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Interdependence of Nations

'President Roosevelt did well

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that America, cannot achieve prosperity by her own unaided

MAY 10, 1933.

MOST POPULAR PERSON The Very Idea!

IN THE WORLD ·

By ROSITA FORBES

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GOOD LISTENER.

to understand,

CINEMA FACES

By Edward "Karloff” Kelly, According to the Movictong News, Lord Hailsham would make a "kindly family butler", Ramsay MacDonald, without his moustache, a great lover, Win- ston Churchill, with cigar, an American political racketeer, Sir John Simon, a doctor, and Sir Oswald Mosley, a villain.

effort. The things which have Fourteen people were gathered been attracting most attention round a table which was part of "I don't," ako said; and her in Washington recently have the ith her weten we brown eyes looked so profound that garded well-known I wondered if perhaps aho really been spectacular developments amlle. It was going to be a satis was too clover for ordinary people in domestic affairs. It is well factory week-end. Nothing had that public attention should be been omitted. Food and

"What do you do, then?” were carefully assorted. diverted to the more important

"I just grunt," she said, and did "Anyone else coming?" naked the

so; but it was a delicious and most steps, those to which they have hostess's best friend.

comforting little sound Indicating not been paying overmuch at- "Only Elizabeth."

"Ob, Elizabeth!" At the sound hint of awed admiration. In fact, we want at our picture shows in understanding and agreement and a We are all for this idea. What tention--the preparations for long. patient und involved of that magic name, which belonge that "grunt"

remarkable to a little elderly lady with the achievement.

In gome originality, with a dash of negotiations with other nations wittiest tongue in two continents,

In this century of aclf-exprea-soda. which have na their goal the convoraation became general,

alon, there are, of course, several Going to the pictures nowadays: IF IT'S TRANSPORTATION. restoration of International con-

"How clever of you to get her!" neoro of talkers to every really good is like playing the bagpipes-à "Isn't that too completely mar-listener. Consequently the person slicer waste fidence, world trade and general vellous Everyone had some who can register bentle content YOU NEED

of time. Everyone prosperity. It is well known thing nice to way because everyone while listening to a categorie and knows what's going to happen. that the administration is mak-locked forward to being definitely repetitive description of someono

popularity.

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Hongkong Telegraph. caused

WEDNESDAY, May 10, 1933,

LOCAL CABARET PROBLEMS

୦୫

for

THE EIGHTH WONDER.

"She's the eighth wonder of the

to

was a

For instance, take Garbo. assured of Everyone knows when she starts an undressing scene that it will There is one man in London who stop just when it beglan to get is a comfort to every woman he interesting. There's

nothing

are

"May your thousand times degrod- ed servant," we began in our best Walter Oland style, "request that your exalted and ancestral highness will deign to answer a few dreary and

ing elaborate plans. But the happier as soon as Elizabeth ar-clac's business

rived. VAUXHAL—BEDFORD subjects to be covered are 50

complicated,

removed

I wondered if the very little lady meets, because at any moment of from the obvious bread-and-

realised that whenever her visit the day or night he is willing to original about that. butter requirements of the mo- was heralded, imposing and self-listen to her confidences. He is n As one of the best gate-crashers ment, difficult, in fact, for the satisfied people became like children person of leisure. He likes a deep at Hongkong previews we

excited by the promise of a new chair and a pipe. He does not ex-in a position to suggest to Holly- ordinary person to comprehend.toy. I wondered what it felt like peet anyone to follow his advice, wood just what's wanted. Yet whether prosperity is to re-to be at 60 something the most so he does not give it. He says, We shall never forget the day turn to the world will depend, in popular person in a world that was "Let's talk about you," as if it werd

habitually Informed, assured and the one subject which must be of we met the famous Chinese flim the last analysis, on govern-

indifferent.

equal interest to Fascists and actress.. Sing-Sing. whose An- mental foreign policies rather Elizabeth arrived. Everyone Dolshevists and Nazie and wet or

cestors go back. 60,000 years. than on domestic policies. Whe- tolked to her. I could see her dry senatora. As soon as the one- ther the depression came chiefly turning from side to side, nodding about it, but the woman remembers, about the

little head, sheathed in pale hair, sided talk is ended, he forgets all When Sing-Sing was not walking streets of Shanghal sinister shuffle, she was because of things that happened with a quick, bird-like movement She thinks he is quite the most with a in America, or whether it was that emphasised her appreciation interesting man she has ever met.

sitting cross-legged on an inscrut of her friends' cleverneSA. developments by

in

WAYWARD POPULARITY, `

able cushion, "Elizabeth collecte people. Look Europe, one thing is pretty at her now,"

Popularity to-day is as wayward certain; no nation get full pros.

ns last year's windswept shingle. You may be as beautiful as Venus perity back again unless all na-world. How does she do it" tions have a share in it. The Elizabeth, talked about her.

Those who couldn't talk

and a persistent wallflower. You may be fat and penniless and more world has grown so small in the "She doesn't do it. That's just elderly than middle-age, but quite utterly unmentionabe questions?"

gayest last generation that there is no

it. She lets other people do it, indispensable at all the Baid one of the more perspicact who is all these things, and nobody ptted in the best Sino-Hollywood

parties. There is a certain woman "Bird's nests to you," longer any much thing as ecano-

would dream of doing without her, manner. So we left, taking our The announcement that regu- mic independence. We live too

sho because lations

has vitality. The for the control of close to our neighbours; sickness

whole of her world gives parties chop suey with us. cabarets in Hongkong have been in one house is very apt to ma Elizabeth's interest, I asked her most cheerfulness,

Long afterwards, enchanted by for her, after which, with the ut Slag-Sing later went to Holly- drafted by the Inspector General sickness in every other house-why she was so popular, and with- those she gives in return, because able

they pay for wood, where she scored a remark- of Police is eminently satisfac-especially so since our ideas of out waiting for her explanation so long as she is present they are prima donna, or what have you, Ruccess as the Vienneso tory. The need for effective economic sanitation are of the gave her mine. In the middle of at the top of their form. They in the super-super-super produc- control is incontestable and the sketchiest and no such thing as So that was her secret! She made away feeling "grand,”

it I realised she was laughing.batten on her vitality and come tion "Viennese Lights", official promulgation of the mea-jan adequate quarantine is other people answer their Own Celebrities, on the whole, are not sures to be taken will be await-possible. And in the long run questions, so that they always left popular. They are necessary at

Under the same conditions. her ed with more than ordinary in-prosperity has to be very much been particularly brilliant. Her and gold plate, but they are apt to local taipans couldn't make good with the feeling of having some kinds of functions, like Claras there is no reason why a lot of our terest, by public and pro- a world-wide affair. The men- popularity was due not to her wide-give one the horrible feeling that at Hollywood. De Mille, for in- prietors alike. An exhaustive sures proposed at Washingtonly acknowledged wit but to what one ought to go out and do like-stance, should have had some of survey of the many peculiar pro- for getting America's house in other people said, or thought they wise. The general public much the Hongkong Brewery directors

Įsaid, when they were with her. blems attaching to the growth of order are vitally important, of

prefers royalty to record-breakers, for his picture, "The Sign of the There must be several kinds of because it likes to feel there is no XXX". There are several talpans this form of entertainment in course; but unless international milence. Most Rilences aro the question of emulation.

(we won't mention names) who the Colony

which published re-trade, international credit and wrong kind--swamps into

On the whole, it is the ordinary could have taken the title role in cently, revealing that A wide international confidence can be you sink with the awful feeling people who are the most popular, "Flesh", and what about the War that there are still three. more The exceptional make enemies beter Authority for "20,000 years in field of supervision requires to restored, the world is not likely courses and you haven't another cause they override too

many Sing-Shing Mun:" be covered beyond the superfi- to come to the end of its troubles, word to say. But the silence which established prejudices.

indicates a considered appreciation cial responsibility for seeing

is akin to genius. that reasonable hours

was

are ob-

served and that the cabaret sys-Art for Humanity's Sake tem does not develop into à pub-

on

OUR.

HER, SECRET.

DIFFERENCES,

Bho re-

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The Shah of Persia made a man

In view of the danger of this type

INTELLIGENT SUBURBS.

Mr. John Boggan, of the Mid-. dlesex County Council, declares that the people of Hampstead Garden Suburb as slightly more

those Intelligent than

in the average suburb.

Is the-er-Peak after Mr. A.0. --er-Bra-w-n, going to alt down on its bonded knees and allow this to go forth unchallenged. No!

In the sacred name of steak and kidney pudding, the least that can bo done in a protest to the Secre tary of State. Is it cricket?

I know a young woman who has Probably the most popular per enormous eyes and not single idea non in the world, like the most in her head. Her expression is one | beautiful place, is the one nobody of bovine meditation; but she is sees too often. It might perhaps lic nuisance. A restriction of

Artists should rule the world. worked politicians because she gazes things they have dono, providing invariably successful with over-be said that mes are popular for numbers would appear to be de-At least, some artists used to sirable and the correspondence think so.

at thom with impenetrable im-such things are not too spectacular, who spread rufnours about condi- Ministers with pa- mobility and says nothing at all, and women for the things they have tione In South Persia walk a thou- which has appeared in the pub-lettes instead of portfolios, au-True, she cultivates a sense of hu-not done. The person who does aand miles through the territory lic Press from time to time would bassadors with rich baritone mour. Without it she wouldn't be with the utmost enso all the things to see for himself. also suggest that, as far as pos- voices instead of diplomatic so comfortably lazy. After several others liave longed to do and can't sible, dancing establishments of etiquette, directors with batona "coming men" had raved to me is not likely to be overwhelmingly of punishment, spreading, we are

about her brains, I naked this popular. the cabaret type should be re-instead of mere legal authority twenty-years-old Sphinx, who never

not going to say what we were Certainly men get away with M.P.s with dexterous violin bows thought and rarely even listened, auccess better than women.

going to say about certain nightly Pos- moved from residential areas. A instead of ponderous notionshow she managed to say "Yes" or albly because they are

scenes along Chatham Road, those more ac little benches for two.. www number of pertinent points have these would work in concert to "No" at the right moments. customed to it!

Imagine our embezzlement! been submitted. There is a good keep politics up to pitch und deal of truth in the submission nations in harmony. We who a tune are by a Kowloon resident that if he can hardly carry and his friends hired band in. sure we know why the idea never "caught on." But now struments and indulged in

and then it is recalled to atten- orchestration night after night, tion. And sometimes in a way the police would not be overlong to command most serious respect in intervening. At the same for the viewpoint of lenders in time, there is something to be the parts. For instance, much has been brought sald for the argument of the pressure

Arturo

by Toscanini frequenter of "dancing acade-certain musicians who would mies," who pointed out, in con- have him withdraw his promise nexion with one particular estab- to conduct the Wagner Festival lishment and one particular at Bayreuth in the summer. It block of flats, that the cabaret is evidently assumed that such came first, that the tenants a protest against recent racial or political restrictions on mu- should have been well aware that sicians in Germany would exert an orchestra would be playing a desirable influence. And im- right opposite when they assum- mediately this pressure has been ed occupation. Actual the rebuked, kindly but candidly, by noises which cause most annoy- Fritz Kreisler. It is rather ance are not pleasure hoiscs, difficult to see what good pur- pose would be served by making but the unavoidable sounds of Bayreuth a target of reprisal. the night, motor horns and the The Wagner Festival, dear to starting and stopping of buses, the hearts of Germans, is of There are many people, we feel much more than purely national whole world of sure, who are able to sit on their interest: A verandahs and laten with a feel. music lovers looks forward to it. It has become, like Beethoven's ing of enjoyment to the jazz per-symphonies, like the music of formance floating over the air Back and Brahms, an inter- from the opposito" side of the national possession. Those who street, even if they have no de- would allow political considera- sire for a closer acquaintance. tions to interfere with its pro- This particular problem is, in gramme no doubt remind many fact, largely a matter of personal of the fact that Wagner himself was onco a political exile from his homeland.

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HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED

CORRESPONDENCE. Somewhere in Victoria, 1932. To the Superintendent of

Prisons..

Honoured and Dear Sir.

We, the under-aigned, gentle- men of many years' residence upon. your catcomed premises, beg leave to lodge a strong protest against. the noise that has been emanating from the colls of upstart new- comers.

We humbly pray and potition that, to permit us to get Rome alcop at night, the said upstart newcomers be permitted to leave.

It is not reasonable to expect old standing residents such na ourselves to submit to such condi- tions and unless stops are takon to put a stop to the disturbances, we shall be compelled to give notice to quit..

We aro, Dear Sir, etc, etc.