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The Mor RONALD COLMAN in

FRANK CAPRA'S tightest Pratuctions.

LOST HORIZON

A seriofizution of Rabert Riskin's screen version of Jomos Hilton's novel Nurrative by Albert Duify.

What Han Harrenko Beront

Kidnapped and brought bu plane to Shangri-la, an Idylite lamazery in the fastness of form bidding "Tibat, Robert Conway, British diplomat, with his bro- ther and three others, wonder why they have been detained thrie. In an interviese seith the High Lamo, Coniny discOVPIR that he käs been chosen to guide #kangri-la through the Troublque years which the Lama aces ahead. # la Conway who must puard the beauties and treasures of art, Iterature and music stored at Shangri-kat against the day when the forces of greed und "evil in the outer world shall have spent them. nelves and humanity, seeking kolace and understanding, will -turu grafețully to Shangrila, After he has explained the ideals and purvoics of Shangris la, the Lama dier peacefully and Conway - atreudy kaif in tour soth the place and with a girl, Sandra, whom he has met there -withdraws to jake up his new burden.

the garden of the lamasery Conway. paused for a moment and looked back. Up on the same terrace where ha lind firat seun har almost hid- den by the floral arbor - Sondra

watching was

their departure. Chang was standing at her ulde. Conway looked at her for a moment and then he turned and disappeared from view. When he had gone Chang placed his arm around Son- den's shoulders whileh were ahnken with coba. "He'll return," he said simply, I know he'll return."

Days later, with the entire party nigh unto exhaustion. George was carrying Maria painfully un his shoulder as they edged their way precariously around a narrow ledge. Conway was behind them and ho was suddenly startled no he stared into Marin's face. Every vestige of youth and beauty had left

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had become small, withered and aged, While he watched, Maria nes- tured feebly and George laid her gently on the ground.

"Forgive nie, George," she whis pored. "I led to you. Everything they told you in true

I made the mistake of failing in love with you, That locket

One of the porters brought it in one inst

NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY|ide" She turned to Conway. "G

Chapter Six

When Conway rejoined the others he found his brother, George, wait- ng. for him in a fever of impatience Bob he cried. "I thought you'd never return. Come on! Everything IN All ready."

Conway stared at him abstracted ly. "What's ready?" he asked,

back," she said. "There is atlit time. Sondra loves you..

You'll be happy in Shangri-la,

bleak, snow-awept hillside.

They burled her there on that

George, Alled with, remerce by what he had done, begged his brothi er to return to Shangri-la.

"Shut up!" was Conway's anty re- ply. "I inke you back where you belong and my job whit be flu Ished." Ic turned and trudged ahead,

For a time George followed him. plending all the while that they turn back. Conway went on in silence. Despairing of changing Conway's

"The porters! They're here and I've arranged to have them lake us back with them." George turned and scowled at the others "I don't know what's getting into these peo- ple," he said, "but they have remind, George stopped suddenly fused to come with us.”

while they were edging along the Conway looked at Gloria, Barnard rim of a deep ravine. "Goodbye,

"Please don't leave Shangri-la," Rondra pleaded, "Wa I need you here." (Posed by Jane Wyatt, Ronald Colman and Margo.) and Lovell: They all nodded con- Bob!" he shouted. "I've been a bur Armation of what George had said. den to you long enough! Please go We're going to wall for the next back." Turning, he took two steps trip." Barnard gald, acting as to the edge of the cham, spokesman for the group. "We leaped off.

kinda like it here."

and

Conway turned to Georgs. “Fresh- A year after they had met on the le." he pleaded, "you mustn't do this. "9.9. Manchuria. the same four You've got to stay," George started men who had been the first to

to protest but Conway alienced him greet Conway's return from Shan- "I'm going to tell you what has{gri-in were monteil in a booth in the just happened to me," he said. As grili room of one of London's fash rapidly an he could, he told the group about his interview with the High Lama, They listened in silence but when he was done George was still unconvinced.

ionable cluba. Tury were awaiting the arrival of Lord Gainsford.

"I wan amazed when I got Galnr. ford's cable to meet him here to night," Robertson and.

"Hope he has some news of Con-

"Ever since I can remember."| George said, "you've always looked | way," said Carstairs. after me. But now I think you're Galusford came into the grit and the one who needs looking after greeted the quartet. When the They've knocked the pins right scotch and soun had been served from under you here. Good heavens. | Grinaford drained his ginas. Bob, things like that don't happeni "Gentlemen," he said, "you nee be in the twentieth century. You've fore you a weary old man who has been hypnotized by a lot of loose-ended a chase that lasted fully_ten braled fanation. Look here, why) months. From the night that "Con- don't you do this Go with me now.) way left the Mhuchurin and Later on, when you're away from Chlang-Chow until two weeks ago here and can think logicnily, if you) I have just missed him by Inches, still feel you want to come back, "In all my life, gentlemen, I've that's fine. What do you any? The never encountered such determina. porters are waiting and, heavention. During those ten months Con knowa, hind a world of trouble way did the most astounding things. getting Maria to make the arrange- Ho learned to fly. stole an army menia."

plane, wan caught, put in Jail → Conway stared at his brother and escaped. He tried to bribs Brit- "Marin? You've crazy, George! You | tsh officials. Hindu merelnuts, 114- can't take that girl away from here tive porler - even bandit revolu Do you know what will happen to tlonists. He begged, cajoled, coaxed, her if she leaves Shangri-la” You'll | fought - always pushing his way have an old women on your hands. toward the Tibetan border. Finally, She came hero' In 1889. Do you real-I trailed him to the most extreme ize she's more than sixty years old? outpost of Tibet. If she leaves this valley she'll revert As usual, ho was already gone. to her real ago.”

But those natives will never forget George laughed hollowly, "Sixty | him. The man who was 'not human' years old." She Isn't a day over they called him. Six times he at- twenty! And I'll prove it to you" tempted the mountain pase where Rapidly Osorge went into an ad- no human has over dared travel. joining room and returned with Six times he was driven back. The seventh time he tried it he didn't Maria, timid and frightened.

. George pinced a protecting arm return. around her shoulder. “Marla, dear,"

"And that. gentleman, is the nat

he said, "don't be frightened. that any known human being over want you to show your locket to saw of Robert Conway." my brother."“

The Silently Maria opened a gold lock-while thee was silent for a time

atoward replenished thoir

et around her neck and extended it drinks,

"Do you think," one of them For Conway to see. There was a picture inside and, engraved on the asked, "that he'll ever find cover, the following inscription: "To again?"

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my darling on her 18th birthday. "Shangri-la may be a fact or it may I don't know," Gainsford replied. April, 1932,"

"Don't you

sce Bob," George ¦ be a state of mind – but one thing pleaded, "the whole thing's ridicu- will always remain with me its ious!"

magnincent conception." Galnaford Conway acowled. "Did you any lifted his glass. the porters are down on the pla- Lenu?"

"Yes."

"And our clothes?"

"Yeg."

Conway made his decision, "Come on," he said, "We're wasting time!” As they made their way through

give you a loast, gentlemen. Here is my hope that Conway findi his Shangri-la!” They all ralaed their ginos and Gainford added, sotily: "Here is my hope that we all Hnd our Shangri-la."/

THE END.

COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, : APRIL 8, 1938.

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Poets Put

into the Bath

'VE got your master very drunk in my keb," said the four-wheel cabman to Charlotte, parlourmaid to Ford Madox Brown, the painter (you know, he did Christ Washing St. Peter's Fect).

Charlotte thought, then said:

"My master's sitting at the head of his table entertaining his guests. That's Mr. Swinburne. Help me carry him upstairs and put him in the bath."

A little boy watched the translation of the most distinguished English poet since Tennyson up three fights of stairs,

That little boy, now in his sixty- fourth year. is Ford Madox Ford, grandson of the painter. In Mightler Than the Sword (Allen and Unwin. 10s 6d. he publishes a garland of friendship und memory woven around eloven great names in literature,

Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H. O. Wells, D.' H Lawrence, Galsworthy, Swinburne the list goes on like an Academy Di Letters

But to get back to Swinburne and that bath-Why did the cabman think the poet was Madox Brown, most respectable and sober painter?

Because, benevolent yet practical, Brown had a tape label with his name and address on it stitched under the lupic of the top coats of Swinburne and of all the rest of his friends who were apt to celebrate unwisely.

"So that on anoat evenings," co

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FORD MADOX FORD

rocaves a garland of friendship and memory round great names,

Linuca his grandson, “a port.. was carried upstairs to the bath."

Charlotte, once they were safe there, *would dose them with dreadfully strong coffee and hold smeiling-salts lo their noses."

Not a drop of drink, however, would she give them." The pleading voices of poets and others whispered

NOVELS

ILLIONE of people look forward to their years of retirement, but surpria- ingly few seem to know how to enjoy themselves when the office door or the factory gate closes be- hind them for the last time.

So I am by no means sorry that more and more novelists are deserting Flaming Youth and devoting them- selves to variations on the theme of Bewlidered Middle-Age. Richard Al- dington la the latest-and not the least boisterous-at them in his comedy- Inrce, Seven Against Reeves (Heine- mann. 78. d.).

His Mr. Reeves, reitling down to savour his leisure at Arty, soon found himself as harassed as a rabbit beset by wenscls.

There was his wife, the snob, deluded by every artistic faker who came her way. There was his daughter, flying off with some fool Prenchman. Worst of all, there were the arüistic fakers themselves.

But weasels, it seems, are predes- tined victims. Using a sporting rifle. Mr. Aldington settles them one by one -almost too easily. I hope he won't find his alege guns rusty when he goes back to them again.

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SUPPOSE it is inevitable that

wo should think the troubles

patriotism and race.

Lou's Kossuth, пот there was hero for you! A name to make front page news In 1848, One moment he is the first President of Hungary, with his own mint and his own generals. The next he is in exile in a quiet comer of Turkey, far from the battleflelds where his followers find fallen. or surren- dered.

Herr Neumaun does not exactly de- bunk Kossuth: he la writing an ex- tremely readable romance, not an his- Lorical treatise.

But he startlingly underlines the "typical triviality in Orent Events, the pinpricks of spite and wounded pride which have too often led to what the history books call glorious pre- fudes to herofe battles for this Hberty and that

Whether or not Kossuth was an emotional charlatan who was pushed and pulled into heading a popular re- veit, this story of how it all began with a horsethief and a woman frightened

by a mouse b certainly a thrilling tale.

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HANGING our pace End

sceno, we walk the wards of

a suburban hospital in A Stranger Myself, by J. A. Cole (Faber and Faber, 73. dd.).

After Herr Neumann's world, I could almost hear a safety-pin drop. But, as

*just a drop 1: Charlotto, just a tiny drop of unsweetened Just listent... and Charlo'te as un ... Charlotte, hearing as an Egyptian monolith."

Charlotte hated all the others. But she liked Mr. Swinburne He was a gentleman. She told little boy Madox Ford how only last Friday Mr. Bwin. burne, when lying "roaring-tearing boased in the bath." called for pen and paper and wrote two odes-To Mr. Maszint and Against the Emperor of the French

That weakness for unsweetened gin, however. lay behind tragedy as well as the comedy of Chariotto and the bath, Swinburne and Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti fell in love, planned to clope.

Her face is very tamillar to you. It looks down from almost all her hus. band's pictures, it looks up, still and drowned. from the water in Holman Hunt's Ophella. She was very beauti ful.

On the evening before the elope- ment was to take place, Mr. and Mrs. Rossetti were in a box at Covent Garden. Swinburne "joined them in a state of inebriation so insupport- able that Mrs. Rosselli went home and took an overdose of some aplate." Swinburne's name was not men- tloned at the inquest.

In two paragraphs Madox Ford tells the real truth about this horror, for the first time.

That is his value. He really knows all the facts about the men of whom he writea. And by a few words he gives the reasons behind the events which their official blographers have placed in history.

My space has run out before I can tell you anything of the light Madox Ford throws on his other Titans.

I would like to have explained, for example, about Hilaire Belloc, who keeps popping up all through the book. But, there, I have no room, except for one, echo of Mr. Belloc's magnif- cent volcu pealing through the palms and marble of restaurant at an Innocent novelist named Kinross.

"Our Lord?" demanded Tho Volce. What do you know of Our Lord? Our Lord was a Centleman."

To end, let me quote an opinion of himself, which Madox Ford prints here:

"You must not be offended by lls manner. He patronlses Mr. James. He patronises Mr. Conrad. Of course. he patronises me, and he will patronise Almighty God when they meet, but God will get used to it, for no is all right.

T. D.

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