THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956.
What is the secret of the beauty, charm and sex allure of Swedish girls? They are admired, photographed and written about all over the world. Sweden has
given us Garbo, Bergman, Ekberg and two "Miss World” beauty winners. Anthony Hunter went to investigate the secret of their attraction and now he reveals-
What makes Swedish girls so wonderful
seven-month winter with They have Anita Ekberg average temperatures of 20
- they called; degrees of frost-dawn at 9 her "The
o'clock and dusk at 3. Iceberg"
HAVE been looking with that clusive 5ft. Gin. for the warm heart of hearty with big feet, the iceberg-trying to
what is discover fascinating about Swedish girls,
Why did
Anita
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Swedish girls only have Won the "Miss Work!" beauty contest twice,
been
For days I have Ekberg meeting the lovely women manage to kend actor An- of Sweden -- ¡liscovering thony Steel such a dance?
fo
under-
ANOW
Suddenly the sun shines, melts and ice floes hurry away down the Mala river.
Women here greet the sun like a lover. In every street they stand motion- less, gazing at it, letting the warmth sink in.
Every Sacdish girl is a
St-
worshipper This sunumer she will go regularly to the beach ar
with hereis of other women 1 buthe and sun- myn Galle Many will bathe in
the
Jovellesi complexions
have evci seers--fair * ivory with the colour of hedge-rose- whether typical light honey - blonde
or rarc brunette,
the
the
But don't belleve Eng- list that comca
tales thin
neces-
fron
surtly healthy, upen-
air living.
how they live. how they Why is Graham Greene, think--trying that
unselfconsciously experienced British stand their cool charm. This he made novelist, now making twice is what I have found,
monthly trips to Sweden?
Swedes Bay
that the
Swedish actress Anita Bjork
is the attraction.
Remember Greta Garbo? When 1
A Lover
ELITE I
in Stockholm, Where summer has just out with a most un-
men burst was young
dreamed of "being alone" English impact. Imagine a
Meet
IT
**
n English girl takes a bath private They feci 136 cmbarrassament, Nothing must twtHHvs「ivi
them and the
Sun
Swedish women have heart- staged fuees, high cheekbones, a detrate features. They are fall-oft winetimes-but well made that they seldom took
wkward.
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Carbo-In Her Heyday
up after 18. Girne Cont play Kumus sly as much As ours. Every woman I spoke Inished lying in bed unt) 12.
right to work after marringo, even
wear simply cut tweeds and the
dresses with few buttons and bows--quiet, but usually In excellent taste.
You see cardigans worn loose and flopping at the hips every- where. Party frocks, too, are usually plainly cut, but right off the shoulder,
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if it means putting the babies in
day nursery. More than a quarter of the working women are married.
Yvonne
Berlin,
wo-
young business How do Swedish women man, is typical. "If i smuse themselves?
the
Films, many
I want dancing, dining out, and culture equal say in every- culture definitely
thing or I certainly night classes won't be faithful
--very Culture Includes
10
In art, languages (nearly all of my husband," she said them speak English), folk lore, and obviously
and
psychology
gol
the psychology bug badly.
They
havo it.
A Swedish wonnuin leans
forward Intensely, with
crossed and head Ulled ap- pealingly, talking for hours about Freud, eugenics, or social
welfare.
But fell her that she has big feel (she probably has—a sizo larger than our average—and she Wes low-heeled shoes} she will blow up in a most unscientific paddy, just like any other woman.
These girls apend too much lime thinking about what they
The
It gives them sports.
ought to think. averago
a slight
complex. inferiority pends as much as 18s, a week
They hide this well with on on cosmetics,
Lloofness and that for-away look in their violet eyes which reminds me of Northern Lights und wide-open ley spaces.
girl
I hate long country walks. But they take iniinite care of their stees This is an art Dieting is a mad craze here. wiits them which conceals art Miss Margarola Svensson, 22-
At Upsula
University there year-old hostess with the figure are special beauty classes for of a young goddess, worked out women students. Most girls of * complicated "calorie" Hum ill make up expertly, At 20 before deciding what she dare there is not muct: They don't rat with me. Most women khow about 1.
snuff-box containing ▶UT the thing which strikes sacrbarin and would rather die BUT
Mad Craze
AKE Miss Ingrid Olsson, 21- TAK
your-old student who hopes lo become Miss Sweden in the "Miss World" contest this year.
Except for a touch of light coloured lipstick, I thought her schoolgirl" complexion WRA absolutely natural,
Over a glass of red wine she
than take sugar.
Because of their normal
set-plenty of fish, meat, salad, milk. and fruit-Swedish girls tend to have slim figures and good complexions naturelly, and they don't
Lo fat. ΓΙΑΣ
Bu young and old, well made or thin, all must diet,
"Why?" I asked
"Oh, everybody docs," sald Miss Svensson.
Freedom
me most about the Swedish women is their freedom, They must be the freest, most inde- pendent women in the world.
A girl of 16 can earn as much as 27 or £8 a week when she leaves school.
They
meani
Incidentally, 8,500 women take advant-
ope every your
rubber stamp divorce law,
That is
the
1.7 per thousand of the population. Bri- tain's 20,730 divorces for 1053 work out at .67 percent.
But
independenco
goes farther than that, Swedish women do
and
3 freedom In
N wusheard of in
Britain.
Love in this cold climato begins young and comes before all things. To start with, there to no “goose- Berry bush** Sweden.
Girls
in know
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the Esels of life eight from compulsory sex education in State schools, Schoolgirls often pair off with boys nt 13. A number
LOVELY MAY LOUISE FLODIM WHO WON THE
** MISS WORLD"
BEAUTY CONTEST
IN 1952.
THE YEAR BEFORE ANDTRER
SWEDISH
GIRL WON
THE TITLE.
of babies in illegitimate, contrasted schoolgirls have had bables. In to less
20 in than one in Britain
ene ense the school authorities by the Govern- were blamed ment for suggesting expelling the culprits.
Both State and modera public opinion is tolerant. "This is natural. This has happened, Let's make the best of it" is
The pretty young wife of a doctor explained: "My maid is not married, but she is going
admitted she used a founda- 4 boy friend? Thai faraway characterises so many Swedish
More than 800,000 women go
WOTK
One in four, And as soon as they work Teenagers expect and often the attitude.
want to leave home and get permission to stay out have their own flsilet, furnish-
until 2 in the morning. They cd in the clean-lined, impor- I quizzed her, Did she have
hold bottle parties at home. cable modern style which
Every girl in Sweden feels tion.
"I try to make up as look which all Swedish women homes.
an absolute compulsion naturally as possible," she ex- cultivate broke into a warm
As a
there is a result
nat
friend, "Yes, and I must do all shortage plained.
with #
five-year have a boy She
J can to keep him," she said wailing lial--or key-money up at 20,
A beautiful body kit
to £500. Important to Swedish
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And so, a girl here is quite a at night and skin food, and,
womon of the world. Bul like most Swedish women, a
women insist on despite that, and efficient State protective creem at winter than beautiful clothes They having their own interests and birth-control advice, one in ten
more women
Swedish
William Hickey
SUCCESS FOR A SHY REBEL
A
London I like if when success comes
his humility.
I talked about this to Mr
Choke, Sir Guy's de puty and the head of protocol at the Foreign Office,
About the Increasing number
S you watch that re- to a man young-and he keeps Marcus
bellious play "Look Back in Anger" you wish that Mary Ure, playing a downtrodden wife, would
go and change and look her
beautiful self.
PRINCE'S PROBLEM
PRINCE Chulu
of Siam was
entering a hotel to enter- dain King Feisal to lunch when I met her changed into a telephone call came: his wife, formerly Elizabeth Hunter, had pale blue, and it was a re given birth to a daughter.
dilemmal warding sight.
Ah, the
Procced She was with the 20-year-old with the lunch to the king author
John go straight to his wife in King's of the play, Osborne, ot
photographle College Hospital? B exhibition, "The Family
01 He went on with the lunch. Man," at the Festival Hall. The king toasted the child. And Though she tried to hold him then Prince Chulu went off to firmly by the arm for his pic- the hospital.. ture to be taken, he broke away and out of the crowd, saying: "I don't know what all the fuss is about."
Said Mary: "Oh, yes, darling, you must"-and he posed.
THOSE PARTIES
CAN report that the Foreign Office is a little alarmed that there are so few British repre- sentatives at 'the diplomatic his parties.
Selwyn
Then Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, took a paint brush from pocket and showed Osborne how Foreign Secretary
to use it.
That
A newy commandant of Sandhurst has been appointed.
to have a baby I used to let them stay together at this house, You see they are in love and they have been together four
dimcult. years. Marriage is
one Why should they save
We little thing for marringe?
It
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think
П good for them. Petting like the Ameri- cons bellevo in is absolutely Immoral by itself,"
The clinical Dankness ot these women is amazing, to an Englishman. Late one night 1 discussed the most intimate sexuti problems with a beauti- ful young student, Margareta Hernberg, in her college rooms at Upeaia University,
Warm Heart
Future Regular officers will be CHE showed no embarrassment in the hands of Major-General SHE Ronald Walton Urquhart, He Is 60, a go-getter with ideas.
He leaves the post of Chief of
of Iron Curtain attaches appear Staff to Western Command. He ing at the diplomatie functions; has been Director of Combined about
the decreasing number of Operations. Western diplomats.
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Said Mr Cheke. "You will I warn Sundhurst cadets not TC- to be misled by the friendly always see the East well
You can manner and easy smile
of this presented. The West?
family man he has three sons for yourself." Are they
daughter. important these and coincidence but Mr Malik, the what ho
Well, it may be a functions?
Urquhart is a man who knows wants-and how to Soviet Ambassador, attonded a
get it. Burmese party: flew to Moscow:
and on the day he arrived the He takes over next January Chinese Reds crossed into from Major-General Reginald
Burma.
There was an Egyptian party, There were two British diplo mats and F
M.P Socialiste
20 Against them there Russiora.
grabbed the Canal,
were
Hobbs.
I HEAR THAT............
ono
ot all and no official check is kept on men visiting women undergraduates a
She told me she had a boy friend. "But I am not marry- ing yet," he said. "I want to study. Travel, perhaps. want to be sure before I marry:
**GoDe But when I am sure..... was the faraway look, her eyes blazed with conviction,
And that is how they all fesi about it,
.
I think I have found the warm heart of the keberg.
With her great sexual and,
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other freedoms, 2 Swedish girl
grown-up, £ 24. She konsible what woman at she wants and: how to get "it. With men
she plays hard to get.
But underneath, she dreama
only of romantic, permanent
Three days later Nassor STOCKHOLM Newspapers love of an equal-one man to have been publishing Eng- be her very own, And that lish cricket scores for English very attractive. tourists. When Surrey "do- olored" at close of play, newspaper recorded: Surrey, 313 for 0, sald.”
the Army
Will no one comes into the news. And today I can report us?
MAN OF THE DAY
Lloyd has asked Sir Guy, Solis- Again a crowd gathered round bury-Jones, Marshal of the Dip- INTERNATIONAL crisis--and the playwright. And again he lomatic Corps, to do Some looked startled and broko away, checking.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT IF I REFUSE
TO SIGN THIS PAPER,
GIVING UP MY THRONE TO YOU MICHAEL
THAT
WILL DO YOU NO
GOOD.
"YOU AND NARDA WILL BE POUND, IT WILL LOOK -ACCIDENTALL
THEN I AS NEXT OF KIN, WILL BECOME KING ANYHOW, GO YOU MIGHT AS WELL GIGN THIS PAPER 'AND SAVE
TWO LIVES
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ever understand makes.
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