THE CHINA MAIL:
MONDAY, DECEMBER
JUNGLE WOMAN
This Is MUSOKI-a wife bought for nine goats the far-away Mountains of the Moon
in
AFRICA
MOUNTAIRES
OF THE MOON
WHEN I SAW HER (says Stacey).
I LOOKED ACROSS THE DITCH DIVIDING THE PRIMITIVE FROM THE CIVILISED...?
Drawing by ROBB
by TOM STACEY
Old Etonion turned Explorer in Africa
monkeyskins, spears, calabashes.
cockrunchen, drums.
chicken, sheep,
Children.
ronts,
rais
und
As rich man, owning some
Throe
IT was fair breaking my think this melancholy moment Khavairu
heart to
watch that was being recorded.
crippled old woman so
it was all i could do.
very slowly mounting the
hill.
On her back a bundle
away
The
50
30 sheep and goals and two or cultivation patches, has been able to
far. afford live wives a
Officially #211 Anglican Christian, ht
ardent in Jesus Christ and bekover Had 1 gone to help her, sobout 40 pagin spirits.
## have scuttled of firewood, approximately for. Had I ordered one of the
reason he has got as heavy as herself. I could men to help her, he would have my wives (and will get more) for see her muscles shivering, obeyed reluctantly, thinking me is because they all work
him like billy-o, and usually unantly, Aggravated at and her exhausted eyes.
my
bear him children who from interfe FACE against IN
four yetes will work like billy-o [ win chatting
outhority. anal Lukme! photographs among H Kroup
When WIDE DITCH
he wants to many of Bakunjo telbeunen in Kilohi
agubi he upivaches
the git's village rumpound on the steeps
She laine, sald Khavoiru, papa, and starts burgaining. of Ruwenzori, the suowenpped "Mountains of the Moon" over weing my shock. But he was Additional wives
not excusing One
himself for not five goats (cheque made out to looking the truri jungle.
T'upa). anong us, Chlef Khavatru with helping her he was apologising his upcurled beard, Wa The
it had And
ugain it unce woman's husizand.
struck me that this attitude of Khavalru's first
Just then the old woman fell and rolled over with
100
cost around
for his wife's ungainly perfor- Muski-it was she why
maner.
fallen
down wife,
was
costing
her
the undeveloped Africans to ne goats and a black sheep, their women is one of the widest (When I was speaking to a small
later. and learning and muddiest ditches dividing secretly primitive from civilised.
things. I noticed how there seem-
ery. She remuined panting on Then she began to the ground. get to her feet, without imme- dinte success. No
сле moved.
No one said anything.
my
nor sadness,
My friend Khavatru and his ed to be nothing in her face: Bakon family tell the tale eher sweetness well-they are pretty typical, nor love mir bitterness.) spent
About to snap her, I lowered
cluse on n fortnight in camera-hating she might Khavoirn's hut, with his pots,
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strong. obedient girl, known for her digging proficiency. Not pretty Beauty is mat much considered, und anyway she did not meet Khavuiru until after the parents had arranged the marriage the following month. those days she was not yet lame, She married at 13 of 14. She began having children straight She continued to have away.
hem until she was no Whem
longer able. Just less than one third
But
of her children born alive reached adolescence,
said she was old now,
is 40. But she looks 00.
And she
She
was glad when
*
**Thanks to your master escape plan, we missed a jolly good concert in the warm."
SUCCESS STORIES
T
of 1954
|RUMPETER Eddic Calvert, the shoemender's son,
put his record of Oh Mein Papa ("world sales approaching 8,000,- 000," he murmured) on the radiogram and fumbled with the starter-buttons. But for once the 18ct, gold-plated trumpet
fall open.
Ho muttered
was silent.
His mouth insured for £10,000 apologies.
"All these buttons. Never know how the dratted thing works. It's new, you see," says Eddie. You are immediately on first-name terms with him.
Everything in the 1954 Calvert household is brand new. Eddie Calvert and his wife are living in a hand- some newly-built £7,000 house in mews of new houses in Paddington. It is furnished entirely in con- temporary style; surrealís- tic lampshades, off-white carpets, yellow and grey striped settees and urm- chairs.
In the garage stand two cury. The Calverts have one euch. The Jaguar is Eddie's; the Austin belongs to his wife Josephine.
Two diamond rings sparkle on Mrs Calvert's fingers. Eddie tells you that the bigger diamond is 31⁄2ct. It is a belated engagement ring; they were married 10 years ago.
Eddie's suit cost £52 108. But it is looking rather crumpled he is not one for sartorial elegance.
"I'm like Churchill," ne tells you. "I'd much rather wear a siren suit all the time."
Khavairu married number two- But today Eddie Calvert..
a young and prettier lass.
The
new girl helped out a lot on the
is in the big money. He feels
millet and maize plots, lent a obliged to spend on an`ap- strong young hand to wood-propriate scalc.
collecting and cooking.
When the other wives fell in some of
DI them wives of Khavalru's dead brothers and relatives, the chores castxi,
But
that was when the pain began in Musoki's leg and
In Japan too
-(London Express Service).
SUCCESS everyone seeks it, but how few attain it. Yet each year throws up a small
group of men who join those at the top.
IN 1954-who were the new
names in ranking lists of success? In industry, in entertainment, and in sport the finger of success has alighted on some remarkable figures. EDDIE.CALVERT'S story is first Son the list. He is introduced
by THOMAS WISEMAN.
THIS is how to blow
your own
MR. and MRS. EDDIE CALVERT,
trumpet!
"First," has says, "there had house when a fire engine 'gocy never been a father song. I past. Comes back; siis down
lled
a need. Then the semi- again. Begins munching salted roligious noise I make sounds peanuts. very much like a. Salvation Army band on a Sunday morn- ing
These aro good." he says,
and yawns noisily, not bothering
record of Oh Mein Papa "Lastly, I don't understand to cover. his mouth.
when This year, sales of his Khavairu began to neglect her, even though by custom he should climbed past. the million have shared his time among his mark earning him a Gold wlves.
German."
my royalties and interests.
I still got ambitions."
But
His interests include a music publishing company and a com- pany that puts on turing shows, His ambitions include A slx months holiday in the Bahamas, a world tour, owning a
helicop- ter and a cabin-cruiser.
They do not include any new nohlevements with his trumpet, "I've done pretty well every- thing you can do with a trum- net,"
His wife, Josephine, says: "It'
You been play- furny, Eddie. ing this way all the time. You don't play any different now from what you did 10 years ogo. But now they thousands of pounds.
The STAR builder rations MARILYN
By DAVID LEWIN
London.
DZANUCK,
ARRYL F. (for Francis)
£150,000-a
year Hollywood film-maker in London for the first time in five years, talked frankly about the stars he employs.
Zanuck, a wiry 61, paced up and down in his hotel suite and talked fluently about what makes a star:----
"The stars
must have glamour. It is no use pre- senting them as being like the girl next door or the boy at the petrol pump. If people. wanted that they would go next door or to the near- est garage."
Flop:
Success
ON that basis who, in the
opinion of star-makor Zanuck, are the true stars of today?
He tlcked them off: "Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, and John Wayne and sul Rita Hayworth. Her last
SHIL
firia, 'Miss Sadie Thompson, may have been a flop but it ́ was a successful flop.
"And there are trials whó are stars in their special fields:. Cooper, James Stewart, Güry and Esther Williams.
Those are the names I think of first."
Zanuck (home town: Wahoo. Nebraska) makes 16 Cinema
Olas a
year and sponds.
scope
£8,000,000 as chief of produc tion at 20th Century-Fox and Tho campmay's vice-president.
He got down to cases.
MONROE:
"Wo've Rot to make sure people don't get fed up with seeing her. There has been 50 much talk about Marilyn Monroe now there is danger that the woman at home will soy, All right-20 she makes men exelted. Enough of her In future she'll make only 140 flims a year and there won't be so many photographs of her sent around."
RICHARD BURTON: "I put him among the three finest acters in the world.
"But that doesn't automati-
make him a star-although Robe, his first big starring pleture, was among the biggest box-office money-makers of all- time (£13,000,000 gross). Bur- ton has acted all his parts so for-but what about his per- sonality? No opportunity show it yet.
think
to
that he-like Laurence Olivier years ago will have a stuttering start and creep up on people slowly."
·
Purdom Luck
DMUND PURDOM, the actor from England who became a big name player in. "The Egyptian": "He is the lucklest human being ever to have lived,
But The Egyptian in Alms. pay you
his powers. was beyond should have come later when he had landed more experience.
gave him tha
At one
time they wouldn't even listen to you."
At one time... at one time he was earning £9 a week in o dance band and sharing a single room without any window panes. with two other musicians,
He owned a lounge sult and a dress sult-Off the peg for £4, 10" and a toothbrush and a safety razor. Not much 'else.
It's horrible
"He met his wife, a cashier at a West End cinema, when sho came to the restaurant at which In appearance he is a shoelish he was playing. He bought her mon looking rather older than a drink; and was fired for Disc, the Oscar of the I did not quite see how lack his age 32. He has about him a fraternising with the customers, retording artists. The three success.
German contributed to his bouncing but table brashness, million figure is being reach-
PART OF LIFE · Musoki still counted herself luckier than some. Luckier, fored with sales in such un-
example, than the young woman on the next hill-who was pained a witch by Kamabu, the local medicine man, when she became the mother of twins,
likely place as Thailand, Burma, Alaska and Japan.
B.P. Before Papa-no record of his sold more than 30,000 copies.
Excitedly, Eddle begins to reel
Of
Strictly corny
m orphan of Tin Pan Alley who They run Into each other. heg risen to the position of again later, and he said to her: patrem of the Institution.
"You'd better let me take you te dinner. I lost my job because Allied with his air of provin of you." clal I'm just a you he says--is 0
Now in this, for him. Golden He explained further: "Woil, from tho you see, if I'd uriderstood the sort of jagged shrewdness which Year of 1954, he has earned the German words I would havo must make him a diffcult man unusual distinction of having a
based on to pull a fast one. flim realised that Oh Mein Papa was on whom
his colourful
non-
„parasites"> of
his
An Arthur Rank script writer- almost lived with the Calverts for eight weeks, w
remiarka Indignantly.
This woman was dismissed by her husband. Cut off-for ever from her year-old babes, sho
a gay song about a circus clown. Also he is highly nisplekus of career, made herself a mean, bamboo.
off the statistics of his success, And I would have played it gay, the money-men,- tho fire shelter in the forest, not "Em making more than 21,000 Instead I played, it melancholy, creative knowing the man's
craft of hut week," he says. "It's a lot of And so, it became, on all-time busines, building. I saw her there, her
money, sure. But I could make hit, turned savage. 'n eyes
Há de going into pantomimé moro. In Ameries I 10,000 dollars [about £3,500) ies I was offered As for Muroki, she has her for minutout pour corny. But so? It's what they minute ontor
**Lers · face it, I'm strictly this year, Ho will be the 20-"They say it's not my story," fobs Food, smoky shelter, goal-ance but the Muricians Uhlon
dment within the Eddle sking for clothes, Her heads end wotidn't let me talovir bor bangles. Her strong, young
- His latest record, Midnight, is son Kule not far off, and his week to make 21,000, if I can
"Why should I work a whole approaching half-million sales
**Not" Bad," hở, mayn: "What" Little wife, who sometimes comes make that much in two days in do I mean, not bad?
for a word of
of advice from the Statos??
namnet ** good.. I'm in getting blage, Papa has taken the thrill And
, pain?. That Is part of life, like the of mine Only me
Papa:
A: 423. of them imitations out of things for ma. You can
ponly be len sudded togs which come down, Eddie Fisher has approached ever do bett than Papa?
shouldn't
Fold
#redokli TDARAMEs in Si Thera have been 38 recording's
off the snow peas, and shatch the milling wilde in ruko, the 50-mile View Like the 10 3. The Kabulous? miles" she will never cover to. Caleur lordios anos the dispensar
Done it all
"Both Ible, I show you There are bite ..., in this script which are word for word out of my life," d
•He showed me the script. It was full of paneli, markos – The intominsə li Babes 13 thè?, marked, passages were the ones
himiwho are the to which ho had takers: 70% @bet
im. The caption
Virkis trumpa (or "says, Eddie,,
part af
Marlon Brando would not pluy
I
It
--15
was written for a Brandu wild, crazy man, Purdom was rather a
Whe
dult Englishman with a handsome face. Nothing crazy about him,
"Purdom has a tough road thead before he is as good as he is handsome."
During the few days he is in London Zanuck will be talking with British film producers about Cinemascope, which he pioneered.
Bald Zanuck: "Cinemascope Jen't magle. It can't make bad nim good-but it can make a bad sim look better. And it docs make a great ploture) greater."
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