THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947.
The
Family Double-or Quits
WHO ARE THE EXPERTS IN YOUR HOME? THIS IS A NEWS GAME FOR EVERYONE
Telegraph Hongkong
Now who's to be question- presents today an entertaining Master? Decided? OK. Let's news-game which the whole get started.
family can play.
SPORT
Here's how you play: For ench
1. What team has won the topic there are five questions based on huppenings reported in first division of the Hongkong Hongkong newspapers during Football League?
the past month. Clioose the
famous 2. Which
Notts topic you think you know best. County cricketer died on April Politics for Father? Sport for 3? young Tum? Lucky Dip for 3. Which team in the Eng-
Give thent their lish
Mother? cholce,
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incorrect
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teca's
Football Leagues has 100 already scored more than goals this season?.
4. Which countries won (a) the International Soccer Cup (b) the International Rugby Clumpionship?
6. Which Hongkong softball Won (a) the Lengue teams Championship (b) the Interna- tional Series!
PEOPLE
1. Who is the head of the Viet Namh Government?
4. What is the name of the Commander-in-Chief, Southeast Asia Land Forces, who visited Hongkong during the month?
5. What is the name of the
Canadian-born traitor who was sentenced this week in Hong- kong to be hanged?.
POLITICS
2. Which New Territories village was presented with banner this month?
3. Which European capital
city will celebrate its octingen- tenary in October this year?
4. The remains of Major- Gen Wingate, famous leader of the Chindit forces, who perished
1. What Government in an air accident in 1944, were measure did 73 Labour M.P.s. discovered near Imphal. Where
is Imphal? vote against a fortnight ago?
2. Which country recently announced a proposed new Con- stitution?
3. There are two terrorist organisations What are they called?
in
Palestine.
4. Which political party this. week gained the majority of votes in elections conducted in the British zone of Germany?
5. Two important
peace treatles are being discussed in Moscow. To what countries do they apply?
1.
2. What was Mr Henry Wal-
PLACES
been lace's office in the United States
Where have they Administration before he was sacked by President Truman? holding the United
Nations 3. What two kings have died. Conference on Trade and Em-
ployment? during the past 25 days?
"For heaven's sake, don't be so anxious,
Killer. The least you can do is let him in"
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
ten square yards of tear ivory (glycerine)-stained-face, --- and
WING to the increasing nine or
of demands
the market in Kenya, a licence to shoot an elephant is to cost £60-double the old price.
But surely the travelers employ- ed by billiard toons will be able no need to to avoid this. There
treat cavernouy mouth saying, “Gee, Jed, I kinda knue it hadda be vuc." Advts, 9d. a word
6. What is the capital of the Seychelles, to which Hongkong's Director of Medical Services, Dr Selwyn-Clarke, has just been appointed Governor?
ENTERTAINMENT
3. Who was declared by the Harvard University magazine, the Lampoon, to be the "worso film actor" of the year?
4. What is the name of Charlie Chaplin's new picture, in which he plays the part of a gentleman murderer?
5. Which popular film acior is reported to be seeking a place on the United States 1948 Olympic fencing team?
LUCKY_DIE
2. There's been some contro-
RECENT TRENDS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
E
By ROY CAMPBELL
Unless the complete domlalon of Romanticism over the creative part of English letters during the nineteenth cen- tury is properly appreciated. It is impossible to understand the more recent trends. In English literature. Most of these trends are struggles of one kind or another to break clear of this curious Influence which penetrated deeply into the literary habits of thought and Imagination of the British. Over these tendencies the World War also has had an in- fluence.
These aspects are discussed in this article by a South African poet who bas attained a considerable 'reputation In England.
NGLISH Literature, like almost by the modern world he had helped 1. The old City Hall site was for
every other literature, is only to create intellectually, than a wild sold by public auction
Just beginning to emerge from giraffe would be if suddenly dumped $3,745,000. Who bought the the shadow of the great Romantics in the mid of Piccadillst Ho of the early nineteenth century. It felt the same revulsion for it as property?
Wells did in his last phase. was with them that poeta and nu- thors censed to conceive of themselves as craftsmen and artists, and began a statue to be set up in Gros- to think of themselves as prophets, venor Square should be stand-high-priests, teachers and reformers heresy which is all, spoiling Incidentally, statue is it?
versy in London as to whether
On reading his late book, and one of his best, one feels that he has been averted by disgust, rather than converted by love, to practise the religion most remote from him in Eme and space, and to practise it
A Hongkong-born girl ing up or sitting down. Whose much good taleout the only Eng- in the place most removed from
1. plays an important part in the Bette Davis film, "The Corn is Green." shown here this month. What is the name of the actress, and what is her real name?
3. What was "Operation Biglish author for the last century-and- in time and space. This typifles Bang?”
in
in
effected any for all time the cultivation of
a-half whose doxically enough, "otherness'. Nobody can go further
2. This year's Shakespeare building by a ruse. How did Festival opened at Stratford-on- she get in? Avon un Easter Saturday. In 6. Workers
certainly A a well-known play, a young ac- public utility service in the have been on treas played her part through- United States out in a "nightie." What was strike. What service do they the play?
operate?
u craftsman and in centrifugal gymnasies or in the identification of oneself with what te allen. Mr. Huxley has broken, the record and from now on there can only be a swing back.
reforms, was, 4. A bomb was planted
first and foremost the Colonial Office in London by an artist-Dickens.
Up to the last war Dritain was the A woman who got into
Rull"
more or Iesa dominated intel- lectually by Romantic standards In- herited and accepted unquestioning-
We should remember that Huxley ly for nearly a 150 years. Though the
had was once under the spell of LOW--
rence and wrote a book about him, normal vehicle of expression changed from poetry to prose and free verse, the difference was only Britain should be grateful to both superficial. The centrifugal long these acrobate in escapism that they ing for "otherness,"
which is the have rounded off one of the most was still there. Romantic Spirit, wa
fantastic periods of 15erary aber- for The Romantic Spirit is that which ration in history at least as sacrifices the rule to the exception, as English-speaking people are con
the tract to, immediate to, the remote, the derned: for one tald obvious to the occult, the whole to and the other discovered, the polo of "otherness". She can't go further.
To take a cut' or let the world know their salary?
THE DILEMMA OF THE £30,000-A-YEAR MEN
by
.
he
BERNARD HARRIS
There is no doubt that in o fow
shareholders
FRIEND has been asking my advice whether should reduce his salary by £10,000 a year!
The man is among the leaders
But the blazoning for and wide of As chair- of British industry.
the amounts they receive will couse man, and managing director of amculties for some of them. There
between manufacturing will be comparisons
one prosperous group he draws a salary which company and another, and it is cer- would make a Cabinet Minister tain that some shareholders will feel so aggrieved that they will seek to envious.
enforce à reduction.
a
And, as he frankly admits;-it- would make his shareholders blink. if they knew,
the
the part, the direct to the indirect, the native to the foreign, and the pro- sent 10 some idealised post or uloplan future.
Wells And Shaw
Tradition
many
small
At the same time, as this brilliant alienation of talent from reality The writers under whose influence
was being carried out, in most modern authors were brought cases by immortal artists, a up were nearly all obsessed by this minority of writers and thinkers form of
of escape from the real and the
managed to hand on the English- Immediate, which drove them to adition which has always been Utopianise politically and socially, based
like Show; ( or scientifically, liko
and
Un common-sense Wells, both of whom subjected the sense of humour. This latter sense
future. for
has traditionally served the English present to a hypothetical
ain artistic and a moral con- Wells, however, lived to see many of
his dreams realised, and the shock of science-from Chaucer right down
though to the present time, even it nearly broke his heart. Let us hope
sometimes it had to take the form that Shaw will be spared a similar misfortune.
When
ns in the
of an underground movement.
During the last 50 years it has The most interesting form of this
to profess it. It centrifugality in time is when It been dangerous faces both ways like Janus, as in has banded more than one great Before the war the chairmanship the case of William Morris, the great English humourist in prison: Cobbett instances this has led to abuses. It of the Midland Bank, reckoned to be mentor of the Romantics who was was an outstanding example. But receraty it carned them is right that
should worth £15,000 a year, was looked phetic Utopianist, Viewed one way,
the prototype of the modern pro- more
approbrium or neglect, know just how much of their com- upon 09 Onc of the outstanding he is a mediaeval knight in cast-iron case of Lewis, and, for some tire. pany's earnings is going to the direr- "plums" in finance and Industry, breeches and a tin-hat, gezing
Joyce.
however, the war came, of an tora,
But pay of that magnitude has be- talgically into the
the Idealised post. Viewtapestry
other many English writers had to serve come much commoner in Britain to-
he is an ardent, ultra-modern in the ranks: even those who re- way, day,
demagogue, Bazling us
us rapturously mained civilians were famillarised with reality in its grimmest and into an equally impossible future.
material paradise most forbidding The illusion of
forms. and they with a certain and the perfectibility human began to discover
of
claimed, by far the greatest number subatance of reality contained more of cecapists. But there is a similar interes from a human point of phenomenon to the escape in time; view and was
less grotesque and and that is the escape in space, less boring than the faked escapist equally dependent upon credulous-worlds which they had been forced ness, which led to the frantic tourism to substitute for it previously. and globe-trotting of D. H. Lawrence They became acclimatised to ex-
order to try
to try to indentify himself perience. They sought for clarity with what was most allen to him: to in their expression and began to at
The extremely wealthy people Immolate everything he could '1
under-
avoid the obscurity which is the living on investments have lended to stand on the shrine of what he could cheapest outlet of escapism. drop into lower income brackets be not understand, the mind and the cause of the steady fall in interest. religion of the savage, which those very fine Europeans who do under- stand, usually treat with greater re- Ferve.
According to the latest official re- turn, more than 2,500 people have an income of between £15,000 and society at some other time, has
has sense of relief that the grim £30,000 a year.
As
Cheap and dear
S my friend says, "One manag- That is where his problem arises. ing director may be cheap £30,000 a year, while another For next year, unless he makes
But it's going to be cut in the meantime, his shareholders dear at £100.
precious dificult to make share
23
OFFAL may be scarce at your butcher's, but we have all types of warp-tying machines (28-stuft) in
00471 Union, get enough tusk to malie a ball or two. In India they pul di beast
bila of, you to sleep and then Ale off tusk, which are afterwards soldered into billiard balls for export.
shoot a whole elephant in order to oblong boxes, felted inside: Tel will know Just how big his salary holders see it in that light,"
An dephant who never forgets once walked into the Bocoinn Hall during a
15.
GLAMOUR get you there. Have
It will not only be the share seen the green leather car- cories steam-proof, for bath weary holders. Publicity given to his ne In a sizes.
Write Mme. Pluvlose, counts will ensure that evory news- Whatwich House, Flaxted-on paper reader will know I, tour Smouthe.
Salaries hidden HAVE
you any shipping prob Bumpimo concert of lems? Console yourself with a No. planoforte music. "Puor dad," said 2 double fruit-port as vintaged by
While this does not show much change in the aggregrate from be- fore the war, the proportion of these big Incomes which is "carned" is considerably higher.
So that is why he is thinking of rates. taking a £10,000 cut.
On the basis of £30,000 a year his tax bill is £26,530, which leaves him with £4,470 to spend.
If he drops to £20,000 a year he will pay £15,780 in income tax and THE Committee on Company Law sur-tax and be left with £4,220
of which Lord So the £10,000 cut will mean the elephant, surveying the logboard the Maison Bosselhauser from real Amendment,
much to the surprise of the
mended in 1945 that the annual ac money. To avoid staggering his Thinks catch counts of every company should shareholders too much he NOBODY sets ferrets to sardines, but you can gear your own disclose the "aggregate amount of the sacrifice of less than £5 a week Osterley foam-blower by
will be well worth while. using a directors' emoluments." Halliburton flywheel with a twist- in pump.
audience, who had not realled Purple grapes ripened by the Sunno Justice Cohen was chairman, recom- only £250 a year less in spending
that elephants
can
under tulik emotional stress. (Cf. the
who shouted, Wimbledon father's in that racket!")
ruy mathod,
cat a
"My
It hadda be him
I
READ that a certain actress "can produce a flood of icars at will.“
Tail-piece.
MAN ofrested for stealing, a motor-car tore a four-inch nail that from the floor of the police station
How disconcerting for the glycerine- men, sinco
This recommendation forma part He has of Clause 30 of the Companies Bill, which is now on its way towards the Statute Book,
of him
of
1
Thanks to Lord Justice Cohen's committee, I think we shall find next year that quite a respectable number of the kingpins of British Industry are nearing £10,000 a year.
Top place, so far as I know, goes to one with just over £60,000.
The tanner tip
Oblique Approach than any fictitious world. But now
sort of
The reason why the former World War did not bring a similar sense of relief was that it was simply a case of waiting in the mud and being eaten by Hee-it was worse
new there is found a There is a far more dignified ́form of avoiding the evident and the literature which is not afraid to par- netual which was very gracefully ticularise and to narrate, rather than Writers became less generalise. practised by Henry James and Vir- to ginia Woolf. It
pedantle. amounts It really
Novelists like Evelyn Waugh (in almost to a compromise with reality satirical comedy) and Graham Greene rather than a complete escape.
the
avolded in its turn.
consulted directors other companies and found that they too have been turning over the
As one of them said to me: "I can't same problem.
get used to the idea that I've got to Hitherto, companies have been re- They are agreed that where quired to disclose only the fees paid director has a substantial sharehold make a pound every time I want to 1sts: but they are masters it is well known
to directors. The salaries paid to ing in his company it may even pay tip the cloakroom attendant a tan- real tears don't look as much like and bent it between his teeth. Asited those who were also executives
take a substantial cut. For, ner." did this, he said he felt why he
the company have remained lildden the saving may enable the company 'real tears, on a him as than ones.
to pay a larger dividend, leading to a If an actress is really crying, sou embarrassed, ns he had never been from the shareholders.
rise in the value of its shares. have that Anat cannot
close-up, nerested before.
The increase in tip value of the director's persortál shareholding would probably more than affset the loss of income involved in cutting his salary.
(From Time.)
NAZIS USED ATOM BOMB'
TO KILL VILLAGE OF JEWS
vanish from the earth.
They have a plan
BUT there is another way out of the dilemma. Aty friend is the only so it will be obvious that the figure executive director on his board and of £x shown in the accounts re- lates only to him.
war
DXCTM
Theirs is an oblique approach to (in tragic vein) hegan to rely on
obvious, whic
which Is uitimately sheer narration for their psychological avoided, sometimes at the very verge effects, and abandoned the laboured BUT remember always that Mr of contact in the former case by analysis of their immediate
the decessors. Dalton allows these mea to re- lengthy circumlocution, and in
latter by a deviation of the attention tain only 6d. in every pound they to some other impending actuality
War Poetry make over £20,000.
which has to be glanced at and In some cases, where pedantry had previously taken the form of 'devout Henry James and Virginia Woolf xenolntry, it is found that many Bri- are therefore not out-and-out escap- tinh authors have become patriotic of that and turned to their own soll and to indirectness which is one of the their own flesh and blood for inspira- main Ingredients of Romanticism.
tion. There is less introspection All these writers had considerable disillusionment in the vast crop of
sherature produced in Britain as They are Inclined to writhe when effect on the generation of English erature
writers that is
is now at its zenith
t last result of the they read that the solution of
than fu the aith and result
which resulted it is not surprising that the escuple corresponding crop Industrial production problem is to that has been inherited should still from the 1014 war. give increased incentives to the be rioting in their veins though in If Britain has produced no pont
such patent and often laughable forms equal Wilfred Owen, the collective that it promises to extinguish itself output of poetry which has come out They think that it is oven more in one last blaze of incongruous ex of this war is more intelligent and important that the management class travagance.
sane than the buik of that which should have a bigger incentive-for Britain found herself, at the be- came out of the other. M. Maurice greater efficiency in management le ginning of the war. Intellectually noticed a similar almplification, a do- the quickest way to bring about an political dogma so long as it had of such poets as Aragon and others the mercy of any religious or velopment in directness on the part industrial speed-up.
been fabricated elsewhere to suit who took part in the French Resis- For this reason Mr Dallon has conditions and peoples to which her tance. been urged `not
the own bore no resemblance. In to, confine his tax
There is a return to the National cult of "otherness" it was almost tradition, which is very pronounced. concessions to the lower end of the impossible to go any further than if English poets seek religion they salary scale.
workers.
our
Britain and done.
to
says that early in "He said that a vilinge had been A German wartime experi Dr Kersten ment with an alleged atomic March, 1945, while visiting Himmler, built near Auschwitz for experimen- he found the latter more optimistic tal purposes. They wanted to try bomb, used to destroy a guinea than ever before. Dr Kersten writes: the new weapon. For the purpose; he 20,000 Jewish men, women and
now find it in the European forms of pig village of 20,000 Jews, is "In his conversation with me,
He can get round that by "dilut-
Christian, religion and do not have to To enable him to make a worth- Aldous Huxley related by Himmler's personal returned to the subject of the mys- children had been brought to live in
the village. A single shell had been | ing" the board. terlous secret weapon."
seek for it in the Far West or the Far fired on the settlement. It had
while reduction in sur-tax it was By for the man influential, and East amongst the Hopis If he promotes the company's aules suggested to him that he should one of the most talented of her fundoos, whose systems were evolved physician, Dr Felix Kersten, in
the He quotes Himmler as saying one, caused 0,000 degrees of heat and the his memoirs just published. " or two shots with the weapon would whole village-houses, human beings secretary-none of whom is extra 100 per cent,
works manager,
manager, and Jump death duties on big estates to writers under 60 had gone to to au
to suit different states of civilisation *Included--was burnt
nractise Buddhism. Where? In and mentality from their own. Simi Dr Kersten is a Finnish prac- make cities like New York simply and animals.
vagantly bald-to the board the to ashes.
India? In Tibet? Not that would farly Britain is becoming less hip- amount appearing under the heading The State, in that event, titioner of physiotherapy, who
"Obviously, bays: "This talk
would be far too cenn polal. Ho had gone lessly pervious to imported poll cal I see it now in of "directors" emoluments" will be lake everything-but the widow or DB
to Hollywood to do it, as one might less and more conscious of her own their bomb and were will look much more reasonable than a glit-edged Income on the study Roman Catholicism! This is Such a consciousness nod history, institutions ing heed to some of the very wild completed
way of rumours or so I had thought them almost ready to use it on the enemy the previous figure applicable to of the estate during their lifetime:--
nuts is the -which seemed to be in line with when the encirclement of Be
of Berlin' was
www himself alorie,
the mart perfect example of soil
literature can a vital Himmler's veiled disclosures. And
Only on this drastic basin, it was complete,
upon which a escapism If the exact words quoted are Ils memoirs are documented with when Kriminalrat Obersturmführer.
grow for long, since every iterature. Several companies have a plan thought, would the Chancellor · be Mr. Huxley had done more than has to be national and belong in many copies of letters to show that Gnering, a trustworthy man (unlike those of Himmler he would not have of this sort' in consideration. prepared to give any tax, relief, to any other writer of his age to create own people first, before it can ever he used his influence over: Himmler his homonym) told mo something been talking about anything, except | Promotions of second-lno execu, the man who now pays him 108. Od. the state of mind that prevailed became universal, to be cherished by to have many Jews and other mis-, about the secret weapon, I believed an atom bomb, experts believe.— tives to directorships are likely to in the pound on a substantial silce' amongst modern Intellectuals in other people, Literature, like charity, tregled persons.
Associated Press.
become very fashionable, this years of his income)
England: he was more bewildered begins at home.
Dr
Kersten
flew from Germany to. Stock- aroused my curiosity. I began ́glv- retrospect, the Germinia had nearly increased, but, divided by four, it other dependants would be allowed go i Moscow instead of Rome to
holm shortly before Hitler's end!,
him..
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