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THE CHINA MAIL; TUESDAY, MARCH 1 10, 1959.
Page,
LOGAN GOURLAY
REPORTING AROUND-TOWN AGAIN
PAUL
ADAM STAYS
IN BED DESPITE
AM back-a shade
reluctantly to London,'
the capital love and some- times hate....London of the flick knives and the respectably furled umbrellas ...of the zoot suits and the City pin stripes, of the nyloned street-walkers and the galtered bishops...
It's at the city s knew it would be int s RUA with soclnt anobberies, rigid with class-consciousness,
And it's still in its para- doxical way, one of the lust capital bastions of personal freedom.
It's
A favourite
THE
PRINCESS
-to keep a date
·PAUL ADAM-BLEEPING FILLS FOR A
DATE WITH HOUSEWIVES
with Britain's housewives
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sleeping hours, lind changed his Ing, among other thlogs, "I've
went to his 1959 routine to be freshly awake for Got You Under My Skin." She opening night, and I want
about 8,000,000 housewives."
Cholee." It's
something of a test case for him because he has let the house- wives down in the past,
of
sent the following message to
time
also the home of the
Tie is a rucent compere of Mr Adam: "Pleurant dreams. I gentle Constitutional Monarchy, mit B.B.C breakfast Berial And the home of crown-tilters usewives'.
may hear you in the morning." like Lord Altrincham and John
many crunching husbands got So 8,000,000 housewives and Osborne. Esq
Mr Adam I must tell you
promptly on the intest
But at breakfast.
a Princess Incident Involving our malicable
On one occasion a couple had to do without him at her Monarchy in
gradually
after-midnight quid supper. years ago, when he was com- developing democracy.
Now you cop coll this U I happened just a couple of peiing the programme he slept nights ago when I was exposing The natural reason was that victory for the commoners.
he hadn't gone to bed unili just my faint suntan to the West before the hour when 8,000,000 End's dim Ughts.
throughout the land.
out
Into a Park Lane nightclub walked Princess Margaret with a party of three friends, includ- Jug Julien Byng, who is not one
of the chinless wonders,
On her record of fairly regu- lar attendance over the years the nightclub can claim to be the Princess's favourite. So I can reveal that it's called the Milroy.
It can also claim the band- Jrader who is the Princess's
alarm
clocks arc
He is determined
that the housewives
to say that though his band is smaller his skill as Neither is his infectiously a clarinet-blower is not.
gay personality.
A
O
Could you call this acntimental nostalgic plug Or for an old friend and you can call it a diplomatic bandleader from the pre- triumph for
The malirable rock tra? ringing Monarchy in our Budurlly
You could. developing democracy, this time I cannot resist add'nt fiat.
will hear the choice is yours. (Forgive CHOPSTICKS
his deep bass promptly of nine me if you can.) every morning.
So he had gone to bed that at 12.10 after washing
night
Your choice
I AM BACK and so is down two sleeping pills with a Harry Roy. Back to the
le champagne.
May Fair Hotel, where he Inst appeared 20 years ago in the days of the big bands and the bigger spen- falling ders. Adam, more
deb-dreaming as the debs' ho
slumber when his becalde, telephone rang. The head wafter, told him that the Princess had arrived and was inquiring for him,
favourite. He is the darkly handsome Paul
commonly known delight.
Test case
At
12.45 he was just
But when the Princess and party arrived et 12.30 .n. he was not on his deb-delighting stance. He was in his king-size bed #! his new home In Kinnerton Street, which is. Ave minutes away by fast Jagaar.
The news surprised the Princess, as it woult many mid- whisky and water.
Bulding his brown eyes open he said: "I've just taken two cep'ng pills. I couldn't drog myself out for the entire Royal Fomily. Anyway, I must remember my housewives."
The Princess drowned her disappointment
attle
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2.30
night ladies. Mr Adam, who is She danced gaily until usually at his liveliest in the an. the lenderless band play-
TREND
"
chop racy. They never ask for bird nest soup, but they like R if I serve it. without telling them."
The star customers include Franklo Vaughan, Terry. Thomas, and, Jnavitably,' Vivien Leigh, who usually gets herselt
in the vanguard of new trends.
(Personal memo to Mia Leigh: I think you'd look charming In a chrongiam, I
walters, who waï trained as a
Should This Widow
Help A Gaolbird?
By
TOM SHAW
OR ten years Mrs Beatrice Porter has carried
FOR
a wonderful picture in her mind... Perhaps, by kindness and Heathfield Road, Waterloo, example she could help un near Liverpool. artist-convict who has spent years in gaol.
cen,táll you that one of the And perhaps, one day, the dressmaker in Hongkong, witan would take the plate fun one up for you between of a son she lost in the courses)
war..
Mr Koon, who drives on American car nearly as long as
Her strange story began the Great Wall, admited in 1949. modestly that at 32 he well on the way to becoming millionaire mandarin of London, He told me about his unful
fled ambitions.
1. To open a chain of Chinese restaurants throughout the country and bring chopsticks to
the millions.
2. To go to China. London- born Mr Koon has never been. into his restaurants.
3. To get more Chinese peoplo
tinkling. Chinese-style musicals, and a heavy-bladed Japanese drama to Broadway, which has put kimanas and cheongsams in Westornise his food for our Mr. Keon, who has to slightly the dress shops; and which has palates, confesses that he has
cyc- very few. Chinese customers. They don't like the food.
rocketed the sales of slanting mascara-pencils,
yet you can search the of Plecadilly and
lengths As
Oxford Street without one I AM BACK to the frightening Tavishing glimpse of a cheong pile of unansweret letters, un neck, and the high, immodest, wood fan magazine with a cover Sam - the tight-fitting Chinese read hand-outs and magazines, dress, which has a high, modest On top of the plle is a Holly. thigh-level site on the skirt. picture of Elizabeth Taylor and
THE STARS ...
ihla bold heading
2
A magazine published letter she had written. The letter onded: "You cannot
always be expecting some- thing back in return for what you have given."
A Letter
It was from a convict. He A letter was sent to her. was serving seven years in Birmingham Prison. Would Mrs Porter write to him?
Widowed. Mrs. Porter sent him a Christmas card.
all
Was
Two years went by. And
the time she worrying about the man in
Was. Betrayed. Liz's Side gaol. of the Story," (You know the atory about her latest love,
and and Eda's Fiber.
his newly
are
Bul. But.... More more London tuste-buds being tickled by Chinese food. More and
divorced wile Debbie Reynolds.) I have only one thing to say Chinese to the betrayed Liz: restaurants are producing a tide Como of it, dear!
more
of bird-nest and shark-fin soup
that is spreading
Umits of Soho.
beyond the I AM BACK to the London
mo
I have been talking to a that often baffles gentleman called Robert Koon, and must mystify the least, he is the owner of the two which has a newish res who is partly responsible. At foreigners. The London biggest Chinese restaurants in laurant called The Marble accented English:-
He told me In Plecadilly Arch Barbecue. Where is it? Bang in' the heart of which
"Very few know much about Leicester Square, two-sqft-shood, the dishes. They all Osk for
unchanging London that trite to I am back to a changing, recent lifstory may be following another New York trend. which is creeping softly round the
I mean the Oriental trend
skyscrapers; brought three
THIS ALONE.
SAID
hps
town.
SIDNEY BRADFORD,
MAKES SIGHT
WORTHWHILE
BUT
-(London Express Keršícé).
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"I could not help feeling,he would be thinking we were a poor lot outside," she told me. "And I could not forget a letter he wrote me in which he said:
'Somehow or other, the old lags always go back"."
his release she decided to When the time came for
take a chance....
Sho asked him to spend Christmas at her home in
"He was then about 37," she 6. "He behtwed perfectly. He painted a picture for ms to show his gratitude. 1 felt like a mother towards him, For la months I received lettera from bit. He was working hard ond apparently going straight."
Suddenly the letters stopped. Through the Salvation Army Mrs Porter learnt that the anan for three years on a house- had been sent back to prison breaking charge,
New Start
What to do now? Give it up as a hopeless case? Mes Porter determined to persevere. When he wna relcased she invited him to her home again.
She told him: I was foolish enough in think that a woman's interest would make you realize the Importance
-living decently. Please try to make a go of it."
of
And so a fresh start was rade. Once again there begati the flow of letters.
And again--in 1957-they ruddenly stopped. This time he was in Wandsworth Gaol.
Mrs Porter wrote to the governor requesting him to ask the man if he wished to continue the correspondence. This time the convict replied: "I think it would be better for your sake to discontinue writing.
"Sometimes letters go astray. There are unscrupulous people here and if anything happened to you I could not stund it." :
Now Mrs Porter wonders is ' her picture spolled beyond re- pair Has she tried in vain?
OR SHOULD SHE KEEP ON FIGHTING
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IDNEY BRADFORD
SIDNEY
CONCLUDING A BLIND MAN'S REDISCOVERY OF SIGHT
and I set off for by MERRICK WINN
Portugal in a Super-
Constellation and there
J
home
in
said: "After it's all over I'll tell sight for him would ever bij He added: "The point is this Jou what I really think of important. I
I'm no happler for scelag. I sight."
All that day he was 11, but think I'm more miserable." next day he was better. I asked; Next morning we got up to him if he was disappointed to rest of that day, but when we He seemed fairly well for the ten the mintise and there) still was no sign at all of the I began splendidly. This man, selves at him and he did not seemed nothing wrong. He was as the carnival, and he said: got back to London he was sud-
"No." Neither was he. quiet, but I thought this was the afternoon we went up to back
In debly worse. And now, who had been treating sight like speak for a long time. that collapse
was a third arm, in the way and But later this Barne
Burton-on- evening
because bo was moved, and the hills and be said: "I can. Trent, he is still III. Though coming. I had not seen useless, used his eyes now, he said, suddenly: "Merrick, I've wondering.
wee much better now. He found recovering. him happier.
He loved the sun and the sky crurally,
changed my mind."! I sold,
Two hours later, I went to his 4 yellow flower, I don't know Someone who' his known him because this a piano and the people and, above all, tricky: "Oh, why?"
was room and it was in darkness. What It was, and he said: "This many years and sees him every before, or known what one the colours. Yellow was his
he was in bed and at first he alone makes sight worth while.!! day told me; "He has been se
So up there on the hill I overwhelmed by... seeing Ho said: "All this... IP's did not seems to know. I was looked like, and almost all the favourlic, which was strange, way he looked out of the win- because many bliad people worth seeing. This is beauty" there. His pyjamas, and bed aked, but not hoping: "Do you he's gone back to blindness for
mean that if you go blind again a while." dow, not ashamed to be excited, given sight like yellow least.
clothes were sodden, worshipping the clouds..
you'll try to sect”
He had not seen
Wo
Crisis
He said: "No, I don't mean
that. I've enjoyed all this, seeing it, but I'd have enjoyed
Doubts
that
Although he could not sco BO But next day in Llabon He knew now where I was well and had to wear dark saw a blind man. I asked him taking him to the carnival at glasses in the sun; he ademed to what he felt, seeing this maa, "Nothing." I asked Estoril, to show im things he me to see things more quickly. He said: would love, colour and bright. He was adapting more to that did not make him glad that he had a very high fever which don't think I've enjoyed it more salt "It's possible, and natural.
· I called the doclos, who said it bind, in a different way. I when I told a doctor this he ness and 10,000 people dancing, seeing world, though perhaps, he could now . to help
might be flu or "the result of for seeing. him decide whether he did not know it.
Ho said: "No. I've forgotten vaccination but he could not be "I'm glad to have seen it; and like living in a tempostelantil that I was over-blind." Then: sure. It was not easy to identity. if I can keep what sight I have, he gets used to it. "But if I woke up in the most
sight was worth while,
In the last few days, 'in Lan-
Sunrise
Kontakt. Seeing- gitar, 50 years. must be
I'll have the further operations don, ke had grown oven more
ing in darkness I wouldn't shod What neither honor I knew needed to improve it. I think emphatic that, if he wont blind
tears." We saw many things he had
then was that Sidney Bradfort sight is worth that much. aguin in eix: months' time ho
In contradictions like this he has had these "Gevers almost would have no more operations, never seen before, and he stared showed the confict in him. throughout his life and they
a boy with a Richard Gregory, the Cambridge, have umally been Haight certainly seemed and marvelled,
associated worse. He told me "The last pipe and a trilby,
scientist, was right; when he with some crisis of emotion. A ship. It was bigger than said, "This man must be very KELAKONTENAN oye, is packing up... It used to
Will he get used to 127:1 re call that one of the Cambridge. scientists feared, as I did, that he may bs. 「ね !'appalling tragedy; that giving him, "right Myrnay, have mucked up hired
No. Of them absolutely He poked with his finger at certain: Sidney Bradford whe
No happier
he bright and now it's all dull he had imagined and NOT tornater) The last bout he had lasted the yellow Rowery thinking coped so well with blindnem,
* Họ sesood, not to mind.: But pointed - at both ends. - The - The night before the carnival neatly Ave weeks, and that war, Thanh
will cope very well with slahti maybe he minded a little bem cleering wheel was upright "ing, he ate a whopping present, mys" immediately before he went into But 15 I go blind again, I'll He nuco (only timer cause he said: "I feel I ought stead of fat. There were enly ing "Meats them much smaller hospital for his are openstiche: stay tund: know they could All rights, ho doubts i¿ ® Bus la Want to toe, and perhaps this time shocks, got eight or nipo zow i can see them," He Now the carnival was cut. So, start me? All over again, frond 1 bei him another rip” la. paraiyal will help him to get The roa. He stood on the seemed all right, rifnos enige war the tune of decision, Bidney, the bartuning but 1912 00 Portal To date, ing Me
So this was the experiment beach, in the evening, watching. Hess was tyrenuriasty looking Bradford, would not, now" tal-Barth/her aidil the pain, the monthysundry interest? and I think, it nearly came out, the 'great' waves chucking them- forward to lie caraivar ama be÷myra know: Human,