NANCY SPAIN
TOP of the COLUMN
CHIAVIK IMBAJIT
"What name shall I try to 3. air?
funun spiral erstre
THE CHINA ·MAIL, ・ SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1955.
Unveils a Witch
B
in
Witch (disguise
ANG! And they're old valley in the good old days off, the 4,200-odd with SWEET WITCH (Michael
Joseph, 10%.
The days starters in the Fiction when we all thought Beney was Stakes of 1956. Bellove it
going to invade, us, bach, or not that is the number of novels that were published in 1954.
Neck and
neck in the
lend are a British (or should I say Welsh?) and an Anwvivan ensy,
Mr Fuchard Llewellyn has
to his green gune roaring back
A British Crossword Puzzle
12
13 [4
13
6
12
10
18
113
14
15
18
19
20
21
22
123
24
25
26
28
27
ACROSS
DOWN
1 Looking-glass (0)
1 Humble (4).
5 Deduce (3)
2 tursion (4).
$ Intend (4)
3 Leave out (4).
11
Bring to light (6).
A Peer (31.
12 Roundabout route (9).
14 Vehicle (4)
18 Nutions (3).
10 Accustomi (5).
18 Dimoult (4)
20 General (0).
24 Harsh (5)
25 Documens 01
L
26 Pitcher (4).
27 Tendency (5).
28 Brought up (4)
4 Answer (8)
5 Lifelessness (7).
Established (7).
7 Set
free (71.
10 Tree (5)
13 Mosque tower (7)
MORNING MISS
life in America.
PARADE
FRENCH Frenchmen SPANKING resort
Не
01
the dates
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
the
met
ecrious still suitors who have missed their woman often leads to
friction." when wock
"There are cases in my own So last good old-fashion-
interference by DOVE, by grey-faced and twitching.
its monthly works mothers-in-law is causing great apring got out of hand. But the pany had Frances Gray Patton (Gollancz, goes on and on suffering until ed spanking when their off- Colchester Municipal Bus Com- parish where 10s. Od.), a story of small-town he dies, and then Cornella gets technique according to a re- meeting, the drivers and con- difficulty to young brides. They
the railroad.
port from the National Centre ductors protested. Could not it are best apart." Cornelia meanwhile has fallen for Scientific Research - varles be made illegal to stamy feet in Misa Dove is a schoolteacher,
the "intellectual a bus? when her father died it was dis- in love with black-browed, low- according to
The corporallon looked at its covered that
becit cines Allan Marshall, a passion-levol" of the parent.
classes
They mid The "less educated"
bylaws. embezzling the bank funds
Sonte chap, much given to parsing
the lower WE Miss Love squared her shoulders law exams and Inventing coup- set down to the job with a will, legni to smoke on
la his
spare time, using straps and canes. The bet deck, spit on either desk and and told the bank manager she ling hooks
bare kick the conductor. They even They marry and have several ter
honds, would pay back every penny.
But the strap and cane de- sald "passengers must not give But that the starting signal," votees are dwindling in number meant passengers must not press They
account for only 18 per- the bell, which is on the down cent of fathers.
had he
The lovely, dark-haired, dark- eyed Welsh Lady Sarah has been "finished"
in Belgium She trovcia to war-rumouring Wales by stage conch, encoun- whole tering
the on
way battalions of English Husenha,
They have been told off to repel the French Fleet, which is and down off tossing up
A personable by teaching successive genera- Merthyn Bay.
tions of school lots geography, young Cortict called George
tpanthers. good
tidiness, and Brummell oeems to be in charge
deportment of the HussUTE,
Lady in a twitter
HE Lady Sorah fall in love THE
with Mr Nicklas, known as Mr Smuggles. Mr Snuggle kissen the lauly Sinh "square, hard, and deep," and she lover [1.
Ah ha! But the Itevenue men
And Mr are offer
Snuggles. they are also ufler famous, wicked old witch, look, known Grusade Shinkin Shon Y Gulto (oh) who is supposed to that square, hard, deep-kissing snuggling.
12.5
The Revenue men are ever sa
beastly, one of them even maken
a par at the Lady Sarah, puts her in a twitter. She twittering because
Bo she did. And the only way she could earn the money was
Feared and respected, It is the Terrible Мана only when Dove is whisked off to hospital that town and pupils wake up to discover how much they love her
Beautifully written, willenat it this of sentimentality, Irace novel might be described as female and more astringent ver- sion of "Goodbye Mr Chips"- except, thank goodness, that we don't say goodbye to Miss Dove.
Railroad Trail
tots
Never satisfied
educated
their
"
The barchanded brigade, how DUT then Allan drifts off to
ever, make up most of the re- the country to run on anti-malning 85 percent.
Communist newspaper.
70.
This maddens Cornelia, aged Her nephews get the rail. read by share manipula lon. A this age her figure "might have been that of a woman 40 years her junior," but what use is
whe that (ahe thinks) ir longer
mallroad shre hns the loves? Well, notu honestly, some girls are never satisfied... Neither, for that malter, um
what
earth I....because
cn
no
el that title mean? On the first page of the book I found a little poem beginning:-
Man is never victorious, never
le
The theater yields up his loot
the cheated.
THIS is the time of year when defeateḍ.
H
we all get fu: in bed we moaning he or we fight it on our 102. she thinks fret with temperatures of
And wonderful opportunity to go that square, hard, deep-kissing Mr Smuggles
probably to bed and catch up on my read- poem is by is Grannie What-not in disguise.
In a terrifle scene, requiring the mustering of all the steeple- crowned red-cloaked local ladies (they form fours on the clif and so fool Napoleon), the Lindy that her own Sarah discovers
Rhian grandmother, the Lady
Grande What-no: ap Rael, ts
all the Ume.
They are going to duck her as
a witch, So the turn ladies pour tra 400 strong, each one claiming What-nol, and to be Grannie
the Revenue
they duck
Instead,
In all the hurly-burly
men
Mr
In ellectual development (7). Smuggles gets hold of the Lady
17 Sag (5).
15 Allagaed (7).
19 Large basket (0)
21 Female horse (4)
22 Cluse (4).
23 Employed (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOR U.--Across: Father, 4 Split, 7 Ogress, Ceuse, 10 Sean, 12 Peasant. 15 Tuper, 18 Aver, 17 Atale, 24 Jovini, 25 Aden, 10 Scone, 20 Penally, 21 Trum. 23
Down: 1 Foolscap, 2 Threaten, 3 East, 6 Tense, 26 Sagged.
Pleasant, 6 Inne, Mercy, 11 Manacles, 12 Pests, 13 Avert-
ing. 14 Trembled, 18 Desire, 22 Sofa,
Sarah and kisses her again. This is the stuff to give the girls. It Is also (unlets I am mistaken) the stuff to give the film com- patides.
Ʌ
ing.
this
strangely enough
the author of the book, Miss Taylor Caldwell,
wet). Well,
Whoever else is So this week, while swigging victorious as a result of all this deeply at hot, neat lemon and I have to admit defeat. aspirin
have +30 swigged u tricky reply at a book with tide, NEVER VICTORIOUS. NEVER DEFEATED. by Taylor Caldwell (Collins, 15s.), a romp the railroads of among
I
the
U.S.A. In the last century.
and
We Germs
ANOTHER nice book for the
How come all this chastise. ment in France?
Save
Saya the Research due "Much of it is housing conditions."
it
Wo.:
unofficial
not the stairs, and signal which conductors give up. stairs
Result:
A compromise notice reading: "Driver Below, Please do not damp."
Centre:
Said Manager John Gray: "We to bad Simply are hopeful that the publle will cnough too many children in co-operate. The whole thing has become rather nerve-wracking," create pan. too small a space demonium. Father blows his top
THEY'RE The 150 Co.
[amsun
Old
training
for
her
buxom.
So he advised: "If you can't live in rooms. n house, Never live with your in-laws."
FAROUK'S The Egyptian Gov- PALACES ernment has hit on a plan to put ex-King Arabian of Furouk's army Nights palaces to practical use- they will be turned into gan- bling casinos.
But strictly
allowed in.
trace. Egyptians
tourist will not bo
for the
Already work has startet in Farouk's former hunting estate at Inchass, an hour's drive from com- an Italian Cairo, where
with roulette and pany is going to open a super baccarat. But the licence mys night club, "No Egyptian may be allowed to enter."
*
}) In
Д
A
and -xmack, there you are. POPULAR At the moment, in the Yonne district
The government will shortly FOREVER?
70 miles south-east pass a law outlawing gambling. of Paris, 30-year-old Jaqueline it thinks it is immoral and a Kent Read inn of Pracht is just about the most bad influence-particularly since
n gambling
involving ring, John Edgington and popular giri about
is France's firet--and Jaqueline
senior government official, was Laet.. which made the
only-women tax collector.
recently uncovered. original "England Expects..
And the reason
Dut the practical government signal flags for Lord Nelson at
reasons that it has no concern Trafalgar and Ingenicus floating popularity--she has not collected
with the morals of foreigners. roadways
disembark any taxes yet. used
pretty, Jaqueline,
from the the And
income transport in the 1944 Nonmandy landing, is celebrating its 150th fair-haired and blue-eyed, is the tourist trade ought to be good, latest pride of France. She join
the civil service 13 years ago anniversary this year.
which has been ed The firm
disused cellar British and has since passed out first in FAMOUS In a for the
on old bullding making tents
Shrewsbury Army for most of that time and every service examination and HORSE
school, and won the 10 all three flugs supplies
French do man has found a dust-covered, Innumerable je of making the Services and fer
and what they dialike most-paying plywood vaulting horse. ccasions ceremonial
And the discovery, by Bir- for their taxes,
businessman J.M. For six months Jaqueline has mingham pageantry, is responsible
nation wonder- decorations In the Mall ever foreign Sovereigns come to been paying out pensions to old Bruce, set the
She ing. rekindling memories London. It dressed the Great people and war widows.
has not collected a sou in taxes givat escape, perhaps the most Exhibition of 1851 as well
audacious of World War II.... its descendant, the Festival of yet.
And she is happy in her work.
Stalogluft in
III, notorious Britain, four years ago.
She says: "I don't want to get German prisoner of war camp married-It costs too much in for captured flyers, the thought of escape was always in men's But Jaqueline's popularity
minds
Eric Williams, Because her sure to fade soon.
Then in 1943,
Philpot and Richard next job is to start collecting six Oliver months' arrears
up an in taxes from Coder dreamed
idea. the 2000 French countryfolk They built themselves a wooden
•
when-
$15
has
of a
It
erms Jacque ta Hawkes's
Lax." Cold weather in MAN ON EARTH (Cresset PLEASE DO
Colchester Press, 21s.). proving as it does, NOT STAMP
given pasangers But what ぐった罸 such a le not only that we are part of a
chilblains--and bus drivers also that plan, but mean, I asked myself, sneezing, divine And 1 found it was
started my evolutionary process pain in the neck. all about
All because, on England's squirming in a primeval swamp. vixeoish red-haired,
Cornelia
bigger than an double-decker busts, conductors who up to now have thought she vaulting hose and fold the Gor- And I was no
Is so wonderful,
man guards they would use de Witt
her extraordinary influenza virus.
collecting fores upstairs stamp
for athletics. The
Germans their feet twice as a signal to relatives.
the driver that all's well and he ADVICE ON The Rev. Arthur smiled and nodded.
Jordon, Vicar of 50 they took the vaulting can stari-pitching elderly ladies IN-LAWS
St. James, Not horse out into the exercise yard on the back platform into mud
just had
a word and vaulted it, and all the time halted gentlemen red faced into puddles and throwing bowler- ngham, bas
to say about mothers-in-law.,
there was one of them under- Married 35 years, he knows weath burrowing. Afterwards, arms of pretty girls,
all about women in the home, when the box was taken inside, I am sure Jacquetta Hawke the drivers mistake the conduc-
Sometimes, on the other hand, And he told young brides: "No the man who had been digging kitchen is big enough for two had cleverly convened the hole intended no such fevered night-}
her tor's stamping for the unomcial women to share.”
he had burrowed and was hang- inares 10
from result
So
was out with the in- ing on inside the horse. scholarly, scientific, and poeti- passenger stamps and just stay cal work. But there, you see, and stay and stay-leaving a bus law.
Said the vicar: "Criticism of she did not expect me to read it load of passengers late for work
and piling up a trail of filled her daughter-in-law by the older when I had influenza.
First there is Cornello's daddy Rufus, who had red hair, too. Rufus was a terrible fellow, with a mistress and a shockin' temper, so his old dad Aaron mistrusted him and left the family railroad Cornella's Uncle Stephen instead. CHARING the honours with
Uncle this
romanticul farcical
GOOD drip. plece
Lady with a debt
costume
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
BE PATIENT- DON'T START COUNTING "THE SPOONS UNTIL YOU HEAR THE DOOR SLAM.
THE FISH THAT HAS BEEN POISONED BY CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE REMOVED
"WOW! LOOK AT THIS BILLS
YOUR FAMILY SURE PUT
AWAY THE GROCERIES
WHILE THEY. WERE HERE
Stephen is a tearful Most of the book he is
in
Self identity with germs be came complete. 1 Loet myself * deep, deep dream where world, our evolutionary process We Germy had conquered the now being complete.
the
When The Guests Depart
MY FAMILY /
WHAT ABOUT.
YOUR
FAMILY?
"THE GUEST TOWELS CAN
BE PUT AWAY
AND THE FAMILY TOWELS |(WITH HOTEL
EMBROIDERY)
F&CAN BE BROUGHT OUT
AGAINTEN
WHILE THE CARD TABLE
IS BEING PUT AWAY. AND THE ASH TRAYS EMPTIED THE FAMILY FIGHT CAN BE
RESUMED WHERE
IT LEFT OFF.
11:20
COPE, MIT GENERAL PEATORKF CORP, THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVEDİ.
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
WE BELIEVE IN PARKING THE DOG WITH THEM WHILE THEY PACK~ WE'VE LOST THINGS BEFORE.
ANOTHER TABLE CLOTH BURNED FULL OF
HOLES.
werd
This way Philpot. Williams and Coder escaped. Their deeds immortalised in the books Philpot and Williams wrote. Coder was killed in 1952 by ter rorists in Singapore.
Muscum officials believe thu chusty box in the basement in the vaulting hors which showed the three men the way to free- dom.
Said one of them: "The horse is tention in every way with the
original,
even down to the German markings on the ply wood."
But there is one way to make Sure: They will get Williams and Philpot to take a look us st. If it is the horse, it will prob- ably find its way into the im- portal War Museum.
SHEIKH'S IDEAL
Dark-eyed, hand- some Sheikh Izzet Ganfer, once rum- oured to be the man ex-Queen Narriman, ex-wife of ex-King Farouk would marry next, has told the world what kind of a WOTTA ho was really looking
for.
For one thing, announced the Sheikh In Alexandria, she didn't have to be beautiful. He was looking for something more last-.- ing than beauty-brains.
i
Since rumours started that thei Sheikh would marry Narriman, proposals have been
ten pouring la,, from girls the world over.
There have been more thin": 400 of them from the United Wales, all promising
Britain, Spain, Brazil. him
"extreme happiness" if he would only
Them
marry the letters There were
daintily
written on pink påper, on pola green paper, and delicate mauva paper and they wore fragrantly touched with perfume, But all the passionate pleas and perfume could not sway the Sheikh's heart.
Said ho: "I will marry only an Intelligent, Oriental girl. No Western lady for me. And 1. wont brains beföro' beauty, bi-_ cause looks fade while intelll-s gento lasts
CHEAPER
WIVES
ייי
Down roes the cost of living in Moslemi". Egypt,
and on a
very important, llem-wives,
You can ge them there for a Tour the a da
Singer Lea Mourad, who used to be General "Naguib' favourite singer, started the new When marryleg a young fim
fashion,
producer she sanked for only 10, "cenialna "# dovey, and
started sommpaign Regem la Intrated wives marketi fe said Lalit Seven and no more than 12 [sure worth.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.