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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1956.

I'M NEVER BORED

E

SAYS

WITH ME EARTHA

ARTHA KITT, singer

of songs that are not merely risque but positively perlious, WAWA lying in bed, suffering from

and the exhaustion sequences of being £2,000 n week star.

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con-

She wore a dannel nightdress that might have come straight out of the "Pajama Game." She lookedi

rather ke lady Merton with her slit eyes anch domed forehead.

el Swamek

21 “t around were her musical director, her impresarki, her Prees agent, her in director, a music publisher and sundry other characters 1 could not kierulfy. Anyone the business Who Waz not Retually there, rang vijk there in a position of vantare at the foot of the bed!

So sporadic

EA

by THOMAS WISEMAN

"My work

I don't I move

alrt

moment. She said: k my only ronanec, have time for romance.

I much." arounst so didn't believe a word of it.

Miss Kit amended her state- As a matter of ment slightly. fact, she was a good friend of a man called Arthur Lowe, Int. And then there was Otto sotne. body or other, and John, who member of a very old American family

But just because there 1 was

happened to be multi-million- atres, I didn't mean she was a She money snub or anything. weni

ent around with pinin million- uires tuo.

The telephone (mot

diperter, a- in the musical presario. Press apont, etc; kest interrupting our conversation

ק!

I was the manst sporadic en- Couder siner I gave up inter- on the Hylog ple Viewing trapeze.

Maser Kott has been doserlast To start with, se endelly was about as cuckily is a poren- My ignoved Falt It sho the tin we got around to dis- Einstein. Pun "Alrig Machiavel and Freud she had berome quite friemily.

of

I asked what she clel to 10- lieve the dam when she was

ite theory het discusSHUS

She

172 that sakt highly stato in 1 berze if at vore of beer I live a very clean, simple life. But there's never a

relativity

duli amerpenl

with me"

I'm te botes

warld I found het aanval at Tavaluating as she did.

ST very

But it myself

She auf:

of my

snuitey am thinking of having the heart done in leopard akta. Actually live warmly.

1

vers

I haven't got any very luxurious possessions.

2 revulled that she hot bad live minka storn

"Well," she said, "if they were shule, i haven't gut then, have

And anyway, that was ant exaggeration. Che was souther

fur."

I inquired whether trze any romance

WHT

her Jite at the

to dis

men

"People have accused me of

I'm not. being a gold digger.

for gold. don't have I've got my own like

she period," added. "They have to m inteligent, but they don't have

able to Do

discuss the quantum theory with me."

**

I asked: "Is it true that you kuid that, as a singer, you bring

the beast in men?” nut

"No, I wouldn't be that pre- why i don't know sumpturus, everyone should think of me as

I'm a xien such a sexy girt thou the

x1 girl When songs they people listen to my

must read between the notes

I said: "Exactly how fatal are you?"

Femme fatale?

She wuld: "Me a femme fataje? Thuit's a joke. 1 just sing the way 1 fent. Why don't I get married? For one thing. I'm not In one place long enough.

"Besides, you've got to And a man who earns that extra dollar more than the wife, Last year It's I earned 230,000 dollars

nt ru easy to find a man who corns 230,001 dollars

"How do you come la corn so much money?”

was singing in Hollywood ing 600 dollars a week, Then the King and Queen of Greece

to bear

I sank

"I Wanna Be Evil," and "C'est si

carie

me

Bon." There WOS A

scandal.

The mayor protested that thore wer hot the sort of songs to sing to royally. My carnings shot up to 100,000 dollars a week and

the

mayor wasn't clected."

"What are your views NOX?"

On the whole, I'm la favour uf It. But I don't agree with Freud that everything has to do with sex. I mean when you look at a picture, that has nothing to do with sex? Or has it?"

I came to a conclusion about Miss Kitt, the long-playing femme fatale, whose voice breaks all the sound barriers, biting as nitric and can be as acid and as caressing as creme de menthe.

Whatever you do, don't be such a fool as to give her the Black Sea for her swimming Doel.

That, as she says in one of her songs, is monotonous.

Gilve her something by Plato instead.

EARTHA KITT-") the a very simple life

LESSON CAN

BE

ALMOST EVERYWHERE, THE SAME LEARNED FROM Reports on JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

WHAT'S RIGHT WITH

YOUTH

OF

TODAY?

(By China Mail Special Correspondent)

LL reports on juvenile they may show how much a planet

A delinquency, in

That, of course, is how it should be Any inquiry into delinquency run only, statistically. deat with į delinquents.

and sober lives.

leading

WHERE DOES ONE GO TO MAKE A FORTUNE THESE DAYS? WHERE ARE THE BIG INCOMES TO BE FOUND? NOT ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE OR COMPANY. DIRECTORSHIPS. NOT IN BUSINESS. BUT — IN THE LAW. WHEN YOU HAVE PAID A BILL FOR LEGAL CHARGES, ASKS THE AUTHOR, HAVE YOU NEVER PONDERED.....

IS LIFE TOO LUSH FOR

THE LAWYERS?

London.

is said that Socialist

ex - Attorney-General By Douglas

Sir Frank Boskice has

his eye on the safe Socialist seat vacated by Earl Attlee at Walthamstow West.

But if he gats it, you may be sure he will go back to West

minster regret.

sensc of

with Reme

For his retum to parliamen- tary life is bound to interfere the Bar with his practice at and to Sir Frank that will mean a heavy financial sacrifice,

For where do you go to make your fortune these di are the big incomes to

Where

found?

Net on the Stock Exchange or

in

enyany directorships. Not o busines

In the LAW.

Lord

Clark

the lofty

and

What mumbo-jumbo that

worse! For solicitors, of course, have their special pets at

the Bar.

Who lays down the rule that n barrister may not "act in con- tenticus matters" unless he has first been lastructed by a soli- sitor?

The Bar Council, which standa In much the same relation to the Law Society barristers as to solicitors. Sir Hartley Show- cross is its chairman.

liberties depend. But role which lawyers play in our society should not be held to exempt them from criticism.

The fact is that, on investiga- tion, the legal profession reveals a startling picture of log-rolling, favouritism,

price-fixing manceuvre, intrigue and restrle-

Take first the barrister's so fets,, fo

tive practices,

called poor relation, the solicitor.

AT

His cut

the last count there were over 16,500 registered solicitors in England and Wales.

them harvest Plenty of £20,000 a

-

Chandos, boss of As- sociated Electrical, gets emolu- ments worth about year

--and be la reckoned one

biggest tycoons chaste of the

dustry. But what Lord Chandos gathers in is axlest compared streams That is a point which should with the cash which

our best the pockets of be made. For too long, pictures condemnatory

the present paid barristers. generation have been presented. the It is time, in justice to children of today, that people

the

in the true figures

into

And the authority of the Bar Counca s battressed by the dis ciplinary powers of the Boch cra of the Four Inns of Cou Among them the Council and the Benchers lay down minimum

refuse barristers the right to advertise, and have power to in their discipline

members courts private

against which there is no right of appeal.

But the sort of misconduct

tako they

disciplinary action against is not always the sort that you

I would regard as most deserving of punishment, padding feet of

Fur though you can take legal action against a surgeon solleitor dog the ordinary citizen everywhere. When you rent a negligence, there is no legal - everyw flat or take out a mortgage, the

drcis at all against a barrister cut. solitor collects his fixed

whose client considers he has When you buy house, he picks been incompetently represented up his fixed percentage; indeed, in a court of law.

figure incomes.

The

ave

the

if he is acting for the vendor

us

weli,

for

Tackle it he may get paid by both parties.

And every time you visit or

THAT may even telephone your solicitor barrister. He gets his fee ge-

you pay a fixed charge.

What J about all this?

noout

be fine for tho

doing

ever country, focus public they also show how much attention on the number of the people of that nation

who get info can be thankful for. children trouble.

Their fees Take as an example a re- port recently published in

CONSIDER the bank balunces England and Wales and read

cf the Icading Q.Csof dealing with delinquency in light.

whom, In some cases, you may

gardless and full protection those two countries (not in Not for one moment can any- never even have heard.

Who does the fixing? Who from reprisals. But there is not Scolland, which produces body minimise the gravity of

Sir HARTLEY SHAWCROSS registers solicitors, governs their much Joy in it for the ordinary which such reports can count on A princely pay discipline, and strikes them off citizen.

And no 10 vent.

packet. I should be surprised if the roll if they stray from the separate reports and where the trends the ratio of delinquents is often seem

less than rules? he were pulling in less than

one can dissent in the slightest in her neigh- dogrce when these reports tn.£40,000 a year. bours).

SHELLEY and Mr EDWIN sist that everything which can be done must be done to save Sir LIONEL HEALD, who both From the report affecting young people

mart specialise in patent cases, are from the England and Wales, a grim perils and temptations which reckoned to get £25,000 a year. Folletters who have a vested would be appalled by the dead

Mr them these

GAHAN, who FRANK

free enter... interest

it places on and grave picture is certain-

In preventing price han Privy concentrates on

Counel!

its ly drawn of various ten days.

Council undercutting among thel: mon- prise; the Liberals deploring cases, is in the same

bers. Its whole authority is price-rings and private courts: dencies in particular age

bracket. The late Mr FRED- thrown against the principle of the Socialists horrified by the groups of young persons,

ERICK GRANT was reported free competition. It deadens en handle it gives to privilege and to have £40,000 due to him in terprise and stifles Initiative.

fees when

when he moved from the Bur to the Steel Board

Tax law

Sir experts like MILLARD TUCKER and Mr

But it is too easily for gotten that figures showing the number of bad boys and girls also show the number ones: that while of good

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But it would be quite wrong for worried English- men and Welshmen to draw the conclusion that their young people were immoral, unstable, drunken thieves given to bouts of violence.

Sober Lives

so

often threaten

Personal Example

Nothing better can be done the than personal exemple in home, or in omice or factory or farm for that maiter-personal example by the older genera- tion. For remember, the fall-in ing of young people can in no small measure be regarded the outcome of their failure lo Instruel, guide and inspire.

seniors'

For

know

The Law Scalety.

Parilament

You might imagine that every Are the public represented party would be shouting for the on this body? Not at all. The reform of the legal profession.

Tories, you might Law Society itself consists of

Restricted

The

band

AL

ncpotism.

think,

But there is no whisper from

any of them.

Why? Hero is

Liberals

#

possible

Barristers Solicitors

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to the plusher reason.

nrc brethren. There

about MILNER HOLLAND may well Now back

The total number of barristers esalect £35,000 or more oplece 2,000 practising barristers, Con- and solicitors in the Commons is

briskly tigious year.

sider the restricted class from 108. They are distributed among theirs is form of which most of them spring. the parties are follows:- specialisation which brings the There is

cf less equality rewards most succulent

of ail.

opportunity than in most other Torics So, Mr and Mrs Smith, If professions for those who seek Socialists

a career at the Bar, you want your boy to rise to riches these days, you

For the Bur you need money The Law la by for the most Evidence to the contrary

what to do. Stake him to a from the start. You must pay heavily represented profession is given in this very report

wig and gown and slap him in around £100 to join. You may in the House of Commons.

For that have to find up to £250 a year

very for his Bar examinations, -as it undoubtedly is in re-

Let us look more closely nt for your chambers. You must politicians should make sure not ports concerned with other has been beset, can be carried this privileged

profession. How have the cash to keep yourself to give the impression that countries. Consider one on without blackening thehus it managed to make itself for several years while you are they lack enthusiasm for tack-

ling its abuses. figure affecting the English youth of today,

tip

Next, within this and Welsh-of every ten Tho fact that To many-the thousand males aged 17 to overwhelming

The great work that must be

to done protect young folk from the

that beset dangers them, bo no other generation

the

the cong group etablishing your parcle,

Course,

can

in

Well, of

it 15 AR ECO how favouritism majority-have essential profession. It under-

operate, writes our freedom; for without

Does

a Igmt pick his own freely? The conven- lawyers to safeguard and Inter- counsel pret it, there could be no Rule tion is that he leaves the choice of Law--on which British to his soliciter.

20 in England and Wales the character that preserves during 1964, one hundred them from these dangers should and ninety-one were con- be the inspiration of the care victed of breaking, entering, that must be given to the others.

or larceny.

Sufficient

there? of

ta worry ubout course. But note

that the figures :lso mean that ten thousand malca

reason our

The right way to title those abuses is obvious, The three parties ought to have no diff- culty in agreeing upon it.

The case of the legal profes- sion should be referred promptly to the Monopolles Commission.

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on mentary of the match to Moscow The Soviet leaders at Genēva

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In 1955 paid Up service only to Almilar Ngares

the need for incressed contacts On August 8, 1955, a Swedish be allowed to do so only if they world, gleaning even from the pass almost unnoticed. How

between the Communist States correspondent wrote to the Lon- promised not to jam the com- worst alatistics the encouraginginany realise, for example, and the free worldl. In fact

don Times complaining of the mentary given by the BBC in its information that the vast that night and day more

"Internal racket" which, he said, Russian Service. Although they Roamlane the

and thel satellites continue to maiority of young people in the than 1,000 "pirate" trans-

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went on day and night on every were very anxious to make their shortwave band and blotted out broadcast, the Russians refused civilised countries оп this

mitters in the Soviet Union in eperation more than 1,000

numerous programmes, "Includ- to agree to this surely harmless "pirate" transmitters merely satellites emit a

ing some and the

BBC services in request, and broadcasting faci- Western broadcasts English." to "lam"

lities were consequently with- meaningless cacophony of to the Iron Curtain countries,

Soviet officials the

attempt to held from them, sound merely.

As Laidlaw points out, lo "jam"

Communist leaders,

while justify Jamming on the grounds Western broadcasts to the Cor

that Western broadcasts contain for "glamouring

increased Iron Curtain countries?

"hostile propaganda.” This orgu- obstinately 001-

An extraordinary feature of ment does

not

bear close examination, as all broadcasts the case was the righteous in- are jammed

dignation with which the Rus-- indiscriminately, Even messages broadcast by alans greeted the British ban Soviet delegations vilting the The chief Russian commentator. Mr V. Synajevaky, claimed in West have been affected. For example, a statement made by outraged Innocence: "I cannot leaders of the Boylet Argricul understand why we could not tural Delegations, for the BBC have a line." Russian Service was subject to the usual full-scale jamming.

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by OSBERT LANCASTER

NEW NBOW

"Darling, do turn over-I can hardly wait_to_sen if there's a cheerful little place about coronary, thrombosis on page 4.”

On this vexed question of "Jamming", the Soviet leaders have surpassed themselves in hypocrisy. While clamouring for increased contacts between East and West, they obstinately con- tinue to sabotage the greatest means of contact of all,

At the Geneva conference In

:

contacts... tinue to sabotage the greatest means of contact at gu”.

By DAVID

LAIDLAW

Pravda, reporting the ban, stated that it accords with the speeches of certain Western statesmen on the need to develop

The paper. omitted.

A sermon preached in London contacts."

November 1953, the Western Liberation, as well as transmis- Powers protested strongly sons from Paris, Rome, the against the systematic Jamming Vatican, Luxembourg, Madrid, of broadcasts of news and in- Athens, Tel-Aviv and Swaleville by the Metropolitan Pitirim of to state that the ban had been formation", and suggested that Radio (Canada).

Minsk and Brelo-Russla met imposed because of the Soviet they and the Soviet Union should

the same date. Even more extra- refusal not to jam the British consider the desirability of Jamming mutilates not only ordinary was the jamming of broadcast,

Had Pravda explained this, it oxchanging monthly uncensored broadcasts to the Soviet Union the message, recorded by Mar- broadcasts on world develop and the satellites but also those shal Bulganin and Mr Krushchev might have added, with equat Soviet to neighbouring countries. Thus, at Geneva in July: 1955, when it Jualification, that the ments.

BBC

broadcasts in Finnish, was later broadcast by the BBC attitude accorded ill with Mr. Far from accepting this DTU-

and and the Voice of America, Molotov a declaration at Geneva posal, the Russians have por- Hebrow, Persian, Turkish

The Inflexibility of the the German are jammed, Logother sirted in and extended

that the Soviet Union - "stands Tel-Aviv broadcars in atitude was lotsent at the tests between the Zoet, and the

Balearly pernicious practice which they with

aten led by ant 1946. Started in

Today the Hebrew and Viddish broadcasts affected include those Interference with broadcasts Sunderland ya Moscow Dynamo West, and his clain that of the BBC, Voice of America, between friendly countries is in- football matches November, "does), kta urtmont antal promote Radio Fros Europe and “Radio: evitable, since Jamming signals Boviet officials: qriced for pre“ tiem

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