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TILL THE CLOCK STOPS."

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THE MONOMANIAC.

-(Special-Review)

Que of our poeta hai said,—

Great wits are off to madness

near allied,

And thin partitions do their bounds 'divido.””

But after reading this book that others

we Feet

sure

THE CHINA

though his following, were only a section of the community. But in

Hongkong and I carry wad.

↑ Mr. Masonje droam there was ap "parently no ideal of social eman

vanishes; and this takes away from

the interest in the whole. Such

monomania.'

knows, to

Therefore I actually-lay" down with a derringer in each band--

SAMUEL PEPYS, Samuel Pepys." By Gamaliel Bradford. (Jonathan Cape. 12%. Gd.net)]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8; 1924 /

he seema, to' offersmrtis praľa£6.5) | "The very amplitude of the great Diary," he truly says, "makes it difficult for the hurried reader to spproach. It seemed he if it might be possible to introduce a certain amount of order and clarity into the shapeless rom, so

A. DIFFICULT / FEAT.

# * #

W. L.George was born in France and lived there until he reached

There are four present-day writers, who have performed the cipation, no apocalyptic vision of u | Fit makes me laugh with shame to

difficult and unusual feat of win- realised utopia, but just the gratfink of it now, when I um bad. Mr. Bradford has not avoided

ning their literary spurs in an AC- fication of a cruze for personal in mong had men, and should the mal failing of those who

quired isuguage. They are Joseph power at the price of unknown as much think of using a pistol write about Pepys; he patronizes to make it more available for Conrad (alas no longer with us), him. It is the natural penalty those who have not the patience to W. L. George, Edwin, Bjorkman, slungliber and sorrOW. All symus an 18-pounder, But it eer that Pepys has paid for so lavishly tirety." If it were only the hur. Pole, after years as a sailor before deal with it in its tangled en- and Gunnar Gunnarsson. Conrad, a pathy for

the writer and tainly produced an effect. betraying itself to posterity. hi acheme, of course,

"It was topical weather and He tells us all there was to be told ried and inpatient reader who finds the mast, mastered the English with difficulty Indured one dirty about his follies and inconsin a difficulty in the approach to language and became, perhaps, the tencies and secret fintts, and they Pepys, Mr. Bradford might have greatest stylist of the present age. "thin sheet half over me In due

are so like our own that we meet afforded to neglect him: to a interest as remains in the book iscourse I heard stealthy footsteps, im with a smile and a wink, pat reader of that kind no such dofer- the study of a peculiar typ of and while keeping aty eyes closed him on the back, and assure him chce is owing. But, in fact, the became conscious, first of obser that he is no worse than others. Diney has its difficulty even for After reading a book like thisvation, them of a hand carefully. He is veryninn, we tell him; we patience and leisure the way is not man's estate. He did not succeed easily found at the start through leaving the French language

behind when he we understand.

crossed the. "drawing down the sheet, and are indulgent, one naturally asks, How can a

nully of someone fuabling at my And since as a matter of fact every Some clearance, some guidance to glutinous with it, not to mention

its crowding, swarming detail.

Channel. His conversation is still hight type of education like this "helt

man feels that he himself is some--

his writings. produce such a social failure?

"I-moved slightly and tilted one thing of an exception, les city to lepys's circle of family and friends and enemica, his general True: Mr. Mason himself thinks of the little derringers upwards. be understood, his kindness to Jais education

altogether The visitor

ejaculated. Gor. Pepys will always have a touch of condition and situation, is what

Edwin Bjorkman was born and wrong and we frankly admit that "ume! and stumbled

away piority in it, as of an elder to nobody need be ashamed to wish

for upon opening the wonderful brought up in Stockholm, Sweden, huge sum: Prominent figures at

examinations in coaching estali Following stealthily I heard him we pleasantly admit that while offered their help before now. States for over thirty years. On The formed freding" for big stily in his stockinged feet u farny, frank, talkative child and book: and though others have but has been a citizen of the United three men connected with mining

lishments like Wren's is not the down stairs,

no better than we should be, while there might still be room for one coming to this country he know interests in South Africa, one of

highest idest of Education. But no. My only compation in the room at the same time we keen far out who knows the uses of the Diaryffttle more than schoolboy English whom is the owner of the diamonds

system is perfectaud it is absurd to

selves the slight reserve of dignity

as well as Mr. Bradford evidently and yet his first published story in and other property, He be

at present was immistakably quenthen his fortune in a peculiar

blame the system. A bad carpen dink wad dead to the world, and which Pepys gives away without a

knows them, But what he sug- English appeared in the Atlantic ter blames his tools, Even... hnd no fear of observation; and

This is what happens thought. way; principally to a nepliew, a

Soerates had his Alcibindes und

He has not introduced "order and Gunnar Gunnarsson, although he Pepys and it happens freely in the expedition, and during a certain wits are blessed with a very thin make for hini was the might

lamp outside. The Remington little book that comes across the clarity into the tangler he has writes in Danish, was born and "hus no trigger-guard (being a

brushed it aside. Ho has not brought up in Iceland. capade was supposed to have fout- his life through foul play.

written the modest but useful Tin partition. Indeed, authorities on liave been much worse without the strictly business pistol) and Atlantie from Mr. Bradford,

teaching of his master. Just think mediately after the death of old incy are never tired of telling of it; if Mr. Mason had been dif- remember how Ha Tang had

There are several points about guide book of which he speaks: he Christopher, Craig, various attemple that the dividing line between ferantly educated he might have early blown his -brain out, I Pepys that are neglected in this has written a rather conventional are made to gain possession of the sanity and hinacy is a very indefin-bron surressful in his plot! There did not want to put that big 45 estimate of him. There is first the study of Pepys's character. diamonds, by one of his former

is no rough-and-ready svaten, of bullet in my leg, so I unloaded fet that he wrote a book in many, The misunderstanding'' is be friends who with another less able one, most men suffering more

my hand and volumes which is one of the most trayed by the running-title of the or less than a kink. M Mason eduention which will, without fait, one to keep in desperate individual, are both in financial straits, Suddenly the however seems to us to be suffer turn out a nerfectly baked, healthy trust the other under the edge of living, most vigorous, and enter volume, which is not the same as The cussies. history. The mattress, where my hand tuining in the language. Like as that upon the title-page and the young nephew, Alan Craig, turning frome more than & Kink; he citizen.

"would naturally reach for it. we all may be to Pupys, T is not | cover. "The Soul of Samael literature, modern languages, no up, whereupon Bullard, the ring appears to be a conscious lunatic.

most of us to do this. Popysco it stands, more am- The story of this book-and the less than science. need to hereitored my canvas belt, which given to leader in the plot, makes frantic efforts to obtain the diamonds, but story is well told, and has a good assimilated and thought over. And contained the money, and wonnd That is undeniable but still the bitiously, at the head of the pages: cuch time is foded, and eventually deal of interest in part is the 10y who pass through out schools-mind my ankle twisting my suggestion-is-ready-that-we-might-and the seven chapters-attempt to So I fell do so if we were as candid and disclose the soul of Pepys in seven mera with his deserts and loses story of an effort by Mr. Mason to seem to be almost congenitally fool in the sheet.

and his his life in an attempt to flee from make himself king of China by able to do this. Of course the sleep, for I was tired and a little unashamed a he. If the anal aspects Pepys

fication is a large one, to begin Money," "Pepys and his Wife." the scene of his nefarious activities tion, and giving them to members amiration as the goal did not nuggling in arms and ammuni- system of a big exhausting ex-

"I was awakened by feeling with; the gift of smeless can- "Pepys and God and so forth. Apart from the wonderful ingennity

duur onsself to oneself, is not a The plan is well enough, and each clark Aself, it would be difficult to

with Pepys; nor is open-eyed self- anthology of extreta from the noagine why the stones were not

knowledge enough by itself to en Diary. But the soul of no able a man to write a masterpiece. certainly of no man of genius, lies more zealously guled, but as it

And how many people, even as eventumlly transpines the real col tection was all along in the safe

and or expressive as Pepyn, have ford has been content to seek the interpreter of Pepys; it is the com- on the level at which Mr. Brad- a fraction of his ordinade talent soul of Pepys which is a level mon form of too many of his pre- for life, hi purer of living con- very near the surface. Stevenson decesso. If either Mr. Brad- auously in every moment of the in five-and-twenty pages went ford's diary or our own has the day, of meeting the whole of ex long, way deeper for it than Mr. slightest resemblance to that of

genius, not of a man like the rest clined to be graciously, indulgently are deciphered in the far future, perience with a bensitive surface?, Bradford does in ten times as Pepys, we may both of us hope for These are the gifts of n-man of many; and Stevenson was less in-recognition of our claim, when we of us; and Mrs. Bradford's inuti amused with what he found. "In to be placed beside him; but we patronizing way with him is short. he was a man amazingly had better leave it till then, once more than a triffe inappropriate. like you and me.

Would for all, and meanwhile be satisfied But he is no lonely offender in not your diary and mine be much to see Pepys more simply as he ["The Chinese Confessions of this matter, and the flaw of taste the same?" There is too much of was a great writer, an

extra Charles Welsh Mason," Grant' could have been overlooked if he this kind of thing in Mr. Bradford's ordinary man." Richards, Ltd., London, 7s, did.1 · had really given a the book which pages for confidence in him as an

young man who had gone on a than those possessed of great the best-exeuse, that Sogantes-could "the only light was from a street When almost any man writes about gests is not what he has done. Monthly. The last of the quartet,

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drunk.

PALGRAVE'S CENTENÁRY.

On September 28, 1824, was born Francis Turner Palgrave, the compiler (at Tennyson's instance and with his help) of that volume which has proved to be a "Golden Treasury in every serise of the term. A sound critic, and a Pro- fessor of Postry. Palgrave's own cultured verse (Visions of Eng land, "Amenophis," &c.) are now. seldom read; but his tho ment to his selective judgment

displayed in the wachanism of the of a secret "society. This armid faster is higher seriousness;') some one gently withdraw the gift that most of us will over share of the chapters includes a generous logy remains an enduring monu-

custody of a bank. The love story condudes quite naturally when the exciting atul dangerous experiences ariver. A double engagement is din mutant Imppiness for duly announeed which doubtless the two young men and their part- ners, all of whom had played in conspicuous part in laying the villain. Billard.

-J.W.

Till the Clock Slops," J... Bell, John Long, Ltd. 28.]

cave of Aduliam was to seize the forts, defeat the small official army of China, and overthrow the Mun chu dynasty. Mr. Mason bought the ans, had them shipped to juently

Shanghai, and going to try seriously to carry out this hair-brained scheine.

But much water has flowed under-pistol from my pissis hand. mouth the "bridges since Mason's

S. examination ilays,

A type of Mr. Mason's descrip five power will give the reader mod idea of the more captivating parts of the book,

Then fingers that ankle ne shiver "Tumbled at my waist and there were nuttered works of dis appointment in Chinese suggest

"ing a manch more dangerous assault, and that by a pair of them. T was frightened an

de grub with one hand, while the other hand sought the second tied to sit ups muzzle touched **dorringer. As I produced it and my face, and the trigger snapped.

explosion. of course, and the men instantly

"After the unlucky show of the“ Why is the reader not carried "vishundred-dollar hill" I knew Mason's effort? Just because the tired that I was being away in full sympathy with Mr.at I should be a marked man, whole thing is so anti-social. TI | "dogged as T strolled through the Mr. Mason har voiced the guer- "slums; and I expected tay night ances of an oppressed section of in the doss-house in he a fearful the esortunity which was stragand rantte adventure, not gling for its emancipation, or if he "having yet learned that it is only was the prophet of a new but "amang ontrasts that you have nothing to fear, since no me lans anything to lose. But this was -

popular gospel we could whole heartedly sympathise with him

THE CHARMING COMEDIAN

CONSTANCE TALMADGE

in

"THE LESSON

CUNSTANCE TALMADGE

א

LESSON

SELZNICKONTURES

THE SECRETS OF CONSTANCE TALMADGE'S SUCCESS;— YOUTH, BEAUTY AND TALENT. THIS IS HER LATEST. AND BEST PICTURE AND IS A STORY OF REAL FOLES THAT COULD BE THE STORY OF YOUR SISTER OR MINE; AND OF YOU OR ME

also

CHINA SUN'S LATEST PRODUCTION

THE HONGKONG FIRE BRIGADE ANNUAL DRILL DISPLAY Commencing Sun., 9th to Tues., 11th

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UAL BRICES.

World Theatre

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SCREENLAND

"THE MAILMAN."

GIANT EPIC OF THE SUKEEN.

There WOM 110

j.'*fled."

ing fire and shells, the naval air the picture was directed by Charles planes taking the chase, the inerti- ; Giblyn and is a screen version of less bombardment from the skies,' the well-known tales of married the fleeting run runners under, life by Virginin Terhune Van de raking fire, the daring hold-up on Water,

the high seas, the failing boat The Helen Drayton of "The shattered by the lightning bolt the Lesson" veterum letter carrier flung into the boiling sen, the tragic plea to the

reveals Constance Talmudge in one of the most pleasing and authentic charac

terizations of her entire career, since it is just the type of Regular American Girl to which this captivating screen star natur ally belongs. The story concerns

governor and a dozen other scenic cataclysms that will take your breath away. See it drink in its With the authorization of sea fervent message of faith and human

service on board the understanding. **Lsviotlun,”- greatest 'ol uli Tn all.The Mailman," with occan greyhounds, the ultimate Ralph Lewis and Johnie Walkera young girl in a small town, who step in the organization of our in the landing roles, is one of the vast mail system is realized. Step most vivid and dramatic pictures by step, from the time that the of the day and will be shown. at dove carried the first inesange back the World Theatre on Wednesday to the ark, the method of com- next. It is a picture that you will munication has steadily improved, not afford to miss.

in spite of tremendous obstacles

and natural impediments.

When Emory Johnson, eminent

motion picture director, produced

the "Mailanan," he clearly BOW

service,

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"THE LESSON."

CONSTANCE TALMADGE comes to

the possibilities of weaving around the World Theatre on Sunday in the romantic history of the mail the role of Helen Drayton, the highly entertaining, young girl wife of "The Lesson," select production, in which she dramatic story, which would at

is presented by Lewis J. Selznick; the same time set forth the man, who made that service possible in better light before the people" of the nation.

Tracing the development of methods of postal communication in, his prologue, during the yeara when mail was first carried on foot. then on horses and in coaches, ás well as on dog sleds, mushing through Northern snows, Johnson winds up with the Intest triumph -the Banting palace of steel which recently put the American flag-at its stern.

'Leviathan' is the tenth trans-Atlantic liner in the, Ameri can service to carry sea post. clerks," says the United States. Official Post Guide. When the thousands of bags of mail stored in the two rooms of the Leviathan.* devoted to postal facilities, reach the other side the mail will be all Borted and ready for immediate despatch."

That is service but few people realize that during the time ing #hich the U.B. Mail was approach- ing this perfection, it was the patriotic effort of the individual 1.postman" to overcome difficultiös

strought it to its present fine.

Mon high in the postal depart ment say it la gratifying to wito the inauguration of such... ments na that started by Emory Johrison with his ploture glorify ing the man in BASATA In this excellent drama you wi Besthe mighty battle fost action; the mam

marries a rity man, principally because she is tired of seeing the surge old faces and dancing with the same old boys year after year. Her marriage is not a happy one. but she discovers she has talents which enable her to make her way independently,, and eventually she finde happiness as well. The sup porting cast has been selected with great care, and includes

the popular Tom Moore as lending Herbert Heyes, Walter man. Hiers, Joseph Smily, Lillian Rambeau, Dorothy Green, Christy. Walker and others.

*** 'DON'T FAIL TO SEE

MARY PICKFORD

"MARY AIN'T GUILTY"

A COMEDY WITH A "KICK" AND PACKED WITH LAUGHTER.

NEW ROUND OF

"LEATHER PUSHERS"

"FINAL SHOW TO-DAY-

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BOOKING AT MOUTRIES BEFORE 5 p.m.

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OR AT THE THEATRE AFTER 5 p.m

WORLD THEATRE.

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man.

EMORY JOHNSON'S GIANT EPIC OF THE SOLEEN

unfolding in swift and spectacular succession a veritable pageant of scenic wonders,

SEZ

BEE

SEE

SEE

The mighty battle fleet in action- ́he mam- moth guns belohing fire and shells - The naval airplanes taking up the chase The merciless bombardment from the sky - The fleeing rum runners under raking shell fire

The daring hold up on the high seas — Johnnie pitched headlong into the storm- swept ocean --- The frail boat shattered by the lightning bolt The veteran · letter carrier flung into the boiling sea — The tragic plea to the governor The plight of the young son facing his doom; dozen other scenic cataclysms that will take your breath away,'

"THE

Add

and a

MAILMAN"

Starring

RALPH LEWIS, JOHNNIE-WALKER & A WONDERFUL "CAST

ALL THE KINDLY SENTIMENT OF "LIGHTNIN THE QUIVERING SUSPENSE OF THE BAT": THE CRASHING ACTION OF "BEN HUR": THE MELLOW ROMANCE: OF MAYTIMEW THE ARENIC

OF A CIRCUS: THE LOVE IN- TEREST OF A DOZEN GREAT DRAMAS ARE SUPERBLY INTERWOVEN AMID THE THREADS OF THIS STUNNINGLY REALISTIC RECORD OF POSTMEN'S LIVES THEIR TRIALS — THEIR HOPES THEIR LOVES THEIR TRIUMPHS,

SEE IT - DRINK IN ITS FERVENT MESSAGE OF FAITH AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDINGS.

Commencing Wednesday

Book Your Seats Early

WORLD THEATRE