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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1953.

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

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MERRY XMAS

Greetings "Cande

TO ALL OUR PATRONS AND

PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMERS

Here are a few suggestions which will contribute to make your Festive

Season a happy one

WHISKY

PORT WINE

SHERRY

CHAMPAGNE

TABLE WINES

COGNAC

Grants Scotch Whisky

Ferreira's Three crown Ferreira's Superior Tawny.

Duff Gordon's Fino Seco.

Perrier Jouet Extra dry 1947 Piper Heldsleck Brut Extra

Chateau Mouton Rothschild Sauternes Graves

Clos de Vougeot 1937 Chateauneuf du Pape Pouilly Fuisso

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хо

"Have you a Christmas card that says 'Although you didn't send me one last year, I'm sending you one this year!'!"

Gift Books For The Young DARA

Snowwhite,

ARADE

BOOKSELLERS Bay that For the very young, the Chlong Yee's "Datbl'ee," a tale a Chinese, boy and his Enid Blyton and Rupert books stocked by the about

buffalo. This is $150 Beatrix Potter aro

the South China Morning Post, water

WHETHER TO walk naked ing themselves with chops and

and most popular authors when Ltd. are ideal. The Rupert Illustrated by the author.

unashamed, sausages. They are the targets TO DRESS Uncle Remus,

or vell oneself in in the forthcoming battle. to choice of cartoon stories In the China it comes Christmas gift books for Mail have built up a big Bambl and Peter Pan are retold clothing-that was the question

Bri hotly debated

Oddly enough, though, in Nigeria's young people. They have a following for this engaging by Walt Disney in well-finished, steamy-warm House of repre- or now eat eight times as

attractive illustrated volumes, sentatives at Lagos. variety of titles, but Enid character.

much prepared breakfast cereal as they did before the war. And Blyton has five omnibus

Then there are the stalwarts Introducing the motion, stald, all of It is produced in Britain. volumes The Happy Story

Mr D.C. Ugwu In 1638, almost a third of the of every Christmas-the various respectable

breakfast and moved that "This House re-

food was Imported Book, Merry Story Book,

Annuals, Modern Booke Sunny Story Book, Gay

There

are gards the nudity of grown-ups, from--you guess where, Books, Miss Ho Yuen-yee's now. Wonder

na practised in some parts of Story Book and Lucky

Chinese fairy tale, "The enough at theso to suit the country,

national Story Book - which are Magis Scroll," published by youngsters from five to lifteen. shame and desires the intro- all selling very well.

duction of a decency bill mak- the S. C. M. Post, is admir.

Ing the practice unlawful." De ably illustrated by the au-

plored Mr Ugwu: "People are thor, and will be treasured

not ashamed of walking stark by all ages.

For the boys, G. A. Henty The is holding his own. tales told by this old de- pendable are always appeal- ing.

A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT

R

IS CHANDLER

SLOW

Others worth noting down: Winni the Pooh books, the Illustrated Classics, the William veries by Richmal Crompton, naked public." the Bedside Book for Children Another Chinese story that and the Oxford Junior Encyclo- will be found acceptable is pacdin.-ACG.

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BY MILTON SHULMAN

GETTING TOO

ON THE

TRIGGER?

most was

in- myself

enormous

of

the

with that etc....

AYMOND CHAND- captain who "solves crimes with his education LER must be slip the bright light, the kids to the appropriate. He spent five years earnestness which is one of the

kidneys, the fist to the solar at Dulwich (some time between trying characteristics Hennessy xxx (3 years old)

ping. In his latest plexus, the night stick to the the days of P. G. Wodehouse craft." 115 years old) novel, The Long Good-Be base of the spine"; a dream of and C. S. Forester), and the rest Chandler, a self-confessed VSOP 125 years old) (amish Hamilton, 109. a blonde who has a voice "like of his education was in France

follower of the Dashiel Hammett 145 years old) Gd.), there is not a sugges the stuff they u to line sum and Germany.

tradition of extrovert writing, 175 years old) tion of murder until page depressive who sips on brass

clouds with";

As a young man he tried has stimulated a brand of fiction 32. And then it is only a muckles as often as gloves; a journalism, but gave it up be- which seems in danger of getting

cause he "always got lost." He out of control. Dubonnet, French Vermouth Noilly Prat hint.

wrote verses and reviews for such sedate publications as the etc., etc.....

Westminster Gazolie and the

Extra

For Expert advice call at

4

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and novellst dipsomaniac number of dope peddling

doctors,

RUDER, SEXIER

GAME Top buyers of wild FOR SALE: cording to East Africa's big game trappers, are Germany and Japan."

animals novadays, ac-

Both countries are re-stock- Then up sprang Mr Shettima ing their zoos which closed Kushim, Minister of Social Ser- down during and after the war. viets and one who respects the

And both are expected to old traditions. Said Mr Kashim: send alandy orders to the game "Legislation must not be used trappers for several yeaṛS |to kill old customs! In some ahead.

areas, the women believe that:

the wearing of clothes' reduces Representative of the animals fertility."

In demand are those in one of the largest consignmentever shipped from Mombasa underway to Japan.

now

But Mr Obafemi Awolowo, leader of the House's Action group, blamed Britain for this

Included are one rhino, four undressed state of affairs.

giraffos, nine

two tobris, Cried he: "It is a shameful cheetahs, four giant tortoises, a reflection on the British that, giant lizard, and twenty-two

rule, after sixty years'

some birds, are still naked. Where customs are

Prime specimen people in Nigeria pugnant to decency, it is the giraffo-extremely rare. government's duty to change the custom."

re-

"Ah!" replied the Chief Se- THE CID cretary to the Government, Mr GOES TO

a bill THE ZOO the Govern- were introduced, A.T. Benson, if such ment would require a Nudity Davis, Traffic Unit to enforce it."

2.

قدا داواها :

fo A

black

Detective Ser

goant Tom Brown

and

Detective- Constable Harold of West Riding CID fingerprint bureau, having mer their most difficult In the old days things were

subject. They went to Belle Vue Zoo, much tougher. I recall a short story of his hardly more than

Manchesver, and spent the day You have probably met most Spectator. And then joined the His characters and situations

Maybe oatmeal persuading monkeys and spes 30 pages-in which he com- of them before if you have read Canadian Army when the First were tougher, ruder, blunter, SCOTSMEN

IS a substance to give them their fingerprins. fortably crammed four any other Chandler novel. Even World War began,

bexler, meaner than Hammett's AND

fit only for similar. The homicides, three brutal assaults, in details they are

This brought him back to It was only natural that the BREAKFAST Scolsmen and Both officers were off duty, one kidnapping, one blackmall, millionaire, who can control the America where he discovered next master of the art-Mickey

of but the records horses, but three-quarters and a 'nied" variety. of minor corrupt police force, has two natural talent for analytical Spillane would try to crawl Scotland doesn't agree. They with the same skill and ap-

wild daughters: a missing sus- accounting. It was not until he even lower still.

think it's it only for horsee. pect always carries with him was well into his forties that he detective 3,000 dollars in "mad money" tried his hand at

For this piece of vital in and the women all kiss hard. Action. He sold a short story

are indebted to "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" to

formation we a pulp magazine called Black

Britain's breakfast food-makers, busy planning the Battle of the Breakfast Table.

beatings.

Now that he is 05 it may be that Chandler is getting soft, Or even worse, cynical. "As I look back on my own stories." he has sald, "It would be absurd if I did not wish they had been had been better. But if they much better they would not have | been published.”

cape

from

WHEN IN DOUBT

1 man

Mask,

naked

Where Chandler's women are usually resisted or murdered, Spillane's are roasted over slow fires, Where Chand ler's detective has a conscience about brutality Spillane's revels in it.

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practised

10

In-

were Laken

paratus they use in hunting criminals. When completed the record will fit into A research investigation on heredity and evolution

which Sergeant Brown started three years ago.

Already he has made recorda of 200 sets of human (wins, Now he has started to collect the fingerprints of primates.

•

After that he sold everything In Chandler's first novel, The

In a sort of Kinsey Report on the British Animal at 7 am. Big Sleep, it was a rich general he wrote. His novels, The Big

Detection

by who controlled every ching and sleep, Farewell My Lovely, and Lady in the Lake, have

they reveal some startling had two mad daughters; the 20

Dorothy formation-most of it, from their The Long Good-Bye-Chand- missing suspect carried 15,000 been received with cooing noises Agatha Christie ler's Arst book in four years- dollars in mad money; and the by intellectual, critics. Somerset Sayers has litlle place in this point of view, disheartening.

Maugham

has acclaimed him the genre. Nobody much cares who

To begin with, almost half HIRSUTE Mr William makes no serious attempt to es- women still kissed hard.

most brilliant of the violence- murdered whom. It's the fun

Haynes, agod the way that Britain doesn't eat ANY break HUMDINGER 79 this unambitious

and games on

of Oxford, fast. The multitude who make "When in doubt," Chandler with-benzedrine school of fiction. formula.

Chandler can number among

count.

a 13-inch moustache has advised aspiring thriller-

The Long Good-Bye still has do with a pot of tea and a alice has had come his rewards for success many

more than His private detective, Philip writers, have

50 years. Ingenuity, slickness, and of brend count as a non-break- for

fasters. But Marlowe (25 dollars a day and through the door with a gun in highly lucrative Alm-scripts, the

they're on the Mr Haynes' friends claim that expenses), has to discover who his hand." Or, it seems, take a large royalties, and a £18,000 pace of Chandler's other work. battered in the skull of a rich, peek at one of your other house in a suburb of San Diego. But the odour of decadence that "hopeful" list. Presumbly, they his whiskers are the finest set

in the city. naked nymphomaniac. Chand- novels,

But he is less enthusiastic about pervades his acon-it half-world are open to conversion.

The real backsliders are the

He started

.them his abilities than some of his, of nylon and vice, is beginning

to grow ler's female victims seldom die

to pall. Isn't it about time flush citizens who insist on re-

in the Royal with their high heels on.

Raymond Chandler was born admirers,

"As a writer," he says, "I somebody turned on a ventilating verting to the medieval (well when he was

says ho ran Navy. Mr Haynes His investigations icad him in the proper place for a tough

gre-Kellogg) practice of stuff- away from home at the age of to take fan? Into the the company of a police thriller-writer Chicago. But have never been ablo

nino to join the Navy. After 12 years in the Senior Service ha returned to Oxford and A quieter Hife, but, the First. World War saw him in uniform again, this time as a private in the Oxfordshire ana Buckingham- shire Light Infantry..

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"DON'T GET ANY

FANCY IDEAS/

JUST THE TREE YOU HAVE BEEN

LOOKING FOR AND RIGHT" ON

YOUR NEIGHBOR'S LAWN.

"HOW DO YOU SPELL

MOTORCYCLE ?"

PAPER IS

THIS

TOO SMALL"

AFTER DOING THEIR HOMEWORK WITHOUT PROTEST, THE KIDS GET

DOWN TO SERIOUS BUSINESS.

THEY ARE EITHER

100 YOUNG OR

TOO OLD —

"AI-YA, POP"

FOR SEVERAL DAYS ALL THE AIEWSPAPERS

·HAVE BEEN OPEN AT THE FUR COAT ADS

Glady

Christmas Preview

15-

~ COPR: 1952 BY GENERAL-FEATURES

CORP. TH4WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

"LOOKING FOR THIS SECTION

DEAR ? "

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FURS

HOW TO HAVE A WHITE CHRISTMA

(HAIR THAT IS

BY HARRY WEINERT

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MAYI BORROW ONE OF

YOUR STOCKINGS

SIS ?"

“ANY MAIL FOR ME

PAL?"

"WHY DON'T YOU ASK

AUNTY. SHE WEARS

SIZE TEN

نه

SANTA CAN'T PUT MUCH IN A LITTLE SOCK..

DO YOU REMEMBER WHO GAVE US THIS ONE?

UNLOADING "SOME OF LAST YEAR'S PRIZES

JUST BE SURE YOU DON'T GET

YOUR WIRES CROSSED.

whlakers were going great guns now. They survived all the Germans could do in France and Flanders, and anai- ly nourished to their greater glory in one of Oxford's quie ost backwaters. The years navo reduced the ends

somewhat there used to

Lesta

be strung pro-

when he played com- positive darts, from opponents who complained that they could not ece the board properly—but William and his mates are es proud of them as over.

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SOMETHING London's Phoenix theatre looking for there's for once,

IN IT

a catand, something in it for the cat.,

An ad in a London evening paper offered £3 a weekplus milk-for a sleek black cat with some acting ability. Miaowdi tions will be held next week.

OBSESSIONS. The British * Mexiical', A860– UNLIMITED: clation's Latest

pronouncement

obsessione gives a feeling of marked relief, Insistence on tidinese and

punctuality, says the BM

a symptom of advanced obsesse

Ion a mental disease which

may, land you with the idea you're Napoleon If you press it far enough.

That applies, 100, 1o. the "houseproud" wife who runs. around whisking off specks of dust and folding away bówt-: PaperE

What's it all about? -

Quite simple, really. In our confused and highly-specialinect Industrial society: moet haya to force ourselves to perw form highly specialised which we don't really like...

That means, developing rigid behaviour patterns': froma "wildch we won't allow ourselves`lə “do- viale. But it means, too, 's tussin' between our suppressed sirgan. and our actual behaviour

|| When obeosilón, «gets a mildh hold, you and yourself dashing back into the Bouse BİK OF seven times to make sure the turned off, fuming when momeone is a minute fale for, an appolnimmat, and #pendin"-hal [your “tiene:

But watch it! That man faches may thus be na