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Young punks find

BOBBIES AREN'T OGRES

By Les Armour

THE CID fingerprints 'ex-

Tports deftly dicked the cap off a bottle of pop, the police chief's wife passed around the cups of ten, the chlef himself WAS husy kicking a rubber ball....

The law was busy admin- istering a little "preventa- tive medicine."

The Chief Constable (Gerald Goodman of Hali- fax) explained: "I've been waiting a long time for this look out for the ball," and he was off abat his business.

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A strange scene, no But she Pory policeman Britain would like to duplente. The Halifax pulker Furce busy meeting youth. The ide

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provide a place where teclunger, can neel, talk, play games 1 work IT their exeras

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GOOD REASONS

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The Art Idea + BOR VALS novel. There e youth

almost everywhere in

Britain.

The second in Metaya gel to know policemen only when and if they are being turned off to a Juvenile home or a count.

Unobtrusively. 1 costables of fax will fet the boy. on the police view of things, They can explain fover a bottle

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1954.

"The electricians' strike doesn't really affect us--Father does all his own electrical repairs."

Loudon Express Bervico

MY FRIENDS, THE STARS-

I KNOW THEM ALL

by

HELTERED ON the Santa Monica Hills faserted art Highway 46, rushing Ocean to the Parine and nurth to San Francisco, Fas is A sixth- Beverly elas rity, with a population of about 3000 and

Pe

more of pop aller a cul workout swimming pools per the judo mals) Just why

mile than any other city in necessary to mainitud lav

the world.

it

and

urder, how they go about it, and

what surts of consequences are likely to accrue to young punks

who think it's mon i to jestie more bim stars and old Indies and stent cars on to famed develop them elver

abulag citizen.

personalities

low*~

Beverly Hills also has world- per

[square mile.

ure

And, in Halifax, there good reasons for the scheme.

There is

wh 21

vume England which damns the re-

Halifax, cipient "to hell and And there was a time when the two appeared not so far apart.

ax is one of the dreariest industrial cities in the kingdom. At times, it has ubo been one of the poorest.

is

square

Thus, despite being sixth- class and having only 5.02 miles---a sort of golden island surrounded by the vast sea of Los Angeles with, Ita

J. M. RUDDY LIFTS THE LID OFF FABULOUS BEVERLY HILLS THE FILM STAR SUBURB OF LOS ANGELES WHICH HAS MORE SWIMMING POOLS PER SQUARE MILE

CITY.

THAN

ANY

OTHER

AMERICAN

Other times, he's garrulous. There are some people It's quite pleasant to sit with, or smoke a pipe with, and with whom you

1 can enjoy a beer.

His Ray Milland is like that. house is in a small park, two

mine. miles or so from

It is built around A magnificent swimming

pool and garden, the bought the pool and

mor than an Tennis-there

are 30 public garden, a little hard courts.

Swimming-four acre, and then Mae (his wife) Golf-four clubs and I had the house designed public pools. within easy driving distance.

to fit," Ray told me, But for the gay night He you lave to go to the Sunset Strip, which is in Los Angeles County, or

to know people in California is MacDonald Carey; Lew Ayres; casionally with the President of very easy. Becoming friends is Jean CouWeld and her husband, the National Bank, a spry 83- the same as elsewhere.

Frank Russ, who produced "The year-old. Robe." and was formerly married to Jean Arthur; David Wayne; William Holden; Fred Clark Agnes Moorehead, and writers and directors and many people who have nothing to du with movies.

I have coltage in a canyon. feet above the It's about 700 main city. It's quiet and rustic. One of my neighbours is Willian Lundigan. He lives down the street in a smidl house. We see He each other every few days.

ccasionally comes in for a beer and a chat.

About a mile up the eanyon, on a country road, unpaved, live Andrea King and her husband, Nathaniel Wills, a lawyer.

Anstrea and Nat are good Andrea is my

* 500 square friends of cum. milesBeverly Hills Bas be- daughter's godmother, and, one uf my wife's close, friends. We core fairly well known.

dine together, often play bridge,

parts

Y

Despite the reputation that im people have for wild parties, I have never seen one, and I have been to many parties.

Live and let live is a Beverly

Hills motto.

to Los Angeles Firekt.

At Ciro's and the Mocambo, some of the world's top enter tainers

like Lena Horns, Guy Mitchell, Eddie Fisher, Johnny Ray and Frankie Laine are starred.

"Also, we wanted a home wo could run without help, if need be, and this is it."

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contemporary house, with glaze walls opening on the garden and each bedroom opening on to the pool aren, so that you can step out of bed, into your swimsuit, and into the „pool,"

With

me, Rayuand has

Or there's the Coconut Grove, at the Ambassador Hotel, for always been friendly and forth- many your the best cabaret on right. Recently when he and his

when travelling enjoy community barbecues 16 Beverly Hilis police patrol the Coast, where Bing Crosby wife separated, I had to inter-

Fer myself,

of the United, which we all contribute, play All that is changing--but there in other

offendis, swim together. I still

a hangover of squalid tiv- |iste, ing conditions which drives youth Eunge Stuth Aailea, the

the At present Andrea is Alming right on the strecis and breeds 11 th Ilve

its, in the a movie in Mexico at the resort delinquency.

(That true, of edge of Beverly

Acapulco. Thus North Beverly town course, in almost

Bristig gekta Any

d Nathaniel Wills will come Ihan city. But the chef con-unble of

Pas w.... bergs it

whenever he feels Halifax Is particularly conscious quang gombat in conversation for dinner

like doing or as he drives uf [1.)

Hills? by on his way home he'll stop www issa

know all the

n for a beer or a Scotch before the con 11 !2

dinner.

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the streets, avenues, boulevards began his career as a crooner Any and Frank Sinatra successfully and drives in prowl cars.

made a comeback, and Gardon brings report of a wild party them along to make a courtecus MacRae tried out. his act with inquiry. And the Beverly Hills his wife, Sheila, and Marge and Gaol has comfortable accom- Gower Champion recently start- modation, behind bars, for any ed their cross-country tour. brawlers or rolsterer.

The city of Beverly Hills is proud of its extremely low crime record.

Hilly

WOULD you like to spend an Undesirables who drop into W afternoon with Ronald Col town and take a suite at the Beverly-Wlishiro or the Beverly man? Ho has a charming house of Hotel to cool off. are brick covered with English ivy,. quietly but firmly told to cool set in formal gardens and mur-

rounded by a high brick wall. off elsewhere.

At the end of the garden, well Amal apa.t dom the untimely

are the end some years

ago of Bugsy away from the house, My wife will rumat a turkey Siegel, a gangster who was on tennis court and swimming pool, You'll get some good tennis,

You do have a swimming WE have many mutual ac- and few friends in common. Parties often become joint affairs.

10 against one, od Blk the Bob B is a very pleasant old and fccbic.

plure.

like thum of the people who

One good remedly, he feel, is

pleasant live in the ely. I don't have and I'll send up a few bottles good terms with many movie

physical training--the

kind which ceutica on Bones,

a week.

The

has

her, at I low a of Scotch and we invite people people, little happens to stare doubles, and you can swim if

who are

also, well the tranquillity of Beverly Hills yes 2nt to. Colman docsn't to the Willis's, whose So he talked the local educa-number of piple who do, and We know

Of course, there was a little play singles now, but for many one of a famed tion authorities out of a couple of with the usual hospitality of the known rou ou talked his men in West, der pey are available house is particularly well adapted

to entertaining, with spacious matter of a shooting, right aeross years he was

the street from the Police lour-himself, Red LaRocque; Barthelmets and donating their tame three nights to me.

"You mad know all the Mm Tuces and wide porches.

Station, which is situated at the Richard At the Willis home you'll back of the Town Hall,

William Powell, who used to tur

play tennis,every week-end. often find Robert Douglas and

Robert Stack; A Mr Waller' 'Wenger, fli his wife, Susa

shot one

Warner Jennings David Brian and Adrian Booth; producer,

Lang, actors' agent, as he stood when talking Inte otte afternoon to and went Mrs Wanger, whom you know as to live. Joan Bennett.

response

been startling Already they are short of space and catspulgning more.

for

Well 1 knows them all.

But some! w better and a lew I know very well. Getting

HOW OLD IS MOTHER EARTH?

By GEORGE HALLIDAY

The other fuck.

LOF-

These stars appear bright and dim in rhythmic sequences, and Now the astronomers have astronomers found a strict

relation between their variations that and their distances.

I Fou see geologists run from wat hack and waited for

ning around with.smug grins on their faces these Crackseci. days it's because they have finally put the astronomers in their places.

They

have deelded galaxies are about twice as for away as anyone thought before That also doubles the age of the universe - and clears the astronomers geologist,

For 20 years or so, gco- logists..and

have been eyeing one other suspiciously.

of the earth. Geologists gute business. In flié fest plaer,

This they applied to more distant objects-pliing Inference on inference until they could work distances for objects 1,000 million light years away,

Then they came with a jolt. When the glant Mount Palo-

Baxter loloed them Rod retired from movies to Lake Arrowhead

Mr Colman is very much like At point-blanic range, he his screen self-charming, de didn't do much damage.

bonaj:. reserved, country- squi:cish, a good host and the IL del much to publicist sort of Englishman who'd wear Beverly Hills with tourists and his dinner jacket in the Jungle. visitors always quk to see just These days, Ronald Colman where Wang or shot his wife's has diversified Interests. Hé alleged lover. However, it's the owns a television station kind of publicity the city fathers Santa Barbara, and is making don't care for, and rightly so.

nims for television based on Somerset Maugham's short slorios.

zens,

in

Ho owns a successful guest ranch at Montecito, and various In other parts of THEY'D rather talk of Mary properties

California., Colmán, Pickford and Will Rogers Southern und Harold Lloyd-good clti- 03, has done pretty well for a man who began as an office boy at 15 shillings a week, enllated And of the good schools and in the London Scottish in 1914, Measuring the distances of mar telescope was trained on the pork and the public library was invalided out in 1915, be- The trouble arnte over the age stars, of course, Is t tricky the heavens, one of the first the new shopping centres and

the enormous new Hilton hotel came an actor in 1910 and came

to Americh, in 1920 with the earth is, hetween, three and ha: to be in light yearethe dis. pojects to come under its going on Wilshire Boulevard,

Was the Andromeda hebula

and the 100 capital of ten pounds sterling, tance light travels in a year of another galaxy,

and the most the playgrounds

the miles of parod streets within Today he's mitonale, a Up to now, the ustronomers whipping along at a cool 180,000 distant object visible to

highly respected and admired naked

eye. If the original the city... have been inclined to think the miles per second.

And the ideal all-year climate. Briton, and, as many Americans Absent is smog, and the only say, a swell guy:

Huila in artificial or is 60 miles now you will see in Beverly distant on the crests of the Sierra

four thousand million years old,

-brea

It

dividuals.

They didn't.

range

Indeel, Beverly

figure unlikely. The universe is In the second place, it has to calculations had been right, some expanding at a fantastle rate, be done by measuring relative of the cephoids in the nebula they point out. That means that brightness of stars and compar should have stood out as in- the whole of it was at one time ing the result to a scale worked concentrated in a fairly small out from relatively, near objects and consisted of hot which can be measured by the cal- methods we would use to

ploosunt city in which to live, NOTHER": grand fellow when, ga socą

culate distances between earth- Only one thing could account if you can afford it. If you like you get to know him is Ray for it: Andromeda must be a lot a quiet, well-regulated life, and Milland, who had a reputation

The absenco Reaserán freui' ina combats bound objects.

of for being moody and moroso, tively mall alstances they That a where the trouble farther away than they thought, don't mind

Thanstronomers got out their seasons,

Reginald Truscott-Jones, dễ thought

Fürigas, galaxies. Had started.

notebooks and started to gure. Second, you can live any kind Neath and Cardiff, who became ay? Uccided that the The basic ref of calculations. The figuring has been going on of you wish, provided you Ray Milland of the movies, ic

Sudura Cehman, andanbegr

tho

or and slivers could not be

Ho accommodate for this trick was worked out ever since, checked and cron don't dabing your

from variable stars of checked by British, American Tou want to bowl Rate Torphakis" in the Lesser Medals and European worker However, lanic Cloud, a cluster visible in Now they admit eind condition wall year round Often **1), bow1" oç"" talking, Kiving round and both the Southern Hemisphere, been making a coloral Dhinter Roxbury

.you

view

him in his flat at Los Не admitted the Angeles.

I um ΕΓΓΟΣ ΟΙ his ways, and glad to say they are reconciled and all seems well. After 22 years of marriage, there has to be patience and forbearance.

Like all of us, dlm stars have their problems, even in Beverly Hills.

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