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Hongkong, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1921.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1924.
does not matter in the least whe artfule that most Sunday players LECTURE ON
SHELLEY
FOR, MR. HORNELL.
ין
PROMISE FOR FUTURE.
ther you believe in fairy tales or are able to get a game of some not, because here you sea wonders thing almost every day of the APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE
week is also open to considerable. performed before your very eyes.doubt. The, appeal is to young or You see Douglas Fairbanks throw men and how many of these are a rope into the air and then climb in the happy position of being able up. it. "You marvel at him as he to get to any playing field before
A lige and very mixed audience swims down to the bottom of the a few minutes more of light re-the lecture on Shelley given in the five-fifteen of five-thirty when but listened with evident enjoyment to sea or rides to the moon on his main, But, as has already beenthedral Hall yesterday evening. winged horse. And when you see stated, this is a matter which by air. W. W. Hammell, Vice him sail off with his beautiful every man must decide according Chiarellor of the University.. This to his own conscience and if he is bride on the Magic Carpet, right conscious of a need for exercises the second of a fortnightly out of the window, over the heads and at the same time of things for series which has been arranged to of the populace and away above which he ought to be thankful it est le demand for lectures of the type known at Home as Univer the roofs of the city towards the is for him to decide if the two canity extension lectures. The lec
be satisfied in the one day,
stars you want to cry aloud with delight." After seeing these wonders you may well reflect. what new marvels the future "holds,
new
marvels which, striking,
BLASTING DANGER.
DEFENDANTS.
like "The Thief of Bagdad," new NETHERLANDS H. W... notes of beauty and romance, will help-the-cinema-art-to-fulfil its
(STLPE, FINES IMPOSED.
tures are free and open to all.
The lecture dende mainly with the life of the poet and Prof. "I¢ ̈ Parsten who juristided, said that the | Vice-Chancellor had promised later to give the second half com- AS cerning his work.
"Mr. Hornell commended to his henders' attention the latest book. [on'the subject “Ariel un Las Viende "" [Shelley by Andre Maurois, a liaison offieer during the war, and then sketched the poet's early life
Warulam. and Brentford."
AL
mission, not of enriching a few financiers; but of spreading happi-
Two summonses against the ness among the millions who visit Netherlands Harbour Works
the pictures" all over the world. Company, "for dangerous hlas Eton he was known as "Mad: That, besides the sheer delighting were dealt with by Shelley" and his passion for scien- they give, is the real value of 9. R. Wool at the Central tific experients was not appro Magistrey, this morning, ""{binted, 15 was reporded of him pictures like "The Thief of Mr. J. T. Prior, of Messrs.that he was rebellions especially Bagdad." They restore faith in Wilkinson and Grist, appenced for with regard to the time honoured the cinema art by showing what the defendant company
fagging system. Thomas Jefferson In the first summons Sergt. Hogg, whose intimate friendship:: can be done to-day and what may Forbes stated that fourteen charges Shelley made later at University be expected in the future-in the were fired on the evening of College, Oxford, lind described lam. future that will soon be the Sovenber 19. Some wire nothing as "in auzing creature with the serrens wäre fed to keep Ing. Felem of a young girl and tim present.:
nents from flying, but affer about; purity of a maiden who has nevar en charges had gone off. the left home; with the soul of a screens were of no more use, di Benedictine honk and the ideas of stones were thrown onto the roof of a Jacobin." In considering sheds, ocupied by poolies of the Shelley's character, in the light of Taiko Sugar Refinery. Witness later events, the childlike in- stated that severn complaints had been received from the Tuikoo emplyers, and it wis difficult to The eiremstances of Shelley' induce the dolies to remain in expolion from Oxford in conne upation of the huts owing to the danger from blasting.
More War Rumours
One of the reasons given for the former Emperor of China. (Hsuan Tung) seeking sanctuary in the Japanese Legation in Peking is the persistent rumour of impend ing trouble in Poking at the instance of the Christian General Feng Yu-hsiang, who is alleged to
No Screens Used. be disgruntled at not being offered As regards the secondi summons, a. post in the new Cabinet. Heng. Forbes „Rated that Four According to a Tientsin message, charges were fired on November of November 18, a recrudescence 28, and that no protecting screens
cence of his brief Oxford life should not be ignored.
rion with the publication of a pamphlet emitind The Necessity of Athejsop' and his theories in regard to love were then, dealt with,
SHELLKY, THE PLATONIST..
There never was anything - proaching haughtiness in Shelley,. be dismissed as a
of hostilities is considered practi- were used as an overseer of the hor eter
I cally certato by Chiffest observers Company alivnitted that three gery feeble cinérist He took Himmels A large, shab of stories was amazingly seriously, and explained "close to the leaders." The message hone, states that Feng Yu-hsiang now furled a distance of 50 yards and hitself to himself, as a Platonist. controls just under 40,000 men, fell near the door of the servants" with a theory of love deduced from including his famous 11th Divi-room at the Taiko Sugar Refinery 'to's philosophy. He thought sion and five mixed brigades, all parters,
augmented beyond nominal Mr Prior mid that Messi strength. In addition, Feng is Butterfield and Swire had been as supported by Hu Ching-yi with roached with a view to having the 20,000 men, and Sun. Yueh with quarters shifted some. distance five or six thousand, a rough total way, but the negotiations fell strength of 65,000. The Fengtien through. armies have, mustered 30,000 at Tientsin, Langfang and Tsang of $100 on each summons. chow, with possible another 30,000 at Shanhaikuan, a total of 80,000.
The Magistante imposed a fine
"PARTNERSHIP TANGLE.
LI FUK LOSES SUIT IN COURT.
NOTICE OF APPEAL.
that a nuber of mysterious and benevolent forces were spread throughout the Universe. To Shelley love was not a more curial desire buðu call for admiration, and self-sacrifice. Behind his feelings there was always the vision of per- fect physical beauty blended with perfect inoral beauty, of a woman charming and oppressed", whose champion he must become. The vision was a staunge compound of elements some of which he did not recognize, and sex was certainly one of these elements. But his poetic genius purified and, exaltedd the, vision. Shelley froin early years could not, resist a beautiful womany but he could always con strie to himself his growing adon-
the moving picture is a work of art. It may not always be a good work of art; it may indeed, as so ofter must be said-it may indeed be a very bad work of art; yet the ́fact remains that it could not have of these ten thousand are said to been created without a certain be engaged in an attempt to sub- amount of artistic effort., due the Tul of Shantung, Chen Although, as we have implied; this Shih-chi who is opposing them with nearly 30,000, including the artistic effort is too often perverted 5th Division and seven augmented to base ends, to giving the public mixed brigades. In connection what it is supposed to want, there with this attempt, a train-load of 80 wounded men reached Tientsin are among the many crude minds on the afternoon of November 18 Li Fuk, against who judgment, si purposed uct of will-and that control the cinema industry from the Shantung front. It will had been given in a case in which as a weak. emotional Surrender. to-day several that not only thus be seen that there is ground he contended that he was not a
Shelley, is the poet of desire for the repeated rumours of fur- putner in a junk firm, made appli-To him as to Blake, the prompt possess the true artistic impulse ther fighting up North. Latest, non in the Summary Court things of desire were the voice of but have the means to carry their telegrams indicate that Chang morning for the MOTUTA, of divinity in man, and instinet and ideas into effect. Charlie Chaplin Tso-lin intends to ascertain the $400.08 which he claimed to have impulse bore the staing of tlie -Charlie Chaplin of "The Kid" real motives of the Christian Feng paid out on account of the foliead. His pure and clear and
This quite possibly may entail. He sued four co-partners.
wonderfully simple spirit could In the box the plaintiff said that
hardly conceive he had been proprietor of the firm travels by thei dim light through ot a duty that
for ten years.
His Lordship reminded the man less of a duty that calculates and" difficult and uncertain ways, still that he had denied all connection halanges and chooses. When he
war.
charm.
•PORT OF DESIRE.
is one of these. Even the sordid incidents in his greatest picture are tinged with romance, and the famous dream is in its way the Let Each Decide. purest phantasy. Another poet The December issue of St. with the firm in the previous case was lifted on the crest of some of the screen is Douglas Fair-John's "Cathedral Notes" contains and addressing Mr. N. 1. Brewer, overmastering emotion, he saw il. banks. Six months ago nobody an article appealing for more help asked him if he did not think it in- could only wait for another wave. who represented the plaintiff, err: dropped into the hollow, he would have suspected this: Even from the elder and leading men
to court. Fle, very vagueness of Shelley's The wedding arranged between "Robin Hood" gave little hint that in the Colony in giving to the wine to bring the man. Mr. A. Kirk and Miss Hilda A
younger people a stronger lead again.
Mr. Brewer replied that it was Petry is an essential part of its Smith will take place at the the athletic hero of so many thrill- regarding attendance at public
He speaks the language He had of pure emotion, where definite Wesleyan Church, Wanchai, ating escapades was anything but worship. The "text" of the dist plaintiff's own wish. 2 p.m. on Thursday, the 11th inst an ordinary cinema actor, more course is a conversation, imagin-paid the money
After hearing a certain amount perceptions are melted in the mood No formal invitations are being popular than most of his fellows, "who is quite splendid in his way, the contention of Mr. C. A. S.
ary or otherwise, with Richard of evidence, His Lordship upheld travel incessantly from what he
Filey generate. His thoughts. sent out and no reception is being thanks to a dashing manner and and has represented the Colony Russ, who appeared for one of the seen to what he desires, and his held. Friends are cordially invited to attend the ceremony at the a winning smile. To-day, how at most things except cricket. partners that the partners could go is no more distinctly perfe
ever, he stands forth, as forth
ceived than is starting-place. His creator of the peerless "Thief of/90? I am booked up to the middle plaintiff had done this, he non-mark, but is consumed, like his of December. There is the Golf suited him in three of the caser Bagdad," an epoch in the cinema Captain's Cup, the Handicap prize, and gave judgment for the defen- fancied arrow, by the speed of its art. Explaining how this master- and then I must put in a shoot or dent in the case of the partner Mr.
own flight. piece came into being, Douglas two with the troops." Most of Russ represented.
Shelley died young, and the MARVELS OF THE SCREEN. Fairbanks has said that the main article listened to on the subject peal for the rescinding of the judg-before he died, he had graduated in the men whom the writer of the Mr. Brewer gave notice "of opwas never within. his reach. Ye, accumulated wisdom of experience plot has been built around the idea "had a tremendous sense of care ment. What the author of "Hassan" that youth is a thief until it learns for their bodily fitness. "You
the school of suffering, and had there, learned lessons' that only th sald about the poet should be true that true happiness has to be know, Padre, one must swim in.
wise heart learns. the summer and anything under
His "Prome- also of the cinema producer. éarned. "It is a sort of fairy tale a whole Sunday in the water would
thens Unbound" is something more Manifestly if it is not the poet's with a message tucked away in be almost suicidal." As there is
than a concert of sweet sound; it business to save man's soul but the folds of its Oriental wrap-nothing dogmatic in it and the
is a record of spiritual experionco, subtle in its analysis and profound to make it worth saying, still less pings." Douglas Fairbanks shares writer has carefully refrained
in its insight, The supreme bor.. ia it the cinema producer's busi- the opinion that the cinema has from pulling out the emotional
Evangelical stop, the article can Me. A L. Barretto, employed at ture of Prometheus inflicted by the ness to damn man's soul and still "the most wonderful chance in the be taken ay a fair expression of the Hongkong Hotel, was yester. Purics comes to him in the form more to suffuse it with beauty. world to spread the message of two points of view of which every day bitton in the leg by a dog, and of doubt lest his age-long suflarings Now beauty in this sense is a happiness," and that there. is man may make his choice, in had to enter the Government Civil should be all in vain, and wo
than vain. The concept of love and very wide term; perhaps, for the absolutely no limit to what can accordance with the principles Hospital for treatment,
which guide his life. It may be
The animal, which is said in life as a dualism, of love as the sole sake of brevity, it can best be be done in this direction." "The that when people, come out East the Police report to belong to a described as a healthy Joy. That Thief of Bagdad," apart from the they are up against a non-Church-Portuguese living at No, 113, Praya the giving of healthy joy is not inventive skill that has made it, going tradition, and that this East, is being kept under observa the chief aim of many cinema from the mechanical point of view,means that there is a falling away tlon at Kennedy Town.
from contact with outward obser producers is only too woefully the very pinnacle of cineroavancia of religion; but it would apparent. So many of them are achievement, represents a vast be unfair to claim, that because mere money, grubbers, so few of step towards making the moving of thin himself against those to dovulop foto pinpilz, and pneumoni
of this he, is not, making" a fight them poets in any sense at all picture an instrument for spread think which every man knows og your cold before the meches this It show woon. That's why mothers Yet there is no reason why there Ing happiness, being the
are Ts, it might be nut), not "the danger point and for the couch and foep: Chamberlain's Couch, Bomedy should not be more poets among essence of romanter
thing or not, cricket. The berlas. Cough Remedy Is is for salehe host for the okildren, For
painful Hoosy breathing take Chemth bound It contains no marcation and out, it argument put forward in 4 the vo them. For all its mechanical aids,
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SAVAGE DOG.
HONGKONG HOTEL MAN BITTEN,
Helps "Thoss; Hard Qonghi. The danger of its'tendency.
principle of freedom, joy, beauty and harmony, in Nature and in Man, appears in Shelley's earlier poems, and strengthons with his growth, until it reaches its mosh magnificent expression in the clos ing rhapsody of "Adonais."
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