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BATTLE of RUSSIA

ENGLISH NARRATION

EUROPEAN MONEY

DARREL

"How much do we need to spend

to defend Civilization..?" *-Out of what we need to spend to keep

it worth defending...

ATLANTIC PACT

FINANCIAL DEPT.

PRIORITY

World Coppright By arrangement with Dally tereld,

HOW TO

TO TALK YOUR

IF YOU are the one who can never break into the party conversation-this is for you.

JOYCE GRENFELL

Is first. You have heard her voice from the screen, on the stage and on the radio. This i her advice for breaking the conversational ice,

Pardon

do

you

Sketch by ROBB

me

WAY

IN

"If you are at a really dull party It's fun to see just hoto boring person can be..."

✩

"I knew a woman who was so shy she didn't oven ask Somerset Maugham his name."

like string?

Anne Edwards

MAKES HER REPORT FROM THE DIVORCE COURTS

Bicker!.. Bicker! Bicker!.. it does more harm than 'Other Women'..

MAN and a woman there, beenuse I knew they didn't like me. I asked her to were arguing at 32

como away a holiday alona country bus stop. Fol-

with me. Dut the would go. low the conversation care I went down later, but I wasn't

fully. First, the husband — well-I couldn't rest there, so

I came home..."

"Why can't you come home with me?"

"Why can't you stop here

woman.

THE STORIES

In the

at my mother's?" said the THAT's how it goes

divorce couria from ten till four, six courts, five days "Because 1 don't feel a week, 30 divorces a day, like well," said the man.

a fearful game of consequences. "You're well enough to acters nsociated with divorce Some of the best-known chor-

travel, I notice," said the never put in an appearance

Wonian.

"You

while I was watching. They were the Other Woman and the

seem to forget Other Man. Or at any rate they need a complete rest and I can't get it here."

"You seem to forget this

never turned up till the other two were pretty far apart any- way.

T

Some of the other traditional

is supposed to be my hall- ngures did turn up--the builles,

day.

the bashers, the drunks, the naggers and the floorles,

"10 "He

Presently the bus drove krocked mo about," up. the woman turned on come home drunk.". .. "He her heel. The man hesitated slept out with other women." then picked up his suitcase But there were the unavoid- and followed her. They sat able divorces. What makes the in a field....

"Now I've missed bus," said the man.

"Well that's not fault."

the

divorce courts one of the mont depressing places on earth is that more than half the divorces ore clearly avoidable.

I am not sure even now that my know the cures.

But I am

quite sure I know what is not the cause. It is not any of the

"It was because you didn't things that are so often blamed.

kiss me goodbye."

"You didn't ask me.'

"Look, why can't come home with me?"

"Why can't

you here?"

you

stay

"Because I don't well."

It is not living in a single room, or not having a double bed, or living with in-laws, or being physically Incompatible.

THE ROCKS

You cannot bilumo jealousy,

feel war.

or children, or religion, or

The language of the

divorce of

to court is not be language

passion-It is the language of the nursery. It is not an exhibi-

"You're well enough travel, I notice...

"But I want a complete

resi."

"You seem to forget it's my holiday....

Two years later they were still at it. But now, they were sitting some yards

tion of love, hale, Jealousy, and Jurld posts-it is a revelation of boringly small minds,

The rocks on which most mar- rlages crash are ridiculous little bickerings.

you

LPIL

The kind of thrust and parry did he want to go and wake me hear all the time: "What

for at 6.30 in the morning?” NCE upon E time receiving "Not very," is sadden- you can play with yourself in an octogenarian who gives you

was 6.30, and you were there was a man who leg but not despairing, because which you score for every platt- a miniature blography of the apart on the bench in a Lon- opened his conversa- the natural follow-up is, 'Where tude and cliche you can force friend he is introducing to you, don divorce court instead awake anyway."

and this is al- your companion to say. do you live?"

thus: "This is Mary Smith, of side by side in a field.

"He was writing to his ex- him if he was bound to lead to an

fiancee, so I If you can make him say "I architect, married to a water tions at dinner parties by most

"Do

future in like answer with a

it. saying,

it you

Is so cheer diviner, has just won a prize in always like a fire,

Here was the same old to fond of her he could go and But the partner who offers ful," you can give yourself ten Oslo and cooks fish very well" string?"

"But it's 15 years since ale little but "Er-yes" and "Er- The trouble with

can is Now this isn't as silly as you

the dullest argument among a dozen live with her." no" isn't terribly promising. Bet too much sense of humour, people sound Interesting. He others dredged up from the was my fiancée might think, because it is pos- It is not easy for me to know is a beauty, and deserves con- does his introducing unface-past, repeated first by his

dimculty tiously and generously. He has counsel then by hers sible to gauge

by the just how agonising It can be to gratulations. a lot

tongue-tiel, with nuts is you can't stop cat- more answers you get to

sounding sillier at every re- This has Rever Ing them." That's a nice one know. bocn

One of

petition.... my too. troubles. I talk This

a question like that, instance: For

bo

uthe

me

friends than

anyone 1

Isn't

от п a sociable

only

ποιν,

arc

: years ups"

ย far too much ari kindly game, and I don't sup-

after

pose any of my readers are low "Shut-

enough to play It.

The life-savor-ask a question PERSONALLY I don't think

WILFRED PICKLES

depends what sort of string," or "Not if it is in knots," gives you cause to

There of imaginn-

hope. signa tion.

It may mean that (this woman

al. to

the question ways

wag put

she

of from

loved ones, am I beginning to try lo

think before speak

Help with good introductions

The trouble with INTRODUCTIONS are

getting this method is that in

wort," is not

the bath planning brilliant con- versations before you go to a

written

TWO VIEWS

"She kept this man's pictures and hidden in a drawer."

"They weren't hidden-1 for-

them, that's all." got the

"He said my cooking wasn't good enough,”

"What I said was that all fancied was a cup of tea," "He didn't come to bed when I asked him."

"She didn't ask-she just conounced Pm going,"

ADULTS ONLY

ONE

#

It is a good idea to lie in THIEN it was her turn to stand in the witness. party. I have seen this recom-box; slinging out her side of a help mended on the teen-age pago the quarrel over the oak pul conversations in nailon-wide American pit as she had slung it so women) is going to be too fun- almost nothing seems worth started further along the line. women's magazine.

often before over the neigh- Some poor girl had

NE week of watching this is ny by half but it may mean saying after you've stopped "This is Gordon McWhistic- that she will prove good com- and considered it.

enough to persuade me that adequate. To in that she never knew what to hour's wall. . . . pany,

In defence, and selfishly, I start with you can't believe your say at parties and she was told

This, sold the judge, was HER marriage is for adults only- On the other hand, if must say that it is sometimes cars, and though this bad be- to read up a subject, Chinese pide: "It was cruel of him, and children play at it. I think sayu: "I beg your pardon, did less tiring to talk then to sit by ginning can be used profitably pottery for instance to choose

yeur few points, and then

With lots bring wanted to go to my mother's they like bickering.

at practice on you say string?" there isn't and listen to hopeful little new-I don't quite catch

horn conversations dropping to name,

spelled?"-- them out one by one how is it

to nur-for my holiday. That's target that Is always vulnerable much hope. This one, who is

think it obviously practical, might turn the ground all around.

isn't good enough.

prise her friends. I

reasonable, lan't it? He's always and always at hand, they get at this prodding and As a nation we are very bad probably did. be a better out to

wife arai i tend to like people and don't

We mumble and Another girl. mother,

but it is as a casual find it difficult to fall to them. introducers,

back was always being difficult about abbing. that we

Then when they've been chip- conversationalist concerned with her at the mo-

ping away at to marriage for talker towards a shy partner, ent later on to clear things up. with a wisecrack. Popularity, it. 13

I once heard of a woman who seemed, was hers if she'd I went alone. I don't have to years, along they come to the ment, And the outlook is grey. I think a lot can be done by

and exhibit kindness.

was mumblingly introduced to M

or two beg him to come on my knees, divorce court Tongue-tied? No, I

Almost everyone in the world the man she was to sit next to Some were quoted that might do 17 Then when he came he most astonishing trait of all:

wonderful corne

come in handy. I'm happy to way. at lunch. He was a BOTE Interesting in was never that

was tiresome-went up to bed it is because they talker, and she had a fine time, tell you they have slipped my

in the middle of the meal... As long as this bat because she was too shy to memory. OH, the despair of making are so boring.

My advice, for what it's and then packed his bog and conversation! Oh, the gloom doesn't go on for too long it can ask him his unme she didn't

And out till after the party was worth, in: Helax, speak when went home." of tossing a topic light-hearted have a fascination all its own.

that ho wng dull over

Somerse! you are spoken to and, if pos If you are at a really ly to your partner and getting

Το returnf

party that has got to be endured Maugham. As she was particu- sibic, forget yourself and take. in his books, an interest in what is being metaphors, it is like walking up for some family or politieni larly interested

said. And if you haven't any Joose sand-hills in gum-boots, reason a good time can be had this made her feel even siller.

Asking, "Do you know

A helpful introduction makes thing to say, ask a question. this by seeing just how boring a

London Express Service) part of the world well?". and person can be. There is a game the whole difference.

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are And from the polnt of view of bumble names and are too reti- vate a "was told to cult had open house there, but he expert

mix the

ic

I know

[1

up a

to come

witticism

He

refused to come, CO

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the

Wounded

Pride, Astonishing because they have very little to be proud about.

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Can you hear them now? "Why can't you stay home?" "Why can't you stay here?”

This, sald the judge, was HIS "Because I don't feel well" side: "I told her from the first. "Well cnough to travel, I

didn't want to go to her notice... parents. I never felt at home

-London Express Service.

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