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This Funny World
LUNDBERG-
"It's easy to see who really rates around here!"
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WAY
by Beachcomber
MYSTERIOUS new boy at to Mantenegrin pawnbroker. 4 Narkover aroused suspicion. In less time than it takes to peel by his suphisticated way of a yarn signs were being ex- talking to the masters. Inquiries eininged in every pari of the were started and the boy turned out to be a man of 43 who is wented by the pollte.
crowd, to the amazement of the wedding party. The bridegroom, Linking masonic gate-crashera were at work, nervously joined in pressing his left thumb into out his his chin and jerking right elbow. The bride replied edge of her
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The fact that he is the son of a history master at the school, who coached him for the part, has complicated matters. Dr by drawing the Smart-Alick said: "The fuel right hand aerosa her forehead. that a man who is wanted by The unhappy parents, thinking the police should imagine that Narkover is the last place they would look for him is flattering to us, but rather unrealistic, The father's loyalty to his son 1a very touching, and is under- standable when one recalls that he himself was on the run for almost the entire summer term two year ago."
Hiya, Ibsen!
"CULTURE and light
enter-
tainment," says a critle, "enn easily be combined on the radio programmes." If he moins what I hope he means, we shall have Juken about Swedish chamber music of the fourteenth century, and a talk on Goldoni (or Holbach) will be enlivened by the wilty interruptions of a comedian,
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IN order to confuse the seeth- Ing nob of agents, Shultle- dore made use of an old trick. He made a sim to a Bulgarian horse-coper, waggling the fingers of his left hand. This was noted by a Rumamian gipsy, who held up three fingers in a sight
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mad mime that this custom at weddings in Tsai- Phon, improvised absurd gesil- culations, and grimaced in every direction. The police, suspect. ing a plot, arrested a harmnieńs uncle of the bride, whe Was rubbing his eyebrows with his little finger.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958.
*JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Wrong. Discard Sets Declarer
By OSWALD JACODY
WEST opened the douce of diamonds. East won with the king and returned the ten бро!. Ho hoped to force dummy to ruk but South jumped up with the queen and was able lo discard from chummy.
Unfortunately for South ho chose the wrong discard. He got rid of the deuce of spades.
Let's see what happened to South from then on. He led a trump and went up with dum- my'a queen. East took the king and now forced dummy to ruff another diamond lead. South took his ace of trumps and played three rounds of clubs, trumping the third lead.
His next play was the queen of spades which held the trick. He had to play dummy's ace on the next made lead and East trumped. Now East Led a fourth diamond and South could trump
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in either hand but he had to lose another trick. If he trumped in his own hand one of dummy's two clubs would be a loser and it he trumped in dummy he would have to lose one of his two spades.
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in which has stabilised the indus- tral shure Index, without affect ing Treasury bills held for early redemption,
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trumping a little one (not the ace) and if he waited for the ace deolarer would make his 10 tricks anyway.
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Answer Tomorrow
YOUR BIRTHDAY ........BY STELLA
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 BON today, you have a strong imagination and the abluity to rut it to work in one of the crea You have a loving and affectionate nature, and you will be most con-
Variety, after all, is your spies Hylag
ave arts. It is likely will appeal tent if you wed at an early age. ture, expectally, drama,
raise a family of your own. True, there may be times when you won't be home for a tone, wandering off un some project or other-but you will always want your own home to which you may return. If you wed someone who likes to travel a much ca you do, then home will tirpack always be wherever you that trink?
Among those born on thia
to you most of all. You appear to have a restless, wandering nature which enta pulls you into all kinds ef exelling experiences. But under Beath this so-called "artistic" ten- perement, there is a strong vein of practical, good commen nenoe which helps you put your ideas into con- crete form.
You have what
amounts
A To
passion for conunual activity, You were: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. proet: Stephen McKenna and James want to be doing something all the fue. Sometimes it doesn't matter. Farrell, authors: Ellen Terry and too nuel where you are going. Just Joan
WOMANSENSE
ROYAL ART-AT THE AGE OF EIGHT
The year was 1874. In Britain's Windsor Castle, the eight-year-old grandson of Queen Victoria-he was later to become King George V-put down on paper the sketch pictured here.
Now, 84 years later, his sketch is coming up for sale in Sotheby's auction rooms in London.
The then Prince George had been sitting with his brother the Duke of Clarence for a portrait. Later he insisted that the artist, Carlile Macartney, should have one of his drawings.
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So, on paper headed "Windsor Castle," he drew a hunting strange flying creatures, with below them scene or battle and a procession. In the procession were Horse Guards, ladies with tiaras and a black-suited, top- hatted man. In the bottom left corner guardamen in scarlet.
Professor Carel Weight of Britain's Royal College of Art said of the sketch, without knowing the artist: "Very amusing, terribly good. I think it is one of the finest child's drawings I have seen. It's full of whizz, full of vitality. I would say it WAB a child of considerable imagination."
The drawing, which is being sold anonymously for the Red Cross, is expected to fetch around £20.
Blame Miss Bennett For This!
End'a
аз соп
the West IRLS are getting more disputably
like men.
new star-19 (Collapse of freshest
temporary as the next sputnik. stout party, cries of rage,
Her wide-mouthed face, with horret and dismay. A its cheerful noso and Yellow voice: "Prove it.")
hair just couldn't have hap-
By ROBERT ROBINSON
cut
rather not."
pretty lo ugly mug She can't cook, she drives I'm suro tticy mean well ("Drive Well-1 drive ex- but you
I drive like a man") depressed, at cellently.
and if she hasn't got a duffel
can't
"I came
coat she has
tur it is the Americans who are "No. I'm nervous and bulent. Sometimes I can't dolog the offering, and you sleep and I get up and go for have guessed right. When will drives through the City. I the British flri industry have love driving through the City. the pluck to hire a girl who is late at night-ke driving not like the girl next door,) have through a canyon."
I asked how success felt, and she said, fino,
teeth
arc
She a critical of the films she's made to date-LUST FOR
Its marks?
by onle
Anid
"Producers tell me to I mean they are getting pened outside the 20th century.
my noso done, get my more independent, more
It is not pretty and it is not straightened, have my hair
And thoughtful, more clever. plain, and when I asked her curled.
journalists
A pineapple sent to describe it she said: "I'd always calling me things like LE (with Kirk Douglas), and
which a terrible film with Alan Ladd weltwisher, and four proposals and they drive well.
kindly in which she played a Norwe of marriage--"mostly,"
(Didn't I MAS Bennett runinatively, boy skipper. help
Iceling #lan
say they were getting more from the Beckenham area. like men?)
"I get the strangest offers. away from RADA
"Hollywood? Very lonely. One from an overcoat in wanting to play Cleopatra, but black leather which 18
far it's better to face facts. Yes, Like Blackpool out of season, who saw me on TV and said he Blame Miss Jill Bennett if smarter and just as contem for a face, it HAS been rather And the people are all owned wanted to straighten me out- could he take me for drives in you and these generalisations porary. Naturally, she had no thrown together...."
by their cars....' disagreeable, for it was in the shoes on.
the country to get some fresh air....." contemplation of her wholesome
But, true person in the star dressing roo
They have their hair short and they
duffel weur coats. They are Food
2211 cooking, live on their own, and Presumably like it.
at the New Theatre, St. Mar- tin's Lane, that these death- less thoughts were conceived.
BATTERED
In Dinner With the Family, she plays a girl who is very serene, but whose innocence is like ateel. It's an armour which I asked about her face acala renders her impregnable. --for her face has been
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CYNICAL
(I do not have to tell cynical folk like you that no British film company has offered the
a medical student
to
her essential contemporaneity, Miss Bennett lives alone, and has only one urgent ambition.
For Miss Bennett-leading battered with adjectives sinco lady of Anoulth's DINNER her success that it is surprising her own notable serenity. Was tract. Worldly wise as you are, someone with the nerve to in- WITH THE FAMILY, and in- it doesn't look bruised.
I asked Miss Bennett about unique Miss Benneit any con- To buy a faster car, and find
BOYS'
AND
An Odd Kind Of Kite
-Pollosman Didn't Fly It-It Flew Him!- By MAX TRELL
"Was it very large?" asked Knort.
"It was as large as two kites," "And it hat a said Policeman. tail as long as two talls."
"And were you very small?".
date NARF, the Shadow Boy, ran A up the street, flying a kite wasn't Only It behind him.
It was a paper really a kite. bag lied to a string. Up in the air it went, flipping, napping, spinning and circling.
caked Knart. Bennett. actresses. Jacob Gene Sarazen, so long as you are on the move! Bigelow, scientist;
works got champion; and John G. Gilbert, You are not the type, who well under others but must be able 9th century British actor.
to work at your own speed and
artars teve in under
To find what the your own direction Con-
store for you tomorrow, select your sequently, une of the art or pro- frelons should be your election of birthday star and read the corres
a life werk. Any kind of menotan- ponding paragraph. Let your birth bus routine is deadly to you. day tor be your dally guide.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28
24-Sept. 23)- PISCES
VIRGO {Feb, 20-Mar.
(ANE 20)-
You may hear of a good job open Promote and advertise your project.
als is a fine selling day. Wind up ing today. It might pay to in
vestigate. Commit with the family successful month activities.
For approval.
$4-Oct. 20) LIBÍLA (Bopt. 21-Apr.
ANIES
上
Just for a change. try doing paine There can be rosvo a lement
of the things that are fun rettier you are seeking it.
than driving yourself to
do
Knarf sang an he ran:
"Look at my kite, It's a beautiful sight Flipping and flapping Snipping and snapping Like a bird on a string What a beautiful thing!" Reaching the corner, Knari stopped. For
there
was
bir
in the air it friend, the Policema
"Hello, Policeman," zaid more day sociaily. You can have fum)
Knarf.
"Hello, Boy," said Policeman. "I'm fying a kite," said Kasat "Have you ever Lown kite, Policeman?"
Policeman. “Oh yes,” said "I've flown a kite many a time, and many a time, my kite has flown me)"
work.
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 21) ww TAURUS (Apr 21-May
It may be fine to take a sort trip Make plans for the coming spring to at loved as Plan carefully activities,
expecially if you are for a busy month ahead. dealing professionally with the pub-
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Deo. 22)--- Mic.
GEMINI
21 Some member of your fenly may 22-Juna Dumexle issue may come up for be appearing before the pubile. careful consideration if the budget show co-operative aplai and bene- neode rovising, It now!
ît from it.
CANCER
13)- (Jan
CAPRICORN (Deo. -Jaar 203- Take a pemaal interest neigh Business aftalew show a spoed-um bourhood affairs and you will find tendency. Be alert to new sonsuell
Advance that it wkkene your horizon.
oppertunities. terests.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 13 J
2-July
LEO (Jul XL-AUS.
you love. Pay
perhaps.
23)
your
Knart said in a puzzled volce: "I don't understand that, Police- tnan."
"I explain it to you," said
"Once when I From actual play: White to Deng helpful to another will bring De practical in personal tenies that the Pollecman.
outelde the may concern other you satisfaction and joy to som OCELI more and win.
a hospital vitt, family circle. & co-operative split | Was a very small boy, my father
gava me'a' very large Elle.”
London Express Kervloe
Eyes Like Dots
it real?
you have already guessed that sure her,
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twice as small as I had eyes like
shoes were
"The curious thing that hap-
"WDS pened," said Policeinan, peanut shells. dots."
that the kite came down and I went up Higher and higher I "You were certainly small," went. The kite was dying me!" said Knarf.
"What did you do?" cried Knart in alarm.
Policeman smiled. .
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"I was," answered the Pollee- man. "So I took this big kite of mine up to the top of a windy
"I just enjoyed myself," he hill, I holated the kite up Inte
"I sailed around in the And said. the air and ran with 1.
I nodded to the birds as suddenly
curious
thing air.
they went flying by. I reached happened."
for a passing cloud and broke off an end and chewed 11,"
"What did taste ilke?" asked Knari.
"What was the curious thing "My that happened?" asked Knart.
"I was twice as small to your Bald Policeman. noso,"
Rupert and the Lost List-20
an anxious circle and clearly don't The Cowboy insists on his idea. You're the only stranger in these know what to do. As he waits what has Rupert thinks over parts," he cries." Ibelieve you're got that list in your pocket." I'm happened since the fog came. Then start and rune to the be gives not a stranger " exclaims Rupert.
"may be wrong but "And there's nothing in my others. pocket except my banky. Look.** may have been your bet list," be
Was it on paper ♪ " The four small 'figures" gather in exile.
ALLI MONTEÄRESKAVAD
Tostod Like Plo
"It tasted liko
molasses and
Kmart ran, flying a paper.
bag klie behind him,
honey and spun sugar and the like rain Bavoured with thunder
top of lemon meringue pie."
"I wish I could eat a cloud," said Knori. "But what else did you do?"
and Ughtning."
"Did you get all wot?" asked Knari.
"I came down just in time," "I stayed up in the air, all eald Policemant. "I ran all the afternoon," said the Pollocman way home with my great big
"I listened to the voices of the Elie"
wind, saying that thunder
A
storm was coming. The clouds
"I've got a very small kite,"
grew blocker. They didn't taste sald Knuri, "'e only a paper
liko molassEN and honey
and bag on a string, but I like 10 funt
spun sugar and the top of lemon the same." meringue, plo any more.”
And Knarf ran back down the "What did they taste like?" skoot while the Policeman stood
asked Knonf.
They tasted like rain” mekl Follceman." "Yes, they tended
and
watched.
And Knart wand as do rani
"What a boɑuilta thing
In a kito on a string!”