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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.

BITTER FRUIT

World Copyright. De arrangement with Evening Standard.

“TROUBLE HITS CUDDLE CLUB" is the title of this piece, with which the Telegraph introduces

of the

read most widely

features in the

one

world from the pen of Broadway's one and only.........

Saturday Diamond

IDI ever tell you about them in a few drinks. Well.

Harry, the philoso-ey're very tough boys, and I`.

don't like to refuse, and so it phical hackie?

goes the rest of the night-joint after Joint-und by the time It'

of their pocket and I'm

Well, back in the roaring and rat-tat-tatting twenties Ilarry and his merry Olds-

inorning I got thirty dollars in my plenty high."

mobile were usually to be "Presently the boys find they found on the taxi line in have run out of cash, but this, front of Lindy's original of course, is no. serious handi- to such characters, and restaurant at Broadway and cap

they suggest I drive them pack 50th, and many of his off to the Cuddle Club. I get an handerien especially about idea of what's coming and beg women--became part of the them to take buck their thirly lingo and lore of the period. bucks, but they say no, I'm a

working man

and need tho To give you a couple of money, and, besides, they think too much of Annie to play her "Never quick f'rinstances:

a dirly trick like that. give a wife a present with- out you got a reason," and, "Money talks, but dames talk louder."

me

counter-clockwise. I

"When Cassell

we get to the club, helmer stays outside to make Rods In and Gurken-

big around

on

The

At Horseshoe

By

BILLY ROSE

keep at the

Cuddle Club was killed in a stick-up, and it looks like maybe my frlend Cassell doesn't know his own streng h."

"50 now it's murder you're involved in." I said.

I

was awakened

by a fish

HOLIDAY SNAPSHOT from the man who had Fun Finding Out about Norway - BERNARD WICKSTEED

You

TT begins to look as if the smashed, and gouts broke in

weather might be break- and chewed our clothes, ing, but don't be des all they did thone girls, was

laugh. pressed if you haven't had The matches Hot wet, tha your holiday yet.'

It coffee ran out, and the children couldn't possibly be wetter fell in the lake. And still i than mine.

We went to the moun- |tains of Norway, and of the 21 days we spent there i stopped raining for only three.

rained and rained,

Our accommodation was ONE day a sheep, of all crea.

a one-room

tures, ate a 21b. trout we

We caught

hut about the size of a backyard garage were going to have for supper. and there were six of us in it in the act.

Hosily it di

it-four adults and two in- The mountainside was credible boys (one of them covered with the green and

expert my own) who didn't stop Juicy grass you'd

in wenther like that, but this giggling from breakfast to wretched vegetarian had to choox the best Ash of our We all had to eat in the holiday for its perverted experi- one room, sleep in it. think in ments. it. dry our wet elathes л

bedtime.

Yet somehow the thought of cook in it. The nearest form it only made us Inugh more. was three quarters of an hour Can you Imagine the expresslon away, and to rench

the only that a sheep would have when shop meant rowing across a it looked up quiltily from such lake in a home-made boat that an unnatural meal and saw us leaked and then walking six bearing down on it through miles each way.

And it rained and Talked and rained.

the rain?

Ever

party

time

depression threatened, one of ys had You went up to your ankles simply to make a face like a in a bog the moment you step- a sheep surprised in the act of ped

out of The door, the eating stitches in our

fish and the boots rolled, was in an uproar again. and when the soles fell ww

when had to tie them on with fish- mountain

We even laughed

bull chared U14 to line.

the top of a rock and kept us Why none of us died of there.

The bull oppeared silly pneumonia I cannot imagine, enough as it stood below try- "They catch Al and Eddle." At no time did we have on ing to look

triumphant, with said the hackle, "which isn't too complete set of dry clothing, If the rain dripping at the end hard, seeing as how they've let our shirts and pullovers were of his nose. ก trail all over town, but I must dry, then all our socks werd

school buddies wet. On the

few nights that say my old cover up for me pretty good. I didn't rain there was frust. They tell the cops how they ferred me with a

gun to walt outside, and the

story is 'be- Ueved, which is strange, seeing practically The

0$

how it is

trulh.'

"Well, then," I said, "what are you worried about?”

"I'M

have But we must

looked siller sitting on a wet with rock shrieking

laughter and trying to drive him away by hitting him with one of those surplus Army oilskins designed to keep off mustard. ans, not bulls.

Such levity from the van- MOODNESS knows how for it quiched was more than animal

and was to the nearest doctor. shaking his head he went away

flesh could stand,

sadly We never inquired. At home we'd all have been down with to seck the saner company of flu after the first day of it, his cows. but in some

snift or n there wasn't a Bлeczo from

onc of us tho

providential way

**T'M okay with the cops," said Harry, "but I'm scared of Annle. Next week the case will whole of that drenching holl- como up in court,

and it's a day. I suppose it was the

sure I keep the mo.or running, and pretty soon Cassell comes One August evening running out with a bunch of picked up Harry at his usuni bulls in one hand and a pistol in stand and told him to drive the other, and I commence go face up to her, you need another cluch the papers will print mountain air.

around Central Park, wheels like I see diem do in the

corners

two drink.'

every detail about what went was, movies, Cussell says, 'K's 100, "This time they tip me two looking forward as much to bad I had to cank the bartender, bucks and drag me up to the the cooling effect of his re- but he wasn't acting co-opera- apartment. Mabel makes every- flective tidbits

s to the tive.

body welcome, and so does her room-mate Gladys, and so does their room-inate Marge, and 'to

with them."

park breezes, but for once the cabbie seemed-fresh-out- out of words and the nape of his neck wore a moody look.

☆

S gets more serious," I Bald.

or they'll

was the time I

Both my wife and the other THEN there on the night of the murder. girl in the party are, house-

put a fish in my trouser Annie will believe the stuff proud women in the ordinary pocket and then forgot all about the old pals, and she will way, Everything has to be about It. We went to bed believe I was forced into the just right

want to leaving our clothes, as uisu. 1, But on this oc- round the allckup.

Elove to dry, and lay awake half the night won- dering where Tho smell cooking came from.

But when I lestify I know why.

Yet

gerins

away

be sociable I have a few drinks was--forced-to-go-along-tocasion nothing was right..

Mabel's upartment-that, no How could It be with six dame would belleve."

people spending thres weeks in "You start with a little lis,"

one room by the side of a Icne- I said, "then It's a drinking "Tell Annie," I said, "that any rain-swept lake 1,000 feet bout, When it's robbery and English writer named De above the sea? armed assault, and now............." Quincey once wrote that mur- "There's more," said Harry, der leads to theft, and theft to "When I finally get home, I tell deceit." Annie about the repair truck and hand her the night's take, and I inus, say she gives me no 'I'm a lipdough and dame trouble, and you know is

to- you know, seldom go gether. But when I wake up the know Annic,'

following peeyem, it is all over 'and

the front pages how the bar-

"There's more," said Hurry, "Gurkenheimer suddenly re members girl named Mabel «TS hot," I finally ob. Who lives on 39th Street and who can always dig up bottle for a pal. "How hot you are," said **Please, fellas, leave me out the philosopher, "depends of this, I say to them.

married

served.

hot water Annie

"Wo Cassel,

much on how you're in. Me, I'm hot."

"How come?"

"I told a lie to my wife," "Has she caught you?"

"Not yet," sald the hackie, "but she will. Dames and district attorneys psychic."

are

man

says if you're gonna

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By morning. when I found out as poon as I put my hand in my pocket, the trout a la trouser was done to a turn. the

And so the three wet weeks sarne providence

went by in a way that kept the

no holiday normally me- I've had has ever done be- endowed these liculous housewives with un- fore. suspected powers of oversight The last day we had to get sel10 of up at 4 a.m. to catch our bus a miraculous

to back

civilisation and humour.

The floor was permanently. the lake in our leaky boot plastered with mud and so Ure mist drifted across and werz the boys. The stove, clung to the mountainside. wouldn't light, the mirror goi The air was fresh and clean, COMOYS

"It won't work," said the Plato of the pavements. "Like d most dames, Annie is a great one for readin'. But not books.

Only minds."

-(London Express-Service)

WHEN MEN ARE CEASING TO WEAR

VERY man in the Army E is to be issued with two

pairs of pyjamas for the "What lio did you tell?" first time, the War Office

"A week ago Thursday,

when I got home four hours

announces.

It is odd that this news

PYJAMAS

the Army issues them

Inter than usual, I told An- should come at a time when 3. Lovell of the association, is has scoffed: "Ever since nie my cab broke down in there is a tendency for men that Flushing and I had to wait to stop wearing pyjamas.

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for the repair truck.'

In America pyjamas have "What was the square of it?" lost their popularity.

As we rowed drought.

over

and the surface of the water ringed by trout rising to carly hatch of fly.

The foxgloves and birches

PIPES

ARREDMAN

with

-

DUNHILL

MASTA

PARKER JEANTET

BRYSON

DR. PAT CHERRY-WOOD

suve ORLIK

that AMERICAN

were hung spiders' webs GO moist they glistened

in the carly Repercussions from the revoll distant peaks was pink.

dawn, and the snow against pyjamas have been felt At 2.30 in the afternoon in Britain. The change has that

came diny, after four contributed to # fall

of more hours in the bus and three on than 18 000 in last year's ex- the plane, port of pyjamas.

Northolt

-

KIRSTEN

on the REGAL - MEERSCHAUM WITH AMBER -

of MEERSCHAUM LINED DR. STEWART wa Ianded BBB etc., etc.

at

That was early this week, But Britons remain pyjama-

when Britain was still D clad. Home sales since the end drought-stricken desert full of the of coupons have soared, for men people who thought they'd had ale here ans replacing their

do- a good Aclencles caused by years of hadn't rained. rationing at high coupon rate.

the male

of the old-fashioned plott

during the war young pyjama stepped into Servicemen got out the habit world on the tail, so to of wearing pyjamas at night.

there has been never entirely But Mr Lovell admits there eradicated Instinct In homo are other reasons. Some men sapiens that there is something Many men nre sleeping who were not in the Forces say wrong in dressing up to go to Schopenhauer, in shorts, others in their they are more comfortable with. bed.” "I'm parked in front of Lindy's underwear, and others with out pyjamas. when a couple of guys I used to go to school with Al Cassell nothing on at all.

"Well, it was like this," sald tho sidewalk

and Eddle Gurkenheimer-come

-out party."

wcro

"Where

·out ot?"

"Sing

Sing," sald Harry, "where they had just finished doing a stretch.

At the same time the anle of shorts for bedwear has risen 20 percent.

mined to save it.

"We are making only 12 mil- Hon suits th's

year, which works out at a quarter of a sull for every man in the country.

WANT SLOGANS

NEW STYLES

of

shortage of material,

With their eye on boosting designers have exports, our created new pyjama styles.

holiday

because

CUSTOMS

it

THE contrast with the scene The left

that morning couldn't have

been

10-

One London store sells more than 30,000 pairs of men's) pyjamas a year, and the same The worried Mr Lovell told a number for boys. Others say they cost too much, newspaper correspondent In So great has been the or are unattractive to wear. New York: "We are not going Nor has the nightshirt gond up to the cabs and tell me they drop in sales, in fact, that who prefer shorts-or nothing- pyjama industry is hanging in has hundreds

Yet a third group of sicepere to take this lying down.

greater The right out of favour. This stora þad wo touched down. at want to throw a little coming production in America has allege that pyjamas ang too con- the balance and we are deter cannot be made because

on order which

Karachi or in Central Arabia.

Crowds of brown-faced 65 stricting and cause nightmares. they coming been geared down to

tives awarınd round the pas- percent of what it was last

BIG CAMPAIGN

Bengers and their luggage. year and 50 percent below

Blasts

Air of Unbreatheable 1947.

blew off the sizzling tarmac. How does the American in-

At any moment we expected dustry propose to restore man to

snako charmers and what it considers should be bie "Please, boys,' I tell them,

Most popular fa the blouse top to sco true nightly dignity? It plans

with ch buttons and with or porters doing the Indian rope 'I can't turn off the meter so

If tho Customs, mèn a great advertising campaign. carly and, bealdes, you know

It will plead for the pylame. slogans.

"Some of our members want without collar, which is pulled rick.

had worn turban and we'd how it is with Annle it I don't

'IN THE BALANCE'

says Mr Lovell, on

been taken We are looking for a on over the head like a shirt. * on four counts: bring homo a good night's pay?'

good one now, something on the The National Association HEALTH, by quoting medical fines of Man's best friend is his greater recodom and comfort, caused. uz su.pripa

The trousers are full, to give, elephant "Good old Annie, rays one of Shirt and Pyjama Manu: authorities who

recommend pyjamas.

As we fought for broth in of the goons. Let no one say facturers in America pyjamas; HYGIENE.

Ju

by compar- ing the use we don't take

There is no great, demant In the stifling air that night and run a competition you sold to calling a menting to face the such practices as frequent baths and is inen 10 write a little this country for shorts, but now fried to sleep beneath a We're bookin' you night, Horry, old pal. And with problem. It has already and

changes of linen; ATO essay beginning, I wear pyjamas on the market in a single-piece that didn't leak, in beds that

on tho pyloma mado that they jump in and tell me warned its members that DESTY, by stressing the use of because...

napkin weren't damp, we'd havo`given, be back in our hut princinbuttoning. between a lot to to drive down to the Cuddle "the future of the pyjama proper zarmants among civilised "It might, on the other hand, the legs, which are left un- and the rain.

people, and APPEARANCE, by be industry

easier to pltch, into the

Also, of course, we feel in hangs the talking about "what man looks women and persuade them that coverent. This, too, slips aver rather proud of our wet holl-

like without pyjamas“

it is not really proper for their

day. It makes us so different Manufacturers have an uphilt husbands to go to bed in shorts,

SRC from everyone also... crusade. One New York eritis or oven with less on than that."

Club in the village.

"When they get out, they pay balance.”

me, give me a buck tip, and ank Mala reason for the reduction molo camo inside and Jola in sales, according to Mr Max

of

"We may

the head.

London Expreis 'Service)

to Hampstead by

It wouldn't have

roof

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