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Let's Take Hongkong's Word

By R. W. Thompson

TEAPOY: An occasional lable but originally a small three-legged iable as the earlier, Persian form of the name tapas "three fest" implies. The English form seems to be borrowed from the The modern English spelling, was Hindi derivative tipel. influenced by the fact that lea was often served on such tables as it sill is. This was no Anglo-Indian word which may be compared with eltarpay, a country bed from Persian chilarspal, "four feet" through Hindi charpal. The following mildly amusing passage is taken from Peregrine Faltener (1944): "Well, to be sure it does seem odd very odd; and the old gentleman chuckled most odd to find a person who doesn't know what a tepey is... Well, then, a tepsy or tmpoy is a thing with three feet, used in Indla to denote a Ittle table, such that just at your right". "Why, that table has four legs", cried Peregrine." "It's a tepoy all the some", said Mr Havethelocks.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958.

London

WERYONE knows that during the summer

Letter

months there is normally a seasonal full on the AND WAILING OF THE JOBBERS CAN BE HEARD Stock Exchange. In brokers' offices, whether they THROUGHOUT THROGMORTON STREET IT be in London, New York or Toronto, the staff

play gin rummy to fill in the dreary hours until WAS IN - KEEPING WITH THE SULTry Atmos- closing time when they are off like a shot to the PHERE THAT THERE CAME THE BERNSTEIN seaside or the golf course.

the

CLOUDBURST.........”.

„FROM...

Pare

Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

"IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY THE WEEPING. brooke which gave the public Therefore as both a writer and the real inside story of the top - a reader.I réjoles in the troubles direction of the war against that are confronting television. Hitler's Germany. That was. I am aware of its virtues as well the beginning but by no means un ils companionship but they the end, He believed that thera do not blind; me to the busio was a publie which was sick of fact that st. poak bourg televi-* acnationallsrá and (sex) and slon requires nothing more from wanted to be informed and not, ita vast audience, than an in- merely entertained. mens suinite? nequisoenea towards a His editorial associates caught medium that by its very charac- his enthusiasm. Instead of deal- fer must accept averagénesa as But this year has proved the But thig scramble for

ing: with the news of the day a subsļitute for excellence, exception, Industrial shures in Granadas. was not an isolated I have picked out these shores' the ambition of most people is and the gossip of the town thoy Britain have risen in merket incident although it was certat because they give a clear pic to be undistinguishable from the published news and reviews and Long live the writion word! value by came £1,000,000,000 ly an outstanding one. Actually ture of what is happening today others of their own for their Cule rightly Kempley advertised word in lis purity, its sound and since the criols days of lost there

comment of permanent value. And long live the actual spoken bod been considerable in newspaper investment, It February, Nearly every jobber publicity in

The newspapers play newspaper shows with unchallengeablo ac part by recording that Mis extensively, and because people its power Now, I shall take (the middle man in the share about the remarkable success game over here) ly short of stock and rich rowards attained by the acy that the threat of televi- Rosedalo gave a delightful cock like a success blory the Sunday from my shelves a remarkable yet almost the only clients who backers of Commercial Tele and, entertainment

sien both as a purveyor of news tail party at her charming home. Timės gave space, each wack to book on the Vichy Government call on the telephone are those vision.

and as a The guests are much the same tell of its rising circulation. It of defeated France and read. It who want to buy more shares,

There were many of us who reached its zenith.

medium of advertising has be the cocktail party which Mr is now nearing a sale of ono in the garden while the leaves Belvedere throw the day before. million, and because of its high of the giant pear tree drop tears Thus, in the midst of plenty, wrongly Bolleved that the the weeping and walling of the pioneers in this venture would jobbers can be heard through have their fingers burned, Lord

means that not of advertisements is very stiff, never was,

oul Throgmorton Street, There- Kemsley, the newspaper pro- fere it was in keeping with the prietor, was one of the original aultry atmosphere that there I.T.V. Investors but he pulled come the Bernstein cloud-burst, out early'in the game. And Lest we become bogged in there were others who followed metaphor let me state that I am his example.

the shares of Sidney Bernstein's television company known as "Granado."

TIFFIN: Luncheon. This word was once common in Anglo-referring to the wild, boom in

Indian society and from there spread oil over the East Hengitong is probably one of Its last strongholds. It often appears in the office time-table or in the school prospectus. In Grose's Lexicon Balatronicum, a glossary of late 18th- century slang and colloquial English, tiffing ir described an Deafing or drinking out of meat-limes." So that it may be, as Glics suggested, that fin is related to the north-country tiffing, which means to take a snock at any odd hour between meals. An early occurrence of dớn is that recorded by Ward in Carey's Life, v.1., 1880: 'Krishna came to eat timn (what in England is called luncheon) with us,"

TI PI: Tuberculosis. It is the English T.B., borrowed by Can-

tanese-speakers,

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What thon is the situation of Up, up, up went the shares. British Commercial Televison Instead of playing gin rummy today? Will it continue to ex- the brokers shouted buying pand? Will it draw more and orders into the telephone. With more of the viewing public away in a matter of hours the quoted from the state-controlled B.B.C. value of the Granada shares had, zcreen?

his brother Cecil had made a fortune. In actual fact they were not a shilling" better off for the simple reason that they hud not sold a single share. It Is to the credit of the Bernstein brothers that they fully ap proved the intervention of the Stock Market Committee.

over from the distant past?

limit to the amount of money fashion which

Quite obviously there is a They pre all dressed in the income type of render the rats. In memory of a summer that

which advertisers can spend, coly do they talic aliko, and and it is equally obvious that drink alike but they look alike.. udvertisers must portion out However, I see the gleam of expenditure among newspapers, hope on the horizon,

In London magazines, flims and bli board the Ilving theatre is experienc display.

Since neither news ing a genuine revival. We have papers nor magazines can exist no

Shaw, no Barric, no without revenue from advertis- Galsworthy nor even a knoblock ing, and since they do continue es in the early 1920's but the to exist, it is obvious that the theatre as an Institution, la first wild rapture of commercial emerging from the shadows. TV. both as a medium of With this new vibrancy we entertainment and as a medium shall, I hope, sce the final exit of advertisement has expanded of the Angry Young Men cult itself.

in the theatre which glorified The other night in my house a.. the decay of the human spirit. Above all will it be an half dozen of us sank down in In America the T.V.net- risen by £1,500,000; Then the increasing threat to the our armchairs to enjoy, or at works are facing a crisis. Tho Stock Exchange authorities publishers of newspapers, any rate to experience, an eveu audience slurp began some time stepped in and banned any magazines ana books? And

As it was ago and only an unpredictablo further dealings with Granadas. Bnaily, will the Being theatre of television.

such na Randolph TIMI: Te, especially In older Pidgin for which Leland quotes On paper Sidney Bernstein and survive as a mere curiosity lett Beptember we naturally lit the extrovert,

expressions such as before-tim, formerly, once, previous,

or a programme of: rate fre for its warmth and Churchill, previously and one-iim, once, only.

pleasant companionship.

outstanding attraction can bring Let us deal with the news- TheT.V. programme as back the missing viewers,

Let end this treatise with papers first: When the challenge usual was a combination of good of T.V. attained its full impact and bad, with advertising inter- a reference to a man whom I newspaper shares went into a ludes in which decent looking have already mentioned-Lord women extolled Kemiley. He owns a group of steady decline, It was eald that young men the Press barons were no longer the heavenly qualities of a de- newspapers but his pride and working for themselves but for tergent called HOBO or some joy is the Sunday Times, which

of such word. HOBO wag their employees, Holders

the incidentally, bears no. relation whatsoever to the daily Times ED answer to a housewife's prayer. newspaper passimistic that It seemed as if HOBO was the way to a new although many people associate

them in their minds. was behind this wild there were nothing but sellers. life and a new heaven,

As I stated at the beginning of boont in Granadast Are inves-

this London Letter, Lord But look at the picture today. lors and speculators so innocent Here in shillings is the story of

Was one of the firet Kemsley I looked at my guests. that they stampede like horses the principal newspaper shares

ploncers of Commercial Televi. Had he remained a when a dog barks? To my "Yes" for the arst eight months of the of them were practically asleep, sloft. would be over-simplification. year, showing the highest and A third was reading a copy of sponsor he would have reaped Undoubtedly speculators are lowest Stock Market quotations Maclean's Magazine which had a rich reward but his heart was subject to panic just as they are as compared with the price arrived that day. My doughter with his newspapers and he TO11 SZ: English toast, borrowed as Hongkong's Cantonese word to sudden enthusiasms but they today:

was writing a letter to a naval found that he could not have afficer. da not normally go full out for

two loyalties, n share as it their fortunes de-

One of the curses of modern Instead he decided to concen- panded on it.

civilisation is the destruction of trate most of hla endeavours on individuallem, Under the over the Sunday Times, Although powering

of influence mase just past his middle seventies he Bubilelty we tend to dress like, proceeded to give the Sunday think alike and read alike. The Tines auch an energetic editor- art conversation has been ship and promotion that It be- superseded by standardised talk. came the talic not only of Meet Self-expression has been crush Street but of the country af ed by mass suggestion. In fact large, He bought the memoirs the process has gone so far that of "Field Marshal Lord Alan-

T'IP

Widely used by Cantonese-speakers in

BZ: Tip(s). Hongkong,

TOPAZ: Giles says this word meant bath-room attendant in the Anglo-Chinese of his day. It was used by the Jesult fathers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in their writings means a person of mixed European and Asiati parentage. The etymologists have fought violent battles ever this word, Of them the most reasonable was probably Sir I. C. Temple who derived from Malayalam dubhashi, man of two languages the two languages being the Porta- Kucse of the father and the Malayalam or other Indian language of the mother,

for toast.

TRIAD: An English name given lo societies of the three unlied", heaven, earth and man. It was the policy of these societies in one period of Chinese history to overthrow the Manchus, Later, many operated as benevolent societies but in recent years their association with politics and other kinds of unsuitable activity has led to their suppression by the Government of Hongkong,

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THAU PA: Bur. The seedná element is the English word bur (the' connot charge his capital losses

first is usually translated as wine,).

against his income tax.

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