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THE HONGKONG

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, · 1937.

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A REAL LIFE

Wide Boys Never Work

By Robert Westerby'

(Arthur Barker, 7s. Cd.j

read And,

IDS 15 & Territo, Book--the

most terrible I have for many a long day. remember, I mean that in tho strict dictionary sense of the word inspiring, or calculated to inspire, terror, dread and awe."

For, lu this, his second novel. Mr. Westerby has given us a plastly cross- cut of the underside of city life to-day, aerouscat streaked with swindling. gambling, raco “Axign" blackmalling and racketeering. a world in which Brutality is almost everybody's middle naine.

I should like to think the author was exaggerating. Bat, in a cober pro- face, le azaures ua ho 19 not.

You're a Mug

"And," he concludes, "If I irritato you, my dear reader, bear comfort from the Inet that, If a few of the sort of people I have hinted at in the nar rative, a few originals from whom I have made sketches chance to read the book and think I have opened my mouth too wide, they will be plemed to give me a beating on your behalf. If they could get angry. I only hope I can persunde them to be sati- fled with wrecking my publisher's ollee-and leave me alone

Wide Boys, as the tile tells us, are men of the underworld who would never took at a job of work. They leave that to Mugs like you and me. 'At least, that's what Mr. Westerby's here, young Jim Bankley, did.

He met some Wide Boys in the clubs and at the dog-track of the provincial town where he was born. Above all, he met Loule Franks, a litle rnclecteer riding around fra a flash car, Louie seemed the Widest of the Wide. Bu, tired of his monotonous routine in that motor factory. Jim followed him to London.

At which point, the author halls to nak his readers a question.

'Well, all right, you don't like Jim Bankley? And neither do 1. But how could he be any different?

"You still don't like him?. Well, all right then."

After which we watch Jim fighting and chesting and stashing his way to- wards Wide Boydom, hanging round The tracks, Istening to his fellows acheming in clubs, gazing open-cyed nt a razor-fight, learning the petty racketeering ruléh, edging closer and closer into the game-aud детег quite making it.

Hope for the Jims

We leave Jim. n müder though by no means a wiser man, going back home with his father,' But, as the re- lentless Mr. Westerby reminds us in an epliogue, a Mugs illo le not for him.

Starting-alowly, but still confident that his London Wideness puts him one jump ahead of the others, he wit gamble again. - ..- He will be sinck and bitter. He will stop working at the Orst opportunity. He has got the lich, and the itch has got him.

'He is finished now and beaten. He hasn't quite the twist of the criminal, but he's no good-la himself or to anyone."

A vitni story, alive with anger, and moving at a furious pace to its Inevitable end Did I may inevitable? Yes, inevitable for Jim. But not for the Jims of the future. That, I fancy. Is why Mr. Westerby, taking a hint from Dickens and wringing the heart out of his wretched hero-victim, has written this Terrible Book.

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Starting Point

By C. Day Lewis

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INCE, from the author's angle,

a story is often as difficult to begin as it is to end, Mr. Lewis

Rs chosen a good title for his novel, Gone are the Good Old Days when your first fentence was, "I was born at poor but honest parents. Modern novels are not so sure of themselves,

But I am glad to see that Mr. Lewis is not in any doubt. In the conicm- porary mode. Ils starting-poirit is reached at the end-the point from which there is no turning back, Ute moment when a man really makes up his mind what he is going to do with his lic

Eleven yentage four young friends were studying at their university when the National Strike broke out That shook them up considerably: even Theo, the pretentious-precious artistic son of an actress, was moved.

Then there was John, who intendeu to be a chemist, and would sooner or later have to ask himself: "For what purpose are my scientine researches and discoveries to be used?' And Henry, the butt of the group, who, I Imagine, will go on muddling through the world painstakingly virtuous all the while..

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owner's son, with tile own traditions and manners, but, with a brain sensitive enough to understand the real prob- lems of the working class.

The story plots out their interwoven histories up to this present ́day of grace. It is largely the record of how they got their various jobs and how they settled down, told with an easy and convincing -realism. Tragedy Atrikes them for an instant and kills Theo. But that, thank heaven, is by no meana Mr. Lewis' main concern.

I found this a remarkably readable tale, a novel of ideas as well as charac- tar, truthful and sincere.

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A MATABELE MEDICINE MAN From "Thirty Thousand Miles for the Filmy" by Natalie Barkas

MARY PICKFORD'S “IDEAL" MARRIAGE

"'Our Pickford

New York, Sept. 27.

marriage is ideal," Mary

smilingly declared on

arrival In New York with her. Dr. Alexis Carrel, médical scientist husband, Buddy Rogers,

and member of the Rockefeller

Answering Hollywood reports of Institute, arriving in New York as marital differences, Mary sald: "I above, asserted that Colonel Charles want everyone to know I'm wonder- A. Lindbergh had no intention of fully happy, Buddy and I are becoming a British subject, as was | building a new home in the film reported n few weeks ago. Dr. colony. It won't be as palatial as Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh col- Pickfair, but comfortable—just 'four inbornted en construction of the bedrooms, and of course tennis "artificial heart,"

and are doing courts, and a swimming pool." She other research at the famed phy- I will discuss a probable new con-

tract with United Artists.

slclan's home on St. Glidas Island,

off the Brillany coast.

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