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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1988.

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ISS MARY PICK- FORD'S reception

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on her return to England suggests that she still retains a great deal of the popularity which once gained her the name of "the world's sweetheart."

There was a time, I fancy, when, if a vote had been taken, it would have been found that was the most popular woman on earth--or,

Hongkong Telegraph. Miss Pickford

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938.

LABOUR'S WORK AT GENEVA

This

year's International Labour Conference of the

at least, in those parts of the earth reached by the films in which she appeared.

In the past there has never been anything comparable to

What makes you

The secret of popularity re-

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Popular?

formula," he is loved as few

models of

In our own time we have seen

star. Great leaders may have It may be said, of course, that been as popular inside their own the popularity of Mary Pick- League of Nations, at Geneva. countries, but only a few of ford is due to her success in us- has a special signifiennce for them, like Garibaldi, have swept ing the "Cinderella that vast and growing army of the world off its feet; and I but other actresses have used courtesy or cleanliness are loved. Mr. Shaw doing everything in It may be argued that there his power to make himself the which has been mo-doubt whether even Garibaldi at the Cinderella formula without

becoming the world's aweet- was also in Johnson much of the most unpopular man in England; bilised in recent years to serve the height of his popularity was

saint and hero, and that it is for but, as his existence in England love him. I am made life a great deal more in- port.

It would take a very clever this that we On any of

Chaplin at the height of his. Britain's

person to make himself popular afraid, however, that there have teresting and amusing to thou- great roads they may be seen by

by following a formula-so been a good many men who were sands of Englishmen, he has end- day and by night. Their lorries

clever and so original that be as saintly and heroic as Dr. ed by becoming an extremely

devour the monotonous miles

a vote of all the in- would probably have been popu- Johnson and who yet somehow popular man.

Jar in any case. under cover of the darkness. At

escaped becoming popular in his habitants of the Eng-

Tako the mos popular fashion. road-side snack bars they haltlish-speaking world were taken

characters in literature and you for brief respite and refresh on the question, "Who is your ment; then on again to their favourite living character?" is there any statesman or soldier distant destinations.

who would receive as many votes Greta as Marlene Dietrich or Garbo? I imagine not.

The International Labour 'Fats Walier Orchestra. Conference is to consider the re-

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a London

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will find that most of them had the popularity of Falstaff by im- Anyhow, we cannot explain

NOT long ago, it is true, qualities that we should have thought would almost certainly gaintliness and heroism to him. to what living man they were puting a vigorous strain of took the votes of its readers as make them extremely unpopular.

Such men become popular most bored to read about, and Falstaff is one of the most mainly, it seems to me, because Mr. Shaw topped the poll as the popular characters in the Eng- of a natural exuberance of per- most unpopular man of his day. It may be said, and truly, that lish drama; yet he was a coward, sonality that makes them per- But unpopularity with one sec- gutation of hours of work and the popularity of a film-star is a thief, self-indulgent, an off-petually interesting company. rest periods of professional as shallow as it is widespread cer who regarded his men

tion of the people' is often the as It is this exuberance of per- penalty of popularity with an- drivers and their assistants. and that it reveals none of the "food for powder," and, as the

attracts us, and other. Gladstone at the height For many years past, the trade intense and deep-seated passion Prince jocularly described him, sonality that BD5356-Have you ever been in Heaven. FT. Jack Harris Orch. unions of the workers concerned with which great statesmen and "a bolling-hutch of beastliness." sinners as well as saints have of his popularity was one of the

possessed it. It delights us even best-hated men în England. soldiers are loved. Thousands Mama, I wanna makɑ Rhythm. F.T.

have been putting forward their of men were ready

He had enough vices to ruin in so worldly an adventurer as to die for the reputations of half a dozen Arnold Bennett's

We see the same thing hap- "Card." It 88737-Liebestraum (Liszt). F.T. Quintete of Hot Club Orch. demands. In response to these Garibaldi; not many, unless I am men; yet the fact remains that was this, as well as his gift for Hitler and Mussolini. Hitler, pening to-day in regard to appeals, the Internationai La greatly mistaken, would give we like him infinitely better than scoring centuries, that made most people will agree, is enor bour Office at Geneva has been their lives for Mr. Harold Lloyd. scores of men of the most un- W. G. Grace the idol of the mously popular in Germany. studying the whole problem The question is often asked, selfish and noble character. cricket-ground, for, most people He has made life more interest- with a view to the adoption of so's popularity?" and experts "What is the secret of So-and-

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DR. JOHNSON, again, Popularity, indeed is the re- tional hero and by, most un- nary men and women how to

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the general labour laws are on

the whole quite inadequate to Great Britain, there are the pro- deal with the special problems visions of the Road Traffic Act, involved, From time to time, of 1980, extended by further In newspapers, reports of acci-legislation in 1933. But only dents or police court proceedings Inst year the committee set up reveal to the general public to inquire into the conditions of | something of the unsatisfactory the goods section of the road conditions under which so many transport industry reported that of the drivers have to work. the position was still unsatis- An over-tired driver is n poten-factory and made recommenda- tial cause of accidents, and it tlons for reform. becomes the duty of the Stato

Though the English-speaking to protect the public against countries (including the United the danger. Also, from the States of America) still lead the point of view of the driver, ne-way with this type of legisla cidents through fatigue maytion, it is apparent that even have serious consequences and with them much still remains to jeopardise his chance of futuro be done. Action by the Inter- employment.

national Labour Organisation Canada, where distances are will full a two-fold purpose. It long and where road transport will stimulate the progressive developed early, may be con- countries to more vigorous en- eldered the pioneer country in deavour, and it will provide an this field of legislation. In On-Incentive to the more backward tarlo, the Public Vehicles Act of countries to make a beginning 1923 frat regulated hours. In with the necessary legislation.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

His unpopularity with those who do not come under his spell, however, is extreme. Like Mussolini's, his particular kind

By Lichty of exuberant personality is for

"Let's soften those lights to amber--the white light adde peure

to her age",

home consumption. Foreigners do not feel that the good com- pany of the world is the richer for his existence, as it was the richer for the existence of Abra- ham Lincoln or has been the rich- er for that, say, of Mr. Lloyd George.

DICTATORS,

indeed,

enjoy only the popu- larity of temporary success. If they cease to succeed, they loso their popularity like idolised racehorses that have failed their backers.

The popularity of Mary Pick- ford may be shallower and less intense than that of a Euro- pean dictator, but it may be more lasting. After all, Cinder- ella to-day enjoys a greater popularity than

of the Roman Emperors.

any

And so docs Falstaff.

And so

does Dr. Johnson. I wish states- men thought, a little more abouf posthumous popularity. It le bad enough to be unpopular while one is living, but it is n torriblu fate to be detested after. Jone is dend.