1950-10-27 — Page 3

LAST

LONDON'S

HORSE-BUS

DRIVER

GOES

Mr Alfred Dymott, the last of the old horse- bus drivers to drive London's petrol buses, has retired after more than 46 years. And now he is

looking for another job.

MR. ALFRED DYMOTT.

No Dice

ACTRESS Adele Jergens, shown in Hollywood. can stop acting and still carn a living. A producer of burlesque shows offered her a fabulous contract after seeing her play a girly-show queen in 13 movie. No, Rho

didn't accept. (Acme)

South

know

"AS for us We there are now no drivers who were originally on the horse-buses,

London Transport oficial said.

Mr Dymett In 60 and live at Weighton Road, Harrow Wraki, Midiflesex. He fat his Best Des driving job in 1984 when he was 19 by pretending he was 21.

A fall, burly, still active man, he is proud of his accident-free Bord.

Bus driving is a talition m the Dymot family. Affrets father was a horse-hus driver for 20 years; his brothers were drivers: to is his son.

SILK HAT FOR SUNDAYS

THE "HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950.

Driving an old horse bus.

Paris Finds

'Standing Room In Buses

Paris. Oct. 13.

Among questions asked by some of the 100,000 Continental visitors who have so far tramped through the four London Transport buses which are on a grand tour of Europe to publicise next year's Festival of Britain are:- "When I Marted I earned 78. Why are the poor British; Wearing bowler bat, he Cl. for o 14-hour day," he said. not allowed to sit down? stood on the conductor's plat-

"We had no uniform, but on

foon of anc of the bures to (These double-decker am-delare them open to the Paris Sunday. most of us wore silk hats given us by well-to-do basators of good will have public. | Pasengers."

had their seats' removed).

It Win!

1908 that Mr Dymmalt switched to petrol balans,

Do not the British complain

REASSURED

at havle! thick black curtains Saki hu: "The four huseR over the windows? (This has vilch you ree here are exactly been date to give a tasteful the same as the 8,000 others background to the displays of

L.Cr (+43

"In thore days there were always troubles, but breaume ni then work, no pay' principlephotographs and books which | Londoners about their business

we were forced to do šar owa repturs," he said.

“I can remember packing the chatch Timing of my bus with a condensed milk in to prevent the ente from shoppet..

SNOWED UP

the buses contain.)

cl. Y

end pleasure."

When did the British maste A Frenchmuri exclaimed 115 becotur so nesthetic us to inslet (the finished nin tour of inaper- the pinstripitaphic displayn tion: "Now 1 red what var ar Utvis putali tataspnet?

British Rieurs min when they "peak of qutterity?"

Why do British buse, swny maj

themoval of the roata March? fus, explain officials, changed

He remembers, toy, the winter ! De balace of the buses.) of 1910.

Lupe

"AIL

between She phere's 135 d Seven

Kings were new-bound. Ang ofer, driver and ng: If :tarted towing them back to the qukappe at 3 17.

****If Wal" 13 "6.0. The qu′′ dy-18 hour. Inter-when we Marted to di the mow away from the last one,

"Driver Brown had been stande ince it for 24 hours."

Recognition of Alfred's carto came this year. 11 ww awarded the BEM in the New Year's Honours List fet his leng and continuous Servies in the interest of public transport."

Farouk Speaks To Troops

Cairo, Oct. 20. K Farouk declared here tonight that no money or effe Would be spread to raise deserves in the world." Egypt's Army "to the place it

In a message to his troops at the end of three days' manocu- vres, King Farouk pronused! that the most modern arm nnd equipment. "You are the

of the nation h

in this Thekl of surprises and great [evasts,”—Iteuier.

Koreans

The motorchensions con- Cermin London Transport were, fortunately, buitiese by the Briush Ambassador to France,

Sur Oliver Harvy.

THE WAY TO BIG MONEY!

Having amounted the shook

no bat Le

WOVE

quickly reasured by the ft col guid tutajts which awmnieu

them on the top urek.

Housewife Runs Bell Foundry

In a back-garden shed of her home in Vale Road, Ashi Vale, near Farnham, Sur- rey, Mrs. Ruth Butler pre- serves a family bell-making tradition which in more than 300 years old,

of

Mrs Butler is 42. The Inliinis her grandfather, Jainca Bruty, appear on the bells at fre engines, churches, and even the Houses of Parliament,

Is ancestors started their bell foundry in the early 17th century.

Mrs Butler has inherited the family kill, nad is one of o very select company of English bell founders,

ONE ASSISTANT

Many of the bells she makes are for the Government, RC- rent the complete.da set for the foune of Commons,

Others go for expart, includ- j ing Baby Are engine bells, i which must give a special ring bat immediately recognis- able.

Her only assistant is Frank Kulik, Pole, who is fairly now to the job but like it.

In her spare time Mrs Butler has made a cet of belts for her le com Christopher. They play a tune.

A-Bomb Range

Extended

Washington, Oct 20.

RUB ENS-Sketch for a Last Supper

Notable Of Art

Exhibitions In London

By Mary Burnott

London, Oct. 11.

Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, whose work is now on show in London-lent by Mr Gilbert Davis for exhibition purposes to the Arts Council of Great Britain-there are, and always have been, two schools of thought; one which dismisses him as a vulgar and not especially clever caricaturist and the other which considers him to be a great artist, but a draughtsman rather than a painter. Rowlandson is rather liked or disliked. His popularity today is on the increase.

In the 18th century Woburn had become what it remaine

He was born in 1756, 'the and pictorial diarist of his times portrait of Queen Jane Seymour, son of a London merchant. and appreciate him for these has been seen in public since He entered the Royal Aca- qualities.

1859. He loved prople, animals and demy Schools in 1772 but places and even a quick lonca For the first time big plans interrupted his taining to through this exhibition will tell capable of carrying atom bomba' visit Paris. Ile studied much of how people lived in live landed un an scroft there for two years before walks of life in those some Terrier at con, the United States

returning to the Royal Academy Schools to finish a fairly

complete education.

Navy announced today.

1is ceaseless that town and

and

籍

artistic

mong

a hospital of old portraits and by the fifties ndiscriminating patronage was given to

the

were

the | what rough and nmdy timer.

finest Drilleh painters, Reynolds and Galinborough being often WOBURN ADDEY The Navy identified the

cimployed for family portralis. planes as A3-1 attack bombers,

A sentation of pletures from

With the opening of the 10th the splendid collellon belonging There aircraft weigh more than

great collecting to the Russell family, concentury-the 17 tons and have a speed ex-

In Britain the French at Woburn interest in all centrated

Abbey, 13 cealing 350 miles an hour, ·'

Revolution and the Napoleonic They, like Scandinaviat

went on around him, in now open at the Royal Academy Wars put on the market pletures The latest, development con-

country,

This great collection is one of the game, and the Dutch be ture them, could browar if thy skierably widen the possibility ich

poor, make Row the few. in the British Isles the highest quality. Two or landson

and which has never suffered serious equire in 1780 anu most of

splendid

Cuyps webed satworth uch exedent of delivering A-bomba

fascinating from

Informing book of his period. depletion since I was first be books as "Byron, Hobhouse, and entriers ' distant targels, Those

sexing tis art Ion in the 16th century. It is the Dutch pictures were prab- Focento." The Common Router.

the first time should look on remained Httle known, however, nest-of-the-portraits of paintors- ably bought then, as well as him as a superb droughtsman fond maly one of the pictures, which have been hanging out of rench of examination, and have provided come

of the big surprises of the celicetion.

The latest painting is probably 'he Bonington, acquired from the painter in about 1823.

Important exhibits are the set of 22 particularly Ane panton views of Venice by, Canaletto. These, each Ing 10% x 311⁄2 inches

Porttalt of a Proplet, and even "Engle: Art, 1307-1461."

EARNEST

And the French, duly warned by nolkes outside the busts that Inext year's affir is to be ን

"grand manifestation." found. Once inside, that we are indeed in carnest about our zchleve- ments.

What could be more inspiring, This stamp comes from ad-for example, than the big photo venture land-British North entitled "Match de Cricket au Borneo, where you can hunt Village'?

rhinoceros, eagles, tiger-ents and How engrossing the neigh- wild boar. And not so donghouring Audy of a mayor in his age the tribesmen hunted each oben other.

And what fun lu dream

of

The country is rich and, dicams over the thy models you like working in the open and sections of the Battersea mir, there is big money to be Festival gardens cunningly made growing coconuts, produc- contrasted with old petats Ing timber and rubber, or Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea. panning for gold in the rivers. The stamps show come of these industries

Mr Ewan Butler, Western Europas representative of the Festival of Britain, with head- Prier: part set of 7, s. 10d.; quarters in Paris, graced the face values; from 1 cent (d)derasion for a time, to 10 rents (about 3d.); per- forations: 13 by 144. There Perhapo the French are 16 stamps in the full set. hoping to find They are all worth buying. Butler Baw.

Over

The

Parallel

were

out What the

AS À STEADY flow of United Nations men and supplies advanced along the wiấc frin barges were in o warn bound with "HOR roops and are being pushed out into deeper mater, north of the

88th Parallel, '(Acme):..

London Diary :

WEST

Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson

END SHOW-GOERS RECEIVING SHOCKS

comTM

measur

were

probably commierloned from the artist. A similar series of 20 views of Venice, of the same size, bul repeating, only, two of the scenes, are now to be found In the Dirimingham Art Gallery.

A

RUBENS ON SHOW ............

to

third exhibition of im- portance is that of Peter Paul Rubenn at the Wildenstein Gallery, arranged in conjunc- tion with the Royal Empire Society, all proceeds going the Lord Mayor's Thanksgiving Fund in recognition for services rendered to this country by the Commonwealth and Colonies.

Wildenstein Gallery is not large and the paintings have been

confined to pmall or medium size, but modem tasto will and this all to the good. The sketches and designs in the master's own hands are stten of more interest to us today than the vast decoration plecs often executed in part by Rubens" followers and pupils.

Ideas for allegorical walls and ceilings are represented here by several exhibits including designs for the celling of Inigo nt

Jones Banqueting

Hall

Whitehall, which is among this country's proudest possessions

also a number of extefully

What's happening in the West End streets. Show goers parking of the artist's work. There are their cars in places where they believe no lights arc vecded are receiving executed tapestry design and shocks. When they return to their cars they find stickers on the wind-| drawings which tonge from screens informing them they have made a mistake, this is not a no-light rough compositions to finished parking place,

tax free.

One

nudes..

Baroque allegory, which formed a considerable portion Why the mistake? Fact For her new cont delivered to usually away in his constituency of Rubens' work, was not, is, this no-light parking is the ship at calling time Min South Australia. There hej however, his only activity.

cattle and causing nightly chaos in the Bryce pald the maker £1,200, rear dairy

grows Many of the exhibits prove potatoes, "I can make any him to be one of the world's West End.

A British resident lying the vegetable Erow," he says treat portrait painters, Sir Harold Scott, Metropoli-coat would have to pay £2040; proudly.

GREAT, TRADITIONS a Police Commissioner, is the difference is purchase, tix. By British standards aware of the difficulties. He is

Rubens, without doubt, is immense. constituency reating the offending motorista ANOTHER STATE OFFICE spot-Kangaroo Island, 10 miles of

carries on the great Inditions with consideration.

colour, Composiitoa. Yet another Government long and 12 miles off bre-be draughtsmanship and power of Trouble is that the no-light office is to go up in London. I visits by acroplane. parking places are not marked is to bo built on the corner of

the Italian Renaissance misters, Cameron talka with easy, and the speed and energy, of Motorista do not know where John Adom Street and

Dur-homespun humour. I asked him his technique "aro natounding. .hey are. All drivers can de ham House Street, just of the how he became Speaker. "I Although rightly corridered now is consult an official list, if Strand, where the Latile Theatre guess it was because I had been principally as a painter, Rubens they know where there is qne once stood..

suspended from, the Chamber in his own day wo equally ar ask a pollecman, if there is It will coat £287,000, wili moro often than any other regarded as collector, 'one about.

680 Ministry of National member," he replied.

classiccholar and diplo Sir Harold Scott wants to

mailat He managed to under- remedy this. He wants the no- Work will start soon, is breause the debates are broad-preoccupation as an artist Ho His chief problem now comes teko many activities and light parking places properly pected to be Anished by July marked. He han suggested to

line. This is a wise siiggen.

Lion

houce stall.

1053.

The

artit. to

realised he was un, arth be chermhed..

cast. Whips find' It hard to get was lucky in his period end his Mr. Darnes, Minister of Tran-

when few work suffered no lack of up- Ministry already havs members to speak port, that the markings be on eight major offices in London, constituents are listening in. preciation amongst his contorn

using. F-signs, or an scpatale besides numerous local branches. And from cipit until ten each poraries. At an early date the evening-peak listening hours perceptive collectors and con- SPEAKER 15. FARMER Cameron has every man in the noisseurs of: the Engilant court A NEW MINK COAT "Australia'a' tall, homely, Ilouse" trying to have his say. Mrs John Bryce, rich Amệti-humorous Speaker has arrived With Cameron, is his wife,

Born In Blegen in Westphalia vån owner of the two-year-old in London for the openlup of | Margaret, on her Brst. Visit

in 1577. he was made" ac racchéres Big Dipper, is taking the now House of Command. H3 They are non-smokers. They English Knight by Charles 1. ita jew fur .cont back to the is 55-year-old Archie Cameronį never drink wipes fr SPIELA | 18302">The inward yang, at tha “United Slates. If in D might who has been Spookar hince eithes-uitliqush, fid reprisulta | ceremony was presented to him.

coal, bought in London, and last February,

bJg wine producing and by the King and futuEK.

frented

He

with a new process that Amniona z tists ESLA, more, marznię):] When not in Parilysée Kāja 1)]