WHEN A CAT IS NOT LOVED
:
-It walks out and the story
problem gets a little worse
RITA MARSHALL
THE
THE cat that walks by himself was officially recognised the other day-as a British national problem. Far too many cats are roaming from the fireside.
Rudyard Kipling wrote of a happy, inde- pendent Cat That Walked By Himself in his "Just So" story.
But a special committee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aninuals, formed to deal with the problem of stray πινελ paints n cals,
gloomier picture.
About 1,000 healthy ents are being put to sleep every day simply because they have no homes,
Cuddly
educating the public," he
Cats-so cuddly and in- said. "A lot has been said teresting when kittens-are about dogs. But up to now
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1958.
THE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN A WEEK IN NEW YORK!
KIRB
Deserves an Obert.
VAUGHAN Quiet and sbr.
FALKENBERG Deflers rali In.
COSTELLO Strik dustab,
"Don't presu mo."
Lord Hailsham
NE week in a New York Correspondent's life: On Monday I appeared on the Tex and Jinx television show in Pea- cock Alley at the Waldorf Astoria. We debated, with authors Cleveland Amory and Emily Hahn, "Is High Society Un-American?" Later, drinks with Sir Paul Gore Boothe, ex-Ambassador to Burma, who is looking
no longer loved when they very little has been done over the economic situa- role the hearth.
So the cat walks out.
Other
about the unfortunate cat. tion here.
the
threatened
to walk
HAILSHAM
walk out
DON IDDON'S DIARY
to
seo
"We don't seem to feel Tuesday: an extensive cats, left alone quite
same respon- tour of Connecticut's flooded Idlewild Airport when their owners go on holiday, He off in search of sibility towards the cat as areas, and was shocked at friends off to England. food-and join the problem the dog."
band of struy cats.
the devastation.
The Hailsham row
t
THE WALD DI
A nice lunch? Not even a sandwich.
friend from London spotted Frank Costello. Foolishly I'd sak); "That man looks lika Onasels," and he said: "No, it's Frank Costello."
the
I should have recognised him bathed in perspiration beads, from the hands. Temember his bands trembled with his those twisting hands, tho notes, and necnsionally his volge angers writhing before wavered. Miss Hahn was self- television cameras during tho possessed and competent,
ft mous Senator Kefauver probo Inta the crime syndicates? A young actor near me,
and changed is They haven't American ballistic missiles on called Symington — hẹ He turned on Barry Harding,
Costello hasn't changed. The Senator-was who Mirror, of the Daily
British soll is being presented relative of was asking some aggressive but here as yet another example of heavily made up. Peasants ke was well-informed questions, And American generosity to the hard- myself were not made up, or
Living in fear islanders. It is being even given a light dusting of Wednesday: a party at the highlight of the week, said: "I shall walk out of the pressed
room if this continues. I will not pubiicised as a mighty shield to powder. He said that cats were my department for Deborah I had never met him before, be pressed. I will not be cross- protect the British, who are un-
The programme lasted un FOR years he dominated the admired his career examined. I have never under- able protect themselves. A solution, suggested at gregarious, loving animals. Kerr, her husband, Anthony but
at If they were unloved, they Buriley, and singer Frankio greatly, and about a year gone such treatment," conference Press
eulogy. R.S.P.C.A. headquarters, would drift away, hoping to Vaughan. Thirty-five people ago I wrote
There was a silence as Lord were invited-47 turned up. There is lion in the Hailshami panted and heaved. was that more cats should find another home.
streets." be neutered.
But usually they ended
We were seeing a good man, sincere man, and a distinguished To stress the point, Lieut- up roaming
man, destroy his reputation for Colonel P. F. Synnott, the stealing food, and becoming
political sagacity before "homeless animal" or; ill.
eyes.
+
ganiser, told of Margaret, à cut which had 107 kittens
and more than 1,000 des- cendants.
Mr J.
chairman
S. of
the streets,
Lucky
An argument THURSDAY: an argument
with Lord Hailsham, which I shall tell you about in detail, and Friday: chance meeting with Frank Costello, the man known in A very small percentage
tho of cats brought to the asso-the classic cliche as
Prime Minister of Crime. ciation were found homes,
ย
EL
committee, said that al- "Cats are ten a penny," Then dinner at the Ashford Ormerod, were there.
our
hour. The fee?
Nothing--
American underworld, andă
We ap-
I
No one seems to have been a'through Tex and Jinx are re- some say he still does, able to make the all-important ported to cam around $100,000 proached him for a talk, but he
year from their assorted suddenly was struck dumb. ⚫ point that it is the British who
wealthy sponsors. A nice lunch, think he possibly feared we were ale making the great gesture, perhaps, after the programme? Enger men lining him up for an-
uther assassination attempt. Not a sandwich, taking the terrible risk.
A group of us were in- vitel to the flat of Joy
Such men as Costello walk in Drink, of course? One glass British In
Here is an outstanding illus- Wright, of the
tration of mutuul Anglo- of water and one weak Scotch fear and live by stealth. formation Services, for
After the Costello encounter American aid, yet the Ameri- on the rocks. drinks and talk with
The room was tense, and then
cans get the credit and the I contrast this parsimonious we strolled over to the 21 Club Hailsham. The New York I said quietly: "Why don't you
with the generosity to look over Lauren Breail, and chiefs of our propaganda take the chip off your shoulder, British scarcely any. I sigh for treatment and information machine. You're not in the House of the ignorance of our American of the British independent tele- then I wound the week up at and forth across the Atlantic agglo, ex-husband of Marilyn Peek and
Commons or Lords now. You're cousins about Britain and the vision companies. My fare back Trot Shors's, where Joe Di John
Major
ex-baseball star, but Hobhouse,
British. in Americs among friends,"
was paid for last December, I. Menroe, the special
was provided with a suite at continuing national Idol, was talking Hailsham After Wat
beer and sim-
the Savoy, and given a hand sipping a Hailsham arrived late, Russells with the British
mered down, and by the time
some fee for appearing for cornestly with Toots. though there were nearly a
old-fashioned
of an hour this strange cocktail party plus
three-quarters well-cut dinner Jacket Press conference but
ended there
New Year's Eve. Why, even million unwanted cats in have no commercial value. Ambassador to the United hair tousled, his
Nations, Sir Pierson Dixon
Ko crumpled.
sald that did not mean
he had was a forced joke or two about the Tex and Jinx show all Britain
the American participants the BBC pays e participants for newspaperinen and various been held up by Randolph Rochdale and Lancashire, and except Emily Hahn seemed to in the Press that we were becoming a
can always find and Lady Dixon,
Churchill.
then Lord Hailsham said he was Imagine that Britain is a feudal gramme. nation of barbarians.
somebody who has a spare Saturday and Sunday:
We said we were sorry State run by aristocrats. "Bourbon on the rocks-I al- "The problem of strays kitien if you really want to a whirl around the town
wine of the and trips to the docks and ways drink the is primarily a problem of have a cat."
country," said the Lord Presi dent of the Council, and we settled down for some pene trating questioning.
said Mr Hobhouse.
"You
"They
YOU? reflecting a lovely radiance... always!
Painful silence
his
YOUNG mon from the Sun- day Express, Peter Baker, started off mildiy. The ques tions were mainly about rockets and Locket bases. Hailsham be- gon to get nettled.
sorry.
also.
the converted,
arrived.
Close-fisted
on
Shore's restaurant, a hangout
Conference pro- loffs, sports,
selors and love-
on the
Now
ty ladies, is the only remain.. i saloon on 51st Street be- "Is tween the Associated Press The result of the debate,
Un-American?" building and the Avenue of the It is a curious programme, this High Society So that was an extraordin-
Peacock There was a split vote. I sold: Americas. There used to be 40 the great "High society is not only un- pubs and restaurants
glitter strip of real estate. ary performance by an experi- Tex and Jinx show. enced politician some people. Alley used to be
parade-ground for the Astors American, It's uncivilised."
there is one. have called statesman Later, Lord Hailsham made a good and Vanderbilts, and the Lodges.
The party at my place was Now has been modernised,
In fact, half of New York Is speech on Anglo-American rela- and it was
the place And litter of cameras, routine. Deborah is very pleated tions but he was preaching to lights and microphones when I to have been nominated for the coming down
Academy Award. She richly looks as if it has been tho-
roughly
f:fend. bombed. My deserves an Oscar.
who worked in A curious crowd, their faces
Young Vaughan, who is cup- States for years, hardly know do when they come over here? glued to the glass door in the posed to have sex-appeal ples, his way about.
He paid a nostalgie visit to They should state the British hotel corridor, looked on, Jinx case forcefully to the Americans Falkenberg. looking lovely and experienced, master- and there are millions of them very
a werk, keeps only one-tenth of Chelsea, but the Village has. name John Reagan McCrary-heit after tax is stopped. He changed and the place who are ignorant of the proud minded the show as Tex (real tecture idol, who earns £1,000 Greenwich Village, New York's
is Jlux's husband) was absent. should do well here.
rought had gene. We wound up everything at the glossy new It was in the King Cole Room Idlewild Airport, and then I Mr Amory, a gifted author,
His forehead was of the St Regis Hotel that a called it a day. Quite a week! was nervous,
What should Lord Hailsham and other distinguished visitors
His lordship declared with hent that he was a loyal sub- record. ject of the Queen, muttered something about the Omelel There has been a wonderful during the past Secrets Act, and his face was opportunity soon n full flood of fury.
few days. The decision to base
Was qulet, shy, and seemed
uncomfortable, lightly
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