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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. „MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.

SPARTON

RADIO

Sparton Model 16AW.

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SHERLOCK SUPREME

By “AN OLD STAGER”

the

The Very Idea!

NATIONAL MORALS,

they

By Edward Garbo Kally. "HOORAY! HOORAY!" yelled. The cheers crashed up from the West Lounge of the European Y.M.Č.A. as we entered and took our scat.

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We rose, bowed, and smiled, ro- poncila, two fountain pens, sumed our scat, look out five abeet of blotting paper, a small swivel chair and a ream of paper which wo: always carry in ก inga, and put our feet up on the string bag when visiting meet-

of very useful co-operation. It Is obviously more

or less im- possible to produce telling peace films of the amusement type to order. But when a chance oc- curs, the producers evidently will not be slow to make use of

is an arresting thought that strong relief by making the naivo it. As to the news reels, if the.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, of 2213 and pedestrian Dr. Watson his League can be made more picto Baker Street, is probably the best: Boswell, ho blundered into a mas- rially attractive, the producers known character in British fiction, terpiece.

The perfect poise of contrasted are willing to give greater space and possibly the most popular to chronicling the progress of in-personality in English literature, personalities, and, above all, their

Wo are not a high-brow nation. Complete subordination to ternational co-operation rather Even our worst enemies and best psychology of the average British than to the showing of films detractors have never accused us reader, assured a literary apothe likely to arouse national animosi of undue Intellectuality, which cosie of the pot-boiler into the tics. By governmental co-fact perhaps adequately explains popular classic. operation the interest travel why Dr. Watson's eccentric friend, Other detectives and disciples films produced under the aus- the private inquiry agent with firator sheer inspired ratiocination pices of their Marketing Boards floor apartments in Marylebone, have performed far more

not sational and even starting feats of Travel Bureaux can be weld-looms more comfortably if

than either than the hero of Baker Stroct. ed into coherent wholes to show more majestically that mankind la fundamentally Hamlet or Soames Forsyte In the But none of them has done It

literary experiences

most with anything like the convincing more alike than different. In people in these islands.

reallam of Dr. Watson's accom- all these ways the League of If Mr. Holmes has a

plice in the art of red herringe Nations is hoping to use the film popular rival, which must be and human perplexity. In the promotion of world peace: gravely doubted, it is probably detective, but never a superman. Mr. Holmes always the super- No better medium could be de- the younger Mr. Samuel Weller, He probably owes as much of his vised in order to bring home to, and Conan Doyle's unhumorous

We were even popularity to hia tobucco pipe and the public the necessity of work- hero beats Charles Dickens's in- old dressing, gown as. Mr. Stanley ing together for the promotion imitably humorous one by some Baldwin does to his old cherry of permanent world peace.

thing more than a short head.

wood and bowler hot. These Modern ways have

to some human Hinks with common clay, extent dated the admirable Mr. without impairing the man in the Messengers of Good

beginning to become 'slightly an-street's belief that he is dealing the Cinema, however. Weller. His literary Interest is Cheer

stendily

of

Borious

with

Bon-

dook.

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But, astonishing though it may seem, the cheers were not for us. baying wolfishly after the speaker It was merely the proletariat

had scored what he thought was a point.

This peeved us.

་

more peoved to

see that the speaker was talking on the detrimental effect of the

cinema on national morals,

"How demoralizing," said he, weeping allontly.

to her.

We could tell you lots about

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tiquarian. But an era of bizarre

an exceedingly able and

But what's the use? In the In SPARTON cabinet of striking

Invention and strange crime suits smart fellow, play a subtle part In proventing the average citizen

first place you It is difficult to determine the Mr. Holmes like à glove.

wouldn't believe beauty. At a turn of the Band

UA, and in the second place the Selector and Control Knob, this exact hour when one begins to So far from growing obsolete, developing any inferiority com- marvellous instrument is instant-warm to the Spirit of Christmas, he finds the epoch shaping itself plex, and being thereby alienated first place's enough.

from the subject of his quiet,

Tako Garbo, for Instance. ly adapted for either the long one might hazard a gucas, in almost deliberately to his men- wave or the world spanning short most households "the Christmas tality and methods. He has set humdrum auburban hero-worship. Sensual, aoulful, sinful, Garbo.

Most people not only like, but Young boys, scarcely able to wave reception as desired. feeling" increase in direct ratio a fashion in literary fiction which

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expands, nad in its positively insist on, their little tin toddle, have succumbed powerful 12 tube Superhetero-to the accelerated ministrations mimetic expansion merely flatters of common clay. If Bernard Shaw Mr. Hyde, or rather more, sudden- Roda having well-accredited feet Insidiously, like Dr. Jekyl and dyne with Automatic Volume of the postman, However the supreme master. Control. Tone and Static Control, gloomy the face of paterfamilias. Taking Him Seriously.

had only amoked an occasionally like a boll, her spoll hna cast

its evil glamour over them. Phono Pick-up Jack.

Band may be, the growing galaxy of It is not surprising that a Sher-Cigar, and eaten a beef-steak now Selector Switch, and all the finest Christmas cards on mantelpiece, lock Holmes school of literature and then, it is hard to any SPARTON features.

bureau, and bookshelf quickly is developing. Nor that serious what hoights of national popu- Height 44 inches. Width 26 dissipates the general depres- works of critical analysis should larity be might not have climbed.

War Work. inches. Depth 12 inches. 8ion. The insistent rat-a-tat be devoted to Mr. Holmes's career!

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

which heralds the advent of my- and lifework.

Holmes's most loyal admirers, sterious packages too big for the

that in Mr. Blakeney's biography letter-box completes the rout of biographical study by Mr. Thomas of the great detective I find, as the a preface of splendid gravity pendices, a short but scholarly, re that It makes no pretence to belugfutation of the theory, unhappily exhaustive. "The time is

Demonstrations & Sales.

So intent takes the form of a

to

And we know of at least two school girls whose world has been shattered into n million fragments by the frown of Robert Montgomery.

"All this is Sinny, Ma," you

To which we reply, "Pardon an

pardon

any?

IDEAL RADIO SERVICES, the ogre. But it is to those gal. S. Blakeney, who informs us, in third of some quite solemn ap- old man's foibles." We always

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Mrs. J. Fraser, a son,

not

life, but all the many essays und

same person.

It is a grotesque theory as gross libel. On the

Dr. Watson was married, my per-

our old man'a folbies.

Peoples would say, "There he goes again-fooling about with the folbles" and we'd say, "You leave him alone." As a matter of fact, we bought him a new set of foibles with embossed handlen for his birthday.

That's the sort of man we are. Now

.we will underwrite I

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lant little storm-troops, the Christmas cards, that we owe the real inception of victory. It yet ripe," writes Mr. Blakeney, heresy widely circulated by one would be very difficult for us This work in an introduction to Sherlock Holmes were one and the writer, that Dr. Moriarty and moderns, especially youthful studies, not a critical commentary moderns, to imagine a Merry on Holmes.”

Mr. Blakeney demolishes that Christmas without them. They In that studious tongue-in with a succinct finality of deduc make all the difference between cheek manner. he proceeds to re- tion worthy of Mr. Holmes him spending a lonely Christmas viow with patient detall not only self. which is no Christmas at all— the whole story of Mr. Holmes' well as a and a Christmas in fellowship books that have already been de question, so ably handled In Mr. visit to the talkies, and sob and with all the world. The giving aleated to the same topic. Such Blakeney's book, how many times 80b. and receiving of substantial pre- is the subtle deceit of biography Ronal Interest is only tepid. But If you can use your lip-stick with sents, however much happiness that the reader presently becomes that may bring, is no true g uge hypnotised into taking the whole hint that the years 1914-18 found I welcome Mr. Blakeney's quiet of the Christmas spirit, A thing quite earnestly. Christmas card, however per-

Many discrepancies are exposed functorily addressed, is a token in Dr. Watson's narratives about

Let me close on a purely per- of the universal friendliness and his revered friend's affairs. He thoughtfulness for others which frequently gets his dates mixed. ¡sonal epideode. Soon after I first If you can always keep that boyish

and often commits glaring errors

allowed. London to take me by make this

cherished above all. Father Christmas, Arthur Conan Doyle, who gave the sort of conditions Dr. Watson of fnet. It is apparent that Sir storm. I sallied forth one rather drizzly November night, in just perhaps because stocking cannot far more thought and artistic hold a great deal, has always had concentration to other books he so often did, to find Mr. Holmes's a weakness for the smaller gifts, wrote, regarded his detective exact Baker Street address.

small,

My nocturnal perambulationa At the yearly meeting of the which, though Governing Body of the Interna- much, and a special blessing tional Institute of Educational from him must surely have de-

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1932.

PEACE BY FİLM

season

tales more or less as pot-boilers. mean

Mr. Holmes hard at work in the national interest.

discretion,

While other lips tako on

brilliant hue,

If you can think and talk without

digression

And never be a minute overdue,

figure,

If, without gum to chew, your natural

Though days and weeks and

months and years unwind,

vigour

Сап

still maintain alert your working mind,

above all, you cat large plates of

spinach

(And carrots, too, for thus will

straight hair curl),

Cinematography of the League scended on the unknown invent- though the fact Inter bocameed me if I was looking for any In industry you'll find that you will

and

Worry

our

of Nations, at Rome, special at or of the Christmas card, who, tention was paid this year to two some time in the middle of last points: namely the film

century, conceived the notion of backward races and the film in broadcasting Christmas greet the service of the promotion of, inga and good cheer. moral disarmament. As to the former, there is incontrovertible evidence that the indiscriminate showing of Western-made films! It dreams were

sold in the to backward races tends to bring market-place, what sort of white people into disrepute. dream would you buy? Most per- Without further information the sons at the present time would League of Nations has been un- be prepared, impoverished as able to lay down a line of de- they are, to pay handsomely for finite policy. The next twelve a really effective Cure for months are to be taken up in Worry. Vexations, big and getting together information little, have always a tendency to 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- mediate problem. The Disarma- most insupportable. Every 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 auasion to convince us that the are three possible lines of pro- sun is shining on the other side. gress. Firstly there is the crea- We are all familiar with the jol- tion of a pure teaching film on ly 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 la to ensure that all children, sipate depression only for a of whatever nationality they minute or

80. Psychological may be, before they leave school "uplift" courses which guaran- shall have some idea of the aims tee a more roseate world by and objects of the Longue. The inculcating a more roseate 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 do more when grim realities like in- for the promotion of peace than fluenza "knock the stuffing" out any other single step. 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. Paris this spring held out hopes-

Ile tossed them off light-hearted-attracted the attention of a ser- If, ly, little dreaming at the time, geant of Metropolitan police. With fine professional aplomb, he ask- obvious even to him, that his pot thing. I told him I was searching baller would be also his master for Mr. Sherlock Holmes's Baker place.

Sir Arthur's story of Corporal

Street rooms. Brewster, the old Waterlooo After a moment's close survey teran, which in its dramatised of my personal appearance under version afforded Sir Henry Irving a Baker Street lamp, the sergeant one of his most thrilling stage confessed that he had done the triumphs, has more real literary same thing. Baker Street was on art in it than all the collected ad- his beat, and he was a really pro- ventures of Mr. Sherlock Holmes found student of the great inves Jumped together,

tigator.

ve-

When his literary creator sket The truth is there never was a ched Mr. Holmes, however, and 221B Baker Street, nor any nunt threw his mediocre brilliance into ber approximately to it.

"Buppose you sell only one to every man, woman and child in the country. There's a hundred and twenty-million

to start with,”!-

win cách

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

girl!

THE REAL STORY. Sensation. Prick up your ears. We have the very down on the inner history of the realest low

Brighter. Hongkong movement at one of our local cabarets. It was

told to us by the man who lick- ed up the bloodstains.

It is perhaps fortunate that the story was told us

in, con- fidence, because otherwise We should have felt it our duty to tell the truth to our readers. The inevitable result of that would kavo been that none of them would have taken us soriously again.

At all costs, our reputation as a serious historian of current events must be maintained, and the best way to do that is to avoid placing too great a strain on the credulity of our readers by giving them the real facts in cases of this sort.

"SPREADABILITY" OF BUTTER,

We are delighted that the ex- parts of the National Physical Laboratory sre devoting ro- searches to an investigation of the "spreadability" of butter.

It is a BOUTCO of constant wondor to us, whon we have tea at certain caravanserois, how the comm-dity described as broad- and-butter can contain so much of the former and so little of the lattor Ingrediont. Whether this Is due to the "spreadability" or the "unspreadability" of tho bultor 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.

We might add that after our Broad-and-Buttor Quota Schome has received Gubernatorial Banċ- tion, wo propose to introduce ap- other measure banning the use of the word "spreadability."