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by Beachcomber

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CRITIC, who will probably lae to to ribbons by young artists, Bas expremad surprke that the public can be taken in by lunatic pictures,

He forgot to mention Bat you should attach artists names to the pletures, even if you Invent them as

you go along: "This is a Bauder,

Here's rather a good Corswich in he entry

Now oriol. this is Akluis at his he took a the foreshorteningst This one's n Nakluyt he's the leader of the Abstractionist Group. founded by Taillat and Zabaline.... That? Alt. that's a rather rood Bulleel. He's a Defortgist

-anch deinitely anti-

Halle p

Mr. Witheredge is helpful

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you say plea- atte? Just look at 'er. She 'as is much connection with plesure au Taye with the queen of eeland. Haddress all further questions to Lot Road Power you." ld the oflelat. "You're wel came.

sid Mr Wither-

the caretaker "Did

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sediul fame dep. and don't

feat yet breeches on that old can."

Miss Fibblecombe protests

Mo filowing statement yester

ISS HITA FIBBLECOMBE kuuet!

day: "As the girl referred to by the Mayor of Spodbury on the Waddle, I cast back in his teeth the allega. kivaid me, ite lon that he ever one rolled his eyes at me, and got a terrine kick on the ankle frosti

viallant and

would have withered Don Juan him-

self. Miss Slopcorner should rat confuse a civic salute with amorous rolllance. Councillor Prawnse in the

Mueck of the Saucy Mrs Flobster, danger of Spalbury. A pal on

confronting the official in the bowler hat is flera houseboat?" he ask. esk. “NO, a man-o'-war,” replied Mr* Withersedue, friction with ernions, plated nine feel thick with harmour, crammed with seaplanes stowed be low, and with a nice rad steam Something wrong

the band may easily lead to tea and seones for two at Mrs Bradbury's Cooknal Tudor Bower. Maybe it is senmething in the air of Spodbury."

́up for sailin' "ell fer lesther into ballle." "No need to be sarcastic,"

said the affelz). "Tr

hot bust, when was her Inst voyage and where

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somewhere

» Inixe choir uf 3.750 YY voters WAS

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Withereedge, Awakes My Heart" at Dorking, a and back." gald Mra

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asked the peatedly at ils programine with a Kle

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YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA

Inoro

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953.

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

Wave Your Trump: Cause Excitement

By OSWALD JACOBY

AM reliably Informed that the way to excite a bull i to wave a red flag under its nose, Whether or not this is true, t.

can

assure the doubting world that the way to excite a bridge player is to wave a trump under his nose.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred he will overruff. As 10- day's hand indicater, the excited bridge player may live to regret his overruff..

When' today's fund was ploy- ed, West opened the queen of clubs, and dummy won at once with the ace. South tried to get rid of his losing clubs by running three top hearts, but East clever- ly folled the plot by ruffing | dummy's third heart willi nine of spades.

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This was a brilliant play, and we should give East credit for fine defence. If East discards instead of ruffing. South can discard his club and can then afford to give up two trumps and one diamond. If East ruffs with dis- the jack, South naturally cards his losing clubs, and then loses still only two trump trucka and one diamond.

When East ruffed with the nine of spades, South didn't stop to reason, He utom.colly overruffed with the ICH ΟΣ

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WOMANSENSE

A Creature Of THE WHITE RABBIT OF HOME ACRES PROVES A POINT ON FOOD

Many Moods

By BEN COOK

Hollywood.

Loun Shomroy thinks of his camera much as he would of a woman.

"A creature of many moods. capable of rent achievement, conttiry on occasion, and fully able to unmask a person right down to his soul," the enmem- man mil

Shamroy has lavished a great deal of affection on the photo- graphic Instrument, and his love hai not gone unrequited--as wit- ness three Oscars attesting to the compatibility of the union.

He last trained his versatile lenses on Ethel Merman and George Sanders for their goles. | In the musical comedy, "Call Me Madom" and he hopes hĪs camera doesn't go temperamental.

Shamroy as very positive ideas nbout the role he wants 18 omara to play, his approach being that, lly-like, she never should be a prima donna.

Artloss Art

"The obtrusive camera is like a chattering woman-something we can well do without," he mid. "All the camera should do is join in the conversation so to speak, but never take the interest way from the guests of honour-the principals in the cast,"

The moment the spectator bus lime to think about the photo- grophic effects the comeramen has not donat his job properly. according to Shamroy.

The real ort of elnematography,

he added, lies in the ability of the camera to match the wired moods of the players, or the pace of the scene.

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South Went North Easi Pass Pass

Pass Pass 24 Puss 4A Poss Pass Pass

Opening lead—♣ Q

after

nex! went nattire that your process of careful spades. Declarer reluclip is hot vary obvious to 011

the trumps, properly In fact you're outsider,

most enough, using dummy's macbrmful in hiding your violent likes

to force out East's ace. have very of disiles-and you may.

queen.

East HOW continued his magnificent defence by under- leading his king of clubs to let his partner

win the second round of that suit with the ten.

BORN day, imate originality and love for personal Indepen- dence is abt to make you a Attle with your luck than nébertats. You get a idea and nil you g Dive in a

When it comes to affairs of the while, might be matter to take

learn to curb your Rood long tek before you leap heart. You must

nver-impuldve nature or you are off mio mace. You night want to

You ebange your dirrellon. Still, since going to bave quite a thine of it.

and winner are naturally domestic to tnt of you do have 2 onl

You DOWNT. YOU desire a home of your own. bntical and analytical rarely make tea shevous a make. love children and will want a large Fundly. But you do seen to have But the MAN

considerabir calise lost motion. Be sure in the first quite a ime, in youth, plexing out

to figure out what was expected place and succes will come to you the one man among many admirers whom you finally will deride to wed.

of him. He led a fourth heart, more quickly.

You are an inveterate daydreamer

and East was able to ruff with You have a rollick

and are probably thinking of some

man who humour and are often the life of Imporalble, perfect

the jack of spades, thus making measure up to your ideals. the party when vult are in the inead.

a second trump trick. The de- Your magnelle personally draws

what the star have in fenders now had three tricks ül Ta tu people in you and you make many

komorrow. Delect your casual friends. You are rather stow store for to Take anyone into your intimate birthday star and read the corres-together, and West was bound to stele of friends, but you have fuel ponding paragraph. Let your birth-win his king of diamonds even- an outwardly Rental and generous day far be your daily guide,

TAURUS

sense af

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

(APC, 21-May If you put out a very special effort you should be able to untangle a complicated situation easily now,

will

BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, 22)— Watch the papers. You may find that something in the news directly affects your own life.

It wasn't very hard for West

Wally to set the contract.

South would have made his contract if he had not become of

excited by the possibility 21)

Overruffing. Whon East rulled with the nine of spades, South should have discarded his losing club. South would then need to guess how to play the trumps, but at least he would have a chance to make his contract in- stead of being defeated su- tomatically.

OEMINI (hlay 22-June 21)- CAPRICORN (Dec, 21-Jan, 20) A new equaintance may turn into De tactful and patient with everyone a real, feline friend, if given hair today, especially your own relatives. a chance. Go half way.

Side-step all organents..

CANCER

(June 22-July 237- Don't zash into things, rough-lid. Use a tile diplomacy and a great deal of patience. Things work out.

LEO

dary 23-11 . 23)- Gather togelfier the opinions and ideals of others before you voler your own ideas. Pooling resources. helps.

VIRGO

24-Neyt. 23)- (Aug. Worry never helps anyting, Act forthright in. any crisis and you can meet much more easily.

LINHA (ävpl.

21-Oct 22)-- You ghi prostabiy project yourself frontale into the elight Today. svine idea that Is close to your

heart.

SCORPIO (det. 21-Nov. 22j

If you are buying something be surp It is the best that can be found. It's worth it.in the end.

DUMB-BELLS

LET'S WANDER ALONG

THE

BRIDAL PATH!

OH, JACK THIS IS SQ SUDDEN

JABS HIS LINE?

THUR...

MATERHAM

Re-arrange the letters to, spell his occupation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)--- You can prove that you are a real peacemaker today. by stepping in between two antagonists.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-- Do something definite about leiting Just down tensions this everling. relax Listen to good music or read.

ARIES (Mar.

20) --- 21-Apr, Don't try to do that work brought home in a briefcase. Better for you to forget about it this weekend.

CROSSWORD

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10. One at Thoung, ofeguer. (9).

17. Bang, ((4)).

21. Blak. (3)

23. Pairy-tale kind of slippery (8);

23. Heatware coat-off.. (4

25. Hazel could be.

(4)

25. Paris underground. (5)

Down

Elizabethan, now. (5))

Painted with our file. (4)

3. TIAN RES. (8)

4. Return, (h)

5. Quo.

6. Part of breathing apparatua.

7. "Beandinavian, dejan

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The instructress supervises the making of apple gingerbread at the Home

Acres rural domestic economy centre near Abingdon,

More-to-eat

school

teaches housewives

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Abingdon (Berkshire).

ABBITS, said Miss Cumming. "eat twice their own weight in 24 hours." She picked up a white rabbit and gave it a carrot top. "They have the most rapid conversion of food to flesh of any animal."

To the women of Home working out a plan with the an

fnct Acres, that

Is significant, of giving Britain more food pro- For here, not far from the duced at home. Shamroy's ideas about colour Harvell atom station, they are

much like those he feels about the camera, that it should not be triking that it calls attention to itself at the meriice of interest in the dramatic move- ment.

"The

best colour," he said, "creates the feeling that there is mo colour at all; in other words, The colour is Se carefully integrated that you aren't even Kware of its presence."-United Press.

Household Hints

To clean painted wally, use a non-gritty, and mild counter. If an undue amount of the wall's colouring appears in the eleaning water, select milder cleanser, sinco IL

probably. means that the one using is too harsh.

you're

slipcover, going-over

Before washing give it a thorough with a whisk broom to remove all possible surface dual and the dirt which has accumulated in the seams.

The only man at Home Acres: Mr. Bert Bunsby.

To Miss Doris Cumming, The resident instructress, Heine Acres, is the realisation of i four-year-old dream.

by HELEN BURKE

economy

This rural domestic centre is the first of its kind for teaching the growing. rearing and use of home-produced foods. Home Acres was opened by Miss Florence Horsbrugh

. year.

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Sampling the results! Miss Cork fästen" Mrs. Brown's buttered apples, The denianstra-

flon kitchen has four kinds of gonketa-

Miss Doris Cumming resident Instructress, with one of the

rabbits.

One of the two pigs will be demonstration" bacon in

another month.

occupies two and a halt

of the grounds of

In the pizery she pointed making of ples, black puddings faggots; classes in the Women's Institute Denman out two pls of equal size. One and College, near Abingdon, and is, will be "demonstration" bacon making of sausages, and a Next door, lecture on the storage of bacon. housed in former ments.

Suys Miss

RAF hut in another month,

a goat will be kept to prove its value, both for milk and fesh.

Rabbits for food and "fur**

The offat becomes, the centre's "perks." The bacon is, sold to Cuinsning: "Our object is to produce mure food, The bacon, course includes the Ministry of Food especially

food pre-slaughter care and prepara- more protein since it is so badly needed. We tion; culling the carcass; curing want to show more people how the bacon; the cleaning of skins rabbits for their pelts are bred the rendering of lard; and reared. Those killed-for do this at a high and they can

in the food provide lecture demonstra standard at home,"

tions arid practical classes for women who enroll: for them.

BOYS' AND GIRLS'

The Shadows Meet A Zebra

-And They Find Out Why He Has Those Stripes--

By MAX TRELL Khadow-children w tho

from the ground, where it hat been nibbling grass, and began the staring back at them. Hanid,

After " moment

turned-about names, were tak

cookery demonstrations

MAGAZINE

"Who are you?" the zebra suddenly said. It had a high- pitched voice, something. liko

that of a bird. "If you mean to hurt me I'll run away. I run very fast arid you'll never bo uble to catch me."

two or

ing a walk inside, the Natural Knart whispered to Hanid: "I hurt you," said Knarf. "I just History Book. This isn't the wonder if it would mind it I-it

"If you what?"

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side vulnerable,

the

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usual place for anybody to be taking a walk in but Knarf and Hanid weren't like anybody. clue.

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the

South West 7 You, South hold: Spades A-8-2,

Club Hearts K-J-6-5, Diamond 3. K-J-7-3-2. What do you do?

A-Bld three hearts. This hand is.

than the one A good deal stronger

but the double shown yesterday, raise is still the correct bid. You have count of 12 points in normal high cards paint extra for high rarde in your partner's bid suit, and 2 points for the singleton.

Looked Liko a Horso

"If I rode on its back?"

Once they got inside

"I don't know," zail his sister Natural History Book it was doubtfully. "Zebras are really like being in a strange country,' wild animals. I don't mean that thousands of miles away, they'd try to hurt you if you All at once Knarf pointet and came near them. But I don't said: "Look!"

think they'd like anyone to ride on their backs.”

Now the zebra that, Knarf Hanld saw an-animal that and fanid were watching was looked like a horse only it was standing in a very wide field. Bamond 22, clubs K-1-1-3-3. Want striped Why It the "Just Off in the back was a pond and

animal in the alphabet."

further back were some hills, do you do?

Krart looked puzzled. Hauld laughed. "It's a zebra. It cer~ tainly is pretty, isn't it?"

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the question Just answered. You, South, A-G-2. Hearts K-3-6,

ANSWER TOMORROW

CHESS PROBLEM

By J. ZALDO

Black, 7 pieces

White, 6 pieces," ".". While to play: mate in two,

Solution to problem:

yesterday's

High-Pitched Voice

- Well, Knarf went up to the, They both stood staring at the zebra and stopped a few feet zebra, which lifted its head away."

Rupert and Morwenna-30

The little creature immediately coast, it takes a lot of us to do it. site down facing Rupert. "Yes, and in order to call us all together: it's about time you were told what our Leader used to speak into his has happened," he says. "Well, matic shell and ... Oh, wa you must know llut one of the that the end shell we found 7** chiel duties of the Comish piskies, asks Morwenna excitedly.*** la wan is to push shipa, away when they "in a hole." "Shush, don't inter come rod hear thin dangerous rupt says the pisky.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SEVEN-

"Oh, no-we aren't going to wanted to know if you'd mind giving me a ride on your back." By this time Hani came up, too. The zebra looked at both of them for a moment or two before it answered: "All right what I just but remember

1 run very fast." told you.

Then Knarf and Hanid elimb- ed on its back and off it went, straight for the hills!

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"We aren't, going to hurt you,” Knart said to the xebra.

"But there's one thing I'd like

The "pelting of the skin of *fur** rabbito is part of the training. The robbila are killed by the poultry.Instructress, They are skinned and the skins are dried and cured. Later, there will be a 'glove-making

course.

A 10-pole allotment is cropped en the Ministry of Agricul ture's plan for allotment holders. There is another allotment for growing, supplementary food for the livestock. Here the only man at Home. Acres plays a part. The job of Bert Dunsby, who cycles, each day from Gar ford, 10 miles away, is.... tu carry out the heavy digging and . to tend the animals on 'week-"- days. (Miss Cumining look's after them at week-ends:) **'

APPLE PARTY

One but has been turned into a demonstration, kitchen, with four kinds of cookers elect city, gas (in cylinders), oil and

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What a wonderful runner it wus-much, much faster than a Lorset lis hegyes went pound- to know," said Hanid when solid fuel.

On the day of my visit: 10. ing over the dry ground. The they not off its back again: two shadows clung with all "Why love you got stripes?"

women arrived to cook apples in their might to its short mane.

ways, which they might not can't tell HT Luckily they didn't fall oft.

you," normally use at home, Mrs Lay answered. "But maybe you'll

and Mrs Read teamed, up to And finally, when the ride be able to guess. Just watch make Apple Snow and a custard

200 from the yolic

left over- was ever, they thanked the une while I walk away." zebra very much.

from the "snow." Mra Din- It walked away toward some trees. It slood under the trees widdy and Mrs Spicer, inade

Wople

Amber. Mrs Taylor, on a patch of ground where the ingle handed, made Appla sunlight speckled down through Gingerbread, a hefty cake-a the leaves, A

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thin custard sauce, N

THE CORONATION

OF THE QUEEN

with stand-up model of the

Royal State Coach. $2.50

'S. C. M, POST, LTD: Hong Kong & Kowloon.

Suddenly it disappeared. Dat it was really still there!

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"Oh, shadow-girl

Mrs Andrews, Mrs Brown, and stripes make you look just like Miss Cork, mado Bullered Apples all the sunshine and shadowa and conted then with jam around you! You just seem to sauce. Birs Whiten made Fried disappear!"

Sweet Apples, and decorated "And it keeps your enemy the Seymour made Portuguese them with pastry, fugera, and llon from finding you!" added Apples baked apples topped

with apricot jam fagu nt. And they could hear the. And as I was leaving Home: zebra's voice sayingi. "Yes, thal's | Acres, Bert Dunsby, was: wheel”, It-that's it exactly,

ing a barrow-load of carrots, tó But they couldn't see him at their winter quarters in sund.

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