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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1933.
ENGLISH AND THE
PRESS
Address by Mr. R. T. Barrett,
* GETTING. THE IMAGINA. TION DOWN TO IT"
At yesterday's meeting of the English Association at the Helena May Institute, Mr. R. T. Barrett, of the Hong Kong Day Pres, rend a paper on English and the
Press
Sir Henry Pollock was in the chair.
Mr. Barrett dealt roninly with the way in which writers in the popular London Press had achieved excellence, by getting the imagina- tion down to every job they tackled: Ho æld in. part:
roctor.
Many years ago a young journ alist was sent by his editor to the village of Amberley, in Sussex, where by a coincidence, Mr. Copley Moyle is now the dooply loved His task wid to obtain the results of the first Parish Coun- cil Meeting ever held there. It was a sunny May morning and he took a grassy lane, leading off the highway, that led through the half runed castle to the village. On either side were water-meadows bright with butternups, and over a curved bridge, spanning the River, he imagined knights and men at បពម "riding down to Camelot."
He paused to look as Amberley Mount, where Charles the Second, on such a morning, fleeing the Ironsides after the rout of Worcester, had turned, and Kazing on the Weald, said to Going, his companion: "This is a land worth fighting for.”
was over they generally had their copy ready,The theory, wis 1'pre- sume, that facts speak for them selves und if a ciso, or a speech, |if interesting you have only to give
it, as it all took place.
"Old Timers.
They were fine old men in their way. Within their limits they knew their work perfectly. There was real ezmadarie anzi a helping hand to the new-conier. They were incor- ruptible as judges, and many a large sum have I seen offered to "square the Pros"; they had no particular ambitions, and, most looked forward to the time when they would have saved enough to buy a small licensed premises. They had no literary pretensions and their descriptive flights, when reluctantly attempted, crashed into the quagmire of journalese.
The Yellow Press.
The third section, the Yellow Present that time consisted of enterprising and intelligent young men, who were required to engage in perpetual descriptive flights. They were not allowed to transcribe notes, but had to "write up a story." Northcliffe, perhaps more than anyone else, realised that this task could only be accomplished by men of ability, education and im agination. The old type of jour naliat, whether of the Times staff or of the provincial papers, could not get noar it. He began there fore to enlist men of a new quality, and he drew them from any source the live sparks" from the pro vinove, and clever young men whe had been doing wel at the Varsi ties and public schools.
While the solid papers have been leavened by these new methods, and the provincial papers are also fall. ing into line, it is easy to me that the Yellow Press has been changed the most-changed to such extent that I am inclined to think that it monopolises some of the best if not the best brains in British journal- ism.
No
closes
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To add to the interest of the ex- hibition, the committee are inviting. the leading merchants of the city' to join in a large fashion parade "ompetition which is being organiz Rower show will airo add to the ed A photographic show and a attractions of the Exhibition. A raise funds for a permanent exhibi- aweepstake has been organized to
tion hall at Canton. At the close of the exhibition the tickets will be drawn and $40,000 award to the winner of the first prize. There will also be two prizes of $10,000, four- of 83,000 eight of 81,000, 12 of 8500, 90.of $200, 50 of 8100 and -109 of 850 A sweepstake ticket also entitles the holder to free admission at any time to the Exhibition.
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The exhibition will commence on the 15th of the present, month, and closing date is March 16.
The castle gateway spanned the
The Modern Way. road and as he approached the barbican tower, a girl looked out
What is the characteristic of the from a narrow window. She turn-writing in the popular papers one ed away quickly, and he could see might say brevity. But that is not, her watching him in an oval quite true. Any story" or article mirror on the wall. He crossed is given the space, it deserves.. the moat, now an apple orchard in superfluity," would be full bloom, walked through the description. But is that not the grassy courtyard, under a pointed quality of the world's greatest archway and, leaving a Norman writings, when parchment was church on his left, he made his sonaty and men wrote but little- way to the schoolmaster's: house of the warlier Greeks, of the Hebrew
The modern where he obtained the figures he Scriptura.
paper report is proned, like monton." had been told to get
Aesops fable, or the stories in Genesis Every line tells, as in a sketch by a master draughtsman, whether it be a comedian like May or Belcher, or a tragedian like Aubrey Beardsley.
nowe-
Mr. Barrett then gave a number
million people read The Maid's Tragedy," or "The Witch of Ed- I am certain the number who know and have known the works of, say Samuel Rogers, Mar- voll and Crabb, nil considerable poets, is less than that.
It was old Ben Jonson, that rough scholar and soldier, who wrate, when gazing on an oak that had at
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May.
and woman of Fleet Street mock the lily of a day "--but I think
I can hear the hard-bitten men
The young man's paper was a prosperous country Journal. For several weeks he had read proofs of local events, written in correct but slipshod English, and a few faney fights at his own had been' sheared by the sub-editor's blue. pencil. The sub was a disillusion of examples showing how the last fallen dry bald and sere," ed ideulist at war with journalese, don Press dealt with such subjects The reporter gave in the results as Mra. Mollison's return to. Lon- of Amberley's election, and beardon with her historic flight from the ing in mind certain bitting re- Cape, Miss Diana Churchill's wed marks had rade no further coding, the landing of the Boy ments. The Editor called him and Emperor's sister in England and said: "I sent. you to one of the Miss Clara Bow. loveliest and most interesting vil- Inges in England to write about an breach of promise case brought Referring to the report of a evout of, real significance. What you gave me I could have got by Against Harry Parks, the Sussex dropping a line to the village The case tirobably lasted a day: county cricketer, the speaker said: schoolmaster. Whenever you go to a job; no matter what it is, you no doubt there were many interest aust get your imagination downing and possibly amusing passages. but the reporter boils it down till to it."
we get what? Quite a clear picture That was my first and most im of the romance, The somewhat portant lesson in journalism, for in ordinary young lady; the somewhat that phrase lies the whole secret of spoilt cricketer, but above all the good writing for the Press, and, humane and wise Mr. Justice suppose, of all good writing. It is the lesson that the British Press has been learning during the last twenty years,
The Pre-War Press,
•
At that time, it was about two years before the war, the British Press was divided into three see
tions:
1. The solid London Journals,
headed by The Times.
2. The Provincial Press.
3. The Yellow Press.
Hawke He is the hero of the story. The Olympian among rather tilly mortals. But to get this effect the art of selection was drastically exercised.
they would understand, for they companies of playwrights and play- have something of the spirit of the ers, attached three centuries ago to nobility, founded by that fine writer the households of the profiteering and most splendid rogue of them all-King Henry VIII.
The Discussion,
Mr. M. F. Key who opened the discussion that followed gave some amusing examples of advertisement writing including one by a local. firm that would have been a very nice piece of prese, but for a bad grammatical error." He also gave the fine passage by Mr. Scott, Jate Editor of the Manchester Guardian on the true functions and nature of a newspaper..
A perfect quotation from Josef.
Poets and the Press,
the novel, history, biography and There is a complaint that while, the drama are flourishing the mighty Conmd then made everyone realise river of English poetry is drying the gulf that will divides literature up and disappearing like the Oxes and journalism.
into the desert of modern material- The Hon Mr W. T. Southorn ism. I think to day the young man said the theory that the popular who pour out their souls, at Ox Press was evolving a form of liters ford and Cambridge, in the pages The first has changed little of the Isis and Grenta, or in little ture, with the crisp vivid style, of Then, massive, the work of able and Walter Ratsigh--(the modern one of how well it waited the man who read as Now, it solid and books published by Blackwell-Sir which examples bad been given was certainly interesting. He could see scholarly meu, masters of their course) once said to me, there is his paper in the train to Town subjects, who took Addison their model, with a spice of Jona than Swift (in his political mood) if the Governments were obstreper- OUR Law canes were either report ed, verbatim, if of interest a big murder trial for instance or no binctly summarised. So you will find the Times to day. The English it correct, from first page to last, there is much fine writing of air strained order, but Pap-purple patches, no youthful enthusiasm. Even a middle-aged oppet bioidom finds hospitality in these columns.
as always good poetry in Oxford,
neither die in garrets like Chatter from the suburbs Personally, he ten, nor suffer patrons like Blake, preferred the writing of the older nor even run amok like Byron and type of newspapers, produced for Shelley, They are given jobs the reader who had a certain fleet Street, and get their imagia amount of leisure, and was salon. Lion down to murder trials and Bags Azake na
fished as their uniform excellence. weddings, to new inventions, to the In conclusion Mr. Houtborn read doings of glamourous stars and two very amusing examples of pom who shall say that these woman Are pour journalese, one from The Times less than Rosamund Jane Shore of some years ago, describing the and Nellie Gwynn,
egz
lions in Trafalgar Square, and on
Lack-a-day when the poets of from the Daily Pres of 75 years England become scribblers for the ago. penny" Pros! But what did Eng
The Provincial Press was mainly land think of Elimbethian rogue Others who took part in the dis menned by men who had served and vagabonds whose abra edi-usion included, Mr. Justice Wood, their apprenticeship. They were tious now fetch thousands nt who read delightful farewell apprenticed to a newspaper Sotheby's and are the subjects of notice-very nicely backed on the because they felt any urge to write, learned criticism by those Whose
or had a message to the world, but fathers stoned the prophets What departure, of a certain editor, Mrs. because they happened to be able of the Grub Street writers, whom Grist, who had some amusing things
to get in” when the Job was going. They learned to be printers Pope lashed with the scorpions of to say about old time and to write shorthandari La his, wit good for a bit of shorthand and that's all
said onesold fellow to
lamehad dans said and wrote
Awspaper, unlike a butterfly
lead by noon.. ight times, "Tet thas perhaps
reporters, Mr Bowes Mr. Campbell: Both gently hinted.
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After Mr. Barrett, had b
two replied, ho was thanked for his address by Sir Henry Follock,