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333 rpm
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954.
B 07011 L
BENNY COODMAN
Volume 2
plays arrangements by FLETCHER HENDERSON,
BENNY GOODMAN JAZZ CONCERT
B 07003 R SOFT LIGHTS - SWEET TRUMPET Harry James and His Orchestra
B 07606 R "MOOD ELLINGTON" - DUKE ELLINGTON and his Orchestra.
B 07609 R
DANCE DATE with TONY PASTOR
B 07610 R "TRIBUTES IN TEMPO"
MODERNAIRES
- THE
B 07613 R
"AN EVENING WITH LIBERACE"
B 07619 R
SWEET
DREAMS"
LIBERACE & his Piano.
NORMAN LUBOFF CHOIR.
PHILIPS
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
Artie-
"How clever of you, Cedric
you count the notes jun like a real bank official!"
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A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT BY MILTON SHULMAN
H
THE BEST GUIDE FOR GOLD-DIGGERS
got discouraged and just when you are getting ready to smash It, something comes out that is a masterpiece."
ER name was Lorelei balance. Her Httle heart did and her business was not simply beat; it rang like a men. She
the cash register. was heroine of a book called
Her philosophy was remark- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ably uncluttered: "Kissing Blondes first appeared, its that delighted the twenties your hand may make you feel and dropped a catch-phrase very, very good but a dlamed into the language.
bracelet lasts for ever."
She was the prototype of the | gold-digger with nothing on her mind but peroxide and a bank-
A British Crossword Puzzle
15
3
18
10
19
20 21
B 21024 H
23
Without My Lover"
Jo Stafford.
25
26
B 21031 M
27
"Somebody Stole My Cal
johnnie Ray.
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29
B21047 H
ACROSS
When the Red, Red Robin"
Doris Day.
1 Manly (0).
6 Soflens (5).
B Praise (6).
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'Ramblin' Man" Frankie Laine
"Little Red Monkey"
Rose Mary Clooney
and a host of others.
B 21022 H
Tell Me a Story"
Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd
B 21067 H
"Tell Us Where the Good Times Are"
Mindy Carson & Guy Mitchell
B 21027 H
"Until To-Morrow" --
Sammy Kaye Orchestra.
B 21038 H
"You Have My Sympathy"
Doris Day.
B 21056 H
78 rpm
AVAILABLE AT ALL THE LEADING RECORD DEALERS IN KOWLOON AND HONGKONG
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"GO IN AND
WATCH TV ——— FROM NOW ON
I'M GOING TO DO
THE DISHES ./*
DELUSION PAR-EXCELLENCE-AND ONE LESS |LIKELY TO OCCUR THAN A TRIP TO THE MOON.
"YOU SHOULD TAKE
MORE HUNTING
TRIPS THIS YEAR-
THEY'RE GOOD
FOR YOU!
STRICTLY A PIPE-DREAM
"UMMM, BOY/
I FEEL LIKE A
MILLION
BUCKS /
"THE MORNING APTER
THE NIGHT BEFORE. A REALLY DIZZY
DELUSION.
Aceldent (8).
10 Tend (5).
11 Strongly constructed ̧(5).
12 Not working (4).
13 Concise (0).
18 Remove from office (0).
18 Merchant (0).
| 20 Guide (5).
22 Transparent substance (4).
23 Fish (5).
25 Join (5).
20 Ropo (0).
37 Go in (0),
28 Burdens (5).
29 Slopes (6).
22
DOWN
1 Blood-suckers (8).
2 Determined (8).
4 Lald bare (7).
3 Meadows (4).
6 Prefect (7).
#!
Dodges (8).
7 Jobs of work (5),
14 Family member (8).
Staled little
About to be re-issued In a cheap edition (Milestone, 25.), this handbook on how to get rich though beautiful has staled it was surprisingly little since first published 27 years ago.
-
Since Gentlemen Prefer'
PARADE
to be
DÜLL Sardinia used TIME the home of briar pipes and pistols. It WAR A
hard-drinking, rough,
hard- shooting Island, of fouding familles.
But things are changing.
Last year, there were only 47 killings there. Back - 'In 1946, thero were 98. And, according
author, Miss Antia Loos, has to Italian police records, the made almost £450,000 out of it. Which shows what you can do If you are a brunette, It has recently been converted into # successful musical comedy, and a new film has just been based on it,
i unshaven sharpshooters staged only 635 holdups during the your-against 800 seven years
But a girl modelling herself on Lorelef these days should be warned of a fow shifts in the times. There would not, for be much example,
point in restricting herself to the Eng lish aristocracy.
"When I left Little Rock," They muy Lorelei explains, "I thought that all of the gentlemen did not want 10 do anything but protect we girls and by the time
Ro.
There were only eight de- mands for "protection. money" and five kidnappings during the year. In 1940, the totals were 38 and 26.
of
The police are jubilant. But Sardinia has a population only a million.
Into En Alo- xandria
court
LIKED
bounced Buitry MEN
dark-eyed Nalma Abdel Meguld. She explained that she liked men.
The court didn't dispute the fact. In four months, she has run through four husbands- without bothering
got divorced in between. Husband number four caught on to the
called the pallet,
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Working conditions may have
Lorelei's most lucrative con- altered
the somewhat, but
tacts in London had names like techniques are fundamentally Sir Francia Beckman and Lord the same. His important for Cooksleigh, whom she affec
called Pigkic any young girl contemplating a tionately
and career as a blonde to get din Lorejel would be best adviced
Coocoo
contemporary illusioned early.
to concentrate on business men. not have coronets, but they have expense necounts.
But on even greater donger
girls like Lorelei is for chance they face of being in-
Activities Committee,
SHE
The
the
Her secrets
men.
Away back in the twenties R
PARTY Laundress GIRL
15 Teaches (B).
10 Dims (7).
17 Instruments
(7).
for
pounding
2) Dance (8).
19 Reposed (8),
24 Nobleman (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.---Across; 3 Asks, 7 Shirt, 8 Hoed, 9 Urge, 10 Adipose, 12 Doit, 15 Amend, 18 Arid, 19 ideal, 21 Valet, 22 Aver, 23 Bires, 26 Dose, 20 Despair, 30 Gula, 31 Brig, 32 Strap, 33 Spry. Down: 1 Chide, 2 Prepare, 4 Siren, 5 Shed, Deal, 9 Used, 11 Omits, 13 Over, 14 Tall, 16 Dives, 17 Avid, 18 Alps, 20 Despots, 22 Area, 24 Idler, 25 Divan, 27 Ogre, 28 Eggs.
New Year Delusions
"OH? NO-NO-NO, SIR? THERE ARE SEVERAL GOOD TABLES —NO TIPS NECESSARY /*
ސ
SINCE IT IS ALL A DELUSION WE MAY AS WELL. START WITH
NEW YEAR!
12-27
COFL, 32 MORAL PRATURGE COMP, TLAWORLD MISHTË ZYTONIO.
I'M NOT GOING TO BE LATE FOR
SCHOOL
THIS YEAR /
MORE OATMEAL DEAR? YOU
HAVE PLENTY OF
TIME.
I found out that they did not vestigated by the un-Amerlepway of further explana-
want to protect us so much. It was too late.”
As you can see, Lorelei was n gl, who concentrated on the essentials.
and Her spelling her grammar may have been seems no one eared about giving erratic, but she could estimate away the secrets of their coun- the number of carats in a try so long as it was in a good
the square-cut diamond with
caure. And what cause speed of a calculating machine.
be better than Lorelei?
Result of fate
were
Lorelei soon discovered that ull men whether they button manufacturers or dis- at attorneys or English peers reacted the some way on meet. ing her. They began king to look at moonlight "quite a lot, could
could
She unblushingly reports that she was told vital secrets about prospective American purchases And of aeroplanes in Europe. she passed these on to Major Falcon-an Englishman!
זיי
think I will tell Major Falcon all about the acroplane business as he really wants to not sleep a wink. and know," she writes, "I mean wanted
to educate her. **Major Falcon is always thought a thing like that was gentleman and he really wants nearly
result always the
to do quite a lot for us in Lon- fate, she told each of them.
don. I mean he knows all the sights in London including the Prince of Wales,"
of
Under the spell of her shrewd naivety and calculated in nocence, most of them yielded a profit According to her best friend Dorothy. Loreler's brains were 'a miracle.
"I mean she said my brains reminded her of A radio," Lurelet suld, "because you listen to it for days and days, and you
BY
By
tion, Naima added; "Changing husbonda is so exciting. I like excitement almost as well
03
Marie Georgeton cf Paris is a party girl. She likes the house full of handsome, And *trapping men in uniform. that is why Marie is in gaol.
Despairing of keeping her house full of the right kind of men, she called out the police. But they didn't impress her much. They were just polite." So she called the fire brigade,
The judge sent her to prison for six weeks.
"Next But Marle is deflant. time I'll call the Republican Guard," she announced.
ONE BOTTLE MAN famous
Rayo the Fakir (in ilfe, 46-year-old al
Rudolf Schmied) is probably the most one-bottle mart in
He recently completed a year
With these few reservations, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes can Europe. be recommended to any enter- prising young lady. In spite of inilation and the Welfare State, in a bottle. blondes remaln £ universal currency whose market value is unlikely to depreciate.
HARRY
WEINERT
"I THINK WE SHOULD
ECONOMIZE THIS YEAR — ́WE CAN START BY
SKIPPING "THE FUR COAT I HAD MY EYE, ON /*
THIS ONE IS AS FARFETCHED AS A PET PENGUIN FROM THE SOUTH POLE ==
'WE'VE DECIDED "TO
DOUBLE YOUR SALARY...... RETROACTIVE FROM.......
*TC.*
SUPER DELUSION.
"LISTEN TO. THIS—A HOUSE
WITH THREE, BATHS, "TWO-CAR GARAGE,
WHAT
YEAR
OIL HEAT-FIVE.
WAS
(HUNDRED DOWN,
"THAT
"THIRTY-TWO
A MONTH
PIC.
A JIM-DANDY IDEA-
IF IT WORKS
NOT A DELUSION-JUST NEWS
Just before Christmas 1952, ho had himself scaled In a seven-foot clear-glass bottle, Food and drink was passed in
and the neck through
ho exercised himself by "running
the spot."
on
The year was spent in travel- lng from carnival to carnival where Rudy charged the ad miring public a suitable fee for looking at him.
was 4
Out the other day, he at nounced modestly: "It profitable experience."
!! B
REAL The Lisbon wedding ban- MAN
quet was warming up... Just for fun, the bride grabbed brandy bottle. The bridegroom, worried about the Poraiguese sense of propriety, slapped her wrist.
The bride's sister slapped him back. Whereupon the best man took a swing at the bride'á father.
When polico arrived,
100
guests were busy slugging it out. The bridegroom, went off to gaol.
Was the bride upset? Not a blt. "My husband is a real man," she said, proudly surveying the room full of fallen.
NEIGHBOURS' For 20 years, policeman GOSSIP
Jean-Marie Leport escorted handcuffed prisoners to the dock.
And, all the time, his neigh- bours at Coutance, France, continued to gossip. Ten years ago, his wife
was found dead under a pile of fallen logs.
But the neighbours never be- lieved that the logs killed her. So recently police dug up her body and doctors reported that Madame Leport had been killed' by a sharp Instrument.
Jean-Marie was led Into the dods-to face a murder charge,
DEAD, BUT
HEART WAS BEATING
Remarkable evidence tras given at a re- cent
Peter
borough quest on a 41-year-old Latvian, Ölto Araitz Ankups, who was said to have been "legally dead" 24 hours before his heard slopped beating.
The man's hand was injured in • machine be operated at a local plastics factory and be wa admitted to Peterborough Horpi» tal. When his heart, stopped beating, the doctors got it work-
ing masin' by direct massage. His
breathing restarted and” chiese,» alaw of life were maistatomą dor) nearly 24 hours
The coroner.
though or Ankupa Fur Hal reserted the man
nothing moon), than. (Mic)
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