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July 29, 1939.
Singapore Girl Now Famous Ballet Star These people
A GIRL who at the age of seven sat spellbound in Singapore's Victoria Theatre watching Pavlova dunce is now herself one of the most talented ballet dancers to have appeared on a London stage.
She is the former Singapore girl. Mrs. Gilmour, returned to Singapore Sully Gilmour: Her parents, Dr. C.recently.
C. B. Gilmour, medical superinten
Sally Gilmour became famous in
know their job!
That's exactly what
dent of the Middleton Hospital, and the name part in "Lady Into Fox, you will say about
B.B.C. Move
To Suppress Car Noises
presented by the Ballet Rambert
Company, at the Mercury Theatre, your Gabardine, Palm- London, which has taken London beach, Sharkskin and other types of Sum-
dance enthusiasts by storm.
"Dr. Gilmour and I are naturally
greatly delighted at Sally's sucmer Suits when they
cess," Airs. Gilmour sald.
"My husband has always been terribly keen an ballet and it is to his interest that Sally owes a good deal of her apeceas,”
Sally was born
Sungei Lem-
AS a gesture to televiewers and all shortwave listeners, the B.B.C. recently circularised every bing, Pahang, and came to Singapore member of the staff asking them when she was n year old,
The son of a doctor at Islay, in the at their own cost to suppress all electrical interference caused by Inner Hebrides, Dr. Gilmour had come to Malaya with his wife, who their motor-cars.
is a Kent woman, in 1010. They
Sally is the only child. She began
It is pointed out that the Cor-have been in Singapore since 1921. poration have already fitted sup to learn dancing at Oss Newton's pressora to all motor vehicles dancing class at the age of three and owned by the B.B.C., and that a-half, when she appeared in her first it is in the interests of radio stage performance. reception generally and tolevi sion reception in particular that every car on the road should be similarly treated.
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She was seven when she joined
Miss Wright's dancing clans and con- centrated on ballet.
At the age of nine she went to England, studying under the well- known Hallerina, Mme. Karsavina.
It was a tribute to Sally's carlier training when Mme. Karsavina sald that the young pupil had nothing to
unleuru.
B.B.Cmen and women, by special arrangement, will be able to get staff engineers to fit the suppressors at a cost of between 38. and 58.
After_twayand-a-half years Sally OTHERS WHO DO IT
began her association with Mme. The War Offee and the Air Minis- Rambert, who has trained most of try already suppress every jorry, the British balerinas of the last de- The young girl appeared in tank, aeroplane or armoured car ende. under their control but the Post many charity shows and when she Omee--who have absolute authority was 15 she made her first appearance on all radle malters this country at the Mercury Theatre, performing are notorious among viewers for every Sunday night with the Ballet
Club the interference which their mail vans cause.
"The trouble is that our vans are supplied under contract," said a Post Office omclul. "While we can sup- press our Engineering Department's cars and lorries, we have not the same control over a great many muil
vons.
"We appreciate that motor vehicles are a great nuisance on the radio and we believe that the motor manufac- turers propose to do everything' they can to put an end to it."
HINTS FOR MOTORISTS
name
Andree Howard, the cherco- grapher of "Lady Into Fox," based on the novel by David Garurit, had Intended to Interpret the part herself but when she found that the exhausting nature of the
person, part required a younger Sally was given her big chance. And she has made a tremendous success of it.
"Lady Into Fox" ran for five weeks at the Mercury Instead of the sche- duled three weeks and after a sca- son at Birmingham it is having an- Private motorists anxious to avoid other "two weeks at the Mercury he- causing **burring and pettering toce being talten to Dublin this month noises" on the radio or an irritating for Horse Show week.
"failing snow" effect on the televi-) Ballet is not Sally's sole interest sien screen should see to it that a although she devotes most of her time radio or electrical engineer fils sult-to It.
able suppressor resistances to the She plays the pinno well, is terribly Ignition system of their cars.
keen on jazz and on top dancing. Meanwhile they can avoid leaving (She has several times been televised engines running unnecessarily within in ballet from Alexandra Palace. 100 yards or so of any television Other "unssions" are sici-ing and perial,
Jbuving smart clothes.
80,000 Acres Guarded
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TWO points stand out in the National Trust yearly report, issued recently. They are:
While public support for the Trust's work remains no higher than now the pace of countryside preservation can never catch up with the rate of despoliation, and
Whatever fine work the Trust may do it cannot be an adequate substitute for a thorough-going system of National Parks, such as the National Trust advocates.
Guitry's Church Wedding
In practice, the report shows, the Trust Aghts a defensive battle at a cost of about £5,000 a year. This is the deficiency which has to be found out of subscriptions to maintain come 00,000 acres freehold and leasehold properties and others protected by restrictive covenants before any new lands can be purchased and preserved. French 54-year-old playwright and What ought to be the nation's job actor, was married for the fourth of protecting large-scale areas, tamed time--and for the #rst time in a for their natural beauty, is tackled church.
PARIS-Sacht Guitry, famous
His 21-year-old bride is Mile.
by the National Trust as best it may
and with amazing success. Thus, in the Lake District 12,000 Genevieve de Sereville, his new part- acres are owned outright, and aner on the stage and on the films. further 19,150 acres protected: 9,000 M. Gultry's three previous wives neres in all are preserved on Exwere Mile. Charlotte Lyses, Mile. moor; and 4,000 acres in Dovedale and Yvonne Printemps and Mile Delubac, the Manifold Valley
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