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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1960.

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

Jak

and

George

JAK

investigate

some

monkey business

and I, loyal to the core, do not normal- ly concern ourselves with the relaying of chit-chat about Royalty, but we thought you ought to be told about Prince Philip's latest enterprise.

The Prince is now in show business. The other day he became head of an outfit that is running the biggest riot in town-playing to packed houses, fun and games for the millions, a giggle in every gag, a stream, a wow, the audience rocks with laughter.

Milton Shulman would love it.

Split-second

same

My Fair Lady is not in the "Street-Where-You-Live. This show has a cast of six fair

BULMER'S

WOODPECKER

CIDER

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Think refreshment- think of Bulmer's Woodpecker Cider-pure bubbling delight

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drinks

Summer

BULMER'S

INTELLIGENCE TEST

TRAINING

ANN

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JAKA RAGE 00000

CHIMP

ladies, plus a super-comic called Sam and a Cockney stage- manager-producer-property-man caled Bill Peckett. The com pany, looking rather like a Toulouse-Lautrec-sized chorus line, comes from West Africa. Bill Pocket, looking rather like Billy Cotton comes from Neas. den on a bicycle,

BRAVO, PRINCE PHILIP

-YOU HAVE TAKEN

Staging 20 shows a week for the last couple of years, and with an indefinite run in pros- pect, Mr Peckett has reduced his production chores to 'a mininiam that would

excite fetches the leading lady a play Lou, Juble. Besice, Josie and green-eyed cavy among some of ful swipe on the posterior with the never-tonesome male lead, those long-hairs in Shaftesbury, his hat. Avenue,

OVER A HOT-HIT SHOW

Having drilled his troupe to split-second timing, Bill" now

The leading lady, I might

Sarn,

mention, appears in the al- Custard-pie

together, so that she surely gets

has no need of long-winded ex- the idea when Mr Peckett is put hortations or shrill expressions out. of petulance.

Originally, I believe, the When things go well, he company was known

the praises his actors with a hearty, Pan Troglodytes, but some of well-chosen "Chuk-chuk!" If the customers couldn't lisp such temperaments get out of hand, words for laughing, so the lasses as they will in even the best and lads now perform under run productions, he merely their stage names of Fifi (brains murmuTS "Gertcher!" and of the show), Anne (soubrette),

A British Crossword Puzzle

22 23

ACROSS

1 Coco and Co. (6).

Turned by cowards (4), @ Spout -(5).

10 Benefit from -tuition?.

(6)

*

11 She comes from Cremona

13 With which letters are post

marked (4, 6)

15 He may be belted (1).

16 He walked delicately, (4),"

19 The biting complements of a

Tying tongue? (5,5).

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DOWN

In keeping with modern show business, the plot is non-existent, but nobody seemed to be worry- ing about that when Jak and sat roaring our heads off with her delighted patrons at a gala matinee last week.

hy the girls in a tangle of bed- then but I clothes, and Gust not spoil the fun. See it for yourselves.

Backstage, Mr Peckett, intro- duced us to his stars, and after hand-shakes all round they gave us a private peep at two of their most comical numbers..

At least, we thought it was private until we found ourselves stage in full view of the audience who laughed lender ihan ever.

on

The performance opens nos You, sir, and you, madam, talgically, and in the true tradi-are letting life pass you by if tion of custard-ple comedies, you fail to catch the monkey with Fin and Co. shovelling business that wows them three away at bowls of mashed times a day in the chimpanzees'

juice, iding den at the Children's "Zoo Regent's Park.

banana, orange sugar and jam.

This age-old routine really Indeed, we feel Prince Phillp sends them, hep, square, or to be congratulated on acquiring otherwise. From then on the control of this hot-hit enter audience sits back in pop-eyed tainment along with the other wonder at Beebee knocking £107,200.73 6d-worth of live grapes off sticką with a rubber assets of the Zoological Society ball, at Jubie's balancing act, of London, of which he was frolic on the lt-table, the clected president." locked-box Wusion and, as B riotous Anale, the bedroom

scene.

BI Peckett puts Fill to bed, Kisses her goodnight, gets chased

With his customary curiosity, the Prince will doubtless wish to know exactly what goes on-in his new domain, and it is to be hoped his Fellows will not· fail

JACOBY BRIDGE

AN

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5 Wild fight as at Calgary (8),

This European sounds some- what flaky (4).

8 girl in

resort (5):

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12 A -hall (put (up for the Mohammedan deity - (6)..

22 Little bit of wood, see? (4), 13 The reinforcement includes

24 Leave one's bed (5)..

the Air Force (5).

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to put him in the picture about! another remaricable double act. Extravaganza

I refer, naturally, to Chi-Chi and Bob, a £12,000 extravaganza from West China and Waithams- tow Captivated by this couple, Jak and I found it easy to forget that three-year-old Chi-Chi's! real name is Alleropoda Melano- leuca, or that- 16-year-old Bob Gray once broke his neck in the school gymnasium and was told he must never again indulge in such rough sports as football.

All we and the rest of the kida cared about was that 10-stone Bob was playing games with the Giant Panda and laughing like billy-a when Chi-Chi tore a lump out of his trousers.

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PS.: With respect, we Tê port that Prince Philip from Buckingham Palace was not the only Zoological Society capture last week. They have just_ac-

from quired a tolld sheep from Bar- bary and a grass snake Gray's Inn Rood police station,

George Whiting

Beware of counterfeits

"Dear Mummy and Daddy..

School in gong fine but commie hols are not for away and I am looking forward to my trip home to Hong Kong,

"Please please let me fly Smmunic again? They were so wonderful To ne leet time.. the CUISINE Grot just food was wonderful. the scrive tous wonderfil.. Oh everything was wonderfill. They treated. me like a princese all the way home.

Be sure and book m Sarvan Lots of love from Your pampered princeer.

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