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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.
A strangler among the stars... but no one listens to Louise!
LOUISE FRASER, a British starlet,
sets off for the Film Festival ot Cannes, on the French Riviera. At Marseilles a strange woman recommends an hotel in Cannes at which to stay: the Hotel Fantastica, kept by Madame Durand.
The woman gives Louise an envelope.
which she asks her to keep till someone calls at the hotel and asks for "the package from Elsa." That evening a man attacksTM Louise in her room of the hotel and demands the envelope. She screams, and the man
escapes through o window
T
Cannes.
THIS morning. a young detective from the Surete took me to police headquarters and I spent two hours going through the dossiers of every crook who had ever committed
a crime on the Riviera.
But I could find no one
who looked even remotely like the young man with the shaven head and the eye patch.
It is quite obvious that the police think. I have lavented him. If it were not for the bruise on my neck I might even think it myself. If it were not for that
and the envelope.
TICKET
TO
CHAPTER TWO OF THE THRILLER AMONG THE STARS ON THE RIVIERA
TROUBLE!
By LEONARD MOSLEY
Even if 'terrible things has per to me, please see that she is protected. I should not like her to be harmed because of us. Look out for the police-until we can explain. My love to
Elsa," you, cheri.
Why, why, why did I not tell the police about the invalope?, 1 meant to. Just before the de- Lective arrived I took it out of my handbag and opened it. ATT was that last addition which woman on the train had instinctively made me keep said, there was a key insida silent when the police ques- And an" address
the
But what marię me hesitate to tell the police was the note that went with it. My French is not very. 2001.
I but even could gather that the message had been written by a woman in fear of her life.
"Jules,” it said, "by the time you read this note who knows what will have happened to me? I escaped them in Marseilles. but they know all about me now. They know about the key, and they know what is in the box. What they don't know is who
the key-and for her sake until she passes it to you
God don't pray
and " And then it paded. In 2 scribbled postscript: "You will see that I have given this letter 10 a young English girl. She looks fresh and innovent. I am sure she is trustworthy.
has
tioned me.
1 could not forget the look "in her eyes as she handed me the envelope as if I were her last hope in a moment of despera- could lion. Somehow I felt I not betray her.
A
53y's
young English girl that she has been attacked by a
strangler with a shaven head few hours after arriving for the
Film Festival and for no 10- parent reason
I
P
Can you blame the police for thinking that maybe I am starlet in search of a little pub- licity?
After
left police head quarters I went immediately to the great Festival Cinema on the seastront to let the author! ties there know I had arrived. I do not know whether you know how these Alm festivals
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NOW COULD I BETRAY A STRANGES IN LOVE ?
Drawing by ROBB
3
:
"You could use it to hide envelopes underneath, lady," he said. "You got an envelope you do not want?!
I was suddenly
nly afraid
man.
again and I looked round for a "way to escape from this
But he put out his. brown hand and patted me. "Don't be afraid. lady. I am not enemy. I am a friend of Elsa. I have a mess age for you,'
He gestured across the road towards the casino. "Do you have ticket for that place- where rich people gamble?"
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HOW NOT TO BE A WIDOW...
Marry a man who is five years younger than yourself
by CHAPMAN
PINCHER
ERE is a simple
H
to become
YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY
IF YOU The extra years you may expect to ilve
REACH:
MEN
WOMEN
recipe. for every
20
50
55
woman who wants
wife
30
41
·45.
and avoid being a widow marry a man five years younger than herself.
40
31
36
50
221
27
60
15
19
70
9
11%
75
7
8
80
5
6
Women are now living Ave years longer than men, on average, according to figures. just published by the British Health Ministry.
At birth a girl can reasonably expect fo live until she is past 72 The average boy has only 67 years ahead of him.
to
These figures are based on the findings of Mr B. Benjamin, chief statistician at the London General Register Office. which are published in the Health
Ministry's confidential
bulletin la doctors.
ie they must expect some years oi loneliness later co.
Inhuman treatment was meted out to William Morton, a U.S. dentist, who fathered, the use of anasthetics. Before his time patients had to brave the horrors of
amputations and
Forget it, Dr Salk! internal surgery unrelieved from
pain.
Then, in
1846 Mortor, whe
So unless women are prepared to marry younger men, and men are willing to put up with older wives, the problem of thousands of little old ladies living on their own is bound to intensify. "No," I said, "I have neve:
Men would soon realise that Well they tell me that Susan work. The film industry of euch
such a switch in social custom. "You are has country not only enters its quota Stephens and Yvonne Furneaux beer in a casino in my life."
He grinned again. are on their way here. Diana
The youth has compensations. of new productions for the com-
wise girl. It is a sure place
22 could look forward to make
of 22 sends over Dors was going but also
to lose money. But tonight you choosing a bride of 27 who petition
appearance with the stars are available from personal whal
not only be mentally their studios to give a touch of Carol Reed flim "A Kid for Two will go there and you will not make may but has had to lose money. You
mature but
would have had
had used ether for glamour to the gala premières Farthings."
painless cancel her visit owing to a call much money, indeed. You will time to save enough to help and the big parties.
tooth extractions, home.
persuaded for work at home. Eva Bartok take your passport and you start a
ticket for will buy yourself a
it in a major Such an arrangement would effective vaccine against polio operation. It worked.
surgeon to try is also on her way here.
entrance to the casino, and you be much fairer than the present myelitis is assured - whatever
Again far more prominence But nothing that Britain is are going to the gambling room sol-up. for it is partly ed cut of the director's bureausending here can compete with at midnight.
at the your detractors may be saying was given to ether's fallures of men that women now. expense and posed smiling radiantly,
Because one while the photographers went to Hollywood's invasion with Doris
have built up their lead in life- Lable "At the roulette Van Johnson, Day.
Esther
batch of your vaccine work.
Williams (all of whom
by the bar where the gamblers spar. -are
bid for heavy stakes, you will already here), and Grace Kelly
crities are condemning will and Ava Gardner, who are on see a young man. You
make yoursel? known to him." their way.
As I signed in at the Festival walk- Esther Williams
office
Where are you staying. Miss Williams?" they asked her.
tro
The third diving board
No
Festival wonder the the right as you go out of the harbour." she replied "Swim people were glad to see mem and immediately piled me with out and see me any time!"
invitations. The director look street me from his office and intro-
Meanwhile out in the
over
I SAID: "How will know which young man, to look for?"
What is the date of your
Gina Lollobrigida was posing in duced me to the photographers, the back seat of a new motor and I too, for the first time in birthday. lady?" he asked. car which the manufacturers my life, wient through that
ready have presented to her.
and exciting experience of posing for a battery of Betsy
Blair: few in from
camera-men. Hollywood, was fighting her way
horde out of a
of autograph "
of hunters. Miss Blair is one the hit girls of the Festivals, for
her they have just shown one of the American "Marty," which got
A
in HIS afternoon I changed into entries:
my sunsuit and went down tumul- to the harbour, and there joined tuous reception and now she is the stars and the delegates mobbed wherever she goes,
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aboard a sleek white yacht-and off we went, across the lovely, blue bay, to one of the islands
for a ceremonial lunch given by the Mayor of Cannes.
pastis
Have you ever drunk in the hot sun? It is a local form of anisette. I took a gulp of it and choked.
A hand touched my shoulder and a familiar voice said: "IL I were you, my dear, I would go, careful with that particular potion. It is made for fishermen with strong heads"
It was Peter Ustinov. He in- troduced me to his wife Suzanne Cloutier fremember her "Doctor in the House"?} and we strolled up the road from the sea together and sat down with Graham Greene and Peter Glenville and Dorothy Ward's talented director-son to eat great platefuls of fish soup and listen to long and impassioned speeches in French.
It was early evening the boat took us back to harbour.
when the
"March 5," I said "All right. You go to that table, you look for a young man ,who is playing roulette and backing nothing but No. 3 which is March, and No. 5, is your day. That will which be Jules. You will be there?”
come into his brown eyes.
1. hesitated and I saw anxiety
"Please. lacy, you will do this thing, otherwise someone may be killed."
YO not despair, Dr Jonas Salk. Your place in medicine as the first man to develop 3.0
manufacturer's
has
3
than to its successes. Hide- bound doctors refused to use it.
Morton because
It seems that it is largely be proved to be defective, loud medically qualified.
cans of the bustle and
was not
of working to keep their fami- the whole of your selfiess work by the time anaesthesia
strain voiced
lies in modern comfort that
SQ
They
being accidental children
vaccine.
а
had
whispering campaign for the responsible
stolen his iden had stamped him Infection of the 35 as a fraud. He died persecuted who went down with and penniless.
are accusing you of be adopted
that Morton bad
men die prematurely- many
and other from heart attacks
"stress" complaints.
Before 1900 the expectation polic after getting the faulty of life at birth was almost the
You are in good company, Dr same for both sexes-about
Salk. Such ingratitude has been years.
the early reward of almost
་་
40
every medical ploneer.
Remember Edward Jenner,
Dr. James Simpson, a Scot who developed Morton's discovery by using chloroform to relieve the pain of childbirth, met equally violent opposition.
May be tough
A survey
the English country doctor who Clergymen attacked him on Furthermore, it is mainly due invented the process of vaccina- religious grounds arguing that 10 medical
advances, made, tien in 1796? When incompetent the use of chloroform was con- almost exclusively by men, that doctors misused his methods trary to women
Bible's ruling that отне their exceptional
with disastrous results to their longevity,
women should bring forth their
i suffering Marrying younger men would patients, it was Jenner who got children ine biame.
Simpson, & mean that women would have
Before his time
smallpox tered this by pointing out that children later, but here killed 40,000 people in Britain when God made
medical opinion favours every year. change.
their
again
that
OUS
man, coun-
Eve out of Adam's rib he caused a deep Thien Jenner discovered why sleep to fall over Adam, thereby
manymas.
A survey carried out by Pro- English tessor Thomas McKeown and Dr He watched me trustfully and Charles Lowe at Birmingham saw me trying to make up my University has shown mind, and then he flashed his first
baby, gold teeth again: Fine lady, I know now you will come the casino at midnight."
lo
He slung the carpets over his shoulders and went off down the promenade and as he went he remember to bring the envelope said: "Of
"Of course, lady, you will too. It is no good to the police or to your film-star friend.
"But to Jules and Elsa, well, perhaps, it means life or death itself."
NEXT SATURDAY: Death at a casino
born
had such
while so "under out, the first operation
Denounced
10
anaesthesia. ladies had faces But it was the mothers them- a scarred by poek-marks. The selves, including Queen Victoria, to a mother cow-pex which milkmaids con- who finally helped Simpson past 30, has મ much better tracted on their hands protected win his battle." chance of escaping whooping them from the ravages of the The mothers will help you cough, measles. enteritis,, and“
too. Dr Saik, to win yours for pneumonia than a child whose far more virulent smallpox.
there
no disease which mother is in her twenties.
mothers fear more
for their There will be loud objections
children than polio. are scared to wait until ta" to my scheme from girls who Yet when Jenner began to You can be assured of their they protect people by vaccinating support and gratitude when the are 27 before anchoring a man. them with cow-pox germs he teething
of troubles But until the scientists can ex- was denounced as a beast him vaccine are over. tend the masculine life-span it self. Some people.argued that is the only way to ensure
The going may be tough for smallpox was Heaven-ordained a long time yet, but you can Joan has Darby's company until and that to prevent it was take heart that in your present the end of her time.
sacrllege.
discouragement you are sharing The official Sgures prove that Jenner withstood such abuse the experience of medicine's if women insist on early marri- and eventually triumphed.
immortals.
that
your
HE SCANDALISED THE SAHIBS
TALCOLM
MA
Singapore. MacDonakl
I will be missed in Singa-
The Ustinovs offered. me a pore. Both by the many lift in their resplendent car back who like him and by the
to my hotel-but I said I would many who choke at rather walk. I strolled comfort- ably and dreamily promenade.
down
mention of his name.
the
His departure for India after eight years 25 Commissioner- General for Southeast Asia ends.
a lamboyant era. Singapore for worse will for better or never be the same again.
WAS watching the smartly dressed throngs of men and women walking by when sûd- The one-man revolution whe
derided the
sacred dinner
denly I saw someone come across the road towards me. He jacket, snubbed the snob white was one of those
Algerian man's clubs
Asian
was
and hobnobbed society carpet sellers, dressed in Arab with clothes, that you see frequently hangover from VJ-Day. in the south coast resorts of He was
In fact, the direct France.
descendant 01 Lord Louis Mountbatten,
He came purposefully towards
Malcolm MacDonald took
me, his mouth open in a large over much
MALCOLM MacDONALD
of the machinery of civil. scrvants smile so that I could see the created for the SEAC com-servicemen.
"You want to buy Oriental carpet, lady?" he asked.
then forwards their reports to dancing with Chinese friends in London
ΙΠ practice this selcom
happens. Particularly since
the smarter cabarets,
The sahibs were scandalised, Some evenings he would drop Malcolm MacDonald disastrous in at the university and sit ly persuaded the Socialist talking polities with the government to support playboy Emperor Bao Dai in tono-
China,
Geneva
Ever since
the Commissioner-General's advice has been less and less heeded.
students until dawn,
In Bornen, the place he most loved to visit the Queen's senior representative in South- east Asia danced in his kilt for an American photographer, And
scantily-dressed Dyak women.
But it is not for his posed like any tourist with fortunate ventures into foreign affairs that Malcolm MacDonald will
In Siam he stood on his head
to amuse the King's young
be judged in Asia. He well be affectionately ウォー membered by many Asians as daughter. the first senior British
official
who proved to Certainly
be'
ܐ܂
In Cambodia he took a turn human. on the young King's saxophone..
Opening
cinema a the Arst to let his hair down-regularly-in public. Singapore recently, the Com- Many Britons have gained missioner - General obligingly deep affection for 'he East and kissed a pretty Chinese actress. and Eastern peoples," Tew have Sneered one Colonial official:
abje to show it $0 "You'd think he Was six" effectively.
politician campaigning for At a time when a "reverse l
.votes." 'colour bar is raising hatred against the white man through-
becn
two large gold teeth he wore rander in 1947. He prolonged There are at least glittering in the evening sun. beyond all expectancy the life information officers, who seldom
of an expensive little empire in produce a hand-out.
fashionable suburb of The wired-in headquarters 13 Singapore.
theoretically the co-ordinating out Asia, Malcolm MacDonald "Not votes", he said, “riend No one quite knows even centre for British policy in appeared with a hand-shake, a do with a carpet?" I said. He today what Phoenix Park 1 Souheast Asia, Ambassadors joke and a smile,
Its Nissen looked at me in sudden serious for.
I laughed. "What would I
A
Malcolm MacDonald heard bim.
ship. For Britain"
Russell Spurr
tory enggand on the back of the care in your guarmies of an "especially good chriameter,**
huts
and
ness and his eyes were watchful i concrete offices secrete 'a' host
are supposed to report there to The short grey-haired the Commissioner-General, who in shirt sleeves dared to
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