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ARE YOU A HELP TO YOUR HUSBAND?)

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1954

WE'RE IN SCOTLAND

WHOOPS

by Giles:

T

THE SAME-JOB

WIFE JOINS IN

HE subject for discus- It was (oventually) de- someone is sure to come along

sion was this: How cided that Mrs McCallum end lean against you. does Mre John Mc- could hardly help but help "But would like to have Collum, who is actress Mr. John McCallum just by been just another leaning-post Google Withers, help Mr being the gay, gregarious in Australia?" John McCallum, who is Googie. actor John McCallum? Or. In fact, does she?

For when they met seyen It had cropped up because years ago John was a young of the sad story of a wife Australian actor who had in Ohio who, it was alleged, just made his mark by land- had been the cause of losing ing a J. Arthur Rank con- her husband a good job. tract, but he had few social

The harrowing details contacts. told a nasty, mean-minded potential

employer had called on the unsuspecting woman out of the blue and found the dishes in the

Like any other girl who tall, dark, had captured and handsome beau, she wanted to show him off to her friends, who happened to Include several show- So before we got down to business V.I.P.s. So, just to the hard facts of the

sink.

Withers-McCallum case we thought we ought to send i note of congratulation to the for having the courage to leave the washing

undone, and up

thus

woman

show she WAR different from all the dull, dutiful neighbours she

gossiped

about (another point against her in the snooper's book).

Having done so we ad- which

Journed for a lunch was obviously laid on by a with fair, charm,

7OMRD

and talent.

- "Too right I would," sald would-be benchcomber Me- Callum, pre ending he was a charneter selor.

But as he is an actor with a background of R.A.D.A., Strat- ford, and the Old Vic and dons not talk like that at all normally we decided he was just trying to be funny.

Nelther Google nur I believed him and his evidence was struck from the record.

It seems there... nge many advantages in having a wile doing the same job as yourself.

really dres

understand She ail those problems which to laymen might seem trivial but which actors regard as maiters

of life and death.

"The one way in which 1

might

be of help to John," and his wife, "is to see that 1 bring warmth, humour, and an agreeable reality to our fe as two human beings who happen to be mar- ried to each other of Blagos

EVE PERRICK takes the week's problem tre into the home of a famous stage couple

The home-grown fruit and vegetables she used--beans, please his lady, John, in greens, potatoes, cucumber, spite of himself, happened to lettuce, tomatoes, two kinds be moving in the right of raspberries (red and direction. white), and just four single strawberries could only

and talent.

But the debatable point have been raised by a man was whether in the long with patience, perseverance, run Googie had been a help or a hindrance to John. For Such display of their com- he was on his way to Holly- bined talents seemed to in- wood when, as they say, he dicate that the marriage of was trapped into marriage Google Withers and John by a clever and determined McCallum is a highly satis. woman.

We all agreed factory one. that Indeed that was the ense.

one

"Look out, Dad!

| SITES

Here comes the man to say no more Highland Games rohearsals.“

Ballet dancers.

puppet show.. Malenkov

TLE

London Express. Service

.

IT IS ONLY A GLIMMER

OF

"At the same time I try to see that John han a separale professional existence. We have made a. mere handful of jims logother and the play "Waiting for Gillian' we Going ir OUT Brst

ever."

print Google was adamant. "Any man who that his wife is his boasts

everest critle is either a fool ог a lor. That

may be traditional Hine for after-dinner speeches, but

life it in real would mean that the marriage F you had been in would collapse in no time.

Millionaire's Row in "Actors get all the criticism they need from the producers, Kensington on a re- the pubile, and the Press,

cent Monday, and if booster, you "A wife must be, a

had entered the a knocker. And

If ever magnificent house numbered you are asked for advice which is usuntly only done out 13 you would have seen a of politeness you must take strange sight.

not

A

care to start off your plece with 'Of course, tarling, you were “One never knows," simply wonderful, but knowing mused, Google, "ho might you as I do, etc., etc." have been another Gregory Peek.".

Withers.

Mutters

London.

WDS

HOPE,

BUT

By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

forgot to mention that No. 13-in

the Russian Embassy, and that our host was the Ambassador. As a special guest, there was the Persian Ambassador.

But, just a minute. There is n familiar, smiling face across the room. Good gracioust It is the American Ambassador and he has brought his wife with him. As Shakespeare observea in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

This is indeed hot ice."

were

new. in +

Cannot Build

give him terrible weapons destruction.

of

The flash point came with the challenge of the Berlin airlift, a blocicade ot the roads on which the Ameri-:

at

that moment. But Stalin

and sick. Perhaps he lost his. nerve. Whatever it was bis hour passed, and his death was not far off. For Stalin thero were to be no more victorious battics.

to embrace dusty Russia doclared Now, it also happens that six anyone else months ago the Russian Ballet, death before his time. once styled the Imperial Russian Ballet, came for a short_season I suggest, therefore, that for a cans and British brought sup- West to the gigantic Stoll Theatre few moments we look at Russia ples to their zones in

Berlin.

The which, Incidentally, was, origin- and Communism a try to dis-

answer was swift ally the London Opera House, cover whether they are one anclared that, they would, fly in and startling. The Alles de» built

Oscar

Hammerstein's indivisible. by

Further, we; must Sitting in rows of chairs were

grandfather.

ask ourselves whether Com- supplies and that escorting a very edd assortment of Lon-.

munism is not so much a politi plones would shoot down any doners. For example, there was-

The Canadian-born E. J. Robertson,

company consisted of cal breed as a convenient deyles Russian planes that intervened.. chairman of the Beaverbrook

about fifly girls with no males whereby Russian Imperialism. We were perilously fear war newspaper group, accompanied

except two unhappy looking although clothed zither players and "But would you have The query

gigantic workman's blouse, can extend hesitated. Perhaps he was tired by his English wife. Near them

Hector McNeil,

What is the occasion that drew ballet showed the girls moving

fellow with a gultar. The first its frontiers. liked him to be another Y this stage it had occurred was

former Gregory Peck?"! I asked. B to both of us that John Secretary of State for Scotland such an odd conglomeration to

****** the Sovlet Embassy!

circle, apparently on a That in a IT

lucky in Attlee's Socialist Government, was also agreed between

"Not 'arf" said Mias McCallum was a very

They the question was obviously worrying revolving stage. McCallum, Withers, and

In fact Googie began to and not far away man.

the inmates

clothed in something like peasant of the Japanese crinolines, if that conveys any- Oriental-looking Mr Piratin, who think about whether he was Perrick that it is much

sat in the House of Commons as

Embassy opposite, who wero On the other hand, seeing as na good husbond as she was easier for a career woman how McCallum

is a great mistake for the he was gazing through their windows. thing to you in other words Communist until is cbviously u a wife.

thrown out in 1950,

Actually we had come at the they were clothed from their

outside world to celude itself Today Malenkov to be her husband's help- wide-open-spaces type and see-

sila in tha Like all wives confronted

invitation of the Ambassador to necks to their shoes, To

into thinking that, the people of seat of power, but unlike his mate than it is for "just a tug as how all films these days with the inevitable

give a special flavour there witness a private performance

Russia wanted Communism or predecessor he does not pose ás are Westerns, he might have she wondered what had hop-was Lord Silkin, who graduated of the Moscow State housewife."

Central Without any visible motion on that it sprang spontaneously a god, as the Little, Father of to the gay, debonair from being a Socialist M.P. to a Puppet Theatre. Like good their part they went round and from their sacred soll. For his We simply sighed with ended up as just another Holly- pened

wito Socialist Peer. Beside him was Britons we assumed that there round in graceful circles like

people, nor us a 'conquering wood cowboy, riding the horses pity for those poor husbands which

had been in dreling, bolstered to

to the outside world and to his who come back to the little Cooper.

engerness with which he rush-Lord Swaythling), who has been

on caught

and buret into a gentle, avowed Communist for anda in it, and those of Miss

shed to take her places, Withers said woman for meals-on-time.

the right in politics twenty years. There was also

prepared, rapturous applause, So skilfully my by a vast number of ineffi- own countrymen.

cient and corrupt elvil servants. It 15 mm quite – possible

that minded settling We agreed too that wives wouldn't have

As for the dynasty, its doom was Malenkov does not want war The same man, transformed the tall, handsome New Zen. ke the old guard, to put up a bad they been trained that their

to 40

feet were doing the doll-like foreseen after the defeat of with the West It is. can only help those husbands for another Gary Cooper either. Into a husband, now liked

turn and there was, in fact, no

quite pos The other McCallum might stay home and tended to refuse lander, John Platis-Mills, who

Russia by little Japan. The Eible that he has come to the who help themselves (and ave-been-and his

revolving stage at all. . I do far more. party invitations than entered the British House of own fav-

Commons as a Socialist but

another world he accepted. making him go to parties for ourite

not make it clear, it is my fault, monarchy in St Petersburg could conclusion that dream at that was to

not survive another war, And war would turn Europe into # The. ex-gay

not yours. the sleepy

blade muttered became so stridently left-wing that his own Association with- his own good is not nagging love returned to

so it proved in 1917.

graveyard, with crawling rats DX drew

their support and his

The only remaining, sign of life. -signed G. Withers, E. little town in Queensland, where something about "preferring

quiet life." Perrick J. McCallum ab he was born and where, he says, staining).

enigma

man-about-town CART

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are too fat for Gary had wooed and won her by the the Hon. Iver Montağu (son of would be an element of propa- dolls. And then the audience generations Russian Imperialism marshal. He is a remolo Apre

av

if you stand at the street corner than three seconds

for

more

Headache

Do not wait patiently for Your suffering to and Take

tablets of CAFASPIN' dissolved in half a glass of water, and headache will soon vonish

GIFASPIN

kiba amai babet with the big ainet

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"Not if I cũa help it," de- claimed his proved helpmate. Tomorrow: The Simple Secret of a Wife

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mostly authors

stout resistance..

Storm Broke

100

hago

The girls were young, healthy PORTION of the room had constituents throw him out, A

There is nothing riew about: and pretty, although I prefer to Communism, not even its name.

I would go further and sug→ The rest of the company were been curtained off, showing believe that that had nothing to

may looking very small high stage, and there was do with the visit that the Red The French Revolution, that gest that Malenkev much like authors, and there a good German Steinway plano Dean of Canterbury paid them supreme inspiration of all, sub-t to realise the historic truth that Europe is physically a were various officials. But, you in the corner. A pleasant look- behind the curtain at the end of sequent revolutions, was ad single entity that, has, beca may asic, officials of what? 1 ing Russian follow came before the first half. At any rate for which tried to convince the plagued through the centuries

andristered by the Commune, the curtain and in his own company played a short season language

explained what it was to immense business, whereupon people that the end of royalty wars of conquest which are, all about. An oven pleasanter they were whisked back to meant a grand new life where in effect, civil, ware, little Englishwoman translated Moscow where, no doubt, they the mob would be the mosters. It for us. After which a not so were re-doctrinated in the Com-- pleasant Russian woman, with munist faith.

WORDS TELL

THE TALE

From Newell Rogers

Bat

What Purpose?

Co-existence?

But history never ellers, A Certainly they her hair drawn tight at the sides, could not have been more closely mob can destroy, but 'It cannot Out: of the blood that down at the piano,

guarded in London if they had build. Within

ten minutes the piorm been nuclear scientists.

splashed from the guillotine TT is true that the West re- to brew and then began

Igerds Russia as a semi-Asiatle It broke

the dictator Napoleon, came In full volume-but it was a

who made himself Emperor and nation, but that need not rufo storm of laughter. We were

drained the Ute blood of Tranes out the possibilliy that Russin loughing until we nearly rolled

In battle,

regard herself as primarily гореви off our chairs. If you could

Lenin and Trotsky told the faces the threat of German Russia, the France, have seen a tiny puppet planist IT is difficult to discuss Russly Russian workers and peasants rearmament NEW YORK. He says his $30,000 worth of "W

horn-rimmed glasses,

Nor will it ho in rational terms not only that they would be the rulers long until the threat becomes a UST a fow lines to let you equipment doubles the output of echo you would have popped difficult but, in some countries. of Russia when the Romanov fact. Is it, therefore, not in

know how unsafe it his 280-acre farm in Penn-collost, you have roared dangerous. There are men

sylvania.

as loudly as the rest of us.

experienced judgment who be a tool or a man of no judgment as Britain and Franco, that a

Of throne was destroyed. But only the interests of

As well can be today in a city of The cows for instance. Elec- Also

so if you had watched lleve that Russia Intends 8,000,000 people, protected tric equipment not only milks lion tamer trying to put his head conquer and destroy the non- or experience could have be- European concordat should be by all the devices of civilisa- the cows but also pipes the milk turned away in boredom until any signs of friendliness from Call It revolution or Commun-

lion while it Communist world, Therefore, led and governed by the people. would be mutually guaranteed?

lieved

that the people could be reached whith frontiers

JU

Kidnap Brooklyn Woman. City Alcoholics Run Wild at Upstate Camp: Two Killed.

Homb Safo Containing in the timing of her stage hit,

must

Flash Point

through glass pipelines into a in greater boredom It swallowed them tion.

1,000-gallon refrigerated storage

I detest Communism with my bo regarded as The lines are headlines-58 tank.

the tamer whole, you would poisoned sweets. Or if a civilised ism of Nazism--they are all the mind and my soul, but if we words across the tops of ono

same, Only the intellectuals, are to keep it within bounds' we Air doesn't touch

have applauded too. the like

gesture is made from Moscow immunised by their books, im must endeavour to bring Russi day's New York newspapers:- until it la taken from the bottle,

There were thirteen numbers then we know that it is just engine that a-revolution makes psychologically further towards Youth Shot; Four Held in

In all, and never once was there move to lull the West, into an people the master of their fate, the West. Some day the Russian Rooftop Chase.

a suggestion of propaganda, But,

Idiotic.complacency, QUIET. serious Julie Harris of course, the Bustlans under

The strong man, the dictaing, people will demand their liber s likes to live the parts she any regime have always been Readers might well akk at always emerges,

shall never forget those plays.

great talirisis. You can see that this point whether a puppet

words that Kerensky, uttered to It's City of Fear, says

A

Sbe

me: "I gave Russia Ave months. does not have to be in' In the plays of Chekhov and the show and a corps de ballet are Victim of 16,000-Dollar Hold-up. England until October to star novels of Dostoevskys. You can anything more than

just

of treadem,, and a nation that sco it in their love of Charles ordinary items of entertainment

has known freedom for even Thousands of Dollars Stolen. "I Am a Camera," but she leaves Dickens, who was a supreme at the fag end of the London

that long, will never rest until gaoled. Dope Super-Kill Boys Vaca

in a few days.....

caricaturist of the pen. In fact, Season. The answer is that Do not doubt that Stalin had. It has it again,” (p

We can You see, she wants to, become the popularity of the puppet both the puppets and the wild dreams of further con-

n sao a glimmer of hope Chair.

very English for the part of every change of regime.

theatre in Moscow, has survived hallerinas are State,

Прапсо

quest when Hitler's Germany lay in the attitude of Malenkov, Two Charged in Plot to Extort -Sally Bowles, a lightheaded,

and State controlled Whatever prostrate in defeat Britain We can see no further gimmer 598,000 Dollars

Serge rakish and charming young

the purpose of their visit. It was weary to the point of ex in the ballet dancers and the Rubenstein.

must be studied on the level of boustion, the Americans wanted puppets sent from Moscow to

home France Wes prosgande and not merely an 10.

London entertainment. What then, is in body and spielt ta

that I cannot going chaos. And almost de impo g. It may be that ci the was the surging tide of indep have made war impossible. "Al- though we cannot exactly sleeps with The hydrogen bo

bornb, under. the pillow wammust keep it was handy until the day Phen man will come ot and put away such brital LKIN

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from

woman In pre-Hitler Berling

The play is b. niccession

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curried too far, say Tel But in New York shy, retiring

Fifty Girls

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zanisern. of Do it Yoursoli shows among the "Wgrowing group of Má over the Ambassador, that the Russian - Bear had bound

duc'ed us - Inte: another"·"room

in maaltointi, Sim young atare who make a cult of where vodka, caviaro and mil'sorts ÷ corpmia ·· placeful, bléating diamb App med "2

"they "Daimple livingowances whil'noy of delicacies, ministerni

-In·· have fled a suit for $1,000,000 and the axiom damages and an injunction to change me. leg prevent rival from doing juch shows themselves,Belek

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penese wyse from - serom sians want to precipitate semaigents uerely he sainte sa howane would be wiped out. There El vart slime incrain's

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