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NOTES OF THE DAY
EUROPEAN MAZE
REAL LIFE JEKYLLS AND HYDES
By BERNARD FALK
The Very Idee!
ALWAYS LOOK A HORSE
IN THE FACE
The European political tanglo la noi rendered lean of a maze by the hints of better success attending Germany's diplomalle activities. A correct appraisal of the hit on HOUGH the strange detail to gentleman of genius, and vice. HAVE you joined the Back
T"
Hly Eddle Kelly, Horse Follower
to the Horse Movement? In other words, how much did you lose at Happy Valley yesterday?
Indeed, more dealt ever.
makes a fantastic picture In versa. The precise significance of all the
our minds, we should not be too
In my early days in London no 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," nore extravagant form of double thing
clear, namely, that Aus- dead in a motor-car crash in Lou-life was led than by a Dickensian
What we'd like to see is tria's leaders are more readily dis-don, who was a Cambridge waiter aharacter, whose ambition was to
the voice of Bor-
by day, and a supposed wealthy live at the rate of £10,000 a year. posed to listch
something original at the lin. No definito atatement has been
man about town by night-in Having been left only £1,000 forthcoming from either Berlin or.
stark truth, an adventuror and a year, he arranged his affairs na races. People are getting follows: Eleven months in the Vienna, but there is plenty of cir- criminal, cumstantial Justification for the bellef, including the statement from Dr. Dollfuss's office declaring that no trouble is expected to-day when, at noon, Herr Habicht's ultimatum expires.
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 satisfuc torily. 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 foresee. Such a development, following so closely In the wake of Signor Suvitch's trip to Vienna and Budapest, would be surprising. It may mean pence between Austria and Germany. But it would increase the alarms and anxieties in Rome and Paris.
not to mention London.
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MUSSOLINI'S PLANS
In all great elties 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 their real selves, expenditure of two or three shili-taxis, watching the same old Sometimes the deception has an ings a day, and the remaining 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
West End hotel-to enjoy the tram-cars. ders, which is as well,
Lot's have a few innovations. There are cases, known to most luxurious state of a millionaire.
of the three. For instance, as soon as # Thirty days out of us, where an attempt is made to escape from the unrelieved hundred and sixty-five he dined off race-goer enters the gate, ho monotony of a humdrum exist- Dover sole, caviare, roast chicken should be presented with a toy enco: in short, to find, in anand the finest dishes procurable; nesumed
pose, the thrill and the other three hundred and balloon and carnival cap. Prizes. excitement unhappily lacking in thirty-five days he fed mongrely could be given for the best fancy on the staple foods of the very dress costumes, with special the normal, daily round.
poor-cheese, herrings, streaky prizes for best impersonation of
successful punter. bacon, etc.
A better innovation would be to:
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The world has many Cluderellas to whose care-haunted natures it Such extremes of luxury and hand jockeys who don't come in This arrangement is, occasionally, a blessed safety-discomfort were, the price thia Arst, second or third over the fonce valve to behave as though they human oddity gladly paid to be to alto be made to apply to the believed the fairy-sent Prince treated as a millionaire for a few starter who raised the tape when were actually on his way. If none passing days each year.
Yot in
else be harmed, why should we whatever role he figured, whether the hot favourite was facing In the harshly condemn these imagined the Rowton House ledger of the opposite direction.
As the annual races are so well
golden hours, when castles in the long spring, summer and autumn
air seem to stretch to earth? months, or the honoured "million-patronised by ladies, a number of Alas that what is begun with airs" hotel guest of the one June huge mat-sheds should be erected to ng ulterior object in view, and no month (the London season), he park them in. This would prevent. evil in contemplation, should, from conducted himself as to the man them from cramping betting ar
rangements. That Signor Mussolini's instruc-
Pass-out cheeks should be issued tions to Signor Suvitch had nothing time to time, end miserably and ner horn. He might expressly
have been cut out for his in at the tiffin interval, in order to to do with Austria's change of disastrously in war on society.
If Hitler Then maids pose fraudulently as credible double life,
enable race-goers living in Kowloon front is quite certain.
helresses to Discussing the strange, fellow to go home, have fin, mow the sationes Major Fey, the Italian mistresses: "fake" reaction will be far from favour-mythical thousands are bora of with the hotel manager who had lawn, do odd jobs around the house, able. Signor Mussolini has other once innocently-dreaming work-pledged me to secrecy, I asked my areas again, bito finger-nails and. ideas and other plans and believes girl; and, sad that it should be self whether the spirit of J.M.Wreturn to the course long before the that Dr. Dollfuss is with him. The ac, clerks who at the seaside affect Turner, the most famous land- ofktal timin party had gulped down. Austrian Chancellor may, however, the manner of lords of creation, Acape painter, had not, by some its frankfurter and beer. find himself caught up by a strong finish up at the Old Balley.
with the current and must go stream.. A year in office hna made him a realist. If the Heimwehr goes Nazi he must follow or quit.
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OPEN-BOOK EXAMINATIONS
next June.
be
magical means, passed into him, To save innocent men from per- for in the reverse sense that great secution, Ladies' Enquiry Officer man was inclined to almost the should be established throughout course, Ladies wishing to
When they started out in life same kind of eccentric behaviour. the
be Though he had a fortune rapidly now "What Price Glory?" etcetera, they had not meant to to mounting towards £150,000, Tur-would than have to apply to their criminals. Vanity, that grew
an, overmastering passion, ner loved to take nocturnal rambles on offices, where the attendants
undoing. proved their
They in Limehouse and Wapping, find-can be relieved from their exacting sought, of pleasing fancies, pure ing plensure in the people met in duties every five minutes.
In conclusion. there should be a Suggestion Box at each entrance. phantoms of the mind, to make the lowliest side streets.
In the last phase of his life, concrete realities. Without the means to command, they casayed to live, in practice, the kind of life when his official address was of which they had fondly dreamt. Queen Anne-street, he developed For They were weak-willed people who, la maata for disappearing. us a famous London magistrate days at a time he vanished, with- remarked to me, just before the out venturing to offer the slightest war, persuaded themselves that explanation for his absences, wishing was a reasonable exense for When his friends pressed him to disclose his new rotrent he put taking.
No more than one sugges- tion should, however, bo ac- cepted from each punter as to what should happen to the. rank outsider that beats the favourite in the last race,
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HORSEFEATHERS
We refuse to mention names, but
Not infrequently it will happen them off with all sorts of subter- that a genuine duality of nature fuges and adroit evasions. Final here is the story about the loca! is present to account for startlingly a letter found in an old coat racehorse owner who told off his contradictions in a man's conduct, gave his housekeeper the peces-chemist.
"Wattinell," he boomed, "wat- Dr. Jekyll, honourable gentleman sary clue, and she tracked him
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K*Y FR**C*S OWN NO RES
Not only is British trade on the up-grade, but the improve-
in ment noteworthy
recent
GERMANY AND PRAGUE months has come to stay. That
Equally Interesting are the Ger- is the conclusion reached by Mr.
man overtures to Czecho-Slovakia. Neville Chamberlain, who, from Dr. Benes may well wonder which his position as Chancellor of the way to turn. A close friendship between, Austria and Germany. Exchequer and by reason of his hemming his country, in between close contact with trading in-two Nazi States, will not be viewed by the Czech Foreign Minister with terests, is ablo to speak with
any complacency. And the Italian some authority on the subject. alternative, an Itale-Austro-Hun- The belief is also evidently held garian alliance, is politicaly almost as displeasing, thrusting, as it does, by our manufacturers, who are
n wedge between the Little Entente so encouraged by prospects that Powers. Germany's Non-Aggres they feel they can justifiably sian Pact offer cannot lightly be dismissed in these circumstances expand their plant and equip and there would be no hesitation if ment. The steady upward trend other considerations did not enter and philanthropist, who, by means down. He had taken a house at tinell's the idea. When I ask for has been manifest for some time into the question. But France of a drug, could be transformed Chelsea, acar Cremorne Gardens, embrocation for a pony's legs I looms very large and M, Benes is into Mr. Hyde, the personifieation Thero Turner, the greatest lands- want embracation-not lavender now, so much so that in the iron not likely to be stampeded into any of evil, was a creature-of-Robert capo-painter in England, if not in water, like the last bottle you sold and steel industries there has move that threatens
Czecho-Louis Stevenson's dreaming brain. the world, had become Admiral me I rubbed it on-my-grillon the Yet what was there in the Booth-or, In miomonts of fami-day before yesterday, and ever since thehas done nothing but look been so much activity that in Slovakia relations with France,
Herr Hitler has weaned Poland novelist's phantaey, that had been larity, "Puggy" Booth. directions difficulty has away.
Mild in comparison is the dis-nt herself in the water trough and from
influence based on sleeping vision, to exceed French been experienced in fulfilling re- Prague offers a much more difficult
in actual wonder the natonishing simulation of Haroun al Raschid, sigh." dun! personality of Francols the famous Caliph of the Arabian
A NEW COMPETITION who, Indistinguishable quirements of consumers. The proposition.
Villon? Think of him, ono part Nights,
Well, children, ever since we saw position in the coal-mining areas is also improving, whilst ship- building is taking a turn for the better. Engineering, metal goods, the motor industry and distributive trades have also been reporting better conditions, and there has been a marked. improvement in the pottery in- dustry. The effect of this activity is seen in a decided in- crease in the number of people actually in employment. In re- cent months this increase has been most marked, a fact which provides the best possible evid- ence of the revival of trade activity. There is, of course, a tremendous amount of leeway to be made up, but it is reassur- ing to feel that the trend is at any rate in the right direction. The world position is still far from being composed, and the innumerable barriers to expan- ston provided by tariff walls and other obstructions make the task of complete recovery extremely difficult. Yet, in spite of these
Manufacturers in Illinois were obstacles, British business men responsible for an interesting ex- are adapting themselves to the poriment n week or two ago when circumstances. in a manner they met their entire weekly pay which proves that the old spirit roll with silver dollars. Instead of containing bank- of quiet, determination is still getting envelopes. very much alive. Neither in the notes, the workers got little canvas sacks, filled with dollars-heavy, realm of commerce nor of finance clinking, and nomehow exceedingly has Britain plunged into experi- satis
handle. The step was ments of doubtful value. Her taken, it is explained, to populariss
satisfying to position to-day is the result of silver currency and to bring mora wise and patient action along pressure on the administration in sound linca. The measure of its sliver policy. So far as it went
It was
good idea. There is some progress already recorded is all thing solid and comforting about the more satisfying whon wo the fealing of a silver dollar. It bear in mind the immensity of feels like more money than a doline the difficulties which have had to bill, for some reason; it ringa in mannor When be faced. It is, in fact, little an authoritative
thrown down on a counter. Ob [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 exchango in the United States and other pression, Britain should be parts of the world, there would be showing definite signs of per-ittle nood for artificial. pries manent recovery,
Htimulation.
thief and murderous rufian, other from an ordinary citizen, would part marvellous poet; who for n wander unrecognised about the that Film Competition in a local From the University of Chicago month should play with consum streets of Bagdad, in order to hear nowspaper we have become competi common people were tive all over. So we have prepared comes the announcement that mate ease the gentleman in some what the
in teeney weeney film competition students in the "humanities"princely castle in Blois, and the saying.
to match all for yourselves. All you have to casc Perhaps for a course will be allowed to bring next month be on the road, joyous- 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 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 examinations
The of novelist's magic drug to explain the heavy responsibilities of a
(Continued on Page 7).. questiona will be designed not the miracle of change from rogue
tost the student'a merely to knowledge of facts but his ability to find and correlate them und draw conclusions therefrom. The idea
It AComA meritorious, much more nearly approximates the ordinary conditions in which the students will do his later work and apply his intellectual equip ment. There he would be consi- dared slipshed in his methods if he wasted time trying to remember uncertainly what can be checked with certainty in reference man- uals. Of
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THE 'CARTWHEEL' RETURNS
"Seriously, Emil, when can you drop out to the house and
teach my wife something about cooking?".
Just in case it was too diflcult, here is the solution: Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Kay Fran- cis, Owen Noares. And if any of you little squibs complain that the last name is spelt wrongly, all we can say is that even at your ago you should know that there is an O-in Nares.
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· LOCH NESS Dogberry disputes Nathaniel Gubbins' claim:
Funny that only one journalist and that journalist me should hold the secret of Loch Ness, he науа.
The "monster" is none other (as we say in the children's magazines) is none other than Col. D.H.L wr*nce, the uncrowned King of Arabia. He is doing "hush-hush" work for the Gov- ernment, planning sites for acro plane hangara.
A self-sacrificing place of work, especially when the Loch freezes. My Intorviow with the "Mon ter" was necessarily a guarded one. In accordance with War Ofice Instructions: (handod to me, at a West End restaurant, in the form of potato rissole) I visited the Loch disguised ná a ticket-inspector.
After giving the password, the hond of Col. Lwr*nce appenred enutiously above the surfaco. I thon act up. In red and green Veroy light, in accordance with Instructions.
"Is that Colonel L*wr*nce?" I now inquired in a hoarsa whisper.
"No, replied the "Monster" "Are you Shaw 7"' said I. There was a cackle of giriish. laughter and the "Monster" die- appeared. below the surface.
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