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"OUTPOST in MOROCCO'
THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1950.
B.B.C. TREBLES PAY FOR A DUMMY
It's Archie Andrews, and
Only Wilfred Pickles makes more on radio
T
By SIDNEY RODIN
HREE million children have forced Sir Wil- liam Haley, Director-
ventriloquist dummy one of the sensational pay.
entertainment, although he stays faithful to Broadcasting House. He is the cocond most successful ventriloquist in the world.
General of the BBC, to give He estimates his earnings for
and his
1031 at nearly £60,000-£30,- most 000 from
and stage
Tudle, rises in £7,500 from royalties on sales
Archic of
Andrews dotis, and British broadcasting. They
tooth-brushes records,
£12,000 will be paid £250 a week soap, and
from the three times what they are texile business he runs when
not making Archie talk. getting now.
1. The ventriloquist is 33-year- old Peter Brough. Hls dummy Andrews. star of is Archie
M Jovable "Educating Archle,"
PLAYED PRANKS
Cond 03 London-born Brough from a family of ventriloquists. Ho learned
to sucak without moving his lips when he was seven.
imp who has become the favourite of half the children in Britain between five and 12.
Only one BBC celebrity- At school he played pranks
tops on Wilfred Pickles-now
masters by throwing bla
wo Peter Brough's money. Pickles voice. His Brst concert gels £300 a week.
given for the Salvation · Army
Ollier stars are well behind at Ealing when he was ten. in radio fecs Tod Ray gets He used to get up at six a.m. about £100, Jimmy Edwards, to practise ventriloquism before Dick Bentley, and Joy Nichols going to school from £120 to £150, Frankle Howerd £120.
#1
The pay rise came because roceny Brough was offered
£500-a-week contract for two years to appear in commercial radio.
Sir WILLm Haley told his variety chief: "We can't let Archie Andrews go. He is needed for the children. Accept whatever terms Brough pro~ poses,"
When 22 be became a textile agent, and prospered.
Invalided out of the Army in
Brough thought up the 1942, voice and character of Archie while convalescing. Archic was be a 14-year-old orphan to brought up by Brough.
ARCHIE WAS SHOT
His Arst BBC payment was 1947, Petar Brough Kold me: 15 guineas a turn. In "Archle has become a national after a trial recording, Brough figure since June entirely was told: "A dummy can never through the BBC. I feel under be strong enough
a moral obligation not to desert them."
HIS EARNINGS
full-scale show."
to head a
The experts were proved
wrong.
Letters to Archie from child- 400 a week. ren now number
Archle
in a was shot Commercial radio has already When
23 broadcast mother protested the "Much-Binding- captured in-the-Marsh" team for £50,- that it must never happen again little boy had to 000, Donald Peers for £15,000 because "my
a year, Stewart MacPherson, cry himself to sleep," and Charlle ́ Kunz.
BO
Gracie Fields and Sir Thomas Beecham also have contracts with sponsored radio.
Because
children many
school to hear missed Sunday Archle's show, the BBC. him on earlier.
put
in the National
Peter Brough will next year
be one of the richest men
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JENNIFER JONES GREGORY PECK JOSEPH COTTEN:
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Last month the dummy got Radio Award for
British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
3 Predominates
''Cheat
a Turied round
11 Bullighter
13 Spare
16 Scorned
18. Business chief
19 Sound
31 Gavà up office
25 Disciplinarian
26 Tramp, ma 27 Disagrees:
4 Regretted
6 Change direction 6 Result
7 Carrying-chair
9 Swift
10 Elector
12 Musical work 14 Solitary
10 Enchantress "
17 Charge
10 Damp
20 Frolics
21 Prolific
DOWN
922 Party
1 Courage
29 Recess
24 Faber..
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On
the best variety erica. Fourteen million people hear him Tuesdays, and nearly 6,000,000 on Sundays.
His master in- creased Archie's insurance from £1,000 16 £10,- 000. Archie hus Irla own Toom in Brough's six- bedroom house at Moor Park, Horts, where the veatrilo- two quiets's shildren remid the model as one of the family.
A
His wardrobe is made by Sackville Street tailor at from 15 to 25 guincas a. sult.
other The afternoon he opened a bazaar.
· EDUCATION of Archite
Andrews Went ||
a stage further when he WAS brought to
* Floet Street newspaper office by Ventriloquist Feter
Brough.
For the visit, and the Archie "well plotare, dresser, on aud off"--word lo smashing blazer with
matching scarf.
LOBSTERS
TRAVEL
BY AIR
he now gets £250 a week
London Diary:
Molyneux Farewell Shocks Smart Women
Decision of Captain Molyneux to close his Paris fashion house has shocked the smart women of the city. Ten weeks ago Molyneux announced the closing of his London salon; it was then thought he would concen trate on his Paris business. Failing eyesight, however, has forced him to give up.
of
Molyneux plans a long rules if I go in here," he asked Treasury since he came of
of the Army in 1910. holiday in Bermuda after policeman.
the succeeds Mr D. J. Wardle "You will be," replied Live crayfish and lobsters, Christmas: but he is keep policeman. This is the lounge who has died.
Mr Thompson la marric flown to the Continent by.aing on his Paris home, for Continental passengers who
cleared Customs hay two
wo sons. Salaries of Warsash, Hants, fisherywhere he has a fine collec. have already
now.
post, and of his old and Immigration controls." firm, are earning money for tion of modern paintings.
"Then I won't Eo in," said us an Under-Secretary of Treasury, have both been of his Paris staff Fakenham. Britain. They are sont to Majority all but Iron Curtain coun- will have no difficulty in flnd- He found an airport official creased from £2,000 to 22 10g new posts, Best known who is allowed in the lounge, a year under the Civil Ser tries.
Would you mind going and rises which began last mo During the season the arm, of them is tail, distinguished
"Maggie" Denis. She buying me a newspaper
TROUBLE OVER TZEN who have restarted a 60-year- Mme.
been with Molyneux
uttle 10 ed the Minister. "I don't want That Hing old shellfish industry in the bas
called Izena Tzena, village, send more than 8,000 years, became dreetress of his to break any rules."
which the dance bands p crayfish a week by airplane and salon.
TAXED BUT HAPPY
at the mome NEVER-OPENED CATES
tirelessly ship to Europe.
Report of the Fablon So- the centre
at a qurious from fich,
the brought
Repairs
Ironwork to The
And the m right tangle. Southern Ireland
Gates, ciety-just out-shows that last and Corn- the Commonwealth
they made aproat of the centre of it has just ar wall, are stored in what in which stand at the entrance to year
of £372 3s 20. The Fabians were in London on his way to Green Park from the area claimed to be the only lobster
"In the rod for some £2,223. York where he hopes, to Victoria Memorial, are pond in England. It is Boyds, the
Drastic stuff cuts have been an the muddies. almost finished. A year ago square. Green blinds 'shade the
Hola and part-time workers disclosed that made, examination
berpectacled, light from the fish.
smoking...
30-year-old Packed in ice, the crayfish weather and rust had severely have been employed.
Says the report: "A Year Miron, now deputy director some out of corroded
of the scroll pata live for 48 hours
Snancial position was the music department of t ago the water. Itacy are taken by van
satisfactory, partly Israeli Ministry of Educatio The gates will
now be re- far from
all. to London Airport or Northolt
Miron went to Palestine owing to increased costs on gilded.
the for their air journey.
These, with the pillars of sides, and partly owing to
immigrant from Poland subscriptions aad 1930. Ho Joined the Jewi Portland Stope at the park decline in
This in itself was unit which fought with entrances from the Mall and donations.
to the taxation Eighth Army in North Afric Birdcage Walk, were included partly due
Labour Govern- from the polley of the in the contribution
But Miron is a musician, Dominions and dependencies to mentor which, of course, the later was in the Israeli Arm He has widit salaper. commemorate
or Society strongly approves." the Teign
And mine Fes IN CHARGE OF THE MINT many songs. Queen Victoria....
They have never been open
Unpaid job which Mr Gaits- ago, in a British Army be
he wrote for general use.
kell took on when he became racks, he says,
as ze Why
the Exchequer song now known Chancellor of Was
that of Master, Worker Tzent, Tzena.
Miron is on bis way to cla and Warden of the Royal Mint.
There are alrea man Dr. C. E. P. But the effective head of the some, royalties out of all Mint in the Deputy Master and success. Brooks has left the Air Ministry Comptroller, and
a new one various copyright disputes
America over the song. after 43 years in the Meteoro- has been appointed Logical Department. He is 02. has Been head of the Climats. logy
Ler the
A direator of the firm said: "Continental people are insat! ablo shellfish eatern. This whe
demand
is likely to exceed the supply, Bad weather has prevented
the boats from rocks the going out among where the fish are found."
Britain May
Have First
Jet Tanker
The first big marchant ship in the world to be jet- propelled may be the 8,200- ton British tanker Auris."
An experimental gas-turbine engine for the Auris is now being tested in England
The tests are expected to go on for six months, Various forms of fuel will be used,
The Auris the cost about £500,000 to build three years ago was the first tanker to be
by ANTHURSDAY'S
diesel-electric propelled CROSSWORD.--Acrust: L Strand, 4 Fresh,
16 machinery 7.Intimate Moist, 9 Fpment, 11 Ignited, 13 Dutance,
Faf, 19 Meanders 20 Dwell, 21 Emetgo. Down: 1: Riddio, 16 Bugafj. Sur, 2 Aglie, 3 Drastic, 4 Fooman, 5 Expiated...G: Halted,, 10 Mortgage, 12 Geamane, 13 Dashed, 14 Normal, 18 Dodge, 17 Ensue.
FERDINAND
ilovem
What's The Big Idea!
Which the now jet engine is ready, one of the four diesel electric cogines in the tanker will be taken out, to make room for it
work,
not open them when the regilding is done?
BEST CLIMATE Weather
Division.
An
43
Ho is Mr. L. L. H. Thomp looks like a complicated? pro
Once he cal- 500, 57, who has been at the lam culated that the world had 10 million
year.
thunderstorms in SIDE GLANCES
A
"Britain Brooks:
Says Dr.-
to her ell- owes her progress
It is the best in the minte, world to produce alert, onur- getic people.” “
About his work, he adds: was never bored until a few months ago when I' be: came slightly deat and bad to attend conferences I could not hear
"T
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MINISTER KEEPS OUT Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation, went, to Nor- tholt Airport to fly to Man chestor. He was about to walk into the departure Tounge to buy a newspaper, but paused at the doorway.
breaking suy
By Galbrait
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