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THE CHINA
MAIL,
PARIS LETTER
IKE
THE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1951.
from SAM WHITE
ANGERS REDS
PARIS.
chmon by issuing a
for drivers,
handbogk
WITH Eisenhower's ar- contained in Among the tips
the following:
To women drivers: You do
up his post of C-in-C of the Atlantic Pact Forces not kill as many pedestrians as France is being treated to a the men. But you cause many demonstration of Goebbels- ninor accidents by talking, like Communist propaganda. gesticulating, not keeping your
minds on your driving.
Parix 19 placarded with Communist posters denouncing horn will not change the red To impatient drivers: Your Eisenhower ៣៥. " "German"
light to green. Don't be sure ol (unlike of course, those un-
other man
German German Communists) your reflexes-the and describing trim of all may be even a bigger fool. things as "a willing pupil of
the Faselst MacArthur."
with lorrico
the bigges single danger on the road
To lorry drivers: Don't hog the middle of the road, dazzle All this marks a considombie turn without warning. Speeding everyone with your lights, or somersault of Communist views held about Elsenhower at the time of the liberation of Paris when the powerful Com-
it munist Press lavished prake on him for the scrupu- Jous foirness with which he treated groups.
To pedestriana: Wait for the green light. Better be late for your oppointment than early for your funeral. Cross between tween the crosses.
studa or you may lie be-
the Communist resistance
Meanwhile, it is clear from the tone of the non-Communist Press and the comments of the man in the street, that Ike en- joys almost as great a personal popularity in Paris as he does In
PRINCESS
with TC- PARIS is buzzing
portu of a possible marriage Prince Baudouin of between
Princess Belgians und
London. In face of this the warm regard for him, one feels Isabelle, eldest of the Comte almost SOITY for tho hack de Paris's eleven children. propagandists for
trying to depict him in the image of a
tight-lipped sabre-scarred Prus- slan field-marshal.
GENERAL
The Comte de Paris is the Pretender to the French throne who was recently allowed to return to Franco alter a life- time of exile.
Princesa Isabelle is tall, has light hair, blue eyes, plays who is tennis and is an expert horse- She will be 18 nexi the subject of widespread woman
arid lag comment in France-this time year
been studying
ANOTHER
General
almost wholly unfavourable English at the British Institute
is Fleld-marshal Montgomery's in Paris. She hopes to go to old antagonist EL Western
Western England next year. Union defence headquarters, Meanwhile she is living with General de Lattre de Tassigny. her father in a suite at the De Tassigny was recently ap- Hotel Crillon where visitors pointed C-in-C of the Frencit are treated to the daily spec- forces in Indo-Chinn--a move tacle of the Comte holding court which was as much a tribute in the hotel lobby.
to his military capabilities as He is addressed
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to long memories of his war Royal Highness" and be time quarrels with General elaborately curtsied to.
Eisenhower.
Now the French Minister for Colonies, M. Letourneau, bas roturned from a visit to Indo- China with a report on the general which has both amused and angered the French Cabinet.
According to Letourneau, de Tassigny is "difficult to get on with and "overbearing" in his
manner.
SHOW GIRLS
The
has
ارضي
PERONSCO BUTCHER
"PHEW! THIS SEÑOR, WEBB, HAS HE NO HEART? THERE IS SOMETHING WORSE THAN MEAT SHORTAGE !'
ARGENTINE END OF THE MEAT SITUATION
1914
come
THE woninn of the week
T
have been talking to some of now.
the 19 British chorus girls and show girls who are featured In Paris's newest cabaret, the Nouvelle Eve. They carn much more money than French chorus girls, but com- plain bitterly of the high cost of living.
is a Dame. But nothing to do with pantomime
She has been called the Diaghilev of British ballet: Ninette de Valois,
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dally Herald:
Panto dancer a long way
By EVELYN IRONS
extremely hard.
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new one
The Miniature Pavlova," jour- ing seaside resorts' with a troupe of "Wonder Children," and a new name, Ninette de Valois, chosen by her mother.
Looking back on those early You find her masterpiece. She alma to do a
on the theme of Joan days she says of herself, "I have in a cubby-hole of an office in
danced the Dying Swan on every that complex labyrinth which of Arc.
pler in the British Isles." And- lies behind the scenes at the
"My main problem," she says, yes Damo Ninetta appeared in Opera House.
"is how to cram 30 hours' work pantomime. As a dancer, during
the 1014 war. into the 24,"
When Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, and the rest of her Sndler's Wells ballet company come back from their trium phant tour of the United States Letourneau cites as an in-
They carn an average salary at the end of next month, they of de Tassigny's tact- stanco
her as Dame of £15 a week, out of which will not address lessness a recent official ban-
£3 10s. Ninette, the mode to which her farious business involved in of her reading is done in the to pay quot in Saigon in which the they have General, Anding that he was week for a Montmartre hotel appearance in the New Year directing and managing not only train, on her
on food &1 Honours List entitles her. She room. £7 a week
London to Sunningdale, where halls not seated on either the left or 10s on hairdressing and make-will still be "Madam" to them, ballet company, but the junior she lives with her husband, Dr gruelling, glamorous years as a
Bao
There she sits at a small, tidy
with busy
rehearsal des schedules and alt
the multi-
school as well.
Wells the celebrated Sadler's the right hand of the Indo-
They claim that clothes in as she is today to everyone at Chinese Emperor
Dal, up, promptly tore
the place France cost twice as much as in Covent Garden, from the stage
vastly in-door keeper up. England and are Prime card of the Emporer's Minister and seated himself in ferior in quallly, his place.
THE
Plut
כאן
DRIVERS
And with all due respect (for Said one of the show girls, uke them all I am a little Leta Mooney, of Cricklewood: frightened of her) I submit that "It's too expensive for me. Madam is the word. could do much more on half the money in, London."
HE Paris police are making
now effort to straighten (World Copyright Reserved-London Paris's growing traffic
Express Service),
In line with some other per- sons who wield, great power, Madam works in unprepesses- sing surroundings and she works
U.S. wives view
THE BRITISH WAY
MILDENHALL, Suffolk, JOW cold your houses are, why can't you get
Ho
a baby sitter, how easy it is to get a domestic vant.
OF OF LIFE
✩
With her fragile figure, her allvery upswept hair, her large, grey eyes in a pale, pointed, rather sad face, she gives an impression of porcelain brittle- ness. But don't you believe It
Hore is a woman, not of Dresden china, but of iron.
She would need to be. She has built up and schooled the Sad- ler's Wells ballet from a once-a- fortnight appearance to the present celebrated dollar-earn Ing
wins company which prestige for Britain in many of the world's capitals.
Her relaxation? Books. Much
Arthur Connell.
Нет
of
way home from
one
There were tough years on the Then, from 1929, two
she
drast with
ballerina under the merciless master Diaghilor. She danced cholce-Jane Austen, in Paris, Berlin,
London George Eliot, Meredith, Hardy Barcelona, The Hague, Munich and, of ecume Monte Carlo, ("Jude the Obscure is
the greatest novels over where the company were drilled written"). Madam enjoys the so hard that after a particularly day of rebearsal astringent Thackeray, too, but strenuous
drinks, not Dickens ("I simply cannot without time for food or
Uredness as she read bim").
for the evening ballet How Edris Stannus (as she Carnaval, was born at the family home in
There are times today when the Wicklow Hills 52 years ego) the dancers of her own com- came to be a ballet dancer she panica swear that Madara le as herself finds it hard to explain. ruthless a boss as Dioghitov ever “I always enjoyed dancing as
was. She spares none in her child, but that was nothing out drive for perfection. She suffers of the ordinary," she says,
When
no fools. She is queen of the
the family moved to try retort England she was eight, and it
Two things melt her heart.
She
It the were to "settle down," was at the celebrated deport- She always finds time to be kind yan said. "You don't have much
She pays 2s. 6d, an hour to about itchens, elther a local girl, who comes every she says, she would divide her ment classes of Mrs Wordsworth and understanding to any of her idea
time between her favourite in South Kensington that she dancers in misfortune. And she Still, I'm enjoying myself." day.
dancing lessons, is never too busy to laugh and Mrs
Pat Erdman, Mrs Branyon's two children
cities-London, Paris, Florence had her first whose
play with their children. The ballroom was the target, and Istambul
has none of her own. are Karen, aged 12 (girl), and husband is captain, is living in aer. Everett, aged 8 (boy), "They a furnished flat in Newmarket, intention of sciting
But she has not the slightest not the stage.
But at 12 she went to a stage World Copyright Reserved-- down yet. have started to go to an English It has four rooms, a kitchen and Now that she is back from school. By 15 she was billed as London Express Service.) school in Newmarket, and I find bathroom, and they are paying
ballet Those are the first Impressions your standards of education are six gulmons a week, and extra superintending the
New York, Los Angeles, San of England gained by the far in advance of oura," she. for electriclty.
Francisco, with a 12 days' in- American wives, who form the said,
terval for a lightning lecture "Ittle America" colony around
tour of eight Canadian towns, There are here and Lakenham,
she faces a mountain of work The first thing she bought was a paraffin heuter to supplement which will keep her mostly in the warmth given by the electric Britain for the next 12 months fires in the flat. The high.prico at least.
.50 of them. Their husbands are on the permanent staff at the airfield near here, which the U.S. Air Force is sharing with the RAF. Most them have been in England only # few weeks,
"For instance, both the chlidren are learning French. At
By VIVIEN
BATCHELOR
COAL? SO DEAR!
sonichow
don't
of
What makes the
business man tiredd
and not merely business men either
which control the
7HY does a boring Sun- glands
word
The sugar,
which builds up
it án
abnormally
of coal has struck the chilly wives from America, Most of them also find it difficult
She will drive the company
days warm their houses to the tem- through 10 hectic perature they consider "civilis-rehearsals before they open at Some of them have other im-
eur on the tumount of coal bley Covent Garden with The Sleep-W days you dit as blood'a sugar supply. pressions. They have come up
ing Princess on February 21. agalnet our housing problem. home our children don't start are able to buy.
At the beginning of April she much as a full day's work? in the blood after a meal, is Most of the wives are in their They are the ones who are not French until they are about 14.
thirties, and will put on a new Ravel ballet. Why does a stale story start depleted lucky enough to be allocated And Everett has got up to his twenties of cathy hardland After an early summer hollday you yawning? Why do you mapid rate in over-driven brain-
hayo been in married quarters on the base, nine times table." and who
another new find yourself nodding off at workers. have had to find Mro Isobel
trom fore. Their husbands are nearly break will come La Balbo
by Constant
"When an inadequate amount accommodation in and around New York, whose husband is all Veterans of the last war, and ballot with music
of sugar circulates in the blood the village.
a second-lieutenant, alco has two know England well, "I wonder Lambert. Then the Edinburgh a dull speech?
will show me Festival
function Doctors children, aged four and eight if my husband
Madam looks forward to a bit)
have just put for the brain does not £10 A WEEK
She is living in a village called the England he used to know,"
For a a festival of her own in Sep-
a startlingly simple properly and the patient be- West Row near here in a Hýb, said 'one girl with a twinkle 14mber. That month will see the answer to these question; bore- comes highly strung and easily One couple who are living
the doctors write in reduces the fatigued, roomed furnished bungalow: it her eye. "I
dom rapidly 25th anniversary of the day sho think he will, for just outside the village are Cap- cost her husband 25 a week,
he wasn't first joined the Old Vic-Sadler's amount of mugar in your blood, their medical report.
Measurements of the blood Wolls under the Inte Lilinn Vern, from Louisiana with their sitter." she said. "But I was sur-
Is This sugar The wives will be over here
tho main strength of normal people do- Baylis,
for your liberately subjected to boro- source of energy two chlidren. They are paying prised how easy it is to Hot or for three years, which £10 a week for a' six-room dinary domestic help. At home term of barvico for their lusthose crowded years she found and muscles. So, sitting dom convinced the doctors that furnished house in Mildenhall, it is easy to find a baby-sitter, bands at the base,
{ ""browned of"" in an armchair putting an exhausted, but "I have shivered ever since I but impossible to find someone
as ambitious, business man on a an exhaust you as much
dull arrived if bogland," Mrs Bran- to help with the cleaning."
Hard 'physical effort,
routine of light reading doctors; discovered this and country walks would prob explanation accidentally during bly make him worse.
So they offer a more practic- to and out why able experiments
remedy: ensure i moro high-level business executives regular supply of blood sugar and others who carry heavy by more food and less smoking. responsibility are so subject They bellove that if the hard- pressed brala worker had
tain R. C. Branyan and his wife, "I just can't find a baby-married then,"
FERD NAND
That's Rich
is the
(World Copyright Itaporoad-
London Express Seroton),
Somehow or other during
time. to create ballets, too. Her "Job," to the mute of Vaughan Willams has been called Q
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The
to fatigue,
They rate their finding of three regular meals a day with prime mediant importance be plenty of potatdes, bread, oorenis, fruit juices anel, other cáuito It shows - that enforces ****
Which generate retirement is no remedy for gredients
over-ambitious
blood
"sughr,' 'plùs 'a' half-pint who habit of milk at bedtime, he would ciention...-man, who
exhauste himasi bo far less likely to suffer from
by
tho
fatigue.ccasional cigarette Biduey dostane
examined wogres "worn-mit" buialnem men during
AD
fictos the tirea màn by stimula-
seven years of restaroit at the the file system to release more Mähnel Rooms Hoselial; Chicago. Sugar into the blood. But
found that constant chili linu dhe has fuit. the que SIES, FAMILIER A POMERENZA CHAPMAN PINCHER
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