THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951.
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WATSON'S Aerated
WATERS
LIMBERING UP for
KNEES BEND for making a 'brayer?
HANDSTANDS
votes of censure,
RHYTHMIC GARGLING ... for shouts of
Order !'
UNARMED COMBAT practice.
("for * acenes," in the Lobby,
moving amendment.
DEEP BREATHING BY NUMBERS... for keeping tempers calm.
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WICKWIRE, aged 25. from Pennsylvania (left) fences with Diana Chadwick, aged 19, from Kensington.`
GIRL STUDENTS — a Bernhardt of to-morrow among them ?-make-up for a display before the directors, including the principal director, Mr. Glen Byam Shaw.
TERESA
STRASBURGER STUDENTS act in masks to dresses for the costume dance......« broaden” their acting. Here display to the Old Vic Theatre
Margaret Ashcroft (niece of School directors, Students
Peggy Ashcroft) wears an old are taught every branch of: woman's mask, while Mary: costume and make-up art. Watson selects another.
WARDROBE MISTRESS Clare, Jeffery ¦ (left) and Yvonne Bonnamy help, Ida. Goldapple (centre) from Bethnal Green adjust her, costume.
THEATRE SCHOOL
By Vivien Batchelor
THE large building on the corner of This is the Old Vic School, cradle of tomorrow's
Thurlow Park Road, Dulwich, looks the
theatre. ordinary enough at first just a Here 100 of the world's most. school. But peep through the window talented and aspiring young and before you even enter the hall you actors and actresses are under- know this is different from any other going school in the world.
a two yours' course of training for the theatre,
Work, work and more work
is their regime. For them no Rows of white faces stare back at you: glamour and of pub- There are young girls' faces smiling tenderly;
personal old men and women, come evil some sad; city,
appearances, not everthe and young men handsome in the pride of smallest walking on part youth. One thing all have in common- the blank hollows where their eyes shold be.
allowed during
even in an amateur the school For the faces are mache masks in which holidays. However promising the students in the school do most of their they are, their job is art to early training.
learn their trade,
Their training includes, data-
The Princess Chats To
'Strictly Cash' Gladys
By LIONEL CRANE
MICHAEL MORGAN, and his stater Priscilla practise in the gymnasium, watched by Rosalind · Knight (daughter of Esmond Knight), Don Pascor and Cynthia Smith.
FOUR STUDENTS wall their cue in one of the rehearsal rooms
clog. singing. forcing and
applicant to the obaracter por”, “song." Even when they get gymnastics, as well as acting trayed," said Mr Per Strell, bame to their lodgings" they Some of them are on a tech the Assistant Director of Acting work for hours, studying lines, nical course, learning the art Courses. "Imagination is more, reading notes, practising ges- of stage management, produc important than good lookstures. Theatre to be their tion and design, birt the
When the students start-to-life; already they live for the majority are
and mine scenes they wear **
coureo,
02
the acting
act mesks for some clasS09.
noise you will not bear This is partly to help them -heavy feet. All the puplis VERY student must pass two get over their initial self-com- wear unblocked ballet shoes-- muditions before being solousness, but chiefly to teach it is not a regulation that they The them to net with their whole shall do so excent for dancing accepted in the school. standard is high and the num- bodies and not to rely on facial lessons, but most of them do not.
bother to change. ber of new studente not more coxpression
Is on untform EXCODE than 60-60 every year many a young hopeful is turned away, for gym when
THEIR training makes them. At the first audition the ap- woon black trunks and tops. 1 light on their fect, Even plicant must; prepare piros
VALLETTA, Mar. 24. AILORS and their
wives see little enough
EXAMPLE: The Princess is Conti, the proprietor's wife, that of each other. When to-
on holiday, so she almost never the wanted a shampoo and ret, gether again after a part- dresses up. She has been seen
Dark-haired, dark-eyed Mrs ing they want to be alone. four of five times in the came So the Maltese shrug, sit and mutand-coloured coat Conti, aged 21, showed her to smile, and keep out of the Unless the occasion is formal, cubicle number four "I was so
nervbas I did not think I should from be able to do a thing, the, told way of Princess Elizabeth and the commander of the
me. But, the Princess chatted to her, while the wasted her bair, frigate Magpie.
and road'o imagazine while
She was under a drier.
Because of this, the Princess
she never wears in hot.
Round her hair she ties a silk scarf which the Duke bought for ber the last time his ship wale at Nico.
and her husberedī are able to To gat her hair done, the ralax in a way that would be Princes
good to Tony's, in Impossible anywhere else. Prince of Walon Rood, one of EXAMPLE: The Duke drives Vallettab main shopping stroots.
round Valletta
in
TYKELEY-
produced 10 horse-power coupe
car. In off-duty hours he takes the Princess for rides, She sits
'HELLO, GLADYS
Now whenever she goes she soy: "Hello, Gladys."
Inside the shop is a picture of the King and Queen and a notice .cash". The saying, "Strictly Princess's bills are paid by che-. que signed by Lady-In-Waiting
beside him while he drives, and PROMINENT in Tony's win Alice Egerton,
they often go quite alone.
dow, which 13 advertised as "Ladies". Hair Stylist," is the EXAMPLE: - There aze no price list. A cold porn costs "nant" night clubs in Valletta, 258., a hot one 35s, and setting When the Princess wants to and water-waving 5o. dance, the and the Duke pop
over to an hotel and join the The firet time she went there
Aho Princes
guests in the ballroom.
told Mrs Gladys
Goods
"Kiltie" Kippers per lb. $1.50 Canadian Sole Fillets per lb. $3.70
Australian Roasting Chickens
per lb. $3.60 10 Australian Bolling Fowls per lb. $2.60 Itulan Gorgonzola Cheese per lb. $4.00; Italian Erbo Cheers por lb. a $3.20
56.25
5) Cream- per-ba $3.80 Pork Lard per lb. $220 Beef Dripping: per lb, 95.23 ¿D°C L Dried Yeast, 1 lb tin$3.20 Columbine Caramela per pkt 50a
at the
DAIRY
FARM
Mrs Conti has never cathed the art one for 15s. Her other nouvenir is o lock the Princess's hadr, which the carries in the pocket of her overall.
OVER
POLO PRACTICE ·
VER the Easter holidays they Magpie is the duty, ship. Tibds, mooner that the Duke and her crew have to etual by rendy to get up steam in 24 hours for any emergency. ·
The Dulo goes abourd betwoon Devon."and" "eleht ́o'clock each morning
and does not so home for lunch.
Yesterday there was no efter- ten game of polo, for the Dubs,
but he went to the club ny
too
the
students
burk the girls all must wear
R
onldie-length skirts during the when 16 of them are dancing a Shakespeare set - by
in school. This is to ac- lively folk dance, scarcely school, and & short
scene curiorn them from the start to board on the school theatre stage their own choloe.
cos creaks. "What we look for a the long, heavy skirted
1
Some of the students coms transformation from the young
tumes they will probably wer
from in most Shakespearean Pro
the Empire, others from ductions
Abey tre lucky the United States. They have to enough to be selected for the pass auditions in their own coun- Old or
Young Vic: Company tries before being acepted. when they leave the school. It One of these is 25-year-old aleo makes for graceful deporte Nancy Wickwire, from Pennsyl mentit
is dificult to walk vania. Tike +
several hayden with
"In America we recognise this yards of heavy were clinging school as giving the finest traini round the unkles.
ing in the world,” she said. "I am very
lucky to be here."
What they pay
TEES at the school are £21. term -- three
Kj
cach
ten-week yese. Of the 100 students enrolled at present, 43 are paying their own foes, the rest have grants or scholar- ships, Thom whose homes are not in London mostly live in Todrings in Darwich at rates varying between £2 and £3 a work.
No papli is admitted over the age of 23 or less than 17 when the course starts. But a few.aro nocepted ap to 27 years old If they have Just left the Weroen,
take
Some of the pupils already TULE only time slacks are have relations ilustrious and the
allowed is whan the girls stage. There is Rosalind Knight fencing lessONS. Every whose father is Esmond Knight, acting student takes tench and bouncing young Margaret Ashcroft. from Brighton, who hoper to follow
Lootsteps
lessons twice a week.
Surely no pupils in school. war radiated such
vibrant energy as those at the
the
her aunt, Peggy Ashcroft. At the end of the two-year....
Old Vic School. Even as they course the best students are climb apstairs from classroom
to classroom, or as they relax elected to take a third your. in the canteen, they are busy During this time they appear in rhearsing or soene (02 singing the shows at the Old Vic Theatre.
an
Elizabethan air or a folk
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4 Saturday's – In: un Princess sat alone in their small from aur pickles. I had one of, wait, and got a rather, curwory cur watching him for had at those samo sintoks the other doy going-over mort time lay come Buddhays. The price the in, The total cost for good. 1: Blogginda OPUNE hornburger API WPREFIT GRCEllazy-and (sérvice,és 21. engage pot of Engin #eld; Loc. Sim. Dj.
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