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BD-172 Anything Goes (from "Anything Goos")—F.T.

Hylton's Orchestra. You're the Top-Foxtrot (from "Anything Goes")

Hylton's Orchestra. I'll take the South-Foxtrot

Rehearsing a Lullaby-Waltx

BD-176

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.

Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.

BD-177 Lonely Little Dancer-Tango Fox Trot

Way back Home-Fax Trot

BD-178 My heart jumped over the Moon-Fox Trot

BD-174

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NOTES OF THE DAY

FINANCIAL IRONY

FISHES ARE GREAT TRAVELLERS

By W. P. PYCRAFT

THE realisation that some fishes, i presence being demonstrated by

The Very Idea!

APROPOS WOMEN

TH at any rate, migrate as birds fishermen conversant with their Edward Kelly Thinks They

nised.

Rome

enormous

Comment on the silver fluttors of yesterday and the day before is a little belated at this stage, and can- not possibly serve any useful pur- pose. Nevertheless, there is some- thing to be said about scare- mongering in the market. Not for do, is shown when we spenk of the habits. a moment do we suggest that the herring season or the mackaral With great nete, nometimes New York Journal of Commerce season in England: but the nature several milles in length, they inter- was speaking without substantial and the extent of these migrations cept the migrants. As the nete authority when it naserted that the by no means generally recog-are hauled in the fish are speared Treasury of the United States

or clubbed and run ashore to be would abandon its silver purchas-

Some fishes, like certain birds, "canned." ing policy in the foreigri feld.

are resident in Britain; but there Of into years they have afforded Reports of that sort frequently are

which must perforce exhilarating sport to anglers in the whispered from the private offices are of influential people, though they migrate either for the sake of food North Sea, off Yorkshire. Special may have been founded on no bet-or to find suitable places for spawn- tackle, however, and ter evidence than something hearding. This last reason occasions hooks have to be used when tunny are taken with a rod, and they give through the crack in the door: Un nome strange journeys,

The salmon, for instance, leaves their captor an exciting and fortunately a newspaper is not in

And be strenuous time. A position to obtain either con- the sea for fresh water. Armation or denial of auch rumours fore, it can reach a suitable site In a moment. The Treasury De- for matlag and the deposition of its

But the most wonderful of all pariment at Washington Is most eggs, it is often called on to per- secretive. Moreover, a paper re-form gymnastle feats of no mean fish migrations is that of the tor-fresh-water ecl, which reverses the ceiving such a startling piece of order. For it must ascend information as that published by rential rapids, and leap after leap habit of the salmon and goes to the the Journal of Commerce must han has to be made before the desired sen to spawn. About no fish has there been so much mystery as that ten to publish it, in the public haven is attained

which surrounds the spawning of interest, unless it is contradicted.

the col. We are fully equipped for any It has been hinted that perhaps the responsible for the rumour that it was about to change its policy, its endeavour being to shake out the "bull" operators and stabilise the market. Whatever the case may be, the Washington reports were almost universally accepted at their |face value and the markets respond- ed with a crash. There were ruin- ed men in other trading centres than Hongkong. All of which goes to prove if anything-that even the best authority is apt to go astray and that it is best to invest only in official information. And yet, by following the Journal of Commerce's apparently incorrect report, one could have made a small fortune on Wednesday afternoon. That is truo irony.

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A FINE WORK

Treasury Department itself was

The

in new age is fruitful mediums of education, Do

man of visual education,

reply

This sudden change from salt to

river.

Were Born For Love

like women,

THINGS, change.

In the days of chivalry, round tables, knights, daze, beautiful women, the flower of love burned brightly on the field of honour.

Feelings were kind and tender. The lowest of any tender was never accepted.

To-day what do we find? Not even a sterling compen- sation fund.

Once upon a time it used to be chivalry to step off a roadway to let a

pass..

woman

Now, especially if she's at the wheel of a motor-car, it's not but darn chivalry, sense.

common.

Gimme the good old days. Lancelot climbs up the grape- vine, tearing a hole in his armour as he catches a nail.

But some thirty years ago this fresh water is remarkable. And mystery was cleared up. As the no less so in the fact that the whole time for spawning approaches the sojourn in the river is passed fast-cels congregate in shoals. Such as live in Isolated ponds make their ing!

Stranger still is the fact that way overland, through the wet the nearest though not hungry it will fall to grass, at night, to the lure of the fisherman's "fly."

No one has yet been able to ex- In Norfolk they have been keen plain this eccentric behaviour. swarming among the rushes that When the salmon has mated, and fringe the banks in such enormous the eggs are laid, the return jour-numbers that the larger Bah were ney to the sen is made.

thrusting the smaller half out of Visitors to the Cornish const the water. during the summer will see some-

It is a mad rush, this journey to thing of the pilchard-fishing. For the sen, and it in the longest jour- this fish then haunts our southern ney any fish is known to make on const for food, having already in similar errand, - spawned at sea.

The eels head for the Western The young, emerging from the Atlantic, south-east of Bermuda, egg in mid-water, for the most part some 3,000 miles distant, and here, Cynthin shyly creeps out onto migrate to the west coast of at a depth of about 100 fathoms, the France, where they are caught in they lay their eggs and die! large numbers to provide us with

Even more strange seems the "sardines," for the sardine, it is history of the larval eels emerging perhaps not generally known, is from these eggs, for they have to not a distinct species but a pil-find their way back to the rivers

hard in the immature stage.

which their parents left.

The journey takes about three

But does he swear?

No! He whistles instead, and at the first

pulsating trill,

cony..

baloney-sorry———bal-

"Oh, strong and savage mun," she cried in an ecstasy of fear,

"desiring you with the fierceness of love, wanting you with throb-

The handling of no fewer than | INSTRUMENTS OF EDUCATION 4.000 cases, involving the wel-

the Little Colden Locket-Fox Trot ..Jackson's Orchestra. the record now attained by the thent?

Jackson's Orchestra. fare of 7,600 young people, is authorities take full advantage of To this question Sir John BD-179 On the Prom, Prom, Promenade-One Step

Society for the Protection of Reith, director general of the Bri- Jackson's Orchestra.

tish Broadcasting Corporation, Migrations of the herring, on years, and they undergo a great bing tenderness, I yearn for you Jackson's Orchestra. Children. It is a record of and Sir James Marchant, chail which vast numbers of men depend Minute, transparent, shaped like a

transformation In its I Love you Gipsy-Fox Trot

course. with bleeding heart. which the voluntary workers with a resounding no. Accord On the Good Ship Lollipop (Film "Bright Eyes”!

associated with the Society may ing to Sir John Reith, not more I've got a Note-Fox Trot

well be proud, for it implies the than 20 per cent of the education bringing of better. health and

al authorities in Britain use the instructional services provided by more happiness to thousands of the B.B.C.: yet, he maintains, the poor juveniles whose parents sum of £400,000, spread over five are utterly unable, by reason of years, would equip every school poverty, to provide, the neces-

The same la true of cinemaxgs in the estuaries. It is the jing sustained by absorbing some of sities of life, let alone medical projcetors,

the substance of the body. declares Sir James treatment, for their offspring. Marchant. Many excellent educa- Some iden of the extent of this tured, especially in the sphere of poverty may be gained from the fact that in cases dealt with last

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Me and the Old Folks-Fox Trot

On Venation Waters-Fox. Trot

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ANOTHER VIEW

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Beloved, small part of our food-supply, are copic organisms and buying attain-tals. My hero! my knight! my for a living, and which furnish no willow leaf, they feed on micro- my love transcends the immor- more complicated than at one time ed to a length of about three inches, love! Fly to my arms!" was supposed. Some, like the Loch Fyne herring, do not migrate: they begin to grow smaller! others, which do, are now found to be of two races, a summer and a winter-spawning race.

Each comes shorewards to lay its summer-herring which afford the most important fisheries along the coasts of Scotland and England.

of the huge shoals of herring and Why holiday-makers see so little

easily accounted for, since these mackerel on their migrations is

and come to the surface to fred

swarms.

This is because the mouth has to

Lancelot flies. Time flies. The

for a time, they must fast, life be-weather the unseen also changes, be "closed for alterations" and so, scene changes. In this kind of

But just before they enter our

rivers in vast swarms. modelled jaws, and they ascend the rivers they have gained their new-

Everybody changes.

It is now 1935. Lancie has a frail.

"Kid," he says, "you and the about this 3,000-miles journey of

There is something uncanny Hongkong heat have got me hot

sh rest in the deep water by day the infant prodigies. Though they and bothered. I gotta have you, at night on the minute crustacea Stream, which sets out from the like this? Let's go visit th' par-

are borne along by the kindly Gulf baby. What's the use of stallin”- which then come up in incredible Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic,

An' take But the case is different with the within them, developing what we that gris off your face or I'll

there must be some subtle "urge" son and get hitched. "scad." or horse-mackerel, which may call a "thirat for fresh water." sometimes appeur off our coasts inThis causes them to follow up its

wipe it off.. vast numbers

first traces until the river is found, Cyn, nestles closer to him. One cuse is on record where, from of

But the journey is not yet end- any given spot on the route, they ed. They disperse as they go "Watts man", she murmurs, could be seen passing in such along, and thousanda, with wonder-"whatta man! Why don't you mighty hosts that, from above, they ful water-divining power, make looked like one black masa. They their way out of the water, at come up 'n' see muh sometime." were preying on herring-fry. night, to crawl through the gruss

natural history; and the educa tive and cultural value of the month, there were 19 in which contributed by eminent authors, no income at all was being re-schelare, statesmen and journal

ists, is well known;, so that it is ceived, whilst the average

regrettable if full use is not made monthly income per head in the of them. other cases was well below the two-dollar mark! It is almost im- possible for the ordinary in- But there is something to be dividual of even modeat means

Baid for the conservatism teachers. At the beginning of to envisage what this means.

the crae of film and radio so many These unfortunate people who extravagant claims were made on are helped by the Society can-

their behalf, sometimes to the not, in the majority of cases,

effect that the whole teaching staff of the nation would be ren- afford to rent even a cubicle; dered obsolete, that the natural they have to be content with reaction may well have been to doubt whether these two new bed-spaces which in many in-

mediums were really of much stances have to do duty for a educational value at all. Any- whole family. When the So- thing that tends to show that this is not so is therefore of consider- jciety was first launched, the ut-

able potential influence in mold-. most difficulty was experienced ing the educational development in inducing poor people to accept of the equntry. Thus, interest is deservedly being aroused by an medical and other help, but of experiment currently carried on. late there has been a growing in a school in Hemel Hempstead, disposition on the part of those where tests are being made to find out whether the educational value needing assistance and advice to of the cinema is increased if visit the Society's centres, no students are given an insight In- fewer than 2,558 Auch visits be- to the critical and technical funda- ing pald during last month.ments as these. which, up and mentals of film art. Such experi- This of itself is proof of the ap-down Europe and Amerlen, are preciation now shown of the probably numerous in connection humanitarian work of the So- with both cinema and radio, de- norve wide publicity; for it is ciety. Not only does this work from them that the data include the provision of medical derived which show how the best aid, milk, etc., but it also in- these new mediums of education,

results may be obtained

volves the maintenance of deser-with the consequent breaking ving cases in various institu- down of such projudice as still

exista. tions and the granting of sup- plies to others. In short, the Society is doing its utmost, with adequate financial support, within the resources available, the Society could greatly extend to brighten the lives and improve its activities. At the moment, the prospects of a section of the the call for funds exceeds the community which finds it

income, there already being a tremely difficult to keep above heavy deficit on the present the more subsistence level. It year's working. In view, how- is, moreover, interesting itself ever, of the magnificent work in the question of the possible which is being done, the Society confidently looks to the public provision of children's hospitals,

for further monetary support in the need of which has long been

order that it may continue its falt. Admittedly, only the fringe of a big social problem is amongst the poor children of the on poverty and disease at present being touched, but, Colony.

ex-

wor

arc

from

That giant of the mackerel tribe, and find the ponds and ditches left

In the olden days married wo-

the tunny, appears in the Mediter by their parents when they set out men wore nothing but plain gold ranean in early summer in huge to full the creative urge. There wedding rings. After they numbers. But it makes no apec-is no story to match this in all the abandoned the loose leaf system tucular display on arrival, their history of fishes.

they started wearing clothes us well.

“Why pay $12 a day to stay here, if you can't stay awake and enjoy It?"

Nowadays, brides are not con- tent unless they can get platinum hoops. We once knew a chap who gave his girl a brass wedding ring. She thought it was gold.

Imagine her embrassment.

But girls in Hongkong are liko that. They're as hard as iron. The irony of it.

There's two classes of women in Hongkong. Those who need petting, and those who need chloroforming. Those who need petting apply to us. Those who need chloroforming apply to the others.

If there's one thing we don't like it's a woman who nags.

Two things we don't like are two women who nag.

The Inat key to our ignition. was like that. In Americ they'd call her a speakeasy. Speaking of speakeasies, can't sign chits at the Hot we're off out to Shing Mug Mr. Gifford Hull If h

a bottle of whisky ham

drink his reservoirő

Au reservoir!