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WINSTON CHURCHILL
ROMANTICIST
By Harold Callender
F
times have seemed to consider al- armament; yet the British Govern- most a virtue. He strives to ment, he said, had "squandered- aroum his country from its let- weeks and months” and was still hargy because, as he believes, Bri- drifting and dawdling.” On an- tain and her empire are in dat other occasion he said he had
a recent scathing ger And Britain is beginning to tried to support the government
attack upon the gov-
take heed.
ernment Winston Chur- Attention In chill urged a parlia. The House
and Mr. Baldwin, but had "found"
it very difficult to keep in step with all their zigzags.”
Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 11. 1937 mentary inquiry to find In the House of Commons dar. The Boneless
out why rearmament is ing the last session the bulletin Wonder
boards signalled that Churchill
cott
THE GOVERNOR
From the
21
Listening to Churchill, either in dens not proceeding faster was about to speak. There was at
Con- the House or in a village hall dur practical realities, together with than it is. Churchill, once stir in the lobbies.
versations were broken off, pipes ing a carnpaign, one is compelled the soldier's somewhat- mystical The temperament and-career of In paring Sir Andrew Calde who officially is simply and cigarettes were put out and to admire the range and sureness devotion to king and country.
the highest compliment
ber. On the floor, on the govern our of his language, the quick- Winston Churchill reveals
an impatience within its power to bestow, one of 615 members of members crowded into the cham- of his mind, the fiuency and co elevation to the Governorship the House of Commons, ment benches, in the press gallery, ness of his retorts to hecklers, the amazing energy, of Ceylon after a comparative has greatly gained in in the distinguished visitors' gal- apness of his phrases as when bordering upon impetuousness, a lery, as in the gallery set aside be referred to Ramsay MacDonald remarkable outspokenness, a Bili- ly short, though noteworthy,
he remarked that the gold stand- of a life of action with a life of apprenticeship in Hong Kong, authority and prestige for the undistinguished, every as a "boneless wonder," as when guiar versatility, the combination the Colonial Office acquires new during recent months. body listened eagerly.
From the front row of the Con- ard was not only dead but had study and writing, a youth devot. respect locally for the sound-
long period
ing a healthy enjoyment of living Dess and wisdom of its judg. It is not merely because he serrative benches, a few feet from been relegated to purgatory for a ed to horsemanship and soldier-
a where the Ministers sat, arose is the most brilliant speaker in the
Both his verbal resourcefulness as an adventure sargerly accept- ment, without earning slightest thanks for the de- the British Parliament (or per large, bulky person.
haps in any other). It is not monstration.
Korg neither simply because he seems to lie peers' gallery behind him all that and the strength of his convie- ed for the thrills, and the fun it
could be seen was a black coat tions may lead Churchill at times can provide. For Hong wants nor can afford to lose Sir in wait, like a stalking tiger, sermounted by a bald spot. Es to overstatement, but he hardly
the once red hair was mostly gone ever indulges in the easy senti. Life A Great Andrew at this particular mo- for a chance to pounce upon ment in its history. His Excel Prime Minister and make him He face seemed as fulsome as his mentalism which British crowds Lark
Jook ridiculous in a very - body. His massive proportions when he speaks of the empire, For Churchill life has been lency has found his way into evenly matched verbal combat hardly suggested alacrity or alert which he fears that Britain may great lark Fighting wild tribes the hearts of the community as
A doctor would have said foolishly lose, it is with a idind of on the North-West Froniter of have seldom predecessors
at a glance that here was a man silectionate romanticism. For India, making: a cavalry charge who had lived much too luxurious Churchill is an odd mixture of the against the dervishes st› Omdur- sonality and a natural gift of Positive Voice
A casual observer would have realist and the romantic in taking man, escaping from a Boer prison pleasant humour, he has prov- It is because in a time of con- guessed that he was a bad speaks the measure of a potential foe and and travelling 300 miles through ed himself, too, a more able administrator, command-fusion and muddle Churchill's has es, for every was listed and in estimating Britain's defensive hostile territory to freedoms, win- ing both the esteem and affes seemed almost the only clear and his speech was punctuated by equipment be
Blessed with a charming per- Clear and
than
Dress.
tion of his staff, and by power positive voice in Parliament; be stammers.
his outspoken views have
of persuasion and initiative in cause
2 hundred and one directions contrasted so sharply with the Provocative
has, more than any other, in-wavering policies of the Cabinet; And Challenging spired a new spirit of confid because he wamed of the danger
--indeed, most crowds-like. Yet
#
an interregimental polo can be as cold- ning blooded and practical as any pro- championship in India, making his fessional naval or military man; first political speech, writing but he was imbued in his youth book, ordering the feet into the with the gay,"adventurous imper- North Ses to be ready to tarke ialism of the Kipling epoch,“and the Germans when war should be
Churchill. In each he found er- citement and elation and felt the joy of living and doing things.
Recalling the day when he sat on horseback on a ridge above the
of German rearmament lòng be- But from that apparently im to him the British Empire repre- declared-all these exploits and ence in the Colony's fortunes. fore the government appeared ful- peded tongue, there came sen- sents a noble achievement of val- achievements were sheer fun for
Sir Andrew came to Hong aware of it at a moment tences that were limpid and vivid fant and daring men. Kong at a time when long con-when Mr. Baldwin, as he himself and laden with substance, tinued depression had left a later expressed it, was "complete teates that were provocative and Sense Of heavy cloud over commercial misled regarding the size of challenging, sentences one remem Realities life. He leaves, if leave he of Germany's air force.
beit. And from that apparently must, with that cloud in the
Long before he became a skilful Nile, watching the advance of the To-day, Mr. Churchill is setting ponderous person there radiated a process of final dissolution
out to destroy the pleasant illu- lucid, vigorous, fashing mind orator or a brilliant writer, Win- Sudanese enemy whom the British It is no idle flattery to credit sions by which Britons like to which dominated the House. ston Churchill was 'n soldier fight were about to charge, sending off Sir Andrew with a large share reassure themselves. He assails Churchill was filled with impa- ing savage tribes on the frontiers quick" dispatches to beadquarters in the transformation, nor has the lazy method of progress by tiate. He cited figures to show of the empire in Asia and Africa. on the movements any motive of flattery actuated muddle, which Britons some- the scope and rapidity of German He retains the soldier's sense of vishes, he exclaimed:
the Chamber of Commerce and the other public organisation associated with the decision to make representations to the
Colonial Officé în a forlorn hope
of the der. **Talk of fun! Where will you beat this?" Sounding
MAGICIANS AWE WITH SKILL A Warning
It is because life, especially at seriously that its practitioners are dangerous moments, has been se burned and tortured for bewitch, intensely attractive for Churchill
of an eleventh-hour willingness to supply Ceylon with a sub-
The good, level-headed burghers By WALLACE R. DEUEL stitute. The appeal reflects a of Munich have returned to nor-, very general feeling of dismay mal lives after four uneasy days apparently empty containers, for ing people. To avoid any misuse that his books make such delight- at so speedy a parting.
of a world convention there of causing handkerchiefs to seem toį derstanding on this score, how ful reading. Some of them, not- magicians. You never could be tie and antie knots in themselves, ever, some magicians are still very ably "My Ely Years," are ab- But, however reluctantly the sure, if you asked a stranger in a land for making playing cards and careful to make it clear that mo- sorbing adventure stories which conclusion is reached, it is to beer ball for a match. that he cigarettes appear to materialise dern magic has nothing to do with may be recommended to those who have not found life quite the gay feared that the Colony must wouldn't respond by pulling an al-jout of the empty air. First prize spiritualism or hypnotism.
This dubious dignity of being and thrilling game that it has perforce accept the situation as ready buming cigar out of your was awarded to Alfred Kessler of the Fates and Whitehall have nose, rabbits out of your coat poc-Vienna. His winning trick, was taken as seriously as it was in been for Churchill.
To-day, the realistic Churchill, decreed and give a thought of ket, or decks of playing cards out not, however, explained to the lay the Middle Ages is more than encouragement to Sir Geoffry of your mouth.
public.
made up for, however, by the having discarded his romantic at Northcote, His Excellency's Some 450 attended the conven-
modern magic's claims to be of titude to war, sounds a warning.
He is no longer the adventur- successor-designate.
tion. the first to bring together During the convention, dealers service to psychology, especially Els task is the difficult one, magicians from all over the world. in "props" for magicians showed in respect of the study of obser ous youth eagerly hoping for for one of Sir Andrew Calde Seventeen countries were repre-their wares in a Munich museum vation, perception and the pay nice, gentlemanly var. He is a coft's legacies to the Colony is, rented, including the United States These included toy kennels from chology of deception." Magic has sober, elderly statesman striving perhaps unfortunately in a France, Great Britain, Italy and which cloth dogs run out in res been particularly useful in this to prevent a war of machines and sense, a new standard of judg-Japan. Russia sent no magiciansponse to a call by a human voice connection in studies of the re- chemicals in the interest of Europe
and of the empire. to the convention, all of the Soviet drinking glasses which can be liability of witnesses. practitioners presumably, being squeezed together between the
ment.
Voice From
the Past
"Those were the days!" Who
*
busy on the latest five-year plan. pakas of the hands and caused to...
There were no woman delegates, "disappear," candles which light Professor Dr. A. Kollmann, M. either, because women are not ad when breathed upon, and slips of D. of the University of Leipzig, mitted as members to the associa-paper with cabalistic writing on and the Berlin peychologist, R. W. them which can be thrust loosely Schulte, are credited with con- tion.
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cised.
Several delegates, nevertheless,†
magician
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
he had an amateur magician do Coincident with, although inde
&
in middle or old age does not Women are not suited to be into the magician's pocket, where siderable research in these fields. find these words springing magicians," said one of the lead-upon they sort themselves out, tie Dr. Kellmann has collected Mr. Tso And Mr. Braga readily to the lips? Reading ing delegates present, with more themselves into neat packets, and large number of magicians" "pro-
To. Retire of the death, at 87, of Fred-courage than discretion "Not a one-tenth of a second are found perties" in the Gral Museum in erick Bowyer, toe author of single woman can bewitch us, hal tightly enclosed in special leather Leipzig, and as long ago as 1926- ***The Windmill Man" and count-ha less music hall songs famous in their time, thousands of old-did bring their wives with them, Some of the disappearing tricks tricks before several picked wit- pendent of the change in the Gov- understood that Bome notable their apparently magicians get mar which seem the simplest are esses in order to check the acetorship of Hong Kong, it is sters will sit back in chairs and recall the days of ried None of the wives would actually the most dificult, one ofcuracy of their observations,
German magicians are organiz- changes will soon be made in the their youth, when the Great comment for publication, however, the visiting magicians aid. Every- Vance or George McDermott or how it feels to be married to a thing depends on adroitness, and ed in the Magic Circle, a society membership of the Legislative
this in turn depends on constant of magicians founded 24 years Council Dan Leno or Arthur Roberts
practice. Describing one of his ago. It now has local societies in
It is bélieved that old members and many a lightfoot and lively
The delegates gave four private own card-disappearing tricks, be 20 cities in Germany as well, 15 lass stirred London to laugh showings for members to demon-said:
abroad. "The Magic Circle has have decided to retire, namely, ter. Who remembers bearing McDermott Kinging "In the state the latest tricks. In reagic, "When you're young you can been taken into the Nazis Nation- the Hon. Mr. S. Tso, who Wild, Wild West of London?" and two public performancest both learn it by practicing two hours al Professional Association of represents the Chinese community, of which were sold out There every day for three years. When Artists as part of the theatrical and the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, who Money is popularly regarded as the mem- Who has heard Arthur Roberts was also one of those fav parite you're old you can't learn it at all. subgroup stil unknown to fame, zinging Geman institutions, a “beer oven- "Tve repeated some of my tricks
New members are accepted into her for Kowloon. The names of The Madi-Butcher Have Wing and the Lord Mayor of thousands and thousands of times the German organization only Dr Li- Shu-fan and Mr. Leo not all, lately been talking of Munich gave reception for the in front of a mirror" and an after a three-day series of tests of old pantomime days, of Dan delegates and their families.
other magician. "The mirror is their skill. Approximately two mentioned as their possible suc Teno, the one and only Widow At the private showings" dele- the best test of the success of a fifths of the members now HE DID Twankey, staging pathetic gates learned the latest techukue trick Only when you're so good fessionals and tires fifth am Mr. Tso and Mr. Braga, it will hallad about a hard-boiled egy for making doves, porpoises
and a wasp, of those
be forgotten Babes
Wood, Herber
Herry Nicholis
ederic
even elephants disappear, for A cocing flowers and feathers out of
that you yourself can no longe detect your own trick, in front mirror are you ready to try the publie
ground in modern times, delegates to Amitted. It no longer is taken su1to
d'Almada e Castro, Junior are
be organization has its be recalled, were appointed to the to which Council during the regime of Sir Seribes and Cecil flementi, when the Council. ⠀
a library of volumits was enlarged. They have served for eight years, their appoint- January 17. ved on January 17,
craft