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His escape
Here There and
Everywhere
IT. GREIN
CAVALIERS AND PURITANS
STILL TO BE FOUND
IN ENGLAND
Mr. J. T. Grein's death will be FAMOUS FRENCH NOVELIST GIVES
generally regretted by
theatre-goers,
London
With his rabicand face, pointed. moustache, and diminutive stature he looked like a figure from a Dutch painting who had inadver er strolled into a first night
HIS CONSIDERED OPINIONS
(By Andre Maurois)
ALWAYS feel slightly sceptical What is the cause of this when anyone tells me that change? For one thing, it comes
He had a mildness of manner England has changed a lot in the about through a natural reaction. and habit which contrasted oddly last fifteen years, and that English For another, the theories of Freud with the vituperation to which he youth is completely altered. To have played an important role in was subjected in the closing years those who say such things I al- bringing to those who wished to of last century.
ways wish to retort "Has the campaign against the old repres- He was one of the central figures climate of England changed, then? sions the support of a scientific in the great battle for the modern Has the east wind ceased to blow doctrine. - theatre, and the first man to put Have twenty centuries of history Ibsen on the English stage.
SAVED
Economic Ideas
And economic ideas? They seem jbeen annulled?"
It is enough for me to open a at first sight as completely trans- book of memoirs to rediscover in formed as the moral attitude. the English of former times those England, which was the country of He was nearly prosecuted for of our own day. The Cavalier and Free Trade; has become Protec the Puritan are still types of tionist England, which was the having done so.
After his production of “Ghosts" modern England. I know John country of individualism, speaks a question was to be asked in Par-Hampden: I meet him every time no longer of anything but organ liament by a member who desired I go to London. He lives stillisation, and in this new role knows
with his spirit at once both com-great success. his arrest
At the last moment the MP-bative and legalist. received a chit from the Govern
ment saying that the Government would be placed in an embarrass-
Old Opinions
Must we admit that a new Eng-" land is in process of being born The truth is more English. En- In 1535 a Venetian Ambassador countering suddenly a typhoon
ing position by any question refer-wrote: "The English are great (the world-wide depression), Enz- ring to the man Ibsen, about whom lovers of themselves and of every land has quite simply reduced her.
thing belonging to them. They sail-area.. nothing was know
think that there are no other men
In a time of universal disorder ・・ like themselves and no other world which made great affairs difficult but England.”
and dangerous and which because- In 1935 an English guide-book of the instability of international
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|-MUCK-RAKING" DOGS
Mr. Grein was saved
....
-The play itself was described in giving advice to travellers says:
scope for foreign trade, she has a leading article in the Press of "Motorists should not forget that, Currency exchanges, allowed little- cally. Dillinger had not been the day as "An open drain: a outside of the British Isles, every found it profitable to reunite proe alone drives on the wrong side of duction and consumption at home- condemned to death, though he
loathsome sore, unbandaged:
lin a small and controllable group. Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 16, 1935. was a murderer.
England of the 19th century Not being troubled by any desire- from gaol had prevented his dirty act done publicly a lazar-the road."
aristocratic country for logical coherence, she has trial. But the public acquiesced house with all its doors and win-
dows open." in the informality, on the prin Its producers and audience were Power was in the hands of a small adopted thus a temporary solution. ciple that war has to be coun-branded as "educated and tered by war. And the conse
Your Daily Smile!
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Wy 277
Simple Image
If I try, in pronouncing the
house park, which seems to have of those old houses covered with climbing plants and with flowers; been there since the creation of
which, but several centuries ago, the world, modern England makes has been reconstructed, enlarged. one think of a country of pioneers,
Eager to Please Guest: "I'm sure my bed is much too narrow."
Ins Manager: "That can be easily so extensively is she cut up by altered, and mingles with the quivering animation of living things. fixed I have a bedspread placed on new roads, straight and wide. like nobility of ancient things the The ancient stones are intact,
* *
Officeholder
"Are you entirely satisfied with the
Certainly. I'm one of them. election returns?”
rivers.
India Of "Kim”
Direct Action
She will forget it to mOITOW" muck-number of families: the land, the
to these same when the circumstances have castles, belonged We live in an age which has
families. To-day the distribution altered. a great belief in words. It is quence is that we are how hav-ferreting dogs.
of well-being has changed quite, a. common idea that ating films of the "private war!
Life in England seems change of name will justify all to end war." It is a good thing manner of things that would be that this also should be recorded
One trouble is that when a stand-adays organised for the well-being]
simple and symbolical, I see one very closely questioned if they for the public to know what sort were described according to the of a war it is, so long as it in army gels big enough, it grows of another class. A few miles Word England, to evoke an image- old principle, that a spade might sticks to its function of vindi- tired of hanging around and wants to away from the traditional manor just as well be called a spade cating the right of the citizen $23.00
as an instrument of husbandry to go about his lawful business And it is only natural that our without fear of violence. THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. industry, which aims at But the stern measure is holding a mirror up to nature. itself a sign of the times. There is never nowadays a should follow suit.
Beneath the "entertainment" strike of any importance, with-i
A motorist complains that he could- aspect of the old gangster films, out some advocacy of direct there was also a certain amount action." “sabotage." "forciblet find a policeman when he special-
The Great West Road recalls, by but electric wires traverse them. of campaigning for the vindi-picketing or some other formly wanted one recently. He should
the great road of the India of Periods are linked by passages and staircases of an incredible cation of law and order. At of violent action which is in have left his car mattended for reason of its diverse animation, wings, built at different
"Kim Everywhere are pictures- first no doubt thoughtless pro-itself a breach of the peace and couple of seconds.
que inns, pools, paved in colourful complication Portraits cover the walls, some excellent, others de- ducers seized on the gangster of the law; and, of course, the as a picturesque adventurer, and guardians of the law, after some
tiles, camping fields. It is for the
in the big pubie testable. A new house, embellish
objects, passengers
ed with several chosen there can be little hesitation in show of forbearance, such as
coaches, for the drivers of motor-would perhaps be more perfect; it deciding that so Tong as that firing over the heads of the
cycles and small cars. that thewould not have the same charm. type of adventure had novelty, crowd, in due course use their
restaurants are primarily built, there was some glamour weapons, and even bring up these mis machine-guns in case of a big around
the beauty spots thrown open, the thrown
ponds excavated and constructed creants, and the effect was bad enough riot. The fact is that
It is not to a rich clientele, become The outbreak of kidnapping, at no time in history has the more particularly the Lindbergh State had such powerful means
less numerous, that the purveyor of pleasures addresses himself. to
GENUINE ERROR case, blew away all that false both of preventing detecting, sentiment with a whift. It was and punishing the evil-doer who
day. This country, formerly de-
IN PASSPORT the resorts to violence. It is quite suddenly realised that attempt to suppress the liquor possible that the recognition of
Indian "Cautioned” traffic by law without the sup- this is what makes the criminal Several Europeans appeared be signed for the amusement of an port of public opinion, had resort to his futile crime from fore Mr. E L Wynne Jones at the aristocracy, has become more than The food of the English people
Ahmad Khan, a 24-year-old In- shovelled large amounts of cash a feeling that force must be re- Kowloon Magistracy this morning any other of the country of the
is, equally, transformed by this dian, pleaded not guilty to a charge into the hands of the most dan-sisted by force even though the for breaches of the Traffic Regula-middle classes. gerous class of the community, result is a foregone conclusion. tions.
Only one method of dealing Mrs. G. W. Arnold, of No. 114, new mode of life. Abroad they of entering the Colony without a who were now engaged in actually levying war against with all these struggles pro-Waterloo Road, Mrs Roise Estill talk of the big pieces of red valid passport, when he appeared the State War is the use of vides an acceptable alternative Soyza, of the Texas Company, half-raw beef served at all English before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at lethal weapons with intent to The citizen must feel, before he Hong Kong. and Mrs. B. Eyde tables, but who could cook a great the Central Magistracy this more kill, and all the trappings of takes to violence in his war on Lay, of No. 134C, Argyle Street, chink of beef on a camping. field? ning
Police evidence was given, dur were each fined $5, for causing an Who wants it? ? "declarations" do nothing to society. that he is getting a fair
fing which it was stated deal If we are honest we will obstruction with their respective alter its character. who, for the purpose of smug admit that many of these men cars at the Majestic Theatre, near
The young fellow who takes his owing to a genuine error in the gling liquor, or robbery, or have had much cause for their Saigon Street, at 11.15 p.
girl out on his motor-cycle buys a defendant's passport, he was in no enmity. It is only lately that July 16. blackmailing, makes a practice the State has shown a tendency
For unlawfully driving motor- Pasty, some cakes, chocolate. be way responsible for violating the
"His Worship of using a "gun," is making a
to help a man in what used to
Englishman of 1935 eats less than
fendant. war, even though it be called a
the Englishman of former times, private war This particular be considered his private mis cycle No. 86, at 5.30 pm on July fore setting out It general the regulations. sort of war happened to be fortunes. The scope of the law 16, ME Toman, of No. 2, cowardly and sordid; and as most be enlarged until we can Minden Avenue, Kowloon was and that is perhaps one of the soon as it was shown realisati-honestly say that the law will fined $5.
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Psychological Changes
exuses of the agricultural crisis. - What are the psychological
About 1914 the directors of the
cally in its true colours there secure him a fair deal, and a Messrs A. C. Jeffreys, of the was no possibility of surround- just reward for good work. Hong Kong Telephone Company changes? ing it with the admiration for And above all the law must be and AV-Young, of Buss and.
brought within the reach of Company, were each fined $3 for English theatre, when they saw a pluck which so long preserved those who would most benefit having no lights on private cars, show on the boulevards in theold absurdities of the
by it the poor. And far more Nos. 1 and 4131 respectively. duelling code.
rapid and summary action is The agitation
for law enforcement, however, did not needed; the last man that stop at persuasion or at any of should be asked to wait is the
starving man
the legal hurdles which were set up by State Rights The de- mand was quite simple, it was
that the State should
the challenge, and r the
enemy.
legisla Shaving
and not by the
CAR MISHAP AT STANLEY-
Mrs. A. J. Lane, resi
St. Steph
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
Gajjan Singh, a Dist fman, pleaded guilty to being
and disord
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said to
Tha would the by We
themselves
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that
utioned the dem
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