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The
Mr. J. H. TAGGART
smiles with
with and at LASZLO SCHWARTZ.
BEING one of those hope- I am glad to record that Mr.
lessly incurable "eternal with a smile.
Taggart survived it too—
and external,
ever these internal smiles and
What most folk students of life", all the way haven't discovered about smiles to Mr. Taggart 1 mused how and laughs as yet is that there and why one earns the re- are two kinds of each-internal pute of "a man without a
A few of us are compelled to smile?"
do most of our smiling and Just before. I entered his laughing internally. But whon- sanctorum, I had a chance to laughs are liberated and enjoy peep at a list of companies a bit o' external airing, then,ta founded, directored, manag- use financial phrases, they con- vey compound interest in mean- ed, piloted and pivoted by ing and intrinsic life value. Mr. Taggart, and when I That's why an Englishman was told to go in I was still shows different "cause and ef-
fect" when too dazed, dizzy-yes-and alcoholic sources than a Scots- inspired from
bit ashamed to tell him man. The former soon loses that I came to share a laugh count of his drinks and winka, or two with him.
After all, even caricaturists only time he forgets he's an
a
this
Hongkong Telegraph. and thickest what-not.
NOTES OF THE DAY
The
and to hide his embarrassment laughs hilariously. (That's the
have a conscience. Of course, it Englishman). Not yer Scottiel 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, cal critical moments in life (includ- as bangmen do when they the up HONGKONG HOTEL
every now and then we are culatingly, cunningly and eryp. ing the fateful matrimonial "to their victim and said: "Look troubled with it. However, GARAGE
I tically, not once missing count be or not to be" moment) when out of the window. Do you see
should survived the ordeal if for no of his merry winks between his all men Vienna. City of my Dreams (Sieczynnski)
be good that hill?" I still had enough Sung by Webster Booth Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. other reason than to prove that drinks.
humorists. That question whisk- energy to see it. Stay with me for ever ("Giuditta") (Lchar)
is not the
the age for
Before Mr. Taggart's smile ed me back about 40 years when "Well, that's the Zengo !!!" Sung by Webster Booth
"survival of the Rilest," but of vanished back into its internal I heard my teacher ask me at Naturally I wasn't going to Gertrude Lawrence Medley-Parts 1 & 2
the thickest. Thickest hids, hiding vault, I esked him to the exam.:
take any chances when Mr. thickest purse, thickest armour what extent constant contact “Laszlo, on which mountain Taggart quizzed me, and with a with the Chinese people de- did Noah's Ark rest when the cocksuredness that bordered on 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!" TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1926,
sense of humour, but my philo- suppose Noah felt the same way "What of 'De Profundis"?" Jack Hulbert
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 Jack Hulbert
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
other reason than be- .Evie Hayes
We have heard so much about with the Ambulance Unit in the familiarity breeds contempt est rivals in the school, one who for no
Ethiopian war, reads like a first- Sam Browne foreign travel broadening the class melodrama, in which the certainly needs radical revision nursed a dozen wrongs (and hair cause most tragic scenes are lit the a dozen sore heads) to revenge, up at times with shafts of Sam Browne mind that it is somewhat re-Italian authorities are the arch-when you learn to know
villains. Or it did. until Mr. 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. Marek Weber's Orchestrational beliefs, to encounter the night. Bunner wha originally admire them. During the most in due order and succession, he human Standchen (Hoykena) ...Marck Weber's Orchestra directly opposite argument.
A reported to have been arrested on critical business conferences 1 whispered: "Zengo .... Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra well-known commentator, in against rabies, on a charge that he with their saving grace, their Everest at that moment, tot
to Aden for treatment am again and again impressed I would have yelled Mount IN my roamings over the world the Gods have given me Tango Habanora..Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra Home paper, says that the aver- had borne arms gainst Italy dur- deeply rooted sense of humour, but Zengo served the purpose glorious opportunities to study 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 Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra tent to survey the foreign seene 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 The Town Talks-Piano Mediay ..Vivian Ellis (Pianist) through the newspaper columns no such man was in custody, and never allow the tensity of the some
pedantic, petrified, pedagogic home from an interview thinking Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatre Organ or the guide-hook, 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 join in the cheery echo to known by his smiles.
He "Zengo."
busy Thanks, Mr. Taggart!
Obstination
"Follow the Sun"--Solection-Parts 1 & 2
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that Bunner WIR મા prisoner
most un- that as soon as he begins to
that, day
fearing hoA this moment a George Scott-Wood explore other countries about was to be shot, he escaped into it wasn't a stern, stony and expected thing happened. No, George Scott-Wood which he has wondered, his the desert. He was recaptured but
the stretospheric refusal of a loan. mind closes like 'an oyster and through the intervention of
at Diredawa he Just an unexpected "quick Renara (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 story, it seems, and asgart turned the tables on me.
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•
•
By George Clark lands and dells where you walked and
dreamt, a lover. Such wonderful friendships you had then, with those who were young with you; who shared with you much joy, such Inughter, Buch romancel Sometimes on the road of Dreams they come to greet you, those tenderly remembered lost loves and friends, who loved you once inɔ gaily, so understandingly, se faith- fully! But people long ago were so different; no content with each other, so unsmolled, so happy, and so easily satiefied with simple, wentle pleasures. They were not cynical, or critical, or dialllu- sioned, or difficult to plense, as in the world of to-day.
then, as you So often say,
a matter of fact Bunner, was not only metaphorically and he be ment is developed by a reference badly treated, and was arrested on gan to interview me. It was day, when, your room being quiet, lowers came; such daffodils, and You may go to it after a weary that happen now, And how soon the to wireless, aeroplanes and other the false testimony of two Ethio-as audden and stunning as if the you fall asleep in your chair by the violets, and lilies, and narcissi! And wonders, which were-to-have plans-trying to curry-favour with patient on the operating table bro. You turn a corner on the road how April dawned all decked in of dreams, and there it is lying before | budding garlands, with silvery transformed the relations be-their conquerors, no doubt.
would suddenly sit up and tell you; atretching away into the blue showers, laughing,
and
sconted tween the peoples of the world, INCREASING CRUISER
the surgeon: "Before you distance, always beautiful, always breezes. And how May came all with the sunshine bright upon it, white, and made the countryside like
"It! making all men brothers, but the
operate on me, doctor, will you is Land of the Long Ago, you go the by-lanes of Fairyland. And then STRENGTH
remove commentator remarks that some-
please let me
you often speak of to those young people in June one could gather such roses; appendix so as to make certain You tell them how wonderful every-j so glowing and prófuse, and for, for thing seems to have gone wrong Great Britain's cruiser strength
fellow thing was when you were young loveller than the roses one soos nown- with the plan, until, it is sug-is to be increased to 70 vessels that you will have a
then, how the summers were real gested, the time has arrived under the new programme of naval feeling when you proceed to how the weather was so much better days!
All this you tall those young people expansion. That is the limit which carve me?"
summera, when we should ask ourselves the late Lord Jellicoe defined as the
This is the question I had to stereo balmy, golden day and who do not believe one word you say.
and all the eo whether nature ever intended margin of safety. At present answer: "Since you seem to have sweetly blossoming.
And you tell them how then there But when you turn the corner of that we should cultivate this Great Britain has 55 cruisera, but auch fine regard for the King's
camo such abining spring-times, so the road of Dreams, you know that of these only 33 are within the age English, please tell me whom do unlike the cold, disappointing springs all you say is true. For there is your brotherhood idea, or whether it limit and 22 over that limit. There
lovely Land, just as you so often dea cribe it. There are the gardens is not one of those things that are now 11 cruisers being, con-
where you played, a child; the wood- will not fit in with her plan. structed or for which appropriations 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 cruisera. There will be a mental limitations, and with the speeding up in construction, and plentiful crop of prejudices, the period between the date of 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 cruisera within the age limit 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 à measure of aup- 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] mont based on the brotherhood beyond the primitive stage as deal, might be cited as indicat-yet, a fact which may explain a ing how difficult it is for nations good deal of the trouble in the world to-day. It is; however, to agree oven 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 that the more they soc of other lieved to accrue from travel. lands and other peoples, the very deep-rooted, and only a National prejudices are usually more they prefer their own. lengthy residence in another But if this attitudo can be des-country can be expected to cribed as a healthy nationalism, modify or remove them. But there is no reason why, in pre-able advance on this question if we shall have made a consider- ferring our own. country and we at any rate ondeavour to cul- people, we should not be broad-tivate a willingness, whether we minded enough to concedo a travel or not, to give due regard -similar right to others. In these to other people's points of view,
"I understand she already has proposed to him, und all she has to do is get his father's consent,'
All those things you tell those young people, who do not believe ono word you say,
But sometimes you have an odd feeling that one day they will bellove you; a day perhans culto far off, when they are as old as you are now. And they will tell others, who will ha vaung then, how wonderful every- | thing was long men. How the sume mors they remember were the real wummers, how the skins were more fair, the roses more "fragrant, how everything was better and more beautiful. and the old loyas. and friendships more praelotis and dear.
And those they toll will not b
not believe; one word they say
But they will know, fust as you do now, that what they say is true.. For being a little weary of bo businces nt life, alting by the "évening, frog they also will something turn the corner of the road of Dreams, and see far off in the buo distance, under n cloudless sky and always with the sunshine bright upon it, the lovely Land of the Long Ago,
And, having aren, et laat they will bellave nll.that you said,
Marion W, Simpson.