Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Saturday 10 May 1924, page 4


TODAY'S DIARY OF A MAN ABOUT TOWX

J^ NOVEL document— Mr. Neabitt'a annual report. Power of the PrtfM £]0ME of the old hands w«r* talking about editorial changes on the Sydney Press, recalling eornn ot the notable men ot the past.

Tne name ot John Farrell. ot the Telegraph,' cropped up, and Blinks told this yarn. 'One night John pushed his head Into the room where a leader-writing colleague was plung ing into a ream of copy paper with his pen. '\-TlefB It to-nlghtr queriod John. ?Nothing much,' was ihe answer, 'giving the straight Up to Turk.' Said Farrell-- 'Good enough (or him. It's a wonder the paper's stood him ao long.1 ' Some Men— Not All ' TJYHAT cowards and cads are aome menl Baiter, described br Sydney police, who ought to know, as the 'Prince ot Blackmail ers,' preyed mostly on women. When the wretched fellow stood before the Judge sbout to sentence him, again he Bought to shelter behind weaker Teasels. Hla miserable plea for mercy was based on the probablo Im poverishment of wife and family by his in carceration. Their fato did not enter his cal culations previously— only when his fate was In Jeopardy. There Is no room Tile creature than the man afraid to stand up to men, to take his chance with his own sex In work vr play, and not put It on to the woman. O Lovely Night I ^y£ have no night signs worth mentioning in Sydney, although a chariot with racing steeds attached was contemplated before the war. Perhaps the reason lies In the objection ot the Harbor Trust, which alleges that the 'blinking things' endanger navigation. Others antagonistic refer to a ruined skyline by day. A liondon psper said recently that a curtail

men oi animated electric light signs was con templated in tbat city. The American Way rpHE writer adds: Apparently the first seen here was the sign erected In 1912 across the front of Terry's Theatre. «bowlng two clowns throwing a ball from one to the other. Even now we have no night signs In London lo compare with those on Braodway. One, advertising a bratid ot ginger ale. carried 6000 lamps, spread over a surface aoraity feet high and sixty feet wide. Near by a maker of chewing-gum Ma2os forth bis wares at a cost of about 9000 dollars a month. Is the famous kitten which plays with a ball of string still there, and the blazing giantess who performs her nightly toilet on a skyscraper? Faihion and tke Game NOBODY following Soccer will be surprised at the decision of its controllers to for-sake the traditional light blue jersey, distinc-tive of the elect, for the more bizarre myrtle green and gold. In the change is much more than a determination to be different with a desire to be distinguished. A flaunting of fashion has glorified the game since the public began to take notice. Any official looks as if he has just stepped from a bandbox; the players parade without a button missing, a shoelace knotted untidily; the umpire is an athletic Beau Brummel; the 'goalie' Is re-mindful of a Beauty Actor, having more leisure to pose; while the line umpires are the last words in tonsorial excellence. Another season and there won't be standing room for the girls about!