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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1986."
Interesting News Stories From Al
SHIRLEY TELLS OF
HER STRANGE LOVER
Shirley Hitchings, a 15-pety → old girl from South Landun sub- mited to a seance which, the claimed, fed her from a “ghost-
Here is her
Extrans story of the strange three-week
London.
It all started after I went. to bed one night three weeks. ag 1 remember the date laenuse it was the same day that brought the boots Em
wearing.
3 we have been in best
42
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for
14 ibutes when I felt someOLO
W.IN tirs
strange tok, and at frightened for
The the tapping team, k blen 1 knew al www
frvang to bulk to me.
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hother razma ammatory, hors the tapping loo
Knocking Code
reallest theme
kodning to be aflat of Et
My
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fox hang of love and root ter!
that surrended 1 mat
from New Zealand
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París Of The World
From Paris: An Eight-year-old Finds From London: What Happens Insido
Fame As A Best-selling Poot.
Your Body Whon You Drink Too Much: A Now Film Is Being Mado To Show People All Over The World.
From Vancouver: Sciontists Are From Chicago: Womon --Tolerato
Experimenting With A Modicine That May Stop Harduning Of The Artories.
Chimps Have That
Trouble Too
Buenos Aires.
A four-foot chimpanzee broke out of his cage, fied slong a fashionable Bucnos Aires street pursued by his ten wolves, elimbed to the serpentie
storey of an un- finished apartment build- Ing, kuneked down an elec- trielan, and hid in a clothes
set
ZAH oficials who took
the napatup of the chim- wives had sent
ht into a fit of rape.
Bomen
seredmest #nd fainted terdam elimpan.ee, Francuta, dash- vi feroigth the P'uls mo dintrer 24th his wiper Helm and Chiela etone be-
htud.
are Childr CODE Captured without trouble. - (ht Special.
KEEPING THOSE ARTERIES SOFT
Vancouver.
A Universite of British Columbia research scientist |
working 141 perfect medicine he hopes will stop hardening of the arteries.
5 Park Chestan inlides and that experimesls en rabbits has resulted in the discovery of t shominal walea only arrests ! ..
of the acteries, Hardemang
t also appears to cure the
disease.
However, he said he did not expect 1 start experimenting with the chereaf un humans
for quite a while. "This may take three or four more years," he said.
and his
Br Constunflaties research assoctute, sold harden- int of the arteries was induced in rabbits by artifelally raising the cholesterol blood fat rallo la the blood. 1000.
I was two taps for no one for 'yes' and there for I dont know. But the ad aprites. I would To jetters on a párve Lazer and Donald would when bate to the right one.
11 4 4 Kreat tun haying Q boE f a boy tried after aut used
But it got kindhetic
of complicated when he started Showing furniture around.
He Threw A Clock
ï
k was buy much for dad.
1: W
IN
The rabbits Were then
treated with bath natural and polysaccharides, and studies would have lo be made on possible pulsonous sidle <ffects when treatment 16 applied Press.
to humans, - United
bad enough for him, Dog Makes Gallant
Tawag to get some sleep with all
4 tampong going on, But the
Inline was the limit.
crucifix.
Wan the Alas ke it Granny put it on the floor in her Donald Wis very
bearbei angry.
He unetimes moved furniture aroma before. But this time he clock and somsta other
Unew
thing
Fire Rescue
and
Canterbury. NZ, A sheepdog raced through a ring of fre
tirove 200 firhtened sheep to safey on a farm in the Gébbles Valley. i
The Arg, roaring across tinder- dry serub and grass, had coin-
encircled pletely
flock.
The
I went to the seaner hoping Driven by the dog at high speed that nothing would change. But among the dames, they escaped
, and I'm glad.
uninjured. China Mall Special.
1 felt my mind ge clear
Donald left.
I'm as happy as can be. I feel so different now.
--United Press.
ONE THING
SHE CAN DO
BETTER
THAN HE CAN
Chlengo.
Women tolerate high blood pressure beller than men, spcctalist Bild.
Chicouraging mild
SIDE GLANCES
BE
SNOKO
A
the
Dr Franklin Ayer, address Ing the Chicago Medical Society's Clinical Conferenco. sald the outlook for "hypertensive patient" is more
than ever before.
sedatives, weight reduction or removal of stressful bluations is all that in required." he said. Dr Kyser snld older patients require less vigorous treatment than younger individuals,
lie said present-day therapy is based on the concept that certain personя are born with the herdiary tendency to react to environmental or emotional by spasm of the blood
vessels.
atress
"This sparm," he anld, “ir Initiated by impulses travelling through the sympathetic nervous system and involves most of the mejor organs, including the brain, retina, heart and kid-
neys,'--Unítod Press.
High Blood Pressure Better Than Men! That's What The Experts Say.
"THEY BREAK IN MY EYES'--MINOU, AGED 8
Babe
G
Among The Best-Sellers
Paris. OLDEN-HAIRED Minou
Drouet, the only poet
in the world whose work regularly lands on front pages, has settled down from a figure of national controversy 12 DE of Fenner'a mot widely- admired and best-selling
the age authors at eight, Publisher Te Julliard an- nounced that a first, 20,000- volume printing of her poo
of
^
WAN uld cat the record
f thren weeks Sentul pointing was ordereci
The
MEGAMECHet with greeted Bravost by French many of whom had called the child prodigy Init anhe big-best Hierary hues of the century“ only a
hort while ago,
Going Overseas
M Judlind also untiounced that the volume "Arbre, Mon Ami” (Tree, My Friend), will be parbiladres Japan shortly and that negotiations Were underway 19 bublish the Tender little poems of angel- faced Minou in Britain, the United States 41tch other countries.
At
Ма
Magaz
once near-bet
orphan who "epidn't help but start writing about an entirely
world
colour and
W Innvement" after an operation. restared her eyesight Two
years ago, thuis was a triumpl surpassing all expectations.
national
the end of inst SCLE. n that controversy almost overshadowed develop- menis in French politics and in North Africa, was raging over the question whether Minou was really the author of her amazing little porns end such epigrams ca; **This is the great tolly of grown- ups-wanting what IRsts, wanting list. Caly two things last shoes too small, and foolishness."
to
Back To Dolls? No!
Many suspected the author or co-author, at least was her foster mother, 40-year-old Mme. Claude Drouet, who kept the child in almost total neclusion in a fishing villago on the Brittany coast. The eriles were in an uproar, writer Michel de Saint-Pierro, after reading som of the ittle
gurt's observations
on love and "sin, this perfumed velvet" stuck the keynote with a thunderous: "Minou, back to your dolls. "
But Minou wouldn't go back to
her dolls. "I won't play with things dead," she bald And went on writing those
By Galbraith
734. Reg. 1.8, PA 2,
1 7964 by MEN Sarees, ins.
"If you're all fod up with these cigars, why not marry me right now? I don't smoke!"
Minou Drouet
where she that threw
intriguing poems French headline writers into a penell-chewing dither. The turning point came Jest month when M. Julliard decided to present Mlnou ta the public.
She appeared in some of Paris's most mobbish iterary salona and at moves premieres where she stole the spotlight from the stars and charmed her
phenomenon needs assessment," admitted Saint-Pierre.
critics. This
re-
The Inside Story Of Hangovers
London.
The hero of this new flim is a hangover.
The producer of the film, a ten minute cartoon, 13 tho World Health Organisation. They say the film was neither for temperance nor against drkak. WHO la only interested in education.
"We don't say you should or shouldn't drink," said Mrs Maly Mapes-Losey, head of the Visual Media Unit, We just say hero
drin
happens when you do
"Johnnie," presumably the average man, has had too much to drink when the alm opens. "When he comes to he has a headache. He asks hitself What Various alcohol anyway?" people
Is
give him half-baked answers, we give him unpre- Judleed facts,”
These facts were approved for necuracy by Professor Elvin M. Jellinek, 00, who is consultant to The WHO on the problems of alcoholism and
formerly director of the Yalo University school of nieohol studies.
ho
HOW IT HAPPENS
"Johanie" discovers how got his hangover, what happens to afcohol in the system, how t is oxidised in the liver, how it reaches the brain, how it may
· develop unaesthetic properties.... exactly what causes drunken-
nes:
While this 15 going ob nudiences will also learn that in moderntion drink is part of numerous roulal customs and usages-celebrations of births and marriages und so on and that
many and it enjoyable. "We thought." sold Mro Mapas-Losey, would be good idea to reple the mytho
of drink with some scientific facis."
The cartoon was drawn by former Hollywood cartoonist, Phil
Stopp,
is being pro- Guced in London. The premiere ás scheduled for early spring.
"This first version is in Eng- Hish," Mrs Mapes-Losey Bald, "but we may make French and Spanish versions later, And if the Russians aro
Interested, we'l! make a Russian version too,"
Neutral observers believe the Russians will claim they had the first hangovers. United Press.
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ROX Y & BROADWAY
GRAND OPENING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.90, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. A French Picture in ČINEPANORAMICI
Adventure in Paris Pomous Cabareti, MONTMARTREI World Famous Bands and Orchestras. Lovely Girls...............All in ONE FILM!
JEAN-MARC THIBAULT.
LOUIS SEIGNER GENEVIEVE KERVINE
"MONTMARTRE NIGHTS"
CINEPANORAMIC
In EASTMANCOLOR
Co-starring: Joan MARCHAT * DINAN * Daniel CAUCHY With Superimposed English Sub-titlos Released by Patho Overseas Ltd.
SPECIALLY ADDED!
The First Sports Attraction In CINEMASCOPE & COLOR
INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MATCH FRANCE vs U.S.S.R.
Released by Patho Ovornoas Ltd.
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
ROXY:
Susan Hayward in “WITH A SONG IN MY HEART" In Technicolor
HISTORIC PAPERS FOUND A 20th Century-Fox Pictura-
BROADWAY:
A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presanted by Warner Brothers
Roduced Admission
Ben Franklin Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Cts.
-Off The Cuff CAPITOL RITZ
The
New Haven. Benjamin Franklin papers, now being edited at Yale University, were Iccated in such dissimilar places as the top shelf of a London tailor's shop and
. Philadelphia rubbish heap.
Dr Leonard Labarce, Professor of History at Yale, and Mr Whitfeld Bell, editor and Dsociate editor respectively
of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, explained that Frank- divides her time, in the carly days of the stored between private tuition, play American
Revolution, with her cals, plano lessons --
his papers
for safekeeping In and writing poems for her
the house of a Philadelphia next book which may appear friend. The house was sacked in
дуса.
by the British, and most of tho "Yesterday, three old bearded
papers were
were lost. genilemen came to ste me," sho
wrote to resently friend. "Each walked in with
you
П
hla beard. They asked me: Can you make Alexandrines? which need They are verses 12 feet to stand on. "I thought M.
sadly: first, don't 'make' vertes, A cloud passes, something gushes out. You have nothing to do with it. the cloud la responsible. And then, well, my don't have
have leot, they wings."
came
Her formal recognition
when she succissfully passed the tough exam, of France's venerated Society of Authors. Composers and Music Editors. 10 become the
Society's youngest member. Locked into a room, she had to write a poem on a given sub- Ject within half an hour. Sho flying passed the test with colours-with a 37-line poem on tho "Paris Sky" thut "deeply moved" a jury
lending wṛllers.
of
Today, she has returned to the
ashing village of Pouliguen;
verses
And with that, Minou may have gone for another long walk along the sandy beach near her home, returning with an- other of her winged little
poems. Like this one: The waves don't break on the
beach. They break in my eyes In my cars
On my heart.
-United Press.
Vancouver's Problem-
Getting Rid Of Ashes
Vancouver, B.C.
The problem of what to do with the unclaimed ashes
of cremated bodies is beginning to worry managers of
large crematoriums and funeral homes.
Managers said cremations ar
increasing in popularity, but in
00
per cent of the cases, next-
to say what they can do. They
do know, however, that they cannot dispose of the ashes,
of-kin ieave the ashes uh-So far no action has been taken claimed,
Ono Victoria funeral home re- ported some remaina havo been stored, there since 1913. One of the funeral homes stores the ashes in a fire-proof vault ns part of its service, but schie funeral homes make a charge. Ono of the chiot laments, according to a funeral direc« tor, in the fact there is no lkw
although tho problem has boon discussed with a provincial government commision. Families of deceased persona ef her forget to arrange for disposal of ashes or postpon a decision and then forgot about it.
Urns have often been chiled for years after greination.---United
Some of the papers turned up
a number of years later on the top shelf of a tailor's shop, where the talice wa9 cutting them into paper patterns, Mr Dell said. Some of these manu- scripts scrip
odd are stili in the shapes of cuffs and collars cut by
the tailor,
Other Papers left behind in Philadelphia were found among
a
batch being carted off to a
paper mill
for pulping. Pro-
fessor Laborce said that
บ
search in England and France Franklin papers in
up
turned auch places as the National Maritimo Muscum in Green- wich, London Hospital, and the French Foreign Office, ... China Mall Special.
MAJESTI
TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.20, 1.20 & 0.80 p.m.
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
MARTINE CAPOL "CHARCES BOYER
NANA
Sunday Morning Show AF -12.30 p.m. "MAGNIFICENT
OBSESSION"
SHOWING TO-DAY
AI 8.30, 5.80, 1.30 & 0.30 p.m.
LADD
*Tiga
TO-MORROW SPECIAL SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.
[“TAZA, SON OF COCHISE”
FESTIVAL DRAMA
TO-DAY
(in English)
Garrison Players Somerset Maugham's
THE CIRCLE Missions to Seamen: 8.30 p.m. BOOKING AT SKINNER'S, PEDDER ST.
March 12th-14th.
Linden Players J. B. Priestley's
DESERT HIGHWAY Missions to Seamen: 8.30 p.m..
BOOKING ÁT MOUTHIE'S.
THE MECHANK THE TEMPTATION).
16th, 17th.
H.K. Stage Club
Shakespeare's OTHELLO
ÚTNE TRZASURE) THE TRENCHanet
THE TREASURE OF
PANCHO VILLA
To-morrow Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. "JOHNNY DARK" Color by Technicolor
Lee Theatre (16): 7.30 p.m. (17): 8.30 p.m.
BOORING AT LEE THEATRE'S ITS BOOKING OFFICE, Q'S RD.
20th, 21st.
The Masquers
. Milton's COMUS
Dryden's SECULAR MASQUE'
Wah Yin, Hongkong (20): 8.30 p.m.../
(21): 5.30 for schools G9 p.m.- BOOKING AT MOUTHIE'S & ILK.U. STUDENTS' UNION
21st, 22nd
Kal-Tak Players:
THE WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY. European Y.M.CA. Kowloon. 8.30,p:m BOOKING AT MOUTLIE'S AND AT THE YMCA.