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BD-172 Anything Goes (from "Anything Goes"-F.T.
Hylton's Orchestra. You're the Top-Foxtrot (from "Anything Goes")
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BD-176 I'll take the South-Foxtrot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. Rehearsing a Lullaby-Waltz
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra, Lonely Little Dancor-Tango Fox Trot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. Way back Home-Fox Trot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. BD-178 My heart jumped over the Moon-Fax Trot
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BD-179
BD-174
BD-180
BD-181
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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16,
NOTES OF THE DAY
FINANCIAL IRONY
1935.
FISHES ARE GREAT TRAVELLERS
By W. P. PYCRAFT
THE realisation that some fishes, presence being demonstrated by
The Very Idea!.
APROPOS WOMEN.
Tat any rate, migrate as birdenstermen conversant with their Edward Kelly Thinks They
With great nets, sometimes several miles in length, they inter- copt the migrants. As the nets are hauled in the fish are apeared or clubbed and run naliore to be "canned."
Of late years they have afforded exhilarating aport to, anglers in the North Sea, off Yorkshire, Special enormous tackle, however, and hooks have to be used when tunny are taken with a rod, and they give and exciting their captor strenuous time.
river.
T
in that of the
1 12 nearest
Were Born For Love
HINGS, like
change,
women,
In the days of chivalry, round tables, knights, daze, beautiful women, the.flower of love burned brightly on the field of honour.
Feelings were kind and tender. The lowest of any tender was never accepted.
To-day what do we find? Not even a sterling compen- sation fund.
woman
Now, especially if she's at the wheel of a motor-cnr. it's not common but darn chivalry.
Comment on the silver flutters of yesterday and the day before is a little belated at this stage, and can- not possibly serve any useful pur- pose. Nevertheless, there is some- thing to be sald, about scare- mongering in the market. Not fordo, is shown when we speak of the habits. n moment do we suggest that the herring senson or the mackerel New York Journal of Commerce
season in Englund: but the nature was speaking without substantial and the extent of these migrations authority when it asserted that the
is by no means generally recog United States
nicel, Treasury of the would abandon its silver purchas.
Some Ashes, like certain birds. ing policy In the foreign field,
are resitlent in Britain; but there Reports of that sort frequently are
are some which must perforce whispered from the private offices of influential people, though they migrate either for the sake of food may have been founded on no betor to find suitable places for spawn This last renson occasions ter evidence than something hearding.
Un some strange journeya, through the crack in the door.
The salmon, for instance, leaves fortunately a newspaper is not in
And be con- the sen for fresh water. position to obtain either Armation or denial of such rumours fore it can reach a suitable site in a moment. The Treasury Defor nuting and the deposition of its
But the most wonderful of all eggs. It is often called on to per- partment at Washington is most secretive. Moreover, a paper reform gymnastic fents of no mean fish migrations ceiving such a startling piece of order. For it rust ascend tor-fresh-water eel, which reverses the information as that published by rential rapids, and leap after leap hublt of the salmon and goes to the About no flah has the Journal of Commerce mist hus has to be made before the desired sen to spawn.
there been so much mystery as that ten to publish it, in the public haven is attained.
which surrounds the spawning of
Once upon a time it used the vel. interest, unless it is contradicted. We are fully equipped for any It has been hinted that perhaps the
This sudden change from salt lo
But some thirty years ago this to be chivalry to step off a Treasury Department itself was
was cleared up. As the roadway to let a nature of service,
responsible for the rumour that it fresh water is remarkable. And mystery Enquiries:--
was about to change its policy, ita no less so is the fact that the whole time for spawning approaches the endeavour being to shuke out thesojourn in the river is passed fast-feels congregate in shoals, Such na pass,
live in isolated ponds jonke their Weet "hull" operators and stabilise the ink!
Stranger still is the Cact that way overland, through the Whatever the case may market. be, the Washington reports were though not hangry it will fall to grass, at night. almost universally accepted at their the lure of the fisherman's "fly,"
No one has yet been able to ex. lace vaine and the markets responds fed with a crash. There were rain-plain this eccentric behaviour.
When the salmon has maied, and ed men in other trading centres
All of which goes the eggs are laid, the return jour-† than Uongk. to prove anything-that evenney to the sea is made.
authority is apt to gu Visitors to the Cornish coast the best
It is a mad rush, this journey to astray and that it is best to invest during the summer will see sotne- only in official information. And thing of the pilchard-fishing. For the sea, and it is the longest jour- yet, by following the Journal of this fish then haunts our southern ney any fish is known to make on Commerer's apparently incorrect coast For food, having already a similar errand,
The eels head for the Western | report, one could have made a small spawned, at sen.
south-east of Hermuda, fortune on Wednesday afternoon. The young, emerging from the Atlantie, That is true irony.
egg in mid-water, for the most part some 3,000 miles distant, and here,
10 the west CORAL of at a depth of about 100 fathoms, the migrate Franer, where they are caught in they lay their eggs--and die!
cony. Even more strange seems arge numbers to provide us with
"Oh, strong and savage man,” "aartlines," for the surting, it history of the larval cels emerging Do the perhaps et generally known, is from these eggs, for they have to she cried in an ecstasy of fear.
a distinct species but a pil-find their way back to the rivers
"desiring you with the flerceness mediums of education. authorities take fall advantage of t
which their parents left. them?
To this question Sir John hard in the immature stage.
The journey takes about three of love, wanting you with throb- yenra, and they undergo a great bing tenderness; I yearn for you fish Reith, director general of the Bri-
Broadcasting Corporation, Migrations of the herring, on
in transformation
course with bleeding heart. Beloved, and Sir James Marchant, chair which vast numbers of men depend Mlante, transparent, shaped like a man of visual education. reply for a living, and which furnish no
willow leaf, they feed on micros my love transcends the immor- with a resounding no. Accord- small part of our food-supply, are
more complicated than at one time copic organisms and having attain-tals. My hero! my knight! my
ert to a length of about three inches, love! Ply to my arms!" in to Sir John Reith, not more than 20 per cent of the education-
was supposed. Some, al authorities in Britain use the Loch Fyne herring, do not migrate: they begin to grow smailer ! instructional services provided by athers, which do, are now Cound
Lancelot flies. Time flies. The to be of two races, a summer and
This is because the mouth has to | the B.B.: yet, he maintains, the sum of 100,and, spread over fivu
a winter-spawning race.
he closed for alterations" and so,scene changes. In this kind of years, would equip every school Each comes shorewards to lay its for a time, they must fast, life be-weather the unseen also changes. in the country with receiving
eggs in the estuaries. It is theing sustained by absorbing some of sot., The same is true of elnemu summer-herring which afford the the substance of the body.
declares Sir James mast, important fisheries along the But just before they enter our projectors,
rivers they have gained their new- fured, especially in the sphere of of the huge shoals of herring and rivers in vast swarms, natural history; and the educa-mackerel on their migratious is
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, Aec. 16, 1935,
The
nge is
fruitful
in new
A FINE WORK The handling of no fewer than INSTRUMENTS OF EDUCATION 4,000 cases, involving the wel Jackson's Orchestra.fare of 7.600 young people, is Jackson's Orchestra. the record now attained by the One Step
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well be proud, for it implies the bringing of better health and more happiness to thousands of poor juveniles whose parents are utterly unable, by renson af poverty, to provide the neces- sities of life, let alone medical treatment, for their offspring. Some idea of the extent of this poverty may be gained from the fnet that in cases dealt with last
|
like thr
In Norfolk they have been seen swarming among the rushes that fringe the banks in such enormous numbers that the larger fish were thrusting the smaller half out of the water.
its
the
Marchant. Many excellent educa-consta of Scotland and England. tional films have been manufae Why holiday-makers see a little modelled jaws, and they ascend the
tive
ANOTHER VIEW
But there is something to b said for the
of Conservatism
swarms.
But the case is different with the "scad." or horse-mackerel, which sometimes appear off our coasts in vast numbers.
sense.
Gimme the good old days. Lancelot climbs up the grape- vinc, tearing a hole in his armour as he catches a mail.
But does be swear?
No! He whistles instead, and at the first pulsating trill, Cynthin shyly creeps out onto haloney-sorry—bal-
·
Everybody changes.
It is now 1935. Lancie has a frail.
Cyn. nestles closer to him.
Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic, there must be some subtle "urge" son and get hitched. An' take within them, developing what we that grin off your face or I'} may call a "thirst for fresh water."
wipe it off. This causes them to follow up its Arst traces until the river is found, One case Is on record where, from i But the journey is not yet end- any given spot on the route, they ed. They disperse as they go
unld be seen passing in suelt along, and thousands, with wonder- "whatta man! Why don't you mighty hosts thail, from above, they ful water-divining power, make looked like one black mass. They their way out of the water, at were preying on herring-fry.
"Watta man", she murmurs,
"Kid," he says, "you and the There is something uncanny Hongkong heat have got me hot and cultural, value of the easily accounted for, since there about this 3,000-miles journey of B. H. C's radiocasts to schools. fish rest in the deep water by day the infant prodigies. Though they and bothered. I gotta have you, month, there were 19 in which contributed by eminent authors, and come to the surface to feed are borne along by the kindly Gulf baby. What's the use of stallin' no income at all was being re-scholars, statesmen and journal at night on the minute crustacea Stream, which sets out from the like this? Let's go visit th' par-
ista, is well known; so that it is which then come up in incredible ceived, whilst the average regrettable if full use is not made monthly income per head in the of them. other eases was well below the two-dollar mark! It is almost in- possible for the ordinary in- [dividual of even modest means
teachers. At the beginning of to envisage what this means.
the eras of film and radio so many These unfortunate people who extravagant claims were made on their behalf, sometimes to the are helped by the Society can-
effect that the whole teaching not, in the majority of cases.
stat of the nation would be ren- alford to rent even a cubicle: dered obsolete, that the natural they have to be content with reaction may well have been to two new doubt whether these bed-spares which in many in-
much mediums were really of stances have to do duty for educational value at all. Any- whole family. When the So- thing that tends to show that this is not so is therefore of consider- ciety was first launched, the uf-able potential influence in mold- most difficulty was experienced
ing the educational development
deservedly being aroused by an experiment currently carried on in a school in Hemel Hempstead. where tests are being made to find mit whether the educational valua
if
in inducing poor people to accept of the country. Thus, interest is medical and other help, but of late there has been a growing disposition on the part of those needing assistance and advice to of the cinema is increased visit the Society's centres, no students are given an insight in- fewer than 2,558 such visits b-to the critical and technical funda- ing paid during last month, mentals of film art. Such experi- ments as these, which, up and This of itself is proof of the up-down Europe and America, are preciation now show of the probably numerous in connection humanitarian work of the So- with both einema and radio, de- serve wide publicity; for it is ciety. Not only does this work from them that the data are include the provision of medical | derived which show how the best results may be obtained from aid, milk, etc., but it also in these new mediums of education. volves the maintenance of deser- with the consequent breaking down of such prejudice as sill ving cases in various institu-
exists. tions and the granting of sup- plies to others. In short, the Society is doing its utmost, with adequate financial support, within the resources available, the Society could greatly extend to brighten the lives and Improves activities. At the moment, the prospects of a section of the the call for funds exceeds the income, there already being a community which finds it Cx- tremely difficult to keep above heavy deficit on the present the mere subsistence level. It year's working. In view, how- is, moreover, interesting itself ever, of the magnificent work in the question of the possible which is being done, the Society confidently looks to the public provision of children's hospitals, the need of which has long been for further monetary support in order that It may continue its on poverty and disease fringe of a big social problem is amongst the poor children of the at present being touched, but, Colony..
felt. Admittedly, only the
war
come up 'n' see muh sometime."
night, to crawl through the grass. In the olden days married wo- That giant of the mackerel tribe, and find the ponds arid ditches left
men wore nothing but plain gold the tunay, appears in the Mediter-by their parents when they set out
There wedding
they rings. After ranean in early summer in huge to fulfil the crentive urge. numbers. But it makes no spee is no story to match this in all the abandoned the loose leaf system tacular display on arrival, their history of fishes.
they started wearing clothes as well.
"Why pay $12 a day to stay here, if you can't stay awake and enjoy it?"
Nowadays, brides are not con- tent unless they can get platinum hoops. We once knew a chap who gave his girl a breas wedding ring. She thought it was gold.
Imagine her embrassment.
But girls in Hongkong are like that. They're as hard as iron. The irony of it.
There's two classes of women in Hongkong. Those who need petting, and those who need. chloroforming. Those who need petting apply to us. Those who need chloroforming apply to the others.
If there's one thing we don't like it's a woman who nags.
Two things wo don't like are two women who nag.
was
The last key to our ignition like that. In America they'd call her a speakeasy.
Speaking of speakeasies. We can't sign chits at the Hotels, so we're off out to Shing Mun to see Mr. Gifford Hull. If he hasn't
a bottle of whisky handy, we'll drink his roservoir dry.
Au reservoir!