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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I suppose it would be silly

to hope that the Russian a might sell the gyptians up the river before the Americana eeli wa 11**

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956.

KENNETH ALlsop's record round

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THE whimmyings of (real Maine: "Ableson and energy supporting boys' love-maddened Frankie stripped off top hat and clubs. All the proceeds from Vaughan fans stil fulls, he said: "I grew up in n Philips record of "Seven. { seeped through the dropped a Liverpool sluni, in a real teen" (250,000 miles) went curtains of the Blackpool Cohen and Kelly area. I was to the Boys' Clubs Associa-

You hud to tion and he is about to pier-head theatre.

tio A But in gang wars, hacksinge Vanghan

was flight and steud – otherwise another money-raising con- telling

the you were chicken.' At the cert tour for them. lantillar sound of his child. age of four I was look-out

14 a tur mob of warehouse hood, before he became £1,000-a-week singer -- the breakers until a big Irish shrill of # policeman's cop picked me off a widl and

took me home to mother. whistle.

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FICTION SHELF by PHILIP OAKES

When it happens there are no (ents, to recriminations, "I am a woman, and I have loved man," think, Dominique, "is a simple story; there is nothing to make a fuss about,”

Inakes Francolae Sagun

1 either.

Her second novet fuss (much better than

Bonjour

Dulles

"You want to die,” his young the gallows, Cairon niece tells him. "I can see by wine inerchant und detective James Courage's extraordinary encounters your eyes," hovel charts the course of one man's return to the world with restraint, compassion and fint fine waiting!.

A

sudden death in the Bahamas. Excellent atmospherics and

at the smart $1 sharp look Novel No. 2 sends Mr Mole lo the top of his class.

PICTIONAL revamping of the THE SLEEP OF REASON. By

Life if Felix Met delssohn with the bedroom sernes played fortissimo. Pace and a feeling for period, but the greasepaint is Inches tall,

Warren Miller. Seckor and

Warburg. 10s. 6d. 163

SMILE. By CERTAIN Francoise Sagan, Murray. 81. 6d. 132 pages.

HERE

were questions that ilis rise-out of all that minique liked to ask Tristerse) is strong, simple and BEYOND DESIRE, By Pierro It only La Mure, Collins. 15s. 384 scum and rottenness-was people. The first was "Are beautifully controlled.

The love affair

pages. partly inadvertent. Bombed you in love?" The, second lucky warmth,

"What are you read is opened up for inspection. The out of Liverpool, family was

is no longer beating. moved to Lancaster. Younging?" All other things were surgery is perfect. But the heart Ableson got a scholarship to less important. il grammar school, studied

Dominique was very young.

THE CALL HOME. By James art, went into the Army and she studied at the Sunstone.

of

Courage. Capc. 13s, 6d. the novels TolShe liked jazz, uut. determined

252 pages. Jenn-Paul Sartre and straight He borrowed £5 from his whisky. Her lover was a telov ORMAN GRANT went back

WHILE. By William Mole. stee student named Bestrand, but the to New Zealand to pick up father and stormed London, affair whe begining to bore her, the pics His wife was dead,

sent killed in a car crash. His reret The only bad trouble The storm turned out to Bertrand, she felt, was

as a doctor huet came to a full Tre only ■ damp drizzle. {mental.

Late stop.

And his own life was in Frankie Vaughan has now-

Then along came Lae. The no work.

was Bertmund's uncle, a middle- the bainnve aday is with gangs of teen- No joba,

handful

lawyer with strong age buttresses who eneirety 15 became

What he still haul hands, him with raised ballpoint dust. pens and the gaping laws of left were his looks--and apuking and at understanding autograph albums.

"A lot of my friends went io Borstid. I could easily have become a shady charac- Ter, #1 14. partly my family's unthuence and part- ly luck that kept me out of bad trouble,"

Business-like, he says "These kals are

my bread and butter" Butter both sides, and jam too, I gather. his new od after ruding in £2,000 Plymouth Belvedere back to his 17 Kuinea-a week house to meet wife

Simon.

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wife named Frutendee, Lair was but sentimental.

He just the type who her le seduce young girls like me,"

Auct Dominique boys thanks So be perfontanai gent and the agent itunedtale- thought does not alarm her at ly got him out to perform before all, provinei audiences at £100 week

Benever wider leksyi-ion ww! But, unlike many of To new big-money record" set,

Siber audiences, records

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Stella #l baby David Vaughan cha perform -All 1 IN B58* rN!! IIK a hubpy character," he said "Punch and But Be

forget sincerity--they're does not

the Things the days of hard tack. That that count."

is why he spends 11 Con

siderable amount of

Latest Vaughan record: "Let's time of steady" (Philips 18).

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

-SO, I MARRIED THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER —~ TOOK A HONEYMOON TRIP

TO EUROPE AND WON THE

IRISH SWEEPSTAKES /

ONCE IN A WHILE A MAN ADMITS THAT HIS SUCCESS WASN'T DUE TO EARLY RISING, STEADY PLUGGING AND A STRONG PERSONALITY BUT TO PLAIN BLIND LUCK.

AND SOME WIVES DESERVE

CREDIT FOR MAKING

SOMETHING OF THEIR

HUSBANDS - OR EVEN

TRYING TO.

The Merkur-tion goes recording la plan "We'll have a lot of Lait Just fun." fun together, promises They dance together, Plane together, and finally Ko room with a away to share a view of the mai.

After Two weeks they reum Lo Paris, it is a rare thing to say 'I like you' after two weeks And | erasabaríastion," says Lac,

Danaque eromises the bean

ng of the end of the affair.

138

by Walter

Where Credit Is Due

YOU MIGHT SAY

I WAS DISCOVERED LIKE OIL AND

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I CAN'T TAKE ANY CREDIT- IT'S A GIFT

COFR. 1914Y GENERAL FEATURES CORP, 114WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

I SUCCEEDED BECAUSE IT HAPPENED THAT THE FISH WERE

BITING!

SOME FOLKS MODESTY IS AMAZING.

A FISH STORY THAT HAS ONE FACT IN IT.

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pages,

THE sleep of reason produces

mun-

momaters," Miller's

McCarthyite senator

& Spottiswoode. numex Mutonnige, whose witch. 10s. 6d. 192 pages.

hunt is sul in full stride, Some excellent satire, subdued bawdry PALMING his conscience after

Th bisckmailer to and shrewd contneni,

Csending

By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

ODDS GO AGAINST MARRIED

THE country

By

AND SCHUMAN

ROMANTIC AGE. Marcel Brion, Collins, 21s. 375 pages.

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many up spiritualismu, One might ne write mped out of bed own a theme the ampels had just seat him. Next day he was b hed out of the Rhine and spent

he died.

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the passion did not get beyourd

Clara, the jetter-writing sluge,

with the years in an asylum where aged 35 and endowed

character.

have Impoved romantic limits on the affair. Or Brahmi composer and a dull methodical may have eevaled, beneath his man with an infuriating streak high-flown regard for Clari, a of old-maidishness. Brion's staty basic dislike of her sex,

He was EL good!

for silence. After an hour, Sebumann which during did not utter a word, Wag- ner said: "One cannot taik alone for ever." Schumann said: "Wagner talks inces-

The romantie

letter which they ex- sally. One cannot put up

1ead- persistent changed make vivacious with it for long."

cloudiness of meaning, probably ing. Although Inconclusive about He had

Inevitables in writing about music. the nature of the "passionate Clara, who Way JL talented

That Pattempla to

they transcend friendship."

more piandet. This had its disadvant- music

grand interesting than the dialogue Austrian urchduke

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asked him, "Are you a mustefan, dialogue of the All with itself," of the All with itself" tou!" And when Chua Wils

* arked to the grand-ducal palter CLARA SCHUMANN AND DRUM. By Anthony Sampson,

at

at

Oldenburg, Schumana Wils

nol.

"It just shows how the alchs are ngalust me," he wrote, mid thought of

to emigrating

Amorten fortible decision,” from which he was suved by wading a porn about a young

who went into

a distant

But

BRAHMS, A PASSIONATE Collins. 16s. 256 pages. FRIENDSHIP. Edited by WHEN Sir Abe Bailey's sch Marguerite and Jean Alley. Wine started a Negro mag- Staples. 16s. 214 pages. zine In South Africa he asked WHEN

diet, hk his Oxford chum Sumpson Schumann boutitiful wife was already join him. Editing Drum for three and a half years, Sampson sheet iring comforted

sonne Blusions,

BY HARRY WEINERT

"TO WHAT DO YOU

ATTRIBUTE YOUR. TREMENDOUS

POPULARITY ?

"WE SING OFF-KEY, WE CAN'T HELP IT/*

HONESTY IN THE ROCK 'N' ROLL DIVISION.

"I OWE IT ALL TO THE UTTLE WOMAN!

WE LIKE THE MAN WHO TELLS

THE TRUTH INSTEAD OF SAYING HE RAN INTO SOMETHING

IN THE DARK,

TAKING THE CREDIT THAT SHOULD GO TO HUBBY, AND MOTHER NATURE.

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the

in

"Cheese-cake, crime, animals, babies”—white * Black, the workers of the world unite In their reading-tustes. What had started as a weekly run by white do-gooders became B shade durker, sevend degrees more popular.

Missionaries frowned; clrcula- tion soared; and Sampson learned about Africa the hard

way.

Learned that in black Johannesburg. ruled by criminals, one African in every 30 will be murdered; the other 29 will be boutin up badly enough for the police to hear of it.

of

Apartheid, dividing the races artificially, sets up a magnetie sex-attraction across the colour- line. And who shall say where that line is to be drawn: "Close investigation of the whitences the whiles would produce

results that would shake the theory of apartheid to its foundations."

Candid, unsolemn record of a young man's slay in one of the world's more spola, Seen near to, the trouble is just as ugly but far more complex.

THE COAST OF CORAL By Arthur C. Clarke. Muller, 21. 206 pages.

RTHUR Clarke and Mike A Wilson went exploring the stone under-9′′a Jungles of the Australian Barrier Reef, with Some aqualung and esmera, day, they thought, the Reef would be a Mecca of underwater tourism and they wanted to get there before the crowd,

:

Coming up for air, Clarke. composes a good-natured, vas), ly readable addition to the shelf of underwater literature. It tells of a wonderfully strange land, of brushes, with highly dán........ gerous flah and glimpses of beautiful ones, and it reports bellot confirmed. "The Reef could become one of the great playgrounds of the world,Phon

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. By Millar Burrows. Secker and Warburg, 30% 435 pages.

:44MOST precious discovery of their kind since the Greek and Latin classics came to light,” the Dead Sea Scrolls have stirred - curiosity, controversy, oven alarm. Some curiosity will be satisfied and Homo morb. whetted by Dr Burrowała "full, convenient and on the whole, comprehensible "account, of the, finds and what they meech) 10- |_ scholarship and religious, talist