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CLUB REVIVAL?

The social clubs are supposed to be thinking, of restoring their en- trance fees. In spite of this it is not thought that prosperity will come back to many of them.

There are exceptions, of course. The aporting ones will carry on. So will the great barracks, like the

Apart from these a club will

ing anxious to accept them.

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CANTOR OVER EUROPE

HIS TWO TESTS FOR A COUNTRY

ENGLAND AND ITALY SANE

(By Eddie Cantor)

London. I'm a bit biased. I also think

WO years ago I nearly became that it is always going to be the

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T an Englishman. Mind you, centre of production of good Carlton, the R.A.C. and the Con- I am not waving the Union Jack pictures. That does not mean servative, which give the impres- sion that they are more hotels than Maybe an Englishman doesn't that it is going to have a mono-

Well, let's poly wave a Union Jack? clubs, and do, indeed, harbour per-waive this paragraph.";

The monopoly is well bust now. manent residents.

Anyway, two years ago my There have been a good many There has been a bit of a howl have to be sociable as well as social wife called a conference. She excellent English films.

said. "You have five daughters." if it is going to get all those young I knew that

about the purity campaign. I men who have found clubs surpria- A man once asked me what I think that the films which have would sooner have, U.S.$1,000.-suffered had it coming to them. White's Bucks, the St. James's 000 or twelve daughters. I said. It is difficult to define "dirt," but and the Bachelor's' should survive. Twelve daughters, because if we all know it when we see it. But the little mausoleums where you have US. $1,000,000 you There has been a censorship in

some states for a long time members sleep peacefully under want two, three four more. Blackward's and The Field have a "But twelve daughters; that's Pennsylvania, for instance.

plenty." For that matter five is my last five films there have only been two small cuts. The rea- enough.

Then my wife continued: son for them was that some of "These gangsters-what are we the girls were supposed to be too The new road chief, Colonel!

going to do about them?" They undressed. Bressey, who is one of the New

I saw that the Bishop of Lon- Year knights, had a strange adven-seemed decent" enough fellows

when one met them in speak don had been protesting against tage just at the end of the War easies, but shooting and kidnap-chorus girls wearing not much

long way to go to recovery,

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He was the first British officer to enter Cologne after the Armistice, Ping do not come under the head-more than make-up, and that one girl had confessed her shame at The mayor received him cordially, ing of good clean fun. and regretted that Colonel Bresses could not take the town off his is

The "Last Round Up" appearing so.

Artist or Pander

The Cantors nearly shipped, handa immediately..

It all depends how it is done.. daughters and all, to England "He pressed it on me," said and settled down in the suburbs. I am one of those and I am very Colonel Bressey, "but as I had only In England your minds seem to narrow-minded--who

to

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my handbag with me, and not even work logically. If you know the gross obscenity in the nude. The taketh the sword shall perish by a revolver, I had regretfully to de- man who has committed a crime days are gone when women were

cline."

wear long, drab the sword." Modern "improve-

you deal with him fairly quickly expected

underclothes, or be held The president of the Workmen's But now we've got our great ment" only emphasise the old

immodest. Hong Kong, Tuesday, February 5, 1935 truth that war is fatal to all the Council then approached him and man-at least. we think he's a

He put Ziegfeld, my old friend, who combatants because it is what is also tried to hand over the town. great man-Roosevelt. called "dysgenic," that is to say Deputations waylaid him at every 50 per cent. of the gangsters first put my name in lights on Chinese New Year is the most physically active turn. The morning after his ar away in a short time. He is Broadway. put nudes on the stage who are the first to be killed. rival a number of English pri- dealing with crime to the accom- and they were beautiful, like pic It is in vain that philosophers The basis of Chinese civilisation sonera interviewed him while he paniment of the "Last Roundtures. There was nothing of de-

pravity, about them." and mathematicians tell us that was laid in the long centuries of was shaving. They wanted to know Up." time does not exist; that it is pacifism: the occasional years of how they could return home. merely a fourth dimension of revolution pat one dynasty in

Then a German staff officer, Cap The answer is that our place of another were compara-tain Schink, appeared, and formal- space.

affairs inflictingly surrendered the fortress to minds work in a way that makes tively small

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English. In No Time

Theatre Barometer

But there were other producers who paraded the girls with an

The Cantora would have be emphasis on the fact that they come English in no time. That's had little on. And that was a. curious thing which happens to shocking. It all depends on it convenient to divide the suc-wounds that soon healed.

one in England. Take a perfect-whether you are an artist, or a cession of events into periods that The autocracy of the Head of

ly good Italian, Spaniard, pander." we can easily realise and use. to the Family: was equally valuable

Chinese, Nicaraguan, put him in Colman Solitude fix events in our memory. It is in securing the survival of the

As for the girls' reaction, well, also in accordance with our way moralcode and the legends and

A Boap has been invented that won't England and in two weeks he's

Now so pro-British he gets annoyed I have never heard a complaint of thinking to separate off parti- traditions that shape the thought smart if it gets in one's eyes,

It is cer-If they invent some that tastes like ice about the Norman Conquest. It's from the Goldwyn girls who have cular relationships of the Earth manners of the child. in its revolutions round the sun, tainly true that the authority of cream when shoved into the mouth, the lucky for America that I'm only so often decorated my pictures.

small boy's happiness will be complete here seven days.

The quietest neighbours one or of the Moon in its circling the Parent was carried to a com-

I've been looking round this can have in the quiet area of round the Earth, to be periods of pleteness which was hardly con-

"Laugh that of," said the fat man's trip and I've found a couple of industry known as Hollywood are casting our minds back over jaistent with effective govern- the past and looking for- ment by the State, involving a wife as she sewed his vast button on sane countries. One is Italy and the English. There are a lot of the other's England. You've them. Ronald Colman is the ¡ward.

same or other large amount of interference by with a wire, *

both got out of the slump. Italy quietest of them all. His house philosophers tell us that that officials; and it may be true that

needed a Mussolini to weld it is so quiet that he hasn't got a is merely sentiment, and does it was carried so far as to limit not correspond with any unduly the development of the advertised that he had put a car to together and combine the people bell. When you call on him you Those gether in seven minutes. The next in an effort to climb out of the drop a pin on the doorstep and substantive "facts." They ignore individual personality. that sentiment is one of the defects are less important for evening he was called on the phone mess. motive forces of our lives, and is survival, than the exaggeration at dinner time and asked if it were

of State control which is the "Yes," was the reply. "Why!" not only in itself a fact, but very fetish of the moment in Europe "Oh, nothing, but I believe I've got more important a fact than the catching of our usual bus in the The Head of the Family bas

knowledge of the morning. dor is the suggestion that our members of his household which

Another disturbing personal

makes a check on the harsh en sentiment at the turn of the year, whether we go by the solar or the forcement of law; and control lunar calendar, is merely con-tempered by affection and per- ventional. As if "convention" anal intimacy is a different were an unimportant thing. The thing altogether from the cold truth is that the whole of our of a mere abstraction which we and somewhat mechanical rule social life depends on convention, and it is infinitely important in personify as the State

The cultural ferment of China The death has occurred of the country which can laugh at its friends, especially George Arliss. avoiding the awkwardness and friction of everybody choosing to-day is an attempt to introduce Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley, troubles and start to remedy I almost wrote Mr. George Arliss his own time and method of do-mental unity, and a greater per- Broadcasting Corporation since 1930. Farls was Josephine Baker. She Friendship With Rogers I've got more respect for him

Ing things that we feel worth doing. Α convention

[has; gone from bananas to Offen He was born in Halifax, and was

My other best friend in my teaches what to expect, and pre- possible for such a movement educated at Clifton College and bach. She is fine in light opera home own that isn't one, is Will vents us from forgetting.

not to arouse controversy as to London University.

German Position Rogers. We have a lot in com Recognising in our own case where the new boundaries be He was in turn Junior, Lord of the value of festivals, it is a tween control and liberty are to the Treasury, Speaker in the House

The theatre is dead in Germon. We each shout at 30,000,- [000 people regularly, over the natural consequence that we be drawn; but we are of the of Commons, and Chairman of the many. I've got another test for should heartily, sympathise with opinion that whatever proposals Royal Commission on Labour fn countries. How prosperous are radio. Will is not often at home. the Chinese community of Hong may be made the old ethos will India. He was decorated with the jackets? That's a good line on swimming up the Zambesi. When Kongin their celebrations. survive. The process will be Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1932- What the New Year may bring to one of absorption of more or less China nobody can prophesy; but from the outside world; the old Reuter this particular festival com-fashioned need not be unduly memorates the two foundation nervous about the new impulses. stones on which the history of The result of going too fast is the Chinese people is built the not progress but reaction unity of the race in one civilisa

his butler comes straight away.

Best Ambassadors You don't seem to need a If I were the Prime Minister Mussolini, or perhaps your I would not let them stay in Cabinet is a lot of Mussolinis all Hollywood; I'd pack them off as JOHN WHITLEY reading the statements of your the danger spots in Europe working together. I have been plenipotentiaries extraordinary to PASSES politicians for a long time and They are the best ambassadors

they are the sanest, things being who ever left England: said in Europe to-day.

They never get their names in I always go to theatres to test the newspapers. That, in Holly- country. Give me a country wood, is the highest praise where the theatres are füll' and know..

tion, and the family bond. The

B.B.C. Chairman Dies At Age Of 68

London, To-day.

I will show you a great country, I count most of them my

a stronger element of govern- J.F., chairman of the British them

The gayest thing I saw in than any man I am friends with.

sonal liberty for the younger gen-at the age of, 08. eration. It would be quite im-

paradox of the Chinese question REGISTRY WEDDING

is the weakness of centralised ad-

OBITUARY

Mr. A. J. T. Allison

Passes

the manufacturers of smoking

a. country's intentions towards

He walks out of doors and absent-mindedly finds himself

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her neighbours. In Germany he is at home you can, usually there are no

no more smoking Jac kets; they've all turned into uniforms.

Germany puzzles me. always thought that if you heard [a man play the violin extremely well you would say, "He's a good The funeral of Mr. A. J. T. All violinist In Germany they

ministration, which Westerners The marriage of Miss Ariza son, formerly of the staff of any; We can't tell how good he consider the prime essential con- Mamleef and Mr. Paul Alexander Messrs. John T. Thornycroft, who is until we know what his dition for survival, with the Obouhelf was solemnised at the passed away at the Matilda Hos nationality. fo. strength of the national tradi- Registrar's Office, Supreme Court, pital on Sunday morning, was held Hollywood tion and character, which not only on Saturday, Colonel Eaves officiat on Sunday afternoon at the Co Still, Hollywood's my home, stretches further back than any

lonial Cemetery, the Rev. N. V. Hal- although there isn't such a place, ing. other type of outlook on life, but

ward officiated

It's got no Mayor and no railway seems likely to stretch further

The late Mr. Allison, who was station. Its best restaurant is in on into the future. The paradox,

aurylved by his wife, came to the Los Angeles, and its wild par Is not really so difficult to un

| Colony : over 12 years ago from are held across the Mex ravel if we note that a strong

Mr. and Mrs. Solomon were the Canada, and had been on the stat Border It started its centralised Government is caus

victims of thief who stole proof several well-known local firme dustry a long time ago ed by fear of violence from with-

valued at 800%FITO their

lawimming pools, out, and is a precaution against sidence at NGA TELỚ

Mr. Peter H. Bin was the judget Pictures are Conquest; and it reronins true Kowloon, sometime during the the Wing On Company Weight Esthink they are good that in the long run he who afternoon on Saturday.

timation Contest' on Sunday nights

EUROPEANS ROBBED.

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