1955-01-29 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1055

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Java rally from Florida's calm wa leru. Damp, duba ou, dismal.

UNDERWATER FILM

FLOP WAS NO FUN -EVEN FOR FISHES

Mizati

Stamp

The moment before

Facturer

specially prepared underwater superscope sarees

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Faded from sigh arly two chilly hours, almost

From HUGH DUNDAS

SILVER SPRINGS,

Floridin HE world's first under premiere

ast

water fitne fizzled into a damp flop 10.55 Florida time, just 25 minutes after it started.

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All that the shus saw of Miss Jane Russell wa prolonged view of feet a shing as she fingered inter- at the brink of minably The Aquarinema. Very alert hud might also have quick look at the sultry

heroine as complete

red

suit bathing

aqualung, she did a

with

and

high-

sperd 271071 at a depth of

about three feet past under-

water camerKS,

the Silver to be The

by that time But

waters of limpid Springs, said

clearest in the world. had

lost tu st of

parency.

their trimis-

A eload of sand, stirred up by The feet of a regument of star-

floral

Luty grens,

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"No, no, Chester: Seriously, to see the I've come fust

picture

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a smile vanished

Jane Russell, about to go down, 6713

keup the orthodox Dlm

star smile. But it was no fon to the underwater stalia,

THE

William Hickey

STAGE SECRETS ARE TOLD... BUT THE MAGIC STILL REMAINS

WENT to

lind Boxall show children IL Was a virtuoso per- how a scene from a play- formance by Paul

A

London. I have never known an They made uninteresting even

AO Wynd- nudience intense. And such fines as:-

they shall fetch thee ham's Theatre to watch the adults were as silent as Jewels from the deep, Paul Rogers and Roun- the children.

And sing while thon on preased

flowers dost sleep." Next scene.

Paul and Rosa- nd put away their chairs andt had a go at the movement,

"You ree," said Paul, 'n alagi is like a chessboard

..centre, right centre, left centre, down stage, up stage. You gel cont binations like down right and up right."

in this case, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is built up from a first reading to a dress rehearsal.

and Rosalind.

would pro- vide a first-class entertain

It

ment anywhere.

Margaret Leighton—very They came in, wearing smart in a black suit and ordinary clothes, very busi- red hat-introduced the per- messlike.

formance. At first she con- "We are going to strip

bit the

fessed that The WAH H

magic from every- worried. She didn't know thing," said Paul. "We are whether it was a good thing just going to do it as it to Fot people into the happens.

mystery of the theatre. "It should be kept a mystery.”

Behold the truth

She need not have worried. We being

shrouds the

Rosulind,

has Just Hot head. Titania

Paul was Bottom. Titania, Bottom his 189' asleep.

"What angel wokes me from my flowery bed?" said Tilinta In a flat volce...

"Out that next_bli," sand Rogers. the AAL

"I shall moke 4 pulled

hee-haw noise at Qt Tine." off

Titanin made noter

ber mystery-bluntly, cruelly.

copy. "Always have a perell But the magle was more

and make notes straightaway.” she said. potent than ever.

What is he up to now?

STRANGE

OF KRISHNA

By DOUGLAS CLARK

T

CASE MENON

"British Africa.

colonialism"

In

Five months later he

Hire of VISION Wish 31g own

INTO The news conies 21 occupier at a range of about

silvery-haired, gaunt, two yum by the gowesstoragɔleg

eps and top of blonde Jane scholarly indian politician

took an MA de land and into the Western educational school in Hert publicly attacked the French Maeld, pump young lady who once

fordshire. He qualified as Empire where "there ball pretty well along the same

gree at London University camp? and Fates Marilyn Monroe

barrister of the Inner

always suppression of free- allegedly destined for stardom, with a dissertation entitled:

At first glance it might Temple. Ho edited the first dom and dental of self-

The girl

I made t

"A"

Experimental Study

11

devorative entry into the water 101 the Mental Processes in seem ko. For Krishna Menon Pelican books. int mumutes, earlier, wearing her polved to Reasoning,"

third and most thamale ang sand of the day tiny bikini

batha-

plisk win!

By the time judged would gbully have traden

th pretty cloths in the world

a couple of Army blankets

and a hot water bottle.

rusy

Legendary

J2

respect."

Last September

he hastened 10 London to urge Churchill not 1. Join the Southeast Asia De- fence Pact.

claims to be a staunch friend of Britain: and certainly in He is 56-year-old Krishna the past he has shown little Meaon, for the

THINI

two eagerness to exchange life in years India's representative London for the hent and dust

and political turmoil of his WHEN war came, he toiled

In October, back in the U.N.. courageously among the

he was demanding the destruc at the United Nations.

A1 moment Pandit own country.

bombs as Civil Defence tim of all atomic and hydrogen Krishna Menon is the Man Nehru, overburdened with

And bomby held by the Great Powers. worker at St Pancras. He

after

Com- For 25 minutes the pretence offices, is expected to shuffle Who Came to Dinner,

India gained

And what thanks has he 1947, audience-on to Krishna Menon the arrived in England for six

from the Kremlin for post of India's Foreign months' study of economics monwealth status in

this persistent guerilia war he Minister. And for Britain and law in 1924. He stayed he was her High Commis d

sioner in London for five carries on to their advantage? a question af on for 28 years. the that raises Hunt

None at all, Mr

maker and considerable interest.

He sat at the feet of the years. woah largest

His most became wner of

Will Krishna Menon steer late Professor Laski By bag Long which could hardly

gesture-the graduate at

repatriating By, low has to his credit also India's foreign policy away research

water cinema

from its delicate dangerous London School be Chuld hardly

man's mies. through TI<>

dragged o

by Away

The act wet MAI1

drifted

Howart

the world's only

low which

Are there no GENTLEMEN

any

"OW hard it is to be a

HOW

gentleman in

Hata supersonic age. rarely 90-80 how they be raised?

this

can

more?

Four famous hostesses

Bre weigh up the state of and 1955 chivalry in find that Englishmen lead

A zebra crossing is a much safer way of crossing the street than the arth of any squire. You can't offer your seat in an airliner.

So the question is poised: ARE THERE ANY gentlemen LEFT?

to

0 man

ns

P

too

course

"if a woman's car breaks down on any road, the most wonderful things happen."

Mra L'op's definition: Being

Soon THE COUNTESS OF LISTOWEL'S daughter marries, Lord Grantley.

lier favourite. gentleinan:

for in-

215

EL the

In that job he a legendary figure among of Econo- the diplomats. He cost the He taught in a co- Indian Government, less than

his typist.

By ROBERT GLENTON

MRS

constructive U.N. Indian plan for Koroun prizoners

"Do you mind if I don't li down," said Rosulind... "it's my stockings.

"Keep it a fairly tight circle,” roid Poul 19 she got up asic moved heross the stugo.

They

Studen every step, every gesture.

"Electrics/"

shouted

Paul.

"you the

"Dull down the lights?

"Then," said Rosalind, will see just how hor:id light is in which we rehearse."

Ballet movement Next scone, They come on la jetas and pullovers,

"We are supposed To have gone uwny

leamed our nes," said Paul.

und

He is smoking a cigarette and hus another behind his ear.

"When I get up," says Rosa- jimi, "do you want me to du it in a ballet movement. After

, I am Titania."

"Yes," saya Paul, "but not too much ballet, That would be 100 Reinhardt."

know," continues Rosalind, "sightly ballet. Stylised?"

"That's it," says Paul, "Are you ready, darling?",

A that "dariing"

could

sense half the girls in audience making a fixed determination to go on the stage whatever father says.

The scene was coming to lifa

DOW.

There was Tania's voice whispered:

US

softness 1

half- sho

"I pray thee, gentle mortal,

sing again;

Mine

ear is much enamoured of thy note."

There Was A dim-witted about Bottom's

clownishness

"I see their knovery: this la

make an ass of me; to

me, if they could."

to fright

No destruction Next scene. Or come the make-up boxes.

Poul wears 41 rather

off- white bath robe, Rosalind in a house-coat. This was the trans-

formation scene,

This was the magic of colour, pencil, sponge, and brush.

It was useless for Paul to try to destroy it all with off-hand remarks as he rubbed brown on his face "We would

havo polished our performance quito a lot by now. The scene is a woodland glutke."

It was useless for Rosalind to "First you must remove

with everything

removing

was described by the Russians say as "ludicrous, weak, emaciated." Suld Vyshinsky, turning on grease, And then wipe it off. India's delegates: "Ab best lou | I always Use babies cla are dreamers, idealists, At worst nappies"—and promptly pro-

duced a tatiered rag,

There the

magic

the in bottles Magic in the hands that used them.

So far, admirable. But look further into the record you do not understand your own

and camouflage position of Krishna Menon.

horrible American policy."

He has always been a doctrinaire Left. of flerce

See-saw

to

wife LLEWELLYN, itritain's must famous horse-winger, For 13 years he was

the mental processes in- men, Coleret Harry Llewellyn. a Socialist councillor at St So

Sho adily: "And England 13

for three the volved in Krishna Menon's

take him ropsoning som full of gentlemen. If a woman's Pancrus; car breaks down on any rond party's parliamentary can- along a familiar path. the most wonderful things didate at Dundee. happen. It's just a procession of

secretary of gentlemen of every class society

one every

of

As India's he can

wia

We saw Titonia come to life. "I've got to get rid of my eyebrows," said Rosalind, so I rub them with soap."

And sure enough they dis. appeared.

We saw her paint on new ones-great, dramatic streaks that arched their way round her

Foreign Minister forehead.

And as India the

be depended upon to Rogers WIS brusy putting

lofty speeches vermillion trying League, which he created in make further

On the tip of his 1930, he was for 17 years rebuking the wickedness of nose."Just

show It's Д once field a shop door the most zealous and in Western Imperialists while the comedy."

I absent flexiblo

to help.

open in America, mindedly went on holding it

propagandist for gasp of India herself reaches open until I suddenly discover Indian independence at work greedily and ever more firmly ed 12 men walking through one in Britain. Even in wartime ver Kashmir.

wouldn't he was privately prouding He can be expected to por-saw

after another. That happen here."

Roosevelt and Stalin

to carefully

between Eust and West And

con- accept the temptuou Insults

Russin of Without complaint.

NITR Llewellyn's definition: persunde the British Govern-

has A gentleman

perfect ment to let India go "Pres." manners, sympathy, and aboveC dll he has fire. He is positive, not just negatively polite,

fer favourite gentleman': Prince Philip has most of the qualities I regard as important.

JOHNNY HAZARD

***

YOU CALL ME, SULLY?..

Mischief

SEE too the mischief that Krishna Menon has done since he moved to the United

for

an

GUB, THIS GUY

TAKE IT EASY...} || SAY...WHAT DO YOU WANT CLAIMS YOU KILLED - I'LL CALL HIWW'?

HERE, MISTER?

A MAN IN HIS PET, REY,GUS.....COME

SHOP TODAY...

end to

from

Indila's

to

The apparent

And then off came the bath- robo and, the house-coat.

Evelyn, the dresser,' came on with Titonia's train, Bottom's Ass's head and belt,

"If it was a real perform- anco," said Rosalind, "I would be going up and down on my Ho can be trusted to snatch now in the dressing-room so every possible advantage that my knees wouldn't crack

Commonwealth when I got up on the stage,"

And sure enough her knees nocepting

did crack when she got up, But that was the last attempt

the matte their part to "strip away.

They had falled utterly, We were looking not at Paul Rogers or Rosalind Boxall my longer.

connection without any of the responsibilities.

How, In short, will the switch from Nehru to Krishna Menon infect India's

international policies?

The answer is straightforward. In no way whatsoever,,

By Frank Robbins

AND I CLAIM HE'S MADE

A BIG MISTAKE..... SHOOTING,

OPF HIS MOUTH/

"It mahhota are only super-

a gentleman involves helping Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. ficial they are no disguise. You

his never forgot

Now sit back. take a long, Nations. can always toll the man who is an old woman across a road, i At places like Anzio,

clealing stance he 18 the opposite of hot a real gilleman.

from a blind beggar. manners, He is no fair-weather long look at your husband. How "A public school

the perica gives

near 'dots

como. to That's ILTE over-simplification, gentleman.

of

In September 1958 he was Blogs but there are just

Lerre but it shows what I mean.

You have to be dashing to be critical standards Four women who ought

who never many gentlemen

Her favourite

according to Listowel, Llewellyn, and Clark? | calling gentleman:

a gentleman Imow--a famous four who be went near such a place."

husband-after 24 hours' tween them meet all shades of

Lady Clark's definition; A My society-provide the answer.

particmim in

with thought I have decided he has What do they decide?

code of ethics which he never the qualifications,

He has kindliness, That the art of being

a breaks,

sympathy, and Integrity. gentleman is flourishingi

Ter But read what they say d

favourite gentleman! theh docide how your hushind "Good Heavens, I know rates

many. I can't pick one out"

MRS GERALD LEGGE, 24- year-old Mayfair hostess, West

The counters, daughter minster City councillor, prison Jecturer, and airport catering of a Hungarian diplomat of

the old regimes pays know shi ki been president of the critic, has her own views.

There are a great, maný. Sooty London Fhaltion.

Gentlemen, she claims, end gentlemen about the slabes,

Mrs Derhak Now, Chrough her

Sho

No to children, hele a preview of at Dover.

"My idea of b gentleman," Logge's claim that the title of

to modes and Yanners of the

belongs

the the next crop of crown-up

she says, "In that combination "gentleman" **My, children's friends are so of manners and character which English.

"Even a Russia can be u art so how bobri evolved by the British. polite, their mariners porfoct

definition: that they make me One doom't hear of French gentleman," says the countes

countena wotsdor. I am sure we were gentleman or a Clerman gentle. The

boitfago, honesty Witty wingi Gongcority, never so well behaved when we' con v.

und chivalry.

To the views of LADY OLARK, Wife of Sir Kenneth Clark Chairman of the Inde pendent Television Authority.

were you

It will be a much-photo- graphed wedding. But will there- be more top hola and thorning. costs than gentlement

YOUR TRUCK DRIVER COMMITTED MURDER TODAY, SULLY? HOW DO YOU’CALL KIM

IN HERE WOR DO I GET TH

•POLICE TO DO IT?.

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IN HERE A

·MINUTE!

(Continued on Page 19 Col-8)

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel