A THE... CHINA MAIL, ·
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1956.
Photo
News
EXTRA
THIS IS YOUR LIFE!
SIFT 2,000,000 PHOTOS FROM 68 LANDS
AND THIS IS THE WONDERFUL RESULT INTO
INTO London's Festival lovingly sifted by the Hall this month came Museum of Modern Art in 503 photographa which Now York. Says the constitute the most am Museum director, and ex- bitious, challenging, aad hibition promoter, Edward uxulant record of people Steichen: "It was conceived since photography began. as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions in the 'everydayness' of life throughout the world.
Every picture portrays people; every picture tells the glory of one moment, ia the universal experiences, we all share between birth and dying.
For Whmost three yeam wo worched every corner of the with for these immage: tervened them 11 we
10,000
Then
Wo had
came the almost un-
The exhibition ... titled "The Family of Man" is bourable task of reducing them
to 303
the cream, the quintess42*310*(* The Chain Mail today sifta of more than
TWO further to present you a review
of this meter work
a review. ashlek, BIN 4 mirror to on lingettable moments in all
MILLION photographs col.
lected from 68 countries of the world and patiently and
lives.
⚫ THIS IS YOUR ROMANCE: this is the moment when only the rhythm of the jazz kept you dancing beenuse you weren't listening to the tune or the You were listening to love. (But just the
.. can you ever forget that tume?)
crooner.
same
THE MOST EXCITING
PICTURES EVER ́ SHOWN
THIS IS YOUR QUARREL: this the moment when the space between two people on a park bench was immeasurable. And the park was unbeautiful. And the world was empty until you made it up. Or pretended to
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SAM WHITE LOOKS IN AT
CANAL H. Q.
An official sighs for the days of
the Pashas
ESPITE the storm is
future has provoked In the outer world, a distinctly mid Victorian calm reigns at the Suez Canal Company's headquAP- ters in Paris.
A visitor has the sensa tion of intruding premises.
PARIS newsletter
appointinent to its Paris staff.
J has
appointed Mr Roland
THIS IS YOUR WAR: this is your Dunkirk, your Tobruk, your Cassino, " your Arnhem
your blitz.
This is the moment you were first forced to contemplate death as a daily reality. And your eyes were a mirror
Two cities side by side without an inch of ground between them, except at one point where a little court remains aloof from both
One Step From Diamonds To A Sanctuary
By S.
FIELDS
important visitors are ness The bequest was the out wined and dined by the come of legal complications that lord Mayor and Aldermen tenure of a temporary
concerning
had arisen
their
London
you asked the average person which are the two cities in the world that
stand closest It also contains workers residence.
to each other, numbered by the million in
In The 18th century The the answer the daytime, and only four
half thousand re- town residence, but today, as in Bishops of Ely transferred their might and given possibly be sidents by night.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST GAME OF CARDS; the day you first grasped the dazzling conceptions (and deceptions) of chance and luck and gambling.... this was very innocent but at the time nothing seemed more exaggeratedly "grown up" and so your face oxaggerated the way you felt the kick of it. And somehow, now, no game has the same electric thrill.
FRANCOISE SAGAN
"A bit of a prude."
Penrose to the post which has Cecile, the heroine of Françoi:e
The solitary American mem- ber of the board is Mr S. P. year's President of club Tuck, this On
Club in Paris, im. the Truv.llers' and former US. Ambassador Housed in a handsome, four- to Card storty grey-stone building in
The
Sagan's best-selling novel "Bon- jour Tristesse." Mlle. Fran- theme, a flaxen-haired, green- She la
for the French sereen.
remained unfilled for some time
Senior Fine Arts Office." Mr Fenrose, a wealthy man, is himself both a patron of the eyed beauty, is a new discovery arts and a painter, Ho is
He the complete counterpart physi- Surrealist, He is also a close catly of the heroine of the book. friend of Picasso, and is at The Gim will be directed by present working on a book of Otto Freminger, and work on it
The job sounds pleasant.
begin เก the autumn. Mr Penrose,
already Meanwhile who
Mile Sagan is spends a great deal of his time Me
the film permanent administra. in Paris, will now spend six having trouble with the heart of Paris's West End, tive head
For company for which she is writ- of the company is months of the year here.
the dialogue of a screen its Athenacum-like quality
Jacques this he will be paid a salary of version M.
onc of Colette's heightened by its solid leather-year-old
Georges-Picot, a member of a more than £2,400 a yðar, and
and novels. upholstered armchairs, the 19th surguis bext and talented this will, of course, an eloquent The dialogue in the novel is
family. Tali, and a Mr Penrose pays an the walls, and the dignified air Arzt-class tennis player, he tribute to the high cost of living in Colette's best bawdy vela. heads an all-French permanent in Paris is so expensive "clean up some of the dialogue. in Paris, which I endorse. He Mile, Sugan fell obliged to that I shall have to supplement This has earned her the disap- ITS FEARS FADED
salary with
own proval of the director, who has Although
commented immediately after
sharply, "I Britons, meet annually, and fol-
money." ut low their meeting with an the abrogation the Anglo-
ofraid thai Mille. Sagan is a bit of Egyptian Treaty five years ago, AT THE DENTIST of a prude,"
company feared that would be nationalised, its fears faded to vanishing point as they A Paris is in August is pro- successive agreements vided by a report of a man who signed The official who received me with Nasser.
was trapped in his dentist's looked gently shocked, "I'm The latest one, signed only in waiting-room, atruld not," he said. iwo da
century prints which deca
decorale French
its stall.
of the uniformed attendants. Could I take a look wish famous bourd-room where the are
32 directors, of whom we
excellent lunch, the cost
which is deducted from
£7,000 a year salary?
GENTLY SHOCKED
not
their
110
would
suys:
my
my
N indication of how deserted
M, Picord win to see his. really like that kind of June, made the company feel thing. He went on in Als best completely confident that Nasser dentist who was so preoccupied allow its jease of the with his plans to leave that day Canal to run for the remaining on holiday that he forgot about his. patient waiting in the wait-
Foreign Office manaër.
every
difficult situation. I'm afraid I cannot say much. We are really dealing with a new kind of Egypto-class types; careeze Not like the old Turkish pashas we once negotiated with."
Tho list of directors IN studded with Dames like the Dua d'Audlffrot-Pasquier, the Baron L. de Benolst and
12 years.
This June agreement Involves
the company in the promise to ing-room.
vest 218 million in Egypt and onls in than the periodi
the Initial contribution
After reading all
something
of Picord Anally became uneasy, £8,000,000 is now deposited in and fatand not only that the a Cairo bank.
was descried, but Ho Not only the company was hier
been locked in by tho confident of the future, but so absent-minded dentist.
was the Parla Stock The police were summoned the Exchange. The Canal shares by phone and he was rescued, Vicomte de Rohan, There a remained steady right up to the only to remember heavy sprinkling of KCB and time of Nasser's declaration of which he had forgotten in the CMG Britain's chief ro nationalisation-a fact which panic. presentative on the board le has for ever cured me of any toothache, Kir. Alexander Cadogan, former permanent hond of the Foreign Office.
The Chairman i Gim, prescience. Gyost-old. M. Francois Charles-
Roux, former Tranch Ambas wador to the Vatican,
in Haith
Stock
Exchange
A SURREALIST
He still had his,
NEW DISCOVERY, ・・ A 17-your-old university stud THE BRITISH COUNCIL has A cat Cleole Frenchomme has Just made an interesting been chosen to play the role of"
am
QUOTE OF THE WEEK COMEDIAN Jean Rigaux: · A psychiatrist is a man who Folies Bergere to goca to the look at the audience)
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
SEGRID YOU WON'T
DO ANYTHING- DRASTIC TO MICHAEL? HE'S JUST A FOOL
DANGEROUS FOOL, LET THE COURTS DECIDE.
MANDRAKE! HOW COULD YOU IMAGINE I'D ELOPE WITH MICHAEL OR ANYONE ELSE?
IN THIS PALACE SUDDENLY REALIZED
YOU'RE A PRINCESS-- YOU SEEMED DIFFERENT
The past, Ely Place is a repose-
Its
the capital of The other is the larger ful sanctuary In the thick of a Hungary City of Westminster,
in district which teems with traffic, crowds and city Budapest, which the Abbey and
the shopping
workers through the business which is in Houses of Parliament are hours ill the homeward “rush" reality com- located.
to the suburbs begins. posed of two At all points where the
Ely Place is jealous of communi- two cities Join you pass privileges, reserved for those Buda from one to the other with who now occupy the buildings the right out knowing it, unless you which enclose it and shut it away bank of the happen to be observant from the clamour of the worka- Danube,
unauthorised world. No and enough to notice that the day
person can "park" a car there. Pest On the policemen's armbands and A non-residents are banished left bank.
ties,
on
But the answer would be
helmets are different.
Ely Place
incorrect. AL one point, however,
Greater
from its narrow precincts at a respectable hour which closing ume for રી. quaint seventeenth
The Milre,"
century tavern, situated in the
Lon- there is a tiny area which alley that leads to the street of the diamond merchants, Hatton don has two is distinct both from the Garden, only a step away. cities within City of London and the City its boundaries, of Westminster.
though even most doners
hardly
to their tention.
One
la the
within
"The Muire," by its name, recalls the association of Ely It is a quiet "backwater" Pince with the Bishops of old. Lon- known as Ely Place, whose It is notable, 100, for a cherry are main entrance is marked by tree which rises through one of
its barrooms, preserved aware pretentious gates and # # glass case. of it until the porter's lodge. It can also fact is brought be approached by an aid. Sealed Off
at- world, twisting passageway
Whom "The Mitre" closes for which leads from Hattone night and speeds the last Garden, internationally re-
of its patrons on their way, the nowned as a street of dla porter of Ely Pince makes fast true City of mond merchants, where you the gates to seal it off in London,, an hear the speech of Holland privacy from the rest of the
great capital. of less intermingling with the Eng corner in the heart of a huge than seven fish and Hebraic languages metropolis becomes wrapped in hundred
as groups of men talk in silence--and dreams, perhaps, of acres in ex terms of precious stones and for-off years when the palace of play neverthe-
on the thronged pavements...spitre,
represents less contains
Ely Place WAR bequeathed famous
character In English such famous centuries ago to the Bishops of history John of Gaunt — an buildings at St Ely, whose diocese is some 80 dying at Ely Place, where Gaunt Paul's Cathe miles from London, because it in fact seems to have rented towards the dral and the was the site of a town house or accommodation
slayed close of his life from the prelate historic Guild when they visited the capital who was Bishop at that time, hall, where on Important ecclesiastical busi-
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area
Then this little
tent, which do business with one another Ely's bishops stood there. hla
"hostell' at which they
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
NOW--DO I
STILL SEEM' DIFFERENTI
NO, JUST THE BAME--THANK GOODNESS!
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