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THE CHINA MÁIE,

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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1958.

LOGAN GOURLAY

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Back-about-town-again!

So this is London again. They have been

telling me its happenings would surprise me after four months' absence on a round-the-world trip. They have.

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For example, here is the surprising story of Mr Frank Sinatra and Miss Doreen Dawn and a dinner invitation.

I am not likely to be elected president of a Sinatra fan club as readers of this column probably know. And Mr Sinatra is not likely to form any fan clubs for me.

But I try to be fair. downstairs. Which is where And if Mr Sinatra deserven I ran into her, sitting

a garland, let him have It. alone. With my compliments.

"What's the big tower 3 thing down there?"

For a moment the driver looked as though he would break right down and cry.

So Gourlay garland to Sinatra. For behaving like a gentleman.

A change Dawn. There

I meet 'em!

Surprising sight In Os Laurie's, one of those cellar jazz clubs which look like under- ground bus terminals.

A young man flving energelle- Q pith helmet, ally wearing

clipped public He said in a school accent: "I see no reason why I shouldn't wear a pith helmet if I want topi

Paul Carpenter, actor, who O'Shane

reading Wa

The was also in the audience and "Anthony and Cleopatra." band struck up "Alexander's who is a loyal French Canadian, ready to shout "Vive Rugtime Dand,"

de Gaulle:

Those twins

Surprising telegram, which I received a few days ago;-

"Imperative you come to Rome to see Pope with twins" Signed "Lynn Ackers."

Ackers 19 American

Was

THE REV. ROBERT COLEMAN takes a look at the men, in gaiters How human are

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the bishops?

DRITAIN is Alling up with bishops. From the four corners of the Earth three hundred and more aro here or on their way for the Lambeth conference, which takes place once every 10 years, and will start this year on July 3.

What ATX they like, these shovel

thele with

aprons ond gaiter+?

I am desolated to report, how-blahops ever, that he turned out to be hats, a commercial traveller in iron- How human are they? mongery who has not even been Can he make his own bed, drive

on a day trip to Bleppe.

Vive le commerce,

The prize

Is a bishop like other men?

a cal, weed the garden, or grow Irritable with his wife?

My boss is a bishop and whenever he is around I am sti thumbs and desperately anxious Explanation: Me

The man in the the high-powered

The M.C.. a greying-haired to please. advertising executive and boss gentleman, who looked a little street, however, is unlikely to for ke Prime Minister Macmillan, adept this deferenilal air, and of an international clinic

announced one of the highlights it is on his behalf that I put the

human "How bolding men and women.

of the show--"this afternoon's question: He took that group ot identical twins to Roing to be heat in the amateur striptease bishops?"

contest, The lucky girl who a.genetics clinic wins the final wil get a prize Rt. Rev. examined 01 n the first step in an experi- ment to prove. That baldness is not hereditary.

And another to Miss cannot be The other night Miss

many girls in London or the Doreen Dawn, u tall girl of

She said: "I just felt I any other town who would without meeting many talents -

ex-beauty queen, showgirl, model, and didn't want to have dinner pass up an opportunity of man wearing a pith helmet for twins should have an audience singer was invited to join and I wanted a change of dining with Mr Sinatra. It takes character. Or some- the Sinatra party for din- company."

thing.

nor.

at

the

Many a man, particularly a much-pursued Hollywood After cocktails

star, would have reacted Dorchester they went to badly. He might even have Siegi's Club where they had slapped the lady or at least more cocktails at the bar, said something quite nasty But when Mr Shtra to her.

time to signniled it was

the

move upstairs to the dining- Not Mr Sintra, He ac- situation roum Miss Dawn decked cepted she would prefer to stay graciously. And quietly.

THERE

I told him I had been all over

Middle and

Far East one English-

any reason.

of

Another young man sat in a comer with

of velure Shakespeare's plays open on his dungarced knees.

He had also arranged that the the Pope (who is, of Course, not Involved in the ex- periment).

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I don't know why my presence was considered imperative, Any- way, I was unable to go..."to see Pope with twins."

Agreed!

Hollywood

of £2,000.

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The Bishop of Gloucester, the car just as our hearts go out Wilfred M. Askwith, to a man whose mitre is on

who has. told me: "The question is no crooked, or a bishop

tho forgotten more relevant to the situation inadvertently

be to ask, middle of his collapsible rat. than it would

doctors? It is pomposity and arrogance human 'How

that we cannot stomach. human are trade union

ituman oficials?' 'How town clerks?'

contestant this afternoon is a practising nurse. She is only 22 and her name is How

Pamcià.

It was a very tall, blonde, and slightly angular nurse who came through the curtains wearing a blue dress and a little blue hat, The hat was one of the last things she took off.

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"The answer is: 'Exactly as human as all the others.""

It anyone should know about bishops, and what they are trying to do today it is Robart Slopford, pipe-smoking Bishop of Peterborough and general secretary of the Lambeth con- ference.

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I presume the thought behind STREET.

"that the He sold: "I don't see why I SURPRISING

"I find," he said, this la: "Of course we are read shouldn't

Shakespeare

She CRIES of London Town.

by Д followed Was

human. We do our job, don't old Idea of the bishop branette called Lee. The M.Cwe, to the best of our ability?" comle Ogure is disappearing The American tourist was right 'ere if I want to. Anyway

It's the interval."

and all that sort of said: "She's 22 and she's the

Unfortunately, it is not always Puinces taxi at the

that the man thing....wo just haven't the paying off

He was 18: his nume W03

wen't tell you what town.' bottom of Fleet Street, and

In the street judges humanity. money to keep them up even it Oxford (hishops take the we wanted to. No, I find that Peoplo things count, looking towards the dome of O'Share: and he had a haircut NOT-SO.SURPRISING clerk to the town clerk. But, 1 by this criterion

She stripped unsmlingly as Uke Marion Brande when he QUOTE from

name of the diocese) foced the le St Paul's. He shouted to played Antony in the film of couturier Don Loper as he

"I have write to me out of the bluo. question with wit. the driveri...

"Julius Caesar."

looked around the "debby" though she were doing it as

ziyle duty.

never before been asked to try to reply sympathetically set of young ladies at that

After the amateurs came the prove," he said, "that I am whenever I can and in my own exclusive 400 Club.

and I have not the hand, I like to accept invita- professionals, and something human which the programme called faintest idea how to go about lons that may have nothing

to do with the Church." "Eritain's most popular game it!" the Strip-Tease Quiz."

Dare you try??????

are quizzes to test your knowledge; there are quizzes to test your health, the success of your marriage, your ambitions.

In every case you know the intention of the quiz. And no matter how hard you try to be honest with yourself you may

feel that you are influenced in some of your answers by what you think to be the correct reply.

But what if you didn't know the purposes of the quiz? Dare you. try it then--when you don't know what may be revealed about yourself? This mystery quiz has.

been prepared by a psycho- logical consultant.

Each question deeply into your

probes

montal

make-up. Each answer re- veals your hidden feelings. And the mystery of what it is all about deepena as you go on.

It is a sign of weakness to

change your mind you've made it up. Do agree?

(a) Yes,

2 Would you

once you

mosi say that children usually get away

with telling len?

(a) Yes,

(b) No.

3 Have you ever bought

a

book because of the picture

on the cover?

(a) Yes.

(b) `No.

4 Do You sometimes have vivid dreams after hearing ghost story or going to

horror Alm?

(a) Yes

(b) No.

5 Would you say that smart restaurants usually give the

best food?

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

Do you consider a man's

voice is a rood indication

of his reliablilty?

(d) Yes.

(b) No.

THE GREAT MYSTERY

QUIZ

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DAKE YOU MUẬT YOU KN WHY ARN0 WHEN

NO

THE MYSTERY

QUIZ?

Martin

that gets people to the top. Do 16 What would you think mort

you agree

(a) Yes. (b) No.

Do you always shop at the

same place?

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

Important in a new job?

(a) The wages? (b) The holidays, hours.

canteen, etc?

prospects (c) The

security? (d) Tho prospects

promotion?

AND NOW

of

of

-HOW DID -YOU FARE?

12 The last time you put some 17 Which of the following do

money side were

Influenced by

(a) A friend's

mendation?

you

recom-

(b) A careful study of the

possibilities?

(c) A in from a chance

acquaintance?

13 Do you consider the price

you do when a saletman or canvasser calls at your door?

7 Have you ever not boen to of an article to be a good 18

a night club or similar ex- guide to its qualify?

pensive place of entertainment

bocanso, you were frightened

that they would charge foo

much?

(a) Yes. (b) No.

8 Would you say that, on the whole, eminent publio man are above average in holght?

(a) Yes

(b) No.

9 Be ron umally go to noo a

fim because of

(a) The actors?,··

(b). Tie droviors?

(c) The reviews?

10 On the whale is lock

rather than anything else

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

a

(a) Listen to him and give

the product

"I've never seen such Д collection of badly dressed unchic frumps." Agreed, Mr Loper.

That key

The poses

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STARTLING

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The Bishop of Truro the R Rev. Edmund R. Morgan, had me revising all my preconceived

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Those with any doubt on this about

eplicopncy

"How hurmar when he told me delightful problun

bishops, should cullivote the don't think," he said, aequalitance of London's own would be bishop, the Rt Rev. Henry C. at the disclosure of Montgomery-Campbell,

During the last Fils is the solemn mien of this incident, war I had to attend a meeting the tue humorist and the mont In Southampton and being short startling remarks are attributed of petrol pedalled down from to bim.

the best the story of hla visit to an Ealing church. Winchester on a push bike,

The girls posed in nude and story. nearly-nude tableaux, and the audience had to guess what "that Bishop Haigh Surprising mission for me. Columble Films have given me sorg and play tiles they repre-offended a gold-plated key to present to sented. Trevor Howard, now filming in The prize was a glit "Oscar" Paris,

-plaster figure of a nude girl, of course. It was seed "Awarded for knowledge."

It is a souvenir of his out- standing performance in the Columbia 13m "Tho Key," opposite SOPHIA LOREN,

HUMANITY

When it was explained to the bishop in the vestry that the I am not ashamed to admit

also church had in fact been erected! "Bishop Mervyn Heigh that I did not win the Oscar.

mecting-in his to mark the occasion when As far as I know it does not Neither did Paul Carpenter, who came to the

сп the car. After the meeting, when he Prime Minister was assassinated open the door to Mins Loren's offered "The Bridge

discovered that 1 was proposing by a lunatic, he nodded sympo- don't River Kwai" for every answer.

"Seems a pity to 1 Lact, apartment. In think it opens anything.

I met one of the professional to cycle, he took my bicycle to thetically.

pleeer with incredible, deftness, let these old customs die out," Memo to Mr Howard: We'll performers, a dark, sturdy girl put it in the back of his car he said.

Since, ullimotely, bishops are drawn from the general public, when you get back,

This is the stuff of humanity. perhaps the best way of answer- adore two prelates ing the question is to nak: She said: "This pays better We can than ordinary

work, popping's bicycle in the back of "How human am I?" chorus

me, It's And it doesn't worry just a job like any other, Like scene-shifting.

try it on a cocktail cabinet called Rene Lastair who started and reassembled it on reaching

her undraped career the Winchester."

These

clubs

Surprising clubs in the London I came back to, Rather shock ing clubs.

These ship-lease, clubs which have sprung up in and around Soho.

They start at 2.30 In the afternoon and present shows that no theatre would dare to present. No censorship if it's a club.

Windmill,

What you do on the stage has nothing to do with your private, life.

"Sometimes we get very nice people in the audience.

1 got citer recently from a vicar. He said he remembered me from his student days at the He even invited me I first of all investigated the Windmill. Raymond revue bar, which is to the vicarage to have tea with located in Brewer Street, no his wife,

"You sen, we don't get Tom, more than the length of a G- string from Wardour Street, the Dick and Harry dropping in oft kame of the

You have to be a British Alm the street; Industry:

member,"

That's it. Anything goes. If It was a bright afternoon and you have a membership card.

was shloing on the I have beeN ·

the Soho shop like these don't

the aun

tutami

windows.

Halfway up the stairs to the Raymond establishment a full- sized, half-dressed young lady of cut-out cardboard brandished a handful of winking candles,

asked if clubo malte London the wickedest city in the world. I don't think so. After all, the vicar approves.

I'd call it the most hypo- critical elly in the world. Not the wickedest....If you don't count the swelling number of Through the lounge har and street-walkers, Lato the theatre or the room where the Follies Striptease in presented.

So sad

funeral

Heavy curtains were drawn to BURPRISING—AND SAD ahut out the revealingg sun-

light, and the chandeller, which fact about the

I discovered later was real during the week of much- crystal and worth about £1,000, loved Harry Green, friend- was dimmed.

of everyone in show busi- ness,

Exception

Total

of number mourners at Golders Green

The audience, exclusively Crematorium: 14, mate, of course, with the excep-

fry?

(c)=3.

(b) Lision sceptically and

see what he has to say first?

(c) Firmly refuse to listen

(0)=8.

and shut the door?

low much confidence do

(0);

sat at small tables grouped

(b) Very, much?

you have in your doctor?

(b) Some?

(c) Very little?

19 Are you, aurally quite un-

or

moved at the theatre cinems—even when those around you are getting worked up?'

14 Do you feel you can more fully appreciate public fizure's point of view when

(a) You hear him at

pubile meeting or see him on televisiont (b) You read a shortened

account of his speech? 20 (c) You road a full-ver-

sion of his spéecht

15 How often do your FUCTS the murderer in a doico-

tive story?

(a) Nearly always?

(b) Very often?

(e) Bometinsest

(a) Yes).

(b) No.

(0) 3;

The object of the quiz tous to And out if you are cally taken in. And here is how you rate:- OVER Anyone would have 40 get up very early in the morning to get round you. You and are Do you think this quis 14 think before you act,

not deceived by appearances,... (a) How

20-45. Your judgment you aret

usually sound, but at times you. (b) Whether you are can be too cally atteneted By

cpally

look of things, (4) How Imaginative youth UNDER 10 You rely on first

Impressions.

about

Belt-confident

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tion of 'a bold-looking lady, BUT I know I was back

round the apron stage.

There were other tables sol out

home in Great Britain and greater London.

WHEN It took me five minutes

in rows to the bark of the room to get the G.P.O. operator for

on a rising camp so that no a trunk call. member's view could be obscured by, a bald head.

were Allod,

WHEN I discovered that part

of a new dual-carriageway road near Chiswick which was un-

The tables round the stage completed when I left homo more than three months ago is As far as f Sitting at one, which was still uncompleted. almost

wns can see not a stone, has been on the stage, General de Gaulle, At least a edded, " man who looked exactly General de Gaulle,

Liko

WHEN-I was told in a large bar that I could not havo icod beer met h

He had the same hawk-like WHEN my garage said No, FLOSE As he watched, the per- they could not wash my car until formanco his head wiralled pest work

round on his long, sun-backed was charged la for be trunk, and I could, sea that has a four-page" advertising folder

the

rapk, masquerading, maka theatre pro- dedicated jock.

This', may Are? (d) How reddity yoli svira dangstoles, rose onu biye # | eses “hat

thornt your opportunities?

ROUND-UP

Woman Loses £7,000,000 Over A Dot

Tarasto.

A MISPLACED decimal point has lost a 30-year-old woman in

Sarnia, Ontario, £7,428,571. Rummaging in the attic through some old papers belonging to her dead father, Mrs Maizle Eady found two stock certificates. A broker identified them as covering shares in a former US. oil company which merged with Tokian Olla in 1940.

A New York Stock Exchange quotation revealed that the certificates were worth 18,000,000 dollars:

The Sarnia broker checked Tokian's history and found that in 1957 it merged with Kirbey Petroleum giving 8,400 shares for one of Toklan's,

The broker told Mrs Eady: "You own the company." And then it all dissolved in the click of a lekor tape. - "Cor- rection," it said. "For Agure 8,400 shares, read point 0400,"

Real value of the shares is £1,695.

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