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DID
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955.
He must
HAPPEN have been
BURIED ALIVE
by
Douglas Duff
Was
in 'the' early days of the Palestine mandate. I had just been given the Jeru salem Police Division and was learning fast..that —
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among other things Jeru- I did not credit word gently on not scrabbling salem Was the biggest of it, but not having the desperately as usual drawer of the world's big- least wish for a fortnight
She took me along the top of
Dam gest cranks.
Christian down on the Dead Sea, 1 Hezekiah's
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shook me.
After three months I took her to her room, went Street, up through the intricate Warten of lanes and alleys" bes thought I had met every back to the Citadel and tween the Haret el Yahud and possible crank variety. checked the patrol book. It the Armenian
quarter, by the until that afternoon when was right. Trooper Moham, most direct possible route. That
It had Trooper Hussein All show med el Deeb
HAD found three months
taken me over to gain a local ed a pretty girl into my a Frankish lady in a cauli- knowledge of that maze when I office.
flower patch on the slope was first appointed in charge of She told me one of the of Mount Ophel, about the Division. She assured me usual crack-brained tales where they have now built in the hotel-she had been too. stayed all her four days she had — said she was staying at the big basilica of St Peter scared to go out and see the. a hotel near the Holy at Cockcrow, und had usual pilgrimage and tourists' dark, she Sepulchre it was before taken her home at half sights. Yet, in the
was going straight for the Zion the great modern one's
morn Gale. past two in outside the walls built.
were ing.
the
We had dinner she was a cultured woman. the
Pair of hands. salt of the earth and did
she
a
could walk with her eyes closed
The place
WHEN DOUGLAS DUFF took
over from Gilbert Harding in What's My Line? last month, he surprised Eamonn Andrews {and viewers) by greeting o challanger from Cairo in Arabic.
This story is set in Jerusalem. Duff was a major in the Palestine Palica.
At 15 he ran away to see and was torpedoed twice in the 1914-18 war. He became commander in the RNYR
A world-wide traveller, he has written many adventure stories.
they
Drawing - by KOOLMAN,
helped a lot in the big Pilgrimage season, Over coffee I told them about the crazy lady and, to my intense surprise, one
She said we were at the place.
Venerable gentleman. seemed extremely interested, and asked me to take him to the cauld ull flower patch. When we got back to the Mosque he asked me to bring the lay down in un hour. Anything was preferable to having her go back to the
The niche nearest the foot of DC. When we came down the the stains was empty. The old
shaikh wod waiting along rubble wall was thrown down with a gang of workmen carry –
last man buried there ing shovels and mattocks. On The
was closed we went, led by her until she before the tomb
bad died halted and said we were at the had revived and
That other woman! If you ever find there is one moving into your husband's life, you can bet
12'
She Will Be Just Like You
By ROBERT GLENTON
doc-eyed look. He is so conser
many a marriage even the happiest vative that his wives even part
Jame side. one day. comes the their hair on the
Contemplate the three glamorous... spectre. The Duchesses of Leeds,
Other Woman..
The
duke hos at times married Marianne de Mall Often she is a spectre in- hazouny, My Audrey Young,
deed. A twinge of wifely jealousy, a belated husband- ly homecoming--and ghost has arrived..
the
And every wife can see clear ly in her mind what that Other Woman looks like. She is a hard-eyed blonde with sluttish tendencies.
Solomon. With rows of niches 18 inches se
and seven That is what wives say. feet deep, cas meant to hold But, adam, how wrong you a body, their ends closed with are! Uniers, at. course. you A flimsy blockage of masonry, höppen 100 be a hard-eyed But on the topmost of the bloode your mirror. There's rock-hewn stairs, right under Just look in a the slab, Jay A fumbled your husband's type. If he skeletion man who had died hadn't married you he would tearing at the stone above. almost inevitably have married
someone just se sume.
Study the facts. Two weeks $30 Linda Christian wept as she obtained a million-dollar divorce
Power. He should. actor Tyrone
uttle too, for Mi bave weat Christian is beautiful. She has a lively, amiable face, large eyes, a large and gentle mouth, a squarish chin, longish wavy hair.
His type
place the hands were showing try to claw his way out.
her.
Empty
Wes
I
and Caroline Fleur Vatcher.
How alike they are.
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They have all those tradition. al maglish looks which should rightly appeal to a dube.
Oval bright eyes, squarish facts, well-curved mouths,
petite. Those r the Duke's ingredients for beauty.
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Too trivial
CONTEMPLATE the marital career of that romantic diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, 77 days he has just divorced After a marriage which lasted.
heiress Barbara Hutton.
A supericial observer would say of his wives that the great-
city between them est similarity
14 that
ате from time to time the title of "Richest in the World"
awarded
from
For
he was married to Doris Drake too.
That bracket is too
too trivial, fo Mr Rabirusa has also been married
to Danielle Darrieux. She is certainly not an heiress. But when it comes to looks it is clear where this 101-50- Latin's heart Heg. vacity, sub noses, and a halo of glamour.
Convinced yet?
be
1
You should There is plenty more con
She
American, Christian and a foreigner 150 years later. That is my ghost-stary without a ghost.
Satisfy you? Of course not. But I
have more intelligence RUT perhaps Mr Power is a than to be * stubborn little blase about
such I just don't know. things.
firmation materialist
Madam, if you are convinced, He was married once before, White lime- WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
to actress Annabella. She was don't be smug. and
The WAY & beautiful She had.
to busband clings a lively, amiable face, round eyes
"the type of woman he marries the mouth, the chin, the wavy hair
You are not convinced? One It is more likely to underline
In Christ's day the slopes of Mount Ophel were the fashion- able part of Jesusalem, but tow day they Have outside the southern walls, stone rubble, steep, dusty deserted.
.
She put her foot on the spot to which she insisted the old Hands pointed, and the sheikh set the men digging.
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
NO
marriage formula?
doves
is not necessarily a testimonial to her grace and chazın.
punishment.
not make a what a"
Regard the really heavily
married men.
There are many classic cases
her best. I suggested she We went through, turned just
I took her back to her hotel, to short of the House of Last Sup- not quite so sure as I had been Two feet down they uncovered might like to take me Her story
was that she the place where the Hands Fer and walked down the track about knowing all the answers. at the foot of the City walls. She seemed happy, went to bed. had been two days in Jeru- abandoned her,
We turned off it where the I walked back to my quarters
barracks a salem but every time
Mount Ophel starts opposite the in
long way from closed her eyes she saw. She agreed so long as she Dung Gate."
and we were out believing her, but very anxious into the cauliflower
not to be sent to the Dead Sea, patches pair of hands, thin
back answer will be given brown-explaining that that was the where the Siloam farmers used as I certainly would be if she hands with broken bleeding only way she could see the to grow their prize vegetables. Went weeping to the DC. Next in the days of Abuna, Barte, another story in this series by
I paid a routine visit to Napoleon Arabs do not keep nails, tearing frantically at Hands. I asked if she went in She stopped on the steep slope morning
SPENCER CHAPMAN "I for any of this psychic business, and said that this was the place chat with the religious sheikhs much track of years. something immovable.
but she assured me that she'd where the Hands had vanished, at the Big Mosque, the Harain,
It was the usual type of "Did yesterday's story told her it was n doctor, never given it a thought We She looked around and found the Old Temple Area.
sepuldze a four square Hope of His Side, not a policeman she needed. started off, she saying that she handkerchief she had dropped I liked keeping on personal excavation, probably the base- J. P. W. Mallalleu She said nothing just saw the Hands
beckoning her the previous night.
friendship terms with them- ment of a palace in the days of "tually happen? Answer: YES. He has indeed fallen for the
looked a little more hope- less and shattered as though)
that was all the comfort she had expected, and went out... I put her down as just another of the Sister-| hood but she came back
next day, looking very pinched under the nostrils as though she was holding herself in with reins. She was very laut.
This time I did send an Arab plainclothes man down to her hotel - tourist- drugomans think out some fairly cunning tricks to sell | their services. He came back, reported nothing, suggested that the Frank- ish Sitt (that's Arabic for "Lady") was crazy.
Having plenty of troubles
B
趱
crenture
he is for
Never learns
a stone slab with an inscription
the family sepulchre of the "Put your tick in the space
had sheikh's family, as be
that they
above and keep this panel by ito choose from.
AM quoting the psychiatrist suspected. He said
last you until Monday....when the had lost track of it-the
Mayo Wingate, “A man,” he with Mildr Chaplin, who married, ·
Harris, Lita Grey, told me firmly, "Gnds his great- burit had been away
Paulette Goddard, and Oona est attraction in a woman who O'Neil
opposite to. bin in One thing stands out clearly, position and temperament. Chaplin has a deep faith-un- The marred by the years and the "It is to be expected that by divorce courts in the dark and women who are so alike in dis-
languorous,
the angel, faced. position should show it in the formation of their features. Even in their general physical attributes. man will uncod sciously
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There's more of this being done than ever you would guess
A NEW NOSE
Reporters in London and Paris investigate
a
1955 doctors'
dilemma
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
EAUTY-BY-SURGERY, who specialises in noses, is would then smash all the the startling trend in appealing against a fine im- bones in the middle to make medicine emphasised posed by the French Medical it thinner. of my own, I forgot about by today's Page Six picture Association.
is facing her, until next day my bell from Paris,
to British surgeons with the rang summoning me the District Commandant's question: How office. There I found my lady crying very quietly in
ugly
Then I would straighten the bridge, which is broken. To settle the dispute, the Your nose would then be all Pans civil courts
i would have to must right but
felben out the line between the decide whether a woman nose and the top of the mouth. who goes to a surgeon to "Of course, your forehead is Like hypnotism, cosmetic have her nose reshaped is too high and one side of your face £ higher then the other....".
ugly?
a corner, and the DC grim surgery has suddenly be sick or not. He was tough. I have come respectable. The num- known few tougher. But the ber
one thing he couldn't stand growing.
of..
operations
is
was a woman weeping. I
In Paris
Ex- Daily press reporter Joan Harri- Bon went to Dr Claoue's
The surgeon simply needs surgery
knew he would have my},
with
No, thanks
*
It "all tools. hours.
The
head on a churger if I did to be satisfied that the patient. She sent this re- measuring. the taking of 'pic- not get her out of his way patient's ugliness is caus- port quickly, · He told me to ing severe mental dis- alongside:- knock off all else and.
to her. I got her out
a prospective 28
the picture tures, the designing and then
came the mask.
Plaster of paris poured all The whole atmosphere over one's face is a suffocating how ugly is was rather like a busy experience. I had had enough. store. Nurses and assist No new pose for this girl. I It is legitimate to help ants running in and out -- told Dr Cianoue so, Dead a young man suffering from "which model would you very strong impulse to want to
severe anxiety symptoms like, madam No,
J
see tress..
if
But
ugly?
I hadn't done so, or if she went back, I would find myself on an extended patrol down the
Sea.
A check
He laughed. "One- needs B
To change one's imperfections. You
all that could be done to your
because his over-size ears trouble at all, madam." have not the impulse, I tell you have made him a laughing- stock since boyhood.
I asked the 50-year-old face, and you do not care. No?"
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He was darned right. I have never felt so attached to my French nose before, feldmouse or not.
But is it legitimate to doctor who has reshaped improve the ears of a girl the
of noses
I blethered reassuring-who is simply unhappy be actresses like Martine Carol,
her cause
defect is Marie Daeris, Dominique
ly to her on the way back
to her hotel humouring serious handicap for mar Wilms, and Juliet Greco a crackpot. At least she riage?
was easy to look at. ∙I
suggested we have
a gin,
and while we swallowed it)
she told me that the Handsį
An appeal
had led her out of the hotel And when a psychiatrist's
what he would do mine.
to
He looked, felt, photo- graphed, stuck plaster on it
-and said
"A nose should be at on the previous night, report states that a middle- guiding her through a maze aged actress's suicidal de- an angle of 30 degrees to of lanes and alleyways, pression stems from her the face: yours is over 40 through a great gate, down rapidly fading looks
degrees.
a steep hillside, into a patch a surgeon debaking his "I would take a piece of giant cauliflowers and skill by giving her a face off the end, remove the then left her, She had Life?
fieldmouse look you' under-
stayed there until an Arab This dilemma has reached stand?" trooper showed up and the courts in France, where "But that would then escorted her back to her Dr
Charles Cinque, the make it too blunt and hotel.
cosmetic surgeon broad. To correct this
Paris
JOHNNY HAZARD
HOW, ANDRE THE TEN-COLLAR QUESTION WHO ARE THOSE [PEOPLE THAT JUST
WENT UP IN THE ELEVATOR?:
YOUNE"LOST" TEN DOLLARS,
STEU SNAP! THEY ARE MERELY TOURISTS} PASSING THROUGH
ALGIERS!
Dr. Claoue to reporter Harrison: Your nose is 10 degrees out. of line!;
THEY AREN'T STAYING LONG, AND THEY DO NOT WISH TO SEE OR BE DISTURBED ↳ BY ANYONE! ***
THAT'S NOT MUCH INFORMATION FOR TEN BUCKS, ANDRE! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN
·THAT!"
PICTURE SENT FROM PARIS BY JOAN HARRISON,"
AH, BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE
SEEN THE TIP THEY GAVE ME.
19.TO MAKE SURE I COULDN'T DO BETTER THAN THAT?..
HOWEVER...
By Frank Robbins
SECAUSE YOU ARE MY PAL, TOO THEY ARE IN ROOMS. GON-606/ THAT'S THE TOP FLOORA LONG DROP. IF THEY THROW YOU OUT!"
associate the looks with
a
the temperament. And so he will pursue the same physical as well as mental characteristics. "If the marriage breaks because she is a scold and shrew he will marry the same type next time. Ho never learns The attraction opposites is too strong."
View the four cases I have quoted from the professional side of a psychiatrist's desk.
Tyrone Power is obviously a very tough character.
*
wives prove that, Charlie aplin is touchy and rather nervous. He has glossy in- feriority complex. So be marries women who are Arm, master- rul and strong-willed,
The Duke of Leeds is shy and inclined to be retiring. FL wives are vivacious, maternal.
Rubirosa-now there's a com- character, For him
Pleas
marriage is a battlefield. Ee
seeks out highly-strung women with pronounced temperaments, They are self-willed, violent in their emotiona
Mr
Rubirosa moment, free.
13, at the But can be predicted with all the certainty
of which modern psychiatry is capable that if he marries again
the
Wit should play! "Stormy
cases,
four men considerably more wives.
There are not at all different in their emotions
from those which funter in every suburban road Fortunately for most folk, the emotions He buried.
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'A certainty
NLY a comparative few un-
happy masculine wanderers · try the experiment of leaping from one dilemma'to another.
For every wife who speculates idly on The Other Woman the truth lies in her own reflection. For every man who wants to try again, there is the certainty that he might just as well never have left home,
As Dr Wingate told the, “It
is all rather macabre.”
„„this situation calls for a
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