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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1938.
Paul Holt says:
"You're welcome' to
H
the
AD hardly put my
nose in this office door, fresh landed from America recently" when that little old lady, beloved of all, was calling and up and in, asking a lot of pertinent questions.
Tell me, she said, are they still saying O.K. or Sez you? P'd be glad to know...
to
answers these questions
porters people like Bette Davis,
Now what is Melvyn Douglas, Luise Rainer, softly
You're welcome, I suid. That's splendid
it?
You're welcome, I said.
If partner isn't hopping on. you get me.
And do they drive motor-cars better than we dat
They drive motor-cara faster and safer and worse. Their merits, are the merits of broad, straight roads and a fine sense of timing. Americans drive like Bradman bats, attacking everything.
It is much safer than dawd- ling. But they pass slower cars cheerfully on both sides, cutting in. And if they want to turn right they'll pull their cars
American women's voices are smack in front of a stream of monotonous. They all traffic. on-coming at fifty miles Miriam Hopkins, Frank Capra use, East and West, the same an hour, just sit there until the lent their names, gave their lilt. It is almost a conversa- other stream cleara. Brakes. and that's the time and money to a strike cam- tional ritual. They drop their squeal like trapped rabbits.
I'm so glad that I am. You are,
phrase. It isn't now; it's just paign. Capra put a sandwich voices as they make their points. Nobody minds.
W
than
necks as about a five-dollar fine.
Did you enjoy the food? Ma'am, my stomach, if you
that everybody uses it. I defy board on his back, marched up And they slur. They don't say But when they come to a any American to go through an and down outside a cinema, an- Angels with Dirty Faces; they corner they pull up dead. I hour without using it. I went pouncing, "This theatre is un- say Angels with Durdy Vazes. I they can see there's nothing Stubbs Rd. into a bookshop in New York fair to 'Citizen-News' strikers." find it delightful. Their figures coming_crosswise for a mile. and asked for Hitler's "Mein Then somebody noticed that are uniformly good, though I (hedges are rare in the west) Kampf," adding to the girl, the house was showing a film suspect that owes something to they still pull up dead, pause de- quite unnecessarily, "Of course, called "Blockade." Now, the the high waistline. They wrap cently, drive on. They are not that doesn't mean I'm a Nazi." film is popularly supposed to be their diaphragms tight and let worrying so much about their "You're welcome," she said. most sympathetic to the Govern- everything below swing.
ment cause in Spain, although personally I found it confusing So that it'a à parrot phrase. in that Henry Fonda seemed to And the jambugs, the jon-jnos, They don't mean it?
be the only man left on his own whatever you call them? No. I really think they do. side at the final fade. Anyway, Jitterbugs, ma'am, must be don't mind meeting an old friend, Courtesy is a major American they thought it was, and called caught young. They are essen- is a seething protest at crushed- industry. It comes, I'd guess, Mr. Capra, who was sympathis- tially collegiate, though that ice and chilled scafood and NO CURE FOR just between automobiles and ing with five fired reporters, off word is not as snobbish as you'd countless drinks that don't look discussing the Spanish war until the house should be show- guess, since high and low all go like alcohol, don't taste like RUTHLESSNESS situation. There is something ing something more degrading.
to high school; black and white, alcohol, but contain a lot. The of another age about it.
too.
favourite American drink looks Twelve persons are missing. Eighteenth century, powdered
Male jitterbugs wear tennis like a fruit salad and kicks like including two women and two wigs and crinolines.
And the women, Mr. Holt, are shoes with inch-thick soles; they a mule. children, after having been The tough American just they really lovelier, the American wear tennis shirts with Walt doesn't exist. Taxi-drivers have I am very old and understanding; sports jackets which bulge more women, than the London ladies? Disney characters all over them, machine-gunned by Japanese air-their names up in their cabs, you can tell me.
But you enjoyed yourself, Mr.. craft while travelling in a China like to know yours, and are us My wife is young and under- hair inevitably stands on end.
a poncher's. And their Holt!
I had the time of my young National Aviation Corporation like as not to ask you to go fish standing, ma'am; I will. Ameri-
ing on Sundays. (One did ask can women aren't any lovelier; wear a polo-necked sweater, a
The female jitterbug likes to life. Worked and played harder- liner to Wuchow. Details of
than I me.) The names thing is vital less, I'd say. But they make swing skirt, flat shoes with reckon that I am just about a ever have before. I the case are still vague. But to American civilisation.
more of less beauty, they are sufficiently well-known Second time the elevator boy
ankle socks. Jitterbugs rarely hundred hours short on sleep- They wear just the hat to jitter. They stand packed tight Only one night would they let to arouse the most intense fecl-2,032, Mister Holt?" The boot- second glance. Their shoes are leader they can find. If a musi was 14,000 feet high above takes you up he'll say, "Room make you crick your neck for a and docile around any band me go to bed before 4 a.m. I ings of disgust and antagonism black is likely to be hurt if you just the height to make them cian gets to swinging it warmer Texas, they couldn't get at me. among neutrals. Here is an don't tell him your name, inquire swing, instead of waddle. Their than demanded by the commer- In Hollywood I saw, interview- instance of ruthlessness and con- theory given me that Americans longer, because
after his mother. I have had the skirts are shorter, but look cial aspect of his contract, the ed, had my picture taken with scienceless war which blackens are obliged to find out your choose to flare out from a very start to peck.
they mostly jitterbugs still stand still but sixty-five personalities. They the character of the war-maker name at once because they con- high waistline.
all kept their appointments to to an even deeper shade than did "Sir," but I think it's more like like in them is a horrible habit of still. I couldn't help feeling 1
the minute. Pecking is throwing head and sider it undemocratic to call you The only thing I found to dis- neck forward, keeping the body the unprovoked attack on the ly they just like to know your rolling the stockings below the was watching Chinese bandits Mr. Holl
And your biggest impression,. former British Ambassador, Sir name.
knee. When they walk fast the being beheaded. When jitter- Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. In
rolls protrude like a tyre adver- bugs feel like exercise, they second floor of the R.C.A.-build- Standing on the seventy-.. that case which oddly enough What DO you mean, discussing they tug savagely and self-con- walk around, arms linked, chang- Seeing glimpses of crisscrossed. tisement. When they sit down break away from the mass and ing, New York, on a foggy night. occurred on August 26 last year the Spanish war situation?
sciously at their skirts to beat ing step every there was
Madam, they do little else.
other room for They have a man called Roose below the knee are as ugly, apart Suzie Q you must learn to hop yellow on the mists as they roll- the hiatus. Stockings rolled Rarely they'll Suzie
beat. streets, going on for ever. And doubt and error.
The pilots velt who runs the nation, and from being pointless, as waist- twice, first on one foot, then on ed up at us.
Q. To the light of the city reflected hot who attacked the Ambassador two mayors called Hague and
Shaw who, in Jersey and Los trouser line on fat men.
coats that fail to make the the other. The effect comes fires of hell. I
It looked like the possibly mistook his for ' Angeles, run their towns as
from hopping on the foot your smell the brimstone.
swear I could Chinese staff motor car. But though they were separate na- in the case of the C.N.A.C. air-tions; but none of these gentle- liner there was no mistake. It men gets up within challenging distance of Generalissimo was deliberate murder of civi-Franco. lians in a civilian plane, partly Spain is the focal point of all owned by neutral capital; for the discussion, the final blow in all By way of relief from the urgent of former days known as the White- C.N.A.C. is jointly backed by argument. If you can't beat a times, I want to tell you about the able dog Chirgwin, and, as the "Lost" problems of these troubious eyed Kafflr. He is, in fact, a verit- man in a row, you just call him dog next door. Chinese and American finances.a Spanish Fascist and walk
advertisements have it, he "answers He is a rough-hatred terrier, hard-to the name of Spot."" Moreover, it is more than likely away. They tangle Spain up inly much more then a pup as yet, Presumably whoever presided at that the airmen who attacked
and white except for one comical his christening was Inspired by that local labour disputes.
While
brown spot just over his right eye.
psychological reactions. Chirgwinish right eye. That eye is This gives him a faint canine like important. It has very
some
THE DOG
the plane knew precisely who there was a newspaper strike.ness to that famous music-hall artist
I was in Hollywood was going to travel aboard it. In sympathy with five fired re- They aimed, it must be obvious,
at delivering a blow to China bytions can be stopped without re- killing a number of her financial course to rather more forceful leaders, but more especially Dr. means than protests.
Perhaps Sun Fo, the man who is alleged if the facts of such horrors as to have successfully treated for the Japanese people by the press this one were to be put before assistance from Russin, the son of the nation, public conscience of Sun Yat-sen. Dr. Sun Fo, it is might be awakened; for general- understood, was booked to travel ly speaking Japanese men and by the C.N.A.C. airliner the women, out of uniform, are just.) night before she left. It is as soft-hearted and kindly as significant, if the airmen were
those of any other land. They endeavouring to kill him, that two training planes in their own read of the "terrible disaster" to they should have been so well country which yesterday collided informed of his intentions. But in the air, and it must be sup- at the last minute, it seems, the posed they feel sorrow and sym- Chinese statesman changed his pathy for the victimą. But it is plans and went to Chungking by unlikely they will read of the un- Eurasia plane. But orders were planes carrying the proud mark- provoked attack by pursuit out, apparently; the fate of the Ings of the rising sun which C.N.A.C. plano was sealed, and attacked and destroyed the fact that five persons defenceless Chinese-American escaped from it with their lives owned machine, carrying men, was no fault of the attackers.women and children on anything
It is easy to gucou at the ro- but a warlike enterprise.
criminal outrage; but it is dim they will be shocked into somé cult to soo how such depreda sort of protest,
I
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A Back-Garden Parable
definite By "AN OLD STAGER”
Undoubtedly Spot realises that ho has a funny eye. He senses the fact. that, when humans look at him, they smile.
By Lichty Invariably, focus on it and start to
I would not say this has embittered Spot's whole existence. Life in a comfortable menage, with admiring and solicitous human foster-parents and a fine back-garden in which to. exercise,
quito safeguards him. against that tragedy.
Freudian Feeling
But, all the same, the conscious- ness of that mirth-provoking spot, a sort of misplaced Achilles heel, tends to make Spot a trifle suspicious, und even perhaps almost challengingly aggiessive. It sels up, in fact, what Dr. Froud would certainly call an feriority complex.
Almost simultaneously with Spot's arrival next door there came also a new baby blue-eyed
humanity
girl. This fair-haired
morsel of femining- is now just one year oki my calculation, and, though he adores
her
by
has already been a source. of considerable tribulation to Spot.
To start with, in his puppy stage, he once jumped into her perambulin- tor when she was out sleeping in the garden. That was one of the few od casions when Spot has been really smacked as distinct from being spectacularly cuffed, in a purely Picks wickian tenagall. Spot's deadly?
But that Was pot
enemies are the suburban cats, and our suburb seems to have a peculiar? lyrich alluvial deposit of ent When he spots one, he barks furious
des (Contiquadron Pros
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