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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1956.
The Russian Circus In Britain:
GLAMOUR FROM GIRLS IN RED TIGHTS
By Anne Glidewell
Manchester
Lona hemelt lives alone in a
WHO are the girls in the flat in Moscow, Wow State Circus?
When sho sold that she was taking cigarettes back to her inc when i other at home noticed her scurte: mail varnish, I began to think that all the
we've who stories
heard about conservative Ruslan dowly. women couldn't be true!
have Many
rend people about Popov, the long haired
clown with the
face: but rubber supplies the glamour in the Russian ring? Who fills the fishnet stockings and the red, spangled tights.
Having heard that to Interview any Russian artist one has to be flanked by an official interpreter and the circus director which didn't sound too easy - I made my way to where the Russians were unloading their props and their bears, Scattered round the saw- dust ring fixing their trapezes, their ropes, their safety nets (i'm a circus tradition to fix your own) were the acrobats, the trapeze artists, the clowns, the trainers, and the bure- back riders who make up the permanent Moscow cir- eus team.
She's Pleasant
WITH
the help of Mike W Costeliu.
红 very Belal
interpreter (his father is prom fessor of Huselon at Manchester University), and with the diree- tur nowhere in sight, I started talking Lona Zapashnoyo, a 25-year-old trapeze artist does un not with two other girls. Elena Eubova
Julla unsel Ostrovinay,
Lona, a pretty bl-eyed ghi with her dark hart 1xl back in a ribbon, answered al
easily ant questions my pleasantly
She's been in the circus Alx years, but her fattur and mother
Zoya la tiny (about 4ft. 10in.), but she rides huge pieba.ki horse called Milli (Darling). She took me down to
all Habies, Dast
the 13 Russian bears who were chained up in their boxes, end soothingly to them as we passed
trol they stopped shaking their chains and asking for lunch.
talked
Wa
Then she tad Bao that MIH Although not smartly dressed, lone wire the surt of clothes was tired and wouldn't get up Chinek skirt, pale bluc nylon (he didn't), but that the blouse)
that any working girl very fond of him and he worked might wear this riche of the very hard although he was 17!
All the Russian girls 1 met Tron Curtain. Her creus clothes, were bright and cheerful and
poict, were "govern{cut"
But there is ones happy to talk. tee," but she had new whenever she liked.
slight feeling of reserve as you Lalk to them. I think they'ra still a bit susplelous of people outside the Iron Curtain!
NI
Didn't Flirt
TINA Chubina came up to talk to us then, Nina murried, nd she must love her husband twice a Yurt very much, for night he walks up a 10ft-h
steel ladder with Ninn perched on one foot on his head!
Nina lold me all about the
Russian elteus schools. It seems there are 32 eireuses in Russu, an cach hus circus school where promising youngsters learn every dreus net.
Then they specialise in the art they run on best. Nina trained at the Moscow circus school for four yours
As she was wearing quite a lot of muscara, I askeri Nina clothes-THÌ about camelles,
men.
Cosmetics,
she
said, were quite cheap in Russia, arki there were a great many of them-in fact too many.
Most Russlin women owned a fur coat, the most popular fr being block carakut (which I took to be astrakhan)
And yes, she thought acrobat Serge Beley, who was standing near, good-looking, but he knew how to behave hirrisolt. Ho slich't firt!
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fact and fiction
BOTH! Today Chapter II
INTO THAT
ZITHER
MAN'S
START it today—a new kind of thriller. It is fact. It is fiction. Both! The back- ground: the conference of Interpol, the international police organisation, in Vienna. The mystery: why was an obscure Scandinavian dolegate named Johannsen, a meok little record-keeper, murdered in the Vienna woods on the eve of the conference? The man who tells the story: Joe Packson, ex-Yard inspector, now security officer for an Empire airline.
INN WALKS
MYSTERY
By Percy Hoskins And Leonard Mosley
Vienna We have analysed the three OU would never have bairs which we found clutched
In Johannson's hand. guested. From
They are the
Burman hairs when appear to
Way we all looked have been treated for use in a and behaved Bt wg. The hair probably caine
Interpol's opening session, rom Hungary. that we have
急 murder
hanging over our heads. We were all trying to
open the top and called to me to get in.
But I may have boon mig.. taken, for a moment later he was smiling and bowing. "Why, Fraulein
"though it might help," she said smiling. "I drove you around Vienna while you think. Do come. You look 50 miser. able, walking along by yourself, and it is such a lovely day."
And so for the next hour or London,
Witter, how pleasant to see you," he said in German
"Picase," ste sald English It you will Mr friend, Mr Packson here, in from May I introduce Herr more, we drove and I was glad Fritz von Grete-wohl, me of your of her company.
most distinguished citizens? You each other Big two will be seeing
We had a look at the
Wheel in which Sir Carol Reed again. Mr Packson is here for set the final scene with Orson the Interpol ConfereIco and Welles, of his famous thriller, you will be giving a guiden party "The Third Man'
for the delegates nat week, We climbed the hill to Grinz, won't you, Herz Fritz!" ing and paused for P moment She turned to me. "Ho has at the copse where they had one of the lovellest gutes In They bad half the crooks in found Johannsen. Twenty-four Austria on the banks of the the city underneath the lights- hours
b-ben before ad
a Danube. It will be a party you some with real beards, some lovers' dell, carpeted with early will remember. Нетт Vior decked out in false beards, some summer flowers. Now it was Grotewahl is both a charming clean-shaven but with eye-filled with police searchers, and hospitable man. patches.
beating down every blade of grass, tearing away every petal with shady records-blondes all, in search of a clue,
I peared at the men ond
★ ★ walked up and down past the
depressed girls, but I knew it wasn't likely IWAS suddenly
again, and Annaliese noticed This was no
"I think I know what it is ordinary murder, and we were not going to solve it by looking for a run-of-the-street crook.
"It's no 40
good, 19 it. Herr Packson?" said the inspec- tor. "They aren't among this bunch."
But where does that get us? No. To find the murderers Johannson-lo
Ând aut
why look they put a revolver to the back
discover
normal-for the benent of the of his head and blew his face Press and the public in the away, to find out why they tried gallery.
to hide his body in the Vienna But you can imagine how we woods we have got to discover this apparently felt when the Austrian Minister the motive for of the Interior, Herr Hebner, motiveless crine. We have began to
why they murdered congratulate Us on Interpol's triumphs-on the way
such o meek und inoffensive little man. we have fought back against the three worst menaces of inter- And the more I wrestle with national crime-drug peddling, the problem, the more I TA | gold smuggling, and vice.
coming to this conclusion: We Just before he began to speak, shan't discover the motive until the Vienna Police band played we have deciphered what it was the "Fate" theme from that Johannsen scribbled on the Beethoven's Filth Symphony serap of paper and clutched in and thought that was much his hand Just before he died. He wrote three groups of letters more to the point,
and numbers on a leaflet adver- tising a night club: S14, T4, Z27. A code, obviously. but what code?
LOOKED across the hall to the door where Fraulein Anna- Wiese Wittee, the Viennese police- No wonder we all feel pick woman who took me to identify and dispirited. I hate to think poor Johannsen's bxly, was of that body in the mortuary standing. She shot me a sym- going unrevenged. I hate 10 pothelic glance and I could see think of Johaninsen's name in that she fell as raw as I did Interpol's records with when we heard the congratuin- words after it: Murdered. Killer tory words.
of killers unknown.
When someone has killed one
the
When the opening ression was of our own delegnies it is no over i drove back to the head- ime to be listening to praise of quarters of the Vienna C.ID.
cur acumen, percipience. and with Annallese to attend urtelligence.
T
Une-up.
Why Doesn't
In
Then on flounced a line of caboret girls and other women
to be much use.
von
I said, "I look forward to ££,” I noticed that, while Andalleso had boen speaking Her Grotewahl's eyes were on bandaged trand
my and the plaster
Documents in the case
CASINO ORIENTAL
you need," she said, and swung the tiny car round a corner and of these pulled up beside one Austrian s which specialise in the sale of wine.
It was a beautiful situation. lovising down on the shining waters of the Danube and the SHRUGGED my shoulders and early evening lights of Vienna. then said apologetically: "Don't Then, as Annaliese watched me think I'm criticising. I'm not. I with a slight smile, I heard a know how good you fellows are tune, being played-an only too in Vienna at cracking the most familiar tune, complicated crimes, and I know
I looked at the notice over the
Weinschenke zum you've
got everywYO
working Inn. like staves on this one.
MATT.
on my check, the result of "But I still think this la an And inside when we entered yesterday's ercounter with unorthodox killing which is only was the familiar spectacled Johannnen'a kiker,
Dritten
THE PAMPHLET THE CODE. WAS ON
going to tre mived in an un grinning face of Anton Keraa I Angered my cars anxi orthodox way. If you'll excuse playing on his zilber the tune laughed. "Just an encounter me I'll go away somewhere and he composed for Carol Reed's with a car door in the dark- try to think a little more about fim.
cess," I said. what saw yesterday,
"He gained so much fame from that tune, and did so well
He smiled, "I am glad that it
is not serious."
He bowed once most to Arina-
a
I walked out into the sun- shine and began strolling along out of the film," said Annaliese, the Ring towards the Danube, I "that now he has opened an inn lest, I held out my hand, but had not gone many yards when and called it "The Thirat Man." he ignored it. He tursed to go, I heard the high-pitched hoot of And everyone comes here in the a little too sucidenly, just 'on a car and durned towards the summer evenings to drink wine, group of customers came out of kerb,
look -at the lights, and listen The Third Man" They caught Anmilese Wittee was driving to him play his zither though him off balance and I grabbed beside me in one of those le not." she added with a laugh, him just in time by the hand German runabouts. She lifted "always thab tune. Even we in, and armi.
Britain Cash
On This Easy Money?
London to the chops in Britain and 10 carn thousands more every other collector's country.
All make money. The special in dollars, francs, and issue to commemorate the sterling I suggest that cicction of President Coty three Mr Macmillan persuade the years ago brought in £05,000. Postmaster-General to try a And of course France Usty flutter with British stamps lamps to advertise her fashions. Germany, loo, is museling in now stamps which would
about the
market. She sells abo be issued for exciting and 5,000,000 aprelai-lesue alamps a Important occasons.
year, and today's "twppenny Many countries carn money snipa" Include commemoratives but Britain is of Mozart and poet Heinrich this way.
and 1,000 years of shackled by Post Office tradi- Helno Uon, Special issues are few Luneburg," town on the heath
since the war, the last where World War II ended. Leven produced for the Coronation In 11003
on
With his sharp eye for a world market, now is the time for the Chancellor to persuade the Post Office to get cracking on special stamp designe for exelling days ahont.
Vienna cre now, a little tirod of hearing it."
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He shook himself hoc, olmost brusquely. "Thank you," he said, bowing mgain, and ....then disappeared into the jim.
TFE sat down of a table We climbed Into the stambout the terrace, ami they and started downhill. After a trundled along o large captured time, Annaliese said, "You are
milent, carafe of wine, We held our very
Mr Joe Packson, glanges underneath, pushed up What is bothering you?" qu and filled them, with deliciously "I don't Mice your dietin- cool hock, I smiled at Annaliese guished friend."" I saki. "I think and felt better. She looked so there's something suspicious pretio, in her summer frock. I about him.” was glad Viennese policewomen nover wear uniform
Presently Hines came over to CHE laughed. “Whát, Herr von I suggest a set to com- memorate the British attempt 1, took a gloss, tailed about Grotowahl? Who he is one to cross the Antarcile continent London and Carol Reed. Orson of our most admired and co- Welles and Trevor Howard, For next Empire
putable men. He is the sciend of and asked me to
the Day. For Sir
Ministers and diplomats. He is Winston visitors' book. Then he gave me a good employer and gives anzuscha Churchill's 02nd birthday in his autographed photograph. November.
next year
Inte
talcon
It was almost dark when we money to charity.” What a glorious chance was decided to get back to Vion wo get back to polbe hood- I said "All the mine, when Keres
I would like.to quarters. cffered by the rally of V.C.s in We shool funds with
Too, and were crossing the car-pack rough your. Alee and see & ho Hyde Park this month.
Stamp production towards Annaliese runabout
when a huge, black Gorman car has a record, 1 dony loethe Most beautiful of the speciat Como on, Harold! Savings swung up to the entrance to the business of that hand re
She slowed the car and look...». This shyness is losing us Issues repeated Sucessfully bonds may be e gamble, but terrace.
ed at me, "What hand?""," monty Some countries export every year is a Swiss out to British stamps have
been a A uniformed chauffeur jumped
"I wondered why he wouldn's their stamps in a major industry help youwis malce more than
cert ever since we issued the out and opered the door. From shake with me, ad grand -like fittio San Marino and
the back of the car stepped a Lleidanstoin Monaco reputed £500,000 annually, will stamps work's first, that remoWant Fran whom I can only call. When be stumtsjed- and I caught. ilm, 1 realland why, Tell me F.B. It is timated that elegantly distinguished. on it to help somebody or celebenta penny black, in 1810. Kainier Kolly wedding issue, somet
something tich as the Wine- there are more than 2,000,000 He had a boord too, but: Fraulein Acoliose, whale route datinguished friend' sying to. growers Beauval at Vevey All collectors in Britain. For U w smolt and grey and noatly does the fact that the gistim In France pimoet prything ihege
stangs are bought up 0.8, the coumate is about trimmed. He were snert, dark finger of his thicht brand la mism
a homburg hat, and special edrocks (their craftsmanship fo is in excuse, för a
There's a dollar clothes, 20,000,000. glamp-from a trade fair to a stipert)) and the Bwlay the- - market for you, Mr Macmillant there were wils cloves on tris"-arid he's timing a rubber one
action end. He prused and looked pa
inside his adova, Enerladtá now TV station. There are solves queue to buy for their about 35.
new stumpe fasued own collections or to inty skidt,
fort van, and 'I am sure be _CAVO-S- cach year and pill find their way, soll inter at a proft.
by made £500,000
Here is one of them
John Atkinson is of undirsen surprise,