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POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANGASTER

"But, Excellency, I've been madly pro-Enosis ever since' he gave that lovely party in his yacht at Monte Carlo!!"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1955.

PARADE Filmo

So manners makyth man... PA

GOOD BEHAVIOUR. By

Harold

Nicolson. Con-

stable. 21. 293 pages.

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OME time before George Washington led the embattled colonial farmers against the Hes- alans of King George III, he composed an instructional

but WOMEN makyth manners...

manual called The Rules of not presume to tell his readers Civility. In this he gave how they should conduct them- but rather young men sound advico on selves in company

considers, with detachment and these lines:

prejudice, how

have people behaved from Ume to time in the world's history and the various havo been they sought to imitate,

“Kill no vermin as Fleas, etc., In the Sight of Others nor Guess

your nails,"

"Cleanse not your teeth with the Table Cloth, "Napkin, Knife of Fork."

Nicolson doen not follow Washington's example. He does

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

3 Exchanging (colloq.) (8).

8 Leave out (4),

Determined (8).

11 Sword (8).

13 Plant-to-be (4).

15 Attacked (82

18 Abandoned (8).

19 Repose (4),

21 Not excessive (8).

25 Shuts up (8).

20 Escape (4).

37 Inmate (8).

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DOWN

1 Superintendent (4). 2 Wingless bird (4).

Sharpen (4). Improverished (4). Harden (5), Avarice (5), Stuff (6).

10 Strong-boxes (5),

12 Social distinction (5).

14 Happening (5),

16 Fruit (5),

17

Valleys

(5).

10. Be repeated (5).

20 Chants (5).

21 Gentle (4).

22 Cleric (4).

23 Clover (4).

24 Pitcher (4),

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aeron: 1 Remiss. 4 Perch, 7. Meditate,

B Cross, Target, 11 Lassens, 13 Chances, 15 Pastor, 10 China, Spurting, 25 East, 21 Endure. Lawn: 1

Remi, 2 Icing, 3 Startie, Pieces, & odolent, 6 Hoists, 10 Realiser, 12 Espouse, 13 Cackle,. Ceased, 10 Sated, 17 Rogue,

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what Ideals

At a tender age he was im- pressed by the power of etiquetto in the lives of men. Taken ps a child by his father to see the Ottoman Sultan Ab- dul Hamid drive to worship at

the

child Nicolson a mosque,

to sicu shocked

elderly WAS members of the Turkish Cabinet clinging to strups attached to the Calph's curriage and run- ning, in full uniform, beside it.

℗ Tuck the table napkin under the collar? Use the knife, then the fork, or both together? Feed the dog under the table? It all depends on who, you are and where you are--but always when ́women dominate sociaty

manners are more elaborate,

by

GEORGE MALCOLM -THOMSON -

CHOICE

TIPS!

EDITING & TITLING

To help you make your best fitne better through careful eding, wiz

ive you below a collection of hotp rui hints on what to do with your films and how to do it.. EDITING IS YUN ;, and so esagt.

It the man behind that at a public school. The the bar in Britain's ;equipment in Stato schools is SERVICE pubs does not cousumily very much better." the look of, you, he can. refused

Finally, the Tory, Brigadier you, a drink. And that's anal,

in a doubled that the public schools This

made Was

clear statement by tho browing would be able to remain com- petitive with State schools with- trade.

out financial aid from the Gov- ! The mai behind the bar ernment. That would mean nted not even give you glass more boys from the poorer - 21'e merely a matter of organizing enter public the plotures you have takes. Mustent continuity, to scenes that seem un- rolated, correcting- any onora You Biay have made. When you have His own educatida? He was edited your alms-combined all the face, his at Radley, one of Britain's lead-all reals that come back hier

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could

of water, added the brewer, classes "He can withhold hospitality of schools.. every kind from anyone whai- soever on no better grounds than he dislikes his nockile or the movement of h ing public schools, Adam's-apply as he drinks."

processing, removed the bits that aren't quite up to par you will mother step on the way to earning a reputation among your 'fitend, i

■"professional” photographer. An But at least they recomised MARILYN A meno circulating duting job well done can make aven that it would be bad För

around the Fen- the best film botter. business if the barman were

AGAIN

tagon Last wook Ter it today! loo prejudiced against a thirsty began with a question: “What drinkers Adam's-apple 25

is the advantage of having a downed his first half-pini.

Marilyn Monroe shape?" The JOB, answer was plenty.

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The batorctan would "unwise to refuse customers without good

caust," they warned,

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HOW TO DO A BETTER EDITING

The basic idea is in splice

your sets of related scenes together to form sequences, and sequences to- And all of the answeZU was

gether to make a picture. Nunbar the kind of stuff you can print | some streets of paper consecutively. viewer Viewing your · film・ with a clean family newspaper,

Identify cachi cena with a briet description on one of the numbered sheets. Cut each scene from the rall and lay it on ita, matching delelig- tive paper. When the entire roll hòa been thus handled, line the sections of a clan egg carton, with soit material such as lens clearing tlamie and number each acetion. Placo escfs call of film in 11s correspondingly numbered section. Then arrange the descriptive slips in joglealatory order, not necessarily the way you have numbered them. Guided by the alipe. begin eplicing rearranged corresponding colls together. When

try Joining scenes together,

to arrange them by colour value, too, Let continuity whorever possible. deoldo whether or not you câti witch the vote around for a better colour match.

It just happens that the US REGIMENTAL A biscult pro

served trons

Acronautics Advisory Committee There is a kind of good to demonstrate their weakness RELIC

the 1814-18 has discovered that je fighters, Why should such ย Cruel manners whlelt, being a silent and need of protection. On

a pinched-in waist, and war is one of the "treasure" with ordeul be inflicted

on leading reproach to others, becomes bad meeting them, men did not ralserelics of the Bucks

Regiment bulges on either side, go faster statesmen? The only answer mannery.

than fighters with my other the hat in greeting (a sign of Old Comrades Association, Tho ordained it, was that custom

biscuit was the last one left of shape. Sometimes they go as much

them before is 25 percent faster; those issued to they left Chelmsford for France

1815.

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at etiquette demanded as In Athens the question could provincial upbringing) but it demonded that the King and not arise. There was neither merely pushed the hat slightly Queen of Spain should on state knife

fork, One leaned above the brow. occusions, assunic a glazed, gracefully on the left elbow unseeing expression and appear and used the fingers of the right to be unaware of the presence hand, later wiping them on of the assembled diplomats and piece of brend which was tion courtiers,

thrown to the dogs.

What are manners? They aro something existing In the gap

sodil between cleanliness únd news. They are a serviccable substitute for morals. They re one of the arts of display. For this reason they are claborato' where women, play dominant part in society.

most

Own

The Romans used table nap- cach guest bringing his king,

But there seem to have been no foolish taboos such as that forbidding us to tuck the napkin under the collar or tie it Nicolson's, survey of human in a knot at the back of the behaviour begins at Athens, neck. where the whole question was fact vastly simplified by the

women lived that respectable more or less in puntah (and had the reputation of being heavy drinkers, like the ladies of the court of Versailles),

The use of knife and forle has always been a question dividing one culture from an- other. Thus the Americans use theso instruments in succession; the British, simultaneously.

We do not (save facetiously) address a man as "brother" or his wife assister," thus avoid ing an error which says Nicol- son, made the Early Christians unpopular with the masSC),

Public scratching; the misuse of the tablecloth, the explora-

of the mouth with the knife-all these practices were condemned, then as now.

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About linger-bowls there have always been differences it opinion; ut Versalles in the time of Louis XIV, courtly witly conversation was inter- rupled at the end of a meal by universal outbreak of garg in a habit still prevailing conservative circies in France.

Erasmus thought it the height of bad manners for a guest to feed the dogs with scraps from the host's table, He advised the utmost discretion in undressing lest spectators be offended,

And the Pentagon, alert as ever to the publicity angle, has to call the shape It has been givent

the decided to Association by

of one

the

"Marilyn Monroe." fun.illes

whom the men wero billeted. It had been curefully preserved for years.

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40 MOVING An ancient Brussels to be -CHURCH church is

paces - moved~ten backwards. The church is the Church of the Madeleine, SCHOOL IS a waste of

money

which was originally to have now to send a son to

select expensive disappeared to make way for TIE public school the sort of modemishiion and road widen- school which in the past mould- ing for the Brussels. World Fair ed the young fellows who went of 1958. Now, however, out to build the Empire? Or is City Council has relented on

that the Church speedily moved out of the way. the £300-£400 a year (for four condition or Ave years) still woll spent?

To do this experts will supervise the cutting of a glant trench above foundation level. church will then The entire be mounted on steel rollers- and rolled gently backwards six inches a day.

Red-

Tory Brigadier Martin mayne, Government Whip and MP for Rushcliff, Notts,, told a meeting of Conservallye women. at Nottingham that he did not With the Middle Agcs,

think much of public schools. chivalry came in and washing

More and In the eighteenth century, the

more of Britala's went out. Soap was reserved for

aristocracy An

made leading men were coming from under linen.

attractive French

their English State schools, he cold. carried etiquette a cult; mutton-bone could be

The off from the dining table to be opposites took up sport.

Revolution the French gnawed in the privacy of

showed to which was the better way bed chamber.

pupularity.

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Start with the famous Model ras aplicer, for boil Emm and 16mm Alma add geared rewinds... then a viewer. The variety of "combinations is almost unlimited-ace them today.

TIME YOUR SCENES PROPERLY ... Timing in a film a very im portant. It the scenes are too short, cut them out entirely! Cut, the scenes that are too long down to a length that holds audience interest. While

projecting, make notes of the spots where riprovement could be made in arrangement, timing and colour matching. Then go back and cut or rearone. If seces and sequences Mory scem unrelated, develop a thread to lie them together.

For

HELP NOT Joseph Lohman, WANTED sheriff of Chicago's Cook County, is an ex-professer of Sociology and a man who has firm views on prison, reform and -civil liberty. But last week, he figur-instance, a wrice ce shot of visitors ed things were going just a bit too far.

He added that he had been most unimpressed by the loud- voiced assurance of many young men from the public schools who As for the future the pattern had come to his notice in the But he had of manners for the English-last few years, speaking world will be set by been most impressed by the quiet rather dole who had come from Slate gram- the Americans. That is the con-assurance of other young men elusion reached, fully, by Nicolson at the end of mar schools;

As for the establishments hi rambling and lackadaisical book. His ony hope is that it themselves: The standard of Wamen were expected to will be set by the kind of education in a good State gram- mar school is no lower than walk with short, minelag steps Americans he lies,

BY HARRY WEINERT

The Reverend Edward Hardy, n Victorian writer on Louis XIV found Mme. do

points out:Men manners, of Incessantly cannot be chivalrous and self Thiange's habit using her fork so insupportable denying It women do not give that he told his valet to put them opportunities,” In the hairs in her plate. It is a warn- Middle Ages there were plenty ing to us against excesses of of opportunities. refinement such as a certain little Anicking carriage of the finger in taking tea.

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On Circus Day

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Thoughtfully, he took it out,

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