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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933.

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foreign affairs by acting as an in- dependent Foreign Minister in Canton. His political pust and especially his unexplained relu- tions with Japan, made him In- effective at Nanking when, for a brief interval, he held office there, and we can but wonder

Ner-

STILL TOO MANY SEX NOVELS

By CECIL PALMER

The Very Idea!

wack.

nunta, sons, daughters, and other Period furniture.

Obviously, we must return the compliment. Hence the voyage to the United States of the retaliation ship, the .s. Walla Walla, which, until its conversion into a luxury liner, was regularly employed in the service between Hongkong and Kowloon.

SPILLING THE BEANS By Edward Kelly, Tourist. WHEELER and Woolacy are what part he is to play now. An hour ago I finished reading The war has been blamed for

arriving in Hongkong next But the failure of Canton to line the manuscript of a novel sub-most of the ills from which we are up with the Nanking Governmitted to me with a view to Certainly, as a scapegoat. it has suffering at the present time.

Nothing strange about this. ment and to back Wang Ching-publication. Its theme was

Rex rendered inestimable service for Hongkong is always having visits from movie. stars, millionaire wel in implementing the promise abnormality,

those who have sought an cnay of support given two years ago

I have no intention to exagger-explanation of difficult problems. plumbers, millionaire ship-build- imera, millionaire bankers, and other at the so-called Peace Colerate the disquieting symptoms of It is true, no doubt, that an ence between the various

unhealthiness in the literature mense wave of hysterical emotion-millionaires too numerous to men- tions of the Party is far from and drama of to-day, but I do allem swept a large section of the tlen, together with sisters, bro- creditable. On the one sed, state emphatically that the de- civilian population off its balance, there, mothers, fathers, uncles, Canton proclaims its bitterlineation of honest love is in It was markedly so in the case of hostility to Japan and demands danger of becoming a lost art. Iwonica, Perhaps this fact, in a more positive policy from the am old-fashioned enough to hold part, explains the most disquiet- ing feature of the matter we have central government. It crics the view that reticence and re-

Theen

far discussing. By

the out against any possibility of ctitude in a matter of so delicate negotiation. It

the nature as sex are not only desir greater number of "sexy" novels pursues economic boycott energetically, able but preferable to the present published are the work of women tendency to photograph the pri-writers, although it is significant to the extent of persecuting vacies of our bedrooms for public that most of them hide their merchants. On the other hand, exhibition.

idontities behind male pseudo- it sends not one soldier and not

The ebb and flow of love aronyms. one cent of money for the sup- legitimate themes for the creative Those behind the scenes port of those at the front. If. facultien of the artist. His con-publishing will bear me out

kong great. im-this admittedly serious As we understand to be the case, cern is immortality, not the famous XIXth Army is to be morality. Thomas Hardy's "Teas" fouent.

Cantor, and his "Jude" contain more sex |considered apart from then General Chun Chai-tong to the printed page than many a may have some reason for his modern so-called sex novel. But

I defy even the most, prurient BELLS-MUSICAL inaction; in that case the specta-minded render to detect ап "suggestive" line Indecent or cle of disunion in the more dis- tressing. For what does it in nny of mean? Just that even one army which has saliently distinguish ed itself in the national caisia cannot be trusted. It means that its oyes are on the control of Canton, not upon the winning of fresh laurels along the Great

in

in

indict-

AND OTHERWISE

works. Hardy's The artist in him saved him from the grave error of lumping hu- BY CHARLES H. MOODY, manity together as one homogene. ous mass of sex-obsennéd fanatica.

Hongkong Telegraph. Wall and that General Chan pleasant conversation, but soms ed peal is to be re-dedicated to-

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933.

Edward Kelly is privileged to print in advance interviews by the American press with the Hong-

GLOBE-TROTTING GO. GETTERS HOLLYWOOD HANDS HOKUM TO

HONGKONG HOOTCHERS

Edward J. Kelly, well-known writer and Hongkong millionaire, is the most interesting exhibit aboard 8.8. Walla Walla, which berthed this am. with 187 globe trotters from the. Kelly hind mystic orlent aboard. come to the good old United States to tent out the Volstead Amendment.

Yesterday he flew to Hollywood and was met by Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich, and many other movie friends.

Marlene's pants are not so hot, Kelly avers, but he fell for Mary's eyes. "They're like limpid wells," he said poetically, in his vaual original manner. Well, Well, Well

ZIEGFIELD HAS NOTHING ON

A HOT TIME IN THE OLD HOME TOWN TO-NIGHT, is MOTTO OF FAR EAST CITY.

every

"Your New York Follies are a pain

At Ripon the curfew has been sounded continuously from one of OVERWORKED THEME.

the Minister towers for more than There are endless subjects of a thousand years. Ripon's restor never meet amorrow, and once again the so- Chai-tong is Busy warding off individuals can

talking about lemn music of the bells will echo invasion nearer home. The cripple without

Bello, which were introduced to XIXth Army has made slower feet. Misshapen things and the over the rivers and dales.

manifold uglinesses of life at- progress than expected in Fukien tract them with a fatal fascination England from Italy in the seventh and has not been available for akin to the moth's blind ecstasy century, are prehistoric in origin. CANTON AND the further drive against the within the orbi of a lighted globc.The first church bell of which we Reds in Kiangsi. It has been But with this grave difference. have authentic record was placed CHINA'S DISUNITY

paralysed by the local politics Whereas the moth itself is the sole in the tower of Wearmouth Abbey There are Chinese so pessins of the province and, the suspicion victim of its zealous courtship of in 680, and less than a hundred HONGKONG CABARETS, FA-

nrises, by its desire to possess light, its human counterpart is in years later bells were ordered to MOUS TOURIST DECLARES. tic of their country's' prospects itself

carrier and is bo toiled at appointed hours, of Kwangtung. The incipient germ

A peal was installed at Croyland of retaining its independence South-West Political Council may capable of infecting all who come

Abbey in the tenth century, and that they say:

"The end is com-have reason to fear it. If this within range of its malignity.

The exploitation of sex as Afrom that time onwards the ring- ing; let it come quickly." This is true, the more reason then to major theme in novels and plays ing of bells from almost pessimism is not based upon give moral support to Nanking has been griveously overworked. steeple became common. fear of the armies or the navy and accept its direction. In-The assumption that it is impos-

The development of bellringing in the ant's pants," said Edward J. P. of Japan, nor on her power instead of that Canton seizes upon sible to write too frankly is both is due to the vision and fervour of Bragg Bd., Night Club racketeer and the air; nor is it based upon the the proposal of Nanking to hold false and insincere. It is false ecclesiastic in the Middle Ages, across the Pacific last night.

proper place for and it is a curious fact that ring- a Party Conference whose aim because the failure of the League of Na has been described variously as details, of abnormalitics sing "in peal" is, with the excep- got some of the best cabarets in the tions to apply the sanctions of the creation of a dictatorship medical textbook. It is insincere tion of a few "rings" in America world. Say, what Flo Zieglichd wants because those who do not hesitate and the Dominions, peculiar to is a little pep. Introduce the split of the one- the Covenant against Japan. and the abolition

to write indelicately aro

Englund. In the Low Countries, skirt and get the lads all hot and bothered. Why, in Hongkong, we've These factors come rendily to the party system (each with a view aware that if they sald such things where every important belfry has

botter display that these ninnies." mind and the second is constant- to national unity) to crystallise in ordinary human society they from 20 to 65 bells the latter got a Leg. Council that'd put on a

have would be deservedly ostracised.

Antwerp number belonging to its set, opposition. We

J. P. is a member of the Leg. ly urged. But the real reason written with Southern politics There is one reason, and one Cathedral-the bells are either Council, which, it is stated, WRS for pessimism is the continued more in mind. They are indeed reason only, why some authors played mechanically, that is by formed in Hongkong for the purpose of bucking up the night life of the deep internal disunity. The of vital importance. But the cannot resist the temptation to means of a revolving drum, or by

"Some of the boys in the Council Lytton Report emphasised the deep disunion of the country is write down to the sex-obsessed an expert carillonneur, who con- gay city. peril of Communism, a peril to to be seen also in conditions in minority. They think it pays to trols them by hands and feet in would be sure tickled pink to hear

his instrument. The razz" J. P. concluded. be sharply distinguished from Szechuan, in the Mohammedan do so. It may take them a year or the same fashion as an organist that I've given old Ziegfeld the bandit troubles, and even from revolt in Sinkiang and doubtless,two, but certainly not longer, to controle

Water Booster Says That dissension and separation within too, in the difficulty which the learn how griveously they havo usual number of bells in an Eng-

Nanking Government must have erred in their judgment of what lish peal is from six to twelve.

There is something inexpressib. They Don't Need Prohibi- the Kuomintang Party ranks, in taking over Chang Hsueh- the public wants.

ly soothing about ball tunes, and tion in Hongkong. Victor Hugo, in spite of a sleepless because it challenges the whole liang's officers and civil officials, Bystem of government. The Pessimism is certainly justified

night engendered by the carilion Communist forces apparently at this juncture. cannot be bought off. They are

well

millionaire tourist, who arrived frum "Down in 'i ole Hongkong, we've

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BLAMING THE WAR.

in Hongkong The public loves to be thrilled,

tough break, Hiram J. but not thrilled vicariously. The of Mechlin Cathedral, could scrawi noving

"Pussyfoot" Tickle, well-known Hong- render of average intelligence and on the window-pane of his room a

kong prohibition agent, told the average intelligent patron of glowing tribute to the beauty of Ballyhoo Express reporter this morn the theatre are not interested in those old-world chimes. In Eng-ing. Tickie, who derives his sobriquet fighting not for place and power What Children Dream

where

are peoplo About

Authors who land,

un-from the fact that he is at the head neurotic excesses. but for an idea: and though

set out to appease the appetites of accustomed to much music, there of the "Drink Water for Health" much that is dubbed "Com-

What do children dream the hothouse of artificial excite- would be protests against noc-campaign in Hongkong, arrived from munist" is merely local banditry,

about? A Columbia Univer ment, but a time comes when its turnal music, however lovely it the Eant by the tourist ship Walla

atmosphere asphy-might be, but few would object to Walla yesterday. there remains at the centro of

sity psychologist, Dr. Arthur suffocating the movement an orthodox and T. Jersild, decided not long xiates those who have fallen be the carillon during the working racketeers in Hongkong," he said,

hours of the day. devoted nucleus, rigidly organis-ago

to

out. So

Bot

to find

he ed and linked up with Russian interviewed some 400 young- asking them about Sovietiam. This is doubtless the sters, most potent factor in the n- their hopes, their wishes, their tion's disunity. We may think dreams and their fears-and he learned some rather surprising that even this element might things. To begin with, the bulk have called a truce and lined up of childhood's dreams are

Fur- with the government against the happy or pleasant ones. foreign invader: but two reasons thermore, fear plays a big part weighed against this possibility. in these dreams; and this fear usually ignores such actual dan- The Communist Party would

gers as accidents, illness and the have lost its identity, for it could like and deals with ghosts, corp- not trust the government ses, murders and eerie, darksome maintain it: and communism is places where nameless terrors lic not interested in national in- in wait. The realm of childhood terests as such. Its creed ents is a queer sort of place; and al- have been across national divisions and though all of us seeks to establish an internation- through it, we nevertheless have al class affiliation. There are a way of misinterpreting it, and some signs of a possible change our memories of it are not al- in the attitude of the nation to ways very accurate. For a child Communism, but we leave those faces a world which is utterly for the moment to consider other unknown; a world which may but and fundamentally less credit contain bright miracles able elements of disunion in the which also holds plenty of nation to-day. As we see it, shadowy corners where practic- the central government is ally anything can happen. paralysed in its action either There is much in it that a child against Communism or against cannot hope to understand; it la Japan by the implacable opposia world to be explored distrust tion of the South-West Political fully, lest it disclose hurtful Council. No stressing of the things unexpectedly. As wa claim that this organ is a "coun pass out of childhood we forget cil" and not a "government" can about the hobgoblins and rentcm- disguise the fact that it func-ber only the sunny places; wa tions independently of Nanking forget that every enchanted land and frequently in direct op-has its ogres as well as its fairy position to it. It was Mr. princesses. But children know; Eugene Chen, who is now down and we might remember that 'ul- South, who first destroyed the most every child wants, vory unity of the national front in badly, to grow up.

neath its serfdom.

"I'll need a rather large studio, in case I decide to stop writ

ing, and take up music or sculpture.".

"We sure know how to handle these "Our organisation is so complete that it is absolutely impossible for anyone living in Hongkong to obtain a drop. of water during the daytime. If this drought will only keep up, we'll have every racketeer forced out of business in six months,

"Wo control the supply of water in Hongkong, and if wo say the pea- ple are not going to drink---well, they won't! We're up against a pretty tough proposition, because the water runners are allled to the other rac- keteers, the soap and ten gunga, but they can't buck our organisation for long.

ROAD TO RENO NOW 18 ACROSS THE PACIFIC

Ifongkong Reno-Vates Matrimonial Lawa.

"Reno sa back number. Paria is a washout. Go East, young man!"

This is what James J. Patson, one of the prominent passengers aboard the Walla Walla, said to a Frinco Judge rep. last night.

J. J. Is in the taipan business in Hongkong Selling ties and pans he han amassed a fortune that would rival JD's. You've got to hand it to theso Inds from the East. "And am I mortified," said Rockefeller when he heard the nows,

REPORTERS ROASTED

"I DINNA' LIKE YOUR COUN- TRY SAYS SCOTCHMAN.

Robert MacWhirter is not going to TOWA |bo intervlowed by American

reporters if to na any Boy. Inst night when newspapermen tried to Interview him in his multo aboard the Walla Walin ho had them ejected. dinna Like Your Country," sald MacWhirter indignantly. "When ye gle me a hundred cents for my Hong- kong dollar, I may change ma splaiona. This evening, the thlovin' robbers in yon city only offered me 20,"

MacWhirter, who hails from Brut- land, is n ́Scotchman,

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