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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1859.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Borstal Governor Scrubs Floors,
Shares Boys' Punishment
By PETER DACRE
London.
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WHEN Sir Almeric Rich, Borstal governor, hands out punishment to his "boys" he insists on sharing the sentence with them-scrubbing floors, picking up stones, sleeping on a board in a locked cell. His revolutionary methods of running the institution are being studied by exports.
Sir Almerie, sixth baronet, is the 62-year-old governor of the Borstal at Huntercombe Place, Henley-on-Thames. His attitude towards the 130-ord youths he controls: "I ask no boy to do
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An "old boy" of Huntercombe explained: "When the Rovernor has to punish a boy he lives with him during the whole rentence, which usually lasts two or three days.
'Nothing Phoney About It'
On
"For instance, the boy being punished may have to spend a morning picking up stones
rough piece of ground. The governor goes out with him and picks stones as well.
"There's nothing phoney about it. The 'Guy' works “just ny hard as the boy he's punishing. He takes his orders from the oflicer in charge. And if he does the wrong thing he expects to be told so.
"At night the boy is locked regard Sir
punishment
friend or Hovernor.
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block. He siccgns on a beard instead of a bed. The goverag durs exactly
the the Name its
next cell.
"He even has bread and water for breakfast if that is part of the sentence."
vermor
AF Huntercombe I found other This remarkable signs
I drove
tree-line] upn Avenue Into The grounds. 'There was no gate and no- body on guard, i wundered freely Into the eetl Liveks, There were no locks on the doors. Boys walked around alone and In groups.
greeting me with a "Good morning, sir." I was tors packet sil rid starsam more like nboarding selivol China Morning Pat 1.td., Wyndham Dan a Borstal. Street, Hongkong tick Salisbury koud. Kowloûn.
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Two 'Schools'
the On a notice board were
two "schouls" - Bames of the radled Oxford and Cambridge into which the boys are divided. When nosy boys arrive they are handed over to the other
natis-not
the officers. to
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They do not meet the governor
un next morning.
Sir Almeric. a small, wiry Agure with a clipped manner if steel speaking that suggests beneath the velvet, is a bachelor,
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Sir Aimerie cooks his own meats. except when he has guests: then one of the boys duts the cookinz.
In church on Sundays his sils antong the boys, not with the
What do the boys think of their uncommentiorai governor?
Súd one. I think it shows fenderstanding en or twe of the lads think he's
You can't crackers.
please
pass
A Friend
through
E
Almeric more as a father than
Often "old boys" return to wives see him. bring their and parents. They are welcome
a stay the week-end.
One, absent without leave from his Army unit, called on Sir Almeric and stayed the
"I went night.
to nec m1}^ friend," he explained fater.
Sir
Almeric's staff supports kn enthusiastically. But prison his leers generally feel that altule is too lenient.
What does qu impartial ea- Jr this?
Mr Sowell Stokes, author and former probation officer, who is taking a study of Burstals, made this comment:-
"If more
Borstals were run on Sir Almerie's system, fewer would be needed. But very seld is il possible to find u who CALD make such original ideas work."
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REALLY, MISS THOMAS, THIS
IS TORTURE
Fans of George Gershwin
Still Extend Condolences.
Hollywood.
Ira Gershwin finds it amusing that his late brother, Mail Notices
old
George, is still a subject of controversy among "intellectual critics" in this country although he is accepted as an unqualified genius abroad,
Kome
"You know," said the 02-your-
lyricist "there are people who are still jealous of the feet that he succeeded i getting a Juzz element concert pieve.
these "Some of
rockbound gentlemen even Insiarnie that George couldn't orchestrate, which is ridiculous."
Irn, a grey-haired, portly man, got up from a chair in the living room of his home and took a large book from the shelf. It was a copy of the original orchestra- tion of "Porgy and Bess," George's own hand. The original is in the Library of Congress.
BY. THE
in
Then, getting un vid scrap- book that George had
Coin-
piled as a 12-year-old boy.
Ira sati; "This in to retuic these who said George WAN strictly a Tin Pan Alley com- Di ser."
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by Beachcomber
indignant crys in a grumbled Barlow. Nobody pald correspondence column, "I any attention to him. EU:t should like to see your corres- Enid (see Page Seven). pondont's. Iden of a sausage."
almost deserves a place beside Napoleon III grew Dickens'a, "I should like to see
impatient
Mrs Todgers's idea of a wooden CYNIC said Ute other day:
A CYNIC lug."
you are i good
The scrapbook cunlined pro- grammes from concerts that George attended as a child.
"He was Honest"
"He always was interested in serious music," said Ira. True, he got his rhythm from jazz and popular melodies, but his hor monic and melodic elements were strongly Influenced by Debussy and Tschulkovsky."
Pofing on a cigar, Ira sald that George's greatest quality was honesty,
"Ill music was virile," of course, "but honesty was h
matter Frestext v.rtue. No whom he sludied with-and bo ludited until the day he died-be always came out basically imzett, even if he picked up some fringe bene. Nie."
Ira notes thut fiellywood is taking u
In renewed interest George's life and work.
The movie version of "Porgy and Bess" will soon be out, and MGM is contemplating another film blography of the composer.
You know," said Ira, “I's 23 years since George died (ot the age of 38), hut people nilil feel personally close to him. They come up to me and say, “Isn't it too bad about your brother?—as it happened yesterday. It's 2 wonderful tribute."
Ira, who teamed with George
And let us not forust "Holly shot there is no future in route of Broadwas. Tolts, Mis Fremlin What murder s "a" "profession."* Amost memorable showe, has perceive on your head may well
at Napoleon in book coming be what you and the French the Bois de Boulogne, and, the
| an unânished tree-pipits' nest."
man shot
sions.
out this autumn
Call "Kwöffewer to British-mishred, He tried again called "Lyrics on Several Occa- {
There was another milsfre. "It contains 100 lyrics with "Look here!" cried the notes," he said. "If it sells 3,000
"how long are Emperor,
you copies, I'll be very happy. It's
qulic [Whom going on with this?"
informative, if anybody London Express Service. can live through It."
But most of the youths why Why be quiet?
Huntercambe
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Chinnery found the rack uncomfortable, Bo property mistress Helen Thomas sent it back to the work- thopa for adjustment. "Yout
can't act unics you're comfortable," cald
Chinnery, "and this thing
TORTURE," Hints of unspoken vloes,
besped spiced with horror, kept Shelley's tragedy off the public stage until the Lord Chamber- lain parsed it in 1923.
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AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER By H. King Wood
The Pay Brawl
Rages
On
Sydney (By Airmail). The pay brawl in Can- berra has continued unabated this week with the bills being forced
through the House and Into the Senate.
The people sitting in the box seat, of course, are the Liberals, who have made no secret of the fact that they want the steep rises.
The poor old Labour Paris, however, has been getting it in the neck from the various Labour branches und unlons Throughout Australla, who are aware that to get a few shillings' inercaso in their own, wages, it Is necessary for them to strike, go to the Arbitration Courts and generally drive a hard bargain.
Pensioners, naturally, aro making much of the ingrosses and while all son sympathetis with this kanud, realities have to be kept in mind. Increases to Parliament are costing about £60,000 = year. A 5/- Increase for pensioners would cost about £50 million.
Two top offcials of the A.L.P. have resigned because they say that Labour has not made a strenuous enough fight against the Richardson Report and the lexiorettip of
Evalt threatened, perhaps more seriously, than any other time in his eight-year rolgn.
The
Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, remarked last week that he might take up painting when he re- tired.
Ho was opening a painting exhibition
In Melbourne and cald jokingly: "Now I am to be oxia wed with a litle bit of luck, with a father handsome pension, think I will take up painting."
Ho said that many dis- tinguished medical men painted with remarkable skill.
"So far as I know in Aus- tralia there is no politician who paints pietures--not on canvas at any rate."
In
the State political circles, it is considered certain that the Eastern Suburbs Railway project will be dropped.
This rallway has been on blueprints for well over 50 yours and in fits and starts it
has been responsible for more And holas dug under Sydney than It is muel to the one who probably any other city in
world.
yields to it and to the ob-
Reason for the scrapping of ject of wrath as well. Wo the plan is the fact that it is
tho
should learn to control | new induletally estimated that wrath and use it only to destroy evil and injustice.
PTIM-Radio Bible Service,
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God Preserve) of Utrecht has invented an amusement to In the odd moments when the radio Is allent une the television screen blank. It is n telephone on which you cap talk to yourself. The words you speak into the mouthpiece come buck to you, by 4 subile mechanical contrivance, through the earpiece. The Echophone is
FILMS suke to be populer in
hority | KING'S & PRINCESS; “flonso- where occasional silence fears
boat," Cary Grant, Supula Loren. HOOVER
Thursday, 30th April, at 11.00 p.m. the serves
12:18.
for the UNITED KINGDOM, via | An old story Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, The ancient legend lingers. In Aden, Port Said and Gibraltar.
her mind, When mirrors tell her nothing
but the truth, And in some beauty-shop the
That
Crawford!"
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KITZ: "Rebel Without a Cauar.”. James Den, Natalie Wood.
NIGHT SPOTS
GALA! "THE | CARLTON: Mario Francisco Journey," Deborah Kerr, Yui¦ ¦ and Hla Combo featuring Lits. Brynner.
LEE & ASTOR Vole in the Mirror," Richard Egan, Julle London,
BROADWAY: &
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Satelo.
GOLDEN PHOENIX: Predyo Marshall and Tess German with Ollo Delfino and kla Dynanio Danceros. Vocalist: Lux VI Minda.
ROXY
Want to Liye," Susan Hay-
ward.
More
the
(English
Exotic
Cuban
REDIFFUSION
Planiel Larry Alien In the Cocktail Lounge,
Variety Calls The Tune: Wednesday Concert - “Fan- METROPOLE:
Wall Duney: 4, Deod dancer Yolandà Parolo. Muzle by Night Shade; 4.15. Yardley's Pro-
Strictly Satu by Loo Vito with his Musle ramme: 430.
mental; 5. Children's Corner--Auntie Masters.
Bay: 0.30, Wednesday Requests-Nick Troupe Kendal Misc. NII. Musicale: with 0.10, The Padre
bas: 330, Frankie Mastery Show 7.
Taho KWOK: KIN
presents Alas Yamamura The Ass Kusza Bella.
B.
Robert C: 628, Birthday Mah.
Racordad.
railway would cost well over £100 million.
the
It is expected that with death of the plan the transport.
| requirements of the Eastern
suburbs will be met by buses,
Film star Ava Gardner left Sydney recently with £300 worth of Australian woollen Nportswear which took her only an hour to try on and aclecl.
They included 15 skirts, G palss of slacks and a colito- tion of blouses and bulky- kull sweaters.
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Alderman O'Dea of the City Council has, at last, said kind word for -motorists.
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He said that owning thate days seemed to benz
He was spooking at a masing of the City Council planting improvements committee witch was discuming recont traffle changes in the city.
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Celil from News: 6.00, Wosther Forecast. An-
Ireland:
nouncements and Interlude: 1.30. Rusharkin.
6.
Elly Hay and Orch,; 8.30, Mario Time for Jazz → with Robin Day; BTAX & METROPOLE: “Three
Show: 9. Twenty-six our 9.12. Orchestra: Live." Kron BLUE HEAVEN: The Hang 5 Mantovans and Sundays to
One Night Bland; 0.30, Pot D' Gold; Nadio Clubhouse Presented by Sisters Acrobatic Trompe Thoma
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