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Horrific Films
The action of the Chief Cen- yor in making the representa- tions to in distributors which led to the withdrawal of the news-reel sequences depicting the gruesome suicide of a New York youth who fell 17 storeys: to his death is commendable.
Incalculably more dangerous than gangster and similar films so readily censored in Hongkong is the film which exhibits the gruesome. There has been ai distressing increase of evidence that nervous and hysterical con- ditions of mind are being pro- duced in young people by scenes of brutal violence and hideous suffering. From time to time the news reels exhibit pictures of accidents and death which ter- rify and haunt a sensitive child. and also have adverse effects on adults. Some restraint in this department is urgently needed. A Record For 6939
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Good-night Vicima
By Spike Hughes
OOD NIGHT, Vienna You remem- ber the tune and the
1 words, I expect. But this time it is not you and I singing: Hitler has said good- night to Vienna for us, to the Vienna which people sing about.
For three years Vienna was the only home I had. The soft German they speak there, with its peculiar, expressive words. became a second native tongue to me, so natural that when I returned to England I used Viennese phrases in the middle of English sentences.
Then later I went to Berlin ex- pecting to find the people there the same as the Viennese, I d been told that, after all, the Germans and the Austrians were, In fact. One Rare.
H
ITLER n just sald so again. And he's talking through his hat, though
It probably takes a foreigner to ser St.
They are as different from the Germans as the Irish, the Scots, and the Welsh from the English.
The Viennese are Vienna. More about songs have been written Vienna than any city in the world: but then it is probably the most beautiful city in the world.
It was built by a people living In il climate with northern waters and southern summers, In Vienna the Nordic and Latin cul-
tures meet: the fiery Latin tem- perament is tempered with Nordle and Slav innuences.
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They are lazy, artistic, witty. and casual. They behave though they were French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian all at once.
HE Viennese dialect is a masterplece of lazi- ness in speech. Con- sonants arc omitted.. vowels changed, French and Italian words used because nobody in Vienna has ever bothered to translate them into High German.
They have the best manners of anybody in the world. They ad- dress women as "Gracious Indy." and kiss their hands. The Ger- mann despise the Austrians for these little gestures. But then the Germans do not know the mean- ing of good manners. They are the rudest race on earth.
In many ways Vienna is ke Dublin. Perhaps that's why I tool: to it at once.
The city is architecturally beau tiful; the people are poor; and they have the Dubliner's charm and friendliness towards strangers.
11 AVE not
But the Viennese are not so ob- sinute, nor so stupidly violent an the Irish can be. Or maybe they've never had to be.
Vienna People of changed. They have a qualy called Gemütlichkeit--an untram - latable word which means char easy Goingness, comfortablen.. and just Viennese-ness.
When the Vienner tose h's quality they lose everything. Even
Ten Days That
Shook The World
in their worst days their Com lichkeit remained.
When I went to Vienna there were 230,000 kronen to the round. Shoes were made of brown paper.
coffee
drunk by the majority of the people was made of malt. A young school-teacher who taught me German was so poor that she day could afford only one meal -two slices of black bread with lard and a piece of sausage.
My violin tencher played in a elnema for his living. I was his only pupil. There was no money In Vienna for private lessons,
That was in my first winter. When summer came, and Austria was given a League of Nations loan. the suicide figures fell and Vienna was Vienna again.
There is one typical Viennese anecdote about a would-be suicide In those days when everything was crsatz and made of something else. A man tried to hang himself: the rape broke, an ersatz ropt made of paper.
He tried to stab himself: the kulfe bent-an ersatz knife nude of cardboard.
He tried to shoul himself; it was an creatz bullet, made of wood.
Ile decided to go on living and drank a cup of coffee to steady his nerves. He fell down dead; I was ersatz coffee,
The
'The
summer came.
Viennese, still poor, put fresh Howers in the baskets round the lamp-posts in the Ring. They had always done this in the old days in the wide, lime-lined street which encircles the Inner City.
The fountains worked again: there is never any shortage of water in Vienna. It is best in toun- tains.
When it is drunk it pro- duces a high percentage of poitre
casey among the inhabitants.
The chestnuts bloomed in the Prater, the vast amusement park with a Big Wheel and scenle rail- ways, and beer gardens and cafes.
VIENNESE caté is some- thing all on its own. For the price of one of Coffee with whipped cream floating on the top the Turks taught the Viennese how to
read papers day, write letters. from every country in Europe, play
THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the Russian Re- volution is being celebrated in many parts of the world, and by many communities which see in that world-shaking event the coffee-you can sit there all prelude to a realisation of all their hopes.
of
friends until you are turned out early next morning.
T is interesting and perhaps in the existing regime, Kerensky, was chess, leave messages for your structive, after 21 years, to glance faced with an impossible task.
those terrible ten days in On October 25. the Congress back to Petrograd and Moscow, when the fate Soviets net in Petrograd and Mos- Richard of Russia hung in the balance.
In the summer of 1917, the last semblance of ordered government in
trying
cow,
in the
two
And always there is music. When Strauss resigned the directorship of the State Opera, It was a front page story across four columns. When Puccini died the papers were printed with black-
borders.
When Mascagni came to Vienna he entered the Imperial Café next to the hotel where Hitler stayed. and was cheered by the people there until he had conducted the Intermezzo from "Cavalleria " with the café band.
And on Sundays the workers had
ar holiday. Young men and women old mon smoking black curved Italian cigar crowded the atreet cats on their way to the country.
Some of them went out into the Vienna woods, where there are wild strawberries and more whipped cream. Or to swim in the gardens of the old Imperial Palace of Schönbrun, or to lie half naked in the sun on the banks of n Inke called the Ginschäufel- the goose-heap.
N the evenings, before the end of June, there was the opera Bat- Listini was singing there, and Iolte Lehmann. Elisabeth Schumann, Tauber and Jeritza. Tilly Lasch was in the corps de ballet, just graduating to solo parta. Sho was sixteen then, and full of ambitions to go to America-not as a film star, but as a dancer.
A year Aso I met Richard Strauss in London and we talked of those days. It was odd, ho 75, I not 30, to be sighing for "die schöne Tagen "the beautiful old days of 1924. But Vienna bad that fascination.
The Austrian State built Strauss a villa in the Belvedere. Schusch- nigg is under "house arrest" there now.
Then, as the summer wore on and the new wine was pressed, Vienna went up into the hills agala to drink it and sing and dance the old tunes about their beloved city of dreams and music. Yes. Vien was a Bttlo like it is In the movies. Poverty and suffer- ing never altered the character of the people.
Perhaps there was not so much
cream as white of egg in the coffee perhaps there was not so much money for beer and the new wine.
But there were flowers in th lamp-posts, and fountains. the chestnuts flowered, and the lime frees still grew in the Ring, And There were special performances workers. at the Opera for the and fine houses for them to live in
There were no classes, no racial distinctions, no Aryans and non- Aryans, no foreigners even, like the American consul, who alwaY> sneezed when he got drunk,
We were all fellow-citizens, and we sang about our precious Vienna in our cups and out of them.
B&
EADING the news this week, I have wondered lot. My greatest. filend, who was my teacher during those three years in Vienna, is safe. for he was in Holland when all
But the others? The doctors. the lawyers, the writers. the artists and musiclans, those people of whom Vienna was proud because they were Wienerisch born and bred, heirs to one of the nest cultural inheritances in the world. what of them? '
Koy
this started. emerge. He appeared on the plate Two eminent men of science Russia was vanishing. In Petrograd NOW Lenin judged the time ripe to have just given us their estim-and Moscow, Soviets had been form-form, and took charge of the situation ates of what mankind hased and were passing Bolshevik re- which was now in a condition of in- achieved and of the mysteries solutions. Kerensky, the autocratic credible flux.
History at this hour wan imminent making. of existence and the forces of head of a directory, was desperately
trying to stave of the the universe which are still un-breakdown.
true statesmanship, Lenin, with
upon the solved. Prof. Einstein has com- In the background was Lenin. The instinctively seized
found him In fundamental factors in the situation. posed a record of the civilisation revolution of 1917
to They could be comprised in two of 1938 for the edification of the Switzerland, frantically
lo Petrograd, where the words: Peace; Land. It will be get back human race in 6939.
to keep out Peace was essential situation invited him with open arms. buried in the grounds of the He was smuggled through Germany Germany's urmies at all cost.
the New York World's Fair and no in closed railway carriage and ar- The seizure of the land by
peasantry was essential to place the
millions"
the behind profane Hands are to open the rived in Petrograd on April 4.
But the time was not ripe. Lenin "teeming imperishable casket till 5,000
Soviets.
necessary deerees were passed, years have passed. Sir James went into hiding.
There followed the July days of Jeans impresses upon us the un- terror. All was chaos and confusion. certainty of our knowledge of Everything was disintegrating and series elected Lenin as the head and the nature of things, despite all crumbling, and the nominal head of the labours of science: Poster-
ity will, we hope, respect us the
and the Soviet of Peoples' Commis
chief. His hour had come.
With the support of the peasantry, the Suvlet was morter of the situa tion and Lenin was the master of the
WHILE Kerensky and his Ministers W remained inactive, Trotsky, with
WEIR
more when it reads the judg- masses in intellect and charac, Soviet,
Beside him was Trotsky who, at ment of the great philosopher of ter to the few who produce this stage, first gave evidence of his relativity that our time is rich something valuable for the com- military genius in organising the in inventive minds. Will itmunity." We are certainly not military revolutionary committee and even in the creation of a general staff for think highly of us for the all equal. but ability, achievements which he com-genius, in productive work is no the Bolshevik Revolution.
Thus began the Ten Days which memorates, of using power to guarantee of practical wisdom shook the World, save human muscles, of learning and good feeling. The power of to fly and to send wireless mes leadership is unfortunately often sages round the world? Five bestowed by nature on those who lead. thousand
to hence years
these do not know where
the Instinct of a born strategist, triumphs may seem as elemen-There is little doubt that pos- moved. He ordered the Petrograd tary as the invention of the terity, as Prof. Einstein hopes, garrison to stand to arms in defence wheel and the windmill and the will read what he says of us of the committee. The garrison com
phed discovery that man could sail if it does read--with proud and
From that moment, success across the sea seem to us, and justified superiority. We shall
with courage assured. Kerensky, their inventors may be equally seem to them as ill-equipped as and boldness, demanded dictatorial forgotten. Yet Prof. Einstein ancient Egypt and Babylon powers to cope with the revolt.
The difference between Kerensky docs us scant justice. We have acom to us. The homily of Sir
und Trotsky was this: Kerensky talk- certainly not solved all the pro- James Jeans is not directly com-ed: Trotsky acted, and seized
tele- blems of production and distri- forting to our self esteem. He graphs, telephones and all Govern- bution, but it misrepresents the warms us that in spite of all its ment offices. Lenin appeared, to find fact to say that everyone lives progress science cannot be sure that Tretsky had secured control. in fear of being eliminated by whether space is finite or in-end admired this astule generol.
No wonder Lenin war grateful to the economic cycle. At the finite, cannot tell whether either Early on the morning of November blackest hour of recent depres-term has a meaning. So little ? Kerensky left, ostensibly to bring sions there were many millions has humanity yet learnt of even back troops from the front to quell the revolution. He Wan foo Tate. more people in the world with a material reality. He opens be- Lenin and Trotsky were in command comfortable standard of living fore us vistas of time and space and in control. than ever before in its history. beyond the power of the mind The Revolution was accomplished Tragically true is the record to grasp and declares that in the in ten days. The Red Terror was that the menace of war and an- far stellar regions a mere scrap about to begin. Judging from the series of Stalin "purges," it continues xiety for the future must occupy of matter sends out tremendous after 20 years.
thoughtful mind. Butjenergy. All this leaves UR As for Lenin, the Father of the Re- every posterity will surely be too wise blind as primitive man to what volution, his place in history to accept Prof. Einstein's ac- the universe really is and our secure, count of the reason. He finds human part in it.
Will they see! it in the inferiority of the more clearly in 69397
-To-day's Thought... For the earth that breeds the Breeds cities, too, and sym- phonics.
trees,
-JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.
often, how
many times more must this question be asked? How often, too, must the answer be the same?
Nobody knows. And yet I feel somehow, because I want to feel that way, that Vienna hasn't said good-night to the world nor the world "Good-night, Vienna."
Just Auf Wiedersehen, perhaps.
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But Trotsky-what are his thoughts. on the day? Was it all worth while,
for him?
"I simply hate masquerades! You can't breathe
scandal to anyone!"
a word of