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THE CHINA MAILA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1956.

The man who sells Ike

calls in the experts

After his recont illness the

traditional whistle-stop

«lection campaign would

be too much of a strain for

President Eisenhower.

So Leonard

planned

L

Wood Ball

Ho

complains that his Job jeaves him no time for exorcise. Ho irritates his wife by rending newspapers all through mools. Tho Test show he cemembers seeing was South Pacific, Too tense

"My wife loves playa, showa, operas, concerts and so on, but I'm too tenso now to sit still for

three hour.”

nil

SEOSE

AOTE

of

campaign

New York,

IKE all trainers of odds-on favour- ites, Leonard Wood Hall, whose joli as chairman of the Republican National Committee is to get Pre- sident Eisenhower re-elected in November. has a thankless task. If his horse loses, the trainer is blamed. If it wins-that is no more than was expected. for him, Hall, aged 56, is not unduly sensitive to critic- fam, and fortunately for his party he is a glutton for responsibility.

Fortunately

business

LEONARD WOOD HALL

He believes in taking only big risks

auo.4

chajm ins the party's years' History

For though he appesus to have

MIX Theries and buke.

""I

IS IT TOUGH ON THE KON-TIKI BABIES?

other

BUT THE OCEAN-WANDERING PARENTS

young

AND THE LANDLUBBERS DISAGREE

to

DON'T want to Mary, but even the slight seem melodrama- 15 degree roll on those tic," said Nicholas frightened him. "I think Monsarrat it is a type of brutality to gloomily, "but there's only subject a young child one word to describe the that sort of thing." sca.". (I'll leave you to

As a landlubberly mother guess what it was.). "II

I entirely agree of four, the time in the world to

an ex-farmer with with him, and so did many with Kossip

Republican Were

limted sailing experience, who drops Into his

parents I the massive calm, valoc,

the think it would be sheer know. Mrs Peter Twiss, easy

outward manner

& young wife of jet air ace, said. "I are cruelty to take deceptive. Holi comploins of trouble with his nerves. He has baby on a long voyage in a think it's a terrifying idea. Hiven up smoking.

If Sarah were a baby I'd Six months small boat." ago he found that his 80 a day

We were talking about certainly leave her behind. had crept to 100...120. He de 31-year-old Brian Elverson

Mrs Geoff Dyson. cided it couldn't go on. gave them up.

I broke the habit and his 22-year-old wife (Olymple hurdler Maureen

and

of in four days."

wife Rosamund, who are now on Gardner),

chlef Carpentry used to be his great the first stage of their Melbourne - bound Joy: he was a better eraftimen Then most men who make their

from Cornwall to Olympic coach, would not

Seas. living by it. He hen't touched the South

With dream af

her taking his tools for four years, Semne- then on their 20-ton ketch children on any sort of long ilmes he looks sedly at The Scolopax is their 11-month air or Men journey, "let

800. Rupert.

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**I just

sears the miner sccidents of 100 lifetime have kft un his hands

Then he hurs to answer the phone, shake a hand, slap a For having won his great gamble on Eisenhower's running again, he is lenying as little as all believes in taking only big he can to chance. Like Napoleon,

man who forms the backbone of his party.

The Republican Party

He is almost certainly the most been Hall's

even energetic. The work he puts in back le be w born into it His father was would much ela a chairman rallied the {superintendent of the gardens at of the Tay Party. It was he who Tepublicars after Elenhower's Teddie (the Republican big-

Hall sametimes holds his first heart attack a year

Roosevelt's house, Saga- emferenc akci. by stick)

of the straight-away announcing that

and he rely loves his office he was making all his pläne eti His god-parents were a son before 9.30 at night, the assumption that Eisenhower and daughter ul Romuveli's.

would run again.

Having mado hie

decision.

Hall started to plan an entirely now sort of elee- tion

campaign.

He reasoned that Elsenhower prould be unable

maka the

more Hol.

und ho Was named aftasy (1

by C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS

traditional folly barn-warning. Whistle-stop campaign in person. So he booked $2,000,000 worth of ra

radio and TV me, choosing peak periods after populer abows like $64,000 question," called in the b.k. high- powered advertising and publ!- city fus of Madison AvenKURE.

*I Дыть merely hiring 2321 expert," said Hall evenly.

not to

tually 1930.

General Leo-

nurd Wood who

WAR stuying in

the house when

he was born.

He worked his way through law school, went into

Long Island local

politics.

and Woa even- elected to Congress in

He proved he was no mere party hack by being one of 21 Republican rebels who voted for in conscription bill in 1941 that was passed by a majority

of

He gaurd the reputation <! being ilked by everybody, and

he developed Into

skliful

odjuster of rivalries within the

*1:

would be foolish thern. In the same way candi- dates uw cars and planes

TIN

P

-

stead of buggies and trains."

Old fashioned

In contrast to 112 high- preasure experts with their differentjul equations and queer psychological jargon, Hall him- act is a typical, American politician.

Eisenhowey valka on hum in help organise his cumpalgan dra 1952. and after Its triumphant onteome he was chveled nailonni chama

He proved he was as capable

Was

nu odnuinistrator us he politicia "I found my hd-

olds his fat

risks

(COPYRIGRT)

voyage

Get scared

"Children

alone in a little boat," she shuddered.

Blackbearded: Brian Elverson, aged 31, and Als wije Rosamund, aged "27, hava, no doubts about thetr' plan to take cleven- monik old 2011 Rupert with thom on their 10,000- mile trip to the South Seas,

Mr.

Elverson,

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farmer who has been live ing for three months aboard the ketch Scolopax with wife and baby whtie fitting out, saya life at rea is good for a baby......” better than living in a study alty."

by- Romany Bain

"I

· But when I spoke to half -a dozen other hardened sen adventurers who had Actually DONE what the. Elversons' plan to do. I heard a very different story. According to Adrian Seligman, famous oceanic wanderer, thero's really nothing to it. As long as you follow your weather forecasts and charts for a week or two beforehand, "use your loaf and follow depression"' (which shouldn't be difficult this year) you'll be over the Bay of Biscay and across the Pacific before you say "baby overboard."

"

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"As for the child it will be quite all right if they take the right things,"" said Rosemary Seligman, Arthur

admire the mother daughter of Sir Only Mrs Donald very much," she said from "Pattern of Islands" Campbell, still recuperating Coniston, "but I don't think Grimble.

thrill of her I'd have the nerve to take ensily got from the

world Intest

young child." Mare Mousarrat, aged three, shattering record run, gave paused for reflection. "Un- Scarod even on big boats." husband's has only ever travelled in the matter any serious con- less Donald were with me, of course," she said brightly. ships the size of the Queen alderation.

SHHH...DON'T

MENTION

KAY KENDALL

New York.

ANE ticket clerk was polite-but unhelp- ful.

"I could get you a seat for next April. perhaps..."

"Otherwise?"

"You could try the black

·by⋅

Roderick Mann

a man of good character where the show last month to dy to

women are concerned?"

The audience laps it up.

old-fashioned quarter split up in three dif- Į market. But you'll have to vicce, he admits his love for the

He is a gregarious glad-hander with an (appropriately) clephun - tino ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ for fers atkl nomos, who performs conjuring tricks for the ladies and sings zobust songs at stag parties,

fertal buildings. Many of the pay £35 a ticket."

stuff had never sven the chair- 10ươn

So he took a four in a modçəl

That was my introduction to "My Fair Lady" Mice building on laid it out as the staggeringly successful Une large open

where musical laptation of

And when, at the dose of the

little Bower girl with: "I've Krown accustomed to her face "there is hardly a dry eye

in the place.

Even long-time enemies like Hollywood columnists Hedda

have had to admit that his

Bermuda to rest his voke, who should chance

the to be on island too but-Kay Kendall.

"Reg" enthuses Kay (he was christened Reginald Carey), "is the most wonderful of men. Impossible, of course. but wonderful.

Having Anally seen the show --courtesy of a man who knew a man who know a man-I was

CAR NOC and get at "Pygmalion" and the Hopper and Louella Parsore determined to talk to Harrison.

everya. vel. He found he had He is massively buill, but like cut the adenlaistrative

Exps greatest hit in the history

of the American theatre.

| Ernen Bevki, of only medium in over 100,000 dolins a year,

height. With his horn-rimmed Revently the 48 Repubilene spectacles, receding hair and late chairmen - the national wide, onay mile, he looks the chairman's traditional bugbear- epitome

VI the inkddle-class voted, Hell the best national

QUEEN DINA OF

I

JORDAN SAYS 'I'M SO

HAPPY'

From STEPHEN HARPER

Nothing like it

was a show have

There never like it. Unless you powerful connections, you don't stand a chance of get ting a seat in under seven months. The backers any it will make over £2,000.- 000—and sales of records alone are soaring towards the £1,000,000 mürk.

performance is brilliant. Neither

But first I had to pass a test. of those writers has ever for- given him for having his name

Sald Richard Mancy, the coupled with that of Carole theatre's press agent:--

beautiful And who committed

Landis - the popular actress suicide eight years ago.

(Told that Hopper had called his

"brilliant," performance Harrison snapped: "I'd bave thought more of the lady if she hadn't....")

"Will you give your word that you will not ask one word about his personal life or about Miss Kendall?" "No."

"Then he won't see you."

I agreed

"You know.". sald Harrison,

REX HARRISON

She

* Have 70 U ever

man

met a of good character where women are

cerfód?"

"I can't help feeling that you gumming his toupes carefully are very much in sympathy with Imio place. "It's wonderful the character of Higgins," being in a hit on Broadway said. but what

looking I'm really forward to is the opening night at Drury Lane.”

"When will that be?"

(his

"About the summer of 1958," ́said · Harrison, "Julie Andrews

and Stanley Holloway fellow stars) both have two-year confractam50 we'l watt they're available. I

may drop out of this next year and make

That way a Alm. fresh for London," /

I shall be

Belag the toast of Broadway and the most talked about actor in America has made Harrison

This went on for two days, now earning £2,000 a week- Finally agreed to Harrison's virtually un-get-at-able.

Ho terms-and we arranged to meet refuses to see New York column at the theatre, ists. And the reason for bis

p18. All of which makes joyous reluctance to be interviewed is reading for the lean, lanky star the continued presence at of the show: 48-year-old Rex side of the slender, 25-year-old arriving from his home at West- into the Proteaser Higgins dulat

Harrison.

Harrison standa stride tremendous Colossus.

musical like

old

A dresser helped him off with He was as they had assured. his me he would bo-very late his trousers and assisted

him

of

n

"They must pack the Shipman's Medical Guide, twice as much baby food as they would need on land (in case becalming), paraffin fridge if possible, and a large supply of disinfectant as the main danger to Rupert will be food poisoning."

Water baby

Adrian Seligman's first daughter

was born and spent the first 18 months of her life on a world cruise, "and only once fell down a companion hatch, and wasn't even bruised. We put a spring door at the head of the hatch, laced the ship's guard; rails with light cord, and netted her cot in gimbals to prevent her from getting thrown about, and she was as happy as any- thing," he told me.

Like Rosamund Elverson who says Rupert is just as likely to meet death on the roads, Rosemary Seligman thinks there are greater domestic dangers than life on the ocean wave.

Dr Edmund: Pye, who- travelled with his wife to the South Seas between 1952-55 in a 29ft, boat, gave an equally optimistic medi- "As, there's cal opinion. sufficient steeraga to take plenty of fresh food and water in a 20-tonner, there's nothing against it," he told me from Mizzen Cottage in

"What makes you say that?" asked Harrison.

"Well the manages to be the wilds of Esser. rude and arrogant and remain charming. So, do you." No doubt

Horrison stroked his nose.

yet

:

"I can't agree with that. Though I do admit I've taken of Jill Bomford, 26-year-old There is no doubt in the mind

over a lot of Higgins and he's fiancee of 34-year-old Lieut- Commander Peter Hamilton, taken over a lot of me

who has just crossed the He made a Anal adjustment Atlantic alone in his 21ft, stoop, to this make-up as the orchestra Salmo. She looks forward with (dived for the door.

trip. across the Pacific,

struck up the overture, then confidence to her honeymon

"My love to everyone, See you and at The Lane,”.

British actress

I believe a family is a family, Kay Kendall. bury, Long Island. Ten minutes of tweed suit, fishing hat;

and like Mrs Elverson, would this Plus the fact that he, is now before curtain-time, hia long camel hair coat.

my legally separated from his wife black Cadillac convertible

As I walked back to the stage hate to be parted from *alid 2 Lill Palmer.

up to the stage door and he You can't tell. door, the orchestra was playing child, if I ever have one, t leapt out-cave-chested. round».

one of the best songs from the would take more than publie Cairo, home later this month."

As Professor Higgins, he loper

But wonderful shouldered, thin as rake,

show. "I'm An Ordinary Man" opinion to stop, me if I wanted "When

I first read the show," in which Harrison vigorously to," she said blodly egy TALKED with beautiful' Back in the palace at about the stage in an

The crowd around the slago said Harrison, "I had no idĉa it protesta his dislike of women. and Queen Dinn of Jordan Amman is seven-month-cardigan, rudo

insulting,

One can

· More people than ever, are complacent, elegant Miss Kendall has been grading door parted to allow the rake would be such a hit, for an hour of poetry, and old. Princess Aliya. Queen curt and

Come to think of it. I was preparing small ships - for this 1 had the Alm at private to make progress and I follow- never tell. and hectoring-yet dispoiling a Rex's arm--both

quite wrong,

sort of Journey than, over.. through, of run and in the bistros of ed him swiftly along the corri-Pygmalion politica, bulb growing, and Dina sometimes hears the brand, of, magle rarely seen parties

souvenir-littered course, to see how Lesile Howard this

before, though most of them bables. Everything except baby's chuckles when she before on any stage.

Broadway-over since My Fair dor to

How could Harrison ever be don't get much farther than the handled the part. That gave in sympathy with a character Land's End dressing-room. (Among the

Larly opened last March, rumours of a rit speaks on the telephone,

Ironically enough, Harrison is

souvenire, a signed oil painting me some pointers--though

theke that? between herself and King with King Hussein.

probably the most disliked actor. They are constantly together, of Shaw, whom Harrison met”, Interpretation, of course, - in my Hussein.

(CJFTRIGHT) In America. "Rude," "arro- When Rex took a week off from while making Major Barbara.") own." gant,ellish" are but a few Did she hope for, another of the many labole hung around

These she dismissed as

too absurd to discuss.

"Yout really, are a dresdful

her father's modern white very long? "I think it is a

The queen received me at child, a boy perhaps, before his neck In recent months; mansion in the

garden Httle soon yet," she replied. person," Noel Coward la reputed

to have told him. "Inext to finest

suburb of Maadi, on the Of her ille in Amman, me you were not the banks of the Nile.

the queen said: "I love it light comedy.actor in the world there. There is such a lot you'd be good for only

thing selling care in Great

First sho told me why she

came to Cairo three weeks

to do as a citizen in my Portland, Stroco, special position,” kata kong

How Is she spending her holl- go: "My father, broke his day? Very quietly, Talking hip some time ago. He has with father, Soning old friends.

abould like to go shopping and

He snapped

MANDRAKE' The magician

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been very lonely confined to browso in the bookshops, but Yet, despite all this Rex the house, I am his only it is omborrasing with a crowd couverte andre audiences overy inight into forvent: Harrisoit child and I wanted to see trailing around,

Then sla talfood, frankly on

him and cheer him up... thomubject mom womens sides "It is my first holiday stop. Shu said: Yes, à ein real- away from Ammanfor ly 28-awful to do so nebra more than a year. I felt that a mach & Bedrock

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