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HAPPINESS,—
EDGAR WALLACE AS I KNEW HIM.
By "AN OLD STAGER."
LEET Street has lost its Super had a literary Midas touch. Two mata. Hi requiem has bennmillions of his books sold in one His crooka playa made chanted to the obligato of the year.
In runs roaring printing presses. Newa-Marathon
between
the two forces depends partly in | @ammo on the relative importance of gold and non-gold countries as pro- ducers and, consumers of particu. lar gooda, partly upon the influence of London as n world trading and financial
Midland centre. The Dank estimates that storting can be put almost, if not quite, on a parity with gold in respect of re- Intive power over vonimodity The P. and O. a. Corfu, from paper people are not given to wear-whlles he turned out short stories, prices, At any rate, the Kold Shanghai. is due here at a am. oning either their hearts or crape wrote newspaper articles, and ran bands on their aleaves. But the racing columns. One journal pald standard countries, And those Friday,
working rank and file of journal-him £10 a day for a single tip.
Yet Edgar Wallace survived the maintaining nominal parity with
Quarantine restrictions imposed by ism, the veterans who graduated gold, account for approximately
Hongkong against arrivals from Amoy In the Street of Adventure before supreme test. A self-educated, one-half the total of the world's on account of small-pox have been re- the war, mourn sincerely for Ed- self-made man, he withstood the
gar Wallace.
corrosion of immense wealth and international trade. It is there moved.
For them his passing is in groat celebrity. He remained just fore highly important that the
The forthcoming wedding is an- comparably a heavier blow than the same shrewd, cheery, debonair, sterling prices of commodities should not be pulled down by anounced of Mr. Stacy l'leres Harris, of was the death of Lord Northcliffe.good-hearted fellow that he had al the U.S.S. Mindanno, to Miss Matune The latter was a remote figure, ways heen. Fortune might pamp
Hut with aer, but she could not apojí him. Bensational rise in the gold xnyashi, No. 37, Morrison If Road. a newspaper BrasR
puissant buton. Edgar Wallace His generosity was unostentatiouя change value of sterling. What is needed is a rise in sterling prices.
to somewhere around the 1929 level, accompanied by a rise in the gold prices of commodities induced by controlled inflation in the gold- atandard countries, us America, is trying to bring about.
last night.
H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel the attended the 7.15 showing of is suggested that if
the British film, "Sunshine Susie," at the British Government were to e-King's Theatre inst evening. There parents,
w again a packed house, clare definitely for managed
JL paper currency for all time, if it
As announced at yesterday's tillin, porter. His foster mother work- jacket, hut he needed that. Re were to express its intention of next week's Rotary Club in willed at a washtub to eke out the cause his favourite plan was to restoring the 1929 sterling price take place on the President Hoover, humble earnings of an impoverish- get up after midnight, ring for The speaker will be Mr. A. M. Bowered household. Is his runst high the butler who was always on such emer- level and maintaining It by the Smith, whose subject will be "These and palmy days. Edgar Wallace night duty againat
censed to remember, and gencies, and, with tea or coffee us usuni monetary methods, the gam-Bullion Brokers."
never forgot to honour, that de-a stimulant, delve away in his ble in the sterling exchange would
He meant it when he crook treasury. Weird tales are Invitations have been issued by cent soul flie an instantaneous death. A
then the Chief Petty Officer and the Petty said that the woman behind the told of how many novels he could cheap money polley could
He wa Meera of H.M.S. Cumberland for wastub was the real bgekbone of dictate at once. safely be followed, which would flannel dance (the last of the season)England.
ous employer, but no shorthand. After trying to earn a pittance | typist could alient tho pace stimulate capital development at at the Garrison Lecture Hall, Friday. : “៧ វ
Ein various ways, includinge selling he Rel who WRA not equal home and provide an increased | April 15, begioning at 8.30 jim.
papers outside the Press Club of to record. But the dictaphone was Mesare, Wm. Powell, Ltd., mivertise which he was to become chairman his wet. Its sheer modernity and that the thirty-first ordinary general and patron. Edgar Wallace e-atlckness enticed his temperament. meeting of shareholders will be held listed in a line regiment, trans-
Severely scalded by an escape or carried his pack in the ranks, and, and princely. His right hand team in the engine room of the s.s.ut of earshot of the red-tabbed never knew which of his pockets ilizoshi Maru, Li Foo, a fireman, was stall, laughed with the rest of us his left hand was robbing for
Now innumerable geature taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital at the mighty Napoleons. We may somebody or something. Amongat
never again have, in the
of quiet. Grub Street that is already old spontaneouk benevolenca, and jaded, such a pleturesque, dež Fleet Street dogs over hard stiles. His life was exotic. He smoked bonair adventurer.
Edgar Wallace never knew his around a hundred cigarettes a day. A Cockney poor-law or always in a holder as long as a phun, he was adopted by the warm-walking stick. His special weak- hearted wife of a Stepney fishness was an amazing Jazz dressing
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The
Hongkong Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, Aren, 6, 19:332.
THE RISE IN THE POUND.
| demand for fabour. Sterling prices would gradually rise and Americn would be given
a real
chance to make good with "controlled inflation" scheme.
her
遗传
never
Cheeful Loser,
a gener-
in the officca of Mesars. Percy Smith, ferred to the RA.M.C., and found A born gambler, only the race-
Seth & Fleming, 6, Des Voeux Rond
$1.30 am.
long as an active market in for. Central, on Thursday, April 21, at himself rabbing shoulders with[course was allowed to interrupt
trade.
Table Mountain.
the hailing tenor of his literary Just after Edgar Wallace had way. But 110W and then he ward exchange were maintained.
the beetle gold- It was reported by the police this deserted his military career to try emerged from the fluctuations in the exchange
young married woman, out his luck as a writer, the Boer getting to preside at a Press Club values of the pound would not be morning that to the detriment of international med Leung Kit-hing, living at 114 Mar came along to give him his dinner or play a rubber of bridge Cough Street, attempted suicide by first real jeg up. He turned war in the club cardroom he had one The future of London as taking Phanodoran tablets. She was correspondent, and his vivid style, day had the fancy to rofurnish out I have often the world's financial centre would removed yesterday to the Government knowledge of Army ways, and still of his own puree.
mory the cool andavity and alert sat opposite that long cigarette- 11 be prejudiced. Sterling would Civil Hospital.
aplomb with which he bluffed the holder as partner in a hard-fought become the world standard instel
Edgar Wallace was not The return of notifiable diseases in military censor and got his stories rubber. the Colony for the week ended April through to London, secured him a front rank player, and had an incurable habit of overcalling bis 2 shows the following cases of infee- good job on Northeliffe's paper,
甘示 was now fairly la the hand rather than let a rubbor go. tious diseases and the deaths there- from: small-pox, nine cases and
deaths, diphtheria, fear cases; interieuralistic saddle, but still only He could not stand knuckling down of fortune in Fleet even ut cards.' But what a graceful-
fever, two cases, three deaths; cerebro trouper
of gold, As Mr. Keynes remarked recently, the old gold standard worked well when it was in effect a sterling standard, but when gold went "off" sterling last autumn,
bright, re-
That was his philosophy of life. the gold standard becam doomed. spinal fover 13 cases, and one death; drem reporter, cherry a hmly cheerful loser he could be!
pulmonary tuberculosis, 13 deaths,
up, till bee meant what he frankly said in Whatever policy is followed, it Twn cases of small-pox, one of diph-sourceful, and hard
degree with his biography--Ilean adventure had seems highly desirable that etheria, five of enterie fever and one struck oil in scape.
charine for him than Baok of England and the Federal of cerebrospinal fever were reported our Just Men." It was the best greater
to the Medical Officer of Health ouļof all his books, but it was a des-settled affluence. Ile sometimes Reserve Bank of New York should
Monday.
pairing effort to sell a rejected sighed for the savoury husks of work in collaboration to prevent a
short story by extending it.
his old Fleet Street days I fancy "bul" drive on the pound or w All sections of 31. M..services were i
A Household Word,
He found more zest it the a la The represented at an enjoyable whist No publisher would look at it. "bear" drive on the dollar.
mude beef shop of the old sauruge Those who have been watching | "peg" on the exchange must be put drive, organised by the European but the author's faith in his own counter than at the Savoy or the Y.M.C.A... assisted by the Women's handiwork made him somehow Ritz, Safety last was Edgar Wal- Che steady rise in the pou back.
Guild of Kowloon Union Church, aterling with satisfaction may be all interested to learn that not financiers are gratified at the de- War on the Starched Front. velopment Indeed, the view his
Women have wondered for years been strongly expressed by one
how long strong men are going to City financial editor that Britain
enwer before the tyranny of the is in distinct danger of being clusive collar stud. And the starch- pushed back on to the gold stand-ed stiffness that goes with collar ard by frenzied foreign gambling
which was hell in the now lounge of contrive to publish it at his own lace's slogan. Goloshes and all I made his name, and umbrella. in their metaphorical the Y.M.C.A. on Monday night, Prizes, expense. were donated by Messis, C. II. Bern- laid the trail for bis subsequent entente, had no place in the equise ard and Son and Messrs. Lane Craw fortun, but the profits were noment of one who had somtimes He spent too much on walked home from Kempton Park fard, and they were distributed by thing net.
E. L. Allen. The function, printing and advertising.
(because he had lost every cent, which was organised for the benefit But now, suddenly as by the and other times brought back of the services, was highly successful, rubbing of Aladdin's lamp, the 1800 instead of a solitary Aver. He and play was keen and friendly. Fleet Street maid-o-all work found once conxed bailiffs into a game of Himself on the high road to fame poker that enabled him to settle Georges Artur de Hour de Fastree, and fortune. There is no need to his bill and left enough over for in sterling. There is, says this studs. Women lately have accom 48, described as a motor engineer, capitulate the rest of the story new overcont.
Yet, except in tobacco and work I authority, a risk that the pound nied the male human into many living at 22, Yick Tan Stret, appear fenceforth Edgar Wallace was a
of his hitherto exclusive puraults ed before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the name in conjure with on bookstalls and betting. he was a strictly
Central Magistracy This moming, but not the pursuit of the collar charges with possession of an auter and play bills. He supplied a was sober and even abatemiqus citi- ne weary world with the distracting zen. He drank next to nothing ex- gure around four dollars. Thus stud as it rolls under some heavy matic pistol and entering the Colans ills it missed when the guns cept a very occasional glace of
piece of furniture and lies, clusive without a proper passport, De Fus- the world marketing advantages of 1 and obstinate, in a trumphant and tree piruded that the autanatle was ceased fire. In eight-years
may be stabilised quickly, if not at the old parity, then at sume
is an
he
chamongne.
A Jovial Cynie. Britain's exporting industries are,
useless,
as it could not be worked. must have made at least £200,000 battling silence, metaphorically
Well, be has run his race. When it is held, again in danger of being smiling at futile ferocity.
The ease was remanded until Monday by intensive dictaphone hustle, A Now morning, on an application by Mr. marvellous metamorphosis from the Angel of that darker drink jettisoned for the honour of Lon-
washtub days! But Edgar Old. Omor talks about drow up however, the war, often sporadic Almada Castro, bail being allowed the dan as the world's financial centre, and halting which has been waged in the anunt of $400, a surety being Wallace never changed a hair. He to him, I am sure Edgar Wallace
coined money like a conjurer. He never shrank. while a trade revival for the ster
He never wanted to go to Holly- ling bloc of countries is on the fitfully at times upon the collar optional.
Wood. He did not like Americans and hated the whole aura of the point of being killed by the ster-stud and its concomitant shackles Hug prices of commodities falling has been renewed in earnest. The Men's Dress Reform Party is be-
film metropolis. Megaphoned pre- before the gold prices can rise.
tension was never much in Edgar Wallace's Jing. I The view is being expressed that ginning its spring campaign in
suspect the treacherous chills of Los Angeles, there is only one certain way of England agninat conservatism in male dress, Dr. A., C. Jordan,
the ellmate of which has been as bringing this dangerous gamble in
grossly puited as everything else sterling exchange to an end. This general secretary of the party, saуя modern dress must be
about it, caught him in some furi- Announcement that the men's
nesthetic
ous night vigil of film work, Old British Government does not in. brought up to modern
soldiers are tough, but old journal- lats are not. His was not the Lend to return to gold. It is not and hygiene standards, declaring Britain that it has not been changed for a
build or habit of life to withstand 30 dreadful as it sounds.
The men of pár-
double pacumonia following.fu. has been "off" the gold standard hundred years.
Fleet Street's brave knight-er- for many months, has actually ties on country rambles are to wear
rant has gone. We might have benefited from the change and has thin open-necked shirts and shorts,
better spared a greater literary OT shoes, and carry
light. He turned out novels and helped at the same time nearly one sandals
coac of need. "We
plays as some men, manufacture half of the world. The Midland pullovers in
jam or candles, occasionally; in Bunk does well to call attention in want to get rid of the collar stud
and free men's necks,"
says Dr.
the carelessness of haste, mixing. its March Review to the fact that
reformers
his characters a bit or varying his never before han Great Britain had Jordan. Men's dress
hero's Park Lake address. But such opportunities for shaping the have opened war on a wide front-
his personality was richer than course of world trade. There in a starched front and A collar-
half-a-dozen of the highbrow ut the present time no world price studded front. May it be found
Hterary geniuses who laughed at Edgar while log-rolling” them- for any commodity, for the world that a soft shirt turneth away
salves, no longer operates upon a univer- wrath, As In England so in Hang- Hal monetary
baals. Since thekong. The men of the Colony are middle of November last gold has growing moro, and more into the habit of considering comfort before been appreciating in terms of com- modities (that is, gold commodity what is "strictly correct," though prices have been falling) while oven now the appearance of, say, à sterling has been fairly steady, bank clerk in the offes dressed in despite the heavy decline in Its gold an open shirt would possibly create value. Now on account of the great vacancy in the managerial chair. commodity markets in Liverpool and London, stently sterling prices
A woman, Au Yung, 30, was rescued exercino. a stabilising Influence from the harbour near the No. 1 Buoy, upon gold prices. Per contra, fall- and sent to the Kowloon Hospital in exhausted condition last night. ing gold prices for commodities It is thought that she had either fallon act as a weight upon storling quo or had thrown herecit from a - Star iatlona. The relative strength of Ferry launch.
An
"They'll ̧bo back in about two hours and want to know if
the dog got impatienti”!!
He was a queer mixture. Part schoolboy, part racecourse sharp, sentimentalist, but humanitarian through and through. His blue oyes, of the kind usually associated with aluminium blondes, gazed of the world, its cities and men, with genial, humorous derision but warm-hearted sympathy. He had no illusions, though he tried to convert Blackpool "Nonconformists to seaside caninos, and no ran- coum, though he regarded pro- fessional politicians as a shade worse than threecard trickstora. A jovial cynic who yet bravely nought the golden end of the rainbow, he resembled Kipling's hero. É liked it all..