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WHAT 19, REALLY BAD IS NOT THE
YOUNGER- FACT THAT WE ARE OLD, BUT THAT
ARE NO LONGER Alexandre Dumas.
WE
tiin to- AL the Rotary Club day, Dr. J. 1. Montgomery will "Radium, Its History, Source, Physics and Usez"
Mr. A. M. Parker, General Agent! of the Canadian Pacific, has arrived in Hongkong to tako up his dutica as General Agent in the Colony.
IS MODERN LIFE
UGLY?
TWO POINTS
OF VIEW.
swiftness, strength, nellon, clean-
Age of Swiftness lindas and hard outlines, and not
and Strength.
By OSBERT SITWELL.
The offices and stations of tho Chinese Maritime Customs for Kow- loon and District will be closed to We do not live in an ugly age: finitely more so than the last one public business on March 20 and April it is a beautiful age,
If only we know how to see it and how to live in it,
2. being Customs holidays.
+
little
une of stuffy, upholstered houses, old broughams, tramway- cars (as obsolete now as horse- drawn vehicles), and an endless circle of pompous and meaning- Jéss talk.
new
motor-omnibuses,
been
Life is
every alde. What is true of Aus- tria is true to some extent of all the other States enrved out of the old Hupsburg Empire. None, of them 18 economically self-suți- porting. They all once formed spekk parts of a well-balanced economic whole. They are now disconnect- od fragments. This position has given much point to the "ansch- lues" plan, Its advocates urging that all. Austria's problems would
in- But oven now, with these draw- be solved if she were to become
Beauty In London. backs, incking the tiring immen- economically a part of the German
aity of New York, or the strange. Reich, from which she was
savage wonder of Berlin, how A Japanese poodle dog belonging to
Alas! many of the people cluded first by Bismarck and the
Mr. Kanada, of 7. Bowen Road, hasi
high, clean
its. поивия, Hupstairs and later by the Peuce been removed to Kennedy Town for
The lad was the unimaginable squalor of the streams of meter-cars, and superb Trentios of the Great War. The observation after it and bitten obliged to live in it are used to lovely life la in London, with
owner's son in the leg
Government Civil late-nineteenth-century, with italy beautiful all
the the treated at has become
endless rows of hideous red villas, nickering in red and yellow along movement
huge. full of darkness and dust-traps, rands glazed to look like stronger because the partition of Hospital.
Bapaburg Empire has Li Hing, a fruit deater of Canton, its suffocating for. Its lack of smooth, stark canals! the old
But beauty is not a matter of poor beings are puzzled drawn the other nationalities away has reported to the local police that elementary cleanliness and order;
Its shroff, I Ping, came to Hong-and theno from Vienna and has made it akong during January to collect, on an overwhelmed by the new de- the exterior arts alone.
in many other ways. much clauner (50 motor-curs
Auch Never have there Various shops and has failed to return THE HONGKONG HOTELch more German city than it behalf of his employers, $2,200 from velopments: the bathrooms, the less dull (which is the same thing)
than horses), the electric light, used to be. There are, however, ta Canton. GARAGE.
in which dificulties to be ineed,
Leung Yau-chal, afine Tener Yan, the new methods of heating and beautiful orchestras at so many B.B.C., too. whatever its crities. cleanliness and economy. connexion it has well been point-appeared before Mr. Hamilton, at the cooking, and the whole ideal of and such delightful concerts: the But, sooner or later, we shall all say, has added to the beauty and ed out that the "anschluss" wout Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on A charge of larceny of nine silver ten
the Kowloon British be driven to accept the conditions interest of life. just as have the strenuous oppositionpoan from meet with
Bat, beautiful as life je now. "Accession School Former Pupil's Association, which the new age imposes upon ramophone and the cinema. hoth from the other
King's Park, on Saturday last. Thes: forced to live in high blocka
nuxt few decades. We Trom France. States and
A defendant was formally romanded for of Hate, to abolish coal smoke, to how much more so will it become
banish the last regiment of stum- the glance at the map will show that
Two instances of apium poisoning, bling horses from the roads which shall not allow more people to
pave-overcrowded historie cities, the union of Germans and Ans-
tie more suited to madera industrial life. tria would make the position of believed to have been self-niminister-they encumber, and the armies of pile themselves into the already We shall then build magnificent ed, came to the notier of the police pampered dogs from The
A Chinese woman, Kwan, menis. Then life will
new centres of industry, where Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania and in-yesterday.
Ng (38) of 140, Hollywood Road and lovely stil. Balkans 16.
factories are benutiful and where Wong Chung (32) a man living at deed of the whok
For instance, Czech Stone Nullah Lane, were removed to Steel and Glass Furniture.
the Government Civil Hospital for
Inside the ants in which they the workers will be housed in not faked comfort and cicanliness, with precarious.
live they will have.
which, treatment.
owing Slovakia would be almost entirely territory
prints and sham mangany furni-wonderful road in surrounded by German
Suffering from injuries to both lega. Pre but a few paintings by the to their width and the design of
what good the towna, traffic-blocke masters-and and the territory of Germany's old
bail une light- German-hatchet. Tam Chui, second officer of new there are
painters
to-day-and possible; and ally. Hungary. Such a FISHER-HONNESS, -On Wednesday, Hungarian combination would do the bank furniture adapted to the life of ing for beauty as much as for its March 18, 1941, at the British one line whole of Central Europe night. The man's alleged assailer, the time, and made, in all proba-actual purpose. illuminated four- and is now wanted by the polies for exterior of thear blocks will not they do now in Paris, New York, lifeless and even Naples, and the whole of with decorated tre burn, Esq., H.M, Consul, and at and would be a serlons mentre la Sui Sang, is said to have absconded bility, of glass and steci. The tains will play bigh in the air, us
Poinnd.alleged cutting and wounding. uf independenc
academic masks but, instead, theythe night will be a perpetual wen- Holy Trinity Cathedral, before the the Very Reverend Dean A. C. S.
Two operatic Stars of unumal will have on them the carvings, Trivett, Jessie Elizabeth Boness Romanin and Juga-Slavia, und to of Shanghai, to Frederick John France's predominant position in brilliance, Toll Bal Monte, world's of the celebrated sculptors of to- Starman-Fisher of Kohe, Jurun.
these parts, It is not surprising, greatest coloratura soprane, and Enze day.
Disgruntled persons will Therefore, that France and Czecho-de Muro Lomanto, leading tenor of La Scala, Milan, will be heard in a Slovakia are amongst the countries great joint song recital at the Theatre longer paint Epstein's "Rima" which have promptly expressed to Royal on the evening of Morsday, vea-green, but if they wish to in- It is expected that these Riel such childish indignities on Dr. Schober their opposition to the famous artists will take longong by any work of sculpture they will Their programme will he al-obliterate the Nurse Cavell monu- plan.
must all operatic and should providement, an ignoble memorial of al nauusiv-lovers here with a distinct thrill, great and brave womRI.
BIRTHS
Mrs.
WOODWARD-To Mr. and
at Birming- W. Woodward. ham, England, on 23rd March. 1931, a daughter, RASMUSSEN,—On the 24th March, 1931. at Victoria Hospital, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. V. A. J. J. Rasmussen, a son.
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Riot of Colours
and Contours. By D. F. FRASÈR-HARRIS.
Seance. Prominent amongst these not fighting ships at all. They might newer in Berlin and New York from the life of to-day la not so
in
Sheffield
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Latterly It has been often hinted to the other. There will be wide- | qualifientions, while it is perhaps thought, which these have engen- neas, uncouthness, in music
Of course, the age is not equally beautiful in all countries. It is COME of us think that the ab- sence of good manners beautiful, elenner, and
and much a question of having "no than in London, in Detroit
or time to be polite" as It is the re is the Peace Trenty provision be described as boiler-cases. 80.000 Stuttgart than
snit of the tendency in modern That Austria and German mayh.p. being boxed in between thin Coventry. An old isgue has crapped up
a well-placed Alas; the nineteenth-centuryffe to banish beauty from
For, in the opinion of afresk in the reported agreement not unité for pollligent purposes, steel plates so that
of whom could between Austria and Germany for 1 will be denied, of course, that 4-in shell from a destroyer might attitude to life lingers here; annany things as possible.
cession of stekeningly inept- tiov-people-some
war never be described as old-fashion- them." Some of Captain Acworth's the creation of a Customs Union, the Customs Union infringes this prove exceedingly unpleasant to attitude encouraged by the suc
have made Parliament, a laughinged or "Victorian"the tendency a pely. This move towards an "anschluss" stipulation, but it does not require contentions are dubions. His dia. crnments, which since the
ande
chromatic and chaotic amorphous is one which has been visualised much imagination to foresee the paragement of high speed in war-stock, and by the universal sover in painting is towards
both of netual wealth
in sculptura towards an as a possibility for many years past, one step being but a preliminary ships cannot be accepted without 5,
to towards a jejuno cacophony, and civically we at; indeed, a few months ago. Herr spread feeling that the revival of hardly necessary to point out that dered. Just Schacht, former President of the the "anschluss" idea at this jane-Britain cannot build a fleet to Cap waste our ancient to in poetry towards an irregular the ture is particularly unfortunate tain Acworth's designs while the lose India, destroy the English assortment of unlovely and unin Reichsbank, evidently had
Treaties of Washington and London countryside, and pull down many telligible phrases.
We may define beauty as that are In force. Ils submissions that ancient monuments of beauty.
does But this ides in mind when he vigorously it must inevitably
not mean that the (non-essential) quality which the mind perceives in apicions aml saggest an attempt to battleships have been allowed to opposed M. Briand's plan of
English rice has not faced the persons, ubjects, scenes, and au general European Union and bring back the old days of Con- become too large and expensive are age is an ugly one: only that the cultivated
CC-generally agreed, but it will alonge and will not come out boldly tons, and which arouses the emo- argued instead in favour of econo.tinental alliances. Europe's mie combination by easy stages; onomic problems are far better be commonly felt that his reaction into it as have America, Italy, tions of pleasure, sutisfaction, and
realise that this is an epoch of whilst Dr. Schober, the Austrian dealt with by general agreement takes him too far to the other ex-France, and Germany: will not restfulness. Foreign Minister, in December than by individual States launch-treme. last, plainly hinted
519- arouse
at Austro- ing out on possibly dangerous German economic unity although experiments.
The British Navy.
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of
at the same time stresting that, this would only be part of a wider movement in which nations with
Mr. A. V. Alexander's studied similar eronomic interests could join.
Both the one and the other warning against going too far in appeared to fear the political im- the direction of reducing the size and power of capital-ships, gains plications of a general European interest. In following quickly upon of the most remarkable Federation. Now, of course, it is the political possibilities of the criticisms of the British Fleet ever is Captain Austro-German Union which are printed. The author eausing some nneasiness in other Bernard Acworth, who retired from European countries. It is interest. the Navy in January, and who is recognised us one of the most Witer" ing also, as showing the contrast-brillant of the "Blue
Captain thought. school ing outlooks, that whilst German opinion is that the new move is Acworth, in a book just published, the first step towards the realian-attacks the strategical doctrines of the than of M. Briand's plan, the Lord Fisher, whose spirit still
"permeates and dominates French viewpoint is precisely op-
Navy to-day.", and says that in posite.
adopting his fetish of the mammoth - aince the Austria's position
ship, with gigantle guns and enor- Great War has been the subject
mous horse-power, the Arst princi- of much attention and specula-ple of strategy has been forgotten. tion. She has been described noHo advocates the replacement of the an present "uncleas" fleet with 26-13.6 a capital without a country, opigrum which points to a funda-inch gun 17-knot battleshilpa, 18 mental truth. Vienna, a city of 9.2 in. gun 24-knot armoured some two million people, which cruisers, 112 6in. gun 27-knot un- armoured crufsore, and 100 small was once the capital and the inaubmarines of low speed. Battle- des- aircraft-carriers, dustrial and banking contre of a cruisers, Empire containing some fifty mil-troyers and depot-hipe dre consi lon inhabitants, is now the caple, dered superfluous," The new! - 10,- ANET BANK B00-tón cruisers of the type now on fal of a nation which numbers no
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Thus nearly all of us, for in- BS stance, find such a painting Leighton's "Bath of Psyche or Peter Graham's "Highland Cattle in the Mist" beauty in pigment, the Frieze of the Parthenon beau- ty in atone, Handel's music beauty in sound, Gray's "Elogy" beauty in words, an
and the "mannere" of some gentlewoman beauty in behaviour. But if I see a "negroid female dwarf,"
or again, what looks like
a blank wall with a rotten egy thrown at it, if I see huge and hideous figures like nothing on earth, if I hear what reminds me of the rattle of a tube-train in a tunnel, if I read a set of lines whose words might have been thrown together by a blind child then I am compelled to say these things are not beautiful.
Is it possible to name any causes of this "Ugliness in mo- dern
unthinking life? Some people blame acionce for it. This is unjust. No doubt a factory and especially its chimney are hideous, but there is no reason, except the disinclination to spend money, why they should be.A but railway embankment is ugly, factories and rallway embank ments could we made less unsight ly,
If the right desire is thekuj much n be done to concoal or soften the ugliness inherent In buildings put up for trade pur poses. Not cicute but avarfed is the parent of the unlovely
In the odious phrase of today, the young people are fed up with the great masters and can- not admire what has been regard ed by their ancestors as admir- Contimied on Page 7.)