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BAMILY SEES

CHAPLIN FILMS.

SANDRINGHAM BALLROOM TURNED INTO. CINEMA THEATRE,

ROBOT CONTROL FOR FIRE

SIGNALS.

NEW INVENTION TO EASE TASK OF FIRE BRIGADE,

London, December 31.—Ân aloc trie robot that controls street traffic during are alarms has been pre-

London, Deo. M.The worki. famous comedian: Charlie Chaplin zvonived gead publicity this ven- ing when members of the Royal Family saw two of his pictures at a private showing at Sandringham.duced by two London engineers,

The ballroom of "the" residence was transformed for the purpose int A miniature cinema and among the audionos were the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York and the Dults of Gloucester.

The pictures exhibited were Dog's Life" and "The Gold Rualı,'

a

which are considered amongst

Chaplin's most popular pictures.

DRYS DEFEATED IN

FINLAND.

PLEBISCITE THROWS OUT IDEA OF, PROHIBITION.

Helsingfors December 31-Fin- land wont wet ft-day. In a nation wide poll 04,671 votes were cast in favour of the abolition of prohibi-

tion. Only 12,910 votes were one in support of prohibition lawa.

In favour of modification of the

(Continued an utæt ('olumu).

The robut, which reduces the journey of an engine from the at- tion to the scene of a fire to less than half the time previously taken, is being put into operation at Hull to-day-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1932.

BOOKS and READERS

"AN UNAUTHORISED

BIOGRAPHY:"

BERNARD SHAW; AN UNAUTHORISED

SECRETS OF G.B.S..

G.B.5,'s Marriage. Take as an example of this ap parent candour the story he told Harris of his marriage to Miss Payno-Townsend, Having injure his ankle, he was carried into her country house, where she nursed him;

BIOGRAPHY BASED ON FIRST-HAND INFORMATION." By Frank Har- ris. Gollancz, Sa. ed." Mr. Shaw, as we see him in Frank Harris book, is a living

"He found it very difficult to When a brigado receives a call contradiction of everything, wo Ara to a fire, the robot, by the opera taught in Samuel Smiles Self-forgo his charming philanderer's tion, of a switch, sets at "dangerholp.' Here we see a timid boy, speeches, especially to someone, who a hater of drudgery, without had been so kind and sweet and all traffic signals along the route to the scene of the fire. It also in-single advantage except his natural such a good nurse, so helpful in forma policemen on duty along the

every way. route of the number of fire ongines engaged and illuminates cross road signs reading"" Stop! Fire engines coming.

present régime only es8 votes warn. cast.

Since June 1, 1919, Finland has had a prohibition enforcement law outswing all liquor with an alcoba lic content greater than two per

-}.cont.

"Worth waiting for"

W. & A. Gilbey's Whisky

Also in pints

and flasks

Spey-Royal Scotch Whisky

Choloase mi skiest procurable

Balint and they we post to

Milliy

ability, and with scarcely more (initiative than a processional cater. pillar arriving at the peaks of

fame and fortune.

1 suddenly became quite clear to me,' he later related to me. that if I kept on I had to make love to her and sak hor to marry mo, and I didn't intend to do anything of the sort.

So one

GERMANY DURING THE WAR,

cupied with an account of political and social movements in Germany during the war.

PASSENGERS,

Departures. The following passengers left by Nollbre:-Mr. J. McKay, Mr. J. Stewart-Smith, Miss B. C. Rows, Mr. Kung Gia Tu Miss Greta Quoy, Mrs. W. J, L. Liu, Mr. P. M. Ponhnilurick, Mr and Mrs. H. B. Dickson, Mr. W. P. Holland,

cock.

KILLED A CALF ON A SUNDAY.

MAN PROSECUTED IN ENGLAND.

A prosecution under the Lord's Day Observance Act of 1977 was brought at Wokingham against a incal ontsle dealer named Frank White for:

"Tu BIRTH OF THE GERMAN RR- PUBLIC By Arthur Rosenberg) Translated by Inn F. D. Mor. row. Milford. 15s. Charles H. apologised for the fuqi that he was a long time, a- dying. The German Republic, on the other hand, would som from this book to have been a long time Mr. F. G. Smith. Mrs. G. Quoy, being born, for Dr. Rosenberg's Mr. Alwyn Quoy, Miss Liu, Mr. J. history oevers the period 1871-1918, Sassel, Mrs. M. Ito, Mr. and Mrs. It being the Lord's Day, com- ending on November 10, the day R. L. Holton, Miss B. D. Jonkias, monly called Sunday, and he being after the abdication of the Kaiser Mrs. W. Bulcock, Mis E. Enosh, then a butcher and above the ago and the day before the armistico, Mrs. M. J. Larkin, Misa B. Bull-of-14-years-of-nge, did unlawfully do and exercise certain worldly la Three-quarters of the book is oc-

The following passengers left hour at business in the original, call- Yesterday by as, Pros. Hoovering of a Butcher aforesaid by kill- Mr. Ho Wai Hong, Mr. Lee Yuk | ing a calf," King, Mr. Chean Pak Wun, Mr. There were 18 other summeraes and Mrs. Shum Yat Chun, Mrs. against White for similar offences, Pan Chu. Wing, Mr. Hung Po Chiu, Mr.“ Augusta Nasmith, in., Mrs Cheung Shed, Mrs. Lan Shoe, Miss Cornell Leuvoll, Mr. Y. C. Pow, Miss A. Kum Ngan Fong, Mrs. Kong Lum Shiro, Mrs. Chau Shing Loong, Mr. H. Pfanner, Mr. and and Mrs. A. H. Komm, Mrs. F. A. explana. Petrie, Mr. P. N. Jester, Mrs.

Mr. Wong Shurt Ge, Mr. Sam Jew, Mr." Fong Gin Koc, Master Fong The chairman (Col. Barkor) said Wing Git, Mr. Leong Gun, Mr. He the magistrates woro lath to en- Kwong, Mr. H. Hung Chin, Mr. force such an ok Act, and hoped Chari Che Suen, Mr. K. W. Chun, that White would not kill on Sun- Mrs. K. W. Chuen, Miss Hertha days unless it was absolutely neces Kroeger, Mr. A. Jochumsen, Mr. | sary.

What Soldiers Thought.. The writer has every qualifien. tion for his task. As reporter of

the Reichstag. Commission for the It is true that G.B.S. was born

investigation of the causes of the with noble blood in his veins, fer

German collapse in the World War, 'were not the Shaws descended from

Dr. Rosenberg" enjoyed exceptional Shaigh, third son of Macduff, night. I made up my mind to leave, opportunities both for hearing Earl of Fife, who cuffed Macbeth" and next morning got up very from the leading soldiers On the other hand, the particular early. I started to sneak out at politicians

their Own

descendant of Shaigh who became dawn, but the floors were of polish- tione of the downfall of the David Gill, Mr. Jom Wong Can, the father of Mr. Shaw was a hard.ed oak and I had a long sight of Empire and for examining the On almost the documente bearing on the subject. drinking and ctherwise unfortun-stairs before me.

The book is, in fact, a first-rate source of information about public

ate Dublin merchant who could do Brst step my lame leg buckled un-

came out, hurried down the steps to where I lay, and helped me to my fest." "

little to give his son an auspicious der me and I fell headlong to the start in life. As for his mother, bottom. Almost immediately she 門 who married under the impression that she was becoming the wife of a life-long and bigoted teetotaller,

This, we are now' told, is a meru she, too, according to the presont- biography, was not of a kind to travesty of the facts, since the fall push the careers of her children.downstairs did not ceeur till after the Shaws were married. It was We as children." says Mr. Shaw, had to find our way in a housele G.B.5. was recovering from an operation that his future wife hold where there was neither hate insisted on his visiting her house hor" love, fear nor reverence, but

at Hindhead.

Spey Royal's always personality.!!

the name

And wide is

its fame

Obtainable from a Wine Merchants

Sole Representatives :—

Timid But Boastful. Even in his early years, however, according to Harris-or did Mr. Shaw write this 1-G. B. S. had enough of the egotist in him to

opinion in Germany during the

war.

リ

な

What is the chief impression which the ordinary English reader would get from this book. It is undoubtedly this..

Prussianised to the Core. "When the war was going on we were all old to think of the Can mans as a nation militarised and

Supt. Goddard asked that the summonses might be dealt with un- der the Act of 1897, which stated. that an artisan, tradesman or la- bourer could not do work on a Sun- day, but it was decided to proceed under the 1977. Act.

Evidence "was given that White. killed calves on Sunday, Nov. 1, and the Bench imposed the maxi- muin, fine of 58,

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and Mrs. W. K. Lo, Mr. L. T. Supt. Goddard said the neigh- Tam, Mr. O."W. Chater, Miss Mimi bourhood was scandalised by the Auyang, Mrs. Ķwok Sok Yue, Mr. noise and nuisance that went on at P. Hou, Mr. H. T. Chuck, Mr. B. the slaughterhouse on Sundays. K. Shun, Mrs. E. B. Walby, Miss

Murphy, Mrs. Chow Yok Ing, Misa Wong Yuk Din, Mr. Tang Hang Cheung, Master Tang Chu Shup, We married, he schools, the universities and the w. Loen, Mr. Alfonso Leer, Mrs. Mr. Tang Kow Lung, Mr. Abelardo

has said, because we had become indispensable to опе another. Harris, who cannot forgive Mrs. Shaw for having burned one of his books, suggests that she regarded

first-class invest.

ment fur her money and herself, knowing that both could be useful to him."

ay

with

Prussianised

the core. 10

The

Hazel N. K. Deng Ching, Miss Cornellia Ecavell, Mr. Chandey

LONELY PROFESSOR'S LAST HOURS:

ORDERED THE POLICE OUT

OF HIS HOUSE,"

army, all State-controlled and

we were told, a mass with a single all superbly efficient, had produced, mind, a single will Deutschland Brownell, Mr. Wallace McMillan. uber Alles," Germany before Allcovitz, Mr. Herbert Thompson, Mr. the 51-year-old scientist who died Master John and Mies Betty Ber- Professor Walter Francis Boid,

The Germans worshipped a tribal God, whose Christiane name "may Quan Lap, Miss Wan Chuon Hsu, found unconscious in the house in G. Fu, Mr. Yi Ying Mr. Leon in Kingston Hospital after being have been Jehovah, but his surname Mrs. Low Pak Leung, Miss Eni Sew Addlestons, Surrey, where he lived

alone, was "rather eccentric.

was Hohenzollern.

This was simply not true. Both Hing, Mr. Yee Yenm Sen, Mr. take Germany and England were Tent Cheung King Fan, Mr. Lui Wai with civil discord on the eve or Chow, Mr. L. N. Johnson, Mr. and the war. Both proclaimed a party Mrs. C. C. Creighton, Rev. Edw F. truce when the war began; but Le Prelle, Miss Mary Gill, Mra. whereas in England the truce was a reality, in Germany it was never much more than a make-believe, a papering over the tracks, to quote one of Bismarck's phrases used in another connection.

romance about his courage and G.B.8. 48 prowess with the reckless mendacity of a horn story-teller whilst he was still an exceptionally timid child' But all this time he "car ried his arrunt cowardice in his breast, a guilty secret." Who

Arrogant Judgments. could have seen in this nervous boy, It is impossible to easily moved to tears, whose first

this book seriously literary composition was a prayer, the beginnings of the audacious life of Mr. Shaw, even Shaw of the plays and the pre- Mr. Shaw's revisions. Mr. Shaw

Kwan Shuet Mui, Mr. Sam Chong, So shy was he, indeed, when he is about a much alive in it as a

Muster Sam Duen, Mrs Feng came to London' at the aga of butterfly on a pin, in a glass case.

Young Shee, Mrs. Wong Shee, Mr. twenty, that his first act was to Harris judgments and criticisms go to the British Museum Reading

D. A. MacDonald, Mr. Kwck Tam are as arrogant as they are insen. etiquette he could end in erder to sitive, and there is something rawar-discorda; they were magnified Mr. L. T: Tam, Mr. M. B. Nichol- In England no doubt we had sur] Wao, Mr. and Mrs. Hee Chung, leary how to behave in human ther Judicrous in the exchange of to appear greater than they were son, Master Chun, Mr. H. Tyson, society.

views between" author and subject by the sounding heard of a fe For the next nine years, we are

Parliament and Press. The war- Mrs. R."Ho Tung. ir., Mr. Chan

faces ?

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His son made this statement at the inquest, when a verdict of Death from Natural Causes was recorded.

Mr. Frank Roid, of Hyndiana, Glasgow, the professor's son, said that he had not seen or heard from his father for 18 years.

The Coroner (Dr. W. J. Lord), -- Was he rather eccentric 1---You:

Would Consult No One..

+

I understand he would not have

told, he was a complete failure, about the latter's sex-life. Harris discords of Germany were souffled Cho Sun, Mrs. J. N. Cunningham, anybody with him-He lived al- and towards the end of them an regards Shaw as a Puritan because by tyranny, and cons ship, but M. and Mrs. M. L. Auyong, Mias most entirely by himself. House- unpresentably snedy one." He perhe reained continent till the they were far more profound. The ainted in writing novels that nobody would buy, and his total earnings age of 25. Mr. Shaw retorts that pratige of German militarism wa May Auyang, Mr. F. E. D'AlmadoKeepers and a sister looked after with his pen between the years Harris was a prude. Mr. Shaw when the war began: even without Y. Lo, Mrs. H.. P. Lim, Mr. Harry already on the wane in Germany Remedios, Mr. T. F. Tai, Mr. M.

him as well as they could. His in- terests were entirely scientific, and 1979 and 1983 amounted to precise undoubtedly succeeded in shocking German defeat its doom was scaled, ly £5 15, 6d. This Harris attri

he would consult no one. bates, largely, to lack of punh. Harris in his own fashion by con-

He lived his own lifet-He lived never straggled," Mr. Shaw him fessing:. self tells us. And Harris adds:

a life of science. "He was pushed into avery job

In this book the reader will find A. Fish, Mr. Wong Kwak Eng, accounts of these, to Englishmen. Master Wong Shek Jin, Rev. and obscure events, the pence movement, Mrs. J. H. Burgess, Mrs. Boo Boo "I found sex hopeless as a basis of 1917, the naval mutiny

Shee, Mrs. Tang Yee Shen. Mr. be got, and he always waited help for permanent relations, and never August in the same year, the antiquock Shan, Mr. Ramon Lion, Mr. lessly. for the push."

war strikes of January, 1018, dreamt of marriage in connection the collapse of the German home Ho Yuk Moi, Miss Bo Tee Mui, The Men Who Helped Htm. with it. I put everything else be-front in the six weeks before the Miss Persilla Brownell, Mr. Philip First, Archer pushed him int fore it, and never refused or broke Armistice, book-reviewing on the Pall Mall," an engagement to speak on Socia and then into art-criticism on this to pass a gallant evening."

World." Later," Massingham shov.

་

ed him into musical criticism ou Mr. Shaw's candour on this and the "Star." The Mr. Harris, other matters will also shock some whom he approached, turned him of his readers, and most readers into a dramatic critic On the Saturday Review," and Mr.

will experience a sense of ahock Shaw lived financially happily ever on reading the account of the faner- after.

of Mr. Shaw's mother,

But, even then, he had to be

pushed into writing playa. He was "His relations with his mother

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first shoved into doing so by were apparently as porfect as any William Archer, and meat of his thing of the kind could be; but, other plays were also more or less when she was cremated, Granville sociate from the hated phrases rived at Kobo on January 5 at 1.30 name of Gollancz and gladly die The R.M.S. Empress of Asia ar dragged out of him. "It may sort- otaly be doubted," says Harris, Barker, whom he had closen to ac“ india paper." With Christmas in p.m. and leaves on the same day at whether Shaw would ever have company him as the sole other the offing it should rejoice the p.m., and is due at Nagasaki on written a play if there had been

hearts of present-givers "in these January 6 at 5 p.m. She will leave no theatres to be kept span and mourner, could say nothing to him hard times, and for uncles with for Shanghai on January 7 at 4 a.m. no actors to be, obliged."

but 'Show: you certainly are a crusading intent it should provide The only sign of initiative, Mrmerry soul. Bhaw was not only a grand opportunity of gilding for Shaw, appears to have shown dur

a little comic relief."

AUSTRIAN CITY NEAR BANKRUPTCY.

MUNICIPAL FUNCTIONS

Evelyn Halliwell, of Clapham Common, S.W., said that, five years ago, she acted as bousekeeper 10r Professor Reid for some months. Since then abe bad visited him every three weeks to get him food and necessaries,

He would not allow you to do anything in the house 1-Nothing. whatever..

Police-rgeant West, of Otter- shaw, said that, when he went to the professor's house, he found the front and back doors lockad and the blinds drawn. The professor had last been sten twelve months

ago last spring.

Bergeant West added that, when he went into the house, he formed. the opinion that Professor Reid was "on the point of starvation." The professor ordered him out of the

house.

"

A ONE-DAY GENERAL

STRIKE IN INDIA.

TO DEMONSTRATE STRENGTH OF WORKERS ORGANISATIONS

ing his early years indeed is to full of interest in the process and recalcitrant nephews the apparent. pill of Hazlitt, Borrow, Pencack be found in the story of his early the ceremony, but full ale of * and others. failure as a speaker at the Zetetical fandy that his mother was looking Mr. Meult was faced with a dir Society through stage-fright, and on at it over his shoulder and ficult task when he started to com of the oath he Bwere thathe sharing his delight at the points pile this anthology, and one which, would speak in public every week on which it appealed to his sense however successfully accomplished. until he either mastered the art of humour. He is fond ef saying was inevitably destined to meet CEASE IF STATE AID FAILS. or died of the torrible heart-thump that what bereaved people need is with criticism. He has ranged ings that afflicted him at the, very

English literature for his material; thought of facing an audience,” There is little to startle the road- each selection having to pass the

We are told that Mr. Shaw has er, however, outside a few pages, test of being a genuine piece of its citizens living on the dole

St Byr, Dec. 31.-With over half corrected the proots of this book and undoubtedly Mr. Shaw's own literature. since Harris death, and, though contributions, chiefly in lettera, aro Of these grounds it seems incon- and over 80 per cent, of its child ren under-fed, this former flourish. he has altered none of Harris' of the liveliest interest--by far thesistent to include a story by Mring town in Upper Austria, at en general strike on February 4 has judgments, some of them very dis most interesting things, indeed, in Jack Hobbs ha cricket, which in time the centre of the iron industry, been ordered by the Executive of paraging, we may take it that the the book.

anyhow copiously represented in tha statements of fact have been au- For the rest, the Harris touch is hook, and to give golf no pince theatens to declare itself bankrupt the Trade Union Congress which thorised and occasionally insorted pondercut, despite his undoubted whatever, when there are such wri- It is announced to-day that the forms. the left wing of the Indian

by G.B.5. The more Mr. Show gifts as a writer Mr. Shaw calls tors available as Mr. Bernard Dar- schools will be closed, public Labour movement. lets us know about 'himself, how him for other reasons" "the most win and Mr. P. G. Wodehouse lighting will be suspended, the The strike is being doclared ever, the loss we stem to know impossible of biographers," and These, however, are not serious atreuts will not be cleaned and all moraly with the object of demon- about him. His method is to my this book is not much more satis- grounds on which to criticise so paymont ef public employees will strating to the Government; tho stify his readers with an appear factory than the majority of generous and on the whole ac ad- be stopped unless the State or pro-strength of the workers organisa- Isaco of extreme candour.

biographies of living men.

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