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7ITH the publication

the

of his book, "Write Me a Poem, Baby," H. Allen Smith, American humorist, has created a fresh appetite for the writings of children.

His collection of the works

and

of authors belween seven

11 shows that efter beginning with "pomes" children Ro straight on to novels and thrill- em, the little boys often being there. obsessed with the murder

When I was about eight years old I began with "pomes. Ac- cording to original manuscripts loopt by my family I must have been one of the few eight-year- olds to foresee the evils of the Demon Drink.

Herle

HOW JOHNNY CHANGED! When Johnny was

boji

He couldn't leave swceta

alone; That favourite shop he could

not pass

To attend to bizness of his

owth

But when Johnny was a full

grown mark His tastes began to difer,

was

now

RIVAL FILLERS-

THE

· CHINA MAIL,

World Copyright by arrangement with the åfonchatter Ovardian

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1957.

BIG CHIEF STEIGER

IS CAUGHT IN THE GIRL RUSH

OD STEIGER

had

R 'swopped his pay

chiatrist's couch-on

LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman

which he has been spending that he had a mental block

on this subject,

"She's a nice girl and I her very much

ke

"Miss Dors," I prompted in my best psycho-analytical man- ner, will you be seeing her...7" "Perhaps, Who knows. We

"Sometimes, you get the feel- may run into each other." Ita ing that you're just something "But there was nothing, be, free thought-association?) to his he's wearing like a fur coat because it's fashionable. this wife, actress Sally Gracie, from season. whom he is separated.

"Yes

tween us ever "Yes...

"Nothing. It was just pub

Hielly."

•

KMarkenzie

ROD STEIGER Sometimes it's embarrassing.

a great deal of his spare time in New York and Hollywood for a chaise- longue in South Audley Street. He wore a red silk shirt and black Bilk trousers. There was not a

"That must be embarrassing, "I'm hoping for a reconcilia- to be wam like a fur póak." psycho-analyst in sight or

tion," he said, "I'm still in love "Of course successful men are within earshot. But Mr

with her, I think. She lives in more attractive to women. More Steiger was in a mood for

our apartment, I live in a hotel. than pretty men, It was mostly my fault that we are out. That accounts for the Pretty men making confessions. These

over his broke up-obviously expiating success of people like myself did not, however, include forehead. (whether it was to guilt feelings, I decided "It

and Yut

Brynner.

haven't maturity on my part. When it changed much with succeRSH, happened I had just entered of myself. I used to feel re though. Just become more sure analysis and $1100093 and I couldn't cope with it all at jected, I didn't talk much. Now talk a lot. But I'm still rik moody anything can "Now I want her back. It's

depress "I mur-I mean he had scarlet time to have a child. A man much better than I was

me, a place, a person. But I'm fever," said Mira Buri.

without a child is not complete, analysis has done that for me. "Bool Boo!" piped Mrs Celly. But there are problems about And success, I suppose." "Never mind," said Miss Burla reconcillation on her side." "He's happy now.”

"Have there Mre women' in your'

SO TIRED

He passed a hand

any about Diana Dors. If wipe away, mental images of I were an analyst I would Miss Dors I cannot tell) and tired. I'm not said: "I'm So have come to the conclusion well"

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

marks but worse spelling In "HOW MURDER HAPPNS."

She busseled and blundered, Scolded and thundered,

To her husband when he

came home,

*

•

#

She maged like a wife, Tell she wor out his life.

To her husband when he

came home.

+

Now her husband was cro38, And used his forse,

Wich is like all men.

#

*

The publ

hts

#

favourite shop

So he began to reble,

And that intoxicating liquor!

After that I was soon on to crime with fewer exclamation

And was unhappy all his life,

And that is how

karuna

she you

"Goodnight, Miss Burl," murder exelambed, "ohat makes

look so trobled and why inant Jack with you?”

"He's dead!" Burl

Murder mystery

WHAT must have been

W

on

even carlier work by Uttle boy Gubbins, if one can judge by the spelling, was an uncom ploted thriller called "Scanes of Life. A Novel,” S

"DEAD!!"

"Boo! Boo!" continued Celly.

THE TRIAL

The next chapter concerned the trial of the callous Miss Burl

A new scane quite has come. It was in the cort called "the Old Baly jore judges were in a roe and then a Lawer.

"Call Mrs Celly for furat wliness," saith the Lawer.

Mrs Celly came with tears in her eyes spilling them all the replied. Miss way.

"Well," began the Lawer, cried Mrs Celly "who's this young lady's name arlemed. "Dead!! What did you have suspions about?" he die of?"

"Miss Burl" replayed Mrs

"Er-er you know! Startet Celid she took guilty?"

It concerned the mysterious chearful" murder of a boy called Jack Celly, by a Miss Burl.

"CHAPTER I. FURST WORDS" begins:

It was a hot September night about nine, whên Mrs Celly was Sa'd I don't care if I go to reading, when she hurd a nock.

hell

"Who's that?" she said to her- arif as she opened the door,

So he stabbed his wife,

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"No-ver, I mean! !”

"Call the doctor for witness," "Well," began the Lawer, clearing a throute. "What have you found?”

"Nothing."

fever!" piped Miss Burk.

(After some more conversa- tion Jack's

George Celly, father, entera He looked "so alright and until he heard the bad news and is described as a "alout, hamson, helthy man, with elegant feturs. He had on "Nothing," copied the Lawer,

common #grey,

sute for Mr "Very funny.*** Celly didan't cear for dress Ác "Well, there was a little singh epared

and of poson when childt!'')

OrgCTIS

"That 100s something" (Laughter), "That was some- thing,” repeted the Lawer.

for

his

wife

"Oh Gorgel Gorgel -'cried Mrs Celly, "Oh! my baby, my darling's dead!”

"Dead!" said Mr Celly.

auri

"Who killed him?” and denly he saw (Miss Burt,

The

1 bolled

the

"That was something," re- peted the Lawer.

And there unfortunately this historie manuscript ends!

(World copyright.)

Landed

Duke

Jersey,

HE duke fingered the bird-cage on the little table in front of him. Inside was a painted bird which one day had sung mechanically.

"What is the use of an empty title?" he said, smiling

He sat back a litle further

Wiki

once.

due to emotional ini

been no

e

other women

SO THERAPEUTIC you've been in love with?"

Success (and. £2,000 a week) "I haven't been in love. But women throw themselves at you has indeed been most therapeu- when

success, tie in Steiger's case, it has you become a That's natural enough. We're a proved an excellent aniidate for tribe and women. go for the warrior-chief Of course I like It. It appeals to the vanity in every man. But sometimes it's embarrassing. You don't know if the woman. Is in love with you-or with your name.

depressions, fixations and feel- ings of inferiority.

"When you meet another actor whom you've admired and he treats you as an equal,” said Stelger, that makes you feel good."

England all the best brains are my going. But I' could go and devoted to avolding taxation, see what the prospects are," Here you just pay four shilings

in the £...no surtax" and no

· death duties.

I encouraged him in the idea. In my opinion Otway Michael James Oliver Plunkett, with a Conquest background,

"Lite here is much the same Norman

119 in England. Farming, would go down like a bomb in Business. There's plenty to do. the United States.

by DONALD EDGAR

"You can grow tomatoes oul- "A baron who has worked all Excellent mechanic. doors here and have flowers all his life. the year round."

Récing driver,"

"By the way," added the an aside, "I've just got the Ariel agency,"

Ah, Osterley!

TE

1

baron in

SQUIRE

a little bitterly. "It's just all cobwebs, and means He glanced out of the window. at the soft rolling country. nothing."

The "It hurts so much that I just whole house....is not

drawing room....the large. on the pale pink settee. There don't care to think about it any Just an enlarged manor-house. was silence in the low, stone-' more.” walled XOOME.

curtains

But very ovely. There was a pyer,

the Monet and a

Sisley on the "It cecina a shame,” I, sali, walls that you won't bo vẩng in

were dark green with pinkc flowers. The light was falling rapidly over the bay of St Bralade's on the south-west corner of Jersey.

We walked into the hall,

...

Vai ter ·

WG

Steiger is in London to make a film for the Rank Organisation called Across The Bridge, in which ho

plays a crooked financier. Which

means that shall have our first opportunity of seeing a leading practitioner by Monroe, Brando and the late of The Method (also practised James Dean) in action....

"The Method? It doesn't mean wearing.diriy. dungarees and not washing, as some people seem to think. I like wearing handkerchief in a diaric, sult, colourful clothes -- a red silk Mohair trousers, regularly.

And I wash What The Method means is that when I scene and I'm supposed to have

play

#

been running after a

a girl and I'm supposed to be out of breath, I run around, the studio and

gives the right feeling"

really get out of breath. That

And he admitted that ሲ፡ veteran of the psychiatrist's couch he has picked up a lot of useful information about what makes people tick (or not tick) that he employs shame lessly in his characterisations

So being all mixed up inside helps?"

"No," said Steiger, "it's better to be happy and a bad actor."

I wonder.

The sort of living I'm writing about The Duke and Duchess of Bedford,

his children, her children, and their children (for both;

it is a second marriage)

relax on the lawn outside their new home in Jersey.

j

beer. By his side was his young help handsome, 5 fair, blue-eyed. A throw-back to the Vikings who sacked and raped and pillaged Jersey. And then

stayed.

HE squire was wearing

tweed jacket and a pull- He came to `live" Island before taxes - "Pedny on the boer," said the fisherman with disgust. "Two- walk.got to take, penso on a packet of cigarettes.. England. The Russella have "Yes," said the earl. "I've the

# Walk,"

he, Penny on a tow. I'll have another been one of the great families collected a few. But I go back norted as I entered the study, beer. Do you want any fish?” of the country."

to look at Osterley,"

He opened the french windows. "I just live here sald the

"There tie nothing... Osterley....the great Adam A huge Alsatian and a spaniel The tall at the bar swelled DUKE OF BEDFORD (he is the nothing," he answered, "that i house with its Chippendale, its bounded out into the rain. So violently 13th), "while the trustees surt would have liked more than to decorated ceilings, Its Rubens

dld the squire. I followed. Increases were discussed. “I had, out the estate. The

total play my part in English life. National Trust In 1930.",

made it over to the Captain

"I'm Bgardence sald paid 5d. for a half of biller and Hability is around five millions.

HOLITHO. Is. 8d. Spr. a packet of good JIM That's why I was born."

It's

a South African citizen,

but convenient being here

with the children at school in

England. My

he

as the monstrous

We were looking over the said softly. "I only lived there "Kmw name of every plant in cigarettes, bay:

18 months, You couldn't have the place." We plodded on,

• "How are the Lidos?" said chapel, No, rarely use it now. But look at the fisherman, turning to his those walla. Eight or nine help Weil, then, warehould be hundred years old, Nearly as able to go out, "[

It just depends what is left breakfast without 12 to 15 Cre's the

and see them to can go. over cut of the mess, They won't servants.”

dukes, however Prodle. If you wont

do you find life here?" give grants to

pour the duke is, and however important the works of art." He smiled a little bitterly.

to

drink cocktails all day and all night it's all right. But there, are more important things to do. I won't stay here if I can help it. Here

everyone comes die."

EARL

THE card is a calm, handsome

to e duke is 30. man in his murde

that

BARON

THE

old

sa Jersey.

the Out past.

knife-sharp "That's where the old manor

tho. miefg THE baron left the garage to used to be Pulled down," Then-rocks out Into

..put into the Atlantie as thỡ - mechanics and said: they bullt this place Spoiled men of Jersey have gone for a "Yes, let's go round the corner it later with all those crenella thousand years. and have a drink,” ..

tions and mock-towers!!

his

It was a goomy-looking place, There was a great wind tear He pulled up the edge of daric, lowering under the ing at the Atlantic as I stood at It was good looks and charm white sheet and let me looks at December sky,

Groenez Point at the moithere. "I prefer South Africa to

founded tho here," he mused on, almost to fortunes.

family his dark-green "racing Jaguar. "That," he stumbled in the tip of St Quen's Bay. : Il tore George Villlers, the *I'm taking it to Bouth Africa himself. "Thero everything a young and fresh and growing Stuart favourite, became Duke to race" he said. There are hall at an old piece of parch the green off the sea and laid

of Buckingham with little glee four races, so I shall get. 2800, ment decorated with an enor baro violet,

to

ALPWoburI But tends him, and it will cost me £200 in mous seal, ("

the

Earidom of Jersey fares, So "I should make camo to another branch of the pront TE walked. Through a strice, family partly through a wito

of reception rooms, all having been governces to Mary lane and into the pub

and Anne, who both became "Yea" sald "Oh mid the duke," shrugging his shoulders,

*"that le Richard. It's

There were great brenköis far time.

Renewal of the charief. Lempriero, that's my wife's out. The black-backed pulls. name. She's the WE

we no glow in the ... pink wo walked up, the dark Lempriores, fat of the tumbled, around, the sky. There "I used to plant flowers here granito. It was a docolate, rather Anely furnished Queens of England, in MGA BARON LOUTH, Ti have a here." "Yes, that's my daughter, AGEN

the sixteenth before 1 hanged: my hat up harsh scene

was the essential sceño "of by Gerals Kolly That Jersey, and the Channel Isles

D Mallor

picked

** Bald "the /^ EARL OF light?

1

à: glorified collection of:JKIBEX/M) We have (ANNs. ¡then, this, member of the great was my 12-metre. In the evil scene (that takes no count '

Sup. And the

our

[of, dukes; Cards: barong," aquiires,

fishermen, peasants, plists..

Tooth dufles, drink,

[ pro.../ Wo talked cars for a bit and

"I'm house of Plunkett said: "I'm

squadron... up here, I like big "No, the family never owned finding ersoy, a bit smail" He came out into the_ralo to

laud horo. E camo: hore, first in His mother was Jersey: Bo is poo the off. I remembered state rooms of Woburn, IYI've got to fairly large the haren, now 27, has made a Lemptiered predefodils, honeymoon coup remembered the duke showing property here, now largo i A by living as hero-including

Pet Beach

they disappear Into the me the dining room almost too Jersey standards,DEN VALMISTAMAN crowded will: Canaletion, 17;;-)))/T-dan's fool rostaloted here," might America, he

painting #nkt: We've: withbut they

Georgiazi heulesangepifcepit purely :-out' of") curiosity, his wife, («And after: Downside.."; "wH*m]}} ]‚X'm,::,Lait ottho, tàbacco broccoli, nów: potatoos,

Photoraph and ed

ANFISHER

Do you ?, lastkaar". 1. There's not the worry of trying wild oved, another light,2) "O: TUIE FISHERMAN : set by the And then, is the sea breaking asked.

began to riddle the income tax, In courne, my wife might not like I bar fire with hia glass of on, rocks,