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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1953.

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"Lady-as you've been following me all day to see whore I'm going to unload, I think it's only fair to tell you that we're carrying milk not patrol."

PUPPETS MAKE

AN ART

By Les Armour

To

LONDON.

Bloonsbury to pay our

respects

Cromwell.

Oliver, of

to Oliver

course, wouli)

have snorted down his warty nose at the thought-but he is a hero to the organisers of the Puppet Exhibition.

When he shut down Lon- don's theatres in the middle

of the reventeenth century, puppets and marionettes be

Elleen Joyce

ASKED · Eileen Joyec

Ut

to play for me the music she loves best and she played she said: "It's so motherhood." tender. like Then she wept.

And in her weeping and

ment the midis with

Sunix:

Royal Philharmonic Orchestr

Wahleen Joyce

AND NOW HER STORY CAN BE TOLD

So a woman emerges from the shadows

suspicicus of people, afraid they would humiliate me."

Again the smile, and the cabin

in the music was a story of than weir over. Then:—

stating of nois better faced

rc-

hated

But

that leave my son wealth surely

on his birthday Three months away, Agalu she list ytor. meant something? smed, but this time gaily. and then another three months.

"I was torn with guilt, "I suppose most people plc-

and an overwhelming ture ma Eving a set of fim morse,

I have never n paying proposition sadness and suffering, and <im

star . Well, I've never been feeling of failure. overnight. And, except for a

It triumph. courage and

"But music was in une if inside a night-club. I've never been so lashed by Giant Despair, few brief intervals, they was the story of a woman's Even as an ugly duckling I felt been to a dunes. I don't smoke 1 longed for my home: 1 hated have held their own everfe and it: Ulle should it could transform my

and rarely drink and I've dined my paleton-3 1

my.clf." since.

"I love the plane. I hate it Mayfair only a few £mes, be "A Cradle Song." Far Right now,

There is no more devilish in- the Royal

"Clothes? I've 12 dresses." that was what she played too. I brings me exaflation and Hotel is a children's

than the park for me. ***

strument of torture despair, I caress it, coax . beat with my this, wiep over it. dise witches, ogres, dine-

Towards the end of the war human mind turned against it- Elleen motlod film-executive relf. During those days ing frogs and galloping Many must envy Eileen

Christopher Mann and in her Joyer cedured the increasingly in Mon- elephants mingle on equal| Joyee her fame, her success,

new and happy home-te i unendurable. Then, terms with royalty, prime her brilliance, Few, per-

seemed to her hat her child- chester, came breaking point, ministers

striped-haps, think of her as being

hood struggle could be forgotten, trousered bank directors. human too. That is of

☆

and

⭑

Way

miro

vague when

the fate of famous people.

So the world prob- We threaded our- carefully through throng-Jably felt no ing crowds of pink-faced, than pop-eyedchoolchildren tu sympathy the little curtained cubby-carly this year "there" hule where exhibition or appeared reports ganiser Harold Aidalberry like this: was holding court.

we

"Elleen

"FOR

STRUGGLE

1

her

OR years it was a tremen

dous struggle - against

It could not: it nerely tock poverty, despair and, worst of

all, thut bitterness a new form. For now she feed against my childhood. a savage and angolvable conflict

Perhaps nol many between her catter arid

who people

me husband and sen. she now in Uartnell gowns

hed to have would-belleve that in "Every dime 1 1942 I was so poor I my son I felt I was rejecting" couldn't afford a pair of him, as I'd felt rejected. stockings."

which took away Wir

kist..

CURED

"CANT remember what happened to me then--that part is blank. I remember only that I woke up in hospital."

On returning to her hotel

in a state Miss Joyce was

of detress. She extreme mental

"I have a wonderful husind wept violently and destroyed all ho could, inuch of hor music, Then she

made collapsed.

Joyce. the Australian But the

from collapsent Between telephone calls pianist,

her first husband (Lieutenant who helped me ("Yes, can show 50 nervous exhaustion in her Douglas Legh-Barratt, R.N.V.R.. Du, in a way, that

was killed action in 1942) worse fell ven more guilty"

tr

"I talked to the doctors and boys around". "No. Sunday hotel at Mancheter last

and left her with u baby son

Had it ever struck you, as you they helped me, But my meni is for members only") he night and was taken to brought her success at

I went to my Rolened to Eileen Joyce playing help came when what did Sureces! And explained that hand-in-hospital."

the Crieg Concerto. that son (now 13). We played and glove

to me? What was behind that say, nien (puppeteers) Many put it down

about unwashed dishes at home? the cure, and string-pullers (marion-over-work, or over-travel, dan mile acknowledging the She might have been unhappy talked together. He completed

world's applause? ette men) still make their but it was only partly that. bread and butter at school The real cause had to do

Elleen Joyce told ine, with the for kind of smile that no Albert shows, garden parties, and with in the remote areas where Eileen Joyce, of Chopin's Hall audience has ever seen. theatres and cinemas have haunting "Berceuse"-her not penetrated,

But "puppetry is becom ing an art form."

the

meaning,

"cradle song."

"I Mil moant nothing. I'd become. I'm told, the highest Now stie is well again she has pakt planist in Britain (now told me the story. Perched out earning £15,000 to £17,000 a Punch and Judy will stor in her home' behind stay at the seaside, but the Londa's Park Line, she went year) and all I could feel was men who make them live back to the day in Tasmania 39 emptiness."

years go when a cradle cong want to branch out into

should have been sung-und serious drama,

was not.

The kles is not new. In the

"My parents didn't sing when eighteenth century Powell, 1 arvived, cnd no wonder! I was Charlette Clark. Dibdin and been in h teat, and my mother Samuel

puppet nearly straving, 1 grew up in Foot all ran theatres in London. "Later, quale", ! ale reftica. 1 there were a half-dozen troupes had no manners, and couldn't presenting full-length draines 10 or write until I was 12." with puppets nearly ife-size.

* *

The art faded in the last half

of the nineteenth century, and the high-powered mass

bringing back now.

Puppets

art of

She smiled at this. There was

no self-ply, just the stating of fects.

freaks."

and

SUSPICIOUS esplai, open an immense unexplored feld fo:

the adventurous,

"I've often been wretched' be- "Now all Che bitterness hás couse I've had to go to a cons gone, The frozen years are over

untidy and cert! aving my home

to I am free-free

share And a mother always feels that infection and, perhaps, free lo no one can cut her son's loenails play, my greatest_musle.” or wash his hair as she can."

It was then that I asked her She was not smiling now, to play for me the music that And she went on sa softly that had always meant most to her. I could hardly hear het..

And as she played she wept.

"Things began to reach Б But it was the weeping of a crisis for me when I had to woman reborn.

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who

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Outside TOSCOW'S central direc- 037; the majority of the newly

Moscow. research MOSCO "The children used to call me

tion of

all Russian admitted members are physicists, seems to be centred in Armonin,' the twentieth century neatly Rugged Edy or Beetle-Bonis, 1

mathematiclans, astro-physicists

Kazan en the Volga, Crimea- finished It. But just that is was an ugly child, covered with scientifle research may have (scientists

deal, among played a major part in the other things, with cosmic rays) where the Academy It takes tens of thousands of (You would probably call her rapid Soviet development of and all classes of technical astro-physical laboratory. and Tomsk in Eastern Siberia, be- customers to make a contem- beautiful now. She ins-blue- both the atóm and the specialists.

lleved to be the testing area for porary play pay, and the amount grey eyes, red-gold hair and-- hydrogen bomb, it is be

Limited dolnila about his Soviet atomic weapons. of money Involved is apt to she is covered with freckles,) lieved in London.

sphere of activity were recently stultify creativity.

revealed. byProfessor· A. Theo centres are controlled marionettes

the West, Independent Niesmyonov, In

President of the by the Moscow Academy whichi Involve itule

research is carried out by groups Academy, and by Prof. Bardin, also supervises the work of all of scientials working on different

research Institutes

•laboratories In ND then: "I beczane biker and aspects of the same problem in one of his deaistants. different countries, In

Soviet The Elcotronics, astro-physics, ratellite universilles. 1. couldn't he rid of bliter- ussit, the authorities, long ago nuclear physica and similar 0:59. It lasted until this year. decided that Moscow should advanced fiminches of science are Two interesting personalities It they can raise the money, until I collapsed in Manchester, control the

organisation of apparently much In honour in have been put forward as candi- the 800-strong British Puppet Then it went, completely." research. This centrallaation the Russia of today.

:** dates for full members of the and Model Theatre Guild will The pianist whom the world they are now 'pushing to the

Professor Artum, build a

theatre

Reroarch. is In would think the happiest of highett degree. puppet

concentrated Academy: London! After that, members women gazed at something far

around Moscow University and Alikhanian, the brilliant young think, the art will carry itself. away, and she did not see mo And the new elections to the various specialised Institutes, in Armenian who is said to be in

cosmic Instituto of charge of the Maybe they have something; or anything in the room. It was Academy of Selences of the cluding

zesearch and General Androi their ex-

the alitute of Tupolev, the famous constructor a little while before she went on. USSR will 10,000 people visited #hibition last year.

"I shared the fate of untime- | Russia's technical general staff. Physical Problems, and Instituto Even more are coming this ly children-I coutin'i love. All Membership of the Academy of Physics and the Milliary Air of several types of Soviet heavy

my life, until now, I've been is being increased from 402 to Academy.

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