1949-04-30 — Page 4

C.V.R. Thompson Dog's life

for cats

NEW YORK.

ATS will have a dog's now in Illinois.

Cafe

Their prowling days and nights are ended, by law.

For ten years, Mini Gertrude of the Charty, President

Chiengo branch of the Friends of Birds Society, has been cam- do inore paigning that cats

harm by killing birsts than good by-destroying rain and mice)

Iler theme: Stray dogs are not allowed by low, so why stray catal

So at last Illneio has passed the Maraudint Cats uh, do- claring atrays a pubile nuliance. Owner of prowling pels will be finod.

But the cats all have clows in the shape of a society which

a fight is planning

the Act.

.

EASTER

EGG in

to repeal

a. Filth-

averue window was priced

£233 101. It was solid gold.

ITTWENTY-YEAR

DREAM of

waltress Mry Grota Appet.

York: A cosy

of New

orange,

curtains un!

she

Hue

ty

restaurant of her own, with red. walls, and and bluc

flowers. lols of

whil But

couldn't longer, and now she has be come the first wonian to ri kerbside Junchstand.

All she serves are hot dog

and soda pop.

is painted

31st her stand

red, orange.

Bal

blue, with 44 vase of dufforhi

on the counter.

MONEY MEN in New York

not yet sure that the

will not be devalued.

Dis-

counts on forward contracts in sterling Funged from two cents

days to for 30 rents for six months.

record In

"ONGRESSMEN" asked

Government

to d

some-

thing quickly about the three- strike In dny-ald newspaper

belnit Washington. They sold unable to read their speeches in print made them feel ilke audience. actors without

The same night, editorial men reached agreement in a pay claim and the strike ended,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949.

THES

"Ho's just told her he could write a sonnot about hor Eastor bonnot."

London Exorros Service

BERNARD WICKSTEED

with Round-the-World Air Ticket No: 1.

IN ATHENS

ROUND THE WORLD

WICKSTEED

I've just 'blued'

ATHENS, April 8. : NE of the things I did before leaving London was to buy a classical atlas, and I had it open on my knee as we flew over the lonian Sen on the way from

Home to Greece.

We hit the coast near

a million-

in

a week

Before

NOW BUSINESS: Broadway cooktail critics canceled a

their annual

war the the 1014-10 parly to present

long frocks and bare feet, lo the best play Corfu, with the snow-

Was worth about awards

Salesman"), bost ("Death of a

covered mountains of Al- while funny little men with drachma

1. Bc. The official rale now to the £. musical ("South Pacifie"), and

So the worth a boal foreign play "The Mad-bania towering on the left. gonts legs and horns in ts 32,000 A hundred on.

Krand was woman of Chaillot"). Reason Then we passed right over their hair looked

13 critle: It given by

curious belief of these people little more than £3, and the were older million I drew from the bank was that they

in the morning cost under £32. humiliating for critics to mix

to live.

than the mODN. with autors.... Robert Morley. for the

What does It feel like to be a another prize given

outstanding Broadway y car's

millionaire? It's rather embar- †

tho because written

really: rassing performance,

One

ст

Ithaca, where Ulysses used

has play for Rex Harrison.

FASHIONS FOR MEN

IN

*

You remember what hap- pened to him.

Superstition don't you? He was called up to join an THEY were only mortal, those expeditionary force to rescue THEY

ancient Greeks, and lookian Helen of Troy (whose face down on their country.

front launched a thousand ships), 10.000 fast, as gods might do, Ulysses had just marriel, you can see what fertile groundi and didn't want to launch for superstition it was. any ships, so he tried to dodge the draft by pretend ing to be mad an old army

average man's pockets were not made to hold all that money. The highest nole is for 20,000 drachmae, but as they paid me my million in notes of 10,000 walked out of the bank The simply rolling in money. When the only way to get-only-compensation is_that_the Athenians quickly, relieve you about was to walk or row in a

The million has lasted less than week. bent, those rugged lands and of it. isulated valleys teemed with

the window-pane suit trick that is not unknown man-eating sirens, women with

.

OUT

the pin-stripe

E fallors who keep as close

THE

mi eye on physique trends

as Army statisticlans, say that

men today are two inches taller

today.

Ulysses' trick

The cheapest thing you can shakes instead of hair, and

buy here is a box of matches, beings half animai, half man.

Over on the left were the and that costs 500 drachmae er slopes of Parnassus, shered to 314d. Everything else is

My hotel bit! the Muses, Apollo ant Bacchus proportion.

the worked out at about 101,000 a The soil is barren, but and wooded green valleys you can day, including breakfast and ploughed up the sea shore see from the air were supposed lunch, but not dinner. in search of Inspiration. (the self-same golden shorn to be just the place for writers cost the earth, that I saw from the plane),

HE yoked a horse and bull together

a

on the average than their grand-Instead of corn he planted fathery.

was 5ft

Gin.

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1 1900 the average height for men in Britain Today it is 5ft 8in. with average chest incusurement of 30in. The rising generation is expected to be taller still.

Side vents are popular in the 149 jackets. For the Sft Bin type, side vents of 86in. are being made, or alternatively 10 in. centre vent.

* * *

The striped worsted daunel is

salt.

His deception was found put his out because they infant son on the sand in front of the plough and Ulysses turned away so as That not to harm him. showed he was swinging the

he had to join. lead ani up.

In present-day Greece, at war with the guerillas, he

I wouldn't have been treated

so leniently. A few weeks

ago, the son of a wealthy

Taxis

had to pay £3 for u drive as far as from Piccadilly Cireus to Hampstead Ко back.

Drawn by 05BERT LANCASTER

"out." New plain cloths in business man in Athens was We swepped a clock with the Turks in Athens for phant grey (grey tinged with blue) and donkey brown (grey shot for evading his call the Eigin Marbles-it wasn't even a good clock,

take its up. He sent a sickly sub- thuged with brown)

The Lovat cloths urostitute

be to .place. being popularized with an over-

examined in his place. thin check larger

formerly named window pane.

medically

Delphi Some

wn: of the

It's a good thus I didn't have to buy any clothes. A suil runs out at anything up to two- and-a-half million (£80), sind shoes are £7 a pair.

I've and to give up my pipe for the time being. There is no pipe tobacco In Greece. Only cigarettes. They COS1 about 25, for 20 and are all right. if you like Greek cigarettes.

But what's a little thing like that when you can see on Paronssus. the most painted, written-about still building in the world, by just ruins are

As you know, there was on

dow?

A few minutes after standing, and you can pick looking out of your hotel win- passing Ithaca we saw them out from the air. For both week-end and formal dirty brown, river coming wear the Glenurquhart check is being revived. In some cases down from the hills and this spirited cloth is enhanced spilling itself in the purple oracle at Delphi, who used to foodit now, and as the rock it 800. That's Missolonghi, prophetles. Fortune telling was Trousers will be self-support- where the bad Lord Byron a respectable trade then.

by silk stripe check.

and died. after going to Greece fight the Turks.

ing in the two-piece nuit, and caught a cold the well-dressed man will be expected to choose a waistcoat In violent colour contrast to his two-piece or one that tones with Il-canary yellow with an over- check sult or a cheek with a plain auit.

remarkable most make the

The oracle of Delphi was a to woman who worked herself to a trance by chewing laurel leaves. She spoke in the name Our route took us along of Apollo, and gave her predic- verse until someone the Gulf of Corinth, and tions in

Was there on the right were the pointed out how odd it

which that the gad of poetry should mountains behind

be such a rotten poet himself. That (and After that her predletions were But there is one 1949 fashion Arcadia lica. note that men are likely to shy not Kensington Gardens) is given in prose. at-raised trouser side-seams.

the real home of Pan and In the are now mood to welcome changes men his pipes.

While they

A thousand houses in are reluctant to accept anything

keep that suggests Edwardianim. Buburbin tll

They

new for

mume alive.

arc

cager

They have got the Parthenon standa on is in binck shadow the ancient temple seems to be floating in the sky. To a low- brow like me it looks fan- up like instically lovely Ilt this, but a jet of the Greeks sny that without the rock the

the of

Parthenon's beauties

proportions are lost.

Elusive Grandour

2,000 years architects have

tried to copy the building. Botre-

but there was always And so to Athens, birthplace thing elusive about its grandeur they could not recnpture. The of democracy.

Recret was not discovered t

the

At quite a nominal cost it is 60 or 60 years no. possible to be a millionaire in modern Athens. The banks were shut when I landed, so a fellow carefully,

colours, new cloths and now In the old days Arcadia atyles, but they have set British tailors the problem of adapting was full of beautiful shop the best traditional styles and herdessen dancing about in making them up-to-the-minute for a gayer 1940,

JOHN WARE EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr Wick- stood arrived in Hongkong this ills next stop ly Japan. -(London Express Service) 1 week,

Then people, going over It found that none of lines were straight. They at the airfield cald he'd lend me Ita

"How about a hundred thou about it was made to follow the something to be going on with, look straight, but everything sand, old man?" he said. curve of the earth.

The marble pillars that sur- could, round it are not upright as wards. The walls, the cornices,

ns. nonchalantly as 1 ECO MIC they appear. They curve in-

"A hundred grand?" I replied, "Yes, that ought to Uirough to the morning,"

the friezes are all curved, too.

If you put your eye

on the level of the steps as my guide

rowed me how to do, you can see them rise in the middle and then slope gently away.

It's so easy to

get out of Britain without a

S

YDNEY Stanley's dis

appearance has focus- ed attention on the possibility of illegal emigra- ilon from Britain by air.

It is a process which In- volves little difficulty. For- tunes have been made by, the people who, in the past year, have flown men and machines into Palestine.

An ex-R.A.F. Pathfinder a leading officer has been operntor. Ife has grown

rich.

It is well known that, nt the time when there was

tan,

passport

by

A Special Correspondent

150 m

Pakis-

authorities at re- fuelling

points,

and, in smoller an embargo on the supply numbers, to In- of arms to Jews or Arabs, din and many surplus warplanes Tho airport that had been sold by the Ministry of Supply left Britain and landed in Pales. tine.

Men and being flown in at the rate of hulreds ench week, having been picked up at various points in Europe.

*

women

were

ECENTLY 1 examined the log book of a converted Halifax bomber belonging to a British charter firm.

as

and had been months.

doing so

for

At a time when thousands of Jews were behind bars in Dri- tish detention camps in Cyprus,

thousands more were being taken

into

Palestine by

aircraft which landed at Nico- sla to refuel.

on

For n time the British au- thorities allow- ed these plança to take on a of full load Luci

thelr used to seeing them go through, way into Palestine, which meant several hundred gallons were indifferent

to their thine destinations, Athens, in parti- could be pumped out for the

was considered to be an petrol-starved Jawish forces.

Focal point of the migration as airfeld, Finnes with sufficient range in Rome. A seator British officia used to land at Ajaccio, in Cor- of B.E.A stationed at Ciampino

through Airport told sie, and fly straight from there. There was no difti- Jewish passengers have not beca culty An overcoming all form in possession of proper papers, but a phone call to 0 certain alues and awkward questions, number in the city quickly and

me that often

Filols were paid £500 down for these illegal deliveries. There mysteriously clears the mailer

The with the airport police. of takers. were plenty airdeki of delivery in England. planes were sold for cash on the The ultimate destination of these

of the wo months ago an attempt planes was no condern

was made in Itome to steal Early last July this plane suppliers.

ot

Apart

the design, the took off from

One from

Rome; its

company, which is still to three Tempest fighters, one

not only sold war which I was flying to Pakistan. workmanship is

perfeet lond WAS described As existence,

One of the men who inade that up to 1687 the bullition:

"freight," its destination planes to the Jews, but also

carried out its own delivery this attempt was an Americant

British the other Then the was almost intact.

shelled it, and a as Haifa. .It Venelians

made four

fights. powder magazine that the Turks return trips in quick succes-

As for the supply of men, thus pilote, whose licences and pass- had put Inside blew up. In

was carried out on moss migra- ports had been confiscated."

And yet they were able to gion.

tion lines, for the most part by a couple of seconds the world's

move about in Rome. There is masterpiece was ruined.

American charter operators.

These companies were suppli- an organisation there which pro-

for US. Government by the And I know that the plane Army Air Trasport Command, between Britain and Palestine, I They were mostly 50-80 seat ever carried landed not at Haifa, but on Curtiss Commandos. and were Stanley has gone that way he out Britain will have a chance specially prepared strip near rented for a nominal sumas ran little danger of falling

I know that the "freight" consisted of Jews, between 40 and 50 on each trip.

two werr

ed with planes stored in reserve vides papers and money.

Having flown down the rauto

little,

month.

I believe, as £100

The operators did not even

would Bay that

If Sydney

get

through.

There are always plenty of more or less unemployed plots

The Greeks have a plan to rebuild it just as it was, with marble from the original quarry,

If the

plan is to make a graceful gesture and Jerusalem. return the Elgin Marbles now It was impossible for a Hallax These to land on Haifa Airfeld, and in the British Museum, were taken from the Parthenon the fact

that the authorities have to pay for certificates of hanging around Mayfair who and brought to England by a

And there are one or two very lord called Elgin, who rave the perfectly aware of Haifa's land- airworthiness, but were issued will By anybody anywhere for a

ing limitations-winked on eye with temporary permits to By. few hundred pounds. Turks, then occupying Athens, a

at this, shows how simple it was. frequently renewed.

good brains behind them to When I was in Cyprus two organise the detalls for a few town clock in exchange.

Almost as easy was the dell- very of surplus warplanes. Al months ago 1 was told that on the time there was a stream of an average three of these planes them being flown to Turkey, went through Nicosia cach

It wasn't even a good stock. -(London Express Service}

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