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RADIO

“Radial Risbert Hinas"

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.

SHERLOCK SUPREME

By "AN OLD STAGER"

his

Baker Strent, la probably the best Boswell, he blundered into a mag- known character in British Action, terpiece.

The perfect poise of contrasted and possibly, the most popularį personality in English literature. personalities, and, above all, their

a

of most

the

into the

far more sen-

The Very Idea!

NATIONAL MORALS

By Edward Garbo Keily. "HOORAY! HOORAY!” they yelled. The cheers crashed up from the West of the European Y.M.C.A. BB we entered and took our seat,

Lounge

&

ก

But, astonishing though it may seem, the cheers were not for uẼ It was merely the proletariat had scored what he thought was a point.

This peeved us.

Laying wolfishly after the speaker

Paris this spring held out hopes of very useful co-operation. It is obviously more or lesa im- possible to produce telling peace films of the amusement typo to order. But when a chance oc- curs, the producers evidently herlock Holmes, of 2218 and pedestrian Dr. Watson

T is an arresting thought that, strong relief by making the naive will not be slow to make use of it. As to the news reels, if the League can be made more picto- rially attractive, the producers are willing to give greater space

We are not a high-brow nation. | complete subordination to to chronicling the progress of in- Even our worst enemies and best psychology of the average British

We ross, bowed, and smiled, re- ternational co-operation rather, detractors have never accused us reader, assured a literary apothe-sumed our seat, took out five

pons, penells, twe fountain than to the showing of films of undue intellectuality, which cosis of the pot-boller likely to arouse national animosi- fact perhaps adequately explains popular classic.

Other detectives and disciples sheet of blotting paper, a small ties. By governmental co- why Dr. Watson's eccentric friend,

which We always carry in operation the interest travel the private inquiry agent with first or sheer inspired ratiocination swivel chair and a ream of paper films produced under the aus-floor apartments in Marylebono, have performed

if not sational and even startling feats string bag when visiting meet- pices of their Marketing Boards looms more comfortably

more majestically that either than the hero of Baker Street.ings, and put our feet up on the

It deak. of Travel Bureaux can be weld Hamlet or Soames Forsyte in the But none of them has done ed into coherent wholes to show literary experiences

with anything like the convincing realism of Dr. Watson's accom- that mankind is fundamentally people in these islands, sorious plice in the art of red herrings more alike than different. In If Mr. Holmes has

must be and human perplexity. all these ways the League of popular rival, which

Mr. Holmes is always the super- Nations is hoping to use the film gravely doubted, it is probably detective, but never a superman. In the promotion of world peace. the younger Mr. Samuel Weller, He probably owes as much of his No better medium could be de- and Conan Doyle's unhumorous

old dressing gown

Mr. Stanley vised in order to bring home to hero beats Charles Dickens's In-popularity to his tobacco pipe and the public the necessity of work-imitably humorous one by some Baldwin docs to his old cherry

wood and bowler hat, These ing together for the promotion thing more than a short head.

ways havo to sobie

human fake with common clay, of permanent world peace. extent dated the admirable Dir without impairing the man in the Weller. His literary interest is beginning to become slightly an-street's belief that he is dealing exceedingly able and tiquarian. But an era of bizarre invention and strange crime quite art, fellow, play a subtle part in preventing the average citizen Selector and Control Knob, this It is difficult to determine the Mr. Holmes like a glove.

So far from growing obsolete, developing any inferiority com- marvellous instrument is instant-exact hour when one begins to he finds the epoch shaping itself plex, and being thereby allenated ly adapted for either the long warm to the Spirit of Christmas. almost deliberately to his men from the subject of his quiet.

Most people not only like, but Young boys, scarcely able to wave or the world spanning short If one might hazard a guess, in tality and methods. Ho has set humdrum suburban hero-worship. Sensual, soulful, sinful, Garbo, wave reception as desired,

most households "the Christmas a fashion in literary fiction which positively insist on, their little tin toddlo, have succumbed to her. powerful 12 tube Superhetero: feeling" increase in direct ratio steadily

of common clay. If Bernard Shaw Mr. Hyde, or rather more, sudden- dyne with Automatic Volume to the accelerated ministrations mimetic expansion merely flatters gods having well-accredited feet Insidiously, like Dr. Jekyl and Controi, Tone and Static Control,

of the postman. However

had only smoked an occasionally like a boil, her spell has cast Phono Pick-up Jack, Band

It is not surprising that a Sher-cigar, and eaten a beef-steak now ita evil glamour over them. Selector Switch, and all the finest gloomy the face of paterfamilias

lock Holmes school of literaturo and then, it is hard to say to and we know of at least two may be, the growing galaxy of SPARTON features.

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bureau, and bookshelf quickly works of critical analysis should arity be might not have climbed. Depth 12 inches.

dissipates the general depres- be devoted to Mr. Holmes's career

It gratifies me, as one of Mr. Weight 70 pounds.

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The

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Messengers of Good- Cheer

Modern

and expands,

the supremo master. Taking Him Seriously.

in ita

with an

We were even more peoved to see that the speaker was talking on the detrimental effect of the cinema on national morals,

"How demoralizing," anid he. weeping ellently..

We could tell you lots about the Cinema, however,

But what's the use? In the wouldn't belleve first place you. us, and in the second place the first place's enough.

letter-box. completes the rout of S. Blakeney, who informs us, in of the great detective I find, na the Bay

ap- third of some quite solemn

Tako Garbo, for instance.

school girls whose world has been shattered into A million fragments by the frown of Robert Montgomery.

"All this la Sinny, Ma," you To which we reply, "Pardon an the ogre. But it is to those gal-a preface of splendid gravity, endices, a short but scholarly re- old man's foibles." We always our old man's felbles. lant little storm-troops, the that it makes no pretence to being futation of the theory, unhappily pardon

not

a heresy widely circulated by one Peoples would any, "There he Christmas cards, that we, owe exhaustive. "The time is

yet ripe," the real inception of victory. ItThis work "You writes Mr. Blakeney writer, that Dr. Moriarty and goes again-fooling about with leave him alone." As a matter would be very difficult for us

studies, not a-critical commentary

same person, moderns, especially youthful on Holmes,"

Mr. Blakeney demolishes that of fact, we bought him a now set moderns, to imagine a Merry In that studious tongue-in- Christmas without them. They cheek manner, he proceeds to re- with a succinct finality of deduc- of foibles with embossed handles make all the difference between view with patient detall not only tion worthy of Mr. Holmes him for his birthday. Christmas- the whole atory of Mr. Holmes's self. It is a grotesque theory sa spending a lonely

Kross libel. On the which is no Christmas at all-life, but all the many eABays and and a Christmas in fellowship books that have already been do-question, so ably handled in Mr.

dicated to the same topic. Such Blakeney's book, how many times sob. with all the world. The giving in the subtle deccit of biography gonal interest is only tepid. But Dr. Watson was married, my per- and receiving of substantial pre- that the reader presently becomes alone Mr. Blakeney's quiet If you can use your lipstick with sents, however much happiness hypnotised into taking the whole hint that the years 1914-18 found that may bring, is no true gauge thing quite carnestly. of the Christmas spirit. A Many discrepancies are exposed Christmas card, however per in Dr. Watson's narratives about functorily addressed, is a token his rovered friend's affairs. He mixed,

well

ля д

That's the sort of man wo are. Now

will underwrite

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visit to the talkies, and sob and

Mr. Holmes hard at work in the

If national interest.

Let me close on a purely per- sonal episode. Soon after 1 Arst

on 1

"IF" FOR BUSINESS CIRLS.

discretion, While other lips take

brilliant hue, you can think and talk without

digression

Hongkong Telegraph of the universal friendliness and frequently gels his dates mizors allowed London to take me by If you can always keep that boyish

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1932.

PEACE BY FILM

make this

Worry

F

and

Can still maintain alert your

working mind,

above all, you eat largo plates of

spinach

(And carrots, too, for thus will

atraight hair earl).

industry you'll find that you wil

win ench

Laurel, and, you'll be a Wow, my

girl!

·THE REAL, STORY. Sensation. Prick up your ears.

And never be a minute overdue,

figure, Though days and weeke drizzly November night, in just season cherished, of fact. It is apparent that Sir storm, Isallied forth one rather

months and years unwind, above all. Father Christmas, Arthur Conan Doyle, who are the sort of conditions Dr. Watson If, without gam to chew, your natural

artistic perhaps because stocking cannot far more thought and

vigour exact Baker Street addrees. hold a great deal, has always had concentration to other books he so often did, to find Mr. Holmes's wrote, regarded his detective

My nocturnal perambulations a weakness for the smaller gifts, tales more or less as pot-boilers: attracted the attention of a ser- If, which, though small, mean Ho tossed them off light-hearted-| At the yearly meeting of the much, and a special blessing ly, little dreaming at the time, geant of Metropolitan police. With Governing Body of the Interna- from him must surely have de- though the fact later became ne professional aplomb, he ask- tional Institute of Educational scended on the unknown invent- obvious even to him, that his pot- ed me if I was looking for any-In Cinematography of the Lengue or of the Christmas card, who, boiler would be also his manter- thing. I told him I was searching for Mr. Sherlock Holmes's Baker of Nations, at Rome, special at some time in the middle of last plece.

Street rooma. Sir Arthur's story of Corporal tention was paid this year to two century, conceived the notion of

After a moment's close survey VE- Brewster, the old Waterlooo points: namely the film and broadcasting Christmas greet, which in its dramatised of my personal appearance under backward races and the film inings and good cheer.

version afforded Sir Honry Irving a Baker Street lamp, the sergeant we have the very realest low the service of the promotion of

ong of his most thrilling stage confessed that he had done the down on the inner history of the moral disarmament. As to the

triumphs, has more real literary ame thing. Baker Street was on Brighter Hongkong movement at former, there is incontrovertible

art in it than all the collected ad- his boat, and he was a really pro one of our local cabarets. It was evidence that the indiscriminate

It dreams were

sold in the ventures of Mr. Sherlock Holmes found student of the great inves- told to us by the man who lick-

tigator, lumped together.

od up the bloodstains. showing of Western-made filme

what sort of

The truth is there never was a

It is perhaps fortunate that When his literary creator sket- to backward races tends to bring market-place,

was told us in con- white people into disrepute. dream would you buy? Most perched Mr. Holmes, however, and 2213 Baker Streat, nor any num the story

fidence, because otherwise we Without further information the sons at the present time would threw his mediocre brilliance into ber approximately to it.

should have felt it our duty to League of Nations has been un- be prepared, impoverished as

tell the truth to our readers. The able to lay down a line of de- they are, to pay handsomely for Cure for

Inevitable result of that would finite policy. The next twelve a really effective

have been that none of them und months are to be taken up in Worry. Vexations, big

would have taken us seriously getting together information little, have always a tendency to

again. from all the Powers with increase at this time of year, and Colonies as to the way in which of late, because the whole world cinema shows are regulated in is out of joint, they have crowd- their possessions. Moral dis- ed in upon us, saint and sinner armament presents a more im-alike,, until they have become al- Every insupportable. mediate problem. The Disarma most ment Conference will probably separate cloud may have a sil- have come to an end by the mid-ver lining, but when they join dle of next year and if there is forces and stretch over any action to be taken in the way heads in a leaden pall. from one of the inclusion of special arti-horizon to the other, It takes a cles in the final convention, it good deal of philosophic per- will have to be quick. There suasion to.convince us that the are three possible lines of pro-sun is shining on the other alde. gress. Firstly there is the crea-We are all familiar with the jol- tion of a pure teaching film only type of slogan which adjures the League of Nations. It is us to "keep smiling" or "not to understood to be probable that a worry because it probably won't draft scenario will be drawn up happen." But these seem to shortly. The object of such a have lost their punch and dis- film is to ensure that all children, sipate depression only for a 80. Psychological of whatever nationality they minute or may be, before they leave school "uplift" courses which guaran- ahall have some idea of the alma tee a more roseate world by rosente and objects of the League. The taculcating inclusion. of such a film in the opinion of oneself have a ten- educational programme of all dency to deepen one's dejection countries will perhaps de morowhen grim realities liko in- for the promotion of peace than fluenza "knock the stuffing" out. any other single stop. Secondly, of one. Fate at the moment attention is being drawn to the seems so perverse that to refuse possibility of inducing the pro- to be worried is asking for more ducers of news, amusement and trouble. But if you run away Interest films to the desirability from General Worry he will over- of utilising their output for the whelm you. If you face him, promotion of international good-with your back to the wall, in will rather than the reverse. A the end he will have to retire. preliminary meeting held in for lack of reinforcements.

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"SPREADABILITY" OF BUTTER.

We are delighted that the ex- perta of the National Physical Laboratory Are devoting re- searches to an investigation of the "aprendability" of butter.

It is a sourco of constant wonder to us, when wo have ten at certain caravanserole, how the commodity described as bread- and-butter can contain 'so much of the former and so little of the latter ingredient. Whether this ia due to the "spreadability" or the "unspreadability" of the butter used, we do not know; but the question is certainly crying for legislation, and we offer our whole-hearted support to any Legislative Councillor who will introduce a quota scheme for compelling hotel managers to pro- vide a minimum quantity of butter for each square inch of bread. 2000

We might add that after our

·Broad-and-Butter Quota- Scheme has received Gubernatorial sanči tion, we propose to introduce an- other measure banning the use of the word "spreadability."

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