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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 193
BRITAIN'S SEASIDE
RE-PLANNED
FAMOUS ARTIST'S VIEWS EXPRESSED
INSPIRATION FROM LINERS
(By C. R. W..Nevinson.)
Herrings, according to an au- thority at the Natural History Mustam, are not long-lived fish. He
When I am asked whether I would, of Brixton, and be of vivid stripes said:
prefer to go to Margate or Deauville of green and white, scarlet and pink, "It would be most unusual, but reply, very definitely, Margate, or even orange or Venetian red? ***** I like the English on holiday bent not impossible, for a herring to live
I would like to see a sea-front as [to: 16 km
better than any other race I have kaleidoscopic as the rock that is sold "Quite apart from the fishermen's ever seen. I am carried away by as souvenirs. This would be much nets its life is fraught with many their zest, by the freedom of each more exhilarating and cheaper than perils, such as that of being individual holiday-maker and the the upkeep of ornamental gardens. swallowed by bigger fish. -...
complete escape from family where plants of an unmaritime char tyranny.
acter struggle, to live but to die.
CENTENARIAN FISIL ·
"Carp probably live as long as This may sound paradoxical, but In re-planning English « sezgida. > any fish, and may easily reach to a man who has spent a great places from an architectural point of 50 or even 100 years, although I deal of his youth in the watering view, I would draw my inspiration think tales of carp 300 years old places of the Continent nothing is from ship engineers rather than are, exaggerated.
more striking than the liberal spirit suburban architects, Why should Pike also reach a great age, as and the lack of exclusiveness of the not hotel lounges be more like those do whales. Carp live longest in
English an
of, a liner than "a gloomy baranial. captivity when there are no enemies
How well we know those little hall, with its excrescences of Japan about to kill them."bn"
groups in France, squatting under ese wicker chairs and Nottingham The age of different species of Ashraman in black, and a bonne inces I would re-design those strange
ar umbrella, dominated by the lace to exclade. the light? is sometimes calculated by a study of their scales,
santly drying the children, with the buildings, found in every seaside
If appearance is any criterion of poor father fidgeting to get away place, that are called Vaults, or age, the prize for longevity among turin a l'eau, and the still more un- have depressed the secret drinkers into the town to have his cossis and Shades those, dark holes that must fish should go to the fishing frog fortunate jeune fille sewing in a of the Victorian era. It is surely or angler fish. It is called he myopic attitude and straightening time publicians realised that the Old Man of the Sea," for it has a beard.
her sldrts below her lees, and poor English public are no longer afraid
AS
...
Even when their lives are cut Alphonse dismally cycling round and of good cheer, are capable of self- short; fah usually make good use of
round.
control, and are nowadays not social their days of activity. The most
It has always been a fixed idealy ashamed of being seen taking a prolific fish is the ling, which lays
that the French are a loquacious drink. I would make these bars like the very grave dangers which an average of nearly 20,000,000 ex commend me to a table d'hote at an Both Margate and Bournemouth
"people, but" for a gloomy silence re- those of a luxury cruiser. may result from it, and I admit during the spawning period that much of the criticism pre-gainst a mere 30,000 by the her where the cudlike chewing is only can erect-places of recreation that jordinary Continental seaside hotel, have proved that modern architects Hong Kong, Friday, June 30, 1933. gently directed against my coun- ring.
try is justified. Yet I. complain The turbot averages 9,000,000 napkin being tied round a half- this be done in other places? If they broken by the squeak of a table are gay, dry, and airy? Why cannot that Germany is not being fairly eggs and the cod 5,000,000.
bottle of vin rouge. The Belgians are have not the money, surely it would treated." Wherein? Why, bel cause foreigners have failed to
ļas bad, and the Germans are worse. be better to build shelters again re Yet the English persist in the mythsembling the decks of a liner, and understand that, though. Ger- Germany boasts many great many is, as Herr Dewall admits,
that for freedom and galety one much more. In keeping with the nau- names in what used to be called "delirious," the delirium has
| must go abroad.
tical surroundings than the distal mental philosophy. They have been caused by the refusal to re- "Gone to the races."
The "Eccentric English"
affairs that at regular intervals pushed psychological studies deep vise the Treaty of Versailles. "Gone to the races in business
Actually no place abroad becomes promenade.. I would have them punctuate the grey waste called the and wide. But they have never Consequently, the only way to hours?"
gay or free until the English have boarded, like a deck, so that they seemed to be able to read accur-cure her manis is to assure Hit "Yes, sir. It's his last chance of been there and broken the spirit, of they could be used for games or ately the international mind. ler of "an early and radical re-taking the books balance.”
the Maire, who, abandons the town open air dancing. This has been a national defect vision." If he had that promise,
to the mad invaders for whom there In England the climate is sup which has more than once led to he would "show the real states- Alphabetical Family
y are many names in other countries posed to be worse than the Nor enormous political blunders, manship of a reasonable and con-
*Mr. Pate, of Chipley, Florida, has besides Anglo-Saxon angels, There is no need to rehearse ciliatory Leader." Could any an alphabetical family." As his For International feeling it is as it is actually, nothing of the kind, mandy coast or the Bay of Biscay. them. We have one of the big thing be more impossible? If children were born he and Mrs. Fate well that the Continent has abandon-but in any case a cruiser is built one. thing which followed the letters of the alphabet ed all hope as regards the English, for all kinds and conditions of
gest under our very eyes to-day. there is
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The Hitler Government is sur-Hitler has done, it is abso- for their names. They are: Alan and has dismissed them as a race of weather, far more severe than the prised and even astounded by the lutely to solidify world opin-Benjamin, Clara Delia, Elizabeth eccentrics outside the pale of ordin- English. What causes the popu sudden turning of the whole ion against revision, so long Fannie, Gustavus Houston, Idary behaviour and custom, a race larity of travel abroad or of cruis world against Germany. The as 'the German Government Josephine Kince Lee, Millard Napo- that pays without question, but ing is the escape from the dismal tolerance and good will which she persists in its present tem-leon, Oma Feari, Quinton Rebecca, whose men are always crazy and evenings associated with sea-coast had painfully been accumulating per. If the Nazis are unable to Sidney Thomas, Uriah Vanderbilt, whose womenfolk are, without towns, for ten years were in one mad understand how Americans do
doubt, either, old maids orde month thrown away light-heart- view their madcap proceedings, Twenty-five hyms-books and 1018, dress or when to undress
Mathematical
bauchees, who do not know how to
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I would suggest far more, flood seems so inexplicable and per-sider the way in which they are from a motor-car standing at the England. They seem to be happier the wireless has now set a standard of gorgonzola cheese were stolen
I prefer to see the English in lighting and "hot" music, and as. verse to the present rulers of regarded by enlightened German- door of a house in Sheldon Avenue, and so much less arrogant and which has caused the public to de Germany that they sent emis-Americans. In the "Open Let- saries abroad, and have resorted ter" to President Hindenburg This works out at an average of never have the feeling of restriction brass band that plays at intervals,
Highgate, London.
ostentations in their freedom. I mand better serious music than the to other measures, to seek to pla-published by. Professor Franz cate hostile foreign opinion. The Boas of Columbia University, he proximately 611⁄2 ounces of gor- or gloom which is supposed to exist that more towns should follow the adventures of Herr Rosenberg, recounted his long loyalty to it should we cannot for the life of though I admit many of the places Possibly because. the English are
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inflamed it. If he made a truth-is going to be necessary for the lettuce." with A nice fresh-cut painting contracts. I cannot under Juan les Pins or the Lião, nerer-
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This Hoary Earth,
A study of Hebrew chronological
WHAT WIT) Henry Cotton Bays that golfers should not take lunch.. A high tee seems much more seitable,
Know.
stand the passion municipalities theless. I cannot understand why have for sage-freen and maroon, holiday makers should be treated Nelther is a good wearing colour or to the Spartan discomforts sup a cheap colour, and the heaviness of plied by our bathing commis their tone is the last thing wanted sionaires. in a pleasure resort which is al- (Continued:on Page 20). ready handicapped by an atmos
is as bitter and universal as it was even, in time of war: for pacifists and all shades of the Labour party, together with the Liberals and the Conservatives, tables convinced Archbishop Usaker Facts You Did Not here which tends to be grey- are united in expressions of dis- that the earth was created in 4004 like and distrust of the new B.C. Not to be outdone in exact- German Government. The news, a ribald commentator remark- scenes in the House of Commons, ed that the time must have been 4 Approximately 90 per cent of all ange or bright blue to withstand when the Rosenberg mission was am. Now comes a committee of motion picture Alms shown in the climatic corrosion. Both these being roughly handled, and the the American National Academy of Philippines are American produc- colours would be ideal and cheap at subsequent decision of the British Scienoss with the latest of its teas, with Chinese, French and the seaside. Or, if this is not con- Cabinet to make official the state-annual reports to assure us that the Italian accounting for the remaining aldered in good taste, imagine the ment of Lord Hailsham that the age of the earth is of the order of ten per cent.
Some Colour Suggestions Farmers inland siways paint their agricultural implementa' in an or
TURKISH NAME CHANGES.
Eliminating Arabic-And Persian Words.
Ler
course of Germany is exposing 2.000 million years, Scientists by Twin air chambera in a new aisting corrosion from ses mists paign for ridding the
user of aluminium or coloured her to a renewal of the "saneno means agree on what they mean
aluminium, which is capable of re- Mustapha Kemal Pasha tions" laid down in the Treaty of by the age of the earth. The diving suit enable a men to remain Why, canot the scheme of muni-language of all Persian and Versailles, must have opened astronomer begins his reckoning in deep water longer than usual, the cipal decoration be based upon the words is resulting in many many eyes in Berlin to the truth. when the planets were torn out of inner one supplying fresh air and utilitarian colour schemes of an with Arab names having to ch What Germany has done is to the sun and were sull globes of gas; the outer being inflated to resist ocean liner, with its whites, which them to Turkish equivalenta, provoke a moral alignment and the goologist when the crust against her in almost every hardened. In the one chas we deal
water pressure.
would not pet sooty, and vivid For instance, Hussein now other nation. How hard it is for with cosmogonical speculation: In rate of disintegration and we' hear put up around every conceivable Gundus while Miss Mouzzaz becomes
vermilions? If railings must be himself: Duran, Mustapha : even educated and liberal-minded the other with the earth'à own time the ticking of the centuries. There space, why not have the same kind Miss Eren, Germans to understand what records. The geologist may be are other tests, among them the of rallings that are used on ships? other peoples think may be inter-wrong by two or three million years, rate at which the waters ent their They would give a nau
The Turkish Government red from a remarkable letter pub- but not by ten or midred million. way through the Grand Canyon," "an would not be reminiscent of Turks will be fognired to have lished in The Spectator of Lon As for the astronomer, with his abyss of time, as Dr. 7 C. Merriam Bloomsbury aqua don. It was written by Wolf romantic hypothesis of a star that calls it Given the age of the rocks garden at Bi von Dewall, who professes to once swept mear our sin and Biched in which uranium. is found, given Why shoul know England well and who was the planets seeking to explain to the British goessor public the true German attitude, year it WAK He does not defend all that has pro occurred. Not a Nazi himself, be writes:Ideeply deplore that tard eventa in Germany led to the until present development, 1 fully see toally
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