THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1955.
A FACE SHINES THROUGH
THE IRON CURTAIN
London.
OR half an hour the sound of thunder down river had been. warning us of the coming storm. Would it rain be- fore we got inside?
A gaitered bishop in front of me hailed a vleur heartily enough"And how is SL Phillip's these days?" And the vlear replied, with just the right touch of easy de- ference. "Nicely, my Lord, blackened
chair stall."
But each looked on the darkening sky and would
Thunder
Thore worn things I have seon boforo and will sea again, a thousand timos. But in this Hassian visitor I saw something
rolled
W. Moilalleu, M.P.
around
the
This meeting
That face was weather-beaten. ky. "Evin the I had seen many days in the especially the beetle in our rather," said the head of the sun and, maybe, many nights in Latvian Baptist Church, "is the cold. It was lined, both
of with
and
with fully-lived applauding Christians
experience, and when the face But inside, after the tinkle of smiled, there was another line the wend Ra-cups and for the eyes disnupward, not gladly have sent St Phillip's dished, there was peace.
but for deception or profection, and its beetles to perdition The Archbishop nate a because they were no longer Was hat of if only the queue would pleasant speech, patising at each weeded. The silic
but sentence-and
of inner for
show. the Russian external move a little faster.
And that peare spread wona interpreter to translate, pence. The Russian visitors, with their over all of us.
by and long beards, some bark, some pey, white, stro beside hun, facing Dr.
the
A ving slowly through
of Part t
bary f. wlth Pal sny, we tried to rew worden that was were pillars of
aid State
Way
to pet the delegation of Rus
tart-
And when the Archid shop minde a juke-"Our visiors have serp some galt, but we promite
cricket Juny not E.
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I know that the Metropolitan Phirim of Minsk and Byelorussia luid a beard and a cap and robes which obviraris to an English audroner, helped to give him the attraction of the East on which Hat we could think I wa that we had he coals na janib 1-
Bim produress play.
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mesphere. It was the face of of mistops, deptes, le dignitas and members of them"--they all laughed, evenge, the face of a father who
before the Jute was translated, has been through it all, INT
side and ce still just because they saw that we beve. It was the fate of hope, were laughing.
haning through the Iron Cur at and through the clouls that lowered over Lambeth Palace, 1 shall remember that face.
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manners
This was in English occasion. There was the ran and or unpr. crable
erncking under the
menace of rain and bring cented by the arrived
was the strenger, Was B adrigger of
and the
from the Hussłon dulegation.
AL opre, eurates wher had been reds
surfentis
There
of crocke. These
linking lightly forre
a
the other
at S
to
But I'll remember, ko, the my Ruselen-speaking On the deague as we left.
sy we met ante agam the dark-ended ecclesiastic whose ival had reminded us of our
BITY,
ile looked at the pair of us
vert,
"say, if really was In elbow bishops were things that have som and rald:
and will see again, LightTully nice of you fellows to Jis their path, and MP's who before,
let me in out of the rain." times. had been ready la trample takes thousand
it transpired that he was the underfont, made way for him; But there was also something
of some "White" end. as he ncarej shelter, which I have not seen before and presentative
had Russian
lived in colleague mine, who fancies may not see again. That was n
these 35 years and the Lendon as a fingulst, suid a few lave under a cap-if that is
in tight werd for the ceclesiastiest should, therefore, have taken his but I mvan--and partly covered chance and his turn in the rain. The blasphemy we broth then The certesia-tie swept forward. by a
a beard which was wholly Outside the library the man wh. The body below the face used did not let us forget either
the
peace we had felt at the poured down,
sight of the Metropolitan's free orthal, after all, this was an English occasion.
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words to
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was wholly covered by Ing black robes and the stomach Was nored by 0
ard beard "Our visitors," ad the Archbishop of Cantres bury, “are due to go on the river
its come to them."
this evening. Instead the river Kidden er 15, But I write of the
BASHEERA
LUCK.
So you can't
Fifty people come to the aid of the toss-and-turn brigade, with
a batch of cures for insomnia
by PETER DACRE
ALEEPING badly? That has been the
complaint of many people.
But not of author John St. John. He is a good sleeper. So good that he dozed off while reading a manuscript his publisher had sent him. He woke up musing about the inystery of sleep.
SLEEP?
Now he is preparing a book Now he has some 50 proved circles. If you are not asleep on the subject. He has found etres for Insomnia. Many are by the time your fingers feel as that insomnia is age-old. A of the sheep-counting variety though they are falling sleepless Saxon hopefully placed Repeat the Lord's Prayer, carry on doing it in your im-
goat's horm under his pillow. Recall the words of old songs agination. In the Middle Ages they be- and poems. Learn by heart all Hoved in the sleep-giving pro- perties of a hedgehog's left eye fried in oll,
Once it was thought insonnia could be cured
that
the titles of Shakespeare's plays.
Or you can relax completely. But St. John has also un- breathe only through the nose, covered some odd tricks. An and count each breath, engineer wrole:-
HARD TASK
"Having prepared myself for by bed. I open back the bedding.
wearing next to the skin a dead
cuckoo wrapped in hareskin.
PRAYER, SONG
Then standing by the bedside i
'bed I can
Of course, psychology
comes
spin myself round rapidly until Into it. If you think of a task completely giddy. Falling into which you hate and threaten
only just pull the covers over myself before I am yourself with an hour or two of
it. "the very thought of it in a deep and heavy slumber."
And here is one for house- almost bound to induce sleep."
But how do people and sleep nowadays-when medern life makes it more clusive than wives:-- ever? To find out, St John in- vited people to tell him about "sleep Inducing tricks."
POCKET CARTOON By OSDERT LANCASTER
THE END OF THE WORLD [IS AT HAND!
But the trouble is we shall all assume it's just some foot going through the sound barrier, and miss the whole thing!”
"I mentally refurnish houses is the soap-bubble trick.
19
You
The MetraibiliMA Primo Minsk
and Bjelorussia
What Did The
Summit Wives
Talk About?
From JOAN HARRISON
Geneva, husband were staying during
the world's "men of
they got together?
WHAT did the wives of the Big Four conference. destiny" talk about when It was quiet and peaceful there after the hubbub in Gonova. Madame Faure, a Madame Lucie Faure, slim, beautifully dressed wife of the French Premier, woman, her long fair hair gave me the answer over a styled in n chignon, told me cup of tea on the terrace of thint Lady Eden, Mrs Eison- the villa overlooking Lake hower and she spent a long Geneva where she and her time comparing the dif-
ferences in their lives.
a trip to an Indian railroad
junction located-for the time being-in Surrey
"Bhowani Junotion," Nr.
T:
• Hindhead.
HE lips said to be "like morning dow on poppies" closed over 11 stick of chewing gum, Ava Gardner, the Aphrodite of the atom- the bullfighters' age, moment of truth, chowed steadily as she listened the voice coming over loudspeaker.
Lo the
"Casualties and corpses," it said. "when you break for lunch do NOT take off your wounds, blood or bandages. Or you'll only have to put them back on again."
A "mangled corpae" propped himself up on one "Lunch? elbow and said: Did I hear lunch?"
someone say
Panic first
A mortally injured stretcher case retored: Wait for 11, We're panic first," doing
Mis Gardner said!
"Have some gum."
I said: "No, thank you."
Over on our right---
of the bottom of an fvo einbentament
coaches
Tailway
were kaleidoscoped together in a most relistic
reconstruc-
tion of a train crash. Took the art de- partment two weeks
to do sakt an as-
director.
strant
1
It's
a marvellous wreck,
Up 011 the cm-
baniament another train
INL
Whisper in my ear,
(said Granger to Miss Gardner)
how much do you get?
the
Ava Gardner Special - one of the few that are still running these days, moved "Into shot,"
Two hundred extras, repre- senting the victims of the train crash, lay on the ground,
-by
THOMAS WISEMAN
I
"Lady Eden," said Madame Feure, whom I find extremely 'sympathique, told me that when she and her husband are alone together they talk politics a lot, She says that she follows every detall of his political life and gives him her personal vlews na whatever he is working ou.
Non-committal
"I asked her if he ever took was on- her advice but sho Committal
and said she didn't ulways know whether he did or not. She asked me how long I |thought my husband would con- be Prime Minister."
linue to
Madamo Faure inughed: "I told
believed
her we
quite a wille,
it would be
"It is of course easier for ma to talk with Lady Eden because she speaks French fluently, Mrs Eisenhower, who is a friendly, spontanous woman, does t speak a word of the language, so we have to talk in English- and I'm afraid I don't speak t as well as I should.
"I asked her how she was tpending
her time in Geneva und she laughed and she sald she spent a good deal of the day knitting. I gathered that she did not expect to go out much. Likes to relax
my
"Do I walk over the political
with situationi
husband? Well, not often, because when he conres home he likes to relax. But you know I'm a journalist myself. I have edited à political review for the past ten years. 30 i have my own Ideas,
the
fren I met Marshal Bul- yanin
other evening at he couldn't have been bave met many
dinner
Inore friendly.
times
Soviet diplomats before and I have never known them to be so relaxed,
"M. Bulganin and I talked a lot about Russia which I have already visited, and M. Bulgħnin said why didn't I come again, any time I liked, and he would be delighted to recleve me.
I
can tell you she is a very said I was afraid that the com- husband and nice, respectabla giri, Perhaps mitments of my
ather inhibited, Perhaps a bit myself wouldn't allow us to go old-fashioned. But she belleves right away and I supposed that That love is for the marital he wouldn't be able to come to don't so why not, Parls. '1 state."
"And the bullfighters?" ald M. Bulganin, 'If I'm invited
I shall certainly come." "Why do you do all this?" Stewart Granger. who plays said.
don't one of Miss Gardner's lovers in "Believe it or not, but they
"M. Krushchev I found more "This is nothing," aid the I asked her, "since you pubiletly
He is harder to talk "we mail.
had like acting and hate fame?" the lm, joined us and said: really were just good friends."
"In that case,”
I said, reserved. thousands of extras for the rict "For the money, of course." "Let's face it, we're both grossly
to and not quite so relaxed as don't know what bullighters M. Bulganin." secnes we did in Pakistan." she said, "it's tough, but it is overpaid."
better than being a shorthand-
Miss are coming to." "You
sald may be." typist. Don't tell me you like Gardner, "but I'm not."
more YOUR Job."
"I bet you're getting than n," said Mr Granger.
I am," "I bet you I'm not," said Misa Gardner,
a
over
silver
I said I was afrakt I did to Miss rather, You met such interest-
ing people.
They were scenes for the flim "Bhowani Junclion".
A woman with sprayer come Gardner. Began to spray.
"Eau de Cologne?" I asked, "No. "Chanel No, 5?" "Swat," Gardner. "Glycerine. Only stuff
.said
Miss
I
"Such who?"
raid "Such
Trent as the fabulous Miss Gardner," I said gallantly,
much
that shows up like sweat on the Well Perhaps we're not so in- "You think I'm interesting? serecut. Terrible stuff."
"A little more blood on Miss Gardner, please,"
called assistant director,
Gardner, "Oh,
dear,"
1 said: "Now come, that's just inverted egotism."
"No," she said, "I'm a simple girl. A farmer's daughter.
teresting to ourselves."
on
said
Miss
Dirty face
A man with * botile
"I can't think
where I got
A housewife
Cool yellow
Madame Faure, who was
she
Miss Gardner said: "I want dressed in a cool yellow frock, to get married again more than ade by the Puris fashion house "Whisper in my car,"
anything. I know that sounds of Jacques Fath, told me Mr Granger, "we don't
odd coming from a girl with my had brought only simple summer Wiseman
to know how
teord, having made a mess of dresses with her. Did she and
the other wives it three times aircady, but clothes? Yes a little," replied we're making."
They whispered in cach do. Then I would give up flima, Madame Fuure. "I think Lady become a housewife and have Eden is a very pretty woman.
other's ear.
"Heavens,"
said Miss Gard- children." her, "I AM getting more. Well,
we're both being underpaid."
Panic, Chaos
the bad blood. The bad blood
Through that got me into this business. Anyway, it was just a fluke that came
For the record, Miss Gardner is
to Frank still married Striatra,
"What sort of man do you want to marry?" I asked help-
inlk about
Photographs don't do her justice.
between the
Perhaps the oddest ip of All "blood," correctly pigmented for actrees. I don't enjoy making panic.' Chaos, Confusion. Every- "not, as a newspaperman, why? [Faures' villa and the houses of
I have lived in when a child. imagine a many-coloured soap
1 go over the house room
by bubble and try to see Inside it. Tuom, replacing the furniture exactly in its old positions with
If all these have failed pass
as much detall us possible. Very you on to St. John's wife Diana. few rooms get done before I She thinks she has found the fall asleep.
best sleep-inducer of them all into the aubject Try rotating "Researching the forefingers of both hands in of sleep in the British Museum.”
Still awake?
How To Beat The Heat
"0"
tired,"
That's what
some
BY A DOCTOR
of
my
if, doctor, I can't stand the further, thereby increasing the
kent. It makes me hot, sticky feeling.
Many people, in spite of the heat, still take, vigorous exercise, there are special dangers. Excessive sweating con they worry? No, For most easily wash too much salt out of people in normal health heat the body and reduce to enl may mean some discomfort, but content of the blood to such an I will do thom ng harm,
extent that severe mustular eramp la Induced.
patients say to me, But need and for them
And food should be cut down during hot weather, Hot, siprchy If you must play tennis in the carbohydrate, particularly bread mid-day sun you must tako and potatoes, is best eliminated, more salt with your food thian: allogether, if pomible.
utal. Probably everybody would benent from sit opensional glass Large quantities of iced drinks of snit water teaspoonful to aro hiso a mistake in humid a nint, heat. The cooling effect is very. It a little' commonsenso le temporary, and flie incrossed applied in the choice of dress volume of flukt quickly stimus : arid diet, the hot wasther could Intes the sweat glands aven be enjoyable.
"Like myself she has friends who live in and around Geneva end has been visiting them. I have been driving myself about the loudspeakers fully, thinking I might be able in my own small car. I can't be bothered with omcial of director to recommend somebody, The sound
escorts." "I'm not going to talk to you no George Cukor's voles: "When I of got me into pictures, I'm
I want ACTION. about that," said Miss Gardner, The contrast Bay action, Fastnancolour, came over and
plms,
Just enjoy making
the other delegations was great. verently splashed some over money,"
body screaming, groaning. Re-way." member.
So I am afraid I vannol tell Whereas the other villay bristica Miss Gardner's already mud-
this is a horrifying
about
and stained white sari.
you anything She certainly makes enough seene."
Miss with guards
police with Mias Gardner sald; "I pur- Gardner's ideal man,
tommy guns, there were only sild i was not in the film of that for it to be most enjoy-
But I can tell you that. Miss two colicemen at the entrance didn't go into London and did not require spinshing able, Her salary is reputed to postly
£00,000 a picture. This last weekend, I didn't want any Gardner is not going short of "Przyrzier" I gave my name with blood, correctly pigmented be for Eastmancolour.
to the fron! und drove up simply, enables her to spend more on temptations, but I'm still fired ruiters,
Even in her blood-spattered door where I was received by family need to live on for A
year. It enables her when she there in London for "the world's ca in dirt, she is extraordinarily gun in sight. Quite a change beautiful. Even, I am surprised from the Eisenhower villa which goes on location to bring her most beautiful animal?”
when she la chowing ono wasn't allowed to look at coloured muid along
The publicity mon sald: "I've to say, to Tople
even frem a boat on the Lake, Eum, after her puppy,
known her for three years and
A loose strand of hair fell excess baggage than a normal sort of lemptations are pari, even with her face cover- smiling French butler. Not a
over Miss Gardner's face, very dirty face.
said: "You look terrible." ~ Everybody seemed enormously pleased.
JOHNNY HAŽARD
TOO BAD THIS CYCLE ¡CAN'T SHIM! IT'S ABOUT
FIVE KILOMETERS ACROSS
RELAX, JOHNNY...ENJOY
THE SCENERY AND THINK
ABOUT THE GOOD POINTS! ALL IN OUR FAVORI NO THE LAKE.........AND ABOUT. | MORE TOWNS TO PASS TWENTY KILOMETERS '♪~ WHERE THE COPS ÀRE
AROUND IT
WAITING TO GUN US --
· NOTHING ON THE ROAD AHEAD OF US. NOTHING
......BEHIND US gad
YEAH...BUT HAVE YOU TRIED LOOKING ALONGSIDE LATELY?
By Frank Robbins
AH...HELLO THERE....... WE MEET AGAIN AFTER
ALL!
.this situation
calls for a
San Miguel