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NEW YORKERS RENEW
A FRIENDSHIP
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New York, Tuesday. ANY New Yorkers who greeted the Queen Mother remen- ber the last royal visit, in 1939, when the then Queen Bizabeth and the late Klug George V were sped down the West Side Highway at 60 m.p.h.. rushed to the Work Fair H Flushing Meadow, and then, the next day, given hot-dogs by Pre sident Roosevelt at Hyde
Park.
Demember
the bustle and confusion at the Bri-
Las
When I regated the tour of he then Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh Cada in 1931, tire correspKM- dents were invited three times to receptions for the Press.
I sipped a pink gia nervously before the Queen shook my hand and at irr prompting volut- leered sme routine views about covering a royal tour.
Us
The Duke of Edinburgh naked wearing as doping sunburst tie, which paper he represented, The man said. "The Vancouver Sun, Sir," and the Duke sald, Yes. and ! E me you are wearing it."
mon next to me, who was
One thing wore or ping of us,
tish Pavilion at the fair. the The Queen Mother will spend ge: picolet.ink, beaming five days i Oltown, but does Maver
Guardia, the ont plan a Visit at all to French Press harred by RETYOUR police lines (although Ward
Price get through), and wil the frantic furs of the day.
The King and the Queen
Cenado.
Feud Over
stemed among the cast the royal advisers to
and most poissed people the fair, even though
schnigest a short trip to Quebec at Pavinge, where
Queen the
Buch L very populaar. the Mal
vit might help to heal the
eruwd once looked like sub-chism between the followers of merging the royal car. The Peine Minister Louis St Laurat sofficial Kreeter. Grover and thof Maurice Duploves, Whalen, afterwards said to Premier
,dühacdaeu I would textamily lght The French
the Queen: "Your Majesty, Canadas.
you nerves."
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New Yorkers, anyway, are glad That thee have not been over- The smiling, motherly Queen Mother
special
a favourite here.
The eirchion Isun hat the Broad Way
box-ufflers, but Britain's "The Bay Final" is duling mAKAST- terally and Sandy Wikon and Duchess Vala
reem have got
xy, and this putsent one, the Queen
"privat
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11 American
Brons Elizabeth as
the
* Queen Mother, and au Grandmother, a great over than feud with the Ameri- 1. why has Alled many les, can manegemeat.
at them with distinction.
A Pink Gin
I am told they are now working on a musical about Henry Vlil, which would feature the night-club sing FARRY Taylor
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1954.
'INDIANS....CHINESE...........
.ALL THE SAME. YOU SEE?”
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
A Famous Painter Tells About His Sitters
NO RIGHT PROFILE, SAID
EVENTY - NINE - YEAR-OLD Frank Owen Salisbury in painting his eighth portrait
Sir Winston Churchill, commissioned for the Jockey Club.
of
Katth Int his con-
By
THE
PRINCE
FRANCIS MARTIN
This month Sir Winston Churchill will again visit Sarum Chase, the fabulous Hampstead home of portrait paintor Frank Salisbury, for a sitting. King George V said he had never seen an artist's studio
like it. Nor has anyone else
4 have painted 400 portraits of emine Americans, including → hundred leading nien t.f
Even fur
Guy Mitchell, who is described here us Britain's No. } record and who will sing at the is very public "private" seller
wait, with lat.rute dinners, Command Performancy, expects lunches, pivemintiona, bestos ng of an honours degree mas,
Shelley Winters is taking the stay at the White Hou เฟ! แ
The script 01
Left Hand of Wishington.
Tire Press receply.21 is God" to Enghiul with her and plavame.t in Washington, it the hips fregny Pock will co- Statler Hotel, and we've all been star with her in a film version. "Quadrille" Coward's ther mighty
Some bted
Alfed funt, Lynn American wonen -epinters naked will
Bram Aherne, and #buggest a les enference Foalpost
Chiengo. the to be in Hollywood for Christ-
N
tri
to le Bh the ais and I have El Best Fan
Gennan putstanding done
It would not surprise, ine in the eart If the Queen' hat a raw Hutish 11m at the
Palice bere, "Premal Affair." MENU RIVES
DINE
WINE
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Fingering the purple cravat which has favoured wear for half fury, he talks with a chuckle of an, previous seven pertrals end what a gruellloy time he had persuading the Prime Minister to Bit for as Jong
two minutes
while making erayons studies for them. He says, "If all else failed and Sir Winston had 10 become an artist's model. he wouldn't make a success of
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"They warned me that owing lu Taxation on both sides of thơ Atlantic i should be lucky to gos home with as much as one and
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bunker. Morgan's Sou saic, based on past encounters. This time Sir
'You mustn't paint all these no Winston is being fairly truetable,
pletures for nothing. Turn your- The other
and your a company week, after talking self into ternational dynamite with family into a trust. That's what visiting ambassador, he
I did. Simple trick Instead of paying eighteen and six in the got away with 12 per-
Salisbury an hour's sitting
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the studio at Chartwell, where pound his
three cent." own canvases hang deep round the walls. "He sai there without stirring, thinking out his problems." A further siting in Salisbury's own studio
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Bertram Jones Calls on the British Tommies Left in Korea. As They Prepare For Another Harsh Winter, He Notes:
SUCH A NASTY, PERMANENT LOOK ABOUT IT ALL
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Seoul.
.
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Yesterday there was a camp
wo
-P along the Imjin just off the road when
River today troops but dal, empty ground, pitted passed. Today there is nothing from Britain and with tent-peg holes. the Empire are pre- paring for yet another win ter in Koren,
The Dutch have gone. The Philippine Battalion expect to leave within weeks, The Colombians are due to pull out anytime.
A thousand men of the
"The
matheuse known to thousands Ship" the NAAFI
of troops from Britulu, Canada, Australia and New Zeland
A NAAFI RI res vanished.
had
behind
shop where I stopped to leak in notlee stuck up a no the counter: "Closing down on Wednesday."
mannger:
Explained the "Hardly anybody left around
United States Third Division here. Not worth keeping open.”
ure on the move, Four
divisions have already left Handing Over
an part of the American
plan to withdraw two-thirds
of its Korean forces,
E
VERYTHING was very quiet
up et Division headquarters
Everywhere south of the anild the brown encircling hils.
38th Parallel there is
an with the Imjin flowing deeply
Murray who will be going home
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end-of-term feeling, a count- post in its gorge. The General ing of days, an impatience 31-year-old General Horatius to be off, R home-for- ***
soon and handing over command Christmas wish as the big to a new Drigadier--had been United Nations
with
faniting for rundown out really gets moving.
pheasants, but had had
no luck. It is a wish that will come will all in their time this winter
He told me
nie how
soldiers young true for many British lads when ruin turns the smothering -six of ten in Korea are grey dust into mud and the National Servicemen--but numbing Korean cold freszes it even those who know that into Iron ruts, and fuc! black
marketeers Scout wax rich.
In pulling out would simply
of his officers, Like finishing their over- General Murray regards
Kore splendid training ground, seas service somewhere else na a
So are wondering why they are
of there will be plenty mobile exercises to prepare the being kept on here.
Servicemen for any quick thrust that may or may not be neces- stry.
mean
They Wonder
many
Plenty of burrowing and
оп building
new defensive positions along the line that
THEY do not werry much will shrink with the Division's V Jublice thanksgiving in St about politics. If they size.
have any opinion about Dr Syngman Rhee or his fight you,
Paul's.
"No," objected the Prine. an not going to be palated on with the United States over weather."
my right side. Palut me on my 'left."
Prince
WJ6
of 'keep ft." Plenty Because,
Hold the General,
tlig
colu In cannot And in the spare time there devaluing the hwan they will be plenty of lessons in
woodwork or leathercraft keep it to themselves.
But they count the fifteen bookkeeping. "They can
read Plato if they want," sug- months that have passed rested a colonel brightly. since the Korean truce was signed and they wonder how much longer!
Salisbury objected that a left- profile would make the Prince his back appear to be turning en the King and leaving the church.
The obstinate. Salisbury got over the difficulty by using his miniature movic camera and getting shots of the Prince from all angles. When Anished the portrait study was praised by other members the of he Royal family, but Prince. by this time Edward VIII. forbade its commercial home. reproduction.
Cautious Cal
E painted Calvin Coolidge in a
Hight suit in preference to dark
I have just returned from visiting them. The main road cal of Seoul was choked with
long convoy of vehicles whirling past through
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I asked a Corporal from the Midlands what he thought of this idea. He replied shortly: "Blank Plato."
American Anybody's Guess
dust clouds, heading south and
move into n hut.
For nearly an heur my
Jeep THE troops should be snug enough in their winter quar- was halted w-de
iu a sur-melling ters. Up to now they have lived in Korcan village, while they tents but very soon they will roared by in the morning sun- shine. With my driver-a 20- The Division has bought 80 year-old from Glasgow who has big huts from the Americans for bad Karel watched them go. os that have hitherto served been here five months and has £080 coch. And all the com clothes, which inade America's
Signs of war ore fading along 17.000 men will be concentrated most inconic President look like the 40 miles' drive to the British for the use of the 5,000. a parson, "You look very dis- Commonwealth Division
posi tinguished in light suit," he tiena. The brown scare have
The War Office will continue Salisbury were, "I want you remarked. "It's a very distin-
little privileges too-like 50 free Rusting red triangles, dangling Wor When Salisbury woni
work. Nearing 80, he is paint- Cal.
from roadside barbed-wire, under the new set-up, General to the States In 1947
ing as bustly as ever.
He painted Franklin Roose- wam tersely of danger from Murray hopes. "We don't want (in five months he painted 12
of good sitters and bad he volt in the Presidential
offico mines
hidden in day shoulder any feeling of a forgotten dollar patricions four of them has endless stories. George VI half-blinded by อ sunbeam. high grzes waving bahind 144
ho said, Rockefellers), he was faced with
the Eleanor Roosevelt headed D ditches.
And how long yet will British now Ascal regulations, had to for his portrai
House hunt for tissue But paddy fields are rich with soldiers remain In Korea? pay 75 percent tax. and Just 1937 Cordination wearing 81b. of White
Confessor's Crown, fetched from
።። to use
window rice again. a un paper
For yards are "That's anybody's guess," tho hundreds of pounds on the trip. the
An Tower by escort of surcen, None was to be found. stocked high with harvest, General told me. Sitters from the States are Guards. After to hear the King Yet the portrait WRA a success. Bullock ploughs me of work in Down in Gloucester Valley
tbrited,"
sald Roosevelt the fields.
tho glorious Gloucesters concrete mixéra
призам
NARUM Chase, the of the most opulent homes ever built by fusionsble arist on near Hampstead Heath, tells nuch bbout Its owner. Daling from 1933, it is In baronial Tudor, Dow with Florentine flourishes.
COLO
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The
charming arrangement
not survive
the still to go on and do your finest gulshed sult," cracked Cautioit/long been overgrown by we cigarettes each man weekly -
after
nained nained after
today
flying to him, not he to changed into the lighter Im- "I'm them,
Derlat Crown with a sigh of when he saw
Korea is settling into peace. it is a kind of twin- At Sarum Chase are several relief, "Before
the Coronation,” Churchill is harder to please. The Commonwealth Division hallod art gallery bung with portraits of Mrs Salisbury, who he said, "I often, wore this one One of Salisbury's
ily is already being whittled down. pouring out founda- the Division's new Salisbury por ralts And his died three years ago. Mrs Salts- while working at my desk, just portraits of himself he frankly It will be cut soon from its home, and Gloucester HIIL
bury's torical pieces, mostly copies.
opinions
of her hus- to get used to it. It's no use dislikes. But he is cordial about celginal 19,000 to Brigade aglow with autumn yellows and bind's paintings were frank being a king unless you can the famous Siren Sult portrait | strength--about 5,509, of which reds, echoes to hammer Cavernous fireplaces are piled and prompt. "The Arch_Critic," wear a crown properly.
which Salisbury did for Harrow 2,700 roughly will be British. as a fine now house for the with monumental logs, which, in he used to call her. She died Glad in full-dress uniform, School in 1942. "That," he says, So many men have gone incoming Brigadier goes up. deference to the central heating. two day's after their golden the Duke of Windsor as Prince "is more what I hope I look already that the old lines are It all has such a nasty, per- are never ignited.
wedding. Her last words to of Wales, sat for Επι at St like."
| ilko a' g:p-toothed mouth,
manent look.
Mullion windows look on to lawns that aro watered by t sprays and fountains at the touch of an electrle button. You reach the mudio by n spiral stair cut in solld masonry,
the
sort of stair that usually londs to belfries in thirteenth century churches. The studio floor is in shining parquetry.
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A Late Holiday? Try A Hospital, They Said...
London.
But for MacColl
three-month stretch
works.
By
Rene MacColl
It was
A
50?
S far as I am con- "Where are the paint gains?” askod George V, with whom
cerned, the year 1954 Salisbury was on friendly terms
can go quietly round for twenty years. "If I spill any the cornor and jump in the paint, I clean up as I go along,' replied Salisbury. The King nearest river. Just let me Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. The It Fald he had never scen an give you what is known on. artist's studio like it. Nor has that Sunday evening TV
Back I finally come and anyone else.
wham! panel game as a "re-cnp."
There follow three weeks of consuming pro- First I spend a whole month posterous banquets across Red in Berlin, covering the Four- China with Morgan Phillips.
Thero used fo Power conference. I had never loved clichs about the "shark- been in Berlin before. If you inferted Timor Sea." | were 'to offer me a lot of money, I wouldn't go again. It was hideously cold all the time. Sir Anthony Eden told me that the weather agreed with him. It didn't agree with me.
'Americans Paid
.
So now we are lying ther looking at the upildo-down faces and the bright lights, and well-earned Abthe
that we are nasuring ourselves Next we are lying staring up about to make medical history Siberia, vacation for MacColl. Where Is at some extremely bright lights, the hard way by falling to hos
to be? Portugal? Greece? Faces upside down and aide consciousness and hoping that Sardinia? North Africa?
ways, swim above you. How, we shall retain enough of our No. Hospital,
piercing the surgeon's eyes krok ebbing strength to scream Berlin, the U.S.S.R.,
Het when he is wearing a mask, warning to those present, China, hospital - a dandy
Must romind him always to wear year, don't you agree?
a mask. That way he could› wow, Who can them in Harley Streak
bo playing
that far- 'from-musical saw? Who ainga have been lying in bed for 24
Here's the well-
routine. You
so outrageously out of tuner Can those enormously hours under what is laughingly
deep breaths really be MacColl'st known as "observation."
With that sort of deep breath- Someone
then briskly hp-
ing I ought to
nire, the proaches the bed, cleans the
Next the anaesthetic. Oh, yes, White City and challenge Chala- dirty patch on your arm with the syrbigo was only a pre- way. Or hiro, the While City methylated spirit, and inserts a iminary the ottener-upper in end challenge the Harlequin. Well, I shall always think of vast syringe.
preparation for the hrymaker. Or just hire the White City.... Noxt I take off for the Union China as sharks-fn-infested. Ten minutes elapse. MacColl The haymaker, oddly enough, him and paid: highly for the of Soviet Socialist Republics, The Chinese sure believe in the makes what ho Belloves to be, lakes it which certain South: njce nun before?: How 'zoliclious;.
the form portrade ever since 1926. Tm where I remain for three long value of the cumulative build some outstandingly witly re- polson Was the your of his first visit to months. This year it has be
CALISBURY refuse to think ▷ what Serum Chase would cost If built today. All he will my is that rent and property taxes on It come to £1,200 a year. He acch
“It was the Amerlonas who built this house for mex
The Americans have loved
conte rather fashionable to
bo o
SHARKS-FIN-INFESTED.
SOFTENER-UPPER
.....
of a deadly Now where have I mal- this up. The Death of a Thousand mark in a blurred volce. In American Indians playfully dip and kind she is... Wo appear Cuts. The Torture of a Million fact, It is rather like the re their arrowhead into, before to be back in the badgcom wiilch "Drops of Water. Yes, and the marks which MacColl makes going out for a spot of moving was our starting of point, and Stomach-Ache of the Plentiful inte at night after a gook party target practice, Sharka' Finz.",
MacColl is then taken for a
witch now. Bécoms to: swirl a Hilla bafore gantly killing Inlo I plaer. But at all event, the
molestation of MacCoil is torznin
the United States. **During the twenties
up to Moscow for the and end. You know the form 'tilaties (he vormmonly, spent six
Junch
with Malonkov, break month's year in America. Mest fast with Krushchev, tea in the Morgan Phillips and sharks lille ride on a tea-trolley. It is called curare, and,
oil tycoons, carvel Kremlin, and then home to fins will for ever more, remain Down the passage wo so need sturaly, add, has to be hd res, i steel, tmis, univers make a broadcast : mying; that intertwined in my fragrant cucumber sandwiches, choco, ministervan) with iberutmoet: diss peon White House och mustn't jump to conclusion, rarians of memorially return cafus what to the Philly 10 know fun what youre would where they
Lapseng Suchong, cretio Toomper Foome Morgan All right."
lind, up angarly) for 'on' account of jumping"-le-buks
liday: the-heATÉ,"
to the UK in the autumin, And vio