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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Curtain o! superbly designed again after passing through int nights of hitherto unsus- pected types

RUSSIAN There PROCRESS merry humorist in charge of Russia's aviation propaganda. A Billy They looked fast, tough, well Bunter,

"spoofs and armel, 4 lover

1. Air Force worried japen," who has spent huppy Until an aviation expert visting

factory was houra hoaxing the West's avia- French tion exports—and be hre done pictures of that company's latest it with materials suppited by the West,

The

periously U.S., ready troubled by Hussia's advances

Kulded aircraft and izi missiles, beenme

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and while

more houbled to little

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when photographs begun

to tackle from behind the fron

A British Crossword Puzzle

R

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sighter

shown

He thought he recogniseri the 1 back to the photo and took

There, he went US with thin

And came UP Through his fles with the picture of one of the "Bussian" phanes They were

Jun The Russian the sam rytouched it, faked

a new tall and cockpit,

Russlan pul on myandon markings, and sent 11 back to the West

Other aueratt proved to be

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the Russian ung ter

0 of fakes and fronde, tou them even turarl out to be America's own Supersobre

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their practical joke,

hove now

Hama a Czech miga- zine there appears the phate- Rapha one of Russia's latest

There fus torkes Turbojets only

thing wrong with a!

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13 Trespass (7)

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18 Walk pompously (5)

10 Trustworthy (8).

20 Sootung ontinent (5)

21 Perculated! (6).

is a picture of an America

electric

in-

pacifying process. The watch wagon would deliver in bulk to top up storage tanks,

be no There would bulbs callings would be candescent, Rooms would be heated by wallpaper prepared an the principle of the electric blanket.

Such wallpaper is, in Cooking lael, available today. would

electronically be done with power from atomue energy. win- There would be more down and no curtains, even in the bathroom. becaus glass would be of the one-way view type.

Mr

How Often Should An Author Write "The End'?

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON EXAM- AUTHORSHIP INES THE SIX AGES OF

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Freighter is mulder, and

ERE is the story of the and brutal regular officers take Kensington. Aunette has decided usual.

that, when it comes to finishing, tummonplace. Author's Progress with over, it goes to pieces,

Passagers in a ship bound out moral sintegration is she duo the job na well as

for Antwerp in- of New York illustrative examples,

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matory anybody,

the uf Sam Gifford,

plunges into a maze of clude e pianist who has suffered PATLAT

to his hands. incurable damage dotty แฟ Letop sent FIRST BOOK: The

to eccentric cotonet's son-in-law,

Polish Somehow, helped by a Jellow- wild the penal company for striking character: worst and, too often, the

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English mistress passenger, a woman music eritte, had brothers, their aponicky

of his a serio

mudared girl), her the plentst recovers has south stupidly best. The worst to write:

bankrupt life; it he cannot be a planist, he brother, who edits a comradar.

forlorny will be a composer, For Sam

Southern magazine, a historan Gnford, the hardest to "place" with gentleman and milliary misht, engaged deciphering an Somehow, I do not believe it. is made ancient

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HIS HOUSE

Sidney FELL DOWN! Powell, 38, a night worker of Small Heath, Birmingham, read. went to bed in his front bod town and woke up a few hours Fater to find himself on view to walls, the neighbours. part of the roof and most of the Honi budd disappeared.

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without breaking gas Many disposed; atory tank to develop his life.

war novelist break the eggs and dyma spred, The wild hilarious tie begins to talk about "my

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mule, as I Miss take the auindi for granted.' But horrs and leave out the people. Murdoch were afraid somebody publisher's worries are over for Gwalty Dues in the eggs as night say, "She tries to repeat while. sell as the shells.

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DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Fleming. Cape.

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JAMES iso

HURDLE

There are pluty of reminder i SECOND BOOK Set in this second novel that here is

hurdle qu The coins HRIST

1 notes refuse.

the vl the most original talents Wall for Miss

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in betion today. Murdoch's third.

THE REAL TEST

The Cut: 24.11. need to prove and his task bak know was not a Bush in the pan. He tom Core lindly, she sufferS aphi

anxhely neurosis. plus o pulsive urge to put pen to paper, test,

The endles get ready to (a) es lo repent a success," or (b) slams the imitations Miss X's lulerst,"

the car if the ground respect case another a gentle it down facing in the opposite | men, does well in bettle Gand direction

josez la cokyet. When stupid

Colonel UP and

Mr. DOWN

UPHOLSTER DEPT.

by Walter

The publisher shares mixiety ovurosis.

of

THIRD BOOK: The road

If the author is going to

slay on the library ists, there had better be signs of its al the vention, some new characters.

JAMI

ví the Secret Service, itw Bat-living Heersed killer of

quick-lovinŁĘ.

bevn

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ML. takes his 25 Baviu auto- manic with the skeleton grip on un-political assigiuNCEL,

have Some bui

vut diamonds smuggling Atrin into the United States. Houd is dedicated to the weteni und destructioni vf bud and the rescue of bad women. He finds hums pitted aganist ne sinister Ameri- spangaxdi Mols, a

a destr Organisation with XSWISS Car Lis Vegas nudi ja fast shapely letua comijuor named Tillany Case.

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the experience at paintul age of sixteen as given Tifton

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THE FLIGHT FROM THE FREIGHTER, By Susan Yorke, currect.

ENCHANTER.

Irin By Murdoch, Chatto and Windus. 15s.

Macdonald. 12s. 6d.

QUSAN nude a hit with "The Widow" six years ago. J

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love.

called it "not so much a novel as RIS Murdoch's second novel D prolonged essay IRIS

сп follown her success with written by someone who dislikes "Under the Net," n wayward it." "The Widow" was the story woman's fantasy of fe in Chelsen.

inkddle-aged

destruction the Edinbolient

of the The Fight tran chanter" третья with Annette young man whom she had cap- third Freighter, her Cockoste tight

Misivated. from Walpole's ladies' esllege, nu ex- novel, is the story of a ship, "The

Baishing

In Widow" was unp.casant and un- achool

JAMESIVO

That

As u nuved comes

gently to rest after a rectie run, who sugas are that Bond

tho

has imally etuminaseÍ

Mob 112 #1 railtoud Spangled Bockhunt has reached his second objective.

SPREADING

THE JAM

FIFTH BOOK. The auther

now begin to be more

economical with his material,

will

The jam will be spix.u_thinner, The more watchful critics will

notice this.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

ANY OLD CHAIR WILL DO- AS LONG AS ITS CLOSE TO THE DANCE FLOOR.

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Pull Up A Chair

MEMBER OF THE NO-CHAIR INSTANT BREAKFAST BRIGADE.

THE HOSTESS AT THE HIGH-TONED HOSTELRY WHOSE LOOK IMPLIES THAT IF SHE DID HER PUTY, SHE'D PARK YOU

BEHIND THE PALMS.

COFR 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

Ime

BY

HARRY

WEINERT

WHAT DID

I TELL YOU /

ONE OF THOSE "THE PLACE ISN'T MUCH TO LOOK AT—— BUT THE FOOD IS

OUT OF THIS WORLD/*

THE

HEADWAITER --

ONE OF THE JAMES BOYS.

RETREAT TO INNOCENCE. By Doris Lessing, Michaei Joseph, 15%.

ORIS Lessing, South Africa's gift to Britain, is a born novelist. She has ւու broz humanity which can contain both bumour and seriousNESS; the

capacity to

people; the power to livent Ilve- ly, energetic dialogue. She has sentiment, and keeps It in its place,

Her fifth novel "Retreat to Innocence," relley on a slight enough there Julia Barr, ជក aucbanting girl of 20, fails in love with a middle-aged Jewish refugee om Prague. The rela tions between Julia and the between Julla and the

Ch's mistress; the gull bo-

tween two prorations and two outlooks--ali This most de- licately presented.

AJA the end, the Czech tempted back to Prague and Jutla falls

Into

marriage with * reluctant young Englishman named Roger, I can believe in everything in this novel, except

Roger.

Even the ss watchful critics will find plenty of jam In this [enjoyablo novel.

CHANGE THE

NEEDLE

SIXTH BOOK, Usually 14

is time for the author to change the noodle before the public

changes the record,

IN THE CELLAR WHERE THE CEILINGS ARE LOW. AND THERES PLENTY OF ATMOSPHERE- SMOKE-DRIED.

AT YE SIGN

OF YE OLDE- DRIPPING CANDLE.

3-25

PULL UP

A CHAIR,

PAL/

YEAH, YOU'RE JUST IN TIME /*

OH SURE →→ JUST IN TİME

"TO PAY THE CHECK.

MR HAMISH GLEAVE. By

La

Richard Llewellyn, Michaël Josoph. 129. Ga,

LEWELLYN'S Aixth novel adinitees blush, s 裁 fatiguing, unconvincing

story founded on the Donald

Mac.can incident. Hamisti

Gleave, impoverished aristocrat Toil,

on the Foreign Omeo Day is so sickened by the struggle to keep up appearances in an un- friendly capitalist world that he turns towards Communiami

Writing is lack, in the glossy magazine style, og. "silkon com- montory of disposion." -"The reader of Hamishi Gleave will hardly bellove that it is only nie books inco: "How Groen Was My Volley,"

Viena ta chans

change.