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She got away
with 50 murders
But when she vanished- ah, there was a mystery
by
JOHN
PREBBLE
GGEMPTY books!" exclaimed Mr Attlee. Many of them have beguiled and made aprovable my leisure."
This dismiled enthusiasm is not aroused by the latest Fabjan truets to hund, but by the fact that there is being published this month the liftieth took by Mrs Agatha Christic, writ er of detective stories.
So well known among the well known is she that not only the Premier, but Mr Anthony Eden, Sir Hartley Sir Norman Shawcross,
Birkett, and Wilfred Pickles have gone into print to say how happy they are about
JL.
While
Mrs
Chelsta
X-
Jooks and dresses like a happy pro-
who has vincial matron
were ta pertenced nothing
Whitin the
thunderstorm
wrecked the flower show, she
In
hns
fact, been
away with murder.
getting!
Death's Dividends
BY.
Y darker-point and
shot,
pistul-
and been de-
Phlai jbison
foul play, he has
elmating the middle classes for
30 years, and they have been
entertained by
BQ
the ex-
perience that they have bought 50,000,000 copies of her hooks. rate death pays And at that her handrome dividends.
"But don't much." she will out of the
nsk
straw hat ef
eeות
Mrs Agatha Christie. her husband on a
In
17, 1950.
LIST YOUR HUSBAND'S GOOD POINTS
Canon Warner On Husbands & Wives
IT HARDLY scems worth writing about, but I am worried. We hare been married more than 20 years, and we stem to do no more than just Jog
along.
We keep on having rows over the most absurd trifles. All the heart seems to be draining lowly away from our love. I used to think my husband such a fine man; now I wonder what I w in him. It there anything we can do to bring back life to our marriage?
EGIN by getting pencil
Band paperinke a list
THE BREAKER
"AFTER a bad R.A.F. grash I felt terrible about saddling my wife with a cripple to look after instead of a husband. went to mu
lawyer for advice, Later, to my horror, I heard from him that, without telling me, he had asked to see my wife, had had a stormy interview with her, and she had agreed to a separation.
"I torote explaining the terrible mistake, but my letters were returned unopened. Her solicitur has none werliten to me and said that my spife will never return, and that he will certainty do oli
In
his power to prevent a reconciliation, as any divorce is better than none.
"Have I no remedy; is there no tody of getting past the solicitor and of saving my marriage "
extraordinary
of all the good qualities possessed by your husband.
Next, another list of all the bad qualities which other husbands have, but THIS is an
story, and something haa which yours has not. Digest gone terribly wrong. High Court the result, and I think you judges have been at pains lately will be pleasantly surprised. to point out that ila a matter public policy that Every We tend to take each other's effort should be made to save a
good points too much for granted.
أن
the inter- marriage and that pretation of law must be gov- erned by this over-riding con- sideration,
Therefore, every lawyer has of striving to end a marringe it possible, rather than to persunde a cheni to scek, divorce, merely becaure there is evidence on which a divorce could be granted. Every reputable lawyer acts on this principle. by
Now for this drabiness which marriage. har
infected your Whenever a marriage gets into the "doldrums like this, and the the prime duty sparkle has gone out of it, you will find that the stimulation of outside interests and occupations Is antrsing.
The couple are turned in on themselves. They have exhaust- cd each other's resources trying to be entirely relf-su- cient,
Hobbits, outside work, and reneral interests shared with others in the community where you live, have a way of feeding Bat the personality of a husband or among wife. They give it edge verve,
lived and vitality.
In England they have a
Chelsen, where,
can be "paintings that with" and gewraws bought in local antique chops, Mr. Mal- lowan Unds it easy to becoug Azatim Cbristle and write,
There is
also
You both have something to
But in every profession you have the "black sheep." Their presence in the legal profession casts a slur on one of the most honourable of all professions.
Few
instance, people, for
kludly realise the amount of free advice friendliness which solicitors as a whole offer to their clients.
For the sake of everybody the black sheep must be shown up. You should write a full ac-
whatever evidence! count, with a six-bed-talk about to each other, to dis- you may have, to the Disciplin- Toured buze at Wallingford, curs and to share. As a by-pro ary Committee of the law So- life so shared. eiety, 13, Chancery-lane, Lon- Berks, and a Ane eld Gromitian duet of fuller
their house over-looking the Dart in you will find a new happines don, W... If satisfied, they will
coming into your
the lawyer from marriage, expel Devon,
which you would never havo ranks.
When you have succeeded in The rest of the tamily is found hail you gone bald-head-
contacting your wife, you will made up by her married cd at "happiness" itself.
both nced the help which a daughter Kolind anch her If you sit at
pottering about with no special purpose, trained marriage consultant will reason why Your marriage All of which presents a well-you will go to seed and mulchill be able to give you. There is no mode a happy should not be of Successful will breume mountains, rounded picture
So begin looking outwards A
one again. novelist, wife, and mother..
But there may be technical Not
that it was always so; Job of community service, per-
maiters about which you will her literary career started with hips, to which you can throw .will be "gloomy novels" which nobody yourself. Your church would buy.
able to offer you activities of need special advice. the many kinds where your talent When at the age of 20 wrote her first detective novel can blussom. nobody
anxious seethel
grandson Matthew.
buy that ether.
In the lower picture she appears with hillside above Greenway House, their Devonshire home.
Her agent must have a head In Most Languages fret husband. Her second and pear?
for figure.
(o
At any large teaching hospital the specialist staff are used to
the problem confronting meni
of all you who have been severely injured
In worship, best wil dnd-release of spirit and and for whom mal married Her seventh book, an object of devotion which will life is impossible. "The Murder of Roger radiate your marriago Ackroyd," established new happiness.
her.
Yet some of her most devoted admirers have not forgiven ber for that book. It broke the rules. Who on eart would suspect that the murderer would turk out to be the kindly old doctor who narrated the story?
But no
mystery she diction ever created in
could compare dramatic tension
with
with
--(London Express Service)
C. V. R. Thompson
Miss Churchill
on
downs
Sunset Boulevard
son or Clark Gable or Spencer Taylor, CARAH Churchill, just ar-
Tracy (1 Elizabeth rived in Hollywood, has hovered around her 0s if she were already Hollywood's new first lady.
the one she created in scarcely had time to unpack
in her new home, a bench fact. She disappeared.
This was in 1926, and front house (no swimming brought
11
Wave
of
Hardly had
Miss Churchill
swallowed the cherry from the
sometimes questionable pool), which she has rented
unit of mountain of fruit And 1926 from Bebe Daniels. publicity.
lad than the questions began. from
an oddly- was the year of her first
She does not yet know They came
assorted group of a dozen or so. success.
rules traffic
Miss Churchill bad a ready One day in December Hollywood's found
good-humoured man for himself), and her car abandoned near
was
to
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Did
hcr
Answer
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lands Corner. She had and was almost arrested for for all but one.
Nike Alms? father until the
enes. Did he approve of her gone. For two weeks her ignorance, volunteers, bloodhounds,
acting in a Hollywood police, crime reporters, policeman discovered whose Some of them, mostly historical cars, and planes looked daughter she is. for her.
But already they have begun Yes, he was thrilled." treat- the "star And then she turned up in a was born in Torquay She
the to give her Shaw and
hydro under how only
by Bernard
Some 50-odd years Harrogate
3ent."
tles? Yes. Did she think of "Neele." What
The challenge Hollywood has say, smiling Homer's Odyssey, a fact which (When?
Mary Clarissa name
understood Miss Americans 1s to make shadow of a large says much for the catholicism ngo) as Agathin
Miller, daughter of an Ameri- plot! Had not she made Poirot "I of our terary taste.
as famous British political situation? Yes. at least 1030 vintage,
at one time claim that it was accepted can "But I'm English').
disap- Churchill
Why didn't she wear a wed- her perfectly possible
with the public as her father. leave all that to my agent."
Christie is the name of
So she Kal call. from ding ring? She did, but on the the all-important right hand, Continental fashion,! husband is Max Mal-
Devar eredulous "publicity,"
she had a because The public,
which de- largely transhied into present
Western Professor of jowan,
to know studio department wanted long. and even
in the for Archmology Asiatic
whether half the country had cides when it is best for a star beautiful engagement ring she to to be friendly with a toreador, liked to wear on her left hand. University of London.
been turned upside down
or to preach sermons from the
question The one prove the Belgian right.
pulpit. Her Desert Tent
not such a good-humoured one, woman. She geniuses came ITB ANONYMOUS ficient that murder is solved by A Christie, novelist, enter Mrs suffering from amnesia.
ordain just how much, or asked if Miss Churchill found] HONG KONG DISTRICT.
film stage and fair
public shall that in her little, the The greatest mystery story how
from Agatha know of actors and actresses' career her father was a bandi- an- ever to come
cap to her. off-screen lives. Christle died down.
An outsider. Judging sales HE has been ngalast possible royalties, moy D
most languages,
decide that in a leap year Birs penetrated Eastern Europe. Christie makes do 01
thing like
Somc
fat
There, her books seem to have £4,000. In a
extraordinary picture year there is no telling what left on
It might be.
No telling, that is, anyone but the Inland Revenue.
'Golden Gertrude'
OF her 50,000,000 sales, 30,-
000,000
on one
are estimated
occasion, the won
10
*
of life in the decadent West
where our police
an
are so inet-
Belgian
T
this point
exit Agatha
"a pretty - Mallowan, egg-headed
currently patriate (Hercule Poirot) and a archmologist,"
6f the fluffy. necdlo-witted spinster sistant excavator
cient city of Nimrch, Syrla. There in the desert; (Miss Marple)..
of each
photograph thing have made stage earthed.
or
she breaks record
hand.
issued a but- Then doctors
had been Mrs Christle
to
Miss Churchill was asked to her first
which
HOAD
brought a ready answer, but ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
from
BRIGADE
WANTED
Books, papers and magazines 1 must confess I almost
distribution to service Miss Churchill for her Hollywood cheered when But the Christie money does tent, she types her novels with Her Fiction World drop everything for
meeting with
in the replied: "It is not possible for camps in the New Territories. bave been in America. There, not come alone from books. three Angers
Christle Press. It took place off to grow high Agatha
Please communicate with (Hollywood for my father to be a handicap to of commissory" her novels becsmo Sometimes Five of
sume-stands among the elle "Golden Gertrude" to literary
the biggest anyone." is open fiction has un- detective selling 5,000,000 Alms.
her husband Osenri for
studia in town. debate.
Sho coples in one year.
Her plays
great character- She is no Professor Mallowan recipro Gertrude turned out to be a
what a star should not reputations. kangaroo statuette, glit,
What sort of woman does all cales this interest in his work builder, no original stylist. golden.
Although she belleves that he that it was "an this? toms decided undesirable import," but finally
And the English Cus-
In 1048 Penguin Books issued simple,
But
at
arrived late. That is DOLLAR EARNINGS of the
of
do.
MRS HOLMES-BROWN,
2 Tai Hang Noad.
MR K. C. WONG,
Room 600, Dank of East Asia. WE WILL ARRANGE TO COLLECT
will be Just
Churchill family in her books there is But in Miss Churchill's case it considerably enhanced by Miss only because those Churchill's Hollywood engage-
rules
Sunset ment. She will along
earn around An expansively built, mother had never read a novel before the urbanity of English middle-was
her, she hos re class life. Here is a world of traffic
£800 a week for three months. of solutely driven him through all country houses where, the ser-Boulevard.
Her arrival caused quite a let it in under "the same con- ly person, with white hair and he married
Judy Garland is likely to a nervous voice. A woman ditions as the Lonsdalo belt.”
uncomplicated charm. the novels written by Agatha vant problem is only just mak-
air. And that, mind you, in a play in the film. Fred Astaire Additional collecting centres?-- Ing itself felt.
where no ong and Peter Lawford are the "And her detectives, unlike restaurant ten green-backed Christies and A woman who says she would Christle.
They go to the desert (where alike best to do nothing at all, reach
America, do not have bothered to look up when Cary other stars, met 20 years ago) ose in the sales
my they first watched
The gure just sit in the min with
once a year, and seem quite to break a man's nose to prove rant came in. million in a year.
feet up.”- -- -- -- is now over two millions,
wanted to be happy that it will take another their point. She has the er-
Yerra (and presumably This means that her royalties She once
·sence of good taste in murder, have concert planist, but was 100 10
50 novels) singer, another
before Tên: Ren tua booki
-=fLondon: Expread_zeryson) abrought her ovar, £9,000. Her serdus is then an opera.
Numroh la finally unearthed. image as werde qualted but "I couldn't sing "
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