THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1966, "
NATHANIEL
CUBBINS
HE Httle girl who is friends were treated to lee
Tspending her seaside
holidays with us
rived with a large bug and a tiny cash-box containing 3я. xl.
she She explained that had saved the money out of har
parket 6d. - week money and an oerasional 21l, earned
by looking after brother
her yearold
and sister.
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fought for those Alm. Mal spe
their honey
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money
A smart little blande
-
riches, uzi lae hetress was Bat broke again.
seam i od pony
The shop
IKE any
people fueing an
L uncertain future, the heiress
devided to an in for trache,
She opened a cardboard stump the garden tider the name +1 "John Sweel. Family Grover."
invisible midget who never
and
when they grow up, offering all kards of wedding gifta such as gum drop, chocolate bars, and whole tins of sweet biscuits,
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Soon after tea the boys were making proposals of marringe al the top of their voices, and one, who
tu reputed
have 25 Blyd, "on him" and "some- thing in the Post Office," shouted hat he would take his bride by ar for honeymoon bottle of wine
and A
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I gum drops, and the little CLOPPUs was soon the chief tar-
predatory
gel for the flashing, test baby gold-dingers.
The
smartie who
Jinte smart
at the opened an account prieer's hop tus the one who eventually matched him from his howling bride-to-be and carried him of to a fun fair. If the heuers had any den of evering Her fortunes by merry- 11:21 wy she was defented of superen tarties and left dis- apportired and as brite de evry
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to the fun fan
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for the chance brus in change tur luck
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HU WEN ed me of the Suez Canal
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Tut
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liste money to burn gave her THOSE who face
only a cont
Hello"
The financial crisis
the
front after the hermen what
cream a pre tin Sbp we
My TV
1. provided capitað amounting and the heiress to 12 pennies,
atam often los: ten in a row Then the ball
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wild party Tha 3 Bad gestarter before the itable mush
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"Win" and nothing The heiress, who had efferte on. Den star g all the
bud in her protestatem sure that the weed attendit shook
pri ed Shete the mess threw a die cruelime and
vedruned to a sauna of aged routi paly though we did not expect pemates
get Tuest a six presy 147 it to be so sikt tub for me apertice
11 was at this tragic
partner
empty cash-ba
Wire
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To the heires This was inagie
A IN stane jantas
playing in ment childfrea
The age-old won every time until her cupitul in the game of Mothers mad Fathers" anuntul la 2. 5d
At the machine always perparvel for the
the et I took 11 called "Pre wmns
away, but not
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OUR NASSERISED CARTOONISTS
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FEELTHY THES CARTOON?
(WITH CAPTION
BY NASSER)
the that TESTERDAY'S news
Arabs were reprinting cartoons with captions altered to the pro- Nasser line brought mixed feelings to this department.
First reaction was to rush in to the Editor and demand a wage increase, but reading on and coming to the piece which went: "In some cases the Arab caption writer may have been making an honest attempt to translate an un- translatable English joke" made pause.
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Loose remarks like this are apt to make a sensitive editor start asking why he has been paying us all these years for un linuslatable jokes.
dan tret arc playing up Old Barry."
TRANSLATION "Soon the Httle poots 1 will put on and kick the Terithy British 'out
Huez,"
uf
dear,
A suggestion to flout the Nasser
that caption writers was
future cartoons published in this paper should be printed with 100 percent pro-Nasser captions in the hope that in translation Nusser might find himself handing the Arabs a 100 percent line of British pro- paganda.
retaliation
However, until a paign has been decided on, the examples The below show what is going on. original caption is printed in heavy type with the Nasser translation below.
this is my - Uh 53rd cold this summer.'
TRANSLATION
***On, dear. Inops Colonel Nusser doesn't stop smelling sults and aspirins coming through the Canal'
"I want my dinner."
TRANSLATION |
- We want Nasser."
(Income Tax people please note: So far we have received no payment from Nasser}
Concluding BRITAIN'S BLOODLESS REVOLUTION.
Diana Electrifies Auld Reekie
But she's homesick for Canada
ALAN BRIEN reports from EDINBURGH
OR most of the frat Gene (Singin' in the Rain)
flew week of its tenth Kelly who
in from Festival Edinburgh Paris for the Royal pre- has resembled a circus with- miere of his all-ballet Bim out a tent caught in a cloud- "Invitation to the Dance," burst.
With his ears protected In the evenings the Castle by a turned-up coat collar, on the hill stands out like and his toupee protected by
oldi Yorkshire school-
puffed-down cloth house against the storm Kelly grinned in the teeth
Hall clouds Dotheboys
of the wet wind. besieged by searchlights. In the valley below the one-
Just on noon at the airport, we talked about duncing and sided
Princes beflagged
the cinema. "Let's do it over a Street runs with water like glass," said Gene Kelly, "That's
Auld Reekie this Auld August has become Leakie.
a canal.
Snugly under cover all the cultural sideshows have been doing merry business. But the visiting celebrities, commuting between their booths and their hotels, have been forced to run an almost continuous gauntlet of Scottish drizzle. Fortun- is NO ately the dampness far only skin doep.
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cap,
The bearded, eccentric, septuagenarian knight music, Sir Thomas Bee- cham, still continues to
of
ex-
Diana Maddox, the girt for
plode as unpredictably
ទេ
ever, both off stage and on.
whom Sandy Wilson wrote "The Boy Friend."
And the bearded, occentric, what I ke about fim festivala,
septuagenarian knight of everything is done over a glass. Hterature, Sir Compton After
cach festival I feel I
Mackenzie, also has a full ought to go into retreat for a house at his Georgian home
in one of Edinburgh's most elegant squares.
Convivial
cure,
"But when I start a new film I train ag I live like a monk. hard as any Oghter Boxing and bullet have a lot in common --- except that no one hits you on the nose. At least not on the net"
"I am practically a Fea.
Athlete turned aesthete ("the tival in myself,” says the
first thing you need for dancing 73-year-old, cupping is muscies"), Kelly is now on spry
back to Hollywood. his hand like a telescope to his way
bring into focus the church Beneath the boyish charm. his clock. "I'm so convivial by mind cracks like a whip and his nature that I have to spend will is granite hard most of my life on Islands away from people."
Undaunted by the Edin- burgh weather, was jaunty
Successful
Dans, астова
One of those rare film stars
critics toto who turn Kelly marched springly the tarmac to his airplane. On
by John Marshallt he was escorted by a
"Explorer" THE TWO-YEAR DRIFT
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BLOTS THEIR
W
and
HAT a soul, hope, are living for today and for demoralisation. For the gap is
prospect far too many the gap be- even wider.
Front the boys' point of view destroyer is "the tween school leaving and the 15-plus "blank" is lament gap. Boys leave call-up is just a period of able: from the nation's it may
prove even calamitous, State schools at 15 or 16 drifting. knowing that in a couple of will years
to le
FUTURE
cinema sometimes
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was no hanging about, and the often as four times a week, and time waiting for the classes to Was spent reading or patronie the dance halls, which begin
Dancing an playing table tennis. are attended in Britain by
Д ended the evening. estimated
people 3,000,000
from week, mostly youngsters 15 to 24.
who company extcutive coumed to be guarding a brown
which was cey paper parcel
On his tainly ful of bottles.
escorted by a hairdresser whe Was
right he
London
Was
presumably in charge of that famous forehead of black Intse hair,
Behind him was a film shot in made Parls like Morty and
on a budget of peanuts," Ahead was Hollywood and perhaps an appearance as a straight acter on Broadway opposite Marlene Dicurich in a dramatic version of sche Hemingway stories.
Theatrically the great per-
tar is also from aercei the sonal success of the Festival so Atlantic. Born in England into a great stage family, and train- ed at the Old Vic, Diana Mad Here, obviously, is one way dox now lives in Montreal with to fill the gap if only the young her Canadian double-bass-play- Dancing is probably less people can be persuaded to go. ing husband. The girl for whom aro en-Sandy Wilson wncto The Boy The numbers today affected by television than any
org indiend and than a score
Jost the who evening entertainment couraging. More other
of
part because of an drifters are
organisations starring voluntary most of the and far too restless to stay at home belonging to the Standing Con-attack of messis told me that
National Youth she distiked playing
the the and watch it with their sisters
Organisations hove 200,000
00,000 stage and preferred radio and and elders.
members. between them, ages television.
Scouts, including To bad 14-20. Boy
girl who has electrified Not that dancing is
Sea and-Air Scouts, | Edinburgh as Polly Ganter in! thing. I have visited several Rovers,
total 220,000 and Girl Guides | Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk dance halls and found them as
225,000. Clubs are helping to Wood"--playing a good-time Sir Ronald Adam estimated respectable as church bazaars. that by the middle of the 1960's about 500,000 adolescents would need daily
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they
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without
With full employment it has of be called up. So they rush. been easy enough. I know
une 18-year-old who hed 13 different jobs this year in three months, one
D
In Russia there is none of 95 this drifting; in Germany percent
young people in Of industry are now receiving day- release education.
week. We have
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80 many of them, for well-paying job thought of the future.
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1 am not suggesting that this is likely to be short- sighted policy of all or even majority of the 314,000 boya (compared with 302,000 girls) pected to leave their schools this year. But far too many
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Rather This conclous
a
ference
stop the gap rot.
self- pathetically, Teddy boys hang
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Mixed cluba are flourishing spinster establishments,
After service after
would require 25,000 teachers around the edge staring moodily girls prefer them to their own and the building cost would be at the dancers. Dreary duffers bit At the £200,000,000.
same in the main, they may be a time the universities, taking the of
Saturday of a nuisance babies postwar
"bulge."
will nights when they arrive certainly need a great deal more having a few drinks and
has ceal their exuberance until they money, and £100,000,000 already been proposed for are inside. technical education, "A gloomy :: Sir Ronaldi
Ronald Adam, prospect,"
National In- observed. of the
the aislescent that recently years from 15 onwards were at for present "a blank," except
Advance wasted
the more able who sought their own opportuniting and 300,000 released by tho om- ployers on one day a week.
the
At present 80 percent school-leavers have no
of adult
education, and though a grow-
con-
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git as wide as a double bed and generous as a pillows no desire for fame in Britain,
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Intimate
"I am homesick for Canada," who said. "It may sound dory service? Many young men try of the future. The people WHAT about after National
but it is my country, the coun- return, betier physically, more there have a purity, an immo- Yes, the Teddy boys are still self-reliant and possessing some cence and an energy that does with us and sometirnes they military? skill,. to: finish thair are a nuisance.
former
•
apprenticeships, stucly for diot exist here any more.
"I had no difficulty in playing green or resume their
And I have no What makes the Tekly boy? work. But, alas, there is that a Welsh girl.
difficulty in apealing like Teachers, social workers, police hapless bunch of drifiers.
Canadian girl. It just imppena have officers, so many people
THE tragedy of the drifters in told me the same: "Bad homes; And there is another unhappy that I have an extremely good in section, the boys from Institu- car, But my style of acting La the gap was brought sharply broken homes; absent or home to me in the Midlands. A different parents. They are blond, the orphans, the un- too intimate for the stage,
"A sopin .08
"Under". Mille social worker told me about the subconsciously, eccking approval wanted who have no home to
the Wood has had Truly
run in London fine types of youngsters leaving which they got by belonging which to robum, one secondary school.
to a group." -
many enlightened humanitarians I shili go home to Canada. who care for our 75,000 home. Despite my experience, here I less try to keep in touch with begara thong two yours those who hava lett, to give a shop assistant in the Chels them the assurance that they mas rust. 1 was armed only
(with charm and didn't ... know," the differezice batweers? a ⠀nšek!!;
genco, culturo, and physique," he "But for many the great
Real offort
* "belong,"
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They Bro Way ahead ing proportion try to improve of their parents in intelll- themselves through Youth acti- vities and development of personal intervala. (many other advance is wasted. They leave COMMUNITY centros, youth are encouraged by parents to school to go into factories where centres, boys and mixed
The problem of the gap for prepare themselves
Bomo
they are bold: "Take it
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clubs, evening Institutes, all are such will ordy solve tool when success in life), for too many“ Don't, be a Don't volum making a real effort to fill the National Service is abolished. are making no progress at all four for anything. So they gup.
In the meantime, the growing It indeed, not actually do drift down to the level of the
namy of drifters debe a nasty teriorating
one: raw winter's blot on Ipent other workers, losing all rest evening with some really splen picture and la a potential source Nobody is on the defensive...
social our gleaming and capacity for leadership." young Londoners at an LCC of serious future trouble.
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The cut, in National Service, though it will help, for example, The drifters, having plenty of Institute in the East End The apprentices who can complete. leleure and money to spend, significant point of what I saw in it are the unskilled half their, training before call wander aimlessly round the there was that everyone Up, seerpa kely to add to the cafes and pin-table" saloons, ga doing something sensible," "There become the unemployables.
and a dimsif
"Now I sat on the radio and pri the "slage. I direct and write television plays, There's no class corleclouentwe, to early closing, no predio squeeze (in) Curacha
Plump a batirideg, pret!
and as a bummingbird, Dian WAN LEH KEMENble who may well Macdoor de ww macictly, a tou
in the land of Ente Bethe
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