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NOTES OF THE DAY

ULSTER SPEAKS

HOLLYWOOD

By PATRICK MacGILL

TE come, we, go, and we, the back in the afternoon. It's hard

At five o'clock, that afternoon

Wa come, or a falan drausty, to get such, but onoon. h

The Very Idea!

A WĘE DRAPPIT By Edward MacKelly, Scot

Whether so intended or not. Nomination Day in Ulster conveys a clear enough answer to Mr. do

THE local clans have a Valera's dreamy ambitions of G

countess from Nuname Slavia, the united Ireland under Flanna Fall.

Reel Club, where they Thirty-three candidates in the elec-Einstein, the Shaw, and a hundred the Presence deigned to honour dance to the strains of the tion to tho Northern Ireland others of less repute, ara accepted me--and alone. Cigar pendant Parliament have been returned for a moment and promptly for under a dark olled, moustache, bagpipes. What the bag- unopposed, immediately establish-gotten. Hollywood, the neuter Wolf was a mythe poem, the per-pipers want, however, is a Inga Unionist majority. In monster, is never unduly insonified ossence of the wonder several of the nineteen con-pressed, any more, for example, and muddle that is Hollywood.

than the Jungfrau is when a biped The Personification spoke; the stituencies where polling will be

with alpenstock and spiked boots voice soft, unctuous, and timid in Hongkong is getting these necessary, the choice will bo be- tween Unionist candidates who tests its cliffs and falls from a some way. "You vill know Ire days so that it's not worth merely differ on the methods of perilous ledge into a soundless ra land?" he asked. Who had given living in. achieving the same ends. Nowhere vine. There is no rejoicing there, him my name?...... is there any room for Mr. deno laughter in the glinting sunset Valera with his policy, of gradual or glittering dawn. severance of Hinks with the Crown.

THE DIFFERENCE

Away from us dwellers in this Babylon of corsetod dandies, sugar bables, racketeers and backmail- era, these dark sayings and obser- pre-vations will not be apprehended, but to the, students, poots,, and dreamers here, they are always obvious. The Thames may be set on fire by a-penniless Whittington, but who can set fire to flame that is but glitter, or to ashes, the off- spring of fra that will not burn, or keep the fire alight if it entches? And this the preamble.

·

"I do." My voice was na low and subdued as his.

"Tho svino?" The voico sank to a whisper,

"I do."

In Hollywood all pronunciation and grammar are accepted. You are "high hat" if you speak botter than your masters,

"And a fair vit the svine in it?" This was almost pleading.

walk-

real club.

We refer, of course, to the preparations for St. An- drew's Ball.

Between ourselves, we get along fairly well with Robert MacWhirter, and the rest of the Scotsmen we know, during the major portion of the year.

"Yes," I assented with energy. He rang

a bell, and # man entered, an obsequious man ing almost on tiptoe, giving me the Impression of a repentant sinner en route for the confessional. Only a holy of holies could have the muted movements of that room.

We don't mind that so much na "Now, Mr-vat ia yur name-the bagpipes. These things are quite alright if people would only told him,

leave them alone. is technical adviser to. the svine market," said the Pre-We were invalgled into the Reel Take yesterday, for Instance. sence. "And that clears the mu-

Practice at the Peninsula Hotel. cus of the matter."

Appointed technical adviser, I hled to the agent.

But around about the begin- ning of November MacWhirterTM gets that haggard pardon, hug- gis-look on his face, shakes the moths out of his sporran and speaks so that ye diana can onnerstan' a mon.

The picture in that sense sents nothing unusual, though there is a diference to be dotect ed. In the past there have always been sufficient issues of domestic Importance to make the Ulster election interesting. On this oc casion, thanks to the Free State leader's latest adventures in reck less defiance of realities, relations between Ulster and the Crown My agent, a brain bug-which emerged as a factor of importance are legion in Hollywood-spoke to and all the opposition to theme. His voice was jubilant.

"I've got a job for you," said he, Unionists which might have arisen on other matters faded right out. lighting a cigar. "At the Wolf-I The demonstration could not have Ikoy Studio. And Irish fair. Pigs been and don't tread on the tail of my been more effective had it arranged. Ono further point coat bunk... Can you do that?" arises. The old associations of "I'll try." I said, my heart the description Unionist having yearning for my native land.

"Then come right along." said politics, it might now be mistntory agent. "Once in with Wolf preted in quarters not well versed you're set, if his relatives don't na suggesting that the candidates are in favour of union with the Free State. Most of them would consider war justified to avold it.

Hongkong Telegraph largely disappeared from English

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1933.

to

THE NEW CRISIS.

IN CHINA

CHURCH SHOWS ITS POWER

want the job.”

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.

When they mentioned "Real" and "Hotel", we thought they referred to a different kind of Scotch..

nected up,

"You wait right, here and I'll see about the business side of the matter," said he. This was done longest or is a Scotsman. Not only But he who laughs last laughs and presently I discoverd that my did six bagpipes greet us with a We went. The place was some wages, as adviser on svine in Pads perfect fortissimo of squeals, but two hundred yards away, and swady Wallop would be one hundred they even had loud speakers con- did the journey by automobile. and fifty dollars a week. Think of You never go otherwise in Holly-It. If St. Patrick had such wages wood, where the death of a pedes when he tended swine on the deafening. and, wedged in the The nolae, unfortunately, was not trian is an act of God and the in-mountains of Mournel

crowd, we had to endure it until the surance company protects your And had to return at ten last sob. It is early in the day as yet

car-at a price... The Spanish election results are

o'clock on the next morning.

Inside the Base Room, able- estimate either the real inconclusive, except as showing the

The portal had a big iron gate.

bodied man, who should have known significance or the full implica-power and influence of the Roman

A young fellow stuck his head Which I did. The gates, were better, were dancing with their from a cage. The fellow had the open. The Nuname Slavian was hands on their hips, every now and tions of the secessionist move-Catholic Church despite the sup-

face of a scalded cel. For some all smiles, all obsequiousness; the then emitting strange shouts, ment emanating from Foochow.pressive activities of the Radical- Socialists. The Azana Party,

reason, such faces are very com cel-faced servitor almost bowed to which, someone informed us, were Obviously directed against builders of the Republic, have been

mon in Hollywood..

my feet.

the imitation of the call of á hag- Chiang Kai-shek, it has yet to wiped out, an event easily, and

""Polntment?" he asked, and the "You will be technical adviser," gis to its young. agent explained and very he beamed at me, "Technical ad-

After the pipers had concluded be shown that it is anything probably accurately, attributed to

viser to Paddy Wallop," he inform- their Interpretation of someone more than another of these its assaulta on the Church and the obsequious to the eel.

"Go right in to Mr. O'Daly.”.

ed a seedy of, untrigged, un-standing on, the tail of half a granting of Votes to Women at the periodical plots by disgruntled same time. The country's swing We did, and the agent stated shaven, who was standing bealde dozen cats, we staggered away to politicians to seize power for to the Right, already noticeable the case,

him. If I were owner of the the bar, where wo met Whalestcoth. studios I would have the creaturò. Tent "You know all about.an Irish turned from the precincts. themselves-the old, old story of in recent months, was thus

forceful momentum, and the Re- fair?" asked O'Daly, who was a j The Irish fair," said the oaf. the "outs" wishing to become publicans were barely able to hold Shanty Irishman. The expres-"I know Ireland-very well." the "ins." Claims have been their own. The situation bodes no

to me, and the

He might, was my conclusion, made that at least five provinces

agent count much inexpileuble I had seen men with similar casts are associated in the movement,

Hollywood has of countenance.

Jewish maybe, language. "You do," said O'Daly selling statues of the Blessed

Whalesteeth is not a Scotsman. but when the position is analys-

"Gee! the guy we want. We are Virgin on the braes of Donegally, "We'll tell you a good joke.. Do "Cheer up," we remarked hearti- el, these claims would not ap-

held up in Paddy Wallop. Come where no woman is old before her you know the difference between a pear to amount to a great deal, one side or the other, kvith constant right along and see Mr. Wolf. time and the turkeys (or geese, Scotsman and a cocoanut?"

good to Spain no matter how the second ballet turns out. Neither Left nor Right can attain a suf- ficient majority to ensure stability, The end may be Dictatorship by

strife and bloodshed. If it is true as an Action Party leader suggests that Spanish temperament makes the people totally unsuited for government on the British, model, it is also true that Spain is not likely to knuckle down quletly to Nazi-ism.

WAR DEBTS

sion was now

was

Whalesteeth, poor follow, was ali in. Shaking like a leaf he drank his whiskey in a gulp.

"If this noise is only a practice, what's the Reel thing going to be like," he exclaimed bitterly.

But ait right there, and hold your is it?) chew tobacco. But let that horse a tick. I'll be back in a be as it may. Faith is one thing

"Yes," he auld mocdily. jiffy." And he went out.

and common sense another, and "You can," wo said, undaunted, I sat; the agent sat. An hour who has common sense in Holly- "get a drink out of a cocoarut. passed, two, three, and no one re- wood if not a Jew? ..

HAI HAI HAP" turned.

Give Scotsmen their due, they On the next day I went to the "All is B muddle," said the studio, sat in my room with two can enjoy a joke against themselves. agent, lighting a cigar. There blonde secretaries and did noth-Whalesteeth maintained his stony was no chagrin on his face, nothing. The following day saw me little joke, and clapped us on the ailence, but MacWhirter heard our ing beyond the wonder with which | with

third secretary, but no constant mysteries are regarded. work was attempted. Had I been

back, "You never know who's who forgotten? On the third day I' here. The guy at the gate is was relleved for the time being, relative of Mr. Wolf. All the way for no reason, and for no reason from Nuname.Slavia. Slipped the as far as I could see, the oaf with quota, Canada or Mexico, but the the Jewish cast of countenance racketeers have his name and are appointed in my place, fleecing Wolf. But not a word. The guy will be a director next Ono What's the time?

come

week.

Yunnan and. Kweichow, дз outlying provinces, are hardly likely to play any very promin- ent part, even assuming that they have pledged their support to the movement. Kwangsi may be counted out for the mo- ment, as likely to adopt a policy of awaiting the trend of events. Kiangai's reported sympathy is

Sir Frederick Leith-Ross's com- interesting from the fact that ment on war debt. feeling in the that province is now largely in United States adds little to what the hands of the Reds. Here we was already fairly well known. The President's chief problem is may note the Communist tinge to convince Congress that revision in the secessionists' programme, is in the best interests of all evidenced not only in the name concerned. A more interesting of the new regime the People's revelation is, however, made by o'clock. Ents. We must

the Christian Science Monitor, Provisionnl Government-but which has just conducted a survey also in the declaration that each of press opinion, the result of citizen will be allotted an equation of newspapers for the survey which is surprising. The selec- share of land, with the ultimate was purely geographical and object of realising collectivist impartial, and the unexpected control of, agriculture. This strength of the revisionist vota was auch that oven with reasonable certainly smacks of Sovietiam, adverse corrections, the verdict and, Laken in conjunction with romains clear and significant. the familiar insistence on "the Any Indication that the Ameri rights of the people," takes our favourably disposed toward revis

can people and the pross are more memories back to the days ion than Congress 8001118 to when former. "Independenco" believe, will have a very ren leadera were. hand in glove public opinion may

significance. The tompor of with the Russians in Canton. the key to the war debt tangle. provo to be

It is this trend towards Com- President Roosevelt looks ques- munistic ideas, noticeable in the how far he may go and still win tioningly to Congress, wondering now Government's programme. an agreement accoptable .on. which arouses a degree of un-Capitol Hill Congrune In turn. oasiness regarding future de looks partly to its own judgment and partly to Ita constituants, velopments. The thought na So any evidence that there exists turally suggests itself that if an unsuspected strength of the Kiangsi Reds are in the popular support for rovision would be at once an encouragement and movement, a large-scale flare-up n justification for efforts on the may soon be witnessed in China. | part of Congress to come to a Such fears, however, may be fair settlement. shown to be unfounded, when

the true altuation is revealed. So

far as Kwangtung la concerned, can hold his own. Summed up, the position remains obscure, anything may happen. The Im- partial observer can only be- Chan Chai-tong, of course, can

bo counted on as definitely op moan the fact that at this posed to the secessionists. It critical juncture in China's

ngain make itself manifest.

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I got my hundred and fifty dollars.

"Why is it?" I asked the agent. "Hollywood!" was his reply.

JSTAGE

"Add two cups of flour, one tablespoon of butter-

"Mon, that's a guld yin," he said "Wuid ye like a wee drink?"

Whalesteath brightened up. "Yes," we both chorused. "Then gu an' buy yesells a cocoa- nut" said MacWhirter,

That's Scotsmen for you.

A REEL THRILL

·· A Reuter message published this morning states that the whole world has been shaken by earth- quake shocks, which were recorded. in America, Australia, Europa and Asia. All the Observatorics re- port that the epicentre of the 'quake was in various parts of the world.

How silly of them. Are they forgetting that the Reel Practice took place in Hongkong last night..

SLIPS THAT PASS'

The Sunday School plenic at: Cherry-Trea Bay on Sunday was a hug Buccess. Queensland Nows- paper.

Reverend Horace Flagstone · re- turned from Auckland yesterday and will take up hià cutics at the Church-New Zealand paper.

Reaults of an investigation show that 80 per cent of motor cartao. cidents in England this year were due to bad breaks, Provincial newspaper.

William Faldon, our esteemed alderman, has returned',from (a) lengthy sojourn in Florida. Mr.: Faldon is a great lover of lonely shores and wild wives.—Brunswick Reporter.

Mr. G. Vanderberg spent a feve daya decently with Mirs, G♫:0, Bat- trom-Missouri Journal..