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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936.

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

THINGS TO COME..

From the Alexander Korda Production of the H. G. Wells' Screen Play.

Cobol demands to son The Boss. Ha orders the dictator to submit to WINGS OVER THE WORLD, an organiza- tion of airmen who are bringing order into chaos. Tho Doss orders him thrown in prison.

Cobal is visited by Roxane, who rules The Bost. She offers to, go over to Cabal's side, and conforses sho is in love with him. He profonds to agree in order to gain time.

Cabal is released to put the Everytown planes in order. He compiros with Gordon, who es- capos in a plana to bring aid. The airmen come to the rescue, raining down gas bestil

The gol doos not bring death, but temporary sloop. The Boss roars his defiance to the last, but oventu ally he, too, succumbs. When he returns to cen sciousness, the airman are fully in control,

BOOKS OF THE

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edited by ROGER

Peer who is

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DEMOCRAT

Men. Movements and Myself,

by Lord Snell (Dent, 18s.).

L

ORD SNELL of Plumstend -he will never really be

and

known by any other name than Harry Snell-represents the best type of British pubille Me.

times,

from At all

!! Korley, this country has been e-mertally fortunate in the number o men and women who, rising asose petty desires for advance- ment and pain, have served their

with an austere shingles mindertues which has done much To save 3 ona the corruption and vulgarity which are the besetting dangers of all democracies,

Of these great democrats, Harry Snell supreme example, It took note with modest eloquence the ory at a career which has enriched the national life and insured thous ands to the higher calk est sortal duty.

It is a story which begins in the Not. Aughamdiré cornfields when, at eight years of age, young Soell begins work rearing rooks froni the crops. It goes on unil he becoines the give head of The greatest municipal authority by the world.

From the Belds to the pubs. For the next years of his le he was groom., 3247112824 Terryman and Jack-of-n!1-'

But although "I must trades ut iams, Inve tasted beer .. I no longer recall what was like, and the detestation of the liquor trade which I then developed was so intense that I have

entered never since voluntarily pubile-house in this country."

Then follow for Harry Shell months of privation and unemployment. He gets a job as a french pollsher's nasist- ant at six shillings a week. The flem falls and his Christmas dinner in bread and dripping.

It was with these experiences as his background that Harry Snell, in mov- ing the Address when the first Labour Government came to office, told the House of Commons;

I have walked the streets unem ployed, heart-broken and foot-poke. and although I have now forgotten the hungry days, and the physical priva.

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Imaginative glven to romancing. Subject to moods and easily hurt 11 not appreciated with a desire for publicity,

The character is fond of home, travel, 'strange yet enjoying scenery, musle and drama.

The Fate denotes some unex- pected fortune or gain; public recognition the overcoming of dinculties; many Journeys by land and water. Romantic love affairs and

an early marriage, Wednesday is the lucky day; the colours scarlet and slate blue. The lucky stone is the emerald, Mascots, the fox, monkey and parrot. Perfumes honeysuckle or sweet ped.", The lucky dates of any month the 5, 14, and 23. Eventful apes where favour- able events occur, 6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 41, 48. Affairs of the heart at 22, 29, and 30...

ilons involved, the spiritual depression and the moral 10 31 remain Opony of Indelibly written upon my memory."

That speech was univert- ally regarded as the best on the humble Address to which M.P.And stened for many

year,

Harry Sueli is indeed one of the nest penkers the Labour Movement has pro- duced, and his book la paelted with fascinating pen pictures of the meetings he addressed and the people with whom he mixed in the plonerring-

days.

But the life of the travel- lg propagandist is one of Continious uncertainty and would hardship, and few fullow Fuch a career for its musterial rewards."

HERE'S HAIR 1

One of the illustrations in "Cari-Cari," by Hugo Adolf Bornatzik (published next week by Constablo). This artistic Shilluk coiffure takos yours to cultivato,

In these later years he is Hi at unrepentant Ration- alist, "I Hever made frightened daily nudit of the acentants of my soul, nor hourly felt it pulse to make sure it was not well.' Dean Inge will enjoy his reflections on prayer.

High honours have come Lord Bnell's was in the closing stages of a great Career-bul Jap sever piinlied for sloved,

"I had never sought office in any way. I would not have asked the Government to pass me he suit..."

Full fledged in scarlet and ermine he passes to the House of Lords, but as is service to his Party and his cause, not to gratify the whim to be called or to rank high in so- "My Lurd," elets. And when he takes his title it 1 to associate the plebian name of Plumstead with the peerage.

To is astonishment, after Labour's great LOO. victory, Herbert Morrison offers him the chairmanship, "the greatest honour I have ever received." The most fitting.comment in the fact that when Lord Sncil's name was first announced there was one chorus of praise: Why, he's the only man for the job. Why didn't we think of him before?"

Lord Snell's is a fine book, written in a fine spirit, untouched with any bit- terness or jealousy.. At the end there are no regrets or recantation "I had to live my life over again I should wish only to do better what I have sought to do." Who could say more?

1. E. HUNTER

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Life

CITY FOR CONQUEST, by Aben Kandel (Michnet Joseph, Es. ed.). A vallant and largely successful attempt to capture the seelhing life of New York within two Covers,

Fantasy

STAR TURN. by Iene Clair

(Chatto and Windus, 7a. (kl.). In which a famous producer offers you a fantasia on the madness of super-publicity and box-office worship.

Reality

TIE INTELLIGENT MAN'S WAR, WAY TO PREVENT -planned and edited by Leonard

Woolf (Gollancz, 21. Gd.). still cheaper edition of a vital and urgent symposium.

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A CLUBFOOT OMNIBUS, by Valentine Willams (Hodder and Bloughton. 78. 04.). Four com~ plete novels in one volume. And A pretace on the birth of th Heir Doktor.

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Did They Ever Live?

THE HERO: A STUDY IN TRADITION, MYTH AND DRAMA

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By Lord Raglan (Methuen, Mas, ed.).

OME men and women decline to be impressed by the noble forehends, the set smiles and the massive bulk of the Heroes of History. They look them over with neritical eye, searching for the weak spot; they walk round them. noting how the palat kuus run and the plaster flaked.

Lord Ruglan, whe has made ab. name as an anthropologist, is one of these challenging. Inquisitive people- and this book, heavily documented bu inost attractively written, should serve as a model for future assaults on tradi- tionni reputations.

BAFFLER

T

WOR

come

IS is an extract from a NEWS- paper: KHARKHYN, MON- dise GOLIA. The mysterious

four Americans appearance of

solved here to-day. A trader reported having across the remains of four men deep in the Gobi Desert. They were definitely identified as Mar- iin Osborn, veteran Mongolian explorer: Andrew Ciny, physi- cian; Dudley White, naturalist: Arrel Thomas

Butter.

young college graduate.

The four, accompanied guldés, set off for the interior on cleatific expedition over nine 21 months ago. Nothing had since been heard of them.

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A scrawled message picked up by the trader offers a problem for attorneys and heirs of the four ach made a will provid-

men.

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sur-

ing that at death his estate was to be divided among the sur- viving members of the party, and, shoukl there he vivors, was to go to the heirs of the LAST of the Cour to die.

Owing

to long exposure it was impossible to decipher the mes sage completely, and the follow- ing is all that could be read: have no idea value of collection

and robbed. attacked

if I knew lives....guides fleri..........if RTE

killed in fight. wate

water

food this country might get. he died to-night...guns and ammunition.... stole his drugs

died early this morning.. they took....with them...rest gone..my turn soon...going fast...good-bye.

He sets his stance in his preface. "Whereas modern stories. assumed to be Actitious unless there is good reason to believe them historical, old stories are commonly assumed to be historical unless they can be proved to be fictitious. Interest in historical fact,

Amon which is notoriously rare moderas, is gratuitously assumed to have been universal among the an- ctents."

And in the pages that follow slows, again and again, that the "smuke", which curls up from many nn oft-told tale rises from mytlucaland_ not historical Dre.

Lord Raglan proceeds to demolish a host of pedigrees, Norman and exist. otherwise, and question the cace of Robin Hood, King Arthur and nome othera, ...

Warning to his work of destruction, the author pluts out the pattern of the model hero, who displays twenty-two characteristics, starting as the child of n royal virgin and a king and ending unburied but with one or more holy sepulchres. "Let us," anys our critic gently, apply this pattern to our heroca." dipus gels full marka. Romulus and Perseus acore eighteen, Juson fifteen, Apollo eleven and Elijah nine.

I have enjoyed this book enormously. And so, I hope, will you. In an age when the Hoto Myth is being manu- factured all over the place on an unprecedented scale, it is good to know that searchers like Lord Raglan are anking for the facta, the whain facts and noliting but the facts-and refus- ing to be satisfied with fancies, bow- ever hour with time.

R. P.

...

The sign-

ture could not be rend.

How did the lawyers deter- mine the identity of the last sur- vivor7

BAFFLER

The name of the man is Thomas Butler. Careful reading of the message dineloses:

1. That he

the naturalist because he states; "I have no ideà value of collection.

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