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THE, CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954.

Nathaniel Gubbins

YLVIA HAWKES,” marked him down too soon for Ex-Lauly Ashley, the altar or that he has dand- now nearing 50, rum

Gemini (May 22-June 28). can say, for it is true, that Like all Geminis you are a girl the Duchess of Windsor with many personalities. A ply calls her Darling'.”—From your men friends don't like any one of the funnier Sunday of them. And never will. newspapers.

What do I care what the world

ie thinking?

What do I care what the

world may do?

The Duchess of Windsor

me "Darling.

culis

I wouldn't mind being Afty-

ruo.

I never care when my hair is

greying.

PU Never

Afty-three

earc then

I

"Darling. +

that away

The Duchess of Windsor Catlett

TILC No mr can take from me.

I may grow aid and I may grow

cranky.

be shrivelled, I may be nity

fat.

The Duchess of Windsor called

me "Darlig." What do you.

what do p think of that? What shall I cure when I'm

nearing aluety? What shall i care when I'm

The Duchy-one?

Cancer (June 23-July 23). You may appeal to older men, but by the time

you: chann works they are too old to make home. They are you hoppy ino old even for the Home Gunad.

Leo (July 24-Aug. 23). Your planned holiday next year in France will not bring the new and exciting contacta you expect. Unless you call Ray- ing "Bon Jour" to the head walter every morning ал citing contact.

ex-

Virko (Aug. 24-Sept ZZ). Evening classes won't help you to romance. The young malhe- matician who sits next to you may be interested in figures, but yours is not one of them.

Libra (Bept. 23-Oct. 23). Ever heard of "When A panora merried his troubles begin"? You're never

likely to begin any trouble for anybody.

Scorpio 10ct. 24-Nov. 22). The postman's knock will never mean a love letter for you. I will always mean bills and no body to pay them. But you, ot

of Windsor ralled course. "Darling 17

Tu hit with you all, I've had

try

Some day st say nood-bye

Jorsver

Th

When everyone says good-bye

to me.

Bu Duchess of Windsor called me "Darling "

"Oh. prare where

victur?"

Stars And You

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 211. "Always

bridesmaid,

but never a blushing bride" might have been written about you. You'll need all that sense humour as the years roll by.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jun, 20), As I see it your only chanes of marriage is later on in life

thy probably with a bigamist.

OW Uhat Mr Cullen Mouro

NOW

Moors Gubbins, the discreted D

is no longer writing, let

astrologer, take her place with

new feature,

According to the dude of your birth here are your chant of

Romance.

Aquarius

Jan.

21-Feb.

of

19).

you

cold

Love could have come 10 from an unexpected quarter to. day except for that Bithy that makes your Buse 50

you

might

ut you

have

у

T PILATE married look one look und proposed to a healthy girl. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 19). Beware of Jealousy this week The girl next door has told your boy friend all about the married man with handle-bar moust- rehe who took you to the pic- kures

Arles

(March 20-April 20) If he cancelled that dinner appointment last night $1 war not because he was baby thegg for his merret stater,

8-

Tar

baby he sat with was certainly

me baby. Believe me, Taurus

sume

pro

(April 21-May 21), Your chances of marriage spoiled because

will you straighten a man's the and dust his shoulders with your hond after live mluntes nequaintance. He elther Thinks you bave

Gentlemen in

Retirement

ONE all the wife's shop-

ping, ok man?

I think I've got everything But the caulidower.

All the same, you'd better look at her list. They get pretty nasty If you forget something.

I never Lake алу chances Everything ticked off as I buy 11. I've done my grates and got in the cual. All I have to do now is go home and do the veget- ables for lunch.

Well, even That's better then

eating out, though I must say i enjoy a cafe lunch someumes when the wife's away.

It's always a treat to sit down to a meal you haven't

cooked yourself.

Very nice indeed,

old man,

if you're not eating in the same cafe us a Certain Person. Meaning Certain

A

Person with a big appetite, old man?

You know who nez

mean, old man. On this particular OCCR- cion i went to the cafe the day before and asked them to DWI Irish stew on the menu.

Your favourite dish, of course? Apparently 8 Certain POT- con's favourite dish, too.

Do you mean to say he got to know about If?

Naturally, old man.

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But how, old man?

By bush telegraphi, I suppose. Anyway, you know, be has nothing else to do in the morni ing but go round the town read- ing all the monus outside the hotels and cafes.- -

Last winter he caught a chlif on the liver reading menus in howling gain,

And I hope he gels another thin 'winter. But there was no menu outside the cale on this occasion, so he must have got the information from his secret agents. Unless he heard me talk- ing about it in the hotel bar the day before.

That's

more likely, old man. as I went Anyway, as soon

bo

into the

the bar before lunch went out At 12.30 p.m. sharp. I know because I was looking at the clock at the time. At one o'clock I went to the cafe, of- dered my Irish stew, and the waltress sald there was hardly

lift.

ร.

AL опе o'clock, old man? At five past, old man. But he couldn't have

the lot.

enten

cer-

I don't know. But he'd tainly eaten all the best chops. And there he was, looking half gulity and half defiant, Ilke a ent that had stolen the cream.

And what did you have, old man?

Two bones the alzo of your little finger, gravy and potatoes.

There

ought 10 be " law against it, old man,

You needn't worry about lows. Nemesis will catch up with him one day.

Digging his crave teeth, you mean?

with his

That's my fondest hope. 50 long, old man.

So long, old man.

'IT'S THE BEVANS, THEY WANT TO SPEND A WEEKEND WITH US NOW!'

THE WILD

WEST

COMES TO DEVON

S

URROUNDED

by

lush meadows and

orchards, apple

Dartmoor marches

across the Heart of Devon. It is

A

rural dreary

wilderness in the middle of plenty.

By Allan Murray

he

thing

buys it. If not, he pays

for Reason

these cautious glimmers of official interest 19 that higher meat production,

FADING STARS

Once Mae Marsh was one of Hollywood's brightest stars. The, other day she appeared on the screen opals--in a tlay pert in a big film. What has happened to the other once-fomaus stars ?

- Here is a report from a man who went to find out.

W

by GUY AUSTIN

Hollywood."

HEN 20th Century Fox recently presented "Tho Robo" at Hollywood's greatest premiere in years, there were probably not 20 people in the audience -which included many of the surviving great 'dames, of early movies who recognised an actress in the film playing a '60-second scene with Victor Mature.

She is Mae Marah, star of the famous D. W. Grifth film, "The Birth of a Nation," and for years one of the biggest names of the silent pictures,

In "The Robe," Mae Marsh received no screen credit. Today she is doing bit parts at about £10 a day when she gets the work. She is

now Mrs Lee Arms, the mother of a 33-year-old daughter and a lawyer son.

Another once-famous actress, Mae Clarke (20 years ago she was the heroine of countless movies) came into the news recently when she was given a suspended sen- tence for having forgotten to report earnings of 39 dollars (about 13), while drawing unemployment com- pensation. Today she plays bit parts in TV movies.

"Things have got me down once in a while," she says, "but I can face anything. The big drop from star to bit player is something I can accept philosophically," What about other great names of the silent movies, the survivors of Hollywood's lush and plush days?

Clara Bow, original "IT Girl," has been in a sana- torium at Santa Monica, California, for some years now. Married to former cowboy-actor Rex Bell, she is the mother of two sons, aged 19 and 15. She now Beeg no one but her family.

VAMP

Theda Bara, most famous "vamp" of the allent movies, lives quietly in Beverly Hills with her husband and former director, Liverpool-born Charles Brabin. She makes no public appearances, attends no premieres or social functions.

Recently, when a producer of TV filma wished to talk to her about a possible appearance, it was reported that she remained on one side of the screen, while her inter-

He never saw her.

1

for twenty desolate miles tiary and its sudden, swirl- und he has secured grazing preached on all sides, demands viewer sat on the other side. ing mists, he plans to start rights over 100,000 acres. The use of Britain's marginal Britain's first cattle ranch. This concession will cost land.

What he described as him ten shillings a year for that. Not only in Scotland and And here is a great deal of "ranching of a sort" began every beast he ranches on Devon, but in the Peak District in the Scottish Highlands the moor. With luck, he and large slices of the Midlands, Ask any Devonshire after the war. But that is believea he could eventually in Sussex and Somerset, on the farmer whether he could not what he has in mind. build up a herd of 1,000 Yorkshire moors and the Welsh hills, Britain has millions of make a living on the mour, In the Highlands, a million head.

for neglected cores 100 poor and I'd lay a herd of fat aire's

has been money

"They won't compete with the plough and dairy cows to a shrivelled lavished

uneropped by ilvestock. shelters for the best beef animals," he ad-

mits, "but they would supply 300 tons of beef a year from land which now raises no beef at all. What's more, they would make me a living in the way I want to make one."

on

on

cider apple he'd say no wintering cattle, and unless he happened to be levelling land to grow crops Ross Salmon.

for winter fødder.

This lanky, 81-year-old Englishman has his own answer. But he is no or- dinary farmer.

Hard Work

for only

But Ross

Crazy Gamble?

VEN In the cautious offeinl Can he succeed? Neighbour-view the Scottish Highlands ing farmers, who turn out their alone could maintain 80,000 ROSS Salmon Le no mil-sick day month in the cattle, which would raise the country's beef supplies by 30,- After wartime service as

lionaire. He expects his car, shake their heads and 000 tons a year. a Fleet Air Arm pilot he animals to roam the range chuckle sceptically.

Is Ross Salmon's Dartmoor spent five years

all in South in

weathers, finding Salmon is going ahead with his

experiment.

adventure a crazy gamble or a key

key to the unbroached pos- America as a cowboy. Now their own food except when

Main problem is to find a sibilities of Britain's marginal he intends to try

out in the ground is snow-covered. breed of animal hardy enough land? "Wait and see" is the Devon what learned Then he will feed them hay. to stay out in all weathers. Last official reaction. And Ross Sal-

he about raising beef on the "That'll be hard work for summer Salmon bought small mon has no fault to find with my cowboys," he acre farm on the edge of the that, for he agrees that Dart- tropical uplands of Vene- me and

said, "but it's real ranch-

hloor.

Here he has been cross- moor is a suff challenge to his ing, and I think it's worth being prime beef cattle ranching know-how.

Herefords and Devons with But he means business. And, On the bleak, high face trying."

straina like the Galloway and if results depend on determina- of Dartmoor, notorious for Size of the ranch? On the Highland, used to cold tion, Ross Salmon has what it

takes. ita fortress-like

peniten- Dartmoor's Crown-owned weather and sparse grazing.

zuela.

THE SYNDICATE

IS CHALLENGED

From Donald Ludlow

world from coast to coast.

at all but for the R.A.F.

Thirty-five-year-old

CELESTE HOLM has to use a

4

First Tests

days

MAE MARSH -when she starrad,

he

THEDA BARA Hant film Cran

In Venezuela he learned cow- rose punching the hard way,

In rapidly to ranch manager. primitive Indian country, four by mule ride from his FIRST tests of these experi- nearest white neighbour,

of cattle. ranched 3,000 ments will come this spring,

head Then his career came to a full when he turns out seven cows

when his light aeroplane calve on the open range.h

#top wh

a jungle airstrip. Reared by their mothers on the rashodi on moor, he belleves the cross-bred The pilot was idiled and Salmon calves will be sturdier than any ever expected to reach divilim- born and bred on dairy farms. Hon alive.

a brain haemorrhago

10

Never Busier

50

New York, fully amned F.80 Sabre let the forerunners of his herd. If and fractured skull, broken jaw

If they survive, they will be With MONGRESS is to chal- would not have been in the air they perish in an especially and smashed ribs, he was passed Cage The Syndicate,

Colonel carly or harsh winter, he will from one tribe of Indians to another before he reached a the shadowy crime cartel willard W. Millikan, of the Na try...again, that rules America's under- ilonal Air Guard (like the For Ave years he means to seaport a week later.

There his condition WAN on trying. That's the serious that the British Consul R.A.F.V.R), was rejected by koop the U.S. Air Force in 1941. So amount of time it will take to

But he for his family. The new session will be ask- he Joined the RAF.,

give top priority toaster transferred to the

and

prove me right or wrong" hd survived and went home to ed to

U.S.mys. whole flock of anti-crime Bills,

a year in a London Meanwhile, he has been train-pital. 'Air Force many of them long sought by the American Bar Association. 15 German planes.

During the war he shot down ing his own cowboys. From You will never do a full hundreds of schoolboy applicants day's work again," the doctors Among the things demanded: tougher conspiracy laws, higher

he selected twelve last summer told him. But they were wrong. to attend a camp on his farm, lax penalties on criminal ven- tures. tighter control of the typowriter in her new Broad- Thera he taught them the supply of racing information to way comody, "His and Hers," in mysteries of the lasooo and tha bookmakers.

which she appears as a play stockwhip, chowed them how to New York Republican Ken Wright who believes in sampling brand and round up cattle, how neth B. Keating gives the mood experiences of which she writes. to cure sick animals and saddle- WITH a shy, Gary Cooper-type Misi Holm took a course in break the wild Darimoor ponies grin, Ross Salmon admits he of the lawmakers. "We have

has never been busier, they will use. seen," he says, "how The touch typing for this role, Byndicate has entrenched itself

Recent appearances on

Since leaving hospital a year BRC burners, in poli-T80-year-old, blind Negro brought him

"Father of the Blues," television in legitimate

ago he has married, written two have

· programmes another

books about his South Amerleat ties, even in

1,500 composer W. C. Handy, married letters from budding Westerners, his latest ranching adventure.

settled down to experiences, and ment.

his Bi-year-old secretary, Irma Bays Ross Salmon: "I shall only Louise Logan. She has been his need three cowboys, but I want "I prefer two feat in the siir- "eyes" for 16 years.

to pick the likellest youngsters, rups to one in the grave," he Handy, wrote the "St. Louls so I shall hold another

camp till brings him in $30,000 a year Ini royalties.

rational Govern-

"It is not enough to expose this conleer from time to time and their leave the whole job the policeman. Congress

to

F

"

· saya.

How high does he rate his own chances of making a livell-

alone can make suro that crime Bluce" 10zx tune. In 1914, and it ƒ @ Interested, but non hood from ranching?

does not pay."

committal is the Ministry of Agriculture. "Clo" ahead,"",""ALN

When I neked him this, he PRESIDENT and Mrs. Esca

is experts have told England's first reminded me what people say hower are now among the HOW MUCH pollution

catuned by select few who can tune înto

car exhaust cowboy, and if you get results when a convict escapes from we shall try your methods, Dartmoor Prison: Ho won't colour TV..." get having been · Bases?

The question is being studied boise Interested in the Here- get far, the moor always wins." katalied; li je ile: While :: Hou

They may the same about

audreyman key win the car capital of Detroit by ford Hard Book Society, which

the Autonobile Masiulistarrer" | hit turned", over to,: Ealmon, a me,” he grinned "and of course ITULH MAN WHO went from Los Association. Besides, andiny, the pealeves helfer of this), famous they may be right," YEA Angwiew No New York, 1,880,anawa, the dociation wanta to breed, Tu valus de 2,100 and, if u But people and that milécting 3 hr: China in meteo What aso, be done about it," it mande up toʻilfe on the range,

about

CIARA BOW.........

The sad news is that Theda Bara is losing her sight.

Fay Wray, petite star of the film "King Kong," was formerly married to writer John Monk Saunders, now is the wife of former director Robert Riskin. She played her last film role in Small Town Girl, a musical that starred 20-year-old Jáne Powell,

Corinne Grifth, the Ava Gardner of her day, is married to George Mar- shall, millionaire owner of a baschall team. She spends her time now writing books. Colleen Moore is also mar- ried a millionaire, Mr Homer Hargraves.

to

WITNESS

Mary Miles Minter, "a second

Mary Pickford," was the central figure of Hollywood's most famous unsolved murder that of director William Desmond Taylor, found dead in 1921 with a bullet in his heart.

She was the principal witness at the inquest. The soundal onded, "hår plim cifeer.

For years Mary Miles Minter tried to come back. Some yearum, alte opened I interior decor orthop in Beverly Hils. It felled. She now pertes & dimilar shop at Laguna Beach.

Betty Bythe, the original "Queen of Sheba," is still listed in the professional directories,) still hopes for ****roles.". Pola Negri, who

became S. citizen, never appears inl public, refuses to be interviewed, but has a home with a swimming pool in Beverly Hills.

Billie Dove, star in the '208

of "The Covered Wagon" and countless other Alima, does not try to cover up her greying hair, but is still beautiful. She is married to wenitäy socialita Robert Kynaston, has a grown-up son and daughter.

Ciara "Kimball "Young in attti. - trying for parts and, appears in mals role from time to time; Laura Planta, 1: stan of the Hodgins,alent Show Boat has beers married for many" :) 7 Men Lo› produces)Irving/Amber_2}

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