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She got away

with 50 murders

But when she vanished- ah, there was a mystery

by

JOHN

PREBBLE

GGEMPTY books!" exclaimed Mr Attlee. Many of them have beguiled and made aprovable my leisure."

This dismiled enthusiasm is not aroused by the latest Fabjan truets to hund, but by the fact that there is being published this month the liftieth took by Mrs Agatha Christic, writ er of detective stories.

So well known among the well known is she that not only the Premier, but Mr Anthony Eden, Sir Hartley Sir Norman Shawcross,

Birkett, and Wilfred Pickles have gone into print to say how happy they are about

JL.

While

Mrs

Chelsta

X-

Jooks and dresses like a happy pro-

who has vincial matron

were ta pertenced nothing

Whitin the

thunderstorm

wrecked the flower show, she

In

hns

fact, been

away with murder.

getting!

Death's Dividends

BY.

Y darker-point and

shot,

pistul-

and been de-

Phlai jbison

foul play, he has

elmating the middle classes for

30 years, and they have been

entertained by

BQ

the ex-

perience that they have bought 50,000,000 copies of her hooks. rate death pays And at that her handrome dividends.

"But don't much." she will out of the

nsk

straw hat ef

eeות

Mrs Agatha Christie. her husband on a

In

17, 1950.

LIST YOUR HUSBAND'S GOOD POINTS

Canon Warner On Husbands & Wives

IT HARDLY scems worth writing about, but I am worried. We hare been married more than 20 years, and we stem to do no more than just Jog

along.

We keep on having rows over the most absurd trifles. All the heart seems to be draining lowly away from our love. I used to think my husband such a fine man; now I wonder what I w in him. It there anything we can do to bring back life to our marriage?

EGIN by getting pencil

Band paperinke a list

THE BREAKER

"AFTER a bad R.A.F. grash I felt terrible about saddling my wife with a cripple to look after instead of a husband. went to mu

lawyer for advice, Later, to my horror, I heard from him that, without telling me, he had asked to see my wife, had had a stormy interview with her, and she had agreed to a separation.

"I torote explaining the terrible mistake, but my letters were returned unopened. Her solicitur has none werliten to me and said that my spife will never return, and that he will certainty do oli

In

his power to prevent a reconciliation, as any divorce is better than none.

"Have I no remedy; is there no tody of getting past the solicitor and of saving my marriage "

extraordinary

of all the good qualities possessed by your husband.

Next, another list of all the bad qualities which other husbands have, but THIS is an

story, and something haa which yours has not. Digest gone terribly wrong. High Court the result, and I think you judges have been at pains lately will be pleasantly surprised. to point out that ila a matter public policy that Every We tend to take each other's effort should be made to save a

good points too much for granted.

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the inter- marriage and that pretation of law must be gov- erned by this over-riding con- sideration,

Therefore, every lawyer has of striving to end a marringe it possible, rather than to persunde a cheni to scek, divorce, merely becaure there is evidence on which a divorce could be granted. Every reputable lawyer acts on this principle. by

Now for this drabiness which marriage. har

infected your Whenever a marriage gets into the "doldrums like this, and the the prime duty sparkle has gone out of it, you will find that the stimulation of outside interests and occupations Is antrsing.

The couple are turned in on themselves. They have exhaust- cd each other's resources trying to be entirely relf-su- cient,

Hobbits, outside work, and reneral interests shared with others in the community where you live, have a way of feeding Bat the personality of a husband or among wife. They give it edge verve,

lived and vitality.

In England they have a

Chelsen, where,

can be "paintings that with" and gewraws bought in local antique chops, Mr. Mal- lowan Unds it easy to becoug Azatim Cbristle and write,

There is

also

You both have something to

But in every profession you have the "black sheep." Their presence in the legal profession casts a slur on one of the most honourable of all professions.

Few

instance, people, for

kludly realise the amount of free advice friendliness which solicitors as a whole offer to their clients.

For the sake of everybody the black sheep must be shown up. You should write a full ac-

whatever evidence! count, with a six-bed-talk about to each other, to dis- you may have, to the Disciplin- Toured buze at Wallingford, curs and to share. As a by-pro ary Committee of the law So- life so shared. eiety, 13, Chancery-lane, Lon- Berks, and a Ane eld Gromitian duet of fuller

their house over-looking the Dart in you will find a new happines don, W... If satisfied, they will

coming into your

the lawyer from marriage, expel Devon,

which you would never havo ranks.

When you have succeeded in The rest of the tamily is found hail you gone bald-head-

contacting your wife, you will made up by her married cd at "happiness" itself.

both nced the help which a daughter Kolind anch her If you sit at

pottering about with no special purpose, trained marriage consultant will reason why Your marriage All of which presents a well-you will go to seed and mulchill be able to give you. There is no mode a happy should not be of Successful will breume mountains, rounded picture

So begin looking outwards A

one again. novelist, wife, and mother..

But there may be technical Not

that it was always so; Job of community service, per-

maiters about which you will her literary career started with hips, to which you can throw .will be "gloomy novels" which nobody yourself. Your church would buy.

able to offer you activities of need special advice. the many kinds where your talent When at the age of 20 wrote her first detective novel can blussom. nobody

anxious seethel

grandson Matthew.

buy that ether.

In the lower picture she appears with hillside above Greenway House, their Devonshire home.

Her agent must have a head In Most Languages fret husband. Her second and pear?

for figure.

(o

At any large teaching hospital the specialist staff are used to

the problem confronting meni

of all you who have been severely injured

In worship, best wil dnd-release of spirit and and for whom mal married Her seventh book, an object of devotion which will life is impossible. "The Murder of Roger radiate your marriago Ackroyd," established new happiness.

her.

Yet some of her most devoted admirers have not forgiven ber for that book. It broke the rules. Who on eart would suspect that the murderer would turk out to be the kindly old doctor who narrated the story?

But no

mystery she diction ever created in

could compare dramatic tension

with

with

--(London Express Service)

C. V. R. Thompson

Miss Churchill

on

downs

Sunset Boulevard

son or Clark Gable or Spencer Taylor, CARAH Churchill, just ar-

Tracy (1 Elizabeth rived in Hollywood, has hovered around her 0s if she were already Hollywood's new first lady.

the one she created in scarcely had time to unpack

in her new home, a bench fact. She disappeared.

This was in 1926, and front house (no swimming brought

11

Wave

of

Hardly had

Miss Churchill

swallowed the cherry from the

sometimes questionable pool), which she has rented

unit of mountain of fruit And 1926 from Bebe Daniels. publicity.

lad than the questions began. from

an oddly- was the year of her first

She does not yet know They came

assorted group of a dozen or so. success.

rules traffic

Miss Churchill bad a ready One day in December Hollywood's found

good-humoured man for himself), and her car abandoned near

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lands Corner. She had and was almost arrested for for all but one.

Nike Alms? father until the

enes. Did he approve of her gone. For two weeks her ignorance, volunteers, bloodhounds,

acting in a Hollywood police, crime reporters, policeman discovered whose Some of them, mostly historical cars, and planes looked daughter she is. for her.

But already they have begun Yes, he was thrilled." treat- the "star And then she turned up in a was born in Torquay She

the to give her Shaw and

hydro under how only

by Bernard

Some 50-odd years Harrogate

3ent."

tles? Yes. Did she think of "Neele." What

The challenge Hollywood has say, smiling Homer's Odyssey, a fact which (When?

Mary Clarissa name

understood Miss Americans 1s to make shadow of a large says much for the catholicism ngo) as Agathin

Miller, daughter of an Ameri- plot! Had not she made Poirot "I of our terary taste.

as famous British political situation? Yes. at least 1030 vintage,

at one time claim that it was accepted can "But I'm English').

disap- Churchill

Why didn't she wear a wed- her perfectly possible

with the public as her father. leave all that to my agent."

Christie is the name of

So she Kal call. from ding ring? She did, but on the the all-important right hand, Continental fashion,! husband is Max Mal-

Devar eredulous "publicity,"

she had a because The public,

which de- largely transhied into present

Western Professor of jowan,

to know studio department wanted long. and even

in the for Archmology Asiatic

whether half the country had cides when it is best for a star beautiful engagement ring she to to be friendly with a toreador, liked to wear on her left hand. University of London.

been turned upside down

or to preach sermons from the

question The one prove the Belgian right.

pulpit. Her Desert Tent

not such a good-humoured one, woman. She geniuses came ITB ANONYMOUS ficient that murder is solved by A Christie, novelist, enter Mrs suffering from amnesia.

ordain just how much, or asked if Miss Churchill found] HONG KONG DISTRICT.

film stage and fair

public shall that in her little, the The greatest mystery story how

from Agatha know of actors and actresses' career her father was a bandi- an- ever to come

cap to her. off-screen lives. Christle died down.

An outsider. Judging sales HE has been ngalast possible royalties, moy D

most languages,

decide that in a leap year Birs penetrated Eastern Europe. Christie makes do 01

thing like

Somc

fat

There, her books seem to have £4,000. In a

extraordinary picture year there is no telling what left on

It might be.

No telling, that is, anyone but the Inland Revenue.

'Golden Gertrude'

OF her 50,000,000 sales, 30,-

000,000

on one

are estimated

occasion, the won

10

*

of life in the decadent West

where our police

an

are so inet-

Belgian

T

this point

exit Agatha

"a pretty - Mallowan, egg-headed

currently patriate (Hercule Poirot) and a archmologist,"

6f the fluffy. necdlo-witted spinster sistant excavator

cient city of Nimrch, Syrla. There in the desert; (Miss Marple)..

of each

photograph thing have made stage earthed.

or

she breaks record

hand.

issued a but- Then doctors

had been Mrs Christle

to

Miss Churchill was asked to her first

which

HOAD

brought a ready answer, but ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

from

BRIGADE

WANTED

Books, papers and magazines 1 must confess I almost

distribution to service Miss Churchill for her Hollywood cheered when But the Christie money does tent, she types her novels with Her Fiction World drop everything for

meeting with

in the replied: "It is not possible for camps in the New Territories. bave been in America. There, not come alone from books. three Angers

Christle Press. It took place off to grow high Agatha

Please communicate with (Hollywood for my father to be a handicap to of commissory" her novels becsmo Sometimes Five of

sume-stands among the elle "Golden Gertrude" to literary

the biggest anyone." is open fiction has un- detective selling 5,000,000 Alms.

her husband Osenri for

studia in town. debate.

Sho coples in one year.

Her plays

great character- She is no Professor Mallowan recipro Gertrude turned out to be a

what a star should not reputations. kangaroo statuette, glit,

What sort of woman does all cales this interest in his work builder, no original stylist. golden.

Although she belleves that he that it was "an this? toms decided undesirable import," but finally

And the English Cus-

In 1048 Penguin Books issued simple,

But

at

arrived late. That is DOLLAR EARNINGS of the

of

do.

MRS HOLMES-BROWN,

2 Tai Hang Noad.

MR K. C. WONG,

Room 600, Dank of East Asia. WE WILL ARRANGE TO COLLECT

will be Just

Churchill family in her books there is But in Miss Churchill's case it considerably enhanced by Miss only because those Churchill's Hollywood engage-

rules

Sunset ment. She will along

earn around An expansively built, mother had never read a novel before the urbanity of English middle-was

her, she hos re class life. Here is a world of traffic

£800 a week for three months. of solutely driven him through all country houses where, the ser-Boulevard.

Her arrival caused quite a let it in under "the same con- ly person, with white hair and he married

Judy Garland is likely to a nervous voice. A woman ditions as the Lonsdalo belt.”

uncomplicated charm. the novels written by Agatha vant problem is only just mak-

air. And that, mind you, in a play in the film. Fred Astaire Additional collecting centres?-- Ing itself felt.

where no ong and Peter Lawford are the "And her detectives, unlike restaurant ten green-backed Christies and A woman who says she would Christle.

They go to the desert (where alike best to do nothing at all, reach

America, do not have bothered to look up when Cary other stars, met 20 years ago) ose in the sales

my they first watched

The gure just sit in the min with

once a year, and seem quite to break a man's nose to prove rant came in. million in a year.

feet up.”- -- -- -- is now over two millions,

wanted to be happy that it will take another their point. She has the er-

Yerra (and presumably This means that her royalties She once

·sence of good taste in murder, have concert planist, but was 100 10

50 novels) singer, another

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