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Charlie Chaplin A Good Paying Guest In America

Charlie Chaplin said at his first foreign press con- ference this week that he had not become an American citizen after 30 years in the United States because he was "not a nationalist."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947.

THEY

DAB & FLOUNDER

WINTER SPORT

OUTFITS

A Success Story-by Sidney Rodin

were the gay but also the well-bred 'nineties. Gentlemen were gentlemen, and adorned the West End with their taste and judgment on how to live well though joyously.

They patronised, the exclusive restaurants where it was a social sin to be seen drinking beer. They bought at only the "gentle- man's" shops.

Those with most money bought shoes at old family establishments like Peter Yapp's, Court shoemaker, In Sloane-street.

William Johnston Yapp, the younger son, while never ashamed of being

the offspring of a tradesman. was perhaps even more "select" then the old man.

When Yapp senior died it was the elder son who took over the shop, for serving behind the counter did not appeal to William.

Tobacco shop

Be travelled on the Continent and then invested part of his substantial Inheritance In

an old-fashioned tobacco shop in fashionable War-

laur-street.

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The shop was Carreras, named after its original owner, a Spanish widow. I sold its own pipe mix- ture, Craven, in honour of Lord Craven, whe first favoured it.

William planned to be the preside ing personage.

le chose only the best-mannered assistants, for the shop became the haunt of authors, intellectuals and society people with the most stylish smoking habits-they required only the best and most expensive cigars, and, of course. Craven Mixture.

James Barrie was one of them. He wrote about Arcadia Mixture in "My Lady Nicotine" and told Yupp he meant Craven Mixture. "That's what I always smoke," Barrie said.

Preferred cigars

Cigarettes would never have been Fold at Carreras. They would have offended the high tone, Cigarettes in the 'ninelies were smoked only by tops.

Mr Yapp would not stay behind

the counter

The poor man didn't want them. Good cigars were five for a shilling, and the workman bought his at a penny cach,

had installed it in a small workshop in the East End, to try his luck in London.

Many people with money went to Inok all. All refused to take it cigarettes

up. Baron's schemes for popularis- Oscar

Ink

by adverlls- cigarette daringly Ing and then turning cigarettes out a perfect type by the thousand

typical

Gentlemen considered

and effeminate. offensive Wilde made Dorian Gray claim: A cigarette

the

of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite American ballyhoo.

and leaves one unsatisfied."

But true gentlemen preferred to

the stronger be satisfied-with tobacco of the cigar-and so William Yupp stuck to his expensive corona- coronas and his exclusive pipe mix- ture and made money easily.

Then into the shopkeeper fe of William Yapp at the turn of the century came a hard-pushing and rather hard-pressed character from America.

The newcomer was to

he

seemed

When Baron came to Yapp must have been nearly penniless. But It happened that Yapp, needing a use for his surplus money,

had Just formed a small company to buy and sell tobacco.

Impressed by his energy, Yapp gave Baron the job as manager the company, "to take over the prac→ pre- tical alde." Yopp, as always, ferred to remain in the background, always the gentleman, always with

his coat on.

Yapp discerned genius in his new

change Yapp from purveyor to the privilegt- ed few to muss producer for the manager; multitude.

Tried his luck

He was to turn Yapp's hundreds of pounds into thousands, his thou- sands into millions.

The

newcomer

He listened to the rough diamond from the States, polished his ideas, Inspired Improvement, then launch- ed them with all the money Bern- hard Baron needed.

No doubt he smiled at

by WALTER

RGAT

Yapp have over the management of the board of directors to Baron, gave up his shop and went to live at Beech Hurst, a lovely house near: Haywards Heath, Sussex. Cigarettes were shortly selling at 20,000,000 a day, for smoking habits were chang“ ing.

It was the day before the big com- Wills hines, and the Player and familles, quiet on the heels of Yapp and Baron, were making huge for illnes, too.

Bernhard Baron, aged 78, died in ID20, leaving £4,944,820. William Johnston Yapp died last year at the age of 04. Recently his will was

Jests And Jeers

Whether a cabaret hound is a wolf. or not, he is sin fond,

Time tells on a man, especially a good time...

*

The Spring dresses make the girls look alim--and the men look round.

A girl bought a ticket in a lottery, und Insisted on having the ticket numbered 61. It so happened that, it was the winning number and she' received the Arat prize.

A reporter was sent along to in- "Why did you insist terview her. upon leket No. 61?" he asked.

"Well," said the girl, "for seven

| nights I dreamed of number soven, and seven sevens are 51, so I bought the ticket!"

Thirty is a nice nge for a woman, says a magazine writer. Especially Inhe's forty.

Jop

Then there is the story of a

Tokyo hotel window because he

published. He had left £4,501,437. val officer who jumped out of a .But this tail, kindly gentleman found an American vessel under the made more money than that out of bed. his own vision and out of the busi- ness genius of Baron.

years before he died he Alany made settlements on his wife and two daughters ambunting to another inillion pounds.

the

and A man, alone

a trifle worse for

meandering wear, was one night. Suddenly he along realised he was not alone. Behind him he heard the soft sluff-sluff of 1.ke his partner; Yapp was tiny feet pattering on the ground. generous. Baron probably gave He twisted his head and saw, walk- £2.800.000 to charities. Yapp must ing sediately along, following him, a have given half that sum.

flock of pigeons.

Money amused him

So the Court shoemaker's son, who onec sold only the most costly tobaccos, umbssed a total fortune out, of the despised cigarette of some thing like £8,500,000-one of the inrgest of the tobacco fortunes In Britain.

Mr A. Hutchison, the solicitor who advised him for

naid: 40 years,

"Yopp never worshipped money for Its own sake.

At first it amused him to make it, then, as he realised the responsibilities that went with it, he devoted himself to protecting the interests of his employees.

Like Baron, but in his own fashion, Yapp devoted all his energy

"Perhaps that was the reason why was Bernhard to any job he took up.

he never retired from the board of Baron, £3-a-week cigar maker.

ls company, but attended its week- Baron's

ly meetings right up to his death. Baron had come

He felt he had a duty over

to the e- ployees which he tend to carry out personally.

steerage flamboyantly bold adverthing cam many months before, and with him palgns, the posters that trumpeted he had brought 21 large wooden "I Defy Competition." crate In the crate was one of the carllest type of cigarette making machines, then almost unheard of in Britain.

Five a penny

"I never remember him nybody."

sacking

re-

But cigarettes were being rolled out by the machine at five for a * All his servants linve been penny and both men kept their faith membered, mostly with annuities, in it alther, and that is why Baron. In the growing sales.

his will.

America had not thought much of

Children's Corner

Conducted by Uncle Peter

Invention Revolutionised Transport

Everyone is familiar with the founded n school of mathematics and story of James Watt and the navigation many years before, and boiling kettle-how as a little Jamie inherited the family mathe-

matical bent. boy he was scolded by his-aunt for idling his time away watch- geometrical problems on the hearth At an early age he would draw ing the steam lifting the lid. In of his Scottish home. He was also actual fact it was not until he very clever with His hands, and was quite grown up that Jamie's would spend hours in his

father's altention turned to steam. But workshop, His father had a special all the same the story of this these he constructed models of pul- set of tools made for him, and with famous British inventor's life is leys, pumps, capstons--and even an interesting one.

barrel organ. His model crane was

The poet loved a shopgirl

HE poet Heine, of whom

there is a new biography, sympathetic but somewhat con- gate, 188.), is a capricious and fused, by Francois Fejto (Win- fascinating creature, a leopard

i

He speeded up a bit, but found that the pigeons simply hurried enough to keep up with him. This went on till he was almost running. Finally, he could stand it no longer. He stopped, turned around and faced the persistent pigeons. But before he could open his mouth to | shoo them away one pigeon stepped boldly forward and said: "Got "any messages you want delivered, Bud?"

OBEYED DOCTOR

TOO WELL

Edward Mellay, 45, told the Cleve land

(Ohio) Judge he was only following the doctor's orders.

Standing before Police Judge Louis Petrash on a charge of intoxication, he explained he went to, a doctor for treatment for n cold, received medicine, and was told to take toddy. He said he guessed he tool: one toddy too inuny,

Q

Did it cure your cold?" asked the Judge.

Meltay suld it did.

The Judge suspended costa.

LIBRARY

LIST

Lady Gregory's Journals Edited Lennox Robinson (Putnam, "180.). The record of the years of political upheaval and cultural revival in Ireland, told by the woman whoso part in creating the Abbey Theatro was vital

Man and the Atom, G. E. Vulliamy (Michael Joseph, a od.). A witty, fronte discussion, in style reminiscent of Anatolo Franco. of the" developments in human tre in which the planned annihilation which has produced a state of Affairs

of the civilised races is possible, Con- cludes with some not very optimistic proposals for preventing, the worst.

Good Cooking on Rings. Ambrose Heath - (Fabar, 54. od.). If you have gas ringgi

and enough, gas in them-ingenious, Mr. feath will tell you how to produce the main dish for "a" meal with these modest Implemente

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

One is left with the impression, Ele writes to the cousin who is too, that this few had a horrified fascination for is about to publish his memoirs, in humane and subtle his uncle's heir announcing that he

The point was raised follow- that income 100 percent. I am a ing the publication in a New good paying guest in Amerien." York newspaper of questions onsieur, Verdoux," was

is now $2,000,000 picture, "Mon- to have its Chaplin's war work, his one time world premier yesterday. It is the advocacy of co-operation with first Chaplin picture since

ever seen in his native town of of those rare writers whose life ed in Germany, the day when "Thor He advertises a forthcoming grand Russia and his citizenship. Great Dictator in 1940, and presents land, in 1736. His grandfather had, Greenock. His father made it for is as interesting as his works.

unloading tobacco ships from Chaplin said he had made speeches Chaplin as a a comle murderer seeking

his maintain

America. throughout the United States during

home the war, but added: "I left the through profitable killing. "Monsieur entertaining to

in London others who could Verdoux" opens

| May 20.--Associated Press,

He was born in Greenock. Scot. Probably copied from the first cranel in grace--and in spots-and one the barbarle frenzy which he tear which his dear family will Agure,

do it much better."

"I am not touting for any ideology" ho continued.

am for the pro-

to

fo

nbout

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

gress of the human race I am for! the little man. I won't enter into pollucal discussions and I will leave that to the men in Washington."

Chaplin, who was born in

London on May 10, 1889, spld, "I have not become an American citizen because 1. A tablet inscribed with the De- I am not a nationalist. Seventy per

claration of Independence. 2, Wink. cent of my income is derived from

3. (c). 4. Two. 5. North America. Europe, 30 percent from the United Four inches. 7. Eight lines. G States and the United States taxes Trinidad. 9. Solomon, I Kings iv.,

32. 10. (a) Yes. (b) Yes.

WOMEN ARTISTS

FIELDS OF GOLD

(Continued from Page 6)

To her, buying is n ny's business only in her case she has to trudge two miles or more there and buck. Mony go out staking with their husbands in the two-month summer.

These women can

und do have

(Continued from Page 5) Zealand in 1870) with more prestige among the few thgh large material reward. Students of the economics of art may be interested to know that pictures by her, gold for £5 twenty years ago, have risen in value (without glamour or general popu- Iarity) to £200 or £300 today. children here in a modern mater-

nity hospital built by the oldest

est of the mining companies. Children num-

*TEMPERAMENT'

Rupert & the New Pal-27

The blacksmith gradually gets over his surprise at Rupert's request. You young people do get some new ideas,” he grina. “I've never heard of a tortoise-trolley, but that's no reason why I shouldn't try my hand at one." He rummages round and finds some old wheels, which he fits to a little fruit box. Then he Gu.rame wood to a slender tron bar and makes a handle from it. **Why, that's exactly what i want,” eries Rupert, dancing round in creat delight.

AOL MONTS RESORVAU

Long ago she gave up a pretty her about 500 of the population NANCY style of painting derived from the sturdy, intelligent, well schooled. once-famous water-colourist, Arthur

The

women have their bridge por- Melville (the Lefevre Gallery pro- ties, tea parties, clubs now one

vides one or two examples). for is called Daughters of

of the Midnight something deliberately Icas Jike San-and their problems:

The problem of getting water-

nature.

She

sees nature, whether painting which Inay cd in having to blast a in England, Spain or the South of well through seven feet of solid ice. France, through a temperament." The problem of urdering basic She is not a pointer of reality in food supplica a year ahend-for the the same sense Ethel Walker, boats come in only once a year, in though their respective followers June.

have elected them both our "leading The problemi of some heating

a

woman artist." It is useless to ask when, da now, it is 00 below. whether she has painted a farmyard; But they have this compensation-

mountain or a' still life as you no rationing. And any evening. would like to aes it. The question the man of the house may walk in is whether you appreciate the colour |· with a sizeablo fortune-anything scheme and the pattern she hàs ex- from £20,000 cash and shares in a tracted from them.

mine for a lucky' And. Many have..

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will come with his monstrous ham mer and destroy the Gothic rathe

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German

He was a Jew, Immensely proud drais." of his race, Immensely scornful of It would not have been the sole When Jamie was in his teens his the poor Jew who cringed and the streak of inconsistency in Heine.

rich Jew who denied mother died and his happy family

failed as his people. He was a poet who life broke up.

He was sent to Glas- Yet he was baptised, secretly, as a banker, became a brilliant journalist,

a yet always hoped to be a How to learn the craft of a mathe Protestant, so that he might get matical instrument maker, but, a Dr

government appointment-which he professor. Dick, Professor of Natural Philoso did not. And he is buried in the He was a bold critic of the French 'phy to Glasgow University, advised | Catholle portion of Pere

moriey Lachaise Government who accepted him to

from the French secret cemetery in Paris.

funds. Ho go

longed for a revolution to, come to France; when it came, one of the first acts of the new regime was to reveal that Heine had taken that money!

to London.

on. So he studied his craft in London,

to Glasgow then went buck mathematical instrument

maker

to

be-

more

of Liszt's concerts for

Д

noble

But, after all, is it not reported that he, one of Europe's leading critics,

to turn out favourable offered notices suitable fee?

Spiteful and lovable, crusader and a bit of a rogue, feline in charm and tigerlah in claw, o lyrical poet and a cynical thinker what a strange and piquant mixture he ist

A He was a German who lived great part of his life in France long the University. That was the turning for the dawn of German free- of his life. His machanical dom-and profoundly afraid of what ing point

the It might produce. become famed in Bill soon

"A drama will be played in Ger- University, and his workshop came the meeting place of all those many compared to which the French

will be were doing, original work. Revalution who

but a benign When a

specially dimcult job was incident. Beware then! You have required, it was brought to Jamie.

to fear from Germany than About this time he began to take from the entire Holy Alliance, to nn interest. In the steam engine. Agether with all the Croats and Cos- lecturer sent him a model of an en- sacks. I warn you to be on your gine by Thomas Newcomen to be guard!"

Watt took it to pleers, repaired. studied it saw its faulks, began ex- perimenting on a better one. After many years of experiments and die appointments he invented the steam revolutionised engine proper, and transport.

Done by an Expert

OH, NANCY-- I WANT YOU TO HELP ME CLEAN THE

HOUSE

How often, since those words were

"When his rich uncle, the Hamburg written, has Europe had reason to recall, with a shudder, the lightning banker, falls to provide for him in which his will, Heine's roge in so frightful flash of Heine's, intuition

the paralysis overcame, for a moment, his rational that it overcomes belief in a "good German" and a which by that time confined him to

"a mattress grave." peaceful Germany!

By Erale Bushmüller

historical work on Jewish pluto- cracy. Terrified by these hints, his cousin comes to see Heine and offers to pay half the former allowance.

The scene is grotesque. Heine kisses his cousin's hand," in hypo- critical gratitude. But the Cousin knows that the gesture โร highly equivocal. He goes away uneasy,

Heine wrote some of the most

Yet haunting of love poems. own love affairs were sought among simple women, and by simple methods! Having fallen in

love with a pretty Parisian shep riri, he approached her aunt and bought the girl for cash.

The Crescence Mirat, knew perfectly well what had happened. But she astonished and alarmed Heine by saying: "I will never leave you.

never, Do you under

you.

After a time Helne married. her-ignoring the entreaties of his. friends and in church-to the hor- ror of his political admirers,

Crescence kept her word. She loved him dearly, 'was perhaps un- faithful to him, nursed him with de- votion to the end of his terrible ill- nesa. In short, the marriage was a success, "We are very happy." sald Heine, "that is to say, I never have an instant's peace, night or day."

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