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The 25 Chapters of the 17th issue of the CHIKA YEAR BOOK, edited by H. G. W. Woodhead, C.BE., have as usual -- been revised or rewritten with the assistance of many experts, Chinese and foreign, and every effort has been made to bring information and statistics up to date.

The Chapter on the Kuomintang covers the political history of China in 1994. The Chapter on the Chinese Government contains the Text of the Provisional Constitution, the Organic Law, and the Draft of the Permanent Constitution.

The Chapter on International Issues gives the text of the Agreement and Exchange of Notes of the sale of the Chinese- Eastern Railway, besides the latest documents relating to Sino- Japanese issues.

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Double Tenth Reflections

were

versus

Here There

and Everywhere.

PAGANISM IN ACTION

In the advertisement pages of Gen: Ludendorff's "pagan" períodi- cal "At the Holy Spring of Ger- man Fower there is some “un- fusual reading.

BRITISH FILMS AND THEIR FUTURE

AMERICAN CHALLENGE

MUST BE

MET

GREAT SCOPE FOR ENGLISH

METHODS DISPLAYED

(By Valentine Williams)

"Heathen girls” runs one ad- Ivertisement. "who have left schoolf IVING in the United States) At the same time, the bulk of will receive training in philosophy for the past four years. I British pictures will doubtless housework (with garden) and have witnessed the slow but feature as before stories whose needlework in German Faith steady struggle of British films, appeal is restricted rather than Institute.TM

for recognition on the other world-wide; that is to 985-

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That pagan beliefs are not re-side of the Atlantic Time was limited to our fellow-citizens of garded as incompatible with busi-when in America they were dis-the Empire. Where American ness ability is suggested by the missed with a shrug as a de stars are not employed we shall

continue to rely chiefly following: Wanted for chemist's finitely second-rate article. business in the Saar, an experi People would say, "Oh a British stage artists, whose British film?” în the tone names, however well known in enced heathen assistant.”

There are also marriage adver-Americans use in speaking of England. have little or no box tisements One runs: "Exchange the coffee served in England-office value away from home, or of thoughts with heroic, beathen, or as we speak of the tes you at most among Empire andi- go-ahead Nordic maiden from the get in the United States.

I never dreamed that the day If a picture produced on these- and sought by German of same)

would come when I should find lines chances to make a hit beliefs.".

Less venturesome, another Ger-queues waiting at a Broadway with the vast army of Ameri man heathen "wishes for exchange box-office to see a British pic- can picture-goers, that is all to of thoughts with idealist German ture, with one critic outvying the good: The method seems the other in praise. British haphazard and scarcely worthy, maiden 22 to 28 years ok.”

films have still a long road to of a business with the tremen- travel in order to keep pace dous potentialities of the British with. let alone excel Holly-film industry.

*

POET OF CRICKET

an exception.

*

Your Daily Smile! when his fellow men make

that he has achieved fame," says writer Or else the instalments on the house, radio, car, and vacuumë cleaner are overdue.

New Approach

ences.

"Mind Of Thirteen

same

we have begun to turn out pic-Happened One Night" certainly, than many tures that challenge the Ameri-"grossed, more cans on their own ground much more pretentious produc British film companies to-day tions

are much better supplied than We can be highbrow about it formerly with the necessary-though I would not describe working capital to carry on their as intellectual "The Private Life fight against what was once of Henry VIIL" or "The Man American mono- Who Knew Too Much," or "The virtually an

Scarlet Pimpernel," all of which poly.

In the whole story of British British films were enthusiasti enterprise, nothing is more cally received in America and romantic and more satisfying to say: "What do we care about our national pride than the way the mind of 137 We shall go films on producing pictures appealing have forced themselves, through to the superior intellect of our sheer merit, upon the American British audiences" consciousness.

Neglected Stars

Cricket has produced some wood's best, and win a place on scholars. notably Mr. C. B. Fry, the screen of America's in- but few poets. Lord Tennyson numerable picture theatres.

The largest film audience in has not inherited the metrical

the world is the American. Its gifts of his grandfather, and one

collective mentality has been has heard of an England captain

an American-as But at least they have defined by who could neither spell nor write achieved this. The average "the mind of 13." It is the de- grammatically.

no pressing truth that this picturegoer in the States Lord Gorell, barrister, publisher, longer says. "It's a British film, mind of 13 is the ultimate de- com and man of letters, better remem therefore it's a dud!" He is termining factor in American back to simplicity, and monsense. The real prosperity bered by the pre-war generation as much more likely to say, "It's motion picture manufacture of any community and any Ronald Gorell Barnes, the old Ox-British, therefore, since they're It controls the box-office re- Bank rests on the activity and ford bowler, who is both an Old showing it, it's probably differ- ceipts, on which, in the final

the enterprise of workers Wykehamist and Old Harrovian. is ent from, and quite possibly instance, the success or failure When financial conditions, com-

better than. Hollywood!" of a film depends. By this test pel one after the other to closel

Lord Gorell published in last The British film industry has it is not uninteresting to note down industrial enterprises the month's Cornhill which he edits. reformed itself and is advance that the most famous stars and outlook is poor for everybody. a poem entitled "At Lord's," de ing with great strides. We the most rapturously reviewed the And what has all this to do dicated to Mr. W. Findlay, the have not been too proud to go pictures are by no means The meeting at the new Bank with the Double Tenth? Far secretary of the MCC

to Hollywood for our ground-most successful. Eddie Cantor On the Building was as large and repre-more than appears.

It contains some lines which will work, notably on the technical is probably better "box-office" sentative as even that vast con-question of the merits of Re have a permanent place in the side, with the result that at last than Greta Garbo, while "It struction could accommodate; public

Empire Or poetry of cricket: and everybody was ready to Monarchy, we are of opinion There is a field in England, toast the future prosperity of that Pope's maxim applied; "For A tended. velvet field. the Bank in genuine cham-forms of Government let fools where Life is like a sundial

is not so often contests that which is best ad- And thoughts old fragrance pagne, which

In the tasted in Hong Kong as the ministered is best."

trad uninitiated imagine. In the long run that is the test that where sternly with Dominions outlying portions of the City will be applied by the people: A friendly war is waged, holiday crowds

com- who are after all the matter of The crown of all the combats

'new] memorating the triumph of the the experiment of any

By English summer staged. Dr. Sun ideals of Sun Yat Sen and the form of Government. establishment of a Chinese Re Yat Sen's principles are partly public: The two celebrations are of Occidental origin and partly! on the surface incompatible; derived from the communism the practical and the idealist. and the dreams of Lenin. From ten track to a man's door he knows in which certain British the Foreign and the Oriental, the point of view of the man the theory and the means of facturer or the trader they are fulfilment. In fact however it not at all easy to understand or may safely be said that if only to reconcile with each other. It

* Question Arisen

Or we can say: "Let's claim a financial basis of trade and is obvious that he had the wel-

The Sheepman's Son

our share of audiences in the administration could be fixed as fare of the common man at Now, Harold said the teacher,

The question now arises: English-speaking world by nobody doubts that there were 11 sheep in a field and firmly as the foundations of heart — the new building, the super- But in Russia itself there has seven of them jumped over the fence, What use do the British film making pictures which we have companies propose to make of shown we know how to make. structure of Republican ideals been great development of how many would be left?**

"None," replied Harold

favourable situation? on British themes, with British could be run up much more theory and modification of prác.

**Way, yes, there would be " Don't let us deceive ourselves as backgrounds and British stars quickly, and more beneficially tice The peasant is naturally.

"No," he persisted; "you may know to the difficulties before us If anybody really believes that individualist, because his your arithmetic, but you don't know The issue is simple enough the common level of intelli to the struggling millions to an whom a little more or less work produces just about sheep."

to gence Does the industry intend be enough to keep himself and his

of picture audiences means all the difference

compete with Hollywood in the varies according to nationality, tween prosperity and starva-family alive. What he wants

Conscientious Caddiemaster: "Now world market, or only in the it will be time enough to take tion.

It was not to be expected produce of his labour in the the gent you're carryin' for is a for-Empire and the rest of the non- this matter in hand when the British film industry is estab- The abstruse questions count, so fix your tie, put your American field? that on a ceremonial occasion fields.

'at on straight, and don't forget to

Hollywood starts with a tre-lished on a sound business foot- the speakers would go beyond of communal ownership of the say Signora

mendous advantage over all ing the usual generalities of con-means of production and ex- gratulations and good wishes; change" are very modern pro- An author declares that he once rivals through the fact that the I have said that the picture- wants names Names and in any case it is obvious blems that really concern the kept an idea for a novel in his head average successful American goer that a solution of our perplexi-industrial population in these for 15 years. It is not long enoug ties cannot be given in a few days of mass production and sentences improvised to please other very advanced develop a casual audience. But in sea-ments of manufacturing techni son and out of season we wish que. Consequently at the pre- to emphasise that there is one sent time about eighty per cent. task that all our financial and of the population of Russia and

Here is one of the major dif→ ficulties with which the British official authorities have marked Siberia are not living on a

To challenge effectively our for them, and that the fu- communist basis, and are not

Hollywood's control of the world film industry has to contend ture prosperity of the commuch concerned about the basis

market there are no two ways Entirely through its own fault, about it we shall have to make munity and the Bank itself de-ion which the factories in the pends on how that task is done towns are worked. In China

films with the huge American Our trade is being throttled by the proportion of workers on

France's largest seaplane, audience of picture-goers in higher and ever higher imposts the land is probably greater: Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, mind. The alternative is to go of all sorts, and the excuse for and what they want is exactly which was damaged here while on in the same way as at pre- these imposts is that the value the same! They want protes-welcoming the giant liner Nor-sent concentrating on the of our money itself is so liabletion from bandits and from un-mandie back from her maiden British Empire field, which to change, that a fence has to lawful demands of tax-collectors voyage, is not repaired, and is means that our output will be be built up to protect the local and other officials; they want flying back to its base at Bor-produced for about one-third of manufactures from being under- to be sure that if they gave sold. There is no reason to money they can deposit it safe- suppose that the Banks, in spitely and draw it out when of the fact that these changes they want it for fertilis mean something very substan-for-other purposes. Whate tial in the way of "rake-offs, local agencies may in a are deliberately main ing way satisfy their equi the present chaos. It is for their simple financ ficult to say on whose

quite certain that these 2gents will be unable to

thich will never fail to r ion unless the big Banks the big centres are doing their their obligation

the blame must be cast, but

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*

Or. Senorita

LUNCHEON PARTY IN SEAPLANE

26 Guests Attend

Function

Le Havre-

this

film can be relied on to cover mean stars. The theatre-goer the cost of production, and also says: "Let's go and see that new net a handsome profit, before Ivor Novello play!" The picture- ever being screened outside thegoer, however, asks: "How United States. Thus any pro- about that Katharine Hepburn fits made in the foreign field picture?" are money for jam

the available market, with pro- Air fits in propo

ral Denain, the nister, is flying in the sea- with 26 others, alf of thom are to be his guests at huncheon in the air.

Names-Wasted

Since all the world over the

The seaplane has been order picture goer wants names, we to remain in the air for five shall continue to short-circuit the inevitably slow process of star

ency

by

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ubavings are apt to