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MUSIELL

EPITEIN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1953.

concluding LEADing a livelier LIFE

Why women are bored

sooner.

than men

When one task ands- to work on another

HAVE been talking to the intellectuals. And not

word have I # heard in favour of vitamins,

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by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

ns

art

the same. They both care for a tot of different things. They both run risks und have a go.

Ustinov a prodigy who Is good at alinast averything, fruit juice, He has tasted success planned sleep, spaced drink- actor and raconteur; as play ing, energising exercises or wright and radio star; as any other physical nid to script writer and producer.

He

speaks vitality.

languages, plays squash, Inves

music, follows motor racing, enjoys

A

live

film-

tearing about in a small scarlet car like a mobile pillar bʊx.

can't

i have talked to one of the greatest philosophers of our time (Bertrand Russell), to Perhaps he un actor above

all brillant young writer else.

As he talks, he (Peter Ustinov), to a

help breaking into well.lustrating his points with come dialogue, loved man of the theatre stories in which he takes all the (Maurice Chevaller), and to parts from the sergeant to

barmaid.

the great sculptor Epstein.

All are men who take an intense interest in the world around them. All agree that # zest for life is created by the spirit alone.

A new career

ERTRAND RUSSELL,

BER

m every line of his deep-etched

2

the

He believes that this is a dim- 10 lend a

This is hidcous period," he says, "because we're the victims of the Pigeon-hole Mind. Most

cult time in which lively life.

gel more pleasure out of music than anything else.

Live, simply and keep

your enthusiasm

Try hard

at something you don't do well

CHEVALIEN

1

USTINOK

a night, drinks very Hulle and seldom makes,

The

Fighting Men Of Scotland Have Won Renown

By J. W. TAYLOR

Sesion from

the Isle of Skye

THE Coronation and the Governors, a Chief Baron of the stati tootland of Exchequer and a Lord of the Queen has focussed atone... attention on the soldiery of Scotland. For nearly three

The seventeenth contury was

centuries Now Scottish dourishing era for Scottish roldiers of fortune on the con. regimenta have been tinent of Europe. Many stern, winning grent reputations hard-billen Scots served JA In the British Army.

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The first regiments of wodern Army were formed . 1660, when Charles II came to the Throne, and the first Scot. fish regiment dates from 1662. when the Royal Seals canle inte existence.

Other

famous

Scottish

"I play a great deal of squash He cats only one solid meal a and tennis, although I'm not day, has fruit or vegetables for brilliant at either. Sometimes,"

his second meal, and only coffee he added with pride, "I pull off for breakfast. His favourite a freak shot that heale a much dish: Irish stew and fried potas belter player."

focs "not," he says, "a very Peter Ustinov does about

as distinguished tonto." much As one man can do to

His favourite relaxation: a prise us out of our pigeon-holes. long walk in the forest outside egiments were formed helore

His clothes, for example, pro- his country home.

1700. Thers was the Second vide the Renaissance galoty he

Regiment of Dragoons, otherwise He lives in a beautiful house commends. He went to liver-

known as the Royal Scots Greys, the stone a few weeks ago to watch with an English garden of mown

lawns and rosebeds at Maraes-blue of Blenheim. In 1860 the which played a big part in the racing wearing a

gaudy tweed Jucket and

la-Coquette. checked "I didn't know you were driv-

soldiers of the King's Bodyguard nous trousers of remarkable cut.

in Scotland besamg the famous Scots Guards. " said

normal wear for racing kit.

friend, mistaking

Touch of scorn

PSTEIN 18 perhaps the most

In the Army (he was for five concentrated worker of them years private in the war he all amiably resisted the deadening

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not

Bertrand Russell reads deter- Live stories. Ustinov

ploys day," he squashi. Chevalier strolls with a

But Epstein works don for two years except for an 40 hard that he hasn't been out of Lon-

otki day taken to open a school.

people are fated to stick to one the ..en I wos sweeping out cane through the woods.

ice, took up mathematies at the The best time

When King,

WillB I became among the units, which wore formed to defeat the Jacobity were the Royal Scots Fuslitr, the Camo.onions and the King's Own Scottish Borterers,

Intrepid Race

IN 1776 the American coloudes I rose in revolt, and the British

Government found itself short of troops,. As Willem Pilt. Earl of Chatham, reminded them:

troopers in the terrible Thirty Years' War which ravaged Ger- May from 1018 to 1648. Famous commanders in it were the brothers David and Alexan- der Leslie, later to be involved in the Scottish Civil Wars, was General David Lestle who threw away a promising.chance to defeat Oliver Cromnwell the Battle of Dunbar.

Stayed On

at

many Scotsmen remained in WHEN the German war ended Europe as soldiers. In Russlo, for example, we hear of Bruces, Douglases, Gordons, Hays, Bells, Farquharsons and many others,

It was Scotland which gave us Sir John Moore, the greatest trainer of men the British Army

has

ever

who was

produced!, Moore, born in a Glasgow tenement in 1761, was next to Wellington the most gifted British General of the Napoleon- e campaign, in which he lost his life.

Probably

British name in the history t

influence of uniform. But always with success,

remember one

Not a soul was there We all look alike and wear but me, and the radio was play Job. the same clothes.

"And if we aren't careful wo in the enema organ, a form of

inunic detest. are rushed off our feet by other

"I switched it to the Ilomer receive a degree, benign, bright-eyed num's pinions, by politicians. Service, and got a symphony

"I'm not one of your Riviera with humour and understanding radio and the Press.

concert. Then in came a ser allats," he says with a touch of He concentrates whole- Kount to buy some razor blades. com. Finding the place empty, he left, heartedly on the work he loves. but switched the radio buck to He works regularly every day

son the the cinema organ on his way from 9 till 5, and as soon as one He work is finished another is be

For the past year he has been working un

monumental sculpture called Soelat. Con- sciousness for the City of Philadelphia; n group of three igures of which two are 13f1.

he endeavour is vast, physically and mentally. But, Epstein, at 73, looks many years younger, and has all the vigour the task demands.

The Renaissance

bit

wus

A

No mallee Intended.

Short sleep

age of 11 and is just starting a new career as

short story 21 writer at the age of 81.

thne to live, which everyone did out. "When I was a boy." says a bit of everything.

When a Just couldn't bup that any Bun. Lord Russell, "I was determined caling prince might be programine should be playinjt t get something importint done scientist or an architect. When but the Light," In the world."

And he never Leonardo, the pointer; tried frittered particle of his cher, ves

given dur fortunate conditions," said, MAURICE CHEVALIER, still what can we do to live more debonair and straw-hatted rounded lives?"

4, says that in a "Do as many things as

sense he pos- never stops working. he -interested in

His peak hours are from 3 to I in the evening, when he does a nightly one-man show he has just given 131 successive shows in Paris with no support except a pianist.

He knew from the start what he wanted to do, and he went at it with all the concentration of his superlative mind.

Concentration, more than any- thing else. is the secret of his sible, und .chlevement. Concentration on everything. his main purpose, And, day-to- "The first thing I bought when day concentration on the Job in I made bit of money was the Encyclopædia Britannico. Now. I often take a volume to bed with me, and read several pages through before I go to sleep.

"I have taught myself to work in almost any conditions," he

tuld me. "When travelied lot, I used to work in the tralu, I could work with the children playing under my window.

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"I could even work the garden on a hot day with a cloud of wasps round my head: buzz, buzz, buzz, but I hardly noticed the things.

"Then" 1"learned to divide my day easily between one Interest and another. First, perhaps,

political writing; then

spell of

would switch to an essay.

a

"You see, I have control orci

the direction of my thoughts."

it's

"Aren't there any

too

conditions

diffi- the

in which you and work cult? Lasked, thinking of torment of trying to work when

hot

101 or when one's hungry, when the children are hammering on the door, or when everyone else in the family is watching Wimbledon on TỶ,

Не gave his impish smile. 1 someone within earshot

but all day long he is thinkt- ing out new ideas for his work on the stage and on TV.

Then, I think it's important to take a passionate internat ht

The son of working people, Homething on don't do well. Chevalier Ilves simply and gets I'm not a great musician, and enthusiastic over simple things, perhaps for that very reason I He sleeps only five or six hours

both

JONE of these four men, then, will offer you any easy; magic aid to perpetual" youth, No vitamins, hormones, monkey glands, or apa tregiments have contributed

mite to their

wealth of energy, output, and enjoyment, There is nothing you can buy in a shop. But it is there for us all.

ADMIRAL RADFORD'S

HUSH-HUSH TRIP

By Richard Hughes

Tokyo. Mark Clark, commander of the Admiral Radford gertainly dis- U.S. Ambassador John of Formosa with Chiang on his ford, new Asia-minded Allson over the mounting neu- recent chairman of the US. Joint trallat, an-American sentiment

visit: delivery of U.S. Chiefs of Staff, has just in Japan, which on a long-range

Jets has been promised,

Air power has been regleried completed a hush-hush fact- ity plans in the Far East.

view must influence U.S. secur-

in the Philippines-partly bo cause jet planes do not perform well in the hot moist climate.

ADMIRAL Arthur Rad- und S. Arissadar pan, cussed the aerial development

finding tour of the Far East

talking about me," he said, to shape and develop long- aiready arguing that the United and partly because the Philip.

nil have

range S. strategy in the Orient.

de-

Some American offleers aro

find it quite distracting."

States should be making al- ternative plans for more But as we cannot

perxlable Bertrand Russell's brains I asked His visit focusses attention on air bases than Japan, in her garrison, naval and him what ordinary mon and the vital 3,000-mile-long uro- current mood, will offer in, women could do put more tective screen of islands which

to

say, five years' time. into life and get more out of IL. stretches along the Asialle

This would mean He believes that people should mainland, curving down

from U.S. concentration be interested in a great many the

Coasis of Hokkaido, naval strength-not things: that the more things a through the powerful air base popular policy in Washington developed into an effective and man is interested in, the

of more Okinawo and the rocky as there is a complete absence opportunities he has for hap- piness.

'Look outside”

that

foggy

of Formosa to

Phines, and then sweeping For

evch

eventual on air and an Un...

the of suitable, or

available back eastward to the palm-and-

Eastern areas for U.S. coral group of the Mariana army bases outside Japan Islands, with Guam as the re- Such thinking alous" at the puted storage base for U.S. moment, might also persunde atomic weapons.

the shrewdly reluctant Japanese to greater self-help in défence,

Okinawa, with major

FOUR POINTS

fold

at Kadena and Naha, has great strip which could be

pine Government had adopted

U.S. authorities for the use or harassing policy of demanding extravagant payments from the extension of existing bases.

Clark

Flold

north of Mantle, has only a single 9,000 ft. run- way. Luzon (the main island) could, however, bo swiftly defenable staging Asiatic air operations.

Guam and the other Mariane Jalands of Tinino and Salpan thus become the natural back- stop to America's Far Eastern island screen.

base for

IDEAL HUB

Too many people instead of looking out at the world and all the things it has to offer-think only about themselves and "gaze upon the emptiners within." Bertrand Russell feels

QUAM, U.S. territory, is the used for landing. ad re-fuelling ideal geographic hub for air, more subject to women

by

bombers.

* son and radio communications, boredom than men, because they

to Yet it is highly vulnerable to sub. are the victims of centuries of and naval strengut, particularly typhoons, and its level areas maring attacks. Its single power conventions which diminished at Port Arthur, their zest.

"T

are

keep myself to

DMIRAL Fladford's four- point musion was

·1.

To assess Communist

by the

But

3-30

la vulnerablo 10

pro Po lew that

cao base

navy base, and Soviet sub bombers--a maximum of 150

wings of medium plant, conveniently painted

B-20

dazzling white, is within peri- scope sight from the sea. Oli Super storage tanks and fuel pipelines to the air bases are all equally against Koren, vulnerable. confined to night Since the Korean war, the deld, in the north- comer of the island, has boen

quietly built up into ane of America's greatest

the new Rot only four myself" in marine strength in the Kurlie planes,

The woman's

which Istands, to the north, and Hai fortresses, operating currently remark, women mako with mistakennan Island, to the south.

from Okinawa pridė.

2. To balance the advau are now His advice to them is to look tages and disadvantages of the strikes. outside themselves and enjoy polley advocated by Atlantle everything. To enjoy their minded strategists in Washing- meals to enjoy reading; to ton-of transferring large units enjoy

a train journey with its of the U.S. Pacific fleet to the opportunities for studying other West in the event of a cease-fire KI

KINAWA is also subject to An annexe to the field, heavily people; to enjoy work if in Koren.

the same fundamental weak- fortified, double-fenced.... and possible; to enjoy the frost and the ruin and the sun.

Hideous period

PETER USTINOV is younger than Bertrand Russell by half a century, But the older man has remained so young that his vitality easily spans those nity yours.

Though their tastes are widely different, their essential attitude to Ufe is much

carcers

and

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the depend. Thess of anti-foreign feollig as illuminated at night, is rigidly ability of U.S. naval bases in Japan.

overwhelming "off limits" oven; to air force

The

Japan (Sasebo and Yokonika), majority of the natives are the target for increasing popus anxious

the army on security

Finally,

Tiulah (the atombomb base) and

bacorns Islands of- mystery, aloand to

to revert to Japanese ronnel. U.S. Marines have lar and political criticien in rule nhot aro sullenly ob duties, Japan, where public feeling is structing the Americans, rising against the. U.S. recurlly Formoa + accordingly becomes forces,

Increasingly important In 4. To tost, generally, the US. – Krafegle

planting. The strength of all the island links 14,000 square mile island, only all

My, the

US. navy. It

in the Pacific chain of American 10 miles from the China const, is at least known that. Chinese defence quiposts.

has not been developed as an Nationallat trpops, flown in from Admiral Radford, it is reliably alt base, Chiang Kai-shek has Formosa, are being trained thers reported, was infected with the only, a few hundred obsolete In the use of modern weapons profound concern of General planks but 2,000. good pilots, for commando-type warfare, d

Added Romance

moul famous

Airien between Livingstone and Rhodes was that of General Charles George Gordon. He was born at Woolwich in 1893,

of "I sought merit wherever it

a Scottish Heutenant- could be found. It is my proud general. and brought up at boust that I was the Best Minia Lelih. ter who looked for it and found it in the mountains of the North, 1 called it forth, and drew it ito your service, a hardy and intrepid race of

men-men who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies. These men were brought up to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, the English county regiments and as they fought with valour, and the Irish and the Welsh units, they conquered for you in every added romance, to their consider

but their kilts and their pipes part of the globa."

COTTISHI

have

Tegiments' always been famous la British military history. Man for man, four they were no better fighters than

able prowess, and many stories

In 1778 the great Chatham went around about their gallant diod, but in the same year two deeds. fresh Scottish regiments, the

Highland Light Infantry and The Highland Brigade won The Seaforth Highlanders, werd glory in the Crianca under mised. The Gordon High- General Sir Colin Campbell, and landers followed in 1787. the shared the early but honourable Cameron Highlanders in 1703, defeats in the Boer War,

The and the Argyll and Sutherland Thin Red Line" at Balaclava Highlanders in 1704.

was formied by the Argyll ond Sutherland Highlanders, and the Many years later a Scottish same regiment marched with soldier who had

become Campbell In 1837 to the Roller Adjutant-General of the Forces

of Lucknow. declared that in a period of only 40 years between 1797 and 1837,

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