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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1953.
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.... Fights,friedfish
and beer at Sadler's Wells.
Whit-Monday, 1844.
Oscure theatre in
the north of London entled Sadler's Wells" was opened by Samuel Phelps, actor, for the production of Shake- speare.
of
whole the "Nearly my brethren In the protezi fession, and many out of it. said it could not jant ' fortnight," sniti Phelps many years later. "It lust- ed 18 years. I acted 31 plays of all sorts, from
Samuel Phelps lived here.
in
aged Lear to youthful scription were at work Pericles."
That was a remarkable testimony to, the fact that [the poorer chisses of Lon-
the gallery, and pipes of all sorts and sizes were in full blast in the pit.
PARADE
Their complaint was over boltio of lemonade-a bottle of lemonade which the manage- men! wanted to substitute for a | half-pint of beer.
in
i
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS.
The haul? Just
a load of
'Now worried nutliošties plan to call in psychic rescurel experts to exorcise the malign Influence.
HOOT MON! To get into And, in the meantime, keeper YOU'RE Northern Ray Hadley hus asked for ILLITERATE
to transfer from the aquarium
3
Kussian at a cigar-buti; "I'm used to LEMONADE, "The burly men When it arrived, a
who INDEED!
roll the general
command of being the guy on the stund. I dank air. was barrels into one operations.
do:'i know why they picked of Britain's largest pub chains
me for this."' 'hot down' with pained looks' ou
their faces and threatened a 'ORRIBLE 'Bulky movie- strike,
ORSON
maker-actor Orson Wolles is readying
Rhodesia, you himself for a satirical swipe at
have to speak Europe's millionaire bohemiana.
English like an Englishman. Or the bear pit. Currently in Connes for the so it voems................ flim festival,, he has troubled Fourteen Indians faced, de- wealthy
A shipment of red golf all-year-round vaca- portation proceedings in Ndola RED
terates
on its way to are pro- GOLF balisis For years the happy draymen tiongra with carefully-dropped because
the Kingdom of Cocos, have collected a free pint at hints about a book he has just hibited immigrants.
Their lawyers recited a long
tiny island in the Indian every pub on their routes. And,
1st- of their allent's
academic vegan,
Cocoa ly now
A stop on the with swift trucks replacing Particularly disturbed are cer qualifications. Then they wound
"English English Up: horse-drays almost everywhere, tain of permanent
spoken by Quantas Empire Airways roule Is not the same as from Australia 10 London, and who somehow Asiatics and more stops on each route, a butterfly colony,
happy manage to keep a place in the English spoken by an English workmen have laid out'n nurrow drayman's lot has been
golf course alongside the 10,000- sun despite a foreign-spending one.
annunt imit of ttle more than "But an Englishman is often too runway,
White golt gulls proved use- 100 dollars.
to understand a Scoly- 'Jan. Docs that mean the less on the giaring white corul.
But a plot of beer costs any- thing up to one shilling and sixpence these days, wad the "Cans of beer, each with management felt the men could don appreciated Shake a pint measure
drink sel along with less. to For from, were carried through So they ordered the tendi- speare. Or did they? Dickens paints a grim pic- the dense crowd at all tional pint to be replaced by
and pint
bottle W ture of the conditions un stages of the tragedy..... hall
(Mixed, they make Fish was fried at the en-lemonade. Įder Phelps's regime,
trance doors, barricades of handy). oyster shells encumbered
clear wiil mel
"The play was Macbeth. It was performed amidst the pavement. the usual medley of fights, foul language, catculls, shrieks. vella, oaths. blasphemy, obscenity, ap- ples, oranges, nuts, biscuits, porter, and pipes-pipes of every de
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Across: 1 Excels, 4 Essay, 7 Pencil, Smille, 10 Onus, 12 Prolate, 15 Spure, 10 Apex, 17 Epte, 19 Unite, 20 Desecu 21 Erse. 23 Storm. 24 Casual, 25 Censes, 26 Belicad, Down, I Fanployed, 2 Confusis, 3 Lair. 5 Simalate, 6 Astute, Trend ! Spevires, 12 Prune, 13 Aper-ginger-beer, ture. 14 Expelled, 18 Pester, 22 Tale,
YOU CAME OUT OF A CINEMA AND WALKED DOWN A VERY SMALL STREET --THE HOUSES ON BOTH; SIPES HAD FACES AND PUT OUT THEIR TONGUES AT YOU
YOU RAN AND THEY FOLLOWED YOU TO YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR IT TOO PUT
OUT ITS TONGUE AT YOU?
Why not try to do a different kind turn each day?
person
THIS
DREAM MEANS: You are a very lonely person, in the cine- ma you walch moving ahadows but yourself take no part and are merely a passive speela- for The houses matting out their tongues r present the whole town, the whole communi- iy, which you feel are laughing at you, even your own people and your own home.
You are in danger of becoming PARanold:
Is the paraNOTA
vicious circle In which
through loneliness you think more and more ABOUT yourself and OF yourself; and more and more fear and suspect the motives of other- prople so that you cannot co-operate with them or enjoy their company. The less you meet eople, the more you fear people, and conse. quently the less you meet thom-and so it goes
an
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"SCORCHER
EH ?
"IT ISN'T THE HEAT--)
IT'S THE HU-
IF YOU GET TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT THE WEATHER- PUT ON EAR MUFFS.
HMM- DANDY
BREEZE
YOU CAN
O.K. BUSTER-
BAIL OUT-
D thin vigorous
ה
finished..
man.
unable
It could be that author Well: Scolsman is illiterale?" might unheedingly drop some
Nine of the men were Britain's ported; five won their cases. hint that would start Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler asking question.
VERY But even at that, most of the of English colony have nice pnt FISHY
Answers ready for such An ocension.
The draymen weren't having ony. Lemonade, indeed! You mean people DRINK the stul? Attempis rucket
un emergency They called opposition.
meeting and sent an ultimatum
the full in February, 1804, the son of a pint or we strike.
Phelps was born at Devonport to the management -
naval outfitter, and actor in 1820.
became an
The management gave in.
A
After giving up Sadler's Wells he continued to play at Drury Lane. He died on November 6,
BIC
young · Arnb. 1878, at Epping, and a pinque
who broke into was placed on his London home, BLUNDER
chalet in the 8 Canonbury Square, Islington, In 1911.
French Alps and stabbed the owner in the back, made a bla mistake.
The plaque on the wall.
The owner Wirs cartoonist Rene Pellarin, and though suffering from loss of blood, he drew a detailed sketch of s assailant. Police say identifien- tion will be a cinch.
CO-OPERATION
¡PLUS
When
Are broke out in the Grand Hotel in Vienna, a night porter, Anding the fire alarm not work- ing. panicked and ran down the street to the plush American occupied Bristol Hotel.
Kussion - requisitioned
The Americans called the fre brigade.
At
The young Englishman who lost more than twenty times his annuut foreign allowance baccarat, for instance, explains of a that he is puri owner foreign, bank and technically a
resident abroad."
<le-
EASY Bus prasengers in Ter- WAY moll, South Italy, stred
only slightly - when
а
perspiring aboard bundle.
group
with
IL
long
clambered white
It's enough to turn
what's grey goldfish happening in the 500- 3 ear-old
of crypt
Dudley Castle.
Once long-term lodging for crypt is recalelmant seris, the I ow traplen) #equariumi for Dudley
in Zoo, housed Battlemented castle.
the
But inside the sheet which covered the bundle was a corpsc. The bearers were friends und relatives of the deceased who told they must fill in forms and wait until the next day to claim the body, stole it from the locat hospital.
...
Somehow, it seems u polter- geist has pot in sumong the pisces. Spectral voices whisper
dead secrets over the PARTY A
Bhut GIRL
ond
One quizzing
newspaperman lang who tried to pin down some of water. Doors open his fellow – Britons,
up, when no one is about. gave cracked wearify: "Deor Mr
Valuable fish disappear over Butler-Everyone is beyond night. Where? The mind boggles, reproach."
Air Altering gear is being damaged.
Also in Cannes for the Alm At first angry Zoo men wrote festival, the one American jury, it oft as the doings of piscatorial man, đầm tough-guy Edward G. pilferers; set cotton-thread traps Robinson sald between chops and mounted special guards,
30-year-old shop girl went to a Weling- ton
Zealand) (New party, found there weren't enough men to go around and called the fire brigade to come along and help out,
They refused, so she called again, claiming the house was on fire. A magistrate fred her £ 17.
Mr. Chandler's formula
WHEN IN DOUBT-HAVE A MAN COME IN WITH A GUN
R
AYMOND CHANDLER
brings to the writing of thrillers the precise feeling for words expected of one who is a Quaker on both sides of the
family (father. American; mother,
How To Beat The Heat
-BUT
to
WHERE ARE YOU GOING IN "THAT WEIRD OUTFIT ?
GO IN AND GET
DRESSED
YOU SAID-
by
GEORGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
entered character "the faint dry remote amile of the killer,"
He has the Instinct for a well- sited adjective of one who made 23 a week in London writing verses
(or
the Westminster
Gazette and the Spectator. He has the socini realism of ong
He is capable of pausing who has lived in a Bloomsbury
Irish); and the interest in swift and complicated action in a story of multi-murder boarding house at 9s. 6d. a week of one who was born in to sniff "the harsh, wild (bed and breakfast).
Chicago and educated at smell of the sea," or to sur- prise on the lips of a newly
Dulwich.
BY
HARRY WEINERT
LEAVE IT TO THE SPROUTS TO
SOLVE THE BASIC PROBLEM.
YOU CAN'T WIN HE TOOK HER ADVICE
AND GOT HIMSELF SOME NICE, COOL,
SENSIBLE CLOTHES.
IF THERE IS A BREEZE
WE GET
IT
COPI, (N) BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, NAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED
LOCATE THE NEAREST FAN DANÇER. WUNG
"TRY STRATEGY WHEN A : MEMBER OF THE FAMILY MAKES
LIKE A POLAR BEAR.
THINK OF SOME OF THE NASTY, COLD, STUFF YOU HAD. TOO MUCH OF
LAST
WINTER.
THE PLUMBER
IS HERE
-5
·24
"THE THERMOMETER
IS ABOVE NINETY—
AND STILL
GOING
UP
WHEN HE TURNS ON
THE
HOT AIR -YOU GET IT
'WHY DON'T YOU PUT IT IN THE REFRIGERATOR?
DON'T WORRY—IT'S ONLY THE HEATSP
Chandler's advice to thriller- The latter quality inspires
writers, "If you stop to think, you are lost. When I doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand." Chandler is frequently in doubt during the 832 (large) pages al hia Omnibus which contains four choice specimens of his prt: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High-Window, The- Lady in the Lake,
Four Episodes (
They are four famous episodes in the life of Philip Marlowe, Chandler's favourile detective, a sardonic, stolcat personality, admirable rather than endeur- Ing. with an eye for women ("I sat down and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She w
was trouble") but with a preference for a pint of whisky. Equally at his Ciso · with
tycoons of the vice industry and with
the corrupter forms of police life, at home alike in plush
gambling clubs and his own dusty office (main items of equipment: க1 ..emply Aling system and a half-empty bottle), Marlowe is a crusader for right and virtue at a fee of 25 dollars a day, plus expensee.
Marlowe hankers after violent Aimplicity as the solution-
complex
to
problems, and has 2 reasoned dislike of mankind, i especially his own clients. With.. his gift for Ill-mannered but well-phrased repartee, he might have com out of a lost book by Hemingway.
In fact, he came out of the.
inventive brain of an ex-London Journalist, who Braduated to Action vio accountancy. in Californian oil
With Marlowany, mante
help
Chundler..
now has a 40,000-dollar house in San Diego among the wealthy people and their parasitks," who 22 are the closoly obseited and... delested, victim-villain,¤ of the world of Philip Marlowe.
Canny Criticism
Chandler says in canny, self- criticism, “As I look back 'oh my own stories, It would be absurd if I did not wish they had..been better." Adds, with the cannier really realism of the ex-accountant: "But If they had boen much better they
they would not have been
Pr's stories evolve in the
direction of quietness; subor
presentation of character. They appeal to the Intelligence with- out letting up in their war on the nerves. They are still faithful foa the good old pottern: When in doubt, à mon comes through the door with a gun in his hand, an
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