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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1952.

SHOULD WE USE THE CANE

ON NAUGHTY BOYS OR STOP THEIR JAM - Home Office

Report on Punishment

ASKING FOR IT

No, I didn't take my White Tie

NOR many

F

The

bc- prime difference tween this tour and any other

years I You find out then that have been in the the top of your head is fast I've ever made in a theatre of babit of sluicing my becoming a rehearsal stage war is that hitherto the troops winter sports. And were brought in trucks to the hair with water before I for comb it. Everyone has later on you find that you show, always located well be always said I'll be bald have caught cold. within a year.

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Ever wonder what a harmonica player does when he catches cold on a tour in Korea? It was too late to do much about it. Four shows were scheduled, to to

I started the habit the age of ten. I am now 37 and my hairline, once voted "most likely to re- cede," has not travelled and it is impractical any appreciable distance. But

I had to go to Korea send a signal to a unit

say that the show won't go ud. to find out that my

on because the cast has a visers

were right. Water

cold. on the hair is bad for you,

especially if you emerge I took a few tablets and

from a sleeping bag and try combing your hair in a temperature literally freez

Worla Capright Xp cənagement wrik Body Nai

ing.

America Calls Me Son-And

To A Taximan I'm Kid

NEW YORK.

F this heart-cry from the New World reads somewl.at disjointedly.

By COLLIE KNOX

dollars

it is because from the visitor: Never attempt to into moment I get foot on this transmute fabulous rock that is New pounds, shillings, and pence.

been That way madness lies, York

have

short permanently breath.

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#

1

The Queen Elizabeth is palazzo Aoating tribute to British shipbuilding genius; and known better I have never

ea ten service o

such proven- der. The Cunard Line con take a bow

7 had planned to rest in my

10 Trad cabin

a little and to gather strength for what I knew awaited me.

an inhaler, but I might just for as well have gone in

wings and bat's newt's teeth.

My mind was taken off my plight by the stage on wh..n j was 1.0 work

It was fat ancient

Krave

hind the lines.

The situation here is reversed. The show goes directly to the men, wherever they are. Had my mice been set up 100 yards

Korean LARRY

The men were waiting

called

1

to see what I'd do about it. did nothing about it but just started to play, even though I felt a bit odd about a habis have of tapping my foot while 1 play. I felt even odder when 1 found I had to announce that the next number was "On Top of Old Smoky." IN A TENT

FTERWARDS plucard was put over the scene of my ness performance, bearing the sample Customs officials; yet dignified legend, "Here Lies

seven years," he told me. "They are up this month."

The Queen Elizabeth Bosed up the Hudson River at two in the morning. We docked, and ell of us debouched upon the Customs building. I had heard Lales of the brusquenesi

Krim

of American

visualised my belongings Old Smoky."

day Two other shows that being scattered to the American is a

The sides a stranger winds, while

were held in a tent. was barked at by

were up, and as 1 played the strange land men who couldn't like the Bri-gentle Korean breeze caressed me the way a tiger caresses & tish less

sheep.

A

gigantic Customs bore down on me.

7

to the har-

In

delirium of hospitality 1 invited a big It is already obvious to radio man to tea at the Plaza

official me that to survive at all

and the bill Hotel,

for

His voice calls for the constitution of

found the only way cheque) for four muffins and

rost above the roar of the traffic a stalled ox, the vitality of two slices of fruit cake came

blaring horms. As-operale Was to hold and the Miss Cicely Courtneidge. to the equivalent of 26s. 6. captain, the staff-captain, suming the expression of Alice monica in one hand, a handker-

in Wonderland or that of chlet in the other. and the stamina of Sugar My guest, who had arrived the purser and the chief steward, and being pressed to visit Miami

helpless Englishman landing on multitudes of Ray Robinson. I have been in a motor-car the size of and Texas with

Are the planet Mars, I said: in this supercharged and Olympia, said: "Better give American passengers, I gave up

you going to open my baggage? wildly exciting city for only it up. son. Just reckon hope of solitude,

a few days, but I have had to barricade my door, dis connect the telephone, and wrap the ice-pack around my brow to be momentarily alone with my thoughts. And oh, boy, what thoughts to be alone with!

even

After being entertained by the and

Воса

a dollar as a dollar. Why As Fred Perry, bound for his have a nervous breakdown home at the $10,000,000 before you have to?"

Raton Club in Florida, told me: "You ain't seen nothing yet." Mr Perry, who is the lawn tennis professional al that fabulous re- sort, gives lennis lessons at $25 an hour. Vive le sport!

Business men half my age call

Sir Victor Warren, Lord Pro- who is bound Yost of Glasgow. me "son." I adore it. One taxi-

of the The unquestioning way

good-will tour 1 driver who reads Proust on the fur which New York takes the yank called me "kid. Either the United States and Canada, told visitor to its pulsating Americans are extraordinarily me: "I want to get the Americans to build factories in Scotland. bosom is as gratifying as it tactful or are not as far-sighted We have the facilities and the is bewildering. Already I do as we hope they are.

By

ADLER

further on, there were

times when I'd have been serenading the Chinese.

I was surprised that an enter- tainer would be allowed to per- form бо far forward, Sur- prised, in my language, is synonymous with "scared stift." Now, of course, in feld do hospital near the lines you not expect applause from your audience. I went from bed to If each man bed and asked there Way something special

he'd like.

A Filipino requested "Besame for Mucho," a Belgian asked

2:11 "Pez.c

"Symphonie," been while a Negro, who had looking rather dour until then, asked for "Beale Street Blues."

His entire expression changed during the number, and when I nished he awarded me the supreme accolade: "Cool, man," he said, "that was real cool."

concentrated, quite

A kid from outside Knoxville, wanted "My Hap- snappy, rhythmic effect could be Tennessee, achieved Wke, for example, in piniss," and "Goodnight Irene." the Blue Danube, "Da-da-de-da- at the mention of which a groan dum Wipe, wipe- Wipe, went up that was not due en- wipe."

tirely to physical discomfort.

II I

A

Don't try it right away. takes practice.

100k

So it went on for 45 minutes.

'GREAT MAN'

and THEN I walked around

met some of my audience. had The kid from Tennesser

Formerly stopped on a mine.

his type of injury, a severe leg wound, necessitated amputation. Now they were able to save the leg,

VER his face, which closely resembled that of Mr

Next morning they brought Bogart, there dawned a smile. Here, it sald, was a visitor

me breakfast in bed, and, in from a land flowing with no

this Korea,

Ja wild, madcap and milk, no meat, no dollars,

The orderly attached be Luxury be no honey. "OK, buddy,"

"don't get scared.to an Indian medical unit who replied, And this excellent man chalked brought the breakfast put it on a box by my bed and then shook my hand, iny luggage. Juy

"Have and doomed:

a good started out of the tent. time, brother,"

Suddenly he returned, am now in the midst of

"Feel my toe, sir," suggested sel up a second box atop the the kid. See how they've got That's everything but everything I must not ignore the Queen liners to sail direct from New whirl of invitations, interviews, the breakfast tray off the box,

York to the Clyde and treble television and radio visits, play-

first, and replaced the tray. The the blood circulating? Elizabeth. One might as well

if the tourist trade." anyone going

effect was to bring the tray to a Major Weinberg's work, sir." ignore the Equator. Except for &

have Time does nct stand stil

The can do it, he can.

"We

here," have a saying Scot with such

The Ameri- more comfortable height. here-it revolves.

said slight motion underfoot when we seldom met a

the major, a soft-spoken hit a storm which delayed us for enthusiasm and drive.

cans want me to see everything. courtesy Implicit in the gesture of the most warming 12 hours, it was as if the Ritz

everything. to explain

man from Mississippi, "that our They was one

It's patients are our V.IPS. Hotel had suddenly taken it into

there, and also things I have ever come across. rush me here,

awful when you do everything there. 'They want Lo know

JUST MUD

bub & man, possible to save then low him anyway.

its head to float to America.

I did manage to catch sight of

with so agree who asked

A

labour. I want to arrange for

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misalons.

on

what

think, which is a beauti-

B

RASILY the toughest part of

wag

"You think of that telegram

kind of tower making was the transport prob- going out that reads 'The War Department regrets... Well, we try to see that as few of those telegrams as possible have to go out."

at the double. I run and

tele never walk. I grab phones, dive into taxicabs, up sky-scrapers in shoot express lifts, never finish a sentence, fall exhausted into bed and catapult out of

ful change from what people same in the morning, accept the sea once or twice by going

want in my own country. more invitations than there up on the highest deck, which THE ship was full of men

They think big, and work the Sir will good But I are hours in the day or was otherwise deserted.

Ernest Fisk, head of Electric and and live at 100 m.ph. Beatrice Lillie.

the Irving Berlin lem. I visited night.

was bound

muzical "Call Me Madam," steward: "What Musical Industries,

his fellow passengers

is Your world is bounded on all One piece of advice I

time does this place get to New with

which the

star Ethel Merman Major-General Appleyard,

from then and can give to the first-time York?"

terrific. She

the show sides famous consulting engineer, and

In You finish a show and have to would be a riot in London, Mr Donald Byford, a hosiery

the first act at

party she asks get, maybe, ten miles away to king, of the first international

am earnest young diplomat: "So your next. conference of manufacturers ar-

As you whiz along at a snappy At the end of any given day the by

three Marshall Aid you want to save the world?"

to six miles ranged

hour, you will probably feci depressed replies. indeed," he chiefs. Thirty representatives "Yes,

"Well, kid," says Miss Merman, negotiating the various features at the sights you saw, the con-

under ditions

which which make Korean roads

people "save it till tomorrow."

must live in a country as truly And that sure how I feel. charmingly unroadlike, you be

the

come aware of You

American

your spinel primitive as Korea, notice

column trying to form letters in

various alphabets omitting Sanskrit.

These jobs at £100-a-week go a-begging

From FREDERICK COOK

PRESS

RESIDENT

New York, None of the Foundations has Truman revealed just what it is paying there men. But in Washington several £100-8- they

are said to be getting week jobs going and can "severni times" what

Government paid them.

find no takers. So high has

is

the

every

from attending.

country

are

Sir Ernest, one of Australia's most famous sons, is going back to his own country. "I accepted the appointment with E.M.I. for

accent?

(MORE TOMORROW)

in

on by

mud.

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not

☆ ☆ ☆

But later on you'll feel how very well worth while it was. I did.

CARLSEN'S EPIC IS BY NO MEANS UNIQUE

Nimagination so strong-

(By A Special Correspondent)

the whether it be the type of Small, nevertheless brought his their charge back to Freemantle. port with a huge hole below her

Ford

SUCCÉBET,

at the

daya

Britain.

Another merchantman - the fires public

Hororata-was torpedoed off the Azores in the spring of 1943 and aids, her Master, Captain W. the engine room-and coaxed

made the 250 miles to the nearest ly as a tale of gallantry

half-command to within reach some 1,500 miles away.

Her master had heroism that won for Pri- of the Scottish coast and safety.

This little epic is typical of water line. inflation pushed salaries

In due course, a new Milton Katz, former £6,600 vate Bill Speakman the

fore the splendid work performed by tree-trunke sawn and fixed into the hold as reinforcements, then and living costs in the a-year Marshall Plan boss in second V.C. of the Korean part was batt on the Imperial Merchant Navy crews-tanker patched the hole with timbe U.S.A. that such an income Europe, Is also with the

war or the courage display. Transpost, and she took the high and dry cargo alike who were and concrete-and took his

seas again.

determined to deliver their pre- His no longer attractive to Foundation.

Richard Bissell ja awaiting ed by Captain Kart Carlsen the type of man he wants.

Then there is the story of the tious cargoes even if it meant "lame duck" safely home to appointment of hfa successor in sticking for five Men

remnant of a hull who would meet his before joining Katz with Ford.

single-handed to his crippled 14,000-ton oil tanker which with making port in a smouldering a single 4 in. gun-engaged two Certainly, some merchantmen requirements can do far better elsewhere. And now. with a Leo Pasvolsky, one of FDR's command, the Flying El heavily armed Japanese com-

A third ship-another tanker merte zalders on November 11, had truly incredible adventures. long list of unfilled jobs, Mr backroom boys

State terprise.

1942. The tanker opened the One tanker was torpedoed off-made nearly 1,000 miles with top Truman faces competition from Department, now holds a

Colombo with a load of petrol an 80 ft. hole blown into her scoring by sinking one of the la- Brookings a new quarter. The rich private job with

five aboard. This highly inflammable aide. But Captain Carlsen's deter- mination to stay with his ship, enemy after registering five

Весвизе "foundations" are snapping up stitute.

patroleum cargoes former Government men as top Three other high-level State regardless of personal danger, swift hits in succession. But spirit sprayed skywards like executives.

men Department are leaving is by no means unique in the the second raider so punished spume from a spouting whale. are essential in war as well av Doan Rusk, Assistant Secretary soon-George Mether, Assistant annals of the Merchant Navy, her that with her captada killed Then it cascaded down upon peace, tankers, of course, came of State on the Far Eastern Secretary for Mid-Eastern Especially during the war, when on the bridge and with thred the tanker's decks, rained upon in for special attention from side, at £100 a week is Affairs; James Webb, Under every Allied merchantman was torpedo wounds in her bull, her the engine room floor, spattered enemy U-boats and aircraft, but

and even put out the galley

determined the more leaving to run the Rockefeller Secretary, and Edward Barrett, worth is weight in platinum, crew were forced to abandon upon the actual cylinder heads the tougher the opposition, the Foundation.

chewa became to maintain Assistant Secretary for Publie ships were constantly being ship The Carnegie Endowment Affaire end bows of the Voice pureed back to port in an u

Why no instantaneous explo- vital supplies. believably buttered condition.

sion resulted is just one of those America.

of 'the Perhaps the spirit of have taken on Mr Joseph E. of

Atte

Merchant Johnson, who, at about the

Navy is On February

The enemy believing that unexplained mysteries of the 11, 1040, || tör

In the answer of a same salary was Mr Acheson's, bassador to Turkey, export on Uno.

Barrett's post hasbeen example, the motor vessel in the tanker was about to founder sea. Yet the tanker managed to F.Kennun George

In two by porpedo when in promptly scrambled the crew porary patch-up, then salled for vited to leave his quiet coundry warlime com- America authority on Russia, sities for weeks.

to cottage for LTD. Ambasador to Monocer, who Dr John Sloan Dickey pre-mid-Atlantic. • The crew had Ther put out a raging fire, filled South Africa and then

"Letter 'received. Very Also drew £100, a week while sident of Dartmouth Colles, just time to rally on her after the main tanks with water to Trinidad and finally docked at mand. His answering telegram In the State Department, has the it to whom it was offers part before the frous portion adjust their ship's trim, raised Now York, six months after read: been working for the Ford ed, refined to conuider it even deined away. With only a ruler steam somehow in the mangled being damaged, for final re- pleased. Go anywhere any

vad man of maghinary representing pairs., Foundation.

THESE FORMS ARE NOW. IN FORCE.

ON SALE AT

SOUTH CHINA

MORNING I

Hong Kong & Kawkon.

McGhee is to become

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tanker

the

App peddled aroma, several unlvar- perisi Transport was cut clean departed: And back on board Ump Into Bombay for a tom retired master, in-

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