POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE G. 8.: Hitler agrees with Hamlet that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. , * ♦ * Queen Adelaide of England, in 1837: "I have only one desire: to play the part of Marie Antoinette with brawwy. in the coming revolution." * » » FEARING INVASION. Innumerable Dutch houses in The Hague and other coastal zones were re- ' cently blown up by the Nazis for defence purposes. The inhabitants were , only given ten days' notice, and were 1 not allowed to remove their furniture. Since that move, the Germans, fearing invasion on that front, have .been busy building up more defences of the kind* 1 ♦ .»■■'» I • AREN'T THEY! Dear Flage,—l noticed in a recent "Post" that women were driving trams in New York. One of them is reported to have said: "One essential thing for beginners to learn is to go slow on the •curves otherwise the momentum of the tram carries it off the rails into the straet." AREN'T WOMEN WONDERFUL? MOVIETONE. * * * INFORMATION. Dear Percy Flage,—Will you pleas§ settle a bet for me by telling me iz Winston Churchill wears pilot's wings on his Air Force uniform. All success to your column. —Yours truly, K. PIERCY. Winston. Churchill has full wings o« his officer's hat, the wings which he wears with his R.A.F. uniform. * * * -. BRITISH PRODUCTION. • ■ Dear Percy Flage.—l am replying .in answer to "Ngaio's" question concerning the production of "The Thief of Bagdad." It was an Alexander Korda production released through United Artists. Work on the film was commenced in Great Britain before the out- ! break of war, but, as a result of airI raid interruptions, the set was removed to the, United States, where it was completed. It must still, however, retain its status as a British production, as it was a British firm that made the picture. R.H. Miramar. . . * * ♦ NICE WORK. Dear Flage,—Some of the old nursery, rhymes have become a bit whiskery, so have made an attempt to brush off a few of the cobwebs from some. . Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, The Power Board linesman this tree. wants to chop, So, out of it pronto, and shin down that tree Or it won't be long before you R.I.P. Jack and Jill walked up the hill For they couldn't very well bike it. With their steering wheel bent And their coupons all spent, They had to jolly well hike it. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and stopped there! POLLY GRAF. Timaru. * * * NOMENCLATURE. The name Ring Velvet (Ringmaster— Moquette) is noted in the entries foi the Debutant Stakes at the coming Wanganui Meeting. Credit appears to be due "Chanticleer," for Ring Velvet was suggested by him for the SpiralCurtain colt. One of the lots sold at the sales, National Week, was Regatta (Phaleron Bay—Competition). The naming of this one was unknown to yours truly, when Regatta was suggested for the Phaleron Bay—Going Gay filly at the Trentham sales early this year.' Reverting to the Debutant Stakes, included in the list'is an unnamed Broiefort—Beaulack filly. How would Wall Flower (lacking a beau) do for this one, although it is not particularly apt for a debutante!. •—X.