POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
MATTHE
BEATS INC
THE
TURGENEV. By David Magar-
shack. Faber and Fabor. 25, 328 pages.
HE Russian novelist,
T Ivan Turgenev, had
three passions in life: shooting, women and the
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, “JUNE 20, 1954.
GENIUS FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM
in the drawing room
liberation of the Russian princes, Turgenev took an peasantry.
He found it more agree-
able to surve the last of vote
tho អន
"Barbed wire going up round the White House!
As an
ent,
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Apect (8).
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Jollification (5)
Pulsatea (01.
10 Deluge (5)
11 Reel (5).
Eminence (0)
13 Ceremonies (3)
10 Holl Ketilly
(B)
15 Looks hard (8)
26 Welcome (5).
22 Domesticated (4).
23 Bashful
20 Eastern VI (5).
26 Aiming-mark (6).
27 Anaesthetic (5).
28 Prop up (6).
20 Protect (0).
YESTERDAY'S
ពរ
to
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
God's existence, and
you
clude
Quo
The Fabulous Grandmother
SUNDBARENBOLöEMONOMERTONI
❖ MARLENE DIETRICH is the Fabulous Grandmother, tha stor' who outshines age, who has glamourited two generations and refuses to let the years dim her vitality.
Glamorous Yes, And In Her Face, The
Aggressive
By Anne Edwards TARLENE, to
Story.
By Eve Partick REMEMBER, I remember
Just A Voice On A
Record And Then
Mthree people. The first I min Morrich sehen bar S
By Drusilla Beyfus
IE was a record we used
to play after prep. at "Falling In Love
Was | Marleen? Or Marlena?
She was the
woman older
All through life the two men oath, romantically called
and admired
pingued "Hannibal's oath,” to de-
Another. "It is an unpardonabla all his strength
sla that Leo Tolstoy has stopped writing," Turgenev grumbled, these causes from Paris, or dragging the Russian serfa
and idle- "He lives in luxury their darkness. A
ness, and Tolstoy of Turgenev. Marlene is the one I saw the was known as the girl with school. French and German from
other day in a 30-year-old the glamorous legs and not Again" used to scrape away Whe years later he which he frequented few
Turgenev could only write Alm.
alternately with "Mr a less high- haven't yet solved the question when he was in love.
as a glamorous gran. He was like an amiable, hypochon- engaged
A languorous beauty wrapped
Į remember, remember Paganini" and "The Um- driacal bear with a squenky minded enterprise, trying of
in love oflen enough to write
on Miss Dietrich (sitting astride a brella Man.” want to ent!" to buy a pretty serf girl
seven or eight novels, countless in 18 yards of silver fox voice.
that filled the chair in black opera hose and a
She was a name one nover бо heavily feathered skirt) singing "Fall know how to pronounce. .. eyelids aristocratic slud from his wealthy cousin.
His screen When the Russian serta were stories and one successful play," alabaster faco
A Month In the Country." liberated, Turgenev prudently
Love Again" in a Teu- scion of Tartar
From 700 roubles (about remained in the
West writing most famous novel: "Fathers and fringed with black lashes that ing in
when alie dropped them
one tonle-throaty voice. Sons," He mar- novela about the steppes, 114 times the regular
wondered if they could ever go I remember, 1 remember propio used to bring up to prove up again.
Miss Dietrich a few years later that theirs was a generation of ket price) Elizabeth Fetiska had asked a trusted gamekeeper esloten what he
Yck, clie was a phenomenal changed hands.
(sitting astride a chair in black great beauties and "that these Her ad on the family
would do if the peasants
beauty.
all the girls look alike.” mirer naked what present revolted and
marched on the
The second Marlene is the one opera hose and a sequin skirt) days for me she came to life
singing "See What the Boys In "Soap," he could give her.
Turgenev monston. The game- Students of Magarshack's I saw in Paris just after the the Backroom Will Have" in a as the World's Most Glamorous
white.
AL "Join painstaking blography will con- war, singing "Lili Marlene,"
and there were less Teutonic but still throaty Grandmother, she replied. The story, as keeper turned
them," he confessed.
her long voice. that no psychological the end Bhe raised
pictures of her cheering up the told by Turgenev. made a
problem in а Turgenev novel pangled skirt half an inch at a
I remember chaps in Germany In a uniform profound impression in The groat and tragic love of could be more complex than the time to reveal
a stili fabulous remember,
10 London in specially designed for tho liberal circles in Paris. Turgenev's life-frequently in- timid, neurasthenic novelist leg-to a crescendo of cheers Miss Dietrich
Alled the 1948, standing in a trim-waisted purpose. It
terrupted by less tragic incidents himself, who for years believed from the troops who was by
What a Paris sult
lot of nonsense, one with the sunlight -occurred when he met Pauline that he had no top to his skull, theatre,
with the scepticism Turgenev's first experience Garcia-Vinrdel, prima donna and
Yes, she had phenomenal streaming full on her face and thought,
of no 20-year-old: looking just wonderful.
"Glamorous of love. At 18, he developed daughter of a Seville gipsy. Shu In 1883 Turgenev died stolcal- technique,
member,
remember Miss indeed, she's
probably an old In Paris. His funeral In a "savage sweetness and ly
The third Mariene is the one a wild passion for Zinalda, a had
Just turned into a 1 muw on her last London visit, Dietrich
one year later hag." of his delightful ferocity": better still, Petersburg was mistress
Then one day I sat next to a young
"olitical a complacent husband 20 years vast
demonstration.} more determinedly golden looking not quite so wonderful.
I remember, father's, and witnessed
remember woman who changed my mind. her senior.
attend: she haired than ever, more aggres— Pauline could not
She was elegant, she was beau- strange scene between
in New York Isl November was 100 busy with a lawsuit 10 sively glamorousS.
An
red tiful. She had the best legs I'd obtain Turgenev's fortune.
figure in a Уен, sho
phenomenal slim, willowy two. Zinaida, begging his
ever seen. She was Marlene. cinquent tribute from Tolstoy courge. But will courage bo velvet sheath of a dress, crown- father to give up some
showed that, at last, prace had enough to get her through this ed by sweep of youthful other woman, held out her
last yellow hair, walking across Somehow that Hme?
ne that crowded room towards me. tella hand, which the elder Tur-
Pauline Wan in Jove
glimpse of her with
And I think I will never jor- genev lashed with his rid- Turgenev long enough
the new verdict on her perform. to beur
when she was refr Zinaida kissed him a 501. After ing crop.
ance as a famous beauty at 50 pel that, that, the
will be: "It is not done well, the weal. After that. the Russian had to be content with
but you are surprised to find it the role of second complacent
clone at all." younger Turgenev had
husband. He played it with obsession with women's inelancholy distinction for most THE ANNOTATOR. By Alan hands.
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DOWN
Infectious (8).
15
2 Deprive of movement (8).
3 Flows back (4),
4 Give up hope (7).
* Tells (7).
Dog (0).
7 Hanginan's rupe (5),
14 Geometrical figure (8)
15 Chose (8).
It Over-salisty (7).
17 Deserved (7).
19 Tle up (6).
21 Attain (5)
24 Venture (4).
CROSSWORD—Acron 1 Spread, 5 Bares. Pert, D Elated. It Auvil, 12 bull. 14 List, 18 Treat. 18 Abide, 19 Road, 20 full. 1 Shed, 2 24 Tinge, za Arteat, 20 Ture, 7 Dodge, 29 Dapper Down!
7 Splints, 10 Tend. 12 tusar. 3 Apes. Deduet, 5 Statute, Heviled, Daunted, i Likened, 13 Secrete. 17 Rabid. 19 Retard, 31 Aren, 27 Lory,
Str.
no
menna
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the
{n
of his life. When Poullae found a new lover, Turgenev and M. Viardot went out shooting together.
overtaken war.
Keen
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Who life
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In the West, he was a drawing- chronicle that Mr Keen picked
an
had
FU
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velvet and the burning bright hair was that of a woman who was definitely middle-aged-and enough to identify as the fabu- the strain of fighting off her 50 years was only too clearly tell- lous Marlene Dietrich, the face in between the provocative red ing its, tired, sad story.
PARADE
сетя
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
"the
The man bas
Rober
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19407 After an At nineteen, he sailed for room hero, embodiment of the
up one day in
Onto the dance floors has search of a refuge from determined Europe to escape from his Slav genius oppressed by the ingenious,
hunt, WALLFLOWER'S When old-
15
time dun trailed Mormon dancing, other modern world." Lombert had told a hysterical Tsars in Russia he was suspect evidence (but noi proof) atrocious inother,
DREAM:
wisc termed "Wallflowers' his followers he was HAI W
pretty of being sadiri who treated her sons only ed, by the Tsar,
unearthed to suggest that the
two sure they would find "heaven” a shade less brutally than her revolutionary, and by the Intel writer may have been Shake- the "Creep" edge its way into Dream."
partners, the girls dancing one Instead, they wound up serts.
A day out from Potors- lectuals of
"old spenre himself. The reader may the dance halls, they thought
behind the other, During A broke. Included in tho referred "Euro-
ship's not be convinced; he will be they'd seen everything. burg, the ship caught fire: panic coquette" who
Monnon dance, any wallflower stores mere 350 CA9C9 of followed. It was maliciously pean" ways. His leading critic enthralled.
With arms lightly wrapped
cases of wine, 10 that Turgenev
Creep may attach herself to the nearest cognac, 150 had was a rakish
around quarrelsome
each reported
other,
cases of Scotch whisky and a VAGRANT VIKING. By
couple, rushed about piping in his little young army officer, Leo Tolstoy,
two-year supply of tinned beer. in slow time without noticeable voice, "For God's sake, save me who thought Turgenev a poseur, Peter Freuchep. Gollanes, 188. 432 couples shuffled acroes the floor
NEXT
Lombert, am the only son of a rich but could not keep away from pages, Life and fantasie adven-
change in step or tempo.
the 31-year-old THE OLD Hitler's chief Bir- widow." Turgenev would only him.
tures during 20 years in the Far
hall
managers BEST
Dutchman who ed STORY craft designer, Willy admit that he had offered
North by the famous Danish
strongly objected to Creeping. It THING?
31 of hie fellow
Messerschmit who, After a violent, sailor 10,000 roubles for a place
undignified Arctic explorer, with vivid por reduced tho tempo
to slow
AGAIN on B countrymen
three-year
after the war, said demanded
dis- a trafts of other heroes of in a lifeboat.
quarrel. Tolstoy
search for "heaven" found him that all he wanted to do was to duelno "literary than's duct covery: Myllus-Erichsen, who set motions, they said.
Creeping caught tho
self not in paradise but in * "build houses," is now predict- forget the whole but the real
fancy, and band Dutch prison last week.
Ing that "within 10 to 15 years" humiliating business in endless cach outside a word. Although off to Greenland with a car of toerangers
He was sentenced to 24 German (Messerschmitt?) built talk about philosophy with presenting the bigger target for emergency rations; Dr Hovey, leaders even played dirge-like
Creep numbers.
obtaining years for
£100,000 airliners will be hurtling round One Turgenev as a good shot would who
Now the old-timers really by false pretences.
the
globe at supersonic spoeds." The group bought a ship and
Messerschmitt says that he is salled around the world in now ready to work on super- sonic aircraft just as soon as the Allies allow him to do so.
two
thought
Eskimos WYNE
din nce
of these friends, after hours of probably have winged the author "savages." Most vigorous porirabellove they have seen every-
fellow-exiles from Russia.
argument round cried out indignantly,
the samovar, of War and Peace."
"We never took place.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"ALL WE HAVE
TO DO IS
FIND A
NATIVE AND
ASK FOR
DIRECTIONS.,
LOST
"HOP
IN/"
WHEN YOU HEAR HARDY HIKERS
TELL TALLTALES OF RUGGED ENDURANCE, YOU CAN BET
THERE IS A HITCH TO I.
THIS BIRD WATCHERS CLUB,
IS A SWELL DEAL /
-
"OH SURE
JUST ASK
ANY
PASSING SQUIRREL /
"MY WIFE
SAYS IT SOUNDS LIKE A
FISH STORY Z
The duct of all is that of Freuchen him-
self.
Babes In The Wood
I GOT A CASE OF LEMON POP
AT THE DEPOT— BUT I AIN'T"
MADE FREIGHT MONEY
YET."
EARLY BIRDS. AFTER A LONG,
HARD WINTER THE FIRST TIRED AND THIRSTY TRAVELERS APPEAR ON THE SCENE.
JUNET
COPA, 1994 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, T-WORLD ANG>ETS RESERVED
WHAT DO YOU MEAN--
YOU HAVE A FROG
IN YOUR THROAT 7°
thing.
BY HARRY
WEINERT
WHAT DO WE DO NOW, CHIEF HOTFOOT--
CALLATAXI ?*
LOST JUNCTION BAI.
"HERE IT-15/THE BOOK SAYS HŰ TOXICODENDRON!"
NATURE STUDY
"GET OFF THE BEATEN PATH AND REALLY ENJOY NATURE -
HE SAID.
"WE SHOULD GET
·OUT AND LEARN. MORE ABOUT WILD UFK JA
"OH YEAH T
POISON
IVY то YOU?!
WHAT WAS
SHAS AGAIN?
Meanwhile
Hitler's
дее
designer continues to go out of his way to absolve himself of any responsibility for the Luft- waffe's disintegration: "Our mis take was too much research and
production. not enough
The Alles overwhelmed us with
than quantity rather
quality. Nevertheless, I have not grown
rusty in the years since Ger many's matender ended the pro- duction of my fighter aircraft which the Allies knew so well."
NEW DISEASE victims
An
outbreak of on
undiagnosed discuso
gives Its colossal appetites is spreading across Italy. One victim, five-year-old Luciana Varboni, is eating four thick、 beefsteaks, two ibe. of rica pudding and at least 14 bananas a day, while a factory worker in Vicenza eats 12 cooked meals a day and says he is still "pretty hungry." For one meal the fac tory worker, Cesare Rizzato, sto four lbs, of bread, 10 pints of
vegetable BOUD: four lbs. of mashed corn, a lb of cheese and a pound of sausage.
Italian doctors have so far failed to find any formula in the way of vitamins or infoe- tions which will satisfy the appetite of either of Italy's Oliver Twist patients. NOW THE Boveral countries,
FASHION including Britain,
have asked the Egyptian Government for per- mission to hunt for
pyramida following the discoveries at Gizeh and Bakkaran.
Commented Antiquities Director Mustapha Amer, look- ing up from a sheat of applica- tions: "Pyramid hunting is be coming the fashion,"
MISSING Bouth African SWORD war veterans aro being alced if bal they know › the whereabouts of what thy dolden sword presented to White," defender of
5 In 1900. The sword, Ladysmith
given by the survivors, was taloen back to England by Bir Georgo, but since his' death. In 1013, there has been no news of it and Ladysmith, historians would low 16 In their museum with other ralios of the siege and the town's early days. ONE FOR A Ale group at HOLLYWOOD: Molimo MP's asking for an investigation Inte
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