1956-10-06 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1958.

ZANIES

"You just don't seem to have any future,"

** We must go nowo, dusting, mask the gentleman

TO EXTRIC YOU,'

FERTILISER

"What I need is something

10 3100 grass growing 1"

Let me know how this stuf works-I'm having the

trouble myself,"

Jame

HELP YOURSELF SERVICE

THIS IS

ULANOVA

THE PRIMA

BALLERINA

Russian Ballet

T

See

Is French

By JOHN BARBER

BY might have been

SE one might have heard ballet an extra- ediomy showman called Serg" Diaghlet had rest exported

ON 3108. interest Busin was 40 great

Those 50,000 tickets to danes like Pavlova and

Bolshoi Ballet Niink to Paris in 1909,

The world tired and Kha not yet go over its delight

1 vanished

from

Covent

Garden almist Fefore they Back home, in Moscow, they

People nothing

Diaghilev's They went on Blogging

were printed

queued for days.

wak

Of course, the threat of the old war borses, Like "Swan

Lake

And "Giselle ** Every

cancellation was "wretched other country copled his idens. ly disappointing"

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used by David Webster, bras of Covent Garden.

But it is so much more. Had Russin cancelled the visit of her singing soldiers or dancing sailors it would have mattered little in com parison.

This is the Russian Ballet. And those two words, intch- ed together, spell one of the world's ultimates

NOW

So FRENCH

why ever" Whe began at all" Is Ruxom really the best ballet in the world?

So CURSED

the Revolution THEN came

The Soviels toak over the Bolshoi and declared at oner cused relie that ballet wi

" bourgeous culture They ordered new Marxist ballets.

Nothing trampened Marxis: mallets somply Hopped Because tan whole htige organotation was addled with the ald French on we

11 Lake" Carri

on

Stan and then Bulganin

And so band 15, of course

qeme about the most volutionary country in The world found itself anddled with

a re-silved, foreign art.

So EFFICIENT

No, the Russians dick pot - PIÊNCE me wat landlet The French

Thas

word builder

tering

expe!* French and v to

* even in Russia) are all s fectrical

Even

NOR

Thr

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fascination to the

the Bolshol They WIETL classics great Thesneelve, have the

thus b famous Bolshoi Company loan invented danced Macaw was bringing two works most rigidle disciplined

Swin Lake" and "Giselle" aliye,

of pure French design

But when the Frencht

artists

They want to see The stor Took Galina Ulanova. because she

balet to Russia the Czars all comes from the very centre of in love with a They hit the the tradition thurt prochterd our

Bolsho Theatre colossal

A Markova and Fonteyn.

that it antipiniëd setnery the world's best acrobatis

school with a system of training They are expecting elaborale,

Ko rigorous, so superb. turned-

dancers.

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Electrifying

And stap-up

(COPYRIGHT)

GIRLS, YOU NEED

NOT ENVY FIONA

OF THE

BOLSHOI

BALLET

EVE PERRICK

Let me

introduce

Lord Foley-the 'Bluebloods' Liberace!'

Do You Worry About

H

you

*OW

ck+ often weigh yourself? You sometimes can tell if

a man is over-anxious about

Your Weight?

By CEDRIC CARNE

"Can't there be abnorinal

his health by merely asking glandular activity?" Mrs with

em

him that question.

of

of

Hadfield naked. "I had relative who lost a lot

But there was nothing wrong

Mrs fbadfield's thyroid gland, Clinically I could And nothing

and the comes at all, X-rays showed her lungs to be healthy.

So I was gind to say: "I can't And anything wrong with you. Mrs Hadfield."

I wasn't surprised to discover she had no actual ülness.

The remarkable the most

losses

ย weigh! I have even have been more

due to psychic enuses.

It's a question every bride weight and the doctors said should ask her husband. For it was due to some gland in if he answers that he weighs her neck." himself more than once 11 month she may

very well have to listen to a lot moans about headaches and backaches in later life. By EILEEN ASCROFT

In my experience 2-Expensive clothes and, weight-omaniac is usually OES the wealthy bride

Not stand

chance jewels, fast cars, long holl-hypochondriae, of happiness than the days, girl who marries with ELE

D

more

empty bank balance"

Beautiful model girl Fiona

women, of course,

with

3-Graceful living sür. If a woman weighs her- roundings.

self more than once a month

She was referreing to the thyroid gland, which, when

turns it overworks, body's engines over rapidly than usual: the ner- vous system becomes highly sensitive, the heart beats

fast, the person is always on the go, and so on.

The result is

more

By digging deep I've often discovered a story of unhappi- strain or per- nes or secret sistent worry.

Campbell-Walter, received a who enjoy good dining and her figure: If she doesn't quickly, just

consumed £23,000 pearl ring, and a wining, some of whom may weigh herself at all she's when a automobile's engine alarmingly thin because of un-

ny

A surgeon friend of mine lost that the two slone in weight when he more suddenly became doubtful of 4—A string of friends she's merely worried about body fat is used up

as petrol is his proficiency es a surgeon,

And not a few

young women swiftly

patients on my itst have grown

happy love affairs,

is constantly revved up.

"Yes, that was it," she said, People who worry, I pointed And "the thyroid gland. They maid out, lose their appetites," she had thyrotoxicosis. In her if you don't eat enough you case I believe it followed some lose weight. It's as simple as sort of shock."

that, The fact is-fat comes

JOHNNY HAZARD

reported £100,000 of lietr- be genuine. loom jewels,

But, far more important, gift from her millionaire what does she misa? bridegroom. Baron Thyssen.

wedding

She misses:

von

her wardrobe,

required In

given up caring.

Mra Hadfield blushed slightly. "Well, I've just lost some weight, doctor, and 1-The enormous satisfactiori

my of saving to buy something she I'm concerned about really wants for the home or Health. Could it be anything MARRIAGE FAILED

to do with glands?" she But in spite of all his 2-The affectionalb sacrifices naked. money his previous mar- made to buy mutual gifts.

3-Ingenuity ringe to another attractive balancim Household budgets FAT DISTRIBUTION model-Nina Dyer-lasted and educating children only seven months.

4-Joy of holidays, dinner parlles and evenings out that Of course there are alter-

ations in the fat distribution of the body which vary with age. Everybody has heard of There's another point, too, she "puppy fat.” And there are can count on the company of glandular changes which friends who are genuine, with ¦

cause, say, a fattish. too

ULTERIOR MOTIVES

A fabulous home, elegant' can't really be afforded, clothes, world travel, an överflowing jewel case none of those things helped them to and happiness.

What does the girl who marries money really goin? 1 believe that the girl who pneumátic girl of 16 or so to marties a poor man gains more mature into a streamlined; She gains:

in fun and the expérience of 1--Freedom from worry living than the one who settles Young kidya

no ulterior motives.

over household bills, though for a gilded cage.

It. statistics are any guide khe So loss of weight, like in-

many rich men have a stands far more chance, too, of Créäso in weight, very often distinctly figgling attitude making a Happy mwerings,|||is merely part of the normal towards unmail sæpenditureA,'

physiological - process.

"I SWITCHED OVER TO MY RIGHT WING TANK AND THEN —— BOOM! MY WING BLEW OFF AND I FUPPED OVERĮ“

If t from fool

con come from anywhere else I'd like to know.

I also told Mrs Hadfield the more range truth that some limes terry can actually lead to weight being put on,

For

LORD FOLEY AND PROPS

Lang Paley by died drawn A LA FORE Queen Kifjabath (3's Eprais)}on, 1. 3. The 4th Baroni Print of steeling and

T

beme.

London.

HERE was a breath- leas rush in the close. Three days to go and the gravy.

train's in.

The

close is a little street

in Westminster -- rather, onc Liby

coronet, sitting on the stool I sal on at the Coronation.”

"Why not," I said, "if that's tite way to make a million Collars?"

The House of Lands wouldn't like " sald Lord Foley.

wouldn't be very dignified. Besides, my mother wouldn't like it, either."

"A million dollory brings its own sort of dignity," said 1 and turned to talk to mother,

Minoru, Lady Foley

She wavered a

aitue. "Well, We wouldn't want to offend Buckingham Palace, and really I don't know why my boy couldn'l make a success just playing the piano. It's a very beautiful plano-it's insured for £10,000–0 fully heirloom from the cid Foley home, Witley Court."

Publicity_game

I look at the plano-a very ornate instrument much addicted to mother-of-pearl inlays, gilded fgeheads and with the Foley cost-of-arms set prominently in 3. ventre,

with.

My

"Even so," I suld sternly, "t Isn't enough to lek Liberate One gold piano can't compete with 40 gold suits, to

of the candelabrá."

of the name made **You know, DIE day people are ringing up to ask what hes Liberace got ihut my son hosh't,

Mention Mama blaz.

of

"A milion dollars, and a lot

fancy trimmings," 1 said. That settled H. The Foleys, mother and

and son, were prepared

to play the publicity game. We se: 11 up-to musle too.

On to the piano went photo- graphs of Lord Foley in the

room in a tiny terraced clothes he wore in two Corona

house there, which is the work- ing H.Q. of that great masa movement known Liberace Legend,

gravy-train,

The

คะ the

an Ameri- cants for bond-wagon (which is also on Americaniam, but old enough to need no transia- in this case a renl

"Liberace Special--and

liana

We

# print

on

of

the old stately home and baron'a coronet,

thought of

putting the the head of the coronel plunist-per. Mother, however, said "No" to that. She didn't think it was necessary to Yo quite so for, even for a million collars. Besides which Lord Foley

sola it would be rather dificult to keep it boriced, George Too," hired from British when he broke into boogle. Railways for £200 to bring Lab,

Han), train.

The

The

brother George. their mother in his portrait of the 4th baron their

their friends, their fans, and the Press (00, from Southampton to Waterloo.

manager,

In a bother

Coremtion robes, warn over his uniforth as a captain in the Hon. Corps of Gentle- men-at-Arms, looked down, on the scene, I thought, arider- standingly.

The 8th baron sat down on his blue velvet Coronation stool embossed with a gold crown, the royal cypher and bedring the seat number 259, and began to play.

Perfect finale

While all this was going on 1 went along to a rather larger house on the suburban side of Hampstead (N.W.2) to find out

mother how

one-man-che- piano-one-mother act was pro-

msung sometimes people ovET-

8th Baron Folty of cat just because they

feel Kidderminster (Arms-a fesse He played beautifully-Chopin, emotionally insecure. Small engrailed between three eaque Cole Porter, and the songs from children ociate love

with rolle.

MotioDo good), 33, "My Fair Lady." He ended on food and adults can uncon pianist, oothposer and chee his signing-off tune, ond he had

similar seiously

described as "Britain's answer composed and dedicated to his attitudes.

Liberace," was in a bit be a mother called "Let Your Smile

Say Go Lady

spake the words. "Perfect finale," 1 Bald "Let Liberace-stuf his Moin-try to beat that."

revert to

A WOMAN'S VOW

"YOLE

it

bother, His

tong-play gramophone record, entitled "Lord. Adrian Foley at the Plano" and bear mean weight-putting ing his photograph in Corona or taking it off---can tion robes, was about to be re- one's emotional leased in America. That was depend upon outlook?" Mrs Hadfield asked not the cause of the trouble.

Exactly, I sild.

Sald he "Ralise that in Amerien a title carries enormous

תם

I have

"Maybe you're right, boen very worried one way and another, Perhaps that's the cause of my amall appetite. Certainly I won't worry, any

more about my welain for ume," she amlod.

know though

Vow

I

that

woman's

to forget her weight is like an elephant's promise to forget,

(COFERIGNTI

*JUST REMEMBER HITTING THE EJECTION LEVER-THE AIRSTREAM BLAST BLACKED ME | OUT***

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Meanwhile back in Westmin ster, a gigantic operation had been successfully carried out. Liberace Fan of Great Britain, The Sincerely and "The Can- stige-that's why, I use Yours Club. there. I even insist that they debra Club" had bech call me Lord Adrian Foley so into one big bumper fan club merged that they won't get my name for the

ocension muddied with names like Duke apparently so that they could Ellington, Count Basie, or Lord cynchronise their petal-throwing Kitchener

In an organised and dignified "How that i

want to

mixide, follow up the record with TV "AH, C,

That's Pegnitý,

after" sighed London publielty. (COPYRIGHT)

andro

appearares. It seems you've what golta have a gimmick. It has Liberace's even been suggested that I play maitager. the plane wearing my robes séd

By Frank Robbins

■ I WOKE UP IN A HOSPITALI MUST HÀVỀ HIT MY LES ON SONS PART OF THE PLANEL DIDNIT CONNECT IT ALL IN MY MIND WITH THE BRIBE : OFFER, OR THE THREATASTRA NOW!

.....this situation

calle for

San Miguel

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