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MASON'S

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No. 22,499 MARKIETTAÐ HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1930.

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A FAMILY STUDY,

A BORN COMMUNIST'S FIFTY-FOUR YEARS IN LONDON.

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Hoy He learned nothing at school, be apon the public by providing the has much also to↑ this rela- says, and is content with the firat volume of the new collected tires and the, pið, sadike family fact - edition of his works with a. pre- i scene at Bushy Ph with the un-I congratulate myself on this, for face containing a long fragmenteleg and aunts sitting round sed-1 am firmly persuaded that every of autobiography. It is a delight.ately while "uncle Barney, stood, unnatural activity of the brain is fully disorderly piece of work, be-solemnly, playing Annie Laurie as mischievous as any unnatural ginning with his arrival in Lon on the ophicleide" crystallines an activity of the body, and that presa. don, making its way back by easy atmosphere and describe, a period.ing people to learn things they do stages to the days when he requir He has, too, a sense of his fami- not want to know is as unwhole- ed the care of a nurse, and then ly which appears to have been some and disastrous as feeding working up, in leisurely fashion, strong among his relatives. One them on sawdust. Civilisation is to the period which produced his of them went so far as, to publish always wrocked by giving the novels. It is frank. It is full of 100 copies of his pedigree in which governing classes what is called. humour. It frequently strays into Mr. Shaw rejoiced to find that, ae secondary education," which "pro- I AssoCIATION WITH THE inimitable parentheses. And yet, cording to the Rev. Lachlan Shaw; duce, invincible ignorance and-in- GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS, apparently, it is to attain no fur a general tradition traced the tellectual and moral imbecility as ther publicity than the 1,028 copies descent of the Shams to Macduff, a result of unnatural abuse of the

LITS, PEPING. of this liarited edition will secure. Earl of Fife, Mr Shaw com apprehensive faculty.

For Idiots and Speculators.

The five volumes just published.. Mr. Shaw explained in an inter- view, comprise the whole of his novels. These will be followed by the plays, and the total edition will run to thirty volumes, which will also include one devoted to short stories.

I have received a large number of letters," said Mr. Shaw, from people who complain that some of the books included in this edition have never been published separ- ntely, and that they couldn't afford to pay thirty guineas for the set. should like you to make it clear that everything published in this edition will be published separate ly afterwards. The Apple Cart, for instance, will be published by

ments:

It was not, however, because of T hastily skippel to the chap-his having learned nothing at about the Irish Shaws, to school that he found himself so aby ter make sure that they were my peo-upon coming to London, but be- ple, and there they were, baronet cause the social seclusion in which and all, only traced to the third his family had lived involved his son of that immortalised yet un losing "the social drill which pus born Thane of Fifwho, invulner one at one's ease in private so- able to normally accoutred swords-ciety. People who met him, he meň, laid on and slew Macbeth says, "may well have found me in- It was as good as being descended sufferable, aggressive, and impud- from Shakespear, whom I had been ent." He goes on to describe the unconsciously resolved to reincar awkwardness of the born Com- nate, from my cradle.

munist in plutocratic society”. before he knows what he is and Father's Laughter at Buin.

understands why and spms up :- Yet i was a sufficiently well- As it happens, I was a "born concocted family to make them. Communist and iconoclast (or pecuuiosity in which thay lived not Quaker) without knowing it, and I that tolerable sort of poverty never got on easy term with pluto- which furnishes an element of cracy and mobbery until I took romance in the early lives of many to the study of economics, begin-

the younger son of the younger son." In some way, however, they appeared to make a useful subati-

Strange Taste for Stage Demons. tute for happinud mitur? Irrespon But even when he was a "good sibility. All them a peared to boy" his taste ran so strongly on be able to play scine musical in stage villains and stage dynony strument. They were partial, per-that he painted his bedroom wall.

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father seems to have been par ex- and thinks he must actually have By the latter reference Mr. Shaw cellence irresponsible. He found bewitched himself. For "when Na was alluding to the fact that many a subject. for inextinguishable ture completed my countenance in subscribers have bought two copies laughter in the fact that he was 1880 or thereabouts (I had only the of the complete edition, one to brought to the verge of ruin, and tenderest prouting of hair on my keep for their private use and one when the family "olved a desper face until I was 24), I found my to sell at the onhanced price which ate financial situation by emigrat self equipped with the upgrowing, the edition is certain to reaching to London he made no effort to moustaches, and eyebrows and the the future. As the type has been rejain them. And none of us ever sarcastic "nostrila of the operabic 'distributed, there can be no ques dreamt of there being any un-fead, whose airs (by Gounod) I tion of reprinting the edition.

kindness in the arrangement. In had sung as a child, and whose at- But it is the first volume, which our family we did not bother titudes I had affected in my boy contains the autobiographical frag about conventionalities and senti-hood." ment, over which most people will mentalities.

He disclaims ambition, admita linger longest. It is fifty-four

that he had never thought about years since Mr. Shaw made his de.

being a great man because he took scent

London, He was There is an inimitable page in it for granted, and, full of euch twenty. He had been in business which Mr. Shaw describes his ear-turbulences and an ineradicable some years. He had even made aly attitude to religion. He com-

hatred of an office desk, found him- success of the position of cashier,

self in London. from a beginning at 158, a month. He fled from it. He had come to dercat it "as cordially as any gane person lets himself detest anything he cannot escape from and he resolved to join his mother and only surviving sister in London.

בסמון

Original Prayers.

His many admirers will be pleased to learn a hitherto undis closed quarry for his early work. He acted as ghost for a musician who had accepted a part as IL musical critic; but as a proper ghost with no real existenco he could not enter, the office to correct ria proofs. They were full of in- accuracies and interpolations, and therefore those copies of "The Hornet are quite accurately to be

posed his own prayers:-.

I cannot recall the words of the final form I adopted, but I re member that it was in three move ments, like a sonata, and in the best Church of Ireland style. It ended with the Lord's Prayer, and I repeated it overy night in hea. I had been warned by my nurse that warm prayers were of no use, Of his father he has much to say. and that only by kneeling by my He had an unfortunate addiction bedside in the cold could I hope to drink which enforced a virtual for a hearing; but I criticised this ostraciam upon his family. But admonition unfavourably on vari- described as a quarry from which LANE CRAWFORD'S he had a humorous sense of anti-ous grounds, the real one being my the veritable Shaw must be ex

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Family Ostracized.

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(Continued on Page 2.).

Diary of Coming Events,

To-day.

(September 1.)

Bank Holiday. Central Theatre: "Gentlemen of the Press."

Queen's Theatre: Such Men are Dangerous"

World Theatro: The Changing Age" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: A Kiss in a Taxi."

Majestic Theatre: Love and Learn"

Water Polo: 1st Div. Navy RA

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Tuesday. (September. 2.)

"Queen's Theatre : . Buch Men are Dangerous.

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World Theatre The Changing

(Chinese film). Star Theatre: "Besurrection." Central Theatre: "Gentlemen' of the Press."

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