1955-06-25 — Page 14

MAUDIE. LITTLEHAMPTON

ON HOLIDAY

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"A fat lot of good classical

education scems to have

done you!"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25,

1955.

THE GAY OLD GIRL WHO GAVE PARADE

VALENTINO A LESSON IN LOVE

HE was a woman who shocked the ears off Victorian England with a pulsating first novel that started the vogue for tiger-skin rug romance:...

ANNE

EDWARDS

peeps into a new book

Elinor Glyn, whose life emeralds to match her eyes, story is being told for the dressed in clinging black,. first time or grandson, drank champagne with a Sir Geoffrey Dayson, was pinch of red pepper in it. as like her herolies as life and blued every would let her be.

fortune which she made afresh with

She wore thick coils of each new novel. Auburn hair, bought

**Elinor Glyn." published by Hutchinson.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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Pink silk

She wrote her books in bed, witth In a bedroom garlanded pink silk roses.

"All the members of the family used to make them fo her," says her grandson, "and they hung in great ropes" from " the canopy above her bed and wêre heaped all Dver the coverlet."

ELINOR GLYN", Men bowed the kase to ner and her heroines.

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COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

RECRUITS' Conservative MP. Once scientists thought whales where they started since they take a curved course. To track SAVIOUR

William Shepherd, were dumb too. an old army man Said Zoologist Purves Just the movements of these creatures One day

think how useful it would be if the two scientists painted 800 of the woman (who himself, has come to the rescue wes primitive, you understand, of the raw army recruit who is we could reproduce the love call them a bright yellow.

Title at the 22-page report? but pell bed) met the Guards trained to stamp, the parade of the whale."

"Whaling ships would only "The Dymiles of the Zonation officer and pres.o he went up around to make as much noise

have to reproduce that call to of the Common Feriwinkle on a in flames.

as possible,

have whales flocking round.” Stony Beach."

Red lips

She had the recipe for this tao. The hero in Three Weeks," calling one evening on the heroine, Wis left in absolutely no doubt about what she had in mind.

The 43-year-old Tory, who served in the British Army for six years in the Second World

JUDGE'S

카

More than 100. THING OF The traditional English breakfast THE PAST 13 fast disappear-

War, is to ask the War Minister DECISION were partioned in

British "criminals”

in the House of Commons what

to eliminat been done stamping from army

has

drill?

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Ing. Domestic gas engineers meeting in conference in South- sea were told that the cooked breakfast is becoming a thing of the past because women, their anxieties and endeavours to look slim, " seldom eat more than fruit juice and toast.

Factory and school meals have also been responsible for the fall in the use of domestic gas, an executive said:

Southampton last week and told He they could get back the money also wants to know how many they had paid in speeding Anes non commissioned officers have if they wanted it. been put on charges for „Defending a 'motorcyclist who insisting on stamping in defance was accused of exceeding the of orders during the last five 15-mile-an-hour speed limit on "In front of the Bre, stretched

years.

Southampton docks, a solicitor public Shepherd, who claims that all argued that, since the cut at full length was the tiger. skin rug, and on it, also at full this foot-stamping is injuring does not have unlimited necess length, reclined the lady garbed the feet of national service men, to the roads, they do not come

strange,

clinging

it under the Road Traffic Acts. that wooden-headed says

the to encourage

After the judge decided in garment of Heavy purple crepe structors try

...one white arm resting on men to try and snigth their fest favour of the motorcyclist, ↑ HAVES AND Öne

back through the concrete."

court pificial said that persons HAVE NOTS London child- the tiger's head, ber

says he's net

worried previously convicted would be. supported by a pile of velvet cushions, heap of

rarely about Britain's crack Guards entitled to apply to the Home bound books at her side, while regiments who have to do Secretary for a pardon. between her red ups was u rose.....

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some

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lot of ceremonial, drill in public. This would automatically and have some excuse but mean that fixes would have to there is no excuse for these be returned," he said.

units where Primitive you understand, recruit training

the men come in raw from but polished,

civilian life."

He also pointed out that the Royal Marines don't stamp their feet, "and they are first. class at drill.”

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Rosy world

A

PRISON Dozens QUEUE

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thousand

be

ren... will. guinea pigs for a tonsil expert- ment which will take a year to complete. Purpose of the ex- periment S to determine whether or not the removal of tonsils is beneficial to children's health. Half the group will, have their tonsils removed and the. balance will not

•

She decorated rooms to suit

of school her mood; an

children, each clutch autumn hall, a

ing a jam jar or a spring drawing-

In a year's time doctors will glass bowl, formed, a line in examine both groups ta deter- room, a summer

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, mine which is the healthier. bedroom, and

a room full of knick-knucks ("I

last week-to get into Prison then, when her

was always tripping over the

Turning a cool, mid-century

Their detention was short-lived, mood changed, tiger-skin rug upright, as eye on his grandmother, Sir

to THE LAST If trade unicatists baby however. They had come WHAT A When

view askance: the threw it all out Queen Mary; a little forbidding Geoffrey explains her romantic

daughter arrived Mr call nearly 600 geldish which' and decorated

"auto you not wearing views 38 ("Why are

increasing a convict in and Mrs Chew were "sheer frustration" CHEW! -

the prison had STRAW afresh.

mation of factories, their doubts gloves? Are you proud of those She herself married a man who delighted. They called her Iris been breeding. *Do you red hands?"); but always was athletic, handsome, well-and they thought that was pretty

The Japanese fantails, which will turn to downright alarm know," she told exciting enough to be the centre born but, as she would say, wonderful too.

overflow when they hear what has hop- of a crowd; wherever she went, spiritually "asleep."

But the vicar of the Yorkshire" were threatening to town of Holmfirth (pop: 19,000) their pond, were sold for one pened to Britain's cows.

Up to DOW these happy the shilling each to provide funds. doesn't think so, and in

ruminants have held a virtual out for the Prisoners Aid Society, parish magazine he spoke

monopoly in the ability to trans- against people who gave children

form grass into milk. ames, they will be ashamed of WINKLE The winkles on Now a fath in Essex has for the

hol of their lives."

benches devised Britain's

extraction plant Iris A. T. WONDERS behave just like which, in effect, does the same (for Arthur

tas Elinor'

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VALENTINO

His technique

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ACROSS

1 Keep back (6).

5 Apartments (5).

8 Republic of Ireland (4).

9 Come into view (6).

11 Rapki (5).

12 Skarful (6).

14 Uninteresting (4).

again (5).

16 Happ (5).

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19 Withered (4).

20 Hesitated (6).·

24 Proportion (5).

25 Vegetable (6)

28 Chanted (4).

27 Jollification (5),

28 Choose (6).

YESTERDAY'S

CROSSWORD

DOWN

1 Actual (4).

2 Winning line (4).

3 Harvest (4),

4 Straightforward (8).

5 Put back (7).

6 Opening (7).

Artists models (7).

10 Banish (5).

13. Ripens (

14 Adulate

15 Fatty (7).

17 Went wrong (5).

19 Rejects with disdain (6).

21 Wise (4).

22 Terrible (4).

23 Close (4)..

Across: 1 Tales + Neste, & Lesce,

10 Issue, 12 Elects, 14 Problem. 17 ust. 19 Violets, 30 Caravan, 22 Arum. 23 Tenders 27 Serene. 20 Posse, 30 Terror, 31 Totals 31 Solld. Dawn:

1 Tip, 2 Las960, 3 Steel, 3 Epic. 6 Tue. 7 Events, G Elevate. 11 Stolid, 33 Eminent 15 Roar 16 Bhames, 18 Stir, 30 Carpet, 21 Rusret, 24 Needs.

Enrol 26 Shred. Real.

a visitor, "that every yard of carpet, curtains, silk, satin, and chintz. Wins

specially made for me?"

She received another visitor exactly is her heroines would have done, reclining on a chesterfield against a pile of Oriental satin cushions carefully calculated to throw up the pallor of her skin and the brilliance of her auburn hair.

Red hands

Blue fish

She did,' in fact, fascinate men

said: "which

"She had some quality," he made then get down on their knees to her, just as they did to the heroine in her books,"

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After a few years of marriage, and two daughters, he returned his affections to shooting, and his land,

'Dear

Glyn!

Minor Hars Was such 2 wonderful

for world women if it only

had In 30 years of writing stie

ever existed, Lever varied the hero or the

P.S.. It is a heroine of the story. The good report women are mysterious cat-like that the grand- creatures always dressed in son who writes something clinging, who ran the her biography world from their boudoir by the is as she would" CLARA simple recipe of making men have wished... mad with desire and then good-looking, a pushing them into politics. baronet, athlete,

Eton, Oxford, The

well-born, men "are

Guards handsome, athletic, blond, Eton, Oxford, and Brigade of Guards, She invented the girl, with small, blond moustaches later "identified with

but emotionally "asleep," and unaware of the finer things of Clara Bow.

lite, such as caviar, blue trout, Chateau Lafftle and love on a "-tiger-skin rug.

She taught Rudolph Valentino how to make film love,

"Don't kiss the back of her hand," she told him, tersely, in and Hollywood, "turn it over kiss the palm."

flm star

As an old lady, as her grand- son remembers her, she sat la

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WHY DON'T YOU NAME HER SOMETHING EXOTIC-LIKE ZANZIBAR ?“

OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE.

GOSH? WE CAN'T

NAME HIM AFTER

ALL HIS UNCLES/"

PICK THE ONE WITH THE BIGGEST PIGGY-BANK.

DID YOU

HEAR THE

LABEL THEY FOISTED

ON THAT INFANT

YOU CANT PLEASE

EVERYBODY

"I THINK IT'S CUTE!“

WE STILL HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT TO CALL HIM/*

BOW Herit pa

Elinor's

D

Thomas) Danger- class-conscious humans, accord-

too much Like ing to the report of a scientific job on a bunch of grass that a

feid, sounded "Irish

winkle' survey just issued He wants a church ruling to

They live in clear-cut districts. stop infaltable names.

crust near the with the upper Mr Dangerfield says namus like high tide mark, a lower class by Marmaduke can cause a lot of the ebb tide mark and a teeming embarrassment to boy in later middle class suburb in between. life. And there was no saying And a winkle knows its place what the initials which made up in this scheme of things and a word-like D.O.G.-could do. keeps to it. It may make long excursions when the tide un- covers it but it rarely strays out of its own district and usually returns if it does.

*

under-

WHALE Future whalers may MATING reproduce

water whale mating

Professor James E. Smith and of sounds to attract their catch. Brigade

the Dr. G. E. Newell, of London Zoologist Peter Purves of British Museum said so at a University, carried out a winkle Royal Society meeting,

watch at Whitstable Bay every Purves played

a record of three weeks for more than a year whate. Boles--grunts, squeals to make these findings. and whistles.

was

Among

other things

they

And I don't think he spiritually

fner asleep to the things of life either-for when we Junched I noticed that he It exploded one more of the learned winkies can move at a ordered gulls eggs and salmon old theories about whales the speed of 20 miles an hour flat frout, with Pouilly Fulsse 1947. theory that whales were deaf, out, but they usually return to

Naming The Baby

"WHATS THE DIFFERENCE / IF I KNOW A CERTAIN PARTY,

HE'LL CALL HIM "BUTCH' REGARDLESS/

COFL. 1955 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP. THE WORLD KIGHTS RESERVED

"HOW WILL YOU EVER BE

ABLE TO TELL

THEM APART

"OH, WE'RE GIVING

THEM DIFFERENT.

NAMES

NG SIMPLE:

BOY! CAN SHE

KICK /*

BY HARRY

WEINERT.

"I TOLD YOU SHE WOULDN'T LIKE THE NAME YOU GAVE HER!

THE AUNT SHE WASN'T NAMED AFTER

"MOMMY, WHY

DON'T YOU

NAME HIM

·AFTER ME?”

GRANDMA

WHAT DO

| YOU THINK

OF THE

NAME

WE'VE CHOSEN ?

IT'S NOT THAT L'OBJECT TO THE

"NAME, MS JUST THAT

HIRAM HAS BEEN IN THE

RÁMÍLY FOR

GENER- "ATIONS.

cow does by chewing the cud.

Jerseys, Friesians, of the world unite!

THIS CAR KILLED DAZZLE

"From SYDNEY SMITH

A LONG

Paris. country

unlit roads near Paris a black car raced at 60 miles

an hour and WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS. It was a dark overcast night and some of the roads were still shiny with rain..

Instead

headlights there were three screened. lamps on the front of the one green, one blue,

car, one red.

of

But for the driver the road was it for 250 yards ahead by a clear, bright, colourless beam. I was that driver.

*I was festing a French ventor's answer to the biggest killer or the ronds headlight dazzle.

M

is a

To Britain

Maurice Pelladeau at 80 man who has made the profession of inventor pay, he

Soon he hopes to take his anti-dazzle invention to Britain. Said he: Eeveryone knows the seven colours of the spectrum combine to make to give the driver the

white light. I bave adapted, the

idea

Uluznination he needs

drivers fee

3-OD-

thing

but broken light-in colorira

"In myth lamps the sevon spectruma coloura "zauze combinect. The three coloured beams are synchronised so that they give a normal white light. Well

let's go out on the road and see.".

We took the car into the nar row, dark roads of the pitch black forests of Marly, and Versailles,

We stopped in a forest track. A Ane widte light stabbe; among the trees.

For fog

With the men and red lights ased alone, the resulf

bright amberang"

automatic...

**WILS

There's your

fog and mist without

pierces

250 yards," said bt.. Pelladeau.

The inventor drove sa The three coloured lights were not in the least dazzling and spad, instead of reflectingại

blaze of white light, they reflected only the colours.

On the drive home along unlit roads we parted 37); oncoming cars. Every one of them dipped his headlights to our entoured lamor

And that means something in Her country where drivers: bes Leve the “I-mot-dipundi - you do methods

The drivers could not see the white beam that lit them and our mad home. They did not know [t, but they were really answering the best question: KAS M Paldera boston dazzle?

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