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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1954.
"Those Russian sples you told me to trail all day, chief, turned out to be talent scouts for Moscow Athletics.”
-(London Express Service).
The Vagabond Lover - Now In His Fifties
Mayai & Co. MEET RUDY VALLEE,
120 Nathan Rd., (Princess Theatre Bldg.) Kowloon,
Tel. 54708.
PRINCESS GARDEN
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BEFORE
1
AFTER
ZORIC
THE FIRST CROONER
T
E head waiter in
the exelusive Pari. xian
restaurant lifted his left eye so
By LOGAN GOURLAY
do
tertag
DIOW
night clubs I ca brow and said: **Monsieur maver get to sleep before four ! even Vallee? I regret I do me the morning
guess it's just luck that I've know him.”
Brut my appeurance.
I've never done anything to
I said: "Rudy Vallee, you know, the American star keep my hair-except shampoo
crooner the
the original vagabond lover...
it two I
three times a week." two or
asked him what he thought
1 was being misunder the stood. I was told: "We do not have cabaret here.”
replied "No. 10. He's lining here. Asked me to jot baru. He's probably with 1s wife--a toll, attractive girl with
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“Ah, ou, monsieur. the table over thezes me, please,
She's a
Follow
I add not tell Rady Vallee that
I might not have been able
To
And him without his wife's ren hur beacon.
He wrsals have been nervdu- Joues.
Unaware
g
of his singing successors--like
Crosby baiti
and the build- Sinatra. "Although I say It myarif don't think any of them touch my rendering of a ftw songs liice The Whifcopoet Song even if they tried."
could!
But it would be wrong to call Vallee uncharitable or selfish. He added: "I'm a great fan of all of them-especially Crosby. There's a gent performer "
Even Hedy
ΑΝ
ND hasn't Vollee siedicated himself unselfishly to the women of the world? He has also been married four times, (We should ignore the fact that one of his wives said in a mo-
of call ment
bitterness I would be wrong
during Rudy Valke simply Im divorce proceedings: -He mortest.
doesn't need a wife he needs He is just blissfully and dis- an electric blanket.") armingly unaware of the fuel He confessed: "I've known
beautiful people many Throughout the world who might taken Hedy Lamarr to dinner not have heard of the first of the crooners, The man who I decided not to interrupt to poved the way to the quivering, say I had enjoyed the sume
quering mike
for the privilege with Miss Lamarr, 1
that there
bre a few
Sinatras, the Rays, the Laines,
He hastened to tell me: "O! course, I've never really been out of the public eye. After my first period of success DS 21 singer (1 don't like the word crooner) I took up caburet and
work. I've made 14 films in the past five years."
He is in Paris now to lend his talents
the Jane Russell- to Jeanne Crain colour musical "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes." When the unit moves to London in a few weeks he would like
to display his cobarit net.
once or twice."
wonen. I've
SO
EVOY
And 11 rules for guests.
would
would have been impolite, apart from the fact that have been Impossible.
The present Mrs Vallee, the red-heud, 27-year-old from Nevada, managed to interrupl # one stage to Buy: "No, he's not a millionaire."
whose Buid Vallee, was once as high us £150,000 a your: "You can call me one if you like. It looks nice in print, Of course I'm rich. I've looked after my money carefully "
But it would be wrong to call Vallee mean or stingy.
income
TIKSL
The rules include: (1) Please
the play
Wurlitzer aryan before 10 a.171.
(2) Please do not overload the plumbing system, (3) Please de-mist
the bathroom mirrors after you shower, (4) Guests are recommended to take Attic cat-naps. (5) Please do not get too intoxicated.
Valice keeps only Call- fornian wine In ปร four wine cellars-ench 148ft long- "but only because I prefer the local stuff." He looked dublous- ly at a glass of the restaurant's vintage French wine.
Gift
tears
TE docan't believe in Upping. Honly beenuse anyone con give money.”
He gives Instead little person- al gifts-ball-point peni, key chains, the clips, cuminks, amalt bottles of scent--all inscribed "gratefully, cordially, oft
or thank- hes fully, Rudy brought two gross of the ball- point pens to Europe,
"I once gave one to a waiter in Nassau, and, do you know, tears came tato his eyes,"
"Tears
of rage?" I inquired. He Is travelling about Paris The remark was ignored. But by Metro and bus
bul only it would be wrong to call Vallee because that's the best way to a humourless man. He just pre- get to know a city."
When be entertains weelt- I was given a ball-point pen and guests. at his lurge Holly- and I left, choking back my wood home they have to observe tears, before the waiters were 11 rules, "but only for their tipped. I couldn't face the sight own convenience and peace of of the entire staff weeping. mind.”
You can call me a coward.
PETER CHURCHILL'S WAR EXPERIENCES
25 MONTHS IN PRISON CAMPS
By Peter Lovegrove
trained
men
F the 400 highly detall the effects of solitary con
and finement and the unquenchable agents the spirit of a gallant host of Nazi victims. He was 300 days in a
cell, where
women
War Office sent to France to Fresnes
hind
measure.
the
out-
organise and assist the tion, hope
and despair followe Resistance movement fight- mch other round, like ing the German war R
geosens, in a regular cycle. Be- machine during World War Red Cross biscuits consituted a these bars, a gift of 72
Two, nono did more daring gigantic feast, a book all to or valuable work than Cap- himself
a consolation beyond tain Poter Churchill, DSO, MC. Croix de Guerre -- 1 Of his rare excursions quiet, light-hearted, beside his cell, he writes: "Though spectacled young man, who I had now renched the exalted took degrees in French, state of a monk studying quietly Spanish and Italian at Cam minate breuks in the cloisters bridge, represented both were ce platinum milestones Varsity and England at ice because of their rarity, I would a wild nower and with spend hockey, and dabbled
hours nalysing its publicity, metallurgy, silver formation, its pistil, its petals
in Bls c. [1. Occasional 17-
bring
back
fox farming and the Con- and the velus in its curved sular Service before the war. velvety substance. The limit. less time at one's disposal mean! Peter Churchill made four that one could study so smal? clandestine trips to France by a trifle with mlauteness of submarine and parachute, and care and attention that no mpeni 225 days behind the flowce-lover evor gave or could enemy lines before falling into afford to give even to n pot the hands of the Gestapo on orchid. The idea of suddenly the shores of Lake Annecy,
Radio Links
finding oneself transplanted in- to the wealth of Kew Gardens was almost overwhelming."
Despite the solitary confine-
He engineered the escape of ment, the prisonera succeeded 10 French patriota from a in communicating with cact Marseilles prison, organised other in a variety of ingenious radio links and selected land ways,
and even
produced
Marselinise and the
ing grounds for RAF supply choir, each 'recital' concluding
the with drops, formed the first Maquis in the mountains of Savoy, set British National Anthem,
up
the Resistance
AI
Sachsenhause
caloyal
Peter
com-
high-
movement's supply of arms and explosives, Churchill and made the plans to wreck panionship of notable the French railway system 48
ussinn
officers, Polish Italian Service attaches, hours before D-Day.
Brigadier Jack Churchil, and His courier in the "Under- four airmen who had taken part ground," Odette Samson, the in the mass escape from Luft George Cross heroine, was III D, when 50 of the 78 captured with him, and the capora were shot on recapture.
and story of her experiencea the tortures the endured hos been told in book and Ala, They were married in 1947.
Dachau Elite
མ་
first two books, "Ot At Dachau he joined the elite Their Own Choice," and "Duct of the prisoners - Paster of Wits," told of his four Nemoller, Field Marshal hazardous missions. His third, Papagos, C-in-C of the Greek "The Spirit in the Cage," which Army and the present Premier
former has just been published (Hodder of Greece,
Austrian and Stoughton, 12/8) deals Chancellor von Schuschnigg and with the 25 months he spent in his wife, General Garibaldi, solitary confinement and con- grandson of the famous libera- centration camps
the late Leon Blum, Italy, the French Socialist leater, tho
Grim Tombs
tor of
Hungarian
Kallay Hungarian
Prime Minister von
and
the entire
Cabinet
von Falkenhausen, former
refused
DIZL
The book travels from Annecy German Forces In Belgium, who to Carry pizt barracks, where he was beaten had
instructions to execute without
up by drunken Italian soldiers, Hitler's the notorious prison of Fresnes, all Belgian saboteurs near Paris, the grim tombs of trial. Thyssen of Krupps, Reich- Dr Schecht. the Albrechtstrasse, the Berlin bank HQ of the
Colonel HQ of the Gestapo, to the in- the tough,
had defted famous concentration camps of von Bonin, who Sachsenhausen, Flossenbers and from untenable ground on the not to retreat
Hitler's
President
masterful
orders
fers the jokes he makes himsalt i Dácháu, with their starving Russian front, and many others.
THIS IS LIFE
IN THE RED ARMY
By GEORGE WIGG
Bat only, he emphasised, Mand I had left Russia by
Y companion - a Tory. During the recent visit to was attractively hold up for the
"In one of the leading night spots. I sing Impersonations.
of
#
I was told that
the consumption of alcohol was forbidden..
could see no sign of any- thing resembling a NAAFI. What I did see was a unit, club which contained a mustum, azi ample Ibrary, and 1 cinema which gives three shows a week.
meal. Spotless table- a parliamentary midday
cloths covered small tabits set bit, do a few Moscow by one of
those delegation Mr George Wigk, for four. Soup spoon, were lold great main roads that cut Socialist M.P. for Dudley for the beetroot soup bortsch. "I'm a kind of combination endlessly through vast land. and 26 years a soldier-made of Cart Brisson, Hildegarde. Then we turned off on what what is believed to be one of brown Uquid. Wine? No, There were also carates and Sephie Tucker,"
Vallee Arzt went to London in looked like a farm track. the first "Western" inspec- was cold fea. the early 1020's to join the old We came to the stockado sur- tions of a Red "Army training Savoy Havana band ns saxo-rounding the camp. Stretched school, phonist, When he returned to across the entrance was a large America he emerged suddenly rod banner saying:
"We are as the prototype of the inter-standing for peace and we are national chanting heart-throbs. defending the cause of peace." We were loolding at the en- tranco to the "Red Banner attention and then, while the School" of the Red Army,
commandant stood at the salute,. The officer of the day stood at shouted out his name and rank explained how it happen and bawled out his name, rank The Red Banner School is for ramrod atention in front of us End the subject he was teaching. Hed: "On the night of January and duties as the top of his omer cadels, and from about is no Russian Ava Gardner. The 8, 1920, I became a celebrity. I voice. Ho was in dark grey the age of 17 the entrants stay accent is not on love but on was playing in on cight-piece and wore a heavy overcoat that there for three years. band, Tivat night we were came down to his gleaming field broadcasting from a new night boots. club in New York called the Helgho. The owner didn't like the ́singer and asked me to try out.
No. 4 bore
THE COMMANDANT
us to the unit
and
NO AVA GARDNER
What sort of showat:
There
on
mates and ever-smoking crema- toria. It brings home with al- most painful intensity his ordeal of body, mind and
spirit, and those of his more unfortunate fellow prisoners,
When the Allied ermics
to overrun threatened
their camp, these prominent hostages were transferred to Innsbruck, and then moved to Italy under For most of them, there was SS escort, who had orders to little hope, but he was kept execute all the British officers alive ca Odotto had succeeded and other military prisoners. In convincing the Germans that However, Col. Von Bonin ho wag
relation of Str called up A company of Winston Churchill's and he re- Wehrmacht troops to rescue ceived less inhuman treciment them from the murderous 89, than most-
and with the area with Italian partisans This is a moving and inspir- guards suddenly vanished ing book, describing in minute left them free.
swarming
the SS для
Something more than just "Good!
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a sugar
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· Savict achievement. During their first 12 months
I was impressed by what I thee aro trained as private saw, soldiers, during their second It is an army, on the evidence
during of the Red Banner School, that hygienically packed. I just stopped up to the
the third as
is politically educated, fiercely mike and sang softly. That did
He escorted
TE is a frugal fe. A disciplined,
hard
working and It. Within a year I was doing headquar.ors where we were reubles a month, which, though.
the start
are paid 78 eficient.. four broadcasts a night,"
Bent And aggressive? Mr Valice supplied a host own into the office of General three times the pay of a con- world conquest? of.ether
To answer Lemnov, the commandant of script, is worth only about £2 that one should go back to the details about his
this famous school which was transition from saxophonist 10 founded
by Lenin
fascinating talle we had with of our money, curriculum does. Malankov, and Molotov shortly colebrated vocalist. In fact, he talked about his early carver for While he talked I looked with not
with On, paper
scem 35 minutes non-stop! But- it some curiosity round the room. hours a day for six days a week.
too arduous-six before we left Moscow.
Malenkov was asked whether
· would be wrong to call him I might have been
cell.but in practice the boys can he thought the two systems. No. 1 bors.
was a photograph of have Bite free time, Every capitalist and Communist Now York Ely Landa and another of stain, and evening is devoted to study could live side by sido in peace.
poll Culbertson, the bridge export, was voted No. 1 bore. Volles and furniture was a table above all to politics "Ponds
His answer? Why no!?!?
· was: only No.4.lv sum tour of Inspro.fon,zha produ
"took us on. TherenteriaeA, MIn the end," he argued, "The their living better one will win a coverbakala and erect, His face un-cedura: in each class VIA Quartors, Terasleep!: 68PZIRKAN, Rusida “believes, “that” Cöm=|
There
the
three chairs General Lemnov
Morkiam."
Now. 59; he is
with the beds Head is mintim - it more: Valiolent than wrinkled; his head unwigged, same. The lectures, an army head, each bed being made lip: Damoorway and W Belloves the
He told me: I've burned the officer drewed informally in with shopts and pillows lined unoppositer: Galvan," promo qendis at both ends. I worked blouse, would call the cadets, to predicely, alliceline dining-hull store team danichey
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