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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.

OUR LONDON AIRMAIL LETTER

Death of Alan Parsons: Cinema Screen in Law Courts To Bus Licences £370,000: Lady Oxford on Bonar Law.

(Special Air-Mail Service)

Not for Walking Out,"

LONDON, Jan. 17.

Having survived the caustic eri- ticism that was levelled at it, the Army's pay uniform cover it wrah

deerstalker hat was given its first try-out to day An experimental platoon of 50 men performed the customary training in the new i dress at Aldershot. Immediately

FILM BOX-OFFICE SURPRISES

MARIE DRESSLER: AS GREATEST DRAW

London, Jan. 17. The greatest box-office draw amongst all the world's film stars is Marie Dress- ler.

The veteran character actress, ac- cording to an American survey of the Garrick Club and first nights. 1932, is far ahead of Greta Gar Following a holiday in the West bo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Diet Indies, after an earlier severe ill-rich, Norma Shearer, and all the ful book entitled "A Winter in ness, Alan Parsons wrote a delight other sirens of the screen.

This is only one of the many fur. Paradise," which revealed a good

prises revealed by the box-office

survey.

BOOKS and READERS

WHERE EMPIRES MEET

THREE BOOKS ABOUT THE

• EAST

ly over the immensity of China, India, Russia, its real contribution to geographic and political thought

The Loon oF THE EAST." By Flies in the elaboration of his ideal Kingdon-Ward (Martin Hop: route round the great mountains, and round, as well as across the kinson, 38.)

great rivers that buffet their way, within hail of one another, yet completely severed by terrific

Among travellers in plants Mr. Kingdon-Ward way claim a ro putation of his own. The profes- ranges, through the corridor that sion has a distinguished and curi- leads down from his "roof of the ously little known past. The fonts world to the constal plains by of travellers for some older firma Burma. -Veitch had a pre-eminence of its

Very suggestive things are said It will astonish many people to own in this regard-are recorded incidentally, as, that what Eag-" learn that the Marx, Brothers are only in our gardens, or are com- lishman call the East, really is the greater draws in the world market pressed into an adjective such as South," or "It is a parody worth Some of these men pondering that with the improve Dietrich, and Harold Lloyd, whom were travellers first and botanists ment of communications it than Maurico Chevalier, Marlane Veitchiance, Paramount rank in that order, second, some, like Mr. Beebe, the has become even more difficult to great traveller in birds, were na Tule from a distance;" but less It is equally strange that Joe E. Brown, of the wide mouth, should accident. No one perhaps has geography would have improved the turalists first and travellers by politics and more straight

lowed by Edward G. Robinson,

deal of the charta, of his character, Cinema Screen In Law Courts, A cinematograph screen, I hear, after training, however, the uni-is to be erected in a court of the the men's lockers and ordinary here, and will play an important forms ware carefully put away in sombre and austere Law Courts dress was worn. On no account baspart in a case which is to be the new kit to be worn for "walk heard soon. Thousands of pounds ing out." The prospect of his men are involved in the action, and cer parading the streets of Aldershot tain signatures will be placed be. to the accompaniment of "Where fore the discerning eyes of some or be first of the Warner stark, fol- worked on so large a scale as Mr work. Such a thoughtful, and ob- George Arliss, Richard Barthel Kingdon-Ward; and his monument servant traveller wastes time and of successes, in botany-the blue himself in threading the jungle of

może immediate politics. moss, Dougins Fairbanks, jum meconopsis and Primals Florindas James Cagney, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, Kay Francis, Bar must not obscure his wider quality

are in themselves success enough bara Stanwyck, Warren William and perhaps deeper interest and Paul Muni, in that order,

did you get that hat" from officious, boys was apparently too much for the sensitive Colonel of the batts lion.

Alan Parsons.

The whole of the London theatre will be shocked and grieved to hear that Alan Parsons died at his house in Rogent's Park yesterday, morn ing from pneumonia following in- fluenza

He was only 44 years of age, and had been engaged in criticism for less than eight years. For thirteen years before that he was employed in various important capacities in the Civil Service, but he gave up bis official career in 1025 to join the staff of the "Daily Sketch" as

dramatic critic. He became critic to the "Daily Mail" in 1999..

Alan Parsons loved the theatre, and perhaps the most striking thing about him was his knowledge of Shakespeare: He could hava prompted many of the plays with But a book, and immediately detect ed the omission of passages and

lines.

the world's leading handwriting ex- ports.. These signatures will be thrown on to the screen, where their enlargement will permit of a minute. examination by the experts.. So far the cinematograph has played a very small part in the law courts of this country. In America, how- ever, it is extensively used, parti- cularly in criminal cases.

To 'Bus Licences-£370,000, One must leave to mathematical-rell are nowhere.

Ho

is a traveller, a geographer who, AN ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS Of the Fox draws the greatest in reads the world nat from she the Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell "Bower in the crannied wall," but SELECTED ESATE, 1917-232. By T. pair, with Will Rogers second ana from the biggest mountains and

8. Eliot. (Faber. 12. 8d. net.) the Dunn-Eilers team fourth. But rivers that Europe and Asia afford.

Mr. T. 8. Eliot is to be read by singly Miss Gaynor and Mr. Far-In his previous book, primarily everyone who trembles for the state concerned with plants, the purple of English Letters and by every passages were evoked by the "edge of the world," not by plant hunt- one who thinks all is for the best in a world of best-sellers. "Inta ing." The Brahmaputra was # word, by the literary pessimist and

than stronger inspiration

the

the literary optimist alike, for Mey rhododendron. In this latest essay

Eliot is a great chastener, sober in outlook, disciplined in pursuit of true judgment," aloof and alive at the same time, and he reminds the

ly-minded persons the calculation United Artists place Eddie Can- of how many id and 2d fares must tor, the Broadway comedian, first. be carried on the L.G.O.C.'s buses with Ronald Colman as his near to recover the $370,000 paid by est rival. them as licence duty recently.

I

One of the biggest surprises of The task of issuing these licences all, to the English public, is the to the public must in general be fact that Radio's chief stars, with a sufficiently dull business. But I Constance Bennett, are Wheeler am told by those concerned that the and Woolsey, the knock-about procedure is often lightened by comedians." unexpected touches of humour.

Recently the officials "had some difficulty in persuading a young

Bagdad. What is said to be the first public speech ever delivered woman that her new baby-car was not, as she insisted upon describing a Moslem girl in modern Irak it under the EL.P. column, "a four-was heard at an International Wo- valve set." I am told that a young man's Conference here. The speak He had been intimately conneet man forgot that he was asking for er was Miss Khatib, a young Iraki, nothing more than a mere driver's who appeared unveiled and in ed with the stage since he left Mag-¡ licence when he signed his letter European dress. dalen College, Oxford. As a young, "Yours Affectionately." mari he wrote plays for Tree, and he married Sir Herbert's daughter, Viola Tree. He was, a friend and

confidant of many actors, and his lovable prescrice will be missed at

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reader in this, as in the other small. volumes of essays from which these

plants find no mention at all; and, the 800graphy is mostly in terme of sene and mountain ranges. The peoples and their politica are direct ed by geographic compulsion, though the relative importance, say, are largely selected, that every of hill and sea vary with man's creator is also a critic and that the mechanical inventions. The little book appeals to the higher imagina-function of criticism is essentially a tion and springs from & construc- question of order,"

In the essay entitled "The Func tivo" imagination. At its worst the thought is stimulating. It is a tion of Criticism" Mr. Eliot de weakness that he often deserte fines clearly enough the position he travel for mere politics and seems takes np, but in all the other essays, to presuppose that the impulse to whether on Hamlet or Humaniam, expand polemically and politically on Blake or Baudelaire, his posi

an immutable force of the West, tion is implicitly defined," and is

The four-day conference was call ed by the women of Irak, and its

as the desire to sleep is a necessity is worth the attention of those who object was the discussion of wo- men's freedom throughout the for the East. Britain must com- profess an Interest in theso" sub- world, and the reception by the

tion has produced not only Mr. T. Traki, women of rucsmges of friend" pensate for lost trade on the Yang-jects to recognise that the genera- ship and encouragement and invi- tse by opening a back door to a tations to co-operate from the wo men of 44 countries, as represented gy the International Alliance of

part of China remote from Japan. Eliot but his readers. He writes She will use the Indian Ocean noin the terms and the tones of a Japan uses the Pacific. This thesis poet anda.

the Women for Suffrage and Equal brings him to that inordinate part cessionsholar, makes no con

58.

Citizenship:

Racing cars not in use on public roads pay no. tax. Tractore registered by farmers for work on the land pay no more than The audience consisted of a few Showmen's tractors, of which seven Arabic speaking Englishwomen, a or eight are used in the biggest circus on the road, have to pay a number of women teachers and special tax, presumably because fair sprinkling of men; in the they make such heavy wear on the balcony sat veiled. Moslem women, their identity hidden, their views guardedly obscure. Four members

roads.

Road steam-rollers must be re- gistered, but as a rule they are duty free.

.men

Lady Oxford on Bonar Law.. Lady Oxford's brilliant charac ter-eketches in the "Sunday Times" of the statesmen of her time are pot all equally faithful and cognisable portraits of the themselves. Her almost : contemp- Luous sketch-it is hardly mora than a Kit cat of Bonar Law is etched with a very feminine needle, almost, one would say, with hat pin.

She had evidently no sympathy with the ex-business man from Glasgow, who had few social graces, no small talk and mart epigram, and was so little literary that be only read and quoted, Carlyle,

She refers to his "inferiority complex" and bis fantasy" ways. The atmosphere of Souls and the high political world was too rari- fied for him He had gone the deadliest of social sins.

"If Bonar Law was a horse, she once said to Lord Carson, would not buy him. He holds his head too low."

An Unfair Fortrait.

Very clever, very malicious! Yet this Bonar Low, hom she so dis dains because he was not nakedly and avowedly ambitious, but only ambitious "in a semiluneasy, whol Ly persistent way" longing to climb higher, but held back by a Jack of self-confidence, was her husband's most loyal supporter when the war broke out.

Bonar Law.could almost certain ly" have been Prima, Minister an 191615 he had started a campaign ágainst “Asquith över, the ED controversy.

He could certainly have had the Premiership at the end of 1916, when Asquithfall He could have led the Conservative party out of the Lloyd George Coalition in 1921 "bad" he been an intriguer for the

first places

He deserved a kinder a truer and if a more, understanding, ist-least

more charitable portrait

ir Lady Oxford! tuskówLAME

appears, indeed, obli

of the world where he looked down vious of, the over-rising tide of on rhododendrons. that had climbed shoddy work which, some other cri- the highest trees. His imagination tics evidently think of sinister and importance, and leaps to the theme. The strip of overwhelming country which separates the Brub- stands where every critics through- maputra of India from the Yang out the history of genuine English tse of China is at one point only literature has stood, "elucidating works of art and correcting taste,” three hundred and fifty miles wide;

of the International Alliance at but it is, for its size, the most and Mr. Eliot, since 1017 when the tended, Madame Nur Hammada, obstinate country in the world, un- first of these essays was written, Madame Andrés Rieder, Madame paralleled anywhere except possib, has been, still is, and without any

and Mlle. Said ly in the moon," Though the book, doubt what-soever will be, read. Paul Jeamin Murad..

bas a wide ding and sweeps superb

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