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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JANUARY

21,

1938.

SPARE

SERIAL·

"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 come to tell

uf a job for him with La Rue the publisher. During a police raid of the demi-mondaines Zola mects one of the outcast girls-wriica her story as the sensational 'Nana. Zola marries Alexandrine-loses his job because of criticism of dishonest politicians. In 1871 at bambarment of Paris docides to turite a book about corruption and stupidity in the General Army Staff-to be called 'La Debacle' (The Downfall)

Chapter HI

too

a member of the Legion of Honour! And It's done something to you, Emile! Your soul's gone to sleep .. asleep and snoring under layers of fatty complacence! And now when I

I visit you if I'in visiting

I feel as a 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 shams! and let their ving own pages warm the bones of a man of truth?" A silence fell between them. "Pa sorry. Emile. But had to say it. You're my oldest and dearest-friend! I couldn't go with out telling you this、

THE QUALITY OF MERCY Within a year 'Nana' was pub- Jished and sweeping the country like wild fire. Zoin took her violets, which made her ery-a copy of the book, which completely mystided her and money, which came Inte The year was 1071 and Zola left Nana-he found the brawling streets loud with drums wil and marching feet. In his apartment he came upon his all mother and Alexandrine, in a state of wild excitement. With them was Charpentier, who Had published "Nana."

rible #gain

and

Impulsively Zola put 012 avin "Ah, Emile is this not ter- around his shoulder and the two death again War old friends stood in silent embrace sobbed his mother, with tear-illed eyes, and feeling; tov Alexandrine began moaning deep for words. over her poverty. "Not a morsel of food in the house! Even the horse- "Won't you stay, Paul.. Now flesh has been sold out! What is to that my mother is gone-many old become of us all?"

friends departed. I need some-!

MOMENT PAGE

Mr. Smith

Mrs. Smith

-now,

Smith

Sixth in the series by ANTHONY WEYMOUTH about MARRIAGE deals with the problem of the first. child..

and

Master

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

Oh! There is one. The problems which faced you when you first learned that your wife was going to have a baby. You were afraid for her, afraid you couldn't afford it, afraid of the responsi bility of bringing a child into this messed-up world?

I suppose you lonow that deaths in childbirth are now very low: only 3.81 per thousand, in fact. So the odds were very much in your wife's favour, weren't they?

You began to economise

far as being able to afford it was concerned, did you

Sfat bots of ways in which you could cconomise? You "The Germans swarming all over the to remind me of the old, strug-lid-and you were lucky enough to get a rise as a first birthday

France mother, "I never thought to see my country so humiliated!"

"whimpered his old Sing, irefree life

When is this awful business go- ing to end, Emile?" asked Charpen tier, looking down into the crowded street.

"I wish gould tell you." Zola sighed, "I can't think

I can't work .. Blood and misery and hunger all over Paris!"*

#foothold

fighting for

"You

can never go back to it, Emile

"said Cezanne gently, and I have never left it. the door they halted.

"You'l write, Paul... ?".

"No

present for your baby. That's good.

·

I wonder how many people say they won't have children because of the state of the world to-day? It's generally merely "At an excuse to save themselves from admitting that they're not

willing, for some other reason, to face it.

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

i 1911?

When Cezanne was gone, Zola Now, unce you'd got over your that it was well worth any sucriflee mank into a chair, obsrully threw on tright--how soon did you like the you made? "Yes, and why?" Charpentier's another log and sat lost in thought.

idea of adding one to the existing volen was tremulous with anger, Alexandrine, beautiful and pale, in two individuals in the Smith house- "Because of the stupid ignorance of her trailing down, came in and sat hold? our Renerals! Frenchinco every on the arm of his chair. Without

where trapped

and massacred and looking at her he took her hand and Small but important now, civil war! All the fault of the laid it against his cheek. General Stam! There-Emile-is a 'What's the matter Emile deur, book for you to write A book tired?" about our downfall!"

"Downfall, ch.

downfall Zola was striding back and forth as the staggering prospect Krew before him. Suddenly hu

ener

"No .. just thinking. conne's gone.

.back

THE

Idea Krew on you,

What about the second and third Everything revolved round years? 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 each other only to con-

sider. ..Ce-i

no end of a fine fellow. You found, to Prov- once you actually

were it father,

ཝིཡ་ད་མི་ག+་་་

Fanny

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

"Quarrel? With: Cezanne?

But with

cried. You're right, Charpentier! 1 he's taking something of me may be years from now-but some him... the last of my youth! Sull day--when i get all the facts 10-we've much to be thankful for, gether write it!

I've fought my

I show the Alexandring i world who was responsible for our battles, and now I want calm downfall and

A

rest

! From now on I can look

shell exploded in the street only backward... making the house shake

but Elia

"That's just idle talk," Alexan- drine said, "Taying a Anger over his Zola seemed unaware of it. mind was off or the passionate ad- lips, then in mock sternness "Come

venture!

along! Play me a game of Piquet!"

"Well, life is tricky," he was say - "It's nice to be together again, ing as they walked toward the next Paul... Just like old times

Hand suppose we don't in- fluence our fate! While we cross this Six-and-twenty years had passed room a starving mother and child since the contrades met at the cafe jump into the Selne

1'00m,

$11

a scr

alove,

! Who

In the Rue Jacques on that snowy vant forgets to extinguish night when Nann fluttered into their and some one suffocates lives. The fates had been kind to knows whose fate may mingle with Zola

Author of a food of in- ours?

+

* or when

flammatory books that had divided fred a letter written

the country into warring camps

he had become prosperous and port-

ly.

"Yes Paul, my friend

the good old times...

21

a shot is

Even as he spoke the fates were conspiring to Urust him into the most titanic baltie of his life.

High Army officials discovered

like that information had been leaking—

and a and victim was to be chosen to. hide the real traitor. By exquisite "Ok times, ch," Paul lifled sardonic eyebrow at the over-decor- trickery the blame was placed on a Artillery Alfred ated table. Zola and Alexandrine young captain of

courtmartialed--| long term of years

exchanged glances and Cezanne was sentenced

to

wns

at

Dreyfus. He

10 about to follow her into the other imprisonment and sent forthwith to room, when Zola entled to him.

Devil's Island.

Having finished They walked through to the living

the game of room, not speaking, while Zola dari plquet with Alexandrine. Zoln Academy French old wrote the ed speculative glances at his friend's serious

them for. face. The living thanking

considering room whe furnished with ostentati- last his application for membership. ous opulence and a fire was burning He had just finished it when Albert, on the hearth. Over the mantel his munservant entered. "Pardon, hung a portrait of Cezanne that he Monsieur Zola... There is a lady had painted himself and given to The great man was deeply Zola years before. "Sit down, annoyed. He took off his pince-nez Paul!" Zola indicated a chair. ... put it on again and cleared his throat prodigiously. Was he not "No, I must go." He hold out entitled to rest . . calm. after his band. This is goodbye. I'm the baiting years? going south .. back to Provence "I told her you were engaged, but alio was so dia- so urgent

Is the very centre of

monaleur tressed

wants..

Madame

"Cezanne

I see Rouneed.

"Paris isn't for me interrupted roughly, "1 those I knew in my youth grow rich and famous; and sometimes I'm tempted to give In, and paint. He shook his hend deelsively. "No! An artist should remain poor! Otherwise his talent, like his stom- ach-gets fat and stuffyt Of course

I

PARKER

A girl often will stoop to con

quor a man she can't stand.

was And although Master Smith the smallest, of course he was the

member most important

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

It's all very

well for bachelorn und spinsters to teach us married people what we ought to do with our children. But experience-our own personal experience. Mr. Smith

is needed to show us .hote handle the details which fill in every day for the baby and

hig parents.

You plan together

་

fore

Of course,

to

you and your wife consult together be nny step is taken about your baby? Details-too trivial to dis- cuss with an outsider--have to be settled. And no one but you your wife can decide whether young John should be kept indoors because of the fog, or wrapped warmly and sent out.

or

up extra

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

TO-MORROW:

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

Article for those

for those about

A

SIGNIFICANT STAGE

NO-MORROW I

shall

PLURALS

HIS is not a competition.

This

Lic-

cause you can look all the answers up; but you might care

to try it on somebody mad enough not to read this paper.

It was submitted by a reader. Give plurals of the following:- Complex

Court Martial

Coder

Mongoose

lier

Ignoramus Index lippopotamus

Aphis

Lord Justice

Octopus Forceps

Hiatus Apex. Where

more than one exisis, boil should be given.

Correct answers below,

plural

On Your Gramophone

MONG

welcome

Acords of the month the

foremost place must be given to the one Sir Thomas Bec- cham has made with the London Philharmonic Orches- tra, for Columbia, of Mozart's G Minor Symphony,

This, the last but one of Mo- zart's symphonies, is the one that!

foreshadows the most coming of the Romantic Move- ment. With him G minor was always a romantle kry; witness the G minor plane quartet.

The symphony has long been a favourite with Sie Thomas, who frequently includes it in his pro- grammes, and gives as perfect a performance as one can wish (LX) 650/8).

TERE is a record that one could)

A write

pages about: Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and or- chestra, recorded for Columbia by the soloists and orchestra of the Berlin Philharmonic under Viscount Hidemaro Kunayo.

In

was

The

first

place, there is the history of the

of the work itself, which was-composed in Paris for Mo- zart's Mannheim friends, who had

One preceded him there. Punto, a famous horn player, of whom he once wrote bilingually that he blast magnifique.

They were to play the work at the Concert Spirituel, but there cabal against Mozart. the time came the parts; had not been copied, and the per- formance could not take place.

Subsequently, the work dis- altogether for a long appeared time.

was

When

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(Starts from Koba).

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Chichibu Maru

Talyo Maru

Tuos., 25th Jan.

.Tuca., 22nd Fab.

Soattio & Vancouver (Starts from Koba).

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HIkawa Maru

Hiyo Maru

Naruto Maru

+Nagara Maru

.Mon., 7th March

.Sat., 22nd Jan.

Sat., 6th Feb.

Mon., 21st Feb.

Sat., 5th Feb.

Wod., 2nd March

via japan, Honolulu,

Tues., 15th Feb.

Sat., 29th Jan.

.Sat, 12th Feb.

.Sat., 26th Feb.

.Sat., 12th March

New York via Panama.

South America (West Coast!

Hilo, Los Angolos, Mexico & Panama.

London, Marseilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam,"

+Atago Mari

Hakone Maru

Fushimi Maru

... Wed., 22nd Jan.

.Wod., 26th Jan.

Hakozaki Maru

Suwa Maru

Liverpool via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,

and Marseilles.

Sydney & Malbourno via Manila & Ports.

Kitano Maru

Kamo Maru

..Sat., 20th Fob:

Bombay via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.

Toyooka Maru

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.Thurs., 10th Feb.

Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon

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.. Fri., 4th Feb.

Kobe & Yokohama, (Omitting Shanghai)

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.Fri., 18th Feb...

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Tues., 8th Feb.

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.Sun., 6th March

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ACROSS

1 He lives by head work but can

produce no light prose (12).

9 When this workman loses his hend he leaves a lot of rubbish (?).

10 could be produced by Ger-

many without any (7).

11 Wherein freedom is barred (4). 12 Poisonous

reference animal in pain (5).

to an

Then there is the conductor, a Japanese nobleman. The Jap-13 It goes out to sea and is mostly. ancac have long been interesting themselves in Western music, but 16 This refers to a particular 24

edible (4).

across no doubt (7).

so far not many have gained dis- tinction in it. Here, however, is 17 Kind of anchor (7).

a thoroughly efficient conductor. 18 Hardly familiar (7).

But what would Le Gros, the 21 Steep

had

(D)

director of the Concert Spirituel 23 Around the door one may see

It rave after this (4).` who

"forgot" to have the work)

have replied it Anyone 24 The home of sailor song? (5). copied,

told him that some day a 25 Axed,

animal is allowed Japanese would conduct a per- 20 This probably (4). formance that would be made about always (7). permanent, by scientific means, so) 20 The possible oppressor of the that anyone could hear it as of- ten as he liked? (LX 601/4).

To stems algnin. I lived apart in a world completely envy

sion I wonder if I have been 11 all seems now!

"Very well

+

Lucle Dreyfus was

man being. Have I really done

an- successful at all in being a hu- Home Restrictions

something with my life, have I

(To be continued)

PLURALS

Answer to Questions Above

to

to

reach

IN LIFE

to

Israelites (7).

30 This should stop the rot (12).

DOWN

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

2 This curtalled this stone to

polish It (4).

3 Apprehensive (7).

4 If the bed in it were bad one

might consider this a complaint (7),

5 The end of 1 across is the

essential part (4).

6 No, he is not responsible for

the roaring of the sea (7).

7 "AL

curly

The

(13).

lack ΟΙ

places"

(onag.)

feeling that

prompted the bridge pinyer to

ruff perhaps (13).

14 Part of this medical prepara-

tion is spirit (5).

15 The extremes of society like many beaches (5). 10 Disclose (7).

arc

20 It needs to have its head

turned to be acceptable in one's bed (7).

21 A ropublic in the Pyrenees

22 Superintend (7).

26 Flower (4).

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was

bent of mind I used be other boys, and I used to think that sourceful

Then there was that other baffling "You can't do that, man!" cried couldn't send her away

out of joint. My loneliness, my rense

established cant stage in my development. of being "out of the swim" made my cross-road that life thrust upon me Zola in swift protent. "Why, Parla

things was really a protest against .. I'll see what she' At rare moments of depres- le malsorable then. But how trivial when I was eighteento go into an ing in en casis of disinterested cul- aggressive attitude to

office, or to proceed to a university ture.

I gradunted, and straightway was the monotony and narrowness: of degree and a profession.

On the one hand there was the brought hard up against reality. My life as it seemed to me then. Now comparative security, if on a pedes- period of drifting and dreaming was thy Ideas have mellowed with ex- trian level, of office job; on the over. Now I had to be somebody perience, and I realize the value of mastered my personality weak- TRE was the time when I was other, Uig 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. nesses, do I make the most of for liberty and independence, and a further period of dependence on self to gain a surer control of my cal zeal that owed more to the heart

my parents, and beyond the fact emailonal reactions at a compara- than to the head.

I used to suffer misery through a the pleasures, all the subtle en increasing chafing against my that I did not want to teach, I was tively lato stage of my devolop-

severe inferiority complex, and I embar- appeals to the senses and to the father's unsympathetic attitude

awkward and easily caught in one of these mazes of in-

I have won out, and am now in massed with people of my own ago Intellect that modern urban life my expanding personality led me to quite uncertain as to what was ment.

entertain the notion of running away decision that make adolescence an Job that gives me a gratifying and felt I had no influence affords?

from home.

unhappy period for some people.

sense of social usefulness while of them. the emotional Looking back on

My plans were discovered, and my Up Against Reality

fording me an outlet for my particu-

gone Now my job has given me confi- aplitudes, but if I had difficulties and perplexities that have notion of joining the Navy was beset me at various periods of my reverely discouraged. I wonder how

straight from school into the discl- dence, and I have got my disturbing Ite, I seem to see them now in true different I should be now If I had I did matriculate, and I enjoyed pline, the rough and tumble of com- social relationships straightened out.

of a mercial life, I should have been A new world of friendship and Im perspective as a kind of inevitable cut myself adrift then from the sup to the full the carefree to growing pains. Those early

acti

and also the restrictions of student, with its distinctive tradi- spared much of the pain of this read- personal Intercels has been opened port

up to me. Because of my less per- monies at home, that unsuccessful home life and set out to front the tions and its almost vagabond trea- justment process.

plexed outlook I now find that, in early dom. University life is not calcu-. affair, though poignant at the world unaided. Would this love

When I was in my callow teens I lead of my range of interests shrink- time, were but stages in my develop excursion into a world of netion, lated to stiffen the fibre of the

introspective ad- with its varied situations and its de- dreamy,

type of was

uncritically rebellious against ing as might be expected, I find le ment, steps towards a better

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

When I was a boy I was dismayed at a formative period of my life, worked hard at times, and enjoyed world, and only succeeded in a many-sided than I did ten years ago. by the easy, arrogant confidence of have given me the strong and re- the Battering feeling that I was liv. tronging my family, I suppose my

I don't mean.. he began has tily Don't mean me..

of course not.

oh

But come, Paul PLURALS asked for above;

we are old friends! Out with

it What's the matter?"

"You really want me to tell you?.

Well,

we've grown apart, Emile

or, perhaps I should say -you've outgrown me)"

**Nonsense!"

"You know it's not Nonrenso! These carpels servants your carved and sculptured welling deski You're wealthy now, world-famous,

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