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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20,

1937.

PUTTING IT ACROSS

YOUNG terileman named

A Robert Taylor, an American mim American

Film The overwhelming ovations

to

putting the standard-expetiy-high-|-- migrating American Bim atars, ol both

tha sexea, are by no meaNS

paper-reading publle might imagine. They are in actual fact no carefully

star, of comparatively recent Ipily- wood vintage, bas duitered the doves In Auburbia. Its arrival' in this Country has been the occasion of remarkable manifestations.

Police had to be mobilised to By "AN OLD STAGER" and elaborately organised and inspir

ed as any film studio "set.

Publicity Methods quite spontaneous infaits the ne:vs-

control and restrain the crowds of

nt

In-

idolatrous and lipsticked appers Beenuse, camouflage it as one may, Part of the crowd no doubt consists. who assembled to welcome their film that is what, when it is boiled right of nitwit amateur Aim fons, but the

Station. hero

Waterloo deed, Mr, Robert Taylor's admirera down, this display of female hysteria main actors, the front-row people

really amounts to,

who do the major extravagances, are were so persistent that it was deem-

Alm It was good publicity no doubt; but,all

professionals. They ed necessary to smuggie him down rather shocking pathology. These part of the personnel technically the milkean lift,

occurrences have given grave offence known as "the crowd." and I suspect This was to ensure him getting to to a great many decent simple they get the regulation fee for lak his fashionable West End hotel minded people. One worthy London ing part in these fan ovations. without being dismembered, at alderman has declared that

or

these

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119

120

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20

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130 131

the

the very least having his clothes torn women demonstrators, these nail The Reci Culprits off, by his impulsive ndmirers of the tinted nymphs worshipping at the gentler sex.

alrine of an American screen Apollo, So for from being, then. These seriational scenes had their have badly let down England.

Idolatrous and shameless hussies they of the A number of more or less appear to be, these main "crowd" replicas on the other side Atlantic before Mr. Taylor sailed distinguished publicists have en actors are just ploying the usual rolę from New York. A baiter's dozen of inrged morallstically on the degrade- in the usual make-believe. ro of his assembled women fans tion of Mich behaviour. They swooned on the quayside. I am not describe it all os disgusting. quite clear even now whether this was

At his Mayfair hotel in

London

ACROSS

I Not a buller but a railway em-

8 Early O.T. character (see 7

down.).

10 Charlatan. 11 This time I

make a town.

18 A fastener.

19 'Memento.

intervening.

would

20 Mediterranean. island.

21 A philosopher.

had

13 A modern pro-consul who is always to be found in a 'Varally town.

14 Safe

investment these (tree advice this!).

10 This American town has its fashionable part, of course. ›

16 Drive.

17 Hereon cakes may be baked,

20 Cambridge college.

27 An Australian bird or a term

20

at euchre

A painful implement In the workshop.

22 Describes the 29 down who got 20 Sec 22, cross.

into a ditch and then change.

A acure of active young women, used to flm "crowd" work, cah soon attract a big crowd of idlers, and overpowering Hitting the Wrong Heads due to sheer

offord attendant Press photographers emotion over the departure of their

plenty of sensational snapshots, adored fim idol, or whether they

Now I certainly have no particular This sort of stuff is part and parcel in

the sympathy with these queer patholo- of the American film publicity ramp. merely got badly crushed

ployee. And American film publicity, let feminine scrummage.

Whichever it was, the point is not #ical symptoms by the London Indies.

g to make confession that, me assure you, just about touches the am willing one of first-class importance. Two until some of our journals of the nadir of ethical and artistic degrada- young women, of specially sensitive baser sort started booming him a few tion.

Behind these crowds of hysterical disposition, modestly hid themselves Y,100,000,00

days I had never even so much

ugo

12 Flity of these, animals young and middle-aged, women one away in the young actor's private

but usually I am quite willing to believe that percelves the ramanije sleeping cabin. But these fair stow- unheard of Mr. Robert Taylor.

15 Hunting or artistle work, awnys were discovered, and restored

this omission is far more my mis- spatulate figure of the bright Ameri- to their no doubt grateful relations, fortune than his. But his screen op- can publicity boss, with violently

his thick peal, one gathers, is not exactly ad- banded elgar complete, The Life Force

dressed to serious elderly gentlemen, fingers richly dight with gems, and Mr. Taylor has been closely besieged or to people for whom the literary an accent you could not cut with a

classics have still a greater charm steam-saw.

Aim of the than even the slickest Yankee

But he is not the villain of the by crowds of women, most

means all flapper variety, but by

plece. He would be a complete and captions. still in their green or salad days:

If I may employ a homely West utter fop if Fleet Street's untouch- More police were needed when it Country metaphor, we do not hoe the ables of the stunt Press had a grain transpired that Mr Taylor

Even a or taste. same row of turnips. Yet I am pre- of either sense

is secretly eloped with himself to Paris, pored

modicum of common decency might. belleve that Mr: Taylor to clear Dway the disconsolately a perfectly nice fellow, despite his save them. importunate fuls ones from the street cinema fans, and I am thoroughly So long as journals exist, and find in front of his hotel.

persuaded that the feminine symp- a lucrative tale, which, give up ther Before he beat his Paris retreat, tomb cliclied by his advent here can- valuable space to this kind of trips, Manager. however, Mr. Taylor appeared on his not in any serious degree have im- so long shall we have the artiste hotel verande, waved debpual periled the status of Great Britain, humiliation of appearing, in the ex- hand to the eastatie assembly down It seems to me just possible, pressive vernacular of the publicity below, and gracefully threw away knowing a little about film pubileily and stunt mechanics, to "fall for it." the end of his cigaretic. Some of the methods, that the critics are But the influence of this tragically exemplars of sex equality in the belabouring the wrong heads. These debased modern school of imported street scrambled for, that stub, as

a crowds of emotional

who American journalism 1s, except per- into a haps for evil, just nil. It merely romantic relie, very much as on turned Watertoo Station Shrove Tuesday the Westminster Rugger serum and later tore their reflects the gutter mentality of the schoolboys, struggle for

prize clothes in fighting for the American groundlings. Its existence, as p go- pancake.

film actor's tigarette end no more ing concern, strongly suggests that we Altogether it has been

most represent our

womanhood are in the lower stratum a mentally British

Grom C3 people. revealing if not edifying exhibition than Brixton Hill does the of feminine emotionalism under the plans.

In the end stunt, publížitý wil They are not even typical of out probably hang Itself in its own dar ritimulus of what G.B.5. politely and cuphoniously calls the Life Force. Cockney fappers, and that is not cared hyperbole.

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SOMETIMES wonder what the handful of critics who carp at the "expense" of royalty would say if

they had lived a century or anore ago. Before railways and steamship

had to pay a heavy price for luxur lous Royal travel in the old days. First

Yesterday Five for Confort

on

accession

The train and the motor car may

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the "pr the well-known Writer Royalty C, but even tradition-loving Queen AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS' Current Accounts opened in Local Cur style when they visited

Victoria declared that her special CHEQUES sold and candied,

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more. Royal-train was-better-and- British Income Tax Recovered.

que year or shorter perioda in Local and

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be quoted on appilention,

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VI with the gutte.ing progress by Queen Victoria's

royal recall that when Queen Victoria first Chief Manager,

visita were very expensive luxuries began to use the railway there was road of Charles 1 in 1033?

for the localities so favoured,

comfortable than the finest coach or When the present King ques North, scarcely a dozen oficials accompany 1832, when he stayed a fortnight in that tiny alone had the

George IV's visit to Edinburgh in Sine drivers and the Royal conch

men. The faller stoutly maintained hin Charles, on the other hand, the Scottish capital, is computed to drive the Queen.

right to May have cost the habitants collective foolishly supported by the Master of a claim rather left London for Edinburgh 1933 attended by a gorgeously attired over £200,000. Perhaps they were the forse, a Court official who la still retinue of over 1,000; including the consoled by hearing the King deelare in supreme charge of all Royal journey's made on the ground, Archbishop of Canterbury, another, speech that "they were, a city

at gentlemen living in 21 elty of whether by coach, motor car, horse- bishop, two deans, and four chap- palaces." George IV., it is interest- lains. Over 900 menial cervants ing to recril, was the last King to back, or train. travelled with the cavalcade, and the travel North officially by ship. Kini barter, we read, had himself The Ape of Speed three servants. Nearly 1,500 horses, changed at various stages, were re-

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In pre-railway days, when the Royal stables sheltered hundreds, of horses and corriages, and Sovereigns had no other means of travelling. Queen Victoria travelled by sea on other than riding or walking. the quired for the 400 miles journey, her first visit to Scotland in 1842. past of the Master of the Horse was which took over a month to em- The journey took two days from a most important and arduous onu,

Wonlwich to Granton, plete.

Edinburgh. He was invariably blamed for any Now a Royal visitor can do the trip hitches or accidents which Topit The people on the route were ex- well inside eight hours by train, 3 place on Royal journeys,

and the pected to entertain in royal fashion striking commentary on the vast Tudor, Stuart, and early Hanoverlons all the King's men and horses, and change in the mode of Royal travel were, ruthless masters in this res-

pect, -the wealthy and titled classes were in a century.

compelled to act as hosts to the King and his exalted courtiers without any

attendants The large number of was also the rule for volullonised the lives of monarchs ns and servants which accompanied the recompense.

the past royal boroughs, Mayors, peers, and it did everyone else. When, greatly Sovereign on journeys in

Presents daring. Queen Victoria, on June 13, were for protection as well as dis- Ugnitaries to make costly

custom 1842, took her first journey by train, lay

service. to the passing monarch,

and

Fortunately, dating from the Tudors.

from Windsor? 16. Paddington, it British Sovereigns no longer require marked a historie turning, point, a travelling army for protection. Charles and his gay throng were The trip, "free from dust and crowd Their sure shield is the loyal affection. never in any hurry to proceed to and heat," to use her own words, of the people, who do not care how their journey's end. On the way to shocked many people, but the young unobtrusively the King may travel Edinburgh he stayed a whole week Queen boldly wrote, "I am quite so long as he arrives safely at his Telephone 28021. | Rt Berwick. When he left the town charmed with it. A year or two destination. Changed days, indeed➡

was much the poorer for the royal inter she journeyed from Perth jo but better ones, stay, and new local levies and taxes London by train, and never again

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and subjects. "Queen on her frequent iours cost her during his State or private visits numerous hosts thousands of pounds thoughout the country, the expenses in the aggregate, for not only did she are kept on as low a level as poss!

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