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Pellet; 17, Orb: 18, Rear; 10, Tufa;

21,

Battle Of Britain Service

on

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947./

DUMB BELLS

BANANAS GROW

IN TREES

ONTËL

AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THÉY) GREW IN BUNCHES

GRABLE IS HIGHEST PAID STAR

John Pudney JESTS

ABBIE, by Dane Chandos. (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6d.)

laughs at the outrageous life

of

Aunt 'Abbie'

AND

JEERS

To fill his column, within the short space of time before the poper goes to press, is no jolce,

A Hollywood star said in an inter- view that she will not get married for a long time. Few do.

ET us acclaim the arrival of a formidable. Irresis- lible, quite intolerable figure upon the solemn scenery of contemporary literature. She in called "Abbie," which is short for Mrs Abbott-Acland, which, as she always points out, is spelt "with two b'a, two

Finally, playing a defiantly mar- t's, and no. k'in Acland."

tial part in the fall of France ("I

that Abbie Is the portrait of an at the top of every hill I switched

had not any too much petrol, so English eccentric, for whom off the engine, lald my hand on the

and, calling there was never a dull moment harn

"Prenez out from about 1914

until

1940, garde! consted down, only once los- The mortrait. of course, is

ing my valuable impetus by colli- was a Young Lady of Tyre," who,

The father was finding it hard to of a lyre.".

make his little daughter understand comely exaggeration, but its slan with a small Peugeot which had of course, "swept the loud chords

omitted to get out of my way").

the idea of subtraction. A character is overdrawn with

Mr Holbrook Jackson in this "You have Ave fingers," he said. all the assurance of Dickens or

"Prenez garde?" she will cry: and

volume, which celebrates the cen-"Suppose you lost four fingers, what in a trice she will cause the most Sterne,

ordinary situation to develop into tenary of the publication of the first would you have then?"

Book of Nonsense, has assembled - "No muste lessons." all the nonsense written and illus trated by Lear and published during his life-time or by his exccutora im- mediately after his death.

1

har

The book, while lacking any

grotesque scene. form of consecutive story, Praise be to Mr Danc Chandos, Betty Grable, with an income carries you along from one out whose first book this appears to be, for creating. something to laugh for the year of $208,000, is the rageous episode to the next; with, and at, without a trace of highest paid Hollywood film reported either directly by the bitterness or spite. My only anxiety star in the new list of big author, who is Abbie's nephew, is that Abble may overspend salaries issued by the Trea-or by Abbie's letters written energies and be unable to continue further upon notepaper scrounged from her ferocious vigour in a the world's best-known hotels, volume covering more recent times,

Meanwhile, long live Abbie, who. buslics

to the bookstalls liners and embassies.

Monday.

sury.

Her trumpet-blowing husband, Harry James, received $11.660 from the same company as paid his wife- Twentieth Century Fox Film Cor- poration.

SAV-

This arrogant, gauche figure, clad more often than not in tweeds, is British through and Their combined salary, however, was far short of the $508,000 paid through she is wealthy,

penny that the Charles Skouras, president of Fox ing every West Const Agency Corporation and pounds may look after them- the National Theatres Amusement selves; she is an ambidextrous Company. Skouras topped the Trea-killer on the tennis court; she stry list..

is a scene-maker in restaurants;

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JOY IN THE MORNING, by P. G. Wodehouse, (Herbert Jenkins, 88. 6.)

LAS, poor Bertram Wooster geta no older. He and the Kreat Jeeves, that interna- tional household word, make their

Report of a Macao wedding stated that the bridesmaid wore a crown of plums, A' fruitful sign.

Barber shop advertises Tip Top Service." Clip Top Service would be more appropriate.

A crook is a business rival who

appearance in a new story of social has just left the room. entastrophe with just the kame out.

{ øk props. Welcome to them ás

old friends, but how sadly the same It isn't true that those who are they

arel

#ecking to abolish controls advocate The upper class never-never-dolny away with the brassiere.

land which they inhabit has become

THE COMPLETE NON- SENSE OF EDWARD · LEAR Edited by Holbrook Jackson. (Faber and Faber, 12s. 6d.)

a never-never-ever-land. For this reader, at least, they are not so ha funny as when we used to laugh at Miss Grable's nearest rival, Olivin she is a pedantic and militant EDWARD LEAR described

nonsense as "pure and abso- them between the wars: and that is, de Havilland, was only $1,000 behind. gardener; and, as a warrior in

Jute."

He was too modest to I think, because they are now Next nearest star was Fred Mac-uniform, she is rumoured to add "Immortal," for the writing of

Murray, who was paid $203,525 by have killed her man in World the stuff was, after all, a side line remote from reality as to be rather

Twentieth Century Fox.

War I. for the sake of his bino Among other nelors and Almculars. operators, Columbia Pictures Cor- poration paid Irving Briskin $170,000 and Rita Hayworth $117,000.

.

In action

at

quaint than funny.

The story

A French official was invited to the silver wedding anniversary of an English bishop.

"Silver wedding?" he asked one of the bishop's nephews. drif's around a

"IL in a busy life of painting, drawing

big

ceremony which I do not and teaching This humour not business merger in nhouse-party quite grasp,"

"My uncle and aunt," the young period stuff, although it was creat atmosphere at Steeple Humplelga, ed for an era of comfortable nur- though it is all framed in the West man replied, "have lived together. series and dedicated to the Derby End of London-that leisurely for twenty-five long years without family, which, Mr Holbrook Jackson Woosterlsh West End of the good being separated a single day."

"Ah!" said the Frenchman. "And points out "has done many more old days. serviceable things than lend its name to the most famous horse race in the world...

who "went to sea in a Sieve

with

It was King of Scotland's yard

Paramount paid Eddie Bracken $104,042,

Crosby $175,000, Bing

The funny goings-on arc per.now he marry her? Magulsique!" Robert Cummings $110,000, Brian The author reveals her Donlevy $90,708, Paulette Goddard

such moments as unforgettably

formed by such characters as "Stil- ton" Cheesewright. Lord Worples- 500,000, writers Albert Hackett and visiting the Zoo, tussling, with

don, and Edwin, the Boy

Scout, wife Frances Goodrich $151,875,

Channel To have missed those Jumblies whose good deeds redound Dorothy Lamour $212,372, Alan Ladd the Customs after a

they malevolent relish, True to tradi- $135,833, crossing, hiring a French maid, did when you were very young, as tion, the great Jeeves comes to the $10,000,

Milland Ray Barbara Stanwyck

$140,000. Belty hailing one of Lilley and Skin- 1 did, is to enjoy them all the more rescue of the Young Master in the Hutton $102,583.

ner's vans to save a taxi to the for their serene and moving non- end. Vanguard Films paid actress Gin-shoe shop, selling poppies at sanse when you are older and wiser.

circumlocutory brightness ger Rogers $117,150.

which is Mr Wodehouse's especial Twentieth Century Fox salary dawn on Armistice Day, order-

Neither flurries of psychologists payments included Charles Boyer ing a luncheon ("Your prices nor obfuscations of surrealists will talent still achieves something

the its dazzling aimlessness, but the good $135,000, Alice Faye $101,663, NI- are dearer than the Ritz and I ever explain away or add to

old phrases feather"

such As "knocked me chard Haymes, producer, $143,333. consider your food inferior. stature of this nonsensical

(page 51) or. whose masterpieces

with down with a feathe $135,000 Allee Faye $101,666, RL-

begin

a bloomer" (page 54) begin Miranda $115,000, Maureen O'Hara That is still far in excess of the what lines an There was an Old to have a faint period ring. $110,400 sum I had in mind, head wai- Man with a beard." "There was a

{ter").

Young Lady of Dorking" and "There

$190,000, Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney $114,916.

Our Ex-Enemies Have

All

The Things We Haven't

By SIR REGINALD DORMAN-SMITH (Governor of Burma, 1941-46)

IT

T is a shock to go from the

austerity of Britain to any land of plenty, but the shock is greater when that land is

an

genius,

en the

"made "

of

We will Jubel this then as vintage Wodehouse. It will make you laugh perhaps out of habit, if you have re- tained the habit,

LAUGHING HOUSE, by Warwick Deeping. (Cassell and Co. 78. 6d.)

HIS according to the Dy leaf,

is Mr Warwick Deeping's 63rd book, and it is not a funny,

What has Scotland Yard-to-do-with-

but whimsical, sentimental humorous affair seen-through-a-mist-of-de- cency. It tells the story of a plea-Scotland?

from the aant English house,

be-

ginning of the late war until the It covers the site of a large palace end of it, of how it ceased be with grounds that extended to the with unlimited bread, butter a beaten people than we can afford the private residence of Sir John river, given by the Saxon King Edgar

to behave as victors.

Mortimer, served as a and cheese.

They must

to Kenneth III., King of Scotland. milliary bil- laugh at us when they read of

ourt and finally became one of those

ever-so-nice hotels which advertise He used it as his residence on his economic crisis.

rather feelingly in the

Jannual visit to London to do homage weekly

for his kingdum to the English papers.

Crown.

ex-enemy country which one has man or woman could desire-clothes. If that is so, there must be n pictured as a land of want.

....AND. NO QUEUES

The shops had everything that

materials, boots and shoes and sweets calore; no coupons, no queues, You could just walk in and buy.

However expensive the goods may

a brisk trade.

very

It may be said that we saw only

Sir John Mortimer, the narrator, black-market operators and the like.

suffers a genteel decline along with

1 continued afterwards to be tha the old house, and he, in urning residence of the Scottish Kings when flourishing black market.

hotel-keeper, almost reaches that they attended the English Parliament There is supposed to be a shortage point of brave, humillated gentility as burons of the Realm.

celebrated great so petrol, yet there

of

were a

have just returned from have been, the shops were doing number of private cars on the roads reil cleaning other ccessor Sor-

1

the Tyrol.

On the Austrian side of the

A service of thanksgiving for vic- Sin; 22, Weasel; 23, Coats; 24, tory in the Battle of Britain will be Battery.

held in Westminster Abbey Down: 1, Sheepish; 2, East; 3, Sunday, September 21. The preacher

will be the Rev. F. R. Robarthan, border there is still austerity: OBE, Vier and Rural Dean of with rationing and little to buy Brighton, who took part in the Dun- in the shops. In an hotel used kirk evacuation. He was awarded

as a British leave centre

Egall: 4. Nap: 5. Tralt: 6, Arduously 7 Reel; 10. Verbally; 13. Terete; 15, Erlen; 18, Leno; 20, Fext; 22, Wat.

CHESS PROBLEM

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White, & feces." White to play and mate in thred..

Solution to yesterday's problem:

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the OBE after D. Day for his ser- vlccs

as Acting Chaplain-General notice requests officers not to along the invasion forces lines

of bring dogs with them as Aus- communication,

trian servants have first call on what is left over from the day's rations.

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

But over the Italian border we stopped for a meal at small town, Sterzing. In the dining-room a party of Italian

meal, with more

Pulled down

Atter her death the palace fell into adeeny, and when Scotland and Eng- land united the palace was partly pulled down and Government offices erected on the site..

his by.

people's shoes, The last of the Scottish Royal The Τα packed with holiday-makers.

ders who have fought tooth family to live there was Margaret, sis- readers above majority of the motor coaches were and nail rather successfully against ter of Henry VIII., and wife of At a farmhouse restaurant

following James VI. a major catastrophe, the Bolzano we had another generous new and magnificent models.

description of a unit of our vic- meat and bread

I cannot believe that the Italians torious Army billeted in Laughing bit mannered, spirits. are being called upon to make any-House might seem a than we could eat and no shortage

we even in the mouth of the hero: "My (Au excellent schnapps cost 45. D of butter, cheese, wine of

thing like the sucrifices which bottle). We could buy eggs at about have to make to pay for the war C.O. is what they used to call

decent which they helped to start. It may sahib, and the men are a 44. each.

Riviera-like be that in the big towns there are crowd." In Cortina a vast

but I could shortages, hotel was crowded with fashionably-evidence of any serious attempt dressed women, children in

What

to properly

distribute available must have been painfully correct supplies. Until such evidence evening attire-all fat as

butter- and men looking like fashion plates, forthcoming it is hard to sympathise

with the Italian government beaten

any difficulty they may have in feed-. Hollywood could not have

Italians. Ing or clothing their urban popula- it. They were nearly all but there were a few Egyptians, tions.

almost, whose enormous motorcars dwarfed the hotel.

sce по

HOME TO SACRIFICE

over

Further rebuilding and alteration split the site into Great Scotland. Yard and Middle Scotland Yard.

JIVE AND SWING DIC- TIONARY,

and compiled edited and published by Vic Filmer. Penzance. (2s. 6d.) home

r

Great Scotland Yard became the- of the Metropollian Follco- when they were founded by Alt

T: tells you that gabriels mean Robert Peel in 1829. Middle Scot

trumpet players, garser means land Yard is now the Services Mu- Senentional, robatick means Beum. 1. Robert Burns, 2. Chamcter in officers were having what seem stay even one night at this hotel.

Įplecala, gravy means money, groovy We, of course, could not afford to

With the growth of the police. force- - the It seems odd that If you want to means good, gutbucket, means Nicodemus Boffin, the "Golden Dusted like an enormous meal. But Anyway, they did not want us mere, go to a land of plenty you take a real low down. It has been man." 3. Archbishop of Canterbury it was just their normal lunch. "seventy-five, pounders" are no good ticket to an Bishop of London, Prime Minister,

We ate mountains of macaroni

Dickens's Our Mutual Friend.

Chancellor of Exchequer, Foreign

Secretary

(b) 4(n) Tubular, swing and a vast veal steak, of the

(0) bascule, (d) забреталісті. 6. They

are all first-class footballers,

"D

variety, which "used to be" in

Devon, Dorset, Surrey, Dorset the best restaurants in England, Rey, Augustus Toplady. 8. No. The

red coats are pinks, the horses greys, and hounds, never dogs. 9. Small

rodent whose fur is valuable. 10. NANCY. She Means Well

Henrik Ibsen..

upert and the Jumping Fish–18

While Rupert and the great fish look at each other perplexed, one of the pufficus chip in. If the boat was tiny enough the fish could pull It. I know just the thing. Come with us, little bear, aryl have a look "Well, be sure and, hurry up," grumbles the fish, "the sea serpent docan't like to be kap waiting.

· He'll be awfully croke.! Rupert promises he'll be quick and, getùng up, he flows the two púštins acryla the rocks to a; distant part of tile shore,

ALL RIGHTS DESERVED.

PLEASE CONSERVE WATER--

to them,

WERE THEY BEATEN?

Enjoying their

luxury, these people were behaving no more like

--THE SUPPLY AT THE CITY RESERVOIR IS

BELOW NORMAL..

0.0.0

a new building became necessary,

headquarters, was

built.

cx-enemy country, to me because, welting about jazz. 1 and in 1601 New Scotland Yard, the You can enjoy yourselves there for have boen off the Five (1), and present police a few days and then come back in sadder than a map (2). Well, I time to make moro sacrifices for the can take the acid (3).

(1) Saying the wrong thing; rehabilitation of your own country" and for the feeding of Europe's Terrible; (3) The rough with

[smoot!!!* starving millions.

By Ernie Bushmiller

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS

CITY RESERVOIR

-Norman Shaw, the architect, main- (2) Boined the link with Scotland by. the building, I in the Scottish baronial

style.

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RADIO-TELEPHONE communica- tion with Manila was resumed on Monday when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, mado the first call and spoke to Senor Elpide Quirino, Vice-President of the Philippine Republic. Following this, other calls were exchanged" between Hongkong and Manifa officials, newspaper representa- tives and business leaders. Tho Governor later inspected the Hongkong Telephone Company's plant, and at right is pictured listening interestedly to Mr J. P. Sherry, general manager of the Company. (Photos: Ming Yuen!