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Midnight is O.K. for breakfast
R. M. MacCOLL
looks back on
the crazy 'walt- Ing room' of the latest United
States
atom
bomb tests
in atom town
CHICAGO. since gone with the Las Vegas JELL, we've had our wind.
W
Di
my
little bangs, and Having established the time- reporter Mac Coll lessness 01 the place. has had Las Vegas. The shall proceed to tell you
my 3 a.m tiptoeing baby A-bombs have gone efforts to cer something of the off-and so have 1, and I'm latest series I bomb eruptions. glail of it.
Psychiatrists are fond of the word schizophrenia. which means split persona- lity. If ever a town an! its inhabitants suffered from just that it is Las Vegas.
For by it supreme stroką
Jany 1:
you-please,
where mos
-huppy Bu-dr
I
good-time town,
la people are intent simply on torgetting the world, finds the A-bango, world's most tenible wap.
mak on 1s the lep
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Having been called at that ridiculous hour reporter Muc- Coll (depd game is reporter M.) stumbles into his clothes, makes his way downstairs the
cedn't have tipiced, because there are all the tourists bang- ing away ni to: slot machines
the hotel lobby, happy 23 the night is long with their lver dollars, but be ad) and 1110 the waiting CAR
1h.
IN
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Three m A rather hum- drure drivi nsues. A straight
user | Lad,
facr #a.ght
desert road. ka the day-time you ortusionally worth looking at even if it amily & munge
j rather difficult to for
get reality when, even De ceaseless
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11 stol etailer of achines, the lick of roulette wheels
the Clakk clater, you are confronted by ang preture behind the bar which thows a okiter lying in pool of blood and the words "Dom" tulk You ty may your pat's Ufere
But Las Vegas o es al
1 even wẤT
Pirate
It is about the talkiest town in talo one of the (107) Telling it poy to talk other like telburg a wood. ki
1he HAW
400
ONE ARM BANDITS
BUT ST
J for
the
wold
re
m/upe
can
something
A night-tone sensibly enough,
bed ane asleep
IT RUSTLES
QIO you have an hour and a bitj W
of tearing sing akorol.56 highway, with mountains Joon- ing in the distance (very jag- Red mountains, to and noth Eng much to think about cept--perish The unworthy thought--could is be a false
alam like the one last week"
The car stops. You've go
far as you can DS
All Ouf What, no coyotes wailing? No, afraid not. Bul little
way eway there stands u Joshua What does a Jurhus tree Tree
musties i
The
men
in
o Anstoer· macabre
b mb goes
Bell
Hawaiian shirts and the women in tulured Western slacks who gan:bling the bors. crowd saloons, and horserace pal or all day and at night They leave on those one-armi- ad bandits--they
were
even
herd at it in the airport build- bag when I aurived), the army Cem- an Atomic Energy stun uffelah are anything but
They have madelled "pub. le relations offee" in on hotel with a Jomantic Spamuh name where I slayed. They are frightfully
chaps, FAC
all smble and terrifically uncome municative
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Yet there are 5000 110ops of Camp Deseal Beck
the me lart. pawh re Lema
Whi
They would not allow me to na Harry, kod 31.flywood stars hay - Leta 1. to alertain 1hr 3,000
And 5,000 min no. o spotk nt the Hollywood
be made mum for ever
MISSING....
BEFORE the f
ther?
WUS
fashion when the
off
John.
But what does the tren do if the bomb fulls to g off” Ansive". 1 fils to rustle
For some reason, all present
Talking in whispers.
GOING STRONG
15 may be the end of the
road - but you are stil nearly 15 miles away from the worry with the fringe on top. And there are several ranges of mountains between you and
a desert dawn
The down mes Anally pry ind poised, every hing
hould be the thing didn't go of
to La Mormon o mories and its present-day tom, spheĽE of
So Veka
75 mile: Lack
its --will
The-agebrush.
The neons end
Broadway-in-
T
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951.
FRECE
That candidate who kissed baby before election must have lost his deposit-he just gave baby a whack with his umbrella.**
SARAH CHURCHILL
no reflected glory.
(London Erpress Service)
WINSTON'S GIRL
They called her ‘Mule'— and for the girl who seemed a failure
on the
stage
obstinwey brought success
of devoted and assiduous study and in 1949 her fulfillment-by
de: Ca herine de Voos
Disguised beneath the trans
"Miss Smith." pazen alias of she attended audition elter
I' audition, finding no "akers. 1936. rowever
C. B. Cochran liked what he saw
and heard
and she made her debut as a
now a matter of head-shaking in nearly every mind save her own-began to take place.
Her triumph
"AM
John
Broadway, Shaftesbury Avenue, and I shall be apping on the dressing-room doors of such STS 08 Gracie Fields, Gic.gud and Beatrice Lillie." don't suppose it will matter that neither Miss Fields nor Mr Giel- gud is appearing on Shaftesbury Avenue or hai Miss Lille 12 not appearing anywhere at all.
old
In their spare time, the Beauchamps
re- greeted
a tow items to friends, saded Sarah's collection of china, and lodged at the house in Ebury Street which was Mrs Churchill's now 0: wedding gift.
From
her time
and
divide between London
Sarah will
equally
New York; her rovis are split,
¡E private and public history of the theatre Young Lady in "Follow the Sun' SHE had faned moderately in bu at all events she can boss. brims with
the Ade'phi. Surviving pic-D film. tales of a
Over The of a mission successfully accom- Denure CHIEET, canished circumstances; of res show her kres and angular Town," and thereafter America plished-of
third from the left
captured her. Throughout the based on a resilient and deter battles against early poverty
mined (if not theatre circuit
globe-shaking) Sought and won This is the I story in reverse, about
giri who chose to climu
down.
Thirty-seven VOUS LES Said! Churchil; was bern, a sta esman's
ugh er WIE A 275 in fleted glory, and her cehieve- ment has beca to fashion herself a career independent of her father during a pe; od wech
of Westcra mos
Europe w glad to be depende it on bin.
to:
and
***
sho
In the same year she marriet telumphed in "The Philadeph'a talent. As they said their good-
her Vie Oliver, thus cementing her Stay" playing Katharine Hep- byes to
most of her heatrica allegiances;
in ben's Fast, and October circle were having to admit that 1938 made her
Arst legitimate married Tomy Beauchamp. HE "Mule" had made a go of 1. appearance in the tour of Robert year her juntor, at a widely- Sherwood's prophetic tragi- comedy, "Idiot's Delight With
by Kenneth TYNAN
publicise woling.
In 1950 she impressed Broad- way with her performance in a comedy called superna urai Gremerey Ghost-even the New
! Yorker critic. who is parsi- munious of his huzzas, inhaled and cheered.
Immediately afterwards, MGM "The High If
! gary. Wins en
but inconsiderable
roared her for a par in the Churchill tanner of the actres." power, she eleme a phoney Fred Astaire musica: "Wedding us & chip which wil neve LEIN CES.
She Dells."
came home a become turren; Lat it will nev
utlying London theatres.
There followed : win er in the distinct and measurable box-
The office draw, and America wants
ጋር
De 10: want of effon Sara pat. Here is only amitale sized career for she is nol .. the North great as reas; what amys it i
Sar we fighting & rearguard the family characteristic of battle with the dawn, you hear obstinacy—the obstinacy which aplin the never-ending aeconi won he The brusque nickname bardment of life in the Fun of Mule." Capital--the clatter of the sto
chines
They're going streng
And
The steady gaze bomb w.n
Task- so that J.P. who will marry ( minute to-do because ü 2011- struction worker was reported people at all hours (dast yeni missing (the
auth:rities
had
OK
There were 18.060 "short
Las Vegas. der" marriages in
e formalities to speak of, just ago go along with your girl). In
Bon to great lengths to try to 11 prospectors and Waru
working miners who are little-knowa mines, and visiten isolated ranches by hover plane).
Well, the
search for worker went on for 姐
of hours amid great
this
NO EMPEROR...
WEA
}
io
* 4rd her, but tepidly her back.
B. Lubreziu in "Man-
3 he
F
ne soin's than she makes."
dragela" at the Mercury she was The TV cameras fimed her erved -- wish he added first programme from England
on ehrows away a week agɔ
Westminster When I arrived, she Hridge. had lost her cameraman, and In 1940 the came to the West huddled in her husband's little End in "Ou.ward Bound," this car, shivering beneath 遐 About voluminous yellow raglan coat. Ane the was "brit le."
he fame time, Antony Beau What with red hair and green Chemp (pronounced "Beecham," eyes, she splashed the halftone of the Thames with Technicolour. Her Entwistle),con when bo eyes
}
it
a
mci hor # few day: layfair photographer Vivienne, face was frank and defenceless,
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was laying the cunda icas of a remiorced by a stubbornly clefi zurefooted
dark-room dynasty by making a chin and she spoke in Din curk
nume for himself with a camera, fetchingly cool and husky voice. Je ook some pietures of Mary She looked about 26. Churchill, and made the ac- maintance of the family which years la er, he was to joln.
Ease and grace
steady Faze which, told, is a boon
elevision 10 cameras. Three weeks ago sho and her husband. Antony Bea champ, began in New York. couple Com
series of weekly TV programmes OY and temperamental, thes: sponsored by Hallmark Grecting comings
weapons. They Cards and relayed by CBS zer he cught to be labelled: Handle
ne work of ( 21 stations; and in
1945 her marriage was dissolved. See, drove up bland. NOON her producer, Chuck with cure. And all that sleep TV, which specialises in the they make you lose. Bad show. immediate imprint of human Theatrically undaunted, she
personally, one's eyes are toured
provinces
and goings. It turned cut
was chancing his arm at a crap table-playing dice--down
Las Vegas all the time.
In
For Las Vegas, in the mids! do is to go off on
a
Mrs Oliver pent five years as
WAAF an efficer in the
In
the
1 gum-:avouring American,
LA
The least an atom bomb cau witnesses. Sarah Churchill's, "Gaslight," made iwa nima in schedule. brigh and candid, look like Jaly (which, ve far as can be of atom-bomb preparations and Just think of all those Joshua winning over the jury of viewers gathered, never lef. Italy), and
in spite of these "Are YOU trees standing mofiunless the weak link in the recurity the desert....like extras in eliai? posters still likes to play. who exclaim, "But 10. think of itself os, the "Fun The emperor comes!" And no Capital of the World."
Everything goes on 24 hours
einperor.
to the US.A.
wha
reted the Immercely popular
Palmer TV shows.
to a favourable verdict. In Lon. In 1948 returned London for
The script (which deal with don she has filmed two pro- 44erformances of "The Barre's Hudson River on fire, but Sarah the election) may not set the is! the grummes, to be canned and flown of Wimpele See!"
Carrick pleylig fourth string spoke her piece with twink
Tom Wal's, Alee Clunes, and
epse and grace. After two Margeret Johns.on.
hours of takes and retakes, she was bundled off to Trafalgar interviewed The cries now rough out Square, where she epithets like "anima ed" passing electors; later there was Richmond pub; and vivacious." She had, surprise visit lo
arrived; but the red finally, a rehearsed brush with ingly.
Sharman Douglas. carpe remained unrollea,
The budget for each Dro- FOOTNOTE: Just when we
gramme is around £1,500, of nday Breakfast? Midnight 15 were not expecting it the thin which she and her husband One. So is 10 p.m. or 4 a.. went off. A very minor affair,
Drinks? Round
but the Atomic Energy Com-receive a lion's share. the
czek mission chaps say it was strict- Gambling? Of course, any time I on the up-and-up.
Bluntly, she has never before held such you say. That ingrained Bri-
a continuously re-
fish idea that certain forms of How do you like that? In-munerative job.
This minor success lent a
"Next week," said Sarah,;"I'm
fun should take place only nt visible atomic explosions? Ace F*age career began, hesi- strictly stated hours has long What will they think of nex17andy, in the thirties, after years ramrod quailty to her ambitions; going to take you up London's
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