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A CHAMPION AUTHOR TURNS PLAYWRIGHT

20 new books a year

By Dorothy Barkley

London. atories' and put them to types her story out.. "I apolit gil-book or playston ó olajemysa scroen children's books and her.

in my mind, The still produces about The play opened just characters come on and slog and before Christmas, with ad- dance. All I have to de le type It out." So you zoo, it is simple she is read by children Vance bookings running a when you know, how? round the world regardless month ahead through the

She has decided views on, tha he school holidays. It says play'a atmosphere. "I wanted of race or creed

into something for her popular- something full has been translated

of light arid Languages like French and ity that she could take one colour and music and fun." she Spanish, and into a num- of London's largest theatres says. It had to have mugs, ber you might not expect, and fill it for two shows, a gay scenery and costumes,

day. like Tamil and Swahili .... anies of one of her best stories have reached almost ton million.'

When

the news got round

ballet on wires, and clockwork clowns wound up with a large, shiny key. There had to be a Why has this children's toy train which puffed steám nuthor, who can write and moved across the stage, twenty books a year with stepping to take on part of the Now Enid Blyton, cham- no difficulty, turned to play- cast as passengers.

Simply because plon children's author, has writing?

11 On and off turned playwright and has she felt that there was

need for a new children's her first play running in a

that and

children a play, It is London theatre. play about children, for would welcome a "straight" that Enid Blyton had writton a children and acted mainly story as a change from the play about Little Noddy" and usual Christmas panto- the rest of Blytonland's popula- by children. She has simply taken half a dozen of her mime. She was spurred on tion, nearly every child nelor in leading characters from her to writing it when she heard ups-wanted a part. The pur- that another author was bers were finally whittled down working on the same idea to about 50 children and halt a and proposing to "use" her dozen grown-ups, a characters.

"Little Noddy"-Bunny' May is the name on the programme "And I couldn't have is the third genera ion of his someone else writing about family to take to acting, and has my characters, could I?" been on and off the sage sinto the ago of four. By Dow she says.

COMES

OUT TOP

on his right shoulder, breath ran out of gas, stumbled into bruised and bleeding heap in plucky perpendicular to anish

brick-dhist - but resumed

London. Before he thrust his barrel-chest, cleft second, I was told in chin and leonine red head into No. 1 my youth by an irate position, Chris Chataway was the champion anel

His spurt to fourth, long-suffering runner-up in world athletics.

"A one of the most striking games master. Now I know The other half of the equa- triumph was tion, having spent an in- achievements by any man in the past 23-year-old Chelsen-born year. GEORGE Whiting tells the story,

structional half-hour with a

brewer called Christopher John Chataway (Sherborne, Magdalen and Guinness's).

Something to aim at well, Chataway aimed, and shot several bullseyes, cul- For Mr C.. before he minating in that high-volt- thrust a barrel-chest, cleft age burst that beat Kuts chin, and leonine red head and a world record in the was last half-stride. of the into position No. 1, the world's champion 5,000 metres against

in

Mos-

runner-up famed cow at the White City two athletics as the character months ago. who paced Roger Bannister, pushed John Landy, in-

True. Chataway's new lived but a few But neither time can tar- the memory of the that in politics, philosophy and breath-holding dash

injected unaccustomed life economica

into million television second.

screens.

spired Freddie Green, chased record Emil Zatopek, and chivied days. Vladimir Kuts. Incidentally, nor mathematics Chataway's Oxford degree nish

also WALS

An aim

8

в

CHATAWAY

Bub my

frightening experience.

own fatilt entirely though I do think people a or us in those Olymples. Hardly

home expected rather too much

fair, you know. However, I will ́actit my training was ludi- amateurishi-just the crously odd. half-hour,

"I think I might have don? better with a little more tactical experience. Strangely enough, 1 am glad now I didn't win. Had Come in, I think I should have retired on the spot. Anything else would have been a fearful and-climax. I'd have missed a lot of fun, too."

Fateful night

Sa'direct result of his Hei-

Asinki opil, chataway and

Bannister went one night in 1953 to the Duke of York's barracks in King's Road, Chelsea, where an Austrian ex-Javelin thrower named Franz Stampi was telling British athletes how to organdre Diffidently, but withal de- fair degree of comfort"), or their endeavours on lines cal- cisively, Chataway recalled lawn tennis ("ust week-ends, culated to produce something than jolly- substantial more good-loser types. WE talked over tea, bis that the first mile of that you know"),

good

Eldest, of the four children of cuits, and cork-tipped electric race was "a

From that meeting may, be cigarettes (his) in a severe- deal faster than usual" a member of the Indian Civil

Chataway spent his traced the roots of Chataway's but-comfortable apartment that he felt "quite healthy" Service,

that Kuts's spurt in formative years in the Sudan, at present world renown and near- to mention Forrey's prep school at Swanage, supremacy, not cattle-crossing at N.W.10. And I lost no time the fifth lap was "a little and at Sherborné, the school Bannister's 3min. 59.4ser, mile. fashioned such. speedy Sheer inspiration is Chatoway's asking what it used to feel disquieting"... that lap that

"rather a strain" milers as the late Canon Lutyens, description of Stampfl's intuition like in the always-the six was

H B. Stallard and W. R. in the Deld of athletic training. that he thought, he Milligan, later to become Sollet- bridesmaid-but-never the

would start his finishing tor-General for Scotland." blushing-bride department.

burst 200 yards from home,

near a

not

In one shoe

But neither mechandes nor mathematics can produce n 'champion athlete if both heart "A fair question," repli- but found he was "in no

and mind are not in control of the leg muscles as they most ed Chataway, impelled by condition to do anything' of and that,

certainly are in the case of Chris impeccable manners to con- the kind"

UTYENS not-up the school Chataway. Incidentally, he asks ceal the fact that a hundred finally, he just "struggled

and for other fools had asked it be along to win in the last. 15 14 mile record (4min. 44sec.) in me to knock over once 1888. Chataway chipped two all that hoary plece of

of pseudo- fore.

yards."

seconds off it, and turned in a scientific expertise that declared The offcial distance was two min 42sec, mille to finish second him some years ago to be too "Being beaten need

in the public schools champlon- shart in the leg, too narrow in feet, the crowd went crazy, the ships having run practically the the chest, and foo slow 15 the necessarily dishearten you Russians made Chalaway

A whold distance in one shpë! pulse-rate for. international gives you. something to Master of Sport, First Class, and aim at next time. Depends, Roger Bannister himself no. Thus the seed was down, to be abletics. See record-hooks for of course, who beats you. I stranger to these excltements nurtured with quiet diligence official contradiction of this

wrole to the newspapers about when Chataway turned up for whiskered canard. must admit to some feeling what he rightly called a world National Service with the Royal you may also deny," he of satisfaction, finishing in record in courage, determination, Artillery, at Oswestry, where his front of Zatopek in Berne and endurance.

of a truck and a personal a rake. I smoke a maximum of after losing to him in Hel

few space-removing achievement of 4min. 15sec. for eight cigarettes a day, and take only an occasional drink. sinki, and beating. Kuts in strides Chataway had disposed the Imperial Services mile.

Romantic ntainments? Nior, London after finishing be for all time of the by-no-meant

deserved reputation of habitually "It was then I thought I at least, Impermanent.! hind him in, Berne."

Bnishing second.

might have some real ability at a port. I found enjoyable, and decided to concentrate,"! [maich; Chatoway,

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xrond dient of prestige in the far corners of the the three-world-Iron Curtain and ather

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Whe athletics? It appears not hour laber, dead-heated, for that Chataway had "a coullis of the three, milos

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Costumes were copied faith- 'fully. In style and cilmir. "Children are so meticulous," don't like things changed for no explains Miss Blyton. "They

reason"

Her Interest in children is not

board of a children's home, and

been on a visit there 10

She sat down to work on it last July. Three weeks later it was finished. When you show surprise at the

eye and says it is the easi- when I spoke. to her she had speed, she looks you in the confined to books. She is on the

just est thing in the world. She explains that a writer with open a now wing. It was a practised imagination can typical of her that the audience easily write 10,000 words a at the play's first performance

consisted of chlidren day and keep it up day homes all over the country in- after day.

She has no slick techniques, no chort cuts for speed. Before writing, she prepares neither plot nor list of characters She' sits down at her typewriter and

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"And where can i direct you to Ribbentrop's "old home or Karl Marx'ı

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vited to the theatre as #Osta.

Wife,

mother.

from

her

At home she is Mrs Kenneth Darrell Walera, win of `d`mar- deon and mother of two, just- grown-up daughters. They live in a country house in Bucking- bamshire, and, in her, spare time -if you can call it that me relaxes by gardening and play. ing golf.

Sho started writing when she was a schoolgirl in Beckenham, where sher Wis burn. She treasures to this day a collection of 500 rejection slips.......... Her tirst published work was a love poem In Nash's Magazine. For” this she received one guinea at the age of alxieen.

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* "Her "Little" Noddy" "play", "ja Just one more landmark in the of this spellbinder with the curly hair and sparkling She has more plans, Sho Gyds,

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may write another "Noddy". play; she may write a play for older children. Then there, is commercial television Bho hopes to have her own Sunday night programine,

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