CHRISTOPHER DOBSON SUMS UP HIS TOUR OF RUSSIA'S WONDERLAND
you can
Mr K,
clap
hands
for Siberia
has the lot
BACK IN MOSCOW,
TEA with strawberry jam in it. Sounds like kippers and custard, doesn't it? But that's the way they drink their tea in Siberia.
It is one sinal example of the Siberian way of life. And when people ask me if 1 enjoyed my Siberian expedition, 3 remember that ben od reply: "Enjoyable, no. But interesting, most coitally."
A fabulous future
Next question is always: "How do people live out there?" And the
answer is "They live hard. It's a frontier land." Last question
"What is going to happen in the future?" And The answer to that is that the future is fabulous.
Siberin is the world's greatest treasure chest of minerals, and fuel, and power. Already, although this immense wealth has hardly been tapped, the centre of gravity of Russia's industry is shifting to the wild and woolly West.
I saw yast hydro-electric power
stations on the Siberian rivers,
muist
une
They are being built to supple- another, cach supplying the other's district with power when it is needed,
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1959.
REFRIGERATORS, CARS, HEATING-THEY ALL REFUSE TO WORK
Why do machines stop when I get near?
HAVING been brought up in Ireland,
in the mountains of Wicklow, where the natives don't hold with new fangled. ideas, I milk cows by hand, I breathe up horses' noses to tame them, and I jerk dogs on choke chains to train them.
I hear the grass ticking when it's going to rain, and I put the aliver under the mattress when there's lightning about-ist as my Irish nursemaid taught me when I was a child.
I have never understood the intricncles of wire- less, and 1 strfelly avoid all contact, when i can, with
motor mowers.
Yet, in spite of my deferential respect for the sacred secrets of the combustion engine, and its step- sister the electric motor, I am cursed by everything mechanical I come in contact with.
STOPPED FOR HOURS
At Orst I thought it was just bad luck that the Sim projector, brought by the local shop to one of my lectures, wouldn't go.
I had to keep talking instead of showing iny Almas until the second one was fetched. That one wouldn'! go either-and my audience finally left with out seeing un inch of Bim
Then, in hospital didn't realise until later that the surgeon had nearly operated on
with the sole purpose of deve-me fully conscious, because the loping this fundamental trea-
sure.
There will be no Industries in those towns, only selenists and laboratories.
At Bratste, on the Yenisei River. This, then, is the
the world's biggest hydro- electric station completion.
nearing м
nf
cach
It will produce power at the
Incredibly cheap price 1-25th of a penny for kilowatt-hour.
World's biggest
Lus
Another, even bigger, station is being planned for Krasnoyarsk, und its
wer will go develop the enormous coul and ivo deposits which have been discovered at Kansk South Central Siberia.
future
of Siberia, with half a dozen industrial complexes each the size of the Huh,
The potentiality is vast. And it can only be grasped by look- ing at one of the tiny log-hút villages like Oleg Minsk-
where I had hard-boiled ce and Russlan-style port wine for lunch-and saying: Here fr 20 years' time will be Birmingham, a Pittsburgh; Hamburg.
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Men and women are paid extra
to work in Siberia.
Children first
Students and other young people
are encouraged to move to the virgin lands.
out.
nuesthetic machine had ap parently more overpowered the anaesthetist than me, due to sume technient fault,
I ignored the fact too that the truin I was travelling on stopped for what seemed hours in the Severn Tunnel; and that the Rikerloo lube train refused to leave the station after I had Luurded it.
I WARNED HIM
the Bul when
nced for n.odern inventions entered my home I knew I had a curse on me, for no nechanical con- trivance worked normally, even though I never touched it.
-by. BARBARA WOODHOUSE
Author, broadcaster and animal lover.. the woman who founded Britain's first boarding school for problem dogs--and their owners.
make the motor work did they realise that there was some truth In my statement.
was pressed ghastly silence!
•
Same obscuro cumiera jauti had wrecked 90 par cerit of the film,
enable it to be driven back 10 the garage. There I had to Jeave it for three weeks to have 23 things done to it.
only a few feet of film had been taken, an apologetle cameraman sold lie was so sorry, the camera had a fault.
The sun went in, and the dogs felt more like fighting or going to sleep than carrying out their
At last the camera-
There was my fight to Ham- burg to appear on television. backfires greeted Thunderous the starting up of the engine exercises. nothing but a and twice it spluttered out. We man announced that he was and shooting began nally took off-but I know ready, what (and who) hnd caused again. the delay.
Nox! morning the film labora- Sound technician for tele- tovies rang me to say the flm
brought
fallure; some obscure It vision
up to date was cameras and recording equip camera fault had wrecked 10 mien to Interview me in my per cent of the film. heine. After two hours of
BUT HOW...? with the recording struggling machine, the engineer announced that it would not work. Another one, he regretted, would have so be sent for.
Urgent phone calls were made The new, machine was taken to the chief engineer in London, back to the factory and three The motor was inken' to bits further models were installed and put together again. and similarly taken away-in, still wouldn't go." quick succession.
RUSHED AWAY None of them bad shown the lightest inclination to want to Irteze
The my food.
Afth
Swiftly it was reloaded on to worked--but I went out for the the van and rushed, back to the day when it was installed,
thera The works.
experts In my seventeenth century could find nothing wrong with I warned the refrigerator home central heating is " I started up at the flick of a salesman that I doubted rust," and I went into great switch,
there was Then whether the machine couta detall with the engineer about
the time I had gono carry out its duties if installed the installation of the electrle bought a new car.
motor.
when a lorry only 100 yards In my home.
He too thought I was mad driver leaned out of his cab and when I told him I doubted shouted: "Want a tow, miss?" whether it would work,
I didn't quite need a low; the sure enough, when the switch car had just enough spark to and shooting begon. Then, after
There are vost petroleum der pasite, with pipelines run- lug west from Irkutsk. There
He pauh-poohed the idea, and are huge Iron ore deposits at
enly after two electricians had Britsk, Chita, and in Yakutla. For Siberia accounts for 80 per striven for nearly two hours to Natural gus, which is becoming cent of the immensity of the
vital and mure
Soviet Union, but only 28 per Russia's industry, has been cent of the population. ford-in-enormous depositi_That 28. per cent spends nine
mare
throughout the country.
to
There is oll out at Sakhalia, where you can look across the sen lowards Japan.
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month of every year coping with the world's worst climate. Many of the people belong to
native tribes, like the Yakuti and age-old traditions persist. The women suckle their children
It is planned to build the world's
without any Iatse modesty plant biggest aluminium
while dying in that rophisti- Kansk, where there is Cart
ented airlines the Tulo, of a new enormous supply cheap source of raw material. And like everywhere Reserves of Umber in Siberia are greater than hose of the Cannda Unlied States and combined,
And to deal with all these, whole
new clies
being built
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elso in Russia the children are wor- shipped. "They are our most valuable raw material." Well, that's Siberia; it could be
that our future, as well Russia's. is locked up there Among the snow and ice.
-London Express Service).
SKINNY?
Amazing
NEW
WATE-ON
SAFE EASY WAY
PUTS ON QUICKLY
POUNDS and INOHES
of FIRM SOLID FLESH on
SCRAWNY FIGURES
TRY WONDERFUL
NEW
NOWOGERIES EMULSION
WATE-ON
'AT ALL BEDS & DEPT. STORED
BOLE AGENTË
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., LTD.
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Despondent, but not defeated,
I engaged another company,
The bored dogs and even more bored owners tried to look n
Now I un trying to make a fim on dog training. I warned were the firm I engaged to check their epmera for every imagin
and able fault before coming, also to say their prayers,
The dogs behaved perfectly,
Spotlight on Novak
HOW old are you? Twenty-six.
IS Kim Novak your real name?
The Novak is rea) enough but I was christened Marilyn Pauline. The studio made me drop the Marilyn because of you-know- who.
по you have any vivid memories of childhood?
I can still remember being held in my mother's arms. And I remember the day I dyed my hair with yellow rinse and it all came off in the school swimming bath. I felt awful.
Do your parent approve of your sucOGKS? Not altogether. My father says he would just as soon I was settled down and married to a truck-driver. My sister is married with two kids and 1 know she's sorry for me.
WHAT do you think about it.
I always dreamed about getting married, not about being an actress and having my name in lights. But people never get what they want. do they?
DON'T you like being a famous star? Yes. But it isn't enough. I want to get married. It's an empty, shallow life if you're single and I'd give it all up for the right man. DO you think your job is really worth- while?
know
Ask me again in 20 years and I
Ior bure. But I think maybe the answer is "no." I like it now but my He isn't my own. It's abnormal.
WHY abnormal?
When making a Alm, you react automa tically to Lights", "Camera!" "Action" and the rest of the time you're limp.
„WHAT: would you have been, If not an actress?
I always wanted to be o veterinarian so much. I had oli kinds of dogs and birds and cats and rabbits and even a goat and a pet fly.
WHAT happened to the Ay? My mother swatted him and one of his wings came off but he didn't dic. I never forget that fly. I cried over hlm and I
WHAT
fir in the ing Fred-begged-me-Pompson?
to hit him hard and I did.
is your most prized
WHAT
been
مداغ
has
bit- terest moment of your life?
The drastic
publicity I re- ceived
over
Rafael Trujillo.
By being single
I
gave people
an opportunity to say the most terrible things. Nothing they say can hurt me any more.
Do you like Verish?
I was in Eng- land three years ago and I loved
the greenacss
and the damp-
ns of it. I
think there is a specia! bright- ness about everyone in Brl- tain.
the first time they had ever heard the commands, and as the last roll of film was handed over for processing wo all honved a sigh of relief,
Then, the next day, came the same phone call, the same news.
The film was useless.
Martin
1 engaged yet another film company. Full of ego, it assured me
that i must have been sheer carelessness that caused all the trouble at the previous shootings.
Alas, I bave just been to sen the results of the third com- pany's work. The laboratory expert jerked his thumb floor- wards as I entered the office, I should have known....
Rather than accept defeat, I decided to see how much alm I could salvage from all that had been taken, all 5.900IL of it) A kind man offered to let me use la movieola to view the material. I warned him it probably wouldn't work, but he just laughed, It never broka down, he said,
It worked for a while, then slowly came to a halt. We got it going again. I went for a few frames of film and then refused to go any more, I got up and slunk quietly away. My Bim on dog training is still incomplete, and I would so like
nish It....but can anyone tell me how?
-(London Express Service),
10
WEEKEND Friell
HUMILIATING
T#SIT ALONE
Deci
"Another union has decided in favour of banning the bomb, Mr. Gaitskell."
WHAT do you do in your sparo
SUMMIT
Limet
MEETING
I like to sketch and paint and take long walks through the woods. I meditate n lot HOW many fan letters week do you get?
About 5,500,-
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Music. Without it I think I'd” wither way. I put a big slack
Is true you were discovered WHAT are your greatest of records on the phonograph
while cycling round Hollywood? at a time and they play through pleasures in life?
No. That WER DE publicity every room. I'm speakers in.
about Laun-American immick put out by the studio. crazy
When the story broke, the music.
whole place was besieged by hopeful young girls on bicycles,
Being alone because it hap pens so seldom, And jolning my family at Christmas.
Do you enjoy pubilo adula- YOU have a fabulous house in Hollywood-why are you
.DO you ever do anything for tont
I'm so busy watching other sciling 17
yourself? people that I don't think about
Because It's too big and too Yes, a great deal, I'm glad to with kept him for weeks feeding him it much. Sometimes I wish I luxurious. The studio gave it say. I cut my own hair
could go for a walk in Los
to me and it was the first place scissors and a mirror, I pour my Angeles without being chased of my own.
I had fun plonning own drinks and 1 cook for my by autograph hunters.
decorating it but now it's own dinner parties, and too comfortable and I've put it on the market.
suger.
WHAT WEA
worst your atoment on the sei?
Having to slap Fred MacMur- ray in my first movie, "Push- aver." I just couldn't bear to do
your
DO you worry about health?
No, I don't like seeing doctors. I go for pilla instead.
Just Fancy That!
E hest of the 21,000,000 stila sprenă recently to the Green Man and French Horn in-81. Martin's Latin, where a cellar fuse box blew and fatte, fire engines raced to a smoko-filled, bar. Note for. Mr. Clore: Not a drop of what you want was harmed.
*****(London - Expresa-Kärvios),-
WHY did you take such a'bir place?
Ineeded cupboard space for all my dresses, But it's Just another movie star's house. I'm giad I did it because liko to try everything once.
WON'T you miss the swim- mingpoolt
Who wants a swimming poolt All 1. need is a little place near the sea. I'd rather be married to a man than a house, -
WHATS the largest number you've cooked for?
Aboul ten, I think, I love pre- paring spley, hot, Mexican dishes.
Do you get on well with your neighbours?
Most of them are married so we'don't have much in common. LOOKING back on your lie would you have had anything happen differently?
I would like to have been better prepared, But I wouldn't, 'change' anything.
Proposals.
Objections. Adjoernment Counter proph Counter obj. Adjournment
"As an off-boot suggestion-how about getting Onassis to have another night at the opera and invite Ike, Mac and Krush ?***
WICS
-AF
WIPES LEPPN
"I'm told her gimmick is being different?"