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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER

MOMENT PAGE

1936.

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

Cabal demands to sse The Boss: He orders the dictator to submit to WINGS OVER THE WORLD, an organiza- tion of airmen who are bringing order into chaos. The Bots ordors him thrown in prison.

Cabal is visited by Roxane, who rules The Boss. She offers to go over to Cabal's sido, and confosses sha is in love with him. Ho pretends to agres in order to gain timo, ma a

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Peer who

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DEMOCRAT

Men, Movements and Myself,

by Lord Snell (Dent, 185.).

ORD SNELL of Plumstead

he will never really be known by any other name than Harry Snell-represents the heat type of British pubile lie.

and from all At all times,

been parties this country has especially fortunate in the number

men and women who, rising above petty desires for advance- int and gain, have served their fellows with an austere single. mindedness which has done much to save us from the corruption and vularity which are the besetung dangers of all democracies."

Of these grent deniocrats, Hurry Snell La Baprème example. In his book.

s with modest elaquruce the. story of a career which has enriched the nation re and inspired thous- ands to the higher falls of social duty.

It is a story which begins in the Not. tinghamshire cornfields when, at eight years of age, young Snell begin work earing moks from the erop-It goes un until he becomes the rivte bend of the greatest municipal authority in the world.

From the fields to the pubs. For the next years of his life he was groom. ferrying atul Jack-of-all- 10:41 trades at inns, But although I must have taled beer... I no longer recull what it was like, and the detestation of the liquor trade which I then developed whLA Intense that I have Aluce voluntarily entered a Hover public-house in this country.

Then follow for finery Boell months of privation, and unemployment. He got a job a french polisher's assist- ant at aix shilings a week. The firm fallo and his Christmas dinner is brend and dripping.

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

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

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

The Fate denotes some unca- pected fortune or gain; public recognition the overcoming of dificulties; many journeys by land and water. Romantic love

afairs; an early marcky day!

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the colours scarlet and slats blue. The lucky stone is the emerald. Mascots, the four, honeysuckle monkey and Perfumes parrot. or sweet pea. The lucky dates. of month the 5, 14, and 33. arts where favmir.

able events occur, 6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 41, 48. Affairs of the heart at 28, 29, and 30.

tions involved, the spiritual depression and the mami agony of it all remain indelibly written upon my memory."

That speech was univers- ally regarded as the best ou→ the humble Address to which MPS lind istened for many years.

Harry Snell is indeed one of the finest speakers the Labour Movemeist has pro- duced, and his book is packed with fascinating pen pletures of the meetings he addressed and the people with whom he mixed in the ploneering days.

But the Ife of the trave)- ling propagandist is one of contimions uncertainty and hardship. and few would

Cabalis released to put the Everytown planos in order, He conspiras with Gordon, who cr capas in a plane to bring aid. The airman come to the rescue, raining down gas bo.zby.

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edited by ROGER PIPPETT

HERE'S HAIR 1

One of the illustrations in "Cari-Cari," by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (published next week

follow such a career for its by Constable). This artistje Shilluk coiffure

material rewards."

In these later years he is still an unrepentant Ration- nils. "I never made a

frightened daily audit of the

accounts of my soul, nor hourly felt ite pulse to make sure it was not well," Dean Inge will enjoy his reflections on prayer.

High honours have come Lard Snell's way in the closing stages of a great career-but he never pushed nor + shoved

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

Full fledged in scarlet and ermine he passes to the House of Lords, but as a service to his Party, and his cause, Hot to gratify the whim to be called "My Lord." er to rank high in so- ciety. And when he takes his title it in to ansociate the pleblan name of Plumstead with the peerage.

To his astonishment, after Labour's great LO.C. victory, Herbert Morrison offers him the chairmanship,

the greatest honour I have ever received." The most fitting comment is the fact that when Lord Snell'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 ane spirit, untouched with any bit terness or jealousy. At the end there are no regrets or recantations. "If I had to live my life over again I should wistr only to do better what. I hayo sought to do." Who could say more? E. E. HUNTER.

Lloyd

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takos years to cultivato,

-READ-

THESE for..

Life

CITY FOR CONQUEST, by Aben Kandel (Michael Joseph, ús. Gd.), A vallant and largely successful attempt to capture the seething life of New York within two covers.

Fantasy

STAR TURN, by Rene

Clair

(Chatto and Wiridus, 78. Gd.). In which a famous producer offers you a fantasia on the madness of super-publicity and box-once worship.

Reality

THE

INTELLIGENT MAN'S WAY TO PREVENT WAR, planned and edited by Leonard A Wool! (Gollancz. 2s. 6d.). still cheaper edition of a vital and urgent symposium. Thrills

A CLUBFOOT OMNIBUS, by

Valentina Winiams (Hodder and. Stoughton, 78. 8d.). Pour corn- plete novels in one volume." And a preface on the birth of the Herr Doktor.

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The gas does not bring duath, but femporary sloop. The Boss roars his defiance to the last, but eventu- elly he, too, succumbs. When he returns to 'con sciousness, the airmen are fully in control

Did They Ever Live?

THE HERO: A STUDY IN TRADITION, MYTH AND DRAMA By Lord Raglan (Methuen, 10%. Gd.).

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OME men and women decline to be impressed by the noble foreheads, the set smiles and the massive bulk of the Heroes of History. They look them over with a critical eye, searching for the weak spot: they walk round them. noting how the paint has run and the plaster flaked....

Lord Raglan, who has made als name as an anthropologist, is one of these challenging, Inquisitive people- and this book, heavily documented but most attractively written, should serve as a model for future assaults on tradi- tioonl reputations.

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He set la stance in his pretnee. "Whereas modern alories

are assumed to be fictitious 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, which is notoriously rafe Among moderns, is gratuitously assumed to have been universal among the an- cients."

And in the pages that follow he shows, again and again, that the "smoke" whith curls up from many un oft-told tale rises from mythical and not historical fire..............

Lord Raglan proceeds to demolish a host of pedigrees, Nurman and otherwise, and question the exist ence of Robin Hood, King Arthur and some others.

Worming to his work of destruction. the author plets out the pattern of the model hero, who displays twenty-two characteristics, starting as the child of a royal virgin and a king and ending unburied but with one or more holy sepulchres. Let 113." anys our critic gently, apply this pattern to our dipus gets full marks. heroes." Romulus and Perseus score eighteen. Jason fifteen, Apolla eleven and Elijah

nine.

I have enjoyed this book enormously. And so, I hope, will you la an age 'when' the Hero Myth, is being manu« factured all over the place" on an unprecedented scale, it is good to know that searchera lika Lord Raglan are asking for the facts, the whole facta and nothing but the facts-and refus- ing to be satianed with fancles, "how- ever hear with time,

R. P.

BAFFLER

THIS is an extract from a news- paper: KHAIRKHYN, MON- GOLIA.-The mysterious dis- appearance of four Americans was solved here to-day. A trader

come reported having across the remains of four men deep in the Gobi Desert. They were definitely Identified as Un Osborn. veteran Mongolian Andrew Clay, phyal- explorer: cian; Dudley White, naturalist; and

Butler, Thomas

young college graduate.

The four accompanied by guides, set off for the interior on a selenuine expedition over nine months ago. Nothing had since been heard of them.

men.

A scrawled message pleked up by

the trader offers a problem for attorneys and heirs of the four

Ench

made a

a will provid- ing that at death his estate was to be divided among the sur viving

members of the party. should there be ara.

110 sur- vivors, it was to go to the heirs of the LAST of the four to die. Owing to long exposure it was impossible to decipher the mess sage completely, and the follow- ing is all that could be rend: "I have no

idea value of collection and robbed....na- Hives....guides fled....if I knew ...killed in fight....water. this country might get. food he dled to-night...guns ond ammunition. this morning

stole his drugs .died carly

they took....with them....rest gone...my turn soon....going. fast...good-bye... The signa- ture could not be read.

"

How did the Jawyers deter- mine the identity of the last sur- vivor?

BAFFLER

Mar

The name of the

is Thomas Butler. Careful reading of the message discloses-

1. That: he was not the naturalist because he states: "I have no idea value of collection."

2. That he was not the veteran

at explorer as ho

"If I knew this country might get."

3. That he was not the physi-

clan because he

"stole his drugs."

wrote:

4. Therefore, he was Thomas Butler, college graduate.

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