THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1961.
L&SONLAY
Roulette on
yes,
the
Rock a
ΑΝ
the
ramparts
they're making
resort
the prince kept their children, Umberto, two, and Christopher,
four,
To make certain that they are not snatched away from Esta, he keeps two Brined KUATUR.
In the idyllic setting of the hotel-awimining pool, green juws sweeping down to Mediterranean-they stick
the out
like pelicemen at a christening
When curions, Uniformed guests inquire, they are wold:
N incongruous setting, I would have thought, for a casino. The solid, once-impregnable Rock of Gibraltar which looks grim and threaten- ing even bathed in Mediterranean sunshine (as it is most months of the guards are here for your year). Bat a casino it will have. A £1,000,000 edifice to gambling, prob ably the biggest in Europe-and certainly the most up to date.
that we weren't handing it over oddly depressing, don't-make- lo a bunch of crooks. the
whooper-after-mkliight | Beitish
The final plans wore ap. proved a few days ago. Bulld ing will start immediately and I expect an Invitation to opening within 18 months.
Haretrat among the battle- ments. Roulette near the ram- de fer where parts, berit the canno1 balls fell. The Interpid men of history Who died "detending the Rock mus. *he Faring In ther gritty
praves.
But the fact is that Gibraltar in the nuclear age can be benger exist at as a fortress, It traust turn Itself inits H tourist centre.
Tourism
The wisers that have har Boured a thousand battleships anust attract the millionairés yachts.
1 stopped there on the way back from holiday in Southern Spain and falked to two of the chilly concerned-Sol Seruya, chairman of the TOUTEDE Board, and Darrel Bates, the Colonial Secretary.
Said Mr Seruya, dark-eyed und earnest "we've got develop tourist. There Isn't much um fur any other in- dustry here.
to
"A the same time we don't want to make the place into a Coney Island. We want lo preserve the historical traditions an of that.
"It's not easy." Mr Seraya looked worried, as well he tight.
Diplomat
one
thuse
Un-
Mr Bales,
Intelligent, tolerant, patronising diplomats who re- stores your faith in what's heit of the Colonial Servlee, had this to y:--
"I've been here for eight years unt the casing has be- cune one of my pet projects. But we encountered all kinds uf stags.
"We decided An offer the convession to operate the
We also had they wouldn't take the conces- lo be sure sion and hawk around higher bidders.
to
"At one time we thought it might be 21
Anglo-American venture, but now it may
be entirely Bnanced by local and British interests.
"A new hotel, restaurants, and night clubs will be built on the same site. It's hallway up the Rock with view of the sea."
wonderful
tir,
Appeal
Sul, might perhaps drum ps appeal as a centre for weddings and honeymoons. I was last ere four years ago for the wedding of Laurence Harvey and Margaret Leighton, now sadly dissolved,
"welcome
When left Messrs Hales and Seruya In a Gibraltarian with a good memary for faces although
obviously gets then mixed up. And obviously a useful, un- "Ab," he said, iropeded drug for surid back, Mr Harvey. Maybe you gamblers.
have enine back to wed again. If you have not brought the bride we can ofer
wlde selectiun."
You have to admit it. At least, there's enterprise in the old fortress. spirit of
Mr Bates could give me na details of the shape of the bullding, but he assured me- with or without American backing- will not resemble any of the architectural mon- strosities of Las Vegas.
Mr Seruya rubbed his hands casino. "I's bound to mean a gleefully in anticipation of the
tremendous boost for tourism," he said.
Record
"Even without The camino
we louk ke having record tourist gures this year. We expect visitors to spend well over £2,000,000," he added.
"I've been organising other attractions. We've just finished the Week of the Sea-ngitry. sailing, skin-diving. Earlier in the season we had the Arts Festival.
"That included concerts and ballet staged in St Michael's Cave-A unique setting. 11 must be the Brest riatural auditorium in Europe, with the Brest acoustics."
i new
apes
I
Official maintenance allowance for Gibraltar's Barbary
(which specialise in stealing wind- screen wipers from tour- ists' ears) has just been raised from 4d. a day per hairy head to 6d.
They got it without send- Ing deputation to the Governor threatening strike Retion.
THE
PRINCE'S
GUNMEN
DRINCE HOHENLOHE
on
Despite the cave with its neostles I fear that Gibraltar will still need its casino before is the owner of the it rivals the leading European
Marbella Club Hotel resorts.
Certainly has the climate. Spain's Costa del Sol, He is Casino to a syndicale. None of It also has shops which have also the ex-husband of Prin- the worst window displays I've tou seen, but which offer duty-free cess Ira Furstenburg. enough
lighters, pens.
cameras, and After their divorce, and many whisky at $1 a bottle.
melodramatie
ini momenis At night, fin afraid. the South America, she married whole place Still retains un playboy "Baby" Pignatari, but
us knew anything abt 11 But It's been difficult
the right
Bracce.
with
"And we had to be certain they would run it properly and
Why you needn't fear
that
by CEDRIC
X-ray
CARNE
KEITH ANDERSON entered my surgery as pale as a sheet and depressed. Why? Because he had visited a mass X-ray unit and had been called back to have a second X-ray. First though, he wanted to have a talk with me. He bit his right thumbnail, nervously. Poor Mr Anderson. He assumed he had been recalled be cause he had T.B. or, even worse, cancer of the Jung.
But musa X-ray units use very
recall
shows up startlingly on an X- ray. Sometimes the radiologist cannot be quito certain if the shadow is altogether healed and he might require his patient to have a sputtiin test.
But 7/01 are jusaping
the
I said. "I bet you will
be cleared tomorrow."
In any case, the mass X-ray doctors are not looking only for lung aliments. A chest X- ray shows more than the lung folds. It lays bare also the bony chest cage, the thoracic spine, the diaphragms, and the
heart.
"Oh," ull Mr Anderson, "Perhaps have an abnormal hearts shadow then."
Sipil Aims and a certain per and healed. Otherwise be would centage are not readable because carry on a normal life.
Mr Anderson wouldn't let of technical fulls. The lung "And what if I should be
me examine him clinically. He helds of fat peoplo, particularly active
halt wished he hadn't gone for T.B.7" read on a miniature Anderson.
nass X-ray in the first place. want to know Fortunnicly, these days, anti- He just didn't
are hard
X-ray.
asited
Mr
This is why the repeat flims biotics like streptomycin can be any more. are done on large plates, and given to cure it. Truc. Mr
then most queries are found to
be false alarms.
"A hundred people
flrm."
were X-rayed at my
ex plained Mr Anderson, "but only three of us have been recalled for large Alms."
Economics
Why you might ask, don't the mass X-ray units take large plates in the first place?
The
Anderson would be off work for a time. And they might well suggest that his children should be vaccinated against T.D.
But in a matter of months he would be back at work, feel-
ing wonderfully at after the rest and treatment, And now that
Early sign
But people should take ad vantage of mass
lles. A shadow thus discover
X-ray fact-
ed could be an early sign of some ailment. And doctors can
BR
one
the T. B. shadows had become always deal much more effec- sears, he would just have to go tively for that occasional X-ray and perhaps he advised not to sun- bathe too much. That's all.
"You see, having T.. nowa-
answer in ourely economic. After dape is less a disaster than a all, millions are X-rayed by uisance," I sold.
these combined unita and a
small in costs pence while a
large plato adds up to shillings.
"But supposing I have T.B.2"
asked Mr Anderson, becoming
Not sure
"How can the radiologist tell
and quickly wit early illness than wiih that's been amouldering on and on quietly for years.
"Anyway, 11), give you a ring tomorrow and let you know the remilt of the repeat X-ray," Mr Anderkon promised.
And lie dild "You wrong, dottor," he said the phone. "There shadow there."
were
over
was
*
1 began to say that I was asked purry, but he just laughed.
even whiter than while, just it a T.D. shadow on the lung thinking about It.
If, and I repeated ff. he had in active or inactive?”
all that would Mr Anderson, sonio dulour now Inactive T.B. bo necemory would be for him returning to his checks.
to have check-up X-rays from
An inncitve T.D. sent tenul
time to lino-Just to maŝto sura to have clelum (chnik), de hile old TB, acers remained armi poalled in it, and this chalk
"The shadow in just the result
of a pigmented mole have on
my back, he chortledi. "Pa
had it since I was 'Baby."
---{London Express Astvice).
security."
The prince
ton.
SENOR
IBAN'S
a diptomat
VICTORY
ENOR
BALTAZAR
IBAN, a merry, twin- kling millionaire who looks like Sancho Panza, is the owner of the Rancho Wel- lington, a xurious motel near Marbell, and the Wel- lington Hotel in Madrid.
One of his guests, a Chauvin
Frenchman,
complained there was too much emphasis on Wellington (including paint- ings in the rooms) and not a reference to Napoleon.
istic
Next day he had a painting of Napoleon in his room. Napo-
con at Waterloo,
I saw four bullfights in Spain. Twenty-four bulls fought and died. Twelve matadors risked death.
Eigleen of the bulls were nable; six ignoble. Seven of the matadors brave and skilful. Five craven and clumsy. A fine average.
The corrida still four- ishes despite tourists like the American who left the ring carrying a copy of Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" and saying: "I prefer the book. But de- initely
-London Express Service.
POCKET CARTOON
"Well, you didn't expect aze old Mother Nature to take all this competition lying down indefinitely, did You?"
ACHTUNG!
Si verksin
jetzt ZASY
BERLIN
"Private Schmidt-HALT?"
up-tliera's
no
#Chè mawh jahil” iff of' in beat!"
NUBANCE DOSS MAY HAVE E-BARKING OPERATION
GOYA STOLEN
"Having my poodle's bark removed to please you is one thing-hoving my
Harry's vocal organs removed is another."
-(London Express Sarolce).
0
The twenty days
that shaped
the destiny
of De Gaulle
By George Malcolm Thomson
A
THE TRIUMPH OF INTE. inpatient by de Gaulle. Chur- brigadier-general conducting
GRITY: a portrait
of chill was brought to many a mor but successful engage- Charles de Gaulle. By the sume reason.
notable outburst of spleen for ment into a world statesman! It
was quick promotion. Duncan Grinnell - Milne, Bodley Head. 30s.
How
Were the Frenchman's luof- In Grumell-Milne's admirably ness and touchiness during the written blography we look for FOW little is known war years really necessary to some shafts of new Insight fufo
his cause? After all, many a of de Gaulle! There government in exile got along ed this extraordinary trick. The the 10an on whom history play- are, of course,
the quite well without scenes and ndrrative is skilfully woven-out of material which is not ́ par- licularly novel,
grand outlines of the pretensions.
man, the public per- THEIR CHOICE formance visible to all.
But to what extent do these correspond with the
essential
human being, the Individual? It is hard to sus.
He had no social gifts and no political aims, no desire to appeal to the mob. De Gaulle was, however, not When, years later, he came to on the same fooling as describe his walt down the ceutic the others. He know that the
Champs Elysees Even his memoirs, in their British sometimen regarded him Paris was berated he wrote: on the day classical French garb, might al- as their creature-and some- "For the attitudes and gesturor must have been written by a times regretted that their chalce that pleate the crouch I have statue symbolising honour and had not fallen upon a more neither the physique Nor patriolism.
Inclination."
HIS PART
amenable patriot.
De Gaulle had to be att When he came to play the because he was under attack,
political game, he made it clear Behind Hoevelt's dislike of that he wanted power only un him was the fixed belief that the his own terms. Tat he is not a
the natural "fascist. For tzom it.
*
Two men with
Twenty-one years ago, de United States Gaulle assumed á part. Ho le- hele of same at least of Prince's caine Fratice,
colonial possessions. There was He gave up power almost con. It is easy-or it was—to make Justice in do Caulio's distrust of temptuously," And,
few fun of such a lofty pase. Easy, his ally.
months before he resumed it, he But the Jaite was opt to recoll
If there was exaggeration in said to she of his vialtors a on those who made it.
lift suspicions and prickly attl dininishing band1 am President Roosevelt,
back number." who tudo it con renillly be under- should have best the first to stood.
Gripnett-Milne does not deal understand a great histrionic
On May 30, 1940, de Caulic, wir the later, difficult phase in Halunt,
Irritated beyond is the black leather Jacket of a Was
1 hero's life. His book ends measure by
de Gauito. That tank officer was lending the 4th with the return to power in 1988 clay, inflexiblo French soldier French armoured division in a of a man who, lonely, half- who thought he was Joan of brillant attack on the German Winded and oppressed with Are!
thoughts of mortality, had sull After all these years, the gibe
chie mure notabla "wak. adena Alppant and spiteful, a On June 17, he was 'the Gov- De Gaulle's memoirs
י
southern flank,
lapso from generally ghe erment of franen in exile, with with the words, “AU my Utà, * begin
"wito war, after all; # féiserolis all the
and imaginative man.
But Roosevelt wat not the only man Wile WHB
women
always
on their minds
By
Patricia Lewis
& Wo-
THERE is nothing sea-
•sonal about man's discontent. Mo- ments on cloud seven can be followed immediate- ly and irrationally by tearful melancholia.
But unlike men-whose trus- trailons can be worked off in a game of football or a bit of mountaineering-women tend to and their therapy in a completely self-indulgent emotional be4val.
up-
And it is for this feminine weakness that song-writera exkat.
The entire
song-writing market is geared to women - some us love stories," admitted The Oklahoman with the sun- tunned pate and jewelled tiepin. Be should know. Ralph Blane has been responsible for a lorge slew of syncopated sentiment --- "The Boy Next Door." The Trolley Song," "When You're in Love." "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "My Dream Is Yours," and Lena Horno's electrle definition
"Love."
of
I'm always hired to write for women singers, too--only man I ever did a song for was-ha! hal-Mickey Rooney," he Bald. "I guess it's because I like women very much-it must bit of come through. My wife. Emajo (yos, it is kinda odi Bounding, but she didn't · Like pla Emma), well, she's a great test of a song.
Whenever
1
she hates number it always turns cut a big success. But then maybe she doesn't think commercially," Mr Blanc, with his пен collaborator Wade Barnes, is in London for the production of and the Glant" which they adapted as a musical from
"Qulitow
Thurber's
Great Quillow."
Bulh
story, Tho
BALDING
men are big, bolding, and in their middle-40's, and unlike Rodgers and Hart or Van Heusen and Cahn they can cope equally well with words or music.
"This is my first mejor effort," នៅ វ Harnes. "I've written some pop tunes--you'vo never heard of them because they weren't popular. But together we seem to have hit on a formula the stuff just Kushes out of us like wafer from a tap,
"Maybe it's something to do with my getting married. Before that all the songs I wrote wera sad and searching for someone, but since I've found 'her' the. name's Gene, by the way - I scem to have slippett inls top gear."
It sirikes mo as odd that when women constitute the mala 100-600x audience It invariably takes a man to spin ihe romantle thread of a lyric. But professional romanties always have .n sixty-four- thousand-dollar answer ready
"Of course women take the credit," they chorused, "They are the inspiration of what men write. They are the critics what wo write.
"And added Me Barries, ("Qoy buy what wo write."
THE LYRICS
of
The truth of writing for Womca
is in the lyric," mid Blanc, "It the words really mean something, if they really LIVE, then it doorn't matter about the music you've got a standard, a classic that'l on for years."
Even eong - write havo favourites umunity wrlife by other song-writers, Mr Borne plumpe for "Laura" ("atelitky: for the mule") and Mr Bláno for an obscurą Rodgers and Hart. Bumber called "You're Newer*** ("trielly for the brio") zi), This posted, fabellect them dyed-in-the-woof romathe tice anyway.
Well,
sighed Bags world's realists and ment the Torrenties - whims It comme down
eventually, women, are the
bewildering problems have thought of France in a which that tale brought with certain way." No reader of 10 it. After all, it's the women
In 10 days the transformation Grinnell-Milne will doubt what who have the babies,,,it
=(London Express Karvia), I
made had occurred from a junior that way, do,