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THE CHINA MAIL, - SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.

THE DOUBLE WHITE LINE SYSTEM

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NO OVERTAKING WHEN LINBROKEN

WHITE LINE IS

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THIS is the Gin

GORDONS

DRY GIN

LONDON

MERCH HESESWARE ORD

E office door said, in

Tilt lettering, dorpie

Kapperley and

Associates.

Private and Confidentiel Investigations. On the day of his death Mr Joseph Rapperley, a dwarfish

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with tiny legs and a large head. paused for a moment to admire the words then pushed open the door.

art

BEGINS TODAY

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"Oh dear! I've left my reading glasses at home.”

A true-to-life murder mystery which takes you behind the scenes

at Elstree while a big film (yet to be released) is being made

the

13 brea

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was genuine

To the genuine clients tor phone at roo who occasionally came To consult Joseph Rapperley

That's righ

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and Associates (although Sex or

Fox 4 Mis

these were in fact one and the Son, which Twenbeth Cen- the Bame, the Associates ture providing merely a slight ben ú

ly grandiose transatlantic

dowtr

Bappet law perched himself on

from a lovely book by Alee Waugh about the colour problems. In the West Iniles you know. There's this planter family and they turn out to have, you know, stane coloured blood,"

The son, that's James Mason, that's Patriclo thinks his wife. Owens, has been playing around with an Anglo-Indian Colonel that's Michel Reinie. Then the planter's daughter, that's Jon Collins, fall, m love with the son stephen Boyd"

of the island's Governor, that's

JAMES

MASON

investigates

séting" He smiled suddenly.

Am I being impossible?"

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pollte, "It's a long time sipee wont to look for Mr Mason. Sho What are you doing now?" I've heard from you, Rapperley, failed to find him on the set

but she did and Joan Collins andis Stephen Boyd, waiting while "James," Joy Raymond sald, stand-ins released for lighting" "you say the things other people

only think. I like that." effects in their love scene.

Itapperley's whine became more pronounced. "John, I'll be frank with you. I've been down

my bit of

touch). Joe Rapperley the desk Tell me about it," would point out the framed covers of a magazine which decorated the wall. and harsh hint darkly at the treatment he had received from those in authority.

It was true that he had down in the world. come Rapperley's Weekly Record had been a news sheet with some five thousand readers,

ou my luck this last couple of who enjoyed its scandalous, knowing-tit-bits about stage

trouble, and I've got a chance to and film personalities, and followed Joo Rapperley's "All right." Rapperley tapped pull myself up. I'm working free the desk. liance now, and an old chum of tips on the stock market. It with his angers on

"Get me John Ware, publicity mine has said he'll take a piece WBS in connection with

director of Twentieth Century from me about this film you're shooting at Elstree, Islend in these tips that Joe Rapper- Fux. will you? I used to know

the Sun, Can I go down on the ley had quietly relieved an hu in the days when

to look old gentleman of his life. Record was a power in the land," set, today, John, just

around for a couple of hours?" savings by representing to him the virtues of a non- existent South American lead mine and found himself serving a three-year prison Bentence for fraud.

Since then Joe Rapperley had made 41 living in var- Jous dishonest

ways.

Joe Rapper-

ley hung up his hat, opened

desk, took his hrst

snort

a drawer of the

of

whisky that

day, went to the outer office and said: "What's now,

Mille?

Has Bacup been

In touch?

Joo

Bacup was a dim litle man employed b

to keep track of possi- bly interesting lind profitable matters of various curious kinds, a well 18 tor the routing work of divorce,

Millicent Peol, Joe's secretary, said: "Yes. He rong up with a report about Jerry Wilton. He's Допо to Elstree,"

NANCY

Always polite

the

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siner

{ hurd

"Joan and Stephen, there's a journalist named Joe Rapperley Let me think' who wants to come down on the set today. Any objections?"

Stephen Boyd looked blank, Joan Collins wrinkled her small, as if she smelled elegant nost something distasteful,

"He's a perfectly hateful man. He Once wrote Д purugraph about me in a little paper he ran. Sald I had nothing to offer the world but sex appeal."

When John Wore explained to Rapperley that it wouldn't be convenient for him to go down the little MEET on the get, slammed down the receiver,

"If Jerry Wilton can get down on that fim set I can get there, John Ware's voice was cold.

too." Rapperley's large head "Some of the scandal you used

waggled furiously. "And it must to invent wasn't calculated to

be Important. Millie, do you Julm Ware heard Rupperley's endear you to film companies. I "Yes, dear." Joy Raymond understand that? No, you don't voice,. rasal and self-pitying, should want to see a draft of looked slightly harassed.. "But understand anything, that's what with no pleasure at all. But anything you did.

do you absolutely object to his 1 pay you for. Now, just let me publicity director is always

think. "Of course, John," Rapperley's presence on the set?" voice was earnest wheedling.

I can't work while

that man is

there

says Mason

·NANCY -- THERE'S NO GLUE ON. THIS, ENVELOPE --- WILL

YOU GET THE · GLUE

AND SEAL IT FOR ME 3

-OH, DEAR--- THE GLUE 15 IN THE BASEMENT--

That's all over. Now I'm Just Padded off

trying

a Hving. You 10 007 wouldn't stop a man carning a Eving now, would you?

"If nobody else minds I don't want to sound stuffy. Hadn't you belter ask Jimmy?"

As soon as Rappericy, was off the line, Ware rang Joy Ray- mond who was in charge of "I'm on my way now.” Joy publicity on the set. "Joy, you Raymond padded off again. Sho know I'm sending down a party finally found James Mason in of visitors today,

his dressing room, correcting

the "Yes. Four of them, in't that proofs of an anthology about cats. He put it down when she ex-" right?"

plained her armand, and began lo stride up and down the room, As he strode he talked quickly Joe Rapperley mean anything to but calmly with only a certain

glitter in

eye indicating "Rings abell. Isn't he the emotion, man who used....!

"Right. Now does the name

you?"

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his

"Nobody, I hope, would nETUSO me of being unco-operative, Joy,

"He used to run a scandal sheet called Rapperley's Weekly but I remember one or two of Record, and he's asked to come the things this man Rappericy about mo-and other down today, spun ma a hard luck wrote story. Now, I don't like to push people too a few years ago For a man deeper in the muck, but that really disgusted me,

to that matter, he's a disgusting some of the stuff he used

Didn't he go to write was just poison. Will you lo man. take a sounding with Jimmy prison?" Mason and Joan Collins and got their reactions? Use your tact. Call me back."

"What's tact dear? All right, I'll do my best,"

Joy Raymond put down the telephone, sighed, pushed a pilo of papers to one side, patted a few untidy halts into place, and

--- AND IT'S SO CREEPY DOWN THERE

Very likely. John Ware sald he spun a hard-luck tale. Bo what do we tell him?"

Mason stopped pacing, and stared of her. "I can't tell you that, I only know this. It hap- porley came on the set I should

how It even though I didn't seol him, and I simply couldn't go on

By Ernie Bushiniller

it was just after lunch when a props van drove up to the gate at Elstree and was passed through. Once it had got out of sight of the gate a dwarfish figure with heavy body and tiny legs jumped down from the inside, walked

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Why can't Mummi), 'get an angry young man of her own to be explotted by?!**

ROWNTREES

By

JULIAN SYMONS

round to the driver and handed him a pound note.

"Ere what's this?" the driver said angrily. "We fixed two quid. You've made an illegal entry, you know that, and I I was to report yer —”

"And admit that, you brought mb in?" the other Fenetred. "You'll take one and be thank- ful. Let it be a lesson to you. Next time get the money, in advance."

Ho scurried quickly away on his short legs and rounded the comer outside Stage One. That

the

Inst

time anybody admitted seeing Joe Rapperley alive,

was

Monday:

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