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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1987.

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Trees. FT.

25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby.

F.T.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25405-Now Or Never. F.T. .............

Darling, Not Without You, F.T.

25418-Little Old Lady. F.T.

Now. F.T.

26481-Whispering. FT.

Tiger Rag. FT.

25503-Las Palmeras. Humba

Inspiration, Tango.

Ray Noble's Orchestra,

‚“Fats" Waller's Orchestra. F.T.

...Ruby Newman's Orchestra.

Ray Noble's Orchestra,

„Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

25514---Moonlight And Shadows. F.T........... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.

Love Is Good For Anything That Alis Ton. F.T.

F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.

25530-1 Can't Break The Habit Of You.

You're Laughing At MC.

23352--Shall We Dance. F.T.

For You. F.T.

25353--Turn Of The Moon. F.T.

· Jammin'. F.T.

F.T.

25561—A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz

It's No Secret I Love You. F.T.

...Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

F.T. Bunne Berigan Orchestra.

26562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night.

'Cause My Baby Says It's So. FT.

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FRIDAY, JULY 30. 1937.

JAMES THURBER, Great American Humorist, is now

in Britain. He wrote this article on his

ADVENTURES IN LONDON

H

the

name

FACTS

James Thurber, one of America's best-loved humor-

ous writers and cartoonists, in 42. Stands 6ft. 11⁄2in. tall. s an editor of the "New York- er." Says ho wears excellent clothes very badly and can never find his hat.

The sudden realisation that TAD the man who this condition is rather more

if I were on the right side of invented the round apparent than real.

I would be on the All this by way of preface to the street wheel-a Mede by my "impressions" of London. wrong side, caused me to come I came into London on wheels to a dead atop on one occasion. Sidetus-- of

and thus I came into a city of A policeman shouted at me to realised that it was going wheels: motor-car wheels, tram drive on. "Lefto!" I said to

"Thank you," I said, and was. to lead eventually to the wheels, bus wheels, policemen him, cheerily, and backed up,

wheels, places named There is one huge square, gone again on the Great Circle automobile, he would pro- Wheel Street' and Wheel Square, carrefour, or circus, somewhere of London,

gentlemon doffing their wheels, in London into which, during

with

bably have been immensely old ladies taking little wheels my wanderings, I drove some

on his wheel

seven or eight times.

ances,

me same

were

The address I had been amused (the Medes' sense for walk, pigeons wheding aloft, seven or eight different times- hunting during my first three one loft wheeling I would know the exact num- or four hours in London was of humour was different and even

pigeons.

ber of times if I knew exactly No. 5, Derby Street, and, at the from ours).

Once I said to a policeman, how many streets lead into the end of the fourth hour, I Sidetus perfected the round "Wheel in Berkeley Square?" square because I came in, once, finally found it, only to discover

and on each of them.

that it was the wrong No. 5, wheel (he got his inspiration He turned

stalked away.

I did not realise that I kept Derby Street. from studying the moon and his

coming back to the same place first wheels were rather moon-

There is a Derby Street in until finally it dawned on It must be understood, to be that it was always the

W.C.1 and a Derby Street in shaped) in order to make battle sure, that I had become lost in policeman whom I accosted. I W.1. I found the wrong one on easy. The Persians and the London, and that this impres thought at first he had been my tenth trip across Black-

com- following me. Medes had originally fought in sion that it is entirely

friars Bridge. posed of wheels grew upon me war chariots which has square gradually.

It dawned on him, finally, It took the heart out of me wheels and they naturally took

loo, after about an hour and a to find No. 5, Derby Street at I had driven quite aimlessly half, during which I had driven last and to realise that it was about the streets for three Benny Goodman's Quarlet. JAPAN AND ILLICIT a terrible tossing around.

the wrong one. I took my DRUGS

There was no such thing in hours, crossing, and recrossing up to his side and hailed him

Blackfriars Bridge, always on

problem up with another police- those days as riding in vehicles what was to me the wrong side The last time, he realised man (probably the one who had "After many years of hard for pleasure-just as there is no of the street, which added a that here was this same motor- relieved my old friend). work, the League of Nations has longer any such thing to-day, nightmare tone to my adven- ist again and that we

"I am looking for No. 5, really now quite old acquaint- Derby Street," I told him. "As ture, closed down all the European The purpose of riding in vehicles

At such a time there are only

a matter of fact, I just came sources of illicit drugs only to to-day (I'm going to drop the two kinds of people in the "Well, sir," he aaid. "I from there-but it isn't really be threatened to-day by the far Medes and Persians now) is two- world: those who know where haven't seen you for quite a the place I want."

while. How have you been?" bigger menace of mass heroin fold: first, to reach some destina. they are going, and oneself.

He thought this over for a production and export from the tion as rapidly as possible, and, My great desire not to meet "I've been fine, thanks," I moment, said that he Was

a friend, or another American said.

frightfully sorry, but that life Far East." This is an extract second, to get away from that or a fellow Ohioan, or a frater-

"That's good," he said, and was like that: one never really wanted what one wanted, after annual report for 1986 published be.

lost. It is hard to convey this a little more haggard perhaps." directing traffle. by General T. W. Russelt, in his

idea to anyone unless he has "Well, I'm a little older than

I told Bridge.

I went back to Blackfriars double capacity as Director of

Some motorists, notably the ing on

been lost in a great city, driv- when I saw you last," the Egyptian Central Narcotics (French, have combined the two street.

the wrong side of the him. "What have you been doing since I was here?" I Intelligence Bureau and Com-folds of this purpose, so to speak,

asked. mandant of the Cairo

What I wanted most to meet

Eventually, I found the right City and do not even get out when was a policeman who was lost. "Oh, just standing here place and, nearby, a garage to Police. As General Russell they reach their destination (I that grew out of the anguished said, with a jolly laugh.

This was an odd little desire wondering where you were," he put up the car in. points out in other passages, have never seen a French car state of mind I was in, for it

"How long do you want to was growing darker and darker Finally I started off again. leave it here?" asked the garage. Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. the opium and heroin traffle in that was standing still).

Manchukuo is an open business Thus the French motorists

and I was growing more and "Well," I said, using an Ameri- man. ... not considered in simply go round and round and soil of darkness

"For ever," I told him, with more fatigued, and out of the canism, "I'll be seeing you."

and fatigue "I have no doubt of it, sir," simple dignity, and I went back any way to be illegal or illicit.round.

grow strange little mental he replied, and added, "My to my flat, from which I have The world source of illicit white

plants, all of them running on relief comes on in two hours- not only not emerged since, but This phenomenon, one of the wheels and all of them on the I'll tell him to keep an eye out from which I never intend to drugs to-day is China north of most futile and terrifying in a wrong side of the street. the Wall and for some distance world now entirely given over to south of it... areas either

futile and terrifying phenomena, under direct or indirect Japanese is known in France as "giration." control." The same story was It is not unusual to see motorists told at the recent meeting of the go round and round the Arc de Committee of the League of Triomphe all Sunday afternoon Nations that deals with the and evening, as other people go traffic in opium and other dan-round a golf course or a dance! gerous drugs by Mr. Fuller, re-floor. presenting the U.S.A. Govern-

25504 There's A Luil In My Life, F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra from the introductory note to the destination as speedily as may nity brother, but merely to come added, "You're looking well one got it, and he went back to

Carelessly. FT.

25566-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra.

I Know Now. FT.

25567-1 Hum A Walla, Waltx

Hold Me Tight. Waltz.

25569––Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. F.T.

Without Your Love. F.T.

Sweet Heartache. F.T.

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra,

.Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.

25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T....."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra,

25573----Wake Up And Live, F.T.

Sleep. F.T.

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STREET MERCHANTS OF

MA

of indoor

THE PAST

but you can't break 'mi Will last a lifetime, and wear out all your boots When you're tired of them as Inces, use them as braces! The world's greatest bargain, only two- pence a pair."

A more elaborate salesman was the

chief market for this Chinese theory, advanced by a scholarly amusements, which engross people in/Money returned next week at this and pencil cases, nine carat gold

the New ns

way.

35 it

Now's

[ANY years ago Edinburgh had a large number of street merchants who carried on their business close to busy thoroughfares and sometimes Almost all the pleasures of in the gutter and by the kerb of the

If you suffer from cold, roughness ment. Both America and Egypt man nowadays, it is interest-busy streets themselves.

of the throat, bronchitis, catarrh, or jare very deeply concerned in this ing to note, describe a large and To-day, whether owing to increase any affection of the vocal chords, this

tablet will cure you in ten minutes. chenp-jack who sold "silver" watches business, for America is the aimless circles. There is a of traffic or the wealth

stance, If satisfaction not given. rings, wallets the evening, most of the

and pocketbooks, friend of mine, that

street-Only twopence a packet, the famous broaches and scarf pins (ther worn). every heroin, and to-day, as the west-

sellers have disappeared, unless

at horehound tablet, pleasant Frenchman has three motor-cars) special seasons, such

and all sorts of stationery and nick- sweet, certain an a curc! ern ports of America have been

nacks. and drives them all at once, but] Year holidays,

your chance, don't miss it!" efficiently closed to this traffic, |--~

Beginning with one article, he Looking back forty or fifty years, An elderly man in a long cont, enlarged on its value, and keeping the road it is seeking is through | —

one recalls hours of amusement en-with a small box propped up on aup a continuous patter, added one the Suez Canal to various ports in Japan, for Japan is extremely cheap-jacks as they gathered their illuminated by a tallowcandle, makes make-weight, till the likely purchaser Joyed watching those lib-tongued portable stand, bla merchandise thing after another, as present or in Europe, from whence it may anxious to restore friendly trad- crowds and disposed of their wares, sucks elaborate preparations that he was completely dazed, swept off his still be clandestinely re-shipped ing relations with

feet, and eagerly handed over his Britain and "Walk up, Indies and gentlemen, soon gathers a crowd and gets under half-crown or two-shilling plece and withdrew delighted, hugging bls. to New York. These facts speak the British Empire. It might walk up, while I demonstrate to you

the excellence of the new American "This, gentlemen," he says, "is parcel in his arms. for themselves, but two small well be insisted on, as a condi-potato-peeler, just placed on the preparation for removing grease- The same plan was carried out.

spots from all sorts of cloth, Inkstains comments are pertinent. The tion of such renewed friendship, market by a big Birmingham firm from tablecloths, oil paint-marks uses soc

by the sweets-seller, was added Guaranteed to save hours of labour from Jackets or first is that Japanese Imperial- that Japan should fall into line each day, preserves the most valuable and every kind vereats, dec. Any burley-sugar to the original pocket,

and all for sixpence." ism has proved economically with civilisation in this matter and other fruit; so simple that a child of any sort, from all sorts

portion of potatoes, apples, pear pitch, paint, turpentine, ar grease

Vendors of umbrellas and walking- unsound. Her methods of ag- of dangerous drug control. Un- may use it, and guaranteed to lust faces. "Just let me try it on your silcks were, perhaps naturally, looked Hfetime! Here you are, only a few jacket, sir, for seeing's belleving." on rather with suspicion, for nothing gression have failed to produce happily, Japan's aggressive for- remaining, sold in town at two

A practical demonstration is given, can beat the umbrella as a "left" or "alcen-by-mistake" article but any commercial return-and in eign policy, seen in the North shillings, my price, sixpence!""

and the new-potent cleansing-800p they did business very quietly. A practical demonstration follows, her desperate need of money she China crisis, bid fair to bring potatoes are peeled and sliced, and has a brisk market at one penny a

plece. Inspection, and has felt no acruple in encourag-to a halt the plans which had passed round for

many "anners" are collected for an Laces for Braces n way, ing an abominable business, been made for placing Anglo- urticle which, for once in

proves both serviceable and lasting.; which all the rest of the world Japanese relations on a better is doing its best to repress. The basis. Unless the Tokyo Gov- other point is that the British ernment shows real friendship Government could probably do for China, it can hardly expect small table covered with neat puckets ordinary brown and black, leather often baffled the purchasers.

Ten-Minutes Cure

I

of sur-

or coloured

In the season sellers of "all the pantomimo

were much in songs evidence, and at holiday-Ume the Huiter toy-merchant with musicol A great favourite among those tops, mechanical toys, and other street-inerchants was the bootlace gifts for the bairns, did good business. | seller. He was quite'an accomplished A clever fellow was he who made Here is another gentleman with stock

orator, and had a large and varied and sold wire puzzles which 13 of lacer:-"Finest mohair, solved with ease, but which very in white paper,

and a flaring and porpoise-hide."

All more than any other at the Britain to initiate a movement or a cough or a cold!" he shouts,

these folks were artists in their own naphtha Inmp." "The world's wonder

He let himself go about the porpoise line, and helped to brighten the present moment to induce "a for a better understanding with the famous horehound tablet, made hide, and reached the climax by streets of Auld Reekle before. the

from a recipe handed down from lost shouting. You may, tako, em this days of cinema and wireless, change of heart" on this matter 'Japan.

century."

way, that way, any way you like,

Goo. We Cooper