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Sir Hercules Robinson
By T. Paul Gregory
the whole
"MY appointment to Hong of Hongkong had set
kong was regarded by my Foreign Office by its cars, and Sir
Hercules was expressly friends as a subject more fit for the time of als departure, in the charged at condolences than for congratula- summer of 1850 "to make an enquiry tions." This was said by Sir into the various charges raised by Hercules Robinson nearly eighty- Mr. Ansley, but cautioned, however, against stirring up again all that five years ago when he was meas of mud which appears to em- nominated Governor of this barrass rociety in Hongkong.” In Colony. Well he might be of fact, the situation in, the Colony was this opinion; for then Hongkong such that the entire community was had the worst possible reputna veritable hot-be! of strife, dis- content, and sullen vituperation--- tion in England, not only for sparing #10 onc In its baleful unhealthiness, but also for be thoroughness—from the Governor
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Thursday, October 13, 1938,
THE WAR COMES NEARER
socially at ease with itself. minor oficial post." We can readily Imagine the concern of the Home Owing either to weakness or in Government when according to con- capacity of the previous ad- temporury accounts "most of the ministration, things had been officials then spent the great propor- steadily going from bad to Don of their time in pointing out what were obviously abuses and add- worse, and the community it ing fuel to the already formidable self was, in a complete state of tempest in the colonul tea-put.“ disorganisation.
Overhauled
Administration
When he left, however, he could conscientiously say that during the six years of his stay he had seen Slr Hercules Robinson arrived in Hongkong emerge from near chang the Colony on September 7, 1854, and and develop from a second-rate out-
was sworn Inta ofice with the cua- post into a prosperous, populous tomary ceremonini two days later. and contented Colony, ranking first- His frat omelal act was to allay class in ometal status in the Em- suspicion and regain public con- pire,
could
Adence. To accomplish this, he pro- ceeded to give the local administra-
tion the most thorough overhaul-
which it had received up to that time, and in this difficult task he was
General, Mr. William Henry Adams. ably assisted by the Attorney- The local press now
came into his
CAMPAIGU HEADQUARTERS
LENVEL
HUFFONSUFF
WOTE POR
HUFFEN PUFF
IS A VOTE
FOR THE
FAMILY ENTRANCE
HUF
FOR AQUFF
FAMILY MAN HONEST WEIGHT
WC PEOPLES CHOICE
"For not tellin' your wife, I want an extra day off-for not
tellin' your opponent, I want a $5 raise.”
Margaret Sullavan, Helen Hayes, Walter Huston, Ánn Dvorak, Bette Davis, Leslic Howard, Fontanne, James Cagney, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Myrna Loy, Charles Laughton & Franchot Tone-
WALKED OUT OF HOLLYWOOD
MA
JARGARET Sullavan, one of employed by none. Producers are
the very best actresses on as "thick" as thieves. the American stage, was persuaded to go to Hollywood.
While she was working on her
that
Hollywood was completely
I think it a silly place, and you are one of the alliest people in it."
They said Margaret was tempera-
begin to explain the number
of
James Cagney walked out six years ago because he wanted more · money, and again four years later because he felt his career would end
There are plenty more, who have walked out,
He told me that the factory system | of Bim-malsing is liable to kill any
netor.
Myrna Loy qult working in "Es- capade' after two days, and fled to London to say that it had taken Hollywood three years to realise the
could play something other than, an
he was appointed by the Government gistrate versus Mr. William Torrant, famous actors and actresses who Eastern vamp.
to sit on a Commission to enquire into the fairs and markets of Ireland,
Rapid Promotion
he held the
editor of the Friend of China. This case which locally was a cause cele bre was heard on September 21,
1854, und resulted in Mr. Turrant be-. ing adjudged guilty and accordingly sentenced to a term of twelve months' Imprisonment and to pay I fine of £50.
news-
have walked out of Hollywood. Boredom & Hoartaches
Lancer."
shake
The case of Bette Davis rebelling against the conditions of her employ-
ment in Hollywood and being retus-
ed permission to play in a British the golden Almgoers.
Ann Dvorak walked out because
Leslie Howard has told me that
has far more arilatie freedom in
London than fri Hollywood,
Charles Laughton walked out from a brilliant career in Hollywood to return to London to atar in British flims.
The man who accomplished all this was an Irishman, born about the Until the position in South year 1804. Like many others of his
countrymen, Sir Hercules commenced China is clarified the not unex-his career by serving as a soldier in pected developments yesterday the British Army, joining the 87th cannot be fully commented Fusilieran. By 1846, be had risen to
oficer's rank, and owing to the seri- sphere of cleaning-up activities; for first film she came to the conclusion unless he made fewer alms.
the reckless libels indulged in by crazy. upon. It cannot be said that ous famine brought about by the considerable percentage of the old- South China or Hongkong were failure of the potato crop in his
time editors had reputedly polsoned i
'The film, "Only Yesterday," was a Four years ago Walter Huston Jeft
Ruccess. great
The studio unprepared for the invasion Homeland, he felt that he
was Hollywood vowing he would never better serve his country by acting in the very atmosphere of the Colony, jubilant, and the great, big, beaming return except for parts he felt he that has now become a reality. another
reduced the he and capacity. Therefore,
profession of boss said to Margaret, "I hope you could play. It has been known for some tendered his resignation, and took Journalism to nothing more than a are happier now and don't think time in ocial circles in both up duties under the Commissioner of reprehensible policy of vicious "mud- Hollywood silly, any more."
muck-rolding" The Public Works and Poor Law Board In slinging and
Margaret replied, "I'm afraid I do. China and Hongkong that the Ireland designed to alleviato the Orst libet case which was heard in Japanese Imperial Government suffering of the poverty-stricken the administration of the newly ap- masses. In this capacity, he served pointed Governor, was that of Major contemplated the creation of with credit until the year 1849, when William Coine, erstwhile Chiet Mn-mental, but temperament does not another major battle-field in that vast land that is China, and the latter country's preparations have included the massing of at
FRANCHOT TONE is the picture will be remembered by all million least a quarter of a
So well done was this task that he
dust from his feet. troops in the aren ΠΟΥ won the commendation of the Gov-
She had declined to play in two He is tired of what he calls other films before she starred in threatened. In Hongkong, emer-ernment, and upon his deciding to
boredom and heartaches, and he is "Jezebel.” ------ enter the foreign service, he was gency regulations controlling
nominated to serve us President of The subsequent injustice in con-going back to the stage for a fraction of the salary he has been getting in the influx of refugees and the British Island of Montserrat in nection with this affair resulted in films, but for many times the hap- she was under contract at £50 3
being subjected to piness.
week and objected to belag loaned at Japanese and Chinese ship the West Indies. His next appoint- the Governor
£200, of which she was to get noth- ment Was that of Lieutenant considerable criticism, and was the
The case of Franchot Tone is fon-ing. ping. have been the subject Governor of St. Christopher in 1854, only daw in what was a most excel-tastic. of correspondence between the with which
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne result, dormant lent administration. As a
For years cinemagoers have been qult films after they had played in Hongkong Government and commission of Governor-in-Chief of however, of the attacks of his critics pleading for the starring of this actor The Guardsman,''
determined to in important films selected to suit) London since January, and the the Leeward Islands, This was but Governor Robinson
a short-lived appointment; for the amend the newspaper law, and ne- his personality, especially since his regulations were actually ga-Colonial Office had decided to name cordingly ordered passed the famous acting in "The Lives of a Bengal zetted a week ago.
him as Governor and Commander- Ordinance No. 18 of 1880, which by In-Chief of Hongkong. Upon his re- laying strict penalties on
But, unlike the people who go to
who the pictures, the men instruc- papers for allegedly unethical prac-Hollywood have never seemed to rule If, as present reports indicate, turn Home to receive his
tions and commissions prior to pro- tices brought local journalism into take this excellent actor to their Japan has landed only 30,000ceeding to the Far East, ho was line with that of England, and the hearts.
Many famous British players re- Jocul press immediately set upon troops for the South China in-knighted by Queen Victoria.
achieving a
There is something very
fuse to go to Hollywood merely be- wrong standard comparable vasion, the task is going to be The task which was expected of with that of any other in the Em- and very insolent with the machinery cause they fear the factory method
of film production when it falls to of fim-making. the most difficult she has under-him to perform in Hongkong was by pire.
retain the services of great actors | It is not altogether the fault of The remaining five years of S and actresses.
Hollywood, since pictures have to be taken in China. Opposed to the no means an easy one, and the newly
appointed administrator himself felt Hercules' administration saw the
turned out in quantity and on time Japanese invaders are an over-considerable misgivings about his Colony advance by leaps and bounds.
to satisfy the appetite of the huge cinema machine," But the cinema. whelming force of the flower of future career in that, "most notorious in fact, from a modern point of view,
machine, in turn, was the creation of all places in the Empire-Hong- the scheme of progress was well-stage. the Chinese armies Kwangsi kong." The sensational charges of
of those who created Hollywood. not only did High phenomenal; for Hongkong advance In wealth and
The producers have been caught and Kwangtung troops whose Mr. Thomas Chisolm Anstey, who population, but also the revenue was possible parts she had been given in in a web of their own weaving, the forefathers cradled the 1911 had been appointed Attorney-General doubled without any increase what- Hollywood, and she added that she
cameras must grind on, and the was sick of Hollywood itself. soever in taxation. The areas of the
stars, like puppets, must be drilled Revolution just over 27 years
"It is like living in a shop win- and dicted, miscast and overworked. Colony had been extended by the in- clusion of the Dependency of Kow-dow," she said "Everything you do ago and later marched north-gratulated that its wise pre-loan, and this act alone is suficient is publicised and distorted. If you fim-struck to a studio for just one Very often I wish I could take the wards to make Generalissimo liminary preparations for for posterity to name Sir Hercules do nothing, they Invent something."
Robinson one of the greatest of
day to see this business of film/ Chiang Kai-shek ruler of China, |segrogating and caring for re-colonial
That is one aspect of working in making. administrators, The tre- The fighting qualities of the fugees at camps in the New mendous energy displayed by Bir Her-Hollywood which many players and
cules in securing wholesale reform intolerable. They are not permitted must be made-up ready to go on the The star must be up at six. 'He Kwangtung troops are regarded Territories will not now render was emulated by the community at to have private lives.
whole day- as being much higher than those it necessary to guard and closer a decade forget the quarrels London are astounded to fad that which often exicnds far into the
large, which within the short space All American stars who come to act by nine. For of the forces who fought the the entire frontier. Hongkong, which seethed so violently but such they can work in studios like Pino he must live under the glare Japanese in Shanghai and Shan-happlly, is, to-day in a position occupy itself with the intention of move about like ordinary human
a short while before, and began to wood or Denham during the day and of studio lights that sap all energy.
Lines, Lines, Lines a fit beings in the evening. tung, or of those, now defending to offer sanctuary to these un-making Hongkong really
place in which to live. It seems fortunate victims of war.
But more serious in its effect on
delays, incredible
NERVE-RACKING that телу .of the
[19] the carvers of stars is the factory
endless repetition of lines amenities of our present Colony
compels those in after they have lost all meaning, and The equilibrium with which owe
the system which
Hollywood to appear in BO many a thousand' and one accidents and energy and vision of Governor alms every year regardless of Irritations all tend to drive film stars: war between China and Japan, official quarters in Hongkong Robinson, and a few of these may be whether or not the stories are suited mad.
Instanced: the commencement of the W can be affected by the new regards the latest developments the Public Gardens, and to their style of acting, and regard- The wages are excellent and the emergency only by yet another is indicated by the fact that the water works, the extension of the less of the limit to the number of glamour is very nice. But the sale pictures in which it is physically aries do not last and the glamour is Irush of refugees.. The problem only military action has been to suburban areas, the inauguration of sible for any one actor to appear all on the surface,
system of higher education, etc. in any one year,
It was Sam Goldwyn in one of his of their aegregation has been despatch 200 soldiers to the New Consequently, upon his departure When James Cagney became a wise cracks who and that a verbal dealt with so promptly by the Territories to aid the police in for Home on March 15, 1885, the re best seller among film stars be was contract in the film world is not sidents felt the greatest regrets; for invited to work himself to death. worth the paper it is written on, British authorities that there is controlling the crowds of un- he not only had succeeded in uniting He said no. Ho rebelled, and he but it was Sir Patrick Hastings who no cause for anxiety that they fortunate people who undoubted- the quarrelsome factions of the com- walked out.
said that a Hollywood film contract munity, but had left as his most At- will, descend suddenly an masse ly will seek sanctuary in this
The red-haired, fighting Irish star was slavery with a silver lining ting memorial a Colony in which
Franchot Tone is not the only one who has found that the allver, lining on the urban areas, as did othor British territory. Excitement, people were proud to live, and upon staged one of the biggest and best
tils dooth in the late 'seventies, rebellions in Hollywood. and earlier refugees. The as in previous crises, will die al-Hongkong felt that it had lost more
does not make up for the slavery.
Seton Margrave Government in to be con- most as quickly as it has arisen. an an efficient administrator, but n
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Hongkong as a neutral in the
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well-loved friend as well.
By general consent, Helen Hayes is the best actress on the American
Yet, when she was last in London, And she told me she was sick of the Im-
That was very daring of him, since out there the producers have a ring. and if you quarrel with one you are']