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NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE ARE OUR FUTURE.
D teller?
STORY-TELLERS?
Asks
GLYN' ROBERTS
The Very Idea!
Kelly
SOME SUMMER By Eddie "Hot Dog" SPEAKING of heat waves.
We shall soon be wondering what Crown Colony government ia, coming to. In Singapore лcheme is advanced by Penang ro presentatives on the Legislative Council for the construction of a
We were only drink- new rond, a Paradise on Penang
ID the war kill off the story-Walpole is never happler, and ing the other day what a Hill. It la given the blessing of
never better, than when depicting the Governor and is rejected; sc-
gristly villainy, and Mr. Maugham Wonderful idea it would be ven of the Official Members killing That is a question everyone who is world-famous as a writer who if we had a kind hearted the project by voting against it.reads books, whether for pleasure sees through the fabric, of little And all Singapore has to say about or because it is his job in life to shams and conventions which all Editor. it is that His Excellency exprean read books, has been asking him- but hide the reallties of life to-day.
Take work, for instance. Even "moderner" and more Take it as far away as you ed the view that the mattor was self since 1919. For in those one to which official support should fourteen years, so far as one can fusionment and "sham-shifting" like. What does our Editor
typical of the post-war mood of dis be given. A number of Officials see, no new story-teller in the man-are writers like Michael Arlon and think about work? He very courageously expressed dis-ner of the great nineteenth-contury Gilbert Frankau, who, though they agreement by voting directly masters of narrative fiction has do not scorn a good story, avold thinks it's something we should ngainst the motion. The general arisen either in England or in romance carefully or, if they admit do. The indignity of it! public owe a very considerable.
it, only do so to give it a nevere jar,
The Editor of our last news- debt of gratitude to those oficials
There have been great, novelists Quite apart, again, are the fur- who provided this timely reminder whose best work has been done desperately anxious to improve or thought the same thing until we lous "slice-of-life" vendors, who paper, the Frying Pan Gazette, that economy is not a subject on
since the war, and there are young to change or to put an end to told him where ho got off. which Government may preach one
writers by the dozen arising on something or other. To these day only to ignore on the next No-one seems to have got very cited about the incident'
A LONG WAIT
America.
both afdes of the Atlantic, whose writers, very able though many of In case you don't know it, Fry- ex-namea will probably live-but not them are, the idea that they ing Pan is a town in Australia with
as story-tellera.
should weave some sort of story, a population of two dogs, and a with a claim on your attention of hotel.
Consider some of the great its own, into ill-disguised propa "yarną" which have swept the ganda, seems quaintly old-fashion- British Isles during the last fowed and quite unworthy of serious decades-"The Sign of Four," consideration. They are not out "The Garden of Allah," "The to entertain or to amuge but to In- Prisoner of Zenda," "The Scarlet prove and to instruct. Pimpernel," "The Four Feathers."
A DWINDLING GROUP.
on
you
Hence, when we told our lost Editor off, the origination of the now famous expression "Out of the Frying Pan into the fired!” So we come to Hongkong.
Hongkong people are like that. At this time of the year sum- mer fond of drink and summer fonder.
In Hongkong there are, strange-
I think we do; but the demand fluous clothing. such seems very slow in creating the collars, and flannel chest pro- supply. The old favourites are tectors. still apparently the only people who This is especially noticeable in serve up the right stuff they the police force. You'll notice seem to monopolise the formula. them on traffic duty on their motor-bikes, clad in khaki short breeches.
These are known as breaches of the pleace.
The journal which makes the mild comment, partiully quoted, on such an astonishing developmeus, discreetly adds that the matter
THE WORLD'S NEED.
We have now been here two was not, of course, of any political
And there is the difference. summers. We know everything signicance and the full power of
The old romancers were simply there is to know about hot weather, Of the surviving writers of this out to entertain you, to lift officjaldom was not employeų. Or
They used to say at Frying Pan- was it Indiscreet? It seems to kind of narrative fiction, Mr. Ro- for a while into a world where
an altogether that two swallows never made expose rather emphatically that bert Hichens is 69, Mr. A. E. W. things moved on
chivalrous and romantic summer. Out hero it takes only no matter what the personal at-Mason a year younger. Mr. Jeffery more titude of the Officials, they would Farnel and Mr. Rafael Sabatini plane. Many of them were, in a hint of summer to make us have been compelled to vote for are both well over 50, and have their private lives, very far from swallow,
being the simple, credulous peoplo the road scheme like so many robots been writing as long as I have their books might have made them had the necessary order been been in the world. The Baroness appear to be. But they know the KOWLOON LIDÒ
xiven. But let that pass. We are Orezy came out with The Scarlet world's need of men who could Kowloon's protest against the Official Member of the Council to Ethel M. Dell's "Way of an Eagle" moved at a healthy speed through now waiting for the first Hongkong Pimpernel" 28 years ago; Missapin a good yarn, a yarn which coal dump will be considered by take his courage from Singapore was published 21 years ago; Miss a world none of their readers had H.E. the Governor and it is and into both his hands and to say Marjorie Bowen has published 68 ever known or were ever likely to ly enough, four seasons in a year. generally supposed that some-"Aye" or "No" at the wrong time. books. Major P. C. Wren publish- know. Many of them, on the thing will be done to remedy the A picture of the Council at that ed his first book in 1912; Mr. H. de other hand, really had the enviable They are called autumn, winter, nuisance. The deputation learn- great moment is a little dificult to Vere Stacpoole began over 30 years capacity to believe everything spring and Simmer. ed little from their visit. Mr. tion would do the public a service
conjure up The Member in ques- ago.
they wrote; and for them it was, Other acosons are salt, popper, Tratman, in his brief reply, by dropping a gentle hint before-
This band of herocs-and hero-I suppose, easy.
cinnamon and mustard. roamed into quite
ines-cannot a different hand, in order that our local Bate-
Ko
for ovor,
Do we not want such story-
During the aimmer season, sen- sible men dispense with super- sphere, the ear-marking of the man might put it on record for though many of them are still do- railway land for port develop-ull time.
ing remarkably well. Anthony tellers to-day?
38 tics. Hope, Stanley Weyman, Sir Arthur ment, which seemed very much
Conan Doyle, Sir H. Rider Hag beside the point, although it
gard, and Edgar Wallace have all touched upon suggestions which OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT. departed from our midst. I can have been made since the dump
not see where we are to turn for controversy developed, namely,
Revival movements are a neces- stories such as they wrote. the employment of the land for sary element In the life of, the
According to the very exhaustive One of the most successful books 2 Lido scheme, providing bath- Church, the living expression of calculation carried out recently by of the moment is Mr. A. E. W. ing facilities, among other the faith once delivered to the The Daily Mail, the three leading Mason's latest yarn, "Sapphiro"; things. The port development Saints as a vitalising and creative novelists in England to-day are he has never ceased to thrill report itself provides an inter-force breaking its way into the Hugh Walpole, J. B. Priestley, and luge publle since he started 30 esting commentary
They say the sun is responsible lives of men. The Oxford Group Somerset Maugham. All three are years ago. the upon official attitude.
Movement, which is now literally fine story-tellers, but it would be Editors and publishers are look for all this heat and they're pro- in 1924, Sir John Jordon is reply one more of the outbreakings is the unsophisticated, "go-abend," story-teller. But they can't find cause our son got so hot that we
At Wembley of world-wide proportiona, is sim-idle-to-pretond that their method ing every one of them, for a good bably right at that. It was-be-- ported as having said: "It is of the Spirit which must occur method of the yarn-apinner. All him. Often they think they've had to kick him out of the house. on the extension of the railways three or four times in every cen-threo DFC concerned with the in South and Central China that tury, if the work of the Church is subtle analysis of character, and got the right man; and just as he The headache nearly killed us
seems to be developing into a Hongkong may justly build to be fully done. As even a cur- with men and women as they are first-rate post-war yarn spinner for that. "If you heat him again" many hopea. When the line sory reading of Church history need hardly say that the great he spells everything by creating a she cried, "it's you for the in- from Canton is through to Han- shows, there have been such move-writers of romance have always
fly kow, Hongkong, in conjunction days of the New Testament itself; with men and women as they never innocence of his book as a
ments in every period since the concerned themaalves principally puzzling character who stains the ferno,"
spoils a glass of fresh milk.
What they are looking for is someone who will turn his or her NOT ENOUGH ROMANCE.
-back resolutely on realities and There were thousands who be forget this world, with its anoma lieved that Mr. Priestley had re-lica, its anticlimaxes, ita boredom,. discovered the secret of the its drabness and its worries, and "rattling good yarn," when he create a world of his own, where by rail. They would, he argued, IRELAND'S CRISIS
swept England with "The Good everything is clarified and simpli- continue to pass through the
Companions," but he speedily dis-fied, and men and women, whether Tung Ting Lake to the Yangteva While the Irish Free State ispelled the belief with the very good or bad, have the stature and and there was no financial justi- in the throes of a political conflict cynical "Angel Pavement." Mr. character of gods. fication for Hongkong to embark menacing to peace, the South upon works solely on account of Dublin Becking to get to the root African Finance Minister la in the railway. Nevertheless, the of the trouble, the economic war Hunghom Bay scheme which he with Britain. It seems absurd finally drew up provided for fu- that mediation should be neces- turo railway construction upon sary, but since it is, wo can only a scale which would east some hope that South Africa will succeed of the great London termini in- whero. Mr. Thomas has failed. to the shade. And it is because Britain is suffering, and the Irish of the remote possibility that Free State is suffering, from the
estrangement. If some of these visionary schemes Present will at some time in the distant prosont condition of things per future become realities that such it as an ordinance of nature which sists, we shall all begin to regard useful ardas as the Chatham must continue to separate us for Rond seafront have been waste the same reason as the Irish Sea land, except for a coal dump in a separates us. We may settle down place' which Mr. Duncan certain to the position that it cannot be ly did not contemplate. When the otherwise. If Mr. de Valera and question is plainly put, "When Mr. J. H. Thomas get on to each is any sort of a start, likely other nerves, lot them both do- 'to be made?" there is no answer pute their parts to those who are and can be no answer. Govern- not hardened towards each other. ment is committed to the ox- penditure of millions upon the
great outlet for the produce of peaceful and slower, and equally all China south of the Yangtaze." necessary, work of securing and Mr. John Duncan, the Port En-conserving the areas gained by gineer, was of contrary opinion, Christianity in the fields of thought, feeling there were no likelihood of ethics, and of conduct. whatever of goods from beyond Changsha coming to Hongkong
the
An unusual and what can be con-
Shing Mun Dam. New gaols, WHAT IS THE MIND? hospitals, schools, roads, and other big public works will ex- haust any surplus funds the sidered almost a miraculous opera- Government has at its disposal tlon was performed some time ago in a Clevoland elinie on a woman for many years to come. It ts who was suffering from a tumor of: almost safe to assert, in fact, the brain. It was necessary to that Kowloon will not see a sign remove, almost all of the right half of Hunghom Bay ship basin and of the sufferer's brain. This rallway development for twenty operation. left the patient years at the very least, There only partially paralyzed on No noticeable is, in fact, still time and room the left side. for a Lido on the seafront. In effect has been produced on the twenty years it would pay for mental or intellectual powers of the itself over and over again."
It aufforar Hor: mind is func could be embarked upon as a tloning as well now as it ever did. community effort theKRAThis will be interesting as well basking the Boheme and ostala a instructive to those who confuse were the merely physical organ of the
their great. popularity.
"Well, sol long as we know" we retorted neatly, as we flung a fire bucket at the flaming youth,
With which we left, taking our bottle of beer with us.
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Pay day last month was on- a Tuesday. On arrival home each night we are greated by the hend- ache as follows:
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REMORSE
Yes. We've been deceiving the headache. We can't forret It. We think of it miserably morning, noon and night aspecially night. It's got that way now that we can't sleep for think Ing about it, how the loon't let