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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950.

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SITTING ON THE FENCE

By

"I'm so miserable," writes a North Country girl to the harnased editor of a nation- al newspaper. "I can't cook without burning myself. I can't do housework without hurting myself. My mother thinks I'm queer, and the neighbours call ne *that funny girl.*"*

WAKE

I morning;

sick;

up

in the

I feel so tired and

I know today that Fate will

play

Another dirty trick,

My stockings they will lad-

der,

My hair come out of

curl;

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"There goes that funny "As colonel of the

girl."

I tried my bond at cooking, And nearly burned it off; Each pan and pot became red

hot

,

While Fate stood by to scoff; Stood by to laugh while smoke.

and steam

Unravelled every curl- "By gum." sald Mun, "By

gum, you're dumb, "You funny, funny girl"

I've tried to help with house-

work,

But ev'ry rag und stick

Combine with Fate to

their hale

me

show

And play a dirty frick, The brooms come up and hit

As through the

I which; bruised by doors and polished floors-

As I go by the folks will I'm

cry,

London in June is no

place for a hermit

London, June 8.

by

Beverley Baxter, MP

rooms

They hate a funny girl,

At night in quiet and darkness

1 Re in bed and think

regiment-

well, I sometimes- blush

kwith shame

"Though I know that sex mest

rear its ugly cad;

"But when a man speaks lightly

of a lovely warian's name "I reckon such a man a better

dend.

"He stood amarily at attention

when I anded in the pun; "He knew what it was for,

without a doubt,

For the honour of the mess," ↑ said, 'and now you're ad bur fun

Take your brgins being the door and blow 'em out."

table There was silence at the

in the Rodent Mess that

rall

As tears

down the colonel's face so grim: They passed the port type round from right to left and left to right

As they drank a silent toast

to "Major Jim."

Of lucky girls in rocial whirl Life in space-time

Unfunny girls in mink. They're ever hit by broom-

sticks,

Or burned by saucepans hat; Their *shining curls in snoods

are set

By shampoos dry and shampoos

wet: Their stockings sheer, of finest

ncl. And oh, I hate the tot.

tu

For

Tut truly this dark, handsome daredevil does not belong ordinary life at all. He comes from Dumas and his musketeers, Next to hun sits Canadian- born Max Aitken,

Kon

heir

ind

flies only

THIE only thing I ever under-

THE

stood, or thought I under- stood, about Dunne's "Experi- ment Wah Time," was

that, apart from a remembered past and an existing present, there is also an existing future, just La rent as this living moment of today.

In this

future, which might be one second from now, DI T has been said that

after, next tomorrow, the day week or a hundred years on, poetry is emotion recol- lected in tranquility,

things are happening. Girls and ONG after it was noticed in fellers are loving and quarrel- and to some extent that

Handsome, to our host.

other,. pensive and taupallent, he tries houseflies

this hawk-eyed column that ling and marrying each upplies to all forms of writ-

were thriving on and being beastly to each other Widow" and "The bewildered young people on the to harness himself to newspaper D.D.T., Air A. ing. One should have quiet "Merry

W. Lindquist, in any other ways.

many According to Dunne, College

what and solitude so that argu- Chocolate Soldier," and finally to stage tried to smile while tears fe while his soul is still in the

(U.S.) State lavish spectacle in which the were running down their faces. air. Fighter pilot and night Oregon

has discovered happens to you depends entire- ments may be well balanced comic and the female contrived It was a death sentence to the nighter pilot, he

rode the skies entomologist, British

seven years' use of the ly on the position you occupy and words woven into to make the business man tired. conventional

musical during the war as if his plane that

If you

could but We did not Then Hammerstein appeared comedy,

and the clouds insecticide has bred a race of in space-time, was horse

or forwards tapestry of clear design.

America never sent a

super files, able to resist any- Jump backwards

dis- Therefore let me

were his private fields. admit at with "Rose Marie," a story with eme. Am

in space-time you would to England

The

rest of us? Mostly wo thing but a direct hit with

card once that London in June is no the background of the Mounties better ambassador"

all your responsibilities Canada. It was

sincere.

than "Oklahoma

were politietaus. Lower the waiter.

and meet a whole lot of new place for a hermit of the

pen. in

It cap- If hosts walk, and they

banners and mute the trumpels. The world

and interesting people. and his wife are virile and remantle.

tured London but

without must do something to 0 B

As scientists are getting

achieved and might be-

converging

I am not at liberty to disclose

In America, where they think

án Londen, and we teaching the British that any their time. I hope that grand what the General said, for this of everything first, a tiny maga- telephone is seldom silent for

Laler Luther Hammerstein was wand was a private talk to reveal lozinc ia now published for flies clever, this may be

more than a few moments. that our kinsmen and kinswomen in from overseas want is to hear Mr Churchill speak in the House of Commons-at least that is ail they want from me.

pallent queues extend to he Embankment.

BU

PILGRIMAGE

WRS

Ruced

to

to him-

Meaning and

Therefore

FRIGHTENED

ering about the Lane that night.

th

Beaverbrook's flat

vatives.

of

battles,

father

MURDER

บริ

of her half million children to bed.

"Eat up your D.D.T, Elmer, like a goix tle fly."

"Aw, must I, nom?”.

any day now

50

If so, war would be ended at last. At the first sign of hostili- ties armies, having no personal quarrel with each other, might jump en masse into the future, icaving the politicians alone to ght it out between themselves. Money values, on which our wanderful civilization is based. You could disappear. would contract a debt and jump into tomorrow; contract another in "Oo, momnia, that's swell. Can tomorrow and leap into пехі have D.D.T. for breakfast, year if your creditors were on dinner, and supper?"

"Sure you must, Elmer, Then you'll grow up into a great big fly able to knock those swatters

right out of their hands."

your track,

*

It would make the life of Mr the income-tox

You intolerable.

in which case you wouldn't owe or you could jump anything:

next forwards into

week, or with Mr next month or year,

ambling foolishly after you.

divorce. would simplify

the Instead of going through courts no more need to be salt than:-

the Rat-catchers' mess

B

It

"I admit I've done my share of laughing at councils for calling their rat catch. ers 'rodent officers,'

wrole

All thing new hat arrived.

inShowboat,"

Hammerstein

us his difficulties, his hopes and only, with the cutest little ad- of the

DINNER

his plans as far as he wished to vertisements showing a mother come a habit with people. aught the imagination world with

"Old his

Man

disclose them. But at least fly putting one Lord River."

can tell about his talks in Ger- Now come with me to He

with not content

many in Lon-

with young Rommel, whose men in op don. He is giving a men's dinner I wish the House of Commons choruses of young

tatuer commanded the dancing

Afrika

Korps in the Desert. had expanding walls. I wish I hats

opposite young party of twelve or fourteen to women with parasols, Everyone meet General do Lattre de Tas Inciden

Incidentally, the relationship be. knew when Mr Churchill was going to speak. I wish could on the stage counted

signy, who taking over Field tween Rommel and his son was and Marshal Montgomery's post as au close that the Field Morshal pack the public galleries with there must be these charming people. but un-

head

wrote constantly to him from Western European de the in fortunately this Mad Parlament

ichard speaks English, albeit with re- is playing to capacity and the course of time he and itchard fener Fortunately the General the Desert even on the eve of

odd results. went into travail and

***** Inetance 'and some "Oklahoma" for the

As usual the Beaver has high brow New York Guild. Se ittle did the Guild think of the othered a curious mixture of HIS boy," said the General fuests. Here is Mr Percy Cud. to us, "saw his father taken plece when it was tried out on

the Editor of the Socialist away from his home by Nazi

"You certainly can, Elmer. þUT since my life is mixed up four that it sold a large propor-

Daily Herald who is Out in generals in order to murder him. D.D.T. is chock full of vitamins, with the theatre as well as tion of its interest for a small

destroy

and espe- Capitalism

anything would make that is casliy digested, and is wrap- also sun. politles, I must report

cially capitalisie millionaires Lay bitter, it would be such an ped in attractive, easy-to-open Bloodsucker, thut we have the annual

ke his host. Here is Mr Robert experience. Yet today young watertight carlons. D. D. T. inspector. pilgrimage of Broadway per.

Cruikshank, the Editor of the Rommel says he wants to work builds minus flies into plus flics. could either jump backwards, onalities, who constitute 11 excellent

Liberal News-Chronicle, which, for one thing only, the revival And it builds bonny dy babies, excuse

their EN after a long New York like Mercutio, calls for a curse for

of 41 strong and

united Ger100." London theatre counterparts to

run a company arrived from

rn buth Socalists and Conser- many," throw a party.

Breadway in 1947 to open with

Again and again the General Oscar Hammerstein is her "Oklahoma" ot the great old

Heroism has no standardised

urged

consider 10 with his pal Dick flodgers Drury Lane Theatre. "I will uman shape. That gentle, lib aspirations of German youth rehearsing "Carousel" for Drury

never forgive myself for not rian fellow over there is and to realise that they could Lane, while their "Oklahoma",

a roming over for that first night." Brigadier Symth, V. C., who in tot be held down for ever.

The after three and a half years at

curs at Hammerstein said to me yester, 1815 cold-bloodedly wan the Lusk of Western slatesmanship the Lane. moves over

day. But I guess I was

by taking on a task

will be to guide it rather than Stoll, That in itself is a story frightened to come.

You see which his chances of

survival b

val to oppose !!. which few people know. Long. Drury Lane had always been the were not one in ten thousand. Only a few days nito dve long ago, before the 1914 war, home of spectacle and here we Next to him, with flashing eyes hundred thousand young Ger- Oscar Hammerstein's grand-

were putting on an American and a gay anile. Is Douglas mans in the Soviet Zone were father (who bore the same how with just a painted buck- Bader. He is a scratch golfer marching up and down with name) came to the unwise conclusion that Covent Garden drop of a field, with the corner and can hit the ball in a mile. slogans and banners like those of n farmhouse down front. Well, is that Important? In a that the doomed battalions of was not enough Besides what would the British way, yes. You see, he has no Opera House

Hitler Youth displayed at the for the mighty Metropolls, so he care about a territory like teps. As a lighter pilot before mazs rallies of Nuremburg. This built a Kreat new London Oklahoma struggling to become this war he crashed and and time It Is Stalin and Communism Opera House in Kingsway just

a State?"

legs amputated-where- to which of the Strand.

Yet that frat night was an upon he vowed that he would The adventure failed; in fact event which will never leave never use a crutch or a stick. It never had a chance. For my memory. We were weary some reason London has never with the aftermath of the wor been able to maintain an all the weary, Il-fed and disillusioned. year round opera company, but Life spread before us like the WHEN the Hitler war came he

re-enlisted E gluor, and from

n pilot and 6pEMEMBER," endreling

"K General and the commanded a dare devil fighter ballet. So Hummerstein's palace across the Channel

shot English, became a cinema, and then was Oceans we heard the whisper squadron until he

for Russia, "it is now my painful duty," made the home of pantomime Ings that poor old John Bull was dewn over Germany. The Luft. Communist

walle ha

said the colonel, with had such respect for him Perhaps sometimes it is useful and lee carnivals, Now the finished.

Communist for other

frown grandson moves in with Then like A gale came the that they arranged for a British to be "Oklahoma."

Many

In The plane to have safe escort over "Oklahoma."

people impact of

brow and so alive, so irresistible that our artificial limbs for Group Cap-

beat a new sluggish pulses

tain Bader. His response to this searched for the word. "Many he repeated, "are Com- tempo. Our tired senses re chivalry was to make

He smiled brandly at having П modesty that one of the horses on the dusty road, as he had his legs on. admire but

week-end, whatever achieved what he fell was the "He hardly to the quickening plains giving Every

It the birth to emulate. - In

certainty was State, to the the weather, Bader plays four exact word. a new realm of lyrics and libretto he is simple love story

Up the hills not the word of boy and rounds of golf.

that we would goes as significant a figure in America girl which was the beginning of and in deep traps he have used, but it conveyed a

assistance except own

In meaning. as Sir William Gilbert was in the worid and which will last to without any

many that his

ac. countries men embrace Britain. The

golden retriever

the show-with-musie the end.

of formula of Communisın for their him with eyes had gone from the tunefulness

unforgettable companies were nt "Florodora" and the pleasant scenes when the curtain fell. soulful adoration it in its own purposes which do not in-

กร knew that his clude the aggrandiscment of the humours of "The Galety Girl" to The applause And the cheers mind the dog

as other men. Kremlin. while on and on musicianly Mittel-Europa went

must eke out the fatervals with

MODESTY

HIS big, soft spoken Ameri-

can carries his

THIS

with

can

hope

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to

NANCY

-

both

DAREDEVIL

was

their they pledge loyalty and offer their blood. The Germans are still fruitful soil for the propagandist, MEANING

purposes.

a woman to an evening

"but the newspaper,

ono who called on me was a rod- ent officer and n gentle-

man."

"Darling, it's all been terrib- ly exciting and wonderful up to now. But let's face . We've

Joan and 1. rtached the end.

We're love each other madly. Jumping together into the mid- tile of next week."

"Suppose jump into the THERE wo THERE was silence at the table middle of next week, too?"

"Then we shall jump into the Rodent Mess that

middle of the week after." night;

"And if I follow?" The colonel at the top

"Then you must follow us looking grim.

through an eternity of passed the port type and space, jumping after round, with shaking hands, like a demented kangaroo." from left to right

They

A

said the

not

in hit halting "that

every

was

silently they toasted "Major Jim."

time

US:

-London Expreis Service}

а

0

"To inform you of a very sad

affair,

young Americans were so fresh Germany to stop a new pair of Europe are Communist by. "Of an officer and gentleman,

He puckered his

a reck- peamist....by etiquette,'

1 attempt at escape as soon honours sponded to the clop-clop music

Alternative

There

the amster was not

NANCY--- I TOLD YOU I DON'T LIKE

CLOCK WATCHERS

respected in the town, "So gallant and so gay; io den

bonair.

wone favourite with ladies, who was scared

rats and mice;

the

of

"As a vermain liquidator

no peer

ad

"But for gentlemen to mention

ain't

Lailies nice-

namies

Very

"You must agree; we ave that there ere.

can't

By Ernio Bushmiller

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