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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.
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"I'm writing my autobiography and I'm looking for a happy ending."
THE MALE A LA MODE
TWO GREAT STANDBYS IN THE
LEI 1: The biking. all-purpose Fain-coat with the Laditional raglan sleeve. By front and loset pockets. Made in colton and wont gaberdine and Wyneol 0.711' the famour 1.verest material.
MASCULINE Fashion world
RIGHT: Overcoat with such niceties as notched lapels, cross pockets and hand-fluished reffs comes in xable finished
lambswool, pure cashmere and Cuvet cloth,
DO PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR TABOOS?
hood.
By HAROLD BRETT
What are the hamut N
TEAM 64 me agacher: report today how they sel out to diencer psd how hutch a person's attitude Place" te itle and morals in proverid by his neighbour.
shay
$1
In porpo," dody of adiyora
wornin's alfitude to the change with a change of
JAU Try
Sme the way we ate 2,000,000 families in Brition 85,000 3 4 de hve on to live to new communitie a
Beland thrını en vild established neighbourhoods Bey ve left del 1, old beiget
cd fats
IN THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD
This is
respectable
Courtship lasting more than
n year.
Marriage ln church,
To be christened in church. To have obedient children, To get your children married. Regular vbling aner children have married and left home,
To Byr wri, 1.e. to eat well
To have a "heautifuß“ funeral.
To rust animals He human beings.
To be always busy.
To irusi family matters to
по one outside the family.
To keep the house Interior clean and tidy.
This is taboo.
To be married suddenly.
To marry beneath you.
To marry too mueli above you. Divorer.
Unmarried mothers,
By HAZEL MEYRICK
A
London.
RENE MacCOLL in HOLLYWOOD
Why Diana Dors Can Blossom Like A Rose In The Desert
T
Hollywood heard half a dozen people gv
Next moment-there she was. She had on Ar only just,
silver bathing
A
HIS place is getting "Sash”
to resemble Harley Street with no doc lustres little tors, or Covent muit which seemed to apologe Garden without a single for being there at all. cabbage.
That groot swatch of stuff DVC to che side of her cor Film people hereabouts which resembles cotton candy are becoming rather like with a light dusting of saffron golden sovereigns - you in her hair, know the things exist, but The underslung pout ap- where?
parently inade of foam rubber is her lower lip and might well It is estimated that this year hovo belonged to Maurice the American ilm industry is Chevallers niece. Har vyes ofc spending about £8,000,000 mak-
gren, like parts of the sea off ing flims in other countries, and
10 lins bre now being shot some of the Caribbean Islands. abroad by American companies 22 production here.
Whether pictured awkwardly This is almost us minny ny the urous but I got a sharp impres-
holding a shot-gun, pouring out of glass, or hauling in the wrong a cocktail into the wrong Kind
on a land-bound yacht, they haven't yet got the knuck of looking us though they enjoy wearing The clothes
איאולין
SUDDEN change has conte over the average
· English male. Instead of spending his holidays in his brace and shirtsleeves, with 2 knotted handker- chief over his balding hend, he IN turning
11 up Britain's beaches dreased as brightly as any peacock-- in some enses utdoing his Joving spouse.
What are men interested in" A quick surer of the contents that win and women nie cil
Manout Town" reals the main standbys of the male 1+ They'll you how to ket you
how to woman an vit erlatt
br. 1205 Goaded, no doubt, by the p her afterward.
nothing we notice, on 2
1
The voice is low and mur-
slun of voice pushed down to about three octoves below what might be If given free rein, The figure IN Indubitably
It is an all-time record and an extraordinary paradox. He
thot one of the chuf member
that Fensone
was excellent. Hollyw.od ever pluhol from deser!
to become the world's Scurty fest im capital nearly half o 1 took to her at once, as does century age was because of the everyone. In aplie of her proud boost:--
highly unlikely appearance, she is natural, friendly, and poište. That makes it all the more re- markable that the has suceved- ed, in the brief time that she hús het bere, in makhyy a notice- able Impact.
start from But she has a built-in
"We have any type of scenery we need here on our doorsteps.
The Suhare, the Alps, the sou, South Sea Isle --we got 'em all there IN hert And we got the climate tou There's no place lik thin"
• Bed
N Wort (1.1 the subject of erriving Down
brockfast erdeple
thone
arguments
She has had to scratch.
water-
munet for pubilcity.
Some
people diviners. Dory divines Just
arc
when and how to hit the front neur page.
But let us see what she has in this vul-downt Voice
now
jeers of the women fashion writers, spurred on by the window dressing in the
Somehow atel freshly men's shops and by clever thav.) welcoming her when seem to have lost their appeal. advertising (“It's the bold she ethia me from
Insteach of marching the is long day's look
having her
u K for summer"},
Legion slippers Foreign the heppin.
rends Just en onthouS gePalm Springs, Hollywood male hus at last decided
on the subject of divorce. Rocks the genuine Sabura, that he,
be too, ought to
Another Tamiliar claim used in noticed, Hence the sales of
cutre in our matchless light- vivid shirts and shorts--
Well, of golden sunshine," courer, ali that has Hallan style-curious sall-
changed tou dals and strange towelling
A Barrage
beachcoats with fish printed me reader is subjected all over them.
Horning In
new-
lo
bit
اله: 10
of her.
Diana?" question.
"Are you relligious,
unlooked-for (The The old MacColl shock technique.)
Answer: "Why do you Bak
that?" "Because
know
over 50.
לסי
want to
It is another paradox
thai riches, prosperity, and a fierce as a buruime of psychologier advertising, second only
Expansion of trade activity have the
Answer: "Well, yes-but not kind that women suffer.
produced
fouling of "DO
much
wonderful!" the air that Los Angeles now your trousers date you?," arks
"What's wonderful?" "Heat- apt to be a Cin one ad.
most dismal spot ing you see yourse!!
i new phrase "Religious, in a Savile How T
I have been here but not over so. says climatically."
Splendid. Do nothing. while the
tark nearly a week and I have seen you like acting?" HI truly ¥!{4:2573]!5 "Must you lose your the sun exactly twice.
love it." The mass exodus cú flm stars What do you do in tho from Hollywood has received a eyeoligo?" "Öb! I'm so tired. powerful mudge because of costs, Just flop in a chair Jook at Labs, for example, at Tolstoy'n TV. Also read books, "What
War and Posce.
hair must give some of the readers leepless nights,
Looking around the men's stores. { see that the average male shopper is busy cushionlig himself against the rougher things in Kie. Hoving to bend to plck up golf balls, for i12= stance.
p
Czar's lo
MANY W who once took a pude in complating that The av old man koked a wreck now fod to their chastrin that he Es horning in on their clothing
books do you read? "Well allowance, and they are both
One of the big moments in actually I don't read many. fighting over who needs a
that flm was the Battle of the
The
night before look winter sult the most.
Beresina between Napoleon's encounter I had been taliding Grand Army and the
a rather big shot in thin Men's Jackets, for those who
Russians. Between 5,000 and film hurly-burly and I'd asked pre interested, will be slimmer.
0,000 "extras"
what ho thought about shurler am!
One British firm has brought more shapely
were massed for AL
the scene which drow tre. Dors least they will start oul
that out ( golf-ball retriever-
He suited a sulff of benze- way, but after many weeks of plastic pipe which neatly plucks
mendous applause when shown drine out of
con a plastic here not long since. by the beliefs, the taboks Than Laden their constant wear and no pressing the buila off the ground
tainer and said: "Well, you unless the little woman does suction, zo that the poor golfer Well, if King Vider und Dino can't deny that che has part at for hinr--they will probably exertion of swinging his club.
will not have to sloop after the Lina entis, who alreeted Henry herself aver as 'name." It's revert to their natural state.
Fundo, and Audrey Hepbum in been a fascinating performance, shapeless mons. baggy at the
It in Italy, bad chosen to make Now all we are waiting to see knees,
It here their costs would have i can she act?" pockets
bulging from a bottle without straining jumped enormously. pipe-smoking equipment and occasional hip flank, the in-
their musties งา ILTY old- fashioned corkscrew. The now side pockets stuffed with cur- remer which mysteriously
kind has it out in a jiffy, with dia- appears whenever
out mongling want
either the hand some.
or the cork,
In Oxford on attempt has been made fa dni mus. A tam of Cocial researchers went on a door-to-door tour of St Ebbes, un odel part of the elty, and also of Barton, a new consell estate
In each place they asked questions like What do on culer respectible?”
The answers they got are published and analysed an book "Family Neighbourhood" (Oxford University Press, 308.) And this below) is how they read
IN THE NEW COUNCIL HOUSE
This is
respectable--
To have A Ilving-room separate from the kitchen,
To have a one-child Inmily.
To keep the children inside
Husband and wife not sleeping the house and garden. together,
Talking about sex.
Sex relations before marriags, even during engagement,
Going out with the lodgers.
Family quarrel that are molleratie to an outsider,
To have matching furniture,
To have no debla.
To Join a Christmas club.
before visiting To "top up" relative
To have a lawn, with flowers
la the front of the house and To manage badly, or to get vegetables at the back. into debt,
This is
taboo--
with
with
you
They can now remove a cork
dis- The
For the Lazy
Guess what-men havo covered black and white. totesi issue of their own fashion magazine acclaims this original non-colour combination "symbulia of male forthright
approach
nca
the direct which women can never muster
but admire
To approve of the children "at | in themselves, the end of the road,
men."
To avoid belonging to clothing clubs,
To "visit," or stay late.
complain
Το
the estate.
Lo
To drop in on the neighbours,
entelaily a tea-time.
To talk too much about your
uri
anyone tell me
a conspiracy
of
The 5,000 extras would have been union members and would have received
i won thinking of that while a minimum Dors was falling me of the long... $16 (day 26 105) a day queue of films waiting for her each. That tots up to something she starts off with another in
week's time.
like £30,000 a day, just for the hired help for one battle.
#
Opposite Rod Steiger in "The Lady
shut
and the Provier" and in one too-like in "Yield to the Night she winds
up in
PIO
*Viz-
IKEWISE for the lazy thoro is So there we are of some of the death cell. Only this time
a shoe harry with a long, ong us. It all the American stars, not the noose but the
directors hande, to save having to heel producers, and
were chamber awaits.
There are all sorts of others, over when putting on a shoe. suddenly to come home from In
Down on my list for Christmas abroad simultaneously, Coch B, climaxing next spring in presents goes a fighter with a De Mille could make a stupen- comedy with Bob Hope, According ໄມ the caplon built-in Swiss watch at a dous
The ople of it called..
I pilched the find! question. writers.
men's clothes do surprisingly cheap price
Prodigal Children," and you "Diana," I said, "do you think the advantago that you things. Lapels, for in-
have would have almost as stirring a your impact outsiders curious
is only about the family, the house or stance, "roll down the Jacket."
only one thing to lose, rather mob scene as the Battle of the escat?" In one sult, the "hirt runs fair-
than two.
Beresine
"My what?" she said. in another, the pockets are "set why no self-respecting man will brated MacColl Interview Tech- ly sharply away from the waist."
"Your Impact," I repeated- Finally, can
In fact, I found the only flim employce worthy of the cele "Is it only temporary?" on a slant which runs a lie do up the bottom button of his argue was the girl from Swin- smiled, impacts are tem- She umalung the Dout and with the lapels and are thus in
Is it walstrout? a postion which will clear the
porary," she repiled. "They're of don, Wilts, owners A to protect sirapa of flahing-waders.
And why,
The studio publicity handout bound to be. It's like buying a incipient paunchest problem that won't worry
Soon the effect the it this button is never used is said "Diana Dorn was born in new dress. well-dressed woman, at any rate. there an instant outery that it Swindon, in the South of wears off.
year
from mut
know? Three pewn on' again England Male Models
immediately, if
Somehow I'd never thought years is It happens to
long time Laly off?
of Swindon quite like that but pictures and I'm making money. "But myway I'm making FOOTNOTE: That unfastened
there's no getting away
Lois of platures and lots of walstwood button was, reputedly, the fact that Miss Dors is the money. I have no SILANCING through the fathina
by cutest little offering that has so sympatholle Feature
extraordinary the photographis, I ses that male fashionable
fur come off Swindon's--turn- mates to Britain's
writhed in a farewedi On models vary from the simper- portly George IV who just tabs-Swindon in the South went Swindon in a swimsuit to ing to the bellicose, to the just couldn't get his waistcoat to of England, that is,
mako another talce. I on he plain embarrassed I-don't- button all the way down.
I groped my way through the I wish her well. Impact or no usually - dó - this sort of.. Editor.
yentas gloom of an RKO. impact. thing-y'know .type.
set, tripped over a coble and
own affairs.
To pry on the neighbours, To refuse to cultivate
02
to
the
the
repay
garden,
To borrow from a neighbour, especially if you do not promptly and in full.
To
To be "rough" Ta attend services wooden church but estate.
To be willing to tend to the centre now.
To have no children, only 'one, neighbours or more than four.
To have a deilngitent in' the community centre,
To have a pollshed front door family. knocker, keyhole, front, doorstep, and grate.
To possess TV at parlour. bathroom, piano, not curtains,
To talk on the doorstep.
To "pass the time of day" only.
To join certain groups, as church soetetics, boys' clubs, etc.
To drink "a bit” at Christmas.
To allow children to go "town-walking."
To have no ballroom.
To have the neighbours in to rassip.
To be snabblad,
To go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist,
To make derogatory remarks about St Eubo's.
To foln a political party.
IDEAL HUSBAND
To have helped to build
the
To "go on a bachelor do"; for husbands.
To be an atheist,
To allow the men to go alone; for wives.
of
To be too religious. To discuss polifles. To be too studious.
To Join social clubs, not con- nected with the factory or workplace.
To attend church.
To exchange magazines the neighbours.
with
·To read "good" books and attend "good" filma,
To be successful.
IDEAL HUSBAND
HE ... Is the kind to help in the house "IT the wife grumbies a lot.” ... Helps his friends with practical repairs, and scoopla their help............. 'Never, ines to club more than twice a week........ Rářely gives anyone a direct opinion of his wife
HE... Is not one for the pubs, though. He likes his or now and then.... Is proud of the végelables he grows on the allotment. home at regular times, Is not demanding woxually... Is the kind who does housework. If necessary. . . . Is good at household repaira and decorations, ... Bhown affection, through motions rather than words, s. Dom's discum, arriving home after work (,, and hún 'x"ohair religion
is apt to take off his collar and tile... on
[reserved for his exclusivė uso.
community
in tho
on
JOHNNY HAZARD
SABOTAGE?! BUT NO ONE ANOT PELIBERATELY!
1
WHY NOT? HOW MUCH
·DID FALCON AIRCRAFT LOSE IN CONTRACTE #I THIS RACE BY DEFAULTZA.
OVER FORTY MILLIONI BUT, JOHNNY, THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE WE'D HAVE WON, ANYWAY WE WEKE UP AGAINST STIFF
COMPETITION
be
the
(OOFKNIGHT)
YEAH, VERY STIFF COMPETITION, SCOTTYŁ MAYBE SOMEONG WANTED A GUARANTES
OF WINNIKA 1. AND
THIS WAS R
By Frank Rohblas
YOU'RE WAY
NOT IF WE COULDN'T (OVERBOARD, JOHNNYŻ
PROVE IT! I'D LIKE TO [BECAUSE THAT, WOULD · HAVE A CONFAB WITH · |AUTOMATICALLY POINT MISS KITTY HAWKES IM
THE FINGER AT THE SHE MAY HAVE SOMETHING' WINNER «AVATECH )· TO ADD TO THIS SKETCHY
CORRIE
PICTURBI
tromm
now? Who
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complaints." mouth
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this situation:
calls for a
San Miguel