THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959,
I see for myself. by Anne Sharpley GOING ON HOLIDAY? NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK YOURSELF WHY
Α. the stage door
there is a list of digs
in Bournemouth. (Will it be" "Rosemount" or "Sunnyside"? Or Mrs Glossop in The Cres
Angels with
aTHE sun beams down from a
cent stake in anger
Tumbling piles of clothes alanced by Invisible but very vocal dressers are being carried
1 at the double,
Lo-as-k everybody.
c-k, I've had
erled Adrienne Corri wold-pigen loo
Lo
"angels."
my hair
cut
Jike
a
near
caves.
Everytexty tried to look really there Porned, bu
nore to lose in this how Miss Carl's hair.
In the
con- was than
A
Mrs Gilda Dahlberg, one of hair the show's buckers whose
white and cut Be a snowball, cones through the door,
Her luck
the
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Often
clear blue sky, The warm sand tickles your back. From far off comes the shrill chatter of а shrimping expedition....the insis- tent splash of a quiet sea.
A silly grin of contentment steals across your face. And you doze.
A horrible thought flashes
Did you remember to ask the police to keep an eye on the house while you were, away? Should you write? Should you wire? Should You phone?
WAKE UP! nice, rather being a pop-singer. You've got muddled capitaikds who want to to try something different.” info your mind. spend their money creatively for "Oh, he's lovely." I over- meet a Iew heard. "All the girls are crazy change and fascinating theatricals, "angels" about him." Not even Mr Latis anything despite themselves have a comir, etuid claim that was slightly duped air. They sit ni different,
warın, richly-scented row the stalls and slump lower and
their scats as #C lower in
vening wears on.
Mr Osborne takes bimself off to the dress-circle to supervise was told, the un-through from the better Scals,
Mr Osborne alts in the dress- circle and seldom Interrupts.
"He usually lets them run right through then he gives them the notes he has made," I The planu energetically "sold" ideas he the muse to the angels in the has brought back from Amerleu stalls. -he bas brought discipline,
Among other
calls. This is a caste that hos rehose fe is shy
that
"1i, everybody," And one suspects that it is Mrs
luck usuat Dahlberg's nably happens to be around to reply at just that moment.
12 and 14 hours a day for fout werk including Saturdays.
Three hours went by, it was "In America they work tall
course. everyone they drop. No reason why we too long of Where's John Osburne?" and simuldn't do that here, too," he explained to everyone else, but that was why they were having Mr Onboare in observed driving explained, half-way up the pavement in a
And who is that short, courtty the three weeks' run in Bourne- mouth before bringing it into long, e-featured sports cur that hears n extraordinary re. Agure In the wings whose purple the West End. They could see tar and short Guards Brigade Ehrberdine suggests, a deft muta- What went In Bournemouth Brst. tion between art and the estab Ustument? Sir Hugh Cassun,
the Festival of
ecmbler to himself.
15 il Air Derne
#gurn 6 speculation At naxious
Like mment. hejetted on a cliff-edge one gets is going sudden forling be
Some
the
Architeel
of
sit-
to jump over. He is as facial-
me as a firework on November It's mad"
4. Traze as a photo-tirusts,
And his pee musical about # ***The cubuenist, newspaper
view of certain marked Pelitical and herary attitudes shown to Bournemouth of late Mr Osborne could Bot have chosen * more -discriminating guide.
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Now that in no way to enjoy a holiday. All that glorious aunshine is absolutely wasted if you're going to worry yourself silly about some triviality at home,"
No: Is the snazzy little bar with the striped awning and the flirty waitressca-going to be much fun if, at the back of your mind, you spend your time comparing, It, unfavourably; with the local.
That's the way to ruin a holiday, not only for yoursci! but for everyone else who has the misfortune to be with you.
No. You've gol
are
<
to forget altogether that you William Smith, Esq... respected householder ratepayer
De- Smith, couplant; B111 Smith, stage mana- ger of the Little Amateur Players.
Mr W. chief
NEWS
Martin
Do you get the most out of your holiday?
Bumbleton
You might even forget osen- sionally-but only for a second, of course--that you are Darling BIII, husband,
Now he stands, back to the fentlights, rather too near to the dark chasin of the auditor- "I'm at least twice as old a? Tum. His n narrow, leaning World of Paul Slickey," which anyone here," he says, delighted figure that he props up like
the confrost. He has der against Didit and shadow. | opens in Bournemouth on Tues- with
But they are The chief of the angels comes. day, will either be the biggest designed the mets.
You are now that "good- or down at Bournemouth, "They're forward to be presented to the falls hojas since alrships,
don't-know-his- suely a mcees they'll start sull black and white and not realts- young man who has become one looking-chap, mg Ange un 1/4 Stock Ex-Ele. The girls will move like bril of the portents of our time. Theme" who startled everybody of the jetty this lant parakeets in front of them, angel is wearing that becoming by diving They're such pretty girls, aren't and unmistakable indication of morning who ordered frogs' they?"
wealth tan. fle is rich. But legs for hinch; who sang what he called a "national folk song" he is shy. And it is dificult to
In the bar last night. know what to say to the bril liant and wicked Mr Osborne,
change.
ale borne has been playms with fee too long not to get his des nut imply barned but omputated. If he's Just touch.
th Bill dark In Auftrior
of
mes
ha
The girls at the moment seem more interested in moving in frant of Dennis Lolis the "pop-
He the ginger, a sort of mild agreeable on- Sinatra - and English. He is vulnerable another figure strayed from his Stage, slip his most audience The backers of the usund setting. play. Theatre, people, for once ant exaggerating. coll them course. But
In
3
"It's mund," the whole thing, of
you
profters the kindest, meckost," best-meaning phrase he can remember from his schooldays,
"Very promising," he tells Mr can't go on Osborne, encouragingly.
these do-it-yourself days-this beats the lot!
S parson was dressed hurries
parson, and
Take
I city.
towards
The
consecration St Mark began to rise to the dignified design of architect Then, une evening in 1951, Richard Sent. must say it came as a sur I came across the redundant All
Windows?
vicar prise.
Sants JL Peckham, und engraved all 42 of them-with a Scratched
nt is brickwork, dentist's drill. Altor cross? The When I found it was set in me vigor designed mat made it-
From gifts of precious stones, and mortar, I knew I could de- molish it cost me £7 108, the silver teapots and wedding rings.
mal faculty fer."
From all 1 had heard, the Rev. Vivin Syntrast, MA. (Oxon. ear of Hiorns Hill, Ken, in usuntly to be wand in the slightly grabby ensuals of a riem molitra expert, lorry driver scaffolder. brick luger frex- teller nernason, carpenter, goldsmith, sitversmith, engraver, slader, puuter, dilch-digger, or wheelbarrow-pusher. “
in his
The Rev. Vivian Symons has been all those things spore time these last few years.
Bought Church
The whole world weighed in. The Symong demolition kit at Aması In Canadu sent £200, A that time was enrùprise of one won in Camberwell sent two hramer, one wheelbarrow, and threepenny stamps, The Elec- me pick-bxe borrowed from
trical Trade Union (Commies local garage. And anyone who and B) contributed a
ruse. thinks pushing bricks from pink window; so did the plum- Peckham His a joke should bers An organ is coming from try it.
a
a Southend cinema.
St Mark's, which would have cost at least £70,000 to build at current rates, bus sprung to re-
Fortunately, Mrs Burbidge heard about It In Battersea and contributed 1920 Morris truck -still going strong. Somebody markaufe life for £10,000, and else honder Ja 12,000 of its hustle-bustle parson needs
slar affalding, Saims was on the move.
and
All only another
bis accounts.
£4,000 to square
Maybe you heard about him. bis-n- He is the fernous pieces priest. The man who inught a church in Peckham for £7 10s.. knocked it down, car ted it away and has now rebuilt
superintended the placement of it 17 miles away in the parishi
After two years and seven his newfy arrived Engilsh oak of St Murk ot. Biggin 1911,
Totkay--S Mark's Day, of maths, he had dismantled two pulpit and tried out his new and a half miles of roof-boarding foam-rubber kneeling pads on a Lord Stairs-Rev
Bishop of Rochor is going to concinashaded, and with valur visiting orchdeacon No Spitfire seerate is brieks, its beans, its lets, 150,000 tiles, 200 fous of ever went faster.
Try Belles 200,000~from the airtel up the ford bells, and the amazing one-stone, a bell tower, Bid ur Outside, a board describes Sl de-it-yourself real that made it
Mark's uy the Moving Church, Compung Title chip this keepmehes should point-a-postscript: ingredients of An Saints "Bull by Ket-a-move-OIY Symons. Cornish, hazel-eyed, the
were cleaned and stored un 2 horny-handed. talks like
which the meline-gun. Burn on Christ- Woodland she from
sinews had removed mas Day, 46 years ago, shoots Symons
Frees, And other Pheasants, once led the Flora seruh, Dance at Helston,
impedimenta.
Next he borrowed Duke of excavator and a 50ft. jib crafte Cornwall's Light Infantry, Ical builders rallied round,
1 quoted St Matthew to that In half an hour, the Rev. church," zaid the Reverend Vivian Symons reeted of a Symuns: te thou removed to thousandt faels and figures, Biggin H
Jessible.
Alabaster altar.
Ryubur socker at 21. com- missioned with the
rerved From
pre-Dunkirk to post-Arromanches, finished up
für
35 a major helping Montgomery
an the hush-hush stuft D-Day".
14
Redundant
vicar."
By George
30
and the new parish church of
Whiting
-(London Express Service).
• BY. THE WAY
by Beachcomber
•
Chucked Army for Church in THE National Hairdressers ist reactionaries of Lhasa were 40. Up at Oxford, Honours in 1 Federation could have hand in glove will the Western theology (uncommonly rare for
chosen no more fitting place to plutocratics? Had it not been would-be parsons). Curacy al meet thun Great Yarmouth, for/the vigilance and foresight West Bridgford, Notis ull 53. where, last year,. the first of the Chinese liberators, an Which brings us to. Biggin woman with red, white and blue enormous Tibetan army, inspired hair on one half of her end, by the traditional Tibetan Im- "Arriving as its vicar, and and none on the other half, was perialism, and equipped with chaplain to the neighbouring cheered all the way along Wax- planes, tanka, guns, and atomic RAF station, eight years 280,well Street, and won the Half- bombs supplied by the
Wesl, the Reverend Symons took one Bald Cup.
might have made st sudden, Book at the rust on its 60-year- The president at this year's swift dash over the Himalayas.
old Iron church, another look at conference prophesied a
custwords through Craze Turning the meagre parish kitty",
then mouth and for short hair by the end of the Assam, and decided there and then that St century, "because of the need Dunn, they could have joined Mark was deserving of some-to wear space-helmets"
What the Anglo-American forces thing better,
style of hairdressing will be missed for the invasion of Digging enough fint out of best for careering about in the China. Kentish fields to build a now stratosphere? "My dear, I can't Politician on a diet church was the original Idea. possibly go to the moon with my Took too long. So he started hair in this awful state." looking for a second-hand one. A near thing
"Any church would do, so
long as it had a roof,” he told THE Communist revelation of me as we stood among the lads the true state of affairs in ders, hammers, nalls, ork-chips, Tibet is ver shocking. Who cigarette ends and other para- could have guessed that the phomalla of honest toll that now | Fascist capitallets and imperial-
to
No wonder public life's begun
to bore him.
What a humiliating diet-
sheeti
Day after tedious day he Anda
before him
His own unappellsing word to
cat.
London Express Service),
A change is as good an a rest, they say. How changeable are you? How much do you benefit by your holiday? Is it worth your while going away at all? The questions posed below by The China Mail Psychologist will help you to find out.
And don't worry if some of
have a them do not
seem to direct bearing on holidays. They are designed to reveal your temperament, And it's that will your temperament dictate how you behave on the beach.
☆
is a holiday more important
to you because it I chance to:-
(a) Get away from it all? (b) See new. places and meet new people?
2 When in
you!
restaurant, do
(a) Choose something you
know?
(b) Occasionally choose
something new? (c) Wish you had stayed
at home?
3 Do you often go back to see if you have switched off the Kas or the lights, cic.?
(a) Yes
(b) No.
4 Have you made
5
10 What do you
(ravelling?
think about
(a) It just has to be put up with if you want to get
anywhere.
(b) It's fuit.
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friends in the last year?
(a) Yes
11 Have you
sometimes
(b), No..
Do you get restless if you don't get your mess at the usual times?
(a) Yes
(b) No.
6 Would you rallier have Your
own
table. In an dining-room?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
at home? Arrived late for 19 Have you ever not taken your holiday, having missed
a connectionT
(a) Yes,
(b) Na.
any holiday time
you?
(n) Yes.
(b) Nu.
dur
La
re- 18 How do You like to spend 20 When you get an invita-
the amount of gretted money you have spent an u holiday?
{n} Yes.
(b) No..
12 How do
your week-ends?
(a) Quietly at home?
(b) Going out and ground? (c) At work?
ilon to loner, do you:
(n) Receive it with plea-,
sure?
(1) Try to get out of go-
ing?
(c) Grumble, but go?
FIRST, ADD UP YOUR MARKS
(a) 1, (b) 3.
(a), (b) J.
'You feel planning holidays?
about
(a) It's a headache.
(b) It's most exciling,
hotel
13
you are in charge of a
1.
(a) 1,
11.
job do you like to insist on having your own way? (a) Yes,
(c) 2.
12. (a) 1, (b) 3.
(a) 1. (b) 3.
17.
t
(a) 3, (b) 1.
14, (a) 1, (b) J.
(b) No.
(a), (b) 3.
16,
(a) 1, (b) 3.
(a) 1, (b) 3.
10.
(a) 2, (b) 1.
17. (a) 1, (b) 3.
3. (a) 1, (b) 3.
LA. (d) 1, (b) 3, (e) 1.
9.
19.
(a) 3, (b) 3, (c) 2, (d) 1. (a), (b) 3.
10.
(a) 1, (b) 3,
20.
(a) 3, (b) 2, (c) 7.
What do you do about the "language problem! abroad?
(a) Do you enjoy trying
out foreign phrates? (b) Do you prefer to talk to those prople whic speak English?
(e) Do you wish you were
back at home?
8 Do you think that a holiday
can be weather? (a) Yea. (b) Nu.
ruited by bad
stort plan- 9 When do you
ning your summer holiday? (a) On the way home from
The Inst one?
(b) Before April?
(e) In the spring?
. (d) Al the very
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14. Have you ever been to a doctor with a complaini only to be told that your trouble was "imaginary"? (1) Yes
(b) No.
15r you meet someone
You
know on holiday, de yout-m (a) Grect him like a long
lost friend? (b) Duck around the near-
est corner?
16 Are you interested in hear
olher people's
ing about holidays?
(a) Yus. (b) No.
7. (a) 3, (b) 1, (e) 1.
NOW, WHAT YOUR SCORE. MEANS.
52 AND OVER: You intend will not do. Forget your other
completely, Be daring-- to enjoy every minute of your fo holiday--not In un assertive, leave your troubles, behind. The bumptious way (which springs water is always colder if you're from a fear that you won't) but worrying about the state of the
cheerful tide. with a self-possessed,
meant Jaalstence that life for living and holidays are happy days. You are on any beach,
IN
29 AND UNDER: It's cheaper welcome to stay at home.
The gloomy enjoyment of telling others how terrible it WAS when it's al over is not worth the expense.
(London Express Servico)
17 Have you ever: Mistaken 30 To 51: You are a litle the date of your hotel book- inclined to take your workaday ing? Left a suitcase behind aclf whila you on holiday. That
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