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Life: An Authority on Jade Mr. Najib Hashim, {rom Caiton, has been in Shanghai for the last few days, but proposes to return home soon. This is strange, to any-tone acquainted with Mr. Hashim's history. He has been interested in many projects and he has experimented in a hundred lines, but one thing he never has done to any great extent, and that is to return home. The reason for this is that he has always had a certain dimiculty in deciding which part of the world he would choose as home, He was born in Belgut, Syria, but thinks he prefers London—or Havana—or New York—or Manila, And as for "The climate ig better in Canton than in Shanghai." says Mr. Hashim, but it is suspected that the chief attraction of the southern province is that itis so near so many other places, and Mr. Hashim, though he professes to great age and infirmity, SIL Tikes to Travel. A. strongly-builé man, he isa striking Agure with his puffs of white hair, which make him look remarkably ike David Belasco. 'There Is good reason why he should resemble the impresario, for his appearance in public' ite was min the same line. When Mr. Hashim was a young man, he went from London to New York and entered the' theatrical" business, producing grand opera, When he tired of this and saw. greater opportunity. elsewhere, the branched off into vaudeville, then a much more' Important part of America's amusement than it has been since the advent of the cinema,
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