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not yet equipped for interplanetary
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, · NOVEMBER 80, 1957.
Tel: Reservationa 63311
BULLS IN THE CHINA SHOP
JAN ROBSON
talks to a woman who has never made a commercial dias, but mada har nams playing them
RECORDS
'I am not jealous,' says
JEAN
EAN METCALFE
shivered. The girl- the only girl-to become R successful radio disc jockey, said: "I hate the thought of going back to work. I've grown to dislike London. I'm so much happier in the country, pottering around the kitchen and looking after the baby.
"That's what supposed to do." -
women
Miss Metcalfe
During her nine months leave to have her baby the roles of fanious and not-so-famous in the Metcalfe-Michelmore house- hold have changed.
Their house used to be known Miss "The place where Metcalfe lives." Now It is "Where Mr Michelmore lives."
Says Mim Metcalfe who met and married Mr Michelmore after they had appeared blue
are
She pulled her royal jumper
down over her scarlet skirt. "So long as I have somewhere where I can get drewed up occasionally-oven a small country town-that's all I
want."
By theso standards Mica Metcalfe should be well satisfied. Her home is a medium-alzed Georgian-style house ("It's casily spotted by the pink door"') in a small town in
Surrey.
Her only permanent help is a girl who looks after Guy, her 1.nc-week-old' com.
Back today
Saya Miss Metcalfe: "I'm not umbitious for myself any longer. I've got Guy and CHI" (her husband, the relaxed Mr Michelmore ofi television's Tonight fame) "and although we do live in a town it only takes a few minutes to get into the country in any direction.
"I Anished with ambition the year I was voted Television Personality of the Year. It seemed I had done everything I wanted to do,”
Miss Metcalfe sighed. "Going back will be so different from my first day at the B.B.C. as a secretary. I was just 17. It was my first job. Radio had been my Idol, and there I w09 actually going to work in Broadcasing House,
"I bought
a new black sit, and the Rest morning I stood outside walling until Portland Place was completely emply. I wanted everyone to see me as I walked in,
"At last the road was clear.
I walked across the road to the door. I was so proud.
"Then just as I got to the entrance some painters CAMO round the corner and wont in with ladders and things. My entrance was ruined. I could have died."
Although broadcasting made Jean Metcalfe famous, it has not made her rich.
has
As a member of the staff of c B.B.C. she is pald little more than £2,000 a year,
on
opposite ende of the Family Favourites wire between London and Germany: “I'm not the least bit jealous. This is the way I have always wanted "She kicked off her shoes, put on a butcher's blue and white striped apron, and vanished in- to the kitchen,
"I Uke a boss around the house."
A British Crossword Puzzle
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by DAVID T. K. WONG
(RETURN TO CHINA, by James Bartram. Heinemann.
25 shillings).
(NEXT STOPPEKING, by R. J. Minney. Nownes, 25
shillings).
(SPRINGTIME IN SHANGHAI, by Mabol Wain Smith.
Harap. 15 shillings),
THE last few years have seen the appearance of a
prodigious number of books on China. While somo of them have been good, most of them have been bad or indifferent. The present difficulty in obtaining accurato informaation about China has encouraged those with even the slightest knowledge of that country to rush into print. There can be little doubt that under more normal | conditions many of those books would never have scon
the light of publication.
is
In recent weeks three more The plcture he paints books on China have been perhaps
*Overly opticalstic. added to the growing list. They Disenchantment ls diMcult are James Bertram's Return to when one is in love with the China, R. J. Minney's Next Stop subject of cue's study. Also hla ~~Feking, and Mabel Wald
hai,
Smith's Springtime in Shang- acquaintance with Mao THC- tung and Chou En-lai dalos back to Yonun days and polite- on ness would call for Mr Bertram's latest book Chinn claims to be nothing restraints.
Furthermore,
Mr Bertram more than a collection of per-
gathered visited Ching at a time when a
sonal
certain
impressions during a month-long visit to hundred flowers were blooming that country in 1950, after au and before the current drive on absence of ten years. It is not rightists had begun. Therefore
study a critical
of the Com- it is quite possible that the munist regime, nor la 1 aimed Chine he saw was a China at presenting picture of all enjoying a period of relative aspects of Chinese life under freedom.
Communist rule. K that la
kept in mind then Return to
China makes pleasant reading.
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Feed, Arena, 7 Satan, 9 Right, 10 Vatre, I Thorn, 14 Morm 18 Fraud, 17 Later. 10 Astch, 20 Peros, 21 Mai, 23 Low, 23 Evil, 24 Rake,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
PRELIMINARY -INCIDENTALS
SURVEY
In Conference
-THEN I SAY, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE SHOW ?` ———— THEN YOU SAY, 'I'M JUST HERE FOR NICE — THEN I
AD LIB, NICE GOING ·THEN YOU GO."
IM CONFERENCE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE-
SERVICE-WITH-A-SMILE REPAIRMANI
MAKING OUT HIS BILL.
I ALWAYS USE
ARSENIC /
"ME TOO!"
DON'T CALL THE COPS — THEY'RE
ONLY PLOTTING THE DEMISE
OF GARDEN PESTS.
"GOSH! I DON'T
HAVE TIME
TO TINT
MY NAILS!
WHAT'LL
I DO??
"KEEP YOUR
BOOKS
ARE BETTER
THAN EVER.
WKING
GLOVES
COR, IT TY GENIJAL FEATUR
COS, IM WORLD RIGHTS RESERYKA
AND
SHOES
ON /*
"IT COST SIX CENTS TO MAKE – WE CAN
GET FIFTY—IT'S WORTH A DOLLAR-
MARK IT "TWO
DOLLARS REDUCED
FROM FIVE!“
·SMALL POWWOW.
PRICE FIXING- CONFERENCE,
His Job
Nevertheless, making allow
taken.
His
journalist and diplomat, he had ances for his blas, some of his come to know the old Chinn
well points are at first hond, And knowing argument for the admission of her, he had fallen in love with Communist China to the United her, with the China of oecen- Nations, for example, is valid. trie scholars and crooked gar Pretending that Communist den walks, of matching couplets China does not exist will not and the Anger-game. But he make it disappear like a bad knew too that behind that dream. Communist members' In romantic facade lurked the the international club may not spectres of hunger and wat
New China
Today
a
always observa. the rules, but Burely non-membership would absolve them from the obliga- tion to observe any 'rules at all. Mr Minney, on the other hand, new China has
to drow attempts
no political arisen, a China of smoking foe-
his book. Ho conclusions in tories and rolled-steel mills, of
no startling now collective farming and Five thought. In fact he adde little
puts forward Year Plans. attempting to that is new to our knowledge of banish the ghosts of hunger China under the Communists. and want, the new regime has also banished some ot the sparkle and mellowness of the old life.
His book is also the outcome China in 1956, of a visit to when he was invited to delver en address In Peking at the Shaw's Mr Bertram's book repre celebration of Bernard sents an attempt to come to Centenary. He took the op- terms with the now China and portunity to visit ports of North his own chief concern has been China, and the book-like Mr' IMO discover how far the Bertram'als intended as a characteristle Chinese qualities personal record of the travels. of tolerance, good-humour, and While Mr Minney may be a readiness to compromise had Bille more critical of what ho survived under what is very saw than Mr Bertram, >> 13 much a totalitarian regime,"
By Harry Weinert
I'LL GET A TURKEY, AND IF I FILL THEM UP WITH A GOOD THICK SOUP FIRST. THE TURKEY SHOULD DO US FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK! *
HE WANTS fo KNOW WHY YOU CAN'T SERVE
HOT DOGS AND CALL IT A PICNIC.
SHOULD I WAIT TIL HE CALLS, OR SHOULD I CALL
HIM AND ASK IF HE WAS THE ONE WHO JUST CALLED
ME —
OKAY! YOU WIN!
COM
FAP.
·OF
also less competent, due to his lecke of background knowledge of China. For example, he makes much of being offered lea wherever he weat, whereas anyone knowing China, either past or present would taka that for granted.
Like the books 0:1 China written by those who are newly the ancient acquainted with land, Next Stop-Peking brings In that inevitable bil ubout the Great Wall, the scente beauliks of Hangchow, rad the history of the Boxer Rebellion, All that may be very well for the un- initiated, but, it is not very rewarding reading for those secking fresh information about Communist China.
How Little
Being a veterin film pro- ducer, Mr Maney is at his best when he is within his own frame of reference, when he is telling us what is going on in the Dim industry and in the theatres of China. His book also has the advantage of many. black-and-white and coloured photographs as illustration.
Of the three books, Spring- time in Shanghat is the most disappointing. It is a rambling, disjointed narrative, outstanding shaky history and mis- information.
The book purports to be an account of life in China as lived by Mrs Smith. But it turned out to be a record of that artiá- cial existence led by the foreign set in Shanghai, where Mrs | Smith enjoyed "table rank" at formal dinners, played mah jong (but not for money), at- tended race meetings, and com- manded the services of a coolt- boy, a wash amah, and “aix as- torted but well-trained under- sorvants." That is, 'when she is not busy trying to be a pro- feastond Sloophile,
to
A passage on the dedication pago of her book appears as follows: "This book attempts no large round answers political questions. But, which- ever side you'aro on, China is bound to resumo her place as a great, warich Power. May theso-my personal adventures while living there-give you the colourful idea that rich experiences are in store when, the oldest nation on earth, her house onco. again, in order. opend a welccaning door to Westerners."
To think that the type of life she led can ever, return shows- how little she has, understood China, in spite of biving “ilyed, thbru?", for anyone thier a decade," «(COPYRIGHT RESERVED)
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