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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

FREDERICK GREAT

"Now

this morning. children, we're going to learn all about the kindly old Ante player whe liberated Silesia,"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

NANCY SPAIN FLIES BACK 50 YEARS TO HEAR AN ANGEL ORDER:

Fix Wings At 10.30..

HAT makes an im-

W mortal? Hoping to

find the answer, I joyfully read FIFTY YEARS OF PETER PAN (Peter Davies, 218.). wasn't disappointed.

J. M. Barrie, first ran up the idea of a flying boy who wouldn't grow up to amuse Ave little boys called Davies when they went for walks with

Barrie in Kensington Gardens.

The Gardens have always fairies haunted by

been

A British Crossword Puzzle

6

13

14

12

23

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26

ACROSS

1 Bandit (0).

3 Discourage (6).

8 Desire eagerly (5).

9 Life-giving fluid (6).

10 Sheet of paper (5).

11 Sewer (5).

12 Young

unima! (4)

13 Gave up (6).

16 Dwell (0)

18 Crockery (0).

20

22 Periments (6).

endorsement (4).

23 Applaud with shouts (5).

20 Gather (5).

20 Reigning (0).

27 Made mistakes (5).

28 Ecstasy (3).

29 Protect (0).

29

DOWN

1 Garment (8)

2 Three of a kind (8)

3 Turt (4),

4 Frein (1)

5 Amount lacking (7).

D

6 Made reparation (8).

7 Din (5).

14 Mocking (8)

18 Mentally unbalanced (8).

10 Bacon allees_(7).

17 Cul apart (7).

19 Engraves (0).

21 Peer (5).

24 Rough (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Arrow: 3 Pret. 1 oard, Aids, I Stum, 10 Elevate. Glad, 13 Abase. 10 Liar. 19 Rabid, 11 idols, 23 Bute, 23 Floist, 28 Flea, 28 Created, 30 Gi 31 Rin, 32 Inter, 33 Done. Down: Folly, 2 Prevall, Rates, 5 Tand. 8 1des, 9 Star, 15 Abash, 13 Lobe. 14 Duds, is Erase. 17 Tim, 18 Lone. 20 Attains, 23 Sire, 24 Cocan, 25 Fever. 27 Lair, 28 Aged,

THE NEW BOOKS

(Thomas Tickell wrote. poem about them in 1722), so it was reasonable for P. Pan to live among them, on an island in the Serpentino.

Women

This maddens Lora. Lora is Charles's fianoce. Love is one of those career

who reply "I'm in conference" when they receive a proposal of mar- riage by telephone. She Irish stow "goulash" and she the dresser in smart black suits, the And she wants to turn Wlicote Into a block of self-contained flats for business women.

received postcards stating

of rehearsal and plazė

"Flying mensage cryptic 10.30." They had no idea what

they were in for.

Peter Pan first saw' the light on December 27, 1904. Every. body loved it, except Anthony ("Prisoner of Zenda") Hops

and Sir Max Beerbohm.

•

Oh, yes. She is every inch a career girl.

1954.

PARADE

CLINING Londonen

COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL PEOPLE AND PLACES AND

can Because of its clip-bare back learn "saw doctor- and bobbles. In the case of the ing" at Brixton or standard--the Poodle was in the barge building at Poplar. This past treated as a music hall joke, information Lilustrates the rango but, in fact, it is extraordinarily of subjects which can be studied intelligent and dislikes fuss. at evening classes in London.

There was a good reason for A complete alphabetical list the clip. At one time น่า beginning with accountancy and Poodle was veed a lot on the con- ending with zoology, appears in tinent, for waler, fowling and the "Floodlight," the London County bobbles on the legs could pro- Council's annual guide to even- vide extra leverage in the event of the dog becoming entangled ing classes just 'published.

with thick mud of hiding sands,

Job and three or four years to

to grow

Why ita prima. shouldn't selence be able to do it in one process and with no time-waste?

COMPLEX, BUSINESS macy is

diplo-

Modern

A pretty complex affair. But we didn't know it was THIS complex:

An advertisement from the United Kingdom High Commit

A sioner's Office, inserted, in Canberra 'newspaper said: "Wanted. Shorthand.

typist.

The enthusiast may revel'in armature winding or Afrikaans, in lingerio or logic. Many of the subjects are, of course, those which one, would expect to find mich as home remaking, MORE ART To struggling Salary (including cost of loving) Anger "curls typewriting, carpentry, engineer

Det ing.

Then

It is the proposed alteration of the chancestral hom uit

his mind like a fog." Jn finishes Charles.

Then he realises it is whom

loves. he really

nesties in his Felicity.

he breaks off the engoy

like a small bird come home hardwear and Hebrew, Weinh getting art conscious, are buying

That's what I

Then the Davis boys went to school and on their walks they talked of nothing but

artiste

their. £300 to £852 according to age LOVERS

attics and their and experience........." school gossip. This bored Barrie, so to lure back their

The High Commissioner tersely "Floodlight" tells that Lon- back bed-sitting roome the

commercial news called for a bottle of cheap declined to say whether or not NO And now, Rmaginations he invented a

years after,

study And doners

and

he had had any applications. > "wrecked island" populated Poler Pan is to actresses what

arms travelling

criminology, red wine in odlobration.

The British public, suddenly by pirates, Redskins, and Hamlet is to actors. Until you

and watchmaking. cut your hair off and to rest," characters in fiction, notably havo

more pictures, Sales by the nt the end whizzed

of Royal Academy, whose summer through

Beginning the air In There now! the herl of "Paradise Lost."

Beptember thousands of men exhibition has just closed, have HONEY This rain-drenched Satan-Lucifer, the angel who jackboots you haven't arrived, call a romance.

and women will be enrolling at struck a half-century record,

FAMINE English summer has and robelled

fell from Fay Compton, Darothy Dick-

been bad enough. for the scores of Evening Institutes

The public spent £30,982 to the farmers; for the beekeepers heaven, appears in Peter son,

which are maintained or aided Pan as Captain Hook

by the London County Council, buy 537 pictures; prices range it has been ruinous. Neagle, Margaret Lockwood-

four guiness In recent years about 155,000 from

to £1,000.

Beo colonies up the Old Etonian pirate.

and down they have all had a bash

been attending Last year only 443 pictures FINE romance... A fine students have the part, And everybody

England have scarcely produced the various kinds of Institutos, were sold for £21,001. thriller what more Don

pound of honey. The bens tho

and another 110,000 students quarrels

evening This Quentin's have been Patrick

also, the Poor themselves have been so hun- wet week? greatest Peter of them all, Jean one want at the end of a

been con- OF Forbes-Robertson

Peter THE WIFE

With day

and Embankment

Hampstead eaming it. (Gollancz, 108 td.) and schools of art. when I was a tot to mo SHELDON

is estimated students, it

drew more buyerS than ever

As a result many a farmhouse the is just the job. Jean Forbes-Robertson is

more than 300,000 people

before who were prepared to tet will lack is customary Ronald Sheldon is a rich and receiving some kind of further pay anything from 10 shillings golden comb on the table. only Poter.

education in London.

The warning

the Apart from Hook characters in the story were all named to please hia friends. Wendy was B child friend Wendy Barrie

Brenda Bruce, Anna

ovez

who

Was

Was

BO

The pretty girl

at

monstrous

millionaire

your,

a

RONALD classos at bones, colleges Artists' Exhibition on Chelson gry that they have

book

that are

I wonder what Peter and publisher. He has a partner,

Davies think? Nicholus

After Jake, whose wife suddenly Jumped out of the window "To die after 17 years of happy_mairi- because jumped

STRICTLY This is the story mony. (She

Manuel Pedro, was having an affair with FOR BIRDS

farmer who lives debt. For Ronald, but Jake doesn't know in the little village of Phacia Jake has a son, called Nova, 100 miles from Lisbon, is they are the publishers of this that). gay and readable book.

Bill, who is eve' so sulky.

telling:

they

she

as "Friendy" and Wendy all, it was for them that Peter was as near as she could get first flew, nrst said: to it. Various subsidiary will be an awfully big adven-

ture."

30 years After were called after pirates

their writer chums-Alf Muson have repald was A. E. W. Mason, Alan Herb was A. P. Herbert. And Nana was Barrie's own St Bernard dog Porthos.

The guardian

CHRISTIAN is DARLING GIRL Jenkins, 92.

Oc

Yet no one can ciulm to SS JILL. be Peter. Barrie says he M back with a new and glow made him by rubbing all ing romance, five Davis boys violently (Herbert

1 loved every darlin' word of tigether, as savages with two sticks produce a flame, these So Barrie, from small beginnings, wrote the play.

it.

Felicity Hullard is our heroine. She la 10 when the story opens ... with a "wild, proud, virgin look in her eyes." And she is with head over heels in love Charles Truscott, aged 27, pipe-smoking solicitor.

Charles has become Felicity's Frohman, "Angel" " of the guardian. So Fellelt comes to

Wilcote, in Edwardian era, fell in love with live

Beerbohm Tree said it would be no good. He even warned other managements that Barrie But Charles had gone mad.

It; Dion Bouclcault 11 produced ancestral home. ft: and Nina Boudleauft and Hilda Trevelyan played and Wendy respectively.

P

hts old

Gli

She is very provocailve Peter

over the place, sometimes palo gold satin (the exact of her polished hair), shado sometimes in jeans.

These two actresses WON

when they much perturbed

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

back

Ronald Sheldon comes from Europe with (a) a new

Two months ago he was walk- ing by his pond and he heard a

to 20 guineos for a decorativa work.

The public, boo, is changing ila urt tastes.

court converse-d Bombay last was a

moment's

OPPORTUNITY When KNOCKS

No longer do brightly colour- ed geometrical designs intellett week there "Sunrise" or "Young Girl" draw awkward silence.

admiring crowds.

To hang in their homes, the

author; (b) the author's muse; woodpecker squawking franti- Betish people are veering back (c) the author's wife, and (d)cally. He saved it from drown- to landscapes and flowers. the author's daughter. The ing.

This week he was working in daughter Is a very pretty girl

and the same bird called Jean, so Ronnie marries his field her, just to keep everything in dropped on his shoulder,

It had brought him a fat the family.

worin

The question

WHY THE

Then the prosecutor explained that he was unable to produce

which formed a vital exhibit, the £800 in Indian Currency Reason: A policeman had stolen them,

GET RICH

GRASS in the not too distant future, Bestona may be STEAK

beef getling straight off the lawn-with not QUICK a prime steer in sight.

stenka

For right now Britain's top Trends in dog can

scientists are so convinced that Aha! But then Bill falls inPOODLE CUT popularity

And Ronnie love with Jean

often be gauged they can extract proteins direct grüss that four of the catches the guilty pair clasped from the Interest shown in the from in one another's arms. Ronnie various breeds at championship Ministry of Agriculture's inati

tutes are working on the prob- is furious. And someone shoots shows. Ronnie.....

Bince the war, it has been the lem. generally accepted "man's dog"

They have got na far as study. Well, there you are which the Cocker Spardel and the

the Alsatian which have been at the ing the most suitable fertilisers, of 'em did it? The wife, lover, the muse, or the author? top of the poll. More recently the best ways of cropping the As nice a bit of tangled kalt- the Pekingese has been coming grass, and the machinery to ting about as nasty a lot of to the fore in Britain but this process it. characters as I ever want to year it is the Foodio, standard meet in a month of Hterary and miniature, which has been

attracting attention, luncheons.

Parking The Pets With Neighbors

OH BROTHER/ COME HERE AND LISTEN TO THIS ./*

The steer, they point out, to do the needs four stomachs

BY HARRY WEINERT

"THAT VACATION STUFF IS A LOT OF HOOEY IF YOU ASK ME

THEY LEPT TOWN

TO BEAT THE BUTCHER/

Photographers in. Egypt are swaxing fat-by not photo- graphing ex-Queen Narriman,

Every time they ready their cameras her new husband, Dr

.Only trouble: The more he Adham Nakib, buys them off. pays off, the more there waiting.

Africans

a.tu

In

THIS IS PROCRESS Southern Rhodesia have petitioned the government to allow them to buy European beer and wine,

They say civilisation killed their taste for the age-old tribal "Kafir”

A

BARBS

BY HAL COCHRAN

KICK from a mule restored

a Tennessee man's speech.

It would be interesting to know what he said.

LAST MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS

ABOUT THE DIET

FOR THE GOLDFISH

“NO! YOU CAN'T BRING

YOUR RABBITS—AND ONE MORE PEEP OUT OF YOU

AND YOU WON'T GO EITHER/"

ON-SECOND THOUGHT- BETTER, TAKE THE CANARY WITH YOU SUPPOSE SOMETHING" WERE TO HAPPEN.

"WELL; SHE ASKED

ME

CARE

BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU PARK THE PARROT- YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT

FAMILY, SECRETS

:

HE'LL IMPART-

COPA, 1964 TY GENERAL PEATURIS

'GORF, THE WORLD RIGHTÍ RISERTED,

THE CACTUS IS FAIRLY. TOUGH, SO IT DOESNY MATTER WHERE YOU LEAVE IT ANY 'NEIGHBOR, WILL

DO FOR IT.

The downfall of lots of newly married couples comes. freza: trying to keep up with the up- koop,

One. good thing about tho. bore---he 'doesn't talk about. other people.

Of all the money spent for bathing suits; think how little some girle have to sbow for it.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a motor car together, but anly one to tear it apart.

The new cars: "are" essier -to drive, easier to steer and ride mors comfortably, The only trouble is that of paying..

A card expert says lots of women, make, poor bridge rplay» ers. They just hate to retieri, a diamond?ANNE

...: A Now. York ghortas » g

$5,000 from 'a' man foe, a broke heart, Lucky, for him I was l one of her lopez

Lots of divprONE" ATM,

by the marriage

who are

whi