THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1960.
The art of Self-Presentation
No. 1: Lynn Fontanne says:
*YNN FONTANNE is
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a very great lady indeed-a great lady on the stage, a great lady off the stage.
So, since I was trying to find out something of the art of self presenta- tion by a woman,
she was a natural choice,
I went along to the Royalty Theatre to ask her how sli this grace, elegance and charin had come about.
She arrived with her husband Alfred
tooked LA who incredibly distinguished in an old raiment 5.15.
Every detail
A woman has no right to
be shy or self-conscious
by DONALD EDGAR
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"I suppose the answer is not want to be careful not to close
going out to disiner next Thays- day I would be sure to plan to think of yourself. That is the a conversation. To learn to for-
beginning of not get yourself. everything - mợ shoes, my key to the gloves, my jewellery. Then being shy. would arrange an appointment. for hair-da,'
"How do you feel when you
occasion
"Whatever the whether it's a party or dinner, that everyone is just as anxious
"It you can
keep the ball
rolling any evening will be a
I went in her dressing-roma go into a room that is full of the great thing is to remember success. And the English are
and as she made us we talked, "Do you think one ought to try 跟着 It impression to make
people?" I asked, "Or leave it to nature?" "Well,"
"the she replied. answer is that it's very natural
malco thing to want impression on the world. After all even bobles try to sell then- But the great thing is selves,
an
you shouldn't make it too b vious.
with the
people? Is it easy for you? Do you put on a bit of an act?"
"Well, it changes years. When I was younge, if ased to be me of the most fright ming moments of my life when announced. But my none was now I'm more mature it doem'i worry me so much.
The change
think the change started love don't go out an awful lot to come when I realised to my- because 01 ORF work in the self before I went into a room theatre. But we sometimes ro
be at least that there would out to dinner on Sunday night. one interesting person and "I go into every detail of my hoped that he or she would be dress for days before. If I was interested in me.
as you to make conversation.
told that the "Of course it can go wrong. I remember being Duke of Windsor was very in- terested in gordening.
"I was meeting him and went on talking about gardening --- but I'm sure it was not his sub- Jeet
have to be I was sony to making notes of my conversa- tion, for from a glimpse or two I could see It was 33 very business watching! fascinating Lynn Fontanne making up.
"If I was giving advice," she went on. "I would say that you
past masters at 1.
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you are with people and conversation
the
nok pleasant Irightened.
and don't look
is not all That I went on to ask her how she bright to throw in a controver-
social gifts.
thought a woman could acquire
No right
"Well," she said. "I think it's very important if somebody asks to defer to for your opinion
I don't think you ought them. to give your remarks freely when you're young-that is the time when you're most opinionated.
"Of course there
times with moro probably
mature people when it's a good thing if
WORLD AIRLINE CHIEFS MEET Spy
THIEFS
world's of the
major airlines are to get together next spring te thrash out the problemes of flying their passengers at supersonic speeds-upwards of 1,450 m.p.h.
The meeting takes place in Montreal in April. It will be attended by about 700 air- -line-executives--
It will be the list complete study by the airlines as a whole of the problem that is
beginning to cause a big head- ache.
What are the worries?
airliners
going to are millions; each.
worry
TO STUDY
1,450 mph
PROBLEMS
By James Stuart
services and pack in a lot of the millions who have not yet
they will, and if there is to be a race is determined to try to win
11.
Noise and supersonie bangs (which can be destructive to property on the ground it maxle low enough) are other prob- Jems,
are
"I remember one dinner party sial subject-a social bomb.
I was at a wonderful subject war suddenly thrown in. One of the guests said "I don't believe in loyalty.'
"The conversation after that was absolutely brilliant, but the great thing for a woman to realise is that she has social duties.
"She's got no right to be very shy ur self-conscious. It's your duly to do your part.
stick. "Don't stand like
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"And the next thing a wOMER should learn is to keep her eyes be Το 10 the world. open interested. If she is interested
will
be people
Boon other interested in her."
I was fascinated by Ivan Fontanne's explanation of how she feels a woman should pre- sent herself to the world. I felt 'it all made good sense--although I was .net
it wasn't sure whether rationalisation of natural gifts. Lynn Fontanne WAS born with a natural grace and charm.
-(London Express Service),
centre, U.S.
ESPIONAGE FINDS THE PERFECT
SETTING THE UNITED NATIONS
Washington.
very
1
These Germans met to praise Britain
By WILLI FRISCHAUER
THE Germans are holding so many military re- unions (trying to emulate the British Dun- kirk spirit and celebrating their defeats) that one has got quite accustomed to the raucous voices of the assembled remnants of the Africa Korps inton- ing a sob-throated "Lili Marlene" and beer-happy ex-SS men exchanging experiences of their "savage treatment" in British PoW camps.
But recently in Duweldorf whom Hitler personally ordered there was a German military to raze Paris to the ground-and reunion with a difference. The who at the risk of his life, re- the order. men who held their big annual fused to carry out meeting were all former German ("Is Born Burning?" signed prisoners of war who were con- "Adolf Hitler is the title of & fined at the Featherstone Park book he wrote about it. PoW Camp in Northumberland. the text of the telegram be re-
ceived from Hitler.)
Altogether 4,000 German officers and 20,000 men passed camp. Many of through this them are members of the so- called Featherstone Park Wort ing Group.
It
By Sulzbach's side at the meet- ing wore 1err Ferdinand Heim, who was the German General at Stalingrad who defied Hitler's instructions to sacrifice his diva- sion, saved hin meni.
was Unlike many of their ex-army promptly demoled to the rank of computriots, however, they did a private ooldier, and sent to Bot meel to extol the glories of prison. (After the Allled in- war-time Nazi Germany, Instead vasion of Europe he was re- they sang the praise of and instated, taken prisoner by the re-nvowed their admiration
for British and sent to Featherstone
Park).
Great Britain.
This strange organisation, this
German unique
testimony, to British decency and tolerance, to the owes its origin 'largely work of one man who, in my view, is characteristle of the confusing and often contradic- Lory emotions which Germany evokes in the world today.
He is Herror should I say. (Dr. Caplain)?-Herbert
Mr
Sulzbach who served in the German army in the 1914-18 war and in the British forces between
3040 and 1045.
He is a British subject but a culturel affairs officer at the German Embassy in London, a Jew and refugee from Nazism who had devoted his life to the caro of ex-Nazi officers and their conversion well, to Western civilisation.
Remarkable
One of the main Items on the agenda was devoted to Sulzbach who Was elected Honorary President of the Working Group. It is a remarkable honour. com- ing as does from German officers, to a Jew and a Briton whom they met in their dark hour of captivity.
Sentimental
Men who ore now members-of the West German Portlament, eminent judges, big businessmen, · a German military attache in Berne, were in the Dusseldorf As they have done gathering. before, they talked of Feather- stone Park their prison with sentimental attachment.
It quas a prison without bara In which the German officers
and were encouraged to rend think; they were introduced to the British way of life and liked Rt.
on
- Now, restored to liberty and prosperity, they think back their time in Featherstone Park with deep appreciation. Their aim is to foster Anglo-German understanding by making their experiences as widely known as possibic.
No wonder Captain Sulzbach has found important British sup porters for this German Wortelme Group. They include Sir Ivane Kirkpatrick, Lord Pottenham, Sir Harold Nicolson, Captain Lid- dell Hart, Yehudi Menuhin and
Victor Golinnez. in New York,
The theme of the speeches in PHIE chrome and glass palace of the United Nations THE
Today Britain reaps the benefit Dusseldorf were: "Surmount- where G-men have just broken up another cloak and dagger Russian
of his work. Among Germans ing the Past to Achieve Anglo- who paid homage to him- German Friendship." were ex-General von Choliitz
-{London Expreia Service). learning, to fly at Fair Oates, spy ring, has taken over from the boudoirs-of-Belgrade_and_Madrid as Surrey, has now qualined and the secret agent centre of the world.
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FIRST the cost. Supersonic started flying.
cost Then But there is no industry the up with where keeping Juneses is more important, and Cameron, has just taken over one nirline started flying command of the RAF Transport supersonically there would be a Command airfield at Abingdon,
and scrumble from the rest. Berks,
several
the additional there is that they might become avall able before the present and the now-being-built second genera- tion jet: have nished! their profitable lives.
Money and prestige
of
None of the world's airlines, private. 25 nationalised making ble profits. And exceu-
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That is one reason why no one believes Khrushchev in ser- lous in demanding to have the UNO headquarters moved to Genova or elsewhere...he would be losing the Ilstening-post he ever had.
best
by Christopher
delegation, or Russian employees of the organisation.
ALEKSANDR KÖYALEY, for example. He was a Second Secretary of the Soviet delega- fion and attempted to obtain what the Americans will only describe as "material of Intelli- two gence significance,"
Dobson
Who is going to suspect Many guises
translators
members of different delega
the
Nazi gallows
stood
TEN through the rear window in
a
be
An F.R.1. report explains D that Kovalev ordered his source In the oblong-shaped talking tions conferring together on
Hungarian can meet matter of "procedure" over a lo "park his car in a designated York city at a alop American, Jew can meet Arab, drink in the delegates' lounge area in New and German can meet Russian Who is going to question a designated time and to place a
...and nothing is thought of it. member
secretariat pockage wrapped in red paper Sir Matthew Slattery, Bone's For the past two years he has
The aples said chairman, hns
hide under many taking notes of documents in therein so that it could be seen that he been personal staff officer to
Some
United the course of his daily work? are Two Chiefs of the Air Staff-Sirguises. would try to get his rivals to
the event material was lo a 10-yens truce Dermot Boyle and Sir Thomas Nations employees, agree to
Two secret agents named passed." An additional slanal, Pike. Before that he com- and officials, some are diplomats supersonics.
United Nailers recently bring up the total of by way of marking a telephone manded the University of Lon-appointed to
in directory in Nov York spying caight and others are Bugiaus don Alr Squadron nt Biggin committees,
members of
their countries' America to 12. They have all restaurant, was perfected....
lie did not Poor Kovalev. been members of the Soviet delegations. -(London Express Kervico.)
know his source was a double agent, And Kovalev is not in the U.S. any longer.
BORIS GLADKOV, a navad adviser to the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations, met an American engi- neer at a cocktail party. oulti- vated him, and paid him 1,500 dollars for marine engineering Gladkov, too, was information
em sure that all airling tives believe that the way to chiefs would LIKE to agree, but make money is to run cheap-fare even Sir Matthew doubts that
HAIR RESTORER
Hill.
THE BARBERS IN HAVANA
وعي
Cummags
London Bapena Bdzier
WWE
caught and sent home.
GRUBHA VLADINIER seen to receive a copy of the Ceylonese delegation's code boolt from a Ceylonese employed by the United Nations Secretariat,
The code book was actually "borrowed" from a ling cabl- nel on the fourth floor of the United Nations building.
Both: Grusha And Ceylonese were thrown out America.
Tapping
the
of
the
And so it goes on all thme. the deadly Kame at espionage. Tho Americans have
counter 4 full-scale capionage unit attached to UNO. They keep the Russians under constant surveillance, telephones
baskets wasic are tapped, searched, men followed, double- agente planteet, all the part- phernalia of espionage is wed
Put simply. It is a cardinal rule in the fussion way of play- ing the cold war that any per- son from Rusele allowed through the Iron Curtain to work in the West doubles in a socret egent.
Edgar Hoover, the F.B.I. chief, hammerett Jaway at this point, and it has become an
over transparently true
thuo years that the Russions do not
again
Bonn.
EN men in a row were standing on a special gallows, ropes round their necks, hands tied behind their backs, their faces distorted by horror.. You could almost feel their But then, in 1933. what about
that?" fear, even though it was only a
An old, bald-headed German scene on a television screen.
had bent over to him: "11 you The young man next to me in lived then you would have fol- didn't know the little pub in Bonn, the West lowed him. We German capital on the Rhine, what the consequences would just laughed.
be. And he gave Germany New Order, after all.
He was not old enough 10 remember the days when Hitler came to power in Germany.
The scene was part of the first instalment of a documen- tary series entitled "The Third Reich."
It showed one of the many methods used by Hiller to clean up his political enemies, after he came to power,
Jackboots
The Jackboots, the marching songs, the flags, Hindenburg, the Reichstag Bro--they were ubi there.
A cool, very cool, line of narrative explained it all. The
A
"You can't judge the German people, your paroule, by the results of the Hitler timer."
back The youngster came with: "And what would you old ones have done if he had won the war? I'll tell you--you'd still be for him.".
"You be quiet," replied the ball-head. "You'd be in the Hiller Youth-and Wee ."
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Germans round me watched it by Mr Henry Brooke, Housing fascinated.
Minister, opening an exhibition They forgot their beer. There of new-style litter bies in
Hitler' London recently crackled you can tell we are descended
were
laughs when throaty rasping volce over the loudspeaker..
"What
G clown" carne B watcherà mutter. Most of the
from apes whenever "YOU see someone peeling off the out- alde to get at what is tudida
in this pub-about 30 men and And then leiting the four women-ware young. Only six or seven were
of the group to have lived through the
'real thing.
"Well, lot's face it," said on elderly man after it was over.
drop. It is just what the man- key doen.
"Ho dil end unemployment. Ho-by Mr John Hi, M.P. for
to eat. It South gave us something only the war, had not started,"
It was Fato," said one of
Norfolk, opening fashion show at Thetford
FIRM in my sunstituency
the youngstera. "I don't think† 15. 1, making, stiletto
heila,'
he could have been avoided.” They used to make spikes . for Buapped his young neighboùr: running shoes, and I only wish aven Costier to deny it, any ] "Our parents voted for him, hay And gluck to that,
Koraper
Today, they know
everything.