MAN OF MILLION NAMES
For
62 yeara "Wally"
Allen has been painting the names of the famous and the obscure around the Templo and Fleet Street. Today, although he has just *celebrated his eightleth
birthday, he paints on.
Wally goes to the Temple at midday "A genlus never starts work early," he jokes. With palette and brush he Inscribes the mes et many In Trojan or white lettering.
black Roman
As a ign pointer he had painted the names of newly fledged Victorian counsel. Now. year after," he putting KC behind their nomes and even adding titten and Judgeshipa,
For the past 40 years he has worked without a holiday. The Inst one he took was at South- end.
" feel that unlera one
have a really
Hood hollday
abroad, in Switzerland or some
other place, it la
going on holding at
achay," be said,
not worth
all 11494-
LAST ON HORSEBACK
Wally uppos christchest
I
I"
30 Walter becaur many people with that name are famet Ike Sir Walter Scott and Sir Walter Raleigh" can remember many odd things. He remembers a horse work- ing at a pole in n Farrington Street potato shop turning potatora in tubs of water.
He remembers Dr Parker, a preacher at the City Temple, causing uproar with the state- "only one ment that there is true woman in every milion."
He remembers the last man to arrive at the Temple cham- bers on horseback. He was Mr Justice Grantham who, for years after everyone else, always rode to work on home. That was 40 years ago.
"I suppose in my time I must have pul up nearly 5 millon names," he said.
'JUST WANDERED IN'
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950.
LAKE
INSIDE
A HORSE-RACING
FRANCE
POSTWAR GETTING YOUNGER
By ROBERT AHIER
was onc
Paris.
percent
of
France, after 50 years of growing old faster than any nation in the world, now leads the Western world in growing young. A popu lation expert, Alfred Sauvy, director of the Institute of Demographic Studies, points out that France's birthrate, averaging 850,000 yearly for the last four years, now outstrips that of any other Western nation.
21 to 40 years of age-30 ver- needed to solve France"s | France has gained an average of 320,000 popula-population problem. Before the rent of eligibles.
41 to 60 years of age-38 per- French revolution in 1709, there
for 15cent of eligibles. old person of the namestion yearly through the sur- Among some
old young. Today there is one
Over G0-23 he has painted on the Temple plus of births over deaths.
Before the war the situation for five young. stairenze have been Lord Chief
eligibles. The average Justice Goddard, Sir Stafford was in reverse.
The fact that France still is Was €50,000
"The majority
of the voters has a political Cripps, Sir Patrick Hastings and yearly birthrate
Sauvy sald. D. M.
M. Pritt,
and France actually was losing an old natloa
implication which most people will be over 40,"
In the next "They will tend to be more mita, Sauvy sald a sinking general election, not later than conservative than the young. "France was like chip." Sauvy sald in an inter- the end of next year, the voters' "Her birthrate was Gouge will look like als: view. Until that time, if you see ti mountnched, Jovial old man low that the young generaliong with a thick crop of bristly rey were unable to replace the old hair painting names in then the life of the country.", Temple theen that
be will Wally Allen,
Mu
How did he get the job-population "I just wandered in." he sayo, "and when
comes the time
I shall Just wander out."
But even with the postwar squirt in the birthrate, mora time
HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER
Dolores Ethel Blyth, 19, and screen writer Thomas A. Fairbanks, 24, have announced their marriage in Los Angeles. The bride, who uses the family name, is the daughter of the late John Barrymore and Dolores Costello.--(Acme)
K. O. CANNON
DRAT MA. PROFILE
630,000 TO 'SELL' RAILWAY
All the 630,000 workers
British Railways
are
wanted as publicity agents to "sell" the railways to the nation.
cone!:
newly
The idea
of the editor British Railways Southern Region.
Jie
Says
trallic
from the created
"A parliament elected by old voters tends to be old itself, and the same goes for the govern- ment."
The reasons for the change in France's number one prewar problem growing old are varied, Sauvy said.
"Among them are government through subsidising of births family allowances and bonusės, the defeat of France in 1940 by
young,
German vigorous
Army, the desire for revenge,”
he said.
"An average French family used to have two children. Now the average has risen to nearly three."
Arcording to Sauvy, the hopes Magazine, for a continuation of the present trend, even though the rate of increase falls off, rest with the
of the
procent receipts continuation dropped nearly 20 millions in family allowances-government warns payments of a certain amount "We are likely to lose some-monthly for each child under 21, thing like £7 atllions in 1950." regardless of the family's finan But; he says, if all the 630,000 clal status.
1949 from
1948, and
"nude a small effort to make "Rejuvenation of a nation is Enown we could more expensive than machinery our passenger renewal," he ⚫ commented. United Press.
our facilities Increase business."
Jn
GOOD DEED FOR SCOUTS
He advises:
"Keep an eye on the day By excursion announcements. doing this you can give propie the tip when there is one to their home town."
sure
TRACK
salls Brightly-coloured characterise the boats in the centre field lake at Gulfstream Park Race
Track, in Hullendale, Forida. Some sportsmen say the boats are a diver- sion from losing at horses. -(Aeme)
EYEFUL
Although New York tele- vision actress Sandra Spence has plenty of per- sonality for the cameras to fasten upon, she also happens to be the posses. sor of considerable acting talent (Acme)
Ghosts Clad In Monks' Hoods
Ghosts clad in monks' hoods, with the power to Freezo human boings, are walking the ancient gardens or Monastery Hall at Ryo, Fred Parris, caretaker at the 14th century institution, revealed.
Is your boy a Scout? "Minke knows his scoutmaster about the very cheap fares there going to and
are for parties from camps."
New York Theatrical Drought Is Now Over
By Frederick Cook
New York.
New York may still be desperately short of water, but at least the theatrical drought is over. With the official season now in sight of its end, seven new plays have come to town, ranging from one hailed by the critics as a great masterpiece to others which, at best, are just so-so.
The "great masterpiece"
is T. S. Eliot's all-British "The Cocktail Party," which opened at the Edinburgh Festival, had # run at Brighton, failed to find a theatre in London, and was put on here by courtesy of Mr Gilbert Miller.
Fifty percent of the people who have seen they "Here seem satisfied to take the critics' word for it that they have been in on the making of a piece of dramatic history. The other 100 percent are still wondering around in a daze trying to figure out what it all meant.
'POETRY, SCIENCE'
The Broadway critics have not been much help In that direction. One of them, who claims he thinks he got the full
import of "all the brilliant line:," explatos somewhat un- easily that "Ellot must
have been reading Einstein, for he denis with human relationships in time. He must also have been reading his Bible."
The critic indicates. However, that he concludes all came right
In the end, for the result, he
RUTH ROMAN ·
Star to watch for 1950
says, is "a synthesis of poetry, way hit with Robert Morley in
selence and fatth."
My American friends worried "Edward, My Son," and who about the "anti-British' aspects "The Cocktail Party" has be- Is now among the not-to-be- of this story. They need worry come the fashionable thing to mimed top-liners of the New no more. The play is closing, 512. Whether or not that means York stage.
after eight performances, it will run long or make any "The Man," by Mel Dinelil,) "The Devil's Disciple," by money is another question.
with Dorothy Gh. A grim Bernard Shaw, with Maurien It is an odd
thought that piece about homicidal mania Evans, Marsha Hunt, Dennis when a British -Alm gives (yes, again!)---by-n- writer of
King, is the Intest play. In. patrons any mental exercise im and radio shockers. Gish Evans's project for a Young Vic. is relegated to the back streets,terrifle. General impression, In America gerally this is ono
on the ground that it is "100; brrr. .1
of Shaw's most steadily 11- hichbrow."
Elected plays,
FAMILY LIFE
But a British play that is
This is a dick and compe- highbrow is hailed as
"The a great
Happy Time,
"bytent production, if not an his- masterpiece and the American Samuel Taylor, with Claude torte one. playwrights come in for some Dauphin, Leora Dana. A funny slightly vindictive needling, Other newcomers un legitimate stage:
and somehow
and
Lilli
Shaw is now Britain's only moving account the of French-Canadian family life, dramatist with two hits in New
York-Hardwicke A welcome Joyous antidote to Pelmer are still Alling the house murder and perversion.
with "Caesar and Cleopatra." "Design for a Stained-Glass Tho sim world
"The Member of the Wed- ding," by Carson McCullers, with
by William Berney
plods along
**Tho
the magnificent negro star Ethel Window" Waters. A beautiful, sensitive and Howard Richardson, with with nothing outstanding from
Britain's Hollywood. story of an inarticulate, lonely Martha Scott. A gruczona little girl (Julie Harris), driven piece about Margaret Clitherow. Fallen Idol" and "Tight Lillo to desperation by, her brother's who died for her Catholicism in approaching marriage.
A dis-the days of Elizabeth. tinguished if not monumental plece of theatre.
LIFE AFTER DEATH
"The Enchanted," a comedy by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice Valency (who Also
Ciraudoux's adapted
The Mindwoman of Chaillot"), with Leueen MacGrath: This post- humous appearance of Girau- doux's "Intermezzo" on Broad- way is a charming whimsicality with He-after-death theme.
It does not click as firmly as The Madwoman." But it brings back the English, star who made her first big Droad-
EARLIEST EARLY BIRD
SOUGHT
Just before midnight on Saturday, May 20, a party of about 100 men and women will gather at Potters Bar railway station.
They will walk till dawn by way of North Minms and the Colne Valley,
Another party will start from Farnham, Surrey, and walk through the wooded country around Elstead, Cutt Mill Ponds and Seale, finishing up with a
Sunday morning bacon-and-egg breakfast at Aldershot.
Object to observe wild life
He said the ghosts had | Augustinian friars chapel.
Parris and his friends said There is scope, he nikls, for walked through stone walls all-the-year-round developments and had frightened away they saw seven, monks walking at night, and to hear which of in cingle le In the gardens, the birds is the earliest in the of profitable excursion traffle his emong groups of people having last few years.
dogs and cats in the and right through a stone wall dawn chorus.
len feel high
All the ramblers are keen common interests.
said they also Other people
to open "Once I went
of the inembers the naturallots, Football
and football had seen
when the hooded figures, garden fans to
gate,
I 3,000-strong Britleli Empire Na- whose to
Tiad
Association, art groups
the art Parris matches,
kept
whole stretched out my at 1 went turalists
Middlesex and Mid- galleries and countryside sketch-matter a secret for seven yeare, cold and stiff as if it had sud-North
been frozen In a re-Southern branches are organis- ing expeditions, dancing classes then a few months ago he told denly
frigerator," Parris sald.
ing the twin expeditions. to the ballet, musleal groups to a few friends about it.
Since then hundreds of per- concerts and allotment associa-
have flocked GOILS llons to Kew are examples.
The Riddle of the Red Domino
¡STILL + SUPPOSE I'D BETTER
AND HISTELIGRAMS] TELL OUR GUEST HIS HOST)
~JUST WHEN I WAS
DOING A TREAT ON
“O sole mio"...
IS ON THE WAY. PERHAPS
THIS LATEST BIT OF · NEWS WILL MAKS THE OLD FOOL AGRER HOT,
TO SQUEAL.
..SE WE
LET HIM.
"Then I looked and saw the only to the old monk looking at me from
a few feet away.”
WAKE UP, POLY! YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
VISITORS
the
UP WITH THE LARK
Sald 24-year-old shipping Parris sald it was impossible
clerk Jack Pearton, leader of to keep peis.
north-of-the-river walk: -will stay with "I'm on
entomologist In my "We have had spare time-but
thero will be all run bird specialists in the party to inad.
I have identify the or cono Away
blrd tried to keep cals but the same dawn."
"No animal
us," he said,
dogs but
they have
thing happens to them."
Bongs
at
In the Monasiczy garden The south-of-the-river ram- Parris indicated a spot where blers will be led by civil ser- wartime excavations
had been vant Peter Michael, of Alder- trenches and air shot.
made
for
year's.
shelters. raid sheet under the ground On Inst we found a row of skeletons," ramble between
he
all-night Farnham an wald. "All but one were Aldershot-the only one which standing upright, and experts was arranged-and the first said they have been burted that since the war-the earliest bird way, alive. Only ona was of all was the lark. Its song was heard from the crest of kneeling, as if in prayer.
"The Vicar took the bones Crooksbury
above as it rose awny for burlat and wald nearby meadows at 3.28 (PST), special prayers."—United Press on the morning of May 20.
JO KURT
The call set are "enthuxlassio *
Jaland" are still the talk of the town. No sign yet of an exhi- bitor Intrepid enough to tako a chance on Oliver Twist,
COMING STAR
Tipped as the coming stor for 1050 is Ruth Roman, who took a small part in "Champlon," and walked away with the pic- lure.
She has just been named by Warner's to star with Richard Tokid in "Lightning Strikes Twice."
Young male actor to watch, | Wendell Corey, who had only minor parts last year, but this year will stor with Barbara Stanwyck in "Thelma Jordon."
The New York cafe set: aro enthusiastic about a new sing- Ing star, Jo Hurt, hailed as "the American Edith Piaf.”
-(London Expresa Servics)
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