What is she doing?" Now comes the answer...
Gauguin was the wise one. When he went desert-islanding he left the kids at home
But everybody else is talking. The house is full of shouting and laughter.
IT! "FORGET
You're not doing a coturan now,”
Dare I admit how much f missed it?
So two months passed in bli.s ful laziness and each
evening squaring my shoulders resolutely, I murmured "Tomorrow I really will get down to something."
But I did not have to. So I never did.
We returned through Krey clouds to
thick
When a woman
*
faces up to her
snapshot
MOST women aren't mad about
home movies. They know that
a bleak and the pictures which are such fun to
windswept London Airport. The
same old Customs officers with make today are sadly, revealingly, And unfunny and uncomplimentary 20
the same old notice. nothing to declare but a set of vanquished day dreams and dark brown suntoni
Creeping out
Down
a years on.
Most women don't even like snapshots much. And that's why it is so odd to see a middle-aged woman
publicly revelling in the pictures that were taken of her back' in 1939.
emerald-green lanes garlanded in Queen Anne lace and dog roses we drove home Spring was never so blindingly beautiful,
Great fat cows, udder-deep in
Vivien Leigh 47 years old now and a granny-not only is felds of buttercups, twitched doesn't mind people seeing what their talls at us, and a plump the years in between have done little girl on a pony-a tom-fit to her. The other day she posi- on a round of beef-waved we passed by.
Washing up by moonlight quite, quite different.
incident prone Meanwhile, that 1
things kept HAPPENING.
And nothing but nothing is more thwartinct to an out-of- work columnist than a batch of bizarre ind banny slivations Just sitting up and begging to be put down on paper.
an
Like the time I helped to extricate a small boy with his head stuck through a wrought- Iron gate
inet
artist with a bright blue beard hit a butcher's vin
went bathlug with a baby porpoise.
"As I was coming back from the village today a "funny thing happened to me
as tively invited comparison
by
album
By SHIRLEY LOWE
JACOBY BRIDGE
going to the reissue of her old WALTER 1. Pate, former cap- tain of the Davis Cup team. film, "Gone WRH the Wind."
1 am bound to say she sult is also an us looked as good as new.
Difference
hand
enthusiastic bridge He wriles from New player,
following York, The which I played at the Corneli Club may Interest your readers. What do you think of the bid- ding and of West's heart lead middle-that let me make my contract?"
HE difference between Vivien
Leigh and
The garden was creeping out; through the gates to meet (Goodness, look at that grasa'"). and one of the lilacs had col- lapsed in a graceful heap, like ballerina taking a curtain call much under the weight of so blossom
"Abroad is anashing,” sald my | aged women is that she, like all son as he went to shut the hen true beauties, mokes no con- house that night. "So long as cession at all to her nge. you don't have to stay there." She wears her hair the way his second sult; responded to "D'accord mon vieux,” said I. she's always worn it. Unfashion-Blackwood and eventually Marylebone Station, hereably and prettily long.
come!
-London Expires Service),
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
MONDAY, JUNE 26
AQUARIUS (January 21- VIRGO (August
February 19): Be wary of signing any Agreement which would involve you In a long financial strain.
It's
સીમ
Sat down "Fine," said Christopher Cricket as he sat himself down between Knarf and Hanid and
"A cousin of mine, named think People would walk оп crossed live or six of his legs. Groente Cricket. Re bad a the grass when the signs told | PISCES (February 20-March "fan not doing anything in par- big pair of clippers in his hand. them not to, would you?"
20) Make up a childish ticular for the next hour or so.
"I didn't say anything. He was trimming the blades of
quarrel with à relative, so There's nothing I like better grass, making them look neat.
Bald Greenic. "'No,'
forth- not to spoil a than to tell my friends about Then he propped some of them those awful Big Feet. When my adventures, Got any chew- up that were flattened down.
coming family celebration. they stamp down, they leave ing gum?"
Howdy, Cousin Greente. I the grass fattor than athan ARIES (March 21-April 19): Too flippant manner with "Than a pancake,' I said.
a person of the opposite sex "Yep. Flatter thon a pan-
his grow. Greenle,
may discourage 'Takes cake,' said Easy work
quite a bit of doing to get the "What are you working at?' blades to stand up again. I asked Greenie.
those Big Fect in the Big Shoes "Oh, didn't you know? I'm only knew
-
Howdy, Christopher," he he paid to me.
Kaart gave Christopher some said. chewing gum Christopher al- ways liked to chew when fallocd.
"It started early this morn- ing." Christopher said "right after I had my breakfast, The sun was shining so bright, the
day was se warm and fine, that the gardener here now, There made,
the troublo
I
they
they'd read the vigns
there's Christopher Cricket looked
ing interest in you. TAURUS (April 20-May 201:
Your need for an emotional outlet may find satisfaction in hearing good muste.
I decided that the one thing 1 are regular gardeners who take and keep off the grass!*** wanted to do was to laks a care of the lawns and walk. So off I went to the me to take care of the paths at Kmart and Honld and got up GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
park.
and stretched his legs. under the lawns! Not regular pathe "You don't say!' I said 10 "Well," he said. "that's my
adventure." "Well," he continued, "I Greenie. 'Is it easy work?" didn't walk on the regular "Wal, and Greenie, that all paths. That's not for mol No, depends. The Ants and Cater-
Kopt allont
*Chart and Hanid didn't I went straight to the Forest pillars and Beetles and such speak for a minute or two.
other small folk that arg the Then Hanid enid:
of
pher.
An'
association which brings you more vexation than pleasure could bo terminated without any re- krets. CANCER (Juno 22-July 21); A friendship with a person born under Scorpio would be capablo of satisfying the signs. your deepest needa.
People LEO (July 22-August 21); Avold requesting a loan from a friend if you don't want to risk spolting the relationship.
about the
of Grins."
"I thought it was the Forent paths don't bother o much. "I don't think your Courin
Big Foot!'!
Knart vald, It's the Big Foot that cause all Greenie was right
Big Fort promptly interrupting Christo- the trouble,'
reading 'You Feet can't read ign Greenie. con."
"That's what I was thinking." and Christopher Cricket.
was, at must mean
"'Big Feet?' I asked.
People, "Bo it was, so it. Arat sala Christopher. "But Feet don't walk without Peo-
let me gol en with my ntory. piel
"As noon as I.renched The "I mean Blg Feet. in Dig And he waved and walked park. I crawled under the grass, Chocs! sald
Groente. Peoplo away.
22.
most
South's bidding was entirely correct. He opened with B sound one spade bid; showed
found himself at an almost
Shi doesn't dress up impossible grand slam.
sensible middle-aged things or go to bed early to hang on to a schoolgiri complexion."
She smokes.
And she drinks. And she still only seven and a half stone.
North's bidding was on the optimistic side. He knew that South held at least nine cards in spades and diamonds and The two missing bees. He knew weighs nothing
About kings and should have worried about a henri leser. The more conser- Valive course of asking for
Sv far this year she has turned up at the premiere of that film in Atlanta, Georgia, wearing a white, low-cut dress that even Elizabeth Taylor would love.
CHE
Like a waif
braved the camera on
moving-in day at her new home, dressed unglamorously in
September 22): A letter from abroad will bring wel. come news of the early visit of a member of the family. a sacking skirt, a headscarf and scuffed silppers. She managed (September LIBRA
23- to look--surrounded by burly October 22): You will have removal men difidently alpping to overcome that Mondaywine-like a tiny, hard-working morning feeling in order to
walf.
do justice to the pile of¦ She has been to Balmain and work awaiting you.
bought
dress and coat, girlishly, on the word of a man. (October 23- SCORPIO
"That's the che, darling, you November 21): A secret look wonderful," said Mr John wish of yours will be ful- Merivale. filled by a friend who is quito unaware of your desire.
And she bought it there and then without wondering what it did for her. She has tripped off airplanes and Into Arst nighta (November on the orm of Mr Merivale, coyly and charmingly refusing 22-December 21): You will to tay if she is going to marry be delighted by the accep- him."
SAGITTARIUS
tance of an original Idea, Recently I saw her rehears- which was not very favouring at the Finsbury Park Em- ably received at first.
pire, dressed in a dirndl skirt, and flyaway scarf, and looking CAPRICORN · (December 22-Just a Ikule over 30,
January 20): Don't be so The only disadvantage of much a slave to your dalle being such a Peter Pan is that routino that
you can't stay young and be a you can't
genuine grandmother. interrupt it without being Яlustered. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday la this wook, you will find a symbol of good fortune in a gift of a tennis Tacket.
When you're a small boy of three you don't appreciate a pretty woman, but you certain- granny-looking do like granny who fucks you into bed with a pink rubbil she's knitted
herself.
London Express Service,
14
+CARD Senseks
Q-The bidding has boent West North East Bouth
Redbla Doubla You, South, bold: MAJOS VE43 60847 472
What do you do?
A-Pass. You baro a good hand and can show your strength by bidding after your partner takes out the redouble.
TODAY'S QUESTION You do pass and your partner bids one heart. What do you do Dow?
Answer Tomorrow
NORTH
11
AKJ2 A9872 J +K73
WEST
Nono ❤K 100 0.97433 J9843
EAST
10748
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+805
4Q102
SOUTH (D) 4Q0805
Q4
• AKQ10 4A0
North and South vulnerable Booth West North Fart
14
40 5
Рибе
Pa
Pais 4NT. Pazz
Faz 3
Pass
Pass
Opening lead-♥ B
Pass
kings with a five no-trump bld and stopping at six after South showed one only would meat with my approval.
like Stin nothing succeeds success and his overhld stamped- ed West into making the one losing opening lead.
*
have been West musi pessimist. He must have vis- ualised the ace and queen of North hand and hearts in the come to the conclusion that if there was going to be any play at all a heart finesse would 30 he led work for declarer.
that in the hope his heart South would refuse the incisa at that early stage of the play.
Rupert and Gwyneth—50
Mr. Dear shouts and starts forward to save the pile that le being disturbed. “Er's no good you giving orders," says Rupert. "You haven't eaten one of those magie cookies)' They are bewildered A the broomstick work harder than avee Binging showers of leaver over Mr. Bear
who tries to dodge them anal be trips and topples over. · immedia ately the owl perches on his knew and Baps it wings cheerfully} while Tabitha *raïd up and laughs at him. “* Oh, dear? This has got to stop !" gupa-Rupert. "Where has that "bruơm go,
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