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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1958.

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"WHAT DO SOLDIERS KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT-NOTHING."

--Field-marshal Montgomery on May 14, 1958.

ANNE SHARPLEY

says

[OW do you cure

How

Lunden Apart

BY

THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

WHAT really dues on at the have had them all cinging in

palace of the Eat Board in charus, This would have mado Shaftesbury Avenue? Some naive for a friendlier atmosphere, and peoplo imagine beautifully any old estimate for drain-pipes furnished regins filled with would have been passed unani- offielais bending over eggs and mously amid laughter and merry discussing their finer points in jesis. technical terms.

Nobody would be more sur-

Twenty Years of Uproar

MUSIC eritle says of a prised than any one of the A singer: "She

opens her hundreds of thousands of em- mouth and really slops in the ployees at the appearance of good old stylo," It is not a oven a single egg in such a gramophone record in the wings. placo. In Shaftesbury Avenue The danger of that trick Wan the egg is but an abstraction, a well illustrated on the occasion conception of the ideal. Here when Taploca was singing the are laid down the laws of aria from "Semolina." At the throughput, output, input, end of the aria the needle got downput, up-put, overallput, suck, and while Tapleca was Interimput and common or

. garden put,

An apology

HE recently published pic THE

ture described as tho Bag- show double-reactor, with graphite nodules connecting the splinth-screws with the vances, should, of course, have been described as the Denison auim- rotor, mounted on a Gotch- drive-compulsor, and revolving round a secondary clench-tube tel into the milge-shaft. I,upolo- gise to all who may have beca Inconvenienced by this error, but there is no need to become insulting about it, Musical interludo

THE mystery of the councillor who began to play the violin at a counch meeting seems to me to have a simple explana- tion. He preferred music to dull talk about drain-pipes. His mis- tukc

classical was to choose a

place.

A popular song would

London's monkeys are

living like

appendicitis juxurious,

would regard L

"I was once so impressed by how delicious a tray of food we were giving to a sick antelope looked

I took a colour picture of at and here it is," says Mr Jones.

A colour slide is held

a e light und

p to there, glistening is

mouth- sick monkey? The and glowing.

watering dish of temptation to answer is so obvious a dull appetite. that it is

amazing

"Mra Becton

couldn't

do

nobody ever thought of better." it before.

SUT~

You give it luxury, luxury and more. luxury. You round it with warmth, frut and friendliness, and say 10 it, in whalover language you communiento best with mor-

*There keys:

now, isn't life worth living?"

And

poorly elephants: "A botile rum," Mr Jones tales the visitor's surprise at this sovereign remedy smoothly.

المنارة

"Oh, I'm quite content elephants don't find bottles of rum in the jungle, but you know how a cocktail party doesn't really get going tatil everyono's had a drink. Is the same with

And even the most illogical elephants." and self-pitying monkey.

Other hauan pleasures which basking in infra-red heat in his oxygenated, fruit-alled cure sick animals are a fresh cage and frequently visited air balcony with "the best view of the Park anywhere." And visiting-houry.

by his favourites from that sub- species of monkey, the human bebig, 15 bound to pull through.

Luxury

ARCHIE CANDEN Shering with a ghost.

millionaires

It gives the house a lovely, warm feeling.

"You can never feel lonely in the house," says one of the two Camden sons, Anthony.

The Canden family are a famous name among musicians. Father Archie Cnenden, 13 acknowledged to be the world's greatest bassoonist (a basscon

15 A sort of baritone factory chimney).

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"Wouldn't you like to come and meet 1? I'm sure it would matto you very welcome.' but

I will Perhaps might, take a few lesson on the bas- soon first, just in case.

tre.

The longest

bowing to the storm of applause the machine went on repeating the last three and a balf words until someone in the wings stopped it.

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ALAN BELL of Chicago llites

to open the bidding light. Fortunately for him, his Вле dummy play brings home many tough contracts.

He won East's king of spades with the ace and played the jack of diamonds. East won with the ace and returned a spado which Alan won with the quera,

The play continued as follows:

A new eigh went up proudly Club to dummy, diamond ruffed, outside the Ambassadors Thea-pade ruffed in dummy, diamond It said: "Sixth Year of The ruffed, another club to dummy. last dlarcond led and ruffed by Mousetrap."

East's eight and Bell's nine, Inst Mother comparties father

tha The Ivy

Restaurant opposite spade led and ruffed by dumany's the piano and plays

ace of trumps. cello Son Anthony study. was not to de quidone.

They put up a notice in the ing the oboe at he Royal Col-

colouring and lettering lege of Music, and his brother same Harry, the bassoon. Needless to whch reads: ""The Ivy Now 41st say, their friends are musicaj, Year" too.

Tactful

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small

Now Alan played the club from dummy. East played the queen but West, who was down to nothing but trumps, had "And what's more we've got some of our original cast, which to trump his partner's trick and is more than they can say across lead a trump up to Alan's king-

Jack combination. the road." says general manager Mr Reginald Smith-Grunger.

Before I get a lot of mail ex- He is right. The lyy has no plaining that South could have a lot of specially towe than for waiters who made his contract in

The

other ways, I want to point out that Alan had made five odd, not a mere four, and that over a period of years those overtricks mount up.

very

New field

Theatre pubileist George

Also, East could have held the

"Our host 9:ema Orpheus could not do better, one thought, as the cheerful sympathetic to musicians. strains of Mr Jones's hedonism pople who were here before us have been there 41 years.

singers and they were rang through the shining-new were

happy. Our hospital.

Theory is that it's one of the vid munks ut My. The Next Ume I pen sick I know monks of Ely were where I am going for all that musiclanly," says Anthony. warmuli, Juxury and loving But the ghost la not friendly Fearom is known for his potted hand to four it he had led a kindness I have always looked to everyone it seema, although descriptions of the theatre people trump when he was in with the

it is not certain whether he is publicking, so I asked himace of diamonds. musicianship is the criterion. what his latest client was like.

45, 'Aged

dynamic per "Several people saw the house before we bought it and they sonality, but dynamic in a quiet talking about improve way. Prematurely grey, dark, How about a nice freiendly ments and so on, and suddenly eyebrows, tall. Jolly efficient and

felt the Sharpley's they (This

atmosphere lots of lovely humour," ghost?

14 The ghost didn't like George's description of the Rev. Warmth and Friendship Work), change.

Martin-in-the-Fields, The Camden family, who live them and they found they had Aurten Williams, the vicar of St

hired

"Yes, I believe in sick animals for. To London Zoo. being visited by their regular keepers especially anything to take their minds of themselves,” says Mr Jises. "And visitera

Planeering the new, cage-skie must be cheerful.

is the

Zoo's London

manner

in Was

ordinary

veterinary officer, Mr Oliver "When I Jones, a small, dark, man with practice I always told owners of jolo do vivre of his own that sick pets to keep their gnashing, must communicate itself, one weeping and mattering until they #thagines, as quickly to animals got outside. If you mope over 39 it does to humans.

a sick animal it will never get

better.

"I like to give

In the jungle, animals con- cent their symptoms becaLSO

my sick they

would be immediately animals windows and doors they attacked," says Mr Jones. "Then can see through to the world when they're really poorly and cutside. You've got to stimulate

incess any their morales."

con' mask their longer they simply give up. It's better to die quickly of what- ever illness they've got than bo calm by their friends.”

Nipping in quickly, between

the

with

the mask-dropping and

death - wish starting

cornucopias of encouragement,

Mr Jones gives his sick animals

arc

Ghostly

1.9

waro

came

who 109 George and his partner in an old priory at Totteridge, to go.”

thetr genuinely fond of

One has to be very tactful it to do publicity for St Martin's.

Is George (son of a vicar him- ghost and would not dream of seems with this particular ghost. getting annoyed when it plays No talking behind its back, 5 self) charging St Martin's the such little pranks us ringing the to speak.

same rate as other West End old refectory beli all nicht "We always spesie of it very shows he is publicising?

"Don't be silly, dear," he told (though it has no clapper), or respectfully," says Mr Camdeni,

of locking people up in their rooms "We haven't given it a name. It me. "special church rate, from the outside (when there is might disapprove of anything course."

London Exprem Services. no one else in the house).

like that.

JAK IN THE COUNTRY

the millionaire treatment.

"I send them to the South of France, is it were," he says, Hig manner as he says It is not a million miles from Harley Street. Hia dark grey sult is urbane. And his parakeet-green the has boch freshly washed in birdseed.

A: Mouth-watering

: "I whip sick nahosla

Inta a gorgeous cage under infen-red lamps. There is oxygen if they need it and a glorious selection of foods.

Withi

an aur you ti soo them stretching out and banking. You've given then the on that life is worth hanging on to, then you can start your medicamenta.”

Even the simpler appetites of the herbivores can be stimulated by the neusternary' luxuries of gropde and oranges.

Percy, a kindly cland who is in the Zoo's slick, contemporary hospital at the moment,

picka

dalot from # tray of succulenta that my actress with

JAK

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE MUCKING ABOUT WITH OUR WALTER-PUSH 'IM BACK IN.”

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Nort

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What do you do?

A-Eld four spades. Your part- ner needs very little except a fair spado sult to have a good play for game.

TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has re- sponded one spade to your double of one club. This time you hold: MAGJO VAQUE OAKDĖ 45

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