THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST -
1956.
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THE BALANCE OF POWER
Cummings
William Hickey
AND NOW HUTCH IS CENSORED
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GENIUS IN GAOL
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EATED at ease on the porch of a waterfront bungalow
at Trujillo, Hon- duras, the falt-haired man in the smurt white ducks eyed with interest the figure that approached him.
The visitor had stepped out of a yawi off-shore and waded through the shallow“, He was dressed in what might. have been at one time the height of fashion. But now It was merely recentric.
One of the tails of his dress-suit was missing. His once-white shirt was spattered with dirt mud whisky stains. His hat had a brim but no crown,
O. HENRY He knew mea
ان
In the little was born in 1802 township
Cheenborough, North Carolina, som of a doctor. when he wha His mother died thick.
As the American flag was
Much of his ecuratio cane flying nearby the new 17-
from his Aunt Litt who ran a rival felt that the man in
small private school. He was a white ducks must be the viever eureaturiat
#katve American consul at least. well have earned his lying by To But his immediate concern drawing instead of writing. was to find a drink. and his teens he was an avid reader of the English classies though quickly.
somebody in later years when But the white-suited one asked him why he then read so
be replied nu Action was not the American co-o
"It is good reason: sul. He was William Sydney compared with the romance of Porter, who in the years my own life."
He
Ave ahead was to become known to the world as "O. Henry," ars in a drug store, detesting the work but becoming an ex- one of the greatest of all per dispenser and not realising short-story writers.
How important this accomplish-
to him in the ment was £4) ber
worked
dark days
for
with all tame
some
Ragtime affair
bust and NEVER physically
threatened by hereditary lung complaint, he went for health on to a Thuch run by
He responded sympathe tically and promptly to the thirsty plea of Al Jennings. train-robber 021 the run. They were both Americans after all - and they pro ceeded with marked sucerss to celebrate the Fourth of July. Several others joined the party, including Al Jon- nings's brother and fellow boy stories train-robber, Frank. who had also lunded,
Easy Solution
DORTER anet 12 Jaming
Turf tier. Ralong well to- gether, perhaps fentice Porter ko, was a maze on the run, ad- cused of embezzlement from in bank in Texas.
A) had
MI
reasons
family friends in Texas, where he acquired much Arst-hand material used later in his cow-
Them
though
",
to the bigger - sot then
very big centre of Austin, in Texas, to work for a few years +11 171 estate Regent's office, contribute paragrapha And sketches 10 newspapers, marry Miss Athol Bles (when' Be was 25) and take the fateful job of cashier in the First National Bouk of Austin.
That bank x*i}t1s tu have been u very ragtime affair in- During his travels
deech, It was run in the must "required" $30,000,
extraordinarily haphazard way. Tromp steamer
chartered customers ህሩህ -
behaving 09 they Autted chuse and the three
of them
strolling behind the Found the South American const counter, taking out money and until the eash began to run leaving a chit. It was no! un- short
1 for the cashier to be told, for instance, "By the way.
look
$100 the other sure whether
The
Jennings Brothers ha an easy solution: there was 41 bank which
mule con
would veniently be held
nd
Stor Rave
1 The apteshows point Jarnes Bugs ly, his Per.
d the wn clairen. Sterntary
**mouthpiece** TH 1
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the Wille
Sad Kenneth You can have two, buckshee "
Durlig the Prestient's op★ra~ tion 46-pe of huge:ty with ut adeep for 37 ling Dang fre she gave
Just conferenze, A tall de
folkowed theat wath TV pol (adre miler varw
He found on black coffe“ semes lume lacing it with Scotcha
mel Itates
hunter-looking mo With long praga Irish far anki ørev- dreaded hair dingged
a light fo Aught back - yer
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It so happens that at any fingu. bed woman who, w nudist rich, nostalgie occasion there give human) went into a long sand "Marvellon," she Thats
the more," and prestol ant to datong Kenneth's
is nothing more apt
Hutch Leslie Hutchins singing that song of yealer.
year,
"Let's Do 10"
song which ends, "Let's tall in love."
HOLLAN
Hutch, over the years, hus prepared verses naughty. And he had
about pared
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verse
Duke of Edinburgh's fal.
ODD CLUB
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laran Tuky, to Shann low heat
My
little pre-
The travellers seatch og ty aequaine
Tepe sa hk my unqütre.
M
pola SA you a member at the Short What Bike at #fi
Soerthe Club""
,
at ther
1 wil
: any
the tried t 20swer The occasion was a din- If you per you see that you are at the night He en di p
Card Shought off to resp spain ner, altended by the Queen, have
en rubry ship before Committing yourself
the Duke, and the Queen not it's drinks all found Mother, to the British Teani eru which
Olympic won the
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The Sher Snector Club wes
men just after the wor
A
a
ENTER LOUELLA
LITTLE old lady with A stoop and exquisite unkles
thing the cat had deputed in" when I met he in
hell
equestrian events at Stock.ded in America by airline toured hersell 41: "soine-
holm,
country
up at pistol But Porter would have ng to do with it
Al and
And so
Frank Jen-
nings wen! their #WI way, though Al was to ineet Willkarn Sydney Porter
a few again years later --in Oblu Peniten- Liry.
day
I'm
11:31
I left slip."
Porter's predecessor resigned. After a
health breakdown in and Porter's specessor made du attempt at suicide.
And Porter himself? There arrived a Government bank examiner to check over
and accounts
To And William Sydney Porter, the fregularies those which charge. The were in Porter's who became "01. Henry,“
WHAT'S
W
IY does a good, long, look Appreciative from a man so often upset a woman's poise ... turn her shrimp-coloured, make her feet and hands feel
nonstrously big, make her fidget with her bag and handle her umbrella like a weapon of defence?
in
WRONG
The Astonishing
Story Of O.
Henry
By LESLIE AYRE
bank authorities, realising the look another train to New generally chaotle state of Orleans--and eventually arrived affairs, made good the shortage ang decided not to prosecule,
The Government officials,
ff #Irsitu.
of a
in Honduras,
And there it was that the first strange meeting with Α1 and Frank Jennings, the train- robbers, took place.
the
however, inade up their minds that
it was time something was cune, though immediate action After his parting from was not laken. But WIB Porter Jennings brothers
Porter kept had to leave the bank.
up a correspondence with reln- For a time he struggled to tives in
Austin, and one make
day amall there arrived a Christmas pre- paper he had acquired, and then sent frem
sent frem his wife Athol,
and took a job on e newspaper in w with it ncte from her step- Houston. But the blow, which mother, who had always been had only teen delayed, fell at
kind to them both, I told aim last.
that Athol, who had never been The federal authorities
had strong.
had been running a blained
Indictments charging high temperature while packing him with the enabezzlement in his present. 1894 of ther sumis of money from the first National Bank of Austin sut of 554 dollars and two at 299 dollars. Now, two yours after the alleged offence, he received a summons to return to Austin to stand his
trial
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It was then that he took step that gravely prejudiced his case when, the time for the
True, trial eventually arrived. he took a railway ticket from Houston t Ausin, sald zood bye to his family and seemingly And every Intention of going straight away to face his trial."
But apparently he got into a state of pante while on the train and, Ins.ead of going
TD Aurits, he left the train of the amall township
of Hempstead,
(31)
WHY 'O HENRY'?
FOR BAR
multitrackmous
alories, William Sydney
pen-
Porter used many names, but that by which
he bigame known through- Atz! the world Was
"O. Henry."
0 und
He enjoyed making mystery of its origin would sometimes give quite Impossible quirers
any
ATHOL
O. Henry's first wife,
Porter did not hesitate longer, but set off immediately for Austin,
belieyed in him, was dying, and himself.
His wife, who
had
the pollee-Wil Porter
Numbed
alway
was #
being called hurriedly to the alch et some poor wretch who had cut his throat or tried to hang
On one occasion A tough
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popular man in Austin-dropped Negro, ko the absenge of the an unofficial hint that if he kept guard, was becoming danger- out of the way they would not ously abusive to the physician, trouble him during his wife's who had refured him a drug, Illness.
when Porter put an end to the buble by felling the men with smashing blev on the jaw. AB the Ume, on his rounds, he was stening to the stranga stories the prisoners tiad to tell; stories which were to form the basis of many of his own writings. He wrote and published several stories while
In prison, whistling Dick's Christmus ime Stocking" among them,
Athol THEN
died und WIL Porter Inced his telui in the court at Austin, He profcstry his Innocence bul seemed numbed and dialaterested and made little attempt to defend
Ife, for the himself. being, seemed to have knocker
the night out of him He was found guilty and sen- tenced to five years' Imprison
meni
Wus be in fael guilty or Innos ernl"
And one night,
he was guing the rounds with a warder, a cell door was fhung open and he found himself face to face with his friend of Honduras, Al Jennings.
"Colonet, We meet agniri," immense research has since suld Porter as they shook hands. been carried k by Those
While anxious not merely lo white.
of the matter. It has been in- possible to establish beyond all question that he did not take The ansusers to in-
money, but the strong proba- blity is that he was completely Junccent.
There are many
theorics There tous, for instance, a Captain Orrin Henry An charge of the guard at Ohto Penitentiary, where Porter served his sentence. Again, it in said that, in the gaol Austin, Træds, where Porter was held for a time before being moved, there whose wife wana vaglær used to call out; "Oh, Henry" when his meal wan
ready. Porter sometimes said that he saw the name newspaper in New
Orleans,
The truth will never be known for certain,
Prison he wrote
wash him but to get the truth regularly to his daughter Mar- afiret, who had been only eight when her mother died, But, as to keep up the illusion that he was imply working in an- other town, he sent the letters to a friend to reporing. And the secret was so well kept that Margaret was 30 before she know what her inther had
:ullirect.
Certainly, the view is that, on the evidence presented
the to court, he shoul never
have been convicted, Indeed, on the date mentioned IG: ene of the charges against bin, he had already left the bank!
Columbus Gaol. was a nodel prisoner. once
established i for utter reliability. experience
In
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£3
Released
Ohio, he BECAUSE of his unexception-
And nk
reputation His early registered stood him in good stead and he was given the posi
Lo the of drug vlerk
prison
pharmacist
physician.
Porter
In What
complete
able e1duct Porter was re- leased after having served three yenes of his five years' senience And whe Bret to Pittsburgh and then to New York-or
"Baghdad-:n-the-Subway," he colled breatise of tho colour, romaner and adventure he found among the ordinary
charge of the prison drug store, lk of a great city. and was on duty for 12 hours
He never
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talked about his
at a time dispensing medicines dark days and his friends took ailments of it for granted that the subject
sometimes was one not to be mentioned.
lo ease the minor the prisoners,
and
WITH TURNING
A MAN'S HEAD?
ubuut the Monroe wiggle, should sten Lu 1x0 very dignited Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on the subject.
"and it is view.
always result of a wonderful walk,"
The
Bayne, the Queen's shọc-| makte, spoko up for red shoea.
But one day Al Jennings- who by the way, had reformed and had been accepted back in ewirty-roached the matter
of b's
nyany merg with WIH Porte in New York.
His reply way
one
a wheertek: notice a trim, alluring back- | "Colori, have been expecting that question these many years. I borrowed four from the bank on a tip that cotton was going
It went down; up.
got five." I have seen HELENA RUBIN- "I don't sell many." he said. "I In Now York he wrote and STEIN (@gest 79) makte inule suppose
колтет think them wrote, careless of money, gEYES- red brocade vulgar. But with the heads turn in a
right ous and loyal to his friends, un dress with the waist right in and ensemble I find them Irresis ardent lover of life. He married "The Monroe method of mov- the neck right down, and a cart- tible.”
in 1907 an old sweetheart, Sara ing is charming, for the right wheel hot of white tulle. with
• David Niven murmured: Lindsay Coleman, but three what Louella Parsons
woman. It is mainly a matter of her black hair scraped arrogant. "Satin....moulded to the figure years later he contrasted pncu. dictates in a voice like tearing
walking consciously from the ly off her face.
It's a pity debs grow up think- | mondo, struggkd against it typewriter ribbon is syndicated
It isn't the same
1 have hips. Many British women make the whole {i;*«133[yt!; ;i}1 ever
world
unrelieved ing that a mass of tulle is the some days, and was last lound over, Italian
DIETRICH (52) In the mistake of walking from the women
Last word "
lying unconscious on the floor. bloom under an admiring glance; kaves-an ugly and Hollywoxi's
constricted black up to her ears, emphasis- • James burd hitting
Laver, Fashion Mr Rober LAmalies traffic
American girls accept a road- movement."
ing that carved white face.
historian, said: "Well-fitted
A Candle of the biggest columnist had flown in with a
driller's wolf-whistle as a com- Now
Women narrow-legged trousers. Very British travel agencies, tella ine cheque for the wedding et her
pliment, not an Impertinence;
like godchild, Barbara Lyon. She
these eye-catching on a sum woman,TIVEN In his last moments he The me nearly 1,000 nem-
French women have to be look-
refuse Monroe, and an all-painting fei bought Nowers
Marilyn ed at-hard-before they kur
to especially in dark tanlan," come
be one
a quip. Vivien Leigh.
to life at all.
the crowd.
EJLET
Candall- vat.ons just one air crossing of Allante. The <-tub lnes Even the hearty outdoor the excuse for the dinner could spread to nearly every not dispel the atmosphere and has thousands of members.
The club card is a dollar bill that belongs to Quaglino's- overprinted with the club name taken over for the occasion three witness signatures, and 1.280 by the host, Colonel Vivian the date of joining. Williams.
of
50 Hutch sang the song that
the Duke dulghtcl Windsor in the old days; und the 119 guests yelled be more and more verses.
But those in the know waited In vain for the verse about the Duke's fall at Windscr
Hulch told me: "At 6 pm. I
uven was introduced by the Duke of Baufort that there was to be no personal reference to any mem
er of the Royal Family just had to leave it out."
Hutch was consoled.
50 1
ite sakt **The Duke let out a gale of laughter when I put in a verse about rearning Blues,"
of one
bers to Blain. Short Sporters neroad get together for a party. The mine implies that they are on the move so much they rule
skort merts have time for The ban,"
#1
America
Mis Parons fold to: "Column willing is not the fun it was de the twenties at the dawn of the Alm Ta before TV was ever thought about
A m
not ggest- Ing for minuto
a
scen
By SYLVIA LAMOND
MARLENE
could
10T
asked the
nat resist
• Egon, portrait painter, likes In hospital he The reason could be that the that we should all try to copy And they don't get embarrassed "one splash of sizzling colour in nurse to biing E candle English woman places too great
sombre The Monroe walk, or the Monroe by mens tres because they are a completely
outfit." and quoting B popular We are look. a store on dignity.
ol Them Example. "Long emerald gloves cong whispered: "I'm afraid to supremly confident clined to treat the
who Man
nclves.
with inky blue dress, shoes, and go home in the daris.” looks as something less than 繇
hat no jowellery, no fuss," And so if you should find your- gentleman, and the woman who THE KANGAROO HOP
John
•
Städcles. interior self re-reading, say "The Gift She said her favourite English-turns heads regularly as some- man was Ronald Coleman; her WO Test erfekel exptains, a
decorator, looks for a girl with of the Mag that tender lille less than a lady.
"exuberance.
The air and the Christmas story of marital hop- if we arc honest wartime bomber ace, and an #reatest scoop the story of Ingrid
bright eyes which tell you that places think kindly of Will baby. Bergman's
with ourselves, aren't icelar launched "The Kangaroo Hop" the craziest dance step
thee the Charleston.
Hassett In
THE WIT OF HITCH
12,000-mile trip through
It was at the Australian Ball ALFRED Hitchcock, the film- of the Sevey under the chair maker famous for stispense, to ride in the ship of former Test captain has flown back to London after
Lindeny
ald of the a
the Cheshire Homes
in- Africa, curable.
He has been there looking for Jan Johnson and Lindsay locations for a film which will Hasselt sang the words of the not have any animals in it at all
The Queen spt at a table of 17 with the other riders and owners. She is part owner of the cham plen Jumper Countryman III- with the Queen Mother, the Duke of Braufort, and Colonel Williams,
The menu
represented the horses which won of Stockholm, Sole, A Countryman Duck's Wild Venture, A Kilbarry KoolT
д
The Qucon and the Duke stay ed until 1 a.m.
And what was the verse about the Duke's pola fall? Said Hutch:
censored.
KISSES AT 2s. 6d. KWIMMING star Esther Williams optried a garden
as a duel. Sold Johnson: only humans
necessary "Why they have to land a evil,” sighs Hitch. toicated artist like myself with He went to Victoria Falls and a tundless wonder like Lindsay, slipped on a wet rock. "And I just don't know."
then
fourleen stone of me col- Said Hossett: "That man just ispred, hurting my arm. It's called ruined
Tiltchcock Falls
now In slow motion, Group Director
Hitchcocit, who is demonstrated the dance-part- mount, askod the Colonial Office Leonard Cheshire, V.C, making his next fim fer Para- nered by Belita.
for facilities to visit Basutoland. polka but is more energetic. naland?) and other territories in The new dancɔ̃ resembles a "Jack Buchananland" (Bechua-
Said band leader Vic Lewir. "It British Africa. could sweep the country."
The
Colonial Office said officials would be. only too happy to arrange everything Includ ing moeting for Hitchcock with the Paramount Chief
"Fino," suid "Hitoh, "he's "my"
MAN OF THE DAY,
porty in Regent Park the other WORRY over President. Elsen day "In aid of; blind children, ail hower's health, reflected. In einegra concern of Mike Williams, the New York and London stock: boss, who teaches them to unlim.
"exchanges," "proimpla - mo to pinepti
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Thin
it
I AM suggesting that We
If you feel like laughing at could, most of us, learn a lesson yourself in a huge tullo
hat, from the Monroe Philosophy. other people most certainly will If you wear it gravely and coolly Marilyn set out quite deliber- and refuse to run for a bus in
་ most of ately to be stunning and "dif- other people will treat where she is going is exciting." Porter. He knew men and women us a little envious of that most ferent." When she is no longer with the respect it deserves.
Woman, Marilyn young, she will still be different Monroe? She invented a walk and turning male heads in the --and electriféd the Afties. same enviable way.
Stunning women are not ham- pered by age,
Jooked-af
And every twin-setted, ptari- roped lady who decis superior
JOHNNY HAZARD
YOU KNOW, JESS, I THINK AIR.GAMBIT SHOULD BE INFORMED OF THE RUDENESS OF HIS PERSONNEL: TOWARD THE PATRONS OF THIS.
"E CLUB, DON'T YOU?
VEFINITELY, JOHNNY! WHAT OFFENDS HUE MORE THAN THEIR UGLY PACKS IS THEIR UGLY MANNERSI.
WISH GUY, THE OOF!
The best way not to be one of] and always wrote of them with I asked six men what would the crowd, of course, is to compassion. For he had walked make them look twice ot a thoroughly enjoy being looked and talked with them in the woman they pass in the street, a
shadows as well as in the warm sunshine,
Baron, the connoisseur of beautiful women; said: "I always
AND SO'S YOUR UGLY FRIEND!
Ask any stunning womani
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calls for
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