The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
DAILY NEWS LETTER
General News and Gossip From Staff Members at Home and Abroad.
By DAVID M. CHURCH.
International News Service Staff
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 Society is getting kittenish Be- cause Of restaurant licensing restric- | t1ons it is next to impossible to get anything to eat in London after mid coffee stall'' For hundreds of years the coffee sta1r' has been an 1 institution of the underworld in Lon don. It is an open-air lunch cart, I such as may be found in the side streets of any American city. In | London it has been looked upon as | the haunt of petty criminals, out casts homeless and night workers. Now. however, society has bean driven | to the coffee stall for a light lunch | on the way home from late party. F,ashd hdonable South Kensington was l shocked when coffee stall opened in 1 the Gloucester Road section, in the very heart of prim and prosy London. The shock didn't last long. however, immediately white-shirted gentle men of the district may be seen | munching sandwiches and sipping tea while they, rub shoulders with taxi l drivers and petty thieves. Yes, Lon- 1 don is getting kittenish.
 l English gourmands are cursing the l war. Of course the cursing of the war is nothing new. but the gour- l mands are venting their wrath be- | cause the war has brought about a | English oyster is a poor cousin of the American bivalve, but oysters oys- | ters to gourman and there are too l few of them. Havoc wrought about plosives during the war have caused the heavy casualty list which is re- i sponsible for the oyster famine.
 For centuries-everythin English | is centuries olds-the tipping habit has been widely practiced in England, but now the land is confronted with the possibilities of a tipping plum derbund.'' Recently a weM-known Englishman of title left his hotel without giving tips to all of the serv- ants who had waited upon him. A Few days later his wife received a formal note of protest from the head | waiter at the hotel and was warned that the case would be reported to the small tippers. It looks like. a hold-up, and it ds possible that the | hotel managers will be forced to 1 abandon the tipping Pt1actice alto gether If the public wrath continues to mount.
 The Prince of Wales is blossoming 1 out as a poultry fancier of the first water His entry of Rhode Island Reds at the Midcheshire Farmers Agricultural Show excited great ad- miTation.
 The Cockney is not as ingenious as his American cousin when it comes to the invention of col1oquialisns and
 
 phrase of considerable brightness is heard, however. and the most recent of these is ~tuo pennuf of dark that is two pennyworth of dark, the III phrase uSeA by the Cockney who wants to 6uy a ticket to movie show.
 Slowly but surely the "movies' are ensnaring London. The Enghsn metropolis is far behind any American small town in the exhibition of mo- ton pictures, for 'tktnemas' are few and far between, but they are begin ming to spring up and before long there promises to even be neighb or II hood movies. Perhaps poor thea trical season Is the cause. At any rate, two of the largest London thea tres are now being devoted entirely to motion pictures, and Charles 5. parently finding more profit in the shad ows of the silver screen than in the undr essed lady of beauty.
 Hayden Talbot, an American writer. gave English writers a thriM when he completed hds book, '"The Inside of the Irish Affair."" in less than two weeks The M,a%sa1 1ook Eains Gan aiceatyS When eo Collins was killed the publishers de- sired speedy publication, in order that it might be timely. Talbot had less than five chapters completsd later the book was on the presses; Using a corps of stenographers and dtctaphones. Talbot dictated more than ten thousand words day for in America might be sin1ulta neous, installments were wirelessed to America as they were completed Such speed amazed the Engiisn of considerable newspaper discus