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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 127,

HOW WOMEN CAUSED LEFTIST DEBACLE IN SPANISH ELECTION CONSTITUENTS FOR FUTURE TROUBLE

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How women in Madrid docked to hear a speaker in the recent campaign for a new Cortes. By MILTON BRONNER. iscated; laws were passed giving | the Right-207; partics of

increased power to the working Contre-167; parties of the Left Dona Consuelo, whose husband

masses; other laws were passed, is a Spanish nobleman, Senorita Urraca, whose father is a great land-owner, and Sister Angelica, who is a nun, beat Carmen, the cigarette maker and Dolores, the wife of the mason.

That in a nut-shell is the story of the debacle of the Socialists and

other parties of the Left in the recent elections for a new Cortes in Spain and the astounding vic- torics of the par- tles of the Right.

It was the women who upset the re- publican applecart and made it pos-

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aiming to give confiscated lands to the land-hungry peasantry. Every where human rights were exalted over property rights.

RADICALS' MISTAKE.

But the revolution, did not stop there. It attacked the most power-

In their zeal for equality, the revolutionarica then made the mistake of thefr Ilves. They granted equal suffrage to the women, who outnumber the men in Spain by 700,000. They figured that the wives, daughters and

99. The main consolation prize tho Socialists got was that the capital of Madrid remained true to them, giving them 13 out of the 17 seats.

REPUBLIC V. MONARCHY.

In the new Cortes the parties of the Right will call the tunc-if

ful institution in the country-the they do not split up now that the Catholic church.

election is over. They may do so. Their origins and alms are So varied. The Agrarians, strong for the Church, have 36 seats. Robles' own Accion Popular has 62. The out and out Monarchist party has 43. The biggest party in the new Cortes is the Radical, led by Senor Lerroux with 104 seats. Lerroux is an old Republicah. He sat in the first Azana cabinet and then resigned, fighting his old chief bitterly.

sisters of the working people would

aible that Spain would be ruled by

outnumber and outvote the femi- conservatives, if, indeed Rome

nine element belonging to the old tempt is not made middle and upper classes. They to restors the mo-guessed wrong. They had no con- narchy. Once moreception of the anger that burned women showed

in the hearts of the women over Cil Robles,

that they are more

the blows struck at the church. conservative than the men.

One man was quick to see this In April, 1931, after municipal elections all over Spain showed -Gil Robles, a 32-year-old, pale- republican victories and the re-faced, black-haired young uni- hated public was proclaimed, King Al-versity professor, who fonso XIII slipped out of a back- Socialism and all its works. Ile door of his palace in Madrid, made organized a coalition of all the a mad automobile ride all night parties of the Right. He enrolled across his country, and escaped on the women in the cities and on the a cruiser to the friendlier shores great landed estates. He put them of France. For over two years on the stump. From the various interests he gathered the biggest Spain was ruled by a cabinet and a huge radical major- campaign fund Spain ever knew. ity_in_the_Cortes. An up-to-date The women got more excited even republican constitution was adept than the men. They marched to ed.

the polls in droves. Even the cloistered nuns got special permis- sion lo cast ballots,

Now, as Premier again, Lerroux is believed to have ended the crisis which followed the elections when

anarchists and syndicalists staged

THE NEW SALOON IN AMERICA SHOCKS THE OLD TOPER

New York.-(I must be in the wrong place," said the Old-Time Topor, backing away. "Excuse me, pleaso-I was looking for somewhere to get a drink?..")

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Pre-prohibition days novor saw Ruch a luxury of appointments as are in the drinking places of to- day, such artistry in decorations, such general prodigality in build- ing cozy little shrines to Bacchua.

The

Modern Tengon-woman. women who have assumed the right to go wherever men go. Old and young women who have learn ed to enjoy spënkensies and play bridge with a highball at their elbow.

So the architects and artists and glaziers and sculptors and lu terior decorators have collaborat od to produce smart drinking rooms which in themselves aro stimulating to jaded amusement sockers. The Park Central Hotel, for example, is rushing to comple- tion a crystal room on the twenty- sixth floor which will be all glass and motal, with a long bar of carved glass and a vautled roof of stained glass forming scenes rem- Iniscent of Arabian Nights revel- ries. All the room's illumination will be driven through. thla vari- coloured ceiling by batteries of, of Venetian red and powder blue, flood lights, although subdued silver ceiling, dull black floor, and streaks of colour are to play glistening silver bar. That's for through neon tubes sot in the five dinner and late-hour entertain- huge glass columns which will ment. The blue room

with its support the roof.

Bacchante Bar, however, is open at all hours for casual dropper- inners.

The man who designed all this in Nat, Eastman, who planned some of the modernistic buildings at the World's Fair, the Surf Club at Miami, and who executed some of the windows in the Rockefeller- finansed cathedral on Riverside

Drive in New York.

There'll be a male orchestra,

conducted by a woman-Gypsy Marakoff, Another feminine ap- real is being made in the Park

n violent though short-lived rebel- Central's Cocoanut Grove, a dio- lion throughout the Second Re-ing, drinking and dancing roof public. With the support of the garden. Brief fashion shows are Right parties, Lerroux has succeed-held here periodically. ed in forming a cabinet which will have a substantial majority in the Cortes,

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("Yes, I'm sure I'm in the wrong place," continued the Old-Time Toper. "Why, where

tho swinging doors, and the saw-dust re-floor, and the brass cuspidor, and

the

In the future, anything may hap- pen. Spain may settle down to a

conservative radical

constitutional

Spurred on by the Socialists in the cabinet, laws. were passed ex- propriating the lands of the great

On two successive Sundays the

public or there may be a coup d'etat with a restoration of the monarchy: If it is a republic, the-| parties of the Left may growl, but will remain passive. If there is an attempt to restore a king, civil war is not unlikely. The trades,

more extreme parties of the Left would all be in it. This would be

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The Waldorf-Astoria has four

The moderniatic drinking-and-sitting room of the Hotel St. Moritz, in New York. gave up and painted satyra on mirrors, and grape-ladon nympha atop metallic pillars. The usual decorative formula seems to in- clude mostly chromium and nudes.

Though the bar itself is a mas- sive thing copled from a famous fountain in Stockholm, the effect of the ensemble is modern. The decor is blue and silver. Tables at the sides do not break the sweeping effect of converging, con- trasting stripes in the carpet, all pointing toward the domain of one Albert Ferrasin, who will tell you that he served for years behind the Ritz Bar in Paris. Overhead 18 # bas-relief titled "Bac- chanable." Appropriately,

It doplate BOMC goats, bome naughty boys, some naughty girls, and considerable jolo-de-vivre.

Howard Chandler Christy didn't have to worry about moderniam when he painted the murals for the Park Lane Cafe, so he devoted himself. exclusively to nudes. As a result there are now 39 of them cavorting around that tastefully appointed establishment, with a fow more to be added as soon as they're finished.

The Park Lang Hotel, which has been patronized largely by a smart

wet spots-one off the Empire Room, finished in gold; one off the Sort Room (named for the Span- Ish artist whe did the murals); finished in silver; another in the Norse Grill, done in carved wood; and one specially built for casual sipping at all hours. The latter is called the Lounge Cafe, and it's as elaborate as anything you'll see off a movie set.

The bar that is, the "service bar"-is all blue mirrored glass and chromium. Upholstered bench- es are bullt along the walls, and the tables are topped with green rubber and have Tony Sarg car-

toons cut into them. The floor is jade green, the walls and ceiling mostly, of blue mirrors and more chromium. There are no nudes.

Park Avenue crowd, is making a bid for wider popularity with its new cafe; especially for the favour of clubwomen and lunching shop pers and such. Leather uphol

Even the semi-private clubs stored seats fine the walls, and besides the two long bare there which used to be amart and luxuri- are mobile bars which are trundled ous speakeasles have gone in ex- too. about among the tables. Just tensively for redecoration, even now the New York state regula-though they supplied the clubby, tions forbid vertical drinking, and luxurious and modern motif for. until there is a change the term the newer drinking places. One "service bar" will be meticulously of the best goes under the honest applied to the stationary ones. name of Jim Moriarty's. There ("and the brass rail, and the One of the two in the Park Lane is actually a Jim Moriarty, too, a jovial fellow who Веств picture of "September Morn" be- Cafe is called the 'Round-tho- bis

over amused by the blue glass and World-Bar, and Is presided hind the bar, and the free lunch?" by a coupe of white-aproned cos- chromium and outlandish rod persisted the Old-Time Toper, un-mopolites who will buy a drink on storks which have taken over his happily. "What's happened to the house whenever anyone names establishment. Even the piano is a concoction, domestic or foreign covered-with-mirrors-There's 'em?")

that they can't mix.

also a decoratively-robed Egyptian called Galli-Galli who goes among the tables doing tricks.

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("And where's the diamond

The St. Moritz, a favourite haven of visiting Europeans and traveling celebrities, has installed Designers of the new drinking a Continental Grill designed by A. spots must have had a hard time stick-pin in the bar-keep's neck- ("Well, I guess I better get out Parises anything he has done which seems to be imperative, "And the bouncer? And suspl-Toper, mournfully. "I don't think abroad. Anyway it's something to with all the lush symbolism which ciously "what are wimmin doing I want a drink, after all. It's too sce, with walls, and terrace rails is traditional. Finally they just in here, anyhow?")

effeminate.")

noblemen, many of whom fied into elections were held and the Left unionists, the Socialists and the Gordon-Foster. He says it out trying to reconcile moderniam,tle?" fretted the Old-Time Toper. of here," decided the Old-Timo exile; ex-King Alfonso was de- was shattered, clared guilty of high treason, out- lawed and his private fortune con-

In all, the line-up is: parties of especially true of the towns.

GERMANY'S DICTATOR OF AGRICULTURE

ONE OF THE COMING MEN IN THE NEW REICH.

By MILTON BRONNER. Every good Nazi believes that the greatest human race is the Aryan, the finest of the Aryans, the Nordics, and the noblest and beat of the Nordics, the Germans,

And, just to prove it, Hitler named na hia Minister of Agricul- ture, Walter Darre. whose father was of French Huguenot lineage, his mother a Swede, who himself was born in Buenos Aires and educated in his formative years in England.

In Hiller's scheme of things the Ministry of Agriculture bulks large and Darre, tall, handsome, able and ambitious, is looked upon as one of the coming men of the new Gar- many. He was born in the Argon- tine 38 years ago, his father being a prosperous merchant. The son wanted to be a soldier, but like so many emigrant Germans, who had made good in foreign lands, the father had a marked prejudice against the pre-war type of Pruss- Ian officer. So in 1911 he sent the boy le King's College School in the Wimbledon suburb of London. Here the lad, who already spoke German and Spanish fluently, now, learned English.

FIRST OPPOSED REPUBLIC.

He then went to Germany where his Huguenot ancestors had lived

for a long time. He attended the German Colonial Institute, speciul- Izing in agriculture, as he desired to be a colonial farmer. At the outbreak of the war, he joined the German forces and fought on the western front throughout the con, flict. With Germany, defeated, Germany had no more colonies. Young Darre, therefore, gave up his idea of farming abroad and turned his thought to home agricul- ture, taking a couras at the Univer sity of Hallo. He graduated with honours and was at once givon a post as agricultural attache at the German Foreign Offico. Opposed to the republic, he joined the Steel Helm.

inter-married with non-Ayran stock. Onco in power as Minister of Agriculture, he proceeded to put into force his ideas of building up a new peasant farmer aristocracy, The farmer was to be tied to his little estate. When he died, it was

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handed down Its inherited estates intact to the heir to the title, so were the new aristocrate, the pes- sants, to do.

REFUSED TO USE FORCE.

Darre disappointed the radical Nazla by saying he did not intend forcibly to broak up the huge estates of the Prussian junkers. But he did do this: he provided that owners of large farming pro- perties might voluntarily surrender land for the government's scttle- mont schemes.. Owners doing this would be put on a special list and would be given government aid in getting rid of their debts. Land given up will be cultivated by selected tenants, who will pay fixed annual sums and at the end of a stated period become the owners thereof. Special inheritance courts will supervise the transfer of lands and no property can thereafter be sold without their permission. The small farmers are to be in- corporated in a Ponsants' Corpora- tion, organized under a Relch Far- mors' Council. There are to be Farmers' Congresses and regional organizations similar to those framed for the entire nation.

Darre will have all farmers un- der his control by fixing the prices for produce, wages and the kind of production to be undertaken. He has already fixed the prices for wheat and ryo on a sliding scale, varying for different months of the year and different sections of the country. The whole iden is to in tensify home growth of food and make Germany self-sustaining.

In September, 1930, he met Hitler for the first time and became à full-fledged Nazi. In his efforts to win a majority in the nation. Hitler recognized the Important part that might be played by the peasant farmer vote. He, there- fore, entrusted Darro with the job of winning the peasants.. Darre started right in organizing Nazi cells everywhere. He talked Nazi politics. He also spoke on agricul- ture and wrote two books-"The

Darre's chief Houtenant is Dr. Peasantry as the Life Source of not to be divided up, but handed Hans Winter, whose father was the Nordic Raco" and "The New down intact to one of the hoirs, who partner in a big cigar firm in Lon Aristocracy of Blood and Soil." was to carry on. The other sons don. Winter was born there and He showed little respect for the were to be trained for the army, educated at St. Paul's school, so old Gorman aristocracy, which, he the civil services, the Foreign that he also talka fluent English and said, had gone soft and had also Omco. Just as the old noblity | knows English life and customs,

Minister Walter Darro,

AN "ANGEL' ALARM

CENSOR SEES IT THREE TIMES

By A. T. Borthwick.

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The Lord Chamberlain's depart. ment, I am told, read "Angel" three times before licensing it for pro- sentation on the London stage.

PHIPPS Gives

SOME AESOPIAN DEFINITIONS

Mary Newcomb, who has had some heavy parts in her time, is aald to have here the most exact- ing part she has ever played.

has Mary Clare

a comedy character and Colln Keith-John- ston appears as quite a nice young man-not at all the rudo fellow you may find him represon- | learn that they havo not à mono- - ting in a current film, "Berkeley Square."

John Wyee, who has been in previous plays with Mips Newcomb and who is appearing at present as a rascally poseur in "The Lady from Alfaqueque" at the West- minster Theatre, will also be in "Angel," with Muriel Forbes Robertson, Dino Galvani, Haddon Mason, Henry Hewitt and others.

"Angel" is the play by Melchior Lengyel, the Hungarian dramatist, which brings Mary Newcomb, Mary Clare, and Colin Keith John-chromium plated characters, ston back to the London stage.

Film stars may be aggrieved to

poly of "Allurement."

That elusive quality, according to Mr. Justice Swift, may equally wall be exerted by a plece of cheese.

A jury at Leeds Assizes, 48 reported in The Daily Mail yester- day, asked the learned judge for a legal definition of Allurement.

The learned Judge replied that there wasn't one, but, as an In default of a legal definition of illustration, " if you put a pleca of cheese on a little wire in, a mouse-trap, that would be an

the mouse Allurement for

to enter."

If it has troubled the Censor to-Poise, with what infinite satisfac the extent indicated "Angel" must tion one could say, "If a mosquito be uncommonly daring, for in re-

settles on a man's nose, and re- mains in situ while the man socks cent yoara Lord Cromer has shown himself a very liberal-minded man

himself vigorously in the left oye, In these matters.

the mosquito may be said to have 'Poise.'

Or you might take Personality, One gathers that the Lord Cham-"If you take an egg and put it in borlain, a theatregoer himself, an egg-cup, and as soon as you try to eat it it starts barracking you, hates to spoil anything clever or original unless he feels euro his the egg may be said to have Per responsibilities demand it.

sonality."

"Angel" deals with a themo which, it is claimed, has never been hundled on the British stage,

Porhaps I may hint discreetly that it aims at a frank study of the psychology of a woman, par- ticularly with reference to a top man's right t lovonot quite the same thing, apparently, as the idea treated in "Nymph Errant.

THE TACTFUL FISH,

Such examples could be multi plied indefinitely, but perhaps one should not drop the subject with out some explanation of Tact.

If a fish sees a worm on the end of a fishing line, pulls the line decisively three times, at the same time shouting Full up, the fish may be said to have Tact."

Which only goes to show that the humblest slice of gorgonzola, given the right environment, may nequire the temporary glamour of Cinderella at the ball.

When

mostu como to think of it."

our conceptions of abstract qualities are too narrow Justice and storeotyped. Mr. Swift's sopian simplicity might well be extended to other defini- tions.

Take Poise, for example. It is an overworked word among society aro constantly novelists, who handing out gallons of it to their (Continued on previous column:)