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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,- 1957.

IT'S EXCITING AND TOPICAL

AND FAST-MOVING

IT'S FRESH WITH

IT'S

ITS STUDDED

THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS NAMES

IDDON'S NEW YORK

THIS in New York in the

THIS

autumn.... Manhattan

in the autumn.

Glittering, glamorous with the air like champagne

and the women

like.... sirens? Well....not exactly,

I leave

apartment my

at

1,000. Park Avenue, and walk slowly the golden mile toward. my air-conditioned offices at 50 Rockefeller Plaza.

The reason I walk alowly is that the air is not like cham- pagne, but as thick and heavy as glue.

We are suffocaling In what is known orchly as bu Indian

It's not so much

Summer.

summer

A weat box. and the avenues are wilting.

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Park Avenuo, the most fumoas of them all, is not meraly willing. It is collapsing

Scares of immense and spacious apartment houses Jre coming down,

Huge blocks of masonry come The thundering to the earth. ground is dug up and there are whole blocks levelled like London in the bliz

1

The New Yorker breathes. mixture of moisture, dust, and cement, and wears dark glasses to protect his eyes from the muck.

From 50th

42nd Street to where Grand Central Station sits, almost every block of dats is being levelled to make room for mammoth office buildings.

Office buildings yield for more rent than apartment houses.

Uptown where I live barri cades are being put up against of Puerto the steady advance Ricans, 500,000 strong, who move slowly to take over Upper Nineties, then the Eightles and maybe in my time the Seventies.

the

So there is a wholesale exit from Park Avenue and the move

Wilting? No

it's collapsing .

is to the East River, which the United Nations has made even

rare fashionable,

THE

Snail-like

E anclent architect Frank Lloyd Wright says of the Unfled Nations building: "Do I approve a gravestono?”

Mr Wright himself is erect- in an extraordinary anall-like structure on Fifth Avenue which with

the bc

Guggenheim Museum

I fear it will be hideous, con- trasting sharply with the cool clean lines of the Lever Brothers the United Nations building, headquarters, the Daily News skyscraper, and scores of new sheer blocks of dats.

MONROE BMILES Life's a honeymoon..

So I am selling my flat at 1,100 and

12. new Hood looking for a

Mike has taken over the whole Under some

weird Anancial of Madison Square Garden, so system when a building

be about 16,000 goes there will co-operative I am able to sell.at guests. a handsome profits, but I shall

leave be sorry

1,100, the вселе Ive entertained Selwyn Lloyd of so many parties where and Gladwyn Jebb, Noel Coward and Ceell Beaten.

Greer Gar son and Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Terence Rattigan, Lau- rence Harvey, Lea Genn, Donald Campbell, Steinbeck and Cleveland Avery, almost all of vbiting Fleet Street and half of Hollywood and Broadway,

Horne.

Pale Pink

HAVE received my invitation In a tiny pink envelope, and the pale pink royal says:

command

Arthur 2

adores her husband, Miller, who declares himself now men at 41 and has put on * 10lb, in weight.

Marilyn says: · "All my fe now is a honeymoon. Arthur my lie. I feel wonderful. I'm the great American outdoor girl' now."

The old master, Arthur God- frey, is not quite na big or arro- gant as he was and no longer Inclined to leave the "frey" oft his name.

He still sells

more products for sponsors than any other TV entertainer, but he cannot lost for ever.

Perry Como, who used to be a barber and is the most relaxed performer in the business, is at the top of the heap.

Bob Hope says about Como: "Perry's so relaxed on TV he makes Bing Crosby seem like a busybody. He sleeps an hour be fore the show and 20 minutes during."

Frank Sinatra has become

On the sidewalks of

New York.. . Don

· Iddon strolls in the sun.

It's a big, wide, wonderful entertainment world and escap ist season, but the veteran stars dominate.

Lancashire's Rex Harrison is

• among the top ten.The Harri- tempestu- son temperament is ous. Ho and co-star Ethel Merman havo differed over television spectacular Crescendo.

the

of lms, triple threat night clubs, and now televisiori. He will have his own show.

Currently he is appearing in the film The Joker is Wild. This is the story of Joe E. Lewis, America's greatest cabaret per- former.

never

date "For Den Iddon, October 17, time 0.30, place homa (crossed out) place, Mad!-

have Perhaps you' son Square Garden, A ittle party heard of him, but he is the for a few chums to celebrate comedian of show business, the first birthday of Eighty Data bawdy and puckish..

Merman, who bosses everyone and everything in her, "own Broadway show, Happy Hunting, has walked out on Crescendo.

.:

Theatre Boom

on Broadway ..Liz and Mike. After all the years it's Jor mutumn is the great party P.S.: Dan't bring presents. Have E. Lewis and Sophie Tucker season, but as I'm houschunting so many already. We'll share who command the biggest HERE are

but them with you," I shall not be giving any

night-club audiences and big- will be attending many,

Marilyn Monroe promises to

gest salaries of $30,000 a week But it is the Mike Todd party attend. She has recovered from in New York and $40,000

is exelting New York. the which

loss of her baby.

$50,000 in Las Vegas.

She

They are on the way

They will soon be here

They have arrived/

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DESIGNED & BACKED BY FORD PRODUCED UNDER LICENSE.

BY SIMCA-POISSY-FRANCESE

Solo Denter-Importer:

MICHEL FRERES

75 FRENCH BANK BLDG. HONGKONG.

to

At the Plaza's Persian Room, just across the way from the Copa, there is the Parisian star Lilo who is helping the hotel to celebrate its 50th birthday.

of Cole Lilo, the tiny star Porter's

Can-Can is dazzling. the crowds and is billed as

some important openings this week on the Ann Todd legitimate stage makes her first Broadway up-

Winde... pearance in Four:

The

other openings дге West Side Story, a new musical based on conception of Jerome Robbins, and there a straight play, Jonny Summit, by Ben Zavin,

The theatre is booming and bella

A one girl frolic in any lange the box office is ringing

try Club.

Diamond The passed away long ago. are not many new nightclubs.

with mass bookings by theatre parties, and scats, without the scalpers profits; បទ high 43

Anyway she is good. Jerry Lewis, without partners each. Dean Martin, has broken All In the Royal Ballet Margot records at the Town and Coun- Fonteyn is so superlative that the New York critics soy: Horseshoe

"Sheer genius. A dazzling per:: There

Miracle 'overywhere. formance. Glorious, Unbelievable,

And in opera Rudolf Bing, who has just signed a five-year certain contract, calls for a amount of formal dress.

Making money

THERE le Jazz City,

THE

Mor-

This suggestion has jolted New Yorkers, who rarely put on white lie and talls or gven tuxedon.

with Buddy Rich and his orches tra, and there is the Mannequin, featuring Barbara Carroll, but the old guard stand fast.

The most exclusivo is

There is a shortage of good occo, which has no cabaret, but restaurants in mid-town, with with te zebra-striped couches, the great tearing-down chong-

superb ing the face of New York. its champagne room,

As for drink the sales bands, and excellent food "has

international. vodkú soar and soor. Why? enob appeal and femo.

because it leaves you breath- the Embers, 100.00

all fammed

The Versailles,

the Blue Angel are

and making money.

of

Which this ploce, har about left me.

just

#EACEMAKITA Bad this is the car that took Glanton thers HiLEONISTUSLIKÉFIFIELDIENSTE

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A baby you can take

anywhere

THE car I took on the trail of the salmon

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was a little green Austin A.85. Why such a minnow?

Because I'in social climbing. Nothing is more chic today than the small car. In May- fair it has taken the place of the limousine. in the garages of Stirling Moss and Miko Hawthorn and on the drive of practically every stately home you will find out.

This applies not only to the famous and the blue-blooded. Take a look in your main street tomorrow.

ROAD TESTING THE

"AUSTIN A,35

This

What drove me, mad was Guppy door pull which dangle on my arm the whole time 'I. wi driving.

Reflecting on the little Austi I would be happy to follow th The social trend and drive in it u

to. Buckingham Palace,

Now for performance--

GEAR SPEEDS: Top, 74 mil hour; third, 54 miles hour; second, 34 miles an hour

a 70 mlio-an-hour ACCELERATION: 9—30,0

With these high speeds and despite what folk say they are high--you must have an avun- cular intersit in the brakes.

GLENTON'S SCORE GARD

And praise the gearbox, ratios are designed to get you. See the pretty housewives, from traffic jam to traille fam their faces voxed with concen- in remarkably rapid time. The tration, trying to wangle an lever comes from the floor, enormous saloon car into the It has no vibration and is aan space opposite the grocer's or joy to use. the hairdresser's.

And while their arms dy like car and given the right con- secs.. 050, 17.8 secs. (TH windmill sails what are their ditions it wil cruise blissfully at speedometer was 2.1 miles a hulking husbands doing! They-60 miles an hour,

hour fast at 60 miles an hour are doing very nicely in that little car they generously bought for their nearest and dearest.

The man who boasts in office and cl

golf club of his powerful car complete with cigar lighter runabout the family will sneak

drop of at the

spanner,

car or Whether

one you own two the A. 35 is worth consider firm foot

One thing I liked very much Ing.

four-seater, It is a full although, with the driver's sent, about my Austin. It had only For the mother right back, one passenger would two door.

shopping with the children this be happier without big foct.

Is a blessing. There is no Fast miles..... danger of the little blighters.

out under The splendid thing about the tumbling-

a steam roller. Austin is its handling,

Firm foot

They were effective on the A.35, although I did find it necessary to put down a very,

The short wheelbase, and the One thing I disliked. I found narrow track make the first fow the pedals awkward for my long fast miles a matter for some legs. After a while I lost the thought. But soon one gets impression that I had three the hang of the car's attitude unco-ordinated feet, but I think towards corners,

that the pedals should be offset.

High In my enthusiasm is the. boot, which makes the A.33 #

There is some Uitle oversteer but the steering itself is an light

as a burglar's Lobstep,

real holiday cor for the family.

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