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THE CHINA MAIL, HATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.."

Oh, For Those Good Old Days-

WHEN WOMEN DID

YESTERDAY

enversation. aven

Jer woman,

THE

T

TALKING

London.

"HE other day I listened to Miss Rose Macaulay introduce a lect ure in a manner so witty and delicious that I hoped every woman in tho audience was making a mental note: "There is someone who must be a good conversationalist."

by AMANDA MARSHALL

foco la forever etched on your memory as that of the most fascinating woman you ever met. And Dame Edith Evan's telk is as warm and golden and youthful as her

acting.

But these women come of a generation when conversation- even for women--was not a lost art. Our ger

generation of Who over heard of a woman in Certainly they are notorious famous

like the Misses this country who excelled at this parti- talkers--but mostly to each Bloom, Hepburn and Tutin, are cularly difficult but delightful art? over the garden fence, matter- other. On telephones, endlessly;

for their shyness, thair Good looks, good grooming, good social ingly; and in the horrid privacy tion to work-but never for the

crity, their earnest dedien manger, good nature — even good re- of the Indies powder room sparkle of what they say. And putation - will win friends, Influence cattily and crossly. But what why are English debutantes all people, and bring you a nice crop of and into the responsive ear of a about amusingly and gracefully,

traditionally pretty-and-willy, but never pretty-and-witty? dinner invitations. But good talk is male "good listener not one of the accepted subjects on the Unlike the woman-loving men woman there is an onga ging English girl's finishing-school sylla- of every other nation, the talker crying to be let out. I

bus.

I suspect that in almost every

Englishman builds himself a suspect that many of them sub- fortress against the sound of a scribe to the opinions of that Good conversation needs a con- woman's voice. It may

be honest and meatible girl, Flora text in other words, it needs men behind the morning paper or Paste, heroine of "Cold Comfort

with the to want to listen, for women to want w

port and the other Farm," whose favourite occupa-

fastnesses of

to talk. And there is quite a deal of men after dianer: evidence to prove that

the English, worst of all, in man, traditionally so strong and silent, all-male clubs,

where is in fact a peacocky chatterbox who ugilest the oldest

and Icast prefers women to be like Desdemona Inviting room who won Othello by behaving just as

grudgingly set aside the women's magazines ad- for those members vise; she encouraged him to enough to want

rash arid unwise talk about himself for hours entertain a female on end, while she sat being friend. an admiring listener.

IT'S THE LATEST TWIST

ON 'KNOW YOURSELF'

by JOY MATTHEWS

around

The

to

few women

can nume who

ore brilliant talkers are all old enough on terms.

advice-to-women to be accepted

their with it They have won

Every writer comes

own

up sooner or later. Men don't the battle, and want to listen to what's on men compete for

the your little mind, no matter

privilego of talicing

them Most how prettily you phrase it. Rece

Macaulay, these Be a "good listener," and whose militant con

AMONG THE GROWN- ing lu fast from America. UPS (especially when the people moving hour gels late and the

days bump into somebody with a new one to try out assembly has "unfrozen") it end up with:--

And all let your eyes speak for you. versation is full of

But whatever

zest and vigour looks as though party time

happens, and humour, 13 this Christmas is going to

"Let me have your immediate don't interrupt him in the such a one, So ig reaction, plesso....jung what middle of a speech. And the remarkable dominated by The your iniinet tells you....

don't talk in front of his Baroness Budberg, Amateur Psychiatrists.

who works And ALL

designed friends, even if you are Party pastin with penall supposedly

88 film-script reader, Lo give a and-paper--all with a psychia your character. izto twist to them-ard sweep- example:---

be

clue

TODAY

aven are the

EmmeweED

quietly with

to witty as Beatrice Lillie in and whose undeniably powerful tion was dining Like this, for your own private mental magic Hey in the Bow of intelligent men; "a way of pasy-

reminiscenco picture of yourself

-or it fabulous

which ing the evening which she drops like pearls from her lips, adored, because then she could may seem as though you are hogging

ahow off a lot and the conversa-

herself”

HUSBAND, WIFE, BANDIT, AND THE TWO LOVERS

Carlo's House

„Lalgi & Maria's House

Antonio's RossS

tion.

talk about

Dame Edith Sitwell can elec- trity a Press conference-a As a result of this stiff train- notoriously unyielding collection Can it be perhaps, that in the ing in silent appeal-the Anglo- of near-humanity with

minds of Englishmen A

there la Saxon equivalent of purdah-

judged and totally

lly something not quite nice about Wernen seem to me to be fast

Brework about a girl whose talk is entertain- losing the ability to talk enter- Marilyn Monroe or the nursing ing? Gun of the few English tainingly without self-conscious of leprosy

girls ever to have been openly witty Nell Gwynne.

DOSS.

beautiful.

Somewhere at the back Tudor,

Elizabeth

under

Lydia

Lopokhova,

of their minds lurks the awful dancer Lady Keynes, the ex-mired for wit was pretty rule that little girls should be sparkles with such conversa→ And we know where all that scen (which gives pleasure) and tional eagerness and glitter that talking got her. not heard (which is tiresome), her little round russet-apple

(COPYRIGHT)

who lived in a high and hand- and asked him to save her from IN

Except for the bandit all this y

a dark night.

Well, the more

me?"

said Carlo not, you

COMMONWEALTH NEEDS MORE SCIENTISTS

By JAMES WICKENDEN

tigh

she thought have my reputation really, I problems as rubber, tin, West Indies and five colleges student exchanges. The Rayal

Empire, which promote Sociely remains, of coured, as the chief guardian of standards in science,

ONCE upon a time them was Maria ran back as fast as she

♬ young and handsome could to

the ncarest house, couple called Luigi and Maria which happened to be Carlo's TN his recent constituency But standards of education These tasks tall partly on some house on the edge of u

It is useless such bodles speech the bandit.

Sir Winston are very uneven.

the Colonial wood haunted by a bandit.

Churchill warned the gov- the small institutions through Advisory Committee on Colonial to pretend that the many of Research Counci and tho stuck-up ernment of the need for a out the Commonwealth compare Geology and Mineral Resources, sounds very idyllie but you minx" (or Italian words to that speed-up in the education of with the older universities of know what these Latins are, effect), So the poor girl ran to scientists.

Britain.

which help plan research pro- and before you could say Old Antonio and asked him.

grunes; However, projekss has been "Jealousy" Luigi and Maria had

and the Association a big bisticcio (which is Italan bandit la news, and this story it is

"Oh, no," said Antonio. "This That need is plain when rapid since the war. Since of the Universities of the Bri- for little and there was

realised that for then there have come into tish Commonwealth and the Maria alone in a big house on we got around, and so will the colonial research-into auch being the University of Malaya, Universities Bureau of the Bri-

fact that you stayed at my

a university college.in the house last

the more she thought of Carlo,

cocoa, Maria said "To Hell with 450 scientists are employed

soil-science - only in West Africa. who was an old flame of hers. Men"

(not for the first time, So she upped and fairly ran

but alasl for the last) and throughout the whole of the through the dark wood (bandit walked bravely into the wood Commonwealth.

But many students from or no bandit) to have

Commonwealth countries need a cosy and into the gunsight of the

But so far there is no ovETW Toep in Carlo's capacious arms bandit who stole her money

to come to Britain for courses Yet the tasks of

body amply supported by and turned out to be a bit shot her dead, quite dead, at the men is

these 450 fitting them for first rank work, funds to tackle the basic task: --which

to give the right For some this is still a serious that is, to recruft students for too capacious. So before you side of a fragrant orange tree. direction to the economic financial problem. could say "wolf" she left young

development of many countries those scientists-

Even for science, boost their education Carlo and took her troubles to

NOW THEN - and the Impetus to profitable Britain to strange lands there

going his neighbour Antonio (who

pioneering in vast lands. was another old flame, but old). Who is to blame for Maria's

a strong inclination to return The bottleneck to the Now Old Antonio's house was desik?

flow home to good posts as soon as Her HUSBAND, who of scientists is in the capacity possible. even larger than Carlo's, and deserted her

According to economists the -atice Antonio

of universities, the personal suggested that as the CARLO, who was

Consequently, it is only by a next economic phase for peeved be problems of hopeful students continuous

the time

was late, and the wood cause she left his house; or and the training of science educational standards through broadened

Improvement in world will be a

greally was dark, Maria should stay the ANTONIO, quite willing to bo

Othe

and intensified aight, which she did.

friendly, but fearing scandal?

team leaders.

Commonwealth, and search for new raw material The next day something told Your decision can give a clue has a vast output of graduates scientists that progress will be for the Commonwealth whose On paper the Commonwealth

rate of pay to now resources. Here Is the chance her Luigi would be back with a to the kind of person you are. India conscience-so she set off home On Page

and Pakistan for made. 20 paychiatrist example have 500,000 students de the grooming of potential quantities of hidden wealth. It

Most important of all, varied with a song in her heart. But analyses, the possible answers at present, Calcutta alone pro- science leaders for few prob- le up to the scientists to findi lands contain untold halfway through the wood-yes, and the way they reveal · jour}ducing more graduates the bandit.

character.

Britain

tackled and exploit it, and to train them is our greatest need today.

JOHNNY HAZARD

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