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WHERE IS TROTZKY?

Paris Pressmen Puzzled

(Special to "Hong, Kong Daily Press")

(By Triegraph, Copyright, graphic Mesange Ordinance, Received, April 24, 7-30 p.m.)

Tele- 1894.

Paris, April 24.

'Trotzky's "whereabouts are still undiscoverable in spite of efforts of

·Ingenious pressmen who are 10- xious to ascertain whether the ex- Commander-in-Chief.. of Soviet

Tel. 37108.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934.

DISCUSSION ON “TASTE

WITTY ADDRESS BY MR. R. "R.

CAMPBELL AT ROTARY CLUB

Preferring Milton To A. A. Milne

An extremely amusing and witty talk was given by Mr. R. R. Camp- bell. at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. Mr. Campbell called his paper "Taste" and discussed among other things various mat- ters of local interest.

Mr. T. B. Wilson presided at the meeting.

Goodness In Art Addressing the gathering. Mr. Campbell said:-

Taste. which may be defined as

a sense of humour we define what we know we have and the other fellow thinks he has

I am not going to trot out the old proverbs about De gustibus all alsi bonum or Chacun à son ragout (Let each stew in his own juice) for the simple reason that I am not going to be weak-kneed about the matter; I am going to say

my 'say with conviction, though it may stir up strife in happy homesteads, May bring about dissension in high places, and may even lead to letters of protest in the papers.

What is Taste? There are two kinds. The first is the noise we make when something is done in & way we are not accustomed to. Someone pronounces the word "centeenary" or "moog," or wears spats at a funeral, or tells a story In mixed company where only anecdotes are allowed, or goes to the Yorkshire Dinner wearing a red rose, (Laughter) and immedi ately. we damn him off-hand either because he has not received a public-school education, or be cause he does not pretend to have it comes to the same thing. It merely means that he is not the sort of man whom we could mix with, not the sort of man we should like our daughters to know.

means to end": that is, the proper use of your material to produce the effect required. Let me be even bolder and take as an exam- ple of high art woman's dress. Now dress has two functions; the Arst, (and in this case it seems the least important), to maintain the warmth of the body: the second to "emphasise the beauty of the body. In his blatantly superior pannor MAN corines himself to the first, but woman reanes herself to the second. The best dress for a woman is one which, while still making some pretence of keeping the wearer warm, fulls its main function of setting off her peculiar charms. A well-dressed woman, then, is one who realises what means she has at her disposal-too often for the sake of art this is decided by her husband-and adapts them as best she can to her purpose, the charming of the other sex. Being always changing her mind as to what men like best about ber her dress is always changing, little by Hittle (sometimes because there is little to change). Many years ago she thought that the sight of just

INTERNATIONAL

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CONSIGNEE NOTICES,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

Sentenced To Eight OCEAN STEAM SHIP 20, LTD.

Years' Gaol

(Special to "Hong Kong

Daily Press")

(By Talegraph, Copyright, Tala. graphic Massager Ordinance, 139 Received, "April 24, 7.30 p.m.)

AND CHINA - MUTUAL" STEAM" NAVIGATION CO., LTD. -

NONSIGNEES per Co.'s Vessel

"MENKLAUS"

are sensible things, capable of being sat in, the, windows are large and can be opened, there are no fussy details of construction or furnishing. few corners for dust. a. plain restful paper, a minimum of ornaments, a lighting that is adequate but not ostentatious; the whole has been planned for the greatest utility comfort and ease,

FROM UNITED KINGDOM of upkeep and because of that it

YIA SINGAPORE. is beautiful,, So now we have a

Helsingfors, April 24.

are liereby notified that their cargo poker, in the hearth that is a

will be discharged into Holt's Wharf After proceedings insting several straight, workmanlike article, not months and conducted behind clos-nees' risk and subject to terms and

Kowloon, where it will lie st Consig,“ a plece of metal trying to. pretended doors, the trail of the myster- conditions of storage at Holt's Whart that it is anything but a poker tous woman spy, Marie Louise Mar- The Cargo will be ready for delivery and we have tongs that can lift in, who is alleged to have headed from Godown on and after s3rd April. coal That is, we have come to the International Espionage Or- sincerity and a realisation that the ganisation and co-operated with bere, unless notice has been given

Optional cargo will not be landed" beautiful and the useful are iden-

the Russian Intelligence Service. prior to steamer's arrival but carried. tical which means that in the best ended with the chief accused be-on from port to port to the final prot modern work ferro concrete makes ing sentenced to eight years' penal of call to which the option extends. no attempt to be stone or marble, servitude. Twenty sever of bricks don't take on a veneer of accomplices were sentenced to var stone because, bricks are vulgar

of Imprisonment and only for the kitchen.

Psychology

lous terms Transocean Kuo Min.

has MORE

Furthermore, psychology taught us the effect on the mind of certain colours and certain very simple mathematical proportions. In many Victorian houses

the rooms were too high or too long, the windows too small or narrow for the room; nowadays, having found that the mind best likes certain proportions we trust to form and contrast of colour and not to

ornament,

extraneous superfluous The cenotaph in Whitehall is an example in kind -a plain block of stone, yet of exactly the correct shape, and modern houses have their shapes, windows and rooms on the same law of proportion. Unfortunately

a tiny foot creeping in and out there are as many charlatans as like a little mouse was more ap-good practitioners: for example, pealing than ... anything else. and hence we had the crinoline. concealed Lighting, obviously mo

to open a tes-room with obviously following the doctrine that art is

dern pillars, foolishly large win- to conceal art; (laughter) some

dows, and great gaudy mirrors. is years ago she suddenly decided grossly to misuse modern interior that knees were a source of at-decoration and to give an effect traction, therefore skirts jumped not of rest after toll, port after up; but she quickly realised the stormy seas, but of a suburban oversight and they dropped down version of Versailles. again; other periods saw her ac- centuating other features, hence the pannier and the bustle. But always the upstanding Elizabethari far- perfect dress whether thingale with all its elaboration, all its skilful use of line and curve, or the modern willowy of life on the Peak and death elsewhere, of Hfe dictated by the accentuating the long

drapery smoothing out curves and Mowing lines, is adapting its means, the body and its covering, to an end, the stressing of the "beauties of the body.

POPULATION OF It is a matter of life and death.

THE WORLD

Estimated At Two” Milliards

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press"} (by Telegraph, Copyright, Tele

Ordinance, graphic Messages

1804. Received, April 24, 730 p.m.)

Geneva, April 24. The League of Nation's Statistical Year Book just published, estimates the aggregate population of the earth to be roughly two milliards of which 1.103,000,000 are in Asia,

chosen many and death' endured by the cast-of few. It is the serious side of taste and 'tis too holy ground even for me to tread. though I have heard that Scots rush in where Angles fear to tread.

Exacting Standards

But the second about which I mean to chatter on for a little is concerned with such unimportant

whether you things as

prefer Milton to A. A, Milne, Beethoven to Teddy Brown, Botticelli to Bateman, or St. John's Cathedral to St. Paul's Cathedral I noticed lately that someone many years our beautiful ago referred cathedral as

an unsightly pile,

to

Mail Arts

their

hel

All broken, chafed, and damaget goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined duany Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 AM. and Noor within the free storage period.

ม

AIR MAILthe Goods have left the steamer's

No claims will be admitted after

Big Increase In Weight Carried

London, April 23..... An increase of fifty-four per

Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th April, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned ou or before the 16th May, or they will' nut be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agenta.

cent. took place in the weight of 23rd April, 1934.

malls carried from Britain in three months up to end of March as compared with the correspond-

ng period last year.

..

that about 100.000 more letters, It is estimated by the Post Office

were sent by air during the March quarter this year than in the March quarter of 1933-British Wireless.

SIR J. SIMON ENTERTAINS

London, April 23.

12484

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DËS MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

CONSIGNER NOTICE

S.S. "D'ARTAGNAN,"

Aanvо HONG KONG OF SUNDAY, TK 22ND APRIL 1934.

From MARSEILLES, Mo.. [ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the

above-named Steamer are hereby Sir John Simon gave a dinner to-informed that their Goods, with the night at the Foreign Office on be- exception of Optam, Treasure and Valu. half of the Government in honourables, are being landed and placed at of Signor Suvich, Under Secretary their risk in the Godowns of the Hong at Italian Ministry of Foreign Af- | 'Kong and Kewicon Wharf and Godown fairs.

Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whence Delivery can be cbtained as the Goods are landed.

Goods not cleared within 7 days, in- pluding date of arrival, will be subject to...

Upbringing

All Claims sunst be rent to the Under- signed before" Wednesday, 2nd May, 1984, or they will not be recognized.

Damaged packages moet be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Box. veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, at. 1934. 10 am on Friday, the 27th April,

Our Chamber Of Horrors Now, when we apply the same reasoning to sculpture and paint having so many Bgures in stone ing we see the crass idiocy of

dotted about here and there in our streets or collected in a Cham-

The guests included Mr. Ramsay ber of Horrors and called Statue MacDonald and many other Minis- Square. Sculpture is made to fitters, the Italian Ambassdor and onto a building or suit with the

Rent. his staff and many leading Agures In political and official life-Bri- surrounding buildings as with the

tish Wireless, Parthenon frieze at Athens or Epstein's Night and Day in Lon- don. Epstein's monsters are, it seems to me, rather unpleasing when photographed apart from The same argument can be car-

surroundings,,but when ried to the manual arts sculpture, placed in their proper environ- painting, furniture-making, cary-ment, with the lines of the build- ing. glazing, and so on-all of ing to set them off they appear which have their basis in archi- excellent. Faintings, in the same tecture, and the only question we way, take their proper place in a can ask of any building is, Does room: their object is to tone in it perfectly adapt the means it with has location, materials, size--to its purpose that of housing, com fortably

and restfully, factory hands.

stock-brokers. dancers. worshippers, or merely, a family? means to end." The purpose or a factory is to produce goods as weli and as economically as possible and this is best done by getting the most out of your workers with- out any waste of time, materials or energy. Now, to push up fac-

All this is not mere seething fancy with no practical outcome. To allow a people to Hve in a world of false "emotion which we "call sentimentality and which is fostered by so much that passes for literature and music, or ot false shape and form which we call ugliness and which is foster- ed by so much that passes for ar- chitecture and house-furnishing, is to stunt their growth both mentally and physically. The man that has no beauty in his sout

a room by adding colour, varying the shape of a wall Or the line of furniture; hence to shove in anywhere that Christmas present "Sheep at Eventide" you got from Aunt Eliza. or that pretty picked up for half a guinea, is spolls. absurd. One might as well buy second-hand false teeth and ex-veloped? Largely by upbringing. pect them to fit.

Ruslan Army is still at the village 506,000,000 In Europe and 252.000.- which "was, I think, a lttle pre- I said "the perfect adaptation of ( little etching of York Minster you is at for treasons, stratagems and of Barbizon, near Fontainbleau, de-000 in America, 142,000,000 in Africa. spite the fact that the time limit and 9.000.000 in Australia.-Trans- set for his departure from France ocean Kuo Min. expired on Monday night.. E

Crowds of Interested" 'spectators are surrounding the village where Trotzky resided, in the hope of catching a glimpse of the famous. revolutionary.

The Socialist and Communist pr- ganisations of the Selne depart-

THREE TRAINS

ment are holding a meeting of pro- All Passengers Escape

test on April 27 against Trotsky's "expulsion. Transocean Kuo Min.

CHINESE MILITARY

MISSION

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

"Press" (Copyright)}

༥

Rome, April 23. The Chinese Military mission be- fore leaving Italy expressed to the Duce admiration for the perfect military and civil organisation.

Injury

Newark, New Jersey, Apr. 24.

And how then can taste" be`de-

Our true Englishman, accustomed to honie discomforts," goes to the tropics and in July dines and dances in "dinner · jacket-the custom is flesh of his flesh, and he sticks to the dinner jacket, or rather, the dinner jacket sticks to him

Judiced considering the strange company it found itself in in the illustration. That by the way. In matters of drses and behaviour (which has but little basis in logic but is founded on convention for

Modern Lack Of Taste the most part), we probably all

Our modern absence of good agree with the Upper Ten though tories as they did last century, taste in so many fields of art is we can't always conform to their that were ill-planned, l-ventilat- ON FIRE

usually accounted for, quítë un- exacting standards; whereas ined uncomfortable, and' a misery

reasonably, by the argument that matters of art we probably dis- to the eye was to make first costs

so long as you have mass-produc- agree most violently even if we

In similar fashion if you tion you cannot have good crafts- cheap, but was being blind to the are in high position. Even George obvious fact that workers will manship: upholders of this view

accustom a child to live in a I felt this. "Was there ever work best in surroundings pleas

want to go and hide in a corner,

pleasant well-thought-out "house, such stuff,” he said

and play at pretending they be arranged with taste and to Fannying to the eye and other senses.

dis Burney, as great part of Shake- with a maximum of air and light, long to a little guild in the Middle crimination, he will come in time speare? only one must not say so, and a minimum of dirt, smoke,

Ages, housed in à "London small to absorb good taste for himself: What? What? I know it's not to

and ugliness, Beauty was never

and clean" London was certain-But of course it is the old question be said. But it's true. What? A fr which started in a fuse- What? Only it's Shakespeare and because the beautiful and the use- considered, no thought of fitness.

ly small, but Sir John Harington of the chicken and the egg-which had still to invent his little came first? box on a stationary train" laden

nobody dare abuse him." · Follow-

sanitary conveniences to help to I leave the answer to you! with 200 passengers, yesterday, ing his lead we find it necessary

were regarded as opposites;

keep it clean. No art has ever detroyed the train as well as two

they are not so, but merely di̟- others and partially wrecked the Milton, even to the extent of buy-idea.

to assume a passionate love for

thrived by running away-except ferent ways of expressing the same

perhaps the art of book-keeping- terminus of the Hudson-Man-ing a morocco-bound volume and

Because these buildings

and we must to-day use "mass- were not perfect in usefulness: putting it in

production and machines as in All the passengers escaped, and attend

our book-case, we having windows too small, useless the there was no panic.-Reuter.

best chamber-music corners as traps for darkness and

the old days. Chippendale and recitals and are thoroughly bored. dirt, wrong use of the space at

'Wren used handicraft and hand- we wander round picture galleries, their disposal, they were "ugly.

tools. In the same way, we must send post-cards to long-suffering

not merely imitate, past ages by Victorian Ideas

building, say, a bank modelled on, our idea of the Romaris' idea of the Temple of. Janus: (Janus is. of course, the God of bankers since he can look two ways-one way at the credit and the other. way at the overdraft); We must change our styles in the arts to

hattan Railway.

the activity of agricultural and in performed by Fascists-Transocean friends, and return to bury dar- dustrial Delds, and the great work | Kuo Min.

HALL OF MIRRORS In which Ginger Rogers and a chorus of more than eighty girls show you the ensemble Fan dance In Paramount's "Bittlar Preity," "Showing to-morrow at the

King's Theatre."

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* NOTICE TO "CONSIGNEES,

ELLERMAN LINE.

FROM ANTWERP, HAMBURG "AND BOTTERDAM.

HE Steamaliip

selves in La Vie Parisienne. Our Victorian ancestors, to (Laughter). And why? Well per-whom in other ways be all praise. haps because high Art can't be had a perverted, idea that any understood at a glance and we thing simple, useful, and fitted to lack the time and energy to think its purpose, was ugly, and their along new lines; and also because invariable system in devising any- it is so often so deadly serious or thing which they wished to look

meet changing views and chang TTT OF EASTBOURNE" at any rate seems to lack our own beautiful, was first to make the peculiar type of humour: in fact, thing and then to stick on asing ideas, as bustles dropped out, the bigger the gun, the greater many little twists and twirls as and pyjamas superseded night- having sazived. Consignees of Cargo by the bore. That is, (to put it more they could; it was this that shirts.

her are informed that all Goods are pithily). "Life is short, and Art is brought about those wonderful Now motor-car designing is a being landed at their risk into the bleating."

mantelpieces with their fretwork modern art a petfect adaptation hazardous and/or extra-bazactivan Go The Classics

and marble and mirrors and what of means to end as the pedes downs of Messra Holt's Wharf, whence However, merciful Providence not, it was this which produced trian would agree, "It is not re-delivery may be obtained

garded as high art, therefore it

Optional cargo will be carried on.. has decreed that, while a nodding our gracious Queen tucked away. acquaintance with the classics is beneath an elaborate canopy in has developed along logical and unless Notice to the contrary be advisable in the best Society, one

Statue Square, it was, this which utilitarian lines, so that a good prior to arrival of steamer

No Claims will be admitted after the Leed not have them in the home fathered our stupendous night- example of modern

construction is a thing of beauty. Goods have left the Godowns, and all except of course Milton, to get mare of a wedding-cake-not not one's teeth into. Nevertheless Memorial in London, it was this first it copled the horse-carriage All Claims against the Bienmer Albert and a joy for ever wasn't it? At Goods remaining undelivered after Ist in Hong-Kong!-the

May 1934 will be subject to Bent. good taste has a great effect on our lives and can only be dare which conceived that abominable but soon designers saw the hope must be presented to the Undersigned garded, at a great risk to ourselves

museum of trash and frippery, the lessness of that and, experimenten or before 8th May, 1834, or they and the nation

anti-macassars, the presents from ing on wind resistance, stream will not be recognized. whole. 23 at Leaving out of account to-day the Pevensey. the glass-bedizened lining, gaa diverting, balance, and broken, chafed and damaged Goods effect of good literature and good.

the fragile, nimay springing, evolved

modern

are to be left in the Godowns, where they music in preventing a softening of

chairs, the lace curtains, the style. But most other arts lack will be examined on any Tuesdays or the mind. I wish to consider the brass fenders, the family photo this sense of the age and many Fridays, betersen the hours of 10,45 s., more practical alde--on how we raptis, in one word that nadir of of us, still live in Victorian subur-and Noon, within the Free Storage plan our cities, bulid our factories,we are not wholly free of it to read Alfred Lord Tennyson, and No Fire Insurance has been affected.

taste, the Victorian drawing-room. bin, dress like Robert Browning. Period of One Week and furnish our houses.

day, but at its best the modern are mildly shocked by Wagner. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by Women's Dress

house uses its means for one end The rest, don't live anywhere, in

THE BANK LINE, LTD., the comfort, health, and rest of particular and spend their leisure

Agente its occupants. Hence the chairs on Cavalcade and Ethel M. Dell. 1 Hong Kong, 24th April, 1984.

First I define goodness. In art "the perfect adaptation of

chandeliers,

the

motor-car

[3487

Consignees must have & Rèvenne Officer in attendance when damaged Jatiable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.

No Olsina will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns,

No Fire Insurace will be affected by us in any case whatever.

R. OHL,

A gent Bong Kong, 22nd April, 1934

PRINCE LINE,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS,

FROM

(4488

NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES

Moter Vessel

THE SIAMESE PRINCE ”

baving arrived from the above Port on 19th Inst., Consigness of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed as their risk into the Godowns of Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consigness risk and expense.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Wednesday, 25th instant, 1934, at 10 am,

All Claims must be presented within " 15 Days of the vessel's arrival: here after which date they cannot be re, cognized.

No Olaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Good remaining undelivered after the 26th instant, 1934, will be subject to ̈ Bent.

by

Nu Fire Insurance has been affected, Bill of Lading will be countersigned

FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.,

4th Floor, King's Building, Connaught Boad.

Dis 22166.

Hong Kong, 19th April, 1984.

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