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Eugene Pallette
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 20, 1937.
FOR ATLANTIC
CASH SWEEP FIGURES
AIR SERVICE
Washington, Yesterday
Bill
*Race 1
No. 1147
$1055.60
1667
of
717
301.60: "150.80
The Appropriation $1,501,000,000 to meet the expenses
Unplaced runners ($50 each),
of the Post Office and Treasury Nos.: 65. Department in the next fiscal year,! was passed by the House of Re- presentatives yesterday.
The Bill carries an appropria- tion of $900,000, to subsidise the proposed trans-Atlantic air mail -Reuter.
M.C.C. CRICKET M.C.C. 187 (Ames 64).. Victoria 141 for 2 (Gregory
not out).-
Rain stopped play.
-Reuter.
LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST
Race 2
No. 2126
.£719.60:
833
205.60
217
102.80
29.
Unplaced runners ($50 each), 642. Nos.: 773, 1187, 1935, 616, 1333, 499, 2108, 588, 1744, 705, 297, 799, 2043, 2120.
Race 3
No. 2404
$972.30
299
277.80
58
545
138.90
27
Unplaced runners ($50 each),
Nos.: 1104, 1003, 229, 596, 1958, 2112, 1168, 123, 2146.
Race 4
No. 562
$1036.70
1154 2335
77
An anti-cyclone continues to move inwards and is now centred Unplaced runners over South Japan and the Loochoo Nos.: 35, 280, 577, Islands. Another anti-cyclone may 1242, 700, 1913, 1794 be developing over Manchuria.
Local forecast. Cloudy weather generally with moderate East winds.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bendall left for Home in the Corfu yesterday.
Englishmen Are The Great Lovers
"W
ITHOUT without
296.20
148.10
($50 each), 2292, 2416,
Race 5
#
No.
"
910 : 1014 1123
$1258.70-
358.20
179.10
Unplaced runners ($50 each), Nos: 2608, 138, 2483, 14
Race 6
No. 589
2316
$1251.60 357.60
2526
178.80
Unplaced 2359, 2535, 3337, 3326,
1142, 21, 3024, -1200, 747, -1082, 2527, 2986, 930, 509, 245.
Race 7
No. 3540
2995
1392
$1616.30
-461.80.
230.90
Unplaced runners ($50 each), Nos.: 2207, 2356, 1526, 1831, 3353, 2339, 2765, 2316.
Race 8
No. 3532
J
938
221735
$1828.40 522.40 261.20 -
Unplaced Runners ($50 each)
imagination, always finish
up-
with a few that the typical Englishman was a about Englishmen Eng-superman, were ready to fop and sense of words a
excite-lishmen were as cold as codfish, worship him. humour, unexcited when
Two generation ago, the tpical no imagination, their ment prevails, unmoved when it is they had time for tears, unsmiling when the sense of humour was atrophied, Englishman as known abroad was Nos.: 2545, 1058, 2324, 2870. land is loud with laughter! What they never laughed or cried, and use has the Englishman for life?" they were only half alive.
If I heard that once between Ot- Brothers, before I add a syllable to this lovely dollop of rhetoric tawa and Los Angeles I heard it emitted by Miss Daw Khin Myint, 50 times.
of Rangoon, let me ask you whether Was I shocked, chastened, angry? it has moved you to tears, laughter, No, I was greatly bucked. Before or indignation?
fat John Bull. One generation ago
...
he was the silly ass with a monocle. Now he is for all womankind the great lover. Far be it from me to deny that this glorious creature has any actual existence.
If Miss Daw Khin Myint and all long I realised that I as an Eng- other women lecturers can get any If not, then there must be some-lishman was the most interesting satisfaction out of talking about
fellow on earth. thing in what she says.
And there may also be something in this estimate of us from Musso- lini's own newspaper "Popolo 'd'Italia."
"It takes an Englishman a week to understand what an Italian comprehends. în ten minutes. The
By H. W. Seaman
him, they are welcome to it, so far as I am concerned.
No. 2866
1651 1676
Race 9
$2671.20
763.20 381.60
Unplaced Runners ($50 each), 1497, 861, 2934, 2793, 888, 1286, 2527, 3074, 3010, 1065, 2902, 1148.
Daily Double $64.80.
NINTH RACE RESULT:-
1.-PAGAN LOVE, 2, GOR- DITO, 3, MARIPOSA.
The rest of her remarks, which were addressed to the Bangoon Ro tary Club, were no less flattering!
The Englishman, she said, was "the slave of a system, content to Coronation and we shall enjoy our- be a mere cog in the machine of selves so thoroughly that hundreds of thousands of people from the
English do not hesitate to own that, Everywhere I went. I found wo-life"
up.
esse,
in the matter of vivacity and men-men talking about me. Sometimes Brothers, do not let us contradict ends of the earth will come to share tal quickness, they are in the last I was Herbert Marshall, with that that. Let us not trouble to explain our enjoyment. row. They make jokes about their good-dog_expression of his content that we ourselves made the system We must not expect Miss Daw national stupidity."
to let women say what they liked and the machine, and that they at Khin Myint to understand exactly about him, so long as they let him least as good as any other system how all this is done.
or any other machine yet produced, That she admires as is suficient It is astonishing that the real go on being an Englishman.”: point of that joke has escaped the Or I would be Clive Brook, com-and let us not argue that we had and it would be altogether too dif- quick-witted Italians, the perspicaci pact, of strong manly silences. revolutions here on this soil cen- ficult for us to explain to her what ous Miss Myint, and all the other Now and then I was Anthony Eden, turies before the French or the use the Englishman has for life.
One other point she makes, and expert observers who try to sum us letting trick after trick slide by Germans had the guts to rebel.
through sheer politeness and final. We settled all that long ago and I think it is worthy of considera- The joke is on them. It is ourly winning the game by sheer in settling it we learned how to tion.
handle all other situations that "Englishmen," she says, “respect private joke. No wonder they
their women, but will not entrust think we have no sense of humour. "Anthony, Clive, Herbert, and I might arise.
The trouble with us. Englishmen are a fine set of fellows I used to We had a General Strike; "not a their pay envelopes wholly to the
shot was fired, not even a blank” women's charge." is that we do not care two pins think.
Is this true? It is my opinion, what other people say about us. Wherever we go the woman talk We faced the financial crisis of
And thus, brothers, we have come about us with awe and find us 1931 so calmly that the Americans based not on what men say-
strange and wonderful”
accused us of being "too stupid to they lie freely in these matters- that most wives of weekly wage- panic.
earners in this country know within A few weeks ago we had a crisis a shilling or two what their hus- bands earn and that they can guess as a well-known Burmese woman I could have told them about Bill of another sort. lecturer, and I should not wonder and Joe and Harry and Bob, who Do not let anybody in Rangoon the shilling or two. If she were famous,
langh and cry as heartily as any-or Honolulu tell you that we met it I do not suggest that pay enve
casion for it. without emotion.
lopes are usually taken, home in- Certainly she has a good line of body when there is
knew {fact” only the Engli goods. She talks about something To drag them into the discussion We were moved, but
troi
is a good match for the universal well worth talking about.
would only have spoiled the fun how to
admired & En In America, women lecturers for the girls who, having decided}
to be universal topic No. 1.
The cable message which has brought Miss Myint's words half way round the world describes her sioned the girls, but why should I?)
Of course, I could have disillu-
Now we are
have