THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
1937
EIGHTY THOUSAND WORDS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW FOR A SHILLING
ROMANCE IN BOOKS
FOR THE MASS
By LIONEL HALE
IN May you will be able to buy 11,000 words of new Shaw
and 70,000 words of old Shaw for a shilling the pair. Mr. George Bernard Shaw has entirely rewritten for the "Penguin" series (6d. a volume) his "Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism."
Its title is now changed to "The IW.G. to Socialism, Capital, Fascism, and Communism." Hence the extra 11,000 words.
This is only part of the expansion scheme which Mr. Allen Lane has planned for the Penguin series,
These Gd. books, which in 18 anonths have had an enormous süC-
NAVY OF 1911 cess, have now sold 4,750,000 coples:
CORONATION HAS VANISHED EVERY British warship that
was in the lines at the last Coronation review, in 1911, has gone.
Some were lost in the war; many of the others went to the scrapheap after the Wash- ington Limitation Treaty.
There were seventeen foreign war- ships present. Only five of these are still in existence, and one, the Italian cruiser San Marco, is now a radio- controlled target ship.
At this year's Coronation review in Spithead the largest gathering of foreign warships for more than twenty-five years will be brought to- gether. It is possible Japan will be, represented.
Each navy will send a ship, one of the latest and best in service.
Germany may be represented by one of her "pocket" battleships. The other Great Powers are likely to send 10,000-ton cruisers, os no new battle- ships have been built for them for nearly twenty years.
HEAD HUNTER
IS A MENACE!
Missionary Tells of Narrow Escape in Wilds Of Nigeria
Capetown, Feb. 10. A. S. Judd, who has been a missionary in the wildest parts of Nigeria for twenty-five years, told in an interview here how he escaped being killed by head hunters.
The trouble started. when some Christian converts unwisely went out of their way to sing hymns in front
a pagan shrine.
of a
"They were punished by the au- thorities for their Indiscretion," Judd aald, "but the head hunters and their witch doctors were not satisfied. From different sources I heard threats that the leader of the cult was going to have me killed and the mission school burned down. One night a mission but was set on fire, but the mission boys in it were awakened by the crackling of the flames and escaped. When they found their plon had failed, the savages did not molest us again."
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End on end, copies sold would reach from London to Cologne:
Lald on top of one another, they would be three times as high as Everest:
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Paper,
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STARTED ON 1100
Mr. Allen Lane who founded the
Penguin Company with a capital of
£100 the still owns all the shares), told me:
"I am sure that our sales will reach 10,000,000 before the end of the year.
"I got this idea on a trip round the country two years ago from the 2d. library.
"I felt sure that we could create
a new book publle among the lower middle classes,
*And this is borne out by the fact that the Penguin books have not at all affected the sale of the original
editions.
That public has responded, and we are now going ahead with a new series, the Pelican serles, of exactly the same size, shope, format und. price, but designed for that great mass of readers who wish to educate themselves.
SHAKESPEARE NEXT "The first two volumes in this new Shaw's re- series will be Bernard written Intelligent Woman's Guide.
"After that we have planned an elaborate series of Shakespeare's works, to be freably edited for this series by Professor G. B. Harrison, of Cambridge.
"Among other Pelican volumes
new
will be volume of 70,000 words, specially written for this series
Economics
The picture shows signs and placards being piled up after having being used for a huge protest parade by'
the WPA workers in New York.
MAH-JONGG FOR THE RADIO
BLIND
FIRST BRAILLE SET MADE
After more than 200 hours work the first Braille mah-jongg set ever made has just been completed by chief petty-officer R. Peel, of the Flinders naval depot, near Melbourne. It has been presented to the Royal Victorian Blind Institute in that city.
In the set, says Austral News, there are 144 tiles made from blue xylonite. They are faced with silver on which the dragon, winds, circles and bamboos are raised.
1. HUSBAND
£1.167
JURY SAYS SO
a husband
WHAT is
worth?
A Sydney jury has just assessed him at £1,167.16s., and has awarded his widow an extra £20 for a head- stone, as the result of an action for damages against
a
shipping company for
by G. D. H. Cole: "Practical negligence. The action was "The Mysterious Univerze," by brought by Catherina Hyland,
Sir James Jeans:
the widow, following the death of her husband while working as a wharf labourer on one of the company's ships.
Actuarial evidence was given, on the says Austral News, that
"First and Last Men," by Olaf
Stapledon; "Essays of a Biologist," by Julian
ure"
not
A
Twins But Three Days Apart
Mrs. W. Bentley, of Grecian Street, Great Lever, Bollon, bas riven birth to a twin boy 72 hours after the birth of the first. Mrs. Bentley and the two boys are doing well.
The first baby is to be called Brian and the second Bernard.
In July of last year a twin girl was born to a Walthamstow (Essex) mother four days after the birth of the first twin.
Twins were börn three days apart to the wife of a yard worker at Eastringdon. East Yorkshire, last March.
brick-
MAKING PLANS-
FOR EXPEDITION
BROADCAST
Dance Music From Hongkong Hotel
ZE.K. PROGRAMME
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a wavelength of 355 metres.
metres (9.52 (845 k.c.'s), 31.40
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12.30-3.15
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p.m. European Pro-
12.30 Light Orchestral Music,
p.m. Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Talkie Tunes.
1.30 Reuter Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 Songs by
Oldham (Tenor).
Derek
1.55 pm. Rato da Costa Memories,
15 p.m. Close Down,
5-8 p.m. Europeon Programme.
5 pm. A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.
6.30 Mary Kay (Contralto) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).
Violin Solos-Liebesfreud (Love's Joy), (Kreisler), Liebeslcid (Love's Sorrow), (Kreisler).
Contralto
Boy Solos Danny (Weatherley), My ain folk (Lemon, Mills)
Milis).
Violin Solos-Spanish Serenade (Glazounov), Jola (De Falla),
Contralto Salos-Love's old sweet" song (Molloy, Bingham), A Brown Bird singing (Haydn Wood, Barrie). 0.58 The New Light Symphony Orchestra.
Kamennol-Ostrow (Revo Angeli- Thirty-Four British Explor-
que), Op. 10, No. 22 (Rubinstein). ers Sail for Antarctic
Liebestraume (Liszt), Romance Monastery Huxley,
(Tchaikowsky), In a In March
Hearts and "You will see that we
Garden (Ketelbey), clinging to reprint publishing."
Flowers Intermezzo (fobani). London, Feb. 10.
and His Explaining the origin of the custom "And
7.20 Rudy Starita We have now arranged basis that the husband Was 89 A band of thirty-four British of hunting human heads in Nigeria, enough publications in both the
Xylophone. Judd said many of the tribes have Penguin and the Pelican series to years old and the wife 36, and explorers are making plans in
assuming that the working life of England
the "British
banded together to fight the Moham-keep us busy for three years," " medan slave ralders, and live in the
hill country.
"The older men say that the more
heads of slave raiders they capture, Princess
fower raiders there
said. "The young men consider ita
for
Jocy the clown (Myers). The squirrel danco (Smith), Dance of the A mun ended at 65 (with the Antarctic Expedition, 1937," to paper dolls (Tucker, Schuster and possibility of his death and his sail from here early next month Stras). wife's remarriage) the value of
7.36 Closing local Stock Quotations
Royal the husband to the wife would be in Captain Scott's famous old and Hongkong Exchange Market
£605 for each £1 of earnings re-ship, the Discovery.
sign of manhood to bring in a head Denies Attempt colved by the wife
from another tribe. A man who has
chopped off a human head, or killed To Dissuade Duke
a leopard or a tion, may wear a red
feather at the tribal beer dances."
Funerals Too. Slow, Says Vicar
ANON B. G.
NICHOLAS, vlcar
Spalding of (Lincs), writes in his parish magazine;
"Why does the tumeral pro- cession from the church to the cemetery pass through the town at such a dreadfully slow pace?
"Surely no one wants such a servior prolonged, and there is no particular reverence or res- pect in 'dawdling.
"There need be no rush, but tento fifteen miles, an hour would be less seemly than the present rate of three to four."""
Enzesfekl, Feb. 9.
Princess Royal Mary express-
CAUGHT
Variety.
Their objective is the Antarctic territory in the Australian sector. Vocal-Nobody's darlin' but ming
Since she came back from the
.... The Hill Billies. Instrumental Sir Antarctic expedition led by
Chicken Reel. Brian Lowrance Douglas Mawson in 1931, the Dis- and His Lansdowne House Sextet. covery has lain in East India Dock, Yodelling Song-Mountain Melodies London. She is a ship of only 730
George Van Dusen. Plano Solos tons, built at 1
cost of 252000 Liszt in rhythm, Chopinezza Captain Scott's first Rawicz and Landauer. Vocal—I've attempt to reach the South Pole in got a palti in my sawdust
Mao 1901 an objective which eventually
Questal. Organ Solo-Six Hit Medley cost him his life. The ship was re- (No. 5). Harry Croudson. Vocal VICE conditioned in 1925 at a cost of
ed surprise at newspaper reports WITH HEAD for
she was attempting to dissunde her elder brother, Prince Edward, from marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson, it was reported to-day. Commenting on reports of the
IN VICE
Duke of Windsor's marriage to the Railway Worker in Durban American divorcee on April 27, Has Remarkable Escape
when Mrs. Simpson's divorce decree becomes final, she stated:
"For the benefit of readers, news- papers should at least be considerate enough to set the date on April."
The Duke of Windsor has Indicat-
day,
o pro-
From Death
£00,000.
E. W. Walker, a young explorer/chol-Bogl.... The Four Crot-
8. p.m. Local: Time Signol, Weather who took part in the James Bay Report and announcements, Geological Expedition to the Arctic
8.09 A Relay from the Lee Theatre
in 1930-31, but who has never been (Chinese). to the Antarctic, is to lead the new expedition.
11 pm. Close Down.
was interrupted forward just as the coaches slowly that they are much too expensive, and grateful heart (Ord Hamilton). In-
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805 p.m. Peter Dawson (Bass- ed a desire to purchase an estate in a shunter named Dekker, who achieve success. We are going to Baritone) with the J. H. Squire HONG KONG & CHINA GAS
Australian sector Celeste Octet. Hungary with hunting and golfing caught his head between the operate in the
Instrumental-Andante Cantabile facilities to which he could move in buffers of two trucks. while known as Princess Elizabeth and May, a Vienna realtor disclosed to-shunting at Vryheid in Natal, be of u geological nature..
Banzare Land, and our activities will (Tchaikowsky), Songs Just keepin' on (Phillips), Don't let the river run "We hope to discover the const-dry (Haines, and Harper) Instru First mention in London of Mrs.show that he had a remarkable
line of the Antaretle which hitherto mental-Ave Maria (Schubert), R.A.F. Officers See radio broadcast to-day in
Wallis Simpson was made during a escape from a horrible death.
has evaded explorers who have set Spring Song (Mendelssohn)... Songs He was attempting to couple up forth on these quers. It will be there's a bridle hanging on the gramme called "Masculine Fame on
two 80-ton passenger coaches on a the first expedition of this kind not wall (Carson Robison), Song of the Parade." German "Aces"
curved line in the yard when he fell to use sleigh dogs. We have decided The programme
strumental Souvenir by the announcer who later apolo- closed together. The buffer plates of that motor tractors perform the work Willoughby), Phantom inuet Berlin, Feb. 10.
gized for the incident. Mention was the coaches caught the sides of his better. We are also taking a sca- (Hope). Song-Empty Saddles (HM), The party of Royal Air Force made during a skit in which one of head on the outer ring of the curve
plane."
Regimental Band of officers who are visiting Ger- the singers mentioned Mrs. Simpson while the same plates on the inner
er Guards. many at the invitation of Gen. as having. "sex appeal."
ring were actually touching.
frantically struggled with heavy
The Amithy In the wood (Michae Gooring to-day inspected a wing apologize for the apparent poor taste
Later, the announcer sald be "must Another shunter who saw what crow-bara to case the buffer plates
lia); The Turkish Patrol (Michaelis). happened signalled the engine to stop, off the imprisoned man's head. ***
Waltz (Waldicutel) of the famous Richthofen group shown in thi
this feature."
which it did just in time the merest During this agdnising experience, of Aghters at the Military Aerodrome
remained conscious The Duke of Windsor, accompanied traction of further movement would Dekker
and The Galtz (Waldteufel,
Winterbottom). at Doeberitz, and later saw various by the Princess Royal and the Earl have crushed Dekker's skull like an quietly spoke to say, when the strain anti-aircraft` guns.
of Harewood, pald
was casing... private visit eggshell: Docberitz is one of the strongest to-day to Dr. Wilheim Miklas, The engine driver dared not re- Released at last, he was found to nouncement #195~~News and An-
9.15 Vocal Gems. links in the chain of acrodromos President of Austria, at the Chen-lease the vacuum brakes to pull the bo bleeding from both cors, and was which forms the western defence of cellery in Viennoined E coaches apart for fear that the buffer taken to the hospital, where the dia Memories of Lehar; "On the Wings Berlin.
The Duke's sister is the first mem- springs might cause the coaches to cavery was made that there was no of Song Memories; Plantation. ber of the royal family to see him close together further, so Dakker refracture of the altull. After being Songs Paul Robeson (Bass);
9.40 Plano Memories by Billy ince his abdication. She arrived nine gripped in a 100-ton vice for detained for twenty-four hours, here on Sunday,”
ten-minutes while six-hefty-men Dekker was allowed to go home.
.Mayerl..
In the afternoon the British officers were taken to Gatow, a training centre for the German Air Force:tam
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