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POCKET CARTOON by osbårt lancaster

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ATOMIL SOYAN

"Personally, I'd settle right away for a reliable cold windscreen and cure

wiper which worked!"

THE CHINA MATE SATURDAY, JANUARY

LIFE WAS SO BEWILDERING

THE NOBLE SAVAGI. Á LIFE OF PAUL CAUGUIN, by Lawrence and Elizabeth Hanson, Chatta and Windur, 21, 304 pigu.

M

ADAME

There

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GAUGUIN

has

failed

gether unworthy of the position

for poor Mmė. Gauguin ★First hor prosperous husband gives up everything to palat... And then he turns out to be a genius after all."

sadly deceived by life,

So her!

ways: either ho can paint the outward scóns in ita - violence

1955

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL About PEOPLE AND PLACES AND "THINGS

shook their heads Carol singing, for instance, and splendour, or harder job LITTLE OR The problema: Peoplo

that confront n and muttered that the aristo- They don't seem to like carol ho can try to get inside the NOTHING Folies Bergere girl cracy wasn't what it used to bo, singing any more-they prefer

medieval mind, that curious product of an Age of Faith have just come out into the open Things must be pretty tough jazz and television. in America whero vivacious the Wyvill family. which was also an 'era of super».

But when Marmaduke died

work he

left nearly stition, Zoe Oldenbourg adopts Xvonne Menard has been told

that she must wear SOMETHING last the second method.

when sho

appears before £200,000.

He jus liked' acroplanes... American audiences. The only problem would seem to be that neither Yvonne nor her sponsors SHOE You

along crowded boulevard, can agree on what, that SOME- TALK CAD THING should be.

you tread accidentally

Avo

walk

One hundred fifty studants organised a carol choir in London's West End the other night and on their way to Fic- cadilly stopped outside pubs, milk bars on street corners and struck up the old tunes.

As they grouped round the hundreds ot Bros. statue,

· on a fashionable young lady's Londonors joined in the singing.

has had a bad Press, her husband the company of train fare to that he could visit

children. never herself and the

wa, her understanding Metié could only answer that, been a book about her limited

The result is an imposing that she diễ not see the beauty having carried off one chilid, he evocation of the medieval tem- husband which

to of his paining at a time when had abandoned, the boy in order perament in its full range from point out that she was #nobody else did either!

to gallivant about with flashy gree to noble and from noble women and insuccesful artists, to absurd, with religion, in vivid Liresome, nagging creature, But does not Mme. Gauguin As for aending him money, as power, holding the structure limited in imagination, deserve Itindor treatment than on as he had a few francs in together. In the blind old The Partalon star believes Iqvely foot.

But in Bloomsbury a. crowd bourgeols in outlook and alto. this tom her husband's bk his pecket he spent them an Crusader and the blinded herelle, that

million Americans And before you can say "So of

rushed out of a hotel women

of I to which inte had called her grapher? Nover was woman 0 paint, drink or worse,

stumbling together on their way (who viewed and liked her in sorry" there is a painful squeak, crying."Got out

Shool to Jerusalem, the aspiration, her almost-nothingness at the Not the lady'sisqueak--but the You're spoiling our and the self-destructive ferocity real Folies Bergere) can't be foots.

And outside a milk bar the of the age are embodied. A wrong. She has been told

The lady smiles, but does not proprietor came out, throwing remarkable Imaginative feat however, that New York isn't spamit. Her shoc has protested up his hands. The corollers

Paris-not by a long way and for her.

were drowning the jazz on his has had various costumes trotted "Talking shoes are. the latest juke box, he complained. out for her approval. So far, thing. The voice La scwn So the students wandered off, however, none of the costumes under

the

upper-leather and convinced that it was indeed a have pleased Yvonne who com screeches when anyone treads changing world. plains that even the scantiest

op it. of them "restrict" her too much. It appears that she wants to feel free all over.

that of wife of a man of genius. Such (It was shid) was the Danish pulty cruelty of thin woman that she even denied

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

16

22 123

24

19

ACROSH

Weaken (8).

13

18

7 Part of horse's bridle (4)

Estany (6).

10 Depari (5).

11 Har (4).

13 Amazed (10).

15 Meadows (4).

18 Meditate (4).

10 Cape (10).

22 Platform (4)

24 Scottish dances (5).

25 Poison (5).

26 Sage (4).

27 Develve (8).

10

15

16

8

15

2 Dump (5).

121

DOWN

3 Mire-ruising (5).

Enjoy (0),

5 Bungle (8).

Expires (4).

Elude (3).

12 Savoury (3).

13 Equipped (6).

14 Superintendent (8).

17 Enemy agents (8).

18 Entertained (0).

20 Unusual (

($).

21 Admitted (5). 23 Parched (4).

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: Copper, 4 Scrap,

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7 Loosen, # Smeur, 10 Nous, 12 Arouses, 15 Ratio, 10 Test, Alier 19 Refedt, 20 Herlaced, 21 Sign, 23 Essay, 24 Cinema, Oster, 24 Pelle. Down: Calendar, 2 Procured, 3 Eyed, 5 Com- pures. Abases, 9 Proud, 11 Sat rufe, 12 Aired, 13 Sediment, 14 Standard, 18 Beasts, 22 Fine.

man

the market

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Edwin Muir, Hogarth. 19s, 288 pages.

So there Metto remains, a dla She fell in love with M. approving chorus in the back Gauguin, a handsome, raffl:h, ground of her husband's tragie well-to-do Paris stockbroker,. story, for over declaiming her whose conversation was refrain, "Your atrocious selfish- enthralling and whose flair for ness I cannot forgive."

It never could not be di- ceases whether Gauguin is stary- puted. He spoke of a glamorous ing in Paris, digging the Panama lolling on a beach in como Canal, background: “I famliy

Tahiti or of Aragon,

Is dead at las. in from the Borglas and a stormy grandmother who Papeete while hilarious colonists auction his last pleture (held up- had been an anarchist blue.

side down and mockingly called stocking.

Nothing was better

Niagara Falls) for seven francs. cateulated

10 turn the head of

hna so much about on a drunken young Meife Sophie Gad from

Life held in reserve one last this Copenhagen than

adrol sardonic blow for Mette, In the of vision he writes a narrative of what she must (and must not) because, well, mixture of the romantic and end it turned out that Paul wa curious and touching quality. Itwear that she has lost 10 ite. sinco she arrived in Amerien Uke an account of a three weeks ago. the solid.

a great artist, his pictures did is more sell for large sums and the

the story--highly chlidren cme-oh, dream than billerea blow! to personal, and at times amusing- think with price of of a life.

So she married her Alockbroker and bore children.

bim

Ave

Had she only known what a petoolmaster hud suic of Phul Gauguin-"That boy will grow up either an idiot

rentus or a

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

--she might

Lave

{}}}

hesitated.

But

poor

Mette sild nut

even

BOOKS

know that Paul was ; ព "Sunday painter," ie. one who amused himself at spare moments with paint and canvas,

What followed came as a com- plete and brutal surprise.

Toc substantial stockbroker turned into a vagabond arti;t, who wore | preposterous clothes and gave up | making money; frequented cale

where he drank in, along with absinthe. The heady dogmas of the Impressionists, where he met madmen like Van Gogh, and women like-But Mette felt the could have handled the wornen, Against that intangible fee, the Junatic spell of art, she helpless.

was

the

the father

who had jun away

from them to live with flocks of dusky girls in the Beuth Sea Islands and i d'e in misery of an

locas that

POET'S life story,

Muir observes one world (ours) with the gentle, surprised detachment of one who is living

It appears that Yvonne in another (his). From his point been worrying

MAN

spoken of in respect. Lo

table Danish homes.

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British.

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A

new

be

marble OLD The gleaming A ENGLISH British naval TIES statues to Queen Victoria and the heroes of Britain officer was bequilted

Indions LOOK:

Melbourne once served to remind driving charge of the greatness of the British because he was Reign.

Then Indians demanded: Bri-

Said his

defence counsel: tish, quit India!

Now that Empire is gone- "He has that debonair English look which makes him as if he but the statues remain.

The Government has ques- bad had a drink even when he tioned all the States to see what TOO

Life In Britain is has not."

with them. aught to be done

almost And the answer in SWEET sweet. Too sweet,

been: "Lot's "fish every case has Since 1945 sugar consumption FISH MEETS DOG, by

has risen from 78.8 pounds to PARADISE paradiso" has been keep them."

discovered by The State of Addihra has flatly Konrad Lorenz. Methuen, 93.3 pounds. And it's eating

undersea expert Professor John refused to take down a single 15. 199 pages.

holes in the children's teeth.

Smith, The one. Madras has said it won's Sir John Reports

Jarles; "Coelacanth

Utter the blue Indian to keep most of them. increase in dental "There has been a substantial paradise is

Occan

Ground In decay."

the Seychelles Pradesh said it thought that "the Istends where

Profesor Smith feelings of the rest of the 1948 it was hard work to find

400 com

should Commonwealth a child with really bad teeth, Has Just discovered

Bombay on a respected" and commonplace pietely now species of fish on a reaper arc

single expedition. Commenting on nounced tactfully that it would state has otherwise, the nation's his discoveries, the Professor wait until the federal govern- children are doing fine. Never

chalms with pride that some of ment decided. No been better in fact, Only two the new specimens are "quite ex- agreed to wholesale removal.

and quite

For www to

Indians preserve children in every hundred are traordinary

curiously sentimental regard for in "poor condition." Deaths science." from tuberculosis are Seven-

As a footnote the fish-finding the statues of great people. adventurer admits that he very eighths less than they were in 1930.

nearly lost his life in his intest

'Gas Board men got a SHOCK In 1038, 1,773 died

from hunt cre

anchored off one ACTION at Keynsham, near sharp electrle shock diptheria. Last year only seven

of the islands and I was cager Bristol, the other night. died,

collect a few specimens In the Baptist Hall they were from the depths. Rowing from going to show a big audience

dinghy AIR Marmaduke Frederick the parent ship in

bomb to the that you can cook a fine Christ- HAPPY Wyvill, aged 41, lyed lowered my fish

In the manor house as sea-bed and returned to spark mas dinner by using the

+9 well as family had done for 200 the fuse. Unfortunately how-man by the new-electricity, years. Не supervised the ever the current changed sud-

A gün sprawung family acres. And he denly and even as the fuse was The stage was tended the family pile of stocks right over the bomb. The rd-

charged Our cruiser drifted stove was brought in.

But they couldn't find a gas

toothaches

BUC 130,

ORENZ has been watching dogs for years as a lover, a Melts was be- scientist

and a humanist. His Lalle account of their wildered.

customs and and

strange demon- behaviour traced back to twinnow. possessed man she married had racial origins in jackat (from somehow put her in the wrong which most dogs derive) and Had she been endowed with a les acute sense of injury, had wolf (ancestor of a low breeds hers been a more feminine na- like the Eskimo and the chow}, ture, warmer, mure intuitivo, is illuminated by countless her part in the story might have anecdotes. A book about dogs

But, then, Melte been different.

to fascinate thousands who do would not have beeh the woman who married a promising young not think of themselves as dog- operator on the Paris Bourse,

best life of Gauguin, not as the So she appears in this latest, victim

over

whom a tear is dropped, but as one of the pack hounding a genius to his doom. For Paul who should really have been the villain, has become the

Jover.

THE JOURNAL OF EDWIN CARP, edited by Richard Haydn, Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d. 246 pages.

VR MR CARP is the Mr Thake

hero. And Motte is a reminder that there is more in life-and morals than being in the right. THE CORNER STONE...... by

Zoe Oldenbourg, Gollancs. Yet, sume-

15. 528 pages. how, it was he who posed as the injured party, begging his wife

She was descried, left with Iaur children, wille Paul made of with the Afth,

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his

and bonds.

to

explosion sultant

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Боте

В

old

of the Welfare Age, roman- tic, myopic, sadly put upon by

practically tap For miles around Cheltenham

So everybody started looking malicious qequaintances, yet he was known as "The Duke wrocket us but I got my

round,

with electric Rah!"

torches. triumphing over all through at though he had no claim to any .total lock of the

title and no desire to make my, of

Then the caretaker was called, But five months ago he went CHANGING It's a and, cold hent

announced "Sorry humour. To understand Mr

to work in an aircraft factory. WORLD

world-it seems there's been some mistakes. This it is only necessary to

Eight

all the old ideas hall is all-electric," hours a day, he wore Ronald Scaric's

overalls and worked as a lathe are dying out, killed, by now Result-demonstration

fangled customs. operator.

NOVELIST con

opproach Carp,

at A the task of writing about giance

Middle Ages in one of two Illustrations,

10 rejoin him, tu Jet him see the children, to send him the the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WE'VE NEVER

MET BEFORE -

BUT WE CAN'T SAY THAT NOW- CAN WE ?"

YOU GOT FEET OF YOUR OWN AINÝCHA? WELL, STAND ON’EM AND GET OFF OF

MINE / “

a.

senso

Making Conversation

"-AND OPPOSED TO THE NUCLEAR

PHYSICISTS, THERE IS THE

SCHOOL OF THOUGHT THAT CLAIMS – AND I THINK WITH

MERIT

HEAVEN HELP

A GIRL. ON A NIGHT

LIKE THIS;

DOTA. ITSA BY BINISHAL FEATURIE

BBAN FACWORLD LIGHTS SEREYSA

WUNKI

BY HARRY WEINERT

'50 — I SÄYS--: "I'M NOT IN THE HABIT.

OF RIDING WITH BOYS I HAVENT BEEN INTRODUCED TO’—- AND_3,

HE SAYS ": "BUT THIS IS A

SWELL FOREIGN CAR—AND I

·SAYS --- ́SO WHAT?

I DON'T KNOW ANY FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

EITHER /

DO YOU NEED

FAL LINGO.

3

off.

EASTWARD BOUND

called

For hundreds of thousands of Soviet Govern ment officials, now sitting in well-heated city offices, outlook has changed to "very cold," As cold, in fact, as the bitter winter winds that sweep dcross Siberia" and "the Oral mountains,

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The othcials, soft from years dex. work Wul Boon De

packing their bags to do more "uselu" Work thousands of thaies away in state rurms, fac- tories and lumber, camps.,

sening their move is the top. Communist dection that there are too

many auto-bomed area and women pen-pushing in omelal departments. Some "of the work is just duplication, some of t aboorunucendiary, say the Soviet posses.

And, the bosses odd, the officinis would do better to join

h ▸ 125,000 agricultural' spotdailsta and all the others iwno "volunteered" earlier this your to beip open up Biberia and Kazakstan, Central Asian republic,

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Already the Soviet press paving the way for their de- parture eastwards.

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SO GIRLS Shades of Churchill! ARE OUT Masters at Har

TOW, next to Efon

} indet " "Illustrious- of Britain's schools for sons of the wealthy, sputtered and shook their heads violently

A CHALLS" school a

at Harrow? Nover) wakati, a stu

Somebody had suggested that girla' achool be" bullt · at Northwick

a

Park odjacent to the

Middiorex

Harrow boys

swimming pool.

But the board of directors of the old grey-stone walled echool: which taught Sir Winston Chur- chill the three Ra (and which, he did not pleit up doo well), justi couldn't bear the idea.

“We do not want a gb school hare," they said bluntly,

And that was that.

| CLOSED Ţ1% ́ always' bappens

Voyage. You tall ing. You take, a sou

RING

love. But there.

engagement ringe around so postpone the dreadful act, Afterwards you quietly

But the net: fedealn "Week, the 1728,000-ton:

THE LONG TALK PULUN