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and at
LASZLO SCHWARTZ.
Taggart survived it too-
BEING one of those hope- I am glad to record that Mr. lessly incurable "eternal with a smile. What most folk students of life”, all the way haven't discovered about similes to Mr. Tuggart I mused how and laughs as yet is that there and why one earns the re- are two kinds of each-internal
and external. pute of "a man without 2 A few of us are compelled to smile?"
do most of our smiling and Just before I entered his laughing internally. But when- ever licae internal smiles and sanctorum, I had a chance to laughs are liberated and enjoy peep at a list of companies a bit of external airing, then, to founded, directored, manag- use financial phrases, they con- vey compound interest in mean- ed, piloted and pivoted by lag and intrinsic life value. Mr. Taggart, and when I That's why (171 Englishman was told to go in I was still shows different "cause and ef- inspired from too dazed, dizzy-yes-and alcoholic sources than a Senta- a bit ashamed to tell him man. The former that I came to share a laugh count of his drinks and winks, or two with him.
After all, even caricaturists only time he forgets he's an
fect" when
*oon loses
and to hide lis embarrassment laughs hilariously. (That's the
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have a conscience. Of course, it Englishman). Not yer Scottie! you consider the greatest master giving me the worst mark. Then' differs considerably from the Oh no! He keeps on. imbibing in the use of it?" Such are the he came over, turned me round average mortal's sin-thermo, but consistently, conscientiously, enl- critical moments in life (includ- as hangmen do when they tie up "Look Don't lot the river run dry Sung by Peter Dawson
every now and then we are culatingly, cunningly and eryp- ing the fateful matrimonial "to their victim and said: Just keepin' on
Sung by Peter Dawson
troubled with it. However, I tically, not once. missing count be or not to be" moment) when out of the window. Do you see
men should be 0-8421 Vienna, City of my Dreams (Siccxynnski)
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humorists. That question whisk- energy to see it. this is not the
the age for
"Well, that's the Zengo 111" Stay with me for ever ("Giuditta") (Lohart
Before Mr. Taggart's smile ed me back about 40 years when Sung by Webster Booth
"survival of the fittest," but of vanished back into its internal I heard my teacher ask me at Naturally I wasn't going to the thickest, Thickest hide, hiding vault, I asked him to the exam.:
take any chances when Mr. C-2835 Gertrude Lawrence Medley-Parts 1 & 2
"Laszlo, on which mountain Taggart quizzed me, and with a and
with the Chinese people de- did Noah's Ark rest when the cocksuredness that bordered on BD-334
veloped his sense of humour? floods subsided ?"
impudence, I replied: "Shake- "Not only has it developed my “As far as I was concerned (I speare!”
The
Certrude Lawrence Hongkong Telegraph. thickest what-ot
Where there's you there's me
Jack Hulbert You're sweeter than I thought you were ...Jack Hulbert
(Both from the Film-"Jack of all trades") BD-335 Tap your tootsics (Film—"jack of all trades"}
Celebratin' (From the Film-“Limelight"')'
BD-332 My heart and 1 (Film-"Anything Goes")
If you love me.
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NOTES OF THE DAY
villains.
in which the
what extent constant contret
sense of humour, but my philo- suppose Noah felt the same way
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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936.
"What of 'De Profundis'?" sophical attitude toward life as about it)' any mountain peak asked my interviewer with smile. ON UNDERSTANDING
well. Their patience and per- would do, for to save my life I No. 2. I had to admit that The story of Bunner, the sistence is a model to the world couldn't remember it. Right Oscar Wilde, too, was a master, OTHERS
British warrant officer who served at large. The old adage of back of me sat one of my bitter- but I stuck to Shakespeare. If Evie Hayes
than be with the Ambulance Unit in the 'familiarity breeds contempt est rivals in the school, one who for no other reason ..Evic Hayes We have heard so much about Ethiopian war, reads like a first- certainly needs radical revision nursed a dozen wrongs (and half cause most tragic scenes are lit Sam Browne foreign travel broadening the class melodrama, Sam Browne mind that it is somewhat re-italian authorities are the arch-when you learn to know the a dozen sore heads) to revenge, up at times with shafts of Or it did until Afr. Chinese people well, for the more When he saw me turn red, white humour. Yes, and because he is Faithful Jumping Jack (Heykens)
freshing, if upsetting to tradi-Eden explained the situation last you're with them, the more you and green (Hungarian colours) everlastingly 80 Marek Weber's Orchestrational beliefs, to encounter the night. Bunner was originally admire them. During the most in due order and succession, he human Standchan (Heykens)
.Marek Weber's Orchestra directly opposite argument.
A reported to have been arrested on critical business conferences I whispered: "Zengo ....
his way
to Aden for treatment am again and again impressed I would have yelled Mount TN my roamings over the world Obstination
•Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra well-known commentator, in against rabies, on n charge that he with their saving grace, their Everest at that moment, too, the Gods have given me Tango Habanora ....Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra Ilome paper, says that the aver-nac borne arms gainst Italy dur- deeply rooted sense of humour, but Zengo served the purpose glorious opportunities to study "Follow the Sun"--Solaction-Parts 1 & 2
age Briton, so long as he is con- ing the invasion of Ethiopia. Im-No matter how grave the situa- just as well. Next moment the the face of the Earth and the (With Vocal Refrain)
Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra tent to survey the foreign scene mediately the British authorities tion, how hard the barter, they class roared with laughter: For faces of men, but few men of
protested, the Italians replied that
reason best known to business affairs have sent me BD-337 The Town Talks Piano Medley.. Vivian Ellis (Pianist) through the newspaper columns no such man was in custody, and never allow the tensity of the some
pedantle, petrified, pedagogic home from an interview thinking BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatre Organ for the guide-book, may remain that as a matter of fact, Bunner moment to hush their laughs."
mentalities my teacher did not and thinking as the man least Foort reasonably broad-minded, but was "missing." It: now appeara
join in the cheery écho to known by his smiles. that Bunner was
prisoner 1
most that as soon as he begins to for BD-336 Songs of Songs (Moya) (Piano Accordeoni
un Zengo." He was too busy. Thanks, Mr. Taggart! 1 day
fearing he A this moment a that,
expected thing happened. No, George Scott-Wood explore other countries about was to be shot, he escaped into it wasn't a stern, stony. and Ah, Sweet Mystory of Life (Herbert)
which he has wondered, his the desert. He was recaptured but
the stretospheric refusal of a loan. George Scott-Wood mind closes like an oyster and through the intervention of
an he Just British Consul nt Diredawa
"quick unexpected Gershwin Medlay
Ronara (Pianist) he becomes irretrievably and was freed. News reports made the change act" in which Mr. Tag- THE LAND OF LONG AGO
shamelessly insular. The argu-most of the stary, it seems, and as gart turned the tables on me
a matter of fact Bunner was not only metaphorically and he be You may go to it after a weary that happen now. And how soon the ment is developed by a reference badly treated, and was arrested on gan to interview me. It was day, when, your room being quiet, flowers came: such daffodils, and to wireless, aeroplanes and other the false testimony of two Fthio-as sudden and stunning as if the you fall asleep in your chair by the violets, and lilles, and narelesil And
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wonders, which were to have pians trying to curry favour with transformed the relations be-their-conquerora, no-doubt. tween the peoples of the world, INCREASING_CRUISER making all men brothers, but the
commentator remarks that some-
STRENGTH
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with
silvery
aughing conted
patient on the operating table re. You turn a corner on the road how April dawned all decked in
of dreams, and there it is lying before budding would suddenly sit up and tell you; stretching away into the blue show
showers, the surgeon: "Before you distance, always beautiful, always breezen. And how May came all upon It. white, and made the countryside like joperate on me, doctor, will you his Land of the Long Ago, you so the by-lanes of Fairyland. And then please let me remove your often speak of to those young people. in June one could gather such roSER; You tell them how wonderful every so glowing and profuse; and far, far how the weather was so much better saya!
All this you tell those young people expansion. That is the limit which carve me?"
summers, or balmy, golden days and This is the question I had to unclouded skies, and all the earth co who do not believe one word you say. when we should ask ourselves the late Lord Jellicoe defined as the whether nature ever intended margin of safety. At present answer: "Since you seem to have sweetly blossoming.
And you tell them how then thoro of these only 33 are within the age English, please tell me whom do unlike the cold, disappointing springs brotherhood idea, or whether it limit and 22 over that limit. There is not one of those things that are now 11 cruisers being con-
have been made. This
thing seems to have gone wrong Great Britain's cruiser, strength appendix so as to make certain with the plan, until, it is sug- is to be increased to 70 vessels that you will have a fellow thing was when you were young leveller than the roses one sens nuwa gested, the time has arrived under the new programme of naval feeling when you proceed to then, how the summers were real
that we should cultivate this Great Britain has 65 cruisers, but such fine regard for the King's came such shining spring-times, so
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But when you turn the corner of
will not fit in with her plan. structed or for which pennis that SIDE GLANCES By George Clark lands and dolls where you walked and
of
In answer to the query, it is con- by 1938 the number of cruisers tended that neither nations nor under the age limit will increase to individuals want to have their 44. The strength will be brought to 70 by 1942, as there will be four minds broadened-that they are yearly programmes of from five or quite content with their present six cruisers. There will be a mental limitations, and with the speeding up in construction, and plentiful crop of prejudices, the period between the date
authorisation and the commission- antipathies and downright hates ing of the ships for service will be that spring therefrom. This reduced to three years. By 1942 may be a cynical view of the Great Britain will have 60.cruisers within the age liniit on the basis of facts, although there is much in the building programme that has the world these days which been" devised. tends to give a measure of sup- port to the arguments put for-
ward.
Extreme nationalism is matters, of course, national tem- peraments and traditions count raising its head almost every- for a great deal. The evolution where, and the failure of the of universal" magnanimity, it League of Nations, an experi- would appear, has not gone far ment based on the brotherhood beyond the primitive stage na ideal, might be cited as indicat-yet, a fuct which may explain a good deal of the trouble in the ing how difficult it is for nations world to-day. It is, however, to agree even on points which over-stating the case to say that concern their mutual security. contact with other peoples pro- It has been said of the British, duces results which are the as it may also be of other races; opposite of those popularly be- lieved, to accrue from travel. that the more they see of other. National prejudices are usually lands and other peoples, the very deep-rooted, and only a more they prefer their own.lengthy residence in another But if this attitude can be des-country can bo expected to cribed as a healthy nationalism, modify or remove them. But there is no reason why, In pre-we shall have made a consider- able advance on this question if ferring our own country and we at any rate endeavour to cul- people, we should not be broad-tivato a willingness, whether wo minded onough to concede a travel or not, to give due regard similar right to others. I these to other people's points of view.
1 understand she already has proposed to Hilmy, and all
she has to do is get his father's consent."
the road of Dreams, you know that all you say is true. For there is your lovely Land. just as you so often dea- cribe it. There are the gardens where you played,.n child; the wood.
dreamt, ទ lover. Such wonderful friendships you had then, with those who were young with you; who shared with you such joy, such laughter, Auch romancal Sometimes on the road of Dreams they come to greet you, those tenderly remembered loat loves and friends, who loved you onco so gally, so understan/lingly, se faith- fullyl
But then, as you 40 often raz”. people long ago were so different; G content with ench ather, so unspoiled, so happy, and so easily satisfied with simple, gentle pleasures. They were or disillu- not cynical, or critical, aloned, or difeult to please, as in the world of to-day.
All those things you tell those young people, who do not believe one ward' you say,
But sometimes you have an odd feeling that one day they will believe you a day perhaps quite far off, when they are as old as you are now. And they will tell others, who will be, young then, how wonderful every- thing was long ago.. How the mum- mers they remember were tho real summers, how the skins were more fair, the roses more fragrant, how everything was better and more but ful, and the old loves and friendships more precious and dear.
And those they tell will not bollove ono word they may!
Bat they will know, just as you do now, that what they say is true. For balne a little weary of the business of life, sitting by the evening, fire, they also will sometimes turn thê. corner of the road of Dreams, “and sco far off in the blue distance, ander a cloudless sky and always with the sunshine bright upon it, the lovely Land, of the Long Ago.
And, having soon, at lost they, will belieys all that you said.
Marlon W. Simpson.