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A. British

Crossword Puzzle

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£24

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ACROSS

2

War fleet (8).

9 Outspoken (5).

1

Ireland (4)

10

In the immediate

vicinity (3).

11

Insects (4).

13 Smashing utterly (10).

15 Rip (4).

10

cheme (4).

30 Consider (10).

22 Fate (4).

18

DOWN

16

Puts to flight (5).

3 Change (5).

Alleviates (8).

02

Container: Jor wine (8).

Inclination (4).

Extent (5).

12 30lifeption (5).

13 Drugged (5),

Apartment hoilso (8).

Worship (5).

17

18

Brood! (0).

24 Welcome (8).

20

Finished (5).

25 Headquarters (5),

21

20 Valley (4).

27 Conundrum (0).

Horrify (3).

23 Cast umorous glances (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acrom: 1 Export, 4 Spill, 7 Voered. 8 Using, 10 Leas, 12 Devised, 15. Revel, 16 Mete, 17 Plea, 19 Model, 20 Session 2 Sent, 23 Gaunt, 24 Teulon, 25 Needy, 28 Sordid. Down: 1 Envelops, 2

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.

Macbeth marked the spot with a nail

UE Fize Murderer in duobeth

would persilat in walking down to the centre of the stage, and thus entirely hiding Mac- | beth from the audience,

The company were rehat STD 1 the banquet scene, and William Charles Mocready became in- censed because his repeated in- structions to the First Murbrer were ignored,

Macready called for A co- penter, o brass-healed nail and ja herrimer, "Do you sen that plank there?" suid Macrendy. "Drive the nail into that speź!”

It was alone. Tuming to the First Murderer, Moeready said: "Now you, sir, look at that soil. Course down to that spot and not an inch further, and wait there until 1

come

banquet scene.

The mom did as he was told, and Maercady was satisfied that he had overcome the difficulty.

Came The

night -- and the The First Mur- derer entered, svalised down the asi stopped suidonly

and roundi, ap- tarted round parently looking for something he had dropped.

WILLIAME CHARLES

MACREADY &

(1793-1871) ACTOR Borű kere

What the plaque says.

the

SEPTEMBER 19, 1953.

PARADE

HE WINS ON RACES.

ago. come true.

AV COLUMN OF THE PEOPLE AND PLACES

UNUSUAL ABOUT AND THINGS

•

The prison doesn't do much When Wight fell he began Lucky Luciano ACCURATE In Beilnger, New

South Wales, 25- business so, usually, there's only dighing frantically until he un- stepped out of DREAMER

friend. Then, by Naples

year-old Nandy: one guard on night duty: Dante covered his polico HE SAYS station, dangled Speed dreamed that her twin called him and complained of a the scruff of the neck, he carried Peter home and deposited him a cigarette from his Hips, smiled brother Frederick, a POW in toothache. at reporters and

When the guard troopod off on the doorstop. announced. Korea, would be released the

10 the "pribon hospital, ho Next morning, whines and They ain't got nothing on me." next day.

It was a famlilar routine, for Next morning telegram reached, oui, sprang the Dock, moans wakened the widow, Sha Jumate opened the door. Peter crawled the 67-year-old former New arrived announcing his release. paused to let a "fellow York gang boss has been

pulled

Nancy wasn't surprised. Her out pocketed the prison keys in bedragged but not much the US, dreams about Frederick always กร

headed over the border into worse for having been burled in oleven times since the

alive. sent him home four years

Palice muspect he will be back Each time, he hus

she dreamed he emerged. One night tree and grinning.:

had been wounded in the leg. at his old triclor soon. His usual

of SACKCLOTH Jerusalem's rób Now, he expects to be picked 11o had been. Then, she dream- attire in the day is a pair

running shoes. A AND ASHES ble paraded up every ume

Italian ed he had been taken prisoner, shots and the

night, he puts on a smart white

through the authorities nab an Lalo He was.

dressed in sackcloth dinner suit, pockets his leather streets American gangster. The latest

ash.co strewn case of burglar's tools and ralds with visit to police headquarters

British CULTURE

culture the lushest Willas on the Riviera, their hair as a protest against followed the arrest of paunchy,

in Milan is on

In three mpathy, he bagged the now law which orders con middle aged Vittorio Nappi, ON

of scription The more than $300,000 worth

of orthodox Jewish charged with master-minding a

holiday HOLIDAY

British Council, s. That was four years go. women. multi-million dollar smuggling rackot in American cigarettes which roads poetry and die Since then he has been serving

an eight-year term.. tributes prore to Somewhat After grilling Lucky for bewildered Italians at the Bri- hours, police gave it up

tish taxpayers' expense, has a CAN'T KEEP You can't keep STYLE

a good dog Zuzuiam's haute couture, usual.

"closed for a month" sign on its A GOOD

down. Especial- door.

for all thak, the lassies DOG DOWN

of lio ly if he has a Kraals are as fashion conscious Nobody seems to mind and

friend ilke Fips the Alsatian.

as their sophisticated sisters, the nearby British Chamber Commerce decided to try

couldn't keep The dog they

The word got around that the down in Peter the dachshund, That DID bring A

Woman of Fashion to be strictly He belongs to Frau Maria stunt, too.

middle-aged a courant wpport a bright to

striped towel, The Chamber has decided

preferably widow of Zwickel-Gladbeck,

fringed, and worn' klit style, just Western Germany. He was run below the knee. cancel its holiday plans.

over by a motor-cycle. MEANS When Prof. Auguate widow picked up the "corpse" WHAT

Piccard, the bathy- and buried it, while Fips who Iman, says had turned up for the funeral HE SAYS sphere

stay away:

he service stood by the grave how means it.

ling. Preparing for u lest Prof. Plecard ordered visitors to keep clear and instructed Itailan Navy to see to it

Up sailed Gracie Fields in she has been motor yacht,

from Tangiers.

town.

furniture and

ak

Maybe Lucky bos gone honest. But he still lives În แ mighty grand style. He keeps a sprawling, lavishly - appointed The plaque (arrowed) shows

apartment in which he displays costly

blonde where Macrendy lived.

Milanese ballet-dancer Igea tions that had crept into

Lissone, 33-year-old talk of the plays during the Restoration.

born In Macready, who was

Ask bim where the cashi 1793, was the son of an Irish comes from and he will reply actor-manager. He was drawn ulandly: "I win on races."

the Into

neting profession against his will owing to the misfortunes of his father whose LUXURY activity had been declining for

FOR A some time,

It was of the suggestion of LONDONER Mrs Siddons that he took to the luxury.

*

Yolande

Jack-

son, a 49-year- old Londoner, likes Ilving in

Since June 24

holler.

U

•

of tho

dive,

the

+

The audience began to titter, Macready stalked up to the mean, whisperett mutibly. ond heaven's name, what are grou about?"

"Sure," exclaimed the man, "abot d looking for that blessed nail of yours?”

This

of is one

the many stories told of Wüllam Charles Macready, the talented actor of the early Victorian age, who stage. Prepares. 3 Rued, 5

did much tu purge Shake- Her suggestion shocked staying at luxury hotels in The navy soaked her with fire Pastimes, 8. Linnet, 9 Melon, 11 Seasoned, 12 Demun, 13 Select-

spearean drama from the aller-Maeready sealer. His son was Geneva, Lausanne, Evlan and hoses. Prof. Piccard's dive, by ed, 14 Destined, 18 Legute. 23 Zero.

intended for the Church, he told Anneey. Sho travelled frum the way, was a flop. Mra Siddons.

one to another in luxury. To which the Queen of chauffer-driven, limousines. EYE ON A Prime Minister

replied that all the Tragedy

Ched!

of When it came to the time

Jagun to DOLLAR young man could hope for in pay the bill, she told each hotel

British Guiana is Church was an income of in turn "my

shy husband, is o

about £30 to £70 a year.

Caucasian prince who lives in miration for London. Everything will be People's Democracies, and Peace attended to."

Moscow Style-but last week he revealed that his opposition to the Big Bad Capitalists only goes so far,

YOU WERE IN THE PARK'

SITTING BY THE RIVER WHEN YOU SAW A BIG

FISH IN THE WATER

THIS

DREAM

MEANS:

the and peaceful (by All sectos quiet river), but in the depths of your subconscious mind something stirs. Primluve desires (sym- ballsed by the fish) wil you fear-grow into

and something terrifying, destructive paging when they leave your subconscious mind (the river) and emerge into your consolaus behaviour (dry land).

m-

Tamara Braids

THEN IT CHANGED INTO A GIANT HIPPOPOTAMUS WHICH SMASHED EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. EVERYONE RAN FOR DEAR

LIFE

You seem afraid of the immediate future, that something now under control may lead to an emotional explosion which will hurt others as well as yourself,

Explosioon are best

prevented; when they've come it's too late to do anything but time for a quiet duck. It might be a good

week-end, or a bottle of bromide from your doctor, or both.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE LOST POOCH YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM-EVERYBODY LOOKS ALIKE

"TWO MORE

IT'S THE

SEA AIR!

GET IN HERE BEFORE YOU GET SOAKED!

The hotellers believed her - for a time,

He made his first appearance In London at Covent Garden in September 1810, and in 1819 and 1820 he rose to first ranic with hia performances

of Richard III, Coriolanus, Harn- Then they got suspicious. let and other plays. He was Palice slapped her in gool, fed leading

at Drury actor

Lane her on vegetable soup and black from 1823 to 1830, and acted sausage,

But she's in the United States and Puris.

sticking to

He was manager of Covent story. Garden 1837-39, then went to

the Haymarket Theatre, and afterwards

managed

Drury LUCKY

Lane. He died at Cheltenham LIZARDS

in April 1873.

*

her

not

his Russia,

ad- China

It stops when he pois to

all the money thinking about

pouring Into British

The

ZUZULAND Farhlon dictator Dior rates no following in

But

The resultont rush loft shop- keepers towebless.

.

Above tho kili, by the way, dress is still optional-to be Worn or not, that is,

***** BOOK OF THE MONTH 1990-199 BY GEORGE Malcolm THOMSON

TERROR

from the sea

But, Mother, please tell me, what can these things be, That crawl up so stealthtly out of the sea?.

ALASTAIR BOCKER not invulnerable to explative DR

missiles. knows the answor

But how did they come to get anwhich Mother could hardly in the ocean depths in the first "These place? Trace the story back to

supplied.

that's

Guioma. His

government, he nounced firmly, will give "every have protection" to Canadian, Ameri- things" call them "sen its beginnings, when Phyllis and cun and British capital,

tanks" If you can think of her husband EBC commentators Dante

cigar- nothing better-are shaped cruising hear the Azores, se: a

of incandescent

across fash

thự like dissected eggs, dis-shaped objects charge a slimy substance sky and plunge into the set, A similar..! bundreds and contain living creatures Later on,

projectiles are seen by others. which resemble Jelly-fish!

The Russians are blamed. Then scienilsta observe an un- the deepér mal muddiness in

Th The more parts of the ocean.

Three Egyptian desert lizards will

"Tarzan" anjoy legacies HE USED

to them in THE OLD Spada didn't break not popular $800 a piece, left Macready was

the bank. at Monte with some of the other leading 1051 by wealthy Mrs Marion

DODCE

Carlo - but he did Kellett. actors of the day, Edmund

He broke Kean had a thorough contempt The estate is nearly wound up the next best thing.

ond the lizards will move out of the gaol.

And the ill-famed gentleman Headquarters SPCA plaque commemorating | Durban

follows, burglar of the Riviera used the Macready

affixed to his soon. Four of their was house, 45, Stanhope Street, St. left similar amounts, died in the oldest dodge in the prison world

to make his break.

for is acting.

Да

Paneras.

THE TIME BETWEEN MEALS

IS RUGGED GOING FOR

SOME.

WHY DO BATHERS THINK' RAINWATER

IS THE ONLY WATER THAT

IS WET ?

core besi dr GENERAL FEATURES

THE SEE-NYMPHS —THEY DECORATE THE BEACH ALL DAY—AND CAN SWIM LIKE FISH WHEN THE AUDIENCE

DEPARTS.

GOIP, IM WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

interim.

'Beach Briefs

FE

WONETZ

THEY

THE SEE-WOLVES CLUTTER THE BEACH ALL DAY AND ARE THERE ONLY TO SEE HOW MUCH GIRL IS BEING WORN...

WITH THE BATHING SUIT.

They crawl up out of the ocean depths and attack human habitations. They are mysterious and awful-although mercifully prosale scientists are content to say, "Mainly radiclarian ooze, but with an appreciable per- centage of diatomaceous ooze."

"Tell me, Dr Matet, do you think it is serious?"

"It doesn't keep me awake at alght, if that's what you mean.” -Earth Invaded

BY HARRY

WEINERT

YIPE

THE CHARACTER YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE GO UNDER THREE TIMES —AND COME UP TWICE.

"NOW I KNOW WHY

THEY CALL 'EM 'SANDWICHES / “

'HMM-MIGHTY NICE.

"TAN".

THE SLOW BURN -

But Dr Bocker, 1 bolder scientist, is very much awalde at night. Nor does he blame the Rusdans. His opinion, as glyen- long before the first "ihing" crawled stealthily out of the sea,. is simple and startling.

The Earth has been invaded from another planet where con- ·· ditions are moister than here... » say, Neptuno-and the invaders, having setiled comfortably. on the ocean bed, are engaged in mining for metals.

Dr Bocker proves to be right. The Kraken Walpesis a plausible excursion into

scientifle fiction on somewhat similar lines to H. G. Wolle's famous The War of the Worlds. The Kraken Wakes is easy to read: it holds the interest; It has speed; it is sufficiently ingenious,

The war between the Earth forces and the invaders

falls into clearly marked phases.. The enemy in the deep is attacked with depth bombe and hits back with a mysterious electrical device which can disintegrate a ship. Then he comes ashore and is beater off by air attack..

Finally he has the brilliant

idea of creating warm sea cure rents and directing them to wards the Poles, thus melting the Polar Ice.

More Icoborgs Ascentional increase in the number of leebergs is the first

second consequence. The vastly more serious: the aca lovel rises by more than 100ft, About four-fifths of the world's populaton have died for one Or another before pcience the answer to the vackro.

By that

time, author and alike have

exhausted the of the theme. The story has been petent, humorous and vivid. It has not possessed the apocalip tic vision which, coupled with A good reporter's eye for detail, Invested "with", such Wella's description of the fight from London In The War of the Worlds.

But

quality

it has a

is a vivacious o

com

power

of its own. za, diim nightmarn world where things crawl o stealthily out of the son," Joan Wyndham has contrived story whatch

arrótal attention Ineista on being read, to thò erai, A worthy Booge of/the-konth, making no,excomve demanda on the power of ebbcentration.

• THE KRAKEN WAKES. John Wyndham, 'Michael Joekph, 200, 64,