FOR THE SERVICES
NEWS FROM HOME
FORCES "U.S. MOTHER”
MOTHER Livingstone," of
Boston, USA, who gave hospitality to hundreds of British servicemen during the Second- World War. In now vialling Bri- talu in response to innumerabla fnvitations from "the boys." The story of her "open house" at Roslindala is both happy and trogle. She and her husband originally offered a home to any two evacuated British children. Their offer was accepted, and the children left for the United States, but their ship was sunk. No Mr and Mrs Livingstone offered their home not to any Individual but to the whole of the Allied Forces. Mrs Living- stone,
whose husband is a con- Eulting engineer, hos four large Scrapbooks which are famous in her home town. They contain the names, addresses and per- sonal details (including birth-| daya) of the 501 Service men who were her guests, as well as hundreds of photographs and Britain, ather souvenirs from
New Zealand, Australia and the Continent.
CEORGIC AS TROOPER:
HE 27,000-ton former Cunard White Star liner. Georgic, which has just returned to Liver- pout from her second trip carry- bug emigrants to Avafrolla, Is verting to her warüme career as a troopship for at least ono Mr J. R. Chifley, the vayama. Australian Prime Minister, has stated that his Government have agres to
request from
the
United Kingdom for her use. She vil now transport troops from Britain to reinforce the garrison at Hongkong. Troops will travel la Hongkong in comparative confort, for the steamer has pubile rooms, lounges and dining saloons, and cabins are six to ten berth. It is expected she will s for the Far East early in July.
BUSMAN SONG WRITER:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JULY
1949.
Come on out-wo'ro using it today."
London Express service
I poured out
my love tale
to Claudette...
HOLLYWOOD.
THERE has been only one film star in my life, and - she Is Claudette Colbert. Until now I'd never told her this.
A 60-year-old London Trans- hadn't had the chance and
port busman, James William Slevens, of Elmdene, Tolworth, Surrey, who has just retired from his job as center atoresman Sulton bus garage, has in his
Most
for
her part she'd never even heard of me.
But for nearly 20 years I've adored her, dreamed of
spare time written the words and her, mentally taken her out musle for aver 300 songs. of them were composed with the to dinner, and accompanied aid of a tin whistle, and a friend her on a host of other
tools down the musical score. Imaginary expedi
Iteccully Mr Stevens learned to
do the himself. His biggest sue- cers was "Come On The Motor
tions.
In a way we practi-
WAS
L
Bus" published during World cally grew up to- War One. Now he is composing a gether. I song about the Thames water young reporter with- out A worry in the
huses.
LAST CHIMNEY-BOY:
world and she a saucy
MR, Joseph Lawrence, little minx who bath-
of
Windiesham, Surrey, used in
asses' milk.
BERNARD WICKSTEED
discloses at last one of the hiddon ambitions (such as all of us have) which made him onthusiastic to set out on his tour with Round-the-World Alr Ticket No. 1. The girl in the story is Claudetto Colbert-a star he has cherished from afar for twenty years...
Just celebrated his 104th birth (Cleopatra in "The King of Boss."
Every red-blooded
day. He is the fast of the Kings," remember?) What man must remember them). chitney-boys, to which occupa
tion. he was apprenticed at did we care about politics ffenley-on-Thames at the age of
12. For seven years he was too and the economic facts of puor to buy more than one suit, life? and worked naked, winter and
untimer, for 16 hours a
day and-sweeping chimneys from this Tuside,
NEW ARCHBISHOP: THE Bishop of Llandaff, Dr
tina been elected the fourth Arch-
And so the years went by, Claudette, the little French girl, grew into Miss Colbert, the famous comedienne, and
Off we went
on
CANASTA
the new card game sweeping America
MERICA is in the grip
the
The player dealt a red trey matches a natural pair in the of a new and compli- puts it out of his hand and player's hand and can be played cated form of rummy
draws prother card from the immediately. which in a few months has deck.
Play goes on until one player become the nation's Number stack in turned face up to start cards in his hand on to
The top card of the remaining "goes out" by playing all the Two card game behind con- the discarded pilo as in most tablo, tract bridge.
forms of
rummy.
player must ask his partner Holder of the highest cord in if he may go out in oriler not to the original cut starts the gante stop the play while the partner by drawing either the discard or holds cards to complete another from the pack. He then discards canasta. one card from his hand.
The new game is called "can- asla." It has supplanted gin ruminy, which became
lional craze in the early years
of the war.
the
Americans are accepting can.
Now that you've absorbed all Should be draw a red frey he that, here's the scoring method:
asta with the same enthusiasm pinces it down immediately for Each complete cannata counts as they did gin rummy, and al- his "bonus" and has another 500 points if it contains no wild ready 180,000 books on the game draw,
cardia, 300 if it contains wild have been sold.
A MELD If you know anything about A player can start
Ench red trey counts 100 pulting card-playing habita of cards down as soon na he has points, 800 if all four are held. Americans you will realize why those matching which total 50. However, if you do not coni-. canasta has been such a quick points. This is called a meld. plete a conasta during the band, success after reading how the The valua of the cards la; the value of your ned treys li game is played.
Joker 50 points, aces and devora deducted from your score as a Americans love to complicats 20, Kings to eights 10, sevens to penalty. games with "wild" cards (enrds fours 5, black treys
The player who goes out" that count as anything). They
Each meld must contalu ngela an extra 100 points. do it in poker co much that an natural pair Do well as wild originally simple game becomes cards. Thus two
To get your points wore you pees and a
subtract- the value of the eardr you still have in your hand from those you have scored with cards
CASHING IN
con
G.
contain
GOOD PLAY
an extremely complicated affair deuce would be permissible be with freak results.
cause the points total is do, and you have a natural pair.
Each
on the table. connsta (or seven-card combination) maximum of three wild carda. The points requirements for molding rise as the scores in- And you can gamble on it any A game is usually 5,000 points. crease.
After your seoro totals way you like. 1,500 points a total of 90 points total scors reaches 3,000 points
Usually it's dons as in bridge la required in the meld. When at so much per point the differ- the meld requirement is 120. Mrs Relily says the secret of If a player draws from the good play in canasta is to relax discards he must take the entire and keep the overall strategy in pile and he must be able to play mini.
She says a good. foursom1. Oran
This is one of the reasons why canasta has become so popular. Played with two standard packa of chris: it has four Jokers and eight deuces all "wild."
Canasta starteri
In Uruguer, spread to the Argenting and then to the United States via Now York. The lady, who introduced. It to New York is now busy cashing in on her enterprise,
She is Mrs Ottille Reilly, a grey-haired Park matron who has been teaching bridge_at the exclusive New York Regency Club for
years.
top card immediately.
спес
Avenue A black tray thrown on the the most popular form of the
some
discards makes the next player game can finish a 5,000-points Ineligible to draw from the dis- game in about 30 minutes, while She heard of canaria and got cards and he must draw from beginners often take two hours. the details of the game from an
the stock.
Among her suggestions for Argentine woman delegate to start of the game, and after
The discords are frozen at the good play Mrs Reilly stresses: the United Nations.
A
Don't get down to one card unless it is absolutely necessary.
Don't give your hand away by
deuce is thrown on the pile.
Frozen discards can be picked up only when the 10p card hesitating over a card.
Mrs Reilly issued a pamphlet on the game and immediately sold. 40,000 copies. Realising she had something, she produced- a book on the game selling at
90 cents.
Sho sold 35,000 of these. In a
few days and is still selling them
rapidly.
Mrs
Most
sought-after
Str Belly, who now teacher man in Washington
canasta and not bridge at the
Regency, said that she did not
think canasta would be adopted generally by bigtime gamblers *because It's
a partner best adapted to gatherings."
game social
W
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
W.
MISS Colbert from afar for 20 years, been recorded the sound
and now that I am fat and track. It costs
the Alm COLBERT bowed down with family cares, companies £25 Д minute in fate has decided that we should lost time whenever a plane goes
HOW TO PLAY 【】ASHINGTON. — Vico meet. Can't you see the drama by, and they are doing it all day; for "basket." And the basic Barkley is now the most 1929
Canarta is the Spanish word President Alben In that?".
because there's an airfield just objective of the game is to lay sought after man in town. when
across the way.
down as many seven-of-a-kind friends....
After each hold-up the actor canastas as possible.
.At the age of 71 he set a had to have a fresh tear squirted; began
Sequences (or ruins) don't new record by boing the on his check with a syringe, and count. The canastas have to ba oldest man ever to be sworn. THEY sald something about a just when it was trickling down of cards of the same "lind" or into the job.
million or so other fat, nicely along came another aero- the same number of spots.
But you'd
eventually agreed to take me to middle-aged family men who'd plane. also like to meet her, but they
This in
where you go from never guess he held the age here:
title in view of the records During one of these delays fate
cut for deal. High he's been setting since. fake its Intervened agalti
plays first, player on the iranle course.
others were talking to the diree-right deals first. Holders of the There are no oficial figures, tor I espied, on the far side of a higest cards, in the event of abut experts agree "But for heaven's sake don't bamboo thicket, figure that four-handed game, are partners ow months he has been in offlo keep saying you've loved her 20 made my heart aniss a beat. against holders of the lowest. Barkley has probably crowned years," they said. "Make it ten." There was no mistaking Ulat
Cards are dealt one at a time. more beautyqueens awarded- hair, that progle, that beloved I promised I would, and off we chin, I'd have known them any-game each player gets 13 cards, drives, been photographed with two or three-handed more medals, Iaunched more wood? It is about as big as the set. Have you ever been to Holly- where.
In a four to six-handed South of England.
each gets 11. to have seen her, so I slipped off cards. They are laid aside and Red treys (tirees) are bonus clous to be witnessed by Mexi- are not used in the game. cans or publçily men,
More years went by, and the comedy girl turned into an actress who could raise a lump in the throat as easily as a laugh. ("Since You Went Away," for instance.)
the set and let fate
John Morgan, previously did so without losing the These years that kept Bishop of Swansen and Brecon, touch of the gamin that going by didn't pass me up, You can go in a straight line bishop of Wales to succeed Arch- every woman worth loving either. The erstwhile gay for 12 miles and be in the city bishop Prosser, who resigned should have.
limits the whole time. reporter turned grey.at the ("A Kiss in a come weeks ago. He is 63 years of age and was a Chaplain to the Taxi," "It Happened One temple. Family cures fur- Forces in World War One. |Night," "She Married Her rowed his brow, his waist
IT INTRIQUES THEM FROM TENNESSEE TO PENSACOLA
This
brain-teaser •
ther
BAS Bet
•pussiin
America. News- week magazine re. produced No. I and readers from Nashville
Tex- martes-Northerla Vermont - Pensa- Cola Forida and aven from Vene- RUBIA and JAY River La Canada's N.W. Territories, sent in their wold- "Bank, No. 8,
Now
try
by ERNEST DUDLEY
GET
HIM OUT OF THIS!
NIP CARTON, Insurance agent, goes to Monte Carlo to Investi- Ente - sensational swindle which has, for the first time, broken the bank at the Casino
Bulp Carton happens to be a wizard whist player, and la quite at home in the exotic, beavily perfumed aime- sphere of the gaming tables.
Carefully be studies the gamblers, and sean dramatically unmnaks the swindler. It is none other than René Vaplus, infamous French #roh- erliminal.
Vonios get away, but dus entirely to Sufp. Carton the Chains to soon going "great guns agnis, with towers popping out nightly to abeat them sefree by the gross - Businem la bach to mortDAS.
1
Braanwhila Vaplos; rowing revenge, : Hares Ship Carton to bis sinister house In the Rue Lolie,: Ile beats gulp"," Carton over the bean wills ; blunt it,
Instrument, carries him down to the beach, and dumps him into a dingy Hiile dinghy.
Just as dawn comes up ilke thunder Vapina cows his unconscious victim ance round the lighthouse. and then bends for a cove he knowa. Tiila turna out to be an ex-circus artist named Trap Eere.
Trap comes aboard, and steers the dinghy to another røve, only the time it turns our to be a small bay with at rock in the middle of it. Betweed this barnacle-covered rock and the EIDERY cliffs GO yards away is nothing apart from several soller rocko) but quirke. sands.
Vapips and Trap tie the anchor tope round Spip Carton from top to toe. then wedge the anchor un crevice in the rock. Grinning fiendishly. Vapluw and Teap hurry off as the, scorching sun--Apperts The tide with it trencherous, earrenis...la rising."
Once again Snip Caricato viskn death by thirst drowning, or the quirbannda" Unless you GET HIM OUT OF THIR AB the eines are in the picture
Botalion on Pare”15′′
While the players
Luckily no one else appeared
alone. This moment was too pre-
"Pardon me," I said, as I The drive from where I was caught up the goddess beside a staying to the studio was like palm tree, "but may I talk to line grew with shops and houses all the chance for 20-I mean ten- going from London to Brighton, you? I have been waiting this from 32 to way, and the streets full of mad years." 40. The fires motorists all driving on of youthful wrong side of the road. passion were
the
replaced by At this point the son of the some thing President of Moxlea comes on the
-
"You have?" she said, turning ⚫ on me the full glory of her smile,
"Well, isn't that cute?"
"Yes," I went on. "I feel 1 secno. I don't know what he was know you so well. Do you mind even more doing in Hollywood or why on beautiful be that day of all days he should if I call you Claudette?". cause it was have decided that he, too, had a wholly date with Claudette Colbert. platonic.
"I wouldn't mind if that was my name," sho answered. "But He certainly hadn't loved her Dean, I'm Miss Colbert's stand- It happens to be Carol: Carol
Rebuffed from as far as I had, because in, you know."
the
50,
Mexico is much nearer Holly-
Do you get wood than London, And ho idea? It hadn't loved her as long, because can he's only 18 or 17 now. But there you imagine the he was, with a bodyguard of emotions I felt Mexicans, at the studio door.
as I made my
-middle-aged
way to Holly- wood. All the time. I had
On the sot
'I'nover knew'
WELL, somehow I managed to Inugh that one off, but you can imagine how mad I felt when I got back to the jungle, esting and found the real Miss E fim in which Miss Colbert Colbert had appeared, and was is acting is about a Japanese now entirely surrounded by the neither oceans, mountains, nor
pieniz
como in the Borneo Party from Mexico. her two suc- jungle, and, the set was full of cessivo has Dalded wire and banana trees. bands could
known that
She was wearing a white blouse and blue sigeks, and had keep us apart Ahead, creeping through the no make-up, because, after being for ever. The undergrowth, whispering, "Pai! a prisoner of the Japs for three moment of This way." In Spanish, were the years she was not supposed to be heeling, so son of the President of Mexico looking her, best. But I liked her long ordained, and his bodyguard, and stalking: all the better for it, and when it was now ap-. behlad them were ms. and three came to my turn to speak, I told proaching. publicity men. (There was only her I thought she looked wonder-
must be gregarious or something, uno when we set out, but they ful.
It was easy
to And out that Miss Colbert
was making n new film
because they kept accumulating.)
"You do?" sald Miss Colbert,
Dodging the leeches and elec- the film star, to me. "Well, inn't for tricians, we broke through into that just too neat. I guess you 20th Century a clearing where the Alming was say that to all the girla”- Fox, but when going on. Miss Colbert was no
I rang up her where in sight, but they said. publicity people sho'd be along in a minute. carnestly and bleated out my "No, indeed I don't, I saidī they said thoy Micanwhile they were shooting were doubtful scene in which a ragged, bearded ing mo through to the end, the
pathetic Hiile story. After hear it she would prisoner was thinking of home one and only, film star in my life and allowing a tear to trickle took my hand in hers and, in a "Evident "I down his cheek.
voice resonant, with understand-
hautour you Just when everything was Ing, salds and to thank lavor don't réalise ready an aeroplano few over name was?
know! What did you say your who I am. Ithod,gand, Alfing, stopped: bo- have loved Min cause the house would have- en
London Express' Merpion)
In a
game
Rhymes of the timde COURTING DISASTER
by ALAN MELVILLE
Ai Wimbledon, at Wimble.
don
The courts are rolled and
truo
No daisy fears its head on
them.
No clover flowers red on
them
And groundsel is taboo. Americans can serve on them And smash and cut, and
swerve on them.
Displaying all the verve on
them
+
Which foreign players' do. ·
* At Wimbledon, et Wimble
don
Tha courts are -wall
renowned.
No lengthy grasses wave on
them.
•No, doggles misbehave on
them.
No rabbit's ever found, And when events begin on
them.
And racquets start to spin
on them,
The British rarely win on
Them
Qi reach the final round,
At Wimbledon, at Wimble-
don
The courts are just a dream. Ball always bounce right
on them The net's the proper height
on them t
4
They're too good, it would
seam.
On
courts with bumpa and Morolla in them,"
With worm-casts and with
moles ors`them,
"And nats with lots of holes
ts of hot Grain them,
-The Britlin enign suprem50.
that in the
more movie stars and been guest of honour at more affairs than His unflagging good any previous V. F. in a full term. nature and sally wit have made him the town's favourite quest.
He averages between 40 and
50 invitations a day to attend
private partics and dinners. And he gets almost that many requ
to appear at public He accepts as many of these demands on his time as he is able to, but insists on keeping a few evenings a week free for some quiet reading in his modest Connecticut Avenue apartment.
SIDEN
Vice President Barkley: The
first one with a seal,-
pro- the
rosewood bookcase, the oldest piece of furniture in the Capitol. The supreme object of pride in hla odico, however, is tho Barkley has added new mean- omce.
large replica of the seal of his the tradition at the clamation he
By. Presidential ing to
has becomo Capitol that any unember of Arst Vice President in history to Congress can walk into the Vios have the seal. It is similar to President's office without being the official U. & seal, and has announced. It's a hang-out for the eagle's head turned in the both Republican and Democratic direction of the olive branch mambers, as well as being the clutched in the claws, clearing house for good jokes, symbolise peacs, rather than in
Barkley also
to manages
onal
other recent
to
spend more time presiding over the direction of the claw clutch- over Ing the arrow, symbolising war. the Senate-his
one Constitu- assignment-than any
Vice President. Another record he can prob And he is considered one of the ably claim is that of receiving best parliamentarians who's ever more malf than any previous presided
over that deliberative Vice President. Much of his body, thanks to his many years correspondence comes from per as a Senator and a scholarly in- nons who still thinis he is the terest in the subject....
sentor Senator His office, Just behind the The rest comes from all over tha from Kentucky. main Senato furnished with fabulously
valuable pleces antiques.
eltomber,.15
country lously help or
asking for
for his advice,
of art and or ceremsence at some
His desk is n
came from which c
Darty
His office staff of tre- seven keeps working full blast mendous affair
rom handling the mail and the the White House and was once steady stream of visitors trying used by Theodors Itoosevelt and. to get in to see Barkley. Woodrow Wilson. Above his
capable aldo in head hangs a tremendous cut Vaughn, who now uses the same
chandelier
which Class
was denk which was used by Harry made in France for the White Vaughn when he wer nide to House. Theodore Roosevelt gave Vice President Harry Truman. it to the Capliol because he said The the tinkling caused by drafts in are not related. Barkicy
has been
Bill's sponzor
since the White House made him 1934, when he brought him to ACTYCUE
the capital as a messenger boy On one wall is a small glided, from Dill's home in Glasgow, mirror which launched Con- Kentucky. But who fressional probe when First worked in the Senate and Flouse. Dolly Madison brought it radio galleries and in other from France and neglected branches of the radio business, is pay the $50, duty on it. in an expert on parliamentary Anot pr wall is almost com- matter and the inner workings pletely covered with the famous of the capital and national poll Rembrandt Peale painting of Ucs. Spoon-fed Kentucky poll George Washington, valued at tice, Bill makes a perfect close to and million dollars front": "man for the 'los
back
Coverin third well lo a lure Pros): "APUCAN
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