'Ghost'
airliner
will
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST G, 1959.
| Diplomacy-Krushchev Style.........when our Foreign Office takes up the diplomatic challenge by CUMMINGS
Panden TRANSLATION
Excelling "Liar [you've used]
Termino,
-Logical finexaɛti -
-Dude!"
"Pray take a seat, Excellency 1***
Mr K. is
never
be
airborne
IN
Weybridge.
a workshop near the old Brooklands club house, once the centre of British motor racing, carpenters are building
a wooden airliner fusel akc. It will cost several hundred thousand pounds but it will never leave the workshop.
If the full-size mock-up of airier, the Vickers VC 10, due on the atms-Athetic serving
Britain's next generation Jet
and the scarld-wide mules ul Doar in the mid-60's,
The Vanguard
The shooting-stick-cam-denliste
chair for diplomatic toothache.
Dictionary for Irene- lating old-style diplomatic language.
New-world courtesy.
Trick champagne glass för drinking tonit to peace. ~
THOMAS WISEMAN'S LIMELIGHT
A sleepless night
THE citizens of Soho
did not take kindly
to the invasion of teir privacy, for the privilege of which they usually charge a fee.
Mai
**not
"Nothin' mint suered days," They murmured. even vive." as the film wall from Sheppertont moved into London's Chsbuch with Ther offer-bar
lights and Inquisitive bright the fight deck and immense cameras to make a picture calf- passenger cabin of the 158-fret Expresso Bongo. long jet airliner.
Everything is being built in represent at fe size
wood
Tide I is being decorated Too much
just as if it were desired for a ying mrver carrying ouiz-izraels of passengerst.
For the ladies of Scho the counter-attraction of having 1ands alongside a similarm unit un their beat was too They protested to the full-cade mork-up
the murk o! Vickers Vanguard tatio-prop police. "Nobody can't get airlifter
a Into SEAleep," they emplained bitterly, zen vier in Murope next summer. It was 18 pm.
Such infringements
The Vanguard mock-up cost £300, The wooden VC10 will vort no less; probably more. Vital work
Work on such full-size mock-
the
mundels
Line
T:47
in Soho...
I spend it with Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms and Hermione Baddeley
The crowds gathered. It got so ed. Already she had received yan csildn't tell the crowd from complaining letters from some of the crowd artists-which was the girls saying that she had very distressing for some of the enovi artists.
In one of the back-alleys, the Allen-makers had built the
cast a slur upots thele profession.
'Dead
easy'
In fact
guinly front of મ typleni They explained that removing striptease club-with it bus their clothes was just as much
lee. neon signs and a display an art as ueling was. of revealing portraits of the being a Bim star was dead easy strippers. Soon there was * compared with their ling. Film queue of assorted males outside stars didn't have to do three the box-office seeking member nutinces day, did they?
of the liberty of the individual could ship. not be tolerated, aleep being one of the inalienable rights of the
on the srenu
Englishman. The police inspee- No stripping
for who arrived was stern.
"The residents are complain-
them wake."
When they
Were
told that there was no stripping to be s
became
Miss Syms saki sho had accepted this, for her, unusual role, because it would help sealch the rumour that she refined. Refined was one of the most damaging epithels that
wps
could be applied to an actress.
Keeping an eye on Laurence Horvay outside
a fake strip- .tease club :
OLLIES
BRENDA
M
A short, sharp solution to that old protocol problem of who shall go through the door fast.
a hyena, a reptile
·toad!
and a
Cumming
DO
And last, but not least, more of thors meaningless, communiqués.
London Express Service.
Coloured lights on car would show speed
W
Washington. ASHINGTON'S traffic authorities are considering a pro- posal to equip every motor car with exterior coloured lights which would show its speed to others.
The lights, connected to the speedometer, would flash various colours depending upon the speed. Green would indicate the driver is cruising at 30 miles an hour: amber between 30 and 50; blue between 50 and 70, and bright red, more than 70 m.p.h.
NOT UNIQUE
The iden, designed to help reduct traffic accidents and catch highway speedsters. is the Invention of Chlef Muni- clpot Court Judge Leonard P. Walsh, of Washington.
Judge Walsh, however, sald the plan was "nothing unique" but that he was not Buro where the idea frot originated.
tips and sail maleis is houting they can't get any sleep." he all that is Reft in the aircraft hold the tim people, "the noise only Mining--they
for skilled wood-
fof your generator Is keeping most disgruntled. They mutter-
She had been hanging around workers today.
AL ****
ed darkly about false-pretences
Saho for some weeks picking up industry entire aircraft
"At 10 pm.?:In Sohe?" said and misleading the ratepayers.
the right kind of unrelined
his wife, depended on skilled carpenters the director, Val Gurat,
In a eate taken over for the
she by the nnit found accent ter her part, and
I "You'll have to keep it quiet," night But it is still vital work.
felt highly complimented when
Margaret said the inspeelor, “qr Pli have Laurence Hurvey and Sylvia
a barrow-boy, on whom she had Syms. Th
are used into move you along.".
Leighton. been trying out her Soho-one, wind-tunned research to help You look worried," I said to
"In the in," Miss Syms treated the information that she in designing inextern airplanes, the director,
soubrette was Sylvia Syms with choice appearance dressed es a tramp "Of course i wasn't frighten- "NE netar could complain would make it compulsory for "What explained, "I am "Worfled?" litary and civit.
he said,
which is one cut above a Mrip- derision.
and wearing a sandwich board, ed," he said, "I'm never fright-" about dylux Jai such vireunt. worried? meon
per. A soubrette has got muWe
While assistant directors al- ened when I'm in the limelight. stances. I mean, Just think of you
Mr Harvey has not felt the templed 10 cope with the There we were circling for four the publicity."- demented."
In a dozen doorways members class: she only takes some of her
need to listen to the local police and appease the Jocal hours with searchlights stabbing Me Harvey pondered the sub- of rival business Arms chortled.
She added that she had to be accents. "just sten to Wolf tradeswomen, Mr Harvey was the sky, an audience of 15,000 Joel ef life and death. "The only "No sense of public relations, careful about what she said un Mankowitz," he said. Mr Man- telling me about his recent spectators and the entire Press way I should hate to die," he complained Mr Guest, "that's The VOID is the biggest air- their trouble. Don't appreciate this subject because strippers howltz is the author of the piece experience on board the Ameri- waiting below. It was ke
Ant the full-scale "airplanes" are worth every penny of their great rost.
The biggest
liner Vickers have yet tackled.
It is the biggest Brilish airliner
on order for passenger work.
I'm
Cluthes on"
the value of publicity. Here we were a touchy lot, easily offend- and makes fare making a fin for the world-
market, sparing no cost to reveal
Sobe to the world in all its true ALL ABOUT SINATRA
The VCs planners, under sleaziness, and you think they'd
Sir George Edwards, Vlekss be grateful, proud. Aircraft chief, think that beside Not a bit of it."
honoured?
the fleet of 35 on order for: All night long as the cameras i Bous. they might Bave sought to catch the genuhie local reasonable aurkel among over-colour, the war of nerves con
inued. reas airlines,
calls Mysterious DON brought re engines to the spot. They claims that it will be Embarrassing cases of mistaiten more veonomic proposition with identity occurred. butter take-off and landing pertermunce ABON any of the June of the oldest members of existing Amerism harge jet air- Suho's oldest profession found liners.
herself being cautioned by
a Hitchcock-type can jet-liner that nearly crushed. Hollywood premiere.
By MICHAEL RUDDY: PART
declared, "is naturally."
-(London Express Service).
If the proposal is accepted it would Bitcoine lnw. This
manufacturers to
motor car Install the Bghts,
The lights could be either
on the front or the back, or even on the fop of cars, The cost was said to be "nominal."
-{London Express Servic#),
The story: Frankie's fantastic
Hermione Daddeley portraying NIGHT and day the bells rang, rang, rang ut
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the smart new home in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. Night and day the fans of Frankie trooped up to the front door.
They wanted to see Sinatra, talk to him.... even touch him.
They scared lipstick on the white walls of the home us they klased their hero's "shrine."
cach
They stood on
other's shoulders hoping to peek in and see Frankie asleep in bed.
success.
control period,
a
*
this was the disciplined or self- When Sinatra was in Chicago, club lender in New York They slyned their letters to would gẹt telegram from 1 I am reliably informed that him with "Frankly yours," Chicago Trader, giving the exact his tuns seemed to consider "Yours Sinatrally" and post- time of the singer's return to Mrs Sinatra a sort of cross scripts began with "F.5."
the Big City. between a godmother and ап His influence on them WIE older sister.
atrangely sartorial, Girls and young women wore his floppy
when he 112X bows, and once peared in a concert with his sleeves rolled up, there was a vogue among the teen- Among the 2,500 entries was agers for rolled sleeves. swer the doorbell a dozen times this one:
It was considered good form by some girls. to wear their hair In two plalts, tied with
In Detroit, a radio station ran The "We Worship Frankie" à contest for the best essay on the subject "Why 1 Like campaign was going full binst,
Slaatra." It was a
trying period for Nancy Sinatra, who had to au-
a day-15 Frankele in....Could we wait for him?....Could
Wせ
coat
-A brigade of fans in buille- dress was there to meet him,
In New York, Sinatra usually stayed at the Waldorf Hotel.
Scout and commanda would obscure his entrance and exits and attack at will.
unita
Toltico Lake links, called Lake. side Country Club.
Among the club's members were Bing Crosby,
He had a lot of friends, among them Marilyn Maxwell and Lana Turner.
wer
Bob Hope, Both he and Nancy Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Catholics. Their children went Oliver Hardy, Bud Abbott, Lou to the parish school. They main- Costello, Errol Flynn and scores tained their values as they had of executives: in the entertain- in New Jersey but, more and ment field.
more, Frank would not be home to supper.
Frank became a family man. His hours were regular and he He would be working or seeing spent much more time with his rushes or having a conference or. children and his wife.
going to the boxing matches or The Brown meeting pals at Derby.
Yet many of his friends, en pecially Mannie Sacks, attributed his change to, the move Hollywood.
to
One of Sinatra's friends says, "Nancy would be delighted when I would came to the house with They said he was exposed to him for dinner because it meant too much strain-the fans, the he would stay home that night. inevllable round of publicity partes, and at the pariles the "en many beautiful girls" for which Hollywood is famous.
tried to keep Frank Sinatra Most of the girls would leave for home before 11 as they knew tried to accept the adulation and up with the pace of living. He "Swoonatra Sinatra did not approve of the
two
rc-
"I think he is one of the have one of his ties for our fan greatest things that has ever ribbons, promluently displaying
Is happened to Teenage America. "Frank" and club?....Could he...."
We were the kids that never spectively...
wa....?
1 was ironic that she should got much attention, but he's
be asked for the Sinatra tie, She made us feel like we are come made them for him-large floppy thing. He has given us under- affairs of heavy black, brown standing. and blue silk which looked artis- tie...and different.
To a reporter interviewing her about the home life of The Volce," she said, "I'd have to be very much in love with him to take this kind of thing." AND
HUMAN
"Most adults think we don't
There. was the
"Sinatra"
LATE NIGHTS.
cra. This was the creation of a staying up as late. But he him- the Battery without losing his brace of Press-agents for the self was often out anul four sense of proportion. Riobamba, a New York cabaret where Frank sang in 1943.
The report leaked out some how that women were swooning. when Staaten sang.
and five in the morning usually in the same place; Toots Shor's. the Stork Club, EI Murocco, Twentyony and n half a dozen of the beller This got into the public print Italian restaurants were all on need any consideration but and one night, to the immense his 1st. we're really human and Frank gratification of the Riobamba reallics that. Ic gives us boys, three women actually did. The fans used to follow his It took her some time to sincerity in return for the swoon (or did they simply pass ear around in faxis, then walt recognise that persistent, plate loyalty and faithfulness we dive out?)
by chance some around until he emerged. Ho ned publicity had a good deal to
him....
photographers were nearby to grow to know many of his fans While singing to an audience record the event. in cinema, in a
SHE WAS.
do with the Sinatra success.
THE FANS
One day she visited the offe
crowded
- cabaret, D concert, a radio
audience, Sinatra did not gazo out into space.
Instead he focused with inton-
SKILFUL
by sight and would wave to iem, say "Hey," which would send them into squeals.
In July 1944, the Sinatras moved to Hollywood. Ho kad
Bling. two
"Los Vegus
Because of all this, New York made
of George Evans in New York sity on one person affer an became the centre of Sinatra's Nights" and "Anchors Aweigh" most enthusiastic and boundless in 1942 and 43 for RKO, fol- deak an luminated scroll They felt that he was singing fans. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LIMITED saw on the wall behind his other.
Skilfully organised by lowed by "Higher and Higher" awarded to him for the most to them, alone,
George Evans and Co, the fans carly in” '44. · effective' promotion of a single The fans were fantastic. They met weekly in groupe, and seat There was discussion of a personality.
went through periods of change their mimeographed fan sheets contract with MGM and he was In 1040, according to Mr In their devotion. At one time, nerors the United States. N
able to do his radio show and and screams and
recordings in Hollywood. Evans, there were forly million the squeals Sinatra fans in the USA.
ewoons were definitely out./ The mtrategy and tactics of Nancy, found a house she Wked Warner They used to send him more Loyal fans called the squealers the organisation, of the Sinatra on Toluca Lake, near than Aya thousand letters a week. tid screamera "Menda? I-think ten clubs wore an education. Bros, Studios, and adjowing the
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Trouble was, he didn't do it often enough. It might have kept them together,"
TOMORROW:
Phil Silvon" story of the audience with the Pope,
Friell
BOEVAN GREPORT
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