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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"-and if you please, Cyril, this evening we'll have Rock of Ages' without the roll!!"
A British
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CIME
PARADE
The storm over PEERS OF THE REALM the House of Lords rejection. of the Commons bill abolishing hanging has all but died away -bul 1. 14 lete in its wake a wave of plans for the reform of the Upper House,
Before 1 in formed, how ever,
It would be a good The
could find if somebody
xnelly how it is composed and,
6 the wrong people sit there. how the echiposition could Improved
Altern
lución of the characterizlism of poes seem to wave been made but, recently,
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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956..
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
the clly to see in many sights, stop at a fountain, take off their shoes and cool their heets,
been have
For instance, half the peers went to either Eton or Harrow and two-fifths have, served as egulars in the army.
Dukes, despite the encraneli- ments of democracy, still appear to live dueally: four out of ve Only own extensive estates.
of virgumis mnd 22 per- » 12le
ent of bars Hi have on
dimensions, however
of lord of peers, never-
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Finally, of the 100 test - monds in the world. 00 petit in the Fans of British peers
Whether or not this Legumeal in favour of retaining the Home of Lord mING
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,- - Actus: | Arihi 4 Panch,
7 Medinta, 8 Mulet, # Tussle, 11 Artisan, 13 Pehnale, 15 Lesson, 18 Amles, 19 Entrance, 20 Elu, 21 Dreary. Down; 1 Adout, 2 Bliss, 3 Entrent. 4 Permit, 5 Heulises, 6 Basten, If Srinktar.
12 Rointed. 13 Praise, 14 Assess, 10 Seale, 17 Needy
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complained The newspaper that Rome police had no respect for the classics and, instead of stopping tourists from bathing their feet In fountains, watch to her who has the prettiest Tugs.
Arma
only with in onion ATOM' WAR PROPHET
("to keep the hons at bay"), vegetarian, non- sker and astrologer Siegirled Schutze has cycled 106,000 miles over Europe and South America and is now going, round Africs for the wond time-with 20 huge scrapbooks strapped to his machine.
Suys ustrologer Schulze, who has not seen his Berlin home for 20 yeaTE: "I am not going tek with after the alone war
1905."
THE GEISHA FELL IN LOVE..
.
unfortunately with an American
THREE GEISHAS. By Kikou Yamata. Cassall, 16s. 187 pages.
George Malcolm Thomson
on BOOKS
of Prince Kat- pared to k Prime Minister of Japan heroic manner.
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child, who was porsuaded that it would be patriotic although humillating-to become
the
mistress of Townsend Harris, first American consul in Japan. She was reminded of the poem
herself in
駱 In the end,
the
her to
J
S soon as you banish
respectable women to story, mistress the nursery and the sura,
during the Russo-Japanese war. gardener persunded kitchen (or to the harem),
cscope, the beloved O-Kal had been you promote other
of an enormous wrestler and the SLASHED BY A MADMAN to the restaurant
wife of a famous actor when drawing-room,
that she bore It is believed Prince Yamagata decided
needed
to Prince Katsura. the Prime Minister
two sons he woman with
But, as a Japenese nun said: "In
women
the
and
If you exclude your wife and your sister from social life you create, for the dis- comfort of the male popula- into which tion, a vacuum
of a swarm there rushes elever and attractive women able to charm the majority of men and to match their
the with
Ie predel there will be awits civil war in South Africa in brilliant. 13906
FIRST A Christchurch, N.Z AID
The
תון
whom
that
а
could
relax, and whom he could trust. He chose
O-Kol-wisely na
this country we never dare ask our children who their parents
are."
written by an ancient courtesan: Although in the water of the
pond
night after night the moon is reflected
tho water
polluted
i 110
more
badly. the
than we are defiled. The story developed Okichi fell in 1wo with American. He left her. Her own urned out.
ungrateful people ostracised her. O-Koi had the confidence of Haired of foreigners in Japan She became known as "the all the statesmen who raised
was so strong in those days that Carp" because she never Japan to greatness. In 1938, this
children .half-white She shared
geisha. betrayed a secret.
who had helped to make allowed to live. Poor formalcers her liver's triumphs, and perils. history. became ti Buddhist Oitichi became a drunkard and
died in poverty.
по
were
When the war with Russia abbess. ended. Katsura became bitterly A more tragic story is that of
In three storica, fold with, s most unpopular for
the dancing geisha Tsumakichi, the Japanese
vast whose arms were slashed off by delicate fermality, Mise Yamata had expected Such women people
and, who became reveals a world in which dami- was O-Kul
a inadman, hated indemally.
weare she liar human passion in enjoyed high prestige
along with her lover. She dared famous for the paintings
extraordinary to ancient Athens. In modern not go out,
Her face carefully made, holding the brush in her appearance
mouth.
western oyes and plays out its · a cerc- they
called made up and wearing are
decorated with The third of Miss Yamato's dramas in a strange pattern of menial dreas
pathetic artlüce and etiquette. geishas is Okichi, Kaisura's coat of arms, she pre-
-
patee sergant slapped į Japan
drunk woman's face geishas. Me dektne dysterteal and tensed to hit her daughter A geisha, claima Mins Yamin over the head with a puker, in telling the stories of three of to the weanon, the most famous members of the departmetilprofession, is not a prosi|tube. The sergeant was es On the other and she is Wagh diguna amenal
qulle u respectable woman. The Welsh djurt, corgingly charged in court.
·10,"
though she is accorded Iminense Ministry o
matempo de ate awarding #
respect. She may even margy Oxford philoso
Into the nobility pher
wile-ranging Lagles and five gulneas ecats. thence weak 1 book calle wederhot and the Fox!
Culturan of
A Court prat 1 Titrector of Than Nation Physical tabor story. and five Excutter Omeer of the Cindren Film Foundation,
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AFRICAN Feeling Get Wha South Afters FEELINGS
Abika mapPORTNE
popula
tions is growing, and in. y tur
more dangerous thus.
he indos que ion, at Past in 11: bout rare
Th Afrikans
PRUN
organisators
plar
to
children which *414 : 1141 strenar or cord
"If anyon
written in English, #rnet it big?. Tell ben
want You
there Afrikans
two Arc brands of tea or coffee on the counter... always Takz 1 Afrikes brand"
ERROR
the
1.
Her name means "a person
For 14 Years
pleasing accomplishments." CORRECTED Art Tanks, Bought from her family at the
Suppore pain-
unted by the ghost like of five, the Reisha is care
in dancing fully trained
akt Som
mornings.
muste. un arranging flowers and he would get up serving 1c. She is T enter-
The with heid weals on his back.
hot winer. ordered by
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wif lapsed.
B
HAN SUYIN...THIS WOMAN
INFURIATES
YOU
By ROBERT HANCOCK
father was
67
USCA Suy ra Miles
over a Chinese Suyin's
characters to make her plot, but was mandarin and her mother
This only a series of incidents emerge of Flemish-Dutch origin,
connecting well-bred mixed-up
waa without
ΟΙ A Many- in Peking. born
ing is missing.
kid
AND THE RAIN MY DRINK.
By Han Suyin, Cape. 16s. 319 pages.
AN SUYIN must be She met and married her first Splendoured Thing is
while an attractive woman.
ing whe hind been burled Along with the food and the under the wrong name because on mix-up In hoëpital during The bembhut of Singapore by the Japanese,
rake for his banquet.
SOME RELY ON BEAUTY
Successful ge.shas,
according Tall into two
H
Tam bad the error corrected
t
of births and to Mines Yamata, The gistry
The following morning, classes: Galim
Conceful hours, the
witer vight wart
·
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Jun Only
attractive woman can interest and in furiate
as she you
does almost in the Name sen- tence.
01 they
Bor tu
the
first year after the war hooded the Japanese #eishas
come-tax list.
over
on
#
husband
studying
The passion
theme.
ero la There Ah Mel, Q beautiful
war he was a military attache been surCarthy would
have
when she turtle
Tang Pao giri Informer used by the Bri- medicine in Paris. hang was a young officer who fish against the Reda. Not even became a general. During the Senator
in out to be a true-blue Red She escapis justles and marries › a
It Is fellow-informer. obvious whether she has really in abandoned Marx for matrimony.
***brief
encounter There is a
$1 the Chinese embassy London.
BECAME DOCTOR
killed General Tang was the Chinese Civil War and
iri widow
London remudned
hia
not
There are those who rely on -Str
Her personality is is at psrce now
"They can niple!
Sort their beauty alone. something
offer a fuce which the kimono, every page of her new book Varesed my face
And The Rain My ke a glistening casket, shows to TEENACER Catan in advantage." The reputation
Drink, which is the succes- until sho qualified as a doctor i between Intellectual Orchid, the daughter of a Chiness
Luke Davis, an, mire and opers are playing of these frail creatures is
Miss Suyin's A There was one daughter of this GAME
brief duration,
although
policeman engaged intelligent a new arn
n difference, may be reasonably well of. In Many - Splendoured Thing, marriage.
English Miss Suyin's second marriage
girl working ico a A game with
which sold
half "Hot-rod" drivers line up their
was to an English officer in the in Malaya. In describing the million copies, was Malayan police. As Mrs Comber, mistakes the British have made makes girl frends en lonely roads and lee towards them. The last
translated into eight lan she accompanied her husband in Malaya, Miss Suyin
"clear. the breaking runks wins.
But there emerges from time
filmed hyn a tour of the troubled State one thing
We have abandoned of Johore. THREE A Rome newspaper
The
unnamed, is a grime.
to time from the 200,000 geishas guages and was
Her now book is the story of Empire heritage by leaving the viation of the once popular in Japan, one who is successful Hollywood, COINS appealed to
The success of that book was the British-led drivers raced because to her charm is added
battle against difficult poller to slog tourists
work to second-raters "chicken," where
Communist. bandita In while we sit at home. Jedlos Their
mind whetted in the company the result of an autobiographical the feel In thears head on, historie empital
Countles Poller at the Ontario resort, of distinguished men; an ability style veneered with fiction. Miss Malaya. Mis Suyin appears in the book as the dispassionate Itone . now helf of tourists ano
the to keep secrets; an ambition to Suyin's novels are pages Perty, are seeking
doctor - observer. afler
from her own life.
This auto R constanth the temperaturs
players death-gam
nape events.
Lo
TO has Trahtened girls told of week-
Such a the 90-in-the-shade region
DOCA
blographical style is not really for with material
her. Miss successful. Tourists,
end moonlight "courage tests After running round
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHAT DID
YOU
BRING ME ?
THE HOST BELIEVES IN BEING HIS OWN
WELCOMING COMMITTEE.
"DON'T CALL ME
FATTY/"
IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG
TO BREAK THE ICE.
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WINK
COFA, 1936 BY GENERAL FEATURES
GOM. IM-Y/ORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
Fort
Krishn
O-Kol, subject of Miss Yamata's second
WAG
Kiddies Clambake
IT ISNTWISE TO DO TRICKS FOR THE GUESTS --THEY EITHER CLAIM ALL COINS TAKEN FROM ·
THEIR EARS, OR THEY START DIGGING FOR TREASURE THEMSELVES.
been
torn
BY HARRY WEINERT
THERE'S ALWAYS SOME GUEST WITH A GRIEVANCE-HIS CANDY HAS BEEN SWIPED
OR HIS BALLOON HAS BEEN BUSTED.
"MY MOTHER TOLD
ME TO TELL
YOU I HAD
A LOVELY
TIME,
SOME ARE GOING TO OVERINDULGE AND IT'S
BEST TO BE
PREPARED.
FICTION SHELF
By
PHILIP OAKES
out
THE NIGHTWALKERS, By Beverley Cross. Hart- Davis, 10s. 6d. 119 pages, WITH a banjo clung over his W
shoulder, Alon Malory, English student at the bonne etrofle into Paris
Sor
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Bastille Day. There is dancing in the streeta. The wine down freely. The atmosphers in gry.
Bárta ?riot breaks out) find Aion is chot in the log by zim trigger-happy gondarme He rescuer is a strange, saturninc man named Lucken, leader of an ex-Revistanco gang known £13 the Nightwalkers.
be
The gong judges itself to outside the law, and Alan is drawn into a fantastic plot to atcat a political prisoner from gaol, Events leave him blood- stained,, older and wizer,-Aa. Lucien's mislecan tells
hion!
**There is no.
». just caure left for young man. There are no more crusadesi,”
а
Twenty-four-year-old Bever ley Cross's second novel, in short, avage, and expert не handies his torres of violence like a professional, and his story is streamlined to the bare bones, Mr Crow is coming on fast.
ALL YOU. YOUNG LADIES. By Alan ́ ́Hockney. Gollancz. 13x, 6d. 222 pages.
PRIVATE SID COX, kingpin
of Hackney's first novel,; "Private's Progreen," - transfers his attentione, from the swinde ling of Belie Railways to the problems of
rich quick!
BTWORZ
Also
00% band "la a choTNEL:: Of strictly expendable
women Some, brigic sofire, good, Knockabout comedy, and/uk- zolutely no social signif Written to amuse, it done.
CHILDREN'S PARTY SHOULD BE WELL POLICED-THERE'S ALWAYS
A TIME WHER THEY PLAY. THEIR OWN GAMES.
TO COLL
UIS BUBBLE GUM® BLOWS OUT THE CANDLES
THE DEVILBOAT. By Davi
· Stuart Leslie, Hurs Blockett, 134, 64, 315 pages.
THE-bont with goblar{: 1 painted on the hotro. Dec mi the Lan crdw. The deyil, ban
the "An
MENITIES ARE DISPOSEI
ÄND. FINESSE ***
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