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NORDIC RACE NONSENSE

BERNARD SHAW'S LATEST

BLONDE BEASTS OR BOSSES

Editor,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DAKUWAQA THE

·SHARK GOD OF FIJI

(Continued from Pago 0.)

minor chlef rent in a report to the Native Department of how a Fijian, naked and exhausted bad landed on the beach in front of his village and related to him the following story, "I, with two other Fijlans, an In- dian and the European we nil worked for, set out from the Is land of Taviuni in a sailing boat for Vanua Levu, and when six or seven miles off shore the boat was struck The Shanghai Times.

by a sudden squall and -heeled over, Sir, I would like to vonture to suggest that the enclosed copy of went down first and soon afterwards and sunk immediately. The Indian a letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw to Dr. Franz Halsor is of sufficient the European threw up his, arms and Interest to justify the further appeared. We three Fijiana swan publicity of your columns. I may on to the reef but after a while we add that Dr. Haiser is an eminent get separated and I never saw the Austrian sympathiser with the others again. I swam on and Naz! idea in Gormany but one who but the rough seas broke in my face on, has evidently had some lurking and the hot sun was right overhead, doubt in regard to the ruthless and I was beginning to feel very methods of its administration. tired, when two pilot dili sam past Henco presumably his request to

me, and I gave myself up for lost, Mr. Bernard Shaw for an expres-

for on looking back over my shoulder shark following me. tween my legs and lifted me on his back. I know it He swam on still carrying me until Dakuwaga we were close to the reef, when he threw mo Inahore clear of the aurf, and I managed to crawl up on the beach."

CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

organized auto-theft ring in northern The recent uncovering of a large Now Jersey, near New York City, in sald to, have been the inspiration for the story of "The Dovil Is Driving," dram which opens tomorrow at the

con's

Theatre. Edmund Lowe, Wilson, Dickie Moore and Allan Gibson, Janics Glenson, Luis Dinchart play leading roles in the picture.

for

the

sion of opinion, knowing no doubt I saw an immg me he dive a lengthy period. The police have the

that Mr. Shaw is never backward In these matters! Mr. Shaw'a ad- mission that there is no such thing a u Superman is also interesting and may be useful for future re- cord,

race.

INTERESTED.

Shanghai, August 24, 1933. Dear Dr. Halser,--Do not waste your time on this peeudo-Nietzs- chean nonsense about 11 Nordic There is no such thing as the Nordle race; and very aоOD there will be no such thing as a rare in the world except the race of the greyhound after the electric hare. Leave all that to the roman- tic and ignorant Americans, who happen to be, like myself, blonde and six feet high.

Instead of

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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 30, 1933.

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The Al centres around a gang of car thieves, who use an apparently October efforts. To it they drive stolen cars, January legitimate garage as a centre of their December rebuild them, and resell them.

March A sinlar

racket

WAB worked by the May were driven into it. The manager, gang. A garage was tre of their efforts, too. Stolen cars Spot cen July member of the gang, presented the usual identifleation ticket to the dri days, the manager exercised his legal Sept. vers, who then dissappeared. After 30

That's where the gang took Ita profit. Dec. right to sell the cars storage. Oct. the law compels garage managers to But he slipped up. He forgot that report the fact that cars have been

May left unclaimed on their premises for privilege of checking up on such cars, September to and out whether or not they have December heen reported garage sells them.

stolen, before the March Because of the slip, the whole gang is now thinking the matter over in juil.

Edmund Lowe, central figure In ANOTHER STORY,

"The Dovi! Is Driving" is cast as an Another story of the Shark God who pays little attention to the illegal easy-going, wine-cracking mechanie, was related many years ago by an aspects of the gang's elderly native to Mr. Colman Wall an That is, he does until the gang proves operations. follows: "Many years ago, long be- responsible for the serious injury of Paris fore annexation I was captain of a his young nephew, and later for the Geneva, lived in the island of cutter belonging to a Tovluni, and who had demanded

who brutal murder of the boy's father, Berlin as there is but little mangrove there, Then,

a showdown.Helsingfors. he sent me over to the large inlnud Gilson, goes on

Lowe,

Assisted by Wynne Oslo of Vanut Levu to cut some for fre- brings

rampage that Athens wood. So I took some boys with

the film to . breathless, Milan dramatic elinsax. and we cut down the trees and loaded me,

Buenos Aires the boat. Towards nightfall when the

"CyBara"

Shanghel, work was finished wo anchored the

"An Englishman who looks like an Amsterdam.

New York vessel in deep water and went ashore Italian, talks like an American and Vienna What there is, and probably and had supper. After our meal, we

is built like an Indian.' always will be during one epoch, prepared some Yangona) kava am! A thumbnail portrait

Prague is the solid fact that out of every sut round the (Tanda) kava bow!

of Ronald Madrid hundred persona only five at most commenced to sing. Now though the screen of the King's Theatre to-day longkong.

Colinan,

returning again to the Bucharest will be capable of making decisions people of the district Kad turned in King Vidor's "Cynara," is thus Brussels. and giving directions. Whether Christian and the old temple of drawn by his closest friend, Richard Stockholni the five are called Nordics, or still lived in the town, and still be-

Dakuwaga

ruins, his priest Bartholmess. was in blonde beasts, or simply bosses, lieved in the old gods. He sent us seventeen words and to achieve

The describe the famous star in Bombay

Lisbon does not matter a scrap. In Ire-word to stop singing as the God did complete a portrait as this

so Yokohama and my family called themselves not like noiser in the town after mean feat, Colman himself likes to Montreal

no Montevideo "the Shawa" (as who would say boys to sing louder, which they did, lish traditions are deeply imbedded Silver (forward) 17.15/16

dark. I only Inughed and told the feel that he is a cosmopolitan. Eng- Silver (spot) "the Hohenzollerna"), but they contained the full normal percent and the priest. sent on another mesin his nature and colour his outlook War Loan. age of human rank-and-file. It is sage saying we would be sorry in the on life, but his intellect lenna sharply pleasant for Hans and Fritz to

morning.

to internationalism, Imagine themselves Allerhochsts, because they have flaxen hair and blue eyes; but most of them are being ordered about by hooknosed Hittites and blonde Philistines whose ancestors came from the south, not of the Baltic, but of the Dead Sea.

LEADERS OF MEN.

and

Now at dawn we went aboard and declined to make an artificial gesture In his own case, Colman has so far holsted

So

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FROM THE STUDIO

4.30-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pro- Kramme.

7-10.30 p.m. European programme. 7-7.17 p.m.

Capriccio Italfen (Italian Caprice)

Tschaikowsky, Op. 46).

Leopold Stokowski and the Phila- delphia Orchestra. 6049/50 7.17-8.20 p.m. Variety.

7.17-8.20

8.D.M.

(Local Time and Weather Report), Orchestral Honolulu. Moon. Orchestral lawaiian Dreams, Hio Hawailan Orchestra. Plano Solo-You've Got me

Crying Again.

B2497.

Piano Solo-Hallelujals, I'm a Tramp

Medley.

Rale da Costa. 4463. Orchestral-I'm Playing with Fire. Orchestral-Sittin' in the Dark.

Johp Jackson and His Orchestra.. B0322, Humorous Song-Foolish Facts. Humorous Song-What Kind of a

Nolae Annoys an Oysler?

Frank Crumit. B3980. Orchestral-The Church Bells

Chiming. Orchestral-Spanish Gypsy Dance.

Marek Weber and His Orch, B0283. Vocal Trio-Somebody Loves You. Vocal Trio-Too Many Tears.

The Pickens Sisters. 22066. Orchestral-You Will Remember

Vienna. Orheatral-I Bring'n Love Song,

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Leo Reisman and His Orch. B5944. Song-Lover of my Dreams.

Noel Coward

Orchestral-Twentieth Century

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New Mayfair Novelty Orch. 04001. Orchestral Smile, Darn Ya, Smile. 4.54 Orchestral-I'm Crazy 'Bout my Baby. Snooka and His Memphis

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British Wiretean.

8.20.9 p.m.

Concert Waltzes.

Stompera. 22602,

Estudiantina (Waldtoufel). The Skaters (Waldteufel).

International Concert Orch, 15798. 106 Unrequited Love (Lincke). 1/6.1/16

My Hero (Straus). 1/2.5/10

3514

the mainsail, and tried to toward American naturalisation. He WATER POLO VICTORY.

If there is a reason strong enough Hees no point in it in ble own case. then it

-ne

nol

Area Competition..

ARTILLERY OUTPLAYED.

lift the anchor but could not I stripped and dived down to see what was wrong, but as I neared the bottom saw a great snake colled round the

is the thing to do, he says South Wales Borderers Win But Colman has a deep respect and chain with his open laws awaiting an intelligent love for his homeland. me, and being afraid I got back on

He was born in England, educated board quickly. We tried to release there, spent his boyhood and his youth I have never taught "the the anchor but it was useless so ab there, and fought for her in the biological gospol of a new race inst remembering the singing of the World War-these aristocracy." My contempt for night before I

are things went down into the easily hrushed naide by the simple that disguise of simple snobbery cabin-and-cut-off-two-fathoms of gesture of naturalisation. la unbounded. I have declared new cloth and sent it ashore to the steadily that what we need is a priest, asking that the god might be for the ideal man of the world in the If a sculptor should seek a model selentine test of human capacity of a good mind to us. When the cosmopolitan sense, Ronald Colmian (not of ability to pass examina- priest had taken the cloth he told would come as close to it as possible tlons) and the classification

the messenger to go back on board as in a world that is getting so scrambled citizens into grades, the choice of then made another effort to lift the parsley from the green onions,

the god was no longer angry. We

that it in almost impossible to tell the rulers by the popular vote, or of anchor chain and it came in hand Cabinets by Parliament, being over hund, and so we hoisted the jib limited to members of the appro: and sailed home." priate grades.

NO SUPERMEN.

BOAT CARRIED AWAY BY SHARK.

for the night a native des

the

one of many sle-

The final of the Units Knock Out by the Hongkong Arca Sports Board Water Polo Competition, organised was played at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday.

International Concert Orh. C1838. Wine, Women and Song (Strauss). Moonlight on the Alster (Fetras).

Marek Weber and His Orch., C1407. My Darling Waltz (Strauss),

Berlin State Opera Orch. C1942. Danube Waves (Ivanovici).

Artist's Life (Strauss).

Marek Weber and His Orch. C2207. 9-9.30 p.m.in

From the Studio.

Selections by the Melody Team.

p.m.

9.30-9.45

Aldershot Command Searchlight

Tatto-1982.

Played by The Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command. C2437/C2438. 9.15-10.30 p.m. A relay from Daventry of the recorded Dance Music followed by a Planoforte Recital by Cocil Dixon and the Bournemouth Municipal Or. chestra conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey. and Mr. Gerald Crawford. Livio Mannucci (Violoncello) Relayed.

(This relay will be continued to factory).

p.m. should reception prove autis-

11

Royal Artillery and routed them by The South Wales Borderers mot the

10.30-11 p.m. six goal to nii. At half time the

To-day's 10 a.m. winners had scored three goals with and Commodity Quotations as recoly- Opening Stock whelming play after the resumption. Culbertson and Fritz. out reply, and continued their over-ed from New York by Messrs. Swan,

chair.

tory.

League Match.

game

The

10.30-11 p.m. Close Down

All records in the above European by Messrs. S. Moutrie and Co. local programmes are kindly supplied

"Skyscraper Souls" The one-hundred-and-two-storey building conceived by Director Edgar Until such n teat is discovered

Selwyn for "Skyscraper Souls", which wo must insist on absolute equality

will be screened at. the Oriental of income. Without this iron

Theatro to-day and Thursday, con- On another occasion in the same tains all the features found in the Small Units by 4-0 in a water pole The Lincoln Regiment defeated the basia real eminence has no chance region a Fijian was sailing his cance modern skyscraper. All the artion in league of asserting or developing itself with several friends when a squall the new film takes place in this treY.M.C.A. except by the rarest of strokes of arose and the canoe was in difficulties, mendous

yesterday at the luck. This In the accret of the The Fijian captain prayed to Daku- first shows the separate dramas tok

stect structure: Selwyn importance and final indispen- waqa and promised that on

ing at the Central Theatre la one of sability of Socialism.

on safe ar- ing place in various paris of the

the rival ashore

nost picturesque figures would give the Shark building-schomes, he

intrigues,

The fortnightly. meeting of the

in American literature. God a liberal offering of Kava and striving of men and women for and Sanitary Board was held yesterday

The stocky, red-headed Irishman, of arrowroot and against each other-then suddenly he afternoon in the Board Itoom with Mr. from a vagrant prize fighter alnion Fill pudding madu There is no such thing as

aripe bananas. On safely coming out of enmeshes them in one-all-embracing. Megarry, the President, in the overnight became one of Anterica's Superman. There arc

super the squall and arriving at their dramatic climax. mathematiciana like Einstein, and the food. ara Roman baths. The ground floor Mnckichan, Mr. C. J. Roo, secretary,B

tination for

Others present were the Hon. Most widely discussed authors and In the basement of the skyscraper Mr. A. G. W. Tickle, Vice-President, the most searching analyst of Holly- super playwrights like myself; but One of the captain's companions gold houses a bank, a drug store, smart and Mr. Ng Mui-kal, assistant scere inuch of his youth in an orphanage,

Dr. G. W. Pope, M. O. II., Mr. A. wood.

. S. they are bungling amateura in a to him "Now is your chance to fulfill shops. Taking

-Born in St. Mary's Ohio, Tully spent dozen other departments of human your promise to Dakawaqa. He ro- vators to the upper levels, one may activity. In the theatre I am my plied that he was hungry and said alight at a stock broker's office to formal.

business was purely growing up to learn and understand chauffeur's minster; but in the "He may be your God he la certainly ascertain the latest stock market

the beggars of Life": Living na whom he later described. garage he is mine.

in his You write not mine." So he ate the pudding

quotations, and continue to his office out and drunk the kava and at cock crow after first stopping at another floor wood. James Cruze was planning to classes which his books, deal with.

A "hobo" English better than 900

for years

he secured the Brat hand knowledge of the poverty every 1,000 educated Englishmen made ready and started.

to purchase some plece of jewellery uns me in 'Old Ironsides' and Herbert Ruport Hughes gave him his first en- but in China, probably you would

from be the slave of an interpreter.

When passing Benau Island about a mile off in the early dawn suddenly entailed a great deal of technical and a green kid from the country,, just ary world with his "Jarnegan," bo Brenon had all but promised me the couragement in Hollywood, and Hils. The filming of "Skyscraper Souls" leading role in Beau Gente. I was protege proceeded to startle the liter- We shall never learn anything the great shark Dakawngs appeared, from writera like Marx and first the captain thought it was accuted by the art and construction de over me.

structural details usually ex-great directors were making a fuse screen. Nietzsche, who never had to allow patch they had struck but on partments of the studio. Sots govern anyone or adminster a vote

looking to

port

and starboard there many instances are of

gars of Life", was deep water. On looking astern nature than usual, and the camera feel my head getting bigger and big-hia colourful style have made Tully or a revenue. Lenin had very soon

"Say, was I riding on air I could him in the van of more durable

and "Way of n to tell his fellow-apostles of his tail the great shark's head whita department designed special travolger when the train stenographer camo the highest paid interviewer of pic- Marxism that thero was not a clerk and the boat seemed to rest in devices for Perambulators and other into my car calling 'telegram forture stors. He has also appeared, as

stretched fathom past ling crainen

tho with ten years office experience his back. The shark took a turn

ifting the cameras.

Mr. Rogers'.

It was from Cruze and an actor in overal plays, including his who did not know more than they round and came back with his hond

"To-night is Ouṛa” about practical business. It was to the bow right under the boat, and

it read 'Sorry, but I've selected Char own "Way of a Bailor with John les Farroll Wax I. shocked? Not Winning honours. Is nothing now bit. That meant I was going to my six years experiencs de municipal counsellor that enabled with his Ans, and pod the boat for Frederic Mareb, who recently was pay The Beau' for Bronon and that true story of the chain gangs, is.

a turning bolly

Gilbert. up ho

"Laughter in Hell" which tells the m to understand history. I know across the strails for nearly ten miles, to bestow-the award of the Academy the prairies of my native state, an realistic thing. Tully has bver done. wapt the vessel given, the highest that the motion was the role I

picture industry las within its power

really wanted. and turned round and

as the train rushed across is said to be the most searchingly barely enough Gorman to under-

based upon first hand information, and and proceeded to 'stand the titles of your books, and I pull the boat back to its starting pince,/ of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the second day aut, I received a soc-Pat O'Brien.. Merna Kennedy, Gloría

At length towards sundown the nothing on earth would induce me contain prayed to the rod "Do as old for the best performance of the year, ond telegram. It was from Brono Stuart, Tom

•

a diamond merchant.

to

about the arts of government and struck the bow of the boat. At routing work to supplement the an ordinary appleknocker, but twofore turning Parade.""

thoy Baw

bow

in

Then

writing for tho the

have placed. writers, and

Drown and Berton

to read one of them, though your will with these strangers who do not tho

He's been acquiring one honour after and read: Have decided on Ronald Churchill are featured in the power-

ever since he started school. Colmas for "The Bonu"! Bay, I was ful picture. latter in amusing enough to extract belleve in you, But lot me, who am

plays

the Marchantation of a play by bolow nen lovol." I slipped through - this answer from mo on a very one of your own people promise | aprivato Lives" The picture, dienos Kansas City,` hiding out until the role in "To-night so low that I was a thousand foot the boat in safety and

ashore in Noel Coward, who I

also authored you a root of kava" This prayor ed by Stuart Walker, has its Anal saved the situation for the shark lot showings at the Queen's Theatre to- Hollywood to learn that instead of go of the boat and swam away. On day with Claudette Colbert in the getting my walking papers I had nerival ashore the captain obtained kava root and gave it to an old man

wet day in Stress. Thank you for

Faithfully.

It'

G. BERNARD SHAW.

rain started for Chiengo.

Heavy of heart I returned to

but

loading feminine role. to throw into the sea,

been cast for the load in Wings" "Best Of Enemlex”

Clara Bow, made-Wings During the work ended August 20. two cases of diphtheria with one Stories and legends of the Shark room at Fox Movietone City and told Rogers latest is the featured role

Buddy, Rogers sat in his dressing "Wings made Buddy Rogers death; 12 cases of typhold (two Im God's adventures with Fijians are of the greatest-disappointment of his in the Fox iflm, Best of Enemies ported) with two deaths, one case of numerous thoughout the Fiji and life. It was when he first came to in which he plays opposite Marian meningitis, and two ea80s of puerperal extend to neighbouring Islands fever with two deaths, were reported Rotumah, Banton and Tonga, they (whiccerful pictures no successra next Sunday

gor Hollywood, and after he had made Nizon. It comes to the King's Thea- the local health authorities. There WV-Dem to accentuate the chars Watclean bill of health in the aetatistic of the shark's partialite Colony on Monday. Deaths from those who profesi to boller that in inberquldar in the Colony last week Him(reposes) a spirit of

Over tect the lives of aniloriket:18-1

to

ful In fact, that Jesse L Lasky had wired him to come to New York; to atrand as bangunan

non ten of the world

“Laughter in Hehe. Jim Tully, whose Jalost realistic

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