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/ THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE :20, 1957.07.
DON IDDON last week pointed out that the £100 allowance for British tourists to the U.S.A. is not likely to go far, American prices being what they are. The granting of this allowance followed the announcement that Russia was being opened up more to Western tourists.
POCKET CARTOON Dy OSBERT LANCASTER
"But darling, you do realise that now the nativer know that one has £100 of one's
own, none of us can ever afford to gai to America
again?"
THIS WEEK HE SAYS
I'm Proud
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.of this great little Nuclear Isle, so let's keep telling the world of our achievements
I'm Ashamed
of the boat train that shocks_our
visitors, so let's have a railway clean-up
[UST before I left New York I happened into Sir William Rootes at a party at the Pierre. He was ebullient. He said, "I've just made a five months' trip all over the place and, believe me, Britain is greater than ever. We have the bralis, the experience, the skill, and the world knows it. You go on telling them that, Don."
When I got to London 1 sow p that Sir Eric Bowater was gay-places. This is the best thing persist that has happened since Lord ing, "Some people still
in taking a loany view of Hallax was in Washington, Great Britain's future-I don't."
I know bolls Billy Rootes
Too meek
called from a museum because
of an emergency, But it wa the Voyager, as a handsome yellow and black pamphlet placed proudly before passenger told us.
cuch
This was First Class, with dinner at 12. Bcl. This appa- rently was plush and lush rall travel in England, 1957. The stewards were young and ener xelfie, but their uniforms of beige and maroon were shobby and spotted.
COKE
BORGERS WITH WITHOUT-2.50 FRIDE CHIK. SWITH B.50 WITHOUT-7$
"I wonder how the Joneses fared with their travel allowance in Moscow, my love?"
Well, this is the kind
of party I really
really like!
ARTIES in Paris begin
Put the hairdresser's
When the man next to me and Erle Bowater pretty well. TN between Hailfax and Cuccia asked what the extra sixpence Euch man has had spectacular there have been some meck on his bill was a steward said. success. Rootes, once a sales-and-mild men, popular with the "I haven't got a clue." The man of second-hand American State Department all right but tollets on the train were filthy. vars, is among the great indus- not presenting the British case
After the meal I passed along Chez Monsieur Georgel in trialists of the world. Fownter with boldness and vigour. the corridor and peered into the the Rue Pierre Charron, I met Sir Fifold shortly after kitchen. I was a litier of beer where 75 ladies are already has achieved duzzling things in the paper world,
he was appointed the job, bottles, food debris, cardboard
yackerty, They both had faith in them- which pays 75,000 dollars a year boxes, unwashed plates, glasses, sitting going selves and their country all expenses, and I hoped he would and cullery. I shuddered.
vackerty, yack under the along-even during the Socialist earn the money. I sald, Inve That was the introduction of gloom and they both forecast you
a blueprint to hit Page our visitors and myself to the drying helmets. even greater achievements for One." Youthful, and bald-headed sceptred isle. themselves and for Britain, in the Yul Brynner manger, he They are Empire Men.
grinned and said he would try, I see also that our Ambas- Now he has succeeded, Let sador to the United States, Sir Cucclu keep Britain on the Harold Caccia, bas
out work's' front pageJ. and roured, in Chicago of al I notice, however, that none of these three Men of Empire itas made much of the British possession of bomb.
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Since then 1 have found everythlug (with one exception which I shall tell about) "very pleasant Indeed,
The suburban trains, fast and fairly clean, seem to me superior to the so-called crack expresses or bout trains The food is ex-
England the hydrogen cellent,
hag fooked loveller and the people never better.
And here in England where I have been nine days, hardly a soul except a journalist or two has mentioned our development ultimate and pozession of the
weapon which puts us-a Uny crowded island on a level power with the sprawling land masses of the U.S.S.R. and the
ond
A blot
never
TOW that bad black blot which I mentioned earlier. When on earth are we going to do something about the squalld procession of prostitutes in the West End of London?
They are also drinking coffee, tea, champagne, and hot milk, having manicures, pedleures, perms, hair intings: and so far us the eye can see they (and the young lady attendants) are all roaring with loughter.
Heaven
THE big difference between a
British and a Paris bair- dresser is that in Paris no one Is over po-faced, And this in spile of the prices: £4 for a perm, £2 for a tint, £2 for a frim, £1 for a shampoo,
a
freworks in her which 13 in the Marceau.
The Apartment is rather formal. Formal cept for one room (the bathroom) which is positively papered with electrifying inscribed pictures of the celebrated mugs.
There is Coward above the wash-basin, Chevalier over the window, Claudelto Colbert among the sponges. Very nice, 100.
Red velvet
sitting-room THEN there is a
with quite culm books, such as "Les Pensees de Pascal," apartment, and cosy red velvet chairs; and
Avenue
a drawing-room.
Well, it is a tremendous about 50 feet
You go up in a creaking drawing-room, lift to achieve it. So up, we long with a grand plane and an raille in this tiny box where enormous firepized and some Noel Coward and Marlene have rather good pictures. so often stood shoulder to I Is this drawing-room which shoulder, where Kay Thompson is obviously asking for a party pui the finishing touches to to be given for it, in the came Eloise in Paris," and down the way that certain wonderful staircase where Danny Kaye has women ikke Sophie Tucker have often bounded crying parties given for them. (I've "Ginelle, Ginette, what are you been asked to stx parties to doing in bed. I've new meet Sophie, Is this a record?) Mercedes outside that does 120 miles an hour, come for drivel"
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П
Or maybe they are alloy because of the prices. After all, if you are going to pay Why? We have done the job,
through the nose you might Englishmen and Scotsmen and
It is a disgusting business to Just as well laugh yourself sick. Welshmen and Irishmen were
these women sec
patrolling Have a party and blow the cost. Street quietly bulking this armament Bond
and Wardour
What a wonderful thing When American street and clustering in door- Paris Panty is, Oh, the beautiful urmur newspapers Wern running
nwaye waiting to pounce,
And then finally here are two women, Oh, the rich, rich men, series, Brilaia on the Rocks-
My mall has been small, and To dio in the midst of such a great doors and Lucie, the mald the Story of a Once Great
chiefly asking for more In-
brouhaha would be lo Nation." Apparently broke and
formation abonst prices
In straight to heaven like a rockét. pretty near down and out in the Amerlen (incidentally where is Ginette Sponter, of Balmain, eyes of the world, Britain was all that anti-American feeling who is much the most electri- all the time working strenuously I read so much about in
to catch up with America and New York papers?)
Russia in the power stakes,
Now she has succeeded.
This surely is an achievement
to proclaim, lo be proud of, and
perhaps to boast about,
No our
longer need we rely on friends in Amerien. We have THE WEAPON ourselves, and have it we, in ail because we probability, will never have tot use it.
Britala has become the Nuclear Isle, and again I have been puzzled that we have sald so lille about the resounding ten fact that the British are years ahead of the rest of the
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SIMONE SIMON
"I must tell you about the long-playing emerald'
women) the Gracia giria, Luelta,, Terisita, and about three alhers,
Spanter, the Gracias and their birthday cake.
Jits
The party fans out sideways into the drawing-room under own momentum. Ginetta allows me No орна B jano boam of champagne, which impresses mo no end, and as tho cork dies into a corner of the
fireplace, опе Blair Holubach, an ice star who was in "Sinbad the Sailor on Ice" with me in the Empress Hall, cays he would like the shirt from my back. (It is the shirt he wants, honestly, not me.)
Anton Dolin arrives Buying ho is sorry he has had no imo to shave: and I say no need to worry, I haven't shaved either.
Simone Simon arrives, dressed in navy blue and white, with the biggest emerald. I've ever seen round her neck, With her is an awfully attractive colled Alce Welswelller, has a lot of racehorses,
man who
Someone says the emerald Is so big it must be a record, end someone else says yes, a long- playing record. As the emerald is found this gets a big laugh.
Conspirators
NOUK comes fu and every- are gathered, blowing heavily A one seems to take her for THE excuse for this particular stable pink birthday cake
I'm blowed it I do, who welcomes all the nobs.
granted, party was the incredible, with 25 candies,
than I can take "Hullo, I'm Danny Kaye,” warm- blooded, blazingly beaut-
"I'm really twenty-six," says any more Danny once said. "Tm Lugle," she replied.
iful family of Gracias from San one. Gracia, "but twenty-five is Sophie Litvak for granted. Which is as good Domingo. Liko four or avea much nicer number, don't you
be a Sophle used to
great thefying and glamorous person an answer to a statement like lionesses (they aru for too think?" Like everybody else cover girl, and now Aho is
hereabouts, sets off all the social that as any.
pretty to be thought of
who strays Inlo Avenue married to Anatole Litvak, who Marceau, the Gracias need a
was responsible for getting that [little explanation.
Oscar for Bergman by directing "Apasips10....
Strange Claims to Pre-Existence
THEY
LIVED
ADIO discussions and other evidences of public in- R
terest ehow that many people continue to bo do minated or baffled by the age-old question, "Have I been here before?"
world in the development of for peaceful and
One of the most amazing experiences bearing on this Depressing
question was that of the famous nineteenth-century artist DURING this brief visit and poet, Dante Gabriel Rosetti. In "The Blessed Damo
found that our PAN AMERICAN Big Time--the Bomb,
massive achievements in the zel," Rossetti gave the world a portrait of a creature of Radar his imagination, and he chose as his model Elizabeth the Jet, Penlelllln-have not Siddal, a beautiful girl, with whom he fell in love, been matched ip the little fenguo. Againɔ It the same The pooting,
Royal Academy,
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He's late
NCE upon a time Jean-Pierre Aumont (yes, he is due at
Nadia Gray cores in
With
her there is a big man called
(I think) Roberto, who talks to me, about racing cars,
John Tullls, the designer of this party any minute now, but Horrocks, rustves in with a dress he is playing in "Amphytrion for Ginette (Rather like bring- 38," 30 he may be lato) was ing coals to Newcastle, I must murtled to Marla Montez, (You say.)
children in accordance with her ente he was transferred girl with the lovely teeth sitting
A
Von
will reell that she died so Somebody tells me that the conspiring Moreover, to Prem's astonish who spoke a strange language terribly tragically in her baik,) young man who is
with the tee-skating star to tear ment, she reminded him of a in his sleep. Tests were made, he was the eldest sister,
Then Jean-Pierre married the shirt from my back is
of Gollfried erection they had fifty years and it was found that he had a ago. Sho even reproached her serfect knowledge
of German, again, Maria Pavan, the girl nephew
and to who made such a hit in "The Cramm,
therefore A "on" for disregarding advice though never having been
Rose Tattoo" and "The Man in nephew-in-law of Barbara about property ont investments, Germany In his life,
Hullon, the Grey Flannel Suit." and upbraided her daughter-in-
And law for not bringing up hee That happened lis 1907. Two
yes, that dark-haired "Tell me," I say to him,
about your Auntie Barbara." to Burma where he tell alck, on the sofa is Maria Payan. She "No comment," says he,... promises!
the Which is only boring Another strange case which and passed into a como. Sent going to have a baby In
to Lebong, te came under the August and sho came to light some years ago,
going to have thing that anyone ever said to care of Sir Frederick Treves. In Hollywood, and she hopes me at Avenue Marceau, concerned a Cardiff man, named Day after day, the unconsclous it will be a boy, but if it is a FS. HI
away in girl that will be nice too, a youngster, till oston soldier babbled
"foreign tongue," which turned because it will be a sister for teachers by his out to be Burmese, though Jean-Pierre's daughter Marts knowledge of South America, Carter had never studied it in Cristina. and, also, of the language of the his life. Indians, although he had never
A latest
visited that continent. He spoke A Romance Of "ProvÍDUS" of dreams of a previous Ure which had ended dry dils violent
lover
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that.
GUJA
Always.
And meanwhile it folly BUT oh, but oh, the moment nice for her to have become a part of this extraordinary litter of lionesses,
Escape?
comes to Icave....and Anton Dolin and John Gilpin and I cram ourselves into an enormous Cadillac.
tell before,
I got off the Empress of pleased the Britain. after secing Sir crilies, who' noted a remarkable For the rest of his life Anthony Eden safely away, resemblance between Rossetti's Rosselli was haunted by an un- few minuten after the ship Elizabeth and a portrait of St cammy sense of pre-existence, dockrod. Through the courtesy Agnes in a museum at Bologns, and firmly believed himselt to of Canadian Pacific officials, Italy.
Lito be be Angioleri and that his who are very publicity-minded,
The awful, fateful words, To Soon afterwards, Elizabeth loved Elizabeth had posed for death.
Finally, here in the cam of a In the course of his business London woman, a Mrs Ada Me toll ill and died. In scorch of the portrait of St Agives.
Le Bourget," nro said, and with tears making prisms of the zolace, Rossetti Get out for
visited South Laren who was informed by a Recently, The boat train to Londoa was Bologna to view the painting of gin in Allahabad made
a twelve-year-old activities, Hi
America. There, he anticipated spiritualist medium
bright lights, we leave the mad, that she due to leave at 5.30 p.m. It did St Agnes. When he saw it, he astounding claim to a "second steel names, found his way was the reincarnated daughter
UCITA, whose husband was magle Bat where the party is not leave until after six, and found the face to be an exact time on earth." She maintained through Braall as though he of an Assyris, and that her who was killed in that awful
Joan Roy of Paris-Match, just about goiting, under way. there was no apology from any
in the
For even as we swervO RWBY replica of that of Elizabeth. that in her previous existence had been brought up British Railways official.
Bermon-of-the-drop into Sutz, is now offering from the kerb and wave, good- The train was called tha The St Agnee portrait had she was the father of a man country, and also, found
Oasis. Soon after being told this, to give Lim Palmer a lift in hos bye, coming towards up walking Voyager and
been paintod
Mrs McLaren wrote a book on car to Gap In the South; in the teenth now god sixty-one. The girl. answer to his question US
whether he had lived ̈ ́Erw
' down the "Afonus Marceau from by
Viahnya Mohun, supported · her ancient, dirty, noisy-an antique century one, Angler story with such an array of land in a previous oxistence. The the matter might well have an usual, no one
her "previous" Ilfe, and there -As, thero' Ir a. #triko in Paris the diroelion of the Aro de artist
John that should have been scrapped Among other work this
knows how. Triompho we can see had a quarter of a century ago,
painted his
́ended had not a young man they are going to escape. self-impressive evidence that milone answer was given to him by a
Mills, Mary Hayley Belt and 2 most come called upon her with an aston- We crawled but of Liverpool portrait which was in the same of Indians have accepted it or Dano in
„Carey Hanlon, who is oven their", daugiat in fult, evening and hobbled through a tunnel Museum. The attendant led true,
ishing tale barely forty hours more like his father nex this dress. The. Dane, a noted traveller, after the publication of her ovening than usual, says slowly "Oh, dear sighs Fat Dolin at about fivo nalles, an tour, Rossetti to a gallery where this
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produced for Him Inspection book. Smoke enveloped tm.
and with great charm: "Any-" as we" fall, Wepping, into one The air self-portrait hung.
human head reduced to a small Mrs McLaren recognised her one who wants to cape, from another's arm;}/"Lave it awful was hoavy with dit
It was a picture of a grave, When Vishnya Mohan'e sixty.... size by the method town only calls sa Biernoon-of-the-Opals, Paris or a party like this must to think that, afterver also wo The Americans and Cana blank-boarded man which con- one year old "won". aminn to the Amazon head-hunters, To Hans many of them visiting fronted Rossetti. He gazed upon named Prem, heard her store his horror, His found that the had to prove his identity be mad" culte agree with are, that kind of thing is always Aveme England for the first time, salida own features, and, as he did he smiled, and seeking to ex features and the shope of the produced a torn and faded 1488 him and he gets me an orange going on in the in stunned silence, '-
Marceaur No remembered some lines he pose, brought out and pislines, head were mineably he in his own writing. It was the Juke. I was ashamed. I made ex- had writer for lizabeth just souvenies and pieces of jewele Dwal
atory os his previous life, and More and more celebrated. If I thougkik: I may "sky, cures. This is probably not the before she died you may have long Thom articles were gentle There is also they entical in every detail with people have come pouring into that I shall always find vaguely Emprens Vorage but some I been here badore, how long ago ded by Visbiya, who gave a wuibenticated story of Private
the party, making a that written by Mae McLaren!
copt, disturbing. famous, risig, round. the red-tot crock · that "had" hastily bestà do not briewin
-- detailed distor of each picom (Carter, of the Royal Irlati Rifles
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