1955-07-02 — Page 8

PLAN TO PREVENT RACE CRASHES

How

By BASIL CARDEW

Ow can the car race "Now the main danger is circuits of Europe be that the pits are flush with made safer for the public? the race track. That is very, Every country that holds very silly. Our suggestion is a big car race is now de that they be pushed back at munding that never again least three car widths from must a Le Mans disaster be the main track. possible" in an international rate.

"That will deal with danger No. 1.

"Our next suggestion is And Dr Rudolf Uhlenhaut, that in the approach to the boss of the German Mer- pits, at least 500 yards down cedes team (whose car, the course, a rubber bollard driven by Pierre Levegh. should be put up to divide was the instrument but not the streams of racing traffic. of course, the cause of the The bollard, being rubber, 150 ensualties at Le Mans), would give way if a thinks he has the answer. struck it, causing no major!

He said to me that his damage. great ear racing organisa-And the slowing-down. tion, spending £500,000 a

cars heading for the pits year on preparing for and would pull to the right of entering the big events, will the bollard, steering clear of

PITS

RUBBER BOLLARD.

TRACK

THE BOLLARD

It will divide the traffic

shun any meeting if they do not carry out the following plan:-

"It is quite simple," said Uhlenhaut, "and should not cost the circuit owners lots of money.

car

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY

THE ACTOR

Clifton Wedb-A woman must have more than one act to her personality

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1955.

THE WOMAN

I WOULD TAKE TO DINNER..

there pre people, 1 band, entertainment, and lots of noise; where he can say to her (ử he has ulterior motives), 'Why not have another cocktail, dear.

and where they can renverse in what I call "ugg-gg; but where there is no necessity whatsoever to jaik.

"There are." be continued urbanely, as he lit a cigarette, "there are, I think, two women in the world whost company I enjoy for an evening without a *buffer." These are both women wil

whon, although

may not have seen them for six months, I can take up the conversation where we left it off last time we talked në polite preambles; no cliches; straight down to cases.".

"And does the appearance of ac attractive woman 'influence Judgment?"

Two minutes

London, taken out to dinner. I started the faster-moving racing, DON'T put it down with Clifton Webb-only, ulas, cars. Any manoeuvre they to the surplus women a temporary London escort: he made before entering the

in the population, 1 is over here to play the Naval right-hand lane would be so

don't even put it down Intelligence Officer in the film,

Peter "The Miz Who Never Was.": far from the pits that anto what the late accident would not occur in Cheyney said of an attrac Clifton Webb greeted me in asportator-crowded area." tive woman: "I guess that his suite in the Savoy over-

"NOL after the first two the Embankment. At minutes, so long as she amuses I agree with Uhlenhaut, when they were doling out looking For years I have watched sex appeal, that babe got a 55, 11 is tall, wiry and elegant, me. You can, after all, always

with hair the colour of pepper- go out to a toy shop and buy with fear and wonder cars double ration.

and-salt, a tooth-brush mous pulling into the pits and

Lache, lightly cynical, pale blue arge, beautiful wax doll to look at across the dinner table. Far eyes and expressive vyebrows

less demanding. Like the kind talked, acted as

of women one meets at a party, which, as we

of whom maute exclamation marks.

she

pulling slowly away from But, what is the answer to them while other cars have the numbers of pretty girls who their evening sipping a foot or flashed by

two spend

coffee together in the cafes, cr away.

at home ironing and mending And as the speeds of the There aren't any MEN!" they Grand Prix models, and wal. So where are the boys to particularly the 190-200- be found?

Sitting in all the mile-an-hour sports ears, fashionable restaurants with "Cars come into the pits have increased year by year, other ladies, no more pretty, not

has to refuel or repair, mixing the danger

grown necessarily any better with the others that are greater. passing. perhaps at 200 miles, an hour. "Obviously

streams

apart.

must

the

be

dressed

(they don't even have so much

Will the Uhlenhaut planime to spend ironing their be adopted? I believe it will clothes....) two be, and that we shall sec kept rubber bollards on every

circuit,

So I decided to tackle some of London's escorts and find oui just why the lucky ones are

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***Do you think the women of this generation are as amusing to take out as your own contem- poraries?" I asked him.

Puckish smile

'Isn't

ane says:

The eyebrows "That may `again. punctuated peso," he continued, otter the first act--which is a she is capable of playing. A woman" must have more ipan ɑne act to nor personality.

"Life is r

process of climi- There is

extraneous, and t a thing called the nating the art of conversation," he

like to spend an evening with pru founced with a twisty, puckish precisely the few rands, and smile, "a mari wants to take in the mood, in which I would out a specifically glamorous puss have ended it. The petet even-.

continuation, not a beginning."

to the most fashionable restauring, with the right woman. is a

ant in order to flatter his ego,

let him take her to a place where

KING GEORGE VI LAID DOWN A GOLDEN RULE FOR HIS FAMILY

THEY FORGE THE BETWEEN THRONE &

LINKS PEOPLE

Richard Dimbleby concludes the Royal Success Story

derers, of which regimem she is Colonel-in-Chief.

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URING the past few Today they are part of that dem of Selkirk on behalf uf she went with her mother to

and weeks I have tried to power

their devotion the King's Own Scottish Bor-Canada and the United States. strengthens the unity that is show the individual

invested in the Sovereign. and separate contributions made to the work of the

How easy it would be for Royal Duke or Duchess. faced Royal Family since the with a repetitive programme of Coronation by its most engagements, to carry them out prominent members - her perfunctorily. Majesty the Queen at the head, her husband, mother, and sister.

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The pattern of the formal royal visit does not change, and the brief speech for one such occasion would serve. at least

But for an example of in outline, for most others. selfless teamwork in common cause we need not

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go beyond the other mem-

An example

BUT

She went gravely through the old ceremony of "birse licking," dipping strands of boor's hair in chret and drawing them across her lips.

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Say

when she

ä

She was still Very much

able youngster, Thanks very much" overheard a comedias remark, in too loud a voice. "What swell gal" The personal position of the lesser members

People noticed that she was of the Royal Family is curious. They are, in

frequently

dropping nervous, her

and gloves

continually a sense, half royal, half private citizens. A disadvantage in this guidance, But, as the tour con- watching her mother for can be seen in such a simple act tinued, the shyness departed. as shopping.

If a royal Duchess visits

store she

a

can go entirely pri-

The future

as а

drink with

painter. Vasco

Still questing, I went on to Park Village

West, to have society portrait Lazzolo, in his beautiful, tree-shaded house

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overlooking the Regent Canal,

Mr Lazzalo is looks the part

gay, 40, and of a painter

he has an eagerness of manner which you wouldn't exactly call restless, and cyes like wide-awake baby.

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How does he feel about the women he likes to spend his evenings with?

Are You

THE ARTIST Vasco Lazzolo-1, must put beauty first

THE MAN-ABOUT- TOWN

Charles MacArthur Hardy-Dinner for two in a hunting bos...

Should she be romántic...

DOONE

beautiful.

or witty ?

BE AL

asks three eminent escorts :

What makes the perfect partner ?

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As a painter, must put Hardy, debutante's escort, young- beauty frst, he said, "and in man-about-town, and, author of terms of a beautiful woman, the charity play "The Lights

"This tali, brogd... · youth is not synonymous with Were Amber."

prematurely grey beauty. Both to paint,, and to shouldered look at across a dinner table, I young man plumps, predictably, Like face

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with

mobility and for

the social graces in the some maturity. I often argue, young women he escorts. even with myself, as to exactly what I mean by beauty; but one "Darcing and looks go with- That's one reason of its qualities is that you want sut saying.

to keep on looking at "

The telephone

rang.

why I prefer girls who have "My nothing to do to the ones with

as such, are seldom jobs. The latter tend to arrive " he said as he pu

rushed and tired, and they ruin

the receiver down People an evening's dancing by think- come drifting up here for drinks: ing about whatever they have we sit and talk, and I like to be to do at the office next morning. able to go on to a pub or the A girl should arrive rested, Mirabelle. Just as the spirit fresh, and prepared to enjoy moves me; accordingly. I ke herself."

to spend may evening with the "And the socially mortal sort of woman who is prepared sins?" I asked, thinking of the to enjoy either--but these are gal who does not get asked out rare indeed!"

twice.

The perils

"Another thing: I can't bear being told what to do And what is worse Don't have an other drink, "dear!!

'ז,'

"But how," I asked, seeing the perils of this way of c "dots a woman convey that she's tired of sitting with a drink, and wants some dinner?”

"Ah! by saying

Instead: Darling, arent you hungry after all your hard work?'

is

conducive,

"Duke hunting at the Four Hundred!" he replied with "The sort of some warmth. girl who is always gazing over one's shoulder looking to see whom she can see, and chatting That at other people's tables. Infuriates me.".

Perfect evening

What is his idea of a perfect evening?

Mr. Hardy lives in a state of delicious" paradox.

"For my perfect evening, I

"Dinner for two in a hunt- should choose the ballet. There ing box, after a day's hunting. the atmosphere

stack of gramophone ane watches something beauti with a

reanda. But spent with a giri ful; and if the woman has any who hasn't been out hunting, sense occasion, any capacity who has spent the day resting.

Forrance, she will

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100 but who pretends to be interested beautiful, she will we elegant in hearing all about it!!

clothes, feel cherished

and

glamorous. Then we should go So Clifton Webb wants woken on to an intimate restaurant (I without cliches: Mr Lazzole like girls with small appetites, wants them without an appetite. incidentally), and perhaps dance and Mr Hardy wants them with- later....

out a job.

Dancing was top priority with 28-year-old Charles MacArthur

Superstitious?

By Gerald Muirhead-

The crossed fingers of MRS

THE HOSTESS

thus

are

What's a poor, hungry, work- ing girl to do?

of his

to

L LADY SHAWCROSS, Miss Wynyard But she reckons countrymen who had come

cheer him

N the little house at a cat. Neville and I were on any opening night. In front all is glamour. But in her the edge of the airfield horrified. We thought it was a

black cat. When we ran back dressing room Miss Wynyard, runway an attractive and saw the cat we were

sits still the star of the show,

in woman was.

it what many theatrical folk would trying to peel upset but very relieved-for

There potatoes with

regard as squalor. her fingers had a white patch."

Adult crossed.

Educated folk, the none of those little gold-plated Just a shabby Dukes, but the colour of a cat's home, comforts Overhead her

husband, test fur can make their hearts beat chair, a dejected-looking dress- pilot Neville Duke, sat in a jet faster.

ing and a mirror which

table," aircraft as it went on its shriek-

has reflected better days. ing way,

many for dead. So were It was not always

lesson. DUKE were keeping watch and

and him alone. bers, whose activities pass DUT there is no lack of in- vately

wife of Sir Hartley, viewing fate has taught her a (which the Queen can Now there is speculation about ward over his perilous path.

her wardrobe with some alarm. She rem

remembers one earlier Levegh let superstition All his cften with scant attention Dierest. Instead, the Family never do) and risks the necessity who seems likely to take

the future of the Princess, Superstition say, the diction-

The Her dressing life and mould his path. "It seems to have an uparies. A primitive cave-dwelling

awful opening night; and who deliberately efface follows the rule laid down by of upsetting a full and busy nursing as a career at Univer-instinet.

Toom had the full treatment.

It stars,

the numbers, the little lot of green," she said.. the deep mumble

these were George VI that his represent-

day'e programme by waiting her sity

A little themselves in deference to

College Hospital,

earlier she had told was ornately redecorated and silver amulet where thinkers, The tives (and he himself) should turn with everyone else, or she

psychiatrists,

The china was ex- his protectors. the Sovereign--the Princess learn as much

her mother, unknown to most utter a thousand words of ex-

me emphatically there was little furnished. as possible can go in her royal capacity

in

in

before the race, Just

Pierre her life. But pensive, the teaspoons had the people. worked

superstition Royal,

nurse planation. the

each organisa- and accept the discomfort during the Duke and advance about

The show wár

em. Wynyard monogram. under

Levezh stood with his fingers drawing a crowd.

The fact remains that in the with every sentence the

lasted 10 days. Duchess of Gloucester, the ton to be visited,

crossed and tucked in the palms phasis was diluted. pseudonym of "Nurse Kay."

lives el many people today

Since then this actress has Duchess of Kent and her

of his hands so that no one "Of course, I wouldn't walk A due to the extent to which But there are advantages too.

superstition is a slender, certain under a ladder," said Lady paid homage to superstition. At one time or another

should laugh. He made sure he daughter, Alexandra, and this is practised may be found The Duchess is a keen and ac-

have watched all members of that of the ju-ju worshipper.

She added that lively, forthright sur in a comment made by Major.complished artist, a hobby that the Royal Family at close quar-

After her show has been rim wore that "lucky" Jacket. deten-

Before the eyes of the huge Fladgate, of the Royal she can. follow without

in a new teapot to replace the crowds under the guise of a granddaughter of Corps of Signals, after a visit drance, with the result that her I have been impressed, as many RS DUKE no longer crosses the new moon through a viving

THE INSTINCT ders as they do their wo: c, and

he walked across to his- broken sport. car and Queen Victoria, her High- from the Princess Royal: "I work may be seen in Scottish

"I don't honestly like seeing one with the

Or will others have been, by the unity M her fingers when she does

win Later ness Princess Marie Louise. sometimes wonder exactly how galleries.

perfect understanding that

but I just say Oh dear curtains more cheerful last quick check, patted it threa times on the bonnet....a rita much her Royal Highness does

among them. It is not so

so her housework. There are two

Superstition for Diana Wra- he always observed. and then forget it. know about us all."

event in the past two years much

conformity reasons. Cookng became too "I'm not really superstitious, yard is a real thing.

At Le Mans in the sunshine, The Princess Royal sele an among the

the complicated and she felt a little But I junior members of to a standard pattern as

THE DRIVER

the other day, the roar of his the car turned suddenly into does the Family has been the emer- identity of their belief in what ashamed example (as

doing.

husband's safety on so small 1 the Queen Mother) of the useful gence of Princess Alexandra as they are

ODAY "that life that may be led by a widow a royal personage, an delicate From her Majesty the Queen gesture, with grown-up children. In the operation that has been handled to the young Princess on

the past two years she has

main most skilfully by her mother, threshold of her royal career rid of tained indeed,

they seek only to serve increased her the Duchess of Kent

the nation that they lead. They provide an example of work and self-sacrifice that wins the admiration not only of Britain and the Commonwealth but

Grinding task

THEIR commor task is not an

General

exccllent

easy one. They accept glad ly a grinding routine, of engage ments; they live in a world of foundation stones, ship launch interest in the Women's Royal ings, hospitals, factories, housing Army Corps.

estates. and Service inspections.

Though they remain

reso-

ap-

Apart from her Service pointments she is president of

routine even

character, seldom

hin-

Possibly the most notable exist their willing

Reinforcement

lutely in the background, rarely the T.B., Settlement and closely WHILE the Duke, her brother, the whole world. making speeches of more than straightforward.

connected with the work of has remained almost entire- primary schools. expressing o

She follows by out of the limelight because publie opinions, they are the closely the activities of many of his Army service (though he constant, unswerving support of organisations in the North of has the distinction of being the the Queen in everything that England.

she does.

Moreover, ty- the very nature

of their public work. swith its day-to-day rather than State

Half-and-half

character, they are the repre- FIELD-MARSHAL the Duke of

sentatives through whom the

a Regular soldier,

only member of the Royal Family to join the Army as a private soldier), the Princess has gradually taken her place at her mother's side as a rein-

forcement of the royal tram

an

A year or two ago Frincess Queen can show her interest in has followed the lead of the Alexandra was a schoolgirl In ing that affects the or. Duke of Edinburgh in his" up October 1953 she went to

life of her people, their to-date approach to engage establishment in Paris for health, prosperity, and culture. menis.

"Anishing." Though, as a

a royal persan, she was not presented

He dew from the garden

of

It is an odd fact that, little Buckingham Palace to Chathare to the Queen, she came out" in a helicopter. while the in May 1954, when she attend- Duchess used a similar machine ed her first big ball-appropri when she inspected Royal Air ately, the Alexandra Rose Ball, Fores units in Cornwall,

In June, having succeeded the

more than four centuries ago, these same personalities would have been the heads of power All houses, bent not on sup- porting the Sovereign but on Not all the Thichess's en Queen as patron of the Junior intriguing and divelling each gagements have been

* Red Cross, she made her Grat

other for the power of the routine character. An exception appearance alone at a reception Throne

was her acceptance of the free- di St James's Palace.

Next

the

sively

fall

I thread that links their lives to An a paint pot might ing a fortnight, she will snuggle

of

that

dow

she planed her superstwouldn't care to defy

legal, or domestic crisis in the

D

When there is a political smiling motor-racing cham-metal.

balding, quietly brutal cacophony of buckling But the instinct is still there. Shawcross family (according to plon PIERRE LEVEGH should A car burning fiercely in the A walk round a ladder, a nut Lady Shawcross) superstition is have been the hero of France. sun one wheel sill spin- for a black cat, a bow to e never called upon to help, "But, I But there is no car now for ning lazily. A dead man lying new moon rituals for Mrs Duty serious cross my fingers, of course," she the man who believed in fortune beside it is also Friday the 13th.

THE "ACTRESS

backstage and regard

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Duke. And there added.

"There Was one horrid moment in Ireland,” she

me. "Our car driver ran over

over G actress DIANA WINIARD

JOHNNY HAZARD

NO TIME TO WASTE, SHARI!

BUT WAIT NOT YET

THESE JOKERS MIGHT WAKE. UP AT ANY TIME, AND I WANT":

US (TO DE FAR, FÅR AWIY WHEN

THEY DO!

FORGET ABOUT YOUR LOCKS, LUGGAGE OR LIPSTICKE THIS. 15 AN EMERGENCY A NOT-AN- AFTERNOON TEA PARTY), BESIDES

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with a peasants fervour,

Superstition did not

sava The horoscope promised well Pierre Levegh. for Levegh when he drove off Or had he forgotten one little. at the start of the Le Mans race. rite before he gave that last Three hours later he was small smile and drove away?

By Frank Robbins

INI HAD TO COME IN WITH THE

PROPS RUNNING WI KNEW THIS: MIGHT HAPPIEN TO COMPLICATE THE PICTURE AND GIVE US A

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this situation

calls for a

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