THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1957.
NOW
Cung THE PARTY'S OVER NOW
Cummings
and his Prime Minister. ---aftor Brighton.
"The Prime Minister and his public
relations man--bofore Brighton.
The public relations man
New Names For Old In Russia
THERE
HERE must be few, if any, countries in the world without a personality cult." They have their towns or learned institutions or more modest places named Sometimes after their distinguished and favourite sons. the honour is bestowed on some world famous figure of another land. But there can be little doubt that the Communists in Russia surpass all others in this mortal falling in the eyes of some old revolutionaries- a bourgeois failing.
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It was as though the Com- munist rulers tel desperately that only by naming towns, factories and collective form after themselves could they be sure of at least some measure of immortality for their comrades- in-arme. and, of course, for themselves.
very
by Dougal Smith THERE she sat-cloaked blonde hair.
A shake of her straight
in ermine, crowned An angry-red foco pushed its with glitter, holding in her way Into the melee. "Come on Merital" I said. "These boys The othere have had enough.
la a sceptro and a cup.
I think I'm going to be sick,” she said.”
And again she smiled, pallid and mechanical, 18 the flash bulb glured white lights around hor.
"What's more," she said, "my feet are killing me."
The scrumble of photograph- ers opened a little in front of the itals,
"Walk down the steps, dear," shouted the movie men.
The World's Most Beautiful Girl, 1987, hesitated. "Un?” she- said.
are waiting for you.".
A blank, uncomprehending
stare from the Queen of Beauty,
"Let her go, for God's sales, shouted the angry-red face.
She went.
And so, once more, the lights flickered and died on one of the
world's biggest flam showa
Gone the
glamour of ten minutes before, gone the wiggl- ing shapes, the painted smiles, the spotlights, the celebrity fudges, the stamping audience.
The last blare of heraldic
through trumpets echorů
the corridors backstage. Its Was all over.
What is there to attract with five guiness to
Someone' led her hallway people down the steps. Cameras spend, on two hours of glamour? whirred, flashed," clicked. Off enme the ermino cloak, plucked from
Just this: Twenty-three girls twenty-three countries, from her shoulders by unseen all sponsored by business" firms, hands. The swimsuit she wore showing more shapely flesh in glinied in the lights. Again the a few ininutes than the average barrage of finches,
nan sees in a year,
She dropped her seoptre among the feet. I picked it up
man?"
Ity.
"Miss
"Ah yes, thank you ver' mush" playing, the judges ducked
"Flu," announces Miss South their heads around and sucked Africa Armly, "has given me a panells, the audience was silent. voice like Marilyn Monroe."
And so they teclered down, stuttered their piecus and tect ered up again,
The television First, there is that nervous appearance, the contestants in carphoned and anxious,
reduction to the audience and over. Giant cameras were train
the line of legs-thigh judges, in voluminous, startling ed on
Ievel. evening gowns.
voice Intoned
The annual "Miss World" contest, held in London's Lyceum for her. It was a light, stiny dance hall, offers fun, cheese affair with rough edges.
"You're supposed to be the cake, bright lights and public- world's ideal woman," I said.
What more could you want? "What's your idea of the idéal The clcction of
She shrugged. "I don't think World" runs to a set pattern. favour any type, So long as he's got a lot his heart and The There were almost 100 towns
decree just published in his brain.
with compiele "Height," she said, "doesn't after living relates, not or villages called Soviet leaders. Molotoy headed historical accuracy, that before matter. And money doesn't in- the list with 36, followed by the era of the personality cult, teresi me.
"Just heart and brains." Kaganovich, who had 31 places the "working people" in "ex-
An
beauty uncomplicated named after him. Of the other ceptional cases" used 10 "IC- living Soviet leaders Voroshilov guest" the names of leaders to this 18-year-old Finnish pedl- Grace Kelly looks gives his name to 24 places and be bestowed on places after curist with Mikoyan to cizhi, Khrushchev, their death. That was one way, and ice-blue eyes,
Then, surprisingly, she Bald Malenkov and Bulganin belong says the decree, in which the
"I just don't know to the second generation of people expressed their "trust in seriously:
the Communist Party" They why I'm Miss World anyway. may still do so, under the terms I liked the other girls better. Which was unusual com of the decree, in "exceptional cases"
has just only after the leader's ment for a girl who death. As far as the living arc won £500, a silver rosebowl TRJ concerned, the decree seems to and a £1,000 Standard imply, the verdict of the people sports car.
"Ever been in love, dear?" on the truthworthiness of the
demanded an eager voice. Communist Party is doubtful,
by Hugh Lunghi
hones
were com- Its words were: "Many of us Soviet leaders and
assigning our poratively unknown until the parlleipated in
to various towns and late thirues when the naming of Now suddenly the Russins undertakings. We must correct places after the leaders was re
characteristically swung thir. Otherwise, 2ld Khrusli- inxed or monopolished by Stalin, hove back to the opposite extreme. A chev, It gave the Impression that Both they and the old guard, I curiously worded decree publish these towns, collective forms, is true, have numerous factories, ed late on September 11, states, cultural institutions and so on collective farms and institutions
the offcial Soviet wore the
of named after them, but it is clear private property According to News Agency, that the Presidium Soviet tenders. But Khrushchev, enough from the figures given of the Supreme Soviet "has added that all this "un-using that it will be the old guard and, of Khrushchev's done. "calmly and above all, two should be found it entfal to terminate the practice of naming provinces, slowly in case people thought principal enemies-Molotor and comrader in whose Kaganovich who will suffer towna, villages, collective forms that "the
"met
some bad decree. fate" or "had been arrested".
and so on after statesmen and cour" the places had been most in prestige under the latest other well-known personalities. named had
afier living Places named people are to be renamed and,
in future, nemes of people will
be bestowed only in exceptional cases and after, their deaths,
It would perhaps be a mis-
go take to see the decree on "ua- Khrushchev's advice to bout the business "calmly and naming" places simply in terms slowly" was niten to heart. But of Khrushchev's fight with his few significant changes of pisce political opponents. The Soviet leaders doubliers names have since been made. Communist The changes zonounced by The places named after Stalin- thought it would be a popular
whom the decree are not altogether un- egalost
people, Khrushchev's move with the Russian expected. Khrushchev had ex- Iconoclasm then seemed to be who in any case ofttu used to plicitly anticipated it in his primarily aimed-still continued go on calling their native towns anti-Stalin speech to the 20th to bear the stigma of Stalin's by their old names in preference Congress last year.
name.
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to those of remote, It not popular, Communists. At the same time, the decree will re- lleve the authorities of tho embarrassment of constantly renaming places when Com- munist idols full into disgrace.
After the 1917 revolution the Tsarist town of Batalpashinsk was given the name of Sulimov, a Prime Minister of the Russian Republic. When Sulimov WES purged, it was named after the main purger, the then head of the NKVD, Yezhov, and when the latter was purged it again changed its nene and is now called Cherkessk.
"Nah!"
"Any ambitions?"
A quick change backstage. Of
please)
A
cameramen, took
"Nino
The girls were marched off. On came singer Denis Lotts with a couple of numbers. 'Ho was drowned by the buzz.
Come the heraldic trumpets
fantarade--and the "World's Six Most Beautiful a blaring Women,"
Miss France (looking, hurt) marched Into sixth place, Miss into fifth, (haughty-above
with the gowns, on with the seconds, right.
And millions ogled with us, Japen (bewildered) awimsuits (one-piece, and the leg-tan.
It was time for the big line. Miss Tunisia And on they come again,
up. Forty-six legs swung about it all) into fourth, Miss South (where are those (Hoots and whistles from the and faced first the judges, then Africa audience.)
the audience, then the camera- cameras?) into third, Miss DenTM
mark (Brigitte Bardot to the Tottering delicately on high, men.
last Inch) Into second.
thin heels they undulate as best
her
And then-Mias World. they can in front of the judges, The television boyz were She climbed the dals shakily the audience and the forest of agilated. Newspaper photogra- and sat in the throne. The robe phers were popping off flashes was fastened about a pair of cameras.
Hands on hips. One feg for right into the lens of their Big heavily powdered shoulders, a ward. Flach, click Thank you. Bertha.
crown balanced on
head There is that delighted, self- Organiser Eric Morley rush- and a rosebowl and sceptro conscious acknowledgment of ed across the stage, holding up piled in her lap. pop-eyed acclaim: hands clasp both hands. "Stop! Stop!"
She looked uncomfortable, to ed in Victory post, a toss of the In answer came a chorus of say the least. hips, the wiggle back
And backstage? to the guffaws from the photographers' dais-each sway calculated with ple geometric precision.
turn.
Then comes.
Shakily--the continued stand-
Oh, yes. Tenth-gnashing and Slumped shoulders. tears.
One by one they slip off their ing must have been wearying Sagging bouquets,
and black cloaks, parade, and re- the girls trooped back to the It was dark backstage,
circular dais. They were re- quiet. Only a door slammed, an ibo embarrassing part volved out of sight. On the occasional female voice ruled
other side was an empty throne, to shrill anger. "Now, we'll hear what they
Now for the seven finalists: have to say,”
"Lillan Madsen-Miss kays compere- metor Paul Carpenter.
The disillusionment begins.
"Oh yes," says Miss Ireland,
"I'm a bookie's clerk.
a Icetle."
"I swira
Miss Israel. "Okay?"
"Me no spik English," Miss Italy,
Miss Great Britain wanted to Den- see her parents-"Now!" mark." bawled Carpenter, She Sald Miss Greece, bravely swayed in the stngt, bulting smiling: I think the judges
have bad taste." her hips confidently.
Miss "Marila Lindahi Finland;
Africa rustled .. South Bushes Inės Navarro-France: Sara past. "Who's taken my swim-
Elimor-Israel; Muncko Yori sull?" pouts full-Japon;
Adele Kruger-- Like the mascara, the face South Africa; Jacqueline Tapla powder, the tan, it was all over,
Morocco,
Only grumbling attendants Events were working up to 8 were left, pleking up the pitch. The orchestra stopped scraps.
"I tm glut to be heah," fumbles Miss Japan coyly. And scrambles quickly for her notes,
THE TWO FACES
OF MR. SANDERS
ITH apologies to the Wate Dr Freud and a current film I present today The Two Faces of George which I should explain are not in any way related to The Three Faces of Eve.
wall.
LIMELIGHT
am
by THOMAS WISEMAN
"In that case," I said, "you A are not as we have been led to
belleve a woman hatar?''
Behind the facade -- Sondars No. 2,
alone end lonely when I was with people. Now I can be along with myself and not find my own company unbearable."
He has also become more bearable to hla former wife, Mias Zsa Zsa Gabor, though that, he explains, is due. as
say there much-except possibly when I Underneath if I
much to the fact that he is no ungallant of me to
possibility of my am singing If You Were The The two faces-both of them exactly the opposite.
longer married to her as it is was no to psychoanalysis.
marrying her again. And it is Only Girl. handsome, unshaven, sleepy and romantic, a sentimentalist."
"WO
sald are now,"
Mr. High time I was gallant where you only have to be given a belonging to George Sanders- What precisely, I asked, wan;
we over she is concerned." love the Sanders, "closer than were Intermittently
"Goodness, no! visible the defensive wall defending?
sentimental song and the real above the red qullied elderdown
creatures. But again it is part were when we were married. "My sensitive and eastly of the facade to pretend not to
"Despite the fact that she has character comes pouring out." "She is a wonderful girl my in the bedroom which had once wounded,nature,"
sald
Mr
almost I suggested to Mr Sanders been occupied by Henry Vill. Sanders.
give a damn. That way they favourite date the best dele ungallantly and Which brought us to chase you instead of you chase any man could have as long us and downs of your married life facade: without it he wouldn't clinical detail revealed the ups that he owed a great deal to his il was too early (10.30 a.m.)
face number Two, which sing them, which is a much he isn's married to her. for either fuct ແ be fully more dimeult to describe as it
together?"
have become the successful film "When we were married wo
actor, he wouldn't have married awake. But I had been told is revealed to no one except hia more-convenient arrangement." that Mr Sanders would be ready psycho-analyst.
"Well, I didn't care for that," Zsa Zsa; ho wouldn't have made "But I have come to and spent the amount of money
in
see me
I
interfere with
only sco each other when wo
"
"I can be I said that he was displaying always und to at this time of wounded," said Mr Sanders, ' unusual frankness for so early each other. Now we don't. We ho said, morning und despite my Arm
enables you to accept other. "On the whole," sald M- convictions to the contrary, by women, by men, even by in the morning, and Mir Sanders want to, which means we meet accept that, too. Paycho-analysis he has made and spent.
sold that it was psycho-analysis in the best circumstances; people as well as yourself.". had driven down to Great
Bander's surveying the which was responsible for that. whereas in marriage you are Fosters in Egham to keep the appointment.
In a vast room hung with tapestries and filled with curved oak furniture, I was Introduced to the dual personality of Mr Sanders.
dogs."
"How?" I asked.
"It.I ask a girl to dinner and she sayu, No,"
"Does that happen, often?" Attracts women
No. That's where the facade comes in, The facada.
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also enabled him to where Henry VIII had slept, accept that at the age of 51 he "perhaps it is better that I am is no longer as much in demand the way I am." in filma na he used. he now has an important role in
It has enabled me to accept Table to meet in the worst It has myself as I am,"
#be sald. circumstances. averybody should think
bo psycho-analysed. It should be eurriculum. part of the school Much more important than geography."
Duty question
be, though. Things to come
"Our marriage didn't woris the Romulus Alm, The Whole
He got out of bed. He was out because....well,
as you Truth "But," he said, "I am VERYBODY is getting to en voola I Individual in making a new career in TV and the set: fast
The face which he presents to attractive tonomico, The wearing a dark-blue slik dress know, bho is an the publle is of
an ultra- passivo aggressive character I ing-gown. He crossed to the her own right and not grepared as a recording artist. And the reported that Stanley Krain.or the dutiful shadow strange thing is that it is the 'was planning a dim shout, the sophisticated, smooth, cynical have assumed is highly success latilcod window and looked out to become
Henry of her spouse. And I am not other me, the one behind the end of the world called On the I have' nOWB man of the world; the volco that ful with them so they don't my into the grounds whore
A... dutiful. shadow facade, who seems to be having Boochow goca, with it is suave and bored; "No."**
VIII used to chase stags and, exactly
either." data
that ruccom. I'am recording that Harry Belafonte è la sto the manner
cultivated, "So your easily wounded one strumos, Anne Boleyn
"That means I suppose, that highly romantic, ballada and appear in a film called. End detached and relaxed. This was nature; is a comparatively
Percho-analysis,” said | 2de the first face I saw propped up scathed BLE STANDIN
Sanders, has enables me to you have no intention of rew had a great success on television of the World
JUDY GARLAND toki marat against the pillows complain. "Yes. The law of supply accept angle blesandness, which marrying ber" I wal Ing at the barbarism of before- and demandy is in mor favour, for most people in Money and I didn't my Max said. "Me Girl In The World.
Also it is part of the facade not unsatisfecion liten usca to feel Blander.
breakfast interviews.
Wainging: If You Were The On SSHANDELENERE KANALERT
"I don't think anyone bus honour 2-3 have a temperament
But that face is only to expose myself to vainotion 1.Hed to have date every night. Does that mean you may ever seen me completely with bula Extort Commen facade imides Mr Bandare only ac when I know the and to ro tearing about towns 1-Let me put di this way) and out my facade not
be Zaa alesply -"pest of my defensive anaware going to be !Y* * ued to feel lonely, when i was May Bandua, tik would
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