THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1957.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
SOM
BRENTFORD
FROUNCED QUEENS
HOME FOOTBALL
RESULTS
SCOTTISH CUP
London, Yesterday.
NOME people keep on asking for trouble. There is one Sylvester
The following were the results of Plumlee, for instance, who, how-yesterday's Home soccer matches as
cabled by Reuter:
ever, by certain standards could, I} suppose, be called a worthy citizen, albeit a foolhardy one.
Wolves
FIRST DIVISION
4 Brentford 3 Bolton
SECOND DIVISION
Mr. Plumlee goes in for wives, Sunderland He has been doing it all his life and now, at the age of sixty-three, when most of us hope to be satis- fied with an arm-chair and a pipe and not an armful of trouble, he had taken unto himself his tenth bride.
Bury Swansea Sheffield U.
'3 Norwich
3 Burnley 0 Southampton
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Reading 20 Luton
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
4 Rochdale.
It almost makes one despair of divorce. Surely Mr. Plumlee must York have learned by now the excess of SCOTTISH CUP -(First Round drawbacks over advantages în mar- »
Replays)
*After extra time.
-Reuter.
ried life but perhaps he has just Albion Rovers 5 Leith got inte the habit of the thing- Arbroath 1 Dunfermline Whereas some of us have a habit of*Elgin City 3 King's Park saying "Well, I think just a little one, thanks," Sylvester wakes up every now and then with the realis- ation that he is wifeless, for one reason or another, and rushes into another ceremony at the nearest Registrar's office.
Those who are hesitating on the brink of matrimony should there- fore-remember Sylvester and IE- fuse to take the plunge.
Kissing will be a more popular
RUGBY RESULTS
0
London, Yesterday. The following were the result of yesterday's major friendly Rugby encounters:
Oxford University 23 Edinburgh University 3;
Navy 3 Civil Service 9.
In the only Rugby County Cham-
pastime than ever if a Belgian firm pionship encounter Kent, who are succeeds in marketing a new pro- conceded duct.
器 chance of winning
the title, beat Wiltshire by 14 points to 5.-Reuter.
TPROPELLOR CENTENARY
It is a lipstick, but what a lip- stick! It tastes like liquor and you can have it just as you like whisky, brandy and so on. aristocrat among this new type of lipstick will, I suppose, be the one flavoured with champagne. Any- way, boys, this looks to me like a cheap way of getting a bit sozzled, always providing, of course, that one can get hold of a willing fem- ale.
An Accident That Added Fame
LONDON-EXHIBIT
London, To-day.
Hold your seats, friends, and lis- ten to this cutting of part of a speech made by one Professor Paul A special exhibit of models has Schilder.
been arranged at the Science Muse- “Alice's adventures in Wonder-um in South Kensington to mark land are
bad, for children, and the centenary of the first practical Lewis Carroll in writing them -use of marine screw propulsion for consciously revealed his suppress-ships. ed cruelty, destructiveness and sa- dism."
*
By special arrangement with the cable companies, always kind to journalists, I was able to flash this opinion to the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, Alice and the Dor- monse, who were holding one of their innumerable tea parties.
A wooden screw propellor of two complete turns, with a diameter of two feet, was patented in 1836 by a farmer named Francis Smith, who demonstrated it successfully ** Waddington Canal in February one hundred years ago.
During test trips the launch struck an obstacle and part of the propellor was broken off, but to the inventor's surprise the accident The following conversation then materially increased the speed took place:
the boat.
"Fourpence," screamed the Mad
Hatter.
Models on exhibition include those of the original launch and a “Don't shout so," Said Alice, larger vessel 125 feet long to which
Smith's "don't you know that it's rude to
invention, consisting of shout at the table””
double threaded screw of a half "Threepence, mumbled the Dor-turn, was fitted mouse, and fell asleep again.
2
By way of contrast a model is
What for?" asked the March also shown of the screw propellors of the "Queen Mary," which are British now?" bawled the twenty feet in diameter.
"Don't you
Hare
Mad Hatter.
"No," said
Wireless.
Alice indignantly,
“why should we??
Hatter, with an air of triumph. "Manners, manners," mmmbled! Oh, him!" said Alice. the Dormouse and fell asleep you couldn't even again
“Course not,” mumbled the Dor
"They are trying to sell Profes-mouse, and fell asleep Bor Schilder, announced the Madi
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