The Archive · 1938

Emma, the Girl

Herbert Wilcox and Miss Neagle are now both deep in all the books and documents relating to Emma. These two studious enthusiasts have a habit of making themselves absolute experts on whatever subject they tackle. Emma was a lady all right, but she was also quite a girl.

If I may brush up your history, she came to London from Ireland at seventeen as a nursemaid. Two years cast.

He had to "shoot" (photographically, not in the current, literal Oriental meaning) a Japanese doing something, ənd then wait till the next day to take the companion shot of the CI nese watching him, In one street he found the art department had put up posters advertise ing well-known brands of whiskey. It seemed out of keeping with the atmosphere, so he ordered them to be taken down.

Later he noticed a poster in Chinese. He called over the inter-prefer and asked him what it said. The Chinese peered at it and then started to read, "Veeskee Incidentally, the interpreter had little work to do. None of the Chi-v a word of Chinese, All {had broad Cockney accents.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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