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Sitting on the

HE Sparrow's wife was crying in onc corner of the Nest while the Sparrow scowled, nursing a hangover 'in the other.

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

"What's happened

Sparrow. asked the

world on fire, or what?"

Fence....by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Working Man's Picture Gallery

By RONALD BOXALL

London, Apr. 8. There is the mildly amusing OST Londoners who picture by John Hassal, which use the Underground popularise the Underground

was one of the first attempts to

M

aro. in a hurry then a fearsome mode of travel, hurrying to work or hurry- involving dark tunnels. and ing home, dashing to clouds of black smoke.. In this

2 picture cinema in time for the last (obviously up from the country man and woman performance, or dashing and just as obviously lost) ara home to get to bed before asking advice from a "police- midnight. When they are and points to a mep

man." He smiles patronisingly, of the

not in a hurry, they are Underground.

tired. Too tired or too in- Another, advocates the Under- tent on getting where they ground na "the workers' way".

This painting are going to worry about

by Spencer Pryse વ such a thing as Art,

worthy of a place in any gallery. But it wouldn't do for an advertisement

in these en- lightened times. It shows a pro-

Yet

the London Transport Executive, which operates not colon of shawled

only the vast

women and intricate haggard men leaving a factory "tube" system, but also the bus, and heading towards an Under- trolley-bus and tram services

and, more recently, a water bus observer.

ground station. To the modern servior

the ON

it Thames has

rather SUEgests become the patron

those pictures of forlorn women of a new waiting at the pithend for news art medium which, for want of of their

better term. is called "com- lisaster. It is. nevertheless, a manfolk after a pit mercial art."

beautiful picture.

Commercial art is exactly what

its name suggests. The "high- brows" may scorn it because of

LONDON TYPES

| Ela undisguised profit-making A third is one of a series of motive, but it is becoming too London Characters painted in big to ignore. Artists are.no olts by E. A. Cox. It shows that

Here is her reply to his last longer content to live In ri Barrel best-known but nowadays Jefter:-

EAR MouseT,

DEAR

don't

for meney YOR

nen, on whom the main burden always asking you now?" of taxation falls, have either you don't owe?"

the refused all work which

"Perhaps." carns them more than the maximum "And why he writes

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

"Bear what?"

supposed to have."

They

and

on bread and cheese and their rather maligned-London charne- dreams of Immortality, There ler: the costermonger or, as the is big money in advertising and caption

says, "the non- I can't tell you how thrilled poster designing. and artists profileer." I was to get your letter. New are only human.

There are glorious views of York soundis simply marvellous,

Chingford, Uxbridge, Kew with its ashcang flowing withi The London Transport Exccu- Gardens, Richmond Fork, milk and honey and its swell tive has one big advantage over Windsor Castic, Wimbledon. guys, though

advertisers Common. other comunereint suppose

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

immediate returns. Their main you.

Is to

Mister Ja to

Lister There is the painting of Of course, it would be quite concern casy to hitch-hike to Southomp-Public travel-conselous. They Epping Forest, which is the only to you ton and walk up the gangway know, of course, that he ensinot example of the translation of untaxed wage or have defled two or three times a week. Per of the next liner sailing west, help but take a bus or tube Jacob Epstein water-colour into

a poster; the "tube shelterers' the new emigration laws and hops he's so old he forgets who but I must ask you this question train to work in the morning and

first:~-

home ngaln at night, but of World War 1, who found Ire has

"Possiblen to?"

What would be any status? they don't want him to idle away safety from the Zeppelins in the I mean would it be just a his leisure time at home. "And perhaps it's why he's Sparrow, "For heaven's sake money for us this week," been going back six years and platonle friendship and would I want him to go out and about erground slations, by Walter

making you pay for mistakes he be accepted by your people?

- Although I think you were perfectly sweet while you were over here, I do think you arc And they have hit on a very inclined to have the same subtle way of enticing him out opinion about all giris. I mean of doors. In doing so, they yours is rather n one-track have become one of the princi- inind, isn't it? I do so think pal sponsors of the better form

hal of commercial art. you ought to understand some girls have brains, loo.

When Londoner descends the Second Great Another thing. I would like to escalator in a tube station and these is one of a series done by know is: "Do you live in a waits on a draughty platform Erle Kennington, entitled "See- pent house?" I ke to think of for the train which

will take ing it through." whic Blood- you living in a New York pent him to a stuffy office he is in

with your dear old

receptive mood for the pro- mother, her tabby fur turning paganda which aims to make him a lover of the wide open spaces. eldest grey, who simply adores you.

Therefore where better to piny

fled the country. shouted the THEY reckon there be no say what's on that mind you're says the first centenarian. "Nor

"They're so hungry in China" next week, nor the week arter."

"There must be money for said his wife, dabbing at her cus

recond with

a square inch of handker- our pension," says the

centenarian. "Standa to rea chief;

"that they're eating spar- ceny rows' epga."

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

is

"But sparrows', eggs. It's as

they

cating were

Jour children."

"China's, the one place where I'm sure I have no children," said the Sparrow, "It's too far nway."

son.

"No money for no pensions They do say the nor nothing. young fellows won't earn no more than £3 a week because it they do the Government they do

To take it away from um. pay pensiona for the likes of us."

"Well, drat um, that's what I

น say, drat

"Five undred on um escaped

last

made when he was 943"

"With centenarians anything is possible."

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

"Can he bear what they say?" "Not always."

what happens when he can't

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"He shouts Gubbins again. "How old "Ninety-nine."

Suppose it All good Five undred on um. sucker?"

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

of

"Our little problem child? It would have saved a lot trouble if somebody had eaten him when he was an egg."

"Oh, how awful. How could you say such a thing? little Ronnie."

Poor

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

"He was a lovely con," said his wife, "and a lovely baby,” "Screwy from the day he was hatched," sald the Sparrow.

Fresh tears poured down his wife's beak, reducing the little bit of newspaper to pulp.

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

They will If the Ministry of Food keeps on saying more hei's eggs are on the way. It's a sure sign that there'll be a shortage."

to?"

back "Write to

is Mrs

"How old 13 their

taxpayers, 100," "Where they gone "Dunno. Canada maybe. They child?" stowed theirselves away aboard the ships, the young varmints." "Drat um, that's what I say, drat t."

"One on um was arala tharty pound A week and n-payin twenty seven pound in good tax money, all for the likes of us. But he couldn't see no vense in it."

"Time was when boys looked arter-the-old-uns, Butthey. don't do it no more.

"They do say it's because the

takes it ort Government

um stead of letting um be to mind their own business. The boys was lookin

"Seventy-eight, and a half

or girl?"

"Mrs Bloodsucker married when she was twenty-one and a half?"

"Twenty and a half." "Was she beautiful?" "No."

"Glasses and mousy hair?" "Yes,"

glasses

"What was Bloodsucker like?" "Glasses and mousy hair." "Did they both like and mousy hair?" "Adored them." "What

arter us old uns rart."

when they was a-mindin' their own business,"

"Drat um all the same. That's what says. Drat um.”

"They do say with all this yere doelerin there's too many of us old uns and not enough of them young uns to pay taxes.

of

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So all they wants now is a pob sweepin the streets at £3 a week with no taxes and no head

"Drat wories."

Arc they a-shuttin up the post office?"

"The postmistress is shuttin

post office. There's no tax. the calen?" money to pay her wages."

"And who's the young chup you another a-aweepin of the road?""

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

"They're supposed to be fond of horses, too. But they're eat. ing them just the same."

"Then I'll smash them all as SOON as they're laid, I won't have them eater,"

"Won't have whai asked the Sparrow. mean to say you have tender secret?"

"

"DO

"always in the spring," said his wife.

"With all this meaning and groaning another lot of Ronnies, I suppose," said the Sparrow. fly- ing off to the Tree Tops Club for consolation.

Forward glance

The year is 1970. The scene is outside the village post omce. The social state of the couns try is that free medical servléo of medical and the advance

have selence

produced middle-aged community dicted by H. G! Wells:

up

he's

That's the income tax man. There's no tax money to pay his

neither. So wages, t-sweepin of the roads."

"Drat um all, that's what I sau. Drat um ali",

Awful child wants to know

"DID

*TUD you see that Mr Blood- sucker, the income tax collector, Is 100 years old?"

"No."*

"It says in the paper that the. the. Income tax department of the pre- Inland Revenud was 100 years

old last week,"

In fact, it is more than a

“That doesn't mean that Mr

middle-aged community. It is Bloodsucker is 100 years old."

a senlle community.

"But he might bẹ,"

The expectation of life has advanced twenty years. Young

"Yes he might." "Perhaps that's

why

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In Bloodsucker's other

"Bert Bloodsucker?" "Obviously." "What's his son's name?" "Bert."

"Glasses and mousy hair?" "Glasses, no hair," "And his wife, too?" "Glasses and white-monty,” "Hove they any children?" "Boy and gir!." "How old?" "Fifty-five

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

"What's his name? Bert?" "Yes, and his wife's Berul."

name's

Bert and Berly Bloodsucker?" "Of course."

"Have they any children?"

house

by Underground, bus or tram.

SUBTLE WAY

I would be terribly sweet lo your dear old mother it you have one. I am sure we would Het on marvellously together. of tube station?

And one more question. (Aren't I a nosey parker?)

a poster depicting Epping Forest in all its Springtime glory than on the concave walls

one

Bayes; "The Land of Nod,"

a series of "pin-ups" which wenz specially painted by Charles Sims, R.A.. to remind troops in Flanders of home; and' the paintings by Dame Laura Kaight. R.A., which are prob- ably the most valuable in the exhibition. Pictures

through the gay twenties, and the uneasy thirties -and plctures through the War, Among

which showed the men and women who kept- London's public transport system working through dark days and long nights.

MRS PORTER

The one that has been chosen for this exhibllion deplets o woman porter on the tube, and

verse, written by A, P.

Mister Public socs this poster was accompanied by the follow- or one of the chimpanzees fing Have you a ranch out West. a London zoo-and decides to Herberts or in the Middle West or some- take the missus and the kids

next o ride

weekend. where? I mean a gopher ranch for or one of those exciting places I Excellent! He has made up his mind to "discover Nature", and have heard about.

"Longing to hear from yet it's good business for the London

*

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from

LOTTIE. Transport.

*

Manhattan

London Transport.

But what Mister Publie doesn't know when he looks at these alluring posters is that, as often Cable

as not, he is looking at the work Afouser:

of a famous artist. He is no art What's biting you, sugar puss? critic: he sees a picture and he Quit worrying about a status likes it-and that's that, so far when you have a swell chasals. as he is concerned. Sure I live in a pent house. Everybody here Ilves in a pent Not house or a nut house. We all

They consider the work of a deserving of some- have old mothers whose fur is good artist- turning grey and who are Eng-thing bette than a brief CX- lish duchesses what have been hibition in a draughty passage n- the girl friends of English dooks. hundred feet below street level. When you are tired of New 1 It is good it will live, and York we will go to my ranch in people always enjoy looking at Did Wyoming where there are "nice pictures". plenty. gophers" and suckers too. Then we will take a slow What are you bout to Chino. waiting for honey ent?

MANHATTAN MOUSER. Transport *Gopher: An American bur-collected rowing rodent.

"The have two children called Bert and Beryl, aped approximately 24 and 22 respre-

and To hely, both with glasses

nousy hair."

"What about the liftlest Blond- sucker?"

and a quarter "He is two years, old, his name is Bärt, his hair is mousy and he was born wearing glassca."

Paws across the sea.

Half the country is wondering will Lottie, the honey cat, accept the urgent Invitation of Man- haitan Mouser, New York under- he's world tom, to visit America?

O.K.

DO YA THINK MY CAP IS DRY. YET ?

I GUESS So

..

BEST POSTERS

somu

of

Thank you, Mrs Porter,

For a good job stoutly done; Your voies is clear,...and the

in can lear

you cry Kensington!"

+ When

"South

The world must hurry home.

word, The soldier on his way,

And the wheels whizz round

on the Underground

At the voice of the girls in

grey.

And though the skies are noisy How calm the volces are

"Upminster traini That man-

again!

Pass farther down the car"

And so to 1940. The latest street market poster shows R scene by A.R. Thomson, R.A., which, apart from its plctarini brnuty, is specially interesting. as an example of the very latest colour printing technique.

These original pictures... £10,000-have

of the London

With this in mind, the London Executive have the best posters that have appeared in tube stations and at bus terminii valued at over in the past forty years, and put been taken out "Mr Stalin”

them on view at the Victoria Transport Executive's archives. and Albert Museum in an ex- After the exhibition they will and canteens, moving every jelx some he's Old Joe Stall, hibition entitled "Art For AP be distributed throughout offices

months or merely Uncle Joe,

The exhibition was opened Postwar London is slowly re- others he's a devil or CE this work by the Prime Minis- gaining some of its Inst aplen

beauti-

To

saint;.

Clement C.

dour. The bright lights Bro "The monster of the Kremlin, ter, the Rt Hon.

The saviour of the world"; Atlee, who called it "the poor back and, now that Spring is In

plcture

No gallery".

the air, local authorities are get- To some he's rather wuffly man's

political significance can be im ting on with the job of and quaint.

puted to that remark. Trulyfying the public parks. But this is an exhibition of pictures Londoners (and Sir Stafford painted to appeal to the mass, Cripps) arc still living in:

changing face of austero times. By continuing depleting the London in a blaze of colour, and to produce posters which rank nostalgic visions with the best in the world, fót times that are no more.

conjuring up

London Transport can speed up There are

the process of "gotting back to 128 pictures on

normal", view, cach one the best of com-

A man of shining virtue, too

honest for the world";

crimes."

"A demon of unmentionable

he's anti-Christ or angel, or

Just old Uncle Joe, He's always "Mr Stalin'

in. The Thes.

-(Lendon Express Service).increial art in its day.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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