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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the Fence

THAT a pity it in that

your Uncle Nat left s Surrey Nest before he had

a chance of offering hospitality- to Dona Eva de Peron, the smashing ex-film actress, who married the dictator President of the Argentine.

Eva

has

been visiting Spain, (Acting General) where Mister Franco

of the and that part

hasn't Spanish population which been shot yet entertained her with flower-decked streets, dancing girls and twelve-course dinners.

Surrey If she had come to the

have seen any Nest she wouldn't

she though flower-decked streets, would have seen plenty of weeds. We have never had such a year for dandelions.

Nor would she have had any 12- course dinners. But her Uncle Nat would have fixed her a couple of toast, and sardines on margarine maybe some corined spaghetti follow.

to

If she had arrived on ration day, she might have finished up with n square inch of cheese. The day after that, of course, there would be no cheese.

According to the papers, Eva 18 anxious to learn something of the

in working-class 1100

England, What a chance she has missed.

After her gordines and spaghetti she could have come round to the local, slung a few pints down the hatch, played a game of darts and 'studied English working-class life at

rst hand.

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Even now Eva has a chance to "Nothink ke fresh air and a study the English working classes drop of English beer to give as the guest of her Uncle Nat. a bit of colour."

She can come down to the

"Nothink." finished Sea Nest and watch some

"Specially plasterers and carpenters at work.

Uni-

Although the roof is falling down, thanks to the activities of the Royal Navy blowing up wrecks at.sca, we could make her fairly comfortable If I she doesn't mind bare boards and the smell of paint,

The sweep

"WELL," said the Sweep, "I see

we're all for the ith jump:“

"Go on?" I said.

#Accordin to one of them there little old American reporters we've got the mark of 'death on our faces. Ow are you feelin this mornin?"

"All right."

"And you don't seem too bad, "though peither," said the Sweep, sometimes you don't look so of after a bit of a jollifcation." Although the so-called working

"Nor do you." I said. classes (who doesn't belong 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.)

10 the

can'i "Which you

Danny Kaye "WONDER MAN"

· VIRGINIA MAYO • VERA-ELLEN · DONALD WOODS - S. Z. SAKALL

ALLEN JENKINS - EDWARD GROPHY - OITO KRUGER STEYE COCHRAN - VIRGINIA GILMORE and THE COLDWYN GIRLS

Diddy GRICE HUMAERSIONE

in Technicciar

ALHAMBRA & CENTRAL

DAILY AT 2** 53o 720 & 920 PM

DAILY AT 2P 5* 7 & 913EM SHOWING TO-DAY

THEY'RE THE TEACHER'S PETTERS.

PEGGY RYAN Martha O'Driscoll Denold Cook Lon Chonay June Vincent.

Charles Dingle Richard Lena

* PHIL SPITALNY and the

ABBOTT

IN A GIRL'S SCHOOL!

Their NEWEST and

GREATEST FUNI

COSTELLO

HOUR OF CHARM HERE COME ALL GIRL ORCH. THE COEDS

lesturing IVELYH and that Margie Valla

ORIENTAL

COMMENCING TO-DAY:

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THE WONDER PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

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working class, anyway?) are rightly

properly

bc

suspicious of people who want to surprised, at considerin you ain't so study them (that's how Hitler

treated young as you was," started), they would have her with great courtesy and gener- ous, open-hearted hospitality, which is more than she got from Mister (Acting General) Franco.

and

When she is older Eva will know the difference between the vulgar entertainment offered by little show offs like Franco the genuine, though modest, entertainment offer-

modest men. ed by genuine,

Although we couldn't have offer

her

We dancing

giris, done the Lambeth might have Walk for her if she got us in the right mood; and when she was slung

cd

out of the local, sham at ten, we could have walked home arm in arm singing "Sweet Genevieve" and "Nelly Dean."

• A

much

"That's right."

"All the same," said the Sweep, "I ain't never seen you look waxy and nylstful like what this ere little old American says."

«Thank you"

"If you, was to ask me," said the Sweep, "I'd say it was them there little old Americans what looked waxy, if their troops over ere, was anythink to go by."

"Ere cre," I said.

"Too much grub and a bit too

Sweep.

Your, Oncle Fred a furious about Pakistan, though what it's got

to

do with him I can't Imagine.- He -saya-ng-Boon-as-India-is-dividød, and British troops are out of it, the Russians will march in and .we shan't get any ten or curry or that nwful Indian wood-carving I linte so much.

He wants to lead a British Indian Home Guard now with the iron- monger as an untouchable, private, and himself as a general with a shot Tun.

that the Ameri- you I often think

can who said we were dying must scen Emily with hay fever. haye Of course, it's not much worse than her winter colds or catarrh, which goes on all the year round, except That her eyelids are scarlet and incr face paper white.

the beer," sald the

"Too true." I said,

"Though English beer ain't what' was."

"It certainly· ain't.”

"Cor strike o'light," said the Sweep, "when you buy a pint now It's like payin "two water rates."

"It is and all."

it's

Har only consolation is that she was right about the Russlans, and

POCKET CARTOON

"No, ma'am, the mistress

· fan's ́at-home-this is her afternoon; out?".

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

STORIES persist about cows

now expects them to land in dyink which' give more milk

tanks almost any day.

Florrie came round to

tea (last when music accompanies the Why not nationalise and milking. of the Argentine meat paste) told us that the day before the next all orchestras, incorporate them war starts everybody in the country in the dairy companies, and will get a letter full of explosives thus benefit both art and agri- by the morning post, so that every-

Concert halls would be over-crowd-

"Though, even now, better body will be blown to pieces by culture? than that there foreign beer. Cor am, except le-a-beds, who will be luvaduck, I'd rather ave a nice blown to pieces between nine and fed-if-the-unmusical were promised a cupper ten.".

⚫nve

.

"Me too."

个

"St," said the Sweep, "you don't the to worry

about kickin bucket before your time,"

"I ain't," I said,

"There's plenty what sald Wik was dead in 1940. But we're still alive an kickin."

"That's "right"

"And as for you personally," sald the Sweep, "I reckon you're goin to be a nuisance to your family for quite a long time vet." "You too," 1. sald,

fact,

might

Len.

If it happens just before Christ- mas we shall all get jolly looking parccis with Christmassy labcis which will blow all our houses UP

bit of cow-milking during the pro- Kramine; and many" n town-brod conductor might be excused it, in momentary enthusiasm for the wrong

he conducted the cow and

her cause, attendant instead of the orchestra.

Herr Wagil," we

we might rend, "sue- ceeded in getting the lant ounce out of his orchestra, and the last She says this is much easier than pint out of Damson, Devon Beauty

because all and Bouncing Boss." making atom bombs, you need are paper, string and Moo

too.

kelignite and a few million stamps.

the

WE might also read: "The Sym- phony was marred by a kind of seemed to owing sound, which belong rather to the byre than to a strict rendering of the work in question. Many mistook the sounds for an echo, or some other fault of acoustics, but the sudden shifting of his position by a resticas violinist disclosed a cow in process of being milked."

Emily has refused to open letters or parcels since and runs to our old shelter every time postman knocks,

Whatever they say about people as well as they were before the war,. I know that

I off. Although dops

..are worsO

meat give him' most of Emily's nration, poor darling Porgy has come corpse yet," said the Sweep, "you out in a rash which the vet, says might as well stand up and sink is caused by lack of vitamins. one for the road."

said the Sweep, "you being fed almost live long

chough

nuisance to everybody."

"So might you."

to be a

"And just to prove you ain't

Thank you" I said. The skin orf your nose." the Sweep.

"The skin orf your”

So I am spending a lot of money said on vitamin pills for him which he usually spite out or which male him sick if he swallows them. If they don't do him any good, I sup. pose I shall have to give them to

fond of the ladies, I expect," said Letter from an aunt Emily. the Sweep.

"That's u," I said,

dear Boy,

with What

onc thing and another we are all beginning to wish we were back in the good old wat make days when we had only one enemy and nobody but Emily was frighten- ed of the Russians.

"To say nothink of that there steam eatin they ave at one. Cor,

that would ex-peneral sufferin ware, greater calls himself Mr Marshall. Why not anybody look waxy." Franco?

"It certainly would."

BUREAUCRACY BLASTED

BY SOVIET PRESS

HE Soviet press has called Tor merciless exposure of

snobbish officials and red-tapers By Walter Cronkite

to liquidate bureaucracy from the government.

Getting down to naming

Stan Trivett's future

EVERY boxing promoter in Europe

prophesies a swift come-back for Stan Trivett. Gus Futtermere said: "The finish was a farelcal accident. I think Stan was mesmerised by that heads absurd belly. If their two indn't collided, I'm sure Stan would have knocked his man, out at the end Political tension is getting worse of round, three. Dan. was worn out here

week. Reople. who overy

with trying to follow Stan's light- knitted Jumpers together during the ning movements. Dan is no fighter, war are now hardly on speaking he is just an obstacle. I want Stan terms and Emily's political group to light again soon, to wipe out the the

Gentlewomen's Impoverished

memory of this fasco," True Blue Conservative Association, any that all the intellectuals of the The fourth programme Whist Club Left Wing group ought to be shot.

A

This was because a Left Winger

of

for

FOURTHI programme, animals, will shortly be started.

anld the True Blues, who are also will contain nearly everything in the Housewives' other other programmes which have

members League, were eating twice as much hitherto been considered as enter-

esting as slum children were

iniinment for human beings. A corps

Trud, in another article, said the that their big stomachs were the the affect of the programme on dogs--

names 1939 and it was no use pretending of official observers, empowered to

enter

private houses, will report on Gorki Oblast Board of Agriculture result of hunger oedema.

and enta and canaries and pet apes. "has turned into · a broken down office for tying and unravelling knots."

The gardener, who is now rending "Forever Amber" instead of Karl Marx, says we are all sex 'starved It said: Frequently, the settling of and ought to have at least Awo the simplest question is drawn out children each before the Russians for months; Important documents arrive and send us down the mines. demanding speedy action travel Emily has had a now lock put on

her bedroom door. from department to department.

"You passes In another bureau where

can hear frequently, 'Come

not or That is

my "Bureaucrats have not yet dis-

are given for access to seven dif- tomorrow,' appeared in

institutions."

ferint government offices, the same business. Such an attitude cannot the newspaper Trud said. "They thing happens, but getting a pass be tolerated." interfere with the work of the is complicated because the telephone In the pass-issuing office is a house government apparatus, and are a phone while the phone in at least blot in the fair name of the on of the necessary offices is on

the city line. | Soviet employee, “

"Why

our

are passes to all

Similar inefficiency exists in the Coal and Oil Ministries where, Trud suggested, "It is to be expected that Ministers Comrades Onika and Baibakov will put Bolshevik order these in the organisation of reception of

"Labour discipline has been places needed anyway?" Trud ask- visitors." weakened in many institutions. d.

of

"In our

country even the most modest civil servant, as regards the that aims and contents of his work, is long

Incomparably *and Imineasurably above the greatest state official of any capitalist country," Trud re- minded, pointing out that with "un-

ring war" bureaucracy could

It is a matter of honour for

Another reporter recorded Soviet civil servants to put an

employees promenade all day end to red tape, to the scornful in the halls

of the Ministry attitude towards visitors, to. Fisheries instead of working, and, violations of labour discipline because the lunch room is so

from the Ministry, they spend from and of working time."

one to two hours at lunch instead allotted half-hour.

far

eliminated.

be

Trud's blast came only after of the

Weapons with which to combat. its reporters had assembled, Labour discipline is so low in bureaucracy and red-tape, it said, after personal investigation. n that Ministry, according to Trud, were "strengthening of ideologi- that when the Minister recently cal work with civil servants" and bulky file on cases, of bureau gave written orders to one oficial "widespread cracy in action.

to prepare materials for an impor- eriticism," tant conference,. "the official, with- Trying to get a pass into the Oll out a word; locked up the necessary Industry Ministry involves going to

papers in his desk and left for several windows, waiting in line, long business trip."

are.

self development of

"All forms of activities with civil

servants would be directed to de-

a velopment of the political outlook

of our personnel, raising

the

and finally being fold, when at the Clerks in courts, post offices and ideological level and educating

offices hend of the line, that the necessary telegraph

frequently them in the spirit of Soviet Patrio- official is out to lunch, Trud re- rude, according to the newspapers, tism," sald Trud. ported. The Anal indignity, in that and the principal function of office is that there. Isn't a chair to secretaries. of important ometals sit on while walling for the offelal's seems to be to inform callers return.

"ring up tomorrow."

NANCY

Can't Be Too Careful

GOODNESS--

I'LL HAVE

TO WATCH

MY

WEIGHT

HEATH

to

"People should display Bolshevik irreconciliability to bureaucracy in solving great and small questions." -United Press,

A BANANA SPLIT. WITH CHOCOLATE: SYRUP. CARAMEL SAUCE, CHERRY JUICE,

AND FUDGE

SYRUP

Your loving

Aunt Maud.

Song of the workers.

No smoke drifts from the chimneys, The gates are shut and barred, The great machines lie silent,

There are, pickets in the yard, For they sent us new Manager

To get output increased,. But he wouldn't join our Uniton

The filthy Fascist - beast,

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Acrusa

16,' as to one word for ́s PORILE. (H) 19. Fapor tread shall we a77 (8)

22. There's nothing odd about this tide." (4) a. Compists, (2) 25. This is fa a religion (5) 20. Footical synonym for 23 (29 27. New tund. (5, 3)

Dasya

#. Where the rain coches ZOOKA Y ES9.

3. This jar is a bird (5).

4. Noods nothing to display - a

tyrant with

BO (0)

penchant for

5. Drink cíusita, to me ? 40, 59 .6. Boo 2 Across

7. Certainly no pitts for the future.

Achilles Lound then enda nos painful, (1)

9. Where to find a sappor. (2) t on away from the funeral age.

101

14. Dibe. 17. How fetes always end up, thà

i and 6 Down. Think of that ring: 20. Unheeding. (4)

ing sound and you get the 21. Way loare vozy toe kima. 400 anagram of a "pation built in 94..Split sie. (3) san. (16)

1. Partly responsible for the pro-

Guption at this paper, (7)

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and Doors, Domestos Izpure; Dematik; si, Xon: 0, douzder; 13. Hosta)

10. It may have helped to manu olier: 10, 4341 16. sij

factaire paDET, (4)

11. Usually for breakfast and on $4. Pechugarm

12. Heightan. (7) 13. Looks as though mother

Fraduated. (2) 18. Chopped dates. (51)

By Ernie Bushmiller

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