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19th instant.

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HAVE BEEN.

BURNS: THE DRAMATIST WHO By Mr. S. R. Littlewood.

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ASS, heavy heures," said Burne-apart from the little

Po late Earl of Rosebery at glimpse of a "new world" at Edin.

to note in this connexion that Mr. ordered that the next Criminal Sas. Snowden has twice plainly in-one shall to hold-on-Thursday-the timated of late that no practicable

It is advertised that the Hongkong proposals have yet been put for-

Stock Exchange will be closed on ward for an improvement in the Tuesday, February 17th and Weduce silver position. That being the day, February 18th. case, it would appear logical to The members of the British Econo- entertained to expect the Missioners to investi-le Mission

Juncheon by Sir, Robert and Lady Ho gate the problem from the angle Tang at "Idlewild", Seymour Road, of discovering by what means yesterday. Hongkong can divorce itself from

A buy named Chan Sang, was sen- In commodity which has fallen sotenced to, six months' imprisonment by Mr. Batters, at Kowloon this mor- low in value and which shows no ning, for having snatched a jade placent regrets. immediato prospect of improving, hangle from a child in Wing Sing Stability is the great need. Un- certainty is fatal to the trade of the Colony.

Lane.

Sometimes there

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the close of an expecially cloquent burgh-had to fritter away his Burna oration,

unbounded creative "pass, with thy possibly froight of shattered hopes, thy power and adaptability in gauging

the little pomp of fatherless bairns dirty ponds and yeasty barrels, and and, moralising friends-pass scandalising

after-dinner with the perishable, and leave us circle at Friar's Carse and bandy- ing coarse jokea and "small-town" the eternall"

It was a good, rolling sentiment, sip with acts and tourists in

the Dumfries bar-parlours. Yet, as each year brings round ngain the "blast o Janwar' win'" that "blew hangel in" on the future One can recognise the dramatist author of "Holy Fair" and "The in Burns not only by the sheer Jolly Beggars," I find myself less, vital force and rhythm of action and lean satisfied with these com-that "Tam o' Shanter" and much else reveala, but in the faculty he seems to me showed at every point of assimilat- something unpardonably patronising styles entirely allen to the Rumway-and-Fergusson tradition hasing about this pretence of settling which first inspired him. His His Excellency the Governor to be Barns's debit and credit account "Address Spoken by Miss Fonte- appointed Mr. S. 11. Strange "Forest Office" for the control and with humanity. Or is it not, superintendence of the forests of the rather, a purely one-sided trans- nelle at the Theatre, Dumfries, Colony, in succession to Mr. J. Jction, by which we are to grab and his "Prologue for Mr. Suther- Jand's Benefit Night," both reflect the gift but throw back any he perfectly with their satire added pleasant responsibilities upon the the manner of contemporary Overbalancing himself while clean-giver, wh, being dead, cannot English comedy ing a window, a man named Chen Yet, as each year

and tragedy, brings round Those sidelong cajoleries which ly of Mr. Clegg, its head, he' (a | Fung-hing (10) fell into the back-

but them?

bespeak a Marlo Tempest of her obviously a banker of wide know-yard of No. 7, Taiyuen Street,

ceiving injuries which led to fu

To me there are only two legi- place and period "I'll laugh, Mr. admission into hospita). ·

of looking upon that's poz"might have been Observatory returns show that the Burns. One is to yield to a mood written by Cibber or Garrick. of fierce anger against that "sty What truer travesty of the "solemn average mega temperature during January was 61.4, the highest being of a century" which allowed him rounded sentence" could be wished 78.9 and the lowest 403. There were to sink into a premature grave at than the vaunted deafre to 102.1 hours of sunshine and 0.32-inch) thirty-seven in mess of drink

Paint Vengeance as he takes his

horrid stand, of rain, whilst the average humidity and debauchery. The other is to was 75.

have done with these shrugs and reservations altogether. Suppose The Gazelle notifies that the prices we forget everything except that at which prepared opium known here was a virile, generous soul, Grade 2 oplum may be sold to the

hereby determined! publie la | follows:-Grade 2 opium 1 tacl, 817: 2 mace. $3.40; 4 candareens, $11.10; 3 candareena, $0.05,

There will, we imagine, be little, if any, complaint concerning the personnel of the Mission. Ai though very little is known local-

Man

ledge of currency questions. Ezechiel looks a promising for the task to which he has been BELL-At the Government Civil

assigned. Currency is bla forte, Hospital,

13th the

he has presided over the February, 19831, George Ed-for ward. age 29 years, the only Palestine Currency Board and has son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E.

been a member of the East Afri Bell, formerly of Pakhoi and Maniin. The cortege will eaa Currency Bourd. During bis pass the Momment at 5 p.m. association with these bodies be to-day.

has been concerned with the crea- tion of a new currency in Pales tine, based on the £ sterling. and with the fixing of the East Afri

Can currency on i

The

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SATURDAY, FEB. 14. 1931.

CURRENCY MISSION'S

VISIT.

The weak Bow ending us wit

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first, deceased.

re

For having stolen a enrdigan, the property of Staff Sergeant Clark, of No, 20. Wing Lok Buildings, and also a singlet the property of Lami Chun-

timate ways

Waving on high the desolating

brand,

Calling the storm to bear him

o'er a guilty land?

ablaze with genius, passionately: seeking noble fulfilment. Suppose It is equally clear that had we think of him not merely as an Burns enjoyed anything like on- exquisite lyrist (he had near rivals couragement or practice in drama- of both sexes in Scottish song) tic composition on his own account Tanng Fuk a returned banishee was but as the greatest natural wit of he would have given "puir ould stable basis. sentenced to six months' imprisonment his time, with a creative imagina- Scotland" exactly that foundation and 20 stroken of the game by Me.tion able to give individual char- of a native drama, both historic He would therefore appear Butters, at Kowloon this murningacter to everything it touched. and domestic, which-it-missed,

threr months' was eminently well-equipped to look An additional

animate and inanimate from "the and which he so ardently desired. into our local problem. Mr. Claudered if he were declared unfit to De'll himself to a crushed datay, As things are, what is there be

receive a enning. He was bunlaheili

from Mallic, the "yowe," and tween Home's "Douglas" and aon is possibly the Secretary of in 1929 for a period of five years.

Luath, still the truest dog in Barrie? to Mission, as he does ant nppear

literature, to the brigs of Ayr.. The late Professor Blackie-to to have specialised on any Colonial

whom all homage-doubted whe

have had the subject. We welcome the appoint.

Suppose we rofuse to preach ther Burns would ment of the Mission and are espul of No. 15, Wing Lok Buildings, about what he should have done "constructional" ability for dra- to a months imprisement on each and what he should not, and just matie work. But anyone concorn- nessed a development of the highest ecially gratified to note that no charge, the sentences to run consecu- put the question to ourselves-80 ed with the theatre could have told time is being lost in sending it tively by Mr. Butters, at Kowloon that it shall never happen again. this grand old scholar that to a importance so far as the Colony's

Should we handle a man of Burns's man possessing Burns's blend of out. It is to be presumed that

powers and temperament any bet- human sympathy with intellectual currency problem is concerned. The

when it arrives here, fall 03- Terrible injuries were suffered by a ter than did, to their shame. the scope, what is called dramatic con- story is simply told. First n reportunity will be given for all wornan earth-carrying_coolie, Lee Kai, Edinburgh precieuses and Dum-struction would have come easily part was received that Mr. Clegg schools of thought to put forward terday was caught and crushed be-50, how should we start out to give have been, if anything, too avail- living at Fook Sau Lane, who yes-fries topers of his own day? If enough-and collaborators would of the South African Federal Re-their views on the problem. Sup-ween two lorries when que un which him his rightful chance of a able. Had he not within him the

she was sitting, came into collision serve Bank, WILH proceeding to Shanghai to investigale currency matters; then it transpired that Hongkong was his destination; next came a statement that a Com- mission was to be sent here, but that the Home Government could

porters of stabilisation will have only themacives to blame if they permit the other side to dominate the situation.

War Debt Revision.

If the German Government means

this morning.

men

with the other at Eastern Street. The happy, long, full and completely one essential element of all dra- matic technique-an instant and en was removed by the police to expressive life? the Government. Ci il Hospital,

My own belief is that to see how universal understanding of

and women? The mechanical. this could be done we should have nexion between war debts and re-tont of the little volume which indeed, from some points. of view.

to stop pretending that the con-part could have been soon learnt parations will, to use one of their contain all of the "eternal" that is the less soon the better. own stock phrases, eut little ice. left to us represent anything more As to what sort of plays Burna Facts are facts. The high road to than frustrated roots thrown out intended, we know something at make no announcement as to its perto act. upon the Reichstag's do-prosperity is not, as unthinking by the seed of a splendid flower on any rate from Burns himself. "We sonnel; and, finally, within a few mand for a reopening of the re-Americans have been apt to believe, harren ground. I am tired of know that he wished to write "a people who are content with the drama worthy, o' the name o' hours of the latter statement, the parations question, there may fol- the shutting out of European goods, pretty-pretty blather, some only Bruce" a drama no-one happens loral Government were able to give low recognition of the rule of hard in the accumulation of Europe's maudlin and offensive doggerel. to have written since and to show revourees in My belief is that Burns had in him upon the stage "how glorious the names of the Commission. Ob-fact among the chief creditor coun- remaining Anancial viously. The Parliamentary intima-tries, France and the United States. the vaults of the Federal Reserve the making of a great dramatist, Wallace stood how hapless foll." tion on Thursday, suggesting that Germany is finding difficulty in Dank. The sooner public opinion and that only the limitations born We know that he had views upon the question of sending out a Com-meeting her obligations as a resultcomes round to the view that all of a contemporary Scottish theatre the dramatic treatment of Mary stillel alte by the Calvinistic ban Queen of Scots, very much along [ the world Industrial crisis.round cancellation or liberal scal-and English overshadowing denied the lines Schiller was to follow mission was merely under consi. There is very good reason to being-down of debts and reparations him this confessed ambition. within ten years, though Scotland deration, conceated some of the fieve that the world crisis is as essential to national well-being.

We have to remember that Sha-t awaits the tribute of a dra- matiat of her own who shall facts. At any rate, sufficient pro-direct consequence of the war debts- the sooner will the world commence kespeare came to a London seeth-ursie Time, and lay him on his

ing with glorious opportunity back." gress had been made in the mat-reparations patchwork, and that re-to recover its feet.

ter to enable the Hongkong Gov-lief will be forthcoming only when [ernment, previously ignorant of any France and America have learned

development whatever, to inform

the Colony yesterday of the con- stitution of the Commission.

to the full the lesson of the depres-. sion. Nelther country appears to realised its responsibilities have We not only to the rest of the world must give the authorities full marks but to its own citizens. The enor- for prompt. eirculation of the news,mous volume of unemployment in Widesprend satisfaction will be the United States would be practi

non-existent but for the felt that at long last Hongkong's tally plight has received attention at political systent which seeks to shut Home. We have recollection of an demanding that all war debts shall out foreign trade by a tariff wail, official viewpoint expressed in Hong-be paid in full. Both France and. kang some time back to the effect America, on balance, have large that nothing would be gained by amounts of money owing to them, seeking the advice of outside ex- both are using their best efforts to perts. Fortunately, the Imperial void receiving payments in goods for amounts owed, and temporarily; Government is not of that way of at least, beth are unwilling to off- thinking. The general opinion in act the hoarding of gold, the Hongkong on the report of the sterilizing of gold, by loaning abroad. At the moment they stand Commission appointed locally to

with a practical corner in the monu- investigate the question was that tary gold of the world. A great, the document contributed very part of their hoardings are absolute- little that was constructive thly valueless as a basis of credit; not merely that, but the existence wards a solution of the problem. of these large idle stocks in large- Ightly or wrongly, the impressionly responsible for the collapse in prevailed that the Commission had commodity prices. Indirectly, the largely pre-judged the issue. American Government receives the Some such idon as this must have halk of the German reparations been in the mind of the Hon. Mr. Payments. It follows, therefore, that if Germany defaults, or calls Kotowall when he signed the re for a moratorium, an who has liberty port with reservations, the most to do, relief will be demanded of important. bf which was that the the United States. Persistence in mattor should be referred to the the attitudo that there is no con-

21099 BY REA DERI

"I think I'll got engaged again. That's the only way can save any money,"

It is not long since we saw the efforts of Ayrshire players from Ardrossan to present something of the kind in the pleasant but un- ambitious singing tableau which prefaced their performance of "The Old Lady Shows her Medals." But what a faint echo of the might- have-been it seemed, when one thought of the roaring humour, firm character, simple pathos and strong idealism that Burns himself could have provided!

Ramsay of Ochtertyre tolle us, In his letter to Dr. Currie, how he spent two days with Burns, Ilt with "flashes of intellectual brightnore" such as he had "never witnessed before" from any of the "mony. men of gentus" he had met.

He

was moved to "propose to him the writing of a play similar to "The Gentle Shepherd, Had Burne lived to-day, with Sir Nigel Play- fair waiting for him, what else might he not have grown to?

Not only from the point of view of our enrichment, but from that of Burns's own happinosis, it in Impossible not to feel that the opening of a new and all-receptive channel for his intellectual, ener- gles would have had an effect wholly for the good. These moral pratings about-his excemen-o what use are they? No man of Burns's fine instincts chooses dia... repute for any other reason than despair. With his better, faculties fully employed he would have avoided countiese stupid-templa tions

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