THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955.
Mrs. Menuhin darns
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in 4th dimension
London
RS YEHUDI MENU-
IN ut in her own private version of
the Fourth Dimension und'
darned her husband's vest,
<
dressing-gown
-by-
ANNE SHARPLEY
e face like a A cacophony of telephone pale and gitle hawk's over the -through which he carries on, calls, interviews, vialtors- high-lighted by a brilliant Ruudy silk. He later changed in.
shaft of BU atic made exolic by at lenat eight crowded vases of flowers- did not disturb the animated concentration darning.
o f
to shet-equally bright. His face stayed reflective and pale.
Chief Integrator of this re- markable tite is his wife--not a "quiet-the-waestro-is-thlaking"
She keeps her character at all.
lively stir of planning, chatling and busying-about anunt lm
"The present I have lived al- rendy," she explained, ber needle dashing Beagh the exclusive Crepe ngute of the vest. I went through this morning two years agu when i planned it 1 always kinow what I am doing roughly
two years ahead."
UNPREDICTED
The hole in the vest, at feust, was unpredated
Bis other vests were just - arat crepe naiste to the muxture of lk and dion) was unoblain- atle in Lamelon 11 wax just ve of those Tittle gupe in the vust, predictable plan of the Mentdan fe that she, as wife, was there 10 011 in
The vi kaoso's rehearsal shirt had alte duppvated - 20 ut two minutes stre was going to dail out and get another.
Diana Menuhin's altitude fo test tuggage is fetalistic, but she
makes it a guy fudalism.
"It couldn't mutter les if I lose something 1 think 'How lovely, inslend of 14 sultenses to couri there are now only 11 **
HAWK FACE
MRS. MENUHIN - "I prepare bea
A
Years ahead
Though which he carries COUT TONALS. jan kurbakste chanted lay plently amation
R, and
Whirling round the world in n chaos of changing climes, clothes and watches 15 clearly her tempo, She murfaces with all the speed of a bubble in a glass of champagne.
HER SYSTEM
ifer system for a life which can find her in three continents in as many weeks?
clothes In
Coches. Caches of every part of the world
the In Switzerland are kept mountain and beach clothes (for Italy).
I'm "What does it matter if seen in the same beach clothes
at Leriel two years running. It's martness to cart clothes around, goes wrong sonne – times when, for instance, We an ifelsinki I MUSTer mut it theres nothing but fur cools to wear,"
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The Medunin day begins 730 and ends at midnight. Propte rather Engine Honing is spent having my face dong, thr attery soon in choosing
thy
a less a the evening in wc- ing it.
We are so busy, always, it is umbeževalsje. It wy ever have a spare evening 142 go lo the Homater f KOT practically Sick her with excitement the night bc-
day, it bappear so rarely
You
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“Won't vana sit {l A}i{ can find something without violin p it," she invites Th visitor, slightly unnerved at the possibility of sitting 11 Stradivariu
"Nothing but silk cloth Yehab as allowed
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andi
Another los might have been her diary ("the only herent thing m my life
this she recovered
the by looking in wggage nifice under for Tenudi. rather thon "M" for Menuhin "My husband doesn't seem to have a surname---he is always Yehudi to everyone.”
Yehudi was displaying a fine- would have to work, otherwise ly sculptured unkle under
Funky oters to be answered.
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Yehuda
letters
JOIN WOIN the business
esecretaries are also cached),
SHOPPING SPREE
1 mower the private letters
Im a long hand that notkuİy
Mad
GUES
'Stanley, wake up and tell Santa Claus here we've lost our way, and the last thing we'ra,
thinking of at the moment is stealing his chickens.”
London Express Service
THE MAN WITH 374 CLOWNS
By
Richard Findlater
*HEN Mr Stan Bult
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gets back to his Croydon home at night, he is always sure of a welcome from 876 faces. Two of these belong to his alstors: the rest belong to Britain's circus clowns-to whom he is Boswell, Gibbon and Gainsborough rolled into one.
Although the downs may have lost their power and glory In the ring, they have a national shrine and portrait gallery in the house of this elderly Lon- doner—a sodate, wing-collared, grey-haired fanatic who, under doctor's ordera, now live, on a curfew. ("I alink into bed at 8 m., and riso reluctantly at 7.15 ..").
DON IDDON concludes THE NEW EVEREST ADVENTURE He has never painted, his nose
AS THE X-2
HURTLES
TOWARDS ITS GOAL
Nobody has ever set Mr Bult's trousers on fire, or chased him screaming round the sawdust.
red, or helped to take down the Big Top But he is a walking cyclopedia of clowning. well- known to all Britain's merry- men.
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Most of his portraits are taken from life. While the band thunders out its Sousa, and the horses prance around the ring, Mr Bull siis with his Crayons in the dressing-room-drawing the clown's make-up on paper, he in close-up, as quickly as
Often his work is toterrupt- "From the darkness of ed, while the sitter tears out at a brief tumble high speed for
Edwards Air Force Base These men are blazing a trail the bomb bay I plunge into between the ects. ("The clown's
in the Mojave Desert, HE British rate high
Colonel Lloyd Garland suid bo me
here. Lieutenant for space travel of tomorrow
dull, barren life apart from sonic design capable of fly the flying, but it can't be ing at sustained speed only much fun.
touched briefly by the Sky- rocket. A 'going supersonic
"Without Sir Frank Whittle there would have been none of this" gesturing at the rocket and **I canjet planes. He added:
Just as at the Strategic airplane. his Air Command knew Whittle before knighthood; he is a wonder- pilots ful man."
I always hope it will stop them writing.
When haffet-daneNE Diana Guild morled her celebrated
During the ten days' stuy husband in 1947 she changed her London she will buy clothes for street plan of London fo ather sons, Smithy, aged six, und, world niles.
Jeremy, tour, at home in Call- fornia
ways buy their clothes in London “
But wu to
1 always sand I would have to marry someone for whom
a red I would go dołły
Guerlain
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base the here make sports "On the ground in front motoring their hobby. But of a door marked ‘Keep Out, it is the planes themselves Secret Project MX 656-MX
the bright blue sky.
you
motto, *Always ready,' know, says Mr Built, approv to ingly.) But he's not satisfied
"My stomach seema the plane falls. One wing drop from under me aunti he gets the clown to sign dips - Istraighten it. The
the portrait, guaranteeing its authenticity. plane wallows I fight to control it.
Two seconds. Three seconds. I start the rocket engines.
"The plane comes to life,
EASTERN DEBT
Mr Bult, To an expert like
П tells every picture
story. There is a world of meaning in the gradient of an eyebrow the colour of nose,
Later, when time permits, he
Here Mr
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The deputy commander which are the real love of 657 a company policeman and we scream through transfers these faces from paper of the base, Colonel Robert the pilots. The Douglas Sky- stood guard. Cautiously he space towards that dream to a more permanent median
acknow- Caldwell, told me: "I am rocket is the best-loved, but scrutinised my pasy.
O.K. of exceeding 2,000 m.p.h. edged his debt to the East. her two-years just back from London. the new Bell X have out--he snapped it back into and breaking through the
At first, in aheact-plan she is gambling that am very
preparing hig fond of the Smithy will have
Canvas. inded the Skyrocket.
as it were, he used "to grown two
London is mag-
my hand and opened the heat barrier.
make two little holes and blow inches by the time he is eight British.
door.
out the contents." But then.he and buying his pyjamas necord-nificent."
"The plane that will carry acquired three antique Chinese ingly.
me into the unknown is eggs, whose painters used packed with engineering different method
Now Mr Bult. having care- miracles, The X-2's rocket fully selected the right shape "POSED menacingly in engines have a thrust equal "you can't put a round-faced
the contre of the room to that which drives a U.S.man on to long-faced egg”--~. was a full-size mock-up of naval cruiser. she the most extraordinary air- super-craft I have ever seen a
One thing remains constant in the ever-changing life of Diana Menuhin. Her husband's lack of temperament.
"He is so quiet, so placid." she says.
"If anyone has the ment's ine."
Quite a change
THE Mojave Desert is quite
The new Bells are known as "The Benets.” Test pilot
Bill Bridgeman says: "I had heard vaguely about an ex- perimental ship that
WILN
a change after London. mysteriously taking form tempera-No one I have talked to here behind locked doors
has complained about the was the first classical
Men Prefer Milk-shakes, So Horses Have Wine
From RITCHIE MŒEWEN
New breed
gently taps a small hole in the back, working out the eggshell with tweezers to avold splits. in! Having emptied the egg, he washes it, fils it with plaster, covers the hole with adhesive
"Whatever happens sinister 45ft-long, out-of- flight it will happen so fast this-world design that look that my reaction must be ed incapable of light.
instantaneous, automatic.
"The Skyrocket was an
but "duck eggs are very handy.
paper-and painte the clown's face on the whole surface.
Hens usually supply the raw "I have sat for hours on material of Mr Bult's rare art,
eyes closed testing myself home." on the location and operation of every switch and dial.
airplane but not this end in the cockpit with my we happen to have a duck
thing.
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There would
Londonere
have
ta
the chance this month of seeing some of his work at the Arts Theatre
And it is not only the egg-
He is founder and organising secretary of the International Circus Clown Club.
· SIX YEARS OLD The club la six years old, but
"This was a new breed, all long, narrow body, wrap- ped tightly around twin jet
"A question often asked Club's exhibition of clowning. engines bulging out from me is whether we haven't paintings which give Mr Bult her sides that tapered in to reached the point where the his special status in clownland. enormously long pro-, human body cannot keep up two thousand performers, alive Ho has a Who's Who of over Vienna. The association further coin- Even at a bargain basement EN percent of Austria's plains that only three out of price of only d a pint for jectile nose.
with the vast complexity of and dead, at home and abroad. T60,000 acres
every ten Austrians of "drinking medium quality wines and 16.
faster and faster flight. of flour- ngu" now call for their "Viertel," 4d. for the finest of the "golden "Far back out her engine- ishing vineyards, many of or half pint of wine a day. If drops," there are so he takes fat sides protruded thin, Underestimated which have been cultivated the prestal trend continues, among the wholesalers for straight, stubby mirror for more than a thousand warns the associations, Austria fainous wines which not so long metal wings. years, are doomed to
will be on the wagon by 1960. ago were exported all over the be
be nothing like her flying "I SAX that man's strength Mr Bult's life with clowns began Proof that ploughed up next Spring accurate enough in its assez-
the association is world.
for probably another five or and potentialities are at the turn of the century, when unless more Austrians drink ment of the
Hardest hit of Austria's wine- position can be
often underestimated. his family moved to West more wine.
gained from the fact that the growing commusities in the dis- Bir years. This was tomor- too cellars of every wholesale wine Russian occupied
vino trict of Retz, In the former | row."
What's more, as planes get Norwood.
Looking over the wall, young province of At present, complain merchant
in the country are
more complex the engineer's Stan discovered that ho had Austria's association
with
The Bell X-2, Colonel genius has simplified the most unusual neighbours. It was barrels of last year's vintage, and that wine wine
Austrians growers,
the town of Retz itself, Everest's rocket-ship, is the controls a plot must operate, real circus family, with a growers are now offering a the entire market seem to prefer what the large part of this season's grape largest in the whole of Austria, lethal to me. It is capable, become the monitor, the people in the world to train square, the pride of the base. It looks so that eventually he will theatre of their own in the back association describes as havest to neighbouring farmers is built on stone "stilts" and I believe, of flying over brain of an almost automa-amus," Mr Bult recalls wist- "baby food" in the form of as fodder for their horses and forms the roof of one vast wine
fully. "We use to feed than tic machine. other animals rather than allow cellar, which is owned by the 100,000ft, at milk shakes, ice cream the grapes to ferment into wine community at large. Today, for 2.000 m.p.h.
over the wall," sodas and yoghurt,
which they cannot sell.
the first time in living memory, the cellar is full of unwanted Limitless area wine,
just say
of
Pink Plymouth please
Whenever, wherever, however, you drink - gin, you strike a shrewd blow for old- time standards when you call for
PLYMOUTH
GIN
Lower Austria.
In
May
Mean Ruin
more
garden. "They were the only
thema
"But always people ask
The emus have gone, but he la the one big question; at that still a arm friend of the family
-and over since then he
hog moment in the cockpit of boon a. dovotee of the circus. the X-2 when I call the final you want to know
cut of Emmett Kelly's rugs,
the
COLONEL Everest himself word Drop and go plunging colour of Fiery Jack's ears or the
writes: "In 1947 the great through space, what will I consult Mr Bult. If the stilts were knocked challenge was the sound feel? away, the entire market square barrier-that seemingly im- would not collapse: it would passable wall of shock waves simply float on a calm,.hehdy
apply to him.
do beat
If you want to know whether broken hearts really "Only the first impact of beneath the motley, you should.
you want a make-up your own, he will design a new, (for a copyright face for you guinca), But only between - 6 and 7.30 in the evening.
sea of several mhlion gallons and buffeting that the plane the rockets' enormous of unsolda” and thwarted hit at the speed of sound. thrust as they slam me back exports,"
Major Chuck Yeager first against the seat. After that
nothing. To combat the growing demolished that, abatinance, which til:immtely may spell complete ruin to more "Now I will take the X-2 "Around me will be the than 200,000 wine growers, the into a new and an awesome sky, not yellow with pun association is publicising
the barrier not one specific light as on earth where the healt-giving benefits of
point like the sound barrier aun's rays reflect on dust grape cure."
TWO
pints of grape fulce, but an almost Hmitless area particles in the aira sky КАУБ
tho
public where air friction increases of rich, intense, blue, association relations committee, is suficient
to replace the energy used up with the speed and produces. I will be completely by football player during Doa temperature of 1,000 de stone where no mafi can help
grees at 2,000 m.p.h. minutes of "Cup play."
hoctie
grupo Juice, regularly
me, as the X-2 hurtles to
nd you whi never have oby "Hours before flight, time wards its goal." trouble with your liver." Muhel grap on two days in the wook the tiny X-2 will be shackled And when the goal is and you'll live langer And, to the bomb bays of the reached the last frontier laguda, (r,you want to keep that huge: B-50 mother ship will have been crossed, peaches and mean combletion, which will take me, 80,000€
up before dropping me into
quered space,
of
For during the day Mr Bult
is busy elsewhere. At a desk In
London museum. Here for 20 years,
t has boen absorbed in another part but I can say no more, Mr Bult prefers to knep it a speret, in print. For 25-years he has kept her two worlds strictly. art he owes it to both of There's not a whiff of grease- paint or sawdust in that book- lined room, where tie gita grave://
of his life work lecturing on
is in front of a fare with his medicine at band, mod Things in
bottles on the studyes.
elretim "elowna fama "beerĄCY ITURBA
"