1961-06-03 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, · SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1961.

JACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendelsoh

We're

Still Studying. ABOUT ▷ FRANCE

'. in Gee-.

ography CLASS

Age 331⁄2

France is on The SAME ChaNNeL as England. Which Means they Set To Watch the same Telivision PROGRAMS.

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NORTH SEE

ENPLAN STRAIGHT

English

An OTHER THing its, KHOWED FOP IS LOTS of Museems in which They HAVE HUNG MANY FAMUS

PaintERS

700 MICE

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OFF

FRANCE

NOTHER good PART about BRANCE is if You CLime FRANCE is if You CLIME UP on THE ALPS YOU CAN Peek over INTO SWISSERLaNd FOR FRee

Oh Boy! Wow!

also that Where they

m

Keep THE

Eye-full TOWER, Which is a Biz Erector Set they SOT THERE,

FRANCE is a Very Histerical Place, Like for INSTants Thats where Joan of ARC was bURNED With The Steak

Also TheysPE knowed for Making TiNY LITTLE CARS, WHICH THEY SEND to the U- MiNETY States So they'3⁄4// grow up to be Big & Strong

S.S.ILL

2000 DE PRANCE

TO THE U.S.

© 1960 King Features Swdicate ins, work pigias Reserved."

10-2

HELP

RACE TO SPACE

-Sarah,

of London, helps too

The

The World Science

MICE dropping dows cover, the tiles

left behind, and this must be removed from the cell twice a week.

The first unit stands 5ft, high and occupies two square feet of door. But scientists hope to reduce it to a Afth of this size. GARAGES IN SPACE

Space "garages" that can be aflated, and others that can be built out of the bits and pieces of hundreds of rockets that will

HELP!

Here is Some Sadistics about FRANCE.

industry...Cabinet Making Population...MOSTLY FRENCH PEOPLE LangwiDGE... Foreign

imports... Tourists

Exports french fright

THOMAS WISEMAN'S

PotatoES,

LIMELIGHT from Cannes

ENCOUNTER:

PLACE: The bar of a luxury hotel on the

CHIMPANZEES weigh half hundredweight each. They will spend 14 days in space at the request of the U.S. Air clutter up space a few years Croisette. TIME: 7.30 p.m. a Force, which is anxious to dis- hence, Are Dil the drawing of prolonged boards of several U.S. missile "weightlessness" on a brain. fruts.

Monkey missile

Fibre glass, plastic and fabric the favoured building Before they go into orbitanterials, for again weight is of MONKEY

like prime importance.

The idea is to use these plat- America's first astronaut, Inte

forms as "footing" stores for food, water, oxygen reserves,

teries. Plans include one, to

spesnits. Chimpanzees in orbit for a fortnight. Human breath reverting to oxygen. made Space "garages" from empty rocket fuel tanks.

There are some of the strange projects on whileh American aefentisth in other space centres have been working quietly while all

ya were 011 Cape Canaveral,

THE MICE-700 of them-are taking part in experiments to give man row facts about im- pact, and its effect on a body. earrloge They are loaded Inte

at the top of a rhaft and drop-

per 100 feet to the bottom.

Technicians take carefu) note

of the rate of drop and im

will arch,

medical supplies and fresh but

CHARACTERS: A group of prominent beat generation writers from San Francisco, Terence Rattigan, myself and sundry extras. The beat writers are sitting at a table, centre, suspiciously sipping the exclusive atmosphere and writing bits the menu. of poetry on the backs of envelopes, on the tablecloth and on

the sea strapped into a 9ft. cylinder fastened near the nose

With them are two girls, one an actress from America, the of on Atlas missile.

other a student from London. They all wear jeans, open-necked The monkey will test new and more sensitive exquipment for orbit for a year, another for just denim shirts, and hairstyles that went out with the Neanderthal encoding, und transmitting to six days. Spacecraft will

unload "emptles" man, and provide an interesting contrast to the bevy of film earth, medical recordings of rendezvous,

festival starlets and their pursuers who provide the background against which the ensuing dialogue is played out. I am offered a marihuana cigarette.

heartbeats pulse rate and and re-stock, thus keeping their breathing rhythm.

FROM BREATH TO OXYGEN

On long journey in space,

Tu weight will be precious.

conserve it, selenials under contract to the USAF are build-

own loads to a minimun.

SARAH WAVES THE FLAG

T. W. No thanks, I prefer a

MEETS

RAFT-C

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

The sensation of the · frət round of this year's Russlan championship was the defeat of

world title contender in only ZO moves. Here's how it happened (Bronstein v. Geller). 1 P-Q4, KL-KD3; 7' P-QE4, P-K3; Kt-Q03. V-KC15; 4 P-QRI, BXKt ch; 4PXÐ, Castles: 6 PBJ, P-Q4: 7 PRP. PXP: 8 F-K3, B-B4; 9 K K2, QKI DF: 18 KL-B4, P—34; 11 BQ3, DXB: 12 QXB, 'R- K: 13 Castics, R-QBI; 14 R→→ Koi. Q-R4? (safer 14 P-QK13); 15 RxP, Kt-Xt3: 16 P-Kts, P-KR37 (better 10... P-K3: 17. P-Kt5, Kt, (B3)— Q2, 10 KEXP 7 PHS 1.17 P KR4. PXP: 19 P—Kt51, P×KP: 18.PXKL RXP: 20 Q-KIT), Rosiana, for If.20, PXQ; 21 RXP ch, and 22 KtXP mate.

Solution No. 6040: R-D (threat 2 Q-K+3), P-14; 2 R-KG, or 1., • KL(KL)-Q3; 2 R-KS, or 1... KU(B5)~-~03;

R-Q, or 1... Q-Kis ch 2 R-KI.

London Express Sergio

TALKING

POINTS

The reading of all good books is like a conversa- tion with the finest men of past centuries.

-DESCARTES.

THE BEATS

Aunt Edna...would certainly not have approved'

pact, am the mice are pos!- ing a unit to turn a spaceman's Secretaries will no doubt have| Terence Rotilgan we're gonna poet, and friend of Ginsberg),-

moure

tioned in that they will land Jike astronauts-back frst, Its show that a ean survive a 10 m.pl, impact but not one at 31 m.ph, en withstand deceleration 650 times Bereer than gravity. That,

will help apparently, Spaceman une day-but at a price. All 700 mice.

sume

I report, with a thrill, that BRITAIN is playing u small niter p. part In the launching of men into space. The Cabinet inay Allen Ginsberg (the senior of approve. Some under- the beat pouts).-Who's this not

Peter Orlovsky (a juntor beat apoplexy. Bul the "bleeps" | meel? breath back into good, healthy that follow

every American

T. WHe Is one of England's doing here, anyway?

What is this Terence Rattigan окунет.

astronaut's drop into the sca leading playwrights. it converts the carbon dioxide areBritish. breathed out by a men inte

Beat Girl. Is he an They come from a tiny radio young man? water by mixing # with hydrogen gas,

over a grid ut beacon, called Sarah, made in

T. W. No, he makes too much London, The enterprising friss wire wool and iron oxide. The that is managing to keep this money to be ungry. water is broken

Ginsberg-Will he into thy toe-hold for Eritain in the hydrogen and fresh oxygen, In Space Age is Ultra Electronics.

suppert a special cell. Soild carbon is

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T. W. He tells me he came to the Riviera to kill Aunt Edna.

Orlovsky;. Yeah? Who Is this dame?

Downstairs, in which she made very little impact.

Now she is being launched as C.C. the answer lo M. M. {Marilyn Monroe). and E. B. (Brigitte Bardot).

It is perhaps interestng that another girl who later became a big star also appeared in a Rattigant Would you like to Betty Box Ralph Thomas film of The Connection they were showing down here at the earn as much money as I do?

without comedy in England Ginsberg: How much money causing much of a stir, Festival, and the director wanted us to come down to see it, und do you earn?

Her inftials were B, B. she sold like we could all stay up T. W.: She Is the mythical and at her villa for free and like middle-brow maiden nunt for we dig going anywhere for free whom Mr Rattigan once de- so that's how we're here. clared he wrote his plays, Sho has made Mr Rattigan a very rich and successful man.

☆

Almost success

Rattigan: Well, I have just oven gold 120,000 dollars to write a script in Hollywood. Batilgan (politely): How very Ginsberg: In that case, will interesting. Unfortunately I you buy us supper? didn't see The Connection. But Kattican: I won't buy you TAN HEFLIN, whose Hol- Ginsberg: Why does he want it sounds quite fascinating. This supper personally, beenuse 1 to kill her?

have a date, but I will happily lywood career has been pay for your supper. (He hands on the declino in recent him a 5,000 frane note.)

years, almost walked off Ginsberg: No, man I can't with the best actor award at

in the one about the dope addicts Is it good?

take it.

VAN

T. W.: Because Aunt Edna is a terrible square, and he has come Orlovsky: It's real man. to the Riviera to write a pre- face to a new collection of hita

Rattigan (politely): Yes, quite, plays, and this time he is deter- I am sure it is. mined to prove that he hos moved with the times by getting ugly film to me..

*T, WA It seemed rather an Rois sense of shame about ac- tow-budget film called The rid of his unfashionatite aunt.

It was by saying that he wrote (Enter Italian

1

count. left,

his plays for, her that Rattigan scaring dark glasses and look ereated the Image of himself as tng for girls).

an impeccably dressed upper- class Tory gent who tasses off plays between rounds of golf at Sunningdale.

*

Ginsberg: Isn't that what he 吗?

Ginsberg: Yeah, it is ugly-but It's beautiful, like the way ug ness is beautiful, you dig?

Rattlesn (politely): Yes, I certainly dig, yea, I certainly do,

T. W. Not at all-actually he yet. E left-wing, progressive and quito hip.

Enter Italian count, right, caring dark plasses and look

(Enter Terenec Rattigan, tin- ing for girls.) maculately dressed in Prince of Wales checks and wearing

golf club ctc.)

Ratilgan: I am terribly sorry

Rattigan: 1 сал ree that a Jabourer under the Influence of drugs may be more real than Shakespeare, but on the whole,

I am late. It took me ages to I must confess, I do profer tho select the right tie for this sonnets to the labourer's grunts Auspicious occasion. I trust you I'am afraid that may seem dig 11.

terribly square to you.

Ginsberg: It's swinging, mad, It's swinging.

Gimberg: No. We dig Shake- speare, too.

Rattigan (politely): I am so gled.

Ο

Rattigan: Isn't that a trille the recant film festival horo square of you, to have a bour- for his performance in the cepting money?

Orlovsky: I will take it, man. Westrel, which was entered (He does.)

by Cyprus. Rattigan: Well, to return to my question. Would you have

Heflin has always been a good gone to Hollywood and written actor, but despite having mode that script for 120,000 dollars, as around 50 Hollywood films and won an Oscar in 1942, he has never quite become a star of the top Tani,

I did?

Ginsberg: No, man, I wouldn't. Like I wouldn't want to be cen- sored like I wouldn't want to be told what to write, like to LOW SALARY me it more important to bo free.

(Exit beat writers and beat. "I decided some years ago,” pirls with 5,000 francz).

he said, "that I would keep the Rattigan; I suppose it is just salary I was uskig down to as well I am killing oft Aunt 75,000 dollars per picture, I Edna-if she had seen me here thought that way I would not Aho would certainly not have price myself out of the best approved.

parts. (Exit Rattigan. Enter Italian

"But it doesn't scom to work accompanied by dirce starlets.) want you for mare if they can't rount, wearing dark glasses, that way. Producers seem to

CURTAIN.

New face

afford you."

Hell appears to be accept-

cally.

With my face, maybe, it in not surprising that I am not a

Ing thi situation philosophi

TN the sex symbol depart star. Fortunately I have lived

ment tho

mojt

Ratilgan: 1.dm delighted and

qx relieved to hear it. Do you dig citing new face hers bo (Enter Halian count, right, Willy Maugham, by any chance? longs to Miss Claudia Cor- wearing dark glasses and look- Bend girl: Willy who?

dinole, who appears in two ing for gir{s).

(Exit Hallan count, wearing of the Italian entries. Batilgan (addressing the dark glasses, followed by star- group): liave you just come from let.) -

Who is Miss Carlinale? Ban Francisco?

I met her in England a couple Ratilgan: One thing I would of years ago when she was rather illo to know about you, appearing in a Belty Hor-Ralph Glasberg: Bure, anything man, Thomas comedy, Upstairs And

Glasberg Well it's like wo were in Paris, mid there was this

a lot of money and frugally and i can retire tomor- row if I wanted to.

"Maybe I will I am just gont to wait and see what fures up." It. what had turned up for Van had been the best actor award of Cannes, it would have been a very awost victory over a Hollywood that reems have forgotten him,

--(frondon Kapreza Seroton).

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