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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1948.

"O.K. How d'you like MY New Lonk?"

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Ad

Sitting on the Fence

from the Cornell

EPORT

Univerity:--

the

"Cannibalism has been adhuster of the food to the population, supply and of the population to the food supply.

Furthermore,

#

the

tends to grede tidet. Historically, it cannat be overlooked, but currently

discussed

canust

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polite society....... It is u case where à social gab has been achieved at the pense of a nutritional foam."

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Time: Summer 1955. Every food she a Britain is empty.

Characters:

and Charles, Celin Unele Edward,

Place: Celia's drawing room, Win- dow overlooking ogrden. back centre. Charles and Celia are seal- ed on diren with its baci: to win. dote,

CHARLES: You look turely tonight,

Positively delirious.

days.

15

anything

hungry.

CELIA: Don't say things like that,

Charles. Not

these soumis quite frightening, CHARLES: I didn't meen

harrirrelly I didn't CELIA: But you must be

noor darling. CHARLES: I'm starring CELIA (sighing) I simply don't

da,

know what we're going to There's nothing to eat at all, any- where.

CHARLES: Except people. "CELIATON, Charles 1-coult-nover do that. Never. 14 rather starve to death, wouldn't rou CHARLES looking; thoughtfully at

Iver):

I don't know. CELIA (shrinking away): Charles, you wouldn't....yota weren't thinking? CHARLES: No, of course not, dar

ling. We love

each other, don't z (still looking thoughtfully her).

You're fasing 11 tot of

lked

Speight. CELIA: Well.

you! always

skinny women, didn't you?

CHARLES: Incil to.

pent

CELIA Charles, 1 wish

wouldn't look at me like that. reminds me

of something I'd almost forgotten, the way farmers looked at cattle,

by NATHANIEL

syen wasn't.

and long

GUBBINS

I

the

CELIA: Really, Charles. CHARLES: Oh, don't be silly. Celia.

It's absolutely painice. CELIA: Do you mind if I open

window? CHARLES: Not a bir.

rather hot.

(Celia

JAP ROMANTIC SUICIDES

By Earnest Hoberecht DOMANTIC Japanese couples are finding that

under cold love to

run smoothly. Many are turning to the tradi- tional "double suicide" na the only solution to their troubles.

Police estimated that nearly 10 percent of the 103 suicides in Tokyo in 30 days were "love suicides,"

Japan's teen-agers thought the Golden Era had arrived when the now "democratised" civil law went. Into effect in January. The new law says boys 18 and girls 16 may get married with- out their parents' consent "if mutually in love."

It was a revolutionary change, since it opens the way for love marriages in place of family arranged unions.

The cold fact of the situation is that young hearts still are not absolutely free.

TRADITIONS SURVIVE

Many prospective brides and grooms find they cannot beat Jupan's feudalistic traditions which grew up around the centuries-old "family system."

Technically, the new civil law abolishes the family system. Yet lovers find that the law exists more in theory than prac- tice. For hundreds of years. papa or some older relative has been running the show, and the jitterbugging new generation.js finding that the "head of the family" has little inclination to release the reins

be in better health and we'd have mare money In the bank."

"In a few years money in the bank for know that the new civil law

on't mean a thing. The only com- modities of value will be a house to tipe fr clothes to wear, enough to eat and good health,"

"Margaret's father says they could distil whisky from coal he would go down the mines himself." "If and when we're not short of anything, what will happen to the black marketeers?"

Strong-headed youngsters marry without permission sometimes who find that their parents disown them. The children still do threaten to

them off without

the father from prevents

culting men and women

a yen. So young dreaming "new style"

of it love marriage are re- tuctant to face economie Insecurity and the loss of family ties.

Caught between the old and the new, couples are seeking a solution through "shinju"-the double sul- cide of love. Sometimes

a boy and a girl go to u small Inn and die in each other's times they leap off

after

taking polson. Other sen or into a volcano. cliffs into the

"They reappear as wealthy re- tired citizens in Surrey mansius." arms

"Brenda's husband's dreading her Christmas dinner so much that he's feeling sick in advance."

"What is this drink? Ether and vinegar?"

lashes, really This pig's eyes were red- ish broen, pot velvety brown like pours, (Celia continues her agitalest walk), CHARLES: As this is a question of survival. I think we ought to take a more rational rlew of the whole makes a sign to Uncle Edward, who 12,000,000 to disappear, I'm going off

opens the window and business. I remember years ชม

through

the

It's getting

of

"Margaret's father's working on another idea to make gin out prasa,"

"If

to be one of the

I'm

garden with

Folg

"ang"

an American chap said, "Cannt approaches balism has been the adjuster carrying a a sack).

of CHARLES: Celia. the food supply to the population, CELIA: Yes, Charles. and of the population to the food CHARLES: You know I love you.

he was right. No- don't you? body pora

now, except us. CELIA: I'd rather

CELIA: Of course, Charles. go hungry.

CHARLES And you love me? This American chay CELIA: You know I do. CHARLES:

supply."

t

You

For

ought to start stage coaches again, execpt that there is nothing

eating at the buns." There's nothing worth eating on

worth

the trains,"

Oshima Island, is a favourite place The crater of Mount Mihara, on for such suicides.

The lovers end their lives in the Buddhist belief that in

demned in life they will be united. tice is praised rather

literature.

.

the next The prac- than

con- Japanese sentimental

LAWS CHANGED Under the new law, a wife has greater protection ihan ever before, once she is married. No longer

can her husband just kick her out

will.

There must be before

the ro-

"Passengers would probably end up by eating the horses and pulling the conch themselves."

against her "Margaret's father's spare. time is court proceedings me spent adding up the millions of tons mantically inclined male caa take on

of unmined coal, the millions Di a new bride. acres of uncut grass, and turning them into billions of whisky and gin."

bottles of

CLES:

sale once do anything for literally anything. Did you mea Let's CELIA:

Etl- (Uncle Edward is now at the win

dow and climbing: stealthily through.) CHARLES: Come over and sit be-

side_me. Cella

also safe, "Cannibalism tends 12 uprade the diet." Well, took your Unele Edward siner...... CELIA: Stop, Charles. CHARLES: I won't stop it.

face the facts. Your Uncle ward is looking fitter than he's erer Jaakett before. And what's more, there's much_more_ropm_in_ "That' arreroded house of his that-well, now that there are fewer prople in it. CEIJA (stopping and staring out of the window): Maybe you're right. CHARLES: P'm sure I right, and

I'm glad to see you're taking more sensible view. CELIA: What else did this Anzert-

ROT

can sav?

(2

CHARLES: Well, referring to the fact that it was not then practised and

I did.

(Celia walks over and sits beside him.)

CHARLES (taking her hand); Celin. CELIA: Yes?

CHARLES; I'm terribly hungry.

Celia.

CELIA: Poor darling.

The old days are gone. No longer can a husband walk dow to the (Continued on Page 3)

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

could not be discussed in polite Unt puts his arms round her as rewound. I smile.

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Poor

it worse to erect a cowshed

Then

CHARLES: You look so deliciona. | WHEN I read of a clock made W Dirt I tell now that before?

which will keep running for which was not going to be occupted CELIA (smiling): Even before the

food shops were empty.

a thousand years, without being thought of erecting a cowshed; the by a cow, They said they had no wood was for a seesaw. They were Edward creeps up on them

The prop

ve publie is not going then given three forms to fill society, he said: "It is a

the sack.) with

to stand th surt of old-fashioned Ing with the Use of Wood where a social gain has been CHARLES: Pour Celia,

Getting nonsense.

for question every de-sential Activities. They filled them achieved at a nutritional loss."

thinner every day.

cent person will ask is, "Does it go In al CELIA (still staring through

and received wrong Charles, the CELTA

getting faster than sound?" The Gallop

a rali from Freightage Rate hungrier every day, window): What did he mean by CHARLES: Do you know what I'm along, taking 60 minutes to cover att

public is sick of clocks which amble who said they were

Adjuster rotable maisonette. He

constructing a hour

"It is high time," said Coun. fiscated their little pot of glue, say- also con- Mrs Pargoe, "that clock went ing that glue without a licence was think-e fast as planes. Sunk in Victor- legal. A telephone

call lan sloth, my own clock

from takes a Whitehall ordered them

to whole day and night to do 24 hours. clover. They said they had nowhere is that the way to planned prosperi- to sow it. It was then found that call democracy? ty and happiness? Is that what you that the call was intended for a

farmer in Leicestershire.

thni?. CHARLES: He meant that, because

ft

to

CHARLES: We're all beginning

look at each other like that, ELIA: But not me, Charles, olense. CHARLES: No, not on, darling.

There are plenty of other people. CELIA (quietly): Charles, let's

starve rather than that. CHARLES

But f don't like staru- ing. Cella. The Government's sanctioned it to preserve the race. Of part squeamish prople like 125 are standing out. And we go un standing out, you know what will Happen to us before we get ton thin.

D$

In!! tt.

a

thinking?

ing?

you

couldn't be discussed, people CA: I expect so. had to sort of do

дре CHARLES: What without each other

and-well-felt a bit pec- CELIA: The sarac, kish. I suppose.

But in some CHARLES: And you don't mind? cases, of course, it's been both

CELIA: Not now. nutritional galu and a sacial gain. CHARLES: I couldn't bear anybody Узн

can hardly say that Uncle Ed- ward's sister was much of a social asact. CELIA: No. Hardly,

Jew CHARLES: And you can't say that awful woman who pang bridge tess and talked entirely in plati- indes was a loss. CELIA: No, I can't. But wasn't there something wrong with her inside?

(Cella rises and walks about the room in 31 agitated manner. Charles watches her). CHARLES: After all, it's not much worse than catino pigs. I oner net a ply with big brown eyes and long lashes.

(Cella stops suddenly in per walk).

CELIA: That wasn't funny. It was

In filthy bad taste.

CHARLES: Oh, I'm sorry, Celia. I wasn't thinking of your big brown

MAJESTIC 7.20 2.20 p.m. NANCY Shuggo Turns Pro

THE STRANGE STORY OF A DANGEROUS WOMAN'S DESPERATE LOVE!

HEDY LAMARR

GEORGE BRENT * PAUL LUKAS

in

EXPERIMENT PERILOUS “

AN RKO-RADIO PICTURE

COMMENCING FRIDAY

Van JOHNSON

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Esther WILLIAMS

**EASY TO WED"

CANDY

else. CELIA:

Nor could I (Uncle Edward makes a sudden spring at Charles, puts the suck over his head, and holds him still.) UNCLE EDWARD flo Cella):

Dinner tonight at 7.30. CELIA:

I can hardly wall. (All performing rights reserved.)

cillor

Somehow, I think that nobody will ever write such lines about this kind of clock us were written of a sundial; Here in a lonely glade, forgotten, i Mark the tremendous process of the

So does your inmort soui, forgotten,

mark

The Dawn, the Noon, the Coming of

the Dark.

Further difficulties

VIE three. Perstuns, despairing of ever getting a new plank, set to

bow

Old days in Ahahaland THE witch-doctor has no trouble

uny

novelty

The

been

Lis getting his patients to take concoctions of herbs. Their normal food is so revolting that they regard

as a treat. If medicine kills the patient, the dis- cause in pronounced to have incurable. If he recovers it is e the medielne. As his youngest Ze is killed out of gratitude fo- bis recovery, if the witch-doctor is at all fond of her he usually lets the her husband she poisons the witch- patient dle. And if the wife likes

Tho

CHARLES: Nothing at all, although she was always yapping about it. They got a clean bill from the Party conversation doctor before they, well, before- you know. They always do.

ARGARET'S father says the "MA CELIA: I suppose it's Just as well.

day we can distil whisky from CHARLES: It's amazing how healthy coat will be the turning point in our

work and mended their old one. these bores are. Everybody says fortunes."

An Inspector called while it was doctor.

rendimculty for everyone is to find the difference be they

being mended, and accused them of best-well, you ninke the

"Who's going to be in the bumb being about to

and ordinary know what I mean. They used to disposal aqund in the new A.R.P.?".

Cowshed. tween poison erect a

food. condemn unhealthy cows, didn't

They pointed out that they had no The usual method is to invite the If only my husband would say they?

let him try the dish first.

no as often as Molotey shys.no, he'd cow, whereat the official said that it chief of a neighbouring village and

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