THE CHINA - MAIL,
Patricia Lewis
If you've ever envied the So-smooth Man -then here's how
he gets at you
"OF course," said the brigadier, "the P.M.'s a
natural." "So_smooth," said I. “Well
more deliberate I'd say," corrected the brigadier.
We were sitting in the "televi- rlon studio of the Conservative Central Omer--Brigadier John Hinchcliffe, who has been in charge of this section of Tory publicity for 12 years, and my- ruff.
Or.
ke I want to tell you." Have you ever thought about-?*
"Ant cne must look at that Tithe emera lens-when one is talking because it's very
My visit was prompted by the shining sucres of Mr Ma-se not to look at the person
to whom ene is speakingg.*" inilun's telecast with President
"Unch," as the brigadier Eisenhower recently,
known to his colleagues, went un to tell me how wrong it was to sit well back in your chair on television---"]{ Tool: snooty"-and how equilly wrag it was to sit us forward "You inly see a politician's Laid patch.
I wondered
Had he been coached, I won- dered, in the red-carpeted stull
p to the moment with its
alment, including the com- pret elosed-chat cam
"ile has been to see us," raid "wt the brigadier, guardedly. that was several years ago for sound.
He really is such a neon- plished performer now that there's nothing to improve.
You know, the gracious Why he inclined his head towards the next room and said there were gu waiting. c.d better.d."
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1 taid that B.B.C. pt ducer 11. Wheldon had quite a
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One must sit up
stand. A beautiful brunette in
a white Chanol sull and lots of ehunky rubles appeared beside me. It was Gina Lollobrigida.
"Hello," I said. "How does Europe feel alter Alming in Hollywood with Blantra?”
Gina made a wry grimace. "1 liked {k there. The weather was wonderful, and the houses are a dream."
Now tho is a freelance I believe Gina would like very
much to return to Hollywood hopes to, in fact, next year.
It has been suggested how- ever, thai her first visit to Hollywood has changed "La Loilo" from her true Italian self into a California cutle.
"Not true," Bald Gina. it wasn't shaking her head. anything to do with America-- 'Just that I had lost a lot of weight through tiredness. In lul inke I've been back Europe it's all right."
Mix At least Lollobrigida will come back to the Old World when she necks
"One huld sit upright with anelasped hands," seid
this mitory man with the white rejuvenating. meadache and regimental tie. "And remember that the eyes are the whole thing."
In case you tidak "Hinch" a professional, I must tell
yoll
Swim set
may not rate intellectual-
that he took over the job from type readers but, by golly! I John Profumo when the latter do have some pretty ngento clelded to run as M.P.
ones.
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"I'm just an ex-sokifer." he les family which is a pity cause I think the brigadier Herne 11 one day would make a pretty powerful query. it
bit to do with stoming out the Prime Mink Se's TV personality krito 12.4
repent simontheurlistry has farw
becom
11 appens at rearly all Tory the MPs have been through studio ma-elther for general training with the medium, or pectedly for same reheduled
A
"We've got thrmeh over hal!
from A gentlemen rung me
with a We discussed 11. Alt was settled to dis su facute when he muddenly anacureed:
television -personality him ell.
fortdentally. I walked across Smith-square 10 Transport "It's a pity you're not here. Bauce and the Labour Party's
I o so mind with television init television studio.
night that I've just converted my set into an aquarium"
This shook me enough, but I was completely surulysed when he added:
There I asked Mr Ken Peay how they went about coaching Labour pol!tlelans and cand). Jatre.
our candidates for the next "We donil conch them," sald election bon," said the brigadier. Me Peay, "We familiarise
"It's very difficult after you've lacyn addressing an audience, them with the TV technique." from platform to get down to the inhitey of television.
"Mest of them start off with Laths and Gentlemen' whereiss
I think it'e su important to get
Your to the Best sentenua..
Jewelled Gina
I was stocking up on maga elnes at the Dorchester news-
"You know, a friend of mine waliced in this morninx and eangratulated me on being the Arat person in Britain to receive colour TV."
1 always know appearing on television must feel like being in a goldfish bowl.--London Ex- Press Service
'Listening legs' help
the spider catch a fly
The World of Science By Peter Fairley
trapped in a web and a HE U.S. Navy decided to back an investigation fly. The sounds they hear THE
into spiders. And Dr Charles Walcott col- range from the hum of an electric motor, to bells, lected 150 common spiders, placed them in paper barks, voices and notes far cups, kept them warm and fed them for several higher than the squeak of
a tiny bat.
They hear by means listening devices in
months.
ANDAY, SEPTEMBER ́ ́,18,. 1959;
"If the Summit talks fall through, calling him Dwight Nikita Harold is going to make him look pretty stupid."
London Express Barvice
She's their Dinkum
ሃሃ
Princess
LEAVING St John's Anglican Cathedral
Brisbane, recently, Princess Alexandra got in he
car and sat on the hat of Governor Sir Henry Abel Smith. Wry smile from Governor, outright laugh from Princess, who waved the squashod hat at a laughing, cheering crowd. That's the fair Dinkum Princess who has won 'Australia.
by DENIS O'BRIEN
Brisbane.
HERE has never been a royal tour of Australia quite like Princess Alexandra's THERE
--and future royal tours are never again likely to follow the old pre-Alexandra pattern.
What this fair-haired 22-year-old girl from Kensington Palace has triumphantly accomplished in Australia has broken down all the stuffy, cobwebbed concepts of how royalty should be conducted on a Commonwealth tour.
to collect the bouquets.
For make no mistake, the pilet car ahead of the can- Alexandra. Mony had ΠΟΥΡΣ despite its planned inform vey to radio the car at the rear seen British royalty before,
Alexandra took the situation ality, this tour could have been
in her ride and walked among down bogged
in Alexandra was enchanted by them casually and informally, tedious, formal strictures the Queensiond outback-the
asked them about their work, Vast, unpeopied plalas from their homelands, which fussy officials
can which Australla draws so much
They were cheering hoarsely impose on such occasions of is primary wealth-and was had it not been for Princess still exclaiming about t when with the rest when she waved Alexandra's determination she returned Brisbane at goodbye. to have it otherwise.
Admiration
Friday.
And it was in the outback she probably had her "greatest triumph.
At Mount
the
Colourful
PRINCESS
ALEXANDRA
WDS
young girl having her first ride In
Rolls-Royce, waving uninhibitedly and getting a terrific response.
And
д
forced
to watch an amatourish dance display before the dancing began.
When she arrived in Canberra to begin, her four, with the walt- ing crowds expecting her to
In the country she did not appear in ernari, but royally- once pass kangereo without subsued clothes, sho burst out stopping her саг to watch of the plane in a wattle-yellow the animal hop off into the bush. Alexandra herself has reduced topocat, and a moot outrageous
as if recognising the Isa, an important the essential formalities to a beehive hat. She obviously rigorous time it must have been In Queensland. Alexandra completely commend nowhere, she encountered
an outstanding for hr drivers, she went "below Princess mining town in the middle of minimum, managing to keep meant to make
handshaking down to 031
first impression and did just stairs" to join them at of two and a
half that. ed the respect,
perty they held when they re- admiration and greatest single concentration of affection of the State's 1,500,000 European migrants of her tour.
minutes a day.
Since then her clothes have turned to Brizbano. She stayed At the royal dances-always been a riot of colour-orchid almost two hours,! She did the same during her few days in Canberra, and met making big money in the copper, the
Princess Alexandra ́ends hor Tough, war-tearred men superbly gowned she has set and quince, pink, cardinal red,
pattern for Informality aqua, turquolo, and silver, to Visit to Australia Boon. The with the same response In New zinc,
and lead
betting is she will get the most mincs, the which even broke through the mention a few. South Wales.
tour, Alexandra often emotional farewell the Aussies migrants at first were openly embarrassed tension at Rock- The cheering and flag-waving curious and a little cool towards hampton last week when she seemed to be like an excited have ever given anyone. she has had have been more than mere token responses to little-seen royalty. They have been genuine manifestations of an enthusiasm only surpassed
of
people.
Then, in a suund-proof room in Cornell University, as humans-on more than
their he discovered these facts: 900 different frequencies. legs. As a spider ruces They can easily tell the ncross its web to devour Spiders can HEAR about
it bee is prey, its legs "bounce." four times as many sounds difference between
These "bounces" open und close some 10 allts on each leg. Behind the slits lio vessels which puff and by the welcome accorded the . blow Hike 11 accordion, Queen in 1934,
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with which the spider | affection, Alexandra has given
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She has done it by doing the things Australians' always hoped royally would do when among them; by doing the unexpected
young motion something 1angible, vibrant and inspiring How can it detect sound to which to look, In guch a tiny vessel? Nobody has yet explained.
Why was the U.S. Navy interested? Because it
She has been MISCHIEVOUS, thought some of the stepping out of her 'Rolls-Royce spkler's secrets might be on the wrong side to speak with usel in human defence crowds, walling behind barriers
to greet her. warning systems,
Space wedding'
and unscheduled.
Bouquets
She has been PRANKISH, steering her royal launch on a Miss Baker, one of the zigzag course down Brisbane squirrel monkeys roc- river, lo pars close to groups of keted 300 miles into people on the banks, tooling a response to their cheers on the space by the U.S. Navy launch'a siren.
in May is to be mated, to She has been CONSIDERATE, check on any ab-constantly breaking tway from normalities in reproduce her official party to chat with children LA the welcoming tion" which might, follow crowds and occasionally to refle a heavy dose of radla- their hair. tion,
Her habit of stopplant the convoy of royal cars to re-
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groups is unprecedented hero. wed-she did 11, throughout her 3,000-
mfle, 14-day tour of the country of Queensland and collected un Zoologists do not believe average of 20 unofficial bouqueta
squirrel monkeys can boa day. Bho bred in captivity, Scientists delight of the
did it (to the immenso crowdslin say they cannot breed un- defiance' of a royal tour fulling, tl they are at least three. dial there would be no Miss Baker is only two, scheduled roadside stops, but. aho has now bowed to the ad- vice that it would be better for
--{London Express Bervice),
un-
On
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