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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1952.
PEOPLE OF SUCCESS... (who have been hard-up)... EXPLAIN THEIR ATTITUDE TO MONEY--No. 1 .
BEGINNING with a woman who has known both fame and failure' as author and playwright (successes: 'Tony Draws a Horse,' and 'Black Chiffon"), but who in private life, as a doctor's wife, "with four children, has had to cope with everyday economies too.
I resent this vogue
EVER, until this moment of writing, have 1 seriously con- sidered my attitude to money.
An attitude should be easily defined, but how to define the crab-like shuttling away frum a situation, the evasive glance at
it Instead of the bold stare that
it needs, and the treacherous
to over-optimism.
tendency
it isn't so much an attitude 294 Condition and one acquires it after years of skating on financial thin ice.
for Torture by Cashbook
by LESLEY STORM
Those people who are not in from the atmosphere in which
1 on
in now, according to the a position to budget develop, I she is spending her life today. management Money and the figures, u
comparatively success- think, some kind of sixth sense ful writer.
am, but I have which acts in a negative way of it are becoming an obsession. and I may It keeps them out of the red Smug advice is handed out left, not always been, quite easily not continue to be, not by wisdom and prudence right, and centre, and in the I bought my first typewriter and good management but by rising tension of life people are on the hire-purchase system and avoidance of foolishness as for bedevilled by it. got into trouble with the, instal- us that is possible. ments, but among writers that is nat a unique experience.
Enviable virtue
not frozen under
of torture,
1
PTC
Haggard-looking men Indulgence in one direction means restraint in another, but walking along the streets with as they did lips moving thoir one's right of remains
id and one's way of living is when they were small boys ut the dictator school working out some frantie CINCE then, until about 10
years ago, I have passed ship of a budget whose nagging exercise in mental arithmetic. Through various phases utter presence in the house would be 1 is time to look into this kind
I imagine, than a nagging worse, solvency tongue.
Whose business? solvency, and a few joyous The security and peace of
cable ย
fram periods when.
mind promised by those who rich indeed. One saw oneself, even if briefly, as the queen in her parlour counting money.
insolvency. near
out her.
The terrible charity of Holly- commend it except desirability
wood has its moments..
I have never been a salaried. person so I have never known. what, my income was going to be and thus have never been able to practise the enviable virtue of budgeting.
Smug advice
HAVE never heard that on house?
By new and kindiler standards some of the curso could be lifted from the hardship of our times.
THE SHABBY CHAP in the frayed coat is not a tallure but a stout-hearted in whose mind does not run to dodges.
may behave, as likely us not, like Charles Addams characters at home,
Mamman, one would say from the spirit abroad today, is not a fleshy, chop-licking god but a lean creature with a training in book-keeping. He is the man' THE WELL-DRESSED TYPE, who is always on the right side it he Wore his mind on his. of everything and makes dead certain that his wife is the same, sleeve, might not walk ao con-
He oozes his own quality of fidently among his fellows... -
virtue, and is worshipped in
The woman with the washing print and at National Savings dinners so that he girds himself machine and the refrigerator and the vacuum cleaner and the to further excesses in figures.
It will be very satisfying when. television set is probably a bore
whose conversation would beneft we can turn the tables on him. from a few weeks in Wuthering
American cartoonist read about with all thoso cars Homely setting.
Helghts, and the families we specializes in the macabre
D
RICHARDSON
EAR TYRO,
who
LESLEY STORM
TEN THOUSAND ACTORS and actresses are registered with Equity-but one in every two is cut at work. "Fales overcrowding." was Sie Ralph Richardson's. ward for it the other day, when he suggested a remady : "Regulata entry to the stega." To-day an actor & celtic writes an OPEN LETTER TO THE STAGE-STRUCK,
HOW TO FIND A JOB WITH A SPORTING CHANCE OF STARVING
By Kenneth Tynan
Beware of them "Don't know what you're talking about," they will say: "There are no stars; we're all servants. You see, ac-
and rather snobbish country. Neigh-
This Interesting device is a to uproot your unexpressed am- Hollywood made one feel very advocate it would be henpecked We are a smug
I gather from your matter of high controversy with bitions by telling you that now- away by the very nature of the hours watch each other for signs thing. Like so many domestic of slipping.
repeated letters, written in the profession. Its opponents days there is no such thing as
regard it as cousin-by-marriage a star. virtues, It hus everything to
"So-and-so gets in only tivo
Disgraceful, I in blood and savagely under- to the closed shop; its supporte pints of milk, call it, with all
and your enclosed as a means of raising standards those lined, children."...."How about that stamped addressed en as well as employment figures by
The paint is literally
ship and spletlen.
Tz are just a Hitle company the Judgment Day the wife peeling off it, and nobody does velopes, that you want to go enforcing a system of apprentice
His effect on the average au- of pligrims down on their knees mother
зked
"When ip Mrs on the stage, is
how a thing."....
Sho In the first place, never dicace would be negligible, ex- at the summe shrine--the shrine and
new Coat? she gut along with her house- going to get a
But if she must have been wearing that enclose stamped addressed cept that after a while people they call Theatre." keeping accounts.
Y Implore you not to believe a "Badly, Sir," I que since she was born." answered
you are grovelling, and that stage was mysteriously swarm word of this. It is the theatrical somehow don't think she would ought in shout at them when envelopes; they imply that would begin to notice that the
equivalent of the device employ- ing the-recipient cannot afford. In an ideal theatre, of course, ed by every movie hero to cow meet with the tut-tut-of-disap--they say it "So what? provat which she might expect business is 'it of yours?"
a stamp. In the second nine-tenths of the actors would his Judy into acquiescence: "This place, the desire to become be unemployed, thus enabling thing is bigger than both of us."
producer or manager to enst The theatre, believe me, is not an actor is today rather like ter is sorch of the an abstract tabernacle; it is a pleading for admission to appropriate talents.
I have had to feel my way by antennae of doubtful re- lubility, hoping for the best and quite unprepared for the worst.
What Goes On In
We
What
Russia's House of Mystery
O
DD things happen in the village of Hawkhurst, Kent, when the Russians come to stay.
By JAMES DOW
This myth has grown up out of the Russians desire for pri-
vacy.
Villagers who, in the later days of the previous owner, Interest focused on the old Lord Goschen, were accustomedt world village (pop. 3,000) when on a Sunday afternoon walk in
Foreig
recently short-cut down one of the drives, Office the dicereed it the only place out have found themselves, alle
where side London
Soviet passing the open gatex and the eilizers might mingle freely board marked "Private." turned with British people and breathe back by a silent and impast:ve- the air of freedom (in retalia- ly polite Russian.
The place, when I called, had tton for a similar Kremlin move
British stiplomatic an overgrown and rather sorrow restricting
ful look, like something out of staffs in Moscow).
Chekov.
Sorrell (28 years a forester
and 11dies hedgerows dier the cid Lord). Irims grounds on Saturdays.
to
wih very old actors.
his hal
usually justifies his means,
!!
-AN ART? WELL ...
with its
more
You are, in those redundant Hareix actors,
and
collision of individuals, the Black Hole of Calcutta. Because, to the lasting as nobody in his right mind goes Too many people have turn. tonishment of many good people, down on his knees in a traffic el up at the party already, s:t has a way of staring un- jam. Stars do-exist, they are ac-
moves
at incidental hardship: tors who have had the appalling There is broken glass un- one of the moral distinctions be courage to pin their faith not to derfoot, and you are likely tween art ani International any playwright, or produces, or to be greeted with an elbow politics is that the artist's ond group, but to themselves; and in spite of Equity, they can still be in the face,
made overnight. These are the facts-and
And when, at same dramatic climax, a
star's special lightning un-will be helpful if you imagine.
Are; the that phrase in letters of
But I see I am talking in ideal
strikes, catching you, as often actors terms, as it acting were an act as not quite unprepared the
and there are nearly 10,000 and actresses at present regis- You must quickly, banish that leaving you transfixed and will-
actors awkward notion from your head ingly riven, you should think. tered with Equity, the Seems Content
trude union, of whom at least supplanting it half are, at any given moment, streamlined and conforting suc- twice before muttering: "Just
vente cestar: the
triak idea that an actor personality acting. It's Living on the premises (in unemployed. When the panto
No, the only effective angu-, the conchman's house in the stable-mime season ends, the propor- is a replaceable precision tool.
"The play's got a cast of six. ments against entering
theatre of (a) its economic will you, Ring yard) is Mr Thomas, butler to ton of actors in jobs falls
insecurity and (b) your lack of Lard Goschen for 10 years and something like one in three. every inch gentleman's gentle-
Journalists have a trade union: talent. To settle the latter point before you start.
I appent a questionnaire: 'mon,
ports have not; and that is part THE BURGLAR ALARM
14 POINTS "How do you like butling for
of the difference between acting, the Communists?" I asked,
Now Equity, like any other and not Mr Thomas (no one in
1-Are you convinced that to trade union, worries about cn- I am trying, of course, to dis-
asting
the most exciting At spring week-ends and all
have learned his first name) has auring the survival of the least courage you but to do it ac hobby, as well as the most ex-, scars in Hawkhurst seems
It is often curately through the
disinterestedly. Bummer, Embassy
spent lifetime learning dis-it of its members. and ass news agency staffs,
impelled to proclaim the strength There will be many in the pro- citing profession in the world?
2-If out of a job, would you fession their wives and children, des-
and in the dramatic The contrast for Mr Thomas of its weakest links.. cend in long closed cars to jive
Vexed by your persistence and schools who will discourage you always refuse alternative em
ployment outside the theatre? is no less than the irony of his
3-Do you relax physically former master's position, Lord wing numbers, it has begun for the wrong rearons.
They will attempt to scourge
In house of Hawkhurst which the
The massive mid-Victorian
Goschen himself, once Governor to discurs the possibility
naturai
with when telling on anecdote? egotiam Russians bought in 1945.
fact, can you make a point with- went down 10 find house, with its pointed sugat of Madras, director of the West-equipping its gates with a burg- your what goes on at
listic, famility old fellow"); and our getting tange? this plum gables and baroque clock
Da
people look at your eyes red house in the Weald of Kent tower, is an odd place to find minster Bank, and Conserva-ar alam, known as Regulated spiritual chastisement ("Got a
tive M.P., is now, at 85, deter-Entry.
when Ustening to you, and not and what effect holiday-making the proletarian touch.
minedly seeing, out his days Revolution, within the typical
Seacox boundary American Column from R. M. MacCOLL have on !
There has been. you feel, not without reason,
walls built by his father. English rural community.
the spacious receptiun didn't seek the answers to
He is as comfortable as may nurses attending these questions out of morbid rooms overlooking the dilap!- bo" with two curiosity. If there is a chink in dated terraces and
unkempt him in the Ave-roomed cottage Lord Goschen, home that used to house his head-
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A Revolution
cretion.
IR
Kent backwater, it might throw from acting Viceroy in India, gardener-behind the trees, but
somo light on
enigma.
the Russian once entertained brilliant as within earshot of where the
If there is a chink .
No Barbed Wire To Hawkhurst people, 56-
ed by barbed wire,
gemt
semblies. Those
imperiallst days.
distres.
were frankly Soviet children play in a sand-
But
of.
and
THIS WILL SHAKE
THEM IN TEXAS
Washington. of
Washington's
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at your clothes or their watches? 5-Can you stand quite all for five minutes?
in
at
Can you speak articulately Standard English, and speed (but without chouting) so as to be understood, through u closed door, in the next room?! 7-Can you walk through crowded restaurant without be- of your anti-drugs ing acutely conscious NEVER thought I should squad. And the witness, Police hands?
Hialmar Lieutenant
Carper, 6-Can you wear fancy dress see the day-but here it described the appearance of a without ever apologising for it?
BCan you discuss yourself is and I can hardly stop typical dope "pusher" this way:
"He has long aide whiskers, without ever becoming nervously laughing,
wears a big bow-tie, a long over-defensive? cost, and suede shoes."
The Russians stray only rarely Now, from the mantelpieces, Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov beyond the Scacox gates. look down forb'ddingly on the the new Foreign Office order room Seacox has become a mys- tery house. There are some who and formullty of bare parquet, will not bar them from Hawk- wl tell you that it is surround. brown hide settecs, and aspi- kurst village.
In Piper's, the paper shop, Plain hospital-style beds le they
A courageous Chip named six or eight to each of they are good customers, They buy neither movie magazines
Walker
retired Wand high und handsome nor lively modern novels,
Stanley but the
newspaperman who onco wrote "the classics." upstairs rooms,
an uproarious book called "Mrs Thero
is no radio or gramo-
The Russian women who 80 Aslore Horse") has tood off and phone. The Russlans seem to
Into Mr Singleton's chemist written
un article for a big take their holiday somewhat shop ignore the beauty aids circulation sombrely, though at nights, after They take their solemn-eyed Texas and Texans all their fact that this double trend the children are becided, some-
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10-Could you, with perfect gravity and composure, resite a TERRIFIC BOOM in bables page of the.phone-book while is going on-also a boom in pouring and distributing ten motels," the serve-yourself cups of ten?. inns for motorists.
thing presumably happens to children to be weighed and to legends vid boasting-carefuls caving the old-fashioned' hotel [mizht-avant to Interrupting
apart.
11-Can you address an au- Thoroughly alarmed by thedience of strangers without s is ever occurring to you that they 12-llave any three of the sol- buy rusks.
"He starts off: "Texas has an higher and dryer, hotel men are lowing remarks boen frequently the crates that come out later
bottles
Only one Russian is known to full of empty whisky
complex that's trying to stage n. come-back,
And so a concern running 22 applies to you? (a) don't They sing sad songs, the in- have frequented a Deal inn. Inferior
hotels on the Paside north-west know hear he does it without terminable sad songs of Old He stood in the "public" tall what's wrong with it," and Russia, and the jubilant new and grave, drinking strong ale takes it from there,
The complex, cracks Walker, coart offers, to house children breaking anyone's heart"--(6) "The whole sumosphere changed
songs, with the basses shouting, and looking as if he might be is because "The Texan knows free. If they are under 14 ane when he come in"; (c); "You
in four visits his Slavonic that his revolver, was invented have a parent with them,
that remind you of Hilter youth, friendly.
The only game they play ocensionally and desultorily, is
e kind of croquet with hockey
sticks,
"Oddly enough, they eat only fish on Fridays, according
to
But lience remained unbroken, by Coknel
The fact is the Russians make no impression at all on Hawkhurst. That is the ultimate
enigma.
Mira Colvin, of Ticehurst, who Sombre Creatures
the great John Deere, of ver orange juice, two boited 1 means to ward off suicide?
Samuel Colt, of The hotel men think the child can never dell what he's think- Ing"; (d) "You can always tell Connecticut, his barbed wire by will remember the place where what he's thinking" (e) "I пира Joseph Glidden, of Illinois, his he had such a good time and poes we shall have to let him go
on the stage," taper by Cyrus McCormick, will return when he grows up. of Virginia, and his plough by
13Have you enough private MY BREAKFAST — a largo | mont
14-Do you know anyone in "The Texan nover invented a cxgs and a pot of coffee --
at H. M. Termant. used to help. In the kitchen.
damned thing.
usually costs me 65 cents (48. utherity Mrs Colvin and Brenda 'Sor..
456 no one can tell whether,
Tra la, la.
Bd.). However, when I drifted Lt? lives roll, who
QUALMS. one of the
Halet, in lodges and helps sometimes at as they breather this air that has
shoppe" the house,
both said the new invigorated Kentish men through JOHN CROSBY, TV and radio into he, Mayflower
critic for the New York the gracious
says that al- the same
If you answered an uncondi men totted up to owners of Seacox paid hand centuries of sturdy independ-Herald-Tribune,
ence, Russian breasts mile with though immons money and $1.31 (99, 4d.). Trying to ac- tional "Yes" to all but the last somely for their services,
Miss. Sorrell; went further: any new or unfamiliar emotion effort are being poured into count for this added cost, the of these questions, you should, "Apart from their politics, in future bo thole only escape new techniques of making films only reason. I could spot, was a 1 my money, den to allo
red velvet rope at the entrance. If you answered "Yes" of: the nicest people I've for TV "they got wor
on It are probably Travelling salesmen queued them, you ofworce all the time."
brand the rope waling their already e qualma worked for, When I'm from the strict discipline
the eyes
Otherwise,
Your doing out a room and a Russian Embassy offices from the
Blackk
turn to go in.
port may be on the other vital woman happais to be there, of the political commissar,
CREO CATFISH TURNER,
Sammy Davis, Peter Rabbit .. and Hawkhurst in any she'll very often come over doem't mind them being there. Smith, Bucklelaws Johnson THE HUMAN TOUCH: Ritase of the tonlights, where the give me a hand.".
The Sorrells, father and Hawkhurst, In fact, is just these are the names of some of Hayworth, back at work on rule pays to see the exceptions, notorious the set, has a notice up on her In that capacity, the theatre con- on shade sorry for them, the solemn, Washington's more
without you-You% daughter veront-free
Im sombre-looking creatures that dope pedlars, so á Congress dressing-room door: "No ad not do sincerely. Ruslan (diplomatically
committee was told by the chief mission and he exceptions," mune) soll in return, Willam they ard.
over.
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