YOUR MORALS, MORALS, MONEY-and
MEN
LITTLE In the pattern of social behaviour escapes the holler of Nancy Mitford, author of "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Cmute," to mention Just two of her books, And, because she has lived in Paria since ike last war, her observations are sharpened by detachment. They are recorded here by JOHN CRUESEMANN.
by the rarely interviewed
Nancy Mitford
AM all for the Welfare State. It does for people what being rich dil once; it gives them security and self-confid-
ence.
Working-class people behave now as rich people have always behaved; they spend theh in rome without worrying about the future.
As fur Teddy Boys, they are suply young men whose enenty has not chough outlet,"
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YOUNG LOVE For the first time the working classes are getting enough eat. The upper eisses have always had enough, and been. able to expend their youthful energy in games.
Now that the broad mure of puple are better fed many of
work off them need animal spirits. But they
their
are
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1950.
a So what the malo does is largely than they did. When I was
(and this it was considered unsuitable overlooked.
for a man to marry
Unfortunately English women
cling, despite all the evidence,
to their dream nollort that Mister Right should rmaln
Tught
any without young Mister
know French buth deviation. The
very well that this absurd. with be in love mun can A
and yet be de- someone els voted to his wife and family
Engilsh marriages are usually broken up by the women, who have the belief that running off with another man will turn It often turny out a better bet, out for the worze, after which running off becomes a habit.
applied virtually to all classes) เร he had www assured in- come.
Nowadays
most
are couples nuried earning because they need to und beenuse they like to. Then
far less bomo there is also
there than
was, sexuality especially at the universities.
It was thought wicked and thrilling, now it has become jake, and that has killed it.
And why should people let
funze Find
ambling about! partie? The decline of Monte Carlo is seen the rise of May- fair as a gambling centre, but that is simply because there are no big private houses left gomble in.
ON DIVORCE
lo
is an absolute misuppre- hension 10 imagine the
He never steps on people's toes when he is in
Who's Who in the gallery :- KRIEGHOFF Travelled in. Europe,
where
his old home town S
from JOSEPHINE ROSENBERG
FREDERICTONENB
THE old man who has already had three separate lives - finance, politics, journalism-has adopted, at the age of eighty, a new interest so absorbing that politics and news- papers don't matter any more.
He is Lord Beaverbrook, the Custodian of his own art gallery, built on the banks of the noble St John river in Fredericton, the capital of the Province of New Brunswick.
Lord Beaverbrook spent just short of £250,000 in setting up n gallery, modern to the lost measure of modernity. The lighting hy day and by night is almost unexampled, and the view of the river looking out from the main gallery excels in beauty all other pictures.
in the lower level of the building is o huge schoolroom, where lectures, Alm shows, and local exhibitions will take place.
Since the First World War-when he was responsible for the official programmie of beca Canadian War Art-Beaverbrook has interested in art,
of Hly personal collection paintings was first exhibited at the University of New Brun- swick In 1954.
BEAVERBROOK-Granite and placed brick for a new life.
library.
was born, AB musician and arflat before America, when he was 25, in 1837. Re fought the Red indiarie for three years. Illa paintings of Canadian plonebr fe are lumilasting records as the period. CONSTABLE Known as "the handsome. miller" when he followed that trade in East Berghatt, Suffolk. Of his 19th- contury English countryside paintings has been written: "Others have made us Nature at distance. He alone has planted our feet in her midst."
GAINSBOROUGH A superlative English portrait painter, famous everywhere for is "Blue Blo He once succesfully forged his Father's signature to a school note saying, "Gire Tam & holiday," then went of sketching. Bald father, when he saw the forgery "The boy will one day be banged." Gainsborough died peacefully in 1788.
TURNER Inther wanted Joseph to be, like himself, a barber, but after seeing how some of his drawings sold to the shop at a shilling and more aplece, agreed That he should become an artist.
When
he was only 24, in 1799. he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy.
AEYHOLDS The great portraitial of the English aristocracy of the 18th century, Between 1753 and 1760 he painted three members of the Royal Family, at least twelve dukes, several of their duchesses, innumerable lesser prera and peeresscu. and two famous courtesans, Kifly Fisher and Nelly O'Brien.
SUTHERLAND Ona of Britain's most Tamous contemporary painters, with three reputations for his fierce war landscapes, his imaginative portraits and, lately, his design for the tapestry to be hung in Coventry Cathedral.
More exciting is the display provide enough for expenses, dedicated to his own bene- slep on anybody's toes. So be
factor. It is called the Sinclair is always friendly,
la calm and the man who is anaer of Sutherlands, which, will eaver, though not for more pictures.
Tinis versatile old man began Rink, after R' wall of the British room.
the
to the extent Province in asslated him
of gentle, until he is discussing his The centrepiece will be two his gifts to
a month when, ax projects, when "Old Efficiency" portraits of Helena Rubinstein, 1800, when he set up a single 12 dollars MANY GIFTS
one belonging to the subject and scholarship to New Brunswick Max Aitken, he was studying appears, showing signs of in-
law 60 years ago at St John palience.
He begins to give orders (bul a per- the other to the gallery. There University. When he decided on
These steadily multiplied where he has now bulil a new
from with a never submits to orders manent exhibition, New Brun- are 15 or 20 studies of Churchill,
others). a painting of Somerset Maug- through the years. Now there law school, equipped swick architects were called in.
ham, sketches of Edward Sack- are 50 Beaverbrook scholars
he has For an hour his new role is Also at Newcastl After Tue consultation
recollects In New sume examples of attending universities Lord Ville-West; And interference by
that he is at home. He grumps Beaverbrook their designs were Sutherland's early work and an Brunswick, and between Ave built an impressive theatre and forgotten. Then he
Imaginative South of France and ten scholars are given one town hall.
The town square-which is his the joy of popularity, approved. The granite, glazed
to three years at Brilish univer-
given
10 him by storm blows away. property, 1 had to cut down
brick, and while limestone had
falls Beaver- Sickerts, of sities.
When night County is Northumberland to be the right colour to clothes I world get one suit
Five school teachers from
uld brook's dinner table usually con- Inc deecrated with the every year
from a good Paris justice to the clear and varying which three were given by Lady
every dressmaker. It is a myth that lights east by New Brunswick's Dunn, being portraits of King the Province
Lweeds arc English suits and
onts, they superior to French have never wanted to make a skirt, Last time I was in
ON FASHION
OF.
northern sun.
ccuped up in affice all day long. French as immoral just because London I saw a suit the jacket and Canadian
Cince when a rich young ma got into a serape he was being bis age. But this tolerance no Ipager extends to the natun
Bullence of boys and girls be- cause there are too many them. Morals are not worsening. In fact, if anything, they have tightened.
of
People try young, which is
more
they have a different, realistic, view of love, French of which delighted me, but the faintly life is very rigid. Eng skirt was quiet impossible.
predominantly ¿ land being Protestant country divorce is not frowned on as if is in Catholic dress
to be divorced clothes which France, where
bost,
is thought very sad and dread-
full.
The French realise that men
a good thing, much younger nte, after all, not monogamous,
CHILDREN SEE FILMS
AS
MOTHER SHOPS
New York.
AMERICA'S supermarket operators are never short of
new devices to make people buy more goods, and one of the most successful is a tiny cartoon theatre to keep the children busy and give mother more time to choose.
ntt
If I lived in England I would in cheap, off-the-peg
are much Dresses from
in
Londrm
the the are
"couturiers" absolutely appalling.
A Frenchman only has to look
al a dress to know which of the house it
You comes from. couldn't
the
of Say
same Englishinen, because the London couturiers have no style of their copy inst own, they simply year's fashions.
f
i
I!
are charmingly English piris dressed-up to the age of ten
that afterwards scen interest flags. Now the French either have
energy, more because there are more vitamins in their food or because they Live In a sunnier elirante.
Another device to please the DEPORTMENT The Liputan theatres can scut between 20 and 25 youngs- supermarket shopper is
biscnii making automatic lers. And during rush hours,
machine that produces "fresh" seating capacity can be expand- frem-the-ovey" biscuits. ed to hold as many as 40 One man can operate this cartoon-addicts.
machine, which produces us below
A child starts Chee simply try pressing a The programme lasts minules, then shuts off matically.
muy as 350 dozen biscuits in show one hour. The pleasant urema! button. from the baking biscuits is an for 20 asset by itself," said one sulls
aatuned store owner,
(Landan Express Service.
Very Fine Cognac
MARTELL
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Obtainable Everywhere Sdle Agents--DODWELL & CO., LTD.
I am certain the tidy English drearineas is a algn of lack of Everything becomes vitality,
Discipline Is par. sacrificed to dreariness.
On the whole, working-class girls seem much brighter, than the others. Oxford Street, full of shopgirls and typists hurry- ing about, has more style than Sloane Street, prim and sale. Although both streets, and those who walk and work there, coules do with polish,
I wish English girls would stop thinking just about their more fertunts. Thery is much
to fe than that. It is the whole bearing of the body, the aura a girl cat create about
her.
Deportment may
sound
Victoriar and absurd, but it counts for far more than fancy Jooks. Brigitte Bardot is not nearly so pretty facially countless English girls, but she knows how to move, her whole
being is alive, and she is not
ashamed of that.
ON PEOPLE
IN of people who
JOW I approve very warmly speak out nnit don't mind what other think: who are so careful not to offend, and lock too tired to argue,
Look at Montgomery. Ho zeys what he thinks.
It com
straight out. He never mis 1ans forthrigh! sneaking fr making u fuss about nothing in particular.
Then there is Noel Coward
who is fifty mes funder i real life than he is in his plays. I don't feel drawn to people unless hey are rather funny. Sir Winston saved our bacon at the worst moments of the war by flushes of furminess,
And if noma to me that
du
сл-
TC-
The pictures are almost
from the British tirely drawn
schools. Some splendid gifs have been ceived from his friends. Among the donors are Lady Dunn; Mra Miss Olive Howard Plllow; Hosmer, of Montreal; Colonel and Mrs Eric Phillips: Dr M. J. Boylen, of Toronto; John Bas- selt; and Roy Thomson.
EXCITING
four
landscape.
ter There are
Y
AFTER MUCH INTERFERENCE by Lord Beaverbrook, architects' designa for picture gallery he wished to build in Now Brunswick ware finally approved. Soon, his work and theirs will reach fruition.
a
year
to teachers' colleges in England, and every few years there is a
the gallery many hours a day for 25 teacliers.
the with the doors locked ond
In 1927 he erected
Law
and the
masonry and lamp-posts brought sists of four or five guests, of wham twu are often Dr Alfred over from England.
the intellectual and
Dean
the of
Wardell,
Arts
When the first settlers came alley, two lovable to the Miramichi district. centuries ago. Endived out Faculty of the university, and their lives.. they were buried at Brigadier Michinel
fl charming polni situated newspaper proprietor of the first
who onder,
has made such a where two rivers meet
success of the Fredericton Daily Cleaner since he took control of it eight years ago.
this graveyard and
Ho restore:
The Old Monse, where
lived
LIKE MOTHER Everybody speaks to "Max" in New Brunswick. The ladies his
he
door.
GIVEN ORDERS Edward VIII, Sir James Duan,
Lord Beaverbrook acquired adjoining and Lord Castlerosse.
the Beaverbrook himself sits in sumuner tour to the British Isles
properties. monuments and developed the solld and grounds into
a large pleasure windows blocked with cotton attractive building known as the murk for the people's enjoyment bake him bread the way
mother used to, and "reals" sheets.
Lady Beaverbrook Residence, and named it The Enclosure, arrive continually at his kitchen
the clock lower, twice a Admission is refused to every From gifts are Among the
body until he emerges for his day, chimes out his favourite,
boy, the returning Good is spoken of him every- pictures by Churchill.
The collection includes works dolly walk, which is an impera-song-about the Jonca Boys who son bought from the church and where in the Province, and
couldn't make a' sawraill pay. Gains- tive occasion.
turned into a public library. He dedicated a library in the by Constable, Turner,
Heynolds, Hogarth,
Near by, at Chathain, he built "never is heard a discouraging borough,
word," JONES BOYS and Wright
university named after his two a rink for the boys of the
When Beaverbrook was three Stubbs, Lawrence,
and Roman Catholic Si Thomas's of Derby. 'T'here Art Rvc
is frequently old friends-Bonar His companion
score he had lived three lives. of R. B. Bennelt
University.
Now he is four score. This is characteristic paintings by Fly, the clever young President
He built a gymnasium-and i Now, he is building a Bruns- und the American school is the University of
the fourth life. I am for the children of St John. highlighted
His ap is a splendid structure. by Sargent and wick, Colin Mackay.
In Fredericton and Newcastle and instigation told it far surpasses any other at the "Cowboy" Russell.
pointment,
the Dominion. church. beils ring out for him, long? Some of the nest examples of Beaverbrook, was resented by gymnasium in
Then followed a residence for in Newcastle, with puckish good artists the Senate-who now hold him of work by Catalan
Robert girls attending the university. humour, Beaverbrook has set up when the gallery in the highest esteem. will be seen
elvil resourceful Tweedle,
A magnificent hockey centre, competing church bells-one set. opens.
will be 27 servant, is another victim known as the Lady Beaverbrook in a Catholic Church and, an- The showpiece
Hink, is a vital part of Frederic- other in his father's old church. pictures by Krieghoff, the most Beaverbrook's habil.
ion social fe. When hockey
An extraordinary change popular Canadian painter, The gallery will be handed
It is used for comes over the old man the which possess, besides their over to the Provincial Govern- out of season,
Brunswick on university events, pubile meet- moment he seis artistic value, immense interest ment of New as historical and social docu- September 16. Beaverbrook has ings, donces, and bingo contests. home Province,
Not having Ai Newensile the busy Beaver- an endowment
any newspaper munts. Of these, 20 were given already set up by Dr Boylen.
fund at $1,050,000, which should brock put up another rink and connections here, he does
A
New
of
rink
foot im his
SPECIAL CAMERA GIVES
MOVING PICTURE
OF THE HEART
falters... beats. Is a valve faulty?
HEART beats . . . falters . . . Are the coronary blood vessels blocked? Previously, the surgeon had These are
to operate to find out. Today he can see clearly in advance.
the first pictures of the latest device to aid the heart surgeon, a camera which takes moving pictures while the heart is being X-rayed.
It was designed by Dr Graeme Sloman and is now -in-use-at-St-Georges-Hos............
pital, London.
The blood in the heart 1 "dyed" with an lodine com- pound which is opaque to X-rays. The quid is fed into the heart by a small tubo inserted into an artery near the patient's elbow. While the "dye" lusts about three seconds -the camera takes pictures of the valves opening and closing.
On to a scroon
It works at a speed of 48 pictures per second. When these are "played back," either at speed or in slow-
humour hartily exists outside motion, on to an 18 in, glass
France and England
I often think that the' worst part of being in a BumÍEN' CRMP
or an American prison would
be one's companionë, good, kind, serious-and-long-winded.
--(London Express Service).
Ecreen, tho Burgeon can
locate the fault simply and
The surgeon's finger poluta to`s faulty Fatro, revented 'na the film of the ficart'ia played back on a glass'sorézni,
pinn his operation precisely. which gives a bright pic-patient than a conventional
The camera is attached ture with nine times less X-ray machine.
to an image-intonviller, Iradiation dosage to the (Landon Express Service},
A radiographer alghts through
a periscope to position the camera.
QUOTE
afrom.
no!
the Rev. Charles Younge. Vicar of Bulwell, Nottingham cemmenting in his parish magazine:—
DARSONS should be given a course, in Journalism, 'ad- vertuing, apa salesmanship, be cause one of the hardest jobs forlay ta selling Christianlly.
-{London Expresé ́ Betuloy).
New Brunswick citizens look
say,
hopefully,"How
—(London Express Service),
Pocket Cartoons
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I'm so dreadfully sorry
for the pear iitris things-- they've had to postpone their elopement because oft this talk of a newspaper stoppage."
** His Lordship's had a very bad Ascot and wants a double of whatever it di char
drives Zulu women mad?”
-London Express Service).
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