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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1939.

HER PROBLEM TO SEE SON OR DAUGHTER WED?

Too Busy Mother Forgot

Mother of 12 children and nurse Mrs. Claro to her invalid husband, Howard, of Ashford, Middlesex, is so tied to the house that she had to choore recently whether she would attend the wedding of either her son br daughter-though both were mar red at Staines Register Ice within An hour of each other.

In her 47 years of life Mrs. Howard has never been a talklo picture and she cannot remember when she lost went to a theatre.

"I should have liked to have atten- ded both weddings," she said, "but 1

simply could not more the time from

home.

"I can never leave for more thun a few minutes, and I chose to be the witness at my son's wedding.

the

"I have never even tecn parents of my daughter's husband." FORGOT TO TELL

Mrs. Howard admitted that she had been such a busy housewife that she forgot to tell her son that his sister was getting married on the same day It was only a week ago that brother and sister knew.

M

LONDON A.R.P.

CHIEF.

VR. HAROLD SCOTT, 51- year-old chairman of the Prison Commissioners, 15 to give up prison work for a time to become Altl, chief of Lon- don.

. It was announced recrally that he had been appointed "co-ordinating organiser of London's A.R.P, gervices."

Mr. Scott will be empowered to approve or reject schemça from local authorities, without reference to any Government department.

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Pianist Cannot Get Hands Insured

Serge Rachmaninoff, the 68-years- old Russian composer and plantst.

wants to insure the hands which have made him famous. But 110 company will give him "cover.”

He is now in London, celebrating the 40th anniversary of his first English performance.

Barten-Hunt

Wedding

Smoke SKIPPER

BRAND BRITISH NAVY CUT

MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTH

Recently he said that he sill Group photograph taken after the recent wedding of Mr. P. N. Barten and Miss Doris Hunt-King's Studio. practiced the piano for three hours a day.

"I am so tired that I have had to

we Liven up composing," he said,

The brother said: If only, my reduce my concerts from about 100 sister and I had known we were getto 70 a year, and I have temporarily ting married the same day, would have had double wedding und mother would have attended.

"But because of our big family my sister and I have been strangers in our own home, and very rarely saw each other.

"I cannot reatuber the last time that I kissed her. It must have been when she was a baby."

MARRIED AT 17

"I never tench musle, because my wife tells me I am a bad teacher.

LIKE JAZZ

Dinner To Lord Chatfield

More than 50 admirals gove n "I prefer jazz to so-called 'good private dinner, at the United Service modern music. I appreciate Elgar, Club, Pall Mall, recently to Admiral

were

Arnold Bax, and Sibelius, but the of the Fleet Lord Chatfield in recogni- last great composera Strauss tion of his appointment 68 Minister and Debussy.

for the Co-ordination of Defence. "Fokine has been experiment- The idea of holding this dinner ing with creating a ballet to some party grew out of a casual conver Women waited

few of Lord Chat- six hours outside

of my music."

station among The composer admitted that hefeld's friends and contemporaries In St. Josph's Church, Batlersen Park- road, S.W., recently to see John loes not like playing his famous the Navy. Thomas Paul, 355.-4-week ler's np-Prelude in C sharp minor, which is prentice, of Hanbury-road, Battersea, known to every ninateur pianist. who celebrated his 17th birthday the "I wrote five others which I much week, before, and 10-years-old Char-prefer," he said. lotte Spron, of Larkhall-rise, Clap- hum, S.W., married,

The couple will live in a two-room flat in Wickersley-road, Buttersca, which has been furnished by friends and relatives.

Delegate Starts Early

seventh

his

Cleveland, O. Although the

World's Poultry Congress and Exhibition will not open here until summer, one delegate already Ins. started journey to Cleveland, according to Sidney A. Edwards, managing direc- tor of the exposition. The delegate ia C. R. Turbel, of the Fiji Islands, who is making the trip here by way of London.

Berlin's A.R.P. Lead To London

BERLIN.

DEEP shelters for Germany will be provided by house-owners, following Reich Garage Order Issued by the Minister of Labour, Herr Seldte.

According to this order proprietors of buildings must provide under- Fround garage accommodation sum- cient occupants of the buildings.

for all vehicles belonging to

At first a small informal reunion was planned, but so great was the interest among Lord Chatfeld's brother officers on the Flag List that an organised gathering was arranged. Eventually I was decided to hold the dinner in the United Service Club, famous meeting-place of the leaders

The Fall of “Napoleon

Broken By-Big Drum

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MANY ghosts will be homeless when the famous old Lyceum Theatre closes down this year to make room for new business premises, and the future of some of the employees is uncertain. Many have "grown up” with the theatre.

"Without musicians and artists," said Mr. Bert E. Hammond, who has been Melville's general manager for nearly 40 years, "we have 138 on the staff.

"Some, of course, are only night-staff and some may be trans- ferred to Princes Theatre.

"We have an elastic date for closing down, and this show ("Queen of Hearts" pantomime) may go on after March.

"By arrangement, we could run another show here until about June. Many of our people have been with us for years.

of the Army and Nnt, a' memberi Perhaps you would like to chat with them."

Adm. Sir Perey

of the club, sent out the invitations.

During the

dlaner message was: read from Admiral of the Flect Sir Roger Keyes, who was unavoidably prevented from attending. At the personal request of Lord Chatfield there were no speeches.

FATHERS-TO-BE

SHOW WENT ON

Mr. Jack Waters, the chief electri- clon, in his workshop, sald..

"I have been at the Lyceum for 27 years. I was walking into this very shop when a bomb dropped | here during the war.

of

"The most popular parito? Oh, doubt. Everyone loves it." Cinderella without a shadow

IN THE MONEY

money all my life.

PACKED IN

1, 2, 4 and 8 uz AIR-TIGHT TINS

CONCERT

By

SITSON MA QUARTETTE

And

CHESTER BLACKMAN, PIANIST Wednesday, 5th April

at. 9.30

In the

p.m.

Rose Room PENINSULA HOTEL

Tickets

$3. $2. and $1. Bookings: Tsang Fook Piano Co. Under the Distinguished Patronage of H.E. Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.

RICHARD TAUBER

The World's Most Glorious Tenor on PARLOPHONE RECORDS

O Sole Mio. (Di Capun.) Richard Tauber with Grand Symn, Orch. Tales of Hoffmann. Ay-Ay-Ay. (Freire.)

...with PhnO.. (Offenbach.)

Act. 1. Legend of Kleinsach. Act. 2. Hoffmann's Aria.

and 34 years at the theatre as book

Mr. Riches (known as Miss Davies R 28004. "Yes, as you see I am sur-R 20080. keeper): "The theatre was damaged and, rounded by fivers and Treasury nearby, many people were killed. San Francisco.

I have been surrounded by notes, "I was thrown across this shop. The garages must conform in con-

There is just one weak point in the:

"A show was on but there was no

came here

with Smith and Car- R020305. struction with the type of shelter re-new, most modern 230-bed maternity

ward of the city's hospital. quired as air-raid shelters.

That is panic, and we carried on until the penter and if you put takings at the self-operating elevator. It simply firemen came and stopped us, tell- £4,000 a week you will find that in R020367. can't keep up with the demands of ing us that the pit bar was full of 34 years these fingers have handled nerve-wrought fathers and only too

gas from a broken main in the millions of occasionally goes out of commission street."

pounds almost enough R020370. to launch a navy under the strain. -

BIGGEST SHOW.

Mr. James Hester (28 years work "The finest Mr. Joe Glynn (property master): front and back-stage): "I came here in 1910. My proudest thing 1 remember here was 'Scrooge, R 20380. La Boherne. Act. 1. "Che gellda manina" (Your Tiny Hand) possession collection of between-with-Seymour-Hicks, three and four hundred tambourines,

The Reich will thus not have to expend huge sums on shelters in future, and the new order assures that the streets shall not become too crowded through parking.

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Mr. John Roker (stage director and

Richard Tauber with Grand Syn Orch.. When You're Away. "Only Girl". (Herbert.) .Richard Tauber.. Sympathy. ("Firedy) (Friml.). When The Sun Goes Down. (Arthur A. Penn.) (Sung In English.)

Richard Tauber.. Can I Forget You. "High Wide and Handsome") (Sung In English.) Ich Liebe Dich! (I Love You.) "Zauber der Boheme")

Jan Klepura.. Weine Nicht Bricht Eine Schone Frau Dir. Das Herz.

(Do Not Cry) (Sung in Gerraan,).

(Puccini:)-

Martha. Act. 3. "Ach so fromm" (Like A Dream.)

(Flotow.)

.....Jan Kirpura. (Sung in German.)

..Jan Klepura.. ("Nessun Dorma") (Sung in German.) TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

in which is the signature of every helps to produce): "I came here us famous artist who has appeared at a mere boy and played Harlequin, R 20200. Turandot. ("Non Plangere Liu") (Puccini.) the Lyecum during nearly 30 years, with the last."

was in the first panto and 1 shall be

"There, are thousands of signa- tures, and I have a special room for the tambourines.

"The biggest show we ever did here was "The Miracle. I also re- member Maud Allan, and, of course, Sir John Martia Harvey in "The Only

Way.

"Once, when Frank Lester was sit- ting on a horse as Napoleon in ‘A Royal Divorce, the front man in the tableau held his rifle too low and the wad struck the borse, which threw Lester into the orchestra,

"Fortunately, he fell on the big drum and was not injured, but the man responsible fled and was not scen again for three weeks.".

MOCK MUTTON

Common Defence True Comparison Of Naval Needs

Mr. Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Adiniially, speaking at Liver- pool recently referred to the big in- crease in the Navy' Estimates continued:

and

the idea tint we are by any means "Do not, however, run away with over-insured on the sea. It is easy, by comparing the German and the British navies, to acquire that feeling of supreme self-confidence which is "Props? Well, we make everything|

so dangerous in matters of defence. it is possible to make here on the naval Powers you should compare not "When you compare these two premises. We can make you a 18 only ton for ton, but also the coast- of multon or a golden crown at short lies that each fleet has to defend. I notice."

Mrs. Annie Baker (cleaner for 20 British Empire and the coastline of you compare the coastline of the years): "I'm sure I couldn't tell you Cormany you will find that it is Ger-

the scrubbing I've done in 20 years, many rather than the British Empire

was

which is over-insured."

had

were

but I've been on the Alms. That

when they came to film the Altthough our population Lyceum.

grown since 1014, and there When George Robey gave a stage more mouths to feed, we had 2,000 party eicaners.

here, he invited me and other fewer merchant ships than we had then with which to feed them, whic

am responsible for the circle, the ships of other nations had In- und the number of spectacles and creased by 7,000, opera glasses people leave behind-

you'd never believe,”

Wally Mark (The Cat in "Queen Rabit Farm Pays

Arkansas City, Kas,

of Hearts"); "first came here in 1911 and for 20 years I have been

Ray Seeley, music store owner, has doing animals the Lyceum.

something new in collectors' items- "Uncle Fred Melville was the cottontail rabbits. Seeley has fenced arst man to put me in a skin-a cat's} in 10 acres of his farm in which to and I still keep that skin as keep rabbits, which he has shipped trepsure.

to him from all paris of Kansas und other states,

EVEN A FLY ..

"I have been", a cat; a dog, a

monkey, un ape, a bear, the front!

and back of an elephant, and even,

à fly on the shadowgraph.

Help Kidneys

"I am 4ft, Ola., and I lose & stone Don't Tako Drastic Drugs every panto through jumping about

in a hot skin,

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Mrs. Pally Bevington (has dreased tubes or fliters which are endangered by neglect or denatio, Irritating drugs. · Bö- the 'giri or "boy" for every ponto, warel. If Kidney trouble or findder wook- mime at the Lyceum): "I have been Niglia, Los Tains, Nervousness, Biza

ness makow you suffer from Getting. Up here longer than anyone on the stage Stiffness, theumatism, Lumbago, staff 13 years.

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