1954-10-16 — Page 14

POCKET CARTOON. By OSBERT LANCASTER

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CHINA MAIL SATU

DAY OCTOBER

THE SON of the MAN PARADE

CALLED MOSES

He was too eager, 19o alapdash, but he wrote a book whle represents one lavilag strand im

THE KING

OF SCHNOR-

RERS. By Jirael Zangwill,

Pordes. 12s. 6d. 156 pages.

THE NEW BOOKS

A

A COLUMN OF THE PEOPLE AND PLACES

JGS

geciral « ipférest, i- travel, blus appeared" and thus - tonly. nów,

appealed for scrup Iron,

sought by mother: mendicarst Polish Jow and therefore. vast inferior social standing..

THE OLD Wo Brilsher Manoeuvred into agreeing to MASTERS detrated graphics, romances and good after 181 years, been found this - week BA that bogles on iho acquisition, of again when, the present rector the union, the "King" is mum-American túnosmilha Cola Por..." everyday, domestic skills.". moned before the council of his ter, Richard Rogers 'and. Irving synagogue to explain how he Berlin are not the undisputed came to permit this breach of kings of London's theatreland the commune taboo. Not only

Their names: W. 8. Gilbert does he enjoy. a dialectical triumph over the council but ho and Arthur Sullivan, also enriches the synagogus | funds with £100 "bogged" from its wealthier, members,

The King of Schnorers, es- posing the cause of humorous now effrontery against the pompous and the respectable, represents one listing strand in the Jewish temperament. It may not be good art, it is sound folk fore,

HD brightest pupil at and an ancient tradition. fancy of a time when the old the Jews' Free School They were the children of roligous patizin of Jewish life

was breaking up and In Spitalfields looked the ghettoes of the East, nationalist political spirit was round at his own people, whose fathers had

fled awake.. seemingly abject, sunk in westwards one jump ahead squalor, yet hugging to their of the cossacks. Young bosoms an immense pride Israel Zangwill was one of

'them. A British Crossword Puzzle

There you are--absolutely unique? The only Roman who's not involved in the Monter case!!

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departed to spend the last years Before Moses Zingwill plously of his Ilie in Palestine and to die

As the Doyly Carto Opera Company launched a freshly costumed and backgounded now contom of and operas, the Savoy Theatre's box-office staff worked overtime.

In no time at all every otio performances of the wenson's were booked up, and hundreds of disappointed fans had to ba told they would have to take their chanco in the gallery By queues.

The BBC turned over one of the week's best listening "spot to an extract from "Princess Ida."

THE ROYAL - BOX.

Frances Parkinson Keyes.. Eyre and Spotthwoode. 12. 6d. 317 pages.

"match-

It was discovered inside -clock at Greenlands, à Thames- owned by Viscount Hambleden. sido mansion, until recently

£60 FOR A man who started collecting A LABEL box labels in 1897 now has 60,000 from all over POOR New York is the the world and he values then ROMEOT worst place in the world- for a man to at £2,000.

Mr James Long of Caledonian falli in love. It is not only Road, Brighton his roomy devilish on his pocket, but there stacked high with albums, and is hardly anywhere the pear among them is one of the Arat fellow con go for privacy. match-box labels in the world. Take Central Park. he The matches it advertised were lucky enough to fimt à quiej sold by John Walker, a chemist romantic spot, a cop ls, liable of Stockton-on-Tees. In 1827. to come along and give him a He made the first dependable summons for walking on the safety matches and sold them grass, Or he may be hit on the at 100 for 1s, in small round tin head by a "mugger” The park in Jerusalan, he know that his

containers.

Is infeated by thugs, even in the son, Israel, although no longer

Later when he put his daytime. His father, Moses, had attached to Jewish dogha, was

matches in boxes the labels on Or he may own a car. It will escaped from Russla in a leather among his people-for

them were similar to medicine take him hours to drive out of 1848 when the Tsar began ael hat become lieutenant to,

Bottle labels. There are believed town and find a lover's lane free Theodor Herzl;, founder of conscription of Jewish Zionism.

to be not more than three now of pariding restrictions By that children. Moses was now, a

old masters were still in existence. Mr Long recently time one of two things has happened-the girl is crying poor street trader six days

His largest label is a Chinese sho's hungry or she simply must i every page breathes dignity, that the big bright American

get home by midnight. in the week and a devout

refinement and gracious living musicals were just a very good one as big as a postcard. In the scripture reader

Mrs Parkinson Keyes has writ- | second-best. Zangwill went on for some ten another whodunnit,

For

In the meantime, the acotalm synagogue on Saturday.

years pouring out novels, which that is what it really amounts of sophisticated. London thaitre SOLDIERS' The templo of Israel, his son (born were read by Gentlles as well as to, this expert, glossy inlo

Jews. "The Melting Pot," a diplomatic

Koers was proving that half-a- CULT and

century had not dimmed the 1864, "a pure Cockney"),

efforts of that curiously-assorted London study of Jewish emigration into society in London — a murder was a brilliant youth, witty, the United States, made a sensa- story.

brace of geniuses. clever with his pen, carry on when it was published, but ing of all the prizes, at its reputation, ilke that of the

has tracting the notice of others,

been short-lived. In Zangwill was too eager, too slap- wealthier

members of the dash, too little of an artist, too

"'I community. will pay much at a publicist for the boy at Eton and Oxford,"

of them offered..

a

one

But Israel would be de- pendent on no individual, After winning triple honours at London Univer- ally, he became first a teacher in Whitechapel and then a journalist with a fame spreading among the scattered colonies of Jewry.

Impudence

Having out-lived most of his Iorary "Iteme, Zangwill died in 1920, leaving £4,000 to each of his three children and the rest

by

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GEORGE' MALCOLM THOMSON...

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were not almost jese

Tho

Imajeste to say so of one whose top offre still refused 200 for his specimen.

of

salt-hotel.

After a visit to the royal box the Terry Theatre, Mr Baldwin Castle, newly appointed American Ambassador to the all-

East state of Aristart, is found dead in a car outside the Savoy Hotel.

riddin Middle

Every member of the party with whom he spent the evening is of good social status, yet almost every one of them seems to have some motive for wishing to rid the world of Castle.

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;

Desperate, the chap may get engaged in the bollief that this will ensure some privacy. Not at all, Going oft on holidays to- Mithras discovered

even with parental gether, in the City of approval, is "not done" in the

be the ftrat Stales. may not found in England, as a stone His only solution-but an showing the god slaying a bull expensive one-is to marry the wps dug up in Micklegate, girl BOOKWORMS It reading York, in 1747. Little was known of archaeology then but experts (estes reflect TURN

now Believe the carving must STORM IN The new official nation's

French Without have come from a temple, FRENCH character, Britain is becoming The cult of Mithras was

Tears manual cscapist, frivolous and more

Government has started some than a little shallow, Britons, it soldier's religion, and York was just published by the French uru turning their garrisoned by the Romans, a thing of a storm. It bolls down appears,

also was London. backs

Miras, French to a vocabulary of 1,188 on the heavier tomen and demanding the lightest and originally the Persian god of words result which it took light, represented goodness and $3 Commissioners, professors, latest, hot from the publishers.

Tho book!th members

of compensation gave promise of **

study centre to arrive at... England's Library Association in a future life for hardships on spectors, experts and a whole

earth.

After months of work shook their heads over these

they The initiation ceremony In- found they had left out words symtoms when they convened cluded the sacrifice of a buil like night, day, white, black, last week at Hastings.

in the blood of grocer, librarian

bus, eye, nose. Now due up to £1,000 to the Zionist

of a representative and bathing

teachers middle-class London borough the antipal,

are asking why they have kept

the in

word snake Orgmluation. But, when his wife, his ex-mistress, her hus had to report to his colleagues

and left out.ant, why they'v{ fortune was added up, it was band, the lady who rejected him that there was a marked drift CHURCH BELLS An 18th cen- included forget and not remem found to total only £3,267. At in youth, the Aristanian Ambas- away from "the, baste and his funeral, the rabbi decisimed:sador to the Court of St. James's standard."

GAMBLED

tury game of ber, lend but not debt, car but cards be not garage, and a lot of others, "Plame thou wert, to flame thou and half a dozen others. Nico, hast returned." In truth, the nice people

What the present „generations tween the rectors of Hamble- Also, they complain, the words but one of them creative dame in Israel Zangwill slipped the cyanide pill into the wanted was an increasing sup- den and Fingest villages, near joy, charity and happiness aro

ply of new books--and best Henley-on-Thames, ended in omitted from: the new vocabu had long since burned-low;

now Ambassador's drink.

seligre, at that.

of the gambling away

One expert has furiously The King of Schnorrers, now Desper and deeper into the Nor did it scem that things church bells of Fingest. After Jewish novel, Without delay reissued, displays his talent in maze of ancient grudges and were going to get any better losing his mory and then his retorted, that 1,138 words

Reynolds, furniture the unlucky rector ample since plenty of French- Israel sat down and turned out its wit, sentiment and erudity. old dislikes Mrs Keyes conducts For Librarian J. D. The Children of the Ghetto. Few. Its central figure, "the King," is her clients. In the end, it all of Finchley, bemoaned "n also had to hand over the bells, men nowadays need a dictionary frightening lack of interest and The winner had them melted to be able to read. French enjoyed so immediate or so hugu (schnorrer)· afaristocratle then we had reason to expects

presence and boundless impu- But in the presence of an auther people whose

was bell for. bla own church, St. backl dance who lives by preying on who unmistakably convey marrod and disorganised by the Mary's of Hambleden. Then he written, senil his co-religionists In 18th the effluence of .a **gociqi | war.”

accused the foundrymaster, of mental, with only the thinnest century London. The comic epic superiority, who would have the The answer, the bookmen stealing some of the metal and SMILES TO A "Smile More" campaign has thread of narrative connecting of this rogue reaches its climax il-breeding to complain of a tet- agreed, was to provide populer, obtained from him another bell WORRY

been launched introductions But it hit the when his daughter's hand is down?

of weighing 51 lbs. This later dis-. in Spain's Mediterranean coast- folds

Novel to order

One day the Jewish Publica tions Society of Philadelphia sent him a commission to write

Ancient grudges.

That goes

for Castle's new

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the

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novels written to, onder have à Portuguese Jowish bengar turns out to be a liftic moral-purpose among the young down, and made into dno treble poetry of less than a century,

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23 Fool (B).

24 Geometrical Aguro (5)

:

a succeser

It is hastily

YKSTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across: 1 Tremed, 5 Sifts, 6' Refer, 0 10 Corps. 11 Siren, 12-sut. 13 Discs, 10 Defect, 18 Prunes, 20 Faves Atema, 25 Otero, 20 Hay, 27 Irons, 28 Plans, 20 Down: 1 Tuckshop. 2 Envelope, & ETs, 4 Dentzen, Sepedes, Ironic, 7 Tople, 14 Stallton, 18 Strangle, 18 Dusters, 17 Ferment. 10 Alalat . Label, 21 Sash.

Персе

Its anecdotes.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHEN THE MONKEYS-ARE TAKING LIFE SERIOUSLY AND TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING OF THEMSELVES-THE HUMANS STAND AROUND AND GRIN

AT THEM.

SEVEN DAYS WITH-

OUTA DRINK!!

KINY IMA

AGINE

What Makes Wild Animals Wild

MINK

childhood

to

BY HARRY

WEINERT

THE ONE WHO CAN'T EVEN TAME HIS OWN WIFE: TRIES THE POWER OF THE HUMAN EYE ON THE LION,

A MINK HAS FEELINGS-HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE Y SOME ONE STARING AT YOU. WITH GREEDY. EYES AND WISHING THEY HAD YOUR SKIN ?

EVERYBODY TRIES TO STEAL

THE PEACOCK'S

·STUFF:

„1954 BY EMRAL MATURES": THWORKD, BIHTS RESERVED.

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al province of Murcia. The campaign, with its headquarters in the town of Yecla, has been organised by a group of Spaul-, arda who believe that even you, yourself are unhappy- smile on your face may bring. happiness to others.

"Always smile" urge the or ganisers. "Smile at your friends and even your enemies. 5millo

children and the old follo

at

Infect everyone with the joy of living. A smile costs Ittle effort, almost no time-and no money."

Spaniards, not normally a smiling, people, are wondering what it is all about-and look- ing more worried than ever.

BARBS

BY ITAL COCHIBAN

THE world gets fastert in a

THE

lol of magazinë

pictures

the girls didn't even have time: to dress,

People getting in on the ground floor often find out. that there's no elevator.

A wise man disagrees with

his wife, but only a fool

lets her find it out..

Some musical comedy shows would fare better if the curtain was raised only about four Lect

Some men-find obscurity naturally and

·become.

husb

women.

ddo, girls

:known

wero, ar-

going in, bathing: in Down in the d

Desimist will

itor: he can Bad”why,

"A WONDERFUL BIRD IS THE PELICAN— “NO GNUS

ITS BILL CAN HOLD MORE

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