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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1968.
WINS TV PRIZE Lady Black
WITHOUT SET
Bristol, Sept 10.
pras
A man without a television met, Dr E E. S. Corner, awarded today the first prizo of £360 in a British Broadensting Corporation competition for television playwrling.
Opens Chinese
Art Display
Lady Black expressed Con-
"I cannot afford one," said Dr Corner. 34-year-old research gratulations upon a "magnificent biochemist at the Marine Biolo-
array of Chinese paintings by gical Laboratory at Plymouth,
Internatioel group of students," when she opened the 2nd Exhibition sponsured by the International Studio of Chinese
His prize-winning 90-minute piny, the first ho han ever writien, is called "The Stone Ship" and is based on his own experience of several years' service in the Royal Navy. | China Mall Special.
Fog Blankets All England
London Sept. 16. Fog uvering most of Eng- land this morning closed poris, stopped shipping and de- layed trains.
New Interest In A
Pre-War Cozzeńs
happens time and again, that when an author at last succeed. In writing a book which sets the reading public mad with excitement, his earlier books are eagerly sought, and with the delight of his publishers, re-issued. This has happened in the case of "Ask Me Tomorrow," by James Gould Cozzens, and it has been brought about by the amazing success of an amazingly good plece of writ- Art at St Jolm's Cathedral Halling, "By Love Possessed," revlowed in these this morning.
earlier in the year.
The work of Mr and Mrs with 82 of Chow China chịu their students was offeelively duplayed at the Exhibition
bo which will open to the public for four days. The walls of the Old Hall were de- corned with artistic scrolly Landscape DeCNCS, depicting flowers and foliage and natmal life.
"Ask Me Tomorrow," had The misfortune to be plnend on The book market
in the year 1040, at me when the read- ing world was absemed by very real drain being ployed In that part of Europe covered by the bevsk.
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the main rib-
What I call blacked out
London and its diversionary airports were all for a time,
Shipping was halted in the fulver Thamce. Rush-hour
Upon her arrival at the Hall, Lady Black was greeted by Mrs K. C. Johnson-HIB,
patron. Lady Bastyan, Mirs G. D. A Gregory
As Alr Commodore trains. D. Holder, suburban
whose wife is bringing workers Into Central one of the exhibitors, viewed London wero lato-Ching Mail the
the work on display In hall, crowded with viewers. Special.
RESCUED
Aden, Sept. 16,
Other exhibitors who had submilied paintings chosen among the 100 entries to be shown
at the Exhibition }- cluded Mrs C. J. Norman, Mrs P. C. M. Sedgwick, Mrs D. L. A total of 82 survivors ix- Strellett, Miss June Calor, Mrs leved to be pligrims who were L. C. Kemp, Mrs E. R de travelling aboard the motorship Sousa, Mrs H. Elfwendahl, Mrs. Al Mowaffaq which capsized. Beazley, Mrs J. F. Perrine, Sunday were plekad up by Mes C. A. R. Wright-Nooth, the tanker Nefais, reported a Mrs L. Zigul, Mrs Anita Yang. Local radio broadcast here to Mr Tommy Kán and Mr Charles duy.
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man
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many cats are getting would have broken any cumel's marooned in irees in back. I had a band with the nests flags of the nations on it, and a Gloucestershire thist Among the boughs are to be very narrow brim. It was worn
aver one car by a young But for fremen.
One schools of though Buys who was strolling by the that the sight of these nests will Two girls passed him, and he Up hla Bungest to the eats the presence removed his hat, held of birds, and will only increase thumbs and cried "What do you girls the rush to get at them. The know?" And one of the other school says that cats are replied, "Enough in brush you "Re-lax," re- Intelligent enough to recognise off, Viscount!"
even nesting reman by his plled the gay Lothario, hal, and that if they know they Ick, tek
are to be rescued they will not Is one must have got think worth white to climb
broadside," remarked
be
in matter which in fouches my honour.
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columns
A
traction, they sit enjoying
tile Offenbach at kursoal concert."
Your real novel reader will deligst in the slyle, and find us in all Mr Cozzen books, there is a kind of formula upon which would tre cariler decideti he btäld, success, achieving it at last, this year.
Take one highly Instropec- tive character, allow his mind
the upon
daily witerever It might be
of Mr Cozzens, his to comment sessions carlier
intolerance of the Eng- stede
his tourist, ish knowledge of, and eagerness to more display, classe reading; his de- mundane light in being academically vulgar, for he tells a naughty Joke with all the pomposity of
book,
undoubted allow him to ensure others
an
From
King Wo
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
cattle worth £3-million will die in the current Northern Territory drought-the worst in living memory,
Sydney, (By Airmail). Newspapers this week have continued to hammer experiencel in The
home their belief in the need for an inquiry things, to speculate
into the police force and stories of alleged upon what lies outside the main character's expertence, and you
bashing and corruption get more and more finish up with an objective, if
prominent each day. Archbishop, are all in this, not profound statement on the world as we find it, Sales and
Mrs Gertrude Melville, to six ratnie months; water sinners, there are none, Every
matter one, and
anyone,
is the only surce of supply. what happens to him is you, but for the Grace of God,
China Mail
Book Review
by John Luff
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Thousands of acres of some
of the best pastures ore bare due
Seventy-three-year-old
MLC out of the hurly-burly for so long, holes have dried and bore water admits that she is bewildered by the hornet's Two of the biggest stations on nest her original speech in the Upper House the Barkly Tablelands estimate calling for the inquiry has stirred up.
organised
that they will lose half their herds-60,000.
☆
Brian Holmes (“Chik- ka") Travers, 39, who left Sydney's top school, Shore, in 1937 as head prefect, goes back next year as headmaster.
Now, rather I with worry, Robertson and Li-General Sir "Ask Me Tomorrow" is pot
the object of bitter comments William Bridgeford, who bes in the Italy, Switzerland, and
by members of her own Party, been quiet siner he Rivlera during the years in- the target for an attack by Melbourne's Olymple Gomes, mediately preceding World War
That Master of Bitterness, Living around Sydney are Lt. Ellery, the elever Miniater
Billy General Sir Iven Mackay whe 1. Francis
for Health, but umairesful young writer. Sheahon, she has stucie man had 10 years os Australian High
a love affair is the fully to her guns, not only Commissjonen in India; engaged
the BOULO
her repeating
Sir Frank eatly charges, General commentator of
wylio is Executive which is, of course, as James | but adding to them.
The speech she made in de Sydney's Royal Show Gould Cozzens rees 11. And he
statement Li-General Sir John
bus who has taken up many impor DC. Robson, week
last
sees it with remarkable percep-tence of her carlier tion, and describes it with re- in the House painstaking markable skill:
It has all the polish and skilled craftsman- ship of "By Love Possessed," and for the reader who is in- terested in the craft as well as the subject of story telling, you can see the younger Cozzeria at work with the same formula,
the experience but lacking which goes into his major work.
He takes a young American, a writer, fairly hard up, rela him down in Italy and Switzer- loud, and shows us the events of every ordinary day through Francis Ellery's eyes and mind,
The treet. I refuse to take sides man in an "exclusive" West End NO way restaurant, as a cataract of shot
rattled out of the grouse on At times the prose is superb, his plate. It
afterwards an was
the
Intoxicated slightly That the under-chet Francis trying CTUAL Treasury supervision discovered
to seduce the
13 plain Miss Robertson, an clever bit of
Suet explains
administration
of Government expendi who puts the shot in birds of tuve la a system of centralised doubtful Image and habitat had exasperatingly
estimates overdone things while talking to j writing. The reader, especially kaving a very wide margin of his mate. error for the disbursement of At last Parying sun. The reason for
the
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ASK ME TOMORROW by Could Coxxens James
Green Longma 01, HK$12.50.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
"Tailored" Taylor
the male, is all in sympathy with the Francis not under the HAVE waited for
who for influence, years
knows Mins Sir: Re A. J. P. Taylor's difference ben CHOTMOLLS
some film star to be applied Robertson, is more of a nuisance article in the China Mall's ts:ue turen estimates and actual cosis
ily by the publicity men
than anything else, and would is that, economically speaking, voricet on "We are just good long to go to bed. But the of September 15, leaving aside costs tend to exceed calinvites, friends. 1 rund thai
part of of Intoxicated Francle says, "Why the puerile 'historical he to a corresponding them has said, referring to his let this escape you?" For it. I am rather concerned about eeease of costs ope estimates, second
are much study in olenbolic schizophrenia, Taylor's hysterical incrimination wife, "We (C. Suel, Esq.) better friends now than when I've never read better.
of American policy and his Points from letters
we were married.
franile-but not frank-call for pence.
DOES Mis Kipstone really
think that it more bor- barous to send a mouse to the
Lo moon than
disappoint the millions who dream of seeing a British mouse win the race 10 get there?
The
bubbles on Mr Stanley Upchurch's lemonade are probably of his own making. Greedy drinkers seldom control tir breath properly,
Is it nol high time "Revolted" realised that it la Just as cruel to cat cels as lo eat pheasants?
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Could not liquorice de chemically, trested in guch a way that it would make reliable substitute for the pre- sent tawdry bootlaces? Seaside idyll
WOULD that tho hatiers ot Luton, their servied ranks, could have seen the straw list to end all strew hats. It
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The following paragraph is
His peneral description of the the only one worthy of atten- English tourists. "The holiday- Alon-
ing families, aloudly Jostling
each other, bringing their tea, ordering bottled water, discreet- ly ascertaiting the whereabouts of the w... had,-while they fovelgnness' just preserved its
as the game was preserved at home nude the country theirs."
Thon this abard paraphrase from "As You Like It," referring
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"Our Government
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great chance. I recovandees Communist China. Its volce counts Washington. Let It cdine forward as mediator."
Observe that Taylor did not "I recognises the United Ils voice States of America. counts in Peking."
say:
LI- Berryman Director of Socioly: Nortbooit
Mr Travers will succeed;, Mr who retires DA been earmarked by old cum- tant posts since he retired
of the poigners as one of the best and State Governor a year ago; Lt. headmaster at the end most sincere ever heard in the Genel H. Gordon Bennett is year, after holding the post since
1923. living Chamber.
In retirement; Mojor
Mr Travers, a non of Colonel What the Premier, Mr Cahill General Sir Jack Stevens 19 would do well to remember Chairman of Australian Electrle and Mra J. Travers, of Holbrook Avenue, Kirribill, VLA NSW that he is dealing with the logic al Industries and Major General Rhodes Scholar for 1940.
with 10,000 Sir George Woollen of an old lady
He was studying nl Sydney as Chairman University in 1939 friends in all sections of the Anished 10 years
*when and that he should of the Repatriation Commission, volunteered for the A.L.F. community have heard that one by now about a woman scorned.
A character hopped into
a taxi in Sydney one
day last week and said to driver Allen "Char- Warburton: leville, Queensland, please."
Allen looked a bit dubious, but the fellow handed over £100 as part payment for the 1,000 mile ride.
It is believed that he had at il won more than £2,000 tace meeting at Canterbury. Allen had Gret driven him to the airport to catch a plane, but be missed it.
and father than wait, drove on.
industries by various States
Jon
just
have
he
Ho
Some of our generals moved on, of course, but mainly saw ective service in the Middle it is a question of old soldiers East and the Pacffle, becoming a brigade major end divisional just fading away,
staff officer. *
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*
Since 1953, Mr Travers ins been headmaster of Laumerston
Out of the Tasmanian Church Grammar Schol.
parliamentary
the
NSW
He is a lieutenant-colonel in scene the CMF. and commands last week marched Launceston Regiment. Robert Cosgrove, Rugby Union teams and coached Premier, and a man who has had more ups now teaching at the school had and downs than most taught Mr Travers when he was
a pupil. and whose best friends admit lingered The too long on the centre of the stage,
He has captained the
Test teams.
Mr Robson said seven masförs
fil-health and the age of 73 forced
him to give up the Premiership and his parllämment- any seat. To his 18 years of Premier he had the uausual ex-
The battle for overseas perience of being tried on A the bribery and corruption charge and acquitted by a 10-2 major- con- ity; and 10 years later seeing his facing in allegation
tinue unabated. There Trouser, Dr Turnbull,
of attempted
is no doubt that Vic- bribery. toria leads, South Australia is pushing -on and now Western
Australia is getting in for ith cut.
bolis being Among offered by the Western Aus- who hypochondriacs
Here's the rub. Unwittingly,
tralian Government to Ameri- frequent the Continental hotels. Mr Tavior shows that he under-
can big business are free "Their symptoms and natural stands the situation better than
factory sites...
grant of 20 them.... functions
absorb
he has cared to picture it. I sub-
on the cost of new per cent be fale to Unwilling, worried scatologists, mit It would only
plant ... 10 per cent they find books in a chamber your readers if Taylor declared
terest free loan to cover the pot, sermons In bowel move his political allegiance.
.. a 10 per next 30 per cent ments-something to ponder
cent bonus on goods manufac- when, for consolation or dis-
Government tured under programme, and subsidised ad- vertising.
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Lient-General Sir Leslie
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