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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1954.
Jolly Jack Climbs Beanstalk DARADE
And Slays No Giant
NCE upon
there boy Boynton Priestley.
a
Was น
called
A British Crossword Puzzle
10
By Nancy Spain
(and various plays) he reached
success.
He
on
angry,
Monroe. It charmed me
Suint
Germans are
chosen. been MARILYN The art of British havo
inrianco, WRE VERSUS
sculptor Henry Apollonia, for Moore is debat tortured and burnt at the atako MOORE
able subject. Bome in the middle of the third cen consider his works above price; tury for confessing her others assert that Junior, let Christian mith. Before she died
around his home with all her teeth wore extracted. time three times, he went to not take the trouble to read. looso
to In 10 years everybody instead hammer and chisel, could pro-
NOBODY little Cambridge, he wanted
Last week, Manchester City CALLED glad to forget n Social-being half-witted will have duce something better. Jack be a writer and
become quarter-witted."
Council decided by a close vote ADOLF NOW
Hliler when t irt.
Well, this may well be true if (48-40) that they didn't
want
comes to, wor con- anything of Henry Moore--at crimes or any review of recent. To begin with,
Mr our best-selling novelists saya
history. the shape of
So much BO that, Jolly Jack Priestley was Priestley, he wrote for fun tinue to serve up this kind of least not in
female torso whereas once Adolf was one of crypto-phito- bronzed draped a schoolmaster's son, born
costing £750. And that some, the most popular names in Ger- in 1894, and he lived in rather than for money. But childish
after he had written a highly sophie fantary.
apparently, preferred Marilyn many, brave are the parents Bradford. Ho married
who christen their child · Adolf successful modern fairy story
The 98-inches high bronze, today. called "The Good Companiong"
they thought, gained nothing by Other names now fallen into its hollowness, leglessness and disuse are Siegfried and Brun- even hilde. In fact, the whole string the top of the beanstalk of Bur cheer up! There is endless grace that was
of Germanic this week BLESS THIS suggest a grace lost.
names popular is now almost Councilior Henry Stockdale under the Nazis HOUSE (Michael Joseph, 125. WOR able to buy
Instead the enormous estate in the Isle of td.), by Miss Norah Lofts. This had the courage to say outright verboten today.
thing of latest generation of Germans is Wight and a bull that cost £997 is a completely absorbing, un-it was not exactly
being christened after a galaxy pretentious story about a great beauty. And he stopped being a Elizabethan manor.
The torso, however, had Its of film stars. 10%
of a Rita After the showing Socialist.
champion. But he doctrinaire
Cried
Counciller It was bullt "in the shape of
Walter
1 in Hayworth
Frankfurt and went
writing books
an E to please her Majesty by Binns: "I know some critics are recently the Registrar's offico plays.
a bold, piratical fellow, name readers of the more profusely was besieged by parents deter- of Rowhedge.
follow illustrated papers and see mined to name their daughters
Monroe Rita. Now there is an Marilyn years to pletures Its history down the the 20th century when it be- But the Moore torso is a work later trend. Hundreds of babies comes a much-haunted country of art."
Relorted portly
Alderman club.
Edward Phenay: "Is he suggest ing that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?"
Regrettably, as other Council- lors thought, Mr Blans did not commit himself on this subject. He did, however, succeed in Sir Charles is a managing fore the 20th century, when a sponsoring the torso's debatable young Rita Marilyn Jane Hitler!
middle charms to the extent that It whose company, nice American
it for was decided that the Council's kicking around on the loose. He name is Rowhedge, buy in it Art Committee should at next HOUSEWIVES' nicets bad Lord Mervil, who £5,000 and settles
a month's meeting submit re- CHOICE obvious happily with
they bronze should
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HONGKONG
KOWLOON
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE HUSBAND WHO IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DUST AND WHEN HE FINDS IT INSTEAD OF
WIPING IT UP GOES AROUND WITH AN INJURED AIR.
ZZ
THE WIFE WHO SPENDS HER EVENINGS LISTENING TO A SYMPHONY OF RESPIRATORY
ERUPTIONS,
on
Childish fantasy
His week bis new play, "The
White Countess,"
has not been cheered in Dublin.
And
In
And we
Cromwellion Umes its hls new, THE MAGICIANS woman owner is a proven witch,
12. 04.), ta
MISS {lichemann,
no in the same century a matter for cheering either.
Whymark from the village buys It for £115. Oh, yes, plenty
It is all about a disappointed goes on up at the old house be-
man. director without A
matri-
ΟΙ
tries to employ Sir Charles, Fo montal designs on another Miss port explaining just why
In addition to being a news- paper proprietor and a mil- Whymark from the village, Oh, ilonaire, Lord M. plans to mar- yes. This book is a charmer, all ket a wonder drug called right. And it charmed me right "Sepman 18," which will pro- away from "What's My Line?" duce rose-coloured dreams.
So far, just about as good as the worst of the works of the Inte John Buchan, But now Perperek, Wayland, and Marot,
wholly
unconvincing three magicions, enter the story.
lo
Miss Toy's last
think the bought.
A SAINT FOR YOUR TEETH
even
I
are being christened Marllyn, As German parents still like to give their children four or more first name, this allows them considerable scape.
Also it is not so
COBY 10
change surnames, and it would not be surprising to find in the topsy-turvy Germany of today u
•
Kippers, juicy and rus gel-
the
be coloured, have for decades firmly held second place to bacon and eggs as an Englishman's traḍa- tional breakfast. Tons of thousands of Italians have Then, after the
wor, the Just been filling kipper lost some of its friends. their
churches No longer was the kipper eured to pray for their teeth. The in the smoke of oak chips, and occasion: the Feast of St. it lost some of its colour as Apollonia, patron saint of den- brownish dye seeped onto 100 did MISS FYM DIS.
(Peter Davies, 98. lists and toothache sufferem. plate. (d), a picasant tale of murder, Many Italians with perfectly jealousy, and revenge in the sound teeth lit candles for St. Just now, the housewife, who Apollonia in the belief that by previously termed the kipper a doing so their teeth would stay worthy stand-by, is deserting it
for other breakfast foods. that way.
Altogether, the Italian calen- And the kipper and herring dar is full of similar feast days trades are worried. for Saints whose duties are un- Convicts familjar elsewhere. appeal to Barbara on Decem-
POSES
They can make Sir Charles go hot house atmosphere of
and fro in time, reliving ladles' physical training college, incredibly boring scenes from by the late Miss Josephine Tey, his disenchanting life. And they who died in 1882 in her 40's.
so beastly to bad Lord Her zeal name was Mervil that he falls screaming MacKintosh,
ure
to the floor. But all Lord M can do in retaliation is to launch * **smear
Charles.
And that, bellove
Elizabeth
Under her other pen name of
ΟΠΙ campaign" Sir Garden Daviot she made thea- trical history in the 30's with the famous period play "Richard it or not, of Bordeaux." Her works con- Is all. After a lot of excessive- sist of six first-rate detective ly tedious chat the magicians stories, several volumes of disappear, Sepman 18 is not plays, and an historical novel.
We shall never be able to find “After a few years,” remarka a new Josephine Tey title in Mr Priestley elsewhere in the library, But meanwhile wo❘ solemn warning to Us all, have this one, for which I am "the younger gencration will truly thankful,
marketed.
Unsung Heroines
STEPPING OUT THE FASHION PLATE WHO TAKES HIS TIME GETTING DRESSED WHILE HIS SPOUSE IS DOING THE DISHES - GIVES HER TEN MINUTES, AND THEN
́DO YOU REALIZE
WHAT TIME
IT IS ?
"IT'S ALL IN THE SEASONING
SOME DAY I'LLAN SHOW YOU HOW. "TO MAKE A REAL
GOULASH Z
COM, (194 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORE, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
SORRY, DEAR- I'LL BE MORE CAREFUL wa maan
St.
ber 4 to help them mend their ing methods
tastier dish.
ways or oven get out of prison. Drunks have their protector in
STARLITO
Their experts are investigat- of producing a
As a start, they suggest that
kilno should be nited St Pupa, while skaters, both leg ouring and roller, bellove they are pro with anoke metres to tected by candles to St Lkiwina, that every kipper gets its fir Even the animals are not share of smoke. And they are neglected.
with different Dogs have their experimenting (Saint) Day on August 16, while types of wood chips to see St Dominick watches over ser- whether their smoke will give pents.
the same flavour as that of the What is more, there is usually traditional oak--now acarce. a good reason why the Saints
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
"THE WRONG ACE-
BLAH- BLAH..
THE HEROINE WHO PUTS UP WITH THIS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT—– AND WHAT'S EVEN MORE HEROIC, NEVER SLIPS, HER SHOES OFF ALL EVENING.
“GOSH – DIDNY
YOU IRON MY
GREEN SHIRT ?
I'VE GOTON GREEN SOCKS-I CANT
WEAR- ETC.
DOMESTIC HARMONY.
"NOTICE ANYTHING ?"
"YEAH??
·IT STOPPED) SNOWING?
One fact the trade has dis- covered.
The British housewife, with more housekeeping money than ever before and more variety in the shops than for many years, will no longer accept second best.
LOST IN THE POST 58 YEARS
A magazine posted the chairman
to
of a parish council on November 11, 1895 das just been recived Churchdown, Glotsodibersizine, Parish Council ́al a recent moet- Ing was shown the magánke, The County Council Times, by a member of the Counell, the Rev. F. Cherrington, at whose home it had eventually, been delivered.
Addressed to the chairman of the parish council, the wrapper bore
orange halfpenny Victorian stang
franked 10 London in 1895, The packago bad
at apparently arrived Gloucester on February 14, 1954, but there were no indications to throw where it had been during the 58
years since it was posted. The magazine, printed by Od-/ hams Press on November 8, 1805
in
perfect
condition.
The Gloucester post
post office is urable
to throw any
Tishat on the matter. The package had been postmarked on the op-
posite side from the stamp, the age of which was opparéckly unnoticet.
BACK TO THE German FATHERLAND soldiers who joined the French Foreign Legion at the and of the war rather than BUT- render to the Allies are now deserting the Legion and slip- ping back to the Fatherland.
The latest batch of deserters was discovered by the Cypris police when a German freighter called at the Cyprian port of Famagusta few days ago. On board were two German stow- aways who had given thems→ selver up two days out from the Foreign Legion base of Algiers.
Bald the skipper: "This is the | 6fth time I have found Germers Legionnaires slowing" sway, on my ship and other ships have. had similar experiemo
.... The two słoway
| anda: Private
that they had "Sofrie
to avoid-stirianda 'Kwold
this Corporal
"THE GAL WHO LISTENS TO. HUBBY'S OLI JOKES OVER. AND OVER AGAIN AND LA WAS THOUGH THEY WERE FRESH FELL
JOKE WORKS.
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