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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
1954
T
This is the signpost to success and riches
London.
HE age of the lowest
common denomina- tor, which some call television, la here. tho new
With it elite.
como
And Gilbert Harding, ex- policeman, ex-Benʊoi-master, of rough-shod exemplar
verbal riding, gets £50 for swi.ching on the Blackpool Illuminations.
like
And gets mobbed 22734 eruse or dohunie by 3,000 women of Maidstone when he goes there last week
dress 10 орен shop.
Gets mobbed, a bottle of brandy tied with a red rib-
buti.
And a fee reported to
be £75.
With a secretary und a
ΟΙΚΟΝ
200T1
HANDEN
marked 'Be a TV personality'
IT'S THE 'PERKS' THAT PAY OFF THE NEW ELITE
bevy of personal aides Mr glamourised film star like Harding runs his life along Margaret Lockwood headed an engagement book stuff, with highly profitable dates,
"Openings." lectures, per
These → somal Appearances,
are paid a fee. Expertires are paid as well.
And though Harding, a sick man, adits to the list a wearing round of free veits in all of favourite charity functions, cashing in on his radio and TV personality has raised him, faintly protesting, high into the super surtax class, His income this year can be
total comfortab yond the $10,000 mark.
*
}
the lists
of personalities most wanted by committees
by DEREK MONSEY
years
when
oldh the
CUTTA
only a very short space of Mr Butterworth's time.
Radio's Mrs Dale. Ellia Powell, climbed aboard the Pullman with a demand for £25 and liberal expenses to "open" a Tory foto this summer""
The glamorous Patricia Cutts, a young lady who first flopped in films but triumphed in Down You Go, is now selling some magazino advertise thing in mens.
The
fee for this is also
In what can be fashionedly described "good old days" of four or five agreeable.
ง star personality was someone whose David Nin's eyes are used talent and training had carried to push sales of other articles him up to the top, there wag up. Mr Nixon is, indred, quite mother difference. Personal
a long way up the path to the appearances for charity were Olympian heights. given free. Today's TV per- sonallites, with some honour- Not very long ago he was a such as the modestly successful conjurer, in the news- able exceptions
pillanthropic Lady Barnett, will awaiting universal fumo, Attendances
drive a shrewd and often hard bargain.
is
planning garden fetes. Their title for the popularity of day is over.
"Katie," was previously a model girl. Now she Today talent, training. famous. hard earned star státus in
Articles ilms or theatre are at a dis- count. What chance would papers,
at
Sir Laurence or Vivien Leigh glossy functions, and finally, have in a Popularity Poll to the consternation of the against Philip Harben and hard hit variety profession. Patricia Cutts?
camera
24
Opening shops or
But caching in on their facile fame is the only thing open to the new TV personality. No one blazes him. That is his line
a star spot of her own at stores is another solli line. Top for no amount of publicity will
the Royal Command Per- formance.
Could Ludy Boyle have got as far as this so quickly had she gone through the hard professional routine?
⭑ ☆ *
The TV
IN miraculous thing. A friend Harding is at the top. But knows a friend who knows look at his followers.
A friend, or sometimes
Or been asked to help sell staggering accident occurs, and a charming nouentity more fish, by taking break. with the White Fish has his or her face flashed fast into 3,500,000 homes-and Authority at Lowestoft? Alway
abroad ia
nonentity no longer.
Or go to open a new shop t Lady Boyle and Lady Bar.
The smile Glagow last week? (Pee about nett.
Reatly to oblige are The face cheks,
simper sticks in the £50). Patricia Cutts, Sylvia or
A new "per- Avis Scott. Even memory. David Nixon is a selling sonnity" is born, and a
vein of riches ripens point.
immediate exploitation.
Peters,
It
furniture
personalities can hope for up to
from £100
shrovd business man anxious to boost anything from "self-service" to hire purchase schemes,
arc
Now TV "commercials"
toll. These are the Aimed shorts which will taking a brighten life when commercial TV mitives. Humphry Lesterg zells soft drinks. Even Georgo Crusdale, complete with film to sell
enimals, is chocolate bars.
w
for
And be retureusly Leclaline! us st ang un talan love duet with Glasgow's belgnty ino istrative Lard Proveal?
de-
chy.
Peer Butter-
MANDING
help him get more money for his ordinary services as parlour KAMESET, or whatever it is. from the B.B.C.
this
But the serious question is How many of the new elite, who aro beginning to wield so much influence, would have pchieved ..professional success anywhere else than on a Quiz programmet
is that, and only that, really,, enough in 1954 10 merit much honour? Such glory?
Doesn't it sound in if the alchemy of television is creating a strange now act of standarda?
(London Express Service).
William Hickey
FULL-OF-LIFE SUBJECTS AMONG DULL PORTRAITS
London. Of all the éhlidren in the ALWAYS enjoy going show it was Richard, son of Mr Tory associations eagerly to the Portrait Paint #nd Mrs Hambro; of the bank- exploit this new field of 'publi
ers' Exhibition in Picca- ing family, that gave me a sense One paid worth the fee he asked-£25 dilly, but this year I found of charm that was not sickly.
It is by A. K. Lawrence, to cicatain children at their it a bit disappointing. Or make a Bim? She bus just annual garden rete. who jet blea Lady Boyle,
"Cominercials" urprised making fully tisoned the dignity of her one of them to sell wothpaste. they
Not many
yeurs ago 11 real live autor like Laurence
a proper,
(hvier or
T
RICHIE CALDER REVISITS ISRAEL
piqued and that £25
But
They were
is worth having a louk It all seemed either pretty- at Claude Harrison's "the family when
downright dull... pretty or bought
of Mr and М Grahama,Jones, OCTES of charming chlidren pidying negligently with toys ... He has given the,”picture an acres of business men, soldiers, "Alice in Wonderland" atmo- educationalists, and clergymen, sphere. You feel that people The best of the royal pictures are that they don't live in not quite like that In mal was, I thought, Edward Scago's "Conversation Piece, Sordring that sort of countryside. But, ham." But Princess Margaret, somehow, it comes off. It is not of this world. But you rather though her peach gown looks lovely, deem'i look as if tho is wish the world. were like that. playing the plane. And the So, usual, the Portrait Queen Mother, who is standing Painters have put on a stiow behind, doe n't look as if she is well worth visiting. Even in paying much attention to box what seemed to me an "off" daughter's music,
year the exhibition is still mord exciting thon the Royal
THE CHILDREN WILL
WALK
"
IN
THE
SHADE
My frin pulled my love. We the and UN Negev from Northern the child
valley, strug were Koking t who are the buzaurs of India tough chaps
ing with the Southern Negev Dvil's Punch Bowl. *** the kasbah of
where they are tucky if they Algiers, the desert get four inches of raia a year! "the Northern must be a strange. forbid will tell you.
dreert isn't really ding place. To the cave. New
child from the uit-dwellings
of Libya, planting a
my mpveSSİ46.
Ever Amniront, the Italian Academy, who is at present painting tho queen, doesn't seem so Interest-
From this kind of researching, will come the reseeding of the Gono U
naked innica.
"I'll give you a chance to eat your worls. Feur years ago wo stood on the rim cf this valley and watched a solitary tractor- driver contour-ploughing round its addeg ni you said it was
You deception.
Bald
DuoT 'Why don't you tell the
tivan? chap he is wasting his Show him the rainfall charta
we have Out of this "1
valley taken tons of grain,
That was not tree must seem a mystic ritual, four years ago, bat during my
arren; trip I have begus to cruel But here they are boys wonder. and girls from Cochin-India, "EX CLING ma" said to an
the
old
descri
His pictures, which are in a sort of rejuvenated classical style, hayo become fashionable. But, for example, But often it does not even his portrait of Juanita Forbo, mean that. On previous visita reminds
- rather un-
to the Negev I saw the moving pleasantly-of Leonardo, Instead sand-dunes south of Beersheba. of looking soulful, Mis; Forbes This time I did not recognise looks anstmic. And after all, them, That tormented land- the English can cat steaks now. scape is at rest and I compl-
д
It was good to come morojs mented the government expert on the industry and thorough-portraits of two friends. There ness with which it had been was Christina Fogle by Stanley planbed and anchored.
Grimm, looking as capable, an calm—and as elegant-es when and Loris "Don't cornpliment us," he she is at one of the Foyle's of fodder стора. With proper said, "compliment Nature, All lunches she has made events in soll management we managed we did was to apply goat-laws London.
to use every drop of that poor and prevent the nomads from And there was Huro Wortham
the in
from
Yemen, from
acquaintance. Могоссо, Algeria, Libya, seem to have mislaid a desert. Iraq, China and Persia, the According to my maps and my Children of Israel Ingather- rucnilection, this should havu
zund,- dune rainfall, I admit that one year grazing of the bow Just desolution, But here ed from the ends
who the drought meant pretty country. did have earth.
are avenues of trees, plantations,
thin take-off.
Tolante borough of the Daily Telegrap But if we can
plant or fold-creps, grasslands and settle-
get a decent harvest two years already there reasserted them- Forhaps I am sentimental about inents."
selves once the animals were him, I owe him so much. out of live...."
under restraint. And the vege tation clothed the dunes kept them from shifting."
in
When they look out of their classroom window at the Weiz-
Agricultural College manh the Negev, at the yellow
which
to the stretch wasics horizon and beyond, they mus surely ask themselves whether this is the journey's end on the of road
2,000 tribulation.
of
years
The answer impressed upon them by their teachers is that It to not ond that the roat 2nd not from, but into, wilderness,
Desert missed
the
Deception
That la
farming, from dry depending on what rain there other Israelis have is, but "Four years is a long umem ideas about such places. From farther modera israel," he said. "This the was the desert where you wou 1 camped in 1950,"
Bowl Scazon.
Over-enthusiastic
and
Sometimes the opposite hap pons. Over-enthusiastic settlers
from
Not so bright
But if you look at Cathleen Mann's portrait of him, you will get some idea of his wit, bli fearning, his charm --- and his prejudicas.
Parts of Itriel north, where in the wet season there la rain and to spare, they
The only criticism I have want to borrow surplus water
that I have never seen Hugo
He And when 1 gos refouciled and pipe it down into the dry-
woaring yellow gloves, a yellow the ica 1 remembered how ads, not to store or to spray in another part of this region so colourfully dressed..
Irrigate but
to spread. They found themselves in possession on inia particular strom, four would give, that Devil's Punch of tracts of locs wind-blown waistcoat, a red bow-tie, and a vears ago, they hari just" maus
the soil, a drink and 'cheat
They put their tractors matching handkerchief, I don't a surfaced road leading to the
and ploughs on to it and won think Hugo would over wear bis
whandkerchief quite so far out, Nowners, Abug that lend they
it good grain-crops, but As for the women in the had period, saplings-cuculy pr
they had ploughed too doop and
a' dullish 'Joh tus from Australia and noncina,
without proper care and turned howther are
this the shitiim wood of which the
that part into moving sand- hie timo: Cantaren of Estuel in dys
dunes which will have to be: John Napper has painted his wife and she docs took the of Moses made the Ark of the
recovered.
sort of woman you would like That is why the Government to meet. Anthony Devas Han made a charming picture st With her fair vation Laws over this tricky a
...blue øyes contour-plough
"But if along that road you Covenant. will plant your trees and. li the thirsty desert, water those troes." they are told, "then the children of the futuro will sellement whero
walk in the shade."
Allies away
WAG
lonely
nau 10 wrest PICIULLIS morow's breakdest out of the
th wilderness. But every day
Their chance
' So I did not waste much sympathy on those youngsters, looking out of their classroom
Ал
window at that taway desert, of Israel enforces Soil Consor- Peter Bleu and face of
region. The settlers have to racter, the is a sort of symbol
and observa
It is their land of opportunity,
And the symbol of all they The ingathered childron ot The Dispersal, the Orientul cart and with precious wuus They spend days and weeks in Jowa and the Occidental Jews, own to that road and watered the tree nursery fut losing the miracle which those young slunt-eyed from China, blus-
settlers, with their water-cart
youngsters brought their water, are trying to do is the tree, strict agricultural, practices.'・・ {upper middle-classes guclid look }
eyed from Paris, are brough? levably, that sui modo a reality..
together in this college to be traiped
doser! recovery,
· Nort
ibat
{of what"an__"Eriglish girl" "of the Perhaps the whole thing can like.
But it was Piał Wyethy be nummed up by the gorture took a ampling from the nursery caught my eye. He has made of 18-year-old immigrant, He portrait of Eilen Fellook – 10 plot and led me across the road her look nog huse a-wrenan: of conchoch, stretch of road m... o Nearby the Weizmann Col- into the demort) (that all cright, fashion. He has managed to Their ages are from thirteen Ahody o avenue-not-
of Individual trees but lege at Tirse is the Gilat Plant Just noromthe road) and give her the qualities that all dignos ・to sixteen And "ho course, LONG › R 1. of trecy on · ofther sites; Isesoarch. "Statforís a
to pimat it three days. Mixed with o
**ri”, must help to ransom. the' Sewekt
newcontri imre children "from of its rossi. the older settleminte
10 Wolzznent Collège le pleasant place, architecturally
· 16
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to me
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(and
beyben the folds and groves
the desert soll HAY UN aettlements.
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