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I
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Cannes,
WOMAN in shorts. brassiere and iridescent
TO SHORTS
at the
MATISSE
CHAPEL
Matisse gave his design free: he still comes occasionally froni hla at near Nico to supervise. But the nuna are responsible for the money for the con- struction.
SILENT GARBO :
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NOTHER curiosity of the Riviera is the ex-alm star who shuns publicity.
green-painted toenails stepped out of the sizzling heat down the cool, white staircaso leading to the world's strangest religious sunctuary the Chapel of the Rosiry designed by 83.
In her distinctlye uniform of year-old French artist
mushroom - shaped straw hat, Matisse for the Dominican Fixed on the severe, white tied under the chin, block sun- nuns of Vence, in the hillside wall of the squat bulld glasses, flat shoes and bulging ing in a framed cdict from Arch- brown liandbag, Grota darbo between Cannes and Nice. Bishop Remond of Nice. Warns stalks mysteriously past other A grave-faced sister in white the Archbishop: "Those not visitors in the foyer of the Carl- and black Dominican habit preeming themselves in decent ton Hotel, walks upstairs to her raised a chocked hand. "Nen clothes will be forbidden to on- room for fear of meeting anyone No, Madame," she whispered. ter. All loud conversation and in the lift and turns her head
Presently the
visitor re any display or an incorrect at- away abruptly and silently appeared from her car in skirt tude will mean the expulsion spoken to. end jacke The little mita of the visitors concernod." allowed the green toenails to get by.
‘OUTRAGEOUS'
THEY are very strict now et
the Chapel of the Rosary Only on two days a weck- Tuesday and Thursday-for two rigidly limited hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon are the pubile allowed
in.
THE LOVELY CHILD
with the
TERRIBLE
HE was six-and-a-half years old, a beauti-
ful, healthy and in- telligent child.
home environment
Her
Was
good. But, one day, for no apparent reason, she started to scream-not the scream of a spoilt or bad-tempered child, but an uncanny, high- pitched screaming went on and on.
that
It alarmed her mother. It alarmed the neighbourhood. And it alarmed the doctor who was called.
The screaming fit was re- peated at intervals of about three weeks to a month, Each attack lasted anything from 20 minutes to three quarters of an short, till the child was blue in the face and ex- hausted. The spells came on at no fixed time or place. One occurred in busy store, another in a tram-
Tuns
SCREAM
is the second chapter of a new China Mail Saturday series dealing with vitally important work of fascinating human interest.
For many years wonderful work in dealing with problem chlidren has been done by a woman whose genius is famous to, international experis yet who is almost unknown to the world at large because she shuns publicity.
She La
of Notre Sister Marie Hilda,
Dame Child Guidance Clinic, in Glasgow, Scotland, which she pioneered nearly 30 years
age.
The clinie treats children of all classes and creeds and ita remarkable auccess is due to a combination of human ip- sight and selence,
The key to the problem of preventing much of the nervous disorder and mental illness now so common in adult life Uits In such treatment of dimeult children.
an
This chapter deals with three more casca.
could learn to read. As he be-
more com-
Bu!
the
didn't
on
"People behaved in such outrageous way that we had to step the daily visits," said the plump, brusque Mother Su perio. who rules the 12 nuns and the 35 (paid for by the French Social girl convalescenta Security) under her ence at the convent. conve
"They looted on the chapel They showed a side show.
no ruverence. They made loud and vulgar jokes about it,"
Recently the Holy Office In Rome Lasued 4 6,000-word instruction, on sacred ayi. This deplored "Images and styles lafely introduced" which seemed to be "deformations and debase- ments of sang art.”
'FAITH, PIETY' THE instruction said that if new styles were adopted "the House of God must never be made dimilar to a profane building," and insisted on "a sincere" "faith and piety in the arists,"
girl this lttle want to play. She was far too polite for such a small child, and obviously uneasy in the presence of other children. She wouldn't play because,
05 he "might fimes, she said man set diriy."
Investigation had shown t she lived in a quiet district, where she had opportunity of
F་ country
to
В
#f
It is dimeult to recognise her without the disguises.
Hatless, the long sleek hair of the old romantle days is seen to be short and frizzy. Nobody noticed when Garbo drevo baro- headed through the town in her big blue open convertible to
ZINA RACHEWSKY ... torch on the sen
RIVIERA NEWSLETTER from .
EVELYN IRONS
board the sleam-line
onging
Affa, 184-ton motor yacht be.
to Sir Duncan Orr-
Matisse buy The psychintrist there recom-
treat- licen called at monded, "play therapy" ment. So the girl arrived one different times morning, a poor, fragile little to atheist and Communist, thing,
imaginative" in playroom.
His work 13 This is a room equipped with believed to be rocking horses, swings, round-one target of the instruction. abouts and stacks of construc- The Mother Superior did not tive toys; with 12 child-size comment on the Papal edict. But shop, post office, and tea-room, she said: "Matisse is no atheist. Lewis.
He is a believing Catholic.
The yacht is being used this Nobody but
could month by Carbo after Existen- have created this
talist cabaret singer. Jallette A charabane
of sight Gregg, ricevering
fcom an scern streamed in when I was operation which has changed the
comment Most tolerant there.
shape of her nose to a straight a grey-haired taxi- came from driver. "It is bizarre," he said, Grecian, had Balshed with it, as "but I would not care to judge a retreat from the world. it. They thought Michelangelo's
Chapel ay
pratty odd a WHISKY,
PLEASE Forces, and he was boarded out that the psychologist. had ipid institution. The staff him the truth. The hurdle in
pwn view! This T WENT one night to have a at Carrolls Beach at La found him
look there
quite un- wasn't insurmountable. He really
littlefor me the flower of & manageable.
Garoupe, close to Juan les Pins mixing He was very cheeky to ther cane better at it, his general
with whole life of work."
are a favourite haunt of Aly Khan's. Meanwhile, the visitors children of her own age. Her and to his teachers at school, attitude improved.
had paying an average of 2s. 6d. each This becomes an open-air night mother admitted that she He also became hour-in stayed out late, played truant,
into
plate. And club after dinner.. the offerton always wanted her daughter they are spending many pounds and was always fighting or hit- municative, and lled in the gaps
be a credit to her. Yes, per
Because neighbouring villas books and postcards and re- on ng boys smaller than he was, in his history. Iie had told the Although he had average in story to nobody before, and it haps she had been too insistent productions (paper covered complained of the noise, police telligence, he was backward in was a great relief to get it off
on good manners.
souvenir book 18s. 6d. one banned microphones after mid- arithmetic and could read only à his mind.
This background information Matisse lithograph £4 10s.) to night and Annabel, its artistle director, did not sing. Instead, a great deal in the benefit the building fund, As a child he had been over- helped very few simple words,
Zina water-skier The chapel is still unfinished, American He didn't go out of his way in protected by his mother. Then, diagnosis and treatment of the
he was four, he was
child's help the psychologist at their when
But Arst of all. A langle of clesirle wires hangs Rachewsky, in a while swim-
she that His it was
from read evacunted during the war.
one point in the ceiling. suit and carrying blazing first interview. Asked to
be
eat. The doctor advised the dis something, he shrugged his mother had to promise she would should persuaded to
Matisse
designed five vividly torch, For
daring dimlay on the first morning in the patterned chasubles for the the rancan" below." As traught mother to laite
shoulders and sheared: "Ach, I go with him, otherwise (for he little giri to the clinic, There
was a real mother's boy), he playroom, the mother had been priest; only two of them have the speedboat zoomed in a plan- canna read!"-such an
turn two biscuits for been made. A squad of work-
end the of the asked learned read-
Ecrous workers the-trained- the background to the case....
A lifetime's acquaintance with she didn't join him, he felt he
chlidren were logist had been deserted. an only child, very fond of her children enables the psychologist,
their gates has bern locked behind the body on the points of the skis. having biscuits during the morning tourists.
fly the floodlights were father, who was away in the to take truculence like this in his
break,
uitlie hunger- The foreman agreed when the
water Forces. That was the first
stride. Quite unmoved, he set
striker was presented with Mother Superior told me: Cuban dance band resumed out to find out why the boy was After a year, he was brought hers. Her immediate and typi-"These men are not being paid. their sambas and the customers a rebel, which meant getting be home again; but since his mother
cally polite-reaction Was to We still have to ind many went on dancing. the profective barrier the was ill, he was taken to an
"Oh, no, thank you very millions of francz. None but the institution.
of taste. lad had built up.
Then his mother much.
best and
Noticeable switch most expensive He To do so the psychologist died, but he wasn't told.
was This refusal
materials could be worthy of the few ordered champagne, Whisky accepted treat found out by accident
Is the drink. was applied a kind of shuck ed the starting fact that
calmly. The play therapist design." the key to the whole situation. ment.
had later. Brat shock This child was
sald, in a matter-of-fact tona: This was a terrible shock. He you don't want them? no: merely already been given by the calm,
Then highly intelligent. Unknown to reaction to the boy's rudeness. had almost hated his mother for
you won't mind if I divide her parents, she had the Inter- Usually it gained him some not coming to see him. When he
among up
the other Tre of a potential genius. And notice, but here it was apparently knew that she
was dead, and them
chlidren, it was her super-intelligence regarded as nothing out of the that his reproachful thoughts
That was quile different! that was responsible for
had been unjust, he had a deep
After all, they were her bis- number two was that feeling of guilt. Naturally these cuits; her mother had brought violen tantrums.
Thinking that her daughter the people in the clinie, after a emotional upsets affected his was too young to understand time, were prepared
cur.
CJUC.
Then the child was given an intelligence test, which reveal-
to
а
al
plishment was beneath him would have refused to go. When her when the other men marched in as soon as the show, Zina fell; cutting--- ber
the pr
The
a year
the
The
to accept school work; and as he became treating to a corner of the
end
the father's absence, the him at the value he had put on more and more backward, he mother had sought to keep her himself. As he was showing no turned to bullying to keep his happy by putting her off with marked improvement, it was vague explanations and pro- decided to treat him as a tough
nises that Daddy would be back.
The screaming is were expression of a highly
soon guy.
intel-
ligent young mind's revolt against a set of circumstances which it was not being permit.
ted to understand.
A calendar played an impor- Jant part in the euro.
The child's quick brain
sho
fs
room, and looking suspiciously
at her playmates, she hurried-
up.
ly ate the biscuits; and there He began to improve as soon
of nausea or the need
for compensation were no signs
alckness afterwards. was removed; that is, when it was proved to him that he wasn't
There was no stupid.
He
miraculous transformation
*
The psychiatrist in charge
But this concession carried a mira challenge. "You're a tough guy? remained aggressive and difficult. And yet you can't read as well as but the way to normal boyhood of the case summed it up in
He
a boy of your intelligence should had been opened up.
had
this way: The little Rirl's
off the
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Fresh...
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from the
Boy on National Service Just Dare Not Tell-
A
By Chapman Pincher
last September, with the states ment that they were taken "on an unrecorded flight."
London, India my dream had been to y SECRET flight over over Everest, and here was my
chance. Mount Everest in a His flight explains the new an photographs of Everest published have Spitfire was made by energies, which should been directed into normal play HAF pilot on National Ser- activities, not been deprived of vice in India. He wanted that outlet by her mother's in-
some photographs for pistence on perfect behaviour. She strongly resented the high album, standerds demanded of her, yet The pilot, Mr Kenneth at the same time she was afraid Neame, kept his secret for she wouldn't be able to live up five years because he made
to them.
his
The photographs were of great value to Mr Erle Shipton, the Everest explorer, who made a reconnaissance expedition to the Himcayas last sutumn.
be able to read. You could it been shown how he could be you tried-but you're not tough tough and yet keep out of at enough to
to try."
trouble. Ilis energies were now unce appreciated that, on
This approach was the result directed the
Into worth- while calendar marked with the ear of careful thought: The channels. ilest date of his return, she psychologlet was convinced, could watch the passing of the from his study of the boy, that
Hungry Girl Was time which must elapse before the secret weakness behind his
would
"Too see her father again. bullying was his inability to read.
Good" Once the child's unusually If he could be convinced that
I sho failed, she might lose the flight without permis- They strengthened his belief
the keen mental oppetite for hard he could read as well as anybody HE was pretty, and
Eummit might be three her mother's affection, which sion. He is now a medical that
south side, facts and clear explanations else, then it would no longer be
years old; a friendly, In was essential fer her security student at St Mary's Hos- accessible from the was satisfied, there were no necessary for him to bolster up telligent little girl, with de. Her failure to cat
which had not been climbed had been
before. more screaming fits.
hls self-esteem
pital, London. by knocking lightful manners.
But, for six produced by the conflict aris-
His fight, wishes other kids around,
disclosed quite months she had steadfastly re- ing from these hidden
Mr Neame look the pictures casually through An inter- through the plastic cockpit cover An appeal
to decency wasn't fused to cat. Bofore that, ahe
and calic's
mediary, was made after he com- of the acroplane while flying at likely to have much
Tho effect, it had been a perfectly healthy,
social worker,
picted a mission in the Spitfire, less than 1,000ft, above Everest's would merely make the boy normal child..Then
suddenly on her visits to the parents,
He bad enough petrol. to visit 29,000ft. advised them to make
mcal- IT isn't easy to pity a bully, decide the dinic staff were soft. she had stopped cating, for no
He held the control stick with especially if you happen to be So the psychologist was brusque, apparent reason.
times just an ordinary part of Everest, 100 miles away.
He knew that only one man his left hand and operated the Her father and mother were everyday routine. No emphasis before him, a U.S. dic, had made camera with his right. one of his victims. Yet the bully just as rude as the boy was. But
She was their is a victim himseltauntly of all the time he was putting up
frantic.
only was to ko laid on food; non solo fight through Everest's challenge.
daughter. They would have fussing or entreating. Good some secret weakness which his toughness is meant to hide.
The effect on the rebel was given her anything she wanted manners weren't to be stressedangerous alr-puskoots. twofold.
He was irritated by yet they had to watch her unduly. The youngster who stood in w
fading away because, Clind Guidence tough as he thought; and he was thrilled ot the idea that he had it
The Tough Little Bully
front of the psychologist at the the suggestion that he wasn't the last thing sho
de- 15
he
"I wondered what would hap- pen if the engine cut, but the now looked so deceptively soft and flat in a lot of places that I nwhile, the child played |
He knew that the trip involved did not particularly worry," Notre
at the clinic. learning flying over forbidden territory in wrote in his diary. Dame Clinic, was a very tough chick in him to overcome his handi-
Was
food.
difficult art (for her) of Tibet.
"As I came over the ridge on Only with the greatest dim- zetting enjoyment out of mak- indeed. His alouch was
He knew that he would be in the southern side of the Kang- liberatu
his unhappy fe had been given hope.
emp. He had been phaken and culty could she be induced to ing a mess. And on the day serious trouble if the HAP shung Ginder, something hut the
He drink a little milk each day. If when for the first time, she authorities dound out."
Kite with A terrige kick. ready 12
97 was forced in any way to played happily and freely in But he wore keen mount was probably a sweep of ho had a pocket ale coming up between Everest solid food, she was violently the wet sand, it was reported toner
that joyfully from her home camera with him he was 21, und Lhotse, the next peak.”.
Mr Nesmo did not mention his That was why he had been by special couching, it had its sont this girl to..
A last her family doctor she had eaten all her dinner!" So 30 decided to risk the flight. plied to his lessons. Backed jp
the Notris
Afterwards - ite-wrote in- bis adventure until after he war sent to the clinic. Hisbmother
(Moro, Next Saturday) diary: Bince setting foot In demobilised, was dead, his father in the effect, Gradually he found out. Dame Child Guldanco Chinle.
insult, was paly Inn
near at
anything gentle, good his treatment.
was ripe the next stage
or. pleyer. At the age of 12 ke- had sat himself up as a rebel,
The some challenge-was
up, sick.
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