POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
COYAL ASCOT
CRÉCHE
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And may cut MY mummy's dress 15 more expensive than Lady Docker'i!!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1955.
PARADE
LOST PRINCE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
VITAL STATISTICS
have Included cigarettes with the NATO com- Among the ghosts other went piratical and became customers
of Arable, and shades lament- Kidd The Duke of Marlborough Lawrence
Fick! pass
on them and no design tho
son, and name, ing
Hoats went to Marshal Montgomery's
"The Turks Bond them changing bagged one.
Lord Prince Albert' names you have to think hard film and stage stars.
to me by the thousand," face of London. must be about the unhappiest. about like Culpepper, Middleton,
Ismay, said. "Specially made to The London Street List, Bulmer, Hoadly and Bright,
promote the NATO allance."
Soveral guests were also wear- published last week, which lists
For ail ber slimming pills, ing NATO tes-dark blue with
compass in silver, dlets and exer- ti
plates. still not as slim as mother was Pi thirty years ago. She la con- waist aid bust, and to top it ali Gif her feet are substantially. bigger than her mother's.
And
the changes made in street names The London County Counell, since 1920, reveals that the Lon- of course, intends no alight. All don County Council has dealt in the Interests of etheleney, cises, the modern British girl is sandwiches were served on NATO hurshly
with Queen Victoria's they insist, Confort.
the
That' be the day when the
one's cigarette
case and
But try and get Culpepper Among the host of Alberls on, over is the cabble after a pub siderably broader in the hips, chie thing to do will be to p}
Terrace crawl. is only Albert Mews (an unregal title....), Albert Drive, and Albert Gurdens remain.
Others have become anything and nearly everything under the One becane Alberta. An-
sun,
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THEY LEFT The eight Russian churchmen cur- QUICKLY
rently Britain watched the open golf championships at St Andrews, Scotland and left quickly be cause they didn't understand the rules of the game,
And these changes are not the result of any general increase in height, according to the figures
obtained
waist
operi
ay "Have an Eton, old mun-or perhaps you prefer a Balliol, this side?"
TREASURE The HUNTER
NEW BOOKS BY GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
The Rake's Artist Paints
H
of
and
London's Cruel Age
Was
John
J
-
HOGARTH'S PROGRESS. By nolsstum whom he despised as whose son assumed, the name
affected creatures, the dupes of of Charteris, Potor Quennell. Collins. Tallan fakers of Old Mastera,
John Gourlay, Jackal of 251. 318 pages.
Charterin; As for deaters-why should they have money that belong
Elizaboth Adams - and zeoros OGARTH was a od to him? Hogarth sold his of other habitues of the
Independently,
of Covent by taverns
'Garden; painter of genius pictures
P whor appear 0:1 with the qualities auction a clock was to strike many
every five minutes and every Hogarth's eatvases. the faults time it struck, a picture woll ቤዛ
Plunging deep In politics, Duke visiting
of. the domed cold at the price, then Hogarth had the audacity to prejudices from Д detailed
Argyll is a deter-
take the side of the King and lysis of 4,500 women curried
milled mun, After beef fed, beer drinking, ruling.
the Scottish favourite. Lord out by Britain's leading stocking spending a fortune trying to Protestant Englishman of
Poor prices
against the ferocious Bute, and lingerie manufacturers. raise the 300-year old Spanish the most robust tradition. Prior at Hogarth's auction demagog
Wilkes. Their ligures show that the galleon in Tobermory Bay, he He was rough, eccentric, were not
always good. The Hogarth bed in prose; nig with his brush The churchmen saw crowds average womntrs "hip spring" going to make the 33rd attempt
Sald the difference
The Harlot's Progress" went ally. between the hip this summer-and that must be course and truculent-he-tures of his famous series likes
Clinrless Churchill, swarming to the course.
guineas each; measuremonts has about the record for one treasure was also intensely under for 14
"The pairson and
Uterary hatchet- one: "Though many of us have und absolutely an idea what golf is, increased by at least two inches, hunter.
standing of children, which Rake's Progress" at 22. Koraco man, leat a hand in verse
Walpole from and 10 inches to between
watched a poor old the intervals our interest was aroused.
of pursuing his "I'll never be happy untess did not mean that he was 10 and 13 inches.
desperately bidding love affairs, Numerous artist business, says the sentimental about them; in for the latter series: "I Spish' this
will enemies of Hogartiva "joined Duke. "Nobody else can touch flamed by cruelty to buy my own series,"
willingly in the aght. the wreck because the rights to
animals.
Teday, the poor old cripple the increased physical the galleon were given to my
Had he been alive today would have to pay £20.000 or more for a first-class Hogarth. exercke which girls get at school, ancestors by Charles 1 and are.
beer a he would have This exercise and the fact that sin force."
In showing the downfall women lead more active lives
So for the Duke's 32 previous subscription-paying member the rake and the decay of the snol. muy niso account for the in
times of follies and vices of his
had seduced. crease in the size of the female elferis have brought him only a of the RSPCA. In his own harlot, Hogarth depicted the of being shot by the relatives few pieces of silver plate and day he was the creator of and criticised them, not from Hogarth, aged 80, was in "a foot.
Before the war the most some guns,
series of prints denouncing the point of view of an exalted general detay." people obviously felt in watching popular size of stocking was U
Feuding with more practised the game.
In there gold or board? "The ill-treatment of cats, dogs morality, but rather as one, who Now it is 9 to 10, and
awardsmen, more deplored as a sensible
or intently noire That Is why we left that to 9.
should-the the foibles of mantelnd, Hogarth the demand for the 11 size is Balloon may tave been the pay and horses-"I a few minutes
was, through life, the down-to- steadily increasing.
Between the ages of 20 to 25
́enrik, no-nonsense Englishman of the average the dimensions
aesthetes did who scorn for Miss-or Mrs-Britain are: hips,
not prevent him from boing a MADE HIM Bob Climie, 61, 371: waist 26; and bust, 35.
great artist.
"In our country clergymen are not allowed to be present of any sports event, but we decided to Like a liberly on this occasion."
Their visit was short-lived, however, because "to our great disappointment we could not understand the rules of the game. Even more, we could not understand the interest which
beautiful course
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later.""
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2 Hoggard (5).
3 Rests (7).
4 Nobleman (4).
5 Finishes (4).
ACKOSS
3. Arbiters (8).
8 Flowering plant (6).
Forreusts (8).
11 Comforis (0).
12 Accurate (4).
18 Prophels. (5).
19 Decays (4).
22 Kind of biscuit (8).
24 Bangle (B).
1 Dry up (5).
13 Send (5).
25 Trader (0).
20 Praised (8).
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And it's all 'due to the amount of muscle that pads the feminine hip. Doctors suggest this is due
in
the cuts
who man the hair of
HAIRY 1,000 army men every month, is
mad. And he has Invited THE GIN The
Socialist clown
}
am
Enough
Both parties soon had enough. of Wilkes fled in France 'to escape Churchill was in danger
Lon
ship of the Armada. But the proud of being their author don businessman,
waste of inuman lives and
painted Raphael's cartoons," Cantankerous
question of gold being on board than I should be of having effort. is unimportant. We don't re- gard it as a means to riches. It's personal family problem and we want to get on with it. It has ween a ghost too long."
Cruel, rowdy
canvas
EO
Putting down
Wos He dispuna all foreigners scenes with which he
Hogarth left an un- which in practke meant the famillar, "Gin Palace"
French
On his one and only forgettable record of the Lon- trip
abroad-almost the only don cafe-society he knew is the name given
well. I: M.P. Jin Simmons PALACE ng ago to the 20- BACKWARD. The British Army time he left London-he go; as
was an age in which MY the entertainment industry in is using age-old fur os Paris. All the way, to the alt
centred Its branchs methods to teach disconfort of his
companions. Covent SOLDIERS
Garden; the simple Hogarth's rudeness 10 the
cruel, rowdy age of
Mother
to the army
at comp
Catterick where, he says, "I will gun battleship Agincourt. Ninely cut your hair so well that you years ago she was a real "Liddley" won't be able to criticise."
Job-which is the Navy's way of saying splek and spun.
Recently Simmons got up in
Made of iron the "Gin Palace" the House of Commons waving a picture of a badly-shom soldier cd both steam and sail, accord-
weather.
given "Minus
and demanded to know what 18 to 2e she becanie a boy wke three paces forward,
proficiency army barbers were required to obtain and whether
for a repetition of ur not soldiers had any choice
6 Request
performance (6).
10 Weird (5).
7 Near relative (0).
14 Award (5).
15 Negotiated (7).
16 Threefold (6), -
17 Deulty (8).
20 Foolishness (5).
21 Trap (5).
22 Répust (4).
23 Yield (4).
YESTERDAY's crosswORD-A erosN; 4 Incident.
Serum
Attempts, 10 Engage, 13 Distend, 15 Dope, 17 Delayed, 18 Sented, 20 38 Trend, 2 Suspende Cede, 2 Rumours 26 Castle, 27 Reclines,
Employ & T'osed. บ Down: Asked, 2 Drags 3 linage. Iten. Tender, 11 Niece, 12 Atone, 14 Deduce, 15 Dadow, 10 Peart. 18 Scares. 19 Pallets, Mertes, 23 Utler, 24 Seeds Nice.
if style when they had their hair cut.
a
dugship
ship training.
After being
cont
and then n
wifir jusi
hulk for tugs and salvage craft
Sheerness, number-CLO 9.
21
Now she hus disappeared Says Climie: "There is nothing from her
mooring but not for wrong with army haircuts to-
Jung. When they have cleaned lity. Any soldier can get off the barnacles at West India style he wants, so long as
Dock and given the old "Gin doesn't dangle over his collar."
When
he let loose his last Palace" a new coat of paint, she against army barbers in the will be tiddley" again and good House. Simmons said that "many for another 20 years.
people who practise their arts as are move Hited to
hairdressers
·
By
officers can
as
prees
on
Justy,
St
he a girl
SEVERAL
WORLDS. 21/-,
1
Poort S. Buck, Methuen,
its backward soldiers mathunzaties,
awwward French was blatant. анн
Needham, who was "CURSED as I always am with then up
necessity to ser two Everything he saw roused in quod is lined
to pray ardently that she sides of a question..... says such
commands
cantankerous diminutive Bald
London might quickly make a fortune Pearl Buck of herself: a facility Two", for two
citizen of (Ave-foot)
50 that she could give up the which, far from being a Curie, (born back, or "Plus Threo", and they
Close management Bartholomew
of her elegant has added to the richness of 1097) a frenzy of annoyance. establishment near St James's
her life, which she
describes in other using
Kirilling
On the homeward Journey he Palace. She dice soon after This absorbing autobiography. make fad the imprudence to sketch
sitting the
on
pillory in goldler perform the ancient gateway of Calato- James's Street, where she was of addition and and was promptly arrested as merellessly pelted by the
English spy.
brutal London mob. the
Colonel ex-officer, money on
ravisher, who is the words of A satirical epitaph--proctised every and hypocrisy: "He was
movements, the buckward simple sums subtraction.
the army According to system
first used children aged five to seven, with good results.
WCB
The same experiments applied
Hogarth returned to England, ani vengul himself with his tumous picture of "Calais Gele," a compendium of Gallie gloom and misory.
Mon versus Woman; Left versus Right; Christianity versus Buddhism; West versus East. All these confilels have woveri Charteris, Francis
her themselves into the web of tender, life.
China, Amerlea, Russin,
India-these are
the which she They are the setne for a
vice except prodigality worlds"
in
to soldiers are now proving tic artist of an age of expand- empted from the latter by Its moving, fascinating, and often
successful.
Said an
education officer? the servicemen
uro
I
practise the arts of a carpenter HAVE A "Have a Nato?" At "We find that many of or a metal shearer."
party at his Paris national This is what made Bol Climie NATO
house the other educationally backward. Illiter- Lord Ismay
offered até? I don't like that word. mad. He has been cutting hair evening, for 45 years
his guests u now and
box of king-size prefer backward.”
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
COM. INA IN GENERAL FEATURES
CO. WoILD RIGHTS ALTERYED
ONE WAY TO BRING THE CROWD IS TO HAVE
SOME GOOD DIRT TO DISH OUT.
IT'S A WELCOME CHANGE WHEN ONE GENTLEMAN, OFFERS TO POKE ANOTHER'S NOSE-FOR FREE.
AJAX
WRECKSPERTS
THE
SHE MET KAH
THEY LIVE IN.
HOPE THAT SOME DAY AS HE'LL MISS.
"TAKE YOUR TIME
WE'RE IN
NO HURRY!”
Alek
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE
A COUPLE OF YOUNG THINGS IN THE SPRING
WHEN IT COMES TO
CREATING A BOTTLENECK ON THE FAIRWAY.
Drawing A Crowd
KEEP YOUR EYE
ON THE BALL ? “
"SAYS
YOU !*
6-72
"WE
·HATE CROWDS/
Hogarth way the characteris
ing. bucinces, He served his ap- malchikse
on prophetic self-portrait of one of from imprudence," to prenticeship
the trade
The former by his "unsatiable the world's best known modern
novelists. Craving decorations on
When he died in avarice,"
For Pearl Buck not only lived tunkards); cet up his sigui, Whis nativo Scotland Uic mab
in her worlds, she participated Golden Head; designed his own hurled dend deks into the
111 their
happening. every trade card. He dislikedi most open ginve. His daughter 44
with a them itss
adding and all ποτα married the Earl of Wemyss bountiful store of energy, and
oliver
BY HARRY
WEINERT
THE CROWD IS SURE TO GATHER ROUND. THE GUY WITH A STIFF NECK.
FOND MEMORIES.
to
in exchange, absorbing all that went to make them up, and pouring it out again into her writing, which has produced such works as "The Good Earth," "Dragon Seed" "East Wind: West Wind," and the lecture which won her the Nobel Prize. for Llierature in 1035, The Chinese Novel.
Grow Up In China Pearl Buck was the daughter of an American missionary couple who took her to live in China when she was three months old, just before the turn of the century. She grew up there, and spent a good part of the first 30 years of her life in that country, interspersed with. visits to her homeland, Americs, to Japan, to India, and to Russia.
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Her Chinese childhood an idyll "composed of innocence and an Aslan sophistication," and it was during these years that she developed her "curse" of seeing both oldes of a ques- tion - her worlds began to divide. Though an American in her home, she spoke. Chinese, and thought and acted Chinese when with her Chinese play- mates..
her
Her first real introduction into
present world, "home" America--where she now lives a
settled and happy life, was when she was taken there to go to college. With her family, she travelled overland, through Rus
Sia and
Europe to get there; and she has secu the extremes of
poverty and luxury in Russla be fore the revolution, and describes the scenes of that journey with a freshness and vividness of a yosicrday's occurrence,
7.
Perplexing Problem
In her college life she was faced with the perplexing prob- lem of adapting herself to a way of life she had been
ally there to, but had 'nover
understood: Her own coun try seemed almost foreign. How abe adapted herself, to. It shows the great capaolty she had for absorbing all that was around
noho
longed
for China, how over, and when her mother was dying, she returned, and later married an American agricul turist there, and went to say in the farming villages of North China, where she lived son (of the most human and fascinating episodes of her... life, in "lhe world of the Chinese pepacht." Full of human comedy, and theter harrowing moments of -hime:worlds; mind, hold:
for
four, and Fren death;fin.