1956-01-16 — Page 4

Page. 4

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1956,

TIME STANDS STILL IN BRITISH GUIANA By William Fish

D taken from the sugar port 80 percent of the populo-

in-

growing The population is faster than ever before, and the housing position is becoming stendily worse, despite the fact

Ioan of that government

avaliable for

Gulance

to enter the

aro

homo

Dre sugar

ESPITE the millions and directly or indirectly sup-

tion, are situated on the plain and bauxite

under Sugar companies aro dustries, and poured into taking

programine rehabilitation and Improvement readily the country from outside

builders. is that is

to coat over £8 million. sources, British Guiana

Many young social develop- The greatest shockingly under-developed.

in the colony are taking reluctant mcnte In this British colony of place on the estates Employers industry, even when work can 83,000 square milee, there provide free medical attention be found for them. They show are only 220 miles of main for workers and their families, even less willingness to besome

rice growers like their parents.

South ronds. More than 150 mlies and clubs and sports grounds.

Rovenue from sugar has been of burnt

earth

fund from used to Anance consist

every which sugar workers may lake loans to build bone-shaking interest-free

homes on land leased by their companies,

£1

make

1 racks that journey nightmare.

Because of low, Inconsistent ferries at three points, it is in possible to travel from one end of the road to the other in a single day.

Road transport is Blow and expensive as a result, and the

Joke that railways are Jonger brings a laugh.

£10

0

Bad Start

119

Behind the plain Ile swamps, Den running

mountains and savannah land.

In the upland areas hundreds tributaries Jun into the of

Cuyuni Essequibo and mighly Courantyne rivers, like veing on the surface of a leaf.

of the Berbice River, the rising generation can be Bay roadside idling seen on

the away

hours. From other areas they drift to Georgetown, where they sell imported goods other at 15 percent to each profit,

Far From Lovely

Georgetown,

ASY GOING

His wide, tree-lined streets, has a population of 140.000. Yet Industry is not expanding, and 32 percent of industrial workers arc employed by factories

Jess than 14 having

on the payroll,

The greatest threat to British Guinna is that the colony wit be forced out of world markets Frequently by spiraling custs.

EITHER A

GENIUS

OR A MADMAN.

troubles.

The

art

"Modern

his scholastic

►

one

By LES ARMOUR

onded physics, which

In New York, he greeted re- porters with a lon of broad with its theme of disintegration, career.

to me the way

The distinction is one which strapped to his head. When A has shown mysljeism. I have learned the is probably very real to Dall, Fifth Avenue department store

to the rest had the temerity to aller true meaning of religion from it a little obscuro

of the world.

of his displays ho crashed the hydrogen bomb."

By 1027, he was

window in Paris, through a plate glass then in the gripe of surrealism. to put it right again.

and gems of classical draughts- He and Picasso became fast His pictures are as fantastic manship. Most of them would friends. In 1920, he and Luis as his stunts. The most famous do credit to the "old masters." Bunel made the first surrealist painting of his "pre-religious"

who Dall and bis friends once frur.03 "The

of Persistence nim, "Chien Andalou."

claimed to have superceded. Memories") featured the melt- Two years later, he had an-

Ing watches by which ho is other go at making

Identified in millions of minds. Avald the rradst It is hord

m ("L"Age d'Or), has cap- then headed ronvictim that Dall

for New York triumphing over where he held an exhibition. fured spirit primordial matter, strengthen- In 1835, he wrote his auto- than blography Chaving reached the ed and sharpened rather

rlpo

called age of 31)

The beaten by chaos

Is it just another Dali stunt? critics think not. Current Dall-with its starky real figures, standing out of good chaotic backgrounds=is

crowda Into enough to bring any art gallery.

to

E

Aur-

mon's name finds its way into the Every now and thon a dictionaries to become an everyday adjective describing the attributes that made him famous. Such a word is "Churchillian.”

it on canvas.

བའ

HERE is still a touch of mad- aces in his art and, Indeed, has been suggested that Dall

Grand planos, ants, keys, chests of drawers and ruins litter his it canvases in eye-fixing disarray. is mind.

If they look nightmares, it is

"Once, when he was crossing because they are supposed to. He

calls

asked his the Atlantic, a woman that phaso

he

bis "Freudian period"-the

had clipped period why

moustacho. He explained, when he tried to bring his sub-o conscious to the surface and put deadly earnest, that was

he could live quietly. "When it is long, it captures the cosmic radiations and gives me inspira- tion und creationa" Leonardo, for he says, claimed the same his eyebrows.

But Dall maintains he is not mad,

"The difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. I can distinguish

i am dreams from reality. genius,"

Berbers sum-

Four-fifths of British Guiana are covered by forest, and the roadless interior is unknown,

Another is "Daliesque,” descriptive of the nightmare world of THE late Lord

med up his paintings neatly undeveloped territory.

in a little poem It can be used, too, to describe cocon, Attemple to

Salvador Dali's early canvases. Krow

Or is Dali bananas and rubber up-country

But is that strictly fair? excessive posing. The sall have ended in failure.

Now that he has carnest quester after the basic truths? claimed to have found the true meaning of religion, the deserves to be looked at closely. character of the man

million development A

programme got off to a bad salaries offered because stort

in poor and river transport so were not enough to tract ex- perts from Overseas,

cxpensive the products are priced £4.170.000 net unide for out of world markets yeur, only £1,880,000 was spal.

of live on the coastal with plain, which varies In from four to 20 miles.

A. Ninety-five percent

The

The plain is six feet below level. Expensive sea walls maintained, and the must be land pumped continuously to Reep out the Atlantic on the me Alde and river flood waters on the other.

15

Bauxite Mines

is

It is cheaper to import goods than manufacture them on the

and the position aggravated by Д Gulanese attitude

that it is a privilege for overseas companies to invest

readily Admits

THE maly

ст large-scale

are the here. ployers up-country bauxite mines. I travelled six

the bours

Demerara River "P

tho 10 reach

largest nuine, owned by the Demerara Bruxe Сострану.

at Mackenzio Despite the remoteness of the mining

the company has arca built a modern township for its 2,000 employees, complete with shops, cinema and clubs.

The const road runs through

that permanently ramtry under water in many places. It uses are raised an loft stilts, and the humild atmosphere seems to have slowed down the to a point ॥ ୯୯ of existence where the inhabitants lose all ective enterprise.

DU

Undeveloped

same

URING a 300-mile Journey la

border the southern

itird back. 1

startling AGW examples of how time has stood Bill in Drilish Gulana.

At Victoria shown the first

100 years ago.

Sorar estates

village I was dirt road built It is sulla dirt

that provide 45

percent of the colony's revenue,

Bauxite workers are the most

Ofelaidom that things are far from lovely in the garden city of George- town and the colony of which it is capital. But Colonial omcers and their locally recruited helpers are less sure how to gu about putting them right.

Bitterness

highly paid in the country. They TF they attempt

receive non-contributory pen-

subsidised stuns and

men,

B

ACK in 1987, 12 young man arrived in London to give a public lecture

Figueras,

Born In

on On Barcelona, Londoners he win

an

that

for Horizon which included this verse:

"On the pale yellow sands there's a pair clasped

hands

of

and a high pole entangled

with string...

and a bicyclo seat

an a plate of raw meat, and a thing that is hardly

a thing."

The other great genius alive, he says, is Pienso. "He is much richer, but he is a Cominunat,"

with Dall explains

Dail logic. Both of them have been pelled from realist movement.

the offelal

Jong Secret Life of Salvador Dall." le But Dali has come a

WRS

the kind of thing to his present in- mad to ge

The publicity stunts are still keeps the censors in business. Night

Doli staged it "shocking. with us. In 1954, near Critics called

a wild jungle May 11, 100%, andialle.,,

of an elaborate "rebirth" in which And James Thurber, be hired a palace in Rome and the non of u nolary. farlasy. modern art.

humorist crawled out of a vast white 08 DESIDE painting, American The few who His father wonted him to be the great

"The Secret labelled "the antithesis I! with Dall yawned,

said parodied Lome a retury, too.

hydrogen bomb." turned up came mostly bee would rather famous, Life of James Thurber ""

be

Deli said simply. "I am 窳 cause they couldn't think of and went off to the

genius." School of Fine Arts. anything else to do.

up

Madrid

K

He has stuck to the view over since.

The same year be married Gala Eluard, ex-wife of French Communist poot Paul Elunrd.

After his London appearance

ari

of the

That of 1937, he used the same objectivity from Vermeer." What

technique

regularly-and

«X-

"gur

Dall de- signs furniture, stage scis, Ho glass, fabrics, and dresses. has worked out the scenarios and decors

pallets, of three Three

ne staged years ago, "surrealist" bullight in Spain

Does this alight, dark, rest- less man-shy, retiring mild- when he is not mannered

SOMIE stunt-hoki engaged in the clue to mankind's muddles? Can he make something of threat to humanity to which no one else has been able to find any redeeming aspect?

Only the egg didn't look like cxg. It was a perfect cube. Dali explained: "The Spanish a per- mystical egg should be They were electrified.

He didn't cite any turned The young min

feet cube." cressed in u diving suit, lending

authorities for his assertion. For him, Dall is authority enough. two Russia wolf-hounds on a TIERE, his first aim was to at-

have Inherited

my tract attention to himself. He leush. In the diving sult he had fucked a welled dagger. In perfumed his hair and let

spirituality from Leonardo, my grow a long as a girl's. one hand, he held & billard eue.

big

he's more authority doos he need? day, The

wife brought him mostly abuse. So next Faded

the publicity But despite Trafalgar one day he hung by his heels never been out of the headlines through

from the roof of his house for long.

which goes on as usual, some Square, her face hidden by a

been added to until he

drinks "Was nearly

his He mask of roses.

champagne lung now har

Maybe and maybe not. Ксере his telephone in Dali's work. tepid,

that But there is no doubt pious

are still The chaotic gures he bought decided crushed ice. Once

the But

people-his the world would be much to watch. h.maekt a car with a specially there,

pre real duller place without him. Madonna, his Christ, roof which unim- designed

sprayed gentle hm ecetinuously with a rain. Another int he spent the! night a silk-lined collin dock- ed with arwm les-"for in- art spiration."

ΟΙ

DIT:

100 much- hotulin schemes, irrigation health schemes, credit corporations for

farinets are all on the books- they stand in danger of failure because of lack of money, or both,

not attempt too They

daro little because British Guiana's

annually with problems grow the

expanding rapidly population,

Services. Last your the com- pany spent over a quarter of a million pounds on amenities for employees,

British Gulano is the world's of producer Jorgest second bouxite, and the Industry con- £5 million in tributes nearly export production annually. Grim though the present for British Guiana, the future in grimmer, A new, educated generation is growing up for whom there is no work,

In an atmosphere of bitter- ness and distrust, British Guiana

solve must

problems that povernments have ignored for 50 years.

Quality

need not be expensive

* Automatic

Waterproof

★ Sanck protected

★ Scientifically antimagnetic

Surinless steel case with

11K gold top

Price $200.

Also available:

all stainless steel model

[

I

EVER BEEN LATE BECAUSE

1

YOU FORGOT to wind your

t

watch? It can't happen when

you wear a Tissot automatic

the watch that remembers

to

wind itself. Just sel it and your wrist motions do

the work your fingers formerly

did. A Tissot Automatic ji the modern watch for moderr

men.

Price $160.

All diets are 18k gold figuran

met with

SINCE 1833

Tissot

E

Consult an authorized Omega and Tissot dealer who has just tho.

watch you noud

to give a Ullaume of pride-wearing service.

Société Suisse Pour l'Industrie Horlogère SA. Geneva, Switzerland,

Solo Agenta: OMTIS LTD.

*

OMEGA - 7/3301

310 Glowatter Building

In the next three weeks, the young man sold £3,000 worth of paintings,

Salvador Dall had arrived. The Western world has never smes been able to forget him for long.

En

were

uncon-

hm

His fellow students that he was a man But his touchers

expelled pressed. They offcially for insubordination." it was not insubor Dali suid dination, but a refusal to write the world's exam on the history of

Now, he says, he has found

Lo

unswer

LEONARD MOSLEY'S HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT

Wayward Hayward & Magnani The

T

are

*

Tigress

forlulious hurricane.

а

LABORATORY AGE

PLASMA

new

IN POONA

By PAULINE WALTON

from

A

In

Bombay. of chemicals and plastics.

animal 50ne States, power alcohol is now being mixed with motor may 8000 save fuel. thousands of lives in India.

Meanwhile, new LISCE for The world's largest pro calble oila-mustard, coconut ducer of hides and skins, and groundnut - are being only

When she hits you, India has a vast surplus of sought. Hollywood dow--and

For the first ume, too, It is an something breaks. HE two stars with the ninting hit saves ber.

"The script says fight, the animal bones which has non-edible oils are being tested. explosive moment and it is so

perfect air-drying wrinkle Oght been largely unused, and finish paint has been made at most concentrated real you feel it is actually hap screamed at me, 'so we

1 know pening. I L personality

23 performance Upon which she sprang on me.

of extracting Poona from the ways

vil of the could only have been 1 woke up in hospital feeling as

from them are kamala seed, until now not oven Susan Hayward and which

given by a girl who was it I'd been mauled by a wild plasma Anna Magnuni. I have re bundle of pent-up nerves her animal. And not to

Poons's considered worth collecting. put too being tried out in on it, cently been in contact with self.

point

I guess National Chemical Labora-

SIDE BY SIDE both of them. I am bruised Yet such is the change in had."

tory. To a certain extent Magnani's but happy from the en- Susan Hayward's life that she

can watch it calmly and

bloodthirsty behaviour in "Rose counters.

Joke about it. "Just shows what Tattoo" was her way of taking you will have Mother's Ruin can do to a gal," It out of Hollywood for tempt that the animal-bone plasik tion Service to industry.

the whispered to me.

ing ber into leaving her beloved will acon serve as an effec- 4,000 industrial queries have And she so, rather impatient Italy. She hated every moment tive substitute for human

through the barrowing of her stay in the film colony blood, of which do Hospital atus and others with only cenes that followed and wax- and didn't care who knew it. in the East has enough, in small amount of wjah to stat) (g) spite of the fact that any industry are give at one of donor can get är & Pict

15.

ND

BE

***

HI'

even

Ane

B**

Scientista

are

confident

The National

offers a Conserva- Laboratory

Over

Chemical

been

who

Vtraining

the big restaurants like the for hilor her Bibi a pint and adgice. These cottage

from

of metal parts to wean.

face greasy and you ran hard. of Holly what she thought schémo is only one of Poor ZONE PHd Honne Body mapqfadtur

she

aber

sho

"How

con ДП

Spies the government to develop side

taed, rom Harwell,· Research

this department is con fonctive tracer in fadli ob-

entirely to

the peaceful

slomio (sment." Thath partner

By this time gathered that Susan Hayward is not only a star and an actress but something of & spit-fire, too. She called me up

and ly asked me to go with her for

eu for the sequences the likes

E: her fim, private view of

best In the film-where #ho Cry Tomorrow," because she dances

arrive time HE would and for the first SHE knows I am one of her per in her career actually singa.

Brown Derby, Romanoff's EX fervid admirers a permanent

1 is a relief to see her 100k- fan in love with her tomboy

ing her beautiful proud peacock Larue's, accompanied by a body-

The animal bone plasma looks and wildcal spirit.

those drunit self after

scenes guard of Ave Italian men, and

a great femure 2) kid in Since India, Many farmers who ean- where her hair is matted, her proceed to

dany new projects. at the top of

led pendino

Nation not make a sufficient Living never have you would

She chopped the Laboratories

Bear from the land take up one with limb pince to pieces guessed, as she came in, that ly see her eyes for the pecans her volee.

by Hmb established in India. Poonge their

hilp to supple. only a few months ago she was underneath.

Opened in 1950) is the accoff thente herë Vincig, fë, 3g It was good when the lights and never used the same axo lying in a Beverly Hills hos

Under the guidance of industries are "Encouraged to turn to her and see twice,

by pital while doctors fought

to went

ent up

Italian diri |itas tuzish - Director, i bring her out of a coma and that healthy glow on her face

1. By mide with vast industrial know that bear to live in this barbarous of once more and to Bave her from in overdose

this tremendous perform ashcan?! was one of her lines. Indian with

staff works to speed schemes. chrust.

Her biggest row happened in industrinilsation, to make the laboratory has Her green eyes sparkled and ance in this powerful f.m

Paramount's make-up depart maximum use of the country's her red hair gleamed, "I want has turned the corner you to come and

share what private as well as professional ment when they tried to chcase almost 11

ali ya editorial writers call a turning life.

girdle and bra, and paint and able was products. the ample Magnani figure in regarces, and eps natural What a red-blooded star point in my career, she said.

powder her face. "Don't worry, The making of the film "TU 1st And what an actress!

Miss Magnani," said the unwary MOST URGENT Cry Tomorrow,"

dwn, radioactive resources, sort of "Lost

# #8

make-up man, "we will soon Week-end," almost cast Susan

noods to import only some Awith 4 porulation of about the mpérials used in- Hayward her life. In the middle RUT no matter what you have pretty you up."

She proceeded to pretty him 36 milon believed to be constriction of plant. of it-with private domestic been reading in the news-

up instead with a bowl of cream crossing by at troubles on her mind too--she papers lately, Misa Hayward went home and ended

handy with and a pot of powder, shouting nillion a year), India' mor surfer up by rio means as

better food unconscious in hospital. And her fists as Anna Magnand from "Keep this tripe away. What

are, you trying

urgent problem to do, murder

Her land is im-- realise Italy, seeing it with her I

Loverishe

by thousands of d | AN EXAMPLE Signorina Magnant has bon the real Magnani?" why.

She thereupon swept on to years

of intensive cultivation of Never before has a

here to star in the film version wornan

Williams play the set and salied through the the topsoll. Animal manure is had to portray 60

Over 150 scientists, men and elinically of Tennessee what it is like to be alcoholte "Rose Tattoo" and Hollywood film with nary a dab of powder used as fuel and for plastering

or spot of paint and her hut walls, so chemical fertilisers total staff strength 480, and wamen, work at Poona. The and never before. has a per- has not recovered yet,

"In Rome they call Anna the amplitude unconfined. shudderingly formance been so

a primic need

the four-storey laboratory a sa effective as Susan gives hero. Tigress of the Tiber" and it is

Chemical perfectly equipped as any in the Oh looks and sounds like a an appropriato nickname, Shepy the time "Rose Tattoo" Laboratory has successfully ex- world with a library of over

30,000 drunk. She suffore so badly want through the film colony was Bnished half of Holly-perimented with a new ferillser,

volumes, 500 palentine claw, und while trying to take a cure that with tooth and

demonstrating nicotine sulphate, made from journals, and

many Bround Paramount

waste tobacco, of which India is hundreds of text books avallabia Studios, Magnani bruises. where she was working, there are plenty of people stil rus mentioned nowadaya” says Miss ducer.

when the rame Magnants ducere le 1 now being with a 16-acre housing A

»ing at this film ist when it Ono of them, notresă Virginia & Grey, feeling her ribs, "I have mäntifnatures, commaralaity at osfato with sitractive Rats and . ND you can gutas by looks fully fingering thels: scars.

low cost, and lá being fried out bungalow for ite workers. He In Bouth India: Several State own primary school, wan: that her

own private Grey, who plays a small role immediate reder

dairy, tension reached breaking point in "Rose Tattoo has just come other people duck when they owned for iller factories will vegetable and fruit farm and co- "There"-" is a scene", "where she out of hospital. She,' is still peo÷MLAH SHAYyward "swinging vive Year Plancke), fepand" operative store, the Laboratory has just lest her mother after an recuperating from shree broken But the men who rule Holly

If the heart of an independent Anna Kave

her In hysterical row and her craving, tribe which

to a polky of probib township. wood don't They have begun fer drink has reached much the big fight scene which ends to realise that no matter how to thought not yet now fresh groin, and; ardens

throughout the country, rich with a monsoons wayward Is Hayward gar,how, Ma has either got to buy, the alm.se

smash me the personalities who create the of alcohol from yotarpium: example of the me the sort of queues and keep the box office molames, Experiments are being making

made to sue it in the pace being tackling her

It is painful to watch.

ta

་

herself a bottle, or kill hersell Said: Virgin:

-Bo she taker a room in a aky»- didn't

wood was

***

are a

The · National

duck

* be set up under

Pledged

ed to revolutionise Indian fit.

scraper-hotel, intending to up-course tigerith" is Magnant these are Izidie&distin - Vest tonnageÀ Howersinia

throw kernelk through" bila Kate? stromani, ahe falla sort of human Plazy

more