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WHAT AY LITTLE GENTLEMAN

By NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"Sunday Express" Humourist

When I was a little boy i was taught to raise y cup to all charwomen," an women, "even if they were people apart and not #trictly entitled to the courtesy.

harm to be It did me no A recruiting drive for the Ser-polite, it gave the charwomen vices has become urgently neces-intigh, and, as I was taught the sary it, as the Prime Minister trick by a woman, I looked upon said in a special message issued the it as part of the plot to impress the young male mind with the other day, we are to be able to iden that there was something fulfil our commitments both a special and holy about women. tional and international. The

But the plot failed. I never aim is to secure the forces re- thought so then, and I certainly quired by voluntary long-term en don't now. listments; and, though a proper

AMONG THE LATEST BOOKS

"Card Fantasies," by Edward in. cut off, except in nudden G. Love, (Exoma Press,” 158.) | flothes of memory, from what The other day in a famous has been and with the future theatrical restaurant not 1,000 į quiveringly unrevealed. So, for miles from Cambridge-circus I truth's sake, let's start out all met George Robey, who produc; over again. We are glancing eil out of his pocket three play-intently. ni those choppy ing cards--the queen of clubs, waves..

At church the day before the nine of hearts and the six of diamonds-ll fanned to ench man had been handed a. gether. He then turned the leaflet containing the reasaur- carris faco downwards and ask- ing words of the eighth verse ed. me to choose one. I did, and of the 121st Psalm. "The Ford it turned out to be a photograph|sha!! preserve thy gotag out and thy coming in from this time of beautiful lady.

No, reader, the story is not forth, and even for evermore,” leaflet a short told to show that I innch in On the same

restauranta and quotation from the Atlantic fashionable move on terms of intimacy with Charter, na to which J. M. B. great comedians. The story has has the note. "We, you see, nothing to do with egotism. It felt we owned the Atlantic is related in support of the view | Charter just a little more than that brilliant and famous peo- most mortals could claim to do,

011 the

I was also taught to precede ple exist who are fascinated by inasmuch as it wen

pens to bore me stiff-and can been written." And then hasis for success has been laid by women out of public and private card manipulation-which hap. Augusta that the charter h

so that I should he

spend a considerable part of a J.M.B.'s sense of humour puts the attractive conditions recently | vehicles,

to help the delicate

scatient being's life learning in an appearance. He realizes promulgated, it will be difficult ready

pavement or how to achieve the Giant Fan, the hilarious inappropriateness platform, to rise at their ap Sollt Fan, etc,

of the final movie flashed on to to achieve. For the Army and creatures to the Navy the present rate of enlistproach, to offer them my seat,

That there are people who the screen in the Junior Offi- meat must be multiplied by six, to listen patiently to their con-

can read with passion: "The cers' Wardroom, Alfred Hitch- and for the R.A.F. by eight.versation (it was always con pack is then quickly squared, or cock's "Lifeboat.”

as in imed, down

Waterfall! Brown's duty was to tell the figures show that better! sidered a hardship), to walk on pay and prospects have not yet the outside of the pavement.Shuffle, and on re-fanning, it will ship's company, and especially case they well under a hansom be seen that the cards are alter the men below decks, what was cruits and re-enlistments, though cab, to escort them home at any nately red and black through- going on.

time of the day or night, and

Gut the pack."

sailing into history is no reason there may well be an improve, to protect them from any pos- And: "I must give another for your sailing into the dark." ment later when the present shine sible danger, either real or im-warning-do not, if it can pos- And then follow the words: "We has been worn off civilian life.

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BY COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOOKEY CLUB

"Because you are

No risks cau, however, be: Incidentally, I was also taught silly be avoided, aritch

kifts from: fanning pack for another of a have ressed. accept taken in such a matter; and pre-never to

jdifferent kind with which you we are headed for the benche (or anybody

in the Bay of the Seine, imme sumably none will be taken. The strangers

could avoid it with courtesy), are to perform card effects." enlistments now voluntary

I promise Mr. Love I won't. diately to the east of the Cher- to give all money 1 found to

And let me say that an albare neninsula, The rest of gular forces, and any deficiener the police, and niver to tell a

lie. Tell the truth, shame the ctical guide to the expert the book describes what happen will be, and is being, made up t Devil and be damned to every-cution of Carl Pars, Cold after

There is In interlude in conscription. The more volun-body was the watchword of our and Shuffles I cannot imagine

a better book. End of review. which Brown describes a visit teers come forward, the shorter ule home,

to Ayat St. Lawrence. About conscript service under the Na-f Two results of the above in

(Hamish

Close tional Service Act will need to junctions were to offend a big- "Many A Watchful Night" by Mr. Shay

UN his skin looked be. Ia

Hamilton, 12s. Gd.)

much s if the pink and blue any case enough long-hearted baker by refusing the John Mason Brown.

John Mason Brown la a periods of Picasso had been service men to form substantial free gift of a sugary bun when cadres in Services which have he could have eaten a dozen, and

His eyes were at momenta. frosted by age.

de in New aquaintance I York. I know many fageinat- ing stories about J. M. B. but shall refrain from telling the Twopence a pint since they relate muu eri-mated nursery blue, Was Beur

exactlytical days, and would throw no were Then, and there

light upon the book which he

come so highly technical will har to cause intense amusement and famous dramatic, critic whose icîntly transferred to alabaster,

They could. however, clear cloudlessly into the most ani-

And then some of Mr. Shaw's table-talk: "Only the navy has no way of distinguishing be- tween the sane and the insane. I know this because a friend of mine once took a ship across the Bay of Biscay.

Even his

delight at a police station when to be found. Efficiency must al- arrived there to surrender a ways depend on the quality of shilling I had found in the commissioned- and non-commis-gutter. sioned officers; and if there is any fault in the new conditions it that relatively less has been offer.six policemen.

I was disillusioned, too. re- has written in his capacity as ed to the former than to other

"Many A Watchful Night" ranks. All must therefore wisharding the rule about preceda famous and popular sailor.

ing women out of vehicles to the new effort success. It is, of assist their exit. On one oc- begins on board the American course, regrettable but inevitableTcasion I tried to help a moun-battleship Augusta. It is the that the Services must compete tain of a woman out of a bus, eve of D Day and the story crew knew he was mad when he

my officiousness, opens:

crossed and recrossed the Bay with industry in these times of Thanks to

We were watching the skies five times without ever putting mas-power scarcity for the cream she slipper, tell on top of me..

ar interest unknown to in...." Then a lot about Mrs. of the nation. It is also rather and nearly crushed me flat I with

men reared in peaceful cities, Patrick Campbell. Stanley the paradoxical that a Secialist Gav was only ten.

But, apart from telling in- where weather is a week-end explorer, and Shaw himself:

We were watching the "The historic Shaw, the man of ernment should find itself com-

numerable lies of convenience, worry.

skies, and the pelled to advocate the strongest I have kept strictly to all the grey

grey, my midale years, the Shaw the " rain-speckled waves world will remember." Finally: armed forces which this country other rule, especially the one choppy,

"My actuarial expectancy is has ever had in peace-time. But about raising my cap (now hat) i around us.

And then the narrator inter-three days. to charwomen.

As a matter of no party issue is involved.. ↑

rupts himself:

fact, I may die while you are the contrary, all responsible peo

This is wrong. This sitting here. Death has no ter- ple must endorse and support the

No, past tenue is a lie. Battles are rors for me." Government in its heavy respon

not faced or fought in the past sibilities.

Men going into battle subjeertenso.

admit only one tense--the pre- "Remember the story of the sent. A suspensive present it anobby little boy who, when asked by his mother why he

BODYLINE OVERTONE

"Top

From Ralph Ingersoll's Secret Ch. 1, Page 5:

"When Rockets became a some what more real menace the code- word was changed to Bodyline, which students of cricket will re- cognise as carrying an overtone of international unfairness. "Body- American Hine Bowling" (irr

"beanball pitching") shook the British Empire when Australian stars first employed it to terrify English batters in international matches."

That, of course, was the series in which "Douglas Bradman cap tained Australia and Don Jardine captained England.

U.S. LOAN TO İFRANCE

Washington, May 28. The French and United States representatives in Washington to- day signed an agreement "extend- ing credits totalling $1,370,000,000 to France.

to And, thanks writer of a bright column in a I know after all newspaper, these years why I do it,

Ол this important she writes

did

not raise his cap to the cause she is a lady. You raise because you are a housekeeper as he passed her in your hat the drive, replied, 'But, mummy, gentleman." she is not a lady. To which his

that them char- -I see now mother answered, 'But, dear, ladies was no ladies, but what you do not raise your hat be a little gentleman I were.

Ten Blind Spots In Modern Science

Ten major "blind spota" in made by stratospher rockets and man's scientific knowledgo were super powerful telescopes. listed at the first post-war meet- ing of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

They are:

and

The

.factory.

of

to

And then the story takes up its wartime course again. This is a manly, honest, forthright and immensely. well-written book

"Death and the Dear Girls," by Jonathan Stagge (Michael Joseph, s. 6d.) There is a good deal of wit in this book. I like the school- girl who "picked up the violin of a school friend and discover- ed that she had a natural in. stinct for doing the right things with the right parts of the instrument." And I also like the American lady who spent several minutes telling Mr. Churchill how to win the war.

Yes, I like this thriller, and agree with the blurb: "Murder in the Hilton household was un- thinkable, even preposterous,"

"Later, Mr. Churchill told mo a trifle wistfully The Secret of Plant Life: Ex-

that if we periments which will throw light could have dropped my wife by the clusive problem of what parachute behind the German rakes plants grow must ba lines in 1940 we would never Scientists are i tonded. Longer Life:

main source "I have lost the Low Countriea," seeking to develop drugs and aut energy known today is the sun, very which will retard old age and whose radiation is converted by permit the rejuvenation of aenile photosynthesis to give life bodies

und minds. Degenerative plants- process science does not diseases, such as cancer, heart and understand, and cannot duplicate circulatory breakdowns, arthrilla, in

The and nephritis have yet to be can-

of Protoplasm; It is

"The Life of Jonathan. quered. Scientists believe that man known that the living cell is the

Martin." by Thoma Balaton. should be able to live for 100 to seat of life. By breaking down 150 years with all his faculties. the protoplasm scientists may ex- (Macmillan, 10a. Gd.)

Virus

Jonathan Martin began life" Conqueals: Investigators plain life and its origin. Nuclear

a pressganged sailor who have yet to discover the origin of chemistry of the living cell prom-an Infectious diseases, such as colda es to be more revealing throught

at Copenhagan and nuclear chemistry of the elements. Infantile paralyols, which are

Automatism; Automatic devices frequently attempted to desert. caused by viruses.

Healthier Personalitica: Medi- must be applied to the factory, He got religious mania, threa- The Expert and Import Bank cal research has yet to determine farm, office, and home to take over toned to shoot the Bishop of Oxford escaped from an asylum, approved the credit of $650,000, factors underlying mental ills, the burden of human drudgery.

"Mobilisation of the World's and finally set fire to York 000 besides which the agreement which take onormous tolls yearly. established a credit of $720,000,000 The relationship of physical, men- Brainpower: Means must be dis Minister, completely destroying

emotional

to in-covered to organize and integrate the fourteenth-century wood- upacts for the

the Intelligence of different purchase of surplus United tal, and

na work, the roof of the choir, the Staten property

and for good sanity must be established.

Д Exploitation of the Elements: tionalities before Kuccessful supplied to France since the end

and the arch- sixty-six stalls. There are probably half a dozen worki organisation can be estab- bishop's throng, which. next to of the war,

new chemical elements yet to be lished Science has the power to the superb windows, were the A joint statement in the name

Source should overcome the babel of languages of President Truman and Felix discovered.

conflicting customs which chief glory of the cathedral. Gouin, President of the French

and have proved a barrier to global The author is of the oninfon Government, anid: "Discuanions

that the hero of his book was are taking place for an additional

unitychological Welfare: In war- "n man of charm and souai- There is a possibility that addi- credit whereby France wi ae

unidentified time, all the skill of propaganda bility. But suppose a man of quire approximately 700,000 tons tional particles yet

all the machinery of mus^ | this kind were to got it into his communications are devoted to Duelous.

hend that a lot of fun could bo of merchant shipping, owned by may exlat within

understanding the United States Government.

Exploration of the Univeras: A mutual

amon had with Honry the Seventh's The United Staten Govern-

assist realistic study of the physical rela- widely-separated Alilea. This pay chapel or the roof of Westmins ment will continue to

and cholerical warfare must be con- Franco in acearing adequate sup- tionship of the sun, stars. plies of coal from Germany.galaxies to the earth is needed. verted into peaceful paychological ter Hall? Should we praise his

charm and sonsibility? Restor.

New renoarch will probably bo welfare...

sought for elements important to mankind, but litle used becau they are scarce.

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