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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1955.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

SHE USES LIPSTICK IN THE JUNGLE

London.

Mlehnen Denis, a stormy blonde who is known as "The White Goddess" to some African tribes, pointed · to the wall of her Bving i room and said she

would like to display the head off Ernest Hemingway from it.]

"And every other be gone; hunter who elects the head f Jinns, tigers, cker and so on,"

she prowled, "Do you know wins

Ghosts Being Used To From Greece: Play Hamlet Dressed From London: Attract Tourists.

A Famous ActressTM Will

In Slacks,

How South Africans

From Moscow: ing Corp Without From Jo'burg: Hour Big Ben Before

You

Code Cought Cotch-

'Filos'.

Londonors.

Need The Voice WEIGHTY

And The Stamina

OL

Be A Wagner Star

London.

A young Wagnerian' singer who has just become a Covent Garden they icili? Because they to the star is today far more worried about building up her figure-and her need to assert their virility, stamina-than improving hér voice.

int-

Hemingway and the uthera mus! have a irrible sense of zecurity to have to kill uimaks,"

aver

For

she points out that a to Wagnerian beraine has got face the prospect sooner or later of a five-hour ordeal On the stage.

1 feured for the Nobel Prize wither and bis taikang friends that if they brad appear t

Miss Hurshaw, a large and memus, Ma Deals ence threw a

Englewood, New Aistallous lady

a core handsome for mile mi ye at ber Jersey housewife, has just con- vinced British opera crities that husband, Armand Deas, whe

she is in the great tradition of If th hents the wild boards

Wagnerian heroines, This took Jungh armed willi

courage as well as talent and alone.

artistry for last year the same critics were a bit cool.

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A Witch Too

She has been on seven rafacis to the wilder parts of our world and is brieved to be- she wan't mnt 1.3 "Muganza" or good

of

witch, with certain powers p01-

cad by these arcerest# the Gka tribe of Afrien.

Although these

powers Ale

supplevd to bo used only for

Kl. Mra

Denis would gladly

throw them into reverse agakist

big game irunters,

"I hack to force myself to rome back for another try," she said, "and now I am gind 1 did. They were so wonderful to me

u

an

Ther apartment cluttered with native mocks, African and Australian curios Assortment

I feel it was worth all the hard work 1 put into the roles,"

So, Potato Dumplings

of

across

polato

Miss Harshaw spoke

large platter

The Wagnerlim dumplings. and

are steak-and-potato berolnes of live 3ltes the

for enters

Wagner conceived his goddesses as larger-than-life rize with the omia for such operatic five and a half hour

128 "Colterdumme- marathons

of the Gods) rung" (Twilight and The Mastersingers."

Dunkacs are preparing for the first rafuri sponsored by com- merclul television. They leave In abou; three weeks for a long swing through Africa, sending back Alm

their of

real-life

adventures.

A vast array of cosmieties is going with her.

Helps Morale

A friend had clipped reviews of her Covent Garden appear p

and nowspapers anes from

these, magazines and

neatly maikei in rei crayon, were stacked near her plate.

Lo look "I was trail

"unt I was them," she said,

ni

"Safaris

popular are now with American women, I know," she said, "so tell then to make themirelves up in the jungle as though they were on Broadway convinced they were nearly ull or Hollywood Boulevard, nl-favourable," lipstick. eyebrow ways wear pencil, and even eye shadow, It helps keep up the morale of the ratari, protects the skin and the native amply love. It."

Mrs Denis, a handsome lady in her early thirties, met Denis while the was in South Africa getting ideas for fashion design-

ing

Since then fe has been so beetle she has put her exploits a best-seller called "Leo- In My Lap" which will

in the

Into

pard

States in September,

be published

Mines."

Feople are

She

deep

In the heart What did he do?

United

Among for

to feel Some critics seemet Miss Harstraw was at long last the successor to Kirsten Flag- stad, others lauded the emot impact

her of

Brunnhilde sparing on the wings of sung through the fitantie trilogy of

The Ring" operas.

21⁄2 Hours And No Intermission

she

she were

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

7-1

7. M. Az. U. 8. Pat off Gay 195 by HZA Gervire, the.

"You were a pitcher in college, Jim! If they gave that young rookie $50,000 to sign, why don't you practise up?"

Not Marlowe, Not Bacon But

SHAKESPEARE WROTE

HIS OWN PLAYS

London.

PROBLEM

Saldanha Bay, Cape.

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It took Mr A. Lombard, a keen fisherman, longer to weigh 105 lb skate six t long and four and one-half It broad, than is took him to catolt if while fishing off the Government jetty in Saldanha Bay.

Mr Lombard cast his 34 ih nylon line and within a few minutes he had a bite. He knew it WAY "something big" and after a 10-minuto battle landed

to skate,

Then ho wanted to scales weight, but his were only good for 24. pounders. Undounted, he procceded to cut up the alant skate Into 10 pieces and finally arrived at the Agure of 105 lbs.

A to later he caught another skate, even larger than the first Bui P friendly fisherman arrived with competent scales and fle dla not have to through all

the trouble again. The second skate weighed 195 168.-Neuter,

Actress To

Play Hamlet In Slacks!

oug

an-

Epidavros, Greece, Judith Anderson, the fum-

classical actress, nounced she is going to play Hamlet dressed as a man. Miss Anderson is 57.

Sex is no problem," she said. Sho will play, Shakespeare's most difficult, male role in a pair of clock.

"Hamlet is possessed by dealre to revenge his father's death," Miss Anderson said. "IIIS-love scenes with Ophella are primarily ones of rejection." Miss Anderson, who is at present visiting Greece, said sho wanted to

Hamlet do of tiripped

historical costumes and flourish.

Simple Settings "I see it as something direct and uncluttered, with plain elevations, simple settings and colours largely black to white with grey and cream

tones in between."

The lighting will leave the stage partially in darkness, and

illuminate actors from the waist upward.

COME TO BRITAIN (Says The Travel Ads) AND SEE A GHOST

London.

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Tourism is big business you can't blame Britain for marshalling all its resources to attract oversens visitors; The competition is tough. France elaims its beile cuisine is out of this world, Italy boasts that its shrines and minshine can't be beaten.

So Britain is about to pro- molo

n attraction that really out of this world. It is ghosts!

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When it comes to apparitions of one sort and another Britain reigns supreme. There is scarcely an old tavern, manor house.or castle without a cowled monk,

transparent while lady

cavaller

.or

Q

with his head tucked underneath his arm.

Not long ago it occurred to -the British Travel and Holiday

was Association that here possible luro to tempt more tourists, They could be offered. they wished, a journey to one of these bewitched manses to derive a little cerlo tiüllation from moans, howls, and clank- ing chains,

Any Preferences?

tourist Recently an overseas called at the Association's office in St James' to talk to Mr Ray Hewolt who is displaying the latest line in ghosts,

"Ah yes," ho said briskly, "you are interested in haunts. Any preferences?"

"No", he said. "just show me the complete stock."

Mr Hewrit went some cards.

"Here are a couple

through

you can ry c for size, both in Midhurst and Kent", he said.

"The pub there, The Angel' has what they describe as

nice old lady ghost. At the old manor house nearby there's a morik lamenting the loss of his lady love, daughter of the lord of the manor, But he generally appears only in November".

"Any ghosts going kt July?" the tourist inquired.

The Black Dog

for

"Here's a real curiosity you", he said, "the black dog of Hergest. It's in Herefordshire. Centel Doyle used the story for the Hound of the Baskervilles, Of course, there's shag the

શ્રી dog only howls for the death of a member of one of the pro- minent families there,"

that long". can't walt I said, any ghost in full opera-

tion right now?"

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"Well," he said, "there's the Royal Castle Hotel in Dart- mouth. They say a shadowy rider clatters into the inn yardi in the dead of night,”

"Not bad. Any others?"

Red-faced Ghost

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"The Lion and Lamb Cafe in Farnham in Surrey-Its 450 yours old has a lady in an old- fashioned riding habit. The waitresses

say she's 'dear friendly little ghost', you want something bit more dar- wint

Vicarage ing there's the Em near Wisbech In Cambridge

It has two ghosts a red-

"Costumes will be slightly. different from normal clothes, other things she doubled

"You nocd meats like this to

but not costumlah," she said. Deborah Ker In the Africansing these roles," she said. "Be-

As Hamlet, she would wear there sequences in "King Solomon's sides 'Gotterdammerung

is 'Die Walkure' which lasts

Blacks probably. And no tights. the

Miss Anderson, who owns a sume the four and a half hours and Sleg- Dr Leslie Hotson has come up with the interesting, ranch at Santa Barbara, Call-faced bad one and Ignatius, The

five tours. world over, Mrs Denis believes. fried which takes

the

and The if unfashionable, theory that the works of William fomla, is Australian-born a pinup of Even

prologue to once showed

good

monk. The bad ghost to

retains her British citizenship. Marilyn Monroe a native Ring, 'Das Rheingold, lasts two Shakespeare were written by William Shakespeare,

Vicar's half hours-all in опај

tried to strangle the of Africa. pnd o

The blonde actress has won

wife

came along and Ignatius the night of Jan, many pizee, no intermission."

Many will disagree with him, guests on

awards and has wanted and rescued her." One of the most charming and American critic Calvin Hoffman 100). Dr Hotson found that to do Hamlet for a long time. "He gave a wolf whistle-the

of all operatic stars in Britain to opar an ancient certain characters and lines u "But now I think I am ready

And so he travelled through same

can hear on Bitable one you

ສ Harshaw conlldes that tomb which, he says, will help the play fad a special meaning for It," she said. "It has taken the list of ghosts who open doors, Piccadilly any night," she said. Miss

ghosts

who

dolefully often

wishes

gaze of the people in the possession of me."-United prove his argument that Chris- terms small

and dointy

Press, Men Live in Fear

ghosts who pass through ancient walls and a beautiful ghost, pla- singer of popular songs. Her two topher Marlowe really wiute the audience.

up girl of the haunted

world. One of her mest interesting children share this dream. But plays and sormets Shakespearo

Scated near Elizabeth white

Rosemond De CUfford, mistress Waa n visit 10 experiences

"Twelfth Night" unfolded was astern reality' cast her in a mas-ceta credit for.

Bacon Society is the handsome Virginio Orsino,

of King Hoary II who wears only village of the Asango-Meno tribe sive mould

It will have been silly for

a sheer silk gown. in the Belgian Congo. In this

me to try to starve myself to a further creating a stir with de Duke of Barcciono, who was manda that In any film bored visiting London from Italy and village the women had the men- folk completely subjugated. It sylph," she said resignedly, or

on Shakespeare play screen had made a big hit with the developed that tome ume corlier, dering apple ple a la mode...

credit be given to Sir Franels Quech. It was no coincidence Baco", Who is the society's that the leading character La cre of the wives had given a United Press. big party for other wives while

Shakespeare's the play was called the "Duke

Orsino,"

Another very

her husband, sive sald, was away

Chl a tap. Then another wife emcuncing her gave a party

trip. husband was also y B.

Then a third wife gave a party

and

The District Ofeer eventual-

deccovered that the men and

Jy

not gene a trips at all. They

had been killed and

served

up

as the main dish at the parties give by their wives, Authorities

and

OH! THE CADS

No 'Flies' In Russia?

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And the

candidate for laurels,

guest was Iussion

a "tall, Grigori

Two Million

Beggars

Less In India

.

New Delhi, Royal Command

fat"

There are about half a mil- beggars and vagrants in dozen other Eliza-Mikkhylin. He was on cavoy of Lion Half

with a population of bethans are being put forth by the Czar Borls Goudonoy, and a India scholars as the true authors of fur-hatted wonder around the 300.000,000 people.

This a deep fall," in their the masterpieces which the world court. Dr Holson has picked out

from that in 1011. has attributed to the man from several references to the Czar's number

thero ambassador in "Twelfth Night." when

WETD 2,500,000 Stratford-on-Avon.

beggars, according to official igures released here,

But the fall in number of

immediately stamped

out the

aro,

Moscow.

But Dr Hotson has como up making with

prodigious picco ♫

of

Poachers

Union.

Nyet-So They causing

a

High-pressure Job

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Among others the tourist took dircellons' to the Mermaid Pool In Staffordshire haunted uf course by a mermaid, Mr Hawelt quoted in old

rhyme

"She calls on you to 'grent her "Combing her dripping crown: "And if you go to meet her "She ups and dross you down." United Press.

LIVING ABROAD HAS ITS ADVANTAGES!

from

Parliament Square right beneath the clock tower,

of research on the play Twelfth One Elizabethan celebrity was beggars in relation to popula practice but the surviving men, "widespread use" said Mix

Mrs Denis, all live in fear. grenades, mines and dyna-Night" and he considers that no noteworthy in his absence the tion is still steeper; the number than B As I got up, she said casually: mito to catch fish in the co but Shakespeare himself night of the first performance, having fallen to less

former figure William Lord Herbert was be-eventh of

Johannesburg. "If you're going to the bath-

coming involved in @scandal

・between 101

Six thousand miles room don't be afraid of the rivers of Byelorussia, one of could have written it.

In proportion to population. London, England, Johannesburg What's more, Dr Holson

mistress, involving his

Mary meerkat. It's only a species of the 16 republics of the Soviet

Shakespeare Fitton A that convinced

refererice to the India had 0.14 per cent beggars radio listeners timed to the Mongoo."-United Press.

Night"

ird 1931 ng against 0,40 per BBC, to hour Big Bon" strico "Komsomol wrote welfth Teering over scandal occurs in the play, Lord cant. 0.88 per cent and 1.03 per the hour, almost a second earlier The nowspaper

cont in 1931, 1921 and 1911 than a - Londonar sianding in Pravda" declared that this "pro-shoulder, so to speak, was Herbert wisely stayed home, datory destruction of fish", was Queen Elizabel I herself,

"Twelfth Night," as Dr Hofson respectively-Router. "serious damage to

it, could not have been

The reason is that radio waves borders on Poland. In the West.

The speed of radio "waves" is Poaching with the help of archives in porch of documents and attributed to Shakespearo large nets was also very com that would belp him recrtato by accident, He believes it was

against sound waves which Berlin man, in many regions other than the circumstances anden, which a fast, high-pressure job, com- A Female Voice

• Berlin. traval at about 750 mile an

W the famous comedy was written missioned on the Queen's orders Around Moscow, for instance, and performed. He tells the to entity the needs of a special

In i few years 'it you go to the hour, ot court.

barbers in Berlin you'll prob». The microphone in Big Ben": ably got a hairout from a is suspended beer The 161k son And who would the Queen woman.

bell, arid when the hous Kurm ko, for a worldmantike job - Low than 10 per cent of the struck, the mikropisane pleks se

Went West

reserves in Byelorussie, which Dr Hoteon went to Italian, written by come hidden genius Shave Sir?' In

German, Russian and English

travel faster than sound waves. about 100,000 miles ecque,

Love might be the West's how Byelorumla. secret cold war weapon.

Two Soviet omcers who de-poachers have become to bold" resalta a vow book he tilld fected to the West enld they that they "carry on their duty The First Night of Tweltik Sind becaỦA PHO

the Rol Army business quite opelily, knowing ||Night? Mol·lop them would

marry that neither the police nor thë their German girl friends, local, authorities are putting up the play itd itd world, pres of plejówriting?o William students at barbers school now, the ODM ARAMA S

They brought the girls with a real struggle grainal Chess / mbard, katoes the queen, '/hée Sihakompoers, of moutes, was drare men. The rest are women. waves carry it to someone lande

Reuter

courtiers pod dikingulabest! Hotso

Juiniteich. PreK Them United Press,

ing below in the sirectam

Wiseman