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THURSDAY, March 18, 1937,

THE PASSING OF

sult of finding myself homeless after I had decided to change from one flat to another.

by

TREVOR WIGNALL

that can be occasioned if the white mixes too freely with the Sinhalese, even though the lat ter be of high birth."

are

COMPARED

San-Francisco- with New York, Chicago, Toron. to. Boston, Phi ladelphia, Do- troit, Halifax, but still 'Frisco won. The only town that threatened to nose it out was New York. I have so many friends there, and I know it so

well. My brain was jugging with the two when flashes came of Quebec and Salt Lake City.

Both were immediately well in

I remembered just in time HAS

[AS it occurred to you that it is not easy to

that a number of telegraph the running, but for differing operators at Aden once told me, reasons. Quebec has nearly select another place in which to

they were not received by the everything-the switchback hills live if for any odd reason you

of San Francisco, the waterfront were thrown out of the one you gouging, and of discovering with other whites because they were that is even better to watch than one glance the exact contents of regarded as workmen. As I

like best?

I

a money packet, that was in- could not stand the snobbery of Battery Point, churches that I AM acquainted with vented before they were put into the East for more than a day have. few equals, and a quaint most of the big long trousers by their fellows of my pen went.through Colomba. atmosphere that deserves to be preserved 1. 2 bottle. Salt places of the earth, and in quite Nice, Monte Carlo, Cannes, and a number I have friends who other places on the French and

LİNGERED long with Lake City is not an oil painting, Bermuda. Once I but I like the way it is conducted, would offer a welcome. But Italian Riviera.

was stationed on the hill at I like the theories of the Mor which to pick on to pass

the years that are left to me-tiere was the problem.

A STATESMAN

WITH the disappearance Prospect, where the main bar mons and their Church, and I of Le Touquet went racks are built, and there were like best of all the vast lake so several others, but then my night, gazing over the moon- filled with salt that it is impos- Britons everywhere, whatever

IN the end I made a list thoughts. dwelt for a time on washed sea, when I wondered sible to sint their political views, will have

of the towns and Colombo. Nice people there, why anything so painfully love- Just at this stage I heard that learned with the deepest regret vide me with the things I regard. It can be a bit trying when the in the main, are steadfastly Bri- make up my mind, but that the cities I felt were qualified to pro and particularly the Sinhalese.ly had been created Bermudians, I had but three more minutes to of the sudden passing of Sired as common-places in Hong- heat is properly on, but there is tish, and a finer crowd I never judge, recognising my extremity, Austen Chamberlain, noted sonkong. Trimmed, it contained much friendliness and very con- prevailing wind that is hard on ing that I could pick six towns hope to meet but there is a had varied the sentence by stat- these names: New York, Mont- siderable hospitality.

of a noted father. Politicians real, Halifax (Nova Scotia),

a wonky chest, hurricanes that or cities for my exile, but that it who had been accustomed to sce-Hamilton (Bermuda), Chicago, quarters and the smells they of constant alight dampness that them in one-two-three order. But then I recalled the native can uproot trees, and a feeling was essential I should place Ling-his spruce-figure and hear Colombo (Ceylon) Paris Mar exude: the resentment of the is not entirely pleasant. Ber- With sighs, I wrote them down sellles, Capetown, Salt Lake British (that is never very palp- muda got about 98 per cent. from thus: 1, San Francisco: 2, Salt ing his vibrant eloquence in the City, Le Touquet, Nice, Geneva, able, but that is definitely just me, but the remaining 2 per Lake City; 3, Quebec; 4, New House of Commons in recent San Francisco, Reno, Rome, below the surface). The reins, cont. years found it difficult to realise Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, the winds, and the loss of caste again I had to look elsewhere.

was so important that York; 6, Le Touquet; 6, Ber- Cologne, Naples, Moscow, Que-

muda.. that he had passed the alloted bec, Kingston (Jamaica), Monte span of three score years and Carlo, Palma (Majorca), Madeira, Barcelona, Jorsoy, De

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were over 20 THERE

film history,

meral of n

good for

longer than any other member, having been first elected over

more that did not THOSE of us who are sometimes on three pictures a year, were "hard |

engaged-in-the-Blm-industry-in-up-and found it difficult to make of continuously producing something -pass-the-fairly-high-standard-I' forty years ago,

The technique of Hollywood, that He was always had set. But 35 was enough to when occasion arises, to give vent to

this country, and are prone, as and ends meet.

new, of not allowing the publie the traditional "House of Com-go on with, enough, indeed, even comparison between the technique price demanded of the film famous stars upon a world which is becoming The question as to whether the mike its own stars, of thrusting new mong man," and his fine Parlia- for an exile.

of Hollywood, may at least console is worth while is one that must take slightly bored with the everlasting mentary gifts, his dignified bear-

First to be struck out were to the moment, cur own film business.

ourselves with the thought that, up a great deal of consideration.

stories of a "new find" whose charm ing, and his unruffled courtesy that order. I have no wish to tragedies

Rome, Moscow, and Berlin, in has been, untrammelled with the After Ten Years

and art will surpass that of anyone who has ever, gone before, may which every litle while

be won him the highest respect of spend a

very good for the finances of the moment in dictator-splash across the page of American There seems to be a similarity befilm companies, but it does not seem

tween the life of a song and the life' all parties. There was a visible ruled countrics, and as I am un-

able to discern much difference ported

The tragedy of Marle Prevost re- of a film star. Once upon a time so good for the stars-it was not so

Marle for Door

Provost. reminder of the elder Chamber- (particularly so far as liberty of once again on the ill-luck that seems and bought for years. To-day the and perhaps sooner than some of us recently, focused attention popular songs were known, sung, And it seems to me that one day... lain, his father, in Sir Austen, the subject is concerned) be to dog the foot-steps of those on life of a popular number is as ephe-think-the directors of

Hollywood mer a passing cloud. The life must

RB 4 who sut, as his parent did, with tween Fascism and Communiam whom Fortune once smiled.

Too many people have started in um star, often dependent upon or whether, In the long run, 200 st pause for moment in their I counted Moscow with Rome the celluloid city, with nothing but the amount of and Berlin, and marked them dreams and aspirations. Too many long in comparison as that of a jazz drum-beating, will not eventually hurried search for new talent, and of world publicity put out by the department, seems as too much publicity and too much three, and be left wondering strung,

number, and if we cast our minds defeat themselves; whether a "publi- stretched out. Sir Austen and whether the third member of the day when, deserted by their ago,

of the worl have

backc faced his single eyeglass seemed never the company was a spy.

we may well ask ourselves it will select its own stars and its friends, workless, with no pros where they have gone, and what own favourites-on merit. parted, no more 80 than his

pect except that of a lucky job as a

they are doing.

The story of Marie Prevost is fathor and his monocle. There

EQUALLY I would hate waitress or a stenographer, they The lesson of Hollywood seems to the story of Hollywood,

to have my move realised that Hollywood is a city of be that life can be tough. The film glamorous, popular, famous,

She was were other physical

resemments ordered, my enthusiasm tragedy as well as fame.

star in his or her heyday, may be had everything. Her pictures hid blances, though politically father curtailed to checra for a person The Bubble Reputation

able to "give It"; but he or she will delighted nudlences throughout the who had decreed I should raise

do well to remember that one day world. She had brought pleasure Nemesis will call, and the darling and amusement to a million people. what different roads. Sir Aus- them, and my identity sunk in a after another a list of famous stars have to learn to "take it" on the get a job.

During the last afteen years one of the film world, will in due course And she died because she could not comic coloured shirt. ten's death will not mean, go

have come into the news. Each story chin. long as his half-brother, Neville, Rome and in Berlin and Moscow. for wondering whether the game is There are lovely regions in has been one of hard luck, no money, ho friends, and one may be forgiven is on the political scene, a sever-But they would not suit me. I really worth the candle for the un-

a monocle screwed into one eye,

their names

hia hat tipped back and his legs out. I would hate to be cne of of them, over-publicts throughout me to the stars of, say, ten years eity sick" world will not decide that

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By A SCHOOLMASTER

Jasper Maskelyne

THE again. Puplis, parents, and dants many unhappy hours.

tence were lifted any of my air not regarded as being so valuable as are struggling hard to make good

attraction of a new star. Worth is a sense of their

She

ance of the last link in the House want no part of them. Musso- fortunate people who, having tasted Are The "Highers" Worth While? with his father. Neville Cham-lini and Hitler and Stalin can little of the sweets of lic, must berlain, now Chancellor of the have the lot. When I vote I will and must see pass before them in the perforce sink back Into anonymity, Exchequer, "and a certainty as of a bell, or the unfurling of a

vote as I wish to, not at the ring very place which has given them

fome

the faces the next Prime Minister, is well flag, or the booming of a gun.

of the newcomers who have stepped into their shoes, on the way to seventy, but he Le Touquet intrigued for a drama of Hollywood is due to the

believe that a great deal of the THE "Highers" are upon us once might save them and their descen- is a man of marked virility, in while, chiefly because I could al- publicity which blares forth spite of his years, and it was his ways remember that if my sen- charms,

the teachers can think of little else. the prowess, or the sex-Pupils, overburdened with work and A Strange Mixture ascendancy in the last few years

own shortcoinings, that marked Sir Austen's with pilot pals could run me home in noise.

The latest tendency, seems to be their deaciencies. Parents are wor- drawal to the political back-about 20 minutes, and also be great actress-renowned on the ried about their children's health to make the coveted certificate more cause at certain seasons it is stages of the world, with a lifetime and success. Teachers are growing more useless. The number of sub- easily obtainable and consequently ground. It is in the sphere of merely a part of Kensington, and experience of work behind her uneasy about the results of their Jecis necessary appears to have been foreign affairs that Sir Austen Surbiton, Westminster, Brixton, experienced and often not-too-good

can count less than an inhard and thankless task. made his greatest mark, and and Hampstead. But the re- young actress who, having

The reasons for all this worry?

reduced, and it is now possible to gain a certificate with a queer assort- Locarno will ever be associated sident hotel-keepers and trades. In one part, is taken up by a director somehow become convinced that knowledge-a mixture of chemistry, with his name. Unhapplly, at men

The scholar and his parents have ment of

and "Lower" for the moment the conclusion of a

have the same trick of and put over" by the publicity de- the Leaving Certificate is the sole and classics, of art and German,

partment, which extols every virtuo new accord to replace the treaty

and extends every professional object in bis education. It is the geography and Greek, dynamics which Germany denounceding in the squalid hovels of Bir-

hali-mark of the secondary school domestle science. It is indeed dim- attraction. seems beset with obstacles. In mingham and other great cities, immense salaries paid to leading through life. At least they think it widely divergent subjects as Greek pupil and the passport which allows cult to imagine what trade or pro- We have read in the Press of the him to embark on his journey feaslon requires a knowledge of such the past few years, Sir Austen Latterly, he declared that he artists in the fim city. displayed a rather more mellow was never happy with the name that these great salaries are not al- the "Highera I am more than ever ary school should be combinations

Sometimes

w and domestic sclenge, then make that we may have also read of the fact outlook on politics than "Conservative." His unexpect

After several years of teaching for, however, the aim of a second- when he held office. He ed death removes one of the of living expected of a star, or even convinted of the futility of the whole general education, such combinations

WAYS BO

so valuable; that the. standard focussed public attention on the finest types of Parliamentarians, a starlet," is such that saving. Is business-unless the pupil intends to would, and should, exist. But why alum clearance problem by some one who was in every penso re we were told that some actors and Leaving Certificate is not a passport a good education without a Leaving, often/Impossible. A short time ago go on to the University, The prelend that it is impossible to have remarkably eloquent and moving presentative of the heat in actresses earning much as 2200 to life but to the University and Certificate? The Leaving Certificate appeals for the “under-dog" live British political life. **** la weok, during the une they worked parents ought to be fold so.

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