POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Latin quotation: * Abit, excessit, evasit, erupit: He has gone, he has made off, he has escaped, he has broken away—is set for puppetry. Who?

Mussolini will just about have time to write his book of memoirs—if he keeps it short. The title will be "Nightmare Nostrum."

Ken: Hitler announces that MussoImi has been freed by German troops. Presumably this is a prelude to the announcement of a Hit. and Mus. suicide Pact- ' „ ■■■'*■''• * ■ V-:

INFORMATION.

Dear Flage,—ln answer to "Cleo an& j Figaro's" question regarding the first screening of "Pinocchio" in WellingIton. This picture was screened on I August 16, 1940, at the King's Theatra. I All the best to "Column'B.". JIMINY CRICKET. V ♦ * • ' : '■•■'. SUBURBAN WINTER, 1943.—AN IMPRESSION. Rain, Train, Tanks, Yanks, Not sunny, American money. Hey, Buddy! Cold and muddy- ■_

TOO TRUE.

Dear Flage,—l see it cabled that "the heel of Italy" is strategically important. Is this still so? I thought he had resigned.—Yours sincerely, KELL.

P.S.—Well, anyway, with the Internal Marketing Division sitting on those eggs (and they should be hatched by now), candidates can face unarmed electors this year. What are things coming to?—Kell.

NEAR THING,

The Parliamentary candidate had thundered an impassioned address at his opening meeting. "And," he shouted, "if a lie has passed my, lips this evening may a thunderbolt from the skies fall on my head." As he spoke the platform collapsed in a cloud of dust, and the orator disappeared from view. The audience sat spellbound. After a few tense moments the speaker emerged from' the wreckage. . "Gosh!" exclaimed a voice from the rear of the hall, "it's missed him."

TIDDLEWINKS. , Our Bellerive again at work. Dear Mussolini where will you go? Perhaps tiddlewinked to Tokio. , Pressed by the thumb of Badoglio. Tiddlewinks is a lovely game, He should turn west when he takes his

aim, You then may land on the British Isles, That's wnere the people are all smiles, Hit and Miss you're a lovely pair, But it's your turn now to get a scare. I advise you to just beware, Farewell Missolihi

MILMAY. • v

PLENTY. COSMETIC,

I come to te city from te pa away out in te country. Igo to all te sbjbps ii'or te ploomer for te wahine and te kids. All te shops tey say no ploomer —no laskit to hold ploomer up. I say we use te flax—he say still no ploomen I try for te shoe for te kids —no shoe right size for te kids. I try for te planket—no planket. I try for te trouser —no trouser. I think what sort of place is this—when I in middle of puzzlement one smart guy he say to me—you want te cosmetic. I sell you two, three tons of him. He show me te cosmetic. I say how you get him when you not get te ploomer, te .planket, te shoes, and all te other things my family want. He only grin and say te cosmetic she.good for te wahine; we got tons and tons of him. So51 'go back to te pa with two big crayfish arid te kit of muttonbird. Te missus she go very crook' and say you been drinking, Hori, but I tell her it fair te dink, you can ask Percy Flage. H.C.L.