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Sitting

HE Sparrow's wife

was crying in

Ta

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corner of the Nost while the Sparrow scowled. nursing a hangover in the other.

Tears rolled down her beak, dripping on to the little bit of newspaper she held in her claw.

"What's happened now?" the "Is asked the Sparrow. world on fre, or what?"

"Oh, it's too awful," said his wife. "I don't know how I can bear it,"

shouted the "Bear what?" Sparrow, "For heaven's sake say what's on that mind you're supposed to have."

"They're so hungry in China," said his wife, dabbing at her eve with

a.square inch of handker. chief, that they're rating spar- rows rops."

"Well, what of it?" asked the Sparrow. "They cat hen's eggs, don't they?"

on the

Fence.... by

EAR Mouser,

Working Man's Picture Gallery

M

By RONALD BOXALL

London, Apr. 8, OST Londoners who use the Underground are in a hurry hurrying to work or hurry

n

of the

There is the mildly amusingt pleture by John Hassal, which was one of the first attempts to popularise the Underground- then a fearsome mode of travel,

ani involvingt dark tunnels clouds of black smoke. In this ing home, dashing to piclure man and woman cinema in time for the last (obviously up from the country performance, or dashing and just as obviously lost) are home to get to bed before asking advice from a "police- midnight. When they are man." He smiles patronisingly,

and

points to a mɔp not in a hurry, they are Underground. tired. Too tired or too in- Another, advocates the Under- tent on getting where they ground as "the workers' way". 'This painting by Spencer Pryse are going to worry about is worthy of a pince in any such a thing as Art.

gallery. But it wouldn't do for on advertisement

in these en Yet the London Transport lightened times. It shows a pro- Executive, which operates not cession of shawied women and only the vast and Intricate hai

haggard men leaving a a factory "tube" gyslom, but also the bus, and heading towards an

an Under- trolley-bus and trom services m ground station. To the modern and, more recently, a water bus observer. it rather suggests servias

the Thames-bas those pictures of forlorn women become the patron of a new waiting at the plihead for news art medium which, for want of of their manfolk after n plt a better term, is called "com disaster. It Is, nevertheless, i mercial art."

beautiful pleture.

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Commercial art is exactly what

Artists

by Def can't tell you how thrilled poster designing, and

NATHANIEL GUBRINS

men, on whom the main burden always asking you

either you don't owe?" of taxation falls, have

carns "Perhaps." refused all work which them more than the maximum ontaxed wage

or have defied the new emigration laws and fed the country.

KOŢUIEY "EY reckon there be

no

money for us this week," says the first centenarian. "Nor next week, nor the week arter," "There must be money for second Our pension," says the centenarian, "Stands

Bon."

lo

for money

to you

"And why he writes two or three times a week. Per- haps be's so old he forgets who I has written to?"

"Possibly."

he's

"And perhaps it's why been going back six years and making you pay for mistakes he made when he was 104"

Arst:

New

What would be my status? I mean would it be just a platonic friendship and would I be accepted by your people?

*

LONDON TYPES

non-

Its name suggests. The "high- brows" may seen it because of

A third is one of a series of Its undisguised profit-meking

painted in motive, but it is becoming to London Characters big to Ignore.

ure no ells by E. A. Cox. It shows that nowadays 7'ere is her reply to his last longer content to live in a garret best-known - but

on bread and cheese and their rather maligned-London charac letter:-

dreams of immortality. There ter, the costermonger or, as the

says, "the is big money in advertising and caption

artists profiteer."

There are glorlons views of are only human. I was to get your letter.

Chingford, Uxbridge, Kew York sounds simply marvellous,

The London Transport Execu Gardens. Richmond Park, with its asheans flowing with

Cnslic, Wimbledon its swell ive has one big advantage over Windsor milk and honey and

advertisers Common, and St Albans -all suppose other commercial guys, though I don't

than they do not expect, nor require, on London Transport routes. any of them are sweller

immediate returns. Their maln

Mister There i the make

painting of you.

concern Of course, it would be quite public travel-conscicus. They Epping Forest, which is the only easy to hitch-hike to Southamp now, of course, that he cannot example of the translation of a ton and walk up the gangway

or tube Jacob Epstein water-colour into A bus train to work in the morning and a poster: the "tulie shelterers but I must ask you this question of the next liner sailing west, help but take again home

but of World War I, who found ut night, they don't want him to idle away safety from the Zeppelins in the his leisure time at home. They Underground stations, by Waiter by Underground, bus or tram. of a series of "pin-ups" which want him to go out and about Bayes; "The Land of Nod," one

specially

painted Charles Sims, R.A.. to remind Although I think you were

troops in Flanders of home; and Laura And they have hit on a very the paintings by Dame arc perfectly sweet wille you were over here, I do think you

are prob. have the same subtle way of enticing him out Knight. R.A., which

In doing so, they nbly the most valuable in the inclined to opinion about all girls. I mean of doors.

a one-track have become one of the princi-

Pictures through the

Ray thinkpat spotsors of the better form

twenties, and the uneasy thirties that of commercial art.

-----and

the pictures through

Great Second

War. Among When a Londoner descends the ge

series done by Another thing I would like to escalator in a tube station and these is one of

on a draughty platform Erie Kennington, entitled "Sec- is: "Do you live in a waits know

will tako Ing it through," which showed pent house?" I like to think of for the train which

the men and women who kept you living in a New York pent. him to a stuffy oflce he is in

pro- London's public transport system mood for the old with

dear house

your

which aims to make him working through dark days and mother, her. tabby fur turning ceptive

a lover of the wide open spaces. long nights. their ekdest grey, who simply adores you.

Therefore, where better to dis- I would be terribly sweet to play a poster depleting Epping If you Forest in all its Springtime

The one that has been chosen "Seventy-eight, and a, hall," your dear old mother

have one. I am sure we would glory than on the concave walls "Boy or girl?"

for this exhibition depicts w bf à lube station? "Boy."

get on marvellously together.

woman porter on the tube. and' "Mrs

And one more

Mister Public sees this poster was accompanied by the follow- (Aren't I a nosey parker?)

or one of the chimpanzees ning verse, written by AP..

decides to Herbert: Zoo--and

"With centenarians anything rea- is possible."

pensions

earn no

"Does he use an car trumpet?" "Yes" "Do his clerks shout down it?" "Of course,"

SUBTLE WAY

Wena

exhibition, is rather

mind, Isn't it? I do so you ought to understand some girls have brains, too.

"No money for no

yours They do say the nor nothing.

won't young fellows "But sparrows', eggs. It's as more than £3 a week because it

they

our they do the Government they do rating were

take it away from um. To pay children."

"Chinn's the one place where pensions for the likes of us."

I'm sure I have no children,"

sald the Sparrow.

away."

"Well, drat um, that's what I

drat um."

undred on um escuped

"Can he iszar what they say?" "Not always." "What happens when he can't hear?"

"He shouts back Write Gubbins again." -old is "How

"It's too farcek. Five undred on um. sucker?"

"But suppose it had been one Sunpore it of our very own? had bern little Ronnie?"

of

"Our little problem child? It

a lot saved would have

had eaten trouble if somebody him when he was an egg."

"Oh, how awful. How could you sau Buch a thing? -lite-Ronnie.”.

Poor

"He'd have poisoned anybody who had eaten him," said the Sparrow. "He was addled from the start."

Jast

All good taxpayers, too."

"Where they gone to?" "Dunno. Canada maybe. They slowed theirselves away aboard the ships, the young vermints."

"Drai um, that's what I say, drat um."

"One on um was arrin tharty pound

a week and a-payin twenty seven pound in stood tax money. all for the likes of us. But he couldn't see no sense in

"

"Time was when boys looked

But

they the old un15. arter don't do it no more."

"They do say it's beenuse, the takes it orf um Government

"Ninety-nine."

is "How old child?"

10

Mrs Blood-

"Was she beautiful?" -Na

married Bloodsucker she was twenty-one and a

"Twenty and a half."

"Glasses and mousy hair?" "Yes,"

"What was Bloodsucker like?" "Glasses and mousy hair."

ginsses

"Did they both like and mousy hair?" "Adored them."

The boya "What is Bloodsucker's other

"Ife was a lovely egg, nid hix wife, "and a lovely baby." "Screwy from the day he was hatched,' said the Sparrow. stead of letting um be to mind

Fresh tears poured down his their own business. wife's beak, reducing the little

was lookin bit of newspaper to pulp.

"Do you think they will ever cat sparrows' cogs over here?" she asked.

"They will if the Ministry of Food keeps on saying more hen's eggs are on the way. it's asure sign that there'll be shortage."

nrter us old uns 47,"

when they was a-mindin their own business."

"Drat um all the same. That's whatsaps. Drat um."

do any with all this "They yere docterin there's too many of us old uns and not enough of them young uns to pay taxes. So all they wants now is a pub of sweepin the streels at £3 week with no taxes and no head

wories."

"Drat 24217

The

"Bert Bloodsucker?" "Obulously,"

"What's his son's name?" "Bert,"

"Glasses and moury hair?" "Glasses, no hair." "And his wife, too?". "Glasses and white-mousy." "Ilave they any children?"

and girl,"

and a half "Fifty-five Afty-two and three-quarters." "Glasses and mousy hair?" "Both of them,"

"But they're supposed to be so fond of birds over here."

"They're supposed to be fond

Are they of horses, too. But they're eat- ing them just the same."

I'll smash them all as a-shuttin up the post office?" "Then

postmistress is shuttin soon as they're laid, I won't

the up past office. There's no tax have them eaten."

"Won't have what eaten?" money to pay her wages."

"And who's the poing chap asked the Sparrow. "Do you mean to say you have another a-sweepin of the road?"

That's the income tax man, tender secret?"

in the spring," There's no tax money to pay his "I always do

he's So neither, wages. said his wife.

with all this meaning and a-sweepin, of the roads."....

"Drai am all, that's groaning another lot of Honntes, I suppose," said the Sparrow, fly- 301. Drat un úti.” ing off to the Tree Tops Club for consolation.

Forward glance

Awful child wants

to know

In you see that Mr Blood- sucker, the income tax collector, is 100 years old?"

"No."

"It says in the paper that the

Į

and

"What's his name? Bert?"

namic's "Yes,

and his wife's

Beryl."

Beri and Berly Bloodsucker?" "Of course,"

"Have they any children?"

"They called "Bert

question.

Have you a ranch out West, London or in the Middle West or some-take the missus

for a ride. where?" I mean-n-gopher ranch

and the kids next weekend.

or one of those exciting places I Excellent! He has made up his-

mind to "discover Nature", and it's good business for the London have heard about.

Longing to hear from you.

LOTTIE.Transport.

M

from.

Manhattan

But what Mister Publle doesn't know when he looks at these alluring posters is that, as often as not, he is looking at the work Cable

of famous artist. He is no ari Afouser:

What's blting you, sugar puss? eritie; he sees a picture and he Quit worrying about a status lkes it--and that's that, so far. when you have a swell chassis. as he is concerned. Sure

I live in a pent house,

London Transport. 30 Everybody here lives in a pent

We all They

consider the work of house or a nut house.

mothers have old

whose fur is good artist deserving of some- turning grey and who are Eng-thing better than a brief lish duchesses what have been hibition in a draughty passage a the girl friends of English dooks. hundred feet below street level. New If is good will live, and

Not

1

cx-

When you are tired of York we will go to my ranch in people always enjoy looking at

nice pictures".

MRS, PORTER

by

Thank you, Mrs Porter,

-For-n-good-job- stoutly. done::.

Your volue is clear, and the

Hun can hear

When You сгу "South

Kensington!"

The world must hurry home.

word,

The soldier on his way,

And the wheel whizz round'

on the Underground

At the voice of the girls in.

Kray.

And though the skies are noisy

How calm the volces are....

That man

"Upminster traini

again!

Pass farther down the cari" The latest And so to 1949. poster shows a street market scene by A.R. Thomson, RA... which, apart from its pictorial' BEST POSTERS

beauty, is specially Interesting.. With this in mind, the London as an example of the very latest

Executive

have colour printing technique.

best of the

These original

oit! Wyoming where there are pienty gophers and suckers too. Then we will take a slow What are you book to Chinn. waiting for honey cat?

MANHATTAN MOUSER.Transport

collected *Gopher: An American bur-posters that have appeared in rowing rodent,

"Mr Stalin" children

1200 have

and Beryl, aped.

"What about the littlest Blood- sucker?"

¿

some

pictures-

are.

of the London tube stations and at bus terminil valued at over £10,000-have archives. Transport Executive's in the past forty years, and put been taken out them on view at the Victoria After the exhibition they will

throughout offices. be distributed and Albert Museum in an ex-

and canterns, moving every six months. approximately 24 and 22 respec- no some he's Old Joe Stathy, billion catifled "Art For All".

TO and

or merely Uncle Joe,

The exhibition was opened Postwar London is slowly re- they both with glasses

devil ar a

this week by the Prime Minis gaining some of its lost splen- To others he's mous hair.

Clément caint;

ter, the Rt Hon

Ciour. The bright lights "The monster of the Kremlin,"

Nock The saviour of the world";Attlee, who called it "the poor back ani, now that Spring is in

picture gallery",

air, local authorities. are get- wuffy

political significance can be im- ting on with the job of benuti- To some he's rather

Truly,

But pated to that remark.

exhibition of pictures ying the public parks.

Londoners (and Sir Stafford living in {}}} this is on painted to appeal to the masses. Cripps) pustero

continuing. times. By depicting the changing face of London in a blaze of colour, and to produce posters which rank

London Transport can speed up- conjuring up nostalgle visions with the best in the world, the process of "getting back to normal".

"fe la ttoo

and a quarter years old, his name is Bert, his hair is nousy and he was born wearing glasses.

the income tax department of the Paws across the sea

The year is 1070. The scene is outside the village post nice. The social state of the coun- try is that free medical service of medieni and the advance science have produced

community middle-aged dicted by IL G. Wells. In fact, it is mor middle-aged community. It is a senile community.

The expectation of life has advanced twenty years. Young

NANCY

pre- Inland Revenue was 100 yenra

old last week."

than a

Half the country is wondering wili Lattle, the honey cat, accept the urgent invilation of Man- hattan Mouser, New York under- he's world tom, to visit America?

"That doesn't mean that Mr Bloodsucker is 100 years old."

"But he might be," "Yes he might." "Perhaps that's

He's the Goat

YOUR CAP IS FILTHY, SLUGGO-LET

ME WASH IT

why

LATER

OK.

DO VA THINK

MY CAP IS DRY, VET ?

I GUESS SO

and quaint.

“A man of shining virtue, too

honest for the world"; "A demon of unmentionable

crimes,"

Statin"

man's

of times that are no more.

if he'd anti-Christ or angel, or

Suat old Uncle Joe,

128 pictures He's always "Mr

There are in The TiCS.

view, each one the best of com- -(London Express Service).mercial art in its day.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HORNS ?7?

MUSHMILLIO

NO---IT'S STARCH

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