Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 23, 1940.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
STALIN'S
WORST ENEMY
Ebnery, Simpreme Court,
It's Spring time
Brighten up with these accessories
CHIFFON SQUARES
Newest colourings
$2.50 each
"I wish you'd stop that shagging long enough to let the custard set!"
Something
about YOU
WHEN the war started, gloom
chine over England,
It was as though Royalty had dier,
Those who wanted to do a show, see a football match or swirl nifty shirt in the lent palais de danse were unlucky.
"We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line” has good words, but it has art infinitely beiter tune. and to swing- conscious, young. England it's the tune that counts,
There were SOBES about the black-out, about bringing my soldiers daddy back to me, about Hitler.
The optimism of the saxophone was infectious,
Dunre halis divertised forth- coming Victory Balls,
Posters announced "Dancing as usunt during alterations in Europe."
"Thank God We've Got
Then, quite suddenly, people. Navy!" was a Great War slogan. started having fun again.
And the gurgling, walling sob of the saxophone and oiber strange orchestrul Instruments split the ceiling plaster once more in the dance haunts of Hanımersmith and Tooling,
In fact, at the present rate of progress the dance band musician I doing more to win the war than 75 per cent. of the young men in baltic-dress...
On what authority can I make such an arsertion?
Where do we get these Idean? They come from
a new book called "War Begins at Home," published by Chatto and Windus at 9a. 6d. and complied by the many spies who belong to the or- ganisation Muss Observation.
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Chapter Nine of his book re- cords that on the outbreak of war dancing stopped in every big city throughout the country.
It had 1o..
Paluis proprietors and social promoters hati no choice.
They were told to pack up.
But gradually
prevailed.
ecmmou sensc
At first the dance halls reopened
for brief sessions only,
Then came extended thnes. And managers were able to re- cord that they were doing even better than in peacetime.
Britain had begun to dance her way through the war,
In suburban
halls, there were dancers who had laid up their cars and taken to bicycles
pedall- ing their way to rhythm instead of taking it easy in their enre.
In the West End, smart people complained because the face of famous bands were missing from hotels and restaurants,
They returned.
And the smart act returned to the limelight, too.
On the radio new tunes, topicul and haunting, began to make their appearance.
the
song-hits
of
They were different from jangling, Jingling.
1914-1918,
They were polished, sophisticnt- ed, swingy.
Be thankful, too, for the Army und the R.A.F. But don't forget to be grateful for your dance hulls and bands.
Because these are going to play a Jurge part in maintaining the cheerfulness and cool senar which are
inal victory.
essential to our
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THERE is a movement in Scan- dinavia to encourage Leon Trotsky to find his way into Russia by oug of the back doora
The men of the Northern coun- tries would like to see Trotsky wreak his revenge on his comrade Stalin. They say his eyes flame with hatred at mention of Stalin. He hates the present government of the USSR. with fercer bitter- ness than he hated the regime of the Tears.
In a sense it may be sald that Leon Tratsity-one-Ume world pariah and famous international publicist of to-day-holds the con- Adence of the world.
TO-DAY and every day Trotsky is sitting at his piled-up desk in a lonely old house guarded by Iwelve detectives outside the Villa Hermoso, Mexico.
Great mountains shut in that strange homestead near the Guate- malan border. The man at the drak has dead white Balr and beard. He looks tired, but his activity is of the old feverish tempo.
Much of his time is spent in puding yet further chaptera to his monumental work, The History of the Russian Revolution. "The new chapters reveal the grim intentions, the aspirations and policy of the man who now rules Russia.
Behind Trotsky's desk stands a safe. In that safe are locked papers, which, says the exile, will one day when his book is finished throw a tearful light on Stalin's rise to power.
"Beware of Joseph Stalin, the man with the sleel eyes,"
said Lenin as he lay dying. common
Lenin dreaded Slala as his successor more than he drénded death. He warned Trotsky how the "Man of Steel" might one day enslave the makers of the Russlin Revolution.
Peters or
-to me-less Interesting things!
-S.-Other-chopters-in-Moss-
Somehow there was nothing you could roar ant In choruses liko "Tipperary" and "Tack Up Your Troubles."
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But you could DANCE to them and sing the words softly as you danced.
Quite early in the war, you renused we were going to dance
our way to Victory.
So. If you want to know how you felt when you thought there'd be air raids In September, when your kids were
the evacuated, when HIghts went out
read "War Begins at Home,"
The whole thing is rather like an X-ray photograph of yourself at WOLF.
BUT Trotsky is engaged on something more than placing Stalin In the world pillory, His net is still world wide. He still wields o peculiar powerv Nobody knows what the man if the Villa Hermosa is thinking. He is a sphinx, ex-
the inner circtc Cupi
of the mysterious Fourth International,
Hunted out of every country in Europe and refused à home in
LOVELY LEGS
O course, it's only the middle of
April. But it's no good waiting until the warm weather really comes and then saying: "Good heavens, i must do something about my legs. I can't take them bathing in this condition."
I don't want to be depressing. but by the time you'd got them Jooking us you'd like them to, it's ten to one that the bathing season -and-summer, too, If It's anything ilke last year's-would be over.
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Whereas if you begin to begin to get them into training now the very Arst time you stroll out, stockinged, they'll be assets on the personnilty balance-sheet, instead of abilities.
And don't forget that legs which, are smooth and well-groomed- that's to say. free from scorch- marks, roughness, redness, goose- fish and hair-even if they're not particularly shapely, hold their Marlene own against lega İlke Dietrich's if they happen to be blotchy and uncäred-for.
they are too thin, they should be massaged for ni least fifteen minutes day with a flesh-forming cream. The strokes should be long and firm, from ankle to knce.
Fat legs should be wrapped in hot towels for about five minutes before beginning massage. Then sprinkle them thickly with a good talcum powder and massage in the way I've just described.
Massage can
for both unod buliding up flesh and breaking down fat. After about Aftern minutes' treatment, use petrissage- tc., pinching and rolling the Besh between thumb and foreånger.
Rough, red legs should also be wrapped in hot towels before they pre dealt with. Then they should be massaged-again for at least a 'quarter of an hour-with a nouirsh-
ing lubricating cream,
If they are plimply or have goose- flesti, don't use the cream. The best treatment for them is a lotion which will "galinize" the skin tur- face,
You should apply it at least twice a day-morning and evening. First cleanse the skin thoroughly with soap and water. Dry gently with- out rubbing too hard. Then put on the lotion fairly thickly, patting it into the legs. Let it dry.
"Red troops are fight- ing among themselves, often shooting their commanders and fleeing," say reports from
the Finnish Front. Is LEON
TROTSKY,
in
Mexican villa, plan-
his
ning counter- revolution?
many others,
Trotsky was at last
in
granted resting place by President Cardenus the state of Tabasco, chiefly be- cause of its remoteness and in- necessibility,
TEAVE it on all night, and repeat the procedure in the morning. If you're wearing stockings thần enough to show the skin through, It'll look superb. Choose it, by the way, in a colour which blends with your stockings.
This lotion also removes scorch- marks, and is an excellent "make- up" for too-pale legs in summer-
time.
Dccu-
There he writes for the Amerlean Press, adds chapter after chapter to his great history,
and sionally brondeasts to the USA, As for his writings, it was Winston Churchill who said that Trotsky was the best paid writer in the English language.
On his desk stands a microphone normally used as a paper weight which can be hooked up to the American broadcasting chalos via telephone cable to Mexico City at a few minutes' notice.
At the time of the famous Mns- cow trials of the British engineers, Trotsky was to broadenst to all. America, denouncing the Soviet rulers. From his desk he spake Hercely into his microphone, but nobody in the States heard him,
Some mysterious agent had cut the telephone cable to Mexico City,
Around Troisky's study scores of book shelves and fles, Every day an arroplane delivers letters, books and newspapers, and three secretaries deal with the vast correspondence which he main- dictator of the Fourth International, whose adherents are to be found in every quarter of the globe.
If you have a really thick growth of hair on them, you can use a wax depilatory. Otherwise I advise a mitten, which looks as if it were made of very fine sand-paper, You clip it over your hand and Kently rub the legs with a circular movement.
Do this until the hair is removed. Rub over the entire surface of the leg-liniry or not.
EL
It's a very good way of keeping the skin smooth-but don't do it vigorously. You should have bath after, not beföro this treat- ment.
tains
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The most important of Trotsky's three secretaries Is 1 saffron- skinned, bony, dark-haired per- sonage, always addressed as Mr. Smith. He speaks English, Spanish, German, Russian-and-French with bewildering fluency, so that nobody
By JUAN
RICCI
knows his true nation- ality.
Though in prosperous
Mr circumstances, Smith looits famished and his burning eyes add to the effect. This one man to the link by code and cipher with the Tro- aktyists of the world.
It Trotsky ever goes back to Russia. Mr. Smith will be his right-hand man.
A room overlooking the gar- den terrace of the Villa Hermosa is called the "room of souvenir." Here are stored documents amassed over a period of nearly thirty years of exile,
Besides a number of false pass- ports, used during the Tsarist re- gime, there is a release warrant in Trotsky's real name, Lew Davido- vitch Bronstein,
ALL visitors to the Villa Her- mosa are closely examined by the Mexican police.
One fairly frequent visitor IN Max Hastman, a painter, whose wife is the sister of none otter than Krylenko, who made himself infamous as thic People's Commis- sar for Justice during the series of sensational trials in the Soviet some years ago.
Krylenko signed the death war- rants of many of Trotsky's friends. He suddenly disappeared about two years ago and is almost certain to have been "liquidated."
For some time since the death of his son Sedov in Paris Trolsky was convinced that attempts might be made on his life. Lately he has got over his fears.
Nevertheless, in the evening the shutters of his study are closed thily and no ght is to be seen from outside, Trotsky has no work explaining his part in the wish to be shot while he is ut Revolution.
BOOKS: by Monica Dickens
This Man
G
Be
ILBERT FRANKAU, who has been de- servedly called "A Prince of Story- tellers," was onco nicknamed, equal- ly deservedly, by a newspaper colum. nist, "Filbert Swan- kau."
He revents this, among other proofs of
Should Spanked
and then you
disarmed completely, by, making you laugh.
Naughty he certain ly is, but he has a way of shocking that makes me feel he could tell a questionable story to an archbishop and get away with it.
He has certainly got awny with the rather audacious story of his own life, and the re- putation that his books Gilbert Frankau have given him of
being
frst-class story-teller has not been betrayed.
a stuggering, and, one suspects slightly exaggerated, con- ceit, in his "Self Portrait," a novel of his life (Hutchinson: 10s. Ud.).
The only adjective I can think of to describe this book is "Cheeky." He takes a shameless delight in chronicling, with no sentiment and a great deal of tumour, the brazen examples of hla devil-mas-care egotism.
He forestalls outside criticism by unrepentant self-criticism.
"England's most voluble and self- opinionated author," he calls him- self, and says that, as a young man: "I could never see anyk dy's point of view but my own," and "My main love, my overwhelming pas- sion, was for myself."
to
It is almost as if he dared you Bke him, at the same time defy- ing you to disapprove. The result is that you do like him, exceedingly, but with a faint feeling that it is nelther hia good nor yours that
for you should.
You feel that if he were your son, you would have spanked him several times during his irrepres alble carcer, but he would probably have taken the wind out of your Buils beforehand, by acknowledg- ing and glorying in his naughtiness,
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THERE is none of that rather forced reminisceasing that makes so many autobiographies so dreary. Like Frankou's "Peter Jackson" stories, and all his novels, this is what one of his typical characters would call "A. rattling good tale," and includes some highly diverting anecdotes of various great men- Kipling, Maugham, Arnold
Bon- neit, Michael Arlen, among others. My favourite, however, is the saucy account of a verbal fray that he had with I. G. Wells, who, he mys: "looked me over as though Avere a specimen out of a bottle."
Half way through the book, the thought was forming in my mind: "The man's a codl" But on tho boldly putting my thought very next page, he managed, by words, to make me completely re- verse my verdict.
into
Ho overheard one man say to another:, "What do you think of young Gilbort?” And he quotes tha answer, with a glorious rollsh, as being: "Well, his father was gentleman.”*
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