's fashionable West End night spots, dreaming through a tango in a St. Tropez Cafe on the Riviera, or walking the Thumba In a Biarritz bar basqué. – It is a tenet of the Simpson technique never to drop. Hers is

a strictly wherc-do-we-go-from-here tempo.

WHO is this miracle woman? In Baltimore, her birthtown, those who knew her say: "Oh, you mean Bessie Warfleld! Her name's Elizabeth. She took the name Wallis when ho died. She'e n Maryland Warfield. The first one came from "England in 1602. She came out in Baltimore in 1914; had a way with her; went to Annapolis to a dance and later announced her engagement to Winfield Spencer, jr., a handsome young naval officer who was once stationed in the Far East. MRS. SIMPSON

Next thing we knew she'd divorced him. Were it not for the dramatic arrangement of the hair, the "After a while she visited a friend in New York, a mouth would be the most conspicuous feature of an ensemble Canadian ship broker's wife. His name was Ernest Simpson. that is in no way notable for artists, but which is compelling for Next we knew Bessio was Mrs. Ernest Simpson and had sailed students of character.

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"In view of all the foolish talk we hear about the deterioration of the British race, it is re- assuring to read the recent de- claration made in the House of HER mouth is wide and has a good natured up- Commons by. Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, when

turn at its corners.

he declared that "we are not a C. 3 nation; the reverse is the truth, and, viewed over any period

In the recent selection of París couturiers of the ten best way to London with her rich young husband." of time which enables just com-dressed women, Mrs. Simpson was well to the fore. Simplicity is Mention Mrs. Simpson to conservative matrons of parisons to be made, our national | her metier. She affects black. Last summer she wore ankle- London's social stratosphere. They say: "you refer to that health has improved not merely length gowns in cities and slacks or shorts in coastal towns.

boarding-house keeper's daughter, I presume. One docesn't know Sports clothes, which comprise three-fourths of her her, really," steadily, but remarkably." This wardrobe, are tailored, and evening gowns are of supple materials statement was followed up by facts moulded to her faultless figure. She has no ruffles, few jewels. and figures which should put the issue beyond all doubt. For example, latest statistics show that the expectation of life at birth has increased by seven

years in the last twenty whilst infantile mortality last year was the lowest on record, the figure being 67 compared with 74 in 1929. Moreover, as Sir King-

Boarding-house keeper's daughter? Certainly. Why

At 40 which is near enough to her age, since she has not? During Mrs. Simpson's girlhood, her mother, widowed and been estimated variously between 38 and mid-forties--she has without fortune, supported herself and her daughter by taking the courage to appear with the minimum of make-up and only "paying guests" into the modest, Baltimore house she managed. necessary grooming from the beauty harbours.

to rent..

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HOW does a middle-aged woman with no particular claim to beauty, no towering intellect, no background-of-glory or glamour, manage to captivate attention as she does? The answer is personality. She is aglow with it.

sley Wood pointed out, a healthy sign of the times is the growing to the Health Minister's views appreciation of the value to the when the President of the Board average citizen of the right way of Education declared that to describe the physical condition

British matrons, in their effort to disarm the "interloping commoner," give her the accolade due the only American aristocracy, the nobility of work. Her mother chose to be an independent carner rather than a dependent pensioner.

ROADS OF ROMANCE

someone. He

towards Came

יי

me

"You see that rickle of tones there, on the hills7?" he asked me. "Well, you used to be a può,” ̧*

"A road used to pass there, he went on, "but you can hardly see it

different ways.

I walked into the sunset.

of living, eating and clothing of the people as one of deteriora. WAS lonely. All the day I had almost forgotten now, that web then on camus om were standing and particularly of the increased tion was grotesque and added kept to the hilltops and the modr Borderland, and of the romance on once came from Melrose Abbey: We talked until the intense blue health which can be obtained, years a distinct improvement în land, and my low, brief glimpses of which has become a part of this the monks used it in nuld times." both of body and mind, from that there has been in recent habitation had been of a steading country, ---

of the sky had dimmed to green, and physical education and exer- the condition of children. In here and there, shining unexpectedly

He leaned back against the dyke, was already becoming shaded with cises, such as field sports, swim- some quarters, as a writer has white in the valleys below me.

unfolding to me his remembered duck, we parted, and went our ming, hiking and more life in pointed out, the British lion has I was surprised when I did meet knowledge. All around us was the

But this the open air. The Government been freely represented as being along the hillpath, his two dogs panting on the heather, their tonguca me I-did not go alone. There was

quiet of the hills. The two dogs lay is also fully alive to the needs in the last stages of decrepitude, chasing before him, his bent backs Papping at the air. His face was set with me a pageant of shadow-forms of the time and is assisting In without teelh

and

without shadowed against the shimmering and serious, and it seemed to have Roman legions, helmeted, shining the further promotion of physi- claws, and with a tall that can blue sky. He was a shepherd. We taken to itealt something of the raiders: Picts; a queen who fled from. cal betterment by encouraging be twisted ad lib. British people met by a dyke, and leaned against moorland tones of red and brown; her countrymen; a king who return-

ed victorious from battle. ALI the establishment of more clubs do not take these aspersions too it for a ume talking.

his volce was low.

tory went with me into that colo for young people as well as more seriously; and, in any event, the He told me of many things, of He spoke of the Roman roads, ed sunset, all ages, all men who, community centres in which not British lion is fast being pro-shepherding and farming,.of stories

twisting Pattletracks the Plets had roads. There was the. swaying only physical but moral leader vided with new and better teeth he bad known, of a book he had straight and conquering, and of the through the years, have used these made over these miles of fill and stage-copch, with its straining horses, ship has a place. In these mat and claws, so that tall-twisting

of cattle, the tera, however, there is no in- will not be so easy as it has been

a blasted big book," he valley. These roads, baried now the quiet droves compulsory, schemes of national way. Self-depreciation can be and it was a boot the auld ronds in stretches for those who know where and more, were part of my com to look for them. He told me, too, pany of shadows. But, before all in these parts."

monk, his head cowled of roads more distinct, where stage my mind, a regimentation and control which carried too far and the assure some of the European nations ances now given by those in a It had taken him all the long coaches used, only last century, to and lowered, walked solitarily as T.. have seen fit to put into force. position to know should help nights of a lambing-time to read, but make their dally journeys, and of walked along that hill-path; he saw with the beauty 1 saw, and perhaps he There was further support given towards correcting-Toneous Him

ho did not regret that. It had told drove roads, now overgrown

of many things he had not grass, but even-yet traceable--and loved this-Borderland-as-love it. in the recent Commons debata ideas on the matter.

known before; of the roadways, easily followed,

read.

"It was

Lane, Crawford, Ltd. clination or necessity to adopt for those with inclinations that told me, "near as big as the Bible, with time, and only there in brief and glitter of a royal march. These,

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