MAUDIE LITTLEHAMPTON ON HOLIDAY
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Tell me, darling, do you sometimes have a stronge feeling we've lived on this earth before?"
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955.
A KISS IN THE SUNSHINE
BONJOUR TRISTESSE. By
N
Francoise Sagan, Murray,
7s. 6d. 132 pages.
nevalists.
TENETEEN is diffleul age
for. WOMEN
Του eld to be an infant predigy, too Lignoram to write about simple things, there is nothing for it but to make up in sophistication what you lack in experience and
BRINGS SUCCESS
to present Youth's everlasting in the adorn world questions as if they were
the answers.
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Collectors
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
have
East Berlin's
"That isn't the rule; there are reported
·latest telephone thriftiness" when it comes to thousands of good small hotels
DOCUMENT directory — first shoes, however, Fower people where none of this happens.
does, move cut and say why. You'll be doing a service to the
to be issued in the Red sec.ion are thrawing away old footwear, But you strike one where it of the city since the war - it was reported. doesn't make very Interesting roading
as a secret document:
a
(Wildo), cer of Jewish faith with a liking I was on sale at twopence With Raymond is also stay for bridge, was dealing the cards copy. Judicious ing Elsa; his mistress, a pretty remarked that a certain X had traitor, Dreyfus, belonged to an
Far from being evening when his partner
a potential this
with
cne dis- Francoise Sagan has young woman
turns red and been arrested as a spy. Flush Alsatian family which had opted sold in France 200,000 copies of ability: she
when ing with embarrassment over his for France after the 1870 war. So peels in the her novel, Bonjour Tristesse.
he added hastily was we,l-to-do and led a It is told through the mouth Raymond's old triend,
A that he did not suppose there l'especable life. He did not need girl, Cecile, who is joins the party and prove to
money; he could not be black- liday-making on the fliviera be not only poised and benuti was anything" in the charge.
Dreyfus, usperturbed, went
malled. with Raymond. her father, a fui but non-peeling as well, Ray- philandering widower. Cecila
"There's no
smoke he said. without fire."
Thirty years earlier, he had been the innocent martyr in the
of a
is in love with her father and ond accepts the logic of the on dealing, "Oh, I don't lazow," -
fascinated by herself. "Sin," she quotes approvingly, "is the only nove at vivid colour that persists Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Wedlock (8),
8 Cultivate (4)
9 Newspaperman (8),
11 Went abroad (8).
13 Spoken (4).
13 Hospital inmates (8).
18 Catastrophe (8).
19 Borders (U).
2-Command (8)
"Hard material (8).
26 Bill of fure (4).
27 Giving out Vapour (9)
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DOWN
1 Check (4).
6
Whip (4).
Encourage (4).
Land measure (4).
Stage player. (5).
7 Enlist (5)
9 Scolded (5).
14ances (5).
(5)
(5),
PS3).
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17 Cheek (5).
19 Cuts roughly (5).
20 Walk affectedly (5).
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21 Baby carriage (colloq) (4). 23 Famous school (4).
23 Victim (4).
..24 Cosy (4),
YESTERDAYS, CROSSWORD Across: 1 Cango, Daubbed, 8 Topped, 10 Erne, 12 led. 14 Release. 17 Alas, 19 Sceptre. 20 Shatter. 22 Lone. 23. Regrets, 27 Grotto, 29 Guest 30 Farnet. 31 Nestor, 32 Skips. Down: 1 Cavs Rruci. 3 Opera, 6 Abel, it ruce, & Daszart. 11 Reaper. 13 Serrete, un B, 18 Ezut, 20 Slogan, 21 Angers, 24 Goads, 25 Ennu 28 Sides, 28 x
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And it's being treaded almost SHEARING The
* Ching amali hamlet near New The 250-page directory, now Delhi, split into two factions DEVIL At the Paris Festival, ready for lase, lis.$ 50,000 last week over whether or not
STARS Parisian audiences are But to buy it you Chander, the local barber, she
should numbers.
being dazzled by the have to have wriLET
cut the hair of Kishan Chand.
first show to come out of China |ment permission.
Kishan says he should. point- for the last 800 years-}= the Peking Opera. recent law, makes troupe of Kiosks because phone
to discriminate The Opera an offence
has the oldest authorities are afraid copies
against
"untouchables," of whien theatrical tradition in the world... might get seles
he is one of 50 million.
since it was founded 2,000 years Communist Party headquarter's Cheader is
is said to have told numbers are not listed, neither Kishan that he could
The show is really amazing. the Pary's London" before he would serve The audience expected 10 As for Chapman's claim that is the number of
Walter secretary.'..
him in his shop. the men who condemned Drey-general
applaud madly and often-and fus have been unfairly criticised, Ulbricht.
But
Chander claims he was when it does, the actors S the unprejudiced» reader will And no government offices are misquoted. "I only asked him lo up and clap themselves.
wait In the queue," he says, rise from this book appalled by included
the picture it paints of East Berlin has a population Meanwhile, Kishan remains
has the
West Berlin cowardice, incom- of 1,200,000.
resolute. "No che but Chander Telephone shall and s and lack
of 2,000,000 peleron,
cut my hair," he says, honour prevailing amo 200,000 mambers.
directory has 700 pages and Angering his black locks which
day. every are getting longer French officers high and low.
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews the NEW BOOKS
"go to
Y
It appears that Mao T tung's censors have en work on this ancient theatre's productions; they have cut out traditional scenes where masters Cog servants.
They also wanted to cut the plays But the devil tot Why do people FUNERAL A hobby with shoplift? Is it the RECORD by an 84-year-old against it and keeps hir
difference is claimed
situation. Abandoning the too- vivid note of colour in the modern world, he declares that he and Anne are going to marry.
Phase Two opens" with Cecile in the arms of a bronzed beach hero named Cyril 1, did not intellectual fect
Kny kager. I realised I was more gifted for kissing
The basest of item was In the sunshine smokiest espionage trial young men
persuaded upper hand, in a miner scoundrel named Henry, than for taking
agree. history: the curiously undrama- a ranker officer who arranged Anne
remorselessty locks tic central figure
Caba Alvarez, parts, in a fiery to have a document forged In-cr, the thrill of getting some Spaniard, Jose her future step-daughter in a. drama that almost consumed
criminating Dreyfus, and who thing for nothing?,
Whatever who during the last 42 years has room with 2 volume of the the French Republic.
committed suicide
funerals, or (following the cause, the British Medical attended 15,220 philosopher Bergson.
year. the suicide of the forger) when Journal, official journal of the roughly 362 funerals a the deed was discovered;
British Medical
Don Jose explains that he says that systematic research of has made a practice of attending funerals because he the problem is needed, and adds so many that the chief victims. the de. wishes to show his appreciation of the courtesy displayed by the was partment store: should think prople of the town when they
It turns out to be * tactica blunder. Taking time off from philosophy, Cecile that Elsa (who has
Guy Chapman claims that anti-Semitism had little part in the Dreyfus Case and that there is more to be said for the men who. sent Dreyfus to Devil's Island for life than is allowed.
ADDED THRILL?
need for adventure
Association
Henry, says Chapman, loyal to his country, contrives
miracu- Yet his candid, enthralling nar- service and to his chiefs." Then out hancing such a project. turned out in large numbers for
should rauve disproves both of these
propositions.
lously stopped peeling)
to slay with Cyril, thus rousing the Malousy of he father. Raymond reopens his love affair with Elsa.
jloves.
were countless
to the
that Henry
Some
tuneral
The Journal points out that is no doubt
in 1913. was there is little systematic know his father's Jayal to his own career. The edge about shoplifting and adds Even when ill Don Jose rever best officer was one Picquart, that the offence has become misses a funeral but insists on who sacrificed his career and more
"ince the getting up so that he can follow frequent his liber.y in order to fight for barriers betwren potential the hearse to the cemetery, Dreyfus, and who is described customers and the goods they
are invited to buy have been CLIP by Chapman as "a prig."
Holidaying in France many
this year? Then lake Between these two extremes completely moved in
JOINTS
some tips trom French soldiers places."
people And buying a Frenchman Marcel Jullian, who who connived in illegality and pleasant relief in states of de- has been wading into some of inhumanity because these were bound up with the supposed pression, the article says, and a his country's hotels for "clipping M. Jullian sys Similar mechanism might be at the tourist" interests of the military caste.
where the that French hotel prices are too work is shoplifting Nothing is more striking in method of acquisition provides high and in too many the visitor is confronted with nasty sur- the story than the contrast be- an "added thrill"
prises and traps, tween the relentless pursuit of the
"The bill lengthens with local Dreyfus by
French War TELLING The lowly dustbin
to the taxes, de luxe taxes, percentages is a clue The Dreyfus Case had its Office and the protection
RUBBISH information corded to Esterhazy, the real
sacia standing and for service. All-in prices quoted origin in a list of
except for service. behaviour of its users, the Insti- me all-in from a French traitor found in traitor.
for taxes, except for Public Cleansing was excep For the famous list found in tute of the German military attache's wastepaper basket. The list was the wastepaper basket in the told at its conference in South cover charge, except for wine
and then come the extras. If did
an ampton. not German Embassy. in a writing which
a bottle of mineral resemble Dreyfus's. A famous author, Major Esterhazy, an in- Cleansing superintendant A. E. you have
officer "expert" covered himself with fantry
told the assembly water in your room. the price of Hungarian Higginson
doubles because you drink i his that the British dustbin showed notorious for his. ridicule ***proving" that antecedents,
by
his that own debts, his dissolute life, and Dreyfus had forged his
the prosperity of the nation upstairs. Stock Exchange handwriting!
gambling Nor increasing. had he taken any trouble
In fact, there would never have been a Dreyfus Case if it had not been for anti-Semitism. And Anne? She drives off in disgust and is killed in the When Dreyfus was named as mour accident which is usual a suspect to Colonel Sandhert. in these circumstances. Cecile head of the statistical section in has triumphed
She
and her the French War Office, Sand- father resume their life together, herr,' 2 strong anti-Semite, their drinking. their casual slapped his forehead. "I ought 13 have thought of it!" he Bonjour Tristesse may not exclaimed. be life as we know it; but it is Life as it might be perversely guessed by a girl who has read the best authors. Francoise Sagan sniffs round the Oedipus a precocious kitten complex like a round a saucer of cream.
1953 she failed in In July Iner
examinations at the Sor-
A bonne.
month
later she finished this novel. More gifted for writing about kissing in the de- sunshine-than for taking gree, she passes, Beta Minus.
THE DREYFUS CASE. By Guy Chapman. Rupert Hart-Davis. 25s. 400 pages.
MA
AJOR ALFRED DREYFUS, a quie, retired French off-
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
I'LL TAKE THE
FISH DINNER?
IF YOU WANT TO GO FISHING
AND SHE WANTS TO GO DINING SHOW YOUR INDEPENDENCE......
"THIS IS THE WAY TO ENJOY THE FOURTH – NICE AND
QUIET-~
on
France. He died in
had
аст
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"If you miss breakfast or
to He said the nation was using lunch, you are charged for it
and
다
leave
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increase in discarded no pillows, the night watchman
them star
ALMOST Malta's Toni the Cobbler," KA ex- RIGHT
serviceman with a conviction (that he would never Crown at sea) has been proved right-or almost As a child of two he escaped drowning while playing
B rocks stretch of the coast with his brothers, und during the whe two ships in which ne served stoker were torpedoed- Toni got away.
a
on
When, because' of a
wcak
heart, he gave up swimming two years ago, Toni was eve more convinced than ever that the sea would never get him,
Strolling along the seashore a Tani ago, however, a heart attack. He tell tull length on dry land but face downwards in a sea-water
inches. puddle just six
deep. The verdict: Death by drowning,
few days had
HAVE THEY
MADE UP?
By Charles Allen
New York.
One item which the traito conceal his contempt for France more tinned and frozen foods, just the same There are often
Esterhazy was never arrested. undertook to supply was Artillery Firing Manual, This He was given time to
toys showed that children were hasn't the key to the soft drinks LIAVE Marilyn Monroe pointed the finger at Dreyfus as
England
getting new ones.
store, so you have to go thirsty
and Joe DiMaggio -But an artillery officer.
the (1923) and he is buried He pointed out that when the al night; there are no clothes manual was referred to in Harpenden churchyard. He is number of cardboard packages hangers; if you arrive in a stai made it up? It lucked like a poor it at the preview of "The terms which no artillery officer the raciest, not the most con-goes up it usaully means there car you're considered
are a Seven Year Itch," the pic- would have used; it was not temptible, rogue in the Dreytus has been a jump in the family devi--and bathrooms
document. Case.
costly luxury." even a confidential
The Glorious Fourth
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH FOURTH TRIP TO THE FILLING STATION.
FIREWORKS APPROACHING
DOFE, HISE IT GENERAL FIXTURE
COST. BEWORLD KIGHTS LISERVED,
LONDON
YOU CAN'T BEAT THE OLD BUS FOR CELEBRATING THE FOURTH →
İTEVEN, PROVIDES THE APPROPRIATE SOUNDS:
BANG
BANG
POP WHAT WERE FIRECRACKERS T YOU SAID YOU HADİ THEM
WHEN
YOU CO WERE
A BOY.
ER, JUST LET'S
SAY YOU COULDN'T
EXT EM?
income.
BY HARRY
WEINERT
ONE CAN'T BE TOO INDEPENDENT EVEN ON INDEPENDENCE DAY.
"GOTTA LIGHT PAL? »
"""WHAT, FOR ?*
PLAYING IT SAFE —
"NOW DON'T
SHOW
THIS IS A PIN WHEEL-
COST A QUARTER
OFFI
THE DAYS GONE BY! WHEN YOU COULD
REALLY
SHOOT THE
WORKS
iture with shots of Marilynı standing over a subway ven- tilator which allegedly caused their final split-up.
Although biljed as a press preview, the showing was at- Lended by such ce:ebrities as Grace Kelly, Mil.on Eerie and Henry Funaa. Even after the pio.Lars started
batch of regáve photographers hurg about the lobby, dashbulbs a the ready.
"Who're we waiting for now?" I inquired.
"Marilyn Monroe, who else?" replied the photographer, whip- ping up his camera as Marilyn and Joe entered the Criterion Theatre, 40 minutes late.. She was wearing a skin-ught white
sheath, bare legs, shoulder- lengh earrings and a dazzling smile. Joe was wearing a blue lounge suit and a grim expres- sion, which he retained while a solid ring of photographers en- circled them, and clicked their cameras without a word for at least five minutes,
Happy Birthday
New York police (who seemed to be enjoying their work) finally had to clear a passage into the theatre for the couple.
"Come on, boys, there's no cake there now, called an usher, in an attempt to clear the lobby of crowds.
"Happy birthday, Marilyn,' called che 'of the cameramen as she passed.
It was the star's 7th birth- day, and it was celchrated with suprise party afterwards at Toots Shors, one of New York's mote famous sporting restaurants, Joe is said to have stalked out of the party while it was in full swing but returned-interand unbent.
For anyone who is interested, "The Seven Year Itch is quite. hilarious. But anyone who ex- pects an intimate lose-up of Marilyny standing over a draughty subway grating is in for a dis- appointment, Public opinion caused the removal from the facade of the theatre of a 6Z- foot cut-out of Marilyn at ber draughtiest
Substitution of a more
restrained shot cost £600, /and appareully the film citlers went along with the trend. "You" copilă. -taka: a reasonably emancipated: makden aunt to see this match publicised pichire, witho ing more than a falné blush
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