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'NON,

I

NON!

Cannes,

WOMAN in shorts. brassiere and iridescent

TO SHORTS

at the

MATISSE

CHAPEL

Matisse gave his design free: he still comes occasionally froni hla at near Nico to supervise. But the nuna are responsible for the money for the con- struction.

SILENT GARBO :

ΑΝ

NOTHER curiosity of the Riviera is the ex-alm star who shuns publicity.

green-painted toenails stepped out of the sizzling heat down the cool, white staircaso leading to the world's strangest religious sunctuary the Chapel of the Rosiry designed by 83.

In her distinctlye uniform of year-old French artist

mushroom - shaped straw hat, Matisse for the Dominican Fixed on the severe, white tied under the chin, block sun- nuns of Vence, in the hillside wall of the squat bulld glasses, flat shoes and bulging ing in a framed cdict from Arch- brown liandbag, Grota darbo between Cannes and Nice. Bishop Remond of Nice. Warns stalks mysteriously past other A grave-faced sister in white the Archbishop: "Those not visitors in the foyer of the Carl- and black Dominican habit preeming themselves in decent ton Hotel, walks upstairs to her raised a chocked hand. "Nen clothes will be forbidden to on- room for fear of meeting anyone No, Madame," she whispered. ter. All loud conversation and in the lift and turns her head

Presently the

visitor re any display or an incorrect at- away abruptly and silently appeared from her car in skirt tude will mean the expulsion spoken to. end jacke The little mita of the visitors concernod." allowed the green toenails to get by.

‘OUTRAGEOUS'

THEY are very strict now et

the Chapel of the Rosary Only on two days a weck- Tuesday and Thursday-for two rigidly limited hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon are the pubile allowed

in.

THE LOVELY CHILD

with the

TERRIBLE

HE was six-and-a-half years old, a beauti-

ful, healthy and in- telligent child.

home environment

Her

Was

good. But, one day, for no apparent reason, she started to scream-not the scream of a spoilt or bad-tempered child, but an uncanny, high- pitched screaming went on and on.

that

It alarmed her mother. It alarmed the neighbourhood. And it alarmed the doctor who was called.

The screaming fit was re- peated at intervals of about three weeks to a month, Each attack lasted anything from 20 minutes to three quarters of an short, till the child was blue in the face and ex- hausted. The spells came on at no fixed time or place. One occurred in busy store, another in a tram-

Tuns

SCREAM

is the second chapter of a new China Mail Saturday series dealing with vitally important work of fascinating human interest.

For many years wonderful work in dealing with problem chlidren has been done by a woman whose genius is famous to, international experis yet who is almost unknown to the world at large because she shuns publicity.

She La

of Notre Sister Marie Hilda,

Dame Child Guidance Clinic, in Glasgow, Scotland, which she pioneered nearly 30 years

age.

The clinie treats children of all classes and creeds and ita remarkable auccess is due to a combination of human ip- sight and selence,

The key to the problem of preventing much of the nervous disorder and mental illness now so common in adult life Uits In such treatment of dimeult children.

an

This chapter deals with three more casca.

could learn to read. As he be-

more com-

Bu!

the

didn't

on

"People behaved in such outrageous way that we had to step the daily visits," said the plump, brusque Mother Su perio. who rules the 12 nuns and the 35 (paid for by the French Social girl convalescenta Security) under her ence at the convent. conve

"They looted on the chapel They showed a side show.

no ruverence. They made loud and vulgar jokes about it,"

Recently the Holy Office In Rome Lasued 4 6,000-word instruction, on sacred ayi. This deplored "Images and styles lafely introduced" which seemed to be "deformations and debase- ments of sang art.”

'FAITH, PIETY' THE instruction said that if new styles were adopted "the House of God must never be made dimilar to a profane building," and insisted on "a sincere" "faith and piety in the arists,"

girl this lttle want to play. She was far too polite for such a small child, and obviously uneasy in the presence of other children. She wouldn't play because,

05 he "might fimes, she said man set diriy."

Investigation had shown t she lived in a quiet district, where she had opportunity of

F་ country

to

В

#f

It is dimeult to recognise her without the disguises.

Hatless, the long sleek hair of the old romantle days is seen to be short and frizzy. Nobody noticed when Garbo drevo baro- headed through the town in her big blue open convertible to

ZINA RACHEWSKY ... torch on the sen

RIVIERA NEWSLETTER from .

EVELYN IRONS

board the sleam-line

onging

Affa, 184-ton motor yacht be.

to Sir Duncan Orr-

Matisse buy The psychintrist there recom-

treat- licen called at monded, "play therapy" ment. So the girl arrived one different times morning, a poor, fragile little to atheist and Communist, thing,

imaginative" in playroom.

His work 13 This is a room equipped with believed to be rocking horses, swings, round-one target of the instruction. abouts and stacks of construc- The Mother Superior did not tive toys; with 12 child-size comment on the Papal edict. But shop, post office, and tea-room, she said: "Matisse is no atheist. Lewis.

He is a believing Catholic.

The yacht is being used this Nobody but

could month by Carbo after Existen- have created this

talist cabaret singer. Jallette A charabane

of sight Gregg, ricevering

fcom an scern streamed in when I was operation which has changed the

comment Most tolerant there.

shape of her nose to a straight a grey-haired taxi- came from driver. "It is bizarre," he said, Grecian, had Balshed with it, as "but I would not care to judge a retreat from the world. it. They thought Michelangelo's

Chapel ay

pratty odd a WHISKY,

PLEASE Forces, and he was boarded out that the psychologist. had ipid institution. The staff him the truth. The hurdle in

pwn view! This T WENT one night to have a at Carrolls Beach at La found him

look there

quite un- wasn't insurmountable. He really

littlefor me the flower of & manageable.

Garoupe, close to Juan les Pins mixing He was very cheeky to ther cane better at it, his general

with whole life of work."

are a favourite haunt of Aly Khan's. Meanwhile, the visitors children of her own age. Her and to his teachers at school, attitude improved.

had paying an average of 2s. 6d. each This becomes an open-air night mother admitted that she He also became hour-in stayed out late, played truant,

into

plate. And club after dinner.. the offerton always wanted her daughter they are spending many pounds and was always fighting or hit- municative, and lled in the gaps

be a credit to her. Yes, per

Because neighbouring villas books and postcards and re- on ng boys smaller than he was, in his history. Iie had told the Although he had average in story to nobody before, and it haps she had been too insistent productions (paper covered complained of the noise, police telligence, he was backward in was a great relief to get it off

on good manners.

souvenir book 18s. 6d. one banned microphones after mid- arithmetic and could read only à his mind.

This background information Matisse lithograph £4 10s.) to night and Annabel, its artistle director, did not sing. Instead, a great deal in the benefit the building fund, As a child he had been over- helped very few simple words,

Zina water-skier The chapel is still unfinished, American He didn't go out of his way in protected by his mother. Then, diagnosis and treatment of the

he was four, he was

child's help the psychologist at their when

But Arst of all. A langle of clesirle wires hangs Rachewsky, in a while swim-

she that His it was

from read evacunted during the war.

one point in the ceiling. suit and carrying blazing first interview. Asked to

be

eat. The doctor advised the dis something, he shrugged his mother had to promise she would should persuaded to

Matisse

designed five vividly torch, For

daring dimlay on the first morning in the patterned chasubles for the the rancan" below." As traught mother to laite

shoulders and sheared: "Ach, I go with him, otherwise (for he little giri to the clinic, There

was a real mother's boy), he playroom, the mother had been priest; only two of them have the speedboat zoomed in a plan- canna read!"-such an

turn two biscuits for been made. A squad of work-

end the of the asked learned read-

Ecrous workers the-trained- the background to the case....

A lifetime's acquaintance with she didn't join him, he felt he

chlidren were logist had been deserted. an only child, very fond of her children enables the psychologist,

their gates has bern locked behind the body on the points of the skis. having biscuits during the morning tourists.

fly the floodlights were father, who was away in the to take truculence like this in his

break,

uitlie hunger- The foreman agreed when the

water Forces. That was the first

stride. Quite unmoved, he set

striker was presented with Mother Superior told me: Cuban dance band resumed out to find out why the boy was After a year, he was brought hers. Her immediate and typi-"These men are not being paid. their sambas and the customers a rebel, which meant getting be home again; but since his mother

cally polite-reaction Was to We still have to ind many went on dancing. the profective barrier the was ill, he was taken to an

"Oh, no, thank you very millions of francz. None but the institution.

of taste. lad had built up.

Then his mother much.

best and

Noticeable switch most expensive He To do so the psychologist died, but he wasn't told.

was This refusal

materials could be worthy of the few ordered champagne, Whisky accepted treat found out by accident

Is the drink. was applied a kind of shuck ed the starting fact that

calmly. The play therapist design." the key to the whole situation. ment.

had later. Brat shock This child was

sald, in a matter-of-fact tona: This was a terrible shock. He you don't want them? no: merely already been given by the calm,

Then highly intelligent. Unknown to reaction to the boy's rudeness. had almost hated his mother for

you won't mind if I divide her parents, she had the Inter- Usually it gained him some not coming to see him. When he

among up

the other Tre of a potential genius. And notice, but here it was apparently knew that she

was dead, and them

chlidren, it was her super-intelligence regarded as nothing out of the that his reproachful thoughts

That was quile different! that was responsible for

had been unjust, he had a deep

After all, they were her bis- number two was that feeling of guilt. Naturally these cuits; her mother had brought violen tantrums.

Thinking that her daughter the people in the clinie, after a emotional upsets affected his was too young to understand time, were prepared

cur.

CJUC.

Then the child was given an intelligence test, which reveal-

to

а

al

plishment was beneath him would have refused to go. When her when the other men marched in as soon as the show, Zina fell; cutting--- ber

the pr

The

a year

the

The

to accept school work; and as he became treating to a corner of the

end

the father's absence, the him at the value he had put on more and more backward, he mother had sought to keep her himself. As he was showing no turned to bullying to keep his happy by putting her off with marked improvement, it was vague explanations and pro- decided to treat him as a tough

nises that Daddy would be back.

The screaming is were expression of a highly

soon guy.

intel-

ligent young mind's revolt against a set of circumstances which it was not being permit.

ted to understand.

A calendar played an impor- Jant part in the euro.

The child's quick brain

sho

fs

room, and looking suspiciously

at her playmates, she hurried-

up.

ly ate the biscuits; and there He began to improve as soon

of nausea or the need

for compensation were no signs

alckness afterwards. was removed; that is, when it was proved to him that he wasn't

There was no stupid.

He

miraculous transformation

*

The psychiatrist in charge

But this concession carried a mira challenge. "You're a tough guy? remained aggressive and difficult. And yet you can't read as well as but the way to normal boyhood of the case summed it up in

He

a boy of your intelligence should had been opened up.

had

this way: The little Rirl's

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from the

Boy on National Service Just Dare Not Tell-

A

By Chapman Pincher

last September, with the states ment that they were taken "on an unrecorded flight."

London, India my dream had been to y SECRET flight over over Everest, and here was my

chance. Mount Everest in a His flight explains the new an photographs of Everest published have Spitfire was made by energies, which should been directed into normal play HAF pilot on National Ser- activities, not been deprived of vice in India. He wanted that outlet by her mother's in-

some photographs for pistence on perfect behaviour. She strongly resented the high album, standerds demanded of her, yet The pilot, Mr Kenneth at the same time she was afraid Neame, kept his secret for she wouldn't be able to live up five years because he made

to them.

his

The photographs were of great value to Mr Erle Shipton, the Everest explorer, who made a reconnaissance expedition to the Himcayas last sutumn.

be able to read. You could it been shown how he could be you tried-but you're not tough tough and yet keep out of at enough to

to try."

trouble. Ilis energies were now unce appreciated that, on

This approach was the result directed the

Into worth- while calendar marked with the ear of careful thought: The channels. ilest date of his return, she psychologlet was convinced, could watch the passing of the from his study of the boy, that

Hungry Girl Was time which must elapse before the secret weakness behind his

would

"Too see her father again. bullying was his inability to read.

Good" Once the child's unusually If he could be convinced that

I sho failed, she might lose the flight without permis- They strengthened his belief

the keen mental oppetite for hard he could read as well as anybody HE was pretty, and

Eummit might be three her mother's affection, which sion. He is now a medical that

south side, facts and clear explanations else, then it would no longer be

years old; a friendly, In was essential fer her security student at St Mary's Hos- accessible from the was satisfied, there were no necessary for him to bolster up telligent little girl, with de. Her failure to cat

which had not been climbed had been

before. more screaming fits.

hls self-esteem

pital, London. by knocking lightful manners.

But, for six produced by the conflict aris-

His fight, wishes other kids around,

disclosed quite months she had steadfastly re- ing from these hidden

Mr Neame look the pictures casually through An inter- through the plastic cockpit cover An appeal

to decency wasn't fused to cat. Bofore that, ahe

and calic's

mediary, was made after he com- of the acroplane while flying at likely to have much

Tho effect, it had been a perfectly healthy,

social worker,

picted a mission in the Spitfire, less than 1,000ft, above Everest's would merely make the boy normal child..Then

suddenly on her visits to the parents,

He bad enough petrol. to visit 29,000ft. advised them to make

mcal- IT isn't easy to pity a bully, decide the dinic staff were soft. she had stopped cating, for no

He held the control stick with especially if you happen to be So the psychologist was brusque, apparent reason.

times just an ordinary part of Everest, 100 miles away.

He knew that only one man his left hand and operated the Her father and mother were everyday routine. No emphasis before him, a U.S. dic, had made camera with his right. one of his victims. Yet the bully just as rude as the boy was. But

She was their is a victim himseltauntly of all the time he was putting up

frantic.

only was to ko laid on food; non solo fight through Everest's challenge.

daughter. They would have fussing or entreating. Good some secret weakness which his toughness is meant to hide.

The effect on the rebel was given her anything she wanted manners weren't to be stressedangerous alr-puskoots. twofold.

He was irritated by yet they had to watch her unduly. The youngster who stood in w

fading away because, Clind Guidence tough as he thought; and he was thrilled ot the idea that he had it

The Tough Little Bully

front of the psychologist at the the suggestion that he wasn't the last thing sho

de- 15

he

"I wondered what would hap- pen if the engine cut, but the now looked so deceptively soft and flat in a lot of places that I nwhile, the child played |

He knew that the trip involved did not particularly worry," Notre

at the clinic. learning flying over forbidden territory in wrote in his diary. Dame Clinic, was a very tough chick in him to overcome his handi-

Was

food.

difficult art (for her) of Tibet.

"As I came over the ridge on Only with the greatest dim- zetting enjoyment out of mak- indeed. His alouch was

He knew that he would be in the southern side of the Kang- liberatu

his unhappy fe had been given hope.

emp. He had been phaken and culty could she be induced to ing a mess. And on the day serious trouble if the HAP shung Ginder, something hut the

He drink a little milk each day. If when for the first time, she authorities dound out."

Kite with A terrige kick. ready 12

97 was forced in any way to played happily and freely in But he wore keen mount was probably a sweep of ho had a pocket ale coming up between Everest solid food, she was violently the wet sand, it was reported toner

that joyfully from her home camera with him he was 21, und Lhotse, the next peak.”.

Mr Nesmo did not mention his That was why he had been by special couching, it had its sont this girl to..

A last her family doctor she had eaten all her dinner!" So 30 decided to risk the flight. plied to his lessons. Backed jp

the Notris

Afterwards - ite-wrote in- bis adventure until after he war sent to the clinic. Hisbmother

(Moro, Next Saturday) diary: Bince setting foot In demobilised, was dead, his father in the effect, Gradually he found out. Dame Child Guldanco Chinle.

insult, was paly Inn

near at

anything gentle, good his treatment.

was ripe the next stage

or. pleyer. At the age of 12 ke- had sat himself up as a rebel,

The some challenge-was

up, sick.

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