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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957.
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OUT IN SOCHI
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HE beaci. at Sochi is narrow and pebbly and far from crowded. This afternoon Tin beach on this an but cold in sand with the funsians laid out, plump and white as young seals, conditions were bordering on the idyllic. "Who are they?" 1 asked Ninn, my official guide. For they showed all the signs of being a Nearly Smart Young Set. Lurid satin bris teamed with black trunks were almost a uniform and-more surprisingly-almost a Bikini,
The ordeal
"They we staying of the rest homes and sanatoriu, Some of them are actors and actresses,"
she sald.
Patient as faktirs on beds of nails, they were stretched out
on the pebbles turning their buttery rkins brown. was more or less ignored,
The average wage is 200 roubles
a week but a dress of cheerless Soothingly
chiffon with weary rosen on it at all wag 450
and D more ex- and ne style roubles! Deadbeat dresses at groove
even Mr the Haley can produce was Dior prices, I thought to myself, traordinary din than
Men's shoes of best quality result. Finally it was me that which is rather like our worst begged to have i faken off. 400 roubler. A platinum watch, a dizzy 6,425 roubles. Eggs were five roubles for ten, A man's
The sta shirt, 174 roubles.
"We
a
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Nina, calm and gentle as usual, sald soothingly: "Well, at least, I've got some iden of And what it sounds like now." off we went, leaving the joint well and truly rocked.
We stayed overnight al Odessa and went next day to Kiev,
Here I inadvertently disgraced myself three times. First, by
stared at in a bathing suit..
In a sort of general store, taking a picture of a beggar-a Anyway, there
the WEIG pebbles, Sochi, which is so filled alongside such appealing sea- nlee, bearded old boy with ene crudely leg whom I snapped taking a with corlly Corinthian columns, alde souvenirs
note from 03 It is like herd of while carved marble owl for 105 five-rouble
we found record- American tourist.
a elephants, could have done with Joubles, trading a couple of dozen of player. them for a swimming pool.
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Depressing
"Come on, let's go shopping," I said to Nina-bored with the
But there was nothing pebbles.
I handed Mr Bill Halcy to hle So charming
Arst Soch audience.
"Rock This Joint whammed out,
and
nearly the joint collapsed.
Jazz is fairly well known in Russia as there is a busy black to shop for I quickly found market in discs made from tape except white sheepfelt hat recordings of
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overseas radio with a sheepswool trimming (35 programmes. But this!. roubles).
"There Bre no beggars In Rusia," I was told categorical- ly, when an angry crowd, kad borne me back to the hotel. It was no use arguing. I had, in fact, seen several beggars in Russia and been stopped by them.
Next, I insisted on going into
I TRAVEL
TOURIST
TO RUSSIA
The story of an ordinary sightseer's extraordinary trip behind the Iron
Curtain
by ANNE
SHARPLEY
were charming old girls, simple family after and full of dignity,"
in
zeyen years Canada, His yearning and sense of being cut off from
But for some reasoni the everything he know and liked rather priggish younger was pathetic.
Russians
desperately
nehamed of them. And when 1 Last night
bought some vivid little wooden
toys that were the only bright
and ingenious things I had seen As a meagre compensation in all my stay was told I gave him the rock 'n' ' roll. pught to buy "something more records.
typical of our culture."
The third incident was
This was my last night In my Russia,
Next day we flow to
"arrest." I wandered off on my Muscow to pick up the airplane
own
and was taking a very to Prague. Intriguing shot of a new block
As Nina and I said goodbye
sad to say
of flats with some bent-up little shacks next to it. I was reized (and I was truly
Much nicer
by a very tall Russian workman Bood-bye to her there was to I had who tried to take my camera. much I wanted to say.
setn so much I hated but I regretted in many ways being, such a turbulent tourist I had seen so much that was lovable and wonderful in Russia too- "Americanski?" he roared at and was nearly always me furiously, I shook my hend, when I was doing what they "Deutsch?" he roared again didn't want me to do. I had even more furiously, for Klev made human contacts and felt has not forgotten the Nazi human warmth, in spite of the' occupation.
Intourla barrier
"English," I said. "Ah. English. Good," he said, getting My advice
Immediately much nicer.
And I was glod that I would . Nevertheless, I was escorted
probably remember those long by him and bodyguard that after my dislike of the other increased to seven as we went side of Russia had died away. along through a shanty town, And for these things I would: Amused by the size of my squad tell anyone who asks me; "Go: I started to drill them: Len to Russia."
ENDS SERIES
wis
At firat right, left, right." this
not thought In the least funny, but gradually- they began to smile,
We arrived at the pollee In fact the astonishment of a delightful but very old market
station all roaring with laugh- half-hour's The uglineng and costliness of the people in the shop could be where the old women sell the plots of land they are allowed ter and after a Ruslan clothing is the most a little excused ne, the needle produce they have patiently to own on the iminense acres of banging around I was rescued
of the won from the uttle personal hu collective tanns. depressing aspect of the country. started jumping out
WHAT makes Tallulah
tick?
W Bankhead
I'm an
egrazaphobist
says Tallulah
by NANCY SPAIN
But to me the will always I be Miss Bankhead. Everything went along to the Ritz to this woman says and does is a contradiction, every time she find out.
opens her mouth she takes back the word she first thought of.
How docs it feel to come back to London, facing the down behind a pair of dark I'm sure she is very lovable, glasses? How is it done? Well, just like a dog that bites you It's easy...
is lovable,
You hide behind a big word. You say: "I'm an egrazuphobist, that's me," and let The Legend do its work.
"What's that?" "Cold tea," she said.
I
They by b very stuffy young woman from Intourist who lectured me all the way back to the hotel.
Refused
That evening I dined with a Russian-born American who had travelled all the way to Kiev to visit his mother's grave outside the town, only to be refused permission to go there. He had grown rich in America but he was deeply attached to Russia. There were so many at all. Particularly when I'm visit but he was not allowed to childhood places he wanted to
move out of Kiev.
not made up."
A series of non sequiture, that's Miss Bankhead, Senal tve, loo. But hidden back of
thent
As we walked down the main street We gathered a small
that phiz, those hot blue eyes, crowd round us. As he could speak Russian I was able to get complicated, impossible personality, is still a quick wit. closer to people through him than ever before, But there Here are two of the things was one young Russian I didn't she says:-
need a translator for. He had been brought back by his
nskeri. in
About ker laugh: "Some- times they say, 'Misa Banichead, the name of Southern womanhood do something about that laugh, and some- I simply couldn't believe in times they say 'Mis Bankhead, this vitality, kept going on cold
what's gone
wrong, we don't tea, "Nervous vitality I hear you laugh, so either way should call it, except that the I'd better not laugh. Anyway, lady was obviously scared of when I do I lose my voice." nothing.
She lost her voice the other day.
"Don't
anything,
cat you ever?"
Of the English; "It's no we trying to pay them any com- | "Oh yes, I had breakfast on piimant They don't
OCHTI
the plane, I had bacon and compliments, they are the most;
OLD PALS
cgga
I would like you to that everything
Miss Bankhead spelled out the "AND
A know
word for me and I went home
and looked it up in the Oxford everybody says about me in the Dictionary. I failed to find it. newspapers is a lot of misquota- But Miss Bonichead says it on," she said. means "A morhid lerror of hard work."
and grupe truli,
and sentimental, emotional people Least and butter and marma- in the world,” Jude. But I won't eat lunch now. YOU have lunch.""
"No," I said.
child
There you are, That's Miss Bankhead, a simple, unspoiled!
of nature, an egraza- phoblat at heart, Just like you I and me.
Being Mias Bankhead, "If you really want to help thought, must be like being a long-playing gramophone me you should say I want John That may be Now, what's and Mary and Fean to get in record eternally playing on a
machine built Miss Bankhead like? Well, for touch with me. Never mind motion. I would not cars to be for perpetual a start she can't sit still. She John and Mary who. They'll
Miss Bankhead at all. paces up and down like a race- low,"
hora three.
of an elderly child of
So the old pals net sill works, She Bings back her beige oven for a legend, I thought.
Locks, she asks you to look at
She then explained that the her eyelashes to see that they're still real. She wears a brown reason why twin set and pearls (and for all about se
she was walleing much ("Although : Ï
I care sensible shoes) as though always walk about a lot" an
they were a Balmain creations.
because she wanted us to admize her wonderful agune.
:
"How do you keep going"" I asked, "What is the secret?"
She didn't know;
HER WIT
"VE had shingles, hepatitis, smallpox, mamos, moslos And, of course, even although
(at, I moorly died with manalos), she is as dated as Michael "I'm nothing but bones nLOW,!?
triple pneumonis,,gastric ulcera, Arlen's "Greco Hat" she is aho cald, "nothing but bones, ncurllis, and I've broken about to be the smartest woman The pep-up pills enim, ma dawn hand and my ribe. Why, in town.
and the calm-down pills pep I'vo a stool pin in my hand me up."
right, dow, No, I feel nothing
when except
+
my
“You may call me Tallulah,"
I pet sold. sho. "And I do not She took on deep, and ap- molature on it. Then it fociá lightly give permission for that, 'parently antisfying, swig from a like chulbladna, That's why I except, of course, to gallery tall, jug full of what looked never shaka handa now...: In-"] giris and boys."
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