1933-12-29 — Page 7

FRIDAY, DECEMBER

CHILDREN CARRIED

OFF BY PIRATES

Delightful Party On H.M.S. Modway.

OFFICERS. ENTERTAIN ·

YOUNGSTERS.

A delightful children's entertain- ment was given yesterday after- noon on board H.M.S. Medway, when 100 Hong Kong youngsters | were captured by "pirater" at Queen's Pier and carried off to the big ship.

At about 3 o'clock one of the ship's life-boats, garishly decorate ed, flying the "Jolly Roger" and manned by a crew of naval officers disguised as bloodthirsty pirates, appeared and carried the children -off to their pleasant doom.

Games of all sorts were provid-| ed on board with plenty of choco- Jates and other "goodies" dear to the childish heart. Tea was ser» ved at 4.15, after which the entire Officers' party ascended to the

lounge, where a magnificent Christ mas tree had been planted, loaded with toys, chocolates and thing else a tree should be loaded with.

every-

As finale to the entertainment, Father Christmas, amid shrieks of -delight, descended from one of the hatch covers, in a cloud of snow, while the presents for the children. .came tumbling down after him.

Shortly afterwards the piratien! craft was again requisitioned take the children back to shore.

OVERSEAS LEAGUE.

Travelling Secretary. In Hong Kong.

RECEPTION YESTERDAY.

to

A large aftendance, presided over by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, *C.M.G., gathered at the Helena May. Institute yesterday afternoon. to. welcome Mr. Lisle Carr, Travelling: Secretary of the Overseas League, who subsequently addressed the meeting.

Among those present at the fune- tion were the following. The Hon." Mr. and Mrs. E, D, C. Wolfe and Miss Wolfe, His Hon. Mr. Justice and Mrs. J. R. Wood, Major II. B. L. Dowbiggin, Professor W. Brown, Surg. Lt, Comdr, Polk, Rev. N. V.

1933.

In Switch of Cuban Envoys

PRESIDENT GRAU

SANT MARTE.

JEFFERSON CAFFERY

SUMNER WEIMES. Jefferson Caffery, named by President Roosevelt to succeed Sumner, Welles at U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, is a veteran diplomat who has serred his country in virtually every quarter of the globe. Beginning his diplomatic career in 1911 as secretary to the U. S. Legation at Caracas, Venezuela, be served In most European capitals as well as acting as counselor to the US. Embassy, at Tokio. Since 1920 he has held many posts throughout South America. Caffery comes into the Cuban post as the result of requests to President Roosevelt that Ambas sador Wellen be recalled. Regarded as a national hero after, the fail of the Machado regime, Welles is said to have clashed repeatedly with iko miministration of President Grau San Martin who succeeded Curios De Cespedes s ruler of Cuba..

LITERARY NOTES

*

Short Stories By Famous Authors

Volumes Should Become Best Sellers

¿

THE BEST OF THE BOOKS

(By Compton Mackenzie.)

Halward, Miss D. W. Westland It has long been an accepted be-j after all, is a sign of impatience.

HE CHINA MAII

Promising First MODERN JEW SUSS Helpful Book On

Novel.

Entertaining Picture Of Mexico.

first

AN OTHERS

Book Like Glittering Quicksand.

STORY OF A GREEK

Hospitality KING'S

Practical, Witty And Warm-Hearted

The Pleasure of Your Com® pany. By June and Doris Langley Moore (Gerald Howe, - 78. 6d.). This "text-book of hospitality". In |

The Kindly Gods” is a novel and a promising one. It Solal of the Solals. By Albert combines a colourful and entertain- * Cohen. (Putnam. 7a. 6d.), 2% From the ghetto of the Greek Ing picture of Mexican life with a clever study of the impact of North island of Cephalonia there emera practical, witty and warm-heart- Americas Ideas upon the sultrier ges Solal, handsome, brilliant, ap-ed book. It surveys the whole field traditions of Spain. Paco is a hot-parently a more modern Jew Suss. of hospitality, from the gargantuan blooded young savage of grandes After various amorous adventures bouts of eating and entertaining ancestry, who, after a wild and er he marries the French girl, Aude, that, in baronial times, lasted for rant youth, falls in love with a and then the real conflict begins. Is days on end, right up to the modern visiting American girl.

The to be true to his marriage or to cocktail party when "the guests Her father, a Southerner, regards his race?

have come and gone almost before him as scarcely more eligible than He chooses in favour of his re- one has had time to appreciate

plantation nigger, but he changes latives of the ghetto, and then, to their presence, his mind, after Paco has knifed a please his wife, turns them out, Having given us an outline of bandit.*

changes his mind again, becomes a the history of the subject.which The novel ends on a conventional minister in Paris and the editor of one hopes they will some day fill in note, but there is a good deal in it an important paper, then looses the authors turn to the "practical that is not conventional at all. Miss everything except Aude. Up till politics" of keeping one's guests. Dwyer evidently knows her Mexico, now the book has been like a glit happy and occupied in these and also more important still-she tering quicksand, sometimes be modern times. Food and drink,

coming solid and then dipping table-laying and decoration amuse-| can write,

deeper and deeper into fantasy. But ments for young and old-these are at this stage of ruin the relations some of, the subjects dealt with in a lusions were to be made to the between husband and wife are helpful fashion in this book which ancient Mediterranean gods it given with a cold and detached will be a boon “during the coming would · have been as well to get realism that is oddly dark against Chrismas season and for long their names right.

that background of esoteric exuber- afterwardı. That a musical critic's royalties ance, tinged, as in 'nearly always on a book about Palestrina should the case in Jewish novels of nói provide him with the means to matter what language, with the build a villa, on the Riviera will laughter of tears.

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come as a shock to anybody who ·Soial, deserted by his wife, seems knows anything about publishing to have completed the parabola of or music, and a piece of careless his destiny, but the author sud- exaggeration like that strikes denly whisks him out of the quick- falee note.

sand into cloudland, and we are "Mediterranean Blues" is cer-left bewildered by a sort of parody tainly entertaining, with a steady of Christos redeeming an ungrate- promise of better work to come. ful world. Probably the auther would not wish to claim more for it.

Snapshots.

*

"Great Christiana," edited by R. S. Forman (Ivor Nicholson and Wat- son, 8s. 6d.), is well described by the Archbishop of York in a fore ward as "a snapshot album-set- ting vividly before us Great Chris- tians of the period immediately be- {fore our own."

and

"ARCHES OF THE

YEARS."

Leading Best-Seller In America.

WILLIAM MCFEE'S LATEST NOVEL

"No Castle In Spain"

"No: Castle in Spain”, like other books" by Mr. William McFee, (Faber and Faber) is written in m style reminiscent of Joseph Con- rad's. Its fault is that the New York heroine falls to engage our [sympathies, so that when she

COMMENCING SUNDAL

OWEN

TERRY

CAROL

JESSIE

FTHEWS

THERE GOES THE BRIDE

A BRITISH PICTURE

marries Bouth American Croesus; BERKELEY

|who believes that woman's sphere

is the harem, we do not want to| volunteer personally for the rescue party. It may not be the real thing, but it is an exciting book, which one must falsh, and it will appeal of the Years" is in a seventh big, to every kind of reader.

Halliday Sutherland's "Arches

The large majority of the men edition with Geoffrey Bles. Both women chosen to represent reviewers and other readers agree Christianity during the last afty in liking Dr. Sutherland's "auto-

› Garibaldi Omnibus. years have been taken from the biography without sequence."

In the United States, also, ranks of the Anglican Church and Arches of the Years" is the lead-The Garibaldi omnibus, *; · by various Protestant Napoonformist bodies, It was pity the editor ing best-seller and has been in the George Macaulay Trevelyan, holds allowed the portrait of one Romanofficial lat of best-sellers every Mr. Trevelyan's three famous books Catholic to be included, because week since its publication. It is on Garibaldi. "But I worshipped. that particular blographical study being translated into every Euro-Garibaldi" he says. "And after 25.

¡years I worship him still.” could not be made without Intro-pean language.

(Hong Kong Secretary of the lief among publishers that volumes) The level is not only high, but it ducing a controversial note" quite League), Mr. and Mrs. G. G. of short stories can never be beats also even. Whether Lady Wil out of keeping with what one may Stopani-Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. F.. W. Stapleton, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. sellers, and I am sure that then be evoking the duke who died presume was the plan of this book.

"In the safe unostentatious way in Of the forty men and women da Bilva, Mr. and Mrs. Kolpi, Mra large majority of readers would which he had lived," or the German written about I was personally ac-| and Miss Alabaster, Capt. and Mrs. agree with me that if their choice old maid in Munich who long ago, quainted with exactly a quarter, C. E. Elliott-Heywood, Mesdames do for reading lay between a full-when a governess in England, had and except for the excellent study Blere, Stubbings, Balean, Misses.

|had a brief love affair, with the son of Fither Stanton? by Sir Philip Summerskill, Wentworth, McClaren, length novel and a volume of short of the house, or the elderly Jawith Ben Grest I was het deeply. im- Hill Clare, Heap, and Messrs. Ed-stories of neither of which they financier in his houss near the Pare pressed by the blographers: work. warda, M. F. Key, Nelson and S. M. had any previous knowledge they Monoman, or the Jewish taflor and To know a man personally or to his family in the hinterland of admire, the character and achieve- Mr. Carr reviewed the activities would try the novel first.

|Bayswater, or the last luncheon ment of a man does not ensure of the League in all parts of the There is no space to discuss all party of the American hostess in ability to write about him, and too world, and said, with regard to the reasons which contribute to BelgraVO-SQUATC; the unerring many of these essays are taken up Hong Kong, that the present mem-such a condition of public taste, but course of her pen is steadily main by the commonplace of religious Gbership was 880, During his two undoubtedly one of them is the tained.

observation. *

Wert

weeks' stay here he will endeavour abrupt change of mood which most

Excellent Style

Life Of Great Explorer.

to make the total 500 and appealed volumes of short stories force upon Her prose has a markedly in・ "Nansen of Norway," by Charlen to all members to help him in the the reader. A book of tales by W. dividual, modulation which yet al Turley (Methuen,-66), is a vivid, great drive. In these days, he said, W. Jacobs is as popular as a novel ways harmonises' perfectly with the interesting, and accurate life of a link between the empire was need because it is only rarely that Mr. matter in hand. Not a simile or a one of the greatest men of our að more than ever, -

Jacobs surprises us with a tale like metaphor is used that is not valu- epoch. "The Monkey's Paw,”.

/

CONCERT AT NAVAL CANTEEN. Splendid Programme To-night.

Satisfying as a Novel

ין

not

able, and , yet so discreetly ars Explorer, patriot," scientist, an- simile and metapher" used that it thor, and humanitarian, few men in "Relight the Lamp," by Barbara is only in retrospect we realise the history of the world have de- Lady Wilson's skill in that great voted themselves with so little per- Wilson (Heinemann, T. 8d.), is attribute of style which of late sonal ambition to the service of collection of twelve short stories, wears has been worse abused than man-kind p all widely diversified in scene, place,

VANNr, Charlie's Tarley any other. character, and incident, but all 30 It Is ho mean fest in the year of allowed any single arpact o {closely -- linked by Lady Wilson'a A Grand Naval Variety Enter-style and attitude toward life that race 1988 to say something new men's many-sided life to take undue

about-dawn,

precedence, and the result tainment, in aid of the funds of the when the reader lays the book down

It Made Me Feel Yeung compact book which, abould be read Hong Kong Ladies' Guild and the effect upon him is as satisfying The whole book is informed with by every man, and, what is more, Ministering Children's League, as the perusal of a very long and the wisdom and charity of one who by every boy, in order to remind taken place to-night in the Theatre very full novel.

has seen many aldas of life, and if them that though there were giants

dare too."

Stravelling In Greece. “ ek Seas*

Muspratt

“oug

of the Now Naval Canteen, Wan- My usual method for reading any I say that the reading of it made in those days, there are giants In chai, commencing at 9 sharp. volume of short stories is to ignore me fancy that I was young The programme, which was on the author's arrangement and again and enjoying, for the Arst ganised by Mrs. Elliott, the wife dodge about among the various time a volume of stories" by Al- of the Commodore, promises to be takes until I have finished them all, phones Daudet, that is only one of the outstanding entertain- But in reading “Relight the Lamp" taken as a measure ments of the year and includes the I was never bempted into what, reading them, not best talent from the Chiba Fleet.”

COOK'S DEATH AT

TEA HOUSE,

Manslaughter Charge Withdrawn.

Wong

Nam," a

pastry

charged, on remand; with the man.

slaughter of Cheung Pit-ch

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