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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955.

He must

HAPPEN have been

BURIED ALIVE

by

Douglas Duff

Was

in 'the' early days of the Palestine mandate. I had just been given the Jeru salem Police Division and was learning fast..that —

STORIES that could have hap- pened but could be just tales, the creations of fertile imagination.

• EVERY DAY there is a new story: It is either FACT or FICTION.

• TODAY a new personality of TV tells a tale-but leaves you until Monday to decide DID IT HAPPEN?

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among other things Jeru- I did not credit word gently on not scrabbling salem Was the biggest of it, but not having the desperately as usual drawer of the world's big- least wish for a fortnight

She took me along the top of

Dam gest cranks.

Christian down on the Dead Sea, 1 Hezekiah's

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shook me.

After three months I took her to her room, went Street, up through the intricate Warten of lanes and alleys" bes thought I had met every back to the Citadel and tween the Haret el Yahud and possible crank variety. checked the patrol book. It the Armenian

quarter, by the until that afternoon when was right. Trooper Moham, most direct possible route. That

It had Trooper Hussein All show med el Deeb

HAD found three months

taken me over to gain a local ed a pretty girl into my a Frankish lady in a cauli- knowledge of that maze when I office.

flower patch on the slope was first appointed in charge of She told me one of the of Mount Ophel, about the Division. She assured me usual crack-brained tales where they have now built in the hotel-she had been too. stayed all her four days she had — said she was staying at the big basilica of St Peter scared to go out and see the. a hotel near the Holy at Cockcrow, und had usual pilgrimage and tourists' dark, she Sepulchre it was before taken her home at half sights. Yet, in the

was going straight for the Zion the great modern one's

morn Gale. past two in outside the walls built.

were ing.

the

We had dinner she was a cultured woman. the

Pair of hands. salt of the earth and did

she

a

could walk with her eyes closed

The place

WHEN DOUGLAS DUFF took

over from Gilbert Harding in What's My Line? last month, he surprised Eamonn Andrews {and viewers) by greeting o challanger from Cairo in Arabic.

This story is set in Jerusalem. Duff was a major in the Palestine Palica.

At 15 he ran away to see and was torpedoed twice in the 1914-18 war. He became commander in the RNYR

A world-wide traveller, he has written many adventure stories.

they

Drawing - by KOOLMAN,

helped a lot in the big Pilgrimage season, Over coffee I told them about the crazy lady and, to my intense surprise, one

She said we were at the place.

Venerable gentleman. seemed extremely interested, and asked me to take him to the cauld ull flower patch. When we got back to the Mosque he asked me to bring the lay down in un hour. Anything was preferable to having her go back to the

The niche nearest the foot of DC. When we came down the the stains was empty. The old

shaikh wod waiting along rubble wall was thrown down with a gang of workmen carry –

last man buried there ing shovels and mattocks. On The

was closed we went, led by her until she before the tomb

bad died halted and said we were at the had revived and

That other woman! If you ever find there is one moving into your husband's life, you can bet

12'

She Will Be Just Like You

By ROBERT GLENTON

doc-eyed look. He is so conser

many a marriage even the happiest vative that his wives even part

Jame side. one day. comes the their hair on the

Contemplate the three glamorous... spectre. The Duchesses of Leeds,

Other Woman..

The

duke hos at times married Marianne de Mall Often she is a spectre in- hazouny, My Audrey Young,

deed. A twinge of wifely jealousy, a belated husband- ly homecoming--and ghost has arrived..

the

And every wife can see clear ly in her mind what that Other Woman looks like. She is a hard-eyed blonde with sluttish tendencies.

Solomon. With rows of niches 18 inches se

and seven That is what wives say. feet deep, cas meant to hold But, adam, how wrong you a body, their ends closed with are! Uniers, at. course. you A flimsy blockage of masonry, höppen 100 be a hard-eyed But on the topmost of the bloode your mirror. There's rock-hewn stairs, right under Just look in a the slab, Jay A fumbled your husband's type. If he skeletion man who had died hadn't married you he would tearing at the stone above. almost inevitably have married

someone just se sume.

Study the facts. Two weeks $30 Linda Christian wept as she obtained a million-dollar divorce

Power. He should. actor Tyrone

uttle too, for Mi bave weat Christian is beautiful. She has a lively, amiable face, large eyes, a large and gentle mouth, a squarish chin, longish wavy hair.

His type

place the hands were showing try to claw his way out.

her.

Empty

Wes

I

and Caroline Fleur Vatcher.

How alike they are.

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They have all those tradition. al maglish looks which should rightly appeal to a dube.

Oval bright eyes, squarish facts, well-curved mouths,

petite. Those r the Duke's ingredients for beauty.

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Too trivial

CONTEMPLATE the marital career of that romantic diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, 77 days he has just divorced After a marriage which lasted.

heiress Barbara Hutton.

A supericial observer would say of his wives that the great-

city between them est similarity

14 that

ате from time to time the title of "Richest in the World"

awarded

from

For

he was married to Doris Drake too.

That bracket is too

too trivial, fo Mr Rabirusa has also been married

to Danielle Darrieux. She is certainly not an heiress. But when it comes to looks it is clear where this 101-50- Latin's heart Heg. vacity, sub noses, and a halo of glamour.

Convinced yet?

be

1

You should There is plenty more con

She

American, Christian and a foreigner 150 years later. That is my ghost-stary without a ghost.

Satisfy you? Of course not. But I

have more intelligence RUT perhaps Mr Power is a than to be * stubborn little blase about

such I just don't know. things.

firmation materialist

Madam, if you are convinced, He was married once before, White lime- WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED

to actress Annabella. She was don't be smug. and

The WAY & beautiful She had.

to busband clings a lively, amiable face, round eyes

"the type of woman he marries the mouth, the chin, the wavy hair

You are not convinced? One It is more likely to underline

In Christ's day the slopes of Mount Ophel were the fashion- able part of Jesusalem, but tow day they Have outside the southern walls, stone rubble, steep, dusty deserted.

.

She put her foot on the spot to which she insisted the old Hands pointed, and the sheikh set the men digging.

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

marriage formula?

doves

is not necessarily a testimonial to her grace and chazın.

punishment.

not make a what a"

Regard the really heavily

married men.

There are many classic cases

her best. I suggested she We went through, turned just

I took her back to her hotel, to short of the House of Last Sup- not quite so sure as I had been Two feet down they uncovered might like to take me Her story

was that she the place where the Hands Fer and walked down the track about knowing all the answers. at the foot of the City walls. She seemed happy, went to bed. had been two days in Jeru- abandoned her,

We turned off it where the I walked back to my quarters

barracks a salem but every time

Mount Ophel starts opposite the in

long way from closed her eyes she saw. She agreed so long as she Dung Gate."

and we were out believing her, but very anxious into the cauliflower

not to be sent to the Dead Sea, patches pair of hands, thin

back answer will be given brown-explaining that that was the where the Siloam farmers used as I certainly would be if she hands with broken bleeding only way she could see the to grow their prize vegetables. Went weeping to the DC. Next in the days of Abuna, Barte, another story in this series by

I paid a routine visit to Napoleon Arabs do not keep nails, tearing frantically at Hands. I asked if she went in She stopped on the steep slope morning

SPENCER CHAPMAN "I for any of this psychic business, and said that this was the place chat with the religious sheikhs much track of years. something immovable.

but she assured me that she'd where the Hands had vanished, at the Big Mosque, the Harain,

It was the usual type of "Did yesterday's story told her it was n doctor, never given it a thought We She looked around and found the Old Temple Area.

sepuldze a four square Hope of His Side, not a policeman she needed. started off, she saying that she handkerchief she had dropped I liked keeping on personal excavation, probably the base- J. P. W. Mallalleu She said nothing just saw the Hands

beckoning her the previous night.

friendship terms with them- ment of a palace in the days of "tually happen? Answer: YES. He has indeed fallen for the

looked a little more hope- less and shattered as though)

that was all the comfort she had expected, and went out... I put her down as just another of the Sister-| hood but she came back

next day, looking very pinched under the nostrils as though she was holding herself in with reins. She was very laut.

This time I did send an Arab plainclothes man down to her hotel - tourist- drugomans think out some fairly cunning tricks to sell | their services. He came back, reported nothing, suggested that the Frank- ish Sitt (that's Arabic for "Lady") was crazy.

Having plenty of troubles

B

趱

crenture

he is for

Never learns

a stone slab with an inscription

the family sepulchre of the "Put your tick in the space

had sheikh's family, as be

that they

above and keep this panel by ito choose from.

AM quoting the psychiatrist suspected. He said

last you until Monday....when the had lost track of it-the

Mayo Wingate, “A man,” he with Mildr Chaplin, who married, ·

Harris, Lita Grey, told me firmly, "Gnds his great- burit had been away

Paulette Goddard, and Oona est attraction in a woman who O'Neil

opposite to. bin in One thing stands out clearly, position and temperament. Chaplin has a deep faith-un- The marred by the years and the "It is to be expected that by divorce courts in the dark and women who are so alike in dis-

languorous,

the angel, faced. position should show it in the formation of their features. Even in their general physical attributes. man will uncod sciously

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There's more of this being done than ever you would guess

A NEW NOSE

Reporters in London and Paris investigate

a

1955 doctors'

dilemma

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

EAUTY-BY-SURGERY, who specialises in noses, is would then smash all the the startling trend in appealing against a fine im- bones in the middle to make medicine emphasised posed by the French Medical it thinner. of my own, I forgot about by today's Page Six picture Association.

is facing her, until next day my bell from Paris,

to British surgeons with the rang summoning me the District Commandant's question: How office. There I found my lady crying very quietly in

ugly

Then I would straighten the bridge, which is broken. To settle the dispute, the Your nose would then be all Pans civil courts

i would have to must right but

felben out the line between the decide whether a woman nose and the top of the mouth. who goes to a surgeon to "Of course, your forehead is Like hypnotism, cosmetic have her nose reshaped is too high and one side of your face £ higher then the other....".

ugly?

a corner, and the DC grim surgery has suddenly be sick or not. He was tough. I have come respectable. The num- known few tougher. But the ber

one thing he couldn't stand growing.

of..

operations

is

was a woman weeping. I

In Paris

Ex- Daily press reporter Joan Harri- Bon went to Dr Claoue's

The surgeon simply needs surgery

knew he would have my},

with

No, thanks

*

It "all tools. hours.

The

head on a churger if I did to be satisfied that the patient. She sent this re- measuring. the taking of 'pic- not get her out of his way patient's ugliness is caus- port quickly, · He told me to ing severe mental dis- alongside:- knock off all else and.

to her. I got her out

a prospective 28

the picture tures, the designing and then

came the mask.

Plaster of paris poured all The whole atmosphere over one's face is a suffocating how ugly is was rather like a busy experience. I had had enough. store. Nurses and assist No new pose for this girl. I It is legitimate to help ants running in and out -- told Dr Cianoue so, Dead a young man suffering from "which model would you very strong impulse to want to

severe anxiety symptoms like, madam No,

J

see tress..

if

But

ugly?

I hadn't done so, or if she went back, I would find myself on an extended patrol down the

Sea.

A check

He laughed. "One- needs B

To change one's imperfections. You

all that could be done to your

because his over-size ears trouble at all, madam." have not the impulse, I tell you have made him a laughing- stock since boyhood.

I asked the 50-year-old face, and you do not care. No?"

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He was darned right. I have never felt so attached to my French nose before, feldmouse or not.

But is it legitimate to doctor who has reshaped improve the ears of a girl the

of noses

I blethered reassuring-who is simply unhappy be actresses like Martine Carol,

her cause

defect is Marie Daeris, Dominique

ly to her on the way back

to her hotel humouring serious handicap for mar Wilms, and Juliet Greco a crackpot. At least she riage?

was easy to look at. ∙I

suggested we have

a gin,

and while we swallowed it)

she told me that the Handsį

An appeal

had led her out of the hotel And when a psychiatrist's

what he would do mine.

to

He looked, felt, photo- graphed, stuck plaster on it

-and said

"A nose should be at on the previous night, report states that a middle- guiding her through a maze aged actress's suicidal de- an angle of 30 degrees to of lanes and alleyways, pression stems from her the face: yours is over 40 through a great gate, down rapidly fading looks

degrees.

a steep hillside, into a patch a surgeon debaking his "I would take a piece of giant cauliflowers and skill by giving her a face off the end, remove the then left her, She had Life?

fieldmouse look you' under-

stayed there until an Arab This dilemma has reached stand?" trooper showed up and the courts in France, where "But that would then escorted her back to her Dr

Charles Cinque, the make it too blunt and hotel.

cosmetic surgeon broad. To correct this

Paris

JOHNNY HAZARD

HOW, ANDRE THE TEN-COLLAR QUESTION WHO ARE THOSE [PEOPLE THAT JUST

WENT UP IN THE ELEVATOR?:

YOUNE"LOST" TEN DOLLARS,

STEU SNAP! THEY ARE MERELY TOURISTS} PASSING THROUGH

ALGIERS!

Dr. Claoue to reporter Harrison: Your nose is 10 degrees out. of line!;

THEY AREN'T STAYING LONG, AND THEY DO NOT WISH TO SEE OR BE DISTURBED ↳ BY ANYONE! ***

THAT'S NOT MUCH INFORMATION FOR TEN BUCKS, ANDRE! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN

·THAT!"

PICTURE SENT FROM PARIS BY JOAN HARRISON,"

AH, BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE

SEEN THE TIP THEY GAVE ME.

19.TO MAKE SURE I COULDN'T DO BETTER THAN THAT?..

HOWEVER...

By Frank Robbins

SECAUSE YOU ARE MY PAL, TOO THEY ARE IN ROOMS. GON-606/ THAT'S THE TOP FLOORA LONG DROP. IF THEY THROW YOU OUT!"

associate the looks with

a

the temperament. And so he will pursue the same physical as well as mental characteristics. "If the marriage breaks because she is a scold and shrew he will marry the same type next time. Ho never learns The attraction opposites is too strong."

View the four cases I have quoted from the professional side of a psychiatrist's desk.

Tyrone Power is obviously a very tough character.

*

wives prove that, Charlie aplin is touchy and rather nervous. He has glossy in- feriority complex. So be marries women who are Arm, master- rul and strong-willed,

The Duke of Leeds is shy and inclined to be retiring. FL wives are vivacious, maternal.

Rubirosa-now there's a com- character, For him

Pleas

marriage is a battlefield. Ee

seeks out highly-strung women with pronounced temperaments, They are self-willed, violent in their emotiona

Mr

Rubirosa moment, free.

13, at the But can be predicted with all the certainty

of which modern psychiatry is capable that if he marries again

the

Wit should play! "Stormy

cases,

four men considerably more wives.

There are not at all different in their emotions

from those which funter in every suburban road Fortunately for most folk, the emotions He buried.

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'A certainty

NLY a comparative few un-

happy masculine wanderers · try the experiment of leaping from one dilemma'to another.

For every wife who speculates idly on The Other Woman the truth lies in her own reflection. For every man who wants to try again, there is the certainty that he might just as well never have left home,

As Dr Wingate told the, “It

is all rather macabre.”

„„this situation calls for a

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