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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1953.

A BALLERINA SINGS-

THE Star and the Gangster of Hollywood filmsan natirised by the French In the ballet "Cine Bijou."

Colette Marchand is the sad little typist who goes to a cinema and imagines she is the Broadway atar. Roland Petit is the little clerk In the cinema who imagince he is the gangster up there on the screen.

But, in the clid, there they are back in the elnems just a sad little typist and a clerk.

What A Tonic It Is!

R

By David Lewin

London.

OLAND PETIT, the bright bad boy of tallet, swept his company into London and startled the new West End show business season into life.

Peter Ustinov and Terenco Rattigan came to the Stoll. A brace of flim knights came along-Sir Carol Reed, Sir Michael Balcon. British ballet was there with Fonteyn, Helpmann, Elvin, Dolin, and Dame Ninette de Valols.

What did they acc? They saw a complete disregard of "old-hat" ballet tradition.

What shot in the arm the show wast This lusty team of dancers has a rage for life. At the end the audience brought them back for a dozen curtain calls and then more, -All deserved.

Why? Because Roland Petit, a 20-year-old, tall, dark-haired Parisian, gives his ballets wit, passion, and sex. No "Swan Lake" In his repertoire. No Ured stories. He says: "I don't want old Intellectual stuff in my dances. That is for the dowager duchesses. "For me there are just three basic ballet Ideas: make it ex- clting; make it theatrical; make It virile."

To applaud his Innovations and his vivid- dancing style show people stayed in London f Instead of going North for the Edinburgh Fes- tival.

They saw three ballets new to London. "Cine Bijou a satire on. Hollywood film musicals and gangster pictures. And with it a revolu- tion-ballerina Colette Marchand sang a song.

"I've Got Nothing Under My Coat,"

For 20 Charladies

Appointment At The Palace

By STANLEY BONNETT

On

Lightweight frolic -in jazz style

Never before has there been jazz-style singing in a ballet. "Cine Bijou 15 a lightweight frolle, to the wail of saxophones and a jam session and "Jitter- bug dancing on stage.

Then "The Wolf,"

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iragic awesome story of a girl who marries a wolf. Petit rings out tenderness and emotion in the power of his dancing and the strength of his choreography.

The Can-Can Girls-Petli-style-in a dance, with the unlikely name,

"Mourning in 24 hours."

I FIND 3 SULTANAS ALL IN ONE

ROOM

-And they never go out of doors

Was

By NANCY SPAIN

Ajaccio, Corsien, awfully clean, and agen- for my wife and me, except OW would you feel it darme dug a revolver in my for .various Moroccan someone told you that ribs, and told me not to dishes such as lamb cooked the deposed Sultan of loiter in the passage. over charcoal with capers."

to coming Morocco

Nevertheless, six or seven stay, with 11 people in his family party? This is what typists who worked in the the happened to Marcel Savreux, prefecture office stopped on bolster under their heads. prefect of the hot, windy the staircase for a gossip. Beds are available but they island of "What sort of a Sultana do do not use them. It is con-

you think you'd make?" trary to their religion. asked one. "Oh, gu 'on,

London. engaged and supervised by a

The last ballet "Mourning in Mediterranean HAL an hour after the alarm Mrs Ferguson

Twenty-Four Hours" is a whir! $15.00

While housemaids live in clock rings in her e

Corsica. home these mornings a middle- the mezzanine floor above the

of wit and good-tempered 25.00

malicious observation of ared woman with a cloth shou- equeries, the "Mrs Mopp" young widow only too. anxious

Solteone telephoned to someone will hear you," said 35.00 ping bag closes the front door with only a few exceptions live to forget her husband's death him and told him to prepare the other, and then they 10.50 behind her and steps out briskly out. Recruited mostly from the in the morning. That ends to receive the Sultan. So will shoot you."

Victorin district, from the busy with a mad can-can on stage. Marcel had to for Buckingham Palace. 10.50 In the bag she carries her work-a-day London streets

move out of be Through the whole evening his own bedroom, and 25.00 working shoes and overall, and hind the Palace, they

scurt there were the lightweight a pass identifying her as one of through a side door each mor backgrounds and dashing cus- Sultan moved in. Now, the Queen's twenty "Mrs ing and carn exactly Iwo 5.00

after several days, the pre- Mopps" (which is colloquial shillings and five-eighths' of a

fect has begun to look 5.00 English for "charindles.") penny an hour, which is the rale

ittle less worried. 1.00

Right now the Royal chars for the job for women cleaners

"to-do," in Royal Palaces. having a regular 10.00 for Buckingham Palace is being

7.50 spring-cleared.

pre

A little lale? Not a bit of it.

Advantages

The Palace is spring-cleaned By London standards it is not 24.00 three times every year. This big money. But there are many 15.00 year, too, there was the bustia advantages in working in

of the Coronation

which stirred biggest house in Britain. up a surprising amount of extra dust which the "Mrs. Mopps" haye been longing to tackle. there

Helping the 20 charladies aro 30 highly trained housemaids,

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Still Impressive

IN spite of their strunge guests the ordinary work in the prefecture must

go

The royal family sleep on floor, with only a

The four princesses do not use their wardrobe, but make little heaps of their possessions on the fluor.

All the women there are three wives with the enormons

Sultan-share an

pom and, according to the muid from the Grand Hotel, The prefecture, where the on.

they chatter all day long among themselves and In a box sat Peter Daubeny, Sultan's party is installed, The prefecture was built perfectly happy. the young British Impresario is a square building like an as a palace and a little of who battled against the

big orange West Enil names to bring Roland Pétif and his

Wes

Dau- WOS

box in the middle it is still impressive. There

Crowds Loiter

What Use?

吧

£80,000 of Ajaccio, Corsica's capital. are wide gardens, bright the

ehow to London. It was

with orange trees, giant As a "Mrs Mopp" scrubs her beby's own money ne

hydrangeas and way from room to room and risking no · Arts Couneli sub-

dahliae, THEY breakfast at 9 n.m., where the tricolour hangs are six hundred and Billy

for him.

lunch about three, and ninety of them spread over five, Competing against him

in the hot sun. There is a dine about 10 or 11 at acres--she can reffect that there

been the Laurence Olivier CROWDS of bare-legged huge main gate, where night. are at least no windows for her company and the power of the tourists loiter by the gate, three gendarmes are on to clean...

Moss Empire Variety tircuit.

had

The prefect was at pains-to-

prisoner. Nobody belleves him.

contract by going to see Peut imperial head. Every so Snys Daubery: "I got the hoping for a glimpse of the guard. in Paris myself. Personal con- often the crowds are moved he was smuggled in by the "The Sultan can come and go When the Sultan arrived explain that the Sultan is not a ta-on by armed gendarmes. back entrance through a just as he pleases. We treat him

Buckingham Palace holds the British record in windows as well as in size. Experts calcu- tact is the only way Inle that there are 10,000 panes dependent producer cau of gloss In them. While

vive." "Mrs Mopps" keep to the floors

sur-

morning when I greet him I

I presented my creden--battered iron door without exactly like royalty. In the Peter Daubeny and Roland tials at the side door. The a lock. He was exhaust address him as your Majesty and the furniture, a special Petit have given London મ place felt exactly like staff of 12 men looks after the tingling new dancing show.

ed.' A windows. Because of spring wish it were here for more prison. The walls were E Now he is recovering all behave with regal dignity,"

cleaning they are all having an than its five-week run. extra polish, those windows-

which they needed, but CCT-

tainly did not

Victorin's time!

get. Iri

In those days the Chamberlain's office

Queen

Lord

Wig re-

sponsible for cleaning the inside

and the

picturesquely named

Office of Woods and Forests the:

outside of the windows.

Since both departments

in-

sisted on their rights to do

the

job in their own way, the out-

-

I

BOWLER-HATTED PROWLERS

London.

Bo

men

cern.

Less Formal -

and the princesses as Highness and Madame. I must say they

one

sad green, the flour was not alrjyly, walks in the garden

in the cool of the evening, But what use is regal dignity reads and meditates. He is if you want to go for a walk in forbidden to receive visitors the town to buy a newspaper? of any kind.

The prefect showed me a big drawing room whern

this strange family may sit and read.

WBS. empty. Tho luxurious hangings were a bit dusly. But then, they were put welcome TWO naughty gendarmes up 100 years ago to

tre Empress Eugenie of France very important Indeed. Sanita- on the back door kept the and huve not been changed br side and thside were noverOWLER hatted tion, of course, is a prime con- crowd informed. The gen- cleaned since. eleaned together

But the Institute would darmes at the back are less and Queen with furled umbrellas ko to know whether Victoria went on the roof when art prowling Britain's back. too much

A small, cheap, Incongruous or not formal than those at the upright piano stood in manpower is being she wanted a clear view of her capital!

the wasted clearing rubbish which front. They told me, for corner. Apparently the princesses alleys peering into 'nation's garbage cans.

could be better disposed of in example, that a barber ar play this, some other way; whether pre-rived today to shave the They come from the Institute sent dumping facillues of Public Cleansing and they're adequate, and whether As the spring cleaners renew

collec- Sultan. preparing a the white paper which stands in report of the rubbish world.

sort of Kinsey ons should be speeded up.

burndus over Western dress, DEYOND the salon was the the iron baskets of the

empty

Before they're through, tireplaces, the story is told once will have examined representa what kind

They would also like to know He is clean shaven, and D dining-room, and beyond they again of the Umes when it was tive cans from

thin-faced. His eyes are that again the kitchen. the north of tisher throws away. the responsibility of one Palace

to Scotland

the south

hidden by dark glasses and department to lay the fires and England.

As we talked I could emell A battery of calcu- that of another department to ating

Up to now, the publle hasn't

seems depressed. The the rich, tantalising smell of the machines manned by been taking too kindly to the

Sultan's dinner cooking. I | light thom

skilled statisticians are standing idea, says Mr Brown ruefully. royal ladica have not yet should guess he was having The cleaners: go about their by to marshal the flood of work surrounded by a collection | information.

To encourage co-operation, he appeared out of doors at all. amb again. has axmired housewives that "They only have my cook, I asked the prefect who had of art treasures and furnishings What prompts this latest in- "strict anonymity" will be pre-my housekeeper and a maid made the decision for the estimated to ba worth four vasion of the Britisher's private served, "It's really most from the Grand Hotel," the Sultan to million pounds.

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portant," he adds. "But it's so No small responsibility resta Institute Secretary Wyndham hard to

convince people..... prefect told the. upon them

Drown says the result may be London Express Service.

Treasures

JOHNNY HAZARD

LEAVE OFF, HAZARD ....... OR I'LL THROW THE SCEPTER

INTO THE THAMES!

of things

ΣΤΟ

the Brl-

ho

The Sultan wears a white

Lamb Again

go to Corsica. "I. So the promise you it was not me," he said with his hand on his cooking is the same as it is heart.

By Frank Robbins

NO YOU

•WON'T...!

ITH A VESPERATE EFFORT, JOHNNY, GRABI FOR THE SCEPTER? ↑

THEN TAKE IT AND DIR WITH

IT!

.....this situation calls for a

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