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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1988.
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GALE SONDERGAARD;
as MADAME BREYTUS:
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAVI
"48 CAPTAIN DİREYLUS
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At 9.30 p.m.
Me: PAUL MUNI in his great-j
est role as EMILE ZOLA
MORRIS CARNOVSKYN
as ANATOLE FRANCE®
ERIN O'BRIEN MOORE,
AS MANA
Mr. PAUL MUNI
in the film The N. Y, Times calls "The beɑr the cinema can accomplish"
The Life of
Emile
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Zola
WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS INCLUDING,
Gloria Holden Donald Crisp
Henry
O'Neill Louis Calliéen • Precanted by Warmte Dres. Directed by William Diererle
Berovu play by Hormon Reilly Reino,
Salus Harsil and Gas Hineng
Phone 27778-9
BIRTH
CHUBB.-AL Foochow yesterday, to
Irene (nee Rogers), wife of Thomas Chubb, of the Standard- Vacuum Oil Company, a daugh- ter, Veronica Edwina. Both doing well, (Shanghai popers please copy).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1938.
GOOD NEWS FOR CHINA
war
Bed Offer
Ship's Clerk
Male pricana
Lasting cabla wish becaminadation
Hall Compers
Progha katak kort
10 matal wing
Hun genguag
Dve 1, pälsenjore during the day an
chen
Ganguis te meer dech
Stidship Cabin with accomandel love for 3 jessengeri during the day send 443 Night
Kur tables with, altanmadarian Ber
A passengers during the day w
Promenade skin tight are mandation The 6 pasagere turing the ety and 4 at night
Cross-section of an Empire Flying Boat, type which will go, to Singapore.
Cash Value of an
OXFORD
DEGREE
BY
KEITH BRIANT
former Editor of "sis" and author of the outspoken commentary on University life "Oxford Limited."
MR. Charles Graves, dis-
Christ Church, Oxford, scen front across the quadrangle.
The significance of this is the disproportionate increase in the It is also various categories. noteworthy that the report of the board in 1936 admits that "there seems to be a surplus of experienced men applying for vacancies."
This is
the boat
they'll use
in future
Y th
Your
OU read yesterday that Imperial Air- ways flying boats will be placed on the Sin- gapore route this month. What is it like to travel in one
of these flying boats? Suppose you want to go from
London to Alexandria.
It includes Jure is £40.
coach travelling by special marked Royal Mail Aircraft on to boat-train ordinary the
A 25-m.p.b. Sou'hampton. motor-boat hurries you out to In your ship at its moorings. It you are to fly 2,300 miles in Ofteen hours but in easy
You will sleep night in Marseilles, to-morrow in Athens.
stages.
WHITE-COATED
to-
steward
holds open the lower-
In spite of the dismal picture which China's present position offers to her people at the com- mencement of her New Year, there are at least a few signs that the future, is not wholly hopeless. To be sure there are our neighbours, who are fighting the greatest and probably the in their most horrible history; and the peace and
For centuries Oxford seemed security which are their objec-
cussing the other day to provide the key to worldly tives on the road they travel
The millennium has are still out of sight. Neverthe-in "I See Life" whether Oxford success. less they may take heart from was "worth while" for the now been achieved. Oxford is
deck door in the nose for you the optimism of their leader, average young man, pointed out within reach of the miner's son,
to step through from a special raft.. On the top deck above Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and that well over 50 per cent. of and the grandson of the laird's from various little indications the undergraduates there nowa gillie rubs shoulders with the
your head are sitting captain and Brst officer at twin, side- and intimations in the news of days are in receipt of some form grandson of the laird.
by-side centrols. An engineer the world beyond their borders of financial assistance-and, pre-
But the miner's son is per-
is ready with boathook to and radio plexed. which may yet play a prominent sumably, as he said, could not
chst of moorings, Something seems to
aight clerk, uperator_and part of the destiny of this otherwise-go there..
have gone wrong-somewhere.
equivalent of ship's purser, "are" ancient people.
As long as Oxford survives, I
or else an unscrupulous
both up above. Optimism in such a man as suppose, controversy is bound to bination of the upper classes is Marshal Chiang, of course, is to continue as to whether years conspiring to prevent him from be expected. His unfailing spent there are wasted.
enjoying the fruits courage would seem to make it Scholarship men are now in victory. almost inevitable; though not novel position of being in the entirely so. It would take a majority. And with the modern Where he Began man of real spirit to admit that difficulty of his country's plight was securing employment, the pro- desperate at such a time as this, blem as to whether Oxford is But such an admission from the "worth while" is likely to be Marshal would not mean that come even more acule. the end of resistance was even
under consideration. It would A Gamble
probably mean the rallying of
man-power and all resources for one titanic effort to smash the
university men
THIS is a new problem-
the result of Oxford's
secured classes to
com-
of his
HIS Oxford degree does
not seem to possess the -Sesame" "Open appeared to have.
power it For years
he slaved away at school, work- ing while others were enjoying themselves.
His parents saved in anticipa- tion of the time when their son would be at Oxford and in need of some money to hold his own against rich men's sons.
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power of the invader. When, on progress from the preserve of the other hand, he returns the smiling confidently from a tour democratic University, of his extensive battle front, The majority of those who China should take heart.
set out impartially to weigh the Then came the day when the Words have been apoken at likely effect of Oxford upon letter arrived saying that he Geneva lately, and reported in their lives must face the fact had been awarded a scholarship, the press of this Colony, which that if they will have to earn and that residence for the come Michaelmas term began Of would tend to strengthen the their living when they impression that certain powers down, the expenditure of time October--. were contemplating some sort and money at Oxford is a of intervention in the Far gamble which may or may not Eastern field. Just what form yield a return in £ 9. d.
But after all that striving, it seemed that it was all a fraud.
their action will take, whether The employer who declares For here he was, back where he started, in the front room of direct or indirect assistance to that "Oxford men are ten д
No. 9, Victory-crescent, answer- China, it is hard to guess. More-penny" and that he can get a over, it is something difficult to man with First Class Honours ng advertisements for jobs discuss. But the trend
of for £300 a year, is doing more which he would have had as opinion, reflected in the words than sneer
at Oxford; he is good a chance of securing if he
had never been near Oxford. and actions of statesmen, is stating a fact. fairly obvious,
As the problem of securing So it must seem to many of men the new scholarship men who
ARPETED passage takes
you past kitchen, through small midship cabin into big observation cabin with eight seals,
Hell, Braight and
Work this
one out
George was telling William the result of a chiesa tournament, but, being George, he liked to put things in a roundabout way, Four people, he said, played: their names were 1. M. Smith, U. R. Smith, Reynolds and Fellows. The Smiths were the famous brothers who both played for their country at football. Reynolds surprised everybody when
he defeated Fellows. The man who finished third said to the winner at tho
"Con end of the tournament: gratulations; I am very glad to have made your acquaintance." The runner-up was a man who imped badly as the result of a He had always motor smash. lived alone with his widowed mother.
I. M. Smith was a- smart dresser; that was partly why. Fellows had chosen him as ushier at his wedding.
William got the result all If not, you'll right. Can you? And Ition Page Seven.
THE "VERY IDEA"
THEY'RE HAPPY: ORIENT
WE ALL?
CHINESE NEW YEAR WAS 2 WEEKS BEFORE FULL MOON: "KELLY BEAT THE MOON- BY FOURTEEN DAYS
THE
By Eddie "365 DAZE" Kelly
Chinese year that just ended was the Year Altogether there are twenty-four of the Bull.
armchairs in the ship. At night they can be converted into sixteen comfortable bunks for when night services begin later this year.
A QUIVER tells you
the
captain has pushed the self-starter of the first of your four engines. You can chat with four engines running full- nut without raising your voice. Feel the acceleration as you take Sheets of foam lushing past. the portholes. The ship's half out of the water. Feel it smack down once or twice, then leave the waves in a gentic climb.
Other passengers are dozing in their chairs, ringing for drinics,
yarning playing cards,
and the gossiping over smokes in popular forward cabin.
BESIDES
are
We thought as much
It reminded us that we had this column to write.
Chinese New Year is remark- able chiefly because everyone. settles his debts.
But everyone gets into debt again' 1 Boon as the New Year is born. This sort of thing must be born.
BITTEN ORBIT?
The Chinese calendar is based on a lunar month, and relics on the moon whirling around the earth.
If the moon didn't whirl around the earth, that would be the end of the wuried.
The Chinese cycle comprises GO which is about the number twenty-three years,
added to a motorist's age. by fellow-passengers, there three fans of mail and Chinese cyclist. luggage hidden about the boat. Speed of your ship is 105 m.ph., top is 200 m.p.h. She weighs 18 tons. Is Bufi, long, 30 yards between wingtips, 24ft. high, higher than double-deckerxia 382 times there will be a year of the Pig. Don't axis how this happens.
The New Year is the Year of the Tiger. Also H.B., and Allsopp's and Ewos.
bus,
Victor Ricketts
When the earth revolves on its
PROPERLY CANNED Europeans do not recognise the Chinese calendar. For them, It must be appreciated, more-employment for Oxford over, that any moves by friendly grow steadily more acute, the have won their way into the
Year of the Sardine or Salmon, nations to help the struggling University Appointments Board University. The fruits of vic- Oxford the knowledge of how to Chinese New Years are usually
tory turn to ashes when the make his life a success.
fish which, as everyone knows, democracy of Asia of necessity came into existence.
One thing is certain, that with hide cuspingly in tins, and come must be carefully considered. This is an organisation which Oxford days are over.
£500 a year and a capacity for forth only when the cook-boy and Any suggestion of recklessness is responsible for placing be would be disastrous. But there tween 400 and 500 graduates
appreciation, and developing servanta are on holidays.
Before 1912, Chinese erne began is a general stiffening of the year. Its statistics are worth
MAN may decide to go interests, he will have more
with each dynasty. forces behind the democractic | examining.
to Oxford for a variety chance of extracting the best with of reasons, but he will be a fool from life than the man if he makes his decision without £50,000 who thought Oxford "a 1927 1936 fenlising that, lacking money or waste of time.”
principle, and of the attitudes of Compare the figures of Oxford powers which favour the idea men placed by the board in 1927 of collective accurity, altogether with those for 1936. heartening. There can no longer
be any doubt that collaboration Educational
A
of a very definite nature exists Government between the United States Business and Indus. and
trial Great Britain. Such co-operative force, properly Journalistic, Secre. directed, would mean much to larial, etc. the future peace of mind of the world.
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Jack-of-No-Trade
has been
Dynasty is now a notifiable dis- case in Hongkong. We recently took considerabin pains to verify this.
Since 1912, the Chinese have be-
203 influence, his chances of getting For if he spent his three
a job when he leaves there may years well, he will have learnt come eivilised and use the Gregor- even be prejudiced by the fact the rudiments of the most lan calendar, which was invented by to the difficult art of all-the art of T. Paul Gregory. Also western ri 100 that ho 52
University, is 22 or 23 years old, living; and training in that flen, and bullets, and neroplanes. 10
16 and a Jack-of-no-trade.
"vocation" is worth more than and bombs, and heroin.
Sometimes the bombs and bullets But if he faces this fact three years of life and more go off. But this can't be helped.
Occidents will happen, 166 383 honestly, he may gain from than £49,600 a year.
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