1956-01-14 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1956.

Is this the age of the egg-headed

T

ΤΕ newly-engaged Mr Colin Tennant might be fairly described

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A

example of today's gilded youth. Intelligent, light- hearted, debonair, AGEN around, and apparently dab hand at amateur theatricals, he is likely candidate for any list of Boldest Bloods, Mayfair's

or the Ten Young Men One Like to Have Would Mont

Dinner With,

Share

Romeos?

✰r In England the head that wears only a light garnish of hair is still considered attractive,

says

AMANDA

MARSHALL

EL

When he

Desert Island With, or Visit the Moon With. And this undeniably

In

Tempted.....

America, it is whis

warned his man, has probably insured enormous Bad spaniel attractive beautiful wife of his rapidly his character is also undeniably approaching fall-of-leaf, she eyes against loss or break- fast losing

his crowning said reassuringly and calmly age, but he could save the --for she is a frank and money on what remains of glory.

honest girl-that the balder his hair. he grew, the more attractive he became. ("I used to have Its absence simply en- such lot

B

of hair-in hances that look of thorny & misunderstoodness and in- waves," he toki me in attrac- horrified burst of memory. teresting submerged tive (and therefore just a "It's all much better now.") neurosis. little vain) man is sorely tempted by toupees, fringes, side pieces and other odds and ends of scalp- camouflage. (Whether any- one has yet put a crew.cut toupee on the market is just Hasty thought, hitherto unconfirmed).

pered, the average

a

to

But it is reassuring know that in England the head that wears only a light garnish of hair-and that all its own--is still considered attractive.

Think of all the heart- throbbing charmers who are egg- now certainly more headed than in their spring- time, but are loved none the less dearly for that.

Perennial charm

The Bingle must be two- thirds bald by now. Astaire fan't exactly thick on top.

Meant to be?

And, of course, two of the world's most fascinating men seem to have been com pletely buld for as long as any of us can remember Picasso and von Stroheim.

It's not just that Pleasso's ink-black

eyes and von Stroheim's scars and look of delightful cruelty make one forget the

tops of

hends. It's that they both

IBANDY HAIR A ¿CLIPPER

- so they gracefully submitted to

the demands of the script.

But can anyone deny that their subsequent fascinating resemblance to # couple of fugitives from Shangri-La did anything but make them more ad- though gorgeous even mittedly a trife more bizarre— than ever?

The fashion

1, for one, was astonished that the fashion did not immediately Chelsea and catch on around Hampstead (Piccadilly and 8: James's types still need a vice little rim of hair on which a bowler can comfortably rest.)

So far we've all accepted the if you're a brilliant fact that

actor character

like

Alec Guinness, от comedian like David Nixon, or a Man DI Destiny like Churchill, DT a great composer like Sibelius, or л genuine egg-head like Adlai Stevenson, you just don't need hol on the top at your head, You have other compensatory gifts. What I'm waiting for is the day when we have a nice, honest, baid-bul still remen'ic Hamlet or Romeo Baldness 1s, after nl alleged to be n tok of virility.

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Now that the crew-cut is na out of fashion as the flowing, ungreased, pre-all-the-wars Brooke style, and the But their perennial charm

Rupert their Byron curly crop and the Prince is no jot diminished. Gene

Regent cut have both been Kelly's magic hes in his feet

adopted by women, the bald top This happy state of affairs

and that curious. reedy, look as though they were is about the only new masculine was confirmed for me by a

that fashion left undiscovered. shadowed voice not in always meant to be photographer an old friend

what remains of bis hair. way. of mine, who is a fine up-

fellow

Charles А with

Boyer, standing magnificent moustache, a throatiest, least resistible very beautiful wife, and a lover of them all, basn't a forehead which is becoming curl left, higher and wider and more handsome every year.

the

And I don't believe that the present

ronks of thinning-on- the top glamour--which includes Rex Harrison, Gary Cooper and (hush) Prince Philip will be

1css

glamorous when the lost hair has fallen.

Yul Brynner and Herbert Lom, Continental-type darlings, both went to the length of actually shaving their heads to any Mel Ferrer, the currently star in "The King and I." It fashionable type of futal was in the interests of art, and

the Bank

Will She Save

at Monte Carlo?

asks CECIL WILSON

ending Carlo by Prince Rainier's search for a little. & wife.

am

Prince Rainier har made secret of his

по

search for

the ideal

wife.

T looks that the cool, fleck of gold, and I

almost clinically re attracted by girls with mote beauty of Grace blonde or light brown hair. Kelly will save the bank of Monte

"Film stars frighten me I can't bear vamps I want or silnky charmera.

wife who will an ordinary The nutrimoniul future make me feel she's out of of this handsome, 32-year- the ordinary. She must be old prince has kept the tiny, young, attractive, intelligont musical comedy princedom (without being a

of Monaco speculating with stocking), and increasing anxiety.

Why is it so imperative to his 20,000 subjects that he marries and settles down?

Because if. he dies without an heir his little paradise will revert to France, and that means Monaco will have to pay Income tax and death duties and its men will do National Service.

of

family. I could never live with a woman who had big feet and no character."

And Min Kelly, it

bluc-

good

seems,

is not aloof to the idea of

a 390-room-

ed palace

in

Monte

Carlo.

Well, how does Miss Kelly live up to all that?

shares

the

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Think of all the heart-throbbing charmers

but *pg-headed loved none the less dearly for that

by ANNE SHARPLEY

says

Miss Gwynneth

Thorburn, the

woman who tunes

up the unieas

of the stars

Do you want the TRUTH from your doctor?

RE you telling me the truth, doctor?”.

66A Mrs Davies was asking the well-worn

question. I have seen many men and women sitting in the leather chair opposite my desk with the same querulous, worried expression on their faces.

"The whole truth and nothing but the truth, Mrs Davics," I smiled. "There's nothing to worry about.”

But I know she thought I was holding

something back. Perhaps some secret, quiet ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

disaster.

by

CEDRIC CARNE

Too many patients regard their doctors rather as some might regard baby-kissing politicians. People not to be wholly trusted. And, like politicians, it is true that doctors

All the same, more symptoms now and then have to be player who complained of some expedient.

paralysis in the hand muscles might not occur for 10 years. This had become batter with during which time she could out treatment,

Nevertheless, I play professional tennis without

signs any handicap.

on

Boine

raro

Certainly Occasions it is better not to divulge to the patient the exact nature of his linesa,

I remember being consulted by a professional woman tennis

knew she had the early and symptoms of disseminated sclerosis. The prognosis of this is extremely bad, going on total incapacitation.

Give me a voice

W

from the moors

Should I tell her everything or should I not? I decided NOT in this caso, for my patient might enjoy a perfectly normal

to for several years to come.

But all doctors agree

that truthful they should be as nis humanly possible, and if for the sake of the patient, something must be withheld, then the nearest responsible relative is invariably told.

To withhold information is not a common practice. The whole art of medicine is based upon that real relationship confidence nurtured between doctor and patient.

CRUEL ACT

MRS Davies looked Bt me doubtfully. "You should never withhold the truth," she said, passionately. "II

mmoral. Inuced, I've trusted doctora since my sister died. They did not tell her sho wds dy.ng. Don't you think she had the right to know?”

naver

"Would she have been hap- pler if she had known, Mis Davies?"

"Happler? That point."

Isn't

"But it is, Mrs Davies."

the

I remembered a patient of mine who had learned inadver- tently that she suffered from an incurable disease. She could not sleep at night without being heavily drugged. She became. morbidly depressed, and would unexpectedly and suddenly on Lay occasion convulsg with tears and fear: she had no hope. Others like her had hope, even If it were not based on scientific fact, but they were happier, slept at night, and were cheer- ful to the end,

"Which la botter, Mre Davies?"

"The truth is sold. "Always."

better," sho

“Usually,” I said. "But in such exceptionet esses i dio- 12 pends so much on the person-

In 1955 she visited both quite incredible. HEN Vivien Leigh

needs some

"un- Canada and South Africa. The she's a remarkable person.

organisers of the Shakespeare all part of her. dertones" to play Festival at Stratford, Ontario, had to have that voice."

But for the naturally good Anna Massey invited her to coach their com- Cleopatra, fancies An "increased pany of 30 in speaking blunk volce Misa Thurburn can do

deal. range," Kay Hammond de verge-a fresh, new, vital thing great

..Whea

Moira Shearer came to me the was obviously talented cides that a tongue-in-the- and a delight to be with " chcek drawl is not the thing And in South Africa she--but ro tense! And her posture, for Liza Doolittle-and lectured Dame Edith Evans foels teachers. that golden voice needs h check-up

where do they go?

But

then,

It's

Edith Evans

They go, increasingly, to Miss Gwynneth Thurburn, Principal of the Central School of Speech and Dramu, and something of a character besides.

In

the New Year's Honours List, she received an OBE.

is always something for a pro- fession which is fighting for recognition to rec.ive

honour, is her comment.

A strong, handcoms woman

to

speech-training even though she was a ballerina, "Not an sy task was all wrong. Afrikaans and English where are having a mutually deleteri- ous effect on speech."

How good

"Robert Helpmann--when I started him breathing properly He I just couldn't stop him. started jumping round the room saying 'How good this is for dancing. Why didn't I find about "It before?'"

For the comfort of her own car she dislikes the "throttling of speech in the big cities (th accent known 26 "Mayfair" cornes

under her heading of "Cockney"), Shc prefers rich rumbling

voice from the moors,"

Tight lip

of Besetting sine

English

in her mid-fucs, Miss Thur- speech are the tight lip and the

burn

is militantly and clenched jaw, "both" produco humorously agin elocution, the sounds of a rather meen tone" volce beautiful and the careful however much heroism they accent.

may also imply

'Ure.

clear."

ality of the patient. Some people can be told. To inform others would be an Inhuman, cruel act. The doctor, for better or worse, has to judge, and he brings nii his training and ex- perience to bear on that judg ment."

NOT TRUSTED

MRS. Davies herself was

hypochondriac.

in turn.

on

There's nothing wrong in that: most of us are some more, some legs.

When I The school, which under the

Was A medical as I learned about leadership of Misa Elsie Fogerty, student,

illnesses I half haa fostered such talents ns Sir different Laurence Olivier and Pegry imagined I suffered from each Ashcroft, has had a recent batch of talent in Clairo Bloom, Virginia McKenna and Mary was a candidate for impetigo: At skin outpatients 1 thought

the neurological wars, for "There

a brain tumour; at the fover is never any doubt

In hospital, for poliomyelitis. about the ones with real talent.

fact I only felt a hundred per cent At when I did midwifery."

Mrs Davics, too, suffered from different, alteresting But ther mysterious "dinesson.” So that when Mits Kelly The irony at it-like the irony

"Propie are their voices. To and each receives a three-year adequately reassured, They her very particular of unrequited lovos that the

"What is important in a voice cure a person of a boring voice course.. Ordinary? Yes, to, the prince's home she will reign more independent she grows the

is not that it should be beautiful you would have to cure them of · harder producers chase her.

This year they will celebrate the doctors, had withheld the ruth with regard to her sister. --but

that it should express being a bore first. And you, their Golden Jubilee and Mis that this was a rare practice extent that

over it with quality rather than she acorna

says Miss Thurburn in know the woman who has a Thurburn aims to raise £60,000. did not mollify her. that has quality make-up,

curves provocative quantity; a

They know that

are you

The money is needed to move of teh a penny, but girls as rare her very own mellow tones-un terribly arch volte," Miss Thur- the kind clothes,

of elevated her to First Lady

Individualistic 'cello.

burn takes on as elfin look and the school from its present as Grace Kelly are worth their Hollywood.

aloofness in göld.

"Be yourself and speak clearly tone, "that is just her. One divided premises-rooms in the curves that get giris pinned

is the only general advice I can cannot hope to change it. shell of the Albert Hall and up.

give.

house in Hyde Park Gale...--- As principal of the Central "Edith Evant's voice, for into a building of our own, School, Miss Thurburn is also instance, Don't ask me how before I retire, something of a world authority, she does it, even to me. It is

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Especially the

She has reached that pinnacle by the smooth road" of a timeles around the But sufficiently out of millionaire building contractor's Monte Carlo. the ordinary to completo daughter from Philadelphia, six pictures in 12 months, brought up in the silkiest social

oarenan

could

to collect leading men like who was an Olymple

surroundings with a brother has Clark Gable, James Stewart, and won two races at Henley. Now film fame hardened Miss Kelly to the Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, adulation of Hollywood's and William Holder and set most-sought-after leading them extolling her in these men, to the glory of Oscar words:

Even a born. princess awards.

those

whom But even

her GABLE (with calm, blue, near-sighted name was linked after they had hardly have wished for a more education; and "Mogambo" together in expensive eyes of hers must boggle made.

although she complains that as Africa): "Her cool looks Beem when she reads what Prince to hide a promise of smoulder child she had to wear ther Rainier demands in

sister's handed-down clothes, the ing and every man thinks he

Independence super-woman he has been could be the one to Ignite the he now has an

known to Yew

fins stars. "actively" seeking.

flarne." "She must have many she expects

STEWART: "Sha's a lady and''.

She could be suspended for to be treated like refusing to play a call-girl in m qualities because I am a one," and

picture and laugh it off where others would have;langulshad,

horrible character myself," HOLDEN; "She has an un- She can still refuse to pose for he says. “She should have canny power of understanding “cheesecake? plusures and pick blue or violet ayes with "&" a man.””

and choose her fim, parts,STAL

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Kold that tables of.

JOHNNY HAZARD

THAT WILL BE

ALL, BELLBOYI

She is not of the "You,, too,

But to cure these faults there At the first audition it is quite have a beautiful voice" con

Is the delicate lask of making bellef.

Nevertheless, "It taken three the tensed-up ones aware how years to get a voice properly

The school has 240

SO YOUR FRIEND HAZARD. I5

Only advice

· KEEPING MYFRIEND" UP IN THE "AIR, EN, MR. HUNTERS

BOTH OF YOU......LIE DOWN ON THE FLOORI

FEET TO FEET!

unpleasant their volee sounds. traind for artistic: purdenis rouble was she could never ba

By Frank Robbins

AND I CANNOT TOUCH MEER UNTIL HE COMES DOWN! UNLESS...

HOW CAN HE FLY INDEFINITELY?" BREVELING THE PLANE!

"I must go now, Mrs Davies":

I gold. "It's seven o'clock, and

I have a call before dinner.”

She looked at her wrist watch. I felt that she could not even trust me to tell her the time,

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this situation

calls for a

San Miguel