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VOLUME II
•
by
V. R. BURKHARDT
Illustrated by the Author
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1955.
SPOTLIGHTING THE SHORT CUTS FOR A GIRL WHO WANTS TO BE A SUCCESS QUICKLY
Things are looking up for the Career Girl
A
her
MERICA, home of the successful woman, has always belleved in starting
SOMTA
by AMANDA MARSHALL
4.--Take up murels (like Lady
Norwich) or pottery (like Lady Anne Carey-Coke). Here it hips a bit if you've a Stately English Home to pot in-especially if it is one of those open to the public at half-a-crown a head, as this acy you will have a market for your work at your own front door. Similarly, with murals
Lister on you'd do better to go into it as an
amateur, without training, like that frugib-look- Ing blonde Mrs Hugo Philipps. who took s degree at Cambridge, entered magazine modal com- petition, and never looked back.
Adding up
MRS. NUGO PHILIPPS
Mode! with
degree.
.
talking parrot which never your side at the most
young--even though way to do this is to inherit s one is not obliged to retire title. Next bost, mary one. If as early as Shirley Temple. you have to rely on talent and Ideas alone, like the BBC's But if you want to run Patricia Foy, you may still end for Congress, be an Ambas- up a producer. nadress, edit n рарег, or Independent Television, as yet make millions out of skin- wide open to suggestion, boasts
women food and you are a woman
young
in pro- duction and administration to --America will say hurrah whom the inside of a TV studio on has hitherto been as remote as you the Ritz bar to a Pueblo Indian, pl working like beavers on the assumption that a head half-way In Euvipe things are a little under water can't easily mail.
110 professional handicap 5.Model your way to sueCESS, different, In Latin countries
whatsover, из Mins Anna 2.Write 4 book. To be This is the open doorway to How To Be a Success Healy
Massey and Penny Knowles, new Bitcreasfel at this you should work In fashion houses, ન
television venagers, know well. Young meus clter, like little
If you have fashion magazines, or simply to 7.Become the Debulante of 21-year-old
old Rossam Podest and ally be under 21.
and travelled half-way round the becoming a thinner girl with а the Year. Asuets here include o If all else fails, you can take Odile Versois's pruelically infant
whet
A good are for mother who was also Debutante up in an amphibious and fatter purse. Muring Mister,
Vlandy,
that time-bonoured English to have made bank-balance
full of red vehicle, this will make an aginning is at about 10 months of the Year in her thine, and/or recupation for girls, and look ms by the time you are lent theme which will also cld, when you will be in demand some le identifying famillar ofter horses. After all, Pat
be a good bet for serialisation.
creature, such as a teddy bear Smythe hasn't done too badly.
and see that you are your way by the time are out of your teens.
vui of your cradle; or, like Know-Who, to be a baby prin- ces with u family in the car business and be chauffeured t your wedding by goezichters.
In England the flowering of young while has bem, by tradi- tion a dubious matter, full of alanne and pimples, to be made to last as long as possible by compulsory Jockey
Easing up
But lately things have been looking moty promising for the girl who wants to be a quick
success (and
Demain
virtuous
ירקון
and a lady) before middle-age creeps on at twenty-five or Mayi Bagish mothers becoming more relaxed about the templations of bright lights aria the devil (disguised as tele- vision producer).
the
Speaking out
But don't leave it too late.
After 25 everyone will simply expect you to write that sort of
bok.
is best to know people with big alls and bornes, so that you have a corresponding scope for opl
your talent.
to model woollies.
bi
6-Learn to serve coffee and unclette, and apply to the near- est Espress. Here a talent for welcome simplo
arithmetic
often ur when it comes to the leaves Just as TV wants young Important dances. cople to work on its young people's programmes, Expresso <wners reckon that a young staf encourage young people to lap up more coffee.
Being a debutante these days
WILL MOSCOW
THE
NOR
some time past there have been
thut rumours
the
ANNA MASSEY Deds aren't diequalified.
DISBAND
COMINFORM?
By Walter Korlaz
There have been rumours Erocently that the Soviet Government intonds to abandon tho Cominform. But this does not mean
Failing this sort of experience. จบ should pick daringly ryseal subject invviving one man and two women against a glossy background, and the reviewers will wonder if it eflects your home ife. So will readers, and your publishers will 1 pleased with you. The current crumple of this sort of stunning literary success is the yung French writer Francolie
author of the jackpot-Soviet Government intends Sagan,
public statements, of which matter. Their theoretical organ, to disband the Cominform. two bitling "Bonjour Tristesse."
were directed against Kommunist, has recently de It has also been reported Yugoslavia, whilet one dealt manded the setting up of ሰ that the Soviet leaders have with the Peace Campaign, God new, all-embracing and ap- given
the other two with
that organisa-parently rather loose organisa- certain Yugoslavia
ton of all Parties and move- inal problems. So it is under- positive undertakings standable
the Yugoslava ments which throughout the 3. -Benne
broached the very young that respect.
subject of the world are "ighting magistrate indeed, and also sit ou
Cominform either during the Soolalism." brains trusts. It. like Mra
This would not be sur Yugoalny-Soviet talks in Bel- For the time being Soviet hats with roses and have firm Communists have a Gerald Legge, you wear outsize prising, for the Yugoslav grade and Brioni or on a later Rassia has not given any open indication as to what she her- pinions about crockery in public
special occasion.
self Intends to
with the places, you'll be a least a head Interest in the liquidation of At one moment another Cominform. Krushchev paid
or This sort of the Cominform in view of they have probably inquired as visht to Bucharest in the second start of the others. work may also lead to what is the decisive part it took into the future Soviet intentions half of August, and it is prob-
known US com- enigmatically nitter-work, which often means agitating against Marshul regarding the Cominform, and it able that he had talks with the is quite likely that they have officials of the Cominform head- received a reassuring answer dances at the larger Tito and his Government.
quarters there. However, In the meantime the Yugoslav to go on with their "work" for to have instructed them
the time being.
One part of this work con- sists in the collecting and sift- ting of information about the progress of Communism through- out the world and in publishing
Or, maybe, English fathers are Anding unearned dress-allowance thee a straw.
What are
current green and pleasant felds of operation for the young woman with an I'd list advice rye on su¥CCESS!? this way.
Arranging London hotels 1. Go into that fresh young brus involving medium, television. The best publicity.
Not lucrative During the eight years of its
some, solid existence so far, the Cominform Communists have also put on as a body has produced only five record their own wishes in the
MR KUBELIK WON'T
TAKE A SOLO
London.
BALDING tower of a man with a frank smile
and quickfire spates of
80 percent perfect English. There you have Rafael Kubulik, 41-year-old Czech exile, who has just made his bow #s Covent Garden's musical director, conducting a new production of Verdi's "Otello."
AL rehearsals he bus
worked like a cheerful--and
By Francis Martin
BOW
ocems
مه
for
he
the Communists' plans for world revolution will likewise be abandon- od, Kolarz warns that any announcement of the dis-, bandment of the Comin- form will mean that one form of the International. Communist co-operation has become obsoleto Band that world revolution: will in future be fosterod; by different methods.
Alovkls, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, France and Italy.
However, there are 60 or more
it in the Cominform Journal Communist Parties all over the "For a Lasting Peace for world which do not belong to People's Democracy!" This the Cominform formally. but inarnal still comes out regularly whose allegiance to Moscow and been an indisput- overy week, in as many as 20 Peking has Languages, and is sent from able fact throughout the postwar Bucharest to every corner of the period. This invisible Comin- globe. Its editor Mark form will continue to exist Borkovich Mitin, a full member disbandment or no disbandment. of the Soviet Communist Party
lasted three years. Did it give Central Commitice. him much joy?
1
а
ho
in
Into Line
But
this gap could
Of course, the Communists would miss the Cominform "Hone at ali," says Kubelik
journal, which informs them of bluntly. "Music should be
each other's successes, mistakes sacred office,
and tactical work of high,
switches. Rad When concentrated love."
which
every week gives them The tone of the journal has guidance.
• Chicago was a failure. They used this type of language
efther implicitly pr certainly been brought into line directly. Chicago he met with puzzled with the latest changes in Soviet easily be filled, met his music with blank stares.
blank stores.
for there are foreign policy, but in substance other Communist "I never knew what sort of the paper
periodicals has remained the catering for a worldwide public.. music they liked in those three mome old journalistic medium years. They never showed their for the promovon
of Com
Even now, the Soviet weekly. faces.
wore interested munism throughout the world New Times, is printed in 118 only in superficial things, and for popularising the ob many as ten languages. Should publicity especially."
Jectives of Russian diplomacy. the necessity arise it could Nevertheless, the distant casily take the place of the ment of the Cominform would Cominform journal.
Now, Rafael Kubelik hopes to do better at Covent Garden ...
They
Inscrutable
A conductor, he says. must be in accordance with the pre-
pioneering tiger. "Otello" wartime years. Then the Nazis boy Martin, and a schedule is one of many standard closed the theatre down as a guest-conductor dates operas which he has never potential hotbed of nationalism. were to take him as far afteld happy musical community. The world by various
conducted before.
·
to
On their toes Surgers and players acem like him. First, because ho isn't a bore, knows exactly what he wants, keeps them all on their toes. Secondly, because, judging by his talk and manper. he la no limelight enatcher,
"A conductor, he telis, every body, "must be altruistic, no1 egoistic. He must give. not
tako: How I should like vanish at the end of a perform ance! The conductor merely brings singers and players to-
Tactical Step
*
of "build." Brick by brick, he sent tendency of the Soviet which must create around him a busy, Government to Impress the Concert work remained.
as Australi.
best bricks are thore nearest to But such a gesture would have concessions. Kubellk had' legendary,
#
That he had cut himself hand, in your native country.ittle pirnotical importance,
From the Communist polat of for Addle playing father, Jan adrift for good became obvious Unable to build at home, he did it would affect only the visible view, the disbandment of an or- Kubelik,
whose fabulous Em to the world at large in 1950, his best in Chicago and failed, and official Cominform, which ganisation does hot mean peror Strad
used to be borne when he became musical direc- "I hope," he says, looking up consists of not more than eight change in principle. It is only a ahead of him on a red velvet tor of the Chicago Symphony at Covent Garden's inscrutable Communist Parties-those
tactical step. This wax mado cushion by a Hindu servant at Orchestra. This appointment facade, "to do better here." Soviet Russia, Poland, Czecho
quite clear crammed, ecstatic recitals,
In the statement which the Communist Inter- national, the forerunner of the ROUNDABOUT JAPAN with RICHARD HUGHES
Cominform, issued. In May 1943, when it announced its dissolu- tion..
With Rafael Kübelik conduct- ing and Prague's crack orchestra supporting, Jan Kubelik played his 40 favourite concentos at 10
farewell concerta in one wer-
time season.
Did
over
father and Don quarrel over points of tempo and expression, conductors
50
and soloists are apt to do?
gother, gets them to co-operate Five months is the name of Art, It is they
WHISKY KILLS ALL GERMS
ALMOST INSTANTLY
*
The statement said, inter
alla:
the
"Gulded by the judgment of
founders of Marxism- Leninism, Communists bave never been supporters of the conservation of organisational forms that have outlived them-
who deserve the applause. There "Never. We were one soul in
TAPANESE drinkers have been en- But and selves. is one thing I owear. Never two bodies. He was my god. No
Jcouraged by a sober medical judgment been kept under observation location of his polvos. They have always sub- shall take a solo curtain at shadow ever crossed our lives."
On his deathbed, father said to delivered at a convention of the nation's karaliri attempt, threat to make Covent Garden,
a second and more successful of the working class movement There is nothing mocks about son: "I have made many misleading doctors.
to the fundamental political in- In a mood of nicely blended sympathy and terest of the working class iris modesty. It may be added takes. If you do not learn from
Dr Kikuo Hayashi, distinguished scien- congratulations, the Japanese SPCA pointed out them my that Rafael Kubisk stile ing. My only entisfaction is that tist at Kanazawa University, reported on situation
has some-
was not worth liv
as a whole, to the that the pig-lover's dedicated gesture of, despair pecul
concrete comes to Covent Garden with a you have learned something experiments disclosing that alcohol was Cruelty to Animals week.
and to the smallish bundle on his bacic, from both my mistakes and my invaluable as a prophylactic agent. Ho
problems immediately resiliing achievements.
from this situation, They re .. Two hells
The memory of this spooch, testified that he had studied the reactions
An old secret weapon of the Imperial great Marx who
member Conductors 27 Kubelik, has always been of eight different kinds of germs Includ Japanese Navy has made a comeback. It is a the First Interoptions at a the example of the Most front-enrik
.. dissolved In Central Europe have at least a strength and solaos to him. He ing colitis, typhoid and dysentery, groups winged submarine called the Sea Dragon moment 00 operas it their repertory by found himself in dire nood of to whisky, sake and bear, Whisky killed compact model, displacing about only 100 tons, organization
"when...), this": form of middle-age. By this I mean 80 both after the war, when over- operties they have worked up at night revolution turned Coecim all the rerms almost instantly at any tom-rug af crew of sine and boasting large "ans" sponded to the demande oud-
the conning- dronting rehearsal, conduct regularly and slovakia from free stalo into perature. Sake killed them in 35 minutes, ding om each alde just below bow tocistically from back to a tyranny, Nominally he was. Beer took two days,
The Japanese developed the Sea Dragon front, Kabelik's acoro to date,
in supreme control of the
This statement of 1943 will "The higher the quality of the intoxicant, towards the end of the war to a dolgo by Goro have to be remembered if and Czech rarities and concert pro
Philharmonie the speedier the death of the germ," added Dr Sato, now an executive with a Japanese Industrial when Moscow per Buchkrdat, on o Czechoslovakian ductions included, is about 20. Orchestra. Meddling politicos Hayashi
concer
PAVELMANNnounce the folding up of- the" It is not that he has been lazy began running the crotterien
A number of Dragons, which have
boon untalented. The reason for behind his back.
vaguely described as "the, works fartert mbo Buch an annouDDONDOTE Will Communist Information. BuroRu his limited 'output is simple
He writhed under the
Because 14 pigs which he sompt on peta in marines? and which are claimed to pack a record mean peltier more nor lem than wes distracted by two totali- regime for five monthe Then, his garden died suddenly and mysteriously, a torpedo punch, were built to balpapel the that another form of interna tarian' balls, A
Kas on July 17, 1948, a data dorply sentimental young man in Osaka, attempted to perectos (Allied "inyasioni, "but ware (* either tone Communist co-operation * As mulcai director of Czechow. bülten into his brain,' be pulled commit suicide to join them in an honourable dietroyed or concealed at mirrender. #lovakia's * Bbcond-string", opera, out, of Prague with his Wife, death pactąj
La Bao haw istocned one has become obsolete
1058 m Communistic world revolution [mt1Brno, ¿ba: conducted 200 Ludingtin, hay phere, tone, Pan jag He took a harry overdom of alescing pilla version to Cornese decme chiet, Mr Balsemaan in to be tampa nithe
Abrissacal 62. 11 operne afoe two omen,
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