By the way, darling, is your mother eating with us tonight?"
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1958.
London press Servic
BASIL CARDEW INQUIRY SHOWS...
YES! —— THE
OF
THE BEST DRIVERS THE WEEK
WOMEN!
With 23,000 miles behind me!
LOGONLAY
in London again after his breath-taking world tour, flips back in time to the moments he'll never forget-and the people who made them
Magic Moments
BRING you this fact after travelling 22,850 miles
IBRIN te world and you can decide for yourself if
you should emigrate. Only two things were common to all the places I visited. Only two things were universal. They were:-
ROCK 'N' ROLL music. ********** It blared forth everywhere
from Badgad through Bom. THE MOMENT in an Eas- bay and Tokyo to Honolulu, lern night club when to Hurlem.
found that the champagne
f
THOSE
I had ordered Was from dark brown Devon, England.
American soft drinks. They
The other in Lana Turner's. He, hed stolen 1 so she couldn't fe the country and escape la evil clutches.
"Whatever
says
anyone win, to say here and now, Mir and Mrs Hollywood, that Lana is a fine mother."
The audience applauded.
¿
Mr Winchell also gave a pro-, British speech in my honour.
Then he danced an exhibition mambo. He's
very. good
mambo danger.
J
RAST TIME
AVEL BY AIR
THE unsung heroines of this fretful week are people Thomas of use of thief to be week are
drivers. I have been watching the women at the wheel this week. And remember it is on them that a big part of the busless burden has fallen, taking children to school, shopping by car, collecting the stranded members of the family.
My verdict: women drivers fetsiferations. have come
ZTE •MADDUCKS
fow all over the world in a The price Wag never-ending sticky stream proximately £5
I wish I could tell you that bottle.
there was a third universal
thing that Intangible THE GEISHA
thing, the spirit of inter-
108.
ap- per
American wife push her equal- ly large husband into the sta and throw his surf board after him.
Perhaps she was just being matrimonially playful,
a
THE MOMENT when i won care of imported French burgundy in a lottery in the Tokyo Press Club.
It presented a problem. If I had taken it with me I would have had to leave all my hug- gege, for it weighed 601b,, which ts. the maximum Airline allowance.
If I had drunk it off quickly
national brotherhood. But I THE WOMAN, a fully-fledged THE MOMENT in Agra, near encountered very little of it. Gelsha girl named Tanko, I met Delhi, when I first saw the Taj Just that old spirit of inter- in Tokyo who explained, among Mahal. Yes, it was indescrlb- national discord, and mad chase a member
other things, how I could put ably beautiful. Three quartera before leaving next day I would
of her "me of it. nationalism, crazy chau- honourable profession." vinism.
THE OTHERS
The other quarter had have been unable to travel. Oc been covered by scaffolding might have been able to dy. She said: "Geisha means artist which had been erected for ros- without a plane.
or entertainer. Nothing more teration work Essential no I'm just explaining the un-
nor less. We are not ladies of doubt, but the scaffolding was
asy virtue.
I don't
a rickety contraption made of expected problems of a round- cid wood tied together with bits the-world traveller. I have already written "We spend years studying of rope. An untidy bird's nest expect sympathy. about people Pve met, dancing and music and flower thrown up by 1938 India against
the marble Tal building which AND SO cylinders will be about safety in motoring. Mana- that oxygen
some sane, some not; and (£18) facturers were
urged to build available at 50 dollars more safely into cars, to reduce each for the 200 drivers in the moments I lived through, horsepower and further reduce 1morial Day Races at River- soine sane, some not. emphasis on speed.
side. There are three 500-mile events for large, midget and shek cars.
Dislike
They have re- THEY
THE
to also objecte
the Bundred-and-one pettifogging on cam gadgets and extras
of we. They are fused to be impatient, pressed,
showing more
thin the male
Common
sense of rude.
Women make up more than third of the drivers on our roads поста astonishing post-war revolution.
They score
drivers end here,
A national Inter
Fire
Let me tell you about some of the others still in my notebook,
THE MAN who stood out-
girl
seventeenth century India fashı- loned with matchless akill and artistry.
The contrast, I thought, was shaming.
THE MAN, & Russian member of a trade delegation 'who com- plained to an hotel receptionist in Bentay
"The service I am getting not good. You treat me like am English. Or America complain."
GOODNIGHT!
I'LL remember THE MOMENT when I couldn't sleep in sleep. less New York so I dialled the number of a sleep clinic which
pr advertises the services "Lullaby Lady,"
Her syrupy recorded volco crooned this in my unbelieving to car;
E
T. Reese, the track physi-side one of the main en- clan says: "We overcame trances to Tokyo's central They have, in fact, matured-- they stressed their dislike of the the fe hazard.
We found that station, which is reserved congested, pred to enlarge ganges to take the territe fumes from certala exclusively for the use of In an age et sour, fraftable, and oftets ruthless in the large monsters.
types of ful-instead of petrol motoring.
They complained about the Nor does this praise of women difficulty in parking these 17- some of the cars use a mixture the Emperor and royal of methyl alcohol and nitro-family, demanding, before a vehicles, and they methane were overcoming small crowd, that "the gates arranging before survey has just been conducted thought that there was poor drivers enough to lower sens of privilege be broken fully-fledged Geisha girls. in America of the views of workmanship at both factory
bility.
down." and repair stations. women motorists,
This oxygen is a safely pre- I suggest that their find- More than 17,000 replies came
He had a toothy, grin. sign up.
เอ "It is possible for a man were well thought out, caution, and prolection, but nat
thought out primarily a stimulant, although And-though he was shorter honourable contract for his ex a Geisha girl on an These re resonable, and pledge my naturally clear minds and cleer and narrower of eye he clusive entertainment.
And hereby
better
stood up
on the stage at a Then pat yourself dry. now being future support for the much- Jungs will loud
looked exactly like Malcolm
"In my case the price would Hollywood night club before a
rub: slip right into bed. Now We shall see how it works Muggeridge.
be about 600,000 yen" (about large audience and waved two breathe deeply, regularly, slow- Express,
£500).
S the howl of male protest in from organisations all over Inge Arises, let me te then
of the women drivers' scoring ples showed that women's skill points as I saw then this pnd courtesy
week:--
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Thetched with maturity
3
I have seen women repeatedly thought.
give way to a car turning into the
traille stream when the mighty male will step on it and close up to the croculis ahead.
have
stu!
Safety EXAMPLE: they were disis
of maligned women of the wheel,'
them beckoned with the cars they politely to help the other car bought. their performance, the
when a man would refuse to methods by
which they are
give way, though seconds later offered for sale, and after-sales he would be crawling like the service. Fest, Women have given better The
survey
showed
that
are very echcerned
traffic signals. They have shown women
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New idea tackles an
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TOW here's a thing. The Americans, newcorners
to motor racing, have ap-
driving."
FIGHTIN'
AND
proved a startling safety A FUEDIN'
precaution against engine
and exhaust fumes.
These are often the causes of a driver's lassitude or collapse when taking part in a gr elling motor race.
The precaution is the aiment of oxygen cylinders with masks ler use by drivers in the three blg Califokan road races on May 30.
The small portable. cylinder will be fixed to the dashboards of the cars, and the driver wi be able to reach for his mask when he feels fatigue,
on the
In a bigger emergency-the danger of being overcome by fumes-he may strap mack, Jet-pilot fashion, and be revived.
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San Francisco. little girl's pizialis were pulled-and that slurted a shooting fund that terrified a San Fran- cisco pre-fab estate,
DI
A Janitor and his wife, and Mra Edward Breeze, were üred of the nelglibours' children' bully- ios their 0-year-old daughter. Bobble. Ope night recently they went next door, the janitor to one window with a shot- fun, his wife to with a revolver,
Then
another
THE SHEIK
Wa become
THE DANCER
We You
"Hello, this is your Lullaby Lady.
Let me urrest one of my best sleep coaxers-the bath. Tu But a very special kind. tranquiliser bath. It must bo exactly the right warmth B
columnist Walter Winchell, who 2 minutes, no more, Don't degrees aa in nature's perfect THE MAN, celebrated prenatal baths. Relax in it for
passports, saying:-
13, and off you will go. Oh, I've "I got them from the pollen, fols of ideas, yours for the sake
belunge to
"But I would have to approve ef the man nrst. I decided One THE MAN, a rent live I liked you, for example,
could come to terms, Bedouin sheik, with a proud would contract to keep me in and prominent Arabic nose, the proper style.“ sailing under his silk head-
I told her I was already under dress like the prow of a contract to a wife. dhow, who said:-
She said: difference."
"That makes ne
I did not pursue negotiations
"I am the ruler of 60,000 Bedouins as my father was before me. But he ruled absolutely. He expected to with Tanko. he obeyed without question.
Now I explain to my people THE DORS
why I want them to do
Dora film in.
in Bagdad
of
a Djans local cinema
something. If they agree THE MOMENT they do it. It is the way of during a showing the times, the democratic when I discovered a new vi way. But it is not easy. It for bicycle bells. is not easy for your Shell Macmillan.
The patrons, who quite rightly don't trust each other, bring I agreed it wasn't easy their bicycles into the cinema for Sheik Macmillan.. and park them just below the
He went on: "My people sereen where the orchestra plt are, fighting nomads by
used to be.
At
tradition. Now I want them they opened fre and sprayed the family of
to settle down and cultivate revealing Mrs. Aline Herbert with
our lands peacefully, ballets,
Crowds of frightened people
hindered police trying to get to the
acone.
The terrified Herberts look cover, but not before six of their children wole wounded.
After the shooting, while Breeza fled to the polioo for fear of being lynched, Mw Broczo explained: "Bobble had just come out of hoeplial. Other kids bullied. her, – It .... brought- the tied to a head and wa wanted to metilo it. But X 4 KITY I shot the
ohlidren,"
dramatic exciting,
>F moments on the selcen they rush out and ring. their bicycle bells madly.
Miss Dora caused an almighty clongour. even
"I have invested in the most modern mechanical equipment. Once I sold my Rolls Royce car to buy a tractor."
man
There was the modern shelk THE MAN, a charming iraqi called Ahined of Araby, proud descendant of business
toho owns warrior chiefs yet one of the Alawwa Safwat, most peaceable, licable fellows the local concession for one of those American soft drinks, and I met around the world.
who told me that last year he But lo over romantic sold 48,000,000 bottles to thirsty Westerners, conditioned by Iraqis. movies and novelettes, he must than a bit disau- keem more
pointing.
The total population of Iraq la 4,000,000,
Honolul when I was a large
I have to admit, he was even THE MOMENT on the beach at, INUTOGRINDULE,
tuz.
Just
write me, or better
Lullaby Lady...."
Stompanato. still come in and see me, your
What Holden told me about
women
OSLEBRATED Hollywood fim star William Holden said over
a Chinese dinner in Tokyo!--
"Ihe American women. I really hate 'em. They're sou bossy. They think they can run everything. They don't want equality. They think they have superiority.
"They ever will. All that happens to them is that they lose their emintally and charm. They became unnatural
monsters..
"Of course there are exceptions but damn the rest I my." Hin who, who was present, is of course one of the exceptiona.
I asked Holden, who recently spent five monike in Brilala Aiming "The Koy," what he thought about our women.
The East's the place
"I worked nearly all the linse and I didn't seo much of your woman but what I did soo wasn't remusuring, You'd bare to look out. I'm sirala Japan and the East are the only- places left where they keep women in their proper place,
"There's an old English saying which too many-of us men
forret
"'A woman, a dor, and a walnut froe—the more you best,
· tiem to batter: they-be,*!*--
Mrs Holden who, should point out, is attruetlýn and unbrussed, looked si hlm with unbeaten affection.