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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959.
AN ELIZABETH OF 1958 LOOKS AT THE ELIZABETH OF THE 16th CENTURY
The day the Queen had toothache
ONE by one the lords and
bishops of the Privy Council voted on the national.
had An expert emergency. given witness. A drastic solu- tion had been proposed.. One by one the grave voices gave their assent.
What had they assented to? Not to a declaration of war. To the extraction of a tooth. For more thun two months Queen Elizabeth I had been racked by toothache. Now the pain had reached a climax which kept her without sleep for 48 hours.
Could it kill her? And if the "esed. what could prevent her successor from bringing in Spanish troops to restore the Roman faith?
Unanimously the statesmen decided
that, even though the Queen haled the idea, the tooth must go. Taking
the expert tooth-drawer
with
them they walked in their furs
to the Queen's apartment.
There the Bishop of London stepped forward. Fingering his elderly gums he declared
that
tooth:
"i made some ' now 'discoverios..
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The ROBERT PITMAN book page
with dropsy, imagined that she faced, beak-Acred Robert Dud- was with chilld. If her hopes had ley.
When Dudley was mnde Del heen justisted then the Roman Catholle succession was assured of Leicester, the Scots Ambas-
would rador wrote home but She and Elizabeth's position
be more peritous than ever. moment in the eetemeny when fasten the the Queen had to new carl's munile.
much teeth as he had left were at the Queen's service. He then opened his mouth and allowed the expert to extract
The Queen relented, allowed her tooth to be drawn too. The emergency was over.
That glimpse over the dentist's
shoulder I take from ELIZA BETH THE GREAT (Gulinusz, 215.). The author-the novelist Elizabeth Jenkins (her best known novel The Tortoise and
the Ifare),
Yet how did Elizabeth react? Miss Jenkins has found some
thing missed by male historians She writes:
"Elizabeth made baby-linen for her... the lead bent oner these exquisite pieces can żel- dom have known more disturb- ing and complicated thoughts."
TENSE YEARS book
She is the Arst woman during this century to have written
non-liction full-length
about the greatest English- woman of any contury.
BRILLIANT
The result is a brilliant suc-
No other book has
CCAS
felt its way so far into
both's character.
over Eliza-
Take her relations with her
the
elder half-sister,
Catholic Queen Mary.
When Mary's reign Protestant Elizabeth came Instant perll
Into
the
WIS
she could not refrain from putting her hand in his neck, Eckling him, the French Am- bassador and I standing by."
Then there were the repeated
the Queen rumpus that with child by Leicester,
Author Jenkins docs not believe that the relationship was Leicester of quite that kind.
Elizabeth's would strut cround bedchamber Randing aerces her underclothes as she dies.ed. But that was probably the mit ef required by the attentions Queen.
As for the rumours, Miss Jenkins again borrows an am- bussador's report,
TACTFUL
·
And so we come to Elizabeth's own reign. Another Jenkins has ransacked the records for any
light up those thing which con tense years from the Queen's
great speeches ("Have a care over my people," she told her Judges when she gave them a the start of her Rumen pay rise at
reign. Every man oppresseth began them and apolleth them with- ind mercy. See unto them, ser mu tintu them for they are
One October day the Spanish to the Queen's face Ambassador found himself in a charge.")
(FORMULA: white
coaca with Elizabeth and one packs
egg-shell, of her Izdics-in-waiting. Refer of cug, powdered
white poppy- ring to the talk about her alun, borax,,
pregnancy, the Queen sald:— reeds).
Take the question of the "There are three of us in this Qilcen's stockings, When her conch and some people would relgn began, the fashion was for make us cut four." Smoothly the women's stockings to be made of ambts.ador remarked that the right in inclastle titeta or cloth which Queen's people were
Then the Queen fitted like gaiters. The moralists wishing so.
anything more demunded:-- denounced
"And you, who do you with Remo bus.
it was by?" The tactful Spaniard replied that he could nat venture is choose for her. Wh conversation that is. 15: Doesn't it make you feel as if ! you too were lurching in that scttiy-scented coach?
Hes I will wear RE MOTE
Boon she would be Ira- prisoned In the Tower to pre vent a Protestant rising put ting her on the Throne. Boon the Roman Catholle Chanel- lor would be arging that her bead should-be culo!.. To please Mary, Elizabeth But the agreed to attend Mass.
had her 20-year-old Princess
supporters own Protestant
in mind. She made her reluctance obvious.
On the way
Chape) to the Royal she complained of a sharp pain and made one Queen's women rub her stomach for her. Miss, Jenkins notes:-
"Mary, however, was pathetic- ally pleased by her obedience, and gave her a diamond-and- Tuby brooch and a rosary telite coral,"
RUMOURS Then in 1580 of the
af
How close the mention of that to the
gift suddenly brings us
two long-dead women.
Elizabeth was given her Brst pair of knitted silk stockings. She exclaimed: "I like silk stockings well. They are pleasant, Ane and drilcate. ilenceforth etoth stockings."
Or take the crucial question the Queen would of whether Jarry and have children.
authey Jenkins
any. secret in picking out euch details How does she from the past? manage to get inside that small bright-eyed," unmarried woman' Again and again Elizabeth with pale face and the honey-
Then near the end of Mary's Jonkins gets eye-witness reports coloured hair who sad reign come a gift from on the Queen's relations
with land so well?
ruled Eng-
Elizabeth herself. My heavy her life-long favourke, brown- ATMOSPHERE
An Upper-Class Misfit Falls Out
With The Guards
By RICHARD LISTER
I went to the house in Htmp- stead where she lives. In the lighted doorway stood a small, bright-eyed woman with pale Jacp and honey-coloured half. It waafsmiridiu-aged unmarried
Taking me to a graceful draw- **K÷YOOT!!"""Ainy Jenkins talked- about her two years of research. She sald:
"Mostly I worked at the British Museum.
THE BREAKING OF BUMBO. By Andrew Sinclair.atmosphere of the tower where
Faber 15s.
QUMBO is a rare species of young Englishman,
BUM
a non-conforming Guardee. He is only National Service, of course, and, though he has been at Eton, his parents live at Penge.
Not quite quite, then, and,.
"But I took one word-of- mouth tradition from a Yeoman at the Tower of London. I was wanting to take in some of the
Elizabeth was imprisoned, and 1 rather hoped he would stop But then he told me haw Elizabeth had to have four gund in front and behind her even when she walked for air
talking,
on the roof, I have never read about that anywhere."
Miss Jenkins felt at the pearls
It is the time of Surz and he round her neck. Sho al
being highly intelligent, ton, is mildly pacist, but neither "Elizabeth was badly treated by he is in constant confilet with his character nor his convictions Victorian historians. She war 30 his Oh-so-correct superiors.
tre strong enough for him to different from Queen Victoria, ecme full out. Hence bouls of you see,
In this very promising and defance and drinking and de-
often very finny first novel, Mr bauchery.
Sinclair, himself an Etonian and
iells DISASTERS.
a double-first in History, Bumbo's story, from his first recruit squad at Caterham to hir forced resignation from Regiment.
REVIVAL
I WONDERED
"Then there are the Roman Catholic writers. They have been unfair to her too, I am afraid,
to
He is the cort of young man Mc Pitman. Hilaire Belloc even the to whom minor disasters are wrote that she was ce bald as an always happening, and he egr at 30: But the look of grey-
sho gave hopelessly muffs an attempt tong hair which Incite as Rugby team of young Philip Sidney, when she ruzrdimento muliny,
much older still exists."
Sweet-mannered Miss Jenkins sighed. It might have been a personal afront.
the
Jeaned, Then suddenly forward confidentially. Eagerly "Tell me one she asised me: thing, Mr. Pitman. What do you think of the Earl of Leicester?! Startled, I mumbled; some- thing in reply.
Was it far-fetched to imagino for a moment that. “an earlier Elizabeth was quitting me about
or favourite mant
Wall, after I left her. Hamp- stend hours-I-mel a friend of Mies Jenkins Cher maid: Milli beth idenflies burselt so much.
And he revives for the pur. The Brigade know just how novelists to handle his sort. Jio is not pose a device which have dropped in the last two worth having a scandal over, interior mono- they quietly shed him. And he decodes the logue.
is left to make what he can of While Bumbo anvels ond marrying the rich little girl he grunts through hk dells, his failed to seduce but with whom deb dances, ha OOTU, his cere sumencie else since has been monial parades, his excursions mere euccessful. into Chelsea night ille end his This bitter tropical and very painta O first fumbling with sex he con- clover Amt novel ducks a bitter running com devastating portrait of an upper- mentary on himself; his confem-" - class="misfit, "half-clown half poraries and the world he finds Hemlet, in that rigid file himself in
square of Chanrden society ba-
• Et la-him form of protest per tween Wellington Burvecks and to le reali dinly rellant Belgravia
London Express Service),
book called about She once wrote a Six Criminal Women
poisoners. well-known women Things got to such a pass then that one hardly liked her to put a lump of sugar in eme's tea."
SHIRLEY BASSEY How The Top
girl with simple ambitions: mink, diamonds and money.
By JOHN LAMBERT
SHIRLEY BASSEY struck an aristocratic pose somewhat at odds with her skin-tight pants, shaggy sweater, and tangerine-coloured hair. In mock-Mayfair accent she said: "I shall know I'm a success when the tax-man calls with his demand and I can say: "Take it, my man, such money is peanuts to me."
Miss Bassoy is well on head. So what? I know what the way to her definition of is best for me, and I go all out
to get it.
success.
"Take those two hit records,
"Yes, I would like a nico millionaire to fall for me, tena a nice, young one. wealthy men Rive willies."
Old, iho
NO REGRETS
She lolled her head on the far less
cushions and looked
than her 21 years.
"There's a difference between being a femme fatale and get- ting Involved with people, as have, you know. I mean, shouldn't think a femme fatale gets hurt, like me,
"Not that I regret any of the
for instance. The record comings that have happened to She is the first girl in any wanted to plug the other me, mind you. If you're singing live years to have two re-aldos of the records, I didn't. 4 Gong in which you're supposed [cord hits "Kisa Me, Honey 30 1 carried on plugging the 10 be a girl in despair, you can Is it wrong to be sing it better if you know what Honey, Kiss me," and "As other two.
It's about. But I'm not hard.
I Love You"-In the Top Ten.
She is now busy making her first full-size long- playing record.
And next month she will be starring in a lavish new Folies show in London, de signed to show off her smouldering personality.
right?
ON STRIKE
"There
aro theatres where the band nearly goes on strike when I appear. If I had my way they wouldn't get the chance to strike--they would be
sacked!"
"Mink, diamonds, and money chly mean something to me ng They tangible progress signs, mean something to me because when I was 10 I packed enamel-
for 179 ú jans in a factory
week.
"I know that I will only be a success, as a person, when I nehleve happiness.
Seciding to soothe this Callas "That will only happen, I strain, I asked if she needed think, when I fall in love with With cucumber-cool candour anything, outside herself, for somebody who loves me ton. She curled up on A Meanwhile, thore must be some she explained: "I know that a success. lot of people think I'm a big cushion and answered, cosily: compensation."
JACKYS IARY
** BY JACKY MENDELSONN AGE 31%
LAST SUN DAY TOOK MOMMY+ DADDY TO THE CARNIVAL
THEY HAD A REAL SKINNY MAN THERE WHO WAS JUST LIKE A SKELETON ONLY NOT SO SCAREY AS HE HAD HIS SKIN ON MOMMY SAID THATS WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DONT EAT ALL YOUR VEGETABLES
THERE WAS ALSO A FAT LADY WHO MUST OF WAYED A HUN DRED POUNDS AT LEAST
Ten Stand
In London
1 ONE NIGHT· ·I - GOT
STUNG
Elvis Presley (R.C.A.) (8)
2 TO KNOW JUM IS TO
· · LOVE HIM AN
Teddy Bests
(London) (4)
3 BABY FACE
Little Richard? (London) (2)
4 THE DAY THE RAINS'
CAME
Jane. Morgan (London) (1)
4 KISS ME, HONEY
HONEY, KISS, ME ·
Shirley Bassey (Philips) (0)
6 AS I LOVE YOU
Siirler. BassŻY
* (Philips) (9)
77 IT'S ONLY MAKE BE-
.LIEVE
Conway Twitty
(M.G.M.) (5)
8 PROBLEMS
Everly Brothers (London) (-)
9 RAOKE GETS IN
YOUR EYES
(Mercury) (~~)}
-Platters
10 TOM DOOLEY
Lonnie Donegan (Pye-Nixo) (mm) FIGURES IN BRACKETS . SHOW RECENT PLACINGS. PUBLISHED
CO- COPERATION WITH NEW
MUSICAL EXPRESS.
-(London Express Service).
ATE A COTTON CANDY WHICH IS LIKE A SPIDER WEB ALL RAPPED UP ONLY ITS SWEETER ALSO THE HANDLE IS MADE OUT OF PAPER WHICH YOU MUSTNT
•EAT COR
ANOTHER MAN WALKED ON A CLOTHES LINE DID OTHER TRICKS IN HIS UNDER-WHERE AS HE DIDN'T OWN A SUIT BUT AT LEAST HE HAD AN UMBRELLA IN CASE IT RAINSO
ALSO SAW A MAN WHOCOULD MAKE HIS FACE TURN RED BY PULLING ON A CHAIN.BUT IT FINELY BUSTED SO HE COULDN'T DO THE TRICK ANY MORE • -
THEN MOMMY WENT IN A PLACE TO GET HER HANDS RED BUT WHEN SHE GOT OUT THEY WERE THE SAME COLOR AS BE FORE SO GUESS THEY RAN OUT OF PAINTS
PALMS
SAME COLOR
DADDY TRIED TO FIT OVER SOME MILK BOTTLES WIN A TOY FOR MOMMY ONLY HE MISSEDS ONCE HE HIT THE MAN WHO OWNS THE BOTT LES BUT THAT DOESNT WIN ANY THING 0.
ALSO A MAN WAS TRYING TO SWALLOW A WHOLE SWORD BUT THE HANDLE KEPT ON GETHING STUCK IN HIS MOVIN HOPE HE FINELY DID
✪ 1959. King Features 5
Inw, Witki tights reserved,"
ADD VICE FOR
CHILDREN:
EAT UP ALL YOUR VEGETABLES OR EISE YOUR BONES WILL GROW UP BUT YOUR SKIN WONTO CREAT AFTER YOU EAT A COTTON CANDY START TO EAT THE HANDLE ALSO YOUR PARENTS WILL BUY YOU A NOTHER SOME TIMES &
YOUR FRIEND JACKI