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AMERICA IN THE WORLD CRISIS.
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NOT BEING ONE IN ADVERSITY.-
MAURICE CHEVALIER.
By DAVE KEENE.
There's one thing about Maurice) given to him early in his rise to Chevalier that makes him stand fame by his friend and co-worker. out from his fellows. You can De Max, the noted French trage-
dian..
"Chovaller has carried the
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length with that simple truth "ra- volutions grow out of the depths of hunger." The statement is not quite complete, of course. Hunger does not brend revolutions as a rulo until the ordinary man has lost all hope that his hunger will be appeased. Hunger must join with despair before it can result | Zimmerman. in violence. The human rnec, strangely perhaps, will stand: a Four cases of diphtheria, ono of hear him coming. good deal of
I visited the Paramount New cane in nearly every show he has kleking before It them being non-Chinese, were report
ed to the M.O.II. fa the 8 hours end-York studio-one-afternoon at the been in. It was first featured a rebels. The patience with which ed at midnight.
time Ernst Lubitsh was directing few years ago when he used it through a complicated dance rou- "The Smiling Lieutenant". hüman beings-will-put-up-with privation and injustice is one of
descended into the depths of the tine. Since that time the case has labyrinth of stage I heard the become as much a part of his char- the most amazing things in the
inimitable chanteur singing "Hello neter as Chasline's shoes are to the
comedian. annals of man. Without knowing
Beautiful" from around a corner.,
The talk got around to Maurice's 1 stopped and awaited his or- it, it would seem, the ordinary
rival. He was dressed in the uni- early days and his first engagement individual has a good streak of
form of an Austrian lieutenant- on the stage. The story has been While travelling in a public car, blue coat with three silver stars or told only once or twice and coming the doctrine of non-resistance in
from Chevalier makes it so much through the city at 10 clock this the collar, grey trousers with his heart.
Gandhi, who cries
a Chinese collapsed and black strips, morning,
and a magnificent more interesting.
It was after his first tryout on that not even liberty in worth died. The body was taken to the
Central Police Station and later to word. Although he looks exceed amateur night in one of those little
ingly well in military clothes has fighting for,
sounded the
It was his the Public Mortuary.
learned that he doesn't quite relish music halls in Paris. nature more depths of human
appearing in them, because they frat big night and despite the fact Li Shun, a stall-holder at Pelho are more or less stiff and formal. that he had missed his plano and accurately than believers in strong
Street, Shamshuipo, suffered head Even a tuxedo wins preference with that those in the place had laughed armies realise.
injuries yesterday when he slipped and Most of us have moments when fell from a wooden shulter on which Maurice over a militaristic get-up. both with and at him, heaven was As he approached and shouted a opened when the manager asked he was standing to armange his stall.
him to come back. we are neither sure why we areia skull was fractured and he died "cheery" hello I took a hasty survey
of the man and compared him with offered for the young actor's ser
And what a manayer! here, nor confident that anything after being taken to Hospital.
the Chevalier I knew a year ago: worth white lies ahead. But we
The nowy Wesleyan Minster, the Rev. Mr. Tribbeck, who arrived in the Colony last week-end, is making his first appearance in the pulpit at the Wesleyan Church, Wanchal, on Sun- day.
"
and his
All he
was the freedom of the stage. For returning from banishment/after his "Innocents of Paris" orter a small-time artist aw him carry on, if we can contrive some before the expiration of ten years, the Chevaller I knew five years ago 1****
possibilities and said he how to get enough to eni, a home two Chinese were one year and nine) in Paris at the time when he was bought he could get him work, espectively appearing in "Paris en Fleura," the Maurice ran nome to his mather months imprisonment and a tle leisure for laughter.before Mr. Fraser at the Kowlnon French musical.
with the news. He had atrendy One of the Ho retains, I found, that boyant been thrown out of several trades The goal is not a lefty one but the Magistracy this morning. mass of peuples cling to it with men had à previous conviction for a quality that makes him the figure disgusted employers. He whis-
| by breach of deportation order.
he is. Hin infectious charm is at pored to his "maman" Umt les parent even before he has a chance
Are
which a fidelity
in sometimes
$2.50 a week! Friends of Mrs. Chew Sze-foong, to speak. But where his work is could make the munificient sum of astounding. But in America to-
with (formerly Miss Minnie Woo of Kow-concerned the old devil-may-care Madame called her eldest son, diny millions
faced Are
loon Tong, Kowloon) in Hongkong attitude has disappeared.
who stood in a father's place to out of will be gind to know that who was very the complete blotting
This impressed me with the fact the little family, for a consultation. the last Malayan Agri- |
But even this humble dream. Com-Horticultural Show and Trades Ex- that being internationally famous The older fellow said no.
hibition held in Kuala Lumpur, reis not quite what it is popularly Mme. Chevalier thought otherwise. plainte are increasing. The un-
The weight of
"Let him try it," she said mildly, thinking dark cently. She won a Bronze Medal, twe supposed to be.
Diplomas and two Certificates in the curiosity and adulation hanga heavy since his heart is set on it. He's on a star's head. In Chevalier's employed
a good boy
boy. If he falls. he
always thoughts in private. The Pre- Horticultural Section."
case it has made him increasingly has time to be a carpenter." sident of the Federation of Labour
public. So Maurice tried it ho never
and be For demanding more than the legal anxious to please his huge reminds the country that hunger fare. A chair coolie who appeared! Nevertheless, I was struck with found time to be a carpenter. He
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before Mr. Williams at the Central the obvious good health and cheur-particularly enjoys retelling the breeds revolution. It
my
Police Court this morning nt the ful spirits with which Chevaller story of his entry to theatricals. neriously questioned whether instigation of Mr. N. R. Netta of 43, seems always to be saturated. There are many other juicy anec
was fined 25. It America will emerge unscathed Wyndham Street,
Almost the first thing he told me dotes that he unfolds reluctantly: was stated that the complainant
uf after we had been sented in the Usually he is modest and retiring from her tribulations.
engaged the chair at the fort
fewminutes later about such affairs and would rather Wyndham Street and on arriving at lunch room a his house gave
telling. the defendant 24 was his enthusiasm for a game someone else did the
Chevaller cents. The defendant nsked for more called Boule that he is introducing
continues to mount and on being refused abused tho to America.
with the passing of time in the complainant.
"It is fine for anyone who is fond eyes of his admirers. His radio moderate outdoor exercise," work builds him into a great un- Maurice said, "I play it whenever seen force. His motion picture I go to my place at Cannes, France films are shown in every important and in Hollywood. It would be a theatre of the world and those in marvellous game for all athletes to Bagdad love him as much as the
residents of Keokuk. take up
His private terror is that he will 'Explain it," we begged, "Well, it is played with eight some day overstep his bounds, be rivet-studded balls, each the size come a Frankenstein and destroy The troopship Neuralia is due of a base-ball. Two players engage his own popularity.
The New Bible.
of
of
The Christian world is about to have placed before it a new ver- sion of the Bible. It is to be n "modern" translation of the Book of Books, and so simplifted that a child of eight can understand its historical stories, mystical alle- These times, when the world's gorica, parables, the sayings economic structure. rocked to its the prophets, the philosophy
the apostles. and the divine foundations, is threatening to
birth of Christ. The translation collapsa completely, are of extras the result of collaboration be- ordinary interest to the student tween fcbraic and Greck scholars, of history. The way out of the who have transcribed the original blizzard has yet to loom through manuscripts. As in all cases the mists. We live in days when where attempts the decision of a government deviate from, or tamper with, the executive may change the destiny accepted order of things, the new Bible will probably meet with, a of an entire nation, when
mixed reception. Many will with- slightest false step may
offers
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the
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made are
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bring out doubt proteat that. in ruin and isaster. In milllons, endeavouring to simplify the Book, The United States of America the translaters have allowed them
particularly fruitful selves to alter the whole meaning.) source of thought-provoking cir-of many of its passages. Such an cumstances. The
recent Recusation must apply to the new most
interpretation to that famous estimate of the number of
verse in the 1st. chapter of Isaiah, employed in that country places which, according to the authorised it at over ten millions. It Is version reads "Come now, and let further stated that over thirty perus reason together, salth the cent. of the population are on the Lord: though your skina be borderline of starvation. In the scarlet, they shall be white LA they be red like House of Commons on Tuesday, now: though
crimson, they shall be as wool. in the course of the debate
The latest interpretation of the the Address in Reply to the King's original manuscript gives an en. Speech. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, tirely different impression. "Come while expressing gratification that now, and let us reason together, i
larger daith the Lord: If your sins be Dritain was securing a share of world trade, deplored the scarlet, can they become white as fact that the volume of world snow? If they be red like crim. son, can they become as wool?" trade had shown no signs of ex- Such a revolutionary and diametri. pansion. The obvious inference cally opposite meaning to thic is that Britain's gain has been authorised version as this is hound another country's loss. Gold to find disfavour among a large countries have been placed at a anction of the Christian Church, business disadvantage by the upon whose lenders will probably to whether devaluation of the pound. Trade rest the decision as
the new book, containing such which before was going in their radies! changes as the lustra- direction has changed hands. The tion quoted above, is to be accept- inevitable result, as we see it, is ed n the Bible of its people. On that figures of unemployment in the other hand it may be received countries like the United States with open arma as being some- are bound to increase unless they thing for which the Church has been secking for many yours. follow Britain In abandoning the.
The Bible Елн its Meulties.. gold standard.
which are becoming more and The alternative in the payment more apparent in these days when of "dolea" which America has intelligent enquiry into its pages consistently refused to consider is being encouraged. If the now hitherto, The danger of pro-book succeeds in giving to the ernatination is self-evident. Warn-Christian world an onslor and elmpla insight Into the Ings: have been frequent. Mr.deeper meanings of many of the William Green, the President of books contained in the Bible, the American .Federation of then it can at least point to having. Labour, addressing that body a accomplished something worth few weeks ago dealt at significant while. The obvious danger, how.
more
-TROOPING SEASON.
LINCOLNS RELIEVING GREEN HOWARDS.
here for Henie.
of
in Hongkong at 5 p.m. to-morrow, in the contest and howl the balls Summing him up briefly, he is ringing the Lincolnshire. Regi-a distance of thirty-five feet trying a nice big French fellow, as good ment from Gibraltar to replace the to land as near a small white stone, natured as ever a man was created, Green Howards at Shanghai.
retiring and completely de- There are also on board a few
hal the size of a golf ball, as possible. modest, re "Four balls are thrown by each mocratic. details for Hongkong. The
and then the total added, playere
day he hopes to retire to a Neuralia
wit leave again on Saturday, but will pass through anusally to a final winning total of French home along the Riviera and twenty-one. In order to distin-live in a seclusion fanned by soft the Colony again at the end of the guish one player's markinga from Mediterranean breezes and warmed month with the Green Howards, and is to pick up a few detaile another the balls are riveted in dif- by the blazing sun of the Lovant. That, he feels, will be ample re ferent designs."
We got around to talking about muneration for a lifetime of hard ther things and the matter of work and good fun, superstitious arose. Although the ever, is that the new work will Frenchman maintains that he is destroy the literary and poetical not superstitious, he Invariably has purity of the Bible as it has been been observed with two lucky talis- PHIPPS considers
mana. known since 1811. It threatens to
One of them is a simple wedding sweep away those poetic cadences ring that he purchased for his mo- which lift the Bible high above ther with the first money he ever the standard of any other book earned on the stage in France.
After his mother's death he began We thought of them na just hats. been written, and ever substitute cold, uninspired, and to wear the ring at all times, bellev-Daring hats, delightful hats if you
ing that it brings him good fortune. Hike, but still
The other charm is a most un- in many cases unlovely, popular phraseology of to-day.
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First came the bowlera, medium, usual heavy bamboo cane that was fast, and googly, then the Robin
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Miss D. M. Gotch, secretary Free Church Women's Council, says that they are more than hate. (II. anything, I had imagined them lesa than hats). She says that they're a cure for depression.
I must confess that the potential tonic qualities of the hate had nevar struck me. Never having worn one, I cannot testify to their effect no melancholia, jim-jams, or hang over.
The usual prescription for de- pression
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American View.
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If that doesn't restore my"/
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