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are, however, soms hopes felt that Q the new Inove may provide n

'DAY BY DAY

"WHAT IS COUNTS FOR VERY LITTLE EVERY TIME YOU REFLECT

THAT "WHAT 18" REPRESENTS THE caugE OF "WHAT SHALL ne." Fouche,

Mr. J. Kelleher arrived by the

SIR MAX PEMBERTON on

NASTY NOVELS.

PRINCE GEORGE has been they would never dare to use bo

talking to the Book Tradefore decent women were interjected atories. They Provident Society ahout the novel, freely into thoir

types in

Chelsea and all who seek what is best in sought their

Chelsea fiction are hin debtors for the studios (though many a words.

studio would quickly throw them to the gutter), and the poultry yard was a second home to them.

Incidentally, the Prince made Changte yesterday to join the staff of some admissions. He told us that he rends dozens of novels, "many the South China Morning Post,

of which should have been operat- ed upon for gangrene at a point The Ion, Treasurer of the S. P. C. approximately, two-thirds of the A. acknowledges with thanks a long-way through."" ton of $10 from Mr. R. A. D. Forrest in memory of the late Mr. M. Manuk.

Of tales to tell they had noge. of that romance which holdeth chlidren from play and old men Da Sir from the chimney corner,' Philip Sidney wrote, they were "Abandon over ignorant. decency all ye who enter hero" might well have been the slogan written on their door-posts. They were possessed neither of shame nor sense.

stimulus to local industrius, but that remains to be seen. Incidon- tally, during the course of the Counel discussion, one of the Chinese members suggested that Ireland should be excluded from the list of countries to be granted proferences! His Excellency. however, smilingly replied that he could not necept this proposal.

Relatively harmless as the pro- posals appear to be, it is interest- ing to note that the Council was in no mood to give its consont offhand. One of the Unofficial inembers dcclared that three days'

Absolute Licence. notice of such a drastic change in

The misfortune of these words the 100 years old policy of the

Amongst the passengers who left is that they are wholly true. Colony was totally insuffelent. by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus to- Nothing, I am eonvinced, has so and, on his suggestion, the ques day were Mr. and Mr. II. Owen natonished the average citizen as

Hardy's Opinion. tion was deferred for later con-Hughes, Mr. R. Sutherland, Mr. Lthe absolute licence permitted to sideration. Like Hongkong, the Guy, Mr. J. Tanyer, Mr. B. E. Fielder the novelist during the last decade.

and Mr. J. B. Lanyon.

While the theatre may still be

The year before Thomas Hardy Straits Settlements have a very

vinited by the police for an inde- died I had a long talk with him restricted list of dutiable articles,

Admitting a charge of having fail-cency: while American film pro- about the English novel and, its and all the duties are imposed for purely revenue purposes. It will to stop when called upon to do so durers dance a fandango in the modern tendency.

was outer halls of adultery, the novel- by a police officer, a boatman thus be seen that the proposed pre-aned $20 or two weeks' imprisonment ist boldly takes the ferences are in reality of small Ims by the Hon. Condr. Hole, at the Mar- defies all authority.

ine Court this moming.

"Prosecute portance. They may to some ex- tent affect revenue; in any caнe,

The lecture by the Rev. Erris C. II. they will compliente the situation. In all the circumstances, however Tribbeck on Ibsen's Peer Gynt, which was to have been given in the Sailers desirable it may be to stimulate and Soldiers Home this evening, at British trade, the innovation scar- 18.30 p.m. has been postponed on cely seems worth while. No ques-acebunt of the prevailing epedémie. tion of Hongkong joining in the movement has yet been brought Mr. P. ( Barrand will deliver a paper on The Ljungstrom Steam forward, and it is difficult to see what advantage either this Colony Turbina" in the premises of the In

stitution of Engineers & Shipbuilders or the Imperial Government would of Hongkong, on Thursday, April 14, derive from

from 0.30 nm. The lecture will ses illust. n departure established custom. Hongkong'strated by inntern slides, host asset is, without question, its |free-port status.

Virtues in Slang. The Times, writing in praise of THE HONGKONG HOTEL | Melba's voice, recently enused its

GARAGE.

readers a mild degree of perturba- The Hongkong • Abenshai Hotela, Lu. tion by remarking. "There

Encarprested in Hongkong, Stubbs Road

The

Happy Vallno

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, APRU, 13, 1932.

CROWN COLONY

PREFERENCES.

Wan

plunge and

in

What seemed to

perplex that great writer more than anything else was the grent lack of invention among the modern sekool.

Не дпув me effect, and you will make my for-

"When you and I began to write," tune. Stop my book because it he spid-1 was properly proud of steals with unnatural offences, and his comprehensiveness-"we had to the bokshops of the Continent and a beginning, a middle, and an will rejoice. Indeed, they will end to our stories. Nowadays, the offer the volume beneath

books rend begin in the middle Baming placard, Banned in Eng-and have no end.“ land.

the

Raking the Ashes. So the garbage is cultivated with impunity. Long-haired pee le with vanishing voices tell us that is art. Beglassed maidens of ripe nge and weight protest that we must write of "life as it is:" The mirror among these sects is Charged before the Hun. Comdr. not held up to Nature; it is held Hale, at the Marine Court this morn-down. The ashes of the nether Ing, with having used his boat for helt are turned with lantern and the purpose of conveying prostitutes with muck-rake; and everywhere within the limits of the harbour, there is the recking odour that boutman was convicted and fined $50,,

revolts. or six weeks' imprisonment.

Mr. T. 4. Stakes, of the Kowloon Conton Railway, reported to the po lice yesterday that whilst driving his motor car at the Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon at 10.30 n.m., an eight-year- Chinese girl ran out from under the shelter of the wharf and kuneked down, receiving injuring to its her face.

more to Melba than that." This was not the first occasion in recent years on which the most august of

ная

WOMEN fiction that no

It was very true-and I cannot help but wonder what Hardy would have said could he have read some of our latest fiction and learnt that it had been punity.

published with in-

Sometimes I hear it urged, and with little justice, that womon are chiefly responsible for these out- rageous screeds. Punch, it is true. showed us an old gentleman hand- lng a modern novel to his wife and saying that it was very good but that their daughter must not rend it. "Too late," said the mother. "she wrote it."

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No Stories to Tell.

Let it be said that nobody would the Mickly seek to re-establish bypocrisy of the Victoria Age, nor to revive the Richardson-Fielding

In the main, though there have controversy of the 18th century, been and are unpleasant excoptions, Our grandfathers believed (in

this class of book is the work of lucked it, and that if the Devil didmen whose presenting of Art and the London dailies has admitted a

not catch the inner in the last Art's necessities merely disgusts. chapter the hook was evil. The They have no stories to tell, and so slang word or phrase into

18th century wrangled over "Tom they go to the sewers. The police ralumna, showing how greatly the

clever Jones," and

Lady Mary rarely interfere with them, and the standards of correct speech have Those who have not yet seen "Palmy Montagu had to inscribe her copy booksellers tell you that they must become relaxed since the days Days." now showing at the King's Ne Plus Ultra" before she per-sell something.

Theatre, should make a point of doin suaded her friends to read it. How much we and they owed to when Dr. Johnson described

sn hefore the attraction concludes ita "clever" as a "low" word, and run. This bright and snappy flm Parents, nevertheless, continued to that sifted storyteller who is gone running put their empies under the bed and Edgar Wallace, the giant among "stingy" as "low eant." It is, un produced on lavish lines, is

to denounce it. Yet us! until Saturday, it is extremely good parsona the whole, satisfactory thing entertainment, showing Eddie Can-Thackeray, in his preface to "Pen- that the English language should tor at his best, and provider cinema- dennis," described it as the great from time to time replenish and goers with a picture distinctly above est picture of "a man" he had met

with. revivify itself by drawing on the the average vûn.

If this were so in England, treasures of popular and unlearn- ed sperch, of which slang forms

preserves

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PANAMA HAVANA

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ANCRUISES

16 DAYS

'MISET

CRISTOBAL

WE HAVE TOO MANY POSERS.

By ST. VINCENT TROUBRIDGE.

WE all know them, only too well --the posers! They are the

ag serious

of the clearest looking-glasa evi- dence to the contrary.

Those Helens of Troy.

At the annual aceting of the St. France, that land of just freedom Andrew's Branch of the Victoria in literature, also had her troubles, no inconsiderable portion. 11 Diocesan umu! Missionary Association,

Flaubert and Zola. Contrary to earlier indigntions, this way a language is saved from 16o, be held in St. Andrew's Church

the world's greatest One of and Hall, Kowloon, at 9 p.m. to-morrow! it would appear that the Straits becoming pedantic, sterile, Settlements. like the Federated overformal. In this way, I, fine (Thursday). Dr. M. O. Pfister is giving novels, Flaubert's "Madame Bo- a lecture, illustrated by lantern view, vary was violently assailed by Malay States, intend embarking on and valuable words and preserved on a trip through Yunnan to a policy of Imperial Preference in eamman usage which otherwise Shered Mountain of Oui. There is no priests and puritans, and its mas-

men and women who devote a sub- Great poets and thinkers stantial portion of their brains and but on a very restricted seale. The would be lost. In the eighteenth charge for admission nudd the meeting terly author brought to trial nt

is opph to any who wish to come. Rouen, idea took concrete form at a meet-century, for example, the term There will be a retiring collection in word from Paris to Normandy to enemy to presenting to the world

defend a genius and succeeded. picture of themselves which is not ing of the Legislative Council last | “ear" was comparatively rarely aid of the funds of the V.J.M.A.

Later on there came the hubbub based upon reality. Once the posing week. when resolutions were employed, and seemed in dutiger brought forwarst approving the mot vanishing from the language, At Yesterday's meeting of the abou! Zola's "La Terre"-a nasty bug has bitten then, the virtues and

book, which sent an English trans qualities which they do position of duties giving a pre- It would no doubt have done so. Sanitary Board, Mr. G. R. ference in certain classes of in- had it not survived in the popular (Chairman) declared that he regrellator to prison and brought forth count as nothing in their sight.

Men who headed the rush to pay ported goods made in Great Bri-speech of Scotland, Ireland, and ted the loss of the services of Mr. T. champions of the cesspool whom

N. Chau, but congratulated Mr. M. one pitied. tain, Ireland, the British Domi- | Devon. It was entirely owing to K. Lo on hin appointment to Mr.

Perhaps that amazing aberration their taxes in advance will insist of a great intellect, "La Garconne," upon being regarded nions or any Malay State under

rivals to Busby Jones in spite of the locutions

unicarned Chau's position. The present of

really started the muck-writers

their lamentable week-end perfor British protection. The plan

countrymen that this term

Was Hon. Mr. Harold T. Creasy

their unbridled way: mances on the links. Women will the outcome of telegrams from the

English, and preserved in

thus Chairman), Dr. G. W. Pope. Mr. M. here upon

aud

cast away the fame of being idea! Secretary of State announcing Vekep! ready for the day when, the K. Lo, Mr. P. C. Hall, Dr. R. A. de They began to "try it on,"

Castro Busto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy were astonished by the liberty per-wives and mothers to preen them- intention of the Imperial Goveru.invention of mechanical transport and Mr. J. H. Gelling (Secretary); witted to them. Words and phrases selves us tearing beauties in spite ment to Inaugurate, a policy of

made it universal and indispens- granting preference to products of able. Popular speech not only British Colonies and Dependencies,

of the resources and expressing the hope that those

to them. Colonies and Depend meies whose uage, but adits tariffa do unt at preseid provide slang of a year ago either is for fur preferential tarifs would re-kotten or is the standard English view the position with a view to of to-day. Such useful words as rwiprocation of the polly the mug, pet, fad, and fun were once only slang expressions. And four Mother Country.

When we come to look into the sinng words, lunch, nob, eoko, matter, however, we find that the and tram, have proved their worth proposed preferences amount to so triumphantly that they have very little indeed; they were des- gained a place not only in reput- cribed by the Governmert spokes-able English, but in foreign lan- man as "a gesture of goodwill," | guages as well. Let us therefore and it is not intended that they beware of despising slang merely should be regarded as revenue as the language of those unable to measures. The object, it was ex-speak standard English, Empha plained, is to provide us effective | tically, there is more to slang than n preference as the short tariff of that. the Colony permits. The plan is not a prelude to the introduction of a wider tariff, with preference for British goods, as only suck articlen as are at present liable to duties are affected. The policy of the Government always has been. and still is, to keep the list of dutiable articles within the nar- ruwent limits, and parture from this line of action which is now proposed. Even 40, there in seemingly a fear that even in this limited form there may be an unfavourable renction on the cost of living, as mention was made by the Government spokes- man of readjustments which might later on be found necessary should such n development occur. There

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This laiter, which one may term the Helen of Troy pose, is quite sur. prisingly common. Because the mysterious forces of sex-appeal can sometimes dispense with beauty of

numerous feature, through life in the profound con- viction that their faces could launch a thousand ships. This conviction they maintain in the face of all opposition, even the opposition of Nature herself.

The sporting pose is prevalent, too, though perhaps more difficult to sustain than many of the others, The continued assumption of golf- ing prowess, for instance, is very apt to be met by a definite chal- lenge, while the thruster in the club or office hunting field also runs considerable danger of being con- fronted with a live horse and a real pack of hounds,

But it in in the field of music that posing and affectations of all kinds reach their supreme achieve- All ments. It is so dead easy. that is required in to half close the. eyes, assume an expression known to the nursery an "a dying duck la a thunderstorm," and the trick in done. Add occasional exclamations of rapture, and you will pass for a musical connolasour without the necessity for displaying any other knowledge of the difference between the saving of kings and the popping of wearels.

Does posing pay? How far do the posers deceive the world at large? flow far do they deceive (Continued on Page 8.)