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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1962.
SCHOOL-TIME IN MAYFAIR
MEMBERS of a semler ballet group exercise at the barre. Most of these girls are appearing in dance sequences of x · Gene Kelly film now in production, Invitation to the Waltz.
ELISABETH SHERRAS, 16, of Surbiton, is painter, actress. Hitre singer. She is regularly heard on commercial radio. seen rehearsing with Christopher Langley, 13, son of Noel
-Langley, playwright,.
Co-eds Training For The Stage
By Francis · Martin
London.
T stands behind a high
Ether. Gon takes her prep books down to the theatre and, instead of prowling almlessly wall in May backstage in the traditional lordly old manner of under-studies, geta house where rehearsal on with a bit of home-work, She is always out of Her planos tinkle and the voice Majesty's and on her way home
mews
fair.
coach
of the drama sounds all day long.
re- by 0.20. Gillion has not dono
uny acting outside
rehearsals
The
so far, but, with a shine in her Arts Educational
eyes, says she is going, to make School In Lees Place nurses her mark in the theatre one
and equips new talent for day,
overseus.
scene
lake
the
the theatre. Some 270 boys HAND-IN-HAND and girls, aged from eight At Lees Place the arts to the late 'teens, are hand-in-hand instead of cold- undergoing training at shouldering each other, Up to a certain level of training the present, including many boy who means to be an actor from the Dominions,
the may
be required to USA and other countries elementary ballet lessons;
girl in the art section who is being groomed for decor de- They work on Ü two sign goes, maybe, through tap- phase shift system. One half of dancing routines and a
of
or soriato appreciation the day is spent in conven- classical declamation. And so tional class-rooms learning on. The idea is that in the muths, English literature, theatre each art enhances the geography, history, French rest, and that it is advisable some- for everybody to know and so on, under the eye of thing about all of them. Charles Dunn, headmuster,
Elisabeth Sixteen-year-old and his seven assistants. Sherras, of Surbiton, whom I
heard in a
from the The other half of the day Medea of Euripides, is a strik- is given up to dancing, ingeze of muluple talent. miming, acting, singing She hay painted
big-scale, and other branches of allegorical piece, Family Hop- stagecraft, including make- pinasu, which would catch the eye in any adult show; and, as up.
a singer, is heard, regularly. In commercial radio. These pur FRENCH VERBS
suits keep her busy some days Arts Educational Schools from nine in the morning un- (there are two others under til ten at night, with occasional the same management)
rehearsal aro week-ends of radio privately owned and carry the into the bargain. She obvious
Ministry blessing of
of ly thrives on it. Education. Most of the puplis From top floor to bottom at burning are fee-payers; the remainder, Lees Place I sensed
a 10- I spoke to perhaps one-sixth, receive local enthusiasm. children must give evidence of whose eye wore a poetic gleam. some real bent for the theatre. Why, I asked, had be chosen classical ballet. The great plea- perhaps to walto.
to put These Some of the children have to train for the stage? Had. sure of her week-ends
on the Swan Lake records, then Schools are a three-cornered- started their professional
Lees Place is ional there been actors in his family?
that the Lockwood concern. arcers in a provisional way Why, no; the reason was sin imagine
drawing room is Covent Gar- educational. The sister estab
Rothschild House, already. In one of the class-
pler and e
stage and herself Fon lishment, rooms 1 noted an elfin blonde vincing. "At the theatre when den
toyn
Tring, is a boarding school for through a watching the players," he said, working her way
And there is tiny Susannah 145 girls. A third branch, at wanteil to go up table of French auxiliary verb "I always with a frown of concentration, there and do it for them. That's White, daughter of Jean White, Maidenhead, is a training school of dance and teachers actress, the
to for who 'intends In some This was 12-year-old Carol why I came here."
start, 95
as mummy did, in child dramu. Wolveridge, of Leigh-on-Sea, magical way the theatre 205
In one form or another tho plays one who
of the two got into the Birmingham young parts and work her way up on haunted tots in "The Innocents" man's blood without aid from the legitimate stage. No after schools have been at work since at Her Majesty's. In Carol's heredity.
school ballet dancing for Susan- the late twenties. Miss Grace nah. Dancing 'in' musicals, per- Conc, their joint founder with case the curriculum has been
haps, but only if it cannot be her sister Miss Lille Cone, looks back to the day the modified, some of her vocational FOLLOWING ON classes having been omitted, so Still, heredity is not to be helped.
And Lillabes Lennor, whose opened with four pupils, no that six nights of acting week despised. Several youngsters at
(stage money, and a fund of high are following in father, Alan Gifford
Since then the Come ly, plus two matinees, shall not Lees Place
father's or mother's foot- Bame), is in "The Love of Four hopes.
the Junior Colonels" at Wyndhamriking Olive Ripman, have seat bun- I sisters and their associate, Mrs impose undue strain
Among her classmates is her steps. In one
Lillabea doing Gale, ot ballet sections understudy, Gillian
I found Toots anw
things with a tube of vermillion dreds of boys and girls into the In the art section: Yes, she theatre as classical dancer,
dancers, lovely: "modern" agreed, painting was
singers, but, like Toots, she is going to actors.
the
MANY of the young ballet dancers are promising artists. Stella Willis, 18, of Ilackbridge, puts a last touch toʻstudy of
circus chimp. In background: allegorical study, God Loves
Us All, by Margaret Merritt, 16, of Shamley Green.
Lockwood, daughter of Mar- dancing as a career. At the garet Lockwood, going through Phoenix he heard Gielgud in and walled with exorcises at the barre in a room "Much Ado." The music
Shakespearean mirrors. At 11 magic of the
is the stuff for heart word: that Toots has invested her
council grants. But all the year-old from Birmingham and soul irrevocably in the Christopher. He wants to act,
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Cairo.
LONG the Middle East's
A secret drag-smuggling
By Thomas
deal more con-
HELICOPTERS DOPE RINGS
Clayton
routes veteran traffickers in strips. There the drug They could do it much hashish and opium are say- shipments are switched to more efficiently by helicop
·
it
coses, waterproof sacks attached to dishing nets of dhows.
Describing a recent raid at mentions: Alexandria "Attached to a letter in Greek was a forn half ten piastre (29.) nole, torn in half; one half for the carrier and one for the
ing, "The tiger has un- cumols or limousines. The ter.". sheathed his claws again." drugs are .in six-inch
He added that he wants receiver as means of identifica- containers, aluminium They refer to Egypt's
electronic detectors tion." frontier General. Neguib, who has which camels are made to more
posts for threatened to have all con- swallow, or in white sacks for
containers are in camels' victed drug smugglers packed in welded compart- checking if metallic publicly executed against ments in the limousines.
stomachs. the two to three-your guol. Now a dramatic illustra- sentences they used to get tion of his helicopter sug- On big-scale maps in his in the old days.
gestion has come in a re office he traced the smug- from one of the gler routes from Istanbul Neguib stated this after port
that
showing
drug smuggling in Egypt was on the up and up and that the dope-runners he hunted as a frontier patrol captain twenty
years ago were making bigger fortunes
•
Safwat, chunky with a cleft drug chin and greying
moustache, looks the tough, purposeful harrier of the dope-peddlers. But why Tiger Neguib?
More Active
Among Negulb's decorations is
is
Arts
Educational
:
Bomo
bo
be a ballerina or know the rea- They have proved incidental- son why..
ly that culture, which And Christopher Langley, sou people regard as the peculiar of Noel Langley,
play concern of the State, can Christopher wrinkles fostered as efficiently by pri-.
disapprovingly
wright,
his
nose
IS
the
at vate enterprise,
Yes, he is
a warrior D.F.C. at 70
By Croup Captain HUCH DUNDAS
JOS COHEN, a gentleman
Of course, Ses Cohen, by all
of England, a warrior the rules, should never have had the opportunity to win that OF.C. He need never have he read a report recently frontier posts. It described through Aleppo down into a silver medal war awarded for of Empire.
three how
of Safwat's Syria and the Lebanon, and capturing five tough smugglers
That would be a fitting been in the RAF at all. and desert in 1934. He was on patrol in
But, having got In-In Septem the Sinal desert with a tracker, epitaph for the man-if an ber 1930--and having been ap officers, from an aeroplane, across the
to Cairo.
is a bedouin who can follow foot-epitaph
ever needed, pointed cara-
Halson officer at spotted a smugglers'
which I doubt, for Cohen Coastal Command, he proceeded van
prints across sand, when he saw 80 miles east of
The drugs fall into two smugglers encamped.
is not of the perishable to liaiso in the only way" he Ismailin.
knew. The hard way. classes: black, drugs, in-
-Negulb put his army cap and kind. cluding opium and hashish, grown In Syria and the tracker's burnous on the rocks.
And anyway he is only in his He left the tracker sniping ot and Lobanon
used by the group while he worked from 78th year, which he would prob- way, with Sos Cohen-from, the The Egyptian Air Force Egypt's fellaheen; and dune to dune behind them. Then ably describe as early middle time he signed up with the Marines in 'Victoria's reign. (and He summoned 52-year- pilot risked a landing on 3 white drugs like cocaine and he fired his pistol and shoutedoge.
Not that Sos Cohen (Wing was bought out by an", irute old Brigadier-General Abdel sandy strip punctured with heroin from Istanbul for for surrender.
Commander
Lionel
Cohen, uncle), through the Boer War Aziz Safwat from his office boulders
than ever.
Oasis Landing..
80
that the smug-
they the richer Egyptians. -
Vast Profits
in a mosque's shadow in the could arrest- perimeter of Cairo's bazaar glers. area to the Residency.
Rommel's Men
some
It has always been the bard
The smugglers, thinking them. D.SO., M.C., D.F.C.) has ever with Jameson, and through
Tha
troller.
way to avoid Great War as a
that Anal It was not till the thirties that Sos, with 60 crowded years. 60-
encounter with death for hind him, seemed settled at last.
Ho took a prosperous job: on the
turret of a crippled and burning bomber one night in 1944. He a was then in his 70th year, and
mission of his fourth war. N. this was the 70th) operational
down to routine. He
farm in Surrey, and setlica
But not for another war to fight.
Anthony Richardson tells the It looked like the last year, story well. Every boy who
story
surrounded,' came out. In
gone out for the the
mystery of the recommendation medal Neguib's commander One officer was catapulted The Lebanon is thought to wrote: "No smuggler can escape It seemed
15,000 acres of from the tiger claws of Captain instance, as be antud tumis London Stock Exchange, bought from the aeroplane and in- have
Negulb." jured in its rough landing. hashish growing legally. "What can we do to stop
And smuggling these drugs
Spurred by Neguib's anti-dope this smuggling?"
Commented; Safwat: asked Neguib. Replied Safwat, "What would not have hap brings vast pronts. Black drugs drive, Safwat's men are already
bought in their country of origin becoming more active.. head of the Anti-Narcotic pered if they had been in a for £15 per kilogramme bring Administration for all Arab helicopter like the ones I £80 in Cairo; wilto drugs like Recently Egyptian coast guards I cocaine, bought in. Istanbul for at Alexandria announced that a countries: "Get some heli- saw in Now York when
trying to amuggle in 2,000 was making my report to 2500 per kilo, bring in 20.000, patrol had captured four men copters."
the United Nations Drug The report sent by Safwat to milograms of hashish and opium,
Negulb records methods used by They valued tho haul The smugglers aro em Commission.
recently caught dope-runners £400,000. f ploying adventurer airmen,
Including: Oplum sticks attached "At present my mon some from Rommel's des
The coast guards said the gang to the silken tarvets art air force, to fly in the patrol the oasis landing Arab horse saddles, drug-filled belonged to the most powerful drugs to oasis landing spota by camels and jeeps, galvanised iron drums sunk npar ring in the Middle East.
of Randv
the fast mission, and the last wants to be a man and, every
man who loves a tale of adven war.
at
But he clambered unhurt from the crash landing. And as he
turo
should read it at once. Salute to Sos. Cohen,
an
ate his aircrew eggs after adventurer gallant and gay, and wards, the station adjutant sat a loyal patriot. She down beside him and told him. "The Crowded he had been awarded the D.F.Ctory of 508, Cohen (Parrials, for gallantry.