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THE CHINA MAIL, I SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955.

EVE PERRICK Says

After That Miss World Fuss, Now The Same Judges Pick

W

-IIILE A certain action of society WAB concerned with the selcc-

tion of a young lady to wear

the crown of, "Miss World" (19-year-old Susann Djulm of Venezuela got the title, you may r. member) decided 10

run my

דיו

I

"Mr World"

contest.

} enlisted the

sume judges who Werk collec- tively respon- sible (al- though indi- vidually most

of them

de-

for:

nied it) Miss Djuim's

victory.

1 gathered together

23

contestanta from 23 dif. ferent countries of origin (three more than the "Miss World" яKors got). ranging alphabetically from Mr Argentine in the person of Dick Haymes to Mr USSR (another scoop over the "Miss

MISTER

"Mr. WORLD" Bweden's Alf Kjellin, blue- eyed Nordk type, aged 18, elected No. 1 mimously dream-man by the women's vole.

+

on

WORLD

Mr. U.S.A.

kever

to

BOULD AS Gregory Peck. Aged 29,

A whale-chasing typo.

(For the record, Sir Worlders." who Gerald's commente

the didn't get any Iron Curtain "Miss World" line-up were entries) represented by almost

unflattering. Vladimir Zeldin.

"They've all got stupid ex-

alone from the photographic library.

08

Mr. BRITAIN Richard Burton,

aged 29, this runner-up.

with "Swanson eyes.”

Mr. SPAIN

-Mario Cabre, sgod 38, the handamme here of the ball-ring.

she pleaded. "Fraid so," I said. falling for him,"

about

**ME

"Well then, sorry, old friend." Spain-bullfighter Mario Cabre, sighed Miss Swanson, discarding

ruefully

"Mr Mexico”—Gil-

"Unaccustomed to I RIT

to

with 28 pictorial samples of male beauty.

But the first picture that camo under her wicked eye was that of Mr Brisson, who follows her in carbaret at her current place of employment. "GIT," growled Hermione. "If anyone picks him, I'll die."

"Consider yourself dead, dear," said I. "Mr Hylton his dono just that. Still, remember what they say about a woman's privilege, and take a look at the rest of the bays.”

Miss Gingold · did so--and emerged with the same cholco Da Miss Swanson, in triplicato. Sweden Great Britain, and Spain-because they respectively brought out the mother, dovli, and tomboy in her.

Final

judge

Firth and Anal judge, the dapper debonair dressmaker HARDY AMIES, came out strongly

оть the side of the Anglo-American brand of mas- culine good looks.

flinging

tho

Disdainfully Latins like Cuba's (and Lucille Bull's) Desi Amaz und Italy's tind Sholley Winters' one time) Vittorio Gossmon across his Jushly carpeted salon, he settled

for Peck and Burton; then added "Mr. Canada”—Robert Beatty,

Me, GERMANY 'Dart' Jurgón </

ME, STALY' Victoria, Capernau,

3. AUSTRIA Antan Washreek

in Alm contracts at this stage of his career.

bert Roland, and "Mr Hungary" malę am stars" declared Judge tion? They had the sort of certainly got themselves elected

-Paul Lukas. "No room here for sentiment....

"Now who's this dream man?” ***Mr Swoden,'

name of Alf Kjellin," I said.

Lucky dips

No. 3, MR JACK HYLTON, "here goes:-

has the

..

Overall reason for his selec-

faces he wouldn't mind having himself.

On the other hand the winners

the easy way.

Man's world

"Curl Brisson" ("Mr Den- So much for the jury's verdict It was the uramathematically mark") "because he has survived the years and still has his own minded organiser of the contest teeth, his own hair, and, as far who had to work out the final

result. And according to

They did my

not have to be as we know, his own pubile.

which calculating system,

I weighed and measured. They "Gregory Pock because admit is not terribly reliable did not have to spend hours on whether he is struggling through but wonderfully elastic. "Mr end in a draughty dance-hall a desert or chasing a whale ho World' of 1938 turns out to be rehearsing for the final parado endurance known to man."

greatest powers of the Swede with the name only in front of the judges. In fact, Gloria Swanson can pronounce they did not have to turn up on -26-year-old Alf Kjellin.

parado at all. "Anton Walbrook" ("Mr Austria") "He has the charm Runners-up, America's Gregory They did not have to suffer of old Vienna and roughly the Peek (aged 39), Great Britain's the jollying-up tactles of

Richard Burton (20) (which singing compere specially im- same historical significance,"

It was perhaps unfortunate makes this the first international ported to put 'em through their have that my next photo-call was on beauty contest held at any time, paces. They didn't even MISS HERMIÔNE GINGOLD, any place where our representa to leave homo. "He has eyes just like my Miss Galle weary of the tive has got into the first four), uncle-Swanson eyes," she said labours involved in the "Miss Spain's Mario Cabro (28). of Mr Great Britain"-Richard World business, perked up con- I regret that there A00 по Burton, her second choice. And: siderably

They were all film stars, pressions. I personally chose

Miss Swanson, of Swedish a sure enough sign of suc Miss USA' because she was

with stock herself, corrected my pro cess in the good looks de- the only girl there

nunciation, and Bald: "Now were good wrists. I'm a painter promise me he's not round- partment, and they picked for their face value and look for things like shouldered or anything like thel,

that.")

and I'll vote for him." MISS GLORIA BWANSON! I spoke up for the Viking the next judge, was tax more breed and Miss Swanson made A handsomer bunch of enthusiastic. "Ooh, much more two more lucky dips. boys couldn't have been re- fun thun judging beauty queens.

Wait until I get my glasses," cruited anywhere, in my

Miss Swan300 spread the opinion. And photographs, photographs over her desk. "Oh unlike real-life beauty con- dear, am I only allowed three?" testants, don't give any trouble.

But, of course, real-life

judges sometimes do.

Beautiful man

There was, for instance, that well-known plain:

** NO MO NAV DAT DE NI MI MI speaker SIR GERALD

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KELLY, first of the five official "Miss World" judges on whom 1 called for help, deciding to be more choosy than had allowed for.

I

"Perfectly dreadful...my God...my God...my God! ." muttered the Post President of the Royal Academy, flicking through| the pictures. "He's got a friendly face" ("Mr_India"| -Sabu) " my God...my God...he jooks tough enough" ("Mr USA" Gregory Peck) "...my God: ...my God..."

I

"No, I won't play, simply won't play. They are | all absolutely frightful.”

Sir Gerald, however, sug- gested his own "Mr Work" "C. B. Fry, the cricketer. He's around, 90* and still looks magnificent. I remem- ber him when he was young. He looked like a piece of the Parthenon friczo to life-a beautiful man!"

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WHILE INSIDE THE BURNING CLUB40

THROUGH THIS WINS

| CELLAR?" "THERE'S A

STREET EXIT?

ETHEL MERMAN ***I belt the lyrics over the footlights like a baseball player belting balls to an outfield."

18

QUICKLY! THE CAFÉ

IS GOING UP LIKE A

TINDER BOX:/

All of which the would-be "Miss Worlders" had to suffer.

man's world, it "seems.

(COPYRIGHT)

when told she could prizes. Anyway, I imagine that Even in a beauty contest, It's a "I don't blame Ava Gardner for spend the next Ave minutes none of the entrants is interested

Don't Blush, Says Miss Merman

W

(IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD A LESSON IN YOUR

HETHER she ia

18

by MURIEL BOWEN

LIFE)

than a help round the office. she can confidently cope She was employed by the with the scrubbing and the patents man in a motor firm. washing and not put off the V Life revolved round the guests who are invited to mechanical bits and pieces the barbecue. Incidently, of motor-cars. When the she never mentions- a dinner boue got letters which he party. It is always a bar.

Binging or just talking, Ethel Merman, the American musical comedy star, much like a cyclone. She sweeps into the view and away again like a gale. Her rooting and a-tooting for had dictated back for sign- becue. voice, which has earned the merits of Miss Merman, ing he found he had to £8,928 for one solitary TV But then these are the write in the technical bits

across the things, or so we are in longhand. appearance, bursts the footlights with an ex- led to believe, that have hilaration that grips the helped get her places. audience

firmly by the

throat. Í have never had "I do one basic thing.. the same sort of exper! I belt the lyrics over ence either before or since footlights like a seeing her in New York in player belting balls to the musicni "Call

Me outfield," says Miss Merman, who has never had a sing- ing lesson in her life.

Madam."

*

Now she puts that

pep

an

Being shy about one's talents is all wrong. Coun-

But there were the up- and-coming years when getting "an original" on the wall and progressing from musquash to mink meant an awful lot more than any- thing else,

Observes Mian Merman. the baseball looking back from her pre-

sont heights: "I bobbled the When the money came ...he rolling in buying the right technical gibberish didn't dictate quickly, but originals and the right the phrases he used were clothes was not all that out of my sphere."

easy. Miss Merman 'is ab- Success has brought her solutely frank about it. It sels Miss M.: "Face it all the things that other was not until friends visit- and personality in describe bravely, sister. Admit it women dream of, most of od her flat and asked about ing her rise from a most instead of blushing prettily, all she values her luxurious a painting over the fire incompetent secretary to twisting your apron and home in Denver to which place that she realised that America's best-known musl- scruffing your toe in the, she has now retired to she had bought it without

dust."

enjoy the company of her asking the name The story is loud and

husband (her third, preal- artist, But all this self-confidence dent of an airline) and two brassy. There is plenty a

came after she had been a young children. Even when secretary. At $12 a week the help walks out the a liability glittering "madam" finds she was more

cal star*

Call Me Madam, by

W. H. Allin. 1

Don't Ethel MermRES.

By Frank Robbina

HOLD UPV TILL I' CHECK IF THE WAY IS

ULPY

situation

for

Miguel

of the

"I found out later that the chic thing to do would have been to have given thom the name of the arti ist, but the, man in the gallery who'd sold it to me Just called it 'an original"."

But for all her light-

all her Ilga hearted banter Miss Meru man gets down "every fab often to her "philosophy.""

No 48, she gives her latest addition to that philosophy: Now that I'm older know that being attractive 'la Batter than being beaut. full Beauty A dösn't las

and

long,

Righ