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́ THE " CHINA' 'MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1955.
Would you DARE
to start again?
ANNE SHARPLEY meets a woman who
made a name for herself and a quarter of a century ago dressed almost everybody who was anybody on the London stage. Now she Is back to pick up where she left off THERE is an exotic ner- the widow
London married a MI Potrick Coles- Vousness About Miss barrister,
Preedy. And in 1864 she took Eileen klare that reminds a big decision. one of a humming-bird. She
because she
WH
11 herwell always soyg " dare de zes and
Forty years before she had is a petite, durting figure manufactured the name "Idare" who likes to wear bright colours. Her hair is bencon red and she talks in little Kaspя.
New she decided she dare
But Miss Idare is a bene a designer again.
remarkable woman, She does not think 63 years of age (and I've never had a
face massage") too late 125 make a come-back.
Twenty-Ave
years and 1w
husbands ago Miss Ilate was a Intants woman.
No pt{olit" -LR93H°«iz{!J{ Pki&e* +Tiu¢ had her clothes designat i by
yone else.
She dressed
"Rose Marre," "Puvale
stich straws
{ *
Lives.
Pavlova
"Evergreen," and even
for
her fast peace +
The Swan,
'I dare-'
The stude
to her et gy
Thul there
dressed by
were LES stewk her running
L
Then she
South
In
married Afmean mullionaire, Mr Harold Mosenthal,
Elighteen years later in 1950 the milleniúre kited bul ber dndsema taarsete was small
Jn 1953
Headaches BAYER
Toothaches Colds
are quickly overcom, by
CAFASPIN
"This
is
the Arst dozen jetters of the alphabet."
She had kept in touch with her staff during the years in South Africa, now they came back, forty of them, to work for her again.
She had no premises, so they began work in her fint in Palace Gule, Kensington.
There was comparatively little money. "I had to raise £14,000 by selling thy antiques and paintings, and borrowing. knew that it I failed I would be the best-decuted woman in Lon- den with 150 of the loveliest dresses to
WELLI But I'd be role,
"But mything #tunate."
EILEEN IDARE" The older I get . . .”
Swiftly she collected together the silks, satins and brocades she loves. They were from France, Italy and China. She barely glanced at the and wools.
tweeds
"I like glamorous things. Tea
long evening gowns,
Kowns, beautiful fabrics."
She decided to declare
Jon Paris.
war
"Women want to look beauti- ful. Not angulur, odd, or like
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Working at the creative rate of 24 designs in an afternoon, Miss Idare got back into the stride of the "old days."
*1 design everything on my- self, twisting the material to see how it will fall. 1 can feel
material the
alive coming beneath my fingers.
"My clothes must flatter and make a woman look feminine, 1 don't think it is interesting to do a sull,"
uncanny
The magic word "oil" brings wealth and progress to the desert, but it also arouses suspicions, blood feuds, labour troubles and border warfaro. The trials and transformation of Arab communities where oil prospectors now seok "black, gold” are described in, a
tour of cities on the Muscat and Trucial Coasts until recently forbidden to non-Moslems. This is the fifth in the series, “Middle East in Ferment."
"
yellow sand and throwing up he had made the trip from East on the Trucial Coast, and Saudi- à forest of miniature hillocks, Afrien in five hops.
Arabia. The late King Abdul Visitors to the beach have an
Aziz ibn Saud starting moving feeling Di being
Howitt had come to prepare his own forces into the Buralmi his ground forces for the next Oasis, near the sketchy frontier Invasion of locus between the two states. Tho Bedouin womon hard their seasonal
The Arabs help him, Shelk feared the eventual loss goat flocks
water swarms,
Although onco they regarded of more than half his territory channel at the Oasis of Riyan, locusts as a divine omen in good to his powerful neighbour, and the British, na protectors of the Sheikdom, moved in squade ot Lovies to back him up.
at
THE OIL EQUATION
T
By Harold Guard
(PHOTOS BY CHARLES DAWSON}
Salalah, here, oil is very much a problem
HE magic word "oil" of the pres
-t momen
is being whispered Flying leer Peter Adams around this little told me he was paying a call on outpost on the South the Wall of Dholur, who rules Arabian coast, in the sul. the community for the Sullan of Musent. ไม่ hire more local tannte of Muscat.
labour for his air stallon.
"The oilmen have made local labour a problem,” said Adams, "by offering higher wages to the
No ull has yet been found. but visions of wealth match ing that of Kuwait and
Arabs. My workmen have be- Saudi-Arabia are gushing
crine discoflented and want to forth from foreign prospec- work for the Amerlentia, I
native tor and
workman hate to think what will happen.
when they start drilling," atike.
themselves The oilmen
say
have
Sultan Sayed bin Taimur, nothing much wit happen. They the ruler of Muscat and intend to bring in most of their Fabour from other parts of the Oman, recently granted a drilling concession to an Midle East-trained Arub feld American company,
A Bri. men and technieluns who
had experience in Saudi-Arabia, tish aerial survey firm is at fran, Kuwait and Aden,
Quite rightly, for after the work with the Americans,
Adams' July is to keep RAF crabs scatter into their burrows. charting the vast mountain wilderness of the Sultan's Planes fuelled and moving be- they He watching every move
tween the Middle East and Aden. through periscople antennae. domain, looking for the To do this he needs contented,
Arnb earth faults and formations conscientious labour to maintain tickling stories of the land crab
Asbermen tell spine that form an underground his runways, constructed to ac-
devouring an un- commodate large aircraft-much armies dome.
larger than the Bittle twin- conscious human on the beaches engined Beechcraft Bonanza in as many minutes as it takes to which Clayton's oilmen use for epin the yarn. shopping expeditions to Aden.
St.
after
We
in
mrived Salalah, u all American intro- dured himself. He jooked im- maculate-surprisingly su in this wild desert--in white stark- skin suli.
It's Risky
For all, Adams depends on his and Arab labourers to
With a disarming smile, he offered his hand. "I'm Edgar alemen Clayton, Vice-President of City Services Oil Corporation."
We were even more surprised to hear that his wife was with him, living in a desert tent,
"None of the conveniences of on electri kitchen." he said, "but she loves H."
Big Gamble
unload the 30-gallon drums from Arab dhows, which come up from Mukalo,
the cast seaport of Aden Prolectorate.
The dhows can't come closer than 200 yards from shore be cause of coral reefs," the RAF officer sale "We chuck the
druns overboard and our lads swim through the surf and mandandle them. It's a risky business because the surf runs swiftly, and a full drum is not easy to handle. That's the sort Claytm would give no hint of oil business we are in, and wirere oil was likely to be it takes manpower." round, except with
vogue
wave of his hand toward the mountains rising behind the coastline.
Sporadic fighting broke out between the Levies and armed Saudis, and for a time the dis pute assumed international polí.. tical proportions.
At this moment, n team of arbitrators is sitting in con- ference m
Oasis, the Burimi and the area has been sealed off to rorrespondents.
But it Is an open secret in Sharjah that oil is the cause of the trouble, which not only strains Britain's friendship with Arabia, but also puts an added stress on Anglo-American rela- tions, as it is American initiative which is seeking to exploit the hidden wealth of the Omun de- BUT!.
Seven Rulers
There are seven Arab ruler: in the Oman Trucial ores.
It
is estimated that their present total reveNUES
more
amount to Hitle than
But £50,000,000. with the oil talk they all have visions of new wealth,
Besides the oll potential, Britain is concerned They
about the strategic outlook as her hold in Egypt and Iraq is being whittled down by the
od Arab surge nationalism.
Miniature hillocks dot the beach at Riyan, on the Muscat coast, where land crabs have scurried for cover. watch from their shelters with periscopic antennae.
crop years. The fact that they are considered a delicacy when rossled over an
open fire-and That Britain is planning to possibly were the "manna from build up her
outpoets in this Heaven" of the Old Testament area was palently obvivus end may have had something to do the difficulités. to be overcome with it.
equally obvious.
Hewitt sald quite casually Water, for example, is a colos- there was nothing extraordinary sal difficulty in a region where
at his to report back
Kenya the oldest inhabitant cannot re- base, except that his men had momber the last rintali. They tell, too, of land-locked wiped out a swarm covering
water In parts of Sharjah, Ash in great pools of sea-water four square miles with just ten
from separated
of the ocean by gallons insecticide. Later, mupplies must be hauled 11 miles great dunes blown up in the he said, "an irate tea planter by truck; in others, distillation Kond-storms, The land-locked told us we had contaminated a costs up to three shillings per
tea fish become
worth cannibalistic, and
about crop
five gallon thousand pounds, sterling. Just Arabs claim that one day these 11sh
will breed
a new human one of those things." race, through much the evolutionary processes as Charles Darwin described.
same
There also are great nocks of sea birds with pelican-like beaks
which swirl about with a noise like Jet aircraft.
- Locust Man
Arab women, closely veiled,
Air Ministry officials survey- ing these areas do not hide their From Riyan We flew to dismay at the estimated outlay Sharjah, a capital city on the which will be needed for con- Trucial Oman peninsula, which structional work here even be- juts into the entrance of the Per- tore the jel age comes to Arabla, sian Gulf.
On The Wane
It is in this area that British friendship with Saudi-Arabla ig being jeopardised by B squabble over a frontier area, As a sidelight to the advent which had its genesis in of oil, Oman's traditional pearl- whispers of "oil,"
tast kg industryY 19
on the wane. Oil companies are offer- For five years, Britain has ing the Arabs twice as much as rulers to they could cam by diving, and
roam the offshore desert with sought to get local
covetous ing to adjacent territory are suld
grows louder
glances where
at
oil tolk
The
areas where oil strikes
be imminent.
great herds of goats, marshalling agree to their accurately de- them with a strange and plercing fined frontiers. But the lines with few of the hazards. clucking sound. The women hurl on the thap still remain dotted, pari divers are rapidly emigrat We took off from
of rocks at each other if their goats Ench onc
ruler casts Adams smooth rurways and invade the wrong waterhole. Яiew
the along
coast from Salalah
And there is an oasis at Riyan daily. to
another Flyon
adventurous Arsb British staging
post the vital where
Arabian gardener is having his first at- of the under-beily zub-continent. Below us were tempt at growing tomatoes the first to be seen in this part of from the air, the surging surf broad, sandy beaches, Even
the world.
No offelal here is prepared Before
As "Ruler of Sharjah and its we left Riyan, a to talk about oll, but there is Independencies" Sugga wicida diminutive Piper Cub aircraft no doubt that prospects aro ex-
on
an
A Dispute
Sharjah itself, a seapors town, Is the act of government for 36-year-old Shalk Sugga, whose ideas of achninistration hove changed little since Old Testa- ment days.
"We hope
to bring up our n drilling riga soon," he added. "There will be about 8,000 tons of it, and we'll have to take i off the ships in landing craft Hor clothes reflect
and Arab dhows. We herself.
plan to
It looked formidable, is no start drilling by March." Wide skirts to flatter her 23-
wonder that navigation along inch waist, off-the-shoulder
The American styles
con- the const, even, in native dhows, frankly reveal to
amazingly
nonchalantly trundled up the cellent. The Oman peninsula absolute power, and personally firmed that his youthful shoulders, slinky lines
company was to hazardous,
runway.
is nearly surrounded by the motes out justice on the "oyo occasionally to show slim hips.
embarking on a gigantic gamble;
producing states of
for an eye" "erved. At Riyan, the beach is an un- And always delicious
they might strike nothing but fabrics,
"Looks like the locust man, Bahrein, Clayton, oll is bellovable spectacle. Thousands just in from Kenya," said the Arabia. dry wells.
Flogging is the usual punish- gleaming, rustling and trang
-ment figuring.
a problem for the future. But of t-sized land crabs milling airstrip officer. A young man,
for theft, but, a second The most critical dispute has offence may be punished by cut- for the Yorkshiremon who about, burrowing into the soft John Howitt, gingerly climbed involved the ruler of Abu ting off the miscreant's offending commands a little RAF station watched by a million eyes. from the plane and confirmed Dhobi, largest of the shelkdoms hand,
Sho
has
even worked her magic on her cousin, Yvonne Mitchell, that "serious" young actress.
For Miss Idare is once more working herself into the theatre credits.
¿
Mink, diamonds
Miss
In a forthcoming play Mitchell plays a femme fatale. Miss Idare startled the producer by insisting on A real mirk. Uning to a fabulous evening coat and added the final exotic touch of writing "Idare", on the label in diamonds.
Miss Idare
has many When sparkling creative ideas. we lunched together she saw a glorious red evening dress in a lobster ("and nexi to it that wonderful piece of watercress, what a lovely colour") and a quiet cafe-au-lalt ofternoon dress in the coffee-pot
her,
Days ore colours, to #Thursday is chevry-rod. I love Thursdays: Wednesday is blue, it never seems to rain on Wed- Inesdays. Tuoday is white.”
"I em 03, you know," she said with a slight widening of dark brown eyes, and the older get the more ideas, I got
Miss Idare stepped into.. her. 1930 Rolls-Royce She was, already later for a fiting oppointment with A Very Important Personage whose name is the, accolade · for the London couturiers but whose identity she refuses to "have published.
fond
Duty be peitand บ
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. enough to admon
me.
For
Qatar,
Iran and Saudi
Last month, the British sur rendered to Shelk Sugga a local labourer who had been accusod of stealing soap. The man was tied down for two hours under the blazing desort sun. When ho still refused to confess, No was left for four more hours. Sul. failing to admit his guilt, he was flogged to death,
Broke Tradition
The Sheik recently broke with local tradition by making, a trip abroad in a sfmrtered aircraft. He returned after acquiring n'a third wife in Belnut and two falcons in Damascus
A more handful of British “ad- visors" is spread out over · this vast area. Thero Are head- here for the British-
quarter Trucial Oman Levies.
Like the Aden and Hadhramaut Lavies, these local defences forces are patterned after the Arab Legion forces in Jordan of Brigadier: John ́ ́ Bagot ⠀ Glubb, known to his fellow Moslems as "Glubb Fasha."
ng the Lavion W. J. Martin, whose
from wife, an American fre
Pennsyl vania, la the only white man resident in Sharjahyl
There is every sign here that Britain will stand! by her Tricial obligations, to protect the Shaikdome under rulers) like Burgas. And in the arbitration councile'as Destakil tu (pants imust.ba-'weli
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