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POCKET CARTOON| by ÖSBERT LANCASTER
"Darling, I'm most terribly BOTTY, but what I thought soas a star turns out to be
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just & Ay."
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955,
BAD? BRILLIANT?
BAFFLING?
STILL, THEY ARE GIVING MR HUXLEY A NEW AUDIENCE
I turned
By Robert Pitman
THE THIRTIES found Fluxky
his Wag
With Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
on
PARADE
Chapple-Hyam.
D
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
were
Fain and
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There seems lo be explanation for the occurrences
the recent Parish Strange things are happening RICH BUT The Chinese years. In SCARED villagers of Pulau Council elections, six women in "Tumbledown Terrace," the
Tikus (Rat and one man
returned name which 15 families have
Island),
a record poll. The une given to their brick cottages in miles three
from after Penang, are £60,000 richer male member of the original the suburb of Poplar Terrace, and scared, too. They say the petticoat council, Mr Fred Mar-
Doors suddenly lean at crazy "Galloping Ghost" gave them low, was replaced by Mr Frank
Moore
angles, floors tilt and residents the tip which brought in the
"The six elected women, all of ure reluctant to turn their money, And it wants a human
whom are grandmothers, are: radios on for fear of falling life as payment,
Mesdames Keginbotham, Smith plaster, Nasleepy mountain that's his place," the locals
Villagers say the spirit, 5 not so much Bid this rept disgust abhuded still mounted monster, told Bave Robbins, Jenkins, community six thou tell them.
In to put their money on feet
And when the visitors Eaffing. And especially bailing more, above
World Brave New
There were also spreading number 1018 in a lottery based California's Mojave Desert drive off 'down to the dusty (1932).
74-year-old It was a futuristic hovel symptoms of a new Huxley on the Singapore Turf Club's, FINANCIAL A stands a white bungalow plain they check another
mystic Huxley. By cash sweep. The ghost then
woman has help- PIGEON Blue-blooded racing. with shutters drawn. It is home of listinction off their today, let's call it science fiction. pacifist,
was lecturing to In-named the price-the sacrifice PROBLEM ed the mayor et PIDGIN pigeons are being en- li locked forward to a century 1939 he
the London suburb of Wembley modest lofts by freedom-loving ticed away from ther empty. But sightseers ure list the home of Mr Aldous when children are produced in dians on religion. And by the of a baby.
war he had settled in California,
weighty Anancial The men protested. In the solve still peering at it through Huxley, novelist, poet, cynic, bottles: when the words "father" and "mother" are taboo 33
ancient towerS Colchester "Yes, mystic, script-writer. surrounding pines.
first place, they said, it was problem, When Mayor Arthur wild pigeons which haunt the Here, betwetu musings when mass-productices_is Smu
Castle. worthless foreign coins religion, and people swear By the blessings of the spirit and against the law, and in the Edmond announced that he had
And it's getting local pigeon- the
the Besh second place, babies were hard 3,000 grossibess of Ford!?
Huxley found time to earn high to come by. The ghost agreed for sale, Miss Agnes Borrowman fanciers so worried that they've One scene from Brave New Jess in Hollywood.
to accept a human heart,
rang him up and made him an asked the council to. trop World made a sharp impression.
The villagers streamed to offer of £20 for them.
castle pigeons and take them A cluster of bables is let loose -
bookmakers to lay bets. When He accepted, and she plans to somewhere else. on the nursery floor.
1018 came up as the last four
use them to make a chali mall
castle pigeons are believed' Books are set up, temptingly HD was the script of Pride digits of the winning Singapore costume for someone going to to "blitz refugees from bright acht colourful.
and Prejudice (with Olivier ticket they stood to win £380 the next Chelsea Arts Ball. Any London's Trafalgar Square who in a special Penguin edition. The
lett over coins she will make tow prefer the simple life of babies crawl the and Greer Garsen): although for every half crown staked.
The village was in
...the a festive into knick-knacks and bracelets, Colchester to books, they finger them eagerly. Jane Austou had some share in
noises and Almost immediately a tangle of the plot.
mood
punters collected
tough competition of the capi- bells dins at their ears; electric
Wells, Orson
tal.. winnings. But now everyone is growled his way
And there (say the fanciers) shocks tingle through the floor. Rochester,
Arough Jame
Eyre the words wondering what will happen TRYST WITH On a night last
week a heavily they perch on the castle walls, when the ghost turns up
A MIKE THE REACTION
were Huxley's.
collect payment.
veiled young and..when an attractive-looking Both are joint theirs to a
woman stepped out of a taxi in racing pigeon comes by they give Ther heritage of pure brain.
Howling, the children recol
an Aden side street and tiptoed what passes for a pigeon wolf- father was
whis.le leading literary from the boots. They are des-
into a darkened empty offer
and entice the racing cdilar. Ant in the 19th century timed to be workers, they have
block to keep their grandfather. T.H. Huxley, been cerditioned for life against
a secret tryst- pigeons to share their life
Idleness, plenty of food and a with a microphone, a giant some would say the perils of the printed word. was
In' doing So 20-year-old good home. an ogre.
Aly--the The reaction 10 Brave New
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Grub (5).
4 Vagrants (6).
8 Open to all (d).
10 Like a sheep (5)
12 Charged. (6).
14 Swell (7).
17 Bird's home (1).
19 Instigates (7)
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church (7).
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htly (5)..
30 Tyrant (0).
31 Exciting sensation (8).
32 Narratives (5)
DOWN
1 Ran casily (5).
2 Garments (5)
3 Spry (5).
5 Land measure (4).
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6 Damsel (8).
11 Thin
Own up (7).
7 Extracts metal from ore (6).
Thin covering (e).
13 Bedecked (7),
15 Eye part (4)
Struggle (6),
18
Stupefy (4)
20 Fish (6).
21 Drink of the gods (8).
24 Skilled (5).
25 Drive (5).
26 Vandals (5).
28 Spoken (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.--Across: 3 Ascribed, 8. Hard,
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9 Curators. 11. Repeated, 13. Odes, 15 Relieved, 18 Director. 19 Stop, 21 Diverted 25 Intruder, 25 Hits, 27 Desclate. Dawn: Char, 2 Prop, 4 Shut, 5 Head 6 Blood. 7 Desks, 9 Caged, 10 Reter. 12 Erect. 14 Elope, 10 Vivid, 17 Deter, 19 Spied, 20 Oaths 21st Dull, 22 Vent, 23 Trip, 24 Dash.
in New York the price quoted for Huxley's autograph is £4 10-more than for Einstein's, a little less than for the Queen's
Meanwhile
aw hopur has been
him. Seven of his novels and three cther works have been reprinted
It is pative
bold move, for in
his
country Aldous Huxley is no household work. In many minds he is confused with his
brains-trusting elder brother
Dr Julian.
It was, he, rather, than Darwin
to
When
HIS SCRIPT
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himself, who bludgeoned the World was ironteal. Some readers reeting the proofs of his latest
theory imagined that this was Huxley's
notion of Utopia.
Darwin's bishops with about apes and man.
INTELLECTUAL SOUP
At home young Aldous was on an intellectual soup peared which made the stuff he tasted term at Exon and Balliol seem like shin guel,
in
Others were annoyed at him turning-puritan even if a puritan who obviously got such fun from describing the things which disgusted him.
.
REST OF THE
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Here with his Belgian wits (she died this February), Huxley
Married HUSBAND
Ere in enjoyed the company of Chap-
Lucknow is back Garbo. lin
Ronald Colm, | WORSHIP
to normal again, Groucho Marx.
Now he is touring America, women. For it was the week of After a very black week for the visiting other friends and cor-
sort novel THE GENIUS THE GODDESS ("moving and dramatie his publishers),
say Wil Aldous Huxley stand the test of the years? At £4 108, is his scrawled signature a safe investment? The common reader can now judge, ·
NEW
BOOKS
MOONRAKER, Ну lan Scrubs. The outcome?
AND
A book
By COROMANDEL.
John
Meriam
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name by
the
fanciert
onc Complained Hindu husband worshautionary which she wishes to be known, "Some of the racing pigeons just
First, just as precaut
one-way can't resist it but when they an Important page in cost as much as 2100 cach, it measure, tribute was paid to but not her real Gauri, jealous spouse of the God etching
of that British heartbreaking to see them go Uke history And then, *Shiva.
chanting the
this." For Meriam is the very first
ever10 LADY WITH schoolteacher Aden Arab woman broadcast.
A TORCH Cynthia Strel- "How did it fecit" soracone
Ton of Ripley. asked her when her 15-minute England, thumbed through the
Radio's jeweller's list looking for a talk, initiating Aden woman's hour, had been prize to present at the children's recorded on tape..
drama festival she was
she spotted From behind the heavy folds sing. Then
sacred Hindu vedas, the proces colony, sion of wives and husbands moved on to the real business of temporarily boosting the male ego.
ོག་ a sacred pavilion, the Lucknow wives made floral offerings to their husbands, and reverently washed their feet.
wate And then drank the used for the ceremony.
Prostrating themselves before their lords and masters, they chanted:
my
If
The
orzum-
it!
IN THE TWENTIES it seem ed that Aldous had inherited his grandad's bludgeon, Everywhere Stairt critics warote him of as Brillia but Bad. They found Fleming.
of her purdah velt she said: "1 "Achievement Lady with a Cape, 10s. 6d. 256 of bitter insight into prison life
Torch." that his first novel, the genial
liked it. But I am terrified." James Bond, modert- and angry comment on social
seemed just the thing she It wasn't "mike fright" that "re- pages, Chrome Yellow (1921)
style secret agent (Number 007) "intolerance."
worrying was
Meriam. But was after, so she sere off an forced to matter to which and man about Mayfair, hears
order for it could happen to her minded folk do not, the red telephone say "M wants decent
"You are Brahma, the creator, what
Lady With 1 *Torca refer."
You are Vishnu, the preserver. her father er any of her friends Michael Joseph, 12s. a Masters It is the preface to you." And hands were raised in fresh tale (the third) of horrid ud. 319 pagem Robustly you are Maheshwar, the des- found out who the mystericus arrived in the nude,
So Miss Stretton consulted a at Gumbril, hero cf harrer
troyer; you are God. If I have "Meriam Aly" is, tropically passioned
headmistress friend. And both adventure for smooth, dangerous coloured.
adventure. committed any mistake, of Indian Astic Hay (1923): for Gumbri Bond.
agreed: "Definitely unsuitable for novel Period: like Huxley an ex-schoolmaster
seventeenth century.husband, forgive me."
children." The hero (not called Jason poses as superman; donning a fine false beard he frequents
Savage for nothing) leaves quiet the National Gallery' in search
Wiltshire to rolster through the of Old Masters; young mis-
glamorous, dangerous East. and finds them tresses!
Warse stall. Huxley was sec too frequently in the company of D. H. Lawrence.
But, if anything. Huxley was felt to be the beastlier of the two for unlike Lawrence, he was so scioncife. Huxley would have been as much interested in
·Lady Chatterley's liver as in her Dover,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
- ER- DON'T YOU THINK
WE SHOULD SQUEEZE
A RUMPUS ROOM IN
SOMEWHERE ? “
● SARAH DANE, By Catherine Gaskin Collins. 126. 6d. 448
Romantic-and pages.
most readable--story of Australia in the early days of colonisation. A big book with a sustained dramatic power.
THE PICNIC AT SAKKARA. By P. H. Newby. Cape, 124. ed. 239 pages.
Why all this fuss? The holy man who initiated the ritual thought that half the world's ills came from wives who had too Utile respect for their husbands,
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So she asked the jewellers if they could maybe put
Before
broadcast Meriam's Aden Radio had no single pro- gramme beumed to the women, Now there's sure to be a lot of
sche muttering in the bazaars,
clothes on the lady. The statuetia And every father will be came back this time with "a closely questioning his very brief, tightly stretched gar- . daughters, and every husband meat."
"To Miss Stretton, the lay A first-class PETTICOAT Down in the vil his wife, or wives,
looked somehow more undressed THE VERDICT OF YOU light novel. Comic mishaps of
lage of Bishop's
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RULE ALL
Itchington War TUMBLING Residents of than she had before. By Rupert Craft-Cooke, an English lecturer at Caire
Selston, in Not- So the Lady With Torch among Secker & Warburg. 158 254 University
Egyptian wickshire (pop. 890) there is no TOWN
tinghamshire, take. went back to the jewellers. pages. The verdict was guilty students of the most highly mistaking who has control of
and
their saws to bed with them at Schoolteacher Stretton had de- (of a homosexual offence), the
engaging | affairs--the women. unpredictable sentence was
Express nine months, rascality, - London
There has been petticoat rule night, in case they have to eat cided the safest thing was so
old-fashioned plain silver cup. mostly
spent in
Wormwood Service.
in this viHage for the last six their way out in the morning.
BY ALL MEANS,
"
́A FIREPLACE / 2. WHY A
FIREPLACE ?
DON'T TELL ME
YOU STILL
BELIEVE IN SANTA
CLAUS! AEK
HEA"
DON'T FORGET
THOSE
PICTURE WINDOWS WORK BOTH WAYS.
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PETOUR
WALLS-TWO IN
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AND "TWO IN CANARY SHOULD BE NICE
WITH SOME PEOPLE, DESIGNINGA HOUSE IS EASY—————- YOU MIGHT SAY ME PRACTICALLY A GIFT.
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ON
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CARRYING It has to be a preitý special event to keep regular cus- tomers away from the BLACK Horse pub in Catford, Sou Detst London suburb, Last week 30 of them, went through fire und water to get their regular piat. As they drank in the smuky little bar 33 premen were Seni- ing blaze in the upper nout.
The customers just went on drinking.
A nursemaid rushed dowu- stairs, bringing the pub-owner's chudren, in their nightclotras, to safety.
Later on, water from the UTE- men's hoses started pouring through the ceiling. The tus- tomers went on drinking for a while unui it got too wek Then they went home.
DEATH The applause
thundered the SCENE
curtain ran2· QOWIL on the "Death Scene" performed by an amateur theatre group in tre tue playhouse in Epinni, France.
For never had Epinal seen such a masterly performance of a uying woman by wille Mariu Vauthier, 56-year-old- broiderer.
eff
Even the other actors ap- plauded her acting.
But Mile Vauthier did not take a bow. At precisely the moment she was to die in the play she fell dead of a heart attack.
DEAD
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Police are using duck- DUCKS shooting tactics to kill- Communist bandits in Malaya's Jungles, Chief police officer in Selangor, J. B. Masefield, said surrendered terrorists disguised as rubber tappers were being used to decoy bandits into the open,
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They were sent to work as rubber tappers with other labourers, When bandit cognising them came to the Jungle fringe asking for food their old-time comrades · cut them down with bullets.
Said Masefield drily: "The plan is proving very successful “**
Men's As
CHRISTIAN Singapdres REVELATION Young
Christian sociation last week took stock and found it wasn't such a Christian organisation as it had Imagined. "Among its members were 438 Christians, 95 Budd- hists, 19 Hindus and 28 Moslems. But what murprised officials 20062 Saga 20152754/zembere claimed to bave no religion
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