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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958.
POL
LLIARDS
By ANGUS WILSON
ARE THE GAY 'TWENTIES COMING BACK?
Author of "Such Darling Dodon," "Hemlock and After," "For Whom The Cloche Tolla."
I think they are-and I'm glad
R
dollars in
ANCE
FOOL
HOAMLEIGH HOLIDAY CAMP
STHER LEAMPLU
But now I hear another volee, faint anxi genteel. "Yes," but what bad taste," sayy 10 shaemic indy,
AGHTLY or wrongly and Miss Marilyn Monroe and schoolboy in that happy time, their two inillon but I have studied the age and the story of the week invested
...what? "Gentle can recall, with gratitude and has been the return men Prefer Blondes" the Anita humillly, some examples of the of the flapper. We have Loos story which was the hit inconsiderateness, freespon- Very well; madam, you keep seen her in photographs. seller of the twenties and went sibility, shockingness and sheer your good taste, your subdued,
in a few
of that golden ogr
roof, your We have seen her in car- through 47 editions
the hostess who tweed suit and "nice" rope of ts. We have seen her in weeks.
the there was With it, of course, will re- шля forced
to receive some pearls. conceivable column
Only let those of us who want very
the twenties pompous guests and greeted turn lunca in
black D large style, such as "Diamonds Are them with
placard to be vulgar, have our from Paris.
orango round her neck saying: "Thank and
bedroom, our So fur. it
the air's Dest Friend." sera
For it is not just one flin, you for coming. in one pierrot doils, our long cigarette Dapper still dwells in Paris.
I deat." A
way to holders with tassels,
and our very goox
"Jazz" cushions. shut out bores. But goon I expect her to be put a flood that's coming,
bellove, -dhe-streets of Lott
"Self-expression" they called
nality counted for more than good manners or right opinions, Tolerance
don.
For Mr Ceril Beaton, am tuld, has forecast that in six months time "any woman who wears the old line will look ridiculous."
There is unotherapening 111 ou nan who it in those days when por
brighter this week, for example,, called Oxford
by being "By the Light of the Silvery carried in a setan chair Moon."
flunkeys in special livery.
1921 and
In it Doris Day will sing The people who, dressed as again "Ain't We Got Fun?" workmen, roped of a pie.c which was first published
in of
Piccadilly and dislocate sung by Dorothy the inflic. A joke that would another idal of
the surely be redundant today., Ward, twenties.
The Jehu Professor
who'
guished audienes ot one of our
1 am not concerned with fashion. What interests me, and it may interest you, is Does the the question: news of the flapper revival herald n return to the A
twenties?
eve
Are we in England on the
of an ority
of treasure
hints, "Baby" parties, Oxford bags, flopper votes, pogo sticks on King Tut?
Sense of fun
ND added
to the
older
ONLY
11 few years ago some of my contemporaries were questioning a lady who had
authier, Norman Douglas.
friendship. And if people were not their friends, well, they had. other great virtue of thu tolerance,
The twenties were e capable of stand on larger making their
but not perhaps with such high-minded emphasis on principles. The popularity and "Blackbirds," the success
wid all-Negro muslonal show, remarkable. Thej cast, led by gcherous-hearted' actress the
widely Florence. Mille, were icled.
Mills Florence her kindness to the down and amply repaid this reception by outs on the Embankment,
of
And
It took some courage for the undergraduates of those days to
almost a royal rezeption to Negro actors and actresses, but the party given to the "Black- birds” left nobody in any doubt that talent and charm were to be honoured without considers-
o lecture To a distin- known that famous 'twenties lion of colour or race,
universities.
The mock surveyors who,
Not for me
that Did he hold this of opinion, they asked, or belong growing with theodolites and compasere, to this or that party? sense of Fun there le al- arrived in Bond Street and The lady was puzzled. "I CO roll on the return of Mah- ready a little more protest and selecting a particularly cholos, don't remember," she said "We Jong, the Black Bottom, irreverence in the air.
and pompous
colonel aced him talked about everything. But Put and Take (the little gam Some right-minded
hold person so politely .to
their tape he didn't have opinions. But bling game), and especially of may be levelling the stem of measure, and, turning the cor- he did have such an amusing "Oxford bugs," his pipe at me, as he is used ner, handed the other end to an way of saying things. He was But not of plus four. to doing at his wretched equally obliging admiral... a great friend, you know." family, and saying: "Look here, and then departed.
And that, of course, is what hold on, you can't put the Irresponsible, inconsiderate, they had
genlus for and lock back, you know." hope so,
shocking and great fun,
being personalities
and
for No one, of course, more important. belleve we
that we can or even that should entirely wish to do so.
But there was an innocence about the twenties-you have
running stage hits "No, No trend. Brighter Nunette" and "The Farmer's
Are we, in fact, going to be silly again for a bit?
I certainly
may.
The signs
.
supposes
we
OR there are many signs of only to think of those long-
Sch
parties,
a
not just, louder ones. Wife" to realise that has
fresh with
but parties with personality gone for ever. No one i the
ruch amusement ideas,
People not afraid absurd
of
or ridiculous dances granted. like the Charleston
Ers
Welcome
WHEN
;
д
Or rather, since the twenties were tolerant above all things, of Plus Fours too, but not for me.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN A WOMAN SMOKES
By Chapman Pincher
WOMEN get more satis-
4
twenties, for example,
would have moralised about their age. tor doing They took their pleasures
Trofessor Friedell then gave Most of the naturally.
some The
faction out of a cigar all of them a harmless infection main non-smokers, but universilles
the blood radio told the professor · that They which mode reflect the ette than men do, because car times. The young men of IT-
active.
often smoke a cigarette, though A return to the open known
With a sensitive atom ray hating it. Just to be sociable. the twenties mediately after the war who they are much more sensi whether it was
caten Ford or were D
up with self-tive to the nicotine in detector he was able to measure.
much blood was
PROTECTORS act as the "old in Lizzie,"
centred anxiety are disappear- tobacco smoke, a doctor has exactly how Just before the war it
was in and so are the "Edwardian"
coursing through their fingers. discovered,
Every volunteer then smoked THE "White Colla" which help dimcult to buy anything but
This sex difference is so de- an erdinary cigarette for four to keep us healthy by killing "saloons." Now it is again young men whose only reply to Anite that it gives husbands an, minutes.
gorms in the bloodstream also possible to combine the ad- austerity was the drabness of
excellent explanation for need- vantages of internal combustion drain pipe trousers mi bowlers, ing to smoke more cigarettes The professor found that occur in large numbers in the about eight minutes after smok- mouth, New-cartie-on-Tyne doc- engines with all the sensations the pompous assection of class day than their wives, of the roller-coaster,
superiority.
ing had begun there was & rid- tors have found. On the other hand it gives den drop in the quantity of Tests have shown that people More and more ragtime being
women a cast-iron excuse when blood flowing through the with round teeth have for more played
on the radio und in the
they find it impossible to give fingers.
protective "white cells" in the pubs. And more ragtime re-
up smoking. As they are more This was due to the narrow- salien than those with dental cords being re-issued by the
can ing of the blood vessels there as decay," Kraniophone companies. The Now many undergraduates sensitive to nicotine they
to take mournful notes of "Bye, Bye, seem at last determined to argue that they become more the nicotine began
deeply, addicted to it
effect.
DR. STRABISMUS?: Blackbird" can again be heard be an individual, irresponsible,
hundred pleasure seeking and shocking inhaling tobacco smoke is a net lais Anding that this effect Mechanical
The most Immediate effect of What astonished the professor EMO to waiting from д
as the young should be. thousand bathrooms,
the pipe is menacing of the fine blood vessels.
slight and temporary narrowing on the circulation was twice as
·
It puting kientity tags on house bir'in women as in men.
Blea has been invented by In'. While investigating this effect wiko lasted much longer with at a Chicago hospital Professor women.
*** scientists. *- its effect on
The fles produces
have to hit
to be indivi me ND now Hollywood joins ip.
anything mora women reacled
when much more the blood esse}$
dually recognisable A
by acting
used and ungay. When the shrewd business
than
strongly to the
to the nicotine than through the nervous system. It in tests of new insecticides. experts who ran the film in modern spiv and Pl be interest men
also produces its soothing effect Until now a worker has been dustry
Volunteer smokers-52
able to, tag mammoth ed to see it. The crino, wave
the same way; make men in wanted n musleal with which to repel the of the 'firties is the very opposite and 48 women-lay: an couches
There are people who are co, "day," the save only 800 files in a report: "With onslaught of television on their of the twenties beloved yun, in the hospital laboratory with @gensitive to nicotine that one the mechanical device he con prite, they booket two of their... I welcome the switch back one arm stretched out and rest- cigarette always makes them tag up to 1,500 flex a day with- biggest stare Also Jane Russell to Fun, I was only a junioring on a table.
feel sick and dizzy.
out undue fatigue."
Tunes too
But
the
mo agin
right-mind Ponsible" nya
all this juvenile crime about
about." Morris Friedell discovered that, Nicotine.
the
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