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MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928.

THE SHOCKER.

LONDONERS AND CRIME

PLAYS.

WHAT THEY LIKE,

melodramas.

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AFTER PEARLS.

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"THE SUN MAN" -

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But knowledge and mental stimulus are not everything. What COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED of character? What of manners?

IN THE "MAIL" Here it is certainly the home that matters most, Truth, unselfish Chaplin in "The Missing Link.”

To-day-Queen's Theatre; Syd There are complaints that Lon- The following vivid account of, a Mr. Stephen Gwynn is sorry for ness and some other essentials of don theatre-goers are too much ad-pearl diver's first descent is taken the British parent, but he clearly character if not acquired in chlid-So

To-day-Star Theatre; "Iz Zat; dicted to crime-plays of the shock-from Mr. Jack McLaren's now thinks him rather an ass. He must hood сам rarely be acquired in er type, the sort of play to which ovel, "The Sun Man." *

be an ass, because only an

To-day-World Theatre; "You'd na later days. Manno, too, if they Be Surprised." Sydney has been recently treated "And now for it!" he said, and would send his sons to a bearding- are to be instinctive afterwards,

Sparta, in "The Ringer," and other mystery felt for the last of the rengs, school, Boy get no advantage are best learnt in the nursery. May 26-28-Fifth Extra Raco Then, i hand at the helmet's outlet from these boarding-schools except Nevertheless, it is not impossible Meetings of the H.K. Jockey Club, Of plays, ns of Governments, Italve-so that by inflating or de- expensive coaching in games. for a rough diamond to be polished, Happy Valley. may be truthfully said that Hating the dress he could order the "Morally and intellectually they and some of the harder qualities of

Lammerts Auction... people get the kind of drama they peed of his descent-he slipped off can be as well brought up at home." character are developed better in a May 15-At Sales Room, Dud- deserve. If the London public did and went dropping down. Down. If a boarding-school master cares community of men like a public dell-st., a valuable collection

of It was a tremendously profound for culture he has everything school than in any family, however curios, 230 p.m. not like the mystery play they sensation to go dropping down like against him," and, as for character numerous. could signify their lack of interest lais. Down through

But the essential point

May 17-At 6, Knutsford-terrace, an unmistakable manner by initely, lit with oblongs of pale for that than turn a boy over

a blue-green training, the schoo! does no more is that the best work of a good household furniture, 2.45 p.m. staying away.

sunshine, creased by wave shadows the influence of the other boys and been already done before a boy is home is done early. Most of it has In spite of the highbrow, the amorphous and strangely

: Meetings, To-day--Annual meeting of the stage, like art and music, fulfils aftown through

keep him out of mischief for ns old enough for school, and it can

H.K. Auxiliary of the British & a world, airless, two-fold purpose. It may be treat-unreal, and unpeopled.

many hours a day as possible. Evid-be continued and completed after Foreign Bible Society, at Helena Down ed as a medium for serious intel-through a world without horizons,ently the British boarding-school that during three months in every

May Institute, 5.30 p.m. lectual and emotional expression, beginnings or end. Down, and is a wholly deplorable institution. twelve. During the other nine May 15-Peak Church Annual or it may be treated as a vehicle new weight decreasing with every the only hope in the home-formal contribution to make for as child-

If this is really so, then clearly the boarding-school has a definite mecting in St. John's Cathedral for sheer amusement ud low-foot, as

Hall, 5.30 p.m. brow distraction. While, from the Down, and still down, and his speed teaching by day In a day-school, hood passes away his school gives general meeting of shareholders of,

though charmed away. {

May -Forty-seventh ordinary point of view of serious dramatic miraculously growing slower as he culture and character training in art, there is nothing to be said for went.

the evenings at home. But in the the average musical comedy and de- He closed the valve little, home dwells the parent, and the pective shocker, they serve to take hereby leasening still further the parent is a people for a few hours out of the weed of his descent, and reached ture (besides being дл humdrum of suburban and city life. the bottom with the alow-motion if Mr. Gwynn's account

After all, those plays are melo film. With a shake and a jerk of him

true. He has drama dressed up in new clothes, the line, he signailed to the deck contempt for learning ("not one and a more, naturalistic method of

his safe arrival.

English parent in ten caros how acting. A ittle melodrams.

The chain went almost straight. much his son acquires in the way is more important still that the de-ing of Union Insurance Society of May 25-Fifty-fifth annual meet- and then, is relished by the wisest Cracks appeared in the rubble of book learning"). He is inclined veloping boy should be a good deal Canton, Ltd., Union-bldg., 11 am.

Do we not find it in Shake about the anchor. Small stones to be a snob. He does not know away from home. Otherwise he speare In "Richard I11," we have went rolling away. Wisps of mud how to apportion his own income will come to associate his home not the villian and the innocent child-appeared, like wisps of smoke. sensibly. Can a man like that be with happiness but with boredom, res, and the hero and the poor de drifting off. There was a jerk, and eratlón? Surely not. What then with all that cramps his lengthen- They hunk around bit before the ideal educator of the new gen-not with holidays and liberty but ceived heroine. "Titus Androni- the buried fluke appeared. The an- is to be done, if schools and parents ing limbs. Everything young is cus" is pure Grand Guignol. True or dragged along the ground a are both so unsatisfactory? there are passages of blank versettle way, then went slowly up. Up.

prompted by instinet at one stage

and go off "on its own." There is. of its development to stretch itself

more room to flap growing wings in thea boarding school than in any wish to appreciate London you will home. That is not all. If you

be wise to live in the country for most of the year; if you wish to appreciate your home you will be for nine months of the twelve. No master what the love of sons and one knows better than a school- mothers can fourteen and twenty the son's love suffers & deep change a change of kind not of degree-and such

men.

now

·

very poor cren-

a young man what his home never give a chance to move na an independent being among other men. Many a preparatory school

May 18-Extraordinary general ass), boy, too, would never learn to trust meeting of China Sugar Refinery himself or be himself, if he were Co., Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. anot, as it were, eut off from his Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., 11

base for long spells at a time. But when manhood is approaching It

of

of great power and beauty in and out of sight, The Moth was of the two is the worse: whether Clearly it all depends on which these plays, but do the audiences under sail. go to hear these? Does not the

the boarding-school or the home is He had a Budden feeling of being the more unsatisfactory on true student of English poetry pre-lost. The anchor Was the fer to read them quietly and alone? familiar thing down here; and it of the boarding school, and with only whole. Mr. Gwynn thinks hardly Many literary plays fail in the was gone. The bottom of Thursday much of what he says it is impos- dramatic intensity which alone will hand's harbour he had come, tosible not to agree. Certainly the hold an average audience. It is know very well; the broken bottles, public schools cannot compete as not surprising that melodrama, the biscuit tins, were landmarks of dispensers of culture with a real-wise to live in a boarding-school which fails on the literary. side, ja mort. But this was an utterly should catch the theatre-going unknown land. A plain strangely cultured home, and "when a boy public on the rebound.

velled in blue and green. A place love of learning, his home has leaves school well bred and with a of immense distance, hinted rather counted for more in that result than revealed.

Came a slight and steady pulling than his school." This is often true of the air-pipe and life-line. The too true. Yet what proportion of "Moth," sailing. was half-towing English homes are really cultured

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To-day-Opening of a new class for beginners in Chinese Language

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FLYING FIRE BRIGADES ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES.

him. Hinting which way he should homes? Every schoolmaster knows changes set up strains. In a short vernacular Press, the membership |

From reports appearing in the 8. He began half to stumble, half some which are, some which it is a school holiday these strains may of the Nationalist Aviation Asso- [By Douglas King-Page.]

to bounce along. The rubble crush-liberal education to be allowed to not appear, but in three hundred ed under his feet, but he couldn't visit in the holidays. But they are and sixty-five successive evenings ably, 500 persons having enrolled ciation has increased consider- When the members of Floyd's bear it. The helmet was filled with few, and after all the lucky boys they may cause acute distress. assemble in the new building which the sound of the air. Throb, throb, who come from them con stili Even were no strains' involved in extend

up to the present. In order to the King has opened, they will

spend a quarter of the year in their adolescence, peopletwho are fond gramme, an aeroplane will fly the propaganda pro- transact their business by methods

lle came to a sandy stretch, dot-parents' company. It may even do of each other can none the less get lover so old that their origin is

ted with vegetation. Queer vegeta- them good to spend the rest.with tired of each other, and those three contemporary to hand, for the

Shanghai, says traceable.

then. Growths shaped like human amiable Philistines and learn to hundred and sixty-five successive purpose of distributing handbills, This much is certain, however, ft. Long-leaved vines that seem rub shoulders with ordinary Eng- evenings may bring boredom to which state:—. that when Pepys, the diarist, in- to move, but did not. Bushes Ilshmen. The other homes, the both sides in the most affectionate "There are to-day sured cargoes for the Admiralty he that grew slopping instead of up-grent majority of homes, are cul families.

more than ten thousand aeroplanes in adopted methods very similar to right. Tiny tree-like things, waist-turally below the level of the public those of brokers at Lloyd's Letay it coloured-green, yellow, bronze-every school (but not in every is much self-indulgence in these Japan, and Russia. Why cannot We must remember too that all France and several thousand in high, in clumps.. Coloured. All of schools, low though that may be. In homes are not good homes. There England, America, Germany, treating with individual under- writers, each of whom accepted

exceedingly delicate of shade. home) learning is valued-a little days. Wild 'oats Under-water colours, which maybe by all, a great deal by some. In confined to youth. Indeed, oats aviation enterprise? Aeroplanes proportion of the risk,

no longer, we hurry in the promotion of our couki not live in air.

every school (but not in every are being worn wild with grey hair can carry passengers, mails, news- No sign of pearl-shells,

He home) a clever boy finds others like now, and the influences a boy meets papers, etc., and they are useful wasn't sure he would know them if himself and rubs up his brains at home may not all make for re- in the transportation of goods. tions, for on one occasion, having there were. No doubt a shell look against theirs in debates and essay finement and simplicity. But at/ They save time and there is.no sought to insure a cage of hemped different down here, just as societies and nocturnal conversa-school, life must be simple and may may also be used in putting out he learned that the ship had arriveerything looked different.

chance of robbery. Aeroplanes ed safely, and after reporting the

tions in the studies.

In every be refined. fact went home and wrote: "Now changed again. The sand gave hoy has the chance of being given always go right in schools, but youth

The character of the bottom school (but not in every home) & deed its troubles and things do not formed very quickly.

Adolescence has in-fires and this work may be per- what an opportunity had I to have plate to mud. Ankle-deep and more. concealed and got $100 without the He kicked up the wraiths of it with hears of in the holidays and of be- and in general the refinement of a Aviation Association, which has an interest in things that, he never can touch pitch and not be defled, welcome to join the Nationalist "Shanghai Chinese citizens are least trouble and danger in the every step. They rose about his ing lent books which his father schoolboy over seventeen is among been organised in accordance with

knees and hung there uncertainly does not know exist. In When Pepys effected insurances H would need to walk more care-school (but not in every home) a There are probably more puritanssident Sun Yat-sen, who said that Edward Lloyd was unknown. Prob- fully or he wouldn't be able to see boy has access to a library where in an English public school than aviation can save China.

every the most startling of his qualities. the wishes of our late leader, Pre- ably he would have remained un-the bottom at all. To see the bot he can discover and develop tastes in any other community on earth. known but for his genius in re-tom was the first need of a pearl-which he did not suspect. in him- Thank goodness they do not know cognising that the customers of diver. his coffee-house wanted shipping A little hill.... He went towards

self till he took down A intelligence, and proceeded to sup-it. And as he went he looked down book on a wet Sunday afternoon. they would be intolerable. But un- certain that they are puritans; if they did ply them with it. The under and saw at his feet a flat, stone-like Judged even by the test of culture conscious writers moved from the coffee object, edge up in the ground. He the boarding-school is better than company for the children of some puritans are not bad house to more commodious stopped-sideways, in the diver's the home for just those nine boys modern homes. premises. Later they removed to maner-and tried to pick it up. It (out of ten) whose parents Mr. the Royal Exchange. Just as they stuck fast. He took his heavy Gwynn says do not care how much be five who would do better to live In every hundred boys there may are now moving to Leadenhall- diver's knife from its sheath at his their children learn. street, because they had outgrown wait-belt and dug it up.

at home than go to school. their accommodation. On each oc-

Mr. Gwynn says that a boy at a A pearl shell! An ugly thing. boarding-school misses "that semi- five in which rare qualities have every hundred homes there may be casion it was as much the growth Covered with slime and mollusce. apprenticeship to his father's bust-formed an environment for youth of the shipping intelligence as that Nasty to the touch. Rough, yet ness which comes of daily contact, better than any, school can give, of insurance business that caused cammy. Grey, wormlike things overhearing talk and the rest." A But it is my working creed-based the move, for when Edward Lloyd wriggling slowly on it, in and doctor's family is a case in point. on one-sided experience, I admit- words, then posing as a famous As a timid poet, hungry for collected and published news about the molluscs.

of

He wanted to doctor's son who is going to be that for nearly every ordinary Eng-hunter, Chas F. Reisner resents ships he founded a system which

throw it away. But his first pearl-

a doctor loses a deal of education Hish boy a bourding-school is a bet- the popular comedian, hero of many has grown into one of the most re-shell! markable news gathering agencies "The Sun Man" is published by deen, but he still has the holidays home. If it were not so, perhaps "The Missing Link," he latest by being sent away to school." He ter place in term-time than his a humorist role, Syd Chaplin, in to hear about his father's cases and we should not have the boarding popular "hit," shown at the Queen's the latest medical discoveries, and school to send him to. For these Theatre yesterday to well patron- work and go home in the early

it is not all doctors who have a schools of ours have grown out of leed "houses." evening, but day and night Lloyd's offelent commercial organisations sional interests. Even so, doctors we ourselves are what we are. Inable circumstances, Syd is compell- wide culture outside their profes- our soil, and they are only because Through amusing and unavold- is open for the receipt of news in the world. gathered from every corner of the

form only one class in the com- this country assuredly we have the ed to pose as the hunter in quest This, however, is but a part of munity. Is early apprenticeship to schools which. we deserve. maritime world. This news comes Lloyd's function in the realm of stockbroking desirable? - or

Per- of the missing, luk", "janding on from many sources, chief among shipping.. Does an owner wish to button manufacturing? or to the ter us. But I am happy to think cheered, hand shaken and greeted

to haps that reflection does not flat the shores of Sunny Africa, to bal them being Lloyd's agents, who are communicate with the master of exporting of steel rails?-or to in-that at least we do not deserve the to be found in every port of any one of his vessels, he can do so urance?-or to the Bartor (if universal day-school system which

as a "hero" consequence and whose duties in- through the frat Lloyd's signal we are honest) to studio life clude the reporting of every in-station which that vessel may pass race-horse owning? And what of us.-J. F. Roxburgh in the "Spec or Mr. Stephen Gwynn recommenda to cident of maritime importance Does a merchant wish claims on the boy whose father is serving in tator." which may come to their know his Insurances to be paid in, ledge.

a India, or away with his ship in the forsign country, Lloyd's has a Mediterranean, or running rail- News is not news until it is im-special department to see to this, ways in the Argentine? Every parted, and this is done by the post-and even now the catalogue of Headmaster knows something of ing of notices on a board in "The Lhyd's service to shipping and several hundred English homes, Room"; through "Lloyd's List," commerce is incomplete.

The cast includes prominent per- the oldest newspaper in the world;

and if he le as lucky as I have been

sponges of “film land,“, of which the is it to be wondered that foreign he likes and admires several hyn

winsome Ruth Hiatt playa oppos through "Lloyd's Dally Index," organisations, seeking prestige, dred English parents. That pri which chronicles the movements of have adopted the name of Lloyd, vilege is a chief source of his hap- woman and certainly permanent Tom McGuire. In support as the ito Chaplin, Crawford Hent filing the part at the real hunter, with ships day by day; through "con-that Lloyd's is a word to conjure piness. But it is no disloyalty to hair waves done by Mrs. Beten heroine's father, fidential" communications

her, and last but not to with wherever ships sail or sea- his many friends to say that for (late of Hong Kong Hotel) Im lesat Akka, the world-renowned underwriters, and, through a num- fares. abide, and that in "A1 at width of knowledge and variety of

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MISSING LINK.”

SYD CHAPLIN'S LATEST AT QUEEN'S.

Partly due to his great fear of ance, the "hunter" romps through anfmáls, and largely to his. Ignor-

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