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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acroti: 1 Acts, 4. Erudkle,

# Pile, 9 Bean, 10 Apparel, 11 Bite, 12 Bent, 14 Earnest, 17 Aroso, 19 Scrap, 22 Kindled, 20 Alms, 27, Sign, 28. Canvas, 20 Yelp, 30 Echo, 31 Seasons, 32 Nods. Down! 1 Clever, 3 Spunts, 4 Elate, 5 Repeal, 6 Drawn, 7 Tress, 12 Bark, 13 Noon, 15 Earl, 10 Tips, 18 Lessen, 20-Canyon, 21 Ambled, 23 Trate, 24. Dives,

25 Discs,

THIS DREAM MEANS:

A very

hopeful dream Indeed; the

jeft

your

immediate past, the right Ja your Im- mediate future.

.The events

of the war have ted 3 number. of

people to

SNAPSHOT GUILI

SCHOOL DAYS

WHEN vacation days fade in- memory, and the nu ama menthe roll artrand, millions of

dungtiers find themselves all wrapped up in 'he.activitiek, of. the new school year. "And I know a lot of very wise camera who me recording, all fing

pleasant experiences of those he new Ketan, Insumimaty-. preserving pictures.

It

would be man to plan well ahead of Alme Just what svents of the, school year should. ba: covered without fall. Now here's a tip for the oldsters. It 'here is a youngster in the family who is taking his first timid steps towards rcheol this year, phalographers in the tomally should ser. to it that some snaps are taken of this big event in his life. Later on, ho can take his own school pictures-in fact, he should be encouraged to do so just as

ho 18

can handlo And here's why... He will want to record the hg that has so much fun to- gether in school aclivities and tol get pictures that really tell the story of the "good old school Jays."

on

camera,

The group activities of the various clubs and sociotiés are fun, and the camera should go right along. The sports events are colourful affairs, 100,

THE DANCER WHO SCANDALISED.

PARIS EARNS VENERATION WITH HER BOOKS ABOUT THE SEAMY SIDE CHERI, and THE END OF CHERIA By Colette Secker and Warburg, 101, 6d. 296 pages... TN the end, dancing naked on the vaude- ville stngo of Paris was not what conferred fame upon Madame Gauthier-Villars. Truce enough, one of her daring exhibitions of mime at the old Moulin Rouge led to a scandal. The cen sorious Parisian public was outraged. The Prefect of Police intervened.

But this brief explosion of notoriety is, after all a trifle compared with the enormous reputation which the music-hall": dancer has achieved as a novelist writing under the naine of Colette.**

How did it all come about?.. First, because she has an instinctive genius for certain types of emotional analysis, Nobody can draw more con- vincingly an ageing_cocotte." or an adolescent schoolgirl.

in

COLETTE

work

Have

Secondly, she has lived to be maternal grandfather was a ber An schooldaya). "Lucky." very old and the French coloured man who manu sald Colette later," had no

children; Willy would insist that their celebrities factured chocolates in Bel claimed that he alone was of stage and pen shall be gium and was known as "the responsible for their creation." venerable as well as venc Gorilla." Her father was an. In fact, as the manuscripts rated.

ox-officer who, having lost show, the actual writing of the

of Colette, at 78, is the oldest his leg in battle, had become novels was almost entirely the

Colette. n village schoolmaster. He really famous person

Willy strolled through Paris was a man of genial intelli- with his wife on one arm and France. If women were

actress Polaire, drcised gence without a spark of the allowed to be members of

exactly like his wife,"on"; the practical sense, a the French Academy sho

other. Ah unconventional louse- would certainly be among pestuous girlhood, At 20, after, a tem-

hold, which broke up after 18 missable them. She is a member of Colette married Henry the Academy Goncourt. Her Gauthier Villars, Almost every adult admits That the "good old school days" novel La Vagabonde was Journalist, novelist and ducilist, better known were the lappiest days of his selected as one of the twelve

ns "Willy can best French novels of the renowned for his puns, Hire. -An. active camera

help preserve the memory of twentieth century.

his flat-brimmed, top- those days for everlasting en-

hot and

and his free-and- Joyment.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

easy morals.. John ́van Guilder was born in Burgundy." Her There is a tendency to repre- not pet. She had no valce, sent Willy as Colette's "evil She had a passion for the genius,"

Her. English publish theatre. She went on the halls ers avort their eyes from the as a dancer with a man named

virtuous

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT....!! YOU B

STOOD BY YOURSELF ON A

YEWE HILL AND GAZED TO YOUR:

LEFT AT A DREARY LANDSCAPE OF RUBBLE AND A FEW PLAIN

HOUSES

of an

dream quite often of blitzed houses or areas of rubble. This seems to be a common modern symbolisation tional upheaval which has ravaged your life,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GUESTS

"YES SIR! EIGHT DOLLARS A DAY...EACH

NO THAT'S

THE CHEAPEST!

THEN YOU TURNED

TO YOUR RIGHT AND SAW A BEAUTIFUL· VALLEY BATHED IN EVENING SUNLIGHT

are

The sun, the valley, the placidly meandering stream symbols of emotional warmth; shelter, protection, peace and quiet happiness. Your immediate futuro seems to hold no problems.

Vacation?

"WHAT'LL I SAY? ́HAVING

A LOUSY TIME, WISH YOU WERE HERE...OR HAVING A LOUSY TIME, GLAD YOU'RE

NOT HERE

He was

noterious Willy" in

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON

BOOKS

years.

Suddenly,

Colette was faced with the need to make a liv- ing.

Although, she had written famous novels, she was unknown as

horror. And no doubt he was a Georges Wague. After six rogue who had no objection to years of this wandering and, to signing books which others had her, agreeable life, she married written and living on the royal a French diplomat named Henri Marcel Boulesti, later u de Jouvenal by whom she had a restaurant-keeper In London,

ties.

wrote one of these books. Colette daughter, 7 wrote three or four.

Wow, after this extraordinary prelude to a serious, career in literature, Colette won success.

But, after all, it was Willy who Married for the third Ume, she Cave Colette, the impetus that enjoys an incomparable fare us enabled her to discover her own remote cb it well could be from talent. And in marrying her, one the music halls which she feels that the practised rake

caught n Tortar. He died 20 startled with her miming ut years ago, in object poverty. fauns and cats,

But Willy's name appeared Chert, arst volume in the atonc On the tile-page of English edition, is a work of the Colelle's Arst novels (based on author's maturity, a novel

By KEMP STARRETT

written by a woman of, 40 about

a woman of 49 Although no- body would accuse it of being licentious, the reader is advised to leave his severer moral judg- ments CIL the hall stand on esitering the world of Cherl.-

Cheri is a young gigolo, the son of a well-to-do cocuite, Lep, a courtesan whose professional ilfe is drawing to a prosperous conclusion, falls in love with this youth and, with a supreme effort of will, gives lim up when

he merries Edmee, the nice young daughter of still another. cocotte. The ageing woman's love is touchingly told. Lei is as appealing as Cherl [odious.

GOLE ARE THE DAYS WHEN YOU, COULD GET ROOM AND BOARD FOR EIGHT BUCKS A WEEK... AND YOU

COULD EAT ALL YOU COULD HOLD

AT EVERY MEAL.

́— AND KEEP THAT DARK DOG OUT O

'TANT MY "DOG!"

TILGENERAL EFFECT: ON TWO NEIGIBORING VACATION-BACHELORS

AFTER TWO-WEEKS OF CANNED MEALS DISH-VASING, BED- ALAKING (SORÉTIKES)

·AND TENDING THE WIFE'S GARDEN.

VACATION DERIVED :

FROM VACATE. MEANING TO GETOIT, ...GET OUT IN THE COUNTRY...... AND TREN |-STAY WIDOORS FOR A

WEEK WILE IT RAINS,

COIR, 1961 ET GENERAL, FRATURES. CORP. THE-WORLD RIGHTS, RESERVED.

✔ THIS WILL BE A NICE, QUIET, RESTFUL PLACE

WITH NO

NOISE OR PARTIES ORI

THE KIDS CAR HÁVE ASTMUCA

IF-MOUNTAIN CLIMBIRG

IS YOUR DISH, YOU CAN KEEP IN PRACTICE ON THE ROOF.... THERE'S, ALWAYS SOMETHING. USEFUL TO BE DONE. UP THERE: LOOSE SHINGLES, CHIMNEY INSPECTION ETC.

EVEN IF IT IS ONLY:A MUTT THE KIDS PICKED. UP HE CAN'T STAND A VACATION FROM LAT-. ING ANY BETTER.. THAN WE COULD.

When we meet her again, aged Co, in The End of Chori, we rejoice to find that she has become fat,

per

mid philosophie comfortable, Bui Chéri what has happened to him? He Is chaste, deceived by·· wife, and full of veelancholy. He goes to visit Lea. Appalled to find a vigorous old girl, where he, had remembered an enchant Ing mistress, he blows his brains" out on which I can only shy that I do not for a moment be- Béve 1 of the selfish, vain, [spoiled_young,"men" of "whose god-lice ́ (but · scarcely, “manly). beauty - Colette gives us verbal agurances on every second page. .......

Cheri would have grown up hito worse: man; he would not have played with revolvers, Lea rings true from start to finish,

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