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HE "DISCOVERED" CHESHIRE V.C. APART from bla splendid record as a war-time bomber pilot Air Commodore John Whitworth, newly appointed Commandant

of the Central Flying School, has another claim on the gratitude of the nation. Before the war he was instructor to the Oxford Uni- versity Air Squadron and but for his patience and foresight n future V.C. bomber ace might have been rejected for training. The possible "reject" eventually became on outstanding bomber Jeder and winner of the Victoria Cross. He is Group Captain Lavoard Cheshire now known to millions for his widespread charlly work in the form of "Cheshire Homes in different parla of the world. Air Commodore Whitworth, 40, won the R. A.F. featherweight boxing championship when he was 10 in the Lord Wakeflekt competition. In 1044, when at the Air Ministry, he was serviously injured inga fall from a roof, during a bombing raid. YOUNG ADVENTURERS

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pHOUGH admitting they have never been to scs, four Middles- across the Athentie, and to the Amazon. They describe their object at "gomething unusual and worthwhile. Instead of settling down to a routine, boring way of life" The leader is Dawson Jones, 18, and the other adventurers are John Firids, 19, and Bruce Day, 21, et Surrey Street, Middlesbrough, and a 20-year-old boy whose name is not divulged because "his parents do at know yet." Their pro- mrarme envisagas a voyage 2,000 miles up the Amazon and 1,500 miles up its main tributary, the Iquitos. They expect to start about the anat September and be away about a year.

brough, Yorkshire, youths are planning to sall a snail ketch

TREK ACROSS ICELAND

WITH two Icelandic Scoutmusters as guides six members of the Muld-tone, Kent, Grammde School Scout troops are later this monta eeting out on a six-day trek across the deserted centre of leclund. The Maidstone Senuks will be in the ebarge of Scoutmaster Alan Blake and Assistant Scoutmaster Alan Kuell. The party will inve je varry all their own gear and food, as they do not expect to come across any inhabitent areas during their 100-mile walk. They may have to creas one of the main lee cops on the island, YACHT BASIN

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958.

PARIS NEWSLETTER BY RAMSDEN GREIG

Miss Greco Is

Now Among The Riviera Greats

HER PAINTING BY VERTES IS THE TALK OF THE SHOW

Paris.

THE 65-year-old Hungarian-born portrait painter Marcel Vertes is showing his latest works at an exhibition in Cannes. The talk of the show is his painting of Juliette Greco. Which puts Miss Greco up among the Riviera "greats" for Vertes has also painted Mrs Onassis, Mrs Niarchos, Gloria Vanderbilt and Helena Rubenstein.

Film producer Darryl Zanuck commissioned the Green paint- ing because, as he says, he nd- mlres her greatly. What he not saying is how much his ad- miration cost him in fers to Vertes,

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Vertes did the portrait from memory in his Paris

studio while Juliette und Darryl were resting on the Riviera after making the Alni "The Roots of Heaven." He was getting on fin? until he suddenly rentised that he had forgotten the colour of Greco's eyes.

Vertes took the first train lo the Cap d'Antibes, had a good look at those famous eyes and" went buck 10. Paris tô Anish lis portrait.

FORGETFUL

PRITISH waterways first barbenar monster, Mr H. Turner,

gent's Camat baffle representative, is busy preparing for the many yachts expreted when the St Pancras, London, Yacht Basin opens next month. Yacht owners from many parts of Britain have already applied fee ruborings, The basin, originally used for load- ing cual on to borges from railway wagons, will be the first of in kind in fønion. Pruetically the only other yacht innorings avail-

Such attention to detail 15 alte are in the Thames fideway. whère distt pre liable to ne vatter surprising-when you con- swamped or bumped by passing veesels. "London yacht owners sider that Vertes presents the will be able to do their winter reitting within a few minutes' walk | rest of Juliette Greco as a mer- of the tubes and buses, instead of travelling to remote parts of the guast or the Thames estuary," said Mr Tutor.

FIELD-MARSHAL SLIM

WHEN Field-Marshal Sir William Slim, Governor-General of „Australia, brecase, a freeman of the city of Melbourne he will be the suposati na to be so honoured. The only city in Australia, which confera fa fan dung, Melbourne City Council took special poxers le ervate its first treenaan, the Duke of Edinburgh, when he attended the Olympic Games at Melbourne In 1958.

POLICE SHELTERS

POLICEMEN on Suty at the

gates of the House of Com- mons will soon have a wood and glass but in blück and white to protect them from the Wedn ther. After nearly 20 years the brick and concrete air Pald salters which were put up just inside the gates to protect the palicemen are being demolished.

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maid, covered with green scales, sling on a rock.

Parks like every other metro- pulla has its pavement artisi.

But where else in the world would you find an old bearded man chalking surrealistic nudes on the pavement?

With the blessing of the American Statz Department,

the

↑ the

Miss Olivia de Havilland, want, for instanca, to raise English-born in Tokyo, a na root of the house and bulld turalised American now lving glassed-in playroom for here with her French Journalist children. But the French work- husband, Pierro Galante, is still men do not seem to undersland an American citizen.

what I mean. They've been two years doing it and co far they haven't laid a brick."

It looked as if she was going to lose her American nationality because she had not spent the necessary 18 months in the US. after having been away for five years.

However, as a Paris newnpaper has just reporlad: "The State Deportment has decided to ex- euse her forgetfulness because she is considered by the Amer!- can Government to be such a good propagandist for American culture,"

I telephoned Miss de Havi land at the mandon she has bought in Paris, and asked her what the American State Dc- partment meant-

'She explained: "I've got a two-year contract to do shows for American camps in Europe. I suppose you could call that being a good propagandial for

American culture."

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Meanwhile the champion of Anstreian culture is busy modelling her home to her taste. She wants to combine modern American Iving with easy-going French charm. She told me.

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VOCATION

Nineteen year old blonde, blue-eyed English deb Carolyn Ponsonby has joined the ranks of English girls now working for the Paris fashion houses,

hay She

taken 2 Job with Lanvin.

It's a kind of vocation in our Mother modelled for family. Schiaparelll 20 years ago," she sald.

There she was dancing with a French military cadet at the big debutante ball in the Palaco of Versailles Sald my compan- ion: "Ah. Menaleur, the Coun- 1ess Albert de Mun is one of our most beautiful elegant and aristocratle young ladies,"

There

she

other was the evening In one of Paris's most fashionable

dining nightclubs and wining with the Parla smart set. A flend 'asked her to have The countess another drink.

said: "No, thank you, I have to be up curly in the morning."

There sho way yesterday Wing In moderation, I drink in showing why she cannot afford moderation, eat In moderation to whoop it up until dawn with and make love in moderation. the rest of the smart. set. I For a Frenchman, the list bit of found her behind a counter In my secret took most of my dis- ' the Galeries Lafayello selling elpilne," rayon blouses.

THE LEGEND HIS SECRET

Mamma Bardol, mother of When I had a drink with Brigitte, has Just falshed Maurice Chevalier, nearly a book to be published in the 30 now, I said that, assuming I autumn. The publishera rver reached the age of 70, Brigitte Bardot, My Daughter,

fresh

say that Mine, Bardot's aim is to destroy a legend,

"She tries to explain that her daughter la not the light-hearted Hittle person she appears to be,

hoped I would look as and it as he did.

Did he have a meret to pass on? Efe said: "Eight yearn ago disciplined myself to do every-

Why I'll

never

be

Should Parsons Say a hoop-la

HOULD clerics take

titles? The question

is prompted by a recent appointment to the new Life Peerage when one

'Yes' To A Title?

Most robust epponent was name stood out in the the Very Hev. Dr G. J. Jeffrey, first little list: Mr Vietor, from Glasgow. The "meretrici

Dus wapings" of the Lords, he Ferrier Noel-Paton.

said, did not appeal to Presby- Seldom, surely, enni a man 10 terians. Many Scots Ministers, little kipwn have been raised offered a coronet, would reply, to the nobility. Comenenfaters, "Take away this baubir.". briefed by Downing Street, Not so Mr Ncci-Paton, Not so were quirk to explain that he Anglicza cerlesiastics either. red byman in the Archbishops Davidsen and Lang Chun of Seoliand. And he accepted hereditary peerages un had been singled out to give vacaleg the Sre of Canterbla y that church representation In and, with it, their seats in the the Upper House.

Lords.

was

Wink at act

For salute, iL was bat red ministers from Lords.

Both had been used to drop- ping in at Westminster on in sad, afternoon. It was only a stone's from the Athenaeuma, their other West End club.

the

Slatule, it feel, does nothing of the surt. at an Act of the Scottish General Assembly, of

tirow

Noble vicars

By IVAN YATES

Though the Church of Seol- land may have

no peers, lost year's Moderator of the General Assembly was a baronet-the Rev. Sir George Macleod, Bt Though he prefers not to use his title.

Anglican elergy enuld enter a team of baronets ler a seven- a-side competition and provide referee and linesmen froin the ranks of the knightage.

His choice

Knighthoods do, however, pro- vick #

spot of bother. Spine

The Years ago,

Rev. Robert 1038-"against the civil places And the suspicion is strong Hyde, a Hoxton viem, gave up and

Kirkmen that Dr Gorge Bell, lately the exercise power

his of

active would ministry, to devote himself to in- makes it unlawful for Church Bishop of Chichester, of Scotland moisters to become have been given a Life Peerage dustrial welfare,

alone to this JPs or councillors, let

but Jer Year sit in Paritensent.

Considerations. With

unaccustomed levity. But the Church of Eng-

hps however, present-day Kirkon nd

keng relished And last May title, It is essentially an hier- wink at the Act the General Assembly recon arelical body. And there are mended its repal by a row always a few common or garden majority.

clergymen in the ranks of the hereditary peers.

Opposition was strong and fiercely expressed. The pastoral duties of a minister permitted no time for such secular diver sins, urged me speaker,

Another went so far es to call the Upper House an "oulcnoded appurtenance,”

peliteal

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Today the Rev. Lard Hentage lives in Vancouver and the Rev. Earl of Lauderdale is a the vicar in Sussex,

Lord Strabolgi ond Lord Milverton have Angilean éleries as their heirs,

Cummings

LEBANON

king.

The Archbishop left Mr Hyde to a solution to his problem. WHEN I was rising 11- What would be the consequence YY I decided to run away, of defying immemorial custom

myself to A apprentice was not clear...Mr Hyde, faced with the choice of his Orders or hoop-la stall at a fun fair his title, preferred the title. and ultimately build an em- The odd thing is that the pire of Dodgem Cars, Ghost had devoted himself to indus-

trial welfare first and only Trains, Big Wheels carning his knighthood Fruit Machines.

flor

and gold caravan

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but is really n serious young woman looking for the man of her life," an executivo explain-

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Writer

women:

quotes of the Week: Andre Roussin on "Many men owo Their first material successes to their first wives-and their second wives to their Arst material success.

Marine Carol, on men: "Some are so mean os ing as women tire concerned that after they shake hands with you, they count their Angers."

(London Erprani Kervlos).

The Roberis family-"A caravan is warmer. than a house."

by ALAN BESTIC

"It isn't so bad now that the children are older. But when they were babies, I felt the draught, I had to wash all the Dapples, all the clother and all the children in a big Un bath cutside the caravan. In the winter I wore an overcoat when

a penny-lossing atall. She was 18 and Sid was 19, with two I washed. generations of show business be- hlad him.

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"Now I take the laundry 10 laundrettes and the children to

had sought Holy Orders every- This laudable vocation was thing would have been all Inspired by a hoop-la girl who right.

wore orange bangles and

I 1 In their caravan before public baths or friends' houses." fair blossomed But we still cart water and I Anglican knights are Tary beautiful purple ribbon in her the Hampstead but they exist. The Rev. Siruir and by the magnificent into the flower it is today. It is still bath Geoff in the big Un

marcon 1: gold caravan,

in comfortable home with a Calor tub." Reginall Champion, who once

gas stove, bunks for the children, Children constitute the secund governed Aden, ta now the Vicar which she ilved. of Chilham; the Rev. Sir Der-

The orange and purple girl is a folding double bed for Si reason why I shall never bu

of President of the TOWS

Showmen's went Kermode, Curate of Por- now forgotten, but the maroon and Doreen, tishead, not long ago was Am-

Children have to bo lingers on cupboards and a television set. Guild.

have bassador in Prague,

educated and I might Indeed, the only difference be

married that orange and purplo tween me now and me rising 11

No bath

girlt is that I have just found out

"Schooling," said Mrs Roberts, the facts about fair-ground life.

dificult, When we're i Outside giants loshed Haunted "is has the Grand Cross of

I have been up to Hampstenci the

Heath und sorted

spun Big winter quarters in Hendon from คมเ my Castles Info shape, Order of The Redeemer of

the air and bullt October to Easter, they go to the Greece, And the Order potential caravan future with Wheels in

of

local school. When we're on the Mrs Doreen Roberts, wife of St Bingo stalls, like beavers. nt of St Olav To He also has the Grand Cross of Mortin, 10, and Geo!Trey, seven, me several good reasons why I school and are reldre at me Roberts, mother of Jcuntfer, 12, Inside Doreen Roberts gave road, they bounce from school to the Royal Victorian Order. which really makes him

right plus.

Over the years Industrial welfare waxed and withʻit Mr Hyde's repute. Until In 1949 the proposal was mooted that Mr lyde should be dubbed Str Robert.

A! This the Archbishop Canterbury cut up rough. accept n knighthood Involved receiving the accolade, he said. And to receive the accolade meant being able to be called on by the Queen to take the field

By immemorial custom clergy were non-combatant. QED.

A knight

And the Archbishop of Canter bury himself is a knight, He

of

Norway.

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and mistress of Micky, a Dachs- would

have TLover hund-lypo lerrlor and three hoop-in-king. budgies.

First reason: water, "Some-

made

longer than eight days."

a

I "Mrs Roberis,"

said, "wouldn't you like to live in a nice, big house?"

"A house?" she said, as if I

But he does not use the title. And he did not receive the Just 13 years ago she gave up times," she said, "I long for a accoltide, Which puts him

In a static house in Hounslow and bathroom, for a tap I can turn had suggested she should go into the clear.

JORDAN

KUWAIT

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*Et.....any:morpapadlocks, Ike?"

a good job as a cinema usherette on. We have lo cart water for 1 to marry into a rifle range and the curavans in cans.

IRAQ

a convent.

"But a house is to

cold. A caravah is warm-anci we always have a change of scenery, a change of faces.

Mudbound

"When we leave winter quarters we go to Clapham, then to Hackney, Tooting Bec, Hamp- stead for Whit, Wembley, Acton Park. Beckenham, Mitcham, Burnet Horse Fair, Borking, Newbury for the Michaeimas Fair and then back to Hendon," She made it sound as romantic as a tour of the Far East,,

But Mrs Roberts destroyed my mirage-with a handful of mud.

Now Lingfeld," she said, "Is bod. It always rains in Lingáteld. This van's good on the soft, but oner we had to hire a triclor and a bulldozer to get but at Lingfield.'

And this heave-ho sometimes | happens at two ́o'clock in tha

morning!

But, if you are dreaming of maroon and gold caravana and the brave, brash blare of the fair, you should silp up to the Heath and meet the Roberts, Thoy sco on the left of the Haunted Castle as you go in.

Doreen will give you threo shota with a rise for a tanner. Toss a penny on to Bid's atoll and you may win a bob.

Talk to them and you will learn why people like tho Roberts, will never leave their homes on wheels.

--{London Expresh" #ervice).

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