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NOTES OF THE DAY HOW WE NOVELISTS GET The Very Idea!

themselves

OUR PLOTS

By GILBERT FRANKAU

The discussions which open in Paris to-day with a view to the close collaboration of the League; In development schemes in China

The first answer I can give to from the places and people among may prove of high moment to both the question I am asked almost whom they move. There never China and the world at large. It daily, "Please tell me how ym was a more law-abiding citizen, is algnificant that the sponsors start a book?" is that your true Sabatini, prince of awashbuckling for instance, than Edgar Wallace. mean to confine

to story-teller, like your true poet, is novelists, is a fahing addict. consideration of modernisation born and not made,

Phillipa Oppenheim started life in plans for "certain provinces" be Fersonally, nevertheless, thord the prosale boot-trade, "Supper" cause it has long boon the conten- is no word which offends me more lives quietly in Switzerland, and tion of close observers of the when applied to my own craft than never drinks ale with his break China situation that the best hope the word "inspiration." And how fast.

gladly would I slay the cheerful Yet "Sapper's" "Bull-dog Drum- lunatics who think I'm "so lucky mond" is no more entirely the

thaw was Conan Doyle's "Sherlock

for the country is the establish-

ment of powerful central pro-

because I only have to write when product of his own imagination

No successful novellet has ever Holmes."

No character in fiction is entiru- written like that. Story-telling is just as much a profession asly the product of the writer's own chartered accountancy. And just imagination. Actually, the founda. as hard work..

tion of all good fiction is fact.

One of the beat thrillers I have

vinces, economically and financial-I'm in the mood." ly prosperous, governed directly from Nanking. A strong central nucleus, it is held, is the only foundation from which China as nation develop; attempts to compel acceptance of Nanking's edict throughout the country before this nucleus has been formed will merely add to chaos. There is

much to be said for the contention and hero is reason to belleve that are working the powers-that-be along the lines Indicated by the acceptance of this view.

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OUR PARTY By Eddie Kelly, Host.

You aro cordial. ly invited, entirely at your own risk, to KOUA.C Warmlag and Whoo Deo Party to be held on Friday night.

Bu Ket S up per. Liquid Re- freshments

You

will be provided for those who indulge in such deplorable stuff. Any guests who doubt their host's ability to supply sufficient quanti ties are at perfect liberty to bring hla own EDWARD KELLY

THAT, of course, was the cause of all the trouble.

T

valueless. One does one's fob be read this year is "The Forbidden cause one is driven to do it. And Territory," by Dennis Wheatley, that one of the best driving-forces almost the entire action of which for the novelist is lack of money takes place in Russia. He only We have tried to disown is proven fact.

bet, his story there because Russia that it was our party, but Trollope admitted this frankly was the one place in which the and nearly lost his Victorian pub-Incidents of the story could con- those cards incriminated us. lic in consequence. Dickens, notceivably occur.

We were not sure at the quite so frank nover denied that

time.

of his day,

រឿង

But maybe it was our party after all.

Everybody says we were the host, and anyway, it was us who paid.

At least, we signed the chits. Yes, now we come to think of it, It was our party,

How else can ve account for. those stains on the wall, that din-

MUST BE CONVINCING. he was urged to work by the fear That word "conceivably" of being poor. Scott killed him-vital to every novelist. Whatever self to pay debts. Thackeray was else he is, he must bo`convincing, openly what we moderns would While you are reading him-how- call a "commercial novelist." So over much you may criticise him was Dunas, one of the greatest afterwards you must believe in him. And this bellef of yours is More than a little truth probably story-tellera who ever lived.

PRAISE INSUFFICIENT. only possible when the first idon lies in the suggestion that the

Galsworthy himself-than whom for the story comes from life it countries which are actively in-

not man ever held the craft higher self. China's teresting themselves in

-did not scruple to state that men Any incident, any character, any economic development are more

only wrote for "bread and praise." scene from life itself may give the concerned finally with their own But that public praise alone is story-teller that first idea. The ing room table standing drunken- interests than those of China. not sufficient incentive seems de-first idea for one of the mostly on three logs, the gramophone Political considèrations are possibly monstrated by the fact that no successful stories I ever wrote came records

whose palpitating paramount. Japan's grip upon man with a comfortable unearned from reading, in The Daily Mail, melodies have been hushed for Manchuria, her practical closure of came income has ever succeeded in the news that a fraudulent finan-ever, the broken bottles that lit the Open Door in the four North-becoming the popular story-teller cler had escaped to the Continent, ter the footpath, and the visit of. accompanied by a lady, in an the police force in the weo small SINCLAIR-On 17th July, 1933, at Eastern Provinces, and the steady The highbrow clique is always aeroplane.

hours of the morning? Kowloon Hospital, Captain

late propaganda by certain quarters in cady to scoff at that word "popu- But to imagine, as so many of The old man fa standing on his Arthur Munto Sinclair, Indo-China Steamships. Funeral China in favour of a rapprochement lar." Yet popularity, I maintain, one's readers do, that such hap-head on the wall. Is it because will pass the Monument at with Japan, the creation of a Pan-is the one infallible test of openings are anything more than ho hurt his feet on the broken p.m. to-day.

Asia movement, and therefore ne- great story-teller, who must be the first spark struck from the champagne glasses?

hia flint of one's imagination by the

No one will ever know, we ceptance of Japanese tutelage in essentially of his own time,

steel of circumstance is wrong thought gratefully, Chion, are matters of urgent con- own people, and his own place.

"There's no sich a person" as Your true story-teller gets a hun-

We picked ourself up from the cern in the West.

international novelist. Ab-dred such inspirations every day.

the Englishman from It is in the judicious selection, floor and retrieved a leg from the difference to China what factors Dickens; abstract the Frenchman and in the judicious working-out. window sill.

At least we were whole. · are motivating the interest of im-from Zola; abstract the Russian of these inspirations that the real

Unashamedly we scratched our

Was no reaction. portant Powere in development from Turgenieff, and you abstract craft of the novelist lies.

for self. There. Sinclair Lewis labours the very soul. works. If the chief motive is The need to work apart, how-weeks and months on a working Broken glass fell from the tousled accepted as the preservation of over, what first fires the imagina- scenario before he commits a masses of our hair,

What a party! the freedom of trade, China has tion of the born story-teller? In-single word to paper. And nearly

We threw our memory back to "atmosphere"-the every good novelist has to do the nothing to fear from offers of dubitably

not, like the dim vietns of. the dirty past financial assistance in developing places and the people among same. Our craft is

one moves. Kipling'e poetry, one of pure inspiration. and groaned aloud. No, we could A very brief experience of the her resources, by which alone will whom

Who, for instance, slapped our cabaret curfew hour has re- she be able finally to attain her atmosphere was India; Hardy's It is a blend of inspiration, im- not remember everything? vealed its disastrous effects upon nations.

rightful position in the comity of Wessex"; Compton Mackenzie's-agination, and sheer hard work. a perfectly legitimate business. It is all very fine for the police

Oke

In

the last

Hongkong Telegraph. analysin, however, it makes little stract"

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1938,

A CASE FOR DISCRIMINATION

to point to the complaints re- THE AIRSHIP'S FUTURE ceived from residential districts

new craft,

to

I

4

to whom most of us owe a debt we Good novels nover "write them-face? Why? What did we take?

that are churlish in repaying the selves." When

happens, How much? When? Was our tie university and the public school. when words start tumbling over straight? Did we or did we not?

REAL-LIFE NOVELISTS. one another and get out of con-Say when.

We groaned, and a startled Ford Compton Mackenzie, as a young trol, It means that the self-critical

trail of the function of the novelist-one of leapt from its bearings and tore in justification for insisting upon

novel.

out of around and around our head. The United States apparently man, blazed the

Ste his greatest powers-is a midnight closing hour. No-

"autobiographical"

The boy came fn. A man was one holds any brief for estab- intends to persist in experiments phen MacKenna and Alec Waugh action. He is writing, then, only

with lighter-than-air craft despite fellowed him. Hugh Walpole into please himself.

sleeping on the roof, he reported. lishments which prevent people the, Akron disaster. Members of "Tho Cathedral" also draws from Yet that even this rule has its There was-a-hat-impaled-on tho. from obtaining the sleep and the Congress investigation com-his

own upbringing. So does exceptions I am driven to admit as lamp post and a chit nailed to the, the protection from unnecessary mittee, in their report, urge the Louis Golding. So does Ethel I sit here looking at the first cory door. Was it all right? disturbance to which they are construction of two

We groaned again and the boy entitled. There is a remedy for one to replace the Akron, and one Mannis, whose "Sounding Brass" of my own latest novel which has

Listlessly we took a hand out of this grievance which does not in- to serve the purposes of a training portrays her own first job in an just come in from the printers. fled.

advertising office just as her For that novel dictated itself in volve the bull-at-a-gate method ship. They insist that dirigibles Venetian Windows" demonstrates less than a hundred hours straight our hair and tore open the chit. It was an invitation to a party. the revolving wax of my her inside knowledge of Suburbia. to

although of placing all dancing academies have sufficient military value in the same category and im- justify further expenditure on Nor, if I may be allowed to refer dictaphone. And

their development, a finding which to my own work for a moment, does laboured three whole months try-T was down. posing onerous restrictions upon comes rather as a surprise in the my own "Peter Jackson, Cigar ing to correct it, nearly all my Way out over the eastern horizon, all alike. The city cabarets, face of the evidence. The Akron, Merchant," provide any exception original words seem to have put a drunkon sun lifted itself in a cloud which have afforded harmless the Shenandoah, and the R.101 all

of deshabille and aimed a bloodshot amusement to hundreds of re-sped to disaster as the result of a

oyo, at the course it had run so often sidents, are entitled to favour-fundamental inability to maintain

and would have to run again that day able, discrimination. They are stability in swift vertical currents

if there was going to be any bread in the celestial pantry. well-conducted establishments of air. Carried downwards at an

It wa and fill a need. They are not appalling speed, as swiftly hurled licensed. They do not conflict high into the air as they encounter with the interests of any other ed a reverse current and then the class of business. There is not final plunge over which they the slightest reason for treating had no control, the structures

stand

the failed to

to up them as a social nuisance, even violent strains imposed by this wild if they carry on their frivolities movement at the mercy of the until three o'clock in the mor atmosphere. Nothing mankind ning. They represent the Hong has yet devised is likely to master kong equivalent of the night this problem. Experiments with club, in a mild and innocuous airships of design similar to those form. Similar institutions, with of the past would, therefore, ap- far greater freedoms, are to be pear perilously like risking valu- found all over the British Isles, able lives,

where, except when licensing re-

gulations are infringed, official-

dom does not think of interfer-POLAR PEREGRINATIONS ing. It is, we know, the ten-

alarm

dency of the sanctimonious, of Reports that the north pole is whom very bright specimens can moving towards Greenland por

But the movement is very. be found in the Far East, to look alat. upon each and every attempt to slow and is causing no add to the gaiety of life as the among the Eskimos. Late reports have. reflected no suspicion that foundation of a new sink of the old axle is, likely to break iniquity. But cabarets do not down under the millions of years cater to this type, who form of wear and tear to which, it has Evon ..its their judgments without the been subjected.

slightest verification. The ono "wabbling" may be merely an reasonable grievance against Indication of a losso bearing cabareta in the Colony applies which nature will apoodily repair. Meanwhile the alleged southerly only to those in residential areas. movement of the pole--which It is idle for the police to take couldn't take a trip in any other up the attitude that they can direction if it wanted to is not not discriminato. They both likely to take it unexpectedly Into could and should. Fow would the neighbourhood of the equator. object if cabarets were given in-A billion years or so hence it may structions to remove themselves make a conveniont hatrack for entirely from residential dis-moro. populous. rogions than it Borvca to-day. For the present, tricts. But the midnight clos as Mark Twain once observert ing hour in the city is a blunder, about the weather, there is a good.

cing partners heavily, merely bohaytour, but nobody, seems to be destructly

doing much about it..

themselves back.

to this rule.

Contrariwise, however, there are So perhaps the whole craft la story-tellers who draw from, the one of inspiration, and the ques- roverac of their own tion which begins this article has atmosphere their imaginations only that first answer. urging them to remove themselves I wish I knew.

very

Just like A Flogy

was still dawn.

Only the sentimental 'twittering of crow and the faint call of the bloater to his mate broke the silence. From the elty roso the fragrance of human bodies, wreathing itself up through the air until it reached, the Peak, whore it lay quits still, pre- tonding to be a cloud.

Incidentally it was still only dawn, wo reflected, trying to keep up the. Wordsworth tradition: but wishing that--the ferry would come along.

A coolle appeared from nowhere, reminiscent of the manner in which shroffe confront us on our walks,

Said ho: "There is nothing more divinely touching In its

ite majesty than a vast shoot of water unbroken by the

moni Jou

foul craft of man, do think?"

"

He disappeared as unpleasantly an ho came and we turned a bow-legged gaze across the vast sheet of water.

Slowly at first, like a bashful malden taing a surreptitious bathe, and then more auroly

like a

a pig that has smelt acorns, the graceful form of the ferry shot. Into view.

Five minutes later we were reelin lng at caso, a man who had somehow obtained possession of a policeman's uniform having assisted us aboard." Wo gathered that he did not approve of the Wordsworth cult. There were tears in our eyes as we pushed off for the other side. There is always something pathetic about mon, who go down to the aca in ships."

It was not until an hour later that wa-again stood at the water's edgo while another man who had also found a policeman's uniform, explained to us that we lived on the other side of the water and we had come on' the list Zerry, kje

* across,

We pointed defiäntly-to: tho✨ san whose faded orb was now fully visibla

the naked eye,

to

The man took off our smoked