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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1948.
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FROM A FISHERMAN'S HUT HE WENT
American Column By Newell Rogers
SPIES WILL BE VOTING ISSUE
New York. ȚIRUMAN'S presidential rival, Ton Dewey, plans
to go all out to the voters on the Red spy Issue, Trunian is aware of this.
T
HIS supporters have two possible counter-moves in reserve!-
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They have written the draft of a tough espionage low based in part on Britain's Official Secrets Act,
It would permit the secret service to tup private phones, They hope this would take the edge off any Dewey charges that Troma corelessly allowed spies among The civil servants.
could be
CHALLEN PIANO
APPROVED AS
"A PIANO BEYOND CRITICISM"
The British Piano of the BBC
To muffle the stare sensations of the Republican,
Un-American Activities Committee a non-partisau TWO NEW UPRIGHT MODELS commission of America's foremost citizens named to go into the whole espionage, mess calmly,
This would take the issue ont of polfties.
One name mentioned for the commission chairmati General Dwight Eisenhower.
TO LONDON'S WEST
END. ?
THEY MADE HIM A FRONT PAGE NAME. AND THEN
MET him first in London in the spring of 1927. Though he did not know it, he was then at the peek of his suvcess. The bright young people period was
at
flood, and the bright young people "had a thing" about colour ed artists.
Florence Mills and Robesen were in London. Laylog and Johnstone were at the Uife. In Grafton-street "Hutch" wan singing his nursery rhymes
series at Chez Victor, Thes Black Crow records had just arrived.
A
I was not only an arisin, but a social craze. Niz paraly was party without its lack Birds. lift was going up: any muistiarn people contrived Lisa
WILE
Lani was one of the first ones in
young, tallist, suppler with bright, bold eyes, very white teeth, and a voice that was amply adequate at a time when that kind of voice was essential, text only to every restaurateur's, but to every Hostess's success. Ele wan n bare Z3.
Two years back he had been an olscure singer it Mentrarter. I turned his hend.
He would sing his songs ofřeelly
nt some girl in the authene in such a way that his singing appeared a courtship.
On the frust appropriate Decasions he would display an ini- tilled cigarette cose, "Mary, gave me this: charming of her, cun't you think? You know her. of route: Indy Mary Rocheford. agreeable Indy."
A inost
'MY ISLAND'
At the time of our first meeting. I had just returned from the Soulls Seus My host had usked me 11 question about Tahiti. Louis Isten- ed for a minute or two, then inter- rupled; "Tahiti, yes. It's well L'im ough. But you shoult Au island, You should see St. Lucia,”
JON
I had not then been to the West Indies, and I asked him where St. Lucia was. He laugher, patronis- indy. St. Lucia, he explained, was the northern-most of the Windward Islands, within sight of Martinique.
His velce began to glow. "They call St. Lucia the pearl of the West Indies. But very Lew people ever see it," he went on. "Tọ see the real St. Lucia you should ko to my part of the Island, to the south, to Sourere."
Not only his voice was glowing but his eyes. He reminded ane of Josephine Baker: "Pai deux amours: mon pays et Paris."
"No tourist
ever goes there," he continued. "It's half u vllage- fishing village, with its small boats and its net hanging out to dry. But it's a town as well. with cobbled square by the jetty. with great banyan tree to shade it: n there's a church at the end of the main street. And it's nl! very clean and neat.
Sicc
-with-a-stung ALEC WAUGH
SWAN-SONG OF A
CROONER
it had a httle soldier in red uniform who came out and struck the hours on Hrupy,
"The square was always crowd- e with Eshermen, with pensionis coming down from the hills to ship their fruit. i had on accordion. In The evenings would sing; the boys and girls would dance."
o
He paused; his voler had taken il deeper, richer terum that explained not only his success, but the nature of his micces, I Pold understand how t verado
moments to certain people he could be irresistible. He was not only satyr, he was Pan as well,
One day I'm going to St. Lucia, told myself.
But it was 12 years before I did. And In
those 12 years
much had happened.
From that immediately world of 1938- the bright young peu- ple period of the 20's seemed cen- turies retule
Who by was on sale at 12 a qurt
der her purchased by the baille A
Trade and dreary <pot.
Ban WHIS TIN tuf attraction, He al "gone Y all right. He But probably in actual weight at wn more tha selerer justinis, but he had lost his Jean, panther look. And there is a camel-hair's
TOO MANY people are shooting their dinner instead of buying it. complains the New York State Conservation Department. worried by the appearance of State deer. Hunter, are showing them out f reason brebuse of the high cost of Lastcher, meat,
ROADCASTER
Ehner Davis D advisen Eisenhïwer to watch aut for he will be summoned before the Un-American Activites Cominiter for counselling America against hysterin over the Red spy Investiga- tions.
YOUNG Republicans are growing Dewey-type motstaches for the Presidential campaigu. LINGLAND'S man in the - street mny appear in America's first. television documentary. A catuera crew is now abroad taking shoty for "The Marshall Plun, A First
But apart from that, no, not one word in all these years. The Em- prve Grondrasts gave them their sole www of bu He sang once as fort-Report." They hope to wind up in Might He would be singing
that Britain by asking the man-in-the-
street how he likes the plan.
RUBINSTEIN, QERGE
anghat.
whose
On the mantelpleen wan a photo-D Anancial calculations in London graph, mut from the Rattlo Times and New York totalled large sums, plasterk wurdboard, "He hasn't
Is reported to have been teaching altered at all. He looks the same
Brithmetic to other prisoners in buy. I wish be could Ond Lewisburg Prison. mee girl and settle down.”
JARVESTS are so huge that ex- examined the photograph. It perts foresee the possibility of
3
comas
differance between ugliness
nt bat mauty: a milligram less, a mill dearly, It
metre more, He WAN Pan
yenis old. longer. He was a satyr, gross and heavy-fonted.
Ur could not have faced the hard Spotlights of a restaurual. Only in such a place as this, 1 t nud smoky, could he retain his glamour.
BAREFOOT BOYS
was with a
i had met him a bare half-dozen times, I half hoped that he would aut remember me. It would +1- barrass him, 1 felt, to be reminded prewar
of his days of prominence. But it
britzen
grin displaying his the row of teeth that he came across He grasped me by the hand. The craze for coloured shigers He brought bis left hand heavily had been superseded by other up my shoulder. crazes; by the craze for recentre parties parties in swimming batha, parties in anchored yachts," by the boom as far as Louis was concern- whole "Vite Bodies period. The
ed had ended.
I would sometimes wonder had happened to hlin,
whit
from
the Alle room, the
Government holding C250 must be at Just 10 millors worth of surplus wheat, maize, and tobacco a year from now, "The backbone of farm price lu- nation appears to be broken," says New York's Journal of Commerce.
out "white" and "Negro" be- ṛducated Negro mothers spell fore their small children, reporter Ray Spriale discovered during his four weeks in the south disguised Negro. "We try to let them have their childhood free of preju- dice and confusion," a mother ex- plained.
Londs had
run away at 12. the satel, sutred on French boat as rabin boy, They remembered him here as
up-account fellow, who would not work, who only cared for music. The parson's daughter used to gave him lessons. one else had noticed him,
Bul no
I looked nhout ine, missing some think. The clock: where could that have gone? A chuckle. So he told
that? The you about
clock with The soldier that beat the hours. Mix remembering, But of
Fancy
Course
he would. He'd sit and sture for minutes before th hour so as not to miss It."*
"But where is it now?" "Where it always was. The Rec- tory."
Then it wasn't yours?"
This certainty swell Why hiven't we seen you here beforet Everyone comes here now, It's nice,
"Could we afford a Block like Isn't 4 Intimate" Not like those that? Louis only went to the rector's bug, noisy places. You must bring Bible classes so that he could look yoter friends along. We
always at it. We used to say that Was have good fun here. He paused, foked round, shook his the only reason that he took music lessons from the rector's daughter." hend, "No, there's not much here tonight. But sometimes, you should
Tonight
I made inquiries. Shoulders were shrugged.
He had gone off terribly. see He was fat ani gross. Ife WAS ignored by that parl Londom Across the smoky room, he caught that for a dozen months had mate a summoning female glance. With an Idol of him.
the old arrogance, he took his leave
گردی
It was by the merest chance that I came across him a few days be- fore sailed for the West Indies, in L Sabo night club called Alcove.
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day was finished, A large miscel
aneous group was gathered in the square: there was a buzz of talk. But louder than the buzz of talk was the round of music. this?" I asked. "A wake?"
"What's She shook her head. "Only a
As I foresaw the inevitable stages' radio with a loud-speaker." by which he must drop from оне shoddy platform
another, but remember the old
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Then I remembered. The Em- pire broadcast: Louis,
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We waited, listened. The voice
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Os of blinding rain. I lanried at Cas-old, "That's My Weakness Now." at the head of the stairs a military-
St Lucia. Souffrere is looking man in a tail coat proffer only some 15 miles along the coast.
I pictured Louis, 3.000 miles away. "That's where
A small born: ing a form to the effect that you
inolor launch
I would he 10 o'clock in London.
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'NOT A WORD'
n small
the launch drew level with fee. the jetty at Souffrere a number of urchins, bare-footed,
He would resent having to se- with ragged shirts und shapeless hats,
wurk. Ile would be in rushed cepi such forward, clamorous for our bags. his ordinary day clothes.
have looked
Shabby
Twenty years earlier Louis must clothes, most likely, for he only
like that, must have needed to look smart at night. run forward just like that, touching his hat. "Your bag, sah. Douglas Fairbanks, sah, that's, me."
Here outs hd been horn: here his family had lived.
As likely as not he would be un- shaven. There would
lence In
be no 011- the studio. He would take off his coat and collar. Stand-
ing there, half-dressed, there would
His mother, I was told, had died; be nothing to distinguish him from but there was an nunt left, Ilving these cousins, of his grouped under in her sister's house. It was in a thie banyan tree.
side street: not, as Louis had told
me, ou the square. It had two'
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