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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1933,
LITERARÝ NOTES
AUTHOR CELEBRATES
83RD BIRTHDAY Silas K. Hocking's 100- Books And £60,000.
ONE PEN-NIB IN 40 YEARS
Silas K. Hacking, the novelist,| recently celebrated his 83rd. birth- day. He has stopped writing.
He told me that during the past: 60 years he has earned at least £60,000 in the writing of a hun- dred books.
"And," he said. "I have writ:: ten the last 60 of those books in about 40 years with the same pen and the same nib."
I saw him at his home in High- gate, which he was just leaving to play a snooker match.
America In Shadow Of The Slump Sickening Sense Of Impending Fate
"NOBODY STARVES" REVIEWED
(By Howard Spring.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHINA LIBRARY AT
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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
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The following programme be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres (845 KG.?):-
INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION.
By DR. CHIH-BER KWEI- (Director, National Central Univer-by
sity Library, Nanking). One of the earliest and most im- portant. tasks of the League of
Nations is the problem of intellec
Pianoforte recital from the studio
Professor Jeno Von Takacs. 6-8 p.m.-European programme, 6-6.18 pm
Variations Symphoniques (Cesar
Frank)
Alfred Cortot & London Symphony
Ronald
ald 6734-5. 6.18-7 pm--A Concert.
Valse Caprice (Rubinstein) Valse Brillante (Chopin) It Song
Ignace Jan Paderewski 6877. The Bells of St. Mary's
(Furber-Adams),
Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dreaming
(Linley-Hall)
Frances Alda (Soprano) 1170 Violin Solo-
Hungarian Dance No. 17
(Brahms-Kreisler) Lotus Land (Scott)
Fritz Kreisler 6706.
tual co-operation. As early as Orchestra conducted by Sir Landoa 1920 the Assembly of the League suggested to the Council that prac-Plane Solo tical steps-be immediately taken to Concerning "Nobody Starves," so many of the workers had them organize and to promote this by Catherine Brody (Collins, 76.and she could put up with most hitherto neglected activity. 6d.). Mr. Sinclair Lewis has writ-things. But as she said, "We're so pointed out that such organization ten that it has social importance careful we haven't even got a car." was essential to the efficiency of as well as literary importance. There is acute social comment in the league, (1) because intellectual, Suppose it has. But the library that word "even." She was glad opinion is a part of public opinion, Why did I start to write?" he importance does not соде
to she had been careful when Bill (2) because Intellectuals the world went on, his pipe well under way, much; the social importance la came home one day and announc-over are in a key position to* in- "Well, I had always had a mania overwhelming.
led, "I'm out on my ear.” The fluence public opinion, and (3) be- to scribble. As a child I read The book is harrowing. Let slump had reached the motor fac-cause it is obvious that in default] everything I could lay my hands those leave it unread who love the tories.
of some such international machin-(Song- on. I read 'Pilgrim's Progress, lush pastures of a fool's paradise. Thereafter the book is nothing ery co-operation among the Intel- and thought it a good book, then In the midst of so much talk about but the tale of a dwindling num-
lectuals could never become really I went on to Scolt and everything"turning the corner," and "brigh- ber of jobs and a swelling host of effective..
ter times ahead." and "burying old men and women lined up morning. For the purpose of simplifying. "Then I saw that £100 was offer-man Depression" it comes with noon and night to apply for them, strengthening and extending in-Violin Solo- ed by some magazine for the best disturbing force, as though some Bill and Molly moved to the neigh- ternational intellectual relations, atory submitted I made up jone should "drop a brick" in the bouring town of Micmac, where all the Council appointed in 1922 a mind to win this prize.
midat of a conversation that is life was controlled by one motor- committee on intellectual CO- "I worked like a slave, but by very polite and dreadfully meaning-manufacturing company. Some-operation composed of eminent Song the time that I had dene-four
times Bill had a job, sometimes people from different countries. five of the chapters I found had The title is a fing plece of irony. Bill had a job sometimes Molly The general'organization of inter- got the whole story so tangled up. There is not a person in the book ployed. But all
"Nobody starves." It is true. had one, sometimes both were em- nationa! intellectual life has been the time they promoted by the formation of s the characters so hopelessly mud- dled in the situations which I had who goes for long without food. knew that they worked with their number of national committees for created for them. that it was be- the other hand, there is hardly beads on the block of the guillo intellectual co-operation working tions
one who is not perpetually under tine and that at any time the steel closely in touch with the interna- the shadow. The sickening sense. might fall.
tional committee. In China the Orchestral
obtainable.
yond a chance of success.
"That was my first failure. "URGE TO SCRIBBLE."
my
or
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less.
"She had really better go to see
can
"
The Bells of St. Mary's
(Furber-Adams). Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dreaming
(Linley-Hall)
Frances Alda (Soprano) 1170| Hungarian Dance No. 17
(Brahms-Kreisler) Lotus Land (Scott)
Frite Kreisler 6706.
A Wanderer's Song (Schumann)" By the Sea (Schubert)
Friedrich Schorr (Baritone) 7473.]
Scotch Pastorale (Saenger)
Yehudi Menuhin 6951.
Violin Salp
7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
7.3-7.20 p.m.-Variety,
Another Night Alone
San
Orchestral
→
The Pickens Sisters 24025.
Chanson Bohemienne Aloha Sunset Land
Victor Salon Orchestra 20550. 7.20-7.40 p.m.
that sucks the very guts out of One thing that Molly learned committee is composed of such cut- Ruby Newman & His Orch. 24072. "All the time: the urge to scrib that never quite becomes embodied money." "There was no assurance
manhood. of impending tragedy was "the immense disloyalty of standing scholars, as Wu Chib-hul, Seng
Li Shih-tseng and others, who are Love me Tonight ble possessed me. Before I was this it is that makes the shadow twenty i was persuaded to take up under which all the lives in this that it would cleave to the people always interested themselves in Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano) 24067 the Methodist ministry. I left book dwell.
who had earned it and guarded it. literary pursuits and their writ-Vocal Trio- Cornwall and held pastorates
The Pickens Sisters 24025 It could be enjoyed by anyone who ings are widely known throughout Sweet Georgis Brown
China.
Orchestral- Liverpool, Manchester, Burnley. a doctor-even if it did cost three happened to get it in his hands at "I began to write stories for lo dollars-and tell Bill-and then disappear as immutably as time.".
the moment, and, once gone; could Library Established.
Strange Interlude The Chinese International Libr-Song
Ruby Newman & His Orch. 24072.; cal or parish magazines on thejeven if it were so, well, if their.
Isn't it Romantic? back of forms left in the house by hands grew numb they would:
The disintegration of Micmac is ary at Genera came into existence my predecessors.
hold on with their nails, if their terribly presented. Everybody was in the first part of this year, as a Jeannetta MacDonald (Soprano) 24007 "I wrote 'Her Benny,' which was nails grew numb then with their trying to sell the car, trying to result of the resolution adopted by Vocal Trio- published at 1. 6d., and it sold in teeth, but hold on they would, they wangle a way out of this commit the Chinese Committee for Inter thousands-about a quarter of a must-till-things grew better." meat and that. The shops, kept up national Intellectual Co-operation. million, I think, were sold.
It was Molly Redding, wife of a show. "Buy now!" And Molly The general purpose of the library "Unfortunately. I had let it go Bill Redding, who made that re- asked bitterly. "With what? Well, is to promote a closer educational for £20, so that its success meant flection. Molly's story be if this ever ends, I know one thing and cultural relationship between no immediate fortune for me. quickly told. When we meet her -I'll never save again-never-China and the world. As con- "I knew then what my contem first she is working in a tile- never! You scrimp and save and ceived and planned by the present poraries like Sir Hall Caine and factory, and she is "walking out" stint yourself and you get a little sustaining members of this library, others were getting in the way of with Bill. Both are intellectually money together, and then you have there are four lines of activities royalty from publishers and I de inadequate. The job done for the to scrimp and save and stint your which the library should under-
take, to wit:--- save self to make it last, over a "bad termined to get and did get the day, they have no resource
the "radio" and the cinema. They time. You never have a thing, any
(1) The dissemination of in- same myself.
formation concerning Chinese. Vivaldi-Takacs-Concerts. belong to the millions who will time." "Oh! yes, I insisted on my fair
It ended civilization;
2. Chopin-Prelude. (Raindrops) fee. Of course, a lot that I wrote Survive so long as society has a "If this ever ends.”
(2) The promotion of a closer Polonaire. use for the small accomplishments, for Molly, tragically enough. Bill at that time was by. order and I
the trivial skill, which are all they went back to Detroit to look for the world through the medium of relationship between China and wae paid a definite sum for each have to offer.
job, taking his place in the queue Bill and Molly met at a time at midnight, "It was not so un- the printed page; Then I came to live in London when society
(3) Assisting students interest-i was finding itself usual for men to wait in line all'
There were at leasted in the study of Chinese culture; (4) The stimulation of general things which people like Bill and a score of men ahead of him. "By that time I had become Molly make. The great American Bill squatted down, chin to knees, interest in the world affairs in pretty well known. Editors us-lump had begun. In shope and is the position of the last comer. China.
work.
•
I bought this house in 1895, and I forced to do without many of the night.... have been bare ever since...
serials.
"It took me
Aside from the above-mentioned
Con
ed to drive up here in their factories workers are being "laid- Fifteen below zero to look handsome-cabs and ask me for off." There is not much to worry for a job is hard." By morning objectives, the library has two about at first: nothing but hair there were two long surging lince, particular functions to perform, about three cracks in the fabulous structure of but no work. Only a riot, wallops namely (1) to co-operate with the months to write a book, some-prosperity. Work is reduced by a from the police.
library of the League of Nations, times four, and I considered if shift a week or the pay is docked The Depression Procession. and (2) to exhibit Chinese publica- I did two books in the year 1by no more than a dollar; and, That was the end for Bill. He tions: every year during the was working pretty steadily. anyway, if you don't like one job went back to Micmae and blew out ference of the International Intel-
NEVER TIRED.
you can move with some ease to his wife's brains as she slept. As lectual co-operation in the month Most of my books are about another.
he was taken off in the police car of July. 100,000 words in length so that my Bill moved to Detroit to work in he was heartened by an amusing
300 Members. income was quite comfortable. a motorcar factory. Molly joined spectacle. Old Man, Depression The library is supported by "The basic idea of each story him there, and they were married. was being taken along the streets nearly 300 sustained members, and is something in which I Armly Miss Brody's picture of Detroit is in a black coffin, Mourners fol-jadministered by a board of trus- believe myself. I think It is a minor creation of nightmares; lowed. "Then came ranks of bust-tees, elected by the sustaining easier to write if you sincerely a synthetic town of cafeterias and ness men on holiday, red Oriental members. Each sustaining mem
one of believe in what you are describ. antiseptic "groceterias," bard- fezzes atop flashing spectacles-ber is expected to falfli
-gleaming white cement, roads dried countenances pudgy cheeks. the following conditions:-
(1) To contribute $4,000 Chin- "I write everything, as the re-which continued into the time of Banners berne aloft: Down with
Take himlese currency at one instalment; '· cord of my fountain-pen will tall freedom the nauseating effect of Old Man Depression!
(2) To contribute $400 Chinese those endless conveyor belts that out and bury him In the grave- you, with my own hand, and I am a free writer and never become were the unceasing taskmasters of yard! This is Business Confidence currency every year;
working hours.
Week!" tired."
ing.
He knocked out the great, old pipe and replenished it.
"Then came' a definite. pause in
my career. The Boer war broke out.
(3) To donate books amount-i Bill and Molly could have put It was a fine procession. The ing to approximately $4,000, or its up with that. Give Molly & car
police made a break in the middle equivalent.
of it to allow, Bill to get through; The following persons are the to the white concrete splendour of members of the board of trustees: the new gabl. "He was not sorry-Ts'al Yuan-peí, Chiang Kai-shek, "A few years ago though I had she was dead; only sorry she could Edouard Herriot, Chang Ching- kiang, L. Shib-tseng, Wu Chih-huf,
"I am one of those individuals written enough, and so I gave up not live." who 'do not believe in. wars. 1 writing.
Then I was approached-As a writer Miss Brody is at her Wang Ching-wel, T. V. Soong, Chu think it is the wrong way to settle by some publishers who were is best when she describes something Chia-bus, and so forth, with disputes which ultimately will sing a cheap edition, and was she has seen. She has seen stan-Li Shih-toeng as the chairman. have to be regulated by discussion asked to write a 40,000-word novel, dardised industry with its stan anyway.
"I was called pro-Boer, which, of course, I was not. I was just auti-war of any sort.
producing it
BOOK CENSORSHIP
IN IRELAND.
"I told them I had put down my dardised towns, Pen, but they insisted, and I wrote pathetic standardised people, and the book in a few months for them. here she has put it all on record He rose to go to his billiards with a brutal adelity. Some of match. "I became thoroughly unpo-]
her phrases evoke a scene as Ban On Advertisements pular. People determined to to-day. They are incredibly num-le opened an iron-door. The im "Well, as to the young authors though your own eyes were on it. destroy my house. They got: the wrong address and smashed. You see a novel by one mense room rushed to meet them
man and you never see his name like a tornado." again.
the doors and windows of a friend ̈, of ̧› mine "across
street."
the
ནཱ་
Also,
The book censorship in the Irian.
The whole phase of civilisation Free State Is reported to be "They write well, but I find it here presented is such that it operating indirectly as a consor:
· hard among their books to find a might be condoned if, to exculpate ship in England also, He laughed
well-told story worth reading." Its own inadequacies, it could say: Not only are certain kinds of THESE YOUNG AUTHORS. "Frequently I throw them down "Well, it comes off." But when it scientific books banned in the Free I went on writing hooks of 100, fatter, reading fifty or sixty pages, doesn't one is thrown back on State bat newspapers containing 000 words at six gaineas a thou because I could never like the some such thought as Allan Monk Advertisements of them are liable sand words. Practically all were people which these young authors house expressed last week? It to be asized by the Custome serialised, because the essential choose as characters A good no-issims that one of the functions character of my books is the tell- vel must be a good story. The bel the novel ls to warn us that ing of a story
ter the story the belter the moto, the fullness of Continued ut foot of next Column.}/vel.
Beeds of decay
Accordingly.** English; - popular
a wide circulation reland. And it expedient to "rem
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