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POCHET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

RESER DOWN

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"You see, darling, the real trouble is that nowadays even people who haven't got the means live beyond their

means

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955.·

NANCY SPAIN discusses books:

I DISCOVER A NEW HUCK FINN

D favourite book? Is

you have a nian, I have discovered a new men and women, struggling to And

"no emction"makta in Huck Finn.

make a living among all this awfully dull book, Miss Hitchens, danger and splendour, I enjoyed albeit á nlea quiei Indy-likes one, lanky. It so Mundy Tolliver Is a

much that when I had tro solemn, likable ex-G..

finished I went straight back to Kentucky,

臨 aomething like

the beginning again. look at.

THE CAD

Ho

there some tale you go back to again and again when the cinema bores you and there is nothing en hitches a ride on a lorry, meats

grasshopper to TV?" Do you read, for up with a small, bouncy ex-G.I. example, "The Adventures called "Pee Wee" Johnson, from of Huckleberry Finn," as I Alabama. And the two become do, and wish that people still wrote books as good as that today?

This week a wonderful thing has happened. In THE FOUR LIVES OF MUNDY TOLLIVER

fast friends,

orc

THE RIVER

They get jobs as deck hands on a Mississipp! tow-boat. There marvellous descriptions of (Valentine, Mitchell, 105, dd.) The River, of drains passing in the night, of the moon rising. Then Mundy falls in love with a girl called Essy.

by 50-year-old Ben Luelen Bur-

A British Crossword Puzzle

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3 Taken into custody (8),

# Victim (4).

9 Put back (0),

11 Sainees (8).

13 Measure out (4).

15 Made up (0).

11 Told (8).

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Experiment (4).

21 Induce (8)..

25 Gets ready (8).

26 Finccid (4).

27 Penitent (8).

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1 Tale of heroism (4).

Stagger (1).

2 Average (4).

5 Consumes-(4).

Concise (5). Trick (5). Bird (5),

10 Drain (5).

12 Seaside air (5).

14 Tendency (5).

16 Beverage (5).

17 Attire (5)

in Subject (5).

20 Gloss

21 Brace (4).

21 Brace

22 Torn (4).

23 Greedy (4).

24 Spot (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-Across: 1 Copies, 4 Grace, 7 Amleable. 15 Nickel, 18 Depot, 19 8 Arena, 9 Entree. 11 Credits, 13 Animate, Exempted. 20. Tasku, 21 Serene. Bown: 1 Chose, 2 Ineur. 3 Subject. 4 Grease, 3 Asterisk, Eays, 19 Trippers, 12 Renders 13 Ardent, 14 Asters, 16 Caper. 17 Letife.

MUCH more gentes

is rno-

THE SPY

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

POLITICS Spain has with that it is being run by a 'clique for and suggest that they are IN VENICE, drawn from

Venice Film making something out of 15 Festival to protest against the

Try to get everybody to re- búnning of their film "The Cock's Crow", which described elin; do not be afraid to spread ́detrimental to the Catholic priests being tortured rumoura

omells they like it. Last, agree in an Iron Curtoin country.

wholeheartedly with all that is BUT then thank goodness there

The Flim Festival authorities sald and agreed at the meetings, is a merry romp through the thought that the picture might

but tell everybody afterwards Caribbean azidi Paris, France, with veerah story-teller Dennisofford Russia and other Com- that the people running the

movement don't know Wheatley and

DARK muhit countries, THE

they are doing. SECRET OF JOSEPHINE This # (Hutchinson, 158.).

the

spending their holidays selling watches, nylons, cameras and typewriters.

the

Within recent weeks papers have even gone so far as to print the names of offend- ing German tourists along with their addresses and a list of their illegal transactions.

.

แ

Nor la black-marketeering what the only charge levelled at the Germans. "Even when these tourists are not operating black market," adds one paper, "they bring their tenta and camp out; they loot our forests for firewood; they calch Dur fish for food, and the rest ut their food they bring

from home," observed one newspaper. All this and only last year the German tourist was accused

and tactless.

FIT AND LOSS (Putnam, 12. Gd.), by Jacobine Hichens,

fourth Alm who has in her last two books

banned from the festival for made a great reputation. This

Roger Brook is our hero, the political rersons, one is all about Arna,

singer,

best British spy since the Scarlet who goes on a concert tour to

Pimpernel. He is sent by 'Pitt

The first was "The Prisoner," with Alec Guinness,

The citizens of It was NOT the East and is trapped there by the Japanese. When she is in Governor of Martinique, inspired by the trial of Cardinal WELCOME Southend have

On the way he is

captured by

problem which no her husband dies. prison camp

falls in love with a

Pirate's Moll Mindszenty, which might have pirates and the

other citizens have had to face And she

before. The British Government fellow prisoner, a end called turns out to be foster-sister to offended Hungary. Dagliesh, They marry and re- Pirate's Moll tells

Napoleon's Josephine

The The second was a Czech film want to build an atomic power to England.

Huss. It contained too much don't want it. They're scared. to someone galled William Soon every Kay.

Comununist propaganda and

The Ministry of Fuel-the knows tifat he is keeping up

might have offended the Meanwhile in Paris, FrancetCatholics.

people who are building the two homes and going. share-

power station-say, there is no pushing. And he Is standing Napalion is piotung. He must trial for "conspiracy in connec either invade England or marry Then Mrs Clare Luce Boothe, danger, The Centrul Electricity

Authority says the same thing. Josephine is being the American ‘amabador He Josephine, is acquitted. And he gets rid of blockmalied by the Pirate's Moll Italy naked the Film Festival But the townsmen are not his other home. And Annu wel, whin Noger turns up. fixes that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer convinced. comes him back.

Roger that

"Women's nice," Pee Wee tells 1 Dagliesh becomes moce Josephine was secretly married on the Protestant reformer John station nearby. And the citizens by the Dutch of being arrogant

him, "If you handle 'em right. But watch out they don't foam up on you. A woman's like bath- ing with soap if you're a dog. A little of it's fine and keeps of the fleas. But you get too much

anel it'll kill you."

Essy lives in a Boating Missis- sippi house with a terrible old mother who hates men and raises hogs. She also hates the town.

Mundy's love affair does not Essy can't leave Ma, So Mundy and Pee Wee go away, And then Pee Wee, somewhat traitorously, gets married. And Mundy is terribly lonely. Every- thing seems to go wrong for him,

prosper.

Bocs "moonshining" (making illegal whisky) and gets caught. He goes to gaol. When he comes uut he takes a job among the porpoises and pelicans out in the Gulf of Mexico on the Shrimp Drying Platforms

THE SWAMPS

Here he recovers a little. He even decilės he wants a wife.

And he gets one, a perfectly

terrible one, from an advertise- ment. She runs away. Mundy agrees to divorce her.

And then he goes back to Easy,

Then

and more caddlah. one know

tion with company shares."

de

In

Everything, and changes the nim "Blackboard Jungle" should The characters in this book all face of onhine and

So Napoleon not be shown. It gave a

Up to now, atom stations have live in Kensington and Kent. marries Jos

hasn't distorted view of the American been secret affairs, intended for They all speak to one another time to invade England.

making implements of destruc- without a trace of accent-they But what about

Josephine's way of life, he asserted,

tlon. So they have been built a all splak, too, without a trace of dark secret, you may well ask? Now im critics are com- long way from anywhere. emotion. Which is odd, Isn't it. Well, you see she committed plaining that political motives

But atomic power is something when you think how violent bigamy.

I still am not should not be brought into the else. The station will generate their story might have been? quite sure with whom.

Festival and that aims should electricity. And the farther you be shown and judged only on

carry electricity, the leas their artistle merits.

efficient the unit and more expensive the job. So the new stations will be bullt nearer to towns.

But

Rest Of The New Books

A CURE FOR SERPENTS. By Alberto Denti di Piraino. Deutsch. 161. 263 pages. ENTI DI

AD

PIRAJNO is DE

Italian Duke who much of his life doctoring in Africa. In Moslem countries a doctor leans more than other men and meets stranger people, eg, the man on whom he per- formed a rare operation to re- his serpent from stomach; or Bughesha, a youth out of the Arabian Nights, smuggler,

move

.

The novel is haunted by echoer of Colette; too much of it is told In a jerky, style that suggests someone chopping firewood,

"I gave in to you, you've made us lost time. we shall be late. Julie will be furlous. You don't know Julie." etc.

walking, walking nearly all the right ler white-slaver.HE third novel of a trilogy in

way through the glamorous swamps of the eternal Missis- sippi. When he arrives Essy is hanging out the washing,

"I've come back," says Mundy, "I ain't the person that went away. I'll wait for you no matter what your mother does. I'll wait for you 20 years."

The fact is, of course,

thal Mundy has found himself, And he knows he will never be lone ly

any more. But the thing

which Cary has exhibited

Is there any possibility that an ARMCHAIR You have often atom station might explode

met him the like a giant'A-bomb? CRITICS

pro-

the

the HEART OF Ravages of

death-watch beetis STEEL

have brought more havoc. to HMS Victory. Nelson's Bagship, than ever did the cannon of the French fleet,

The glorious'óld three-decker, now in dry dock in Portsmouth, needs repairs costing £600,000. And, say the shipwrights who have examined her from stem to stern and keel to ippmast, the repairs will best be carried out

with leak and steel.

Teak and steel in place England's Heart of Oak?

of

Ya, say the technical experts. Termites are nei so attracted to

Cost of the work is expected to be met by private subscrip

fon, However much it should

the be, Englishmen will find money to keep Victory in being.

teak as to oak, and steel would. help hold together ancient tim- armchair critic. The scientists say no.

would Also, it

take The bors. But did you know he is

the of controlled nuclear twenty years to mature perly organised? He never does process

ssion for power stations and necessary seasoned oak cut from anything by chance, and,

process

of uncontrolled English forests. fact, has his own

Assion for bombs are two quite Armchair the a stringent different things. Critics Club with NOT HONOUR MORE. Byret of rules. There are six of

tha Joyce Cary, Michaol them, and

Camberwel!

There is far less chance of Association Joseph. 12. 6d. 223 Community

has anything going wrong than there revealed them in their news is, say, of the London Under- pagos.

magazine.

ground system caving in.

Here they are: Never attend But it will probably be a long

you time before men welcome bogus doctor and a champion the twentieth-century world of meetings regularly; when liar, last heard of as secretar) politics and politicians with do attend make sure you arrive atom as a neighbour. to an International Commission, otirical gusto

late. Always find fault and and penetrating | **** The Duke's story is some truth.

accept any office. But never time cynical, sometimes hard to

you are not appointed credit, always engaging.

sore and get THE CRETAN RUNNER. By con

plain outside. If you are asked

KAGERMANS George Psychoundaties, for

for your opinion by the chair- man tell him you have nothing Murray. 18s. 242 pages.

to CRETAN'S own story of higen go outside and tell tourist-currently the most con- Russian leader.

everyone what should have troversial figure.. on the Con- dangerous war-time life as been done, and make sure you thent. Tho Yugoslav

press

Reports presented to a German guide and runner with the slate

the chairman for not charges that a high percentage medical therapy conference re- Greek Resistance forces and giving you a chance. Never do of the German tourists are counted 2 number of near their British allies. A naive and anything to help. If others work black-marketeers who, taking miracles achieved with tho. completely convincing doen-hard for the benent of the advantago of Yugoslavia's scrum. A hard of hearing meni.

branch you can'always complain economic backwardness, are patient was able to hear a watch

tick for

the first time in 12 years and a deal muto recovered the power of speech.

PHILIPPINE By Danielle Hanebolle, Seckor and Warburg. 12s. 6d. 256 pages. about this book is its atmosphere The descriptions of sultry days ▶HILIPPINE is ou émotional and nights on the river, of French schoolgirl who falls wicked eities, of gaols, of hurri- in love, first with an actress and canes; and the great marvel of then with the actress's husband,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE FISH WE CAUGHT PUT UP SUCH

A FIGHT WE HAD TO DROWN IT TO GET THE HOOK OUT? AND...WELL, THEN...

HE..... AND......ER.......”

•

Fisherman's Luck

committee

to the comTM

UNPOPULAR

YOUTH The Bogomoletz "youth serum" (the SERUM

Injections which Stalin received in the hope of prolong- ing his life to the century mark} Yugoslavia has is being acclaimed by West Ger- man physicians as possessing

even war great healing powers"' on the German though it failed to save the

declared

BY HARRY WEINERT

"WOMAN,

COOK THAT!

The therapy' conference, annual meeting of leading" Ger- man physicians, agreed that re- sults achieved thus für by use of the serum warranted experi» ments in treating "managerial aleknoss,"

(the German euphemism for nervous Ex- haustion brought on by over-

work): migraine headaches.

rheumatism and other common allments.

:

1

THE JONAH TURNS UP WITH A SHAVE ——— WHICH IS AGAINST ALL. EARLY-STARTING RULES.

SOME DAYS

THE SEA YIELDS

NOTHING BUT

SEAWEED

AND OLD SHOES

OTHER DAYS

THE TAKE IS MUCH BETTER..

6-26

COME, 1928 MY GENERAL PRATUMS

COEP, TM-WORLD RIGHTS REÈVED,

"THE WIND WAS

SO STRONG

IT BLEW

THE FISH RIGHT OFF THE HOOK / “

ALIBI CLUB.

"THE FISH WERE..

AT THE SOUTH POLE

WHERE THEY GO

© SPAWN THIS TIME OF THE YEAR?

THE FISH I HOOKED ́ ́WAS CHEWED UP.-

BY A SHARK—— GOT MY HOOK AND ALMOST GOT ME!

IT'S TERRIBLE THE

WAY SUCCESS AFFECTS SOME MEN.

ONE FOR THE BOOK. (HE HOPES)

COULDN'T Primitive UNDERSTAND Batonka

tribesmen the wild, inaccessible valley of Central Africa's Zombesi Hiver turned out in thousands along both banks to hear Southern Rhodesia's Minister of

Native Affairs, Ben Fletcher, ask them

to quit their homes. But they could not understand why the while man

wanted to build a

dam on a river so great that it will spread the waters into the largest man-made lake in the world, about 200 miles long.

They were just as mystified when they learnt that it was all part of the vast Kariba Gorgo hydro-electric scheme to pro- duce abundant power for old- ing the Central African Federa- tion.

They agreed to leave a 10,000 square mile area for higher ground only when assured pro- tection from teeming animals- alephant,

rhino.

tion, buffalo and

་

ER--SORRY, OLD MAN /

A

WE JUST

WENT ON A

VEGETARIAN 'DIET/

MURILLO

Yes, it has

DISCOVERED happened again. A paint- ing bought in a junk shop for next to nothing has turned out to be an old master.

Costing £15, the canvas is a Murillo, famous 17th, century Spanish artist, and is worth st Icast £10,000. It depicts St Felix de Cartallero, a Caprichin moak, handling a Tónf to a boy.. Its th owner: Don Maxima Bandres of Madrid, will not sell

THEY EVEN EXPECT YOU TO CLEAN EM

are moro "

| ACCIDENTAL Loft-handed

INFORMATION P... pio. accident-prone than right-hand- ed patsoun simply because they aro slower in co-ordination, says a "New Zealand Health: Department' awport. Bpoled ruwon. in two or three toxone in favour of the right-handers.