POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Darling, why is it called the Secret Service ?”
PARADE
FIGURE
The
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS.
cloth-capped construction and building pro- silence,
have brought u new who con- gramme has been too much for turn to the 'mystery. OF FUN: Ogure
Yulso variety Mr L.J. Holloway, president One of them, former Major theatre audiences with laughter of the London Master Builders' Iwao Takakura, said he was when he plods onstage with (or Association.
the man who had charge of ibe without) his tools is no longer Addressing a lunchcout party treasure. He was trading it to the plumber.
at Mitcham, Surrey, he burst Japan for disposition. Takakura
THE against "this
ho Right now the lure of fun out
nonsense claimed
delivered Bose's Is Britain's building worker. Ho which evokes auch mirth from aches and the £300,000 to an
official drawn his
of the India Indepen- on gallery and stalls. least, pay (at singe) for not appearing on the
dence movement in Tokyo. building alie; for collecting his cup of ten; for laying a brick a day....
But the merriment at the men carryling out the nation's FC-
A British Crossword Puzzle
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a Wedteck (B).
8 Change (4).
9 Requested firmly (8).
11 Part of a car (8),
3 Incline (4).
1 Vied with (8)
+ Liberates (8).
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19 Lake (4).
21 Guided (8).
15 Goes down (8).
26 Strdy (4).
27 Diragrees (8).
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1 Assert (4).
2 Purched (4).
4 Encourage (4).
5 Bellow (4).
6 Cartuse (5).
7 Finished (0).
9 Veatured
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10 Pattern (5).
12 Solltery (5).
14 Puck (5).
Lukewarm (5).
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17 Flunges
Mediated (5).
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20 Ceremonial garments (5),
21 Cubes ured in gambling (4).
22 Repose (4).
23 Excursion (4),
24 Molst (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Across; | Routed, 4 Roads, ? Princent, 6 Chup, Lances, 11 Emerged, 13 intrude. 16 Random, i Robol, in Returned, 20 laste, 21 Dreads. Bawn: 1 Repel, 2 Tonie, 1 Dressed, 4 Rescue, Arranged, Sapped, 10 Notables, 12 Merited, 13 mest. 14 Untrue. 18 Nurse, 17 Modas.
This official was repente:lly warned against revealing its existence for fear of Allied re- .ho Soon afterwards prisals. official vanished.
BURGESS expounds
in the Athenaeum
WHISPERING GAL- LERY. By John Lohmann. Longmans. 21s. 342 pagos.
S with this ridiculous and
The building trade was sub- jected to "constant, niggling and 'often Judicrous criticism," he aserted. "All the time we-are fuced untair criticism. We have to work in the open. Our jobs are there for the inspection of the world. Everyone sees us. So it a single man on single job is reen drinding cup of tea, the whole building Industry dammed for incompetence.
"All the time we are at work 'Big Brother or is it le Sis.er's watching. So the Inefficiency Blory golos cur rency. Somebody tells borty else who writes to the paper. The music hall takes up the story."
some-
NO MEAL After TICKET
generations
for
on
YAYS Lehmann casually this page 804 of autoblography, "I en- countered Guy Burgess one evening in the Athonneum, with characteristic
of solleftudo unfalihful wives, and British husbands are digging in boisterousness he exclaimed: their toes. In divoree cases they "The trouble about Wystan are refusing to accept guilt as (Auden), Christopher a matter of course, merely be-
Stephen cause I 19 the "gentlemanly" (Isherwood) and
(Spender) In that they haven't the fogglest notion what politicians are really like!"
gesture to a woman.
Furthermore, the result of
this attitude Indicates that wives nowadays are almost as unfaithful as husbands.
women partners
GOOD Britons are eating
The forthcoming quarter's then FEEDING: more
ever divores sults in London reveal before. That that nearly za many men as means the whole nation, not
accusing arc
their merely moneyed Individuals,
of breaking the 10 Average daily diet lo Britain is marriage. Yet only a score of 3,120 calories compared with 3,000 Ave years bgo, 2,880 la 1947, and 3,000 prewar, accord-
to the test figures. This increased are has not been achieved by putting more dull, starchy food on the table.
Becoming very choosy, the
people meat, tea.
Main
consuming are eggs, butter, sugar
more
and
fuctor worrying the doctors is that people may not be eating enough bread. Unless they are offsetting a lock of bread by drinking milk, they will not be getting sufflefent calcium.
TREASURE Indians living in
Tokyo
dc. are MYSTERY
manding an an- swer to the 10-year-old mystery
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years ago there were three times
more women than men.
aut
The reasons for this change?
Divorce court lawyers point that husbands, faced with
Nor, as it turns out, had the politicians the fogglest notion what Gay Burgess was really like.
John Lehmann
(1) Stephen Spender,
a
"with a huge head of curls, loped bo- side me in the wild winter landscape"
and spoke of (2) Burgess was only one member Audon and (3) Isherwood, who an extreme red cecouric mem had settled in Berlin in stork ber-of the gentration which
poverty. Then there was during Lehmann has observed
(4) David Gascoyne "the a lie whose main stages were introspective suffering of
happy, spelous.
Themes-stilo
highly strung sensibility" in his expression. One day, in a Bat in Paris where David was vainly trying to give precision to his subtle metaphysical mean 03, Bremen rushed in, waving axes and malting the floors shake under their ponderous boots.
"We all rushed about looking for the fire, except David, who silent remained qutvering and
col erlenda, witty friends,
well-stalled; Elon with
friend clever
Quintin Hogg the present high cost of living. (who has become Lord Hall-
sacrifice
explosive force cannot readily
one-sham)-"some t third of their incomes, for ever in him that was never perhaps, as a worthy act. Their pletely under control
a naturally wom private incomes, which in past conflict with decades made this easy, have and easily wounded heart." now shrunk.
ticket.
and
Eton tension
com-
in
on the soin in the midst of this vortex of purposeless activity."
Pilgrimage
Spender
that
an
Horo
SUTER
an eccentriș în anguished generation; with Audon, Isherwood, Spender ho was observod by John Lehmann: and is perhaps the one among
know where them all who
was going
BOOKS
by
ho
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
is De- danger of turning
and the myth of the proletarian ments of its kix-it saviour; some went to the Span- petually in
sh war; some wrote bilter pro- into pagandist poetry.
of
a History of Our Times: public declamation instead of It is short personal confession. Christopher Isherwood
shonleg wrate of individuality; (from America, where he had humour. gone on the "quote" of immi-
But it can be taken as a use- am in the grants)-"I myself
Lehmann's I have ful case-history of most Godawful moss. discovered, what I didn't realise generation; the heroes who were till trying to have their moral cake or what I wasn't before,
and
Over cat it swooning now, that I am a pacifist."
Sky- It was May, 1936, Christopher Mozart in Salzburg and had loft self-discovery
unemployed in rather ing with the
Vicana.
Neno at them, sycopt late.
Lehmann, with some dimetty, perhaps Guy. with his char- bolaterousness, hed got himself a job as the secret acteristic Viemma correspondent of a Come the fogglest notion where they aunist controlled movement were going. But low were wise like David, cainst war and Fascism. It did enough to remain,
"quivering and silent on wonders for his rentier guilt.
His
suffers sola" In the autobiography from the usual defect of docu- vortex.
Husbands icel
also that women now have good chances
anecdotes of working to support
In one of the few them-
that occur in his book, Lehmann selves. Primarily, however,
speaks of the tensions generated that the Little Woman, if she
Assured by the exclusion of at Eton by seeks another, should not con- females.
bod escaped
the When the headmaster, Germany tinue regarding her
of mortal sickness and gulit 13 ex Cyril Alington, took
the
Lehmann Westem civilisation, his sermon in husband as a permanent meal the feel of
of went to Salzburg chapel Oscar Wilde's story
where the the
"scarcely sight of the beautiful Tyrolean Happy Prince. and any boy dared to look at the young men and girls" kept his of Boude- ftecing from COLOUR.
brunettes are out. opposite pews' excop!: in a, eyes from the copy
in his hand. He was rigid way: blushes latre The colour now-glazed,
In mounted involuntarlly to In- in Bedin in time to hear adays has to be something
in a bar on "The Reichstag's between. Something that ranges numerable checks. No one know friends remark
and night, what was coming next either side of
red. British women, explained a veryone was thinking exactly fre!"
After that. there Was leading hairdressir last week, the same thing."
nothing for it but to make the pilgrimage to Moscow.
of the £300,000 treasure of the Indian Quisling, Subbas Chondra Bose, who died in an RED'S THE Blondes air crash while
Singapore
after
three days World War II ended.
The fortune vanished when Bosc-Japanese puppet who set up a Provisional Government of Free India in 1943-was killed In Formosa.
open
п
the
midst of
the
It isn't like The Caine
B
to
MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR, with the glamour of the stage By Herman Wouk. Cape. and, more ardently, with one of the stage'a more resounding 16s. 638 pages.
cads, Noel Airman (previously Saul Ehrmann). WOUK, at 40 years of age, is To conquer the footlights on Win a spot. As Humphrey Marjorie changes the family
Bogart's
he novelist,
sold name
from Morgenstern 3,000,000 copies of "The Caine Morningstar; to win Noel, she Mutiny. Now 3,000,000 critics yields her virtue. But what le are now demanding colour on After Eton came Cambridge,
ere waiting to declare Indig technically lost can be morally their heads, and more and more and doubts about a career. His Almost before he was aware nantly of his new Calme."
of his new novel: "This recovered. gest
that another Indian Na- are visiting, their hairdresszis 19 histe Rosamond wrote to him, or i, Lahojann had been swept is tionalist made off wi.h the get it
Last we see of Marjorie she They may spare their anguish. Even the nicest women no don't want you to go into into the revolutionary currents and £300,000 in gold, jewels,
Schwartz, no the Diplomatic. I can't bear you
that raced
a happy. Europe. He Majerle Morningstar is nothing is Mrs ECTOSE
of valuables given by Iri- longer think it's a bit shocking to in hope!
on being inwardly torn."
of was one of the generation Hke The Calne. It is, however, polsed, good-looking womon to dye their hair. They just
John belonged well-heeled aesthetes who deve-
40 with a doughter of 14 named Sort like countless carlier
that can bet. feel a change now and again to an anguished generation. He doped the guilt of the rendier novels. It tells the story of a Deborah. You does them as much good as sought release in the company class (his term) and political young middle-class Jewish girl Marjorie keeps e close watch
of the young poets of the day: longings. Some turned to Marx in New York who falls in love on Deborah.
Now, new investigations sug-
other dians in the Far East.
Statements by three former Japanese
army officers, break.
ing
A self-imposed 10-year
holiday.
Back To Nature
BY HARRY WEINERT
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It is long and for stretches, Is fot. But it has some well- constructed scenes and some characters lovingly and comical- ly taken from the life. Wouk is writing about scenes he knows.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE COUNTRY
IS NO
PLACE
FOR
JANGLED
NERVES - IF IT ISN'T
SNAKES, ITS SKUNKS.
́"YOU KNOW MAVIS AND I CAN'T
EAT BERRIES— BUT OH NO,
YOU SAID THESE ARE DIFFERENT--
THESE ARE WILD?
T
· SD-SECOND BOOK
EVERY revac, with one exception that 1 bave ever pai on at the Folies Bergère has 13 letters in its title. The first year 1 did not do it intentionally : bui the only real_” (lop'
of my career at the Folies occurred when I broke away from this involuntary custom.
then 1 have
SINCE
wisely remained faith- tal to my 23-letter sitio ;. A even make a point of having the word "Folle" in' it.
IT is not always easy. but a regular patron kan sent me a handy list of 150 titles fulfilling these require menta.
THAT · should *EC US well into the twents. first century,
from The Folies Bergers." by director Pes Dervat. thethuen, 125. dd.).
AND IF IT ISN'T
FOG ITS THUNDER
AND
LIGHTNING,
IF IT
ISNT
BUGS 'IN THE
FLOWERS
IT'S
WORMS
IN THE
APPLES.
(YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY THE BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS-
IN FACT, YOU CANT TAKE AWAY ANYTHING —–
EXCEPT MAYBE A CASE OF HIVES.
NEVER
LIVE BY GENERAS FEATURES
CORK THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOLITUDE SIT DOWN FOR TWO MINUTES AND THE LANTS ARE CRAWLING
UP YOUR SPINE
'WHY IS IT THAT, HORNETS
INHABIT ONLY THE NICEST SPOTS 7
WONET
THE NATURE BOY
- WHO
GETS POISON IVÝ.
CREECH.
··AND IF I WASNY, A GENTLEMAN I'D.
TELL YOU WHAT
I THINK OF MOTHER NATURE /
COMIC-OPERA . PRISON
Vienna, Oct. 7.
A decision by the Aus- trian Supreme Court vir tually gives prison warders the right to grant convicts leave of absence from prison and other privi-
leges.
Josef Melcher and Johann Urt, warders at Villach prison. In Carinthia, were sentenced by a district court judge to 10 and 10 months hard labour on a charge of "abusing their official DOWEB.
They
had allowed convlots
out on parole to yisit bars"and:: cinemas.
They had attended “mixed parties in the cells'nt which there were drinks and in prison.
orchestra played.
Conditions at this come opera' prison were brought to light when Villoch polico BETENÍ- ed a drunken man trying to sell a bicycle. He turned out to be a |prisoner "given leave" by the
two ·warders, and. their trial. was the result of his
of this dia-
covery.
Alter
their conviction, the two wandora appowied
Supreme Court. And to evoryTM body wry Including their own, surprise, their « conviction quiabad, London
was
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