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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1958,
The people you meet!
MOVING AROUND THIS VIVID
CITY I'VE HAD QUITE A WEEK
AMONG A STIMULATING
SET OF PERSONALITIES..
JITH the rushing up-town, the dashing down- town, and the careering cross-town, New York sometimes gives the impression of a dog chasing its tail. Other times it looks like a vast open-air, garage and most times it sounds like a many towered babel.
When
excused himself with:
"These
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the back has exactly the same dynamte head us his father but sofi eyes and gentle whose south when he turns around, pearls and things in coluira ke token a quite different person→ ally. We met in the office used by the late Mike Todd.
nte the promotion boys. We're going strong on a new line call d Kabuki colours for spring ingoda pink, slivine purple, ten
beige, and buddha green,"
ball in Mr R. Right on the
Here they are all Jup-happy,
Five Osears stood on the shelf behind the king-size walt desk, and the walls were paper- There was the millionaire...ed with awards for "Around the reputedly 200 times Dverex- World in 80 Days," ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. dined Mr Kennedy When we was in high spirits, having just
where is son Jack had won [2 wisational re-election victory in Massachusetts.
But among these rackety crowded things it. offers moments of heart-stopping beauty The huge block of steel are fushed with the setting run though it is already night in the chasms below
When the lights of a thousand tall apartment in from his Boston home houses shimmer like sequinned Christmas trees When the grey across the slow-folding river. squirrels, begging for food, and the red-jerseyed skoters hallerine across the ice-rink herald winter in Central Park.
All the time in the rush and the splendour and the thrill there moves a unique breed of human called the New Yerker.
This past week I have encountered quite a few...
star. Uarry was the There Belafente, whom I found in his eur hanging the three gaiden Tregled 1234292 felever
Jon Steve Allen Show
With pep
Maybe I should tell you inorr abut this offled," he said with a low rindle. The portrait there
Mathiewilda Dodds. Thus
Afclean arth as Agures a primitives found in Sweden, That wood carving cones from Hat, and the paper you framed over my desk is one desegrega - OF 12 documents of ta isted In 1957.**
see
About segregation, 1 ven Tuped believe you had trou- bie getting an apartment on the Rast Side
In an instant the relaxed lines of bh incredibly bondsome face hardened into bitterness
"It's true," be sahl.
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a mosterul city. They don's ind you in restaurants and you can even buy a note in SUIT areas. But no winster who you are, if you're coloured and try- ing to get in on the East Side,
velt.
runnin Arst eluss around from the landlord.
But I've not finished. I expect the subpoenard to testify ut n
at tribe mai senn."
Mr The meaningful tile of Beinfonte's next Oh-bis frat
fire-
as an independent producer--is "Odds Akalast Tumorrow."
There was the costume jewel- er. Gerald Rosenberger, sident axl
chairman of Coro, IK the world. the largest Arm of its kind
Yeats! We are pretty big" "Did FI Rosenberger. sahl Mr 28,#40,000-dollar turn-over lust yent. Our sucress really began when we stopped making bolta
Once I ti Jewellery. frankly fake with no kidding at pretence we were well away
With fortune
"Yeah We
With
-I've shelved delag
Don Quixote' for a while hugh clad was three-quarters through all The preparations," he said, "It's as big a project as any you can
imagine. Yes, quite as big
Around the World."
Patricia Lewis
in NEW YORK
lovely com-fed girls from town come to seek riches and renown in the big city.
the buyers something new every two or three months, Today's fad may be tomorrow's failure."
À man entered carrying 11 sheer shirt-waister. But "Flae, Joe. It's beautiful, check the woistune. It seems to be drifting."
"Midday on Fifth Avenue pro- dures such a stunning parade we often stop work to go and printed look at the "mice. There's only one place where the girls are as that's Dingle in pretty, and Ireland."
With nostalgia
There was die publicist petite, blonde Jeannie Gilbert of Ken- tucky, New York, and, until four months ago, of London's Savoy
Hotel.
To ine: "You see, dresses are like bananas- you leave them exposed too long they'll rot "
I left before the rot set la,
With nonsense
There was the millluer, Mrs Janet Sluxe, whose HORSENSE hats carry the apt labei "Mad-
"This is," she said, show.
round the blue-muat raps." "I'm going to wait and seeing me how the first couple of things i apartment on Lexington Avenue
that has replaced a mews do rume out. If they're success- New
"Bul Lage as her home. ful then I might have a go.”
How Iniss London!
Grey haired, smiling, and in- emely interested in
**veryon around him, Mr Kennety is welt
York. known and well loved in
As he ordered a bottle of the rare wines sperially reserved for html this cellars of the Pavillon this expensive city's restaurant--he most expensive talked about the mode in mil-
Jonaires here.
With ideas
"Until 18 years ago there were fewer than 50 people in America with an Income of a million year," he said. "Now there are so many you don't really sturt reckoning them until they have 10 million-and there are very fw of those.
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never Indica llon of
Was
cut- my!
Sitting in her showroom sur- rounded by hundreds of fett
upsot. I don't know how those "He Just looked at me na- Hollywood people get married committally, but last time I saw and divorced and married and him in Sardis I wound up do- divorced with
threo Ing 'Pul Joey, so you nover children around.
know."
two
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"I stayed at bome so she shouldn't be alone and now it's
Ave years since I've been on Broadway,
That's the thing about New York and its citizens--you never know.
With all its stars and bars, Jazz and bezazz, Its taxi-drivers who
"What I'd really like to do, of course, would be a show in Its London-and is me I'd take Julle with me,
The tempo is delightful
turn Just that much slower there, 1 leve privacy and quiet, and here you round their city and its
barkeepers I get like a high-class neurotic. frightful
charge you 138. for n
I
off the meter to show
who
Bmail
Can
"Funny things, saw Jack Hylton in Sardis the other day, glass of wine, It's wonderful and I told him how much place where anything would like to do 'Lady in the happen-the way I feel
has all happened to me.
Durk in London.
ROUND-UP
and straw and flower bats, I ROUND FAR EAST
asked Mrs Sloane how she was The "couple of things" involve
This is a place of sharp edges roping with the present hatless a new procers called Smell-O- Vision-with eti
and push-button living. I never trend in America," exclamation
see the adikoson or the postman mark, prompted Todd jun.
here. In London une sevis 10 with originally called have so much contact Scent-O-Vision, but we thought human beings." (New York, of
by we might to well call a spade course, is inhabited spade. It is a Sw.as Invention tians.)
irt with adeurs pped in each Bividual seat and dad was this Arst person they sprang it on.
Mair-
"Men? Well, I never went much for Englishmen. but here they're Just a lot of hot, sweaty puppies."
"Re offered them 100.000 dollars but they wanted u Ill-
So full of nostalgia for Lon- Hen. Dat said: 'You must have been reading my Press releasest den and its once-maligned gen- I'm not coming up with a mil-lemen is Miss Gilbert that she
ly writing flon'
book to be called "Mayfair Hillbilly" and flying buck just to make sure of what she has been missing.
Young Mr Todd's first fetid features will be a rarioon star "You see.
regard ring a bloodhound and 20 smell: in 12 minutes and a thriller call- securities as an
unless a man actually ed "Scent of Mystey." wealth
where was then,“
all the clues are odours.
When we parted Mr Kennedy mentioned that his son, the 41-
With drive
There was the dress manu- who facturer, Andrew Arkin, runa the biggest "better-dress"
As Tadid Jim, knocked out his briar to say goodbye he added: "Incidentally, the villain of the business in the States. hell England pearing on televisfpin the next pleee is a pipe-smoker,"
and our business has tripled there the past couple years, but
not much es three times.
s very little."
Just then eight burly gentle
year-old senator, would be au-
und recog-
I looked in mthi ulsed where the younger Ken- nedy gleaned the bruins chrim that may well win the presidency in 1960.
n:un
There shouldered their way into
WHE the
the room and Mr Rosenberger Michael Todd jun.,
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There was the ad-man, David Ogilvie, of England, who 10 producer. years ago began the 3,488th ad- who from vertising agency in New York and, through a series of master-
ful campaigns-notably the man
with the eye-patch-stayed to beat the Americans at their own Rume.
Second only to the suceres iL has brought hm, New York en- chants Mr Ogilvie with its wo-
17:43.
"We make 400,000 dresses a year," was told by this youth- ful. greying man in his cluttered office above Seventh AVCTED the marrow of New York's gar- ment centre, the city's leading Industry
"Our whole idea is to put the
"There 210 always women who just won't wear a hat," she Calick "But I think people are wearing things on their heads much more than five years ago. A good dval of our business 1: done in what i call whimsies
it
A SURREY woman artist who went out to Bombay for a vege- tarian congress 12 months ago has been painting her way She is Mas Elva Hacker, af round South-east Asia ever since. Sutton, Surrow, who specialises in portraiture and painting dogs. She has found no shortage of sitters and has just heid an ex- ublion in Singapore of her work "on location." This month the British Aris Council is sponsoring a further exhibition of her plotings, at Kuala Lumpur. Two years ago Miss Blacker made a similar painting tour the United states and Canada.
-bits of bowe, veiling bandeaus, NAUTICAL COLLEGE
and blossom that retail from Bround one pound.
SITE is to be acquired by the London County Council for the erection of Nautical College. It will incorporate King Edward VII Nautical College, Stepney, in the east-end of London and the "I am expecting to do big
A sub-committee report of the Council's Education things shortly with some little navigation department of Sir John Cass College in the City of this says an advisory committee is pro- top-fenots inspired by the head-London. dresses wurn
by Ava Gardner Committee announcing
posed for advising on the general preparations for the new college, In The Naked Maja' lm,
to consider preliminary plans and questions of staffing and hostel "But looking into the future I accommodation. predict that the tiny pill-box into will come roaring back
Ured of fashion, Women are hatty hals,"
With hope
"BOW AND ARROW H.Q.”
A FORMER Fleet Air Arm base may become the Navy's "bow and arrow" headquarters. The base once HMS Siskin -- is now HMS Sultan where ratings are trained in engineering and mechanics. The base has one of the finest indoor ranges in the ecunty. It is in a hangor. The range was started by Instructor. Lieutenant-Commander B. S Wilson, Captain'J. D. Farrow, the There was the singer, sophia-Commanding OfBeer, believes that the Sultan ay become the ticated Carole Bruce, who was home of navel archery. lauded by London audiences for
her playlag of the society dame RECRUITING DRIVE with a roving eye in the stage production of "Pal Jocy."
FULL-SCALE recruiting drive is to be started in the two coun- les next year when the Royal Berkshire Regiment amal- She lives in Greenwich VII- gamates with the Wiltshire Regiment to form the Duke of Edin- lage, in a farge, pink and greenburgh's Royal Regiment. apartment overlooking Washing-
on Square, with her 11-year-old SHARE BARRACKS daughter, Julie.
fun back into fashion." He broke off La the telephone rang "Don't buy an incli,” he yelled, and slapped the receiver down.
"Now what were we saying?" "Things have happened since An, Paris! Well, we owe a greal I saw you in London," she said, debt to Paris, We call it our pouring
whiskey marinis, 1 research laboratory. We usc separated from ku:} husband Forty-Ave newly joined National Service men of the York and
its feelings and findings to acil
TWO YUTH MO. thousands of new styles. extra-
But nia now.
They are really ordinarily beautiful," mused this red-haired, spectacled genlue with the preoccupied air, "Models
secretaries
we don't use Paris straight. Direct copies don't sell.
"We are working foster than before. We have to, show all ever
WELL, I could go on
EVENTY years the home of the Green Howards, Richmond Barracks, Yorkshire, is now taking under its roof soldiers from another regiment who, side by side with Green Howards recruits, will carry out their inital irnining on the famous barrack square.
He's in Californcaster Regiment have arrived in Richmond on ten weeks' basic training at the Barracks. This follows the recent formation of the Yorkshire Brigade. From now on, until accommodation is avail- "E WBS such an upheaval oble at the Brigade headquarters at Strensull, near York, all re- that didn't want to go into erults in the Green Howards and the York and Lancasters will go
sal to Richmond Depot. Julle was ton-run show,
And so we say
by
'Farewell... GILES
writing for ever about what Auntle Vera gave for
Barra
one to buy it back at a quarter
it.
Al
another
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our journey through Gougane
and way Glengarriff to Kenmare and Killarney and about all the things that hap- pened.
stat
Like the day when we to Tralee and there was a horse sale in the street and Uncle George told Auntie Vera in walt on the corner for a minuta while he went for an hour with Mr Glies to find the Rose of Tralee.
They didn't find it but they
found a lot of other pour and
market on the Limerick Grandma
when they camo back someone thought she
Grandma pali him the money
and he wished her top o' the mornin' and when he had gone she found it was her own um- brella that he had cold her.
Grandma's gift of the Blarney which she gol for kissing the Blarney Stone erme lo handy that Umo Whenever we go to markel they all pour out of the car like abct of guinea-pigs except me, and always at least one of them gets caught,
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got a bargain
had sold Auntfe Veza a horge. It when she bought an umbrella
took them all day to and sortie off a man in the street.
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It was Mr G'n turn in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, He bought little greybound from a man and next morning when he woke up Galway, Co. Galway. he couldn't find it. If I was a betting man I'd lay 100-1 thn,
ercyhound was nicely meal times te tucked up in his litte bed ing like a blacksmith's shop. Athlone, Co. Weatmentli.
That's the troublo with grown-upa behave yourself While ye were staying In Galway we motored to a beati belave yourself always.
once and they expect you to
ful place in the mountains
called Kylemore where we had
nt
home sound.
Well, we left Galway for ditier al Kylemore Abbey Doblin which way where we which la run as a guenllious by canus in and sailed home in a the Denedictine Dames,
Tho nuns serve you
nice boat which had another pice pob on it, and everybody 14
at the talking about coming back you and again very soon, which proves
they all had a good time.
table and look after very rice ladies they are.
And that's where me and Mr Giles In a bit miserablo Errio and the twing west becaus he enjoyed himself wrong. Wo' were so good and so much that he likes every- quiet" during dinner that Mr body and he can't bene Wing Úlles wanted to know after everybody. But I reckim wards why we are not always he'll" poon be happy again As quiet OK
and why when he gois home."
that
You car
ado all that Irish coffee, has done hirn, good by the lovely colbur of his note, Now, that's all for now.
Yours truly,
GILES JUNIOR
PS-It they do go back to Ireland 11. bet 200-1 Giles never and that Sittin greyhound.