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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1987.

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GIPSY NINA (Soprano)

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FRANCIS DAY (Soprano)

REGINALD FOORT (Organ) CAMPOLI'S ORCHESTRA

MOLLY PICON (Comedienne)

MAREK WEBER'S ORGHESTRA

COMEDY HARMONISTS

VON GESZY'S ORCHESTRA

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EIGHT PIANO ÁNSEMBLE

NEW MAYFAIR 'ORCHESTRA MARRIOT EDGAR (Talking)

LONDON PALLADIUM ORCH. JOSEPH HISLOP (Tenor)

Nuisance

BD-253 Fortune Teller's Song

Like a bolt from the, blue BD-200 Speak to me of Love

Stars Over Devon BD-323 Me and my Dog

Swing (Public)

No. 1) BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml BD-340 Teddy Bear's Picnic

Mouse in the Clock B-8400 New York Symphony

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D-0213 Waltz Dream (Strauss)

Gipsy Love Waltz (Lehar) B-8274 No, no, Nanette Tea for

Two Whispering B-0434 Free and Easy

Gipsy Wine B-8414 We were Dancing

night 8.30) Parisian Pierrot C-2018 Rhapsody in Blue

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C-2074 Love Tales-Selection C-2707 The Lion and Albert

With her head

underneath her arm. C-2727 The Leek-Selection C-2728 The English Rose (Merrie

England) For Love Alone C-2764 Soloist Delight

March Heroique dé Szabady

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Witty but only. too true article by JAMES AGATE on

Getting

into

DEBT

AND." said Lady. I KNOW many men who hold the Skimpolian Bracknell, "gives philosophy. A rich man said to one position, and me the other day: "My dear James, when I had five pounds a prevents one from keeping week I counted four as pocket it up.

That's all that can money. When I had five thou- sand a year I regarded four thousand as loose change,"

be said about land."

An income is something that one cannot live without or with in. At least many people have found it so.

same

I sympathise again, and to this extent am a Skimpollan, I strongly object to finding money for rent, rates, taxes, food, clothes, light, heat and water.

"Look out-there's

my tailor!"

Why did they call her a

Gibson

GIRL

brought to life the familiar pictures.

Her hair was dressed high on her head, on her face was that expression of haughty disdain which the young men of the period found so attractive, and. which the young women, there- fore, began to cultivate.

Her slow and graceful walk, her air of boredom and aloofness were a perfect piece of acting, and to one who looks back and sees her vanlahing into the wings it seems that she took with her n certain easy rhythm of life which has been lost ever since..

Intellectuals were struck by the apparent vapidity of the lyric, and made great fun of the linca.

"What is the matter with Mr. Ibsen, Mr. Ibsen?

TUESDAY, FEstuary ·9, '1937.

When I was a child I used to MILK SUPPLY ask for more pudding than I

In my view Nature, who could eat, and my mother would PRECAUTIONS

tell me that my eyes were big forced these wants on me, should ber than my belly. It is the supply them. "The butterfles Not a great deal that is new

with expenditure. The are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole emerges from the official report hand is bigger than the pocket, what it concedes to the butter- by the Director of Medical Ser- ane one finds oneself groping

flies ?" for coins that are not there. vices, with accompanying ap-

This doctrine may even be But there is another reason pendices, on the outbreak of why so many people run

into preached and lived up to sub- dysentery which took a heavy debt, This is impatience. A consciously. A mun-about-town his income, replica: fucked toll of young life last November. child, looking to-day into a toy in one of Pinero's plays, when

shop window does not say; asked In view, however, of the previ- "Oh, Mummy, can I have that "Enough for cab-fares and but- ous assertion that the epidemic lively monkey for my birthday ton-holes." People of this tem- was considered to have originat. next August?" It wants the perament have added a new axiom to Euclid's. It runs lively monkey now.

"Ends never meet." ed from one batch of milk at the Dairy Farm Company's pre-

But the intellectuals forgot that the singer was Swedish, and mises, it is reassuring to note

Mr. Ibsen, being a Norwegian, the implication in the latest re-it would have to be ready to sail, many novels. I hear and read

was only, so to speak, one coun- not when I had saved enough about stupendous fortunes and LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2758 Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of port that no blame can fairly be money to pay the wages of the gigantic crashes, but never

try away. They also forgot are always

that rhymes to Gibson are rare this reputable skipper and the crew, but to about people who attributed to

hovering on the edge of debt.

enough to be almost non-existent. concern. "The Dairy Farm," morrow morning.

The lyric-writer intended to Is a young man turned down saya Dr. Wellington, "may fairly ALL my life I have

by-his-sweetie? Frequently. N an evening in the year 1906 suggest that a Scandinavian

ON never been able to And always he has enough be described as a high-class

the audience at the Vaude- should be celebrating the beauty afford what I wanted. All my

the next two years thinking of Mayfair" was running, heard stend of leaving it to an Ame have been able to afford.

My baby eyes were bigger things out in wide and remote the opening bars of one of those rican.

And I imagine that Ibsen's spaces and shooting grizzly melodies that made the name of than my baby belly. My waist- bears. In real life, of course, Leslie Stuart famous in two praise of a Gibson Girl would lino to-day Is larger than it was. he would be hard put to it to find continents. But my eyes have grown in pro- the price of a pop-gun and the portion.

fare to Southend.

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cautions are taken to produce clean milk." Elsewhere, the Di- rector of Medical Services serts: "Altogether, it can be said that the milk is handled in a sanitary manner from the cow. to the consumer, and would be

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have been about as gay and 1.9 Strindberg's A very beautiful Swedish- spontaneous

Charles Dickens created a

Does a young woman tire of American girl came slowly and praise of the Merry Widow Hat. the stage, THERE came a moment character called Mr. Skimpole, her husband

Yes. In which majestically down

in the song when and, with the chorus in atten- drawn it was said, though Dic- case she spends the summer toy dance, sang the song called this creature of ice lowered her kens's son denied it, from Leigh ing with her pearls in a basket Why Do They Call Me a Gib- eyebrows and smiled languidly; Hunt, just as Mr. Micawber was chair at St. Jean de Luz. In

son Girl?" Her name was and it was then that the great drawn from his father. Of the real life, if she ran away from Camille Clifford, and she was heart of the public leaped like n two, Micawber was the sounder her man she would be lucky to billed as "The Original Gibson salmon. economist and more respect be able to live on her beads till

Girl." worthy member of society. Ho such time as she found a job as conducted his life on the prin- a waitress. ciple that something would turn

called Grade A milk at Home." Precisely how the milk which caused the outbreak may have become contaminated can only be a matter for conjecture, but there seems no ground whatever for thinking that the Dairy up. And when it did, that his Farm Company were in any way | debts would be paid.

The tune fitted the singer to In the audience was a man perfection. For it was a languid who had been astonished at melody. It had that infectious READING the other the song, and far more astonish it which no composer since day a book on domes- ed at the claim made for the Leslie Stuart has been able to negligent. The human factor Not so Harold Skimpole, who tic finance I was very much singer. He had the best of Imitate, and it carried all over necessarily plays a prominent did not recognise debts. But struck by this sentence: "The reasons for his astonishment, England the craze which had be-

tion before. part in concerns employing large neither did he recognise money. essential feature of budgeting is for his name was Charles Dana gun in America nearly a genera- numbers of workers, and, even "I don't go about asking people the balancing of income against Gibson,

The story of his life and of under the most stringent rules, Moorish, which I don't under- but in time."

what seven-and-sixpence is in expenditure, not only in amount

the craze for which he was res there must always be some ele- stand. Why should I ask Were this not true, London ponsible in America during the ment of risk in handling such a them what seven-and-sixpenco is would go bankrupt to-morrow commodity as milk. The most in Money, which I don't under- "and universal darkness cover that can be done is to reduce stand?" And his answer to all all," as Pope says. For if every- that risk to a minimum, and it is financial remonstrance was al body in London were called upon obvious that the Dairy Farm ways: "I have not the power of to pay his or her debts before mid-day to-morrow, 99 per cent. Company has always been at counting.""

would be defaulters. great pains to see that this is

I have realised this from In- done. The fly nuisance, which With commendable promptitude, fancy, since, report notwith- is much in evidence during cer- the Government has already put standing, I know more about tain seasons, might well be a the first recommendation into money than any six Chancellors source of danger. Judging from force. Compulsory pasteurise of the Exchequer put together. the report, there are two sources |tion would, without question,

I have made it a rule never to

"that expression of

haughty disdain"!! ninetles is told in Mr. Fairfax Downey's "Protrait of an Era" (Scribners).

When Leslie Stuart's musical comedy was produced in Ame rica that song began the busi- ness all over again.

Valeska Surratt sang it, and it was followed by tableaux vivants of some of the artist's best-known pictures. The Zieg- feld Follies put the Gibson Girl" on the beach, and get the fashion for bathing beautles which is still with us. ́

There were plays about her music-hall songs and sketches about her. She appeared in nd- vertisements. And one might say that her reign continued un- til the eve of the European war.

A second generation of young men had responded to her my sterious charm, and a second generation of girls had begun to imitate that proud carriage of the head and that sidelong, glance.

at Pokfulum-probably the most prove costly to small dairies; it owo more than what I could pay if I spent nothing for three serious from the collection of might even put them out of busi- months. On this principle, if a huts and small houses occupied ness. Yet, on broad principle, total indebtedness at any time by pig-keepers and market security for the public must be may amount to, £26; the shoe- gardeners, and, to a less extent, the major consideration. It is will pinch, but he will be able to from the Dairy Farm's manure true that pasteurisation of itself wear it. pita. It is satisfactory to learn does not render contamination! A man with £1,000 a year may that stops are being taken for Impossible., That it is a valu- owe £250; he will still be able to the abatement of this nuisance. able safeguard is indisputable. nod to his tailor. A man with Two steps, in the interests of But it must be accompanied by £10,000 a year can owe £2,500; public health, were urged by Dr. the most stringent regulations in the tailor of such a one will be Not only had he never met ed in making such a commotion Wellington the making of regard to general cleanliness if The man with £100,000 a year had been an original Gibson he invented. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. yentory a notifiable discice; it is to serve any useful purpose. can owe his bank £26,000 5

the girl. But the craze swept Eng- ...Tho...achlovement of Gibson, on the banker will enter his room on all land from that moment, and apart from the stir ho created,

certainly the singer of the song. (Continued on Page 4)

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and the compulsory pasteurian-Governmont decision tion of all locally-produced milk, point is awaited.

all salaams and obeisances.

GIBSON lives on to-day

"in Maino; and in án nge of craze nobody has succoed,

Miss Clifford, but there never as was made by the type which

(Continued on Page 4.)