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THE CHINA MAII, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1858.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
Pagō, 3
PEOPLE
in the news
Conductor Explains To Argentine Newsmen "ENGLISHMEN LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT"
SAYS SIR THOMAS
Buenos Aires.
as
With a king sized elgar in his hands and boisterously outwitting * crowd of local
reporters who usual arrived lato at their prose conference, Sir Thomas Beacham, ex- plained why Britons like to hear foreign operas translated.
the
All
It is, he said, "because British like to be different. over the world, operas are heard In their original fext.”
Soldier Returns From The Wa
"People" Special
"But," someone a ked, "should
operas be translated?"
Retorted Sky Themost
difference does it make
BEECHAM
Buenos Aires People Reporter
For a linnge, the newarnen found that Sir Thomas" aria- "What wers worn jar People than their questions,
cautious American Press....but I am told
that they are in the habit arriving two hours late."
do not go the opera to listen to the word neid even if they ried they could not." Ite quoted Rosand who said "if the public cannot get into the spirit of an opera through its mere sound, it is evitently not publi“
musical
Sar Thomas met the reporters at the Institute for gher Studies of the English Language which is niced with the British Connell where he was nearly nichted by television and newas reel men,"
Here are some of Sir Thomas' replies:
On Music "I only know one thing about lempos. My own is always right."
On Social Security: "France has three times an much welfare as England, and Francs is broke. Britain is almost broke, too. The United States will also be broke and then there will be no more money left."
Or Argentine newsmen: "They are a better looking lot than the
BOY PUTS UP
A U.S. MOON
By Alvin Spivak
Lo
"People" Special
Washington, Bleaux. A 12-year-old bay has sent the M. Jean Laborde, who left | Rovernment a plan
rst- his native village of Soulze, sputnik the Rustam and then near here, s
10-year-olirockel a mans into space for two soldier in 1940, has returned | weeks. What's more, Defence after 13 years in Russia, with Scientists have dubbed it there
son,tically sound.
a Bussian wife and twe and speakin
than French,
more
Russiah
the satellite programme in its and ploces with Vanguards, Ex- plorers and such. Instead, he said, put a bunch together and. pend one huge baby moon into orbit
Jonathan volunteered his proposals to Johnson in a four- page type-written letter, companied by drawings in and red and yellow pencil. One
drawing showed
ac- ink
11 nose-come
epartment with a monkey In
it
Roy Johnson, Director of the Detrice Departenent's Advanced Since the launching of the
114-ton Projects Agency
sputnik, (Russian) Captured at Dijon by the ad-Research yameing Germans, Laluwde was niced by young Jonathan thinking that this country could, (ARPA), said the Ideas were Jonalhata waid, "I go down to in a prisoner of war camp norovitz, of New Yorks, and had with the hardwar now avail- Austria for five years, There
"all the elements of a workable able, senti npa satellite of a system."
be met, and later married
Ukrainian girl.
+
Liberated by the Russians hel
Elaborating, a Johnson aide said was taken
with his Jonathan's Heory fog trunching to Kley wife, where he was put to work 4,430-pound satellite with a
as labourer, He says there mamkey abumd was "sens
were well fed, but never pald, After 13 years of attempting to leave Risla, he was finally granted exit papers. The family flew from Moscow to Paris with their sores, aged 11 and three,
too many engineering diffent- sible and fogical." But he said
tea were involved, to make It practical.
Jonathan.
But in any case, the son of department store GWTHC, CBLISed quite a tipple in Washington Selenlife circles.
M. Laborde, winse Russian Be was described as a seventh
is now much better than het French, says he
grader in a "special progress"
has returned | class at school.
for "a life more normal and without restraint."
12
11
What the lad suggesteș, Pubstance, was to stop fackling
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Wax matches (6),
6 It's fossed around (5).
3 Acquire erudition (5).
9 The menace of the rat (8)..
10 Instigated at breadklast thine?
(5)
11 Parloin (5).
12 Put your trust in (4);
13 Not rkl matches! (5).
10 Deprive of freedom (0).
18 Official numbering (8).
20 Back at sea (5), ·
22 Peaceful (4).
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1 Old Boys' (8),
15
2 Vestuent which sounds
most too much (B).
3 Sad to say (4).
4 Red Bogs? (7)2
greater
more."
weight--2
tuns
He named his rockel *T. Oracle."
ed
Just The Age
To See
The World
"People" Special
Johannesburg. Ten-month-old Nico Can- staatinklis with his father. Theodore, aged 30, is a season- traveller in spite of his tender age. He left Stuttgart in Germany with his father Dad mothice. Monica, aged 28, eight months go to go round the world in a car. So far he has traversed 17 countries- first
acruss Europe, then #102058
Africa.
From Cape Town the Con- stantinidis call with their
America for
to South
moloring adventures.
Nico's only illness
slight feverishness in
| after a vaccination,
Mr Constantinidly is
So
car marc
Egypt
Οτι R
year's leave from his job
a book when he reluins there... by car.
of
MARIA MENEGHINI CALLAS
The Marvellous Crank Of The Age
By Simon Kavanaugh____*
Maria Meneghini Callas is the prima donna
assoluta of the uge.
No other singer can challenge her supremacy. None can command her astronomical fees.
And none can be more widely melodramatle teared by her colleagues,
moments. Her tears, as often as not, are real, For slim, black-eyed Maria But fame has brought to Callas Calios is an explosive throwback neither assurance noc peace. Stc to another century-the century fought her way to the top in such of the "prima donna" legend a ruthless fashion that she has with all its ballyhoo, its adufution dew professional friends. and outrageous gesture.
Some who have helped her
*
The world clamours to hear have later tasted the effects of her. At New York's Metropolitan hur scorn. For Callos sees in the
receivei over world about her of Argentina: "I have only last year, she
nest of £1,000
performance. seen it from 20,000 feet up
At enemies, people who wish her in the air and it looks exactly Milan's famous La Scala (with nothing but barn. like the United States, Arabin catapulted the theatre's fortunes these real or fancled odds that whom she has since broken), she It is her lone_fight against any other country,"
Sir Thomas arrived here under contract to the
Colan Theatre which is this year celebrating ite Goldus Jubilee. Befor -110 returns home in September, he will conduct "Otello", "Carmen", "Samson and Delilah", "The Magic Fluto" and "Fidelio."
Reuter,
Time To Try Hongkong
Mr
Huston
When he's not making plctures
to record levels. In highly Callos comes out with statements critical Vienna, 10,000 struggled like these: for the 2,000 scats available. In "If I heard nothing from my Chicago, a new opera company enemies, I'd know I was slip-
successfully launched on the ping.” strength of her name.
I hate to be pitied, and I And yet few would say Callas never pitied anyone." had opera's coast heavenly voice. "I understand hate. I respect
It is big, not beulifui; mature, revenge, not sweet, There are moments of The echoes of Callas's Ruwed and crumbling notes. tantrums, quarrels and stinging)
Her greatness comes from comments have covered the sheer tenacity and musical in- world. Managements tearfully a fantastic mind their P's and Q's in do-
Paris. billy to carry every Inflection, ference to her temperament,,
Expatriate Jirrclor John every shade of tone. On the colleagues keep warily, at a dis-pusion, walking bilboard for singe, her voice cuts as cleanly tance. The slightest restiveness Hollywund in Europe, is enough Huston calms. But bo failed to
a country through a chaus as
kulle in the audience, real or imagined. to divert u Frenchman's atten- signify which country. through butter.
might cause her to stop singing tion from the political crisis,
Case 1565 telligence. She has Is Still Open
By Mike Posner
New York. Detective Thomas Barber, weary from
a night at headquarters, would ordin- arily have been heading for bed but, he trudged inslead 1hrough Northwood cème- lery to lay carnations on the Krave
of a youngster no one knew.
Barber was one of a score of palloemen working on a mulley July day in 1944 when the Barnum and Hailey etrous tent caught Are.
In the shocked aftermath, o one came lo identify a ourly-haired girl about six years old, whose face was untouched by flames.
The child was renamed "Little Miss 1565" and buried with that inscribed on her tiny gravestone.
Farber and another de- lictive, who has since To- Ured, remembered the girl
Each knew. no one cisc July 6, and Christmas they went to the cemetery and put flowers on the grave.
Barber says he has not given up hope that wooFEST **I day, someone will say, know her, she was no women. -U.PT.
the
The Callas technique is the and probably walk off. phenomenon of this operatie nge, For her, there exist boundaries
She can sing anything for the fernale voice.
of
suprace, soprano
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By VERNON SCOTT People's Hollywood Correspondent
in India, England or France, lives the life of a country
in Squire
County Galway, Ireland, on his 93-acre estate.
"I'm just
boy,"
who Whenever
But she does not relish these
Togged in checked coat, "There was no design in my no troubles. They lle deeper than velvet vest, beret and rest polka decision not to make movies in mezzo- the conventional temperament-dot bindans, the clock-legged Hollywood. One picture just led contralto, probably, in fact, a trace of the luston manages to turn heads to another-and they all seem
written incecurity of her early childhood. of jaded Parisians who pre- to be in foreign places,
Callus has a pungent use of viously believe they had been As an aetresa, too, Callas is speech and chorm comes easily everything.
"I'm the only Director unrivalled anywhere, The
Irreconcilable seemingly ex- two
The neadermy award-winning has been type-cast, pressions of the huge eyes under qualities. Yel, basically, the is their thick, black brows would incapable of keeping
director has fled moviejund for a film is to bo made abroad put a straight actress to shame. Imooth facade for long. The lid the good of his soul, the health producers think of me. Thus, Her slyle of movemen: -- a is
and, I've made six movies in the past always bound to jump ett of his pocketbook graceful, striding command
tu splach rome eight years--in Europe, Asia, of and cut pours the fat, ugly little evidently, the whole stage-brings alariling girl who hated school und hated Banten and Bailey-type colour Afclea, Mexico and the South conviction to even
Seng." the most everybody,"
on Europe's landscape.
Up
Masterman Rafael Is
Only Bell Maker In
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
of 71 in brown summer sult, That is an
Now The Hungary
HURRY COSTS LIVES
Johannnabung.
Mr Saville Dadmen, the chief trafic officer of Johannesburg. has warned South Africa to take
you any note you want?" Mr Stezack, quiet-eyed cratis. Budapest. and a half-us any good belt man who has been in the Rafael Slezack, an old man should,
business for 54 years, emiled "F" he said, as and replied: That is a trade who claims to be the last fully the sound eddied and hummed secret,” *killed beli-maker
fift
In round his workshop and died Hungary, raised his hammer away among the clay moulds
It depends on the size, shape heed of its attitude on the roads, 11 d
struck
new and half-finished boils which and thickness of the bell, he Speaking al
traffic. 100-kilogramme (220-pound) littered the place.
'ndded, ond....... He made a sight; gymposium sponsored by the church bell n blow which made To the question, "how do you gesture with the hands which Pretoria Chamber of Commerce ting out for about a mimte make a bell which will give have shaped between 4,000 and in Pretoria, he painted picturo
6,000 bells in, the course of a Hfetime, indicating that the rest la a secret,
Philips Old ADC Starts Up
In The Building Business
By DONALD EDGAR
The
In his time, he said, he had had to discard only two bells, which did not come up to stan
dard
Q
of broken, disrupted homes and lose of man power--all for the sake of wanting to get there, a' few minutes earlier.
"The citizens of this country must take heed of their. attitude,” he said, "Once they get behind
the wheel they lose consideration for all others. In the next. 10 this rate, between Beside him stood
a good years at looking, dark young man of 29, 20,000 and 30,000 people will be of South Gyoergy Balint, who is married on the roads
Africa. to Slezack's granddaughter and who will be a fully-fledged bell-authorities, it is due to the "It is not the fault of the
maker in a year or so.
attitude of motorista.”—Propte Special.
When the old man retires, Gyoorgy will carry on the business. Gyorgy has a brother, Janos, a dental mechanic at Winnipeg, Ontario.
Making
Man Who Was notes in the musical scale-is Left For Dead
The Boy Who Had A Gift For Touring
COMMANDER Michael Parker's new job is with Kyle Stewart (Con- tractors) Ltd.-and he is as pleased as punch with it. I met him at tar Felix Fenston's house in Hill Street, Mayfair. He was beaming, bronzed,
and charming: "I am perfectly delighted with my new job. company are building contractors who were established in 1954. head of the Commissariat at Commander Porker AUBS Salary? He would not tulk
matched set of the United States Embassy Infommonly Prince Philips ADC. about that. Hut is no
bella representing the different [Sluttgart. He is going to write He resigned his past when his doubt that 37-year-old Com wife took out, divorce proceed- mander Parker has landed a
the height of the bell-makers' ings against film.
good job. It means travel
art. But is many years since "They are young, very abroad," he said,
Mr Blezock has been commis- effclent and very fast, This is And any job with the bearded
sioned to make a set, In the sort of thing we do; a cheese Felix Fenston must be full of
Cape Town The leg of a
present-day Hungary, he Bold Brm ordered two new factorics surprisem.
"corpse" on
awistfully. high costs and -one in Germany and one in
man who mortuary slab twitched slightly shortage of material have put England. The one in England mode a fortune out of property And, because someone with an an end to such jobs, Churches peared at a juvenile court here was finished flesk That was deals, who helped to back the observant eyes noticed it, Mr are Find if they can get one wearing • French Foreign larger than the German one. Maydower II on Trans-Daniel Johannes Alberts one of hell. And the metal for them, Legion fatigue uniform was sald the drivers in the Woodstock an alloy of copper and what to have absconded from an up- And it was built by my com- atlantle voyage, and who Two children saved their pany.**.
Lady train collision in April last year, is called here English tim, is provod school to North Africa. swords with father's life by grappling with a
Olivier ovce the future of thein alive.
According to police evidence, leopard, which had attacked
$1 James's Theatre and Who saw the ler twitch?
he made a sintement describing Churches which want to how he went from Folkestone to way for an offee block,
to know, for he wants to thank instal a new bell have to gather Boulogne as a day tripper using For Commander Parker it him for saving his life.
an equivalent amount of scrap) a stolen passport, INCADA the end of 17 months
and hard it to n Government He then hitch-hired across | without a Job einen ho resigned The accident happened at 5omec, which then issues France to Marseilles, boarded a
his post at private secretary to o'clock in the evening. It was licence nud material for the boat for Algiers and after tour-* Prince Philip
How To Grab A Leopard
Bar-es-Saloon.
Fenston
crossci
the x
al-him. Their father left their home The Minister ally pulled it down in make That's what Mr
5 Makes a deuer of a fuss! (7),
They could be right (6),
7 I just happens (8).
14 Take someone's breath away
(8).
16 Go below (8).
16 Subjected to vexation (1).
Creased (7).
23 Frolics, possibly childish (5). 18 Listed misinkes (0).
in Kikuyu village, near Dodoma, Central Tanganyike, to go for t short walk. He had only taken a few steps when a temalo leopard sprung on him from be- And.
Of Strikes
department
SO
Bombay
the Minister
Alberts wants
Scarce,
not unlil o'clock, that Mrbell. Alberta was found to be alive. A |
of
with
Beading.
A 18-year-old boy who ap
The boy, described as a per-
Mr S. K. Patil, India's Minis
ing North Africs onded in a Two of his children, hearing ter for Transport and Communi-
Tunis hospitni suffering from. Дете his cries for help, ruched
that strikes out. cations maki
His wandering fortnight after the accident ha The craftsman himself is not dysentery, Ono grabbed the leopard's tall, by workers or ne
or the
opened his eyes. In trying to allowed to hold slocks
Officials who found a boy hie while the other TD a bill other
of
Seventeen months in which find out where he was he fell material.,
carry a forged passport put him hook to hit the animal on the Ministry were
frequent
on in alreraft. He was arrested bead. The leopard was idilled, that it had come to be known as he has wandered to Mexico and out of beck
his name linked
Mr Slezack, now a great at London airport a month after In Southern Tanganyika (wo "Ministry of Strikes" and "I am back, hay had
With thar
As for driving a train again, American hairst
grandfather. started working his escape - from an approved brothery tackdod the Leopard known as
Nines Oakes, and has sentebed ho doesn't feel at all nervous with his uncle who employed 60 school here. problem from the other end. Strikes."
because he can't remember in for a job. They were out on a honey hunt- The Minister, who wer
the latest Mr Pension told me on the more then anything else, he three, the maximum that the sistent absconder from approved
anything of the accident, but men. Now he works ing expedition when a leopard Bombay to tackle
counity would like to
schoola made his way last year sprang on one of them, seizing strike by the Dock Workcors, vaid tulephane trom
find the porton Communist state "Naturally who saw his leg twitch.
private employér,
to Spain. He was remanded its that got a single weeks passed home at Guthford: his hand. TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Acrónu: 1 Spring, & Corps(0),
Com- While shoulder to his.brolkar | wilwul a relice in ono of thuff am very pleased that
mandler Tørker has joined ono
After the end of World War custody ill July 17 after ad- "If it had not been for him, I
milling burglary 14 Blue, 16 Arve, 18 for assistance, the young later departments of his Ministry. Cluss, 10 F. Ruy, 20 Ellher, 24 Adair, 25 Herdin, 28 Ever, 27 | grabbed tho leopard's tongue no If there is no strike in the of my companies."
would have been buried by 11. Mr Blezncle's workshop was England. Down: 1 Subs, 2 Rasp, a Nall, 4 Gyrite", hard as to could and holid on, docks, there will be a stylkoihi Two of the leading directors now," saya bir Albords, "With Anken from him, but was
His Brother, armed with an soe, the Posts and Telegraphs, or in of the compsty are Mr L. 5. those injuries I could not have turned to him last year, being under ran bacis und killed the looped the Aviation Department," be Biewert and his son My Ront survived much longer in the small end the only one in Hua-eventie
kary, Blewart. They are Eightandits. Imoebaggy," People Sporlal with one blow. Peoplo Spécial. added-Router.
25 Broadcast race? (5).
21 It makes them porucɛalve (5),
20 Hang around (0).
24 Ties, perhaps. in position (4).
27 Two-way doctrine (5),
28 "D" road? Obviously, but not
natrow (8).
29 Expunzo (8).
8 Ayah, D Bentir, 11 Eight, 12 Folan!,
Maned, 28 Notien,
5 Cheddar, Itoguery 1 Betiler, 10 Tolls, 13 Acclaim, 10 Bargain, 16 Ushered, 17 Bayer, 10 Father, 21 Hero, £7 Rost,
23 Anon.
hils
allowe
offences i
His nema cannot be released
Special
British law protecting offenders. People