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BYRON

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CLAUDE BADIS EVELYN REYES-JAMES GLEASON NORTON = RTA JOHNSON··· JOHN EMERY

COLUMBIA [PICTURE"

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1947.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on Fence

F you are a dreamy time- waster like your Uncle Nat,. marked down in boyhood as he'er-do-well by energetic busybodles and no use at all in times. of austerity, you will have your compensations.

JL

have

You will probably enough imagination to csenpo from the dull world about you and live in a world of your own creation.

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Often when bores are drying hold your Uncle's attention he for- sets their existence and finds to his Astonishment and delight that he is anillag into the sunsel in a white- winged yacht; or bowling for land at Lord's, hitting the middle 9ས- stump with every ball and dismissing the entire South African team in an over and a half for no runs at all; la Just in an ideal bar or maybe he where champagne cocktails are free and everybody is witty and beauti- ful or handsome, according to sex.

IT

*

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TT was a miniature bottle of Scotch sent over by no American friend that made your Uncle forget for u Inw minutes that he was back to the

rindstone after his holidays.

little

by NATHANIEL · GUBBINS..

"You always were a bit of a poet, Elmer,"

The "Thanks lot. Homer. other morning I finde. this one up. For bright and happy lives, stick to private enterprise,

"Why, that's terrifle Elmer." "Maybe it don't quite rhyme like a proper poem, but my wife thought good. And she's my pretty severest critic. Homer."

it

"sap she is, Elmer, Specialty after you've been to one of those Elk parties, you wicked old rascal you." " see by the papers the British are squawking again."

"They're always squawking." "They're in a spot. You lend them money. They spend it too soon. Then they squawk."

"They even have the nerve to say we're chiselling because we put up lent them the prices after we've dough."

"What do these Socialists know about business, anyway?"

you

Instead of emptying the buttle; he suddenly saw it on a two miniature table together with

glasses and a miniature miniature syphon of soda.

Sealed at the table were two, tiny cigars. They men smoking Any were so small that their conversation sounded like the squeaking of mice, but If you listened carefully found they were tiny. Americans

in working themselves to death doll's house Wall-street for the pur- pose of acquiring millions of dollar bills half the size of postage stamps.

"Well," squeaked the Arst man, pouring drinks from the le bottic, "Amerken is certainly on top of the world. Yes, sir."

"A lot of Idle, dreamy bums, waiting for hard-working folks to Have another drink, help them out. Elmer?"

little

They "Why,

Homer. thanks, make the Scotch mul we drink it because they can't afford it. That hunds you inft don't it?"

•

}

the

"We wouldn't have done that if Churchill's party had been elected."

"No, sir."

"And maybe we might have had special prices under the loan if Churchill's party bad got in."

"Maybe, Elmer, maybe.”

"Have a revival in your heart," pipes little Hence while poppa goën rount with the hint.

Like Aimee McPherson and all other business-like revivalists, Mr Martz believes in trumpet-blowing

the and drum-banging as

best method of winning the reluctant heart of the sinful massen.

When you are deafened by music and dazzled by uniforma your re- sistance is weakened and you ATO much more likely to invest your A money on a part-payment for house in heaven thun on a pint in a publle house on earth.

n la

So Mr Martz blows a trombone his wife Esther blows a saxophone, little Reneo blows a trumpet, and a

bangs Miss Ruby May James

with a drum plano. Anybody allowed to whack it.

★ ✩ * "But don't let anybody say that the United States interferes in the DUT, despite all this, and despite domestle politics of any country."

the supreme moment when litulo Renco puta down her doll to say: "Why, certainly not, Elmer.

"We all need a revival. I need a 11 revival. United States stands for freedom for revival. My daddy needs all people under the sun,"

My mummy needs a revival. Then you can all sing 'Oh I'm So Happy Now, the small English audience at the Albert Hall, kept their money in their pockets and crept away, no doubt, feeling slightly sick.

The

"But everybody must learn that the only way of life is the American way of life."

"Even if they have to learn it the hard way

"Only Inst week I made up an- other little poem on those very lines. with Uncle

It

was Life is Jam, Sam.*"

POCKET CARTOON byÖSBERT LANCASTER

"Now that you and lj in a. manner of speaking, own thre rallways, why do we have to go on charging ourselves a title bit more every three months?"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

Party conversation HT

AT Week.

Strabismus rocket, christened Fido by a film actress the drawling-edge, Wargaret's father's WHISKY'S getting so short that who smashed a bottle of Fiji

taken taport over

had to be pulled to bits again. *enting."

It was found that the canti- the whinge-box had slipped out of the Gardiner notches, thus Jamuning the crivet-leech under. and foreing the of Americans folds

pole-fork.

This

Says

"If this tovsn't teach us to be "Why, that's swell, Elmer. So neutral to the next ear, nothing will Jever-bolt un

You ought to

ever teach us anything." simple, yet so true.'

"My husband publish a book or sump'n."

"Maybe I will, Homer. Maybe 1 shouldn't be hurt if they are unpopa-the Spidwell rudge-tacks Into the

lar in the world today. He says twelve-stroke hammerfont. will."

when we were rich and powerful, caused a rush of meriolated air into lending money at interest and hand- the sump-pipe, so that two guigeon- ing out lecture, for nothing we were pins burst sideways. unpopular, too."

All over again

NE of the minor miséries in an

"When the basic petrol ration goes ONE

there'll be no cabs in London for of major miseries in the tige "I've nothing against the British,

black market transport." "The good old US.A," squeaked but anything against Socialism hands dreary spectacle of history repeating anybody but those who use them for

When the British itself. me a fag, Eimer,

All was elected

Brenda's husband wants the second little man.

Socialist Government

Το middle-aged

like living bread and cheese, but she will use and we cut off Lease-Lend without warning 1 laffed and laffed and through 1947 is rather

through 1921 again except that it is up his cheese ration in her, filthy

cooking." laged."

"Live every day the U.S. way, I made that little thing up myself. Only this morning at breakfast."

..

Is there such a thing as 'Moon Madness'?

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

there ebbing tide. They seemed to know

men,

hiving

harder to much worse and much bear when you have seen li all be- fore.

There are the some bright, brittle girls parked on every sent in every bar, their cackling laughter and shrill screams making every hotel and publle house sound like a vast parrot's cage.

mun after

is

"I only hope the German prisoners won't go short of anything,"

(Go out quietly, leaving your hots.) Bardic Causerie

CORRESPONDENT asks how it

The

comea about that the Bardic Chair in which the Bardie Bards are crowned at the Eisteddfod was made Well, by natives of the Gold Coast,

Gold It is a short story. On the Coast, near Kwitta, lives a anali tribe who are the descendants of the man who landed at Takoradi in 327, And founded the Gold Coast. He was a Welshman named Fishiesto, a "My husband say's when you chairmaker from Llantiprydd. think hard things about America ribe now makes burdic chairs for remember the men of the Eagle export.

men of tenter a druid in a nightshirt and a

straw hat with Atla. Squadron and forget the

written on the band) Wall-street."

"Margaret's father's lived without Wrong story food so long that he didn't know

YEAR Sir, there was any rationing."

Du Correspondents have got nut "It's all very well to any eat the story all wrong. It was

was more fish. If everybody eats more 13racli and the Sultana. It fish than they're entling. how, there Palmerston and Lady Blessington. And it was not bananus but plunis. camo Zenamas and sultanus never "As 1945 was the healthiest year into it. So there is no point at all ever known in Britain, it shows you

in the story. that reasonable austerity does no

"WHAT evidence is the the sea was going back though the "goed-for-nothing ex-soldiers," now fish than they're ent

moon can influence the human water in their pool was still. mind?"

For centuries people nccepted this belief. Then came the age of scientific discovery and the idea was discredited.

усагн

There are the same young unable to adjust themselves winning the war for us, unce those "those spivs." Twenty-nine) ago and two years ago they were WORMS The most startling ex-those brave boys." ample of moon control is shown by

There is the same snarling in the harm." tropical worms called certain

lolos--living in coral rock. They world of politics, there are the same only political extremists who think that emerge from their twice a year. Their excursions are everything will be solved by hitting always made on the first day in each somebody on the head, the same in

sults are being hurled at the amazed ot October montis

country, who thought they had saved changers are haggling from slavery, and the sume money bling while people go hungry. the

of the

burrows

and

"When people start talking about nt this time, 1 Christmas turkeys want to scream."

"My husband says it will probably

Storchenge

Yrs faithfully,

Enid Railton. (Enter a cardboard hat propelled by Foulenough in search

two old men.)

THERE was a curious

of drink ocene, the

many doctors with November when the moon enters its people of the cut world once again be a good world, for our grand- {'other night in a West End res

But now vast experience of mental hos- but quarter.

pitals support the belief. They So definite is this relation with say their patients are noisier at the moon that the natives of Fiji

and that end Samoa have Incorporated the full of the moon

is commonest appearance of the wors sleep-walking

curlendar.

then.

re-

In their

and squab-

Incidentally, our only friends in 1947 are the same as they were in 1021-the people of the Dominions.

★

AS FOR HUMANS:

* Not a great deal of direct study of the problem has been TT is a long way from the behaviour made, but there is an increasing of worms and lahes to the actions UT perhaps the dreartest repeti- of human beings. But all living or-D tion of history is hte reappear.

by the AME amount of evidence from

aunisms are affected

ance of the American religious re- and tom-vivalist. support basic factors like light search on animals to

be the belief that life may

perature. It may be that the moon affected by the moon to a far is another of these. greater degree than many be- lieve.

If so, how does it produce its effect across 224,000 miles of space?

It is not the light tont does FOR EXAMPLE:

The herrings, the worms and som- whether the Hambulists respond

not. YSTERS. Scientists have found

moon is obscured by clouds or shells Nor is it a tidal effect. The moon that oysters open their and begin to feed at the exact mo- pulls on the seas as it moves round tides, and it ment the moon passes over the meri the earth causing the dinn on which they lle, and when has a measurable tal effect on the and other it passes the corresponding meridian atmosphere. But fiches on the other side of the earth.

sea animals answer the moon when they are kept in tanks too sinal for particular phase tie tidal effect to be significant. of the moon-the waning period- which starts adult

from migration spawning grounds Sen.

KELS. It is a

ceis. un their It is possible that the moon exerts Britain

the some direct pull on living issues. to

"When will

some

Laurent Captain Foutenough,"carry- fool suggesting a note-book, went from table to children, but it's no good to 19," calling out the Home Guard?" table; taking small samples of whisky from each glass. He explained that "What's the use of looking bronzed

Government research he

Was

that

Was and

ho

COR- official, and sectt if your rations are cut?"

there

was dueting ests, much bad whisky about. When he had filed a large quart bottle, he walked out, telling the dumbfounded manager that a report would be sent from the Government inboratories, (Ping the ventilator in your bowler with a bit of cork to prevent tall

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"My husband says this will give London restaurateurs greater opportunity of giving you nothing for something."

"Margaret's father, after keeping fighting fit on whisky for 40 years, is now feeling quite it on two meals

Soon after the Kaiser's war Aimee a day."

McPherion arrived with Semple

a "hot bands, gorgeous uniforms, gospel," and a lot of collecting boxes for the purpose of extracting money from the simple English.

The simple English treated her as they treat all foreigners, an amusing, even charming freaks, good for laugh at any time.

#

much But they didn't give her

Coll- money. She had come from fornia where nobody (not even Sam Goldwyn) in properly grown-up, to an old and cynical country which, refused to take her seriously.

At least, It didn't take her serious-

in the Sargusse Perhaps in the human brain smallly and didn't give her any money at

HERRINGS-Fishermen

granules in the nerve cells are move all after reporter Gubbins had inter- about as the

moon changes its report position in space. The fluids in the cavities of the brain and spine may be influenced.

that the best entches of herrings are usually made at full moon.

Some fishes are sensitive to tides

Whatever the effect may be It is in a way that may be due to the only slight in most people. Pirect effect of the moon upon their

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But it could be the cause of those brains. Trapped in a rock pool sareened from the sea they, have been inexplicable mouds-fit of excite seen to throw themselves on to wel ment or depression-which sand and flop their

way into

NANCY New Title

'I HOPE I GET A JOB

TODAY

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the get at times..

we all

viewed her.

* ✩ ★

Now.

as history insists on re- peating itself, we have Mr Jack Martz, also from California, dressed up as a cowboy, with his year-old daughter Rence, who has come to save us all from sin.

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