THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

FAMOUS ACTOR'S YEARNING

Australian Press Association.

LONDON, 20th January

"1 am tired of the shingled hair sports girl, the telephone, modern dancing, and jazz music," said the famous actor, Sir Gerald dv Maurier, at a city luncheon. "I'd like to go back to the time when your daughter did not beat you at golf and tennis; when you sat with your family round the fire at homo instead of at a res-, taurant, dancing with a girl or a boy— you never know which they are these days. I'd like to hear the clop-clop j oil horses and handsoms in the streets instead of the motorist's hoot-hoot. I would like to return *ne days when ( you didn't have to dance to tunes ])laycd on tongs and coal-scuttles. I 1 "would liko to bo back in a Bond sl.rcet in which you were not allowed to walk without a top hat and a frock itctat. I propose that we form a syndioatc to find an inventor to enable us •t,'> go backward through the lovely ages instead of things of the future."