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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, DECEMBER

TO-MORROW KING'S

AT THE

YOU NOT ONLY FILL MY SHOES

.... You fill my slippers as well!

He didn't mind this masquerader, whom he had hired to double for him, making love to his wife, but when he thought he was making love to his mistress

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Happy days are here again for the children. We are all ready now to satisfy the wishes

of young and old for this festive season. Our stock of toys this year is unusually large and our prices are competitive.

Drossed: Dolls

Mechanical Cars

Tin Soldiers

Meccano Sets

Train Sets

Earthenware Tea Sets

From $1.00 to $ 45.00 each .50. to $5.25 each .60 to $ 2.00 set $2.75 to $145.00 set $1.50 to $ 57.50 set

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.30 to $8.50 set Masks, Paper Hats, Streamers, etc., at very low prices.

GOOD NEWS TO CHILDREN!

SANTA CLAUS DUE AT

SINCERE'S ON 16th OF THIS MONTH. GREET HIM ON HIS ARRIVAL I

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GIANT

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Come and carefully inspect the Giant Xmas Stocking on exhibit on Ground Floor, and guess how many pieces of articles are contained in it.. 3 PRÍZES of gifts for children, Almost every purchaser may enter the contést.

·1933:

MACHINE-MAD AGE

SIR GILES SCOTT'S WARNING

ROBOT TYRANNY

It is more than a century since tho Luddite machina-wrecking

riotn. Nov Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A visualises another re- volution against the "tyranny of the machine."

"I cannot help feeling that we are all going machine-mad," ho said in his presidential address at the opening of the now session of the Royal Institute of British Ar- chitects.

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"Already we hear the first rum- blings of discontent and disillusion: unemployment scents woras in those countries employing, most chinery, and unless science, whleh-] has devoted so much thought to producing, turns its attention to consumption in order to adjust the balance, we shall find that, na this tendency to make the machine do all the work of our hands increases, discontent will increase and evel- tually give way to anger."

MARCH ON FACTORIES,

Uuless this indiscriminate deve- lopment was checked, Sir Gilbert went on, he foresaw the revolution of the future as being directed, not against governments or men, but against the tyranny of the machine.

"At first I see the advocates of machinery puzzled and anxi- ous and the masses restiva and querulous; gradually the discontent swells into a vast tidal wave which breaks at last In a wild fury of destruction.

"I see crowds marching on the factories, breaking up the machines, many being electro- cuted or scalded to death in the wild orgy of destruction.

"Then, as an opilogue, we see the people back to a simpler and more human ideal, living hard- working, simple but contented lives.

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The motto in architecture, anid Sir Giles, was now, "Bulld in truth and let beauty take care of itself.” On all sides they heard the cry of the extremists away with tradi tion, away with ornament, away with everything save grim, stark' functionalism. Bulldings must be- come machines, they must be bullt by machines, they must look like machines, they must function like machines.

Sir Glles described as the greatest artists those who, though capable of going to extremes, studiously avolded-doing-to-A-fine-work- of art," he said, "should be res- trained and controlled, yet free; it contains, in fact, a number of de- licato balances, the balances found in Nature; but in Art the struggle of opposites and the resulting de- licate nervous polse between ex- tremes must be fought out in a single Individual—the artist.

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Str. Giles said that he would feel happier about the future of architecture had the best Ideas of Modernism been grafted upon. the best traditions of the past; In other words, if Modernism had come by evolution rather than by revolution.

"Will Modernism be given time to develop into something fine?" asked Sir Giles, "or will tho, rest- lessness of modern times view such a gradual development with impa- tience and switch off to something else before anything has been achieved? In the extrema expres- sion of Modernium lies its greatest danver: the inevitable reaction will awaep it alway."

Modornist work, sald Sir Giles, demanded a super-finish or machine finish, yet, owing to expense, this could rarely be afforded, and as a consequence a great deal of the work had a shoddy character.

"Nevertheless," Sir Giles conclud- ed, "I think it would be a serious loss to architectural development if it were swept completely away in a violent reaction. I want to sco Its best features and characteristics retained and grafted at first on to the traditions of the past, and then gradually developed not by a group, but by all architects in the country, working together on the same lines. "Let us avoid being extreme, even if it does in these vulgar days pay to be sensational; let us boware of too much machinery, and let us Bim at quality rather than novelty.'

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