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166 SPA FRANK CAPRA'S taughtiest Productrań: HONALD COLMAN in

LOST HORIZON

A serialization of Robert Riskin's screen version of James Hilton's roval. Narrative by Albert Dully. COLUMBIA PIETURE

Chapter Ono

An operator from the wireless room of the British Foreign Omco rushed, excitedly into the office of the assistant to the Foreign leere tary,

"Of all the luck!" he cried, "They've found Conway,**

"They what!" The assistant was unbelieving.

"Here, Read this. Conway's alive!

Gainford' bringing Lord home"

The naisiant read the message uickly and hurried into the office of the Foreign Secretary, "Here's the most exciting news, alr. Con- way's been found! A wireless just

came in."

Again they laughed and one of the men said, "I could tell you a few things about yourself, too."

"Plosze don't," Conway urged In mock seriousness. "I might be dia illusioned. Gainsford's only been telling me the nice things and I—” Conway's sentence was unfinished as he paused to listen to the plano musia that floated in from the ship's music roon. "What's that *** ho naked,

"Bleveking, the famous plantat. a's giving a concert," Gainsford jexplained. "It's about Hnished. Want to hear the rest of it?" Con- way rono without a word and walk- ed to the music room. The others. surprised, followed him.

lahed and bowed gracious acknow

In the musle room Bleveking fimm- The Foreign Secretary read the ledgement to the applause, Some of cable "FOUND CONWAY IN his friends in the audience engaged SMALL CHINESE MISSION, the maestro in conversation and LEAVING IMMEDIATELY

Conway, absorbed 8.3.

In profound MANCHURIA FOR LONDON. thought, walked over to the plane. GAINSFORD,"

He sat down and began to play. Sleveking, attracted by the music, turned and listened.

•

When Conway was done Stevek. ing walked over to the piano. "That's beautiful,” he said. "What

"I can scarcely bellave it the Foreign Secretary said. "After be ing missing for a year! Determine The exact location of the Man- churia at once, I'll send a convey to pick him up. I must transmit This news to the Prime Minister" the artist. "I don't know," he Conway turned puzzled eyes to Abroad the "Manchuria" en rouleald hesitantly. "Yes I do, I remem to England Lord Gainsford was the ber now. It's a Chopin study." ernter of a group of interested pas- sengers in the ship's smoking room. "Look here, Gainsford," one of them asked, "doesn't he remember anything at all***

"Chopin!" Sieveking amlied and shook his head. "Oh no, my dear boy, I know everything of Chopin's that exists -- and I can sure you that he never wrote that."

"It is Chopin," Conway Insisted. "I must admit it is amazingly in

might well have written it, but I junt know he didn't. Can you show me the score in any of the edi tlons?"

"Not a thing. He just wandered mio this mission, they tell me, Had no idea where he came from arhis style," Steveking conceded, "He how he got there. His memory was gone when he arrived."

"How awful! Those things are usually caused by shock. Must have had some ghastly experience.” Conway stared at him vaguely. "Very likely Lord Gainsford | "Oh yes, I remember," he said. "It agreed, "but what it was only Con- was never published. I learned why can tell us — that is, If he from a man who was one of ever regains his memory."

Chopin's nuolla."

Missing for more than a year Robert Conway, handsome British diplomat, is besieged by autograph huntera when he returns to civilization "Porid by Ronald Colman and players,1

At that moment Conway, well net Sieveking showed his incredulity, ap and extremely Rom looking "Why, that's impossible," he said despite $115 obviously makeshift | “If a pupil of Chopin were alive to- dream itt, Juted the group Gameday he'd have to be more than a Tord, who was the first to see him. hundred and twenty years old-" suddenly remembered a description Conway looked up at him quickly. that his son, a schoolorate of Con- "What of the naked sharply. "way's, had anée given of him. Gainsford joined them and put in "There's something Elizabelkan jarm around Conway's shoulder. about Conway ha casual versatil "What is it, Bob"" he asked softly. ity, his god looks, that efterves- cent combination of mental and physical activities. Our civilization dorant often breed people like that

wadays."

"I remember now - it's coming unek to me. I'm beginning to re- member!" Suddenly he jumped to his feet and grasped Gainsford's arma "I've got to get off! I've got to leave this ship?" he cried and

Gainsford rose to greet him "Hello, Bob," he enld. "Know any he rushed from the room. of these men?"

Lord Gainsford found Conway in Conway's smilling eyes rapidly his stateroom feverishly packing scanned the group at the table, his bag. "You must calm yourself, "Should 17" të naked lightly.

Dob," he urged, "What has hap "Well, as a matter of buelat pres-pened”" tige. I doubt whether you should."

"The steward tells me we stop.

was Lord Gainsford'a jocular reply at Chiang-Chow within the hour. 1 "Bal somewhere in your lurid past must leave you then it has a!! you knew them all. This is Robert- come back to me — Shangri-la → Son Henry Carstairs Wynnot | Shangla

and Tom Meeker."

The men shook hands rather self-

"What "

Nothing You won't believe it, consciously white Conway smited Gainsford nobody will believe it. and aid Must seem strange to be it's the weirdest story. Funny how introduced to someone you've that music brought it back to me." known' all your lives” The men agreed glumily and, after ordering

"You'll probably think I've gone

a brandy from the steward, Conway mad when you've heard the story. Do you remember the bandil up- rising in Bakul?"

turned to Gainsford. "Did you say these were friends of mine — or my pall-bearers?" he asked. That helped to dispel some of the awk wardness of the meeting

"I hope you're not feeling sorry for me," Conway sald.

"Well, after all, it's not very pleas-

ant

"Yes, yes of course. That was when you disappeared,"

"Right. I was the British Can- aul. Yes, that was it that's where the whole thing started. My young brother, George, was with me. Re member him? The one I used to "Save your sympathy," Conway call the Freshman?" Conway slop. interrupted, "I'm enjoying it traped and a look of pain darted across mendously. Not remembering is per- his face. "Oh my God!" he cried. fect no disagreeable memoried to "Poor George!" haunt me — not a thing on my con

"Perhaps you'd better not try to science. I'm just beginning to live. talk tonight." Gainsford suggested. It's delightful".

"Oh no, ho. I've got to tell it. It "That's right," one of the group agreed ometimes i wish I could may leave me again. Benides, I must shut wiy memory, off."

leave you at Chiang-Chow and I "Besides," Conway added. "Gains. Imer foll you the story before we ford has been telling me all about got there." Conway lighted a elgar myself and I've come to the con- Gainsford settled back and Ratened Jette and began his story again. clusion that I was quite a follow,"

Intently.

They all laughed. "Oh, I really mean it," Conway continued with our front door. Refugens were run- "The bandile were practically at smile. "He's been flattering me no ning around wildly. I got orders to end. Listen to this: 'Celebrated sol- dior and diplomat who has accomVacuate all the white people from the lown Immediately. There was

lehed more than any other in no ground transportation so I had dividual in effecting and maintain- ing peace and goodwill in our Col to call for planes

Dales in the East'. Blout fellah, what?"

To be continned.)

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS".

EVERYWHERE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 2,

1938.

WHAT KIND of a SNOB ARE YOU?

R. Justice Hawke

MR.

invoked an emin- ent literary authority to clinch a very human little argument during the hear- ing of a breach of promise case concluded in the High Court recently.

A witness declared: "It is the last thing in the world I am - snob of any sort."

And his lordship dryly observed: "William Makepeace Thackeray said that we were all anoba."

The argument developed from cer- tain curiously Iluminating statements made from the witness-box. For example, in a reference to the young woman who brought the action, the defendant said of

of her method speech:

"It isn't pleasant in my ear. She had a habit of leaving out the Anal "g" in "ing". It offended my car, and I asked her not to do

it.

The defendant's father said: I did not like her.accent.

And also: At meal times she found it very dificult to join in conversa- tion when we were discussing litera- ture or art.

She did not, understand Further: what we were talking about. That was when music was being discussed. said Mr. You may remember," Justice Hawke, summing up, yester- day, hearing your grandfathers and grandmothers say that the differences in the strata of high and low society were not the same in the old days as they are now..

"What is your experience? Was the clipping of that particular letter 'g' an Indication of a high society rather than low? I don't know."

Twentieth-century people in the court who listened to these remarks probably fell to wondering whether the Time Machine had played a trick

Asks

F. G. Prince-White

on them, and whisked them back a couple of hundred years.

They must have asked themselves; "Are such things.really said in these. days? And do such things matter

The answers would seem to be that they are and do. What a blow to those of us who have been so fondly imagining that the great winds of democracy had blown into limbo sucli social prejudices as, in the old days. and ruined co often broke hearts lives.

We can suppose that there may yet be individuals whose minds have re- mained untouched by the vast influ- ences which-in free countries, at any rate-have entranchised thought, and given birth to a brave new world of klens and values.

I know quite well, of course, that there is as much intellectual snob- bery to-day as there was in The kerny's time, but it is of a different quality.

I am personally acquainted with Intellectual mobs who frankly admit their snobbery but they would not, however, shrink from marrying bar- maids.

are

have friends who

musical snobs-men and women who look down their noses when the word

"Jazz" is mentioned; who wli even hurriedly rise to say "Good-night, and thanks so much," if happy low- brows declare for Gilbert and Sulli- van in preference to Bach gramophone.

If It's "Art"____

I

01 the

HAVE friends who are Min snobs, and would sooner.— almost-cut their throats than go to

TOO OLD for

These Sports after..

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Lawn Tonnis

Rosemary Thomas, 17, may play for England

the

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Football

Figure Skating

Owens, 18- years-old Charlton cen- tre forward

By Hamish Fraser

THE other day 17-years-

Told Megan Taylor won world championship at figure-skating; we have just heard, too, of a youth of 18 wresting a similar honour at table tennis from runners-up who were even younger; Brad- dock has been acclaimed marvel for being able at the ripe age of 32 to out-box Tommy Farr; headlines have been given to a football wizard of 18- Owens, Charlton's centre for- ward.

#

I want to sort out the sports and make sense of the age problem.

Youth's Power

FIRST, football. It requires

dash and cunning. The bril lant schoolboys specialise in the former, the elder stars, who are per- hops getting a little thin on top, in the latter. The youths have magni-

of Acent fettle and a turn

speed which carries them through gaps in defence which would be impenetrable to an older man.

The older men have the strategy to get the heavy work done by the younger ones. None the less, there is a minimum of alacrity which the years diminish, and 90 minutes of Cup-tle play gets more difficult after about 33.

Table tennis requires cyes that can focus on a ball travelling like a thun- derbolt, that can gauge speed and direction within the first 18 Inches of its flight towards you,

The eye is the first organ of the body to grow old. The years lay their hand on the elasticity of the lens as early as 25.

But that is not all. There is the factor called "reaction-time" by

the paychologists. It

moans

ilme taken; by the nerve cells of the brain to effect the connections between the messages registered by the eye and

Megan Taylor, World Champion

at 17

the legs that are going to carry you to the right spot to return the ball. and the muscles of the arm that wil deliver a sweep of the racket of the right force.

Old age as regards these snup de- cisions acts in pretty early. Table tennis requires something for speedier than the brain of a stock broker, who deeldes, "I'll buy ten thousand" within second of reading figures off the inpe machine. Even 24 is too old.

Contrast, that with golf. There lies the ball waiting. You can take your time..

A good golfer has a store of mem- ories. He says: "It's a shot 50 yards shorter than the one I did on the eighth at Sandown last week.”

All he requires is to repeat it a trifie less strongly; and the

man li middle life, who is getting a little set in his habits is more consistent in his muscle control on account of this. And when youth is a fading 50 are temperament and "nerver"

Golfors Carry On

off.

E isn't no caslly put

That's why golf is a game in which the years, even two score of them, need not make you despair.

"Figure skating belongs totally to adolescence, because it depends ON suppleness, balance,

and

muscle sense of the highest order, and that grace of body which declines when full growth is reached. Limb control reaches its finest point in the Inte teens-ny 19-and balance that a hair's weight would turn cannot be, attained later.

Of summer sporta tennis is prob- ably the most exacting-for a man 27 to 33 is the prime, and for

woman 23 to 28.

A

In cricket only a limited tax 1 mode on physical powers. Only middle-aged stiffening of the Joints will rob players of their form. So for cricketers 45 need not necessarily mean finish, but the middle thirties are the prime for most people..

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*KIDDERPONE such a thing as the art of the cinema,' RANPURA they say lolly. And one just ré- piles, "Is that so?"

Then those gardening snobs. They RAWALPINDI grow or attempt to grow-only the newest varieties of flowers, and twist their lips in a sorry smile when I show them the old favourites in my garden.

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But what of the inverted snobs-- SANTHIA those who won't be "proper" because

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You must have met them-often. They can afford to dress well, but they go about in trousers that sag at the knees and wear overcoats that are green with age. I once knew a man who would never wear a starch- ed collar for the reason that, as he explained, "stockbrokers wear em"! Just For Fun!

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THESE victims

snobbery may be recognised BEHAR by other signst they have pocket- CORFU books bulging with money, yet they SANTHIA ostentatiously pass by the saloon door CHITRAL and go into the public bar.

TALMA They are very comfortably off TANDA they have uncles with titles and samuli dogs with big pedigrees-yet they won't keep servants "It's such fun to do things for oneself," they simper. Their opposites are the once-rich people, now poor, who starve them- selves for the sake of "appearances" which include servants with hearty appetites.

There are those who Insist on be- ing loudly "Hail, fellow! well me!" with per

persons they employ-to the embarrassment of the latter, and their own very conscious satisfaction of not being "snobbish."

And believe it or not-there are nobs who go to the length of travell- ing third class with first-class tickets! It is an awful thought-but can it be that there is some form of snob. bery in every one of us which does not make itself evident until a special circumstance uncovers the horror?

Human Frailty

AN It be that Thackeray was

CAN

right? Alas! it may be so. When Mr. Justice Hawke alluded to him he had in mind the "Book of Snobs"-that slashing, roaring-with- laughter exposure of human frailty. Do you remember what Thackeray wrote on the score of "Snobs and Marriage." This occurs in it:

"With love and simplicity and natural kindness Snobbishness is per- petually at war. People dare not be happy for fear of Snobs. People dare not love for fear of Snobs. People pine away lonely under the tyranny of Snobs.

"Honest, kindly hearts dry up and die. Gallant generous lads, bloom- ing with hearty youth, swell Into bloated old-bachelorhood, and burst and tumble over. Tender

girls wither into shrunken deeny, and perish solitary, from whom Snob- bishness has cut off the common claim to happiness and affection with which Nature endowed us all

How do we help a child?

Hore we quote, from our constitution,

of onc aims and objects:-

our

"To take such steps by personal, written or printed statement, public meetings, or otherwise as

may be deemed expedient for the purpose of educating the public generally in the inter ests of the welfare of the young."

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8. Somebody's darling suggests the filling in the chocolate (10). → This olit philosopher W819 nothing more than an animal

10 Tale in goal leads to a state-

(4).

ment (10).

11 Listen to part of across (4). 12 Where the insinuator apparent- ly lives is not on the coast (10). 17 This yard does not measure dis-

tances (5).

20 This bar is first rate inside (4). 21 Whut the ignoramus cannot be

master of (4).

23 The middle weighs many times

the whole (B).

24 Wherein ane may hesitate as to the course to take, but take it easy at first (10).

30 This man certainly can play

cricket (4).

31 No slight description (10). 32 May be an opening for tanners

(4).

33 "Slug In ient" (anng.) (it might be to a fair camper!) (10),

DOWN

1 Landlubbers at sea don't think

it fine (5).

2 If unofficial may be a kind of

fence (8).

3 Beat with a bit of the second

half perhaps (0)..

4 The issue is little more than a

matter of proportion (G).

5 This may depend upon just how you put your fool down (8), 0 Snappy reference to the last dozen years of the boat race? (0).

7 Very warm (6).

POLICE NET CLOSES ON DRUG RING

13 He is not busy, but may be- come riled it disturbed (5). 14 Conveyance for a canned artist

(5).

15 Rutle remark that upset a Alm

celebrity? (4),

10 A palindrome (4).

18 Sound quality from 23 across

(4).

10 May be said to be a flow of 7

down 23 ncross (4).

22 "Stay Idie" (anaj.) (8).

21 Vigorous nonsense about a ve-

hele (0).

25 What is got in a pig is not very

bright (6).

26 Epithet for 20 across reversed

(8).

27 Disliding pocity? (0),

28 It may end a war (0). 20 Humorous (5).

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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THEORETIU OMAHA 0 EE" OTE RI E ANK BRILLIANCE

weeks last night when they fell upon two different banda, of suspects simultaneously, netting over 00 packets of oplum and 25 prisoners,

Shortly after 7 p.m. one party raided a room in a lodging foname and at the same Ume another party forced an entry" into a room in a hotel.

those Among

arrested, were Shanghai, April 7.

woman, three students, policeman, a The police carried out the two sallor, hawkers, a big merchant and most successful opium rakis for several farmers--Reuter Special.