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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935..

NOTES OF THE DAY

WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?

When Lord Snowden observes, that the dilatory tactics of the League of Nations are obviously · playing into the hands of Italy, we are inclined to agree. We

"MY REGRETS I'M NOT A MAN"

By DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE

The Very Idea!

KELLY'S SCRAPBOOK

Desperately I bave always want-one distinction I should make be- Pars And Puns From The

Old Joke Department

are inclined to agree, alao, thated to be a man and the wish has tween man and woman: the League, if it is to survive, not diminished with the years. The masculine attitudo Is indi-i must carry more weight of Infiu-Rather has it become more strongvidual and un-selfconscious-the ence, must use a stronger hand In early childheed I envied the feminine personal

in the enforcement of its laws, than it has been able or willing to do heretofore. Signor Mussolini has indicated that he intends, to

boys their capacity for adventure clous. and their general attitude to life.

conquer Abyssinia. No matter certainly joined them in what the League of Nations says escapading, and the difference of

cam-

sex did not seem to matter as we rode through the Kent fields and lanes on Imaginary horses and

and

Edited by Eddle Belfcon-HEN we pass on to our

There are exceptions, of course, but these are mostly people of greater capacity and I am talking

of the average man and woman.

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reward we will do so with the knowledge that we have left this world a better, purer and nobler place than we found it.

about it, he is evidently going ahead with his proposed polgn. As Lord Snowden says, any delay of action gives Italy a

When we think of all the better opportunity to consolidate her

Although in childhood I wished tempting unkissed girls we and pretended we were outpost army to be a gleaner in the summer and have met in Hongkong, of position in Africa Ahortens the life of Abyssinia's officers exploring the Himalayas, monk in the winter (!). I feel the gallons of beer to entice Independence; and possibly of the peace of the world. For there can winning new lands for the King new I'd like to have been a doctor. drinkers, of the opportu- no longer be any doubt that if and Alaughtering what people This may be just middle age speak-nities for gambling and dis- Italy goes to war in Africa, the event will have shattering reper might have thought at first sighting. My increasing interest in sipation-in short, of all the cussions in Europe. When it was were beds of neities but which we healing and the doctor's life won

wickedness that is in our disclosed that the Indo-Abyssinian problem was the twenty-first on

disloyal list of twenty-five subjects on the League agenda for next month's meeting, Britain apparently insist- ed that it should be given firstpy. I hated the boys games, potential doctor or a fool." place. Beyond the bare fact that though--their competitive games Britain protested against the

It is more than that, 1 fancy.j --but poor females were made to Domesticity has never excited me. Prosperity agenda we have learned nothing Stubbs Rd. from European despatches. I do these, too. How vile is com love the children part-being

would be interesting to know who petition when one cares for the do- is responsible for the arranginging of a thing. of the League's agenda and what possible excuse can be given for

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POPULARISING HONGKONG

Bociation is one which we

knew were devilish

explained to me by a mental doctor Colony-then we find it. natives. Thus slashing and de-the other day who

pleasing to reflect that we vastating we were completely hap-woman over Afty

snid: "Any have done our darndest to remove most of the tempta- But tions.

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is either #1

Lady (to the No. 1 at any of

a nurse has great attractions, but our Hotels) "Could you direct

I have no real love for a house me to the ladies' room?"

I hated running raceя to win: and рожнеча опа. House-proud-

relegating this subject to the back- | I liked running for itself and Inese, which is a womanly quality No. 1-"It's just around the

the other side of the world which will bear watching. Bearing in mind the nearness of the Naval Conference and the termination of the existing treaties

of men which I so

be without

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exactly what I feel, but I think it is a bit menn and responsibility shirking.

much admire and envy-that is, if r'à been braver person than 1 am.

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[corner, madam."

Girls fought for the privilege |of dancing with him. Now even

his Best Friend avoided him.

What had made them a drop him from their partica and their pastimes?

ground of the Geneva stage. It

was a very fast runner, too. Ten--and one that I admire so much cannot be possible that the officials

nis cricket-the agonies I've in others--does not belong to me at the League's capital can be so

Lady-"Don't give me any lacking in gond sense as to have suffered both watching and play-at all. I love to be in a beauti- of this prosperity stuff, young 1:54+] the signiflenger of the ing. It's funny, games are the fully-kept house-and ao much man, it's urgent." Itallo Abyssinian controversy.only things that have really bared rather would that someone else Perhaps they are afraid of the

me in life, but I am quite prepared | had the keeping and doing of it.

Social Tragedy complications which 41 further

to say that this is a fault and a straining of international rela

I can be content with verg The appeal which is being❘tions may cause,

Krave defect and that I

Before, he was Am the

one of the plain, almost bare living, which most popular members of our issued to local firms for financial

loser thereby. If I had not enjoy-is not the thing for a woman to Set. support on behalf of the newly-

ed a wonderful and blissfully hap

be. It is lovely to formed Hongkong Travel A- OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

py home life I might possibly possessions, the whole world is have broken away and experienced heartily commend to the busi- Meanwhile, there are develop for myself some of the activities one's own then. St. Paul knows ness men of the Colony. The ments on objects of the Association are succinctly stated as being lo make known in various parts of te world the attractions which Hongkong has to offer, in order to encourage visitors to come to the Colony, and to arrange facilities for their amusement and recreation whilst here. Pro- vided adequate support is forth coming, the Association is plan ning a first-year effort which should prove most effective in advertising Hongkong to the outside world and in catering to the needs of visitors who come to our shores. There can be no questioning the attractions

and no more appropriate mo ment than the eve of the cool Beason could be chosen for making these attractions widely known. But organised effort of the kind contemplated by the Association calls for money. Already, the Government has come forward with a sum of $25,000, but the Committee of the Association estimates that

which bind the natians to certain

Heidly turned over the tonnage limits and prevent the Courage is the greatest virtue-

Looking back Over these

pages of a magazine as he fortification of the Pacific. the the lack of it makes one feel athoughts I find my rensona for wondered. His eyes fell on an United States recent action in making clear the way to the forti-

worm and no man. I'd love to wishing to be a man are all ex-advertisement. have been great traveller-anuses for shirking. Then are men fivation of the Aleutian Islands is

Surely not! Good Lord! something of a blow to hope for

now they take the leap in the dark,

the land woman 'always have to

see

It.

explorer. I quite realise that wo-shirkers? No, not exactly--but couldn't be! any left of those who once hoped equally with men, but it is naval disarmament. Or were there | men are able to do this

"The insidious thing about B.O.," that by 1936 the powers of the

to life and its the way lighted Men discover he read, "is that you yourself are world would have followed Britain's attitude of men lead and reduce their naval ton-netivities that I like--something new lands and women must make are of it. Even your heat

| friend won't tell you." nage? In any event, fortification | abstract yet individual and inde-them habitable-in 1 word: of the Aleutians will almost certain-pendent. Yes, it'a the some- "Find new ways, Men; and Wo- ly act as spur to Japanese pre-thing abstract I've always wanted men, clear up the muddle? The cautionary measures in the Pacific.

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So that was it! As the awful truth penetrated his to build a number great

the of all things. Army and Navy air bases, not at trait can follow where it leads with-best parts in Shakespeare, but home only. but in the Pacific, out furs, without being odd. Cer-[he can't have children, which He must button-bole Eddie possibly at Guam, Wake and Mid-tain women can too-but it is the great and lasting thrill that Kelly and ask him. Kelly, way Islands, and Japan will take note of this and keep step to the more rare, for whenever women do belongs to us. I think, perhaps, his best friend, would tell him tune the Washington band plays. anything a personal flavour creeps after all, I won't change; and ifif he asked point-blank. And what of navies? Will anyone in-personal HA distinct from I go on struggling to be a true "Eddie," he said to us last be ready to reduce naval armaments individual. Where men are con- woman, and do my dusting, real night, "why is everyone avoid- as long as some one else is building selous of individuality we women and metaphorical, and try to being me. Is it air bases and flying fleets? We think not. The best we can hopes often water it down to some brave and enjoy ordering meals,

for from the next naval conference personal and smaller thing. It is hereafter, in a better world than not that. But for heaven's "No, Pete." we replied, "it's is a general agreement on the lines too subtle for me to explain-at this, I may be allowed to be sake, old man, go easy on the of the present treatles, that navies least I find it very will not exceed a certain limit and into words, and though I hate climber, or wall, there's no know-

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that submarine warfare will

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annum will be needed to put into operation its first year's schedule. For this reason, it is seeking to raise, dollar for restricted in the future. To say generalising-saying "men do this, ing. and it's worth while `to All (hie) RI' dollar, a sum at least equivalent almost as far-fetched as saying re

that we can achieve more would be women do that"—yet this is the imagine.

to

the reach

of contemporary

to the Government grant. The duction of armaments is still with- point which needs stressing is in that the whole commercial com- diplomacy. munity of the Colony-irrespec- tive of the type of business engaged in-stands gain COLOURED FILMS from the wider advertising of Hongkong, for obviously. the more people we can induce to visit us, the more money will be put into circulation in the Colony. As the Association states, the potential benefit must obviously be greater to

some

than to others, and to these the Association rightly looks for the most support. But cach, and every business con- cern in the Colony will indirect ly benefit from the activities of the Association. It may also be pointed out that the greater the support received, the wider will be the scope of the Associa- tion's work. Actually, the suc-

The film industry seems to be approaching a crisis second only to that which it encountered when sound' was added to vision and there came to triumphant life the talkies. Whatever the response of the British public to the first full- length coloured film may be-and most people are out of doors, it even at this time of the year, when will probably be emphatle-there seems little doubt that henceforth colour will play a vital part in the development of the screen. Not for a few years, it may be, will according to one authority, once a colour be generally applied, but,

there can be no going back. The start has been made with colour makor of "Becky Sharp," the first cess or otherwise of the cam-full-sized colour film, thinks, how- paign lies with the business ever, that some subjects will al- community as a whole. Many

ways be better done in black-and- centres in the Far East and

white. That will be for the pre- elsewhere which have no greater decide,

ference of screen enthusiasts to claims to notice than Hongkong like being a decisive factor in the The colour process loclos -even if as great-find it to lives of feminine film stars. Some their advantage to boost their of them will gain by the new pro- attractions. Hongkong cannot ocas; others will lose. But what therefore afford to lag behind nature has denied, artifice may re- the times. For the reasons pair, and no casu need be hopeless. cited, we warmly endorse the As red and fair haired girls will Association's appeal, confident be more in demand than brunettes, that the business men of the Colony will give the new move the aend-off which its objectives so strongly merit,

It appears as if the epidemic of blondes from which the flims have not diminish but rather be intenst beon suffering for some years will

flod.

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"Say! I thought we agreed not to see each other any more."

We met Pete over in Kowloon the other day. Pete lives on The Peak.

Believe it or not, we reached that stage when the breadth of Nathan Road was of greater importance than its length. Pete. invited us to his flat for dinner.

"Y'all ri'?" asked Pete, as we stumbled aboard the Star Ferry.

"Yeh, I'm all ri'."

We poured each other onto a seat.

"Shay, does-hic-my breath shmell bee-hic-beery?" asked Pete.

"Puff! Lesh shmell-no- hic-ish all ri'."

We fell into a public taxi on Hongkong side.

"Shay-hic-don': lesh wife- hic-shee we been dringin"," said Pete as we sped up The Peak.

"All-hic-'," we replied. "Hates dring-htc-wiresh doesh," mumbled Pote.

We staggered up the stairs to Pete's flat, and after a long search he found the bell.

darlin'-hic-bror"

" 'Lo

Kelly home-hic-t'dinner," he said.

For a full minute Mrs. Pete started without recognition.

Then

"Thashall-hic-ri', bring

him in," she hiccoughed.