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LTHOUGH I am one.
of those people who dream almost every night, I have only once had the experience of knowing at the time that' I was dreaming.
It happened 28 years ago, and the dream was one, I can never forget not simply, because it was unique, at least to me, but its startling because of
sequel.
In my dream I was one of the guests at a private dance in a
large and pleasant house which and I was was strange to me:
with sitting on the stairs
#1 equally strange girl of about my own age--which was then 19.
When I describe her as "strange I mean that I had never seen. this "gir before. There was nothing out of the ordinary about her in either looks or character. She was s nice, friendly girl
with short
curly hair on the dark side, 1 think: not unattractive,,, but long way from the category of "dream girl'
'My dream'
There we were, sitting on those unamiliar stairs, when suddenly she looked at me and said: "I don't know you, do I? Why are you in my dream?"
her.
I smiled and corrected "I'm not. You'm in my dream!"
· "OIL
exclaimed. she no!" "I'm dreaming all this." pointed at one of the dancers. "Do you know that man?"
I didn't
THE CHINA-MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1955.
THE JUNGLE
HOUSE
"It's all right," I assured her.
mauve
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Today's tale is told-
by
T. E. B. CLARKE ·.
Nua and Cry... Passport de Pimler... The Blue Samp... Lurender H111 Mea ́ve some at the Hima which have put 7. E... Clarke among the tos® Screen- writers. He has weema Yenice film festivat best-méript Nollywood Øscor fana of the few Britseɛ to do
vol and an Nemours List D&£ (in. 1952),
· Clarke, known as “Tibby," was born at Watford - Ja 1903; served with War Rossers police in London; Drus with his wife and two children (pir) and bay) in, ea Elizabethan house at Oxlad, Surrey: spends a lot at spare time at the races.
A
And then
I don't know quite what I'd saw that the bave done next if she'd nodded glass partico but she didn' wasn't there any
more. All that remairied of "the
Was
"Batty Roberts"?" she said. "I'm atrakd you've come to the
he jungle wrong house."
So that was that, house" blackened facade and sockets of van- lshed windows through which
Always there
the
the stars were shining The place had been gutted by fire.
ī locked again at Betty Roberts, and suddenly I was laughing at her stricken expres- sion. "It's all right," I assured
doesn't her. "It
matter-be- cruse it isn't real. It's just part of a dream. My dream!"
Yo! my words brought her no comfort. She stood there sadly gazing in shaking her head silence at the Tuins od "the
jungle, house."
Then I was awake in bed in my rooms at Cambridge.
Scribbled down
Because it was so unlike any other dream
ever had. I I'd
temptation conquered the turn over and go to sleep again,
to
WIS
Any-
Gradually that singular dream lost its early fascination, Now and ther where near the jungle house," I would keep an eye open to see if the place was still there. and it always was,
station. I learned that this house which had been divided into
an
He's A Match For Plotters Against Peace
By James Wickenden
London, common with Sir Winston- AROLD Macmillan in the combination of artis- might have been a tic feeling and practical Hollywood success as sense..
"English gentleman." With these qualities he was His regular features and able to create an all-time Bri- more than a heap of rubble with
that peculiarly homible moustache would be photo- tish building record by erecting blitz smell which I can describe genic. "His jewelled tie-pin more than 300,000 new houses a only as "fresh decay."
and clothes add an endear. year as Tory housing minister. That is his main achievement Later at, the local policeing air of dandyism.
to date. It is one which will He stands and sits as be the bedrock of Tary success flats, presumably since the death straight as a ramrod. He In the next election; for accord- of the white-haired Jady
ing to Nuffield College research- and faces a question, without & ers, housing was the chief issue her sister was destroyed on a
in October. 1940. flicker of ill-ease. Then he in voters' minds in the crucial night early That is to say,
14 years after smiles briefly and charming- election of 1945. my dream, for I was now 33.ly and his deep voice begins Seven people were killed in thein almost flat tones. incident.
Some instinct made me ask if I might see the casualty list.
Well, as I've said, it's an ordinary enough Trame. Hun- dreda of women must possess it of them and quite
born around must have been the same time as myself, been
Nevertheless I still go cold
Occasionally. meeting some body named Roberts. I would ask if they had a Betty is the family, It would have exciting to meet her and inquite
it, by some phenomenon, she had had a dream which was the counterpart of mine.
The war came, and I found myself 7 Police War Reserve stationed al West Hampstead, When the blitz was on, I won- dered "the jungle house" had survived:
We police were sometimes detailed for a tour of duty in a neighbouring division which had suffered
than ours more
the
I got out of bed while its details previous might; and on one of in mind and these occasions. I was sent to the were still fresh
them down in my Bayswater area.
•scribbled lecture notebook.
She ing by night with Betty Roberts had a number of red,
street in Bayswater and orange panes interspersed along a
During the next few days I where I had lived for several here and there, which on sunny
the carefully through years as a child.
days would transform the dusty went
sides newspapers, looking for a report parted plants lining its into the gorgeous tropical flora of a Bayswater fire. Rather to of some South American jungle my surprise, I found nothing that one day I should be the
"Well, I do," she said triumph- antly. "He was our tennis coach a school. That proves it's my dream, doesn't it?"
"No necessarily," I said: for now I recognised the girl who with the tennis dancing coach. "Do you know his partner-Ann Barrett?"
She didn't
"Well, I've known Ann for years!"
We sat and stared at. cach She asked my other, baled, name. It meant nothing to her. J'asked hers.
"Betty Roberts," she said. Dreams, of course, are like -the movies--they dispense with the perambulations of getting from one spot to another. The scene changed, and I was walk-
"I live at the jungle house,"
sto said.
was my
This seemed to prove con- clusively that the dream belong. ed to me. for "the jungle house" name for the house near- the Never had I conilded that child in my jungle; Ish secret to anyone,
first white man to penetrate
corner with
Then I came home for vacation, and one of the first
the
dancing
Until
They gave me a beat which took in the streets I know bes
It included the street where we used to live, and as soon as F on my night turned the corner
"the jungle house" was no more. patrol I saw that
There was no blackened
a few
After a conventional educa- tion-Eton, then an Honours degree at Oxford he went into Of course the impression the Guards in the First War. is-well, just an impression. He came out with three wounds and the plum post of ADC to For one thing he is not whose daughter he married.
Canada's Governor-General,
English. His grandfather was a Scottish crofter who worked himself to death at 43 to build the famous pub-
Although he
entered Parlia-
ment in 1924, it was not until
Second orid War that he began
the
from
W
to
when I think of the moment Ilishing house of Macmillan, saw it there, sixth on that list: His mother came
"Elizabeth Roberts, aged 32 Spencer, Indiana, USA. NOW, has T. E. B Clarke made his story up- or did it really happen to him? Make a note whether you think story No. 3 is FACT, or FICTION, and check with the answer tomorrow.
IND IT REALLY HAPPEN T No, 3; The Jungle Hohse
YES
NO
TOMORROW
Did it ally happen to...
W. Stanley Moss -nothing Sumu 1956
dream. A direct hit from an H.E. bomb had
had left
Ann I often used to stop and gaze friends I saw as I walked out of own private through the bars of the gate on our village station was the glass portico, days like that, losing myself Barrett the girl who had been excade such as I had seen in my·
in my dream with and I never passed on without envying the Betty Roberts's Tennis couch, lucky people who lived here I told Ann about it. She was I used to pass this house re-Now, in my dream, it seemed amused and, I think, rather gularly on my journeys to and that at last I had met one of pleased to hear I'd been dreim- from my first school
in Qime them.
ing of her. Square. Its gloss portico-the only one in the street-extend-
.
1 turned to tell Betty Roberts
די
"Sorry I can't return
the
ed for about ten yards from all about this--but before I cumpliment," she said. "I only the front door to a wrought could speak, a little whimpering seam to dream about spiders iron gate set between a pair of sound came from her and 1 rw What was he like, this partner high store columns,
on her face, as she stared past of mine? Attractive?" Mostly it was made of plain me along the street, a look of glass like a conservatory; but it horrified incredulity.
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"Not bad."
"Well, If ever I find myself dancing with a tennis coach, I'll ask him if he knows a Betty Roberts and I'll let you know."
Special journey
But within a year she was married to a man with business in the Far East, and I have never seen her since.
I often went to London when
on vacation, and the next time I
AMERICAN
Nice Distinction
make This mark. rising via. Parlia mentary Secre taryships to
Bike smoothing
srea
He comes, therefore, from vital war Jobs MACMILLAN a family that worked its Allied relations in the Mediter- and heading the way to the top. Yet, prob- ranean ably the quality he most de- Allied Commission Italy. tests is cleverness; he Ünder Churchill he has been and Defence, makes a nice distinction be- Maister for tween the smart fellow and naturally much of his work here the been secret Bet the civilised man. He aims has
muffled sounds that have to be the latter-a model of emerged from the miligry work discreet good taste.
show that he has been at the beim during the most profound
His sincerity and genuine changes and developments in courtesy hide a deep and war science, fearless mind, one of the most balanced and acute in Ministers Parliament,
Without the Churchillian thunder, he has much in
MILLIONAIRES
From NEWELL ROGERS
New York. And; surprisingly, there were
FORTUNE hunters. at none from Texas-home of ex- Dukere very disco ceedingly rich cil men,
The Commonwealth Primé meeting at which there were vital and sweeping defence decisions, was guided to The great extent by him. sensational British White Paper on defence was his work, and the decision for Britain to make the H-bomb was also probably largely his
During the last few years there have been constant Parliamentary whispers that; he would succeed Sir Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office- a post sufficiently great to satisfy his decently hidden but strong ambition for high place. at
SCIENTIST J. B, Rhine
opened research to try to discover the
homing secret of
pigeons TRADE Unions are already sanity-accurate flights. He is ability to make un-
Not Spectacular
4
And now that he is in the job, what kind of a Foreign Secretary
tention! Twenty-four single American women had incomes of one million making plans to demand a 30-
hour week-after they get a
the great. authority on extra- dollars or more in 1951.
guaranteed annual wage. The sensory perception meaning But, alas, the Internal Re- guaranteed wage is coming to faculties beyond the five senses will he present to the world?
believe the birds'
Certainly not a spectacular venue Service invests their the front as a great issue this Scientists
or supersensitive one. Even less than Eden does ridiculous Spring in the motor-car making clairvoyant
faculties are shared, in smaller he aspire to oratory or flashbulb names with
industry,
degree, by some human beings diplomacy. secrecy.
They are among 171 Ameri- was there I made a special jour-cans with incomes of one million ney to the street in Bayswater dollars or better in that year. where we used to live. The And, ladies, among them were Jungle house" was still very 21 bachelors. The rest much is
Hmarried men and women or remembered
and wives though of course the lapse. of husbands.
Alling about 10 years had reduced it jointly. slightly in size.
As I was sauntering past the wrought-iron gate, trying
not
to look as if the house had any
were
One New Yorker, America's special interest for me, the front top taxpayer, paid $8,500,000 door opened and a white-haired taxes. He had $4,500.009 left lady came out with a watering for himself. can. She was dealing with per-
sixth haps
potted plant before I took the plunge.
"Excuse me," I said, "does Miss Betty Roberts live here?"
her
Two Pennsylvanians, a Vir ginian and a Florida taxpayer, had incomes exceeding $5,000 000.
LIDDY
is night in Montreal.
Iris
slushy snow, аге silent. somewhere & shop
Then
window goes CRASH.
The man who threw the
A
But as a match for even the most subtle platters against Cecil B. De peace he is a perfect choice. He knows the moves that
PROFESSIONAL wiretappers have developed equipment delicate that the "tap" does not have to make contact with the FILM producer telephone wire. tap line need
Mille has started on 104 days of, well only be placed near to phone camera photography in Holly eculd lead to war. He is at the wires. Electronic rays pick up wood for his new picture of time time capable of creating the electric impulses. And the The Ten Commandments," This his own far-reaching policles.
the eavesdropper can listen with his
hooting Something longest
of an enigma gadget half a mile away.
Hollywood's his wrapped, charm, Macmillan **hedule"
Ithis top of shots me
can, however, be trusted HARRUMPHS Assistant De- Egypt with Charlton Heston
**REITY on one' tradition of Eden's fence Secretary John
B. as Moser and Yul Brynner as
straight. Scaling. Murphy, "I see no need for Pharach Anne Baxter, Parson's this." "This is a government
14
in
commission to guard GI morals. va Judith Anderson; her sef And even more significant.
Yvonne de
Carlo, Debte
zurchill "upuld never have Says Murphy: "A man's a man get and Minn "die hot ja signed without assuring him-
Ho have to go to Egypt for the self that
most in or out of the Service.
the country's doesn't become a woman chaser three month location tri vital postext to the Pre
of the wheplership way in, more or a drunk just because he Probable co enlists."
venture: eight million dollars!
equate hands,
ADAÐK
JAMES COOPER
investigates the problem of men who prefer to go to jail just to
meal-a story set in a background of bustle and boom.
-Montreal, Sunday-
sed a
the policeman to take him.: to gaol.
IF they were ex-Servicemen, the Canadian Legion could deal with them
For the gaol has warmth and food. And both are scarce for AND IF they were Mon- thousands of men who came to treaters, city refuges, would give
them a bed on the floor.
Canadą looking for work.
·
The man who threw the brick and several have done the same lately-pinpoints a disturbing problem facing boom- But
than
1 2201 Others ↑ sastre their
tamilles as the only way to gett them goodden after. "
"If we tried to look after the able-bodied as well as those who cannot work we would go broke in a month"
If they were sick, hospitals slushy from a one-foot fall of tonight are British immigrants. brick waits in the snow for could take care of them.
snow, or railway goods wagons They usually arrive with some today in Montreal, and 5,000 of There are 87,000 out of work at freezing temperature..
resources or with some Cana them, mainly immigrants, have, Han relatives as sponsoTS. The position emme to light
no unemployment pay, But Bernard Finestone, head with the report, that Canada has of the special committee of
Suggests Major Henry Telgte, 800,000 unemployed, a now post-war record and three times Montreal social services set up Salvation Army welfare officers to deal with the problem, "Immigrants should be advised the 1843 figure. This is roughly
warns: In the future British not to come between November equal to what 2,000,000 imigrants may find themselves and the end of March. It A employed would mean to
todis among the down-and-outs at Goverment
policy this time of year.
courage them" In winter, but some still arrive": Canada cilli has more people ing, bustling Montreal, biggest unemployed whose seasonal job city
in booming, bustling
did not qualify them for unworlding than ever before, but
Biya Finestone: ""Soon the Canada
employment pay, there is only her severe winters mean that He said today: "There is sun will shine, the ice will melt,
port Immigrants are trumping the the Salvation Amy hostel there are always jobless at this nothing for the honest
Terpen, and there- the year. And the working guy who is temporarily will be jobs, gu streets with nowhere to go 'and: Today, as usual, the queue time nothing to eat because they are formed. The doors opened at 5 bigger her growth, the bigger out of a 100 if he not unemployment worked 26 weeks to quality for
"But
igranta winter fitable and willing to work. pm. Five minutes later the the servonial
"now at its peak. IF they were
bould be warned that the ex-criminals, hostel was full:
unemployment benefits the John Howard Society 'world' For those who were too late Very few, if any, of the home- "Some have hurled bricks streets of Canada, are lined wit help them,
there was only the streeta, less and lumgry in Montreal through windows to get a meat snowpinot: uranium,
fain.
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