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Horrific Films

The action of the Chief Cen- por in making the representa- tions to film distributors which of the led to the withdrawal news-reel sequences depicting the gruesome suicide of a New York youth who fell 17 storeys to his death is commendable.

Incalculably more dangerous than gangster and similar films so readily censored in Hongkong | is the film which exhibits the There has been a gruesome, distressing increase of evidence that nervous and hysterical con- ditions of mind are being pro- duced in young people by scenes of brutal violence and hideous suffering. From time to time the news reels exhibit pictures of accidents and death which ter- rify and haunt a sensitive child, and also have adverse effects on adults. Some restraint in this department is urgently needed. A Record For 6939

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OOD NIGHT. Vienna ! You remem- "ber the tune and the words, I expect. But this time it is not you and I singing: Hitler has said good- night to Vienna for us, to the Vienna which people sing about.

For three years Vienna was the only home I had. The soft German they speak there, with its proullar, expressive words, became a second native tongue to me, so tintural that when I returned to England I used Viennese phrases in the middle of English sentences.

Then later I went to Berlin ex- pecting to find the people there The same as the Viennese, I had been told that, ofter all, the Germans and the Austrians were. In fact, One Race.

H

ITLER has just said so again. And he's talking through his hat, though

I probably takes a foreigner to see it.

They are as different from the Oermans as the Irish. the Scots, and the Welsh from the English.

The Viennese are Vienna. More songs have been written about Viena than any city in the world; but then it is probably the most beautiful city in the world.

It was built by a people living In A climate with northern winters and southern summers. In Vienna the Nordic and Latin cul-

tures meet; the fery Latin tem- perament is tempered with Nordle and Slav Influences.

They are lazy, artistic, witty, and casual, They behave as though they were French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian all at once.

T

HE Viennese dialect is A masterpiece of lazł- ncsa

Can- in speech. sonants are amitted. vowels changed. French and Italian words Vienna used because nobody in has ever bothered to translate them into High German.

They have the best manners of anybody in the world. They ad- dress women as "Gracious lady." and kiss their hands. The Ger- mans despise the Austrians for these little gestures. But then the Germans do not know the mean- ing of good manners. They are the rudest race on earth,

In many ways Vienna Dublin. Perhaps that's why I took To it at once.

The city is architecturally benu- tiful; the people are poor; and they have the Dubliner's charm and friendliness towards strangers.

But the Viennese are not so ob- stinate, nor no stupidly violent an the Irish can be. Or maybe they've never had to be,

no

People

have of Vienna changed. They have a quality called Gemütlichkelt-an untrans- latable word which meairi charm. easy

Koingness, comfortablenu...

and Just Viennese-ness.

When the Vienne lose th's quality they lose everything. Even

Ten Days That

Shook The World

THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the Russian Ite- volution is being celebrated in many parts of the world, and by many communities which see in that world-shaking event the prelude to a realisation of all their hopes.

IT is interesting and perhaps in-, the existing regime. Kerensky, was

structive, after 21 years, to glance fared with an hupossible task.

those terrible ten days In On October 5 the Congress of back to Petrograd and Moscow, when the fate Soviets met in Petrograd and Mos- of Russia hung in the balance.

In the summer of 1917, the last

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In their worst days their Gemit- lichkeit remained.

When I went to Vienna there were 230,000 kronen to the round. Shoes were made of brown japer. "coffee" drunk by the majority of the people was made of malt. A young school-teacher who taught me German was so poor that she could afford only one ment a day -two allees of black bread with lard and a piece of sausBRE,

My violin teacher played in a cinema for his living. I was his only pupil. There was no money in Vienna for private lessons.

That was in my first winter, When summer came, and Austria was given a League of Nations loan, the suicido figures fell and Vienna was Vienna again.

There is one typical Viennese anecdote about a would-be suicide in those days when everything was ersatz and made of something else. A man tried to hang himself; the rope broke, an ersatz rope made of paper.

He tried to stab himself: the kulfe bent-an ersatz kulle made of cardboard.

He tried to shoot himself; it was au ersatz bullet, made of wood.

He decided to go on living and drank a cup of coffee to steady his” nerves, le fell down dend; it was crantz coffee.

Thic summer came. The Viennese, stil! poor, pul fresh flowers in the baskets round the tamp-posta in the Ring. They had Always done this in the old days In the wide, lime-lined street which encircles the Inner City.

The fountains worked again: there is never any shortage of water in Vienna. It is best in foun- tains. When it is drunk it pro- duces a high percentage of goltre cases among the inhabitants,

The chestnuts bloomed in the Prater, the vast amusement park with a Big Wheel and scenic rali- waya, and beer gardens and cafes.

VIENNESE café is some- thing all on its own. For the price of one CAD of coffee with whipped the top-the eram foating on Turks taught the Viennese how to e coffee-you can sit there all day,

write lettern. read papers from every country in Europe, play chess, leave messages for your friends until you are turned out early next moming.

And always there is music. When Richard Strauss resigned the directorship of the State Opera, It was a front page story across four columns. When Puccini died the

borders.

When Mascagni came to Vienna he entered the Imperial Café next to the hotel where Hitler stayed, and was cheered by the people there until he had conducted the Intermezzo from "Cavallerin "

And on Sundays' the workers had

Two eminent men of science mance of ordered government in NOW Lenin judged the time ripe to Russia was vanishing. In Petrograd emerge. He appeared on the plat- have just given us their estim-and Moscow, Soviets had been form-form, and took charge of the situation papers were printed with black ates of what mankind hased and were passing Bolshevik re- which was now in a condition of in- achieved and of the mysteries solutions. Kerensky, the autocratic credible flux,

History at this hour was head of a directory, was desperately of existence and the forces of trying to stave off the imminentmaking. the universe which are still un-breakdown,

Lenin, with true Isolved. Prof. Einstein has com-

In the background was Lenin. The instinctively selzed upon the

of 1917 found him in fundamental factors in the situation with the cafe band. posed a record of the civilisation revolution

frantically of 1938 for the edification of the Switzerland,

trying Lo They could be comprised in two where the words: Peace; Land. human race in 6939. It will be get back to Petrograd.

situation invited him with open arms, Peace was essential to keep out buried in the grounds of there was smuggled through Germany Germany's armies at all cost. New York World's Fair and no in a closed railway carriage and ar- The seizure

the of the land by profane hands are to open the rived in Petrograd on April 4. peasantry was essential to place the millions" behind the But the time was not ripe. Lenin "leeming imperishable casket till 5,000

Soviets, years have passed. Sir James went into hiding.

There followed the July days of Jeans impresses upon us the un-i terror. All was chaos and confusion. certainty of our knowledge of Everything was disintegrating and the nature of things, despite all crumbling, and the nominal head of the labours of science. Poster- ————————————————— ity will, we hope, respect us the

The necessary decrees were passed, and the Soviet of Peoples' Commis- saries elected Lenin as the head and chief. Ils hour had come.

With the support of the peasantry, the Soviet was master of the silua- tion and Lenin was the master of the more when it rends the judg- masues in intellect and charac-Soviet ment of the great philosopher of ter to "the few who produce this stage, first gave evidence of his Beside him was Trotsky who, at relativity that our time is rich something valuable for the com-military genius in organising the 111 inventive minds. Will it munity." We are certainly not military revolutionary committee and think highly of us for the full equal, but ability, even in the creation of a general staff for achievements which he com-genius, in productive work is no the Bolshevik Revolution. memorates, of using power to guarantee of practical wisdom shook the World.

Thus began the Ten Days which save human muscles, of learning and good feeling. The power of

wns

to fly and to send wireless mes-leadership is unfortunately often sages round the world? Five bestowed by nature on those who WHILE Kerensky and his Ministers remained inactive, Trotsky, with thousand years hence these do not know where to lead. the instinct of a born strategist, triumphs may seem na elemen-There is little doubt that pos-moved. He ordered the Petrograd tary as the Invention of the terity, as Prof. Einstein hopes, garrison to stand to army in defence wheel and the windmill and the will read what he says of us-of the committee. The garrison com- discovery that man

plied. could auil if it does read-with proud and cross the sen seem to us, and justified auperiority. We shall assured. Kerensky,

From that moment, success

with courage their inventors may be equally seem to them as ill-equipped as and boldness, demanded dictatorial forgotten. Yet Prof. Einstein ancient Egypt and

Babylon powere to cope with the revolt. does ua scant justice. We have seem to us." The homily of Sir

The difference between Kerensky certainly not solved all the pro- James Jeans is not directly com-ed; Trotsky ucted, and seized tele-

and Trotsky was this: Kerensky talk blems of production and distri- forting to our self esteem. He graphs, telephones and all Govern bution, but it misrepresents the warns us that in spite of all its ment oflees. Lenin

to find control. No wonder Lenin was grateful to

in fear of being eliminated by whether space is finite or in and admired this astute generaler the economic cycle. At the finite, cannot tell whether either Early on the morning of blackest hour of recent depres- term has a meaning. So little 7 Kerensky left, ostensibly to bring sions there were many millions hns humanity yet learnt of even back troops from the front to quell more people in the world with a material reality. He opens be- Lenin and Trotsky were in command the revolution. He won too late. comfortable standard of living fore us vistas of time and space and in control.

than ever before in its history, beyond the power of the mind The Revolution was accomplished,

Tragically true is the record to grasp and declares that in the in ten days. The Red Terror was that the menace of war and an- | far stellar regions a mere scrap about to begin. Judging from the xiety for the future must occupy of matter sends out tremendous series of Stalin "purges," It conUnues

--after 20 years. every thoughtful mind. But energy. All this leaves us) As for Lenin, the Father of the Re- posterity, will surely be too wise blind as primitive man to what volution, his place in history is to accept Prof. Einstein's ac- the universe really is and our secure, count of the reason. He Anda human part in it. Will they see on the day? Was it all worth while But Trotsky-what are his thoughts it in the inferiority of the more clearly in 60397

--for him?

-To-day's Thought...------- FOR the earth that breeds the

trees,

Breeds cities, too, and sym- phonies.

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.

their holiday. Young men and women, old men smoking black. curved Italian cigars crowded the street cars on their way to the country.

Some of them went out into the Vienna woods, where there are wild strawberries and more whipped cream. Or to swim in the gardens of the old Imperial Palace of Schönbrun, or to lie half naked in the sun on the banks of u lake called the Günschäufel-- the goone-heap.

I

N the orenings, before the end of June, there was

the opera. Bat

tistini was singing there, and Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schumann, Tauber and Jeritza. Tulip Losch was in the corps do ballet, Just graduating to solo parts. She was sixteen then, and full of ambitions to go to America-not as a film star, but as a dancer.

A year ago I met Richard Strauss in London and we talked of those days. It was odd, he 75, I not 30, to be sighing for "dle schöne Tagen "the beautiful old days of 1921, But Vienna had that fascination.

The Austrian State bulit Strausa a villa in the Belvedere. Schusch- nigg is under "house arrest ” there now.

Then, as the summer wore on and the new wine was pressed. Vienna went up into the hills again to drink it and sing and dance-ihe old tunes about their beloved city of dreams and music. Yes, Vienna was a little like it is in the movies. Poverty and suffer- ing never altered the character of the people.

Perhaps there was not so much cream as whlie of egg in the coffee. perhaps there was not so much. money for beer and the new wine. But there were flowers in the lamp-posts, and fountains. the chestnuts flowered, and the ilme trɛes still grew in the Ring. And there were special performances at the Opera for the workers, and flue houses for them to live in: There were no classes, no racial distinctions, no Aryans and non- Aryans, no foreigners even, like the American consul, who always sneezed when he got drunk.

We were all fellow-citizens, and we sang about our precious Vienna in our cups and out of them.

EADING the news this week, I have wondered lot. My greatest

B&F

friend, who was my teacher during those three years in Vienna, is safe, for he was in Holland when all this started.

But the others? The doctors, the lawyers, the writers, the artists and musicians, those people of whom Vienna was proud because they were Wienerisch born and bred, hoirs to one of the Anest cultural inheritances in the world. what of them?

How often, how many times more must this question be asked? How often, too, must the answer be the same?

Nobody knows. And yet I feel somehow, because I want to feel that way, that Vienna hasn't said good-night to the world nor the world "Good-night, Vienna."

Just Auf Wiederachen, perhaps.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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