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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1959,
ROUND
UP
Pocket Radio For
Police
A
pocket radio set, the size of
cig rette 0
packet,
by
which any policeman can called wherever he is, is being tried out by Nottingham police. The set sounds a warning note and the officer then hurries to the nearest telephone to contret headquarters. It can single out and call anyone of 099 men. Chlef Constable of Nottingham, Captain A. Pupkess, says the devlee would revolutionise tool patrols. An offeer on his beat is virtually si and has
to
telephone be station every half hour. Now he could get on with his job and be called *when required.
Britain's Holiday "Birdmen"
"GLI
"LIDING HOLIDAYS" are becoming more popular in Britain. More than 3,000 people have spent their annual holidays In the last two years learning to become "Birdinen" at 15 gilding centres of the British Gliding Association. Last year there were 185 courses and this year there will be as any lu meet the growing demand for the sport. An apt pupil cali learn to gilde na weck and Fall off on
Many solo flights. holidaymakers are accompanied by their wives and families to some centres, where they can park #caravan for a week. Most centres are beauty spots. They include the Lake District, Taunton Vale. Perranporth, Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the shores of Loch Leven.
Cigar-Smoking Contest-With Women
BOUT 30 nien and women
LET'S
GO PLACES
PEOPLE who go to the movies
shouldn't travel. And vice versa. For those intrepid location- minded movie-makers have been everywhere now. So seductively have they bent plots around locale that no real life glimpse of the same topography ever measures
Con-
En route to Marrakesh by Super stellation, 1 huddled gluinly in the plane when it touched down at Algiers. I have er thain cherished fusions about the Casbah
A ure competing in "Brand eigar smoking conte" at the village of Reepham. near Lincoln. They will sit in the bar of the local in stroking up. cigars. The competitor whic Peeps the ash on the cigar for the longest period is the winner. Any competitor who loses the ash
01 410 falls to "dow
art the amore"
enli af umpires is ellabated. On legal two occasions in recent years wonen have been the Winners, A competitor once kept his five-inch cigar inunina fur an hour and 20 m'nutes. Prizes ure kept secret unt:' the en:1 of the competition Last year they inelucet n stel. of potatues.
Barracks May Become Gaols
WeArra Anny Lar:acks
THREE
Comirand
in Linca-
being silken hung end redolent, of love, Charles Boyer, and Hedy Lamarr. And I in- tend to keep those itlusions.
But further cn, in Tangier, I had to get off. The Mororcan police insist on a quick look at all visitors at actual point of entry
a the country.
Onge off. I made the fatal mistake of going to town. Thanks to the movies, it was famlibur.
All too familiar. But where was Tierney? Doris Day, Maria Montez? Guinnes? 'Gone. Nol a one in sight. in their place only ulcerous French bus.
shire may be turned into mess prisons.
Wellington
men. dusly
Barracks, Arabs, and hoardings
Bury, Harington Barracks, shrieking in English, Fuimby, and Peninsula Barracks, Arabic, and French Warrington, are all to be sold. the delights of le Coca Representatives of the Prison | Colu bien place. Commissioners have inspected all, but they have noi deilded whether to
over.
the
of
the
In
return 10
I
by
DEE
Gene
Alec And
WELLS
Casablanco yel take them had to get off again broack-winged Itarington Barracks was The
ht depol
'King's Soup-Atr wns Regiment (Liverpool). It was grand for these parts. built as an infantry centre at It would the beginning of the war. Paris, Wellington Barracks will
We would go fall
on to Marie- Lancashire kesh in a Dakola. But it would cmpty when the Fusiliers leave there this year. not be ready for a day. It has been their depet for 85 Once again I had to face the
Peninsula Barracks was | disillusionment of years.
braving a formerly the depot of the South town whose idealised protie F Lancashire Regiment,
already knew from the movies.
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And long live Errol Flynn-by Giles
Hollywood's Lolin Mansroe unobtru- sively slipped off to the wars today to take up nursing. "My job is at the front," she said. "It is the duty of us girls to help heal our brave rebel film stars.”
* ✩ *
I
Her first repair will be Mr. Errol Flynn (late conqueror of the Far East, late Robin Hood), who has just won the Battle of Cuba in two weeks. Ho was, supported by Fidel Castro and 100,000 Cubans. Mr. Flynn collected a couple of nasty scratches some- where near the Casino, took two hours by telephone to tell his publicity agent in Hollywood.
*
✩
*
"It's your own fault," said an American spokesman to a fascinated British observer. “If you'd called in Flynn on that Suez Job of yours he'd have sorted that Anthony Eden out in no time and your General Nasser would still be King of Egypt till this very day.""
Daytime in the market of old Marrakesh is one long carnival.
It is there that Sir Winston Churchill is on holiday
Untamed-that's life:
in Marx Bros. Land
martis
There is no confusion about what to trink
This gravelly semolina Is to even more rich Moroccans what rice 19 to that shortbread.
and crumbly
London Express Service.
The Man
Who STOPPED Jumps
In The
Lake
by FERGUS CASHIN⭑
SUDDENLY, after
my
only two weeks on non-smoking-non-
Asians, or pasta la Italiana..... As Arabs are teetotal, there anything water wagon, The unrelievedly poor eat it is no confusion about what I woke early one day straight. The middling poor drink. It's mint tea steadily heve it with cooked vegetables, the whole day through.
with at an hour kept strictly
The middling rich have it with meals, before meals, afler meals, for the birds, and de- mutton, vegetables and cooked between monks. Any time. grapes. The super rich have It Made by crushing a cod-sized cided I was a negative the way the rich have it, but clump of mint into hot, freshly man.
they have it after a delicious mide tea and then lacing the first course of chicken cooked whole generously with sugar.
with pickled jeinon. Whatever you fre, rich, poor, or middling,
you have it every day.
Like some suicidal
(The tectotal rule, of course, masochist I there and applies only in the Arab quarter. then decided that I had
If you go into the French part
of the town you can drink to do something terribly
extreme and positive.
I had it the super rich way anything you want.) With an Arab escort I sat
in
spicndour on a deep-upholster-
cd low sofa covered with sikky antelope hides
cushions.
WHISTLES IN
Why extreme?
Because •mnay people, judging by the letters I Araba diellabais am receiving, think I am water and that serve the twofold purposely-livered, thin-blooded, a
velvet and
Pank looned
serving girls
brought soap, ho!
towels
тот
an interlude
Like
the
of of insulating them against the
Indus tous hand-washing. Then, day's heat and keeping out the cheat and a fraud,
old, mint tea is per They cannot understand evening's on a low round table, they
fectly suited the schizold why a man, even for a very placed big central bowls
climate of Marrakesh. food.
HEAVENLY
of
to
In the short period of time, should Daytime it's cooling. In the evening It's warming.
give up everything in life All those fanciful travellers that he enjoys. tales of how cold it gets in the One reader Buggested desert when the sun goes down that "I go jump in the are true.
lake."
it's mint tea the whole day.
First came the whole chicken that had to be tom aprrt By day it's cotton dresses and
I took him at his word. and eaten with Angers. Then August heat. But once the sun The airport I had already the doors leaped
of carefully more hand-washing and open-but the thin chade
the disappers-and it disappeara A ROAR recognised as an old friend. No backwards, straight in your face. Irrigated orange,
lemon, and
tropical suddenness the mammoth, mountainous bowl of with slick, stone, or willing cosmos In the patio fountain olive trees,
cous-cous. Also to be erien with wind whistles in from the snow The Serpentine at Hyde Park arct had been altered since ferturing trickled soothingly---until it went
fingers. and About
the as folds,
Arabs put their scomed the best place, Old Marrakesh i п
Tourist- the
swimmers as buckground for the final bust too and shot a jet of water
Inside its manageable as flour-and-water hoods up, and even the most when I arrived 19
gone, scene of Casablanca.
habitually it Archose force straight to the promoter's dream.
alcoholic tourist had already been ant walls 1s the
Xanadu-like paste. Humphrey Bogart, Claude culling.
sweet of gratefully gulps his hot mint leaving only their naked foot- Mamounla hotel. And near by
prints in the snoer, Rains, Ingrid Bergman, and Upstairs venetian
Al Richardson, Paul Heureld swim before my crashed to
the keeper, and red-faced and healthy eyes. And were nowhere to mercsi tug.
winner of the 1957 Christmas be atom
Day swim, nodded approval as I stripped.
bllads the
Then a heavenly
the floor at is the central market square, crisp, almond
the Pree Djema-el-Fins, where And outside, when eventually all caravans und all the doorman whistic for tourists wind up.
In town, the been-bere-tefore taxi, no taxi came, but large
feeling was even more intense, and joyful strry dogs burst A perpetual carnival, it is here The Splendiferous hotel was around the corner and engulfed surely the set where the Marx him. brothers had gambolled through
A Night in Casablanca.
Blodurn, oh, so modern-but untamed. And the trick machinery had never been dis- mantled. The electric eye conTM trolling huge double glass doors went mid. When approached
ARTIE
*Not to worry, Senorm Errol Flynn will clean. sep this "masz, as he did in· Esma,"
Landon Express Service.
HONEYCOMBED
that windering musicians perform >}} Iambourines, cymbals and strange unname.
abic stringed instruments.
Dancera, stilt-walkers, fortuno tellers, magicians, and grotesque. beggars all collect their circles of admirers.
Pure Marx. But no Groucho, No Hurpo. Not even Peter Lorre, Marrakesh itself is, as the Arabs any, une atitre chose. No movie ghost to exorcise there. The ancient capital of southern Morocco has yet to have the pleasure of being blown UP. There double-life-size on celluloid.
SO WILLING
H60d
bo .to
epake The fact that most snake charmers werd
Not that Marrakesh isn't charmers too.
photogenic. It most certainly
19. With the snow-covered Atlas sooner or later bitten and killed
by their barasted charges was Ignored. But the day a snako
Mountains 08 A backdrop, Marrakesh-both ancient and modern nestles costly in its bit and filled a tourist was the day the cuthorities clamped bright green prima oasis.
Beyond the fringe of the down. Dead tourists are a bad
advertisement for oasis, the sunny, tawny desert tourist trade.
a budding stretches to the horizon, broken no more snakes.
There would be
only by the mauve mountains.
UNNAMABLE
the
are
.thero But, of course, znaken. Furtively, they Bro carted about in gunnysacka There are two Marrakeshes hidden in the folds of enveloping The old one inside the walls djellabahs, and the tourists no and the French quarter outside, longer have to go to the snakes, Like an illustration from
for the snake charmers are all Arabian Nights the old sector is too willing to go to the tourists. honeycombed, with Bouks and I went off to dine Arab-style twisty alleyways, its low-built at the fabulous Dar-es-Salaam. skyline dominated by the tower This, a pakee that was once of the Koutoubya mosque.
complete with barems, fles deep Divided from all this by the in the Casbah phd has been venerable wall, the new converted into a de luxe tourist Marrakesh la aceptically clean restaurant,
and looks Like any Provencal
town.
Arab food must be in acquired
In the French section, side tasto Perhaps I didn't stay walk cafes that couldn't be long enough to seguire it. Not anything but French edge, the at any rate for the staple, come wide boulevards and swelter in caus..
flavoured cakes, tea.
Selection by Friell
AROL ELYAK WITH CUBAK REBEL ARME
FOREIGN
OFFICE
"You realise this exonerates our man in Havana for backing Batista. He didn't know Flynn was on the other side.”
IMMA
*Fin says he'd like to make a tour of our cities and visit California for a spot of Als sun.”
Al creaked sinisterly in
道
boat across the lake. For a petrifled moment I wondered at my madness and then, with a roar like a harpooned bull elephant, I plunged lung-frezon Into the_grect-gTOY duckles
lee.
In
*
catch-a-breath・・ wild frenzy of striking pante I threshed madly through the fishices, 32-degreed water: gushed my shia six inches, on the Lee; and wet-fooled it across the snow screaming and jerking and clutching.
IT WAS MY FIRST DIP OF THE SEASON.
And quite honestly I enjoyed it (five minutes afterwards),
SO LOOPY
Perhaps 1 am wearing lunatic frings on top. But I am certainly getting a better under- standing of these quaint near- to-the-fairies people who completely out of step, and completely positive.
aro
They are of course quite loopy to the normal-hollow-eyed-stay". in - bed, hug - my-hot-water- bottle-of-rum-to-my-tum society. Dut, no matter how much laugh at them, they are POBI- TIVE people who do discipline themselves to DO things.
WO
`WHY HE STOFFED). Forgun Cashin weniod to find out whất is really' fel fà life, when you discard backslapping ADA fripperies. Ita's now in the third week of a WK-work experimIRAS of life without mekite, Artale» mg, rastie, sizieren, a our, and maskene
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