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The Newer Snobbery.
There is a tradition about old soldiers. Of them it is said, they
also may it be said of snobs. They eventually turn up in other disguise. In the last decade or so,
L
with the Commission or the Com- mission will not enter. The Man-j chukuo Government must think again. Should It attempt to persist with its present unreasonable, if not ridiculous, decision, the re- sponsibility for what follows will be upon its head. Maybe, it can be made to see reason.
HONG KONG PHILANTHROPIST'S GIFT.
To Shanghai Red Cross Hospital,
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932.
:Striking Character Stüdy.
THE TRAGEDY OF MARC ANTONY
A SWAGGERING HERO WHO REFUSED TO GROW UP.
His Love of Buffoonery and Show.
[By Arthur Welgalt.]
In spite of his many failings, mosphere about Antony. perhaps because of them-Marc Marat, Napoleon's great cavalry Like Antony remains one of the most leader, who used to swagger about In response to an appeal for a lovable figures in History. Greedy in gorgeous uniforms of his own portable X-ray set, from the of power, fickle arid dissolute in designing, Antony appeared in- Shanghai, Red Cross Hospital, and his pleasures, ruthless in battle or variably in Gallic cavalry uni- through the energetic efforts of civil strife, yet ever loyal a duty form his cloak fastened at the Drs. C. K. Ma, and T. C. Wong. and outstandingly. humane in a shoulder with a jewelled brooch, Mr. Fung Manter has generously savage age, sometimes hero, some- his sword in a jewelled scabbard given the necessary donation to timea buffoon-auch was this man hanging the Hong Kong Chinese Medical, who claimed descent from Her unbuckle it even at entertainments. at his side, refusing to Practitioners Organisation for that cules.
A body of soldiers escorted him purpose. The X-ray set will be Tragedy was ever lurking in the everywhere. delivered in Shanghai through shadows from his birth to the day Messrs. Schmidt & Co. for immc-fifty-three years later when he
Love Affairs. From diate use.
plunged his sword into his own philanderings and
his earliest days, his body.
drunkenness His two grandfathers had gained him ill fame. In his early been murdered; his childhood wit-twenties, when up to his ears in nessed the reign of terror ander debt, ha was involved in an affair Sulla after the death of Marius; with a girl named Fadia, from Caesar's murder rang up the cur- which he was rescued by being tain upon the tragedy of his own ordered to take up a cavalry' com- rise, decline, and fall.
mand abroad Later he offended Puck and Peter Pan.
respectable, people by giving to his In "Marc Antony" (Thornton mistress, the Greek actress Butterworth, 21s.) Mr. Arthur Cytheris, the name of Volumnia, a Weigall once again clothes the name sacred to Romans because it bones of history with entities of was that of the wife of Coriolanus.
News in Brief.
Lowest
open air temperature yesterday was 67. Humidity at 10 a.m. was 97 and at 4 p.m. 93.
Three cases of small-pox, one of diphtheria, three of enteric fever, and eight of meningitia were report- jed over the week-end...
address.
to a tavern
the old fanatical reverence for drawing-rooms and where two or offered the use of the Club for people laughed and clapped their He was then led into the presence
rank and riches has slumped; and there was a time, in that period, when there existed the possibility of the snob becoming, as the dedo, extinct. The snob, however, is as
alive to-day as yesterday; and, as long as the instinct to venerate some special quality and then claim a personal share of it is dear to the human heart, the snob like the proverbial poor, will al ways be with us. No one sex is
on
and knew
Cleopatra and Actium. voluptuousness, the splendour, the And then-Cleopatra, and the demoralising influence of their long association."
A letter dated April 9 and sign-flesh and blood whose actions are Then he fell beneath the spell ed "Mit Green" has been received, as vivid and understandable palf of a determined, perhaps shrewish, We would ask the writer to ac- they had died but yesterday. It is widow, Fulvis, who set herself to quaint us with his full name and rare gift, which fr.. Welgall has reform the wayward libertine. developed to a striking degres. Shortly after their marriage, Antony attracts because he is so Antony made his famous recon- The China Mail. fixed. But leave the modern anob Members of the Queen's College something of Puck, something of Gaul. On his return, Antony dis
very human,
There is in him clllation journey to Caesar in alone to get over that difficulty. It Old Boys' Association are holding has been successfully accomplished: College Hall next Saturday (April grow up, he is utterly irrespan of Rome, and went
Peter Pan-he simply refuses to missed his escort on the outskirts their annual dinner in the Queen's, The modern snob sees more "in the 16) at 8 p.m.
sible. Take, for instance, one where he wrote his wife a letter, colour-facts or toneplanes" of any
glimpse of him-now thirty-nine telling her he loved her and that form of new art than other people
The Kailan Mining Administra-years old, a war scarred cavalry she need never fear he would re- tion informs us that the total of the veteran, Consul and right-hand turn to the arms of Cytheris:- have yet discovered. But this is Administration's mines for
the man of Caesar, officiating as high true
Ho waited in hiding in this inn not only of modern art. Snobs week ended March 26, 1932 amount-priest at the annual feast of the until it war dark, and then, never die but only fade away. So adopt similar attitudes to conversa-ed to 109,622 metric tons, and the percalia:
muffling himself up in his cloak, tion and behaviour.
sales during the period to 97,464 Antony, having fortified himselt he drove There
in a hired carriage to are metric tons.
with liberal potations of wine, pre- his house; and when the porter catch-phrases-not idioms-that it
sented himself.at the
place of at the gates asked him who he was is the thing to use in countless The Committee and Members of sacrifice stark naked except for and what he wanted, he replied in the Club Lusitano have very kindly the slip of goat-skin around Tia
a dramatic whisper that he was an loins, and rather drunk. The express courier from. Marc Antony, three may be gathered together. Bridge and Mahjong Drive
hands to see their Consul thus en of Fulvia, to whom he silently and Again, there are standards of be-Wednesday, April 27 at haviour to which we must, or must in aid of the fund for building when, having been "blooded" and when she had read it,
acting the time-honoured role, and ominously handed the letter; but Guide Headquarters Hut. not, conform. Reference, of course,
handed the februa, he pranced from it that he was not only safe is being made to those standards of behaviour which may be styled "un- after eating sweetmeats occurred from him one of those jovial flows Antony threw off his disguise and
Another case of alleged poisoning)
away into the crowd, the women but was full of love for her, she ran merrily forward to receive burst into tears, whereupon yesterday, according to Police re- reasonable. There are so many ports, the victim being Lau Chan- he was delivering to right and left flung his arms around her. things, for neither rhyme nor rea- loi, (48), of 83 Laichikok Road. and Incidentally to admire his son, that simply must not be done. He was sent to the Kwong Wah Hos there, however, a man or matron splendid physique, Here and
mirable about a snobbishness which
There, however, is something ad-pistal from the Shamshuipo Police of the old school turned away in pained disapproval; and amongst can flower into splendid imaginative effort at times:
Thrills and shooting scenes
these was Cicero, who asked what And so, to-day, plenty are packed into "Billy the foolery and this nakedness, and could be more shameful than this more prone to the infection of
until snobbery turns elsewhere, we
Kid" now showing at the Star declared that Antony, even if he snobbery than the other. There
Theatre. must all, if we want to be in the County, the scenery is grand, and to have forgotten that he was Con-
A story of the Pecon
were Priest of Lupercus, ought not are as many snobbish men as there
awim, repeat the latest catch-many well known green favourites sui too. Are anobbish women. The
Bnob's
phrases, refrain from doing the are in the cast, including John essential quality is an attitude of
Caesar's "Crown." Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay things that are simply not done, and Johnson, Karl Dane and Wyndham who, at the height of this buffoon junreasoning reverence. But, when
And yet it was this same Antony admire the things that anobs admire Standing. that attitude' begins to be aped,
A picture that is well ing, cleverly seized an opportunity more and more, by all and sundry
and admire them in the way snobs worth seeing.
to test the sentiments of Caesar *****admire them.
But he SAW Cleopatra, with that is, when that attitude
and the populace as to a monarchy whom he had quarrelled, sailing xpreads us, for example, ink drop Ludicrous and Pathetic.
Seeing a royal diadem of bay, he away He must follow her. laughingly proffered it to Caesar, Doubtless he intended to rejoin pad drop by drop on to a piece of
The death occurred at Home, on bygone Consuls.
haranguing him upon the deeds of the fight. But when he boarded. blotting paper, and saturation
Saturday, of Mr. Arthur Lyman others shouted disapproval. An forgiving, adamant in refusing to Some cheered, Cleopatra's ship and found her un- point is reached or nearly reached, that "Puppet Government, that Macgowan, a director of Messrs. tony's words and the crowd's lack speak to him, he lost heart. The then that attitude ceases to be "Rebel Government which is said Macgowan was 68 years of age and alarmed Caesar. Antony call he would not return. And then- Bradley & Co., Ltd. Born in Amey, of unanimity, we are told, humbled battle could take care of itself anebbery and the suob, in self-pre- to be functioning in Manchuria, has at the time of his death, and had ed upon all present to witness disillusionment-suicide.* ̈* servation, abandons that attitude attempts at recognition
been rebuffed once again. Its
spent 40 years of his life in China that Gadar had refused a crown are a He and either replaces it with an at ludicrous as they are pathetic,
was the son of the Rev. and so checked his leader's titude directly contrary or directs has had the effrentery to translate author of "Sidelights on Chinese There was a musical comedy at
Macgowan of Amoy, and was the
pirations to kingship. it in some other direction.
Into action to long-lked of inten-Life In his younger days Mr. tion to inform the Chinese Govern- Macgowan was a good sportsman When fanatical reverence for ment that it refuses permission to and a particularly good tennis play rank and riches slumped, angbs did Dr. Wellington Koo, the League He went Home last May on dot adopt a directly contrary atti- Commission's Chinese Assessor retirement and settled down, In
Asirs com enter Manchuria with the League's fude but replaced it with an atti-
Begebenenn]|| Commission.
Cheltenham. of Inquiry Very sude directed to the modern rell-rightly the Chinese Minister-201.12 gion of Beauty and Art. This Is Foreign Affairs reft
The Manchukuo Government-
the newer snobbery, and it is just any communication.
start government
s fierce and just as insincere a chukuo Government
the old brand. As a writer puts wise. If it did
longer matters;
We know the Right eople or see mõên in the Right
Right! sensitive ton
things
optimistic..
Dr. Wellington Koo 18-now- accredited associate member League's Commission
and a refused to
enter Manchur
Commission as i'wable
mount to Inter
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From the "China Mall” of
April 11, 1922]
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OBITUARY,
Death Here of Mr. ALL Tayler.
OF ARTS & CRAFTS.
The final tragedy at Actium-. the downfall of Antony and that there. Is a striking analogy between. of Napoleon. At Waterloo, the Napoleon, might, probably would, younger Napolean, the pre-Elba
have conquered--would certainly
of Philippi, would have, snatched a have avoided disaster..' At Actium,. the younger Anteny, the Antony. victory......
Mr. Welgall's volume unfolds masterly panorama of the Rome of Weekly. the Civil Wars John O'London's'
her husband had, ready passed i away... The deepest sympathy will be felt for her and her four daugh- ters in their bereavement.
Mr. Tayler, who was 61 years of Age, Was An Associate of the Society of Desigye and came out to the East many years ago. Hat had wide experience of artistic Mr. A. L. Tayler, Director and work in China, and joined Arts and To-day's dollar is worth 2/5 8/10. Secretary of Arts and Crafts, Ltd, Crafts: early in its history. In died at the War Memorial Nursing Hong Kong he was responsible for Hong Kong, has lost one of Its Home Festerday afternoon. He the whole of the interior decoration dest residents by the death early was admitted to the Hospital last of the Peninagla Hotel, and thing morning of Mrs. Seth widow Tuesday suffering from pleurisy, evidence of his artistic taste is also Lo and ncumanist supervened with to be found in the ball room of the
Majestic Hotel in Shanghai
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