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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956,||

The Honeymooners

nearly 20 years after

Velden (Austria), Aug. 26 stopped for lunch at a country

TINY Austrian lake- pub where they met a conch-

sido village that took

load of London tourists.

They had Junch nlongside

two honeymooners in them. Its heart almost 20 ago saw them again today, around their big bis just to see

And the Duke slipped years away and made a quiet four

how they hnd traveled

People said: "They look At the Schloss (Their hary- happler than ever."

race hott•]} they moved in

The

by Sydney Smith

4*|] honey through the ehrering crowds in rink #cop nd ten (Ceylon, mooners: The Duke and from the Duke's own buggage Duchess of Windsor, who The Duchess told me This In the year of erisia and is not a honeyinton Pevk ed

controversy. 1937. their honeymoon refuge the

Castle 'isolated Wuserleonberg.

we didiet plan if he that,

Bust

a has wonderfully happy amo

in tations for us," and she waved

of her fanals towards the lake ini

The mountai

Velden am - Worthersee was then the 2,200-popula-

AND IN 1956

tion lakeside village of the castle, where the Duchess came to do her shopping

+

Sald the Duke France, where we lee, we hart

weicut Widmesi

-the warnest welcome.

Yes, I suppose it

Austrin-t 'n Europe

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1 tenuse of the meiations of

honeymoo

tl

Hul it wa

like this too in Viennit is like this everywhere in Ausketa This morning, me hour te fore they

one Ba

Ripet

befor

-front that evry The

Hanevinton 874

packed with people walling to

JIÐSK

Before They set the Schters

Hotel they neveryOJE

delegations Ni

matter

84-43334

Wio

whole

oftelit,

Jechnically

They were, as the Duke lold meld servants from before the wor whn had paid there wily from all over Austria la come at say Hello to LIS

..

way us

mads.

Velden iu that Vetr

There was one uld man who already hat is record holiday

has come from we for attendiner

12.000

Lanz

Thre visitors. Hul in the year drivers, and gardeners

the

honey- famous after

them was the girl Анины

honeymoon tr noon the figures doubled to who, on the

hard Havelled up the mountain- Tart

week for side thre Tour

ཝཱདྡཝཾ༤; She is Emmy she

20 spant

moro

than 24,000,

year it topped 50,000.

mes a

Justifies

tor

That honeymoon puuk Inchess's hair

Velden what it is self today- "The Austrin,"

Riviera

Muller,

ones with them this ring,

Now Emmy Muller, as well not E thes uwner of the Schloss Hotel, Madame Dr Elsa Bohm, both have a right to say how they rexend the pr

DORIA SHAFIK

not.

THE WINDSORS AT VELDEN. IN 1937

The

doesn't

Woman

There's Trouble In Paradise

M

By HENRY THODY

the

Rome. "There's nothing drearier nii heavy naval jacket off, Ho

sitting in his shirt, ILLIONS of theatre- than trying to be funny if was

throughout you're not," said Ava, ideal- snow-white material contrasting goers

sun-tanned beefcake with his the world thought ly dressed for the Roman torso.

in "The Little Hut" heat-wave black lace the funniest, and the panties and bra, specially Every Granger seene is being sauciest, play they had ever made by Dior for a trifling given priortly--in a race against the stork. Wife Jean Siminons fe expecting her first baby soon,

WA

acen,

£65,

But Misy Ava Gardner, "It's my first comedy-

version and my last, Drag

star of the screen

me

BEAT-THE-CENSOR

now being shot in Rome's through the streets, by my film city as the wife who hair, as they did in my last "Doctors Eay that the first is shared on a desert isle film, all right. But no more baby is usually late, rather than by her husband (played by comedy. It takes too much city," Granger told me, looking Stewart Granger) and her out of me. At the end of anything but convinced, "I have

David the day trying to be funny Super Constellation lover

(played by Niven) on a sort of roin I'm exhausted. basis is not amused.

"The Little Hat' may be a riot to watch

or read

Woman Who

Defies Nasser

to

By ANNE SHARPLEY

-

but not to act in, thank you."

DOUBLED UP

my ugers crossed

: tork,"

I hope the beats the

"How on earth is "The Little going to get by the Hut (ensor?" I asked co-producer and script-writer F. Hugh Hor- bert, remembering the blister- situations of the Andro ing Houssin-Naney Mitford original.

"When I saw The Little Huf In London in 1951 I was highly From across the huge set amused." he answered, "but ar

to contem-

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I heard rours of laughter, a potential movie it seemed too David Niven with an "How unpalatable even

plate. But I saw it as book challenge to my ingenuity. to say it in Italian" was trying to translate "I've got ants in my pants," The Italian #tage-hands were doubled who have laughter.

up with

"For months 1 thought about up with 4 then 1 came

of ghmicks

knew couple would beat the censors. i then There's bought the flim rights. my gimmick Number One."

He pointed to a ferce-looking Alsatian dog.

"I introduced Nelson into the

the lover. hated

"Gimmick Number Two in a

troo the original

A flash and be left with Alms and haven't seen more script as a chaperone for Ava. children to support and no than eight of them," he told is the husband's dog and he Every time means of appeal and no me. "To me film-making is David tries to get near Ava the the office, dog keeps him at bay. In tho means of employment either. like going to

Or the can undergo the in-When I come home I forget sex, but not much done about in there's a lot of talk about having her tense humiliation of

and bring another younger all about movies and live at woman into the house ду

his normal life. second wife, or even find herself

"I never read what they twist ons gest trend BLA he relegated into slavery brings a third or fourth wife. write about me. I have kept confesses he has been the wife's Her magazine

only one press clipping in 20 lover for years, and suggests they

the share

wife оп their After years in the game.

They shipwreck ale the way a preview of my first big share the one pair of shoes the wreck, picture an American news which survived paper wrote: 'Mr Goldwyn's hubby reacla differently in the new discovery, David Niven, Bereen version. A year later she began an-is tall, dark and anything other more popular magazine called Daughters of the Nile, on but

In

1946. holds

Mudame

Shank,

doclorate

she Peron model, a woman ke million women

stands in nothing. conie forward Doria Shaff

woman is Mr Niven was obviously The Egyptian stark relief for p.rsonal and support

under-privileged not suffering like Ava. the most

To ideals and liberty. the regime

She him comedy comes natural- "We, the intelligentsia of woman in the world. if it is good? Egypt, supported the

"I've made about can be divorced in literallyly.

70 She is a volution at first because we uh- knew that Farouk hud to fraki for her go," she said. "but now I seif but know it is dangerous

we are losing our liberty. afraid for her country.

"They know what I think.

Caire

"1 am the only woman in It is nothing new to them. They told me they wanted refuses who be Egypt SHOULD

me to hewi a popular de

of telling this story if the recognise Colonel Nasser, 1

40,000 to woman it is about had refuse

recognise him monstration

women and go to Colonel because I love my freedom," insisted I tell it,

Nasser and thank him for she told me.

the revolution. 1 anid: “How Remember Dorin Shafik,

can you know there will be the Mrs Pankhurst

40,000 women if it is Turdreser Einy says: "m Egypt? She is the woman

spontaneous demonstration? says the Duchess Hoked | who led an assault of one Scho- Hates! by booking the older than

Duke,

Thousand lake the Velden holiday makes

The to oppose him 1 May No, 1 A great failure Today at as the other way round, (The final toutes

and am the only one who is not

in 1 guthervil

"They knew She looks much younger than Egyptian Jigures show that 32 papet of

Tut They both look tragip d the members inside afraid to say i oppost him." there could make it one

"I have the husband deciding them were British How they

than they did for three and a half hours; I cannot tell you what

million women, but I would

that ruch a confession calls for that the Duke ans had heard

the

Who woman

fed 14 courageous thing this is to not go and the demonstru

Hugh a divorce, which as captain of 1/4 Schloss

other women When they clane.

on an eight- say in Egypt today. This is tion was a great failure. women in Egypt can read and Herbert and Mark Robson a ship, he is entitled to grant

strike here on their honeymoon theyday hunger

for an Egypt where there is a Rich, educated at the Sor- write knew how our women were not looking too friend. So we avoid any adultery,"

There were no laws ly towards Mr Niven. Нія were much younger, of course. | emancipation and won her dangerous and developing bonne, with a husband who suffered

protecting women." vales for women

Egypt's within dictatorship where I myself is

outstanding

Madame Shak's latest practical joke had Granger is the judge at his own So began

divorce proceedings is likely to hours of what was certain have been threatened with lawyer, and

little great fight. two

Mobs attacked the almost given them.

be one of the comedy situations As I say, I was The Honey-death by starvation,

being beaten up. In an daughters, Madame Shafik lecture room where she spoke. failure.

of the year. Ava accuses him Stie and her 14 friends went on Volder p

of mental cruelty because as a She is the one person Egypt which is passing is typical of the Egyptian hunger strike because the new my Vekden's relumn is that

business tycoon he brought his to A slick in Egypt is rapidly

20th woman who has everything revolution conslitation did not|PLASTIC ISLE

office correspondence

bed to the Honymermers | every woman

wondering about. Why century dietatorship on the in the midst of some 10 give women the right to vote or

with him and did not notice the colour of her new nightjet

Today the honeymooners, were back, for 17 ben

was ihr way from Vienna to Veter

Outpu they 150 century

Duchess of

Wind-on

is anyone's guinz posed to be stend

Then

from Vienna

were It was up

fliti

umah younger

Them

Bohm. 11 Buel

2013 y

to drine

The voy

buf

They looked

eavy-golog couple

as

i Very hitjapa

They waved to everyone. la Austrian und Gem amilienparines and

their wives and chikdien

The

Along the round

Duke

T

and

they were atch NT Poday they are so relaxed; and, we think, so much happier.

that gave

LITO020

from Vientia

It has RENTY Durbess hard happiness,

Women 021

Parliament

of The only one

"When my friends tell me that I am the only one

The man from Jamaica

finds business is brisk

TWO summers ago Roy Lande, a 29-year-old West Indian, bustled into Britain with his eye fixed on success. His equip- ment: a ten-shilling note, a set of de-kinking combs and

ten-year

for plan

4.

prosperity.

With eight years still in hand, the Lando Plan ap- pears to be proceeding at a fast clip. Inside his Lad- broke Grove hairdressing shop-where queues start forming at 6 am, on Satur- days-this son of Jamaica's Minister of Trade told me:

great opportunities

"T

here. By 1905 I intend to have

HE WENT TO LONDON WITH 10 SHILLINGS NOW HE HAS 400 CUSTOMERS

by Kenneth Allsop

and AFTER

built up a business which will

By May last year he had 400 give me financial independence customers, mostly coloured.

sottled n Brilain since 1951. His

many West

Indians have made for them- selves in Britain in these past few years.

But

'' is not the complete pic-

Lure,

J can

you of DA important

high-octane enterprise is not tcit commonplace. But the number who have successfully bulli businesses of their

up change that is own and

now taking

ILS

Mr Lando's de-kinking process - BEFORE...

steadily worked themselves into shape. responsible posta reveals

A year ago an immigrant was ridiculous the notion-stili cur- found a job within two weeks of rent that this is a shiftless and arrival (although not always the skilless population.

job he wanted). Now, in Lon- don, and especially in the Mid- in London, where 25,000 West lands because of the motor in- Indians have settled. a con- dustry's contraction, employment siderable proportion have been is more elusive. absorbed, peacefully and

And that has brought about o smoothly, into British Railways, London Transport,

Post dramatic dispersal in coloured the

Two Omee, the LCC

communities. and other big bodies. None, quito properly, West Indians were mostly con-

in London to separate keeps

coloured Anod tally, for they do the Stepney and Paddington.

He worker ck 10 do it on my own, borrowed £200 and opened new same jobs at the same rates as without help from my father. premises, gally decorated and the whites. Then, perhaps, I shall be able gadgetted, in Ladbroke Grove.

to full my Belong ambition to Soon he was giving 70 hair-dos become a doctor."

On the day I met Roy Lando,

I also talked with Baldwin

a week.

But Lando was not content. Browne, a 43-year-old King- This is how Lando has spent

thriving his first 24 months of business. The beauty techniques of Rome stumian who has two

a and Paris should be studied, he bespoke tailor's shops in Shep- building First he got in

Notting *factory.

To save money he used decided, and there he took him- herd's Bush Road and the

cheapest

10 cafes and did bol--and then New York, Hill Gate and wh intends to Little more than nibble,

where by scraping and eating have more branchen. And that He had done some hairdressing skimpily, he spent four months afternoon, in Camberwell I call- Back to ed on Adolph Saunders, a £10 Fand wtih his frat £5 capital ho as a student again.

Ind

cards printed

Fleet Street linotype offering Britain with diplomat do a week

British Gulana. private appointments. He tramp-ul cube and a new Idol, operator from

day through In London his coloured women Bolh family

Mrs men, Lonion's streets pushing them clients. complained that they Saunders, an ex-school teacher, through letter, bones.

'could not buy particle and was in Dulwich Hospital having rated basement in powder bark enough for their her third London-born child Kilburn for. 95a, a week and. complexions, Lando, ho declared, while her husband looked after with the combs he had brought would remedy. That,

Andre (throo)

Norman

મ

Rover, and a 20 dryer, oponed So he be now launching into (one).

whop. He learned permanent cosmetics manafacture, wavlogo 00 guinne course paid

Lando is just one of the

>Thano. im (the-1000, picture of 64,000 West Incilane, who have the prosperous simble. Ildo that.

year's

ago

Brixion,

Now

they are diluting ou. into other boroughs.

11

who philosophy from the Sorbonne, started Ser first magazine called

The New Woman.

WILS

twu

handsome.' I had it COMIC HIGHLIGHT pages of which-true to framed and it hangs in the woman's magazine tradition lavatory!" were readers problems. remember

"From

Those ketersantt

only a fraction

of

be members of Parliament.

Co-producers F.

heart

The Dancing Major, Sajah The script called for

them through the windows of

Salem threatened to throw Niven tu fall

from a tali

the office where they held food-coconut palm.

All he was jess court,

Eupposed to do

The divorce

scer in which

By this Ume Miss Gardner.

was back again on the set in o new coume, although her was yell wardrobe is the most austere

"But," said Madame Shafik, from the top of a tree in a In her film career. Apart from "I could not think of anything pretended fall. But he the 205 undies, he has a couple

but the women of Egypt. Per.

haps

Italian elec-of gese skirts and one it was the effect of arranged with

evening dress. hunger, but I felt superhuman triclans to balance a log on and I got what I wanted in high ladder and send it part the votes for women, but

not the right for women to sit crashing to the floor as he

shouted.

in Parliament."

Although Madame Shafik was implacably against his regime, The joke almost gave Nasser needed her tremendous the producers heart attacks. following and finally offered her

But They thought for a moment

a scat in the Parliament.

the knew she could not accept. their highly-paid star had The regime was against all her really fallen. principles of Uberly and dmo- стасу.

'must help'

Dior

The Dior creation, a *£300

pink satin and white sequined

lace evening gown, is treated as a Dlor dress has never been before.

Ava blanched, as would any clothes-conscious woman, as

аг

wardrobe hand came along and slashed the gown with a pair of scissor to give it that fook, of desert island wear-and-tear.

"People say I am a traitor. but I want our country to be great, it would be very easy to be nice and be made the first woman Minister, but something In my heart means more than 15 just popularity.

"Even if I lose everything I studios For the familles affected this must help the Arab world to because there was not enough is meaning more uprooting, more understand WO must have studio space avaliable in Britain, adjustments

after

that major courage and morailty and dig-Tropical plants were gathered a dozen countries, and severance from their homeland.nily and truth. But in the long run it may be It is impossible to disbelieve there is one man whose sole job is to dust the leaves twice good-for it is helping break up her eincerity.

Doria Shafik is the ghetto-tendency, the Brixton

adaily. sot like "Little Harlem" situation, which thorn in Nasser's side but he left big blocs of West Indians thinks that the women of Egypt unintegrated and virtually iso- will not let him touch her, most apprehensive star, Stewart in her new Spanish haciende. ·

despite his lated.

attempts to smear | Granger, her name. In the Arab Press.

The im's desert island is a masterpiece of British studio WANT A DOG? know-how, The film-makers scoured the world for en ideal desert Isle-Anally deciding that As I was about to leave the the production manager nature could be improved upon, ret"

said to me: "Want a dog? The Isle, Ava-Ava the crew We'll give you Nelson after the

Wo can't take him. coll it, was built in Italian shooting.

by British fechnicians back to Britain. Quarantine regulations, You live in Rome

give him a good home,"

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

1 SAID-- SAW A MAN SHOOT OUT OF THE CHIMNEY OF THE JONEEES'HOUSE)

HMM** THAT'S WHAT

I THOUGHT YOU BAIDU

TAKE HIM TO MAC IN THE *55" DEPARTMENT THIS ONE'S A BEAUT,

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OKAY.

SARGE

BUT I'M TELLINO YOU--HE WENT

UP LIKE A CANNON BALL

SURE-SURE

- YOU TEL MAC INSIDE ALL ABOUT

IT.

trom

I found "The Little Hut's

sitting

melancholic. among ortificial tropical orchids,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

3. DEPT-BILLY STUFF. DEPT./

SIT DOWN,

MR. CRAB. GIVE ME A FULL REPORT. IS THIS ABOUT THE LITTLE. GREEN MEN ON MAIN STREET?

I looked at Nelson, who, hod been baring his teeth at me as gave Ava a warm, apprecia-. tive look her scissor-Alastrod, plung-neck gown, and decided Naison might be more useful to Mios Gardner, now: living alone

IT 13 NOT!

| SAW--

TALK

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