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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1952.

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Happy New Year to Everyone

Jan

ane.

from

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Season's Greetings

from

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to

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New Year's Eve....Page Four Bids Goodbye A Ghost Story That Is Different.... By

There was I– with a cat that wasn't.....

Landon Express Service

To 1952 With Nancy Spain

Suite A, on A Deck, the best double cabin in the ship.

I took that suitcase down to Southampton,

through the Customs (they did not notice anything wrong), up the gang- way into the motor vessel Jupiter.

I claimed Suite A, I ploriked the sultesse down in the middle of one of the super colossal, superbly comfortable beds,

Now we

have failed. Wo. have been at sea three days. The sun shines all day and the smooth rhythm, sliding, boiling through the wine-dark, purple sea.

SUPPOSE this thing The window was shatter the middle of the floor. And ship has settled to a glorious happened to me be- ed behind her, and the so it was. cause I am undomestic.- wind from

Land's

End

I mean, I hate washing whipped the thin fur, rigid

floors on her back.. up and scrubbing

I au

that

and making beds.

quite well-to-do, and is probably why married me,

Oh, I was relieved. Poor Harry cat, I said, poor cat. And then I went down the steep little stairs to the kitchen,

a saucer gave her

of

I expect he married me with the cat coiling and un- for my money. Harry is a colling round my legs. writer, and undomestic too. And I thought we would never wash up at all. But milk, ran back to bed, and how wrong I

All stuffed my dressing-gown in

the hole in the glass.

was.

Harry wanted was some. one to look after him while

The next day there was

he escaped into his beastly no hole in the glass........ writing.

Hurry took the cottage because he said it would be

brows.

ENOUGH

easier for nie HARRY arrived in the

afternoon.

than house-

He looked keeping in very decorative and attrac London. Cer- tive as usual. He had

the

►

the morning he pucked, stamp- Harry couldn't take it. In ing down his chirts in the top of the new rawhide suitcase that I had given him, and he stamped off to the station say ing that he'd had quite enough of me, and enough of Corn wall. Dear Harry.

I spent a miserable day. The chicken that we were to have coasted together went uneaten, The champagne was unopened. Instead I forüfted mycčit in the local pub with friendly strangers and did not get back to the cottage until well past 10.

the

I don't speak to anyone and I haven't seen a cat anywhere.

But every night before go

to bed I get a saucer of cream from the deck steward (who thinks I am doity) and I put it in the middle of the four.

And every morning the saucer is empty.

WHERE TWO GIRLS

作

IN THE SAME HAT

MUST OFTEN MEET

THE

By RALPH HEWINS

Stockholm. Soviet women sre no longer THE Intest batch of Rus- limited to off-the-peg garments. sian magazines to reach beyond her unless she is going But an Individual creation is still my desk release to the to appear in the opera, the ballet, world Russia's fashions for or the theatre. And peacock (or

women for the coming peahen) months.

frowned

There will not be much glamour.

The Moscow mode la strictly practical and very

tendencies are still upon in the USSR. drab tunics affected by Stalin You have only to glance at the

and his aco henchman, Malen. kov, to understand that.

In Soviet

fashion-plates trend fou

of

towards fancy waistcoats or Edwardian drainpipe trousers in the latest advertisements from Moscow.

simple: the sort of style you men's sultings you will find 'no can see in most Western provincial towns during the Saturday afternoon shop- ping. EX

the

Prescribed clothes, both mala You will find

and feraale, remain puritanically nono simple, which amazes all experta of the idiosyncrasies of who know at first hand Schiaparelli, the line of beauy, colour, and fantasy which Jacques Fath, or the re- have enlivened the Russlon arts volutionary chic of Chris traditionally,

Concessions to native

tian Dior in the creations remain trining: a bow-there.

the

of their Soviet counterparts, tuft of fur there, a feather here. Krementchugskaya, Kirin,

One wonders how long ingrained artistry of the Russian people will submit to such limita-

or Butusov.

around the North Euro-

Utility triumphs in ilɔns on superficially Innocent Russia over any tendency expresiona of personality. towards д "new" or "middy" look.

In the 'glossies'

n

THAT is not to say that there

are no

couture establish-

pean ports frequented by Soviet merchant ships It is well known that stewardesses and cooks buy prely modern drosses and lova to show then at parties. Fairer

ments in the Soviet Union, No such deviationium can

be

Advertisements appearing in seen in recent photographs of the glossy magazines, Intended Sovleti women lendors: Pankra- for the upper Soviet classes of tova and Kourygina, the only Communist Party members, two wemen among the 125 man- Service officers, and industrial bers of the new Cemmunist Party leaders,

direct the wives and

and Central Committee: Zuyeva, doughters

for to The All-Russian member

Gorki (Nijnl Model House in Moscow and The Novgored) and vice-president of Moscow House for Tallor-mode Russian Socialist Federal Soviet the Gounell of Ministers of the both of which have branches in

Republie; or Popova, secretary of the main provincial Russian the Central Council of Trade Unions, and Furstova, storelary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party.

cities.

Both arms specialise in made- to-measure clothing and combine the functions of designer, model gown and ready-to-wear pur- yesor, big store and "Ettle woman."

They do not look as if they have ever worn a party frock.

It would be faire: to judge from the slender blondes who did The clothing advertisements Russia, so proud in the Olymple are remarkable for the absence. Games. Feminine charm and of any reference to such vulgar beauty have not been eliminated - subjects as the price,

in the Soviet Union.

Various THE COSH BOYS' CHRISTMAS

I went to sleep immediately.

I slept like a log. I have never little known such peace; that house, and the waves of the Atlantic pulsing beyond the

windows.

IN THE CASE?

tainly it was scarlet scarf-round-his-neck THE next day, in the sun-

dream and blue jeans and a devil-1

THE light, the telephone rang. Cornish cot- may-care hat over one eye. I answered it. tage, with He had grown a beard, of thatch right which he was very proud. down to the He didn't know what eye-or-high on the way....We

asleep when-

Harry, who

"Look here." It was Harry

Was usually So whs brave and blustering. He was

whimpering. "I don't know were how it's happened, or what is going on, but I've got the cat. "I don't care how silly it And"

that sounds, but I'm sending suitcase back to you on the

win.

next train."

I collected

Harry said he would

Crash went the take it on trial in Decem: dow.... ber and January, because it was cheaper, and if he Harry ant up in bed. liked working

"What on earth's that? took it with me on the there we could go down in the sum- Burglars?""

mer,

"No, dear." I was 4 He sent me down ahead calm as I`could be. "It's of him to get everything only the cat," cosy for the big moment when he arrived.

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the case,

and next fast train to London. I left it overnight in the left luggago office at Paddington,

When I collected it there were two policemen taking notes and a harassed official

to

A

Nathaniel

T

HE Toy Town scene from your Uncle Nat's annual Christmas pan- tomime.

Time: Christmas Eve.

As the curtain goes up on 4 stage filled with rocking "horics,

tedy bears, trains, dolls, and

other conventional toys, dis- tressed Father Christmas, le reading &

a letter sent to him by some of the dear little children. In the centre of the stage there is chair, a table, and o telephone,

Father Christmas: Well, dang my whiskers, blow, my beard

Such strange requests I've ·

never heard

"Dear Father Christmas,"

write two boys

"Here is our list of Christmas

toys

**A mask, a cosh, a cowboy's -

hat

"A gun that goes rat tat, tat,

tot

"Somo knuckle-dusters for

our bend

"And Christmas stockings

We

"What are you frighten was scratching his head. "Well, ed for, then?" said Harry, this was the way of it," he kept Alled with sand "You like cats. Anyway, saying. "Around the middle of "Though both of us are less

than ten the night I see this cat..." there's no cat, here."

I took a taxi

warn "Wo travel WHEN I went to bed I

you

are *"'Oh yes, there is," I suid. ogency. It was very early, and

desperate men knew there was something

seemed

"We surprised I knew Go well what I the clerk

also

want some bombs' wrong: I couldn't get warm.

that bang- "Signed, Leaders last reservation in a cruise to

of Tho I had a hot-water bottle, should see when he turned when I pounced eagerly on the but it was no good. It wont on the light. The window Madeira leaving that afternoon Black Hand Gang"," five pane shattered, the cat in from Southampton. It was

(Enter the Fairy Queen) like ice in the first

Fairy Queen: Hello,

Father minutes. And a thin, little

Christmas. I was saying that voice seemed to stop me go-

every littlo› girl and boy shall have his wish. ing to sleep. It didn't carry on a conversation. It said the same thing. over and over again. It said:-

"I must get away....I must get away....I must get away...

Suddenly there were pat- tering feet, on the stairs. And the door crashed open and there was a frozen draught that whirled through the room and sent the curtains flapping -- and there were two terrible bangs, as though a very noisy.person had thrown his boots at something..

I crossed the cold floor to the switch. The light went. on: and there was nothing at: all except a large black, cat, with eyes like lamps, who sat in the middle of the floor in fright' and misery.

Decorations

Father Christmas: You don't know what you're talking about.

Filry Queen: I swear I on

my magle wand,

Father Christmas: (looking at hia lettera): You can swear as much

es you like, but if the dreams of these little brats come true, you'd better turn your magle wand into a sword-··

stick...

Fairy Queen Litle: brata? Sword-sticks? Father Christ- mas, have you been drinking?

Father Christmas: No. But It's not a bad idea. Come Into the office. I'll show you my posidag

*** (Exeunt Father Christmas and The Fairy Queen. Enter Little Boy Blue and; · Little

Jack. Horner), Dag Latile Jack Horneri Little

Blue

come

My Boy

your EUD

load, up

The gang is all ready, there's keit, work to "be" done and s Little Boy Binoz Little Jack her Homer dipod at a corner Watching the people, so, by! Botne. Mhoppera, ba'a, slun, er (72) pull out his gim

And say:

am I."

by

Gubbins

"What a bad boy

Little Jack Horner: if Father

Christmas

got

for

hasn't what we asked him we'll do him. Lille Boy Blue; And pinch

all this kid stuff and sell -It-In the black-market.-- Together: Crime is delicious,

we're thoroughly vicious We're thoroughly, thoroughly

bod.

(The voices of Father Christmas and The Fairy Queen can be heard off). Little Boy Bipe: Watch out fella. Here come the jerks

We'll soon give Santa Claria

the worka

And if they're up to funny

Tricks

We'll hit the Fairy Queen for

Blx

To knock her cold would give

me joy.

Little Jack Hornet: Oh boy,"

oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. (They hide behind d rocking horse and a large testmar

bear, Enter Father and the Fairy Queen). Fairy

Santa Queen: Dear Claus, the tale you've told. Must prove to me you're 'get-

-ting old

These letters you have read

to mo Are part of Christmas follity "A mask, a cosh, a cowboy's Is just the English sense of

fun

A Christmas, joka a Christ-

mos jest

Our English children at their

best..

Father Christmas: For all you

say of their affection I'd rather have police protec-

tion

Fairy Queen: Then you shall

have it, never four

For I'm a copper, Santa dear When fairy shock are off

these feet

They stamp about upon the

beat

This fairy wand held in my

Sy hand Becomes

baton in the

Strand... Now I must By to Fairyland.

flies

away, on creaking wirer, leaving Father Christmas alone, Little Boy Blue and -Little Jack Horner) "come' out; of i their hiding places armed, with toy revólvers).

Little Jack Hornet Where's

Litilo Jack Horner: Where's

my mask?

Little Boy Blat: My cowboy'a

hat?

Little Jack Horner: My gun that goes rat tat, dat int? Little Boy Blue: This Santo Claus he thinka wo're damb

Little Jack Horner: So Santa Claus, you've had it, chum. Little Boy Blue: Take that

and that.

Little Jack Horner: And that

and that.

(They hit him with the butts of the toy revolvers, and while they are Alling his bag with stolen toys, he staggers to the chair by the table, lifts the telephone re- ceiver and dials. As tho boys are tiptoeing of with the, swag, the Fairy Queen appears, in their path). Fairy Queen: Why" children,

children, fle, for shame, Put back those toys from

- whonce they came. Little Boy Blue: Little Jack Horner, crown that dame. (Little Jack Horner trica to crown her with his Tom volver, but there is a flash from her magic wand and a black-out. When the lights go up she is revealed äs a policewoman).

Fairy Queen;

I look such a -treat when I'm on my .beat

With my little black shoes

upon my feet;

Little Jack. Horner: Let her

have it.

(They rush at her, but.

the grabs their collars, shakes them and spanki them both),

Fairy Queen (to audience): Good people, you have seen in time;

The answer to our-wave of

crime

When

ittle boys, not nearly ten

Behave like wicked, grown up

men

Let not your bosoms soften Your

sentimental feelings

drown:

And take their little trousers

And

down

spank them hard and

often.

Father Christmas (looking for his day): I've told you belore you don't know what you're

about,

Weary Queen;; "What's happen-

ed now!

Father. Chrismasi” While you out our “stocking filled with were reciting that poppycock. Bank? MEC they've got away with my bag

Line hoy Mines 'The knuckles of toys. juzi ustara; for our batiATS

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