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The
Paul Holt says:
"You're welcome' to
the
AD hardly put my
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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? I'd be glad to know.
answers
to these questions
partner isn't hopping ou. If you get me.
And do they drive motor-cars better than we do?
They drive Motor-cars faster and safer and worse. Their merits are the merits of broad, straight ronds 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
porters people like Bette Davis, American women's voices are smack in front of a stream of Now what is Melvyn Douglas, Luise Rainer, softly monotonous. They all traffic on-coming at fifty miles
You're welcome; I said.
That's splendid
it?
Miriam Hopkins, Frank Capra use, East and West, the same an hour, just sit there until the lent their names, gave their lit. It is almost a conversa- other stream clears, Brakes and that's the time and money to a strike cam- tional ritual. They drop their squeal like trapped rabbits.
You're welcome, I sald. I'm so glad that I am. You are,
phrase. It isn't new; it's just paign. Capra put a sandwich voices as they make their points. Nobody minds.
that everybody uses it. I defy board on his back, marched up And they slur. They don't any 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. If hour without using it. I went nouncing, "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 dend, pauso de- quite unnecessarily, "Of course, film is popularly supposed to be their diaphragms tight and let worrying so much about their
called "Blockade." Now,
the the high waistline. They wrap cently, drive on. They are not that doesn't mean I'm a Nazi.' "You're welcome," she said.
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1938.
NO CURE. FOR RUTHLESSNESS
Twelve persons are missing. including two women and two
most sympathetic to the Govern- everything below swing. ment cause in Spain, although personally I found it confusing
necks as about'n five-dollar fine.
I
They
So that it's a parvot phrase, in that Henry Fonda seemed to
And the jambugs, the jon-joos, Did you enjoy the food? |They don't mean it?
be the only man left on his own whatever you call them?
Ma'am, my stomach, if you 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 seafood and 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 situation. There is something ing something more degrading.
to high school; black and white, alcohol, but contain a lot. The of another
About age
it.
too.
favourite American drink looks Eighteenth century, powdered
Male jitterbugs wear tennis like a fruit salad and kicks like 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 women, than the London ladies? Disney characters all over them, machine-gunned by Japanese air-their names
I am very old and understanding; sports jackets which bulge more up in their cabs,
But you enjoyed yourself, Mr. you can tell me. craft while travelling in a China like to know yours, and are as
than My wife is young and under- hair inevitably stands on end.
a poacher'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 me.) The names thing is vital less, I'd say.
than I ever have before. I the case are still vague. But to American civilisation.
But they make swing skirt, flat shoes with reckon that I am just about a more of less beauty. they are sufliciently 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 feel-2,032, Mister Holt?" The boot- second glance. Their shoes are leader they can find.
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. 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. If a musi was 14,000 feet high above 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
they mostly jitterbugs still obliged to find out your choose to flare out from a very start to peck.
stand still but sixty-five personalities.
all kept their appointments to the character of the war-makername at once because they con- high waistline. to an even deeper shade than did sir," but I think it's more like like in them is a horrible habit of still.
sider it undemocratic to call you The only thing I found to dis- neck forward, keeping the body
Pecking is throwing head and the minute. the unprovoked attack on the fly they just like to know your rolling the stockings below the was watching Chinese bandits, arr, Holt!
I couldn't help feeling I And your biggeat impression, former British Ambassador, Sir nume.
knee. When they walk fust the being beheaded. When jitter- Standing rolls protrude like a tyre adver- bugs feel like exercise, they second floor of the R.C.A, build-
on the
seventy- that case which oddly enough
tisement. When they sit down break away from the mass and ing, New York, on a foggy night. What DO you mean, discussing they tug savagely and self-con- walk around, arms linked, chang- Seeing glimpses of crisscrossed occurred on August 26 last year
the Spanish war situation?
Madam, they do little else. the hiatus. Stockings rolled Rarely
sciously at their skirts to beat ing step every --there was
other beat, streets, going on for ever. some room for
And 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- they'll Suzie Q. To the light of the city reflected hot 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. who attacked the Ambassador two mayors called Hague and
Shaw who, in Jersey and Los trouser line on fat men.
coats that fail
It looked like the to make the the other. The effect comes tires of hell. I swear I could possibly mistook his for a
Angeles, run their. towns
from hopping on the foot your smell the brimstone. Chinese stal motor car. But though they were separate na- in the case of the C.N.A.C. wir- 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-
argument. If you can't beat a
troublous eyed Kafr. He is, In fact, a verit-
advertisements have it, he "answers to the name of Spot."
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. aghe Knotechball-agessen. In
York Building
Chater Road.
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Music hath charms
Sunday Classical Concert
at Repulse Bay Hotel
Under leadership of
Geo, Pio-Ulski
Programme for Sunday, 28, August, 1938.
3.
1 p.m.-2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
Ouverture Comique
Mazurka
Dreibund-Walzer
4. The Fire Goddess. Selection
Keler-Bela,
..Fresco.
..Benatzky.
Valentinoff. Rachmaninow.
(Piano Solo Geo. Pio-Ulski)
5. Prelude
0.
Scherzo
7. Norwegian Daner
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THE DOG NEXT DOOR
problems of these
C.N.A.C. is jointly backed by man in a row, you just call him times, I want to tell you about the able dog Chirgwin, and, as the "Lost"
Chinese and American finances. Spanish Fascist and walk; Moreover, it is more than likely away. They tungle Spain up in that the airmen who attacked
local labour disputes.
While I was in Hollywood
doy next door.
He is a rough-haired terrier, hard
much more than a pup as yet. and white except for one comical brown spot just over his right eye. This gives him a faint canine ke
Presumably whoever presided at his christening was inspired by that Chirgwinlah right eye. That cyc is
A Back-Garden Parable
important. It has very definite By "AN OLD STAGER”
the plane knew precisely who there was a newspaper strike. ness to that famous music-hati artist psychological reactions. was going to travel aboard it. In sympathy with five fired re- They aimed, it must be obvious,
at delivering a blow to China by tions 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 this one were to be put before. assistance from Russia, the son of the nation, public conscience the Japanese people by the press of Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Sun Fo, it is might be awakened; for general- understood, was booked to travelly 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 read of the "terrible disaster", to. endeavouring to kill him, that two training planes, in their own 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 victims. But it is plans and went to Chungking by unlikely they will read of the un-; provoked attack by pursuit Eurasia plane. But orders were
planes carrying the proud mark- out, apparently; the fate of the ings of the rising sun which C.N.A.C. plane 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 guess at the re-but a warlike enterprise: If action of the world to this they do, it is just conceivable criminal outrage; but it is dif- they will be shocked into some cult to see how such depreda-Isort of protest.
♫
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Undoubtedly Spot realises that he has a funny eye. He senses the fact that, when humans look at him, they
sinile,
By Lichty variably focus on it and start to
„Chor. 1919 hệ Unnið Fosters
"and here's OUR figures!”
I would not say this has embittered Spot's whote existence. Life in a comfortable menage, with admiring and solicitous human foster-parents and a fine back-garden in which to exercise, quite safeguards him against that tragedy.
Freudian Feeling
But, all the same, the conscious- ness of that mirth-provoking spot, a sort of misplaced Achilles Reel, tends to make Spot a trifle suspielows, and even perhaps almost challengingly Gggressive. It sets up, in fact, what Dr. Freud would certainly call an in- ferlarity complex.
new
baby
Almost simultaneously with Spot's arrival next door there came also a
This girl.
fnir-haired morsel of feminine humanity is now just one year old
blue-eyed
by my calculation, and, though he adores her, has already been a source of considerable tribulation to Spot.
་་ To start with, in his puppy stage. he once jumped into her perambula- for when she was out sleeping in the That was one of the low oc- casions when Spot has been really smacked s
distinct from spectacularly cuffed in a purely Pick- wicklon sensE..
being
But that was not all, Spot's deadly enemies are the suburban cats, anti our suburb seems to have a peculiar- ly rich alluvial deposit of cats, When he spots one, he barks furious- (Contlased on Page 5.)
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