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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933.

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For a Governor-General to de- liver the most important annual scientific discourse in his Domi- nion is an achievement for which I can recall no immediate parallel. Lord Biedisloe's subject was a conspectus of recent agricultural me in New York. research, and he developed it with

(By Philip Page.)

"The theatre is dead," they told, toy i Radio City and talke of it because it is new. Even in the

A stranger in the land, I did not capital of Gargantua this place is

ja wealth of technical knowledge believe them. for in matters super-Gargantuan. The Rockefel- which must have astounded any of theatrical I a.m an incurablé ler millions have built it partly in his hearers who did not happen to optimist and am convinced that the order to alleviate unemployment be aware that scientific husbandry theatre can never die anywhere, and partly to perpetuate the has been Lord Bledisloe's absorb-{ It is not long since the same Rockefeller name. which, ing interest in life.

wail arose in London, where the would think, might have been per- theatre, if not any nearer now than petuated by other methods than it has ever been to an Eldorado, films and non-stop variety.

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Few sovereigns are so democratic has survived misfortune, much There are concert-hall, lecture- as King Christian of Denmark, who. competition and still more internal 'hall and other mental and spiritual with Queen Alexandrine, left Copen- stupidity, and yet is, at the lowest "uplift" schemes envisaged, since hagen recently en route for Eng-estimate, holding its own.

this staggering pile, for which land.

But New York pute

a greater gasp of astonishment is reserved Every day he goes out for an strain on one's optimism. There leven after a journey to the top of early morning ride, and can be seen is a unison of gloom. Gloom is the Empire State Building, is not returning on horseback, generally pronounced in dressing-rooms, n'yet finished. But as yet the at- quite alone, through the crowded managerial offices, in the Lotos mosphere suggests "Roxy" rather streets of his capital.

Club and the Lambs Club, in the than Rockefeller, and it is, in fact, A special period is set aside re- Hotel Algonquin, where the "Roxy" who is in charge, gularly when King Christian re-theatre folk congregate, in those Radio City has been open a few ceives any of his subjects who wish decorously expensive resorts the weeks only and already its policy to talk to him at the Amalienborg fashionable speakeasies and on has changed. The main theatre is Palace, where the Prince of Wales the crowded pavements of Broad-how thrown open at 35 cents was a guest recently.

way itself.

seat anywhere, at a time when in And Broadway, though not dead, England we are digesting break- has suffered a change into some fast. Queues stretch far down - An incident during the Prince's thing strange, though not rich. Sixth Avenue, so the policy is ap- stay may be recalled to indicate the Some years ago I found "the parently justified. absence of "red tape" from the daily Great White Way" garish but ag- This theatre is not without lives of the Danish Royal family.gressively prosperous. It is still beauty, with its "mezzanines," its Some delay was experienced in garish and the lights still sparkle elevators, and the bold severity of in her hand, if she sees it in a deal with her debtors in Europe. Producing advance copies of an im and flash; but they serve to show its auditorium. They showed me the In these circumstances - where portant speech to be delivered in up the shabbiness, the untidiness, vast staircases. They told me, there is no difference at all about connection with his visit, and off-the groups of seedy people who with awe, of the cost of the carpet the objective it should surely cials were growing hourly more im-stand before the windows in which which covers them and with still

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Traders' Fear of Raiders, For fewer still are the expensive

All Large and Costly. Idelights of the shops on Your Daily Smile.

Fifth Everything about Radio City is Avenue-and-Park-Avenue where the largest or most expensive or a problem which should be solv- account of their attitude was a

the display is not what it was. I bath in the world. The main el, not indeed in isolation. for most necessary beginning it is Unprogressive Humanity.

was told that fear of smash-and-handelier weighs six and a half every one is agreed that it is an clear enough that there must bel

"The first lie detector," says Sam grab raids has made the jewellers tons. No other organ has so many integral part of the larger pro- constant personal contact between Hill in the Cincinnati "Enquirer, and other luxury-traders wary of stops or such power, though it was blem of world depression, but as the Cabinet and the new Presi- "was made out of the rib of a showing their goods. Paucity of at that moment being made to jcustomers suggests itself as a fur-blent tremulously. The sculptured policy of restoring the world. It tation was for a visit "early in ever been made on the original ther and more plausible reason; plaques, a prominent part of the but the benefit of the doubt is per decor, are on a monster scale. The missible.

lounges and smoking-rooms Are In four nights on Broadway one superlatively vast, and in them one cannot see many plays or even see cannot, of course, buy the tiniest tions of plays; yet one can observe "hard" drink. He:Great Scott! That's just much and learn still more. And what one learns is hardly encour- luging. Most profitably is, the flag

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is futile, in this view, to embark March," and the decision has on the World Economic Confer-been made that a considerable' ence till the Debt question is at mission, headed by two or three How True! least on the way to being solved. Cabinet Ministers, will proceed to Finality, not a mere scaling down Washington to negotiate a settle married he should give up his club. of payments, is held to be essen-ment of the Debt outright. This tial to world recovery. Moreover prospect, it must be confessed, when he wants it most. it would be something worse than has always seemed a little doubt- futile to let the Deht question ful for many reasons and in

"Pully save she's got just the drag on to the point of upsetting particular for the reason that the the settlement of reparations] new President has only just costume for the fancy dress ball." achieved with infinite labour at formed his Cabinet and is sur- Lausanne. Nor, for the same rounded by a new and untried! reason, can there be any commit- staff of officials. It would mani- ment in advance though there festly be unfair at such a mo- may, and should, be the fullest ment to look for close technical |consultation - on other matters concentration on one undertak-.

proper to the World Confering.

"That means little or nothing."

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of the lowest lowbrowism flaunted ROTARY CLUB HEARS in some of the cheap theatres on!

GEOLOGY LECTURE. 42nd Street.

"Flaunt" is le mot juste for these places, which run matinees Donation For Children's daily. The comedy is gross and witless; the nudity and suggestive- ness have never been surpassed in

Playing Grounds.

A very interesting address of the Geology of Hong Kong was yesterday given to Rotarians, by

More than 350 foreign architects Paris or Berlin; and the intervals This business is going to and town planning experts from 33 are enlivened by the sale by the at ence This general outline of the take far longer than many people countries are preparing to partici-tendants of improper postcards. British view formed the sub-suppose, and the early stages ofpate in Stockholm's international

But a success in theatres of a Dr. R. W. Brock, who stated, that stance of the two statements of the actual debt discussions may town planning contest.

higher type, whether the fare be it would appear from geological the Chancellor of the Exchequer very well be left to a competent

farce, musical comedy, or serious data that Hong Kong was at one which have met with so much Ambassador with such expert as-

drama, is rare indeed.

period of its history under `the An attachment for vacuum criticism in America; and it may sistance as he may require.cleaners has been invented to can-

That the New York theatre will sea and at another in the interior be argued perhaps that they Moreover the divergence over vert laundry tubs into washing be itself again is reasonably cer- of China.

He also stressed the need of might have been framed for method has become more and machines by blowing air upward there are causes other than econo-an

tain. The delay may be long, for

establishment of a depart- American ears in rather more more apparent in the interval, from the bottom of the water they mie. A spirit of reckless im- ment for geology at the Univer acceptable language. Yet there and common sense suggests that contain.

patience seems to have set in, asity, in view of it being one of sciences and the

manner short, the snappy, the cheap and foundation of all

of studies. the easily digested. their

is good reason for thinking that the next practical step should be

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a plain indication of the convicto clear away this specific dif- Instead of bell boys shouting spirit which demands only the the basic tions sincerely held on this side ficulty by a frank discussion be- their names guests are paged in a was by no means unwelcome to tween the heads of the two Ad-London hotel by flashing

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the best friends of England in ministrations themselves. The room numbers on electric indicator Mr. Arthur Hopkins, a famous The meeting confirmed the sug- the United States, and that the Prime Minister has long since beards Installed in public rooms, London the produced that fine that the Club promise to pay a producer, who is known also ingestion of the Board of Directors first display of resentment has been indicated by public opinion

does not sum of $500 to the Children's

formed for Initial equipment, and a sum of $1,200 per annum for three years.

already given place to a better on both sides of the Atlantic as Rubber coverings have been in-play, "Anna Christie") appreciation of the differences the principal British delegate to vented for the leading edges of see a break in the clouds. We had Playing Grounds Committee when still to be reconciled.. For proceed, sooner or later, to Wash-airplane wings and rudders to pre-a long talk. American opinion, mude unusual-ington. It was thought indeed tect them from abrasion when ly vocal by Mr. Chamberlain, has at one time that his mission plane flies through sleet, snow or always clung firmly to the hope should be later rather than soon-rain.

of a profitable bargain to beer that he should be the ulti- driven over the Debt. No mate spokesman in a long-drawn

Personal Pars.

| doubt the precise character of the conference. Might it not be bet

bargain has varied widely with ter, as things are now, that this different speakers. Here and order of events should be revers the Colony, from Shanghai, on there it is found in the monetiza ed and that, instead of placing tion of silver, in the simultaneous the coping-stone, he should be alyo Maru, yesterday. |return of this country to the gold persuaded to lay the foundation?

Dr. Ralph Atkinson arrived standard, in the lowering of tariff There is the stronger argument yesterday, from Shanghai, by walls, in common action towards for the change since Mr. Mac-. Talyo Maru Japan, in fresh progress with Donald is not only the head of

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"Beauty Has Been Banished." "The legitimate theatre is mak- ing ita exit from American life," jis Mr. Hopkins's opinion. "What

we need here in beauty—other| than facial or corporeal and beauty has been banished. Not

TOURIST LINER FIREMAN,

Mr. Joseph S. Gubbay arrived in until beauty returns to the theatre Fined $100 For Assault.

the will ita vitality cease to ebb. We

jare commercialised to a mad and John Donald Moore, described as

unlovely extent,

a fireman on board the Matson Jin- Selling it to an audience is er "Lurline," this morning had his now a common expression. Per-bail of $100 estreated by Mr. formances reek of the huckster. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis- Yet New York is the last strong-tracy.

Moora was yesterday afternoon

here:

the

European disarmament. We may the British Government but the Mr. Waltgan Schmaltz, of the hold of the theatre in America, think that some of these sugges- Chairman-designate of the World German Consuler Service, arrived in New York with most of its theatres arrested in Queen's Road Central tions are irrelevant, that some Economic Conference. Is there Hong Kong, from Kobe, by the s.a. dark, New York that has lost what for behaving in a disorderly man

impracticable, that some any reason why he should not at Taiyo Maru yesterday.

are

are difficult for Americans, of all once pay a short visit to President,

people, to maintain; but it is easy Roosevelt - not in any sense to

was once an enthusiastic and dis-rier and also for assaulting Tam criminating audience, About the Yce, merchant of 33 Connaught only interest expressed in plays Road, West, and Sin Yuen, shop to-day is as to their financial suc-fokt of 59 Queen's Road Central, out- a common denominator What even to make a beginning of it, a visit would be, something more cess." Even bables lisp, 'Is it a side the buffet of the Hong Kong America passionately desires, in but simply to try to arrive at than a conspicuous act of cour-hit?"

Hotel.

to see that at bottom they have negotiate a debt settlement, orj

short, is what we all desire. It is some mutual understanding on tesy, It might well prevent Yet if the theatre is undoubted- When charged at the Central Po- to be shown some means of es-the true relation of the debt to divergence from degenerating ly in the doldrum; entertainment lice Station yesterday, Moore gave cape from the stranglehold of the the whole great problem of world into deadlock and set the picture activity persiste particularly his name as George, and offered world depression. Small blame depression which confronts both from the outset in its true pers-Radio City activity. to her, when she has all the cards their peoples alike? Bo prompt'pective on a larger canvas, New York has a new and mighty back to his ship.

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