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Barbara BRITTON In 1947
Brian DONLEVY “VERGINIAN“ · TECHNICOLOR .
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1947.
Hello Again!
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BRUSSELS.
on A
HE first fighting English- in the man I saw was great squaro in front of the Gare du Nord. There was a commotion. Seated great pile of newspapers in the with back of a sporting car loud-speakers sat a half-naked man in the sunshine, blood pouring from his arm. He was bowing to the excited crowd- which bravoed him heartily.
It seemed that he was one of the bravest bicyclists of the great Tour de France race and he had only that minute fallen from his bicycle. He was the hero of the day.
☆ ★
AT the back of the crowd, tip- tooing to see what was going on, was my fighting English man. He did not seem to resent it in the least that he was ignored, unnoticed and in deed quite skilfully shouldered out of the way.
Being but 18, he probably did not know that only two years und a few months ago a lad like him, wearing the same
would uniform,
have been chaired skyhigh through this sanie square, mauled, tousled and properly branded with lip-
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: In 19, one English pound noto Dought 225 francs on the black market.
Today the value of
the
pound has dropped to 120, official rate still being 170. 1941: Players and Gold Finke sold for 60 francs a packel In the street. Price in the shops 1944: A cup today, 18 tranca. of coffee was cheap at £l Price now about la. Gd.
sticks and finally made the guest of honour of the evening at the house of the finest countess in town.
PAUL HOLT (but this time not in khaki) revisits a scono which holds memories for thousands of Forcos, men and women.
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
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TO BRUSSELS,
Those little
cafés seem so quiet
last
Perhaps that in for the re-that first of all I enjoyed the sight sive began. It was so discreet here son that when, in 1944, those of Constant Lambert descending into a throne plotter could have brewed
the orchestra through a clout of all his wickedness in peace. cheerful young buccaneers of team like a pantomima demon Now the ground floor stands open the Second British Army, the The cats were so wet the troops to all comers and lobster is n bound Desert Rats, the 51st Highland were asked to sit on their maes and a go. Division and those coming after greatcoats. Finally, in the
scene of the ballet Rake's Progress, them entered the city, Brussels Robert Helpman sprawled af became by the fury of her ex- maked on the stage for so long that citement the centre of the he began to shiver in time with the world-a great capital city musle. freed to enjoy her gusto and her dignity again.
Now it has gone, the glamour and the glory, and her streets no longer signpost the way to world victory.
Brussels has slipped back again to be what she was before
town for the middle-agra, the prosperous and the cautious.
THE HOLIDAYMAKER with In his pockets could buy to- day: Two pairs nylon stockings.
One teddy bear, 10. one doll, 10s.: one lace collar, 139.1 one pretty nightdress, £1'2s. 6d.; one plastlo cigarette case; is.
jlb. liqueur chocolates 15s.: 21b. bananas, 24.
It is as if Leeds had been made backstage viren a revue tried to co- Hore, too, there was such a row the capital of England but people star Noel Coward, Josephine Baker, had forgotten about it. So the Frances Day, Wil Hoy, Bobby younger brother of the berior Howes and Geraldo, that somebody a city that irled to organise clapping to drown
wanders now through has turned in on itself.
These are some of the things he SCCs:-
the team.
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The roly-poly Belgian girls who
AST night I walked up the stresl Lof Vegetable Soup and also tho Avenue used to swing along Adolf Max and round the Place de Cabbage-street near by, for it was MOTO enthusiastle Brouckere with the tough young here that twe men of the 15th Sottish, or the would gather late at night in search adventurers of our ForeRS mournful, romantic singers of thu 53rd Welsh, now saunter with their of trouble. There was a cat making in a noise but meaning no trouble at own kind-voluble young men bright sports shirts and long sports
cl. Jackets. The girls still wear their Ittle blouses and their short billow- Those were the days not so ing skirts and they clip-clop along very long ago when it was the on wooden wedge-heel sandala. On
the Anest day-they will carry long fashion for the great ladies of handled cotton umbrellas. (They Brussels to ape an English still keep the talent to pout without accent. Now the liberation looking at all cross). fever has gone down quite naturally and in its place the people of Brussels have grown into an absorption of their own affairs which is almost menac ing in its intensity.
The odd thing is that the citizens did not seem altogether contented with their regained domestic outlook.
S
At the Astorin Hatej substantial business men from Lille and Licke potted palins, Once this same palm now tulk quietly in the room of the lounge saw on Alamein night in 2044 Monty's senior commanders mount ing Sạch other's shoulders and jousting with potted palms for The Montgomery Club
lances. Es now offeos Army Welfare sells luxury bedroom fumTure.
Ensi Cinema
(where the troops saw "Henry V." and heartly deliked it) now ad- vertises drama starring that great Japanese actor in grandmother's days Sessue Hayakawal.
The last time I visited Garrison Theatre it was so bitterly cold that the pipes cracked and burst.
So
Down by the murket and the tiny greysound track In the
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YOU see, it is all dull now. I you
From the
POCKET CARTOON
byÖSBERT LANCASTER
"When the Goverdinens redd this leader, Crossfoot, they'll realise this fe is going to take 'more than”, d ́royal. {"ebininlitión "td" Preverit ̧ MB |
speaking my mind!“
BY THE
WAY.
by Beachcomber
THE Ministry of Food seems
to be worrying about the exact moment a new potato be-
remember one right Frances Day was singing to the troops and she threw a rose to Monty, who was sitting in the front row. back there came one roaring voice, "Now. lads, take your mincers off that dame she is the governor's comes passo and cannot be sold as a new potato. This reminds ficonic."
theatre now offers Tino Rossi us of an experience we once had £11
"Destiny."
as a reporter on the old Argus. Tuf- the But
quietest and dulles! We were sent to interview one places in town these days are the little navement cafes. Their shtives of the midgets belonging to a are stacked high still with lemon local circus to get his views on
in and Angostura, and Halg and Sunday closing. Hog, and Martell. with Bols Schiedamm,
and
peker dice for the rounds
Here, the young offlcers threw and prretsed their French with hostesses who sometimes from force of habit used a word of German.
Now nobly comes. The Four Yews. The Nuts and The Merry arc empty.
THICK STEAKB can be had In most restaurants where the pries of a theat for two with wine is about £4—but butchers' shops are closed, carry notices promising fresh
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or pressed " tomorrow." Soms
butchers carry propaganda leaflels stuck on their windows blaring the Government for Allowing all the meat to go the black market. 10 1944 favourite Brussels drink was a How Coca- light beer. It is Cola.
There are still some troops here, Rue des however. They keep themselves Halles at No. 23 there is a glass and quelly to two requisitioned hotels, tron door with a bell. It used to where haversack rations are pro be that you rang twice, took a vided for those in transit and the small and desperate lift two fights charge is a very few francs a day. up, and there ate with the Guards.
There, also, we used to eat with Monty's chief of staff, General Fred- die de Guingand, before cuch offen-
"CORRECTLY ENGLISH
AS SHE IS SPOKE
HANGHAI is one city where
"
BY
Eddie Crighton
་་་་
I am too
students may be found who have gone through courses in Business English, Basic English and "Correctly English."
in 100 already overloaded: "Correctly English Days" is the name of a manual tired to hyke this evening." that appeared on Shanghai book "Fat and thin" refers to the stands some years back. It is comedians, Laurel and Hardy. sometimes hard to realise that
In the 'glossary', the book de "Correctly English" is offered in fines "hyke" as a short walk.
all seriousness.
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TRAVELLED. out this afternoon on the famous road 240 UP, which carded from Brussels onwards the haversack rations of victory.
We knocked on his hotel room dote and it was operied by, a' great hulk of a fellow who toothed over us like the Albert Hall on a foggy we said, "we night. "Sorry,
tho Smallest thought "Tinkerbell, Midget in the World, ved here.”
"That's me all right," he 'boomed. "I'm just taking a day of." Perhaps that may throw light on the problem.
Bubble, bubble
some
QUPERSTITION and old wives,
SUP
point
teles are hampering health and education, says a member of Par- liament. We would like to
much there la for ton out that superstition practised in the Housea of Parliament, too,
Lots of people have recently re- marked on the wreath of garlic, seen hanging over the door of the "Ayes" lobby, which was put up by a member in the belief that it was a certain cure for Tarles,
Remember, too, the scene when a certain M, P. got the NFS.in ran a Rule ditch full of water in front of the back benchers because his old mum had told him that in- cross running dependents couldn't water.
Museum piece
THE girl who got her foot caught
in a mantrap while visiting a museum reminds us what a dangerous plecs a museum can be. We member once being severely bitten The famous roud to Louvain-isby0uffed fish during a lunch hour at the Natural History Museum. crowded like Brussels with fantastic Feeling that we wanted cheering up. American cars the Idnd that look
quick visit to
like whales with their tocmails we decided to pay a painted. No potholes. carriers
tank Fia No
the Glant M Model of the Common
We do
popped our packet of or convoys. No detours sandwiches into the open mouth of
No arrows,
a nearby stuffed fish for safety.
Imagine our surprise
when on
The wheat looks good. The ugly little houses are getting a lick of returning, we reached inside the paint. This is normally, and the beast to find them game. We were "Correctly English" not only ap- normal is dull. An old friend was even
when the more surprised pears newspaper columns in explaining to me. Mais, mon aml, creature (It happened to be a Shanghal; it appears ulso In ad- c'est la paix.* vertising literature.
He begrudged the calm. To him, gurnel) closed its jaws with a shap,
not missing, us by inches. as to 100,000 fighting Engilshmen, It appeared that the fish had been manufacturer describes hls Brussels will always be the city of presented by a member of the Fish' vialment as one that will "remove glorious revelry, a jelly town of Lovers Society who could not bring ali blemishes and making the face hugest generosity, a home from himself to kill and stuff the kindly shine like ordinary."
home. It for Christmas Day itself;
A few weeks ago, a reader com- plained in a letter to the Shanghal Evening Post that he missed the "coloured funs" that used to appear before the war. He referred to the coloured comics.
Applicants for jobs have lacen A letter to the editor in & known to use "Correctly Engilsh" For example, when meeting a morning newspaper must have in this manner: friend, the book says, the proper been written by a student of greeting is "Halloo." The book "Correctly English." He says:-- cd.".
describes a conversation between two friends who have just met:
"Halloo, Mr Chem."
"Halloo, Mr Wang."
"t was one evening at a restaur-
and
I was suddenly disemploy-
May I have an interview ant on the former Avenue Joffro to with you, facial to facial, so we can
understand each other belter.. taste the Russian culinary found to my deepest regret that a fly of the most, sanguinary character happened to, dance all the time on the mouth of a half-emptied beer.
as if of indescribable
"Shall we gono to a movie, bottle dine, or just have a short lish.
·hyke?".
"I translated into · Chinese the Wrath of Grapes..
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I will perform all the works for you....even the mental works if necessary..
And this is where these examples
the case of allowing flies to enter room where guests are "No thank you, I foar to gathered to take their luncheon can of "Correctly English had better
bo..excused for the simple stop. guffaw loudly at the fat and never
A few more examples and .11 reason that flies are vermin, the will have you speaking "Correctly thin, while as for dining, I am bitterest enemy of mankind English" too--Associated Press
NANCY A Sixth Sense
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