1948-04-07 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, APP

7, 1948

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In the title tuchen Mrs Blood- sucker, looking like a plung ghost half hidden in a cloud of steam, is dealing with the washing up..

"You girls ready for a little more

Copyright in All CounteĻA

on the Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"Well, you could other final demand. poking fun at you."

"A public man and civil servant of you.

sort of

Morcover, I don't think that cats "It's one of the has to put up with that thing," says Mr B.

of-ah-well you know who are getting on in life appreciate penalties

having their tails and ears bitten what I mean."

"Well, I

chall send him one." by boisterous girls with blue stocking reputations. It's rather like dragging says Mra B.

"And I shall pretend he's earned your grandfather into a game of something he hasn't and send him hockey, another," says Vi. "That'll teach him to be funny."

send him an up the street at your approach and He's always seek the protection of their own flresides. They arc plain scared

cynicism.

American Angle:

P.O. CLAIMS 15,000

P

By C. V. R. THOMPSON.

NEW YORK. ENICILLIN, life-saver for the world in general, has become a major problem for the 15,000 people of Pearl River, in Now York State.

They are threatening to evacuate the town: because they are all suffering from P.O. (peni-. cillin odour),

The world's largest mass producer of the drug has its main factory at Pearl River. At first the people were proud that their town was going to save so many lives and happy that they would get £2,000,000 a year in wages from the factory.

But now, from tons of discarded mould, rises a pungent odour, like à brewery's smell multiplied a thousand times, which pervades Pearl River and all the countryside for miles around.

Recent step-up in production has made it so bad that some residents are considering buying gas-masks.

The company is begging the people not to move out yet. They are working on a solution, and promise it will not be long before they nchieve it.

For once I am in agree- ment with a bishop.

A

FEW MILES outside Holly-

"The wood they began filming Grapes of Wrath" again recently.

The scene is America's greatest vineyard, Diglorglos Farm, where teuth

of the country's wine grapes grow.

The characters are the lean and hungry fugitives from the Dustbowl who came to California with their families ant possessions piled on old enrs to earu a living and find home.

a

But-the-new-film-version-is-not based on author Jolin Steinbeck's bitter fiction. This one is real.. If you are as clover us you seem, A trade, union is making it to tell you will pretend to be a silly liitle the public about a strike of which thing Just bright enough to see his they have never heard the longest Jokes and appreciate his wisdom, farm strike in American history. but no more.

The 1,200 grope plekers working That's how smart girl make use-on Diglorglos Farm have been out ful friendships,

Party conversation "MARGARET'S father's become

Government to Impose' taxes could drink all the whisky we want at the cost of distilling It."

since October. They went on strike because the farm bosses refused to

negotiate on their request for more

pay.

LAND built up by immigrants,

the U.S. is at last preparing to

A

has

two tho

because without a

resume controlled immigration. Wo

Washington committee which been studying the problem for recommend years will shortly admittance of from 40,000 to 80,000

a year for displaced persons years.

1wo

on

"I'm sure the new look was started by a woman with ugly legs."

"It's no use saying people have no money to go to war with. That's JENRY WALLACE, for a Wall- I street hater, has made a strange what they said about.-Hitler."

"When Brenda's husband thinks cholce in headquarters for his presi-

and eggs dential campaign. His office is of all the Danish bacon coming here, and what a mess she's Park Avenue, New York's richest rich going

to make

of his portion, he street. He will pay rent to a wishes he was back in the Army." landlord In Wall Street. And next I also advise you to go carefully "My husband says the most door is the Union League Club, more with your other elderly admirer, the ironical think about the political exclusive in New York than Tyrone Power was gazing into black cat with the white shirt front, situation is that it was a Conserva-Carlton Club is in London. her eyes-across-the-coffee- cups who is called Sir Puss because of live who enfranchised women at the

IVANISSEVICH, the Argentine manner, There was a world of meaning in his aloof, aristocratic

outa here.",

tho

work this evening?" asks Mr B. in his voice when he said "Let's get because the iterate per, und age of 21, believing they would vote DAmbassador in Washington, has

a loud, Jolly voice. 1o always puts when he is nervous on this voice of his family,

VI, 'who is combing her hair straighter to look more like Ann Todd, takes no notice, and Mrs B. calls back through the steam: "I reckon the Government ought to -pay-us-for... VI could do with a

Itile pocket money."

"You'll Bei your reward in heaven," says Mr B., with the air of a man who has thought of an original remark,

"Oh, all right," says Mrs B. "But you'll have to wait till I've dried my handa."

Letter to Lottie

DEAR Devil Car,

As I shall be away this week- end, may I offer a few words of advice on your behaviour during my absence?"

evening dress,

$0

Conservative."

been set the Impossible task of ob- "Margaret's father says no wonder taining an official invitation for the Russian Perchs to visit the White House.... many The fact that he is always pre- there were pared for evening appointments but anarchists when you think of the HENRY MORGENTHAU, eldest son of F.D.'s Treasury Secretary, has has none to keep. is no cause for price of vodka."

*1 got so tired of reading that tho made his debut in opera in Washing- laughter.

were unpredictable ton. No doubt he was gay enough in Irish clectors

because they were Irish.

DROADWAY says that Laurence- his youth, though I don't believe he merely drank milk from actresses' shoes at What could have been more un-B Olivier and Vivien Leigh Romano's. When we get old we are predictable than our General Election leading in the West End's race Inclined to exaggerate.---

in-19457"

"If" you wish to keep his friendship

come-backs.

ото

to

Although you are not yet a year

"The English have fired ideas procure-rights-for-the-American play

Named Desire." old, you have already attracted a

change them, great deal of public attention, don't hand him smart, second-hand about the Irish and nothing will of the year, "A Street Car (tram)

"Margaret's father says half the And, above all, don't use that

day are terrible phrase "I couldn't care less." troubles of the present

bishop has already denounced it caused by too many people chasing as a pitiful expression of youthful too few botiles of Scotch."

each week it becomes Increasingly clear that, ofter being a problem kitten, you will become a problem cat.

Soon you will realise that there is a serious side to life. Tearing all over the house and smashing vases become a childish Vi says nothing. Clark Gable is will, I hope, teaching her the bredt stroke in his memory. You will want the com- private swimming pool in Beverly panionship of other cats and some Hills.

kittens of your own.

Then Mrs B. sits down opposite Mr B., and the very first thing she comes across is the mass of dorres- pondence dealing with the income- Lax affairs of

called N.

A man

Gubbins.

"Is this the man what writes for the News of the World?" she asks Mr

"One

of the Sunday papers," says Mr B.

"And he gets more

money than you?" asks Mrs B. gloncing through the forms and code numbers.

"Apparently," says Mr B.

Regarding this approach to the serious side of life, I believe you are handicapped by being too clever, Already the story of how you opened the glass door of a clock, stopped the pendulum, set it going again and closed the door afterwards, has got all over the town.

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ROM an Insurance company's re- port: More people were killed by

line crashes. donkeys' kicks in 1847 than by air-

'THE BEWTIFUL EMPYRE'

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7E had better start looking our fleet from Barbados

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WE

It is also believed that your re- Four from the cent nervous breakdown was caused American Conquistadores. by an over-active brain,

captured

up the title leeds, for We have it back to the Dutch, British Guiana is Claim Number retook it again, and finally had

now South British Gulant ceded to us in 1014.

"The large, rich and

of Gulana," Sir Empyre

Twice he led expeditions to this romantic country, hoping to find gold. Raleigh called it.

The claim will be along any already calls her eastern areas time now-from Venezuela (she

bewtiful Walter

Raleigh was right about the gold.

'AN EL DORADO' the

Remember

the

pr-

1904. The King of Italy was bitrator for the colony's other border with Brazil.

It was only last year that Vone- zuela wanted a trade agreement with British Gulana; ell and canned fish for sugar and race.

great

But British Gulane has a

She has gold, deal more to offer. bauxite, diamonds, while 04.5 per cent. of her area is forest.

con-

Secondary industries being aldered in this colony, which Lord Trefgarne has just described as "ol immense importance," are cement,

Klass, plywood, veneers, electro-cast blocks, sand and lime building pro- ducts.

women in this present age is openly Walle the intellectual advance of "Just for that little bit," says Mrs approved by liberal-minded men, Guiana). B, "and there's you writing all day I think, as you grow older, you will

There are three Gulanas-British, I call it a find that it is secretly deplored by end half the night.

French and Dutch. We gave

sensational. phame

all but a small minority,

Other products for which the raw Dutch their portion in 1667, in ex-

pottery, "Can't you charge him anything

asks Vi. Clark Gable's Therefore, your undoubted mental change for New York, and the his "strikes" in the interior of British materials are present are

year? The colony to earthenware, wood pulp, and chemi- extra, Dad? hand felt so firm yet gentle under gifts will get you nowhere in forming tory of the whole region has been a Ciulana last

lay is regarded as something of a cals. There is plenty of room for an her chin. But she had to leave him friendships with the rather bored, tangle ail along.

Around 1500 the coastline was El Dorado by the experts.

expansion of agriculture, for only 0.3 with a mysterlous, mocking smile elderly tom cats who appear to bel

percent of the land is cultivater roughly traced by the Spaniards. A

Venezuela because she had a lunch date with

the Dutch and

The boundaries with century later

dating British Gulana needs two things to Tyrone Power,

attempting to Although

wero at first British were

form have long been in dispute, they

indeed from the days of the 18th set her on the road to a great pro- attracted by your youth and beauty, settlements.

Dutch-Spanish quarrel, spority-people and communications, Then came the New York deal, and century

Britain really After an international

The size of Great Britain, she has is the reason why those two tough, the next time that

dumb cata the inspector rather

with

R.A.F. came into the picture to stay, was had made an award, we agreed with whiskers, Wizzo and Dang On, run during the French Revolution, when Venezuela on the boundary line in a population of only 380,000.

"I can't go beyond the regulations.” says Mr B..

"You could cut down his allow ances," says Mrs B.

of taxes."

"That's a job for

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