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HOLLYWOOD GOES HIGHBROW

Hollywood is turning to the Drama. It is proposed to establish there in the autumn af Repertory Theatre. It will bej guaranteed to last at least five years. No less a person than Max | Reinhardt will be in charge..

Much of the financial support is to be "A Midsummer Night's

Dream."

THEY LIKE BRITAIN

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CRISIS IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY TRAINING

FOR NEW AGE

MODERN EXPERIMENT DOUBTS

(By Shane Leslie.)

URING four months I have of them at least must be able, like

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recently spent lecturing in the poor scholars or sizars of old different American colleges I could days at our Universities, to bencht never complain of their hospitality from the culture which is served or of the audiences. These last in a thick deposit for those who heard me with courtesy and under-know how to help themselves. standing, though some of my sub- Of competent instructors and The travel figures for

Junejects must have been far from magnificent libraries I found no show that the Increase in tourist utilitarian nor interesting.

lack, but the tutor, as we know him traffic to England is being well I began with the Rosenbach at Oxford or Cambridge, and above maintained.

Fellowship in Bibliography at Penn-Jall the inspiring master, by whom Americansylvania University. I had the dis- his pupils swear' against all This advantage of following the amusing comers, seemed to be lacking. In-

During June 8323

tourists entered England.

is an increase of 616 over June of series given by Christopher Morley, dividuality in teaching seemed as fast year.-

Other

but I found growing audiences in absent as the old-fashioned eccen- foreign tourists for terested in the minutiae of Swift's tricity which often delighted and June numbered 24,925, compared handwriting and in rare Irish arrested the young at English with 23,324 last June.

books of the eighteenth century. Universities.

For the first six months of this Subsequently I lectured in very I believe that in standardising year the total number of visitors varied places of education betwixt the type of teacher English Univer. from foreign countries was 76,-,the Catholic University of Washing-sities have drawn closer to the 747.

ton and the University of Min-American type, whereas the Ameri- This represents an increase of nesota. I looked into Columbia can colleges are not getting nearer almost 9000 over the same period University, Notre Dame and Har-to our traditions, although Yale last year.

vard, and I spoke at many girls had tried to introduce the English colleges. While I was overwhelmed system. At Harvard the Cum- Your Daily Smile!

by the fine scholarship I met in the bridge or Oxford graduate feels chatra, and interested in the most at home. It was there I sam- specialisation work going on, for pled the delights of real conversa- Soprano "Did you notice how my which I ventured to coin the phrase tion for the first time in America

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But, then, the manufacturer didn'tj

of "Pure Leaf Lard". This con- jcerned everybody. What "The change the lines of automobiles every MEYER-At Denmark, on August/Jungle" cost the stockyards it year, the salesmen couldn't change strong criticism whieh American another Byronic MSS., and so on.

would be impossible to estimate. 30th, 1934. Mrs. Vilhelm Meyer but it would certainly have been

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

their lines.

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Self-Justification

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voice filled the hall last night?"

"Contralto-"Yes, dear; in fact, I"opus Americanum," I was made at the Club of Odd Volumea. noticed lots of people leaving to make aware, especially in Chicago, that Factories Of Knowledge room for it."

all is not well.

Most Universities specialise in America's Own Critics' some famous English author. One I would not like to support the will have a Leigh Hunt collection,

educationists are offering their Harvard showed me a very fine own results. At the same time I collection of Pope and the best worth while for the packers to "I want to thank you for giving my realised that a crisis was impend- Celtic library I met in the United provide the young Socialist with wife your seat in the car yesterdaying in academic circles.

States. This is largely due to a fat pension for life rather than afternoon."

The case against the present Prof. Fred Robinson, who nas Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hollands have such a rapid fall of bus tired of our being accused of giving Bystein has been most strongly nutimade a study of Celtic as genuine "Oh, that's all right! I'm getting! tender sincere thanks to their ness. The development of stock- friends for the many kind expres-farming and of the frozen or

by Dr. Albert Nock, a ne Rabelais and inspiring as Walter Headlam our seats only to pretty girls!"*

acholar, lecturing to the Univer-used to make that of Greek at sions of sympathy in their recent chilled beef industries would no

Another need of the times is ally of Virginia. His lecturus King's, Cambridge. At Chicago Í bereavement, also for floral tributes doubt have happened anyway something to drop in the dish- were placed in my hands by a was shown the famous Chaucer sent and attendance at the funeral. but not so quickly.

water to give fingernails a nice Catholic Archbishop with a good laboratory, where Prof. Manly has Vegetarianism and courses of polish.'

deal of his approval.

dissected every verse ever written starvation in order to give the

Until a generation ago the great by the poet in a heroic effort to de- body a rest were his next cause; Facts You Did Not Know tradition of learning was carried cide on Chaucer's original text, a and although, most people are not]

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in American colleges. The task from which even Henry Brad- motor generations before and after the shaw flinched. way, there is no doubt that he driven plow that works without human Civil War were steeped in the The speciallat will find him. won much sympathy for his attention by winding, on alternate classics. With the new century self happily at home in one of these general protest against the sur-druma cables fastened to

opposite there was a great innovation and a enormous factories of knowledges, feit of beef which was for several sides of a field.

new deal in education, which was but no doubt a certain aroma of There can be no doubt that the generations the popular ideal of

be made more an instrument than alculture which even business men selection of Mr. Upton Sinclair wellbeing. Official statistics of carried in a pocket has been invented formative power. The old Classi-carry away from Oxford or Cam as candidate for the Governor. recent years show

great to show whether ultra violet rays are cal background is now missing, bridge is missing. One cannot ship of so great a State as Cali-falling off

in the consump-being emitted from lamps designed for The perspective of the past has imagine an American banker, like tion of beef that is due that purpose. fornia is of interest to us who are

been removed in favour of techni-the late Walter Leaf; translating not American citizens, and to a change of habits and

the "Iliad" of Homer. The Turkish government, will spend cal abilities in the present. there is no reason why we should has no relation to price or defec

Even if the factory system is Board of Trade nearly $1,000,000 within the next three Dr. Nock thinks that the present not say so. It is very difficult tive supply.

years in construction of landing fields

The China Mail Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 1, 1934.

Upton Sinclair.

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inclined to follow him all the Of British invention is a

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A detector small

enough to

to understand why there should statistics prove that the motor and buildings to encourage national system invites "the careerist, ad-more suitable to American life, it venturer, quidnunc, hand-over-head is the abnormal conditions which be any feeling on the part of any car by taking people out for their aviation.

experimenter, publicity-getter, pro-have called attention to the de or the peoples who share the Sundays for a run in the open

Jair and a picnic sandwich by the. Fender skirts have been invented to fiteer and quack." This seems,ficiencies. The main vigible fail- common Occidental civilisation

He points out that ure is shared to an extent with this.

that an interest felt by foreign-way has produced a bigger re: give older automobiles the appearance over severe.

of this year's machines and protect Wendell Holmes was kept by Har-jcountry: the great number of men-

them from mud and stones tossed by

the front. wheels.

RECALLED

Inquiry On Death Of Indian Guard

vard at anatomy, and Longfellow with a college education who after- and Lowell were retained to teach all their struggles find absolutely languages, not because they were no profession open to them. That technically perfect but because is a tragic state of affairs. they were steeped in the great The over-production of unders tradition.

educated men occurs even more in "Raked From The Rubbish"

America than in England. Ireland and Scotland suffer from the same- There can be no doubt that high phenomenon, but can pass a fair

ers in their political develop-form than was achieved by argu- ments is an interference." Welment or medical advice. have all more or less at the same Then came novels, of which time reached the same stage of "Oil" is perhaps the most power- BOWEN RD, TRAGEDY economic evolution; there can be ful and widely known; the object no doubt about the dissatisfac-of which was to expose the tion with things as they are; and methods of the company promo- it is natural to watch each ter, and the whole system which other's experiments in order to is known as "Wall Street". The see the results. Such interest initiated. knew much of these merely means that we think methods before; but a million there may be something useful electors can be reached by a to ourselves; and is a compli-novel for one that will read and death of Mohamed Din, an Indian those who can and those who can lege boy must find his billet in ment rather than a disparage-really understand the direct Special Guard, who was found not be educated have been given opportunities. College Our interest in Upton statement of intricate figures, dead in a pool of blood in a bullah equal Sinclair does not arise from ap-The recent Senatorial enquiries alongside Bowen Road on May 22 education, like the dollar, has been proval or disapproval of his pro-have provided much material is to be held by Mr. E. W. Hamil- devalued. Everybody, feels he has gramme; it comes from the fact that the more serious reader can ton at Central Magistracy, assista right to college, and as overy- that we know what his ideas are; consider at his leisure; and the ed by a jury, on Tuesday, com-body cannot profit by the old tradi- tion there has been an enormous we know that he is not the sort general result is that many finan-mencing at 2.15 p.m.

rent.

er education has been provided number of their surplus Into Eng

A Coroner's inquiry into the widespread in America, and that land. The educated American col-

With the recent failure of wealth

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GRIM TRAGEDY AT STANLEY

Inquest Opens On Strangled Widow

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The grim discovery of an elder..

of man that would change his cial gods have tumbled from twill be recalled that the body change in teaching towards courses plans from any motive other than their pedestals. Not merely was found by a party of South suitable to a technical and wealth- conviction; and his political for have they been proved to have Wales Borderers, who were walk- getting age. tunes will throw a great deal of issued to each other and received ing along the road about 2.50 p.m. light on the New Deal and the shares at a figure which allowed Private Baker, a member of the to reproduce itself as in the last trend of thought of the Ameri-a big market profit; but it has party, made the first discovery, twenty years, many men have been ly widow, of Kat Sai Wan village, can masses as well as the policy been brought home that many of when he suddenly pointed out a stranded with their college educa-near the old cemetery at Stanley, across tion as an unusable asset. Degrees of rope led to an inquest at the strangled in her hut with a piece. of the party machines.

them have been guilty of even a trail of blood, which lay

the path. His first reputation was won greater crime, incompetence.

can be obtained in subjects that] Central Magistracy yesterday. more by a fluke than by any in- The USA have no monopoly The Indian was dead, a bullet hardly seem to be academical at Mr. W. Hamilton. Coroner, sat. tentional advocacy. Forty years of these problems: but perhaps wound in his head Indicating that all. Dr. Nock speaks sarcastically with a jury comprising Messrs. F. ago in out of the way parts of they can be seen there on a big-death must have been instantance of education in "the fine points of 1. Marques (Foreman); E. C. Fin the world the tinned beef of ger scale than elsewhere. If the ous. The revolver, hölster attach commercial cake-icing or retail cher and C. L. Rocha. Chicago was a staple of ordinary New Deal has any effective ed to his uniform was open and shoe merchandising."

Deceased was Chúng Lan, aged diet; and the empty tina strewed remedy, it will be imitated the weapon was missing. -

It is interesting that though the 57, who was found dead in the about camping places and shacks everywhere. The "Epic" pro- Following enquiries," an inden-founders of America laid down hut, where she lived alone, an the were the sign of civilisation's ad-gramme which means "End cation parade of troops was held that all men were equal, they did morning of July 9 vance. Interested in Sociallem Poverty in California", is the em- on May 30, and a private, of the not lay down that they were equal. The hearing was adjourned. as a cure for the conditions of ployment of the unemployed man South Wales Borderera was de-ly educatable. Jefferson", himself life of the casual labourer, Sin-on vacant land for the benefit of tained in police custody on May in creating a university recruited A lengthy article on Hitlerism Is clair wrote "The Jungle" in or the State to produce food for 81, but on June 2, he was released it with the idea that "twenty of the the main feature of the current der to let the proletariat mem-other unemployed men. Two

best geniuses shall be raked from number of The Rock, which has the rubbish annually."

bers of a Socialist club give ex-minutes of quiet thought will re lead to the public control of

Just been received. Written by pression to their views. But he veal how this attractive scheme agriculture and eventually of in- began with a vivid description of is inconsistent with the existent dustry; which is, of course, Mr. Lack Of The Inspiring Master Professor Binchy, one-time Minister- life in and around the stock scheme of private ownership, Sinclair's object. He has, in I was immensely struck by the at Berlin, the article gives an yards; recorded how a human and how rapidly it would extend other words, succeeded In intro numbers at Columbla and Chicago Impartial review of the Nazi regime. Anger had got packed up in a tin if successful. In short, it is a ducing into practical politics the Universities. It is vastly to the Another feature, entitled Whither by accident, and how another challenge to the ideals of "rug-clear issue which he has al-credit of the hundreds, who work Science?" by Fr, H. V. GI, 3, 1. accident had added to the output ged individualism and would ways set before him as his aim, their way through college. Some also included in the current Issue.