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day within the next few months 12,000 families

are.

to be asked to give details

of every item of household expenditure over a year to

help the Government com-

Fence....

pile a new cost-of-living in- NATHANIEL GUBBINS

dex,

If they call at the Sea Nest, they are likely to see a few sur- prise items.

Apart from the enormous ex- penditure on cigarettes and tobacco, there will be hundreds

Not with a bellyful of fish and chips, buns, coffee, and winkles.

Well, what about walkin'

# orf in the rain? We got macintoshes.

We can walk about in the rain

of items under the hending in Camberwell. Why should "Entertainment,” which

will pay money to do it 'ere?·

disguise hospitality dispensed in 'ow taverns, quick once swal- Cowod round the corner before lunch, and a final in the lounge before

steamed bake facing again in the dining-room.

As your Uncle Nat is a sucker

1

Oh, well. It's not long now before we can go back to the room and got a bit of sleep.. Sleep? With you seratchin your sun blisters all night?

And you scratchin' ` your knat-biter?

1 don't scratch no more than you,

Yes, you do.

for palent foods, and medicines, Oh, shut up.

chiefly because he believes the

Irttic booklets inside the pac--

·kages make the most fascinating reading in the English language,

Shut up yourtell..

might consider caling some

csok them.

MATADOR

They call him the bravest youth in Spain

ALENCIA, on the The band played, and the Mediterranean coast matadors, having crosscil of Spain, is normally themselves, entered the a cramped and fetid indus- ring. trial town, but last week it became the centre of a pil-

grimage.

This was my first view of Litri-a

gnome-like boy, withdrawn and old-looking,

Valencia's deafening an- with sad eyes and straw.

nual fair erupts every sum- thin calves.

mer, but last week the ex-

citement was sharper, be-

Dominguin was there,

cause the bravest youth in too, tall and preciously smil

Spain, the 20-year-old mata. ing.

'He was awarded the

dor. Miguel Baez Litri, was car of his first bull.

to appear three times in the

Soon after that Litri was

bullring for the purpose of gored. With back proudly ruling and then killing six arched like a bow, he was fighting bulls.

completing some passes with an untouched, high-horned Manolete, probably the bull; jolted once to the greatest Spanish national ground, ho hnd viciously at- hero since the Cid, died in tacked the bullring ätten- the 1047 after being gored in dant who leapt over the bullring at Linares. barrier to help him up, Ho Since then, there have finished the series of passes, been two great matadors on sculptured with a filck of the horizon: first, Domin- the cape, and walked away guin, handsome, gentle and for his applause. known as "the of Profes-

the fat ones if we knew how to sor," and more

recently the

stormy and

The British altitude towards foreign affairs (apart from the transfixing art

Metal attitude) depends on

foreigners which breed of popular with us at the moment.

is

our

of Litri. Both

by Kenneth

TY NAN

At this polni the bull charged; *piercing him ..twice on the inner side of h's

left thigh. . He

was carried from

the ring. Do-

were to fight at the Valen- minguin killed his bull for him, while the bats that infest that cian fair.

part of Spain began to whisper and scutter in the smoky air..

The people of Valencia treat Litri as a son; he was born near by in Gandia, and

LUCK? NO

You might say we have the fame atitude towards. tavourite animal, the dog. Some The British attitude towards breeds are popular for a while, foreigners is the same as the British attitude towards animals. breed, e discarded for another he graduated from novice to THOUGH he had his first full matador in their bull-formal bullfight only In there is alrendy a sub- Both are regarded as amusing

a week 1940, As an example, when the ring last October, but inferior creatures to be Japanese were on our side in the after his twentieth birth. tantal 1terature about Life;. and I went to see him at his treated kindly but firmly so long Kaiser's war, they were

"the day.

hotel next morning feeling as as they behave themselves,

dear tle Japs."

much cheated as sympathetic. When they

Hitler's were ch

I was wondering whether he still be unconscious, side in the last war, they were THEY call him "el atomico would

Litri" because he is when he passed me on the "ittle yellow baskets."

stairs, calm and kempt, wear- inga gabardine sult a size too large, for him.

are

£3 A SEAT

his

Me"

he said,

With a few exceptions, The

A little while ago you were a tiny, and they revere British are incapable of hating animals. They are also incapable popular breed over here. Since valour: Litri makes his bulle

Of course he had recovered, then you have gone out of charge closer to his body, of haling foreigners...

fashion. But we don't dislike you more repeatedly and perit he said, and of course he would But in Brilala some animals any more than we could dislike

fight again that afternoon. "I His life is like tightrope switch off like a motor when more popular than others, unhappy performing dogs who ously, than anyone alive. have exchanged one circus mas-

the horn gets just as some foreigners are more

icr for another.

walking, with the difference

sitting with hands clasped popular than others.

At the moment, foreigners that, though one tightrope between his knees and looking For instance, there are some have an advantage over dogs so is much like another, no bull unwinkingly at them. "You can animals we stroke and some we far as we are concerned. Where is like any other bull. Ex- tell how far it will go in, you ent and some, as I have already us dogs are allowed only twe here will also be hundreds of For the Russians pointed out, we both stroke and bites at us before they are shot, cept, of course, that they are can guess to a centimetre. Yes- foreigners are allowed any num- all bred to fight and to weigh terday was a scratch. You feel it, you switch off, and when 'tema under the heading

you switch on again there is "Chemist."

At the same, den'! Imagine: HERE is another chance for troke popular foreigners, unless this will go on indefinitely.

I went to Litri's first no pain." "There will be tailors' blits for Pravda to publish their Un- sex rears its ugly head.

manager joined us, pros- Fond as we are of both, history fight at the fair. The bull-

plump: a manager patching his ancient tweed jac- cle Nat's version of the British ket, Moth's

shows that when we decide that ring is not cheap: a front perously Relish, and his way of life. This time explaining Nor "Is a custom to eat un either dogs or foreigners have row seat now costs 300 cives 20 percent of his

earnings, and fighter's

Litri flonnel famous grey

our attitude towards foreigners popular foreigners, though if gone mad we destroy them, trousers, Legs, laundry bills and foreign affairs.

100,000 the meat shoriage gels worse we Elephant's

pesetas almost £1,000 every afternoon he which are now as high as food.

fights. "Yesterday was unlucky bills, the biggest newspaper ac-

I said. "In Spanish," said the count in East Kent, and money

manager, "there is no word for spent in stamps writing at least

luck. It is the same word for three letters à week to the

Tuck and destiny." income-tax inspector.

An item likely to shake the cost-of-living experts will come under the heading "Loille the Cat and Friends."

Lokie is one of the best-known hostesses in the county. She not only gives lavish lunch and dla- ner parties, but has revived the old English custom of entertain- ing guests to breakfast..

T

cal,

·

ber,

But it is not a custom here to

EVELYN WEBBER, is Now

That fabulous

NEW YORK. TELEVISION was 'steal-

America's ing

radio listeners and the 21 vice- presidents at the National Broadcasting Company in New York were worried.

What's more, most of the

As a result, fish is sometimes company's top radio stars:- bought two or three times a day, had just gone to a rival net-

and extra milk has been ordered. work.

The strangest item of all will |

be "Pusry Powders for Lottle."

first

"What we need," said one:

young vice-pres dent, "is n

FALLULAH

A packel of these pep powders colossal show. With the was bought after she went to her

party next door, ate 12 biggest names in show busi prawns and reeled home at mid-ness. Hended by a star sử' nigh; with the bleecughs,

brilliant as not to be out. shone by any of them."

Torrid Tallulah and her tuba well; dahling," voice has turned out to be far Bankhead tells more than just an M.C. to the She is being acclaimed "that could only show.

here is the greatest addition to radio since the loudspeakers

Happy holiday

""AL Some seaside resorta visitors are given bed and -'breakfast, have, all other meals out and are not allowed back in 'their room till 9 pm, even if

It's rašting "Sulfoliday report.

WE'VE ad our 'igh tea and

rainin'. What are you goin' to do now? Shall we

love some more coffee and buna? More buna? What do you think I am? A polar bear?

Well, let's love some more winkles, then. I'm blowed out with winkles, mussels, and cockite.

"And, Tallulah you now, be me,"

TERRIFIC

Tickets

to

the

around half a ton.

(London Express Service) pesetas-nearly £3.

York. ATTENDS IT 'LIVE'-

Tallulah

show

September 10 with a broadenst from Ethel Barrymore and Bing from London. The entire pro- Crosby to Margaret Truman or duction team is going over. Joan Davis),

His

rets

L

brown

'AN INSECT' ITRI looked at neither of us; in his docile, tobacco- face, with Its huge gipsy. nose, you could find no hint of the explosive pride. he feels in the presence of bullk To Judy Garland Tallulah | Wih them he wil shout, stamp, challenge and commune: without them he says little, and that quietly, with the smallest

He prefers large bulls, "be

sold, "hey cause then," he cannot see me-they think I am an Insect, I have to grow as I fight them, and that is the pleasure."

Comedy predominates in the Big Show. Though Tallulah is said: "I hear you were in Lon- always introduced as "glamor don recently and appeared in ous and unpredictable," her age variety at some fantastic Ogure. (49) and status (single) are the I was there, you know.” butt of many jokes.

n

Cracked Judy: "Yes, I read There is an orchestra of 44 and about a fantastic Agure who was

chorus of 16. And there is there." usually опе serious dramatic pirerentation and monologus every week (Tallulah in "Pri- vato Lives," Gary Cooper in #Farewell to Arms").

Sample highlights:—

my

NINE O'CLOCK

of shrugs.

He has no rivalries, not even with Dominguin, and when I asked which of his contem- And, then Fred Allen was be- poraries he most admired, he Fuid: "I am only a judge, of ing Installed as the new man-bulls. The public is the judge

"I've just been to Hollywood," uger. at Robert Cummings of fighters,"

Allen: "Pictures?” Cummings: "Please, Allen. No intensity of feeling between defentist falk.

Closing the programme, for

mare befort,

secń

announces Tallulah. "Scene of thema,

"He is too brave," the hall former triumphs......of.

remarked to me as porter Cummings: "This theatre Haslett, "He will not see thirty." course, they are all married now

That afternoon, in, the flest of but, if they wanted to get the finest marquco, the finest

to lobby, the finest orchestra, the his two bulls, Litri fought one married, why did they go

finest... strangers?

of the

greatest bullights in the history of the Valencian ring. "And competition round

Such gravity, such

bee-line Hollywood, dahlings, is fierce. 3,000-scal You walk into a restaurant. The theatre from which the show is giris all look so young! Any- broadcast are harder to get than thing to attract attention." Terrine Tallulah was right for any Broadway show. She inaugurated "The Big Show" a year ago. Now she is.

Listeners make a point winning practically n one applauding Tallulah's deadpan woman battle against television delivery of the show's adult "Personally, dahling, I deleat wisecracks, Particularly her "television").

nastery of the deadly squelch,

Tallulah has thanks for them. She is either insulted (com

She is being gladly alded by c's - go to the pitchurs, comedian Fred Allen who dis

ilikes it even more: ("They call plichurs, pitchurs.

of

·STAR GUESTS

Tallulah is the girl at the party in her show who always ends up winding the gramo phone.

and bull, I have never and neither, had the summer, Tallulah got advice the crowd. With, the red cloth

and sword he was

tremendous, from Fred Allen, most adult" of | H

like a revolving door, America's radio comedians, how shoring the bull through him, to report for unemployment in-That day he dominated, with surance pay, at nine o'clock.....stliches

-In- his thigh and no Tallulah "I can't get such a ghostly hour-hing in the evening! Really!"

Fred: “No, no, it's nine o'clock

morning

Cup at o'clock

one stroke

and

the

fear

killed He was awarded bolh talf and 'aïboof.

of course. "For your thousands megis Groucho Marx, her blind in the of letters, dahlings...I've read date for the evening, Tallulah: "Fred, are you try-hin wristwork, by the straightj

the bus alnk I'm a polar bear, television, home entertainment every one of them. Bellove me a girl? What's the matter...

the covered part,

Wa been on that'

That pler enough hour-chd-a-half i cavalcade of the vice-presiden

the

A

I saw him afterwards, when admirers were explaining how much they had been moved by:

lino along whích" "hó Ing to tell me there's a nine plunging o'clock in the morning too killed, by his firm and clean (footwork *** MILAGE YOU

Cothen

But, as Tallulah puts it: molled work these things Baylor:Bab, darling, 33° was some talk of my taking the

have conviction that

First, you then you think I'm a millionaire, because no one would leave when I say in all sincerity girls gone out of style now?").

The piers only, threepence. home to see it”),

(pause)...) I don't know how: Or mistaken for somebody else And it don't cop no

they allow, stuf like that in the (Rex Harrison shaking the band Tallulah's Big Show is any mail:"

band lender and too are

Box Guests on the Big Show get rumgnars I went to NBC and Let's perfect Quit, the tono be about: £900 for an appearance. asked them what they wanted thatin andet truly satisfies him, tola - (There are, usually six or more me to do this, kummer". They arii' be the one, betrends: la

femme, ranging said.. Zit thei

times to buy ly take it "ome and stars. It costs ther

hop it up for firewood, zapreze

REPETYAbout - Tunland? You

are dificultjain't you? more than £33,200 a week to

altengs• Word-the-Scenic rolle

But the millions who

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