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Hong Kong, Friday, November 1, 1935 thorities to wake the
Life And Art
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By visture of another decree, all cases of espionage will henceforth
There
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Everywhere
ŠVINCES COURAGE
the Italian Minis-
THE TWO SEXES IN BUSINESS
WHY I WOULD NOT WORK FOR A WOMAN
can hardly have so
asant position last!
ver, who
dans
CRUS
PSYCHOLOGICALLY WRONG
FE Baily) (By
CERTAINLY would not work.
for a women, and the rea the son is partly psychological and war
for a man to feek slightly his attitude to-
If we want see human partly because, women, who tirely un-understand their own sex much nature as it really is we must ected. better than I understand it look atritas exemplified in a but powerful-wouldn't work for a woman primitive society we do we of one of either if they could possibly shall see that the Spanish pea- sant rides while his wife walks, the Bologna work for a man.
and enter I suppose I have met hun and supposing we go to a still matic service dreds of working girls in my more primitive society and con- time, but I never yet met one sider the African native, we who wouldn't rather work for a shall find that he sits gossiping man than for a woman The with his male friends while his reason is that she knows she wives cultivate his bit of land fair deal to ensure that the family shall male not starve. All the edited the Restoration Drama- A third decree places all face When, the war broke out he will not always
rican would condescend to tists for the perusal of an age),
taries carrying on the work con-volunteered for service as an from a man employer, but
before the advent of the white man were the more lordly ocen that was inclined to condemned with the nanoral defence artillery Oncer and got the wil not always g
ors gallantry the theatre and all its works, der State supervision in order "Silver" medal, the Italian equiva- from a woman em
pations of fishing and hunting.. there has simmered a contro-
Ever since Charles Lamb
be tried by court-martial instead AN ITALIAN of by a civilian court. MAN
versy as to whether his theory to control their activities and to lent of the DSO, for of the connection between the prevent excessive profits being on the Carso art of the stage and real life is reaped by the arms industry.
a true analysis or merely an in-Trans-Ocean Service." genious subterfuge. The con-
troversy may be stated very EXPLANATION OF simply. "After the "Puritan
PRESENTS Revolution had suppressed the theatre for a whole generation. the Merry . of [the return.
Monarch coincided with an out-
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break of conduct which was deliberately intended to outrage the standards of behaviour that had been so forcibly imposed, and the stage followed suit by representing characters, wittily
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
The Smallest British
Dominion.
He rejoined the diplomatic ser Lrice after the war and was
member of the Italian delegation
to the Peace Conference
There are of course, honour able exceptions to
and
number among my stances women in Santho
positions whose feminine staffs admire them and would do thing for them, but suc are in the minorit
He will have had personal re- grets at the dispute, as it has istopped his hunting expeditions in the neighbourhood of Addis Ababa. He is an excellent shot, both with a rife and a shot gun.
Your Daily Smile!
It may be due old repression, a the women
are the
physically, but soon as a woma a position of som is apt to beca bully.
This state of affairs is In- tensified if she has, male
MHE island of Sark, one of the Reports that Ethiopia is seeking Channel Islands, the smallest loans indicate that it failed to put portrayed by dramatists like of governed part of the British /something aside for the end of a rainy ordinates.
day.
UP-TO-DATE
All Alike Deep Down
The modern man and woman in the streets of our great cities are exactly the same as the frican native and the Spanish
leep down in their
that is why it is. ally impossible for a
to work for a woman of his ca For him to do so mean the entire loss of his respect for himself and her respect for him.
I say a man and woman of the important. The matter be sub-same class because this is very Psychologically Wrong- comes entirely different m the Apart from this aspect of the case of a great queen ruling ntry whose inhabi- Congreve, who left in the wings
"My, but this is a fashionable grill situation, for a man to work for over, tory in the world, is ruled by the as irrelevant.baggage all moralEmpire and the last feudal terri-
mber as many-men as a woman is wrong psychologi principles whatsoever. They
"Yes, Kabel, and all the other cally. He would never have women he reason is that were criticised and condemned Dame of Sark, by virtue of a raye The great- by the moralists of the age in al grantsaned in the time of room
Queen Elizabeth.
"So I see. But, do you think they chance of reasonable, indepen-men-do not work for a queen erve her the element of dence, because any woman fierce pamphlets, as having by
grandmother of the present ruler
face is present, and it is naturally despises a man who is showing models of impropriety,cquired the sovereignty over the will put us out for not smoking!"
Her this element of romance which debased the code of social conte island for $30,000 in 1852
exercises full From what we've heard of Senator obliged to work for her. duct, and shown the way to the immoralities which they sus jurisdiction over 675 subjects. Borah, he will be in favour of the mental attitude would be transforms work into service. gested on the stage.
Not so, said the amiable/The natives - speak the ancient Eorah-for-President movement. He is a man and sona of the We find the same situation if Charles, whose own life was notNorman French, Thich was the he finds that a number of other peo" stronger ser, and yet he is working!& woman of means hires a man
Mrs. Hathaway
ladies are smoking.”
ple are.
HONOURS ABOUT EVEN
.
to be her gardener, or her for a woman. What a language of ancient England for
ble object. If I were a man soth chauffeur, because socially she only beyond reproach, but con-
cially a queen is miles above a spicuously noble. We refer, of many centuries after the Con
author of quest. No tax problems beset The Woman "Here's a wonderfuling on earth would induce me to is miles above him, just as so- to the course,
this ministare dominion and po thing. I have just been reading of a work for a woman.” not "The Essays of
lities are completely non-existent man that reached the age of forty-Although we are very modern field-marshal, and so in the here, where, quaint Norman laws five without learning how to read and broad-minded and refined man's mind there is no feeling to.
restored
write: He met youth, and for her the
sake he made scholar of himself in and intelligent nowadays we of degradation. who had then been dead many
are apt to forget that the lives It is only when a man is sub- two years!" years. The stage, he said, is a
The Manhat's nothing. I know of men and women in general ordinated to a woman of his fairy land, removed from all
man that as a profound scholar at are still largely ruled by in town class that he begins to feel OurTMTM contact and influence on
(Continued on Page 13) actual lives. We see Ariel
a woman to give way to a man, and for her sake he made a fool of stinct. It is still instinctive for humiliated, thus not long ago faty-five Then he met a woman himself in two months."
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public abhorrence of violent
to most adults that as far as
A baby Polar bear, captured in sing "where the bee sucks, the Arctic Ocean by the crew of there suck 1" without any im the Russian freighter Stalingrad, pulse to try experiments in which arrived in London recent levitation with our own "too too ly has been presented by the solid flesh." And so do we master, Captain A Melikhov, to watch the elegant gallant carry the Russian Club in Hampstead, out his own bold adventures, N. sitting beside our respectable wives, and mutually conscious that we are not ourselves of such frail mortality. Is it, or crime though it would appear is it not, true that what we see at the theatre prompts us to gangsters at any rate are con- cerned they were not shown in It is a evil courses that would other-
any attractive light wise never have occurred to matter of social status and us?
environment. The luxury these The problem has arisen malefactors were able to buy again, as it was bound to arise, one of them died with an with the cinema, which attracts accumulation of nine million la much more miscellaneous dollars-is very wonderful to a audience than the comedies of youngster who thinks in cents. Congreve, and nobody would And there is no getting away pretend that Hollywood con- from the fact that some of the fimes its range of subjects to hold-ups are so closely modelled such activities, either within or on film plots that the doctrine without the law, as naturally of coincidence is unconvincing strike us as belonging to any One, smart detective who hap sort of fairyland Moreover pened to have seen the same the issue is complicated by the 1 was able to get at the cul- large attendance of children prit by finding out that he had who have not yet reached an been at a performance. age when they can be trusted
There are also suggestive de
to distinguish the life of the tective plots that could hardly imagination clearly from the be other than a demonstration
life that they are expected to of how to evade
lead under the tuition of particularly
ents and schoolmasters.
it must be said also that
film world has revealed to
surprise of many
boasters about modern
tion and
a
BELIEVE IT OR NOT by Robert L. Ripley
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