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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955.
A STARTLING NEW THEORY QUESTIONS THE STRANGE DEATH OF THE NOVELIST WHO SHOCKED THE WORLD
WAS HE MURDERED?
HEY found him in his nightshirt, hands
clutching towards the window, head lolling against the dais on which the huge antique bed stood.
the bed, unconscious, On iny his wife. She revived, But Emile Zola, the novelist,
By ROBERT PITMAN
talk about Zola. In
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL' ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
that SIZE OF With lese and lesa
be-
STRIKING The Phillumeniets lonaires my, you come out In wrappings, and housewives, are SHOW --the people who the rod,
contributing milk bottle_tops 10 connot pass by a Anyhow,
It seems hard to the "tinfoli trust”! So for though Jeanne bore him two matchbox without At malding get judges to Lake very - about £25 has been collected, children ho did not leave Coco, sure that it is one they already serloun view bf the businesa On the sly, however, through have among their collection of and Mr Andrews figures binoculars from his study, he matchbox labels and booklets the U.S. may very well 1008 his advertising, and I do my own would Watch his children at aro in London in search of more
como another Franco body was dug up for a second for all my books,"
play,
labels. At a Bloomsbury hotel something is done. the funeral, and attended by
they held their annual exhibi- French President and Promier And there wore other ham- Over this Indian summer intion of the British Matchbox
mers
at hand. Zola even Zola's le broke, a bitter storm.abel and Booklet Society. This arranged for cigar lighters in the He learned that n Jewish officer was followed by an auction of tobacconista* shops 10 be named Dreyfus had been sent labels. tostooned with the titles of his to Devil's Island as a convicted coming novels.
spy. Ho studied the case and realised that Dreyfus
พ.ดร innocent. His duty was plain.
(a mere Minister of “Ecreation bird graced the drat)...
In the 1930's dim-actor Paul the champion of Dreyfus, Muni, who had shaved off his The Good Earth and was already dead, poisoned hair for
a donned whiskers to play Louis by coal fumes from
Pasteur, took fresh whiskers for Blocked chimney.
The The Life of Emile Zola,
banned by Daoludier In በኔ 60 ****
have fun, years crammed with France, won wild neelulm every
where else.
Even last year Zola was still
tum refused to print uncensored
pics of his stories.
More passei
British Crossword Puzzle
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Exhausted (8).
18 Greeting ceremoniously (8)
19 Experiment (4).
21
Interfered with (8).
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fmts (8).
20
Senal out (4).
27 Trampling (8).
VIN ZEBRAY ́S
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Altitude (4),
Heap (4).
Way out (4).
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Regretted (4).
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Tencher (5).
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Piece for off (3).
Appointments (5).
10
Drive back (5).
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Vassal (5).
14
Unit of weight (5).
16 Claw (5).
ATONY
17 American dandies (5)
20 Scorch (5).
19 Implted (5).
21 Look after (4).
22 Spare (4).
23 Volume (4).
24 Tax (4).
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CROSSWORD -Accom: 1 Fracas, 4 Types, 7 Obdurate Mila # Defra, 11 Large 13 Niamter, 15 Bustle, 18 Chum, 19 Utter- 2 Enune, 21 Roster Down: 1 Flood, 2 Urude, a Starfle, & Tremor, Pendent, & States, 10 Features, 12 Arbiter. 13 Seesues, 14 Denade, 18
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tin.
unless NYLONS shoppings days to go
to Christmas, poten tial maio customers have been gaven a good tip by nylon TINFOIL Townepepole of Bury stocking manufacturer in Lon-
St Edmunds, Suffolk, don TRUST
have formed 4 foll trust to raise money for a wives or girl friends" stocking "Men who don't know their In this year's sale there was guldo dog for a 32-year-old size should take note that Englisia
telephonist. a number of Russian labels, and blind
Their
women aro taller than they used The writing, too, was done on
Mr J. M. Ford. the Society's objective is five and a half to be. If you don't know the lines.
For his novel
secretary, whose own collection tons of tinfoil business
size, state the height," he said. Nana, the story of a courtesan,
totals many thousands, says that Whon
It they havo
Miss Ninety-nine times
of a out he hobbled stir with cold after
although this is not the frst Dorothy Cook, who operates a hundred Umo that Russian labels have the swithboard at the local
from the Nana's real-life colagues on the beat
The country was burning with been offered for sale, they have office of the Ministry of Labour, in order to make
majority of poltings,
yot lover, And when the cele- anti-Semitic
he never been no plentiful as now. will have "eyes" to gulde her women ls for ning a half to Justice for Dreyfus,Mare Russian brated Lutele Levy admitted him demanded
matchboxes once again Miss Cooks lost, der tons and tun and a half. Once Knowing that prrest would seem to be available nowadays
an eleven-inch stocking was very dictating notes 011 cosmetics
she travels to work by bus. rare indeed but now shops are until four in the morning. Accuse, at the General Staff. after," he said.
Now workmen are hoarding getting used to being asked for ("A harc's foot in used for
the silver paper from their this size almost as much as they rouge. You put it on with your
cigarette packets, school do for the smallest size which finger then spread is with the
children are saving their sweet is eight and a half. foot.")
news. Six British printers in to her boudoir she found hersell follow he hurled his manifesto, and the labels are much sought sight ten years ago, Every day an
And now the most starting of all Items about Zola comes to Britain. A new book" brings evidence that his death was not at accident but murder.
The episode until now has been played down by Zola fans, Understandably for it is strong
y Unged with anti-climax. So ("We must are his last words kave eaten something that dis agreed with ៤.
perhaps Bune fresh air will do a good.").
And a taste of anti-elintax flavours most vi the Zola
damu.
Jis
wus Italian, a father engineer who romantically joined the Foreign Legion.
He fell in love with the wife named of a German N.C.O. Fischer. When the left Algiers Zola sen,, an officer, hurled him- self into the sea after her boat, was dragged out still murmuring "Fischer, Fischer." Then, less romantically, it was found that
in
It was one of the world's great acts. Zola's big moments, how ever, were able to be dogged by farce.
Nana was not the only Zola
Years before, ou the death of novel with a daring theme. His
Flaubert, stirred shocked his idol carthy realism
Author of Madame Bovary, he had gone protests even in France.
to the funeral with England Jurymen stepped their ears
bursting heart.
But when
Flaubert's s bookst
coln was too long were quoted at an
for the grave obscenity trial.
But here the Zola paradox obtrudes again. Unlike his novels his life was chuste to the
point
He
that the older reports
and Japanese British,, Austrian labels fre becoming more diffl- cult to find, but a recent flood of Czech labels has spoilt
the value of carlier Czech examples.
TAX MAN In the U.S., os COMPLAINS everywhere else kn the world, Not big-time tax lux-dodging is a kind of sport.
dodging. of grunts
te course, but the Ille stuff like expense accounts with the laborale
which drop you nicely from Zola
one tax bracket to the next. rushed from the sethe leaving the
U.S.
provides col hall-wedged penalty for anyone whe “wil- fully avoids" tax payn nt - Five yours
law
a
in prison, a $10,000
of dullness. He looked
stolld. success swelled, his waistline expanded to 10 inches. Coco, his wife, Inok to buying quan.itles of
758
As
in Ita hole.
Anil
And now-forced into exile for the sake of Dreyfune
fine, or both.
Zola forgot to take
huge linen and antiques.
Then Zola'a friends noticed
a
change. Hie Zola-as Paul Muni stomach shrank. He lost two stone, in
усаг He dipped
beard To
h
saw him
But Chief Tax Collector T.
e change of clothes. Coleman Andrews had n
Sporting the Le- plaint this week:
com- tho courts
It always fits."
gest demanded
FATHER TUCKER PLANS TO SAVE A MONARCH
A
From SAM WHITE
Monte Carlo. ROSY CHEEKED, jovial Roman Catholic
giun of Honour. Just aren't sending people to priest has come up with
bul
knowing
not gaol. English, he stood
Androws'
in a draper's in St 700 alleged
James's pointing to hils ankles. In hopeless attempt to
lust
year.
Rainier is at
present on Sa Mediterranean
cruise
in this yacht and showing no inclina- ton to return to face as big a storm as 3,000 Monaco citizens, including 994 male
can volers, Batoro Rainier left.
Father Tucker,
chaplain,
shrewd plan which co-trained
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his
ex-
the
on a
men rounded up save Prince Rainier III from tax delinquents having his wings clipped Just six got the
absolute monarch
a promise from of tracted five-year maximum.
Prince: that next November Monaco by a current scan- Rainier
go would A little while ago a Judge in dal in the principality.
prolonged visit to the United Virginia arrived at work to Later, under the allas of
At present the 32-year-old States. find himself faced with the Richard Rogers, he wrote
Prince finds himself in trouble trial of a whole line of people with his normally rubber-stamp home complaining about English rounded up by Andrews men. bailed puddings, about Eng But he had to
"Parliament” of 18 members, adjourn the Eleven of thern have resigned shirts ("decent"), about the death of his dog Pimpio.
Jaunty buy sucks. and began sweetening his breath with cachou nuts.
he had been borrowing Legion funds on Frau Fischer's bear goatee
hearings first so he could go and pay his own back taxes,
with Jeanne Rozgot, a pretty Exile and English puddings worth.
several hundred dollars'
in protest against his reinstate- ment of two privy councillors, who were dismissed after, they had been pubilely accused of speculating with Treasury funds in a Monte Carlo commercial television company.
He left the Legion for France. The conclusion was obvious. For There, after starting a canal Emile rumance had arrived at trear Aux, he died of prgumonia. last. leaving nothing to his widow
little Emile except the It had arrived, to be precise, excavations.
Unlike papa Emile climbed servant girl with pointed cars
have been the worst may not from poverty to lofty success.
The behalf of
evasion The who sang endlessly as she folded Zola suffered on
figures havo of dreamy genius? Coco's linen. For love of Jeanne Dreyfus. The reward
His new biographer been going up steadily over the Much more of unremitting to. Zola took to a starch-free diet" explains, in detall why we may
years. And no wonder. In of sharp business sense.
think that
anti-Dreyfus 1013, a single man who earned Sald Zola: "I took a nail and with no liquids except hat, cafanatic deliberately blocked the $10,000 would have paid just hammered it one centimetre deep. Oddly, he imposed the diet fon chimney which caused
This your, he will pay into the public
but she grew even death. consciousness, Coco too, Then drove it in two centimetres fatter on it while he shrank...
in some brackets, you come Other consequences of this deep. The hammer i se Press
close to losing money un the alleged speculation have been deal. The US citizen who the collapse of a Monte Carlo carns $500,000 pays $430.184 bank and the arrest of its Greek and with the high cost of director, an old friend of the manipulating money, the mil-Prince.
ZOLA, by Armand Lancas, pub- Habed by Staples Press. (168).
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
IT'S JUST TOO CUTE FOR WORDS WHEN
BUSTER GIVES
THE MAN
THE TICKETS,
WUNDE
Zola's $28.
But chimney-sweeps will Zola took long bicycle rides probably still prefer the verdict with Jeanne on the new patent of the Fronch police in 1902: pneumatic tyres. He installed "Blockage caused by too intre- her in a nearby house. But quent sweeping."
TO KEEP A CHILD QUIET LEAD IT TO THE WATER COOLER - TANKING UP SHOULD KEEP IT OCCUPIED FOR HOURS.
COPR. 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORF, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
I PUT THE TICKETS IN FRONT OF THE CLOCK ON THE MANTEL-50 YOU WOULDN'T FORGET 'EM?
NOW SHE TELLS HIM.
GETTING ACQUAINTED "WOULD YOU
LIKE TO GLANCE-
AT MY MAGAZINE?" SAID HE. 9. SHE WOULD. AND SHE DOES
COVER TO COVER.
FROM
All Aboard!
TICKETS PLEASE ——
A HANDBAG HOLDS ALL A GAL NEEDS — SAVES HER THE CONFUSION OF PLOWING THROUGH TEN OR TWENTY
POCKETS LIKE A MAN,
BY HARRY
COLLAPSE OF A BANK
WEINERT
| LAST NIGHT SOMEBODY GAVE A DEMONSTRATIÓN |OF PLAIN AND FANCY SNORING —BUT WHO WAS IT?
EVERYONE IS UNDER SUSPICION.
RR
THE BAGGAGE CAR. AHEAD.
THE VILLAGE TRAIN WATCHERS COME TO THEIR DAILY CONCLUSION THAT. "ITS PRETTY, SOFT FOR THESE IDLERS WHO HAVE NOTHING MID DO BACK BUT GAD ABOUT THE COUNTRY
WITH A BRIDE?
Father Tucker reasons that Rainier on a visit to with Americo-And with consequent hopes that he may return with a bride the present disputes will summer down. Meanwhlie Monaco will be administered by a universally respected
70onaco "elder statesman," lawyer, Moltre Aureglia,
Father Tucker, who is in his sixties, was suggested to Rainier as his Chaplain by Cardinal Spellman, of New York. Since
then Tucker has proved himself an an astute clerical politician with
a sound appreciation of worldly realities. It was he who was largely instrumental in breaking off Rainier's only romance, that with French actress Ghislaine Pascal,
MALE HEIR
Under France's Treaty of Pro- lection with Monaco, if there is no direct male' heir to the suc- cession, Monaco comes directly under French administration. This gives. Rainier a power which no absolute monarch has ever had before. Ho merely has to threaten to abdicato to con- front his subjects with the choice: A tax-free paradise under my rule or taxation and service uhder the
militar
ETC himself is a man of
atronge
wardi
contradictions. Out- he is the romantic/em- bodiment of the gay handsome Prince with a passion for dan- gerous sports liko deep sea fishing, motor-racing, and big game hunting. There is, how- ever, another Rainier who is timid, morose, buspicious, and with an obstinacy "born of un- certain judgment.
INDECISION
His Indecision is the despatc of officials. "Ho seems always to accept the viewpoint of the last person he has spoken to," says one. In the French Foreign Oleo the papers, dealing with Monaco's affairs are said to L occupy more space than there devoted to Anglo-Fronch rela❤ tions. He has a feeble capacity
friendship,
chip, and his circle of friends is limited to a few former schoolboy acquaintances. With an annual tax-free 'civil Hat of £70,000 he remains constantly In need of ready cash largely because of his expensive Hpb- bles, like... the; maintenance v'of 'three yachts, 18 cars and two 2009,
for
SO CHARMING
Nothing illustrates the sorne- what Kuritanian character of Mondeo better than Monta Carlo's charming prison. It is located at the end of a winding path running through. à pubila garden and is tucked away dis- rather by the manner eric conveniences in
of
publis
parlor.
Thon i
homely courtyard
sk_warder's wife busy back- ing for tho... prisoners' ánd' the prison fam-·! accommodation," `for 20-with all cells commanding i magnificent view, *Equally" in-
(outward
bank, it walati, what it sho front, looks rätter, like #130* wafac boarding bourn,