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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955.

X'mas Sale!! The secret of

SILK BROCADES

SILK GARMENTS WOOLLEN SUITS

at greatly reduced prices

FOR YOUR IDEAL GIFTS FOR YOUR WINTER WEAR

Please consult

Mr Mr Marshall's

suits...

Hollywood's perfect Englishman finds a Savile Row cut in darkest Los Angeles.but his wife chooses

his ties

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By ANNE SHARPLEY

with

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London.

R HERBERT MAR- SHALL is a tall, figure well kept

in voice which

hear the nowers cutting the cricket

England. Un pitches raftied in moments of crisis. ilis Always a gentleman.

cricket and interests

soccer.

AÐ

ideal husband, one

for an English might say wonial.

But how does he make out husband--ol an the American?

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I went to Me Mr Marshall first before I went to see Mrs Marahall, just to check that he was still English.

"Bart" as he is called is actually more English now than almost anyone i know.

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Life in what he calls "the Holly Woods" has kept his accent and manner in aspic.

He wears a noiseless the and a grey English-style suit,

Caf

Be sulters from nostalgia for he homesick Boland " for something Awful like The Holborn Viaduet even."

He talks in long sentences in the Dorothy Sayers manner with a look which used to be known. believe, as “quizzieni." ("I never had an hysterical fan mail and its gradual dwindling during the years has

not been

ko painfully noticeable.")

Mention changing his ellizen- ship from British and he looks The iden shocked. deeply makes me feel "Violently sick."

And as he deftly guides tus wooden leg

twisting over the cables of the studio floor giving restrained Juy such out with statements up "how lovely to

hear the home accents again,'

one has the feeling he is ask

ing himself: "Why, why. why. did I leave it so long?"

Why indeed? Two visits in curative twenty years is hardly

perpetual for a man who feels nostalgia. Or Hamplon Court, which he passes every morning way to the studios to on the

#irs! Weapon," his make "The British im for a quarter of a century, he says: "I can't, quite believa I don't have to feel nostalgic about it any more."

I have a feeling that it is nice to feel nostalgic for England-in California. For even his joins in.

wiło

the November puddles, "I miss the sunshine and I'm delighted to mest." he explained, “You monotonous don't know how sunshine can be." he said as he trade along, erect, prosule and his 85 frnr young

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rather

Marshall Mry The present (his fourth) has been his wife for sight years, She is known as S In her mid- "B" and thirtie, with a lively face and a soft, rapid voice.

the wintry

a glance towards river.

Why, she was even a follower of Manch ster United and read English papers avidly

Hart converted me to soccer.

But cricket!

tried I've

reading books;

Bart and

"I hunt for his tias," says Mrs Marshall. "Quietor

better. Solid colours

the

ōr

tiny

white dots

that make me dizzy to look at them."

Studying How To Prevent Sabotage Of Airliners

From HENRY LOWRIE

Washington, is regarded as an incentive Like the secepled picture of still i don't see it.

MERICAN air experts to would-be murderers.

Beyond keeping an eye slukt, I thought, Injured in a Nigel Bruce spent hours talk-

are co-operating with Chan the ing cricket. Nigel didn't realise colonial war

for years utid years that his

the Federal Bureau open for suspicious-looking not 1914-18 war.

wife loathed I

to screen She told me the secret of Mr of Investigation to find a packages, airlines have

practical method of prevent tried seriously

passengers luggage, "He went to seme horribleing sabotage of airliners.

They concede that they know Marshall's English suits.

that They are spurred in their

of no foolproof measures part of Los Angeles where no one ever goes. He found some fallor there

who understood attempt to protect travellers can be taken. Customs inspec

by the recent Colorado tors use what is called an in- he wanted." what

plane spectroscope when they search first His tics.

for secret compartments in lug- purchase.

sabotage in American his gage or in, say, the heels of tory-and by bomb-produced shoes. But airline officials say

would not be possible search the luggage of millions crushes abroad.

safety Heading the new

of passengers. Magnelle devices drive is J. Edgar Hoover, to detect the presence of metal would not work because suit- Director of the FBI.

cases

some Invariably hold metal object, such as a travel- er's alarm clock or a razor, Seven Attempts

her wreck-the however, ure

and Quicter

the

I have to hunt for them. Solid

better.

"She Is from Louisiana sonte of her vowel sounds are colours or toy white dets that

the. awfully British," sald her bus- make

band.

Vowel sounde or not I think ber a London was depressing

the Savoy litle as she sat in waiting for her husband return from filming.

The

of thought Christmas here terrifying.

was

to

"As

me

dizzy to

Jook

at

son

directions

my 13-year-old spending sald: Bart dresses very well,

plainly

but so quiet.'"

I thought of the "Oh, no, I must get back to

he

at the studio when a gave

tie was my children and be with them

change of cussed for the next shot. at Christmas." to

quiet. "Something electrical storms'

"She has only been here once and she gets nostalgic, Loo." In 1950, when he went England for his first visit since 1936. Mrs Marshall announced: to live here We are coming eventually."

What is it keeps them away? is it money?

"Let's leave that question in the air,' said Mr Marshall,

has twice Marshall (Mr

the women already married

Best, mothers of twins. Edna & second wife, had twin sons.

had wife His present

twins abe.)

Sue described how she had burst into tears when she left their home in Beverly Hills,

reason

to be.

He has already discussed plans with America's lying bass, F.B. Lee, whose title is Civil Aeronautics

ministrator.

Ad-

it

to

So far as is known there have sabotage attempts,

Among the possibilities heen seven

being dis- already being probed is a The most famous before the

No

rule for the compulsory in spection of all luggage.

Tightening Up

Colorade case was the wreeking of a Canadian plano in 1048. Twenty-three people lost their lives, and two men and a woman were hanged for that,

That year, too, a Philippines airliner was blown up in the Thirteen were killed,

The instructions were really They understood unnecessary. his taste in ties well enough.

"You know I am very fond'

There is a suggestion, too, Pacific. and have of America

every

that insurance companies Three Filipinos were sentenced But the old

their in- to death, Their appeals are

pending. roots are there, stirring all the may tighten up

Inn April 1950, British And yet she loves England time," he said in his beautiful-surance policies, which just

from ly preserved English.

now can be obtained by plane flying on the London- My grandmother came.

Paris route with 32 passengers There will Yet I love to go home Bolton.

had holes ripped in her sides, to California."

lugs in the next eight weeks 1 merely putting money in Furthermore,

The plane managed to return to climate expect the

Mr Herbert slot machine at airports.

Insurance for $82,000, can London. No one was arrested, An allergy brought Marshall, "AL cast I hope to spend suits her.

of It Christmas here this time,”

en by the wind and dust

remains to be seen which be taken out this way with- although it was described as We had left the studio and California disappears complete- root will win in the end.

(COPYRIGHT were picking our way aeros y "In this moist climate," with

"I am dependent on keeping going. If someone gave me a really attractive offer I can think of nothing lovelier than to stay in England.

for

be many

heart-

A

Tout questions asked, and it bomb blast.

A Little Town In The Spotlight

Gettysburg.

LITTLE town, set in

From NEWELL ROGERS

The

medium-sized

·STOY

white house, beside a huge new

Dutch barn and surrounded by

well-kept

folk

samo us in

any

is

the beautiful, rolling street crosses Baltimore Street, little country place, the Pennsylvania countryside, is a new post office, bullt of are just the has just become one of the while main power centres of the flight of steps leading up to a

pillared entranco. world.

with stone,

and

where

I

the

E

Four days later in Los Anceles a man tried to place an incendiary bomb in a plane in which his wife and two children were about to take off. He had insured them for $25,000. That plot, failed, but the man WIS gaoled for 21 years.

1

A Confession

In September 1952 a bomb ex-

sured seven of the 20 passengera

Threo

A

tidly-fenced field, ploded in the luggage compart the thing any prosperous ment of a plane over Mexico. just business or military man with The pilot made an emergency broad small town. B

a love for the country might landing. Two men who had in Modest professional

men, long to retire

a local officials,

Above it to the east runs for a total of $208,000 were sen shopkeepers,

tenced to 30 years for planting ridge Women tree-

e-lined of smattering of farmer Up those steps citizenS It is Gettysburg, scene of the

to take gossiping and admiring

In May 1963 a bomb exploded each, bloodiest fighting of the fateful the bomb, Now World's most famous Geltysburg,continue

Com thread

battle took place. To battle. And President Elsen- their letters and parcels. Around other's bables. Policemen

west the house in a package just removed from a more modest trolling traffic in a good-natured the hower has set up his temoraty the cofner is

All very Informal, all looks across the rolling, wood-another Mexican plane. "White House there for a entrance with a placard saying: way

to a horse shoa-airport workers were killed." ed farmland very homely.

of scrub-covered man who confessed that he had couple of months while he re- Welcome, Mr President."

wanted to kill shaped ridge

himself to pro- Just inside that entrance is a covers completely from his 11-

About four miles outside the hills. door on the right-hand side. 115

Eisenhower has invested the vide insurance for relatives was

sentenced to 30-years, You approach the new "White gloss upper half bears the word town, on the edge of the battle-

# That is Eisen- field the Elsenhower farm is no best

-part of $300,000 in this

Last April on Air India Con- House" along a busy shop "Postmaster.

That is neat and orderly as a picture. house and land. Today, under

he whole staliation flying from Hongkong lined street which recalls a hower's new office,

I stopped to look at it from sunlit skles, with

was crippled by typical English market town, where, in the coming six or

will be a high observation tower built countryside, burning in its late to Indonesia On the right is an old court eight weeks, decisions

it socmed well blast and 10 passengers killed. affect the on the battlefeld's western side. Autumn glory,

That too Was

blamed will house, a dignified building of made which

It was easy to understand why worth the price,

bolage. lato 18th or early 19th world.

is so fond of the

(COPYRIGHT) Outside in the streets and in Elscalower century style. A little further

this place. up on the left, where the High the square, the heart of

need.

the

JOHNNY HAZARD

I WILL TAKE THEM OFF YOUR KANDS NOW, YOUR EXCELLENCY! THEY SHALL GRT THE JUSTICE THEY SO RICHLY: PEGERVE!

GO THEY SHALL INSPECTOR VON. SCHNECK AND SO WILL YOUZ.

YOU SEE

་

HERR HUNTER HERE IS AN OLD FRIENDWA NEWSMAN... HE HAS NO REASON FOR LYING! PUT UP YOUR GUNKA

(COPYRIGHT)

By Frank Robbins

MMAND CONSIDER YOURSELF |UNDER ARREST YOU SHALL HAVER YOUR DAY IN COURT...

NOT ME, HERR MINISTER.....AND. IT'S A PITY YOU CANNOT BACK UP YOUR ORDERI

...this situation calls for a

San Miguel

on

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