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Braken. Four wheel brakes are provided, controlled by foot pedal, with an auxiliary control by vac- vuni servo of the Clayton. Dowandre

type.

the ordinary way, owing to the small width of the drums.

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BALKAN BANDITS.

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In places, almost at a few yards distance, the Serbian armed police stand on guard with rifles, their belta stuffed with cartridges. sides ench policeman, waits an armed Albanian guard in his pic

decorated with}

white braid, a long white coat, and a curious white hat, rather like a A whole pudding basin, while armoury of knives and old-fashion-

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WHY DID HIS 1931 REVUE FAIL IN LONDON?

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Mr. C. B. Cochran, faced sudden- ly by one of the biggest theatrical failures of his earcer, smiled philo. sophically.

He had spent may thousands of

You cannot have good luck all the time, and I suppose my turn had come for a reverse. This show of mine is definitely a failure, and it means a hefty loss, to which I am not prepared ton add by con- tinuing the run.

Now at last the traveller in safe, however late. he may wander along

"There is far more money lost) these lonely roads. Brigands may in the theatrical business by fog- be picturesque enough on the stage ging a dead horse than by any other

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The front wheel brake mechanism of the Alford and Alder systenturesque national dress-long white provides large logarithmie cams, woolly trousers mounted on special carriers which form the universal joint, and the whole of the arrangement is set woll within the contre line of steer. my a difficult thing to obtain ined pistols is stuck in his black sash pounds on his 1031 Revue,” and The reason for this double patrol- concentrated months, of energy on ling is simple. Should the loenlit. Now, after a run of only ning The brakes on the four whee's are guards fail to give warning of the days, it is to be withdrawn. He all of the same size, The brake approach of their marauding kins said: drums are made from solid forg-men, they pay the penalty. It is ings of special high carbon steel; simple, rough and ready justice, having an internal braking surface but since this plan has been adopt of 18 in. diameter and 14 in. width, ed professional brigandaga has lost Thin fins for cooling purposes are much of its charm for the local machined. on the outside. The inhabitants. shoes, made in "Wilmi?" alloy specially lined, are also identical, buth for front and rear, and are operated by the mine, logarithmic type of cam as described above,

method. I never try to make a The rotation plates for the front

dend horse get up and run. AB BOON are formed by extension lugs made integral with the stub axle, and

as it flops' out it goes. It is the only way. the roar reaction plates which are

" Unusual." made also in steel are, bolted to

"The circumstances in this ease, suitablo flanges solid with the arms They are tall, upstanding, savage- however, are a little unusual. of the rear axle casing..

looking men, who leave the impres About eight years ago I brought to Radiator. A specia) Sérk honey- tomb radiator has been drained, hesitation in alitting a throat in Clark and McCullough. They were

sion that they would have had little London two American comedians,THE Undersigned have received: and the system has a specially the days when they were against the most successful comedians I larga wator capacity. The radiator justice instead of for it. Like have ever known in London. They.

a situated in the front of the car.

good many other reformed charac- There is a gap between the radiaters, however, they have gone in tor and the front of the actual whole-heartedly for their new life spoke, and there was a chorus of Lady, the easing of the radiator be- ing streamlined with that of the rest of the body.

Instruments, Smith's instry rents are installed throughout.

SKIDDING.

[BY AN OWNER DRIVER.]

or the Alm, but a look at some of the guards, descended from baridits, and in many cases overi reformed bandits themselves, makes one glad to meet them as protectors, and not enenice.'

haut a visible proof of how little spmpathy they had for their one- time profession, & few weeks ago.

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"I had been trying ever since to get them back again, and at last I succeeded, I put them into this The mountain omnibus from Ped revue, and on the first night in Manchester they were wonderful, to Paritza was suddenly stopped late at night on a lonely stretch The audience rocked with laughter. of rond, and couple of guards Expert watchers of first-nights pat- climbed in with a furious bandit ted me on the back and said they prisoner. He had been caught as were convinced that the show would soon as he had crossed the Albanian be a tremendous success. frontier-before he could do any "What happened! The Londun followed by press harm. True democracy exists in opening was Jugoslavian 'buses. The brigand notices that were unanimous in the which defied its steering gear and sat next to me and scowled, while opinion that the show was not a persisted either in sliding lazily or CO.

his captors regaled the company success. And they were quite right. in gyrating violently towards a with a description of his capture. I still think that Clark and his direction completely opposite to There was no sympathy and a good partner are two of the funniest men cur frantic steering.

deal of contempt in their descrip- on the stage-as good as they were tion, however,

eight years ago-hut, for some reu Bandits have indeed fallen upon son, the public has not appreciated hard times since the Jugoslavian then,

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Life confronts us periodically with various forms of helplessness. Their name is legion, but at a cer Lain poried of the motor epoch the commonest of them all was to find oneself seated in Π motor car

At the peak of that era F resided in South London. Whenever sought relief from the stale air and grimy streets of that area I had to cross a maze of tramlines near

the Oval tube station. These tram-

lines, like Government forms, exist.

..

ad in tripliente; for there was a carried out the ancient maxim "I don't suppose anybody could

central conduit between the usual pair of side rails. They were als ways greasy, and their grooves a nice fit for the narrow tyres of the motor enrs which 1 affected at that time.

Cars were at that date almost án scarce as millionaires are in Lamehouse, and the local popula- tion especially the police-used to prick their ears and protrude their eyes on stalks when the tutta-futta of my engine became audible from the direction of Westminster. Traffe was paralysed whilst I canyed to crues the greasy tram-' fars.

Gradually cars became lower and longer. Tyres became fatter and knobbier. Skidding developed 110m a disease into an art. A crack racing man of those days took me cut on a French car with a bonnet resembling Brighton Pier. To my great trepidation he made it akid on purpose! He informed me that a car always skids in the direction in which its steering wheels are pointing: that if you were going too fast to get round a corner on, your steering lock you just over Linked and made her skid the cor- It sounded very pleasant and casy, but. I remained too timid to try until one day a compulsion arose I was driving rather squat little car through Watford- Father too fast. Suddenly a pony

ner,

cart dived neros at me at right angles out of a side street.

Nature has given me the kind of brain which works best in emer- Kencies. It envinged two possibili- tieg:--

¿

(a) To use the governess cart, as

buffer.

(b) To put the car on a crowded

pavement,

"set a thief to catch a thief," or, find the exact reasons. Perhaps in other words, set a reformed it was not the right moment for this bandit to catch his unregenerate particular type of humour; perhaps brethren from over the border,

PLUNDERING AT A FIRE.

WORKGIRLS FIGHT PEOPLE WHO STEAL SHIRTS,

There were amazing scenes at a

it did not blend with the theatre

it may be that my experiment in relying on broad humour was too great a contrast to previous forms

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29,

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Ar No. 5A, LUNA BUILDINGS

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of entertainment for which I have SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931, been responsible. Light entertain. ment is so sensitive that the real reason is hard to discover.

Trying to gauge the public taste

fire which destroyed a shirt and at any particular meinent is always Pyjama factory at Warrington, difficult. My axiom is to produce Lanes, and throw more than 500 women and girls and 100 men out of work,

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AT No. 74, NATHAN ROAD· KOWLOON,

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

(Full Particulars from Catalogues),

ON VIEW From FRIDAY, the 1ST MAY, 1981.

what I like und what I think the

: publio will like. I never say, 'This! is something that I do not care for When the men workers arrived myself, but it is what the public they set to work carrying parcels wants,' for 'I think that is a wrong of clothing, which had been pre-method. Some productions are in- ared for despatch, from the war, stantly successful on the stage for house to a small shrubbery, where the same reason that a woman is TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. they were stacked up by the girls, attracted without any hesitation to During the temporary absence of some particular dress. Successes of the police, women and children | that kind are always on the firmest and one or two men in the crowd foundation. Instinct, rather than began to take some of the parcels. any elaborate analysis, provides the

The employees fought to recover them, and afterwards girls were seen moving among the crowd at

tacking those whom they saw with

plunder from the fire.

Many girls burst into tears when they arrived to find the building in dames. The factory was thres storeys high and 100 yards long, and contained much, valuable ma

Neither solution was attractive, To the right there was a sidu road, into which I couldn't possibly sloer at my speed and with my lock. Ichinery.....

explanation.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS,

"My failure-hercentage' has for- tunately been fairly small, and this H.K. Benevolent Society.

happens to be one of my little re- buffs I shall have to be more careful. I am disappointed that the members of the company could' not get the long run for which wo had hoped, that such good fellows

JUMBLE SALE.

as Clark and McCullough and so MAY 5th, 2 P.M. fise an artist as Adn-May have not

remembered Jehu's Counsel. I It is believed that the fire been fully appreciated. I am

jerked the wheel hard right, and mouldered all night,

crashed on a particularly fierce.

hand brake. Joy! The squat littles car skidded beautifully into the side. street, miming everything and everybody. The tense crowd-broke into loud-applater I bowed, 8.İL the manœuvre had been calm and confident. Since then I have on several occasions extricated myself from similar dilemmas.

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little sorry for myself.

"I am not downhearted, and I nm willing to back that my next show will be a thumping success. I have been thinking all night of the form it is to take, and I am pleased with the prospect.

**** But I shall not do it until 1938

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