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THE HONGKONG TILEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1986.

SPECIAL TRAINING

FOR BUSINESS The growing popularity of the course of business training be gun some years ago at the Lon- don School of Economics is

world awaited the revelation of a grave scandal.

One thing it does show: that the keeping of a diary

Locked up!

-Says-

Margaret Lane

Mary Astor (left) talking to her friend, Ruth Chatterton, in court during the sensa- tional lawsuit in Los Angeles.

ABOUT by

The Showman.

AM grateful to somebody-I have forgotten his name, and I am too lazy to look it up-who wrote an article, this week, which hinted at a progressive, world water shortage.

Ho admitted, by the way, that this was hard to bellevo in Great Britain now that summer is here.

But he did envisage an arid world reduced to tapping the polar tec-capa for water, as Lowell suggested had been done on Mars with those disputed canals.

This is a conception to which the word "awful" may be properly np plied. Thinking about it does you good, because, for once, you see the idiotic eqtrabbles of nations in their right per- spective.

Shall we ever comtine for happiness and self-preservation? Ons seeins probable now-will the Last Man be left shooting at his reflection in the Lust Mirror with the Last Machine Gun?

'EGGS OF HELL"

I have been urged to continue my uncompleted novel, "Eggs of Hell," past the point where, I got stuck be- cause Captain Peter Pullover, of the Secret Service, faced by five giant Chinese with automaties, had mislaid his machine-gun,"

You may remember thpt a bamb in his breakfast egg bed exploded, bring- ing down the ceiling, and that he had a wife called Lady Elte. of dazzling beauty? Very well. Now read on.

Her Ladyship's Entrance QUDDENLY a machine-gun bepan Its devilish chatter behind Pull- over, and the Clunee, mouthing curses, were stricken to the floor.

What on earth..." he began. Then there was a crash. And he knew 710 more.

When he recovered consciousness, his wife was bending over film and ad- justing his amoked glasses so that her dazzling beauty would not blind him.

"Yes," she said softly, it was T. The explosion threw uur machine- There gun into my hands upstairs. icas no ceiling, so I saw the Chinese; and then the Taupied deliciously - just dropped in an you."

He, too, laughed, and drew her into A long embrace while the floor, also weakened by the explosion, began very Alowly and very tenderly to give way beneath them.

Fairy Story

THE nowe wns this. Franels Lederer had a surplus of cabbages on hila farm near Hollywood, thirty thousand of them. So he began pasting them off in sackfuls to everyone he knew.

indicative of changed ideas is a dangerous amusement. Inter, they usually manage to bite the hand that writes them. which now prevail in regard to

The only kind that is safe

I always regard with wonder fitting young men for à commer- cial life. It is shown in the is the kind that is not worth anyone with the persistent per- a diary. I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. School's latest report that there keeping, for all the best sonal faith to keep

Diarists are born, not made, and mail Wellington before the has been a stream of university Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. graduates from the principal diaries are thoroughly indis- I have never been able to keep publication of the anemoirs, and one for more than two days of his famous reply: "Publish together.

and be damned!"-expressive of I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot..Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. centres of learning passing into creet.

To be able to take a little a defiant dignity which even The Scene Changes-Fox Trot ...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. business through the one-year post-graduate course. The new

closely packed volume (1917, reputation-conscious film stars Johnson's Orchestra. attitude of business leaders is in

perhaps?)

the sceret might adopt with profit. 8816 It's been so long-Fox Trot

Every time I look at you-Fox Trot Johnson's Orchestra striking contrast to the view so

drawer in your desk and dis- Harriette, more fortunately BALLAD, inspired by Sir Austen long held that the best and only

cover what you were doing on for for not saying clearly what it 8817 Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)

Prime Scala Accordeon Band efficient training ground for NOTES OF THE DAY that particular 12th of August. mosterity than for her. noble, ernmen

8814

8822

Piano Medley No. R.19

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However amusing they are to yourself at the time, and to other people, for otter reasons,

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And what do you think he found t derneath each cabbage? Why, a dear, little baby Bim-atar:: And now they nre all owling their heads off because thero aren't enough diamond-studded cols to go round.

Isn't that a pretty story, ducks?

Eden's Lament

Chamberlain's rebuke to the Gov

To be sung by Mr. Eden in a plaintive voice.

I hope, oh, I hope, oh, I hope

You WILL not confuse the poor

Cabinet:

I know that I hand out soft body

With precious jew facts you can

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But please do not blame me-pou

know how I try!-

Or else, atsure you, I'll break down

and cry!

Now please don't, now please don't,

nowo PLEASE

Don't ask for a definite answer; -

Bir:

My tight-rope aways so in a breeze,

And I'm such a divident dander,

It isn't a matter for cynical mirth I'd fall-and I DON'T want to come

down to earth!

Wags' Corner

The fat man and his wife were re- turning to their seats in the theatre after the interval,

"Did I tread on your toes na I went out?" he asked the man in a seat on the gangway.

"You did," the other replied grimly. "It's all right, Mary," said the fat man, turning to his wife, this is our row."

must produce a delicious sense and the rush to buy the paper- young men is in business itself.

ajof personal importance.

backed numbers in which the proved Broadcasting has Those who adhered to this view-

in strong stimulus to education

book appeared was so riotous point envisaged the boy fresh England. Thousands of school-Great Scandals

that a barrier had to be erected from school.beginning at the children and students can

to protect the publisher's shop. lowest rung of the ladder and listen to talks given by experts on

a great variety of subjects, and THAT sense of importance, of S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. working his way up to the top. focal education authorities, realis course, is one of the prime A Best-Seller:

Chater Road. The university-trained young ing their value, are contributing essentials of keeping à diary.

man was looked at askance, as financial assistance to many of the That, and an unquestioning TT sold 30 editions in one year, Histening schools. About 5.500 Faith in the said diary's in- its indiscretions making it an one whose head was so full of British schools are recorded as re-

instantaneous best-seller. It is theories as to leave little roomgular listeners, and the number violable secrecy.

Once you admit the thought still excellent reading because for the ordinary hard facts of rapidly increases. Over 300 were:

air. registered between January and that one day your diary is going Harriette, besides having num- life. There can, of course, be May this year. As a result of this to be read by amused and hos berless love-affairs with the gentry, had also a sharp wit, a no disputing the fact that there increase, the British Broadcasting tile persons (as, needless to say, vigorous pen, and the trick of is great value in first-hand know-Corporation has decided to give ledge of business-that, in this more time to school broadcasts and every diary eventually is), you being able to reproduce exactly

con-are inhibited from entering any. to develop the programmes sphere as in others, an ounce ofsiderably. The new

scheme is thing more innocuous than the conversational mannerisms.

Her book had all the quall- practice is worth & ton of based on the replies received from times and places of

schools to a list of questions cir- luncheon engagements, And ties which make a dangerous theory. But something more is culated to teachers throughout those, even to yourself when you diary live. needed, and that "something" Great Britain. School broadcast-

Another succes de scandale can be summed up by saying ing was formerly concerned with are 80, are not good enough

Lady Charlotte Bury's that the better the general the requirements of children from reading to have been worth the

eleven to fourteen; now provision trouble.

diary, published in 1888 by her education of a young man is, the is made for all children from five

Some diaries have made husband (probably against her more readily will he adapt him- to eighteen years of age. There

great scandals in their day will) when he was hard up. self to a business life, always is one course for infants, there

and have provided much ex- Are seven for juniors, eleven for

Since she had been for many Thorpe's attorney could wish. assuming that he has a due secondary schools. During the cellent reading for other

years a lady-in-waiting to the had the good grace to write his share of character and intelli- coming year there will thus generations.

unfortunate Caroline Princess of gence. In other words, there twenty-five couraes, including some).

In Welsh, covering a wide range Perhaps even Miss Astor's Wales, whom the Prince Regent journals in code and to die be- fore the immortal books saw must be specialised education as of subjects such as would normally diary, if carefully preserved, treated so badly and who was well as actual experience if the be outside the scope of the average will provide some future his- herself rather an unfastidious daylight. Parson Council torian with invaluable material person, her diary was full of

Woodforde, best results are to be obtained. School Broadcasting has done on the social manners of Holly- malicious revelations about the gentle, interminable, irresistible whose

It is true that many instances much to develop the closest possi-wood in the twentieth century. Court.

chronicle of the small doings of can be quoted of men who have ble contact between the teacher risen to high posts without the and the broadcaster. The result

Though its sales were im- an eighteenth-century lifetime, of recent efforts that school Famous Harriette advantage of such education, but broadcasting has

the book cost Lady with no indiscretions greater than the compassionate noting Charlotte many of her friends. these have succeeded in spite of measure of success undreamed of

of a housemaid's mishap, created their educational shortcomings, by those who initiated the experi- THE greatest scandal of the

One of them, whose indiscreet no scandal, made no ears burn.. kind that was ever created

the and not because of them. This ment some twelve years ago.

was that which exploded in letters had appeared in type of individual would,' in any

London with the publication of diary, wrote to her scathingly: Or Better...Burn it! ovent, forge his way to the top, in his office, but has to be sought Harriette Wilson's memoirs. "When I wrote the ailly, im- through sheer determination and after and won in the face of

not, properly pertinent letters in question, be- an inherent capacity to adapt much rivalry. There are, ad himself to changing condition mittedly, types of university speaking, a diary, but the metaly (ween 20 and 30 years ago. 1 Bgreat dine ties require 10 immortalise our men, who are unsuited for ious. Harriette compiled her know that I was writing to the us, no matter how violent the He is not, however, typical of modern business life, which is amorous adventures for the Duke of Argyll's daughter, and urge the majority. With every pass- another way of saying that a Press with diary-like fidelity to thought myself safe by all the emotional reactions on a clean ing year, business is becoming university education will not of fact and detail, and must have common laws of good breeding page, are really that. more complex, and the success itself provide the necessary had a lifetime of small diary and morality. But I find I was extremely deceived." A nine- ful pursuit of it demands larger equipment. But the man who,notes to help her.

teenth-century, example of sud- knowledge and wider outlooks. by special training, coupled with World competition is keener n practical knowledge of his plicating no lesser men than the frivolities!

They were pure scandal, in- den alarm over long-forgotten. every day, and the Briton, whe-work, is educated in the broadest Marquess of Worcester, Lord ther he stays at Home or goes sense of the term, will accom-Alvanley, Beau Brummell, the overseas, is being constantly plish more than he who has 3rd Duke of Leinster, and

business made aware of this fact. No- merely fallen into

choicest sensation of all-the where is this competition more career and has taken little pains Duke of Wellington. evident than in the Far East, to increase his knowledge or be

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The ordinary diarist is un in- trospective, self-centred person, Irresponsible about the trouble for others that, these self-com- munings on paper are likely to

The best diaries in the cereale. world are those which were kept secret, written without

For these diarists there should ben stringent rule-keep the thing locked up or, better still, ns Indiscreet burn it! And for the rest of us, :

a thought of publication. Samuel Pene

where business no longer falls come closely acquainted with The story is well known of into the lap of the man who sits modern commercial trends. Harriette's attempt to black- and self-revealing as even Dr.- beware of diaristel