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NOTES OF THE DAY IS EARLY MARRIAGE WISE?he Very Idea!.
JEWISH BOYCOTT
The adoption by British Jewry of a resolution declaring a boycott
British Jowry into the
"I was seventeen!
By PETER FORD
.
IT IS RUMOURED.
BY ED. KELLY, SCANDALMONGER
emphatically With musleal plays and
Lottery.
THE new divorce crop is a bum- to overy department of my pro-
provide crop is a but ductions. a public the usual bumper crop of sweep Although I had the training of chlofly Important as gesture. It may lead to some in- ing generalleations about maran actor and stage manager be
STRONG rumours have tensification of the campaign, but rings. A friend of mine figures in fore I took to the business side of
been current to the effect the damage to Germany's trade the undefonded llet. She dined the theatre and actually produced can hardly be made more severo with me the other night-a prata play under my own management that Mr. J. S. Landolt, won and stage direction over thirty-five about $280,000 in the China than has already been accomplish- ty blonde, a year off thirty.
"The mistake I made," sho con-years ago, I do not generally re- National State ed by the unofficial boycott carried on by the Jows. Bince the anti fossed, "was to marry too young, hearse the actors,
In my view the word "pro-These rumours have been. Semitic nature of Nazi policy re- Somebody ought to have stopped venied itself as more than a pass me. But father was delighted and duction" applies to more than that denied.
Strong rumours have also ing phase. Without publicity of mother thought Jack such a nice conduct of rehearsals to which any kind, the Jews in England young man, and, of course, I had the phrase is often applied, to the been current that Mr. Ed- have quietly and methodically a crush on him-one of those calf exclusion of the promotion and co-
ordination of all the other activi- ward Kelly will pay his ties which result in giving the Hotel chit account before Inter- BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR caused millions of pounds worth of love crushes!
Gernian ordors to be cancelled and
"Now, I'm not the same person. public a now, theatrical entertain the end of the year. NEW CAR CONSIDER THESE! an effective organisation has boon
viewed yesterday. Mr. Kelly denied... the HK$3,400 in existence for some considerable All my Idons have changed. I mont. TOURER
time past. Parallel organisations didn't stop growing when I mar- GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT. 3,500 have been established in most riad. But Jack was twenty-five, SALOON
countries on the Continent and and I supposed he had finished his is soldom in case os and rever it rumours, which he charac- 4,450 powerful influences are also at developing process. Well, thank composer bringing me a completed terised as scurrilious slander TICKFORD SALOON
work in the United States to sea honvens there are no children!"
play or score for my consideration. spread by unthinking people who And she lit a cigarette-a pret- Having conceived the idea of the were trying to besmirch his GROSVENOR
that overy possible handicap Is placed upon trade with Germany. ty blonde, a year off thirty, and entertainent I want to build up, I name. SALOON DE LUXE
Sunday's conference in London married for twelve years. I look look round and select, the author
For some time past rumours merely brought the activities of ed at her and thought that if she or authors and the composer or have been current that the price
opeh. had walted another six or seven composers who, I feel, can give me There is nothing really new likely years, she would not now be taking what I want. The same method of admission to St. Andrew's Although these to follow upon the passing of the up the time of the Divorce Court applies in commissioning an adap- Ball will be reduced by fifty cents
Marringe has not been reduced tation from a foreign language or this year. to an exact science. Probably from a book.
rumours have not been officially never will be, but the divorce lists
The title and subject are chosen denied, the Committee has de would not be anything like so and the development worked out cided to charge the usual prices. Strong rumours were current The weapon employed is one that heavy as they are if men and wo-usually as the result of conferen-1
men paid more serious attention ees, stage by stage. As the play in the Colony yesterday that a few can have any real sympathy to the ago factor. And by age is written the music is composed typhoon was hovering around. with, although it is the only one
factor I do not necessarily mean and submitted for my approvat. available to the Jewish leaders. One of the organisers has made go in terms of the calendar.
Some women are settled at it plain that the boycott is not twenty-five. Others are young, directed against the German po slim, adventurous, and ready for ple, many of whom are suffering anything at forty. And it's the as severely ne the Jows themselves same with men, if not more so. under the Hitler regime, but against Nazi Intolerance. Those acquainted with the Jews need no telling of their communal spirit, which means that the Jewish boy- colt of Germany will probably bo more complete than any other people in the world could possibly make it. Financial considerations are not allowed to count as a factor when the rights and privileges of the race are challenged. Germany will be far more concerned in counting the cost.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933.-
FORGETTING TO
REMEMBER
boycott resolution.
E
COUNTING THE COST
RACIAL PRIDE
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were
Varlous auggestions are made to These rumours have since been
Several persona denied. me with regard to the casting; but
ually start with a pretty clear under the mistaken. Impression den of the principals I want, and that the hoisting of a typhoon nithe actor and corn have to signal meant that a typhoon might bo personally seen and approved occur. Theories about divorce are in-
Referring to the rumours cur- rent in Hongkong that a well- teresting; but the facts seem not by me finally.
The visual side of entertainment known Scotsman found a ten cont to change. The marriages which
plece last weck Rebert Whirter most frequently hit the rocks are has a strong appeal to me, and I those contracted when the parties take great care in my selection of when interviewed his morning, are really too young to know their designers for the scenes and cos-wanted to know who he was. own minde. The divorce satistics tumes. I suggest to them what I testify that the dangerous period require and they go away, to re- of married life comes between the turn later with their detailed de eighth and the tenth year. They velopment of these general ideas.
FITTING PIECES TOGETHER. also show that about one divorce
A further stage is reached when: a start is made at putting all these in every eight occurs after twenty
Twenty years! It sounds a long pieces together. Often with a big years of married life. time. But if a man marrica at musical show there are several re- twenty, he is only forty; and athenraala going on in different forty a man can be astonishingly places simultaneously. I move young. So can a woman-but not from one to the other, making. notes and comments on all points that occur to me, and co-ordinating | every woman..
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the completed production.
If a good memory is a perennial joy, the ability to forget nonessentials is an equal blessing. It is altogether too casy to abuse a good memory by allowing trivial and unimportant matters become too deeply em-
The Nazi glorificution of the bedded in one's recollections. Habits of memory can be direct-"Aryan race" is in all respects the
On the occasion of his golden ed to a considerable extent by most hurtful of its doctrines. Ethnological exports treat it as training oneself to dwell upon rather a Joke and with auch wedding the other day Sir Alfred the work of the different stage de James Rice-Oxley, the celebrated partments the musical director, the ballet-rfstress, the wardrobe, worth-while items in daily living mockery hq scientific men pormit physiciau, pronounced himself a and constantly to drop the themselves invite the Nazi leaders strong believer in early marriage, and so on, as they work towards ordinary and the inharmonious. to e dofine an Aryan. Political William Morris Hughes married Often I suggest cuts or additions Some persons can call the roll of leaders, treating of the realities, when he was twenty-two, and every day's menu in their late do not concern themselves with scraping a living as a Welsh im-or the rewriting of parts of the vacations; some can remember a the fundamental weakness, but migrant of two years' standing in script or score which appear to
rehearsals. score or two of obsolete tele-look askance at the attempt to Australia. He rose to become me necessary before or during the In producing a new straight play phone numbers; others can repuff up the pride of the German Prime Minister of Australia and
for the first time I make up my peat dimensions of old bridges to people and check Hitler's foreign a world-famous personality. An the last inch; and others yet policy at all points in self-defence. early marriage helped him.
Lord Baden-Powell was fifty-five mind who lathe most suitable recall the cost of every item of The Jews declare a boycott. In clothing acquired during the last Germany, a saw problem raises when he married. His wife is director to handle this particular With my organisation, it le pos- is neither Yet that is one of the most ideally sible to produce a number of plays two years, statistics as to the its head with the creation of a thirty years younger than "B.P." play.
community which pre-war salaries of government Aryan' nor Jaw, Germans with successful marriages I know.
Gultry, the great French aetor, at almost the same time. Tho officials, and the ages of distin- guished strangers almost with other since the days of Napoleon. so shrewd and so worldly wise, chief requisites of the producing out end. The Newgate calendar. They number seven or eight mil- told me not long ago that the manager are Imagination, courage, lists nothing of this sort as an ens. In
some respects, their astute man marries a girl at least and ability, to choose the right offence against the
public plight is worse than that of the ten years younger than himach. Heutenants to whom he can de- welfare, and the mental pigeon-Jews themselves. A wise intinet He considers thirty a good age for legato a mass of detail, to keep holing of such devitalized in compels them to organise, and if a man to go forth on life's greatest track of what they are all doing, formation passes for harmless Hitler makes examples of their adventure. Not earlier than that, and to help them with encourage.
HOW I PRODUCE
a Jewish ancestor at some time or
lendors, they will still be there,
diversion in many most respect ever problem, strong enough to able circles. Since remembering be a perpetual nuiannce if nothing and forgetting are but reverec
more. It looks as thongh the sides of the same mental mirror, Nazi Chancellor has bitten off It is only necessary to turn the more than he can chew. glase around to expose the
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A PLAY
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A difficulty with which I am one's hands on the right stage director or the right cast just when
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(Continued on Page 7) tivation of what one's Aunt day is that where her instincts are personal supervision which I give Victoria used to call "a good
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