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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938.
THIS WAY TO FAME AND FORTUNE
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wwwEBRUARY
reeze
Lingers
Tis soldom that the beginning of the year passes without
a cold spell to freeze the sponges, burst the water-plpes, and warp every pond and late in England.
Frost is the chief characteristic of late January and carly February, and it was for this reason that our Baxon ancestors called January Wolfmonnth, because in hard weather these animals become more than usually dan- gerous.
From an agricultural point of view, frozen felds at the year's beginning have always been regarded as beneficial to the crops.
Excessive cold purifies the furrows, bringing death to the slugs and other lowly pests, and there are not wanting several ancient proverbs to testify that the considered Judgment of old-world farmers was unanimously in favour of severe weather at this time.
"February fill the dyke
Either with the Binck or white."
"A' the months of the year
Curse a fair Februcer."
"Under water dearth
Under snow bread."
The rigours of winter have about them a rom- ance very univerani. Per-
Having seen something of the haps the striking trans-
formations that take place with a Jack-frost, or heavy fall of snow,
minister to a suppressed yearning for change unconsciously present in the hearts of all of us.
For there are occasions when we
out
for
some-
native than we are able to de-
Dick Robertson's Orchestra result of the children's holiday ..Reginald Dixon|treat offered by local theatres, Brian Lawrence's Orchestra observant persons will conclude Brian Lawrence's Orchestra that the motion picture industry all, even the most docile among .Sandy Powell of the present day, despite its us grow passing weary of our silly
homes, crying million-dollar productions, is thing freer and more imagi- Joe Peterson Joe Peterson backward in developing along rive from our poor monotonous. new and profitable lines. It uninspired days.. Gracio Fields .Gracie Fields has apparently missed, thus far, an opportunity of golden har- vest; and at the same time, though the defect may be Bandreniedied presently, failed to do
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Its duty to a most easily amused public, the children.
Blinking with drowsy cnnul, we' awake week after week to reaard In a mood of rebellious disillusion- ment our stolid bedroom wardrobe and domesticated wash-stand, the same, the same, the same!
Then one morning la carly Feb- ruary we walk to the window list- lessly to draw back the curtains, and in a trice our restlessness la appeased, for behold, we find our- elves looking out upon a brave -new-world-
In a cruder forni it was this same childish craving for novelty that prompted our ancestors to cole- of weeks
exceptionally
"Tonlay's Thought..................... THEN came old February sit-
fing
Barnum, that great American showman and king of the circus, knew the value of the appeal | brate Chater Road
to children. Naturally he pack- |||ed the parents into his big tents as well. But modern industry, represented by the motion pic-- Lure producers, seems to have forgotten the little people. Even the experiment with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse did not concern the youthful cinema-1 goers, Disney, of course, knew
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In an old wagon, for he could
not ride.
Drawn of too Ashes for the
season filing.
Which through the flood before
did softly slide And swim wody.
-SPENSER.
nonsense which children love is opportunity in this direction generally very acceptable to the appears to be proved by the at- tendance during this week at the special children's perform- ances at the Queen's and Alhambra theatres packed houses
adult sense of humour, How Imany people have chuckled over Alice in Wonderland ?" And what father has not surrep-1 titiously read "a little piece" oul
every morning to pee
by Llewelyn Powys
severe weather by the barbarous rite of roasting an ox-hair, horn, and hoof-upon the ice in the middle of the Thames.
The human race must have ex- . perienced the same kind of emo- tional release from the earliest ages.
The cave men of antiquity, with- out doubt, would emerge from their dark subterranean smoke-smell- ing, offal-smelling caverns with eries of grut jubliation to see the glitter of the sunshine upon a Bnow-covered hillside!
The dazzling light, the crisp air. would cause their hearts and heels to be light as feathers, as, gambol- ling off together like a troop of hairy goblins, they followed the tracks of some forest beast whose heavy-footed treading had been hampered by the snow.
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fashionable winter centres it is a gay sight to see the boys and giris darting back and forth with so sure a balance, deftly cutting the ice on steel-shod toe; but it is likely that the purest delights to to be got from skating belong those who avold crowded pleasure- centres, with ice-hockey and ex- pert figure-skating taking place for discover everywhere,
And themselves tracks of unvisited ice where, with a brother or a few friends. they can abandon them-
THE "VERY IDEA"
"Behold, we find ourselves looking out on a new world!"
selves to this novel form of exer- cise without any sense of social ubiigation.
Skating on a river is always ex- cellent, because it affords Сабу opportunities for escaping from other people; but the frost must have been very protracted before running water is frozen in Eng- land. In the year 1605, my brother Littleton was able to akate from Cambridge to Ely, but few can boast of having done this.
W
HEN
New York City is in the stern grip of a hard winter with an arctic-breathing north wind what- ling between the sky-scrapers, a wind that has come straight of the "bergs and ice floes-of-Ban's-Bay,- it is a comparatively common oc- currence for the great Hudson River to bear from bank to bank.
To my mind, the happlest skat- ing of all is to be gut from skating After an Over
flooded Jand.
low autumn of wet weather country like Sedgemoor becomes white with water for miles and miles, and three nights of frost will make half a county accessible to a bold boy with bread, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and apples in his pockets.
Often the floods on Bedgemoor are so deep that only the top bars of the drove-gates are visible.
THEY FLY THROUGH THE
AIR-HANKOW!
By Eddie Kelly, RH-R.A.F.
of his son's "Chums?" As for the Walt Disney's films, some excel-TOREIGN aviators have
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Beatrix Potter books, and host of others, few grown-ups can resist them, perhaps for the memories and associations that their fascinating pages bring to mind.
A SPOT OF BRIDGE There might even be occasions when, in order to make up A
balalaika
The largest rhines then ze only to be traced by rows of regularly arranged twigs which, liko the bristics on a hog's back, riso up through the Ice wherever pol- Iarded willows torder the dyke.
How happy it is on a February day to be abroad on those wide frozen marshes, with voiceless un- known birds flying southwards, southwards, far up overhead; and rare birds to be flushed out of every hoar-winter boscage, and the afternoons growing dark early be- cause of the dun grey clouds that drive always towards the coasts of Devonshirei
Then it is that the cosy taverns of Langport and Bridgewater can present themselves to the agi- nation as havens of hospitality scarcely to bc matched, with friendly apple-orchard Somerset girls bringing in fresh eggs-and-
elsh toast to crisp
the
table drawn up near to a warrantable fire,
armth of which
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all the moru grateful to wet stockings and cold kneecaps because of the memory of the wild acres so re- cently traversed, and with a vision of the dark encrusted waters of the Parelt sweeping on and on through midnight hours, swiftly, silently down to Burnham.
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UMAN beings are natur- ally gregarious, but it not in frivolous chattering crowds that men gather to themselves those long, long memories that outlast a lifetime.
In the company of more than half a dozen chosen friends the vanity of human beings is too easily displayed, and this is a corry detriment to those simple, solld pleasures through which Nature will often reveal her profoundest secrets,
When the soul wishes to commit suicide it enters society, The poet Wordsworth used to enjoy skating alone, and, at night, over Winder- mere, and he was wise,
The mysterious crackings and
terous human
of our prepos-
cent, all of them good. In three formed an International days of single morning per Air Brigade in Hankow, a bridge four or a poker school, an groanings of icefields at night im- formances these two theatres recent message informs us. exchange will have to be arrang-press a lonely man with a sense of
Really, if this sort of ect. Two Russian
the inconsequence alons. Above have shown to over 9,000
a sprinkling of thing is allowed to continue, players should be a fair trade his head is a crystal sphere clus kiddies and
it's going to have all sorts for a Canadian stud poker ex-tered with silent stars, yellow Rs uneles and aunts, mothers and
of international repercus- fathers. So successful has the sions (my, how you do fill
An obvious danger, of course, So it seems that an adventure programme been that the morn-up your column, Eddie!)..
is that intense rivalry may arise into the realm of King Arthur'sing shows will be continued
in securing the services of an nairman who is known as a liberal
Next thing we know,
pert.
| Round Table, a picturisation of until the end of the week and Australian on the Chinese side ehit signer, and the Interns- children's stories' from Grimm perhaps they will be repeated, will drop a chit over the Japan national Brigades may even for- to Barrie, fairly tales and high Hundreds have
turned ese aerodrome with the following get their finer instincts and starti been adventures, should have an ex-away from the Queen's theatre. message: cellent chance of success with
The time is not far distant, нomeone one dares say, when
the general public.
But even if such productions will build a chain of children's do not please the adult, steeped theatres, where Captain Kidd
"Dear Splinter-Run out of the makings. Next time you're over our way, drop us a coupler tius of 'beccy, will your- Ginge."
scrapping.
NO PRIVATE WAR Or an Irishman might be un- suspectingly allowed to join one alic.
Perhaps, after all, we're safer And an American pilot with in Hongkong. For the sake of as he is in saucy humour, some and Mickey Mouso and King the Japanese will feel justi- our Great and Admiring Public, what sullled wit and frequently Arthur will hold court in turn fiably annoyed as he drops this we must refuse this offer from overdone drama so that judg-to the everlasting glory of the chit to his pal on the Chinese the Hankow Aviators. ment of good, bad or indifferent motion picture Industry, thu cinemas la much impaired, there satisfaction
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wasps, and below his hecta buoyant surface, smooth and glit- tering as a dancing floor of glasst
T
HE month of December in not the only month of diving revelations;
in the month of February also man may learn decrets natural and profound.
Though no "long green lenvoa " Are yet to be seen Nature remains subito, intrepid, full of resource, steep seated up in their twisted conch, mud-swallowing burrow deep and deeper, and all
Bensuous summer-evening analla
worn
England lles under “a wintry vell of maidon white." This is known as giving them
The very branches are spread out against the cold evening sky in "Pete, you hell-firing boze, the air.
So watch out for our bright shapes naked and fanciful as the You gol-darned cont, you smashed
column again, Wo'll be CNACing | Nilgroo patterns of pressed sea- the bottle through not packing it
weeds, whito, Arm and unemo- carefully before you chuted, it
As the Booleman said to the Jew: tional, stand the great tree trunks down."
"Tan-American Airways to you!"
bolow.
side:
the antiseptic DENTAL CREAM
of
millions
of
4
is still the vast child population youngsters and the profit of open to exploitation. And the some worthy pioneer.
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