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can visitors-70,000 more Street Scene 2
THE RITZ
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expected this year than last. Tourist Board's SIR
at lunch ALEXANDER MAXWELL.urges time. Tall and haughty commis
stonaire, Home Secretary CHUTER EDE braided, signalling for a car at white-gloved, gold- to make London bright and the bottom of the steps .at beautiful by night so that they Arlington Street, mnln entrance. will not miss their home-town Elegant woman waiting at tho-
top. high-spots.
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KENNEL CLUB POLL PLOTS BRITAIN'S PET-POPULARITY CURVE
Poodles and corgis chase spaniel for top-dog title
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
Tumours that the dog was a dogs with wild wolves to im- wolf-hybrid, and therefore un- prove stamina.
safo with children.
born.
But, it took the Americans to the Amerlenns what they
really wanted. An airline com- pany made an inquiry into the Increased demand for transport to Britain,
Eight rensons given for the trip range from "people of British descont who want 10 visit their families" to other travellers who "want to English dags, antiques,"
horses,
On the middle step one of with a row of chicken's feathers London's well-known tramps,
stuck round the band of his battered bowler, toes hanging out, elaborately ragged clothes.
Deadlock: For the lady want- ed to get to her car, the floor- man did not want her to have to sidestep the tramp; the tramp obviously thought the Ritz zleps an ideal place for a siesta.
The commissionaire had to make the concession. With a grand gesture like an archdukto conferring with his lord chan- cellor, he approached the man
buy and
gently asked him to find and another place to settle. The tramp gol up, bowed and went away. The kidy came down
The sightseers "Musts" cover and got into her car. the
expected places Jiko
Somehow it seemed that only TEETH of the two animals Buckingham Palace, the Tower
Incident HANGES in dog land Kennel Club recently,
But Alsatiang and ALL are closely alike.
of Londen, and the Roosevelt in England would the
the fushions are on
obscuro have passed off without anyone the nre
Memorial--and the low-slung Welsh domestic dogs--are part-welf. WOLVES сал easily way. The five corgi and
be like "Trafalgar-square at night." raising a voice. the miniature Some scientists believed that domesticnted if captured as cubs. No one expresses a wish to go favourites-cocker spaniel, poodle.
Jackals and foxes are part- LONELY dogs forget how to inside a London night club, THE IDES of March Alsatian, wire-buired
ancestors of the dog. But new bark and begin to howl like a dine at any of our well-known fox Total registrations of reports list five good reasons wolf. terrier, peke, and Scottic pedigree pups have shumped why the dog is descended from PUPPIES and CUBS. new- all show big drops in
remain bind for the new 15,000 in 12 months the the wolf nione: registrations since last year, cocker alone has lost more.
BAMIC length of time-nino thought of publicising an aspect is the usual springtime spate of DOGS will breed with wolves days.-(London Express when each set a breed re- than 5,500-but those two
Eskimos still cross sledge vice). breeds show 'It The new challengers marked incrense. climbing steadily up the list, At eighth place the according to a popularity corgi is thrusting more
strongly poll published by the Eng- Kennel Club experts tip the frisky poodle, now lying 15th, as the outsider most likely to end the cocker's record run as top dog.
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Ups & Downs
This chari, based on Kennel Club Atatistics. shows how the populari- different ty of breeds has varied between
1013 and 1944. The numbers show the onder of In a particular year. No. I favourite in. shown as 1, second favourite as 2, and 10 on Both the coral ant TILU poofic are coming up fast, but nei thier her vrt reached the Arit
Cause
popularity of the corgi Vogue is clear-cut, The breed's natural scallywag-appeal was given D tremendous boost when the corgl became favourites of the two Princesses,
But the huinan factors behind the poodle's popularity are as vague and perhaps no emotional as the deep
15.
Alsatians to gre not introduced in- to Britain Lerzeli Army of Occupa tion troops brought them back from
Alsuce. under-currents responsible for the iriumph of the New Look Look
The spice of novelly is cer- tainly not one of them. Toy poodles have been about for
200 years, and the breed origi nated further back than written records go.
experts
WINK-HAIRED
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restaurants.
have little on the 1'e of April, May and June. And no one on this side has
Along Publishers Now there English life which tho Americans, so well protected by the first person singular. their State Department, might soon are the autoblographies of NOEL COWARD (Part 2), his- possibly come here to witness
torian Dit G. M. TREVELYAN, MIR EAMON DE VALERA SIR PHILIP GIBBS, BIR
this at engaged
M.P... moment A LAN HERBERT, Stomping up and down. this KATIILEEN BRUCE (who wan country in an "End Partition" wife of Captain Scott of the campaign. Everywhere he goes Antarctic and later of Lord: he is allowed a hall (provided Kennet).
he pays for it); If necessary ho
Among the less illustrious are-
tales of miner
tection so that he will be safe the self-told from Interruption when ho PERCY COATES and RESAT calls: "Get rid of the bond with NURI GUNETKIN, whose book Britain."
is simply titled "Autobiography
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He did not, although he la of a Turkish Girl." now technically an alien, need
come to England. THOSE sometimes terrify-
visa to
Certainly no one asked him
if.
he attended that newly famous
conference at Wroclaw. Street Scene 1
IT WAS not Piccadilly-
eircus after all that lit Arst advertising sign. sunlight, and with few
ing insights into other people's
domestic lives which come to
us by courtesy of the divorce courts illustrated once again the other day that a man's most. susceptible point is his vanity.
There was the elderly sur up the geon, a man of distinction, lv-. In the ing in suburbia, basking in his people professional eminence and the "social"status"which"he" had"en- hanced by a charming and cul- tivated bedside manner.
'Cures' from the jungle
of THE "medicine men"
West Africa say they By DON TAYLOR
Cynologists-as dop enll themselves-shrug tweedy | have a cure for the common shoulders when asked to ex-cold.
The two
plain the ups and downg of They claim another. one challengers breed popularity.
*TOY' POODLE
NANCY
HEY--- NANCY ---
IT AINT RAININ
They point to the Kennel Club'e records dating back to
for rheumatism.
Ever since the days of 1850 as proof that fashion in Livingstone, Mungo Park, Stanley, and other early ex- plorers of Africa, travellers
dogs is nickle.
They are men to whom cen- was
parerits and grandparents,
They proved very willing “10
tific serutiny."
them.
With a few ill-chosen remarks: his wife shaltered the picture.. How? Among comparative“-- strangers she talked about his lumbago.
remedies, such as-quinine, which the pharmacopoeia Owes to
Immediately the doctor, it primitive medicinal practices."
seems, is revealed As an or- In the Gold Const 1 have
the spoken to a shrewd and cynical dinary mortal, subject to young English pathologist who ordinary run of undistinguished
convinced that the "bush human ailments.
MR COMMISSIONER BUSHI- · turies-old mulcat secrets of the doctors" had many 'secrets of
ЈАМЕБ, К.С., decided that It was his ambition to discover while he sympathised--such a ugle have been confided by value to Western medicine.
sorry state of affairs did not I remember another English-constitute cruelty on the wild's
me of two of his native "boys," In keeping a dog popular. Fir- the black medicine men and teen of the top 20 breeds are their remarkable cures.
Their treatment of eczema and dying from the bite of the deadly recovered deinitely smalt. All the big
How much truth is there in erysipelas in often more success- mamba snake, who
man dogs the SL. Bernard
when the local medicine and it?
For the rst time Western ful than ours. Great Dane-are way down the medical men will know the Among other allments they treated them. list not only in meat-short answer to that question.
claim to cure are: Sterility, im- Britain but In America.
For Dr Ralph Armattoe polance, anaemia, malaria, himself Gold Coast born-haz tuberculosis, gastric ulcers,
reveal their secrets.
These records show that
moderate size undoubtedly helps have brought back tales of submit their knowledge to scien- man, a rubber planter, who told part
But the different fates of the persuaded the medicine men to leprosy, asthma, Sleeplessness, THE dificulty was, he said, en-
and the peke-bath toy pom dogs of similar size and habits -prove that no single feature is sufficient to keep a breed in favour. While the pom hun dropped since 1012 from top place to 32nd in a list of 105 recognised breeds, the peke has remained a stendy favourite.
:
with
Maybe. But it would certainly be easier for us all if there was an unwritten inw allowing that a man should hold exclusive con- versational-value rights on his own symptoms,..
with
to.
Paying the bill
MAN
speciality. end' small-pox.
tering the "doctor's" bill in act-American music-hall hyp- RALPH nolist-in-n-hurry "We certainly do not belleve the plantation accounts. Not witch doctors they can euro all of them, but For he insisted on being paid | SLATER, who can freeze people -
into immobility by talking WHEN he went back from the we must keep an open mind," in live chickens,
During the war, several tests them. Gold Coast to Britain re- says Dr Armalloc.
Men What do other authorities say were made on native remedies-
with m worry-revuo cently with 18 cases of drugs
inexpected producers ROBERT NESBITT and herbs and a lot of informa about these "cures" from the sometimes tion, much
results.
and BERNARD DELFONT (of speculation was tropical jungle?
One plant, much used in East "Latin Quarter" and the tour- aroused.
Lord Hailey's classic, "An
Africa as a medicine, provided an ing "Folles Bergero"), who fear", The collie's position
Now the doctor-he is director Alrican Survey," says:— in America-It lies third
"Not all those who praction excellent foam ingredient for fire that one of the undraped show- to the of the Lomcshie Research Centro
girls might move the merest cocker and the beagle-is large-al Londonderry-has told in the native medicine in Africa can extinguisher fluid. ly due to the
And a root, used as a poison muscle and break all the rules of magazine. "West Africa" some- be dismissed as which doctors: Influence
thing of, liis frip and his abne. Many are much respected, and bait for fishes, turned out to be about nudes.
efflelent insec- Do not, he
warha confuse it
Messrs is, Indeed, possible that a an extremely
Slater, Nesbitt, and African medicine men with the study of the herbs used by some ticide!(London Express Ser-Delfont should get together, traditional witch doctors.
of them might add to the list of vice).
(London Express Service),
Lassie, of Hollywood."
But the Alsatian is only fust recovering from 20-year-old
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