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Lou COSTELLO in "HERE COME the CO-EDS"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

A

Sitting on the

ND how are you?" asked

The Man's Friend, not

caring how he was.

"Well, since you'vo asked me," said The Man, "I'll tell you,

:

"Apart from lumbago, rheu- matism and chronic dyspepsia, I wake up every morning with a splitting headache, which my brother thinks is neuralgin, my father thinks is teeth, and my mother puts down to the war. My wife thinks it's beer.

"Of course, I don't know my nelf. All I know is that I wake about 7 n.m. with this head- nche. Sometimes it's in front, sometimes at the back, and sometimes dead centre or right in the middle.

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"Of course, when 1 get this kicks in "Just you feel this one on my leg. the kidneys, I can't move an inch. I Give me your hand, Go on. It have to hang on to something till it won't hurt you. Feel it? Big as n

Sometimes it lasts just long small egg, isn't it? goes. enough for me to miss the train and sometimes it puts me to bed for n week.

"My brother

Neuraя-

Az it's thenia, my father says: it's liver, and my mother says it's worry. Alu wife saya it'a beer.

✰★

"Then there's my heart. Of course, it isn't really a bad heart, if you know what I mean. They say. If you have a really bail heart you don't feel it at all.

"Well, I can tell you I feel mine all right.

Thud, thùd, thud it goes it I run for a bus. Bang, bang, bang it goes

I dash up the stairs. Wallon, bang, wallop if I have a row with somebody.

"Of course, they go down again, Then they come up somewhere else, "My brother says it's V, D, H., my like trying to keep # ball under father says it's cigarettes, and my "And sometimes it catches you at waler, And all through the night it mother says it's marriage. My wife awkward momen's. I remember it goes on like the toothache, nag, mag. says it's beer." caught me once when I was playing nag, mag, Nag, nag, tag, nag, nag.

"My brother says it's crystals in

"Then I get up about a quarter to Hamlet in some amateur theatricals, eight and have a glass of hot water and you feel rather a fool when you the blood, my father says it's luck of and an aspirin and do my morning say "To be or not to be-Ow-that is exercises, which make this headache the question.' worse, but which my wife says are good for me?

" have a bit of breakfast, which Immediately starts

the old dyspepsin..

up

"My brother thinks t'a acid, my father thinks it's a duotenat, and my mother thinks it's bad cooking. My wife thinks it's beer.

me

in

taltes "This dyspepsia funny ways. Sometimes it's just a hot, burning feeling inside and some- times it's a dull ache right in the idrift, wherever that is, but just here, if you know what I mean.

"Sometimes it's a feeling of nausea,

which Loos on till take some alkaline, and saetines it makes me so hungry that I could eat a horse.

"But as soon as I've taken one

want any mouthful i don't

more.

Nat of horse, if you know what I mean, though you probably get some of that in some of these restaurants.

*

A

"Well, when I've swallowed

this bit of breakfast and put on a cigarette I dash off for the station, and sometimes, before I am halfway, suddenly shout out 'Ow, just like that,

"It's lumbago, I suppose, and it feels just as if somebody had given you a kick in the kidneys.

"My brother thinks it's Bright's disease, my father thinks it's float- ng kidneys, and my mother thinks it's sleeping in sitt trenchies. A wife thinks it's beer,"

*

"I'm afraid I shall have to now," said The Man's Friend.

"You asked me how I was." said The Man, "and I'm damn well golog to tell you."

The screws

or

the screws, THEN there's

rheumatism," said The Man. "You might as well say I have the screws all the time, on and off, If you know what I mean.

"Of course, it comes on worse at night, just when you get warm and confortable, and much worse in the winter and wet weather.

"It's like toothache in the hones, if you know what I mean. Some- times in your thighs, sometimes Ju your armis,

tubrication in the joints, and my

**I really must go now," said The

Man's Friend. "I have an appoint-

ment,"

mother says it's damp sheets. My Hald The Man, grubbing his lapel.

wife says it's beer.

"I als get trouble with my ears ond eyes, just like the complaint des- cribed by the old quacks who used to sell cure-alls at street corners-'dull singing in the cars, floating specks before the vision."

"You won't go till I've flaished."

"You've asked for it and you shall have it."

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I hope you realise, Nanny, that the power of the veto

ta ultimately weakened by

its:rechless absize”.

WAY BY THE by Beachcomber

THE cut in newsprint will

T not stop me giving the

news. It is well known that this column frequently accures

Ear, nose and throat stories that appear nowhere

elso, and to get round the is another thing "SINUS

that difficulty of space, I shall in worries me," said The Man. "future condense the more im- also have catarrhi, varicose veins, hay portant and significant news fever, and something blocking up my nose- don't quite know what,

items into a single sentence or a short headline.

"Well, this dull singleg in the ears

Joke. I can tell you. It's like "This sinus makes you feel if

After all, Judge Peels Potato For listening to an organist playing the your face is full of something semi-

Nephew tells you all you need know like gold. Hike cream cheese, wrong notes a mile away, or

about that incident. So does Pipit of Nests In Egg Cup. The delalla hearing somebody else's radio.

"When you ge hay fever with such stories are mere luxuries to be

"It usually comes on when I'm it, as you do in May and June, with looked forward to when we shall bothered about something such as your eyes inflamed and Hching, the have exported all our agricultural billa coming in, or when the children root of your mouth Itching, and a machinery. want new clothes or when baby's high temperature, you feel that your got the hiccoughs,

"Sometimes it's very loud, some- times not so loud, and sometimes like a man playing a saxophone full of seaweed.

"I be" behind.

face, head and throat are all full of Tibetan Moonflower' (IX.) claborate sareasm Egham cream cheese, except that the cream XITO

W Y said, pocketing' the wallet:

D. J. M. can wonder who cheese is hot.

It "My brother, says it's a bug in the "Dunean must have left blood, my father says it's austerity sald Dingl-Poos with maddening "Duncan!" shouted Egham bread, and my mother says it's neg-serenity.

"So he's Duncan to you already, is he? teet. My wife says it's beer, at

You're a fast worker." "You ought

I

"The floating speeks before the

I'm working vision come when the ofllee or concentrating on some- thing, or trying to go to sleep. try to get rid of them by counting them, but as soon as I've counted one Tot another lot appears, you'd have to be a bit of a chartered accountant to add up the total.

and

"Why, do you know, It sometimes "They're usually brown or green, comes out in sumps, I remember I and sometimes swing over and over once had teen rheumatic lumps at the the stars would if you

in an aircraft the same time; and I've got a few looping the loop

night,

trow.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S WEDDING MUSIC

THE full programme of music

for Princess Elizabeth's

the

by

wedding on November 20 has R. G. WEETLOCK now been arranged, and bius is strongly in favour of British composers.

Before the service, organ music will be: Sonata in G Major (the first movement) by

were

at

shine and shadow, are most imagina- tive and suggestive. He has also in the modern way tightened up the dramatic

*

to know," replied the recumbent siren. He's not the narrying kind, I may tell you," said the infuriated warrior. I should worry!" riposted "Naturally, with all these things the nonchalant

Eghum beauty on I don't get much sleep. pouted. "Are you here," inquired going When I'm not kept awake by the

totalls of the impudent charmer, screws I get a kick in the kidneys, nuji beans,

or to Interfere in my sald affalra?" "Neither," private just when I'm dropping off.

the sulky Colonel. "I thought we "When my heart doesn't go bang. were to have a pleasant tele-n-tote." hang like a drum ut midnight I get "And who spoilt it? Is it my fault sharp pains in the breadbasket and if men and me attractive?" Some- have to get up and take some more thing deep down in Egham whispered: "Of course Is." But a wave of emotion surged over him, and falling When I'm not coughing my on his knees beside the divan, he varicose veins are itching; and when poured out a torrent of wild endear- 1 stop coughing, my varicose veinsments which flowed off her back like don't itch, my stomach's at peace and water.

alkaline.

my heart has stopped banging. I lle

awake counting these specks before Should masterpieces

my eyes.

"Of course, I have catarrh all the year round cough, cough, cough, cough. Blow, blow, blow, blow,

"Then I have the varicose velns, throb, throb, throb, throb. Itch, itch,

action so that there are itch, itch. no awkward pauses between-scencs.

be signed?

insisted un

THE tattooist whu

signing his own masterpieces will lot of trouble. probably cause a Apart from questions of space, which are all the rage today, a signed pie- ture or scroll of words on a chest or forearm may be ambiguous, Thus, I a-Mr-Reif,-let-u-say-calls-at the. tattooist's, and asks for an outsize Love Ada in red and blue on the chest he will not want it to read I Love Ada P, T. Farragut, or what- ever the artist's name may be. Again, when a Mr Whycroft orders a heart transfixed with an arrow in honour of his flancer, he can't show it to her "So you can see that, what with If the name P. T. Farragut intrudes your heart going bang, bang, bang, below it. and your nose going phew, phew,| Footnote to the above phow, and the dull singing in your cars going tiddley om pom рот, you're rather like a one man band.

"My brother says it's.....?

* + *

"And this thing that's blocking up British music and musicians by On the other hand there is, in this y nose sometimes goes phew, phew, phew, phow. Whistle, whistle, paying her annual Presidential as in so many modern productions, whistle, whistic. visit to the Royal College of a tendency to

break away from tradition for the mere sake of do- Music in London and present- ing so; and several pieces of "busi- One interesting ness" which are not only traditional ing prizes. Elgar: Andante Cantabile by feature of this ceremony was and immemorially associated

with Widor; Fugue Alla Gigs by the revival in the concert of "Faust" but are also dramatically Bach; Jesu Joy of Man's Desir- two numbers which were played right, have been ruthlessly cut away. ing by Bach; selections from

in the first convert of the "Water Music" by Handel and Patron's Fund the Bridal March and Finale by Parry.

When the King and the bride arrive, a fanfare of trumpets

in 1904- set Nevertheless, the new production

undoubtedly stimulates interest

of fantasia-variations by Hurls to be welcomed: first because

stone and two movements of a

Suite de Bullet by Holst.

don's permanent opera

a new light.

It

in

opera as a whole, and, secondly, be- cause in England "Faust" by virtue of its story and music, has already One of the most sensational events been an easy winner and has there- will be heard. This and two of the season has been Dennis fore suffered from perfunctory per- other fanfares to be played Arundell's new. production of formance and slovenly production. during the service have been Gounod's "Faust" at the Sadler' specially composed by Sir Wells Theatre, home of one of Lon. This production has brought it into

componies. Arnold Bax, Muster of the Sensational because Mr Arundell has King's Music. Also composed broken away entirely from tradition

Another happy omen in

Brilish for the occasion is a motel, and, in doing so, has angered some music is the revival of the compet!- tive festival, which of course Was "WC Wait For The Loving critics and delighted others.

silent during the war. The English Kindness of God," by Dr Wil-

Ernest Newman, England's senior competitive festival is a kind of liam Mackie, organist of West- music critic, wrote: Mr Arundell hog tournament of music in which minster Abbey.

done what i have always hoped singers compete for prizes, The music includes also some producer of genius would do which is invaluable in Psalm 67 "God Be Merciful consign to the rubbish heap all the latent talent. Many of the

vulgar trash that has accumulated winners

Ott go Unto Us and Bless Us," sung to about "Faust" performances and careers.

11 chant by Sir Edward restore to the work the dignity that Bairstow, formerly organist of is its due. This is a production that Yorkminster, and the threefold one interested in operatic deve-

lopments in this

should has "Amen" by. Orlando Gilybons, aniss." who was organist of West- minster Abbey in the 17th cen tury.

to

and discovering prize- professional

The Macclesfield Music Festival

begun country

of nine after a lapse years, and it is encouraging that the number of competitors (2,587 in The production indeed has great 80 classes) is Ave times larger than

certainly at the last meeting in merits: the producer has

1938. Next restored. 'the legendary medieval month 'the Blackpool Festival (one Princess

has Elizabeth

atmosphere of the poem, and his of the largest in Britain) will already identified, herself with contrasts of light and darkness, sun- be resumed.

NANCY Who Done It?

also

LIKE the story, which I am this moment inventing, of the man who said, while tattooing a map of Turkey on a lady's back: "The art

But The Man's Friend had escaped.jof tattooing Is In its infancy."

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