THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
ROMANCE OF
MACDONALD
RAMSAY
NEW CHAPTER IN A VERY FASCINATING LIFE STORY.
1
THE
he had held for the three past years. Ile bocame, as it seemed, one of a little group of Ishmaels that the country would sweep out of existence at the first chanco. Yot In retrospect it can be discerned that the Ishmaels were the solc Opposition left in Parliament, and that Mr. MacDonald, when he allied himself with them, became in fact leader of the Opposition. •
human was he a fanatic. are
The romantic career of Mr. Ram- the first professions
say MacDonald enters on a comradeship and universal, sym new stage with his return pathy. to power as Prime Minister
Liberalism had always been a of the National Government. little untidy, and by the nineties Was a muddle. Mr. MacDonald, The following article by a special born with a logical mind, trained to
correspondent of the Even-
in a laboratory, revolted neatness ing Standard traces the
against ita disorder. story of Mr. MacDonald's! If the sentiments of Socialism rise to fame from the humble made small appeal to him its circumstances of his boy-scientific pretensions impressed him. "The Socialist method," be wrote, "Is the Darwinian method."
hood.
JRamsay Macdonald
that he
His early religious education had riven him a taste for cut-and-dried
But neither then, nor at any time, Certainly he was no disciple of Tolstoy, and he
gave no sign that his feelings about war, as war, differed from those of There was, indeed. normal men. mure pro-Gesmanism than pacifiam in his attitude.
Britons in those days did not stop at loathing the Prussian drill- sergeant; they disliked only less the Prussian professor and the Prussian bureaucrat, two types which Mr. MacDonald, the soientific Socialist, held in reverence.
Leader Once More. The truth was revealed when, by theories. For him the intellectual a slip of the tongue," he spoke ̈of
Calvinism to Dar-our German friends." passage from winism, and thence to Socialism, He was, of course, among the was practically inevitable.
An Oracle.
The middle period of his life, divided between self-cultivation and work for the Labour Party, of which he was anon to be proclaim- jod the chief intellectual asset, presents few incidents of interest.
He visited America in 1897. South Africa in 1902, and between the two dates again stood successfully for Parliament.
1906 he was elected as one of the
members for Laiteter.
un-
CHINA MAIL.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.
ROUND THE LOCAL
CINEMAS:
Reviews from Official Sources.
"THE GIRL HABIT."
Social Functions.
"The Girl Habit" is Ruggles's To-day-Tea Dance at Hong Kong, Hotel; Carnival Dinner Dances at first starring picture, which is now showing at the King's Theatre. As Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.
January G-St. George's Society's such it gives him a chance to dis
play, fully all his clever talents for Dance, Peninsula Hotel.
making folks laugh right out loud. Sinco he is the main personality in Theatre; this picture, audlences can depend
Entertainments. To-day Kinga "The Girl Habit.”
jupon it that the performance will Theatre: be even funnier than the carlier
films in which Ruggles was a mero, Central Theatre; featured player, auch as "Gentle- men of the Press," "Young Man of and "Her Wedding
To-day Quequ's "Sporting Blood."
Today The Texan."
To-day Majestic Theatre: Manhattan"
Night." "Cohens and Kellys in Africa."
Theatro: Today - Star "Call of the Flesh."
Home Malla To-morrow-Inward from promoters of the plan for an Interea (Empress of Japan); national peace congress at Stock-
for Europe via Marsielles holm. But British sallors refused
Maru), noon. to take him.
At the elections after the war Leicester rejected him by the huge votes. Some majority of 14,000 were rush enough to call him politically defunct.
Miscellaneous,
A competent cast of Broadway favourites supports Ruggles, Tho; support in headed by Donald Meck, recently starred in the cast of "Oh Ameri- Promise Me," Broadway farce hit, Outward and a veteran also of comedy char-
(Suwa acter parts in the films. Margaret;
Dumont, the queenly hostess of the two earlier Marx Brothers films, "Animal "The Coconuts" and
January-12-14—Royal Sanitary Crackers," enacts an important role... Institute (Hong Kong Centre) ex-as the mother of the young society aminations in Sanitary Science, girl, played by the Sue Conroy, to Miss whom Charlie is engaged. and for Sanitary Inspectors.
the January 2-St. Stephen's College Conroy is a graduate from
"line" of the famous Ziegfeld new school year begins.
Follies.
"THE TEXAN"
The British, slow to learn, are quick to forget. In 1922 he was
to In returned
Parliament for
As the not-so-bad villainess, Aberavon, restored to leadership of
riske Tamara Geva has the Labour Party, already the sinn policy he took grave
an important. risks which the country was Un place in the picture. Miss Geva Within his party. still consisting second strongest in the State.
the
would willing to accept. But, having once is the aenantional dancer who, with main of rough-and-ready British trade unionists Macaulay once wrote of a certain In
was trade unionists, leavened by a few have preferred Mr. Clynes, but Mr. promulgated his policy, he was, de- Clifton Webb, knocks the customers political opponent
during termined that nothing should turn cold in "Three's A Crowd," the big among the most moderate, yet the literary theories and some obvious MacDonald's recalcitrance
to the Clyde him from it. The result was dis- Broadway revusical show. least pliant, member of his party. cranks, Mr. MacDonald passed for the war appealed
But the siders, his deliberately acquired aster. The words suggest a type that in oracle in those days..
Today, once again, he has revcal- always important and often neglect-country as a whole paid no great at- culture to the intellectuale.
Then, in 1924, thanks toothers' ed the same ruixture of determina- ed, and is both important and lention to him.
blunders, he became Prime Minister. | tion and Highland pride which are neglected because it is rarely under- alood.
do were largely dissipated Once again, having taken his de- would from the moment when he went to cision, he has refused to bend the Texas back in 1885, dead
By his own action he has alive. He's alive at the Central luckingham Palace, undisguised, in knee. the silk hat of ceremony.
again put himself politically beyond Theatre and he's worth a whole lot the pale. This time, however, the more than that in entertainment. There are more thrills with Gary pale is the pale of his own party.
Cooper, as the Liano Kid, in "The entering upon his last Fremiership, Texan," than there were even in that never again will be be Labour the great Western outdoor spec- tacle romance, "The Virginian." Prime Minister of Britain.
And that's saying a lot.
Labour was, of course, an increas-
Five hundred dollars is what the
For friend and foe alike it ng power and not to be neglected. Feurs, and hopes, of what Labour the twin pillars of his character | Llano Kid was worth to the people'
is a standing problem.". Our on times have furnished the classical example of it in the person of Mr.
Ramsay MacDonald..
near the
en-
At Lossiemouth, trunce to the Moray Firth, where the first Labour Prime Minister of Britain was born in the autumn of
1866, the prevailing wind blows cold
Its representatives, on the other hand, were dull when they were not Wild, and Mr. MacDonald, it must
he confessed, did less to relieve its dullness than he did to add to its intellectual discretion,
Fame execration.
came
he
de
But if
Partly because he had only a parliametanry minority at com
It may well be that now he to him through mund, more because he doulsted his When he intervened in colleagues' abilities, most because of the debate on August 3, 1914, to tell his own ingrained formalism, the House of Commons that in his insisted on hastening slowly, if at from the north-east,
For mile opinion the Government was wrong, all, in home affairs. mile, fringed by prickly hushes, the sand stretches between that Britain should remain neutral sea and real land, and for genera-in the coming struggle, he put him- tion on generation the people of the self beyond the pale. place have been bred in the faith of the Shorter Catechism.
A Good Name.
whin-
All these things had a part in forming Mr. MacDonald's charuc- ter. Between them they account] for the man we have known Jim.
ns
The circumstances of bla child- hood were poor but in no way de grading. Ha physical and mental fare was harsh, but light and air not denied to and a horizon were
him as to the children of the slums,
If there were only two rooms in the) cottage where he lived, It was
Д
good home. Also, he bare a good hame, and was taught to be proud of it.
The school to which he walked daily by a long, bleak road,, has been described, incorrectly, as the Scot- tish equivalent of a board school. Scottish schools are always better. than the English schools they superficially resemble.
Because he showed a liking for
sart,
the hooks. of the graver young MacDonald, instead of being sent to sea or put to work upon the land, was prepared for the teaching profession, but the Scot's ambition for a career in England took him along another path.
An Individualist.
At twenty he was a clerk in Lon
In his leisure hours he read In the
don.
A
it
at the Guildhall Library. evenings he studied chemistry, Ill ness, produced by overwork, alone) prevented him from sitting for Kensington scholarship, and, may be, from devoting his Hic to selence. Then, in 1888, he became private secretary to a Liberal M.P. From this introduction to practi 'cal politics it was but a step to journalism, at which, four years later, he was earning a living.
In 1895 he stood for Parliament as Labour candidate at Southamp- ton, and was defeated. Already Mr. MacDonald's record was begin- ning to read like one of those manuals of self-help beloved of Victorian Radicals.
By temperament ho Was an extrome individualist. His admir ers confess that the only mind. in which he was ever interested was his own. The Bands on which he had run barefooted as a boy had entered into his soul, leaving him
gritty, dificult to approach.
AUSA Muddle.
How came it that such a man passed into the Socialist fold; where
Last Premiership? But to him also was the discredit for Labour's downfall. Cautious in domestic policy, he sought to re- On the morrow, he lost the chair-dress the balance by grent activity manship of the Labour party, which at the Foreign Office.
Never a Fanatic.
ANTY CAUS SPESHUL
DELIVRY
KLA POL
ANA CLAUZ
POL
USA
In his Rus-
Come and Say
GOODBYE
TO SANTA
who will stay at
Special Toyland
AT ROOF GARDEN
Till 11 P.M.
For the convenience of our
customers, our business will be
extended to-day until after 9 p.m.
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
Santa's Official Headquarters.
or
his career as a party politician 19
"The Texan," which opened ai how ended, he has made his place secure among British statesmen and the Central Theatre last night, and among those British patriots who will continue showing to-day and in the hour of need have never to-morrow, is Paramount's com failed to put the State before their panion picture to "The Virginian." Again Cooper brings to life the spirit of the plainsmen ploncers, this time in a tremendous action drama which takes him from the rolling plains of Texas to the im- pressive pampas of South America.
party and before themselves.
MR. LANT
2. NORTH
+
Fay Wray is the girl who cap. tures Cooper's heart in this strange love-story.
Emma Dunn, as the wealthy sonora, gives a moving performance| in a really great role.
"DAWN, PATROL"
Richard Barthelmess's latest First National-Vitaphone starring vehicle, "The Dawn Patrol," which comes to the Queen's Theatre ON Sunday, contains a brilliant cast including Douglas Fairbanks, jun., Neil Hamilton, Gardner James, Clyde Cook, James Finlayson,, Ed- mund Breon, Frank McHugh, Wil Ham Janney and several hundred extras.
Howard Hawks directed this John Monk Saunders's epic of the air.
"GRUMPY."
Doris Anderson, who wrote. "Thè Wolf Wall Street," is the author of the screen play, "Grumpy," which comes to the King's Theatre short- By, with Cyrli Maude, one of Britain's foremost actors, in, the title role.
Miss Anderson made her adapļ tation from the stage comedy of the same name by Horace Hodges. and Thomas Wigncy Percyval, who had completed the play in 1913 when. Maude was looking for al vehicle to add to his repertoire for). an American engagement,
The authors read "Geniopy" to Maude and he solected it for the American tour. He first appeared In "Grumpy" at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, on September 10, 1918, during the course of a preliminary tour in which he tried out the vehicles to bo presented in the New Work.
His American debut was made
An "Grumpy" at Wallack's Theatre, New York, on November 3, 1913. He since has successfully played the role in London, and all of the large cities in the United States
and Australia, His individual stage performances of "Grumpy'! total approximately 1,800.
.
CB156-Gorgonzola
Your
Your CHRISTMAS DANCE Records
Columbia
RECORDS
--We Must All Pull Together
CB159-Oh! Donna Clara,
Little Russian, Rose CB180-Dixiano
-I'm Yours
CB121-The Bármaid's Song
-Be Careful With Those Eyes CB22-I'm Following You
-I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam.
· 6738—Singnig in 'the Bathtub
-Lady Luck
5443-Bitter Sweet
-If You Were All
5423-You're the Cream In My Coffee
-To Know You is to Love You CB249-Ten Cents a Dance
-I'll Be Good CB50-Cuckoo
Figaro
One-Step.
One-Stop.
For-Trot.
Foz-Trot.
Fox-Trot.
Slow Foz-Trot,
Foz-Trot.
Fox-Trot.
Fox-Trot.
Foz-Trot.
Fox-Trot.
For-Trot.
Woltz.
Fox-Trot.
Fox Trot. Fox-Trot.
... Slow Fox-Trot.
Fox-Trot.
... Waltz, Fox-Trot.
The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.
An XMAS wish is best accompanied by an XMAS GIFT.
THE BEST IS A
JOHNNIE WALKER
SPECIAL XMAS DECORATED CASE
3 bottles in a case
or
6 bottles in a case
RED
}
& BLACK LABEL
Obtainable from all leading stores or
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
(Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinanesa of Hong Kong.)
Prince's Building,
Ice House Street,
LAST
OF
DAY
Telephone
20075.
CHRISTMAS SALE
5% to 20%
Discount
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA
26, Queen's Road, Central.
XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS.
We beg to Notify Customer that Assorted Hampers suitable
for the Festive Seaton may be obtained from us at the follow-
ing Reduced Rates:-
t
No. 1 HAMPER-$65.
1 qt Moet & Chandon Dry In-
perial Champagus
1 pt. G. F. Peppermint. 1 pt. D.O.M.
1 q Martell's *** Brandy
2 gis. King George IV Gold
Label or Perfection Whisky
1 qt. Superb Tawny Port"
2 qts, St. Jullen Claret.
-1 qt. Old Brown Sherry Black
Seal.
1 qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry
Gin.
1 qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy
1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters.
No. 2 HAMPER $55.
1 qt. Gulilemart Champagno 1 pt. D.O.M.
* qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy
1 qt. Martell's *** Brandy
2 qis. King George IV Gold
Label or Perfection Whisky
2 qta. Tawny Dry Port
2 qts, St. Julien Cleret
1 qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry...
Gia:
1 qf. Vino de Pasto Sherry,
1 phial Pomeranzán Bitters,
No. 3 HAMPER $50.
qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy 1 pt. G. F. Peppermint ́ ́J pt. D.O.M..........
2 qte: Superior Rich Old Port
2 qts. King George, IV. Gold
Label or Perfection, Whisky
1 pt. Tower Brand Brandy
1 qt. Amontillado Sherry
1 qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry.
Gla
2 qta Medoc Claret
1 phial Pomeraman. Bitters.
Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
Tel. 20135.
Trong Kong.