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JIMMINY JINGLE, Uncle HOLLY, HELP FATHER CHRISTMAS IN THE RUSË,

Children find some

at the stores

So many children, are ac- chlidren from realising there is companying parents on more than one Father Christmas and have found the scheme a shopping oxpeditiona that

great success so far," sold a London stores are having member of the store. Lo introduce "emergency Another attraction Is Jim plane" to help Father

miny Jingle, Father Christmas's Christmas cope with the clerk. crowds,

A Kingston store has hired two Father Christmases and a stand-in" Last year the store had only one and a relief.

"We have an intricate system at doors which prevents the

Keith Merriman, aged En- three-and-a-half, of field, gets a close-up

model trains.

He "Ilves" in a small house and the children see him and talk to him through the lotter box. They are not allowed to Re insido because a series of inirrors makes him look only o foot high,

An Oxford Street store has introduced Uncle Holly (the man In Father Christmas's workshop who help preparo the toys) to chlidren.

He is an "old man" with wille "alde-boards" and shaggy eye-brows who wears a green highwayman's cont over grey trousers, n grey topper and a yellow waistcoat decorated with green holly leaves,

"He is a great success.

Some

of the children even prefer him

in Father Christmas," a mon at

the store said.

of

This is Uncle Holly.

GAMES FOR THE PARTY

H

(Answers On Page 21)

elaced out of the gate. If sho Kives the wrong andwer sho the must ask the next man in

man) another in the second

down the question, and no on

The win-

THE KANGAROO

ERE'S

energetic kind of game to warm the party ap lay out

the ule who 11 thin, light the sticks starting the longest

and to all questions must about three feet apart

four

rown of sticks. Place

the nod back att

medinte

hesitation

have as many as the room will permit, Select a player player out of the game

for each row.

At the word

"Go" all players must sturt to hop un one foot over each stick in the row. When the player has crossed the last still stick, he turns round. on one foot, and starts back. This time, he must stoop down and pick up rach stick after he has hopped over it If he drops. a stick or loses his balance he must start all over again. The winner the first one to bring back all the sticks in his row,

PUZZLE IT OUT

1:

Christmas centre-piece of Mix letters spelt out under puzzler's

leeve Discover it

1 Square.

2. Kind of bout.

3. Rolled in Scolinnd.

4. Miss

To it

Stammers answers

5. Wind or vitamin,

6. Railway terminus.

SPELLING BEE

new faces

The crowd at a doll counter in a Regent Street store.

THERE WILL BE

“A

DEMON

N English dramatic performance end- ing with trans- formation деспе followed by broad comedy of clown and Columbine," Thun goes the official dictionary definition of a Christmas

IN show

peculiarly British.

that

Like everything else, how- ever, dictionary definitions can get a little out of date. "Dramatic" for instance, in that definition 18 21 littl confusing to modern curs. For Drama, to most, con- ulr the vision of JUTEN highly-strung nerves, tenso atmospheres and frightened

While these people.

may have been Mothe of the ingredients of pantomime 60

VILN

age, nothing of this kind is included in the show of today which is designed primarily for children.

18.

remains PANTOMIME performances

puls Д

Answers take place in the ordinary be m-theatre but from there of, the only resemblance be- tween pantomime arki theatre proper is, as careful authors say, "purely coinci- dental,"

INTELLIGENCE TEST

1 Fin the missin terins in the following analogy Sheep is U.

is karni

2 FECUND is the opposi of Cold, barren, parched, mori- What will this sentence

town? 3

1214 words are ILT

be when tanged the right order?

To start with, the princi- a girl. pal boy is always That may sound Irish. Then, the part of the old woman there is always an okt woman in pantomime, be she the ugly sister, the widowed How many eggs are there mother or the wicked witch) is invariably played by a

Me spuke you to anked in. terrupting your me put hu

stop in

.

In half a hundrest"

5 Which of these

numbers

1 belong in the group as the other four

1

3

4

3

Li

7.

2 Fill the missing words the following sentences

We have not castle

Kiltid

the yarti.

EILEEST.

200

KINGS

story, it is always interrupted by variety acts, such no juggling or dancing, which have no connection with the plot, but simply add to the amusement. Greal use is made of trap-doors and sulphur Bashen for the entrance or exit of the Demant King (every pantomime has Demon King in some form or

The ethar.)

Fairy

Queen always carries magic wand, and the hero and the heroine always live happily ever after.

These are l things that childrens can understand. They are the basis of pantomime, and their intention is to please the chihlish mind And yet It i Kamazing that to bring a chiki to

pantomime per. formatice requires the services of a least four adults

П ዳር

The grown-ups always give ine excuse, "Well, we bad pro- mised Jennifer Ann (or what- ever the name is) a long time. age that we would bring her to e the reserw and she would have been disappointed if we had not come with her."

BY

PETER PENNYLESS

And so today more and more chil attent children's pan- Lomamnen. So Pantomimes all fiver Britain outlive the Christina reason by several weeks, and in some parts of the country it is usual to And pan- tonine in February and even March and April.

So Queen Anne lives

on in Reno

From NEWELL ROGERS

THE

THE

NEW YORK.

ghosts of Queen Anne and her lawyers haunt the gamblers of Reno, America's divores capital, tonight.

Gambling is Reno's second largest industry. The divorce business comes first,

The State of Nevada collects taxes from the clip's casinos. Since they are respectable tax- payer, the proprietors want the courts to help to collect gambling debla.

So ono eued to collect £30,700 for cheqitas signed by Colorado society man Leonard Wolft just before he died,

Judge Merwyn Brown sald "No." And he based his decision on an ancient statuto of Queen Anno adopted, with England's common low, by Nevada,

The gamblers are appealing to Nevada's Supreme Court on the ground of their rights an tax- payers.

Footnote: Illinois Supreme Court is to pass on an Illinois of "Puss in Boots." This is the law to permit men, as well as story of the cat which, rather women, to coi cet alimony. Mrs on the line of the Pied Piper

La Verite Wahler, a £00-0- of Hamelin, disposes of large month bank teller, has Just rals, small rats, lawny rats, old been ordered ไป My her rats, young rats, grey rats and crippled ex-Serviceman husband all the other rodent species £1 15s, a week alimony. She

which have been bothering the prople the story.

Incidentally, I would perhaps berativer

has appealed.

DOREDOM and Jet-down on retirement are killing off so Alonzo

a good idea at this many people, saya Dr stage to point out that Tommy Myers of New York University, Trinder is one of London's own that a school should be started

for to train them for leisure. "Cockney" comedians, and

that reason ho has been included

in the Philadlum show. Pan-AST BOAÇ altilner has flown tomine promoters try when- out of LaGuardia airport,

70 ever possible to include local BOAC's

airport workers station born artistes for shows in their Town or county.

native

NE exceptum, however,

Nut

tho Jnckley,

North Country comedian, who will be

piled Into forries and wagons for the 13-mile trip to New York's larger Idlewild air- pori, new terminus for Oights from London. LaGuardia's run- ways are not long enough for the new U.S. Stratocruisers bought by the BOAC for the North Atlantic service.

DORSET. MAKEDS pre alarm-

starring at the Prince's Theated by the new fashion

Но

with pretty ly Hazell in "Dick Whittington." This is the story trend to the flat-chested Napper Fashion stylists of the poor boy who went to of the 1920's.

search

padded London in

of Corne. are debating whether Disillusioned. he is returning to shoulders and hips are doomed.

town him home

Lon- when, in the One of them is going to

British styles. Bells dan 10 seo distance, he hears Bow ring out "Turn again Whitling- also plans to buy British wool. tun. Thou worthy citizen, lens for women's clothes, Thrice Mayor of London." He returns to London, is made NATIONALISED industry has A been banned from New Lord Mayor, and as per mula, everybody lives happily York State by Tom Dewey for ever after.

as long as he is Governor. One out of every 13 Americana lives

Dewey's domain,

for-

The third pantomime. "Misa Muffet." is rather an unusual DRITAIN will get thousands one, and is being performed in

more tourists next summer London for the first time for because the Cunard Line is go-

many years. It reintroducea

Ing to turn round some of its Pat Kirkwood to the London ships more speedily. But the

stage

дл after

absence

of hurtle will not apply to the two Reveral months, and will co- Queens. They have to slar Richard "Stinker" aboard 77,000 lb. of ment, 60,000

potatoes, 170,000

Murdoch, better known, per lb. of

the radio star of haps, as "Much Binding in the Marsh 4,400 quarts of ice cream, gallons of water, And the internationally famous 80,000 pieces of clean linen.

To cater for this increased dult audience more had more Include stars pantumires now of radio and variety in their cost. The people bring

clowns, the Calrolls The sophisticated humour to

will also be in the show. show

adult which suits the indad, incidentally, creates the excuse for attending it there are

children in the family.

no

But Brst and foremost, the paulotuime should bo the chlidren's pleasure, and for that Feason everything ought to be performed as simply as possible, and with a complete absence of any strong dramalle or horror

That in itself is enough to make puntomime no or- dinary show, but there is still one more remarkable A PENNON 15" An article | fact which has not yet been clothing.

of piece

mentioned. Pantomime is ornamental architecture, a Bug,

intended primarily for the

scenes. terms children, but it has such an attraction for the older members of the community that adults outnumber the children in the audience by two two to one. certain

a fencing term?

8. Add the next two

to the following_series.

31

32 35

27

ទ. And here

series difficult. which is rather more

combining

of mernbers successive separate series in

21

Where anywhere-ure the It is made by following words apelt wrongly? Ask your party guests.

Oppossum, cuirass, evanes- way. See if you can add the cent, errisippelus, Irresistable, next two terms: terrestial, supercede, lcycle, em barassed, servicable.

CUESSING CAME

room

Carte Roberts the um- the

for

every- has made

The "something enc" atmosphere

firm family pantomime (uvourite, and such

Its popularity that this Christmas there will be over 200 shows in various parts of Britain.

At

Tommy the Palladium,

variety star, Trinder, famous

up with pretty Zoo and the two American Georgo and Beri

is al- 7 18 30 40 45

FAIR

THE pantomime story EXCHANGE. 10.

ways kept as simple as pos- left my

will ine umbrella in the ball faible. Usually it is based on some stand as I came in. There were fairy tale such as Cinderella, or Gall two others there, one with

And.

artistes, a Jack and the Beanstalk, This game needs no skill or

Bernard, guess nulacca handle and one with a white sticking to the original knowledge-11 is sheer

handle

kind of the knobbly work.

Display a series of objects which I called whangoe. When whose number or weight I came into the sitting Christmas party guests must Jones

was thero with guess and write down. One point wright and Burnaby

allowed for each correct joined us later. I was guess, or (if none is correct) second to leave.

but my nearest brella had already gone; the right answer. The person malacca and the whangee um-

brellas were still there, Suggested Items: 1, Weight of with a hickory one. I did not I de, but a milk bottle (empty). 2, Num exactly know what to do, was in a hurry and so I

I took ber of pins in a small box. 3. the malacca one. The next time Length of a piece of string. I saw Burnaby he was carrying Number of words on the page the whangee handled umbrella. of a certain books, 5, Number Jones, our host, never keeps an of pages in

closed umbrella. Assuming that no one took the same umbrella as he brought with him, who has got m'no now?

for the guess which is

who has most points wins,

certain

book, Quantity of water in a cooking pan. 7, Number of cubic feet in the room. B, Num- ber of yards in a long piece ot thread. , Weight of the party best. 10, The number of playing cards held in the host's hand.

Along

#1

frst

WHAT'S MOVED? Let your friends. mako thorough survey of the room. WRONG. IS RIGHT Allow five minutes for this, and Form two lines, one of men then send them all into another and one of girls. Let them room, while you make a num- stand up and face ene another. ber of alterations in the The object of this game is to room, being careful to write answer questions Incorrectly, these down to avoid any mis- guests answer must sit down. The man back, hand elch piece. of at the head of the line starts paper and a pencil, and by asking the girl opposite him them to write down all the "question. She must "answer changes that havo boon – made. Immediately. and if sho Allow, five minutes, for this. The answers the question correctly player with the greatest num- she must-sit down-and-be-de- berrot correct answers wins.

PERPETUAL ACCURACY and anyone giving the correct take. Now call your

WITHOUT WINDING

ask

com

for the presentation

million

Brothers,

ACTH,

to

take

CkXs,

14

and

hormone drug said

from

15

help

sufferers arthritis, asthma, and gout, being black-marketed by spivs

at $100 (£35 10.) for one-

LL these artistes are house-tenth of an ounce. Even at that A hold names on the British price it is an impure product,

But even ringe.

without any Doctors warn that the drug can Cause convulsions and mentat stars the Pantomime can still attract the crowd. This is be trouble, cause it caters specially for the chlidren, but at the same time has something to offer for the whole family,

Pantomime producers are very proud of their long record of successes. They realise that the pantomime is almost, with-

the out exception,

first view that a child has of the stage. And they know that if the child likes pantomime, in later life be or she will appreciate the other entertainment which firms of the stage

London has airport safety plan

nwo

new electronic

safety-

devices are to be installed

und has to offer, therefore in pleasing the at London Airport before the

children they are making sure winter fogs and long nights ar-

of the audience of the future.

rive.

which,

checkt

"scanner" One is a every five seconds, will the airport's lighting system, and warn the authorities if any of the Ughts on the vast airfield have gone out.

The other is an electronic de- tector, working on sound, which the in bad visibility will let controller know the exact post- tion of an aircraft on the run- way.

It will also warn him if there is any obstruction on the run- way, such as an airport worker. Both devices, I understand, are prolotypes and will undergo development as time goes on,"

By the time the airport 1s completed it will use as much electricity ak'n town of 40,000 prople, using 3,000 circuite totalling 600 miles of cable,

Two rivers, the Duke of Northumberland's - and the Longford, are being diverted to prevent flooding. Their new channels have already been. duge

Tho underground tunnels which; ultimiajely will take `pas- senger coaches up to the cen tral terminal «buliding» have: been started.

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