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tions in rostricting the liberties of some of them, that he has some of the qualities of a dictator, though it can be anld with equal truth that, I had he wished, he might have been even more ruthless in his dictator- ship. Had he been, it might not have been beyond his wits to crush THAT ACTUALLY AND EARNESTLY the movement which has now cul | woRKS, IN IDLENESS ALONE 19
WERE HE NEVER BO BENIOJITED, FORGETFUL OF HIS HIGH CALLING,
THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE IN A MAN
NEW YORK CALLING.
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK.
Contract Bridge is becoming!|
minated in his overthrow, In-THERE PERPETUAL DESPAIR-Cariyle alarming. It began as a game, i
The P. and O. S.N. Company have it now threatens to
has developed into a religion, and issued an effective wall calendar barbarous superstition.
cidentally, it remains to lo scen whether the country's new rulers will be less Inclined to the methods of the dictator if and when they believe their position is in danger. For that matter, has China yet evolved politically beyond the point
when some sort of dictatorship is Inevitable? Reverting
the
second point, China's polley towards Japan in the present crisis, surely it cannot be reasonably suggested that, in her present state, China is able to follow a bolder course than she has done. To do so would be to
court
student disaster. But the element has never been noted for sobriety of thought..
showing their new 'mall steamers Corfu and Carthage.
From the P. & O. ant British India Shipping Companies, we have received an attractive wall calendar in colours,
and a useful poekot diary.
Five Bills, including the Ordinance making provision for betting taxes, are to come up for second reading ot Lo-morrow's meeting of the Legisla.| tive Council.
Some alarm was caused in Welling. ton Street yesterday at about 5,40 p.. when the chimnoy of No. 34 caught fire. The Fire Brigade was notified and a machine was sent to the scene, the blaze being extinguish ed in a few minutes,
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Oxford Accent. There aro constant complaints here about the spread of the Oxford accent, or what is fondly imagined to be that accent. Actors, teachers of elocution and visiting English- men are variously blamed.
"Our good American tongue la
a
end us A
The r
seriousness of the faithful taken
breath away. The one's other evening met a middle-aged couple who told me with pride they had learned by heart every page being ruined by the tenching of of Sidney Lenz'a book on the game. what is really a foreign language,"
"Please recite me some of it," I plended with misguided flippancy."
complains New York University Misguided-because they did.
professor.
Then there is a gentleman hare Passion for Perfection. called Dr. Brill, a psycho-analyst, The depression has increased the who loves to hurl the awful word number of bridge devotees in "Schizophrenaic" at people he America by thousands. It is a doesn't
like. "The Oxford
accent Ziegfeld's Follics or lectures on the speech used by people who feel in- cheaper form of recreation than Mr.is merely an embellishment of plain
Higher Inwardness.
ferior" he asserts. "They use It Tenchers abound. Suburban to divert attention from some other ladies who used to take lessons in lefect. An analysis of their the pinne now apend their after mental conditions usually reveals noons getting instruction in card Schizophrenia," conventions.
It was Dr. Bell, by the way, who What of the future? We would
The dilettante is frowned upon. called Abraham Lincoln a "schizoid of Matheson, propriotress that we knew. The professions of "Huntingdon", Stubbs Road, has re- We must all strive to be strengoue maniac personality." He is as fond ported to the police that during the ly professional. I have actually of it as Humpty Dumpty in "Alice" those who have brought about
week-end two-blankets, a quilt, a bed- seen more than one poor feminine was of the word Impenetrability. the charge are not to be dissect, a camero and a pair of pince-umntour retire in tears from the
The Opera Claque. nez, were stolen from her bedroom. card-table, wounded by the rebuke counted na mere empty talk. Let The total value of the staten property of an impatient adept. A paasion- who are always doomed but never Opera is one of those invalide us be fair to the extent of credit-in placed at $100, inx them with sincerity of
The season has just opened here Arrested at the Hing Kee Wharf motive. If they can accomplish a tithe of the things which they have, opium in his possession, a travelling as an empty popinjay, unworthy of an air of prosperity that one be- yesterday with 42 taels of prepared Puritan acorn denounce hor partner with such a blaze of jewels and such in recent declarations, deemed es-trader who appeared before Mr.the game. I understood then how gan to think the industrial depres- Grantham at the Central Police Court it is that wives have shot husbandssion was something happening in sential to the well-being of the this morning was fined $3,000. The and husbands wives at American Mars. country, they will leave behind them defendant had the oplum concealed in
the false bottom of å rattan basket.
That old-fashioned institution, the cinque, le in full flower at the a record of value. But we have to
Metropolitan. This company of bear in mind two points. amongst
Eight cases of diphtheria and five Everyone is still talking about stalwart young men, mainly Italian, others--that it is always casier to of enteric fover ware reported to the Eugene O'Neill's play, "Mourning is hired at so much
head by Medical Officer of Health during the Becomes Electra an awkward singere to lead the applause. than eriticine
to do, and
that there
likely 19
to
he
Mrs.
ate desire for
perfection In Con- tract has taken hold of the race.
I heard ono woman in a cold
bridge tables.
The Yankee Electra
week ended December 12. There title, isn't it?
dle.
They are posted at strategic pointa were two deaths from diphtheria andi Tired, cynical old critics have of the house, and their rowdy, one from enteric fever. There were been skipping for joy over this machine-like clapping, breaks out ntao 43 deaths from pulmonary tuber- tragedy that has been produced with at fixed intervals. The size of the culosis. Two .cuses of diphtheria sombre splendour by the Theatre claque on any given occasion and Guild. They are rhapsodising like the strength of its efforts depend
were notified on Monday.
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FO many shades nf political opinion amongst the newcomers that it will not be easy to secure harmony. In particular, will the Members of the Hongkong Auto-boys at their first pantomime on the liberality of the singer.
I have never seen such excitement new Administration be judged mobile Association who have not yet over a new play.
booked their tables for the annualį
Does the name Lily Pons convey abroad by the nature of ita foreign dinner dance, on Friday, are request realise "Morning Becomes Electra" sinco Caruso discovered Rosa Pon- The wonder grows when you anything to music-lovers? Not polity, In which connexion the ex-ed to do so as early as possible, in is as long as three ordinary plays, selle in a music-hall has there been order that adequate arrangements has 14 acts, lasts from five in the trality Jague is of outstanding im-
may be made. As in previous years,
a And as this French porlancs. As to the country's pure the escut takes place at the Fexingula afternoon till eleven at night, with th
giri. ly domestic policy, that is a matter Hotel, and a most successful night is an interval for dinner, strews the Lily Pons is a miracle among Opera
anticipated.
stage with corpses, and sends every- slender and awan-like. They found stars. She is young and lovely. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931. which solely concerns the Chinese
one home in the depths of gloom. her trilling like a lark In a stall themselves. We would fain hope, As a result of the recent "bazaar
opera house in the South of France. however, that the momentous events held in connexion with St. Paul's "Morning Becomes Electra" is She is a coloratura soprano with an Girls' College, the sum of $1,030 bound to be seen elsewhere one of enchanting kind of April freshness now occurring prosage a honest at Shanghai carreney), representing these days, and I will therefore keep in her voice. tempt to straighten out the tangled $1,000 (Hongkong currency), being off the grass of dramatic critics. part of the proceeds, has been for
mas observe, however, that
EXIT CHIANG!
America and the League.
in
Chairman of the School Council, to Bishop Roots of Hankow, towards the the vengeance of Orestes and fund for Flood Relief in the Hankow Electra to a dour New England districts of China.
| Civil War. He is a brave man, deliberately challenging comparison
family at the time of the American 3.648TH PROPOSAL.
instead of merely in the air nay. Euripides,
with Aeschylus, Sophocles and
tional
"is
The resignution of Chiang Kai skein of China's 'nutional life, whilst warded by the Bishop of Victoria, as O'Neill adapts the Greek theme of PHIPPS on the shek and the break-up of his Gov-at the same time betekening a wise ernment represent a major event in and helpful foreign policy. The immense. May China's history. So far as foreign opportunities are observers are concerned, the main they be used in the interests not point of interest is whether the only of China herself, but of the change is merely another in the world in general.
help to prevent the event. The
"For the 3,848th time,” said Mr. The critics here have all praised La Spada of New Jersey, "will long Acrles of Chinese political
world in general attaches great im-the majestic sweep and cumulative you marry me?" aquabbles, or whether it will be
portance to treaties. They have a power of his treatment. HIB
"The answer," replied Miss La shown to be of deeper significance.
renssuring effect. It may be that characters are like gigantie figures Rosu, spinster of the parish, The spontaneous and unequivo- they are often superfluous, and hewn in grantite. Time will supply the answer.
the 3,648th lemon. Furthermore, If cal co-operation of the United
I am intensely curious to know I'm gonna prosecute." we were to judge the situation by States with the League of Nationaly put in writing a state of what Lontion will make of the play.
She prosecuted. The court pro- things that has already been There will be a breach in Anglo- ceedings revealed the gruesome the recent declarations of those who in finding a solution to the Man- established. There are doubtless American relations if it is not a fact that defendant had proposed have been mainly responsible for churin problem is regarded, in territorial and political arrange-success there.
many quarters, as of far greater ments that are consecrated by cus-
to plaintiff daily t
for ten years. He the dramatic turn which events importance to the world at large
Idol of the Moment.
got three months,
The have now take, China is on the than the resolution just passed in
tons and not by treaty, and are The girls who worship film starsafted charge on which he was in- was "Interfering with Miss threshold of an entirely new era, Paris. Some, indeed,
better respected than many con-ure the most inconstant members
It Roso's peaceful parauita." error,tractual engagements. But in the of their sex. It was not so long ago Judging by the fact that he had which will give her a united and hail the action as the first step quest for security in which the that all the young things from the twice before bear summoned and representative Government based on towards America's adherence to the world is now engaged, it is cssch- the amiable Mr. Buddy Rogers.
stores and the offices were adoring warned, his pursuit of Miss La popular control. But the world at Lengue. Be that as it may, coopers tial to set down by pen and ink
Rean would seem to have been far To-day, they are all talking about from large has long since come to betion has been effected whenever the the minimum liabilities of each the herole virtues of Mr. Clark from peaceful,
interests of the world are involved. nation. On that basis an interna- Gable, and penning him
Such devation là rare. Still, somewhat sceptical of taking the Whether America should be inside
those three months must be considered which order can best be built. ccatàtic little notes
are lenient. promises of politicians at their face or outside the League is a matter So, though there must be consul technically known as "crush letters
I know several men who vale, whether in the Orient or the on which there is a difference of
only proposed once and got a life sentence. Occident. Deoda count, not wordn.opinion; but it is difficult to ima-
tations with or without a specin or "Ten mail."
Perhaps the young ladies of
Ten pact, the consultative pact is not Hongkong also know about Mr.
years, of course, is a long So it would be foolish to accept the gine how there can be
any dif
In the last decade skirta latest China development as neces- ference of opinion on the desiruperfluous, since it sets before Gahle. If they don't they will have time for a man to go on propos- the eyes of the more timorous a chance to see him cutting a ro have lengthened and shortened ability of the participation of troubles are now all over and every-
about in the most irresponsible. I understand Mr. Gable's fan mall way. We have had midget, which concern all nations. Since sultations on which depends the the new Greta Garbo flim.
golf thing henceforth will be plain sallthe League of Nations Is, for the
is almost sufficient to wipe out the and talking-films and Atlantic ing. Indeed, there are possibilities majority of countries, the
United States Post Office deficit. flights and fncome tax attitude re- in the situation of matters becom-cognized medium of International
cords. In other words, there has been a lot to distract the atten- Ing much worke before they get action, it is necessarily with the
tion. better; It would be the height of League of Nations that the United folly to shut our eyes to these.
States must, in an enfergency, work Wo suppose it can be said that for the preservation of pesca. Hore Is the suggested consultative pact Chiang Kai-shek has fallen because, to bolster up the Peace Pact In so far as there is in China any action before such a consultative medium for expressing popular pact is framed, The fact takes opinion, he has lost the confidenco precedence of the pact. All the of the people. Certain is it that the arguments against vanish when It political influences which have been is seen that the force of circum- directed against him
stances Impal consultation whenever there is a real crisia. It would coupled with the tremendous atu- perhaps be possible to argue that dent activity, made his position un- the actual signing of the pact is tenable. The complaint on the one of no Importance, since its pros- hand has been that he has gathered pective provisions will be fulfilled too much power to himself; on the whether the pact exists or not, other, that he has not followed before promise; events have out- That is true; practice has como aufelendly aggressive policy to stripped documents. But there is a wards Japan on the Manchurian value in the bare existonto of u iaaue. He has cortainly shown, by treaty even before the event to
ing
sarily implying that the country's the United States in deliberation nations the certainty of those con- mantic figure in "Susan Lenox," and waistlines have wandered
latterly,
re-
the suppression of his political which. It would apply. The fact onemies and his high-banded no that the understanding is on paper
peasibility
of some measure
of
disarmament
Overheard at the Valley nearing the him
did
He Went Quietly,
She'd got Altro.
enabled
Take the case of my cousin Connie, who was married Inst week. It has taken her ten years' to get Alfred to propose.
Connie pegged her claim at a dance. At least, she thought sho
But
It looked as if Just
groggy, Science to hear. Greta Garbo speak and he seemed to revivo. But Connie's nothing if not a stayer. She kept up a hot attack, and in Hound Beven had Alfred hanging on to the ropes:
At that moment. Dirt Track Racing arrived, and Alfred, by grand defonaive work, kept Connie at long
But he a tired
was a Connie's superior man
ringeraft wore him down, until, after last desperate burst of in aghting) during which it seemed that even. then the World: Depression, siight | save - Alfred, his family thraw
In the towel.ONE MO
It was what is known as Haulst wedding. That is, Alfred went quietly
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