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“HALLELUJAH! I'M A TRAMP!"
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24221 Hallelujah, I'm a Trámp-Foxtrot.
You are too beautiful-Foxtrot.
Played by Coo Olsen and His Music (With Vocal Refrain),
B-4463 Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp-Medley.
Piano Solo, played by Ralo da Costa.
C-2573 Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp-Selection.
Intro: "Hallelujah, I'm a Tramp," "You are too beautiful," "I'll do it again" "What do you want with money."
Played by Now Mayfair Orchestra.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18,
USED CARS
The following aro avaliable. Inspection and trial invited.
MORRIS OXFORD TOURER Good running order $450 CHRYSLER TOURER.
Good mechanical
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CHRYSLER ROADSTER
With Dicky Seat Excellent condition $1,750 HUDSON, TOURER
Perfect order ERSKINE SEDAN
Excellent condition $1,600
ESSEX TOURER
$1,500
NOTES OF THE DAY HERMITS I HAVE MET
AUSTRIAN: PLOT
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The timely discovery of the Naz! plot to seize the Line aarrison is a reminder that Dr. Dollfus's most difficult problems are still ahead of him. The IIitlerite Fascists not to be expected to surrender their pet ambition of union with the Rolch without a bitter struggle, while the hostility of the Socialists, aroused keenly by the Chancellor's rigorous suppressive
measures,
By' TREVOR ́ALLEN
The Very Idea!
THIS BRIDGE VICE
By Eddie Kelly No-vice VER since last weak,
Ewhen we took our first
THEY are an intereating minori-She groped in the dark,
ty the people who count matches and cigarettes, found the world well lost. I have mat luck, and. perched; as high as many in the course of my wander possible, amoked and waited for ing, and have always wondered dawn, or whatever might befall bridge lesson, we have felt When, after that at last we are breaking what sudden change came into her before it crime. their lives, what paychological what seemed an eternity), dawn twist, that they should turn their glimmered over the sen, she found into Hongkong society. backs on the teeming life of city who had drifted on to the marsh; a We got a bit boxed up and society and seek recompense mud bank had providentially saved about the conventions for a start, but fortunately in the One of them is a still young, to sen. attractive woman who, two years That experience might have game wo play in everyono ago, was a well-known dancar, daunted any woman. All she did unconventional. She had travelled England and the was to get the bont moored up
her from being carried right out
in solitudo. $550
is lends further instability to his post-
We take off our collars and tion, Time, however, is on his
de. The Heimwehr have pow Continent for years amid all the again more securely and carry on, tios, litter up the table with gone into his camp unreservedly, excitements and glamours of stage. By the end of the winter she had half a dozen bottles of beer and and Prince von Starherberg, their life, knowing the thrill of applause read all her books at least three get to work.
In case any of our readers loader, professes to complete al- from crowded "houses," the wor-times.
ship of admirers who sent her But she was happy. She can would like to learn bridge, we legiance to the spirit of the Father-costly bouquets and pleaded to be say to-day, in all sincerity, "I land Front, Dr. Dollfuss's national- allowed to take her out to dine or never lived until I came here. I
at as the 'Bup ist organisation. As soon
fashionable expensive have never been so happy in my
life." combined forces are completely resorts. welted, the Chancellor will have TIRED OF Austria in an iron grip. The joke | LONDON. is on Herr Hillor. The new Austria will be of definitely Italian and definitely anti- leanings German-the direct result of tac tical binders by Ilitler's over-keen supporters.
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The
She counted the world well lost, By forgoing pleasures' she had | found happiness, and happiness of
going to give you a glossary | We have purposely left out several of the terms used by our partner, as we don't think they would look nice in this column.
BRIDGE is played by four
of the terms used.
Sho danced her way from Scan- a deep, abiding kind. She hardly people. There are several im- dinavia to the Riviera, enjoying ever thought of London; her whatever It brought her in pro- had become a far-off dream; the Bridge, and Sydney Harbour brid- life unrestingly, taking avidly triumphal tour of the Continent portant bridges in the world, in- cluding London Bridge, Manhattan feasional popularity and romantle peace and beauty of that lonely KC, friendships. She was the ball-jehoro were now part of her.
CLUB-Badge of office worn by erina and a clever and charming In a quiet lane skirting the hills dummy or any bystander. It one at that who seemed fated to above the beautiful Wyc’one even-should be used whenever a rovoke 、' UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE live in a perpetual whirl offing I encountered a youngish man is noticed or when your partner
people, theatres and parties. working at a landscapo canvas goes down. six doubled.
One day, while performing, her propped on an old stone wall. Ho DOUBLE is two of anything Almost every aspect of unemploy- inst few weeks by Ministry of her rather heavily. She was not happiness and serenity were re-etc. "Scoing Double" is mistaking ment has been 'closely studled in the partner made a mis-stop and throw was dressed in rougli tweeds; leg, double whiskey, two whiskies
Hongkong Telegraph. Labour experts engageil in drafting seriously injured, but had to relin-flected in his eyes.
"Who is that fellow?" I asked quish her dancing for a time. She became preoccupied with the my host, who was walking with usual round of London social. life me.
the deuce for the Ace.
DEAL-Piece of wood. "Square Deal", the card table. See "Plain
Dealer",
as it is lived by most artists who "Oh, he is the son of a man with CULBERTSON, Sissy name,
portant Bill to be submitted to have talents, good looks and hosts title," was the reply. "Some similar to Cuthbert. In bridge it.
of friends.
She said to herself, with sudden He, too, appeared to count the London. I am going to live conviction: "I have had enough of world well 10 theref"
Nearby, in the heart of a wood
man's breeches and abares her shack with fowls and—If I remeni. bor-a goat or two.
POST MORTEM. Inquest: on
BID-Short for Bridgat. Some times niso shortened to Bridge.
HONOURS.Misnomer. There is no honour in Bridge..
TRUMP.-Bugle blown aboard ship; and in the Army and Navy, to signify that it's time to quit.
She is a woman of education and She installed a hut, and then breeding, yot she prefers to live
CENT A POINT.--Vicious syn- bought a small houseboat and the life of a hermit in an isolated settled there in a solitudo which spot where no one intrudes. In would have haunted most women winter the only paths become tem used in bridge to pry money inured to city life, especially the minor torrents. My host and out of anybody who holds poor life of the feted ballerina, tried for an hour to find the place, carde. Anyone who plays this
1933 VERSION, Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
the now Unemployment Insurance BIL The secrets of the projected legislation have been well kept, but WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933.
it will undoubtedly be the most im
years ago he led a big scientific menns u hand containing four WAR PHILOSOPHY Parliament during the next session.
Then it happened that she had expedition up the Amazon. He Queens. Occupational training institutions
ELY.-Famous Cathedral in The more one thinks about the nre to be established, designed both to visit friends by the act, and was engaged in quite a lot of
found herself on the shore of a things of that kind, then he came England. Bridge is said to have German Chancellor's broadcast to teach crafts to youthful un- speech in justification of Ger- employed and to keep them fit, wide estuary of the East Coast, down here on a visit, and stayed. originated there when Alfred the many's secession from
the while the scope of Insurance wil looking across to a lonely stretch He lives in a cottage quite alone,Great wanted to cross a river,
LEAD.-Heavy metal, used for League, the more one becomes be greatly extended so as to em- of country apparently devoid of and is always painting. He's a
oc-quiet follow-seldom talks to any weighing end of club-(q, v.) unazed at his habit of rushing brace nearly every class of worker. habitation, except for an
casional farmhouse or cottage. one."
PASS.-Invitation to the player- his fences. In most respects it The principal object, as far as can
nearest to the bottle of whlakey. was reasonable and restrained. be gathered, is to place unemploy-
SUIT. What is worn at a card It was the speech of a man ment Insurance on a permanently
table. LONG SUIT-Pyjamas, arguing a case with intelligence solvent basis for a generation, and
She had to make a detour inland on a steep hillside accessible only SHORT SUIT-Undo-pants. and moderation, and, but for the for that purpose, a special commis
by rough paths, lives an elderly cause which inspired it, would slon responsible to the Ministry of
Labour will probably be appointed of about thirty miles to reach the
which gives its name to a product! SLAM-Bat on the head with a have made an excellent Im-to take full charge of the respon place, but eventually found a far-woman belonging to a rich family victim of a "Slam" in clubs. pression, would have proved even sibilities of administration. The mer on that lonely const who was that is a by-word in every home club (v.) more valuable than his famous aim is to dispose of this issue once willing to lease her a small piece She dresses in all old coat and Reichstag speech in improving and for all. Whether success will of land by the seawall. Germany's, position in the court reward the effort depends very DRAMA OF of world opinion. But it ignored much upon whether the Means Test A LONELY SHORE. the realities. If Herr Hitler is preserved or abolished. There seeks a peaceable working-out will be no support from those most of Germany's problems, as the affected while that remains on the speech implied, the biggest Statute Book. obstacle in his path is one that his own followers have put there. A PARKING PROBLEM Militarism is taught in Nazi
It was not merely a midsummer but became lost in a tangled kind of bridge had no cents. school as an ideal, war itself is
Commander Cowland, of the day's dream. She lived alone wilderness.
Sometimes the roses of solitude glorified as good in itself, as Royal Naval Yard, must have been right through the winter of mists essential to the "purification" of one of the most surprised men in and gales, and the only people she turn into strangling weeds. I the nation. The dying warrior Hongkong yesterday morning. He saw for days, apart from the far-shall not forget visiting a gaunt his farally, were house on a western hilltop which must gladly shed his blood as in had parked his car in a "No Park mer and libation to his National God, ing" area for an hour and fifty occasional fishermen far out over had been occupied by two-very old ladies-sisters-who for years Such a doctrine, cfficially up-minutes on his own admission. the mud Rata at low tide.
officer concerned One night, in the most terrifle had lived as rocluses. A neigh- proved, could not help but re- The police arouse all of the fears and dis- thought it was nearer two hours, storm of mid-winter, she awoke in bour who was called in one day The worthy magistrate dismissed the dark to find the boat tossing found one of them dead in a chair trusts of pre-war days. The the summons because of a certain and storm-racked, and stepped out and the other, half demented, and an elegant young man said, most persuasively worded appeal "vagueness" about the time of the of her bunk into two feet of crooning over her: "Wake her "Madam, why, oh why, keep your for world understanding could arrival of the car. Did the Com-water. She knew instinctively up! I can't get her to wake up!" meat in an out-of-date unhygienic not overcome the conviction of mander smile?. peril induced by what appears to be a mass effort to break down every pacifist tendency within the Reich. Herr Hitler cannot blame foreign opinion if Talking of cars, the safety of the it fears that the object of his poor pedestrian would seem to policies is to gain time and to suggest the need for a regulation dull criticism abroad while he dealing with radiator caps. One pushes on his preparations for particular make of car on sale to- the German military renaissance. day is provided with a cap from Neither can he complain if those which a sharp spike projects for subject to such fears immediate-Wards for nearly six Inches. It ndda A needless peril to the ly interpret as complete con ordinary dangers of the road. A firmation, withdrawal from the alight accident might easily be. League when it is made plain converted into a tragedy. that the alarm has given rise to radiator cap of this type should be a caution which insists that totally prohibited, Germany cannot have all she German wants all at once. logic should be able to follow the AMERICA'S POSITION mental processes which have produced the present situation of deadlock. The Nazi creed may be good for Germany; carried to its ultimate conclusion it must appear as a menace to the rest of the world. So long custable thing. It has been, over as the National Socialist re- since the war. It was unstable
bofore the volution concerns only the people for decades
no
an
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RADIATOR CAPS-
A
Yesterday's announcement shows clearly that in the not-distant future America must make up her minds just how far she will go in helping to maintain the peace of Europe. That peace is a very
war.
A
within the borders of the Reich,There is nothing in sight to in- be diento that it is going to be any can .interference
Immediate it more stable in the до warranted. As soon
it becomes future. This is because there has steps outaide,
not, for many deendes, been issue of firat-rank im- situation in Europe which was not portance to every nation. A deeply displeasing to certain im pointed out by The Times, the portant minorities. Before 1914, inoral disarmament of Germany France wanted to regain her lost is the factor that will outweigh provincas, Polish patriots dream- of independence, restless all other problems in seeking aud
If Herr groups in the Hapsburg empire
•solution of the crisis. Hitler is sincere in his wish for schemed for separation; since the an era of peace, he must give his war the central powers, particu larly. Germany, have felt the Ver- words the logic of action. Ger- sullles treaty as an irksome re- many can give full rein to its striction which must some day be love of discipline and its public-ended. If America standa aloof spiritedness without preaching; the disarmament programme must as did Captain von Papen, that collapso. A new war will become this means endorsement of more than likely, and U.S.A. will national philosophy of prepared have no assurance whatever that ness for the sacrifices of war.
she will be any more able to keep out of it than of the last one.
-To-fetch-the-poor-dog-a-bone,
As she got there.
Ere she saw if war bare,
There was a knock on the door
what had happened. The boat They had existed in one upper cupboard? Most torribly unheal- had slipped its moorings and was room of indescribable squalor, thy! Now I represent the Kcop- apparently drifting out to see on sharing even that with a flock of it and Freeze-It Home refrigerator tho windiashed tide.
fowls and several mangy cats. Company... etc.”
It was black dark outside; the The floor was covered inches deep wind was roaring, the rain, alush-with filth; the chimney had. be-A PUN MY WORD ON HOOD OF ing down, and the bont had a bad como blocked; the only outlet for list. "Well, I suppose this is the the smoke from the fire was the
(Continued on Page 4.) end," she reflected.
"We can't decide whether this should be the living room or the garage.
THUNKIT
He: I think we auto go backfire rounion, don't you? Wheel have a Reo good time. Marmon Fop won't bo there.
Him: Yeah, sedan Ho may go. top.
He: I spoke to him. Ho says he's- too tired.
Him: Wheol go anyway, Fonder we leave, Monday?
He: That a greano with mo
Scene IIIthaca
Him: You didn't forget to Packard
liquor, did you?
He: No, but we Winton drank It all but the keg of beer;
Him: Let's toppet and distributor around. ((Looks for beer.) Viking we do, it's stolen.
He: Phaeton luck aro against us.. How can we go on a bendix, and make Whippet?
Him: Gas it'll be oil right fuol get botno more. (Enter a group Essex
or seven others.)
He: Hey, you can't horn in horo. Klaxon beor for us or get out. Quit Mooning around,
Somebody: Alomite have some,
I'll dash Overland and see.
Ilm
OK. This
(Enter Simon Ize with beer)
De Soto be Stearns Knight into day. LaSalle get drunk.
Ho: (One hour later): Willys Knight is fino. Lot's go out and got a atraight eight or two at the Con.
Him: Valve wo do Delco crazy when we clutch them. A Kissol do mn good, though.
You: I'm Stude and I feel sick. (Ho flops on the floor,)
Mo: Lot's Mack him get Hupp. Hes I don't want to Diana night like this..
Voleo: Star.any more beer 1
Another velco! What Durant for
monoy
Auburn up. I'll give you n
Btcony jaw.
Hot Ethyl right. No-Nox ever
hart me.
Volco: Chandler imagine that
(Curtain)
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