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LEADING

A

LIVELIER LIFE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1058.

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This WOMEN!

BUSINESS WOMAN

Elizabeth Arden

-THE

THE ACTRESS

Cicely Courtneldge

THE POLITICIAN

Pat Hornsby-Smith

Vitality! Why do some people seem to have it unlimited? Are they born with it? Have they trained themselves to keep younger to lead richer lives than others?

This is No. 2 of "Leading a Livelier Life"... a series in which celebrities are pinned down to facts and details. on sleep, drink, diet, holidays..

A

by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

always knows exactly what the ants, and works with he get it right.

A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM- VERY LITTLE STARCH

SHE is also a believer the "hend-down" position

In 10

NLY Cicely Court-

get the bload moving, and has

Inore than once starijed friends

or visitors by standing on her head.

Heath,

to pick

acted, Sutur T3 p.. on

day, May 30, Eliza beth Arden flew in to London Airport from New York to see, the Coronation.

A phrase this makes hy ree red "I think it'll do."

Seconì. the physical factor. Miss Arden has crecl

of

health which is the foundation stone of her success,

do special dishes for themselves.

CHE

Magnetic

I DRAW VITALITY

FROM MY FRIENDS

At one she has a light lunch--

happointment.

The topsy-turvy timetable of the theatre throws the chier weight of her day on to the evening.

To bed at 2 a.m.

M

BECAUSE I WAS BROUGHT UP STRICTLY

ISS PAT HORNSBY. fortably on two or three SMITH. Parliamen- hours in bed, or even, at A tary Secretary to pinch, a half-hour cat-rap

Her holidays are as To-

Foundation

she

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weeks'

neldge could have in- cold meat or an egg salad, cheese and biscuits, coffee, one or two spired Ivor Novello to glasses of water. write a song called Vitality. After lunch, it she has no the Ministry of Health, is at lunch-time. She falls

Only Cicely Courtneidge business

ahe an energetic Junior Minis- asleep instantly, never suf- SIE likes to brush her hair'

across marches

round ter.

fering from worry or unde- once a day with her heild bent could have slung it lown almost 10 her knees, on the first night with such the park. On the way home she

fined apprehensions. does her shopping. choosing Her job entails long hours brushing from the tape of the elan that even the ranks of briskly, going for the first thing neck towards the top of the the dramatic critics could that takes her fancy.

of administrative work. head. "Try this," sho Guys,

At 4.30 she has a cup of ten questions to answer in the stricted as her sleep, for. "when you're tired. You'll feel scarce forbear to cheer.

FEN House, frequent journeys oven when the House is in soothed and refreshed,"

For 40 years Miss Court- and a biscuit, then takes

hour's rest on the sofa. I tried it and it worked.

She round the country visiting recess, her neidge has been the whirl- seldom falls asleep at this time. hospitals.

Ministry work What about relaxation" "wind of the theatre. She has because she has no gift for cul-

goos on. She has about one free week-end in ten, takes starch altogether. - no potatoes, asked her key question,

sung, danced, bur- napping the full treatment-ear"

She has a big load of from two to three and a fruit jelly or junket in my opinion.

Having talked,

to Alesqued in London und on aleart of a pudding.

"Aad what about the considerable number of people. tour with a unique chal-plugs, pads over my eyes, com- constituency work, for her holiday.

plete darkness before I can drop majority in Chislehurst is mothers with a family to cook 1 am beginning

out lience, a warmth that is am to certain ways of living that most lovable and rare.

small and has to be culti- 1 asked. "They have enok substantial ineals for the of them share.

Yated. children, and haven't time to How to relax

【TER. work is her pleasuro And she has to sit in HE Unruffled by a trip of

(q.v. is not only one of the

Elizabeth Arden), bustest stars in the theatre,

meetings and speeches all and It is the basis of her bui- 2 know this from expe

gets kick out 3,000 miles, which sent her fellow travellers gliding in ess: her entire theory of bunu By the time you've a

over England, for the seven of concrete achievements; a now pie in the oven and a fruit PUT on this question of re, who thinks nothing of taking un

hospital or a supply of modern luxury cars to their hotelss built up on hygiene.

MPA And it is the key to her per- pudding on top, you

FTER the show she takes her Conservative women imply taxation they are divided, charity midnight malines and a

equipment. of haven't the time or inclination Some like to cut themselves of broadcast or two in a week when A second and main meat-three are in huge demand. to eat, bathe, and take a 'ronal career: her practice

she has to play eight per courses with perhaps a couple of exercise, to start shredding raw carrols from work when they are away

Red-haired, good-looking, the says. "I was born with "I don't follow any regimo," nap, Miss Arden-not a curt sound diel, pare,

So you from it, resting their minds formances of Over the Moon,

She is also one of those whom glasses of sherry or a cocktail with a concise, to-the-point exceptional health. out of place, not a speck on relaxation, and circulation feeds and chopping up its.

at the pie and pudding your completely, finding in rest fresh her unflagging vitality.

ient what things happen. fuel for the next attack.

attracts usually at a restaurant. She gets She

way of home about one o'clock and hopes Hornsby-Smith sparkles when it's possible, which isn't her famous skin-drive 70

speaking, Miss I like, sleep when I can, get out that children Some like to carry Her food

their work adventure. miles north to Nowmarket

sleep A fire or a burglary she takes for save described her day quite with competence-without often.

at about two. coin- and. with them, a welcome only C

Brow strong

I never take pills or to run a knowledgeable eye

At any her stride.

apecial foods like yeast or sugar. She even laughed

briefly, because I do not think being tough. over her three-year-old fly SE believes in a healthy diet, well if they are stuffed up with pantion, In the mind.

Miss Arden always chooses starek. It i another serves more time, anywhere, they may hear

of her vitality

"it think Instead a chance remark or pick-up a parent delight after her famous that the secret

there Rose Jet before speeding her own food carefully so that

IS an fruit (raw or stewed)

explanation. I was

well and back to London for a con- ' each meal is

and starchy puddings, and more new idea that they can use or mishap at Maidenhead when, as is to be found in the details of balancer

salads and less potatoes, the develop.

strictly brought up." she was graciously presenting 1

She cats little during the day, ference with her mannger. energy-producing:

Mi Arden comes into this the prizes at the River Pageant, But she does not follow

whole family will benefit. Fruit i

business the landing-stage gave way and takes exercise, has a dully rest- SHE works with spon-

"Then there's nothing," I said. rigid regime, or even plan all jellies, milk Jellies or Junkets accond category. Her

ater, but in her case I believe that taneous cagerness rather that adult people con learn her own menus, as she travels are good when fruit is out of is rarely out of her mind. She she was projected into the water. this routine is irrelevant. Indeed than with the drill-sergeant from you?

is always alert for new COS- Miss Courtnelige thank goul

No method of 11fe inetic ideas, her only holidays ness, la not one of your 6 a.m. she disdelns regimes and diets, efficiency of so many women they can try out or imitate?" are business trips.

risers; partly of course, because

in public life. with other

"Not for themselves people,

- but something, perhaps, for But she has one great hobby she is working late every night. her contact win to her is which does break the tension of but partly, too, because the artist She does not enjoy large, crowded

Her powers of keeping children.. loves to surround her life and take her into

unlike the executive-does not parties, but

with herself'

almost super- usually feel at his best with the ner

close friends or going are fresh environment, horse

people whose work she admires natural. down.

Often, after Whenever possible she has

morning at the Ministry, punctual meals, and early nights Housework

felends in lo abaro her lunch.

Loves speed

don't agree

to much und ents away from season and expensive."

rix days in London she home.

the

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parties.

the

to

con-

Like General Critchley. whose regime I discussed Inst work, sho believes that neve meals give one a feeling lethargy, not energy.

rae

In the

with a

MISS COURTNEIDGE wakes

her life,

For more

Eagerness

their

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"I was brought up to a re-

Hifc gular

with substantial,

At the theatre, she inves seeing she goes on to spend the with no reading in bed. I was

USA, and won the Kentucky M at about nine, has a cup of the people who work with her rest of the day and night never allowed to run wild.

Good posture sights, went held business ferences, visited

factory,

healthy and saw her chief suppliers,

of SE believes in a

posture. "Bad pusture," she worked on some new cosmetic

HER dally meals are; fruit or Says "is one of the coinmorost he is one of the most im- colours, then the flew off on a business tour of Europe with a

fruit fuler for breakfast, a causes of fatigue:

"It's Just which

as important included Hght lunch, to tea, a simple programme

to portant women awers Italy, Switzerland, France, and dinners and no snacks l be. hold yourself wolls it is to Spain.

tween Often she starts the exercise or diet." People who Derby in 1047 with Jet Pilot. A woman who adores speert day with a glass of hot water sit slumped in a chair, people She spends many Sunday's

Long are her stables at Belmont, (her hobby: racing; her dearest with the Jules of half a lemon who stoop as they walk,

eramping their internal Wishi

organs Island. this trip: to fly in the squeezed in to --to sugar, Comet), Miss Arden has moved HER most frequent distes: -at-such--temp-all-bor-iffe-that taw or lightly-cooked vegel she has built up a business ables, salads, fruit, Hut she is which operates in 79 countries. not a vegetarian; she eats lean

She started from Feratel, meat or fish in small without inheritance. Today she lies. is easily the most famous busi- ness woman in the world.

Enthusiasm

Wow does she tlo 17 First,

the mental factor.

Like many American women, she has unbounded enthusinsin.

"My work," she says, "is my life and my pleasure." Her in terest

It is so Intense that it creates the energy she needs, the mind dietsting the body's pace.

She is never slowed up by boredom, worry, or uncertainty. Having devoted her life whole- heartedly tu one subject, she

so that it is almost imponsible for them to feel energetie and well.

that "You should straighten quant- hollow in your back, carry the spine week, and anake the most

light-sland, HER aversions: thick sauces: of your

walk too much starel: fruit and wine and sit tall."

at the same meat-they make the system over-seld.

"One trouble over here, I del "her, is that it's not 100 easy to diet in England Canters and tenshops still serve more stureby dishes than anything eise. How can working woman

well balanced meal If she hnu to to inneh out every day, or lunch oft sandwiches?"

It works!

Simple_life_

from this

"I do believe that this fold

the

foundation for my good there health now. I sleep like a log

tea at 9.39 or 10, and starts on and for her.

at the House. At supper after the theatre, active, crowded day.

She takes bath so hot that she is nearly always joined by She often works

ง it is impossible to linger in it, her husband, Jack Hulbert, and until morning, then tries to and can digest anything." dresses quickly, then whips round by a small number of friends.

human These helping-her-houseman-to-make

the beds and tidy up, sometimes subtle button_contacts..nre a get home for a bath. She thinks-that-to-bring-them--

but genuine source of hour's sleep and a quick up methodically 1s the kindest cease- energy to her; this is one of the breakfast before getting gift that parents can give their ways in which the Courineidge back to the Ministry at 10.0. children. That routine, good answers her dozens of batteries get recharged. She is

She likes sleep, if she can food, and long hours of sleep and phones her an artist, and life and its vagaries letters next,

during childhood bulld .up are her inspiration.

get it, but ticks over com- reserves of energy for adult life.

She

single inventing jobs in her À PART

"outside interest," she lives less search for activity. a simple, almost dedicated life. She sleeps about six hours aight, gets up early (seven in friends.

the city, six in the country), is often at her office or working with her secretary by eight. CHE believes in a healthy cir- She works all day and every culation. achieved by rea- tlay, studying the running of sonable exercise. There is no her salons and spas, working need, she says, #

to go in for up the sales of her preparations, strenuous sport unless you wont devising new colours and for- muhe every season, travelling SHE goes through a few sim-" constantly from place to place. ple limbering exercises every "Miss Arden will kill her- "I sugert the cats a very marning, bendist and stretching, self," her doctor once remark- small huich Indeed and has her a her limbs in turn to make' ed misguidedly when she was inulo men! at home at night. the circulation active. She does working at particularly bigh "For this she should always a few deep-breathing exercises pressure. But, as events turn- have some Iruit and green in front of an open window & out, the doctor predeceased vegetables, and should cut out before she starts.

her.

ZONGWE IS HEARD CROWING

IN

THE

Blantyre, Nyasaland. TOM-TOMS are silent in

purple Sugar Loaf Moun- tains.

Thoir music,

AFRICAN

from FRANK MacGARRY

a poor land.

BUSH

hwanas say he realises ho is only the chirtfront for the men who. see in foderation an end to their hopes of becoming the leaders of a new African State on Gold Coast lines.

And if they have advanced

sinister throwing a shadow

Monsters apart, this is A mental blight had fallen on the polite dispute. A handful of bwanas and they no longer knew Government offelals are belated- their own minds. which, ly explaining to the tribesmen signalled boer feasts, wed that their lands and tribal laws conscious, city Africans stepped behind Mwasi, comething more

A group of those politicaity ding_celebrations, and will not be violated, and that in to all the vacuuni. divorce suits before chiefs federation is the only hope for The chiefs, who had lost their over; tho passive-resistanço kranls, was the happiest an economically sound future in old-time flair for tribal

war, facade. Evil listened to their attractive new

omens Bko bleached night sound in this land of

There are pollte rejoinders doctrine, which was called bones are found dangling from easy life.

from the sumil group of poli- Passive Resistanco

was real thatch, dangling from Now the tribesmen hear in the cities who have appointed called Gandhi.

tically-conscious Afrleans from invented by a great Indian older chameleons, snakes and from are found in the paths of wavering the Harkness of the bush the themselves leaders of the 2,225,- shell warning of the N'Fiti, evil 000 tribesmen.

Gandhi literature began to roll Africans, out from the Indlun library là spirits.

Blantyre,

Politicians captured a handful

They hear the sinister cock-

NO LONGER KNEW

and

ANIMALMEN AGAIN Almost forgotion animalmen crowing of the crested serpent In the mind of the ordinary of chiefs the most important have been seen again weaving Zongwe, which colls ito nine paces of length new word used by the bwanna Mwasi

they bellove tribesman, federation is just a was chunky senior chief Mwasi, rhythmic processions, robed in who returned the the skins of goals, leopardo and round tree trunks, and the (white men), and relations with Queen invitation Lo the frenas and cheriting Incanta banshee walling of N'Dondochi, the bwanas have always been Coronation, refused to administer tions the footless and handless evli friendly.

justice any leprechaun.

Ordinary men only hear these mansters.

Dut when bwana (in this care

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and wns Mwast himself will only dis-

cuss

polilies. He told me ho still Nyasaland African Con-

doposed by law administrator.. Witchdoctors alone provincial and distrlet 'commis- gress created a now body called loyalty to the Queen, So I have the power to see them. sioner), having outlined the tho Supremno Council,

"fused her Invitation, fes wing blue suit and enlisted them in the war against "e this a good thing," bwana narod 16 proident, s

And the wilchdoctors live federation scheme, was asked: Mwas allowed himself to and bindir he, himself of royal | frayed stetson hat, nervously federation of the three Central bleakly replied: "It is for you. It is, in fact, an all-African, angered hht Le and

Bald; "I African territories, Northern and to say?"

Pliadow

cannot celcthuto white my people Bouthern Rhodesia and Nyasa.... Then the chieft went to tho "But there "has never been a" nouri, I meant no” discourtesy land

tribes to explain that some cadder looking Supremo. The to Her Majesty,"

In

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