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THE UNINVITED ??

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on Fence

10 youwant to write a column, do you? I mean the three of you who wrote in and said you wanted to write a column.

All right.-Imagine-you-aro me. You have some paper and a penoll and a vocabulary of a few hundred words. These are the tools of your trade, reduced to bare essentials,

What are you going to do about 1t? There is the blank sheet of paper in front of you, blanker even than your mind, which is at least thinking of something, even if it is only thinking, "I wish I hadn't blank sheet of paper in front of me with nothing to put on it."

With that pencil and that sheet of paper you can do anything or nothing. Your limited vocabulary can be used to write drivel or the lovellest poem the world has ever heard. The best writing has been woven with the simplest words.

Are you getting nervous already? Chakespeare was no better equlp- ped than you; Milton not so will equipped because he was blind. Kents WBA not a robust, healthy fellow lite you and was sometimes hungry in a world of plenty.

Many an English post has lan- kuished in poverty while nincom- poops grew fat and billious on the inbour of others, You, ot least, have your rations. Never in our history was there so much work to be done. So you needn't languish in poverty. You can leap out of bed this minute, swidlow your dried CHK omelette and start your new career right away.

Write a sonuet

WHAT'S the trouble now? You V haven't had a very good educa tion?

Don't let that worry you. Dickens had no education worth mentioning. н. G. Wells aduented himsell. Shakespeare was hardly the publle school boy of his period.

That's why public school boys of later periods tried to prove that he didn't wre his own works. They felt that it England's greatest poet never went to a public school it rather let public schools down.

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS..

the

Besides too much book learning journalism. In fact, it wan sa bis

and that I have forgotten what it was.' cometimes cramps your style narrows your vision, if you don' read. the right bocks."

After all, if you felt obliged to agree with everything a Government did that would be more like Fasciam than Democracy. Or to "Com- munism.

What are you going to write about, politica anyway? You don't know? O.K. Let's skip it..

Booka? Yes, but that's usually done by book reviewers. It's the eaalost job in journalism and you reviewed them: In the hide-ouls of can always sell the books after you'v

the tougher gangs of Chelten It's Panting in front of the night known as a sweet racket. editor, I asked him how much I Too much book learning can also should write about it. Without Sex? That's a good line on long as turn you into a columnist who tooking up from his desk he said. you keep it clean. Try attacking

a column of "Six lines.?!

women. They love it, and so do writes nothing bu quotations, which is nice work it you can get paid for it, though it won't get you far with the reading public.

C

I said, "Six lines? But this is most of your men readers, though. one or two of the old school may the story of the century,"

write in and threaten to punch your moment to Looking up for a

You dlare at me through bis glasses, he nose.

needn't worry. They

Kuld:-

never do.

women

Why are you sucking your penell

"Young roan, the greatest tragedy - Ot.course, if you thinit instead of getting on with the job?

of all time was described in two are wonderful, that's different, Oh, I sec. You don't think you words. They were, Jesus wepki tan see you're still young, have chough space, don't you? You Are you trying to tell me you can't have so much to tay, your mind is write your plite th alx lines?" teeming with so many ideas that

I wrote 'my plife in six lines. you feel cramped, eh?...

He cut them down to three,

Wait till you've been welting a column for some years and you'll curse every inch of space you have to fill.

+

Try politics

After women, the next subject on the columnist's list is doggies. Are you for or against doggies? You like doggies? Well, that's a

WELL, well, well. So you haven't pity. A pity because there are two

written your Arzt line yet?

POCKET CARTOON

FURS

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

น่

SOME things, as the critic

wrote. of Miss Betty Grable's "Hamlet." are so ver- plexing that comment Is dim- cult.

The other day a grocer said. to a customer: "You can't have the lecks unless you have some apples." "Can I have the apples without the lecka?" asked the customer. "I thought it was the leeks you wanted." sald the grocer, "it is," said the cus- tumer. "Then you can't have the

upples," said the grocer, but if you take the leeks, you must have the upp.es."

And what's wrong with writing a

certain ways of getting readers to sonnet? They're only fourteen lines

No, It's no use_writing about a write to you, if you wont readers to long. So you've got plenty of space

columnists write to you. One is to attack dog- for several sonnets. If they're very film you've seen. Film

in do that. The Home with plays. gles and the other is to make a mis- A bold experiment good sonnets we'd print them smaller type to get them In. We're Crilles of the drama do that,

poetry in this very fond of good

And none of that baby stuff like oflee. Sone of us are educated, My Life" by A Flowerpot. We did In fact, we would be very grateful that in the kindergarten when I was

one at school.

just if you would write sonuict--one sonnet of lovely sounds, of beautiful thoughts in the simple words a little child would ure.

That's all there is to it. anyway, Just using the right words in the right order.

If you're still worried about not having enough space for your self-

Flect-street.

expression. I will tell you a story of

take?

Once,

#1

PLAY by Mrie. Kodliva Oyul is launched nitrnd

A vicious attack on diggles, reader to be broadcast for that highly wrote and sold I was "a dirty polished scetion of the public which Althy foreign Communist and ought to be hinged." So you can see the docs not like Boogie Bright In

Suller!" "Swing It,

The radio feeling about it.

version of the play has been made by Urs Kroitin, and it described as the interpretation of essay In darkness on two planes. The chief

As for mistakes, the world is full

Politics? Yes, you could, write about politics, I suppose. I've got of Mr Put-You-Rights. A member myself into enough trouble writing of the Athenaeum Club once took about politics myself so I don't see the trouble to write a letter to me why you shouldn't. Getting into

trouble and being misunderstood by Pointing out that she-wolf should be character is an old man who lives

spelt with a hyphen. 1 hope he's silly people is part of the game. glad I've got it right now.

First line

The line in In a railway tunnel. disused, to no trains come by: But the old man can magino trains passing. This will be agrested by the nelsea

what By the way,

are your You're not sure?, You politics? Ike some things and you don't like others? I sec.

of Well, that's fair WHAT? You have written your When I was.n young reporter I enough. Even if you support first line? Let's have a look? rushed breathless and sweating Into Government there is no reason why Oh, Well. Yes. my office, with what I thought was you should agree with everything It the greatest story in the, history of docs.

IN DEFENCE OF

SHE WAS

OF EVE

WAS JUST CURIOUS

THEN Norah Trudgeon

held up an apple in her kitchen window to invite Cecil Stewart inside, her hus- band became

and

jealous

Thinking Aloud

.

brought suit for divorce against By PAUL HOLT

her.

dismissed,

trains. Then a little gri enters the tunnel, and Imi-

tates the noise of a train. The old of man thinks the line has been re- Of course, I'm all in favour simplicity. Simplicity is fine. But opened and goes away. The 14tio don't you think that could be girl is heard shouting: "All obange

a

described as over-simplification? for Manjulik. Mejld Euzu, Kasta The-cat-sat-on-the-mat is a good mum, "Yozgad, Tefeil and Bosh- sentence. It's lovely sentence. Quala!". When the old man comes It's perfect English. It says exactly back the girl has gone, and the train- what It means without wasting a word. If you want to state the fact a cat sat on a mat you couldn't sinie it better.

noisen in his imagination are silent.

Britain can Fake it

A MAN who was nesured by

grass.

grocer that the anusage he But where do you go from there? bought contained nothing but pure

What sort of sawdust, complained that, on uhaly-.. Secondary cause is a changed What kind of a cat? rociety where it is no longer pos- a mat? Why did the cat sit on thesis, the sausage was made of pulped

What happened after that? sible to agree to policemen

being mat fools, criminals, cunning and gentle- When I said use. simple words men of leisure, supremely clever.

that a child would use I didn't mean It is more likely true today to say you had to be childish. that policemen are..compromisers. criminals deserters, and. gentlemen

of leisure Bevin Boys.

You're not crying, are you? Not ́a big man like you?

Kabmansgesellschaft

A PROMINENT nonentity has sus

gested that coples of the "List" of Huntingdonshire Cabmen" should be sent to Germany, to help the

the teampaign for

democratic re education of the people. He says

Subsidiary causes of death are to Ilis petition was

Never mind. You don't have back do entirely with the

reader. For write a column, do you? It's only For instance. I met a man but Judge J. W. Scobell Arm-

"We hired whereas the who-dun-it used to be game we're playing. strong had this to say about the frem holiday. He said: apple: "Had the wife been read-ear and we had r nlichtmare drive the prime relaxation of Prime

thenght the man Ministers, it has now 'swung so far Let's throw away the nasty pencil elong a lin ing the first chapter of Genesis? was drunit and was sure he would away from the balance of cool de- and the nasty blank sheet of paper, If so....she would realise that temple us over every yard we went. Lection towards the nasty extremes shall we? And go and have dinky

When we got back to the hotel of violence and cruelty that its main winkles? it is not a story which is very Wht to the wire, wi didn't want to appeal is to the subnormal reader. creditable to Eve."

fell you at the time, my dear, but I was sure that man was going to

ll us bath."

But no. Eve was no sinner curiosity, our She created greatest virtue. She showed a apark of that light which has let his wife get out? informed the lives of all greatest explorers, and philosophers. Indeed, she set the world alight.

Why didn't he stop the cur and

our

scientists

Eves for.

Then you can run along and be

A corpse to Sherlock Holmes was the managing director of a factory, specimen. It has become in our LE ERRICHINE cazy like that. rough times a bloody carcase,

Honours

ALEXANDER KORDA is re-

I'm sure he never thought of it,

because port:d to be amused a complete is modern man's depen- dence on mechanical transport. To'

the suggestion is that US. Congress stop a car in full and easy function, hd set up an honours 1st for Just because a passenger is atraid, peers who hest establish and por- would be a denial of nearly all man fy the American way of life... 19 that so discreditable? It is the cautious ones, the

His

chivalry stopped short: at Yet it is well known that Sir

witc his mean-minded and rapacious who shielding

from the Alexander's own knighthood

from the deep emotion Mr Churchill have destroyed us. Curiosity thought of danger,

Whereas the old knights laboured. felt during the war at sight of his never killed anything. least of

They had a Party Line. Nobody film "Lady Hamilton." all a cat.

outside their military order was allowed to practise these peculiar vires, although they might do so ou the sly.

Chivalry

CIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS,

Now it is common to all and open

came

And If that wasn't the English way of life then both Mr Churchill: and Mr Kerda were wrong.. Which ⚫ is absurd.

Knight dived into the water to to But so few have the time Cat and saucer

rescue a girl aged clght. The set to enjoy this fruit of democracy. had some, but not all, of the virtues

of chivalry.

The dictionary says those virtues

L

Who-dun-it's fate I

are: A knightly dignity, courtesy, ALAIN t is this time bravery, respect for right,. respect

I

the

KNOW what their flying side rers are. They are real sau-

Alled with milk by by A.S.P.C.A. (Astral Society for the Mr Maurice Cranston—the de- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). for womanly dignity and purity; fzctive novel: is dend. Primary These 'unucers whizz around. :the military address. The cause of death is that the reader has world a tremendous speeds looking knights of old, by industry, some become cleverer, shrewder, smarter, for Cheshire cats vlose grins, as times managed the lot. We are not and generally more wired-up than is well known, are fast disappear-- always so industrious.

the writes.

*ing).

and

NANCY Just a Light Robe

R-RING

PEOPLE ALWAYS

PHONE WHEN 'I'M IN

THE. TUB --- AND I

HAVEN'T. ANY-

ROBE

a

that young Germans could not fall to

be impressed by the stress laid on the individual, and the fact that no olher. Professor Huxley and his Cabman is more important than any fellow-rationalists are said to be preparing simplified List for German children. For example: WOD-GEN, A. F.

CROSS WORD

120

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across

1 and 10.Down. You miny keep it

indoors for safety, but you take it out as a safeguard, (9,"8) 1. Sometimes precedes effect fol.

0. JUNG & 6ty fook, (4)

11. Shylock took a great deal of this

in thie (0)

Ifair-like fashion, (b).

15. With the owl in you'd nava ona

way of being out. (8)

16. A certain untive, 10) 18. This thing is no Imitation. (4) 19. Initially they hallove in tanks. 20. th has a rousing ring. (0)

By Ernie Bushmiller

HELLO

22. It's cold if it ca 23. It would surprise you to sea a notice to this, (3) 24. TOO. 141 25. The ming from the theatre, (2) 26. Hustle for a change, 161 27_uabit....

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lately. (0)

A camp hawker.

tö

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the States. 12)

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the unknown) (4)

5. A nero of Troy. (8)

d. A conua of forna, (8)

6. The age of veracity,,(3)

10. See I ACTORS,

12. Just have, a taste. (0)

13. It's the dcor. I get down from.

10. It's a weighty driver.

17. You may need this to go siam.

(4)

20. Entirely, (3) Great 21. Branch of the Army in

Bens. (3)

32. Whore? (2) 22. Letters of promise. (5)

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