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Interdependence of Nations
President Roosevelt did well
to stress in his review of policy that America, cannot achieve prosperity by her own unnided effort. The things which have
MOST POPULAR PERSON The Very Idea!
IN THE WORLD
By ROSITA FORBES
Fourteen people were gathered |
GOOD LISTENER.
tó understand.
"What do you do, then?" "I just grunt," she said, and did 80; but it was a delicious and most comforting little sound indicating understanding and agreement and a hint of awed admiration. In fact, that "grunt" Was 'n remarkable achievement.
CINEMA FACES
By Edward "Karloff" Kolly. According to the Movietone News, Lord Hailsham would make a "kindly family butler”, Ramsay MacDonald, without his moustache, a great lover, Win- ston Churchill, with cigar, an |American political racketeer, Sir John Simon, a doctor, and Sir Oswald Mosley, a villain.
What
been attracting most attention round a table which was part of ."I don't," she said; and her English history. The hostess re-brown eyes looked so profound that in Washington recently have garded them with her well-known wondered if perhaps sho really been spectacular developments smile. It was going to bo a satis-was too clover for ordinary people |in domestic affairs, It is well factory week-end. Nothing had beon omitted. Food and guesta that public attention should Lo
were carefully assorted. diverted to the more important
"Anyone else coming?" asked tho steps, those to which they have hostess's best friend, not been paying overmuch at- "Only Elizabeth.”
We are all for this Iden. tention the preparations for
"Oh, Elizabeth!" At the sound
we want at our picture shows is long, patient and involved of that magle name, which belongs to a little elderly lady with the
a gome originality, with a dash of negotiations with other nations wittiest tongue in two continents,
In this century of self-expres- Roda. which have as their goal the conversation became general.
Going to the picturea nowadays alon, thero are, of course, several restoration of international con- "How clever of you to get her!" score of talkers to every really goods like playing the bagpipes--n fidence, world trade and general vellous Everyone had
"Isn't that too completely mar-listener. Consequently the person sheer waste of time. Everyone
Bome-who can register beatifle content prosperity. It is well known thing nice to any because everyone while listening to a categorie and knows what's going to happen. that the administration is mak-looked forward to being definitely repetitive description of someono
For instance," tako Garbo. jA nasured of Everyone knows when she starts popularity.
an undressing scene that it will There is one man in London who stop just when it begins to get in a comfort to every woman he interesting. There's nothing
IF IT'S TRANSPORTATION
YOU NEED
VISIT THE
ing elaborate plans. But the happier as soon as Elizabeth arciso's business
rived. VAUXHALL-BEDFORD subjects to be covered are 80
STAND
"BRITISH TO THE CORE."
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
Tel. 23124.
The
THE EIGHTH WONDER.
Aro
complicated, 80 far removed from the obvious bread-and- I wondered if the very little lady meets, because at any moment of
realised that whenever her visit the day or night he is willing to original about that. butter requirements of the mo was heralded, imposing and self-listen to her confidences. He is a An one of the best gate-crashers ment, dfcult, in fact, for the satisfied people became iko children person of leisure. He likes a deep at Hongkong provłowa wo ordinary person to comprehend. excited by the promise of a new chair and a pipe. He does not ex-in a position to suggest to Helly-
toy. I wondered what it felt like pect anyoho to follow, his advice, wood just what's wanted, Yet whether prosperity is to re-to beat 60 something the most so he does not give it. He says, We shall never forget the day turn to the world will depend, in popular person in a world that was "Let's talk about you," as if it were
habitually Informed, assured and the one subject which must be of we met the famous Chinese Olm the last analysis, on govern- indifferent.
equal intorcat to Fascists and actress. Stag-Sing, whose an- mental foreign policies rather
Elizabeth arrived. Everyone Bolshevista and Nazis and wot or costore go back 80,000 years. than on domestic policies. Whe- talked to her. I could see her dry senators. As soon as the one When Sing-Sing was not walking ther the depression came chiefly turning from side to side, nodding about it, but the woman remembers. about the
little head, sheathed in pale hair, jeided talk is ended, he forgets all
streets of Shanghai |because of things that happened with a quick, bird-like movement She thinks he is quite the most with a sinister shuffle, she was
in America, or whether it was that emphasised her appreciation interesting man she has ever met.
mitting cross-legged on an inscrut- of her friends' cleverness. by developments in
able cushion. "Elizabeth collects people. Look Europe, one thing is pretty at her now.” certain; no nation get full pros. "She's the eighth wonder of the perity back again unless all na-world. How does she do it?"
to
Hongkong Telegraph. caused
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933. .
LOCAL CABARET
PROBLEMS
OUR.
HER SECRET.
.
WAYWARD POPULARITY,
Popularity to-day is an wayward as last year's windswept shinglo, You may be as beautiful as Venus and a persistent wallflower. You may be fat and penniless and more elderly than middle-age, but quite tho gayest indisponsable at all
The
"May your thousand times degrad- ed servant," we began in our best Walter Oland style, "request that your exalted and ancestral highness will deign to answer a fow dreary and utterly unmentionabe questions?"
tlons have a share in it. The Elizabeth, talked about her.
Those who couldn't talk world has grown so small in the "She doesn't do it. That's just last generation that there is no it. She lets other people do it,
"Bird's nests to you," aho re- longer any much thing as econo- said one of the more perspicaci. artic. There is a certain woman
Is all these things, and nobody plied in the best Sino-Hollywood The announcement that regu-mic independence: We live too
would dream of doing without her, manner. So we left, taking our because ahe has vitality. lations for the control
of close to our neighbours; sinkr.ess cabarets in Hongkong have been in one house is very apt to mean Elizabeth's interest, I asked her most cheerfulness,
whole of her world gives parties chop suey with us. Long afterwards, enchanted by for her, after which, with the ut Sing Sing later went to Holly- drafted by the Inspector General sickness in every other house why she was so popular, and with those she gives in return, because ablo success
they pay for wood, whore she scored a romark- as the Viennese of Police is eminently satisfac-especially so since our ideas cf out waiting for her explanation I so long as she is present they are prima donna, or what have, you. tory. The need for effective economic sanitation are of the gave her mine. In the middle of at the top of their form. They in the super-super-super produc- control is incontestable and the sketchiest and no such thing as So that was her secret! She made away feeling "grand."
it I realised she waa laughing. batten on her vitality and come tion "Viennese Lights". official promulgation of the mea-an adequate quarantine is other people answer their
Own Celebritics, on the whole, are not sures to be taken will be await-possible. And in the long run het with the feeling of having some kinds of functions, like tlaras there is no reason why a lot of our
questions, so that they always left popular. They are necessary
Under. at
the same conditions, ed with more than ordinary in- prosperity has to be very much been particularly brilliant. Her and gold plate, but they are apt to local taipans couldn't make good terest, by public and
pro- a world-wide affair. The men popularity was duo not to her wide-give one the horrible feeling that at Hollywood. De Mille, for in- prietors alike. An exhaustive surcs proposed at Washington ly acknowledged wit but to what one ought to go out and do like-stance, should have had some of
other people said,. or thought they wise. The general public survey of the many peculiar pro- for setting America's house in said, when they were with her.
much the Hongkong. Brewery "directors blems attaching to the growth of order are vitally important, of
prefers royalty to record-breakers, for his picture, "Tho Sign of the There must be several kinds of because it likes to feel there is no XXX". There are several taipune this form of entertainment in fcourse; but unless international allence. Most silences aro the question of emulation.
(we won't mention names) who the Colony was published re-trade, international credit and you sink with the awful feeling people who are the most popular. "Flesh", and what about the Was wrong kind-swamps into which On the whole, it is the ordinary could have taken the title role In cently, revealing that a wide international confidence can be that there are still three more The exceptional make enemies be- ter Authority for "20,000 years in field of supervision requires to restored, the world is not likely courses and you haven't another cause they override many | Sing-Shing Mun.”
be covered beyond the superfto come to the end of its troubles. cial responsibility for seeing that reasonable hours are ob-
word to any. But the silence which established prejudices.. indicatea a considered appreciation is akin to genius.
DIFFERENCES.
too
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Possibly many of the leading firma in Hongkong will know who we have in view for the leading role in "Payment Deferred."
BE CAREFUL!
Imagine our embezzlement!
INTELLIGENT SUBURBS.
Mr. John Boggan, of the Mid- dlesex County Council, doctores that the people of Hampstend Garden Suburb as slightly more intelligent than those in the average suburb.
Is the-er-Peak after Mr. A.O. -er-Bra-v-n, going to sit down on its bended knees and allow this to go forth unchallonged. Nol
In the sacred name of steak and kidney pudding, the least that can be done is a protest to the Secre- tary of State. Is it cricket?
I know a young woman who has Probably the most popular per served and that the cabaret sys. Art for Humanity's Sake enormous eyes and not single iden son in the world, like the most in her head. Her expression is one beautiful place, is the one nobody tem does not develop into a pub-
of bovine meditation; but she is sees too often. It might perhaps lic nuisance. A restriction of
Artists should rule the world. worked politicians because she gazes things they have done, providing invariably successful with over-be said that, men are popular for numbers would a car to be de- At least, some artists used to at them with impenetrable
The Shah of Perala mado a man pirable and the correspondence think so. Ministers with
im such things are not too spectacular, who spread rumours about condi pa-mobility and says nothing at all. and women for the things they have tions in South Perala walk a thou- which has appeared in the pub-lettes instead of portfolios, un-True, she cultivates a senso of hu- not done. The person who doce sand miles through the territory lic Press from time to time would bassadors with rich baritone mour. Without It she wouldn't be with the utmost ease all the things to see for himself.
In view of the danger of this type also suggest that, as far as pos- voices instead of diplomatic so comfortably lazy. After several others have longed to do and can't
to me is not likely to bo overwhelmingly of punishment spreading, wo are sible, dancing establishments of lotiquette, directors with batons "coming men" had raved
instead of mere legal authority, twenty-years-old Sphinx, who never
about her brains, I asked this popular.
not going to say what we were the cabaret type should be re- M.P.s with dexterous violin bows thought and rarely even listened, success better than women.
Certainly men get away with going to say about certain nightly moved from residential areas. A instead of ponderous notionshow she managed to say "Yes" or afbly because they are
Pos-scenes along Chatham Road, those more ac little benches for two. number of pertinent points have these would work in concert to "No" at the right momenta. customed to it! been submitted. There is a good keep politics up to pitch and deal of truth in the submission nations in harmony. We who tune are by a Kowloon resident that if he can hardly carry a and his friends hired band insure we know why the iden never "caught on." But now struments and indulged in and then it is recalled to atten- orchestration night after night, tion. And sometimes in a way the police would not be overlong to command most serious respect in intervening. At the same for the viewpoint of leaders in time, there is something to be the parts. For instance, much pressure hae been brought said for the argument of the on Arturo Toscanini by frequenter of "dancing acade-Icertain musicians who would mies," who pointed out, in con-have him withdraw his promise nexion with one particular estab- to conduct the Wagner Festival lishment and one particular at Bayreuth in the summer. It block of flats, that the cabaret is evidently assumed that such came first, that the tenants a protest against recent racial or political restrictions on mit- should have been well aware that sicians in Germany would exert an orchestra would be playing a desirable influence. And im- right opposite. when they assum-mediately this pressure has been ed occupation. Actually, the rebuked, kindly but candidly, by noises which cause most annoy-difficult to see what good pur- Fritz Kreisler. It is rather ance are not pleasure noises, pose would be served by making but the unavoidable sounds of Bayreuth a target of reprisal. the night, motor horns and the The Wagner Festival, dear to starting and stopping of busca.the hearts of Germans, is of There are many people, we feel much more than purely national nure, who are able to sit on their interest. A whole world of verandahs and liston with a feel-music lovers looks forward to it. It has become, like Beethoven's ing of enjoyment to the jazz per-symphonies, like the music of formance floating over the air Bach and Brahms, an inter- from the opposite side of the national possession. Those who street, even if they have no de- would allow political considera- sire for a closer acquaintance. tions to interfere with its pro This particular problem is, in gramme no doubt remind many of the fact that Wagner himself fact, largely a matter of personal was once a political exile from
his homeland.
taste.
"Hold on, meat We're going to move that fireplace again.”
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HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED
CORRESPONDENCE. Somewhere in Victoria, 1932. To the Superintendent of
Prisons.
Honoured and Dear Sir,
We, the under-signed, gentle- men of many years' residence upon your esteemed promises, bag leave to lodge a strong protest against the noise that has been emanating from the cells of upstart now- comeru.
We humbly pray and potition that, to permit us to got some sloop at night, the said upstart nowcomers be permitted to leave.
It is not reasonable to expect old standing residents auch" as ourselves to submit to such condi- tions and unless stops are taken to put a stop to the disturbances, we shall be compelled to give notice to quit.
We are, Dear Sir, etc, etc.