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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 19

DID IT HAPPEN?

Death played the flirt

up

T happened in Novem- summoned

ber 1937. We were enough strength tear myself living in 8 tiny to

free from the called the deathly cottage,

Trip Crabtree, half-way along which suddenly $1.30 the bridle path which joins scized Ivinghoe with its neighbour ha village Ivinghoe Aston, both nestling under that wondrous stretch of the Chilterns which ends in Beacon Hill.

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CHINESE

CREEDS

and

and

my handlebars guided them with murderous towards force

the open grave.

It was pitch dark when I set out and bitterly cold. The hard rime on the bridle path crackled under ray wheels as I rode into the

narrow lane that turns sharply by the Rose and Crown and swings into Ivinghoe village just opposite the churchyard.

We had gone to live there because work was hard to find, and when found not very well paid. Those were the days of three-guinea

My headlamp, worked by broadcasts and small film dynamo from the back wheel. parts at five pounds a day, cast a long and steady beam

For our col-

tage on the bridle path we pald local

H

week a s against 355, for

farmer 10s." a

A

tiny London Basement damp and sun- less, in which the baby seem- ed always to be aling.

• FACT of FICTION? Again a storry in this series by famous writers invites you to solve the puzzle. Did this story happen? Tomorrow will bring the

The cottage had a big gar- den, which kept us in truit and vegetables, local milk and eggs were plentiful and oil lamps were cheaper than electricity, even though we had to walk a mie- and-a-half each way for the oil, with a 10-gallon drum balanced shakily chair.

On

answer

and knowing straight ahead, every inch of the way I rode hard and fast, especially after passing the little public-bouse, where the lane slopes gently down towards the churchyard wall and curves away leftwards

by Bernard Miles

Equally 11 home m Shakespeare, Dickens And the male hall, Bernard Miles has seted, prodwood, designed and wriften with equal selity.

The Mermaid · Theatre at his St. John's Wood home, has igalted extra ordinary interest In Elisabethan show business. For all this be received the CBE in 1953.

Once a schoolmaster, be is 47, the son of a Buckn farm labourer, and educated at Oxford. He is married 10 Josephine Wihon. They have

two son and

daughters

moments I felt to be slipping beyond the reach of my senses,

I felt her disembodied hands closing over mine and a great shudder ran through my marrow as her boneless face yawned upwards in a kiss, and I knew myself to be rushing headlong towards the final Horror.

I tried to wrench the handle bars from her grasp, but all in vain Locked in each other's

from the horror that held me. Then I remember no more.

When I came to my senses my head was

resting on old Abel Honeyman's knee (1 can still feel the softners of his corduroy trousers) and he was wrapping his red handkerchief right hand, round my torn which was pouring blood.

Iced over

My bicycle lay on the grass verge a few yards away, with its. front wheel twisted incon- gruously skywards. At Abel's

DRAWING BY KOOLMAN

Fett myself embraced by a ghostly presence, bodyless and murderously cold, which strone to occupy my very betna...........

SHE HAS HOLES

לי..

IN

HER HEART

From Newell Rogers

New York, foin Britain, Denmark, Get- FISCHIEVOUS blue-eye many, and other countries,

there is tinned port,

M Maureen Dowd, spent. So far Intel and okay.

side knelt Jim Turpin, Mr her second birthday playing

ir" a Tulen, arms we sped on, the dead and Ashby's cowman, pouring hot in her home in Utica, New RANDMA NANNIE DOSS

pleaded guilty 醬 blue enamelled York.

Oklahoma, courtroom to poison- bottle into a tio mug.

In a few months, she will be ing her fifth husband, Samuel,

the living, faster and faster ca from straight

wall.

at the churchyard

A low-pitched hissing sound filled my ears, and I could feel

"He ain't the first one

to the centre of attention of the Earlier she confessed to polson-

world. A team skid on that corner," said Abel, medical

of ing the other four, and he won't be the last." specialists at the University of Then she turned to her Minnesota will perform a rare daughter. Melvina and said:. "That always is dangerous and delicate operation to repair "Don't worry, dear."

the baby's push past the vicarage and on to the her icy breath blasting my life when 'tis iced over," said Jim two holes in the middle of her

Cheap enough.

crossroads.

as we mounted the pavement. For a split second I saw the graveyard spread out before me, white with hoar frost, and

At this unearthly hour there" was never anyone about, and cne could ride quite recklessly. which is exactly what I was undisturbed except

The only fly in the economic, doi

travelling. The ever was

Dintment

for one

doin in top gear and with stone that was rolled over · OD every ounce of my strength, its edge beside a pile of weekly season ticket from Tring when a young woman

light raincoat but

but hatless loosened earth,

dressed

o Euston at 13s, 9d, or a day ***

and with dark hair hanging ticket for 3s. 6d., sounds cheap loose around her shoulders, the right-hand side of the lane only a few yards in front my

we

"'on accoun!

of the

way

that

heart.

elopes, 'Specially going fast, The ground do seem to run away from you"

As I walked back to rest for

Then

THE Du Pont Chemical Com if you're Doctors will flow her father's.

pany, inventor of nylons, is blood into Maureen by tubes, by offering to contribute 25 cmts passing her damaged heart, for every dollar saved by its

will her lungs be employees to buy Government" a bit in old Abel's cottage, we collapsed, the surgeon's scalpel bonds, stopped to examine the marks will slice into the bear! muscle

IR - CONDITIONED pave- that I had made on the church-to close the holes; clamps will

released be

Maureen's Aments are to be a feature of and yard wall. Jim even found a plece of raw skin on one of the heart and lungs will take over a shopping centre at Ford

places in Florida,

immense relish. needed stepped out of the very wall a God help me!' bricks and removed it with the task of pumping the blood, Lauderdale, one of the hottest

but eriough now, something even cheaper, and that left only the workman's return (any train before 7.30 if I remember aright), 70 miles for 1s. 6d. I would often get up at a quarter past five, bicycle five miles to catch the 6.20, and in Euston about eight o'clock, dive into the Underground and be at Ealing or Shepherd's Bush or Islington film sludios in good time for a nine o'clock call

Now that I am on the shady side of 40, such an expense of energy sounds ridiculous, but in those days It seemed quite natural.

It was on one of those early morning journeys that I nearly rode into Eernily, and

I can't think how now

even

I

wheeks

I gave a startled shout jammed on my brakes and tried to swerve past her in the narrow And I might just have lane. missed her had she not at the very last moment, and without warning, half turned and walked across my path, so that I rode straight into her.

were

MILL worker Fred Cloutier

1 had no eyes for the wall sood on a railway bridge at THIRTY-THOUSAND New

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

I remember her voice itself, but only for the grave. murmuring, "Come, warm me yard beyond, where all was the grave." I remember still and white and smooth and in

undisturbed. yelling "God help me!" not as traffic,

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESIGVED we say it in our daily but screamed out through the bitter morning to the Ancient of Days and His dear Son, with all the force of my throat and lungs. I remember giving last fearful wrench to steer the handlebars to the left along the pathway. I remember then turning with nightmare slow- I reinember my right hand scraping painlessly along

ness.

The next few seconds pure terror. Instead of colliding with flesh and bone, and being Bung from the saddle, I felt embraced by a ghostly myself

and mur- presence, bodyless

the wall. I remember a sudden derously cold, which strove to

to glimpse of the signpost caught very being occupy my

headlamp, my

and itself with the living in identity

to be mine momentary feeling of unutter- Besh that I knew

few able relief as I tore myself free the next but which for

Just Another

Another Swedish

CUSTOMS

B

V.R. BURKHARDT

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By LEONARD MOSLEY

film ACK in the days of the name; the star whose

"Camille" 35 making more 'twenties and 'thirties,

money on Broadway today than when Hollywood be- when it was first shown

18 lieved in love at the box years ago. office and censors were lesa

The story of that meeting and moralistic' about the photograph is told by John the portrayal of passion on the Bainbridge in "Garbo, screen a glance from a girl Authentic Life Story," published named Greta Garbo could by Frederick Muller at 166. make the world's heart miss

a beat.

It was while Garbo was still In New York with her good friend and producer, Maurice *She had

Siller-both of them depressed come from

and the a heat-wave by

Pro- Sweden as an ex-shopgirl found lack of enthusiasm (born Greta Gustafsson) on M.-G.-M-that they were taken. Д chancy contract with to see a photographer named

Amold Genthe. M-G-M.

at

He showed the shy, Swedish They had hoped to find a new girl his pictures and she praised. kind of star, to build up into a them lavishly, saying: "I wish rival of the current Hollywood you'd make some of me some female phenomena --- luminous time." Norma Shearts, sensual Pala

Negri, tragic Lillian Gish--and "Why not now?" they were disappointed by the Genthe. "Never mind shy girl from the North who dress and hair. I am greeted them on the New York interested in your eyes pier.

what lies behind that extra- ordinary forehead.".

"Aw, she's just another them Swedish blondes all blue saic an eyes and frizz hair

And M.-G.-M. publicity man. quiet preparations were made to

let her work out her modest contract in obscurity, ant. then ship her back home.

Remember?

Provocative

a

YES

NO

Put your Uck in the space abors und keep this pal by you unt!) Mandry what the answer will be giresillá 'anather story in this serius by.

T. E. B. CLARKE

■C yesterday's story The Stow eway, framkin, by Florenca Kilpatrick actually happen 7 answer is NO.

Blonde

GRETA GARBO and Robert Taylor-two profiles that made hearts, beat Easter in the film “Camille." ' The film cameri has not focused on, her for years-bot. “ Camille ". Ilves on, sarning more money 'on Broadway now than when it appeared 18 years ago.

The

"Her deep, husky, smoky voice Has she ever been in love? replied was heard in some of the most

Certainly, your memorable films of all time, the romance wila John Gilbert. nothing came of moreAnna Christie "Mata Har

of the and "Grand Hotel," "As You Desire Nothing came

Me," "Queen Christina," "The either with Conductor Leopold Parted Vell,” “Asia Karenina," Stat

Stokowski, and with Dietician

HauSET. and "Ninotchka,”

Gayelord

HE went to work with

camera, and masking

out

his

A

others

But it was rarely heard by Hauser was so convinced that the world off the screen: For Garbo would marry him that he romance for a news agency, to oil or her had invented even wrote an account of these formula

be published after the wedding mystery that all her classical facial features -A revealed their mystical attrac was then rote vin

bei news

agency's files. PANAM Lon-the heavy-lidded eyes, the made her famous. He knew that is "shrewd, selfish, perfect nose, the

the, parted lips she was shy. He knew thuly

Once

1. officials had when she talked to interviewers, wilful, completely well-absorbed, had she often said stupid things. She demands total attention CHANCE meeting and one seen the

still photograph their chillness towards Girbe Boyes and never to show

be resulting photograph, nga stupid things

So he told

Id her never, to live and Devotion; otherwise she single

give pulks changed all that and turbed; vanished." Greta Garbo into the greatest haired young hopeful they had herself to be quoted. It was from She is also the greatest film Alm star of all time the star seen in person now appeared as this advice that the legend of actress of them all I wish I

**I could see at least halt a doze who hem't made a picture a handsome and oddly provoca Garbo's famous remark.

want to be alone : groge

of her films over again:: since 1941, but in all of famous, Live-looking woman.

Yorkers were told to sign

oaths--or. be evicted

Auburn, Maine, threatening a suicidal leap into the Andros loyalty coggin River,

For hours he resisted attempts from their homes, to get him to come down. So They live in 28 blocks of they ran an old steam locomotive flats built with Goverment on to the bridge, It beiched money, anxi a new clause in clouds of cinders and smoke at the Federal Public Housing Law. requires official loyalty on this him.

from tenants. Cloutier scuttled down,

THE army department decided

to extend for 45 days its considerallon of tenders for the Chief Joseph Dam,

Delay reasons."

is due to technical

The English Electric Company. has underbid four U.S. Arms in offering six big generators at total

of $5,460,361 price (£1,950,000).

VINE served in ting WH

lar

is

becoming increasingly popu-

Each is given a list of 200. subversive organisations.

Penalty for falsely signing the oath is five years gel and $10,000 fine.

JOYSTICKS bave been de

veloped for submarines at the US Navy's underwater base, Now Lendon, Connecticut. Until now it has taken three men to steer subenarines up and down, right and left,

Now,

using the principle of the air plane's joystick, one man can do it all.

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