THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958
PEOPLE
in the news
"As Far I'm Concerned"
Said The
Magistrate
MRS MINNIE LING, 60-year-
The probation officer said Mrs old Dartford magistrate who Smith had once refused to let fus gooled people for stealing pet her into her home. Mrs Smith's and bisich, husband, lorry driver Mr James food, stawberries.
Smith, 47, said: "My wife to prison for n sent woman monti recently for
not pilfer- did
want the probation imit
because I did fait officer to come in varnish.
* 15. Gd. bottle
not know anything about the She said again: "I don't trouble she was in. Winnie told people du say I me only just before she went to
court today."
cure
if
am acting tough. I've got a job to do. As far as I am concerned, this woman got what she <le- served."
She has one previous convie- tion for shop Hifting, seven years In court was 43-year- ", the court was told.
old Mrs Winlfred Smith, of Said Mr. Smith: "Seven years Albert-road. Bexler. She ad- is a long time and that is the mited stealing the nail varnish only other thing she has ever from a chain store in Bexley-done wrong. The worry of being- heath.
ang up the children and mak-
Just a little too sotta voce?
Ah, now that was perfection!
The Face Of Maria Callas
A
As She Hears Herself
T Covent Garden, at La Scala, Milan, at New York's Metropolitan the soaring soprano of Maria Callas captivates the audience.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
AMERICA'S
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Seven years after their lost big hit, "The King and 1," Rodgers and Hammerstein, America's Gilbert and Sullivan, are hoping to reproduce their magic formula on Broadway.
Thoir last musical "Pipe Dream" galued advance bookings worth 1,200,000 dollars in 1956. But it flopped on Broadway, being closed after 246 per- !formances.
Now the partners who turned out such smash-bita | "Oklahoma" and "South Pacifle" have been working for more than D year on their new musical "The Flower Drian Song." This time Broadway expects them to live up to their reputation,
Hammersteln und Rodgers have been collaborating since 10M3 and both have had their own triumpha, Hammerstein is the author of the five longest runs in the history of London's Drury Lane-"Descri Sung."
Bout," and "Rose Marie." Rod- gers has been writing hit tunes for more than 30 years.
This Multi-Millionaire
Is A Tireless Worker
"Oklahoma," "Carousel," Show One of the wealthiest men in the United States is now seeking re-election as Governor of the State of New York a job which has been described as second in importance only to the Presidency itself.
Hammersteln is a large, 6OIL- voiced man, who loves the theatre and everyone connected with it. Extremely polite and friendly, he even likes theatre critics.
odgers is quite different →→→→ small, stocky, and a tough busi- nessman. He draws up the con- The man and his wife in their armchairs sit back astracts for their productions.
the record-player resolves and inwardly applaud, note by.
vibrant nota,
secr
.
Part
Mother Of John Osborne Likes To Be A Barmaid
By DOROTHY HARRISON
Gt. Britain. Mrs. Dorothy Osborne, mother of John Osborna, whose plays and film rights are said to vam, him £1,000 a wook, is a bar- maid,
And the woman the regulars of the Queen Adelaide, Ewell, Surrey, call "Dobbia," prefers it' that way.
In fact the only thing that up- sets handsome, kindly, 63-year- eld "Bobbic," is the often- repeated reference to her 28- year-old son ag an Angry Young, Man,
Why is he a barmaid? She fold
mo recently: "I want to feel independent, John gave me substantial allowance but I live alone and it docs moar company for me in the evenings. I've been doing it for four years. "John doesn't mind, but if he did, and I had to choose between working and having ไปป allowance I'd sticle to my job."
anyoto in angry and bitter it's me," she confessed,
HIS OWN STUDY,
On the Angry Young Man theme she bristled: "I've never seen John anizty In his life. Angry Young Man Indeed. Per- He le 00-year-old William Harriman is believed to be fect Young Man is more like Averell Harriman,
any apon multi- hoping for Democratic nominat. He's
mother millioonire dom of • mult- tion in the Presidential elec- would be proud of. militonale, former Ambasador tien 1960. And success in his "Whenever he can he takes to Britain and Bumia, former current compaign would
pul me out
10 dinner comewhere “Lend-Louse" expediter and him in a strong position. former European supervisor
picp. OU 'But he' han one big handicap the Marshall" Phar
st election times: he is prob-
The diferent personalities of
Harriman le a human dynamo ably the most atrocious public Oscar Hammerstein and Richard with an incotiable appetite for speaker in high office today- Rodgers
His father, " 19th cen- which makes his progress all dovetail works. to precisely, Just like their lyrics tiny tycoon, made 0 gigantic the more remarkable in a couE- and melodies.
fortune as hood of the Union try whoro oratory can count for Pacific Raikood and left his won so much. After years of working tonomothing like 30,000,000 dollars. to The 35-year-old temperamental tigress of inter-gether, they are still the greatest Yet young Harriman chose
of friends auch say that
they work hand all his lite, have never differed about
Started At The Bottom anything.
How do they go about writing The 17-year-old Aveneli began a musical show?
by working on a railway clerk in Nebrastes during his summer Say Rodgers "I usually write vacation from Yale University. the lyrics first, and then Dick when he had graduated, he gave sels them to music. When all his attention to die ralfway worked with Jerome Ker, it, and rose from clerk to the vice- was the other way round-not so presklency of the Union Piele casy for me,”
In two years.
But how does a great singer react when she listens to her own voice? The three faces of Maria Calias caught by the camera are the answer.
national opera has been recording Verdi In London.
With her at a playback conference were shirt-sleeved conductor Nicola Rescigno and her 63-year-old husband Battista Menegheni.-People Special
Witch Works Wonders
With Brokendown Cars
By "People" Reporter
"A lyric has got to be simple if it's going to become popular"
"Mine u simple because I have small vocabulary."
he once told me.
After choosing a story the rest takes them about a year to wrike is just hard work. I usually to a play, though porta of it $5
written at top speed.
She has three children, boys of ing do with little money hus four and 16, and a girl of 15 made her absent-minded."
A probation officer sald Mrs Both the elder children were Smith told her she intended to told that their mother had been
INTO the sober meeting place of scientists INTO pay for the varnish but no gaoled. "But I am still wonder-
walked A man with strange tales sulesgirl
four-year-old to take her ing what to tell came money. She did not remember Tony about her said Mr Smith. tell of fairies, hobgoblins, and witches-and in wolking out with the bottles. People Special,
A British Crossword Puzzle
23
4
10
15
23
124
25
26
28
ACROSS
Rest then resume an atti-
1
tude? (6).
6 League list? (6).
B
A capital solution! (4),
9
Often eaten roasted (U).
11 Tender (5).
12 Really gets moving (0). »
14 ko Brutus in play? (4),
DOWN...
1 Completely absorbed (4),
2 William maybe (4).
3 Petty cash in France (4).
There's a chonge for her (6).
5 Monastic hair do (7),
18 Makes an aerial attack? (5). 7
18 A girl gone wrong (5).
ID In this one is in want (4), 10
20
Brunetto? (U).
Sho should know. hów - to
pix her drinks (7).
A needle which is this
would be useless (7), ** Those who ore never suited? (5).
24 It shows a certain amount 13 Moor battlefield (7).
of heat (5).
14
Take to pieces (7).
25 Confrin that there's no 15 Took for granted (7).
raistako (0).
28 Dash out of Ireland (4).
27 Like a piano, it is observed
(6).
17 Abstract protection (6).
10 Undaunted? Don't you be-
liqve (2, 4).
21 Mims Shoitan? (4).
28 Take ill, but not go sick 22 Trick (4).
(0),
gives the
23 What the loser winner (4). TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD Across: 1- Occult, 4 Idols 7 Chaser, Event, 10 Fulp, 12 Duale, 16 Allas, 10 Tent, 17 Erle, 10 Meter, 20 Senator, 21 Draw (gy), 29 Pique, 24 Lancer, 25 Seven, 20 F-e-velt. "Dorty: Couples Choc-a-in, 3 Lees, 6 Deviated, a quien, & Misor, 11 Plaire, 12 Damon, 13 Tez- Inces, "14" Stewards, 18 Revike, 22 Dije.
Considerable Charm
On the other hand he is ✡ man of considerable charm-he was once pleked by former Alm star Madeleino Carroll, as one of the 10 most handsome men
America.
Harziman was also a sports an of note in his less heetle top days. He played in the American polo team, but has since given up the
gamo
at
în
"I'm angry because John has had to mako, his 'own way all glong without any help or en÷ couragement from anywhere, and its meant real hardship.
"Few people can guess what it means to him now having a dudy of his own und = all ind Books he wants, Only a few years ago hh was working in crowded public region
"He left school, aj, 19, to g into repertory, although people kept telling hiợi le" could earn favour of ski-ing and crocquet. much more in a copifortable In 1934, by his third year pa This year he formally opened office job.
resort be a new aki
Laku "Not that he'd have taken a strain of the company, boosted the Union Pacific's re- Placid, Neiv York, and was left celots 66 per cent by investing dangling 8011, over the heads penny from me." millions on stream-line trains of the crowds after the
Bobble reflected proudly and low-priced "dinus" at the chair-type of ski-lift had sluck | she pulled, a pint; “No, he's Ladders were quickly erected, reached where ho Is alone, low-point of the depression.
At the same time he turned but he refused to climb down quite alone because he's got ship-building. It was also in 1034 repaired. For successfully to banking and and sat there till the Hit was what we commonly cell guts,,,”
opco be had that Hamry Hopkina brought him made a concession to his years.
President
new
Just like his mother.
Tough Assignments DUCKLING AMONG THE STARS
"Oh, what a beautiful morning to the attention of
Roosevex, particular of one witch, in the Highlands of was set to music by Richard Scotland, who can work wonders with broken-flodgers as soon as he got the lyric. It took him just about në down cars and lorries.
long to compose as it does'to play From then on, Heráṇan st- cepted a succcasioni of tough Rodgers took six days to government Jobs svithout re- in a tile thatched house with sketch out the score for muneration. By 1941, he hog bộ- an unmarried son," said Mr G. "Oklahoma." But Hammerstein's como the President's special work often taken great deal representative in Betain with of time. He has been known to the rank of Minister. spend weeks on a few lines,
TRAGEDY OF
THE WHITE
COLLAR'
PARENTS
By "People" Reporter
TUIE children of peopic in the
"Sho was over 80 and lived
1. Maclean, of the Edinburgh School of Scottish Studies.
Mr Maclean, addressing the anthropology section of the Bri- Lish Association in Glasgow, went on: "I met her myself three or four times.
"She was a beautiful old lady, with bright blue eyes and rendy smile,
Up to date
"Whenever
person
اط ہیں
SOMEONC
while collar class tend animal in the district was struck to cost off their parents in with sudden Ulness their old nge, a sociologist said. And the most plausible was sent to her house to get a snaithie, a charmed thread to mad
explanation is that they are counteract the
cure the illness."
ashamed of their parents.
These indings are based en an The witch kept up with the investigation of life in Wood-times and extended her charms ford, a middle-class London to cure failings in the internal suburb and Sir Winston combustion engine, Mr Macican Churchill's Parliamentary went on. constituency.
Once a brand how lorry, own- ed by a local hauller, uti They were given by Mr P. Will-accountably broke down on 1s
mot. assistant director of the first trip.. Institute
Community "Tho' driver, a sklled much- Studies, in an address to the anic, could not get it started Briti Association's chology section.
of
And what about all the tunes they scrap? "We never use dis- carded tunes in the next chow," Rodgers. "They're Like yesterday's tea to us.”
says
Singapore
To London
As the chief Hálson officer between London and Washing- ton he kept the Americans in- British formed on what the
Whitehall up-to- needed and dafe on what the United States could supply.
He filled the same role for Russia and in 1943 he became Ambassador there. Three years later he
was Ambassador London,
Present From
Stalin
ນ
Harrunan is the only Ameri- can who attended every major Allied conference of the last London. war and the first to have taken Squadron Leader C. N. Pol charge of buth the London and
former R. A, F. station Moscow Embassies. jock,
Moscow he had the rare administrative officer at Tengah, Singapore, and his German- | privilege of being received by born wile ise, have arrived in Stalin himself once a
month, Britain after a 25,000-mile When he finally left Russia, two overland Journey from Malaya. Stalin presented him with
Their three and a half month thoroughbred horses. trip in a diesel saloon car took Atier only a few months in them through Mainya, Thailand, Grosvenor Square, this useless India, Pakistan. (worker returned to his country. Afghanistan, Iron, Turkey, in 1940 as U.3. Secretary of Yugoslavia and Weston Europe, Commerce. In this capacity he The two biggest obstacles en- made a reputation for his firm
than 100 stand against political witch- countered were more miles of south Thailand Jungle, hunting,
From 1948 to 1950 he WILS with fow bridges or foods, and the bust 260 miles of the road the President's special repre- through Northern Burma to the sentative in Europe, energetical- Indian frontier, It took two ty supervising the Marshall days and nights to cover the Plan. In 1951 he was Truman's Just 68 Talles,
Special Assistant. that the
Burma, psy again, although the engine op-
saw
Old prople in the professional
working clasees and much of their children, said Mr Willmot,
'In-between'
But parents of the "in-between" class clarks, shop ገ.. sistants, commercial travel-
OTHE
peared to be in perfect order.
"His sister, the local district nurse went to the witch brought back a charmed thread "And as soon as the thread was wound round the radiator cap, the engine started up," said
Mr Maclean.
Little folk
to
But Mr Maclean refused
The couple found name the witch or say where ferry
20:30
the fast-moving
les, etc-many of whom had she lived, "for fear of giving Salwoya River in Bruna had
One
to
Elected Governor“ ·
More important government work followed until, In January, 1035 he was elected Governo of New York, breaking the State's 12 years of Republican
children in professional or offence."
broken down just before they managerial jobs, tended
He told the selentista about reached it. After much - be isolated.
Q local hondman schoolchlidren who were "up-goining, old pet and terrified" after meeting agreed to construct a raft, and, Mr Willmot quoted
mun who salt of his son, who that they described as little belped by some 40 villagers, ol
Now Harriman at an age. had been to university and people 31. high topping round they were puddled across. was now a aclenlist in Aus-
Squadron Leader Pollock is when moet men are contem People in the Western High-a former British amateurping retirement, i dghting tralia:
still bellevo fimply in heavyweight boxing chanipion by that often Amin--this time "We don't write to each other, faliga aid witches," he said, and at the hike of 1 held the Spreed 'by another,' multi-
I' 'don't ovch
know
his They talked of witchien turpion RAF. Heavyweight' title. He | mifilonaire-ffelsión fockefeller, address. Jo's Greth people into animals and fairy is now R.AF. Station Ad- a grandson of John D. Rocke Taloguumpro-de wante to be muslo comtog from ap ministrative offer at Wattia- feller, founder of the family's alon."
ham in Buligtropin skyrink | Austine, form chanted paptain.
a hill.
Lands
Any actor will tell you that an animal is very liable to steal a scone but this young duckling has obviously captured the hearts of those making the British Lion film, Danger Within on location at Chobham Common, Surrey (Monday). Froen laft to right are: Donald Houston, Richard Attenborough, producer Colin Lastle and Dennis Price.
The film tells the true story of an escape from a Lombardy prison card which had been handed over to the German whory:Itely surrendered in 1943.1 is partly based on the experiences of the producer, Colln' Lessile, who wry a prisoner in the camp and whoć scrated a duckling a 'à pet there.