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CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955,

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Interesting News

Stories

From

All

Parts Of The

World

Noel Coward

An age-old bargain From London: From Rome: corner for tourists

Got $40,000

Four pro.

From Las Vegas: perous weeks

From Vienna:

A Week!

Las Vegas, British playwright- composer Ncel Coward nade

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successful American nightclub premiere recently before about 280 persons at the lavish Desert. Inn Resort Hotel.

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Mr Coward, who appeared at the hotel for four weeks $40,000 a week, staged a pro- duction number with artificial London-type fog on the stage and sang many of the songs he has written in the last 30 years.

He scored

red his biggest hit with the audience in the Hotel's main dining room with a parody call-

"Let's

et's do it," in which he impersonated more than a score of celebrities,

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After a secondi encare, he told

audience, his

"I'm terribly touched by the way you've re- ceived me.

You make me extremely happy."

Sang 'Mad Dogs' Mr Coward wore a dark, double-breasted tuxedo with a red carnation and pastured comically as he sang such tunes

AS

"Mast dogs and Englishmen. go out in the mid-day sun" and "Don't put your daughter t

un the Mrs Wor stage,

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His entrance was preceded by elaborate production number by the Donn Arden dancers wiled "So this is London" which was complete with

ete with artificial fog., silhouette of London on a back- drop showing Big Ben and one

of

the

Thames river

Fbridges,

Mr Coward ran over the time Hmit usually allotted headline acts at Las Vegas gambling casinos, but Desert Inn officials said they would let him "do as

he pleased."

Even with a capacity house for his entire engagement, the Hotel said it would lose money in the dining room. Mr Coward's salary la equivalent to $9 a per- son for every occupant of the dining room for the $6 per- formances-about twice the cost in the of the average meal Hotel- United Press, ..

Now Submarines

Have Joysticks

for Noel Coward.

A customer asks barber for cut rotes for bald

men...

Migrant with a marriage mission.

NOT A SHAGGY DOG BUT

A MATHEMATICAL

He Chris does arithmetic.

the problem answered above almost as fast as an adding machine. Tap, Pap,

WIZARD

cardboard Then

he told, Chris, " leave this on the floor until you've learned it." In 15 minutes, Mr Wood sald, had memorised the

"East Greenwich. Take the square root of 81. and Multiply it by two

Chris the subtract 10. Take cube root of the result, addTap Tap, Tap-five strokes

four of his paw. five and subtract

Then multiply by three and subtract four. Got it?

It doesn't take a genius to So

figure out that the answer is five. But if the answer comes from a dog, that's different.

Eighth Wonder George, Wood, jr., a chemist who lives here, is either an awfully good magician or his dog, Chris, is the

of eighth wonder world.

the

"

Flair For Maths far no one has

uncovered

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didn't

for

Mr

the trick if there is one. Some college psychologists studied Chris and came up with a verdict that help much. They said the dog

has simply mathematics I've never trained him,”

Wood said. "I just explain things to

Like square roots, and he learns." And learns fast, according to Mr Wood. One day Mr Wood letters of the wrote the alphabet with corresponding

a big piece numbers on

of

whole thing. Outside the field of mathenia- tics, Chris answers questions using two taps for "no," three for "yes" and four for giare." He gets a piece of steak about the size of a pen for a correct answer. He does the tapping on Mr Wood's arm as a rule, but he'll also tap answers or table top or the arm of any person he likes,

Likes Baseball "Chris likes to watch baseball games en television. He likes to hear numbers-you know, He first base, ball three. especially likes the Boston Red Sox," Mr Woods said.

Last Century's Wars SIDE GLANCES

Are Still

Costing

America Money

Washington.

The cost of war doesn't stop with the fighting. Uncle Sam is still making payments for seven of the nine wars the United States has fought.

Compensation of pension pay. ments still are going out as a result of the Mexican War, the

·Civil War. Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War,

American

In 1906 the government ended its payments for the Revolt Lionary War of secession the last dependent of the war of 1812 died in 1945.

Three surviving Confederate veterans and a much larger rum- ber of widows receive pensions from various Scuthern States.

By 2200 AD!

The Agures indicate that the Ladian Spanish-American and wars will be paid off before the and middle

of the 21st century, World War I shortly after the middle of the 21st century and World War II and the Korean War some time near or shortly

Groton. Development of a device similar to the "joystick" of an aeroplane now makes it possible for one man, instead Revolutionary War was Daniel after the beginning of the 22nd

The last survivor of the

Frederick Bakeman, of

on November World War I survivors has not yet been reached 37 years after the end of the war. It probably will not be reached for soother five or 10 years. Payment peaks for World War II and the Korean War should be reached about the turn of the century.

New century. of three, to steer a sub-York, who died on April 5,

of 109. The The peak of compensaiten and marine, the navy disclc sed 1869, at the age

to last surviving dependent was pension benefit payments today.

dependtarts of The device

is so nty that Mrs Esther S. Damon, of Ver-veterans and less than a half dozen sub-mont, who died

11, 1906, at the age of 92, 123 marines are equipped with it.

Before its development, one years after the end of the war. man was required to steer the

The last survivor of the war ship to left or right, while two

1812 was Hiram Cronk, others operated planes forward and aft to steer the sub up or of New York, who died on May 13,.1905, at the age of 105, 91 down.

"With the new method," said years after the end of that war the announcement, "one man The last surviving dependent using a device like the suck con was Mrs Esther Ann Hill Mer trol of an aeroplane, can do the gan, of Oregon, who died on whole job."

March 12, 1948, 132 years after the end of the war.

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Died at 105

The last survivor of the

Thus far the government has paid $8,183,440,651 to veterans and dependents of the 2,192,000 Union troops who participated in the civil war.

It has paid $10,634,207,218 to th veterans and dependents to 4,744,000 Werld War 1 soldiers similar payments of $10,756,- 1987,460 to veterans and depen

A Simulator The Navy plans to use the new Trainer as an addition to a sub- marine simulator training unit now being constructed. Both

war dents of the 16,535,000 World the original simulator and the new device are being built by with Mexico was Owen Thomas War II participants. Veterans Edgar, of Washington, D.C., who and dependents of the 8,508,000 the electric boat division General Dynamics Corp. which died on September 3, 1920, 81 who participated in Korea have world's first years after the end of that war, been paid $196,010,636 United constructed the atomic-powered submarine, Nau- Ten, dependents still are re-Press,

The simulator was ordered a

year

ceiving government payments,

ago and plans included

Albert Woolson, 108, of Min-

Civil

Inakes

Jackson

only conventional control fea-nesota, is the last surviving Robbed Blind Män tures. Addition of the new Union veteran of the

It War, Woolson, a 14-year-old training equipment possible for the unit to train when the war broke out, was a men for ether type of opera- drummer boy. There still are Lion.

6,307 dependents of Civil War receiving payments The training equipment will veterans be used at the navy's submarine from the government 80 years school at nearby New London, after the end of that conflict, The simulator will be rady by

Eddie Howard assisted blind James Brooks across the street, then robbed him of his wallet, police said.

Howard was captured a block away with the wallet.

Police found

Brooks still

the end of this year. The new. Woolson received $1,634 tron training and will requrie 18 the government last year. The standing in an alley with his months to build.-United Press. dependents received $4,087,237, hands in the air-United Press.

She

Wants To Arrange 39,999 Marriages Down Under'

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Vienna "I hope my case will encourage

other giris to follow,” the advertising slogan writer who gives her age as 33: Miss Pittion offered herself to

A shapely brunette who offered herself a marriage to 40,000 New Zealand bachelors said today she will head for the "land down under become

one-woman marriage bureau. Pretty Inge Pilioni mnounced she is going to New Zealand to pick

and then: help fix weddings

for the other 39,999 who miss out

New Zealand bachelors two months ago when she read mat 10,000 men could not And wives because there was a scarcity of women in the country." She made her offer in a letter to Mayor R, L. MacAlister of Wellington,

Zenland

Golkarte

TU PRO 5-27

Cor. 1968 S KKA Barvina, kad.

went

his paces Chris went through

the other day for samé visit- ors who arrived sceptical and away convinced. He answered more than 100 quas tions, some of them made up on the spot by the guests.

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He's Canine, Too

only

He broke off answering

twice to run to the window and bark at passing cars. One time he seemed to give a

wrong answer. Mr Wood ask ed how many people were in the room, Chris gave five pais. But only four were pre- sent.

Mr Wood #gured it out, "Did you count yourself, Chris?" Chris opened his big brown "yer" and eyes, patted out snapped up his piece of steak. -United Fress,

By Galbraith

"We can't come over tonight I've called eight baby:

sitters and they've all got headaches!"

A Bald Man Asks

A Barber

The $64 Question

London.

Like a bad vaudeville joke come true, the little man turned in the barber chair and said to Lionel Marks: "I want an estimate on a hair cut.”

Get Your Bargains At The Flea Market

Rome."

You can buy almost any- thing

Home'a. at

"Hea market." It is not as large as the "flea market" of Paris, but is just as in- teresting,

and

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ROXY & BROADWAY

Before World War II, the Romo junk market used to be Sten had

there for hundreds of years-in the XVI century Plazza Campo de Flor! and its adjacent winding nar- ROXY: row streets.

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Then came the war. After wards the vendors of old books and old prints moved to Piazza Borghese, while the other people selling any kind of junk cros ed the Tiber and put up their quarters.da the Trastevere fion, in Via Portuense, the long from wide road "which

runs Porta Portuese up to the rail road station of Trastevere,

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For roughly a mile on either side of the road, you find "ban- carelle on which almost any thing is displayed; old shoes, for children and adults, for ladies and men... thousands of them

As you walk along, you see a spot filled with old car tyres capable of equipping a motorised division.

And further- on, binoculara, wrist watches, mirror glasses mixed up with old dresses, old belts, and rusty keys of every era and every size.

Silver Candle Sticks

You notice that the Allled forces have contributed remark. ably to the junk shops. There of are paratroop boots, pans every size and colour, blankets, underwear, etc. much of which is marked wit

the with WD and familiar arrow.

Towards the end of the road you can find antique ware and sometimes you can get an old silver candle stick or a piece of

there for a good price.

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From the Novel

by Kate O'Brien

OLIVIA de HAVILLAND GILBERT ROLAND

That LADY

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in

"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA".

same things in Via del shop Babuino, the antique street, would cost you ten times more. But you have got to have good bargaining technique in Via Portuense: If you are asked

At 11.00 a.m, have to oiler fivc. ten lire,

lire, you Eighly out of trouble is hundred times

the trick works.

that British and. American tourists quickly found the place and as a result prices have soared in recent years.

market"

are

Some of the goods displayed at the "Bea evidently "dear old things" that middle class families had to seil to get through the war years. probably to buy foodstuf help their children to continue their studies, hoping for better Hines....

You are struck by the ab sence of weapons in the variety of junk surrounding you. There not even an old romantic sabre of the Garibaldi times.

Police

That is because the ordered all weapons to be sur rendered after the war-United Prsss.

Watching Saucers

Rockford.

Two deputy sheriffs, who in vestigated a report that a susp cious man with a crowbar was prowling around a cafe, found John C. Gregary, a cívil de- fence expert, carrying a tele-

2 "An estimate gulped Marks, hair you've cut for halt "Yes," said the man, "an crown. Bald spots free."" estimate."

"Why?" asked the barber.

Then the little man uttered the phrase that may shake the barbering world to its founda tiond

"Because I'm bald," said the

little man, and why should I pay full price when I've only got one-quarter a head of hair?" Fancied Injustice

Marks realised the little man must have been brooding about this fancied injustice for a long tirrie.

be

A literary customer has given Marks what may prove to the best defence.

Whistler's Defence. "He said that, when the paint- er, Whistler, had to sue for a portrait fer the judge said: guineas What! You want 300

for two days' work?!

"No,' said Whistler, lifetime of study."

scope,

Gregory said

he was trying to run down reports of "fly- ing saucers" seen in the area-- United Fress, ·

Amphibious Fish

Stillwater.

Two Oklahoma A & M Colleze a seven-pound students caught

a heavily travelled carp on college avemise.

The fish was apparently. campus washed down from pond swollen by rain-United Press

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That answer worked Whistler," said Marks, "so it ought to work for me."--United Press

Heated Words?

Atlanta

"I don't like to lose a cus forner, even a new one," saidi! Firemen who rushed to the Marks, "so I compromised. I home of Mrs R. J. Mucha,

smoke was told him to pay full price this where

billowing thne and that before his fringe from a kitchen window, found came back I would think over the woman talking on the tele- his request for a sliding scale phone while a roast burned in

the oven-United Fress.

who sent the letter and photograph of the Viennese of charges."

beauty to the newspapers Now that he has thought it Since then Miss-Pittícni? has

received more than 30 pro- over, Marks says it is a matter

posals which offer everything for all barbers to consider. Also Circling The Globe fram love to country states it is very complicated.

She said she plans to embarkow can you tell what is a

on her marital adventure in

Chicago.

Americans will eat enough auton and will make a full head of hair?" he asiced. hot dogs 2,800,000 between final, selection of a husband "Some people always have more Memorial Day and Labour Day from two men she has chosen than others. One of my barbers to reach around the Equator 10 times an industry source gald from her collection of pro- has an kies, He says we ought posals United Presa.

to adverthe like this. All the today-United Freas.

A CAROL SEEN PROJESTIKY

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TEA DANCE FOR THE SUMMER SEASON WILL BE SUSPENDED AFTER JULY 3, 1955 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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