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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1953.

We can't catch up with it!

The call for "Black & White" continues

to grow all over the world, for connois

mettre agree that it is a Scotch in à cizss all its awa.

Blended in the special "Black & White” way it is a splendid drink at all times and

for all occasions.

BLACKWIT

'BLACK&WHITE'

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The Secret is in the Blending

By Appointment

+

to the late King George VI

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ON THE TRAIL OF THE STURGEON

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NEW Column

London 15 prom Service

I'm Back Home-And

Do I Find!

What

HILE they are busy with plans

W

the

on a

to

keep unde- sirables out of West End during Coronation time, somebody, much higher level, ought to overhaul the sys- tem of deciding just who should get presented members of Family.

MacCOLL IS HOME FROM AMERICA, WHERE HIS LIVELY MIND AND 'PEN HAVE INTERPRETED BRILLIANTLY THE NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE UNITED STATES TO READERS. TODAY HE BEGINS HIS PERSONAL COLUMN. .DATELINED LONDON

often to not only to the reporters who the BBC reminds me—1

routine watched it in America-af eu- were trying to do a

ODD, THE THINGS I DO

Interviewing

a cat

By Bernard Wicksteed

London.

JUST de pe a good chap and pop up to

UST. ns I was going for lunch someone in tha

the BBC. They've got an eat thero giving a Press conference."

So I missed my lunch and leaped into a taxi. There wasn't even time to buy a kipper for the cat

The celebrity that caused this flutter · in Fleet Street is a Siamese queen · called - Tai .... Lu............... (All female cats are queens). She ia about to minow on the air in Lionel Gamlin's programma "Hello There."

She has been on TV and has had two books written about her ima ginary adventures. Sha is also insured for £500 against theft, arson, food poisoning, and ac-

CHOOSEY ABOUT FOOD cidental motherhood. Tat Lu, the Siamese queeN.

New

As it happened. It was a good job. I didn't buy har a kipper, because under the terms of her insurance policy she is not allowed to cat pork or fish with bones in it.

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Tal Lu was ushered into the studio in a basket and let out. She took one look at the photographers and me with my notebook at the ready and dashed off to hide under a grand piano.

Billy Thatcher, her own- or and blographer, coaxed her out. He, bent down UR- der the piano and made, 'a noiso like a mouse.

The panel looks about as re- out to be the leak to end all laxed as if it were awaiting a leake.

The photographers want- grilling by the NKVD.

It was obtained by James

ed a picture of her minow But ur ony case, why must "Scotty" Reston, of the we slavishly сору American York Times, who has been the ng into a microphone, but ideas on the air?

despair of his American rivals Tai Lu had other ideas and Surely parlour games are not in Washington for years past. wouldn't pose. So a pub- scarce hero in England? Try a But now the Democrats are

good vicarage some time, BBC. IGNORANT

out-and Mr Acheson and other licity man who had ar top State Department men golranged the conference went with them. It remains to be off to the BBC canteen to seen whether Reston can now get some meat. Tai Lu was

stan-stfil choosey, maintain his

own high

the Royal job of work, but to other users countering an old friend out on EVERY so often! I and my dards under the fishy eye of the

There are now so many op portunities at the various "gala premieres which have become fashionable in the past few

years.

CORONATION

BRATE

of the highway.

The Earl of Dalkeith's is doubtless an exalted title, and there were famous gucats at his wedding. But was he not just another private citizen in

It is time that some of the a car when the police decided

to get into the act?

Surely citizen Dalkeith doesn't really need a of coppers to set up roadblocks In his wake?

{WHOLSIRABLE

advisers at Buckingham Palace were told the facts of life.

FRUMPISH

carload

In this Coronation Year it is curely the duty of those bear- ing the responsibility of saying Estandard of dressing dis- who shall be presented

played by the women of Royal Family to get a lot more London depresses me consider choosey

ably.

our

The Hollywood interests do Yes, I know that "there is and not care, of course. The more not much money about,"

for the merrier as far as they are that most women have concerned; and let past more to cope with than they

take care of itself.

But think the

Palace

being

nalve

advisers are Just a shade

when

Bout

the bona

& man

they

01

apparently rently question, Ades simply because he bas attained fame t entertainer. While people still ousted from the Royal En- Cloture

Ascot because there is a

an

the

bu a

ut

divorce on their dossier, It might gook! inspect the of back, records

to

thing

the public enter- tainers who show

the

[7.1

while

used to have,,

strange,

strolled

In Scho out of hours the other afternoon, to be approached by three different men with the murmured incl. tation, Looking for a nice drinking club, sir ?" Appar

ently our Coronation guests from OvETSEJA will have litle - to worry about si far as irrigation is concerned,

rather

up in London with a sharper eye before the red car pet la unfurled for them.

to

But if a woman really wants make herself pre- sentable she will manage it, what ever the obstacles and discourage- ments.

Where

dld this drersiful fashion

that is the word come from of wearing floppy snowboots which extend half way up the shin?

J

Some

etimes It scema that tho whole of London is peopled with a roco of booted frumps.

LUXURIES

*

Eventually someone had the great idea of putting # piece of meat on the mike itself. Like forked light- ning the cit grabbed it. Flach, flash went the photo. graphers' bulbs,

Administra❤ erstwhile colleagues of the new Republican his arst teetering walk after a

New York and

Washington lon. He will have to be at his terrible operation.

What big brain over at

Press corps were belaboured most charming to do so. the

-with-the-accusation that it was But Washington will prob- BBC thought of conscripting an largely our fault that Britain ably go on leaking away mer- Oxford don,, of all people, to compere this show?"

1 batter Informed

boat slly-for that's the way it likes

to do things. USA My advice is to put in some-

But I scarcely feel that we one with a sense of tempo and

a profes- can be held responsible for a timing, preferably

to lack of elementary education, sional from show business,

At dinner the other night a NOW some of the nice things run things.

Marcus Dick may well wow fairly senior member of Lon- to come back to:-I can't the high table at his college don University asked me tell you what a luxury it is to with many a polished epigram, seriously If Mexico is a depen be able to buy tickets for pret- but it seems to me that "Dow deney of the USA (Mexico has ty well any show in the West You Go" needs him

fish been a fully independent-and End wheut suffering you are I realised too late that I

fiercely proud -- nation since ritating realisation that needs fur.

And what is wrong with the 1810)......

Don't they panel members? know that the essence of these

a

mildly foolish parlour games is thut all hands should think and

talk fast and give the impres- slon of being relaxed?

· LAST LEAK?

the

Tai Lu was taken out of

ir- the studio in her basket and

on the rough end of an exter- tion racket....And to cat some hadn't asked her a single

Silly game again! Game is almost un- question.

sort of obtainable in most parts of the Press conference I call it

And to rediscover how States.."

--(Landon Express · Service)

Is just possible that the good things

latest "leak" from' Washing- - ton-ubout the confidential con= | versation on the Middle East between Mr Churchill Secretary of State Dean Ache- son at a private British. Em- bassy dinner party-may turn

Now-TV while

they shirk

From RALPH BEWING: Stockholm,

NOOPING by TV-is being introduced

into Russian factories. This is being done, says the Russian magazine Literary Gazette, to bring workshop operations Into the manager's view without his having to leave his desk or the workman to leave his bench."

Mass education by TU

ها

lie

and

The boote may be desirable In mow or fog but must they also be sported when the weather is dr?

A screen 15ins. by 23ins, And why all

the head also being developed to serve is being installed in workers scarvest Since when have tho | the Stalin programme for clubs and assembly halls, so women of this great capital set buliding Communist society." that 40 viewers ; at a time out to apo Central peasants?.....

TN the United States many people are concerned over police. the behaviour of the There are frequent complaints of brutality and over-eagerness I to start gunplay. By

Britain'

European

WAKE UP, TV

MISSED

Royal Academy President Sir Gerald Sweetie Pie") Kelly on TV to the other night. But to me the Impact of British TV since But what an odd episode I got back to London a few that was

with adm

the

look in

But at present, Russia has only: about 10,000 sets, in all-in Moscow, Leningrad, and Klev, [About one set to every 2,000 10 people in Rusia-against one

25 in Britals.

can And big screens are coming into use so that conferences can And experiments are being be bold simultaneously in several made with a screen 354ins, by cilles without busy executives 47ins, for hotels and hospitals, having to

trip to Lics and one 3yds, by 4yda, för big

the crowds. cow for conferences in Kremlin and elsewhere."-

The ultimate aim is to endow overy Rusalan "with" TV."

To this end a nationwide TV network is being built up, it is after the Dalkeith weeks ago has been about as claimed, with threo types wedding in Scotland the other invigorating as an income tax apparatus: Mass-produced, In- day. As the honeymooning demund

family expensives.

sets; big A new TV station is being couple drove away a police card tegen, d

and bullt at Kharkov, But Stalin group viewing: fell in behind them as escort. Much of the stuff one sees sets dor Inter-town transmission. has a long way to go before fils Then, it seems, the police in American screens is inept The "Inexpensive" pels cost nationwide TV network is com slowed their car broadalde and vapid--but at least it from £110 to £223. [About plete The Government paper, across the roadway, thus barw moves at a great pace. The twice the price of TV sets in vertia, admits there me “fur- ring: the public a thoroughfire "Down You Go" programme by Britain 1933

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