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THE CHINA `MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.
POON,WHO BELIEVES IN SANTA CLAUS ?"
Word Coswituki du urrunemment with the Mancheriæ Guardian
VENUS IS NOW A GRANDMA
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By HENRY ALEHURST
▼STELLE, a three-your-old Jezwy cow grazing contentedly in the depths of a remols valley off the Holyhead Roark, Salop, mặt be thankful in a way that after a fine summer the autumn days with their winter's nip in the air have lived to give her a little mors privacy from the public gazo--some of t quite fim-starish-which boat down on her ever since it soaked out that she in directly iced with a wartime exploit which put the Scarlet Pimpernet in the shądu. Her earliest fans have been local rondmen, AA and RAC scouts and polleefhen who patrol the Holyhead Road, and they it was who spilled the beans about her orgin and insisted on pointing her out to holiday-makers, hikers and motorists. Naturally, they all flocked to see her just when the girl was busy chewing the cuả for a living.
i oppours that Estelle would not be them for mybody to age but for the fact that her bovine grandmother, a valable pedigree boast in calf to on aristo- cratic bull, was abducted by daring group of Intelligence agter is under cover of darkness from the Garman-occupied Channel Islands
Yen, you cinemagoers and readers of modern fletion have guessed it—Estello's grmnie, Stella, was heroine of wartime adventure in "Appointment with Venus," Jerrard Ticholl's bestaller turned into a film. And it is a fact that this highly original plot was actually founded on fact, as Estefile's very existence proves,
It seems that locally the story came out when Jack Roberts, who keeps tidy Telford's cond near to Whittington, look the misșus to see this film at the
local cinema,
A KNOWING NOD
Saya Jack: "When the lights wont up a berdamas who was next to me gave a knowin' and aid: "That happened. British Secret Servico men smuggled the cow out under the very noses of the Jerries. The cow was valuable for keeping British pedigree stock going, for she was in cair."
He wont on to say that the calf was of a special strain, which was the result of many anxious years of carotul brooding experiments. If it had been just. If the Germans had kept it, then British breeding would have suffered a serious kelback.
And the herdsman but it be known that "up at the Lloydf farro” was Estelle, a grunddaughter of the film's herole,
Her owners are Mr and Mrs George Lloyd, of the Okt Hall, Old Marton. near Whittington, Salep, who proudly confirm this romance of Estilo's origin.
Saya Mrs Lloyd, "All the film charnelers were neitious, but Veras was Stolia. owned by major at the War Office, and it was in calf to his pedigree bull, Mans. which had toen killed by stepping on a bad mine, Operation Venus' saved & fine stenie vĽ cows
Rearing Estelle wasn't easy. For one critical period in her adventurous life she lived in the sitting room of the lyds' black and white toured and plastered rondence, the Old Hail, built in 1858, the year of the occasion to the Throne of the first Elizabeth and shopod like an "E" with an entrance door which has 180 metal studs in it and weighs a hundredweight,
Let Mrs Loyd explain: "The strain of the herd is so valuable that when the heiter calf, Estelle, caught pneumonie some line after she was bom, her condition brenne critical. Well, it, Intelligence agents could risk their lives in war to pened ate into an island occupied by the Germms and smuggs out Stella, I thought could give special treatment to the latest of the line."
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list of passengers, and addresses each one by his or her name A cup of tea before retiring?
And Ceratinly. Mr Smith.
cup of lea with biscuits in the morning? Certainly, Mrs Jones, And since the foreign visitors have to travel by train, motor
he loved him, he made it per- fectly clear to us that his sole
saatch purpose was to
power
from the hand of Brutus and the other murderers and set himself up as the now power behind the throne.
the
When he turned away, pre- weep, the expres- tending to sion of his face was ironic and
In contemptuous.
fact, bloodly fellow was having grand time at the expense of the mugs.
car, ship or airways, 50 the British economy is strengthened PROPHECY and foreign goodwill is pro- moted.
produc- The next week the However, it would be wrong to In
Vic
in suggest that the financial side is tion came to the Old uppermost in the minds of the London, and even the critics the Festival promoters They went mad over this new and
Antony. have never lost sight of Bing's different
Hollywood took original idea that the Festival sat up and
notice. On was to concern itself primarily every side came the prophecy. with the Arts. Thus, last
This is the meritable year
cessor to John Gielgud."
But what amenities could the rhetorical question
This the Edinburgh Festival anclent capital provide for offere! us « clunce to permita me to quote those Festival of The Arts" There end an opportunity of hearing a pleasing lines of Herbert were three gismi-stzei theatres tague different from Trench :--
anel three large halls. In addi Anit, of course, the Americans. 117353 there was the splendid who also could not towel to the Assembly Hall of the Church of old World In the War, WITC Sentland,
with 1x apron stuge arriving in great numbers. abundant
space. So there come the opening Providing Noul
the standarti was day Bing's dream had come high, the church muthorities saw true and the curtain was going #100 renson why the apron stage บ Maynes and Burgomeisters slur uld not be used for concerts of foreign cities arrived
plays of ideas.
droves. Royalty was there, and Then there WIN The Royal
everything was sel for Scottish Academy of Art with tramph The gamble had come
fact off its splendid gallery. Finburgh was ready for almost I fest not 14) oftend
any anything that Bing wintech,
Scottish susceptibllīties by stai
g that there wero seme citizens of Edinburgh whose minds were nol solely cupied with the artistic side of the Festival. The hotellers,
boarding house pro- forget prietors.
and particularly attrac-
shopkeepers to say nothing of the street cars, motor car hire services, and taxi drivers--were right on the job.
hills, and the great res Roll from the Sea By starlight and by candle-
light and dreamlight She eumes the steel.
J'ersonally
Thank
"dreamlight" is overdoing
but bun we shall Jet that pass
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knows at what hour
ATTRACTIONS
of the day or night Budots Bag Nor did the sponsors brought the lea of an Edin or minimise the historic burgh Festival 10 practical tions of Auld Reekle itself. High creature up on one of the Seven Hills is
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the Sadler's Wells Ballet, which in almost the best in the world,
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gave a season there. This year Who is this physical and in- aristocrat. What is the Danish National Ballet came tellectual and were supremely good. In bis background? He went to addition, the French Theatre council school, and to the Petit Romic of its outstanding eternal credit of the local stars in a repertory of plays, councillors they gave the boy a grant to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. An In the war he joined the Navy as an able-bodied scaman ond out of it with the same
But tho Navy. commendable sensibility,
furnis 11 IN Bentle who dreams dreams
and then the eustle where Mary, Queen carries then into effect relent- of Scots, brought romance and The Festival ля such, lessly and even ruthlessly.
death Who ran slorad ол It course would lose money. For DYNAMIC Battlements and look out to the instance, it cost £50,000 to He is an Austrian-born British waters the Forth. усе be bring the New York Symphony- subject who has managed the unmoved" Metropolitan Opera in New York
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silting room for 12 weolcs, feeding her on eggs and brandy until she recovered.
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And what of the forecourt of Fund had to come to the rescue. Theatre Company, the Japanese him a grant which enabled him for years, but at intervals to the Palace of Holyrood Booth: his nerves he cumes back where on the riosing day of the
House, To descend from the artistic Kabuki Dancers, and the fore- to play with a provincial Old to Glyndebourne, where you can first wander through lovely gardens. leecham
Festival Sir Thomas to the practical. The Edinburgh most orchestral conductors of Vic Company.
carried 000 000 trams
extra drink champagne in the moon- chestra
his
the world--and you will realise during the Festival
Ja Ho while Brewoks went off passengers
firmly the plan has been light and listen 16 Mozart operas in all directions?
V tow last year. The Increased There is In a small, charming theatre
carried out and how happy is children of his own, plus for record that Beecham himself venue
the period
the future.
adopted coloured boy, who will Previous to going to New York shows how pageantry can
exploded on this occasion, which £5,000. I am informed that it
presumably grow up to play masic only DIC
In fact,
buy the Old Vic tame every visitor
His father the General Manager
Com-Othello. tram Journey at tuppence, the Curbulent Lempera-
pany, was playing when wo driver. increase would top £20,000
were there this summer and, Strictly speaking, the sen- having temporarily resumed sational rise of John' Neville has dramatic criticism in London, I nothing to do with the Edin- thought it would do no harm burgh Festival except that the to have a look at “Julius Consar” Festival is big news, and when before he came to London. some playwright of actor Sir Walter Scott brooding over
The
old grim play proceeded dancer or a symphony conduc book
have we
lines, soundly for scores a success there it has Built like Athens on acted and well staged. I must
on conventional wel- generals
as immediate repercussion in 011 horseback that seven hills, Edinburgh can enjoy comed by the Lord Provost, Shakespeare is
London, relegated
to a which is what
all four seasons in the space of say, however, that there was a the Lord Mayor tiny space in Leicester Square, a day and a night. As no woman terrible spilling of tomato ket- is called up there. The Hitler war had not long since come to a few feet from the public in history has ever gone abroad chup over Censor's face when
lavatory. But,
suitable clothes for a b Was
onough " of horses.
shops in Edinburgh are packed
aid.
Let us therefore end on And then
the camo
och of speech Another attraction that Edin with female shoppers making
Mark Antony which, wo must mundane note. burgh offered was the national up their sartorial deficits.
Each year the Festival makes Bing asked for an initial costume of the kit. There is
admit, is so superbly written Raincoats
continuous aro_ima
high school that
boy in a loss, which has been as low capital fund of £6,000 and it no country in the world that demand,
but when the sun
£11,000 and as high as not subscribed Immediately, has produced anything so effe shines the women visitors find matour theatricals
Council (nanced live as the full regalia of a Scot- that they are as unprepared for ruin it. Mark Antony was being £38,000. But it pays artistically all largidase in played taxpayer) uch clansman. This is of nome hot weather as they were for actor named John Neville, whom directions.
by thirty-year-old and spreads promised an annual "grant. So personal importance to me bo- cold. I know this to bo because I had never seen before, and doubt that it now is ne fumly did the Corporation of the City cause, & couple of years ago, I took my wife there this your suddenly we realised that some established of Edinburgh as well as a num- was made a Macmillan cians in fairness, must admit to pur- ber of Scottish industrialists. man. I have not yet find the chasing a thick overcoat for thing dynamic and startling was Bayreuth or any of the other
happening. 90 for the story is no'different courage to appear publicly in myself in Princes Street--but from that of any other Festival. bare knees,
The idea was warmly
cchese, the with of
assassinated.
without such advitiou
an end, and the Scots were English have an inordinate love changeable climate, the dress speare's words ***D feeling their way towards civilised human soul.
WAS
expression of the
The British
by
the British
wistful eyes and soft, voles TRIUMPH
It
was the same in Canada's
Stratford, when a young man
with
poly
of the other Stratford in
decided to challenge the mono-
England. The pedlar of dreams
bow did we know that in Scot-
as sharply as n
mining share on
land the temperature can drop HAUNTING
the stock market?
Shake LARGESSE
could
A
There can be little
Saltbury Or
famous Festivals of Europe.
This driath is that tourilta like to travel to places that give par- pose to ja" holiday. In' Now Zealand the ofly" of "Auckland
The good hotels in Eximbingh. This young man, playing gapite the distance involved, are very good indeed, and they Antony, is a physical aristocrat dhe Vltors from othee, coun-e
But to return to the progress charge accordingly. We had His face is thin, his how a lơng tries. As for Stratford-on-AYUT
is the inevitable prelude to of the Festival from an idon to quite a nice lunch one day, mi- and patricias, his voice is hand is not only gives Bioghach miracles.
triumph. A irong factor in iftedly with a bottle of wine, Ing in He unforced beauty. But to the tourists but supported a In Edinburgh the Lord Pro- its favour was that after the and the bill was four pounds more thith that, he was giving corimderable number of fac- vost displayed his racial caution. war the British were The City Council would. give practically
allowed Ich ahlinge For
financial backing to the Festival day even money for holl rather lost the Festival
broach, We had. Who ele prospecs? The over
darin foroffs which, whitakiwin Birmingham which are
from anything, callowed, so karning out funder soan bertek) quite
but the Habilita one year been marooned on our list for might looping bells teslow Be rightly to treated the Roman Die pechage that must not exceed £15,000. Thus the duration of the war, and it and from Latidon, are crowded moly fas
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