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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1984.

REATNESS in like a

penny.

It has an Take

obverse side I'

the life of any man The world of distinction. knows him as one who has found a way to the stars.

But what about all those things he holds secret. The small ambitions which The he can never fulfil. hopes. The private struggles,

Regrets

fears

Turn a penny over and what.

do you find.

Here, today, great men

CONFESS

and prove that they, too,

have an obverse

THESE

HOT

IN LEUNANO LOND

DIN RALPH RIBHARDSON,

„EIR WALTER MONÍKY,

ARE MY SECRET

FAILINGS–BY FIVE

SUCCESSES

You can put away that old idus, early-to-bed-early-to-rise

cixmired into every child who succuss in Big Bu

the minul of to be a

the

Long, lanky. Lord is certainly Chairman and success

of Managing Director British Motor Corporation.... but he hates to get up in the morning.

craving for that extra His half-hour in bed Is his secret frustration."

"My

COMPTON MACKENZIE is the first to admit that a man has no right to more than che talent. But that doesn't soothe his vague regrets.

Не would like to have had the ability to record the betul-

he has reen in his "Alls ful things

in words but

21

years....not In paint.

But no matter how he tries the result is shocking.

Ing

Or

"It looks like the scribblings of a five-year-old," he says.

He would like, in the even- Schubert and to play Chopin on a grand pking. Instead

makes he

an awful din. pletely discouraged now.

"Iitarned the

for plano

"But my years" he told me. hands won't harmonies with my mind. Inm hopeless."

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car.

Then there is his great fear. He is frightened to drive a car.

"I have a dreadful feeling that I would try to drive better then anyone else, I would be a pest on the road. So I won't even turn to handle

And there fa bis unfulfilled ambilion, "I announced that i would have an orchid house 'when I was 70," he explains. "Already a year has gone and there are still no orchids, there is time left."

THE

Late riser

But

THE pollight on the secret frustration of 57-year-old SIR LEONARD LORD, the mighty man of British motoring, shines straight Into the bed- room.

So welcome at mealtime delicious Coca-Cola

When you hárva Casa-Cola

the scana-bleng

Report by ROBERT GLENTON

A TYLNEJ

EMMWOOD

Ho-dock not want to leave his handsome Worcestershire home for his Birmingham office.

He thinks of the 6 painting

he

mc,

Bu first die had better brish For $3-

up her conversation.

-year-old "Bichardson has one of

It

keeper is not robbing him. ho has doubts and tries check- ing, he ends up in a cat's oradio of confusion,

Colour blind

SIMDH ELMER,

Walter's Jack of domestic "aptitude:

7

He is colour bild. He is not 'But the of his shy about it: greatest regrets is his inability to appreciato a sunset,

··fallacy

CIMON · ELWEB, the 52-year-;

old painter, now occupied

the most notorioue réputations: KIR WALTER. MONCKTON, that there was nothing ono

as an evening-shot, crushër, in the profession.

No just cannot dange. For an actor this can be distressing.

"It's shocking," Richardson told me "People will just not dance with me. They will leave me flat on the dance floor."

on a portrait of the Queen, made, an alarming discovery. He was brought up to bellevo Minister of Labour- and could not do if one tried hard National Service, will go down enough. He has proved it in history as one of our finest fallacy. advocatca abroad, as well as at home,

But the odd thing is that he has been unable to master one foreign language.

than

Elwca wanted more anything, to be a coldier, Ho gave up painting in nearly favour of the Army. But he was a very bed solato Aer

They say the look of bliss on his face when his Harrow back

enabled film to read He connot sing, either No-end side signs in Greck on a tololute failure,

The

with

But he

„Territorial - the

ten years as a war came and he went into the decrt with the 10th Hussars.

enjoyed it immensely," he

"But

I was As a painter, disregard for couldn't one has a total

time. The Army, regard timing

porter

An

.

as being important. We fell out over this.

efforts at all have improved the visit to Cyprus was wonderful rock-grinding quality in his to behold. would

be much rather mind," he tells

This is an obstacle ho epeak the language, volce. at practising..... Of the local

He was Ostlered when his with business

in his problema luncheon-time, and the darl- hus had to overcome as soon as I open my eyes. I board.

"But my fallure wont deeper. career. -

greeting in Italian to

ilfo think of all the work I brought -

was acknowledged.

An artist goes through those home the night before.

But 05-year-old Sir Walter wearing blinkers. There is n to the That evening out "But do I wish I had got up

Richardson. Watch him. Wince his plate. He is struggling to subject at

hos now another problem on burning-glass intensity on one time, As 'Boldler, half an hour carly? Do I heck!

at the arithmetle on the bill understand Impressionist paint sometimes three or four things I know I should. But nil

He cannot add up.

ings. do is to tum over and want

have to be done together. This

confusing. I do back to sleep, vestest

er of my I has been Lord's greatest trouble throughout his climb to auccess....this reluctance to get

bed. out of

I

It is comforting for who cling grimly on bottom rung to know that the morning small-like. reluctance need not be a barrier to the top of the ladder,

Can't dance

What is more, he is not any A venitig out with actor SIR RALPH RICHARDSON more reconciled to work once .... that is an exciting prospect he has shoved and breakfasted, for any women.

He walks through life with likes them, sollertes doing, his solonel."

the blind trust in human nature that marks a CGI, with his first pocketful of English currency.

Richardson just holds out the moncy and hopes the shop

He knows Lady Monckton

in London galleries best,

the

men

rel

of

The Army Appreciated only The whole of the Sunday his art. It gave him high rank made him ta'war arilat, morning he took to clean a pair and of shoes--and not very well at Elwes has regretted his obverso that-is an indication of Sir alde of greatness, ever isince,

RUSSIAN WIFE WHO GOT AWAY

SETTLES

DOWN

It is just a year ago since Mrs Klara Hall, Russian- born wife of an Englishman, got her first glimpse of the Western World as she passed through Britain on her way to join her husband in Canada. Now the is living in London. How does she find' 'life?

By MARY HEWAT

never allow me to beth Nicholas. All I could do was

hold the

I've had to learn:on

goes off to work at the Com monwealth Relations Office, like.. any other civil servant.

towel. Julian."

She told people that new- boam babies in Russia were much I couldn't understand heavier. why, because the food and the care in Russia is not as poeth." Then she discovered that the Russian pound weight is about a N their flat in Albion For seven years He Halls kept

of a pound less than the Avenue, Wandsworth, trying And at last the miracle English. Jullan was normal tonight Mr. and Mrs they had hoped and prayed for, Every morning Mr Hall, the happened. Klare and Nicholas man who tackled Molotov and 'Alfred Hall will put the got their exit permit, Just Ernest Bevin in his hever-give- baby to bed, play some year ago the Halls were reunited, up fight to get his damily back, gramophone recorda to lull', From Moscow to a London him to sleep, then look over; suburb. Dieult?.. estate agents lists of houses" for sale in the country,"

There is nothing very strange in that, on the sur- thought it would be terribly face, Many young married difficult, sald Mrs. Hall couples in London will be thought my husband would be a spending the same sort of complete stranger. But he was

Just the same, it was ille start evening at home, in our courtatup all over, agalit,

But it is strange for Mrs Hall. Little, more than a year ago such on evening was an unporable daydream

Last year in the Cold War, Russian-born Klary Hall was in Moscow, aparated from her husband by 1,500 miles and the Iron Curtain.

..

Moscow life

So easy

Every morning Moscow-born Nicholas, with his shaky Canadian-English, must be sent off to private school. Like the other boys he is learning to cricket, and he wants to play own a sports car.

Hall Every morning Mru tackles the day's work; thu baby Everything has gone so easily, to be bathed and fed, washing to

The Halls had four months to be done, the fist to be cleaned, Canada, where Mr Hall was an food to be bought, meals to be information offer, before they cooked and no baby, witter. fat in Wandsworth.

MR. AND MRS, HALL AT HOME, TODAY "In Engloed a mother must stay at home.” Nicholas, now girly eight

father he knew only as Grandmothers do the baby- the

Tiny pot plants in sitting In Russia,” she said, "In brackets on the wall pick up the crises telephone, and required a a. Canada.

came back to the two-bedroomed Bubbling laugh

met

on the

dian accent,

Mrs Hall fears no political -you can ring "up" añ green and white of the lving videow, Politics seldom in- | that pleasant Wandsworths Mrs Hall found herself buying agency, and get a qualified alter room suite he brought with her home, sans ESROO

Occasionally she tells her The Halls hat been married a thing she didn't want becauser a regular foo. But In England from Moscow, R

Persian and Canadian prints innband he is on dep about "He replies" he 'she-le, m month, when Alfrar Hell, Eme, the Intes girls were a interorbed womens seem to take it for buy cipher clerk, was ordered. They were so kind, I was too granted that when you have a framed in natural / Canadian

disagreement, it is soo home. The Sovint Government embarrassed to refuse. In Russia baby, you just stay home

don't care whether you refused to give Klare an exit tierr

ever want to Dermit

and

wood decorate the, walls,

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Does Mrs

go back to Russia? "No,"

scarlet Chinure: Lacquer. Ir you leave the baby with a troys and #garette boxes reflect

surfaco the polished Hali

neighbours think you're some Moscow, table, "T-dkin approudly There were top-level experience of the males. Takin kind of a monster On the staircases are a stics said. "I don't

It. They tried s skolornatja' request. There were like

I didn't even

Mew Hall; air-haired, trim of typically Rumian pictures, desperate personal appeals, Orice sell me things, be persuaded the BBC to len bangallan Chark, their

bbim - the cont I wanted me

" Erondcast to Husein.“

that frat yene Engstiment

*

h

Is life in Russin as bad se 15 sald never read

jer second, we got go student wipestones burned in wood. Mpainted? No, I VER

a language at and

olla en Mia Hally

or an article which told English The that those bom sot, was born the spring Sun-Mex Universy when the The English bookenses are book or in article

And Alfred Hall prized nurses watdied Mrs Hall married. She had never kopt filed with Russian and

mako vore fire house. U the coma do the West class (fr: both languages)"Some people bath, 3 She... WisobviouslÝZA Her home doës met, show with more than 100 volumes of lutely black which alt im 6.

records, and a few Others make.

The Arst ever it isn't, le always.

sentimental Boviet or, anti-Bov seconvert tries to reach

sold, trom, their: Rusian

Why They joined forces. Then sovice

Bystra went by, the other".

out their marriagew⠀ plaine

There is nothing lytin aihe living-coom to inclledfea ionth-old baby" in the

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