1954-12-24 — Page 19

YOUR BIRTHDAY

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.

EDITORS PAERG SERVICE, MONNUE

By STELLA

BORN Bulay, you are a natural adventures, whether it be as an explorer

new places in earth or a ptonces of new ideas. You are often lon reckiem and herd to curb your inquiers and tailor them to some definite pattern. You dialike having to conform and li will be difficult for you to submit to any kited of restraini On the other hand, you enjegy criticising others You like everyone else to conform to your Kemal

You have charm and wit, You muy easily be considered a lender in new iɖew and th reform. Yet, you are not one to impose your ideas on others forcefully, You enjoy enibung others in support of your kteas, but your method of indindlp is not to be by the pon rather than the wword. You have strong toyaltsen mod will stand by those who are your frictián, coure what may

Rather emotional and baying keen fatultions, you may need to curb This side of your nature or you will fad yourwelt going off of a tangent. You need to learn concentration to a single objectivo, Knowing a little about a lot of different things may be a great deal of fun but knowing a lot about some une thing will pay higher arvidonchs in the long run.

Among those burn de this take are; Kit CaroNEY, pher: Uchand Sturgis, arefeet, Charles Welefeld Cadman and Henry Itumell, composer; Mathew Armabi, mather, Muth Catteries

and author: Carl Briand, what

Destr

To find what the slags have in store for you tomorrow, select your Tarthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday stat he put daily gutle

VAPHICQUN

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25

(Dec. 23-Jan. 201-- Merry Christmunst If you have a family of children, you'll be wi with the biủa Bavo & Juyoum Uime AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)-

A he day, even if it rain or sŻYWYM, The bone fees alopid be burut bothly for you and yours.

PISCES (Feb. ZU-MT

29)-- This arm are 3 harrous and the day should pares 19 Joy and happiness. For all.

ARMEN

ZL-AUT

Iሆ .. The »əirit of Chrisianes cant be cA- Javed unrestained. True bajitness in teased in giving as well as zrURLY-

TAURUS Aps 21-Max 21) Enjoy the spiritual aspects of the day as well as the joy of the festivi. Les Both are Important

GEMINT

22-J

21- (May

the gathering of your facully about you can lung true and Tonfa ernteiben

Hinppinem

BORN on Christine Frag Pathet

23)

CANCER

£2.July June You may need to exort diplomacy to pour of um troubled waters. Anit you be the one who can do I. Toat

July

LEO

23

24-Au If alone. rethember that you car bruse happines 10 Journell by giving to others when you love

VIGO (Aug. Zi-Sept.

23)- Do your share in spreading Christ- mas joy and cheer to have a happy Ule with loved TMYM,

LIBRA (Sept. ZI-OcL 23) All aspects are excellent for you n this time. Have a happy time, All

ACORPIO

24-Nov 227-

This is a spiritual day, remember, pe well as one of fenlivity. Early church attendance is favoured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nev, 23-Dec. 12)-- A feeling of Joy and contentment should pervade the entire day for

Enjoy yourself Thoennighly

birthikte sm are destined for an outskanaling mur

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26

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to seeking plesoute de mot megcheet

plata museof the Vuletide

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* Attend church

PISCEN (Feb. 20-Mar

20)--

All should go well with you lolay and nothing can inna the pleasure and Kapolnew of your week-end

ARIEN (Mne. 21-Apr. 20)- There 14 romance in the air fem yud

tii boday sewn To make or be crive a proposal is mijnig probable

TAURÚS CAP 21-MAY 21- fine spirit of yesterday co- tinues to permeate their day as well Give thanks for bappsvesn

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)-

You may follow through with your plan Lay out rental they will work out on anthipoter

ROBN today

Verkeh

CANCER

22 July 23)... If you laer quade your plans for The day carefully we well in .. Vance, thee all abould proceed well

(July 20-ABR 23.... This could b * duy forest wil koðanation witer

eweling Lites Same lensedenis Qow VHIGG (Aur. 24-Sept.

23)- nit The major thin

your favour foday, no that whatever you try should turn out well,

LIBRA (Sept

Love and romance

Com

"He was caught by a policewoman.”

2328

.BY. THE. WAY.

THE

by Beachcomber

account of a concert

courtesy at great

the conductor which "the instrumentalists switched to the Wagner, but by did not always respond to the that time the Instrumentalists, conductor with the right notes." not to be outdone In courtesy, occasion had switched to the BizM, As a recalled

"There when an orchestra did not even critic wrote:

022 WILM respond with the right plece of apparent lack of co-ordituation between the conductor and the

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Music

The conductor conducted orchestra." Bizel "L'Arlesienne,“ but the instrumentalists responded with the overture to "Rienzi."

With

JACOBY

The old Rochdale

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Observer

REFERED recently to my editorship of the old Ruch- dale Observer in Gatton Street.

writes correspondent

that

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there is no sireet of that naine in Rochdale. I fed this remark

ON BRIDGEther offensive. shall be told

Silence Is Golden In Bridge Came

next thot never edited the puper. Gatton Street is the not- Tow continuation of Carmichael into Headlam omers were which is now

Street, and runs

Street. The

Tit No. 30.

bank. In the

old

it

manager's room

trangs a portrait of Miss Gracie

who did our

Fielda, Notes for a time.

hope sa

Political

By OSWALD JACOBY THERE is a line to speak and a to keep quiet" Peler Levenfritt was saying the other day of the celebrated Card School, in

York, as I poked New

the doorway, I sidled in understand, that the holes in quietly and took a seat to listen to present-day sculpture BTC of Peter's lectury, very happy to keep

quiet white Peter spoke.

The text free the walk

In never, occurs to those tho at what they do mot my face sneer

shown

at today's brandi. North and South

considerable significance.

Article on sculpture.

have every right to speak up during PERSONALLY,

the bidding, but hast should know exough to keep quiet,

I always head imagine somebody's

North has a sound opening bid, sluck through one of the holes,

to bid ready

two no-trump

with 15 points in high cards. "South us on the pler at Brighton. That regardless of whether or not Ennis significant enough

24-Oct

20)- really active

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Jury in your sphere at this tune samula de comun your way

SCORPIO (Del.

24-Nov. 22)-

aze

This can be an excepțimally picesne - ab Sunday, especially if you with 'otes Family

SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 23- Today's delivaltem should complete a vertred of happiness and joy Give thanks for you blings

you have a deep and forceful personality but word petee Consequently, you and farmy menee than anything oken in the world are not ole to pich your Bear will edemehed Arts bit rather with calm. espassinevate pešturion Your mentor Talente le on the resin of literatIATO then be developed from carken! youth. History pivlomsphy" alan told in high appead and you might combine your writing karent wath these specific interest

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You love the gift of encentration and once yine got an idesi mtu yıɔr deter you from reaching your goal in that qudat, head you let nottine deterostred and ellesent fashion You may often surprise competitors, for little ntul do so much that the results are accomplished von talk yo withionat Indare Fince you are bovenlly an intellectual, you often feel ent of your element, especially when thrust into the hurly-hurty com- You seem to want only mistelent Iunds

to take one of your myahman needle.

That altitudo toword material auCOLA is fair enough If you do not have a famBy that depends upon you for mupoort, If you do, then you murt shake yourself vût of zpětiny und gel to work! Unwever, your love nd hotte and of having you own family is any of the motivating poweru

vour lite. A happy marriage will be a great mcentive to you,

Among those born in this date see: Admiral Gedrge Dewey, U.S.N. Thomas Nelson patriot; Emma Southwarth, novels: Dion Bouclcmalt. playwright Harry Hanson, Crime

To find what the stars bieve in store for you tomorrow, select your Let your birthday birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph slar be your daily guide.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 27

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)— Early morning hyntra need muretul attention. Something could go awry that would prove seTICUS.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 18)- Conservative nction is beat for now. Don't be too adventuresorne or take unnecessary chances.

'There

PINCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)--

may be important mutter which nord your attention after the holidays. Get an early start.

ARIIA (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)

high cards, balanced

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me

bids, since South has 14 points in But, to take a less light-hearted distribution, view of the matter, I would say and a stopper in each of the untrid that these holes are as essential Svita Thereupon North properly

nises to three no-trump.

those

Gruyere cheese, Having noted that North-South They achieve a kind of psycho- rigi to speak, let's logical harmony which is based have the why Eust should keep quiet

structural lecunde. Each has only 7 points in high cards and therefore cannot hope to outbid hiatus in a composition which The enemy unless West lus about seems to be an expression of 12 or 13 points, in which case West

the can bid his own hand without any

is, in reality, prodding from Fast,

Internal of an

will make a you may Tensive bid if you can favourable opaning lead

East

Indicate

on

amorphis, abandonment If you can't outta the enemy. I siress, and the substitution for

sound de- visual objectivism of

subjective avisualism. Like the pouse in piece of music, the hole is an emotional cavity filled with inorganic perceptivism; on aformal

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CANCER (June 22.July 23)-- You need Lo exert caution business affairs, for there Are Notre slightly disturbing elements.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- Being too acventuremme today can provę poor policy, Recklesscan would be curbed. Just stay calm.

VIRGO (Aok. 24-Sept. 23)... Mako no attempts to try out a new

An average day is in store for you and Stay in your normal

exert caution with detail ove

return

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but you can improve things

LIBRA (Kept 24-0 L 23m taking a positive atitude.

This is just another average day. TAURUS (Apr 21-May 21)- X you don't expect too much of it, You may follow through with your you should be satisfied. normal

to work plans, ACOMPIO (Uct. Zt-Nov. ZZ) It may be difficult to get in your One of those times when you need #tride f

to be expecialły sert so that major unset does not occur. *SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 11-Dec. 27)-- Sleep fato, if you can! Barly hours ore intoyourable. Day improves dr it gets older.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- Don't attempt to do too much to- day. You may be a little weary from a hoctie week-end, to relic

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North-South vul.

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East's ten-high apade' suit doesn't support an opening Lead; and, in fact. West's bent opening lead in a heart rather than a spade, To sum up, East cannot hope to outbid the enemy and can only confuse his partner in the choice of the best opening lead. Hence the overcali cannot do any real good.

Now lot's

what harm 18 done by the overtali, West loade the_gdx of hearts, the, best lead re- gardless of slave getion. Declarar plays low from the dummy and wins in his own hand with the nino. He now knows that West han the king of, Heart,

000

Declarer leada a • diamond to dummy' anos (the correct safely play, in caso East bag the singleton king), rota buck to his hand with the ace of spades, and jende another diamond towards the dummy. West naturally plays low, and South hea to decide whether to put up the quens, or duck,

If there has been no defensive bidir. Southy percentage pixy to but up dummy's queen of diamonds. Then he would lond

two diamond tricks, and the con. track.

But if Dust has toolishly

bi spades Botill should credit hidin with the two missing · Kings and

should duck the oond round of diamonds. Hart must play lila king -anjpay, and now the contract is

esally made,

♥*CARD,Sezse?

q-ww netther side vulnerable,

·South

2 clubs Pam.

and non-sense,

In passing

THE

OF

"BRITISH WAY

LIFE" IN JAPAN

From Ronald Boxall

LONG Hat of auc- that post of it had to be left

CORROS Inspreading unanswered.

British culture in

The Council's function, how- ever, is not to promote, a one-

of an interchange of knowledge

to

between the two countries.

In the year under review, 12 scholarships were

were awarded Japanese students, who are re- ported to be "doing outstanding-

versities, and soom

la be sin-

Japan is claimed by the way trafic in culture. It con- British Council, whose an- celves its work in Japan as part nual report has just been published in London.

There is a hint of rueful ness in its observation that "British books are in great demand: Russian books 13 well in various British uni- plentiful and cheap." But cerely grateful for the treatment the Council is not dismay they aro receiving from the ed.

A potential English British public." reading public of ten million Al- is growing up, it says. ready, more of their publica- tions are sold in Japan through regular trade than in any other country.

Japan is, in fact, one of the Council's principal targets for British cultural matter. Along of all the countries in which the Council operates, Japan-has a chapter to itself in the report.

But the Council is not a rich organisation. It cannot do all that it would wish to do. Money has to be spent whore it will do the most good-and, even then, with an eye to its effect un the critics at home who con- alder the Council's work waste of pubile funds.

n

The Council's staff in Jupan In relation to the scope of its mall, operations, is woefully For the greater part of the year (April covered by the report 1953 to

March 1054). it had only

one London-based officer

In addition to these scholar- skips, donated by an unnamed Commonwealth

subject, the Couhell arranged the placing or supervised the studies in Bri- tain of 30 Japanese scholars.

More than GD induential visitors' from Japan were givòn guidance "in varying degrees."

In reverse Council haa

the the

selection of British candidates for two scholarships 'offered by the Japanese Government.

POPULAR

RECORDS.

"ADDIE

Fisher, Joni

Eames, Free Brewer

in the country and one typist the Sauter-Finegan people Later, it

bers

it admits, "those num and other relative new- were do

doubled,"

The

rest

comers will have to make

for

Paul Whiteman and Rudy Vallee.

of the executive staff consisted of a locally-

cally-appointed librarian room and a Japanese iru

iranslator. Staff shortage and the high cool of operating in Japan, however, were only two of the Council's problema when it took for British over responsibility cultural affairs from the United Kingdom Liaison Mission at the end of the Occupation.

It was often found then that

the various learned bodies with whom the Council made contact were unaware of recent contribu- tions made by

Britain to their subjects. This WOR

especially so where science and medicine were concerned. The extent of British progress in the produc- tion of isotopes is mentioned na

chso in point,

But the Council is not solely concerned with culture. Its in- terents embrace mich mundane subjects de traille Jams in Tokyo. "Material lent to Japanese officials describing traffic

control

Whiteman won his crown! in na the "King of Jazz" the late 1920's, but times changed after the U.S. stock market crash and so did

back

pur-

the music. Out went the brass, in came the strings and old "Pops" was on the podium as veyor of plush music in the Kostelanetz style.

on

Now, in retrospect, Whiteman has recreated a Coral LP something that sounds like the music that made him a jazz king. The eight numbers are made up as an "All Time Dance Party" and includes hotted-up versions of "Japanese Sandman," "Chicago" and "Avalon."

Rudy Vallee made his meney in London" a wholly

says the report, at a time when you could keep visible most of it, so we haven't acon "helped bring about a and audible diminution In the very much of hiin Except bedlam of traffle in Tokyo." occasionally in the movies, Old This will come as a surprise folks remember Rudy as a caro- who sang to many British motorists, many free yoling chap

two main advantages of 3 new method of stopping the growth of grass by chemicals seem to be that it will discolour the grass and encourage weeds. The complete destruction of all grass would do away with mowing. and if flowers and shrubs and vegetables could be abolished too there would be no need to work at all in a porden. We could then turn to schemes for the abolition

and of trees hedges, thus saving maḥ-hours and giving everyone mord leisure for radio and television.

12

13

CROSSWORD

Acrow

1. Mr. Power's boss 2+ (9) 10. Mano 11. Lack of power. (9)

(3)

13. 840 dusat ni mixed up. (8) 16. You've heard of, this kind

Typewriter la gargod

T

18, Bouth one in known to Mezzi

men, (0)

19. Major and minor constellatiošta,

8. N. Mint tea capink:)+ {8}. 25. Mr. Ontas, conspirator. ladke onseked by khakespeare, (6)

26. They work on "Tightrope (RBI

1x direction. (9)

-

2. Wartber-000k+ 2(6) _*

14: Pull up by the roots. (3) '

49 It's another kind of minilo. (8)

B. Often, wrongly, untää”, abotið

6. Piliked” gilid a petongens by hár.

of whom belleve that London's through (1) his nose and (2) own trable conditions leave mucha megaphone. to be desired!

Between distributing English books to scholars and teachers and instructfig Japanese drivers In the finer points of the Brillah Highway Code, the Council got behind with its correspondchet. Broadcasts given by the Council officers produced such an avalan

clic

of mail

says the report,

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The megaphone, of course, long

gave way to the microphone but the good old twang is still there by Vallee sings "Maine Steln, Song," "Botty Co-Ed," "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" and five others, including his radio theme song, "My Time is "MEKONG" (1) Your Time," on a Capitol LP.

"DONAI"

Sophie Another old-tlover, Tucker, has bech popping in and out of the musical scene: Her latest recording for Mercury is a real corker called "The Middle The Alpover, Ago Mambo." "Down South," is equally enter taining.

But the re-emergence of these stars don't take the shino of the top performers of today. The previously mentioned Miss Brewer offer eight excellent numbers on a Coral LP, "A Bouquet of Hits from Teresa Brewer" and "The Bound of Sauter Firingan Orchestra” brings out ulusunt totes in 10 numbers recorded for H-h tans (RCA Victor).

Show Time: The unforgettable musle" or "Brigadboti" now is available on an M-G-M long- playing 'disc, taken from the sound track of the movie which stars Gene Kelly, Vin' Johnson, Cyd Charlswe and Elaine Blewart.

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