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HONG KONG
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VOLUME II
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Illustrated by the Author
Five Colour Plates
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KOWLOON
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956.
Meet the third
girl on the left..
By JOHN BARBER
how
Д
London Most try to save little, be
you take a part-time CHORUS Girls Get More cause if
job between shows you can't Pay, was ધ headline
altend nuditions. Then your that made most people clothes must be extra smørt, smile. People who think When you go for a job, you join
the line-up in street clothes they
know just
"If url looks well then," says "lovelies" live.
a producer, "she'll look well in "Saucy eyes and free stage costume." meals go together. So do they really need the extra?"
017
Well, it is not at all like that naw: calfers at the stage door
discouraged. severtly "We've snubbed them so often, they hardly come any
murs." Watson, says Peky
of the Palladium
"There is tie social re ouïskie the theatre."
the
Then practice dress.
Elusiv
tights come at two guineus a lime, And shoes, Sighs one Kirl: "You have to live ballet shoes, and point shoes, and character shoes. They cost any- thing from 30s, to £5 a pair. And they lost no time.
AND CULTURE
you
CURLS have to buy all their U own face make-up. ("Bely Says Babbie McManus, at
make-up" is supplied by the "Not many will management.) Garrick:
"Can cust Gut with John.es. It's koked a quid a week. Honestly. Fla
We marry Inside eyelashes are a guinea a pair," down upon the profession dancers muskelans as poor up ourselves." The modern chorus girl is a tough, trained athlete. Most of her pay la spent on her job. If she had an extra £1 or so, how would it go? "On food mostly, they say. "Mell, not potators. Oh, and singing þessors. *
TROUBLE IS...
LOT of London girls live in rooms. They like Hamp stead, or Bayswaler. They pay £3 10s, a week, which includes "use of kitchen" or gas-ring. At least £3 week goes on food,
Trouble is, on average they work only 40 welks in the year,
THE NEW rittima is to be E 10s, a week in the West End of Lontion.
Then there are back-stage The coll-boy, the stage tips. doorkeeper, and the dresser all expect their whack. Say 10s.
On
all-lessons. top of it Dancing classes; бs, Lo 103. a time. Pretty Jean Palce Palladium dancer, spends three gulness a week, on volce-train- Ing. She does not want to slay In the chorus,
Then what happens if they get engaged to "a musician or dancer?" Says Just-engaged cis meer Virginia Courtney: "It will be mad economy for us, to get a home together,'
So if the gin, at the end of the line is not smiling between high-kicks, you know why, She did not go to bed late.
She is most likely wondering" If she should blow that 69, on a tin of coroa or a new powder Par
MISS MATHESON STEPS
BACK 5000 YEARS
SYLVIA MATHESON Mice played beneath her string bed
PARIS NEWSLETTER from
SAM WHITE
THE COUNTESS ISSUES
PASSPORTS FOR
A BALL
E
by ANNA
ARLY one evening in
a small bungalow on the borders of Afghanistan, a visiting Englishwoman flung down her book, rushed out to the side of the house and scrabbled furiously in the
The rubbish heap, Indian servants stared in Amazement but Sylvia Matheson had not gono
She mad.
had turned archaeologist. And the key to her behaviour lay in the old gazetteer she had been rending. It told of prehistoric mound and that mound, it said, was the site
of a modern bungalow
the Afghan border.
OIL
That happened ten years ago. Now Sylvia Matheson has come back from an expedition five-thousand-year-old temple- the latest "dig" in the that
cnroer started among
the vegetable peelings. For Опсе
the hud Norled the minerals
Son
LANDAU
WAS I A
SLAVE IN
AN
ANCIENT
TEMPLE ?
con-
CX-
from the vegetables, Misa Matheson took them to Sir Mortimer Wheeler in Delhi.
And meals were taken in Sir Mortimer was
Impressed central mud-hut dining-rom, and suggested for Miss Malhe- Eight more of the 13
A atx months' course Instruction levels of the ancient rrehaesiony at London Univer- building have still to be sity.
cavated before 1 is knownL whether it was a palace or 0 temple, who lived there and archacology how, And Miss Matheson wants appeals to Miss Matheson. Roman remolna? Miss Mathe out. son dismisses them. "TOD Meanwhile the archaeologist'a recent," she says, and insists curiosity about other people's on going back at least another lives malched the woman's thousand years before she feels interest in other people's clothes. at home.
Miss Matheson brought out
Too recent
But not a1}
to go back in August and find
And this she does in her caseful of Afghan odd- Afghanistan. There," says ments. Though she had little Miss Matheson, "I feel as if I money to spend after
belong. really
As if I really back her alms to the in a previous life. Geographical Society, there was taken for on Afghan one piece of lavish blue
Just gold embroidery that was given to her. By a girl who wanted
Ilved there
I'm often
woman, you know. I
hope I wasn't a sinye."
mailing
Royal
and
her
For, as she sips sherry in her Miss Matheson to marry Regent's Park flat,
Sylvia cousin. Miss Matheson pecepted Matheson, darkly pretty in Une embroidery, but refused the larton dress and Afghan waist- man
0
coat, explains that she likes Strange statue
the
Mice
creature comforts.
In the desert Д Western Unfortunately, Afghanistan
woman attracts plenty of atten- provided only the creatures. tion-not always favourable. lice played beneath her string Miss Matheson shocked the bed-until one night
she fell Afghans, who came from out- through it: the strings had lying villages to help Bt the been albbled away. And even diggings, by wearing short- Ing compony in the lonely mud sleeved shirts. "Is It good for huts was provided by the beasts a woman to show her skin?" of the desert.
they asked. Out in the midday sun the Englishwoman agreed it was not.
Lovely colour
It made
蟲
After eight-thirty bedtime the And then Miss Matheson silence of the Afghan night was showed me an Afghan dress. A broken only by the tapping of green silk robe enveloped hor Miss Motheson's typewriter and from head to toe-traditional the rustle of scorpions In the purdah was complete. Like a leafy roof. Every now and then strange copper statue, the at yellow-green tarantula would hooded figure stood by the gas plop on to the floor-Such Are lovely colour," sighed Miss Not a gleam of its eyes show- Matheson nostalgically. "Justed through the trellis work that matched a dress of mine."
covered its face. What were the living condi- yashmak seem decollete. Paris with her hair decorated with of under-water exploration, foresee the possibility that the tons like in the desert? For
From behind the trellis cume Icod
relied visit may be eslied of.
the expedition "The Silent World."
on a muffled volee, ONG G culture but brunches of Ivy.
almed at the tins,
tho This was
and sheep Joeni provoked by the
camera, "Shall I smile?" It short on drinks has The air WOS thick with
They have therefore produced scrawny chickens. this bejeweller
Drinking asked. The smile was still there presence 01 been the traditional puzzlement.
water came once a week from when the sun-tanned English- occasion C1
Rene Burgess and Maclean with the Lublisher summing-up of the annual
Julliard and his latest and most impied warning that ? Anglo-Kandahar-a three-hour drive woman lifted the veil. But for a fancy dress ball given by
Mrs Pamela Churchill, dress useful protege (his previous one Russian relations deteriorate to laway. Showers were rigged up moment 6,000 years seemed not as Olivia
in "A Midsumme was Francois Sagan, of "Bon- such a pass, this pair will be out of petrol tins and a hose. so long ago, the Viscountess Marle- Night's Dream," arrived with Laure de Noailles in her a party of guests which included Paris residener. No such Norwich, dressed as Lady Lady Diana Cooper, widow of implied disparagement could Blessington, Lady Lambton is be levelled at the party she Lady Windermere, and Mrs lon gave this year.
Fleming as a famous 19th cen- tury demi-mondaine, Harriette Wilson.
L
EXQUISITE
Jour Tr.slesse"), eight-year-old used as the spearhead for a pro poctes Mincu Drouet, Juillar, paganda offensive. in black tle, hd dined Minou * earlier At asfashionable res
photographers were on hand to tourant and oddly enough take pictures.
Then the pair proceeded to the premiere. Came the inter- val and the traditional eye This time, popping parade. however, Minou end her escort stole the show.
The electric bulbs fitted to the eyes of suckling pigs decorating the buffet tables blinked continuously at an astonishing assembly com- Mr Anthony Pawson was an prising Parisian bohemia exquisite figure dressed as the and international big money. Tudor miniaturist Hillard. Mr As the crowd surged around came as them and photographers blazed The quests had to come as Tristram Shandy, and Guy de away, M: Julljard made a show writers, painters or musicians Lesseps, grandson of the builder of impatience. "After all," he from their own country living of the Suez Canal, came as the remonstrated, "can't you see she
the 10th
19th Master of Ballantrae, host to is just a child." The reaction century A concession was Prince Charles during the Stuart was inevitable. From all sides made in the cave of women rebellion.
between
and
然
guests and they were allowed to como as the subject of painting a books.
PUZZLEMENT
Three months before the parly guests had to "declare" who they were going to re- prezent, Then they were issued
signed with "passports" themselves and
by the hostess.
Roland Penrose
The Chilean millionaire, Arturo Lopez, made a dramatic entry. Ho had broken his leg stling at St Morliz and was Caried in on a witter followed by his beautiful wife.
That other
camo shouts: "Well, if she is u child why itn't the in bed?"
BACKGROUND
E French Foreign Office
has received an interesting
report Latin American background
trom ita tillionaire, Carlos Bestigul, no Embassy in Moccow on the ap- of Burgess and mean a party thrower himself, partilon had flowns specially from Mexico Maclean, countersigned
Ly
to be present.
These were closely checked.
before each guest was admitted
1
POINT ONE: Burgess ap-
A word about the hostess. parently was wearing an Old The Viscountess, whose prodle Etonian tie at his meeting with
to the Ball, and or each one is generally considered to bear two British reporters in Moscow.
trumpetera from the
entered,
Medrano Circus
of
striking resemblance to Louis
A to POINT TWO:
tho XV, was born at binred out a
Vischofbolin,
the Russians pro- French anthem, "Glory to our
the daughter
a Frankfurt reason why Ancestors,"
banking family. The taie duced this pair at this moment, her husband's, who short!- the French have a theory which makes a great deal more sense than any of the suggestions so far offered.
A livered flakey announced culturist and nover attends her the guests as he or she rénched parties,
the top of a massive staircase, necording to the iterary'dirurė
supposedly represented.
There they were received by
A SCENE
the 50-year-old Viscountess in UIENE- was something of a
It is this: sccording to the French, Britain has been laying down "conditions" for the forthcoming visit of Bulganin and Krushchev to Ecodon. This
a drew of binck velvet`em2 “ sceno at the world premiero broldared with gold leaves and of Commander Courtonu's film has engured the Russians, who
QUOTE
BARRISTER MORRO GIAF- FER—“Don't ever count on the eternal love of a young man of Save that kind of stuff for 20. the aged."
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
·Langham 44681:1 wiek to veport a gross breach of privilegal Tonight's speaker has fust told a laughable anecdote which I was „dzserving for spontaneous. sise on the floor of the
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