POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER;
"This'li make you laugh – all my wives are on hunger
strike!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1954.
NANCY SPAIN CRIES-
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How Improper, Daphne!
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ro doubt you have heard and great great - grand - of Miss Daphne du daughter .of notorious Maurier. She is the Mr Mary Anne Clarke, 47-year-old wife of Sir friend of that Duke of York Frederick "Boy" Browning who lent his name to the (Prince Phillp's Treasurer), steps, the nursery rhyme,
daughter and the barracks.
mother of three,
of matinee lol Sir Gerald du Maurier. granddaughter of the creator of Svengali,
A British Crossword Puzzle
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Here
she introduces
or
comes a sergeant,
Now in books like theso always look for a message,
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
The Parizska
Tridn mother and OF NAME
ITALIAN A sobbing, white- dogged police inspector heard of CHANGE
haired Italian the REUNION
case-and mother last week daughter.were reunited. throw her arms around the daughter she was once founi la guilty of murdering!
was never
the first page
of a young Austrian officer
**Erwin Ger- her new historical novel MARY Hitler's Army,
munovitch." Erwin, afraid to be
The story dates back to 1935 ANNE (Gollancz, 108, 8d.).
her taken prisoner by the Russians, in the small town of Soriano de! heroine great-great-granny pro
pretends to be Russian. He does Cimino, (North italy) when a Mary Anne Clarke, "Memory," it so well he is called up into
three-year-old giri, Angelu remarks Miss du Maurier, "like the Red Army, where he be Arriga, disappeared. The girl's
has amazing mother sudden haemorrhage, are
and grandfather were the mind." Now I think that adventures, even occupies Ber-accused of murdering her, and Miss du Maurier is some- phrase perfectly revolting, don't n
although the body found, the mother, after trying sensation in her you?
But worse thing of a
la le come. Fur
to commit suicide, served a two- own right too. Ever sinco
Daphne du Maurtor's Mary
And-a-half-year prison sentence her motor-car ran away
Anne nukes Kathleen Winsor's
and the grandfather died backwards
Prince Amber look down
Ilke a wholesome
the past 19 prison. Only ene man aturing Arthur Road, Hampstead, in hockey-playing prefect from
years believed the mother to be Innocent and the 1928 she has been hitting Roedean.
child to be alive-the local police the headlines with
Inspector, De Glorg), who never rhythmic romantic blows.
forgot the case. Her daddy even had a silver staliette of little Daphne on the front of his motor.
car.
I found no messago at all
Erwin in 1 Survived" tells me
n wish
"Raft of Despair." And although
10
that bis entire reason fox great, Commissions for sale tell the world the truth about
xistence became
They ray of Miss du Maurier Pat she shocking at spell- Tut her father told her ing." "Never trust
W1111 anyone brown eyem "
tut sometimes Masa Maurier says things too. "Writ-
A
Mary Aune is born in Bowl- ing fun-alley, by Fleet-56 eet
marries She determinedly wastre called Joseph. With four children to keep she decites And upon
of 1-fame. 4 life b stre ges
Rendenan ไป until she encounters Rentleman the Duke of York.
Once established.
pretty Denny
she turns
Communis.
stuns in the Army, unit all is dienvered Bud Ind bare before
long - suffering British
0
ing easier to
do than uther
the
S
professions,” she says
Or
love my lonchiness.“ Or "I 1 We
one else and had to read
OPES MEDIATO S
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hepatel (5)
8 Way out (4)
Discourteous 445,
10 Sunday (7).
12 Gone (4)
13 Get up 151,
18 Ashen 44)
19 Skilled (5).
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21 Banish (5).
22 Stack
23 Drugs th
26 Stuplet (47.
20 G between (7)
30 Grew all (4)
32 Vestiment 151.
31 Dundy (47.
33 Job of work (4).
SL
DOWN
Kae off (5). High navel rack
4 Divert (5).
Take nollee (4),
& Prevarkentor (4).
Thick (4).
11 Luulento (5).
13 Detas! (4)
14 Children (4)
10 Satisfied (5).
17 Bendinan (4).
Seeds (4)
20 Refr. frum (7)
22 Hastened (4).
24 Signs (5).
25 Quiel (6).
27 Airesh (4).
28 Tight (4).
(7).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.- Across: 1 Ostler, 7 Epic.
Miss
f'ublic.
Th stuff, it
14 malter
of hhtory. Indeed, Miss
scens.
Redevca" it would appal itu Mauciet originally had it in
mine to write biography."
"proper
But she couldn't. She lacked "pinl ansformatio" Justward, -hevrole highly Improper
Maurier tutes Lonton, Can U avok dimaks and time, supported the Oxford Group, and has settled £50,000 vel. en her children. This money was mude by writing.
Negative outlook
Most of her 1 books made
One HUWN. "Jamaica Tan") was even the case of a spirit licence being granted to a pub of the sutne name in Cornwall,
All her books do not have For such happy consequences,
a long time I have noticed with despondency and alarm a grow- of ing morbidity in the work Alle du Maurier.
1 frst noticed this in a pocin published
1046, which
w
begion --
Let us no longer mourn
happy dead
But mourn the living
As Mins du Mourler vells
the
A
miniraum ધર્માં 130,000 coples
9 Spout, 10 Saton. 11 Irks, 13 Importance, 15 Edge. 18 Loon, every time she puts pienes 10 19 Malcontent, 22 Stem. 24 Agent, 23 Vogue, 28 Plan, 27 Halted. | paper i suppuse this negative Down: 2 Stoop, 3 Later, 4 Baseul. 5 Reticent, & Pink. 8 Pared, | outlook must be reflected In 12 Scent, 13 pe 14 Chetament, 17 Omega, 1 Scotch, 20 Novel, | our minds. But don't believe 21 Eagle, 23 Tall
It is.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
I GUESS IT
DOESN'T LIKE THEIR NEW
PLACE?"
"OK, OK, SO YOU SAID
I SAID I WOULD TAKE
CARE OF THE
UTILITIES/"
GETTING OFF
-TO AN
AUSPICIOUS START.
WHAT SHALL WE DO? MOVE
AGAIN?"
INHERITING
THE RECENT TENANTS
CAT.
Horror.....
US is a zad week for litera- 1:120 For the only other new books are two of the type
known to the trude us True Life Adventure,
Life In the U.S.S.R. he never convinced me for 11 minute. These two books ieft a negative flour in ny mind as dank as the smell of a prison yard.
In actual fact,
ono
of
Prague's busiest streets, is to be renamed "The Stroot of Socialist Trade." Only shops selling goods "Tepresenting CHAMPION Thanks to tough the Socialist spirit" will be
DRINKER British y lo
ollowed. All shops of a purely training.
Klicht Maruyama, r. sturdy 30-year-old enterprise) will moved to a side
"local churneter (1.0.
farmer fium Yanni has just won Japan's Honourable Sake Speed streel. Drinking Race In 15 minutes
Irco
he swallowed a large bottle (ap- PHONEY A men who posed as proximately 11⁄2 gallons) of rice
CICE SAINT
wine and then, by high spirits, threw down an additional jugful been of mellow rice wine, finishing up with what was described as "an entertaindog belly dance."
Saint in order tu rob the pour_bas_Just arrested In Gragnano
(south Italy).
lo 1033, a priest living In Gragnano had a dream in which He St Mark appeared to him,
Maruyama-san's achievement appeared
so often that the
will be appreciated" the better when it is recorded that his priest began to believe that It no dream but a true runner-up, 2 stripling of 21, louk 13 minutes to Baish the course, went to Venice--to pray in the Troubled by this he Vision church of St Mark. TOVET
Upon his Gragnano villagers ran to griet him with the news thut Si Mark had, in fael,
Angela has Afterwards Maruyant - kan been alive all the time-living modestly attributed his specta |with gipsies who had kidnapped cular victory to tho unselfish
her while stic played in the coaching of British its du "appeared" (und was appearing Helds near her home.
Ite Recently the Occupations.
their bear drinking Angela applied to get married. Documents were
But what else can { expect In a week when that pretty
Miss Daphne anonlicist
du Mustrier goes wallowing in the gifters of Regency Rakishness? birthplace
watched technique
NIECESTUFF', anch observed IL faithfully, Enquiries were made about her studied And imitated.
Parents, The victory is the result,
SILENT
IN 5
MIERE
and
ROOSTERS YEARS IF
By MARGARET SHIPLEY
Cambridge. production (otherwise the strate would take longer to establish),
bypolbeticul bird
'T" is hope--albelt
hope sleader as a ban. tam's leg of undisturbed lumber at last for poultry- keepers and their neigh-
RAFT OF DESPAIR #hut- | bours, chiason, 104. Git.) Is by u Flomira
f
from Foreign
Lephon alled Easto Toba A year ago he and bis halend lesson jumped from a trap-hip into the Indian Ocean, enrrying with them a rubber raft. a hot-water bottle Alled with reef wine.
and a little plastly bag with straps collected from two days' meals.
Thay hoped to paddle 10 within a few hours. three weeks later, Titra was picked up, horribly empelated and ulcerated. Erica- son had been eaten by sharks.
Sumatra
Instead,
Savage
SURVIVED (Evans, 12s, ed.) qually savage. This one,
in
by Godfrey Lias, tells the tale
SHE HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET HIM TO TURN THE LIVING ROOM RUG FOR MONTHS.
Of
Moved to pity by the plight
Essex Kenlieman-who wrote recently of "loud-voiced cockerels who start up, not al dawo, but at 3 a.m. or earlier"
- set forth in search of the crowless cockerel.
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hatched crowless were normal in all other respects.
This the eugenies experts con- wer unlikely.
"My
A cock erows at any sukien bercass in Baht, not necessarily daylight. If he sees the moon i
Te he will groet it, even De-
Le midnight. Iar to
produce a crow ho must be able to sireten his neck. To prevent 1, shut him up at dusk ta a space about an inch lower thun his standing height the and he will be silent.
his ចង់ន head beautifully eflect,
“Ability 10 erow," Butch Dr D. G. Gilmour at the Cambridge Agricultural School, bins badge of masculinity.
"When he sticks
back chest, throws
u
produces
趨
امان
ptereing crow he is, raying he is a fine fellow raring
to mate.
by all the rules the silen cockerel would be a case
nu mate,***
•NJ crow,
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It ba't cruel, apreially if no Rght 13
4th! naturally
Jet
quels down to steep.
12 Bul in the
He can breeding min
Carn daylight.
uí
Injection of a
birch: 1: chemical-
Kulbestrol of hexsestrol.
used also
i am now able to report that at Cambridge agricultural
where search station,
freaks I began to feel the learned of bird-kind Nourish,
doctor's they
In- sympathies were clining would consider possible the pro-
to the side of the duction of a
Moduru strain
roysters.
sclence, of silent roosters within five years-
told him, should be able to du moi “hing better than this for the gentleman from Essex,
If tigr poultry-keeper can supply one such freak as initial
material.
if the crowing characteristic follows a certain rhythm of
Moving Situations
"-ER- DON'T YOU THINK I SHOULD GO OVER AND
HELP/EM ?^
"GOSH POP YOU'RE [STRONG://
"MORE
TO THE RIGHT, BUD.
"THAT'S IT
LADY WRAP 'EM GOOD/
"WHAT DID WE HAVE TO MOVE
FOR 7. I WAS
DOING
FINE
THE SUDDEN SURGE OF INTEREST IN THE NEW NEIGHBORS'ARRIVAL-
AFTER HE SPOTS
THE LADY
OF THE HOUSE.
COPR. 1114 BY GENERAL, FEATURES CORP. TILWORLD RIGHTS RESERYEA
SOME MOVING MEN HAVE IT DOWI
DA SITO A WORKČ OF ART.
STRANGE FEELING!
I FEEL. KIND OF HOME SICK
MYSELF.
Another method of slapping- down over-vociferous the
on
This method eannot be
breadding birds, as it silences the maling urge-110 erow, no maie.
regularly) in a cuve just outside the town.
The priest hurried to the cavo followed by his parishioners and There
sure enough, in the gloot was a gure in white. The #gure "spake" and suggest- ed that it was about iune some-
something About Gragnano a {CW
body building
church.
For all
Gregnanc
d
anyone knew, if the church werd Lig enough,
might become
ilke miracie [UWVI Lourdes. All that was needed wus money but, if the villagers woulu uring their money to and cave, he (St Mark) would bless
Fur months The vlilagers religiously took their money to the cave and leit it for Guessing. They would still be taking
the fact there were it not for Ghat " Bark" wok to wearing
atz
wr.st expensive
watch. Later, he admited to the police that the priest's "vision"
him the juca,
MAN
DOG
When
gave
a dug bites ITES, it does not maku news. Nor, in this day and age, it is newa whʊa a police dog catches a thier
A slight stretch of the time- honoured maxin, however, may Bake i news when 0 thief cutches a police dog.
At uny
situation rate, Ane caused more than a little coti- sternation in Cairo.
Butai, the police force's prize dog-on animal who has cap- tured more than 60 criminals m
It is unpopular with those his short career—went missing He agreed and told me of who like "Interfering with from his guarded kennel. A certai expedients which Can nature." Others may feel that thought revented that the thief
adopted by public-spirited interference with their steep poultry-keepera.
overrides this consideration.
by
BY
HARRY
WHERE IS MY EASY CHAIR AND STUFFED OWL ?
"THIRTY CENTS.
WHERE'S
THE SCREW- DRIVER.7
I SAW THE MOVING MAN PUT 'EM ON THE TRUCK HIMSELF*
WEINERT
"THAT WASN'T THE THE MOVING MAN,
DEAR, THAT
WAS THE (JUNK MIN)
THE MIGRATORY SPECIES. ALL-THEY HAVE TO DO IS PICK UP THEIR LAUNDRY AND AWAY THEY GO.
ITS A SAFE DET HA LEFT IT BEHIND ÄPTER.
HE UNSCREWED: THE FIXTURES.
must be 19 truiner, if only | because the trainer was the only man who could approach Batal wilnout being catén olive.
The trainer was soon caught und it turned out that he had proposed to poll the dog to gang of drug runners.
Now the trainer is safely tucked into goal and Batal 19 back in his kennel,
HOT SPOT
*
Now the Germans are going to warm up the North Sea. The sea su part of a campaign 凹 pul Heligoland, the Jule istunu when was British until 1889, back on the map as 20 tourist resort.
Pipes will be run under the sea to warn an aren which will be enclosed as a giant swimtning pool.
Another Bonn brainwave, however, will probably do more for business, The government nus decided to restore Heligo- land's duty free cigarettes and drinita.
•
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A two-year-old MONEY an
giri, born TALKS dumb, is learning to aikinanks to the generosity of Milan prison inmates.
Inside ine prison, 64-year- old Domenico Botta, once known as "The King of the Swindlers," read about kitle Lucia Beccelli's - afiction and learned that it could be overcoms only by ♫ costly and complicated орега tion.
Her father, a minor in A marble quarry, had no hope of raking the mOUCY,
used
to
So Domenien, 'who boast that he could talk any+ body into
out for
of) any. thug, set to work. First 打吧 pumped his "colleagues" h
prison. That netted £6
£60--but It wasn't nearly enough,
Then he wrote to a famous Burgeon, Luigi Ferri. The letter was so moving that Ferri promptly agreed to perform the operation,
Arat
Soon Lucia will speak her words. Her hospital teachers have the Brat lesson weil in hand. It contains three words "Gazio Senor.
you, Mr Botta),
Botta" (Thank
Then she will journey to Milan and meet 1be silver- tongued Mr Botta in bis cell.
ONLY THE At Jangalore, BEST V
the state of Madhya
Padesh, India, sorrowful friends and
fellow imbibers gathered if the funeral pyro of a note drunkard. › Borneotse poured pelvol on this" faggots and struck (a vylight, Nouing happened. The mourES ers tried kurosene. Büll nothing happened, enda par
Bombone Biquor Two bottes of wicem
The pyre burst into datos.
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