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SOME REFLECTIONS ON "PAYMENT DEFERRED"
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The Very Idea!
Pity the Poor Taipan
people's feelings, and an amateur, going to quite a good school. However, flight of a rocket.
an somebody pointed out to me, sho
in any way.
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vent one being intensely moved by struct. This, though important, is
Cases have even been brought to our notice where rich talpans are recovering their digestions. The medical profession la, in consequence, in an appalling state.
The cost of rent has become so prohibitive that it is not now pos- sible to obtain a 40 room house for under $400 a month.
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Pousoin en papilotte
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Mushrooms
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their next meal is
the United States some £200,- 000,000 more than we have re- ceived. In the case of France, we remitted sixty-two per cent. of the debt, ond in the case of
By Edward Kelly, Charlly Worker, Italy no less than eighty-six per MOST of the recent A.D.C. produc- very surprised to hear it was the
first time she had ever acted. cent., while the Rumanian, Por-
tions have been hailed
There now remain the three big
Pity the poor talpan on the tuguese, Greek and Yugo-Slavian such acclamation by the Press, and parts. The only thing I have to cri-
They're having n terrible time, debts were remitted at from even palpably poor playern overload-ticize about Miss Butterfeld's por $1,000 a weak broadline. sixty-three to sixty-eight pered with much praise, that I have often formance as the daughter, was her
(or possibly the producer's) concop-what with the now duty on motor cent. When consideration is felt a very strong inclination to
tion of har before sho went to school cars, and the unrest in the Amahs and point out a few home in France. I personally thought that Association. given to facts like these, it fa write
Wo have just seen a cocktail possible to gain some idea of the truths: however I have never done so she was commoner than her parents,
there is no point in hurting and too common for a girl who was curve which looked like the upward excessive burden which Britain as
Owing to ls being called upon to bear, a burden which has been rendered unlike a professional, la antitled to all the heavier from the fact that be bad. But a tradition seems to had only just left a council school, absinthe rising to $50 a bottle, have grown up locally that every this conception of the part may men on the $1,000 a week dolo are reparations payments are at the body in the cast must have his word have been justified, and I may be faced with the dally dread of wrong. Given this conception, Miss having to sacrifico ofthor their moment in suspense.
But we of praise; this, I think, is unneces- Butterfeld acted extremely well, both timin cocktail or their 1840 vintage live in times in which hard reali-sary, and bad acting should just be as the school-girl in bloomore, and as brandy. The offect on their morale tics have to be faced, however panned ovor in silence, otherwise cri- the sophisticated product of a finish can be well imagined.
tielam becomes meaningless. I admit disconcerting they may be. And that it has already become so far ing school, which, an in this case, se the dominant fact is that agree-true, and that is why I was so total often finishes the girl as far as the The two chief parts were played ments have to be respected. The ly unprepared for the quality of the parents are concerned.
acting in "Payment Deferred, though by Miss Birt and Mr. J. Roberts. case for revision is overwhelm- I had read various criticisms of the Miss Birt was good: even excellent. ingly strong, admittedly, Indeed, play. And since the acting has, on Just in one or two places did I feel
underpraised this it is urgent. It may be helped the whole, been by a.remembrance of the actual time, I do not see why I should res she was "acting:" I don't mean over- train any inclination to write what neting, but merely that her emotions facts of the situation, which are
are, to me, a few truths about it, did not seem to be springing up from liable to be lost sight of in the since no-one's feelings need be hurt deep inside her. But at the best moment of the play, when she picks
Even at this price, only one discussion of immediate issues.
Having said so much, I hope I shall up the book on poisons and the reall- be forgiven if I any that I thought zation suddenly comes over her of tennis court is supplied, and elec- Water Supply. the play itself rather a poor one. I what has happened, she was, judged tric lights are not laid on in the
grounds. am puzzled as to the reasons for by any standards, very fine. At this
We know of one or two talpans, this, and not really expert enough in moment, when the husband silently comes in and stands behind her, A beautiful six-leg console model
The early Imposition of red dramatic criticism to lay my fingers realising that she now knows his ec. nearly reduced to the breadline in with butt walnut panels and the
craftsmanship. (trictions on the water supply is on them.
cret, I experienced a genuine artis-Hongkong, who have actually worn finest cabinet
tie thrill. The play itself here their silk hats and patent leather
shoes at least half a dozen times. Has, powerful nine-tube Super- already justified by results. The
Art and real life are different: un reaches momentarily a high level. heterodyne completely shielded arguments of the sceptics and
Mr. Roberts' performance through- chassis with push-pull Pentode, the grumblers that the saving obvious example of this platitude is
To show how much it costs to- Automatic Volume Control, Tone effected by curtailment of the that a bere on the stage can be de-out was superb. Purely from the and Static Control, Full Vision hours of supply is offset by vastatingly funny, whereas one knows point of view of mimorizing auch a Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, wasteful storage in baths and that if one met him in real life one long part, it was an astonishing feat, day for the average simple meal would merely find him devastingly but the whole interpretation of the one taipan can offer another we containers is belied. bering. The necnunt of a suburban
naturally out. inrted
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Real mushroom and oyster SPARTON engineering features. Authority show that the con-ly unpleasant and sordid: sorditi, pro-enough thinking of Marble as Mr. bably, in such a commonplace way Roberts, whom I happen to know,
soup A remarkable instrument of sumption on the mainland for that it in difficult to raise any pity but before long I was thinking only
Steamed the month of November was
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The central ironic theme in happiness was brought out with
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The fact that one knows what the since I first saw it, but I must admit and wines, say a Martini at $1, a must be regarded as satisfactory, fund of the play will be right from the 1 had no iden she would turn out such glass of Amontillado with the soup particularly ng a further im- beginning also makes for tedium: a good producer. A play of this kind at another $1, a small bottle of provement should be recorded but it should not. One knows what badly handled might have been ghast hock with the fish at $10, and an off with, say during December when the re- going to happen in all the great ly: there were limitless opportuni- absinthe to finish sult of a full month of the res. tragic plays, but that does not pre-ties for falso notes, but none were $1.50. This basic luncheon alto- run into $62.20. GARLAND-At the Victoria ostrictions will be noted. On the them: what Payment Deferred" es-negative praise, and Mrs. Grossman gother would
pital, this Morning to Mr. and present basis of consumption,sentially lacks is the kathartic ole-deserves a good deal more than that. With the standard cumshaw of Mrs. Neill Garland, daughter. there should be sufficient waterment of great art, that purging by As I have already mentioned, the ten per cent. the grand total is
pity and terror of one's grosser ele-beat moment of the play was finely $68.50.
Is it any wonder that our poor in storage to supply the main-ments which makes a man emerge handled; but the production was very MURRAY-At Victoria Hospital on
December 14th, 1932, to Mr. and land's requirements on the exist from the theatre with his soul sing-well handled throughout. I particu- taipans are wondering from where
been larly noticed the absence of any bad and whom Mrs. B. J. Murray, a son.
ing scale until the end of June,ing, although he may have
or fidgety or awkward coming? • unless, owing to the greater need moved to tears by the tragedy which grouping
he has just witnessed.
movements, and all the actors were
OUR AUTUMN BOOK LIST. Perhaps it was asking too much of easily audible at the back of the of the mainland, it is found necessary to divert the Shing Mr. Dell to do this, since so very house. The only thing I have any
Few important novels have ap Mun supply. In any event, it is few writers have the power: but doubts about was the tempo of the have set down the above in an effort playing: I am not sure that it could
poured this autumn-few that is clear, that the new system, to show why the play, which might not have been speeded up a little to causing trifling inconvenience have been a very good one, missed, advantage, but I realize that it is that make any contribution to the now, must have the effect of in actual fact, being so. And now not a play that can be played quickly, novellat's technique, but those that
And the immenas. difficulties of not do are very important indeed. staving off real inconvenience in
letting it drag a little in places. The Arat on the liat we place the Spring and early Summer
In the foregoing estimate of the "The Freezing Stare" by P. Khytc. unless the weather plays the The first thing that struck me was
an abnormally scurvy the all-round excellence of the east.players and production I am aware Mr. Khyto knows his Peak and his I was happy to be spared the em-that I have used a great many muda-story of how a "foreigner" trickled in and what happened when he barrassing experience, inevitably tory adjectives, but this is not to ant through the evening common enough in amateur shows, say that "Very Proud" of seeing X struggling with an un-entranced; I did not. But I did think tried to make himself at home is WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932,
own. Full of the most exquisite suitable or too difficult part, and not that judged by any standards both poignant, with a polgnancy all its
altogether victorious, the acting and the production were emerging
"An Exile in Exile."By Sir WAR DEBT FACTS General approval has greeted Nobody was too obviously himself, quite goul, and judged by amateur shudders.
A 'special trying too obviously not to ho standards, they very good. Had the
intrinsic Cumference de Tong. the award of the 1932 Nobel himself. The smaller parts were un-play itself had greater
Ав Prize for Literature to Mr. John commonly well played, Mr. Brooks, merit, it would have been a menor-edition of this novel has been
extraorable production for Hongkong. The facts and figures which Galsworthy, novelist, dramatist in particular, giving an
short stories, dinarily good study of the doctor, al- it was I was very glad to see that the printed an asbestos and fastened Mr. Neville Chamberlain gave in and writer of
though he was only on the stage a A.D.C. had at lagt broken with their with string and scaling-wax. Sir authors who gains the House of Commons on Mon-Dissentients there will be, of few minutes. In a larger part, Mr. recent custom of putting on plays Cumference is one of the few
who found ap-Enger was extremely convincing, and only of the highest type, and I hope modern day in regard to the disparity of course. Those
to some that in future they will be even more strength from stone to stone. Ho treatment which Britain received propriate the award to Mr. Sin- gave the necessary life in her war debt funding agree-clair Lewis in 1930 will not re-rather colourless writing on the port ambitious. I recommend such a play is the master of the short story ing the one about the farmer's ment with the United States, as joice at seeing the laurel placed of the author. Mrs. Arnold had bet- as "The Skin Game," for instance, and these include his best, includ
daughter. compared with America's other on Mr. Galsworthy's brow." They debtors, provide a striking com-will complain, no doubt, that he mentary on the bad bargain belonge to a literary age that is But those who which Mr. Baldwin made on his already past, visit to Washington ten years care for the traditions of Eng- ago. It is an old story, but it is lish letters will welcome this well that, at this juncture, the recognition of one of England's modern distinguished facts should be kept in mind. most
Only Mr. Rudyard One of the reasons why Britain writers. secured the least generous terms Kipling and Mr. Bernard Shaw, from America is that she signed among British writers, have first; another is that she made so been similarly honoured. Surely little fues about it. It is known Mr. Galsworthy's contribution to that Mr. Baldwin felt abashed English literature ranks with by the reception accorded to his theirs. His chief claim to fame alternative proposals, but, in the of course is ""The Forsyte Saga,” presence of creditors, he did not the record of that English upper- press the matter. Britain wished middle-class society from which to re-establish her credit, and the author sprang and which necessary preliminary was the now, seemingly, is in its ovening. funding of the war debt to But he has written many other America. When Mr. Baldwin re-novels and short stories, and he turned, he did not allow his has had, unlike most novelists, chagrin to escape, for, in an in-a conscpicuous success with his terview at Southampton, he re- plays. "Old English" is pro- marked:-"If you look at the bably the best known of his but "Strife," Senate you will find that the stage works,
and "Loyalties" majority come from the agricul-"Justice," tural and pastoral communities "Escape" have also made a deep and do not realise the meaning impression. In his plays, novels of an international debt." Very and short stories, as in his possibly, Mr. Baldwin's outburst private life, Mr. Galsworthy is 'made things better for succeed-English of the English-Harrow, ing funding missions. At any Oxford and country houses. He rate, they got much better terms, stands for that England-for A further point to be stressed honour and decency and reticence is that by the terms of our agree-and endurance, for playing the ment with America, we have to game and for doing the sporting pay over eighty-two per cent. of thing. His comment on the pro- what we owed, whilst, on the sent award was characteristically other hand, we have asked nono simple and unassuming: "I am of our Allies for more than half very pleased and very proud,” of their debts to us. Even up to He and his kind are enshrined
10% present time, we have paid in his works
DEATH
FREDERIKS—At__Kowiuan on De
cember 13, Johan Louis Max Frederiks, aged 33 years.
Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph Colony
trick.
to the acting.
har
ter material to work on, and I was to their attention.
"Be sure to thank auntie if she says she is going to leave, you a million dollars. Horo's ton cents to help you
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"Queer Street."By E. D. Ward Kelly. A remarkable book. Mr. Kelly observes his fellow creatures with a tender pity. Tears and smiles Intermingle and love and aorrow walk hand in hand. Every- one who likes full-blooded writing will like Kally. There is nothing vague about him. The book is ex perimental in form. It is written entirely without verbs and further escapes the taint of normality by. being prlated upside down.
"Walls of Jericho."-By P. W. Dee. This is the type of book which should prove a boon to the young and to those who wish to remain young by keeping their minde alert. A queer story, it is the record of a group of engineers" terrible fight against odds in a wild Joutlandish country on the borders
of China. Reads almost liko fc-. tion.
"Stolen Minutes."-By Ron de
is Vous. Clearly this a. book which one should not examino too closely for fear of intrusion. "A Lair Coughdrop," said H. J. K. Bithwoll, in an interview vibrant apirit fills the book and gives it a concentrated unity of mood.
WINTER COMES.
A
Astoriak. Winter has come. Might as well have two asterisks, to keep it well covered.
The changes and benefits it con fers are animal, vegetable and debatable. For instance, porridge- stalkers, are early astir, their long
and butter and sensitive noses -stained, sars, quivering with 'anti-
cipation.