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Russia's ballet
star
comes out of hiding
Paris.
By Richard Kilian
RUDOLF NUREYEV, the run- away Russian ballet star, came out of hiding in the small hours of the morning one day last month.
It was his first outing since his dramatic escape from six burly Soviet Embassy guards, who wanted to force him on to a Moscow-bound jet plane.
He tasted with obvious delight the simple joy of sitting on a cafe terrace without fear.
Rudolf, 23, was granted asylum in France after he dodged from the Russian guards, who had stopped him from going on to London with the rest of the Leningrad Kirov bullet com.
pany.
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runaway
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for dancer Nuraycy, freedom, laughter-and bodyguard
went to das of how to live and what to I had no think ou me,
in
"Back
Since then he has 16. shift- the other dancers ing from address to address at England I realised night, haunted by the fear that choice--that I had to stay the Russing would kidnap him France. and smuggle him out to Russin. "My comradis in the com- Rudolf's dishevelled hair stood puny advised me to give in and like a frayed straw brocin over in home, But once back In his green eyes at his high Moscow i never would have had Asiatic chuck bones as be sipped permission To kave Buscia a cafe au lait,
Again.
corld not stand people welling me what to do... per secuting efereing their
Inside the cafe, kreping out of sight, was 20-year-old Clara Saint, the striking redhead who shared his dance to freedom at Le Bourge!.
Disereelly by his side was a bodyguard assigned to him by friends, to cope with any Hus sian visitors.
Rudol spoke in fairly good English with shatches of hurri- edly absorbed French, He seems- ed vontused.
"I wonder if i did the right thing?" he asked himself aloud. "I have recelveti messages from the Russian Embassy, through friends, asking me to go to London and rejoin the com- pany," he told me. "All was forgiven," he said.
But the messages were too polite to be truc.'
Rudolf was tired.
#1!
He had been rehearsing day in a secrel Paris studio with Nina Vyroubova, the star of the Marquis de Cueva's company, for à sell-out performance of "Sleeping Beauty," And $12 was anxious,
"I have been so long away from my parents and my three #isters back in Rusela and the authorities wlli net connect them with my fight,” he said,
"I am much more worried for my dance professor In Leningrad with whom I have been living for several years. He was my best friend and people
might think he had an influence me. He will surely be question- ed. And I promised him I would return .. they may toko reprisals against him.
on
"But 1 shall never return to Flussla now. For a Jong. Ume now I have been thinking of Russia and scelting refuge in the Wes!,
"Four times I was on the verge of Recing but at the last mlaute ...nothing. Everyone knew about it.
"I was amazed that the ballet officials decided to take me along with them to France.
"Everyone made me pronise not to try to run away. I pro- mised them I would return to Leningrad,
"When I saw the men who wanted to put me оп the Moscow airliner by force while
costums and the sets.
"I do not see how the British i
criticise there you follow the can
with their į
he line shown to you at school is
scenery," well as at the opera house,
"I could not even choose my own friends."
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"I am very happy to dancing with the Cuevas Ballet " Company, Everyone is so nice
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CONSUL-GENERAL MORENO TESTIFIES IN ACTION
FOR VESSEL HAI
HAI JYE
Mr Armando Moreno, the Panamanian Consul-General gave evidence be- fore Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr at the Admiralty Court this morn- ing in the action brought against the Universal Navigation Com- pany Limited for possession of the vessel Hai Jye.
Mr Moreau was asked by Mr Oswald Cheung, for the shipping company, whether It was right that a ship could only be trans- ferred by a document known os "n Bill of Sale" under Panamanian lows. He replied that this was the only way any transfer of a ship could be made.
Mr Cheung: "Can it be own- ed by a private person?"
Mr Moreno: "Yea, But he hus to have a law firm to represent Ahlen."
TRANSFER
Mr Cheung then asked what an owner of a ship must do be- fore he could transfer his ship to another person.
the
OPERA ACTOR FINED
FOR HAVING
OPIUM
From the Filos
25
years
·AGO-
July 1936
THE Naval authorities
yesterday paid high tri- bute to the crew of the fire- boat which fought, the fire at Stonecuttora Island on Sunday night and provent- ed what might have been a dangerous sprend of flames.
Using its water-guns us
A Cantonese opera actor, caught preparing opium it came alongside the pier,
in a matshed theatre in the Shaukiwan near which two contrac- Children's Playground, was fined $500 by Mr tors' matsheds were blazing T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Magistracy this furiously, the morning.
Chan Lam, 55 of 25 Ko Shing- street, second floor, pleaded gulity to possessing two maces of prepared oplum, three inces of oplum dress and one optum pipe.
Mr Moreno replied that owner musi have a law firm representing him in Ponna: that he must not be owing any-i He pleaded not guilty fo D thing to the Government, that charge of smoking onlum and
the
he hind to provide a certifleate
reed of this when Was from Br insurance company prosecution accepted the plea. stating that the ship was in good condition; and that he Inspector Y. C. Lam, prosecut- had to provide a working crew, ing, sald that at about 4.30 pm The plaintiff, Mr Li Sheng- on Tuesday, two detectives an the action for patrol nt the yee, instituter
Shaukiwan pesrersion of this vessel in the Children's Playground, where contention that he kad paid Cantonese opera was being per- a motshed theatre, $41,000 as deposit, representing formed in len per cent of the vessel's sell-notleed the odour of oplum. irst price, and that he had signed an agreement with the they saw the defendant lying on
company for the transaction.
THE DEPOSIT
་
On entering the dressing room,
the floor with the oplum and the pipe in front of him.
The defendant had one similar The Universal
Navigation conviction in 1950. Company, however, counter- clalnied that it red made an agreement for sale, and not un actunt sale, of the vessel, and that the plaintif had forfelted this deposit by his fallure to fuli certain obilgations in the original agreement.
Mr Cheung, assisted by Mri Benjamin Liù. Is Instructed by Messrs M. K. Lam and Co. while the plaintiff is represented by Mr Broak Bernacchi, assisted by Mr II. H. B. How and Mr Henry Litton on the instruction Messrs Lau, Chan and Ko.
Hearing continues.
BOY KILLED
of
Yet Rudolf is still ferocious-
A tk-year-old boy was killed. ly presis of the Kirov ballet to me here."
by a bus while crossing Ngau- Yes indeed. In Leningrad hethekek-road in Kun Tong at company he left.
1
the British earned £107
month. A
about 10.40 am yesterday. Landoa per- France he will get £357 a
notices of
ht read
their which
Paramnice
criticised the mouth.
In
After secrot rahoamal, relaxation for Nureyev and dancer Nino Vyroubova
Girl admits
stealing from aunt
A 15-year-old girl was ro- manded seven days by Mr J. E. Dargan at North Kowloon Juvenile Court this morning for a proba- tion officer's report aftor she admitted breaking into her aunt's house and committing a felony. Inspector I. W. Ellas gald that
the defendant is the nièce of the complainant, a hawker living at hul 65 Po Kong Village near Kaitok.
The complainant would lock the door each morning to Ko
hawking and would return at 8
חנך
Swiss Consular
officials
fireboat's
crew lost not an Instant's time in coming into action. The main hose line was got ashore in ♫ matter of.
seconds, and smaller hoses
attached so that the fire- men could get to close quarters and reach the
go on leaveheart of the fire.
The fire was under con- trol within half an hour of
Two Swiss Consular officials the fireboat's arrival,
were
for though the flumes
on visible in Hongkong and
Kowloon for an hour.
from Japan left here this morning
Swissair by Bangkok and Europe leave. They are Mr Harold Muller, Swiss Consul in Kobe, who left for Zurich with his son on nine- weeks holiday in Switzerland. He
HAROLD MULLER
plans to return to his post in Japan in mid-September.
The other official is Mr Fritz
Bohnert, third secretary at the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo, who is
visiting Bangkolt before spending
his leave In Switzerland.
U.S. official leaves HK
American Under- Secretary of State for Economic
The
On Tuesday she found her
house had been broken into
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Goulburn.
Moonlight golf has been in- troduced by two local en- thusiants, whose round lasted from 7.30 to 10.30 pm. They lost three balls but found two others, and were well-satisfied with their experiment, which, however, ia unlikely to be
in Goulbur'a popular
com.c
cold climate,
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THE
THE year 1936 showed a
general increase in the amount of shipping using the port of Hong- kong, according to the An- nual Report of the Harbour Department which has just been issued.
Foreign going shipping, entering
and clearing, showed a net increase of 1,510 vessels, or 1,438,444 tons, while local shipping 609 showed a decrease of ships but increase of 126,613 tons.
an
by The position held
fairly British shipping is satisfactory. British ocean going ships entering and clearing show an increase of 268 and 475,911 tons, while British river steamers show an increase of 549 ships and 1,325,134 tona.
The grand total of ships
.and
entered
and a cotton quilt valued at $30 Affairs, Mr George Ball, ac- engaged in foreign missing.
companied by the President and local trade which Chaiman of the Export-Import and cleared during the year told the Bank, Mr Harold F. Linder, I was 94,655 totalling girl had left Hongkong today after a two- 43,473,979 tons, which com- from him day regional conference with
A mail boy then complainant that the burrowed a hammer
and had used it to break the key representatives of United parca with 93,754 ships and States missions in the Western 41,914,022 tons during Pacific,
1934.
lock of her house. The Rirl
uchmitted the offence.
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LOOK AT
THOSE CHAPS DOWN THERE LEANING ON THEIR SHOVELS-
NOT ONE DOING
A STROKE
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FOR THE INNER MAN,
IN OUTER SPACE
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