FRIDAY, MARCH
LITERARY NOTES:
NOTABLE BIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED
Sir James Lacaita.
A notable biography comes from Grant Richards, and deals with: Sir James Lavaita, under the title "An Italian
The Statesman."
story is told with candour by Sir James's son Charles, who died re- cently. It is an interesting one, for Sir James knew most of the great figures in the Italian Risor- gimento, and also those in English public life, including Gladstone, Morley, Macaulay, and Rosebery.
SIXTEEN WOMEN OF ENTERPRISE.
Feminine Figures Of The 1830's.
Well
thirties."
Sixteen women
Fiction Mixed With
Fact
Unique Novel Drawn From Life
A FINANCIAL ROMANCE
(By HOWARD SPRING)
are here dealt but in all cases adhering to the with. grouped under the headings, probabilities.” "Pocis," "Annualists,"
"Voyagera
Of Harriet Martineau. Elizabeth Well, merit it certainly is not Fry, Lady Blessington and the rest and, equally certainly, this is
The tale of the Britannia is a financial ro- great romancea
GRETA GARBO AND THE POET
Lonely Lives Of World Known People
A VERY BRIGHT BOOK
Members of the families of the rulers of the new State of Manchukuo are pictured at Hsinking as they awaited the coro- nation of Henry Pa-F! as Emperor on March 1. Sested are Mr. and Mrs. (or Prince and Princess) Jun-Chi, brother and sister-in-law of the new Empress standing, Prince. Pu-Chich, brother of the Emperor.
GRIM: STORY OF THE ARCTIC.
New Book By Author Of Experience.
CURIO MERCHANT'S SKETCHES.
MODERN D
Mr. Bruce
mort
book, - "Epilogue: mystery
Edwins: Dickens eft it, and pro
ply the methods of the modern des tective novel to the data, thus dif tering completely from all the other attempted continuations of his famous puzzle.
The result--is happy. Mr. Graeme very sensibly does not atë, tempt the Dickensian style, though, the novelist's own creations speak. sufficienly in character. The open- ing chapter or two are perhaps a little forced, but their object is to allow the author to bring his vown. pet detective into a story which lea in the year 1867, and that in Roelf was something of a problem to solve. Mr. Graeme has studied his original very closely, and thought one must not give away his solution it is permissible to say that he has made clever use of Durdles, the stonemason. He has to invent a few facts of his own, but they are
perfectly plausible ones.
The book would have been very. [readable without the added interest lof Dickens's story; with that, it is Įdoubly attractive,
WELLS BOOK THAT MAY BE FILMED.
"The Shape Of Things To Come."
¡A Gallery `uf Women. By J. W. Drawbell, (Colling. 128. Gd.): They live austere, lonely lives,} most of these women whose names are international cur- rency. There was Greta Garbo, for instance. Returning from America, Mr. Drawbell tells us, she met a young poet one morn ing at 7 on the boat deck. Ther A queer, delightful, annoying his subject; that a magnificently book called "Sam and Sallie," by readable book remains, and any then and every day afterwards.
played shuffleboard together Alfred Lane Crauford, has been body interested in the story of published by Cranley and Day the British stage should on no
The other passengers wonder- 28. ed.). The author calls the account miss "Sam and Sallieed what they talked about. When For what Mr. Crauford has one more inquisitive than the book a novel, and explains in an introduction that all the charac-done is tell the story of the rest actually asked P. (as the ters are drawn from life, and, famous old Britannia Theatre at hero of this little romance is de in a broad sense, have acted as I Hoxton, founded by Samuel signated by Mr. Drawbell), he a deserved snub relate....
Where the truth is Lane and adorned by the talent replied with known of the careers of my of his wife, Mrs. Sara Lane, the that his friendship with the characters I have strictly ad-"Eallie" of the title. W. R. screen star was, too sacred for The poor hered to it, as handed down to Crauford., an actor at the public discussion. Mrs. Janet E. Courtney has done me either by personal knowledge Britannia, eloped with Sallie's young man, in fact, was rather
badly hit. They had a son, book, or from numerous existing let-young sister. to assemble in one
Two or three days before called "The Adventurous Thirties" ters and documents, but there A. L. Crauford, and, though we
the voyage ended P. wrote a (Oxford University Press, 8s. 6d.), are periods when what actually are not told so, we may aRRume,
poem which he handed to heri the story of "many enterprising happened to them is obscured in so deep is his knowledge of the In these family's affairs, that that A. L.
on the night of the captain's women living and working along the mists of the past.
dinner. It was quite a good side of each other in the eighteen-Cases I have allowed myself as Crauford is the writer of this
much diberty as if the facts were brok.
poem. The theme of it, of entirely of my own invention,
course, The History Of The "Old
Was Garbo. It pie-
Sincere Work In tured her looking out over the Brit."
New Novel. sea and realising its lone- I claim." Mr. Crauford adds
liness. In one verse it show-- to India," "Crities nf America," "that no novel has hitherto had
ed her gloomily meditating loc. By Lennox Kerr. (John novel. It is a series of little "The Curio Shop? is not really s "Philanthropists," "The Salons." this merit-if merit it be" menee, to begin with; for when
Mrs. Lane died in 1899 she lufti
upon life and realising that she 126,000, a considerable fortune
Lane. 65.) was lonely also, The copy
Mr. Lennox Kerr's wide exder thread: the person of one Bain- sketches hung upon a rather slen- that P. gave to Greta Garbo perience as to have come out of a theatre
a sailor is magniton, who keeps the shop in ques of them Mrs. Courtney writes with not a novel at all. It is whose dearest seat cost 25. and
was his only one. He did not ficently utilised in this tale of ation. Bainton himself. is a colour a quiet gracefulness which not only biography gone wrong. It is
make a duplicate. He felt it human being's single combat less figure, but there are some good whore prices were graded down puts before us the women as in-a magnificent chance
missed from that to 3d.
belonged to Garbo, alone.
Mr. H. G. Wells, who has long with the mighty forces of the characters in the Book, though been interested on film production, dividuals but also creates, in the but so rich in episode, so closely
So the rash poet who kept no Arctic. the atmosphere and linked with the common lives of Afr. Crauford, "or by any other to know Garbo better than anyone by the ice, transformed into a Some are precious, not to say af- Alexander Kords, managing done
Inny was gained outside," Bay's copy of his verses "probably got
drawn with a very light penell. long
and once wrote a book in scenario tempo of the age which moulded men and women is the story that
Capt. Forester has been beaten The little sketches are uneven.form, has been discussing with Mr. peculation." them and which, in turn, they Mr. Crauford has to tell, and so`
A romance, too, of dreams Sweden,"
ever done since she left) nervous, helped to mould.
deeply does he himself feel about
jumpy, whiskeyfied fected, and there is rather too much tor of London Film Productions, come true. Sarrel Lane was
wreck by a previous disaster. slightly self-conscious talk of "beau the possibility of filming his new the son of a Devonshire fisher-
A hard life. It seems the His life and career depend on his ty" and obvious seeking after the book. "The Shape of Things to man. He tramped to London, harder when Vicki Baum, an-mastering the secret fear which fresh word, such as "virility," as Come." threw in his lot with a theatrical other in Mr. Drawbell's gallery, obsesses him.
applied to a woman when only "Obviously it would be difficult company playing in a Shoreditch tells him that "fame does not
Despairing and a failure, he "vitality" is meant. public-house, married his mas-really mean much" as she en- loses his semblance of nerve
to adopt to the screen, and as yet But it is all very readable, and we bave done no iter's daughter, inherited his larges upon
more than success and hapagain, and virtually commits will appeal to those who like care-talk The R.M.S. Empress of Russia small fortune, and set his heart piness and the difficulties before suicide by sending off his crew fui, obviously sincere work.
about the ideas,"
Mr. The Chinese Y.ML.C.A. are holding[
the woman who would secure to safety and staying alone with |——
Korda said "We have not even An open-house
to arrived at Kobe this morning and on giving the East End the sort programme
both. Others in Mr. Drawbell's the vessel he believed doomed. colossal task of sitting a new pro- made, should be east in the form of [decidad/whether the Alm, it` it he morrow, from I p.m. until 9 p.m., for will leave to-night for Nagasaki, of drama he thought they want-
book hold much the same views. old friends, supporters and mem-arriving to-morrow afternoon, and ed.
"It was after he had started Miss Eileen Bennett, a self-de A new hope and resolution arise, ed.
The mmediaté peril passes, peller to the Aurora single-hand-action." will leave at midnight for Shanghai.
with a company at the Britanniaclared idealist, believes that the born of his instinct of self-pre- and confidence are re-created, and garian who directed "The Private
In the effort his courage) Mr. Korda is the brilliant Hon-1 tavern in Hoxton that Sallie, impurtant thing in life is com-
servation. He sets about the his br le against the ice is won. Life of Henry VII. twenty years his junior, joined panionship. the company. She was Lane's "That's what counts. second wife.
rest doesn't matter. The book traces in great detail Balthe story of the Britannia's rise
rather go to a snack bar with] someone I like than to the from a saloon behind the public- Ritz with someone I don't." house, to a magnificent theatre In any case Mr. Drawbell can that could hold nearly 5000 peo-be relied upon to discover the Iple.
romantic strain that somewhere There are some grand touches or other runs through the charac
the story: the "dramatist" ters in this very bright book. who was on the staff at $2 A week, under contract to produce.
three act play every fornight; the leading actor who, a few
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
berx.
four this morning.
Postponed from last Saturday, Fok Tsol, an assistant hawker. the monthly subscription dance of was remanded for a week, on $75 the V.R.C. in aid of funds for new bail, when he was charged with rowing fours will be held to threatening injury to another haw. morrow night at the Club at 9.30.ker, Wong Tung, before Mr. S.
The Hong Kong Chinese Choral Society, embracing 80 members, has been formed with the assistance of the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A.'s. Mr. 1. A. Miller, L.R.A.M., in the director.
A dramatic entertainment with three short plays will be given at the Helena May Institute an Thurs-
Yip Ken, an aged Chinese woman, was taken to the Kowloon Hospital! yesterday, suffering from injuries to legs and arms, sustained when she
was knocked down by a bicyclist in Sung Yee Road,
While attempting to close a win
"Not one
day, March 15, at 5.30 p.m. Those dow, Wong Mock, a Chinese employ-minutes before the curtain was ed at the Yit Lee Glass Factory, fell due to go up, was found drunk in
wishing to have tea must reserve tables from Matron, 22160
to the street from the first floor yes the streets of Hoxton, flourish- terday, and was admitted to the ing a haddock. Government Civil Hospital suffering, from minor injuries.
The Britannis played a great part in the life of Hoxton, and
had
PATRICK MacGILL
AGAIN.
Th: Ed
Popular Seller Predicted.
Although it is now some time
A man, aged 70 years, was fined $3 or three days without hard labour by Mr. Balfour in the Central Police} Court yesterday, on a charge of Gekking in Queen's and He is to be sent back to the country, Road, when a young Chinese cleaner Ada Reeve, even the Tichborne reputedly short, an announcement] employed at the Gilman Service Sta- claimant walked its boards, and of a new book by this author will Wu Hoi, unemployed, charged betion was knocked down by a Chevro Blondin looked down on them. fore Mr. Hamilton, at the Centrallet car. Magistracy yesterday, with posses- alon of a quantity of dry wood at Hill Road near Pokfulum Road, was
A fatal motor accident occurred at British stage. Lily Elsie. Marle navy-poet, published his last novel
no small part in the story of the since Patrick MacGII, the famous
P
not fall to arouse interest. Fact or Fiction?
In "Tulliver's MIIL," there are Through attempting to commit Sallie kept up the theatre's many passages of the great charm suicide by jumping into the harbour warm-hearted tradition long and beauty, the same sympathete fined $50 or six weeks' imprison from a steam launch Mun Tak, Yiu after her husband was dead insight into human nature, that ment. He admitted two previous Wing, an unemployed Chinese, was Driving in a brougham from her were so marked, in his earlier convictions for similar offences taken to the Government Civil Hos-St. John's Wood mansion, she works,
pital yesterday suffering from the played a boy's part in black tights Patrick MacÇill with his quiet, Luk Chun, of 167 Tai Nam Strect, cffects of Immersion. He was part in age of 76. Fittingly, the sincere manner of story-telling is Kowloon, was taken to the Kowloon rescued by two seamen.
was buried from the theatre. going to be a vary, popular seller:" Hoxton turned out and mourned Hospital yesterday, after being krocked down by an unknown lorry The Hong Kong Chun-Shing as for the pakaing of a loved while riding a bicycle In Tai Po Commercial Academy will hold its friend. And now the Britannia Road. He received face and chest graduation function at the Glou is a picture theatre. Injuries,
cester Restaurant next Friday,What is so annoying is that when the 13th and 14th Graduation here and there you wonder whe
Ither you are reading fact for
The reorganisation ·
PRESENTATION TO PUBLISHER,
Trade.
of the certificates for Typewriting, with nction, I wish Mr. Crauford Unique Event In Book Seventh Route Army, formerly the certificates for the First term of had stuck to the sufficiently re 19th Route Army, by Gen. Wel Li-Commerce, will be distributed by markable and romantic truth huste, has been completed. The Professor R. Robinson, As a 12 would be almost worth while new army," which is now in Konan the Hong Kong University, undergoing rigid military training
ha's four divisions and each divi- According to an estimate made ajon, three régiments, ・・
by the National Reller Commission, altogether fourteen provinces war The case in which Wong Shu, a ravaged by banditr shopkeeper of No. 161 Temple Street, floods, droughts or othe ens charged with export raw calamities during the oplum and non-Government prepared | Nanking" "report" from eplum to Singapore, was zgain men, cles atatea: Th Honed at the 'Kowloon gistracy cerned Chil before Mr. Wynni Appearing for the
of the
Tor him to re-write the book in brder to give us a reliable memorial of a unique institution. Even as it is, the book is packed With delicious reading for any
who cares for the old days of
islight. A little skip
and you
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the book
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