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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 28,
OLD TIMERS
Never DIE..
HAVE spent quite a lot of my life in England. And I like it. On the other hand,
I have spent quite a bit of that time on the fringe of the English show-business. And I
don't like it quite so much.
You see, I am not an "old timer," I have no cèntimental attachment to old songs, old actors, old music-halls, They bore me to Lears.
That much is purely my own opinion.
But I have always liked the English because there is so much
to discover about them.
WILA
I had always suspected it. I had never known it until I began to study radio carefully: but there ever B more sentimental race on earth than the English7
Go to the B.B.C. and say you have an idea about an old-time music-hall programme and they'll thank you and recommend you for a knighthood.
country
In
the
W world would have put on
late dance music programme, an "Old Time Night." As the B.B.C.
in the days when I happened to earn a ring playing dance music
I was engaged to play at Hudders- frld
Ours was an "advanced" band. very bik, very modern, and it was, presumably, engaged for that
reason.
But there came a time during the
By Spike Hughes
evening when we got thirsty, so most of us went off the platform and left a pianist to amuse the mob.
H
[AVING nothing better to do, the planist played waltzes and barn dances and polkas. He was a riot with the dancers-young, rich, sophisticated children of Yorkshire wool mer- chants-and the rest of the band had the remainder of the night off. I was grateful for this senttinen- Inlity.
I
In this particular instance might suspect the popularity of "old-time" dances as an exeusa for an abandon and raiety which no longer exist.
Our post-war goneration has had singularly little reason to be gay.
By imagining Itself in the gay Edwardian days it is able occasion- ally to let off steam. It is a sad thought, though, that this galety cannot be inspired except by period which none of us lived
England's reverence for ** old time this-and-that is not con- bed to its amusements, however. The public will go into ecstasies over what it considers a "One old English gentleman."
In
Indeed. one has only to live atightly longer, remain more active
than usual to become a public and heroic figure in England.
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The English as a bardly be said to live well. But let an 80-year-old peer smoke his cigarn, race his horses, drink his port, keep a port-coloured complexios and give a general Impression of good living in his old-ago and the English will worship him.
Political differences, after an opponent has reached a certain age, are forgotten and replaced by a genuine affection.
George Lansbury
and Lloyd George have a patriarchal status even among people who disagree with their politics.
Well,"
they
"perhaps may. Lansbury is a Red and all that, but what a fine old gentleman, Birl
+
HE Victorian age was
men ruled by a fine old lady-Palmerston. Prime Minister when he was over 00; Disraeli, with his green old age: "Gladstone, the O.O.M.
It was an age of beards and side- whiskers, when undergraduates, rowing in the Boat Race, assumed an appearance of old age,
One of the most intriguing (ánd
By Pant F
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
CLOWN
MEDIEVAL FEUDAL LORDS USED FOOLS" (WITTY COMEDIANS) TO ENTER- TAIN THEM AT THEIR CHIEF MEAL. THIS LATER CAME TO BE A CHOICE POSITION IN THE KING'S COURT. FROM THIS ENTER- TAINER CAME OUR MODERN
CLOWN.
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FROM LATIN "LEX CAME FRENCH "LOI. HENCE "LOIALTE "MEANT FIDELITY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS LAWS. WHEN ADOPTED INTO ENGLISH AS "LOYALTY” IT TOOK ON THE ADDED SIGNIFI- CANCE OF ALLEGIANCE TO A CHIEF OR. PERSON.
Jimmy's
Also A la Carte
China Bldg., Hongkong.
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
ALLEY OOP
WELL, DOOTSY-Y'SURE/ I'LL TELL YUH, OOP-
GOSH, FIXED 'IM UP SWELLY HE MEANT IT FOR YOU!
OL WUR'S SAY, HOW COME
OUT
COLD!
YOU DID YOUR PAL,
THAT WAY?
ONLY YOU BENT DOWN
JUST AS HE THREW!
horrible) aspects of the English veneration of age is that when there is nothing old left to vener- ate, they will invent something old. Gradually our lovellest houses are being pulled down. But are really modern houses put up in their place? No.
In Sussex, I know 'n man who has an "old" house. He built it a year ago with old bricks and old beams. Even the root has old tiles carefully made to sng as though by the weather-beating of cen- turica.
Any criticism of this house Is met with: "Oh, well, but it fits in with the fandscape."
Why, when the trees in the landscape have new leaves every year, a new house should not "t in." I cannot think..
Irony of this
hankering after old things in England is that nan country-1 does less to preserva them than any other.
It likes the iden of "olde worlde" petrol stations and fake Tudor villas, but it would not mise a finger to keep Berkeley Square and Adelphi Terrace.
If there is no reverence for old architecture in England, the wor- ahip of age, of bygone periods 18 rampant in other directions.
At this moment there are a thou- sand pageants being organised. Five hundred of them will be abolit Elizabeth Tudor and Drake with Raleigh Thrown in as an extra in- eldent. The other five hundred will be about Charles II and Nell Owynn.
What will pack + music-ball! more thoroughly than the An-1 nouncement that a famous old comedian will be in the bill?
And when he's in the bill he'll be mude to sing exactly the same songs, crack exactly the same jokes as he did thirty or forty years ago.
I once went to see a famous old comedian at the Palladium. Ho came on, sang a song, then went off for three minutes to change, leav ing the stage empty and the or- chestra vaguely playing reprise after reprise of the first song.
Any modern turn behaving like thal would get the bird in minute, but because this was "old- time" mule-hall everything was forgiven.
The faithfulness of the British public to a favourites is legend- ary, of course.
Monte
HARLIE COBORN must always sing "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Carlo," Harry Champlon must always sing " Bolled Beef and Carrots," Vesta Victoria must always tell about being left "Walt-
ing at the Church,"
But perhaps the oddest thing of all is how quickly the British pubile will make its favourites into old- timers.
I heard Larry Adler the other day. He is years younger than 30, but already he is an old-timer.
He wasn't allowed to go of the stage until he had played the "Rhapsody in Blue."
And when Larry Adler Is 80, the Orand Old Man of the mouth- organ, he'll still have to play this piece.
He will be what the English love most: he will be very old.
-To-day's Thought ---- How grand to recall things
as they were;
Foto grand to have our memory
jogged.
-D'ALTON.
Don't Wait for Your Friends to
Tell
You
"IT'S A KNOCKOUT !”
"JOY OF LIVING"
YEH, FOOZY-. THAT'S WHAT I'D FIGGERED! HOW ABOUT IT, DOOTSY
UH.. ER--AH
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ACROSS
Is this the only thing in eduen- Iton of any value? (5).
4 Bluebeard could not have been
this sort of rogue (D),
8 Avid tellow with serpentine
heart (7).
Surmount (two words 3, 4). 10 A hot mixture (4).
the
11 Advice likely to improve garden-figure it out (3). 12 The cyclist has to pay for this
wheel, nevertheless (4).
15 "Dry Hren conts" (anag) (13). 17 If thing is this there's some- thing to be said for It (13).
20
(to stern meeting, possibly 21 À puzzling old bowl apparently
(5).
22 This famous motorist was by
no means an outsider (4).
26
25 A billarda ball may be this
after being this beheaded (7).
What the Bolshie plumber be- Heves in? (two words-3, 4). 27 Suitable kind of bridge for
footpads? (9).
20 As mouldy as a book of onders?
(5).
DOWN
1 The "Terriers"? (three words--
4. 2. 3),
2 Undesirable epithet for the or-
derly room (7),
3 A high note among fish (4).
4 May be a smalt gain, but cer- taln (four word-4, 2, 3, 41.
5 A celebration (4).
6 Not open to make a chap com-
munistle (7).
18
7 Should not be sung at 5 down
(5).
All that the cheerful coolie can do about his burden (four words-4, 3, 4, 2).
13 The object of miiftant aims (5). 14 Some of the bosses (5).
16 The world has been plunged
into gloom since then (9). 18 A thorough search (two words.
4,3).
nent
19 Continuous epithet for a
coiffure (7),
20 Fundamental (5).
23 With string around it it would
be getting longer (4).
24 He might cause a food if he lost
his head (4).
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IT LOOKS LIKE NOW WE W ARE BUT FOUR, COUNTIN' WUR THERE ON TH' FLOOR!
HUHI SO FAR, FATE SEEMSTBE
·SAVIN' MY DOOKS
SOME WEAR ANARI
WELL, WIZER-YOURS (T'HECK WITH HIS
| IS TH' ONLY VOICE
OF TH'THREE LEFT, SO Y'BETTER START
TALKIN'
TALKIN' HE'D
BEST START
WALKIN'!
ALHAMBRA Coming Soon
A stinting drama of hearts in bondage.
CONDEMNED
WOMEN
WSALLY EHLERS LOUIS HAYWARD ANNE SHIRLEY
Dironied by Low Londere. Produced by Nobert Blek. Skory and sorbed play by Lionel Houser, RKOIRABIO FISIUM
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