THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1951.
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THE GREAT
Mouse Mystery
-or did
elephants, once wear petticoats?
bý BERNARD WICKSTEED
IP
"D like you to consider the Great Mouse Mys. tery. Why is it that mice ure dear little things in picture books but figures of fiendish terror when they appear at the feet of fully grown women?
Look first at the problem from the viewpoint of my son Tohn, aged four. He found a mouse in the garden. It wasn't even a live mouse and i wore no clothes or boots, but he recognized it instantly and the discovery led him with joy. After a four-year lifetime of loy mice, picture-book mice, and bedtime-story mlee,
here
at last was a real one. Clasp- ing it frinly in his hand
he
We ran round in our flying!
and boots trying to catch it, and lay on the door exhausted. eventually the mouse gave up Being men we were immediate. ly sorry for the mouse, fetched a cylinder of oxygen
to revive i
and
We aimed the nozzle, at the mouse's nose and turned 011 the top. Nothing happened for half minute. Then suddenly the mouse leaped three inches in the air and dashed off to the accompaniment of loud and relieved cheers,
The nurse
HOW does " women act in a similar situa- tion? Well, not long
00
rushed in to share his excite- ago a nurse saw a mouse ment.
the floor of a hospital ward in And now he wonders what Scarborough,
were
that the There's no doubt Mouse Mystery is of great
mouse
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London Express Service
JOURNEY INTO 1984
DR GOLDMARK THROWS A NEW
antiquity. The house WEAPON INTO THE COLD WAR
the pandemonium W115 all Did she give it oxygen? You about. These women. of the bet she didn't. She squirted household, these super beings it with a cylinder of ethyl he'd been taught to respect. and who had themselves lulled chloride and anaesthetised the
of peor creature, him to sleep with stories mice.
suddenly trans- formed at the sight of one in-
creatures, to hysterical
who chrank and shrieked and leap- (Mus musculu) is an Asiatici rd all over the furniture. that come
to Europe in It was so odd that he just Stone Age, where It may have looked on at the astonishing caused as much. consternation goped. So did his in the cave as it now does in scene and sister, aged two. Anil well the kitchen. As there were no they might, because the Great domestic cats in those days It Mouse Mystery hras puzzled must have kad a wonderful maturer minds than theirs, time.
the
D
Berlin, Aug. 14. R PETER GOLD. MARK, the man who likes to play chamber music on his 'cello, quietly entered the in cold war.
men
Since then, wherever and -
Fonc but (and women) have
mice search of a better life, (and their mystery) have gone too, hidden in bags of corn, in Communists carts, in ships, and more contly in aircraft.
Men don't mind mice, children don't as a rule, millions of women all over the world can be thrown into a panic by one-a characteristic that they share, oddly enough, with elephants and chimpan
zees,
FL
tery.
The past
Mice went
today Berlin
by GEORGE CAMPEY
For most of the Iron Curtain youths this will be their first sight
for of television;
all, While thousands of young colour TV will be a novelty,
arc marching, re-singing and demonstrating un- They will and the Western der pictures of Salin, h: is approaches unusual. A little with Marshall plan propaganda, yes. in preparing a soft answer to America
parades, blonde A film satire an life under the ships of the Spaniards and fashion
cabaret stars and rhythm
thm Russian influence. But for the be Pilgrim Fathers, and one bends. Already news of Dr. most part what they will see el them named Mickey hus Goldmark's magic 1105 gone will be entertainment-comedy, become a household god.
round the Russian half of this sports ilems, quiz shows and divided city, and many of the probably Marlene Dietrich. In youths after yesterday's mat- colour. Acking have seeped "across the border on reconnaissance.
say The
duo
THIS brings us to the psychological aspect of the Great Mouse Mys Some psychologists that fears like these are
in la some group, experience
what the primeval past. But possible experience can women (though not men) have shared in the past with clephants and chimpanzees?
dread
reac-
10
and
IN March this year o
Berlin's Alm, stage and radio pioneer mouse jumped
The magic is television. To- riists have been fasting In
which out of a malibag
went out for Nordle blondes Creenlund, and set off to ex-night Berlin will became a Ty take part. An appeal
alled the radio stations, plore the Arclic. It will be city as a hundred TV setz
shop windows in the busiest es interesting to note the
thoroughfares and two cinema- executives had to fight their tions of the Eskimo women. size screens Each
way to their offices worth
corridors packed with £25,000 begin to show Black
of whom, haired girls, many remembering the needs of TV and white pletures.
with in prewar days, arrived City,
blue-painted lips.
They wear trousers.
among
mice
-BRITAIN?-NO-
Most women brushi the Mouse Mystery aside by saying they inherited their fears from During their long association
But in Berlin's White their grandmothers, who wore with mankin mice have learn- long petticoats and were afraid ed to drink. A man investiga-Dr Goldmark has his own par- of mice running up liem. But ting alcoholism elephants have never worn found they liked, most spirits ticular magic-colour TV. He has brought into Germany for petticoats. Nor
have "the"but wouldn't touch-rùm.-
£10.000 unit majority of chimpanzees.
Is this the deld in which to the first time a seek the solution of the Great shipped across from the USA. Here's an illustration of the Mouse Mystery?
Today I found Dr Goldmarit Con it And in bringing it he has different approach
years working in a pavilion which 10 cipated by precisely 33 the George. Orwell world where months ago I saw being storm- common
of ideologies is cd by Germans anxious to see tha battle fought by television. To enter our television. But the BBC Berlin today is to enter 1984, could show only standard plc- with the cathode ray tube lures. the newest weapon. of the sold
thal men that women, elephants, and and women have to nice. Dur- chimpanzees have ing the war we saw a mousu dread of being accosted by a
In the hut on the edge of. an drunken mouse? airfield, where we were await-
ing orders to fly.
-(London Express Service)
700 of the Queen Elizabeth crew will cheer Turpin
UNION JACK IN EVERY BUTTONHOLE
AT
071
least 700 Britons will be at passenger on the homeward trip, the Polo Ground, New York; Seals for the fight were book- Queen Elizabeth's September 120, chear ed by the Randolph Turpin when he de- social and athletle club, fends his world middle-weight-
Chairman Mr Jimmy James boxing title against Sugar Ray
says: "The fight will be held Robinson,
on the only day In September All will wear miniature Union when most of us will be off Jacks in their buttonholes, dutty.
་ * crew
liner of the
war,
פס
Goldmark. now carries the magle further with 题 colour camera, which a few months
JUST COINCIDENCE go was being ured to televise
Columbia and the Radio Corporation. of America, two rival TV compantes in the list
the
is
hospital operations.
scler- This Hungarian-born
colour the world's
the USA, are collaborating ide the genius. In
New York most spectacular demon laboratories of the Columbia stration ever held in Europe.
company, he invented and de- Ostensibly it has nothing to do
world's veloped the
first with the Communist Youth
service, Eleven Festival across the road" the colour TV Economic Co-operation Ad- years ago he started work on ministration, its sponsors, de, it; today his system has been scribe it as a strange coin- accepted by the US Govern- cidence that the two events ment and two-hour transmis happened together.
slans are now going out cach But they Bro making It day, with sponsors clamouring known that visitors from the to lay down their dollars. Eastern sector will be wel-
For two усага Goldmark Come, and they have imper- their
worked for an English tinently set up one of big screens facing the Russian
of sector.
pany for the development colour TV. Then Britain lost Every night for two weeks there will be four hours of him. He took his expert know- black
two ledge from the land of broad- and white pletures
the colour casting monopoly, where - transmitted by £178,000 worth advent of colour TV is as re- of equipment. A transmitter mote an eventuality as the end has been hauled to the top of the town hall from which the of meat rationing.
bell freedom Croydon-cast rings to encircle the West part of Berlin with TV.
"
The 700 Bre members of the "Every member of the crew
and a half hours Queen of the fight will take or in- Elizabeth. They have booked
block of five-dollar and 10 strument that makes a noise Bandamen will give Turpin a dollar seats,
trumpai fanfare.” The liner will.dock at New York on September 11 and sal Members
crew who Again on September. 14. have to remain on board will Randolph Turpin will be a bear the fight broaderat.
of the
NANCY
Daisies Do Tell·
DAT NEW GOIL
HMMF
LOOKS SO CUTE WITH A FLOWER IN HER HAIR":
of
HOW DO YOU LIKE THE FLOWER IN MY HAIR 3
SOMEHOW IT: 'DON'T LOOK THE SAME AS HERS
comTM
Now this 'cello-playing scler- tist with his thick glasses and
By Ernie Bushmiller
ISN'T
retiring manner is spreading his colour creed and his cara- van across Europa,
From Berlin his TV team and equipment will go to France and probably Switzer land; when his travels are over he will have travelled 15,000 miles. But Britain is not In the schedule,
Goldmark, 45, married with three children, is a man who yesterday was building tomor row. He invented the long- playing gramophone record. He talks quielly of his next big Project-colour vision on cine- ma screens which will
start,
IN STUDIO SIX
for
to
youths from the Eastern Sec- tor are gathering to listen the voice of the west.
they They are not invited, just arrive still wearing their Festival blue shirts. They come
boys la large numbers,
and girls whose average age is 14, to study the newspapers they never see. They come to sit in; the udio and ask questions that children should never ask, questions like:
"How Many labour hours does it take to provide a sult?"
the to
MPs and others answer questions, warn them not take any western papers back across the thin Red Line. But the conversations are
never broadcast.
INTO ACTION
10
I have watched their faces. in association with Hollywood, They are tense, unchildlike. in the autumn. And today, in. They are 1984 faces. Perhaps chirt-sleeves, surrounded by his Dr Goldmark, anticipating the technicians, unconvincingly Orwelllon world, can help dressed in Tyrolean outfits, he prevent it actually happening. prepares his 1984 world 1931 to see.
One thing is certain. In Ber- lin today a new phase is open- ing in the battle of ideas. A iclevision reporter does not ex- pect to become a war corres- pondent, But that is what he today. is in this divided city where television has made first appearance on the world's psychological warfare front. Perhaps Studio Six provides And zero hour
10- Is 8.30 an indication. Here at RAS, night, when Dr Goldmark and the American-sponsored radio nearly 40TM technicians go Into station, politically minded action.
Will this TV cold war
Cur effective? Will the Iron tain youth be tempted west ward to see for themselves?
be
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