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THE CHINA MÀIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1956.

PARADE

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COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

STONE ACE There promises to with clubs at a period when the SOCIETY

strangers Carennac,

Sunfir

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be Kome

rnled mammoth was a familiar sagat among vyebrows

at the boltin of the garden. wandering near They were Stute Agers;

the

lived us regalybes, Lot, ila

wore strings In July. 10 French int butche scientists are going to crawl into meashells and are thought to be 10 a cage there and live for three among the earliest humana weeks lite the Grimaldis.

practive tuneral services.

lats like

This despite the name, nothing to do with living Prince Rainer and Grace. Grunaidia were marrying with- ob- ut hevnces and whacking streperous guests over the heads

A British Crossword Puzzle

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inay therefore be inferred that he shtuks the mass of the votera probably preter people to curs, 100.

Underneath was

The Latin" mottos

Add Sum

Royal

Air

ke had a secret wingan curing the

shaver head.

ard Labor,"

they periceted 1

·

PERSONAL CREST, SIR!

suitor

The

wearing

Matt with A paying idea is Mr Hurry UIL- ker, u

ut ifurst Street, Birmingham, He

become what muy musculine fushion

of

SECRET WEAPON

*

started

The 10 Frenclunen whose un- accountable dentre is to find out what the gay cial whirl of a really like Dru cavezan wors

nothing. oing to burk

They ww.Li to ransport themselven into the age before the dawn of Hitory.

So they wall have no tens or

with camping m

them. They will take no food or cook

blankets, ing utensils, matches. no turckes or other They will lightag equipment.

wochs

stika,

this

light are by cubbing sticks w- gether and for the entire three

will Hve

old un any ໃນໂວ້, berties addled buds eggs mud whatnot they can

ព portaps

on the

Inst wara LOCT

bottle. kny material Whether it had effect ur not on the enemy has never been proved, but the IAF craze boys certainly believed I had. embroidevel

believed The fact that they

initials on the breast pockets of A hærped to keep their own blazers. Not just the newin

ugh UCH WHITC wan nearly 14 rear gunner

U

un mass produced intuals of hornie

tools or regiments or clubs, **

Couston Commond who did not but the owner's own, designed warry a few empty beer votiles 10 order.

is lonely wrret.

DILEMMA

The tale that is getting

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN

- by Walter

First

| Aja!

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS»

MR WILSON JOINS THE

bottle tussett overboard wnisticu 1s way eerily to the ground, bursa apon apel and ezt no visible sign of its Pr pelice. Perhaps enemy search- Riki crews were worried

searres albtu•°45{u] much for the new mysterious

Cl the unprexitetable - wespon

Who knows? Pat Certainly Marshal of the

Ai Force

**found

d- wu bousted helgehog

little

side

H

bond o

when they can catch une nah cánh Ah perasional

with bow

and

big laugh moment is about

#t

the the

by

and

little girl who was born in a Madrid suburb and

Royal

SCAPUT

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ACROSS

3 Adherent (8).

8 Talk widly (4)

Requeried firmly (84

11 Bullfighter (8:

13 Galu (41.

15 Distance bero a strele 187

1B Chose (8)

10 Front (4)

21 Quietener (6)

25 Flower (8)

28 Hucket eb

27 kgs (8)

26

1 Worry (4)

2 Amert (4)

DOWN

4 Inulated (47

Rip (4).

Marsh plant th

7 Jog (5)

Ventures (5)

in Pattern

(9).

12 Kind of window

14 Subject (5).

in Lakewarin (5)

17 Insurgent (5).

in Chaplum (5).

20 Not suitable (5).

2) Solitary (4).

22 Catalogue (4)

23 Stuff (4).

24 Uninteresting (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Combal, 4 Picks,

7 Aperture 8 Caste, & Hornet, 11 Essence, 13 Intrude. 15 Roasis.

16 Pans, 19 Amending 20 Duge, 21 Threat Baron, Trusted,

PARK

Order

BATTLE Things, which comes

The 14

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Last week Robert Moses decided. His unwet-- the automatule. All of which led a Expand of mothers to turn out in

New York's Central Park wan Pasg of bulldozers with prams

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Well, it happened like this

New Mr Muse

York's His big- Park Comunistener. gent headache is the puluerobiže. The cry owns a restaurant 111

ust-the-Greet2

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**TACTI- wan has a with alomobiles. trouble

thi There just wan' them.

Mr Адение decided

half-wor

fo

children's scrap the playground near the tavern and turn car park.

Mothers of local children wok The low thed chidren стихи fret, automobiles woond. They Moses' bulldozers blocki Mr effectively with their prums for

Then Two days.

Mr Musy

| sneaked in by night and got the

Job warted.

The mothers appealed to the

Court,

which

| State Supreine

granted an injunction remparing Mr Moses to hold off until fur- ther notices.

The mother were not alone.

Averil Governor

Harriman ulee thinks people come before Suld be it had lived Cut on tin west side of Contrat Park. I'd huve been out with the mothers and their prains."

His pronuncRENA A signi

He aspires to be Press-

the United States.

Down Crush, 2

fernt. Refulnes Precis, 5 Cents, 8 Severe, 10

dent of

12 Spent 13 Imprnd, 14 Unsafe, 16 Alder. 17 Sight.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

SO WHAT

IF MY

SPEED IS

CALENDAR ART! AT

LEAST I

KNOW

WHAT

DAY

IT IS!"

It

fine WH

Cohen. Carmen

Her mother naturally called her Carmen, But her father, for some reaso known only to himself, culled her always Cohen. With the resuit that

The when

chuld didn't Krew

she up know whether she was Carmen

r Cohen.

Fuq ham fifty shillings W

designær

blazer

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CHAMBER OF HORRORS

AT.

John ANGLO-SAXON

TITUDES. By Angus Wilson, Secker and War- burg. 151. 412 pages.

Sin hard to be hey that there was any than

Robinson In this rather Heath coubare measttre, " but he gave was not to be otucrs that morn

on the

fr

$11

Iraak.

published rently The Central Blue," he this the use of the "weapon"

Even if there was Welles

NGUS WILSON is the most exciting writer of Action to turn up in Britain see the phing in 11, the buys thought From the moment his talent

war.

was first acclaimed Never years ago, he has gone OR a highly re-entertalaing, surprising and operational alarming the public. Until

wam fiching.

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MAN'S Auerata ja me country

the

syntacne NEED

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of

stretch "Anglo-Saxon Attiludes"?

The main

abri new Dovel

This Wilson simple

enough. Yers

bofore at

opens

an archaeological fraud has

been

perpetrated in a

Su

church-

yard. Into the

tom

reventh century

missionary a dis-

recently he WAN deputy graceful heathen

the uf superintendent

Image or symbol Room at the has been insert- Reading

ed

thin Upon British Museum. Now he

Laud a consider-

super- has deserted this post and

apparenty from

appointed himself full-time curator of the Chamber of Horrors.

U:

breakfast focd.

manmade AUIT plistic ene, te

the 18 also

youthuy

swent Ave 10 convince

that

where

Le

this e quad one the have

motogpaan or

LEON and workru on to the Mr Hitler does not keep a stock inotasands of men

Li Each one of errsin.

is serially mine Some traucie

people supply minions of men their own designs, others fast utterly unliveable without thee television sels, plastic pre-spring The tonigh lea.

and VitamiinisERİ, Suspenders

Kl Homoge.hised

pre-digested soup.

with Many are not sandedi Inte but want something to

of the retched them

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Mr

says

There are

1idere.

21 where it with

has

Wilson's If

CASE, Chamber of Horrors is world, as he reveals und his novela; the novels one who has been lian amateur, They

professional. York Limes leader. Announced support himself The Times solemnly: 'Mun Needs Nature “

Just Wore PEUSING ween by the headline on a New 11

dolent scholar,

as a last roused

POSTARE TOMENT

INTY

From the British Museum to a different world...

which centrul deception

theory been built.

able structure TITONEVUS History- cal

has

of

the the it in

tom.

Gerald Middle- well-to-doɔ.

bril 11 and is now

of to expose the deception,

he has long suspected.

able and

Inventor G.

publishers.

Wilson for writing.

#

breath

Wilson has lost none of his DRUNK Toronto

art as portrait-painter of ull wants Zehman

morally

and crippled, LIGHT

be equipped deed, too much time?

Gerald.

(handi- emotionally his family

deranged. He cars to

the demon dentist capped daughter, pompous con, still with a deitente "aspirator" over he not more effective, more

When the truly himself, as part-time son with unpleasant mule modern flotion, whose drill In- the steering wheel

touches the exposed in driver's

nerve. He is still the master of the albing phrase which hurts bolore It kills.

Gerald has tolerated fraud an the to be has tolerated himself;

the dis- his fallure of his career;

aster of his marriage to a half- tolerant disgust rather than out- crazy Dane: the failure of his raged ethics.

with Dolly, who hus more time love-affair

became a "dipso"; his neglect of Has he, in his family.

Was

circulates A solar system of lesser falsities.

The result

novel of mannen,

Er satire which little arthritic, seems to be an exclamation of

is distinguished

Q

0

Q

the

the

19

of

the

service and produce a brigas d then, who wonde

Ritter tal111. their old Uy for the largest company Bulge wearers are CX-service- mer el adds "Nu matter how much they said they wanted to get out of the Army when they they're That were in it, now out they like to remember the

utilt they were with."

But one of Mr Ritter's quest orders had nothing to du with

for the Acay. The design dozen blazers depicted the front of Winson Green Gaol and

pair hila the aspirator, it will turn author, of the short stories friends) and their love-affairs fallibly

than these are, with careful art, link- "The Wrong Set" the four quarters were a

ed with

the exposure of on a red car roof light to warn in of handcuffs, truncheon, h

he is over the 412-page archaeological fraud. Round that broact arrow and a convict's other motorists and police.

4

alcohol-inden

Museum Tour

ART APPRECIATION.

"DON'T TOUCH IT / MAYBE THE PAINT

ISN'T DRY YET!“

BY HARRY WEINERT

"WHAT IS THAT MODERN MOUSETRAP DOING IN

THAT BEAUTIFUL

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAWING

ROOM 7

"WELL, IT AINT FOR NO EIGHTEENTH

CENTURY

MOUSE,

LADY/

He is at the brilliant mimic of the recent of a period, the clap-trup of pedants and publicists, the slang of modish cliques and the jargon of the criminal fringe. Wilson has too' acute

an ear to make mistakes

In these maklers.

But stretched to the length of four hundred pages, these quali- ties become less important than the power to sustain and claborate a story, or to explore and chart a character.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes dazzled one reader with Its brillance and kept reminding him of lis length.

SOME PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE ART IS FOR THE AGES - THEY THINK ITS STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS.

DO YOU THINK THERE IS

ANYTHING

INSIDE?"

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YOU NEVER CAN TELL THEY PACKAGE THINGS PRETTY FANCY THESE DAYS

COPR. 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES

COAP, IN.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

SOMEONE BROUGHT A COMIC BOOK.

HAS IT STOPPED RAINING?"

ANY PORT IN A STERZAK.

"LOOK AT THE

CONDITION IT'S IN! THEY'D EMHER

SEND ME A

NEW ONE

OR I'D GET MY

MONEY }

BACK?"

18TH

CENTURY ENGLISH DRAWING

ROOM

FROM HANTS MANOR

H'S ENOUGH TO

MAKE A MAN WONDER IF THE MODERN AGE

IS AN IMPROVEMENT

OVER THE GLORIOUS PAST.

LES GIRLS. By Constance

Tomkinson. Michael Joseph. 15. 245 pages.

RACK home in Nova Scotia Dthey never reailsed that pretty little Constance, daughter of the minister of the United Church of Canada, was in Paris where the cultural opportunities are wide and varied but let Constance make the point her own admirable way:

in

"My father was so proud of me that mother had to restrain him from rushing out and tell- Ing the Sunday School teachers, the organist, or anyone else in

who the congregation

would listen, that I was in the Folies Bergore!"

Constance wao-let there

no equivocation-a "hooter"

in

troupe of Anglo-Saxon lovelies (aho calls them Basil's Beauties) who drew male money and opera glasses to the theatre, in various Continental resorta.

Sha Rive 14 deliciously humorous account of a pilgrim- ago which was punctuated by the howling of wolves, Latin and others. Constance's photo- graph provides duffelent 'Ex- planation

Yet the diverted render carrion away the Impression that, with the upbringing of the manse in Nova Scorin behind hit, Constance was never in-serious moral danger.

GREEK FOTTERY

THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE. By T. D. Kendrick. Methuen, 21s, 170 pages.

THE story, pathetic, dramatic and comic, of the earth- quako of 1753 which killed 15,000 people in Portugal, deton- ated a theological explosion Chow could a good God act with much cruelty to His children?) and, indirectly, Lock Voitalia Iri Candide to ridicule the notion that everything is niecemarily doe the best.

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