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STHE CHINA-MAIL, ~WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER * 5,~~ 1958,
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
W
more
fish
To Nocl
ROM the sunny beaches
the
It
of
has
RITING about flah meal of your fish, Some of you
La pets, a corres- may have tried this on pondent says they the certainly won't let you
glamour girl, but, unlike a fish, are becoming increasingly you're broke, popular. According to him, thero is nothing Boothing for those worried by current events than to come home and watch playing about in a tank.
I certainly restful (and economical) (r Lired business men wh v been fristened all day by full- ing Stock Exchange prices watch Boh playing about in tank than to watch a lam gt playing about in a ant eating her head off.
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more
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Fog'uur-
For one thing, tropical fish are Just as colourful as any glamour giri. And even if they are try ing to say something silly เส they open and shut their moutho you can't hear word of it.
For another thing, all o 05 asks (and it does ask with its wide-open. anxlour eyes) 18 # little fresh water and a handful of ents' cks. Any bred bu inesa man with tell you that to offer this diet to a glamour glit ka fatal to friendship.
Ash Again
are indifferent to jewels
completely 1
coats whereas glamou girls think of hardly anything else
Fich can never be late for an appointment because you've got them where you want them
in
o lank Fish cost hardly any- thing to keep and pre ustiativ eaten by another flah bong be- fore you get weary of them. You will get weary of a glamour gal long before she is valen by another glamour gol
Is
Anoter great advantage thol there is no need for as min to deceive his wife about a fish. There it is at home for anyone to see. The altaic is de open as the day.
Sometimes there is little dif ference in The appearance of fish and glamour girls. Ofen they have the same lig, rulky mouths and the Marilyn Mon- roe wiggle of the tail so much admired by tired business mea and those who are not so tired.
If the Stock Exchange worse you can always make a
Jamaica Noel Coward written a song, "Why Must The Show Go
It asks why elderly perform ers, consumed
with private grief, must keep up the dough, down, laugh" fendition. Among the fines are "And If you're out cold, too ukl, and most of your teeth are gore, why must the show go on?"
Why must the show по оп
tonight?
toli2: That's why
frightfully folly. Even if all our freth are gone And we're old and terribly
woebegone
Some of us might have been
playing the lead
When one of your showe
went on
Wedding jitters
LTHOUGH mcst people know that men are frighten- ed of marriage long before she poor suckers know what it is I really like, I never though would live to see the day when their pitiful pre-wedding con- dition would be classified as a dircase.
Doctor who can think of a name for anything.
call it Engyesla
It is a nervous disorder which exhibita i's first symptoms the moment the miserable wretch has promised himself
Why must the shote vo It must go on if we need
on*
the
the sch
to
be
of
Our
Ori
the
to sove practical level-headed girl who has planned the whole operation wil the skill of a field-marrhal These symptoms are anxiety.
and it depression, Insomnia, ability to concentrate,
Recently M vltims of wed- ding lifters were examinedi Maudsley Hospital Comberwell, Thirty of them wore in such a slate that they were treated es
We laugh like mad
lack of wealth With dentures зтек
National Health---
That's way the show
on
ส
goes in-patients red put to bed of
Why must the show go
wright" Why must the show go on" It just go on if we need the
dough
once
Th
(You have plenty, you ought
to know).
Even if people are terribly
Ured of t
We remember the days when
they all admired us-- We may not ԵՐ giving
wonderful freut,
4
But even the old folk have
That's why the show goes
074,
Why must the shone ปก
tonight?
Why bust the shine po on?
It must be terrible, terrible
In hospital.
the sway from predatory eyes of the Beld- marshal, their health improved. istant wedding bells no longer ang in their ears. They fooled they would escape the marital themselves into the belief that
hundeuťa by pleading they were unft for meerlugu and the F.-M. would be happier with som body else.
But gele interi on marringe know the answer to that line of talk. On the first visiting day they are si'ting at the bedside of the quaking victim.
They listen to his waiting little specch about beug unworthy and come right back at him with "I love you. I will stand by you.”
✩
to
At this point, according the doctors, the patient be-
To le on the beach and bank comes worse. The distent wed-
in the sun And laugh he he and
ha-ha
At an old hus-been
fading star-
ding bells clang in his tortured Laugh cors. He can see the shining
UT
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- PERSONAL COMMENTARY
Hever
Sir Anthony
& colleagues
BY CUMMINGS
WHITE MAN'S
BURDEN
SLAVES
The little picture at the White House that so dominates Ike's thinking.
Watch Syria!
P
Is America making
DONT LIKE GEORGE
时
the worst error of all?
RESIDENT EISEN- HOWER'S Intel- ligence experts are advising him to
tres of the wedding guests and dismiss as British-French hear their coarse jokes.
When propaganda the girl has been chaved our alarming
the ward they give the patient sedatives and a long rest. filtration
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Streat
reports of new Soviet in
Into Byria
tricked moves -... .view.
Somo Tocover 10 become menacing the pipe-lines that happy bachelors, A few are carry
half 08 much of
cured by marriage.
But if this is a common con-Europe's oil as is shipped
bride- through the Suez Canal,
dition of the
modern
groom-to-be, and if the race is
to survive by regular unions, it would be more merciful It
And the President, alas no doubt remembering
the victim was doped and car- the brilliance of British
ried hog-lied to the altar,
Worfil copyright,j
diception techniques which
OH, THAT
TIGHT-LIPPED LOOK...
M
By AMANDA MARSHALL
BY
RUSSIA
Itler into wrong
is accepting this
He believes that these alarming reports-although
do not they
come to him from British or French British and
sources-are
French plants.
They are part of
SADOS AVASI
Only since the advent of plot Nasser to Egypt has Syria
SEFTON DELMER
chief, Ambassador Daniel and Franco to evacuale the enhancing "Spider" Solod* who at that Canal thereby
Nasser's apparent,prospecta, of time was ambassador: to victory is that the contract for
Syria and the Lebanon. the refinery has been restored to the Iron Curtain. The Czecha The anti-Communist are to build it and send their dictator Shishaldy was experts — and agitators into overthrown not long after, this vital area, and with him his anti- Communist Intelligence net- work and anti-Communist
police.
he suspects to stampede been seriously challenged
Soviet the most important
him into the Franco-British as
penetration
My advice
AMERICANS argue that if we
of
don't give way to Nasser camp and cause the United secret satellite of Moscow Syria went forward rapidly We shall place on his head a martyr'o crown and unite the and intensively. But its Arabs behind States to lose its new-found in the Middle East.
bim. The very friends among the Arabs
greatest development came opposite is the case, On my first visit to Syria, when Nasser seized power
Many Arabs Including even when the little French in nearby Egypt and start- oll-rich King Saud-would ilke
and the Asians.
of
To me this complacency trained ex-sergeant Shishak. ed up his successful defiance to see Nasser cut down to size. We only unite the Arab world country's of the British with Ameri- behind him when we place on the American Ad- ly
the Was
the ministration over their own dictator,
Communist can support. position in the Middle East network
and their distrust of their paratively key Western allies is the ground-was extremely well most alarming feature of organised and the most im- this whole Suez crisis,
though thin
com-
on
the
My pledge
by now, turning
Sue Abraham, the model with
My lesson
his head the laurel wreath
ов
A Reman triumpher-tho general returning to receive the ovation of the fickle plcbs.
The American Idea that they can treat Syria as a bad apple
portant in the Middle East. ALL along, the task of in on otherwise friendly and
Solod
Arab
world
Is
allied with tho
equally pro-
TISS AUDREY HEP- nese keep breaking in if you are
The Syrian Intelligence Arabs
is weaning the anti-Communist co-Amerienn for selling milk chocolate or a cut- BURN, visiting
from the West,
cquaily rate trip to Blackpool, but the premiere of "War and classier products need u correS-
Service chief himself point- in sowing ed out to me its main strong our
unrest along dangerous. Peace," looks out solemnly pondingly remote and haughty
ofl routes, has For these Arab National points. at the world from the enor- approach. If you smile, it is un-
IF it is allowed to go on it
These were care- been facilitated not only Socialists of Syria are closely ladylike
cells in by UNO's ineffectuality Soviet National Socialists of mous sad eyes of an orphan-
I could do with a elight re- may prove a disastrous fully organised cd bush-baby- an unsmil taxation of this rule
point in the cold villages, strangely enough in dealing with Israeli de- Jordan, who have just won the ing look, the fashionable though no one need go as far as war and catastrophic for the along the border of anti- fiance of its orders but elections in that country.
Communist Turkey, further above all by the successive expression for all our con- temporary Great Beauties, from frail little Italian Maybe smiles ait best on off- I am prepared to stake Kurdish tribes,
among the those politicians who in- warning coming from madonnas like Pier Angell boot non-classic, strongly
students and sisted on our surrendering he will shortly and himself to real cool princesses like individual features, Uke Pamela y reputation in predicting nationalist
Americans army men, and among the to Nasser's successive de faced with a Soviet-influenced, Browne's, whose smile is that if the
Soviet-armed, and Communist- Grace Kelly. (If you're my
mysteriously crooked. Yvome persist with their sceptism workers
new mands in the Sudan and in penetrated
Arab federation Marilyn Monroe, It's all Arnaud's is actually part of her of the reports reaching cotton plantations
and Suez.
Including Syria, Jordan, and right to amile. The mes face, and Lydia Lopokova, the
Egypt and stretching from the Nowhere • Is this lesson borders of Turkey to the borders. sage is different.)
easier to read than in Syria, of Libya. Here, with each British setback, up went Nassor's prestige and
the smile that only the Cheshire future of the free world. cella among the unruly American Governments and continues to negleet the
IN HER HAT
Garbo búries her face in her
That, but no one can remember a smile on tho most beautiful faco
world
ayca
In tho
Cat could beat.
of Syria's
adorable ex-dancer with a little them and refuse to take textile factorles, ruset app.e of a face, keeps hors action. they are going to
in the air le an aura ready to suffer a rude and shatter- be grabbed at u. second's noticing disillusionment.
The three most astonishing
My talk
.Influence of
I' President Eisenhower
Syria
But for the British and
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
the
up with it the power and French troops along the Canal. miles in the world belong to
the National that formidable link-up would Not only in Syria itself BUT the most significant socialist extremists and their be in existence today. since woman witt tmconventional Nincicka. Dietrich registers beauty. Fonteyn's, which dazzles
and most unexpected soviet and
nd Communist backers. public amusement by an enigma- like high noon, Leslie Caron' but in the rest of the Middle fle narrowing of those smoky which is heartrending in spite of East and the whole Asian Soviet base of all-at least
The inverse is true too; -- -or perhaps because of that world. They are acting pre- to me was the Christian' Vivien Le
When Nasser was slapped compromises and slightly overshot line of teeth;
over smiles with involving the and the mile that the Froncisely in the way that the Greek Orthodox Church of
the Arwan - dam loan this eyes at all. Suzanne Cloutier, actress Maria Casares shares political warriors of the Svria, whose patriarch, the down by the Americans
Kremlin want them to Von Bishop of Antioch, summer, down, down, down Who was included by Baron in with the Sphinx.
[react.
naively told me how he had went his stock throughout the resumed relations with the Arab world, and especially in Nor will they have too Orthodox Church in Russia Syria. an achievement for the wife of fer than the smile that isn't to long to wait for the results and Hallelujah! was Anti-Nasserites who had be
of their present policy.
SHEER MAGIĆ:
his collection of Perfect Profiles, wears a habitual expression of seraphle gravity, which is gulto Anything In the world is bet-
one of the world's greatest that gots taken to sim premieres comics. On Margaret Leighton's along with the hired mink and poetic face perpetual astonish the hired car and goes down in merit, nifu," politely enthroned, axact chromlantion with the Like someone who dropped in for house lighte
boa and stayed for over. Berio The prettiest, most delighted sovn, the ballerina who fools, smile, is the Queen Mother's like a white, rpen, and Joannie - which is nothing but magic, and
the
once again receiving the longing to have a go at him and traditional financial sub his Communist alles came out My evidence Moscow.
Bidies from the Church in into the open, ERE A
In Syria they forced Government to cancel an order "I had a most friendly for an oil refinery which under N my many visits since reception in Moscow," he Communist and Natio
pressure had been awarded to a the war to Syria and to told me, "and the Soviet Communist Croch sinte concer
Polchen, the tabulous American turn everything into a party model who looks ako a puma, The most bizarra and terrifying wile just about as rarely sa is. Gingolds, ia cross between u TOSCH õe pùmus. ・・ Anda dan vampire Mona Lisa and the look its Arab neighbours in Government itself 10 aus 15 Inigolfcant, I hold, that Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan thorised the resumption of one of the first restals I have been forcibly im- payments to us in gold.
Britain
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