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All that the shus saw of Miss Jane Russell wa prolonged view of feet a shing as she fingered inter- at the brink of minably The Aquarinema. Very alert hud might also have quick look at the sultry
heroine as complete
red
suit bathing
aqualung, she did a
with
and
high-
sperd 271071 at a depth of
about three feet past under-
water camerKS,
the Silver to be The
by that time But
waters of limpid Springs, said
clearest in the world. had
lost tu st of
parency.
their trimis-
A eload of sand, stirred up by The feet of a regument of star-
floral
Luty grens,
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"No, no, Chester: Seriously, to see the I've come fust
picture
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a smile vanished
Jane Russell, about to go down, 6713
keup the orthodox Dlm
star smile. But it was no fon to the underwater stalia,
THE
William Hickey
STAGE SECRETS ARE TOLD... BUT THE MAGIC STILL REMAINS
WENT to
lind Boxall show children IL Was a virtuoso per- how a scene from a play- formance by Paul
A
London. I have never known an They made uninteresting even
AO Wynd- nudience intense. And such fines as:-
they shall fetch thee ham's Theatre to watch the adults were as silent as Jewels from the deep, Paul Rogers and Roun- the children.
And sing while thon on preased
flowers dost sleep." Next scene.
Paul and Rosa- nd put away their chairs andt had a go at the movement,
"You ree," said Paul, 'n alagi is like a chessboard
..centre, right centre, left centre, down stage, up stage. You gel cont binations like down right and up right."
in this case, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is built up from a first reading to a dress rehearsal.
and Rosalind.
would pro- vide a first-class entertain
It
ment anywhere.
Margaret Leighton—very They came in, wearing smart in a black suit and ordinary clothes, very busi- red hat-introduced the per- messlike.
formance. At first she con- "We are going to strip
bit the
fessed that The WAH H
magic from every- worried. She didn't know thing," said Paul. "We are whether it was a good thing just going to do it as it to Fot people into the happens.
mystery of the theatre. "It should be kept a mystery.”
Behold the truth
She need not have worried. We being
shrouds the
Rosulind,
has Just Hot head. Titania
Paul was Bottom. Titania, Bottom his 189' asleep.
"What angel wokes me from my flowery bed?" said Tilinta In a flat volce...
"Out that next_bli," sand Rogers. the AAL
"I shall moke 4 pulled
hee-haw noise at Qt Tine." off
Titanin made noter
ber mystery-bluntly, cruelly.
copy. "Always have a perell But the magle was more
and make notes straightaway.” she said. potent than ever.
What is he up to now?
STRANGE
OF KRISHNA
By DOUGLAS CLARK
T
CASE MENON
"British Africa.
colonialism"
In
Five months later he
Hire of VISION Wish 31g own
INTO The news conies 21 occupier at a range of about
silvery-haired, gaunt, two yum by the gowesstoragɔleg
eps and top of blonde Jane scholarly indian politician
took an MA de land and into the Western educational school in Hert publicly attacked the French Maeld, pump young lady who once
fordshire. He qualified as Empire where "there ball pretty well along the same
gree at London University camp? and Fates Marilyn Monroe
barrister of the Inner
always suppression of free- allegedly destined for stardom, with a dissertation entitled:
At first glance it might Temple. Ho edited the first dom and dental of self-
The girl
I made t
"A"
Experimental Study
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devorative entry into the water 101 the Mental Processes in seem ko. For Krishna Menon Pelican books. int mumutes, earlier, wearing her polved to Reasoning,"
third and most thamale ang sand of the day tiny bikini
batha-
plisk win!
By the time judged would gbully have traden
th pretty cloths in the world
a couple of Army blankets
and a hot water bottle.
rusy
Legendary
J2
respect."
Last September
he hastened 10 London to urge Churchill not 1. Join the Southeast Asia De- fence Pact.
claims to be a staunch friend of Britain: and certainly in He is 56-year-old Krishna the past he has shown little Meaon, for the
THINI
two eagerness to exchange life in years India's representative London for the hent and dust
and political turmoil of his WHEN war came, he toiled
In October, back in the U.N.. courageously among the
he was demanding the destruc at the United Nations.
A1 moment Pandit own country.
bombs as Civil Defence tim of all atomic and hydrogen Krishna Menon is the Man Nehru, overburdened with
And bomby held by the Great Powers. worker at St Pancras. He
after
Com- For 25 minutes the pretence offices, is expected to shuffle Who Came to Dinner,
India gained
And what thanks has he 1947, audience-on to Krishna Menon the arrived in England for six
from the Kremlin for post of India's Foreign months' study of economics monwealth status in
this persistent guerilia war he Minister. And for Britain and law in 1924. He stayed he was her High Commis d
sioner in London for five carries on to their advantage? a question af on for 28 years. the that raises Hunt
None at all, Mr
maker and considerable interest.
He sat at the feet of the years. woah largest
His most became wner of
Will Krishna Menon steer late Professor Laski By bag Long which could hardly
gesture-the graduate at
repatriating By, low has to his credit also India's foreign policy away research
water cinema
from its delicate dangerous London School be Chuld hardly
man's mies. through TI<>
dragged o
by Away
The act wet MAI1
drifted
Howart
the world's only
low which
Are there no GENTLEMEN
any
"OW hard it is to be a
HOW
gentleman in
Hata supersonic age. rarely 90-80 how they be raised?
this
can
more?
Four famous hostesses
Bre weigh up the state of and 1955 chivalry in find that Englishmen lead
A zebra crossing is a much safer way of crossing the street than the arth of any squire. You can't offer your seat in an airliner.
So the question is poised: ARE THERE ANY gentlemen LEFT?
to
0 man
ns
P
too
course
"if a woman's car breaks down on any road, the most wonderful things happen."
Mra L'op's definition: Being
Soon THE COUNTESS OF LISTOWEL'S daughter marries, Lord Grantley.
lier favourite. gentleinan:
for in-
215
EL the
In that job he a legendary figure among of Econo- the diplomats. He cost the He taught in a co- Indian Government, less than
his typist.
By ROBERT GLENTON
MRS
constructive U.N. Indian plan for Koroun prizoners
"Do you mind if I don't li down," said Rosulind... "it's my stockings.
"Keep it a fairly tight circle,” roid Poul 19 she got up asic moved heross the stugo.
They
Studen every step, every gesture.
"Electrics/"
shouted
Paul.
"you the
"Dull down the lights?
"Then," said Rosalind, will see just how hor:id light is in which we rehearse."
Ballet movement Next scone, They come on la jetas and pullovers,
"We are supposed To have gone uwny
leamed our nes," said Paul.
und
He is smoking a cigarette and hus another behind his ear.
"When I get up," says Rosa- jimi, "do you want me to du it in a ballet movement. After
, I am Titania."
"Yes," saya Paul, "but not too much ballet, That would be 100 Reinhardt."
know," continues Rosalind, "sightly ballet. Stylised?"
"That's it," says Paul, "Are you ready, darling?",
A that "dariing"
could
sense half the girls in audience making a fixed determination to go on the stage whatever father says.
The scene was coming to lifa
DOW.
There was Tania's voice whispered:
US
softness 1
half- sho
"I pray thee, gentle mortal,
sing again;
Mine
ear is much enamoured of thy note."
There Was A dim-witted about Bottom's
clownishness
"I see their knovery: this la
make an ass of me; to
me, if they could."
to fright
No destruction Next scene. Or come the make-up boxes.
Poul wears 41 rather
off- white bath robe, Rosalind in a house-coat. This was the trans-
formation scene,
This was the magic of colour, pencil, sponge, and brush.
It was useless for Paul to try to destroy it all with off-hand remarks as he rubbed brown on his face "We would
havo polished our performance quito a lot by now. The scene is a woodland glutke."
It was useless for Rosalind to "First you must remove
with everything
removing
was described by the Russians say as "ludicrous, weak, emaciated." Suld Vyshinsky, turning on grease, And then wipe it off. India's delegates: "Ab best lou | I always Use babies cla are dreamers, idealists, At worst nappies"—and promptly pro-
duced a tatiered rag,
There the
magic
the in bottles Magic in the hands that used them.
So far, admirable. But look further into the record you do not understand your own
and camouflage position of Krishna Menon.
horrible American policy."
He has always been a doctrinaire Left. of flerce
See-saw
to
wife LLEWELLYN, itritain's must famous horse-winger, For 13 years he was
the mental processes in- men, Coleret Harry Llewellyn. a Socialist councillor at St So
Sho adily: "And England 13
for three the volved in Krishna Menon's
take him ropsoning som full of gentlemen. If a woman's Pancrus; car breaks down on any rond party's parliamentary can- along a familiar path. the most wonderful things didate at Dundee. happen. It's just a procession of
secretary of gentlemen of every class society
one every
of
As India's he can
wia
We saw Titonia come to life. "I've got to get rid of my eyebrows," said Rosalind, so I rub them with soap."
And sure enough they dis. appeared.
We saw her paint on new ones-great, dramatic streaks that arched their way round her
Foreign Minister forehead.
And as India the
be depended upon to Rogers WIS brusy putting
lofty speeches vermillion trying League, which he created in make further
On the tip of his 1930, he was for 17 years rebuking the wickedness of nose."Just
show It's Д once field a shop door the most zealous and in Western Imperialists while the comedy."
I absent flexiblo
to help.
open in America, mindedly went on holding it
propagandist for gasp of India herself reaches open until I suddenly discover Indian independence at work greedily and ever more firmly ed 12 men walking through one in Britain. Even in wartime ver Kashmir.
wouldn't he was privately prouding He can be expected to por-saw
after another. That happen here."
Roosevelt and Stalin
to carefully
between Eust and West And
con- accept the temptuou Insults
Russin of Without complaint.
NITR Llewellyn's definition: persunde the British Govern-
has A gentleman
perfect ment to let India go "Pres." manners, sympathy, and aboveC dll he has fire. He is positive, not just negatively polite,
fer favourite gentleman': Prince Philip has most of the qualities I regard as important.
JOHNNY HAZARD
***
YOU CALL ME, SULLY?..
Mischief
SEE too the mischief that Krishna Menon has done since he moved to the United
for
an
GUB, THIS GUY
TAKE IT EASY...} || SAY...WHAT DO YOU WANT CLAIMS YOU KILLED - I'LL CALL HIWW'?
HERE, MISTER?
A MAN IN HIS PET, REY,GUS.....COME
SHOP TODAY...
end to
from
Indila's
to
The apparent
And then off came the bath- robo and, the house-coat.
Evelyn, the dresser,' came on with Titonia's train, Bottom's Ass's head and belt,
"If it was a real perform- anco," said Rosalind, "I would be going up and down on my Ho can be trusted to snatch now in the dressing-room so every possible advantage that my knees wouldn't crack
Commonwealth when I got up on the stage,"
And sure enough her knees nocepting
did crack when she got up, But that was the last attempt
the matte their part to "strip away.
They had falled utterly, We were looking not at Paul Rogers or Rosalind Boxall my longer.
connection without any of the responsibilities.
How, In short, will the switch from Nehru to Krishna Menon infect India's
international policies?
The answer is straightforward. In no way whatsoever,,
By Frank Robbins
AND I CLAIM HE'S MADE
A BIG MISTAKE..... SHOOTING,
OPF HIS MOUTH/
"It mahhota are only super-
a gentleman involves helping Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. ficial they are no disguise. You
his never forgot
Now sit back. take a long, Nations. can always toll the man who is an old woman across a road, i At places like Anzio,
clealing stance he 18 the opposite of hot a real gilleman.
from a blind beggar. manners, He is no fair-weather long look at your husband. How "A public school
the perica gives
near 'dots
como. to That's ILTE over-simplification, gentleman.
of
In September 1958 he was Blogs but there are just
Lerre but it shows what I mean.
You have to be dashing to be critical standards Four women who ought
who never many gentlemen
Her favourite
according to Listowel, Llewellyn, and Clark? | calling gentleman:
a gentleman Imow--a famous four who be went near such a place."
husband-after 24 hours' tween them meet all shades of
Lady Clark's definition; A My society-provide the answer.
particmim in
with thought I have decided he has What do they decide?
code of ethics which he never the qualifications,
He has kindliness, That the art of being
a breaks,
sympathy, and Integrity. gentleman is flourishingi
Ter But read what they say d
favourite gentleman! theh docide how your hushind "Good Heavens, I know rates
many. I can't pick one out"
MRS GERALD LEGGE, 24- year-old Mayfair hostess, West
The counters, daughter minster City councillor, prison Jecturer, and airport catering of a Hungarian diplomat of
the old regimes pays know shi ki been president of the critic, has her own views.
There are a great, maný. Sooty London Fhaltion.
Gentlemen, she claims, end gentlemen about the slabes,
Mrs Derhak Now, Chrough her
Sho
No to children, hele a preview of at Dover.
"My idea of b gentleman," Logge's claim that the title of
to modes and Yanners of the
belongs
the the next crop of crown-up
she says, "In that combination "gentleman" **My, children's friends are so of manners and character which English.
"Even a Russia can be u art so how bobri evolved by the British. polite, their mariners porfoct
definition: that they make me One doom't hear of French gentleman," says the countes
countena wotsdor. I am sure we were gentleman or a Clerman gentle. The
boitfago, honesty Witty wingi Gongcority, never so well behaved when we' con v.
und chivalry.
To the views of LADY OLARK, Wife of Sir Kenneth Clark Chairman of the Inde pendent Television Authority.
were you
It will be a much-photo- graphed wedding. But will there- be more top hola and thorning. costs than gentlement
YOUR TRUCK DRIVER COMMITTED MURDER TODAY, SULLY? HOW DO YOU’CALL KIM
IN HERE WOR DO I GET TH
•POLICE TO DO IT?.
12 1024
IN HERE A
·MINUTE!
(Continued on Page 19 Col-8)
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel