THE CHINA MATI“ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1956
MUST SHE HAVE THAT OPERATION?
By Cedric Carne
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IKE thousands of other mothera und fathers, Mr and Mrs
Lawrence had this problem: Should
have Jane tonsils removed?
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"You see, we've been to two doctors already," sald Mrs Lawrence. "Une said Jane would be better with- out her tonsils. The other Bald the opposite. If doctors can't make up their minds how can we?”*
Tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly per- formed operations. And many doctors are asking like Mrs Lawrence: "Is it really necessary ?”
Of young men going into the Army nowadays, 35 percent go in minus their tonsils most of them having had the operation between the ages of four and eight.
"Jane is seven," Mrs Lawrence said.
"One point to remember." I ani. is that there is a general normal increase in the size of the tonsils be tween the fourth and eighth years. And since that is the time when most children have
them removed the logical conclusion is that for many of them the operation was unnecessary."
Mir when I continued:
MIRROR SAYS
WE WONT NO WAR
CRISIS TO U.N.O."
SHOOT
NASSER
FOR A
- SAYS ÇAITSKELL
OUT OF
THAMES *
-DULLES
TOWER BRIDGE
AMERE RIVER!
OPERATE
WHEN HIS NEXT GREAT COUP ARRIVES
NO WAR
FOR
SHAREHOLDER
An Astonishing Experience In Ancient Verona
PROFITS!!
SAYS
T.4.C.
OPERA UNDER THE STARS
O
N the shores of Lake H
Garda, in Italy By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP The dirty work by the villainous
are
500 the
to
Varona, but why bother about anything so mundone as that?
Scarpla (now D what mattered.
corpse) was
R1 writing these lines. In some ways
And it was at this point that the setting is like Muskoka,
I repeat that it Int an would make a Cup in the world. the! lakes
Signor Carelli, the tumor, decided although
have been obvious Fin sem Uke a Quaker's on- must
to stepd the decision from the everyone wxcept the Lesar,
vanished Signor Gobbi, the larger. On the hills are ference.
Franco Corelli, who had ideas of champion baritone of the world. ancient villas of stone and
As nine o'tluck drew pear his own on the subject. marble with gurdens that for that was zoo hour for the
When Corelli spered to-6 B Franco Corelli must have a he just refused
to come dowa, the sun, and performance the Lawrence whistled slumber in
people were
that would with- What he was using for breath I "Since Cyprus trees that whisper shouting, in fact almost scream- diaphragm
do not know. There were th. beginning of the to each other of the daya ng with excitement. The lights stand the blow of an iron bar.
shume on the
he soars to B flat his percams and shouts of delicat nrrow When Long National Health Service when the Caesars used to orchestra
pit, with its one diaphragm holds it like the base from the crowd, with bows from something like 200.000
come there for respite from hundred and fifty players. Dimly of a marble pedestal. His throat the tenor, and then a deathly seen gathering children are being admitted the heat of Rome. The we could
vast stage, is wide open and is as exlaxed busts as he was which of the hills wh showed to our hospitals each year | silvery
a strest in Rome, as if it had nothing to do with breath for another fight to the grey
Intertor the
the the a palace
bone that
passing stratosphere, to have their tonsils ont." Blends with the turquoise doors of cathedral and the side through it on its way to the
blue of the waters. London streets leading to the spot. JUST WORRIED
of miles was not480 much ag Bravo, Bunyol", shouted the seems thousands
Rome itself with the front wails Krowd-and Done thou- away and America
removed, if you know what sense about To appimise until sands of years.
the
the act. If Corell! hit a high note of exceptional power, they chered him as if he had scored the winning goal, It did not even need to be the end of an aria or even a phrase. Sometimes it would be a wwe in mere musical dialogue that would bring the cheers of the faithful.
That should cost the country a couple of million pounds. nt least." he said.
nboul
Mrs Lawrence was me think- ing of percentages and figures. She
Just worried Jane's recurring More throats. But most children, subject 10 tonsillar
to Kurt infections,
and spontaneously
get better
naturally-inithout Burgical Interference--when they reach Jane's apr.
“Tm not thinking of when she's 13 or older." Mrs Lawrence replied. "These деге throats keep Jane in bed and away from
If she bas
the school now. operation perhaps she'll catch up with her studies."
AIR
AL thi mement. from the the balcony of our hotel, there
is a babel of French, Italian ond even German--but
no English. The poor English are not hest, They were on the winning side of the war and are still paying
for it.
still there, but it is in "No Entrance" street, and we had to give it a miss.
mcan
of
It stars.
There was met e mir to be seen.
for the vy good reason that there were nons in
This was Illy, the nutre of bel canto, where singig 14 as aturat re speaking repression is unknown.
und
WON
of your
Dag surface it was not un like the excitement used by the, weeping crooner Johnnte Ray bil underneath there was a world of difference. This vast crowd know every note of "To"""
superb
and understood the control of the singer, who was flooding the very sides with the radiance of his voice.
the next
So the periezmance came to Yet the crowd could change an end, and we drove the thirty to Lake Garda, but Two nights ago we motored to
its mood as swiftly as the com cdd miles Verna, that ancient city where
But how would the inductur poser could after his theme. For not before the stadium director (according to Shakespearv) there
had invited us to be his guzats got silence from the shouting example, there was a passage were Two Gentlemen « con-
night when throng? Prestol It came like the where the soprano was singing siderable liveliness. Also it was stuffing out of a candio.
upcodous The so solly that it was difficult to
production of "La Gloconda" in Verona that the star-crossed
onda" would be performed. lovers, Romeo and Juliet, played moment that the lights flashed hear her. Whereupca a parent Take time we
would not have the signal Der since and the ory voice from the crowd shout- out their pitiful tragedy which
This caused both Signor Corelli. Not Not For "La raised his baton for ed: "Ferte!" the conductor
there would to no Wie enshrined for ever the
La Gioconda" thace
cruel opening chords of approval and disapproval, and a magic language of the Bart. In Puccini's masterpiece, the ect dispute broke out as to whether as a sur than Signor Gulseppe fact, Romeo's dwelling place s nurse was as silent es an empty she was doing it the right way di Stefano, Italy's primo tenore or the wrong. Whereupon these assoluto (or so it sounded to me) cathedral,
Admittedly tho orchestra, who wanted to hear the singer who is without challenge in the despite its augmented numbers, instead of the argument shouted world, could not give us the full depth noisily for silente. Fortunately So next night we returned to a concert hall or an opere the soprano at that moment the same setting except that the soured to a tremendous high note crowd was larger by probably a house. It sounded in far, like a
record and was cheered, by everyone. Verona, in fact, has a quite superb gramophone
couple of thousted. many extraordinary fascination, for it multiplied
times, tonsils removed than in these blends yesterday and today into lacking the tonal depth of the who'd said "Boo" to the suregon
There is, for real thing. Then what would and kept their tonsils.
the great
by ancient roof, but the star spangled-sky the last act opened, and on the the presence in our RAN ODG
open air happen to the singers with no stadium. warded "Are you suggesting that the crumbling
walls, where on and with the adjacent square of operation should never be per- festive occasions Christians were Verona
offering avenues of milled?" Mr Lawrence asked.
thrown to the lions for the escape to the tome? edification and entertainment of the emperors and the people.
Yut the answer to that ogain to be found in the day.
voice of desiccated
statistics.
or One survey has shown that zome 14,000 boys and girls the incidence of bronchitis, culda, and
throats was sore
anore Common in those who had their
"Of course not," I said. "Sometimes. the operation to necessary and the chlid is 100 percent better for "
HOME NEXT DAY
В
S unison.
of
And it was from this stadium.
Yet herp was the poradox that I received an invitation to bring myself and my party to an which soon made itself evident. open air performance of Puccini's Even the tenor had possessed "La Tosca.
I have seen much the loudest voice of all time he In my life but rarely anything could not have split our ears la that vast open space, yet the mone astonishing than the scone
eyes on that sheer quality of the voice actual unvelled to our Mr
night.
ly seemed enhanced.
It seemed pealty obvious that
thege conditions the under
Anyway, it's easter children than adults to have the operation, Isn't it?" asked Lawrence.
for
He was right in that children
go into hospital one day, have
after,
are
the operation the next, and are back home the day usually while grown-ups generally in hospital for some 10 days. But the operation is по moro complicated merely because, one is older.
I thought of the reasons for allowing the operation to take place, Mouth" breathing and anoring, in conjunction with a nasal voice and repeated attacks of tonsillitis or quinay. Some- times, too, Impaired hearing may be a leading symptom or dim- culty in swallowing..
"Is it trio," Mrs. Lawrence asked that bud tonsils affect child's intelligence?"!
It was nearing midnight when
stage before our eyes was a city asleep except for the villainy in the heats of men. There was not a movement, not a sound in the great contourse. The fenor had noen scoring points in the previous two rounds, but now supreme triumph his hour of had arrived.
Far away we heard his voice, soft, sad, yot, so beautifully pro- ducod that it travelled acrome the stadium and floated over the rooftops of slumbering Verona,
The meat crowd might have
I do not know what an Italian
· friend of mine in London had written to the management of the stadium, or whether it was of the daughter of Vivien therefore, the stepdaughter of Sir Laurence Olivier,
but on each night we occupied the
open royal box where Musolini the Fascist salute to yelling mobe, and Roman emperors turned down their thumbs when the Christians bad failed to give the liotis sufficient amusement.
Unfortunately, there is a limit to tamen eiumanca, and at one am. we naked to be allowed to Imagine 25,000 people gather- ed in the vast uncovered stands villainous Scarpia would steal been figures on a painted fricze kave. The opera and spectacle, show, because the singer What mattered the lateness of plus a special taillet, had an-
than the hour? True, there was work other two hours to WAT no lesa a personage at the wrong time) and such an
run, and these atunctions and the uproar of anticipatory' excite Tito Gobbi, the greatest baritone to be done
(for there is nover ruin in Italy
the
JOHN GORDON IN AMERICA
on the morrow in dept. sitting of young Signor
EXPLOSION POINT IN
A RACIAL WAR
di Stefano, the tenor, wo felt that the hour or ignominious 10- treat had come..
night?" the director sakod.
We thanked him profusely in amicture of French, English and
German, but muid that_tonight (we would sloep: if only for che
novelty of t
This morning I watched a New York occupying towns and angry Now, after all these yours dark, athletic groung Italian, who WE may be having our citizens prepared to a conscience. 2, wing the hoof his very wrong that was done vague launch Just the A troubles, after a war riot at any moment, I hard- ing the co. As one step to right or water akis drawn by b
she has conterred full citizen- „lor comme saut he shouted syn that has swept away so ly think so.
ship upon her Negroom25/ - 3 fazewell to some tady, perhape Doctors belleved at one time much of our wealth and so
What a situation ilir. In the the kapan
Uwite, and there was. Come They now have the some that tonsil trouble could retard mental development, But now much of our empire, but United Stated there see roughly they know that this is as untrue vast rich, powerful-10,000,000 Negros, Practically rights as white American, And thing strangely guniller in the
one of them cant fruce as part of those rights, the faw Himbre of his voles KETING FROM UN Bave brought decrece that there u. zout, no Lowa
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