LOOKING BACKWARD.

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 January 1929, Page 5

LOOKING BACKWARD.

OLD BRIGADE’S REGRET.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, January 26

“I am tired of the shingled hair, the sports girl, the telephone, modern dancing and jazz music,” said the famous actor, Sir Gerald Du 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 home, instead of at a restaurant, dancing with a girl or a boy—yon never know what they are these days! I'd like to hear the clop-clop of horses and hansoms in the streets, instead of the motorist’s “hoot, hoot!” I would like to return to the days when you didn’t have to dance to tunes played on tongs and coal scuttles. I would like to be back in the Bond Street in which you were not allowed to walk without a top hat and a frock coat. I propose that we form a syndicate to find an inventor to enable us to go backward through the lovely ages, instead of going through things of the future.”