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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933.

OUR LONDON AIR-MAIL LETTER

Chelsea Arts Ball: Betting Commission and the Tote: British Petrol Prospects: The Duke of Coburg in England: Sixty Years a Wage - Earner! The Art of Refusing: British Museum Library: Sir Henry Lytton.

arouse

(Special Air-Mail Service)

LONDON, Jan. '11. The report of the Lotteries Com- mission on Tote Clubs is sum to,

widespread controversy, But whatever the conflicting views ow its findings, there can be only one of the energy displayed by the Commission.

Chelses Arts Hall,

Tho now catalogue will cont £200,000 and will run to 108 volis, mes. Each set will cost £300, and' the people who will buy them will be called "donors.".

Sixty Years a Wage-earner, Sir Enoch Hill, chairman of the National Association of Building Societies, who begins this week his thirty frat year's service with the largest of thoao societies (the Halifax, of which he is president) has the distinction among men of his age and position of having been a "

wage-enrner" -for sixty |years.

BOOKS and READERS

THE KING OF ROME By R. Mc Nair Wilson. (Peter Davies. 35. net.)

be!

The King of Rome can scarcely

included among the great though his position in Mr. Peter Davies' series of biographies can perhaps be justified on the ground that, if he was not great, he was sufficiently fanious. All that we know of him convinces us of his elasin and, indeed, of his promise of greatness. But he died at the been brought up in such a way that action on his part was impossible. Anyhow, we need not quarrel with hia inclusion in the series, since it

He began at the age of six as a half-timer" in a Staffordshire silk mint a wage of twopence a Betting Commission and the Tole.day, and since then has been in re- The position arising out of the gular harness at either wage or recent English judicial decizion de-salary. Though still given to long claring dog racecourse totalisators hours of work-frequently a four- and mechanical betting in clubs to ten-hour-day he nevertheless finds be illegal is still puzzling. These time for public service and far reage of twenty-one, after having forms of betting continue to be laxation now and again in golf, carried on in the hope apparently bowls or gardening. that the Government may do some- thing immediately to modify the

late in the month.

The Art of Refusing.

T

Mr.

THE KING OF ROME

Manning-Foster and other English writers. In addition to describing the 'game", and tolling how it should be played the book contains

lawa

A provisional code of

(Theze books can be obtained from Messrs, Kelly and Walsh, Chater, Road, Hong Kong.)

VIOLANTE

af forgotten things. will probably not consider it until they are, Sir Philip considers, best matter of the Emperor Francis and they give a wonderfully true-

To see them in their perfection shown in a private house and not an institution.

Nearly 4,000 people are expected to-morrow night.

For the first dance at the Albert

Hall & special floor was laid, but a few days before the event a sur- veyor told Mr.

Foster it would collapse under the weight of the dancers. At the centre, the floor was nearly 28ft from the founda- tions, "and half an hour before the dance began the surveyor refused to guarantee its security.

Mr. Foster decided to take the risk, and passed one of the most uneasy evenings of his life. Since then hundreds of new supports have been introduced, and a special staff of firemen now patrol under neath the floor while the dance is in progress.

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Old Suits Reprieved.

Preserving Dialects.

The novels of Mr. George Preedy vary greatly in quality, and the latest is far ahead of some of its Throughout its serpions it has al ways bore well up to, or ahead of law as interpreted by the Courts. One of the difficulties of which has resulted in a biography so predecessors, certainly of its im- nediate predecessor, "Tho Pavilion schedule, and I should be surpris. Ansicy as to the outcome has made Sir Philip Sassoon has already good as that of Dr. McNair Wil of Honour." In Violante (Cirod od if the final report, which is ex- those interested impatient regard- had experience at the National on. This biography has the added and the Ermine) (Cassoli, 78. Bd. pected about August, did not aping the appearance of the interim Gallery is in the tactful refusal advantage that it really is possible net) he has gone to a scandal, a pear much earlier.

report of the Royal Commission on of proffered gifts that are unsuit-

to soil in very short space all that ghastly trial followed by a series One friend in close touch with Betting, but even if recommenda-able, for various reasons.

we need to know of its subject,of executions, which took place in. the progress made by the Commistions were to be made in favour of

whereas most of the others can only Toulouse something over three hun- sion mentioned March as being a sone modification tho question of

It has not been easy, either, to give the barest of sketches.

dred years ago. The trial is found- pictures dominating the introducing legislation is a matter event month in which the final report entirely for the Government. The Three French Reigne" exhibition

The tragedy is one which exactly ed upon the records of it which might well appear.

Cabinet will not take hasty action which is being held next month in suits the author's vivid style, and axist, but the record of the trial ho has made the most of his opis naturally only the bars bones of

the drama. Mr. Pready has LED, pon this thorny subject of bethis house in Park-lane. Ling regulation.

portunities. He makes live again In any case, When, nearly twenty years ago, nothing can be done to change the day, "is that the best of the of Napoleon Francis, the most i flesh: He has certainly succeeded, "Our iden," he told to yester: the gorgeous scenes of the infancy himself to reclothe these bones with and organiser first mooted the contemplated, until after the meet-18th century need to be assembled boy's physical life at the Court of But it was not a pretty case, and Mr. Sherwood Foster, the artist existing law, if such a course were various French productions of the portant baby in the world. Of the at least four of the chic!" charse

ters being remarkably realistic. iden of the Chelsen Arts Ball, ing of Parliament on February 7. in their right proportions-tapes Vieans there is little to tell. He it is not a pretty reincarnation.. which is due at the Albert Hall The Commission is expected to tries, china, plate, furniture, car-hunted, he performed zealously the Mr. Preedy has put his own, inter- on Friday, people laughed at him. issue its report about a week or pets souff-boxes, and so forth." Fancy dress, they said, was among ten days hence, and the Cabinet

duties of an Austrian officer, he the limba

danced, and he fell violently in pretation upon the facts where he love with the Archduchess Sopine; could, but to the facts he has kept, Joseph, who survived until the mid- and natural air to the grim story. British Petrol Prospects.

die of the War. The inner life Violante Estában de Pomar- Anticipations are held in well- early decision will be reached by

was another thing; and this is doubtless her name, like those of Future Plans... informed quarters here that an

cloverly pieced together from the the other chief personages, has been Sir Philip's idea for subsequent evidence of those who came in con-altered-was a lovely young Portu- the Government on the question of years is to gather similar loan cok tact with him and from compara- guese widow, dwelling in Toulouse the hydrogenation of coal in this lections of Chinese art, such as furtively seanty correspondence. When with her cousin, who was married. country. Since the revelation of niture and decorative work; then we consider the influences brought to a wealthy young man of the city was made in the Commons some ought to be extremely popular; and that were made to kill the "Napo was Violante's confessor; a dis- official interest in the experiments European and Oriental China, which to bear upon the bay, the efforts named Saint-Arroman. The Prior time ago further progress has been afterwards Venetian art, which, he loonie legend in his breast, it is sipated young student named Loys. made in developing, the process, thinks, might be nainly pictures, truly extraordinary that his deve Candolas was known to be her ad- and according to one authority like those of fanaletto and Guardi,lopinent should have taken the mirer; another wealthy citizen, in touch with the research stations

Course it did. All the more ex Maitre Mare Daffis, midle-aged. the prospects of establishing the he hopes, induce the owners to more than an infant when he last bination of humanist and one too

This last-panied exhibition may, traordinary because he was little this time and a widower, a com industry on an beasomie basis are now regarded as definitely en-continue their permission so that saw his father, because at one time clean-living man of the world, was couraging. There is no question that part of the collection might be he seems almost to have forgotten her friend and patron. His s00, State aid is likely to be involved afterwards lent to the chief pro- his existence, because, in fine, the Luc Daffis, was perhaps an admirer in connection with the enterprise, vincial galleries. Some of the im-legend was killed and had to be also. In those days there descend- and that the chief point upon from several great American col- minate his whole existence is clear- Falaise, nominated First President portant works, however, will come born again. How it came to do-ed upon Toulouse the Marquia de which the Government decision is awaited is as to whether an adelections and it is not easy to get ly shown in these pages. The back of the Parliament with the special quate (proference he the matter of such owners to part with their ground is cleverly handled also, mission of raforming Languedoc. taxatida willeding kulmateed for treasures for more than a few with glimpses of the fallen Em He decided that the life of Vio- home produce petrol over import-

weeks at a time....

peror dying on St. Helena and of lente constituted a scandal in the ed supplies.

Marie Louise living with her lover city. He suspected the priest, and in Italy. Perhaps the author's in some degres the others, of being LONDON, January 11.

favourite bee-after the Bonapar-lovera. It turned out that he was If Saville Row can be accepted as

Apparently the British Dramatist one, of course the power of right. The men found her a hus- wretched and almost the authoritative guide in the mat- League fears that a day will come international finance and ita hog band, lor of men's clothes, the fortunate where all British will talk with the tility to Napoleon, buzzes too loud worthless fellow; and then, when mule is likely to be saved during uniformity of B.R.C. announcers, 80

ly at times; but as he is one of they found that he could not be the few writers who have given persuaded to bring her back to the coming year from any of the in order to preserve at least 24 dia violent fluctuations in fashion to lects for the amusement" of later prominence to this important sub- Toulouse, certain of them had him which his women-folk may be sub-generations the League has decided ject, he may be allowed to take murdered. So much, one imagines, ject. To the expert, the 1833 suit to make gramophone records of pride in it. Bometimes, too, love is fact. But in Mr. Preedy's ver may be distinguishable from that these territorial ways of speech, of a phrase leads him astray, as sion the First President lusted of 1932, but the average individual No one will feel more compliment when the boy's eyes fall, at the after the girl himself, and his jen- will still be able to pass muster

od than the self-appointed dictators British Ambassador's ball, upon lousy tortured him almost tɔ mad- among his fellows in last scnson's

of pronounciation at Broadcasting an old and withered looking" nees. By straining the evidence he outfit. According to the official House, and no one will in the end Frenchman-the man who had be implicated those innocent of the edict single-breasted lounges of receive a greater disappointment! trayed Napoleon. In January. murder with the guilty, and brought 1831, Marmont, the youngest by the whole of the group, with the neat blue, grey, and brown clothes It is the duty of actors and ne- will be wom

Whether there treases to learn thoroughly the dia. several years of all the Napoleonie exception of Luc Daffs and Ma should be two or three buttons on

leet of particular characters, and marshals, was fifty-seven, though dame Saint Arroman, to the scaf- the jacket remains

with this in view the 24 records are. it is possible that the events of the fold. The theme of the story is, in 3 matter of taste, and as regards cut and style being made but we are not all previous July in Paris had added fact, lust pure and simple, though the decision is for no charge.

actors, so when the B.B.C. dictates line or two to his brow. These perhaps some nobler emotion can that we must say "She is coming are minor matters, and do not les be discerned in the priest and even The Duke of Coburg in England.

down the road," Scots will will

sen the charin and interest of aú in Loys Candolas. It is, as we ingly agree and repeat *! She's

excellent little study.

have mid, a grisly tale, but it is The Duke of Coburg arrived to- comin' doon the r-road-"

excellently told. Violante is a wo day on a visit to his sister, Prin-

man to whom chastity is meaning- cess Alice, and his brother-in-law,

British Museum Library.

less, but a gentle creature wholly Lord Athlone. He will probably

incapable of complicity in the The biggest library task in the spend a week-end at Sandringham. world will be resumed to-morrow it

crime for which she suffered. The This is, I think, writes a home cor- the British Museum. Two years ago CONTRACT WHIST. By Hubert Phil- count of the trial scenes is al- Prior is fire creation. The sc respondent, the first recognised a staff of nearly 100 assistants start

lips. 7 by B. vil+200 pp most unbearable. visit since the war of one who was ed to recatalogue the 3,000,000 books

There is some- Faber and Faber. 68.

thing here of the fire and fary an enemy belligerent reigning in the Museum Library, which are sovereign in the war. The Duke recorded in no fewer than 68 large

Contract Whist at first sight wherein the Church denounced the which appear in the old sermons is, of course, the King's first cou- volumes. Since then, however, the might appear to appeal to a vice of which this book is the sin. His Garter banner was taken number of banks has increased by limited public. The old-fashioned theme; and, despite the plot, there down from St. George's Chapel, nearly half a million, and as an in- Whist player and the modern Brid- Windsor, in 1915 and his name was dication of the magnitude of the ge player have "very little in com removed from the roll of the task-which will take many years on, except perhaps their dislike Knights of the Garter, but I do not to complete-I am told that only for the game played by the other. think he ever actually returned his four revised catalogue volumes have Contract Whist, however, brings NEW CAPT. KETTLE YARNS Carter insighia

resulted from, the Labours of the them together on what is to some He e abdicated his fights of suc

past two years. The cataloguers oxient common ground in a game cession to the throne is 1018, and have got as far as Anne." It is calling for a much higher degree CAPTAIN KETTLE, AMBASADOR. By

of skill than that found at the A like the Duke of Cumberland, bis difficult at present to estimate what

J. Cubeliffe-Hyne 74×5, titles in the peerage of the United the total cost of the work will be, average card table. Mr. Phillips

318 pp Ward, Lock.. 75. 6d. n. Kingdom were removed from the but I am told that it will consider: Contract Whist but merely to have makes no claim to have invented roll of peers according to an Order ably excced £200,000.

In this now collection of storie in Council in 1919. I am told that

attempted the first orderly presen- of Captain Kettle Mr Cutolife- one of the Duke's keen regrets

tation of its principles. He has Hyne will not disappoint the lovern when all this had been accomplish-

done his work well, and his book of his famous, character;; and ans ed was that he felt his would no

offera card players a new recres. other old friend, Mr. MeTodd, the langer, be able to wear a kilt

tion which should appeal to all who Scottish engineer, who once * did Many stories were published about

high degree of intelligence. Con- days at a stretch," enjoy a game which calls for without whisky for as much as four him during the war. but I think

will also it is admitted now that he did all

tract Whist is to a large extent found in some

home of the stories he could for the British prisoners

Bridge without the dummy, Bridge in Germany, and would always

players who try it will probably Moorside Hill Syndicate,. « Sir Henry has appeared in Gilbert be surprised to find what a differ- don financial body with large strongly deny false statements pub and Sullivan opera for nearly fifty hand makes to their play both as

ence the absence of the dummy terests in Central America lished there about our treatment of years, but he had no scen one of declarer and in opposition. The Mexico, wanted an ambien German prisoners,

the operas from the auditorium absence of the dummy calls for safeguard their various New B.M. Catalogue, until the beginning of the present pore conservative bidding, and the ranging from oil to pearls. The compilers of the now British

season.

He will my farewell to greator difficulty in card-placing their ambassador had to be Museum library catalogue have, at London audiences at the close of demands higher skill in the play useful with his ran then tlfs beginning of this year, entered the Savoy acason on January 21 of the hand. Mr. Phillips, as the tongue, they did not

After that lie wil undertake a long editor of the English edition of his Sn, choos work. Atid they have not yet come to the end tour with the D'Oyly Carte Com- books, has naturally adopted the could handle any

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Sir Henry Lytton's Birthday.

Sir Henry Lytton, the Savoyard, who was 60 recently, decided to celebrate the anniversary by taking 'busman's holiday at a West End theatre.

f

of the letter, A. It will take at pany, which will extand well least twenty years to finish the 1934.

(Continued on-Page-15.)

into

CONTRACT: WHIST

is nothing, salacious.

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