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ALICE

A smile in the headfines

"Well, if a Princess can go down a pl 1 can bring up some coal }"

PARADE

WOULD'VE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1964.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT] PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Members of structions for its disposal to a HAD A WORD the Manches secret buyer.

for Luncheon He said: "I we can only FOR

Club

have mess the desirability of Mr MARILYN

boon toid Moore's work by comparing it br no

than with the torso of Miss Marilyn lesser authority art critic Eric Newton, Monroe, we are reducing the who spoke to them on "What is assessment of beauty to a sort the good of art?" that screen

on of mathematical equation, actress Miss Marilyn Monroe would have been a hit in ancient

Greece.

Mr Newton dwell on the receni City Council debate which resulted in the Corporation declining to buy sculpture Henry Moore's "The Draped Torso" for £700, which now slays in the city Art Gallery awaiting in-

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But the Italian Government Military police keep a sharp doesn't want them either. To eye on these places and cameras get over the difficulty, they will are strictly forbidden. it is be loaned to a charity which illegal to publish such pictures will exhibit them and turn tha in Sweden. proceeds over to a worthy cause, But the government won't ban Most of them are impressions the guide book. There's just no of Vienne. One is a scene from point now. the battle of Stalingrad,

Existentialists "couldn't -

care

-

- agers

A CAREER GIRL JOINED THE COURT OF KING LOUIS

Madame de Pompadour. By Hamish Nancy Mitford. Hamilton. 15s. 275 pages. THE daughter of Mme. almost Poisson had

T

BOOKS

by GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON

stated them. exasperated

Ho had

feeling

could never do right,

tho

that bo

Nancy Mitford paints, with no excessive display of learning, an entertaining, too senumental hard-headed portrait of this French career-girl. Mme. de Pompadour was a suitable lead- er of a heartless, irresponsible, doomed society.

"I believe quite honestly that when a City Council, which is

KEEP Egyptian

teen dedicated to usefulness, begins to argue with a aub-committeo BEYOND

(the OUT

(under 10)

In will

all the gifts that dedicated to aesthetics

the A JOKE

future be banned from matter of the choice or otherwise

leas" followers of cinemas and theatres and other make a perfect mistress to of a work of art, they forget French philosopher Jean Paul places of amusement" if a new set before a king-looks, in- their terms of reference."

Sartre)

the run in daw is approved by the Revodu- telligence, financial backing.

Courall. Polating out that it had been Greece. By order of the police tionary

Approval

When a huge statue of Louis Bald

the council debate that

XV was dragged through the local movement called the would mean fines of up to £500 When she was nine, a

its allotted Paris Marilyn

streets to Monroe

first offence would have "Flying Hut" is to be banned, for

and £1,000 fortune

she teller said "gol_the_bird” in ancient Greece,

place it stuck opposite the If that doesn't Said one police officer:

for the second. "At

tho jeering Mr Newton remarked: "1

La Pompadour patronised the Pompadour g very

first we thought

the Existen keep the teen-agas quiet, there would reign over a king'a

the Intel- much doubt that. think she

will be another law handing the heart. From that moment arts and protected

populace did not fail to see the tialist business was only a joke, punishment on to their parents. Jeanne would have beca a great success,

Poisson did not lectuals from the worst excesses joke. By the time she died, In Even financially, art is valuable.

with young people dressing up

doubt in which direction of clerical zeal. Her doctor was the odour of sanctity and sur- the A picture of Venus by Titlan

a distinguished deist and free rounded by objets d'art, destiny called her.

Sho coats

improved

already, the jokes in Faris wore, trader. mote even than Monroe herself, I imagine."

quality of royal entertainments growing less good-natured. and introduced a craze tor amateur theatricals. One gentle. Sinful preacher man who sang churralugly was

of a province. rewarded with the governorship

NOT

Miss

Are

The Russians GOOD

getting worried about Their womenfolk. No ENOUGH

because they are too glamorous or because they are adopting Irivolous Western idens Buch as dancing and falling in love, but because the average Soviet woman is not pulling her weight,

The Suviels reveal that out of 1,339 members of the All-Union Supreme Soviet, 200 are women and that huif & million women

arve un Ishow too

women

that the

A1

*

In funny way and holding mad We found, however, Parties.

that

the parties were nothing THE LAW'S but sex ongles under the pretext THE LAW

of dancing."

men

take it

the Discovering this

police seriousness. rounding up the started

They sald Existentialista. was on cosy matier, The girls wore chains on their ankles and the nien ties made out of twisted newspapers.

hus

•

•

In Paris, the kaw la the law--

came across a crate of broken

She was

Parisian A

about

She incurred the hatred of the plous Dauphin (Louis's

eldest

bour and the police-goolse, probably legitimate. One

with dead-pan could make cruel Jokes

her surname--Poisson ("fish"); Moreover, a drunk is a drunk fit counted for little against the be he man or dog.

fact that bez mother a dearest friend was an eminent financier, So a shaggy mongrel pup who while a distant cousin belonged

to that powerful hereditary san) who crossed himself every bottles and happily lapped up

ne he passed a theatro. the cententa

found himselt in caste, the royal body servants,

the greatest beneft she can- the cells last week-booked on

Intelligent enough to please ferrod on France was to estab- ☐ drunk charge.

herish the Sevres china factory. Voltaire, Jeanne disguised Police let him go when he ability enough to catch the eyo who was cosity up. Tolerance, after of Louis XV, sobered all, is a French tradition.... put off by State business

serious conversation.

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the Italian

was

GO TELL

THE IT ON MOUNTAIN. By James Baldwin. Michael" Josaph. 12a. 6d. 256 pages.

But

Α

A

There was only one flow. Mme. de Pompadour ur

woman of trigid disposition.

Everything a joke

Realising the dangers of this become weakness, should in

fought known to Lula, abe against it with a diet of vanilla,

and trues

celery. More wisely, her doctor advised her to take moro exercise.

Belgium WHISKY TO All

15 buzzing over the SWIM IN?

the mystery of shipions) of whisky.

The American steamer Oriole the other day local Councils. They arrived in port

Louts had been married to the education of With 30,000 barrels of whisky-- BULL IN

of all American women in Russia is advancing But nobody knows what it's for.

rye and bourbon. HER ROOM

town of Varese daughter of exiled King Stants- lag of Poland, Stanislas said rapidly with over A

million Belgium

recently, neigh-his wife and his daughter were women teachers in the primary el

semi-prohibition bours SW a young girl in a

two dullest queens schools

with and

spirits in clubs nightdress lowering 0,000 (you can buy over

herseit to the stores, but not In un and grocery

the ground nists engaged the bur

from her bedroom Europe: "One yawns like at wernan scientists

Mase." But Louds had given bars), and anyhow, no window on a rope Red laboratories. research

of knotted early, prompt and striking proof would Belgian

be caught dead sheets. Renging its reporting eyes over

Rushing to investigate

of his affection; 10 children by the neighbours asked what was the time Louis was 27. Hussu's vast territory with its drinking rye and bourbon, 200 million indubilants, Moscow

Thirty

thousand barrels is the matter. She replied quite udio says that

There's a bull in my women's enough to a swimming pool, calmly; the

Thus handicapped, the Pom- room!" record is Kood but not

cynical dockers

padour strove gamely with wit suggested good and

and charm to hold enough: **Hussien men cannot that that was what the Ameri

And there was too. It had

supremacy in the most frivolous be expected to bear the burden cans intended to do with it. The

the stairs and

court in Europe, where every- of public service alone."

suplain of the Oriolo,

Peter climbed

As the years wore on, the thing was a joke, nothing was Franzen, only laughed and said: stuck its head out of the window

lo sec what "Maybe it's a secret weapon we

was happening. } queen grow more plous. so amusing as a military defeat

saints days intend to launch behind the Iron Reassured that no one was hurt major

she denied for France, and only love affairs Curtain."

It came down agnin,

were taken seriously. her company to her husband.

To Louis it seemed that there were more saints every year.

HOT

PICTURES

Nobody wants WBILT- twenty colours painted

by Adolph Hitler.

Hitler

considered them до

| valuable that, when the Allied armles were closing in on him, he had them flown by special plane to the Italian Tyrol.

Recently, when Chancellor

Meanwhile, a second ship, the American Robin, is on its way with an identical cargo.

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POLLY'S ORDERS

NEW INSIGHT

Germany's appeared

was bookstalls and

011

а

Adenauer

now

Learned walking

On

4

har

the

вот of

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S becomes A Negro clergyman, himself s preacher

14, at the age of Baldwin brings wild echoes Old from revival hymns and Testament diction to his

of the Negro boy John Grimon his troubled adolescence, his dia- his salvation covery of sin, before the acarlet Alter with the golden cross and the legend, "Jesus Baves," in the Temple of the Fire Baptised, Harlem.

Yet the most imposing figuro in the book is neither John nor Roy, his half-brother (coming to a bad end), but his stepfother, a violent, sinful, Gabriel, preaching, self-righteous Negro, with the Lord's for ever busy work at the Temple; too free with the buckle-end of his belt

at home.

This Negro Elmer Gantry, in his weakness and strength, fear, Just and hypocrisy, fill the foreground of a grim poetic

the

#!

world of

"I allow you every latitudo," story. In the background is the sald courtier to his wife, hostile allen "except footmen and Princes of whites. the Blood"

To amuse Louis was not easy.

"Gentlemen," said a famous American novelist, "It behoves

world is most part of the articulately saying about us A alight injection or knowledge may hurt our feelings, but it may save our lives

Arrested in Seville, Spain, for dangerous Too independent-minded for driving, Migue 1 bigotry, Jeanne Poisson was just Ramirez found himself on the friend for poor bored Louls. A Moscow charge of being under the in- Soon sho Wig Marquise de He knew he was hated. Increas us to find out what this coloured edited guide book fluence of drink. How else, Pompadour, with delicious ingly immersed in sordid to Sweden has said the police, could be ex-houses, regiments of servants, a debauchery, he had neither

the

Stockholm plain the fact that he entered a Blat in Versailles with a private the energy nor the will to re Swedes

are one-way street from the wrong stale.

form the absolute monarchy; his visiting Italy's Premier Scelba, leaming Icw

things about end, drove along the pavement

only hope was that it would the Italians esked him if he themselves they пеуст knew and straight into a lamp-post. Sho learned the special last his time. wanted them

back. They before.

language, walk and preposterous pointed out they were technically For instance, there is a big Ramirez explained It quite etiquette of the court. As her German property.

clear picture of Stockholm naval simply. He

had sald he

a mold she had an impoverished Adenauer refused quickly. base and

string of pictures of parrot sitting next to him on the noblewoman who sat next door "They would only

cause the strategic harbours along the sont, and he Just followed with her ear to a funnel, taking trouble," he explained.

Swedish coast.

instructions!

down all the king said,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

T

BILL WILL BE DELIGHTED TO

WHEN YOU'RE

ALL SET TO CATCH A TRAIN IS THE TIME. THE STOCKING

DEVELOPS A RUN,

TAKE CHARGE OF

A BOOTH/"

There's Nothing You Can Do About It

THANK YOU—

I WAS AFRAID HE WAS LOST,/

"ER-THINK NOTHING

OF IT/

Horrified by the sight of poverty in Paris, he dismissed 80 gardeners. When it WRS pointed out that they and their families would starve, he rein-

BY HARRY

WEINERT

BUSTER, COMES HOME PRACY CALLY SCALPED - WHILE DAD IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A BARBER. WHO CAN CUT HIS HAIR "THICK ON TOP.

Highly articulate, "Go Tell it on the Mountain" hurts no feci- inga; opens a window on strange lives.

A pen in cocoa

UNDER MILK WOOD, By Dylan Thomas. Dent, Bs. 63. 101 pages.

DANGEROUSLY polsed

by

on

the edge of whimsy, saved frollerome humour and touches of lyrical beauty, Dylan Thomas's radio play paints the portrait of a Welsti village and its people:

House-proud Mra Ogmore.. Pritchard (widow, twice);

Polly Garter, well-named; Organ Morgan, whose hero is Bach, whose wife le martyr to music

Mr Pugh who wears his | moustache in memory of Dr Crippen and studies Lives of the Great Poisoners

The Reverend Eli Jenkins, poot and preacher, finding rhyme and, dipping his pen in the cocoa; and countless others, save and bawdy.

This fairy tale village of Lisergyb with its population of gnomes, is Thomas's most popu Jar creation; it is, unfortunately, his last.

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WHEN THE LADIES AUXILIARY THROWS A SHINDIG

THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT

DOING SOMETHING

'WHILE YOU'RE ON YOUR

FEET WILL YOU

FETCH ME A

GLASS OF

WATER 7

WHEN A MAN ACTS LIKE A

KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR

HIS SPOUSE TAKES A DIM.

VIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

IT ISNY GAFE TO GET ON YOUR. FERT AROUND SOME PEOPLE,

SOME THINGS— SUCH SCOOT AWAY UNDERZ POWER — BUT HE US

BRING:20M

鮮

MIN.

WHERE DID

YOU GET TRAT

“ER- ́SCUSE ME A

I THOUGHT YOU

WERE SOMEONE

I KNEW/

"YOU GAVE IT TO ME.

• BARBS

A

BY HAL COCHRAN

girl in America married, a policeman who had once at- rested her for speeding. A life sentencet

Some women who don't tell their age also don't act it.

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•

Some

hate for women look better off the face--- otherm off the head,

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•

Rubber bathing suits continus | in ̈popularity--maybe because “ is so nice to stretch out on the beach.

· It's a wise kernel of that knows its own pop! -

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The average man likes eling. ing gowns, says a stylist, 12 berg. married, he prefers those that aling for years."

Lots of people are deep in debt because they, spend their' frianda think),

A stylish. PAYS

skornas "their" mentirsi my colle

{TAILS] SOMA girls are about

According to a pol

{most" politicians are: 15 'need some affictiva