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tish Crown. This attitude springs | partly from a general dislike of monarchical Institutions and partly

IN THIS LIFE OF OURS, PATHOS from a feeling that both the loyalty AND COMEDY ARE ALWAYS NEIGH

Sufficient has been written to show that It will be by no means

an easy matter to adjust the Indian question on a basis satisfactory to all parties concerned. It does seem clear, however, that when, Dominion status is achieved, the States must occupy neither the position of sub. ordination which the Nehru Com-

Health.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Chan Wai-lam to be Public Vaccinator."

The Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax, C.M.G., C.B.E. has resumed duty as Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

WHO IS ORIGINAL?

All a Question of Insight.

of the Princes' to the Crown and BOUTS, AND HE WHO REALLY SEES their claim to its continued protec- LIFE SEES BOTH-W. G. Edward

Reca. tion may present a serious obstacle

A. famous saying of Emerson's Lost" draws some of its inspiration in the way of an advance to Dr. George William Pope has re-exhorts people to be themselves from Vondel's "Lucifer" Balzac Dominion statua,

sumed duty As Medical Officer of and not to imitate. It is grand appropriated an entire chapter.. counsel from a great man. It sends of Bulwer-Lytton's "Disowned.". one's thoughts Do Browning's poem, Sterne has quarried in Burton, and "Old Pictures in Florence." There many others. A. W. Ward says one may see what the Concord sage! Thackeray took Ideas from Dis was driving at. The poet had wankens. Such a writer as Goethe ac dered through the Fiorentine gal knowledged his debt to Shake- leries, and he had looked upon speci- speake, Sterne, and Goldsmith. A men arter specimen of medieval art thinker like John Stuart Mill wrote. to be found there. His thoughts that he had made his style "at went away from it right back to the times light and almost lively by the "The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, classic art of Greoce. The Greek study of writers who combined in a statues, he said, had a perfection remarkable degree ease with force." mittee contemplated, nor that of C.M.G., has resumed duty 48 and a completeness with which the quite recently It has been shown medieval pictures could not hope to that John Henry Shorthouse helped and Chief Officer, Fire Brigade. compare; the Greek works were a himself liberally to whole para- Anished, they were absolutely the graphs of "Froissart's Chronicies" His Excellency the Governor fast word. And yet, says the art in the writing of "John In esant." has appointed Mr. James Hunter critic, the Greeks were able to at- to be an Assistant Government tain that completeness and

that It would seem from this recital Marine Surveyor (Nautical Sur perfection just because their range of literary borrowings that what was limited and their view some Stevenson said himself might not vayor), Harbour Department,

what restricted.

For centuries artists rested in misapply to many lesser writers:

"Whenever I read a book that that old perfection. They

were particularly pleased mo I must sit

privilege which the Princes would appear to claim. To define and establish the position will be one of the chief duties of the big con- ference which is to meet later in London. As one qualified com- mentator has observed, the problem is not one which can be left for 1,000,000 India to solve for itself, nor yet one which can be settled by a brief

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content 40 length and the down at once and set myself to model. At length Glotto and imitating, that quality of propriety rest began to express a fresh view and conspicuous force, or happy of humanity. The Greeks had distinction in style. I was unsuc perfectly expressed the thought of cessful at the commencement of t

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stitutional and economic frame-Service, open to all qualified to exhibit men with all the long are not. We have borrowed in art,

work of the commonwealth, even though such entry may involve a further admission of the limits of their sovereignty.

Shanghai's Triumph.

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The Governor-in-Council-bus ex- tended for a period of one-year, from December 15th, 1969, the rights and privileges of the Rope Company's Tramway Ordinance,

The Gazette gives particulars of and seabed at Shan Tseng, being they had perfectly expressed the vain bouts in rhythm, in harmony preciate the jealousy of the States an extension of Tsun Wan Marine idea of human grief in the car in construction and in co-ordination is about rings of Niobe. But were there not of parts. I have thus played the regarding their sovereignty, but it Lot No. 4. The does seem that if real unity is to 49,350 square feet, and the upset scores of other expressions of sedulous ape to Hazlitt, Lamb, to human joy and grief to be discover-Wordsworth, to Browne and Defce, premium is $740.25. be secured the Princes must come

ed? And so Glotto and his com- to Hawthorne, to Baudelaire and to recognise that they have much It is notified that" a competitive peers ventured to leave the few

to Obermann. to gain by coming inside the con- examination for the Indian Civil types so familiar in Greek art, and

Are we original. We may find wó parsons, will be held in London in ings, all the passions, all the hopes music, literature; aur very modern July and August, 1930, and that and fears and aspirations that mechanics looks back into the mast copies of the regulations, syllabus to do it they had to leave the and therefore cannot scornthe past But to to leave the inheritance. Complete originality of examination, and forms application to be filled up by the perfection of the last age; and is an impossible ideal. Even the through all the imperfections of the New Postry only recognizes itself. candidates may be seen on

present, with all the struggles in the mirror of its indebtedness application It the Colonial

which expressed what they were to the Old. Secretary's Office.

feeling and what they saw, they We are brooding for a vital. had to find their way to a fuller thought when a nice parable pre- perfection, which had not yet come, sents itself to our alert conscious- in the future.

when the discovery is made that against odds and Malaya has earn- ed them all the real honours of the

it has been written before-and Now this, or something like it, better! We train our powers of Interport Cricket Week. Even de

is doubtless what Emerson meant. percention and observation to feat by Hongkong could not deprive

And it has been the same all catch at troops and figures or them of these. The whole history

through the history of art, the speech; we even become akilled in: history of music, the history of the manufacture of metaphor. We of interport cricket contains no re-cases, 11 deaths, Tuticorin 2 cases, 1 death, Pnompenh 8 cases, 4

mankind. The new generation have one! Our quest of it is like cord of a finer achievement than deaths, Swatow 5 deaths. Small strives to realize the new perfec- that of schoolboys after butter- THE INDIAN STATES. the uphill fight which brought auc pox: Berbera 10 cases. 5 death, tion of which it has dreams. Un-fies in bright skies: we pin it

cess by the narrowest possible Aden 1 case. Bombay case,

lass this is done humanity sinks to down with not even the gold dust margin when the soundest judg-death, Calcutta 3 cases, & deaths mere imitators, mere convention: brushed from its wings, when lot In the rather unnecessary con-ment in the pavilion reluctantlyCcchin-16 cases, 2 deaths, Karachialists, and not true successors of we discover we have made a 1 case, 1 death, Madras 11 cases, those who have wrought before. Platonic perfection into a halting troversy which has arisen over the denied

real chance. 3 deaths, Pondicherry 1 death, Nevertheless, Emerson's counaci confusion.. backs to the Batavia 1 case, Menado 1 case, and that we are to be ourselves and not expediency of re-stating the aim of Shanghai had their

Our most original contribution wall from the time the innings Samarinda 6 cases,

imitate is a severe test, and places will sometimes reveal itself. na a Britain's policy in India, we fear

commenced. A score of 259 on

a strain upon the individual dif- reminiscence. And how often, pen that a very vital part of the the Hongkong ground is an ex-

cult, if not impossible, to bear in hand, we are plagued with and Viceroy's proclamation on the sub-cellent one at any time. The ob-

One wonders how far art would deceived by half-moniories; we re- really flourish in the strict obser- member the thoughts, but not ject is in danger of being over-taining of such a total in the

vance of auch advice. How would whence they have been derived. looked. We refer to the decision fourth innings of a strenuous en-

architecture, man's story in stone, Our. struggle for novelty often ULTRA-MODERN "TALKIES”. develop if the architect depended ends in a clear recognition and to call together, after the issuing counter on a pitch sparing the bats-

FOR THE QUEEN'S

entirely upon his own resources?realization of antiquity. of the reports of the Simon Com- men little cannot be over-praised.

In America, where we have been! The foundations were laid by L. F. mission and the Indian Contral

Marking the most forward step free to express our dominant moods, Stokes, who went in first and did yet made in the new art of talking attitudes, and ideals in the way we privilese, the exclusive privilege, John Foster says, "It is the Committee, representatives of the

not succumb to the excellent Malay- and sound pictures, "Alibl," have liked, it is both significant and of genius to light its own constituent parts of Greater Indiaan attack until the score-board United Artists all dialogue under-clear that most of our splendid fire." And as if échoing the truth for the purpose of seeking the showed,167 runs. Donald Leach world thriller, is coming to the architecture is a rather close copy of this F. W. Robertson says; of of some lovely structure in Europe himself, "I cannot copy, nor can I greatest possible measure of agree found inspiration in the brilliant Queen's Theatre next week.

No motion picture in recent

work out a seed of thought de- ment. between British India and the effort of Stokes and gave one of the

years has aroused as much en- In literature Imitation has been veloping it myself. I cannot light Indian States. There is 1 ten- most magnificent displays of a

thusiasm from audiences as prevalent ever since Homer wrought my own fire; but whenever I get dency or the part of many people long career, hitting up 95 (not out) "Alibi," for hit gives an entirely his great work. The same is true my fire lighted from another.... to regard India as a unit, and to in three hours out of 185. Yet new conception of sound film with respect to Virgil. In his day, I can carry the living flame as my Victory was within the grasp of technique, offers the most thril-writes J. W. Mackall, Virgil was own into other subjects which forget how little of the total area Malaya until Leach sent the win-ling plot of any underworld story, hotly assailed with the charge of have been illuminated in the. of the country is included in the ning hit to the boundary. In this and presents the greatest array plagiarism by his own contemn-flame."

The question is where does Provinces of British India and the excitement of the match con-1 of stage favourites ever assembled poraries; but it never seems

to have troubled him much plagiarism begin and originality how much of it represents the tersisted. The usual trite references

in one production.

"Alibi," produced and directed He knew his Art. He knew leave off? According to Chester- ritories of the Indian States. The to the glorious uncertainty of by Roland West, who has to his that the thing that matters field, plagiarism is taking another's Viceroy, in his proclamation, cricket seemed futile in the circum-credit such successes as "The is not where a poet gets his mate thoughts and passing them off as

(Cotminued on Papé 7.) stressed the importance of the Instances. In congratulating Shang-Rat," "The Unknown Purple." rial, but what he does with it. dian States being afforded an op-hai, however, there should also be "The Monster" and "The Dove," Whather from Homer, or from Ap polonius, or from Theocritus, or the stage play, Parthenius; whether from Ennius thought of sympathy with is based portunity of finding their place Malaya. They played magnificent "Nightstick," which enjoyed long or from Lucretius and Varro of and of ensuring that any action

rung in New York, Los Angeles Atax, or from his own friends and WHO WAS. taken now shall not be inconsistent match. Their fielding in the fatal and other cities.

fellow students he took, largely In making "Alibi," the first and unsparingly, whatever he with the attainment of the ulti-innings was tighter than that of all-talking thriller to come out of found in them that served his pur- nuate purpose which those, whether either side, at any other period of the huge United Artists studios pose. What he took he made his in British India or the Indian the game. In short, the Fates were in Hollywood, West was particu own by the mere act of taking it. States, who look forward to some against them. Stokes might easily larly well equipped for the job, Homer had done the same thing unity of all India, have in view. have been out before he had scored for he enjoyed years of experience long before. Both argusies are

as a stage actor, playwright and freighted with the treasure The problem which has to be faced three runs. If he had been taking producer before he pioneered many stinken ships: The friction anything for granted when Hop-in the film. In "Allb!" he also of great contemporaries produces is hot merely the future of Britishkins hit his stumps from the field he had the advantage of using the many a spark of nature's fire; and India there is the wider question would have been run out. Leach's world's most modern talking mutual borrowings would seem to of closer relations between the two supreme effort might have been picture plant, recently completed enrich the race, Swift, with aar- parts of Greater India:

an end in the fifties on the United Artists lot, and a donie tongue, puts our borrowings brought to The Princes who administer the when he nearly played on and he cast of stage favourites, every thus: Indian States have long been noted gave a very dificult chance to Lal one of whom has a voice that re-

gisters perfectly. for their loyalty to the Crown, and Singh in the slips during Wilson's

"Alibi," adapted for the screen adventurous innings. When Gibby C. Gardner Sullivan, is des have always insisted on their in-

son, Malaya's finest fielder, drop-cribed as a powerful story of And little would be loft you, I'm dividual sovereignty being main-ped Wilson, their "cup of bitter crooks, police, gay night life and afraid, tained by the British, and by theness" was filled. British alone. But a' fact to be. borne in mind is that the leaders of Nationalt opinion in Bri-} tish India have been in the habit of displaying indifference to the aspirations of the Princes and at times have been openly hostile to them. In this connexion, it has been pointed out that even the

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love. Although heralded as a If all our debts to Greece and Romè melodrama, the. picture contains some of the biggest laughs of the year, and also gives the world' a coupig of sensational new musi cal, hita, written especially for the production.

Imlac, the ancient sage, suld to Rassclas: "The writers took possession of the most striking b jects of description and the most Among the players in "Alibi" probable occurrences. for fiction. are Chester Morris, former Now and left. nothing for them that York stage atar, whose per followed on but transcription of formance in his first picture may the same events, and new combina. make him a screen atar overnight; tions of the same images. Bran News received in the Colony is Eleanor Griffith, another New der Matthews tells us that Shakes eminently moderate All-Parties to the effect that large numbers of York star who has never before peare "reached out again ad Conference Report, proposed to troops arrived at Wuchow yester-apieared on the screen; Put again to possess himself of another placo them in the same position day from further down the river O'Malley, Ma Busch, Harry man's work." of aubordination to the common- The Ironsides are reported to wealth of British India as they have reached Ping Lok, 180 miles have hitherto occupied to the Byup the Fu River.

Stubbs, Regis Toomey, Purnell Milton left his pedestal of the Berratt, Kernan Cripps, Irma Har gods to possess himself of mate rison, James Bradbury, Jr, Arials with which to enrich his Hill, De Witt Jennings and Elmer garland of poetry." "Paradise

Ballard,

ELAINE?

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Elaine, the lily mald," sp pears in the Arthurian cycle of romances.

Strictly brought up in her father's castle, -Elaine met' Sir Lancelot while he was passing through the neighbourhood, and fell desperately in love with the knight, *

Sir Lancelot, however, was sworn to celibacy and could not marry her, both on this' ac- count, and on account of the fact that his heart was already pledged, illicitly to Queen Guinevere,

And so the handsome knight rode on, while Eldine died of great grief. According to her last request, her body was placed on board a barge, lily in her right hand, sind 蟲 document proclaim- ing her love in the left; and steered up the river by an old serving man to the 'place of King Arthur."..

The great King accorded her a royal burial, and the and. story of her death was blazoned upen bar tomt. Det

-You may read about this pure and beautiful maiden In Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine," a poom that should serve to introduce you to this. ́exquialte cycle of poema en-

titled "Idylla of the King."