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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959.

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DRIVERS HAVE

KILLING SPREE

Tokyo.

Tokyo's terrible taxi-drivers ushered in the New Year with a two-day killing spree which accounted for 23 lives lost and nearly 100 others injured in various degrees,

The police blamed "poor visibility and slippery roada due

to the heavy snowfall."

Of course the rod were +lippery and at times visibility was limited to a few feet-con- siderations which did not deter this corps of maniacs in the clightest

Those who failed to crash into other vehicles, streetcars 01 posts, overtumed their cabs in

of Resturus mbolle 'Kamikaze' spirit.

the

Emperor's traditional New Year's Day

public appearances. Certainly the blanket of snow played a little párt.

But on such a brilliant day, the lure of the new Tokyo Tower proved ton rauch,

Queues of Patient people The ample expedient of - wolted for hours for their turn ting spoed governors to inxi, to look over the elly and bow trucks and trimoblics-the three lo distant Fujiyama from the rankdg offenders in the traffic observation deck, anarchy is obviously too logies! for the authorities to enforce.

Three years ago there were hundreds of Volkswagen tax. put into operation In this city, Today there is not one left. drivers dis- The covered the remark- able acceleration ob- tainable in that Ane little car by using third gear for cruis- Ing.

In the hands of such lunaties, the cars turned into missling und the re- sils were disastrous.

Ons hero, some

Hittle time ago, in a final at of frustra-

** tion set about venging himself on

the taxis.

He was # driver for one of the E- bassie and

his

on

day off "borrowed" R formidable Buick of

ancient vintage from

the motor pool.

Fortifying himself

with a fair castre

Your

correspondent was muest of the opening of this world's tallest tower fortunately, as the entire 0,000,000 residents

A Tokyc Noodle Vendor

of Japanese gin, he sel of Tokyo now have a visit there out on one of the main streels ac a "must" on their calendars, and succeeded in hitting nina taxis before ending up against a telephone post, bruised and semi-conscious

He explained to the police that he has been "driven to it by the behaviour of the taxi- drivers."

*

Citizens of Tonami City have been bitterly criticising the "negative attitude" of their Fire Brigade and not with-

out some reason,

It seems the firemen are very economy-minded and go through their regular drills dry in order to save the X100 levied by the Municipality for cach Πνι minutes of water used from the hydrants.

One impatient and heroic foreigner-fed up with the wait for the elevators, took to the He made it to the top stairs, and spent the next two days in Led for his trouble.

雞蛋

That Man Horne Again

Kenneth Horne almost loses his air of bland confidence

as he helps to pull Kenneth Williams aboard just be fore the balloon goes up for the BBC comedy pro gramme "Beyond Our Ken”,

are

Assisting in the rescue Hugh Paddick, Ron Moody,

Patricia Lancaster Marsden.

and Belty

"Beyond Our Ken" first went

on the air in July, 1958, and proved to be one of the wittiest

of comedy programmes

the

year.

Scriptwriters Exto Merriman and Barry Took say it is "o sort of radio show which in- į cludes ala and that with bita anth pleces from here and there an one thing and another."

overseas 89: OBE

to

und

Frime ingredient in its suc- cess 19 Kenneth Herne! himself. well-known listeners in Britain

of the most polished arists in radio ever since he and Richard Murdoch established their long-rumbing partnership in the BBC comedy

In the Geries "Much-Binding Marah."

"Beyond Our Ken", was one of the first BBC programmes Kenneth Horne undertook after recovering from a sudden ill- ness in 1958, which forged him to give up some of his heavy

Foreign résidents who drive business commitments.

their own cars are often prone to speculate when their turn will come to collide with noodle.

vendor's delivery boy.

In tourist literature, theso qualot-and senseless-charac- ters, are described as being one of the "colourful attractions to be seen.“

Residents feel

rather

dif- ferently about them as they ride their bicycles at top speed Through Ignoring the hydrants, while balancing a stack of dishes the Brigade has forgotten most filled with hot noodles and soup of their locations. In a recent and generally, on the wrong fire....almost in front of the side of the street or in the op- Fire Station itself.... hydrant posite direction down' one-way was found to be missing.

ones. Careful sleuthing showed that In its correct the outlet was

An Dequaintance had his. turni on New Year's Eve when one of

place all right....except that these carefree crentures bounced

had been completely burled when that portion of the road was paved.

*

A sign of the times was seen in the falling oft in attendance for the

of an oncoming street-car into his front grille.

Sympathetic pallee paid him a dublous compliment after the aual measuring formalities, by

farming him that "traces of noodle

were found within a radius of 40 feet from the scene

of the crime."

BY THE 。 WAY .

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by Beachcomber

POPULAR hunt has decided Dui, bush? What East-sidė bum

to "bring field sports to the

now dares turvada

ordinary man" by enlisting The alience of our lousy forest thousands of supporters.

The

gladet

extraordinary man, on Fairies! Let's go! At moonrisa

we will meet

his horse, will thread his way

Ziggy's

through crowds of ordinary In Lefty's bar, on 57th street; men. There will be plente par- The dulcet strains of ties, and the hounds will get Elin län

so much food that they will not will grace, our midnight ràveli.

care a rap about the fox. Fields

dense with ordinary men, sing

as wo lined.

Bigger and better litter ing and playing cards and

THE committee appointed in quarrelling, will give a festive February 1053 to decide the look to the whole affair. A right sizó. for litter-bins has had leaflet giving Instructions to

Its poura ruddly interrupted. ordinary men says: "If you see Hertfordshire bins, it is well a fox and the huntsman lain known, are the pride of the bin sight, hold your hat in the air world. In one of them old beds. to attract his attention.”*

furniture, and a plane were dis- Unless.not

covered by a vigliant bin offiebr. HAVE been sent this extract To the suggestion that smaller would be advisablé, án from a boy's essay on "The `bina Cow

Then expert replied:

you The hoofs of his feet are would have everybody throwing cloven so that the grass he eats away planos, old beds, and will not get hurt. At night he furniture on the pavements or repóre by lying down on the in the gutters." A fanatic then ground like his cousin the suggested enormous, bins, for horie, which does not do so.

broken or discarded caravans

lorries and eára. and Gee, Tifanial

must think big," he shouted. Footnote

TN Act II of my pantomopera, the Fairy Queen addresses her attendant elves thus: Baz, ofilu garigsters,

whaddyar

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you found a dead elephant on the pavement would you leave it, there, or pop it into...... 4

London Express Service.

To kick some mortal's teeth int itter-bin?

Wanddrer know? (.

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Winning

Pool

Ticket

Arrived

Too Late

London, Jan, 7. 66XWELL,”

"W shrugged

the man who had just lost a £112,500 win on the football pools; "that's how it goes.

I was definitely not my lucky Christmas," said Joe Des- belough, 39, a Wisbech shop poster at £8 ʼn week whose win- ning

entry in the Littlewoods football pool was delayed in the Christmas mail rush,

Desborough claimed a first riividend win for predicting the outcome of soccer matches played the Saturday before Christmas with a 23-point pools entry. The company paid first dividends on 22 points.

On Christmas Eve, the com- pany Bent Derborough a letter saying a completo search had proved that the coupon was never received,

Today, Desborough pondered another letter saying the "sup- posedly missing coupon waS received today-too into to be included."

Prize Split Desborough sald he had made exhaustive Inquiries at the post cflce,

"But there is no way I can aiscover how the letter took five days to be delivered,"

Had it arrived in time, his first dividend would have been

£112,500.

Meanwhile, the winning Cividend was split many ways because of the relatively low number of points needed to win.

Biggest winner was Edmund Derbyshire of Manchester, who

won

£05.072 for

A total of nine frat dividends and 36 seconds.-U.P.1,

Tin Pan Alley Has Forgotten Christmas Police

London.

WHATEVER happened this year to that flood of New Christmas songs that used to surge out of Tin Pan Alley every year?

No pantomime principat girl was without one, And almost every comie had a song he could call his own.

But this year Denmark Street was as dry as a Scottish Sunday, In the little clubs and pubs where the British tunesmiths

cf once foregathered in search words to thyine with Claus and Christmas this year's problem I was to find something to go with

hutn hoop.

The other night in one of these flecased cupboards Harry the song plugger put his beer back on top of the plans and said:

"As far as Tin Pan Alley is Christmas can be concerned

iven back to the kids. As longer Ja money spinner li no

cxista,

"

"Now in the old days.. He played a chorus of I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus

"Now that," he said, "s strictly from the good old days. Remember? Tommle

Connor wrote it in 1952. 11 became one hils of the greatest Christinay ever published. Connor and his publishers made a fortune out of it. But you don't get stuff around like that any more."

Six Gold Discs “- To his own accompaniment of White Christmas the song plugger sald, "They say Irving Berlin made 100,000 dollars out of Bing Crosby'i_recording of that one alone. This year the record sales are expected to reach the 8,000,000 mark. Think of it. Six golden dises for оле record."

In the curious accents of Den- mark Street Harry the song plugger went on: "Mary's Boy Child got another airing this year and thus. Harry Belafonte and the publisbers are a lot

They smart under a Corporn- tlon ban that says that no new Christmas song will be aired before November 24.

'Brainwash'

Song publisher Ben Nisbot snyst "You just can't get a song going in a manth and a You've got to brainwash public into necepting a song- and you can't rush it."

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day. the

But songwriter Tommie Con- Denmark Street's nor, one of older inhabitants (he has writ

ore than 1,080 lyrics since he sold his first song My Tonto 32 years ago) blames Jethargy in the publishing offices for the dearth of Christmas cngs.

"Publishers," he says, “are Ignoring Christmas contribu-

fona

it because they find easier to sit back and socept every bit of rock 'n' roll and number rubbish that best comes over from America, "IL

seems to them to be the easiest way to make money. No risk, you ser. For it is still assumed that if thing goes down well in America the Bri- fish teenager will automatically go for it.

Ironic

"But there la money to be British Christmas made from songs."

Somewhat ironically Connor proves his point.

richer than they were last year. Christmas But so far hs now song hits are concerned you could look far enough and you do

still wouldn't find any."

A plump_finger is pointed in the general direction of Port tand Place us song plug- ger says! "There you have one of the major causes for the decline in Christmas song production."

For the bulk of the blame is being put by song publishers on the British Broadcasting poration.

CRIPPLED MOTHER

"This year," he says, "with two American writers I wrote

Got a thing called Sania's Stuck In his Iela Hoop. 's making

monės na Americh. And bere? Tio Pan Alloy doesn't want to know about

So, for yet another year, Christmas revellers bad to make with White Christmas, Mary's Boy Chick

Dr Rudolf the Reindeer Cha Cha Cha.

(London Expresa Service).

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FEARS SONS

Sale, Cheshire, The mother of two boys, aged nine and seven, sald here that the boys had threatened to kill her because she was cripple.

The boys were brought bew fore the Juvenile Court by their mother as being beyond her control. She said they had been

from stealing

neighbours, swearing, coming home late at night und dropping matches through letter boxes.

"Life is not bearable and 1 cannot go on this way," Quid the mother,

"They said they hated ine and would idli me i I did not give them money. Some of the things they say are horrible. One of them said he did not like a mother who was a cripple.”

The boys said their mother's statement about them was cor- rect. They were committed to the care of Cheshire County Council-China Mall Special,

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I prayed unto my Lord my God and made my con- fession Daniel 9:4.

After we confess we must make amends if we can, and turn from a bad way.

Pres-Radio Dibis Service, The Cincinnati, Ohio,

CHINA MAIL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

Were Not

Quite So Romantic

Turin, Italy, Jan. 7. The policeman on his beat the other night thought the old man had brought his teenage grand- daughter out for a stroll until he heard the "grund. father" say imploringly. "Dearest, you will have all you want from me-furs, jewel- lery, even a car. We will be happy,

+

The Polloensan dia a double take, then stopped the couple and asked the girl: “In be your grandfather?" "No," she replied, "he is my

funce,"

The

was min

73-year-old Gustavo Montorone, a well-to- do apartment house oWEET. His "dance" was a 13-year- . old girl in, grown-up clothes,

in', The patrolman took both

then iccated their farmilles, The mother of the teenager said she did not oppose an curly marriage between her daughter and Montorone, But the tons and married daughter of Montorone called the proposal "madness" and charged that the girl and her mother were oùi to vet Montoron's, money,

Police, after checking up on the mother and daughter team, agreed, and broke Cupid's bow by ordering the pair to get

cut of town,

Monterone went home to his children, till sisting he would and filk would-be tega- aca bride again and take her to the altar.-U.P.L

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Eleanor Parker and Janet; Vieira: 820, "The Big Man"- Frances Tayo And Hidhard Klayes, Eleven & Orchestra: 650, Weather, Children's Comer-Presentert By Leigh

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Orchestra 0. Waltz Time: 0.40. GRAND: "The Careless Years,"

Birthday Mlading: 0.30, Tropicana; starring Bian Stockwell, 730, 1ong It Parado-present.

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Tickell: Aprcia

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Kplendo ham ob”! produced for the Hongkong Siege

MAJESTIC:

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Moni), Caroland; 31.50, Prelude To Midnigh CARLTON

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