1933-10-27 — Page 7

Page

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933,

COUNCIL MEETING LITERARY NOTES

THE CHINA MAIL.

YESTERDAY Overcrowded Characters

Street Noises Dealt With

In New Bill.

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Under the provisions of a Bill Offences to amend the Summary Ordinance 1932, read for the first and time by the Attorney General arconded by the Colonial Secre- tary, at yesterday's meeting of the, Legislative Council, anyone who in future, by mechanical means, re- produces or amplifies volee, or any noise, calculated

to attract

the human

in a manner passers-by

and create an obstruction of traffic

will be committing an offence.

His Excellency, the Governor,

present were:

The

Officer

Commanding

In Fiction

A NOVELIST AT LARGE

Swiftly-Moving Story

Of Celebrities.. :

THICKLY PEOPLED CHRONICLE

We know Mr. Archibald

Mar-

TRAGI-COMEDY ON

HIGH SEAS

From Tilbury Docks To Singapore.

A FANTASY AFLOAT

From "The Canterbury Tales":

Hotel"

Fine Array Of Novels For ball best as novelist and parti- down to "Grand Helal storytellers

Autumn Season

SHEILA KAYE-SMITH ON OLD

Was

THEME

(By Howard Spring.)

of

dividual tales and anecdotes.

Causerie of Events

of

THE MANAGEMENT

THE

KING'S THEATRE

WISH

TO ANNOUNCE

TO-NIGHT

AT 9.30 P.M.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

OF

"SAILOR'S LUCK"

FEATURING

JAMES DUNN SALLY EILERS

cularly for his stories of English have enjoyed placing their charac- country life, with a modern An- ters in a narrow circumscribed en- thony Trollope note. He has also,vironment, which makes clashes of however, had his experiences and personality inevitable, and, for B adventures in Fleet-street, like short space, intensifies the normal many another good writer, and rhythm of life.

In "Wanted here he recalls them.

on Voyage" Mr. He says he has dropped into Hubert S. Banner employs the old journalism at various

device of a long sea-voyage, but ДА times, Mr. Wegg occasionally dropped in- yet, in spite of so hackneyed a set- 10 poetry, and this remark any-ting, he succeeds in telling a rich- The Arm of Gollancz has opened petences in France during the war vein in "Out and About: Random twist at the end.

gests the pleasant conversationally amusing story with a surprising, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. he autumn publishing nearon with amount, as here recorded, to little Reminiscences" in which Mr. Mar The Ypres has a four-weeks' run presided at the meeting and others B salute of big guns. Marmory than some jolly sport and

guerite Steen's "Spider," L1⁄2. A. G. boozing.

shall sets down his memories, Be-from Tilbury to Singapore, and as the Strong's "Sea Wall" and Martin

Com-the ship goes slowly east its pas- The home again, a bullet on theginning with "Granta.” Troops. Brigadier R. B. Cousene, Armstrong's "Foster Mother" are Dublin front, and the piecing to bridge, they cover many "news.sengers lose their grip on ordinary D.S.O.

all published on the same day (75.gether of various things that had paper stories," themes, and per-standards and reality begins to The Colonial Secretary (Hon. 6d. eneb).

Imystifled him in the relations of sons, and they harbour lots of in-crumble into fantasy. I turned

On board there first Mr. D. W. Tratman, C.M.G.).

to Miss Steen's bie parents and other people.

is an escaping] (Hon. book. "Stallion," the last thing "Queer Coves I have Met" would

murderer, a woman novelist, the The Attorney General

exuberant Mrs. Grunebaum- Mr. C. G. Alabaster. K.C., O.B.E.). he gave us, was so unusually good have been a good title for the

Thus they are # cnuserie ready for another book, and would have justly decrib-events as Mr. Marshall encounter ous spinster to whom Lorrington Lazarus, Miss Ealesby, the timor- Chineso Af-ths 1 The Secretary for

miracle. "Spider" is not that. It'ed its contents,

ed them in Fleet-street and else makes such tempestuous love when Then Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Is good, but it is not in the summe

An Old-Fashioned Story.

where, and a chronicle of friends he is in his cups, and Dr. Sims, Mr. M. J Breen),

Mr. Martin Armstrong's book is and celebrities seen close up. Lord who serves as the one steady point The Inspector General of Police

and Edmund Gosse of reference against which all the (Hon. Mr. F. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.) mendably unwilling to do the same the one of the three that has a Northcliffe

into contrast: Mr. Master thing twice. Having given un her clear object in view and some ar-come

Belloc rest can be seen in their true per- The Acting Harbour

of

llatic patience in the pursuit of it and Mr. Chesterton are, as usual spective. (Hon. Commander B. Nowill, memorable account

Patience, Indeed. ralher than in companionship, and Conrad and people, a grand passion, and the

There is a mingling of scnti- R.N., retired).

no lightning Henry James are in the picture.mental tragedy and comedy, but The Director of Medical and English countryside, she has turn. Passion. There are

uncommon ashes, but innumerable careful and these are only a few.

perhaps undiluted comedy would Sanitary Services (Hon. Dr. A. R. ed in "Spider" tdo

people, snickering flirtations, and candles, all, however, arranged in It is, indeed, a thickly-peopled have been better for there Mr. Wellington).

consistent chandelier that screen, and often, swiftly The Acting Director of Public setting which we are asked to bo-ne

be Banner is so thoroughly at home, Works (Hon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle), eve is Brittany. But we feel in burns precisely over the thing the moves, Mr. Marshall contrives to writes John Beavers in the Daily impart to us something we did not Telegraph." His humour has at Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt. K.C.our boses that it is nowhere at all, author wishes to illuminate.

though we

The very know and are glad to remember times the acidity of the objective) musi concede that it exists in its own right within the name of Mrs. Murdle, who came to All through his book gives the im-satirist, and yet can break out into the bleak moorland house to lookpression that he found pleasure in the gally infectious laughter of covers of the book.

after her sister-in-law's orphaned writing it, and it could have no bet-exuberant happiness. The "Spider" of the title IB

children. recalls Jacoba, widow of Richard Adam, a

Mr. Murdatone, ter recommendation for readers of who came no unpropitiously Intanil sorts. mighty musican. The Baroncas Yon Benckendorf, one of Adam's the life of young David Copperfield. And just as David had his fantastic fortune," and it was only faithful Peggotty for shelter when then that Jacoba decided he was the storm blew too high, so the Clerk worth

hered children here have a no lean faith NOVEL OF OVER Stake Hazards Through called in the South Seas austa

fairs (Hon Mr. A. E. Wood),

J

Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie. Hon. Mr R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G... LL.D.

Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga. Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o.

O.B.E...

LL.D.

Hon. Mr. J. Paterson.

Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau.

Hon. Mr. Paul Laader.

Mr. H. R. Rutters (Deputy

of Councils).

Summary Offences. The Attorney General, ing the frat reading of amend the

Summary

Ordinance, 1932. suid.

and reasons, this BIB

In

the memorandum

a simple summary

growing nuisance.

jelass as "Stallion."

Miss Steen is versatile and com-

common

many flames, bequeathed to him "a

It is an old story.

her while. She

ful Janet, him. bore him children, saw him safely underground, and then be in mov- gan to manipulate the Benckendorf Bil to fortune.

should

But what was an episode of the "Copperfield" narrative is here the

whole matter of the book.

in

the

1,000 PAGES

A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE

FATE AND THE CARDS.

The World.

(Benn. 36. 6d.),

AND

SPECIAL BRITISH NAVAL FILMS

ALSO

HORNPIPE DISPLAY

BY.

SEAMAN BOYS

By kind permission of

Captain E. Manners

Of B.M.E. “Suffolk.” TOTAL PROCEEDS OF THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE IN AID OF THE BUILDING FUND OF CHEER'O CLUB, HONG KONG.

Ing with her fickle husband; a slam

man to slay his bridge partner; ** pair of fours in Central America brings a tiger into play.

SEWING MACHINES Best Makes

A HELMUT NOCHT

French Building. 5, Queen's Road C. Tel. 21291

Remarkable New Work Vulnerable. By Dale Collins. How

The game, begun by hazard for | fal

Treadle Models from H. K. $99,- the boy escaped by a certain bright Offences). She erected in Britany 1 Kreat

By Mr. J. C. Powys. Adventure here follows the pat-stakes which are none of the Also the latest As stated palace-the Galerie Adam. Bere charm of spirit, and how nome-

tern of card pips. Mr. Collins players choosing,

develops in PORTABLE ELECTRIC MODELS of Objects the man should always be worthing dark and fatal in Mrs. Mar-

deals half a dozen handa across terms, of increasing havoc to its provides shipped; at the annual festival his idle fell foul of something equally

half the world and marks the unforeseen end between its two remedy for a immortality

be Gasured. sinister

"dark-haired,

A wag once suggested that the game of consequences that the survivors adrift mid-Pacific.

in She would be the centre of the in-faced little creature" who was

two most unlikely subjects for a "pasteboard people" play with the The cards in their courses play the The Colonial Secretary seconded worship, the high pricatess who had Judith is carefully traced.

devil with coincidence; yet some Adam what and the Bill was read & Arst time. made

The selling is rather old-fashion-book were "How to ride a tricycle" destinies of their recipients. and A Bill to consolidate and amend gradually it was to her, not to him there is a "family retainer" feel verse about the Venerable Bede.

Dog-carts are in vogue. and and a five-act tragedy in blank An ace trumped in Liverpool how strength rather than strain{

sends a ses captain's wife voyag-our credulity as they do so. the law relating to miscellaneous that every knee came to bow.

has

It might be thought that these) A second and The picture of this woman, tv-ing about the servants that third time, taken clause by clauseing in her fantastic palace. grew is a sensitive, careful piece of work bury romance five or six times as jbeen dead for some time. Ent this would be run close by a Glaston-į

roded with egomania, is well done, that achieves just what it set out

to do. though she is always a

figure of of life.

licences was read

in Committee, and passed.

Finance Committee.

Following the Council a meet, ing of the Finance Committee was held, the Colonial Secretary pre- siding. Votes totalling were approved.

$3,340

RADIO LESSONS IN

he was.

ing into fabulous years and cor

ed,

long as an ordinary novel and with forty-three principal characters. thentre rather than

More On Farm Problem.

It seems, however, that Mr. John The herd of singers and players| Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith is more Cowper Powys has already achiev-

for the up-to-date in "The and dancers who gather

Ploughman'a ed a success of esteem with bin festival and turn the place into Progress" (Cossell, 7s. 6d.). She "Glastonbury Romance" of 1,174) shambles of backbiting and drink-begina in 1924 with the death of pages. The book's jacket is adorn- jing and love-making is depicted one ploughman and ends in 1933 ed with the opinions of half

with mallee, and throughout all with the death of another,

dozen critics who would rank him runs the the

conflict of a young! The first ploughman, who was with Tolstoy or Hardy. generation.

not only dead but buried, was old

Remarkable Work. For Adam had other descen- Sinden, who had been a ploughman dants by other women, and one of all his life. The second

staggering book for a was his them 68 W

as something like a son Fred, who stepped into his mortal reviewer, and probably few crusade the necessity to strip from father's job, found that England will accomplish the feat of read- Jacobs the pretence that she, and doesn't want ploughmen any more, ing the whole of it. Yet it is Arrangements have been made she alone, had made Adam what he and died to the job when the lure remarkable work by a by the Hong Kong Broadcasting was.

talent. of the road, a caravan, the "inde Committee with Mr. H. R. Wells A fully charged book; over-pendence" of doing what he likes The characters are surrounded to give a series of lessons in charged,

CANTONESE.

Series Of Broadcasts By Mr. H. R. Wells.

Friday, November 8.

T

A

book and

indeed: lacking the when he likes, overcame him.

Too Many Characters

work?

It is n

man

A

by spiritual agencies which are not

cop-

Cantonese cach Tuesday and Fri-austere single-mindedness of Between the two deaths Mias content, like Hardy's, with com- day, from 7.30-7.58 p.m as from "Stallion." It is 8 tremendous Kaye-Smith explores the whole lament, but Interfere and influence,

team that Mies 3leen has tried to mentable question of agricultural Men and women must struggle, These lessons will be based on drive, and some of them stray a depression, of the break-up of es- with a Nature that may ba Mr. Wells' book "Cantonese for good way out of the picture, refustates, the coming of the bunga-sciously hostile or malignant. Everyone" (revised edition), ing her compulsion..

{lows, the burden of tithes and Embedded in the story, though which may be obtained from Messra. Kelly and Walsh, or at

taxes, the fallen state of the coun- hardly at its centre, are the local tryman.

politics of Glastonbury, with their the Bible Store, 2, Wyndham Mr. Strong, too, has landed his It is a theme that number of no- curious development into

& com- Street, and it is suggested that canvas, Nicky D'Olier, the hero, velists have tackled of late. Here mune, and a struggle between the any who desire to take advantage is little more than a convenient the too-familiar story is told again industrial and philosophical ele of them should have book string for the display of various with an authentic, first-hand ac-ments in the inhabitants. ready at the hour of the lesson, personalities that touched his life. cent. So Miss Kaye-Smith wells together with a note

'Sensual Mysticism" There are so many of them that the the dominant note of modern fic- It is difficult to distinguish de- pencil ar pen.

book lacks any clear cut intention: tion, whether of town or country. sign or to perceive coherent sanity. As the lessons proceed, Mr. or. If there was intention, there to Work, work; who will give us Life, it is hardly too much to say Wells would be glad to hear from no clear-cut achievement.

We learn any who are learning, so that he

a lot about a lot of

appears de sexual life, and the rest is circumstances. The question of may regulate the speed to suit people, but there is scarcely more each learner. It is hoped that the bearing of one on another than if "The pantomine man" (Rich and conduct hardly arises; all depends lessons will be so simple that all we had read about them in a news-Cowan, 75. Gd.) collects some acat-on opportunity. We are conscious who listen will learn something paper.

tered pleces of the work of the of an earth seething and⋅ petrify- Nicky's childhood centred on the late Richard Middletan. "The Ing: there is dogmatic treatment of the language, but it is neces-sea wall of Sandycove, in Dublin Journal of a Clerk," Middleton's of the ecstasies and repulsions of sary that they should hear every Bay, and the joys and frustrations personal record, began at the age sex, of "deep veins of sensual my of an upbringing that had many of 20, is indispensable to anyone sticism." The people seem to be quear friendships but no sane an(who would understand this tragic reverting to Nature from Society, chorage in a home are well; de- jman,"

and the world's chief characteris IN ONE DAY

scribed. ·

There is not much here that will | tle is lechery, Am The doctor and his sister, "the add to the author's substantial, re- Viewed merely as agitations or Zermatt, Duchess," who had most to do with putation, but there is a good deal modifications of human - thought, Twice up the Matterhorn in one Nicky's moulding, are richly pre- that will help to explain the tan- this is a remarkable production. -day is the record of Hermann Per-sented, though they are of a rather sled threads of misery and glory ren Junior, a Zermalt guide. He familiar vintage, (The doctor who that made the men what he was, accomplished this text in order to has made one professional mistake salabrate his 90th ascension of the and thereafter slipped downhill is 1 POSTHUMOUS NOVEL mountain, sa

ono,

TWICE UP MATTERHORN-

becoming too common,)

His "father, also named Hermann

Story of Tragic Life.

Literary Wedding.

Mias Evelpa Sharp author of Nicky's/schooldays in England John Galsworthy's posthumous "Unfinished Adventure," recently Parren, has conductsă climbers to were of the conventional fight, novel will, he published shortly. married Henry W. Nevinson, "the the top 148 times--Reuter, and-frlandahip order; and his ex-"Over The River" in its tilla, famepe journalist,

FROM EVERY POINT OF VIEW

OL

FLAK

(GOLD PIRA

ARE WONDERFUL CIGARETTES

Tije návazsikamani, ja josund by, the Brikk-American Tobasso Caj (China) Dạt