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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1947.

DAB & FLOUNDER

STAGE DOOR

by WALTER

FOUR YEARS BETTER THAN BEFORE!

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

Emigration Discouraged By Polish Authorities

BY LARRY ALLEN

(Associated Press Staff Correspondent)

Many Poles would like now to migrate from their home. land to begin new lives elsewhere, particularly in the United States and in countries of the Middle East.

But

CHILDREN'S

COLUMN

By Uncle Peter Boy Film Actor

A boy from the Hebrides, islands off the west coast of Scotland, looks like making a successful, enreer in

A vapid and vain drunk, but-

"The Hooded Hawk," by D. B.

Wyndham Lewis. (Eyre and Spoliswoode. 12*. 01.)

UBLISHERS

folk.

aro queer One week they

dry; the next week they over- whelm him with masterpieces. Or near masterpieces.

British Alms. He went to London leave a reviewer high and all by himself, and managed to get a small part in the Wendy Hiller nim," Know Where I'm Going", which is set in the Hebrides. Now he is to have a much bigger part another British aim. This is based on à novel, called "The Silver Darlings," which deals with nine teenth century Scottish farmers and

in

fishermen.

In this week's spate of good books I place first Mr Wyndham Lewis's study of the king of biographers. Macaulay led the world astray when he called

NEW

BOOKS

by

JAMES AGATE

Whether the book will be enjoyed by readers who have had enough of the German-speaking peoples for the time being and want to forget about them is doubtful. And whether Cap- tain Millar can spin a story out of the web of imagination anything like as good as the tales he wove from current events has yet to be solved.]

In plain English, I have an open mind about this bookt. I couldn't get on too well with it myself, but

mensely admire the author's forceful. up-to-date White-Horse-Inn-ory.

Murdo Morrison that in his name-believes in taking trouble to Boswell "servile and imper- castle with-water, was engaged realised that some readers will fin

his

"Boswell

The

"It is

get

tungs

right. In his new n hetinent, shallow and pedantic, a in bleaching linen." will have to play an old Scottish bigot and a sot.

Stevenson said, and sald and Irish harp called the "clar-

a reporter who seach". He searched in vain all must have been more than a rightly, that

"To Bed With Grand Music,” one, but later tondy to have won the enduring handed in such copy would be Over Scotland for

by Sarah Russell, And who was the found one in a London antique shop. friendship of the greatest mind dismissed.

(The Pilot Press, 78. Gd.) Now he is busy- learning to play of his time.

author o lazy that he was con- It is one of the world's most primi-

tent with this shambling, tail- THE cook in Clare Boothe's tive musical instruments.

And why should Bousseau and foremost sentence? Sir Walter play, "The Women," says to Vollaire have tolerated him?

the parlourmaid, "The man who School Editors

author of this new study this the Seatt, if you please. answer which has been sticking out Me Pritchett gives the Scottish can think out an answer to that Schoolboys in Britain have form for a hundred years or more-Bos- dialect as the reason for fir neglect one about the husband who ed a Society of School Magazine well had personality, charm and the of this once popular her. Editors. Two boys of lighgate, quality of being companionable. troublesome to the eye, it is a lan- adores his wife while making northern suburb of London, started That he was vapid and vain and at guage which nags and clatters: one love to another woman is going to win that prize they're always the idea. Their object la to brigh times seemed to drink his brains would as soon read phonetics." emed denied. ten school magazines and to break away is not

Our

Το author away from too dully, ordinary, cut mere Boswell was teetering on the for not reading Scott is that it takes

meets the last point by saying, "All and Wilch I reply. "Hoots, havers, dishing out in Sweden."

awa w ye!" My own reason

Miss Russell's well-told novel be to-pattern school magazines.

So far, Ang has been called i verge of

of complete

a hundred pages to get going, gins with a married couple swearing Banity. for the Society. Macaulay complains that Boswell's and then I don't want to rend what fidelity on the eve of the husband's One problem the boys had to dis- first action on waking from a drum- he has got going about. "Old Mor- departure for the Middle East. eusg was whether to admit girt ken debauch was to reach for his ality" us a holiday task finished me.

Does he keep his vow, and does counters Let it be said that Scott is an un- she keep hers? And is there one of girls bad heard prayer book. that the Society was to be formed, this with, "Boswell had

mercy of Gad to join. But after a lot of discussion as Lord

Macaulay himself

of some thirty studies. It is immense the wife? This book gives an answer which- some will find entertaining the boys decided to keep thelr

The new Memoir breathes the very ly penetrating, and has the virtus and others deplorable. society to themselves. A committee spirit of the

century's of reproducing the quality of each eighteenth of seven has been elected, who are combination of lace ruffles and lack writer so that you can decide for le meet at Easter, with the rules, of drains. Once more we mingle with yourself whether to embark on him

all aims and so on all worked cut.

the great figures-Reynolds. or not Burke, Garrick. Goldsmith, It is so Personally I am tempted to re- full that nobody could index it. It embark on Fielding, Smollett, Arthur is magnificently written, and best of Morrison, Arnold Bennett and all it sends one back to the "Life" Conrad,, and to give a wide berüh in doing which it pays full tribute to Richardson ond

And to super-nvold, if that be possi-1) to the estonishing virtunity of Bo-ble, that pretentious bore, D. H. Law-long; six equal 1 lb. 3. Goldsmith, by

to work out

editors too. A

Our author

him a

JESTS AND

JEERS

This la, truly 'an oge of change-- mostly amoll. - •

A Los Angeles baby, only two years old can ask for something in nine languages. Yes, It's a girl.

•

.

First Negro: Ya ain't 'self no more. Walen matter-atek" of "sum- pin'?

Second Ditto: Got Insomalu. Keep wakin' up every few day*.

The pretty petress was contend- ing with a eritle that her sex was more religious than the male,' and the critle said in answer;

"Oh, you only go to church to see what the women have got on."

"Well," said the actress, "you men only go to the theatre to see what we haven't got on."

Customer: Lookee, ere, mister, 1 ain't complaining, but this 'cro innaste stool you sold me, I've twisted it round till Ive twisted un's end off, an' not a ha'porth a toon can I get out of fun.

*

Friend: Are you keen about poll- tics, Donald?

Donald: Ay--I'm a great reader o" the papers.

Friend: Of any particular one? Donald: Well,. It depends on what the sandwiches is wrappit up in.

FUND TO FEED CHILDREN

Maurice Pale, executive director of the International Chlidren's Emér geney Fund, has Informed President Harry Truman that approximately 00,000,000 children are suffering: from undernourishment in wartorn ountries of Europe and the Pacific. The fund, au agency established by the UNO, hopes to obal $430,000,000 to provide, during the first year of operations, a supplementary diet of 700 calories a day for 20,000,000 children and nursing motherdam As sociated Press.

Stripper Stripped

them come and go, but this was one The Duchess DeKokenov has seen strip action she had not bargained

lo

for..

The Duchess, featured dancer at an Indianapolis night spot, re- parted stripped her purse of $40 in a back- police that somebody

doing her stuff out front.

Poland's government, Poles who are American citizens, and they wrote saying they wanted right to the Inflalled as good arendable Bale's books is made up law for the husband and another for stage dressing room while she was

The United States Embassy in War-

saw has long lacked facilities for

needing every able-bodied Pole in the gigantic task of recon-providing visus to such citizens, and struction and erasing the scans this has resulted in long delays on of war's fury, is not encouraging the part of the Palich government their emigration, with the ex-

to provide visas for these people, even though they are cleared through ception of Polish Jews.

United States authorities.

The regime has made it clear t will place no obstacles in the way of Jews who wish to emigrate legally to France, the United States and such Middle Eastern countries as Pales- ne. The emigration of Jews is a continuous process, and many thou- sands of them have crossed frontiers illegally into Allied zones in Ger- many or into Czecho-Slovakia, loping in some way to earn passage to Amerlen or Palestine.

Attacks on Jews

Film Star To

Pen Novel

actor, is writing a novel based Richard Greene, the film

on his war experiences with the British Army and incorporating the experiences of his friends.

He says he will devote full time. to the book after he completes his

The Jews desire to move is ac- celerated by frequent, almost daily attacks on some of their number by what the government says are out-role in the film "Forever Amber." lawed underground bandits and "Fascist reactionaries,"

To-day,

there probably are not more an 80,000 Jews left in Poland from a prewar population of 3,500- 000. Nazi slayings and concentration camps are said to have wiped out 3,000,000 Jews, while several hunt- dred thousand managed to flee the country during and after the German occupation.

want

There has been nothing to indicate that any sizable number of Poles

to go tu Latin America, although there is a large populution of Poles there, particularly in Brazil. Mexico fo the only Latin American government with a Legation" in War-

saw now,

American Poles

To go abroad, any Polemust show good and sound cause to his govern- ment why he should go. That is not easy, Poland rather wants Poles abroad to come home and help with

the reconstruction. It does not want its citizens to leave.

The biggest emigration'problem in Poland to-day is how to speed the return to Amerlen of acme 20,000

**

"I kept a diary, during the war on not only what happened around me in the army but also in civilan life," he said, "But the novel will not be strictly a war story. It will a tale of the people whose lives become entangled because of war," Associated Press.

be

Parents Also Need

Sunday Schools

The main conclusion Miss Bertha

L. Cogswell of Massachusetts has

Rupert and Ninky-54.

Rupert at last gets home, and his mothers delighted to see him and to see that he is carrying the cloth donkey. "Where have you been all this time?" she exclaims. Where was Ninky? How did you ge: him?" The little bear shows her Ninky's new tricks and tells her the 'wonderful story of his journey 10 the clouds, finishing with a descrip- tion of the Conjuroe's stardust, Then to her surprise he takes pencil and paper and begins to write a care- fut letter to Santa Claus.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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This

fine

Ellot. George

ARE YOU SURE?

1

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

1. Water clocks. 2. Condle, ins.

Garrick. 4. Marmosets. 5. It was the Doctor's habit to bold rence.

Carthusians F.A. Cup, 1880-1; F.A. a levee with this difference, that instead of the guests mounting to the however. What matters is that every, Tail-sloat has black tip to its tail. There is no disputing about tastes. Amateur Cup, 1803-4 and 1896-7. 6. bedroom, he descended to them. Now sentence in this book is the product 7. Ten-Abyssinia, Ashanti, Afghan, read Boswell on this;

of ane and critical mind, Here is Zulu, Egypt, Sudanese, two Boer "Down from his bedchamber, about enough leadership and taking by the Wars, two World Wars, B. St Paul, noon, came, as newly risen, a huge hand to occupy any young man till Mr. Young, in "Night Thoughts." 10. uncauth figure, with a little dark Prichelt writes his next volume. For Make soup, it is a turtle. wig which scarcely covered his head. this mustn't be the Inst.

and his clothes hanging loose about film."

Now read it again and aloud. Can you better 11?

The Living Novel," by V. S. Pritchett. (Chatto and Windus, 85, 60.)

"My Past Was An Evil River,"

by George Millar, (William Helnemana, 95, Gd.)

THE readers of those fine

Solution word:ww

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

of yesterday's

cross-

books, "Maquis" and "Horn-Across 1, Not likely. 0, Teen, ed Pigeon," will want to know 10. Era, 11, S. 12, Eari. 13. Teacup, "A DAMSEL, who, close be what Captain Millar can do in 1 r. 17, Burro. 18, Awry. 20, Row. 21, Lint. 22, Trout. 25, Yeo. hind a fine spring about novel form.

20, Awe, 27, Determine. halfway down the descent and This first essay, the scene of which had once supplied the which is laid in an

Down 1, Nuptials. 2/ Otherwise. 3,* Lea. 4, Incubator, 5, Keep up, valley, has all the qualities of, Et. 7, Lard, 8, Yellow. 11, Sear. first-rate reporting-authenti- 14, Arrow. 10, Kyte. 18, Rouen. 23,

Ram.. 24, Tez.

According To Culbertson city and vividness.

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

The declarer's play of the slam quoen.

East won with his blank

receifed after 60 years of Sunday contract in to-day's deal was not to king and shifted to his low spade.

school teaching is that parents need be admired! reittious training as much as their children.

Her observation is based on clans- es she still conducts every Sunday and week-day visits she makes to

Parents' homes.

"Sunday sch:ol teachers," she believes, should stress the man- erising of the Scriptures, for they will stand by men and women throughout life."

LENT

This Lent, unlike Lent yesteryear, My 'mode of life shall be austere;

""

For Spartan lads Increased their vigour

Of spirit via lives of rigour.

So, due to the prevailing price,

I'll eat less bulk but bettor rice;

And of ice-cream have precious few licka

Thanks to my shortage of spandulicks.

I will not bet-when luck eludes;

I'll steer late course from choicer foods,

For if my stomach I encumber

It often makes for troubled slumber;

And now, vile beer I will eschew

́ (I'm glad it's mostly decent brew1).

Warmed to my task, the time seems ripe

To pack up my post-prandial pine (In case my lack of weed is seen; Good pipes soon clog with foul Sook Yeen). (But what of Trade, if all we smokers Harked, in the main, to moral-croakers?). If the sweet merits angry yelpings, I'll firmly turn from second helpings.

I'll not eat chocolate if I could,

For Fa Sang Tong is just as good. Strong spirits, mellowed many seasons,

I'll only drink for doctors' reasons.

(I'm pretty nearly always Ill, So this won't be a bitter pill!) March, 1947.

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knowledge

the of tribution

diamonds, of seemed just as desirable to lay down the diamond ace on the good chance. of dropping the jack. The jack did not drop, however, and South went dawn three tricks.

no

dis

it

The obviously correct, line of play was to cash two rounds of hearts and the diamond ace. With the king falling, the rest of the play would have been elementary, but even if the king did not fall declater could West opened the unbid club suit discard his second diamond on the and declarer's blank king won, club nec, ruff a diamond, go back to Three rounds of trumps, were now the heart king and (If necessary), played, South winning the third ruff another diamond, surelys es- round in his own hand in order to tablishing the sult and leaving the lead a diamond for the finesse of the spade ace for entry.

NANCY

For Remembrance-

WELL, NANCY-

I'M GOING HOME TODAY, AND AM I

GLAD

GOOD RIDDANCE

WHOOPEE?--SHE'S'

GONE AT LAST- HOORAY!

THAT

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CANDIDUS

(Continued from Fage 7)

RECENT traffic accident resulting in the death of two people and serious injury to two others raises a matter of extreme Importance. The driver concerned, who

Was

fatally injured, was driving a car without the authority of the owner, and the passengers are therefore debarred from any benefits usually covered by insurance. It is generally

known thulin

a number of private drivers do use their employers cars at night

those who en without authority, and coming should an accident occur. I courage them deserve all that's have frequently been accosted in the vicinity of the G.PO, at night when a taxl has not been available, and it

It would appear that the Traffe De- partment could- fact, should trap some of these offending drivers.

The standard of driving is general ly bad in Hongkong these days, and one wonders what sort of text. drivers are called upon to undergo. There was a suggestion before the war that private owners who rarely use their vehicles at night should attach a special sign near the num ber plate, so that police could take a sole and report to owners when their cars were seen at night. Some thing must be donel What about: the H.K.A.A.?

Crossword

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7. A little publicity

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By Ernie Bushmiller

IN the skeleton Crossword you have to 1 in black squires and luca elue numbers as solve the clues. The rout and three churc numbers to the puzzle give you a start,

The design being symmetriyot, every black square in, the top lett corner must have a corresponding black in the top righi, mattojų left and batium falt eurners. binck all the squires cortewpand- ing to the tour already shaded.

studs the cine numbers. There ts no 13 Actrina, në the village wa the rigin of that numbered 13 And the one immediately abate it must buth be black muliares. Put in the corresponding rauntes, in the bottom har god je la cienz that 13 Down it be a five-letter ward

Tp this way you can build Gu the pattern as you solve the clisen No two-letter words are used.

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