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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1936
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EARLY LINKS WITH CONRAD
ORIGINALS OF FAMOUS CHARACTERS
ALMAYER” AND “LORD JIM”
IN REAL LIFE
Y enquiry as to the originals on record that Jim was given this-
Morcours characters, Cap juickname "thanks to the swagger-
to
thei
"Vidar's" Fate
Conrad made five or six voyages
apy, left a 'sealed book
support to Liberty Bonds---the pages, entitled, "The Onliest and New York Stock Exchange has Deepest Secrets of the Medical published paid advertisements. Art". When his effects were anc- What is more, it has advertised) A Itioned off, there was & heated
This new departure con-tain Lingard and "Lord Jim," hasfing manner he assumed when scramble for the acquisition of this sists of a two-column advertise-bome fruit, for two correspond-meeting our ship.".
Jim Lingard made two or three mysterious book. An admirer meat in daily papers announcing alents have been kind enough ally bid $10,000 in gold for it, and booklet entitled "The New York reply, and their letters taken to- voyages to Singapore on board the on Vidar in Conrad's time. He was On opening Stack Exchange, Its Functions and gether, throw light not only
and Hong Kong. Friday, Nov. 27, 1936. acquired the volume.
to a Malay woman it, he found that all pages were Operations.”
these Conrad creations but also on married
waters, had a numerous family by her. blank except the fly leaf on which
It appeared alongside advertise-his service in Malaysian the doctor had written in his own ments for the Fifth Avenue Hotel, writes "Arak Singapura in the but it is said that there is nothing of the real Jim Lingard in Con- hand, "Keep your head cold, your Knox hats and the Brass Rail Re Straits Times. feet warm and you'll make
staurant.
to For one day it is There is nothing new under the rad's "Lord Jim" except the name best doctor poor."
appear in 400 papers simultaneous-sun, not even in journalism, and it and physique. 1y.
would seem that. Major St Clair. The purpose is to "pat across" a former editor of the Singapore the Stock Exchange, which became Free Press, embarked upon the object of so much popular dis-same line of speculation "as that from Singapore to the Boeloengan which has occassionéd these notes River between August, 1887, and like during the depression.
With that aim in view the pub-of mine. In a letter dated March January, 1888. The Vidar was an steamer owned by an licity campaign has been put in 31, 1917, Conrad wrote to Major 800-ton charge of Mr. Maurice L. Farrell, St. Clair as follows: "Old Lin-Arab, Syed Mosin bin Syed Ali my time, but Jafree, and one of my correspon- And we may presumably ex-
chairman of the Exchange's com-gard was before pect a big "Boo!" to frighten
mittee on public relations. More knew slightly both his nephews,dents says that when he last saw
brokers, as the next
however, Jim and Jos, of whom the latter her she was serving as a bulk in the beast away,
For driving lorry No. 3517 in a conservative item on the programme. In the
rest dangerous manner in Connaught have been scandalised at the step was then an officer on board the Penang harbour.
It occurs to me that more in- King of Siam's yacht” meantime it behoves the
St. Clair, however, in his early formation may be obtainable from of the world to take due note Road yesterday. Fau Leung, a li-
days in Malaya actually met Cap-Dutch sources. The Conrad novela that another of those potential-cenced driver, was fined $30 by TO SOCE OR SLAP?
James Cagney caused a sensa-tain Lingard, and wrote of him: are available in Dutch translu- ly dangerous alliances has come Mr. K. Keen at the Central Ma-
tion two or three years ago when Lingard, who was a to gistracy this morning.
person of tions, and are well known in into being. Protestations
Traffic-Sergeant Bethel said he slapped his leading lady's face almost mythical renown, a sort of Netherlands India. If so, there the contrary, this pact between two such strangely ill-assorted that about 11.50 yesterday morNow the stars are all doing it ubiquitous sea hero, perhaps at may be a good deal of Conrad lore
defendant was seen to based ing the
Even Gary Cooper has had to times a sort of terror to evildoers, yet to be gathered in those quar- ipartners was obviously
considera- come from the Yaumati Ferry avfall into line. It is said that be all over Eastern waters from ters. primarily on two
fast speed and proceed along Coar fought for a week against having Singapore to Torres Straits and Another Conrad character whom tioris, at any rate so far as
Mindanao, was awe would like to know more about Germany is concerned: that it caught Road. He was travelling to "sock" Madeleine Carroll on the from Timor to
General Died
atwell-set-up man of perhaps 52 is the man who inspired his first should be (1) a counterblast to about 26 miles an hour and tam-jaw in The
Pedder Street and into Dawa," as provided for in the when I saw him” the Franco-Soviet Pact,
andled into
Chater Road to Statue Square, scenario. He wanted the "sock" (2) an attempt
3 secure partner before that trial of where he was stopped by the ser-reduced to a slap. strength with Soviet Russia geant. All this time the defen- which our political pundits pro-dant kept up the same speed.
the Defendant had a previous fess to see so plainly on horizon (vide Lord Rothermere)viction for driving without becomes an actuality. In the care and caution. circumstances one would
to
ex-
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there would
novel, Almayer's Folly. Almayer was a real person, for Conrad de- **Sambi”
voted a whole chapter to their The director, Lewis Milestone, Jim Lingard first served on first meeting in his book. Some supported the scenarist, Clifford board his uncle's ship and then Reminiscences, and con-Odets, known
Bernard established himself in his uncle's be no occasion to write fiction in due Shaw of the Bronx." Mr. Cooper interests as a trader at a port at book of that sort.
had to give way and land his right the mouth of the Boeloengan "I had seen him for the first Jon Miss Carroll's jaw in five dif-River, in Dutch East Borneo, 120 time," says Conrad, recalling the
ferent "takes."
miles south of the BNB. bound-beginning of his literary work, To please him they tried the ary. This was the place to which "some four years before from the siap as well. But Paramount would Conrad gave the name "Sambir" bridge of a steamer moored to a to not hear of it.
They decided it and it is now called Tandjoeng rickety little wharf forty miles up,
¡Selor. might look effeminate.
Your Daily Smile!
Desperation
pect the Morning Post to remark that the agreement is "no more than a pledge of mutual assis-
A half-yearly taxpayer wrote tance for combating the subver- sive activities of the Commun- the Inspector of Taxes as follows: ist International" not Soviet "Please advise me if there is any redaction in my particular case. Russia, mark you, but only that otherwise my only solution to this detached appendage, if we may highway robbery is either to com RAVEN CAUSES LIGHT FAILURE running between Singapore and
more or less, a Bornean river."
It was when Conrad was serv-
More Of Original ing as mate on the steamer Vidar.
Judging from Conrad's reminis Tandjoeng Selor, that he met Jim cences, there is much more of the use the phrase, which has ab-mit suicide or get married.”
A raven perched on a conductor Lingard, and it was on the Vida: real personality and history of the solutely nothing-not a thing!
caused a failure in the electricity that Jim Lingard was first dubbed original in "Almayer" than -to do with the Soviet State las such. And Japan, for her
(Continued on Page 7) part, naturally welcomes a pact age window and hailed a small boy supply at Pullbeli, Caernarvon. for "Lord Jim." Captain Craig, then "Lord Jim" Nevertheless, the
Cantion-
An old lady looked out of a car-
"Little boy, are you good?” "Yes, Ma'am."
"Go to Sunday School?” "Yes, ma'am."
which, in the words of The Times, "greatly lessens her ap- prehensions with regard to the Manchurian
"Then I think I can trust you. EuD frontiers." So Ferdinand says to Miranda: with this penny, and get me a bun, "Here's my hand," to which she and remember, the angels see you" replies: "And mine, with my heart in't."
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