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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956.
PARADE
ABOUT A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL
·PEOPLE · AND PLACES AND THINGS
NEW BOOKS
By NANCY SPAIN
"Somehow Marjorts, I
doubt whether you wil ever become a Dome..."
If sca
of seawater.
fertilised,
KINESI}
provides food for the blager eh, BEES AND Are becs alarmed
and so on.
Pro-
اني
by the sound of A1 Southampton University. JETS
jet planes? under the superviston of
Brush Bee the fearor John Haymont, Profesor journal
Association thinks it keepers of Zoology,
in experiments
The terrible "breeding plankton"
are going possible. It says,
din ot Jet Aeroplanes being warmed up and circling over- head could conceivably frighten
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NOW MARLENE HAS HER BOSWELL
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And we know that nothing THO thought she could Her daughter grew up to be W
stop the abdication of "Jealous of her mother's beauty, can ever really be the saine again for Sid's family. In spite Edward
inter. VIII by
This is not a good book. Me of little quarrels due to over- him at
scrambles Fort Frowin
hopelessly strained nerves; in spite of down the years after both Lady hundred intimate, internal d and Legend, and onl succeeds putes, Bld's family knows ∙that in giving the impression that he loyalty to one another is the has never really caught up.
precious thing in the
Yes, Indeed, Frank Tiisley, you're quite right. If this book
and ever Hitler
after brooded about it, thinking
most
world
about
school
However, any book In
that, simply by dining, she Dietrich is better thun none. might have averted World
No pot-boiler, this! War II?
FOOD OF
"Plankton" is on. For this purpote microscopic ranging from the equivalent of down, for the highest note being THE FUTURE
prodiefed organisms of plant and vegetable two guineas, for appearing before man can hour is pitched
to 20 around 20,000 cycles whils magistrate's court, as a favourite life are being cultivated in tanks a
limits 80,000. a case cat's top guincas for defending and plenteous food of the future,
No wonder their ears twitcht available to mako up Dlways
arcas word properly betere the criminal court.
says tho Protemor, lawyer is allowed to secept less abortages in other food supplies.
In animal form it is like a tiny they would become an "enormous than the set rates, though it in
PEN-PALPen-friends may seem shrimp
which lives near the natural Jarder and plankton up to them to ask for more.
These
surface of the
lagoons would never be in short supply."
in tuturre aca in
clients wishing to MINDED outmoded
days of over-increas rather Like
hite the services of a lawyer ing and other inshore areas. It pro- Plankton
travel. That this is not so, vides food for the smallest shrimp paste.
wil
the fee in in fact, la evidenced by a reviewing have to pay visible nahi, which in turn
advance to a special bureau of port from the International
League of Boston Belvedere? the Bar Association. In return Friendship
Association has an which says that last year the WHO refused dinner with the Bar nounced that 10 percent of all League fees collected in advance will be friendships paid into a special fund to de- children fray the legal expenses of clients other countries.
In addition to watching over who cannot afford such services,
the interests of thousands of America's pen-pal-minded GARAGE To cope with mount schoolchildren, special projects ing parking probis, are always being produced to DRUM
many German cities
forge all
link more friendly between Americans and Euro- are planning multiple garages in the shape of revolving drums peans from six to 00—and even
six CAFS accommodating
okier. Recently 48,000 greetings occupying a space of only 10 by cards to Danish children from
The 20 feet, The "garage drum
children of New England each were flown across the Atlantic gondolas, consists
car,
assign- of holding one
on a special goodwill SPARKLING You just can't copable
peupe mounted on an electrically con- ment stop TIMES
troked
rotating wheel Experts Now the League is turning is giving away dio-
Its construction amazingly attention to other fields monds these days, Never vefore call
children can have pen-pals," trade had
a simple. has the
such
The inventor has been
League's rays the sparkle.
missioned to eroot the Brst drun in Muenchen-Gladbach, and has received orders for Su more from various other cities,
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1 trees, us thunder docs, and cause
them to stay indoors when they might be working."
In 1955 most of Britain had good takes of honey, but there were failures near some airfields, It is said.
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Last year Sir Ernost Oppen- heimer's V491 marketing net work sold a peak £74,000,000 worth of the stones (they are only a type of compressed car- [bon, really)
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of six
and
com-
UNIQUE A service believed to be unique in the SERVICE
history of the Roman
took place in Catholic Church Seville recently when a Moroc can worsun Was christened, married, and confirmed on the to bedeck same day.
One-third went into factories to give a bite to drills and ather
te crushed into >>25, grinding paste.
But the rest went The world's women.
1
Responsable for nine-tenths of world sales, Sir Ernesta organ!- sution book advusstuge of boom- ing truste conditions, A Low months ago prices were raised by I to 15 percent.
MONEY Because
FIRST
of
are
they claim too Bha
many their clients taking
their of advantage services without paying Ar them Athens lawyers are now refusing lo appear before any Court on that
of ellents-2015
their
fees are paid in
in advance. Until now it has been the prae- flee that the Jawyer's
fee (0x-
ed after the trial) should depend on the lawyer's ability, reputa- tion and success. On too many occasions, however, the clients just disappeared after the trial und the lawyers had to sue them before they got their s
The
Association Athens Bur has now fixed minimum rates
is a pot-boiler, I shall
lighted to eat it.
"ALLOO, callay-oh frabjious Boats Cday! Here at last
favourite
comes writers,
Д
and muffins
fairly recent
Hockatali-Smith, in SACRED COWEB, or Tho of Yachting Society reveals
WHO wears A new pair of nylons every day?
Well, the answer to all these one of my
Tisley back into form THE British passion for yachts questions, says Leslie Frewin, is Franks
He tells us with
fino really"
novel, und Marlene Dietrich.
yachting millionaires THAN WATER" seems to be about her in his short fe THIOKER BLOND VENUS (MacGibbon
bon (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 15.). nequisition. "blond"
and Kee, 158.). That masculine without the feminine
Anthony That this has happened in "NOT “ a printer's error.
month when he has also made his why Goodness knows
Mr headlines with his TV serial, Cream Frowin's publishers print it that
they 41-year-old Frank, from Man that the breathlessly way. For whatever else scerctory,
of Royal Yacht Squadron first saw chester, the man may say about Mar-
the light in the year of Waterloo. leno
the moment. une deales that the is a woman.
Frank Tilsley Arst The subscription then wis Anyway, according
made beadlines with three guinees a year (nowadays his novel "Champion it is 25 guineas); The qualified- Road." But since then tion: To own a yacht of not his books have been less than 10 tons sad and flat and sorry.
"then so can more adults." proof of this the League reports that two major American steel communies (Republican Steel and Inland Steel) have ganised their works into letter- writing groups week employees in both com- panie, write hundreds of letters in simple language to workers in similar jobs abroad.
Rund
every
no
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Marione to Mr отн
was born in 1904, the
ot second child German cavalry off- cer and rich jewel- icr's daughter.
And the most appreciative recipients? At the moment this honour goes to the Germans, who reem to be more pen-pal than anyone else. Ex- minded cept, of course, Americans.
The ceremony tuok place in the private chapel of the Arch- bishop's palace where the Cood- julor Archbishop. Dr Bueno Monreal, christened the woman,
WALK-OUT The manufacture Maria del Carmen, and after-
of Suffolk cheese wards baptised her
said to be Eng- INT two children, CHEESE who were given
the names of
land's hardest-has died
out. WIN Maria de los Reyes and Jesus. There is no demand for the
The Archbishop then married cheese which. Samuel
Pepys Marla
Plaza recorded, led to a Don Alfredu
walk-out by Gonzales, and after the couple his servonla when Mrs Pepys and their two children had re-
offered it to them. ceived
entire Communion the
The cheese was to tough that family were confirmed.
cheese" expression "hard is sold to have been en allusion
to
but
4
CATS' You may not know it
those cars
which EARS
your cat twitches aren't really built for twitching at all. According to the results of what must have been interesting tests at the University of Chicago cat's ears are specially built for. high fidelity. Up to 2,000 cycles per stand cats and frumns can hear
Beyond equally as well. that, however, the cats win cars
+
the
to it
Local historians ence found a record of a pig dying of Ind ges- tion after eating some.
land-
A Suffolk farmer commented: "It will never be made again— people just wouldn't stand for it today. "But
in the old days welicers were glad to take some with them into the felds bes cause a little of it was as sug-
a substantial meal." taining as
"The Makepeace Story," makes (Allan Wingate, 15m.), exclusive
I
ter
even
Founder
were
members д cherish splendid, furious lets glamorous, bizarre, Her carllest known
There was Thomas Assheton- from
in
Smith, who complained to the which he complained Duke of talent was for playing
Rutland that the the violin. A "gangiton" deve of my last review of his work muffins
were cold at nerve in her wrist. and said: "Whatever else my Castle, whereupon luped on
books may be they are certainly pot pot-boilers."
tha
Belvoir duke
So the gave up the violin to be
sent 15 tootmen at one-minute an actress,...She got various
Intervals into the breakfast-room small parts In German ilms.
calling: "Hot muffins, sir.” She married Mr Rudolph Seiber. Now, in a grim story of an She had a daughter,
ordinary middle-class family in But these were nothing to the tho Midlands whose
characters young full-blooded
who But then she met Josef von brother Ski 1x hanged for came roaring afterwards. There Sternberg.
With him she made murder, Frank Tisley has при was the odious Lord Cardigan, "The
Blue Angel." Together stored at one blow my faith in he who led the Charge of the they conquered Hollywood (and the Midlands, the middle-class Light Brigado and lived the world) while Garbo allegedly and Frank Tilsley, the middle clusively in his yacht Enchant- asked: "Who is this Dietrich?" aged writer.
made
ress during the campaign.
Ex-
Together they
We never really get to know He know so little of boatman- "Dishonoured." Sid, the cause of all the trouble, ship "Morocco,”
that when his skipper, "Shanghai Express." "The Scar- Instead we know Alt, his father; asked him if he would like to let Empress," and "The Blonde May, his mother, Arthur, his take the helm, he said: Venus" (with the "e"),
Fuintly snobbish brother;
take and thank you, I never
thing between meals." his sister Joan.
As The Lady worked, The Legend grew.
They said she had a chauffeur called Brigga who always went armed and who wore a mink collar to his cout.
She was a sensational cook.
threatened Kidnappers and the life of her
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Something To Remember Them By
"THAT'S YOUR
FRIENDS IDEA OF A JOKE /
CLANG
THE "ARTY AUNT WHO LEAVES ONE OF HER MASTERPIECES-AND SHES LIABLE
TO SHOW UP ANY OLD TIME, JUST TO
ADMIRE IT.
"LONG
DISTANCE
PLEASE-"
BILL
THE VISITOR WHO CALLS HOME EVERY DAY AND LEAVES A DANDY TELEPHONE BILL -
JUST SO YOU WON'T FORGET HER.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE COLD CHICKEN?
THERE'S
NOTHING
LEFT BUT THE NECK
COUSIN WILLY DROPPED
IN "TODAY?
A SMALL MEMENTO —
FROM THE DEPARTED GUESTS.
(AT THREE A.M.)
( BY GENERAL FEATURES
TMWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE PARTYS OVER-DLESS THEIR LITYLE HEARTS.
"YES, SHE'S
GONE BACK
TO HER FOLKS /
The front page
*No
atty-
Through their eyes we learn all about Sie: What a nuisance he is, how his mother dotes on through him, how he slacked school and the Army, got into Tommy Lipton, who methodi
then there WAS dear
And
bad, company,
goca steeling motor-cart And then, In à cally
failed to recovy the
moment of madness, he de- America's Cup. year after year, her liberately rubs over a man. He but none the less kept the nume
Lipton daughter, is tried, condemned and hanged. pounds of tree publicity for his
thousands (and
tea) on the front page as ho
BY HARRY
WEINERT
-BOARD/
THAT ISN'T A RASH — THAT'S (THE KIND YOU CANT HARDLY GET
NO MORE) LIPSTICK-FOR HIM TO REMEMBER HER BY.
HEY! WHAT'S THIS T
Bus STOP
-OH DEAR/ BROTHER MUST HAVE TAKEN
YOUR ́ELECTRIC RAZOR
BY
MISTAKE
did so.
of
Lipton was a,'great friend of Eduard VIL The Kaiser once heard that Edward VII and Lp- *100
They
tellet together.
has gone boating with his grocer," aneered the Kaiser,
Heckstall-
For this Anthony Smith refreshingly hated the Kalser. He also hated him be- cause the Kaiser loathed child- and wouldn't let Uitle Heckstall-Smith (aged four) on board his yacht.
But who can blame the Kaiser for this? For it was Anthony Heckstall-Smith's father (knowIL to one and all throughout the Squadron as "Bookstall" Smith, because he wrote so many books about yachting) who said that the Kaiser wan "not quite gentleman."
Half a crown
WONDER IFred Bason. whose THIRD DIARY (Andre Deutsch, ION.
now out on sale, has Marlene's autograph. And if he has, how much it swops for. (I shall never forget the that Fred
day told me that
my autograph was worth 2s. 6d,)
For Fred, the cockney author from from
the
Walworth Rond, SE knows the swoopping valus. of every celebrated hand, and he loves to give the Information, that he has so hardly won.
This new diary of his is full of good things, He tells the secrets of London pavement life, he tells stories about the great. He knows which among them are rude and mean (like he say the Late Lily Langtry. Wat), and which, among them are cherming and generous and kind (like Ruth Droper and Phyllis Calvert); }
All ·for £200
NOTHER third, the third A volume of Patrick Hamilton's sigu about the "Abominabló" Reorge Ralph Gorse
THE UNKNOWN ABBAILANT (COMA stable 10#, Gd.), tell how Gore,
Grading
Chelsea
na the Hon. Claridge, guts off with a
barid, "comu ber Ex-gainekeeper father tune of 200, tles the bärma, in a tree, and hope it,
One thing that struck her about “The Unknown » Anges! ant? whis the "enörmblr: Erwčunit of trouble Gorse takes to mak 2200, the hund (101 thời đạ honest) way. So mucio entre
have made him (ie, the honest) pray
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