1950-08-19 — Page 6

C.V.R. Thompson All-round Increase

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EX

NEW YORK.. VERYONE IS making thun at monoy Moro any time in history. And that means wage-earners just as much as businessON and bosses.

Figures for June show that incomes for thni persanot

month rose by more than £430 million over May's figure. And i 3 May's fure had been good.

il that rate la maintained. and economists say that, with intrered military productius, it is a sure thing-1050 will break all records.

Probable total for the year- around £71,000 million,

As for businesses, the Arst half of the year could hardly have been better.

Earnings of 500 leading Arms topped the 1949 eures by 27 percent, and

ihey аге NOW paying out dividends at a record rate,

ONE OF THE BIGGEST- EVER dividend cheques was posted from the head offices of General Motors, whose profits are up 47 percent, on last year.

The

cheque went to the Duponts, the family already comfortably off from nylon and avant chemical empire.

The Duponts own 10,000,003 hares in General Motors und that Arm has Just declared an extra dividend of 17%. 10. a share, in addition to its quarter- ly dividend of 10%, Ed.

Total, Dupont receipts-about £14,000,000.

NEARLY ALL that money cveryme elte'n mare of

and

would be raked In by the Gov-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950,

STAUNISM

"Goodnen mel You surely don't blame me for trying to mediate between opposing forces?"

FIRST-NIGHTER

. But he will never watch a

music-hall show,

-(London Express Service)

George ROBEY, 80, says: Retire? Never!

By HAROLD CONWAY

(Occupying

When he is not taking part in mementoes of his triumphs in all the touring revue presented by parts of the world. Mr Robey-Blanche Littler the Bluminated place of honour Kobry Is in demand for special an oil-painting of himself as one and only functions. (A fortnight ago le Falstaff his opened a Conservative fete a Shakespearean role-which was exhibited at the Royal Brighton before 15,000 people.) once

Arackmy.) "What amuses me is the num- to do ber of times I'm asked charity shows for old people," ho remarked,. "I look around of them my audience, most younger than I am-and wonder if they shouldn't be entertaining me"

den.

Bonfire sprees ONE other old hobby ho has had to give up-building ernet if Senator Robert Taft,IN the large drawing-room

and lighting bonfires in the gar flat overlooking the epublican' boss, has his

There is no garden now, way.

Buckingham Palace n ruddy-

except for an occasional specta- "Well, what is your retiring cular spree when he spends the Tuft

Baylor for has been that

man dute?" I asked Robey,

Lis continued high cheeked, white-haired

in the country with mortis

day trexation would

brother-in-law, Prince Litüler. ruin America, who has amused millions sat but today he surprised everyone amusing himself-doing a "Never-you're not going to But there remains the fascina- by recommending that America jigsaw puzzle. George see me retire!" he retorted, with tion of untying knots in pieces

a flash of the Robey bull-deg of string- habil Robey Robey-81 in September-- basis.

never been able to resist as long spirit

There do this he suggested had a week "off"; and time,

as I have known him. £4,000 million inercise in taxes, be found. was hanging

were plenty of knotted strings- neats £2,000 million above little heavily on his hands.

about the flat handy for him to the hardest war year

pick up as we talked, For Robey, even in this of his life, doesn't 1< Shirley May

50 many off-weeks, member thul nor Hitler was successful is at ad, when he does, confesses

reurin

To

on

pay-as-you-1503 | I

CONSOLATION offered by the New York Herald Tribune autumn

taining

France: "Behave

neither Napoleon

AL

It

Clef that he feels rather lost. The White Dover, although both were care-is difficult to acquire a taste fully trained for the event."

for leisure after being Bri. NEGROES are to be alloweditain's national funmaker for

The well over half a century. to live out of Harlem. Metropolitan Life Insurance of two bolders Company.

That is why the fashion- Vast New York housing de- velopments, has announced that able first-night audience for Roberts gazed its colour bar would be dropped. Mister

But, at the same time, the curiously at the now rather Jandiani served eviction notices frail-looking figure who sat un 38 tenants who had formed quietly in a box

with his a committee to end discrimina-

wife. tion against Negroes.

IS KOREA the beginning

of

World War III:7 A Gr "No" Came: from Geurial Dwight D. Eisenhower. He does not expeel to get into the Kotea campaign because: "Thry need young G.Js out there, mat old generals."

touring

Still

is still LEORGE ROBEY

too busy on the per-

Collar and wig

ODEY unhappy, his wife Rounded to me, unless he can still put on his wig, his grease paint and his clergyman's collar and smell the atmosphere of theatre.

"When my thow is playing

from London, Io far away persuade George to stay at home

for the week," she said. "But it's always a restless week, tha violin hobby is a thing of the past--although he still keeps his villas and I can't get him to read."

tho

So, on these ille days, comedian who has become part of Britain's theatrical history feeds the ducks in St James'a Park, does his jig-saw puzzle, and sketches, on the backs of tom-up postcards, those aulo. straphed caricatures of himself of which he has given tens of thousands away during the past- twenty years.

forming side of the foot- Or Just Kazeg contentedly fights to watch many shows. around the walls

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at countless

has

with

To sit quielly chatting Robey, while his eyes wander round the picture-gallery walls, of sadness at the demonstrable is to experience a certain feeling passing of time. But ask him to tell you a couple of new "gags" --nnd watch the sudden trans- formation.

The Agure straightens up with jerk, the eyes parkde, the low voice takes on something of the The audience is only one-but it is old resonance and punich, an audience; and George Robey

almost miraculously, is, mock-aggressive music-hall star again.

to

The laziness!

the

takes as little encouragement as that for these 80 years The drop lightly away. greasepaint and the eyebrows' aren't even necessary.

That is the Robey amn sure audiences will set, and hear once

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"Well,

How pleasant to meet Mr. Eliot...

The play that swept Broadway, divided the London critics and puzzled audiences, has passed its 100th performanco—and is coming its author £500 a week. The world's most famous poat

says he is astounded.

by MILTON SHULMAN

black

prove your lawn tennis, or the best dlet for a six-month-old baby, but I have to write olurbs about them,” he said..

Ellot has a hard-headed apTM proach to the question of poetry as a career. He does not bellevo poot can make a living out of his art alone. "A

"A poet should take an outside job to earn. Als livelihood," he said. "It should

T is difficult to believe that Thomas Stearns Eliot be the kind of work that Inter- ever was an American. His clothes, his language feres lenat with his poetry," Eliot himself has not done too and his surroundings conspire to conceal it.

jacket, white shirt, sombre badly out of his peetry. It has The striped trousers,

black hat and been estimated that his annual tie, meticulously plnent pocket handicerchief, Inevitably rolled umbria; the well-phrased careful, deliberate speech; the yellow-walled office. with its publisher's heaps of books on shelves and floor, make up that blend of fastidiousness and undiness which is so characteristic of the English professional classes.

Yel Eliot can Irace his American lineage back to 1670, when Andrew. Ellot, a cord- walner.

Massachusetts come to

from East Coker, Somerset.

Adoption of British in 1927 and the

nationality

award of the Order of Merit in 1948 have completed a process of reversion which probably 1 Indicates that Boston and East are not ao far apart

again

exclaiming. meantersay" at the Royal Arill- Coker

lery

Theatre, Woolwich, on after all. September 20 when he cele- brates his 81st birthday.

A

So prim...

How unpleasant to meet Mr

Ellot!

With his features of clericat

cut.

And his brous so plus And his mouth so prim

his And

conversation,

nicely Restricted to What Preeksely And If and Perhaps and But This oft-quoted self-portrait true. "Clerical unly helt

only describes

And forehead

royalties are in the neighbour hood of £2,500. "The Cocktali Party" of course, is currently bringing him much more-over $500 a

a wed that boneath the

Eliot has salt

beauty and ugliness of the world A poet should be able to see its boredom, its horror and its glory. peat The three words provide labels probably too neat-for

Ellot's own

poctry describing

his own artistic develop-

and

ment.

Boredom dominates the poems written beiora 1929.

In "The Waste Land" (1922) and "The Hollow Men" (1925) the horror evoked at the decay and futility of life not only mirrored. the mood of the postwar genera-. tion. but probably reflected # period of Eliot's life that was pitted, with illness and personal

sorrow.

They attack him.

ELIC

"LIOTS third phase begins with "Azh Wednesday" (1930) and continues on to the. "Four Quartets" (1943), poems, itgious OF

with their

These

deeply re-

the

groping towards glory of Christianity flow natur- lly from Ellot's Conversion to the High Church, and his rejec

and with its mix. tion of the agnosticism

the

*WITH HIS FEATURES

CLERICAL CUT

T. S. Eliot

regular Cocktail Party,"

tire

་!

George Nobey will be working that week and at the theatre which Blanche Littier controlled

for 30 years; where she first, met | him in 1920, when he appeare there

in the revue Bits and Pieces. She has arranged the September booking as a com- memorative treat for them both.) When Robey does go to other people's shows it is never to music-ball. I asked him why.

"Too many of the present-day is performers especially

those cut" all high American ones-make me hot and bothered, he confessed, features, but niso bits off

and the fall frame ture of sophisticated chil-chat barrenness of the Waste Land. "Why, they don'i even wear neat attire

statement that he is Eliot's The with its academic stoop, around and palle spiritual mysticism, make-up or comic dress.

I hardly surprising.

"an Anglo-Catholic in religion, which makes shoulders laziness of "

For Eliot's poetry is so filled a classicist in literature, and a Eliot vaguely resemble a benign with iterary allusions and un- Royalist in pelles," her sub- (World Copyright Reserved-Londonerne in horn-rimmed glasses.

familiar Images that "obreuro" Jucted him to as much abuse And

in the preciseness, too,

in the adicctive most frequently from the politieal Left as his there. certainly

In the pune- used to describe it.

poetry has received from the of the hair, In tilous parting

Ellot admits, however, that a literary Right. the

manner

is to be

Between his activities the cigarette is firmly play whose meaning which

public publisher, his duties as held at its very up, in the slow grasped by a listening

of scrupulously cannot afford to be as incompre church-warden at St Stephen's procession

hensible as рост.

poem, "I think my in Kensington, and his writing, selected words,

obscure Ellot lends a regular, busy and

rather

His lonely existence, and wife died in 1945, after being in

Express Service),

CRIME QUIZ

THE ALPINE CLIMBER By Leonard Gribble Sketcher by A. E. Morley

Police found battered body of John Kent, a well-known Alpine climber, et the foot of a granite hiff near is home. They had been telephoned, by Mr, left home on the previous night for a long hill walk and had not returned

The head wat badly battered on

clothes forn, trat Kent was identileg

Ly minans of a large triangula i

on chest. Als brother-in-la

the

deliberate

Ja

are getting less

sid.

T. 3. Ellot, a seventh

B9 24

But it is far from unpleasant

he is with petice," he to meet Mr Eliot, For too modest, lop anxious to co-

too conscious of youngest child. was born in Sta, nursing home since 1030, and operate, and

Misouri, in 1889, he now lives in an old-fashioned father, who became president of flat in Chelsen. anything but

Eliot finds the mental act of Brick Company und his mother, composition very diMcult. He The success of his latest play who wrote a dramatic poem on starts with rough notes in pencil

u

his own limitations to mako meeting him pleasure.

"The Cockiall Party," has grati

the St Louis Hydraulic-Press

Life

Ified and astounded T. S. Eliot. the with that commercial and ly on a typewriter. He revises

of Savonarola, provided and then writes his verse direct- Recognition of his pre-eminence him with

in

and

which a great deal and is constantly

at Harvard,

›

Dinner at 7.30

mixture of intellectual environment creating that

and obscurity accounts for the two-way trafic typing fresh drafts. It took him. chytlun, imagery

10 months off and on-to com- poetry has of Ellol's Interests. known as modern

been long

acknowledged by Shy and rather bookish, Eliot piete "The Cocktail Party," fellow

poels

literur studied philosophy critics. It brought him in 1948 intending some day to teach.11. the Nobel Prize for Hterature.

A travelling scholarship in 1914 took him to Germany and the outbreak of war sent him to

und Eces about three or Britsk. America was only to certain

him as an occasional visitor four films a year. "I would like limited Public which was after that. He married a ballet to go to the theaire more often," he said, "but the starling times Haigh. the conscious of his pioneer work

The pioneer

TERE was

also a

HE seldom goes to the theatre

dancer, Vivienno in modern poetic drama as de- daughter of a British artist, in of plays interfere with my re- monstrated in his plays "Mur-

7.30."

der in the Cathedral" und "The 1915, and the next year taught gular dinner hour which it at

Although But it was inall boys in Highgate mathe-

Eilot's collected Family Reunion." not until his

sxly-rst year maties, French, Lutin, geography. poems fill only a slim volume,

that he succeeded in producing a swimming and baseball work which satisfied his artistic

Integrity

and attracted the attention of the vast, popular

public as woll

Bank clerk

their effect on his generation has been likened to the little musk that scents a whole room. Eliot has written no poems

As a playwright, Eliot silhNABLE to get into the US. since 1943 when he finished the

and

Navy because of poor health, "Four Quartels." At present, finds the dramatic form clusive Ellot gave up teaching for a full- poetle drama provides him with dimeult to master, e time jobs in Lloyds Bank, and a more satisfactory medium for often relies upon a.chart to help the writing of poems and literary saying what he has to say.

He is toying with the Idea of him Jncreare and decrease the essays in bla spare time.

another play in modern dress. "Poetry comes in. spells," he said. "There have been several

number

stage.

Ellot

people on th10

In 1023 Eliot became to editor of the small, but In-

con-

The

win was staying as a visiler with the cerned about those critics who fluential. Kterary magazine periods when I leit I have been

Kent, sald John King had been mand?,

all the previous day, at though, leg has something on his ming

Mia Kent seemed surprised when the police asked to be shown the pyjamas her husband Init wore, she Took a freshly laundered zult from the case on this bed and comundel tacen that her husband had not cong to bed et all the previoia evening. The polite searched for a suit of sailed byjani. Why

(Solution: Page 75.)

is not greatly protested that the verse of Criterion, and two years later he

The

Cocktail Party" was too left banking to become a diree written out and then somethin

ded has happened to make me write of the "It tor blank to be called poetry.

newly-founded

Faber and some more."

That something will happen. to me, and I scans publishing house

Gwyer, now Faber and Faber.

is Doctry ciples," he said. "But if some people like to think it is prose the firm's expert on poetry, but most famous Ilving poet-come and that kind of prose affects he is also a conscientious com- say is greatest-lo write more why that's all poser of blurbs for book jackets. Poems, there seems little enuse them properly.

He finds it an exacting task. right with me."

"I don't know how to grow (World Copyright Reserved--London

how

according. to my own prin- As a publisher, he is not only again to stimulate the world's

That the average theatre-goer should be confused by "The asparagus.

LIFE

or

IN A

NOT SUCH

By CHAPMAN

to

tre doubt.

Expria Service).

CAGE IS

A

BIND

PINCHER

people who go to zoos Within this territory its freedom bigger than the cages provided

POCKET CARTOON Tot who co from of movement is further restricted 2005. But

CARPET

Have you any that smalde can's lift up and pas rubbish underneath 7′′

becomes tamo its territorial needs shrink. one of the world's leading by the social code of the group that once en animal to which it belongs.

CREATURES arc WILD

A wild lion must lord It over experts on animals:

fundamentally lazy. They several square miles of bush tu Do not waste your plty.on

move only when they have to. And enough to ent. If it were "the poor caged llons, derited the The false iden that they are fed artifelally its living space because would immediately shrink, to an right to roam in full freedom."

energetic has arisen No lion, captive or wild, ever

ver humus usually ste them in crea about 300 yards wide-the it must put between itself and on enemy before it This instinctive *fight can feel safe,

So reaction" completely disappeare

como when an animal is tamed.

Anal requirements down to the size of the modern zoo cage.

wants to roam Il con lie down

W night. instead. And that goes for most Even eagles, which to human

of the creatures in zoos.

Tho

distance

its

expert, Professor eye seem to soar for the joy at Hediger, chief of Switzerland's it really fly only to find food. has put When meat is provided for them magolficent Basle Zoo, the feelings of captive animals they become the inzlest creatures into proper perspective by pub- In the zoo, hardly stirring

'feather. Hahing his

experiences in

Hediger admits that zoo life 207-page scientlic

creaport into country where must be boring. But it has published by H. Rediger, Butter they could lead normal lives they recompenser “Animal” ralend

"Wild Animals in Call 4 WHEN captive animals have

worth, 38.)

He stresses · Ühine' surprising have often'' returned to ⠀ beir in aptlylly are usually bigger "

Lacts:--

they live

cages. This happened with and conger. They get be herd of roe-deer which escaped finest medical attention when NO WILD animat, Living in from Berne Zoo Into a nearby they falli And 1 NO

wild roo-deer

much longer Its natural häuits has full forest where liberty. Factf li vitricted, ford lived amputee So don't worry sharply limited leg which 21 Of course, wild ammer's must defend against usurpers living space is always much to th

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