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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955.

THE GREAT MIND-PILL PHENOMENON.

DRINAMYL

mulueds, à mood of

relaxant redatio

SUAVITIL

objective and The patient romains alert during treatment

she's taken the day in her strides

ANXINE

WHAT THEY ARE BAYING IN THE MEDICAL PRESS

A Health Service booster' takes the stress from mixed-up living

London

AKE a close look at By Chapman Pincher

these advertino

T

ments, which

Bre

re-

As soon as a firm adverties a the public or merely m-kes 14 available Health Ministry experts are likely to bincit-list it, which practically prohibits doctors from prescrib- my it under the Health Service.

Teddy Boys.....

Lypical of many Now the manufacturers

the medical are offering a appearing In

of drug to range journals. They are the only "mind pills," which seem to outward sign of a multi- be tailor-made for these million pound industry ople. Indeed one of them which has grown up quietly is advertised as an answer to

of the and is flourishing nightly. "the problem

curring 30 percent." It is the industry for the supplying "pills for mind." Pills to counter the irritability of the harassed housewife and the mental overworked tension of the husband, as well the

AL Hymptoms of propte with serious disorders,

Root Cause

€18-

MANUFACTURERS

Vimate that "mind

pills,"

or

over-

18 the patient J

mother with "yague HERE is also genuine con. burdens!

Than

in most firm that feelings of depression?" a pill composeil of barbiturate. "mind pilla" muy be misured. jp-brak, and a muselo-relaxing

The chief of one firm which agent will engble her to "lake makes 011 anti-anxiety

formerly The day in her stride."

on free sale puzzled by big orders from Southend. He found the drug way selling mainly 10 Teday

Is "milf nervous exhaustion"

Then the trouble?

tablets of barbiturnie mixed with vitamina 1 to 90la Wai. Is the patiuni merely "harassed?** "nund pill" of a different mix "indure a mood of calm will cheerfulness."' And so on.

H

Boys who took it to give them courago in their gang lights.

Firma are confluent that the market will expand for three

retsons:—

ONE-There is growing conviction umong doctors that many acricus complaints are caused by mental stress,

TWO.-"Mind pills" are bound to increase their appeal in a tablet-taking

age when believe people

they must be suffering some distress from thu strain of artificial living.

THREE-The existence of the Health Service will ensure a

cost

Scemy

steady sale of the drugs because

their immediate drug negligible to the patients though was they eventually have to pay tor

them through taxation,

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Then PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

For those who believe the "tranquillisers," barbiturates should be restricted

therm, As the doctors call already make 1 the biggest single ilm the 150,000,000 a year druk bill for the Health Service,

They are immunsely use. ful to the family doctor, be- cattse about 30 percent of his patients have symptoms which are entirely the sult of mental stress.

ttku

These patients make the doctor's day and night difficult because, though the rout cause of their trouble is usually some turmoil in their private lives, they turn to him persistently for help.

DYLAN THOMAS

I

The Legend And The Book

New York

HAVE just crad book

J

'The man at the Poetry Centre writes an astonishing story....I read it with horrid fascination'

which has the same horrid fuscination as photograbhs of murdered bodies on the front pages of the more sensational American newspapers. Que looks reluctantly but Jouks. It is "Dylan Thomas in America." written by double here is

one

EVELYN IRONS cables from NEW YORK

a quintuple at

John Malcolm Brianin, the em Cree of his Best recorded

pale.

mild-mannered who directs. the Centre in New York.

"What pesh cars man remarks was

American pets have Poetry

That and the next days were long progressions from har Brinnin's bi fell by bar punelinted by parties, one biow. spring un degrading of the first of which was given detaal. the story of Thomas's in Thomas's honour by a young four drunken, woinhated, tours academie critte, whose of poetry reading in the United carnest guest the poet States. winch ended two years age when he died vi alcoholic poisoning of the brain mo New York hospital.

WIDOW'S PROTEST

Over- "sent

up" by telling buwdy scato- logical stories, making prepos- terous suggestions to the Indies, Klewering

questions ZTİCİTAN about certain of his poems with straight-faced obscenity.

humour and

7 is not without macabre sols un incident at the next gathering on the sime evening at which he made mtanbling, fumbling" advances American short-story writer being rebuffed. "suddenly, as the Katherine Anne Porter, and on

she had no more weight than a doll, lifted her in her coat and gloves until her head was within an inch of the celling, and kept her there."

It contains shocks event for thuse familias with London stories about him. Mrs Caitlin Thomas, the Welsh poel's Irish widow. has not denied factual truth of the sordid take of disintegration. But she has protested that it is not the whole truth about the man and her angry objections are printed us a foreword at her own request.

MAGNIFICENT EFFECT

Dvlan2 Thomas

"If he was

as

preat we think.."

03

bars

to the seriously if there are alternative drugs which are safe and leave no tangover

These are just what the doctor ordured for the scores of patients who ham

his orgy with nothing wrong with thein except borou

norbki fear of i-harith.

Doctors Only

A FEW SCRAPS

OF PAPER

Paris, by singer Clara Tambour and

FTY - NINE YEAR the other by his former score- Eva de Wyntk, This is OLD actress Elvire Lary,

Mille. Popca's story of her will: Popesco called on in-

"Louis came to ce me anu Lernational lawyer Count evening at the theatre and left opened it Rene de Chambrun descen- wvelope. When 1

and saw that it was his will '1 dant of Lafayette and son- tore it up, and told

ny dresser in-law of the Inte Pierro to plek up the pieces and retum MANY

week them to him when he called enxiety drugs are safe Laval-one day last

him begin again. He did not call back and few days later I learned of his that they could be on open sale and asked

Yproceedings to clear an old suicide.

Friend from the posthumous charge of insanity,

the latest

anti-

at the cheraist's counker. the manufacturers prefer limit then ele to doctors' Pescriptions.

Why? Mainty because they

From

Lo

wan!

1 did not and do not his money, but I am deterindnes to clar his name from the

can self much more that waned some shreds of paper which

her handbag she pro- charge of insanity," the long run.

and unless Brinnin had that I alone possess. I wanted secreted 800 dollars in a hand-

to recreate Dylan as he was and bag he put in the luggage as a

to get rid of the fantastic public present for Callin, Mrs Thomas would

have

had got practically legend that

grown up nothing from his carnings from around him. I wanted to get engagements, for which pay the record straight." after "retching ment was up to 500 dollars each Centre to packed audiences of Into a basin Ds if he would and from which Brinnin

five minutes before pected the Welshman would

Brinnin has often had British writers to lecture or give read- ings at the YM-YWHA (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association} Poetry

Next night,

eager fans, and besides Thomas never so on the stage,

I have heard Sir Osbert and he was

ho iske 3,000 dollars home.

Dome Edith Sitwell and Eliza- read from the works of other beth Bowen there. But he has English poets and gave a selec-

not written books about these tion from his own with magni-

visits. Ho has

PHYSICAL MISERIES

ex-

publicised ficent effect-"the first of those Thomas's trips fully, however, performances which were 10 That was the first of the four bring America a whole new American visits and the rest The bare facts written by any conception of poolry reading." became progressively more hack would be avidly read. But

squalld, with Thomas roaring Brinnin is a poet and a teacher After that, notwithstanding his through bar-rooms and parties at the University of Connecticut, non-stop debaucherles and his making drunken love to any and ho has produced a masterly affaire," with at least three woman he met and spending narrative which iterary people women, he failed only once money on insane excesses. can enjoy with a good con- all four American tours he made pelence.

public appearances.

He added, in response to my question, that "Dylan Thomas in America" would be published in England in February or March or may be carlier and that Christopher Isherwood, who has lived many years in America, had said that it was worthy of its subject,"

HE MEANS WELL

Reputable reviewers here have allowed that Brinnin's motives be to turn up on schedule for his Yet, notwithstanding his bitter were honourable and that

unhappiness about the dissipa- meant nothing but good. } 'LIKE AN IMMIGRANT'

tion of his genius and his In his anxiety record physical miseries, reading poetry this book as if it were blograp

May be one ought to read everything, Brinnin doce, not in his inspiring tones to packed hical material on a post long Brinnin's account of Thomas's omit that although Dylan com and delighted audiences all over dend

apparent Americo.

Thomas died two years. pilgrimage, from hangover to ported himself with

ago last month--and if one dare hongover starts with the Welsh-grace when staying in Washing- man's arrival at Idlewild for the on with Francis Biddle, the I asked Brinnin to tell be middle-class enough to men

U.S. Attorney-General, me just why he had written daughter are not old enough

tion this young sons. and first Ume on a raw February and he wife, Dylan picked up this book. He said he could not say whether they like it or not. morning in 1930,

several shirts belonging to one understand why its "sensational "Buttled like an immigrant of the family from a drawer in aspects" were being emphasised But as Caitlin Thomas Baya in a hapless rough woollen fue room and stuffed them into and asked me to correct this about Brinnin in ber stemen parke, his hair as tangled, as a his bag before leaving ---

Impression.***

"It imposible to hit back af nest from which, the pird has arinnin, who is not a profes *I'm highly distressed," he A man who does not know that albhal agent, noted as Thomas's protested that the standards of he hitting you and who is far He had not recovered from a manager on his American tours middle-oises morality should be too cautious of the laws of lib farewell party in London.. the and had a terrible time with his applies to this if Dylan was to say plainly what can only be previous night nisi tila brunk ellent's finance. Money dowed, as great, we think he is, 1, read between the Hnos.ENGH desk white dotkla Beotchens from Dylan's pockets, sand the insportant to put down the mo

former

-10

when pleted together constituted the last will made by playwright Louis Vencull only eight days

His Star

Vernal and Mile. Popesco

before he committed suicide in were married in 1024 and

1952 in a Paris hotel room.

divorced 13 years later. While the marriage lusted, it was one of the great theatrical partner- ships.

In this will Verneuil left to Mlle. Popesco the royalties from all his plays which include such international successes La "The It was Verneull who put her Cousin from Warsaw," "Love on the stage and from that time and Let Love," and "Affairs of she starred in all his plays. A State."

writer

brittle comedics, Vernull suffered all his We from recurring bouts of deep depression.

Not Only Will

He was

ان

This, unfortunately, was not the only will Verneuill made In

also indolent, easily the course of un agitated life and imposed upon and fall in love, Mlle. Popesco's indignation was

casily, frequently

dis. and provoked by the fact that a Los Derately. There is almost a note Angeles omurt had just ruled that of deliberately intended mocker/ Verneuli was insane when

about the legal confusions which made his will in her favour.

he left behind him. nam. In conjunction with her legal action Mlle.

Popese is alo

he

Instead the court held that the

only valid will was in favour of planning an inmediate revival of

Miss Florence Ryan with whoin Verneuil's

I lived in Hollywood for 10 comedy

years.

Two other Vernoull wills have been submitted for probate: one

most

"The Cousin

Warsaw."

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