Pago 6
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981.
AGELESS The rebel curate
ASTAIRE
ROMPS
ON...
By
Leonard Mosley
EAR Mosley," wrote Astaire, 道
"D Fred
ought to come across there
and punch you on the nose.
"How st uses you SURMUST
22 1014) kh for fis, t་། windbagt
Ton years from now 11
swinging it up there on
screen while you are in your aish me. saring into your paunch!"
land
The times was 1953, and maustested to Mr Astaire-who Inaked somewhat weary und we-bopen)2" in
Rrlicular effort—ikat it was about time he called it a clay.
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The result was a long letter, of which the above is one of the more restruined passages.
It ended with the sentence: Home of these days
You are Spring to eat your words.".
Will, now I am eating them.
OPPORTUNITY
enjoys the
sweet
life ......
TIMOTHY BEAUMONT
by HERBERT KRETZMER
ON
N the Mayfair desk of Mr Timothy Beaumont there are three plastic
telephones and one ivory crucifix.
They stand together in an uneasy cluster, symbolising the two
lives of Mr Beaumont: secular and spiritual, socialite and saintly.
The telephones ring all day, mviling Mir Beaumont's en- thuslasis to the business of controlling his small but grow- ing Press empire, which inciuries the oiling intellectual weekly Time and Tide._The_crucifix stands as a reminder of a more cuduring personai destiny.
Richest
cut
smokos.
ffaif play-boy, half parson, Now a stripling and elfer- veent 01, Fred Astaire appears boyish Tim Benumont is prob- in a new comedy called THEbly the richest priest in Eng- PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY | land. He might even be a mil- al steals the m
thelunaire. (No comment.") He girl, almost) from Tab Hanter,certainly lives like one-in # £27,000, nine-bedroomed house who is not yet 21
He makes Hunter look like a in Green-street, Mayfair,
site which a Rolis purrs clod.
Admittedly. he situation Unclerically, he could hardly have been better drinks, backs racehorses, spurns ilgged to give Astaire the a dog collar whenever possible. Opportunity to show
his Lately Mr Beaumont has the spirit and hate condition, been exetting a good deal more lair share of publie He plays a cad, but a charm-than his ing me, Fifteen years before conjecture. For one thiry ho them opers he walked it in has been Increasing. his wife (lam Palmer) and six-tacular fashion, the range and year-old raighter Debbie scope of his publications.
For another, he has beets Reganda, bread-e he is a play- boy at heart and just dates to giving his money away like a
of
in his
in
spec-
worried man who has just All his daughter know about
started to compare the dinen- sinus of a camel with the size him is what she meds Pres cuttings from the fiviera of a needie's eye. one other on-drenched flesb- pols
when she decides marry Tab Hunter whe
runs
seeks to beguite the young while handing out religious instrue
on appropriate to those of lender years. At weekends he offictates as at assistant St Stephen's. Rochester-row.
No trouble
at
Beaumont sees himself as a one-man gloger
whose group Journalistic mission is to popul- larise and revitatise religion and to reform the Church's attitude towards its uncaring fock.
"What is wrong is that the Church of England is still largely a me-class Church.
have touched the industrial working class. We nezer will, what's more, as long as we continue to draw most of our clergy from the middle and upper classes, "
never
وج ا
Viscount Allendale and grand- Beaumont is a kinsman of
con of Lord Gainford, His father was Major Michael Beaumont, former M.P. for Aylesbury.
Born to wealth, relsed in hush style (Eton, Gordonstoun, Oxford), Tim Bentiment has no visible difficulty reconciling his
riches with the Scriptural inaistener that the meck aki He has just given £25,000 for fr.pecunious shall inherit the a chapel at Chanehill College, earth and that the rich pre now rising at Cantwidgo. Such already half-way to dumnation. philanthropy niny not begin in "Naturally, I've thought about compare with the hand-outs of that. Sell all thou hast and to the poor' Yes, I've professional donors like Nuffield give ind Wolfson. But remember that at 32 Ti Beaumont Is 1st starting.
a ranch and breeds prize Bulls --he wants Piya back to lead her up to the sitar.
He leads her practically everywhere but there. On glance at her husband-to-be and he derides to wreck Artheorang marylake. He does it day sheer devilish charm. Al her pre-wedding ball, he whirls daughter around 1111 There, from all accounts, room with such terpsichorean technique that all the matron
certainly doesn't dance like a father," and all the ritta queste up to partner him.
The gift of the college chapel may, perhaps be interpreted as a belated act of contrition and regret, arising from the circum- sees of Mr Beaumont's own sojourn at Oxford.
HIGHLY-SAUCED
restaurants, he chats to the waiters in French, Halian, and Chinese and orders highly- suuced dishes which Dubble Reynolds reilshes but Tah Hunter gawps at like a hick.
"What's this?" he asks, pointing to something 1mp
lying on his plate.
he
"It's lettuce," says Debbie, "Whal,
hot fettuce?" aska in dismay; and refuses to believe that a sular should be
called" une salad just because it contains dandelion leaves,
A couple of days and nights with sophisticated Dad, and Debble Reynolds is ready to throw Hunter back to the bulls and depart with Astaire to his vacht in Cannes,
was
QUOTE
that.
кол-
certainly thought about You may think 1 mm splitting hairs, but I have always inter preted that as a specific mand given by Our Lord to one particular person. If teaches u that one must be prequired to give everything up if necessary. I assure you, I am."
Jaunty
Meanwhile, Tim Beaumont, who resembles a sort of slimmed- down Billy Bunter, continues to enjoy the sweet fe.
His wife, Mary Rose, owns a racehorse named High and Dry.
He Is fond of a flutter on the horses, never consciously avoids Ascot and other chic meetings, and dresses his large but not Sackville- Inelegant body in
street suits at £45 a throw.
He is aunty. Ikeable, articu- One cannot, however, rid late. oneself of a hunch that he is also something of a dileltante, who came down from Oxford too rich and tuo bored, somemie who might not have cresading spirit will quite us mreh gusto had he not a large amount of money in the bank to make such crusades possible.
Still, there is no denying his genuine dissatisfaction with the Church and his eagerness to put things right. All in all, Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, the capitalist curafe. is
very superior rebel Indeed,
--(London Express Service),
exercised his
THE TWELFTH BIG BANG BUT...
Don't let Kruschev
worry you
SEVEN GOOD REASONS
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
KRUSCHEV, the 14-stone NIKITA
Russian champion, is behaving like a heavyweight with a lethal knock-out punch who knows for certain that if he lets fly with it he will be knocked out too.
His well-informed managers have told him Western that his opponent-the combined Powers-packs an equally paralysing right load- ed with even more uranium.
So Mr K has decided to try to win a long-drawn- out bout on pointa. That is why he is weaving, ducking, feinting, and jabbing all over the place and why he made yet another loud bang on his big nuclear punch- bag at his training ground near Semipulatinsk, the other day.
He is hoping to sap the morale of his opponent. In fact the West has for bigger nuclear muscles and is in better physical
triot.
Ringed by bases
At this moment Russia is ringed by bases from Alaska to Turkey armed with nuclear weapons capable of devastating the Soviet Union five times over. Look at these facts:-
TOTAL power of the bombs now in the Western stockpiles equals at least 1,000 ut the super-bombs which Mr. Kis threatening to make.
THE U.S. has more than 2,000 long-range bombers, grently outnumbering Soviet aircraft of comparable capacity. Some are airborne al all times.
NUCLEAR-ARMED planes on U.S. atroraft carriers alone outnumber Russian heavy bombers. Some carriers are con- tinuously deployed off Russin,
POLARIS submarines with 48 H-bomb rockets are out on
*patrol.
IN DRITAIN and Italy more than 100 rockets armed with H-bombs are aligned on Russian targets.
IN EUROPE there are other nuclear weapons with the combined power of at least 4,000 Hiroshima bombs. The
"perational squadrons armed with Matador and Mace misalles In Germany alone exceed in explosive potential nil the power expended against all Axis targets in the Second Worki War. 70 per cent of Russian industrial capacity
THE RAF, can put up enough nuclear explosive to destroy
This inumense display of might, most of which could pe delivered on target within a few minutes, helps to explain why Mr K has resumed nuclear tests. It also explains why I hellove
which does not directly threaten his country.
will not force a war over Berlin or any other trouble spot.
Great
mistake
Mr K smbering up in the ring because he must bluster to impress his fans at home and must appear to be about his Bolshevist business of becoming indisputable world champ. It is specially important for him to be in active training in the month before the big Communist Party Congress in Moscow.
The dißculty for Mr K, which must infuriate him as it did -- Stalin, is that the West would not Bght a drawn-out convențional conflict in Europe.
The Russians would be bound to win a war fought with Conventional arms for more than a few days. So Brilh, U.S., and Nato leaders have repeatedly stated that nuclear weapons. would be used to prevent any breaching of Western defences.
The greatest mistake Mr K could make is to suspect that the British and Americans will never unleash nuclear war because they are too soft.
More trouble
I have been to the main bomber, misslie, and nuclear naval bases of the Went, seen missiles fired and H-bombs blasted. Everywhere I have been immensely awed by the numbers of weapons, their state of readiness, and the will of the com- munders to use them if the necessity arises.
Soviet espionage is so effective that I cannot believe Mr Kruschev has been misinformed on this vital Intelligence or has failed to appreciate its significance.
A
No doubt he will go on making trouble wherever he sees safe opening. But on Berlin or any other European rock where Soviet on well as Western civilisation could founder ke will surely settle for negotiation.
VISITOR TO LONDON: NAME LITTLE KNOWN: POWER ENORMOUS
A BIG and jovial man from Washington checked
-by Lord Lanesborough, presl- dent of the Great Central Asso- out of the Kensington Palace Hotel the other high-stepping under-
ciation, commenting 13 the graduate of decidedly ungodly Eastern Region's proposed with day for Paris, Baste and Vienna. and agnestle behaviour-patterns.drawal of services on the old
Dr Per Jacobsson, 68, was on his way to Example: At Christ Church Great Central line-
meet the Finance Ministers of 70 countries in the College he founded a joyous číkové called the Wagers Club, I DAILWAY passengers are biggest how-do-you-do of the year. #body devoled to "bringin}; back the devil-may-care almo- sphere of the Regency bucks, "
Gradual
irented as cattle in most
eases. Perhaps they are worse off. Catile often arrive at their
destination on time.
from the Justice of the Pence Iteview:-
Swedish-born Dr Jacobsson is managing-director of the International Monetary Fund, which recently lent us 536 million in nine currencies to tide us over our present balance of payments difficulties.
His job is said to be worth £10,000 a year tax free, equal to à taxed pay packet of £40,000 here.
Jacob syn
For neither can defy bin when
Soun, however, Tim Beaumunt was to put aside such heresies.
He has just opened a finan- Within 18 months of leaving Oxford he was ordained as an
cial "Congress of Vienna." The Anglican pelest and went out to
yearly meeting of the Fund is Handing before Dr IT is too simple a solution to being held in this once gay elty, as "the Head." Hongkong as a chaplain.
write aft erring youth as Mr Selwyn Lloyd is doing What converted the agnostic?
undiscipliord When I put this question to him hopelessly
and the honours for Britain as it comes to financial lessons. He untencliable. in
is the man many his hefty,
there Chancellor Beaumont
whu checks their eased
of the Exchequer, Jurk sparks of shirt-sterved frame into an easy nust
in So is the 43-year-old Earl of homework for the all-powerful chair and gave no an old-dividuality,
Initiative, and en-Cromer, newly-appointed Gov. IMF, He gives out the growls if fashioned tunk.
raternor of the Bank of England. it is not good enough. to a pur- Bul on this occasion they Consider, for example, some of
are almust kirt
schoolboy's the actions of Mr Selwyn Lloyd,
durance which
could fan "I don't know," he said. approach "Nothing dramatic, I assaire yoli, Poseful flame. Nu sudden
vision, no Road to Damascus stuff, or anything like that. Et was a gradual decision
The Pleasure of his Com- pany" started as a play of the will, anal fram what bear, the
"I fell, as a matter of fact, relationship between father and that I might të be orlained even daughter on the stage some before I
Intellectually was
times veered on the unpleasant. convinced of the Truth of
But not in this film. Astaire's Christianity," amiable old skull of a face, his
He returned from Hongkong convinced that the Church of
neill - ita sophistication nod winning ways, turn the whole England, bogged down by wurn- thing fato a pleasant romp. out traditionalism, was failing in
I have Written to him its purpose,
the
No atomised haddocks
for the British ..
FTER years of research,
is missionary put the Reverend A British atom scientists
and old him I will in future refer to him as Fred Timothy Beaumont deckled, "Agclass" Astaire.
And what helps to keep him spinning on his toes in this film are the sly performances of lovely L Painter and that amiable aid teddy bear Charlie Ruggies.
ARTIE...
TOP BEAUTY
QUEEN
METORING
"Poor old thing-I wonder what she'll do now...!”
London Express 13ervice.
Preserver plan is dropped
The World'
ว
of Science
bts
When this man
speaks, Britain has to jump
by Alexander Thomson
bulking with the days of 70 member countries providing the only splash of colour in a huge show-case outside.
The flare Include those of De Fidel Castro's Cuba and General Chiang Kai - shek's our current money "maestro," "monetary measures and other Nationalist Clovernmeal of
policies." in recent months.
China. In April, he was cheered for "designed
These,
were it declared,
The restore a strong
from
others range a Budgel designed to makʊ all- balunce of payments position at Afghanistan to Yugoslavia with out effort more worth while, by the existing exchange rate and Britola's Union Jack and the Elving business men a fairer without imposing restrictions on Stars and Stripes-of the U.S.A. crack of the whip for the first trade and current payments." in between. time in years.
Had we wished to cut down America and, Britain, of Quite rightly, he eased the imports of things like American course are the biggest "share- cramping hardship of high Western films for TV, or Italian holders." But cach member un ambitious young shoes, while exports were country has its Finance Miple- executives and the older men at recovering, the Fund would no ter in as a governor. the top.
doubt have said n firm "No."
For
surtax
one of its rules is that Then in July the Chancellor there must be nu stepping back- clarmped on Д Bew eredit wards in the matter of overens | squeeze, He raised Dunk rate trade and payments.
two per cent to soven per cent, How much money has Britain
packet
Itoyce.
Irritation
zestfully, to put his money tove now given up hope work and fight the Devil in his of using atomic radiation to
and hofsted by 10 per cent the invested in the International In addition, 10 executive own noisome territory, outside preserve foodstuffs. The
taxes, on everything from Monetary Fund which is ev!- directors from big and little the cloistered hush.
reason: the process is un-
eigarities tu a Rolls dently in a position to act as a countries work alongside the There was, or 4 happens,
kind of financial dictator when amlable but determined Dr plenty of many in play with, economical In a small is-
things go wrong?
Jacobsson. Tim Beaumont's wealth
land.
I seen mighty strange that We have put in £142 million inheritedt,
They include Mr Ahmed Zaki His grandfather Experiments in which fish,
sune day his "Little worth of gold, and have also Any home handyman, plagued un the married a lovely daughter of an strawberries,
"to auto-Budge!" was announced Britain made avaliable £554 miles in Soad from the with children itching
United Arab raspberries,
Republic, End Mr Boot kno American fumity whose sur porches, loganberries and apri
graph a virgin path or yard with formally asked the IMF for help sterling.
Irt the fresh name, aptly enough, was Grace.cots weru bombarded
crisis that was by the In Americu, by contrast, more footprints,
Tory and Socialist Govern- Slamet from Indonesia. blowing up around the £. invisible, bacteria-killing rays and more food is being sterilised jealousy,
ments alike have supported the When we made our recent have been wound up.
"Eleotrifled" fu this way under a ve-year
The Impileation seems ofear, Fund,
contributed to its plea for aid, prealimably they were all entitled to a say on the Britala wil rely upo cold development programme "Inid been setting a miauto after it We had probably been told resources.
conditions to be imposed. storage for years to come. down by the U.S. Atomic Energy was laid, and becoming cold privately by the Fund that no asalstance would be forthcom- High costs
Malching strips that had nong unless we quickly set about direct current pulsed into them tightening our belts again. Clams finddock, shrimps, lock between three-quailers of stabs, citrus fruit, tomatoes, an hour and a day to mlllfy. A pointer gropes and soft fruit are tho
The amount of current used malu targets.
was vorked according to
Crusade
Today Tim Beaumont owns considerable holdings in W. R.
The pity is that research Commission, teams at Harwell and Wantage Grace and Company, a New had overcome the first drawback York enterprise with frigerato "atomle took its deep in airlines, marine tradic, favour. and South American trade.
Thus cushioned, Tim Beau-
mant lautiched his crusade.
Ho has
was dying on a tent, doubled the circulation in Is
poor
'Hopeless'
in teri,
cause for
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tho
this in
and
Contemporary
How
to an in-
This is an irritation that CRI barday bo lessened by the fact that borrowing from the * Fund la not expensive. We`sra paying and why did i atet? less than two per cent for our
loon. Wariline talks between tho
The heart of the matter is Americans and British for put that the IMF is trying to pIQ- cy found that if they But in America, whore goods "lx."
fing international teade and vide an iternalve Required Time and Tide which treated it with a very small doso have to be marketed aver such
If no, The reasoning is ingeniour,
#nancial finance on a sound, tooling after
crease In the price of gold, of radiation it was possible to vast distances and transport
Aroma able to n Britain whose bank In notion. Bus of tiny particles.
I th Americans could be present level of 15,000, but still hot of the bugs without costs are so high, the economics of insup from infandage that should be intoler- the ghting stopped set the idea frezen for quer pays its weekly losses of about cells so that the taste altered.
breaking down the structure of of
much many, a gold aim forms which and currency are used by half
Forty-four countries in the persuaded to bring gold Into Cioo. He also owns or controla
provonia water ever reaching the world's tradera.
United Nations approved the line with present day prices, Au Atomic Energy Authority Now, a
be hacer. dista
It is a pointer to the growing plan in 1044. The Fund was gel none of this woul The gation of the electricfly power of International civil up du 1940 tu help meinbera în saty, on the mixed-in water couses (servants in the everyday affairs, témporary difficulty,
Britain would be able to ride the film to break up and the fof um mil.
cat economie "alogma unaided. pardelen to bind better,
It je hondquartered on There, would Birolficantly, the Fund alated
be no financial Birgugih in sald to Improve lost nonth, in giving us ald, Washington's 10th and 31 Strnet bondage for tis Bay more. up to'ki par caris 'alno.
that we had adopied a serion of in a bleak, tyntemporary-style (London Erphy" stergtoy2, 11
Patomie foo" are more attractive,
National Christian religious monthly named Pranks to touch Our test 10-MIN. CONCRETE and berat News a polkicu ore quite successful - small broadsheet.
Later his month
dusen still oddler a few days to Beaumont to Dig food, But the economder The Nussigur are using elnom launches his fast juvenile pubil- of tuls country maka it irlaity to pieed up the selling cation,
Wonderland, which hopelons,"
and strength' of concrete,
Now
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