of the Club whose knowledge of him goes back for a couple of decades will realize, perhaps, better than those who saw the finished product from the auditorium side of the footlights, the enormous amount of work that he did as business ier of the old Tyceum Theatre. He was a regular tower of strength to the amateur actors, able to solve all the intricacies of staging, which #0 very often baffled the younger men. especially of that generation who knew nothing of the ability of another wonderful old vant of the club, to whose memory tablet still stands in the Lyceum Theatre—Ah Ping. If a personal note may be permuted, the writer of this appreciation can from actual exerence bear testimony to the enormous help given to a young man, whose knowledge of such things was abysmal as compared with his e thusiasm, in obtaining stage effects which, without Mr. Armstrong's assistance, would have been unebialnable.
Armstrong came to Shanghai 1882, landed at Woosung, and at times long afterwards. -wovld speak feelingly of the drive by horse and rap into Shanghai. He had been educated at Dulwich College, and shortly after his arrival here he entered the service of the Shanghai Gas with whom he remained for 37 years, during which period he was either in the counting house or the and is at the present time President of the International Swastika Society.
well-known charitable organization. Ue {s also president of the Hslangchan Child Welfare school in Pel-ping. His bride is a graduate of the Women's Normal School in Peiping, and 1s also a prominent social work-
Beautifully gowned in white sateen, the bride was given away by be cousin, while Mrs. T. C. Chu attend-her as matron-of-honour. The Uttle flower-girls: and page-boy were li grand-children of the groom by his first wife. Mr. '7. C. "Chu, Inspector-General of the Salt Adminis tration, was the best man, while the Gutles of ushers were carried out by Messrs, T. W. Kwok, ¥. H. Hu, K. C. dals, Mr. T. W. Kwok being chief usher.
Among those present at the wed-
Messrs. Li Shih-tseng, Wang Shao-Jai, Met Lan-fang, Chang Kal-ngan, work and s likely to go to Peiping take charge of the Orphanage on Society.
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