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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960.
CELEBRITY PAGE
Tom asks the Eden buys THE BOY WHO
Emperor to pay
MR.TOM STOBART, the Everest photographer,
a Caribbean
estate MARIS BEING
NIR, ANTHONY
EDEN 105
is to leave soon for Ethiopia to claim upwards bought a four-acre estate on
of £10,000 compensation from Emperor Haile
and other countries $7.00 per month. Selassie.
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NOEL COWARD, who has
M bet bedridden at his home
The man who made "The Conquest of Everest" and climb- ed 25,000ft. to the South Col with Sir John Hunt's expel
tion is today partially crippled as a result of a shooting aftray in Ethiopia two years ago.
The emperor has broadly
the Caribbean Lland of Deguin.
The estate is. known as Friendship. It has its own coral
is sur- beach and the house rounded by coconut trees.
It is in fact an ideal spot. The island itself is six miles long and two miles wide, with And population of 2,500. looks as though at last, after search that has lasted over two
it
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agreed that the compensation years, Sir Anthony has found
should be paid.
Berserk
"B," mys 45-year-old
appeur
to
be
himself a place in the sun.
He has long dreamed of own ing his own island paradise.... Mr last April he tried to bay Para- Stobart, "The money does not dise Island off New Zealand's unlucky. forthcoming, north coset, but was despite promises from Audis But it is doubtful if he is going Ababa. So I have decided to dy to settle permanently abroad, He is expected back Fyield out and collect it myself."
Mr Stobart was shot in both Manor, his Wiltshire home, next leg by a native gulde who went month from his holiday in the berserk with a revolver while leading him on a flming ex pedition in search of the Queen of Sheba's jewels.
His injuries were more severe than was thought. In fact, he is permanently affected-he will
never, for instance, be able to
the
anything like an contemplate Everest expedition again,
1 can walk, unaided on
after while level, though hove to use a stick," he tells me, "And I cannot stand for more than 10 minutes on end.
"On mountains I can only get about with a stick or ropo, and
.Indies.
So it looks as though Bequia is to become his winter home. As he left there last week he said he hoped to be back soon- perhaps next winter.
And though a Prime Minister's persion does not rise to estates In the Indies, there is no doubt that since the publication of his memoirs, which are sald have brought him in a minimum of £100,000, Sir Anthony can rise to what luxuries he likes.
LUCKY
I find it impossible to carry any at Les Avants above Montreux
camera equipment. In fact I can
THE severely swollen and no longer climb for fun." with a painful right leg, la progressing rapidly.
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All this has been retailed the emperor, who has taken
assessing personal interest in
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His private secretary said: "He now comes downstairs for meals, and sits in an armchair in the afternoon. His doctors are extremely picased with him.
"He has not yet been out of the house, as It is extremely cold Balance and ley, but we hope to have But by the end of the week."
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The Foreign Offee, too, has been involved and there have, I hear, been long negotiations about the whole matter.
"Even now," says Mr Stobart, "I do not know quite how much I shall get, though I am the figure will run into thousands of pounds,
TVAS
THE diamond brooch that Lady Hotham lost in Lincoln three weeks ago has been found in what, for Lady Hotham, are in- credibly lucky circunstanceS.
told an
The other Briton shot in the incident
Mr
It was picked up by a 40-year- Frederick Piffard, a former B.B.C. pro- old dustman, Mr Frank Edwards, ducer. Though he Wos mare who found lying in a muddy near the city's seriously hurt thun Stobart, he side rood has agreed to necept only cathedral. £2,500 compensation.
"But I did not think it was enough. I was totally incapaci- tated for many months," he said yesterday.
NEW NAME
PRINCE ANDREI of Yugo Islavia tells me that his son, Marko, who was born three weeks ago, will have a different nome after his christening in a few days' time. He will then be
called Christopher.
Says the prince: "We In the name Orthodox religion choose
at birth-It is really just in case the child should die in latoney. We feel that no child should die without a name,
"But it can quite often happen that between the birth and the christening the parents change their mind about the name. That is what we have done. But even though we know he is to be christened Christopher, we will continue to call him Marko unill the christening."
of
the
Prince Andrel's wife is the former Princess Christina Hessa, Prince Philip's niece.
Prince Philip is Kum approximate equivalent of god- father-to their other child, Maria, nged two.
Says Prince Andrel: "TA likely that he will set in the
for same capacity although nothing definito has yet been arranged.”
Oilt fon,
He took it home and gave it to his wife Evelyn. "Here's a bit glass for you." he said. Mrs Edwards tried it on.
And being a woman of tasle, she knew right away it wasn't glass. "I sold we must take it straight to the police," she said.
Lord Hotham” said: “My wife;
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MAIL Notices
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IS
By Ale Philippines, Dulelt New Guinea. Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, 3 pan. Canada, USA., C■ B. America, 6 P.M.
Laos, 5 pm.
By Burfaos
Indonesia, 3'p..
Ceylon, India, Pakistan, KryDI, Italy, (P. India via Karachi)
EORGE III's shooting lodge-prus parcels via Port Baid) JEN Wood
beautiful erlend via Genoa), 3 pm:
Georgian houso at Sunningdale, Berks will soon be performing different function a very from the one the designer 'in- tended.
It is to be taken over by an
THOUGH legally he is denied the custody of his Industrial gas organisation' as
16-year-old son, Andrew, Mr. Francis Ever- an "executive sulle." leigh-Ross-de-Moleyna, heir-presumptive to Lord Ventry, is going to considerable lengths to ensure that when the time comes the boy will be fully fitted to inherit the family title.
He is, in fact, grooming him with the greatest care for the And he is delighted peerage.
succeeding. that his policy is
Andrew takes to it like a duck to water. He is a regular little Lord Fauntleroy," he saya.
Andrew lives with his mother Mr de Molcyns' second wife at Chalfont St Giles, Bucking- hamshire, His stepfather, Mr N. E. Springoil, is retired.
They live in a pleasant double- fronted house, where Andrew's hobbies are making radio sets and working on his cycle in the garden shed.
Comfortable as it is, it is n very far cry indeed from the 300,000-acre estate in Ross-shire, Scotland, where a week's salmon and trout fishing costs up to
C100..
Sportsman
But at overy opportunity, Mr de Moleyna has his son up to his home, Balnagown Castle, where there are eight gardeners and a staff of nine.
Andrew is taught to shoot and to fish. He is also Arst-class skler, and generally Д sportsme..
fine
Of this arrangement, Mr Springeit says: "We have no desire that it should ba. any other way. Andrew's education
been financed by has
his mother, and I have helped as best I can."*
The marriage of 'Mr'de Moloms and his second wife was dissolved in 1952. He then murried Lady Ross of Balnay gown, who died two years ago.
CROSSWORD
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TIKE wildfire through the can explain this id stubble of an Eastern bazaar ron the rumeur
THOS the other day
THOSE who were puzzled by that Captain Foulenough is to the report of the 230 sheep open a small and painfully select who escaped a landslide "because they were nowhere near the place where It occurred," may be
bar in Mayfair.
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FLOWER DRUM
GIRL ARRIVES
Latest
of the string of Oriental stars to Invade London is the 24-year-old beauty plo- tured here-talented Broadway atar of "The Flower Drum Bong." Yau Shantung.
were
her Bolli
parents Chlaese, though she was born and educated in Parls, and has Ilved 'for some time in the US and has played the lead in the and Hammerstein Rodgers musical for two yearK
ller cosmopolitan background Is one explanation of her cilmb to stardom; as she puts it: "I had a tiny part in a French Then muilcal two years ago. when the casting director of 'Flower Drum
Song alon in search of a French girl born of Chinese parents who could dance and sing in English -well, there I was.”
Camo
She arrived in London Last Thursday. She was photograph- ed in Paris, where she is looking up old friends on her way from the Blates-Express Photo.
FILMS AND NIGHT SPOTS
FILMS
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The found
of the Baskareilla", starring Peter
Cushing, Andre Morali and Chels
Kong."
1tong- PARAMOUNT: "Ferty To
starting Curt Jurgent, ursun Welles, and Sylvia Syms, STAR: "Utamaro,!... (Japanese film
Will Englima sub-tition).
toplex Leo. (Added: “A MIOMETROPOLE! "NODody's Eight Shali Olow," a tinyel film
побука
of Hongo ALA: "The Gazebo," starring Glenn Ford, Dobble Hey- noids and Cul Keiner.
ROXY & BROADWAY (AE 2.20 4
Bat pas.) "South Pacifio" in Todd- 40., starring stoveano Brazzi, MIGU Gaynor, John Kerr and France Nuyou.
(Cuinase Birs),
NIGHT SPOTS
Calla"
PARAMOUNT! Giancarlo and his
Italian Combo."Continental Cock IL FOLLEEN and Varess, Alonso "Quartet Expagnol” MAXIM'S: The "Dalay,” the acto-
batlu comedy dance teame CARLTON: len „coot – ond 311
Barbering" starring Stove Redves, i auto OENIX: Chris Boto wit LER: ALA, Müllten Lighita Shall BOVAL Walt Disney's "bleeping "Glow" Sravni bim on Hongkong.
Boxuly 2
The captain has been lying interested in the official explona-LEE ASTOR: "Deliath And The rather low since the complaints tion, which ilkutrates the that his antique shop had sold advantage of being somewhere 23 "hala worn by Nelson at the else when something happens. Battle of Aboukir" to Americon collectors. The buyer of one of. When there is a landslide, the
Bandra Deo, fichard Kgan, anil thern believes that he has the best chance of escaping is not to BTATEA Summer Place" larring only genuine one, as
Dorothy Modaire. the gilt bo there. The reason for this is
BIZ: "Don't Give Up The Ship," Initials H.N., rather faded, are that while the landslide
Jerry Lewis and Dína on the lining, and on the brim occurring sheep which are
ORIENTAL "The Wreck of The there is a gash which might have been made by a cutlass,
Diary Base" starring Gary Coopersonators sod Charita Jivotom," Fun in the baiement
MAJETIO: "14 Collegiantes." starring Chroniqtim Vorthe
Carere, Agnos Laurent an
Gangb CAFULI "The · ELET
(Layannes Alm, with Kagliati, man Chinese sub-titles).
not
here are in some other place, which, of its nature,
越
not
affected by what happens at the spot where, had they been there, She negotiated the area very they would certainly have been gutetty
(Music witle.) affected by the event. On the THE people in the basement other hand, had they been in the
thought it was a cat, and place whero threw a bit of fish through the
Prodnose:, Pleano! as
window, which the colouratura Infallible' says 'physiopath very, properly ignored. Then Galvanized bascule for testing Mrs Woft peeped out. "It's the reftezes of teetotal peder | only one of those stray singers," trians in dense traffle, pi
the tald.
(London Express Aeroics)
Jody David,› song and dance comedy team, and, Bertie Thors, she inebriated trombonist, truly great comedian BÚTKL MIRAMARI 801 Waller and His quartet with Miss Chau Ping. BUN YA: Muda by Ville. Detina
and the hand, Vocal by Penny, DLUE DEAVEN: Allen Drather LRG Just, Comedy Team, und Atedtock, Marlowe and Busan, Tamad kuper
FJORDALL Allen Benihers and Jane, Comedy Team, and Medlock, Marlowe and duas, Tamed imperá BORALOTE. FRINCESS GARDEN) The
Badier Trio, tap dancers; and · Vargas Alonso Quartet Kupagnol
~[The entira week's radio and' television programmas are published in detail in a spacial, free, lift-out supplement in Saturday & China Mail. It comes in a specially dotach, able asif-contained sheet and it is one of the many high light features of the weekend edition of the China Mail.]
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Evidently the managing direc tor Mr T. O. BI. Pope thinks that pinces originally intended fur high living are conducive to high thinking.
Cambodia, 3 Da
Mauro, & pani,
Macao, & p.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Dy Alt
(CY- Bwil-
China, People's Republic, 7 am. Vidicant, Laos, 10 am). Theland, Burma, Malaya, Indo-
heads, Noon.
Japan, 1 p
Philippines, Cam
India, Pakhatan,
!
East.
Afries. Great Britain, Europe, a pas
France, 2 pan,
Hawall, 3 DUTL
Territory of Papua New Guinee, Australia, New Zoxland de “VIJLA
Philippines. 0 pm.
Formosa, Japan, 6 pm.
Okinawa, Korea, u pm. India, Egypt, 0 p.m.)
Hawaii, USA., C. & a Amorten. p.m.
China, People's Repubiło. 5 pm.
By Surface
Chins, People's Republic, 74.10 Malaya, Aden,
Britain, Europe. (Br. West Indies, Br. Quiene, Burinam, da Cuba paroels via Lori- Iran, Irs (Bahrain, Kuwait par- dor). Noon
* New Zealand (Fiji parcela, direct), Noon,
He told me: "We are going to keep as much of the original character of the place as we can. | cels direct), Noon. It certainly won't have the character of the usual office,
"I believe that an executive can only do his best work -- his creative thinking-in a genial atmosphere."
Acquiring this atmosphere, I estimate, must have cost some- thing in the region of £30,000.
PET NAMES
W Ls give to our pets.
{ƑHAT outrageous names some
Novellst Ursula Bloom for in- stance has a sausage dog called Sir Beverley Baxter.
Moneo, p.m. Formos, pm.
Canada, 3 p.m.
Hurm, India. 3 p.m. Macon, 8 pm,
China, People's Republic, 8 pm.
SBIBLE:THOLGHIZ FOR: TODAY
And, from a list held by Mire
They shall beat their sworda thoir Marjorie Harrowsmlib(of Brace into plow shares and bridge Heath, Lincoln, who en- apears into pruning hooks, rola pets into the Tallwaggers' Isaiah 2:4, Club, I learn that Alex, Tunis,
Emma, and Coldie are the The world is sustained by Duchess of Marlborough's eternal hope. It men would live Lads Fakenham's by the golden rule, humanity dachshunds,
dog is called Zizz, Tokie is a would need ho armies to pre- spaniel belonging to Mr Gerald serve ilberty, Lascelles, while Lady Mancrafi's Breside pet Is cat called
Mistress Wilberforce.
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