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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1957.
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HE HAULED 16ft PLANKS UP LADDERS BY ROPING THEM TO HIS NECK
Mr Tommis Built His Dream House
FOR 20 YEARS HE PUT
ALL HIS SPARE
TIME
INTO IT, AND THEN-
By DENIS HOLMES
London.
Every brick, every beam that went into the house that Charles Tommis built was put in position by his own hands. For 20 years he laboured in thousands of spare-time hours to build his dream home.
WON'T-BUDGE DOCTOR
HOLDS UP BIG
LONDON HOTEL PLAN
London.
One man and a house in Park Lane, W., are holding up plans for a modern multi-storey American-type hotel.
Dr Leonard Slolover, 44. year-old ex-gynaecologist, now head of a family business which controls a chain of furniture and tailoring shops throughout the country, doesn't want to move from his luxurious offices.
And that is holding up the "bush-hush" plans of million- aire Charles Clore and a group of Americans to build the hotel,
In his plush-carpeted offices looking across Hyde Park, Dr Slotover said: "I just don't want to move, I think it would be fun if the hotel was built around me."
he gave tip
he
Ten
усчагу идо surgery
to take charge of the business. Two years ago moved into No. 23, Park Lane,
There is still 10 years of
lense left.
COMPENSATION
the
The house has 13 rooma. It has a light-timbered, sweeping staircase. The boardroom has a carved open fireplace, and
painted timbered ceiling like a
small baronial hall.
Mr
"I have been asked by Cloro's solicitors to move out by
next Christmas. I understand
that nearly ail the
tenants of the property
been compensated.
other bave
"I have had offers of com- pensation and other accommo dation, but we have been spoilt for chalce with this
beautiful place,
"I don't know where we could obtain such a good place. There is niso garage space for two cars and parking for two more, and That's quite a thing.
"Anyway, I think it's a shame that wonderful old houses like this have to be demolished. But
I suppose it is progress,"
The Doctor
American eyes on this house,
My
He made his staircase' of oak, ho got 16 ft. planks to the roof by roping them round his neck and hauling them up the ladder.
At fortnight ago he Atted the lust central-heating radiator, set the last flagstone outside, and sat back to enjoy his life's prido,
AND THEN HE DIED. Twenty years of efort for 20 hours' enjoyment. Why did he do it?
NOW A NOVEL (WRITTEN IN '97)
BY SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
*
☆
SAVROLA
✩
Some Said He Tried To Suppress It!
London. MISSING link of Churchilliana will come to light this spring with the republication after 53 years
of Savrola, Sir Winston
He wanted perfection, and he Churchill's only novel.
belleved nobody else could pro- vide it for him.
THE IDEA
Charles Tommis, a teacher.
was 43 in 1937 when he con- ceived the iden of the perfect
house.
He knew nothing about bulld- ing so he went to night school. First he studiod architecture and designed his house. Then for five nights
a week
he leamed bricklaying, plumu- ing, carpentry, and decorating.
He passed all the exams, and, as he learned, this king of the do-it-youmelt men built. Slowly
four-bedroomed the
detached house took shape In Birming ham Road, Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield
After 14 years in 1961-he But it was a house moved in. that had yet to become a home. So he worked on Inside, add- in refinements, Improving,
He was seciting perfection. 85-year-old wintower with three grown-up children by the time
he had falshed.
FANTASTIC!
A
WUN
his
by
ANNE GILBERT
with such
I Wog
pliiloso- capablo
thein very
Laurogla but restxpin from violence. "His presence imparted a feeling of confidence to his followers. His high and ample forehead might have contained the answer to every question; his determined composure seemed equal to the utmost stroke of fate,"
eternal
The third In the triangic, of course, is the husband of Luelle, a man whom absolute
corrupted power absolutely,
She Was
Half
Only
Divorced
London.
How much will a woman
put up with for the sake of her man? This is what Mrs Molly Rose did when her husband fell in love with another woman:
She sued for. divorce and got a decree nisi. That was in July 1945.
Within a short while she ex- pected the decree to be mado absolute BUT
She and her husband, Re-
ginald,
director,
company u made it up and the deerce was not made absolute,
For eight years they were happy together, although MTB Rose was neither married nor divorced, only half divorced. And THEN
He fell in love with another woman again and went to live with her.
She Delayed
That was in 1953, But Mrs Rose, of Spring. Street, Podding- LOB,
delayed doing anything about ending the marriage for some time. She still hoped he would fire of this other woman and return to her.
So it was not until the other day--more than three years after Пет husband went away--that her
caso como before the Divorce Court again.
She asked Mr Justice Willmer to decide if her original derroo nis in 1945 was still effective. He decided it was-and gave her leave to have it made absolute. 'Laudable'
The revolutica and the love affair once started both. go farther
her in taking than the
Her altitudo sponsoring
husband back nearly 12 years Nevertheless, the book, is not parties had expeeled. And the devoid of romance. The brilliant Savrela single-handedly
ago was wholly laudable," said heroine, Lucile, the wife of the must save the Laurentians at
the judge. despotle President of Laurants "their finest hour."
Mr Reginald Hubert Rose, of Weymouth Court, Weymouth Street
took no Marylebone,
The novel was written in 1897 when the author was 23 years old. In the granderspersed
phisings as total of 41 volumes he has ot..... in print to date (10 of them this speeches), only sally into fiction.
The book was first published In Macmillan's magazine, sub- is equently ran through several divinely beautiful." Said "She had arrived at | editions and then completely that age of fe, when to the disappeared In Britain even attractions of a maiden's beauty from the musty
backrooms of are added those of a woman's Churchill secondhand book dealors, giving wit. Her perfect features were found rise
to the TLTBOLT that the mirror of her mind....her words England's most revered public tall figure was distinct with Britain
had 6gure
suppressed it.
grice," Rumour ran that the cellars of Churchill's country estate Chartwell
with were stacked coptes he had bought up
to keep people from seeing earliest literary effort.
12 Guineas
his
The manager
of the rore book department
famous of Foyles book store in London
Hla friend, builder Norman recently said he had only seen King, sald "It was fantastic, the book twice in his career. It The only things he didn't
do
himself were tho plastering.
sewage system, and glazed
tiling
In the bathroom.
"I Nick these
time element.
market
a price of about 12
11 good price on the second-hand book
Churchill because of the
himself added to He could have the rumour, with staunch refusal
done thom but it would have to discuss the book and constant
taken him an 'extra year.
"It must be worth £4,000, and the materials,
mainly
deprecating references to it.
In his autobiographical "My Early Life" he deals with second-hand must have cost Savrola in one paragraph, say
him about King,
£1,500,"
sald
Died Laughing
Ipoh,
Mring it netted him £700 more. than many an author in the days of literary piracy and concluding, "I have constantly urged my friends to abstain from reading it."
of
A Chinese movie fan laughed herself to
death during the screening of a comedy al the Ruby Theatre recently.
Wong Ngan, 42, mother of nine, collapsed and died during tho Cantonese film "Sor Tri Cheah" (Crazy Elder Sister), --- United Press.
TOMBOY THE HOUND
Anypen wanld think he had Kaos reading short the shallo tion of bland sparti,” says
Hunt Master,
REFUSES
TO HUNT...
Halesworth.
Tomboy is a friendly brown-and-white hound. And, like the athor 24 hounds in the conturies-old Waveney Valley pack, he is supposed to be able to hunt and kill hares.
some of Churchill's works went
But in 1947 a publishor
out of business and the rights for many of the carly books, including Savroin, were bought, up by another firm.
Scantilly Dressed
paper
This spring, between covers graced on the front by a scantly dressed lady in distress, the novel will be reissued.
And the rumour will slop perhaps, for the publishers (Odhams Press Lid) said that no objection has boen volet by Sir Winston to their routine announcement to the author of
thoy sald
probably feels "above it: Savrola was written in two months while Churchill was on active duty with the 4th Hussars in India. He spent a
few hours a day on it in between polo matches (with a special string of horses bought
for the games) and skirmishesi
Ho had already finished "the Malakand field force," eri no-
But he refuses to hunt and kill anything, so he faces count of the battles he witnessed expulsion from the pack and disgrace,
In Northern India and bad covered them as special corres- The case of the "hound who won't hunt” has shakenpondent for the London "Daily members of the Waveney Valley Harriers (subscription Telegraph,” ten guineas a year), who hunt 80 miles of country on the Balkan Revolt
· Suffolk-Norfolk border near Halesworth.
Tomboy, a two-year-old [the FAR
Wrong Signal
Singapore.
A 32-year-old Chinese women
·was fined M$300 for trying to bribe a driving tester.,
יי
Hunt. Major A EL Savroia's plot concerta pedigree with sorrowful brown Galloway, of Rumburgh. "Hunt-politics and rebellion in. eyes, hated going hunting over ing should come, naturally
to imaginary state, Laurania. since he joined the pack, four him, but he won't take part. which seems to be located in months ago, but he was kept. He comes along only for. the the Balkani, on in case he improved. #xercise,"
He is always at the me). But he is nowhere to be sem at the kill.
WASH-OUT
As soon as the pack scents a
"Anyone would think he had been reading about the abolition of blood sporta....
The political background was undoubtedly gleaned from the backroom and front parlours at the time when Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Church- File with Dorothy, the hunt | 111, waar'n member. wipper-En, match, wYes, T's Govemirenter of the British
fe The court was told that Mrs hare, Tomboy, either goes home to haters the nat
Neo Geck pushed a bundle of or sits where he is, d
dollar bills to a driving torter Hunt members believe he has
AE RING, WIRE Lajor out for a test, kept out of things, so, wall, that
She was alleged to have told he hustle an
United, ProET
hotna; like him, taala Master
Sraft-out.
brother offers wero for a much amused by th
by the Mory ad it developed
Pod Churchill Lawiły, Life," and tumind various Augustanationa
to be stimulating the love
hiloh 'I'node'not able to
Interest
In Love
Luciic is tricked into trying
secret plans to get
from her husband's rival, Savrola-and they fall in lové,
Savrola is a words move the
mon
A Diversion
The phrasemaker occasion to use in 1940 opain
WOB
those when stauding alone Hitler. gainst
But another comment from his early
book has not been heard recently.
The
English Government have to keep the electorate wrote the unknowing amused," Premier-to-be. "It is
ministry; Conservativo
they must keep things going aboard to divert the public mind from legislation."—United
whose advanced populace of Press.
BETWEEN POLO MATCHES
AND SKIRMISHES..
-Churchill, at about the time he wrote Saurola.
Kangaroo "Invasion"
Brisbane.
Hordes of kangaroos are sweeping through South west, Queens- land," "causing damage estimated at thou- sands of pounds, In many areas they out
number, sheep in and catila
They
are smashing dingo-barriers and are eating thousanda of stock feed
recent drive: 20] graziers
ons: day.
· kangarood
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For That Perfect Evening
DINE & DANCE
part in the suit. He admitted, Winnar Restaurant
In a statement, living with an
other woman since
1953.
September
TELEPHONIC COURTSHIP
Singapore. Watch
that out for "hello" you get over the telephone wires when you come to Malaya!
of
The high marriage rate "hello" girls (telephone opera- tors) in the Telecommunications Department last year has caused a staff problem, ⚫ spokesman Bald.
He cald 21 operators
telephone
had married in the
last three months.
The
department
& NIGHT CLUB
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is now
To co-ordinate the activities of
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the
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knowledge #od
Information will be gladly sug
service to get married and also practice of monial "walfarm) work. to fill up new posts in its ex- pansion programme. United plied by the Secretary, Office: 403, Press
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