1954-09-25 — Page 13

B

William Hickey

CORNED

BEEF AT

SADLER'S WELLS

London, his wife the other day I realised Y Pavloval By that he is passing through the difficult phase of his work. He Danilova! By all

realises that this is a great the other Ovas that opportunity. That after his por have ever danced in traits of Lord Beaverbrook and the ballet! What a terrible Somerset Maugham much is thing this pay dispute of expected,

And he hasn't yet worked out the Badler's Wells Theatre in the mind how he is going to Ballet is!

treat the picture. thought those gylph-like Church being very co- creatures lived ambrosin operative, Sutherland wondered und nectar... writ, maybe, if he was demanding too much An occarional sip of cham time from the Prime Minister pagne poured out of a and spoke about it to Lady

Into

their slippore. Churchill

magnum

זנס

I thought these dream girla never had to worry about THE COST OF LIVING. About the

of prico

cornod beef. Or

brussels sprouter.

But they do. They are fight- they And

ing for more pay.

are keeping in bep..

12

they were doing Act 1 from

"Swan Lack,”

It te as if ono heard that the

cherubim and seraphim had

shop stewards!

rent along

Wolls to hear

to Sadler's Dame Ninette

de Valois Kivo the manngo-

ment's views.

It was quite a

formance. Norman

BOJO ULT Torker

he ought to change his name to Tuckski renity--won there make it a pos de deux,

All for £5

10

"We are," zald Llic woman who kaa modo the British ballet what it is, "ke A mininture Civil Service,"

Intake

at

be al

I wiped a thread of gossamer FONT my eyes. I felt that Amy not she would talding about in dancers. Of a foot of them. Or about their pension

rights. This wasn't The Spectre of the Rosa." This Wig "Tho Ghost from the Ministry." This wesn't an Entree." It was an "I-Tray."

you

on "Wo

"Oh!" she said, “wo 'let him do as he locs. If he wants t aft and chat, let him,”

He worries

Sutherland is at the moment anding that well-known face too variable. Sometimes it is a young man's face, full of vitality and vigour.

Other times he looks tired. It is a face of infinite variety understandably enough in a man whose life has been 550 variable.

Sutherland

B man who 19 worries about his work. solutions do not come castly. At the moment he is worrying and working every day until late in the night trying to capture the essence of Churchill

It la an incredibly

Lask

difficult

But Sutherland is the man to accomplish it.

Take it from Joy

JOY MICHOLS wold the story of the Australian beep- farmer on holiday in Britain who walked into a showroom full of wonderful cars suld

the "Copier!" he elegant salesman, how much is that one?"...pointing to one of the most expensive,

The Australian

to

didn't look

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER - 25, ––– 1954.

According to an American advertisment, there is in com pany called Broadway Angels, Inc. And "for only 50 conta a share you can truy stock in a corporation that invests

regular ly in Broadway shows....

Details are given of the encé- mous profits made.

But then comes, the cold water, ""These are extremes.. many shows are a completa financial loss...

So you can still lose your shirt --for a 50-cent halo... ·

Suitors by type/

A the wife of an air, vice- AT Famborough, they tell me, AT marshal was talking about the proposals of marriage she had received in her younger days.

She divided them, like the aircraft on

show, into three: types....the prop....the job.... and the hover.

"....

"The prop_type," she said. "you can hear well in advance and be prepared; the jet type fans CORTO and gone before he has finished putting the ques tion.

"The hover type dithers about a bit, but finally settles down,"

FORMOSA

FLYING BEDSTEAD

World Cherisht ky qeranommend itch the stanchester Swasilan

Once the Germans Put £400,000 on his head

THE GENERAL WORKS

T

WITH SILVER NOW

London, said, "and I found a book about

this.

FREE paces took me from the gate to the front door of the

semi- modest

by

Now I can make these things. από candlesticke and chalices and such things for churches, and the shops sell them for me."

HUGH CLELAND

On

went Dan Nielto.

cannot have every Htle girl in the company telling us. I do not agree with very prosperous. The saleeman detached villa that is No. 3

The general was born in Q "It's the principin."

En con answered him

offhand in a quiet avenue in Alper- castle in Galicia. There, the corner that other house The money Involved is only

only way."Oh! That would cost

were 30-40 roams

But In the holders use.

when the about

tog. I rang the bell. £5 week. A ten- about £5,000 sterling."

castic. There are sever in general takes his spaniel Gyp "Hm!" muttered the Austro- shillings-a-week increase for nine

general'a

home, for a walk, there are present

friendly 10 dancers is all that llen, "that would bo about separates the management from 20,000 Australian, Well....11 door fitted Equity, which "la bandling the take ik

Thank you, air," said alightly

or

Communists, they stopped across the river from the fighting-as side it might be on the other of the Thames and they just watched."

general put

The spectacle they watched? Slaughter that

fo cost 120,000 Polish counities, and the razing of Warsaw.

The

away his

if he

dispute for the company, man, full of interest | demed,-- bald head and a dela rooms here ard-very-small-and--had in the ways of suburbia old sort of-life- they knew-be- i

But Sadler's~ Wells

preserve its freedom. It wants

to give rises as it thinks fit.

Not a prince

It was about then that I for- gut to listen any more

making up a ballet,

There

1 ww

ад

Smithova, was infinitely pathetic lilde girl to rags Who met Robinsov, the handsome prince.

"Y

opened the the The man who

exactly into

the and as ir that sounded too much: zoda for him from those he armlet, only couvents of those suburban surroundings. A short, for a family of four the meats, and he and his wife aro days,

bullt man, with a peneral explained: "Two of the touched by the help they have

and his wife miss the

two are let to tenants, get from those around them.

fore the war, they are- carofil now....Are there any special shaped moustache. Ating you would like?"

to conceal the fact. It was aba Polish "Docs General Bor live hors?"

generals who fought The general's hobbies in the who, as she went off to collect The question seemed under British command receive old days were riding, 1 asked.

hunting, her

boy, General pensions, absurd.

sutrineland Bar-Komo-

abooting (he was a member of they felt.

felt, "When rowsky's underground army of the victorious Polish 300,000he bas added his war- jumping

she everything!

wald, the team at

1988 read of people losing time code name "Hor" to, his

Beriin Olympics).

It seems torrible, it isn't no terrible, if family asme

have the ones you

"Well," said the farmer, would like to have a glass panel between the front and rear scata."

"Certainly sir, ecstamly str" said salesman, ^t qulte un-

little derstand....a

privacy away from the chauffeur."

זיי

Bor," the am General hille man said, "do come in." The man who at this time 10 years ago was Commander-in Chief of the Polish Home Forces "Not quite that, cobber," was in the desperate 03-day battle the answer, "I just don't want of Warsaw, and upon whose

nove

any such

Smithov wants to marry him these sheep breathing down the head the Germans

put a

price and.

and pleads with her aut... well, she did bear a resemblance to Dame Ninette,

But the aunt throws herself about in an absolute fury.

She points to the carriage and-fourthes Then as the

the jewels

und to the music crashes out she gives great gesture of refumt.

Д

Robinsov goes off to Trans- port House in a fury. He is really a trade union leader... not

prince at al}, Smithova, fed up with the whole affair, runs oft with a band-leader, And comes back to the

cottage and pokes

old

સામા

back of my neck."

ono od Joy Nichola was two guests of honour at the Variety Club lunch.

$190

оп

Australian

ΟΙ

room

The other tho

Do- Sir Thomas White, the

was

minion's High Commissioner,

Garbo's milk-glass

parlour.

is no pen- me into son. It is not £400,000, showed te the small, lace-curtained front only to

keer that in most houses in his mind occu- avenuo would bo the t

Pral

that the

works beating ou Kilver.

Hia

wite daughter of a

chest- mar of great desk-chan

A NEW YORK antique dealer,

Mr David Weiss, tells me Greta Garbo is one of his cua- tomers.

Sho Just lives for pink opaline," he said.

I'm afraid I was none the wiser. But I am told that it is semi-translucent glass which is also called milk-glass,

her finger at okt aunt,

When I came to someone was talking about collective bargainya

I cropt out.

ink.

Variable face

WINSTON

Want a halo?

NO PENSION

Wow

·

GENERAL BOR

and several

The room was full of heavy general, a furniture--a wardrobe, of-drawers, bookcase,

talents

SOUVENIR

anov

Now, when he is not busy a a silverænith, he is writing articles or preparing speeches for

Follsh Old Comrades meetings.

There are home army

300 to 400 of his in Britain. They include two generals froợt his statt. One, like Bar-Komorow- sky, doce "homework" making artificial jewellery. The other is care tabor in an old people's |

the kind of things that can be (portrait painting in oils for home. picked up at auction sales, An one) has work to do, too, be

but sides looking after her husband untidy,

mannish

room,

Talking of them, the general

containing no clues to the past and their two young sond, Adam went to a drawer of his desk

and George. "My study," the general sald, "My workroom, also."

"Workroom?"

and brought out a faded armlet my workshop," she in Poland's national colours, said, and led the way to the red and white. Ho wore it on other entertaining room, whose the sleeve of a lounge suit-his most important furniture was a only uniform, as C-in-C in the "Yes, for, you soc, when the sowing-machine. "I never liked Warsaw

uprising, which was sowing," war was over I was too old to

German she said, "but now, overcome, less by the I make start work in a factory. He is well,

clothes, skirts enemy than by the treachery And I could not mostly, for a wholesale firm. I of an ally-Russia. suppose it is quite fun, machine- sewing."

"Had the Russians come, as Chartwell to

Graham for all For a small invest could get no office work. I de

do not eve much of they could have done, the Sutherland, who is painting the ment you can all be "angels"-cided must do homework. I

their neighbours in the avenue, Germana would theatrical kind -- the) om a silversmith now.

have beet Prime Minister's portrait,

looked about for some- and the general money to

hap never overwhelmed. Sutherland is enjoying the people who put up

But when, the But I talked with back shows,

thing I could do at home," ho visited the "local" round the Russians, found we were not

CHURCHILL

S has given noother siting at HALOES for everybody! Harps speak much of English, 80 I

work.

With

of tho

Les Armour

In Britain Today

THE little

London, England has gone to the Ameri- not have been frightened away by the inere sight of a passing town of can movies.

Notice the language; "This is woman.

In fact, the genuine highway- spont ́it in a dreary sitecéssion man would have been so much of suburban elnomas where they' a gentleman 'that no one could might, learn more expressions

Bewdley, Worcester- # stick-up." Not "Prithee, The rent McCoy would quite really feel any ill-will towards like "This is a sick-up,” shine, basking happily m'am, thy gold and silver. If you simply have invited her in for him especially since everyone

a drink, filled her full of good woud know that the

loot would Palo-faced and shaking, they in a strong sense of history, please." boasts an institution known No self-respecting highwayman

Notice also the awkwardness, strong ale, and trussed her up. be. spent on good suck and could only have been the object

He would have exercised the

wine for the amusement of pity and derision. ns the "Highwayman's would ask for "the till." What utmost gentility in the trussing of beautiful young damsels. Cafe."

could he do with so ungainly an operation, of course, offered his And what of these, object?

Falling the appearance of real live, awaggering highwaymen, it caters con- tentedly for a steady flow of hardworking townsmen.

But one night, two shady figures crept in uncasily. ""This," Bald one in a faltering .voice, "Is a stick-up. Give on the till

· Rightly, the owner. Kathleen Parker, win now a highwayman when she wonen one, rotorted, "Not likely!""

Mee

there be any doubt, she added forcefullyrauf Mall Hiyo you no`till. T'I call by ZOR police." Then atte tappet of "window, to two catal

kun two

They did nothing to the landscape. And modern

sincero apologies, and probably timorous characters? Judling,gienio prison with plenty of 1

But this is hardly the point, pinned a bright red rose on hur, A genuino highwayman could breast, bedoce departing,

WHERE

Even

they had got away with the mail bogs to wow, is the only booty, they would only bave solution for them.

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were. Figh. It was just that exhibitors at aqulingly ones. We liked the marvel. The dernonstratory they. Little fish, middle-sized fish; the Radio and Televizion · Ex» squiggly ones best. But the were proud of it. They ex- swimming, swimming, swimming, - hibition had got together, and man said that wouldn't doi dit plained that you just pulled the Wherever we looked there bought some flah so, the swirling Wo had to have a thort ohm, Invers and, bang, worneone, s was a television scrot. And millions would have something or a fall one, too. Ottoseries' long way away was denda always it was trained on the to look at besides the BBC, fish. In the middle of the screen, We decided we preferred the In nent white letters, were the Words

ProAlternativa, Television BECH They were

talking

This, we told, ourselves, we deal for our money what we had always suspected.BUIL There is something fishy about mi commercial television.

the smooth

we would never see the "Alle But we wondered what hip- native Television Programmes pened if the efter bloke was We told himn"wó klidn't ant to phaling: leven, too, The, exhiblə showing on this fish sad," the

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KADI

you. And it is wonder- ful to be free, not to have, to look over, your shoulder to see who is following you."

She said

and good-bye hurried off down the avenue to the school, and did not once look over her shoulder,

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