POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
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CENUINE SHIPWRECKED }MARINERS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1956.
MISS KLOOGER IN SEARCH
A publicity
OF EXPERIENCE
RECORDS by PETER BUCHAN-
"Yes?" NNETTE KLOOGER'S I said:
publicity The
mpa muld' man said:
"Miss Kiwoger was vory wil "This វ៉ង Annelle
That Australia known" in Klooger." Miss Klooger, who sings popular songs, looked demure and smiled sweetly,
Her publlelly Man said: "Mary Klooger, you know, was * sier at Tr
child ᏓᏛ . She was earning £75 » wek
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Written composition (15)
8 Actual (4).
9 Gave up wire (8).
13 Parched (4)
11 Suggested (8)
10 N.C.O. (8).
18
Occupied (1)
10 Stalk (4)
21 Set free (8)
25 Apes (8)
26 Dregs (41
27 Wealth stored up (8).
YESTERDAY'S
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was a child
where she She won a £700 radio when the was 14
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conies.
Tsabt "Yead offered Mis
She said Kituger sirizak
Thank you" and asked for brandy and tonie (repeat- tonie). And a cigarette
1h 1 Miss Klooger-
ment vou nasty
tel
cious"
"Why {JI:༥༥.-
I don't Mise Kionger saniled канди I never have been 1'in
10 thy guess."
NO SCOPE
L'h bustness"
it
"People got quite a shock."
salinagined they did. Did they ask for autographs?
"Oh, you Even grown-ups. "And now, when I appear at a theatre people come round and .eo me afterwards--Australians that is--and they sty I remem ber you an a ifttle girl.”
As the wis so well-known in
Aurralla was it worth: coming to London?
"Oh, yes I was getting about £80, or £95 week when left Australia.
£4,000 a year."
Australian pounds?
Ye
Austrijan 1-09
About 15 sbalings in English handicap in show money Say 3,000 a year But
1 varied from week to week.
It will varies, but I'm doing Fetter than that now.
"It's TV and records that do It Until January when I left the hund no one knew
me much. But now I've done 12 15 tek Vision :hows and I've sade six records.
fotond 1 L214- Jan wil right when in on stage
Miss Kroger
produced
own cigarettes and IR one,
"I used the £700 1
to Bagland
won 10 There isn't entrugli
joy Hope
Australia Tara Just radio. No TV-n0! until the end of this year
!, you Prople there buy
bir records, but there isn't a enrugli požariation lu sell a jol
Thats
THE DI why eline to England The other Is that I wanted more experience."
The publicity agent "Sack red at pw
She's ben Since In stove teisiness for she was eight
Mis Kluger said. Thirteen years
DOWN
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1 Harvest (4).
Wall decoration (4),
4tegrets (4).
fireedy (4)
Internal (5)
7
Fulshed (0).
10 Carrying chair (5).
12 Perch (5).
14 Lifeless (5).
18 Send
17
(5),
17 Washer (6).
19 Rapid (5)
20 Banish (5).
21 Falls behind (4).
12 Beverage (4).
23 Highest point (4),
24 Besides (4).
CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Örated, 4 Exit,
7 Impuk r. 8 Trona, 9 Repeal, 11 Element,
13 Intrude,
Instej, 18 Valet, 18 Rounders. 20 79thr, 21 Ensure.
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Dow 1 10 Osier. 2 Truer, 3 Dwelled, 4 Extire. 5 Indolent, 0 Sunset, Petulant. 32 Leisure. 13 Invert, 14 Untrue, 16 Sides, 17 Paste.
1 sald "Which makts you
***Twenty-two next But Miss Khenger
Im geling oki
month," "Oh, deak,
"Part of my prize was a B- month ronitet in wortely here When that finished 1 joined a dance band
Th
was good experience Different ongs every night,"
AUTOGRAPHS
And she was only 197
"Only 14
tute
But she wayer
注
hursda around her irim
und started to eat steuk..."
well, Whe,
large grown up long before that.
"People used to take me for much older. Though one of my first acts whe to sing off-stage
had quile deep voice then welk on looking like Hittle girl.
--
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
—AND WHEN YOU FINISH THAT,
YOU MAY CUT THE GRASS —”
WHEN SHE BEGINS I ASSUME. CONTROL AND GIVES ORDERS—AND HAS A DAILY LIŠT
OF THINGS FOR HIM TO DO.
IT'S OVER
WHEN A GIRL
GOES BACK.,
TO SOAP OPERAS
FOR ROMANCE.
11
VI
POLISHED
NEW BOOKS .by. George Malcolm Thomson
ROBERT BENCHLEY. By Nathaniel
Benchley, Cassall, 18s. 250 pagos,
THEN Robert Benchley died in
1945, mourners
for gathered appropriate memorial rites in the high-class Bohemian bars of New York and Hollywood, For Benchley, after a slow
had start,
grudunted 114
leading American comie of his time.
He was the kind of man everybody liked. And in 1945 he died, as such men do, young (56). His son writes a
which biography
is objectively plous, somewhat in need of trimming, spotted with good stories.
Benchley (of old Welsh stock) moved into journalism from advertising, and out
the of journalism into better. cushioned
world
L
| of filma. He made
and spent a great deal of money. He made-and lived on- legend in which one main ingredient.
was the
exact, but crazy, reasoning of the clown, and another was the whimsical imagery of the artist.
Man in a white suit
4
4
Emmw0OD
THE MAN WHO HATED
1
BEING FUNNY
He loved zanies of
tion where shirts are repaired.) Benchley appolated this men to Took after his business affairs.
אן
une-man
book,
a
history
the
of
the
for He has
penguins.
It was part of the legend of King Abdullali of Jordan; he very kind,
puritation was deeply This once shy and
involved One day he met a man who extrovert that he became Arab-Israeli struggle. When Benchley fell self was carrying a small bunch of Hollywood star, hero of a suc-
violets covered in wax paper. ession of
He writes about that past with: films 11 in a muke so much conscious
now white
I hope 12 Tury don't
1101 detaining which pecullar
of detachment and a day gift kind mony as variety.
"You look bunicur But when suit, he said: "I have the you," said Benchley
(the mock-serious leg exploiting the fareloal, people have seen yuu on TV or
if you had a daly
he ample material to work on. was exploited: that feeling of being sky.
Jurer) vaid you, then they go to the
That's ali right." said the lived in a hotel room crowded who
In 1948, King Abdullah, sum- can't spell."
of Hitage where you're on. That's writer
am just taking these with hideous enyl-offs where the money is,"
When the world was ringing flowers to a shirt in the shirt Victorian era (and Noel Coward, moned a conference of the Arab with
Jews. The Egyptian, Nokrushi Charles Lindbergh's Hospital" (An American insitu mu say, 4 looks lived in States then fighting against the
and always pd to write
Pasha, crossing trans Atlantic
said nothing. coxplaining serious Benchley telegraphed to
humorists in the reign of Queen that he had come to listen. The King sald That no doubt he friend:
Anne. "Any Uldings of
A
dramabe erile, 1
to listen to. he
would have plenty Lindbergh? Left here
It was another part L'everyd
tort set of pre- Benchley legnil
that he never but to go on with how about the consignment of artillery ammu- Judices, week ago, am worried."
pidgin 4.4. against
Hot round to writing at
nition for the Arab Legion which "If one Englah on the stage. His friend was equal to the
seized the Egyptians had more of these wonderful natives funtion. He wiry bark
shows
speaking
Svez? up
Didgin, I you mean Gange Linbergh?”
When
success name Benchley leave," he whispered to his wite half-way through one play on A news- it with caution,
asiced
him: "Do you freq Brndway different now you are "Abie's Irish rose" success Than when your starte 1 or?" Benchley answer- your career?" id with reluctanCC.
KLDOGER rlands mder a pot of mousy, r
company
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thanks
30 the
obviously
Tue, Jutust Ktooger Two oppeals rwaled afund, Trach Me to Dance and Mama, I long for a Sweetheart
I rea F10776, 78 г.p.) with best- elling band Edmundo met
100s.
Alick,
T: ex เ TECHN It 15 appurent
from experience Miss Klonger
kw what she is doing
Not
Per
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"When I
A wild-eyed
Kypsy
Bir
my caner 1 wore a size appeared on the stage ned said, coltar. did exerekes
"Me Nubi. Nubi good girl. Nubi 8.ay here."
that I completely like my chest, and had ver
what she is doing. Though I can't help liking Miss Klooger,
SHE OUGHT to be rusly and
She isn't.
UPC COCIOUS.
You ask if I feel
of
the
THE BENCHLEY ROUND. UP. Cassoll, 18. 333
01
adviser
di
When the Jordan Prime Minister
that the suggested
to attack Egyptians might ke the Jews so as to draw oft some pagos.
pressure from the Arab Legion, RIGHTY-NINE trifles by the Egyptian military
Robert Benchley, selected by said in horror, "Good God, no! Fit won Some of these articles The Jews might attack us
•stablished Benchley's reputa: turn." The Iraq) Minister asked tion as a humorist. It survived sweetly if attacking and being some of the others. Being a attacked was not normal to furay man
hard work. army engaged in warfare. to Ilenchley found.
The Syrian Prime Mindster that to prevent the Holy Cily failing into the hands the Zionists, Syria would A CRACKLE OF THORNS. of
send an infantry division to fight By Alec Seath Kirkbride, on its battlements. found
greeted with enthusiasm, al though everybody knew that the division only Syrian Infantry this of strang A man
ux-proconsul who has taken was already fully committed m
Gullec, contracts, war Benchley hated
be a success," of his sense of humour into retire- end birds, especially pigeons; he "Just about as low as good ment with him. For
30 years Relief soon made an exception in favour of clean fun can get."
he was friend and adviser of
had a drikk different now."
He hated his reputation as a humorist, and tried in vain 10 SHE OUGHT to try to look (eseupe from it: "It took me 15
bisbeutet, She could
OUGHT SHE
not to drink rundy and tonje. But she does, And with a background like
even had ringlets hershe
he shouldn't be a thoroughly
quien girl ak",
uny mother would be glad to have her son Tak hume to tea.
Which she 18.
years to discover that i had Do Talent for writing. but I could Hot give it up because by that time we too famous " Loved zanies'
The Honeymoon's Over
YER THE HONEYMOON IS ON THE WANE
WHEN HE'S TOO BUSY TO KISS HER GOODBYE EVERYTIME SHE GOES TO THE DELICATESSEN.
QUNU
"SURE WE'RE
HOME / COME
RIGHT OVER /
"REALLY♪ "MUST YOU ACT
LIKE YOU'RE BEING RESCUED FROM A
DESERT
ISLAND T"
DON'T WISH TO
BE NOSEY, DEAR, BUT CAN YOU!
/ COOK ANYTHING
BESIDES,
WATER-CRESS SANDWICHES ?
announce,
that
Benchley rose: "Me Bobby Me bad boy, M. 19.
He had the misfortune
after the fist night, "Abie's Irish Rose" war the worst play in New York-~
ran for 2,327 performances Every weck through those years Benchley
fresh to say about something
something like,
It. laugh
every
People night.
Murray, 211, 201 pages,
dislikes, which explains why, Cizitocracy ALEC KIRKBRIDE 18
can
never
BY HARRY WEINERT
THEN COMES THE BLACK DAY WHEN A GIRL- REALIZES THAT SHE PLAYS SECOND FIDDLE. TO A LOT OF FISHING RODS, REELS, PLASTIC POLLIWOGS AND OTHER ASSORTED LURES,
COPA. 1956 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP.14WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED. '
"HOW CAN
YOU STAND
"THAT
STUFF?
I THINK I'LL STROLL DOWN
TO THE BOWLING SU ACADEMY -
MUST KEEP UP
WITH CIVIC
AFFAIRS- Y'KNOW /
"THAT STUFF HAPPENS TO BE MY."
FAVORITE PROGRAMS
THE SAD DISCOVERY, THAT ONE
"TV ERT IBNT ENOUGH
ELIT
announced
This.
tvss
When the spokesman for the Arab Legion asked when the frat Syrian troops might, be ex- pected, the Syrian Prime Mini- ster replied benevolently, "In a few days, my dear, if God wills."
Jerusalem thus saved, the conference turned to a more congenial tople-the distribution of Zionist properly among the Arabs after the impending victory-until somebody remem- bered that I was dinner-dimë,
The Arab leaders then re- tired to stuff themselves with rice and mutton--and the Arab preas wrote of "their unshak-, Jable determination to carry ori the struggle against the 08- gressors, regardless of the Sacri- flees involved.”
This is perhaps, the comic highlight of Str. Alec's excellent book of reminiscences; it has other moods as well, dramatić and tragic.
DISQUIET AND PEACE, bÿ William Cooper, Macmil- lan, London, 15x.
THIS Is 0 novel with
T
Edwardian setting. Its char- acters are drawn from, avsmall circle of high class London society-lords and ladies, load- ing professional men and their” social-climbing wives.
It could probably be described as a remenilo drama, except thint it is very gently dramatis. The "scandal la of the non-conyui“. sive variety.
When Arnold's loving swife, Muriel, at the height of melancholle depression, skips out of her husband's life with a drab young rake who has just mado a tow hundred thousand, in a diamond venture in South Africa, no one intimately, cores cerned speme particularly con corned. Arnold, a very under standing and sympathetics, iñus=" band, least of nikdy
*Me Cooper we introduces achie satulations and characters, Ty3
and about Pagelam, the conte Interest felt in this Books, for me war whether Muriel, returns to Arnold. So I turned to the last
'This is, a, book one han, skip through quickly. In descriptive poneoges have “no, particular | literary, quality, Thézálúlogue tells the story. In fact, it could quito oarily haye, been h play705
Wilke rompent to the kidklok who
KDisquiet and Poscom doi