Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 6

"WE DO very my Gawd, very little helps the modest motto of the Doolittle Club, formed soon after the "My Fair Lady" cricket eleven was born in Bristol 12 months ago. Modest, I say, because the club has raised some hundred pounds for local charities at both its previous "home-towns" Bristol and Birmingham. And it hopes to do the same during its stay in Liverpool. Wigan-born Colin Been. who Plays three parts in the show.

including one of Alfred Doolittle's two cronies. is the brain behind the club. "It Was." says the natural outcome of the general enthusiasm for cricket." Membership in those days was pretty simple. If You turned up to support the Vass yea were probably asked to join the club. But the priselgole remains the same a year later.

You ask to join, you must a i lmt invited --officially membiated and seconded. Tr-day thew are 47 Ebw: Bort EMI P. on stage. ld I eall peei tt a sort of father figure of the dirk I la Allred wheat I mho to Ms in roam ft Ma sitror osetalated Dort with seta. "1 you in call a pwadfatbar Not that ho was willing to divulge his wet ago.

"Call me siztyish I The ot ski Doolittle Club. don't fool authing like it." be said. Bert His wain len alit nt that doesn't mesa I like watehiag game." ha told me. "aM Teal is as excellent wicket tweet." Moan. slab Mir.

Weedy swam mailieed OA die bow. Mint Womb bt blab Wore she want Was to bar drat Now die a reisiar aaposaier awl adults is Ikea lIIIIM. Of own a good proportion of the club mombors are women. And although Cohn admit. that they may not all like cricket.

thee are, be told me. Prott4 food darts players. "we ad or two very tweets at darts a ling." Cohn said. "tollowiall cricket match's. And the eels were so good," he added, that we lam had to lend the opposition some of our members on one occasion." Thomas company ptanaor.

says that the club is a marvellous idea. It is. he rather Uka a large "Of room you rain work a company this silo and not sway without a certain amount et family Nekarlta 1940: The Year Britain Mamas SINGS. wawa, iassagar daft) singer Tad Sage alasuissa 124 6 ter Ilia lly Fair Lads oar rally aM shore a lasterlag john. telitradas Ow Mad WOMB at Ow dm.

ease eltlatall Judi Natio town anostse. amm lomat Howard Dmdas Mde Nos mow sad itamen MailWia Dour, aid Om bads. he feels sure that won't se less bane thins Set But if you want ant more information on this. said Colin with a twinkle in his eye, you ought to ego Tot as I found out a few minutes later, was Tad gala the of the gluon. When I spoke to him be seemed aim than pleased with Minion He is list organising he show's first motor rally.

Not long before he had pinned on the stage door notice board an appeal for nam if those Interested es in a ear rally next month. "Now tell me there's ass hundred per cent. rarinia from car owners! ha grinned. Not that a hundred per cent. is very is 13 many awn members were to as marshals and tia lin 4trs And we are booing tie it up with My Pair Lady' aompanz at Leeds," he added.

ao we should have quite a crowd. Perhaps this will show you somethleg of th spurt still alive 1 said Ted. adding that he didn't think it would be long before a motor club was started within the company. Said Thomas 112liott. caraway manager There are Mlll a lot of Southern people in the show, and now that they are this tar bwaY from home they are ound to stay up hers more often than they did either at Bristol or Birmingham.

"I am absolutely convinced that the camaraderie wtU continue. Tills. many of the cast Apra the North and popped home whenever they could. And true the digs were more scattered on Merseyside than they had been in the other two cities. "Jut tt would take more that this to break the spirit up AM I knew be was right.

Woke Up To The War IN 1 first days of June. the Tuners raring across Frame sad Ow rentals of our arm jotting out of Dodd Middlesex County Council aamounoad sewmassee- Nunn at a is rootthatehlag be arm wortors. ff awylkitiL in thew distant days, Is needed to remind us Ibe eamtidseee we bad to a Mum thee tide Is ft A store annonrxed test It was prepared to give prises totaling 11 guineas to the composers cd patriotse songs. Judging would take place in the store's A Southport Service in Who bad had to postpone his wedding four tams because his leave was cancelled on each accesion, finally the trip to the after on a 4114 tour pass. Livened Cessailtee Mainlined for assents tomb Trench mg Genoa "far the What a phrase is peek tha massery that is.

Subscribers to the Liverpool Philharmonic discussed whether smoking beefless should. or should not, be allowed. To avoid Importation. the Isle of Government declared a beefless week. Punters cringed at the idea that trenches should be dug across racecourses to prevent enemy planes landing on them.

Instructions were issued Yu tarn waters a emss la iludaldam For tie Isle et Kan a Concluding article in this swim on the year of LESLIE THOMAS and LAWRENCE STONE. on the best way to tackle a prachutist while armed only with a walking stick but first you had to know your enemy. The public were told: "In German panchutes. the cords connect at a point between the man's shoulder blades. The Gorda of the parachutes und by the RAY.

come down to two points, one behind each The position of the German parachutist a rather like a kitten picked up by the scruff of his Among the untatasitiesial was an i to British putting on warm during air raids and "new looking outside to on what Is happening." Had they followed the advice of a Liverpool corset expert. it would bare been a race to get dressed before the All Clear osgaiod. lie recommended deed comets, both for teckitigje anti during helping wevegiMatligeo while doing arduous war work. li iffic signals at Neared war. Brighton wars put out 31 operation at 10 tech night, although It was wryly suggested that invading tanks would hardly be likely to step at the lights.

At Iton. the fourth of June was described as "quiet only speeches and the cricket matches takia4 place. Parents, however. were requested not to forget their gas masks and to fmmobllise their ears so that German paratroops who might arrive to interrupt Smith Minor's offbreaks could not use the vehicles. Three hondays in the Isle of Wight were advertising for cuatoineh at 32s ed per week.

Vilma Italy fluidly mitered Use war as the side et the Axle, the Liverpool High ftheritre trumpeter greeted the Aube judges with the strains of Oh. Oh AMealo." Rumours of hundreds of wounded arriving at Liverpool were strongly denied. Ships being de-magnetised had been mistaken for ships of the Red Cross. The message of this scare was rammed home with wantinp of the and alarms caused by spreading rumours. You could, If you managed to hao buy for yourself a 1937 Hillman Wax.

A stomach-powder advertisement asked the populace they suffered from that tired feeling." Cagmistg were selling a Fab Cassini says Vittorio Stec "Is the ability to pow te the will for late I girl will hi for an appMetteest." To-day's Quotation Drtake the pure pleasures of the meal Wes Jones Thoama. Tradasat allenee never show, itself to se great an advantage as when it is made the real) to calumny A Jo a tr Meet Offides T. television set is now like an electric toaster." says Alfred Hitchcock. Yeur i a button aid the sane always poo up." Tsai ilaye you noticed how, even in the volume of bird-song. one can often distinguish what might be termed the -tunes of individual l' i In my Hoylake garden.

a blackbird ends his fluting with a mischievous but wings'takable wolf-whistle; and a neighbouring mistle-thrush introduces into his robust number a strange, choking sound, as though he were being throttled. A song-thrush I heard at Saughall Massie ended each phrase with what 'sounded like a plaintive call for help resembling "To me. TO me." From Anglesey. wfriend writes a a thrush hielk at late eveninlP lives a fair imitation of a complete with Monter' own sound jug jug." But many birds have peculiarities of song and there are bird dialects. also.

Cheshire chaffinches, who are beginning to warm up to their cheery song. rattle away In a different way to their relatives in the south. or north of the border (where they are called Shillles). Perhaps variations from songpatterns or catch-phrases which distinguish one particular bird from others of its kind are most noticeable in the blackbird, whose song can often be written down in musical notation. The nightingale ant of my Anglesey friend's thrush has.

I'm afraid, been performed before now by other thrushes. In the Irishphrase it is not an original imitation. IMO Glover. fr gt Beat Music Doctor to spring. of course, thepulse is entitled to quicken a little.

nc THE FINISHING TOUCH Tito meek little man entered the income tax Inspector's Gales. sat down and beamed on everyone. What can we do for you asked the inspector. Nothing, thank you." said the little man. I just wanted to meet the people I'm working tor." The Liverpool Moles trueopetey played O.

Olt "dies Italy ror Ftna boy (seen here at one of the college 'heifers) a quiet Fourth of June, Warning to parents: Don't forget your gas maks ad hammobilss your dam THE LIVERPOOL ECHO AND EVENING' EXPRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1965 The Doolittle Club Just now and again." h. but on the whole Hie monibors get on bplondidly." When does the club meet Oh, le the theetre." said Mr. ZWott. You night waiting IS go on stage, or spina up to your dressing room In the lift, and someone will 4.n You there is a club mooting." But club sews Is not only by word of mouth. The main means li.

is fact. through a special Mws- special solstice guaranteed to goo Pm mask eye pieces fogging. Yen could get replacement Mtn at special metres in Wallowa. George Formby Munrthat he had. at een accepted by eh And Prospects for the neat whaling season were reported to be uncertain.

That was year that Britain suddenly up to the fact that she was at war. sheet which appears en average once a week on the all wore bunches of said Colin (violets being Use flowers that sells outside Covent Garden in the opening scene). "Jut we thought that mare the men would feet a ttle foolish with bunches of flowers in their lapels and agreed that a little badge might solve the problem. Si douse of small badges some out out of cardboard and painted by Coin. Fixed to one wu a tiny Optic Celia showed me the new badges that he has lust finished for members.

They will reptiles the rather old one made a year ago. hat Skier ideas does Colin and his happy band have up their sleeves Thomas Elliott was doubtful on this point. I sometimes wonder what tbeyli get up to sett," he said. But they usually come and consult me first it they trvae any ideas." One idea at least that Mr. Elliott would net take kindly to.

Is the company forming a soccer team. "I Just can't think of the prospects if we pad a Mild just I magine lba show hem off with broken lege or something terrible." as he not scared of the cricket Want being Injured. I wandered. Oh. no not the way we Islay." he sawed me.

we're not exactly Lancashire County standard. You 'mow" Colin Been had admitted to me that the members hadn't yet settled down to any social activities on Merseyside. "The first will he a charity eriehet match we are running." he said to me. After ths cricket Midi Face Valise Overboard: 'Why is It so dilltsq to buy wedding gift that ha as expensive the price Safety Ns's. The ear hap replaced the horse but the driver should slay eh the wagon.

Public I Service. Safe "My husband is a wonderful provider. He is ahem offering am Mugs thsstrs mottos board Just Inside the star door. The notice hoard is the beat place to make lure everyone pavans in and out et the theatre will see it. AM the way the sheet Is written and pithead.

editor Colin Bean imam are that you would bare to be blind to miss it. Bright yellow sad Veen paint from the Unser across the "Doolittle Cklette." Aad several chatty was Items are written by Cella. When he rue out of news he likes to fill in with jokes, and many members will tell, you that Die jokes are sometimes the best part of the Gazette. When the company moved to Liverpool some of the member were intrigued by the bow on St. oire a Masten.

It made a nice en for Colins' next ties. We're told that the Ilona reclining on the plateau outside St. George's he wrote. "were originally Wended for Trafalgar tt was only when Sir Landow had finished them that It was realised that they were far tee email It DM to check first." When Coils 1442 first found biassed organising dm supportins for that vO7 Grit cricket match, it was diet they outibt to have Identification as atemibara of Use "Doclittk Cub "Someone said that ft might be a good Idea we End-Of-77se-Week Notes Liverpool, sweated Lett Holford at a dap dinner, is a little bit starved at aeaaaaaic saypert. As aa example, he pointed out that the day that predated the Tunnel does mot haws a asolesway Ilaklag ay with the Me.

Now right ha is. Cesammaketioas are the key to succeed's' living in awry sphere. yet in this age et tremeadously fact comsoneicatioss the Memeyeitie conurbadon is deprived et a proper link with lie country's motorway system. It Is absurd to suggest that the out-dated East Lancashire Seed. eves with improvements.

can MI this need. Far greater pressure by all the local authorities in the area la needed to impress this on Whitehall. This is of national a weU as of local concern. Experts are one of our greet needs, and the most elementary foresight would have shows the socessity for swift transport facilities between inaaufactstrisig areas and one of the world's greatest ports. Muck of the work a the Criminal Lew Revision Committee, whose report was published was concerned with straightening out anomalies created by the archaic distinction between felonies and misdemeanours.

The difference may at first seem to be academic, but la a good deal of procedure hinges upon It and a clarilestion, with modifications to bring procedure more into line with modern requirements, would be of considerable benefit. When law Wens is under consideration, however, there are Many matters not dealt with by this committee that would seem to need attention. For hastens, are the public satisfied with a slate of affairs In which, was revealed by recent questions In the House of Commons, people may be sentenced to gaol at private with the public knowing nothing about it To the lay mind this seems to be the negation of justice being seen to be done. There may be doubts on the practicability of a proposed Kirkby service by telephone for errant youth run rather on the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Samaritans, but with teenager aiding teenager. It deserves, however, maximum goodwill and a fair trial.

An answer to any who feel the idea is starry-eyed is that it comes from a man with 13 years' experience of social work. It could well be the ease, as he suggests, that common ground between adults and young people is continually constricting and that the teenager in trouble is much more likely to seek, and respond to, advice from his or her own age group than from elders. There could be no better ground for this experiment than Kirkby, where there are 30,000 under the age of 21. With such numbers there are bound to be far more than ordinary difilctilties from juvenile delinquency. But there is sterling material, too, among the youth of Kirkby from which the volunteers to run this 'orrice would be drawn.

The project's progress will be followed with great interest. Curly Wee and Gussie Goose Mike's back In 1963. But you may like to know What happened to else Hialrwayrat two hundred, years ago. Well, children, he was fairly, caught before he could decamp" Thou Wretcb!" cried Chartermonso's Head, "Thou'lla pay for this, thou scamp!" He wasn't on the gallows hung. I'm rather glad to state.

(A very comma punishment for felons of that date.) But he was placed Inside the stocks, with his threecornered hat. And there (without his blunderbuss( for weeks and weeks he sat! Weathor Box The Mayhem ii my fume Woth i Promise su the air. This month has pro- doled temperatures on Merseyside earlier than any May sines 1910. The temperature topped 21C (NM) at Liverpool Airport for the Aret time fa May, 1964. on the 16th and did 20 on nine subsequent days of the month, the highest reading being 25C (77?) on the 27th.

In May, 1913. the temperature did not exceed 21C until the Slat wten It rose at the Airport to 25.7 (711.31"), Miller than any reading in the whole of 1913 when the May maximum was only 17.20 (PT). In 1961 the May tampeeetare was above 2IC the 13th. There were readings over 2IC at the Airport en May 10 and May 26. INC).

and on May 13, 14 and 15 in an. May 12-12. 1953: Cool with wind. The highest tem: perature at Uverpool 1 VAirport during the week was 17.11 on the 16th. a dull day.

Eight 1 hours sun on the 15th, nine on the 17th. A high wind on the 111th. May 14-16, 1964: A wet start but becoming 1 sunny with 12 hours on 14th, nine nn the 15th. Warm on the 16th. High Water, Liverpool MAY N.M.

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TO-DAY'S CHAOTIC HOPTHEROAD ITSSIIMONCAM. need. makes At School He Learned Russian As A Hobby THE 38 old permanent basis and, of COurse, I accented." sandy haired member of glit i cootamc uoul ITV's ee treequent charge Chat TV interviewers bully team, George Ffitch, politicians. ll's always a wins my pr.ze for the fl i tter et com romise between the two. You see.

most enterprising Bark- yes force a politician ar. ing Grammar School. to appe thinks he'll do boy of 1943. In his himself any harm, he'll r-wr'. all vett spare time, he taught can as is alt the right himself Russian.

qu-'itiong and hope thl't the public will make up Its own It was a hobby that took mind. him nusb-hush service "In tees. I simper- with the Amy and alter- interviewer had the advanwards to the School of tale IPollticire.s weren't alsvonle Studies at London used to television. These University where he read days thv're vastly Hussies economic history. enced They can grew.

at Ftttth. 'born in the East great length without End and neither proud necessarily glv in an nor ashamed of the fact." answer and you can't cut seemed booked for an them off without winning academic career. Ili was sympathy for them. appointed a research He rates Harold Wilson. assists nt to Robert Ten Macleod and PA.

(now Mackenzie. now well-known Lord) sutler as the most as one of television's skilful interviewees, and -7 iFiirt he arrival at ITV 4 flitch recaila. Bob wee invited to become a newscaster. But he loved his university wait too much to lava it up. so be recommend me instead." Tor that was the Mart aseven-yeer association with ITN as an fly retrial and Political He met his wife.

Pamela. at ITN. too. New they have two children who is four, and liksoidk-old Robert and comfortable home in Kensington "In UM I decided to freelance and spent that summer workizwt alternately for the B.C's 'Gallery" and for "This Week." "I was in New York during the Cuba crisis when I was asked to join 'This Week' on a more IMO Ili seat honest. "He was the nicest politician WC' regard himself riiy as a journalist.

I I used to write a London column for the Tokio Evening News, but I've never been in Fleet street: I've got a bit of an Inferiority complex about that, to tell you the truth." He pauses ruefuliff, then adds: "Joe Cameron once remar that journalism is writ in the sand. Ig so. television is writing in the wind. "YOu just don't know how good or how bed a programme is rbtere doing it. It's only later when somebody like the Chancellor of the Inchoquer asks for a transcript, that you ang realise people are it all very seriously." Saturday Crossword No.

1 ACROSS IP That little fare es haggf 5) 11 A. teietf but mloyable. er (11-81 pin for a Jolla asianNy! (6) We (11) 141 of eas kind of mother? (I) 111 This pastime say involve turning the bed over (9) But it could be worn bg a little man (9) It Former students taking titmice la retu MI Free and easy (7i rn (I) 22 Worry about cutting out work? (4) 23 Makes circles round the This little creature gets a smack the moue slay (4) 9 A row that the unfortunate hockey player may have to put up with 31 The girl with relations gets the bird (6) 32 Quakers are subject to Itl (6) 33 Suppliers of a rich stole, perhaps (0) Si Just the place for father to have an Idol in? (I) 37 In the middle (5) One of the fruits of a dwree to being Int and lad? (11) 40 They are reopeadbk for many a polat (10) 41 Their ways are crooked, of course (I) DOWN swamp. possibly' (4) 3 One that climbs in the garden IL It may not be lowered without loss of Quality (g) 7 A determination to be on the road next winter (41 Carrying excessive weight with load never properly distributed (91 10 It may be effective at sea or to the air (6. 3) 17 Chests to present in the 10 Rivil Service (7) elatively more wet (7) 21 If going the wrong ay the conclusion will the devil (3) 24 An outstanding feature(Solidness ss last Saturday's Crossword ors Page Four).

one of the bright soots (4-5) 25 But really to front where cars are concerned 4. 2. 4) 24 No fellow feeling. this 19) 27 A grim chaos has the true blue tending to 29 In a position to make it Tuesday? Not quite (8) 30 One of the worshipful typos (8) 34 The resident isn't out with a friend ith 36 A giant among two greater figures (4) 38 Expel someone from a famous training college (4) 1 The very end in those crow for mixed drinb (9) 2 Put to fat married north, 6 3 An activity that would be todettaten In the area rate (3-7) 4 Crawled out of the ACROSS 1 Parties of players (5) I Winds (5) le Optical instrusnoot 2 Difficult Perform- Wi) 3 (3) 4 (4) 6 5 Bird (6) Cowered with blood (4) 7 Mimic (3) Business book (0) 9 (6) Postage 11 Hero's a way out I (4) 12 Quote (4) 15 (7) rofligate HI Raise (7) 20 Part of roof (5) Ladies only! 34 Eastern monetary unit 3) 15 Tov (3) Folds (5) Ile Wrap up (d) 30 ackteeth 83 Symbols 48) Bent ever 35 Heart (4) Things known (4) 39 Pampers (4) (4) 431Disit (3) 44 Sy way of (3) Crossword No. 2 liii 13 Still running (II) 14 Confess 11 Soiled (5) 17 Precious stone (3) 111 Glut (4) 31 Ornament pasoda (3) 22 Aid (4) 23 Tentative effort (5) 15 Woods I 5) irritate (3) St And not 31 21Teto of(5) Mad leaf (1) 34 Camera's part (4) 35 Fish (3) 37 Speck (4) 3111Pairy (3) ato Axial (5) 41 Be 3 verage 43 () Ittleacious 45 Caiter for letter (D) 46 Aspects 5) 47 Relaxed 15) ERSTIUDAYS Armes: 1 Hatch, 5 Algebra, 11 Room.

13 Rarer, 14 Zealous. 18 Erode, 17 Cottage. 19 21 Zyot. 22 Moe. 24 Unit.

Stir, Anger, 29 Nests. 31 Surd, 34 Gape. 35 Met, 37 Cues, 39 Saks. 41 Keenest, 43 Lapel. 44 Diluted.

47 Alive. 48 Pare, 49 Reredos, 50 Nerve. 1 Hazel. 2 Tracing, 3 Colonies, 4 Hoot. 8 Greeting.

7 Ear, 8 Broom, 9 Red. 10 Arena. 12 Mute, 15 Says, 18 Got. 20 Ounce. 23 Often, 25 Truckled.

27 Reassure. 30 Spatter. 32 Rue 33 Deed. 33 Molar, NI Tapir, 38 Snip. 40 Endue, 42 Elan, 44 Ale, 45 Eve.

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