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NOTES OF THE DAY
HANDS OFF CHINA!
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SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS
By A. J. CUMMINGS
The Very Idea!
LETTER TO HOME
By George
Dear Aunt,
Just a line hoping it find
you as we are at present→→→
most dangerous revolution-¡ as Solicitor-General in the last if at all. ary in Englandi My hand Labour Administration. In that should tromble ne I write theao role he discharged his duties with We feel a little bit nervous tell-
marked if words of this Deadly Human Men-Buch
unobtrusive ing you about our life as an efficiency that he was spoken of on Empire Builder but as you will all aldes as a coming man.
probably have kicked the bucket- long before Stella Benson's diary- as the plague spot of the Far causes this Colony to be regarded East, we will be bold.
In spite of the dull solemnity of most of his public utterances, Bir Stafford Cripps has a well-develop-
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The endorsement by the Saito Cabinet of the "Hands off China!”. pronouncement carries Japan's challenge a stage further, No longer in it possible to minimiso the seriousness of the Japanese declaration of polley on the ground that the informal manuer in which the warning was delivered might be considered as reducing its force. Even the more moderate tone apparently adopted by Mr.
I cannot discover that in those Salto, the Japanese Ambassador
ed senso of humour; and i am sure daya ho expressed any rebroud in Washington, fails to relleve he must laugh rather like a demon views. Soon after the collapse of anxiety. Despite his insistence in the pantomime when he reflects the Labour Government and the tradlet the suggestion that wo are that Japan has no intention of on the error he has inspired in Labour Party he began to pull out not happy here. Wo are desperately
the breasts of Infringing upon the principle of God-fearing, law-abiding fellow-nee that if the stricken working will have when we leave, and if wo 60 many of his the rough stuff. He was quick to happy thinking what a good time wo the Open Door, his explanation of countrymen. Communists despise class movement were to be roused don't ever leave we can always retira what Japan dous require of other him for a menly-mouthed reaction- from its state of political lethargy to the last health resort fare; Happy Powers runs into direct conflict ary. Bourgcols England has been and scepticism it must first de
Valley. with the principle, All Indications taught to regard him as a breaker- tickled with political tall talk.
The place is pretty hot but you can't blame it all on the sun; on point to another venture into Man-up of precious institutions, na an
onomy of the Crown, as Stalin The intellectuals of the Socialist the other hand it is also pretty churin tactics: reassuring words diabolically made up to look like League, which stands on the left wet but the atmosphere is not and actions that speak louder. an expensivo and rotund King's of official Llbour, streched out entirely at fault.
Counsel, a Socialfat bank eager hands towards him; and he The place could be improved/JC burglar, as a political highwayman became, almost before he was there were a few Englishmon here who will hold at the pistol-point aware of the fact, the platform but if you take your Yorkshire- every citizen in the land with more exponent of a Socialist policy man with Scotch you can make a than a fiver in his pass-book or a which in this country of topk! pretty strong combination. We hundred in Consols,
compromise is condemned as are not suggesting that the Scotch matter of course by every decent here is of the milk and water Englishman as virulent extremism. variety; far from It. It would be. He is good business for Tory Then, as soon as it began to bo great to hear our native tongue politicians, who think he will como suspected that Sir Stafford's views again. Even the Chinese speak in vory usefully at the next Goneral might express Labour's real Inten-their own dialect with a Scotch Election as 'n living substitute for tions and that he was no negligible twang now.
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Cabinet, endorsement is a bad sign, from another point of view. Falsifying any claim to wisdom and statesmanship, the step acems neither to exemplify Japan's im placable resentment at the feeling of Isolation in world affairs visited the obsolete Red Letter. Respect-candidate for leadership, the at- We wonder why so many Scots. upon her since the Manchurian Liberal politicians, with far tacks on bim devoloped into apo-leave home and get maudlin about
less to hope for than the Tories plectic seizures, Adventure. The trial balloon from a new Socialist bugbear, are should have convinced Japan that much more genuinely shocked than
Perhaps it is because competition her tentatively-announced program- Torles at Sir Stafford's alleged
among themselves cannot be made I am inclined to doubt, however, to. pny. We can understand a me is to be anything but easy disrespect for democratic liberties, whether Sir Stafford's teeth have Yorkshireman going some place salling. The sharp response of Even a great many exceedingly those of other leas indiscreet Yorkshire puding,
a much deeper bite in them than where he can decently refuse to eat the world in disapproval has proper members of the Labour Labour leader. He is much too merely atrengthened the doter-Party are horrified at some of his reasonable with his crities. Ho is bid "This is all for now so we will mination of Japan's leaders to go members of the Labour Party, away. He gives the Impression speeches; and all sophisticated far too ready to explain himself on with it. There is only one end whether they agree or disagree that he to decisions guided by motives with his theories of action, are public.
THESE HECTIC DAYS. such as these-resistance and thoroughly alarmed at their
We really do not know what the clash. Unless we balleve in the possible effect upon an impression.
world is coming to. To use the dear able electorate. In fact on at least possibility of wretched defentiam two occaalons
Yet, with all his mental side-sensational novel, simply will not old phrase, that "It reads like a Sir Stafford has stops, there appears to be a set do. Novelists are left hopelessly States and Great Britain.
altitudes of the
United been taken gravely to task in purpose at the back of his mind. behind. In
private by the Labour hierarchy Nolther his speeches nor his writ-praise for a sensational novel future the highest and warned that if he does not stop inga are modela of lucid and logical should be, "It reads almost liko a emulating the Fat Boy of "Pick-expression. But his central argu- few bits from the nows selected wick" he
will ruin Labour's ment seems to be that if the Labour from any week." chances at the polls and his own Party returns to offlce--and it must
in
the
FILM REVOLUTION?
should
States,
Is thinking clumsily in
you
God's speed 'struth,
GEORGE.
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trouble and expenso involved. Ting
little purpose in perpetua-What has he actually said or done mensurable distance of time go so where we were; and over the shrill
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doing marine somersaults in the ocstasy of the spring.
I was deeply interested to learn and a towel in the other we plunged Taking our courage in one hand, the other day from ono of the He is the prosperous son of a ablest and most practical-minded furiously into the brine inmersing respected English lawyer, who Labour politicians in the country in the freshness of the water.
our ankles to the toes and revelling: joined the first Labour Government that Sir Stafford Cripps, notwith-This was LIFE-life with a capital and became Lord Parmoor. Like standing his Indiscretions, is now hell. his father, he is a devout Church- definitely in the running for the man. He is married to a rich wife leadership of the Labour Party. It was too cold for jellyfish and
and makes a great deal of money at the Bar, The Labour Party being
EMPIRE FAIR DECISION Opinion will probably differ in regard to the decision to hold no British Empire Fair in Hongkong this year. The announcement, coupled with an indication of the improbability' of such an event being held in 1935 or 1936 either, does occasion
The Impetus gained in the Un-raspect of political advancement not be office without power-the! some surprise. ited States in the drive against British business houses cannot the system of block-booking in the
only way in which it can protect itself from a recurrent failure is (last week) at Repulse Bay. complain,
Sir Stafford promised to be a through swift dictatorial measures,
It was early in the morning strangely cinema world is of general in good boy. But while he possesses paralysing Conservative oppost- since, nough, it is from this quarter terest. The campaign has reached many admirable qualities ho atllltion and establishing at once a cover the water as far as the A thin film of ice appeared to that the decision has emanated. prepared and placed before Con- unfortunate persons who do not strength of the police and military that were a few ice bergs.
the stage where legislation has been
has a little in common with those Socialist order defended by the eye could see and just beyond The main ground for deciding not this trade practice. Strong ing to say when they get up to of such an objective are the final wasto, naked Into the beauty of the
gress providing for the abolition, know precisely what they are go- forces. to repeat the experiment at
The logical Implications present, is that the capital ex- the challenge succeeds it will mean anying while they are on their feet, other landed estatea,, the capital were still in bed.
We were alone on that vast andy pressure is being exerted and if apeak, or precisely what they are breaking-up of the Crown and dawn-and wishing to goodness we penditure would be too heavy a
a large readjustment in the making and have no preciso recollection of levy and similar drastic measures. charge in these times of depres- and exhibiting of alms, which what they have said, when they sit
The rocks which had boon react favourably Doubt is also raised as to parts of the world. Obviously, if
in all down.
It is highly improbable that any winter
sharpened and pointed by the the compensating advantages, block-booking is banned in the Why is there all this fuss and Labour Government, with or with brightest for us; the sand had months, gleaned their when contrasted with the time, United
there will be bother about Sir Stafford Cripps? out Sir Stafford Cripps, will in a begun to sprout in patches but not On the former point, the financial The.
the system elsewhere. to bring it about?
far. Te most present-day Labour sirens of the ships at sea came the processofchango has said or done, is his standing doubt a nightmarish horror.
Whatever he leaders the mere thought is no wistful love call of the flat fish burden surely cannot, in view of may furnish many difficulties as as the Government subsidy, be block-booking is a sort of insur-
a politefun of sufficient im- portance to cause alarm or to make abnormally heavy, while in re-ance for the producers enabling It necessary that he should be gard to the latter it is hardly them to proceed with film-making taken seriously? reasonable to count on im- on the basis of hundreds of signed mediately apparent results: the contracts, but when the necessary psychological effects of such an probably be found to be more made. It will adjustments are exhibition, from the advertising profitable for all concerned. point of view, should not be over- looked. Moreover, experience has shown that when times are ENGLISH SYSTEM bad it is unwise to curtail
There is no cause for an ex- enterprise. The words put into
still short of high-class legal plosion of public hysteria at this the mouth of George Arliss in a distribute motion pictures on a political leg-up by his appointment
That it is possible to make and talent, he was given an early Information. National disaster recent film shown in Hongkong considerable scale
(Continued on Page 4.) without the may be quoted here: "You can't block-booking system has been run a business by lying down on proved In England, where the the job; when a business is system was abolished several years. running down, that's when ago. It is freely stated that this you've got to spend money; change in England hus brought you've got to advertise." So is about a betterment in the quality Yellow,it in times of depression-those other hand, the American pro of British-made flims. On the are the very times that call for ducers offer figures to show that extra energy and harder work. in any case the better films obtain Frankly, we feel that our the heaviest bookings. Further, business men are allowing them under the percentage aystem that selves to give way to cunni byla now largely in operation, rather deciding against an Empire Fair than straight rentals, the pro- and, what is more, by contem ducers have every reason to make plating no such effort for three pictures that will please na large years at least. That is not the spirit in which to fight the de- pression. We decline to believe MANY RAMIFICATIONS that the last two Fairs produced no beneficial results. The real need, it seems to us, is not for tions which the present con- The subject has many ramifica- restriction of endeavour along gressional hearing is bound to do better trade exhibitions. Even various organisations have enter- these lines, but for bigger and aomething to clarify. Meanwhile, if the benefits cannot be im- cd upon a determined campaign mediately assessed, the cumula- against the block-booking system, tive effect must be good. There charging it with responsibility for is even room for something in a great deal that is undesirable in the nature of a permanent ex- Belmont, president of the Motion current film fare. Mrs. August hibition, which to wholesale Picture Research Council, han de- firms would serve the purpose of finitely named block booking as a shop-window. Admittedly, It is the point of attack. The council too late now to organise an Em- is now publishing Its findings in pire Day Fair for this year, but a series of books after four years there is no reason why, if a little of research Mira. Calvin Coolidgo enorgy and enthusiasm is dis- and Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother played, an exhibition should not of President Roosevelt, have be held in the next cool season presidents engaged in the active recently, become honorary vice- and be repeated every year work of the council. Block book- on progressively - comprehensive Ing of films obviously is due for lines.
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after all, we weren't jollyfish. We crept back to our matshed, back to the comfortable proximity of the cockroach and the spider and there restored our circulation with iodine and Judicious patting on the back. Hours later when we had tramp- cd the intervening miles back to the City wo felt that conscientious glow that comes to the man who ha done his stuff.
We took a hot bath and creeping- back to bed fell asleep dreaming that we really had gone bathing at. Repulse Bay and wishing to good- ness someone would wake us up an that we could start.
Nobody has yet asked the ques- tion: Would British Alma be brighter if our stars had moro divorces? (It would set well to.
music).
THE ISINGLASSES: Determined from a tonder uge To show her talent on
Stage,
the
Their daughter, lovely Lady-
Toots,
At last walks on in "Puss 'In
." Boots."
The daughter of a belled Eart
Rightly displaced a chorus girl. To make quite sure this would
be go
Papa put money in the show. Daughters of Dukes 'did even
better
To raise the tone of the
Theatre.
In fact, Toots found the Stago -
to be
Quite cluttered with Nobility.
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The chorus reached to greater ·
heights.
When played by Duchesses in
tights.
Such virtue has a Coronot,
Even the call-boy read Debrett.