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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

JUNE 28, 1988.

THIS CURIOUS WORLD B

OLD TIMERS

Never DIE..

HAVE spent quite a lot of my Hfe in England. And I like it. On the other hand.

I have spent quite a bit of

. that time on the fringe of the English show-bustness. And, I don't like it quito so much.

You see, I am not an "old timer," I have no sentimental attachment to old songs, old actórk.... old music-balls. They bore mé to tears.

That much is purely my own opinion.

But I havo always liked the Engilah, because there is so much to discover about them,

I had always auspected it. I had never known it until I began to study radio carefully: but wak thero ever a more sentimental race on earth than the English?

Go to the BB.C. and any you have an iden about an old-time music-hall programme and they'll thank you and recommend you for a knighthood,

in the world would have put on, as a late dance musie programme, an "Old Time Night," as the D.B.C.

WHAT Country

In the days when I happened to earn a living playing danco musle

I was engaged to play at Hudders- feld.

Ours was an "advanced" band, very big, very modern, and it was, presumably. engaged for that

reason.

But there came a time during the

By Spike Hughes

evening when we got thirsty, so most of us went off the platform and left a planist to amuse the mob.

ITAVING nothing better to

Hao, the pianist played

waltzes and barn dances and polkas. He was a riot with the dancera young, rich, sophistlented children of Yorkshire wool mer- chants and the rest of the band had the remainder of the night off. I was grateful for this zentimen- tality.

In this particular Instanco I might

suspect the popularity of

" old-time dances as an excuse for an abandon and galety which no longer exist.

Our post-war generation has had aingularly little reason to be gay.

By Imagining itself in the gay Edwardian days it is able occasion- ally to let off steam. It is a sad thought, though, that this galaty cannot be inspired except by a period which none of us lived in.

England's reverence for ** old time this-and-that is not con- Aned to its amusements, however.

The public will go into cestasies over what it considers a "fine old English gentleman."

Indeed, one has only to live slightly longer, remain more activo

than usual to become a public and horolo figure in England.

The English до face can hardly be said to live well. But lot an 80-year-old peer smoke his elgare, race his horses, drink his port, keep a port-coloured complexion and give a general impression of good living in his old-ngo and the English wil worship him.

Political di Kerences, after an. opponent has reached a certain age, are forgotten and replaced by * genuino affection.

George Lansbury and Lloyd George have a patriarchal status evon among people who disagree with their politics.

"Well," they say, "perhaps Lansbury is a Red and all that, but what a fine old gentleman, Sir"

HE Victorian age was

men ruled by a fine old lady-Palmerston, Prime Minister when he was over 80; Disraeli, with his "green old; age; "Gladstone, the G.O.M.

It was an age of boards and side- whiskers, when undergraduates, rowing in the Boat Race, assumed an appearance of old age,

One of the most intriguing (and

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanter

CLOWN

MEDIEVAL FEUDAL LORDS USED "FOOLS” (WITTY COMEDIANS) TO ENTER- TAIN THEM AT THEIR CHIEF MEAL. THIS LATER CAME TO BE A CHOICE POSITION IN THE KING'S' COURT FROM THIS ENTER- TAINER, CAME OUR MODERN CLOWN.

$1 TIFFINS

at-

BERDANIER

LOYALTY

"FROM LATIN "LEX CAME FRENCH "LO HENCE "LOIALTE MEANT FIDELITY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS LAWS. WHEN ADOPTED. INTO ENGLISH AS “LOYALTY” IT TOOK ON THE ADDED SIGNIFI- CANCE OF ALLEGIANCE TO A CHIEP OR PERSON-

Jimmy's

Also A la Carte

China Bldg., Hongkong.

Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

ALLEY OOP

WELL,DOOTSY-Y'SURE/ I'LL TELL YUH, OOP-

GOSH, FIXÉD IM UP SWELL HE MEANT IT FOR YOU! ·

OL WUR'S SAY, HOW COME

OUT

COLD!

YOU DID YOUR PAL

THAT WAY?

ONLY YOU BENT DOWN. JUST AS HE THREW!

horrible) aspects of the English veneration of age is that when there is nothing old left to vener- ate, they will invent something old. Gradually. our loveliest houses aro being pulled down. But are really modern houses put up in their place? No.

In Bussex, I know a man who has an "old" house. He built it a year ago with old bricks and old beams. Even the roof has old tiles carefully made to sag as though by the weather-beating of cen- turien.

Any criticism of this house is met with: "Oh, well, but it fts in with the landscape.”

why, when the trees in the landscape have now leaves every year, a now house should not "Ars in." I cannot think.

No

Tow the irony of this.

hankering after old things in England is that as a country. it does Icas to preserve them than any other.

It likes the iden of “olde worlde " petrol stations and fako Tudor villas, but it would not raise a Anger to keep Berkeley Square and Adelphi Terrace.

If there is no reverence for old architecture in England, the wor- ship of age, of bygone periods is rampant in other directions.

At this moment there are a thou- sand pageants being organised. Five hundred of them-will be about Elizabeth Tudor and Drake with Raleigh thrown in as an extra in- cident. The other five hundred wil be about Charles II and Nell Gwynn.

What wl pack a music-hall more thoroughly than the an- nouncement that a famous old

comedian will be in the bill?

And when he's in the bill he'll be made to sing exactly the same songs, crack exactly the same jokes as he did thirty or forty years ago. I once went to see a famous old comedinu at the Palladium, came on, sang a song, then went off for three minutes to change, leav- ing the stage empty and the or- chestra vaguely playing reprise after reprise of the first song.

Any modern turn behaving like that would get the bird in a minute, but because this was "uld- time music-hall everything was forgiven.

The faithfulness of the British public to its favourites is legend- ary, of course.

HARLIE COBORN must always sing "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," Harry Champion must always sing "Bolled Beef and Carrots," Vesta Victoria must always tell about being left" Walt- ing at the Church."

But perhaps the oddest thing of ull is how quickly the British public will make its favourites into old- timers.

I heard Larry Adler the other day. He is years younger than 30. but already he is an old-timer. He wasn't allowed to go off the stage unt he had played the

Rhapsody in Blue."

And when Larry Adler is 80, the Grand Old Man of the mouth- organ, he'll still have to play this piece.

He will be what the English love most: he will be very old.

-To-day's. Thought-------- HOW grand to recall things

as they were;

How grand to have our memory

jonged.

-D'ALTON.

Don't Wait for Your Friends to

Tell You

""IT'S A KNOCKOUT !”

"JOY OF LIVING“

YEH, FOOZY- THAT'S WHAT I'D FIGGERED!

HOW ABOUT IT, DOOTSY

UH** ER--AH

By Vincent Hamlin

IT LOOKS LIKE NOW WE DE ARE BUT: FOUR, COUNTIN' WUR THERE ON TH' FLOOR!

3

IN THE

HIMALAYAN

RANGE, "THERE ARE 20,000-FOOT

PEAKS ...AS YET UNNAMED.

Ferguson

SCIENTISTS SAY.

A SOUND AUDIBLE TO A MAN AT FOUR YARDS CAN BE HEARD BY

A DOG AT ABOUT

TWENTY-FOUR

YARDS

The LITTLE RED SPIDERS"

THAT INJURE OUR

EVERGREENS

ARE MITES/

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

20

ACROSS 1 is this the only thing in cðuca-

tion of any value? (5).

4 Bluebeard could not have been

this sort of rogue (9).

8 Avid fellow with serpentine

heart (7).

Surmount (two words 3, 4). 10 A hot mixture (4).

11 Advice likely to improve the

garden-gure it out (5).

12. The cyclist has to pay for this

wheel, nevertheless (4).

15 "Dry linen coats" (anng.) (13). 17 If a thing is this there's some-

ts to be said for it (13).

20

(4).

to stern meeting, possibly

21 A puzzling old bowl apparently

(5).

* This famous motorist was by

no means an outsider (4).

25 A billiards ball may be this

after being this hebended (?). 26 What the Bolshle plumber be-

lieves in? (two words-3, 4). 27 Sultuble kind of bridge, for

footpads? (0).

20 Aa mouldy as a book of orders?

(5).

DOWN

The Terriers"? (three words 4, 2, 3),

2 Undesirable epithet for the or-

derly room (7).

3 A high note among Osh (4).

May be a small gain, but cer- tain (four words-4, 2, 3, 4). A celebration (4).

Not open to make a chap com- munistie (7).

HUHI SO FAR, \~ FATE SEEMSTBE) 'SAVIN' MY DOOKS

SOME WEAR AN" "TEAR!

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7 Should not be sung at 5 down

(5).

All that the cheerful coulle can do about his burden (four words 4, 3, 4, 23.

13 The object of militant sims (5). 14 Some of the bosses (5).

10 The world has been plunged

into gloom since then (9).

18 A thorough search (two words,

4. 3).

19 Continuous epithet for a neat

coiffure (7).

20 Fundamental (5).

23 With string around it it would

be getting longer (41.

24 He might cause a flood if he lost

his head (4),

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