A. British
Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
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War fleet (8).
9 Outspoken (5).
1
Ireland (4)
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In the immediate
vicinity (3).
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Insects (4).
13 Smashing utterly (10).
15 Rip (4).
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cheme (4).
30 Consider (10).
22 Fate (4).
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DOWN
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Puts to flight (5).
3 Change (5).
Alleviates (8).
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Container: Jor wine (8).
Inclination (4).
Extent (5).
12 30lifeption (5).
13 Drugged (5),
Apartment hoilso (8).
Worship (5).
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Brood! (0).
24 Welcome (8).
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Finished (5).
25 Headquarters (5),
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20 Valley (4).
27 Conundrum (0).
Horrify (3).
23 Cast umorous glances (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acrom: 1 Export, 4 Spill, 7 Voered. 8 Using, 10 Leas, 12 Devised, 15. Revel, 16 Mete, 17 Plea, 19 Model, 20 Session 2 Sent, 23 Gaunt, 24 Teulon, 25 Needy, 28 Sordid. Down: 1 Envelops, 2
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.
Macbeth marked the spot with a nail
UE Fize Murderer in duobeth
would persilat in walking down to the centre of the stage, and thus entirely hiding Mac- | beth from the audience,
The company were rehat STD 1 the banquet scene, and William Charles Mocready became in- censed because his repeated in- structions to the First Murbrer were ignored,
Macready called for A co- penter, o brass-healed nail and ja herrimer, "Do you sen that plank there?" suid Macrendy. "Drive the nail into that speź!”
It was alone. Tuming to the First Murderer, Moeready said: "Now you, sir, look at that soil. Course down to that spot and not an inch further, and wait there until 1
come
banquet scene.
The mom did as he was told, and Maercady was satisfied that he had overcome the difficulty.
Came The
night -- and the The First Mur- derer entered, svalised down the asi stopped suidonly
and roundi, ap- tarted round parently looking for something he had dropped.
WILLIAME CHARLES
MACREADY &
(1793-1871) ACTOR Borű kere
What the plaque says.
the
SEPTEMBER 19, 1953.
PARADE
HE WINS ON RACES.
ago. come true.
AV COLUMN OF THE PEOPLE AND PLACES
UNUSUAL ABOUT AND THINGS
•
The prison doesn't do much When Wight fell he began Lucky Luciano ACCURATE In Beilnger, New
South Wales, 25- business so, usually, there's only dighing frantically until he un- stepped out of DREAMER
friend. Then, by Naples
year-old Nandy: one guard on night duty: Dante covered his polico HE SAYS station, dangled Speed dreamed that her twin called him and complained of a the scruff of the neck, he carried Peter home and deposited him a cigarette from his Hips, smiled brother Frederick, a POW in toothache. at reporters and
When the guard troopod off on the doorstop. announced. Korea, would be released the
10 the "pribon hospital, ho Next morning, whines and They ain't got nothing on me." next day.
It was a famlilar routine, for Next morning telegram reached, oui, sprang the Dock, moans wakened the widow, Sha Jumate opened the door. Peter crawled the 67-year-old former New arrived announcing his release. paused to let a "fellow York gang boss has been
pulled
Nancy wasn't surprised. Her out pocketed the prison keys in bedragged but not much the US, dreams about Frederick always กร
headed over the border into worse for having been burled in oleven times since the
alive. sent him home four years
Palice muspect he will be back Each time, he hus
she dreamed he emerged. One night tree and grinning.:
had been wounded in the leg. at his old triclor soon. His usual
of SACKCLOTH Jerusalem's rób Now, he expects to be picked 11o had been. Then, she dream- attire in the day is a pair
running shoes. A AND ASHES ble paraded up every ume
Italian ed he had been taken prisoner, shots and the
night, he puts on a smart white
through the authorities nab an Lalo He was.
dressed in sackcloth dinner suit, pockets his leather streets American gangster. The latest
ash.co strewn case of burglar's tools and ralds with visit to police headquarters
British CULTURE
culture the lushest Willas on the Riviera, their hair as a protest against followed the arrest of paunchy,
in Milan is on
In three mpathy, he bagged the now law which orders con middle aged Vittorio Nappi, ON
of scription The more than $300,000 worth
of orthodox Jewish charged with master-minding a
holiday HOLIDAY
British Council, s. That was four years go. women. multi-million dollar smuggling rackot in American cigarettes which roads poetry and die Since then he has been serving
an eight-year term.. tributes prore to Somewhat After grilling Lucky for bewildered Italians at the Bri- hours, police gave it up
tish taxpayers' expense, has a CAN'T KEEP You can't keep STYLE
a good dog Zuzuiam's haute couture, usual.
"closed for a month" sign on its A GOOD
down. Especial- door.
for all thak, the lassies DOG DOWN
of lio ly if he has a Kraals are as fashion conscious Nobody seems to mind and
friend ilke Fips the Alsatian.
as their sophisticated sisters, the nearby British Chamber Commerce decided to try
couldn't keep The dog they
The word got around that the down in Peter the dachshund, That DID bring A
Woman of Fashion to be strictly He belongs to Frau Maria stunt, too.
middle-aged a courant wpport a bright to
striped towel, The Chamber has decided
preferably widow of Zwickel-Gladbeck,
fringed, and worn' klit style, just Western Germany. He was run below the knee. cancel its holiday plans.
over by a motor-cycle. MEANS When Prof. Auguate widow picked up the "corpse" WHAT
Piccard, the bathy- and buried it, while Fips who Iman, says had turned up for the funeral HE SAYS sphere
stay away:
he service stood by the grave how means it.
ling. Preparing for u lest Prof. Plecard ordered visitors to keep clear and instructed Itailan Navy to see to it
Up sailed Gracie Fields in she has been motor yacht,
from Tangiers.
town.
furniture and
ak
Maybe Lucky bos gone honest. But he still lives În แ mighty grand style. He keeps a sprawling, lavishly - appointed The plaque (arrowed) shows
apartment in which he displays costly
blonde where Macrendy lived.
Milanese ballet-dancer Igea tions that had crept into
Lissone, 33-year-old talk of the plays during the Restoration.
born In Macready, who was
Ask bim where the cashi 1793, was the son of an Irish comes from and he will reply actor-manager. He was drawn ulandly: "I win on races."
the Into
neting profession against his will owing to the misfortunes of his father whose LUXURY activity had been declining for
FOR A some time,
It was of the suggestion of LONDONER Mrs Siddons that he took to the luxury.
*
Yolande
Jack-
son, a 49-year- old Londoner, likes Ilving in
Since June 24
holler.
U
•
of tho
dive,
the
+
The audience began to titter, Macready stalked up to the mean, whisperett mutibly. ond heaven's name, what are grou about?"
"Sure," exclaimed the man, "abot d looking for that blessed nail of yours?”
This
of is one
the many stories told of Wüllam Charles Macready, the talented actor of the early Victorian age, who stage. Prepares. 3 Rued, 5
did much tu purge Shake- Her suggestion shocked staying at luxury hotels in The navy soaked her with fire Pastimes, 8. Linnet, 9 Melon, 11 Seasoned, 12 Demun, 13 Select-
spearean drama from the aller-Maeready sealer. His son was Geneva, Lausanne, Evlan and hoses. Prof. Piccard's dive, by ed, 14 Destined, 18 Legute. 23 Zero.
intended for the Church, he told Anneey. Sho travelled frum the way, was a flop. Mra Siddons.
one to another in luxury. To which the Queen of chauffer-driven, limousines. EYE ON A Prime Minister
replied that all the Tragedy
Ched!
of When it came to the time
Jagun to DOLLAR young man could hope for in pay the bill, she told each hotel
British Guiana is Church was an income of in turn "my
shy husband, is o
about £30 to £70 a year.
Caucasian prince who lives in miration for London. Everything will be People's Democracies, and Peace attended to."
Moscow Style-but last week he revealed that his opposition to the Big Bad Capitalists only goes so far,
YOU WERE IN THE PARK'
SITTING BY THE RIVER WHEN YOU SAW A BIG
FISH IN THE WATER
THIS
DREAM
MEANS:
the and peaceful (by All sectos quiet river), but in the depths of your subconscious mind something stirs. Primluve desires (sym- ballsed by the fish) wil you fear-grow into
and something terrifying, destructive paging when they leave your subconscious mind (the river) and emerge into your consolaus behaviour (dry land).
m-
Tamara Braids
THEN IT CHANGED INTO A GIANT HIPPOPOTAMUS WHICH SMASHED EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. EVERYONE RAN FOR DEAR
LIFE
You seem afraid of the immediate future, that something now under control may lead to an emotional explosion which will hurt others as well as yourself,
Explosioon are best
prevented; when they've come it's too late to do anything but time for a quiet duck. It might be a good
week-end, or a bottle of bromide from your doctor, or both.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE LOST POOCH YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM-EVERYBODY LOOKS ALIKE
"TWO MORE
IT'S THE
SEA AIR!
GET IN HERE BEFORE YOU GET SOAKED!
The hotellers believed her - for a time,
He made his first appearance In London at Covent Garden in September 1810, and in 1819 and 1820 he rose to first ranic with hia performances
of Richard III, Coriolanus, Harn- Then they got suspicious. let and other plays. He was Palice slapped her in gool, fed leading
at Drury actor
Lane her on vegetable soup and black from 1823 to 1830, and acted sausage,
But she's in the United States and Puris.
sticking to
He was manager of Covent story. Garden 1837-39, then went to
the Haymarket Theatre, and afterwards
managed
Drury LUCKY
Lane. He died at Cheltenham LIZARDS
in April 1873.
*
her
not
his Russia,
ad- China
It stops when he pois to
all the money thinking about
pouring Into British
The
ZUZULAND Farhlon dictator Dior rates no following in
But
The resultont rush loft shop- keepers towebless.
.
Above tho kili, by the way, dress is still optional-to be Worn or not, that is,
***** BOOK OF THE MONTH 1990-199 BY GEORGE Malcolm THOMSON
TERROR
from the sea
But, Mother, please tell me, what can these things be, That crawl up so stealthtly out of the sea?.
ALASTAIR BOCKER not invulnerable to explative DR
missiles. knows the answor
But how did they come to get anwhich Mother could hardly in the ocean depths in the first "These place? Trace the story back to
supplied.
that's
Guioma. His
government, he nounced firmly, will give "every have protection" to Canadian, Ameri- things" call them "sen its beginnings, when Phyllis and cun and British capital,
tanks" If you can think of her husband EBC commentators Dante
cigar- nothing better-are shaped cruising hear the Azores, se: a
of incandescent
across fash
thự like dissected eggs, dis-shaped objects charge a slimy substance sky and plunge into the set, A similar..! bundreds and contain living creatures Later on,
projectiles are seen by others. which resemble Jelly-fish!
The Russians are blamed. Then scienilsta observe an un- the deepér mal muddiness in
Th The more parts of the ocean.
Three Egyptian desert lizards will
"Tarzan" anjoy legacies HE USED
to them in THE OLD Spada didn't break not popular $800 a piece, left Macready was
the bank. at Monte with some of the other leading 1051 by wealthy Mrs Marion
DODCE
Carlo - but he did Kellett. actors of the day, Edmund
He broke Kean had a thorough contempt The estate is nearly wound up the next best thing.
ond the lizards will move out of the gaol.
And the ill-famed gentleman Headquarters SPCA plaque commemorating | Durban
follows, burglar of the Riviera used the Macready
affixed to his soon. Four of their was house, 45, Stanhope Street, St. left similar amounts, died in the oldest dodge in the prison world
to make his break.
for is acting.
Да
Paneras.
THE TIME BETWEEN MEALS
IS RUGGED GOING FOR
SOME.
WHY DO BATHERS THINK' RAINWATER
IS THE ONLY WATER THAT
IS WET ?
core besi dr GENERAL FEATURES
THE SEE-NYMPHS —THEY DECORATE THE BEACH ALL DAY—AND CAN SWIM LIKE FISH WHEN THE AUDIENCE
DEPARTS.
GOIP, IM WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
interim.
'Beach Briefs
FE
WONETZ
THEY
THE SEE-WOLVES CLUTTER THE BEACH ALL DAY AND ARE THERE ONLY TO SEE HOW MUCH GIRL IS BEING WORN...
WITH THE BATHING SUIT.
They crawl up out of the ocean depths and attack human habitations. They are mysterious and awful-although mercifully prosale scientists are content to say, "Mainly radiclarian ooze, but with an appreciable per- centage of diatomaceous ooze."
"Tell me, Dr Matet, do you think it is serious?"
"It doesn't keep me awake at alght, if that's what you mean.” -Earth Invaded
BY HARRY
WEINERT
YIPE
THE CHARACTER YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE GO UNDER THREE TIMES —AND COME UP TWICE.
"NOW I KNOW WHY
THEY CALL 'EM 'SANDWICHES / “
'HMM-MIGHTY NICE.
"TAN".
THE SLOW BURN -
But Dr Bocker, 1 bolder scientist, is very much awalde at night. Nor does he blame the Rusdans. His opinion, as glyen- long before the first "ihing" crawled stealthily out of the sea,. is simple and startling.
The Earth has been invaded from another planet where con- ·· ditions are moister than here... » say, Neptuno-and the invaders, having setiled comfortably. on the ocean bed, are engaged in mining for metals.
Dr Bocker proves to be right. The Kraken Walpesis a plausible excursion into
scientifle fiction on somewhat similar lines to H. G. Wolle's famous The War of the Worlds. The Kraken Wakes is easy to read: it holds the interest; It has speed; it is sufficiently ingenious,
The war between the Earth forces and the invaders
falls into clearly marked phases.. The enemy in the deep is attacked with depth bombe and hits back with a mysterious electrical device which can disintegrate a ship. Then he comes ashore and is beater off by air attack..
Finally he has the brilliant
idea of creating warm sea cure rents and directing them to wards the Poles, thus melting the Polar Ice.
More Icoborgs Ascentional increase in the number of leebergs is the first
second consequence. The vastly more serious: the aca lovel rises by more than 100ft, About four-fifths of the world's populaton have died for one Or another before pcience the answer to the vackro.
By that
time, author and alike have
exhausted the of the theme. The story has been petent, humorous and vivid. It has not possessed the apocalip tic vision which, coupled with A good reporter's eye for detail, Invested "with", such Wella's description of the fight from London In The War of the Worlds.
But
quality
it has a
is a vivacious o
com
power
of its own. za, diim nightmarn world where things crawl o stealthily out of the son," Joan Wyndham has contrived story whatch
arrótal attention Ineista on being read, to thò erai, A worthy Booge of/the-konth, making no,excomve demanda on the power of ebbcentration.
• THE KRAKEN WAKES. John Wyndham, 'Michael Joekph, 200, 64,