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THE, CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, · 1956.

Cummings turns his back on 1956 and forecasts 1957...

HOW TO DISPOS OF EMPIRES

Eden gots on speaking terms with iko, and secures a top-level conference

CRATTLER

The pressure of events drives Krushchev to rest at Goldeneye

TWO WAYS of LOOKING AT YOUR WIFE

H

Like this ?

..or this ?

AVE

con- the typical expression i know, you over

and had expected, sidered having your wife's portrait

were caught by the light in distorted way.

"I've now xed 11 so That they utl look waisteout button."

at my Top

Lauly Wheeler (Wile +f Sir Mortimer) could not at once accept the new portrait of her archaeologist, husband. "I skoply isn't him," she said. -I can never remember him Dece

wearing an open-neck shirt."

A tow

days

later she apologised the artist, "You've obviously revealed his true self to him.

The impeccatzko dresser Skr Mutiner,

bad

developed n "But now, having lived with sudden taste for open-necked it. I like 11, and I've realized shirts and was relaxing about painted? And if you were that husbands must allow the house lee an aristocratic

pay the 50. urtists

prepared to

Beer ce

U certain amount

of lumberjack,

Which side?

or maybe 1,000—guineas "We should consider DGI - that it would cost, how selves lucky, suppose, Imagine would you like to see her the feelings of a husband when JOW ask yourself which side

Ittle womanı came home Now you are on

on canvas?

I believe that all most husbands ask is a nice quiet

likeness in a lovely gilded frame. All they

really

the

with an emaciated

portrait by El Greco tucked under her orui.

Wonderful pictures, complete distortions,""

want could be achieved Controversy

after

viewing the

NOW

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or the relative's”

the artist's

Woukt You like your wife. painted with snakes in her hair? Dull did this

to Lady Meruni- bailen.

quicker and better in A

Would you like your husband colour photograph.

ART cities accuimed Nicholas painted withoul feet--growing

Egon's portrait of Mary 1 came

depressing Churchill, to that

oul of the

rucks Sutherland which

hangs stylet conclusion

Rembrandt current exhibition of the Royal With a Tillan and

private collection Alaens But her husband, Christopher Sosten, was cross about it. He did not care for all that soul-searching

Society of Portrait Painters 174 Plecadilly.

Blame them

JOW boring these conventional eyes,

Ho

unitspired likenesses

ure.

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Sazinies loved it:

I don't look

"I'm like H

practically nothing

to

controversy in

What an asterunding thought that so happy amung 400 focus of the famour, chocolate box." the rich, and the beautiful. there is

There wa

IL

thrill the eye or jerk the mind. which all the family joine., So many women in twin-sets and eventually the picture.. and pearls looking desperately, which had been. commissioned

refined. So many men to City for Sir Winston's birthday..

SUITH, stendying themselves was returned. against the executive chair,

Egon

What Is the rensons for Among

get into

this lack of originality?

the artist

dreary rul?

He puits blame on to u

the family of his

sitter, Particularly the one who pays fo the portrait. Particularly the Husband

this

dar

How he can recall-

THE CYNIC: diplomat who

by SYLVIA LAMOND

"The Relaflyts" are a pain in the side of the portrait painter. And an even bigger one in his pocket,

THE

resignedly. Justands

his

An American returned wife's portrait by hand, with this

epitaph: This is her

For me. Yes, both times. Let's give the artist a free reign to put more of himself to a portrait.

Otherwise, why don't we just stick to the photographer?

accurate, and

lle's more whole lot cheaper,

(COPYRIGHT)

William

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EXIT FROM INDIA

Nasser pays a state visit to Britain (B and K style) and is entertained to dinner (Socialist Party style)

But nothing, of course, changes Mr. Nehru's opinion of "The Brown Man's Burden"

HIS FIRST FILM: A CLOSE-UP OF A MODERN MYSTERY

I prefer my Elvis complete

ELVIS THE SUBDUED – WITH DEBRA PAGET IN HIS FILM

THE MAN WHO HELD THE

Hickey BOY THAT GOT THE BIRCH

EL

Hny "A "You usually get it for more "Euphau has given mo a

little dangerous, but so doesn't doll dress as a memento of the cheap,"

hostess purred. my things but it London. serious

first dance we did together.... "The mooring costs just £1 THE man who held down hurt as much as caning."

week. No rales to pay. Even the cost of a flogging I was a cornflower," the young gentlemen has gone up-parents once had left them together in

corner of the rooth.........fying to "We have the telephone, of Eton while they to pay only 7s.

remember the steps they did 50 electricity, bottled gas....and

of course it's so romantic." years ago....

We sat in a lurching, creaking "drawing-room"

FIRST BALLERINA

WOR

I

WENT along to Claridge's

all right. Can you were birched is dead. The ******** and another buyer news spread around the fog 117

college the other day. HUMORIST (Wendy Hiller's husband when he first clapped eyes on hver face, ring in dark, smoky clouds of symbolism): "She looks us if she struck a match and for got the gas was on."

on

ROMANTIC

pronised

with his belt!

IN AMERICA I SAW HIS

FANTASTIC FRENZY ........

BUT HERE IT'S GONE

By LEONARD MOSLEY

THO stole Presley's

But will the adoring follow- Elvis

of the Elvis cult get a belt ? tra

dose of the treatment genuine

"LOVE ME TENDER?” I have bad news for them.

Who put a brake

on his rotating pelvis?

Who took the shake, rattle, and roll out of his leg joints and the twitch turned of his face-and America's most fascinating- ly neurotic crooner just another mother's boy with a voice?

I

into

ask these questions

after seeing a private show.

Elevis has been robbed,

They have tried to turn him into my actor by making him a

character in a Western melo- Grama.

When he sings, they photo- graph him from a distance or their cameras sternly keep above his Plimsoli line,

And, perhaps worst of all, they have made him take off his belt.

Elvis's belt is the symbol and

ing of Elvis Presley's first centre of the Presley technique. film.

I went to it in anticipa tion of some strange and unusual entertainment.

For I have seen Divia per- forming on the stage in there has America, and never been anyone quite like him in entertainment fore.

H

The entry

be-

JË úndulates on to the stage, just sit, by 121, balancing Frankfurters

plucks a few notes from

ELVIS-FRONTALLY,

catalyst for, all and ginsses of red wine, making the guitar he is holding, and It acts as the

that the noise and frenzy of his per- not-very-funny jokes about the stants to sing. And from drip-pens.

moment Elvis goes into a frenzy, formance.

It is a small belt with a large "We have 60 leaks in the roof

His shoulders Jump. His buckle, and, on the stage, you and only 20 saucepans to catch diaphragm heaves. His face might

ht almost say that he par and his eyes ginze. forms around that buckle like a the drips," raid my host.

twitches, And -overy third bar his long witch-doctor circling a cauldron Over breakfast next morning legs in their tight jeans sud- of potions. we heard a loud splash, followed only buckle and straighten Without It Elvis is as weak by shouts. Our next-door neighko bowstrings.

in delivery, and to bour, Mr Arthur Lee, a school-

txintin his impact

Samson whom Elvis has made entertainment of his hair. teacher, had fallen

He Books Hice while adjusting his mooring. out of a vocal and physical Robert Mitchura's son

We helped him out-and got

sings like Johnny. Ray's brother, ourselves plustered with mud. His combination of tantrum,

I think the teenage popula twitch, and dervish

than have been cheated by this dancing Mr Lee's remarks were far have

made

Why, oh why, did, they from romantic,

colossal flm,

imve to give us, for the first" fortune. He is the richest and time in pictures, this weak and most successful CABO OF NERVER in the hitsory of Tin Pan Alley. Woctul unbelted BIT

-(COFFRIAMT)

George Wooldridge

to watch tribute paid to

ballerina, WAS Invited to what I was Eton's "school messenger" Britain's first prin

would bo for 80 years. And in that Phyllis Bedells.

week-end on the time he had helped in the

It is 50 years since she made "romantic The sale of

her

first a portrait so

the river." I was the guest of o appearance tanning of scores of young stage at the age of 13.

young couple living in that often depends on whether the husbands or

the of houseboats in the rich

Most modern portrait painters aristocrata—some of dukes, Leading members of the ballet colony aunt in Scotland likes the picture. will tell you that Sargent, the Cabinet Ministers, generals, world attended a dinner in her Thames off Cholina.

bonour (I noticed greatest in his day, spoke for ambassadors.

Margot

That's what the Apart from

Romantic? П Queen's them all when he said in

Fonteyn wearing black satin favourite like Annigoni, most cynical moment; "The definí.

shoca with

diamante-studded houseboaters say. They include The Eton College artists' studios are stocked with tion of a portrait is easy.

a doctor, a lawyer, stage folk- Chronicic, It's the

heels). school paper, announcing useless portraits

worth

There, too, was Miss Euphan Dorothy Tutin used to live there thousands of pounds.

a picture with a little on his death at 71, discreetly did Maclaren, who appeared with a BBC. producer, medical thing wrong about the mouth," "

students, not mention his birching job. Phyllis Bedells in "Isn't there, semothing wrong it referred only to his other production of "Alice in Wonder- My host and hostess piloted about the waist? said Barrister duty showing visitors found d” in 1906.

mo in the dark-in half a gale Baki Miss 'Bedells, who left, and Ronald Armstrong-Jones when the school,

driving rain-acros the stage he saw the unfinished portrait

to teach ballet, heaying slippery causeway of By Elon custom, Wooldridge mumbered among her pupils narrow plunks inking the hod to bend over with the boy

Shearer: boata. to be birched, and to hold him Fonteyn and Motra

the 150-year-old

These Bro tho Relatives! Rejects,

Allow licence

TAVEN Annigoni, who is not of his wife,

bothered Anancially, says;

"Yes—it's too small.

"It is better if the husband, and her another couple of the picture of his wife, and me and make it accurate."

don't come together too often.

It is sometimes upsetting.

"One man hurt my feelings/ very much. He said this was

Inches added

THE

Give

inches Bill

nothing like his wife. The left artist, James Proudfoot,

did while the husband

car was wrong and where was waltod, her mole?

"But I found a way to raiso

across

birching block,

Wooldridge, himself modified the earlier practice of silting on the victim's head.

After rach... "swiping" ¡(the Itou schoolboys name fola Logging) Wooldridge hat to Proudfoot says, - gamely: "I cuter the boy's name in a book. 3p my spirits again." Annigoni's don't really mind crilician. That crisured that the parents ad eyes brightened with Sometimes Ifs helpful andre were charged at the end of term the memory. "I called in his bhat ariliciam of a child is the with 11, the cost of the birch mother-in-law. She said the bust of all.”

nderstand anything

of

picture was wonderful and IA ning-your-old giri eritilandAn Elon boy said: "It's A should take no notice of

because he didn't looks mad

a" portrait of hey, sister,

go goodễ thing the most said the effky common form of punishment frankly: "Her eyeballs are all at Eton lo caning by the head peculiar

the house. At least that corts nothing Proudtobe waling that the BRAOnly the hind - master and “throom”?, on which his madaks | lower manter (head of the was too low and the eyes junior; boomy; oan 'zwipo. B

too much. UP at him is the usual humber of strokes.

Patrick Do Lassle, boat building on of the great artist, Br: Philip de Laszlo, was cheat Knnigoni's critions-husbandita

....

"My first reaction was: that It wasn't ing wife. It was not

A

that same

JOHNNY HAZARD

FAR, HRY GALILANDUVE: ARKIVEP SAFELY? ARD. WHO ARE YOUR NEW

· COUNTESS HERA, AN LOVELY GIRENEZ HAVE HERE TWO AMERICAN GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE ́AØRBED TO HELP US IN OUR MISSIONI RELUCTANTLY I

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(COPYRIGHT)

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