THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.
On coming
home
LONDON.
"HAT a ́ merry-go-round I
have been on since arrived in England four weeks agol
But now the gay unexpected carousal is beginning to slow down, and I am in the garden of Mr and Mrs Stanhope Joel's lovely house in Surrey.
The 011
playing King for
#
Day.
guesta nro swimming
In
the pool or strotched out dreamily
long chairs, Laughter comes from the tennis court, and
motley com- pany of dosta appear to be in favour of this
entente cor- diate.
Here comes a
Inte arrival
Porey Fender, famed cricket "ace,
fol-
jawed by cham- pagne with which to cele- brate
one
of
Stan Joel's rac- ing victories.
* AT
this moment !! is hard to be- lieve that the worst war
FF 5 by
مسلم
Mrs. Edward Hillman, formerly Lady Inverclyde
who have written to me, UFICT even stopped me in the street.
It's the green ́ hills
and orchards of
Surrey.
The stranger who said 'It's nice to seo you,'
The club whore I dancod down the stairs..
reminded me of the days when Frankie Leveson and I danced down the stairs to Ambrose's
• swee! music,
The warbler
And the Cafe de Paris!... One day, as I was walking Listening to Gentue Metaxas along Regent-street, woman, charming volee. Beat Lillie, caught my arm, smiled, and that chic pixie, warbling about sali: "It's wonderful to see you "Snoops, the Lawyer" again, June."
to Dougte Bung's deliciously
"Marvelling, I thought: "Ilow
much more wonderful for me to ace you, a stranger, and hear you call me June as if we were old friends!**
familiar paths has To walk Awakened nostalgic pleasure.... To pass the Vaudeville Theatre where once I was one of Andre Charlot's chorus-tirls, and pause before the London Pavilion, threshold of my goal, stor dom..
Old friends
and
inwdy, Enga of "Flora Mac-
donald."
And the old site of the Kit-Cat. where Sophle Turker rollicked her way into our hearts,
London!
the dark grey pile of St Martin-in-the-Fielda. where my parents were married. Students and tourists loitering on the sunny steps of the National centuries old Gallery houses in the quiet streels Chelsea.
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of
"Ronnie dear, we're on holiday so must_wo?"
Get Him
Out of This!
by ERNEST DUDLEY. The Armchair
Detective
AYFAIR window- boxes flaunting scarlet geraniums And the thrill of seeing okl
the maze of Shepherd Mar- faces... Leonard, my exuberant ket Drury Lane Theatre,
hairdresser... and expert
the "King's Evelyn Laye, her hearty s
Duke's Entrance." and "The perpetunting changed Charles B. Cochran, in stone a personal feud whose name still spell magic Siccethearts and babies under Walter Crishtami, one of my the trees of the Green Park: favourite dancing partners fat, red buses, and horse-drain Dorothy Ward, her pink and
Eros presiding with NIP CARTON, Insurance of Ed's head mutch-girl pehicles white skin as flawless as ever winged grace
Agent, is rushed down called Shan- Klin. grace over Piccadilly- Shaun Glenville, bubbling circus... the graceful sweep to Southampton to investi- over with hilarious anerdotes. of Regent-street tall "Bob-
rate the overnight dis-
Cartoon regains Snip There was Lady Carlsbrooke, bien" donating thele infallible gentle, gracious
appearance of a floating- consciousness to find that "Lizzie"
courtesy and good humour Coombes, my faithful and be clocks, clocks, everywhere, euch duck. He finds the night. he is suspended by ropes loved dresser, eighty years old contradicting the other top watchman gagged and with a steel band encircling but still bright of eye .. Lady hats, lace gowns, and pre-war bound-in, vellum.
his chest. Bridget Foulett, slender, exqul Rolls-Royces They seemed to my
bound for ก doing our best to hide the ugly site. Joan Gonde, with whom fashionable wedding koop
This novel binding to show that we are I danced as child through the box orators in Hyde Park Yet, only two days ago, my scars husband and I drove down to always here to draw nourish air raids of World War I. poppy wreaths at the foot of the prompts the shrewd Snip hind him, and he hangs two
and beauty from the and, oh so many other charne Cenotaph
barcheaded girls Carton to suspect a type
Morocco to reminders who played real-life roles in and men hurrying into tube sta from
na med feet above a enerous earth
Abre Lank you that we, too, are a part of the comedy-drama of those years ilons Cicely Courtneldge's Hashish El Dam Ed, a which is slowly filling with England no evil force can between 1910 and 1939,
uninhibited grin on huge postera destroy."
history
has
swept over this
island of ours,
for an
nimas-
phere of peace
and contentment pervades the garden.
the City to see what our matey taxi-driver whimaleally called "The wide open_spaces."
Already, in Surrey and in Kent, I had seen destruction... shells of Norman churches wolsose beils will never chime again... humble dwellings shattered and charred
twisted skeletons of hangars
but, all around, the countryside was breath-taking in its beauty.
"June
ment
"We are
Yes, even amid the ruins of
* RIGHTLY the City, grass and wild flowers have sprung up in vernai inno- England cence and faith,
.
IGHTLY, my visit to could bo entitled "Parties and Ghosts," for I have had a full measure of both.
cate metal scaffolding around bombed buildings....
His wrists are bound be
London Exmonas Merulos.
You can't sack anyone in this city
From SYDNEY SMITH
SHANGHAI, July 11. THE 3,000 Britons of the new Democratic Shang- hai arc keeping their moutha shut and their hands in their pockets.
They are sharing with 1,500 Americans, the blame for almost bverything that goes wrong in "Im- perialist reactionaries."
Since the day in May when the yellow uniformed
Com. munists shot their way into Shanghal, foreigners have been.
People's Government refuses to say when movement permils or exit
visas may bb issued. Some foreigners pro (Continued on Page 16)
a an electrically operated ex- this city-and the label acetylene flares and intri-boorish Moorish dope-pedlar. water. Ed has devised
The Moor has moored the float switch-a lath of wood plosive charge. The detona floating-dock alongside with a metal top-which the tion will certainly cure Snip Carton's feeling of tightness who canic down for Cowes tween guides until it will once again, you...GET HIM virtual priser.crs. Cowes Pler to lure the dopes rising water moves up be-
round the chest. Unless, Wee board.
..
YES, this is London, to THE welcome. I re-At the foot of St James's I told me, today and when I sall How sweet the green hills of celved in England was beyond around the corner I met Lloyd this month England, the orchards and pas my wildest dreams. a wel- George. He twinkled at me like rhythm of the
smell of tures, the flowering cottage gar- come necorded me not only by a cuperannuated cherub."
frienda denst
but by total strangers A night at the Embassy Club of stubborn continuity.
I shall miss the
astonishing sense
Snip Carton, unsuspecting, is trapped by Ed and knock- ed all of a heap by the sight
bridge two contact pieces.
When this happens the circult will be completed for
The OUT OF THISI All the clues are in the picture.
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