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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1957.

MY EASTER EGG

by GILES

sonna had been shot, and before

JAMES

"It's full of carbide and heavy_water.”

JAMES MASON

INVESTIGATES

The secret

of the ebony ruler

MES MASON, star of island in the Bun, hea turned detective, He is investigating the murdar during the shooting of the Alm of Joseph Rapperley, a crooked inquiry agent, who had bribeki his way into the studio at Elstree,

Mason, with the aid of his co-stars, Michael Rennie, Joan Collina, Pat Owens and Stephon Boyd, has discovered that Rapperley was following a man called Jerry Wilton.

A few days earlier, a blonde calling herself Virginia Wilton had called at a firm supplying props to film studios and inquired about the furniture they had bought from the estate of her aunt, Mrs Wilton, In Yorkshire. But everything had been sent to the studios at Elstree, knows he must be on the right track for, after the murder, someone had tried prope department.

ONTRARY to popular

U report, James Mason had friends in Fleet Steet.. Now he telephoned one of them. સ reporter named Cliff Mitchell, and asked if ho knew

could find out anything about Mrs Wilton, of Yarrowdale Hall in Yorkshire, recently de- ceased.

OT

one very valuable diamond neck. lace was never recovered. Any use to you?"

"It might be. Is Jerry Wilton si in prison?"

TIME FACTOR

"No. He came out a few days Mitcholl laughed. "Easy to ago. You're rousing my curiosity, see you spend

James. most of your

What's it all about?" time out

Mrs of England. Wilton was a Yorkshire land- Owner, great sporting woman rand all that. Also aunt of the notorious Jerry Wilton."

"And who was Jerry Wilton?" Mason said casually.

"Why it seems that Wilton may have been down at the rtudios at just about the time Rapperley was killed yesterday, Does that mean anything to you?"

"Not a thing. What would Wilton be doing down there?"

Mason

to burgle the

A true-to-life murder mystery set in Elstree The background is the shooting of an "actual film (1land In the Bin

now awaiting relemre." Late already." He put down the receiver an a protesting Cli Mitchell and ran for the car.

Mason arrived to find that there had been a lighting short on the murder set and that the electricians were still working o In the projection room they were showing some of the previous day's rushes, and while they waited Mason had a chance to outline his theory about the case to the others.

NOT FOUND

"There was a diamond neck- lace that was never recovered, and Jerry Witon was arrested

The necklace too. Wilton followed, in

had He the hope

"Who was

Jorry Wilton?" wykéd Mason.

that Wilton would lead him to

Then bas got wanted?"

What

arX - don't know, about that,” Mamona maldi, "whera mây hayo been more than one'aborty riadne in the Property Department, We can check thiab and we own

bro check whether the ruler that should be on the Stago Three set is there now,”

They went to the Belfortaine set on Stage Three, There, on the dasic Mason had indicated, was a heavy obory ruler, Zantick shook his headl with low scepticlam. Mason's face reck- dened,

"He could have put it basic,” he said obstinately. "I'm going to talk to the Property, Masler,”

J

THREE ONLY

"Ebony rulers,” Jack Ramsay said slowly. "Why, yes, I think wo've got three of 'em, Where are they? We'll have to look

that up in the books”

Mason walbel while largo volumes were consulted. At last Ramsey

sild

trhumphantly: "Three, that's right. One on Stage Three, Belfontaine Interior, 020

Stage Oric,

Carson Interior One in stock. I'll just check that it is in stock. Should

in be

the

*Offlec Accessories' drawer,"

Mason walled agaió, tensely. his hands gripping the counter. IL was five minutes before como back looking "Funny thing, it's not

Ramsay

puzzled. there

"Thanks. That's all I wanted to know."

It is not often that a leading actor is seen sprinting out in the open, as Mason sprinted now between the buildnigs, Ho reached Stage One, pushed open the swing doors and raced up the steps on to the rostrum.

The electricians and carpenters working there looked at him in astonishment,

"There's an ebony ruler being used as a prop somewhere on the set. Can you tell me where it ia?"

"Sure, It's on Carson's writing bureau over there"

THE SECRET

it

It and came down to Elstreet and demanded & half share in the loot, Jerry Wilton had no inten. Joan Collins and Stephen Boyd 11oy of sharing the proceeds of set. The stllis cameraman takes one always, after shootingʻa Also, the necklace,

It would

• Mason walked over to have been fatal for him to be shed, in the rushes thera revealed as an Intruder on the an ebony ruler on a desk. In almost imidly. The raier, was

the still it's not there."

on the bureau, black and shining. He picked it up and "Let me Bet"

Mason almost shook it. There was no sound. intched the contact print from Ho pulled at either end, with her in bis excitement. Then be no result They to twisted it. said to Ross, "Bob, do you One end came off, and there think we might have those last cascaded to the floor something rushes again?"

bright and shining.

sot.

+

"He hasn't

yet had time to burgle the Property Department, where he expocta to find what ho's looking for. He stragies Rapperley and hides bin body temporarily, then breaks into the Property Department,

"Now, there is only one person who could be Jerzy Wilton, 1s obvious that---”

LIGHTS OUT

went

down, and The lights they began to watch the rushes of the fim shot on the previous day There was a small insert

1

Rossen looked at hii iti astonishment. "But you're not in those scenes, Jiming."

"It's connected with murdes yesterday."

that

let's

All right then, have them agam,"

They ram throug the three takes again. The others looked at Masin expectantly.......... He said

Joan Collins said: “I don't see....

of

of Mason picking up a cigarette slowly: "In all three takes there stub, looking at it with suspicion is a round ebony ruter a desk (did it mean that his wife had there on the right. In the still taken a lover?) and putting it it's not there," down again. Then there were three takes of the seeno between Stephen Boyd and Joan Collins, his aunt's house. Suppose

The lights went up again. that he managed to hide it just Rossen and Zanuck murmared before his arrest, in some piece "It's a long story, but it my

"The decona take, I ideas are right the case might of furniture. Then his aunt dieser

in prison, and the think," Bossen said; be cleared up today. I'll let you while he's

moment anything furniture is sold. When he gets happens."

out he is able, through this blonde bombshell friend of his, to trace the future down here. He comes down to try to EXCL it.

JEWEL THIEF

"My word, your education has been neglected. Jerry was Mrs -Wilton's nephew, dashing young man about county society, shoot ing and fishing and all that. Turned out to have been living know way above his income, did some Raffic work in the way of lift- ing jewellery at cocktail parties and Hunt Balls and so on.

"Got pinched-arrested in his aunt's house, shocking scandal and sent up for four years.

the

"Would you like to see the sluff in our files? We've got photographs-n"

would loo to see them, very much, but I've no ume, Most of the stuff was found, but Got to get down to Elstree,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

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| ASKS MANDRAKE..

"Now, from what Mike found out, and Pat overheard, it seems clear that Rapperley was after

SPACE, WHEN OUR

PEOPLE USED TO

TRAVEL. THEY WERE SE CHASED BACK--

DANGER-WE HAD THEN. FROM FROM WHOM? YOU HAVE NO ENEMIES

Mason was sitting next to continuity girl Maggie Shipway, who had the script in front of her. "That's funny," she said,

By this time be wap alert for any oddity, "What def?!!

"It's nothing important. But here's a contact print of that

By Lee Falk and Phit Davie

FROM SOME STAR SYSTEM

Zanuck rolled the cigar round in his mouth. "So" somebody shifted it. What then?"

HIS THEORY

Mason outlined quickly, his theory about Jerry Wilton, Zanucks listened with polite this belief, "Four idea is that these diamonds are hidden in the ruler and that this Jerry Wilton lifted it in the few minutes after the

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Mason picked up the necklace wonderingly, knowing that he had come to the end of a quest,

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