1958-08-20 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1958,

PEOPLE

in the news

"Oh! For A

Job Like Tom"

Exmouth,

Mr Charles Evans, the genial President of the National Union of Railwaymen has been for a

trip on one of the smallest lines un-nationalised and pront-mak ing Exmouth miniature railway.

in the work the completely

"An we are here for

Stroll In Mr Wright's

One-Floor Wonder

From J. W. M. Thompson: New York

ON

NE of my more out-of-the-way experiences here recently was a stroll down a winding spiral of concreté a quarter of a mile long. It was quite a comfortable stroll, in the course of which I descended 75 ft. from the top of a half-finished

than conferents 1 naturally building to street level.

wanted to pay

A visit,

j

even It was also a glimpse of the remarkable world of though it is a competitor.", Nej Frank Lloyd Wright, America's greatest architect, who said with a laugh. "After all, I passed his 89th birthday the other day. love a trains." As children

i piled inlo

Wright in old age is still walls over

a floor which slupes "tem thumb" couches for the

revolutionary, and this down one side. But that has to curioas duwuh R1 walk of be tested when the gallery is mine

Look plaer inside his Anished next winter. latest

of architectural nece

Meanwhile, Frank Lloyd daring-a new million pounds Wright is not a man to be dis- art gallery on Fifth Avenue, But bed by criticism.

next irip the chatted and jokeri with the man who runs this railway, My Tom ring, 57, whe Is driver, frenan, station master and everything else.

Mr Evans touted the whistle and impreted the thy red Ave Jeet long! strani Joepinolive. melled on an old Caledonian

Aldrot sight his creation looks

Like a space-ship mysteriously grounded among the slaid apart, of the early 1900's. It runs on ment houses foring Central 10% inch gauge track.

Pays Its Way

Mr Evan: "Aren't you having Clectrification and diesels?"

Park: a hulking enerele

cylinder, wider at the top than at the bottom, with ship-like projections at one side,

Patriarch

He is stil, in fils 90th year, an alert and sharp-eyed figure when he arrives on the building site to aspect progress. He pokes lis walking-stick lato every

comer

tal!, lean, white-maned patriarch, cheerful, testy, and When you enter you see there rulous by turns.

313 13 1, nelleed one detail is only one hour but it is no wouldn't like that. They prefer ordmary Hour. It winds round bustling scene which seemed the old fashioned steam train."

its unpretentious- the inside of the cylinder from Pleasant

TUD: Oh no, the kiddies

Mr Evans: "What about

top to bottom, suntething like nationalisation?"

special staircase on a big scale want that

of steps. and with a gentle slope instead

Tom: "I wouldn't and I don't think it will ever happen here."

Tom is not worried about the prospect of being closed by an uneconomic branch line.

he

ness.

A

in

On the corner of the site nondescript caravan, stands with all the rackel of dust and construction around It.

the window, with no pump at all from the magie of a famous name, is a little card saying: "Ofice of Frank Lloyd Wright."

is asure Mr Wright amused to reflect that he is now giving the city of multi-storey skyscrapers its most talked about new building for years-and that it is, technically, only one storey

Walk Down

"This line pays its way."

Wright's idea is that visitors Bald.

to the gallery (which will house Ton, who lives in Ashley the Guggenheim Museum, one Ruad, Exmouth, used to drive or New York's richest cul- real locomotives and was olutions) will take a lift to the The railways for 35 years, main- top when they arrive, The ly on the Oh London, Tilbury they will walk round and round, and Southend line. He was a down and down, losing altitude high, member of the Footplate Men's at the rate of 38, for every 1000.

Union, the Associated Society they walk. at Locomotive Engineers and Firemeri,

As they elrele gently down-

"I retired on my 50th Birthwards they will inspect the ple-

day," he said

As the tiny train with

tures displayed on the walls.

ilg

At first the pictures may

overlooked in the slightly

bc

load of cheering children chug-

ged off on another half mile trip

critics,

who have

d a time-Air Evans smiled novelty of the building itself. wistfully and said: "If I coula Wright's get a job Want Special.

12

10

like Tom,

I would generally been plentiful, have retire, People said that the pictures will look tdd anyhow, hanging on curved

A British Crossword Puzzle

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13 4

18

20 21

18

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期

ACROSS

1. Alreld runway (8).

+

3 Old-time dance (6).

So the cover is substantial

(5),

9 Ulster county (6).

10 Personal attribute which

might be lucky (5),

11 Do away with (5).

12 Wine holder? (4).

13 Word of command (5),

16 Right of neceis (6),

18 Kind of uniform (8),

20 Yonder (5). ·

22 Place for bathers (4).

23 Hunter constellation (5),

28 Make up at 1300 hours? (5).

20 Courteous (0).

27 Little island seemingly oc-

cuplet (5).

28 Choose one not yet in omeg

(5).

29 Do it again, pleasel (8).

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DOWN

Put over the air? (8).

2 Lady's bag (8).

15

3 Group of countries (4).

4 A harvester's syndicate? (7).

5 Success (7).

Stick to it (0),

7 Russion materini? (5),

14 Not at all, doubtful (8).

15 Deridedly fragrant. (8).

15 Let the girl rest, it's very

high (7)

17 Saidler or bis transport,

maybe (7).

19 Satirle (G).

21 Grand, perhaps, tor residents

(5)..

24 Pound on a piano? (4).

TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Part, 7 Voler, 8 Oval, 9 Wake, 10 Ferlwig, 12 Slow. 15 Tenet, 18 Boad: 10 Orate, 21 Whirl, 22 Sped, 23 Duites, 20 Moke, 20 Sisters, 30 Leap, 31 Visa, 32 Trove, 33 Nocs. Dawn: 1 Homer, Reciter, 4 Adage, & Toes, 8 Male, @ Wind, 11 Weold, 19 Lond, 14 Wren, 16 Topes, 17 Swim, 18 Bilk, 30 Restore, 32 Skip, 24 USA.—de, 23 Drove, 27 Omit, 20 Elán.

Donald be behest. They vart marrieć vérna, waka

She

Died

At The Dentist's

By "People" Reporter TENNIS star "Gem"

had a hurro

A Weekly China Mail Feature

GROUCHO

By SIMON KAVANAUGH

"London.

In a lifetime of success and few failures, moustachiood, cigar - brandishing Groucho Marx, most literate and prin- cipal funny-man of the Marx Brothers, has established himself as one of the world's best-loved comedians.

This style is unique. Where must comedians get their laugh by being toa hopeless to win the battle of Hte, Groucho onzes self-confidence.

Crooked, cynical, pun-cracking and lecherous, he hus prowicd vulture-like through zome of the slickest slapstick ever to Le #wreened.

Last week Groucho, third- eldest of the original five Marx brothers, is n his sixties, (He keeps his exact age a secret). Ife has mastered every medium of entertainment. Now he cars £150,000 a year as caustic quiz- master of America's most popular T.V. show. "You Bet Your Lite."

Yet Groucho-the

from springs

"groucher"-hus never rid himself of the obsess- loa that he is about to be wash- ed up, penniless and a burden on society.

Insomnia

rame

His all-time hobby a worry, He worries about money (he'will seareh niles for a cheap hotel), about liming-"How ean they expect you to be funny at eight in the morning?" He worries about his present and his future. For he is a comle by profess- ion, not by nature. Each wise crack is another ring of the cash register.

All this gives hypochondriac

Groucho ehronie insomnia. Su much so, that he goes to bed at nights wearing a mask, to shut out the light, his ears jammed with wax, to keep cut the naise. and a loaded air-gun nearby, for the neighbours' dops-if they bork.

Personality.

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Bat the most cutting insults. the tiredest jokes, were greeted with delighted guflows from the weather-ücaten faces In the audience. The Marx Brothers cune- and Co. were suddenly dines. A good offer followed, and the brothers took off for Dent son, Texas, where they hastly atrung together a sketch called "Fun in 11 Skule," 11 was in Denison that Groucho first wore his famous moustache (posted on, later painted on, nowadays the real thing), and Harpo is old-rope wig.

11 "Chien," Indy

when, They got their names. during a later tour, monologuis! Art Fisher dubbed Julius "Groucho" (even then, he was

bitterly complaining everything), Leonard who fancied himself (e. "chicken") killer, Arthur "Harpo," for bts attachment to the harp, and Milton “Gummo.“ because he always wore HURR shoes. The origin of Zeppe Is obscure.

The Marxes quickly leapt to fame, "Home Again" marked their triumphant return to Chi- cago and New York. Their next roudway hils, "I Say She is," "Cocoanus," and "Animal Crackers," had the audience in the aisles and the eritics in cestacies,

In Hollywood, they made

A

* Pare 3

Groucho Marx -- "DEAD" he said

TEST

BLOOD

SHOWED WIFE'S GUILT

By "People" Reporter

DIVORCE COURT judge accepted the result of a blood test carried out on a several aims together, the most baby as proof that the mother, a beautiful infamous of which were the ad, 24-year-old model, had committed misconduct. goonish "A Night at the Opera,' "A Day at the Roces," "Monkey And he granted a decree nisi to the husband, Business," "Horsefeathers, 43-year-old film producer Anthony Squire, an old "Duck Soup" "The Big Store," Etonian, of Ebury Street, Westminster. and "A Night In Cagubionea."

I must be

Mr Squire's wife Destin who models under the nume

Dizzy" Jolliffe, did not defend

the sult.

Hier baby, a boy, was born nearly 15 months ago.

The dogs are safe.

But this last film Bnished the spectacled Groucho couldn't hit brothers natural organiser, an armchair from three feet.

Grouche, as a screen netör. Je Groucho inites the Groucho inkes the prize as the says: "We had to work at mid- his Screen night to get it done. They hung of the dentist's chair.

Off-stage, he is a sentimentalist me up by my feet in a ladder.

I was supposed to be hanging Judge Alun Pugh heard evi- and a dreamer with an enormous It was a fear that inferiority

from an airplane. A giant fau dence about the blood test which complex, But be

was blowing down to give the way carried out on the child began when her mother would curl up if anyone told him

effect of a breeze.

and said: this. He is confusingly incon-

"All of a sudden, I said to my- died having a tooth out.sistentin terms charming and

self: 'What in hell am I deing "I think the ductor's evidence insulting. iritable and sunny.

la incontrovertible to owing When her own teeth began to penny-phichlag and outrageously upside down, with a fan blowing to the two factors in the blood

this for dangling by my feet

14-Year-Old in her Gem had to drop out extravagant.

Wrecks Car And Yacht

of Hampshire tournament. But she kept puiting off visit to the dreaded dentist's.

The pain grew worse, and a

dental last she agreed to operation.

Wellington, New Zealand.

They to desperate charac- ters and likely to cause a lot more trouble," said experienced police officers sex.

The engine was

A

At a party

I

In

There was one condition. must, she said, take place her seafront Bat at Hove, Sus-

DIED

Ifer husband is Major George Kerswell, 37-year-old paratroop officer,

Another

actor's

83 that

A

of this child, which could not hard-luck down my neck at 12 o'clock at story, to which he is very gull- night. I must be crazy. After the have been transmitted either by ible, will cause him to economise picture was over, I told the boys the husband or the wfe, the grimly on things like toothpaste that was it. I'd had the movies, wife must therefore have com-

The brothers then ended thele mitted adultery. and jum, and to rush out and buy more insurance

30-year partnership. policies.

'A fact' Next day, he will spend 1,000 Depressed, worried about his Groucho drifted half- dallars in a new car. (He once future,

"I certainly And had a fleat of Cadillace; nowa- heartedly into radio, but got fed days, he drives Chryalors, made up with polite, scripted

Kuest fact." by his T.V, sponsors).

ots. Then an adroit publicity

Judge Pugh ordered, that the man persuaded him to try "You Bet Your Llle" on T.V., offered co-respondent, Mr Patrick Sum it at a bargain price fit was the mers, should pay the costs of the sult, although he did not and and that Mr Summers was the cheapest on the market) free of scripts, Groucho leap father of the child. from cbscurity to nation-wide fame again. Today, he can count "It is not necessary for me it us one of his greatest successes. to decide WHO was the father Groucho is now as slet as he of the child,” the judge COM- will ever be. He is a bit dis-mented..

Temper Cracks.

H

This basic insecurity-and conviction that he cannot deal with peoples probably at the root of his oft-quoted string DI asults, which he growls out in- discriminately.

Groucho has Insulted early everyone worth insulling.

a collection appointed that is panic-bought insults are usually ot tired music-hall jokes, and he insurance policies are

The

maturing "But I find that on those the wife and

at a time of financial success, but occasions when

in Christchurch referring While she was being prepared to two 14-year-old boys, for the operation Geni one of whom has proved just like her mother.

Gem-real maimes Daphne especially troublesome in four-was only 36. Saven weeks the last few weeks.

ago she married for the third tuok A fortnight ago he

lime, ክነ £2,000 cur and, while the owner gave chase, drove the car in second gear mi a speed of 80 raph up steep winding hill. They met ut a cocktail party regiels them billerly afterwards, he still dreams ot country Mr Summers were seen to enter

and announced their engage but they sting. For example: To

home, fruit trees (which he and leave the house they did playing a hostess at the end of a party ment while Gem was

-"I've had a wonderful even- attends lovingly. if inexpertly).] not go into these promises terois in France.

and dips occasionally into his merely for a tall; or for a social To a Ing, but this wasn't it." Cuest-"I never forget a face, 7,000-dollar swimming pool-if occasion,"

I'll make an the temperature is well over 100. but in your case exception."

At a recent press conference, is humour is too bizarre for he was asked: "What would you

rather be than Groucho Marx- most women, and they are in-

the television personality?" clined to shy from him. Even at

"Dend," he said. he shocked his als wedding bride by ribbing the officiating minister11 may you reverend,

wrecked and the owner said Inter: "could terally see my ear falling to pleous,"

The boy was caught when he ran the car into a bank. He was set to a Child Welfare De- partment boy's receiving home After admitting he took three other ears in the Christchurch aren of the South Island."

He escaped from the home

.

They were married in Alder- was shot, but their honeymoon cut short when Major Kerswell was ordered to Cypus.

So in love

It was puly minutes before he there to was due to fly from

and linked up with the other Jordan with the 16th Paruchute 14-year-old. In the city they Brigade that he was told of his took bleycles, stole a tén; and: spen: the night camped In + cemetery.

oist

wile's death,

10 be holy but we have

however.

other Ideas."

Outside parties,

He was hurriedly switched to

to Groucho

is continually ungling another aircraft and flown

for laughs and trying to shock England,

u Iacot of his nature Last night, at the flat in people,

which infuriated Ruth, his wife "He said:

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love,

friend

The next morning they rode toward the const, 100k 16-foot yacht from its moorings arrived here late on Sunday. He of 21 years ("I met her at and fleated it down a creek into is very distressed. They were the big snow-fed Waimakariri very much in love." River

county

attempt to put to Gem played at Wimbledon in Ser. Near the bolling river 1951 and won several mouth the yacht was out of con Tennis championships.

rol and the youths, panic-

But she was unluckler in her private life. Her two previous stricken, went over the side.

cold and Numb with

half husbands died. drowned the boys struggled ashore. Sick and only half re- covered from their orden!

n

four She was looking a vacation arid I was the last resort"), and many victims of his heavy, caustle wit,

Mr Sumuners, a former neigh- bour of the Squires in Thurloc Square, Kensington, disputed the claim for costs.

Mr Donald Loudoun, counsel for Mr Squire, said he had been

PC RISKS HIS LIFE

given leave last October to pre- sent his petition within three years of the marriage on tho ground of Mrs Squire's alleged "exceptional depravity."

No evidence

Mr Squire, son of author and and poet Sir John Squire, director of the air unit for the Alm The Sound Barrier, married his wife, at St Michael's Church, Chester Square, in January 1955,

Mr John Syms, who appeared TEZELORİZLERDEELICANSALLO SCANNINGTON AVANSA for Mr Summers, sald his client was not asked to submit to a blood test. Mrs Squire must have conceived her child some time in 1950, but there was no affirmative evidence against Mr Summers until August last year, when an Inquiry agent kept watch on his address,

TO SAVE A

the semi-darkness of a ruli- way tunnel a young police. man risked his life eight limes to save a thief whose leg was trapped under a high-voltage electric line.

.

he One day, at a restaurant, asked the waitress: "Have you got frog's legs?" "I'll ask the

Eight times 22-year-old PC. chet." the waitress replied, "No. Kenneth Stott tried to from the no, no," said Groucho, wiggling man, only to receive a violent his eyebrows auggestively, chock each time. "You're supposed to say: "No, At tha ninth attempt

walk that way." But it was a

the icy waters they attempted Swimming at 90 humotion that makes me managed to ding the sun clear

to inake off with a car from

set,

in

D

nearby caravan park, But they The Rev. Emest Scholes, offt were caught in the

| Lewis, celebrated his 90th birth- a swim in the Pollec took the boys to the day by having Christchurch hospital where a pool of Leeds Grammar School, special guard is watching thesp. where he was educated.

Tourist Impressions

Wellington.

WANGANUI resident bought two half-bottles of whisky. A

congratulating himself at being so fortunate in the present spirits-fgmino qï this country, and placed them in a oRT.

The car, however, though similar to his own in mako and colour, belonged to a visitor to Wanganui. By the time the resident discovered his mistiko, the car was gone.

The visitor ng doubt belloves Wanganul hospitality is out on its own-Peoplo SpodlaȚ.

of temper that led to success.

Pays Off

Everything went badly

THIEF

P.C. KEN STOTT

Peril in a tunnel

of the rull and stagger out of the tunnel, soaked to the skin by heavy rain,

There, in the stil falling rald, applied artificial until P.C. Stolt

man was they hit a little Texas town call-respiration. But the ed Nacogdoches, where the audi-doad.

The-life-and-death drama ence suddenly stood up and walked out.

P.C. The

recently when counter-started

way lines heading towards Scott was called to a home unnel, with P.C. Stoll attraction: a runaway mulc.

Used to insulis though "they in Dawson Avenue, Birkochoad, behind, were, this one got the Marx where the gas meter had been Brothers and Co. hopping mad, smashed oper

Sadd the Judge: "I can only what i said before. I repeat

, not concernod who was the father of the child in any way. I have no doubt in my mind that adultery

been com- mitted.".

has

Woman Hater Goes To Gaol

Strasbourg.

the

A driver here has been sen- cload tenced to

a month's gaul be- cause, the judges decided, "he

Said P.C. Slott at his home coult not take it when a When the audience refurred 30 Searching the ardon, P.C. in Totton Road, Birkenhoad: woman driver passed him."

tiken. coining WAS

According to the police, M. minutos later, they wiped their Stolt saw a man, aged about 30, Suddenly I heard a scream and Charles Rosor, when he saw serious-song routine and pitched asleep under a bodge.

tto

woman

Into Texans and Texas in general He woke him up and the man saw him lying with his leg trap- the woman driver passing, ne

celerated, forcing her to crash, with a furious, rough-and-tum-bolted to the end of the gar ped beneath the live wire."

driver and He added: "Althauch he was The embank- ble burlesque. One of the ad-lib den, rolled down an verses: "The Jackass-Is the ment, leaped a 3ft, wire fence, a crook I wish I could have husband were injured.

Special. AncalFlower In-Tex-ass!" and rad down between the rail- saved him.”

her

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