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SIR SHOUSON CHOW

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THERE is a story told tinise it as it drew from me about Goethe that he when I tried to fathom it, not only as a mere human face, but could read with an uncanny as the symbol of a swiftly- precision a man's life story changing great civilisation that by studying his face. How has given us such wonderful heirlooms in the Arts and in I longed for just a brief Literature. What I record here possession of that gift when of our heart-to-heart talk is I came face to face with the but a faint echo of the fine hu-

of the the fact that no longer see some Hon. Sir Shouson Chow! man message with which he humour than

enriched my life.

whilst our old classic plays were Western customs and institu- Alas, even after all these

"Has the revolutionary very solemn affairs, never once tions with Eastern eyes. For years of making a life study modern spirit in China brought losing dignity, in our modern instance, I have many a good well as external OLD SHIP O' MINE (Arden)

of the human face, I can in its wake a greater apprecia- plays a comedian is about as internal as

tion of humour?" I asked.. indispensable as whisky and laugh over your fashionably fathom no further than to "Decidedly, SONG OF THE LIFT (Evans)

yes, especially sada to a Scotsman when his dressed ladies, and I wonder Primo Scala's Accordeon Band Hongkong Telegraph. tell the difference between when we compare the cult of day's work is done. when and where they will draw SORRENTO BY THE SEA

the face of a man who has humour of our days with bye- "I have no objection, to these the safety zone limit. SPANISH GYPSY DANCE

lived a full life and those-gone ages. The Chinese scholars modern plays, for every genera- "All people, at times, fail to TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936. Troise & His Mandoliers

the majority-who

of old cultivated humour about tion should express its own life, appreciate a humorous situa- have

as diligently as the Eskimos its own aspirations and its own tion, or are unconscious of it, 8730 WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER-Fox Trot

Casani Club Orchestra ETHIOPIA AND only existed. To use the cultivate the manufacturing of tragedies. But I do object to when they are in one. Take the vicious patois of the carica- fans. Things humorous and the hybrid presentation of our story of the husband who had MOON FOR SALE-Fox Trot .....Casani Club Orchestra

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turist, we call the latter ridiculous were not considered classics when costumes of the always boasted that in his home LOVE IS A DANCING THING-Fox Trot

worthy of their genius. That is Ming period are worn in the he was the master, and not his Casani Club, Orchestra There has been a tendency "mushroom mugs."

why, although China has pro- same scene as those of to-day, wife-a silly thing in itself, for, MOON OVER MIAMI-Fox Trot. Casani Club Orchestra lately to treat the Ethiopinn

Some day, when our educa- duced as great a literature as and when the original classical even if you think you are, don't SOME OTHE TIME Waltz Jack Payne & His Band question and the

situation. tional systems will devote more the Classics of the West, never- Chinese is interlarded with jeopardise the position by talk- RHYTHM IN MY NURSERY RHYMES-Fox Trot

never been present-day colloquial. It is ing about it in public. This Jack Payne & His Band created by Germany's re-occupa-time and brain matter to the theless she has

tion of the Rhineland as two study of Life in its fuller sense, blessed with a Mark Twain, just about as preposterous as if foolish chap riled her ladyship SYMPATHY-Waltz 8709

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the human face Voltaire, Saphir, or a the study of

Wode- one heard Shakespeare rendered one day and was driven under SYMPATH OWNE_Fox Trof... Casuni Club Orchestra wholly distinct problems which will be taken at least as serious house. That does not mean a in 20th Century siang.

the bed with a rod. She com- bear no relationship to one an-

"What is the outstanding manded him: 'Come out at 8722 SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC-Fox Trot

Jay Wilbur & His Band other. One result of this ten-y as our researches into the total lack of humour

matrimonial inventories of Chinese people as a race. Not difference between Western and once! That was the last thing in the world he wanted to do just WHY DID SHE FALL FOR THE LEADER OF THE BAND?—dency was seen in a recent sug- King Solomon, the time wasted at all. The people have always Chinese humour ?" I asked.

a sense of humour, and Fox Trot

Jay Wilbur & His Band gestion in some quarters which in memorising the length of had

Now you have me cornered," then, so he shouted at her: I'll stay EENY MEENY MINEY MO-Fox Trat

went the length of advocating Amazon River, and the number though at times they may lack answered Sir Shouson, with a 'Nothing of the sort. Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra the calling off of sanctions of petticoats worn by Helen of the ability to express it as effec- smile, "for most of my educa- right there. I'll show you who is Troy when she first flirted with tively as the humorists of lion was gained in the West and the master in this house!' What I FEEL LIKE A FEATHER IN THE BREEZE-Fox Trot

that Johnny Johnson & His Orchestragainst Italy in order that Italy Paris. When

Utopian Western civilisation, neverthe my continuous association with does it prove? That sometimes might join in applying sanctions chapter is recorded, I fervently less they can certainly ap Europeans has undone my the Chinese unconsciously, turn 8724 WALTZES ROUND THE WORLD

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weeks than I have gathered in

my roamings through British DOOTS, boots boots,

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out incredible quantities of rain- over the frontier to attack n OIL IN BRITAIN

India, Burma, the Malay States All day long they rattle. An in-water, or clinking along on knobs uf neighbour with aerial bombard- An enormous amount of oil is and the Dutch East Indies dur- cessant stream of them-a world of iron-they all have their story to sell. It is ing the past two and a half boots alive, boots with personalities, Here is the little light pair which ment and poison gas. But, al-used in Great Britain.

boots with expressions as telling as Even at my school per- a child's, boots that talk-and make comes along sharp at eleven every though that difference has been catimated that nearly 2,000 million years..

morning. They tap out their bright, gallons, costing thirty million.formances, again and again my themselves understood.

staccato song the song of a Bled in manifest, there has been a ten-pounda sterling, are Imported humorous bits are interrupted

Anxious boots hurrying to business, the spring, the song of youth and dency of late in Europe to for-every year. So far the only oll by an explosion of laughter long reluctant boota dawdling to school,

going, but I have never found out. I get the Ethiopian question produced has been that obtained before I come to the end of the breakfastless boots went on catching hope. I often wonder where they are from coal by hydrogenation pro-tale. That identient story told ferries, beats which rebound with joy rather fancy they meet another, simply because of the emergence cesses. Now an effort is to be to a school of Hindu children and boots which drag along so wearily rather larger pair of boots, over, some

that their sound is like a knell.

"oleven's" at the corner shop. but of another problem nearer home. made to find and tap 'natural

On March 30 drilling would almost serve as a narco-

Boots, boots, boots... Marching they never come back ny way.

And there are those heavy, mouri- with firm, assured tread, or stagger. ing along to the tuna of a drunken tainous booteatern boots that shake song-stepping delicately on tip-toe, the very foundations of my room. or acurrying furtively from door, to They speak of law and order. door in gulity haste; boots pumping

Actually, the two questions are sources.

so closely interlocked as to be began on the first test well to be tic. But let Sir Shouson Chow

sunk in England under the provi- continue: different aspects of the same sions of the Petroleum Act of "Nothing demonstrates more problem. France is concerned 1934. The plant has been set up convincingly the development of

two months, and over the re-occupation of the in less than

roads have been made and build- Rhineland because she regardsings erected with amazing speed.

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Boots, boots, boots .... There are boots which scarcely seem to touch the ground, so lightly do they tread, each boots which quiver like Jellies

which grind savagely on the stones, and boots which amile jauntily in a dozen places.

There are self-assured $1,000-a- month boots, clean and respectable, without a care in the world, and there Are mellow old boots of friendly aspect and aristocratic connections. There are patent boots with large in- and uneasy consciences, and bursting boots distorted by corn and bunion.

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it as a threat to her "security". This pioneering effort to find all SIDE GLANCES By George Clark deliberate step, bokser She would not be concerned in England is being initiated by about it if she were perfectly the D'Arcy Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the Anglo-Iranian convinced that "collective secur-Oil Company. ity" was so strong as to rule out

The oil-drilling plant is of all danger of her being attacked. British manufacture and is capa Had she believed unreservedly ble of drilling to a depth of near- in collective accurity she wouldly three miles. Above the plant have been prepared to apply stands a great derrick reaching to a height of 136 feet, with a sanctions more drastically and loading capacity of 400 tons. more speedily against Italy. Power for the plant is supplied by steaming She held back because she was four bollers with

capacity of more than 14,000 hovering between a policy based pounds an hour at a pressure of on collective security and one 250 pounds A square inch. based on alliances. France The work of drilling the well may would benefit, as every other take two years and cost as much

its £00,000. The enterprise, ast} country would benefit, from a Sir John Cadman, Chairman of feeling of heightened security if the Company, pointed out, is a the League of Nations could business venture based on scienti- show that it was strong enough fie observation. The test borings are proceeding on the, slopes of to protect weak nations from Portedown Hill, five miles from stronger aggressive Powers. Portsmouth. This particular site a result of The proof of that would be the has been chosen as greatest contribution yet made geological ovidence obtained and, If the enterprise is successful, a

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to the achievement of collective new national industry will begin. security. It is impossible to dissociate this question of the protection of weaker Powera Ethiopia brings that issue to the very forefront of international, from the general question of politics. If there is any waver- security in Europe. They arcing now, the League will not! both part and parcel of the same only be for all intents and pur task-that of making the League poses put out of business, but so strong that none would dare the whole principle on which it rests will be shattered once and its authority. The situa for all and a return to the old tion created by the announce system of alliances made (nevit- ment of Italy's annexation of able.

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"And the moon's surface contains about 14,667,000 square-

miles, or nearly four times the area of Europe."

Where are Boots, boots, boots..

ΠΟΥ Many aro they all going? descripts, passing out once on my- sterious missions, but others come and! go as regularly as the clock. There are boots going to be married, "boots going to fall, boots going nowhere in particular, boots going anxiously for the doctor, boots chaffing at delay, boots hot with hurry.

Boots preordained to stand all day behind a counter, boots fated to be cut away by the surgeon's knife to re- Icase a crushed body, boots destined to come into violent contact with Impudent people. There are boots tramping away their leather to have their fares, boots going far too many miles to work, and boots looking eternally for a job with the weariness of despair.

There are boots which stand for hours on end, and later come away bothered and thwarted, boots angry,

go swiftly home to newly mar- which rled happiness, and boots which go fearfully in the face of domestic atrifo and, tragedy. There are boots going to heaven, and boots going to Tell.

Boots, boote, boats.,

There are boots going to the shops, boots going to hospital, boots going to court, boots going to the factory to make-boots, boots, boots... W. Shepherd