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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1947.
The Guilds of The
City of London: No. 7:
UNIVERSAL The Silver
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Talophone 25509.
STRIP-TEASE
TUMBLERS.
"Strip-tense" tumblers, advertised as "maid for the male," are in trouble.
The U.S. postal authorities propose
of it, Either is a stringed musical to bar them from being sent through Instrument. 3. Women, who were the mails, and the manufacturers called ale-wives. 4. He is talking have sought an injunction to prevent alm with a harpoon
used for the ban,
shooting sharks. Tip of the harpoon
can just be seen.
M.P. for Bootie. 6. New York State. U.S.A. Washington Irving is buried scene. there. 7. Eire, Jamalea. Hungary. The trumblers have a coloured Brazil-8. Cesarewitch, afterwards pleture of a girl on the side and her Alexander II, who in 1039 visited clothes seems to peel off as the England. 9. Peal of bells. 10. Hair drinker lowers the level of the liquid: (Judge xvi 17).
hey are amusing even to clergy-
Yardstick
BY BARRY PEAK
TX hundred years ago the Shane Pelor
pany established their premises on the site in Threadneedle! Streat in the City of London where they 'function today. In those times they occupied n mansion acquired by a member who was pavillon-maker to the King. Until their fine Hall was destroyed by enemy aerial bom- bardment in World War II, it had the distinction of being the oldest Company Hall in exist
ence,
Although in the Great Fire of London in 1880 it was damaged, it was not destroyed. It was rebullt. quickly and in use, for besides being the oldest Hall it was the largest and was much in request for im- portant entertainments, Before Landon's Mansion House was erect ed this Hall was used for Lord Mayors' banquets.
Early Foundations
Looking today at the site on which this Half stood it is possible to sOC the foundations of the first Hall which dignified the City in bygone
times. The remaining bulldings
enclose a charming courtyard ar don that seems like an anachronism in London's busy' Andrcial centre. where the narrow street outside s thronged all day with clerks and messengers.
UNHAPPY PÄRTNERS. IN PALESTINE
John
CAUSES
Pidney on Books Nothing here
T
HESE notes are to cheer- the Bus-Bore and the Ferry-Bore on the eve of
Relics of past, centuries, too, are, the vaulted crypt of a chapel and the spacious old kitchens, furnished still with the ancient roasting spits which turned the meats for banquets, Many pictures and treasures, placed,
during away for safety
the war Ꮁ years, have happily been spared the Marchant Taylors. Two extra ordinarily beautiful relics of the 10th century are embroidered, palls, used In bygone times to
To cover the comins of prominent members of the Com-man (except in a bus or ferry),
These pails which show
he likes to buy, as well as exquisite craftsmanship portray the borrow, books, teni and robes which appear in the Company's arms, symbols of the
of
ancient origin the Company, whose members made gambeson
the leather aulits armour.
his holiday. He uses n library, and, being an intelligent
By LOW
more
than 7s. 6d.
JESTS AND JEERS
Women may be more fashionable in longer skirts, but they [spelling a fine hobby. "
Bro
The working population, it you, tako a look around, is just about. half.
Soine women's clothes are so de- signed that they are seen in the best places.
"Darling, your lips are like rekes," "Rose who?"
Some people Brow old gratefully. while others believe they can dance,
An optimist in an old man who marries a young girl and starts looking for a house close to school.
Feminine compliment overheard: at the dance:
"My dear, what a perfectly stun- ning gown, even if it does look a blt oversized!".
gay
were
Two
blades young drinking. Before thom were bottles In great variety, and at intervals they took time out to stare at an old crone who sat at a nearby table.
A bystander, intrigued, finally asked them the reason why they ceused drinking to study the old woman. To which one of the young | fellows replied:
"As soon as she begins to look
It was written during the build- popular magazine stuffshow off beautiful, we're going to call it a
DIVORCED BY RED TAPE
ing of a subsequently famous RAF his talent to the station during the thirtles and its from a terse portrait of a seafaring
best advantage, night.", The burden of this Bore re of the more liternl-minded
first pubilcation Inflared certain mun such as "Lofly" to a tight little. cently has been that books cost lives of the Air Ministry,
execu- psy
bomb-happy
tale so much: "They always used to disturbed by its prophetic and sug-
Up." This well-tailored volume is one worn beneath cost 78. Gd.," he moans, recall Festive atmosphere of truth.
of a series called the "Hour Class ing the days when whisky was Clearly, however. It costs no slur, readable stories just published with Library." Two other selections of From their carliest days the plentiful at next to nothing, as the author talces care to point it are by Elizabeth Berridge Merchant Taylors have worked in So I dedicate this week to the eul in a note, on the Royal Air Gerald ensure both a high standard of pro- | Bore in particular and to readers Force. Yet it remains one of
Bullett, who duct and honest trading. A pract-in general facing the bookstalls on most controversially vivid books ever unpublished works.
gives measure by including three hitherto cal example of this was the manner the eve of a holiday.
written with the air as a setting. employed in the testing of measures In spite of the unprecedented though it is almost absurdly para- used by the merchants who Bold paper shortage and rising costs doxical that it was, in fact, written goods to the cloth fairs. A silver which have increased the price of before the war. yard stick, si in existence and a all new books, which are not so symbol much volued by the Com-outrageously expensive in an expen-
message, compelling and pany. was used to measure thesive world, there is still an abun- frightening, is as potent now 丸
motarial. This yard-stick is stated
talent
for
Its'
the
Rex Warner's other books, now published for the Arst time in this uniform edition, are "The Wild Gonse Chase," with Professor," and "Why Was I Killed?"
to be correct to .001 of the standard wrt choice of work by living ever it was.
writers at repute and yard. One of the most famous fales 73. Ed. and less. nt which it wn's use
SL was Bartholomew's Fair, held near the precincts of London's anclent church and hospital,
Times Of Progress
The 13th and 14th centuries were. 5 Mr J. Kinley, armless entertainment and not ob- Merchant Taylors', yet their activi. The makers hay they are merely times of grent progress among the ties were not confined entirely to peaceful trading. Proud of their positions, "The Guilds At this period frequently made the question of prcendence
the basis
basis of disputes. There was for example, a conflict between the Skinners and the Fish- mongers in 1340, and there was a minor battle in Cheapside. History
at this time the relates that
truculent ners, a somewhat had been ousted from their by the Goldsmiths, and then
the In on
Merchant
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution
of yesterday's puzzle.-- Across 1 and 6 Down, House of Commons; 3, Trollop; 11, Lit; 12, In- come; 14, Moallon; 18, Me; 10, Lot; 17, God; 18, Teapot; 21, Own; 23, Okay; 24, Loco; 25, Grey; 20, Doe; 27, Przens.
"Obscene,"
men," said the makers. said the department.
The legal battle is continuing.
DOUBLE
O
QUITS: The answers
Down: 1, Helmet; 2, Onion; 3,
PEOPLE, Commander of the Utterance; 5, Flung: 6. See 1 Across; Canadian 1st Army in Europe. 2. 3, Emile Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
THE AERODROME, by Rex Warner. (Bodley Head)
MR WARNER is one of the mast
significant, imaginative writers using the English language to- day. I stress imagination not only becauso
Warner himself disclaims realism, but be- cause imaginative writing is the...
very tripsure of literature.
ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME. by A. E. Coppard. (Penguin)
VOLUME of short- stories by an acknow- ledged master of the short
FUTILITY,
by William Gerhardi. (Macdonald)
and full
THIS IS the first of a handsome, and Inexpen-
An American war veteran from Connecticut had to divorce · his wife so that she could go
and live with him.
The story started in 1044 when
sive uniform edition of John Torowich, now 32, was with
ari
vho
the works of Mr Ger- the American Army in Norther hardi,
contributes Ireland. weird artist to the Hongkong Tele- Agnes, without Army permission.
Interesting though
He married his
graph week-ere
7 I have nothing against him ex-
7.
Irish collcen..
When Torowich cept that his pen seems to have run America he discovered his bride got buck to dry since 1940 but for the riotous could not join him because the foreword to this new edition, which, Army had never approved of their among other things, states his credo wedding.
a writer and this hesitant but
view of criticism
ជន
atern
Then Torawlch found that an ..what I have read for American veteran's ex-wife could story who is still fortumy edification by way of criticism gain admission to Americu os ani nately
percolating from either alde active. Do... not
of alien, fancee seeking to join her. look for the magazine sot-
the Atlantic can perhaps be best former Army husband. defined as um seeking the The American exact word, which I
think is cot busy drivel......"
Many people who went through' the late wa: have had experiences plece, the deadly stereotype bedded which the realistle writer of fiction out amid lush llustrations telling its would despair of making credible. tale news of boy-meets-giri, boy- It is only Imaginative
writing, loves-girl and the, chromium-plated which can breathe life into print, happiness-ever-after.. and make realism come alive.
on
consul in Belfast: Torowich's behalf. end arranged a divorce in four days. One of the pleasures of author- ship is to be eminent enough to be passage. When she arrives she and. Mrs. Torowich can now book a.
"The Aerodrome," done realisti- A. E. Coppard, born 1878 at collected into a uniform edition, but Ternwich will marry again, cally, might have been a flat mass Folkestone, Kent, the son of a tally the supremo pleasure is undoubted- production thriller. It is very and a housemaid," as he describes ly that of being able to say fle.80
7. Speedway; 0, Hil; 10, Onlooker; 13ollaert, 4, Director-General of the rival Companies dined with 13, Collage; 10, Poop; 20, Pyrc; 2nited Nations Food and Agricul- other in their respective Halis. Thus of direct action and ruthless pur- ful love story of a man who fell in fore and
Old: 22, Woo.
CHESS PROBLEM
By E. MAZEL Black, 4 places.
1
White, 6 pieces.
White to play and mate in three
Solution to yesterday's problem:
་
R-U2. any: 2. Kr fdia chu
pettel
tural Organisation. 3. Mr Arthur Henderson, formerly Under-Secre- tary of State for India and Burma.
Orson ENTERTAINMENT: 1, Welles. 2, Lauren Bacall. 3, Jose Mojica. 4, "Ever Slice Paradise." 5, Shirley Temple.
POLITICS:-1, The United States Political Action Commission for Palestine. 2, Egypt. 3, Nationalla'ng the banks. 4, Palleles in connection with the Japanese peace treaty. 5, The "Cease Fire" order to the Dutch and Indonesians.
SPORT:-1,- A, draw. 2, England won three matches, with two drawn,
the
love with a deaf and dumb
bo
Pope's Advice On Nudity
The matter was odd story depicting an English vil himself, is a writer of ardent and comprehensively to the criticism of tion, and the Lord Mayor of London is near which an aerodrome was glowing imagination, whose collec- the English-speaking world. Though
seem to of both built. The villagers gave judgment in favour
bark moy bations of stories have been suflelent- Gerhardl's rather ordinary folk,
Berce, with parties, ruling that each should have
staple ly unobtainable that it is a happy nevertheless his bite is tender, witty human passions The airmen are event when the Bore and I can buy and humane. precedence on alternate years."
depicted as beings with a different 12 lovely examples of his work in The outcome of this was that the code of morals belonging to a mys- ono volume for is,
This bleakly tied story," "Futi- each tery of their own, a sinister society
Ilty," written about people living It is fantastical work. A wonder- bleakly in Russia at its bleakest be the puse.
during the revolution, test of time, which la the shifting of taste in a tween the moral codes of the V whom he calls "The Quiet Woman." and the severer
The title story, rich with nimble couple of decades (witness the sculptor Giacomo Manzu took 38-year-old .Milan Inge, and of the Aerodromas are the fancy but never whimsy, describ- substance of the book, a
struggle ing
accountable
waning of Arnold Ben- becomca nelt In 20 between good and evil in which the Invisible. "Dusky Ruth," one
the Gospel literally and carved years). of "Futility," written in the twenties naked Jesus, it put him in. storyteller becomes deeply involved. the most glamorous short stories in about a Russian family, their loves trouble
the language portraying innocent
the Catholic and their hopeless, ambitions, is not and romanile love, a casual little only preoccupied with
Church. entertain- tains almshouses for the needy as masterpiece set all in one night in ment or with Ideology. Its humour,
1a Cotswold inn.
and compassion commend it all over Constantino: "It is disgusting, pro-
Merchant Taylors were guests of the Skinners in their Hall on the Vigil of Corpus Christi, and the Skinners dined with the Merchant Taylors on the Feast of St. John the Baptist, patron saint of the Guild. This exchange of hospitality has continued to this day.
The Fresco
The conflicts which develop
well as a convalescent home, In fact, the Skinners and the Merchant Taylors are the beat of
It is interesting to note that in- friends, and a
fresco in London's dentures of apprenticeship are sign- Royal Exchange commemorates the ed still at the Merchant Taylors" memory of the reconciliation. This Hall with traditional ceremony. The fresco was paid for from the joint apprenticeship is made for a ferm funds of the two Companies.
of seven years and is open to any
is
The Merchant Taylors' Company young person over 14 and, under 21 3. Denis Compton. 4, Dulwich Hamcanser trading about 400 years ago, years of age. At the completion of Ict. 5, Dulwich won 5-2.
and in modern times the activities apprenticeship, the apprentice PLACES:-1, Nuremberg. 2. Pun of this powerful Company, are pri- admitted to the Freedom of the Com- Jab, 3. An island in the Persianmarily of a betievolent nature. The 'pany, and this honour entitles him Gulf. 4, Edinburgh. 5, Hungary. famous Merchant Taylors School is to the right to apply to become a maintained enurely by them, and a Freeman of the City of London, a DIP-1, Shanghai. 2. number LUCKY
of scholarships enable privilege that usually. 'claimed." Half, of the lotal-the Government selected students to finish their. gives a dollar for every dollar sub- studies at Oxford and Cambridge. scribed by the public. 3, United
Universitica. The Company main- and ReliabilithUsa Nations Relief Administration; Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis
tration. 4, Imported more. 5, 1,0317 NANCY. Very Simple
kilometres an hour.
Rupert and the Jumping Fish-6
Greatly puzzled by what the bird has said, Rupert returns thoughtfully: to the river. It the fish wants mu why didn't he jump when be any ine" he muzea. Then he staris9 Why, of course," he laughs. ***|-· must have frightened him because was carrying a fibing rad." Care fully hiding the rod," he sits on a little diving board and warches, Sura. enough in a few moments la ahoning' shape leaps from the water, Oh please, are you Rupert Bear?” says a tiny voice.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
NANCY --- I HAVE |A WONDERFUL SYSTEM
FOR PREDICTIN', TH*
WEATHER
REALLY?
Next Week;
THE VININERS
NOW DIS IS VERY SCIENTIFIC--- FOIST I'LL NEED A GLASS OF MILK AND A
BANANA
OKAY
a householder who
When
with
Said Milna's Archbishop Giovanni
* fane, deformed, offensive, and blas
again on rereading after many. years.
The other Gerhardi books in this phemous Christ has always been re- uniform edition are. My Sinful presented partially clothed,
and Earth, "The Memoirs, of Salan," Prtists must respect this idealisation.” 40 "Pending Heaven," Resurrection,"
and "The Folyglots."
SELECTED STORIES, by James Hanley. (Maurice Fridberg)
MR HANLEY, now years old, belongs to great traditions of writers
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I
the
> sea-yarns which run 'rom Splett ta ·Conrad and Forester,
aa harsh outspoken, rugged
Indignantly Manzu appealed, to the Pope himacli.
With his wife, seven-year-old son, and his sister, he called at the Vaiji-
cmm.
Here, then, is my parting gift to writer with lower-deck view of the Tram-Bors and Ferry-Bore: maritime affairs.
with a final admonition to avoid the Laying hands en Manzu's shoulder, Thielection
of his stories is a lurids, those wastrels of good paper
the Pope told him to dedicate his art Verate assembly of bis less which are, after all, but sorry pick-to the service of human souls and known work, and the ning tale ups with which to beguile even 'religion," and "to avoid nudes for" probably because they are not his Bore's dull hour.
nudity's sake,"
NOW 1 EAT TH DANANA' JAND DRINK
TH' MILK
BUT HOW DO YOU TELL THE WEATHER?
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, I LOOK
IN TH
NEWSPAPER
When You Feel Tired
and Restless
Ask For
ELLIOTTS
TONIC
On Sale at All Dispensarios
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GENERAL H. D. G. CRERAR, CH., DSO., CB., Toader of the Canadian Goodwill Mis-. sion to China, paid a short visit to Hongkong during the past week-ond. Picture abovo was taken at Kai Tak when his plane landed; left to right-Vico-Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, Major-Gen. G. W. E. J. Erskino, Gen. Crorar and Air Commodore 5. N.. Webster. (Right) Gen. Crerar at the Canadian Military Cemetery, Sai Wan. (Photos: Ming 'Yuen).
ROTARIANS of Hongkong. Macso and various places in China (photographed. be- low) attended the District Assembly last Sunday, hold at the Stanley residence of 'the District Governor, Dr Li Shu-fan (Photo: Ming Yuan)