1957-04-26 — Page 1

THE

STRANGEST

I

Panama. NEVER thought that I would make my first passage through the Panama Canal aboard 1 Russian

Soviet freighter, the ham-

mer and sickle fluttering aloft, and the bridge and decks and engine room swarming with United Staten Marines and sailors armed to the teeth

but

that is the way it Was through seven blazingly tropical hours.

The ship was the 2,121-

ton Nicholas Ostrovsky.

VOYAGE

I'VE

MADE

armed

THE CHINA MAIL,- FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957.-

ness. Last time I lost 7,000 roubles because I have to siny. Ships must move. No stay.

"Now I ste my wife In Vladivostok more sooner 100. My wife

she willing saying where are you being? Why are you staying? Now we are going."

Next all the im-

cameras

wire The crew dish

She was carrying a cargo of boarded by a detachment of 18 pounded. Cuban sugar just loaded in United States Marines Havana and was heading for with revolyers and truncheons gorged these rather sadly. Every and a group of anned United man of the 39 aboard (14 officers Staten sullors.

and 25 men) seemed to one,

her home port of Vladivos- tok.

Own

the

the blinding

The crew were a remarkable looking set. Some wore nothing but bathing trunks in the bils- had on tering heat, others striped nylon vests,

A naval patrol boat, with Now the Ostrovsky is a more armed men on board her,

endlessly eireling very "hot" ship diplomati- was cally speaking, for she was Russian ship in one of the three ships named early light, In the protest Note delivered to Washington by Moscow.

SUSPICION

Now I can tell you this. The

appearance of' second

the Osirovsky created one of the There were Ave stewardesses biggest hoo-hahs ever known in aboard, including one very at- Colon. A telephone line Was kept open to the State Depart tractive girl who wore ment in Washington and a series up, high heels and a silk dress on "long distance."

of frantle discussions took place

make-

which I will wager was bought

in Cuba, not Moscow,

Enter the

pilot,

3

THE appearance last Jan- uary of the three Rus

Captain I know that it was originally sian ships was the first time

Intention

repeat to

the William

dend E. Hopkins, Soviet vessels sought to use the

dosc and 4old tho

for Alm star Briun ringer Canal the Panama

since earlier

Ostrovsky at anchorage for an- 1949.

oller 24 hours, to give her Donlevy. A toot, a rattle, a bank were off and heading But in that respect and wo the works. Americans view this re- at least someone thought better for the Gatun Locks. sumption of Soviet passages of it and instead the order went with suspicion and deep out: "Push her through as fast

They wonder as you can"

misgiving.

what the motives are

nort Aorne suspect

"gamesmanship" about

and of

use

of international waterways and establishing precedent.

HOO-HAH

As though all the armed men aband were not enough, a police launch with a few more astern stalked us guns aboard all day.

I must say that although the State Department showed wis- dom in not interfering with the sailing this time, the show of force and suspicion struck, me as vastly overdone.

SI jumped from the heaving launch and grabbed for the In their Note the Rus step at the Ostrovsky's bide sians complained a dis- the British survey ship H.MS. criminatory treatment Cook was gliding past and be shown the Ostrovsky

As far as I could discover the L fear Was that the Russians two other Russian vessels

I was conducted straight to would deliberately try to sabo- when they presented them-

seems a selves at the chnal last Jane master, Vladimir Skalicin, tage the cunal which

who was having a lively discus- bit far-fetched.

and

sailors started open-mouthed at the unwonted scane.

unry. (On that journey in with canal officials and the Ostrovsky was carrying US. Navy oflcers dressed in 2,670 tons of canned fish their smart tropical whites. and crab meat to London.) This Skalkla is n character-

of the most engaging

long

The Russians complained that one the Ostrovsky, the Admiral fellows I have met for

He is 36, short, tough, Sengavin, and Babushkin time. had been held at the entrance blond, with merry blue eyes and to the canal for 24 hours, had an infectious sense of humour.

15

the

LAST WORD

I

MARTINE

CAROL

1.

tells her story

in talks with

RALPH COOPER

WHY

FLED FROM HOLLYWOOD

VERYTHING was sweet as honey on my long, long E

Steve honeymoon in the South of France with Crane, but as soon as we got back to Paris the arguments started.

Stove wanted to live in America. I wanted to live in Paris, and when Stove was called back to America on business we'd settled and solved nothing. I don't know why, but I told him I could not go back with him. He went alone.

It was after he had gone that Howard Hughes, the fabulous American fllin magnate who last weck sprang a surprise by marry Ing one of his girl friends-Jean Peters-came into my life.

Mr Hughes suddenly became aware that I existed. He sent me 24 urgent telegrams more or less demanding that I report Immediately to Hollywood for u screen test,

I did not want to particularly, because I remember my friend Gina Lollobrigida was not too WITH the voyage over. Cap-happy when she went to Holly-

tain Skalkin had the last wood. word. While the Americans lis- tened a little uncomfortably, he sald with dignity: "I no gangster,

I

been boarded by armed men and He was garbed in a sleeveless I no carry bombs or guns. inspected, measured and photo, hullday shirt, brown trousers, sailor. In London no armed men

deliberately and graphed its

black shoes. He speaks

come on my ship. Not Havana, dilatory way,

fractured English at great speed nor Antwerp. Only here armed Hardly had this protest Note ("I was taughted speaking the men. been digeted in Washington English at the technical know-

received at lodge"). Tag

when new

Colon, at the Caribbean end of The

the canal,

"Why you treat me so? Why

awarmed bridge

with you take my cameras? We pass that the Ostrovsky Marines. Serious young men in Japan ship. Her saliors have Jungle-green uniforms closely cameras, We pass German ship. But back eyed Captain Skalkin and his Her sailors have cameras.

for my men, no.

was on her way back again.

against war

IL

that

ground that last week-end I males, hitching their revolver stand." caught the night express from holsters forward as they did so. Panama Clly to. Colon. The journey takes an hour or 0, through a steaming jungle.

I no under-

The American officers and When Skalkin was told that Washington tiad relented to the pilot shook hands with Skalkin, extent that his ship would be and so did I. And as the Marines promptly he began to climb Into the walling launch, the Russian sailors came swarming round, their cameras restored and took parting shots of their guards departure.

In the moming from the allowed to sali faded grandeur of my Colon brightened. hotel I looked out At the anchorage and there was the

"Is good, is good, is good!" Ostroveky, a trim enough ship, he cried, "Staying is bud busi-

250LL. long, the hammer and sickle larga on her funnel, as well as fluttering from her masthead.

She had dropped anchor at

5 am, and had at once been

by RENE MacCOLL

"A Hobbeldy Hoi, Not Man-Not Boy,

That is a Prodigy's Problem."

Cambridge, Mass. Ten-year-old Robert Strom has pushed his winnings to

Dr Norbert Wiener, one of US$192,000 on a TV quiz show "The $64,000 Question."

the few child prodigles ever lo

become outstandingly Success JAMES S. GEGGIS

ful eb an adult, saya television

values for bright youngsters,

་

quiz shows create a set of false interviews a former child prodigy to ask about the effects

Wiener, now 62 and a Pro- on brilliant children of this size of prizo.

femor of Advanced Mathematics

forebearence,

at Massachusetts Institute of French at 8. At 8 he was read-with sympathy, intelligence and

thinks the "Moral ing Darwin's "Origin of Species"

surrounding

and Wood's "Natural History."

Post-onment" young quiz whiz could hurt his chances of becoming a useful

citizen.

"The really intelligent child

But in the end Mr Hughes says he will pay my return fare to Hollywood, so I think I may as well go.

I did not know where Steve Crine is in America, and it is all such a rush that I cannot get in touch with him. When I arrive In Hollywood 1 am exhausted by the trip. I think that Mr Hughes' will tell Steve I am people coming....but he is not at the airport to meet me.

They rush me off to the hotel and the doctors say: "You are tired you must rest." They give me injections and I sleep. How I slept! For three days I Am that hotel I felt something like I still do not, see a prisoner! Steve. I do not see Mr Hughes, I am getting terrifled-alone in a strange country.

It is my friends Zizi Jeanmaire und Roland Petit, the dancers, who help me. They phone to me att say "Martine, do not sign anything, or perhaps you have to stay here for years until Holly- wood thinks it has found the right part for you in a picture.".

Re-United, But...

Zizi Ands Stove for me, and ho takes me to his house. Because We have not seen each other for a long time we are very glad to see each other. But Steve still goes out gambling with the cards each night-and me, I just make myself alco and pretty and sit alone, reading, listening to the radio, or twiddling my thumbs.

realised this was no life for 1 am me and could never be. still very fond of Steve; he is a very charming person, but it would not work out. I decided to go back to Paris.

Mr Hughes want me to stay,

till be finds me a suitable part, but Marike is a girl with a lot

fight in her.

It was

I say "No! to him in such u Now a roly poly extrovert quickly learns of the instability zporting a grey chin beard, Dr of the poal-atomic bomb world"

way that he can make no mis- Wiener has authored such pro- he aid. "He has to tece prob- take about the way I feel, and I "The arbitrariness and case found tomes as "The Fourier lems at a time when he is not with which money is dished Integral and Certain of Its Ap emotionally prepared."

go home wonderful to get back out," he said, "appears to me plications" and "Harmonia to be an insult to people who Analysis in complex Domain."

The biggest difficulty for the to my beloved Paris, to be among my own people again. I would have to work for a living

He rates

27 lines in Who's prodigy, he added, in that ho

doesn't belong on either sing not live in Hollywood. You meet Who in America."

"either the completo adult's or

the same people all the time, and talk the same talk all the His father, a Harvard Pro- the complete chid's.

time -- it is not enough to live. "The quiz show is not the fessor who could speak 40 "The prodigy is by no means. part of environment that a child languages kopt his son from rare, but environmental condi. They have the most beautiful prodigy should be exposed to the public gaze. Young Wiener ons davour only about one- women in the world in Holly- The publicity couki be per entered colleges quietly at age tenth of "children" who pre wood, yet. I think" French" giris, manently, damaging. It certain 11. He had his Master's Degree potentially gifted

he said.

are more gay and attractive. by Is harmful."

ai 17 and doctorale at '18,

"Growing is dimett for Yes, Britain, America, Sweden everyone, but, there are more they can' phí xhów more bentities

Harmful

„Dr Wioner, 'who once wrote a

book on prodigies, wna certain-

The chikt prodigy, De Wiener protinus for the prontotta keand yet the men of the world

ly an egghead in embryo flm=: 2078, shouldi be, allowed to crisiny no time to puthien in raise their sysbrows to a Zreoti saaž. Era spekem both English and 'devalen, frosty and be feacted a podkat bowl

I think the French girl must be born with a sixth sense...an instinctive love of life....and knowledge of i

She likes men to admire her. And when she falls in love! Oh, lot Then she go through hell and high water for her man!

This is all very odd, because all the British men I have met have been most polite and atten- tive!

sent me flowers next day—225 worth and then I go on location in the mountains.

I'm

George

Flattered

takes a

little plane way to have in the moun-

the future, I hope I never again have to plead with people for little parts in pletures in order to live.

Sometimes these days aciæ cases who were once famous people I used to look up to and wor- ship when I was young-ring ma

say: "Martine, you have a small

and

I think maybe if I ever fall in love again-which is not at all likely It would be with a Briton. The Briton, he Is courteous, he is reserved, de- and Bles all the pendable. And I not think that supper with me when you get to know him he tains. He sends me a telegum to part in one of your pictures,... is cold, Only one thing I hate say he is coming. What am I about the British mon are their supposed to say? No? I am very or if you could speak to your

And now, I must leave you, but bowler hats. They are ridiculous. flattered but that is all

before I do I would like to say that whatever happens to me in

But I hope I never have any more headline love in my life.. I have had my headline romances but not all of them were true. Orson Welles....they say we

What love.

really

аге

If I should fall in love again!

out to dinner

i think above all--and perhaps happened? I go this is why the men like us 50 with Orson, Alexander Korda Cer- much it is because we are and his brother Vincent. feminine. We have "frou-frou" tainly I am fascinated by Orson

he is a fascinating man.

little feminine pieces of non- sense, which serve no real pur-

puso, except to make us more feminine.

In Britain the woman has a natural beauty. She accepts this many French girls would give their

souls for half what A British girl has got!

After dinner the others go

husband for me....

me I have the sense to get out. I hope betone that happens to

(THE END),

NEW INDUSTRY IN THE DESERT-

NEW CITIES NEW MILLIONS-

a new find of Australian Bauxite Ore

aluminium in- Big chemical treatment somewhere else. Orson and I go A NEW dancing. And that-hand on my dustry worth "many plants will have to be built, heart is that. Once more, when millions" to Australia has and in the next stage of he come back

to the South of been started

North in France, he call me and we go Fut to dinner. He likes me be- Queensland and new cities aluminium, a smelting plant converting bauxite to

cause I am gay, feminine, but and centres for thousands of It surprises me to hear that there is nothing more yet it workers will spring up in men there take this rare love make a great romance in the liries for granted, and do not re- papers! mark when their wives It was the same with George sweethearts look specially nice, Raft, We have dinner an he

OF

And, she's in England now

Sara French" "Blm star: Martine Carol wore an air hostess-like"

costume on sertral' £n ́ London. The coat of armistant Ma froul of the dress in by Italian drom designer. Bolmbèrt, who pute 16 on the ensembles of perlain of his boot clients, Mins Carol in France'la known as the X-girl, blotting she apponEN In we ipiny; haughty (fima, Martino Mia Londen: For Use

probably driven by atomic what is virtually untouched power--will be needed. land.

Engineers say that deposits The Australian Minister of bauxite, the "raw stuff" for National Development, of aluminium, at Cape York Senator Spooner, is con- Peninsula, are greater in ducting a nation-wide. appeal volume than all the other for engineers for this, and known deposits In the world other projects in Queensland. put together.

Smelting plant Open-cut 'mining opera- tions will start soon on large, scale.

He predicts that Aus- tralia's first atomic power a station will probably be bullt in the state at Mount Isa,

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