FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931.
GENERAL MUSEUM FOR LONDON.
Abundant Materials at Hand.
ORIENTAL ART.
WHS
THE CHINA MAIL.
YOUNG GERMANY IN 85-AND HE STILL
TRAINING.
The Cult of Physical Fitness.
PLAYS "SQUASH." SHADOWS BEFORE
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A Talk with London's Electricity Pioneer.
Walking sedately between the FOUGHT IN CRIMEA. pine trees of the Grunewald is a comfortable, portly gentleman, Colonel Crompton, a pioneer with the traditional dachshund electrician to whom London owes trotting behind, a cigar in his her electric lighting system, is mouth, a stick in his hand; by 85. And he still plays squash his side is a largely, comfortable every day. companion proclaiming in all her
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His career has been almost in-ates' person the good and sober haus-credibly romantic. When he was Crawford's, 8.30 pim. frau, says the Berlin correspon-eleven, he went to the Crimea as dent of the London Morning a naval cadet. Post.
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Lord Willingdon And Lord L'Abernon write to a leme paper, We have read with great interest the letters signed by Lord Zetiand, Sir Francis Younghusband, and Colone! K. N. Haksar which recent Is appeared in The Times on the wubject of a Central Museum for
Entertainments. Asiatic Art in London. We think
To-day King's He visited his brother in the it opportune to recall that the pre- jeet at an Oriental Museum
"Tom Sawyer." One can see such pairs by the trenches before Sebastopol, and
To-day Queen's rarefully considered by the recent dozen on a fine Sunday in the was awarded the Crimean Medal
"Whoopee." Royal Commission National country of woods and lakes that before his twelfth birthday.
To-day When he left the Army he c-The Boudoir Diplomat."
- Central Museums and Galleries, and that it lies only ten minutes by train was included among those futur outside Berlin. These are peo-tered business. His first big To-day Majestic developmenta in
was spent in contract was lighting the Law "Career." the national, ple whose youth muscuns service whim th Compre-War Germany; the War Courts. mission hoped might be realized in swept over them, but they have time with the assistance of public not changed. benefactors. The Commission pointed out that the materials for such a museum bath in the British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum were extremely rich, and they crystallized the need
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On
Then, suddenly, there comes a clattering of feet on the frozen ground, and one catches a fleeting glimpse of a very different type of German. There are girls clothed in blue flannel trouser in Zephyr and shorts, flushed, panting but resolute, re- soltely "training," determinedly keeping fit on the one day allow- cd them from the drudgery of the office or the shop.
the suits or institution in
for such words of Mr. D). S. MacColl :---
The British Empire is blinded in the Far East if it does not study the cultures and arts of China and Japan, of Persia and its own India. They proceeded to suggest that if the establishment of a separate Museum of Oriental Antiquities
sto practical politics the formation of a Department of Far Eastern Antiquities at the British Museum might be a stepping stone to the kryer scheme,
Young men and women run by in squads or alone between the icicle-hung pines, along by the
Theatre;
Theatre;
Theatre;
Theatre.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Water Authority. Public Works Department.
Hong Kong, 23rd April, 1931.
TO LET
To-day World Theatre; TO LET-Two-roamed and four-room- "When my firm started mak-"Hwang Tien Poh," (Chinese plc-ventences, airy and spacious rooms. ed European dats with modern con- ing electrical equipment in 1877," tures). Colonel Crompton told the Even-
Apply to No. 1. King's Terince, Second Floor, Nathan Road, Kowloon. ing News, "we began the electri- cal industry.
"Soon my firm was lighting private houses, I installed elec- tric light in the houses of W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, Lord Randolph Churchill, S Wiliam Crookes, and in my own.
"Then I received an order from Shaw Lefever, the Chief Officer of Works, to light the new Law Courts in the Strand. We put in 2,000 lamps.
"We then thought it would be n
generally, as the gas people had
Lammert's Auctions. To-morrow--At Station Hotel, Kowloon, household furniture, 11.30
a.m.
appearance and habits of the ice
Building, Kowloon, household furni-
Monday At 4, Humphrey's worm. tare, 10.30 a.m.
"The paper had not been on the street an hour before every saloon Tuesday At 39, Humphrey's in town was advertising Ice Building, Kowloon, household furni-worm Cocktails". I ordered one. ture, 10.30 a.m.
"The man in the white jacket Wednesday-At 5A. Lana Build- closed one eye knowingly and lift- Ings, household furniture, 10.30ed the lid from an elegant cut-glass dish. Lo! There were ice worms long, fat, white, and luscious looking-running through a great
a.m.
Home Mails. were beyond the range of inmedi. frozen lakes. This is the new good thing to light private houses Siberia (Rajputana).
To-day-inward from Europe via Germany the Germany that concentrates first and foremost done. We applied for a Bill to via Marseilles (Rajputana), 10.30 To-morrow-Outward for Europe on keeping fit.
break up the streets to lay thea.m.; for Europe via Siberia (Em- One sces the same impulse mains everywhere. everywhere working in its differ- "It
was then that Joseph prees of Canada), 10 a.m. ent modes of expression the Chamberlain,
that Monday Court of University, working hours, municipal enterprise, got through tion. every evening the huge "Wellen- a Government Bilk that prevent- bad" (Berlin's swimming bathed our having more than twenty- with artificial waves) is filled one years' tenure.
Culture of Enstern Nations.
Since the publication of this part of the Commission's Report is
October, 1920, we are glad to ob
serve that the need for a Museum
of Oriental Art has received
en:
phasis both directly and indirect ly. The striking article contribut ed by Dr. Kummel, Keeper of the Asiatic Collections in Berlin, to the Museums Journal for February on the immense wealth and signi- france of the Oriental collections in London and the vital need for their proper display, the conversa.
Cop: "Shall I open the
sir?
believing
impulse towards physical perfec. everything should be done by 5.15 p.m.
After
Meet'ng.
Sports.
Sce Sports Diary on Page 9.
cake of ice!
a little hatchet.
chipped off a corner, and exposed
"He produced
the ends of a number of worms,
WORM etically towards
"With a pair of silver tongs he delicately drew one out-it was six inches long-and after dangling it ostentatiously for the benefit of the gaping crowd, dropped it into n long glass, into which he poured brandy,
"The bartender leaned apolo- me. "Say, Stroller, he whispered out of the corner of his mouth, we couldn't get any of the real thing, Bo wo faked 'em by poking spaghetti through gimlet holes and letting it swell. But don't tell any of the hoys the difference!" Readers of American newspapers Yukaners were not the only pec- have, for more than three decades,ple who took the lee worm serious- been chuckling and raging overly.
or less
MYTH.
with young Berliners, not only "After that time everything FAMOUS ICE diving, swimming, battling with had to be handed over to the the artificial breakers, but on the authorities. Of course no finan- spacious terraces raised above cier would find the money in these the water, practising gymnastics, circumstances. boxing, ju-putsu. One is remind-
"I was compelled to go abroad ed of the Spartan palaestra. for business, and I put electric lights into all the theatres in Or, walking in a Berlin park | Vienna." une will invariably come on one of the great, round enclosures,' the stadiums, where numbers of
On the Cinder Track.
men and girls are running round"CHEERIO, MY LORD.' the cinder track, practising pole- jumping, putting the weight, hurdling. Practically every clerk and typist belongs to some phy- sical training club and attends it at least once a week.
SENTENCED WOMAN'S FAREWELL.
Man Who Made All the US. Laugh.
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ant editorials, and laughing at his credulous tourist in Alaska is buy- E. J. ("Stroller") White's trench- Even to-day the more
humour, says the New York cor-ing picture postcards on which a respondent of the Daily Express, bearded miner la shown pulling Ice
He is the doyen of Alaska editors worms from a glacier. this kindly, tolerant, whimsical
man.
At a time when thousands were
Sentence of five years' penal ser- Winter and Summer, indoora vitude was passed by Judge Gre- and out, the thing goes on-gory, K.C., at the Old Bailey on something outside the experience Mary Thompson, aged thirty-six, a Stroller White, penniless, but ser-
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of the elderly gentleman stroll-cook, who pleaded guilty to stealing ing with his dog and wife in the and receiving jewellery from Grunewald. Thoroughly, serious house at Twickenham, where she ly, with his whole concentration, had been engaged as a servant.
Jessie door, the young German is devoting
Amelia Sharpe Coates,
sentenced was
You seem to be in difficul-
ties."
Drunk: "Not in dificulties yet, but soon as the door opens I will be."-Bulletin, Sydney.
decking to the Klandkye, young enely hopeful, went from Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson, looking, not for gold, but for a newspaper job.
He arrived in the booming gold town one bitterly cold day in 1898, foot and hauling a wobbling
girl wife and baby daughter.
on
himself to the cult of the body. aged thirty-five, found guilty of re-little land slodge on which sat his This is something connected with celving.
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me as
to Blx
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..Furious Rivalry,
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BATHING FOR 3,000 ARRANGEMENTS OF THE VIENNA "STADION."
The gigantic "Stadion," built by the municipality in the Prater for the purposes of aport, la nearing its completion.
of
SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.
Lord's Day. Observance Act Of 1676.
the
The construction of its second and yet apart from the growing months' hard labour.
part, a huge place for family bath- popularity of all kinds of games Contes, on being sentenced, ex-
"They and my lead pencil con- ing, was started in March and -it is a physical manifestation, claimed, "Thank you, my lord, that stated my total equipment," he middle
will finished I was expecting said, "but I soon landed a job on be
in July, for perhaps, of the spirit of post-War is not so bad. tions which we understand are Germany. Science and method three years."
Dawson's largest daily the the "Workmen's Olympiade." There taking place in circles interested have been directed towards a new She said, turning to the newa. Klondyke Nugget,
will be four open baths, the largest, in Oriental culture, and the in ideal physical fitness, hardi- paper representatives, "Describe "I was a combination elty editor where the competitions will be held, terest shown in the Persian Ex ness, health.
In those days, at measuring 300 ft. by G0 ft. The a beautiful blonde, won't and reporter. hibition at Burlington House, in-
you," and added, "Good morning, the height of the Klondyke rush. second bath will have a jumping dicate how widespread and how scheme.
my lord. Cheerio."
imagination was the most important tower.: 30 ft. high. The third sincere is the desire for a sym-
Direntangle Existing Resources. Coates, addressing the jury, sald part of an editor's equipment. "bassin" will be for non-swimmers, pathetic understanding of the con
Commenting upon the proposal that she was not afraid of prison,
and the fourth for small children. tribution to the culture of the The Times aays:
"During my first wintor the Three thousand persons will be able as it was a wonderful Institution civilized world made by the
The formation of a Museum of for any one who had sinned against dailies. was furicus. To make three hours in the water at a very rivalry between the three Dawson to bathe, simultaneously and spend Eastern nations.
East Asiatic Art does not mean society. She also declared that In these circumstances, perhaps making a fresh start or embarking she was the sister of a Sheffield matters worse, the telegraph line law rata. Since the Summers are it may not be too much to hope, upon large number of expensive councillor and the youngest of
refused to function for two months, razy hot in this city, and the that the realization of a Centrai acquisitions; it means rather the eleven children. She had been to and every road in the country was Viennese are great bathers, the new Oriental Museum may be accom assembling and arranging in pro- prison for libel, but it was an un- snowed under...
place will prove a boon. There will "Nows was scaree, and our rivals also be night bathing in electric plished sooner than seemed proper and illuminating order of just conviction, on the evidence owell, the way those fellows drew light: bable at the time when the Royal existing resources..
an ex-convict, who had been in jail Commission reported. It may be The primary object and effect of fifteen years.
on their imaginations was a sin!. The four baths will be surround- said that the universal financial the proposed Museum would be to
"I know tha detectives from "One day the owner of the Nug-ed by an Iron tribune for 4,000 depression is not favourable to disentangle these existing re Leeds who have given evidence get bounded into, the office.
spectators....A large buffet and cafe auch' a development. On the other sources-such as the Stein Collec against me here," she added. ›. - “1]
"Wha' d'you mean by letting are to complete the arrangements. hand we believe that it is essen- tion and the Oriental section of always give them a straight answar, this paper go to the dogs he tial to be prepared with a definite the Department of Prints and because I call a spade a spade. roared. Subscriptions are falling scheme, and that the more far Drawings, including the noble amm a Yorkshire woman."
off. If you want to stay, on my sighted the scheme is the more Chinese frescoes presented by Mr She also declared that when she payroll, get out of here and grabin. likely it is to fire the imagination George Eumorfopoulos-from the was arrested the detectives. had a story that will be talked about from of generous citizens. For upon false relations established by "real good feed of boiled rabbit the aurora borealis to the South- assistance from such a quarter the earlier systems of classification. wine, almonds and fruit." After-ern Crosa! creation of the museum will it would display them in such a wards they had a good laugh and a
"We took one look at him and primarily depend.
way as to. Illustrate the funda-chat,
aprinted out into the sixty below
The Houghton Press, Ltd., pro- prietors of the Sunday Sporlaman In order to make use of existing mental unity of all Eastern Art
zero fog," This statement, was denied by the resources such as London possesses and the individual cultures of con-detectives concerned.
Stroller White returned with a newspaper, Aldwych, W.C., claimed, In anparalleled abundance and tributing peoples. Of the result-
masterpiece. When it appeared in $12 for advertisements for the Na- quality, it would seem necessary ing advantages It is hardly neces-
the Nuggest, is created a sensational Stores, Ltd., Hill Place, Oxford Circus, W., at Westminster tion. We should havo that a new and separate building sary to speak.
Coust recently, The should be erected, if possible in first of all, as one correspondent
It was a carefully worded dp-County the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury. in The Times has observed, “the
seriptive article on the prevailing Lord's Day Observance Act, 1676, cold spell.
was pleaded as a defence, In this building might be combined surest means of understanding the
The Strolleranserted in bts the plaintifs, cantended that since Mr. S. L. Elborne, barrister, for the Oriental collections in the spirit and the general outlook on British Museum, the Victoria and life of the Eastern races;" second-
characteristic Mark Twain stylo the Albert Museum, and the Indian ly, a survey of Oriental Art that
that as a consequence of this tem- the Sunday, paper, could be publish Museum. The roller to the con- could not be equalled anywhere While taking a fight in his perature there had been a heavyed and bought on Saturday, and gestion at South Kensington ne else in the world; thirdly, an op- er af Faulkner's End, Harpen-fell of blue snow, and the ice worms was obtainable on Monday, there well as Bloomsbury would be importunity, such as we have not had den Herts, Mr. Thomas Easton adjacent glaciers had come to could be pathing illegal about the
the surface to bask in the unusual transaction, gan vi har beh menee and welcomed, we imagine, before, for a broad comparison be-Lander was killed.
| Judge Turner quoted from on all sides. The whole resources tween Eastern and Western Art, Mr. Lander, who lived at the frigidity;" of Condon. In material and in and for new light upon their con- Old Rectory," Harpenden, was one “It seems incredible that practi- Act, the passage: "No one shalk management, could thus be pooled, tributions to each other and to of the best-known glidere in the cally, the whole town accepted my publicly, cry, show forth, or exposa ittle burlesque as gospel truthfito sale, adding that the goods so The result would be the most: civilization as a whole; and, lastly, South of Britain." splendid' muzeum of its kind in the the richest possible field of decora He had not long taken off, but But they did," Stroller White exposed could be forfeited
That Trikes another question," world, built on modern lines, with tive examples for your commertis! had reached a fair height, when the chuckled. lecture theatre and study collag designers. For the preparation of michino mado a nose dive and “The Nugget, office, wan besler-he remarked, "whether any person tione as well as exhibition an adequate scherpe the new Stand-prashed. Mr. Lander was killed al-ed by eager questioners. It did can, in order to prevent n breach of galleries. My
ing Commission on Museums and most instantly
no good for me to assure them that thọn Statute, walk way, with one's blue snow and ice warms had no Sundaynewpaper. That seems existence datafue my imagination quite possible within the purview of They insisted on detalle
this Act) ode dne ko and juridi Apologies,
Judgment was given for nain tilla, with coats, stay being granted on terms, as the case-in- the same vein, describing the volyed an important point of law.
GLIDER NOSE DIVES.
Well-Known Flyer's Fatal Accident.
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We hope that private initiative Galleries would provide the right Many of his friends were watch and generosity, and the collaborg machinery, and its terms of geing him when the accident hap Hon of the museum authorities,ferente, particularly its mission penele au de A with the Standing Commissionzon alimulate the generosity and M. Lander spent nearly overy Mundethms which the Govern
rect the efforts of those who week-end practising gliding have recently appointed, will ac- aspire to become public benefac This is the first fatal gliding ac-have peace, I wrote another article
cident in Britain; celerate the realisation of this "tors," are apt to the proposal.
Phally, in order that I might
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