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THE HONGKONG

FRIDAY, TELEGRAPH.

JANUARY 21, 1938.

SPARE MOMENT

SERIA L

"THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA”

A serialisation of the forthcoming Warner Bros. film, featuring Paul Muni and other stars.

Fictionised by. HARRY LEE

THE STORY SO FAR: Young Emile Zola is ejected from a Bohemian cafe because he can't pay. He goes to the attic which he shares with Paul Cezanne, an artist. Mother and betrothed of Zola como to tell of a job for him with La Rue the publisher. During a police raid of the demi-mundsince Zola megts one of the outcast girls-writes her story as the Lonsational Nana, Zola marries Alexandrine-loses his job because of criticism of dishonest politicians. In 1871 at bombarment dites to write a book about corruption and stupidity >f Puris in the General Army Stag-to be called 'La Debacle' (The Downfall)

Chouder LIE

THE QUALITY OF MERCY Watnin In year 'Nana' was pub- Fished and seeping the country like wild are. Moka took her violets, which made her cry copy of the biot

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which completely mystined hand money, which eatne late, The year was 1871

45 found

the Zola left brawling streeks loud with 'drums in his Own marching fee! and

he came upon, his apartment mother and Alesandrave, in a state of wild excitement With them was Charpentier,

published "Nana"

Win

"Ah, Emilo.

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rible

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Mr. Smith

Mrs. Smith

-now,

Smith

Sixth in the series by ANTHONY WEYMOUTH about MARRIAGE the problem deals with

of the first child.

and

Master

a member of the Legion of Honour! And it's done something

to you. Enile! Your soul's gone to sleep snoring under ... usleep and layers of fatty complacence! And now when I visit you I feel as

I'm visiting

Minister of State! ... You've come a long way since the days when we starved to- gether in an attic and you shouted

Burn

the books of the hypocrites -the aboms! and let their living warm the bones of a man of

Oh! There is one. The problems which faced you when you silence fell between A

You were them.

sorry. Emile. But first learned that your wife was going to have a baby. had to say it. You're my oldest and afraid for her, afraid you couldn't afford it, afraid of the responsi- dearest--friend! I couldn't go with-

bility of bringing a child into this messed-up world? out telling you this

THE first year's difficulties seem to have solved themselves, don't they, Mr. Smith, unless there are any others you haven't mentioned.

I suppose you know that deaths in childbirth are now very Impulsively Zola put an arm

So the odds were very much around his shoulder and the two low: only 3.31 per thousand, in fact. old friends stood in silent embrace in your wife's favour, weren't they? with fear-filled eyes, and feeling too

Alexandring began moaning deep for words.

again

and uver her poverty.

food in the Int floch has been polti hecome of to all?"

this not for- war goin

his mother,

"Not a morse) of

Even the horse- "Won't you stay, Paul.

. Now What is to that my mother is gone--many old nat!

friends departed... I need some.

You began to economise

S

far as being able to afford it was concerned, did you find lots of ways in which you could economise? You present for your baby. That's good.

The Germans warning all over one to remind me of the old, strug-did-and you were lucky enough to get a rise as a first birthday

France.. mother, "I ever thought to see my coublay humiliated!"

"whimpered his old, teretree life..

When is this awful business 10- ing to end, Emile?" asked Charpen ter, looking down ints the crowded street.

I wish I could 1 you," Zolá ...I can't sighed, "1 we't think worl... B and misery and lainger all over Park!"

can never go

fighting for

a foothold

I wonder how many people say they won't have children "You

back to it, Extile

"said Cezanne gently, because of the state of the world to-day? It's generally merely and 1 have never left it.. At an excuse to save themselves from admitting that they're not the door they halted.

"You'll write. Paul

Lul

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טאיי

When

willing. for some other reason, to face it.

Do you know, Mr. Smith, that from 1921 to 1931 there were remember two-and-a-half million fewer births than in the decade of 1901-

1911?

once you'd got over your that it was well worth any sacrifice! Now. fright-how soon did you like the you made? idea of adding one to the existing two intiividuals in the Smith house- ut?

Cezanne was gone, Zola sank into a chair, absently threw on »Yes, and any? Charpentier's another lug and at lost in thought.

was tremiou voles

with anger. Alexandrine, beautiful and pale, in "Because of the stupid ignorance of her trailing down, came in and sat Renerals! Frischmen every on the arm of his chale. Without where trappol and macred and looking at her he took her hand and Small but important now, civil wart All the fault of the laid It against his check.

Our

General Stafri

There-Emile-is a

"What's the mutter Emile dear, lo write A book tired?" book for you about our downfall!**

"Downfall, ek.

Zola

"NO

tanne's gone.. ence. +

Just thinking.. . C-l

back to Prov-

I met him in the "Yes, I know. hall. You didn't quarrel?"

But Cezanne? "Quarrel? With

downfall was striding back and forth at the staggering prospect him. Suddenly he before cried. You're right, Charpentiert he's taking something of me with the st of my youth! Still

Krew

may be yours from now-but some we've much to be thankful for.

day when I get all the facts te- -gether. I'll write_!!!__

I show the world what was regaonsible for aur downfall..

A shell explodes. in the street

Zola seemed anware

but

·

Alexandring - I've fought my battles, and now 1 want calm.

That

reackward

! From now on I can look just idle talk," Alexun- making the house stake of it is drine said, laying a finger over his mind was off on the passionate ad- lips, then in mock sternness "Come along! Play me a game of Piqueti" "Well, life is tricky." he was say "It's ules in tagether again, ing as they walked toward the next room, "and suppose we don't in- Paulist like old times

fluence our tate! While we crnss this starving mother and child

venture!

Six-and-twenty years had passed room a since the commutes: met at the enfe jump into the Seine

In the Rue Jacques on that snowy vant forgets to extinguish a nhtht when Nana Buttered into their and some one suffcentes

lives.

-a ser- slave,

! Who

The fale, had been kind to knows whose fate may mingle with a shot is or when Author of a food of in- ours? Zoin

letter written flammatory bolts that had divided fred the country into warring comps... Even as he spoke the fates

a

were

he had become prosperous and port- conspiring to thrust him into the

"Yes Paul, my tr.end

ly.

the good old times

"Old thats, eh,”

Paul lifted L

most titanic battle of his life.

High Army ofcials discovered

ke that information had been leaking— and a victim was to be chosen to hide the real traltor. By exquisite sardonic cychwy at the over-decor- trickery the blame was placed on a aled table. Zula and Alexandrine young captain of Artillery-Alfred exchanged glances and Cezanne was Dreyfus, He was

courunartialed- sentenced to a long term of years imprisonment and sent forthwith to Devil's Island.

the

of Anished Having

game They walked through to the living

Zola room, not speaiting, while Zola dart piquet with Alexandring

the to

French Academy ed speculative #tances at his old wrote

at then for considering lving thanking Lace. The friend's seriotti room was furnished with ostentati- last his application for membership. ous opulence and a tire was burning He had just finished it when Albert, entered. "Pardon, the mantel his manservant the bearth. Over

about to follow her into the other sentenc room, when Zok called to him.

on

hung a portrail of Cezanne that he Monsieur Zola... There is a lady had painted himself and given to ...?" The great man was deeply He took off his pince-nez Zola

before. "Sit Уерга

down, annoyed, Pauli" Zol indiested a chair. ...put it on again and cleared his throat prodigiously. Was he not "No, I want go." He held out entitled to rest.., calm.. after his hand. This is goodbye... I'm the battling years? Koing, south... back to Provence "I told her you

Is the very centre of

"Paris len't for me

Interrupted roughly, "f

THE idea

un grew

you,

What about the second and third years? Everything revolved round: the new arrival, did it?

Well, that's usually the way You both began to realise that now I suppose, until you felt you hadn't vach other only to con

sider. no end of a fine fellow. You found, IL father, were you elually ence

Fanny

PARKER

A girl often will stoop to con- quer a man who can't stand.

And although Muster Smith

was

the smallest, of course lie was the of the member inost

important

He was in plain Smith household. language, nine pounds of cement, which reinforced the bonds lying you and your wife together.

It's all very well for bachelors anti-spinsters-to-teach-us-married people what we ought to do with Dir children. But experience-our owa personal experience. Mr. Smithž i needed to show us how to handle the details which flit in every

the baby day for

...and

parents.

You plan together

his

0F% course, you and your

wife consult together be- fore any step is taken about your:

trivial to dis- baby? Details-100 cuts with an outsider-have to be settled. And no one but you your wife can deelde whether young John should be kept indoors because of the fog, or wrapped up extra warmly and sent out.

Br

I gather, Mr. Smith, that the ar- rival of your namesake made this world rather a different place for you, didn't I?

TO-MORROW:

So you've been married for three years, Mrs. Smith

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JESTER |

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120

122

ACROSS

1 He lives by head work but can produce no light prose (12).

9 When this workman loses his head he leaves a lot of rubbish (2).

10 It could be produced by Ger-

many without any (7).

an

11 Wherein freedom is barred (4).

to reference 12 Pulsonous

animal in pain (5).

It goes out to sea and is mostly

edible (4).

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Jep-13 nobleman. The Japanese anese have long been interesting themselves in Western music, but 16 This refers to a particular 24

across no doubt (7).

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18 Hardly familiar (7).

a thoroughly efficient conductor.

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director of the Concert Spirituel 23 Around the door one muy ace

"forgot" to have the work 24 The home of sailor song? (5).

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who

had told him that some day a 25 Axed, probably (4). Japanese would conduct a per- 28 This little animal is allowed

made about always (7). formance that would be

permanent, by scientific means, so 20 The possible oppressor of the

Israelites (7). that anyone could hear It as of-i ten ns he liked? (LX 061/4).

to reach

A SIGNIFICANT

STAGE IN LIFE

ern #hel monsieur but she was so di: TOMORROW I

treated

"Cezanne

wants.

Madame

I see nounced.

(To be continued)

Not

those I knew in tam youth grow rich and famous; and sometimes I'm tempted to rive in, and paint He shoote a head decisively.

remain An artist held

poorl Otherwise bu talent, like his stom ach-gets fal and stuffy! Of course

don't

he began has- meun tily

Don't mean me

I

mastered my wenk-

to

30 This should stop the rot (12).

DOWN

1 Many a gambler has done this and got out of his depth (7),

2 This curtailed this stone

polish it (4).

3 Apprehensive (7).

to

4 If the bed in it were bad one

might consider this a complaint

(7)..

5 The end of 1

essential part (4).

across is the

6 No, he is not responsible for

the roaring of the sea (7),

7 "At

(13),

& The

curly

Jack

places" (anag.)

of

feeling thnt

prompted the bridge player to ruft perhaps (13).

14 Part of this medical prepara-

tion is spirit (3).

15 The extremes of society; are

like many beaches (5).

19 Disclose (7).

20 it needs to Inve its head turned to be acceptable in one's bed (7).

21 A republic in the Pyrenees

(7).

22 Superintend (7).

26 Flower (4).

27 A black guard, perhaps (4).

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

HORSEGUARDI

PASKID GALLI OPUS

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LOOKUPADHE BION

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Y MORBEL NEAR-R #MERA IMEMONDE

WELSHRABBIT

Was

established

shall be other boys, and I used to think that courceful bent of mind I used thirty, It seems a signifi- I lived apart in a world completely envy?

Then there was that other baffling out of joint. My loneliness, my case 80 urgent "You can't do that, man" cried couldn't send her away.

cant stage in my development. of being "out of the swim" made my cross-road that life thrust upon me

things was really a protest against of "Very well Zoln in swift profest. "Why, Paris

.. I'll see what she

monotony and narrowness At rare moments of depres- life miserable then. But how triviat when I was eighteen-to go into an ing in on oasis of disinterested cul- aggressive attitude to

been it all seems now!

office, or to proceed to a university ture.

Now sion I wonder if I have

I graduated, and straightway was the degree and a profession. Lucie Dreyfus was an- successful at all in being a hu- Home Restrictions

Ideas have mellowed with ex- On the one hand there was the brought hard up against renilty. My life as it seemed to me then. comparative security, if on a peder- period of drifting and dreaming was my man being. Have I really done something with my life, hov! THERE was the time when 1 was trian level, of the office job: on the over. Now it had to be somebody perlonce, and I realise the value of other, the disadvantage that it meant and do something; I had to set my many things I railed at with a radi sixteen, when a surging craving a further period of dependence on self to gain a surer control of my cat eat that owed more to the heart. nesses, do I make the most of for

liberty and independence, and

fact emotional reactions at a compara- then to the head. my parents, and beyond the

I used to suffer misery through a fate staye of my develop. increasing choing against my that I did not want to teach, I was lively PLURALS

novere inferiority complex, and the pleasures, all the subtle an

to quite uncertain as to what was ment.

embar- awkward and enslly appeals to the senses and to the father's unsympathelic attitudo Answer to Questions Above

intellect that modern urban life my expanding personality led me to caught in one of these mazes of in- I have won, out, and am now in rassed with people of my own age entertain the notion of running away decision that make adolescence an 拉 Job that gives me a gratifying and felt I had no influence over affords?

sense of social usefulness while at them. oh PLURALS asked for above! ... ́.... But come, Paul I Complexes

Looking back on the emotional

Now my job has given me conf- gone we are old friends! Out with

Courts martial

Jar aptitudes, but if I had dimeulties and perplexities that have notlan of joining the Navy was Codiers

I wonder how`---

straight from school into the disci- dence, and I have got my disturbing I: What's the matter

beset me at various periods of my severely discouraged. Mangoosed

I did matriculate, and I enjoyed pilne, the rough and tumble of com- social relationships straightened out.

life of a mercial life, I should have life, I seem to see them now in true different I should be now if I had

been A new world of friendship and im- "You really want me to tell you? grown apart,

perspective as a cind of inevitable cut myself adrift then from the sup- to the full the carefree

the restrictions of student, with its distinctive tradi- spared much of the pain of this read personal interests has been opened ... Well,

less-per- Krowing pains. Those early acel port and also

up to me. Because of Emile .. or, perhaps I should say

monies at home, that unsuccessful

plexed outlook I now And that, in- you've onlgren met”

chtly dom. University life is not calcu- world unaided. Would this

When I was in my callow teens Istead of my range of Interests shrink- of action, Jated to stiffen the Abre of the time, were but stages in my develop excursion into a world

introspective type

of was

uncritically rebelilous against ing as might be expected, I find life nd with its varied situations and its de- dreamy,

thrilling and intisfying Sand ment, steps towards a better

mand for courage and independence, youth. I drifted along pleasantly, authority, I wanted to reform the more Justment with my environment.

e-many-sided than I did ten years ago. life, worked hard at times, and enjoyed world, and only succeeded in a formative period of my

J. HAC. When I was a boy I was dismayed at by the chay, arrogant confidence of bave given me the strong and re- the flattering feeling that I was liv tranging my family. I suppose my

of course test.

"Nonsense!"

we've

It's not nonsenso! "You know These curputus ne servants your earged and sculptured- writing dosiet. You're wealthy now, world-famous,

flexes

tgnoramures Indexes, -lcea

Hippopotamuses, -mi Aphides.

Lords Justices

Octopuses, podes

Forceps Hiatuses Apoxes, -ices.

from home.

unhappy period for some people.

fording me an outlet for my particu My plans were discovered, and my Up Against Reality

love aftale, though volgnant at the home life and set out to front the tions and its aimust vagabond free- justment process.

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