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THE CHINA - MAIL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1955.
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A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
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In two French turned out, was arrested because these sentries as stoogen for PRISONS, Aols the prisoners he was giving "day passes to publicity, purposes.
But Parliament, with did not much mind prisoners so they could slip movies, to the boing prisoners. They could slip away-to the
sidered that the "fiibbertigib- outside to the races at odd races-meet their folks outside respect for the Guards,
and eco visiting hours,
even gobot" from overscas should times, or even go home to their wives. And the prison home if they cared to.
allowed to continue enjoying chlofa thought it was all right
London's scenery. 100-they could make a pocket money out of th
the But, declared
prison authorities, you could be just a
little
Prison
And the little dream Hitle
at Pont l'Eveque was shut down and the registrar sacked for let- ting the same kind of thing go
too namby-pamby with on there. tough prisoners. So last week they sucked the chiefs of the two prisona
These were bargain basement prisons. The registrar of one, it
A British Crossword Puzzle
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24
ACROSS
3 Applauding with shouts (8).
Haut (4).
9 Part of a car (8).
11 Over
Overbeuring (8).
13 Grelic (4).
15 Breathed (8).
18 Abandoned (8).
19
Muss of ice (4).
21 Expanding (8).
20 One who sends gooda abroad
(a).
20 Drill (4).
27 Controlling (8)
26
DOWN
1 Hastened (4).
2 Standard (4).
+ Warmth (4).
5 Tale of heroism (4).
6 Bury (9)
Feed greedily (6).
7 Feed
9 Mad (5).
10 Plunges (5).
12 Corpulent -(0),
14 Severo (5).
16 Send (5),
17 Exclude (5).
19 Fish (5).
20 Mature (3).
21 Du
Dope (4).
22 Spare (4).
23 Metal (4).
24 Increased in size (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Turnip, 4 Toddy,
7 Prestige, 8 Capon, 9 Stella, 11 Tapered, 13 Recited. 15 Digest,
18 Aroma, 19 Diclared, 20 Nadir, 21 Settler, Down; | Types,
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Commented War Minister Antony Head,
ex-Guards officer: "Without putting another sentry in front of the sentry. I do not know what we can do." ho had And he added that heard no complaints from
the about sentries lovelies.
Polleo had uncovered a "tariff concession" racket to prisoners varying between £20 and £40, For £40 a prisoner could get "the works": a complete release with
a forged discharge certi-
still cate
while he was reported present to the authorl- ROLLED Barrel ties.
OUT
boing
For the smaller fee, familien In the lower incono groups bargain: could still get a real convicts could have their wives as boarders and take them
out shopping for a day from time to time.
wis
Over
the
luscious
Bertha
·G. H. LEWEß-n, high-
affale... minded
hoa THE GEORGE ELIOT LET- TERS, Edited by Gordon S. Haight. Oxford University Press. Three volumes. 1366 pagos. 7 guineas.
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Wherever she went
she caused
a storm
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
wherever, she went, became the specialist in womens's all-
trented with an foo-bag applied to
centre of an emotional storm.
menta,
which ho
they spine.
to
Aged 24, she want to Devizes
translate from the German
Marion, In due Course, At Lowes A
an agnosle life of Jesus, for Dr consoled herself with G. H. Brabant, a rich rationalist,
free-thinking. went well, Marian free-living journalist whose first ali reported that "the air of De- wh
wife had presorbed him
vizes is very invigorating."
Blind wife
Dr
But although
resident slater-in-law
two children by o mutun) friend, Thornton Hunt who al- simultaneously had two children by his own wife.
GRORGE ELIOT✨..: only ( Dickens' guosad her secret.
J
been rolled out ΟΙ her Sophiatown (South Africa) home---literally. Nobody knows Beriba's second
George Eliot was famous, · Wäs name. But Bertha has lived in
socially accepted, was-but sho barrel for years-- a brickyard
had never ceased to be model of more years than the social wel-
respectability.
the That' fare people, who keep tabe on
As tolerant in his own way novelist'a insight into human And everything
HE French began the
"Brabrant na Mrs Chapman, Lewes going these things, cau remember.
was nature might have been bought dandy until a prisoner, hoping to
She has always paid her rent.
interest in had a blind wife, he also hod naturally. If Irrationally, de- at the price of a daring and modern
who get a few years allced off his
shillings EL
Eliot. They a George
pressed by the arrival of the even passionate life-it was sentence, told the authorities.
. Promptly five
and tho barrel was
pro the
possibility the Victorians psychological could see. After the doctor and second Hunt childh admire There without the ready cash always spotlessly clean. It even:
his
col- asistant had now
ferred to forget. had to do what one prisoner did had a little shelf with a religious insight of her novels.
laborated in the library for a Disillusioned but still hopeful, But there was a time when recently-escapo
invited free-thinking but a little hurt, thrust itself on the mind. The roo! pleture on L
few days, Marian was The and a high wall.
Americans collect to take an early trai, home to determined to be moral but pre- time that Lowes died and, with-
pundits Coventry. She completed
to the pared
be unconventional,
Eliot letters. The rolled her
in 17, months, George Marian and Lowes were made (aged 80) married a Mr Cross, her out, not stopping ask pronounce that her Middle- translation, unaided.
for one another. They
In were 21 years her Junior. Even whether shoeally liked life in march is the best English Ita prospective publisher, ugly, carnest and clever and
broadminded circles a barrel or not
John Chapman, whe novel of the
hand- they settled down to a respect the most
heads were shaken. Unlike most of Sophiatown's
Bome adventurous young man able and mentally productivo 02,000 Africans, however, sho century.
who had studied medicine in irr
union irregular
which first The government It starbod when Councillor wasn't Gorry.
Amids! this hubbub of London and practised it (with shocked and then won over the so moved her into a little house in
out qualifications) In Derby. Bustere subjects of
Queen George Waddington heard
Africans testimony George Eliot's
Strand, Victoria. may decide that He now lived at 142
Before the reign was many housewives saying: "I just the new area where
compatriots cook for are being housed.
Inspec- London, with
rich B don't know what to
wife ended, two of the Queen's diner."
were Susannah, pretty mistress daughters had called on the
Elizabeth
Tilley, two children woman who, by that time, was and fu
assortment of lodgers. famous as George Eliot. Marinas became ono of the lodgers.
But last weck the goVCTII- ment's men arrived and
to Harassed housewives MENU
have had SERVICE in Hull
their cooking prob- for theby
lems solved bachelor.
What
could be
casler,
nineteenth
And she spent the whole she deserves a closer he afternoon Just looking-looking on than they formerly thought, than to plan a spect- at walls that are square and not willing to give.
One round and marvelling that she men menu for euch day.
banging could even list the ingredients, can stand up without and add a few words about the her head on a barrel stave. preparation.
Soquel is that the council heve a special telephone approved menu service. Tape recorded, 1 played over and over again between 8.30 am. and noon. By that time, the housewife should have made up her mind.
la
NO
•
Bertha likes the government.
A prophet?
own
20
and
19
tended condemn-her. But Victorian age was, as we now realise, a period of turmoil and social revolution - political, and moral,
Lo
tho
a
newcomer.
Deeply religious
was
WILB
VIOLET ENDS. By Simenon. Hamish Hamilton. 10%. 6d. 285 pages. '
CIMENON has gone to live in Did she become something
Amerien, taking his talent more to Chapman? They took
with him. The Master's shrewd But the battle was not easily knack of combining auspense long walks together; went
At first, even Marian's with the opera; were found sitting won.
psychological penetration surround hand in hond. Elizabeth Till stand that what seemed to be ing, as these two America-set closest friends "falled to under- has survived the Atlantic cross- responded by Ill-tempered out-
Q really breaks, Mrs Chapman, who had adultery
most stories reveal. tolerated Elizabeth, united with high-minded affair-just sa her In the first, Belle, a girl is her against
somehow At agnosticiam
murdered in the home of a The The height of the struggle for deeply religious emotion.
respectable schoolmaster. the handsome publisher, Chap-
schoolmaster is innocent for a man went with his wife to hear
Thomas Woolner, the sculptor, ume. The Brothers Rico (story Cain carried misunderstanding to the number two) places the Mendelssohn's Elijah.
point of calling Lewes black and Abel theme in the Brooklyn
and Marion something underworld. Vintage Simenon. worn: "I will not any further lift the mantle and display the Blthy contaminations of these lodgers hideous satyrs and only bo moralists."
VIC- eminent She was torian, and the grandeur and THE WAR The war is on be solemnity of the Victorian era
tween the steeple- 15 ON
Picus jacks and
Picus Viridis Pluvius-and winning.
In three of Britain's counties Hertfordshire and Exeter,
the The Guards, the Essex-steeplejacks are on
Was ellie watch for Plcus-a green wood-
Marion Evans who COMPLAINT Queen's
in
which is jabbing holes in called herself George Bilet-a pecker wh troops, rigid
traditionally dozens of wooden church spires.true child of her complex cru? red tubles, are
Some of the spires have immovable in the face of danger
na Or was she simply a tiresomLE in female prophet, as most people Hollywood's many as a thousand holes even before
holes you could put your thought? luscious
On lovelies.
sentry them, duty they do not bat
thumb into. when the girls peer at them, or when some infant cowboy from the Middle West (with his fond mother beside him)
drawa
an сус
toy pistol from zero range.
What
Weeping
guard
And, to show he can live on both sides of the ocean at once, there is also Maigret Right and smirking Wrong. French scenes:
price.
somu
Reading between the lines of
ather the But the steeplojacks haven't been able to catch the wood her collected letters which are thought of it all can peckers at their pecking yet. copious, well edited, but rarely dismissed.
a In the end, Chapman, declar- Steeplejack Sidney Larkins belilland the student finds
During this sad period of mis- the suya
woodpeckers have disconcertingly human figure ing that he loved all three understanding, Lewes encouraged WITHIN THE TAURUS. By
which attack against coming into focus. The figure of although each in a different way Marlan to write novels, But such provocation against swung their
thoir an exc because
excessively plain, talented saw a weeping Marian into spires
Instantly successful. the Guards was all too much for church
poles are
woman with a Midland the train at Euston. He drifted George Eliot was thought to young Col. Marcus Lipton, Labour MP favourite telegraph
Evangelical being bolled In creosote. nccent, an
back out of publishing and, taking a be a clergyman. Only Dickens for Brixton. And he told Par- now
Ilke ground,
divined for medical degree at St Andrews, woodpeckers
and П passion Hament that "fubbertigibbels" And
elevated
who, set himself up in. Parle convænstation,
woman
En-
frum
2 Nosal, 3 Primate, 4 Toccup. 5 Disperse, 6 Yarned, closed. 12 Addicts, 13 Reason, 14 Trader, 16 Grant, 17 Tudor.
Hollywood
were
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
OH BROTHER! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SHINER
NOTHING ADDS TO THE BEAUTY OF A LETTER
SO MUCH AS A CHECK.
"ER-WHAT'S ITS
'NAME ?
· "BEAUTY?"
using creosote.
don't
There's Beauty Everywhere
"HMM-IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL.
CASE OF MEASLES
I EVER SAW ?
AT LEAST ITË A BEAUTIFUL FEELING TO KNOW YOU'RE AGING SLOWLY.
HONEY
WOW! THATS BEAUTIFUL JOB
12-12
COPI, 1964 IT DENIAL PRATURES
KOLE, THEƏWORLD DREITS MICKYBA,
"I DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER.
THAT
JUST YOU
POA
BEAUTIFUL
JOB
ነ።
A
were
that
BY HARRY WEINERT
"SNOW, SNOW— BEAUTIFUL SNOW!”
"
ΟΜ
SLUSH
SOME PEOPLE CAN'T SEE ANY BEAUTY IN A STORM
— NOT EVEN A SHOVELFUL.
THERE'S BEAUTY
IN BACON AND EGGS
ON A
COLD DECEMBER
MORNING.
WDS a
Lord Kinross, Murray, 181. 192 pages.
INROSS travelled along the A Black Sea coast of Turkey into what was once Armenia; took a cautious peep over the Soviet border and turned home- wards over the Anatolian- plateau. As he drove through the garden suburbs of Ankara he at the end of his journey, reflected that he had seen old nation, the Turks, acquiring thab civilisation, one tooked towards the West,
a new
nn
and was turning its portion of Asia into a Little. Europe. An out- standing travel book.
DAWN ON OUR DARK- NESS. By Emmanuel Robles, Collins, 10. 6d. 256 pages.
NORTH African muthor's novel about poverty and resignation; about passion, which may be ugly, rather then about sentiment, which can be falso. It vibrates with the drab poetry of Hving people. No teraburm here,
And the Josson? That the bot we can do in this life is behave with dignity-and courage if we con muster it. And the most we can expect in roward is human. love. It will be enough.
SELL THEM A STORY. By Jean Le Roy, Constable,
8s. 6d. 160 pages.
B
EFORE selling, you have to. write. Well acquainted with both branches of the business, Miss Le Roy writes the eminent ly friendly, practical advicer of an expert iterary agent. Given the essential minimum of talent, young writers will find them selves saved many simple-but not obvious pitfalls by reading her.
ALWAYS IN VOGUE BY Edna Woolman Chase and Ilka Chase, Gollancs. 21s. 343 pages. WHEN
· Chose!
Aret
W stopped into the luscious
Jungle of fashion Journallim, she was told, Edna, for every woman who works, a man alte dow". One man has been alter ting down fors; 60 years. Now, Ezina Chase, the struggle over once editor of Vogue, roca the-feuds and the fabions por
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