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USD' the term "ball of fire" with no slightest thought of disrespect in writing of Miss Anne Morgan, sister of the fabulous banker, J.P., who has, just died at Mount Kisko, New York, aged 78.

I came across Miss Mor- gan several times in France at the start of the last war:

A woman of electric, sparkling energy, she was wearing the uniform of the American Rellef For France Her black organisation.

eyebrows contrasted with her white hair, topped off by a felt hat worn at rather a rakish angle,

But this was only one of some 50 philanthropic enterprises with which she was associated during her busy lifetime.

Once she told 2 women's

York: gathering In New never had any creative ability Just a trudging capacity."

H

BILI, BANGERT, of Berkeley City, Missouri, had just about everything. . Extremely good looking, brainy, and well- proportioned, he was an standing football and allletics star at Missouri Univeralty.

ROBB presents a broomstick version of London's most famous stage satirist.

Conscience Money

By J. W. "REMITTED or for the

to

£20

No. 1 nominee for Mistress of the Outspoken Word reports on getting home safely from Brightest Broadway to Not-so-Luminous; London,

TALE OF TWO CITIES..

A

by HERMIONE GINGOLD

ผู้

A

more glamorous "In the_patt," I think. In New Yorke, Lilion stage experiences. We've hath Gish and I were swapping been stranded by bogus mana- in unspeakable but loved every moment of it dressing-rooms and all the rest (well, nearly every moment).

HITCHED my broom- HurI took a good look at past. Even tho theatre stick to the back of the London. Queen Mary boat-train

If you haven't seen Lon- and off I flew to London Town. Forty of my most in- don for nearly two years timate friends were stand- you notice that she's got a gers, changed ing on the platform at little slovenly. "Lady, your Waterloo waiting to greet alip is showing" I thought. me with open claws,'

London is like a wife; There was also a young wonderful to come home to, from the BBC, in but equally wonderful to get

man official

Yet just before I left Eng-

land (I told Lillian) Izan In- picketing the Empire

to some chorus girls who 'were Theatre in Leicester-square.

Portland-place away from." uniform of bowler hat, roll- And therefore-hero goes I was holled. I stoned ed umbrolla, and shiny bluc with the statement that I'm and said: "Girls, do you thinle Sarah Bernhardt would have overcoat. He invited me to most likely to be very sorry done this art of thing? You're appear that evening in "In I ever made: I could quite rogues and vagabonds,

comfortably settle in Nep trades union pickets." York for good and all.·.

AFTER HOURS

not

Town Tonight." and before I could say "How much?" nipped in neatly with: "The RBC would like you to ac- The transition from city to cept a spray of flowers," city is, to me, quite pain

less because my friends are h hours! New there's b (I wonder what they do interchangeable. Thespiana Firat day I was back with the flowers if the in- the word I used in hunt friend, dressed from head to vitation is turned down?) ing

circles'

to describe foot in black, called to

on me some flowers. (I'm rather

bring

I was going to say: "Ta theatre people keep worried about those flowers, rather have the dollars crossing the Atlantic like now I come to think of it).

BBC HUSH

She said she'd just been to a

use

one thing Pve learned: mad these days. I always Idollars is money, only more find that in London I'm sur- cremation. It was a Saturday. TAYLOR

80-but I remembered in rounded by Americans. In The service finished and the res Although conscience money Is time it's bad form to bring New York I'm head of the latives were walling for the Although consioner money 15

ashes to be taken somewhere taxes, it is also widely paid to up the subject of money English bloc.

and scattered to the winds In Exchequer by Sundry Per pilvale firms by some contrite with the BBC.

Thus, with my social life accordance. with instructions sons for Conscience Sake." customers, such as people who

left by the dear departed, so conveniently arranged, But that adage about the gods These words occur in the love defrauded railways, hote-

New York has much to Then the and those they love came purtly national accounts each year, these who-have-damaged--pro-

gentleman In liers or shopkeepers, besides

"No offer-in-the-way of creature charge announced: true, Bill is now nearly blind

and beneath them are Eli- party or stelén rome. of a rare disease. But, showing tered sums of money vary.

And I'm old waiting. Can't scatter the aslies now. It's my half-day. You'll Not long the Leeds Trans-BROADCASTING HOUSE, comfort.

ago

14 after the noise and non- enough a creature to like have to come back..... that he has courage as well as everything else, Bill is competing ing in amount but totalling port Department received

from. an

unknown "customer" sense of the NBC (I never comfort. in the national events of the one up to several thousands of who confessed to having stolen found out what, the letters

money from the fare boxes of stood for)* seemed as lively A STAMP the old horse buses, using the

as a mausoleum. Most of the anonymous tenders strecta some 50 years previously. THE CONGRESSMEN 'really of conscience money use pen- London Transport's most recent schoolboy who

NEW YORK is so eager to snubbed poor Attorney-General names to accompany their con repentant was a

tributions to the national funds. sent Ave shillings in payment

be

and up

doing. Howard McGrath, It was bad There are

those with the re- for a lamp he, had

Warmth, light (a beautiful enough deciding that, they wereligious favour, such as "Saved flight with another ken In a the ear.

blaze), service at the touch going to investigate him and his by Grace," "Repentant Sinner"

Saville Row A well-known

In the studio were Her of a switch....everything Department.

and "Seen the Light." Others taller recently received a cheque bert

sult the sender

Wilcox and Anna is so easy to get. Every are somewhat humorous orde for a sult

intimated

looked very fant, while a few use such ex had been "purchased during the Neagle. She

thing except a postage and acted

very stamp, that is. pressions as "Don't forget the war". The amount was absurdly regal,

sport which he can still tackle pounds. shot-putting.

2

However, the sound of English voices fell easily on

"Come back?" sold" on astonished relative.

"Yes. We'll scatter tem Monday."

PRAWN-HAT.

en

E expected happens in America, too, especially in Florida. Miami is a trick done

adam flings a mink

cont over her swim-suit to go shop-

with mirrora. !

But really rubbing it in, they kept him waiting in an ante- room for an hour or so and then or "Due in my favour," as if to low and puzzled the tailor, until graciously-all those Alma

hint of Insuring themselves he searched his books and found about illustrious ladies are I declare-a figure of ping. Madam must not be sur refused to let him

him appear to against the penalties of the law that the sult was made during bound to tell on a woman in speech I borrow from state his case.

the 1914 war. time in the memory of the

Conscience.

amongst public the end, oldest hands in Congress that a In addition to this anonymity, Cabinet member has been

could hardly be so high scrvants so there are those who take great as that of the nineteenth cen roughly treated,

should they be found out.

war:

worth

my the jeweller's window trying to prised, Ir, while she is gazing in coloured maid-that the make up her tiny mind whe- best way to buy a stamp in ther she shall buy a ruby or a diamond collar for her poodle, New York is to book a room a coconut falls on her head, and at an hotel and ask the head mocks her half conscious. porter to post your letter for you. Cost of stamp then jungle have met and married Western civilisation and tho

around £10, în Miami and the coconuts

millionaires are there just to

the bless it, does remind you that jungle

wears the pants.

On the journey from pains to preserve their identity tury ofolal, Thomas Grenville Portland-place to Knights Otto There was one man who would Having been shipwrecked whilst bridge in a 1914-model open not nak detection by sending on Government service he was car--which made the ride either notes or cash. He sent the given a tinecure post | Exchequer parcel of two gold £2,000 a year. He held it for something like a retake of works, out at

bars, The largest

single amount 20 years, but felt so much that the charlot race in "Ben inclusive of service charge, falling off the trees to biff the of conscience. money received by he had not properly corned his the Treasury in recent years salary that he willed his library was the £10,000 paid in by "YZ" valued at thousands of pounds 1.In 1930.

to the Baltish Museum.

HATS OFF to Mrs Heppenheimer, of New York City Celebrating her 100th birthday she came up with a welcome switcheroo on the usual platitudes. Quoth she: "I play Conasta. It's a new game. Very difficult. But I like it."

* National Broadcasting Cor- poration.

London, have post offices.

Not to be cutdone I went to But look what New York. a cocktail party there in a hat has....

trimmed with prawns,-FTAS only comument it caused was, The Frick Museum, for "Honey, that's just peachy example one of the most keen, but lobsters would have

Bulted you better."- attractive art collections in the world-where your sur- There's one bit of unfinished If they have small mouths, distracted by the fact that

render to culture is a little business I would have liked to

settle before I left.

It would have been pointed, hairy ears, long tongues

to and are fond of ants, they are when you look away from castying have taken probably antcaters, anyway.

to tunch and the exhibits you see a man Dorothy Parker Small

noses,

Ilike buttons standing in the corner with asked her to supply met with a particularly if they are cold and

hand-grenadeful of cracks for damp, suggest that the owner's a gun in his hand.

use it my next meeting with mother, was frightened by a

Gertrude Lawrence. pekingcse.

Fowo-Gertie (she hates 'be-

Sitting

on the Fence.... by

for

Ninety-year-old Julius Bonikowski, Bucd divorce in Milwaukee, U.S., was accused by his wife of **running around with another woman."

HERE

Julius?

W

guess.

you been,

Me? Oh. Out, I

By yourself, Julius?

Why, no. Not exactly. That woman again, Julius?

NATHANIEL GUBBING

she's got a wooden leg,

+

Can't a guy have a girl friend without all this beef- ing?

Yeah. A guy can. A guy can have a girl friend with Comph and rheumatism, with Ib and a How did you know?

wig, with Zing and a wooden When man who has leg. That's what a guy amelled of rye and tobacco have, and keep it.

2

for 60 years comes home smelling of -eau-de-Cologne, there's sumpn up. What's sho got that I ain't got?

Well, for a start, she's a bit younger.

How much, Julius?

She won't be 80 21 March 1. So you imow her birthday?

Certainly do. Buying her, a beauty box.

Is the slim?

No. She's risin 150 pounds and stands about ten or '11

hands I guess.

Grey

hair?

Sure thing. But Wa the

kinda grey that gets a guự, Silvery streaks, like the old

make

Glasses?

She was born to wear "glasses. The cute way the wears them when readin, "Right on the tip of her title

nose. Boy, oh boy. What else the got, Julius?

Why? everything, Oomph,

Te and Zing. Yeach. Zing. That's what she's gol Probably got rheumatism, too.

Aw, don't talk honey: Maybe that grey .: Don'6? | tall.

way,

hairs a wide YOU TE

more you'd ber: to a dagen:

better

con

Greet the spring

"....can give ladica treatment inal massage to restore contours and treshness in

La great the #pring." Advertisement.

OUR Angers,

time

light Jiko

checks n shall bring

I wonder, before G man

most

I raw her in New York and

Red bulbous noses indicate is employed.....Is there a ing called that) a backhander chronic indigestion, which the formal board meeting of Faid: "Darling, Lan't it hot to- borrowed blush owner usually puts down to the directors of the gallery night. She said: "Yes, dear.

In time to greet the spring, my dear, in time to greet

the spring.

to

greet the

drinking too much tes

the

The to do with intelligence. People worthiness or otherwise of working."

size of the head tas little to determine

gan- How lucky you

heads like turnips can be equally with pin heads and people with their treasures?

In time to greet the spring

my dear, morning sun.

stupid, and are often imbeciles. But yes, indeed look If the head is so biz that it is what New York has.... When all the world is seven- nearly as wide as the shoulders, teen and you look ninety- you are either talking to a man

one.

Fream

and

are NOT to be

FINALLY

make any impression

The beguiling, notices in D'on America, Well, when I

But, ch, the years shall roll man from Mars.

with water on the brain or a Central Park which say arrived. In the States the fre with DWAY

If the head is so small that the simply: "THESE LAWNS zied worship of youth was the

-order of tho day, massage-ing

hair meets the eyebrows, You FOR PASSIVE USE Twns there tnly two years In time to greet the spring are probably talking to an abe ONLY....

and look what's happened The my dear, in time to greet

It is said that the eyes are

Adoration of the Granny-from the spring.

windows of the soul

who Grandma Moms (who started The radio announcer would be better in most cases if starts off the day to encourage painting at 78), to Marens-is end the way's Know your friends the blinds were always drawn. Ingly with his advice: Ladles now the craze-

with small eyes like don't "throw away your old Propie A you tell character by the with his prominent eyes like

pigs are usually pigs. People diamonds. face? If not, here are some dumb cattle are usually about as paths shall hinta on the matter by that well- smart as dumb calife. straighten cut before the known physiognomist, N. Gub- May birda sing

bins, Esq..

tread That run like ronds across

map that once knew belter

days. The rugged

:

In lime to greet the spring large, beaky nose with

my dear, in time to get bump in the raiddle does not the spring-

On my next trip I hope to great- grandmother. with A law of libel so sleepy and feading the parade of i. prehis.

Bart the "kult of the gala

A

a sense of publicity so alert toric pin-ups; degusRRO

that my lawyer there said,. And now I'm home I and I some printed com- miss very dearty my naloured apropos ments which were pure vitriol; mald Mabel who looked

after

People with crafty eyes have "Miss Gingold, the thing that Will ole me as if I were an idiot J always indicate that the owner cuming minda; people with matters is they've spelled your child and she was ima do In time to great the spring, is of aristocratic origin, but leering eyes have dirty minds, neme right."

my dear, our tender linger merely that somebody has People with vacant eyes have no

In time to greet the spring,

►

for minds at all.

People with wide-open, star-

volve, are

ALAS!

>

mammy. I always tali wa wezo. acting in a scene: from "l'Gone with the Wind,", and we cried"

said wood A good deal when wo

tips

cracked him on the nose Shall heal the weary, hage poking his lang snout Into trus

gard face, that took a thou- ness which

does not concem for eye sually Insane BACK in London walked that he from a him. sand sipa

When combined with long, they also have anal, cold horrified to see young women Vonico. I am wondering it T Of cocktake white and "cock!

down Bond-street and was vant straight, from a palace: in falls green, of gin and flapping ears, this røvolling noees they may be Inanna whisky sling

person probably Istens at key pekingese; if combined with in sinuics; enen in duffle conts shall be able to live up to holes as well.

long hoses, hairy, pointed ears and plaid shirts. My mother him. and lang tongues, insane antent would have died at the sight. Also two policemen, called t

me to pay their respects to ers; if the eyes are also big und I remember her faying to the "most burgled acromin

me: "Hermione then

"There is a London," You shall not fear the People with long noses like prominent, manse cows

But if you soa, domēDOGZ., WI emailetain 4. on, one' of ⠀⠀⠀ your hey; soldier stronger light, the cleansing anteaters and small eyes set popping eyes and fipping cars white gloves, You'd better, ware back from America, and (April); shower, toiletul algu close together as currants in staring at a keyhole, it will change then it you're going to we just wanted to make s You shall not blush for a bur are so mean that they only be a gossip columnist doing walk down und street, that everything was wil right.”

thome to see the first wouldn't waste enough petrol to

his normal work.

At Buddenly. I realles 1 ́am pecerit, think?: London, pollonnen bright spring tima Gower, offer you a light if they owned Our miglo, fingers to your all the oil wolle in Texas,

are wonderful. bipe:too often living in the

my dear, in time to greet the spring.

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