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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1955.

NANCY SPAIN WEIGHS UP LIFE WITH THE TALKING STARS

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Jacy,

...

64 Picture a high-class nursing depths. home run by terribly high-class nims. One of them, the Sister Helena, has actually

been Top before she Deb of her yene

killed, thought horlover was and took the veil.

HAT a pity when a just under 2lb., making it a the stage. There are speaking NE'ER-DO-WELL (Ward Lock,

parts for thousands, woman writer devotes nulsance to read in bed.

many 12s. 6d.) bewildering crowd scones, heavy years to a novel that it will take the rest of

Englishman character parts and plenty an

unplumbed emotional brought up in Hollywood as up of which would be fine and na 11 years to read,

a child star, by a horrible dandy if for One ecstatle American mother, comes to moment in the narrative I had London to find his roots, He t

that oven one of these ands his father isn't dead phoney people really mattered. (as

has always toid

And who should come 'ns elle But no, All we get is chatter, him) but alive and kicking chattor, chalter about theatre of the patients in this home but

and сигесть.

love that same lover-the dashing in a villa on Hadrian's. Wall, contracts,

utterly irresistiblo affairs. But not

Miss charming, even Northumberland.

Clemence Dane can make #

out of a has readable novel

theatrical gossip,

THE FLOWER GIRLS (Michael Joseph, 21s.) is by Miss Clemence Dane. It is 689 pages long, it weighs

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1 Outrome (11).

7 Engrave (4).

Move (3).

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11 Grate (4).

13 Limited (10).

15 Relate (4).

10 Stuff (4).

10 Grieved (10).

22 Land measure (4).

24 Reward (5).

26 Distributed (5)

26 Outlet (4).

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17 Bedeck (8).

18 Bear witoes (8).

20 Back (6).

21 Sober (3).

23 Frank (4)

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.——Across: 1 Camel, 4 Cradle, 8 Decamp, 10 Oce, 12 Orator, 14 Stained, 17 Neon, 19 Concert, 20 Worship, 22 te. 23 Sturtle, 27 to red, 29 Enger, 30 Desert,

31 Serame, 32 Tudor, Down: i-Codes. 2 Mecca, 3 Lemon, 5 Decree, Errant, & Precise, 11 Concur, 13 Adopted, Itook 18 Trod, 10 Insutte, 18 Oral; 20 Widens. 21 Reignis, 24 Adept, 26 Trend, 26 Enter, 28 am,

mum

Jacy also finda he hundreds of cousine, each one more dramatic than the last: most of them living theatrically in and around Covent Garden and the "Flower Theatre,"

where

Lord St. Artant. He has come lot of to have a cyst taken out of his Jaw and to sweep Sister H. away.

Poems to keep

race.

WISH Bomeone would let

Me compile book

a

of

in the good old days Jacy's delights. Perhaps 1 wouldn't old Uncle Julius would have half so much verse. Unless, have them sobbing in the aistes.

For all La relatives are actresses and actors who have appeared from time to me at the Flower Theatre, Tha Js why Jacy's aunts are known as "The Flower Girls,"

Well. Sir Julius Bun daughter.

cool STROVE}), sallow-faced charmer called

U

course, ou Cornford,

was by who has volume A

allowed

Franced

at last of her COLLECTED POEMS (Cresse! Press, 105. Úd.) to appear. The book contuina, she says, only those poems that she wants Thank goodness at to preserve. least one of my favourite poems by her

EL

O fat white

nobody lover,

woman whom

Acida in gloves?

Olive, who is absolutely made Why do you walk through the to play the part of the Princess The Pocahontas. (You know. Indian girl who saved the 1te of Captain John Smith: in the good old days when the USA. still belonged to the Indians.)

Chatter... chatter...

Well, as it so happens, when Jacy was a child star he knew an awfully nice poetical script writer

Comy called

And Corny, who is dead, has actually left behind him, unfinished, the skelaton

verse play all ut a

And Olive about Pocahontas. wants to play the Princess P.

nad she is

for Jacy first.

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By now Jacy is in love with Olive.

So he says "Yes" about finishing the play and they gel engaged,

get

Jacy writes the play. Well. But he finds out that Olive is Rot a clean living girl. (Just in time.) So they don't married after all. And now we are on page 689 and the play in't even in rehearsal.

As you will have gathered, all about a long book,

this 18

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GIVE ME A HOME WHERE THE.

AN ENTHUSIAST OF THE

WIDE OPEN SPACES.

YOUR HONOR-

SKIP IT-

is there. tersely listed under Juvenillä.

But I have searched through

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

EDEN WAS The Bishop of says he will do'il tomorrow. I document dug out after research Southwell, Dr have to do, everything at once, into the whereabouts of this A MYTH

Rumoll "Barry, "Daddy goes to work in a motor "rost camp" proved that this has seme advice for fellow bar but. I have to walk to was just the Nazi German way clangtymen--admit that the story school."

of recording that they had all of Adam and Eve is

myth

A nine-your-old was thinking boon dispatched to the "Unless," ho BRYT

in his aboad: "I would like to be a man chamber, dlocvan totter, "we are per- because men choose the wives Then there are the concentra- fectly frank who it those stories and I shall not be able to choose tion camp documents aigned by we stull be manoeuvred on to my

Himmler Hitler's Black Guardia husband falso ground trying to defend The boys in their answers bow, with marginal notes in Indefensible positions as Chris- were thinking too of the ad- Kroen

have been trying to do too vantages of being older; But him written by Himmler In another department of the they didn't seem to care much "Archives of Horror" in Wid-

an

aften, in the past.”

The Garden of Eden, he ex- for the idea of being girls. plains, "does not describe event which happened at the dawn of history; it presents one of the permanent and moral realities of human nature,

"The Author is stating a fundamental truth about man in his relationship to God in the" form of a story, dramatic poem or, as theologians now say, a myth

"Its a dramatic presentation of the meaning of sin and it rings true in all ages."

An eight-year-old boy wrote: "I am glad I will be a man be cause men go out while women stay at home and work,"

And another did not want change because "men have sorts of milements, expecially on Sadays,"

Tho Mcher Superior Islens in to all this, outside on the ter And she la

HAPPY shocked beyond words. So she ups and Milord St, Amant 19 poisons protect the honour of the home, But' Inspector Falcon soon has her confessing.

What becomes of the nursing

ask? home, you

Why, they And what becomes close that. of Sister Helena? Why, when "October was old and the fati of the leaf was in, Sister Helena died in her sleep."

IT

And Alice B

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to

all

A

keeping is a document dated April 20-with the note that this was the Fuhrer's birth- day. And it went on to list thong due to die at 0802 hours; those due to die at 0804 hours; those due to dió at 0800 hours -and so on through most of his happy birthday.

xic

Boys the plaque BIRTHDAY over the entrancs TEN-YEAR Hungarian

to

Joseph Hadju hos a long low SUIT

been

walking building at Arolsen, Westphalla: "Here are housed the Archives round in his present sult for ten of Horror." And hore now is years. And he says it's as good is ever, though maybe just a EMPHASIS While pretty girls, being written a report on

little boring. following the ON LEGS

H year's work among Europe's And Inst week when ከነሮ and A Laxes, are biggest card Index with nearly straightening out natural shape, nincicen millen references and opened an exhibition of clothes which never wear out, French bloods cross-references sin and

listing around Britain are thinking of classifying every known victim him fearing his invention wil textile manufacturers boycotted of Hiller's concentration

camps. put them out of businers. The

by Eng- report, compiled shaman C. L. Widger, wit

It well could, Hadfu says be be can make cotton shirts last 20 put biore Western Allied mad German representatives

times longer by dipping them in when

n both of silicones, they meet to decide the future

Woollen suits, he says will of the then who kesp the last ten times as long, given the records.

same treatment,

well-dressed

young

going into the curves business.

Fashion expert John Taylor mali in Northampton that the "drapo-shape" and padded shoulders was ended. Now the emphasis was on legs.

In a few years, added Taylor, editor of the magazine Men About Town, the full calf would be the last word In men's to fashions,

The question: Should they go

Hadju says the process does the Germans under the not change the basle nature of treaties which make West Ger- materials; it just tightens the weave, "makes them softer to should many sovereign, or

eye". Widger's staff of 221 workers of the touch, more pleasing to the

nationalities stay under some form of international control?

The British, Americans

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is quite untrue that there is a recipe in THE ALICE B. TOKLAS COOK BOOK (Michael Joseph, 218.) begin- ning "Eye of now! and toe or

Already trousers were be frog," but Miss Toklas was the coming tighter, throwing the lifelong friend and inseparable calves into greater outline.

to give the legs more in vain for my other favourite companion of the late American poetess Gertrude Stein, so many

en would start wear- poem by Mrs Carnford. Perhaps of her recipes do come breath- larg short French are being urged to stay HENRY VIII A legend about

to a mad sort of shoulders and short lapels "on lessly near

oblong, box-like effect not unlike the fashion of Regency days."

the book and though the book

she does not think It Good Surely enough, or something? not. Even though I find myself in the embarrassing position of

from memory having to quote I think that you, too, will like Who has not

Scen their lover

Walking at case With rust feet that cover A pavement under trees; Not singular, apart

But featured, footed, dressed Approaching like the rest,

In the same dapple of the

sunlight caught

And thought:

Here comes my heart,

Sister H...

come

TR DORNFORD YATES has the pouncing into the British Detective a real humdinger,

arena of Story with

poetry.

Consider that delectable con- method of cooking fish tributed by Mrs Gilbert Whippla York City. Chapman, of New "Parboil the Shad Rocs," begins, and I consider it should to the through be sung right tuse of "Weel may the Keel Row."

When she told # friend that on sho war about to embark this work the friend slopped in her tracks. "But, Alice, have

"A you ever tried to write?" 1," comments Miss Toklas, with a characteristic mixture of arro- couk gance and modesty, "a book had anything to do with writing."

Well, if ever a cookery book could be literature, Miss Toklas, this is the one.

The Enthusiasts

"ON YOUR FEET /

THIS IS OUR

NUMBER

REMEMBER 7 *

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7 WHAT'S IT CALLED?

"

*

the ques WANT TO Asked

tion, "Would you BE BOYS

rather be a boy or a girl?" most girls at a school at Aurillac in Southern France said they would like to be boys

-or grown up

Why?

and

on at Arolsen and not let

the LEGEND International Tracing Service -

went

goings on In royal places as the "Archives of Horror" is which has clung to the Herb called its

on

town of Hemol notepaper become fordshire an all-German affair.

Hempsted, for centuries There are two reasons. One down the drain Jadi weck. is that, with hundreds of thou-

A musty tunnel still

which sands of Hitler's victims

believed was the generations have compensation, awaiting

used

six-times-married by work may slow up even

con be,King Henry VIII to carry on unless new claimante

flirtation supported by their own officials: Bolbyn (whom he later had be

with pretty Anac

more

And now inquiries are coming

in from all over the world at headed) has been proved to be Indeed nothing but an old the rate of 10,000 a month.

drain. The second reason is feel-

the

고

The tunnel, was said to linie

of houses the

the Lockers and

Well, one six-year-old replied, she would rather be a boy "sing that horror documents, that I could have a catapult and gruesome as many of them are, two the town's historic kill birds."

must be openly preserved proof that these horrors are not Bury. There were stories tha an invention of the victorious Ring Harry and Anne used to Allies,

meetings there There are long, long lists of world, and Henry's wife, Buchenwald Inmates, for in wouldn't know.

against stance,

whose names were written the words: "Sent

Another. on to a rest camp."

An cleven-year-old giri an- swered that she would like to be a boy-d preferably a grown- up one like daddy.

"I wish I were like daddy". she said, "because he works only when he wants to. If he doesn't want to do a thing today, he

BY HARRY

I'M A FRIEND

THAT'LL BE TEN-FIFTY

AND COSTS.

THE TROUBLE IS, MOST GIRLS THINK THE ENTHUSIASM IS

GOING TO LAST

APTER THEY'RE MARRIED.

THERE'S NO USE IN

A GIRL GOING INTO AN ACTIVE CAREER LIKE THIS UNLESS SHE IS

PREPARED TO PUT HER WHOLE HEART INTO IT-

OF

AT LEAST THE SPEED ENTHUSIASTS ARE WILLING (7) TO PAY FOR THEIR ENTHUSIASM.:

NEEDLESS

TO SAY.

LADNAM

YOU SAID IT—

ALL CHUM

OL PALTM

LONG.

TIME

NO SEE

COP, 1966 BY GENERAL FEATURES COLF. TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

WEINERT

MOTHER'S

LITTLE

· ENTHUSIASTIC

HELPER.''

Στανα

so the

And there was some founda- tion for the stories. For in 1885 Anne wis & guest at the Lockers. And tradition has at that at the same time

Henry was conveniently being enter- fained at the Bury by his court accountant, John Waterhouse.

Resently the Bury was bought by the local council. And the council decided to explore the turmel

Down into it went two em- *.*

on their ployees

hande and knees. The tunnel was never much more than three feet high and two feet six inches wide.

And after seventy-five yards it narrowed to 18 inches high and the men couldn't get any further.

Engineer Ian Wilson. thinks the turmel was just a drain før carrying surface water; And

Clive Rouse, an expert on mexicval architecture said: "Ninety percent of these so- called tunticis, are just drains. And this certainly seems to be one. But it in of historie in! terest and should be preserved.”

LOCUST French scientista WHISTLE

are taking a lesson from

the

Pied Piper of Hamelin. Only it is locusts they are after this time, Got iata.

To beat the insect Scourge, they have invented 'a high frequency "locust whilatie" which fures the injects to their death.

And they have been trying ie: out -in Algeria following the disastrous attacks there recently, In a documentary film to show the results, a man hidden in the ii playing the whistle while swarme fly at top speed towards him,

Reason, zay the scientiste, 'is that ali insects are attracted to sounds of a a certain pitch, in the sema way that moths are al tracted to light,

The Locupts are sprayed with high-powered insect killer once they have been lured into central uren.

PENSIONER Egyptian, ex-als POET

240

U

Mervans

Mahmyz himself & poet.

So, when the

time" came to fill in 'his 'pension

form, he did it in very

It was formally, signed

Pramiped by two

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