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DAB and FLOUNDER

By WALTER

GENTS OUTFITTE

FROM HERE AND THERE:

'Slenderator' Is Word The Last In Exploitivity

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1949.

NEW BOOKS by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

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MARGERY ALLINGHAM

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NEW INDIAN STAMPS SHOW THE GLORY OF OLD TIMES

By P. K. N. SWAMY

& now

THE "glory that was India" is depicted on

series of postage stamps, known as the archaeo- logical series, issued on April 1 through thousands of post offices in India.

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mind

Adil Shah (A.D. 1020- 1656). The dome, one of the largest in the world, measures 124 feet in diamelor internally and 144 feet externally, leaving n 12 foot wide whispering gallery" all around the interior. The floor area of tts, hall is unbroken space (18,357 sq. ft.) of any single- domed structure in the world.

the 8th Century, the greatest

The acenes portrayed on the near Bombay, which was stamps, depicting Indin's civill-cavated in sation, go back as far as the 5th A. D. Century, A.D.

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historical monuments

"

Eight

anna-In Jade green,

this stamp shows the "Kandor- a Mahadeva Temple"-This in

remarkable 03

Females as well as males, hent its centuries-old clvilisation. from Mahoba, how in the pro- the finest of a group of ancient,

with BORTOW. The

This is the second of a series of newly designed stumps issued since Indin attained her in dependence in August, 1847, The first series carried the likeness of the late Mahatma Gandhi,

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monuments,

much for their architectural beauty as for the excellence of shows the their sculptural decoration. It a powerfully dates from the 10th Century,

A. D. of animal

One-and-one-half Reddish brown. It Konarak Horse, modelled specimon

taken sculpture

from the original in the Sun temple at Kapurak. The temple is re India has also issued a new garded as a gem of Orissan stamp commemoraling the in-, architecture and was built be- Duguration of the first Indian tween A. D, 1233 and 1204.

Bombay

MORE WORK FOR of the battlefield. For Mr. Miracle, In witch a naturalist THE UNDERTAKER. By O'Casey has packed his baggage thinks aloud as he observes the behaviour of birds, animals and Margery Allingham. Heine, and retreated.

still cockroaches-with parlicu- Still holding his fist, mann. 98: 6d. 320 pages. shouting defiance, still procialm. larly soft side for cockroaches.

chapter:to ing with unerring precision and to devotes one TO. a deliciously seedy magnificent rhetoric the short cockroach who gave birth to a

district London, comings of the foo, still con- litter in tile desk, peopled by the strang- tinuing to make retreat at least

How moral are pigeons? The sound like attack.

doctor considers this problem est imaginable collection of

But, just the samoretreat- by observing some pigeons of and ing dubious tradesmen

hi acquaintance. They

One anna-Turquoise. The arc who eccentric waifs, Albert Cam-

The stamps, hear illustrations O'Casey's highly monogamous-which does

of impress is a splendid plece of In 4 sentence, all not exclude an occasional side- plon is summoned. One by enemies?

political, lose forces,

ancient India and tell the world medieval sculpture represent social step.

ing an Image one the Palinode family are and

of Bodhisattva ecclesiastical who have being murdered-poisoned. combined to dim the fair image reports

nrt and culture.

vinelal museum at Lucknow. of Dark Rosaleen, the free and young more often than the old. The Palinodes arc strange

• They tio

crossword Perfect Inland that the ports on a sunny Feople.

day the curve of fell.

the marital infidelity among pigeons puzzles in Latin, communicate song and for whom

moves percepubly with one another in a private men of Easter Week.

upwards. and one of longunge:

them,

The forces that declared Surprising. Jessica, wears a cardboard hat O'Casey's play an insult to the Pigeons are Indignant when and makes

pigeons horribly-smelling womanbood of Ireland to that other

make Jove in she collects nenesses were throwing down; public. They have a highly NEW YORK: An Englishman overal hours on the platform at brews from weeds

their parts like the aninis cast-' developed social conscience. In the parks. being station before visiting Now York outdid Flume

With a sigh, Campion decides ing down their golden crowns Americans in coining those long; loaded, on to the train for the new words wilch are making four hours journey to Teleste. that, after all, he will not accept around the glassy seu.

the Colonial Secretary's invita- English the world's udiest The girl emerged from

tion to become

For the English Invader was WHY de canaries sleep, like air service between governor of a

human beings, one long longuage. Sir Norinan Kipping, crate here only slightly

colony. He will solve the Fall- hardly out of the country when

Two anna--In carmine, this hours. while of the Federation of British In

It was plain that Maynooth was sleep every 24

"Nataraja" the stamp depicts Dublin rabbits have 10 naps in the úustries, produced these words.

The present series is printed famous bronzo

One rupeoWith dark green Mr Lugg, his disdainful "man"

Image of Lord

nt

brother-in-law Jan Castle, and driving inexorably same perlod?. And why do Dr

as the of

great border and Insat deep purple, go to sleep on watermark paper in appro- Siva conceived is

the horrible

local towards

the smug bourgeois Eckstein's canaries

with Cosmic with their tails towards the pristo design and colour

dancer, assignable to it is a portrait of Victory Bowels,

is somehow virtues that O'Casey detests.

direction from which the dawn the denominational value ins- 1100 A. D. It also represents Tower, Chittorgarh," The lower undertaker who

cribed will enter?

both in English

of the was constructed between 1442 and the high watermark involved in the mystery.

Hindu,

Chola art of bronze-casting, and 1440 A.D. by Maharana Kumbha to commemorate his victory over Mahmud Khalji, They are being sold almul-

Two-and- one half-anna Sultan of Malwa taneously with the present King Orange. This stamp portrays George series until the latter are the "Sanchi Stupa"-one of the out of stock, Dr

four ornamental gatewaya

Two rupee-With purple border and inset deep red, the the great stupa at Sanchi in

India.

is that of the famous constructed scene "Red

bullt by during

the second-first

Fort, Delhi," turies. B. C. The original Mogul Emperor Shahjahan be gateway, which is a marvel of tween A.D. 1638 and 1848. architecture conceived in wood. and, executed in stone, has

of Buddha. panels with scenes from the life

New York lunche marketivity, exploitivity. used the sign over the beauty shop at his hotel to defend his Inventions-Senderator

partment."

Saved by 'phone

inken

De-

Instructions OTTAWA: artificial respiration given over the telephone by a doctor were credited with saving the life of at the a four-year-old boy

northland station of isolated

400 miles north-west Missonga. The child. Freddy of here. Pawllw, had been rescued after lee. He was crashing through

to the station, where the duty. KG. Clarke, dispatchers the office in the northern Ontario 120 miles of Hornepayne,

Dr W.W. Martin hap- "I did pened to be in the office. Just what the doctor told me," Clarke said. Dr Martin held on to give added instructions after Clarke and Freddy's mother had alternated for some time on working on the boy. When the youngster finally

nway.

worse for wear.

Luxury for lips?

the

the

are

kode mystery. For one thing: more menacing than

a

more

*

deeper, darker,

than over.

sinister

sulelde when tion. And

And how was it that the stoneblind canary named Hinge flow about the room with such susidra by his and her really being

mate?

Does a dog how before after a death? Eckstein does not dismiss the possibility that the dox's senses tell it when man is going to dle.

WASHINGTON. Is a woman's pstick any more of a luxury than a man's razor blades? That is one of a score of ticklish questions with which America's

O, with heroic gestures and women are about to bombard

S They

deflant words, he takes their congressmen.

IT I# soon mobilising

what they against

the boat for England. A pity. think is

For the unfairness of an

Pa Wilde, the loen! For in Ireland lay his inspira wartime luxury chemist, commits

in Ireland, that unrepeated

to the police try to interview him country "nearly destroyed by purchase tax. They want know why cleansing

slogan-cry "It will be a classic vổ đứ cream is

gun-peal

the foes he should have taxed as a luxury when shaving klad," the chief of the CID had were

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faced and fought. cream is not; why all make-up promised Camplon.. is taxed bul razor blades ore It is certainly 1 story of

This fourth volume of auto-

Doga did you not; why such necessities to quite unusual merit, full of alert

is a fine, inspired. hear twice as high as a man; blography ludicrous exciting story of a writing and broadly woman as Upstick, rouge and

bitter per- can detect smaller differences in sonal defeat. face-powder are called Luxuries character-drawing.

timbre volume; can distinguish while real luxuries Ruch 1s Some people will complain The bitterness makes

is wasting book.

thea metronome rate of 104 from that 96. roulette wheels, cabin cruisers that Miss Allingham

It is idle to say and racehorses are untaxed.

was bound to be disap- Have conveyed

that a vast pointed, Ireland such as no flesh-and-

to be found here? Also a per- blood reality could

ever sonality, wise, Human, a little resemble. Without such Ideals sceptical, beguiling.. been na there would have Plough and the Stars.

G-G-Goodness me!

WASHINGTON: In Boston Senators voted recently State for a bill to extend the fishing season at a local lakke merely to avoid any

of

the

know?-can

and London.

The stamps arè of the Central following denominations:

Three ples (one pice)-Blue grey in colour, It represents the "Ajanta Panel"-a, pillar of the Ajanta-in which an elephant is scen dallying in a lotus pond. This dates back to the end of

a brilliant talent for the novel O'Casey Waving made an ideal deal of fascinating Information is the 5th Century A.D.

on detective ungrateful.

Action.

That is

INISHFALLEN, FARE further mention THEE WELL. By Sean Inke's name-Lake O'Casey.

Macmillan 16s. Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagog- whimpered, gogaubunagungamaugg. That is 307 pages. this Information was relayed in Red Indian for

will fish on my Dr Martin. He said "That's it. your side, I

fishes In the side and nobody thats It. you've made it."

middle"

Trying trip

TRIESTE: 17-year-old

from Flume

Kiri

from escapedi

"You fish on

Back to life

MOCASEX uiters 17,000

ery approximately words long and rushes from the tented field.

☆

EVERYDAY MIRACLE. By Gustav Eckstein. Gol lanez. 8s. 6d. 235 pages.

WHEN Dr

As

Eckstein visited

the Moscow Zog before It is a very eloquent, indig the war. he found that two NEW YORK: A 16-year-old nant, bitter, poetic and scornful pretty girls had been put in Yugoslavia by hiding in a crate boy whose heart stopped beat-war-cry. It ought to leave Mr cage to demonstrate the Oneness

hering for 40 minutes was brought O'Casey's enemies withered up of Life.

a priest said, of cutlery belonging to

New in a

York with his contempt and al- visiting Eckstein's laboratory Italian employer. The girl got back to life

aside the crate in the home of hospital by doctor massaging together flattened out by his in the University of Cincinnati. "Blologically, it always has been her master, who had permis his heart with his hands, while moral fury,

But the fact is that at the one world." Yugoslavia with adrenalin was injected and 100

end of it all, it is the enemy The words would effects. The percent oxygen administered.

n3 text who is left in bland possession well left for

slon to leave

household hls erate, however,

WDS

-(London Express Service)

do very for Everyday

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

FOR HEAVENS SAKE! ARE YOU GOING TO EAT THAT MECCS UGH! PEANUT BUTTER ON CINNAMON BUNSS

OLL BROTHER

LIBRARY LIST

ENGLAND. THE MYSTERIOUS BLAND, By Paolo Travis, Gollanes. 9. 64. 185 pages. That the English are a special creation of Providence has nover beon, concealed from the people of this island. This itallary writer is a good-natured student of * the English fable and the English foibles.

BORN 1925. By Vara Drittain. Mac-

millan. 111, 64 179 sem. The moral problems of the age ard almost turned into a satisfactory novel, PRINCE OF DARKNESS. By 1-A Power Lehmann. 91. 64. 228 Parr Short stories which have, for the greater part, a setting lo American Roman Catholic, circles. Another new writer of quality comes out of America.

(London Express Service),

*I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT HE SAW IN

HER?"

of

cen-

Twelve anna—In light blue, the impress is a picture of the famous Sikh "Golden Temple, Amritsar." Begun by the Sikhs in the reign of Akbar (A. D. 1556-1005), it was rebuilt in 1770.

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Five rupce With a red and brown border and 'inset dark green, it shows the exquisite Indian architectural wonder,

Taj Mahal, Three-and-one-half anna-In

Often Agra." to as "a poem in maltese blue, this stamp shows referred

this magnidcent the world-famous

Buddhist marble," (Half anna)-Light temple Six ples

of "Bodh Gaya" in marble monument was built by between brown in colour, this is an im- Bihar Province, The nucleus of Emperor Shahjahan press of the "Mohenfadaro this much restored

1031 and: 1043 as temple A. D. Ball," typical object of the In dotes from the oth Century mausoleum for his wife, Mut- dus Valley civilisation of the A. D. and commemorates the maz Mahal.

This scot 4th-3rd Century B. C.

where Buddha received powerfully modelled bull occurs supreme enlightenment,

on seals found at Mohenjodaro and Harappa, the, two principal city sites of this civilisation,

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Ten rupee-This stamp has a dark blue border and Inset red Four

red адпа-In

and brown and deplets the "Qutb purple this stamp is a picture Minar, Delhi This 238-feet

high

tower for sounding the of "Bhuvanesvara." This the call for prayers belongs to u ples (Three pice) most majestic Indian temple Bright green in colour, it de- now standing and marks the large mosque and constitutes a Saracenic archi- picts a colossal image of the culminating politt of temple landmark of Hindu God Siva in the triple architecture of Orissa. It was tecture in India. It was begun aspects representing the Hindu built in 1000 A. D. principles of creation, preserva-

tion and dissolution. The

original of this model of Siva

in the

Is

to be seen

cave rock-cut

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ME, I NEVER COULD SEE HOW SHE STOOD FOR HIM!

in 1100, A. D., by Qutbuddin, who built tiho first-storey, and was completed before. 1235 AD,

Six auns-Mauve, it deplets by Itumish, who added thres

Gumbad, ancient "Gol

Bijapur"the further storeys at Elephanta, dome of the tomb of Muham- Press.

"It's Their Business"

BY KEMBE STARREZT

YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF

AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND TO ME TO GET A DECENT HAT AND A SHAVE?

to it-Unlles

IF THEY WANT TO EAT SOMETHING THAT TASTES: LIKE OINTMENT ON A BAKED BLANKET... LET ́EM?

SERVES

YOU RIGHT.

#GG-G- GOSH I'M C-C-C-

COLD!"

"THEY WEAR A BRASCIERE, GIRDLE, FATHIN DRÈSS AND OPEN-TOED SHOES: IF THEY THINK THATS WINTER. GEAR TRATT THEIR BUSINESS.

WHAT IS YA WANT

TAPLANT-PARTUPS FOR? THEY'RE

'AS TASTY AS A FRIED DISH RAG:

*ER-ER - MOTHER. DOESHT LIKE YOU TO BREAK THINGS, FREDDIE DEAR /*

*AW NUTS/**

"IF HE WANTS TO PLANT PARSHIPS THATY HIS

BUSINESS

NOW, IF IT WERE

•OUR KID!...BIT ITC HER BUSINESS....

M

IF THEY SEEM TO SERVE EACH OTHER RIGHT...IT'S RONE OF OUR BUSINESS: ·

“Ledger Syndicate.

"WHY DONT YA

-DRINK MILK *

IF HE WANTS TO LOOK LIKE AN UNMADE BED THAT'S HIC BUSINESS...ESPÈCIALLY

IT HE STAYS GOOD-NATURED THAT WAY.

YOU CAN'T SELL CONGC? DONT YOU

KNOW YOU GOTTA

RAVE A

DRAG

IF HE THINKS HE CAN MAKE A POUTINE WRITING. POPULAR CONGES KEEP YOUR MOUTH CAUTELLAS WAZE UP COME Day

to Mak

-YOKʻAUGHT AS WELL

LAVE YOUR, BREATH.

"DID YOU NOTICE JARES APPET SHES GOING TO RUN KERS

TRE WAY CHE EATO

WELL, THATS JER. BUSINESS,ICI

| ITS ITS HERE CHAPEZ"