1955-10-15 — Page 19

YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

PORN today, you have a good instinct for business but dislike the detalls concerned with the techniques of money-making and need a good manager to take care of thin for you. Your interests are so varied, covering literature, the arts, musle and sclence. In addition, you are intrigued by the occult and the mysterious and would like to make a serious study of the super- natural, for you have half an idea that there might possibly be something nartially scientifle about it all.

You have magnetic personality and have what many call the "healing hand". You will always be the one who offers a helping hand when there is illness in the family. Instinctively, you seem to know what to do and are a comfort to everyone.

It la Important that you are alert to opportunities as they arise. Otherwise, you may and that you have not been ready 10 accept it chance for advancement until it is too late and someone else has stepped into the job you should have had. If this happens, blame no one but yourself.

You women are ne homemakers and will bring joy and You are happiness to everyone within the circle of your house. fond of children and will want a large family of your own,

Claire.

Among those born on this date are: Frederick William IV retress; of Prussia; Samuel Bowles, noted editor: Ina John L. Sullivan, pugilat: Alfred Neuman and P. G. Wodehouse, authors; Bishop Jaines E. Quigley.

To and what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, suleet your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Lot your birthday star be your daily guide

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16

LIBRA (Rept, 24-Oct. 23)- Home matters will take up the best part of your Ume today. The family will make

defuite demanda.

SCORPIÓ (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- Some minor

differences of opinion may crop up amunt member of the family; recon- elle the differences.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) Invite relativas und close friends to your home this after- noon for Inte tea or supper.

CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan, 20) -You mny full into a melt- choly mood today, but do your best to get out of it. Hard work. often help.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) Make this a restful und Com-

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)——— Why not Invite

friend JE

to

9-10

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1955.

This Funny World

HE MADE A

JAYBEES

GYM

WE BUILD MEN

1408.mtot

WE BUILD MEN MILLION STRANGERS

ፀሀ

Merch Synders, Bar.

"I'd like to place an order, please"

•BY THE.

WAY

attend service and come home By Beachcomber

with you for dinner?

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- Your page the past week may have been a fast one and you probably need some good rest.

Get R

ft

been

asked

by the

KICK under the table is as A good as nod to a blind tors Hence the shin-pads of the Uppsala Poker Festival, be- ginning next Monday.

As i have GEMINI (May 22-June 21) committee to write a pamphlet or Let

from nothing keep you

small pompa about the festival for The Sheddon Vale Poetry Circle, church

service today, for the there will Er a hort neak in this sermon may hold a very special column w 1 return messute for you.

potence will be dealt with by my secretariat, who are all so lazy that they would starve to deals rather

CANCER (June 22-July 23)— This could be a good day to answer all your buck corres- Write intters to re- pondence,

then

LEO

(July

No corres

than exert thengives to match a bum from an elephan1.

"HAS

*

JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Theory Easier Than Real Play

contract,

BY OSWALD JACOBY

DERHAPS North und South should have bid up to five but this clubs in today's hand, would have been a very lucky On the basis of their cards, they should have stopped at a comfortable part-score con- tract. When the hand was actu

South ally played. however, made game at no-trump, and it was very hard to blame

for the defensive error body

tral gave him the game.

ol the king West opened spades, and South hold off untli the third round of the sult, dis- two amall diamonds

carding away,

231- 24-Aug- 31, 2 out of your good idea pletely relaxing day. Don't do days. Select the best one and anything more

LL serious than get to work on right Jittle light reading!

Concentrate PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)--

is always a good idea to be prepared for unexpected guests. Fill up the freezer! It could, be today.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)---- You can make a substania edvance in your objective if you stick to Inels today.

PORN today, you have a great deal of mingnetism and personal Dcherm and can make friends with all types of people with great ease. You are especially fond of children, and if you don't have a large family of your own you will want to adopt some. You have a very deep You will make the perfect aunt or uncle, romantic nature and have u great attraction for members of the opposite sex. Make sure that what you think is love isn'

merely a temporary infatuation. Your intuitions will tell you, for sure, when the right one comes along.

The stars have given you many outstanding talents and it

You are somewhat is up to you to develop them to their utmost. lacking in self-confidence and are apt to "talk yourself down." This is a poor habit, for the world is very apt to take you at If you are positive and constructive, you your own estimate. will find that success comes to you more easily. Literature and selence or a combination are two felds in which you would chine. You have a well-balanced mind. Learn to use !!

You are fond of an intrigue and are never happier than when in the midst of some intricate scheme. Sometimes it might be better. In the long run. if you were a little more frank and outspoken.

AND LIKED IT

RECORDS by FRANCIS MARTIN

London who has a swimpool shaped like OOKING so handsome a plano. Well, my swimpool, it's

blupad ke d larynx. I'm gente in a brown, Italian ful to that larynx of mine. The way that he ought, by diving board's a uvula, Grateful all the rules, to be incurably to my uvula too." stupid. Tony Bennett drove At this point I remembered a from London Airport to a despairing thing sald to me by dne ol Bennett's pubilety lush hall in Park Lane.'

hodsmen: "Trouble with that himselt Houria in "Kismet" get- boy is he won't take

seriously." So I slapped iny up-filmy trousers, spangles knce and laughed so hysterical- and lots of eyeblack-knelt ly about diving from a uvula and languished around him that Bennett reponted and came for the publicity cameras. clean: "I have no impool. No backyard, even. Patricia Ann Wearing a trim lounge suit, and me and our lttle boy Bennett looked like a man D'Andrea, we live in a four- Only extra- come to

room apartment. sell vacuum

vagonce is a wallful of hi- re- cleaners in a seraglio.

cording and playback equip ment. I listen for hours on end to Verdi, Puccini and Maurice Ravel, who (don't let those re- ference-book guys kid you!) the greatest Italian of them all,”

"Kismet" is a cause in which he gladly suffers. Of "Stranger In Paradiso" the big "Kismet number, more than 50 recorded versions have been wished on to a tune-parched world. Bennett's verslon is claimed to have sold more than any other, something more than a million.

GOOD FEELING

Thro nights later Bennett Westbury checked out of the on

in two for a "pilot" fortnight big provincial music-halls, Glas- On his gow and Liverpool. second Tuesday i asked how he was doing. "Didn't open too well he Bald, "but in Glasgow," things are he in Liverpool.

When be koolta back Stranger, a sentimental glaze comes over his eye. I loved that number so much," he said,

whint, "that, d'you know actually memoriesd it before going to the mike.. Spent two solid months on it,"

EYEBLACK

The kneeling hourls stared at him reverently through spokes of eyeblack. "Songs usually are so bad I can't bring myself to spend more than two days Any-

them.

On and on and on

wife."

1111 ankud "Any idea whant n magistrate lotur i Sie seems to think it is horrible Fastern animal." Wald the inan, he's got into her head that in Eastern all Fight, and when Mrs Pond entne in

from the dummy on the second with her Pekingese my wife wald:

South nex! 'Give him a kotus Adn, and then and third spades. she shouted out. as a joke: Wishi-led a low club and was glad to woski, Dring the my kennona, mg

cover West's eight with dum- wanted go placey. Mr Fand looked puzzled, wil my wife said that I my's ine of clubs, thus making was going to become a naturalised sure that East would have Jap and live in a Tudor pagoda at

trick. win the Appleby, she

Appleby, Thanks to the hold-up, Easi and she said there was a dogu was out of spades. After some home there, and I'd probably neet

fear and trembling, East re- other Pekingene." "Peking." enist

low diamond, Chins, not turned

and the magistrate, is in Japan. "It's all one to her, so long at it's Eastern," said the man, "And West's jack forced out dummy's

why

Alte nld I could grow lotuses up

to

trero for the local flower-show, and Soull now ten the clubs, On Mr Pond said she'd no idea was the third club, West discarded a

Interested in flowers, and she said "Case adjourned," vouch-low diamond, while East kafed the magistrate.

NO

In passing

A

CCORDING to what I read, the

exposing

people's private lives on television is only

craze

for

In its infancy. Lator on we may expert hidden apparatus to be con- cented about the house, so that all our words and actions can be corded for a Programme. And as long as this advertisen something everybody will be flattered to take part in what has been well enllod

national tele-awaken "Pale Hegat Ink."

Among those born on this date are: Eugene O'Neill, play-Filing all cars wright; Nooh Webster, lexicographer: Frederick Gillett, statesman; Samuel P. Jones, evangelist: Russell Sturgis, architect; Horaco

E. Scudder, educator: Linda Darnell, actress; Rex Bell, actor.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- Your career may be more de- manding now than ever. If you need further study, make arrangements to get it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Today, you may receive a re ward In recognition of some- thing you have completed especially well.

(Who Cod

DR STRABISMUS

Prekurve) of Utrecht how a new

slea for solving parking problems. 1 ts on the principle of the ins cabinet, A series af ettormatik bulldings would be divided into compartmenin, each marked with a letter of the alphabet. The biggest cranes ever made would halt ench car, and an electronic brain attached to the crane would deposit the ear In a compartment, under the initial letter of the owner's surname. Then, when the owner called for his car, the brain would indicate its position,

ARIES (Mar, 21-Apr; 20)—and the crane would take it out. Silence is often golden. 1 you listen sharply, you often hear something to your advantage.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- You may be asked to give advice on romantle matter. Be very careful or you could get In- volved in a misunderstanding.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- personally

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. Good humour and 22)-Perhaps it has taken L

go a long way, sometimes, when

friendship.

Jonger time than usual for you it comes to cementing a business to receive your proper reward, but you should get it now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)

CANCER (June 22-July 23)— Although therm

may be minor and upsets in your normal Be sure that any loan you make is backed by sound security, calm patience can Otherwise, tactfully refuse.

schedule, overcome all almeultles.

TARGET

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217

of

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four letters

or more can you take 176m the tetters in the

Square QR the left lu making ratři N

the word, letters D each of the megharts may be used once only, Each word, rat' contain Lin large letter in the centre Aguare, and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the itst. No plurals; na foreign Words no proper ARMEN. TODAY'S TARGET: 30 words. good; 30 words, very good 40 words, excellant. Solution

on Monday,

that

מני

"I have a good feeling about British audiences. A good feel- ing for next time, I mean I'm here on a percentage basis. There isn't much moeny in it, I shall just about clear expenses. It's that pays been like a vacation for itself.”

bis hc

and

Less than 48 hours after lost curtain In Liverpoo}, "Above all. I hate numbers started

week's night-club one You gimmicked up. 210

and television work in know what I mean-echo effects, around Now York which 139 clapped hands. honky-tonk going to bring in £7,410. Or so planos, Idea nowadays is the reckoned. But perhaps he make a song so annoying that wasn't taking himself-or me- you feel you've got to buy seriously. Whenever I'm wheedled intg doing something gimmicky fight like a famished timber wolf not to have it released."

Photo-call

over.

the hours

'CHEST' TENOR

from Levity spills over

tals

longuldly dismissed, Bennett talk into his singing. Good thing left for a night club party. He too. Have been playing some of post-Stranger releases eight the following (10in. 78r.).on. Philips-Kiss bury, et got back to his hotel, the West- his

(PB 477). His first appointment I'll Never Forget morning was for 12 noon. "Don't Dis May I Never Love Again (PB on his door. 480) and Close Your Eyes (PB urb" still hung

4451. Tone and phrasing are knob at 12.45.

superbly unserious and (there- (orc) unworried. There notes that float like thistle- down. Others that vibrate liko zither oldings. Hand-outs call When I put my head around Bennett the "chest tenor Rot, his door half

later an hour

A tenor who sang soldły from Bennett, nude save for sky-blue the "chest" wouldn't be a tenor drunks, wus squatting

at all.

SKY-BLUE

was following

the still

sult. On fourth club, East had to discard Arst and was still uncertain as his partner to which red king held. Could East afford to un-

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Esker

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) - --This evening might be a good You may have a heavy social time to have dinner with some schedule but your timing makes friend whom you have not seen everything come out right. for some time.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)—— VIRGO (Aug, 24-Sept. 23)-esteem aster kernes meekest merest Your expense budget may need You may find it advantageous some careful attention these to combino business and sume retuse days. Might be a good idea to pleasure at a dinner meeting go over it.

this evening.

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But there. I'm becoming minute boll at a royal funeral serious, Bennett's £7,410 for -# At the bedside were Worcester week's work shows that serious- sauce,

a drained tomato-juice ness doesn't pay.

goblok, the Holy Bible

(by

courtesy at the hotel manage- ment) and a paper-back edition of Shaw's "Saint Joan."

The telephone rang. "Yes. Bennett speaking... terrible. Shouldn't have stayed out that Iste...

Wo talked about his bogin- nings. Orphaned son of a poor Italian immigrant (real name: Anthony Dominick Bendetto), it was brought up in a cold- water tenement on Long Island and started down-town Rs # newsagency copy-runner. He fras sold 0,000,000 records since 1931. he thinks.

What does he gross in a year? "Around 350,000 dollars. Salarice in the U.S. today are fantastic, frightening. To get as much as

I got in one week

the takes

guard the queen of diamonds, or should ho discard a heart?

After more fear and trembl- ing East discarded 0 heart. South knew the situation, of course, and decided to, help the situation along by discarding the typical American working heart likewise. This discard man five years." fostered the impression declarer had no interest in the heart gult.

West

Jikewiso know

that

the situation and hoped to war his partner to save hearts by

discarding a heart from big nun har hand. Unfortunately, West's dis card was the nine o neuruti

which was high enough card to give the impression of strength. Hence East discarded another heart when dummy led the fifth club, and now South made three heart tricks and his game contract.

There were, of course, many must muster raseele Talet rest raways for lie dofenders to solve Becker scom Rece Bord seriem mut their problem, but oven experts stoor stem atero strum stum suot may be forgiven for going sure teras tuale tuakar user.

wrong. Such hands are easier to defend on paper than they at dhe table.

3

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+CARD Senio�♦

Q-With neither side vulner- able, the bidding has been: North Kast

Bouth West

1 Heart 2 Clubs

You, South, hold:

475 VK952 ♦AB66 4J82

What do you dot

A-814 two Beárța. The dia- tribution is poor, but four trumps,

mp noe, a king,' she's doubleton kio siill worth's free

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is, the same os in: the question just answered. You, South, hald:

What do you do?

Agawin on Monday

CHESS PROBLEM

By Y. OKSALA Black, 6 piecCT.

White, 7 pieces.

[Statistician at US Embassy White to play: mate in three. "Mr Bennett. puts it rather high. Two years is nearer the mark"]

How many swimming pools

Solution

problem:

to

yesterday's

has be at home? "Just one. In 1, KI-Q4, any; 2, Q, R, or K my backyard. I know a pianist | mates.

T

DARTWORDS

11 stords START

LoKing's DartWords

goo far back to

the stories of Herculon. HERE

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RULES

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An Knages of the word

that precedes it.

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synonym of the word

that precedes 12"

B. 19 may be found.

19 adding one letter

to

felt

abtracting one

from, or things

ing one letter in the preceding

word.

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the preceding word in a tibloʻor

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