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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957.
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CURTAIN CALL
KOWLOON in the STRAND
A Tale Of
Kitties
Two
A SMALL Chinese boy how to lap and settled down in suffering animal, a special SPCA
Ils rattan cage.
cbts
on
the
lethal chamber WDB premises. No charge Is made
kodden brown
was holding down a puny shivering. kitten on Inspector J. P. Beltron said and contributions are placed in the kerb of a pedestrian then an average of Bo stroy a box with a tilting tray which crossing.
W09 brought 10 the children like to watch working.
Do straya develop into hand- As the traffic policoman Beaconsfield Arende office chily.
cais? Here is another This is opposite to the Hong- some waved on the cars, the help kong and Shanghat Bank on personal experience. less animal was hurled by the Queen's Road Central. He Two newly-born kittens wero grubby
inexorable hands added that the record this year found in 1953, niewing piteous- URING the early years which opened at the gates of homer made a fortune
wouldn't into the near traffic lane. had been 88 on July 2. Homes ly tied in a in Kowloon, of novels written around such wash them, and 1 haven't wash-Rallying from the impetus found for strays averaged not baber bag, and half-drowned fu near to St Andrew's than two a day. People a gutter of the push, the tiny crea- did sometimes ring up
They were retrieved and Church, broken tive crouched low as thun specify that they must have and one was pleaded for by a
dering wheels rolled past. Perslan or Siamese kitten
Sunday School child who sali her mother had promised sho Then, like lightning, the boy
should havo a kitten. With the Inspector pounced, hauling the kitten up
some misgivings, a kitten was handed over and the child was helped on to the service bus for Kowloon Tong.
DU
by
of this Century, the If not prepaid a booking ree East, and all that
therein began to capture the imagination of Britain, The Near East was mystery. Every reader of
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WANTED KNOWN
T10
out Norah:
ed them."
Frank
"I said I
3
Mr Wu's House The second scene took 19 n character. through the gutes into a won- derful lotus
B. W. Findon, writing in The garden, While
(surveying silver Play Fletorial, said: "The play cups) "They don't need it now mysterious
Rongs and Alutes made strange music,
met with an enthusiastic Te- I guess," ception. In the title role. Mr
Norah: "I think I've won," The first night crowd on Long has benefitted from his novels, and every play-goer that November night of 1913 Eastern studies and gives A Frank: "Sure, now lake knew that there were wide were much mystified. Mr Wu's profoundly interesting repre- broom and sweep
the darned 50 was sentation of it"
mess up." romantic gardens just out- House was all right, side Baghdad. And in the the lotus garden, but Mr Wu
Let us wander on a few steps Then there is o. Oght, moon-drenched twilight, a the patient, long suffering on three months, and take a Noral points the gun at him. he look at an up-and-coming Nothing much you say. Just the shy, brow-beaten English arsthele they considered
M Somerset homeside row after Sunday's was nothing playwright, woman, the paid companion should be. There
The dinner. But it goes further than for Mr Matheson Maugham. The theatre is of an irritable old lady, for it but would wander among the Lang to step before the curtain Duke of York's, and the play, that, Taylor wants
The Land of and explain,
Promise. We the dishes washed. Again Norah And some fumy language jays "no."
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PAMPLONY TIKAMEL/
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STAMPS
There was love and passion
was all wrong.
lic
was not
Amid applause, he appeared
held in all his make-up,
up
his hand for silence, and with the patience of a teacher be
conorals me it beals, det a body among the minareta, and when ot Inst came the dawn, the paid companion wander fore in particularly dumb class, ed back to get the fack. But he said: "Ladies and kentle act four set
everything right. men, I feel I must thank you The old lady was put in her STAMP ALDUMS "Collection Builder" -- B
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and
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this play, for Mr Maugham This me Taylor isn't having
was one of
the experimental-
ists who were determined to any. He takes her in his arms, get away from the euphemisins and there is quite a bit of which Taylor inter- that covered the more purple wrestling patches of stage dialogue.
rupts to say: "If you don't by God 11 submit willingly. take you as the trappers in the used to take the old days squaw."
The time is February 20, 1914, and Miss trene Vanbrugh is in the lead. The best way to
by JOHN LUFF
more
While
was
by the scruff of the neck and speaking, a Chinese lady came in with a carrier bag containing weaving in and out of the oncoming pedestrians, straight into me.
Fierce Face
One look at a fierce face and pointing finger
Was enough. Throwing the cat at me, he vanished up a side lane.
route.
by JILL DOGGETT
Energetic
The other kitten throve aughtily and seeming too klung and energetic for a small fat, became chief rui-catcher at an Clutching the woll-fielded four strays. I was told that she army cookhouse in Sal Kung. thy, fellne scrap, and now paid women in the lanes to pick
In 1955, visiting an army up starving kittens and bring family in Kowloon Tong, I saw the object of amused aniles, I walked on, thinking furiously. them to her.
the queen of all Cate reclining ot case the best armchair. What to do? The Editorial De-
Another basket was opened Remarking upon the handsome pariment already looked like a
a creature specimen," I was told the his branch of the SPCA. Why, of and I was shown
Answer with its hind legs paralysed. A tory of her arrival there,, Ona course, there was the and the Hongkong branch office black tom was snarling and Sunday morning, two year pres of the Society for the Protection spitting furiously, but the In- viously, o Hitle girl had bech of Animals was in the direct spector finally donned a pro- found weeping because her tective glove and brought the amah would not let her tako The kitten had not moved! rebel to the communal saucer. In a kitten a lady had given One claw entangled in the collar He said that a stray cat could her after Church. The child de- "Tul, Tul!” said the Stalls.
washed of my dress, its small chudder- be
with lukewarm scribed the plight of, the kittens ing body, wet and bedraggled, water, rubbed with a towel and found in the bag, all cold and "Dear, dearl" said the Circle. it made no resistance. So we sprinkled with cooking four, wat, "Cot' blimey!" said the Gal-hurried onwards.
Then it would continue to clean Out of pity, the kitten léry.
The Inspector-in-charge was itself.
token and promised a and resourceful,
Now everyone admired Queenie sympathetic Disentangling the kliten, he At 13.30 and 4.80 each day and even sums of money had gently placed it in a basket with the strays were collected and been offered for her, but they n window-type 1ld and asked taken to a gas chamber in the could not bear to part with ine if I would like to wash my Government Kennels in Kea- the family pet. hands. Would I Thankfully nedy Town. This was a quiet Languidly surveying the sceno performing necessary ablutions, merciful death, taking only 30 through amber Ellis, Queenlo I saw evaporated milk being seconds, the animals did not flickered a glimpse of a Mona poured into an enamel saucer. choke or struggle, he said For Lísa smile, then she slowly The kitten was skilfully taught we of any badly-injured or closed one cye.
and
don't
all for the generous reception tell this is by giving you the But the Far East was still a
you have given our play. 1 plot of the play. Norah Matah, But Somerset Maughams would mystery, A great Bea Was
gratifying. is exceedingly
It played by Miss Vanbrugh, has hot leave well alone. He had known about Харди.
He The has been thought, however, thist been the paid companion of an to keep piling it on Japanese were
patient, some explanation is demanded old lady for ten years, and Taylor "may," "I'm going to be artistic, Industrious race, with
of me, and the character I finds when the old lady dies, master here, and if you a genius for making windbelts
that she has not been left the do as you are told, I'll give you which now sold in every Marks have endeavoured to portray.
Iegacy she expected. Penniless, the biggest hiding you've and Spencer's Bazaar, and
she jolas Ber brother in had in your life." tinkled in every household from
Canada, "The Land of Pro- Oh, how the ladles up from Surbiton to Stamford HID
Mr Matheson Lang, and Mr Notice to Consignees Louis Meyer set out to put this right, I do not know where Mr We regret to advise the Meyer got his plot from, but total loss by sinking of the I do know that Mr Matheson cargo vessel "Shillong Lang visited this Colony in the the result of a collision in early years of this Century. the Gulf of Suez with the Belgian tanicer "Purina Congo" on the evening of the 22nd October.
Conalgates of cargo by this reasel are requested to refor their claims to their under- writters for settlement.
MACKINNON MACKENZIE
"As many of you are aware, my tour took me into all sorts of Places, among them Hongkong. and the
mise."
ever
the suburbs enjoyed it is they
matinee.
is But those guardians of public.
morals the critics would have none of it, they cried, "Fle, for shame."
known sister territory, Kow- Norah husS a violent quarrel sat munching chocolates of the loun. Ladies and gentlemen, with her sister-in-law, and asks penit me to say, there is a Mr one of the hired men who
Wu. ile can be seen every- about to return to his tonely where in Hongkong conducting shack, to marry her. She ad his affairs with all the efletency sumes, mistakenly, that all she the West has taken into these has to do is to be his house. scattered regions,
keeper, but when he indst, upan marital privileges, she is rebell- "If my prosentation should ous. There is quite a bit of fight- take you by surprise, will you ing, she even points a gun at Matheson somewhat amazed by what he forgive me if I say that 1, con him which fortunately is un-
However.
weed saw here. Chinese Gentlemen, sider Mr Wu is all the more landed.
the wreatens to ruin his crop. She presents and not a pigteli among them, interesting, as
to Chinaman in modern guise, turns to and helps him save his Chinese Gentlemen going
his farm, and all ends happily. business and conducting their and we see him shot of
and outwardly Blig fistency pigtail affairs with all the of their
Ingestive of the thought counterparts
West," Threadneedle and Wall Street,
Mr
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GUNBOAT CHASES
SMUGGLERS
OFF SINGAPORE
Singapore, Oct. 23.
6.09 An Indonesian gunboat which chased five Indonesian sailing praus ashore on Singapore was on anti-smuggling duty, it was reported today.
Said à more Zober critic: "It does not seem to me possi ble that in the face of the
at the situation
end of the
5:30 pm, Thuraday Club introduced third act (That is when Tay by Ilobert Acheson; 8. Time Gignal,
or makes
his squaw speech) Programme Summary; 6.02, Porty-
ucio Half flour; 8.50. Al Jolson. the play can make a success sings; 7. Orchestra des Concerts ful appeal to the average Eng-Limoureux; 7.30, Highlights of the Lish WOMKIL Mr Maugham Royal Tour Introduced by Stanley Maxted: 7.58, Weather Heport; 8, has strained his urt to breaking ne
Signal The
Newth Se unnecessarily, | Commentary; 8.10, Life puint, and most for the play would have lost Lyons "Bend And Be Beault": it the 10. At the Balle! The Prince of none of its strength
the Pagodas". Royal Opera House But Matheson Lant Wag I It only remains for me to
Now the hired
Covent Garden; 0.45, rough man, having asserted his Orchestra, Whether on hall say that the play was oft to a played by Godfrey Tearle, and mastery, had left the remainder day or at work he was watch good run, and I myself remem. In the twenty or so stills I have to the imagination." ing and studying people. Their ber at least one revival.
of this play, Mr Tearle is behaviour, their mannerisms
Somerset Maugham photographed in every one with and he noticed what many The critics were n little his exceedingly handsome pro lute much sleep over what the
and before him
many since puzzled as Hongkong and Kow- ale turned to the audience, callies quid, The thrilling lines have noticed. That a Chinese loon were more Σεππούς than never once his full face. He is were whispered from mouth to business man can step out of his Limehouse. But Mr Wu had Frank Taylor,
what inouth. Lodles spoke in shock- and European cltches, and shed entered Western terature, and shocked the critics យ៉ូវទទ the ed terms of what was going on South African business manhundred years with them, [ the devilishly intelligent language of the play.
al The Duke of Yoric's, wishes to contact Hong Kong mean, step out of the Twentieth Chinese had come to stay for
quite a long Century into the customs
lime. He oven When Norah, returns to his merchants desiring to esta Nineteenth Century China. Entered the pares of The #ikck, be tells her to wash the blish agencies in Southern So it was there came to Nelson Lee Library, under an- dishes. Norah replies by throw
The Strand Theatre 1 play other name of course, and Sax ing them on the floor, Africa, Excellent knowledge of expanding market conditions. Visiting fortnight November. Please reply Box 150, "China Mail."
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"Beyond presente
Reasonable Doubt"--the story behind a certain very important documeri; 10.45. did not Dance to Warren Covington and The gunboot is allegod to The gunboat gave chase, and
Weather Commander: 20.08.
have driven the prous up on a ❘ the motor-boat "made for the fimport; 11, Time Bignal. Radio 176wwest: 11.10, floodaight Music: bench, and while their 40 crew Singapore const, 11.00, Close Down
members were waking ashore, to have towed one of the praus investigating the case to sco The Singapore Government is
Mr Clodfrey Tearle became what they called a malineo idol, the object of many wist- ful fémininė dreams,
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Vintage: Two brothers who were fugitives from the law, descend on a vineyard ́at vintage time. Pler Angell, Mel Ferrer, John Korr, and Michele Morgan.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "The Curse of Franken- stein': A horror film starring Peter Cushing, Hazel Court and Robert Urquhart.
KING'S & PRINCESS: “War and Peace": Tolstoy's mastorpleco brought to the screen. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Lure of the Swamp":
- Marshall Thompson, Willard Parker and Joan
Vohs.
►
STAR & METROPOLE: "Ive Lived-Before": Hollywood looks" firto the question of whether a person can be born again. Storifier Jock
· Mahoney, Leigh Snowden and Ann Harding-
REDIFFUSION
TEA Time
$ p.m., Nomantic Cycles. Selections
from Paint Your Wagon", starring Jones Harton and Digg San Juan 3.44, Novatima the Alriano Trio, Les Paul and Mary Ford. George Wright and The Novatene Vrlo Rondezvous Popular Concert Melodies; 4.30, Vocally Yours *** Alma Cogan and Lonnie Dovegan; 5. - Children's Corner Presented by Aunlle Ray; 8.30, Teen Time -- Presented by Betty Bouta Tropicana; 0.23,, Birthday Mailbag: 8.30, Waliz__ Turie; 27 Personally Andrews: 7.15. Parade - Patty Souvenir Song: 7.30. MATMonica Rasifal by End Mok, recompaniind by Professor Harry Pre; 7.5, The Blory of Jano, Armitage, B., Time Bignal, and the New»; 5.00, Weather
away.
The praus, amall two-masted whether its territorial waters sailing vessels, were walling to have been violated, Singapore with copra, scrap The 10 prou crew members motal and rubber. They were wore taken in charge by the in the tow of a motor-boat bo-immig tatlon authorities, and longing to their Singapore agent inter released on bond pending when they saw the gunboat of their return to Indonesia, --- the Johoro coast yesterday. Reuter.
WHICH WAY
IPSWICH?
Ipswich, Oct. 24,
Report, Announcements and Inter- Voters go to the polls today in a parliamentary
BIP Capitol Show: 8.30, Boston Blackie ➡ Master Bleuin. Starring Mchard Kollmar: 8, Dovill Programme; w.1h, Muse Tima i Programme of Clamatoni Music Pro- gured anxi Prumbled by, Charles Harveyy. 10, Late Night Theatre:
Torbidden
Episode 39:
30.80 lenta a nis Music: 13,
lude
To Didnight)"
19 Midnight,"
In
by-election which will indicate whether the Conservative Government has managed to halt a big slump in its popularity.
other
election
battles wealthy Sociális) industrialles Date With Dreamland: 11.30 P during the past year support for and former cabinet minister
-Among the various permita- long which make the result of this battle eagerly awaited are: The Latour candidate. Me pingie Toot,, is a formore, Liberal leader who recently
Was top- to Socialism... Jame
God BATO The Queen, Cloud Down the government has declined so that the rival Labour is confident i would Awebp, back to power if a gensi eral election was to be held
TELEVISION
Party
Tusing
cost of vinthe, series, uppuriery 2-neo alikatiy
b. Children's Hour Cartoons: Ime at wich 5.30, Chlidren's Story Time).
to be the chuse of the Govern» i worried, about how the eleoform Children's Film; 3. Chwe D
will react to someone who has |ment's loss of voten, Chthers Televizion Talent. Time Significance of the cirrthas changed, his polled colours. All Winters Final: 7,45,
Works and Color Event
Tian Liberal chididates ing Contones
Wordan, of 33, paint bondelk syke, who combines silang pood, Tocks with a drund
Pert
in that Labour, bold; the sext ostar-los, at the 1053 Zeveral election With Walam a majority of only 3,532 Voken 3) "alug Lombards and tie in 'a' atanight" fight with Con-
defekturing guest
bervative,
„Now-n-Liberul candidate, bea The Conse Night intervened 'In this ehw contest par Stein, Cobbold
caused by the death DRONES VALE Close
director