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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951.
"ISN'T THERE A MOVEMENT WHERE THEY
DANCE BACK TO BACK ?"
NOT THESE PEOPLE.“
IKE'S SQUARE DANCE CLASS
Our
new
Sitting Fence...
on
by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
ROBABLY you didn't guest of honour at a
believe it when your to Jungh Uncle
Nat told you
weeping."
15 B
Washing- He ht
חד
voszure
that Dr Mossadeg is i "Mossadeg has ignored the
the Shah's orders to return home Woman disguised Persian Prime Minister.
"Messung's observations Here. to prove the point, Washington are extracts from American that cirle had no mea what
he was talking ason." newspaper reports during Mossadeg's visit 1. the United States.
When asked the dower 1. negotiat ens Weld The British wax ill che Mater aid he had never seen the foor
✩
the
Hands above your head, Pele, there's a good chap. I have you covered.
So you'd shoot me down like a dawg?
I never shoot dogs because a's cruel and silly.
you.
Year!
What's more. I couldn't short
ethe
Caly These are water pistols.
Well Water pistola? Heck. mine ain't weter pistols. Ain't you scared I'l! plug you?
Not at all. Pete. At heart you
sune are a
More
gu 11,
against then suming Give me your guns.
are
Dead Eys. you shere the whitest an I know,
N› better then ciners. Pete.
fitunate. mote
Now [ Only will take you home to your old who waits for you with mucher
a bot
"2: Monsaneg was a flop on television. Later that evening he was
ir bia toum weeping
Derters £1 the halal
This un obucur case ni a examined. Musa, og ani found gii who has run away from an tears in Junan pretty good shuge.
Mest er lies Ametra and unhappy home, where she was suppre of ham, eggs, and Conn-
and has beà ?. all in the ben
'Landed Gentry
T
AMONG THOSE PRESENT:
Several film stars; the Steel Board chairman; a 17-year-old Eton schoolboy; Mr. Hugh Dalton; AND (whether he likes
it or not) Communist sympathiser Professor Haldane.
click t
J
ARS
er of th RAFV.R.. is now sure bicause he owns two
estates, N; we chartry
although fonty was still in Viennu a1 the end of last century.
S. Norm Ang It author creestal bene HE pride of 5,000 linget att
ink par the ast families has made mesa number ma ruad. "The Ghent
21 78 le bas co-rnled je emis Thus Muineux-Montgomere, possible the compila-
f Garb da.sham Hall
but I decling to pave los TRAT of me of the Frontly
Norfolk his inenge goes bark pedigres His right plitee fascinating British
Northey i now just won by over hip of history books since the war the man who lives at 14. Malon Pred. Midday, Exox
Berke's monumental Avenue. Howarth Green, York "Lauled Gentry," appearing next spring as the first eli- tion for 15 years.
There are many how roiners who join the squires and their ladies for the first Some have spent up 9. to £3.000 proving that their pedigree is good enough.
to the 15th century
Then
Mr 1. G. Pine, editor of the Look. told me. "Pride of family stimetimes carries people 100
1
ht
At clean up
But he is B of Kent; e ly al w Formerly Strike- And Har
New shaid measures 360 arts speare Formerly of
leventh in descent from Jangh ab 11 as 50 Tari sester of William Shake- yare where ired to Now Plans
16:1-15 Stretford-on-Avon, now My Harold 11. engineer.
2
Street. High
ni
Baker
Wycombe, Bucks.
it
The old suures have unatrus. tomed companions these days. When the book first appeared in
fat
Others have tried to gate- 1836 the gentry erush by cajolery, threats, with land that and tricks. They have been bothered with a dismissed as snobs, their professional it was the family trees failing to pass Diplomatie
Church. the experts.
There are also those whe gained right of entry by distinguished public service.
200 ACRES ENOUGH IS
The
compilers of book, trying to present
the
M
J B
W Fries les
Prac-iley t heible to talk s Billingharu Maner" be, ause of Now bormerly Wight and metus arts But r is not in. He refused to R.Ve 1 is pedigree,
SOME FROM
CAME ABROAD
Were 50
they commerci or
Many men of foreign descent. occupation--unless Navy Army, the Inke their place among the d Service. or the English names.
Listed in the new book
Head of the house of "Sche. ary Montefiore Formerly of Est
is a 17-year-c film stars Sie Laurence Olivier, CBR Lodge. Olivia De Havilland. Joan Fon- Flon schoolboy--Robert S.50%- talne: novelists Graham Greene Montefiore. and SP B. Mis: broadcaster Hullywood Freddie Grisewood: producer John Farrow the turns
He comes from a 17th-een-
In pradac ng this book i eleve 1 have
done more ter than genealogy
has buen done for 15 years.
querai
MALTA By Bady men relusel to Felarn.
She thought she was going to be a star on American televiibati, Was a hop. 9 went home to ery, as any a girl would do.
Because bboy look much notice of he, she pretended to be il, but when they made a fuss of her in Washington she was all smules.
As the poor little thing knows nothing about oil, and probably eres less, she tied to bist L but with some mehuingless re- kind-hearted marks, hoping official would say "Don't worry your pretty head about it any Sugar What about luarb,
Bul, as her head in not very pretty, nobody sud it. So what is her next move?
She stalls for time with dumb blonde answers.
"Is the door still open?" "Door? Whatever do you mean. I ain't seen no door
Lead Thean.
her eve
He to it
Supper
her,
dance
PEOPLE in London who think
i smart to go to night club bottle parties "where there is American squarc dancing. 'Swing Your Honey, and Ladies' Chain, will feel rather silly when they hear that Lottie, the Devil Cat, and her friends have beer doing this sort of thing for some time on the flat roof shove the dining-room of The Sea Nest.
One moonlit night, when the scampering of little feet across the roof was intolerable 1 look- ed on ul the window of the top what was bark room and saw evidently an exciting moment in
Swing Your Honey"
Lottle was the honey. As sho ran across the roof, a friend I hope they will treat her would chase her, throw her on kindly now that she's hoine, her back and swing her to a She is a problem girl who needs following friend who, in turn,
and under would swing
galloping behind.
a lol standing
of patience
Re-write
man
TN a little book, "New Nursery
I Rhymes for Old," Geoffrey
Hall has taken the terror
and
her to another
In the next dance her friends formed a circle round her, and ая each Me - approached she slapped them down. This must have been "Ladles' Chain."
"If averybody who claims to cruelty out of baby's literature
It was then that I remember- have core over with the Con-by changing Three Blind Mice
for ed how she had howled While into Tigil. Wer?
Three Kind Mice, giving
night immediately have landed with 200,000 Mother Hubbard's dog
a bone food that ne-o-m. stead of about and keeping
pussy out of the alter a herring supper, how I the 12 000.
well with a saucer of milk. had gone out and begged
proprietor of a local hotel for "I have thrown Cat th Has it occurred to Mr Hall. raps, how he had cooked her
1
it is his Intention legends and put in the facts.
a sole on the spot and Fave iteled 300 'Neriman dry- purge original sin from future she had pestered a neighbour cents, leaving only about 50. generations. his job of re-writ- that morning for rabbit. and have reduced the "Saxoning has only just begun?
Later I found in the garden Cercents' by 50.
of a suppor the remains
"Only
prove
that if
to
im
When the purifed tots have ree families con
through: grown too old to appreciate Mr Saxon descent
he will present work, the male in the Ardens (one Hall's
to be pretty smart was Shakespeare's mother), the have
tackling the Wild Westerns be- B.rkeleys and the Swintons."
fore the eight-year-olds get at Commande Harald Clouston,
them, of Cicurton and Smcogro in the O:koeys,
his has established lice back to a Viking who was
Com commanded Clouston mander destroyers during the last war.
ry Italian and an 18th-centur Eart of Orkney in 1990.
Mo: occan family, buth cl which be "Farrow of Surling-
than 2- 500-
settled in London more bum" in Norfolk, with a ham.10
150 years ago. scientific pedigree); maker Paul Negrett: ("Negret of Lare House" in realistic cross-section
of ("N
Ladsworth, Sussex); and famous old Willy have been business names such as Wills. Britain Loday,
Sandeman, Guin- forced to revise the old stan- Whitbread
ness, and Colman. dards.
Prewar you had
to own
other sur- There are many
the 3m0:12 newcomera prise about 500 acres before you "quality" could be considered for in-
clusion.
Nowadays 200
acres will
do-provided your pedigree
DALTON AND SHAWCROSS
"Hardie of Bailathie" is
Mr
is noteworthy for at least Steven Hardie, the 65-year-old Sirel Board chairman. Little three generations.
Three
pedigre is shown only
Mr Hardie generations -- but Your land may be let out for qualifies by the permeation forming but not for factory 2.000 acres in Perthshire. building.
On the other hand. 36-year- Freund, an ex-pilot
Sidney Rodin
STORY OF JOE.
NOR
LONDON. inspired ten an minutes Joe Hatton,
By
AUDREY
LEONARD
Dick,
how
BQ
lavish several gnawed rabbits Legs, chicken bones, cods' heads, and the skeleton of the sole - that each cat must have made & contribution
Lottle and her friends may not be able to bring bottles to but they bring their parties,
than you
London
the curly better food Dead Eye
English cowboy, must gel at many haired have his dialogue changed when, clubs. as last, he traps bad man Pete in Red Gulch.
would
night
-(London Express Service}
THE UNDEFEATED
Then poignantly.
was week of his birth. His year-old
reminded. A moment's pause sister died that week.
came, such as there inevitably is
in every interview. But to Joe,
Four years later he and his sister, Brenda, both
cut off from sight and sound, it younger
These sense of humour which he showed to televiewers has played a big part in Joe's fight back,
of Lancashire, recently ap-
must have seemed like a century, contracted the meningitis which was to Fob him of sight and peared on British television
The first, common to most
His hand strayed out search- hearing, and leave her deal and deaf people, is by tapping on
It dumb. assurance. Joe made and warmed the hearts of every viewer.
the palm of his left hand, "But," ingly, seeking
rested on the hand of his friend O. Laird- me, and everyone else I have says Joe, That's not at all con- talked to, feel a pretty poor venient for playing chess when and missioner, Mr
there's the bourd between you." White. sort of specimen for mean-
A
Alzkered second
smile grateful learned his be 30 ing over the minor mishaps
chess opponent across Joe's lips. The world was method. His Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Com- The book is a record of the missioner-General for South of life.
"wrote out" messages on Joe's familiar again. fail of the old country squires east Asia ranks a "MacDonald
Jer is blind and deat, and if palm as if he could see, while and the rise of new people of Hyde Hall." His father, Prime
for a few Joe held his wrists, one in each whose bank balances are larger Minister Ramsay MacDonald. you think it over you will
realise that hand. than their pedigrees.
of a ploughman minutes
com- that is by far the worst bination of infirmities that can affict a human being.
Nearly Gentry"
was the son when born in 1866.
"Landed half the are now un-landed. But Mr MoeDonald at the Others are hanging on to their rge et 50 is now one of the
But Joe did not sit at home acres and historic houses only jerded gentry, because of his
listed all properties" by stripping themselves of
ne Hyde and let self-pity wash over him the splendour of their past style Hall, Great Waltham, Essex; in waves.
of life.
BACKBONE OF BRITAIN
Uppe Frognal Lodge, London; and The Hillocks, Lossiemouth.
One year after an attack of meningitis had plunged him
of
By reading" the movements wrist tendons, Gingers and hands, Joe could easily follow the moves on the board.
British TV has no commenta-
Until then I did not realise At Henshaw's Institution he how much that lost moment had took a particular delight in the affected me, too. When I had bald head of one of the assistant masters. As long as he could passed, I felt a little choked up.
stroke that bald patch, Joe was Then I looked again, and was content and confident. reassured, for there is no pathos
He
From then he began to develop about Joe Hatton. sorry for himself and he does not the sensitive touch which is now
both eyes and ears to him. want us to be sorry for him.
not
Like a runner or a golfer, he
·
He is a basket-maker by
Sir Hartley Showeros: not into a world of darkness and for more naturally and humanly has his appointed handicap-and trade, and by repute the most yet inverted with enough silence, Joseph Hatton, the only sympathetic before the cameras is perfectly prepared to play the skilled benours to love the gentry for five years old, went to Hen- than Jeanne Heal. She kept Jus Game of life to it. But it is a thrilling story. On the pecrage books (he is a shaw's Institution for the Blind completely at case in what must and started to have been for him a nerve every page we get glimpse of night)enters the new volume in Manchester the backbone of Britain-of the by proving he is of yeoman work his way back to normal racking ten minutes.
life with the help of his consi- and women, neither of
tive fingers. humble nor of exalted rank, who stock going back to 1743.
Mr Hugh Dalton comes in as have served their country with ability arid loyally through the cadet of the family of "Dalton centuries.
men
"I'm afcold I put some lipstick on your thumb," she told him his piece de resistance. wrily, when he had démonstrated
ever to work in the blind workshops at St Helens, Lancashire, England, his home Joe's fourth "car" has its town. amusing moments. He looked as
He is a natural craftsman, if he was about to choke Mr
and chose basket work because Laird-Whitel
his miraculous unce
agaln fingers could take the place of his eyes.. One night a week or so ago
After working hours Joe's ef Dunkirk Manor House" His he showed us how great has
in ancestora carly
raised abeen his victory.
Joe had placed his thumb He puls the thumb and fingers fingers read for him books Cavalier régiment to night
He is 24 now, on Intelligent
him abreast of world well-read, and lightly on her lips, with his fore of his right hand round the Braille and the "digests", which Parliament. Later his forebears young man,
By speaker's throat. Then, with the rep bred three Cambridge wrang versed in the politics and affairs finger touching her throat.
uteing the lip movements and miraculous sensitivity that he affairs. of the day.
throat vibrations together, he has developed over the years, he
Ir the weather is good ho Communist empathiser Prom
He cur sponk, bough he can followed her Interviewing as can read by the movement of the of fostor J. B. S. Haldane
conversation, even If It lasts n friend for a bout of wrestling! can listen words and seen the speaker.? utters Arkko
several hours. whether he likes it or not, lepot hear a single word he faultlessly as if he had heard the theat muscles every word of mey go swimming or take on It's a tough fighter, too, "In lea junter member of the with his angers.
So much so that I almost for-
That la Joe the Undefeated, more ways than one, as family of Chinnery-Haldane of
Hoottish Je showed TV commentator got that this cheerful young man You can stay in the book If Gledeuglos with you were in it before, even border lineage stretching to the Jeature Heel his four ways of was not quite the same as the the boy whose family life was showed us on televhion
rest of us.
dogged by tragedy from the vary over night, though your present address id 12th century.
It is also a proud story. No one but these 5,000 "landed" families are mentioned in bool with their 40,090 ving of millions relatives
· and ancestors.
the
lors.
Only because nearly all them, have kept family records is the book possible.
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