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THE CHINA › MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH - 27, 1957.7**
Cummings
LIBERACE
This business of Liberace and his mother had better be dealt with once and for all. Lee has had to face too much ill-informed and malicious gossip about it. If a famous artist is to be allowed no private life—and that's the way it is in the world today--at least the details of it, the last pitiless probing into it, might as well be accurate,
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Mom Liberace is now within got together a little money, he is when we both want to spend aight of sevenly. a handsome bought a house in California, the afternoon cooking different woman with much In her free far from the smoky, industrial things. Lee cooks fine, but I and carriage to indicate how cities of his childhood, and sent can't bear having him under my
She was feet when lovely was the young girl whom for Mom to share it,
I'm doing Salvatore Liberace loved married nearly fifty years ago, parlour in Mliwaukee, and she that one: "Mom's a fine cook." For many of those long married nays one of her great memories he says, "but I need plenty of years Mom faced the constant is of the telephone ringing late space when I'm doing some- worry of caring for a family at night when she had shut up thing noble with spaghetti!") and running a home on too few shop and gone home to her and as for Lee marrying "Of
little apartment. dollars... so that she was ex lonely
This course he'll marry," Mom says, posed constantly to the nagging was after her divores, and the "and no one will be more happy But of mounting bills or the lack of family were reattered-Ann to when he does than me. essential things.
stop me being her marriage, Lee and George that doesn't Her life was their careers in distant part happy in the meantime: so I get bounded by the rent day com-
both ways!" ing round too soon, by down of the States, and Rudy to his i
military service-and Mom was at-heel books that couldn't
"We'll 50 (as she frankly tells us) ratior
build... Lee pro- for repair, by clothes worn out that couldn't easily be replaced
mised one day. doctors' bills, by
school
Alvin DingmNDI, tuition fees, fees, tult
Her life.
a lending architect, and one of it is true, was the life lived by
the best local butlers, Willan millions of mothers the world
The "I wasn't surprised when the Stelksal,
three of them over, in years when war and phone rang," she says, "because put their bends together, and o depression had shattered every- the children were always calling striking modern home began to take shape-cighty-five thousand das pecurity for the working up to see that I was all right people everywhere. Mom eer. But Lee's voice sounded full of dollars worth of house. tainly has no complainta and excilement as he spoke from was in the summer of 1952. she knows she did her job for Hollywood. 'Mom,' he Bald, its own sake, looking for no come on over here. I've bought Dingman, who has designed most attractive well- house! Leave the ice-cream come of the than greater reward
buildings in the brought-up and united family, let it melt! You're going to five modern
นาย But is that any reason why she with me now! Well, of course west,
says Leo
a ellen! "Mary should reject the
his own heart. Rexxt things I took a little more time than after
and then running an Ice-cream baking." (Lee has an answer to
that have come her way? Of course mot And she shares In Lee's success should.
its
mother
of spirits, even though she knew the children were now all established in life and no longer in need of her help,
“.
Be called In
"That
for
that, but I went on over, and people want a house, and they've we've been together ever since."
e." no idea of their own tastes or Mom gets very annoyed at needs...I
might have to do a criticisms of this arrangement, dozen
and rough Iny-outs after all the world is full uf sketches before they begin
to mothers ilving with their son, see thelt dream-house Laking close and why shouldn't she live with
Not Liberace. shape on paper. hers? "Besides,"
says He knew right from the start, indignantly, "they're all wrong when they say he's tied to my even down to details like the apron strings. Was
This second son and Mom
especially were always because circumstances brought them together during the most difficult years, when Rudy
100
young WIND
the bom in 1930) to share burden, and George was often away with his father on musical engagements
Of town. So Lee Knows better than any body how hard Mom worked to keep the home together,
out
kind of kitchen stove.
Many We've both got of the details of design are his, our lives to lead, and I'm much the
tou busy running the house too, and so is the predominantly 11's big one, too-to have any black-and-white colour schemes, which represents the black and time to be borsing Loc,
white pluno keys. Against this fact, it's the other way round.
sete Lee
little Mam, you're coming over to background New York on Friday, he'll say, colour touches of block and red
That's why na soon as Lee had established himself and had
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his
of The sudden illness bullder we'll Cümle back to Lee's that later-nearly upset plans to be in his new home by Christmas, but special effort by everybody (nol excluding Lee
arrived himself, who
In the middle of the bustle to install a huge decorated Christmas tree), Anally got the last screw home and the last nali driven by when sixty Christmas Eve, special friends to do the house honour,
were assembled
and its owner
They admired the spacious living-room, which houses Lec's collection of miniature planos over two hundred of them, some exquisitely jewelled, and, others scale models of famous instru- ments, like the one 01 Paderewski's which was
racks
admired
of
the
the
NASSER TAKES ISRA SRAEL
WARNS
and what does Ike think of his 'cavalier language' to me now?”
AN EXPRESS MAN REPORTS FROM THE LAND OF SIEGE
IT'S BAYONET RULE
I
HAVE just been at the wrong end
of an Indonesian bayonet, The soldier holding it was determined to show me who runs this tottering re- public.
RUSSIA
NOW IN THE 'SPICE'
It was no use protesting. The army is bosa today in Indonesia. It
holds two thirds of the country. In the remainder it arrests, censors, and in- terrogates at will. The Central Government has re- signed.
(VOREAU
CHINA
JALATA
TORMOJA
"ROWS #34%
ŠTETNAM
SARAWA
JAPAN
The politicians have had their innings. They talked and intrigued and pocketed millions from the national till. Now it is the army's turn.
ni
The soldier held me bayonet
point among the audience of an emptying cinema,
"Papers," he said. The bayonet crept closer to my shirt.
PACIFIC OCEAN
claime Dutch
NEW CUMA
* MALALAKERA
Lerritory
FORMED
SUMATRA
ЦА
INDIAN
Jakarta
• BARS
OCEAN
MADERA
FARMARI
INDONESIA
AUSTRALIA
On Rubber Tea Coffe
Palm ons Copra Tim Rice Marza Scal
waits for Capitalism
to destroy itself-did not Lenin say it carries the seeds of its own destruc- tion?-and the other half waits for Communism to destroy itself, all sorts of smaller
problems worrying citizens in Bri- tain.
& re
of
present from the Master to his WHILE half the world disciple. They black-and-gold dining-room, it by a superb palr ol silver candelabra. And the music-room, severely practical, with its huge plano, Its
Lope performances and spenkis hours recordings (Lee records all his playing them over to detect faults in technique, or to devise new techniques) and its library of plano-music which must ink.
There is a girl, writing from clude almost every piano piece of any merit ever written. Here, the North of England, who asks an editor: "Should one remove too,
recordings by Are
shaking one's glouca before hundred of the older piano
hands?"
and a Mrs Beech masters, led of course by
Cheshire asks Padorowski. It is a musician's paradise, that practice room, but another harass- led editor if Low
it, for it exists
tortoises
have not as a show place but as
cars. strictly
utilitarian pisco of
Mra Beech business; for and the thing
she always must be said again--a mən Uko
talks to hor Liborace attains and retains
tortoisen when his great place
not by genius
they wake in alone,
application.
the spring, Now Gentur is the crude raw who has heard material; constant and never-
they have slackening hard work is what no ears and is makes it the shining thing it is wondering when the lights go up, and the she show begins. Too many artists wasting have failed because they thought gentus was enough without any further aid, and the gutters of the world, are full of sari men playing violins who think the world has shunted them, when it is their own defects that have sot them there. It la true thote
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but
that
Ha
been her
·
Indeed, you were not even pected to look at him.
cx-
It
If the person you met was genteel, but poor, a slight In- clination of the head was enough to keep him in his proper place. If the person was of your own social standing you could either
say "Excuse my glove" before shaking hands or remove
glove in the ordinary way.
the
But if the person approach- ing was above your social status you were in a fix. You might struggle madly with your glove, hoping to get it off in time.
only to find he had mistaken you` for a trades-
stayed there whic Ministry Identity card.
for my
new
ISLES
Mrs Israel
Goes Home To The Washing
YOLDA
G Foreign
New York. Meir, Israel's Minister, is
back again in the United States, battling for her tiny country, challenging Secre- . tary of State Dulles in his. headquarters at the State oll. Department and mobilising
public opinion on her side. throughout the country,
rich I fumbled of ivice”—some
in Information rubber, and uranium.
Already army commanders have seized most of Sumatra, the Celebes,
Indonesian Borneo, Only in Java have they stayed loyal
More armed troops guarded the street corner. A bren gun pointed towards the einerna exit. A bicycle patrol pedalled leisure- past with slung carbines.
So quiet Djakarta was deadly quiet, ever It has stayed that way since Prime Minister Dr Sostreamidjojo and his Govern- ment resigned and President Sukarno declared a stato of war and slege.
on
The Ministers will carry as "caretakers" untu A new Cabinet is formed
I glanced back at the cinema crowd. A pretty girl in a flowered sarong yawned--into the grim face of a soldier.
and
Since she was last here two weeks ago she has become more blaze more haggard, her eyes flercely, and her manner is more intense, The Foreign Secretary almost overshadows the woman.
The men who beat the Dutch In bitter guerilla
have war decided it is time to salvage something from the wreckage.
has burst The only violence upon the Indian Embassy. The owner of the house
which Indians have been renting as a staff mess decided his property back.
Ho hired 120 schoolboys who blouse. slormod in the other night and dismantled the roof.
In black
he wanted 17 Meir is always dressed in
Suspended
plain black dress or a black
skirt with Jacket ind
a white
She disdaina Jewellery except for her plain gold wedding ring and the Israeli emblem on the Orchids on lapel of her coat, Mrs Meir would look absurd. The successful rebel com Yet the feminine warmth is manders from Sumatra, the there and the Celebes, and Borneo are In Djakarta just now for talks with quickly to her eyes. President Sukarno.
That was the mood of them
They will decide whether civil all. Boredom-uster boredom.
war Can be avoided with They have grown so sick of colleagues who have stayed crises and choos since the Dutch loyal to the Goverment.
left eight years ago,
The conference is suspended.
So the rebels are holding
match with tennis
And with Kving standards sinking, they feel the soldiers could hardly do worse than the friendly politicians.
Power in the prize in this
mation of 80,000,000 scattered through 3,000 tropical "19lands
Djakanla police.
Russell Spurr
of several letters
@
The recent statement by stag more notice hunters that stags are happy sent if by foxes." when being chased has made me
They were all full of pity for wonder if I have sometimes con- derined hunting people
huntsman rather than when they ought to be piled..
In other words, are they Just a teeny, weeny bit wacky?
When, some years ago, a fox hunter sald foxes Uked to be hunted, it became a national joke. As you never find the intelligentela in the hunting feld, I regard it as a suT-
the
themselves.
tears can como
to
She is a devoted mother her son and daughter and was a wonderful wife to her late hus- band.
She is utterly absorbed by her save Israel drom mission to extinction, to dely the Arab States, and reaist the pressure of the United Nations and the United States.
She is contemptuous of the all companies and has no desire to visit Texas, but would like to seo Milwaukee, where she was brought up.
I have attended several of her Press craferences and she talks treely and eloquently and with a conviction that sustains her
or 17 hours, through her working day of 10
who
Own cook
One wrote: "It is quite true ONE of her closest friends,
Mias
Regina that we like to be hunted, but
Hamburger, with her, was at school not for the reasons generally went with her to Israel, and who accepted. We realise we are now acts as her secretary when being chased by under- Mr Meir is in the United States, developed people who might says. "Mrs Meir has little time do something much, worse for anything but work, 2nd we did not provide an outlet never has had." for primitive emotiona"
Another put his paw on the spot when he
NATHANIEL CUBBINS
ime.
I thought that the old problem darkened about gloves which
man and walked on."
prising bit of wit coming from an unexpected quarter."
#
said:
Wilde's
uf fox
the
ama
45
The Foreign Secretary lives in a small hotel in mid-tow
She cooks her own meals in a kitchenette,
Mrs Mair does
her own laundry, which must make her wiique
the world's un- Foreign Secretaries. Scrubbing
In clothes relaxes her.
•Deal pursult
full
among
long doy After her
the United the uncatable Washington or at contained
Nations headquarters in New York she will drive to her hotel truth, like most and work until two or three in
great deal
witticisms.
0
"As we se not edible, and
the huntsman le not, therefore Inspired by hungar, we can only
my adolescence when I wore I am glad Mm Beech's editor love was as out of drie a dropped everything to find out they believe it, rather like
Now I am beginning to think sume that killing us is the sublimation of a frustrated ds. the bansom cab. But if such about tortoises. They have cars little girl I know who was try- sire to kill somebody else. points of etiquette still exist after all.
to justify This will set her mind at rest, ing
the enormous perhaps the following rules,
took in de- by experience, might be but as she seems so fond of tor satisfaction sho
tolzen I hope she won't let them capitaling her doll with a breed
knite.
is room only for the best at the help of all it war casential listen to the newa:. After a long
top, and for one that succeeds
a hundred aro cast aside. But, it is also true that those who reach the top in so exacting a profession as this of music, have reached it by superhuman efforts of a concentration (land) sacrifice." That," quite plainly, la why Lee has never marriak,
| MORE TOMORROW
to
have prevented "if we huntsman from murdering his wife we are glad to have been of some service to civilian tion." "But dolly' likes
She said, make yourself aware of the winter sleep it would be a shock social standing of the person to hear about the Middle East having her head cut off with whom you were about criats
to shake hands,
*If the person was of the lower orders--that is a person in trade. or a manual winker---you never ebook fandawilla, balm, að alla
Are they nuts?
· 'HAVE my little
To sum up, the sooner hunts- As the only columnist in the mem are taken out of the saddle world who can count animals and put on a parchiatrist's couch among his correspondenta,:\I\ther, betien for alt. amight have appreclited the frie, situnilor long ago 17 X had faken.
World Copyright)
the morning.
Tougher
visit thin on her last Fanything she seems tougher
on
Asked if she thought the United Nations had sold out Israel she 'wald: "Wa-will' have to wait a day or two. We are not a nation that easily loses faith, The tense altuation in Gam is the direct responsibility of the United Nations, and if UNO has made errors it must correct those BITOTS.
*1. see no reason why direct. negotiations should not start at once between the Arab Statos/ Į and Karnel. That, has bem que
Wand for you"
DON IDDON