HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
EPISODE From INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK
"M
ORNING, Dumbeli,"
said Joshua Play- fair, as he sat down
at his desk. "And what, as the King asked Laertes, is the news with you?"
Sergeant Dumbell produced a notebook. "Sorry, sir," he sald. "I don't know anything about the King and his foreign friend, and I've nothing new, at the moment, in the way of crime. But I thought, sir, that this would amuse you."
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"Amuse me!" said Playfair, with
shocked expression. Bungest, Dumbell, that we begin the
Et day with light relief? Well, ahead: I've a couple of minutes to spare,"
Dear Kiddles,
INTERVIEW WITH Mr. SUNDEW
Dumbell, malstening his thumb, ficked back the pages of his note hook. "Were you lookint in Inst night, sir?"
oking in. Dumbell? Where?" "A the television show." "Why, no," said Playfair. "To tell the truth, I've never seen one. Don't tell me you've bought your self a set."
And as I wan
house bookmakers, waiting there, sir, having a modest plat. of bitter, the television show came on."
"A day in the life of a Dumbell," murmured Playfair. Well; come to I want to see the the point, mai. D.C."
"Sorry," said Dumbell. He turned to his holes again. "To cut a long story short, sir, the point is that you They've a new were in the show. comedian-he's had a lot of prelimin ary publicity-who rattles off toplent rhymes, Jolly good they are, And one of them, sir, was about you." "Was It?" said Playfair, not Ill- "I'm becoming a national
Dumbell laughed. "Nothing like thut, sir. But I happened to be at the Three Crowns, in Winsbury, when the television show was on. They've got a receiving set there, big attraction it is, you know, and too. I was off duty, sir, but on duty as well, as you might say: I've got
named Stump- pleased. my eye on a chap forth who's one of these public- igure, am I?"
Girls' and Boys'
A Happy New Year to you. I hope you had a lovely time. I sup puse you will now be getting ready to start school again.
entries from I received lots of Seniors for last week's competition, but very few Juniors sent in replies the chaless Crossword Perhaps
puzzle was a little too difficult for some of the Juniors. But the whet did enter for the competition sent in excellent entries.
The Senior prize this week goes to George Dessoulavy (od 103, 7, Gap Road, 3rd Floor, Hongkong: whilst Billy Vanee (aged 8), 1, Leighton
1 Road. Top Floor, Happy Valley, wins the Junior prize.
Will George and Billy call at the "Hongkong Telegram"
prizes.
Merli Certificate
been won by:
for
their
awards
have
Seniors: Wong Chiu-yung, Makel Churn, Carl Lam, Priscilla Pires,
Maisie Reis and Laurence Becker.
Juniors: Roy King, Theresa Souza. Ghazi
Violette J. Khan.
Tanka
Remedios,
Giovani Pereira.
Tehurin
and
enrrect
Entries specially commended for pre Maggie Alver, Elsa good work Laurel, Julia Leong, Karima 4. Kis Yeung Kit-wn, Suen Mo-tak, Ezekiel. Bernd Adameziwiski ( don't know if this is the spelling of your name), Ada Foster (thank's for the New Year greetings. Adu}, Reggie Tonnody. Joyer Leong, Abdul Rahim, Tso Wal-huen, Ho Man-chan, Marie Pereira and o Shuk-chull,
Uncle Eddie
and Boys' Corner
This week's competition looks quite easy but you must be careful about it, or you may go. On the rope which the sailor is coiling wrong.
If you a number of letters in the picture, there are follow the rope round patiently you will come to the letters in an order which spells a certain name or title. Thus, following the rope down and round you come upon the D--that is the first letter. Continue till you have traced out the other letters, then write your answer, sign the couts with your name, address and age and send your entry to Uncle Edie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 4 pm. on Wednesday.
There will be two prizes-one for Seniors and one for Juniors.
This is all my own work
Age
Name
Address
OVALTINE
Manners
John
He can't wait~it's
OVALTINE'
The Children's Favourite Beverage
AND
ND who could blame him?
the delicious, creamy flavour of 'Ovaltine' is SO tempting. Children love 'Ovaltine," even those who don't like milk drink it engerly when 'Ovaltine' Indded. And 'Ovaltine' does them for more good than plain milk. It makes milk easier to digest and innch more nourishing. 'Ovaltine' is the perfect food beverage for children. It is rich in health-giving vitamins and all the essential food elements that build up strong,healthy bodies and abundant energy. It has very valuable nerve-building properties. These come from the new-jald eggs which are such an important ingredient of 'Ovaltine."
Children who have 'Ovaltine' every day are healthy, sturdy Ittle people, quick to learn, self-confident and bubbling over with energy and vitality,
Give your children 'Ovaltine' regularly, at mealtimes and always at bedtime. But remember it must be 'Ovaltine': there is nothing "Just as good,”
'Ovaltine' is packed in tins containing 41⁄2 oz... 0 ozя, and 18 oz., Compare these weights with imitations. 'Ovaltine".
gives you more In quality and therefore more in value.
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A PILLAR
OF SOCIETY
"You are, sir. And it went down This chap-I've for- rather well. gotten his name-was singing a song called And that will be the end of that. And one of his verses went like this:
We must not forget those hard mex, ! The famous Scotland Yard men,
Who grapple with our crooks and
lay them flat;
If pearls are lost in Mayfair Just you phone inspector Playfair-
And that will be the end of that,” Playfair laughed. "Such is fume," he observed. Then his face became "That verse, Dum- suddenly
Krave. bell, is more topleal than even the author supposed. Pearls were lost in Mayfair last night,"
Before Dumbell could reply, the phone bell rang on Playfair's desk. Then! He picked up the instrument. "Right," he said. "Send him up in five minutes, I'll be all ready for him.
I wak
He turned to Dumbell. "You sl down and see this through. just about to tell you of the theft by the way, it was, in some of the late editions and now they've rung through to say that the chap I'm Let me tell wanting to sec is here. you what has happened.
"Mrs. Tremways-Ashlar have you name in the papers?"
seen the *No.
Mes
Trenways-Ashlar is one She's in of the pillars of society. Burke,
Debrett, et hoc genus omne. She has one of the biggest collec- And this tions of jewels in London. lady, Dumbell, had retired to rest last night when she was awakened by a noise in the bedroom.
Who's there?'
"She called e replied "That's and a cultured voice
all right. Then a shadowy figure, with a handkerchief over its face, the bedside. "Scream, came
to over move, or switch the light on,' said its voler, and it's good-bye to all that
Stay
where here for you, Mrs. Ashlar.
good girl or wait. you are, like I'll just tie your hands for you→→→ and it's merely good-bye to your jewels, Mrs. Tremways-Ashlar was Luo terrified to do anything. Her
visitor leant over her, tied her hands length of cord, and threw the with a eiderdown over her face.
"He was not there more than a few minutes. But he got away with
£60,000 worth of jewels."
Dumbell listened with a growing excitement. "And do you know who he was, sir?***
"No sald Playfair, "But I can guess. That crime, Dumbell, in its simplicity and nudacity, bears the signature of an old friend, Mr. Everard Sundew. And he's the chap who's waiting to see me now,
m coldly
The appearance of Mr. Everard Sundew well bore out Playfair's description. He was a tall, elegant young man, with strong teeth and a mocking smile He took-a-chair- with an ironical bow, expressing his delight at being asked to assist the Yard.
"I presume," he said, "that we're to investigate the unkind treat- ment of Mrs. Tremways-Ashlar?"
Playfair looked at "And why should you suppose 10?" Sundew grinned." "Am I wrong? Am I not in the presence national Jewel robbery Pearks lost in Mayfair, and so forth? As soon as I saw my paper this morn- his ing he tapted the nocket of 1ight overcoat-"I sald to myself: an- other job for Joshua" is grin broadened. "I'm not mistaken, am 17"
Playfair grinned also.
"You're not. And to begin with, Mr. Sun- dew, I'd like an account of your movements,"
of our
Week-End Problems
By Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I
THE HOCKEY TEA
ON
of
N the occasion of the girls'
most lost hockey match the visiting team came to ten with us.
My daughter, in course of con- versation, remarked to the visit- Ing captain:
"Most of your players were at my school, St. Bulleigh's, weren't they?"
The visiting captain is fond of puzzles. She replied:
fl out "Weil, you can work If you take at random three of the players who are here to-day the odds, that all of them will prove to have been St., Bulligh girls are 5 to 1 against."
How many of the visiting team came to tea?
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PROBLEM II
A DOUBLE ACROSTIC
UPRIGHTS
where truth 1s c'er "City"
dented;
of beggars, "City" of
shorn pride- The two may well stand side by
side.
1
LIGHTS
This, Mother, is the word for you.
3
An apple in her garden grew. Inert the gas; the
light
is
new.
4 He used to lend the sacred
tree.
5
&
In law, may all-importaat be. He judges, yet no judge is he 3 The tribe of Britain's "war-
rior queen."
D
D
A wrong! Is right: that's quickly, seen.
A setting for the might-have- been.
(Solutions on Page Three)
The wise
men
have
said..
BALZAC.-"When a husband and
wife sleep in separate rooms you may know that they are either vir- tually divorced or that they have learnt the secret of happiness."
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HAVELOCK ELLIS=*Most people certainly most women, feel at mo nents or at some period in lives, a desire for children."
DR.
their
any
HAMILTON-"Almost woman can love almost any man if he has plenty of money and a dis- position to spend it for her benefit."
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1938-
ERE'S
H«Telegraph"
feature for
“Telegraph” week-end readers, replacing the "Current Affairs Test"; temporarily, if you prefer the latter, permanently if you prefer
Of Coure You Know,
You Sure?
But Are
NOW get down to business.
Socrates and Pexelope; Ulyssea and Xantippe; Isolde and Ananias; Hathaway and Shakespeare, 11-Perhaps only an amateur like stalked a Murgatroyd (who once palm tree for three days because he Two thought it was a giraffe) would not
know that a Mugger int correct
The main thing is to look before you leap-the obvious answer is not always the right answer. points for every answer any total under 30 is Not So Good, and 40 is Nice Going.
1-Mho is a queer-looking word that looks like a misprint, but cer- In truth and verily a tainly isn't.
Mho is:
An animal; an extinct bird; an electrical unit; a facial adornment (curl the mho); a stage comedian. 2.-Britain's Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, usually is referred to as just plain Mister, but sometimes he is addressed by his military rank
and that is:
Lieutenant; brigadier; captain; colonel; sergeant-major; major-.
domo.
3.-Elderdown is the stuff they (strange though it seem), eiderdown quilts with and it is plucked from a duck called:
Teat; muscovy; mountain; cider; Indian runner.
4-Now this one, my tile cab- bages, will cost you no energy and give you the easiest two points you've ever had just pick out the mis- spelled word:
An anaesthetist is often a great help to a doctor and a surgeon must be skilfull when manoeuvring with his hands.
5. One of these days when you are walking along the beach you may Jump be lucky enough to pick up of ambergris, which is (of course): Dehydrated sea-weed; a sort of jelly fish; a substance from a whate; a female verdigris; green grease. 6.A mule is a cross between a horse and an ass (haw-haw! What!), its father being
The horse; the ass 7.-Att Important parallel of latitude passes ncross Australia and it is known as:
International date line: Cancer; Capricorn: Equator. B.-Zodiac! Zodiac? What IS a Zodiac?
A season of the year; a star; a comet; a belt of the heavens; a horse that won the Derby. 9-We-call-a-female.goat_a_nanny (except when she eats up the garden and then it's--but forget it), but a professor of Zoology would insist that the correct name is:
A dor; a mare; a heifer; a goat- ess; a goatee.
10-tere is a Mr. and Mrs. test- they are all paired off incorrectly, You just pick that one:
except one. expert?
AND THAT'S THE
END OF THAT
Sundew was only too ready to oblige. He'd been first interviewed, he said, about nine o'clock that morning. He'd only been back an hour or two. He'd been travelling through the night-"So much plea- santer than the daytime, don't you
think? from his sister's place in
Yorkshire, He'd been down there left hit on urgent business. He'd lodgings at daybreak the previous day; had reached his sister's about three In the afternoon; had left again at midnight. " give you sister's address," he added; "she'll be only too pleased to corroborate."
"I'm sure she will," said Play- fair. He seemed a
nonplussed. feine
my
"Your story is very circumstantial, Mr. Sundew. In the tore of it, it would, 1 suppose, be impertinent to ask you if you can throw any light on the theft of Mrs. Asblar's Jewels?" Sundew grinned again. "It would be extremely impertinent. But I have a reputation for courtesy, In- nsking spector. I don't mind your me at all. The answer, however, is in the negative."
"You'd be surprised to hear that Jeft at the
int?ndkerchief was
Sundew's eyelids narrowed. "And also what seem to be sus- uleious fingerprints?"
to be
Sundew laughed, as If relieved. "Are you trying to trop me, Inspec- tor? In that cricket? I've told you where I
I was; it only needs verified. I hope that there are Angerprints; they'll give you a clue to your thief. And that," he added, saucily, "will be the end of that."
Playfair showed him out, "Quick, Dumbell. Make arrangements have him shndowed. I think I'll be able to tell the D.C. that the arrest of a dangerous criminal is immi- rent."
Why? (Solution on Page Three)
to
VAN DE VELDE.-"The prospect of a good marriage is much more favourable when the husband is mentally superior to the wife than when the reverse la the case."
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DR. NORMAN HAIRE.-"Speak- ing broadly, I should any that only one marriage In four may be judged as even tolerably successful."
DR. BREHM.-"Real genuine mar- riages can only be found among the birds."
GRAMO NEWS
HERE Br
few recent vocal records of outstanding merit. Lotte Lehmann has recorded for IL.M.V. three of Schumann's finest Wie Eine Bist "Du Blume (Thou'rt like flower) Frühlingsnackt" Spring Night), and "Alte Loute" (Remembered sounds).
songs:
unto
a
(A
The accompaniments are played by Erno Batogh. This is a record that should be catalogued in the treasury of Lieder. (DA 1971.)
*
Muller has
t made Maria record for the some frm of two of poems of Wagner's settings by Mathilde Wesendonk-the two which he published as "Studles for Tristan and Isolde.""
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The first of them. "Traume" (Dreams) is fomillar in the con- cert room both as a song and in It arrangement. orchestral contains the germ of the love duct in the second act.
In a letter to Mathilde. Wagner describes as more beautiful than
else he has wriilen.
anything
The second sonit, "Im Treib- haus" (In the Hothouse) is less frequently heard. It anticipates the Prelude to the Third Act of "Trixton." (DB 3286.)
A beautiful bird; a large snake; a crocodile; a long-tailed monkey; an affectionate lover.
12. The word is paregorile-and question is, it stands for?
A pacan of praise; a figure of speech; a drug; a poem.
that 13.-Water-you imow colourless fluid you put in vasca and of the gardens-is composed hydrogen and oxygen. It has:
an
►
Lexs hydrogen than oxygen; less oxygen than hydrogen. 14-The monetary unit of France is the frone. And the monetary unit of Switzerland is the:
Lira; plastre; frane; mark; rouble;
pound.
15-If you get this wrong you'll
kick yourself for not remembering that the instrument used to deter- mine the thickness or diameter of nn object is a:
Caliph: calliope: calibrator: catorbacter; conifer; caliper.
16. Murgatroyd thinks the Charge of the Light Brigade is his monthly bill from the gas company, so he'd hardly know the name of the battle in which the famous cavalry action took place was:
Waterloo;
Dalaklava; Mans; Bannockburn; Hastings.
17. We all look through windows often enough to realise that one of the three main substances used to 'make glass is:
Olive oil; tron ore; sand; varnish; wool; left off boots.
18. Now for a simple little sum. boys and girls: If you paid $60 for a carpet ft. by 12ft., one 4ft. by eft. and of the same quality ought to cost you:
$25: $30; $15; $20; $40,
-Anger, sloth, envy, lust, pride and covetousness are six of the seven dendly sins we used to hear about at Sunday school. Now it should be easy for you to say that the seventh
15:
Murder; thieving; gluttony: h sobriety; cheating at bridge.
20. People who thought they knew used to say that tortafscs-bul, may- be, we'd better not go into that. It's enough for you to know that a tor- tolse is a:
Protozoon:__molluse; mammol; reptile; fish; procrustean.
21-1 fancled there was something wrong when Murgatroyd, boastful as ever, told me he had just toured;
The Commonwealth of Australia; the Union of South Africa; the Commonwealth of New Zealand; the Dominion of Canada; and the Territory of New Guinea.
22-Just throw yourself into re- miniscent mood and try to recall the
Bridge Problem days when you owned a two shilling
No. 41.
By "FINESSE "
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leads
Hearts are trumps. South and North-South must win eight of:
he nine tricks.
Solutions by Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM 40.
small. diamond, South leads which North wins with the king. winning trumps North leads two (clubs), and Soul must discard a small, spade and a small diamond. North leads a third trump and, if South West has retained his D. throws heart 0, and whatever West Dr a diamond. returns, a spade South wins both and North discards ruffs South's his two hearts and tust heart card,
If, at trick three, West throws his
9 of clubs on North's hack, North and wing third A
trump trick
then North throws spade queen. lends a heart: and South's jack munt win, only one trick (s heart) going to East-West.
This was an easy problem, yet considerably more than half the so- lutions received are wrong-In their discards. A heart must not be dis carded on either the first or second lead of trumps; otherwise, West throws his club' 9 on the second trick and, when North must perforce Jend his heart, East wins with both queen-and of hearts. All those. unsuccessful failed to ete this.
Correct solution from J. F.. "Em- Jay," Mrs. A. K., J, K, and “S'cary."
If it was a good two plere with a kangaroo and emu on it, the kangaroo wast
On the right alde; on the left side; lying down; cllinbing a tree. 23-HIM.S. Cumberland is Bagship of the Chinn Squadron and a jolly trim little flagship she is, too. In naval parlance she is a
Battleship;
dreadnought; de- stroyer; cruiser: sloop; super-dread- nough!.
24.-Kosciusko, besides being the name of a mountain, is also the name of a great 10th century patriot whose country was?
Spain; Russin; Poland; Alzatta; Australia.
25. The Never Never country is Inmed in most English-speaking countries because a woman wrote a story about it. It is a tract of coun- try in:
North Africa; Russia; South America; Australia; Antarctica. (Answers on Page Three),
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