Les
WITH
Armour
IN
Britain
Are
Today
The Magic Porridge
SCOTTISH doctor,
in reporting оп the somnia situation, ad vises that a "plate of good thick porridge" is worth several hours' sheep count- ing and has a considerable margin on hot drinks and long walks in the open air.
In this corn-flake-caling age, the sedative properties of per ridge can only be a matter of But conjecture for most of us. we ray as well take the doctor of his word.
Though old tave me a nice slice of Jeweller's shop. But no luck. Blinkin' American soldiers singin' up an' dahin the street. Think they'd go to bod nah and then like us respoctable chilzens. "So took me 'ort to Lord gotting m Turnip's 'ole. Just
ntee like when along comes these 'ere Teddy boys.
for a
Mrs Joe is thoughtful inumont. "I know wot you a good does ( nerve wants tonic. They got some nice stuff dalin in the corner chemists, The bout Orf with you now, cop won't be back for an hour. Just time for a quick amosh and
'Tho dimeully in to explain grab."
the phenomena.
Why should a plate of thick Just Sit And Sit....
Summe
The
porridge whare mogle powerя uf u stout blow
on the head?
doctor ouinton porridge begins and ends valmeat,
Being a Scot, the doubtless of thu
THE
men who see all, hear all, and
all have been at that with it again.
(The potent mixed- groin cereal which, we aland, makes veritable
Her
under-
Kintita have ju«! out of unwilling Amertean small boys does not Merzi pruetrated these istands)
hed
of compitlerr Majesty's
anders of forma shattered the most and guarded of all have the great mile myths
For thousands,
perhaps milluna, uf VOREN
have been conlng by me
raagthat, kicking
oft Char shoes, mumbling a word or two about "the terrible grind" and relax- ng in a corner.
6 why The question, then, should a plate of succulent entit outdo n plate of hot beats”?
mysterious
What 1s the properly of the out?
So for as we are aware, thes
that is principolly renowned (68
Patiently, wives have put up
a horse fodder. The lendency with
us, childre have done
among the horses on which we the feeble best to "keep quiet occasionally wager the odd two berauire
bob to drop dead, fall asleep, oven dogs
daddy is tired," and
have
tearned that
u trot off in the wrong direr- they can expert only a muttered tion in search of heaven-knows- curre what would seem to confirm the stupefying effect.
Yet some horze or other, back- ed by me mure cunning nort and also fed on oats, Invariably sircaks down the truck as if it
bent on Was
outrunning Flying Scotsman.
The
This
only conclusion can be thu the nngle is not in the out. at all but in the Seotamen who process the truts
One imagines the learned doctor serenading his pot with:
upion
non y RO (11,
the
ol
Now is all over The Ministry of Health has investigated. They And that much mest
spend da
in on armchair energy tolling de we do in genuine work.
check A
inen
on
137 "ormal,
mostly engaged healthy in industrial jobs at Slough in Buckinghamshire, discloses that
the average man sils in his chair
for 30 hours a
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SIR ARTHUR
THE
FOUND
THE TUNE ON
N the latest Household list the Master of the Queen's Music (formerly Musick), Sir Arthur Biles, is one place above the Poet Laurente, two above the Veterinary Surgeons, three above the Coroner of the Household.
TOP
OF A
By Francis Martin
was a work-desk, upright plano,
ens, and a leafy view over the gurden.
natural. I spent another ail household noises. The decor hour at the plan and made lower painting by Ivan Hitch- my first manuscript sketch. it up Next day I worked
the formally and short score in a form almost ready for publication-an
wrote
other two hours' work." wrek.
In addition, he spende 50
hours week in bed.
CAL up
and
He gets no fee, wears no uniform, has, no specified duties. A Master may, if he wishes, bash idly in the until glamour of his title Work? Everything that could he dies. But it pains Bliss a Bendish skirt of the bagpipes
to do nothing. and calling
ancient sonceivably be called work tokes
One of his aims is to re- gods of the Picts and the Vik- up only 47 hours a week.
As for chopping wood, bring- ings to weave the required spell.
doing the form the Royal Band, A No doubt this sort of cere- ing
orchestra of behind fucked household "retching and carry-symphony overy reputable g we have managed to spread picked players, which was
!' Iward I well that the dropped by BU myth amicted Scottish our
cun got off with His idea is that the wvorago man
Band minules of six forgotten an average
should play on State De- wordis of the week at This kind of thing.
Murcover, we ate about the casions and even, perhaps. most slothful creatures ever to give State concerts at Wind- show up Un the fare of the
sor and the Palace for the carili,
pleasure of the Queen and the
her guests, as in Victoria's day.
<loors,
insomnia
househoki.
But the doctor hus to give us the Incantation.
Crackers Too
THINGS must be pretty hard
In The underworld ditya.
д
Even
these reach over
playing darts at
is too much for most of us.
the favourite relaxe Sometimes we deign to and switch on the television set. Slightly more often, we just sit.
Just to make sure we blush “ነ smashed six properly, the Ministry, mindful, of cur complaints [<> doubt, about the amount of time our
From Derby comes a report
thief who chemist's window and took bottles of nerve tonic.
Ordinary everyday senseless wives spend dressing, asked how Kleptomania? Don't you believe much time the men of Slough
The sub-and-grab trade apent this
The average man burns up requires the precise ming and delicacy of the professional.
11.
The bungling garden-varicly klepto would find himself in a screaming
way
wix-and-a-half houry putting
Un
and taking off his clothes. All this was discovered by n Roy Bransby. And you can't even hang traktors in
world of burglar mar-Dr
olarms, scurrying cops, and out- raged citizens in the twinkling peacetime....
of an eye. He'd probably pre- cede his visit to the beak with
a visit to the hospital for treat-
ment of a gashod hand.
The Realist
影
He's Ahead
In 20 years Bliss has filth music. written much Apart from "Welcome the Queen." which he composed A6 4 "loyal gesture." he thinks little of "Film music is completely un-
he important."
declares. "Like ballet music, it takes second place. You go to the cinema, as to the ballet, not The to listen but to look. only person who thinks film music important is the film director.
Well Paid
the moon.
to
make
"You understand the Another of his aims la to director's viewpoint at once restore the missing "k." if you see a film without The parchment which ap- music attached. You see pointed him last November something as sterile as the avoided archaic forms, turn- other side of ing Musick into Music. "The Music is needed 'k'," he says, "not only looks sequences dull in themselves elegant; it also emphasises interesting to watch, just as the traditional character of sauce piquante is needed to an office that goes back to make boiled fish in a rail- Henry Purcell and beyond. way restaurant car eatable." I should like to see it Te- For adding the sauce com- posers are reasonably well placed."
paid. I know & young man who in six weeks wrote an hour's music for three films. In other ways he is up to He pas paid £1,200 down the minute, sometimes ahead and in one year drew royal- of it. Weeks before the ties of £540 from the cir Queen's return to the cuits.
Thanks to films, radio, Palace from her Empire tour, he had completed two television and the efficient topical piecos to celebrate collection of performance the occasion. One is "Soug foes, the talented young a choral ode composer of today is much of Welcome,' which will be heard at this better placed economically, than young your's Proms. The other is says Bliss, Moreover, competition from But the explanation seema "Welcome the Queen," a painters and sculptors. Teddy boya, cosh boys and all too simple, particularly bluff, rousing march which, gangs, who thump old ladies is relation to an education-proud besides selling well as years ago composers were sub-
gramophone record, The budding heir to a tradi-heard by four habits, and his sense of the at- tionally money-wise mor, more cinemagoers as part ress of things faces com- probably, was under the in- munity which would probably pression that he had collected Royal tour Alm's not even bat an eye at thump the finest flower of local man- track. Ing old Raffles himself into cold hood. storage for a long stretch.
No. The boys are obviously being driven off their nuts.
What with the law
sanding
THE pupil at an Edinburgh school who. elementary old logs off for years and years, sent out to collect a bouquei psychologists giving
fatherly for the end-of-term ceremonies, the local talks 10 the youngsters, and arrived back with ruinqurs that the Yard may bookie may, perhaps, be writ
off 05 on embarrassed turn to with radar any day ter now. life in the underworld is victim of the idiosyncracies of
a pretty nerve-racking business. local pronunciation
crowding the field. The respect nation.
able professional with his de- licate touch, his unobtrusive.
2
What
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Sru
Or be may merely have felt that he was commenting future Joe Blogg can hardly be relations with this cornerstone finding much joy in life theso of a civilised community, days.
One imagines him returning
Interceling. more home after a hard night's work however, is the mantal state of ruined by a gang of teddy boys the bookie himself. who chose to whoop it up in
Approached by the urchin, thally just be he had worked Lord Turnip's door open and he doubtless gaped slightly and was foeling out the safe com- waked through his accounts to see whether or not the child's binallon,
teacher had an nocount with Joe.ogs into his now-battered him and, if so, whether he upa pot of us. Mrs Joe brews pred the pedagogue Any alz-
mum: able She is solidious: "ard night
Finding that relation Not more o' them sodiei sppeared to be mod, that book workers followin' you around? maker Bald, for trado them."
2002!
a
that he was to
to be shaker him head: "Flipping" model for
Teddyal boys, egin.
th
alley
It was not always so. Forty
A sidised by their families. The was great Edward Elgar dopesided million on his wealthy wife. Bilas's own
been set of a career would have
bud, if he had not been born sound back 18 years, or nipped in the with a benign, well-off father, who supported him until
In A Hut
To get into the creative name was made. mood for "Welcome the Queen," Bliss went to a preview theatre one after- noon last March and saw
"For a long time," he recalls, newsreel stock of the first "my, earnings as a composer half of the Royal tour. As were not mough to keep me in he watched the Queen hailed cigarettes.
At 61 the Master of the from Fiji bo Australia, the Queen's Music is as buoyant on first thematic outlines bagan champagne cork. Until Last to stir in Him. On loving head to put him down in when prosowalonal dutige the theatre he mountedándon, he had a country house the "Somerset, goods, London bue and sented on mons the top deck, jotted down long, while and mod
lot of winday germ tuneleta and rhythms) wh on the margin of his paper, w
The rush hour journey, Kin took 85 plan By the
time: 1 got home
'bhe 'tumes had simo
shape,
sort of tube
If short
Tate, sits
BUS
he says.
Often
at dinner will throw down his napkia and imitate people he has met and
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were at home. Bliss would laugh util the Lenra camo.
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If the morning's work goes
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Cub con- as well as his own. for half
hour ductors, an
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ing his advice on professional to im- revitalised and happy.
When setting words to music etiquette, Introductions
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Bliss I could have
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