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Marcus Show Coming

THE Marcus Show is arriving in town shortly and will present the first performance at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Nothing on quite the scale of the Marcus Show has hitherto been seen in Hongkong; it has Bo many girls that Australia quickly dubbed it the "Carense Show."

The quality and lavishucas of th'a, production, Its artistic presentation and its many beautiful show girls should ensure a season which should make new Hongkong records.

'Clever direction will provide a non-stop variety entertaiment with artistically presented stage spectacles interspersed with good work by a team of comedians,

Since the Marcus Show left the United States two and a half years ago, the tour around the world has been packed with trauma, offstage and

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On the ... Kernia en route to India, Barbara Warner, one of the show-

girls, had her appendix removed under the knife on a dining table on board. The operation was successful but peritonitis aet in. Rueing for her life, the boat docked at Bombay one day abrad of schedule. Another emergency operation was performed, Soon Barbara Warner was dancing again,

up

The troupe has had no casualties-- except three marriages. Cupid took his toll in. Australla When three of the girls fell in love. That didn't handicap the show. Mrs. Marcus promptly replaced them with Aus- tralian beauties who are now making .a bit.

June 27, 1939.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Lady Astor Faces 2,500 Angry

Lovely Beth Cabot, one of the Marcus show girls, who will appear “La Vie Parce" which will open at the Queen's shortly.

Sultan's Brother Weds

Oxford

Chiropodist

OXFORD.

THE romance of Tengku Mahmud, 21-year-old The troupe has performed in Aus-brother of the Sultan of Trengganu, with Miss Joyce 'tralia, New Zealand, South Africa, Blencowe, chiropodist-daughter of a local tailor, culminat- India, Malaya, Java and Manila.

ed recently in their marriage at St. Giles's register office, Oxford.

There are 75 persons including 40 girls in the troupe, there are 156 tons of baggage and equipment, consisting The wedding was very quiet. The large crowd outside the office. of almost 100 trunks and wardrobes bride's parents, two other relatives, Miss Blencowe was dressed in a and as many bundles of draperies, and two school friends of the bride-white silk frock with a white hat scenery, electric lighting equipment groom were the only persons present trimmed with black net, and a silver and thousands of odds and ends. at the ceremony but ther was a (Continued or Next Column.)

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Women

'I'm Not Afraid Of Being Howled Down'

ADY ASTOR faced catcalls and jeers and was almost howled down when she spoke in support of abolishing flogging to the conference in Queen's Hall recently of 2,500 women of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

She was opposing a motion dealing with corporal punishment, and declared that the Home Secretary had won the support of every social worker in every political party.

There was a chorus of “No,” and Lady Astor retorted, "Will you allow me to speak in silence and do your cheering after- warda?"

The 2,500 women, with two dissentients, supported the motion deploring the provisions of the Criminal Justice. Bill abolishing flogging and urging the retention of corporal punish- ment for offences against women and children.

Lady Astor gripped the platform rail as at least 2,000 of the delegates present stamped, laughed, and shouted "Shame," "Ob," and "No" to her almost inaudible remarks

Her Son's Memorial

An 87-year-old widow. Mirs. Henrietta Nicoll, of Charles- road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, trea- sures what must be the most unusual memorial to a son,

It is a tin of chocolate which has been exposed in a glass case in her! drawing-room at the side of the photo and medals of her dead son, Geofrey Nicoll, for the last 35 years, The tin was one of 30,000 given by Queen Victoria to her troops at the Boer War on Christmas Day, 1890. 11 bears the elgy of the Queen and a message conveying her best wishes

for 1900,

PRESENT FOR HER When Geoffrey returned home after serving in the imperial Yeomanry he gave the Un, with the contents un- fouched, to his mother,

Four years later he died of black- water fever in Southern Nigeris, and his mother decided to keep the lin as a sacred relle.

SHOUT INTO "MIKE” Annoyed by the repeated calls, Lady Astor shouted into the micro- phone: "Too often in this hall have I been howled down and in four or five years you have regretted your action. "I am not In the least afraid of your howls."

The chairman's order bell Unkled vainly for a few moments, then the chairman, Mrs. Lionel Whitehead, rose and shouted into her own micro- phone: "Ladies, I do appeal to you to give Lady Astor a fair hearing.",

Lady Astor attempted to read from her copy of the proposed Bill, while, women shouted indignantly.

There were cries

tries of: "What about assaults on women and children?" and Lady Astor struck the reading desit in her annoyance and relorted: "The more 1 see of you, the more I hear of you, it is quite obvious you are getting a bit mixed."

that

DEFIANT HANDWAVE The chairman's belt repeated its call for silenec, while ball the nudience began to clap and stamp rhythmically,

"I beg you to hear me," sald Lady Astor, but every woman in the hall was shouting and clapping, and it was some time before she could make herself heard again,

When the chairman tinkled her bell to indicate that Lady Astor's time was up, there was a burst of sp- plause lasting more than a minute.

"Will you please read the report of

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Mrs. Nicoll is the widow of the Rev.) suffmitter of inquiry into this

said Lady Astor as a part- Charles Nicoll, formerly rector of ing shot, and she went back to her Bepton, near Midhurst,

seat on the platform, waving her hund deflantly.

Discussion of the corporal punish- fox fur cape-the gift of the bride-ment resolution Was so long pro- groom. She wore a spray of orchids,

NERVOUS BRIDEGROOM

Mr. G. Hollis, a school friend of the bridegroom, was best man.

Tengku Mahmud," a slight gure in

tracted owing to the storm it aroused that two items had to be left off the agenda discussion on the shortage of nurses and rehousing.

Pessions for wives of hisuredt workers of 65

aged 0 of 0 provided the wife was or more, Were urged. a bluc pin-stripe sult, seemed ner- Mrs, Chamberlain was there and vous during the ceremony and at went away blushing at the nice things times his voice could hardly be heard. Conservative women sald about her

Innediately after the ceremony,

husband. And the delegates Were the couple left by train for London. pleased about the nice things Mrs. They will arrive in Singapore in the Chamberlain said about them. P. and O. liner Corfu on June 30.

Two men looked in

among

the Numerous presents were received scores of eloquent women-Sir John Iron people the bride and bride- Anderson, tolking on National Ser- groom have never met but who vice, and Mr. Osbert Peake, untier- desired to show their approval of the secretary at the Home Office, to talk

about the Criminal Justien Bill.

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