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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY · 10, · 1957.
FRANCIS QUARLES FINDS OUT
" only like English painters,” Driscoll said angrily.
T
HE parties given by A harassed little man, whom Lady Muriel Jupe, Quarles recognised as Muriel's husband, Sir Jasper, caught him
"he said. "Mr Smiles .Mr Burton....dramatic
that well-known by the elbow. "Want you to patroness
the meet...! of arts, were on a high social ....
critic,..." level, and yet upon a high mwOT at least fashionable -artistic level, too.
On his arrival at this one . Ernuels. Quarles enw women in great glossy furn emerging from great glossy cars. Within, de ferential ervants were talding charge of furs that seemed eveni glossier. In the large drawing- room upstairs there were plenty of diamonds. plenty of pearls and, as accompaniment to then, a great many port-winish Jook ing men in evening clothes,
But
Wrong name
there
Was
another
Smiles," uneasy-
"My name' nort Quarles said to the looking young man. "Is yours Burton?
"Driscoll," the young man
fald.
"And
critle?"
A
dramaile
are you
"Art crifle," "For what paper?"
"I'm
in the provinces," the young man said gloomily, and
ipped his drink,
-
STRANGER AT THE PARTY
Poople were still coming in; the red-coated man at the door was booming their names like a fog- hom.
"But there's something to be
said for the French, Buroty" Quarles pursued the matter rather persistently. "The water- colours van Gogh painted in his Artes period-wouldn't you say they are very Ano?"
me."
"I only like English painters," Driscoll sold angrily, "Pardon He walked away from Quaries, and stood by the door. Quarles pushed through the crowd until he found Sir Jasper "That man you intro- again. duced me lo saya 13 name's Driscoll, not Burien.'
BY
JULIAN
SYMONS
"Docs he? I suppose he ought to know."
Do you know him sonally?"
"What are you going to say Balatone, about Balatone's show?"
"Lot
of
rubbish."
Driscoll element, too, Quaries saw. That sounded fierce, "Why don't they English painters to grand old man of art, Gustavus get some
out his views boost if they want to boost any James boome<! about life and society, wearing body, insoad of all these French-
patched sports jacket and a men pullover. Armand Balatony
A
wtiose
thought
in
show one-man
paintinga
was
Piensso and that lot."
"Frenchmen?" Quarles said, of surprised.
the
"Not
from Adam, my dear fellow. Better ask my wife,"
Lady Muriel was talking to
"The
effect of Imagination projecting outwards through space,” Quaries heará her say. With some difficulty he obtained her attention, pointed to Driscoll, and asked if sho knew him.
.
"Never seen him before in my
But then I've never seen life. you either. Yes, I have, I invited you, but I can't remember your name, im't that. funny?"
nominal reason for Muriel
"Balatone's French, isn't he? Jape's party, giggled quietly Sald
in the catalogue.
"Immensely. But you really corner with several Thought paintings my eye."
don't remember that man?” friends in fancy waistcoats.
"You
prefer the English impressionists perhaps-some- "No. I'm sure I've never seen one like Ben Nicolson,"
him. Probably Jasper asked "I like an
English painter," him. If not ho'o 'gatecrasher. Driscoll sak. He looked at his Always get a few gatecrashers, watch and then at the door, you know."
Quarles fought his way through a considerable crush to meet his hostess. She gabbled something unintelligible at him,
TIME WAITS FOR
But if you are one.
NO MAN
one of the many wanting a TISSOT timepiece, it will pay to wait on the arrival of the 1957 collection expected shortly."
Quarles looked again at in the grip of polleemen. On Driscoll, who stood by the door the pavement were some forty sippng his martini and not more or less valuable-looking speaking to anyone. Then he fur coats, left the party to make a tele-
phone call.
"All safe, you sec," Quarles said to the man in the red Half an hour later what jacket, who had come down with Quarles had expected happened. him. Not a mink lost. You'd There was a confused noise better go back again, and make downstairs, a scream quickly cut sure that none of the guesta off, which penetrated to the door knows about this. Let joy be at this noisy upper region. The unconfined," red-jacketed man at the door heard it
it and moved to go down- stairs. He found this way barred by the young man who called himself Driscoll.
"Don't noboby get worried, and. nobody won't get hurt Driscoll salt ungrammatically. Ile showed
the man a smati pearl-handled revolver. "Just there. Won't be five you stay ninutes.
The red-jacketed man gasped like a Bsh, and looked behind him for help. But the sound had not reached people farther Inside the room.
was
Never forget
"I am
eternally grateful to you, Mr Quarles" Muriel Jape said: "There would have been a mild panie if a robbery, even an attempted robbery, had been suspected. I I promise that I shall never forget your name again. understand, even But I don't now, why you thought Driscoll more than A was anything sumple gatecrasher."
When I "It's very simple. Francis Quarles, standing at
was Introduced to him I was his side, watched with some rather persistent in aslong ques- amusement. "Don't bother to tions. He sakk he was an art try any heroles," he said. "I've critle. Then he made a reiurk telephoned the police."
which showed that he thought There
a sound like a Pablo Picasso was a Fren
Frenchman bump
from downstairs, the noise instead of a Spaniard. That of a car starting, and then was an odd mistake for an art shouts from the street.
critic to make, so I gave him "Do you hear those, Driscoll?" two howlerg
FWD
in 25 many Quarles asised amiably.
The sentences,
called coppers were all ready walling Nicolson, the best-known for your friends,"
abstract artist in England, an impressionist, and I talked about the watercolours in van Gogh's Arles period, when he was painting in oils.
All safe
Driscoll stared at him, said One impolite word, threw the pearl-handled revolver at Quar- les, and rate down the stairs into the arms of a burly police man at the door.
Quarles paused long enough to make sure that the revolver was unloaded and then followed him. Two men were struggling
Ben
"When he listened to those two remarks of mine without turning hair, and then slood by the door obviously waiting for something to happen, I thought it would be a good idea to telephone the police."
NEXT TUESDAY: The second bullet.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
THE MAD BOMBER has police on the run
T
across the land.
bombs
New York. of psychopaths is circulating
of planted HIS New Year in the rumours
New Worldia.com. plicated by the traditional hangover, the fact that the Mad Bomber
In spasms
"NO DANGER AT ALL ~. EXCEPT.
OF COURSE, IF YOU GET IN THE WAY"
How
FORE!
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long can
Nasser keep his
Arab friends?
By
BERNARD HARRIS
London ions of all sold to Britain and this short stretch of "spaghetti"
OU may be feeling Western Europe.
depressed at the Suppose the cil, is not sold thought of the to us or our neighbours on To whom then troubles that
are the Continent,
could it be sold?:
RUSSIA? She has no use for
crowding in.
1
most of their needs are met
Short-time working in the stuff, Her own output has factories in spite of more than doubled since 1950 America's plan to ease the and the now has a surplus to
sell abroad. oil shortage. More people
THE FAR EAST Markets losing their jobs. No petrol. Prices plunging in the stock there are not large enough, and markets and rising in the from local production. shops, And Nasser strut-
AMERICA? The U.S. has been ting in Cairo-gloating over
buying .Middle East oll to the humiliation he has stretch out Its own reserves. brought to his "enemy." But uny big increase would
bring a
domestic producers.
For the first time, per- P haps, our tremendous dependence on Middle East oil has been brought home HE F.B.I. have been called in to the people of Britain.
is still at Jarge, and THE
what
to most appears Americans a giddy somer sault in foreign policy with John Foster Dulles again the
the flying man оп trapeze.
has
to assist the harassed New been spasmodically leaving ex- York cops. The Bomber plosives in cinemas years, but lately has intensified bis activities, Rewards totalling
Over
18
DEPENDENT
how from
ABADAN.
TO. The multi-million
out of action.
And so thero is a loss of $760,000 a year in rental, plus the sacking of 2,500 men at the Tripoll refinery,
PRESSURE
IRAQ: She is losing £150,000 a day because of the breate, in the pipelines to the Mediter rancan, which normally carry
25 million tons of all a year.
Unless the oil flow is restored Iraq will face mass unemploy ment In the oilfields, and its vast development schemes will
be halted.
Can you wonder that the Iraq Government is putting pressure on Syria-to-get the vital pipes. mended? Can you wonder that Nasser is becoming only a pallid hero?
SAUDI ARABIA: More fortu- Iraq in having its venues of the oll-rich nate than lands OC the Middle East monster pipeline to the Medi- depend on their ability to sell terranean still intact. to us and Western Europe.
But the shortage of tankera to
Carry oil
away from And despite Nasser's vicious terminals is radio propaganda the Arabs are. King Saud's £100 million 4 sharply cutting well aware of it.
year royalties. Be sure Do you imagine they have will not endear Nasser to him,
Abadan-the forgo.len
three of the Mossadeg have
the
that
close to £10,000 are on his head. ALL right. But have you looked at the other side There are posters in polico Twisting the advertising stations and announcements in of the picture? slogan, they say about Dulles: the лewspapers: "Give your-
Have you ever thought ong years "He fies now, we pay inier."
BAHREIN: About 5,000 Arabs
been put out of work of just how dependent the grab, when sea-birds nested in because But it is the Mad Bomber,
oll supplice to the Middle East is on us? the refinery chimneys and rust British-owned slatesman not the
refinery fave sometimes
spread relentlessly over the been cut. "the world's greatest called
They will be in no plant?
doubt where to put the blame. who misguided misalle,"
the attention and engaging
the KUWAIT: apprehension of New Yorkers.
is
self up.
You are a sick man. We promise you the best psychiatric care.”
The man's anonymous letters to the newspapers reveal him to be suffering from a monstrously swallen ego,
For this is the fact: un- less it can get oil flowing
The troubles which will
com-
forgotten
DELIGHTED
Have they
This, the richest freely again to Britain and tragie toll of unemployment and oil-bearing terrory-in - the My family doctor suggests Western Europe wide areas misery which the seizure of the world, sciis more than a third My younger daughter and two that there has
been
so much face financial disaster. world's largest reinery brought of its yearly output of · 54 other to girls attending a talk about the atom bomb and
to the Persians?
million tons to Britali. matince nt મ neighbouring the hydrogen bomb here that cinema wero hurriedly the psychopath's brain has overtake them will marched out of the place, broken under the strain. In any
the along with rest of the event he has New York in a pletely dwarf junior audience, when an ex- thrall of fear and the police on fronting us.
The aisle and said: "There's a homb
only fortunate result
So it has been a key target For it is oil, and oil alone, LOOK what is happening:-
SYRIA: In this the most for Nasser'a the basement,"
anti-British pro- from the Mad Bomber's ram- that has brought wealth to anti-West of all the Arab paganda. But what bas inap- page is that the police have the Middle East countries. countries, the Communists are paned? been for too busy to honor Deprive them of the chance no doubt delighted with the
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His signature
of
LL over town this sort
parents and making the pulses of cinema and theatre audiences pound,
parking ticketa to motorists. They also overlooked excesses during Now Year revelry.
NEW
Liquor
TEW Yorke celebrated with
great gushes of hard liquor' and champagne, and come night spots such as the Knight Box
the and
Ambassador Hotel,
mammoth
those con-
It keeps more of our cars on the road, more of our industrial plant in operation, than any other country.
Not a sign of a strike, mot a of selling it and they will blow struck for Nasser when
Iroq hint of the oil pipelines from
the sabotage, since sink back into the misery were cut.
British and French went into and poverty from which
Port Salt, But more Aober folk the Western oll companies oppalled at the poverty. It will have rescued them.
•
́ ́HIS DOWNFALL
ment
from
cause.
are.
There is n lies of £25,000 à day in rentals, And that is a quarter of Syria's entire national TUVENUIO..
Awiarity with the skins and hides?
tho
And the ruler, Sir Abdullahı As Salim As Subair, has Tot taken
Away from London a
the millions he' single pound of t has invested.
OUT OF WORK
The entire city polleo force has been mobilisod for days to hunt the psychopath with the German accent who has planted sticks of explosives and home cargot $30 (£10 15s) per cus ACH batrol that fails to bo How is she going to make it made bombs. In cinema seats, r, not counting the cost of cold is chipping a frag good? By selling candy in the
drinks. It was after ho has ripped open the party, ringing out with shrieks rent
Nasser's bazaars? By trading some more leather with
But Nasser has cut back pearl-handled and squeals one of
Kuwalt, production to about the most Arabs. The longer the hold- knife-which he leaves behind prosperous years in America's
in the Canal and
The fact is, of course, Syria 60 percent of normal, because as his signature.
history and ringing in a
67 up
Middle cannot make it good. Nor can tankora pipelines-now cutting
carrying tim, oll to The Bomber has also left even more varieties of boom curtain
which, the experts say, will offer East output by half the more she find work for the 3,000 oil Britain take about 32 days for who have the trip round the Cape, com- packages of gunpowder in tele- and glut
will be his ultimate company employees downfall.
pared' with '20 days vin' Suez,” been made idio. phone booths, in railway station lockors, and in public libraries.
Utter economic collapse is Any enthusiasm the Kuwaitis Look at the figures,
within sight. That is why Syria had for the Egyptian dictator Up to the day our troops now beze untriemily Iraq to lot is fast evaporating. They know has been reported at length in means they drink at half-price, went into Port Said we had her have 00,000 tons of oil-by where their money comes from. And their misin unxiety, now is the nows columas abroad, but
The good New Year's
spent £210 million on crude oil, road. nows
Calca
Even the United Nations cele brated with abandon. The dele
and offelals do not have
I do not think this rampage to pay tax on their liquor, which
to have thờ Canal-' cloured so
it is by far the biggest news is that the Anglo-American More than half of this went LEBANON: In contrast to that their olt can flow in the story in this city of 10,000,000 breach is almost healed. Wo to the ting sheikdom of Kuwait Byria's 203 miles of pipálne old abundanica, people, and he has occupled walk in stop again. Let's hope and further - millions to Truth, from Iraq, the Lebanon, smallestylan whole pages's
that Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Bahrein, and Saudi Arabia and weakest of the Arst Slaims, BO I SUGGEST THERE ARE British Labour Party Jender, About 15. out of each gi
GOOD REASONS FOR CHEERU. And the
berbe is spreading who is on a lectures tour here we spent found its way to the only 20 miles.
FULNESS AND THAT litironi the city to the rest of this second willin" 18 months), ↑ Middle - Bartwhoro
But, the blowing-up of ping", TROUBLES, CONETIONT the country, ALE
artby will not trip us up.
supplied sour 'out of syscy Ave ing stations in Byria to put US WILL ED SHOR