1954-12-31 — Page 12

POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER.

"You know, darling, there's really something intensely exciting about modern art!"

THE · CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

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PARADE PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

MUSEUMS Museums ACTOSS SCARED Britain are hustl- ing to buy "lle- |„dotectors" na the big hoax scare

grows.

Then Hastings Museum do elded to check other items from the collection of Piltdown "din coverer" Charles DawsoİS,

The tests and research checka. suggested that the quiet, scholar- X-ray ly Uckfield volletter was one of the biggest hoaxers of all time, Dawson apparently even faked

two-volume,

"History of

The llo-detectors are machines with flouride alters They bring a different "glow" from different substances and a enable the museums to decide Hastings whether

monkeys' Jawbones

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Now every museum in Britain have been grafted on to human worried. If one man could skuils or if bones from different pull off. + such. "cholarly periods have been put together. swindles" just to get his name In the history books how many others might have done the same around the turn of the century when archaeology was beginning to establish itself?

It all started when the British Museum, making routine checks, found that the world-famous Piltdown man was on cinborate construction of human and non- human elements of recent date.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Expresexxd (0),

7 Nobleann (4)

9 Farewell (5).

10 Foded (5).

11 Detall (4)

13 Conalder (10).

16 Extent (4)

10 Fuel (4)

19 Ves (10).

22 Fale (4).

24 Chatter (5)

28 Loafer (0)

20 Dispatched (4).

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4 Leave (6).

5 Be undecided (8).

6 Liberate (4).

Flower (5)

12 Repasts

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13 Drugged (8).

14 Familiar (8).

17 Bedeck (5).

18 Obvious (8).

20 Balance (5).

21 Distribute (5)

27 International agreement (0). 23 Frank (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Sulfe,

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4 Storm.

Dare, 17 Notion, 25

7 United, 8 Drift, 10 Thaw, 12 Belated, 15 Trait, 18 Epec, 19 Stoop, 20 Destevy 21 Res 23 Cache, 24 Study, 26 Dogged. Down: 1 Scuttled, 2 Imitates, 3 Lees, 5 Toreador, # Rafter, a Petty, 11 Wrotchid, 12 Bison, 13 Tapering 14 Destined. 18 Pedant, 22 Hoba

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SWORDS Japan's famod AGAIN

swordsmiths who, under General MacArthur's stern order, tumed their skilled hands to plough shares at the wor's and, are back at the old

"The first Samura once more.

sword to bo

For last week buyers visited war, not a shooting war. The a now type of fashion display, United States wants to put hor the first of a series of trade best foot forward and to look shows to be held at London's confident. If the dependants Royal Festival Hall.

were not allowed to with the men i would look as if the United States was frightened to death and expecting an attack momentarily.

At the microphone was Ray mond Glendenning, burley radio commentator, who customarily attends all Britain's main sport Ing events.

"race

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NO WONDER THEY GOSSIPED ABOUT

THE NEW

NEW TENANT

STEPHEN CRANE; an om- nibus, Heinemann. 21s. 703 pagos.

T

tubo by the verger's- daughter;

as a mistress of a

wealthy describes Yachtaman whom sho persuaded ardour, to set her up as manageress of been cut up

food with pootle "The squids have not Into neat stripe,

a place she named Hotel, de but torn into irregular shreds. Dream. There Crane found her,

and their flosh, white inside, la rory with crimson freckles on the outside, like, the lip of a pinie orchild."

On

As a clincher for his argu- Visitors, he announced, should ment he cited the case of Mamie consider themselves at a race his wife. She was with him in course.

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Europe in 1951 at a time - of Thereafter, at the clang of a starting bell, the models paraded he said, that two

great tension. It was so great,

or three THE new tenant of the : together for ten minutes in the months later the head of one of "paddock,"

ancient manor house Lady Stewart, as she called enclosure.

a green

carpeted the principal travel agencles of Brede Place in companion and nurse until he herself, was Crano's devoted told him the mere fact that Mrs: Buyers, with

carde Elsenhower was there turned a Sussex attracted curiosity died, burned out, in 1900, After bearing numbers and descrip- season where there was, going and admiration in the early that she drifted back to her tons in their hands, could easily to be no travel into one of the weeks of 1809.

previous occupation in Jackson- identify the dresses.

finest travel seasons of their

vilio. In last act of devotion, Moreover, their eyes were not whole career.

He was a gaunt, hand- her new establishment was bulli wearied by a long procession of fashion. Fencil in hand, they

Not even NO

£8,500 could compare the runners, one

some young American, of as a copy of Brede Place, will

26, with poker player's eyes, canny against the other, and

raplay SALE parado the

Scots in Paisley to part and he dressed as if he were jot down their selections for the with their rare book, Audubon's on a hunting expedition in

"Birds of America", published the Alleghanies. in 1827-98.

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A London rare book

dealer

offered this world record price, but the Scots declared: "The book stays in Scotland."

acason's stakes. since 1945 WOMEN FOR The Church of

18 sacred

S THE CHURCH and cler

closed shop to women; it's strictly man's territory. But the recor

So it will remain under guard of Kirton, a small town in in Paisley Museum-properly of Suffolk has asked for new the proud Scots.

made in Japan emerged from the rituals of forging last Wearing the traditional cap of the master gwordsmith Juko Miyaguchi and his son lovingly shoped the postwar pioneer blade in two months-twice as long as a prewar job.

Miyaguchi-san explained apologetically that his hand had lost some of its cunning while he dishonourable Wha forging ploughs, harrows, pitchforks and chains for Western-style plumb- Ing.

means

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deal for women who want to

And they guard it well. No- Join

tho Ministry.

Church of England body is allowed to see it unless

a watchful official is near by. Other churches had women

The book is one of the mest ministere; so why not us? he famous works in existence. Its cried lo a cheering women's four volumes meeting in seaside Felixstowe,

Said the Rev. W. G. S. Weir: "It is

19 A great loss to the church mot

have women clergy,

andi Housewives girls would

The women

And conclusive prost WAY OUT that "little things confide in them readily and lot" comes come women would make very from a. Newport, Monmouth good preachers." shire, divorce court where the

at the meeting Commissioner was told that the nodded agreeably. It WA couple before him would have something to think about, been seeking reconciliation, not separation, if the

Should wife had TAKE THE turned right instead of left WIFE ALONG wives ond

accmed that Mrs Doreen

children tag Pearce and her husband, after along when servicemen are petitioning for divorco had ordered overseas? Very de- finitely, said President Eisen- stay together. But

#greed to

when the time came to tell the

the hower. Judge about this no Mrs Pearce. The more of them the better.

Sho had turned

sho It's good public polley and up, claimed, but had taken the great boost for morale.

and landed up wrong

The turning

United

States #pends in a magistrate's court.

some seventy million dollars to "You made a fool out of me,"

survice maintain

dependants said her husband when they abroad (anyone from a sergeant met later. Mrs Pearce showed or even a corporal with seven him the door.

Result; Divorce granted to Mr Pearce because of his wife's desertion.

FASHION

STAKES

The absence

years' service can have family with

him).

Literary visitors from London were thrilled by his casual way of handling a six-shooter. He was named Stephen Crane, A trall of legendary fume, a faint aroma of scandal followed, him.

Crane looked back on a crowded, adventurous life; he had only a few months of life to look forward to. Eminent gues of the English literary world came to salute the won- derful young man in

whom they saw a writer of genius. To admire and then to pity. E

For soon it was obvious that Crane was going to die of tuberculosis,

Reckless

stand over four feet high, are three feet broad and contain 435 hand-coloured, life-size plates of 1,065 American birds, 493 of them supposedly extinct.

SPONSORED Because of com- plaints about SNOOPERS

the take-it-or- leave-it and couldn't-care-less Some visitors came to Brede attitude of "nationalised" shop- Place for other reasons, for the keepers in Czechoslovakia, the poker playing, the wild parties. Red satellite government has Others again wero drawn by formed a special corps of super-curiosity over the remarkablo snoopers with orders to see that woman who was called Crane's Czech shopkeepers behave, wife.

tho

The anoopers picked from the "General public and holding office for one year, must make frequent checks on all shops in their area and ensure that they are properly equipped, clean and efficiently in the display play windows In "good and the

prices marked on the tags are correct; the assistants serve customers willingly and politely:" his

proper opening and closing times are observed. In addition, the snoopers are alko authorised to examine the backs and check up stocks, de- livery

and wholesale dates prices. To make their

all chopkeepers must keep a "complaints book"--to belled in if and when neces- sary by the customers and inspected periodically by the government snoopera,

And the Army view is that it is worth every penny and n lot more.

Eisenhower, questioned

at his news conference as "an of old soldier" ("Make no mistake, the fashion show's I'm proud of that title") admit hushed commented that the presence of women tary in a glit and brocade set- and children in potential ting was a change for buyers trouble zones could cause very more interested in modes than acute problems. But, he pointed monologues.

out, don't forget this is a cold

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THEY WANTED TO STAY UP AND HEAR

THE WHISTLES.

SOME FOLKS WELCOME THE NEW YEAR BY HOPPING OUT OF BED LONG

ENOUGH TO FIRE A BLAST" FROM THE OLD HORSE PISTOL

NINE O'CLOCK

epsier,

Trak

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Crane was and is famous, first in Britain, then in America, for a novel called the Red Badge of. Courage,

By George a sessmen

Malcolm

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one Important Ziallars topic Mrs Templeton speaks out where earlier writers have been silent: Italian men and how to deal with them. In the female foreign tourist, the Italian male Ands a solution' to his life's problem: how to have amorous adventure without the tedious. sequel of loud-voiced mothers and heavily armed brothers.

Blind to the With the travelling foreigner, splendour of the Ilallon can be gloriously drill and die iresponsiblo.. He is attentive, "cipline, The practised, overwhelming, Red Badge ferocious, "A woman who is not worth teils in strong worth killing is not THOMSON colours

and having at all." violently offer

'Mrs Templeton has studied Imagery the species at close range! sho of one young man's experience has isolated a sub species. The

rich of fear and courage, of beauty, Tired Ones,”

bachelora horror and death, during, 11 about 30 to 40 years old, with battle of the American Civil no intention of getting married; War (which ended six years tired of life, their headquartera before Crane was born).

the most elegant cafe in To the annoyance of his. town. Pursuit of foreign women is their only source of excite- champions Crane is regarded ment „ás ajone+book man. Readers of this- over-edited "'omnibus" volume, in which appear some excellent short stories and the study of a New York street- girl, Maggie, will conclude that The Red Badge has o̟ majesty denied to his other work.

Classification

the

Seen through the eyes of the Tired Ones, Italian women are classified thus: prettiest, Triesto; best lovers, Ferrara-alas, Dot well-groomed; greatest beauties, Rome but too classical in style; THE SURPRISE O Perugia, quite lovely-"sweat CREMONA. By Edith as they go, only they do not go

very far." Templeton, Eyre

and Spottiswoode. 18s. 295 pages..

Advice on how to deal with the Italian male: »;·

Crane (his father a Methodist pastor, his mother temperance lecturer) had starved as vagrant free-lance journalist haunting dophouses in the

When he comes with his usual Bowery of New York. He had TRAVEL books come in may request to be allowed to ac fallen foul of the local. police varieties, One a All

company you, say something through championing pro churches; another sticke to res like "Alas, it is not possible." stitute against their persecution. taurants and wine-lists; one is "But why?" "Because I am un He had Allbustered in Cuba clotted history, the next gushing my way

to meet my lover." and as a Hearst reporter, had and "evocative some Ignora

"Perhaps I arm better than your suffered hardships in, the Greek the country altogether, and lover. Is he nice? Put your and Cuban wars hardships that lovingly concentrate on exbible hand on your heart, turn your were to, cost him his life,

og dinge the personality of the eyes heavenward, and say: "He

author. It had been a reckless, gaudy

The best bold the I can't tell you how won- Balance between

and egotion career, but nothing in it was information. Edith Templeton's goudler than his wife.

is a sprightly example,

with She had been Cora Howarth six Italian cities op its theme. of New England, married to a She is unabashed by the British officer who later becaine churches; hears, with no excess Sir Donald Stewart. She turn- of piety, the Christian martyrs ed up in Jacksonville, Florida, teeth being rattled in a glass

Ringing In The New Year

"LET'S CALL.

HELEN AND JIM"

"COME

IN/"

"HAPPY NEW YEAR THOUGHT WE WOULD DROP IN FOR A WHILE!“

THEY WERE 'ALL. GOING TO SPEND NEW YEAR'S EVE QUIETLY AT HOME

SO THEY SAID.

WEING COM 1961 BY GENERAL FEATURES.

CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

TOH BOYAMI GLAD I'M NOT IN

THAT MOB

72-28

ER-EXCUSE

ME

!

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BY HARRY WEINERT

OH-THERE

YOU ARE!"

WHEN THEY PLAY AULD LANG SYNE, AND. DIM THE LIGHTS AT MIDNIGHT- BE SURE YOU KISS THE RIGHT GIRL.

RESOLUTIONS 7

SAY

THAT

AGAIN

I MADE ONE LAST YEAR NOT TO MAKE ANYMORE *

HOW IS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY THIS MORNING

derful!"

Mrs Templeton guarantees success. She is also interesting on the Ravenna mosaicq.

NOTE: The Surprise of Cremona, was an historical event, in 1702, Prince Eugene with a handful of soldiers, surprised the French Governor of Cremona, General Villeral, with his mistress, and took hime prisoner. It was the great joke with the Tired Ones of that year.

SOLDIERING ON, By Sir Hubert Gough. Barker, 18. 260 pages.

WHEN Hittle Hubert Gough, and his brother, Johnnie walked to church on Sunday mornings, their father. would point, to a near-by hill and ask: "How would you dispose your troops to attack that, assuming you had a battalion of infantry, a battery and a squadron cavalry

It proved to be an excellent preparation for life. Hubert Gough hoard his first shot fired 67 years ago. He was the first officer of the relieving force to enter Ladysmith. He was the storm centre of the Curragh, Incident, when, like other Irish Protestant officers of his brigade,

he was ready to resign his com- mission rather than march against Ulster.

'Hé ordered the first 'shot to be fired by a „British- battery

In the 1914–18 war; and became the youngest army: commNAGAR, Now, in big oighilèg; 1. ha. Sa cheerful, belligerent figure with the twinkling relies of an Irish temper. He forgives ; and ⠀ re- members;

WINSTON CHURCHILL, fresh-faced subaltern of the 4th Humers, "standing with his back to the fire in the gunnETE STRUBU at" «Peshawar on

I I did not at of this somewhat bur

attitude. Buch style would, have :: been.

HARLY

Largoly brother

the Staff

19th

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