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THE, CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.

PARADE

NO OSCAR- Eight Wild HALF A JUST EUCLID

horses and a MAGNUM? bulldozer are usually reckoned the team needed to keep a movie director away from a Cannes Film Awaçit Festival-especially if he's got zemething coming his way,

COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT AND THINGS

A

PEOPLE

AND PLACES

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grossion, But with Junior along shạ had to stay and do some- thing about it.

Champagne • and Leong that she took her home.... all the trimmings to be brought up as a princess, will be laid on for the occasion

The fact that she didn't beat when a long- es::blished Norwegian shipyard OH! OH! The scene is an air- it should have been warning

held in the Canal enough stages RTKAT) FER odded-over SARGE!

for the tiger shurk. Zone, General kunching-hall a boat,

Se But by this time he was vucing firlan Robertson steps Irem hls in again at the glistening bulk. The order was placed by the neroplane. While he talks to the “ Something went wrong. Just Cultural Office of the Norwegian reception committee, an Army as he should have got himself

photographer Flim Foreign Ministry who wanted a forgeant'

busily another mawful wholesteak, Ma full-size reproduction of the snaps himn

with

a miniature durked and he slid on to front hall of the Oseberg camera,

broad back. Before he Viking ship in Oslo, Museum. Between handshakes, The wriggle off she had lifted him

at the busy It is to be star-turn of a photographer. At last he turns world - touring exhibition

and whispers to his alde-de- Norwegian arta and crafts.

camp, who walks smartly neruss to the photographer.

But when first prize in the international Amateur Festival was announced this year the ushers bawled in vain the name of the winning producer,

Was he dallying with some world-famed lovely on the sun- kissed shore? Laying plans for another epoch-maker?

Nu. He was back in a class room wrestling with start-of- torm studies. He is a seventeen- year-old Kingston. (England) schoolbuy.

THE JOY BELLÉS

of

Generad glonces

"The general says that before The women of St you take any more pictures will Helena jumped for you kindly

remove the dust Joy. The Joy was cover from your lens." Sir George of the ilk, retiring Governor of this British istand Atlantic, where South In the locamentary on riverside town, Napoleon Binished his days. Walton-on-Thames.

And the women jumped when he held a rumorige sale for foeal charity.

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YESTERDAY'S

Scorch (8).

CROSSWORD,—Across: 1 Harkey, † Split,

7 Gann, 8 Stops, 10 Rus, 12 Adulate, 15, State, In Arm, 17 Alto, 19 Open3, 20 Desert, 21 Tene, 23 Escay, 24 Domain, 25 Anger, 20 Senses. Down: 1 High Roat, 2 Contents, 3 Ever. & Peluiunt, & fute, 9 Adept, 11 Stockade, 12 Atone, B Arsentaja, 14 Earrings, H Lessen, 22 Tom

THIS

BEING ATTACKED BY A MAN-EATING

APE

DREAM

fare.

prizewinne

Was

4

Challenged, be explained he had two wives, I was unthink- able that they should both ecupy the same quarters,

Just for once, officials asked, couldn't they rough it, in view for die shortage of teals?

Ahmed A wind had un excel.

BOY AND GIRL STORY

lent business in Cairo-u must excellent business ideest

her could

clear of the water-a yasphy, floundering, definted bully. was almost at his lost Kasp when he managed to wriggle clear and streaked for safely.

After

the fight, sald light- Auret, house-keeper

watched L through 11 who telescope, Ma Junior continued

zily up the coast.

George

with

.1

Nancy Spain

GIVES THREE CHEERS FOR A CRIME KING

H

11

Kunyi

ה

FOORAY, hooray, this is All he needs is a schoolgir! who wonderful week. In in love with him, three drops

of blood from her ear. have discovered a new doll which he author, and I am his humble

carves In her Ilkeness. fan. His name is Michael

A schoolgirl called Clute Gilbert and he writes detec- fuifls all these, requirements -- tive stories.

but she inds out that, she is not the only TO Niut,

one. She denounces Lunch Beta Arc 10 hig -horrible roon full of vitalise:

duminics.

Told like this the story, secins pretty thin; but such is Sarbon's uncanny power that he Wilfred make your hair curl with horror.

What

His latest book, FEAR TREAD (fodder and tough- ton, 103. Gd.), is out this week. It rings true py

golden sovereign and ร even

more exciting.

of 41

IL tells how Mr Wetherall, hendmaster secondary school for boys in servant! London, S.E., takes his wife out to

ot dinner

ப West Eil collector. restaurant.

The owner tells him he

pen-name.

con

mind for a civil

No wonder be uses it

3. Maybe he is

Maiden aunts

tax

has been run out of business bc- cause the men who used to sell EN 75-year-old unmarried have W Margery Fry announced the

him block market truth turned nasty.

WOMAN

(De

she

says

Then Mr Wetherall hears that subject of her Brilliant essay or

THE SINGLE the wife of the police sergeant Lisle, 23. Gu.). investigating the food robberies

triends inughed. has been murdered.

Lully

the

PRETTY They call 43-year-old

Police ROUGH

Constable

THE SPIRIT That til George Corney, uf GOING

rah, rah, rah, OF OLD Northeast London,

Alma Mater "the man with nine lives." Every ALMA MATER

spirit came day he throws himself in front up trumps on the

сатрия оf FOR HIM, Harassed relief

of cars, plays ball in the rond Rangoon University last week. Frantically they mobbed this workers THE QUAKE

Gentlemen students who, stule more amongst traffic, reads a comię as quake-turn Governor's gardera,

he steps off the

kerb, speeds traditionally, should have been Paphos Cyprus,

the than half the good, upset stalls, acros spoiled

traffle jights

his able to settle their differences cheerful young Turk Join the

and scattered money in the dust

bicycle.

"That is exactly why I wanted Then Mr Wetherall Ands that In aenderle rebote, or at least line-up for tents for the second in an effort to get souvenirs,

to do " says Miss Fry. "There But after falling under rits

the through

correspondence one of his pupils bas been Police wore Helpless,

more than a 1,000 times Police columas of the pudent paper,

Is a good deal of uncon- mixed up in a large-scale rall

Teamus cruelty in the way Constable Corney still keen got around

swindle, involving food parcels, the world thinks of spinsters,"

that to doing to do it again. He is a member hrickbats.

Thep The boy's father 14 Yet there are few of us, look- of the six-man police team Trouble

started when the accidentally" killed OF the

ing back to our childhood, whe which tours

schools in North-

university Authorities

deelded line. Then Mr Wetherall des cannot recollezi east London giving road safety to cut the customary

figure t October a little investigating on his own zome well-loved maiden aunt. demonstrations. Being knucked holidays from month to two necount. And he 14 down three times a day is part

She arrived, says Mins. Fry, weeks. Members of the Pro- | Leuten up in Soho,

"when the new tables came, or of the

job.

Kutsalve (Communist) Students

Now Mr Wetherall gels when the scarlet fever children threatened In charge of the safety team is Union

10 call 41-year-old

Police Sergeant strike, and marched around the annoyed, and he hus need of his wanted nuskig."

14mper. For the gang atlan

Britain the clients were legion,

who says: "Of campus exhorting students for Robert Evans,

There thus

G 7,000,000 The way they subtly, there Ahmed was always right.

coukl

WOHN un jos them. On It course.

living alors! from The

1 (2,500,000 of them widows OI accident, but I have every con- mot the Democratle Union, also Was tor Posy.

share of exhorting

board of governura Devast 10 divorcees), not all of whom can He told every

customer that idence in my men. They don't dalng its

of Communist leunings.

Now be the but

the opposite direction.

neurotic Bgures that her child would be a bay. Then make mistakes,"

When it

Mr Wetherall is hopping mad.

Betion began to look as it

i-informed Rossip he w

lo Faust records and

might be a

Ah, Michael Gilbert is heal undertakers

makes them out, marked down "girl" beside

of his the verge of n boom, the police class

"own. When he

Alus, I haven't availab.e {P}}} tri",

writes of crime, tha were called In.

glowing parallel statisties of the juvenile Now, if there's

thing field of ictional romance where delinquents-most of whom, our Somewhere in The

outside the probable only just spills hearts now acknowledge, students dislike, it's water off Cap interference, deep

So with that old over into the possible, he does from the unwanted bairns left Agulhas a trembling Alma Mater spirit welling up so with bupreme authority.

on uur doorsteps or in our tiger shark is vow-

When I had finished "Fear to institutions. Last week he was caught out Ing that next time be'll tackle ide them they quit ballering

another long mough to Tread," I scratched around the

And surely, argues Miss Fry, ---making a prediction for "

someone his own size,

stone the uninvited cops out of bookshops for his other works with all the wisdom, wit, and policeman's wife.

the campus.

Now I have read all but two of gentleness that come from

common strength, I is a fairly senseless piece of bureaucracy that would forbid such a maiden aunt from adopting such a child?

In that rase, sald the young Turk they would share it withi but the benefit of his runnyjkany. 4 would prefer the earthquake [aday time.

YOU WERE

YOU RAN TOWARDS THE POLICE STATION, BUT LOOKING BACK SAW

YOUR FUTURE BROTHER- IN-LAW STANDING ON ITS BACK AND SHOUTING THAT

IT WAS ALL RIGHT, HE HAD

KILLED IT

MEANS: The man-eating ape symbolises suppressed anger-it may be yours or someone else's... which is coming to the surface and needs con- trolling (hence the polloe).

It may be that your flance is revealing a streak of temper and you feel your brother- in-law is a helpful Influence.

This dream raises a lot of queries which need to be followed up. Dreams often run in

series-Hike a strip-and the answer is often contained in the next Instalment.

Often when you notice anger in others, you omit to notlee that this is merely in reply to some sort of aggressive behaviour on your part; or, at any rate, a lack of active kind- news; psychologiais call this "projecting your

Jate" on to others,

If your fance does not respond to kind- ness, you may have to reconsider the whole thing.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"ANOTHER - CHOP -- PLEASE

DO YOU REALIZE

HOW MUCH

CHOPS

COST?

EAT IN PEACE — NEVER ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING -YOU CAN WORRY ABOUT FOOTING THE

BILL LATER.

"I'LL HAVE TO CALL A TAXI !“

THE LARGE ECONOMY SIZE PACKAGE YOU GET IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

"HOW ABOUT

GOING FOR. A

WALK, SCROOGE

ONE WAY TO ECONOMIZE SPEND THE WEEK-END IN BED

Ife claimed he could determine the sex of a chikt before birth.

The team has had one accident - broken leg. A bicycle chain broke and the rider fell off,

When there were boys he remped congratulations. When WHALE there were girls be showed the OF A protesting mothers the records to TALE jruve he had been right.

It all started when he spotted

a whale and decided to have a crack at the big softie, realises now, of course.

He that

ene

Lo

Then they got on with the them. fighi ngain.

THE UGLY The fortune he

should have remembered tellers DUCKLING

of the old saw about the female Singapore said of the speeles. For this whule DE Bttle Leong Thiam Chu would was a Ma whale and, be unlucky.

she had a calf along with her.

ag

tiza

#

In

grow

-A Quick Flip- Along The Shelves

1351-

Horrid 'creeper' Like the spirits YES, whatever they may say,

England worse, PROFUNDIS of long - dead

is still rich Egyptian kings story-tellers. Consider Sarban, She was born. on July 22-a But like a jet-fighter attack- striking terror into the violators whose curious Persian pen-name inat unlucky day.

Ing defenceices bomber he of their tombs, the sea revenges conceals the identity of o barm- Hor scared parents told a slashed in on a flank attack. sell on brash intruders.

less Government offelal. local newspaper They wanted His razor teeth sleed Into the The deep struck buck somebody to take her off their unwary, monster, and he was ocean-bed explorer Professor

wheeling away for another at Auguste Piccard. Celebrating his 6d), iЯ slyly horrid "ereeper," In this novel three odd crooks The wife of the Sultan of tock before the whale could do new depth record set up off the A girls school has its grounds Join the happy hop pickerk. Kelantan drove down the dusty anything about it.

Italian coust he got food polson- alongside 11 sinister manor One of them courts a gipsy gir, sium street where. Leong's Normally Ma whale weud ing from a lobster he ate at a house. Niall, the

cf the is killed by her gipsy lover parents live and went in to see. have hended for the deep dinner in his honour given by house, has a remarkable

behind the haystacks, She was so impressed by little waters at the,

Chur- Arst sign of ag- the local mayor.

He can make dolls that live

acters well drawn, Ending inconclusive.

hands,

Unbalancing The Budget

AFTER PAYING FOR GARDEN TOOLS, SEED,

FERTILIZER, INSECTICIDE

AND AN ACHING BACK- THE CORN WILL COST ONLY TWO. DOLLARS AND SIXTEEN CENTS PER EAR.

CDIR. (91) IT GENERAL VYATURES CUFF, THE WORLD RIGHTS 2331RTJU

"THE WORMS-ARE-

FATTER THAN

THE CORN!“,

SE THERE ARE

MANY WAYS TO CUT EXPENSES

- ALL. YOU NEED

.IS

[IMAGINATION

AND PLENTY OF GALL.

THE BILL

at

HARVEST His latest book, TIE DOLL Croft-Cooke MAKER (Peter Davies 125 GL).

BY HARRY WEINERT

"DO-YOU-LIKE-

THE MATERIAL MAY BE CUT DOWN TO

BARE ESSENTIALS

BUT DON'T LET THAT FOOL YOU

A PICKLE FORK

IS DANDY FOR CUTTING DOWN

ON THE SMOKE BILL.

PRICES ARE HIGH BUT

SO ARE INCOMES

LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE

"LISTEN

TO THAT GUY/

UP GOES, THE BLOOD PRESSURE

MOON, Rupert (Macmillan, 123,

GIN AND LILIES. Delia Brown (Wingate, 9. 6.).

Maddeningly mannered who- dunit in which someone puts cyanide in the millionaire's girl friend at the millionaire's house party....

The authoress claims.

to be the daughter of "Lady Gertrude Scrivelsby- Brown. daughter of

Earl Countess of Bognor Regis." All the jokes are on this level, ...

the

und

They're Not Laughing

From Henry Lowrie

R

Washington. EMEMBER Senator Joe

McCarthy's "Keystone cops," David Schine and Roy Cohn, who made a whirlwind world tour in- vestigating waste, mis- management and security? -..

Well, the two young men who were able to laugh "off the sneers of the world are angry at last. They were not laughing 01.9 Harold Stussen, boss of America's foreign programme, Baid they cach drew $74 a day expenses during their tour.

Foreign aid workers get ex- penises tanging from orfly $6 a day in West Germany to $10 in Parks.

the

Irritated

The 20-year-old Cohn im- inediately disputed Stassen's revelation that they drew $2,540 from foreign currency funds of

government. However, 'ho would not give his own figure.

He had been told, he sald, their withdrawals мето "considerably lower than those and, other in

that

of Congression "comparable trips,"

He

was

very obviously Irritated as he said:

"I'd be Interested to know the figures of those, on similar junkots."

He and Schine, 20-year-old son of a wealthy New Yorker, spent much more of their own money, he said, than they withdrew.

government funds. Principal result of the tour the Stato Department's sacking of Theodore Kaghan, acting deputy director of public affairs in Germany, after he had called Cohn- und Schine | "junkelpering gum, shock,”!

from

was