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So says British men

are worst dressed?

At least we're

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1950,

NEWELL ROGERS' American column

ONE MAN'S LETTERS-FIVE

MILLION OF THEM

NEW YORK. it. F.DR. wrolo: · "Ever DO

I shall never. forget the party

of more birthday parties that are

written during the

fashion conscious THE pale April sunlight many happy returns of the day.

great elms and oaks

sifts down among the with Uncle Joe. We must have America's Hydo Park- oven better." F.D.B.'s former home, now Toleran Conference for Church

to

THE YANK SAYS: THE BRITON SAYS:

Their collars gape and pants bag

LITTLE war over the "well-dressed", English- man, and whether he is the third worst-dressed man in the world, broke out in Fifth-avenue New York rc- cently.

A fashion magazine began it by opening a campaign to dress American men in the style of an Old English Look,

It printed pictures of hanel- some men in bowlers, velvet- collared overcoats, nid with tightly rolled umbrellas. Ed- wardian styles nte back, the magazine decrerd.

Columnist Robert Ruark, who has lived in England, promptly blow his buttons with pops that might have been heard le Savilerow.

Roared the anguished Ruark: "British men dress worse than en mara alive, except French- Collars and Spaniards.

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gape, pants bag.

"The Englishman to Tesa heedful of soup on his lapels or stew on his waistcoat than any national I have ever met,

"Only an Englehman would wear the same cuffs and collara three days running. until they scem to celebrate separate rela- mourning for unknown tives

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the pat

"The bowler is merely a felt imitation of which British barbers une to square off haircuts. All Bri- fish hair reems to be cut with

kulle and fork.

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FOX boastfully

that the American male is the elcanest. neatest, most tastefully reseed he-creature in the world."

Watch The Birdie!

CROSBY 15 trying to

Dide whether to give up

his idea of playing in the British Amateur championship nt St Andrews, because it may menn 100 much work.

le

Col

out

of hospital the other day after an upper- dicitis operation, and salt-

"I have had at least 35 cabled requests for charity benefits.”

YOU have to look closely notice changes in men's fashions. But here are three developments which catch the oye.

A waistcoat cut square instead of in long points. Note the two deep porkets in place of the normál kro-up and two- down style,

2-Outside ticket partiet, with Dap matching the larger ono Just below IL

3-Sleeve with turned back Cuita, One advantage for this: the weater wit not need a ticket paritel. But be stylo l the current hall-mark of nailored Bull.

London Espenis Sorelor.

a national shrine.

Under these trees the late President and Mrs Roosevelt fed "hat dogs" smcared with mustard to the King and Queen in.1030.

In the library there is a glass a royal "thank cave containing You"

note, Just beyond are four locked rooms. Recently they were unlocked to the public.

And in thelves around the zooms are 6,000,000 letters----

almost every letter President Roosevelt ever wrote or re- ceived.

It was

WAS

jil's 00th birthday.

UE OLDEST

noto written by his father tun-- nouncing Franklin's birth January 30, 1802.

oa

Another was written to “My dear King George" from

the Casablanca Conferenco in 1943. It rald:

"As for Mr Churchill and my→ self, I need not tell you that wo make a perfectly matched team In harness and out and, in= eldentally. together as we always do,"

We had lots of fun

FIRST violinist has been Amcked

from Pittsburg's orchestra.

The

Roosevelt never throw away symphony letters. In one corner are Musicians' Union took away his about 750,000 in red folders. membership card on the gourd They play under lock and that he is a Communist. key. For they hold informa- The New York School Board tton which might embarrass found a teacher guilly of falsely living people, or national denying Communist member-

ship. They sacked her.

Lecrets. One non-secret message to Mr And Washington says about Churchill was written on the 12,000 parly comrades face back of an old envelope. Mr criminal charges If the appeal Roosevelt threw into the courts uphold the convictions of Breplace, but someone rescued 11 party leaders,

'ON THE HOOF'

FLOUNDER by Walter

DAD

SHOE BEPAIRS

· BOOTS A LIGES | REPAIRED

WHILE YOU

WALT

THE HERO HAS THE GIFT

OF

STRANGE how some sumnea

call up frrelevant memories. Thus Harald Aclen-Oxford trousers. He Introduced them when an undergraduate in the 1020 which has nothing to do with his forthcoming book, "Prince Indone with a hero who has the gift of the Evil Eye, except It shows

THE EVIL

Books & Persons

QYT

Was

Acton tinted drawings, ht 10 i thinks on uncommon lines, draughtsman at the Zou, nid wrote his Book of Nonsense to Ho le an unusual.

Walter anture

Lord Derby's Pater-ish, person.

Called his children

grand during Ave years autobiography a year' or two

Micmells of An Aesthete, at Knowsleg.

employment by his noble patron On leaving Oxford he halted a world tour to settle for years in Pelting, lived in Chinese style, ate Chinese food, learned De langunge, became Professor of English at Peking University,

Now, like his father, who owned a 15th century villa there, ha lives in Florence.

On Parrots

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cach them to bomb cities with out it leaving some ctain on their minds."

New Books by George Malcolm Thomson

A satirical comedy in slow time

THE BOAT. By L. P. Hartley.

Putnam. 12s. 6d.

pages.

THIS

THIS

witty,

540

satirical

comedy in slow time has a tragic allegory lurking In its corners. Skip the allo- gory.

Hore is the broad plan of Hartley's novel:

There is trouble in the village," with the vicar, with the evacuees, with Captain Sturrock's man, who considers he has a prescrip tive right to keep dogs in Timothy's garage.

Timothy seeks refuge from it

all in his correspondence. With Timothy Casson, bachelor, Tyro, for instance, equally angry aged 50 or so, is driven from his with the war and the. lovely vilin in Italy by the threat race:

human

of war and takes a house on the banks of a river in the English without using the word in a "Did I hear you any human Midlands.

pejorative sense? What are we

For Timothy the river is the fighting this war for?" main attraction. He does not like England inuch; he dialikes the Devil to discredit virtue; next to "Pri is a word invented by the great deal. But he is fond being called a bore, it is this of rowing and be has bought a charge that the educated modern boat.

wor

man fears the most. But I glory If Timothy thinks, that he is in boil." going to while away the empty days of war in his skiff, how

AUTHOR P. H. NIWEY (see below)

published for the first time—and handsomelyi

Profligate? Beyond a doubt.

Life? At its most outrageous"

And bawdy? The editor has drawn up ranks of priffish Uttle riars between us and the worst (some of it not beyond mortal

And with Magda, who has powers of divination). But are wrong he in How grossly he has Joined the Curzon Street Cell of those who pay two gulness for a under-estimated the obstructive the Communist Party and serious work likely to be offended tenacity of his neighbours, the sabotages the war effort in the by the occasional coarseness of a loent entry, determined that no Ministry of Appearances, until man of gonlus? bout shall disturb their fishing. the day Russin is invaded and--

nothing vise matters!

Stars or no stare, here is the thing. Some of the finest letters Magda's emotions then are so in the language. Byron throwE deep that she rings up the Daim- himself sprawling on the ler Hire and is carried off to a nnd at the mind-or the throat... paper

in mursing home Squore, from which she writes to mor in highhanded, the syntax Grosvenor of his correspondent. The gram- Timothy on paper headed "Death that of a man of fashion, and the to the Fascist Dogs and Traitors," spelling that of a schoolboy.

Not until the novel is at its last rasp does Timothy put an oar into that streams, And when he does so, it la as demonstration, a defiant gesture, which disastrously.

ends

Have you some time on your hands and a taste for the rippie of mannered comedy with now and then a splash of exuberance? The Bont might be your craft.

P. HARTLEY, bachelor in hte fities, lives in Somerset,

are stemming, rowing, walking.

Intriguing tile of book duc Timothy all but drowns. The early next year is The Aspirin two women he is most attached Agr. It surveys those headache to perish. years between the two wars.

plausible, but, no doubt, deeply educated at Harrow, Chief intercits

It is a climax, mighilly im-

Katharine West's rood Iden, significant. The Boat is Timothy's literary portrait gallery of cele- | dream, hope, salvation and Holy brated governesses In 150 years Grail. It is a symbolic boat in à - of Englich fletion, appears thisymbole :lver-for those who week, Chapter of Governesses, like that kind of thing. Novelists have given these pour but honest ladies

The rest of us will find our a'bad dent. Mrs West finds her 70

pleasure in other directions. In fall into

examples seven categories the Hartley's writing, exact, civilised Down-trodderi,

Ad- and sly, Hurley seems not so Dragons,

Villains, much to tell his story, as gently Venturesses. Grotesques and Valued Friends and comically to wring his hands

over it.

Snobs,

She is daughter of the late

Was

BYRON: A SELF-PORTRAIT, Letters and Diaries edited by Peter Quennell, Mur- ray. 2 volumes. 2 guincas. 803 pages.

His first book was called The Family of the I'sittacidae. "Psittacidae" means parrots, and as Edward Lear's Parrots Duck worth publishes it with 12 repro-

"CONFFSS, confess you dog chictions of Lear's Whographs.

Then there is the portrait of

and be candid that it is Walter Leaf, banker and clas-Timothy, scrupulous, selfish, tuli the sublime of that there sort of "Readers will be struck by steal scholar, wife of Douglas of prejudices. The war is frightful writing-it may be bawdy but

• Another name with asso- the fact that violence und West, the publisher, and mother and so inconvenient. The fall is it not good English? It may ciation obscuring n versatile suffering obsess them,"

says of Anthony, who, with Negley of France-dreadful!

be profligate but it is not life, is talent-Edward Lear.

"Non editor Derek (great-grandson Farson's son Dan, 1 Joint eliter

it not the thing?" senso verses! one thinks, But of Conventry) Patmore, intro of the Cambridge undergra Ltar was a brilliant artist (of during Oxford Short Stories duate magazine, Panoranma. birds); ut 15 was already earn- Cafe work. "You

cannot train

ing hig living by selling his young men as commandos or

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

A BUT I'M NO ENGINEER. I CANT

FIX IT/

(Louion Expects Service)

OH, WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME ....

O, DARLING, I'D LOVE TO

YES, YES.X YOU'RE A

DEAR!"

ETC.

ETC.

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Although, in honesty, Timothy has to admit he never really liked France-its people were loo tempered; Its ert too clever.

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Thus Byron on his Dan Juan. How well the description sulls his letters, many of them here

The whole impresses one of ease, haste and high spirits.

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