1958-09-24 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1958,

PEOPLE

in the news

WOULD BE SUITORS

Alo de Janeiro. Winner of the 30 million cruzeiron (about £8,000) Bweepstakes lottery ticket here Had to make a hurried call on the local presa 10 modify a statement made by him.

in

Interest"

a "human Interview to reporters from

overal Rio newspapers, Br Agostinho Partira ald, among other things, that he had an unmarried daughter. This was the point he wanted changed.

"Маке her a married daughter", he said, "Would- be suitors are blocking my door."-People Special.

QUEEN-

My dogs, says

the Marquis,

would never

forgive me

The Skipper And

Blonde

The

Southampton, England. Captain Charles Williams, shy bachelor Commodore of the Cunard fleet, described how an amorous American blonde once be- sieged him for 12 hours on the bridge of the liner Media.

The Commodore, who is 62, brought the 83.000 ton liner Queen Elizabeth into Southampton from New York for the last. time. He retires at the end of this month.

The blonde passenger, aged 35 and married, pursued him so much during a voyage 10 years ago that on the last day he took refuge on his bridge.

He said "The siege lasted nearly all day and I didn't dare come down until I'd seen her walk down the gangway and go ashore." The Commodore, once an office boy, has been 45 years at sea.-People Special.

THE

THE MARQUIS Nerer, acrer, never!

HE Marquis de Cuevas, blessed with 17 dogs and ten homes, declared yesterday that Never. On Any Account. would he take a house in England.

"My dogs," said the 72-year-old marquis, "would not speak to me if I did.

"They suffered an indignity at the hands of British quarantine service for which they will not forgive Britun or myself."

the

The marquis, who is in London with his ballet company, was regretful, for it would have been so idyllic to have a small manston, a park, a wide gravel drive, some oak trees, al-shall we say Sunning-dale,

So devoted

He was sitting on a glit chair là his Ritz Hotel Suite.

He wore a purple dressinggown and leather his There was a smudge of tale on sandals. torchend. He was fresh and perfumed from

hhe bath,

"I was bringing my 12 Pekes, all white and beautiful like Les Sylphides, from Paris, through Dover and Southampton, to New York," be said.

"At Dover the quarantine oneers look charge of my Pekes (they are all so miniature, se dewoled, and so very, very British beause their mother and father were boru al Ascot) and put them hulo iron engos.

Sales Are Up Says Tiny Trees Boss

By "People" Reporter

THE two top men in the firm marketing miniature tree kits admitted the other day that no real miniatures had yet been produced from their kits. Also that a high degree of skill is needed to produce the perfect tiny tree.

They made the admission at the

advertising

was "am-

a Press conference in Manchester boyant." "Embarassing though called to answer criticism of it may be, our sales have in their advertising campaign ereaset shee this pubilety," he

Fald

Mr Peter Darrell Jarkwon, 23- your-old head of Miniature Forests Inc., 1958, agreed that

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Nearly 40,000 people have bought the kits at a minimum of £1 each. The colourfully worded advertising sinys; "Fully grown trees one foot call mes gr first baby trees in just four

merks."

1 next saw them on the

A Weekly China Mail Feature

“We had a row when I said

I was expecting a baby," said his Fan-Club bride

RO

By MICHAEL BROWN

•OCK 'N ROLL singer Larry Page ("the teenage rage") has vanished from the country bungalow where he has been living with his teenage bride, Anu, since their whirl-wind marriage two months ago.

WANTED: ELEPHANTS

AND TIGERS

Manila.

Manila is in need of some elephants and Bengal tigers.

I in reported that the Manila Mayor, Mr Arsenio Lacson, has asked the In- dian Ambassador to the

M. Philippines, Mr

8. Chopra, to supply lilm lite animals if possible.

The Mayor is asking for animals for a projected Manila Zoo. It is reported that several foreign em- bassies and legations here have already offered gifts of rare birds and animalu,

I'cople Special,

And last night

18-year-okt Ann maid: "We had a row when might I told him en Tassday that I was expecting a baby in Apr. He didn't want it.

"The next day be walked ouL"

The fastest

who

Twirly-year-oli Larry, has beun reputed to have Cained as much as 200 ปี week met Ann-then Ann Ward, amanber of big fan club - ai a Six-Five Special TV chow in Juny,

Eight hours later he proposed to her, sitting on a bench in The Mail. Six weeks after timl they were married nl Caxion Hall,

It was the fastest courtship of the year.

Larry and Ann set up home La rented, four-guineas-a-week bungalow on a form at Twy- ford, Buckinghamshire.

Larry Page's wife last night with wedding day picture takon two months ‘ago.

He was going to get together.

fur my birthday. We a puppy decided against it in the end."

roblem No, 2 was Larry's mother,

'Filthy temper'

"Weekends we'd play records and have dinner by cameligh!. We'd go to bed early and read," But there were problems.... Problem. No, I was money. "Larry said it was my job to As she wng leaving to stay provide the food and he'd pay with friends last night. And the rent," sald Ann. "I suppose

"She and I didn't get on." said: "While I was out at work it seems strange now but I was

Friday he left, taking all his too much in love to notice. I said Ann. "But I used to got things except his nightclothes, still love bin.

~enbored out at Twyford,

In Added Ann: "I an

"Larry didn't

have decided to go and see her seem to tically penniless, owing two much ready money. He's very Hayes, where she lives. she week's rant,

though: Me. 1 and owing for careful with it

"Tight away just don't understand it.

haven't been looking after Larry "I don't know much About properly. I say I have, show business elther. Except! "Got a filly temper 1 have- know how hard Larry worked. like Larry-only show mine, He wasn't Frankie Vaughan he doesn"," or a Frank Sinatra.

'Exciting'

Singer Makes goods bought in the town.

Comeback As History

Parts.

prove-

Then Anu described her life with the young, fair-haired rock JIGT,

his manager, his contacts.

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Probem No. J

the o was nearly always top Rock 'n Roll slump.

so that meant he "Rock is having a bad time." "We couldn't have honey of the bill

live up to it,

said Ann. "Il worried Larry. moon because he was appearing Ind

"Then there at Northampton, I went up

were all the 1e used to keep saying he there and we had a flat over the people he had to pay, his ugent, would never go back to his old jub (packing records in a fac- theatre," she said. Quean Mary at Soulhampton Mins Mary Garden, 81-year- "Everyone was very kind to "I didn't have any clothes or tory), but things were very un- and they were very indignarold Aberdeen kom soprano wheus. It was all exching and new. presents all the time we were certain." They would not talk to me nor was the durling of French and But right away I discovered did they great me,

They turned American

opera-goers. In the Larry waan vary nervous boy, their backs 12 ከነነፍ and would early years of this century, has that he had had two nervous nul cat all day,

signed 182 agreement with the breakdowns already, that he was "Some were burn in spendid National Foundation of New worried about the future. circumstances, In my bedroom in Paris, the others in equally splendid circumstances aboard the Queen Mary,

"So they

regarded the treat meat they received with much

digaste."

Yerk for a im television series to be made of her life.

"After a week at Northamp- ton we stayed with relatives a b1, I know everyone thought Miss Garden, who has been

he was earning £200 a week but living in retirement in Aberdeen for more than 20 years, travelled we didn't have much to throw

around. to sign the agreement with Dr.

"Then we saw an advert for The marquis explained fut Carleton Smith, director of the the cottage at Twyford We he could bear to spend toy days foundation.

moved in. It was wonderful, or so away from his Pekes, but

He was "appalled farewell visit

She also agreed to make a nu kaker.

to the United at the prospect of livlag Jun England without them, for the States. quarantine regulations stipulate that all incomimi anlmak must for up to six be quarantined months.

We are to devoted my dogs and 1," he said, "In Parts I weat out of the front door. and they wanted to come with me. short sak that i would be back in ten minutes, and told them to be patient.

Leading botanists said the plants would take many years to become recognisable as trees,

A clash

Dr P. F. Wareing, senior lec- turer in the botany department of Manchester University, who

"I stepped into the street and was immediately run over by a motor-car. I was away from them fer three months and every [clay they sat in the window wan- ing for me, ard were there when I came home."

No, he said, he could never, ueper take a house in Britain.

ralled the campaign "mislead-People Special. ing." clashes! at the meeting with Mr John Aseh, the firm's consultant horticulturist and originator of the scheme.

He maintained that the ran's advertising campaign war "mis

been over- and had

leading"

drawn.

Mr. Asch said the American of advertising has been

The used in the campaign. advertising copy had been writ- ten by an American copywriter.

Mr Jackson pul four trees, on display at the conference and said they were four or five years oki.

"I used to have to go out to work, of course, He asked me toi before we got married.

"I'd leave the house at ten to Misa Garden, baru in 1877, seven every morning to catch made her opera debut in Paris in the train to London, whore I 1900 as Louise in the opera of was getting £7 a week 03 ## the same by the French com- filing clerk. He'd stay home and peser Charpentier,

work on the garden rockery and get the evening meal rearty.

She became a sensation over- night and for years was the big- gest pain draw in the United States, comparable to Caruso and Melba.People Special.

Bill Is The

Sydney

Night Prowler Baby Expert

Terrifies The Nurses

Sydney

Bill

Ambulance officer Howard recently delivered 300th baby in the back ambulance wagon.

Bill claims that the

Wondering Bagman's Bank

Sydney.

When attendants at Sydney's Lidcombe State Hospital un- dreaed a patient thought to be penniless. they found about £1,350 sterling stucic to body.

his

The money, all in 10/- moles," of his was bound around the man's

body with rolls of cloth.

tally;

The hospital attendants, usini

spread over eight years, must be methylated spirits, took an hour

a world record,

to remove the notes some "I'm almost as proud as all which dated back to 1914. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

the mothers I've attended". ho The night duty sister at the sald with a bugo grin. Cape Provincial Hospital at D's 300th. was the first baby decide whether Port Elizabeth liftech the born on Sydney's new telephone..."This is the man in the black sull," she heard. "I quay expressWar,

He went on to admit that two of the trees were tank type in- cluded in the kit because the were 100 difficult to seeds germbate.

Ile sald: "The article in the and paper lended

the to give opinion that it would take ten

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TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Aoroes: 3 Abbe,_7 Anger, 8′ Cuos, 9 Oath, 10 Strings, 12-0-wns, 15 Aorta, 18 Else, 10 Bülen 21 Obere, 22 Stem, 23 Super(b), 20 Nest. 20 Seasons, 30 Hend, 31 Bot-a, 32 Inner (Circle), 33 Weep, Down: 1 Units, 2 Serials, 4 Beast, Echo, 8. Bean, Ort. 11 Nuses, 13 W-him, il Gash, 18 Aster 17 Hom, 16 ls, 20 Termini, 22 Spex, 24 Us-age, Inset, 27 Eyed, 28 Thaw.

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to 15 years to have anything

resembling trees. I feet that is untrue, because these samples resemble trees."

AUTOMATION

FOR FREE

Colombo,

Leas than

am calling around at two o'clock hospital. Bi had to

I want murder"

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to 19

Many experts will have the money circular st negotiable, Many of the notes were belloved out of cir- mic from culation and the serial numbers obliterated atop the of may have been

And at 2 am, somebody hamambulance in heavy traffle and by age.-People Special. mered on the door of the word, assist the mother give birth to a

People Special, The terrified nurses enlled time police and alerted the hospital porters--and clustered together

me gerus Intruder and Escaped Prisoner

mered agalu сть doors windows.

Then the nurse saw a shadowy Agure behind a screen in the j ward.

The police closed in but "the man in the black suit" escaped through a window, fled through the hospital grounds and over the wall.

Returns

For His Watch

sen

Paris. An Algerian living in Paris, nurses Bouzigne Allouche, was The next night the agalo thought they saw someone tenced to goal for vagabondage, outside a window and again But he was not inken to gaol-- I mixup, guards Villager in some parts of someone hammered on the door. through

him after the court Ceylon have discovered that the Six policemen were patrolling released casiest way of getting their the grounds but again the hearing.

Pollve searched fruitelesily for coconut hausia thrashed is to intrudor escapott,

turned up About a year ago a mud who Allcuche. Then he strew them over the road so that passing vehicles to the Job. dese-lbed himself as "the man in at the police station to nak: “May the grey Bannel suit".- stalked | I have my watch and poserasiona the same wards, lie was never back now?” This time, he was raught.-People Special.

takon to geol-People Special.

The Police are trying to stop this practice for the huskes opuse skidding-People Special,

Sincere Apology

Lyons, France.

A garage nightwatchman bor- hero. Lucien Paulin, rowed his employer's car without

and permission had an accident in wiligh the car was damaged.

That night, at iko garage, he attempted to ku- '

before pair the damage morning, but it was Impon- albic. In despair, ho comm- mitted suicide, polles kÓ- period-People Special

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