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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1984.
NOTES OF THE DAY
EUROPEAN MAZE
REAL LIFE JEKYLLS AND HYDES
By BERNARD FALK ·
HOUGH the strange detail to gentleman of gentus, and vice-
The Very Idea!
ALWAYS LOOK A HORSE
IN THE FACE
By Eddle Kelly, Herne Follower [AVE you joined the Back HA
The European political tangle is not rendered less of a maze by the hints of better success attending Germany's diplomatic activities. Ä correct appraisal of the situation fa, Indeed, more difficult than ever. The precise, algnificance of all the our minds, we should not be too moves in the game may not appear much surprised by the dual life until much later in the day, but one led by Arthur Leon Castledale," more extravagant form of double did you lose at Happy Valley thing is clear, namely, that Aus-
Takes a fantastic picture in versa.
In my early days in London no
to the Horse Movement? In other words, how much
What we'd like to see is
tria's leaders are more readily dis-donda motor-car crash in Lon-life was led than by a Dickensian yesterday? posed to listen to the voice of Ber-don, who was a Cambridge waiter character, whose ambition was to lin. No definite statement has been by day and a supposed wealthy live at the rate of £10,000 a year.
man about town by night in Havlug been left only £1,000 something original at the forthcoming from either Berlin or
follows: Eleven months in the
cumstantial justification for the belief, including the statement from Dr. Dollfusa's office declaring when, at noon, Heir Habicht's ultimatum expires.
criminal.
Vienna, but there is plenty of eine stark truth, an adventurer and a year, he arranged his affairs races. People are getting In all great cities there are to year he stayed at one of the Row. tired of the same old thing be found people masquerading as ton Houses, permitting himself an year after year, going out in the opposites to thoir real selven. expenditure of two or three shill- that no trouble is expected to-day Sometimes the deception has anings a day, and the remaining taxis, watching the same old innocent purpose, and no one is month he moved into the most horses lose their same old imposed upon but the masquera-expensive suite at a fashionable money, and coming home in ders, which is as well.
West End - hotel-to enjoy the tram-cars.
Let's have a few innovations. For instance,' as soon, as 'N
THE INFERENCE
The inference appears to be ob vious. No trouble is expected be cause the occasion for quarrel has been removed or negotiations to that end are proceeding satisfac torlly. An agreement, according to one source, is expected in the next few days but what will be the end of it all, no-one can foresce. Such a development, following so closely In the wake of Signor Suvitch's trip to Vienna and Budapest, would be surprising. It may mean peace between Austria and Germany. But it would increase the alarms and anxietica in Rome, and Paris,
not to mention London.
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The world has many Cinderellas to whose care-haunted naturea, it
be
AD
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huge mat-sheds should be erected to park them in. This would prevent them from cramping betting ar- rangements.
In conclusion, there should be Suggestion Box at each entrance.
No more than one sugges tlon should, however, be ac- cepted from each punter as to what should happen to the rank outsider that beats the favourite in the last race.
There are cases, known to most luxurious state of a millionaire. of us, where an attempt is made! Thirty days out of the three to escape from the unrelieved hundred and sixty-five he dined off monotony of a humdrum exist- Dover sole, caviare, roast chicken race-goer enters the gate, he once; in short, to find, in an and the finest dishes procurable; should be presented with a toy. assumed pose, the thrill and the other three hundred and balloon and carnival cap. Prizes. excitement unhappily lacking in thirty-five days he fed meagrely could be given for the best fancy the normal, daily round.
en the staple foods of the very dress costumes, with special poor-checao, herrings, streaky prizes for best impersonation of
successful punter. bacon, etc:
A better innovation would be to Such extremes of luxury and hand fockeys who don't come in is, occasionally, a blessed safety dlacomfort were the price this first, second or third over the fence. This arrangement. valve to behave as though they human oddity gladly paid to be te punters. believed the fairy-sent Prince treated us a mililonaire for a few could also be made to apply to the were actually on his way. If none passing days each year. Yet in starter who raised the tape when. else be hazined, why should we whatever role he figured, whether the hot favourite was facing in the harshly condemn these imagined the Rowton House lodger of the opposite direction.
As the annual rates are so well golden hours, when castles in the long spring, suramer and aut patronised by ladies, a number of air seem to stretch to earth? months, or the honoured "million- MUSSOLINI'S PLANS
Alaa! that what is begun with aire" hotel guest of the one June no ulterier object in view, and no month (the London scaann), ho That Signor Mussolini's instruc-vil in contemplation, should, from conducted himself as to the man- tions to Signor Suvitch had nothing time to time, end miserably and ner boro. He might expressly
Pass-out checks should be Issued to do with Austria's change of dienstrously in war on society, have been cut out for his in-
ut the. tiffin interval, in order to front is quite certain. If Hitler Then malds pose fraudulently as credible double life. satisfies Major Foy. the Italian mistresses: "fake" bairessos to Discussing the strange fellow enable race-goers living in Kowloon to go home, have tiffin, mow the reaction will be far from favour-mythical thousands are bora of with the hotel manager who hadawn, do odd jobs around the house, able. Signor Mussolini has other once innocently-dreaming work-pledged me to secrecy, I asked my- ideas and other plans and belleves girl; and, sad that it should be self whether the spirit of J.M.W. dress again, bite finger-nails and that Dr. Dollfuss is with him. The so, clerks who at the seaside affect Turner, the most famous land return to the course long before the official tin party had gulped down Austrian Chancellor may, however, the manner of lords of creation, scape painter, had not, by some its frankfurter and bear. find himself caught up by n strong finish up at the Old Balley. magical means, passed Into him, To save innocent men from por- current and must go with the
for in the reverse senso that great secution, Ladies' Enquiry Offices man was inclined to almost the should be established throughout stream. A year in office has made him a realist. If the Heimwehr When they started out in life same kind of eccentric behaviour. the course, Ladies wishing to Not only is British trade on
goes Nazi he must follow or quit.
they had not meant to be Though he had a fortune rapidly
know What
Price Glory?" etcetera, the up-grade, but the improve-
criminals. Vanity, that grow
mounting towards £150,000, Tur- would then have to apply to their ment noteworthy in recent GERMANY AND PRAGUE
overmastering passion. ner loved to take nocturnal rambles own offices, where the attendanta proved their
undoing. They in Limehouse and Wapping, and can be relieved from their exacting months has come to stay. That
Equally interesting are the Ger-sought, of pleasing fancles, pure ing pleasure in the people met in duties every five minutes. is the conclusion reached by Mr.
man overtures to Czecho-Slovakis. phantoms of the mind, to make the lowllest side streets. Neville Chamberlain, who, from Dr. Benes may well wonder which concrete realities. Without the
In the last phase of his life, his position as Chancellor of the way to turn. A close friendship means to command, they essayed
between Austria and Germany, to live, in practice, the kind of life when his ocial address was Exchequer and by reason of his hemming his country in between of which they had fondly dreamt. Queen Anne-street, he developed close contact with trading in two Nazi States, will not be viewed They were weak-willed people who, la manin for disappearing. with
us a famous London magistrate days at a time he vanished, with terests, is able to speak with by the Czech Foreign Minister
remarked to me, just before the jout venturing to offer the slightest some authority on the subject.alte complurency. And the Italian
an Italo-Austro-Hun-war, persuaded themselves that explanation for his absences. The belief is also evidently held karian alliance, is politicaly almost wishing was a reasonable excuse for When his friends pressed him to by our manufacturers, who are
as displeasing, thrusting, as it does, taking.
disclose his now retreat he put
We rofuse to mention names, but a wedge between the Little Entente Not infrequently it will happon them off with all sorts of subter- so encouraged by prospects that Powera. Germany's Non-Aggres-that a genuine duality of nature fuges and adroit evasions. Final here is the story about the local they feel they can justifiably sion Pact offer cannot lightly he is present to account for starting ly a letter found in an old coat racehorse owner, who told off his dismissed in these circumstances contradictions in a man's conduct. gave his housekeeper the neces expand their plant and equip and there would be no hesitation if
chemist.
"Wattinell," he boomed, "wat- Dr. Jekyll, honourable gentleman sary clue, and she tracked him ment. The steady upward trend other considerations did not enter and philanthropist, who, by means down. He had taken a house at tinell'a the idea. When I ask for has been manifest for some time into the question. But France
of a drug, could be transformed Chelsen, near Cremorne Gardens. embrocation for a pony's legs I now, so much so that in the iron not likely to be stampeded into any
looms very large and M. Benen is into Mr. Hyde, the personification There Turner,, the greatest lands- want embrocation-net lavender of evil, was a creature of Robert cape painter in England, if not in water, like the last bottle you sold and steel industries there has
I rubbed it on my griffen the move that threatens Czecho-Louis Stevenson's dreaming brain, the world, had become Admiral me. been so much activity that in
Slovakin relations with France. Yet what was there in the Booth-or, in, moments of fami- day before yesterday, and ever since Herr Hitler has weaned---Poland-novelist's phantasy, that had beep larity. "Puggy" Booth.-
thehas done nothing but look some directions difficulty has
away from French influence.bnged on sleeping vision, to exceed Mild in comparison is the dis- at herself in the water trough and been experienced in fulfilling re- Prague offers a much more dificult in actual wonder the astonishing simulation of Haroun al Raschid, sight."! quirements of consumers. The proposition.
dual personality of Francole the famous Caliph of the Arabian A NEW COMPETITION position in the coal-mining areas
thief and murderous rolan, other from an ordinary citizen, would Well, children, over since we saw OPEN-BOOK EXAMINATIONS, is also improving, whilst ship
part marvellous poet; who for a wander unrecognised about the that Film Competition in a local building is taking a turn for the From the University of Chicago month should play with consum streets of Bagdad, in order to hear nowspaper we have become competi comes the announcement that mate ease the gentleman in somewhat the common people were tive all over. So we have prepared better. Engineering, metal
students in the "humanities" | princely castle in Blois, and the saying.
a teeney weeney film competition goods, the motor industry and course will be allowed to bring next month be on the rond, joyous- Perhaps for a case to match all for yourselves. All you have to distributive trades. have also their textbooks, notes and what-ly consorting with beggars and that of Turner's we must fall back do is to supply the missing letters been reporting better conditions,
ever other reference material they vagabonds! There is your Jekyll on the Instance of the Scottish in these film players' names wish when they take their final and Hyde in real life, without need king who, weary of his crown, and and there has been a marked
examinations next June.. The of novelist's mingic drug to explain the heavy reaponelbilities of a improvement in the pottery in- questions will be designed, not the miracle of change from rogue (Continued on Page 7).` dustry. The effect of this merely to test the student's activity is seen in a decided in- knowledge of facts but his ability crease in the number of people to find and correlate them and draw conclusions therefrom. The actually in employment. In re-
iden всетя meritorious. It cent months this increase has much more nearly approximates been most marked, a fact which the ordinary conditions in which provides the best possiblé evid- the students will do his later work ence of the revival of trade and apply his intellectual equip- activity. There is, of course, a
ment. There he would be consi- dered slipshod in his methods If tremendous amount of leeway
he wasted time trying to remember to be made up, but it is renasur uncertainly what can be ing to feel that the trend is at with certainty in reference man- [any rate in the right direction. uals. Of course, A certain The world position is still far amount of ready Information is from being composed, and the necessary for quickness in every innumerable barriers to expan- vocation or avocation, but this sion provided by tariff wails and will implant itself with use. other obstructions make the task
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checked
Alled with doceedingl
to
of complete recovery extremelyTHE 'CARTWHEEL' RETURNS difficult. Yet, in spite of these Manufacturers in Illinois were obstacles, British business men responsible for an interesting ex- are adapting themselves to the periment a week or two ago when circumstances in Д manner they met their entire weekly pay. which proves that the old spirit roll with silver dollars. Instead of of quiet determination is still getting envelopen
bank- containing
Canvas very much alive. Neither in the notes, the workers got little realm of commerce nor of finance clinking, and somehow has Britain plunged into experi-
antisfying
handle. The step was ments of doubtful value. Her taken, it is explained, to popularise position to-day is the result of silver currency and to bring more wise and patient action along pressure on the administration in I sound lines. The measure of its silver polley
went So far as it progress already recorded is all | M good idea. There is some- the more satisfying when we thing solid and comforting about bear in mind the immensity of feels like more money than a dollar the feeling of a silver dollar. It the dificulties which have had to bill, for some reason; it ringe in be faced. It is, in fact. little on authoritative manner when short.of miraculous that at 'a thrown down on a counter. Obs time when so many other nations viously if silver can be made more are still in the depths of de popular as a medium of exchange in the United States and other pression, Britain should be showing definite signs of perittle
parts of the world, there would bo need for artificial price manent recovery.
stimulation..
it was
Villon? Think of him, one part Nights, who, Indistinguishable
"Seriously, Emil, when can you drop out to the house and
tench my wife something about cooking?"
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HORSEFEATHERS
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K*M*N_N*V**RO: GR*T* G*RB*~.
K*Y_FR**C*S OW*N NO*RES
Just in case it was too difficult, here is the solution: Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Kay Fran- cis, Owen Noores. And if any of you little squiba complain that the last name is spelt wrongly, all we can say is that even at your age you should know that there is an 0-in Nares,
LOCH NESS Dogberry disputes Nathaniel Gubbins' claim:
Funny that only one journalist. and that journalist me- should hold the secret of Loch Ness, he Baya.
The "monster" is none other (as we Bay In the children's. magazines)-Is none other than Col. D.H.L*wrence, the uncrowned: King of Arabia, He is doing "hush-hush" work for the Gov-. ernment, planning sites for naro-: plano hangars.
A self-sacrificing ploco of work, especially when, the Loch freszes.-.
My Interview with the "Mona- ter" was necessarily a guarded one. In accordance with War Office Instructions (handed to. me, at a West End restaurant, in the form of a potato rissole) I vlafted the Loch disguised as a ticket-Inspector.
After giving the pussword, the head of Col. L*wr*uce appeared cautiously `above the surface." then sot up a red and green Verey light, In accordance with instructions.
"Is that Colonel L*wr*nco?" now inquired in a hoarse whisper. ** "No," repiled the "Monster"
"Are you Shaw' and I,
There was a cacklo of girlish laughter and the "Monster" dia- appeared below the surface.