1954-07-31 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1954.

ONE COMEDIAN IN THE FAMILY NATURE'S

IS QUITE

A

reading

backed chair at Bow Like

the glasses for a better

of

the

ENOUGH,

Although bis filal uffer. witnear-box

view three yards away

1

says

George Robey's

son

ngo after the death of their got the lights and lenses in the courtroom, presenting aronts.

examining, cross-

earns

cases, examining.

he

from

Hooner

POISON

PUNCHES

THE STABBERS

are

By IVAN T. SANDERSON

Explorer, Naturalist, Author

London. luman nuties and foibles -- So instead of being on the stage She alts in his high- his own included, perhaps. Mr Edward Roboy sits

on the bench eyebrows. the

The 18 years (1932-1950) Streof. with the smile, which is the mouth as a Metropolitan magistrato. But the

he spent with the Director thore. And also of Public Prosecutions cut Roboy cyobrows are

I doubt whether Roboy Roval cost of arms humorously uskew, is

I have seen it in on the wall above him, Ed- herited.

Robey comic private - the

touch him off from any hope of relished this unequal appor- of ward George Haydon Rhey photographs taken

the in

the plummy fortunes which tioning of glory. At any brilliance

withdrew in private rute, ocensionally whips off his older Robey at fifteen.

deaths N West Africa there and many

result from By FRANCIS MARTIN

practice but brought him Nuremberg rather

strikes every year

in odd chunoo extremely In other ways. than some had expected, and distinction

areas where it is found. Scor- travelling performers pion stings, however,

probably Wallace, H. G. Wells and By the end of the war his was obviously happier when

home courts, who wander about the coun- account for far fewer human

or, rather, deaths than those of spiders, Rider Haggard, or his pas- forensic quality was so well back in the

All sion for gramophone records proven that Hartley Shaw. handling a crop of post-war try clothed in,

DUD poisonous. spidora in rags, 1949 festooned

under celebres.

have o

of recurved, 4 pair They of Romantic-school music, cross picked him as a mem-

the Haigh which they keep, usually piercing

their daggers under In other words, it is nothing ber of the British legal he conducted more than the fringe of

"eleven" which prosecuted murder prosecution on police next to their skin, what are heads that are perforated llico the world's hypodermics and through which This brought | undoubtedly the Nuremberg war court level. sober, black-coated. stripe-

squeezed Auto the solid fame. After the Haigh most

pets, polson trials.

extraordinary

wounds infiletou trousered life.

on their live rase. Edward Robey's name The animals never leave the food and

Most ure enemics. rode clear and high, no | men, even when they sleep harmless to man because of the

tion

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unquestioned,

which are George don't suppose Edward Rabey brows It is then you get the will be pleased at my mak- Robey In his heyday to the

While life. eyebrow - ing a point of this. hin The Robeyeaque arch is un climbing the ladder as senior deniably there.

legal assistant to the Direc- ut Pubhe Prosecutions.

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E. G. H. Robes, Metropolitan magistrate, in clearly the son of Sir George Robey, comedian.

Bat whereas the father

Ret eyebrows used to

the hulle is a happy rour, those of the son strike instant aw into the offender's heart.

would You

rafl Jut

his it i glance stern, exuelly. shrewdly analytical, rather

mill, is eye, ordinarily riddles humbugging defend nzit,

them reducing

To whiff Fountain-pen in hand. be notes the evidence with nent has a peed and when he

oh question to put or an servation to make does so in conversationa) soothing. tone, as if justice were an amialde Turnity party.

*

Two Smiles

One

Lo

(salary: £1,000 to £1,320) during the thirties, he was ance heard to complain, "1 am never allowed to forget t at the son of my father."

Smokescreen

E

When mterviewers usk himm whether hr ever

of thought following in father's Footsteps, Robey so far forgets himself become sententious, #1 rare thing for him. He replies: "One comedian in the family is enough. There is inore | humour in the courts. well as more tran, thin you get in any theatr.”

That, of course, is there amukraoreet.

the Behind

EI

screen, little wistfully. Jurks the second

Comarchan

of the Robey family. It has long been known to a small and gleeful circle friends that he is 21 de- moniacally elever nimic.

at

While reading laཟུང་ Cambridge, he did so well

As Bunthorne and the Lord

ligh Executioner in under-

productions graduate

of

Patience and Mikado That talent. seonts were sent up by impresario D'Oyly Carte, holder of the Gilbert Sullivan copyrights. Robey turned down their offer and stick to the law.

authe

#t

#1

CRUBER

On The Spot longer eclipsed by that of out in the open. The pets small size of their daggers com-

Ta

The first editions and re-

his father. Y cords are among the ameni ties of the Robeys' riverside

On tho Bat

Chelsea, nt

the spot Now that he Robey's Robey was on

the trials Metropolitan Bench, it looks musical tastes are shared by months before

working

11 like

of the wife, formerly Denise opened,

ns if the dilemma fle collated facts. 'thirties is going to be re- Williams, whom he married beaver.

Robey Comedian damning briefs, versed. very good choice in 1912, when a corporal in built up And R

be will never

allowed Jointly While he devilled away as a I comle talent is the Home Guard, it was.

upper forget that he is the father to be classed with his hunt with her sister, Mrs Robey backroom boy, the

team of his son. for first editions of Edgar inherited £167,773 five years crust of the British

GET OUT OF THAT ARMCHAIR

ONCLUSIVE

-AND GET YOUNG

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that determination to stay young will keep

re-

of you young was put forward at. the congress nf 600 He has two smiles.

specialists in okl is of the understanding

March in London. Both almost compassionate sort. He used this the other day His present repertory in-body and mind can be kept when letting off a white cludes a learned Recorder in trim far into old age by haired ex-Navy

Mr Justice] those with the urive to go ITTELFE with and the late long hospital record and a Swift, deft caricatures both.on using them.

Measurements on been fe has been known to im

5.000 dying wife, who had huwking postenrds in Plc personate his father. too. men and women of all ages The singing I Stopped. and i have shown that it is lack of cadilly without heence.

physical exercise ruther other smile is faintly ironi- Looked, and Listened, th

inevitable aging cal, the smile of a man who Innuendo-number from The than any

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WHAT ARE YOUR CHANCES OF LIVING TO BE A HUNDRED? THE YEAR'S MOST-DISCUSSED NEWS FEATURE GIVES A HEALTHY ANSWER FROM A LONDON GATHERING OF EXPERTS

muscles to weaken and selves occupled mentally and muscles make up half the physically.

One 18-year-old woman was human body.

putting her grandchildren Through college by running a gift shop,

ACTION

At the age of 40, mascles.

those of the especially

begin to lose their "long," and This aging continues rapidly It they are insuficiently exercised.

Manual work. golf. bar.sk walking. gardening and Tetty regular physical activity van stave off the nging of inusele, according to Professor E. Bajusz, of Budapest, who bas measured the muscle strength of 182 men aged 60 to 65,

He found that in people who had abstained

regular fron physical effort for several years. muscle strength had fallen by up to 32 per cent. In those who had kept up their exercise the full was only 10 per cent.

SECOND WIND

The professor is

convinced that keeping the muscles active after 40 gives them a "second wind" and is a practical way of delaying old

for age.

good general health goes with well- toned muscles,

His advice was strongly sup ported by Dr Flanders Dunbar, a leading New York psychologist, who has interviewed scores of U.S. centenarians.

She found that almost all the people who had reached 100 had managed to avoid "dangerous retirement," and had kept them-

When another old woman was asked how many days of her life she had spent in bed, she wrote: "Exactly 4$ reason, nine children,"

Dr Dunbar was surprised to and that the chance of living to 100 seems to be bigger in the cites where stress and strain are supposed to be greatest. The proportion is much smaller in the "Meecas" for the aging such as California and Florida.

Some centenarians credited longevity to refraining their from Lobacco and liquor, just as many attributed it to drinking Scotch and smoking big, black cigars.

The number of old people who remain as active as they were in iniddle age is surprisingly high, Dr John Pemberton found after a survey in Sheffield.

Dr Pemberton rated six out of avery 10 people aged 67 or more, whom he examined, as having "unlimited outdoor mobility."

The number of really at old many people is so high that businesses aro' depriving them- selves of first-rate employees by having fixed retiring ages of 60 or 05.

This warming was given

Peterson, Professor R, L.

to

pared to the

don't normally

thickness of our

handle spiders.

cause irritation. L injected skin in Mufflerant

are huge scorpions.

I have witnessed performances skin, and also the fact that wo pul on by several of these strange shownish, and i have However, all spider poison con yet to saxounter anything quite as extraordinary. Not unly do oder your the creatures all about their bodies under their clothes, but they

The true Larantulas are small very roughly and handle them

spiders fvund without any regard to the deadly reduish

Southern stings at the end of their tails.

Europe, which have in their

heir relatives In many other parts of They hold them mother and allow themselves to the world. They are otherwis be "stung" on the lips. They known us lycusids, and several of them appear to be very

the men chase the venomous quantity.

group

m

to ma. Another

whah

put two big males on their bare forearms and coax them to fight, dangoras What is more, they meem to be

includes our deadly Black the

its relatives from Widow and animals from able vocati

are found all over the world. their hiding places among their

they are found ragged clothes by making little Aaul wherever buzzing noises with their lips. they appear to have an evli re- Thore have been Naturally, my first reaction to putation.

deaths tum Block to several these performances WDA University, who 1BOLS

that these Gaume

particular Widows in Amerlea every your carilest colonial duž J, studied more thun 3,000 people scorpions were not poisonous, since agod 60 or more in 81 U.S. businesses.

has

that He found

supervisors rated the older workers as more dependable than the younger absent. and less likely to be They did as much work, and it WIS of helter average quality.

"I believe that 70 would be a much more realistic age for

retirement." compulsory

the Baitf professor

"More than two-hirds of the sider workers were ruted by their supervisors по perceptible having weakness which could be tributed to age."

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NO DECLINE

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Tests by other doctors have shown that when work is not

the

mochanical excessive,

human efficiency of the aged body-judged as a machines as high as that of the young body.

Great

The scorpion delivers its poison punch from its tail sting.

but experiments carried out by These spiders are found in every the government medical officer state of the union and even cu Immediately proved this to be wasteland in the greatest cities. very wrong. The same scorpions Recently, there has grown up that stung the men killed lange a strange belief that the monkeys in a time so short it hairy spiders often mistakenly was almost unbelievable,

called tarantulas are quite Yot tho men were quite im- harmless. Several naturalista

N mune, and they told 114 UN

they have

of de- made a practice they ate the monstrating them running about were so because stings of the same kind of their bare hands, on television

and even in Further, there are

education, 1 fine scorpions.

is a dangerous practice, cases on record where these men In most people there is some have cured stings in others by for these great spiders, some ut

eat the tails of which can falling off of mental power with making them age, as judged by intelligencecorpions.

these tests do not Everybody testa. But

account take into

Important scorpions experience, assets like

Judg-there are many

old ideas about them. men, and the fact

to man, and people prefer to sacrifice speed deadly for accuracy, Dr H. E. Jones, stings of the largest, when well

and truly jabbod into a of Callforain pointed out.

blood vessel, may not necessarily

What

Even in intelligence about 10 men in. show little or no their powers.

every decline

arc

knows

jump several feet and so catch and ki birds, can, that If they 60 desire, sink their poisoncris, but fangs up to almost half an inch

Exaggerated into Not all are strike a even the inject

you

human

your flesh and,

blood vessel, they can enough poison to

if they

kill

At the least, their bites moy

and dis- tests prove fatal. As with almost all cause great pain, much local

swelling, palpitations poisons, much tress, while 100 forms of animal

secondary infec- the condition of tions may be introduced, result- of depends upon,

both the stinger and the stung. Ing in gangrene. I once saw a native of Halt! well and truly bitten or "slung" by one of these great spiders, and he died in agony three trours

men

If the scorpion is in bad DUES

These are usually the who keep themselves mentally

recently convulsive or has very health, aleft by effort and determine-used up its poison stinging some inter. It is extremely stupid to

Hon.

thing else, and you are in good

and

However,

the aro

In short, the firment advico health and are only scratched play with these creatures.

most deadly sling, very for those who wish to reach 100 by the animal's

undoubtedly which has yet emerged from tie but local pain may occur. spiders

сп the other hand, the those of the Black Widow group, by this conference is STAY OUT 11,

scorpion is in good fettle, has and two of the worst are found and in the in New Zealand of OF THAT ARMCHAIR,

not etung anything else

United States. Again, the effects recovering Un you are just from a bout of sickness, you may of their bites vary greatly due to the condition of both the bo stone dead in an hour.

Then

again,

the largest spider and the person bitten. I acorpions are often not the most way "gtung on the little Anger

though there

a Black Widow in Connect!- is a by blue- black species cut, but it was Inte in the year animal-wos sluggish. and the small chicken lobster, which I

IN THE GLEN

TROUBLE IN

CHED a tear for the whisk/

distillers.

оп

With 147 million gallons now. though it may got sticky.

Even if he made a

deadly

gigantic

In Sumatra,, the size of a All that happened was that herole

fatal to men, finger went hard,

in stock, the situation looks ar, effort and cut a shilling œ to almost a worst is a scobiz,, numb for a few bour

The reason is simple enough Britala costs 85 Scotch in

of HIS price, the difference 1. sales would probably be negli Now, it SCONI, they have more good Scotch

gible, their hands than they know what to do with. Since 1940, exports shillings a bottle (and, at that havs climbed from right to price, it's very ordinary Scotch million gallons a year. But Indeed.) home consumption-even that. quote have Ronc-19 standing alil at four million.

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And production is running at between 27 and 30 million gal- lors a year.

In 10 years the um how risen from 11 shillings to 211 chillings a gallon. Out of the 35 shillings, the dirtiller gots a bare 108.6d to cover manufacturing, storare, transportation, and marketing.

JOHNNY HAZARD

ÁT 16 VIA VILLA D'ESTE, ROWEN

YEBRO W-WHD 13

OPEN UP NICKI, HONEY. IT'S MILL

HOOMAN! IS IT REALLY, YOU

MAT LAST

One of the worst

palo,

a very

100% Grayish-yellow

this

my

white, and

On the other hand, there are

pumerous cases reported where

Long I found in the drier chat

parts the person bitten died within a Yet the Chancellor of the Ex of northern Mexico is often few hours or, even worse, with- story car on misleadingly called the durango, in a few days. During the in-

termediate

time they suffered chequer turns a pleas for a cut in the tax-which is really the name of quite

excruciating agony despite the fact that it murt another animal to be mentioned the most have reached the point where | later. This is a bold animal beginning with spasmodic local sizable reducion would probably and will wander into beds and pains which spread to the torso.. slowly to increase the government total looping bags for warmth at Usually these creep while the

revenue..

night, and will lash out at my the chest region,

Its stomach becomes rigid and the thing with its tall sting

and paralysed. virulent,. lambs, numb John McKenna polson is particularly

By Frank Bobbina

.....this situation

San Miguel