1956-09-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MATI“ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1956

MUST SHE HAVE THAT OPERATION?

By Cedric Carne

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IKE thousands of other mothera und fathers, Mr and Mrs

Lawrence had this problem: Should

have Jane tonsils removed?

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"You see, we've been to two doctors already," sald Mrs Lawrence. "Une said Jane would be better with- out her tonsils. The other Bald the opposite. If doctors can't make up their minds how can we?”*

Tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly per- formed operations. And many doctors are asking like Mrs Lawrence: "Is it really necessary ?”

Of young men going into the Army nowadays, 35 percent go in minus their tonsils most of them having had the operation between the ages of four and eight.

"Jane is seven," Mrs Lawrence said.

"One point to remember." I ani. is that there is a general normal increase in the size of the tonsils be tween the fourth and eighth years. And since that is the time when most children have

them removed the logical conclusion is that for many of them the operation was unnecessary."

Mir when I continued:

MIRROR SAYS

WE WONT NO WAR

CRISIS TO U.N.O."

SHOOT

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- SAYS ÇAITSKELL

OUT OF

THAMES *

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TOWER BRIDGE

AMERE RIVER!

OPERATE

WHEN HIS NEXT GREAT COUP ARRIVES

NO WAR

FOR

SHAREHOLDER

An Astonishing Experience In Ancient Verona

PROFITS!!

SAYS

T.4.C.

OPERA UNDER THE STARS

O

N the shores of Lake H

Garda, in Italy By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP The dirty work by the villainous

are

500 the

to

Varona, but why bother about anything so mundone as that?

Scarpla (now D what mattered.

corpse) was

R1 writing these lines. In some ways

And it was at this point that the setting is like Muskoka,

I repeat that it Int an would make a Cup in the world. the! lakes

Signor Carelli, the tumor, decided although

have been obvious Fin sem Uke a Quaker's on- must

to stepd the decision from the everyone wxcept the Lesar,

vanished Signor Gobbi, the larger. On the hills are ference.

Franco Corelli, who had ideas of champion baritone of the world. ancient villas of stone and

As nine o'tluck drew pear his own on the subject. marble with gurdens that for that was zoo hour for the

When Corelli spered to-6 B Franco Corelli must have a he just refused

to come dowa, the sun, and performance the Lawrence whistled slumber in

people were

that would with- What he was using for breath I "Since Cyprus trees that whisper shouting, in fact almost scream- diaphragm

do not know. There were th. beginning of the to each other of the daya ng with excitement. The lights stand the blow of an iron bar.

shume on the

he soars to B flat his percams and shouts of delicat nrrow When Long National Health Service when the Caesars used to orchestra

pit, with its one diaphragm holds it like the base from the crowd, with bows from something like 200.000

come there for respite from hundred and fifty players. Dimly of a marble pedestal. His throat the tenor, and then a deathly seen gathering children are being admitted the heat of Rome. The we could

vast stage, is wide open and is as exlaxed busts as he was which of the hills wh showed to our hospitals each year | silvery

a strest in Rome, as if it had nothing to do with breath for another fight to the grey

Intertor the

the the a palace

bone that

passing stratosphere, to have their tonsils ont." Blends with the turquoise doors of cathedral and the side through it on its way to the

blue of the waters. London streets leading to the spot. JUST WORRIED

of miles was not480 much ag Bravo, Bunyol", shouted the seems thousands

Rome itself with the front wails Krowd-and Done thou- away and America

removed, if you know what sense about To appimise until sands of years.

the

the act. If Corell! hit a high note of exceptional power, they chered him as if he had scored the winning goal, It did not even need to be the end of an aria or even a phrase. Sometimes it would be a wwe in mere musical dialogue that would bring the cheers of the faithful.

That should cost the country a couple of million pounds. nt least." he said.

nboul

Mrs Lawrence was me think- ing of percentages and figures. She

Just worried Jane's recurring More throats. But most children, subject 10 tonsillar

to Kurt infections,

and spontaneously

get better

naturally-inithout Burgical Interference--when they reach Jane's apr.

“Tm not thinking of when she's 13 or older." Mrs Lawrence replied. "These деге throats keep Jane in bed and away from

If she bas

the school now. operation perhaps she'll catch up with her studies."

AIR

AL thi mement. from the the balcony of our hotel, there

is a babel of French, Italian ond even German--but

no English. The poor English are not hest, They were on the winning side of the war and are still paying

for it.

still there, but it is in "No Entrance" street, and we had to give it a miss.

mcan

of

It stars.

There was met e mir to be seen.

for the vy good reason that there were nons in

This was Illy, the nutre of bel canto, where singig 14 as aturat re speaking repression is unknown.

und

WON

of your

Dag surface it was not un like the excitement used by the, weeping crooner Johnnte Ray bil underneath there was a world of difference. This vast crowd know every note of "To"""

superb

and understood the control of the singer, who was flooding the very sides with the radiance of his voice.

the next

So the periezmance came to Yet the crowd could change an end, and we drove the thirty to Lake Garda, but Two nights ago we motored to

its mood as swiftly as the com cdd miles Verna, that ancient city where

But how would the inductur poser could after his theme. For not before the stadium director (according to Shakespearv) there

had invited us to be his guzats got silence from the shouting example, there was a passage were Two Gentlemen « con-

night when throng? Prestol It came like the where the soprano was singing siderable liveliness. Also it was stuffing out of a candio.

upcodous The so solly that it was difficult to

production of "La Gloconda" in Verona that the star-crossed

onda" would be performed. lovers, Romeo and Juliet, played moment that the lights flashed hear her. Whereupca a parent Take time we

would not have the signal Der since and the ory voice from the crowd shout- out their pitiful tragedy which

This caused both Signor Corelli. Not Not For "La raised his baton for ed: "Ferte!" the conductor

there would to no Wie enshrined for ever the

La Gioconda" thace

cruel opening chords of approval and disapproval, and a magic language of the Bart. In Puccini's masterpiece, the ect dispute broke out as to whether as a sur than Signor Gulseppe fact, Romeo's dwelling place s nurse was as silent es an empty she was doing it the right way di Stefano, Italy's primo tenore or the wrong. Whereupon these assoluto (or so it sounded to me) cathedral,

Admittedly tho orchestra, who wanted to hear the singer who is without challenge in the despite its augmented numbers, instead of the argument shouted world, could not give us the full depth noisily for silente. Fortunately So next night we returned to a concert hall or an opere the soprano at that moment the same setting except that the soured to a tremendous high note crowd was larger by probably a house. It sounded in far, like a

record and was cheered, by everyone. Verona, in fact, has a quite superb gramophone

couple of thousted. many extraordinary fascination, for it multiplied

times, tonsils removed than in these blends yesterday and today into lacking the tonal depth of the who'd said "Boo" to the suregon

There is, for real thing. Then what would and kept their tonsils.

the great

by ancient roof, but the star spangled-sky the last act opened, and on the the presence in our RAN ODG

open air happen to the singers with no stadium. warded "Are you suggesting that the crumbling

walls, where on and with the adjacent square of operation should never be per- festive occasions Christians were Verona

offering avenues of milled?" Mr Lawrence asked.

thrown to the lions for the escape to the tome? edification and entertainment of the emperors and the people.

Yut the answer to that ogain to be found in the day.

voice of desiccated

statistics.

or One survey has shown that zome 14,000 boys and girls the incidence of bronchitis, culda, and

throats was sore

anore Common in those who had their

"Of course not," I said. "Sometimes. the operation to necessary and the chlid is 100 percent better for "

HOME NEXT DAY

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S unison.

of

And it was from this stadium.

Yet herp was the poradox that I received an invitation to bring myself and my party to an which soon made itself evident. open air performance of Puccini's Even the tenor had possessed "La Tosca.

I have seen much the loudest voice of all time he In my life but rarely anything could not have split our ears la that vast open space, yet the mone astonishing than the scone

eyes on that sheer quality of the voice actual unvelled to our Mr

night.

ly seemed enhanced.

It seemed pealty obvious that

thege conditions the under

Anyway, it's easter children than adults to have the operation, Isn't it?" asked Lawrence.

for

He was right in that children

go into hospital one day, have

after,

are

the operation the next, and are back home the day usually while grown-ups generally in hospital for some 10 days. But the operation is по moro complicated merely because, one is older.

I thought of the reasons for allowing the operation to take place, Mouth" breathing and anoring, in conjunction with a nasal voice and repeated attacks of tonsillitis or quinay. Some- times, too, Impaired hearing may be a leading symptom or dim- culty in swallowing..

"Is it trio," Mrs. Lawrence asked that bud tonsils affect child's intelligence?"!

It was nearing midnight when

stage before our eyes was a city asleep except for the villainy in the heats of men. There was not a movement, not a sound in the great contourse. The fenor had noen scoring points in the previous two rounds, but now supreme triumph his hour of had arrived.

Far away we heard his voice, soft, sad, yot, so beautifully pro- ducod that it travelled acrome the stadium and floated over the rooftops of slumbering Verona,

The meat crowd might have

I do not know what an Italian

· friend of mine in London had written to the management of the stadium, or whether it was of the daughter of Vivien therefore, the stepdaughter of Sir Laurence Olivier,

but on each night we occupied the

open royal box where Musolini the Fascist salute to yelling mobe, and Roman emperors turned down their thumbs when the Christians bad failed to give the liotis sufficient amusement.

Unfortunately, there is a limit to tamen eiumanca, and at one am. we naked to be allowed to Imagine 25,000 people gather- ed in the vast uncovered stands villainous Scarpia would steal been figures on a painted fricze kave. The opera and spectacle, show, because the singer What mattered the lateness of plus a special taillet, had an-

than the hour? True, there was work other two hours to WAT no lesa a personage at the wrong time) and such an

run, and these atunctions and the uproar of anticipatory' excite Tito Gobbi, the greatest baritone to be done

(for there is nover ruin in Italy

the

JOHN GORDON IN AMERICA

on the morrow in dept. sitting of young Signor

EXPLOSION POINT IN

A RACIAL WAR

di Stefano, the tenor, wo felt that the hour or ignominious 10- treat had come..

night?" the director sakod.

We thanked him profusely in amicture of French, English and

German, but muid that_tonight (we would sloep: if only for che

novelty of t

This morning I watched a New York occupying towns and angry Now, after all these yours dark, athletic groung Italian, who WE may be having our citizens prepared to a conscience. 2, wing the hoof his very wrong that was done vague launch Just the A troubles, after a war riot at any moment, I hard- ing the co. As one step to right or water akis drawn by b

she has conterred full citizen- „lor comme saut he shouted syn that has swept away so ly think so.

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What a situation ilir. In the the kapan

Uwite, and there was. Come They now have the some that tonsil trouble could retard mental development, But now much of our empire, but United Stated there see roughly they know that this is as untrue vast rich, powerful-10,000,000 Negros, Practically rights as white American, And thing strangely guniller in the

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