1955-02-07 — Page 4

ANNE SHARPLEY draws up a profit and boom loss forecast on the eve of a season for London coming-out parties

BUMPER YEAR FOR DEBS

“A

London.

BUMPER Year

for debs," A vole

solemnly forecasts

The Clarks hired

futchins:1

House, and there were 800 t 900

people present.

Lady Clark's comment

from the Lord Chamber- thought was a waste of time."

Inin's oer, where the ap-

plications for

presentation

this parties

being weiter."

The Brunners were able to ure year's the AOL. drawing-room and are largo garden of their home in Kensington for their daughter's coming-out ball, at which ther were 400 guesta

More A "bumper" crop. they believe than Corona-

tion Year, when at least 700

One "economy" that kept re

budget Brunner

Stun 1,000 was a cut in the clothes

girls made their debut. The bill by living one simple white reason? Beenuse the Queen, sudin ball dress over which went after missing last year'a a series of different "apdreses presentations.

will stree

more be taking the debs'

curtsies this March.

Belm who were

wearing gym-slips

Christinas

flop-haired,

voierd

March 21,11

atill

Own Clothes

Two of 1955's "Mums," how- before ever.

that £1,000 desn't agres

chubby freed, need be spent.

Al shrirk

between TV will

Muv

Mrs Cecil Madden, wde of the elif MIVN "considerably. 4th. Terms" for the krunching of her very Mardie ("she's starts in deadly daughter

fair and very slaweh." xayr he in May) turn im

mother 3 frum Nihool- girls into experienced social

S

carnest

perceptibly

Sharing a done in the untre

campaignces. Some of them with other girl will cut down

may

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change

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that her

their Madden, atkl nudis hair styles, aml one at last daughter (who is studying slage will blissom into the "Deb decor) will make all her own

clothes.

of the Year.”

Best Friend

"Absolutely nothing at all wit

the resilutum

be spent," is

uf

Mis Patricia Markowy, wife of Mr Anthony Marlowe, MP, for

the latching of

daughter Juila.

When who semi. (now debutante came

it is "Mums" largely count in this

static whirl

"[

rivalry.

Apart

from the

of looks endowment personality, it is Muni disputably, who is a

initial and in aleb's

her second

daughter Pixi

Mrs se Haltour Pa

1950 we spent

* yet she seemed to go to all the parties just the same. "There will simply be occa» dance tickets and Sicul fares, and of course, Julia makes her own clothes

"She refuse to go la Queen Charlotte's Ball as she doesn't

best friend-plotter, plan- want to curly to a raks, init shke

ner and protector.

And Lo

of the

Mums

Mums of 1955 1 offer the views of two of the

of 1954 on this year's big question.

will go to everything else.”

In The Swim

Just what do the parents get out of a daughter's season?

Here GOOD CRY

dod LIVE

LONGER-

THE CHINA MAIC, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1955.

**IS THAT CHAPMAN PINCHER ? "

P h f f f t

M

Y name is Charlie what

you

BEGINNING

Charlie Nelson. I'm want, ma'um-

London Exprem Service

THAT

NIGHT AT SUTTON COLDFIELD

By J. W. TAYLOR

London,

FROM the tragedy, death and destruc

and

tion of the Sutton Coldfield train disaster, have emerged stories which, in the words of Mr J. A. Brown, district secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, "showed that the cream of human kindness overflowed through that night."

There were those scores of men and women with homes in the vicinity of the scene of the crash whe jumped walls, scrambled through railings

wira and rolled down embankment slides to start the rescue work. One men with them sized up the position of trying to work the gathering gloom and raced off to a nearby funfair site managed by a relative. There he "commandeered" the big generator and batteries of lights used to illuminate the fairground and had tho them transported to the line-side. Throughout night the rescuers tolled in the light of the funfair lamps.

All over the disaster area, shocked and slightly

tho injured passengers waded into

wreckage and pulled out scoren of trapped passengers until the full foree of other helpers, including doctors, nurges, police and Bremen, who worked ceaselessly throughout the night, was felt. Then other kindly helpers per- sided the earlier ones to go to the emergency rest centres, which had been set up in the vicinity of station and line-side.

The maddening, gay film that gave

a new

word to the language comes

to you as

a large, happy man this man has THE DAY

-the sort you find been into the

standing in the corner of a jaws of death

bar baying a round of drinks and out again." A A HERO MET

Some people say good

old Charlie. Some people..

also the man who I am started this Ph..f.f.f.. business.

Robert at

blinking at her with his arm in a sling and

"Muy

Robert

A BLONDE

startled.

looked

minutes,"

serial by David Lewin

Nina seemed

have

to get

THOUSANDS OF FACS

There was, for example, the Birmingham dool makers' „direc-

for

who was giving a helping hand and continually hearing the request: "Got a cigarette, friend? I ran out ages ago." He burried away and soon returned with 6,000 "smokes,“

which he pro

for

coeded to distribute, in packets amongst the rescuers needing them, with a few here and thera 4 newly-released trapped victim. Then he drove away in his car-without a "fag” left for himself.

Falrey, of Sutton

Fun

Eight

Nina was Then years later

Gallantry abounded, part- a successful television script very happy all at once. Maybe cularly that of two people who writer with her own programme 1 should

first averted pulled Robert

further possible and Itober! was still going

out of the restaurant then and dienster before joining in the through other people's tax re-

rescue operations. Mrs Marjorie turns. At night he would curl there, but I was just fascinated

Coldfeld, up with a book and she would at what Nina was saying. And heard the crash whilst painting Just curl up,

05 she look another double her line-aide

house and ran Martini her voice got louder towards a signal box, waving Robert

came to see me in and Judor so that it almost and shouting to the driver of those days and he said he Alled the restaurant.

on approaching express. It was thought his marriage was go-

"Look at him," she was sy sot at danger by railway fire

slowing up, for the signals were in Ph. f...f... I gave the

man Derek Smith, of Little Over Derby. He was Д in the wrecked passenger train. Despite head injuries re ceived when he was hurled through the carriage window, he ran to a locked signal box, forced a way in and operated the signals. Both he and Mr Fairey returned to the scene of

So Nius and Robert decided on a divorce, And Nina went off to Reno.

his thumb in a bandage, would have dinner with him

best advice I could. I said: "It's ung in Robert's direction. "It She looked at him and that night. He had quite a

none of my business, old boy, don't know what is going to If it hadn't been for me,

I ask you a novel approach to taking a but as they say on Broadway, happen to him and I don't care. Robert and Nina would said:

question? How girl out. Robert put it this if the show's a flop, fold it."

"He will probably live on I intro- personal never have met.

long has it been since you've way to her: "I always say

whisky and

french-fried pola- duced them. I saw them

seen a woman?"

you can never get to know

toes and get fat and lose all his through their marriage.

a person well until you've

clients. But me--I am suddenly And I saw their marriage go

binssoming out been through her cancelled

into a raving, Her lawyer there wore A he cheques."

screaming beauty with my own stetson hat and a string bow television show and an incomo Mostly the pleasure of seeing Ph........t. And I saw About 20

ile like a bootlace. He thought of $40,000 a year. 1... launchyl

what happened after that said. (and the

It was a lovely ceremony. "I less than 1,000"" (Recollecting her in the swim"

cash distinction of being able to

too.

always cry at divorces," that 1934's must-Jutitched deb,

said happily, "und this Australi

Stanley keep her uthat) Barbaru

And what do the daughters

really a beautiful. Smith spent more than

beautiful divorce." on her coming-ut buld alone get out of it?

First and foremost, frends. "Or everse," adds Lady Clark, nks meets an awful k of

"

<he

fant

£10,000

No. So Buy St Andrew and Luds Clark who put the figure

of more than £2,000 for 1984's people une never wants to see

SÚVISOJ <l their gais

a deb expect to marry? Coming-out younger daughter, Swazi

deb was No The days when

Yes

the nest triumphant

1354, who

to step straight into Or just a little over, says supposed

Mum of Debrolt seem to have gone.

the of 1054 debs only two, Brunner,

Carol Carr and Miss Tilly amounced their Yayork, have

neither of engagements

Mrs Patrick

April, daughter.

yuky! Deb of the Yur.

was

unct

Kawk-out itum the deb these matches can be attributed necount is the "eaning-out" bail. to the London season,

DAME SYBIL

THORNDIKE

SIR LEWIS CASSON

FROM THE H.K. TIGER STANDARD

23rd JAN. 1955:

"Sybil Thorndike is the great lady of the English stage and probably the greatest English actress of the present century.""

"Do

you

They spent that evening look. mind talking ing into her accounts. And wounds your they saw one another again, and

until

one courage," she again,

right at dinner Robert mache proposal

It began back in the war when 1 saw a lieutenant in about your the Navy Public Relations red badge of Command. Nifty uniform; said, looking at the sling. gold braid; an office in New York. The office address,

not that it's important, was 90, Church Street, and we called those days the battle

on the third floor, I think - a ship had actually seen

unique.

Robert chuckled. "I got

very

which probably

He said

"I think it would economically found if we

ia Ale of good old Church Street. my finger caught in an add- wer

ing machine. You see they joint tax return- Someone in the building

lax exemptions." have ao few wounded here then we'd get two at 90, Church Street that the doctors sometimes lose their

when they heads Robert Robert Tracy ---

actually get a patient." was a nice quiet fellow who worked in an office next to After that they got mine. He was a lawyer by very well together.

told her Robert training and he did a great

really dealt job for the Navy during the he

once.

war.

Nini giggled: "But } didn't think

could you do Ihab Atle Joint return - uniess you were married or some-

on

that thing.... with

EL

Then she tum- He specialised in in- tax returns, and he offered bied to it...and she they were married. come tax and he saved the to

Navy 750,000 dollars.

Then, one day, the admiral sent for me and said he wanted me to look after a young writer who was com- ing over from the radio station to find a Navy hero and do a programme about him. "Find her a hero," ordered the admiral.

So I thought I'd do Robert a favour by handing her over to him.

look into

hers if

по

Was

With

Nina out of the way Robert moved in with me and then we went off to a smart restaurant to celebrate,

"This

reckless

Because

was

a

twei

Morocco

the crash to help restue workers,

STATION STREET

Passengers who were able to leave the scene unaided, but were numbed and shocked, will kindly

"I'm free-free. night club every night. Men, always remember the milliona men-miserable people of Station Street. They took them into their houses, creatures grovelling at my feet.

gave them rest, food and drink I am going to be a combination of Sadie Thompson and Forever and free telephone calls to all parts of the country to reassura Amber and Scarlett O'Hara all

anxious relatives as to their rolled into one. I am going to

safety. The overflow be passion's plaything."

directed to scores of neighbour- houses where hospitality

And she flounced out of the move. restaurant dropping her wedding sitting there at another

table were Nina

and, her mother.

Robert and AWAY

swallowed several dry Martinis to Kive

us courage

and Nina seemned to be getting her mother to order The Ph.ASA atri doubles too.

JUDY HOLLIDAY

ing

Wes

equally

caterer

generous.

kept

his

ring into Robert's glass us she nearby hment open for 18 hour

came by our table. I thought

Robert would be happy this. I was wrong.

about non-stop,

This version by DAVID

to LEWIN continues morrow with advice on How to Deal with Dames

and anyone who didn't

have the happen to money didn't have to worry.... Many of the meals eaten by the rescue workers came from the elaborate kitchens of one of Birmingham's Icading hotels. There the head chef and his full staff worked overtime to supply meals in batches of 200.-

Reds' New Strategy Threatens India

TF the Communists win the election in the south Indian state of Andhra

By James Wickenden

A

Then they will offer to form

United

Front Government with

them and the Peasant Party. When it is refused they will wall for three months or

so.

this month, Malaya, Siam and Burma as the India is a semi-colonicl stato ing relations between the Con- they will create the first cut of their Buddhist faith. For whose freedom must be won by gress and other parties of the democratically-elected Com. It was from Andhra that the rmed peasant overthrow of the United Front.

Then they will raise the issue Mahayana Budhist religion covernment. Although modified munist government in the spread forth.

They will hope that, with of land reform, or any other at various times, the principle

in the nows. They :- world, For the first time

of the Tactical Line is still the their own solid bloe of 60 scata question The existence of Andhra itself doctrine of the CPI.

or so, they can win over the will say to the Socialists and come to

*middle group" of Socialists Peasants that at least, on this Communists will

is one of India's biggest problems, power without stealth, rig- it is a state born in defiance of

from Congress, Issue, they are agreed with the This is the problem and the and Peasants

will ged voting, or intimidation. · Nehru's idea of a

op non-racial threat which faced Nehru and and so form their own United Communists. They

peal to the characteristic nation. Nehru grudgingly agreed the Congress Party in Andhra, Front government.

Hindu sentiment of fighting She came to the office and

They will rule 20,000,000 to its formation on the basis of where elections were scheduled. This strategy is plain to see tooth and nail over one point, introduced herself.... Nina people, equal to almost half common language Telegu He had the choice of continuing [11

of while forgetting the damage it ly afber the one-language to rule the stato arbitrarily Chapman. She was blonde, the population of Britain; movement's leader had fasted to through President's rule, or of the CPI whch have been ex- may do in the long run. attractive, with a jumper govern the seventh largest his death and civil war become allowing democracy Ita, chance. EMPIRE THEATRE and a notebook and neatly state In India; and strike a imminent in 1953.

sharpened pencils.

serious blow at Nehru's Main Centre on Wednesday, 16th February, at 9.30 p.m. I told Robert that he was aging Congress Party. At.

detailed to be a hero that one stroke Moscow will

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Coldo

Even the slightest cold

Is to be feared

Do not let it spread!

Defeat it from the start

by taking 1 or 2 CAFASPINS".

CAFASPIN (BAYER)

:

tion.

He chose the ballot box,

But Nehru wisely decided that the Congress Party should seek alliance with other non- And it is the strongest centre Communist parties. So an elec

documents the secret

posed by undercover workers from the Indian Democratic Research Service in Bombay.

But the Communists will not put the issue to the vole. They will use this tactic as a practice Well Planned

run, to see what support they can command A few months These documents show that, cess and outvote

later they will repeat the pro- the gover}}-- although armed revolution is ment. the ultimate alm of the CPI

day. He didn't seem to like reach into the heart of of Indian Communiem. It was toral agreement has been formed the iden very much since he "neutralist" Asia, for the the Andhra Brockh of the Cor botwoom the Congress Party, the had never been to sca, let Communist Party of India munist Party of India which Socialists and the Krishikar united front tactics are the in- launched the Red armed revolt in

Repeated several times, this forim stage of the Communist will produce chronic disorder alone heard a gun fired in is a Soviet satellite organisa: 1048 that was put down only Lok (the Feasant Party). dimb to

the administration. They fight the Communists on

power. Briefly the In after hundrade had died. The

The anger.

Andre Communists, still have a United Front for the 190 seats object is to sabotage democracy Communists will hope that an He gave me an argument Thle shock to Asian democracy, large caches of isms hidden in of the Andhra Assembly. Con on the political level and, at angry Nehru will slap down fail to reverberate northwert Andhra, near the gress is putting up 180 candidates the same time, build support with President's rule once more. at first until I finally had to cat

and the Communists about 175.4mong the peasants through the whole region mor Hyderabad border. pull rank Look here, powerfully thon the French

The remaining seats will be revolution to come, Robert," I said, "I am collapse in Indo-China. For it Since then the Andhra Com fought for by the Socialinis and

will demonstrate that Communists, led by extrémist Rajesh Krishikar Loth forced to remind you I am munkam in Aria doce not ex- ware Hao, have risen. In the in command here. So,

clusively rely on guerilla war; Party hlerarchy to minate the Lieutenant Tracy--I order that is how a new,* deadner Politbureau, Rajoniwara you to be a hero.":

political man has been to Moscow, where the hovers agree that they will This is how they are like WORDOS 1-open

to the win 60 cestie this time. This does to operate after the Ardhen of India, the CPI, was specially no com give them an elections? If the Confulele Ľabsoluta, majority. What then i

they will

Nina Chapman camo in and sat down, with her note:

The arons of the bougie, written in 1951. book at the ready. I said to Andhra, is" of vita hor: "I think he is just peoples of Chips and

In the ok Assembly the Com Romundata, held 40% monts,; Most

for the For that will be ment for Com- munist propaganda, which will at once scream, at "colonial im The Communist united front perialism." tactics now: being practladia · In,

Whatever, the result of this India are faryseeing and well

election, therefore, it- will^mos planciat.

be the end of defpodralio, i prow

The Tactical Line, a lie. 11 Bái con Commumidia with violent called, is based on the view that» svoric" so aggravate the worsso«/ Bocialista,

codire at the balles book (It will be the Peginning of neve Commune Boliest drives in

hoe, effecpmay