The Man Who Loves Trains
By Hazel May
D
LONDON, July 21. really like the idea of her tv- TRAGEDY overtook two ing over the trece in the parks," of the crazily hunicrons. Although the file transpozi
ing the Festival rowds iz Emmet model trains at the non-ying model, the other en
Wik Festival Gardena, Londor #ires Neptuns end the Ingt week. They collider head-on and a woman was kiled.
cle-
Suzex
hote
are caples of the "crginals." (The Wild Goose was damaged beyend repair in lart work's accident).
that Those
make sure fanilliar with th
stations and the rapines were fihov Englis appearing 52 re-
with foi tul cularly in the pages of Punt rezidused
Erumel will new, Ermet trils have tal. Me and Mrs a habit of getting lod in hun.
tently forocok their
London ed bags, derailed by witches o> culinge fer broomsticks, and mis-routed Le while the Fexiyal railway was
There ghost eigen rys. Dratu did then echtructed, figure in Emmel's creations, can, then, the long and Powever, and no one will-headed Northern Kineers ting battle with a firm of gret Just week's happenin
Cho had secured the Fosilval eastraet. Not naturally. Long before the pagon of engineers were chify concern Punch eine alive in the
more than Emmel.
-
b.
ex-
the
gineering fantasy at the Fes work. And the frills and fur- tival Gardens. Holand Emaict, hari achieved for himself some thing more than a medium to make the British publie laugh.
As a schoolboy of twelve he relations by his tasemated
byjows that go with the Emmet drawings received scant allen- tion at first.
Quietly insistent, Emmet ware them out with constant pre my about 11 world complete-
The ly different to this prosale attendance at the works.
kitchen kelties, tho coal everyday universe we know; an
door knoba, the exciting. chuatle world in which scutties, the
-lurvey iron bedsteads wore nil graduni- everything Was lopsy-lurvey and upside down. As lie
design, Grew by incorporated in the
the infinite horror of the up, he
explored further and to further into this Allee-Through- Stockport mechanics. the-Looking-Glass Land. Today, he is the charming. whimsical young man, his myriad un- known funa migle!' Imugine.
Sitting in one of engine Nelle's carriages at the Festival Gardens, gathered something
of the Emme! world from Em-
met himself. It was one of the most puzzling interviews I have had. The realities Came
ever
An
eight-ton crane holsting Nelle back on the rails after the accident.
trom his delightful wife. She is his liaison officer with the more practical universe!
With the air one might expect of a Chairman of British Rail- ways explaining the operation of British transport from Tibet he intent to me the
Jama
UNE
"Never could get Me Emmet to take
ake an interest in the diesel engines,"
grumbled mechanic at the Gardens. No wonder! Emmet railways always run on steam!
When
the
icam of solid workmen British
arrived 10 build the stations, Emmet went
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1951.
Ci&
"Mies Edith; do you think we could have loss Randolph Turpin and more concentration on our Festival thomo?"
London Express. Ésemios
THE LAST WOMAN FROM PRAGUE
L
AUNCHING herself on
a new career in Lon-- don is tall, red-headed Miss Emmelyne Stuart- late, I'm Snell. "Rather afraid," she apologises. Al- though she looks younger. to some pains to explain the she declares with frankness fundamental Emmet-land.
principles
AI
first
of
the
that she was born 54 years Welbeck Street, ago - in
necesty of one of three daughters of a
Kis doctor in the
*
everything
erooked vler,
Shocked
their Iris-
Colonial ser-
She has just been thrown out tine's at of Prague, her home for, many scond Bri-years, ns "a danger to tha tish crafts-political and ecotine welfare of the State." The Czechs let manship.
But.her bring a limited quantity of her dachshund, they clothes, got used to Blacklecek of Lacence, and
£20 letter of credit. Her book it, they
and some of her furniture ar: were wo))- derful, following, but she was forbid Mrs Emmet den to take her typewriter o -told
her miniature camera.
baee
meg
In Prague, Miss Stuart-Snell
! comfortable
teaching English.
"We simply couldn't stop their mode from pulling everything on up- side down. The caterers operated by erecting the cake rands at a precarious angle.".
-ל!
il
income
She rould have kept her two roomed bachelor Bat ("centrally heated and only 235. a week"). Sald the Czechs
An English spinster defies Stalin's agents and comes home with a summing up: 'Karl Marx would turn in his grave
by EVELYN
Miss STUART-SNELL'
danger to the Cxachs
his paternal care of the Czech people. "One almost began to believe it," she said.
IRONS
for example, is easily golat El a pound. As elsewhere in Eastern Europe, strangers are compulsorily billeted in flats considered too large for their occupants,
Central Europe by being expel- led from her home in Prague as
it
a dangerous character.
found The Communists
business to get rid quite B of the Englishwoman with the nome. She double barrelled
protested at everything. She country leave the refused to until she had been to Carlsbad to take the waters.
She objected to paying a State valuer £12 to assess her chat- the Lels. She complained to British Embassy when the Comments Miss Stuart-Snell Ministry of Finance tried to tartly. "I have rend Karl-Marx. slash the list of possessions” she He would turn in his grave it intended to take with her. To he saw what modern Commu- the last, she is proud to tell, nizm has come to."
she fought for her rights as a citizen.
"I think I am the only says,
From time to time rumours
Ly round that American or Englishwoman, she British troops have landed by whose underwear has been the parachute somewhere in Czecho- subject of a letter from Mr slovakia.. This, яруз Miss Herbert Morrison to the British Stuart-Snell,
many Embassy in Prague." long for. They hope for, war as their only means of liberation rom Russian colonisation.
what
"But they themselves do nothing. Although many. Czech Communists hate Russlan do- mination and heart, they
are Titoists say it would be hopeless to resist. Police armed with tommy-guns
Newspapers? "Full of the Where: same sort of stuff. I hardly ever read them. Nor did many Czechs."
SPIES
Arc
every-
The result, of course, is a de-"All you have to do is to re- light to any humorist. There quest asylum with us" the inevitable dercllet
vecken clock, with 311 outstretched But like many English spin-
shers domiciled abroad, Mis cuckoo on the end of
Of course, there were the SLOWLY and surely Western Stuart-Snell is very, very Bri- police spies, the denunciations. from Prague. Private teaching influence has been numemt spring. the usual precarious tarwar. Bu owl beeing a rgetish. "Asylum from what. I'd the sudden
large
knockings on the of English was banned last you. affairs of Emmet Railways. notice stating that it had to be like to know? "she demanded in door in the night in the un-
stuffed owing to its habit of digantly, "I'm British. Nothing explained disappearances, the teachers must be employed in Airavdicant, las travelling In
--schools-and-Institutions, where. Nellie's fannel will make me change my na-suleldes--all the familiar provided such stis competition with
tionality. without a
ticket, and a
I think people who tures of the Iron Curtain re- they are under proper super- weirdi 10 Emmet Rallways that some collection of old iron ware. An
do that are contemptible."
visjon by political aples. answer to the drop in fares has ancient rusty bicycle hangs un- The last adjective was aimed But what of the ordinary Next term, says Miss Stuart- had to be found. Accordingly it agesun
arecuntably
will one gable, at several compatriots, includ- daily life of an Englishwoman Snell, English
not from found necessary various iron bedsteads are puting Dr Ana Rides, from Wor- in Communist Prague?
taught in schools any more. build an engine with wings, to a variety of original pur-cester Park, who sought Czech
Just German and Russian, which can take off and fly over
the station protection, last year. long stretches when required. It poses, and inside
there Bre those
has been
gime.
be
THE DRAB CITY History has been Easternized, So out she went on June 30 melancholy has the added advantage, Eme stuffed birds under glass domes
too. Children are told that the last non-Communist Ex-HEN saw her, Miss Stuart- Russia met pointed out, of being so beloved of the Victorians. Out list-woman, apart from diplo- Well was wearing a sum- Britain and America coming in
Won the
with war, adaptable to normal service as
the platform itself is an historic matic staff, to quit Prague. Now a ground engine when the de-
of printed yellow at the end to snatch the credit selection of Edwardian luggage. she is shaking out her ruffled mer dress mand for air travel slackens.
feathers in the less exotle sur- linen. She got the material from Do they belleve it? "No. They Emmet is one of the most roundings of Amersham, Bucks, a Regent Street shop last time have heard this kind of story
1948 before from the Nazis." she was in London in staying with 2 successful cartoonists in Britain where today. He was deputy art editor friend of her schooldays until "Czech women admired of of Punch from 1944 to 1048. she can get another language
teaching job.
He described the hazards
she is
And Emmet trains, as all Em- left his Birmingham Grammar 'WARMONGERS'
WOMAN
of the
WEEK
it, asked me where I got the sort of country which Em- Like his wife, Emmet was born
It," she said. "From be met trains have to pass through. and rcured in the Midlands. He
ing a well-dressed city, Prague has become drab was not
and dowdy, Dyes are the Communists must searce, TAVEN much moncy to spare for, the
and materials household furni- two boys in the family.
have found it hard to at which are shoddy, fure and equipment. No cause he was interested in art tach a political label to this in- dull brown, black and blue." that shortage of rolling stock or raw he went straight into Д com-dependent woman, who sup
met fans know,.are made most School at 14; there economically from any available mu
oddments of
materials need affect them.
and
could
discus-
at a
Be.
E
And so the machine crecks down on the who
Brush splifter
taught English, and perhaps on the alde
1 bit af history, too.
seeks a new are mostly job in London, she reflects
As she
she has come
1
poses that now she
The "little dressmaker" who long way mercial studio in Birmingham,
is home
since she began to run make up her mind used
up Buch
smurt her career
213 governusy When the Festival authorities and worked on advertising for she must approached Einmet far
"whether to be a Liberal or a frocks from Regent Street ma to the six children of a Scottish 14 years. Having to work to
Socialist." deadline
But she must have terials has now been "nation- model railway sions on a
did she dream was the mast valuable part
given them of this training.
some offence, Battersea Park, it was decided,
be alised. "Women must go instead peeress. Lillie
then that she would see · Hitler cause she did not like them to the mass-production shops however, that only two stations he says. He frequently had to
march into
into one blt, and often said so. where dresses cost about £12.
Prague and a small length of track think of an original Idea for an
There were a lot of things Clothes are still rationed in "bother with the Gestapo" and Budapest; that she would have, be reproduced. Funds advertisement and complete
she disapproved of. One was were limited. Only Far Totter- in a couple of hours.
the din of propaganda.
Prague. So are meat, sugar,
expelled from Czecho- ing and Oyster Creek
bread, four, fats and soap. Food the street.
slovakia by the Germans, that built, from drawings of
His real ambition is to paint
Fakers in
such nows as-The coupons have to be given for she would spend the second "real" stations.
terlously-one day. Не has American
meals in restaurants: There is world war in Budapest, see the capitalist war-mon- no coffee on the illon for the Nazi putsch of 1944, and near- already painted some notable gers are scattering Colorado
They ly die of starvation in the long landscapes. He exhibited in the beetles on our potato crops!" coffee-drinking Chechs. Royal Academy in 1936, and hasell as her cars were assailed. in the black market for £3 a wild day of rejoicing when the
Miss Stuart-Snell's eyes have to go without, or buy it slege of the city
01
before that another painting in the per- Huge portraits was a little difficul to repro-
of Stalin on pound,
Red Flag flow from Hungary's duce this model, and, besides, masent collection of the hoardings and walls all over Money Is the way round the Parliament Square: that she the Festival authorities didn't Birminghom, Art Gallery, " the city carried slogans about rationing system. Extra butter, would end 25 years' work in
were
the
"Of course it barely suggests the real thing." he told me. "Take Nellie, the flying engine,
for instance. They decided
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