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"NO MAN IS LOST WHILE
SOME WOMAN LOVES HIM!” Only one woman know why "someone bad blundered"... as "into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred"! And her secret was silenced for all eternity by the lips of the man she loved!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.・・ THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937.
OPENING TO-MORROW
Errold LYANA Olivia de HAVILLAND
The CHARGE of the
LIGHT BRIGADE
Based on Alfred, Lord Tennyson's immortal masterpiece, brought to the screen. by Warner Bros., with a cast of 1,000's headed by PATRIC KNOWLES--HENRY STEPHENSON - NIGEL BRUCE Donald Crisp. David Niven » Robert Barrat Directed by the man who thrilled you with "Captain Blood”, Michael Curtiz
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THE PICTURE THAT HAS STARTLED TWO CONTINENTS THE LOVE STORY WHICH CHANGED THE DES TINY OF AN EMPIRE
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DRAGON HUNTER
THE UNEXPECTED YEARS By Laurence Housman (Jonathan Cape, 108, 68.)
O
NE of the happiest holidays I ever spont was a summer at Street in Somerset, where Laurence Housman generously allowed me to act in festival per formances of his Prunella and one. or two of his Little Plays of St. Francis.
But more than the scene-shift- ing, the assistant-stage-managing. the excessively difficult manipula- tion of a window that had to ap- pear to open by itself in the second act of Prunella and the arduously practised adoption of a Somerset accent--I enjoyed the week-ends.
Uncle Laurence," as we called hlm, would wander with 11/ through the lovely countryside, reminiscing with 'n deliciously satirical humour, reciting his own poetry, laughing appreciatively at his own jokes-the living portrait of an 1890 Literary Man in a sturdy frame of modern idealism.
His autobiography is as good as those walks were. It is self-ap- preciative but always modest, satirical but never bitter, sweet- ened with sentiment but never sentimental, lengthy but never long-winded..
Famous names crop up - Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Rut land Boughton (with whose" terri- fying energy" he was associated at. the Glastonbury · Festivals). Dr.. Spooner, Yeats, Mrs. Pankhurst, Dick Sheppard (who has that kind of heavenly madness which
certified cannot be
for legal restraint"> and 3 score of others.
But the notabilities are only men. tioned in so far as they ald tho development of Mr. Housman'd story, which a of a pilgrimage during which he has lunged at many a monster by the way in his entirusiasm for woman's auftrage; pacifism and penal reform Land his objection to religious hypocrisy and short-sighted censor ship.
There are, of course, some unique glimpses of the author's brother, A. E. Housman, but what I shall remember most vividly of the book, besides its humour, its use of words and the quality of keen-edged militan: pacifism which has actuated all its writer's recorded doings, are the early descriptions, done with tender humour "ward in astonishing detail, of an idyllic
Victorian childhood.
8. F.
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GREEN LAURELS: THE LIVES AND ACHIEVE.
MENTS OF THE GREAT NATURALISTS.
By Donald Culross Peattle (Harrap, 12s. 6d.}
*O-DAY we know a good deni about the other creatures, mammals, birds, reptiles, In- sects and so forth, which live in the world with us.
We have named ond described
ital. nearly 2,000,000 'apzeles of from animalculse to elephants, 119- cluding 12,000 of birds, 000,000 of in- secta, 20,000 of Ashes and 4.000 of living replies, and we have studied the way in which many of them live. There are certainly many thousands of species, still undiscovered, but it is unlikely that any explorer will return to civilisation with a new large mammal or bird. What remains to be found is either deep in the ocean or clac amall and inconspicuous, very often mierascople.
Yet only a hundred years ago, when. seasick on his historic voyage round Charles Darwin was being wretchedly
the world in H.MS.. Beagle, those un- thinkable multitudes of the insects were hardly dreamed of.
Only two hundred years ago, when Carl Linnaeus was realising that }ly- ing things could all be identified, named and actually classifed into orderly, recognisable groups, hardly anything was known about any creature-part from man's traditional domestic animals,
People were all like children in a well-furished room-they look the visible detalls for granted and naked themselves no questions. Everything had been created at once, perfect for all time.
In no more than two hundred years. then thanks to fifty or sixty great men And thousands of industrious medio- critics, the whole entoseal pageant- picture of our living world has been painted.
Of how it was painted Mr. Peattle sels out to tell the story. Ho fulls be- cause it is too vast and marvellous to telt-ir-one-book or a hundred. Also- because he is tog zubjective about it
My
wasting precious space to explala his own emotions towards birds, floware and naturalists.
Aud also because he has several favourites in the cavalcade of men who have won green laurels and pulis them up out of all proportion. Also because ho is an American and too entranced by whip-poor-wills and bobolinks and tulip-trees to give Old World nature a fair hearing
But this to a lovely book, all the
same.
It will
send people of intell gence hurrying to read at first-hand the fantasilo autoblographies of the great naturalists, the men who saw, heard and recorded for our benefit and delight the marvels which are born, mate and die all around us in air, water and on land, from pole to
K. P. pole, from Ching to Perù,
FULL MARX
THE LETTERS OF LENIN Translated and Edited by Elizabeth Mill and Doris Mudie (Chapinan and Hall, 15s.))
ENIN'S bitterest enemies do not deny that he was the out-
'standing political genius of the post-War years. Here are over three hundred of his letters-most of them written in exile and all of them expressive of his amazing single-mindedness, his unresting devotion to an ideal.
Though they are mainly of interest to the student, they reveal the man in his affection for his family and his-wife--Krupskaya,-In- the range of his interests, his fury with backsiders and, above all, the assetle routine of his days.
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