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Has experience taught you that this writer's views are correct?

HOLIDAY TIME IS THE TIME FOR QUARRELS

By Constance Foley

CONFESS to a private

You: "Do you know. I don't

I theory that holidays fancy a thing."

bring out the worst in the nicest people. In fact, if you never have a wrong

le: "Well, I bring you to the most expensive place in town, and you are still not satisfied!"

word with your husband, What he forgets is thet when your boy friend or the girls a woman spends a whole year shopping in the cheapest mar-

in the office, just Kokets 11 lukes a while to adjust

with holiday

Them watch out for explosions.

R

am her

paying economies King's ransom for two ounces of lobster.

Take husband-and-wife holiday. You

deter. Jaz mined that he is going to have a real rest from busi. Hess Worries. So you see to the packing, the holels; you stup the milk deliveries and the newspaper deliveries: and all he has to do is to step into the ear with you and drive off.

And what happens

You are dayang along with husband at the when!

You "Un be careful You past missed that ear, you

He "I've driven this pal for dive year without in her deat and if you can do any Infra

You "SoreN turking

dear

Be Well don't

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get

that it he

worries triat

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What you

he is there to keep an

Take office holidays

nier

Y nu

The people are all 20 from Monday to Friday. look forward to a holiday spent

with kindred spirito,

And what happens?

and open

freezing

Joen always wants the roach window. shut when it's blazing Fast Ches allergle to pullen)

when it's he's subject to faluting (18.) And Helty tids a boy friend and never looks at you for the rest of the time.

You forget that ore routine

of hows up only one side cuts mature and that the exis are you won't like the other,

Take Sueily holidays.

Children are often the mun

yet judging from the way They bebove you'd think they wide allerg to them.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, ̄ ̄ ̄ 1956.

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ALL GEARS

DON IDDON IN HOLLYWOOD

The Girl From Swindon

Goes House-hunting

D

in- fence-lunch so that it became not be pusher; around by Holly-

something of 14 131 Three winst or anyone else.

sul: •Now Dine, mr Ping, dort v thal

They taken atand

They

won't shift

There has

25

of Jut exaggeration about the money-

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ar y will put sweet things like seekbir. During our taik Diana

Orange Bees and pineapples in salads here"

DORS JANA vited me to hunch. The plan was that lunch would

Dapa was sill thing with chicken Shedd: "Oh, quietly al little place th

"

darling. this is funny saind excuse for having a honday at called Laceys, This is

which the RKO studio in Dinna is making "I Married

Th a Woman."

something about Diana genÆTERIS That We'd wavel pills. We had their fav-having her hair done came up filled

urinally we luzched in her arrived

ኔ★*╣* " the set. given me rIU%b<5{hk --IR 11t | Diana afe salad and dry-looking mink

con chicken, I had a soft tieink, Efforts to get more potent drinks had falled.

crained

Os

things, how much more does he surile toys but the car. worry when he Out these

14

For his part, he is determined. you are rug to have the best.

And what happens"

with

And what happened?

slek twice each, They were

Lamby and Golly- tried for whom we hadn't brought-and

She begun on her chicken. smart wouldn't look at the teridies w into 3

Let's get some had.

And said: back Lay down in the

I shall never with furything straight and squared have, ent You

becpuss they couldn't get out became an American citizen

Never never and walk.

Her husband, Dennis Huenil-

who 2401

Wie con- ton.

In on

You walk

restaurant.

11

will "What

draper

Your "I'm not really hungry

"ilow about He

hubster cocktail to whet you appetite""

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And when we got there bey woulute! look at the sand,

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"Americans

My

are

50

ever mentioned terms or con- acts. She said: "I leave oli Tip: to Dennis, don't 1, darilng"

He speaks for me"

She seems deeply in love with 1 foil him a good Derais, Joc as they say around here.

Dlant tried Ogain with that

chicken.

wen* rooms

when 1 with flowers

fand the studio has a bulul sapphire stole and a cinecamera British bicycle, " Diana has been taking quite

She

isn't the Kotng-over, Alrutting blonde chasing dollars that I'd rrud bout.

And

she is

so English that

From DON IDDON, country

Hollywood, Sunday

Th

туть за and

DIANA SAID

DON SAID....

"What about Sir Douglas?" Nearly £4,000 they cost, but I'm getting mine for £1,000 less."

Of the house he said: "Nice, No trees but loo much glare, und no tennis court,

shown I was

the sapphire Dennis: stole. mink

Pros

"

of Gaming Russions "Must have cost £700, Diana

of

"American elitzen? Never,"

Masons, but usually we queue up and go to a public club,

There was a fair amount of She said: "We ure going entertainment of the beginning. back to England for trip but we hate going out and we

in five months. can't stand night clubs.

Dennis joined in with: "Any- That's

one would think we were talk- always will be. ing about

residents "We hay instead

what fuse!" a everything that Anterior.

I said: "After all, T. S. Eliot I could I was right back in the provinces people can want there. despite the pink gown and the never be anything but English, become British, and then we have Whitney Straight, and tollywood dressing-room. but I will carry out my contract what about Sir Douglas Fair-

Her necent is straight Swin- here ond perhaps do outside

with a

chaser of mild Alms, maybe in Rome or sorne- Cockney She never attempts where !

drawl or diawing-room

She looked at the The

Sho Then. "Really, this the great lady. is a forthright child with a good sickly-they wouldn't make it

figure, good in good eyes, like this in England." and lots of vitalBy. She did

Diana liked not want to talk about Marilyn American film technique. Mource.

.They She sold:

but Very going efficient,

There are no shouts of time for tea, and we lunch at all hours.

don

playing

"We are entirety She said: different, I don't like being called Britain's Marilyn Monroe, "I've been in show business for years and played every sort of part, 1 like dramatic roles best, but this first American

comedy Calm ts

"I like Yield to the Night,” “ There hus trouble about

been -Yield to the Night." The American distributors sliced off Then 20 of it 100 minutes.

palced to Diena

make with appearances personal When she heard of the cuts she said: "Nothing doing."

Diana and her husband wili

was

K

n

chicken

salad La

little of

ure easy- fast and

banks?

**And

} ୧୯୯ that Dickson Carry becoming British, Per- haps it's Lend-Lease in reverse," The mention of T. S. Elo! brought no response, but Diann mu! Dennis had met Sir Douglas,

No tennis court

thought it was part of her out-

in the picture. **But

said. It's

the boss, Bill Dozier present for you. "And then there's this elne- carnera."

I began to admire Dennis's frankness.

He and Diana are perliups toffee shop tike children in a or candy store with the key not thrown

am awny, but I going to blame them.

There has been ballyhoo About money, and contracts have been blown up. These are the facts:

Organisation bad plans for her for 1956, en when R.K.O. carne along they negotiated and made a deal.

DENNIS SAID.....

"Diana, don't say that,"

These faels come from the A long executive of H.K.O. way from $1,000,000, or was it But it's a lot of £1,000,000? money.

houso To buy an expensive Diana and Dennis will have to borrow from the studio.

the

They tell me: "We like good things and we believe in showmanship.

"We had a Rolls-Royce when Wo've had Dlana was broke. tough times too."

Little publicity

Bay

to true

that IT'S not

Hollywood I Diana is taken

Many people have by storm. never heard of her.

There

been

The publicity has not been gigantic.

have mentions in the columns and there were brief news stories In Now York when she arrived.

ATER the three of us drove E to the house whieh Diana Diana had not made a pic-

There have been some photo- Bad Dennis occupy on a Holly lure for nine months when she wood hilltop. It costs £300 n sailed to America.

graphs, but no front covers on The tank there's another and

magazines or anything like that. The people, and particularly month,

I talked to Rogers and Cowan, £100 a month for the house- no George Gobel, are my co-star,

the publicity consultants whom kooper Ane lo work with.

Diana fred. "But my big worry is finding Mariene Dietrich rented it be

hard Rogers said: "I've The deal is for three pletures. house

Dennis must have Dore. It is delightfully com-

feelings. We had a discussion looked at more than 100, The pact and modern, with a superb The first will pay Diana mare

and the association was severed. I view and

a small swhruning than £30,000, the second more prices are terrible.

than

the third

against £40,000, and

thing "I haven't a "Lana Turner wants more pool,

Dlona.

she She's good" and for her out. than £00,000

blue about £50,000. We

two Payment for

possible could be great.” which Cadillac We have offered £60,000.

other pictures hos

Some of the shrewdest brains not been

Bay "We must have a swimming Dennis had rented,

the same We He pool and a tennis court,

"I'm said:

Expenses while work in Hollywood getting is settled, white ald play lennia with the James

Lincoln Continental, ing are more than £200 weekly, thing, ›

A drove there in convertiblo

IF THEY TELL YOU MARS HAS NO LIFE

MAT some form of life exista on Mars can no longer be seriously doubted. It may be nothing more than a low form of vegeta- tion of the lichen type, or a vegetation peculiar to Mara that has evolved to suit the conditions existing there, and of which, consequently, we have no knowledge.

The existence of vegeta- tion argues the existence also of bacterial life, and possibly too of animal life, If only because in its lowest stages it is often difcult to find a dividing line between animal and vegetable life.

It is not impossible that Maher forms of animal life and perhaps exist there, even intelligent life. If we ever find that the so-called Canals of Mars are really the artificial constructions that some astronomers bo- lieve them to be, we' shail have Irrefutable proof that

a form of life exists or has

existed on the planet a

high na may existing herei

tance. We see the broad belts on either side of them, irrigated areas covered with springs which vegetation into setivity under the la- fluence of water that flows, soross the or is pumped. planet from the metting

{ polar snow-caps.

Bad The snowcaps melt

completely even disappear with the coming of the Martian spring and summer, In each hemisphere alter- nately.

Then scasonal colour chatiges are seen spreading gradually from the Pole to Equator.

DESERTS?

The prevailing colours of Mars are red ́and green. The reddish Breas LIND getierally thought to be deserta. The réen Bress seem to be tracts of vegeta- tion, which change from laki to dark green in" 12" Martian spring, to yellow or Fold in summer, sud to brown in autumn.

Similarly

vegetation

Polo

the t

But if intelligent" beings that spreads out on either do exist on Marn, for side of the cansis" under- olimate, Batman, poen a senional revival from reasons of

on, it is sphere, and so

sie to Equator. unlikely that they would A space explorer landing bear much resemblance to there would probably see it ourselves.

spreading out

every side beyond the horison, very much as an observer" "look- ing out across the gredi -whoak ...belle

Canada would see them * `siretching wwwy a far as the eye can

Assuming the Danals really are, waterways, either natural or artificial, lè is noš "the actual channels, we'nte through telescope..>

They are too :: narrow fo be picked ouî në kaciu s dias) rések,

of

by LORD

NELSON

F. R. A. 8., F. R. 8. A..

F. R. G. Bo F. Z. 8. Author of "Life in the and There IS Life on Mars,

Universe"

and

We believe the surface of Mars to be comparatively level although hills, even mountains a mile or two high, may occur,

• The desert areas, or what wo belleve to be desert

owing

their observed brightness, may resemble the highly coloured deseris of Western America rather than the drab sandy wastes of the Sahara.

BLIR

no

Vegetation would survive seas, and still bearing the by becoming dormant, ag in names originally given.... to. the colder Barts of the them-Sea of Feaco, Sex of Earth; and certain forms of Berealty, and Sea of Clouds. animal ike might biberate. But these plains are by no means level. They are Even the Moon may not

lined with ridges, →th ở be such a completely

some world as we have hitherid ravines and craters

of them dullo small, others Observers belleved. noticed changes in some, enormous.

of the lunar surface f Breas which it is thought, indicate the existencë jof;

The crater of Ptolemy. for dance, is more than 90 lles cross. It is sur- mountainous rounded by

poldbly some stramtar to walls, thousands of feetman

of fungus life

the Moon At

would havn The

peculiar

time

thought

height and yet standing in' tho centro Impossible for life of any well not be able to see sort to exist without air, this owing to sharp curva

the comparatively\/re-\\ture" of the Moon's surface, pent discovery of forms of The visible horizon would forresteisi liid thắt/can live: be only two miles Away, without air { had genti modified our views.

I

LIKE SPIRES

.not

Impossible, either, that water may occur a Ice in some of the lanar caves.

be

Water, too, is a consti- tuent of many minerals, and it has been arrested that saifonaute landing the Moon might be able to wpoblain it by focussing size

light on to rooks by mean of concave mirrors, since such water may be "e= tracted

It has been said that they may be areas covered with

· rod ́verctation -- noś -impossibility: when

realiso FLOW much red vegetation there ́is‘on the

Bince there are no great barriers on Mars, it, animal life' existe migration, from one hemisphere to the other would be possible in order. to escape the rigours of the Martian winter.

of host. We

One of the places, in which curious changes (REO, notlood which may be due to the spreading of some strange "form of vegetation

Plato in the crater

If we look at the Moon on the tenth night after ii. is new we can soothe magnificent sight of Fizio emerging into ruit sunlight. From high ground on the Moon's surface 16 : would form a tremendous spece tacle.

The

of the groal mountains » mar-

·Appear"

by the application @YO WA BAL5, woul

have a very good idea of what the surface of': the Moon looks like. Uk

"great" There are 5 ther ¡plains; once, thought to be

tle

beauty Imagine. The riddle of the dark patches we must walt for the astronauts to solve.