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Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, AUG. 5, 1985.

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of

1985.

WHEN WAR CAME TO ENGLAND'

By MARGARET WILLIAMSON

1

the

Hey Idea!

FASHION

FOR MEN predicting Mr. Kelly Bes. Chic In

Effort To Alongkong

com-

NEAT BUT N

AUDY

(By Maizon kolly)

Li thone salonį,

mannequin

parades have Edward Kelly, the well

pert, go chie. all Jukion ex- noticed, with some die He has

over

columns of bilgs aro pral that the newspapers each fashions and follidaeminine to start a crusade for decided recognition of men's Hong- kong men are, Mr. Kelly' hopelessly out of date iders, summer months, slicking, they do to the conservative whit

IT'S

proper

the

TS not what you ar, it's where you wear We have been trig,

Hongkong's tailors ar

out of date.

suggestions from fashion ex-

Citroen's 200,000-bulbed sign on the Eiffel Tower has burned a name into the memories of millions.OW insignificant are the years! never questioned that they would

Peoplo Flashing the temperature, then the It still matters enormously win.

ware that I was in England in the blusteringly that it would all be time, then the trade-mark of the summer of 1914 and that I watched over in six weeks. "It is unthink- Sivver of France, the great electrie the coming of the great war. able that a great war could bo board has commanded the attention Events which took place then are financed in this intricate modern

to me as vital as San Francisco's world.' of potential automobile buyers from general strike or that martial lawy Foreigners in London began then probably every country on earth. which, as I write, has just been to be distressed. They stood futile-

declared in Minneapolia

ly in long queues outside the banks; The man behind the sign was Andro Take that week of suspense their sailings for home had been Citroen, whose passing closes

a which we spent, by a strange cancelled because of the

perversity, in the droway Cotswold mundoering of the ships. On the career as spectacular as was the village of Broadway. The atmo- top of a bus we met a school-teacher period of history in which it sphere-sweetly heavy with scenta from New Bedford. Massachusetts, developed. Citroen was the "Henry of that countryside was under who had been robbed of her money, charged with an oppressive un her tickets, everything. Suddenly. Ford of France". Approximately certainty. About noon of each too, the steamship offices became one third of the 1,800,000 motor. day a frenzy of impatience would places of tenso, taut drama. In the passess us and we would hasten steamship offices in Cockapur Street, on French roada

woman---obviously a are up the read toward the railroad an American those lightweight, cheap-to-operate station, to waylay the post boy in a corner and simply sobbed as woman of position and wealth-sat ho bowled along unconcernedly on though she would never stop. A Citroens. The motor magnate's his bicycle, between green hedges, friend sat by dumbly, making no unusual abilities as an industrial If we were there first, we got our attempt to help. There had been Times or our Morning Post, but organiser and technician first came

we did not understand the implica- bad news from home; these people must sail Immediately and there to worldwide attention as a result tions of its headlines. An Arch-

were по reservations available, without success, to get a of his outstanding part in supply place whose name we could not Hotel, headquarters for stranded Editor of the Telegraph,

duko had been assassinated in a Hours were passed in the Savoy France with ammunition pronounce. Objectively speaking. Americans all talking nervously, give over a page or so dal Later, the plants that had flourished that was A pity. We left

protesting, gesticulating, alert and to men's fashions. subject there, for it did not seem combative at every hint that there on those products of which common to have any relation to us might be the offer of a passage to men in uniform are the "ultimate Doggedly we went our ways

to the

States: No order emerged consumers" turned to the produc-Bath, where we were sleeping on from that chaos until the advent of hopelessly

the night of Aug. 4. tion of another machine with a

a certain Mr. Herbert Hoover to What they want is a few Sleeping, did I say? Little take charge. different significance for common During the evening we had walked Hours in Charing Cross station perts.

enough of that was done just then. men. The closing chapter of this about the crowded streets of the brought uninterrupted thrills; for motor-age story

That's what we're here for. has not been a eighteenth-century resort and read trains arrived every few minutes,

the news placards posted outalde bringing Americans who had been accede to our suggestion, we're Since the Editor wouldn't bright one. The Citroen firm has the stationers' shops. Everyone caught in France or Switzerland. shared the financial difficulty which rend and stared. "The neutrality Excited greetings, anxious inquiries going to use this column to bring

Germany Belgium." so many companies have confronted France that, Austria something miraculous catching of unheralded news to our public, a la "Abigail" this, for lost friends, tall tales of the the latest fashions and masculine in the last few years. To-day it is elac. "What will England do? trains, of ways by which one might and the others who write for the BASIC ENGLISH

in the hands of creditors. But its In the hotel lounge men talked and travel

without money. argued and marshaled their evid-

Every females, trainlond brought founder will be remembered as one ence--the Major, the man from the heroines of melodrama. Meetings, heroes and Linguistä and

Something like this: the raising the question whether who played a stellar role in the City,

travelling salesman. too, were being held in

Bond Street, my dears, has decreed When we went to bed, even

various that trousers will be worn longer this the great houses in London, where year. basic English, by means of bright-light era that burned the slightly, furtive flapping of the American women

About six months longer. To residents or be dernier cri to-day you must wear which Mr. C. K. Ogden, of candle at both ends in post-War window blind seemed ominous. ganised themselves into committers natty homespun pants, with two tone Cambridge, has reduced the es- years,

Then, in the small hours, strident to carry on war work. Andre Citroen's carcer

A certain effect in the seat. This may be ob sential words of the language to epitomised, as few careers can in the cry: "England declares

and shocking from out the silence. house in Grosvenor Square-marbla tained by taking a pair of last sum- war. stairways, gilded drawing rooms, a now patch to the rear which, you mer's panta and cunningly stitching the number of 850, will ultimate-any age, the peculiar characteristics England at war."

Mrs. Leeds, the Duchess of Marl-will remember, it was the rage, to ly become the conventional [of a world that thought it could put Quick resolution came with the No one was idle-all were eager.lust season.

borough, Mrs. Cornwallis West.wear quite thin towards the end of medium of international com hate-made war and poverty easily morning. Without moment's most of them unskilled. munication. Esperanto, which

For winter wear nothing is more behind it with machine-made prace of our summer lodgings and caught hesitation, we wired the cancellation

charming and chic than to have = at one time was regarded na

As we walked in the vicinity of brilliant shine on sorgen.

Evening train for London. Something Shaftesbury Avenue one day, we the pants are the latest style to be and loan-made prosperity.

ensembles with transparent seats in possibly filling this role, has not

incomprehensible had happened.detected an odd sound. A rumbling, adopted by fashionable men in Ice gained the wide currency expect-.[.

London, was the place to get then dull booming-now it was there, House Street. facts. At the statlon the war be-now

It is remarkable what camo an actuality. Such crowds Could it be German guns across the fashion. By the way, a really chic certain. an added allure there in this and confusion. Train schedules Channel? They wore were as though they had

coming effect can be obtained by adding one never nearer. One walked on in a dream, or two beer stains to the waistcoat. present in current use practically carnival and the excuse for it fa been. The platforms were guildMost of the Americans had gone basis and cannot afford beer steina, For those of us who are on a sterling with soldiers. Where had all these now. all over the globe. It has, in reminiscent of pre-War days when men in khaki come from? Not subsided; there were plenty of ships may be obtained from ordinary soup, The panic of departure had it is remarkable how similar an effect fact, been stated that English your true Viennese seldom allowed looked about 17-wondering blue perfectly possible to engage good All the very best people

men at all, really, but lade who sailing for the States, and it was which can be obtained quite cheaply. will serve the traveller anywhere his pleasure to wait on business. eyes under shocks of pale hair, cabins. Wo did that. For we were wearing the cutest moth holes in their in the world, but that is true Judging by dispatches, the Austrian slender backs bent under un- beginning to suspect that possibly tweeds at home and I predict that this only in a limited sense. It is not without interest to note, as/capital, not to be outdone by the torials," people called them. We welcome in London. The war was

"Terri-juseless Americana were no longer will be all the style in Hongkong in heard the name. not, it was now admitted, going to a well-known American journal city on the Thames, has put on its had scarcely points out, that basic English is own jolly little jubilee along the travelled shamelessly first-class with before we sailed, as our taxi swung worn by a well

Holding second-class tickets, we finish in aix weeks. The night men I have seen this summer or less blue no one to forbid. We were fortun-into the Mall and confronted Buck-Timmy's Kitchen the other day, already making great headway lanks of the more in various parts of the world. Danube. It took the volatile genius ate la bo on that train at all, for Ingham Palace, the palace was was an exact copy of a Paddy's.

Buddenly Englund belonged to these completely dark. That startled us Market model, which had been turn- A Japanese-Basic English die-of the national character to find young soldiers who were intoxicat- more than anything else. It seem- ed with their importance, their ad-ed somehow shocking, almost an tionary has just been completed; something about which to

ed to good account by being copied in the lovellest eroase-resisting flour- venture, and too often with drink. outrage. This was the beginning tralian fourbag material was used basic English is furnishing a Fuch a celebration. No emperor We were relieved to have London of London's darkness, which even the effect was striking, because the imaginable, I think an Aus- model for basic Chinese; the now holds gay court at the Schloss appear, familiar, gray, inscrutable. royalty shared, Soviet Government is now issu-Schonbrunn, the beloved palace of

Such was England at the start of mark neatly under the rear belt line. tailor had managed to fit the trade ing basic English text-books; "the beautiful spring," favoured by war,

London had not yet realised the the war. Terrible, yes, but at the It looked particularly enchanting and but presently its evidences same time filled with courage and was not in the least surprised to and in the Leeward Islands basic vanished Hapsburgs. But a jubilee were everywhere. Squads of men determination, impelled by a unity see an exact copy of the model on English is being taught in the was in order and an anniversary squads drilled in auch squares as London in many gulaos. Now we

marched through the streets, more of purpose. We had seen and loved another Latpan couple of days schools. Moreover, it is expect-simply must exist, argued the the court of Somerset House in the knew her in the grip of war and ed that eventually basic English Viennese, to lend colour to a Strand. So untrained they were, loved her no less. We had not yet will be adopted by the screen, Kirmease in a big way. Naturally, they could ever win a war, yet one which that war would bring to her. so Inadequate. One wondered how discerned an lota of the suffering which obviously has everything with everyone feeling like that, an to gain from the uso of a language which can be univerand- ly comprehended. A fear has Quite as naturally, the locale being- been expressed in some quarters Vienna, the anniversary concerned that if basic English achieves | a song. Fifty years ago the the international currency hoped "fakerlied," or, the song of the for it, and especially if it is horse-cab driver, leaped into vogue. adopted by the screen, the ten-In the early 1900's the musical dency may be to restrict the warning of the Viennese jehu still vocabulary of the English-bade the pedestrian beware as his speaking people themselves, fiying two-horse equipage causing the 850 words to be the corners before it reached them. only ones out of the 400,000 in Then the horn of the ubiquitous the dictionary to be employed in taxicab drowned the melodious note. practical daily use. But the fear The wayfarer footing across the cannot be seriously held, inas-crowded Karntnerstrasse, where much as basic English makes its the satisfaction of doing so at the fashion shops, still jumps, without usera examine carefully the exact shade of meaning of each Francis-Joseph whiskers.

bidding of a singing cabman with To-day

ed of it; and in favour of basic | A CABMAN'S SONG English it is pointed out that the Janguage, in its wider form, is at

Vienna has been holding high

anniversary... Was soon

stage

found

took

of the terms used, which is with that zeal with which the assuredly the first step towards Viennese pursues his fun, the whole good English, and, what is more, town is lustily chanting the old the 850 words of basic English flaker song: even at the State Opera on where a star domed the convention- are merely the foundation which the superstructure of a {al garb of the old-time driver and larger vocabulary can be easily furiously tooled a cab along the built. In this respect it differs fashionable Ringstrasso. · Sunday greatly from "pidgin English," hikers in the Wienerwald hum it with which we in the East are as they stroll beneath the trees. so familiar. All in all, there Cradles are rocked to the rhythm would appear to be considerable of, its lullaby. It is pleasant to scope for basic English, the more dream that some Lehar or Strauss so since its adoption might well may even now be working on a gay lead to an eventual greater use and tuneful operetta to be called of the language in its wider The Song of the Horse-cab Driver". form

charm and delight the world.

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necustomed accoutrements.

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one could not be

are now

the autumn.

One of the nattiest ensembles for

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known talpan

in

It

later.

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a big selection of dainty helmets, in- In a local hat department there is

rakishly on the head. In folts I tried cluding dainty cork models that porch

on a largo 7% modal that fell daintily aver my ears, giving the maximum shade.

The underwear department of an...

other firm has some especially fascinating bargains, In laddered xilk, for instance, with little · floral designs of pansies and hops, there is

dainty undershirt with little knick-. ers (with a shaped rubber band and two buttons) to match. I saw also * gay red flannel nightgown, with a fascinating stocking.top rightcap to match. The nightgown is sleeveless, cut on the blas, and daintily Anished with elastic suspenders on the hem. These suspenders are tied to the toes, thus ensuring that the gown won't creep up during the night. A rubber backscratcher and tin of insectibane comes with this night ensemble.

Shaving is becoming definitely out of date. Perhaps the cost of razor blades has something to do with this. If so, I can recommend an excellent substitute for the safety razor that will never wear out. There are really two instruments. One looks some thing like a coarse reap and when rubbed over the face takes off super- fluous hairs with astonishing ease. The second shaving instrument is shaped somewhat similar the first, but is no coarser than fine sandpaper. - It gives a wonderfully smooth affect when used after the first Instrument.

other

A friend of mine wore somethinir "now and amartin gacks; the

day. They were quite transparent, of a light skin colour, with hairs on thema: They "never@get" holes in the toss and, according to my friend, waar for a lifetime. Another fiexcellent. Isshion in socks are thowk having detachable foot, so that thây, may: pulled up and used as woollen and

Ta2 consideration":