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The Legend That Came To Life In London
And Was Cruelly Hurt
YER
have
By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
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waiver of an eyelash
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As a village where, to sonic extent, everybody kuowa The cverybody own. The snitts pr and the inner the moguls a and his opportunists, the poeta ani tha plusdeyes, tie me a chre politicians,
di comers CAUSTIC
They and the ralists
make up The
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villagers.
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Therefore, when the eminent Mr Liberae, precut. ly arrived in his civilizing mission, the village turned In fact, he force. out in relegato Colon 1. Na ser fo the have h poorest
popula maquapropt
Vore nearby
trafic.
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The
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Imperamental
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it wer arrived at Castle Pure, that fameux tort what me. My sore from
One ribes aft the way.
The blitz, while night during
Jei ve
were altern
kiri friends, 4nring with thei
bomly stivel; the building. In ghastly WHS 11 the London seene of the dead 47:1
dying entet Buf today it is a temple of fame where Grandin Dietrich, th
Juvenile Noel Iception Coward, and now Libernce utter ༣༩ch!
to their gifts and their charm to #champagnea audience. Pat kong's
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k Mr
Liberace, although I had! seen him on television in a filmel version of intirat dilation
his
with a piano. On that occasion an
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at
Up to three pairs of people from their tables azul began a
tate da Bre and
Then wang L.berace hanus
looked them with interest and some conern. He wanted to get on to his next tune, but what would happin to the stately dancers? Brother George was also ob-
iously unhappy.
EMBARRASSED
val of pyS Pardon the
brim he 31 tb 3 The very
tansen for the privilege.
waited a my table fo ribet Lave a "This
and did honour to the wine of for Nigger- woning. shaggling, seen – Free the lights were suddenly "You
chur mum-pl ted, lowered, the druns vibrated inverlag. wiggling, and a spotlight revealed the muneing. lee- great Liljernce earning down the
stairway. Cek heap of mather-love." J. make this reads cor- dad not approve of ended with IL Wari rian chmax of abuse, "He the summit of sex-ihe plu-
old friend of mine, having meleef masculine, feminine and B-tened aud watched 10 nenter," the d. said: "There WHA
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31
I'aderewski."
inniest
When asked Liberare if he had read "Carsmdra" he said: named "yes, indeed. He didn't seem to
Hike me very much."
Not bad. Seldom has 30 much been conveyed by little.
DICTATOR
so
named
Now it happens that in our village there is n runurkable nuan Val Parnell, who has R delightful wife named Mr Parnell is Helen. the dictator of British vaudeville and rules over the Pallalim as if it A fortress. The Parnells belong to the same goif club as the Baxters, and we have been friends for many years.
Wore
Therefore
WER
when
nmusing, Helch
CS
There was no coyness in his manner or in his words, Neither was there mallee, "I guess he's like me," said Libernce. "He feels that he has to give a good per- formance for his fans." An admirable thrust. a pity "Cassandra"
Was
SEQUINS
it
Pas reasons best known to himself he was wearing Jicket made of sequins that glistened on twinkled in The are-lights that glared at Rin. The unemoti ir tich nearly Awarded with excitement.
Thank you ladies Gentlemen," said the pianist a flat, unaccented voice, "I is sure good to be here at the Cafe de Paris." Then with smile
the So Liberace changed lute and, after time, the emberiased dancers realited
hot
had gone Eunething
an Igno- wrong arci beat mint.us retreat.
A BRIGHT RED SHIP FOR THE WHITE SOUTH
асце
By GEORGE HOGAN -
SHIP
in
painted bright pillar-box red 80 that in case of re- operations her hull will show up clearly against the Antarctic lee, has just left London on n six weeks' voyage by way of Madeira and South Georgin to the British Trans Antarctic Expedition's Shackleton Base, at the head of the Weddell Sen.
Magga is
members
the
The two
of
Mr P. radio-astronomy group, Brentan of Leeds and Mr D. P. Harrison of Leyland, will be using equipment of a type which for Bome has been operating years at the University of Man- cheater's Jodrell Bank experi-
mental station.
A man with a greal respons!- bility that Di keeping the inner man antisfled-1s Sergeant Malcolm Edward of Kenten, Middlesex, who is the senior working cook and is normally with the Army Catering Corps. His assistant is Mr I. Coulan- tine of Liverpool.
Real Dangers
When
War
The Magga Dia -- Eskimo for Margaret - is under charter to the Trans-Antarelle Expedition to carry Dr Vivian E. Fuchs and the run parly of
Two older men whose expert to the knowledge 4 esential his explorers to the southeri tee
and wastes for theh treh agrass the expedition's sucess South Pol
also are seconded by the Specially e 11
the Die are Ausari e Conti-
senior diesel for working in Hons, the Magga Dan, «f 1850 mechante. Staff Sergeant Alfred The Amphicit ta! Brnthwell, near 11 - 101N, IN whe
Great Yermouth, and his pesist- ant. Sergeant 1. C. Beney of St Leonardy
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Theron, w els lesale lise Expedi- thu party While St 12 months ago
Launched in Denmh as <- The This yen, enty n Jun new £100,000 pol.2 ship cum- pleted her usul in September,
Sepe
213 Teet
WITH
advances present-
The great setentate of this century give day expeditions certain advant- ages over the explorers of the part, such as Ceptain Cook, who irst eversed the Antarctic Circle IK HITS ? 40 to 1 ant ke
THO years ago in search of fully loaded. Shehu demperate cuntinem. Neverthe 12 knol amination
34 men
teso. Bern, and
allprent coo.ing hey ho de in tropical lone and for healing thers to krep them froskytnud ande: Anturelle conditions.
Ice Fins
There
sides also fin "ke
the dangers awaiting the two polur expeditions aboard the Magga Dan are ill very real.
The Royal Navy's netlayer HMS Priretor has just com- pleted a race of 6,000 miles from the coast of Morocco north or the Equator to the fee-packed is to rescue Bellinghausen Sco
11)
two selentists stranded ont island cut off by a sudden co break,
Ice Cracked A party of four, nick
an outpost expedition of the Faliciand Islands Dependencies Survey, had sledged
Lonely foux Island over trozen seas. Two of the men returned to their base; then the ice cracked and left their colleagues stranded. FOT several weeks they slept in tents and lived on emergency rations while the Protector
hurried
With powerful ktufe-like bows and a slim bu, the Magga Danted with this und an ice puiter. In sirdey to work he wat Lugh Le-covered seas she ha extra hengthening at the stent and very heavy linling bottom. Knife" to protect the rudde when the ship is going water. Her prope.ler is led with variable-pitch screws which act as gears and will enable the ship to push steadily through thick ice foes.
A special
of the Magga Dan is the crow's ne south, which can be reached through
feature
Only once before had a ship the hollow mast a great houn erosed the Artaretle Circle in
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It
So dit the Baxtris. had been a long night rad Jeep Was weighing heavily upon our eyelids.
Three daya then Helen
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Cur heru
BLUNT
posted by, Pardell phoned that she was going Brewell party
ut
flat.
erne.
she
her
sold. "Mom is going to yo there, and you must see her, She is really something.
"Let's Ho," said my wife. she
mado it as a mere sug- Resilen, but there was an air of finally in her voice which made me realise that we would be among those present.
at innocence he native
ut
When the Purnells throw a party in their fat it is really nething. On this night Uliere were flm directors, two or
petrs, the lovely Duchess
Argyll, gossip stwriters, chairmen of companies tycoons, golfers, playwrights
But alps! television moguls. Momma Liberace was not there.
was the only other re of the family. Liberace played the
plano, but obviously his heart was not in it. That
casy smile had given to n why
fensive look, like Hamict worrying about Opheila. On, on he played, and the guests clamoured for Then
more he asked to be forgiven it ho stopped, and we agreed. A few mintites later he took me into a small detached alcove and we sat down,
It was said: "I'd better get out of the sequins will not melight or there to take the dagger to his melt." breast.
there
rumou
the Unfortunately, spread that Liberace was in the theatre, and Val Parnell had to plan his esipe from the crowds that would be waiting at every exit. So when the performance was over we all went backstage and inspected some performing monkeys in their cage and met the artists on the bill.
AUTOGRAPHS
Liberace
Ha? Hal A hatá most palpable hit! The fact that he always mys idees probably hot matter. No two audiences are the same
"Lon
to
MIXED-UP
It
In the platform, rendy es:stuct the orchestra, was pleasant, brother. George-a
looking Italian medest Amoricun without even a sug- gestion or flamboyancy. George is no real shakes as a conde
but he maintained the
"Did you read *Cas- rhythm of the band and never
sandra"?" Yes, I had read it, signed auto-
took his
off the planist.
"Why does he write such the graphs, complimented
joux!" said Helen
things about me," Bild VETIOUR turns and made
Sce how he idores
Liberace.
"What have I anne 2 pleasant es himicit as
Liberace."
that is 30
I like play- even intriguing,
wrong? pellicien on polling day.
That's one of the nice things
Ing the
the plano for people and phoned one morning to say that
Quito obviously he likes bout Helen. She has been in
I don't mean Liberace was caning
any Barm to belag Hked. Never once did
show business for years, yet sho guest to the early performance
anyone. Then why, why does merey, although he ask for
falls for anything. of the Palladium (it is a twice
Cassandra, write such stuff? he sill had to face the
How would wo
good a planist is the and nightly affair)
beca has ardeal of
reproduced the sophisticated eminent Liberace? The answer Jol her in the stage box? After
night clubbers at the Cafe la that he is quite good. Hir
In Time Magazine mid hea the performance we would first
de Paris. It is true that he touch is delicate, his fingering alt over America. I got a letter
gat into local newspapers dine et a
quiet night club D
smilca, end smiled until
is dexterous Maytnir and then move on to the Cafe de Farb, where Liberaes his fucd must have acted, but pleasant. He did not attempt from a friend of mine who lives
his manner
did not vary, 20 onything that required any great in the port of the States where would do big stuff.
once remarked matter how big or small was technique, but what he did he we come from,
article had been published there Oscar Wilde that almost 1 ory things that the performer who came up to did well.
100, Most of it was googly senti- The fabulous Liborącu, 20 die rot interest him were sights him.
Finally Val Parnell smuggled mental stuff (and his singing of interest. To come extent I set that way about the him out, and by devious routes voice would be lost without a longer implied. To use the awful transient stars of vaudeville and we gathered at the Casa Novo, microphone) but he has a gift jargon of the moment, he was the cinoma. Nevertheless, Hlen Quich costly night club with of happiness. He likes, playing just a hurt, mixed-up kid who Parnell's invitations #comed to excellent cooking, good wines the plano, He likes people to prolinbly, wanted to go home to
Ho like Mom.
from the drawing-room came ing this particular phenomenon When the three musicians Cafe dd, Paris, he likes money the strains of a Chopin Nocturne from the plant, it was Lood of the entertainment World
stopped for breath, tuberace and He likes being alive, Fortunately, the singe box at
As with many biler groat Jolly, who plays well but will the Palladium is at, an angio: smalled encouragement for them, which permits the occupaite li ute when they buon for his men. He has found the real never make.
cutograph
is
supply a pleasant way of study-made mais belo of a glanist, listen to his playing:
baritone and a bites violinist. George and Mom, no likes the
"Cassandra's
D
a
The Ma Don also
Magga platform on the quarterdeck for П helicopter or small conven- tonal wiped aireraft.
In sub-zero temperatures. It is is area in November-a Nor- -in effect
zeb, Wegan whaler in 1843-but no a second bridge,
got through Then and Protector High to
to give the observer and
from 40 miles off the island her the captain an unobstructed all helicopter rescued the two round view, so
when necessary
scientists and their nine husky the ship is in les
all It has
trips All dogs, making five round the essential navigation
ion insiru
before the men, animals and all ments end engine-room controls
their equipment were recovered. enable the captain
There is stilt danger and manoeuvre the ship from aloft,
hardship to be endured in the hos Antarctic, and none know that better than Dr Fuchs and his men, who act out next ytor from Shuckleton
the Base to cross Her master,
Hans South Pole and meet Sir Ed- Caplain
and his
party Pereen, a 43-year-old Date, mund Hillary
their bas called in Polar waters for fighting
way
appoalle seven years and has been with Antarctica from
direction. expeditions. He four Australia has bien al sea since ho was 14. and gained wide experience of naviguilon both in the Aretle and Antarctic during his cap- laincy of the Kista Dan,
nt
Tons Of Stores The Maggo Don ta carrying some 700 tons of aleres and the personnel of two expeditions to the Anturetic, Dr V. Fuchs and his party are going the whole 0,000 mies to the bare Shackleton, where they will join
his the advance party which been living precariously there for the past nine months. They of lost a considerable quantity stores and equipment when the sen Ice
broke unexpectedly away, and since then liave been Ilving in
converted large packing care and sleeping in two-man tents,
Tho sca took their solid fucl and left them little means of keeping out the cold in a tem- at times 90 degrees perature below freezing
They have, however, remained cheerful and are looking forward to the arrival of the Magga Dan and
their year's mall.
other expedition consists of 21 men and is the main party of the Royal Society's Antaretle Expedition for the International Geophysical Year. It will be leaving the Magga Dan at Halley
This expedition is led by Colonel Robert Smart, RAMC, ex-Deputy Director of Hygiene. Western Command, and formerly CUTT instructer at the Army School of Hygiene. It includes a meteorological and geomagnetic group live, wether men seconded by the Meteorological
Dowell of Pinner, Mr Andrew Office. They are Mr Joseph Mac- Blackie of Sestri, Mr. M. C. Burlon of Lecda, Mr G. Ward of Birmingham and Mr. D. T. Tribble of Wembley,
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Aurora Australis. The ionospherie" group. of thace, who were trained at the Radio Research Station at Bell- Mr chambers of Cheltenhamn,
L Canefeld, airerarch chejhist; of Welwyn and ale
W. Barley, of Les-on-Sea will study the electrified One man of his own will be Mr GM. Thomas' jeho will be responsible for making Viruna observations of
he wrote a short, mbebing of burdens, which ihna yotikk FARE COM AND FALAN the upper atmosphere.
sit back and be unobserved, and tribute to their musicianship.self-expression at a prontwaaked And that brings to an end Let it bo put on record, that North our conversation at "Let's be sentimental said this story of a legend, that camo Labornce was alling its a bọter the table did either fila eyes or Liernes in that asing mắt, un- to la' mhs Londong, and was where, no ono in the audiets his mind wander,
proclaim him awit but 10 played a tooling beginning WHE could soo him.
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