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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1986,

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YOUR BIRTHDAY......... By STELLA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7

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JORN teisy, you have personal magnetism, managerial ability and the power to lead others. You have a sincere desire to get at the truth and will leave no stone unturned in your search for the exact facts. You would make a good Jurist, investigator, reporter or detective, Since you also have dramatic talents and the power to use words, you probably would do well in literature, drama or on the stage, screen, radio or television. But, no matter

utilise the

to power what your sphere of activity, you will

dramalise your life.

to

Early in life you have learned that diplomacy and tact will Henco you will go a long way toward getting what you want. utilise all these more-subtle weapons before resorting to force.

must learni You are quick to unger when crossed and ccntrol your temper or you may get into considerable trouble through out your life. Since your emulkina are near the surface, you will be happlest if you wai early in life. Select someone who agrees with your ideas and is willing to go along with you all the way, niving you devation and loyalty under all circum- and exceptional stances. In return, yet will give your share happiness enn be in store for you.

Among those born on this date are: Millard Fillmore, U.S. President Mary E. Wilkins, aut ov; James B. Angell, educator; I. R. Bukhage, news analyst, Charles Tiffany, merchant; Adolph Zukur, product. The Rev. T. Dewit Tuimadge, noted clergyman.

Let

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. your birthday slur be your day gukle.

CAPRICORN

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8

CANCER (June 23-July 23)— 201-Now you may safely em Fine for all professional work.

23-Jan ¡Dec.

and

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) You may want to confer with

splzatural your

adviser OVAT Follow his

marriage plas

good advier

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, 20)- Be very refil that yesterday's minor difference does not

LEO (July 24-Aut. 23)-- You may need to take care of things al home which you have been neglecting lately.

girl F

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)-

planning to spend the day turu Inte a major out of town, get an early start

and avoid the rush,

quarrel.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr.

20)-

10

from the

If you need melical treatment, there's no good to come

Visit

LIBRA

(Sept. 24-Oct.

23)....

Be peacemaker in any argument which might come up either i postponing your

home or on the job, foetort

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services, seck y church surftual

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may ask

gracious

GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-

church fur your help. in offering

services.

SAGITTARIUR (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-Even if you are visiting in

strange city, DAY A

of worship

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He your to

gain inspiration.

BORN today, wat ie the type to do everything on a gigmatic

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a shull bone, their cheeks posted orebesten By consisting of like plelures of the winds

"capable of old maps. I see some expert musicians

any Instrument playing

as swopping in mid-converte

Bule. oboc exchanged for a gave me

French Ita at

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busoon. I for see the drummer with his hand. eight between the gymbals, and rescued by a sturtled con- free. I see the conductor stop

well as their own visunt Tolliest.

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I see a full violinist jeaning forward nonchuuutly to scrape the cello with impudent bow. I see two anal fellows coming To blows ever the ammo m

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sende. You always think of things in terms of the finished project and dislike having to bother with detall work along the way. If you have a corps of workers who can he trusted to enrry out your instructions, then all is well; otherwise, you may find

ing defeated.

You are not to find that your best interests are being fault with those who do not come up to your expectations and you will be well divised to use fact and diplomacy In this rec- tion if you are not to alienate friends and make enemies.

Strengely enough, for one who dislikes detail, you are me to plan ahead and map out your programine before you start. Then, well prepared to advance, you go ahead in a straight line This can, of course, without deviation from your goal in view.

prove

De much of a handicap as an advantage, for you could become so dogmalie and so systematic that you would spend all your time working out a plan--and then not have time to (nish the Jub! Perfection is all right in its place, but to become loo

well its the perfectionist can make others, as much unhappy.

yourself,

General Janes Long- Among those born on this date are: street; Augustus Thomas, playwright: Nicholas Baldie, financier and bunker; Lowell Mason, musician; Balley Axton, actor.

Lot

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

CAPRICORN

MONDAY, JANUARY 9

(Dec.

CANCER (June 23-July 23)- 23-Jan.

mus! into You may find that you 20)-Take

partner your your confidence. In making new postpone a new Idea until inter unili on, but don't be impatient over contacts, Ignore rumours

the delay, you lest them,

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)--

make AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) This is your day to

Secret Anal decision in a meeting with Be trunk and open, matters are nat advised just A person important to your now. You could get into diff- future. culties.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)— dividends. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)-- Study will pay ng

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A violin for two PERHAPS as well as meat amn time as" or "In addition to." Two men ut The same violm would be thehes mdeed. the two heads caugh between the wires of the harp are better than one, and would give a lip to the work of the hastily -summoned fire brigade. voriant un the It would be a alk theme of boy's head stuck In ralibus.

Were any of you, I wonder, at Salzburg

SAL

when . 1034. Hannes Schofeninger played a By which had settled un 12 SVUJE?

She is picking a quarrel DEAR Str.

Mrs

Het in

Welsh

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Hornsea may ver al camels, but they krep children ansed at the Zuo, and serve a useful purpose among the Arabs. How would Mrs Welsh like to be left dero-

the desert with

I fancy nwans of locomotion? she would change her opinion of camels if a native appeared on the harison and offered her a lift.

Yours truip, (Mrs) Enid Wilbotte, Technical hitch WEARING myself to the bone the In catch up best contemporary thought, had prepared a new

Werter

NEW

RECORDS by KENNETH ALLSOP

You get the finest

on Pan American!

THE WORLD WANTS World's Quietest

POM-TIDDLY-POM

W

E

were

London furthers in Scotland play them talking during milking because they casually in millions find the cows give a better yield.

It all began after this son of .about export a Wembley clergyman bad carnings with talla of become world champton ballroom noughts as long as a kite's dancer at 22, When he opened HIA own school In Bofid Street, output ..about

and, he wasted so much time scour especially, about” input, ing shops for suitable pum- tiddly-pom records that he de- The man across the desk cided to make them himself. had hilvering hair, bronzed face, expensively reticent suit, and a genial air of unplumbable prosperity, river of prosperity which he There was the sensation of navigates so expertly. When he of being as snug as a bond in is not recording with either a strongbox in that small his two orchestras the ballroom and the silver strings, with its room with the temple-like battery of violms, violns

ls touring tranquillity of a Blink of celloe-he

Country. England vault.

And

if dance-band loader Victor Silvester suggested it, the Bank of England would prop- ably turn cartwheels to let him rina Baker Street branch. For no clty financier ever created a bigger business out of a simpler formula. In fact, Mr Silvester is considered by some to be, in city terms, the most successful corn merchant of all time.

STRICT TEMPO

He himself does not fake that cynical view of his strict-tempo industry. "I hate talking about myself,"

he sald, with no ob- vious reluctance, "but though any it myself, it is good music to dance to. Metody and a best. Put them together and you have nice music for dancing. That is what people want and what try to give them."

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Without the slightest varlation and without betraying any sigh of boring himself Trantic with repetition,

that is exactly what Victor Silvester has been giving people for the past 21 years.

He began to reelle to me, in riet tempo, the statistics of his unwavering and unique carver in the dance, hand field. Main taining fast rumba rhythm, I Jutted the figures down.

*

Since 1934, when he began recarding for Columbia, 22 million records sold, over million a year; probably Bing Crosby is his only competitor in this ronkn of historionl best- selling.

SO EXPERTLY

Now records are merely tributary of the broad, deep

ánd

the

Intriguingly, the soportile and mellifluous sound he makes scents to have a special appeal to the ruscular feel of policemen, for he is constantly performing at police balls.

his services

Then there are for the BBC-four series run- ning simultaneously on round and television. His BBC Dancing Club has been going regular so the swing of a metronome for over 400 broadcasts, and his request programme Music for Dancing is beatried all over the world.

Each week 1,500 Jotters arrive 43 from countries as far flung Turkey and Brazil, Victor Silvester. jun--who

manages the office administration--oblig-

shovelled

A heap of gly

cabinet cheques off the fling and produced some of the cor- respondence for me to seg.

One was from @ nostalgic ex-convict requesting a tune for six pals in the Victoria State Penitentiary. Another had been sent by 12 inhabitants smallest village on earth, loca- tion Greenland.

of the

"We top every dance-music poll taken by Listener Re- search," Silvester informed me. "The BBC regard

our overseas broadcasts as being a wonderful way of maintaining good will in the Empire."

SEVEN BOOKS

In case International

good ever will should

fail him, Stlyester has those other finan cial tributaries. There is what More than 700 individual

cut, more he laughingly refers to as "the double-sided discs

He has published than 1,500 titles: three records literary side,

on dancing, and issued a month-biggest output seven books

Modern record his basic primer

Ballroom Dancing hus

sped through 47 editions and goes on steadily increasing its sale 500,000 coples.

from anyone company.

for

any

TORTURE

Having in mind that there are Isome who liken the Silvester

оп

Furthermore, he owns a gar- age und wo boarding

houses

Jack and the Beanston of routine-piano, saxophone, violin in Bayswater,

By OSWALD JACOBY

DUT yourself in the South seat and try not to notice the christ held by your opponents. How would you play today's hand at the eminently sound contract of four spades? For your information, look at bidding. Then note that West Lakes The king

of hearts

and follows with the ace of hearts. Naturally you trump the second heart. What next?

All right, you decide to draw trumps, Both opponents follow. Propulsion, shot Jack into

1

to the first trump, West dis- cards heart ti

the second round of trumps.

This time you really have to make your

mind

Which sult do you attack first clubs or diamonds?

on

up.

to "go to law" about III. Don't let yourself be distracted sense, from working toward your plus pationee and a little tact. ultimate goal.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)--- Special concentration on your This

could prove to bc A

wed

from

If you go alter the clubs first, East Lakes the ace of clubs and

studies is what will bring you romantle day for you or one of

returns the jack of clubs. West will eventually got in with the your goal these days. Be domestic near

happiness, it already

king of diamonds to lend on- diligent.

other club, and down you go. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— SCORPIO (Det. 24-Nov. 22)—'

The correct play is to lend a You might get some valuable Gardening. If in season where Information by nitending you live, can be highly reward-diamond first. You lend a low your hond The ing for

effort diamond

towards dummy's queen.

West must

with the step up king of diamonds and return a club. Exist takes the ace of clubs and knocks out dummy's. remaining club honour, but you can then eash the queen of dia monds, get to your hand with a trump, and cash the ece and jack of diamonds to discard both low clubs from the dummy. You can now ruff your own low

A good day for with

lecture on a subject you are interested,

GEMINI (May 22-Juno 22)—

to you

in which

limo and spent.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. deal 22)-Sco those at a distance those in authority who who might be important to your may have a say about the pro- future welfare. Moke gress on your job.

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impression.

DARTWORDS

AVE you a few START

moments In the

mas preparations to. relax Than try to solve a Dartwords puzzle. The first word

GINGERBREAD. and the 11 THRUST, The ide is to get from one to the ather by tearrang. ing the remaining do words in the circle in such a why that the relationship ÜOLWEON any word and the ong next to it is governed

by one of air Túlés.

KULES

1. The word may be

aa #bagram of the

word that proedd it.

AJUD

2. 19 may be a synonym of the

word that precedes it.

3. It may be found by mading one letter to, or subtracting one letter iront of changing one letter in the preceding word.

24, 10 may be manonlatadi "wish

tile preceding TOTALADALYJE himica metaphor, or, asadiqláffers

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club, assuring the contract.

The

However, to date, there is no hint of any waning in the public's appetite for the plain, wholesome musical fodder that he provides in such genTOUS helpings and without ever de- viating from the old trustworthy btenusio recipe. For the income from his they maintain the same level of two companies remains cheer- volume, have no vocals and can inly consistent at £70,000 be faded out at any time."

taking turns at plodding through whole action took place under the tune--to the Chinese drip- torture, I inquired if his publle water, on coloured, floodlit I was limited to dance-hall tyros.

the bottom of a swimming "Certainly not," he said. "O

and all the fairies WOTE

OTE course, dancing schools all over puce-suits, with little television the world use our records. But sels let into the backs of their they are also aced exclusively in

helmets. The 3,500 stratospheric

citteras that's carrying a sien Fairy Queen,

of a wand, was Kun Instead

by parachute, and the

the under water All this Muom. and on tee! A proxiucer told me

the technical that

difficulties were too great, was abandoned.

drop working by rocket-

I saw his point, but did not interrupt.

year.

*

Each morning at 7.30 ho springs from bed in his blue- and-pink mows cottage,

skips "They are also played st dog and showers,

gives the black- so the project tracks, railway stations, football and-white Jaguar a polish, and stadiums, skating rinks and in strides off to the office humming dypewriting schools. And I hear his signature tune,

"You're faint note of puzzlement Dancing on My Heart," which entered his

voice that some has a treasured place not only in his heart but on the wallet side of his chest, too.

CHESS PROBLEM

By PHILIP BARRON Black, 8 pieces.

White, 7 pieces.

This line of play is sure to white to play: male in two, work if West has either the Solution to vasterdsa king

of diamonds or the ace of problem:

clubs as the

alde necessary

strength for his opening bid of, R~~~H8, any; 2, Q, R2 of Ks one heart. You are not worried matce.

about losing a diamond to East,

for then West will surely have

can

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Part of the recent output Columbia Kong-player 335 1081, complete palais preamble, from waltz to samba. On DX1930 4wo 12in. sides of Paul Jones medley, Stialler dosca on DB3860 (Herttando's "Hideaway" and "Blue Star") and DB3885

"You My Love

and "Ev'ry. where").

From topid to Arotic Circle climate Esquire present two of than cool school, the Thelonious Monk Quintet (20-049) and the Teddy Chries New Directions Quariot (20-043). Is this just introspective

emittering? No maintain.

Cerebral Lenough to make an egg-head

of

feel a low brow, but both these become more subtly satis- fying each lime played.

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