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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1937.

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Trees. FT.

THE

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The

Ray Noble's Orchestra.

Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1937.

25374-1'm Crazy 'bout My Baby, F.T......... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25105-Now Or Never. F.T.

Darling. Not Without You, F.T.

25448-Lille Old Lady. FT.

Now. F.T.

25481-Whispering. F.T.

Tiger Rag. F.T.

25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba

Inspiration. Tango.

F.T.

Ruby Newman's Orchestra.

..Ray Noble's Orchestra.

„Benny Goodman's Quartet.] JAPAN AND ILLICIT

Xuvier Cugal's Orchestra.

26514-Moonlight And Shadows. F.T. .........Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.

Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You. F.T.

DRUGS

"After many years of hard 23530-I Can't Break The Habl Of You. F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra, work, the League of Nations has

You're Laughing At Me.

25552-Shall We Dance. FT.

For You. F.T.

25353-Turn Off The Moon, F.T.

Jammin'. FT.

F.T.

25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz

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

..Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.

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

JAMES THURBER, Great American Humorist, is now

in Britain. He wrote this article on his

ADVENTURES IN LONDON

H

the

with

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

FACTS

James Thurber, ono of America's best-loved humor- ous writers and cartoonists, is 42. Stands 6ft, 11⁄2in. tall.

Is an editor of the "Now York- or." Says he wears excellent clothes vory badly and can never find his hat,

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

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

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

and thus 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,

gentlemen doffing their wheels, in London into which, during

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

ber of tinies if I knew exactly No. 5, Derby Street, and, at the pigeons. 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 is Berkeley Square square because I came in, once, finally found it, only to discover that it was the wrong No. 5, on his wheel and on each of them. wheel the got his inspiration He turned

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

coming back to the same place

There is a Derby Street in until finally it dawned on me first wheels were rather moon- 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 serosted. I W.1. I found the wrong one on casy. The Persians and the London, and that this impres- thought at first he had been my tenth trip across

com- following me.

friars Bridge. Medes had originally fought in sion that it is entirely

posed of wheels grow upon me

It dawned on him, finally, It took the heart out of me war chariots which has square gradually,

too, after about an hour and a to find No. 5, Derby Street at wheels and they naturally took I had driven quite aimlessly half, during which I had driven last and to realise that it was a terrible tossing around. about the streets for three up to his side and hailed him

stulked away.

ture.

ances.

BELIZE

were

Black-

my

the wrong one. I took There was no such thing in hours, crossing and recrossing seven or eight times.

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

added a that here was this same motor- relieved my old friend). for pleasure--just as there is no of the street, which

"I am looking for No. 5, really now quite old acquaint- Derby Street," I told him. "As longer any such thing to-day. nightmare tone to my adven- ist again and that we

a matter of fact, I just came The purpose of riding in vehicles

At such a time there are only

"Well, sir," he said. "I from there--but it isn't really to-day (I'm going to drop the two kinds of people in the

for quite a the place I want.” Medea and Persians now) is two- world: those who know where haven't seen you

while. How have you been?"

He thought this over for a

said "I've been fine,

that thanks," I moment,

he fold: first, to reach some destina- they are going, and oneself.

WOS My great desire not to meet tion as rapidly as possible, and,

frightfully sorry, but that life a friend, or another American said.

was like that: one never really second, to get away from that or a fellow Ohioan, or a frater. Bunne Berigon Orchestra,

"That's good," he said, and wanted what one wanted, after across someone else who was a little more haggard perhaps." lost. It is hard to convey this

directing traffic. ideu to anyone unless he has "Well, I'm a little older than I went back

I told Bridge. been lost in a great city, drive when I saw you last,"

the wrong side of the him. "What have you

doing since I was here?" I asked. What I wanted most to meet

25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. F.T.

'Cause My Baby Says It's 50. F.T.

25504-There's A Lull In My Life. FT. .....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

25507-1 Hum A Waltz, Waliz

Hold Me Tight. Waltz,

25568-Let's Call The Whole Thing Off.

Without Your Love, F.T.

25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love.

Sweet Heartache. F.T.

25573-Wake Up And Live, F.T.

Sleep. F.T.

YORK BUILDING

.Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. Police.

CHATER ROAD.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE OPENING SUNDAY

GRIN, GANG, GRIN!

As

be.

been

to Blackfriars

STREET MERCHANTS OF

MANY

THE PAST

but you can't break 'm!

Will

Inst

a lifetime, and wear out all your boots! When you're tired of them as Jaces, use them 49 bruces! The If you suffer from cold, rougliness | world's greatest bargain, only two-

closed down all the European sources of Blicit druga only to be threatened to-day by the far bigger menace of mass heroin production and export from the This is an extract Far East."

annual report for 1936 published Carelessly. F.T. 25500-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra. by General T. W. Russell, in his

I Know Now. F.T.

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. double capacity as Director of

Some motorists, notably the ing on the Egyptian Central Narcotics French, have combined the two street. F.T.....Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. Intelligence Bureau and Com-folds of this purpose, so to speak,

Eventually, I found the right. F.T....."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. mandant of the Cairo City and do not even get out when was a policeman who was lost. "Oh, just standing here place and, nearby, a garage to

General Russell they reach their destination (This was an odd little desire wondering where you were," he put up the car in.

that grew out of the anguished said, with a jolly laugh.

"How long do you want to points out in other passages, have never seen a French car state of mind I was in, for it

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

". Munchukuo is an open business

and I was growing more and "Well," I said, using an Ameri- man. Thus the French motorists more fatigued, and out of the canism, "I'll be seeing you." "For ever," I told him, with concern ... not considered in simply go round and round and soil of darkness 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. for you."

emerge. 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 Are de Committee of the League of Triomphe all Sunday afternoon Nations that deals with the und evening, as other people go

years ago Edinburgh had a traffic in opium and other dan-round a golf course or a dance large number of street merchants gerous drugs by Mr. Fuller, re-floor.

who carried on their business close to busy thoroughfares and sometimes presenting the U.S.A. Govern-

Almost all the pleasures of in the gutter and by the kerb of the

of the throat, bronchitis, catarrh, or pence a pair." ment. Both America and Egypt man nowadays, it is interest-busy streets themselves.

any affection of the vocal chords, this are very deeply concerned in this ing to note, describe a large and To-day, whether owing to increase tablet will cure you in ten minutes

circles. There is a of traffic or the wealth of indoor business, for America is the aimless

stance, if satisfaction not 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 evening, most of the street-Only twopence a packet, the heroin, and to-day, as the west-friend of mine, that every sellers have disappeared, unless athorehound tablet, pleasant

Frenchman has three motor-cars special reasons, such the

15

New sweet, certain as

11 cure! ern ports of America have been and drives them all at once, but Year holidays.

your chance, don't miss it!"

Beginning with one article, he efficiently closed to this traffic.

Looking back forty or Afty years, | An elderly man in a long coat, enlarged on its value, and keeping one recalls hours of amusement en- with a small box propped up on the road it is seeking is through

up a continuous patter, added one joyed watching those glib-tongued portable stand. kis merchandise thing after another, as present or the Suez Canal to various ports in Japan, for Japan is extremely cheap-jacks as they gathered their illuminated by a talluwcandle, makes make-weight, ill the likely purchaser in Europe, from whence it may anxious to restore friendly trad- crowds and disposed of their wares. such elaborate preparations that he was completely dazed. swept off his still be clandestinely re-shippeding relations with Britain and "Walk up, Judies and gentlemen, soon gathers a crowd and gets under! feet, and eagerly handed over his half-crown or two-shilling plece and withdrew delighted, hugging his to New York. These facts speak the British Empire. It might walk up, while I demonstrate to you way.

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

spots from 31 sorts of cloth, inkstains comments are pertinent. The tion of such renewed friendship, market by a big Birming on from tablecloths, oil paint-marks varied sticks of rock

Guaranteed to save hours of labour from Jackets or overcoats, &c: Any first is that Japanese Imperial-that Japan should fall into line cach day, preserves the most valuable and every kind of stalu, from tar, barley-sugar to the original packet,

"and all for sixpence," portion of potatoes, apples, penra, pitch, paint, turpentine, or grease ism has proved economically with civilisation in this matter and other fruit; so simple that a child of any sort, from all sorts of sur- Vendors of umbrellus and walking-

Inces." unsound. Her methods of ag-of dangerous drug control. Un-may use it, and guaranteed to last a

"Just let me try it on your sticks were, perhaps naturally, looked lifetime! Here you are, only a few

on rather with suspicion, for nothing can beat the umbrella as a "left" gression have failed to produce happily, Japan's aggressive for- remaining, sold in town at iw jacket, air, for seeing's believing."

A practical demonstration is given, or "taken-by-mistake" article but and the new-patent cleansing-song they did, business very quietly. any commercial return-and in eign policy, seen in the Northlings, my price, sixpence!"

A praciles! demonstration follows has a brisk market at one penny a | her desperate need of money, she China crisia, bid fair to bring potatoes are peeled and sliced, and plece.

In the season sellers of "all the Inspection, and

partomime songs

much has felt no scruple in encourag-to a halt the plans which had passed round for

many "tothers" are elected for an Laces for Braces evidence, and at holiday-time the tatter toy-merchant with musical ing an abominable business, been made for placing .Angle- article which, for once in a

And

other A great favourite among those tops, mechanical toys, which all the rest of the world Japanese relations on a better proves both serviceable and lasting.

street-merchants was the boolinee gifts for the bairne, did good business. seller. He was quile an accomplished! A clever fellow was he who made is doing its best to repress. The basis. Unless the Tokyo Gov-Ten-Minutes Cure

orator, and had

he Here is another gentleman with stock

large and varied and sold wire puzzles which of laces: "Finest other point is that the British ernment shows real friendship

mohair, solved with enne, but which Government could probably do for China, it can hardly expect small table covered with neat packets ordinary brown and black, leather often baffled the purchasers.

In white paper. and a flaring: and porpoise-hide,"

these folks were artists in their own naphtha lamp. The world's wonder for a cough or a cold!" he shoula, He let himself go about the porpoise ling, and helped to brighteri

and renched the ellinax by streets of Auld Reekle before "the famous horebound tablet, made hide, from a recipe handed down from lost shouting. You may take 'em this days of cinema and wireless,

way, that way, any way you like,} century."

That Haley man and an Al- American fun-team go to town! 7 stars in 70 morry. minutes... with an earful of hit tunes... an eyeful of good-lookers...but, First and last...laughs, dlaughs, laughs!

icka STAR

with

PPATSY KELLY. JACK HALEY ROSINA LAWRENCE MISCHA AVER LYDA ROBERTI alto STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY Directed by EDWARD SIDOWICK

and NEWS OF

also 'Colourful Boatbay (Coloured

Travel- talk)

THE

DAY

including

• THE WEDDING BELLS RING FOR EX-KING EDWARD and WALLIS WARFIELD

more than any other at the Britain to initlate a movement present moment to induce "n for a better understanding with change of heart" on this matter Japan...

way.

r

A more elaborate salesman was the

cheap-jack who sold "silver" watches given rings.

wallets and pocketbooks, famous brooches and scart pins (then worn), and all sorts of stationery and nick- nacks.

as £1 Now's

the sweets-seller, Was added or coloured

were

very

AJI

the

the

Cleo. W. Cooper

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