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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1954,

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

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to be

an anciont music-ball bits. Joke and becomes a reality.

With heavy taxes and the ria- ing cost of tea and coffee bach water may soon be the only hot, tasty drink left in the house.

for สน bathin' what do you reckon What is going to happen to they'll do?" the poor old clot?

"Stay indoors, I suppose."" said the woman,

"Not on your life," said "They'll be orf to

Romance is over for him. He has reached the end of his Heart Line. He has almost reached man.

now a silly old tool,

The problem remains will he

tho the

HE Chancellor of the drinking your bath water ceases another which may blow him to "and if it's too cold

Exchequer has been accused of ignoring the hardships of the old folk in his Budget, but unless he reads the papers diligently he will never

"You soom to know a lot know about the hardships of younger people who are

as a delor, an astrologer, reach the end of his Hend Line about Am." said the woman.

է plulosopher. constantly writing letters to a

tudent of before he reaches the end of his editors telling of their paliiles, a military strategist, and Life Line or the reverse?

a humorist. He now presents other words, will he go barmy before the H-Bomb hits him or

Martyrdom of Man the end of his Head Line and is Surf of France in their luxury

N. CUBBINS, Est, has posed

yacht."

In

"He spent all the winter the West Indies gittin' 'imself

In

it to do nothink," said the man, "while the workers what make

in front of gas fires."

"Gas fires can be nice and

sometimes,"

Like most palmists Gubbins

CORY woman

economies in the home, pre him to you as a palmist, or will the H-Bamb hit him before is money form was shiv rin' sumably because they are common fortune teller.

The band

drawn here is the he goes barmy? underpaid or overtaxed.

but high hatid of an imaginary English- Nothing else

born just taxation

parsimony #r

before would explain the amazing around the film anties of a chap who prefers of the centing to clean his own

ruther

sweep.

chirangys employ

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A CURRING PAY 1954

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the he had to give and then married Cupid's Corner

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a drought, or high taxation and eventually dragged to the altar the eet of living have gut un

buy nerves.

When Mr Butler is compaders ng his next hudget be shitore l remember these brave people and give then our tax reliefs before thes sidiged to use ar old pair of trousers to sweep

and Their channys,

HIMA

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Ubut he is announvect wis for a bride.

tier has

looking!

by a woman whose charms had 120-year-old failed to soare anybody else and they irved mismably ever after. Although detesting violeiro de would be the first to offer his

LF he has 712 success he services in a national emergency.

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Mr K.G.K.'s problem is tainly a difficult one becative the number of girls wiling to share the life of a man whose best yeurs can be nothing but a dim memory must obviously be small.

with

Although sympathising Mr K.G.K. his loneliness, I think it i only right to ask him what kind of

companion ship a man of 120 has to offer a spirited girl, even a woman neurer his own age. It has been

often enough

that difference In

nge

tho does

not matter where there is sincere mutual affection. but I think Mr K.C.K, will agree that there are limits to alliances of this kind, particularly if he meets girl of 20 and the age difference is 100 years.

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"What'll he Блу when 'ydrogen bomb its 'Im?" waked the man.

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all'in

"He won't 'ave time much," cald the woman.

"What'll be do when money and all is factories and is banks go up in smoke?" usked the man,

"You might as well ask what

will

the anybody

do," said

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"Where will he go when la London Bat and is big *GUSC Arc all and is private beach

rullid cut?" asked the man.

"He might not be 'ere to go anywhere." said the woman.

to straight

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"Do

the sati be quier," waman. "He might rar you.

"Let "in" the 1734443 r•ll The Bible says the rich shall never go to eaven. And when the fami Its Im hell 10 straight

the bloated,

bloodsuckin' vampire."

The train stopped opened my eyes.

"Bfoated, pot bellied vampire blood of the shouted l

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the as he got out.

(World Comright.)

"No good you keeping up a sulk with me—it's not my fault the Zou wain't on the royal route,"

Loudon Express Bervico

Tony Rowe is found! And now begins the hunt to bring a ruthless criminal to the gallows

THERE GOES

THE MURDERER!

Ten-year-old TONY ROWE was kidnapped after seeing his mother murdered. The police arrested his father and new they are hunting for Tony who has on lifness which will kill him it Superintendent he is not found and given an infectiion.

STANLEY, of Scotland Yard, seeks the help of bookmaker JOE TRENT to find tic-lac man HARRY THRAKE who knows where Tony is. Then Thrake is murdered and his widow tells the inspector: "I'll take you to Tony."

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There is

AJA

from

tha

shadowing

Redear out of a drawing by Goya, She

put a thin Anger to her lips. pulling up tuo,

Isabelita got out. "You must 1 looked beyond her at the give me ten minutes alone with fall, thin tie thing

"One of bunk. The face was uz prey es my motar," she said.

wet with ulose caravans is ours. You will ashes, the hair was see my name and my pleture on sweat, the tiny lips were fut

not tering like those of a tile bird, the side. You will please

was making a sori come before 10 minutes is up." the mouth

And though the "I've no choice," I said, and of low moan.

But as soon as the let her go.

large eyes were open, they were was 100 ya is away I had picked seeing nothing. By LEONARD MOSLEY

It was Tony Rowe. earphones and the

For nearly radio

a fortnight started the NEWMARKET. It is a long journey,

now I had carried the the car, and was talk- WAS too tense even plenty of time. First, make for

fast to the patrol

haunting, pathetic face ing until It was to be amused by the the Great North Road."

not

car parked behind. expression on the hotel travelled nearly 200 miles from

face

we Redcar that I realised porter's

she was taking came downstairs together--- Isabelita Thrake and I.

"All right," I said, "the Indy did spend the night with me, but it is not outrageous as it looks. Put her on my bill."

Newmarket Heath ready bustling with loss for the meeting.

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Before giving advice I would have preferred to know more details of Mr K.G.K's Income and the state of his health. If Mr

he is a rich man K.G.K. would be able to compensate" He swallowed. "Yes sir." wife with the luxuries she

It was seven-thirty when

we

had

where before 1

in

TOMORROW

11 was five minutes I stopped giving the Information end After al- Instructions. prepare which they had some news for me.

Was

The killer points

o gun...

and

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

UPSET BY

GLASS OF MILK

New York. MAREFULLY Tom Dewey,

Governor of New York, drank a glass of milk in front of photographers. "Switch from coffee milk," ho said. "It's healthier and cheaper."

to

That did it. Coffee-growing Latin America is so angry that the Brazilian Ambassador, Joso Carlos Muniz, has protested. "To urge milk-drinking at the *x- penso of coffee, the economie feblood of friendly neighbour nations, undermines U.S, foreign polley," he says.

it just shows you how care- fut politicians have got to be, Guverno: Dewey WDS only trying to help New York State dairy farmers-f New York's 8,000,000 people would drink one more glass of milk each day the farmers' autplus would vanish and prices go up.

PLAYWRIGHT George S.

with

Kaufman's

'37-acre farm,

mansion and swimming prot, at Doyleston, Pennsylvania, was auctioned for $71,700. The pluro was the Inspiration for his play "George Washington Slepi Here" (called "Queen Elizabeth Slept Here" for its 1949 London adaptation).

Kaufman and his British-born actress wife Leucen MacGrath (Loo-ren McGrah), aged 37, aro to make their home in London's

Maida Vale.

Maybe London would like to know ahead that Kaufman, at 03, has the name for being the wittiest and most cantunloerous character in New York,

TR LOVE was up for vagrancy

MR

and drunkennesa It was the 52nd time.

Judge

"Your honour," explained Mr L.A. K. Love to California

James Blaine, "the weather is nice; I pitch for the Rita Prison Softball Team and they need me."

Judge Blaine: Sixty days, and I hope you pitch your best.

Mr Love And Kisses Love, which is the name he uses, bade on anuable farewell to the court,

SILVERSTONE race track is planned by Edison Holt on his Carmel Valley ranch In California.

And George Vanderbilt offers to put up the Vanderbilt Gold Cup, the last races for which were held on Long Island, near New York, 44 years ago, HOLD-UP at No. 10, Downing Street which is the address

of the poor child in my of a 15-storey block of flats in mind. iis features had Greenwich Village, the arty dis- haunted me. The job trict of New York.

and of Anding him saving his life had be-

come a dedicated task. And now that he was

emotions

Dr Harold Wadro walked from surgery to office to say-Send in the next patient, please.

But assistant Helen Monowitz had her hands in the air.

The gunman said in cultured accents-This is a robbery,

madam.

Dr Wadro honded over $53 and with the manners of an under-

gun still at

the

"If this is just Trick to get "We've got a small boy named here, within my grasp, I don't free ride to unether race Johnny Macdonald with us in mind admitting that the glad- sold. ness and pity and relief and all meeting." I said to the girl by the car," the operator

into "You asked for him to be the other conflicting

I was crying. my site. "Il hound you

spend brought prison-even if I have

from Edinburgh-and spilled over.

over to I went

him And the rest of my career on 11."

be was rushed to us from Red- She touched

with her car at lunch-time. Do you neert touched him. I swung round an ecretary the bandit bowed and me

Isabelita Thrake. This boy is backed out, hand. You must know by him? requires. If he is not deaf or I helped her into the police now that

But for gravely #1, dying maybe. Go to ready. I am telling you the

said: "I will do.

the ln tetny

door of your caravan and infirm he might prove an inter-

and dismissed the truth, superintendent.

and the moment it's another small esting companion to a girl who car

There isn't much time." WOODEN HANDBAGS Now wave. insisted case, you have got to trust me, boy I'm interested in.

She did as she was told, and purses aro painted shiny memories driver. She had is not too bored by

It is your only chance.

follow my Instructions, And

with decorations of that go back to the middle of that we should go alone,

"How long has Tony Rowe Bay a little prayer, while you're I heard the roar of an engine black

Maker's Within a few minutes, poodles and peacocks. the last century.

outside. and I was obeying

her. got to liv now if he does not about it, for Tony Rowe." the orderlies had come up the hope they will replace the straw But I understand that the

Until 10- tell get that Injection?

It was eight minutes

stepa n

and Tony Was being or wicker bags popular last average income of small Indian There was no need to farmers la son

had made ar- morrow? Without me, you will her that 1 la sometimes as low as

not find him. And I am going forty-flv? Reconds after Isabelita gently carried in a stretcher to season.

bind stepped from the car that the ambulance.

desert and Rocky 55. a week, fall to see how rangements so that, every to take you to him.

started after her. She was Just before he WOS taken tho

Mountain State of Utah luxuries can be provided. Even inch of the way, another

waiting at the door of the inside, there was one moment 128,000 hunters, many from a visit to the cinema ONCO

police car would be shadow-

her face when understanding came back cities, during a ten-day season. for me, and ceravan year would hardly

compensate

liko while it looked Was EQ

unseeing shot 100,000 enormous,

deer, a horse fa ing us.

me in-

суса. Johnny Macdonald had huntsman's hired mount), and snow. She beckoned side...

come up and, as he passed, he a mule. The mule stalker in- There was a yellow old crone said: "Bye-bye for now. Tony, fisted his animal was a mule

deer until the of a woman sitting by the bunk I'll be seeing you."

butcher showed Rowe smiled a wuman right

Andi Tony

him well-shod hooves, small Emile that made

REGON State College' la to Ewallow

the lumps in

open a TV laboratory with $25,000 worth of equipment. It will train students for this rapidly expanding industry, DANNY KAYE is said to be

a wife for listening to, let us say, a first-hand account of the Indian Mutiny on every other night of the year.

My advice to Mr K.C.K.

to grow old gracefully. At his ago he must be highly respected in his small community and, basking in the peaceful at- mosphere of affection and esteem, might live another 50 years.

"Where to?" I said.

★

beyond the on We drove racecourse until we reached a clump of caravans and lorries, "Please stop here," she said.

I braked. Through the driv-

mirror. I could sta

hod which

She turned her large black eyes on me and smiled as she shook her head. "That I do Ing. not tell you yet, superintendent, police car

the

been

In the corner, a

LIFE IN ART'S LIMBO

London, VERY May, there is a

By JACK SENN

that a union regarded now is Ebloom of paintings on underground. They share the

25.00 In The Train the blossoming flowers. gularly.

85.00 10.50

10.50

THERE he is again,"

the man in the train.

sold

"You can't 'It a bloke when asleep," said the woman,

decades

There open for the pleturo inmates.

or When six Once,

to Those

otr

1 throats.

* Then, as the ambulance raced away with him for London and the vital injection, I turned on Isabelita Thrake. "Thank you

OREGO

reading Sir. Harry Lauder'a vlow to taking

ls ousting coffee 05

But I fear that the arguments and differences of opinion in- evitable in an ill-assorted marriage may prove too much

So, the surplus accumulated an well as with those of the for bringing me to him," I sald, life story with for a

and Hampstead "All the rame, I am arresting this role on the screen. of his years, and

given a pictures are

home Embankment

exhibitors

EA past you on a charge of being con- of

corned in the kidnapping of Amerka's national drinit, blessing may $15.00 $

bring Mr

two Tony Rowe. Anything you say says the U.S. Tea Council: Tea arc, however, K.G.K.'s life to an untimely end. London's Embankment and pleated heating system. Stacked 25.00

Hampstead Heath to rival in racks, they are cared for re- cfficial occasions when the doors may be used in evidence-but males are up 14 percent in twa

I strongly advice you, for your years. seven own sako, to talk.

One reason may be that Life in this limbo is orderly,

"Who is the man who kid- The artists aren't exhibit-

The medieval minta mid porters alumne in carrying new naped Tony in Edinburgh last Americans are learning how to mako tea. And the coffee in ing to announce summer's bishops, kings, nobles and war- works,

Monday and brought him here?

and luncheonetto, "Who is?" asked the woman, arrival. They just hope to riors live in plaintive alience. The second time, when three who killed your husband, Harry drug stores "The one we saw before"

Only a handful of attendanta hundred or so are carried into Thrake? And who killed Dians steadily gets more dishwatery. sald the man. "Sleepin' is big be recognised.

shuffle around dusting them; the big ornate halls upstairs for Rowe?"

TN a darkened Los Angeles 5.00 fat 'cad orf. I'd like to dot im

A But their chance of national from time to time changing brief showing. These, with

She looked at mà

sadly. "I one on the nose,"

selection of canvasses already 4.00

never talk," she said, calm- | watched will to acclaim is poor. Only one plc- their postitions.

a murder film. All- trip on show, are sent on turo in hundreds la ever likely

147 Bald I would find you the except one man

Lost He mot ONCE A DAY 5.00 he's

museums in boy, and nothing more. other British

asleep. 5.00

could wake 'im up and it

then the im," said the man.

Just once

Just then I felt a tugging at day, at 10 o'clock, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester,

Visitors abovo No

In his pocket was a loaded work is just as likely to dis- when gallery

where *matter

those my coat, and when I looked 1.00

pistol. ain't never done you no

appear into the galleries' limbo start their endless atroam. the mastery pro houses and upkeep down I saw the urchin face of 10.00 arm,” eld the woman.

A 10-year-old usherette heavy doors open at the touch only their Anvelling

Johnny Macdonald, and he was 07" asked the man,

sow wore bought

cognised him. She phoned the expenses.

exelled, 'is sort are the The galleries, during their of a bell to admit the Director

taxpayers' money. "Hey, mister," ho. shouted, pollee. Two detectives moved 24.00 enemies of

of the

behind people."

accumulated' who 'sizides past to see that all with the

Most are bequests from kings "You wanted to know who the quietly fruto pents 15.00 "He don't look as if he would mere 4,000

If the public, wish to see any and collectors, travellers and man was who snatchodurch The show ended. The sleeper

sleeper. They carried une art a fly," said the woman.

years old. Things, some 700 is well.

cannot house'

masterpiece,

from ma in Edinburgh, awoke and walked out. The they gentlemen of leisure. "He's goin down to the son all the fine works of seven cen- particular 18.00 for soildays," said the man, turies, They cannot

Just how they were found, didnt sight, Johnny," I said, detectives followed, and grabbed Avon.or must descend to view it there

That's we can only guess. Some por as it is ole bliddy life ain't a pand in proportion to the hun- but they seldom do..

dreds of good pictures paintedYet this should not depress haps, when contoistours toured "We've got to catch him. He's | him' quickly. bliddy "oliday.”

They would be the Continent in eager quest for a dangerous man-murde Miller wanted for vol

convic You don't love to use bad in Europe every year. The best true artista,

Others, Then como "oni", “stiriifed SOUTH - CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. tanguage," said the woman. they can do is to plan ahead to in good company down there Europe's art treasures.

im and is wife avea add a little to their hanging with works of Turner, Claude, maybe, in roadside exhibitions Johnny, dragging me down the policeman dekt - the night

steps. elust seen Him."krvi Zote, Van Dyck, Poussain, Veneziano bought for a song. rivate besch," said, the Inen, space.

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