1956-05-12 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956.

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HOW TO CHEAT

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by invited "t

top gangsters hired him for so-friendly stranger to join 200 dollars an hour to show what the picture shows. For the boys what he could day it is the clearest midiend jet you could have that there is a varsharper in the house,

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By holding the now deal those five cards to cards that way the dealer yourself. is able to slip him if either the second card in the pack or the bottom card.

Now for "the pick-up": "You're playing poker. The next deal is yours,

"At the end of the game

five just concluded

hands were exposed. You have sett!

"You pick them up 3 hand at a time, and put the card you want at the lot- tom of each group of Ave.

"Then you put all thye hands together at the top of the deck and, after Nome fummery

about shuffling and cutting which you take good cure to keep from dis- turbing the position of the top 25 cards, you deal.

"Naturally, you get cards "So you stuck the deck Nos. 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25. 14 way that you'll the ones you want." in such

ber of cards and "break" the that in each of those hands is one card you'd like in the pack there.

next deal.

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THE SIGN LANGUAGE

MECHANIC'S GRIP INDEX AND THIRD FINGERS CURLED

ROUND NARROW PORTION OF PACK.

OF THE SHARPER

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FOR THE CARD BEHT CLASPED HAND THAT ANSWERD "I WORK ALONE

THE

CRIMPING

JOHN MARSHALL, continuing his story of the most artistic

character of our time, tells how, into the life of Dylan Thomas, came

The Threat

Of The

Clutched Tankard...

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Tatelul wards mixture of cherub prenowned

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and wicked.

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Battle fouzlit that a

The b to verni many, at Dylan were I love junior

reporter Thomas, which led 16.

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were: "Six o'clock in Lamps, back bar."

various thash with him, and

ohansson affairs there, may have

been But there is absolutely pulis. z evidence of a grand pas joli the instans late except Jus wife.

Dylan simdicantly Thum described heap Sin

worl So Dylan The mus Laudet, Tu Brut that be for a -la..oe puel was not ali glory

far

bee: " legunt against she and pints and pretty giris, bul

between an bur.

Alderman uld be cruel and grim.

Yet he was not long gaining anal sola dog, drinkrig

recopaliate and it came lo nim bitter. wishing my father

more rapidly than it had could see me now, and glad for other brilliant young pe at the same Tune. That to 1983 his poem That Sanity he was visiting Unele A at b Kepp" wie

He could at Wit in a Sunday newspaper

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[13 his early Dylan

Thomas Two men witte.

ly different in their ways of Lift, widely

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htt followed apart

who Wer 10 hur prizes and the publica-

greater 111 ail of his first books, "Eighteen have a

impact upon Poems" (many written when he imp between 10 and 18). of his

The Times sald: which

immediate

to be angry at the nugle of my fag, and my hat,

Wax

the threat of the clutcheri in part tankard. I liked the profound." taste of beer....

"It i and

fe than

other

with the possible exc<5« tion of Dan Especially upon Miss (now Jones. One was Damo Finh

wh Sitwell,

Augustus John, the painter, and the other Var- Watkins,

A formidable binge wrote of him. encouragingly:

of the younger

"Here alone among the poets

generation is non one who could produce sonnels revolving worthy of our generation,"

IT was a formidable first

binge. "The

was up.

converged and sucked down."

nic

m.,re

out worl

Dizzy round

In

THIEN back to London and the

Dylan and Caltiin, his beautiful Irish wife, with their baby daughter,

at Laugharne, where life by the sea was tranquil compared with the hectic, dizzy round of London.

the Welsh poet who oddly com- bines with his hill to my father's house Dylan li reached to sky. Nobody London, with it: garish after poetry a sorne- prosale

prodigious jetter-writer, beslow- wild dark attractions; he was drawn 1 crept to a

Job in

Lloyd Bank, Swansto, and miseries of conjugal life in which he likes.

Van Gogh colouring their emo- lng upon his letters to relatives, bed and the wallpaper lakes to Wales when write he must.

tlonni attachment remained friends, and mere acquaintances Augustus John met Dylan in

their the care throughout

which characterised London's Fitzroy Tavern, which Meet-stron

"The only one everything he ever wrote. They Bohemia's life together. be might

called

thoughtfully composed, for ine," Dylag said of hey not were Thore were man

Immaculately punctuated, pack- it soinc tinc. long before he died. passed through Three Lamps, Tazz com among the gar- Soon afterwards Mr John was Clapham Junction - they all visits to the

ed with beauty, love, humility, Twice John painted Dylan, and that priceless gift of which disappeared

as a good sit minute observation. They may in Laugh de cribing him Hitler's bombs with a lot rulous guzzlers and the gawping staying with Richard Hughes at

hangers-on and the friends who his house, The

(obch

provided with the well rank with the letters of Dylan ter when of Swansea, and to remained true friends through arne

necessary supply of beer. They the young Keats. other pubs.

are Dylan supp's everything.

cracked: "Literary values

friends, often playing Richard breare established: fairly mented his modest salary I would seem almost as

Hughes lives at the top of the hove-ha'penny in the pubs 10- Dylan wns Belling review copies to Dylan Thomas set oul upon, a

hill in a castle, I live at the ether, though bottom In a

eften, pugnacious, they never shed."). Ralph the books," whe calculated Rake's Progress side

came to blows. "He seemed became, like Dan Gones the by side with the Iron restraint, elf when work- composer, a life-long friend, the severe self-discipline he im-

posed upon him The job, inevitably, folded ing, always remote and alone,

He became an accepted mem years Dylan wrote

more

up.

under

One would

take

1

Wonderful eyes

a friend of the

Lack of money

despire both eating and going NE theme recurred pathetic- ally-the lack of merev, to bed," recalled Mr John,

Dylan would hint with a half- Dylan was about 21 when he comic wistful dimdenec about the boon of "round Ailver trash" mei Vernen Walkins, Super-

road and buy an

"I not fair," he once said, "o be penniless every morning, Every now and again but not every morning."

later: "Young Mr Thomas ber of the ultra-Bohemian other BY chanco

places, the Angel and Crown in John family thee chil-hood, feinlly they were entirely dis- such as half-crowns, or would was at the moment without St Martin's Lane, arguing, play- Caitlin McNamara, beau!iful, similar, Mr Watlein, scholarly high for "the wonderful inde- employment, but it

Was ing pub games, and sometimes a brilliant irish giri with a glory looking, a man of great charm pendence of being able to walk game in which of corn-gold hair and wonder- and deep insight, smoken lille, ncross the envelope." understood that he would more serion:

ful blue eyes, was also staying drinks little, likes his ten about opening time, and occuples him- soon be leaving for London each would parody a poet.

Shelley, in Laughorno. to make a career in Chelsea antether Byron, Kents, or Brown. Mr John took her out in his relt away from the bank not in as a free-lance journalist, ing. Dylan, as Philip Lindeny car and they met Dyinn, who taverns but with his wife and showed he was viciting friends Mr John four chidiren, his books, and he was penniless, and hoped recalls, not only

really knew cach poet's work, introduced them, and thereafter his poetry in his clifftop home

Yet with all the wretched in a vague way to live

but produced something that took a back scat, "It was cosy near Swansen,

Vernon Watkins has one of, rimping and scraping and on its OWN DE u good to see these two. Instantly fell

the for each other," he said. "There the finest, if not the finest, col- borrowing of silver frash, was no mistake about it and I lectiune of Dylan Thomon's joyous benders when someone letters, For Dylan wrote to him had paid him for something, he tainment on such П lofty They were, indeed, wildly in frequently over many years, would not lower his standardis,

and often the love, and in spite of scrapes and con ulting him freely about his

woinen."

on.

tood poem.

Appealing mixturo Not always was the enter wasn't murprised,

I gluing whimsy, but ex- stories werd tall and bawdy, the own ad recurring financial poems, often arguing the merits

was a piece of backward- plane, Oflen reporter Thomas had already mimiery funny but vulgar, the criser, the stresses and sirains or demerits of a single word.

of the family and the endless,

OXCOSECH Dylan, despite his found that, with his "lovely gift conversation loud and ribald, of the gab," he could make Often and often the drinking Infuriating trail of fawners and

the riotous nights and the demands of his meti- friends easily and, with his re- woukl go on until the next day hangers-on, markable- looks, the appealing with the help of those early and low,days, all the ecstacles culous craftsmanship, was

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EE how the professional But I'm playing this on my own IC 2.) Whichever way it goes, he finds himself in a card is likely that in the course of sharper will! game among strangers, he the game a card

the cards he will casually place his right "rimp" some of

wante dealt and manipulate hand palm downwards on ibcon into the centre of the table as he studies his pack. (Picture 3.)

cards are Very Because the cards.

above).

lightly bent. anyone clao cut-

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That means:

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almost

"crimp" and to bring the marked cards to the top of the pack.

Marked cards are big busi-

John Scarneo ness In America. hand has collected catalogues offering That cleverly marked packs for sale.

corner of Note the enlarged Mictu provided we the back of a card in Picture 4; the Left on the tiny "bulgo" means the card is a king,

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you split the winnings.”

Or he can rest a clenched fist That means "Yes.

on the table.

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