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SOUTH

What

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REED

O you drive with a

flair? Don't turn to the Highway Code

THE CHINA MAIL- TUESDAY, OCTOBER

"I SEE YOU'RE TAKING THE LOCH NESS MONSTER BACK WITH YOU” “

Grandma (200 andʼteve-Family¦are marty hang from their sentener un Ventana

London Express, Bervice

we (THEIR

WIVES)

think of their driving!

BROWNING

PUDNEY

G.B

Every man thinks he is the perfect driver : here the wives of five famous man toll what THEY think of their husbands as motorists, by ROBERT GLENTON

wtves

were

DUKE

SUTHERLAND

day

he did 700 miles across Europe in one day,

This is discouraging for his wife Gwendoline, who feels it is better to arrive than to travel.

cau

Ha never stops it he avoid it. He won't be used for

errands. He will never motor into town to do the shopping. He even accelerates when bla wife secu a gown shop. -

He is impatient with fools on the road. His explanation is that he expects people to do supid things in aircraft but can see no excuse for idiots in

cora.

HOW THE STARS BEHAVE BEFORE THEY GO ON

L

By JOYCE STEWART

ADY CHURCHILL has Secretaries, agents, managers,

It So has Audrey dressers have to be paid. And Hepburn and Jane slothes, and entertaining are the Wyman and Isabella Cooley op of the trade, (the most beautiful coloured Only when a star” is high in

the firmament can girl-in the world),^***

afford to dress casually ke Their personal magnetiam turning up for a broadcast, hú Sie Laurence and Lady Olivier, makes people, in a crowd without a tie, she in a pixie- stand and stare.

hood,

he or she

In any profession, the Wanda Hendrix, luscious red- fortunate possessors of headed Hollywood star, was at

"it" come to the top like imply wanted rules. She - a mink coat, saved up and bought one then wondered T she should pin the

cream for milk..

"It" is that indefinable receipt to her lapel. "Peopla something. termed Star looked at it and I could see them Quality.

menially totting up what sort of price I paid," she suld. "Mink seems to be a kind of currency for sin."

Inbred magic

But

On Reaching for Stardom a new book, "In Show ok. If you are a Dorothy via the Beauty Contest: It's Business Tonight," Peter Lamour or Ann Sheridan-they Duncan defines "It" as "an jumped off that way, elusive, inbred magic that winners need talent and applica- cannot be acquired except ride.

tion

plus beauty to make the Most aften both are by gift from a fairy god lacking. Mr. Duncan quotes mother at birth.”

typical conversation between himself, as judge in such a con- tost, and an aspiring entrant.

HIM: Why do you go in for beauty contests?

Mr Duncan should know, for as editor-producer of the BBC's "in Town Tonight" radio and TV programmes, he meets more big names than anyone in Britain.

HER: (Giggle, pause) Because I want to be a film star.

HIM: Can you sel?

.

HER: No, but I expect 1 can

HERI (The answer obviously "Ver). Lots of flim alors started that sods

Old friends

Sandwiched between Good Advice to the stage struck learn. and 64 illustrations are HIM: Do you think you can some fascinating snapshots be a film star just by being of stars and their industry, beautiful?'

Ho describes their various reactions to first nights or broadcast nerves as neces- ary to a performer as ́s stethoscope to a doctor" Louis Hayward plays twiddle feet under the tables; John Night Clubs: Only older Wayne rubs his sock up and people. (business men in part- down with one foot; Michael car) can acord £15 on a Wilding holds his wife night ent. That is why most and Elizabeth Taylor's hand cabarets concentrate on present-

from the moment they enter in the favourites of the 30's

Lucienne Boyer, the studio until the broad. Chevaller, and Noel Coward. cast is over. And Herbert Wilcox grasps Anna Neagle's hand with such concentra tion you can almost feel his strength passing into her,

He is a good driver. His re- actions are rieedle-sharp

he thinks far ahead of the car in front.

But he frets when his wife never drives. He accuses her for going

Mrs Sutherland points out Its Virtues: He, is a safe the first hotel the likes at about driver. He has a wonderful six in the evening. Too tired bump of location and to eat, and vaguely desporate, gets lost. they eventually find

a resting place near midnight.

What She likes about His

She

His vloe: After a party his speed drops to 20 miles an Here are the results of a old Sutherland. Ho has been driving: His skill. The concen hour. "Who," asks Mra Pudney, or a driving school driving-flair test tried out known to swear roundly when tration he uses. He mys driving "wants to go for a moonlight for an answer. Ask your on five famous men.

straggling, dawdling cata are in is like drawing. Anticipation, crawl when you are tired out favourite

front of him. He goes all white, an Their passenger.

the right line, and aching for sloop?" eye to see the

and silent when he makes one steadiness are virtues. Their wives give of his rare noisy gear changes, your own personal back-seat examiners.

She Worries because he will never had MY Hcence endorsed." And Pudney retorts: "I have driver!

the results.

drive with the choke out. As a man who drives a great fancies it is ruining the engine. Two points stand out:-

Graceful driving is like a deal on the Continent, Graham Quietly Mrs Sutherland edges

He travels fast sense of humour.. no man Sutherland is biracial in his it in. He looks offended and i will admit being without it.

On the Corniche he Criticise his clothes, friends and he will like any Latin when a crazy put on a superior smile. Tell French or Italian him his driving is not all it perila him.' should be.

..and watch face fall.

Bayer's a TONIC

BAY

SOUTH

TONIC

A

end

besat

is

driving.

ENERAL

too fast.

Ho rets Full Marks for his oncentration ck, Mark for his lack of observation where shop is concerned.

He is immaculate -

+

Convulsed

English Cabarets and

Maurice

On: Glibert Hardings: Duncan (Harding was interviewer) be sacked him from his programme cause his personality was too

overpowering for nervous new- comers.

He was crestfallen and dis- appointed over the docialon, but rang up Duncan alter the next.

CIR Corol Reed, 58-year-old MR DUNCAN asserts that broadcast to say you did the film producer made "Night the nervous tension of the job far better than I could." right thing. John Ellison does Train to Munich." Lady Recept ones Penelope Dudley Ward like strain to get to the top, some stars will not gamble a star's life, the marathon-

On Stars Frederick is not at all surprised.

and Television: taste in art, waves his fists and gesticulates Plaims he left it out on purpose. Browning. Treasurer to the

When he goes driving, he Duke of Edinburgh and war craves silent black roads and time Airbame lender, has the sudden shock of bright contented back-seat driver in headlights, his wife, novelist Daphne du

After a night of driving he Mourier.

Arrives for broakfast well-

hly

for

driver im

He's too slow

**

She

followed by the continuous effort to stay there demands her reputations on TV. the stamina of a boxer and ・ ・ Ginger Rogery is one,

spent years building up her alm the constitution of a cross career. "One bad TV appear Channel swimmer...

ance, perhaps through bad light- gone ing or camera angles and 35′0

she Bays.

A comedian's reputation is the hardest to maintain.

taneity from its funny man --proof that he is not just

Others like Jack Hawkins accept it as a challenges risked his successful film repula-- tion in one night, playing a long, Leading" "performancs" ing/TV's "The Pubilla Prosecutor." He was a brilliant miccess..

- YEAR - OLD In England he gives a thin, FORTY-FIV

poet and . writer John resigned smile when he is faced Pudney la a very different with some foolishness on the driver, according to his wife,

She says he drives just like groomed, happy, and unshaven. He wants speed road,

Ho has undergone a road- a chauffeur, He likes travelling Lady Reed is crumpled, sticky- He drives a elosed coupe, change.

fairly fast, and is inclined to eyed, and stit-necked. FIRST of the lustrious back and years

something

do some un-chauffeurly mutter- reat drivers to give her yer- faster, Mrs Sutherland hopes he he

he had a motor-cycle ing at crawlers. Whon

He's a man who diet wes Mrs

40 miles an hour is his Graham Suther- doesn't

would carry her on the got it. Although she pillion at 80 miles land, wife of the famous artist.

He gets irritated by drivers happy an hour,

speed. admires his skill, she thinks he Now, in his car he will not who accelerate as he overtaken, He takes time off to matoe feeling of frustration travels fast enough.

travel at more than about 40 but be is a man who looks round. London. He will oven. A gag-writer's mouth a craving for

perfection

He likes driving with the miles an hour.

after his cans.

drive from his Chelsea horae to plece. the driving of 51-year-

hood down. This is unfortunate

Ho sols Five Stars for his Picadilly Circus just for the The Pudney progress on when the Sutherlands are going long journey is erratic. When smooth, jerk-free motoring. relaxation of motoring, This "Danny Kaye, confronted with to London for an important Mrs

Mrs P. drives the whacks her Ho get No Stars at all for can get boring.

an unexpected. BBC audience, · date.

Mrs Sutherland winces husband's 40 miles an hour up regarding a car not actually He is an immaculate driver, as be walked through the studio for her new hair-do, her expen- to 60-plus. He has a habit of caked in mud as diable for His wife cannot recall a crash- door, Jurf collapsed like a sack sive hat. Sometimes she suceeds slowing down when there is any occasion.

ed: gear,

at the door post sa-though the

N. Television itself. It cannot in geting the hood put up.

Ble Admires: His bland effort was too much for him, she sighs and searches ponctly clear country road in

be appreciated uniom self- in traffic jams. He convulsed the audience, equanimity for a headscarf,

discipline in exercised ---- it "Bho Deplores: 'His reluctance Sutherland is one

of those and-dad driving, alleges Mrs NEVILLE Duke, 32-year-old to stop driving on his holiday hand reacted diferently. He Pivot of home life.

Red Skelton, on the other should be an adjunct to, not the drivers who always belleve Pudney. He swears a little at test pilot, is the man with A-place-a-day is his,principle, there is a better place to stop drivers who wander over the a fast sports car and he be This is irritating LE you do theet the door, beamed at yet the nation-wide attack just around the corner.

lleves in using it. The other packing.

Often

of him..

He goes in for quiet; "mum="

road.

LYSENKO

AIRY tales, for all their

Fantasy of plot, are

realistic when it comes to

He

never stops

AND AND HIS MAGIC LAMP

By David Laidlaw

emotion, and their heroes to criticise him-usually the and heroines are always beginning of the end in Soviet doing things we ourselves publia ille. would like to do. Who, for Perhaps. Lysenko“ dia instance, can read the story realise this, or perhaps like a of Aladdin without envying more violent because of it.

Wounded animal, he just became *Ita him his magic lamp?. any case, early in 1954, he gave

ing form

the

0

Out of order

crowd, whooped; "Ah, at televitis shows no sign 84 people and button an im- disappearing. One typles

promptu, uproarious act,

presentative of the đi. flriush father mid: "w Jack Benny, however, has not live without our script-willers king on each anything went wrong with the off-stage gar

Even the “apors

taneous crack as he leaves hire it would have to be repaired. hotel de moat slucidumyna

pared beforehand.

Breezy trip

*Immediately!

When the author's

children seemed in danger of being magnetised to the screen he deliberately put order for the school

and they had the best

Duneshrome through the Ave years since

He even went so far as to call his opponents Welanan niata which is the most insult

· of abuse in Soviet tector's theories. This was not clentine jargon, and was altogether surprising since he formerly sufficient to condemn e had had no previous scientific man out of hand. He was sup mdaki training and wits therefore hardly

not likely

orted by a number of other to produce anything

mbers of the Commission original

the chairman of the Certif

one of whom,

"knew anything about Commission advised that botany The › controversial On Mar

beentime it w

eads. These supporters madə unfounded and methodo?speeches of ya “generalised: 'and declamatory nature," and in the logically unsound. And after

examinationist, the day?

another ebergele rub on the thesis should be re- thesis dedit" with the origin of Omak

Unfortunately, magle lamps lamp of his reputation, the story, are hard to find nowadays, but of which appeared in Pravda on

March 2011 was in the form

in the Soviet Unionally letter from the claakman of a certain amount of discussion, end the Lysenko faction carried

efficient substitute, has been developed. With careful amen- the Supreme Certifying Comandan [oeuvring) and the support of the - mission the body which's in which

party, a man dan makto his name, Russia is reportin for grant into somethin conjure with (Ing academia, dom

debit

A good examle

poke with the case

Lysenko's called V.

entertainment business bought Her daughter

hese are some of, to knit, his son -

and the Bos