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"Father say providing he ain't culled up, sold up, or blown up, he'll be delighted

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SECRET OF THE GREAT PANJANDRUM

By Gerald Powle

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The need to blast

presston periments with explosives.

at way for the invasion forces by And when one was

concentration of high explosive a sitting in lonely splendour was considered at length, and on

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It had the writ of apparent

in a reserved compartment. to the drawing boord went the accompanying a type Great Panjandrun of bomb or depth charge to

in trials mysterious

the dead of night off Weston- super-Mare. one spent a sumpheity for both sides al n good deal of time crouched ble dru Alled with two ton.

B. E a battery of rockets wa ander tables in a

the perimeter large attached round

in the Admiralty When the assault went

would be rolle! intrepid naval Pangandrun

landin;; *}}}}_?/ lieutenant named Lane, Frail, the rockets would who had a passion for dis-uted, and the monster wout mantling enemy equipment, bedret up ine beach. Reaching cie fortifications the German the von struck some new

Panjun drum would be held ther explosive charge with

by its propeiling rockets unt 1 slot of high explosive de- hammer to see if it

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figure.

Few know, for

legendary

instance.

that she Mas hassed off countless music hal stages during World War I that she danced the Dying Swan Very seaside pier

England in her feet--hr

admission!

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that she

Ir

even trained with the great Diaghilev

Because she nates pusbrity the newspapers have fun! - te to record alsal diep aperit

Shea Ay

SUP PNNI12 OF Toom her

multaan productions with

the

Wells Company

luck

peal Her attemplom Wits arended Between three activities, While creating at the Old Va. are produced boso sour matisky

alistic, Mykset danres art thay Commbader Pestival Theatre, and produed wind dancer at the Abbey Theatre. Dublin, where WB Yeats play for dancers. evrisolerablu ware enjoying IL

VIKULU.

Re: grout change came when Japan Baylis opened Sadler's Wells us her seconal theatre. It was intended as a second home ut first. [1.7 Shakespeare, and. Ninette was only given one balie: night a fortnight. Right I um the begining, however. opera and ballet triumphed over the Bard.

The puble were evntent to go

by

Ninette de Valois, dircctor of the Sadlers Wells Bal- Ict, is far less known to the public than her here is a stars pen portrait of her Hazel May

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at the Wells They fa Leat

Vie En wave caugh! up 12 a thustorm They had glimpsed the

It' glory power Daghilev, and here was one of s star pupils pending in her wwn right.

F

found ballet foo

· Vamps that lie was frequently idiosyncrasy mukes her poor Bussed off the stage by Rallery game for columnists, adways of rowdies who the look-out for the flamboyant personality. Her ky program-

1.

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me leaves her no time for social 1. as her top balin; d.neSTA make the headlines <! powers. Karder parties. receplans. Ninette stays behind to do the work

high-falutin for their taste.

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Those were tough years the halls, but all the time she was learning fast. She had les gons with two of the great mas- tors of the day. Espionnsa and These prepared her Cochett

a

would

go off. Fortunately it rarely tonated. did.

the

The trials [ The Great

were held on the Amil

Wr worked directly under Panjandium Lieutenant Commander N. 5. sandy beach at Inslow. Norway better known as Nevile clouds of smoke and a deafening

the Frankenstem objec Shute, the novelist and that noise

waddled with soure difficulty for astut discapin small research

unit evolved a

50 yards and refused to budge "h, 2, 22 is alway. completely remarkably successful series of fau Two stores told about her inventions

ranging

from the yard further.

More rekels were added. This dastrate this triat

While

Hedgehog, which threw patterns time covered 200 yards with

anti.

was

(

depth-charges She created a setisation of the submarine attacks. to the rocket such momentum that some fear felt for the Atlantic coast week in New York by refusing devices which strengthened the

express due to apmear at any to allow any of the company to anti-ameraft armament of our moment on the line running acend a party given by all the ocean-going merchant ships, and

clong Lehind the dunes. The elite of Holly wood and in which the plastic armour which pru Panjandrum had, however, be

unds nad buen spent. The tected their bridges from cannon

rus to

how

disturbing reason" Only twenty of the com- | shell.

tendene tu vees off its intended pany-anchoring hersell had

Reollection of those days was track, arpaul steering device beeh unvited

Unless the whole

was fitte L Company of 73 were asked no- stirred by a recent valt to the

Warfare Experi Amphibious une would pe declared Ninetto

meuti! Establishment near de Valois The caterers chated

Westward

Hu

Here, on the

guests, so the whole party was

alled off

at the prospect of an extra flyestuary of the Tor and Torridge At last the day dawned when rivers. a highly skilled team of the monster was to undergo its specialists headed by Lieutenant- final trial before an impressive Colonel R. H Reynolds, of the array of scientists and generala- Royal Engineers, investigates the and an Airedale dog which had design and practical possibilities somehow discovered

Wife and mother as well

WEUDONA

what was

were in

f all manner of modern vessels, afont. This time no fewer than vehicles and

which 60

60 five-inch rockets would be employed in modern place, and the experts predicted a really spectacular performance. Their prophecy

was entirely

accurate!

to the Old Vie for their Shakes (anather orcasion, during anting operations.

European tour. there we Bly four deepers on the Brussels- Paris night train, and forty pes-

A lane having been laid out The Director travelling

They examine the problemas of up the sloping beach, the Great allotted them to the stage staff, handling supplies over defended Panjandrum was launched from because, she said, the next day beaches; they conduct research a landing croft at low water

ee would be such a heavy one for into mines, beach obstacles, cliff while the spectators hurriedly The behaviour of the elostri, carpenters and

water took over. assault

gear, and the stage managers, while the stars prong of lorries and gures. Not the monster from the detonation would have time to sleep in their

long ago they trained drivers of of the first rocket exceeded the The craze of the balletornain

hotels.

Almost Weaselsa wide-tracked vehicle wildest expectations. Books wept England.

designed to swim through snow hidden at first by columns of Another side of her nature is were formed. witten, societies

water and clouds of steam the hry Klubboru independence and mud-for the joint British

Antarctic PanJandrum charged up the and London went wild with it.

nee Norwegian-Swedish There is the story, for instance,

carrying out beach with a noise like thunder. From Croydon to Camden Tow..

of the first American tour, when Expedition, now

from its base Dł exploration

Suddenly to the consternation many suburbs started their own

the Big

Designers Tez: Dress

Maudheim.

of the cowering unlookers, ballet club. Thousands poured presented the ballet team with

Although the Experimental swung wildly off its course and the shabby lille Well their clothes. Ninette insisted on

in the crashed over on its side on the Establishment is staffed Theatre, where the small, dyna- loving an outfit made exactly

main by officers and men of the sand. This smothered the rockets to her own wishes. The designers

RASC, ballet mie.

mistress became

disagreed. Ninette bought her

REME, many of its tasks relate others continued to explode with cirector, choreographer and ad-

the own clothes.

effect, distorting ministrator.

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for the postwar international Battle between

n Covent Garden the hard years that followed.

and

two selves

WH

S a choreographer she ex- elled. Anding time amongst

not the pampered She was only child of aesthetic and am- She was born bitious parents.

Her great chance came in into a large Irish family, with

de Valois then strong Army and Navy conner 1923, Ninette tions, who lived in a rambling joined the inerciless Diaghilev, all her o'her duties to create the country house in the Wicklow danced Hills, near Dublin. was Edris Stannus.

Her name

Bored girl took to dancing

Paris, in

Barcelona, Monte Carlo, The Hague, Lon- don, Berlin, Munich. She be- came, in fact, a great ballerina.

brilliance of "Job," danced to music, and Vaughan Williers' proving by "The Rake's Pro- gress" that England could match Continental American

Dancing for Diaghilev's Rus- any sian ballet was even harder than company in devising modern "the way up" had been. Consider ballets.

et Monte Carlo "POREDOM", retorts Ninette, the chedule "B

when you ask what she re- 0a.m. ballet class, ballet re- members ninst of that early hearsal until mid-day and again Ninette de Valois' personality. childhood. "The only excitement from 2 to 4 p.m.; 4 p.m. until What impression do we gel from

Most difcult to describe is

8.45 p.m. opera-ballet rehearsal; this woman who has worked so

we children ever had was 1 weekly ride with a servant in a the to colier Governess cart mail. And I was always cold

9 p.m. evening performance. She remembers weeping with tired- ness as the wardrobe mistress

for incredibly hard. years, towards one aim?

So many

Royal Engineers and which were underneath. but the

primarily to naval construction, de frame until the remaining

name.

assisting Colonel Reynolds whole Perhaps the most surprising and

burly Commander John outer rockets began bursting thing about this career woman, 115

invented who

the from their fittings and screained who leaves home at 9 am, and Mulock,

at 2.30-when she special ramp for the landing off along the beach in all direc- Lets back

pursued by doesn't stay on at the theatre craft used on D Day, as well as tions. Rome vainly

anchor which bears hls the Airedale dog. is that the Bnds time to be an

When this mammoth display of well. Few wife and mother as

Perhaps the strangest incident pyrotechnics, was over, and the people know her as Mrs Arthur Connell, wife of a Sunningdale in the history of this fascinating awestruck generals and scientists the from cautiously in Shu establishment occurred doctor, with two children.

Its emerged

the pebble ridge, all is one of the few celebrities who carllest days. It concerned one cover of has succeeded in avoiding any of the very few complete failures that remained of the Great Pan- und inventions iandrum

3 twisted publicity in that sphere of her among the countless life.

which played their part in the blackened mass of wreckage.

It seems to be the same

Was

Everybody has a grouse. Perhaps overybody likes to grouse. the whole world over judging by the reports of China Mail Correspondents, who throw the

Spotlight On Being Miserable

they LISTEN-in on any man-to- m.d'ately

man gossip in Rome to- rumbling about

all start

A

Not unnaturally he seems the lack of choose the "evening out" and, as result chocolate sales have gone down to such In extent that many factories have been

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forced to close...

They grumble that there are The elusive quality of charm day and ten to one the cases, or the lack of schools.

1co

new luxury Bals is not hers. She is intense, im-topic is a grouse against the

No before a performance of "Car- patient with people not connec- Government.

matter which remain empty because and ted with her particular purpose what Government may be 10 one can afford them,

Small wonder then that the bundled her into her costume the small, bored girl took quickly to her dancing classes in South Kensington when the nival." family moved to London. He listiese existence acquired 4 hard kernel of excitement.

Mrs Wordsworth's deportment classes were not intended us a training for the stage, but young

The years with Diaghilev were thrilling, but the strain was too great to sustain, and the idea of creating her was growing in her.

own

Edris so excclles at dancing Offered job at that her parents sent her to a The Old Vic stage school when she was 12,

was touring

notice of the

ballets

By the time she was 15 they called her "the miniature Pav- A this time she attracted the lova," and sho

great Lillan seaside resorts with a troupe of Baylis, not only by her excep "Wonder Children."" By now tional talent, but also by her great ahe was dancing under the name strength of character, Miss Bay

of dancing, extremely brusque

to

many

what the flats the people can afford Grumbles Even Herc

are few and far between.

Los Angeles. You think you could escap

moans hearing constant

and Stockholm.

grumbles if you came down Write TAXES in papital letters, California

way? Thep think and you have again. Far from escaping from bound the moans and grumbles—you Sweden's complaints all up in five letters.

run right into then

with strangers. It seems as if the in office, no matter battle between two selves class of people are gossiping, creative artist and businesslike to slander the Government Five Letters administrator has destroyed all is the Roman way of "get- inessential facets of personally ting it off your chest." At

She is not and small, wears least, as far as the men are underline trilored suits of devastating concerned. simplicity. Dark rings under her eyes betray Intense weariness, As for the women of Rome-

Never before have I met such Recently there was an 11 per- And sometalog a te grumbling about the taxes and

it income tax of tout gives the impression Khered over many years, She they

поте personal grumble it is certainly true that taxation cent increase nerves, but enormous efficiency.

spite ver here. The thousands who about. The majority grumble in this country la heavy,

work in this arechal of the More than anything else she about the high price of clothes, of the fact that Sweden has West-In the nireraft Industries escaped two wars-ware which now luke home. £2,10s less suggests the showroom manage- ress after 20 years spent drilling

After he has pakl his rent

have pretty nearly ruined many pay every week. That is, they take home £22 108. Instead of bill. the Italian other landa. of the Old Vie theatre to devise mannequins impeccable, anapend

$25, "ingredient" dances for their proachabic, perfectly in cam-worker, civil servant or clerit Recently the motorists came productions, Such dances were mand in any situation. considered as a purely visunt At the beginning of the 1014- device, carrylug on the story One feels

with a little light rellet after was selected principal dancer for the Lycount an exceptionally weighty aria,

danced perhaps underlining the drama pantambre, where she annually in Christmas shows tic effect, but never remarkable throughout the war, alternating in their own right until Ninetto with variety turns throughout took over. the provinces,

ON the

The ballerine turned choreo- ok: Oxford, thesize. It was grophor. That was the beginning in those days of Can-Can and of what she calls her triangular

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of a dancer with a name full or

of Ninette de Valols, chosen by her mother, for whoever heard

L

PYOU SHOULD KNOWI Colgujih, while not kvenflowed by name, war the new and. only tontherette used in the setanišfle reemarch on jooth decay

· setenlly repasted to Maárdar's Pigvill

18 war sho

lis invited her to join the staff

food

has practically no money left to give to his wife for new out on a wave of tax grumbling.

Their complaints followed gov there a little eitthes for clothes in Italy are ernment enforcement of 4ft bill feminine softness here. But then either expenitvo

or very ex doubling taxation on hil motor They are certainly vehicles. there has been no softness in pensive. her fife.

All right,

you say, who is lag to grumble, at that The Ewcts that you would if your steak cost 30% 17, and your bread 28 Od a lot. If the nover cheap.

Then there are the taxes on price of your vegetables was

· commands the utmost reg-

men Now put the

and such simple things as chocolates. Poing up and up. ' this and lot's see A boy can either take his girl lond where a car is eksenlini→→ poet from ho company. Every-women, together ore, from stage-door keeper to what they grumble about. One out for the evening-or buy her you saw that petrol seemed to prima ballerine, knows her as doesn't live to wait long for a box of chocolate-he eeriainly be coming you more every time.

for pirnost, in- can't afford to do bolle

you stopped at a filing mation. Madam." The "Dame" is en wer

She