POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
seem,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.
The Mystic on a Mountain PARADE
ANTIC HAY,
cannot find peace
By Aldous
Huxley. Penguin. 2s. 6d,
254 pages.
"י
י.
HIRTY-TWO years
divide Aldous Huxley from the writing of
in
In 1923 he Lady
would Sealyham,
General that Peron is not the only one who has still to learn that it seldom pays to fall foul of the Church {"
He
"Was
NEW BOOKS
by George Malcolm Thomson
The newest hint from
years, deepened into something ike disgust with humanity.
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COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
West
by the six, burghera of Calala, who offered to give themselves up if England's Edward would spare their own In 1947. Minister of Works Nicel replied that he had Birch, discussed the max with the burette Flowmip and had done his best to remove their apprehension.
Replied Mrs Mann: gy wish a definits assurance that there will be no more pushing around of Mrs Pankhurst."
"I have given that assurance," Mr Birch said.
AH, THE "A very British Mascari on August 21. On that BRITISH
week in Britain: day a West German team plays The Britishaves the Dynamos. began to manifest itself down Reporters ah at Southend when a Norwich Berlin and West Germany, wach mags and his
wife, tired of to go to More for Adenauer's strolling the pier in the rain, meeting with Marshal Bulganin
a in September booked themselves a ride an
The Russians have, let it be these "mystery coach one of rides where you pay your money know they want to arrange a on not being told meat with "ecmpe ant Wes and insist
German calls" *ta discuss where you're going.
visas for both the Adenauer- They went to Norwich. Naturally,
they launched a Bulganin mesting and the food thorough protest. Later on, ins'st-ball match.
Meanavhile, they ass being ing on the right of every trea
at any timË born Engilshmen to be protected more polite than
om this sort of thing
since the war. Officials personal- But, while they were being by 1231) all applican's: "Please FOOD FOR Brass bandsmen
walf. We do not know yet what they kept a
in the Essex are taken for a ride,
to do We have asked OOMPH upper lip.
town of Chelms. "We spent the we are
instructions and we will
ford, have told the carnival know let you
committee that if they want avold meeting friends," the man
possible," reparted.ruefully.
coumph in the, tabe's "comph-fa- the Meanwhile, in Claridges, Lady Melchet was reporting on the BRANDED British babies will fa" they will have to see
bandsmen get a good square style, of being
get the bottoms-up an BABIES joys, 1935
meal, freakment in the aristocrat.
future if hospitals accep; the latest device for keeping track of them
At the British
from
18 9001 AE
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Today at sixty, Huxley is less hilariously creative than when he first flashed across the Lon- elon sky; there is less zest be-
Where hind his savagery.
Cole- In "Antic Hay," man,
quotes the Church Fathers
athers against Sex, the
seems Huxley "Antie Hay" now reissued were the epigrams, the nourished hams Gumbril's later
to be with nine other Huxley limericks,
Patent the conversation
Small-clothes "For steeped in those writers. prayer, Gumbril reflected, there Sex is one of these disagree- books
paper-covered that was most in the mode. would be Dunlop knees."
able reminders -smells form.
immensely pre-
He takes the idea to his taller, another that man, who ran was a tall, cocious. inordinately up to the philosophical Mr Bojanus, & write prose and admire Bach, is day in Norwich cattle market by
rather Dickens might figure
have attached to something thin young man down from date.
drawn.
("When the revolution beastly called a body. Eton and Balliol, with a
devout, The wif who the comes, it won't be the owning
who enters burden of almost unbearable
of a little money that get a like the rake
A traditional man into trouble. It'll be his
monastery erudition and a reputation
class-habits, Mr Gumbril.") figure. But Huxley has preach of dazzling brilliance.
"No doubt about it." she said.
Last year the bandsmen com. ed disgust with the world with-
plained that after an eight-hour out reaching the peace of the roughing it is enormous fun." cloister. He has withdrawn in-
As she said it, she pointed dis-
programme, which included two Fastern philosophies and Ameri-pets. Thick carpets just irritate is showing a machine which will sandwich and a cake. stead into
miles of marching, they experiments with dainfully at the Claridge car Industries Exhibition one arm given only a cup of tea, a can drugs. He has become me them days," she said.
brand babies' bottoms with an something of a a mystic without
in. Salisbury, a local reporter, Invisible ultra-violet number, "Blowing a tuba or a trombone struck nequiring a religion
by the summer doldrums, The
beams the is hard work and a man needs apparatus He has with drawun from
special con- ultra-violet light through went out to visit a
meal to Burrica
withdrawn from most stable-pointedly, one gathers, stencil for ten seconds, and through," says Albert
The ruthless, in-searching for the soul of the there is any dispute about the son, the bandmaster of the quisitive, exploratory author of nation.
rightful parents the Antic Ray" and "Those Barren
number The national soul, apparently, will show up under fluorescent Leaves" Hives on a mountain 6,000 ik in good shape.
light Under natural light the et high, 100 miles from Los "My position is such," said the brand will not show. Angeles. And he is not on the constable, that I have only to telephone.
A British Crossword Puzzle
2
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13
18
14
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14
10
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7
116
20
21
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22
23
125
ACROSS
3 Throws away (8).
B Shell-hole (8).
Hunting around. (8).
11 Servant
12 Lake (4)
(B).
13 Boundary (3)
18 Sum (5).
10 Den (4). "
Ornamented r
Seller (8).
Heavenly drink (6).
Interfered with 18).
YESTERDAY'S
25
DOWN
Scratch (5), Social class (3).
Shortage (7).
Metal (4)
Scorch
Elevated (6)
Drooped !8).
Send (5)
Pattern (5).
His
Narrowed towards one end (7).
10 Warning sound (G).
17 Firearm (0)
20 Fish (3),
24 Decorito (5).
22 Prejudice (4),
Valley (5).
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CROSSWORD-Across: Tertolum. 7 Ectie. Peculiar. 10 Assall, 13 Residue, 15 Alps. 17 Dungers, 12 Leveret, 20 Arid, 21 Diploma, 28 Needed, 27 Callings, Truce 29 Ruthless. Down: 1 Cedar, 2 Dross. 3 Tepd. 4 Taut, 3 Triple, 6 Moras, 9 Eluded, 11 Sewer, 12 Aided, 14 Eating. 15 Agile, 18 Prime, 18 Lascar, 19 Violet, Pesis,
23 Odour, 24 Adder. 25 Bill.
biologists laboratories, the latest from the consulting whisper
of the psycho-analysis, rooms the baroque architect or Re naissance painter who was just coming into favour-clever Mr Huxley had heard of them ber fore anybody else And, of knew far more about them. Wasn't the Encyclopedia Britannica his favourite bedside reeding?
course,
the
Mr Bojanus consents to make a pair of the new trousers, for demonstration purposes, but -- take a share in the project? "It wouldn't do for my cleantail, fear, Mr Gumbril
Thanks
to
his invention In those days he was still the maximum efficiency with young man who called on Osbert
minimum bulge"), Gumbril is Blavell in hospital and bewilder-
able te launch into
society. ed
.word by remarking: There follow encounters with "From his usual conduct one
characters like Every presume Octopus has read Ovid on Love." One could safely presume
that Huxley had and many other on the same subject as
musi
works
Well,
For
it
that
Love that is, Sexwas coming into fashion just then, and Huxley had pounced on it with his prehensile mind, in-
with
horrified spected
it it were some fascination thing novel and slightly sinister that had turned up under a microscope and put it into his novels:
For example, into "Antic | Hay"
There the novelist's mood is still one of ferocious enjoyment The writing is precise and elegant. It is witty and uncom- fortably penetrating; compared satirist Waugh with Huxley the seems a literary butterfly.
More important, the novel is profusely inventive; hurnan. there is tenderness in the por-
trait of the hero's father, a dear old-fashioned atheist watching The starlings as they manœuvre
over his square in Paddington
BA
Mr Mercaptan, the "civilised so man," whose shouty face is strangely at variance with his precious little boudoir,
Casimir Lyplatt artist, bad
and tormented titan; poet
Shearwater,
physiologist who neglects his ttle wife, Rosie.
Rosie sees herself as a Great above moral prejudices, her "favours" to selected lovers until her eyes are bearded, opened by Coleman, a blasphemous satyr who drives his mistress Zoe in front of him with light taps on her haunches with his stick, like a farmer on the way to
to market.
some
of
fect
He has removed himself from the follies and the fun of man- kind. If his work has gained in wisdom, it has lost in haemo- globin.
REST OF THE NEW BOOKS
by
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Instrument
a
д
square
were
see him
Dicker.
group, which is sponsored by the local corporation, council.
good
Arguing that they want to more trouble with the local go up to either of the two... villages in my area, and any CALL FOR
band, the council has booked There are four the band of the famous Cold. thing that should not be going ROSES closely packed on stops."
stream Guards for this year's pages of people
Ple festivities. Frustrating for the Sunday named Rose in the London tele- newspapers, that, but still.
phone directory and every one of Said Councillor Thomas them will get a phone call next Hughes: "We shall see to it that FLAT Television and the week.
the Guardsmen ge movies may be res- They will be asked to con- "square meal," CHESTS
ponsible for round tribute
money anything from. shoulders" flat chests and pear to sack of coal, a length of muscular development in rope in aid of the
charities PASSING A teacher in a boy children, according to a specialist supported by the "Rose" of Eng-
school, in Notting NOTES who runs a school for un- lard" ball to be staged later
ham is encouraging.. in this month. " mazageable youngsters
the passing of notes amängit Nottingham.
And if the Roses don't come his pupils. The notes, which Dr Ronald Sprenger says that through the next list to be at contain such cryptic messages It is an astounding world into OVER THE BRIDGE, before the increased tendency of tacked will be the Thous
as "4 X 6 6 3 X 7", are, sa bay Richard
to be entertained, "he which Huxley takes 13:
Church." Heine-a
teaching ingenious method of created his own amusements and PUSHED Emmeline Pank- the harmonica instituted by thing betweer. a menagerie and
mann. 185. 231 pages.
in doing so he ran of his super- a freak show, populated by vivd
fluous energy, had no time is AROUND hurst, who wouldn't music teacher Norman Pearson,
stand for any parodies of human beings, whose
CHILDHOOD spent
in mcpe, and as a result generally pushing around when she was The messages are actually doings are slightly insane,
Battersea. The opening showed a better physique, bet alive, highly
got the heave-ho in mouth organ music of popular immoral,
years of the century, as seen byter appetite and mare joie de Victoria Tower Gardens, near tunes. The number is the hole coruscales.
the House of Commons, last on the harmonica and an X How fascinating it was in a sensitive Little boy growing up vivre
in a lower middle-class home. A 1923; now likely to shock! The book which may be missed be
week.
means "suck." Where there is Russian style combination of crudition,
The statue of the most famous z X the player blows, EASTWARD The and
cause its tones are so quiet, yet
Embassy suffragette of them all, which scientifle detachment from
Only unhappy persons are deserves attention for graphic BOUND.
in East Berlin has had an honoured spot in the parents. Says Pearson: morals it could only upset.
truth and sincerity.
is being besieged by West Ger- the gardens is being moved Parents stop me in the streets and Hudley's. But as time
to later development have shown
mans wanting visas to travel to to another position Moscow, Special Post Office room for a sculpture- of six
are driving them crazy. the air of detachment was de-
vans take sacks full of applica- men most
have never people the precision
tions daily to the Embassy.
heard of there was
Officials say the requests come
Socialist
M.P. Jean Mann, VILLAGE, The Nottinghamshire leaped to BATTLE village of Bulcote, HB Pathans of modern Pakis-mainly from reporters and foot faithful to her sex,
her
which now has the feet in the House of seen through the eyes ball fans.
observant, humorous an
and More than one thousand see Commons
demanded same population (168) it had in enthusiasts have already to know why Mrs
Pank- William the Conqueror's time Englishman. Mayne wrote The cer
we's being aslced for visas for a match in hurst Alleys of Marrakesh.
replaced (that was in the eleventh cen
tury) has started a fight to keep it that way.
and A
whose
talic
Aceptive.assion. The elegance
humorous.
Gumbril, Theodora
is saved from his life (Oxon); as a schoolmaster by a
happy inspiration which comes while 19 sitting on the hard wooden seat in the school chapel -pnuematic trousers, bringing comfort to those with
hc
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"HERE IS OUR FIRST CONTESTANT — WHAT CATEGORY DID YOU .. „PICK, SIR ?"
-ER
I FORGET!"
OFF TO A FLYING START,
"LOOK, MOM! "I WON
TENTH PRIZE –A PAIR
OF WHITE MICE! “
IT'S BEEN LIKE THIS EVER
SINCE SHE ENTERED THAT LAST LINE JINGLE CONTEST/
"DON'T MUTTER PASS THE BUTTER
was serious-minded. Huxley did not after all belong to the Age of Reason. Behind the grinning masks of his puppets there peeped out already an irrational the melancholy which, with under-
"LOOK ATʼEM! JUST BECAUSE
SHE WON A
BEAUTY TITLE/
YOU-CAN'T-WIN
DEPARTMENT.
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THE NARROW SMILE by Peter Mayne, Murray. 18a, 264 pages.
THE
tan
of
Contest Fidgets
WHAT WAS IT—
A BABY
-CONTEST
COPE, 1955 BT GINERAL FEATURE COMP, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
KEEP AWAY
FROM THATS
PHONE?
"WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED,
TO DO -USE SMOKE
SIGNALS?
ANY MINUTE HOW SHE MIGHT RECEIVE A CALL AND WIN FORT KNOX OR SOMETHING,
*
TAKE THE EINSTEIN THEORY-
IT'S QUITE SIMPLE --- pr
鹼
BY HARRY
IT'S THE CONSOLATION-
PRIZE /
"YOU, WON A CONTEST ?
YOU MUST BE POSITIVELY BRILLIA
WEINERT
THERE'S NO HOLDING HIM SINCE HE WON THAT CONTEST GUESSING
THE NUMBER OF
BEANS IN A
BARREL /*
SOME
PEOPLE CONSOLE
EASY
POSITIVELY-ALL HE DID WAS SIGN A CARD AND DROP IT İN A BOX!
make to say that the mouth orgars
•
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The hamlet has no shops, no shool, co post office," not even a pub, And its people were chocked when a farmer called Charlie Leighton armoured he was go- ing to start a caravan camp there.
Charlie Leighton; 72, struck trouble first with the Planning Authority. It turned down his idea.
Whed Charlie appealed against the Planning authority's decision, village representatives turnedi out to object bo Charlie's appeal.- Charlie told them: ""There will be no zipsies or scallywags."
But nobody wanted to hear. Decision will be made knowa later.
SLOT-MACHINE Marriage by automat is ROMANCE
"the
latest way of attempting to solve the boy-meets-gizl problem Germany, Slot machines all of them located in railway' stations—will now dispense you the facts on 12 lonely members of the opposite sex for approximately 33 cents.
For your money you get 12 envelopes containing a code number and description of the ronunce seeker. When you have made your choice you. wifte to the agency quoting the code number of the man, or women you want to meet,
30-HOUR WEEK
The 30-hour week' -is-* "quite con- ceivable goal in not too, distant future, B. R. Williams, a professor of economics told the Institution of Production Engineers at a · con- ference in Margate.
The shorter working will be brought about by the age of automatic production, he said and I automatic control and operation fa factories is economic," as already in some fields it is, it must increase out- put perman.
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A WIRE A "man" who went LOOSE back at an Ipswich tair didn't cause any parle ansongs, visitors they thought it was a great joke. The
man was
one inch aparato
Bensation ab inunicipal hillkom by speaking gibberish and winking at all the ladies.
When someone asked him the "time he replied Cauliflower
Officials who came to Charlie's rescue found he had a wire looster In his complicated brain," which was short-circuiting "caising all the trouble?
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