"Slimming On English Food Is Impossible"
FANCY one of Denmark's most beautiful girls coming to London for two weeks' holiday then staying only two days and going home. Jenny Jaeger is the girl. She comes from Aarhus, grey sea-port by the Cattegat, and they call her there the loveliest girl in Jutland.
Jenny's objections to London are two-fold: too lonely and too fat-
tening.
"London neems a nice clly. People are very courteous, but not really friendly. Who can a girl talk to when she doesn't know any one in the place?"
'OH, THE KILOS'
But it was the food which worried Jenny most-though she comes from a country of mighty enters.
"When I see a beefsteak I must cat him. They told me in Denmark about the English beefsteale. He is s good. And the chips. And the onlons. But oh, the kilos.
"Danish food isn't anything like so fattening as yours."
Her working weight as a manne- quin is Ost. 2tbs. Holiday dating has added six pounds already and Jenny was proposing to eat a final beefsteak in the Harwich boal-train. "And then I shall be starving for
month,'
And off she went.
New York Calls
It "Bronx Cheer"
Mr. David O. Wilana, Rants Monica, California, wearled of drivers who hooted to spur tim on at the traffic lights.
So he invented a mechanical -"tongue sticker outer" and put it
on the back of his car.
A light illuminates the protes- que features of a mask. the mouth opens, and the tongue comes out In 011 insultingly realistic manner.
The horn blow
ព "Bronx cheer," which has a more frully name in Britain.
The United States Patent Office has given its full approval to the invention.
Best Feet Backward
BRIDE and bridesmaids were
when the time came for the
kept waiting for a bride-wedding. groom at Ogmore Vale, Glam- organ, recently.
Here is the reason: The Uridegroom had order- ed a new pair of shoes.
They had still not arrived
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15*7.
After a search It was found that they had been delivered to the wrong address.
Only then was the groom able to put his best feet for- ward.
mony.
to race to the cere-
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December 31, 1938.
Mystery Of St. George's Hall: HAS MASKELYNE'S
RETURNED?
"He Said He Would If He Could..."
"IT may have been the ghost of my grandfather, John Neville Maskelyne, who died in the war, or my uncle Archie, who died about fourteen years ago. I won't believe and I certainly won't disbelieve. But I would like to sit up in the hall one night and see if at last the Maskelyne disbelief in spirits is dis- proved."
Mr. Jasper Maskelyne, present head of the famous family of illusionists, made this remarkable confession recently when he referred to the story that the ghost of one of his family, top-hatted, moustached, white-tied, had been seen sitting in the third row of stalls of St. George's Hall, once-famous home of {Maakelyne and Devant, now the
B.B.C. centre of music-hall genuina it is more than Interesting. broadcasts.
I don't disbellovo Its possibility.” "TAKING NOTES"
The "ghost" has been seen twice within the last eight months. Mr. Jasper Maskclyne told a family secret:
"It was understood between all of us," he said, "that if any of the family could get back from the communication next world into with the living members of the family without the ald of
should spiritualistic medium, we try to do so. As you know, for nearly 100 years we have tried to 'expose' every sort of ghostly hap- pening.
n
"From my point of view, if this ghost of my grandfather or uncle is
CANTONNAGE
Is what you put on the weighing machine when you have been living on the Bund for months without taking exercise and drinking Beer other than H.B.
"Do you belleve in ghosts?" "I won't say no and I won't say yes," he said. "From the days of the Bible to the present day, Spiritualism has always been a living bellef.
GHOST
through another brick wall into a bac.
DAGGER IN RIBS
Years ago, when they were re- buliding a part of the theatre, they found a little roam, walled up, air- less, dark, on that left-hand side of the stage. It used to be a pass door. Workmen stripping the bricked-up wall noticed now bricks. They broko through the wall, found a room.
were the On the floor, huddled, cluttered, twisted remains of a man who had died in agony. A dogger stuck skew-wise In his ribs. The fragments of a grey riding cloak whispered like leaves across the door as the air broke in.
Mr.
"He's genuine all right," McQueen-Pope of Drury Lane said recently. "Too many people have seen the
ghost within the last 12 months for us to dis- belleve it cleaners, actors, mem- bers of the audience, and others." The Haymarket Theatre hos its ghost-Buckstone, the great actor- playwright who died in 1870, after he looked like Gordon Harker and he had written about 150 playa. has been seen again and again" an official of the theatre said.
"FIC
They have a woman at the Royalty. that doomed theatre in Soho, which falls into dust and debris at the end of this year, She is a woman in white, dressed in 3 Queen Ange hooped skirt, pannlered. She has a white high pompadour head-dress,
THEATRE GHOSTS
And they have seen her walk down the faded magnificence of the stair- cuse of the old house next door which in-belongs to the theatre, and fade into
a blank wall.
"But," he said suddenly, tensely, "this ghost sits in the stalls-where my uncle sat taking notes. My grandfather always sat in a corner on the left at the back, what we call the Poel's Corner. I am going to sit up for him one night, soon. Perhaps a Maskelyne has come back after all."
If Muskelyne, arch-debunker of ghosts, has returned to haunt a KER/229/3/29/32 London theatre he is in good com-
pany.
Fifty or 60 people have seen the ghost of Drury Lane, the youngish man with a eurled wig, a grey full skirted coat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes, a handsome, sad face, who walks from the left-hand side of the stage, through a brick wall to the back of the upper circle, straight
The Tower has as many as you would expect. For instance, the cone 9, blue and ghostly smoke which Edward Lenthal Swifte, Keeper of the Crown Jewels from 1814 to 1852,
in the Jewel House one night. His wife sat at table. He offered her
glass of wine.
As she put it to her lips the sud- den spinning cone of smoke de- scended from the ceiling, touched her arm. She shuddered, scream- ed: "Strike it down, it is choking me." Swifte struck at it with n chair. It vanished.
London. There are
Those are a few of the ghosts of Two thousand years of enormous his- dozens more. tory, of militant men and dangerous women, have left some mark on the retina of time.
So perhaps Jolin Neville Mns- kelyne, the Great Disbeliever, has come back.
COCKTAIL 'KINGS' HAVE A PARTY
COME of the most revered of the ▷ West End's coelctail barmen- those slick dispensers in white coats, who know just what you need to put the world right with you-got together recently in the basement ola Soho club and played darts for a shield.
You might not have suspected that Ernest and George and all those men apparently without surnames could tear themselves away from their beloved blends. But they did, and they threw as pretty a dart as you could wish,
They were competing in the semi- Anal and the final of the United Kingdom Bartenders' Guild pairs! tournament. Their arena was the Catering Employees Association's Club in Brewer-street, W.
WOMEN DOCTORS EQUAL OF MEN? Australian View
Melbourne,
Victorian medical opinion is that properly qualified women should al- ways be considered equal with men for any medical position.
The statement was made in medi-; cal circles recently, in reply to re- marks in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. C. G. Latham) and Mr. H. S. Raphael (Lab.), who criticised the Govern- ment's selection of a women 05 medical ofeer of the State Insur- ance Once.
These critics sald men would nat have confidence in a woman doctor and that most of the cases she would deal with would be those of men.
SEX NO BAR
One leader of medical thought sold that sex was not regarded as an obstacle to selection. In this State were Dr. Elleen Fitzgerald, Chief Medical Officer of the Education De- partment, Dr. Hilda Bull at the Town Hall, as medical officer for the infectious diseases, Dr. Hilda Kin- | kald, Chief Welfare Officer, and Dr. Vern Scantlebury as medical officer at the Health Department.
Dr. Dale, City Health Officer, sald that although physically they were weaker than men, women doctors certainly were not weaker mentally. It might be true that, a' certain number of men would not have con- fidence in a woman doctor, but they were quite wrong. The average WD- man doctor was at least as good as, If not better than, the average man.
Incompatibility -By a Judge
INCOMPATIBILITY of tem- phrase Invented by a Victorian perament is. A ilvely
novelist, but it does not mean anything at all."
This explanation was given by Mr. Justice Langton In the Divorce Court recently when a husband attributed differences between himself and his wife to
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The Society anks for
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