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CHINA MAIL

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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1960.

LETTERS FROM YOU TO THE EDITOR

More libraries needed

Your correspondent K, A. Watson's letter prompted me to refer to your "Com- ment of the Day" that ap- peared on Monday; and 1 cannot

with but agree

what you said. In spile of the art of photo- graphy that is said to be flourishing to such interna- Honal repute, Hongkong is place 2 poverty-stricken where culture is concerned,

absence

pubile of The

libraries and the absence of a demand for such is alone enough to show the utter indifference of the Hong-

cul kong people towards ture.

No doubt there are libraries

sponsored by the

cultural

various centres are grateful to use of, but their

foreign which we make

facilities are of such a small capacity and their town-centred location

that their existence is for from adequate for a popu- lation of over two million. And the fact that the local public land aside to allow these foreign societies to alimulate Hongkong's cul- tural instincts begs us question the publie's cul- interest in their own tural upbringing.

Lo

No doubt there have been attempts to promote the -various aris, but the empty

hall faced by an

company

artist is

sight in

shows,

kong's arts.

а or

not an

acting performing unusual Hongkong, which therefore, Hong- disinterest in the

We must bear in mind that

Hongkong has a population of over two million, and to have a handful of people, say a few hundreds attend- Ing concerts, theatre, tem- porary art galleries cannot convince

that Hongkong is very much culture-minded.

anyone

Then there raises the question of our standard of appre-

arta. clation of the

Is it comparatively high enough when compared with that of the world?

Let us not be satisfied with ourselves, Generally speak- Ing. We are Door in our sensitivity to the arts, Still, we need more facilities that can cultivate the barren minds, and we need more intensive attempts made to

¿

I

dear sir

stimulate interest and the aber qualities of the mind. The environment of Hong-

kong could be attributed to be one of the causes of the indifference to culture here. Most people cannot afford to spend money on some

thing that cannot `jake, the place of a meal.

Perhaps free district libraries, financial grants to local cul- tural centres would lead to Hongkong's consciousness of culture.

dear

Y.K.C.

sir

Cartoons

commands the greatest respect.

That

locat cartoons can lampoon the local police la only a tribute to the no1

of expresion Sreedom tuhich we have here, but also a tribute to the police, To the work they do, and the respect they command. A great improvement on the pas!.

Sir, long may your artist

continue!

C. T. PRIOR. Not a policeman.--Ed.

dear

Crowded out

It is certainly heartening to

read "Satisfied's" informa tion that in terms of re- views and criticism of the various Arts the local news- papers give proportionately mure space than perhaps any newspaper (including- since I know little nothing about

newspapers

business gossip, personality tid-bita, etc., but they rather crowd out the Arts, And, though we always welcome sporting news, We also belleve brain is no less important than brawn,

N. T. CHOW.

dear sir.

A retraction

my great shame and hor TOT, 1 And that in

the

vehemence of the moment I made certain undesirable Temarks in my letter of August 18 condemning the murderous action of the Ausita- kidnappers of the

lian school-boy when I suggested that the offenders should be drawn and quar- tered and their bodies be fed to the sharks.

Of course, auch remarks were intended fouratively, to show the abhorrence, we all fett at the dastardly crime in the slaying of the boy and should never have bren taken literally, for one shameful crime cannot another cured with

be equally horrible one.

I therefore thank your cÒT- of Friday, respondent August

drawing 19, for

tem my attention to my porary lapse which I re- tract without hesitation,

A READER.

Merpress my admira- tion for your local car- toonist I presume he is a locul resident-else, how could he hit so precisely on the head of the nail.

cannot quite decipher his signature, hence I have one to ask. question

Is your artist a police inspector? I ask that because in every one of the cartoons I have pet seen, the 'mickey has

in other parts of the world been extracted from the local

-The Times, The Guardian, constabulary and it has

The Observer, Sunday been done in such an apt

Times, The Spectator and manner that I feel someone

New

Statesman?) in the with an inner knowledge world but let us see how of the working of the sys- true his allegation is when responsible-tone applied to the more "popu- who has

lar arts in the Colony- a practical the difficul- knowledge of

Drama: Where else io a ties of the policeman's lot. Definitely, this is

no hill dweller or denizen of an air-conditioned

office, but sometne who knows life as it lived,

is

away from Olympus. He hits exactly irritations

have to

tem is

DR

the petty

of the the ai

which the police impose on others. Besides the humour

cartoons especially traffic one-they dre Micouraging symbol. It is a quirk of humour that it actirises most that which

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dear sir

THE SPY TRIAL

major capital city does a The opening paragraph of

4

devote over newspaper column to a performance by drama local amateur society? But please tell me, "Satisfied." how MENY professional stage produe- flons did our drama erftes have to cover during the past few years? Besides, must serious wrilings about the theatre be coll- fined to local productions? Have the local playgoers no interest at all in the drama- tio achievements in other parts of the world? Music: Please tell me, "Balls-

fled," the proportion be- tween the press coverage of serious music and that of pop-songs, rock 'n' roll personalities and the world of Elvis Presley. Literature: What a pity that the sponsorship of literary competitions is not backed by more show of interest In the daily coverage. The S.C.M.P. does have 3 halfpage for book reviews In the Monday issue, which is skimpy to say the least. The rest is restricted to a

weekly (China Mail & 8.0.. Sunday Post-Herald) or Dccasional Standard) (And

(H.K. Tiger republicaljon.

I suppose ...that "family" weekly does not count.)

This is laughable, Even if one had to accept the sup-

⚫ position that Hongkong euf- fers perpetually from dearth of literacy critics, one might ask whether the musings of Messrs. Logan Gourlay and Anthony Lejeune and Misses Nancy Spain and Patricia Lewis are deemed more valuable. Radlo: lo some good old- fashioned Hongkongles It

may

your Comment of Friday, August 19 on the Spy Trial in Moscow echoes the senti- ments of your wide circle of readers who entirely agree with your view.

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Mr Khrushchev has been pre- sented with a golden op- portunity upon

silver plate to make the most of the incident, and who can blame him for taking ad vantage of the occasion' to gel the utmost propaganda out of this trial, however Irregular it may be, for it is noi, an opportunity that comes to Moscow every day, and for this wonderful gift the Kremlin has much to thank the White House, and certainly Eisenhower is the best friend the U.S.S.R. ever has since his emergence as the Man of Destiny when, swept by sentiments more than sense, the American people shoved fim to the Executive Chair. since when he has been keeping the world on ion- terhooks, dancing the cha cha on the brink of the pre. with the rope led cipice, roand, the torsos of his other two mountain ciim- hers, aspiring to reach the Summit for the Conference- thal-never-was.

In another paragraph, among

other things, you say: . the American Government holds that one man's life is not too high x prion to pay for the security of the na- Hon. Many thousands have Already died and Powers to With this no different." view one must differ with you.

sacrifice not be Art, but I understand in the more responsible pres radio pro- grammes are duly

covered

and

seriously appraised. Why then are radio

ments here reduced to mere programme notes?

TV: same as above. Cinema: I prefer not to dis- curs the quality of our Alm reviews: but why do our reviewers, in writing "pro- duction news,” seldom, if ever.

This view can only hold good when the two nation, con-

cerned are at war when the of one lite for many may be justified, but to send a young man in the flower of his manhood to almost certain death, to an uncertain veniare, is worme than inhuman, what ever the excuse for the -x- tenuating circumstance to justify the cast.

not show any awareness of the film activities 11, 157, Haly, France, Poland and

Bweden? Again, have the local film-. goera no interest in these cinematic movements? And why do they ignore such films as "Othello” and “Dom Quixote," though dreary trifles often manage to get reviewed?

The result of the trial was a

foregone conclusion— Powers was found guilly, but the death penalty was

meted out,

for the Soviet wants to show to The world that she can be magnanimour, that she is really desirous of peace, and by playing this trump card correctly, she will glean the larger shest of propaganda. from the sellon than by being vindictive and de- manding the life of an in-

scent man, ·

It is after all the responibillly It was not Powers who 1.3.8

of the press to popularise guilty bat

the Arts, and part of the blame may be laid it Its door it the "arly-crafly" groups retain their excla- siveness.

Those who: sert him to his hopeless (mis;, alon.

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SPECIAL FESTIVAL

THEATRE PLANNED

A special attraction of this year's Festival of the Arts is a small theatre which is to be built in the open space south of the west wing of the Star Ferry Concourse.

Clerk pleads guilty to four charges

From the Files

25

years

AGO

August, 1935

➜OLICE in Hopel are con-

Pinging their search for

In an area 83 foet by 45 feet, the theatre will accom- |a modate 300 people.

condemned drug ring leader who survived the Designed on modem lines by firing squad and who, Mr John Prescott, lecturer tu despite a bullet wound, dis- Architecture at the University appeared into the Kaoliang of Hongkong, the theatre is the bushes just as a gang of Arst ever for Hongkong's Festival of the Arts.

One peculiarity about

coolies were sent to put hia

the body into a coffin, reports

theatre is a stage, 30 feet by from Tientsin said. 20 feet, to be sited on the west

or long-side of the rectangle, ebuting the seawall;.

Three sides

..

A report in the Morning quoted Post from Lisbon

United Preas as saying that

the Portuguese Government The stage is so planted had authorised Pan-American that the audience can see it Airways to halt their planea. on three sides.

at Macao..

It is learned that Pan-

with its entrance opposite the entrance to the ferry pler, the theatre will be detached American are also seeking

Lui Chi-gan, alias Lui Chim, 32-year-old |

clerk of Catlowitz and Co, this morning pleaded guilty to four of 12 charges of theft and falsification of accounts from involving more than $120,000.

Judge W. F. Pickering in the Victoria District Court adjourTI-

ed the case to next Monday, at 10 an, on the application of the defence

counsel, Mr Oswald

Cheung:

Mr Cheung asked for the ad- journment to the defence to consider a plea on the wher eight charges, to which Lui bed previously pleaded not guilty.

Lui' was remanded in Jall cust.dy. His previous bail of

$3,000 was refused.

$60,000 WORTH

The four charges, to which Luf pleaded guilly this

INDIAN IN COURT ON WARRANT

A 27-year-old Indian, S. L. Daga, for whom a warrant has been issued in Bombay for an alleged criminal conspiracy, ap- peared before Mr E Corbally at

the main exhibition permission to establish radio- Lelegraphic and chronometric ground.

Messrs Far East Cork Pro-stations at Macco. ducts Ltd. will carry out the construction work,

The Festival authorities will DRESSING borrow seats from local insti

tutions.

Temporary

Bwitch which sounded a power- ful siren, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Thomas Government, Sir

Deep in the designing. Mr Southorn, yesterday after Prescott sald the plan will be noon declared the Gorge off his drawing board, com-Dam plete with engineering

of the Jubilee Re-

culations, about the middle of servoir to be open.

this week.

for

There was a large gather- Then the whole project wing of leading officials and be submitted to the Public citizens and standing by Works Department Central Court this morning.

ap His Excellency was Mr G. H. proval. Defendant who lives

Gifford Hull who thus wit- at 23

The temporary structure, Hollywood-road, fourth floor, is

the built of wooden plats, witnessed the crowning act of 4 charge under facing

remain there only for the one of the greatest engineer. Fugitive Offenders Act of 1881.

15 to ing projects in the Far East Daga, a native of Bidasai, Festival period-October morning. stated that he had

and one in which his has stolen more than $60,000 worth Rajasthan, India, was remanded November 12.

It is likely that the theatre been on bait of

the directing mind of whitelined boxboards from until Thursday

His $6,000.

Indian passport will charge some the company and had madi

had already been surrendered admission for recovery of ex since work was started in false entries in the sundry to the police.

December, 1932. debtors books of the company, purporting that these box- boards had been sold to othe firms.

Mr Cheung appeared for Lui on the instructions of Mr J. E. d'Almada Remedios...

Mr W. S. W Davidson. Crown Counsel. appeared for the pro- secution

ROACHES IN DRAWERS:

$500 FINE

penses,

One of Mr Wong's paintings

additional

PAINTINGS EXHIBITION

Mr Wong Poon-yuel is hoid- ing

The actual inauguration ceremony, yesterday con- cerned the Gorge Dam, the main section of the works, and by operating the switch His Excellency signalled the closing of the valve of the scour pipe which is laid on the floor to clean the bottom of the dam.

Building plan

submitted

Plans to erect four nine-storey buildings fronting Percival- street and four six-storey

an exhibition of Chinese RETURN FROM bulidings facing Lee Garden

John's

HOME LEAVE

Cockroaches were crawling out of the drawers of a kitchen

paintings at the St

road; near Hennessey-road, cupboard in a restaurant, Cathedral Hat, Garden-road.

were laid before the Tenancy Health Inspector told Central

Mr Wong, who has met &

Tribunal this morning. They 1. T. Morris ramber of Magistrate, Mr

famous Chinese today.

Mr Alan Rawson, Surveyor of would cost more then $760,000 The floor was covered with artists during his travels in

Bald Health China, started painting at a Ships, and Mr Joseph Milner, and take a year to complete, dust

The Fulton Corporation, Ltd, and grease,

Divisional Fire Officer, were He carly age. Inspector Chu Kwok-sum.

among a number of Government of 75, Dover Road, Central, re- found the restaurant in this The 80 odd paintings he is officials returning in the rms presented by Mr Alfred Hon of- condition when he visited it on exhibiting are all landscape Canton this morning from home Hon and Co, are applying for

Genes of Hongkong and the leave. Tsao Chi-hung, licensee of New Territories, the

at restaurant

281 The exhibition is open until Milner Shaukiwan-road, ground floor, August 24 from 10 am to 6 pm. their familles. was Aned $500 or one month's jail.

May 9.

"

Tsao said he had been in the restaurant business for 20 years. This was his first court appear-

ance.

CHARGED

WITH LIFT ROBBERY

A 30-year-old `storekeeper' ap

peared before Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this mornier on a charge of robbery with an offensive weapon. Man Do-ang, of 39 Shantung -street, second floor, Kowloon was icmanded for four days in police custody for further inquiries.

It is alleged the defendant, being armed with a dagger, robbed Cheurin Kowk-kel of three wrist watches in a lift in 85 Queen's-road Central on. Saturday.

No plea was taken. Detective Sub-Inspector J, Nicholas is fix

plac

Both Mr Rawson and Mir

were accompanied

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