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WORLD CRISIS

A WAY OUT

By FREDERICK COPE, A.M.I.E.E.

Mr. Cope's striking articles on the world economic crisis which were recently published in the Hongkong Telegraph are now available in pamphlet form.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.

NORDIC RACE NEW YORK STOCK

NONSENSE

BERNARD SHAW'S

LATEST

BLONDE BEASTS

OR BOSSES

Editor,

EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S MARKET

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DAKUWAQA - THE -SHARK - GOD OF FIJI

the

CINEMA SCREENINGS from a diamond merchant.

Kang of

Anal

The filming of "Bityscraper Souls" entailed a great deal of technical and engineering work to supplemont the NOTES SUPPLIED BY

routine structural detalls usually ex- THE THEATRES

ecated by the art and construction de-. (Continued from Page 5.)

partments of the studio. Sets In The recent uncovering of a large many instances are of a more durable. minor chief sent in a report to the STEADY

Native Department of how a Fillan, organized auio-theft ring in northern nature than usual, and the camera sald to have been the inspiration for ling cranes porambulators and other According to Messrs. Swan, Cul- naked and exhausted had landed on New Jersey, near New York City, in department designed special travel

the beach in front of his village and

"To-night is Ourn". and Feltz, the New York related to him. the following story. the story of "The Devil Is Driving," devices for lifting the cameras. market was steady yesterday. Busi", with two other Fijians, an In- drama which opens to-morrow at the

all Queen's Theatro. Edmund Lowe, Winning honours is nothing now wo dlan and the European dono 3,120,000 shares. The

Is- Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Luis for Frederic March, who recently was Wall Street Journal report on yeater worked for, set out fro

land of Taviuni in a nailing boat for Wilson, Dickie Moore and Allan given the highest that the motion day's market:

Dinehart play leading roles in the picture industry hina within its power. to bestow-the award of the Academy President Iteosevelt's order per Vanua Levu, and when alx or seven mitting the export of newly mined miles off shore the boat was struck picture,

The flu centres around

of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gold turned a sinking market into a by a sudden squall and heeled over,

car thieves, who use an apparently for the best performance of the year. bull movement near the closo, clog and sunk immediately. The Indian

costing shorts went down first and soon afterwards legitimate garage as a contre of their life's been acquiring one honour after ging tickers and The Shanghat Times.

Goldmining

March plays the role in "To-night Sir, I would like to vonture to millions of dollars.

A similar racket was worked by the is Ours," adaptation of a play by who also authored suggest that the enclosed copy of | sharos rose sennationally with Home the European threw up his arms and offorty To it thov drive stolen cars, the other over since he started school.

of the list on to the reef but after a while we

got separated and I never any the Jersey gang. A garage was the con- Noel Coward, a letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw to stake jumping 15 points to a level of disappeared. We three Fijians awam robuild them, and resell thes

300. The remainder Dr. Franz Hatser is of sufficient followed the advance recouping losses others again. I swam on and ou, tre of their efforts, too. Stolen cars Private Lives. The picture, direct- Interest to justify the further which in some instances were seven but the rough seas broke in my face were driven into it. The manager, aed by Stuart Walker, has its publicity of your columns. I may points. Our New York Office cable and the hot sun was right overhead, member of the gang, presented the showings at the Queen's Theatro to-

and I was beginning to feel very usual identification ticket to the dri- (This

leading feminine role. add that Dr. Halser is an eminent!

morning).

"Best of Enemies" Austrian sympathizer with the Nazi idea in Germany but one who, Stocks: Midday reaction technical. tired, when two pilot fah awam past vors, who then dissappeared. After 80/day with Claudette Colbert In the Closing rally was due to plans for me, and I gave myself up for lost, days, the manager exercised his legal

Buddy Rogers sat in his dressing strong for en looking back over my shoulder right to sell the ears for some lurking gold market, Rails were a has evidently had

But he slipped up. He forgot that room at Fox Movietone City and told doubt in regard

to the ruthless feature with utilities acting better. I saw an immense shark following me. That's where the gang took its profit.

of the greatest disappointment of his Buying is recommended on reactions. Instead of eating me he dived bo methods of its administration. wheat: The market declined on tween my legs and lifted me on his the law compels garage managers to life. It was when he first came to

and back. I know it was Dakuwaga. report the fact that cars have been Hence presumably hle request to

by tired holders

two Buccessful pictures-so UCCOBE Mr. Bernard Shaw for an exprea-

nion

In stocks and securities,

wo were close to the reef, when he a lengthy period. The police have the ful, in fact, that Jesse L. Lasky had throw me inshore clear of the surf, privilege of checking up on such cars, wired him to come to New York to sion of opinion, knowing no doubt There is no neve, to account for Itna swam on still carrying me until left unclaimed on their promises for Hollywood, and after he had made that Mr. Shaw is never backward and regardless of market

beon reported stolen, before purch, Cotton: Early and I managed to crawl up on the to find out whether or not they have attend a banquet.

I was sitting on top of the world In these matters! Mr. Shaw's ad- favour

by casiness of beach."

garage Bella them. mission that there is no such thing liquidation

and sterling and also

ANOTHER STORY.

Because of the slip; the whole gang when that train pulled out of Holly- 28 a Superman is also interesting stocks, grains stimate by pro-

increased

use me in 'Old Ironsides' and Herbert and may be useful for futura re-minent private agency. The market,

сгор

Another story of the Shark God is now thinking the matter over in wood. James Craze was planning to

Jail

in Brenon had all but promised me the ticker

Edmund Lowe, central figuro however, recovered later on INTERESTED.

report of the Treasury's decision to was related many years ago by an Shanghai, August 24, 1933. Dear Dr. Halser,Do not waste allow export and sale of newly mined elderly native to Mr. Colman Wall as | The Devil Is Driving" is cast as unloading role in 'Beau Gesto'. I. was the follows:-"Many years ago, long easy-going, wise-cracking mechanle, a green kid from the country, just trend Silver: The

aspects of the and your time on this pseudo-Nietzat is indefinite on the Pro. fore annexation I was captain of a

until the gang proves "Say, was I riding on air! I could Nordic sident's good announcement. Higher cutter belonging to a European who who pays little attention to the illegal an ordinary appleknocker, but two race. There is no such thing as prices are expected to-morrow. Our lived in the island of Taviuni,, That is, he do gangs operations. great directors were making a funs

cable (Last Night), there in bui.little mangrove there; responsible for the serious injury of

One of the features, repaying study, is the close similarity between the plan of reform suggested by this local writer, and certain aspects of the Roosevelt recovery programme. The author's ideas are naturally far too advanced for active promotion at the present, time, but they are particularly Interesting In view of the fact that President Roosevelt, in striking out on a path of his own, has travelled in the samo direction.

The pamphlet is one of forty-four pages and obe obtained from the South China Morning Post at a cost ---

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South China Morning Post, Ltd.

Hongkong.

·Please send me for which

ples of "World Crisis--A Way Out'

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Address

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chean nonsense about. a

the Nordic race; and very soon there will bo no such thing as a rare la the world except the race of the greyhound after the electric hare. Leave all that to the roman tic and ignorant Americans, who

and six feet high.

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action

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Then, as the train rushed across praitica of my native state, on the Recond day out, I received a see-

A thumbnail portrait of Ronald and telegram. It was from Brenon

to the

New York Oillee

he sent me over to the large teland Stocks: The market is not as re-

a showdown into my car calling telegram for Mr. Rogers', It was from Cruze and Then, Lowe.

assisted by Wynne; sponsive to overnight decline in the of Vanua Levu to cut some for fire- his young nephew, and later for the feel my head getting bigger and big-

and vo cut down the trees and loaded who had demanded to

rampage that it read 'Sorry, but I've selected Char- dollar as it was to yesterday's a wood. So I took some boys with me, brutal murder of the boy's father, ger when the train stenographer como

Rail coordinator vance.

MYC the beat. Towards nightfall when the

There

film to breathicsa, les Farrell, Was I shocked?. Not brings the increase equipment buying

work was finished we anchored the Gibson, goes on a

o bit. That meant I was going to that play The Beau' for Drenon and of an increase rumors aro

And had supper. After our meal, we

"Cynara"

was the role I really wanted. happen to be, like myself, blonde cigarette prices, Wheat: Liverpoolsel in deep water and went ashore dramatic climax.

action

colorless. The weakness of

"An Englishman who looks like an sterling affected new buyers. Argen- prepared some (Yangona) kava and

created apprehension. aut round the (Tanda) kava bor) the Italian, talks like an American and tinn Nows generally bulllah but the market people of the district had turned in built like an Indian," locks leadership. Purchases advised Christian and the old temple

and read: Have decided on Ronald Dakuwaga was in ruins, his priest Colman, returning again still lived in the town, and still be screen of the King's Theatre to-day Colman for "The Beau"! Say, I was

I

slipped through the to stop singing as the God did drawn by his closest friend, Richard below sea level.

after Bartholmess.

Kansas City, hiding out until not like noisea in the town

describe the famous star in train started for Chicago, only laughed and the

"Heavy of heart I returned to dark to sing louder, which they uld; seventeen rids infamous star

no Hollywoou to learn that instead of and the priest sent us another mes complete a portrait as this is sage saying we would be sorry in the mean font. Colman himself likes to getting my walking papers I had

feel that he is a cosmopolitan. Eng boen cast for the lead in Wings", morning.

"Wings" but Clara Bow made Iish traditions are deeply imbedded in his nature and colour his outlook "Wings" made Buddy Rogers

Rogers latest is the featured zolo

on declines.

ard to the old gods. He sent usin King. Vidor's "Cynara," is thus so low that I was a thousand fect

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LEADERS OF MEN. What there is, and probably always will be during one epoch, Is the solid fact that out of every hundred persons only Ave at most

Dow-Jones averages: will be capable of making decisions and giving directions. Whether

30 Industrials the five are called Nordics, or 20 Rails blonde beasts, or simply bosses, 20 Utilities does not matter a scrap. In Ire-40 Bonds land my family called themselves Alaska June au "the Shaws" (as who would say Mining Co... "the Hohenzollerns"), but they Allied Chemical &

Dye..... contained the full normal percent- age of human rank-and-file. It is American Can pleasant for Hans and Fritz to Amorican imagine themselves Allerhochste, because they have flaxen hair and blue eyes; but most of them are being ordered about by hooknosed

Tel Hittites and blonde Philistines whose ancestors came from the American south, not of the Baltic, but of the

American Dead Sea,

works I have

taught "the Anaconda Copper never biological gospel of a new race-Atlas Corporation aristocracy. My contempt for Auburn Automobile. that disguise of simple snobbery Baltimore & Ohio is unbounded. I have declared Bethlehem Steel

a Borden Company steadily that what we need is

Warner scientific test of human capacity (not of ability to pass examina- tlonis) and the classification'

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Until auch a test is discovered we must insist on absolute equality of income, Without this fron basis real eminence has no chance of asserting or developing itself except by the rarest of strokes of luck. This is the secret of the importance and final Indispen- sability of Socialism.

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There is no such thing LA Superman. There are super mathematicians like Einstein, and super playwrights like myself; but they are bungling amateura in a Gold Dust dozen other departments of human Goodyear Tyro &

Rubber netivity. In the theatre I am my

Internationa] the chauffeur'a master; but in

write Cement garage he is mine. You

International Har- English better than 999 out of

vester every 1,000 educated Englishmen: International Nickel 21 but in China, probably you would International Tel. &

Tel. be the slave of an interpreter.

Wo shall never learn anything Johns Manville about the arts of government Kennecott Copper from writers like Marx and Lehman Corporation Liggett & Mycin Nietzsche, who Rover had to govern anyone or adminster a vote Loow'e Inc. ... or a revenue. Lenin had very goon Lorillard :P... to tell his fellow-apostles of Marxism that there was not a clerk with ten years office experience who did not know more than they about practical business. It was my six years experience as municipal counsellor that enabled me to understand history. I know barely enough Gorman to under- stand the titles of your books, and nothing on earth would induce me to read one of them, though your letter is amusing enough to oxtract this answer from me on a very wet day in Strean. Thank you for

Faithfully,

It.

G. BERNARD SHAW.

NEW MINISTERS. NANKING APPOINTS TWO ENVOYS

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Now at dawn we went aboard hoisted the mainsail, and tried lift the anchor but could not. So

80

on life, but his intellect leans sharply to internationalism.

In which he plays

ys opposite Marian In his own care, Colman has so far in the Fox film, "Best of Enemies", I stripped and dived down to see what

to the King's Thea heared the bottom was wrong, but as

Baw a great snake coiled round the declined to make an artificial gesturo Nixon. It comes to the

open jaws awaiting toward American naturalisation. Ho tre next Sunday.

"Laughter in Hell" chain with his

Aces no point in it in his own case. If there is a reason strong enough

Jim Tully, whose latest realistic me, and being afraid I got back on sly. We tried to release board quickly,

then it is the thing to do, he says. the anchor but it was useless But Colman has a deep respect and drama, "Laughter in Hell" has been

of the singing of the last remembering night before I went down into the cabin and cut off two fathoms of new cloth and sent it ashore to the priest, asking that the god might be of good mind to us. When the priest had taken-the-cloth, he told the messenger to go back on board as the god was no longer angry. We then made another effort to lift the anchor chain and it came in hand over hand, and so we hoisted the jib and sailed home."

BOAT CARRIED AWAY BY

SHARK.

On another occasion in the same region a Fijian was sailing his canos with savoral friends when aquell arose and the caneo was in dificulties. The Fijian captain prayed to Daku that on safe ar wage and promised the the Shark rival ashore he

an intelligent love for his homeland. I screened by Universal, and now play- most picturesque figures in He was born in England, educated ing at the Central Theatre is one of

in the American literature.

The stacky, red-headed Irishman, there, spent his boyhood and his youth the

not things, World War these

from a vagrant prize fighter almost there, and fought for her easily-brushed aside by the simple overnight became one of America's gesturs of

Kro

of-naturalisation,

the

Д

If a sculptor should seek a model most widely discussed nuthors and

wood.

Born in St. Mary's Ohio, Tully spent cosmopolitan sense, Ronald Colman for the ideal man of the world in the the most searching analyst of Holly- would come as close to it as possible in a world that is getting so scrambled muels of his youth in an orphanage, that it is almost impossible to tell the growing up to learn and understand people whom he later described in his Beggars of Life": Living as parsley from the green onions,

Soul" "Skyscraper

"hobo" for years he secured the The one-hundred-and-two-storey frat hand knowledge of the poverty building conceived by Director Edgar classes which his books deal with. will be screened at the Orlental couragement in Hollywood, and his Selwyn for "Skyscraper Souls", which Rupert Hughes gave him his first on- Theatre to-day and Thursday, con-protege proceeded to startis the liter tains all the features found in the ary world with his "Jarnegan," bo- modern skyscraper. All the action in fore turning to writing for

Circus Paradestrangers mendous steel the new nim takes place in this tre-screen.

"Passing structure. Selwyn gars of Life",

|

the

"Beg

and

first shows the separate dramas tak- and "Way of a Sailor" have placed.

of the him in the van of screen writers, anding place in various parts

the his colourful style have made Tully buliding-schemos, intrigues,

of men and women for and the highest paid interviewer of pic- cach other then suddenly ho tare stars. He has also appeared as

God a liberal offering of Kava and Fill Fiji pudding made of arrowroot and bananas. On safely coming out of ripo the squall and arriving at their des tination for the night a native brought

the sailors a present of some food them in ono-all-embracing an actor in sovoral plays, including his

One of the captain's companions said dramatic climax,

to him "Now is your chance to fulfil

In the

own Way of a Sailor with. John the basement of the skyscraper Gnbert.

"Laughter in Hell" which, tells the your promise to Dakawaqa." He re- plied that he was hungry and saldare Roman baths. The ground floor

houses a bank, a drug store, smart true story of the chain gange, is ole-based upon first hand information, and He may be your God he is certainly

shops. Taking une of many not mine." So he ate the padding vators to the upper levels, one may is said to be the most searchingly and drunk the kava and at cock crow

alight at a stock broker's office to realistic thing Tully has ever done. ascertain the latest stock market Pat O'Brien, Merna Kennedy, Gloria made ready and started.

quotations, and continue to his office Stuart, Tom Brown and Berton after first stopping at another Roor Churchill are featured. in the power

pome plece of jewellery ful picture.

When passing Benau Island about a mile off in the early dawn suddenly the great shark Dakawaqa appeared and struck the bow of the boat. At first the captain thought it was A shallow patch they had struck but on and looking to port On looking astern starboard there was deep water.

they saw the great shark's head while his tail stretched a fathom past the

boy and the boat scomed to rest or his back. The shark took a turn round and came back with his head

to the bow right under the boat, and turning belly up he grasped the boat with his fins, and swept the vessel across the straits for nearly ten miles, and turned round and proceeded to pull the boat back to its starting place. At length towards sundown the old captain prayed to the god "Do as your will with those strangers who do not bolleve in you, but let me, who am one of your own people go mahore in the boat in safety and I will promiso you a root of kuva". This prayor saved the situation for the shark let go of the boat and swam away. On arrival ashore the captain obtained a kave root and gave it to an old man to throw into the ser..

the Shark Stories and legends of the God's adventures with Fijians "are

numerous thoughout the Fills and extend to neighbouring Islands of Rotumah, Bamba And Tongs, they al soom to accentuate the char acteristic of the shark's partiality to those who profess to believe that lif him, repoter a spirit who can pros toct the lives of sailors of the deep,

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