Shanghai Crowns Her At Bubbling Well Does any lady or gentleman require a crimson stuffed camel with white hump, or half a dozen assorted potato knives? If so, they' have only to board a Number One "bus to be headed right for the bargain counter—st Bubbling Well, where the annual basket fair came into full swing on Apri 29.
Rain takes no pity on this outdoor Woolworth's store of the Eastern world, but the nomadic vendors who flock in from all parts of Shanghai' hinterland calmly run up a few bamboos, east round them a few perfanetory st ww lashings, clap a mat roof over defy the drizzle, of spectators—thrifty Chinese matrons, foreign housewives out with their' amahs in search of a few cheap necessaries for the home, and dignified Sikh mounted. police sit their horses like grave equestrian statues, yet with an interested twinkle in their eyes, for are we not all children when a bazaar like this comes to town?
Social Shanghai turned out en masse on April 27 at the Canidrome to witness the final vote-casting ultimate election of the Movie "Contest favourite, with the subsequent crowning ceremony by Sit Victor Sassoon. "Miss N, Barsomova After a spirited contest was. ae: Claimed by the assembled diners Gnd dancers.
The approval of those present gave adequate tribute to Shanghai's presentative who will make the {elo fo Holywood. When the aval ereelt of the passage, kindly donated by the Robert Dollar Company, he will have a rousing send-off, the of which has not been accor in recent. years. siderably. supporters bidding Relative. positions. chan ploces as'friends came to their ald. By. tid-night, the winner was the third place, 40,000 vetes behind, When the contest" way. concluded Tam, she was. "*,000 "votes head. "The following is the revull of the election 1, Miss N Barsomova, 697,770
Not even the high priest of the local temple can tell when the first of these vas held, in honour yo 2. Miss Laura Chieti, 690,740, Miss Charlotte Kingsbury,
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