The
DREAM LIFE
of NANCY PRICE
-THE THIRD in a series ol extracts from the -morning-alter diary of a distinguished actress, who has recorded her dreams with startling evidence to support her belief that they have some meaning....
FN my dream last bight I
anxious about her since she lost her very dear companion and felend.
"I want you to see some fine old furniture in the flat opposite, which is just va. cant," she said.
I was now in M.'s bed- room and n jolly little boy came in.
be purchasers. The hail-porter then produced some dirty, blue satin dresses with long trains.
""These would suit you," ho
me and suid, turning to insisted of both Miss M. and The myself putting one or
at their exclaimed crowd beauty.
1 pressed a pound in t
wondered porter's hand
and nu
own clothes as even Miss M.
was insisting that I, had never looked so well.
for
!'1Iow extraordinary
dat in this people to leave condition," I said to M. when we were back in her dat.
"I don't thlak so, she res
plied, "they may come back."
* *
Then I remembered that I
"I live next door to Mian must get back to lunch, and M.," he said. "I've come there
seemed great confusion the porter and s for a bath!" Then In came in which his mother. "My boy is al- wife, the ciderdowns, M. and ways so clean," she said, myself were all mixed up.
proudly, and as she spoke, the hey came back.
"I've had my bath," he said, "and put on my best clothes."
It did not seem out of place that he was wearing a black satin bodice and skirt, heavily trimmed with jet, a large purple bonnet, and rid ing boots.
*
*
"There is no one to get you.a
taxid M., the porter is too busy, you must wait; eat your sandwiches here."
Then I felt myself drearily opening packets of hard ham dry bread. I can't," 1 and said,
"To be useful, you should cat I ate 600 yesterday, und files. they were dificult to catch," said M
woke still trying to eat that awful sandwich. My tongue going round and round, my body weighed down by in- We numerable bottles.
Miss M. took me next door to see the furniture. were immediately in a small, dark hall and I was depress- ed by the drabness of the whole place and the furni- ture-masses of it.
4
Then, several days later..
MY FRIEND called with the nows that the fat opposita hers had been vacaled during the The tenants had left night.
"No everything, with a note: Im- money to pay rent, sell effect
for what, you can get." of
"Take anything you fancy." said the hall-porter. "I must clear everything. It is let to a, 'Lachkoo' who wants mediate possession because his, two "Żessmies""""
The rooms were left as if the people had just got out of bed
And, said my friend, as in the dream, "they had such a nice son, so clean looking; and only a few days before they left his Everything mother came in and asked per and walked off.
use my bath, as Bordid, furniture minion to was dirty,
доле Wrong something had hideous, nothing good save the elderdowns there were plies with the plumbing. I shall not forget that day, for I nearly of these on the unmade beds.
choked swallowing a
fly." Coming back into the hall wo found it crowded with would
"My waking impression of these two non-dictionary words
I then read to her the record of my dream, exactly as set down some days before.
*FROM "Acquainted with is that a Lackkoo was a member the night," to be published this of an extinct race and that he
by George Ronald, travelled with his Zessmies- Oxford, Ta Od. creatures of some species un-
known to zoology.
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Get Him 10.2 Out of This!
by ERNEST DUDLEY
(The Armchair Detective) CARTON-Insurance
Srentmtracks arch-crook Buff Elmond to his lair in a big, in fact a Wapping, wares kouse overlooking the river. You know, where (l's always fogry and the river police Dover #lop pulling bullet. riddled boules out of the wel. But Dimond, using a gas- plato, and his seven accom plices plus Lita Lailure, the foreign Vamp with a 16-Inch cigarette-holder-trap the, un suspecting 8nlp Carton.,
They te ble hands' behind his back and gag film. As Raff
Bulp Dimond kicka Carton good-byn he subs his loe against an old fireguard, and, using censored language. alams out. Bulp hears the bolt alld across from the out ride and is alone.
Hot Lita Lallure, refiing Dimatid she wants to make a phone call, nlps back to Snip. She tells him she's Calle for him like A
best sack of kitchen nuts, and if he'll agree to her terms she'll help him escape. Snip Carton ask her
wint her terms are, and she Lella him. "Never the cries, ** reel all my petrol ruupuss myarif."
Livid with fury, Lisa Laflure re-gats aur bero, tafica away shoes and scatters thi tacks all over the tour. She move to the window and watches her clgarette end spin elghly feel an to the roarrete whart below.
Then she trips alt-in fact, the trips over a loose plank In the floor, and she re-bolts The doar after her.
At the foot of stairs below, Lita Allure, still annoyed, lights a scented rigarelle nu ills the burying match on to * heap of wood shavings. Smiling cruelly, she hurries off as the staire burel into flames, So there's Snip Carton Insurance Agent-bound, gagged, and bolted in, with the Uames roaring nearer avery moment. And what YOU've got to do is: GET 11M OUT OF THIS! All the clues are In the picture. It can be done.
London „Express Service.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1940.
.500 TON HYDRAULIC POWER PREST
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1949
**But, Vera, you'd no right to let the gentleman sell you an hydraulic press.” '
BERNARD
WICKSTEED
IN ARABIA
... I ask you now -what would you do with £50,000
for every week of your life?.
Another
Is that how you'd spend your life it every hour you became
dispatch £312 10s. richer?
from the man with Round - the- World Ticket No. 1
KUWAIT, Arabia, THAT would you do if you won £50,000 in pool? 2 football Most people at home have that naked themselves question at some time or other. But here's a better one. What would you do if
It doesn't appear to have you went on winning £50,000 every week for the rest of walls layed since it came to
Arabla. your life?
They say you can tell d man's That has happened to a man
And what's taste by his books. So I made a shelves, who lives here. more he gets it all tax free. At note of those on his one time he was just an ordinary They are nearly all thrillers and shaikh (or sheik) who lived in novels by such authors as Ethel a town with a mud wall round M. Dell. But he hasn't read my
Ke
read can't or speak English. it
It is true that he's had a great number of wives, though the Moslem law allows him only four at a time.
To an oilman who went to see him in 1936 to mentioned that had 37. He's probably he'd
few married and divorced a mare since then. But, even 80, they seldom leave the palace. They They don't wear nylons. don't need fur coats.
.
So what, for heaven's sake, doca ho do with the DOUGH?
The answer is he does practi-
Then geologists worked out In this land of Persian carpets, colly nothing at all.
that his uny shallchdom on the the one he has in this room wis: He has bought a couple of tankers to bring in tresh water Round the walls there are to the town. ilc helping to Persian Gulf, ittle bigger than made in Axminster. an English county, was sitting on top of one of the richest oil signed photographs of people finance a hospital and some! who have been to see him. This felds in the world.
and watches his bank balance is where the shaikh's genius schools. For the rest, he just sits
If anyone pays a out.
grow. comes
coll, he finds his own repeat picture in the most prominent position.
For three years the Shaikh of Kuwait (full name: Sir Ahmad Ibn Jabir As-Surbar) sat in his baking-hut, mud-walled town, courted by oil men.
IT
High stakes
À royal joke
Every morning the shatkh gets is great friend is Ibn Saud, up about five o'clock. That is H
King of Saudi-Arabia, Ibn customary out here, because it is
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CRIME QUIZ
by MILEGON HORTON
1. SCENE OF CRIME:
2. THE VICTIM:
Cyni Laster-killed playing poker killer alleged self-defence.
3. JIM READ BAID
"Icaught him cheating. He dress agon. Iflung that decanter, full of port. It struck his temple. He fell dead."
MUSIC Everyone LOVES!
• NEW HAMMOND ORGAN SPEND YOUR
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C.V.R. Thompson No gentle zephyr
NEW YORK.
gan stopping again at was like a fantastic game of too hot to sleep after that. From Saud is the top man around here,THE Zephyr Express be-
nire he sits on a a regular Henry VIII, of a poker, in which the chips even to were-worth--a-million pounds wooden bench on a verandah and monarch, and even the shaikh is the tiny Texas cattle town
-holds-court-with-his-merchants subjected to his practical jokes. of Electra.
On a recent visit, the King The 7,500 lownspeople,--led cach.
His beard, which was black at and advisers.
"They go over the verbatim re- gave him a room with a bedside by cowboy mayor, Leo Moore, first, turned grey, then white.
ports of the various Arable telephone, and then rang him up made so much fuss in the fort- He developed high blood pres broadcasts. There are some 15 every half-hour to ask him how night the train has been going
(Who sure and heart trouble.
sent out by Britain, he was sleeping.
nonstop through America, wouldn't in a game like this?) of these
Itussin,
and other
When the shaikh's millions the railway have grown a bit more, even Ibn their minds.
will
tuke hesitate to Saud
First, every citizen stood at the
and tooted whistles station liberties like that. So will every other Moslem from Morocco to as the Zephyr flashed by.
Next day it did not flash by, Pakistan. That's the day that the
because Mayor Moore posted shaikh is waiting for.
ordinance that oll trains
Not a word of them is missed.
But he held cut til, only two countries. men were left playing against him, one a toll Englishman with a monocle, representing a British company, the other an Ameri-
con.
the
The two gol together and decided the only way to stay in game was to join forces. They formed a joint Anglo- American company. The shaikh signed on the dotted line.
One of the terms was that he should be paid a royalty of 48. Cd. for every ton of oll shipped.
Iraq, and
and Saudi- In resimliar concessions were Arabia signed, but there the royalties go to the Government. In Kuwait the shaikh gets the lot,
And it is not taxed because he! is the man who would have to tox it.
His cut: £7,500
In bed at 9.30
T 10.30 he receives foreign
A collers, and at 11 o'cloc disappears into the more seclud- ed parts of the palace tili four.
Electra that bosses changed
But it's not my cup of ten. an Leaving the palace, I hired annust slow down to 15 miles an Arab dhow and went fishing in hour through the town. After that he meets people the Persian Gulf.
did again, or goes out in one of his boats till the Mosiem evening my money. prayer at sunset, He's in bed by 0.30.
fun get some
Next day there was another for ordinance--trains were subject to sanitary Inspection insido Electra's town limits.
And, finally, there ordinance giving pedestrians the right of way tracks, which over. railway
-London Exprese Service,
ROCKETS TO BE FIRED
NEAR HOLIDAY ISLES
By VINCENT EVANS
was an And cara
hauled up the Zephyr for a perambulator.
OPINION: The New Republle
magazine thinks that, this is how the Big Three's hopes for their conference with Russia summarised-Londou Washington. miles from the Grand Bahama may be
nothing.
everything, Paris AST month the Kuwait Oll DRITAIN and America
are Island.
But it is expected that the Washington something. Company shipped out just D working out a joint plan to
will be on the about a million tons of oll. So fire rockets, over the Atlantic radar posts
there is Harm clock which, before TOME: On sale now typa the shaikh's cut worked out at from Florida and to plot their lonelier Isles, where £7,500 a day.
course from radar stations set up little chance of interference from
folting you out of bed with that At that rate-and the output in the Bahamas, The rockets sightseers.
Until now, the Americans Jangling bell, tries first of oil is going up, not down-he will land in the sea.
have been making their experi- awaken you by blinking a light Is making £2,737,500 a year.
ments down in the South in your eyes. Western States, but they think
do
What
What on earth dors the man
with his money7. can you do on the edge of the desert with nearly three million a year?
He ducan't smoke. He doesn't drink. He doesn't go to the pictures (He, won't allow a cinema for fear, it would corrupt his Moslem citizens.)
He has a fleet of cars, but several of them were given to bin by the ollmen. -
He has three molor-boats and a two-funnelled yacht (with a Kold telephone): but these didn't cost anything either. He won them as side bets at poker. The shaikh is now 64 and, owing to his heart trouble and blood pressure, specialists (flown out
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FOOTNOTE ONE: General Turner is all set to resumo
film U.S. Chief of her
career...... Oliver here and paid by the oilmen) came from the U.S. State Do- Omar Bradley, have put him on a European partment.
old partner, Datalls are secret, but it is be- Staff, said in Washington that Hardy is making a comeback. After one at I had a look at his palace. It loved the Americans have four America's frontier is now "in the but without his
heart of Europe and strategy Stan Laurel.. the mainland
...to keep it tempt at being a good fellow has been planned... is no more my idea of a palace launching alles
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there, Installations on the Bahamas,
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The room where he receives holiday isles of the British West adopting the U.S. 300 rimiess to the old stuff, but more so. Il Palmer, Rex. Har- Europeans looks as if it had beep Indies, will be staffed jointly by cartridge, instead of the rimmed furnished by a rather frugal Britons and Americans, tam ort
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will not leave her husband, thing is old-fashioned and dusty. American millionaires, the of standardising urms with the Hollywood offers because she
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