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SELF-REVELATION IN "SEVEN PILLARS"

Hollywood is preparing for TURBULENT

war Already three stars of he men parts, dissatisfied with mere celluloid militancy, are recruit- ing units for sterner work.

BOOK OF PASSION

AND BRUTALITY

(By J. B. Firth)

Mr. Victor McLaglen ("What Price Glory was first in the field with the light Horse Caval: W House and newed out her ent emergencies, that a

THEN Wisdom builded her sions to meet so many differ

maik

save Seven Pillars, she would have like Lawrence, who had but a 47

ry an organisation. "to Amèrica." "Mr. McLaglen did been somewhat startled, I single ruling idea the restora- COMPETITIVE good business with this body, Re-think, had she had foreknow- tion to its ancient nationak cruiting was brisk. Film studio ledge of a volume which would rights of the Arab race—was PRICES

hired the light horsemen for one day be issued in her name bound to feel entangled and

and in theirs.

helpless in such a web. Hence battle scenes.

Now Mr. McLaglen is build- What Lawrence of Arabia's his utter revulsion of feeling ing a 20,000 dollar stadium in Seven Pillars of Wisdom" pub-when the goal was won and the

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massacre,

his soul to a brute monster. Re is not of them.

Only one man in a million Mr. Gary Cooper ("Bengal ed." has to do with Wisdom Lancer") was next to take the more especially in the unabridg would have stripped himself of field with the Hollywood Hused chapters-it is difficult to his dignities and rewards. Yet probably that was one of the sars. And there is also Mr. F

Wisdom is calm and justifies easiest decisions Lawrence ever George Brent and his Californis

herself of her children. This made. He was a fanatic in the Esquadrille.

book is turbulent. full of the desert under the Arabian sun violent clash of arms, of primi-Moreover, as he explains at the DAZZLING UNIFORM

tive and unbridled passion, of very outset. he was an alien: In Mmurder.

brutality, fanatic What price glory?

I was sent to these Arabs, he says, Cooper's Hussars the tariff is and blood. Fire it has and clearly stated. Five dollars in-genius, but if parts of this book as a stranger....A man who giver himself to be a possession of aliens itiation fee, five dollars a month are Wisdom, it is indeed "Folly leads, a Yahoo le, having bartered dues, a dollar for one drill on a to be wise.”

What Lawrence Withheld horse, and $39.75 for uniform.

In my case, the effort for these The text is said to be identi-years to live in the dress of Arabs A lot of money. About $8 at par. But what a uniform! Tel-cal with that of the extremely and to imitate their mental founde low gabardine service shirt, blue limited edition which Lawrence tion quitted me of my English self breeches with a broad yellow himself published in 1927 at the and let me look at the West and its conventions with The eyes. They stripe, and a full dress uniform fantastic price of £90 per copy-destroyed it all for me. of bine, white, and yellow, “a If he then hoped to make his At the same time I could not sin- composite of those used by the book inaccessible to the general,

an affectation only. Easily was 2 The China Mail What will France do? And the original Hungarian Hussars, the public he succeeded. What he rely take on the Arab skin. It was. answer is that France follows English Hussars and the German judged desirable to be read at man made an infidel, but hardly might

large he published under the he be converted to another faith. her own policy more consistent-Unlans.***

Bitter Cry: Besides, there are the well-title of "Revolt in the Desert." Hong Kong.. Saturday, Aug. 31, 1935 than any other European

That is the bitter cry of # Power, and is not likely to de-advertised amenities of the re-land a very adequate account it "Excellent was of the uprising of the Arabs What Will France Do? part from it. In that policy the cruiting slogans

Associa- against the Turks, under his man who has sacrificed his primary object is Security;" social opportunities."

birthright, knows the change. which means that she is anxious tion, in fact, with the military and Feisal's leadership.

Presumably Lawrence's idea and feels but is too proud to outlined the to have both Italy and Great elite of Hollywood and the lead- Yesterday we

then was that certain portions acknowledge the loss.

In the chapter entitled case that will be put forward Britain as allies in Europe; or ing figures in local politics.

of the complete work would be

"Myself"-a ruthless master- for the Italian certention that at least to have with both of

better withheld. His judgment: Italy is bound to invade and them a close and friendly en- "UNKNOWN WARRIOR"

in North-

was sound. Many, indeed, will piece of conscious self-dissection. subdue Abyssinia, or Ethiopia tente. Nothing

The Rev. David Railton, M. C. consider that Lawrence would and cold analysis-Lawrence as it is now officially to be call-Eastern Africa would be allow-

came to me queerly on my 30th ed. Our readers are not likely ed to interfere with that pur-vicar of Shalford, near Guildford, have better consulted his fame lays his whole being bare. I to have been misled by the repose at a time when Germany who conceived the idea of the if he had left much unwritten birthday he wrote, "how tour

tomb in It may be said that he did not cent alarmist cables into be-jis re-emerging as a fully armed Unknown Warrior's

On the con-years ago I had meant to be a lieving that the dispute is one and aggressive rival. Nothing Westminster Abbey, has been ap-care for fame.

That should settle the ques- between Italy and Great so disastrous could happen to pointed Rector of Liverpool. He trary, as he plainly reveals, he general and knighted when 30-* tion once and for all whether or Britain. for all that Great the policy adopted at the Stresa was serving as a chaplain on the cared greatly, though not in the

not Lawrence had started out, Britain has contended for is conference as a war, or even a Western Front when he made the ordinary way.

Opinion Floated

originally with the ordinary" that the facts should be laid serious quarrel, between Great suggestion to the Dean of West-

For commonly accepted ambitions of ordinary men- before the Council of the League Britain and Italy; and all the minster, who put the scheme be

are fully fore the Cabinet

opinion. indeed. be

cared Evidently he had. He owns for consideration; and all that three Governments

The Labour The body of the Unknown War- nothing, and flouted it. On that he still retains "a craving the Prime Minister has recom- aware of that.

8 Union certain grave matters of con- to be famous but with mended is that Great Britain Party's demand for the closing rior was wrapped in should be ready to fulfil all her of the Suez Canal, for example. Jack that Mr. Railton had picked duct and morality that still can- A horror of being known to like not be done with impunity, being known. Contempt for my pas- obligations under the Covenant would upset Europe at once, as up in No Man's Land.

Nor will exception be made in sion for distinction made me reinse Whatever the decision may be, well as transgress both against

favour of Lawrence, for all his every offered honour. The eagerness to overhear and oversee myself was it will be a joint decision, and the public law, which declares

brilliant qualities-

my assault upon my own inviolate- whatever obligations may arise that it shall be open to all both

Howlers

The real interest of this

citadel will be joint obligations, and it in peace and war, but also

These replies were given in a re-edition centres naturally in the

He was always watching his is to be noticed that the United private treaties

The other side of French cent general knowledge test: restored passages and in the actions very narrowly, knowing States has not only expressed

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light which they throw upon himself to be not a professional disapproval of any unjustified policy is the careful protection attack but has strengthened of any specific trade interest

Lawrence's attitude to life. He but an amateur. made himself a Man of Mystery. I was not modest, but ashamed of the President's hands by new she may have in foreign coun-

The customary explanations my awkwardness, of my physical en In French Somaliland his tries legislation dealing with

given by his friends are clearly velope and of my solitary unlikeness::

which made me no companion, but an authority to enforce neutrality she has a very small colony

Disappointed Humorist: "You sit not enough. That the WAS

acquaintance, complete, angular, un- upon any American firms that which owes its importance en-

furious at the Arabs being comfortable as a crystal," the might be tempted by the offer tirely to the fact that its only on every joke I send you"

Editor: "Let me assure you that I of fat orders for munitions. If port. Djibouti, is the terminus

(Continued on Page 11.) their largest hopes in the any element of humour can be of the only railway into the should certainly not do that if there cheated, as he considered it, of moment of victory does him cre- discerned in a depressing scene, Ethiopian highlands. With the as any point to them.****

dit. But the "wrong" done to it is that whereas the whole interior of the country undeve-

has a "I sentence you to spend 15 days them in 1918-9 was largely re- course of the "Freedom of the loped the railway Seas" controversy has been struggle to pay its way. Open-in the city gaol, said the judge, and dressed in 1921, when Law governed by the vision of Great ed up by engineers, if the pro- added sorrowfully, and I have rence had another glorious hour Britain as the aggressor and mise of highly mineralised dis premonition that some day, less of life in remapping the Middle the States as neutral, the positricts should be fulfilled, the on mend your ways, you will get a Tut, tafsach grammar, Judge,” tion is now reversed, and Great railway and the port would be-

the light-hearted Britain appears as insisting come busy and prosperous; said upon the rights of neutrality, always on condition that con- “ending a sentence with a premoni which are not likely in this case trol and commercial rights were to be challenged. If war should not infringed. It is simply in- actually be declared, it is quite conceivable that Signor Musso- likely that some very interest-lini has not already undertaken ing precedents might be set to protect both the French and just as during the World War the British rights. the States enforced the doctrine

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freeman-an unmarried man. A secret something you only tell your friends,

No Point

Grammar Lesson:

prison term.”

tion.”

East

Creative Artist When he wrote this book, re- solved to put down all and nothing extenuate, his ambition A man who was tired, of the bom was to become a creative artist bastic assertions of the readers of in the world of literature. He wrote with extreme frankness. daily paper, wrote to the editor:

Of Some Sort

“Sir—I ann

STRANGE TALE OF

A HUSBAND

Neither Drinks Nor Smokes

MANAGES WIFE'S BUSINESS FOR NOTHING

A husband who supervised

a black disc which, He did not hide his opinion that Why then was not the whole when placed on a gramophone, gives in the desert Western morals his wife's business, received no

is

asa

YOUNG CHILDREN IN CINEMAS Nanking Restriction Regulation

simply do not count. And yet wages, did not drink or smoke, the obligations of honour and and rarely went to cinemas, was the binding force of the pledged referred to at Plymouth Bank- word were everything to him ruptcy Court recently.

The idea of being the instruHis wife, Mrs. Mabel Atwill. ment of letting down the aged 52, carrying on business Arabs who had trusted the as a wholesale fruit and potato

promises he had given them on merchant in Plymouth, admit behalf of Great Britain caused fed liabilities of £556 and sn him acute torture. When he estimated deficiency of £416- learnt of certain other promises She stated that she took from

overwhelmed. "There house-keeping

(20-year-old he says, "RO

of continuous voyage" against business settled at what was forth music. Is this a record?” which she had protested when called the "tripartite" confer- in the status of neutral instead ence, in compliance with the of belligerent

existing "tripartite" treaty? The question that will be Because Great Britain settled next week then is, what anxious to vindicate the prin- will the League do? And here ciple that Ethiopia, once again we must recall that sovereign State and a member the League is not: some incal- of the League should not be calable and supreme super compelled to accept any terms State but simply the Govern not voluntarily agreed to by meats of the States-members, herself. Joint compulsion only A Chinese report from Nanking cutting right athwart his he the business £2 10s a week for and that they are not at

distributes the responsibility, it states that a circular order has was

daughter does not destroy it. Joint been issued by the Minister of the likely to select any policy

influence is quite another mat-Interior to all provincial and man-walking for us leaders in this assisted in the hous will lead to new divisions

cipal authorities, instructing them crooked lane of conduct, ring was clothed and fed Europe, to avoid which is the

daughter, aged that children under six years of within ring of unknown shar object of their daily endeavour,

received age are not to be permitted to faced motives, canceling nor are they likely to adopt

enter cinemas. This "sanctions" that would be re-

Clothed taken, it is pudiated by those Powers that could alone enforce them particularly as decisions in the Council have to be uvanimod

Boiled down to the sim lements, the whole

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