SERIAL
Tovoravich
Adapted From The
Warner Bros. Film
Chapter V
"Good evening. Your Imperial Highness-Excellency!"
The head walter, in purple and gold lace, bowed low as Tatiana and Miknil entered the colourful merling place
of the White Russian refugees) | Balalalkas blared the wailers were resplendent in Cossack costumes-an entertainer was dancing with a dagger between his teeth-and the guests song, drank their vodlea, and shattered their pinsses with Wid gusto.
Georges Dupont and his pretty alster Helene congratulated them- selves on having found the right night-club and hurried toward Tatiana and Miktall who were suT- rounded by retainers and old friends.
Aren't-you to find us) here?" Helene
excliedly. happened 10 heur-accidentally that you were coming here and
Anished her sentence, "An Georges
"And we've got a inble for four
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In spite of interruptions Tatiana found time to dance with Georges who made puppy love to her, by anying, in the Russian he had learned from a book, la wass loublou
on sup. posed to mean I love you. Totiana told him that the way he said it, it meant little sielt dog and cut
lm to the quick by laughing outrage- ously. Helene's efforts to make love to
Mikail were equally deplorable. The excitement of the evening came when Mikall recognized and denounced a spy who tried to lure him to Gorotchenko-under the pre- tence that a dying friend had sent As Mikail's words lashed for him. out at the offender, Helene listened with growing
sentimentality.
"Go back to Tovarich Gorotchenko who sent you!" shouted Mikail as the man cowered before him-"Tell him that you found us in good health and happy, and not over-enthusia.lic about taking a telp to an unknown destination! He may seize me. may get my right hand
but not my signature!
... not a million Tatiana
"Not a
a billion
...not a thousand
The
chimed in. "Not a sou!" Mikail Anished, "And now repeat it!" spy did so as the knout was even then on his back. Then he departed in baste. The balalaikas celed out- the dancers danced-the glasses of the drinkers were shattered-and Helene and Georges left determined 10 keep from their parents their escapade, but to come again.
The next day both of the young Duponts continued their pursuit of the astonishing servants. Helene was helping Mikall set the table- Georges at the heels of Tations as she made the beds. "I Um only when I tiptoe down
happy
Taliana, the stairs at night, and when you sing and deal the cards with those exquisite little hand
hands!" Things were In quite a disturbing state when Papa Dupont arrived, reprimanded his son for rudeness and sent him to his room after which he all but declared his own feelings for Tutiann.
They were having eight Impress sive guests for dinner that night and Madame Dupont was giving Mikail and Tatiana their orders.
"Milcull-you are to serve the cocktails, if you will-and Tina, my dear, you serve the Sakovsku, I've engaged an extra servant to be ul the door and do the announcing...'
чусь, madame," anid Futiana.
"Very good, madame," said Mikail. Madame Dupont went to her hus- band's side. "Have you spoken to them
She
asked softly, "about our guest of honour?" She called to Tatiana and Mikall, who were about to leave the room. They stopped. "I was about to speak about our guest.. ." he stammered Madame and
honour I appreciate the fact that your sym- pathies are with the cause of White Russin
Yes, sir wered Mikail, wondering.
"Naturally we... al derstand your devotion to your fonn- er employers-the Prince and Princess
ans-
Uit
"May they be blessed and pre- served," murmured Tatiana devoutly, "But there are times when political differences are apt to be embarrass- Ing
u the
dinner to-nighi
there will be a num- ber of important people .. . oll people
international oil people ...French.
English... Dutch ...and my own
"For goodness' sake,
ke, Charles, come to the point," Madame Dupont inter- rupted impatiently. "Our guest of honour to-night is to be the Soviet Commissar-Commissar Gorotchen-
Koryou doubtless have heard of
him
.7" Mikult said he had. "I've never met the man," continued Madame, fondling Fin
.. "I ima-
gine he is pretty much of a boor, bu! we must do all we can to put him at his case
cultivated man,
"He is a most madame." said Mikall calmly, "with very lively wit. It was he who composed that immortal sentence which was engraved on the door of the Loublanka Prison Four walls for
punishment
are three many
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"Well, Gorotchenko is representing oll. Interests
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"He was not always in oil," said Mikali. "When he was chief of the Investigating staff of the Tcheka, my former master, Prince Ouratieff, had some dealings with him. Yes, sir Mikail veiled his bitlerness well. "During the interview Gorol- chenko caused a lighted cigarette to be placed between the fingers of my master. caused the Grand Duchess: Tationa. Pelrovno to be brought from her prison cell-in?,, for torture ... I bellevo ·Monsieur. "and "Madame are not interested in -hearing any more
"rds hópa
Madame Dupont.
Athletes of the New Russla–forty thousand of them parade in the Red Square, Moscow, at a physical fitness demonstration.
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M
NOVELS
AYBE there is no fool like an old fool, but J. L. Hodson has writ- ten a rattling good yarn about one in Mr. Ark- wright's Marriage (Gollancz. 7s. Od.).
I was interested in Mr. Ark- wright from the start. A widower and Lancashire to his watch- chain, he had a hundred thousand pounds "safely tucked away," Yet he lived like a retired bank-clerk, pottering round the house, playing violin duets with his old friend, Joe, and surveying the world with a knowledgeable air.
Then he went on a cruise and met the young, red-haired, green-eyed and dashing Kitty Donovan, He felt in love with her and, in due course, an I could have warned him, she took Mr. Arkwright for a ride.
A slight story, it entertained me to the end. Hearing the neighbours Kosalp ("There's more gets wed than does weel.
I'm sayin' nowt, but he'll do wi' watchin'..", nodling to them on they walked in and out. I fancied I was ap nữ Blackpool for the day,
☆
TO tonic wind blows through
The Chute, by Albert Halper (Cassell, Bs. 6d.), though the pace is killing and the talk is loud.
For, this time, we are on the floor of a monster mail-order concern in Chicago, dodging the sorters packers as they race up and down like madmen feeding the chute.
And
Suddenly Paul stood rooted. Towering eighteen feet above him, the opening was immense, the biggest mouth on earth! Merchandise was pouring from it like lava. rushing into troughs.
"Mounted high on a wooden plat- form, a crew of ten separators was working desperately, diverting the flowing mass with wooden pranga. The packages, falling of their own weight from the chute-mouth, zoomed along the inclines at breakneck speed. A landslide was falling, a landslide of goods.'
Tim's How the Middle Western farmers get their shirts and their overalls. their corduroys and their woollen stockings And the Golden Rule Mall-Order Company sees that they get them on time, even if it has to employ boys on roller-skates to wh the mail-sacks along....
Mr. Halper, who was always worth watching, arrives with The Chute, n novel at industrial ruthlessness from that Land Liberty where they spell ruthlessness with the largest of large f. It made me dizzy to look up from the pages.
1 get you, too.
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F you spent your working days. acting in melodramas, would -you come to talk like a heroine -or a villain-in your off-stage hours?
Some of the characters in Louis Lynch d'Alton's novel, Bags and
says Mr. Peppercorn:
WHAT does a
mlaer have
at the back of his mind when ke starts to старе and Bave?
I've seen. it said that is the power that maney gives
that urges him
on. but that gets him nowhere, as
he daren't use it
If the idea is to have a good time for the last few years of his life, that gets him nowhera either. As he mustn't start too soon and so haver starts at all
It can't be that he wants other folk to envy him his wealth as he nover lets on, and, tho only thing you be sure about is that what happens when he dies and othem scoop the pool isn't what be intended.
sald faintly, "that you are not going to think of any of those awful things when you're "serving the soup to- night: 0.0**
"We shall be worthy of your frust, madame
said Mikail. ----(To be continued-to-morrow)
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HONGKONGATELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH
1938.
CANADIAN
Which Way MATIAN PACIFIC
S
for Russia?
Review by Professor George Catlin
a
Lean who said that the Boviets had inherited broken-down
IR WALTER CITRINE is like the man wants to know from Dundoo. He why.
country, We have here a now edition
Citrine
clearly and rightly with important additions, at price surprisingly cheap, of the record of his points out that, in judging Russia, tour, in Rusala (Ï Search for Truth in Russia. one must always decide whether Routledge, 38.6d)1,
one is comparing what has been made by the Sovieta of this "broken-down country "with the outalde Social Democratic world, or even capitalist world — or whether one is comparing Soviet Russia with the Tsardom_that Henry Nevinson describeş in Dawn in Russia,
It is popularly written. It contains new facts that we want to know. It is a startlingly courageous book----
The last chapter is of especial interest. Remarkably fairly It reviews up to date, since 1035, the rise of production in Russia, the fre- quent rise of prlees, the alleged conspiracy in the Army and the removal of the presidents of every one of the federated Republics, the facts that explain the present dimeulty of negotiation between the Russian Trade Unions and the I.F.T.U. Citrine shows a Trade Union organiser's thoroughness. His facts have never
Sileks (Heinemann. 7o. 04.), do, withi gestures and everything. But then they are the harnased, hectic mem- bers of a small " filt-up" company tour. ing the towns of Ireland.
I settled down comfortably in the atmosphere of this story of their loves and hates, lurid in the footlights. A night with the MacTansey Superlative Repertory Players! It might be much
werne.
But Mr. d'Alton must wipe some of the grease-paint off his prose. For in- starice, people don't peruse letters nowadays. They read them.
R.P.
For Your Library List ..
*** My House in Malaga, by Bir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (Faber and Faber, Bs. Od.).
*** Madame Curle, by her daughter,
Eve (Heinemann, 18s.).
FICTION
** This Man Murray, by William
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** No News, by Pamela Frankau
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DETECTION
Ngulo
*** Arliss in Crime, by
Marsh (Bles, 78. Od.). *** The Nursemald Who Di
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Very entertaining.
been challenged. He asked the prices that workers had to pay for goods. I was in Russia, In 1935, for rather longer than the Webbs on their second tour. On looking over my notes, I and that the figures I took down almost exactly accord with Citrine's.
Cltring inquired into the housing but not preclsely the housing pointed out by Intourist,
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lio had been told that housing was particularly good Baku. He had a look at shocks accommodating, not a few, but thousands. "The whole place looked vile. I said so."
Abstractions
But this is what the millionaires left, Conrado Citrine."
The millionaires are not operating the olt-felds now.... Eighteen years after the Revolution you аге stili allowing your people to live here.
You cannot get away from the fact that it is the Soviet's economic policy which has aggravated this situation. In your haste to develop your natural resources, you have left, those wretched people to manage as best, they can."
Briefly, Citrine's ense is that Soviet Russia has become a Láñd'of abstrac tions, behind the screen of which powerful men plot or develop a giant State economy.
The answer given, when Citrine asked for an explanation, was that the people must tighten their belts until the country could feel safe to resist the attack of its enemics, both economie and military.
It is important to allow for the vital -fact that the Soviet Union is, a' mill- tary Power whose people have been brought up, day by day, to belleve in the imminence of expitalist attack.
The Russian workers live amid the enthusiasm and difficultles of almost war-time conditions. Above all, they feet their land is their own. It was
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The advance beyond the conditions
Tsardom has been astounding.
We must go further. Western coun- tries may learn to their benefit from the great U.8.8.8. experiment, eg. in Bocini Insurance provision, especially accident insurance, in the plans for free medical attention in the Poly- clinics (not always in practice), In comininal services for and in provision for the care of young children.
Whither?
women
Citrine's new, final chapter bears on this issue: Whither the Soviet Union? Will Revolution devour her own cuti- dren?
Even at the time of his famous-in- terview, here described, with Tomsky. at one time chairman of the All-Union Council of Trade Unions, who com mitted suicide, Citrino was not happy about the way things were going.
A vast country is in the building. will it be a free country?
Citrine provides us with the facts up to date. The Webbs have provided
the blue-prints of the future "all for the workers." Citrine never for a minute forgets the existence of, these plans.
This is the book of a man who has striven to keep his balances fair and his weights just. It is yet the book of a man who loathes totalitarianism.
He fights the battle of the human spirit against it, even when it displays itself in a system that has other aspirations.
...
an
Ponder This However excused by its bellef in the inevitability of war, Soviet Russia owes thu immense responsibility to worker' movement throughout the entire world. I cannot evade the obligation of Socialist criticism.
The rulers of Russia will do well to ponder, before pursuing their denun-
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1. American visitors to London enjoy this part of a submariné (12).
@ The god of the final air (7).
10 A language (7).
11 A man often tears up this in
n hurry (4),
12 If this beheaded were this it
would be a chestnut (5).
is 13 This formI
rather of life rough (4).
a vessel farewell to
17 He does not play to live, but
lives to play (7),
10 Musical
(7).
On
washing day (two words-4,
18 Debate (7).
21
Colour receptacle
used
3).
23
One comes after this (4).
24 The crew of this vessel are at
home in a blow (8)
25 A. correction of a correction
(4).
28 The Eastern change, is serious
(7),
29 He has set traps that havo Je!
many people down (7).
30 "No sure prices" (ansg.) (12).
DOWN
1 It this lender lost his appropri
ate part he would be a murder.
(7),
OF
3 This
is Indispensible in an announcer (4)
3 A hindrance to getting things
going (7).
4. What animet is Jiko a stream in
- part of: India?; #(7), /*
--Displace (4)
6 This structure might be an Es- kimo one the latter part were used to make it (7).
7 Epithel for a novel situation
(13).
8 A decomposed goat in burying
causes enquiry (13).
14 The shopper who gets more
than this gets a bargain (5).
16 Not very deflatiely, and mostly
a shaky business (5).
19 Punish (7).
20 What the Arabs are is up-
21 Heath Not all pain (7).
deity sounds like a tip straight from the horses" mouths (7)
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22 If this cricketer · lost heart he
would become a servant (7).
28 This tells you where to write
the solution (4).
|27 This is mixed in B down (4).
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