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The much woking firgt: night

THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1954.

Vo-do-de-o-do

The Bright Young Things

are back

HERE was never

#1

The show like it. audience at Wyndham's Theatre, London, clapped everything everybody did. And at the end the roar that went nearly scared mu. It reminded me of the end of the war,

They yelled "Author!" I your ears hurl Every- one was dragged on stage for a bow. The corridors backstage later were cramined like the tube at rushi and and kissext hour. Every artist

was hugged wrung by the hand, over and over.

reached the That was how "The Boy Friend" West End. The £1,000 all-British show that startenă at a club thrutre taxt Marels-was brought back by

Swiss public acclaim--and moved un

Cottage. bigster and better than ever. "Bring it to town at

once,"

Sir Bronson Al- bory

to

1924

1954

FASHION CHANGES FACES TOO-The girls in the show (left) and as they appear in real life. Their names: Denise fret (top left); Maria Charles (right)! Jullet Hunt (bottom left); and Joan Gadsdon (right),

I wrote.

!

and

by JOHN BARBER

with

"grabbed

both hands" for bls

important Wyndham's Theatre.

They have been together for 11 months. But

no one ever

|

Lighter Side Of Life

Under The

H

VIENNA.

·OWEVER· aambre their existence may become, human ****. beings always seemn to find the courage to "raise

laugh oven if the laughter is sometimės, a trifle wry.

#

Soviets

By RITCHIE MCEWEN

there & hardship” Behind the Iron Güffatu, þur neither politics mor privation can kill mankind's senso of humour, Here are soms of elid ámáning stories. currently crossing the frontiers of. Russia's autollites.

Eum looking for the shipa that are bringing, us food from the Soviet Union," answer.

+

was, the

"You don't lonk there, you fool!" said the guard. You look In the papers"

- Hungariṇna, | Czechoslovajstang, Bulgarians, Rumani, à ́n sẽ Lithuanians; they all retail their jibes against tho Communist Party and the Soviet hierarchy

Bug Poland's trafic with: The Warsaw Police Pre- Russia is not always one-way dent is organising a competition **** this bealms of brandy, for the best political jokej, ja to Polish man-in-the-street" In- anyhow. Here is

forms. p. friend with a twinklo batch: illustrate the "paint;

At Bío border between Po in here,

A strange

tale Jo

Nipoly million of our follow men who live behind the Iron Curtain are undergoing the bleakest winter since the war Less, food, less warm itu, than ever before such is the out look for them in these first land and the USSR

The first and second prizes months of 1954. Yet these thing happened the other day, people-the citizens of Russia's one Pole told another. From the are to be 18 and 10 years in a

·!: not Soviet alde came a vast harde concentration camp. satellites in Europe-have

of lice, marching in formation lost. their acnse of humour.

towards the West. From the

10 Even after eight years, of do- Polish kide camYNO

equally apolle Kremlin rule, they still huge army of bedbugs, march- contrive to make light of their ing in step towards the East. troubles and poke fun at thoir The two armles met at the more fortunate masters.

border. The leader of the bof- bugs halled his forees and ask- Here are some of the best ed the leo where they were jokes to come out of two of

going the satellito territories, Poland and Eastern Germany:

fo the West to And our glorious Ruslan Army" the of the lice answered leader

"And where are you proudly, making for?"

"To the Enst

CAIT to find cosy Polish furniture," replied the leader of the bedbugs.

Polish

An old Polish peasant, whon told there was bread for sale that Now the whole troupe is on their sporty boy-friends. They

day, exclaimed piously: crowd round a banny big gle], singe. Out there, across the "Thank God!" their

"Bld producer,

you tootlights, le

"God a blackness, with

has been abolished," assistant pouring Ruess?" they clamour. "Are you searchlights

cruelly the Communist shop down at them. "I feels

and good Party member re pleased, renily?"

10 the

here," present pubile

they

shurider,

"You They refer

should praved sternly, they have Just given her, danleng hopefully en.

give thanks to Comrade Malen- COME of the best Inscribed

kov!"

Se come from the mu silver cigaretle-box

Up In Anno with a line from the show; "It's

The old the dressing-rooms, dressing room.

pretended loving Rogers, nt 20

pretty name, and you while archids lie on the girls' not to hear, and presently ask- the youngest a very w th

Vida To Charleston leading lady in town, is putting live up

Hope." tables. Ail, men too, have beened if there were any ment 10 An Vids fights back tears to given chisio mugs with their bo had. Are, heyday of high kicks, low on her blond wig.

"Together you names

Bottles of cham- "No meat spatch.

today," snapped to sweel On the door she reads cloche

The make

and indestructible

in- pagne stand

Only the assistant, of previous

unopened. occupants are

country?" she tcils them. Joan Gadsdom, the dark-voiced "Thanks to Comrade Malen- of this

TOOR: Ivor Novello, vincible,"

beauty from Australia, got an kov!" said the old man fervent- Gertrude Lawrence. "I wouldn't "There is no theatre you en

the gold foll. ly. old-timers," not conquer. Because you never for as undoing know n]} Those

try to cutplay each other

It is the only British show I

I would call dreamed they would get so far. that rescimber devastatingly phile. This Threo girls share the gracious "musical comedy of the 1920'" No. 1 is no burlesque, but re-creation

waists,

of the

hots,

songer, and hoop-poop-n-toops nomes

8

[።

EVERY word

quiet,

show

and

Ar

saw the show

00.

"This

show is 50

delicate, sometimes we overdo it, kill it,"

Q

she dimples

Baby-faced Anne is like that. pinch each other's loughs" and coy o All Manchester is in her shai- "On alage, please," someone It was she who said to me:

scholarly toring calm.

After a show at calls. The party breaks up in Sandy Wilson. 29. who spent the Players' last year & charin- panic. months conning old books, ing playwright_bowed to her The audience hardly matters.

andt old photographs.

"Impeccable, my Tho celebrities Bald: memories.

dear, impeccable." "Thank you months ago

All through the first act the very mooch," said Anne.

Afterwards they told her

crowd in wings It company "Oo." she hear the applause. "Ilaw was Noel Coward. said, "I have heard of him.” they?" whispers Tony, as Anno

Tany

"Rather nice," says calm Annw,

His deliberately fatuous plot dolighia-how a finishing school girl loves a messenger-boy, tl, at Carnival Time in Nice, both find they are millionaires. Told in sox ard dance, as they danced

and coqueited ❝ war and a lifetime ago.

But come backstage with me JUT this night of nights. See

what

meant to them- youngsters from seaside summer shows, in the West End for the first time with their vo-do-de- o-dynamite,

7 p.m. They are all in the theatro

minutes 00

before curtain-up. They came by bus

and

tube, sicis with nerves.

Hayes comes hour comes off the stage.

down the stairs. "Zere

shouts, hc

He is dressed Like Buttons. His story is tougher,

Tony may look 20, but he is 38, has been on the stage since

COMEONE else Is more

to

are

CO delicate we kill it some- times, Everything is glory,

peasant

persecuted Jews.

old Polish, Jew asked his Rabbi: "Is it really possible

Socialismi In build

the

"Why, yes," replied Rabbi, "but you have to live

in another one."

Another Jew visited an old

UESTION: What is the dif- friend, the Polish Minister Hil- ary Mine, to say goodbye and ference between the sun

tell him he was about to and Poland's coal?

emigrate.

"What: on carth makes you think of leaving us?" inquired the Minister.

A group of people were wait- ing at a tram stop in Warsaw

one night when one of their number raised a shout;

"A foreigner stole my watch!" A policeman advanced: "A¤ tho American, perhaps?" But victimised Polo shook his head, “An Englishman, then?” Again a negative answer, "A French- man?"

"No, no, no!" said the man who had begin robbed. “But ho cquld have been a Finn."

"A Finn? There are no Finns round here. I suppose you mean a Russigny!ITRO

"Yes, Comrade, quite right!" exclaimed the citizen, overjoy- ed. "BUT YOU SAID FIRST.

From Hungary comes this

A foreigner asked a Budapest taxi-driver: "Are you tree?"

the answer. "Sorry," "came

"I'm a People's Democrat,"

Then there is one concerning an argument between two citizens:

"What is the tallest building in Moscowy?"

"Lenin Univeralty."

Wrong! The Soviet Supreme Court is still higher. From there Siberial"

And this:

сап you

see as far as

First Hungarian: "What is it that weighs 70 lbs., goes about in rags, and lives on acorns?"

Second

"Why Hungarian:

the you-t the end of Five Year Flon."

that's

Finally, from Hungary: An elementary school teacher asked his pupils: "Who can in troduce polities into an arith- Irmetic problem?"

Two and boy stood up: two make four, Comrade teach-

That's right, but there are politics in your problem." Two and two make six," an

TERE are a couple of stories Hom bastern Germany

"Why have you, arrestąd the innkeeper Schultze?" the Com- missar. asked tho People's policeman.

of

other boy said,

That's wrong,” the teacher. chided, "and there are до politics in either."

But now the "bright boy" of the class stood up. "Two and two are three Comrade Teach- er, and with the aid of the great Soviet Union they make four." "Splendid{" beamed tho teacher.

FROM Czechoslovakia

"For Hanging up the portraits Coprede Malenkov and President Pleck," was the reply.

"But that's no reason." "It is when he uses them for a sign and his inn happens to Answer: The sun moves from East to West;

THE TWO OXEN, Poland's coal

be called

Commissar." from West to East.

And this other from the same With this conundrum, anti

sutellite

le territory:

Come other quips or a srrier

A gullible East German, who nature, the shivering citizens first is that the regimo might had read in the Party press A Soviet officer

was telling. of satellko Poland (one of collapse, and you and I and that large stocks of food were a Czech peasant how Russia in "The Boy Friend" is a master- || Europe's richest

everyone else would be ruined" arriving at Rostock from the tended to deal with. coal-mining

America. of nostalgin. It is put countries) are trying to keep That could never happen!" ing through a crack in the har- bombs foto twenty leather suit piece

Soviet Union, spent a day pear. We will pack twenty atUITL RCTOSS by the freshest young Polish home fres burning Betalent in England today. There after Father Frost's export cried the politician.

bour fence, and "And that is the second res- are no famous names on those quotan have been fulfilled

Finally a suspicious Soviet over the United States,” he industry has son why I am leaving," said the guard asked him what he was said, little china mugs. But inside is the armaments

talpen its share.

Jow veritable champagne,

doing.

12. The war killed hikely curate. "It's getting so high, career as a "juvenile." Now Inte Losses

chance.

ปี

new

He has the male lead now. For ex-Desert Hal Hayes, that may mean a new Ife.

"La Armer." and Tony," IS 8.35 P.M. No. 1 room

they smile wandy.

15

is full of 1920 flappers und

It's frightening." In fact, "they are becoming hysterical.

This is the

"Oh, ob, listen," says Denise. bit Princess at so much Margaret laughed she dropped her cigarette hold- en" It comes:-

The mere idea of living in a

palace is

So full of fallacies.

Hitler's airmen learn to fly in England

NE afternoon recently,

ON

& single-engine training aeroplane landed and phut- phutted to a standstill on a Hampshire airfield. Two men

climbed out.

dark. For Walther Blume, a lean man gf 48, this seemed the best day of his life. The best day for 'aight yeats at any rate Ho, once a pilet of Hitler's Luftwaffe, was being reminded how to fly again by an English instructor.

And as the small aircraft circled the outskirts of South- ampton, which still bears Luft- wolle stars, Herr Blume took control and was allowed to land the aeroplano,

WALTHER BLUME

"It was really fine."

because they were fit, not too forties)

old (all are ́ în their and remembered a good from their prewar Jobs.

What did they

deal

TAKING

"There are two reasons. The

EXERCISE THIS

WEEK-END?

Then this man has a challenge for you. To him exercise has been more than a tonic. It has meant hard cash.

Mr Hart, 86, Finds

Takes

in

Running Off

The Years

4

the

Trans-

What are his secreta? One ia his economical style of running

short stride, arms down and re laxed, and not throwing his 1 back too far

*** legs "Runners can learn a lot from Even Piric

could improve." this," says. Hart.

these:

cases and distribute them all

..

The peasant, looked doubtful, whereupon the Russian asked him indignantly, if he didn't be-

Hleve the USSR had twenty

atom bombs.

wam't

thinking of the bombs," the pensant explained. "But where are you going to get the twenty, leather suitcases?" Next on the list 1 this on

ope:

During a recent recruiting campaign, for new members to the Czech Communist Party, particularly ardent Communist was called to his local" "head- quarters and told: "If you get two new members ve will res duce, your subscription by half. If you bring five, you won't have to pay anything. If you can round up ten new mem→ bers, you will get certificato to say that you have never been

༈

on a

A Bratislava bookseller, ad- vertising four newly arrived

ties one under another Russian books, wrote down their large placard and put it in his window. And no follows

WANT TO WE FAR FROM MOSCOW" IN THE

SHADOW OF UNDER A FOREIGN FLAG"

THE SKYSCRAPERS

Within the hour, both placard and bookseller" ware" fi'' the hands of the police.

IFE has been quite a Most of Hart's 750,000 miles - In 1931, at the age of 84--this marathon for 86-year- wero pounded in pursult of hard time for King's College Hospital

And here's third: the check suit and sawdust 1,000 consecutive hours, walk- fragile-looking, wispy-haired world of the Victorian show- ing day and night. little man barely five feet ground, Promoters realised his He took part in tall-claims he has run in possibilities as A Spectacle as American Marathon from Los his lifetime more than three- a human perpetual motion Angeles to New York 3,000 quarters of a million miles. wages and, sometimes, a cut of every day.

machine.

They

offered him miles in three months, running And he has not finished. the gate money.

For a 10-guines wager, at the Recently he ran the eight

Hart became miles from Kingston Market to runner in 1886 at the age of 19. four over the 10 miles from which gets bigger because of his professional age of 84, he raced a coach and is heart her compares to the muscle in the carpenteria arm Green remember? Twickenham

102 He won a five-mile race at Bow Windsor to Twickenham Great work. "I've got an enlarged Anything about Lufthans minutes. And after the race he Grounds.

--and won by two minutes, heart," says Hart. "But His boing a training ground for Issued challenge to anyone Luftwaffe bomber crews? About over 88 to a 15-mile race.

Hert has

run on through continuous use.""" rock, Band, cinders, reconnaissance photographs The immediate reaction 18: taken during peacetime fights "Fantastic-but why does he do

He does not smoko; drinks Bowdust, carpet and for use in the war to come? t?"

very little, and has strict Ideas He

has run on food-a preference for dried through foods, bliz- broad or toast, blackberry julée zards, and in a tem- and strained cabbage wateri perature of 130 Lort that have called Country Lease ridden by degrees in the Arizona desert And every day he walks or of 47 with 15,000 flying hours, taken him a distance equivalent the famous who for 12 years flew the night to 30 times round the world, Nightingall who had won

Jackey Arthur And he tells of the occasion runs: "Three, four or five miles mail from Germany into Croy and gives his answer: Be Grand National three times. Paris when men tried to nooble Hart gets put of his chair to

the when running from Toulouse to as the fancy takes mo/? pa don Airport.

cause," he says, "I pre a kick This was a six-day contest at him by doping his coffee, but show you out. I'm 4. bit out of running.

But, his most markable: exploits

were performed after he was 50.

In

, 1924.

By John: Waterman

Д

for In his bed-sitting room in 2300 wager and "Never anything like that," Strafford Road, Twickenham, purse of £200 he said Johan Rathic, pre-Hart props in a comfortable ran against a horse maturely grey handsomo man position

things that

would have PRO qulta sible," he said, "It was really fine," he said. to me a little later. A really For their company-Luttag, of and the others

jovially agreed.n happy day, a wonderful day,” Cologne - has bought four Herr Rathje

42-seater airliness, has left The last aeroplane he faw, American

with successful in- before

this was a six-engined not British aeroplanos,

transport, which to apen their challenge dustrial agency, Blohm and Voss carrying 120 German troops to on the European air routes, built up trico

and from the battlefelds of North Africa and Europe.

have come to trained to hy

all former cap"

་

the warto Before the war Walther Blume that he can fly again; Rudolf (8,000 flying hours, a home in Mayr, another of the quartet, Her Blum Cologne, sots aged 17, and 10, has given up his hire car is one of four daughter 133 dew for Lufthanss business in tourist-buty Heidel German pilots, on the South Atlantic routes. He bent. The fourth ex-airline tains of Luft- also made 28 experimental sea- caplain, Herbert Topp (he used hansa, the pre-plane fights from Germany to to fly to London Loo), waa

York.

storekeeper at a US, base in German Wa equivalent to

between times. HEA BOAC Since the war he has worked all war time as a motor mechanic, then in Now all four are on their in the the briefing department at way back to being captains of Lotwarto Hamburg Airport Itas paif alrerait again. All cherish the Trohape

reful to watch other people flying, hope that from Lurtag will Command, who Bebe udelil now, develops anotheworld-girlshe Was it Herr Eased to be what I'dearned there,

Blume aid of starting to fly. so pleased 1 little

in after what he and the other years) grounding, wow Senonton futóklegra now are all-the-ups TRAKT

engineering,

months at an air training school mayigation,,,, 'In radio- Ierihon run by a British aviation group), måde hriber when they will in to Amarist. They were

Hugh Cleland

the

the Crystal Palace. Bart won poisoned the pacemaker instead. he says, "but not from running, woman who The.

boen

LASTLY, from Czechoslovakia,

this gen A police unit was Carrying out a routine checle in a small village One of the first houBER they entered was one belonging to a very old, much respected

had "It's as good BB doctor's by eight miles,

WRS It # paying gamer "There I only stiff when I sit down, dimounced as a prescription and cheaper. Five

Inter years

ho became wasn't much money in it, says "Yes," he says, "I get a kick police found nothing

shook Peoplo By: "You're putting the undisputed continuous move. Hart My biggest

prize was out. running. It's life" son

their heads over the portrait of years on yourself, Charllement champion of the world at £2,000 in America."

Which for most people juuren Elizabeth and President Bay the roverso ́ ́ is the caso, Long Beach, California. He ran Yet Hart is still preparing to quarter, his age

Eisenhower" adorning a wail in whoso Inney Running takes the years off." and dancod for six weeks and run in further fabulous contests, rarely stirs them even ta ruan

company with Czech President: But it has not always been two days continuously for a "I've put several ideas in mind," for a bus is a refreshing Zabolocky and Stalin merely a tonic.

prize of „£100.:;.

he says.#de

epilvening thought.

(Contd. on Page

5

JOHNNY HAZARD

IT BROWS LATE, POINTR. ADAM STREP/E WILL PRIVE BACK TO MY APARTMENT, NOW ŁÓ

AS YOU WISH, MY PEAR? 'AU REVOIR V SUNTI, TOMORROW?

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