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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951.
EVE PERRICK finds a cartoon postscript for Prince Philip at his first professional prize fight
THEAM'S
A GREAT CHEAH AS THE ROYAL PAHTY ENTAHS...
HIS
MAJESTY'S PAHTY INCLUDES MISTAH CHURCHILL,
LORD
MOUNTBATTEN AND BY JOVE.. MISTAH BING
CROSBY AND MR. BILL MORROW. AND THERE'S FRANK FARRELL
-A DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE-AS MILLIONS
OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA SEE IT...
cooing on Hie
N the same werk that the Duke of Edinburgh went Dove "softly
to a prize-light a supply of American comics arrived in London in show that cartoonist Hummond Fisher anticipated a royal visit to a boxing arena. Only Ham rolls and strawberry made the occasion rather more illustrious.
To watch Joe Palooka te-
fend his
came
title
Landon
the King. Winston Churchill, Lord Mountbat-
Bing ten, and
Crosby
Anyway, that's how it is in the
strip 344,000,000 Americans read
44
every day
which
Who is Joe Palooka? Be
character'
is a cartoo
troud shouldered, clean-
WT SO Flywicy. DON'T YA GIVE A CIVIL ANSWER
QUESTION?
living prize-fighter type" The boxing bayon, his breath
in a brigh'ush- Que tuxedo, led them to help Hont-row 15-guine.#peats.
who, because of Me mp:ree.vered, a band, Fisher's habit of introdursing figure
his ing actual people inta adventures, is used to ruis
with cele hung shoulders brities.
That is how he has b come almost a real-life hera to his followers.
ALICE TOUCH
There they got an excellent View of the igniting, and were odrost visible to most of the 10.000 other cash ru-kommers
ماوا
"I can't see włuch
is Ply asked a woman a few COWS behind
husband pared forward, unri ruorten back "He's the one with the red carnation and the dimmer- al jacket
THE ATMOSPHERE Harringay when the Duke went along wasn't quite as
Mr Fisher might have imagined.
It was Philip's first at- tendance Ad professional boxing. It was mine 100.
I was surprised to find
the Alice
in
Wonderland
touch where I had expected
She took a serund look, "But everyone is wearing a red car- nation and a dinner-jacket,”
He dish another reconnais- siune job, and pouted out the most obvious difference b- tween His Royal Highness and tus HeGres,
ghbours.... "He's the one without die cigar,"
I WONDER
WOULD LOVE to
know
Diane "
On the other side were Kati-
we wer We were tolt fer an exotic evening We were also advised that if we
we hei be approandy any of the guests
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Be
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of honour, but were too shy 12 suwuld sat ut a Mexi Hostoys 17 our Ben was a scien-
fa Green Hostess werted to talk to the artists
This explained the prehe of a group of women weaning bu iges marked "AM"
UK
nee" and eager smiles Yel conversation; did talt flow freedy So after Mr Tiralsoj I livened up the party by naking impressive nutses with Geiger counter and a Cosme Bay Detector, supper was hounced.
an-
shoemaker Louis Juffe, who
>pecialises
men's height- revealing that
raising shor most of his customers are not
actors but Harley Street
p.eralist prd Aus ralian corszi expert Alleen Gray, safely back in Sydney, saying that mout Englishwornen were "of The frankly fat type.
Griffiths Jones, explaining why he chooses to appear i Grand Guignol. "My face has be my downfali All my life 1 have been haunted by the Until now πιν Juvenile lead
that beadmaster's warning
ver be abir 10 away from that preify Buth- celli face was justified"
A
Ann Davison, pioneer Woman the Filut, herole survivor of perilous sen trip she writes alanut 主よい ter book "Lasi Voyage" teiling her publishers she couldn't take pari in any autograph-signing sunis be cause she was scared...
And let's get this off ту chiest hate the man who the advertising
And to those who looked as thought up if they might not be staving riogan: "Give eve voor a Hap- until the st. the Master of pv Christmas with a Blank Ceremones. M. Leslie Hughes. alarm clock promised a treal
1J1 Store
ghost stories atal just for the thrill of a ghost-man, dress- ed in something extri special- ly spooky to Crow a stare in- to the works
CONFESSING
STREET SCENE
THE LARGEST MAN in the world emerging from a Charing Coss Road bookshop with jele of manuals on boxing and wrestling under his enormous am, playfully Tut painfully
ז:
MERLE OBERON'S prepping the sales assistan ference in Christmas parties -... The chin, and turning out to " family affair with friends be on a second and closer look taking the place of relatives
Primo Carnera
No, I am not one of those
chaps who takes
GRADIVARIATE
a delight in...
to step into pure Damon
by DANIEL GEORGE what went on backstage before. Runyon, But there was Mr the Cunard people put Jack Solomons, rushing their V.I.P. round and round the con- thust
passenger
ONE
Qui
list
the
of
ing between gine and take. Jorply means to state indirectly
of the mistakes lafay means to draw a conclu- sion. By writing these articles I that are often made is imply that it is worth while to mistake of writing, treat the English language with fusing corridor muttering "Sir Laurence and Lady to himself just
"One of the mistakes that respect. And that is what I hope like the Olivier and 19 members
you infer White Rabbit," mustn't their company. including Mr is often made.”
Wuired Hyde-White." be late for the Duke.. I mustn't be late for the Duke."
EXOTIC EVENING
way: Put it round this
You should not say, "He in- I was lazy," when "Of the mistakes that are ferred that
you mean, "He implied that I often made this is
one."
was lazy." If you use "Inferred" You see, "mistakes," being in that way you would SOMEONE HAS TRIED very
imply Keeping up with him, hard to revive that vanished plural, must be followed by that you did not understand its asking awkward questions 14 ure of bighly civilised "are."
real meaning and he would be right in inferring that you were lazy in your speech habits.
and he was in no mood to
answer-were
the Solo- mons sycophants. "I don't know what his Royal High- ness would like to eat". then, true to his old trade, adding: "Anyway, I hope it's fish, but don't ask me--- go and see the group captain."
WAS
society the "salón
Mrs Humphrey Howarth in- augurated the
London Salon for the purpose of bringing
London's better. together members of cultural life."
But somehow or other
in the
The publisher who advertises. "One of the funniest books that has been written" should know He would see his error if he recast the sentence thus: "Of the books that have been the written this is one of the fun-
inkes a
that Averse is another word usually takes from rather than to. But I am so averse from the Bea of being thought dogmatic that I have no aversion for peo- ple who say they are averse to the Idea of writing "averso
The Bible has "men averse from war" (Micah, 11, 8). The poet Gray writes: "What cat's averse to fish?"
scene, instead of exuding the nest." hoped-for air of elegant wit Similarly, the impatizat read and brilliance, soon began tor who tells me that I am one from." se into the slapstick mood. of those chaps who
salon-keeper did her delight in finding fault" is mis- best. She had arranged round
aken in more ways than one. Group-Captain Wilson
one side of the room painter do not wish to imply that Frank Beresford, Sir Thomas this wisely out of the way, behind
is a very grave fault in door mysteriously
Beecham's marked
composer
son English. It is due to carelessness "Special Room," but which Adrian, Oscar Kohlerstrom de-and can easily be avoided.
You will notice that I have everyone knew was where the scribed as "a brain storm royal party would take refresh- philosophy and allied subjects, just used the word imply. This including dianetics," Squadron- is often confused with infer. ment.
Leader Tiratsoo, "researcher in- The difference in meaning be- to radio activity on rocks and tween imply and infer is
Still, when the Duke did ar- rive, everything was just fine.
as
how much more," and Mr John❘ great as the difference in mean-
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