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CONTRACTS WAIT FOR

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WON NOTORIETY,

[From Our Own Correspondant.) Shanghai," To-day. Misa Lai" Ming-fal, one ok, the | Crown's chief witnesses in the cate against Cheng Kwok-yau, found guilty of procuring the murder of George Fung in Hong Kong," will re-enter motion pictures at Peiping

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1932

Detective Stories As A Hobby

A Literary Review By Mr. J B. Priestley

MODERN YOUNG MINDS

One of the benefits that the characters, who show no desire story to earn their living, to take any

in the near future, according to her contemporary detective

or thriller has conferred upon us part in public life, to improve father."

Miss Lat left Hong Kong for is that it gives fellows of colleges the world or themselves. They Shanghai aboard the s.s. Gange re an excuse to try their hand at are as irresponsible too in their cently and 28 (2007)89 fiction. The point" is, that the personal relationships. They landed here and was met by her detective story can be played make love easily, do not work parents, Alm companies made several with, as ordinary fiction cannot be themselves up to any spurious hids for her services. It appears played with, and so these dis heights and depths of joy and that the notoriety attached to the tinguished persons are not above sorrow, but neither do they seem woman following the murder of her trying their hand at it, whereas to get much out of their amor- lover by alleged agents of the man most of them would shrink from ousness.

You may say that this is to whose affection she had scorned, writing a novel proper Yet has brought her a chance for for what is valuable in their detec- take too seriously a few light

tive tales is usually not the de- hearted novels, the work of

tune..

Her father told Chinese news tection itself, which is inferior to clever droll young people, but papermen that Miss Lai would go that in the professional yarns, nevertheless, the fact remains to Paiping shortly and that it was but the extra stuff, in which that this kind of fiction is the quite likely that she would re-enter they reveal the quality of their very newest arrival, it belongs minds," writes J. B. Priestly in essentially to this very year, the cinema world.

Lai Ming-fai is a pretty girl and the Saturday Suppliment of the and so its few bright straws can. her appearance. in court during the Evening Standard. days of Cheng's trial drew hundreds The of curious folk to see her..

"Death Under Sall.”-

at least show us which way the

wind is blowing. Meanwhile, let You feel this after reading this witty astingent stuff to me confess that I prefer reading story of the life she had led, "how "Death Under Sail" by Dr. C. imitation Lawrence or imitation she lived with Cheng and then left Snow, who is a very distinguish-Hemingway, prefer epigrams and him for his friend, Fung, caused aed young scientist at Cambridge, comic satire to the dark gode flood-tide of interest in the career There are many marks of his and-bowels fiction or the novels of the girl who had sought for youth in the story, not the least in which there are far too many fame before the cameras. Through of which is his narrator's habit drinks and not enough relative the tragedy of the men who loved of seriously referring to himself clauses in the prose. her, Miss Lai will walk into the as an old or elderely man. As bright light of film fame:

Map Magic. this narrator is only fifty-three, One of the most attractive and Dr. Snow gives himself away valuable little books for the He may

know ...not

3 general reader that has been great deal about vita- published this summer is mins, but he does not know any- Colonel Sir Charles Close, The judgments as is to-day the

thing about active bachelors of Map of England." The author American, Upton Sinclair, of

fifty-three when he makes one was at one time Director-Gen- of them consider himself elder-eral of the Ordnance Survey, and Literature And Politics. whom it has been truthfully said that to him the only good writ

ly, tired, and on the shelf.

The story itself is of a mured, with considerable success, to in this volume he has attempt- Many of life's most startling ing is good propaganda for So-

LEAGUE cialism. The attacks on Southey,

der on a yacht on the Norfolk) paradoxes are almost universally led by Byron, were not made recognised. Everyone observes, merely, or even mainly, because a source of pleasure to both old genious to keep you pleasantly their significance. We have To-day, a programme that will he Broads, and it is sufficiently in interpret the Ordnance maps to us, their history, their uses, and for example, that a fierce dis- Southey was no genius. Not at and young alike, is to be given at for me in the book lies in its au- time (if we haven't we ought to

guessing. But the interest

all used Ordnance maps in our position is very be ashamed of any selves but professional, pacifists, but very that reason" alone the pretence Children's League. It will consis ple and on life in general. His

been their impartial literary

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few of us know how they came

or Elizabethan England on the The trouble is, of course, Ordnance maps, and Colonel Sir that we're all far too crude in Charles Close devote several judging people..

We like to chapters to this theme. Some give them a label, and when of the other chapter headings, we've given them a label we ex- The Old Maps of England. The pect them always to act up to Origins of the Ordnance Survey, it. In writing that process is How to Read the Map, The Place- known as keeping up the tradi

some

pen-and-ink sketches as llustra

rare among professional soldiers merited nothing but contempt. buffet tea and dancing for the older first chapter is clumsy, but he to be made or how many different Some contradictions, however. The hunt was lustily kept up by people. Side shows typical of car very soon shows himself to be Englands can be found on them. persist in eluding notice. The Macaulay in the palmy days of rivals, sand castle building com- capable of writing good pointed Thus, you can discover Pro notion, for example, that Left Whiggish and priggish coaceit; petitions, a baby parade, pyjama dialogue. Remarks of this kind historic England or Roman, Saxon

nor have many of those who are parade and a men's relay race will occur frequently: Wing stands for liberty and commonly regarded as advanced also be included in the festivities. Right Wing for repression dies philosophers ever been able to The gala is in charge of Mrs. T. hard. Yet evidence exists which forgive Goethe for his refusal to H, King, chairwoman of the gala ought long ago to have killed it. sympathise with the disruptive committee, who is known for her forces which even to-day are help in philanthropical matters. The The Russia of Czarist days per- tearing the world to pieces. A rest of the committee is made up of mitted, and almost encouraged, mild dislike or a markedly re- women who are equally as inter vastly to the surprise of Europe, luctant acceptance has been alexted in charitable purposes and

of most invariably extended to the who have done much in making the tion of the English novel, name of England indicate the ne the subversive doctrines

masters of conserving thought League one of the greatest charit And you can obtain from this lent scope of the book. A very good "Fitle work, this, to pack Tolstoi, much in the same way by those who choose to regard able organizations in the Far East story, even though it is only an for a motor or walking tour. as the pre-Revolution nobles of them as opponents. It seems The amount of helpful work done attempt at

*** An Edgar Wallace. -1- old France toyed with the teach- very much easier for any con-[by this group of women is not rea-scientia detective fiction by a

on holiday, vinced Wordsworthian more lized by Hong Kong people who fascinating glimpses of the "Sheba Visita Solomon," has ings of Rousseau, and thereby catholic in his outlook than ever donate to its cause. A great many newest adult generation, not the agilt jacket and some odd little assisted to prepare their own Wordsworth was to take pure schools, church organizations and "post-war people but the gentions. Sheba and Solomon are downfall. In Bussin of to-day ly on its merits the work of needy families beneft, from their eration newer than that, our most present in the little tale, but the Bolshevists are determined Browning than for the members untiring labours. Over $18,000 interesting foreigners.

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