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THREE TYPES OF BOWLERS, ONE SHOWING THE VERY CURLED ANGLESEY BRIM.

THE BOWLER HAT

Bat it suited

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W

By

Joan Erskine

#1

hat

There were sons, all halfers, and any

six one

T

RUSSIA-What of The People?.

It doesn't happen so often now:

HE curtain had just come down on the second act of the Romeo and Juliet Ballet at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre when Romething happened which I had been told never happens to any Englishman in Moscow. A Soviet Russian leaned nerosa the stalls and deliberately started. n conversation with

me.

"I heard you speaking English," he said. "It is a beautiful language. 1 enjoy speaking it myself. But I never get the opportunity. Just now," he said, "I am reading an book. Do English

to happen now it?" And he held up for me to

you

THAT

2

WHAT WOULD the whid grumbles of the

Soviet people be if they dared to veica · · you. For I have been studying reports of mong Soviet citizens who have fled to the West men and women from every walk of life who have made their way into the Western zones of Germany and Austria, Into Perila and Turkey, and even into Japan and India. These are their..."

GRUMBLES

+

FARMERS

(who

PEASANTS. and still form 60 percent of the Soviet popu- lation). Collective farm, they complain, are run chiefly by outsiders, with chair- men appointed by the district committees of the Communist Party,

the best

Party members monopolise pak administrative jobs, credit themselves on pay-sheets with workdays they have nat worked, have first call on new sup- plies at the village stores.

DREADED KNOCK

ON THE DOOR...

by SEFTON DELMER

1

challengers

Collective farms break up family life, because man and

have the wife seldom

free days.

same

WOMEN PEASANTS com- plain that they have to do the heaviest work, for the army and faclorics claim all the men who are not invalids,

WORKERB

Inadequate pay,

ot

and dearness of food, and bad

complain

shoringe

housing. They grumble

many

about

compulsory deductions

from pay--the obligatory State

tu loans, trade unjon dues,

the

HICH is it? A Hard The Bawlers were descended from a Huguenot named Beau- Hat, a Coke Hat, or

tien, who settled in the Spital- We a Bowler Hat?

folds district of London. By Сокс William might never have asked 1850,

when

new int, this these questions. But the thought of his

factories an

see a copy of one of

Westerners

The old again, family had hatters are celebrating

and fellow-travelling J. G. Crow to talk to Stockport, nef Southwark and

and sent about his business,

Stalin's authority are now subscriptions to this organisa. one hion and that, which no event that is as English as

been anglicised ther's scientific works.

All that is remarkable when cately gone. the name had

dares refuse for fear of being. the the oak, and as respectable to Bowler.

That was the beginning you consider that under

Russia

afford tre thought polically unsound. cannot as Savile Row-lie "Cen-

Secrets Act, almost. wholesale loss of valuable tenary of the Bowler Hat." might have made the famous of what, for me, became the terms of the absurdly wide new

professor said brains involved in a repetition

They complain of the infin- hat. They are still halters, but most interesting contact } State

hala for made with a Soviet Russian to us, harmless as it was, could of the old mans executions. tion of administrative slags in There is controversy over, now spectalise In

on any of my trips to Soviet have been construed as

The fame of the old ler- the factories.

10 Russia.

ror is still suffelcat the origin of the name. Britain's hatters are all very puzzled, because they cannot find out which of the two brothers, Thomas William Bowler, gave his name to grandfather's piece of headgear.

or

women.

pression, a humorous quirk

year's

a

to

03

his mouth, as though he were well aware that in come the Bowler would be much a part of city dress, a rolled umbrella!

O

flat.

and

no!

everything the

turce

trea-

bad

the strictest Stalinism, loys.

have become more aduit.

dining-cum- er.

exhibits for the Paris

THE

Remember?

from

end them.

the

to

And would have been, Sald John Bowler, a deseen-

the most recal- The Stakhanovite movement, Our aequaintance clid

secret bring even at the wild and arbitrary

under which workers compete dani: "It is fairly certain that

police of 1937 been handling his citrant to heel quickly.

championship in the it was either William Bowler end with our conversation

instead of the much

that for a or Thomas Bowler who immor- the theatre. The professor

The professor-warned to le was a professor of metal Lane,

rubtler M.V.D. of today

denounce as a disguised speed- talked the pure." Pointing

The new secret police, though he must stop his Englishs con- highest individual output, they

happily in oil-painting on the wall of lurgy at Moscow University

versations, or else is us see in Great Marlborough dined with me at my hotel.

al- to produce more for less pay. went and dined with him a ruthless, as watchful, and preserved to carry on his valu- up device for forcing workers

on steel It as determined as ever to enable researches Street, London, he glowed

great- at his priviligentsin "My little and said:

comTM CIVIL SERVANTS grandfather, William Bowler, was a self-contained but rather nur crowded two and a half room

They have subsituted M Novelist Soschenke, warned

plain of the same insecuri- Firstly, what is a bowler fant

and in my opinion-he's

affair, in

Lake any Vic-kitchen and bath

pulley of careful discrimination by newspaper attacks that his ty. "We dare not, hat? They are made

man." William, * stern

with

white, fuffy side which the son had to slche for the old policy of liquida- drolleries at the expense of the initiative; the penalties are ton the same way as felt hats, torian wit

being appre- dratic." looked inscrutable. an entrance lobby

party are not

down but are stiffened with shel- whiskers,

Where thousands of men and clated, of once sita Personally, we think Thomas daughter in the

living room.

women used to be taken During the war, when Bowler, the brother, looks mere Jae.

of knock off a few short sicries freely

INTELLECTUALS expreSH The professor talked PX

the same fears. But doc- the government took nearly ass

of his life. He told me of his and shot every month. It is only with a good Stalinist moral to 10

who few hundreds today.

ICN elder daughter

tors and engineers show all the shellac in Britain, possible. He has a benig

than school- bowlers almost disappeared.

on and

When I come to think over apprehension were preparing to study medi-

college professors. eine. He translated as his wife

what Very High-ups have been teachers, read The faces that daily

feld me of her shopping prob-

spirited away during the past journalists, and those in artis- the financial columns of city

Jenis

E ordinary Russian in the Ave years, I can only think of tic pursuits. He told me. 100, of the time.

street need no longer feat newspapers, as they sat in

one: Voznesruski the brillant when Stalin had come to in- a night-time

of One young relentist speaks of call

the

planner young economis! the underground, looked

sreet the way he was packing police he had

to in those the Politburo who sent econo what he calls the "nner migra- somewhat unhappy beneath

up a consignment of industrial four years of indiscriminate mist Vargo into the jungle for tion" among young intellectuals transfer from Exhib terrorism which followed

that the declaring ordinary felt hats.

Waited the effort to Eighty-four-year-old Thomason and the skill the Generalls assassination of Stalin's friend Stutes and the Western world rolltically dangerous to politi- Interest has been revived Dowler, William's only survivremo had shown in his precize Kirov in 1914.

generally showed no sign of calty less-dangerous fields.

hmitel had transferred to Then no one was safe. It imminent collapse.

even microbiology. But

that In the bowler lately due, we ing son, recalled that his father instructions on how to do the

talked shop, and was job.

the was enough to have had feel, to the fact that the never

uncertain

After the war, the professor most distant connection with a Varga recanted most humbly had. become politically

and is gradually equally

stayed. ed. Englishman

lo

elegantly, had

Germany origin. Bowler's

gone

put and to suspect for the police to superintend the dismantling of you on their exceution list. Voznestuski, triumphant, ha changing his shape!

Mr C. R. Whitbourn,

Provided he keeps his head vanished to nowhere. the kets are long, with well de-

of James Lock, is

down, does not talk out of turn fined waists, and full skirta. descendant

indifferent. "As far as we are Side or

in centre vents

concerned," he said, slating there, shoulders slope his office behind the same shop slightly, and sleeve cuffs are in St James's Street in which

ing of the terror does not secret police. William spent a week-end with him and man in Russia need have

police have narrow. Trousers are nar- his ancestor

given up their hated system of SOLDIERS from the ranks o the M.V.D. now, and in some cases, are Coke with the first hard at his family in their country cof- fears of Contade Beria, head men that the

inge outside Moscow. "it isn't a bowler at all but a

But

complain

food; of poor the priviligentsta.

and informern. Or that the forced

Isolation fram the actually strapped below the Coke Hat, after our client.

articularly the intellectuais, labour camps are running short enforced

1.f manpower.

local population if they are in foot. Is it surprising, then, is a tough-linkslied hand-made

walk wartly. Though inust to lat. We rtit sell that with this return

They are still being led up an army of cccupation; the even here, as one of thern who THEN one day the inevitabic has escaped put it to me

the by trainica after trainload from special privileges of the ofteers, Georgian, Edwardian and Coke hats,"

by

happened. The professor, other day, an attacking

news the newly annexul regions, from The first one was worn Victorian lines, the bowler

fold embarrassed. Coke, and the

the Baltic States, from the Polish next much

my paper article is tending to T- ular

Ukraine, into its own

friend should come

and their meetings must pince

Czechoslovak that midnight knock: on man to follow his example was

the door.

and even from the newly won with complete naturalness the Honourable Bellby Lawicy.stop.

who bought one on April.

Now why do I tell you this

Mongolian provinces. again?

1051. It cost 12 shillings story about the professor? De- and was sold as "Coke Hat"! cause nothing happened to him, He was net arresteel and shot The fashion historian, Jamesar put on trial for treRSON. Laver, whose

on opinions

He was questioned politely

"invented"

Jac-

are

served

the

It

them ១៩

16,

machinery from German forles for Russia.

fac-

After 1 left I still heard in the factory, or let his wife Trainloads....

an

Aus- start grumbling le about him through tralian friend who had met the queue, and

fish the does what the

He

infect-

the en-

OFFICERS resent croachment of the Zampo-

or political commissar. They say they are constantly watch- the Informers af thr

professor with me, and and party basses tell him, the little MIND you, this subtle loved by

no

Questioned

I

No waste

is a wise policy. At back of it is the, realisation

and by the Troika iribunal, told no that:- by clothes are always plthy was first William Coke Norfolk, amusing, says "Coke Hats" are kirsman of the present Earl becoming popular again "be-

1

of Leicester. In those days, hunt cause a lot of people yearn for

for the old days. Bowlers are ing was the thing; and hunting, one wore a top hat. symbol of reaction against the This greatly irritated Mr Coke,

present." the who strongly objected to number of times his hat way Jeft hanging on a tree after a hunt. It had been said that the countryside after a lay's hunt- ing looked like a maze at hal- slands.

Having devised his

Answer

to the problem he set off to a inf.

by

as

for

Here the old system of in- discriminate deportation categories is still applled, rcom the Kremlin makes new settlers who have learned not to grumble.

•

BUT there is a way of making lilooasior in Russia

-and the Russians havo- coined a word for it. Watch for Report No. 3

London Express Service

C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S. scene

T

local hotter, who unfortunately say: "They are comfortable and To dispore of rumours that

shape."

they nnswer.

The

saw

and heard

Dewey

OPINION: America

NEW YORK. ters picked people at random money to buy more television restore 90 percent of their pro

the

bustest streets. time.

duction within two weeks al: THIS city is seeing some from Designers of elolhes do not

Audiences at home saW

e real thing. and new in thing

alec heard the

faces au- with this eminent

man in the street- ngree

says Fredrick They thority.

consider it 15tioneering-perhaps a pre clerks, Negroes, and students three enemies,

QUOTE: Back from enter- simply because of the return to view of the political.

of New talning cam. ek Dewey quesitons. Then Truslow, president

Itoops in the battle exchange-Rus- areas, York's kerb a more dignified style of cloth-

Hollywood's Al Jolso And the latters

sia, inflation, and Socialism. simplypaigning of the future.

was asked what he did coming home. His reply: FORCES: The Navy, put in

Tooked only trouble.

was that the background since American ec if I had paid enough."

up my income tax not allow forces questions did

were unified, may con political tolk, Two of

get recognition for its valu - grow n

abic

When work in Korea. (Dewey gave the Geners) Omar Bradley retires old, old alibi of the sore lips. the now chairman of the

dlu he think of the joint chiefs of staff will prob

Dodgers baseball

an ably be Forrest Sherman, admiral.

like

חם

is stuffy and stand-offs, the

Dewey, running once much

did not possess the necessary keep their materials. William Coke was

But do not think that with he determined character. Not one the adoption of a bowler, and Tom

In more for New York's governor them: Why did he whit deterred, he went to James a rolled umbrella, you are

hatter in fashion. Far from it. You may ship is making a street corner moustache? Lock, a well-known St James's Street, Piccadilly. It have a head shaped (in hatter's

"Awkward is at this stage that the muddle jargon)

"Long Oval," or over the name of the hat be. Oval," 71

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Included

case, you will probably never Alr find a bowler to it you. Prime Ministers, ordered

makes the world's Britain Coke's hat to be designed made by a Mr Bowler-but left lightest bowler-weight rang- no record which Mr Bowler it

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