1957-09-14 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957.

TRY READING THIS WITHOUT MOVING YOUR EYES

by ROBERT PITMAN

HE is the man with the conten

private cloud,

You can almost see it hovering above his thinning hair as he sits opposite you in the evening train.

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He may be a bishop or A business executive or DVCHI Junior Minister. But as cloud is always of standard patiem.

is the sud, learken Tile IL cloud which belongs to every man who knows that, before he gets to bed, he has got to push himself through three

hours of reading.

dense

Documents, Jesearch reports, White-papers. They can wit you to a bleak shadow. They can even lull-as they undoubt edly killed Eustat Bevin and Stafford Cripps,

ilut is only Intely that this mote problem of 19 much to read has been lackled in the modern way. Dy speed. Learn to read twice as fast.

You enjoy reading? Well, Then the experts reply you double the speed, there's

us much enjoyment for

TRIP GAILY

lee

you

Twice as many novels and articles. Twice as much tha

Even twice as much Greene. Ursula Bloom,

by psychologisin. In All the moment, while you are there urc reading ploughing through this article, efficiency classes at several your eyes are probably flicker- feclinical colleges.

ing in jerks along the line and then switching back to Use beginning of the next line like the carriage of a typewriter. AH! MUSIC

And now an expert has come train

forward of enable you yourself at home,

That is not necessary, accord- ing to the Bayley method. The meaning of an entire line enn often be taken in at a glance.

And with newspapers, and toith books too, aye-flicker is saved if you aim your eyes not at the first word in every ne but at the second or even the

COME

OUT

OF

Hanging out the umalla

THE NURSERY

and speak like an adult WOMAN I know goes through agonies whenever she buys Stilton. "Mild or tasty 7" the grocer asks briskly. place for a "tasty" anything. is driven to reply, "Not And my friend, whq will not ask in a public

quite the mild, if you please."

He is Mr Harry Bayley, an

hao educationist, who

taught The executives of Leyland solote

10 trip gaily through thick engineering reports in hal the usual time.

His new book Quicker Reading Pitman, 213.) is a complete reside course in the art of just wit the Utic anys.

briefly is the Bayley What method? First cure yourself of a number of bad old faults, third.

FAULT NUMBER ONE is wanan your head from side to side us you read. If you

A little round about, But it clamp your head steady be

Ee the only way of tween your hands you will dis- batred of vocalisation a Httle seems to

too far, For example, he tells protesting against these coy. cover That your eye span is xu!-

eient for the widest book. you to avoid sounding the words cosy words that are belag Im- FAULT NUMBER TWO is to yourself when you are read-Pose on us by coy, cosy people who would not even call a toy Bayley calls ing the dialogue in a story. speedm

spade a toy spade. "vocalisation."

fault That

ncosense, Halt the wisien makes him very erosA. cnjoyment would be drained from most novels, whether by Arnold Berne Amly, if you griored the sound of what the characters say

what

It is

It is not enough to keep your ps light shut and retrain from muttering aloud, If you want to be a speedy render it is

[ recommend the Bayley method except that....

Tutor Bayley

curries

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his

Most of these coy words scom to have begun in the nursery, They come to vigorous, adult life Kingsley in the women's magazinės.

ve ential

The sante applies to Shake- ia Avold even finagtitig! the sounds of the speare, of course, And to other words is your eye sees them.

poelry. And-even to the FAULT NUMBER THREE China Mall. After all, just is excessive

Your think what a wealth of subtle eye-Bleker. eyes only do the actual reading, word music you would lose if Already thousands of Ain:0)- when they are not moving, you read through Milton can business inen have been The more they move, the slower Shulman or Alan Föby without spurred thigh quick-rcucing you rend.

vocalising.

Pampered

High up on my Ils comes ELEVENSES. Granny Grove is gone, but eleverses stays. When you hear a biologically, mature man asking for his clevensey, don't you feel like reaching for bib, rattle and high-chair?

When

people talk about WOOLLIES I always feel they

THE WHITE ALOOFNESS OF THE SNOWY PEAKS,

OUT OF THE NIGHT

by Hugh Merrick. Published by Robert Hale, 10/6.

THIS

is

quite definitely a book for those who go up the mountains with The Author, Hugh ropes. Merrick, is a writer with splendid eye for detail, and has vivid descriptive powers. In other words, he is at his best when he deals with what he knows; he is less happy when he tries to write in background theme on what he does not know. Therefore, the book falls into two parts lending to the elimax which dles. cribes tragedy mountain slope.

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Hugh Merrick seems consider ably influereed by Henley. The title you will recognise is taken

trem Henley's poem. So is the thene of the subjective part of the bunk, for it has Sir Arthur Hennissey considerably bowed beneath the bludgeoning of Fate.

a memorable picture

be

by V. S. NAIPAUL

the West Indian author of The Mystic Musarr

a

her

have cold little tootsies. If think hard enough, the character of the wearer of woollies comes alive. She

pampered, petulent little thing, screaming for AFTERS after elevenses. She is to be pacified betere she can

corxed

into doing SMALLS.

That's a dainty But it immediately suspect the worst. But is it always appropriate? Suppose the germents In question belonged to the nwhre of a FULLER FIGURE!

little word.

makes one

(But we must be careful here, She might be somebody's LITTLE WOMAN, A horrible mun's word that. And I can' blame the little woman for hit-

recapture something that was through which he could expressing right back at the LITTLE mlaxing....'

Notice the presentation, KI- must the sermün mood,

the experiences. he has himself

perienced as a climber.

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The Author has Hennissey night out his last battle with Fate upon the

mountain top.

Contrast that with the things with whleit the writer is common ground:

MAN who dues so many wor derful things money.)

for such

The coyest

woman with the

little

the

fuller

There it is Hennissey proves that Of course, what drives his head is "bloody but unbow-little 113

ed." But the reader is nol con- figure to the OUTSIZE SHOP vinced, and I think Hugh Mer- is the feet she 'coesn't know rich could have told the tale how to pull in her

stomach. The reader who delights in the without such an introvert theme. Sorry, Iineant TUMMY.

There's the coyes! of all these co3" words.

The Oxford Dictionary says:

Tummy, noun (nursery),

That's precisely where tummy and words like tummy should

"Minutes seemed to pass the rope ran out unebecked till the suddenly the full force of fallen man's weight plucked his his unsecured companion from steps. With a sickening jerk it catapulted him clear of mountainside in a wide, high outlined are, his lying body

The glacier sacklike against levels.

the

The reader feels he has had to accept tun much, and even if es, the tragedy is made to read like a newspaper report, As a contrast, the part of the tale which describe. Hennissey ring to the Alps to recep ture his earlier paise is finely told. The result is an unevezess That is good writing, and the of composition.

greater part of the book is full Read this:

of it. I rend it at one sitting, Now if he went back 19 but even now i still retain the the mountains, even if he won. Arst impression, that Huga Mer- ulone, might he not in some way rick sought around for a theme

the 011

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

BON VOYAGE

SOME OF THEM START TO FEEL QUEER BEFORE THE SHIP LEAVES THE DOCK- THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

OTHERS WOULDN'T DREAM OF GETTING SEASICK - HOWEVER, THEY DONY OBJECT TO A SLIGHT CASE OF MAL DE MER.

ISOME PEOPLE

SAY YOU

WON'T BE. SEASICK, IF YOU JUST MAKE UP. YOUR MIND

NOT TO BE

THIS TAKES. - A STRONG

| MIND AND

A STRONG

STOMACH:

SHE SAYS.

great outdoors will welcome the book for its authentle tone, and will doubtless climb and descend that diicult last slope with the unhappy Henniesey. The sus- pense is well maintained, and the white aloofness of the snowy peaks forms a memorable pic: ture.

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stay.

But perhaps you don't cerec. Perhaps you approve of ike Edwardian lady who called t miscarriage

Mademoiselle Voiture.

Seasick Symptoms

A

WHAT YOU NEED IS A BRISK

WALK AROUND THE DECK!

YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU

CAN WALK, AS FAR AS THE RAIL YOU'LL BE DOING GOOD.

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COM. 1117 ST GENERAL FEATURES COMP. TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

I PRESCRIBE

A SIP OF CHAMPAGNE

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION-

Why Tommy Is The

Golden Boy

MY BREAKDOWN:

STORY CONTENT:

Tommy,

it the age of 20, his had procti- cally no life to Bim.

MUSICAL CONTENT:

CYRIL SEAPLETON'S · COLUMN of the 13 songs he sang in the

LONG Wardour Street there are those who would ALONG Wd to putke a British musical film is to lay an outsize egg at the box-office.

Yet the accountants have just finished totting up a Bgure that contains enough eggs to prove that Tommy Steele can give them the lle.

"The Tommy Steele Story" netted £100,000 prost- and that's only so far.

Looked at dispassionately, it is fantastic that Steele could have succeeded where so many have failed. Analyse the Alm, and the answer to the enigma just is not there.

THE

SKELETON

IN the Skeifton Crossword the

black

and Quares

clue Barbers have to be led in as well as the words. Four black squares and four elue numbers have been inserted to glen you a Fart. The black squares form a

ACROSS

1. Ireland's patron.

8. Dis ming

an objec

tion to the

old instru

ment.

9. Permit to rent Accom modation?

10, Is he al

ways try ing to rise? 11. Learn from this writer.

12. Try to

mako clear

what used to be quite obvious.

13. I have my rent alterod, but

am doing noulloz

15. Ualform means, of locking

the vehicle, so we hear. 17. They don't sound

-interested in their director

ships.

very

18. I have a certain value when

I lose my temper.

21. He can take if

23. Shot everybody inside for

something to eat.

24. I'm a fool to accumulate. 15. Farewell to the people you

met in France.

26. Not this, you observe.

27. 13 a note required to esta b-

Itsh that it

WAS once independent?

18. Show consideration in one

particular

DOWN

1. When you join in you take a role and end as one might anticipate.

2. Figures to bleat about.

3. Only ụ small piece of fated da

allowed.

4. Having the you can nolp

taking other things.

& Comes down rather bravily

** NOW rond

symmetrical pattem: the toy ball matches the bottom half and the two alden correspond. Sa you can dili la 10 more squares 21 onee to correspond with those riven..

6. Ile's crazy to get the engine

going.

7. It could be all up for her.

8. Whore the law la inid down

to the people involved with the rackets ?

14. Result of removing mos: ol

the protection.

10. Under which you may keep a

confidence.

19. You'd expect a girl to change

with gym to follow,

20. Where Ocraigs eat in thell

carcles enthusiasm.

21. Makes no progress in the

Corsetry business

22 She had a change of ou od

May 8. 1043

FRIDAY'S SOLUTION ·

WUFHINGWELL -

JCONI S

By Harry Weinert

IF THE DOC SAID,

"TAKE A TEASPOONFUL

TAKE A TEASPOONFUL-

NOT A

SLUG.

"ME, I EAT A HEARTY MEAL, SO IN CASE

1 GET SICK, MY STOMACH HAS SOMETHING

TO GO ON —

AS YOU

MIGHT

SAY

"WELL, IF THEY GUARANTEED THOSE PILLS WOULD_

PREVENT SEASICKNESS

YOU HAVE A

GOOD. CASE --

I'D

SUE 'EM ¿*

THE CONDEMNED MAN ATE A HEARTY: BREAKFAST.

Im becsune a hit.

STAR APPEAL: On the nets no namce

are

ing side there apart from Tommy.

PRODUCTION STANDARDS: It was made on a budget that would barely have göt Mike Todd round the Inner Circle, let alone round the world in 80 clays.

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None of this, apparently, kept the cash customers away. They acem determined to promote their Cinderella-man into tho Prince-of-Players class.

"All that is needed, it scerns, are durable vocal cords, a toothy grin, a gullar, and a Cockney accent. Or, to put it another way, we.cnn go on making lucrativo. British musicals Dx long as there are sufficient Tommy Slecies to meet the de- mandi,

A habit

H

RUMPET - PLAYING band-

leaders seem to muke habit of marrying blonde bainl. shella

Harry James, you may recall, married Betty Grable. Ray Anthony walized off with ano of Hollywood's nower pla-ups, Mamie Van Doren. The other day I renewed nequaintance with | Day at dinner, I was a some- what duller meal than at our last inceling. Then, we hai Supper

with Mamic at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles.

Why no Mamie on his first rip to England?

"Who," demanded Ray, “would attention to me, if pay any Mamie 'were here?" (He is here on a fact-finding tour.)

Since

there las marriago, been some merging of their

chreers.

Ray has put in ey- pearances in Alms "Daddy Long Legs" with Fred Astaire and, more recently, "This Could Be The Night," with Simmons, And Ray, now Records.

Joan

Ilke Mamle, records for Capitol

"She's going to be a great singer one day," he told mo. Such a talented spouse could woll threaten Anthony's status es the family provider if one of her records clicked. And among her future plans are more records, a vocal date in Las Vegas at 8,000 dollars (£2,850) week and a Sim in Italy.

New look

DAISE a cheer for the three

u New Look to the mer- dominated record charts-- Winifred Atwell, Lita Rozi, and someone

You may have never heard of-Betty Smith,

Winnle has come up with another bright idea on "Street In Sorrento," t gay musical novelty. She sent a copy of the records to the Mayor of Sor rento, and that enterprising gentlemon is writing personally to the world's disc-jockeyn:

Presumably he will demand in the name of justice that they Include Winnie's dise in their programmes as a tribute to the attractions of the Sorrentine Peninsula,

Lita Roza has produced what those in the know are calling her best effort of all time, u soulful ballad entitled "Don't Change. And if you thinks that our girls just can't con- pete with their American cousins Isten and adm!! you were wrong.

Betty Smith plays that most unladylike instrument, the tenor saxophone-and ED very much better than you would guess. Her efforts In that direction will not evoke half as many compilments, though, as her ap real as a singer.

Her version of the oldie, "There's a Blue Ridge Hound My Heart, Virginia," should ap- peal equally to tie teenagers of the twenties and the cool cats of the 'fifties." Not an easy gay to bridge.

Mum's battle

IT looks like being the battle of the Mums on the song "Tammy in this country any- way.

Mrs Edulo Fisher (Debbio Reynolds to you) is the mother of a bouncing girl and, has pushed her recording ΟΣ "Tammy" into first place the American Best Bolling Charts: Kathle Kar, matter of three sons, is the British protagonist, an

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I have nothing against Debbie, but I hopa honours in the duci go to Kathio, There is 10- thing - Wirming: about a MEETI who refuses stardomi,“ because she puts her children first,

Kathie is known as the big- gest commuter in the British pop world. Sho has fown 10,483 miles in trips from ́her. home in Glasgow' to fulfť re- cording, broadcasting änd) TV- dater din end- manik.

But will the soltin in Town?

· Never demanemud