THE · CHINA - MAIL, ·· SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ··15, 1956.
The Treal-life › stars of cricket met in
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a nélk mystery by
WAG
RANCIS QUARLES 1⁄4la." He rubbed his hands woke up at seven together. "To anybody who o'clock that August rings up I am absolutely un- morning, jumped out available, you understand of bed with unusual alacrily, that? I have been hired and made sure that the sun to protect Marilyn Monroe shining after the from a kinup attempt or- He took his wanised by Bulge and night's rain. bath, bellowing while he Krush. I am-" was in it "O my Hornby and my Buriow long ago,' ate a hearty breakfast, and ar- rived early at his office Trafalgar Square,
"What am I to do about these?" Sho WRVel the in papers in her hand.
"Tell Nosy to keep his eve on the butler. He's got the diamonds slowed
Page somewhere. and "Rowun can stay on the
His secretary, Molly Play er, coming in with papers, found
looking an away him xiously out of the win dow
"There's #1 report from Nasy Watson," she said. "He says he's on to some thing about
Lady For
of b for another couple days. And now leave me alone, girl. Or better still, get me Gregory Kane on the
ne."
** your busi net what I de l' Bowerman snapped
of PUIT.
LIAN SYMUNS
The Oval Test murder
• All characters in The Oval Test Murder story apart from the players-are entirely fictitious.
The umpire does
a little bit of teasing
Quarles Ind
121
come
to him umpires' room
المديريا
would
She might say he was crazy. but
Bowerman but seen the fear in her eyes. Then a tek phone call to a certain person, a little more teasing, you might call it. "If you could arrange to be at The Oval today, we migh!
William Hickey
MOMENT OF TRUTH
IN BACCARATA
B
elegant
Centre
London, looking very ACK in London from Court, Interspersed enthusiastic
"Good shows" the heat-bakod lidos "cles."
above the wřid
I took one look at the rain and my mind slip- ped back effortlessly to the sunshine,
'ALL-WOMEN FIRM
Now what do earn in Lon
don? Here's an odd thing. To the glint of Monte Imagine a business expleo run Carlo, for Instance. Now by women-a company with 10,000 shareholders all women, there is an intriguing situa- save for seven men a company
1 determined to find with tion.
about out more
the Gou- £400,000.
nil women! jandris Affair. I picked up the phone....
I learned that for the a chat in the interval." second night running all of Bowerman had said. The voice Monte Carlo's top gamblers ot the other end sounded had refused to play baccarat mystified. "A chat about the
not go through. have "This is no good, see?"
over 4
11 the treat-
night of August the eleventh" at the Sporting Club as Bowerman said, "Do you under-protest against
of Mrs George Gou- ment: sland what I mean?"
landris. “Oh," the voice at the other 10
Then: "All right. end said.
When and where?"
Bowerman put the ball core fully aside and then sat with hands on knees, idly clicking computer. Most uin- pires we stones, dice (or at The Oval, tiny beer barrels), count the number of balls in an over. Some year ago there was a fashion for using a little
Charles Bowerman laughed machine called
computer
aloud, a short, sharp sound like which chekel over numbers
He from one to six, and Bowerman something dangerous, like tweak
a dog's bark,
wis doing wall adhered to it.
ing a tiger by the tail, but Kuve Mir +1 great deal of
on
to the
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"Sull faithful to computtar, Bru you, in the petty said.
for help once or twice, and roof. There his assistant
Johnston His forn had helped Bernie
had waiting for him Kane. The detective been surprised
de broadcasting hul, lighted by the invitation
Macteen looked out through do?" Bowennen glass at the crowd,
To be Kane's guest in the first day of The Oval Test match.
Voice changed
your ok pleasure,
Charlie?"
"Is it your business what I KUI up and put the computer into his white umpire's coat on the wall,
Wicket inspection
telling
There is the cast. Have we forgotten anybody? Merely tho "Fools," he said. "Can you
"What's up?
who Get out of bed players Inngine it. Bernie, some of them
were sitting in on the wrong side this morning.
their dressing-rooms
chewing have been queueing for hours
Charße?" Jack Petty naked.
Jokes, or talkin to watch grown men tapping a
about the wicket. Peter May ball about They must be mad."
Bowerman adil sat with hands had taken a party out to look
knees Bernie sale!
but on
ho None of that,"
wad now
at It, including his two spinner not By
You're smiling, The time that I That's not your ne.
very pleasant Tony Leek and Jim Laker, who Maclean,
Had he got out of bed believed that the ball would turn Stable. That well-known the great cricket commentator, You're on the air
on the wrong side that morning? almost at once, and sharply, Kantber. radio commentator, reached in Avo minutes. By the way, 12
On the contrary, he had done exactly what he intended to do The Oval the crowd wound do you see your aversion,
1 the like
First, he had put the fear of suke about The Bowerman, is one of the 1-
God into his wife. Patricia, al ground, and coiled into sido prese
the breakfast lable,
restry's diamontis,
Report-
ing again today
"Francis Qunries 7** Dr Pat by tele Gregory Kane said.
Hello there, Fran- phone, Chris Page is stin him on. trailing that man you sus- cis, how are you?*
pected in the Lassiter case;
no
results
Rowan's
Un
***h
yet,
"You haven't 1st Ricky
Quarles it with him, tickets?
asked, They want to know how "You haven't
ralled much longer are you out urgently to settle some abstruse medien-legal argu- listening?"
ment? We are going to "Sun, glorious san. that The Oval texlay soaks up rights of rain,“ Quarles said, "Do you know what thal Molly?"
"We are." Dr Kane said means, with a chuckle. "I pick you up in an hour's time."
#*
streets,
all
WILS
L
"is be now? I might have a
few words to say if he gets up I've got
tho and
proof
Where were you on the tight of Monday, August the eleventh, my girl? answer me that. When 1 was umpiring up at Edgbaston
al midnight. Eh
"I've told you before, I in bed and asleep."
Wix
But would the wicket settle down after the first hour or two
She, you will recoll, drew a total of five with her two corda; near nine, the top and with the object of getting seure, could draw another curdi-or not, ag she pleased.
This choice
given only lo the holder of a total of five the tures and 10's count as nought): and it is a racking decision to make.
I know. the decision.
I have had to make
pald up
and five
capital of directors
I stumbled upon this extra- ordinary concern becuso I board that there was a Restora- tion-style room It Now Bond Street where women can go and drink tea, any morning-free.
IL sounded unbusinesslike. Feminine. So I went along to investigado and found tall, bluc- oved Mrs Emily" le Roux, wito of a South African Nationalish M.P., dispensing gin and whisky -not ten,
She was officially opening the ten room as a Mayfair “shop window" for a South African tem ad coffee outfit. Mirs ta Roux is the chairman,
She told me: "We have two purposes-to prove to men that women are just as capable in business, and to see that women get a share of the profits of food production-after all, they aro the biggest purchasers.
"We have been running for a year and so for we've broken
The point ist if you draw an even," ace, two, three or four, you have done well; if you draw a picture ********
or a 10 you are as you were:
ioff.
anything else and you are worse
Well, Mrs Goulandris -- who is Cyril Washbrook summed up the the pretty, blonde. Texan-born
Greek shipowner Keterul
when he said: wife of a view
said she called fur 21 "puter, I tell you sont thing.
eard. Whatever you do, whether you
changed her mind, and then win the tow
allowed to Jose it.
whether realised she wasn't you but or put them in, ir it change her mind.
She expected goes wrong you'll be blamed for card and was refused one.
A captain's like the selectors
The banker, on behalf of the if things go wrong he's in Sporting Club,
turned trouble, if they go right most two
up his cards. They totalled six. to say thank people forget to
Mrs Goulandris wasn't pald and the bels at stuke totalled
£8,000.
The
Two
Inside,
the free
lo his usund Auntless. Here we seats arrel terraces book- go." His voice changed lla tone ed full. It
became richer hot slightly.
and And took diepper
1711 a faint day. Already people were A
unfifontifiable broguens The eating ice-creams and
the microphone. Make into drinking cups of tea, small "It re we are at The Ovel, on 2 children on
the grass werɑ day of high summer, with tie and telephoned. Where were you cartside the pavilion, chumouring
for lemonade. Ker brooding down on us crowd waiting Im- tele and old men
saying patiently for
the captains Peter May ought to come our do if he won the toss.
When Jack Polly arrivod Leo Maclean showed the The Ovat he found his CONTI- ticket that took him into panion umpire, Cleries Bower- the pavilion, went up the man, jassing one of the cricket like to know what Ht 152′′
bulls from the cupboard In the
she "You're crazy, Charlie," The players' stairs
mys PAKIST through The mail. **I'm going shopping. and the
gauge for size and shape. The Goodbye "
"A quotation, isn't it?"
He put down the blonde Molly Player asked phone and rubbed his nose. with heavy sarcasm.
De Gregory
Kane
what
a
strikingly handsome man of fifty, who had turned in the past few years from general 1. practice to specialisation in
"It means, after the rain we've been having, a wicket that will play tricks. 1 means Lock and Laker. means trouble for Austra- medico-legal problems dressing-rooms
past
were
10
At
Then a little turn of the screw. a liitle fousing,
"I've got proof at where you were, my gul Wouldn't you
ме hal- crown was spam, shone in the sunlight.
earth. dropped to Peter May had won the fuss. He looked out at the pitch and up at the sky. Then he said: "You bat."
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MONDAY:
The strange decisions
ELSA MARTINELLI PLUMPS FOR A LATIN LOVER
THOMAS WISEMAN DISCOVERS APHRODITE AT THE
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
Waiting for Ava became her madly, next she makes married is if she wishes to the script she is a very sexy girl. rather a bore.
him hate her,"
have a baby,
Venice. PRESENT
to you variation on the eternal
the
This year Vene- triangle
Hugging is tian Square Dance. Or how not waiting for any lxxy.
are with
All his dates
Despite the problems of getting on with Ava, Hug- ging is planning a film with her.
"Aphrodite" naturally
and she will
It is called
play the title role.
to change partners with- out stepping on anybody's Miss Martinelli, who seems The most beautiful more particular about keep tbe. girl on the Lido today ising appointments. Ela Martinelli, a kind Audrey Hepburn with sex What makes the situa-
"I also hope to have Elsa tion particularly piquant is in appeal.
it, in a smaller role. that Miss Martinelli's She cannot yet play Aphro- Though her dimensions former boy friend. Italian dite. She is not experienced are smaller than La Lollo's, actor Walter Chiari, is her potentialities, I
the moment the great love say, are greater.
in the life of Ava.
You might call this Roman La Ronde.
would
She has already made one film with Kirk Douglas and she goes to London in October to make a film with Trevor Howard.
Her constant
companion
around Venice at the night-
The details
1.
enough for that."
When Miss Martinelli came in she was wearing the white beach pantaloons and a bright blouse, open-sandals and sun glasses.
I was invited to break clubs, parties and on the fast with Miss Martinelli beaches is Robert Hugging, in her suite.
As far as I was concern- ed she could play Aphrodite any day.
As sho talks, her pozes were all straight out of the I glossy fashion magazines.
She is as finely moulded as Venotinn 'glass but less transparent.
the Italian illm promoter, Before meeting her who is also reputed to be # talked to Hugging, who filled in the background de- tails,
millionaire.
Close friend
"I took her to the Sports Club in Monte Carlo," he
All over He has another distinc said, "She was a sensation. tion. He is (or was) a They all crowded around close friend of Ava Gard- her,
Inevitably, the conversa- She has a great ap- peal, I think she will be a tion turned to men, tremendous star,
ner.
He was the Italian-pro- ducer of her film "The Bare- "She foot Contessa.”
be can
very mysterious and feminine
On the whole, she con- aiders them a splendid sex. Ava, she said, was wel- His interest in her, it one evening, and the next come to Walter Chiari.
morning she is Nko à child,
Six months ago she was 'was 'sald, exceeded the nor
a tomboy.
In love with him, but now mal Interestea of a financier
it was all over.
She was in his investment.
"Now Ava is quite dif- not a bit jealous and stid Hugging had a date to ferent. Sho is very mixed- they were still friends. most Ava on tho - Lido “ut up. She does, not know I do not wish to got Jast year's festival.
She never turned up.
what she wants. Ono mo married," she said." "The ment she makes a man love only reason for a girl to got
"I do not wish this now. I have enough family al- ready to support.
"I have seven sisters and a brother. But if I do get mar- ried It would be better to marry n millionaire,"
There appears to be no short-
of milionaires
willing to marry her.
Bye
fall in love
She has had, at a rough esti- mute, 30 proposals and quite a few of them from millionaires.
Their names? "This I do not remember, I have a very bad memory for names,"
bo a
The casino authorities were more than unpopular. And the Greeks, who are the biggest gambler, had a word for them. They said they would not play again unless the banker involved was transferred.
Mrs
me:
THE DUKE'S DINNER THE Duke of Kent dinect informally the other night In Ono of, Knightsbridge's newest restaurants the Louisiana in Milner Street,
He was with two men, one en
fashion Antican, and
model Barbar Miura, who word a dress of Palatey printed wool.
The Duke sat opposito Bar- bars Miura at a small candle-Jit table under a modernistic mural. They discussed ski-ing in. Switzerland and the degeneracy, of the English nation,
the chemical
K
Barbaru Miura is married to
of generel
manager Arm. Sho he an eight-year-old daughter Anita and a 20-month-old' son Robert James,
abo
She has been polected for the top Joba in her business, Goulandris told
As the and the men "After the banker turned up his snails, the Duke drank poup. own cards I mude no protest They had roast chicken and and neither did my husband, but coffee. They drank red 'wine, players all round protested They stayed two hours and strongly."
were the last to leave,
I felt that the restaurant And especially when someone summed up the Duke's toslen showed that the card she would red and white gingham table- have drawn was a four!
cloths, white candles, vine The casino authorities ordered leaves on a trellis, one Spanish an inquiry. Both the bank and waiter, and Louis Armstrong the chef-Inspecteur reported jazz relayed over a loudspeaker,
that Mra Goulandris never asked for a card.
The row goes on... as the stakes at the top table dwindle,
Here, everybody stands around This is how I will play her. If trying to recognise somebody or the English director does not striving to bo recognised by BULL FIGHT like sex, I think there will be anybody. But I found Napoleon
mile down the TN London it was still raining. in exile half a trouble.
beach at a quieter hotel, where
1 My mind went back to my "I am also
about they
do not hold the daily last stop, sweltering Madrid... Trevor Howard," she confessed. identification parade, "I bin supposed to fall wildly
Edmund posed to be in love will him. He is sup-
a man with much appeal for women.
worried
much
"I go to him rather than Pedro Armendariz, the olher man in the story--and he is Latin.
J
A man angry
Napoleon, of course, is actor Herbert Lam, here on holiday with his smail son Nikki, He was angry that his film "War and Pesco" was not being shown at "I am sorry, but
I do not tho Festival. think this
plausible. Mr Howard la, not the right kind of man for this,
"This fim is not "Brief En-
is a marvellous actor.
Perhaps
Lord
First
Howard, brother of Howard of Penrith and Secretary of the British Embassy, wore a peaked card- board cap.
The Second Secretary of the Belgian Embassy, Pierre Ancioux de Faveaux, tic unknotted, swigged beer from a bottle,
We WETE
You know?
*******4-
ARTIST, AGED 4
IR Albert Richardson,
SIK
70-
year-old Royal Academy president, offered to judge 53,000 selected 200 which are on show paintings by boys and girls, and
at Olympia,
Sir Albert told me: "This is the answer to those who say ur children are growing up to bo Teddy Boys and TV acklicts.
Four-year-old Polar Butter- worth, of The Minch School, Basingstoke, han
Mummy, Daddy, and Me." It painted
hilarious effort.· Sir Albert and I laughed aloud,
*******
19 on
5,000 shrieking Spaniards at
squashed smong
PASSING THOUGH buli fight in Alcala de Henares, 16 miles from the capital.
TREASURE the remark of "After all," he said, "it is an
On the sand below us three of Mr John Lodges U.S. Italian festival and this is the Spain's finest toreros, Gregorio Ambassador in Madrid, after biggest Italian flm ever made. 1 Sanchez, CeSAT Giron (from finishing £1
do not say it because play Venezuelo), and Julio Aparicio parties:- Napoleon-I am here unofficially twirled in their canary pants on holiday, but it should havo and despatched six bulls be- boen shown."
tween them.
round of official
"I am · · sorry" I don't have another, ilver to dedicato to the service of my country."
EVER THUS
counter and I am not Cells In addition to being a million Johnson. I know Mr Howard aire, her hypothetical husband he is such a good actor he can should also
Latin. "Of
Explanation why it wasn't course," she says, it is only make this plausible.". natural a girl prefers a Latin."
shown. The film has opened first In the
the Most of the gossip and bust. In America in British Olm
English From the 125 peseta (235) AT the Royal Tournament a Mies Martinelli will have an English not of business is done here is version was not ready. And the coals showered
of the Festival-und B
language version. The Italiani | seats around us cushions and sollor
into the ring badly); dover, Trevor Howard.
Festival felt they She is rather worried about conducted over a Bellini (chem- show an Italian Aim in English whizzed past our cars.
could not handbags and high-heeled shoes- competition, foared a gunnery this,
pagne and peach -julee) In the
The Belgian diplomat whirred Instructor. "Don't Just Ho there. accept this role Em- bar 00 the terraco of the with Italian sub-titles.
Do some press-ups...... nway, with -hig· movie camnera manuelo," she said, “because in Excelsior Hotel,
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and the ~ Honourable Edmund,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT I SAW WHAT I SAW) I'VE GOT TO GET AWAY-H
FROM THEMA
* ་
THE POLICE WON'T BELIEVE MË-- THEY'LL THINK I'M BALMY! I'VE GOT TO TELL SOMEONE **HOW ABOUT
THAT MAN
MANDRAKE-
WHO WAS
HERE--
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
(YAWN)--HOW'S THAT AGAINT
́I SAW JOKES SHOOT BACK INTO THE CHIMNEY-
THEN MY
DOS BIT"
---JUST A NIP-- IT MADE-
A LITTLE BLOODSTAIN.
· ON HIS TROUSERS
BUT THE STAIN WAS GREENI
Flay Injured (not during the held-gun
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TALK.
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Lave
Admi
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