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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ·APRIL · 20, 1957. N

ENCORE CALYPSO

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by GRANDMA SILES-

E bring you the news not to know

In today's unpopular Ca-lyp-so,

you ought.

The Shipyard Workers and the Engineers Had the biggest strike they've had for years.

But back to work they went in dozens Carron said "Yes" but "No," said Cousins. The whole affair's been a loss all round, It's cost the unions eight million pound.

The Bosses on losses didn't grow very fat And William Carron, he lost his hat.

We bring you the news ho-do-de-o-dough In today's unpopular Ca-lyp-so.

Said the dockers at Plymouth: "Tell us where

we are,

We won't support a colour bar.

If the Ivernia's WHITE' then we'll do

our bit.

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But if she's 'BLACK' we're in the “Quit.'" But they needn't have bothered about their

sad plight

For the strike was called off and the Mary

turned "WHITE."

I

What the passengers said isn't

page

on this

For we can't print that sort of lang-u-age.

LL bet a certain story in the paper this

week

Will send up a hoiler from the meaners and

the meek.

I expect you have guessed the one I

mean--

The one about the Missus Queen."-

"Fellah that belong

We think it disgraceful to allow the Prince To belt around the track and make us all

wince!

"For no matter what a wag you are

You mustn't hit the knots in

Jaguar."

1 fast

But never Grundy,

mind the rocket from Mrs

He can thank his lucky stars it wasn't a

Sunday.

HI

Tho' a hundred an hour is going quite a

streak,

He was probably rehearsing for Paris,

next week.

They Never Come Out of the Dustbins

BRITAIN'S FRENCH "FORTNIGHT, aided by the 'Waiting for Godot' man brings London's looniest sell-out

By JOHN BARDER

How loony can you get?

To London comes A play with two crazy characters who spend aft their time in dustbins.

They keep pushing up their lids, like facks-in-the- box, to make quirky re- marks, Someone stands by

"to feed them and change their sand.

The pair are

in "Fin da Partic" (End Game: which opens at the Royal Court Theatre. It is on for only six performances. And, just to make sure it will be a sell- out, the whole thing is in French.

IS a

And it practically sell-out.

Threats

TO brighten it up. the hero

0

is blind. He is also cripple, confined to a wheelr chair. But his servant is luckier; he has an alarm clock, and a dog with three legs.

one

The servant keeps threatening TO leave the cripple. Why doesn't he? His master is the only who knows the combination of a safe which contains food for them all.

Suddenly they get worried about the old girl in the dust- bin. She has not bobbed up for a long time.

The servant lifts her lid, and looks in. "She's cry- ing.

"he says. "Oh, well,

she's

alive,"

says the cripple. It is said

to be the funniest line in the play.

Who wrote all this?

The Irish-Parisian author of the comic, compelling "Waiting for Codat, Samuel Beckett.

Trousers

MADNESS WITH THE LID OFF: CHRISTINE TSINGO AND GEBAGES ADET (LOOKING LIKE A MANIACAL MR. PUNEA).

man ordered pair of grumbled to the tailor: "It The play suggests that it trousers from a Savile Row took God only six days to is worth while taking pains tailor. He went back for create the world. It's taken to perfect human beings them in two weeks, but they you 12 months to finish one. were too tight. A month pair of trousers. later, he went back again.

Said the tailor: "Ah, but, Now they were too long. sir, look at the world

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even if the task often looks .hopeless.

Which suggests that

THE cripple tells a signifi- It was a year before they and then look at these everything in those dustbins

can! funny story. A were finished. The man trousers.'

The day I heard

the call of

the wild

HOW

To emigrate-or to stay in Britain? It's the question agitating thousands of homes. Here is one man's answer,

to be in England now that April's there --wrote the poet. What he wrote after that I have forgotten. Nowadays if he

by ROBERT MORLEY

were an Angry Young Poet has always struck me as being he would have

written bit of a halfwil. OOH! or possibly OUCH!

Mahlus

not

may not be rubbish.

'You must not expect life to be too easy to start with'

not

BALKANIE ZAAAAAALE JAIMETAL İZZAZIONALE G

evil, in which mankind rrowing wiser and happier through our efforts and even- tually

through theirs, Thero are many countries today where the faith of both child and dai cat must be sorely tested, but ours is not one of them.

this country we children to be tolerant because on the whole wo fairly tolerant ourselves.

In Coach

cân

Bra

A few of u may silil hunt, but very few witch-hunt.

ful ime. but when my young thing. Alone among the nations brother was, born 1 begged my Grent Britain .sulti docs

We are wonderfully lucky in father to explain to him how know what she wants. She has pur environment, Until you important the stuff is and he tried most things in her long have been abroad it is not easy. did it so thoroughly my brother career, .known poverty and to realise quite how lucky. nover smiled, again.”

affluence, tasted triumph and Comforting perhaps, but the sort of thing they'll under- I am left alone to plan our stand. In Canada, If we ever get new life in a brave now land. there.

Jook I pick up the paper and Canada Ja the place, I tell again ne the picture of

But till we got there? In When I look at the pictures some of us have already been to

the children, possibly because family on the quay,

my family, while we may quite often not want what we know, ir the Press of enormous Australia.

We will all go and

we seldom if ever know what families sitting around 1ve in Canada.

we want. on their suitcases on the quay about to board the ship which will take them away for over from these thores....when I road the grove pronounco

happy

ments of politicians about our prospects of

Left alone

...our inabile, survival country, a country of boundless

the

to

We should never manage look so confident--for one thing we should certainly have los some of the suitcases by this time.

Besides there are only Пve oz us and our Impact on Canada would be a good deat milder.

The price

go

defeat, made many friends and Until you have been roasted lost them, given to our civilise in a desert, shaken in an earth- tion, such as it is, conceptions quake, blown about in a hurri- of freedom and democracy and cane, or snapped at by a shark decency it never had before. you really cannot approciato

Bognor Regis. She has been guilty of cruelly and oppression and greed, but for every shade of

This is a country big enough always she has gone on learning opinion, for

political and no one has learned more

every Kind of from har mistakes than she has and nonsense of pomposity and wrider, for all sorts of mischiof herself.

real

That is, I suppose, the reason why my family at any

when they

common-sense.

Death trap

A MAN who knows what rate will never really get even You can grow up in a young

he wants can always have 1. as far as the quay. If we have to compete in opportunity.

All the same, Ave is quite a He has only to pay the price, anything in common with the There is no not useful number. The real trouble which is sometimes not very spirit of the country in which highest taxes in the world. A IT IS a fren country with the world markets....about OUT SCHIEC

in Canada, nothing to I suppose 1 that we're not д crippling taxation....our lack stop you all becoming million- very useful ti nily. •

clearly marked, and on we were born it is, I hope, this welfare stale with of incentive for the surtax payer aires, that is if you're prepared

death trap wanting it long enough, and refusal to get too depressed at every street comer. ....above all cur unwillingness to put your bucks into it.

one day he will got it. It may when things go a little wrong We are all quite propared to take a long time, sometimes a or too excited In work ng

hard na the

start life again and the children ifetime and often provo aise a lo right. My children, like Great Britain, today is to bo To bo bored or unhappy In poililelans themceives....I am You'll have to make new are perfectly prepared to be appointing on close inspection, till children, are bar optimit bored and unhappy with life. seized with a serme of guilt.

millionaires, Indeed they but it is lits in the end... friends of course....go to new come

they could never survive child- Our taste or, if you prefer 15, schools. The climate is quite already Imagine themselves different, we stall all enjoy that

to teach them the value hot in summer, very money. ...very cold

in winter.

I decide

to

be so. I have never managed Hought too highly it may hood otherwise,

of

ruin the buyer, but if he

Jucky enough to get it. cheap, and early ho can have a lot of

Good triumphs

our pelvilege, is to find a palloars of civilisation for ourselves and

Ure for world, and if we falt no one else is likely to succeed. IT IS THEN that I look at my

I once bemoaned this fact to fun. Unfortunately the world 1 GO ON talieing like this for a friend who leads an enviable is full of men who bought too

Only lie Impatient and the wife and together we look at the quite a long time until I realise and easy life in the art world, fear and destroyed themselves

foolish would want to emigrate children and 1 desile that we that no one is listening. They've "I shouldn't worry," he told me, in doing so.

and I, like all from Greut", Dritain In April parents, went our chlidren to 1937. Now letno, tima toon should emigrato. *Tite boy all gone into the other roum to "My father, brought me up Uke. slanding on the burning bridge watch television.

Nowadays the world is full or continue to belleve in a world my faintly round the televisiors that and I have had a wonder- countzioų doing much the same in which good · izluinglis, Jover NOCHURE

MY WIFE

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