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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

COYAL ASCOT

CRÉCHE

Joosts DIY

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And may cut MY mummy's dress 15 more expensive than Lady Docker'i!!"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1955.

PARADE

LOST PRINCE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

VITAL STATISTICS

have Included cigarettes with the NATO com- Among the ghosts other went piratical and became customers

of Arable, and shades lament- Kidd The Duke of Marlborough Lawrence

Fick! pass

on them and no design tho

son, and name, ing

Hoats went to Marshal Montgomery's

"The Turks Bond them changing bagged one.

Lord Prince Albert' names you have to think hard film and stage stars.

to me by the thousand," face of London. must be about the unhappiest. about like Culpepper, Middleton,

Ismay, said. "Specially made to The London Street List, Bulmer, Hoadly and Bright,

promote the NATO allance."

Soveral guests were also wear- published last week, which lists

For ail ber slimming pills, ing NATO tes-dark blue with

compass in silver, dlets and exer- ti

plates. still not as slim as mother was Pi thirty years ago. She la con- waist aid bust, and to top it ali Gif her feet are substantially. bigger than her mother's.

And

the changes made in street names The London County Counell, since 1920, reveals that the Lon- of course, intends no alight. All don County Council has dealt in the Interests of etheleney, cises, the modern British girl is sandwiches were served on NATO hurshly

with Queen Victoria's they insist, Confort.

the

That' be the day when the

one's cigarette

case and

But try and get Culpepper Among the host of Alberls on, over is the cabble after a pub siderably broader in the hips, chie thing to do will be to p}

Terrace crawl. is only Albert Mews (an unregal title....), Albert Drive, and Albert Gurdens remain.

Others have become anything and nearly everything under the One becane Alberta. An-

sun,

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

3

14

9

10

BE

13

14

115

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17

18

119

26

12

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THEY LEFT The eight Russian churchmen cur- QUICKLY

rently Britain watched the open golf championships at St Andrews, Scotland and left quickly be cause they didn't understand the rules of the game,

And these changes are not the result of any general increase in height, according to the figures

obtained

waist

operi

ay "Have an Eton, old mun-or perhaps you prefer a Balliol, this side?"

TREASURE The HUNTER

NEW BOOKS BY GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

The Rake's Artist Paints

H

of

and

London's Cruel Age

Was

John

J

-

HOGARTH'S PROGRESS. By nolsstum whom he despised as whose son assumed, the name

affected creatures, the dupes of of Charteris, Potor Quennell. Collins. Tallan fakers of Old Mastera,

John Gourlay, Jackal of 251. 318 pages.

Charterin; As for deaters-why should they have money that belong

Elizaboth Adams - and zeoros OGARTH was a od to him? Hogarth sold his of other habitues of the

Independently,

of Covent by taverns

'Garden; painter of genius pictures

P whor appear 0:1 with the qualities auction a clock was to strike many

every five minutes and every Hogarth's eatvases. the faults time it struck, a picture woll ቤዛ

Plunging deep In politics, Duke visiting

of. the domed cold at the price, then Hogarth had the audacity to prejudices from Д detailed

Argyll is a deter-

take the side of the King and lysis of 4,500 women curried

milled mun, After beef fed, beer drinking, ruling.

the Scottish favourite. Lord out by Britain's leading stocking spending a fortune trying to Protestant Englishman of

Poor prices

against the ferocious Bute, and lingerie manufacturers. raise the 300-year old Spanish the most robust tradition. Prior at Hogarth's auction demagog

Wilkes. Their ligures show that the galleon in Tobermory Bay, he He was rough, eccentric, were not

always good. The Hogarth bed in prose; nig with his brush The churchmen saw crowds average womntrs "hip spring" going to make the 33rd attempt

Sald the difference

The Harlot's Progress" went ally. between the hip this summer-and that must be course and truculent-he-tures of his famous series likes

Clinrless Churchill, swarming to the course.

guineas each; measuremonts has about the record for one treasure was also intensely under for 14

"The pairson and

Uterary hatchet- one: "Though many of us have und absolutely an idea what golf is, increased by at least two inches, hunter.

standing of children, which Rake's Progress" at 22. Koraco man, leat a hand in verse

Walpole from and 10 inches to between

watched a poor old the intervals our interest was aroused.

of pursuing his "I'll never be happy untess did not mean that he was 10 and 13 inches.

desperately bidding love affairs, Numerous artist business, says the sentimental about them; in for the latter series: "I Spish' this

will enemies of Hogartiva "joined Duke. "Nobody else can touch flamed by cruelty to buy my own series,"

willingly in the aght. the wreck because the rights to

animals.

Teday, the poor old cripple the increased physical the galleon were given to my

Had he been alive today would have to pay £20.000 or more for a first-class Hogarth. exercke which girls get at school, ancestors by Charles 1 and are.

beer a he would have This exercise and the fact that sin force."

In showing the downfall women lead more active lives

So for the Duke's 32 previous subscription-paying member the rake and the decay of the snol. muy niso account for the in

times of follies and vices of his

had seduced. crease in the size of the female elferis have brought him only a of the RSPCA. In his own harlot, Hogarth depicted the of being shot by the relatives few pieces of silver plate and day he was the creator of and criticised them, not from Hogarth, aged 80, was in "a foot.

Before the war the most some guns,

series of prints denouncing the point of view of an exalted general detay." people obviously felt in watching popular size of stocking was U

Feuding with more practised the game.

In there gold or board? "The ill-treatment of cats, dogs morality, but rather as one, who Now it is 9 to 10, and

awardsmen, more deplored as a sensible

or intently noire That Is why we left that to 9.

should-the the foibles of mantelnd, Hogarth the demand for the 11 size is Balloon may tave been the pay and horses-"I a few minutes

was, through life, the down-to- steadily increasing.

Between the ages of 20 to 25

́enrik, no-nonsense Englishman of the average the dimensions

aesthetes did who scorn for Miss-or Mrs-Britain are: hips,

not prevent him from boing a MADE HIM Bob Climie, 61, 371: waist 26; and bust, 35.

great artist.

"In our country clergymen are not allowed to be present of any sports event, but we decided to Like a liberly on this occasion."

Their visit was short-lived, however, because "to our great disappointment we could not understand the rules of the game. Even more, we could not understand the interest which

beautiful course

20

21

later.""

22

23

DOWN

2 Hoggard (5).

3 Rests (7).

4 Nobleman (4).

5 Finishes (4).

ACKOSS

3. Arbiters (8).

8 Flowering plant (6).

Forreusts (8).

11 Comforis (0).

12 Accurate (4).

18 Prophels. (5).

19 Decays (4).

22 Kind of biscuit (8).

24 Bangle (B).

1 Dry up (5).

13 Send (5).

25 Trader (0).

20 Praised (8).

1

And it's all 'due to the amount of muscle that pads the feminine hip. Doctors suggest this is due

in

the cuts

who man the hair of

HAIRY 1,000 army men every month, is

mad. And he has Invited THE GIN The

Socialist clown

}

am

Enough

Both parties soon had enough. of Wilkes fled in France 'to escape Churchill was in danger

Lon

ship of the Armada. But the proud of being their author don businessman,

waste of inuman lives and

painted Raphael's cartoons," Cantankerous

question of gold being on board than I should be of having effort. is unimportant. We don't re- gard it as a means to riches. It's personal family problem and we want to get on with it. It has ween a ghost too long."

Cruel, rowdy

canvas

EO

Putting down

Wos He dispuna all foreigners scenes with which he

Hogarth left an un- which in practke meant the famillar, "Gin Palace"

French

On his one and only forgettable record of the Lon- trip

abroad-almost the only don cafe-society he knew is the name given

well. I: M.P. Jin Simmons PALACE ng ago to the 20- BACKWARD. The British Army time he left London-he go; as

was an age in which MY the entertainment industry in is using age-old fur os Paris. All the way, to the alt

centred Its branchs methods to teach disconfort of his

companions. Covent SOLDIERS

Garden; the simple Hogarth's rudeness 10 the

cruel, rowdy age of

Mother

to the army

at comp

Catterick where, he says, "I will gun battleship Agincourt. Ninely cut your hair so well that you years ago she was a real "Liddley" won't be able to criticise."

Job-which is the Navy's way of saying splek and spun.

Recently Simmons got up in

Made of iron the "Gin Palace" the House of Commons waving a picture of a badly-shom soldier cd both steam and sail, accord-

weather.

given "Minus

and demanded to know what 18 to 2e she becanie a boy wke three paces forward,

proficiency army barbers were required to obtain and whether

for a repetition of ur not soldiers had any choice

6 Request

performance (6).

10 Weird (5).

7 Near relative (0).

14 Award (5).

15 Negotiated (7).

16 Threefold (6), -

17 Deulty (8).

20 Foolishness (5).

21 Trap (5).

22 Répust (4).

23 Yield (4).

YESTERDAY's crosswORD-A erosN; 4 Incident.

Serum

Attempts, 10 Engage, 13 Distend, 15 Dope, 17 Delayed, 18 Sented, 20 38 Trend, 2 Suspende Cede, 2 Rumours 26 Castle, 27 Reclines,

Employ & T'osed. บ Down: Asked, 2 Drags 3 linage. Iten. Tender, 11 Niece, 12 Atone, 14 Deduce, 15 Dadow, 10 Peart. 18 Scares. 19 Pallets, Mertes, 23 Utler, 24 Seeds Nice.

if style when they had their hair cut.

a

dugship

ship training.

After being

cont

and then n

wifir jusi

hulk for tugs and salvage craft

Sheerness, number-CLO 9.

21

Now she hus disappeared Says Climie: "There is nothing from her

mooring but not for wrong with army haircuts to-

Jung. When they have cleaned lity. Any soldier can get off the barnacles at West India style he wants, so long as

Dock and given the old "Gin doesn't dangle over his collar."

When

he let loose his last Palace" a new coat of paint, she against army barbers in the will be tiddley" again and good House. Simmons said that "many for another 20 years.

people who practise their arts as are move Hited to

hairdressers

·

By

officers can

as

prees

on

Justy,

St

he a girl

SEVERAL

WORLDS. 21/-,

1

Poort S. Buck, Methuen,

its backward soldiers mathunzaties,

awwward French was blatant. анн

Needham, who was "CURSED as I always am with then up

necessity to ser two Everything he saw roused in quod is lined

to pray ardently that she sides of a question..... says such

commands

cantankerous diminutive Bald

London might quickly make a fortune Pearl Buck of herself: a facility Two", for two

citizen of (Ave-foot)

50 that she could give up the which, far from being a Curie, (born back, or "Plus Threo", and they

Close management Bartholomew

of her elegant has added to the richness of 1097) a frenzy of annoyance. establishment near St James's

her life, which she

describes in other using

Kirilling

On the homeward Journey he Palace. She dice soon after This absorbing autobiography. make fad the imprudence to sketch

sitting the

on

pillory in goldler perform the ancient gateway of Calato- James's Street, where she was of addition and and was promptly arrested as merellessly pelted by the

English spy.

brutal London mob. the

Colonel ex-officer, money on

ravisher, who is the words of A satirical epitaph--proctised every and hypocrisy: "He was

movements, the buckward simple sums subtraction.

the army According to system

first used children aged five to seven, with good results.

WCB

The same experiments applied

Hogarth returned to England, ani vengul himself with his tumous picture of "Calais Gele," a compendium of Gallie gloom and misory.

Mon versus Woman; Left versus Right; Christianity versus Buddhism; West versus East. All these confilels have woveri Charteris, Francis

her themselves into the web of tender, life.

China, Amerlea, Russin,

India-these are

the which she They are the setne for a

vice except prodigality worlds"

in

to soldiers are now proving tic artist of an age of expand- empted from the latter by Its moving, fascinating, and often

successful.

Said an

education officer? the servicemen

uro

I

practise the arts of a carpenter HAVE A "Have a Nato?" At "We find that many of or a metal shearer."

party at his Paris national This is what made Bol Climie NATO

house the other educationally backward. Illiter- Lord Ismay

offered até? I don't like that word. mad. He has been cutting hair evening, for 45 years

his guests u now and

box of king-size prefer backward.”

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

COM. INA IN GENERAL FEATURES

CO. WoILD RIGHTS ALTERYED

ONE WAY TO BRING THE CROWD IS TO HAVE

SOME GOOD DIRT TO DISH OUT.

IT'S A WELCOME CHANGE WHEN ONE GENTLEMAN, OFFERS TO POKE ANOTHER'S NOSE-FOR FREE.

AJAX

WRECKSPERTS

THE

SHE MET KAH

THEY LIVE IN.

HOPE THAT SOME DAY AS HE'LL MISS.

"TAKE YOUR TIME

WE'RE IN

NO HURRY!”

Alek

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE

A COUPLE OF YOUNG THINGS IN THE SPRING

WHEN IT COMES TO

CREATING A BOTTLENECK ON THE FAIRWAY.

Drawing A Crowd

KEEP YOUR EYE

ON THE BALL ? “

"SAYS

YOU !*

6-72

"WE

·HATE CROWDS/

Hogarth way the characteris

ing. bucinces, He served his ap- malchikse

on prophetic self-portrait of one of from imprudence," to prenticeship

the trade

The former by his "unsatiable the world's best known modern

novelists. Craving decorations on

When he died in avarice,"

For Pearl Buck not only lived tunkards); cet up his sigui, Whis nativo Scotland Uic mab

in her worlds, she participated Golden Head; designed his own hurled dend deks into the

111 their

happening. every trade card. He dislikedi most open ginve. His daughter 44

with a them itss

adding and all ποτα married the Earl of Wemyss bountiful store of energy, and

oliver

BY HARRY

WEINERT

THE CROWD IS SURE TO GATHER ROUND. THE GUY WITH A STIFF NECK.

FOND MEMORIES.

to

in exchange, absorbing all that went to make them up, and pouring it out again into her writing, which has produced such works as "The Good Earth," "Dragon Seed" "East Wind: West Wind," and the lecture which won her the Nobel Prize. for Llierature in 1035, The Chinese Novel.

Grow Up In China Pearl Buck was the daughter of an American missionary couple who took her to live in China when she was three months old, just before the turn of the century. She grew up there, and spent a good part of the first 30 years of her life in that country, interspersed with. visits to her homeland, Americs, to Japan, to India, and to Russia.

בא

Her Chinese childhood an idyll "composed of innocence and an Aslan sophistication," and it was during these years that she developed her "curse" of seeing both oldes of a ques- tion - her worlds began to divide. Though an American in her home, she spoke. Chinese, and thought and acted Chinese when with her Chinese play- mates..

her

Her first real introduction into

present world, "home" America--where she now lives a

settled and happy life, was when she was taken there to go to college. With her family, she travelled overland, through Rus

Sia and

Europe to get there; and she has secu the extremes of

poverty and luxury in Russla be fore the revolution, and describes the scenes of that journey with a freshness and vividness of a yosicrday's occurrence,

7.

Perplexing Problem

In her college life she was faced with the perplexing prob- lem of adapting herself to a way of life she had been

ally there to, but had 'nover

understood: Her own coun try seemed almost foreign. How abe adapted herself, to. It shows the great capaolty she had for absorbing all that was around

noho

longed

for China, how over, and when her mother was dying, she returned, and later married an American agricul turist there, and went to say in the farming villages of North China, where she lived son (of the most human and fascinating episodes of her... life, in "lhe world of the Chinese pepacht." Full of human comedy, and theter harrowing moments of -hime:worlds; mind, hold:

for

four, and Fren death;fin.