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"VALERIE HOBSON JAMES DONALD HAROLD KEEL( THE SMALL VOICE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949.
(sing hey the gallant Captain that you are) Kind Captain, I've important information
and the Tory
Conceming of an intimate relation Sing hey The subversive maiden
Blimp
·Istand
LEEWARD ISLANDS SING-SONG`
Island Labour Unions
GOVERNOR BALDWIN'S UNFORGIVABLE SIN SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THAT HE HAD THE NATIVES ALONG TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE TO SING "PINAFORE "
World Copyright.
On with the new cinema
while men live in cellars
DUSSELDORF.
HERE might never have been
a war. Nowhere in Europe did it hit with Ik more hideous violence, nowhere are the scars and squalor harder to avoid, And now three and a half years of history have swallowed the good and the bad alike.
The moral issues have long ago been lost in n maze of secondary arguments; the political impulses of the war have been distorted by lies
and false conclu-
by
like brutes..
sions and prepos James Cameron
terous
national,
Conceits beating on this dreary coup- try from all sides- at once.
reporting on, the paradox of the Ruhr
people thought of praising in 1043.
who stood by while the Ger- mans started to rebuild part of tunk shop in the Essen · rubble bowl?
men
They are well and free and content enough, while we pro-
ok pure the trial of decrepit like Rundstedt and Mansicin.
Beanwhile, British policy in the zone secins torn between a curiously Buchmanite attitude of And the
tender remonstrance
crude fact that terkler renon- strance isn't Ketting anywhere without a plan to buck it and an flcient, vital propaganda ser- vice to make the realities clear,
Squalor with
luxury
NOMETHING ilke 2,800 souls are living in squalor in The ten million In the Ruhr
Dusseldorf's cellars. said Mi- are equally tenacious and resp-
Lary Governor Bishop nt ir con- Jute, with the re-
difference that
day; at the ference the other here they
goods are time luxury are not Nghting same against the
being made, hotels and cinemas Sqviet Union, but actively and skilfully for them-
are being bullt. "It can't be selves.
right," mused the general to the German reporter's
And Germany, heaving off the anaesthesia of defeat, is groping for strength among the follies of her victors and finding it fast. Since last year's currency form this has probably been the most sensational recovery in Europe. Already this smoky wilderness is producing nearly. 80 per cent of what it did before the war.
Now snatches of perverse luxury highlight the depression. Shining plate glass among the hollow walls, cosily perfume and pottery for sale in the Koenigs- allee and no one to buy, 3,000 people s lving like brules in Dusseldorf's cellars and a new movie-house going up the debris.
nmon
And for the victorious Powers ----resentment and bitterness lurking on the corners, distrust and truculence and sycophaney and contempt.
Power without
policy
UR occupation of Germany his succeeded triumphantly
in one thing only, in proving that British power without policy can impose nothing what- over on a determined people, not uven liberty.
And Britain, which in three and a half years has not made up Its mind what attitude to take, what political principle to apply. bedevilled by powerful American financial interests, is taking the hard way.
Mr Bovin
learning is now when
promised to he socialise the Bubr he should have done it and be damneu to America or kept his mouth slut. That is, if he has time these days to be told what goes on in Germany outside Berlin, which people here are Leginning 10 doubl
In Bochum the frin of the nien who refused to dismantle what was the third largest steel shop in Europe made everyone, involved look sillier as the days' passed,
So did that of Max Reimann, for attacking Germans who co operate with the British. He called them as if the situation were rot fantastic enough— "quislings." How long ago the war was that gave birth to that wordi
The thing full of paradox,
Berliners The
arc gallant and tenacious and sturdy and full of all the qualities
NANCY
Tew
They are bitter about the Ruhr, Sintute, which would puf
00 percent of their coal and 88 per- cent of their steel under foreign control,
The Slave Statute, they call 11. the dream of Poincare true.
come
If Europe's recovery Insists on internationalisation, they say, _why_not_internationalise the rest. of the northern Industrial com- plex-Lorraine, Belglum, the Benelux interests?
Indeed, why not? There is no answer, except the old-fashioned, obvious, perhaps emotional, one that once upon a time there was a war, und Germany lost it, and Germany must pay up.
We wring our hands
YT is a hard plit. With the German gift for rationalising anything, they protest at the re- moval of valuable plant, they cry that
surely this enormous tool that once made gun-barrels make hairpins. They wrangle and
nrgue and pro- crastinate, and the British wring their hands and wonder what
can now
Lo do.
One foresees an endless situa- tion, not of rebellion, but of passive resistance, an India-like impasse non-co-operation. an interminable Teutonic Satya- orelia Germany waiting for a Gandhi,
But what about the big fellows -the remnants of those great vertical combines which three times before have held Europe cynically and profitably at the pistol's point-the Krupps, Mun-
nesmann..
bre
Vereinigte Stahl- werke, Klocrkner, those old merchants of misery? Where
Those
borses now-the Thyssens, the Reurels?
What happened to the brave Bevin plans for bringing them under public control?
. What about Hans Mueser. director of the great Bochum war machine, who incited the workers to defy a direct British. military order?. Or Hans Kallen, technical director of Krupps,
Super-Snooper
THERE'S THAT NEW
GIRL. THEY CALL
NOSEY ROSIE
LORNE ZUSVIMILLE
I MUST MAKE
A NOTE ABOUT
HER IN MY
DIARY
It can't be right! Either it's right or it isn't right, and it it isn't right it ought to be stopped, and the only people who can stop if are the British Military Government.
w!
want
Information box-
THE ATOM CLOCK
Washington's new atomte clock-which accord. ing to the Astronomer Royal Sir Harold Spencer Junes seems to be an almost absolute mensure of time”— is no drawing-rim affair.
It is about It is one only resembles an ordinary clock ismuch as it has the usual face and hands
Wound round its base in a spiral is a 341 copper tube filled with aminants gan ind the electrical arrangements for the clock need two benvy racks of equipment.
The clock is based on the principle that ammonin gas has a sharp absorption of слегку
and bigh radio frequency,
There is A mechanism which adjusts the frequency of an oscillator kreping it the same as the frequency, at which the energy is absorbed by the gas.
The frequency of the osell- lator is then divided by electrical currents until it f
the low enough to drive clock.
* It is inferior' The National Physical Laboratory say: "At present we think the atomic clock is a good deal inferior to the
clocks quariz
used Greenwich-these are only accurate to 1-1900th of o second.
स
"The atomie clock is likely to be more useful as a fre quency standard than a time standard."
Amerien claims that the clock is more accurate than the rotating earth B
tandard of time.
+
I in called atómic because It is based on vibrations of atoms in the molecules of the gas.
William Hickey
LONDON.
ASK Mr Toper, the Tribunal Tailor, how long it
takes to become famous (or notorious) in 1949. Perhaps three well-publicised minutes?
That length of time, at the Lynskey Tribunal, turned a needle-and-thread man into this best-known tailor in the West-ope that even Ellis Island men had heard of.
Three minutes have done equally startling. If more com- forting, things for other people. For example:-
JAMES HILTON, who slugged out aluw-selling books for years, until ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT real on extract from "Lost Horizon" on the radio, turned it into an over- night best-seller and set him on the path that now protiuces
millionaire's income.
Sir Eric is also tho oficial
ELIZABETH GOUDGE, 50- year-old spinster-Invalid from greeter and leave-taker to all Westland, Devon, whose love visiting dignitaries. stories earned £30 n time. Then years-e.g., the Coronation and In busy an MGM executive read a 600- last year's Olymple Games-he word digest of "Green Dolphin may find himself waving good- Country. which soon led him bye to a group of sultans on to buy the book for films, paying one station platform, then rush- £30,000.
ing round to another one to put
If you can't ask Mr Teper, ask another notably in the cloak and
the red carpet for a migra tory mabarajah.
suit frade, CHRISTIAN If DIOR, For years he struggled for Middle East nations are some- our relations with the recognition.. Then, two seasons what strained at the momeni, it ago, he lengthened the skirt of is certainly not Sir Erie's fault. one of his models, paraded it te holds the Brilliant Star of for three minutes before the Zanzibar (4th class) the Orders world's fashion writers. The of Al Raldoin, Iraq (3rd Class), result-well, you know the re- and El Nahdah, Class III, Trans- sult.
Jordan.
4
Three minutes-used in the right way, at the right time it can put your name on every one's tongue. How would you use 11? (Murder doesn't count.)
THE
cost of dining and wining foreign V,I.P.s goes up Last year's £80,000
and up.
banquet bill is almost double
the prewar figure.
And, of course, if love is more square-muzals-a-day formula, Sir safely based on the three- Eric-a widower who looks like n sparse-haired Lord Mount-
But, perhaps because of higher batten-is
AESERVED
GOVERANDER
rival
a formidable food prices and catering charges, in affairs of the heart. Few other it does not exactly imply that men could hope to compete with Britain's No. 1 official diner- out-63-year-old Colonel
ERIC
SIR
n man able to offer full banquet
about three repasts week.
times a
NORMAN SPENCER CRANKSHAW, KC.M.G. -- 15 twice his normal consuming
To the one-ration book holder, yearly quota of food at the tax- struggling along with a gas-ring payers' expense.
in a bed-sitter, he could cer
bachelor-girl's best friend.
of the Gover- thinly aspire for the title of a Hospitality Fund since 1920, he is the nation's official
As secretary ment
hoal. He throws about 200 CAN.
parties every year.
anyone lend a Yiddish typewriter (and the typist to go And as in polite circles it is with it) to the New Yiddish customary for most guests 10 Theatre Company, Stoke New
to submit reciprocate bospitally, Sir Erle's Ington? They used
their scripts to the
LORD name appears more stendily than most in the Social and Person- CHAMBERLAIN in English. Now al
Among those Present he demands one "In the language Columns.
of production.”
Each time it does, you know that the taxpayers of some country or other (usually yours) are footing the bill.
Author of this article is a British novelist who now finds it more profitable to write for the films than to write for the publishers. He is now able to corn
£500 for 20,000 words
MOST writers
The whole company is losing sleep staying up nights to copy script to be forwarded: a revue them out in longhand. Latent
called "Thank You, England.'
IN
West End auction rooms: the regulars are, beginning to mutter about unfair competition
from housewives.
They sit around, unmoved by the spectacle of Sheraton chairs. Chippendale and elaborate-can- delabra, but jump In with a bld the moment kitchen tables, glassware, or ordinary lounge suites come under the hammer. Prices for such objects of no
Similarly
with dismantling. Either the "abnoxious" plants are intrinsically evil and should be destroyed, or else let it be accepted that someone might want them to use against Hussin, Or that America might them to reinforce her own
Pro- duction. Or someone feels he ean make money out of them.
In which case draft 40 divi- sions
Into the Ruhr to
protect them and let Alfried Krupp out of his war-crime cell, back into
A minority of established nov- examples, the directors' room, and let us elists make a reasonable living. all go out and hand ourselves. But before the wis the sales to Here in the desolate Ruhr, the average first novel were only 150,000 men and 10,000 women about a thousand coples and the are busily Al- work, How
author's
cornings on it put over to this
powerful from £30 to £40. multitude the irien of service, of construction, of democratic ad- vance? How to persuade them that co-operation will, In fact eventually pay?
write because Ambler. Nigel Belchin, Graham they like writing or because Greene, FL Green, Louls Gold-art whatsoever are low: £4 for
they can't help it. But how much ing, Wolter Greenwood and money do they make out of it? Lesley
to
Can we give them faith? ONLY, it seems by convincing
skilful
these
earnest and people that their efforts will bring
were
Storm are
few
I nearly new "scitec, 155 for a cake stand. £20 for a plano.
"It's
Indecent the way these women have a nose for bargains, In America film companies bittered title for the hours be say the regulars. Their ст may pay £50,000 for the screen rights of a popular novel or play, tween 12 and 2, when homɔ goods British
companies
Housewives' commonly are on the stand: pay from £1,000 to £3,000. Choice.
They seldom accept
The sales of many authors submitted to outside. When IT
never
ISN'T rose above that level; not buying a
household they always hoped that the next adaptation,
novel or play for goods which yet art expert companies usually PIERRE JEANNERAT to out- novel would be a best-seller or commission a writer to produce tions, but brie-brac. He knows. at least a good seller, but it never a synopsis, & "first treatment," from personal experience, that was. And still the £30 novelist or a long short story. They pay ploughed bravely on.
generously; from £50 to £100 a week is the usual rate.
Today, with production costs some sort of faith, that ultimately up, a publisher cannot afford to cf
by something
The companica
also employ
a fortune may be hidden in simply labelled plle maybe
"
#
Oud-Lot 06.
For instance. At Christies his artist's cye hooked Itself on a messy plic of Victoriana and on the penal statute will be replaced sell a mere thousand copies their own staff writers, and
ornate miniatuna. set-plece all. that gives Gera novel. To make both ends many some say in world affairs meet he must sell froin four to sometimes it is they who do most humped together in one lo
of the work. There have been that does not come from the five thousand copies. The £30
He stayed to bid, bought the cases where well-known writers novelist has therefore disappear- the mouth of a
12. Ho carried pile for a gun.
have been paid thousanda virtu- home, put the other things b ctl
Today it 15 altogether. By Information, by resolute probably even harder to sell a ally for the use of their names; the store roun, but carried the handling of crypto-Nazis—above
it
all, by some evidence of a pollerat novel than it was in 1039 staff writers have done the real set-pfees to his bench and got to
If he is successful the author that hasn't got one foot in West- minster Abbey and the other in may make £200 out of it, or Bethlehem Steel of Pittsburg. even more.
The other day I stood on guunt roof at Krupps looking! The book may have taken over a landscape very near to year or more to write. During any conception of hell.
that time its author will prob- Torn and tangled and black, ably be earning less than on rust and destruction--yet with unskilled agricultural worker. 14,000 people sulf on the books, machinery still on the floor.
work.
At the present me I am wrling a story 20,000 words lang for a British company. (a quarter the length of a'nuvel)
I am being paid £500 for my work, and I am to receive n
work.
What he uncovered: a minia- carved, by LEON- ture horse ARDO DA VINCI, missing for 130 years, Jeannernt's 12 and has since been authenticnled by experts. Its value: to the insur ance companies, £39,000.
further £500 if the story HEART
cry from a
Consequently, authors have filmed, The same story sold to man who can't get all those over Here is the place where li all become very interested in the a national magazine might have plugged dance tunes out of his began. Here is the symbol of question: What about writing fetched £80. The company head: "I wish they would take the death that pays dividends. | for_the' films?
gave me a cheque for £200 on 'Buttons and Bows' 'Cuanta In And could-in any hands Many novelists are now work- account before I started work Gusta," and pack them on that: ngain.
for flim companies. Eric just to keep me happy.
'Slow Boat to China.
a new
girl in maghborhood. they say she
is very nosey but I don't beleeve it -
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