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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936.

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A

is

Baby born

NEW baby is born into the world.

What does it mean? What may it not mean?

To the father, an instalment of immortality; to the mother, the fulfilment of her destiny; to the baby, all the promise of life....

It is a spearpoint of germinating life, aimed into the future. Perhaps a new Shakespeare, a Goethe, a Charlie Chaplin, a Greta Garbo, a Hitler, a plain but worthy citizen, a

-and

it is then that the

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Wfather's angle

in the triangle?

For him, too, it is a crisis; much more than is generally recognised. The sufferings of the father are unfortunately not usually treated with any degree of respect.

real triangle" of married life begins

by a Medical

process

Yet it is difficult. xériod

for

him to weather. I have traced the foundering of many marriages to this critical period.

First comes the thrill of complete manhood. which tho childless can never have. Then, too often, a feeling -usually subconscious- that the baby is a rival. Over and over again, when trying to dison- Langle domestic

pro-. blems, I have come across these subconsci- ously jealous fathers.

One finds generally that they

hear from the lips of experience have said little, but a change has

them: ́that child-bearing is not a pun- come over

龜 subtle ishment for guilt, but a natural change in feeling, a hang-dog that primitive, un- bitterness instead of the pre-

Others have noticeably turned One experienced doctor has to drink, to tap-room friends,

wise man; perhaps a lunatic, Correspondent frightened, unsemi-civilised wo vious devotion; they may sulk.

a gibbering imbecile.

herself: she does not want to man has no great trouble with.

THE apex of a human If she says "No" to it, she is expressed the opinion that to interests outside the home,

this.

THE baby is the help herself. triangle: a triangle of emotional denying something deep down much of the discomfort of perhaps to work. They are relationship and possible com in her, and she cannot be happy, child-bearing in modern women likely to be testy. Stubbs Rd. plication: a triangle of father, she cannot be normal. She is due to anticipation and ten-

mother,

This--one of the early hurdles and child: a triangle must auffer for that neurotic sion; and that when fear is older than the eternal one--and

of marriage--has been too much twist.

dispelled, this discomfort more important.

Much For each of the three birth is freedom; but the

is talked of woman's reduced to what can easily be for them. It has found thera wanting. Instead of pride, freedom a tolerated.

often A jealousy. But

little a crisis, in one way or another woman wants is the freedom to Most doctors will, I think, be

special consideration from # CONSIDER first have her baby.

sympathetic to that view. Cer- the mother's an-

Having a baby is the comple- tainly, I have met women who wise and tactful wife can avoid gle in this triangle. What joys tion and culmination of sex to enjoyed the actual process of

the healthy woman. Without childbirth. does it offer? What risks?

Modern anaesthesin has so A baby is the culmination of that she is emotionally stranded

Without that marvellously advanced that a woman's life, whatever she high and dry.

that discomfort is unTM may say or think to the con- evon her bodily functions can even

same necessary; but I have known cess, trary. It is her biological fate, ever work her destiny. She cannot help smoothness: she will not grow several women who refused that Both are unconscious processes.. old gracefully in complete har because they did not wish to be in birth, the fully conscious mony of body and mind. robbed of what they regarded mind is not yet active; at the moment of dying, it has be- None the less, in having as a wonderful experience. come inactive. Britain has made rapid strides NOTES OF THE DAY baby-like everything else

life there are risks and com- plications. The mother-to-be

MONDAY, Max. 30, 1936.

DOCUMENTARY

BRITISH FILMS

One particular branch of the Alm industry in which Great

CORONERS' POWERS.

with the

in

THE second adjust-

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ASTLY, the.

baby's angle to the triangle.

Birth is not a painful pro- any more than dying is.

Yet the process of birth— in recent years is in the produc

ment of the when it is a difficult one-may tion of what are called documen-

shock the deeper unconscious has two critical adjustments to mother-to-be is to the child.

For some mothers it is diffi- organic layers of the mind. tary films. The documentary A Departmental Committee was make: first to child-bearing.

cult to strike the mean between Children who have had a film was first developed by the set up by the Home Secretary in then to the child.

February last year to inquire into

and re- difficult birth are likely to be of EAR child pampering the child FE Empire Marketing Board as the the law and practice relating to

bearing is fear senting it as an interloper, a restless, nervous, and irritable best means of "documenting" Coroners. The reault of their ex of the unknown. It is fed by rival for attention. Especially for the first few weeks of their

amination is set forth in a report

does the latter occur in women life. They need a little apecial the varied aspects of life containing a number of recom- the cruel sensation-mongering who have been over-mothered, care and attention during that throughout the Empire.

mendations for the reform of the of foolish women: the sort of over-fathered, generally over time: there is always a possi existing system. It is perhaps ghouls who glory in suffering paronted and spoilt in youth. bility that this nervousness—if Board ceased to exist some time surprising that Coroners should be and disease and harmful, advice: The more usual-perhaps not cared for-may grow into Lago, but its work has been con-bound for less by law and precedent whose idea of consoling the sick healthier-tendency is to pam- a lifelong instability.

than are High Court or County: tinued by several other organian Court Judges, and it is suggested is to recite the painful agonies per the child and neglect the tions, the chief of which is the that they should be deprived of of those who have died from husband. It is wisest for all

ES, a new baby concerned to strike a mean: to

is certainly an General Post Office Film Unit. some, of their powers. The main cancer and dreadful illnesses.

The only antidote to fear of reserve a little of the limelight adventure: for at least three In this class of film the British purpose of the recommendations is

unknown is

people. to know; to for the husband. school of producers is pre- eminent. At the Film Festival

the

The

are

TALES THAT THRILLED

YOUNG

YES

THE

the safeguarding of Innocent par- the ties and witnesses who attend in- quests. There is no suggestion held in connection with that the Coroners of England and Wales, who number altogether 300.. Brussels Exhibition last

but abusing their powers, October, the first prize was won rather that their powers are too

man stories: Dick Turpin, dear to the by a

film produced by the wide. Thus it is recommended

that they should no longer have the chasing their favourite penny QEEING some laddies eagerly pur-

patrons and proprietors of the circus, General Post Office Film Unit,power to commit persons for trial

and a fuss-known compeer of Dick's dreadfuls-not for penny, however I read long ago in a penny dreadful, known as Sixteen String Jack, from and in the scientific section all on charge of murder, manslaugh at my newsagent's the other day, at a time when these literary produc- the ribbons he wore tied in a hunch to his highwayman top-boots. There the awards were won by British ter, or infanticide, and that no my mind was carried back many years tions really did sell at a penny.

person should be accounted guilty to my first rending of Stevenson's In the first half of the 1870'k, when was also a ferocious pirate Black documentary films. It should of these offences merely as the re-story of "The Bottle Imp." This set I was about ten years old, an elder Beard, who liked similar adornments be understood that the documen-sult of proceedings in the Coroners' ne wondering whether anyone now- brother of mine was the possessor of which he used to enhance the beauty the a small packing box to which he had of his beard. There was also the de- tary film does not attempt to Courts. It is suggested that in adays knows where R.L.S. get

idea of the story.

added a lock. The box was stowed bonair Claude Duval, whose romance such cases the Coroner's task is generally assumed that it was away under his bed, and only on occa. reached a higher plane than the circus compete with the ordinary should be limited to finding out his own invention; but this is not the elons was I permitted to enjoy its ring even, und graced the boards of commercial product of Hollyhow, when and where the death took case. The story underwent a sca-contents. It held a rich treasure, and the penny gaff. wood or of Elstree which is the place. In regard to inquests in-change when Stevenson retold it to "The Bottle Imp" was part of it.

volving civil liabilities, the report his South Sea audience, but essential- There was nothing "dreadful" about Exciting Fair centre of British film produc- recommends that such trints shouldly it is the same story as one that these storier, There were highway- tion. Its aim is not to amusc likewise be reserved to the ordin- the public. It is not spectacula.nry Courts. Among the numerous the Com- or sensational. It has a cultural recommendations of

mittee one

affecting especially and educational purpose, and to public opinion concerns inquests on this end it builds up interesting suicides. It is suggested that the and dramatic pictures of the clude such phrases as "auicide while verdicts of Coroners should not in-

realities of everyday life. It of unsound mind"; they should be has aroused among millions of contined solely to the decision as people an interest in science and to whether the deceased died by his or her own hand. It is inevitable industry and in such great na- that a suicide must be mentally tional organisations as the Post deranged, according to one school Office and the British, Broad-of thought. But the modern view is somewhat different, certainly casting Corporation. It

en less harsh and generally fairer. courtages a more active interest | Why should a Coroner put a stigma commerce, industry, the upon some unfortunate whom cir- cumstances have driven to take his immense ramifications of own life? people

are asking. tional organisations, and in Suicide is not always the act of a social affairs. Perhaps more mad man.

in

than any other type of film, the

documentary film allows the There were, a few years ago, at

| photographer and the producer a Colonial Office conference in

the freedom of experiment, the London, suggestions of somej liberty to express themselves in organised scheme, in which the the most artistic manner possi- Governments of the smaller ble in this particular medium. It Colonies would interest them- goes far to justify the descrip-selves, for the distribution | tion of the cinema given by the of more British films in these President of the British possessions. Whether the pro- Cinematograph Society as "one jeet was ever fully developed, of the sociological wonders of we do not know, but there can the century." Unfortunately, be no questioning the point that| hims of the type under notice much that is instructive 'and do not reach Hongkong, in entertaining along the liner which connection we cannot mentioned is available from]

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¡SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Now I will explain why you shouldn't bet on more than half the horses in one race."

Depend upon it, the boys of R.LS's. day were well catered for, even al- though the dinema was not yet in- vented. In fact, these earlier writers contributed much to the early cinema. The pre-war Red Indian pictures on the screen were nothing now to the fathers or even the grandfathers of the boys who enjoyed them. These youngsters paid fourpence for the Juxury of tip-up seat; I sat on the kitchen fender, only occasionally con- scious of how unpleasant it could be, and road by the light of the fro Only the conditions were altered, it would be hard to say which of us enjoyed the stories most

Young Robert Louis Stevenson knew nothing of moving pictures; but the must have baconis excited over the illustrations that accompanied the highwayman tales. A highly-colour- od print in the old woodblock stylo twas occasionally "given away" gratin with some particular number. I especially recall one speelman titled, "Claude Duval Dances. Minuet with the Lady on the leath." That would surely have a rarity value to-day; and, there were others just as good.

en-

Why they were just an exciting as, and over so much more beautiful than, the pictures oh the Police News past- ed outside the news-shop in the West Port (whore the Chalmers Memorial Church now stands) which I made many a pilgrimage to - see, and thought well worth the trouble.

But that box of my brother's had no connection with any "wrong box"; it was the right sort of box for a email boy, and held other treasures which may have appealed to young Stovenson; and may have contributed to his stock of stories. There wore, for instance, "The Boys of England" and "The Young Men of Great Britain.". My taste was for the dormer of these; they contained the great "Jack farkaway" series, and I aure every boy to-day would charlah the coloured picture, "Alone in the Pirates' Lair," showing Jack with Cutlass acting undauntedly amidst a clipico collection of animals, including a lan and a huge python, but nover la pirate in sight!...¿

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