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Constance BENNETT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947.

ERIC GREY STOPS OFF AT CAIRO FOR A SENTIMENTAL LOOK-SEE:

Hassan

is fretting for Monty's men

ORGET the heat and the

box-back

fo

There are no more riotous gharry flies and the dust, and races-packed six inside and one on the persistent,

coachman's ever the optimistic hawkers ("Look, barracks at night. George, real gol' ring, only 50

The gharries all have shiny, new akkers-how much you give leather cusions. Your

akkers me?") who followed you down (Egyptian pinakers, about 2d.) did Emad el Din.

that for them. But the horses Hill wear the same forlorn, wiebegone Tonic.

...What else do you remem ber of those seven days' leave in Cairo with £20 back pay to obliterate the memory of the desert?

.

Kasr el Ni barracks are Egyptian

East H.Q. Middle new. And Was it that Brst meal at the Muddle East to most of us waiting leave. You are bound to be Parisiana? Where else could for

you get such appetising mezzes interested in that. If you wire a with your beer-plates and Base wallah, you must have known plates of snacks, sliced tomatoes Grey Pillars-or was It Red Pillars? are closed and turned into and pickled cucumbers, little They meat balls, white cheese and fats again. dried beans? Are you with me in memory?

They were free on the house.

The dhobie

The dhobic's

remember. And the big, thick, So Garden City returns to its old juicy red steak henper with peacetime sleepy seif, with only fried onions which you até while the dhoble near the main entrance little Aly the conjurer produced to remind you that here was once a a chick straight out of your famous headquarters. trousers pocket or so it seem shirt and slacks are khaki now-it is cd.

your guess where he got them!-bu always count on to wash, staret and rss your bush shirt in 24 hours. Gezira---that has changed in. That sporting club was like a bit of England on the Nile-green lawns

not palms.

Aly is still around and the odd after all, he was the man you could

thing is that he has not grown an inch... says he's ten years old. and working at nights so that he can

to school by day.

And fat, perspiring, Jovial Panayoti the walter still swears at him and chases him out through the

Aghting-bul for much smaller re- wards.

I think Hassan, sports reporter of the Mall, misses you most, He organised mowl of the Anglo- Egyptian matches and a good many of the inter-Services ones us well.

Hassan has sech two wars through Once in and he is a bit tout now. a while he catches a train at Calm Main and spends a week-end in the Canal Zong with his beloved boys. And only then does he stop fretting. For in Cairn today not a stitch of haki will you see. IT IS OUT OF BOUNDS TO BRITISH TROOPS..

Norman Smart, who reports the first emi- gration by air from Britain to Canada, sends this second log from the Plane of Good Hope

FL

Dant neept it hasn't yet acquired that exquisite golden

brow"

They all had jobs for Doris

TORONTO. Criminal Records Office of the

He is astonished to find that -HEN Miss Doris Hollo- R.C.N.W.M.P.; now the where all of the 500 employees who four abouts of her home the are now his colleagues go to way. former

work in their own cars. guineas a week typist closest secret.

W

are

in the London Foreign Office, Like most other immigrants All this news is going home started her job at the Royal Canadian North-West Mounted Doris found the Canadian way to his wife and two children,

she had thought. It was like shortly. Police H.Q. here the immigra- of living easier to adopt than whom he hopes to bring out

a film story coming to life, tinn authorities sighed with re- lief.

Timbered houses in their

£3 a week

swing doors bruised by a million and hedges, trees that for once were she is the last of three plane, neat, unfenced grass plots, drug POOLEY, of Pevensey-

Allied boots.

Now that you have o

gone, Panayott is think- of going back to his ing native Greece and open- ing a cafe of his own; of Burl A

ካሮ

wants

Gruppi's on the Egean. Of course, it can never be like the real Groppi's,

The

What a place that

And stil is. Wis! Inexhaustible montains of cakes and chocolates

by

hundredweight

are still there.

Shepheard's. of course,

"Oflcers only," Well, they

They are relieved not because

The lido at the club is loads of immigrants from Eng- still as crowded as ever land to get jobs within six days, and but because when she arrived she became Toronto Glamour Girl No. 1 overnight.

not with khak! drill, with white suits tarbushes. But the crow that

watches cricket--

there are stin enough English civilians to make two teams-from

under

ให

the goldmohr trces on 31 Saturday

has Afternoon

thimed out.

The open-air

Her blue eyes looking through a veil, her smart white summer hut, captivated the reporters. cinema and for days they ran her as a next door is playing to a Page One story. full house every night, of That is something you miss-when the weather's That and the dancing al

...quiotor now was course. have really do

taken that sign down now and fine. redecorated the place. Joc in the Badia's. long bar at the back is still mixing She is a clever hostess. serew-drivers and S.B.s.

As he stood in his spotless white, jacket, faultlessly tailored, he told m with pride that he never once ran out of Scotch when we slood four this bar, Cairo is just deep wallowing in the stuff at 30s. Collie

At the 'Y'

-

Badin.

Mme.

stores, sidewalks, street cars, bir motorcars, hel hops, the hoarse whistle of the trains, and the bells they sound at un- gated railway crossings-these things fell easily into place in the lives of all of them.

They talk ceaselessly of food. Doris Holloway gets the equiva lent of 47 108, a week stenographer, and she can get an excellent three-course lunch with ample meat for 1s. 2d. at the office cafeteria.

£7.10s. a week THEN the troubles of the im-

migration authorities, who Her room costs her 35s. a Her blend of Egypilan dancing and English song was in-guard immigrants like a mother, week, and she finds she can get fectious: one had to join in the fun. began. From all over Toronto a good meal in most restaurants But you would find it changed now. The sketches are political, a fair re- telephone calls began to pour in for little more than half

with from susceptible Canadians who crown. Good nylons, which are said they had met Doris while plentiful, cost 9s. 3d., and smart serving in England.

lection of current events. mich emphasis on the evacuation of

a British troops and Egyptian indc-

penience.-

Some people do miss you in Cairo, all the same. The tourist 'bazaars are pretty empty nowadays. Without a soldier audience the brass workers was different at the Y on de not seem to chisel and polish with Soliman Pasha. Only soft the same gusto. drinks there for the 4,000 Servicemen who looked in each day. They have closed the Y.M.C.A, now.

IT

arrived.

£12 a week

rond, Tooting, S.W., aged 24, came out as a steampipe fitter, but decided to try his hand at farming. farm 40 miles from Toronto he gets 3 a week and all found as a beginner. He lives and eats with the family.

On a 160-acre mixed

"Call me Wilbur," said Farmer Beatty within half an hour of meeting his new em- ployee.. On the way to his. new jou Jim Pooley bought a pair of trousers, a shirt, a straw hat, and a belt-259. the lot. He has his own room, sparsely but comfortably furnished, and the house has modern conveni

He will be able to go nces. into town twice a week in the family car.

There are no union hours. frocks less than £2. The only and if there is work to be done Offers of jobs of all kinds sign of rationing is the two he will work- much more than eight hours a day. "I think I'll One man telephoned meatless days a week and half like it," says Jim. and managed to persuade Doris a pound of sugar a week, they had met at Aldershot, but when face to face she discover- ed she did not know him.

Finally, the immigration au- Remember Mrs Goldenstein who used to make up food parcels to send Abbassis or Hello and cleared £4 a thorities hid Doris away in a home? Well, she is back in her night. And the newspaper boys who private houst from which

to sell you jeweller's shop on Kasr el Nil again. fought each other

the

started work in Kasr el Nil has changed a lot. Egyptian Mail or Gazette are stil she

Newspaper boys

THE

HE taxi drivers sigh for the times

when they drov

to you

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

SING a number of

blow smoke down

the

the

THIS is what happened to some

Ex-test pilot-Lynton Blow, of Southbourne, Bournemouth, with five jobs offered him, chose insurance solling, a pros of the other immigrants: perous business here. He gets Skilled turner William £10 a week plus commission, which should bring it up to £14. Browne, late of Parkside-.

Kent ja Although offered jobs as avenue, Barnehurst, the man who sold up his home pilot, he turned them down to pay the fare out. He has because, being over 40, he says, "You can't go on flying for over got a job in the workshops of and I think I can make good the Hydro-Electric Power Com- quickly in insurance.” His pay mission at Niagara,

His wife, Gona who flew with

#

ropes Lay off!

Here, regardless of party, passing U dipped in luminous paint, LADY parrot whose home is in M.P.s were asked to speak a few is 5s. 94. an hour, with a nine him in be a farm Worker, was

Mincheud, Somerset, is in cubic inches of hot air through the huur day in the 48-hour week. which she changed as each in diuuant about the amount of tube. Some kept breaking off He gets time and turn became red-hot. Mrs publicity given

her on the occasion frame an amendment, or pat a con- overtime. Hiawatha Wringle, the only of her laying an egg for the second

the back: Mituent en time in 25 years married competitor in the Na-

is liberutuly, "Surely a girl's private life tional Backwards Skipping Con- her own affairs," test, set up a new record by maintaining for 12 hours an average of 251 skips per minute, crossing hands at every third skip..

& half for walking around a department The minimum he store here when the manager others de should make is £12 a week got into conversation with her His employers took him to work and offered her a job as steno- the croaked over tube, and one man bil a large plecs | by car, gave him a wonderful grapher at £7 10s. a week. the phone when I called her up, out of it. However, a full lead was

The Blows reckon they have precisely what do people export obtained by 3.25 am, at which time lunch on the roof of the garden

hotel overlooking the falls. a comfortable four-figure income The to iny after a quarter of a con- the House rose,

Within half an hour of meeting enabling them to live well after tury-a foundation stone?"

Licence applied for ' him the manager was calling they have paid £4 a week for Warm, isn't it?

Bill. The manager was rooms, "Uning hot air to dry out

SCAFFOLDING has already been him

erected on the site where Mr A. impressed when he saw Bill flooded telephone cable ducts, G.P.O. engineers will have near- Spiv's new jacket is to be bullt. handling tools. "He'll do well," Mra Wringle, whose spare time

This jacket," Mr Spiv is repinted he said. ly all the 13,200 phones put out mostly taken up posing

of action back in gervico

tonight."

as raying, "will be constructed of photographs as the only lady lamp-

News Item. orange and ecrise flowered glazed İghter in Q10 South-Western

stockings THE most tedious operation was chiniz. From the plans it appears Region,

clasi.c wore which she firmly belleves give her loading up the hot air. at the to be a tight-waisted job with eight covered is the housing shortage, run a car and take a fishing or Commons. An aight pockets and a luted skirt reaching which is as acute as in England. shooting trip when he feels like greater muscle flexiblly, d sine qua, House of

as down to the knees. Instead of the At present he is staying in an it. "But," he says cautiously, (I bellove) of championship wheeler petrol lorry 0 container.. being standard akipping.

packed Just usual pads, which tend to slip about, hotel at nearly £1 a day until "I shall know better when I've outside the main doors, with a 300ft. It will have a rubber dinghy sown he gets rooms, but his employ got the children here, set up Naturally, she wcars Soccer rubber speaking tube leading from into each should. These dinghies shinguards inside the stockings, the tank, aling the corridor. and will be inhaled after the jacket has ers are contributing towards house and really got to grips

with life in Ontario." the cost.. But who does not, nowadays?

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