** THE" CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1958.
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Mitchell, licar r 37 Philip's. Norbury, about their life on the streets and their beliefs about sin.
“Judy" sand she took up the life "on the spur of the anment and it sets "hera hard to begin with."
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AND A DAUGHTER
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Asked what she could call wrong, the girl replied "If you do something for nothing."
"Pauline" said she be- leurd in find, "but I think it is wrong to go to church if you are doing this sort of thing."
Hoth prostitutes veere paul for taking part in the pre- "War of Life" series on the BRC
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A Weekly China Mail Feature
CHEERFUL COCKNEY
LAUGHS
AT THE JUDGE
No British entertainer has made such a meteoric rise to fame and fortune as 22-year-old Tommy Steel, the tousled-haired rock 'n' roll singer from the back streets of Bermonday, London.
Two years ago he was plain driving his own car roundi the Stewart Thomas Hicks, a muste-hall circuits and £7-a-week merchant seaman. earning £300 a week. Soon he Now he 14 дп International Was receiving more than 100 singing star who has conquered proposals of marriage a wock, new teenage idol
thousands up the reported
between Eva ninment world-nima, television, worshipped By
music-hall, cabaret and panto- girls. Bartok and Prince Shiv of Palitana.
mime. This was the reason she left London Airport for
Naples the other day.
MODEL Jane Buckingham intended to break nearly all helds of the enter. He was d
And
with the Viscount she was lying in blew up she died guarding a secret known only by n few cluse friends.
For the 22-year-old beautiful. aubuva-baired għi, whose face un TV and magazine advertise- ments was known to millions. was already married and the mother of # two-year-old
daughter.
"But," she said before she took off to meet the handsome Indian prince and his father. the Maharajah, "i am expect- ing my marriage to be dis- solved any day and Then 1 shail be free to marry the man I love."
Twenty-four hours earlier Jane
had learned that Evo Bartok was to marry thủ prince,
That was only a few hours after she had returned from the Embassy Club, where, fur several weeks, she was work- ing, as an entertainer and receptionist,
Understood
romance
on the white-printed mantel
plece there she kept two toy woolly dogs. "The Gackowar of Baroda gave them to me," she said.
of
After four months in show JUDGE WAS WRONG business, Tommy was top of the hit parade and starring in
At first the critics predicted cabaret for £500. week at that ble popularity would soon London's fashionable Cafe do fade along with
the rock 'n' Pärls. roll craze. And a year ago, in a. dispute over e Steele Comb News of her death was being "His artistic life may be over tract, a High Court judge sald: kept from Dennis Hamilton. in five months or so." Dlann Dory's busband, the Landen seriously in Clinic.
Fur it was he who introduced
June to Prince Shiv at Ascot party.
Birthday
Here he showed that he had talent und
great the microphone genuine personality. On the first night broke dawn, but he showed 110 sign of this But now it in clear thai
He Just nerves.
Lapped the "Seme- singing phenomenon is here to mierphone and sald: May. He
body's taking the Nike." has just gained a 150,000, contract for his next three Bima. And when he ap- APPEARED BEFORE, QUEEN pears soon in the new chusical "Cinderella" at the London Pal- adlum, he will be the highest pald star in the West End.
Cet. 23 would have been Jane's
22nd birthday. Before catch-;
she ing the plane for Italy
Tommy Hicks, son of a race- arrunged with an old friend, course test-tack man, was born 45-year-old
Mrs
Dorothy in a Bermondsey council house, Wolf, to send her mother a one of a family of four. A mèm- £5 note to help provide aber of a street gang, he first birthday tes.
Interent th show Jane's mother, Mts Trudy May, business when he wrote rather his school's 45, sald tearfully, "From her violest plays for schooldays Jane-she changed Christmas parties. her nathe from Eugene May
for professional reasons--WDS
keen to go on the vinge.
showed an
CABIN BOY
Then he proceeded to delight this critical audience, setting
them clapping and stamping as ha frenziedly shivered and shook his way through his per- formance.
the
Tammy Steele went ph to become the Brat
rock 'n' roll singer to appear before Queen Performance.
in the Royal Variety For £2,500 ho made a Åles or his "life-story." His personal appearances caused: riots in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brussels and Oslo.
All this happened in his first
velued
ofer
"She was always terribly Al 15, after a six-week course cheerful and happy girl. Herat Gravesend, Kent, Tommy be- inarriage was a shock to me. came a £2-6-week cabin boy. year of show business. This She didn't tell me about it He wps Inter promoted to year his talents art until months later, Her reaction was stormy. "You
walter on a Cunard liner and so highly that his agent turned husband, he Onished his Merchant Navy dawn 42,000-a-week "But I found her can tell Eva Bartok fræn me, she said, "that she will never
Reggle Kawasa a very kind earder at the age of 20 an for him to appear at the London have han.
instructor Palladium. *SHA To
and mine. I
understanding person, assistant gymnasium My teare were that East and on the Mauretania. love him and be toves me.
West would not thix. "I have ukwayti wailed મા
marry him although he never actually proposed to me.
'But it was understond between
us.
Prince Shiv was driving bla
Thunderbird
cur
Worried
within three months of going with him to St Kitts she was home again-without Or Yusmirr.
Yet he was never a strong boy -he-hob hal pneumonia ex times and heart trouble twice. It was during one of his illnesses that he first studied the guitar,
BANK BALANCE
Pago. 3
Rock 'n' Roll star TOMMY STEELE loaves
Waterloo Station for Southampton en route for South Africa where he is to make à tout,
A LONDON BOBBY.
BECOMES A KING
Canberra.
A 6-foot, 15 stone ex-London policeman has become "king" of an isolated tropical island, 900 miles off the barren coastline of West Australia in the Indian Ocean.
Tommy
has
also turned down an offer of £3,000 for He is 83-year-old Daniel alin. As - eno Canberra ono television appearance
diplostart in Evan Nickels, who, tmiil just ̧à
puurt It however the United States
enough, the TEL:911 and many tow weeìm ago, won a farmer "Ironically fabulous offers to tour Com in the rich rural area of Mit we've chosen to govern the is- land is a native of the country tagong in New South Wales.
that gave it to "
Reggio
Whenever he was on shoto Then only about leave he would play and sing monwealth countries. two months ago she told me without payment in public how she had met Prince Shlyhouses and coffee bars. Then. and was going to marry him" with two friends, he formed Jane met her Busband while he trio called "The Chremen."
was studying law in London.
Parts and Naples on tween he way to see his father un- aware that Jone was dead, Before she lett June had said www was going to appeal to his father the Mahamjan. "He They married wilt
Shiv to get fuck," she said. "ile is my friend. We used to have ten together."
heli ine
Bu: .л Naples The Ma- harajah said: "I knew nothing about Miss Buckingham coming to sce
have never heard of her. 1 don't think we ever met."
Her friends
they
In London's Wes! End
were talking about the quies, well-spoken girl who in the past
been
few months had escorted by some of society's best-known figures.
Her friends included the Cook-
Wan
Baroda, Parfirio
Rubiron, and of course, Prince Shw
None of them knew that she
was in fact married
Register
at Kensington
14, Office on May
£300 A WEEK
Today he is one of the richest young men in Britalh. He has his bought new house for
He is said to parents.
have £100,000 in the bank.
Now ht has been appointed
Forintr policeman to the post of Australia's Official
Nickels on her newest has to maintain law and order Representative
Is- trust territory. Christmas on the island, look after Im- land, one of the world's richest migration and posts and tole. sources of high-grade phosphote. graphs, and be responsible for customs and local govermistat, With his appointment goti É A2,300 (£1,840 sterling) a year salary and perquisites of 2 A1,500
sterling). (£1,200 These include;
1955,
Singing in a coffee bar, Tom- Mrs Dorothy Wolf, who my was spotted by 24-year-old
At 22, the shrewd Tommy met Janes when her son Harry John Kennetty, deckhand Steele is well prepared for his brought her home, said: "On turned-publicist. Kennedy by bubble of
popularity to burst. Sunday week she
friends, his fans, and seemed highpowered salesmanship, play. But his very worried beuse Prince ed a major part in creating the even his critics, are now con- Shiv had not called ber for Tommy Steele legend.
vinced that this cheerful young
£A800 (£240 sterling) Cockney will stay at the top tor several days." Jane's father died vo years? Just two months after leaving many years to come.--People | household staff;
the merchant navy, Tommy was Special.
ago-People Special
DR GRUHZIT HUNTS FOR
HONGKONG MUSHROOMS
By NOEL BUCHANAN
to Mr Mushrooms to most people are something served with
Reginald Kawasa, a barrister from the Lebanon who practises in St. Kitts in the West Indies.
Their two-year-old daughter,
Jasmin, with her father, Only her closest friend knew that the beautiful model
a
T-bone steak but to elderly Dr Oswald Cruhzit they are more beautiful than most flowers.
"Mushrooms spent his
grow
every
Dr Gruḥzit has spare time for mire than 50 where, even £ti pation, But years searching tinder trees nobody here seems to bother. and prowling through woods "Thuży're just ab interesting
who had hit society's top and swamps for new types of # any flower. Sote are as level originally chmo Peckham, London,
from mushrooms.
patroc of the He compares them with or-
club in chida.
The wealthy
Embassy night
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TURSDAY'S CROSSWORD—Aerosit 1 Fisher, 5 Tests, 1) Bear,
o Bweepf, 13 Jdnim, 12 Saying, 14 Alan, 10 Eboný, 10 Level, 19 Drew, 20 Make up 24 Bpine, 25 Ornate, 20 Nets, 27 Crost, 28 Aftend. Dawn Fri, 2 Baus, 3 Erpy, 4 fitvleri, 5 Trigger,
Shallow, 7 Bioreys, 10 Eagle, 13 Classle, 14 Avarier, 15 | A-me-nt, 17 Begin, 19 Dokola, 21 Erak, 22 Pate(r), 23 Bead.
A shock
beautiful as orchids."
Dr Gruzit laat week ad. dressed the Hongkong Natural History Society,
a vihall grdup
cm
London's Bond Street knew And the hundreds of photo- her as a goy, brillant COF- versationalist who was ready | richly
graphic slides he has taken of of dedicated nature lovers,
bie coloured specimens favourite subject. for a party any time.
Ho showed slides of brilliant-. solidly back up hik opinion,
The
ly coloured mushrooms he has 73-year-old American doctor is one of a group of na- photographed in America and
Hon Krong. luralists called mycologists who
To spoke of Shazdy Men, the forkein whenever they have the chance to study, inky Capa, Milk and Oyster Mushrooms and Falry Rings classify and photograph mush-
and dozens
with long Laun one yet has Michigan, Drilles that no
Said the general mahager Mr take to
Ralph Morria: "Jane's death has come as a'trugle shock. "She was in the club on Mon- tay night, but did not arrive
TOHOTYIN,
From Detroit,
inst night. We thought she Crubili iz spónding six tuotube replaced with more colourful
weeks by tid kald would like to JETA LO there modél work for her time.
at tho
in
HAM,
He waxed lyrical,
Alout ono tiny white spoetes "When you on thousands and thousands of them growing on the forest floor you think you are walking through the next fall of know."
wds ill and would get in follday with his son in long- touch with to Inter,
kong and la, seeking out the She camie 10 sca me three Bhuly of our mushrooms.
that sho
So far, he saya,, no be work here Hongkong has troubled to go
it in the hills and and the hun dreds of colourful species grow "I had met fer before when Ing Its windy places..
Our Inek of intefeet angers alie kathe herb as the gival of which is wor Mr Rubrosa making short
"When I come to Hongkong VIAIL 40 London to buy sana maka." I looked for a book on local the brguly of 1 Three weeks ago Jane and her mushrooms but no one has aver But lo by Gruktit mushroomí
friend, Ji Allbi, who plso bothered to write one.
are not dry boautiful they are "I hope I bala convlhed bobple, one at his favourite dishes.. wunion at the Tangay Cit
If ctpe: Sked alone or moved thin h bed-sutkjg-room what they are triseing and ent in Wyndham Place · Meryte- tem stooping under irnes, in with ment as a sort of molte
Tavinks and Woode and swatripe. room, getTIN,
alm.
Or another: "When you nee this type or lifthe mushroom on a dying akon tree, show me the dicha that will compare with
,,,
There ore 1,100 Asians and 160 Europeans on the 65 squáro mile island. All are empløjtes of the Phosphate Commission, a concern run jointly by the Aus- for tralian and New Zealand
£A300 (£240 sterling; for entertainment;
A rent free two-storey oficial résidence compiete with swim- ming pool.
Free light and power; and ten weeks' lelive for cadil two years' service.
Christmos Island is covered with dense jungle growth. All the year round It has high tera- peratures and sudden thunder storms.
Until October 1 it was ruled by Britain through Singapère,
Rulo was then cœled to Aun-
Discipline And Cigarettes
t
Vienna.
None of the 17 Marshals of the Soviet Army- smoke.
·
This was revéźled by Austrian Defence Minister Ferdinand Graf, soon after his retum from a visit to Moscow recently.
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"The reason why they do not smoke is not because it is forbidden but because it is frowned on.
Those marshals who did smoke at one time, gave it up as self-discipline," he said.
Most of them have come up from the ranks and from poor families but they are all now well- educated.
Horr Gtaf had talks with Soviet officers of all ranks and from thade meetings and his visits to military academies he learned there were only two wars which the Russians corttider Have much significanco-the Napoleonic War and the lest World War,
You find great sfatues made of every, conceivable kind of thetal and stone, all the officers who led the Russian armies against, Napolesh," said Herr Graf. "They pre alt in the officers' academiei.
"This is psychologically important. The Russiana are showing that any anemy who enters Russia will be destroyed. Psychology plays an important role in the military academies, Political teaching never ende.""
«Propia. Spedia),
Governments.
Competition
To win the position, Nickels had to compete with almost 500 other applicants who included Britons, Canadians, New Zea- landers and Austrällans.
The only hard and fast quali- Action was a mastery of the Malay dialect of the area.
After 'careful. alfting and probing of applications, officers
Australian of the
Territories Department unanimously agreed that the fall robust Englishman with the winning personality appearest best fitted for the job. Born in London in 1904, Nickols joined the Metropolitan Police Force as a constable in 1924 and served for two years as a "copper on the best,"
In 1920, he resigned and Police joined the Singapore Forge, where his initiative. and capacity for hard work quick- ly won him the position, of Senior Inspector..
Small Farm
Aller à long and distinguished service he became Acting Senior Asaletant Commissioner "In 1952.
Two years later, he resignedh and with his 'witë migrated to Australia where they Bellied on a small lakin in New South Wales.
But the active life he had lod for so many years medo, him restless and when applications wow, mought for the Christenka Inland position, the one headed Dániel, Evan Mekels- was the first received.
- The day before his appálne, ment was offieisily announded by the Minner for Territories, Mr Paul Ziksluck, Mlékols,and his wife flow 10 Christmas falarıd to take up residence. The fol Jowing, day he supervised, the mall dignified ceremony which Probed down the Union Jack and broke out the Austrailan
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