PAUL HOLT
Thinking Aloud
HAD th burglar.
He apiece for them. "Give you 7s. Od.
camo to the door and rang opiece now, ald the cailer.
the bell. His head was too blg for his body, which was nently, if too tightly, elad in blue sergo. So that you had the impression of looking down at him from ten feet above.
his mad.
shoulders, thinking the man
The farmer shrugged but he struck the sale. To be hor- rified a minute later to see the man wringing the necks of the downy
tle things.
"Oh these aren't for eating." sald the TTTS. **They'ro for Dowder
Ile had a brown pressed-card- puffs. I can get fifteen bob aplece board case in his left hand and said for them."
he had come from Messrs Gluck-
berg, of Tottenham Court-rond,
to
collect the silver for replating. I
LOST LUSTRE
said he hadn't, or, rather, that THERE is a lady who continues to
hadn't maced him to, and he looked advertise: Film Star wishes dis-i
at
me with a defiant look which pose of minic coat. Nearest £800. faded to kind of despair.
Size, etc., etc..... My goodness it'
05
seeing an
old
He seemed to me as he hurried almost as sad away to be one of those burglara soldier trying to pawn his medals.
who always find the family in when they ring the bell. You know the
kind. I wonder who in opening a
toor to him now.
I
MISTINGUETT
WENT to nee Mistinguett.
I
FINDING A PARTY
MET Kerious and somewhat frightening young woman with a grievance. She says she earnestly wants to get into politles, but having Old Nick's time finding
was a sentimental Journey. The party.
1s
D
Jast time I saw this fabulous lady I asked her would it not be bet- was by the Place de l'Opern In ter to choose her party first, ond Paris. The day was Augunt
1944, and
18, then go for it, hend down, grim
and determined, but the snid no. That wouldn't do. She had tried it, and nothing happened.
Parls wan not yet 24 hourn free of the Germans.
There was a good deal of drink- ing and singing and some desultory She went to the Socialists, who rino Are. And through the revel-
thanked
her very much and asked iers there paced with dignity this
they this her to call again later, when old lady, wheeling her bicycle. Her might have a vacancy,
who
and
felt
skiri, shorter even than fashion She went to the Tories, then required, was candy-striped, thanked her very much blue, white, and red, and she wore sure she would be excited to
bandeau
and she her head,
envelopes in connection with a ball paced slowly, showing herself 10
They
were having
1
on
her fellow townsmen.
She went to the Liberals, who at
THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948.
TK ES
**If 4,298,700 tuns of coal in one week isn't a good enough excuse to celebrate and buy myself a new hat, what is?""
The Man Microscope
SPILS-
black
He stood in the witness-box, for- IR BERNARD
BURY, who investigated ever na handsome as crime is ugly. For at that time the rumour was once began to
to talk about a jumble
tall, grey, spectacled, unmistakable more unnatural death that Chevalier had been shot, Lifor, male they have in mind. Doggedly
and unshakable, with his little black Guitry and Mistinguet! were to be she asked about their policles, but than any other Englishman, notebook, always his little tried for collaboration with the they don't seem to know about had to die, of course. But that notebook. Nazis. The old lady was showing that. She thought she saw a spark he should die an unnatural In 40 years. from the Crippen herself. Any stones to be thrown, when one young girl warmly urged death himself would have been case through a cavalcade of sense- there she was. They BAW
er her to join the Young Tories. "You scorned as a possibility by any tional murders, he became the In- realised what she was doing and see," she said, "you'd give us such cheered.
I reminded her of the scene, out shc only vaguely seemed to remem- ber it, for artists live always in Ute present.
Mintingueti today has the air of
a Jolly but determined bulldog. Her bright eyes leny the
maturity."
dropped, My friend's face being but 20, but she cheered
when the lasa went on:
she
up
......5000
much better, don't you think, than being a flibbertigibbett among all those old fogies." cheerful, My friend continues to be tumbling ruin of her face. Her np. young woman in search of a party. petite far living is strictly of the
recapture inoment. Trying to
21 ONE MORE CONTROL trifle of the tremendous past, she remariced: "To love is nothing: to be loved in everything."
When pressed to confess what she loved the most in all the world, she owned up with a fair honesty, to the chop she had had for dinner the night before. How I wished then that I had Beachcomber with me.
DUPING THE DUCKS
WAS quite shocked
FASHION NOTE: When the King and Queen with Princess Margaret visited Broadcasting House the man who twiddles the knobs in the con- trol room was told to wear a dinner Jacket.
HONEYMOON couples
knowing detective-story fan. It could only have happened in real life.
How it happened, why it hap- pened, that the 70-year-old veteran of court evidence was found at 8.10 p.m. of December 17, 1947. gassed, at University College Hospital, London, is an investigation which will form part of another pathologist'a story.
fallible Witness.
causes,
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, KC, the histrionic defender of many lost again clashed again and with this matter-of-fact precisionist, Spilsbury,
But Sir Edward finally gave up. He said: "Spilsbury dispassionate intelligence who can- not be shaken."
is a mon
Case history
of
on
help
the
FOUR POWER TALKS:
ACTION NEEDED
TO END DRIFT
By ERNEST THURTLE, M.P. MPATIENCE grows at the protracted futility
of the Four Power Conferences.
The position in Austria und Germany steadily deteriorates, and more urgent than ever the question arises: how long must this period of Indecision go on?
Time, in this matter, is certainly not on the side of the Western democracies.
K
Patience is our Foreign Secretary's strong suit, and it has much merit.
But the day must now bo surely near when the Western Powers will have to cease waiting, in Micawber-liko fashion, for something to turn up in the shape of a Soviet change of front.
Alternative plans of action should be ready. We must hope they are.
Certainly public opinion in this country, and probably in the US.A. and France, has renched n point of exasperation at which action to end the present drift would be welcomed.
HATS off to the miners! In the midst of much that is disquieting, their increased output of coal is a matter for general rejoicing.
with the Murder
HE DEALT IN THE PINPOINTS OF CRIME -HIS LIFE ....... (AND END) READS LIKE A NOVEL
JOHN
by
MATHE.R
in collaboration with PERCY HOSKINS
front
It would be pleasant to believe that the miners secretary, Mr
Horner. has a sound basis for his optimistle forecast that within two years cool output will be up to the prewar level.
A
For coal, officially described year ago as the key to our economle recovery, remains in that position today.
In a drawer the other day I came across a small replica of a miner's Imp we used to wear as a symbol of sympathy with the hard-pressed coal gatherers of 20 years ago.
If abundance of coat comes again, the tiny lamps might well be sported anew as a symbol of gratitude for the nation's economic deliverance.
ABOUR is stiffening its attitude towards Communist-Inspired in- trigues within itu ranics, A
Evidence of this is the party's repudiation of the Peccant
Thirteen
Labour M.P.a to this number sent freelings to the Communist organised Socialist Unity Party in Berlin,
flouting thereby directly official policy and creating doubt in Germany as to where British Labour stands on the issue between dictator- ship and democracy.
The feeling in the party is that such members must clarify their thoughts on this fundamental matter,
If they aro for democracy,
the diabolos
да
of
the Smith. He had
bath of the neck, natural marks, cortes-- their membership of the Labour brought to court and got a nurse to ponding exactly with creases com-Party implies, they should have no wear a bathing costume.
of dealings with found monly
dictatorship. women's necks"
That
VOR
Deadlock, re- solved by the jury. Spilsbury was right. Thorne hanged...
First, take a glance through history of murder
Spilsbury as lived it-from Crippen to the Brides The nurse was to be any "Mrs But this may or may not be in the Bath, then to Armstrong, the: Smith." She lay in the lub in relevant part of the Spilsbury lawyer-polsoner; Norman Thorne, court. Spilsbury pulled her ankles Story: that half a century ago Mag- the poultry farmer; Mahon, the un sharply. The nurse's head went who dalen College, Oxford, was startled bungalow man; Rouse, of the blaz- under. volunteered to he Inoculated to to hear of an undergraduate who ing car, and Sidney Fox, who turn- track down the common cold virus had Inhaled the gas, carbon mono- ed on his mother. have helped in the success of the xide, to test its effects. experiment. It wasn't so great
Now, how he worked. Thirty-five years ago a little fel- to hear hardship. anyway. For the first Those who dined out on the full low, George Smith, started marry- from a farmer about a visitor he, fortnight: Dakdly Enc Dubyou story thought little of the
young ing had the other day.
doesn't sound at all bad. The
gent resembled
AL Giles bad.
'Regard this...
on the
that.
The paradox
JESTS AND JEERS
Not at all man's expectation of life. And now women quite legally, but-say to the ease of his ju-jutsu; and the smoking at the scene of the crime-all of the guests were.
front flour
Spilsbury stood drawing attention
by the standards of nurse's head was stander water.
And the nurse's head stayed un-
Sir Bernard was content to be a The tables may all have been re-
allow served on New Year's Eve, but not paradox. He would never but he would put on a cigarette be- fore he left it. they may belatedly murmur: "I told our time.
He would stand healthy. plek- character-squashed 11050, camel- ΝΕΛΚ MY
most you so about Bernard Spilsbury." Each wife in turn made a will in der water, too, white Spilsbury sald, checked-and talk, with macabre Overheard on Thursday: hair coat, big elgar. He asked for mornings there sits a small boy Sir Bernard died in his work-place. his favour and then died in her
"I don't like the way he netă, put- tiny-old duckling",
putrefaction.... this...." and "Hegard contrast, of "light" strapped in his pram. He holds 11 And so did many another man. For bath..
the "Regard it became a ritual, and
the contents. of the stomach.”_____ ting on airs and not speaking to two newspaper in his bands, and purses Spilsbury gave signal after signal to Home Office got interested in rituals. that."
He lived
he Got Immaculately, smartly anyone. What's then s lips it and goes: Tek-tek, tek-the judge's Black Cap with his work
So then for 15 minutes artificial sulted. Dr Spilsbury, Homa Ofen expert, be- tek. The only add thing is that he in that laboratory
eating faddily at a Hamp-haven't got?" on a hair, a thought he could show that Smith respiration had to be applied to the stead hotel, drinking two pints of "A hangover." Od. always holds 11 upside down.
might have helped his brides
beer In the morning and then no
"The ̄ firmier said he had dozen but he would not sell until they were six weeks old, cause he could then get Ts.
I FOLLOW
AND VISIT THE B.B.C.
OU must have noticed between a power station
that
telephone fashionable and
the
thing to do in London is change.
"The
ex-
control room,"
to make a tour of Broadcasting said Hallam, "Let's go
House, headquarters of B.B.C.
the in."
There are twenty-four and Queen and men and women on duty Tommy Handley, can do it, why here day and night, and shouldn't we? So, with radio writer their job is to sea that
If the King
Nicholas Hallam as escort, I suggest we start right away.
the right programmes co to the right transmitters.
The first problem is to get him They do this by putting Into the place. The King and pluga into holes like a
Queen had the red carpet
down telephone operator.
(hired for the evening), but Tommy
Handley had to use the chimney-
or so he said in his broadcast.
Sometimes they make
a mlatako and get 8
the Burmese hear a lec
bruise, or a stain.
THE
FASHION
to
nurse, who was all but drowned.
M
Spilsbury, unperturbed at missing charge of manslaugher, explained more. Life was good for him-and he strolled through it, sidestepping as the corpses,
|calmly that her condition was
that
The best man has been described
Speech is free in many lands--and much of it isn't worth any more.
allow
his
much due to shock as drowning.
Life was good, that is, until seven as the man who didn't get the girl. Smith hanged.
years ago, when in a blitz on St Then, see Spilsbury in a classic Thomas's Hospital, S.D., his son, Sherlock Holmes role, vintage 1930. Alan, newly-qualified doctor, was phone records, fade out people who You have to give them a recording "The Case of the Missing Teeth," killed. talk too long, and put in the time of a real thunderstorm.
Sir Bernard would never you like. He started to examine nips,"
the the unphysiological phrase; but his "Listeners have grown so critical woman who, in life, had been Mra heart snapped. He mourned Close to the continuity room is that if you make a round repre- Fox. She had died in a blaze at a the staff conteen. You can
have senting an airliner on the London- Margate hotel, tea and something to eat, but many Cairo route it has to be from one people reckon the best things
given on that route and not from just any get there are the racing tips given old-plane. free by the lady at the cash desk.
The concert hall where the King "The other day we had a com- and Queen saw Itma is also under- plaint because we used the noise by ground. It was built for made by an L.M.S. engine in a play
symphonies, then the about Cornwall.
@
BERNARD
B.B.C. found there wasn't
enough room for the
orchestra.
Kallam says the best
thing they ever did with
Tricky things OCCASIONALLY
can't supply authentic recordings
WO
His first
old lady's question: "Where are the
teeth?" Scotland Yard men, like Dr Wat- son, were puzzled.
Spilsbury said: "This may prove your case for you. This woman bit through
her tongue at the moment of her death--but there are teeth in her head."
The Yard men found a maid who remembered that the teeth were in a glass on a wash stand.
How could Sidney Fox's mother
meant-to-be successor.
Who shall follow?
little
Chivalry is the attitude a man adopis towards d woman who will Usten to him.
*
When his hands were crippled by
The man in the dinner jacket wan but arthritis he gave up golf, yes,
walking along with one foot on the sidewalk and the other in the gutter. he went on writing in his
The policeman followed him for black notebook.
Pathologists agree that no
there is two blocks, and then said: "Come much talent in their craft-but
no along now, and I'll help you home. one would care to nominate a suc- You're drunk. cessor to the man who spalt destiny "Thank God!" said the other, "T for two generations of wrongdoers. thought I was a cripplo.".
the hall was to turn it and then we have to make them up. walk across the room and put her Into a dormitory during The other day a producer wanted teeth in a gloss when they were in the war. The artists and the noise made by a horse walking her mouth when she died? minor officials slept in the upstairs and falling Into a bath,
Silney Fox couldn't say. He was stalls and the big shots in Another one we were asked for was hanged." the gallery.
the clanging of the Gates of Hell. We clanged an ordinary gate From the basement we took a lift to the top amplified the echo. floor and worked dur
as
"Bird noises
and
tricky
A classic clash
This beats the record of a couple wrong, number and then WICKSTEED went Somewhere on the effects to use because you have to There was Dr R. M. Bronte,
Peeping Toms
ANOTHER Way in which Broad- after their
D
Overheard
SAW
on
1
The
for
Ini
way
are: rather
But there were other pathologists.
of Inds in the Home Guard, who 'ture In Spanish or the
sixth they were rehearsing know all about their songs at dif-example. And the biggest clash penetrated the defences during the Arabs one in Yiddish. Occasionally ment with Fear" series. Later
a piece for the "Appoint- ferent seasons. It would never do Spilsbury's career was with Bronte to use the nightingale in Septem-In the Nonnan Thorne case of 1925. war with forged panses, one signed they plug in to a studio that is not that night I heard it at home and ber or the mating call of a robin in Here the crucial question of hang- "Baldwin" and the other "Hitler."
Hallam and I got genuine passes been switched off some odd things ing, but looked at through a peep-
in use, and if the microphone hasn't it sounded most creepy and thrill- December."
fhg depended on a piece of rope.
The defence, was that the girl from the duty officer, who works a get out on the air..
Most people think they are doing had hanged herself. The prosecu 24-hour shift and deals with fires,
hole it seemed rather ridiculous. A burat pipes and lunatics, just like
irl who was supposed to be in the well If they have a couple of hun- tion cold that she was not hanged "orderly dog" in the Army.
condemned cell and due to
bo dred gramophone records, but Mr at all. She was otherwise murder- executed in a couple of minutes was George has charge of 30,000. Even cd. NOT long ago some, fellows were wearing a smart little hat and high-stocks. Counting those they make men crossed purposes:
- this is nothing. to the total B.B.C.
Hear, for a moment, how these having a qulet game of bridge heeled shoes.
programme and
themselves and those they buy they halt
DR BRONTE: "I saw two marks casting House is like the Army why the so-and-sa didn't you play George," "I know that chap," said picked up on our way round.
England heard one of them *say: On some
floor lower down we have a quarter of a million.
upon the neck; small lines, three- door marked "Brian
Here are some more statistiese behind the angle of the jaw on the
eightht is in its lack of privacy. It is
on inch apart, running regular paradise for Peeping Toms,
the king?" because half the doors have little
so far on the Hallan, "Used to play Rugger for B.B.C. broadcast In 24 different left side and not quite Another time a cleaner, imagin- Ulster. Wonder what he's up
side. Class peepholes,
Ing himself alone because he was in now." Hallam and I neeped through one an empty studio, addressed several with the word "Private" on it, ond million people as follows: "Here I saw two elderly gentlemen reading am changing the flowers and this
"They are consistent with pres- script, aid Hallam.
to a girl. "Audition, is Bert changing them."
sure... probably,
was no peephole in
...... They are quite consis- his "We do not another we saw a pro- Zhrough
To keep up this service as well as tent with pressure by a rope. mis- THERE tessor talking about sonnets on the inken," said the man in charge, "but him. "Sound effects," said Mr George. B.B.C. uso 91 transmitters. In 1948. that effect...
door, so we went in and asked the three programmes at home the "A ropo could certainly produce Third Programme, and in a third you are not really safe
anywhere "You want there
noise and we have it. there was an average of 44 transmia- SPILSBURY: "I made a thorough In this building.” nothing but rows of 'cellas.
We've got authentic records here of sions an hour all round the clock search of the neck, because of Our next peop was at the con- 3,000 different noises from a, beetie, from January to December 305,002 suggestion that the woman had died Broadcasting House bas. 12 floors, tinuity man
Eight Pro to a V2. and rather like an leeberg. There remine.
by hanging. transmitter hours altogether. technical
"There was no sign of any sort or kind of damage rosulting from at- templed hanging or actual hanging,
-“There were two distinct creuses. or marks running across the front
Д
WOS
make many
on the
"This is the
Noise critics
to European languages. At every hour After microscopical examination, i
of the day and night people some- I where are balná given the II.B.C,
ascribe these grooves or ceases as nows South America, West Africa, due to injury. Australia, the Far East, or Russia.
la almost as much below the ground hitch department," he said. "It "You Jiave to be very careful And do they get a shock when as above it, and somewhere about anything gocs wrong I have to about background noises now, you their electricity bill:comes in. In the level of the Bakerloo wo poop- apologise. I also give gale warn- know. It is no good just beating a 1040 they used 120,000,000 units, ed Into a room that looked a cross ings, all up intervals with gromo- sheet of fin and calling it thunder, and it cost them £378,000.
the
DAVID LANGDON CARTOON
VICTORIA
DOVER-CALAIS
There ain't no Scarlet Pimpernels to get you out of France
these days, y'know...