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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Why they call me 'Tigress'
CALLAS AT HOME
want
me
and why it's wrong
by MARIA CALLAS
TALKING TO JOHN CRUESIMANI
Mony
look in longing at a sister an husband, people
Signor Meneghini's nach older ind in-the ordinary sike, He likes me to look well costs—to be courst of nature much loveller dressed always. And nothing 1
not true. are MOST statements about mo
to be an "actress" at all eternally making an exhibition of myself. can ever do will change that.
They call me a "tigress." That could be a lovely title.
newspapers. It attracts attention.
And the tigress as a beast is certainly wonderful to look at. Why should I be called a tigress? The reason, I believe, why. I was first given this label was on ac- count of the way I walked on the stage.
But now the labef is used to mean something else. I have become "elassed as a lixress, and all the faults in the world Baribuled to me.
MY DREAM
I cannot say there was any
special manent Er *15 fe
wha knew I was going to become a famous prima donna.
1 always loved muste right from the beginning. And i al- ways HOPED 1 would be a
But, great singer as a child. after all, every child dreams,
I knew I had a voice, Des they saw to the rest. started singing when I was 13. And I never accepted secondary roles only for the reason that I was not offered them.
5 do not know what makes This may sound the different. ridiculous, but it is true
MONK ENDS FIRST
YEAR OF QUEST
By DAVID T. K. WONG
Ipoh.
65-year-old monk and former teacher from China has just ended a year of meditation locked up in a tiny room at the Temple of the Eastern Lotus here.
But the Reverend Sheng Tsin will have another two years to will be released from his room for he intends 1
Any algection In the pro- before h
passed change of name muncul himself off from the world be sent to the REGISTRAR | for three years la order to
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SHIPPING HONG
Dated at 11ONG KONG the 14th day of April, 1959, -
cleve "ultimate wisdom,"
A year ago, the Reverend Sheng entered the room accom-
led by a two-foot high white porcelain statue of Buddha md | 5,000 Volumes of Buddhist
riptures In Chinese,
The door was then locked and sealed behind him, and his only communication with
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small panel cut in the door. Through this panel, his one meal a day is passed to him. }_This_____sually enis before
Through this panel also he grants audiences to those who
seek H spiritual guidance,
10
The Search
The Reverend Sheng, who has been a monk for 40 years, said he has spent the last 30 years in ene or another of the temples In Mainya.
He sat kerst beenine interested in the Buddhist sutras at the age of 21, vien he was a teacher in China. Suon afterwards he deckted
to dedicate his life to the search for wirdon.
Hence his present quest.
In explaining why hg has had himself locked up in the room, he said:
"Ultimate wisdom can only be achieved through self-
And control
complete LOVETANDO with tie world. But in order to achieve. 6am- picle concentration, one must first emply one's mind, "Wisdom will not come when the mind is worried and troubled by the material world. only when the mind is. cum- pletely cut off from material things that an advance can be Space for commercial made towards inner peace.
"Only when inner peace Is
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ultimate wisdom,"
Emptiness
The Rev. Sheng Tsin
honestly have not fully realised what I have become, 1 cannot grasp it. I cannot see what I am.
And the pity of ji is that shall never be able to see the total effect of what i produce.
It looks good in the
I feel rather like the British. I am sensitive and sentimental, I hate to show my feelings. That sort of thing can be so boring. Of course such sloof- ness can be misunderstood. But that is the price I pay for being whot I am.
What does onger me some- times
are the stories
about Only on very rare occasions myself which bear no relation do I feel I have given a really to the facts. :narvellous performance. Here
Is one of the things that nearly For instance 1 am supposed drive me out of my mind. I can
to have endured a miserable Culte false. My never tell absolutely when I childhood.
to have" aru sald have given a great performance, parente
1 bave every human sent. quarrelled all the time. ment, I am a perfectly normal, healthy woman of 35, happily married. I could appear as the Sweetest person all the time- just so long as I had a good publicly agent.
But that would be utterly fals. I am an artist. Not n angel.
I am not a person fund of the flowery temperament, In this
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Can the Eilifapian change that one day inner peace will his skin, or the leopard his come to me."
Meanwhile, the Reverend spots?Jeremiah 13:23. Shoup will continue reading
Now when I was asked once "Did you are your parents quarrel?" I very
possibly answered "Yes." What child han not seen 1ts parents quarrel at some time?
Then again I am supposed to have been consumed with Jealousy of my sister. My good- tss, she was seven years older than 1, What child does not
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thom I could be then? The
truth is normal. Distressingly
childhood
ኣቦና for
would-be blographers.
I like the leisure of gobig to bee ni night, of slowly warider. Ing round the room, and gather- Ing together the various thoughts and happenings of the day, of being thoroughly idle in my own way.
One can exaggerato in being too carefully "put together" so that as a woman one looks prim and "untouchable." Bul in the main I hold firmly to the belief that
woman should never be negligent about dress,
I will not be tied to anyone, for wili 1 have a duly imposed in me. I have very strong In the quiet of the evening Ft nerves, and a really wonderful is possible to study. Not during digestion, although like most the day.
I Then the phone is muslelans
Buffer
from constantly ringing.
delicate stomach,
So at night-time I like to go over a scure, then I find I notice things which had escaped me
before,
I usually study when I am in bed with my husband sound asleep beside me, and my two poodles,
Then who in seven and Toy who is three, dosing. away in a corner.
-MY CLOTHES
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I will never make a pact with mediocrity. I am not being difficult when I ask for more rehearsals, Unfortunately
#121 often made out ag Д capricious person because of this certain standard I fight for.
The trouble la opera house directors often use their post- tion top to their own social advancient and exploit personal feelings to the general detriment.
And for me the greatest thing I want is respect as a women
I and as an artist.
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER By H. King Wood
Alliance On Pay Rises Mooted
Sydney (By Airmail). Such a hue and cry has
been raised through- out the Common- wealth about the proposed increases in salary, allowances and general perks for Federal Members of Parliament that there have been suggestions that Parliament will table the Richardson Report and make no efforts to accept other increases.
the
However, there are dark mur- murings from Canberra that the Opposition has entered into an
allance with unholy | Government to put on a token show of rejecting the increases, but to quickly group them in their hot little hands.
It can be taken as almost the Government I am very feminine. There to bear that title, though it has certain that fore I love clothes and shop- been misinterpreted lately. will move the necessary legla- ping-hoi that I am a slave to Remember Prima Donna Intion for the increases and that any
1 like to enjoy my money, <ło not throw it all away.
I am called a prima donna and I am proud and honoured
fashion or means First Lady. Not Tem-the members of the Federal I have to dress for my peramental Tigréss
particular
passion,
•
BY. THE WAY
MONG my
was one
by Beachcomber
letlers
recently The egoist
Parliament will become
the
highest pold of any Common- wealth country,
*
with a Chinese PEOPLE who insist," says an signature, it reached me vía
manners from
article, "on the ama atan- Sumatra and South Shields, and dard of good was about the craze in Americn everybody ure oNew thern- for tying yourself to a balloon selves Il-mannered" There is and then leaping into the mir
a conected M.P. who, when and letting the balloon do the he meets a lady, takes her hat
off to hanself,
rest.
People are evidently weary of Continental bakers protest the old-fashioned way of sliting VESTERDAY'S weather, Lady in the balloon before it ever Cluppen's talk on what lo the
ground.
Another letter,
from Sweden, bears out that the do with fish-scales, a photo- middle bird in the recent photo Kraph of Mr May's cricket. bat, graph was indeed a whinchat news of imported jackals for the Zoo, the theft of 034 pairs from Nykoping, as I said: "I recognise quite easily," says of braces fron a caravan, and nine other Items are held over, the writer, from the photo-
for reasons of taste, accuracy, graph, which I did not see," All
and social awareness, unili this is profoundly satisfactory.
Morch 22. Swopping shirts în
run
In its report, the Richard- Fon Committoo tates that; "The strain of office is no great that only exceptional toughness of constitution can bear it and a survey of Prime Ministers and Cabinet Minis- ter for the last 30 years shows how many have died in office or gone out as broken men."
Strangely enough, that is not accurate.
since Federation shows that, in A survey of Prime Ministers
ripe old age. Their average life. the main, they have lived to a opon, in fact, has been 71 years.
The trombone becomez mid-stream
a furnace OMEONE has invented tran-
TT must not be thought that quilliser-clothing to take the
Linusical instruments which place of pills. I hope energizer
climates clothing will follow. But beware froue up in cold
tto not beCOME
bolting hel of mistakes. The lymphatic man who puts on an energising hot climates. At a concert 11.
the Arabian Deser! Mrs Laifton bowler by mistake may
eave a bassoon which positively amok,-and-the-energetie-man- ZHURSDAY, April 20 Who put on anquilising bubble and every scar in Soofall a reporter on the Sou- socks by mistake may lose his jall Argus le sent out to fry an By Air China, People's Republic, 1 a.m.
vitality. If you are of aut Mailand, Burma, Malaya, & a:31.
sizzling druzn. A Malaya Indonesia, Australia, Newritable tempérament you can
having once been by his “Middle East, Afrien," Great
an argument by merely chang instrument, protects himself by Britain & Europe, I p.m.
Guam, 2 p.m.
ing your shirt. Pruppines, 5 p.m.
"No need to get insulting, old wearing an asbestos mask. And you should see the sparks fly MEN. Keep your temper."
when the Nambaal Philharmonic "Lend me your shirt. Here's perapes its violles. You really mine .. Now who's losing his thould, temper, I'd like to know?"
-(London Exprota Kervice),
egg on
the Buddhist seriptures vach When a bad man becomes zealand. Covion, End, Paki- become serene in the middle of his culded s day and spend the rest of his ļa
good man that is a
tine, meditating-on miracle, but it has happones
emptiness.
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And during the part year, how far hos he travelled along the road to ultimate wiadomi aka
"That I cannot All-I■ tour. (17)
again and again. Forget bad
heredity and face about.
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£270,000, but the Courell has
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The engineer said the same scheme has been tried in the States which has a very much colder climate than Sydney's winter and the fee just does not get beyond the slush stage,
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