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THE CHINA MAIL, {MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956.
In The Role of Santa Claus
W
On The
Tragic Frontier
By G. E. LEY SMITH
direct consequence of the
oggression Anglo-French
in Egypt the Hungarians having to pay for it."
ITH other students of Vionna Univer- nity helping the a authorities to cope with the flood of refugees pouring into Austria from Hungary has been a young girl from Aberdeen, Scotland Miss Sandra Hay.
the time. At the end, each one of us fell suro that he or she would be haunted by visions of hundreds of cups of tea, or chunks of bread, or sausages,
I were given the very pleasant ***tnak" of 100ding ourselves with chocolate and” bags of sweets (all donated)" and "goling round the rooms and corridors giving them to children. It made you Santa Claus, and feel quite
with the
wo had great fun
But, she adds, It has been
young men who went down on brought home that the Anglo-
"Refugees have beers coming their knees and tried to pretend
were children toot French action was not a case of in at the rate of fifteen hundred
the course of our trips, fighting for mere imperialistic every Twenty-four
hur...
conversations were
ere hold in six A case of merely Numbers are cold and LTI-
languages German, English, Working day and night in Trasons or
fighting against Egypt. It was personal, impressive though French, Italian, Spanish. When shifts, she and her follow directed against Soviet intrigues, they may be, but when you all else failed, and this was only students have been toiling 100.
think of them as people and see in ong instance, we resorted arduously to
the
them with your own eyes, each to a few individual words "I think that once the Aus- misery of the Hungarians ruins and Hungarians realise who have filed before the that, their criticism of British Russian terror.
and French is sure to diminish, They have
been so taken up willy the Russians here that they do not seem to have con allered until now that the Russians might come into the Egypt story as well.
ease
She herself would be the last claim credit for what she to
What she has has been doing. to say reflects, rather, the agony of the Hungarians, and not the selflessness of herself and the others who have worked so
tirelessly to help the refugees Non-stop Job
at the moment of their cleepest despondency-the moment quitting their homeland.
Her letters lone give an Kimpse behind the intimate scenes; and her father, Mr A. Leslie Hay, has given me per- mission ta qual number of passages from them in the hope that they wil stimulate
sponse to the appeals for help for the Hungarians
Eden Critics
Miss Hay, for all her youth, is an accomplished linguist, with
knowledgo of French, Gør- man, Italian, and Spanish
She
has studied at Perugia Univer sity, Italy, nt is at prosent spending 11 your t Vienna University.
"One thing is sure: that is the really magnificent way in which all countries have given all they could to help the refugees and --ow that the Red Cross is
into allowed
Hungary--the and homeless in wounded! Hungary Itself.
ها
D
There seeins
"AL Traiskirchen, IL twenty-four-hour nou-stop job reselving and sorting out all the staff that arrives. to be an endless procession of lorries and vehicles coming with about everything under the sun, from safety-pins to giant brand. new washing machines.
person in his or her own rigat, Larke all of them had to flee
and capable of all sorts of feat-
A
ings and sufferings as such—it with next to nothing. But one is only then that hitherto young fellow who spoke to mo abstract terms such as "Com for a long time in English had munism, Tron Curtain,' and so brought his Hungarian-English on, lake on a real meaning. dictionary with him. He hoped
to get to the United States.
"Two of the people I talked to for quite a while seemad to
sum up what all the refugees Full of Lies would say. One of these people was a father, and he said: 'Can you imagine what life was like?
children, they My
went to *chool.
Every night for ten yours 1 tell them; LEARN what what the Russians tell you.... But don't BELIEVE
you can.
Now we flee, We want to tvo no more like that....'
"Another Hungarian had been teacher of English in Budapest. He was not very old and had Ute
the gentiest, mildest He went two or three faces, Lunes to the British Consulate
to as he wanted
road news papers or something from the West. That was his crime.
"And food has come in by Secret Police
the store-rooms, there is so much the ton. When you see it in
of it you cannot imagine it will be eaten, but once you over start handing it out, it goes in
What was really pathetic was the way so many of them asked us what' the news was Hungary.... What was from
What likely to happen? happening there?
wng
"Of course, they get news- papers at the camp, the same popers as I read myself. They ure delivered free and distribut
the Hun- day, but ed every garians are used to Hungarian newspapers and radio reports full of lies, and they no longer riewe- have any confidence in popers."
Miss Hay says that clothing distribution is being carried out un a colossal scale. A whole building has been ret apart for the unpacking and sorting of "For six months he knew he the parcels. The work, done WIN being trolled; for six chiefly by an American Quaker months he expected to be taken group, goes on for twenty-four away. Eventually the Secret hours a day. Poilce came and said to him When the students arrive in that they had to arrest him. He the morning at Traiskirchen, on has been in prison for the last the frontier, one of their first two
fortnight jubs is to give the people break. ago. He is hoping to be allowed fast-tea, as much as they like, to go to America." bread, as
much as they like;
In her Telters home, she lasii,**
writes:--
and
yours-unul L
It was decided to give a sort The pianist played "You were asking what the
concert. Strauss, Lehar, Liszt-music Austrians were
saying about
known and loved by all. One Anthany Exen
of the refugees recited a long She goes on to say that there
poem he had just composed. It was heavy criticism of hum.
of course, Ítungarians
an 1
very spirited IL Wus talking to were naturally very
about the tearing down of the bitter about the Suez business
"More than ever before were
Red Star.
Then the Hungarians -the second onslaught of the
we able to be in amongst the sang Hungarian songs to the Jussians
Door Hudapest "For ulmost an hour and a Hungarians, chiefly because students from Vianna Univer→ (after it seeme i
were half we were on the landings there were fewer refugees and sity, who in return sang Aus- going away) was regarded as with a steady now of people all more helpers.... A friend and trian and German student
She speaks of another day at was in Hungarian, ration of something else
Trulskirchen:
The
WE were
they
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THE LADY WITH THE FRICHTENED HAIR
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DAVID LEWIN ON BROADWAY
•
*******ARADABAD AGAR★☆★****
'MR WONDERFUL’.
That's what they
call him-and
you're going to
say so, too...
HE
T
New York. man Broadway
calls Mister Won-
derful is a wispy
**************
SIDE NOTE FOR
little 30-year-old RECORD FANS negro singer named Sammy Davis Junior.
Mr Davis who sings and dances and mimes is no beauty: his face is flattened and life nose was broken in a car smash a year or до back.
44CIOMETHING'S GOTTA
or
GIVE," hit song of 1958, first burght
the
voice of Sammy Davis jun, on records. He was a slow starter. But his second record, "Love Me Leave Me," brought him into list. the Top Ten best-sellers
recorda Then came two more which helped to establish him:
"After the concert we had to sorts of roturn to work; ali
But Sammy Davis has "Hoy There" and "Earthbound." FILM NOTE: The voice you cleaning up to do all over the such charm and energy that bound singing "Frankie
and gigantic buildings. If the place were not
cleaned properly at women find him enormously Johnnie" in "Meet Me In Les
his what attractive, and
Vegas" was Sammy Davis. Ho first night, I shudder to think
old not appear, might happen-if
even one Broadway showtitled, little Infectious illness came
naturally enough "Mr Won- along with до many people
derful" crowded together.
- is an established SUCCESS.
**************
"I couldn't go fast enough--
or spend enough money,"
The students had been up at
Boys, "When anally I got star 5.30 in the morning, and they
In New York theatre billing I also got a big head. were not finished uli 2 a.m. the following morning. They people crowd to see him. Too big for one hat. Lay
down but could not really❘ Frank Sinatru calls him “a sleep, as at 6.30 am, they had genius." So does July Gar- to be up again and go down to the station-to meet another land. I say he is a talented Afteen hundred new refugees performer with a tremen- for the camp.
dous attack which will make him a hit when he goes to London early next year.
The new arrivals asked many questions about the camp.
"At least we could tell them that they would get as much to eat as they wanted* that the rooms were heated; that they would be given clothing i they needed it.
International
And the question they asked ALREADY his records are beginning to give his name an international cur- rency,
more than anything else; How long did they have to stay in the camp before setting off to their new life In another country?
"So many of them want to go to America...."
Happy Man
Miss Hay tells of one man however,
who WES happy beyond words been
because ha, had
He was talking about 1953, when finally, after touring round urged America, Frank Sinatra showmen to pay greater atten-
lon to Sammy Davis Jun.
In 1958 he became a night club stor and appeared on television. The money was big: £5,000 a week. Davis went on a spending spree. He now owns three cars (one of them a
Cadline); he has bought 20,000 records and 300 pairs of cuft
Brakes.
He ordered suits four at time and started a collection of
*I didn't have
He says: "It is nice when pistols. His philosophy at the your records sell well, but time was
I'm not sure that I'd want when I was a kid. I want
now."
tó have a really top seller which would run into a million copies or more,
"There would be so much promised a job by the worry after that
Worry
་
He got it.
Shrewd talker
it
it
Davis
run
SAMMY DAVIS JUNIOR: AT :30 17: BURSTING WITH A TALENT - THAT... - SINATRA CALLS ··GENIUS' (!!!
When head of a textile factory in about whether you could UE next year he had a car
the Sammy
its Vicana. He did not want to go top it or even match it next smash. He was in hospital out his life he contemplated
for weeks, and when he came becoming Jewish then rejected show finishes too far away. Some day he time. I concentrate on my out ho had lost his left eye and the idea because it might be. Broadway he will tour in a hoped to return to free show instead. I came up his nose was broken,
considered a publicly line. His dim, "The Jazz Trek" - which Hungary
mother for Catholle, and his is the background story to the He explained it was not die through the ranks when
"It was," he says "what is Cathor, a Bapties,
Nogro show that played Sita ficult to get the job in Vienna having a hit record didn't
icnown as a rudo" owakening
London About being calotined ho says because most of the Hungarians mean so much.
Ruder than most people suffer. 1 wererfè a Nogro I would He will appear in the West wanted to get to the other side of the world, or at least as fur
"I scuffled and I hustled and But the weeks in hospital with have made 20 million dollars by End and he will also try to find from the I fought my way up, I was ing to do but think slowed now. Do you know that no time to marry an attractive BWRY Russians, whom they hated and born on tour-my parents were Who am I?" I asked myself. sponsored TV show of his own?
me down. I thought plenty. Negro in America can have a Chicago model, Cordy King possible
dancers--and I went on stogo What do I believe?", feared so much!
Mian Hoy move this man wis the first time when I was two
Tho aporodara worried once a big landowner. The Jean old I have stayed ever “I came to torum with myself. that people in the South, would Rusalans hack taken away his since,
land but left him his home, Now they had taken his house, În, it was a Bhwary of chess books. He hath been one of the great chess players of Hum.
Self-taught
I want to be a great enter" refuse to buy their goods if they
The future
gives himself anojler: 10.
able
tainer Tind is something to becond of weries starring me or Hor 18 yours as a performer. strive for.
I know there la A Esctim Kit; or Lena Horne or Then he wants to direct shows. price to be paid for all this and anyone like that
Already he is restaging the willing to pay it... The talisht me any-Maybe unhappiness is a in businca (100% many Wonderful Then, he
"You have to be tough to be dancing in his own show, “Mir "Nomor te over taken noonary app 100
yourgader today get sentimental ALBthe lessons in singing or dancing orta y de Pape
about show business you know, et tight-fiting dungaroos Fami Sammy Davis talks shrewdly, the sun-1 arabara bil? chose an open-nock; miirt, «und, aingu Intelligently. He has learned songs, But in show business: It clearly and simply; and with “I medo myself and that's the about Shakespeare by going to the busines that counts for great warmnik, va wom maybe I made mys, hesin and weain to see Laurence jugperSTREAM SPOR
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