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SIR PATRICK HASTINGS' CASE-BOOK
Mr
1950, 22750
CHAPTER 8
BLENNERHASSETT AT S
AND THE YO-YO
N the year 1932 Mr- Blehnerhassett, a pŕos-
and perous
highly respected member of the Stock Exchange, Was the object of hilarious at- tention from some of his associates in the House. He loat his temper-and the re- sults were most unfortu- nate.
2
The trouble arose out of game, popular with small chil- dren, known as Yo-Yo. It was not a very remarkable or par ticularly skilful game, and con- sisted in manipulating a spheri- cal object, which was allowed of to unwind itself on a piece string, and then, by giving the piece of string an appropriate time, jerk at the appropriate
up wind itself causing it to again.
The owners of this somewhat elementary pastime were mind- ed to increase its popularity by advertisement, and Instructed a Mr McNulty to prepare the most humorous form of adver- tisement possible.
Now McNulty had a small daughter who was accustomed to play game of her own.
enter her father's She would bedroom, acting as a valet, and bearing a variety of clothing.
At
random
If he said: "No," the pastime come to an abrupt conclusion.
ridiculous nature of the
"Ins not the name Blenner-
in
conditions; the took herself to bed. But Blen- called humorous aerhasselt lolled on at Yo-Yo. indeed, a picture of Mr Winston whole netlen. Came the dawn and he was Churchill and Mr Attlee playing both became still there, dishevelled an:1 pilkins until
the wild-eyed, with Yo-Yo insane would no doubt depress hassett been used for years by strong still dangling from his them both, but to imagine that comic writers, bere and trembling Angers. They tried such a publication would be a at America?
for from it, but it matter to part im
nction a slander
"It has been used in the Bab eventually seems unlikely, to say the least. Ballads and by Mark Twain." was no use; and poor Blennerhassett was taken away.
"Is the portrait in the adver- sement in the least like you?"
Today, he is happy in a quiet place in the country, and under sympathetle sur- veillance, he practises Yo-Yo tricks.
His old friends at Pimm's miss him at lunch, and three- quarters of a certain foursome have had to find a stranger to make up their quorum.
So beware of Yo-Yo which starts as a hobby and ends as a habit.
Juvenile wit
This poetle effusion was illustrated with most unbecom- ing pictures of the unfortunate City magnate, which left his ultimnie qualification for a madhouse beyond question.
That, however, was the course on which Mr Blennerhassett decided. It never seemed to have occurred to him that the joke,
GOING
NGON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
WR%
LONDON. Fifty-one year ago a yOUDE 7ORLD FAMOUS artist named Frank Ballsbury painted the girl who was later "Crawfie" (MIss
He called to become his wife. Marion Crawford), the picture "Reflections," and who carried so well the sent it to the Royal Academy, high reaponsibility of guid- where it was hung in the exhibi
of 1800, and immediately ing the growth of the Prin- old. cesses from childhood to
Now Frank Sofisbury, at the womanhood, has left her
age of 70, has painted more than pleasant little "Grace and 1,000 portraits. Among his sit-
tion
whether good or bad, would Final question favour" cottage adjoining tem have been King George V
become infinitely better Or worse, as the case might be, if it was dragged into the full light of the King's Bench Division.
re-
Kensington Palace to reside and Queen Mary, our present. King and Queen, every Prime permanently in Aberdeen.
Minister since the turn of the Mr Blennerhassett could not
century, and the last four Pre- very well say Yes," having Her husband, Major
sidents of the U.S. regard to the straw in the hair: George Buthlay, a London- for the purpose of the action he The comparative privacy of might not like
Scottish banker, has to say "No," co the Stock Exchange
enter he asked if he need answer the tired, and both are return exchanged for the greater pub- question.
ing to their native Scot Heity of the Law Courts; the him
land. Do you play Yo-Yo?—No, hilarity which had cost nothing would be exchanged for a trial which would cost him a great deal.
But that did not matter. Mr Blennerhassett lost his temper, consulted his solicitor, and an nction was begun,
Thereafter the full paroply of the Law was brought into play. Solleitors were employed, King's Counsel were engaged, and Mr Justice Branson and a special Most
the jury sat in the Royal Courts of unfortunately, on date
the to inquire into Stock Justice of publication, the
proper remedy to Exchange was passing through a
give to Mr great period of comparative stagna- Blennerhassett for the tion, eminently suitable, should wrong done to him. opportunity arise, for a display of juvenile wit and hilarity, and the publication in the Evening Standard seemed 100 good a chance to miss.
Laughed at
Have you ever played golf at Walton Heath?-No.
So you have never holed a putt?"-No.
Have you eaten lobster-salnd et Pimm's?—Yes.
Apart from the name, is that the only matter in which you resemble the gentleman in the advertisement?
And the final question: Do you know of a single living Person who has thought a penny the worse of you because of the
advertisement for Yo-Yo?
"Crawile" goes home with the proud knowledge that her world- popular book, The Little Prin cesses," in which she told with attractive simplicity the story of the has done the finest service to our upbringing of the Princesses, much-loved Royal Family of any book on palace life written in this generation.
in
Its value to Britain, especially the United States, has been tremendous.
from
But "Reflections," the picture which set him on the road, has only recently passed private hands to a dealer. Mr Dent. Salsbury
most anxious to have it, Mr Dent most. loath to part.
WAS
Said They struck a bargain.
"I will paint your the artist: portrait if you will give me ite- ficctions." The dealer agreed.
High and low TWO UNUSUAL parties I en-- joyed recently:
(1) A midnight drinking, cat- Who will move into Crawle's 'ng, taking, and dancing party cottage? With their departure on the stage of the Stoll Theatre. there will be two
"Grace and favour homes vacant at Ken-
(2) A nearly-all-w o men angton Palace, for no one has frozen-food luncheon in Lon-. yet taken over th spacious apart don's newest night club. Mr McNulty gave evidencements used by the ate Dowager about his daughter inventing the Marchioness of Milford Haven,
name of Blennerkassett and at who died two months ago. the conclusion of his evidence
The Arst given by Sir Herberi. Morgan, as chairman of the Three Arts Cub, was for Allom. Markova, Anton Dolln, and dan-
Mr Justice Branson stopped the aged during the war, are slowly eers of the Festival Ballet,
сале.
+
Unhappy case
And other apartments, dam-
being put in order.
Highlights:-
The Duchess of Kent will prob-
10.45 path
lost backstage, 1. ably be given one, but it is hard walked through a swing door, te to guess who may get the others. find mysef in the midst of the Some suggest the Mount female contingent of the Corpe batteus, but they a'ready have a de Ballet changing for the party. London home, and, financially, their claim is weak.
She would then ask: "Will Mr Blennerhassett have his
The plaintiff's counsel must trousers?" If her father sald:
have found it rather dimcult to "Yes," the game proceeded, and When Mr Blennerhassett re-
epen his client's case with the Inquiries were
about turned from lunch he was solemnity that it deserved. made
Не other articles of attire.
rounded by a cheering throng
was able to who professed
point out that Mr in the see
Blennerhassett WAS the only advertisement the unhappy life-Blen
stockbroker of that name and He held that the alleged libel story of their fellow member.
that
-Juached he
at Pimm's was merely an advertisement, there the similarity seemed to and not capable of a defamatory Apart from the coincidence of end. To suggest some possibility meaning. Everybody's time and the somewhat unusual name, of actual damage, he was con- money had been wasted, and for and the fact that Mr Blenner strained to suggest that, as no good purpose at all. hassett, in company with many stockbrokers are not allowed to
The Law Courts are publication com- thousands of other City gentle advertise, the
Indeed at men,
occasionally lunched at plained of might have been the proper place in which to Pimm's, there was
his client seek a remedy against wrong decision. That is the King. no possible taken to imply that resemblance between the two was breaking the rules of the doing and injustice and, in that Individuals.
Courts are open House by inserting the adver- capacity, the ticement in the Evening Stan- to all. But if anyone, in a sud- dard; although precisely how den
ow den burst of temper, should fail
The young lady had never heard of any Mr Blennerhas- selt, except perhaps by read ing the Bab Ballads or some other humourous publication, in which the name appeared, but had apparently selected it random.
Mr McNulty, faced with the problem of inventing some in- - dividual as a suitable medium for the advertisement of Yo- Yo, seized on the mythical Mr Blennerhassett, and decided to write a story depleting the de- cline and fall of a Yo-Yo de-
votee.
He illustrated it with hur morous drawings and produced an advertisement
for publica-
tion in the Evening Standard
in which a set of
Lost temper
had
The real Mr Blennerhassett did not play Yo-Yo; he did not play golf and, therefore, never holed a putt; and It need hardly be said had never been an inmate of a lunatic asylum.
bearing It is often a matter of annoy
ance to well-known men and Throgmorton Street, was shown women to see their names or
the name of
us a prosperous City man be- portraits published under 50 fore being introduced to
the
Rome, and then, after a course
of practice unduly
prolonged
appreciate
the
difference
11.45 p. Jook Buchanan, speaking for the guests, explain Lord and Lady Carlsbroke (he ed that it was just a matter of is a cousin of the King) may levitation which stopped him. move from their smaller house taking up ballet. at Kew.
Only one person can make the
Ocean hunter
1.0 a.m. the young dancera submerged their classical pred!- lections in favour of bebop and jive. 1
At the second party the host I HAVE just heard from Mr leaned across the table and sald:
a stockbroker might be thought to to be advertising himself by between a momentary annoy-Adrian Conan Doyle, son of the "The soup is four years old.” depicting himself in a lunatic ance and lasting injury, he creator of Sherlock Holmes,
in his hair should reflect on the unhappy asylum with straw
case of Mr Blennerhassett and was not quite clear,
the Yo-Yo.
his counsel's opening,
Mr Blennerhassett supported
and the evidence was substance of his that he was laughed at so much by fellow members that he did not like to go into the House. The cross-examination consisted solely in attempting to point out
ending up with straw in his AMERICAN NEWSCOPE:
hair as the farmate of a lunatle
asylum.
TOMORROW The Illuminating Dots
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This advertisement appeared
in the Evening Standard on
May 26, 1932, and the letterpress read as follows:
"BEWARE OF YO-YO."
as
From C. V. R. THOMPSON
NEW YORK.. until his busmen got what they FICHAEL QUILL, New wanted.
M'
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NEW JOB Top-ranking US. Negro Dr Ralph Bunche, who made peace for UNO in
I glanced nervously at the- From Zanzibar he tells me menu the next item was fish.
it
that he has bought a schooner, renamed
('n Glorin Scott
But it carried its years re- momory of an early Sherlock markably well. Holmes story), loaded it with "tons of gear, foodstus, har- poons, rifles, and spades."
In two worlds
Where does he sail, he und his
TO THE girls who long for wife, h's Arab skipper, his bull-
success I present Mrs. dog, and his friend, Raymond career
George (Ceoil) Woodham-Smith. Simmonds, on Australian news- blographer of Florence Nightin
man?
pale.
Wife of
a successful lawyer, They go to hunt monstrous flat in the deeps of the Indian Ocean; mother of a grown-up daughter Don, chate-- to probe the jungle on Songa and a growing-up Manara, the Golden Isle; to seek laine of a charming house, she is the ruins of the Queen of Sheba's also authoress of a briliant book. cities...
which took eight years to write.. she has started on a new about the Crimea.
Woodham-Smith has ode
And
Now
For a year Mr Conan Dovic Joint tax assessment
wi'l dig into the unknown. then? He will spend six months recuperating-in Paris.
Reflections
picture.
of husband and wife deprives her- of the riches which her writing would have brought in any other country.
Already she must have grom--
"But," said she, "if I could ed thousands of pounds.
net onty
a few hundred r
--{London Express Service)
PICTURE lovers will be in- York's most unpopu- And then there might be an- lar man, made his bid for other Underground slowdown Palestine, is being considered for terested in the portrait of an art He dealer to be hung in the Royal until the Underground workers another trouble-spot job.
the may be put in charge of rebuild- Society of Portrait Painters' Ex- Take warning from the fate the 1951 title. of Mr Biennerhassett,
ing Korea as soon as the fight-hibition. Here is the story of the wouldn't mind." Union boss for all publie
ing there is over. worthy a citizen as any that ever ate lobster at Pimm's, or transport workers, Mr Quill is making sourc Now holed a putt at Walton Heath, always "Sound man, Blennerhassett." Yorkers walk to their jobs be- they said in Throgmorton cause of a strike he has pulled. Street, and "Nice people, the Blennerhassetts," was the ver- diet over the bea-cups and in
the local tennis clubs.
But Yo-Yo got him, and now...
But now Mr Quill has found a way of making all New Yorkers walk to work-and on the first day of the new year, too,
By chance, union agreements with all the bus companies serv ing New York expire at midnight December 31.
One day Blennerhassett
Never one to overlook such a brought his offspring one Yo- Yo euch. At home that even-stroloo of fortune, Mr Quill ing,
that deprecatory served all those companies with with condescension so familiar la warning the other day.
offered parents, he
to Elve
More money, a 40-hour wook, them the first lesson. Strange- ly enough, the Yo-Yo was re- 11 holidays with pay a year, and calcitrant. It sulked. First it bigger and better pensions, or no would and then it wouldn't. one goes on the job the next But the Blenmerhassett blooday. was up. The dinner gong rang and cried out, but Blenmerhas- sett kept on,
@
Mr Quill made it clear that the 3,000,000 stranded bus passengers need not think they could use the Underground.
good busmen's.
Footnote: Mr Quill does not
NEW JOB 2: For the Arst like New Yoric's
how sor, time in 52 years,
there wil soon be a new driver for the school buy in Groton, Mas sachusetts (Franklin Roosevelt's old school].
Vincent Impellitori.
Asked what they would miss most if nationing were to come back, four out of six Now Yorkers gave this one-word anwer-steak.
Mrs Lilian Clapp has given notice that she was quitting at COME-TO-BRITAIN · adver- last. Not because she is 10 and haven't Wanta to rotiro."I disements in the US. newspapers
got time to retire," she said. invite Americans to take "a But her dressmaking business, holiday from high prices."
which she began as a sideline, much that PRODUCTION of radio and has expanded so
she
ber wants to give it all. TV acts will be cut by nearly a
time. Mrs Clapp's opinion of third because of Government women drivers: They don't controls on the use of cobalt, a tako the chances men will mineral essential to the making
WARNING: Sharp talk came of magnets.
from Senator. Lyndon John- RESOLUTIONS proposti by son, of Texas, who has formed York councilman Hugh 4 special committee to watch methods of Quinn would ban the flying of the Government's UNO's flag from school buildings rearming. Said his first report: on this groundThe Old Glory "Wars are not won by memo
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