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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1955.

YOU ARMCHAIR

DETECTIVES

WHY ARE THE WOMEN WINNING

THIS WAR FOR YOUR MONEY?

SOLUTION by NANCY

HAVE been inquiring onormous house to keep up in the heart of Essex, She grows into the man v. woman

prize roses, is one of the most

I know.

War in the mystery effident after-party washers-up market. The stakes in this market aru high-

can make mystery writer more thru a Cabinet Minis- ter.

51

Very

Agatha Christle in private life is narried to a busy archeo

ogst. Whenever I meel her sho is alwaya dashing out to buy "There is such a mad rush safely pins because she is on her

way to dig in Bagdad. in for

bookshelf the

Gladya Mitchell is Landon famous

library busy teacher of English in

school. where GO Much delicious Jelly good elementary condoctions of blood and 91 is not above taking the oc- thunder panting librarians have to change the shelves 12 times every Saturday morning.

confined that art

So, you see in that one library we consume 800 thrillers from Friday to Monday.

And the demime is tncreasing. (This is a solemn thought.) We Are now demanding roughly double what we did in 1951

But we have changed in the authors we love.

She LIVES more

EVEN las 1054 there was in K-

casional suggestion that me could write about crime attrac- "Give me the new Ray- tively. mond Chandler Simenon, Arthur A. Upteld. Dickson Carr, John Creasey, Leonard Gribble"

CASE NO. 1

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we

CASE NO. 2..

said, stuffing them in our buig- Ing shopping baskets.

in

1954 asked

But even

usually Mutgery

we more for the new Agothu Allingham, Christic Gladys Mitchell, Chris- Hanna Brand, Ngulo Marsh.

Why? Well, for two reasons. First more women than bishops read thrillers, and women Ilke books by women, Second, women write much richer more grip- ping, better characterised thril

fers than men.

"I think

women write better they begaune

thrillers simply

lend (what is laughingly known (When as) richer. fuller lives.

I nd a man writer I always find he does nothing else but For example:- writc.)

Mirgery Allingham is marriedi to a busy cditor.

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I BLUSHED FOR

BLUE SUIT

London.

FELT out of place. You know how it is. I was wearing a double breasted bluo suit, carrying a raincoat and a Everyone élác

Christianna Brand in murried to a busy ear, throat, and nose specialist She has a huge house in Mulda Vale where she takes brief-case, messages for the doctor day and

was wearing pyjamas. I

When Miss Nichols and Co. wore pyjamas

by THOMAS

WISEMAN

night, and an adopted daughter, had been told "dress im- or Terry-Thomas, of the day

Victoria, with deep red hair,

Ngalo Marsh is a theatrical formal." Well, how informal producer and is an O.B.E. for is informal?

her services to the theatre in the Empire.

If only they had told me --I would have put on some

when a high-cap will look like

#

n

lampshade instead of like whisky and soda,'

You never know what might when un American happen

But those are just the dear thing discreot and harmoni. musical cutches on.

and of

ous for the occasion like my high-necked Cossack style pyjamas

Arid this one will cotch, on,

Unusual Plot

Apart with the scarlet

frum the eccentric even

pyjamas, it is unusual,

turtling, for these reasons;

The plot is about a srike at

familiar faces you say. Aren't there any new young, brilliant writers coming along? Is there any new way of marketing the dear old mayhem?

Well, yes, of course there are, tassels.

course they ure both Joy Nichols came over to any and both

glamour girls,her. She was warlay a man' Women, and

introduce Miss Holly Gripe pyjama top. And little May Noth of the U.S.A., and Misscisc-unies you count maccara.

She looked like something out. Nina Bawden, of Great Britain.

new of A Freudian dream only she And indeed they have trend. Very disconcerting it isn't need interpreting. too. They both write in the first person.

As men

feminine

I said uneasily: "Are we go ing to lunch like tha.? I mean, 's sling chilly these days

a priama factory story of intour versus capital.

The

company's wardrobe doesn't boast a single mink or pain. The leading lady's most expensive dress cost less that £10. Most of the dresses worn

to £4. by the cast were bought for £3 The three men who lost put

stage

carning on the show in New York were

managers £30 a week. Now they and rich about are all impresarios

Broadway this story тел. Оп of a

siriko for ER extra 7%

انة

I asked why Miss Holly Roth, who used to be a photographic

Edmund Hockridge joined us. model and magazine executive,

She says she has He was wearing the bot.om part did this.

emotional of Miss Nichols's pyjama top. 1 "distinctly #et-up in distinctly feminine would have felt more comfort body. But she also has "able if Miss Nichole hurt been

and sense of wearing It masculine and

Wis surrounded, encircled, (This must be jolly un-hetmed-in. outnumbered Jogic

28 girls wearing the crazies; got proilt of $800,000, have been married widową! at 21. Her only inter-ups outside of a Salvador Dal sold for the unprecedented sum The

decorative "Printed, rightmare. eat is "te Word."

meufs included convict stripes, of $750,000 plus a percentage of wrliten, neted, sung spoken gambling dices, hearts

takings.

mlillon records Several m pierced

the show I conled right up to The Word,"

head of hi songs from by arrows, new puper she says, "when I becane typist or the New York Post."incs, playing cards. All prin.cd have been sold

in ferceious colours on pyjamas.

comfortable.)

She

WRK

Wit, pace, bite

ISS ROTH has written two

by cents pay has already made

The film rights

Not To Bed

-1

Yet, originally, nobody want-

ed to

WAS

rounded,

Acircle'd,

bemmed-in and

outnumbered..

They were the

crazlast ***-

гра

"The he'd agreed with my analysis,

the So that was fine.

For star Joy Nichols

Game" ped Pajama

and psychiatry game have solved her outstanding problems.

back the show. As r0031 33 people heard, it was about labour

versus capitalists they shuckered and lost interest. In I should explain that nobody the end the $180,000 needed to show was taked MISS

completely brilliant thru-Was planning to go to bed-that pu: on the

I know of.

with

the help of 137 share- lers: "The Content Assignment," I was at the arst full-scale holders including chorus girls,

"The and

Mask of Gings"

rehearsal of "Pajama: Game," carpenters and electricians. (Hamish Hamilton 9s. 6d. cach).

the latest American which is

The romance is between the "The Coment Assignment" is all musical to reach England.

superintendent and the factory

of the Trade

Union's about a newspaperman who geta

This is all very well," I said, chief involved in awful international but it would take a brave man

grievances committee. It all dolags and chases his kidnapped actually Lo

br sleep

ther takes place among the pyjamas, love

the length

in the remnants and the sewing pyjamas. They'd give me breadth of the U.S.A

somnia."

machines, it is a long, long way

acrosy

and

"The Mask of Glass" is even Thousands of Americans from Ruritania. better. It is about red-haired Jimmy Kennemere, who is work-sleep soundly in such pyjamas," was assured. "And, since the

con-

30

Ing for the US. Counter In- production of Pajama Game." telligence Corps and is

enles have been shooting up. sequently tied to a time bomb by One fac.cry's sales are p Communists in Chapter One.

pervent."" So he sets off to break up the Communist ring.

The point of this book is not the story alone (though that is pretty good. I promise) It is the

The speed, the bite. wit

In the rat race of crime writing it is the pace that kills. And even with her mind split sharply in two Miss Roth still does considerably better than

single-minded male

petitors....

said hopefully: "We're too. co-servative here. It will never catey on in England."

The "I wouldn't be so sure. English have had too tile colour in their lives. They are

colour." hungry for

"In bed?" "Especially in bed."

For

moment I had a herri- ble vision of people going to com-bed dressed like flunkeys, inter- planetary voyagers, Teddy Boys

More over, there

WHAT of our British entrant? Misa Nina Bawden daughter

of a marine engineer, holder of u degree in philosophy, politics and economies, happily married with two small sons. Well, sh has written three books, all of uncomfortably brillant. The new one, "Change Here for Babylon" (Collina 10s. 8d.), is her best.

T

Love Angle

EA

"What was the matter with you?"

"Actually it was something to with my childhood. Ho dis- covered that." She continued "I always thought that every thing in due to sex. But what was bothering me had nothing to do with sexx."

Dark Secret

me

her

MY

Brother, if you haven't got your balance when you start earning the preposterous money I got then you've got trouble."

Who the "Pajama Gemo" has dose for Miss Nichole; It has got rid of any inhibitions that the psychiatrist overlooked. You connot sing the hit songs of this And how UK "Hey There" "Small" Talk" and "Seven and' a Half Cents' or 'dance the dances while you have unk Inhibition Jert.

chance

What the psychiatry

game has done for her. Miss Nichols said, pulling her pyjana, top little further down her legs:

"That Umo I went to America, boy,

I was really sick. I was. juls, dull, you know. Just not · thero. So somebody sald should go and ste a psychiatrist. I said maybe we wouldn't got

Then Miss Nichols told

It has given her the The only concession to musical on together. But they said there

formula is

from comedy

that the was a big choice and I ought to the deep, dark secret of to star in a musical, for which

came herO childhood, after making me purpose she' strike is solved, not by arbitra- get on with one of them. The

Aus ralia 10 years ago. iles one I took one look at and promise i wouldn't tell,

have watched Miss Nichols ter. but by love.

Saya

E said: That's not for me' producer

England," "In

sing,

and act at rehearsals Grid: "An unlikely subject, second one sald to me as I came Nichols, "I would

force

the "Pajama Game" Not All the better. The next in, Hi, there?' and I sald, had

had the courage to go to being a psychiatrist I do not Fure

psychiatrist. I would have been know the current state of her musical i want to do is about a You'll do, kid. "

Was he convention.

there--everyone sales

I ashatod. But carpenters We're

goon Now I feel so good. I'm d. ego and super-ego. Whether the inquired. still #guring

obsesión, - phobia. on my second honeymoon. I'm or a fixation. romantic angle on that. But can

nervous about the thimit of a more unlikely

not even

I will predict that on the iheme?"

UD first night Miss Nichols in a opening night I've given I said no, I couldn't cxecpt,

nerves.

pyjama, top will be positively a musical about an

"The trouble was my success traumatic. per aps.

came before I was ready for it.

(COPYRIGHT). undertakers' sales convention.

You

Robert

out

*DON

THE CRASH

A

The

Freudian?"

"Oh, I don't know about that. But he was Bft. din. tall and he had a very funny face, Well, in six weeks I'd told him exactly what was the matter with me how I hadn't grown up yet and

IDDON'S

saldi Mise never have

DIARY

THEY TRIED

sho

has un

But

TO HIDE

erratic, Now York, is still the most THE neglected news sensitive, and timid street In it Tem. Harrington, whe

hero is the break in in the world. tells the tole, is accused of

the stock market. Wall who

great men, 2,000 miles murdering nasty, David was blackmailing him, his wite Street's big dip has been away, has a heart attack, and there are

within houry the stocks crash his mistress and his mistress's reported, but it has, not down, the people rush to sell who own stocks, end three out why Wall Street is saying there pasing." for his work in "Tiger

In fact Tom didn't been interpreted. husband. murder anyone.

to

The Broadway season has They did not save the day, impetuously. They work accord-

"Klarted brightly. Michael Rod- opinion of experts ing to a long-range blueprint. but. In the horo. they

country saved the

On Black Monday, after thd grave, with whom I crossed in. fiom black panie.

President's liness, most of them the Queen Elizabeth, is being.

magnificent,.. "Superb, Today in the United States stood fast, and since then have called

7,600,000 Americans then buying quietly. That is overwhelmingly passionate, Im

also at the Gates," which is four of these of

are prople cannot be another 1929, and there is close to panie in whose incomes Bro

The latest reports from the

"superb, magni-.. less than

being called But it takes

the money market.

doctora

at Denver fe overwhelmingly, passion- him chapters and chaplers

£3,000 a year. "Everyone" has President's There are some

half rather Even today, three and a prave it.

hower will be a part-time Pres- Arthur Miller's "A View from So there you are.

Two lovely fumbling attempts, particu- weeks after the President been getting into the market in make it clear that Mr Elen- sto, elc.

in years.

a rocking-chair the Bridgo" proves him-one of new writers for a lovely fine larly in the financial district stricken, Wall Street is sagging,

The Stock Exchange has urged dent following frightened of the re-purchase of stocks week-end, So I really must ask itself, to cover up, although future. There have been some called little men. And I has completed unsure, and

routine ofter h's convalescence, the United States major play- by so-

at his Gettysburg wrights. His latest plays thord all ti ose immortal old ladies of how anyone can try to cover efforts to recovet, but not even been a heady experience for the farm.

are two are sup

superlative. the Dolection Club (where, I

day of half of the huge losses have past 18 months. The

Eddie Cantor, who had have been told, they carry a up the loss in one

cushion and Intone $14,000,000,000 worth

heart attack similar to Preal skull on

of been regained.

fins been going in one direction strange onths on first Thurs stocks is beyond me.

I was at a party the other only-up-until coronary throm

dent - Eisenhower's three years ziven by Sir aight

Eric

"When you've had days) to move over.

ago, snid: bosis hit the President, und severi Wail Bowater, Make way there please, for

The truth is that Wall 20

heart attack you shouldn't then Since the amateurs and

D DEPUBLICAN leaders, par try for two. Street mon were there. Their two new smashing writers.

Street has not learned. It explanations of the crash-and out of the market in droves.

little people have been getting ticularly the chairman of

The

President wrote. (COPYRIGHT)

It was a crash were tortuous.

the National Committee, Leonard, Cantor three years ago telling I funched in Wall Street yes- Hell, They said: "A

good very

be- are perturbed by, the the comedian to recover I reminded. Coctors' frenk report. thing. The market was too terday, and when

cause he was noodad.. Now high, anyway; it needed, a my hosts that they had told me

The most they are hoping for Cantor, has written the same healthy corrceive. It had to months ago, that 1929, that be straightened out, Too many could never happen again, now is that the President will words to the President

they insisted that 1020 had not appear on telecasts and broad- happened again.

easta during next year's com Here is their case. In 1929 paign,

just say

w

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please

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amateurs are in the market."

I

Sickening drop

market

Leaders upset

many hundreds of stocks, were 1 Riing from his study,

and

the election of the candidate and Party.,

Two covers

buy $1,000 ch by are sensitive to the RITAIN'S Joyce Grenfell, has

bought on the flimsiest of credit. CANNOT sce Dnything margins. For $100 down a man healthy in $14,000,000,000 or woman could

that

they might be ex-opted in "Joyce Grenfell ploiting a sick man for politics! Requests the Pleasure" but It's bging wiped out on paper in a worth of stock. It was a que ends. There will be no born too early to tell wheiber, the

single day bqcative ono mun has

a heart attack. If Mr Elsen-

hower died suddenly,

would happen then? Wizne

Do you realise that in, some

Cambio,

Buy outright

по

storming tour by Eisenhower in audience shared the pleature support of the Republican candi dale, Do spooches from train platforms at whistle-stops ait tours or tumultuous railfe

Many people did not realise sot about the ot

ways the sickening drop on the TODAY most holders of stocks Monday following the Frond-by or holdings outright that the President was so

the

dent's illness

anisotrophic October 28, 19297

was worse than

nows

Cecil Beaton is in. town and, wrunge to poy, he didn't know. whether to be pleased or up

that fis photograph" of incess Margaco was on tho cover of bo'h"-"Life"" and Lopiz" maparines Arst time

collapse of or by down-payment and a`mib. Bick. The beat. Hood spare the · magazines, cach,” had. an"

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not luss than 70 President is his

a quarter of a century ago, I tutions. InajaRNCO

Ho Indulging

molid

pract the Blockscree crihod points, compared with 38 Polnis Li 1829 there were few insti- cai, jokes such as wearing identical front count.

red-and-groen snap-on bow tier I fold Cooll that he should. companic with his gold allk pyjamas to be fattored no ono Blao a group of specialiste on the savings bottles, unions, ilver W

zines, almultaneously. floor of the exchange hadn't put sites reilgious foundations groot his wito, Mamie and his bad ever made both ing up huge sums of their own Investing in the stock market, morale could not be higher.

Nool: Coward: end; money there could have boon Today about one-third of the His brain is so active how Martin had a reception the outer common stock Lased on the New over that his doctors, report

$100,000,000 Fond $550,000,000 of by kutuzione poster by soleilves to keep is brijumi -two good framidy of mine sud- The specialists raised botworn York Block Exchange is owned that they are giving hum mud Bight for their now TV lour) their owis hard calcite more tip * These Colest are not likely to mind trous foo, milda work;! Loo

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