1955-06-04 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

Confucius Speaks

To Him In Dreams

New York.

Three times in the last 30 years Confucius has said things in dreams, to Yun. Gee, the well-known Chinese-American artist and inventor.

The last time, Confucius said a mouthful.

in Gee also is appearing Confucius,

an outstanding his authority on egy balancing and dreams, gave Gee in 1926 "Diamondism" method of paint has been working since 1921 on ultimate. balance called ine, which, is now internationally the

in 1934. known;

four-man Tung Tan Dou, "float on the do this, you checkers, and in 1954 four-man en.pty sky." To

balance three eggs upright their big ends, in a triangle, and top them with a fourth. Then, remove the bottom eggs, one by one, leaving the top one float-

Yun. Gee figures that by following the great philosopher's advice he stands to make a million dollars within three years. Confucius, in the dream, chess. told Yun Gee how to complete

the world. game for which has waited "45 centuries.

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The game is four-man chess.

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His Own Idea But the moon tunnel is his

ideä, Own

One portion of

Gee claims Archimedes in 250 cynical engineering opinion is unsupported in alr. PC, and Confucius himself in 500 B.C. both tried. and failed to invent it. On the four-dimensional board which

Dee has potented. four, three, or two persons can play chess

or checkers,

First Anniversary

11:

30 miles to

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith UNIQUE

VC STOLEN

London,

One of the first Victoria Crosses ever awarded has been stolen. It' was on dis- play, with a collection of other regimental medal awards, in the officers' mess the Royal Engineers' Depot at Barton Stacey, Hampshire.

at

DA

Gee. saw a scholar do it in China, he said, when he was 10, The scholar knew how to pick and

that he should have had some help from Confucius on that one, too, Briefly, it consists of

aluminium tube running the right time, space,

where the valversal" when the eggs could ¦ almosphere ends, and continuing be aligned on their true axes.

ahak-a-mile-wide, 220,000-||se that the Oriental elemental mile long, bamboo-ribbed canvas

Tunnel hooked to the moon,

Ger's

that theory is

air earth and would rise from the

acre- Egged on by a riporter with a All the tunnel, enabling

the

white night, half-dozen planes to make

grade-A's, cost the project would

Gee balanced the triangle and billion and take. 1,000 tried-once more-to float the more than 100 million elsewhere years to complete, Gee expects fourth. But it was the wrong me, wrong space and wrong

This is the first anniversary or the four-man chess set, and during the year, Gee says, 10,000 sets were sold in América, the Philippines, Cuba and Canada.

There are nine million chess: Since players in the United States and $200

in the world. Gee expects his, in be consulting engineer only

forces ot Yin (female) and Yung (male) could buzz into action and hold them upright.

sales (the sets are al three for the beginning of construc-boy-girl reactor-United Press, prices: $3, $7 and $10) to jumption

te a million sets next year and five million the year after that, "As soon as we are selling 10 million sets a year, we'll start building my Jubar tube-in Arizona, where there's solid ground," Gee Enid. bubbling with optimism,

tu

his

The reference was eclebrated. "Tunnel 10 the Moon," which be designed, copyrighted, and had signed by three engineering consultants in 1948.

"I still believe the tunnel is the only way, basically, you can to the moon," he said. kel "Getting there with a rocket is nonsense-It's crazy."

However, the four-man chess set is a going institution and has been pronounced good. Each player defends against all the others, Chess pieces are con- ducted to opposing boards by a diamond "Bridge" (Confucius 1934) assisted by a "Detour" (Confucius 1954).

Would Shakespeare

Have Approved

Of

"Joe

Macbeth"?

By Robert Musel

London.

A loud shrick of "murder" rent the air on the set of "Joe Macbeth".

"Who screamed?" I inquired innocently. "Shakespeare?"

For there are those who would say this movie doth murder "Macbeth", as surely as the voices said he murdered sleep.

Square-shouldered, burly Paul, Dongles shared me down.

"nave reason to believe," he'l said, "that the Bard would have approved of what we are doing here."

Douglas did not reveal his associations with Shakespears, who died three centuries before Columbia decided to convert his tragedy into a gangland thriller.

He was In costume as Joc Macbeth-felt hat brim down over his eyes, hunds jammed into the pockets of his long, dark overcoat. He looked like an underworld big shot-and, in fact, he was just that.

Perfect Casting

casc

of

As far as producer Mike Frankovitch is concerned, Douglas isu double perfect casting. Not only does he Et perfectly the rate of modern-day Macbeth but he knows enough about Shake- speare to argue with aroused who consider the film

just

Britors

this side of sacrilege. Joe Macbeth"

was written Philip Yordan who got an Oscar this year for the film "Broken Lance" He describes

speare.

it as a "paraphrase" of Shake- Macbeth Has become "Jcc Macbeth".

The

Diking

Duncan is the big bess even without the

dif-

gatharth

19% by NEA Barmer, lic, T. M. Bag. U. 5. Pat Off,

And, most embarrassing for ine officers there, it was on loan to them from the R. E. mess at Chatham.

The V.C. in the collection, awarded to Corporal William Lendrim in the Crimean War, is one of the most valuable ever struck.

Apart from being in the first batch, military reference books describe it as unique because Lendrim had three different citations for it.

Stamped on Medal

And the date of each citation.

is stamped on the medal. 4+26

"Did it seem funny to you how they agreed so heartily when I mentioned that you were a good cook?",

Billy Graham's Gives

Crusading

Him A Big Appetite

London.

The cross then could form a highly- prized, highly-priced item in any

collection.

(One item of the corporal's courage: He stood on top of a magazine to extinguish burning sundbags.)

The collection was missed from the mess three weeks ago. But it was not reported.

A senior officer at Barton Stacey said: "It was wrongly thought that someone had sent the medal ribbons to the clean- ETS,'

Once the theft was realised, civilian police from Andover

The strain of constant crusading demands that "Billy Graham eat were called in.

four or five meals a day, his attractive wife said.

"In that way," she explained, "he keeps up his strength and also prevents any tendency towards ulcers."

Mrs Graham and the eldest about the effects, such

such

Believe it Or not!

Also on hand for the services was the Duchess of Kent, Her

was

33m- At home,

she noted.

busload to the

of her four. children were-ipaign imposed on the preacher, freedom to wander was often among the 56.000 people attend-| Mrs Graham said she and her hampered by other sightseers ing his services in vast nine-year-old daughter, Vir-trying to get a glimpse of the Wembley stadium. The crowd ginia"joined the evangelist be-evangelist and his family. on the last night brought the cause he

the go al- 01

M Graham's fame brings five-day total for the London most constantly.. crusade to 273,000.

"I didn't travel around busload, upon with him occasionally, I would see practically nothing of bim said the at all," dressed Mrs Graham.

"He is away from home about 80 per cent of the time. But knowing how important his work is, I am quile content to have it that way,"

though there are many ferences.

Those who have read Mac- beth will recognise our story Those who read

it and didn't understand it will now under- stand it. And those who rever read it will now know what visit, the Arst made by Royalty,

put the it's about. So everybody ought to be happy."

Except, perhaps, Shakespeare.

Unfici Press.

78 rpm on the

BILLY GRAHAM

American evangelist back in newspaper headlines.

Mrs Graham's ecmments wort in answer to questions:

records way out

New York.

The popularity of 78 rpm gramophone records It is closer has taken its worst crash in years. than ever to becoming the "horse and buggy" of the music world.

It has all but vanished from many record cabinets. The rumpus room-where teen-agers decide what kind of music will be heard-may be its last refuge.

smartly

family's home at Montreat, North Carolina, his wife ex- plained.

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"We bave only & amall garden, and often when we sit cutside we and ourselves being inspected by groups of people," she said. "It's hard for the children,"

Mas Graham and ber The three youngest children daughter have tried to stay in were in Montreat in the pare the background during the of their grandparents. While London visit. However, the Virginia was allowed to travel British Broadcasting Corpora- with her mother, she was tion persuaded her to appear on carefully kept from the pub- a woman's programme and relicity that surrounded her porters managed to catch her | father, Mrs Graham said.wo in the hotel lobby.

United Press.

Whales DO Talk

SCIENTISTS HAVE HEARD THEM

London.

Two scientists of the British Natural History Museum demonstrated to more than 650 British scientists last week that whales are quite active and versatile conversationalists.

Dra F. C. Fraser and P. E They also have vocal cords. Purves played a recording of a But the study of how and why whale conversation, pleked up the whales carry on their con- by an undersea microphone inversations was a specialty in Dry Fraser and Purves the Saguenay River of Canada. itself,

They adjusted the amplifer, said.-United Press, and a series of grunts came

over the loud speaker.

"They're hungry," Dr Fraser interpreted.

There were a number of sort of agonised groana. which in

murmurs of contentment. whale language seem to be little Angry Rattles light Next there was a rattling sound which the scientists ex- plained were emitted by whales. when they were angry.

Then there was a sharp, high- pitched whistic,

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For "extended play" 45 rpin records had been more gradual scheming and the "long play" 33-1/3 rpm until early this year when, in- ambitious wife who goaded him to murder is bow Lily Macheth sellers of the trade.

records are becoming the best-dustry-wide price cuts made it

possible to buy a small, and brunette Ruth Roman IS Tin Pan Alley in recent weeks extended play record for the "giving the part a few sex has reported drops up to 50 per same price as a 78.

overtones that Shakespeare left a

cent in sales of 78s compared

"The

probably out

price cut of the sleep-walking

with sales jast

winter,

stimulated a lot of people to buy sequence.

The big price cuts on the la slower-speed gramophone

"That's fright Dr Purves longer-playing records, put into where they had hesitated before effect shortly after the beginning because of the higher price of said. "They whistle like that of the year, was a severe blow long-playing records," said Mr when they're disturbed or

alarmed," to the 788.

The trend away from 785

When a What about the music-lover has been accelerating terrificly,"

who is mursing En old 78 blubbery female swimming by Vice- said Mr. Larry Kanaga,

rpm gramophone through its in the mating season, he chirps | KERK BOUGLAS - WELLA BARYI - GILBERT ROLAND President and operations man declining years? Will it reach like a bird in the spring.

THE RCA Victor ger of their cauldron is now Tommy's Tip

Other Our mouths ago our sales the point where he can't get his. Top Cate and several

Duca,

But

in his name he still gets kaifed.

The three witches have been disililed into one seedy fortune teller named "Rosic"

The Blasted Heath The "blasted heath"

stirred which they

Juke-box and gin joints.

for

on

Douglas, who generally stars percentage, has to be

shrewd judge scripts. He

Kanga.

records.

records were divided about half and half between 785

kind of records any more!

feels Yordan has made's clever Losing Popularity

to become

male whale sees

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Hmited. Already, are his about 40 per cent and 45s up to

zoologists recently became in- out few companies are putting

and started caves 60 per cent

classical music on 786. Albums terested of popular music also are dropping. They have found and exciting conversion of the At Columbia records, a vanishing Sales of 78s are now some

-to these largesg things about

of the world's, Macbeth story

PORTS dance surviving mammal very

Whales have ears. +

"They've been

confined almost entirely

and novellies said. "The Macbeth idea has sharply. The old type record music been copied so many times by now, accounted for only 33 per Since teen-agers appear to be much like human ears," Dr writers who claimed their cent of. Columbia's total sales, The biggest buyers of 78 rpm Fraser said. scripts as original that it's The 78 has been losing singles, their tastes will probably adapted to surmount the prob retreshing to get an honest popularity ever since LP records have more to do with the lems of picking up water-borne

air-borne vibra edmiston that a story was I went on the market in 1948. catalogue than anything else rather than spired by Shakespeare even But the shift-to-longer-playing-Uinted Press.

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"Look at it this way," he spokesman said the 78 rpm re-

cord had faded even more singles -popular

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