What Max Miller
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1960.
told me on the prom
London.
MR.
TR. MAX MILLER returned to the stage last week for the first time since he col- lapsed last September. Twice nightly at the Brighton Hippodrome he is again greeting his au- dience with the predict- able patter he has been using for the past 40-odd
years:-
"Here we are with another spot of fun for old and young without the slightest sign of vulgarity. Vulgarity I do de- test."
'DO ME GOOD'
Equally predictable' will, he the learing laughter from the audience. Mr Miller will took puzzled and hurf-then proceed to pack more double-entendres into the next 30 minules than most comics could pack into a Leason at the Windmill.
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I have been to Brighton talk to Mr Miller, at 64 puted to be one of the richest performer in show business.
need the money. Only the doctor sold it might do me good."
Mr Miller, a solid citizen of Brighton, raised his straw bat to two old ladies, then; "Yes, I'm
rich. I'm rich. Got me yacht, me Rolis-Bentley.
"Mind you. I'm not going to de a rich man. It's all tied pin annuities, sec. Me wife, gone. Live in luxury for the
she'll be all right when I'm
rest of her life, she will..
AN ORIGINAL
there. There'll never be an- other like me, you know that. I've had plenty of Imitators, bed I'm an original, ace
"Here, let's sit down here. I
call this the Over-Sixties sent. You get them all here, talking about their operations. I tell them about my coronary throm- bosis. It passes the time. Passes
the time."
"I've got about £70,000 or so much, £80,000 tied up in annuities.
r'd like to give a bit more.
away. To charity. Old people. That sort of thing. But you never know.
mean, you never know.
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"You might live longer than you think and then where will you be? I've worked me money out until I'm 80. It I Hve over
that, the Government can take eure of me. I've got Govern- ment "stock, see, You don't get much out
of it but it's safe. Is safe."
On stage, Mr Miller flashes his diamond ring
the audience: "D'yer like my ring? Murta deop it, mustn't drop il. It might break. Seven years bad luck.”
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On the front, Mr Miller said: We walked in the sunshine "Mind you, I've worked hard along the front and he said:- for what I've got. Twenty
Mr Miller mopped his brow "Ah, I've had a pretty good life. Wouldn't change it. Might slow
on
a bit, that's all. Not do!
"When I was in hospital I thought about it all, you know. I thought, Well. I've achieved what I set out to do, and if I should die now I'll die at the top.' And that's something I to do. Die at the top. mem The moment I begin to slip I'll quit. Pack it up. Get out."
"DEPRESSING'
Mr Miller stood up and look- with brown bodies ed down on the beach crowded and sun- shades and noise,
"C'mon," he said, walking Sixties sent. "It depresses me quickly away from the Over- 'ere. Let's go and have a cuppa Lea."
I koked instinctively for the double entendre. There wasn't one.
"I didn't have to come back, years was getting to the top. Peter Evans
I don't need the money. Don't Twenty years. But I've stayed
to
Cheaper way travel
in Space
IN
West Palm Beach, Florida.
the semi-marshlands near the Florida coast,
a modern industrial plant with the fairy-tale name of Papa Bear is working on production of the fuel which may launch man into the deep space probes of our most distant planets.
(London Express Service).
TEST MATCH ROW }MPL ACCUSE SA/ OF "TURZWING
"No dispute about that one being a 'throw," Harry,"
London Express Service
Sam White's Parī
Paris.
ONE of those bitter
family feuds which fester like a sore has now been neatly lanced by |the French High Court.
For 10 years a legal battle has Pioneer V-al present circling been waged to decide who was the sun-had used hydrogen in rightful claimant to the proed all its stages, it could have title of Duke de Talleyrand- carried a payload of 2,500 lb. Perigord (Perigord is where
Family feud: the
The fuel-liquid hydrogen- experts point out that If the must be produced at the deadly cold temperature of 423 de grees Fahrenheit, and it must be carried or stored in equip
completely insulated 26 times the size of the satellite the truffles come from, which of Hell, who immediately sought ably believed in Paris, is about has returned to Paris aftos All this was not to the taste General de Gaule, it is rell- France's first post-war pin-up that it is barely cool 10 the in orbit. touch.
And this could have been alone would make the ile evidence to show that his cousin to confer as remarkable tribute twelve yours to Hollywood and
Duke becomes a Mr.
ment so
achieved without increasing total rather delectable).
Cheapest
The scientists who turn out take-off weight.
of Papa the super-frigid fuel Bear know that liquid hydrogen exists, yel none of them has ever seen it. For one of the properties of the fluid is that it immediately forms A mis! around itself as soon as it is ex- posed to air.
But the most valuable pro- perty of liquid hydrogen is its extraordinary lightness less than one-tenth that of gasoline or paraffin.
Weight cut
For example. scientists esti- mate thal # change from paraffin to hydrogen in the last stage of a vehicle destined for the moon would cul take-off weight by 50 per cent.
And if the first and second stages also used hydrogen, take- off weight could be reduced to about rockets.
17 per cent of present
To paint their picture in even more practical terms, Papa Bear
.
understandably enough ads it It is now, considered as almost difficult to adjust herself to the certain that the new French babits of the natives, Ambassador to London to be
She finds it even more difficult adjust berself to their Indifference. This she attributes
to
could not have been the father to Britian. The chief contestants in of Jean-Gustave as he did not the battle have been the late know Mile. Morel at the time Duke Bozon. de Talleyrand's of Jean-Gustave's birth. cousin Heli, and the Duke's The engineers also believe that 31-year-old son in' the
The evidence that he has now appointed in September will be eyes eventually liquid hydrogen may
secured has satisfied the High General de Gaulle's oldeel and through
Court, with the result that he closest collaborator and present become the cheapest of all fuels of the law, Jean-Gustave.
process whereby
becomes head of the family and head of his personal staff, M. nuclear energy is used to re-
ta on the ancient title and Geoffroy Chodron Decurcel. duce water into hydrogen and
Jean Gustave becomes plain oxygen.
M. Morel.
Great beauty
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'It's jealousy'
to local jealousy based on the fact that she established herself
not in France.
She talks
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your swimming-pool the phone rings every few minutes.
Socialist MP Arthur allowed farcically Comte: "General de Gaulle
mercially
and
as a film star in Hollywood and sprightly characters as the 93-
year-old General Weygand.
. They In 1947 the Duke Bozon regis- Because of the almost in-tered himself before a notary, as
attractive obscurantist exhaustible supply of water, the the father of the 19-year-old in Morel's hands, and his mother The fortune, however, remains
Chevaller-accented English and obscure writer named Henyl is the Alfred Hitchcock of M. Decurcel
career rattles on a merry rate. "I Masais to be elected on the politics. He loves suspense Ipa Exar engineers foreste Jean-Gustave. The mother's of course remains Duchess of diplomat, was one of the two came back to slow down," she understanding that they could and he adores enigmas. cheap, unlimiled fuel source for name was given
Mile Talleyrand. the railways and
(London Expraše Service), cars of the Antoinette Marel, Bozon had met little confusion at a fashionable London on June 17, 1940, follow you spend your days lying beside
This produced a men who flew from Bordeaux to told me. "In Hollywood even if have Rene Clair. future.
Melle, Morel during the war.
wedding last week.
ing the French collapse", The scientists say these bright) She was of modest social origin predictions are based on the fact but of great beauty. In 195′ the that liquid hydrogen has not Thuke, then. 83, married Mile. turned out to be as "tricky" to Morel who was 41. handle as they had feared in the beginning.
As he had no other children Heli who had never met his "As a matter of fact," one ex-of two previous marriages his cousin's wife, asked to be intro pert explained, "because it latest marriage under French duced to her without knowing doesn't evaporate in open air, law. automatically legitimised her identity. The hostess made liquid hydrogen is a lot less Jean-Gustave and made him heir the introductions: "The Duke de
--Uondon Express Services. siderable fortune,
For London
likely to explode than gasoline." to both title and the Duke's con- Talleyrand→ the Duchess de
GENEVA CONFERENCE ON ENDING NUCLEAR TESTS
(20th MONTH)
GENEVA
DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE
Taleyrand.
The other man was General Spiers. When General de Gaulle returned to power in the summer of 1958 his first appointment was that of M. Decureel to head his staff at the Elysee Palace.
"I went to Hollywood when I was 21, but as you can hear the tongue has a stubborn streak
and I still eneak with
French accent. I'm now slowly revert- ing to the human being I was Only 48. M. Decurcel has before I lett. occupied, a
variety
"I slayed away 50 long during de Gaulle's exile from because there was plenty of work office. He has held diplomatic for me in Hollywood and you posts in Warsaw, Athens and have to put food in your Rome, was a Director of African stomach. ond Middle East Affairs on the French Foreign Offica and became Permanent Head of the Ministry of National Defence.
"The French I find grumpy and envious, but I am too proui to think that the French are really like that by nature.
He is married and has two still cook. my food in butter. "I still remain French and 1 children. He lives an extremely self-effacing life divided between Apparently the French want me the Elysee Palace and his flat to walk down the Champs near the Luxembourg Gardens. and singing the Marseillais' Elysee carrying a French fac A long-nosed, unsmiling man, before they forgive me."
the reserve customarily associated with the British Foreign Office.
he
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He is now the last of four personal appointments made by his staff on his.
de Gaulle to
return to office. The other three
I found it easy to borgive Mille. Calvet.
At it again
have new been dispersed to THAT wildly Indicrous body. cther posts. As a result an the French Academy, which enormous extra burden has is a kind of pebble stone of fallen on Decvrcel's shoulders.
Establishment here,, has
The only factor which eculd been si usain, this time en- prevent him taking up the gaging in elaborate Intrigues" French Embassy in London is it over. Its latest member, the In the ensuing weeks de Gaulle famous Alm director, Rene Ands him more indispensable Clair. than ever.
Freeuctly the so-called Lett wing of the Academy, consisting of youngsters like the 72-year-old CORINNE Calvet, who lays Jean Cocteau, did a deal with proud claim to the title of the Right-wing, led by such,
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ONSTABLE VINCENZO DE AMICIS hardly knew what hit him after he stopped a small van for going through a red light in Naples. Two men, three women, and seven children swarmed out, debagged him, and left him unconscious at the roadside,
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