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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1939.

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OF

FAMOUS COMPOSERS ·

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 1 in C Major

BRAHMS

.......With "Toscanini" and the

B.B:C. Symphony Orchestra (Album-No. 315)

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Symphony No. 4 In E. There ......With "Bruno Walter" and the Wyndham St., Hongkong A How thrilling that inrd yn usually fre, except who cheer lustily, at the winying addition, walk, fro gavana bithe,

DVORAK

B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra (Album-No. 210)

Symphony No. 1 in G Major

HAYDN

With Talich" and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Album-No. 248)

.......With "Bruno Symphony "Military" No, 100 in G Major

Walter" and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony "The Great" In C Major ....With "Bruno Walter" and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Album--No. 318) TCHAIKOWSKY

SCHUBERT

GRIEG

it is.

WORLD CRUISE! noons and evenings but morn- There is quite a "gallery" "brush up" their dancing. In

ings are lessons are in

'Phone 26615

celebrated in the Empress Room for a "Quick one" in the Tennis Eleanor Glide, and so forth.

"Won $20 at Keno" confides a March 8, 1939

by the Roman Catholic Chaplain Court Cafe. On the Sun Deck "What goes on aboard?" and Divine Service in the May- quoits and shuffleboard are in newly-found friend. "Let's cele fair Lounge by the Church of progress, while on the Sports brate with a drink." And that's Science and Food

is a question asked every England Chaplain. We attend Arena two sporting games of how it goes, so many charming where, so for the benefit of Divine Service and the Deck Tennis

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are fought to a and friendly people. In my Twentieth century man has lost those who have never had Ghoir, consisting of amart little finish.

apartment I find an invitation to We wander down to the & Cocktail Party to, be held in some of the optimism with which the great experience I will bellboys and a few other mem- his recent ancestors were wont to

try to give a brief outline. bers of the crew file in one door, Library to choose a book and the Card Room; about forty are convivial souls-all while the laundry girls file in find half a dozen others on the invited, welcome the progress of science.

Let's leave New York at the other, taking their places on same errand. In its practical applications

At the writing chattering at once. either side of the Table draped tables three cruise members Feel a bit "let-down" to-day. Boston Symphony Orchestra (Album-No. 114) science appears all too frequently eleven a.m. on January 7.

to be providing

new lethal The siren is shrieking. in a Union Jack. Then comes are scribbling industriously for no earthly reason, so off to weapon, a new noise or a new Those who have come to see the Chaplain followed by some diaries, no doubt. Strains of the Turkish Bath, then to the labour-saving device which throws the lucky ones

It is "Melody in F" come from the smart Beauty Parlour for a away and of the senior officers. out of work some fresh category bid them "Bon Voyage" quite impressive and we feel Mayfair where the Tea Concert shampoo, wave, facial,

Symphony No. 6 la 1 Minor..........With "Koussevitsky" and the

Sonata in C Minor-For Violin and Piano

CESAR FRANCK

"Rachmaninoff & Kreister No's-DE-1259-1200-1201

Sonata in A Major-For Vlelin and Piano

with

"Rubinstein and Helfez No's-DE-3206-3207-3208

Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

YORK BUILDING

TEL. 20527

CHATER ROAD

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of working men. The intent of the

we are in a real Church.

**

and

is in progress so we sink down manicure, and come out feeling always diversified reports of the pour down the gangway to

in a big easy chair to listen and "on top of the world." "Woman sip tea. This "afternoon tea" thy name is vanity", said a Department of Selentific and In- the shouts of "All Visitors

we soon very wise man once upon a time!' IN A FEW DAYS the weather becomes a habit and dustrial Research provides an ashore, please."

grows warmer and the decks know when it is four o'clock by

There are plenty of Bridge admirable antidote to such pessi- Streamers thrown from the mism, for a considerable section of high decks fall on the crowds are filled with people taking that strange longing for the lovers aboard and the Bridge Parties held in the Empress the report is devoted to the sub-waving on the dock as the ship their daily dozen, sitting in deck cup that cheers"."

Room are well attended with Five o'clock! Off to 30006ject of human food and

the nice prizes for the winners. to the slowly pulls away from the Pier chairs, chatting in little groups, methods discovered for keeping to which she will return on May or just gazing over the side and movies in the Empress Room Horse and Yacht Racing on the which last until 6.18. Still time after deck are always fun, with it both palatable and wholesome. 14 after cruising 30,000 miles drinking in the fresh breezes.

A number of smart costumes for a swim before dinner! We the betting fast and furious. Twenty years ago Britain was and visiting 29 ports.

take my eye. One charming slip into our snappiest bathing Two small bellboys throw the faced with a serious shortage of

older woman, immaculately suit and down to the Olympian dice and sailors move the horses food, owing to political conditions which, it is may recur.

DON'T FAIL TO SEE

WARRENS'

A. R. P.

MODELS & EQUIPMENT

AT THE

A. R. P. EXHIBITION

AT THE

PENINSULA HOTEL

common knowledge, WE-STAY-on-deck-to-wave-groomed, is wearing.a.rose beige Pool-to-join-tho-jolly-group-of-oryachts-

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farewell to the Statue of wool dress under a top coat that swimmers, divers, and those who During the emergency Liberty and then go to

our matches perfectly, with a hat just splash.

Find I have mislaid my cold Food Investigation Board was apartments to unpack, secretly of exactly, the same shade

cream. Must visit the Shop to established, and it is under the admiring those dainty evening crowning her beautifully waved

see if they have my favourite auspices of thin organisation, dresses and snappy sports white hair. 'Another, a dashing which has survived and grown clothes chosen so carefully.

brunette, is wearing blue slacks, THERE HAVE been many de- brand. Yes, they have! And lightful events. A general what a variety of other things during the years of perce, that;

Then out on the Fromenade blue pullover and a quaint little reception it which the Cruise of pins to a fully fitted dressing all the way from a package some of the most important prob- Deck to look our fellow pissen- crownless blue felt hat. A Director and his staff met the case, tems of food storage have beengers over, making mental notes blonde in pearl grey knit with cruise members. (Note we are of those we should like to meet. touches of coral, is the cynosure cruise members and not just Apart from preventing attacks At seven the dressing chimes of all eyes. There are many passengers). Then by insects upon stored grain-a sound and we hurry to our smart knitted

costumes but the Younger Set.

a Tea for THE DAY of our arrival at A Cocktail

lovely Madeira a Treasure form of wastage which coste stateroom wondering just what sport dresses in flannel seem Party for the Bachelors, and in Hunt was held, with everyone Britain at least £600,000 a year to wear--if everyone will be to be the most popular.

formal Tea Dance, followed by a so busy attempting to "discover" and still requires remedecine dressed for dinner and decide JP ON the Tennis Court a fast jolly "Get-Together" Dinner and the treasure we had quite a report mentions three specific

match is under way; the Dance. Early in the cruise dan- shock when looking to port we problems. the storage of apples to dress anyway.

solved.

and pears, the chilling of beef, To the smart Cooktall. Bar, girls clad in shorts and shirts cing classes' are held so that "discovered" the island quite and the keeping fresh of fish. where a cheery group is gathered and the men in slacks and those who are shy about appear close. Ten years ago the "gae-storage" and gratefully accept an sweaters,

ing on the ballroom, floor may Ports of call are frequent in.

of fruit was still in the experi-invitation to join them. (We DO menal stage; 20 years ago the term was wholly unknown. To feel a bit lost at the moment).

Then dinner in the great

day there are 3,000,000 eable feet;

We look the of storage provided to keep apples Dining Saloon.

What a choice of and pears fresh by this method. menu over. Less than six years ago the first food! Let's see.

Some consignment of chilled beef loft consomme perhaps and a tiny New Zealand for London; In 1937 piece of Bole-so big. Now the two southern. Dominions sont what? The attentive steward 750,000 hundredweight of beef

suggests chicken Maryland: carried in special chambers

Perfect! Ummm! some fresh enriched with carbon-dioxide, and the process has allowed meat to green peas, and yes, a little Arrive in far better, and certainly cauliflower, No-no potatoes in far mora, palatable, condition (Don't want to get fat!) than former methods of crude re- then. . Poach Melba. No- frigeration allowed. Fish, again, not even a savoury to-night. which in present conditiona can That's

plenty. The dishes

be kept really fresh only 10 to 12 follow one another In quick daya, has been experimentally preserved for as much

we chatter to AB two succession years by new processes of "brine-table companions. All the food

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C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. freezing point of which our is delicious and we consume far

St. George's Building

Hongkong.

Count the "TELEGRAPHS"

everywhere

At 9.80 the Dance Band draws

sorely atrickon fahing Industry too much for the good of our will, it is to be hoped, avall itself. figure. The man on my right With Ash, with fruit, and to suggests coffee and liqueur in lesser degree with butcher's meat, the Cathay Lounge. Yes, in- the problem of preserving food is deed, we'd love it. not simply one of keeping it "good" during transport, but of using a seasonal product all the us to the great Mayfair Lounge. year round. In the past the.The charming Social Directress scientific storage of food ins approachés: bida us "welcome", chiefly helped the importer, but makes a few introductions and there la no reason why it should away we whirl · Midnight!--- not help the home producer na and so to bed. well, as has the cognate develop-

mont of canning. The Depart

ment of Scientific and Industrial WHERE DOES the time go? Research, a Government Depart-1

Wo've met hosts of people ment, has led the way, but it in

for Industry itself, as the report now and find we have many points out, to avail itself of the mutual friends. There is always advances.

something arranged for after-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

the Mediterranean and the days. at sea are always welcomed to

By Lichty give us a chance to rest up. Be-

"Stop being rude and interrupting mother, Lucy-I can't hear a- 'thing they're saying at the other table!";

fore each port an Illustrated Talk is given by the Cruise Lec- " turer, and most instructive they

are,

Cocktail parties aro now the thing when anywhere

from twenty to a hundred. congenial. souls gather for a "get together" before dinner. And the Sports Tournaments are "going strong" with many a hard fought battle. taking place.

Up to Suez woollen sports. clothes and dark evening things. were "Just right” but now thin voiles, smart printed cottons, and shady hats are the thing with wispy evening dresses of fine lace, net, tropical crepe and so forth the correct wear. The men have changed also, and very smart they look in their white evening jackets.

The Outer Pool has replaced. the Olympian in popularity and Mermaids and Mermen in the briefest of sults are acquiring n- golden tan as they laze around the deck between dips in the pool. Such fun! Someone brings along a Victrols, and all join in the choruses of the latest popu- lar songs." There are two orches- tras aboard one for dancing and one for classical music. We

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