1958-11-27 — Page 4

ANNE SHARPLEY

You're in for some fun, Mr. K

THE CHINA

MAIL,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958.

DON IDDON'S Diary

ALTHOUGH many Americans constantly refer

to Vice-President Richard Nixon as "that man Nixon," no one, not even the most venomous female, ever refers to Mrs Nixon as "that Nixon woman."

While her husband was accused of everything, from railroading Alger Hiss to gaol, improperly using campaign funds, and being utterly devoid of LONDONERS looking over their shoulders re-principle, Pat Nixon has never been charged with cently may have found a little man with witty, anything more serious than having a built-in note-taking eyes following you through the fog. Iron Curtain" as far as the Press are concerned.

He was putting together a picture of London to take back to Russia with him.

o it all And because he is Boris Brunov planned from double-decker buses to the barn ads in the tube, assisted staly by the most expressive pair of eyebrows since George Robey and

whole key-board of flicker-quick fingers

stage Comrade Krushchey will be

Rock n' Holl that fills the's

different Burs of rolling in the aisles when his

with twenty favourite

over

comle-rompero puls the idiot

delights capitalism next time he is in-

lled to the Kremiln.

Mr

Krushchev SA ĐƯỢC

to

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moke laugh." dys the 1s who

5 lucky to be on the laughing side of the boss,

But they are just as easy to make laugh down Bermondsey Way be found when he brought The house down with don't tell 7

Steele his imitation of

rock 'n roll.

stay Jere i "You'd better

We can do with you." sited a loud volee from the one and sixpennies.

Burls and his concert

have bee doing a

karly six-week

tour of workingmen's clubs and crncert halls in the Midlands

and Wales.

With him (serious),

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piunist

“No” to lion hunters

I have never found her that way. I met Richard Nixon and his blonde and lovely wife when Nixon was an obscure Congressman and occasionally dropped into the National Press Cluff. Then the Nixons weren't sought after very much the Washington society columnists ignored them, and so did the hostesses,

Now they are hunted by all the empital's celebrity seekers, but Pat Nixon Burns mat uf the invitations. down. "They didn't want us when we first came, no why should we go to them now ?"

There is, perhaps, a hard streak about Mrs Nixon,

melig Borts. And Boris, believe It or not, English, He learns spruks to what he wants to say by ear.

Armed with such phrases ay how But-duted "No,

the haven't got a

pering for Boris disappears from Kry," Islahtel in Bayswater for yet another prowl.

of and to think But 1 is re file Boris wandering throug London en his own, taking note of our abiurditles.

o! lo think It is nice And

of 4 what Baut will make Lamelon double-decker bus when The puts it over on his next trip

Suelet den lak

Scleulasty

at the North Pole

Any questions?

The

Iza! to (Amerleans seem to inke

American Kentirmat 1/1 accordionist Was barang o mire sul Interesy. Flight of the Bumble Bee, ed in everything she naturally) read a juggling act with a girl win is within 2011. of being another Ava Gardner

From the moment be landest 41 England, Borts started

Iding up his uet.

Hought 11 Woolworth's," he said as he strolled on for the fast time ut Coventry carrying nts accordion. Having teamed little more about life here, he

11032 never."

adds..."on it

All by ear!

never.

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a pleasure in being meets, and although I was her Hrst werk asgi-do in the Pabito Gallery of the Stock Exchange, Mary

his ques Crook answered tors far an tacur don't think an imut's worth of

melbou question

answering I advise Nike some so to go and see for yourself!. en the nice American told A Gevrimo oẻ hrt who he wan the New York Stock Exchange, Mrd Polan.

And what does

Pope butted,

the bigwig

He saw a cowboy dini every from Wall Street think of mer afternoon while he worked up Jl "rowboy nk!"* 24,

"They to suys sadly.

darksulled throng of hunkers ar jobbery who wil the same." be Beck, frn the public gallery,

30 m Hike nothing "I needed only fo

world convention

have seen one."

Then

he discovered the jave takets of what he calls "wolf-service"

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0. under-

very impressed. much couldn't be kept away from che la live in pening the of self argvice counters until he tadion too quickly." sald Mr.

had perfected another act

Finally

back

be noured Espresso and it was all he needed. Thick black eyebrows fing over pudgy poker-tace the pase of trained seals--be coping ile bored and pseudo-taugh ex- pressions of the Teddy boy and ies Bunched-up walk.

With whity,

curling Angers,

I makes his face up, Espresso- pri style. He ands up doing a

Nolan

And

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innovations

Th

like Misa Brst the Stowk Petange have al- temple 1 explam thelemy- al' ngh Be palate fran Wall Street as had gratetes Fo 10 vent sa

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sapessed seda st, on, imt Miss Crook was

laly nice."

Full marks, everybody.

Lasso

fasso

The New Perfume

by

Jean Patou

HER SECRET ARM

Now on sale at all Dispensaries, Perfume Counters and Department Blores,

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it is understandable She bus known poverty and tragedy.

mak

Her fathe1. who was noner in Nevada, wter 35 kw s Bud, RevAT mashed aven Han * handful of dollars in his life The diet

when the girl was 17

and left nothing

Jen

mother

It was

whe

ILIKE

chy when Pat was 12

Miss Nexo Yeeing at the home together. who

track

of her brothers and a half-brother and half-sister

She worked as chanismunan. as a shop-ul, as a elers in a brunk and later

buratory technician net a seson-teacher tol- after graduating from the verily of Southem California

Training

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The Nixons and thai-

Family shortly before thel departure for London.

......meets Pat Nixon, the miner'sTM

daughter who has become

America's Second Lady. She says

of her visit to London: “I really

feel at home."

The woman behind

'that man Nixon

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where without Pal”

The man whe

hun to

Today she does not want talk about, the old hard days, although she concedes they prob- ably

[[c Have her

character and fibre which have luken be through the loog journeys ta Cote continents and the

Caracas, wher hurled stars and slieks and spat upon her husban

She says now stand

del

Beattied to straight. ap

shoulders tack, and not allow my..elf think of gelling tired.

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The Vice-President's wife will enjty the vi to England with Per usound She on, af course, aware of the bad Press ha Nixon has received. Bitan. tut she

seraamilistæk polite an herself, and accustom. t

tren se ng

husbusu!

atsused.

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aften been,

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be pre- and sanrimes she snaps at her hustand. when he catalogues Jus troubles: "Look, this wasn't my idea."

be,

and

ย ruthles

more Astaire shows, flims, and On the Beach with Gregory publie appearances.

As for the come-back bust- "I never really went

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1r a devoted funks Casingher INGI JAN 138 11-ruum Tudur Luruse in the fashionable Wes- perfect politician's wife. ley Heights serlion

But on the whole she is the away."

Wash-

1wu

Every morning Astaire. lean, wrinkled, but handsome 58 (some say 80) works on his book, tentatively titled Stepping

Cameron

to

Peck and Ava Gardner, look at some race-horses;

then, there's this book."

Is

"Every time I think about his greatness and what he has done for me I want to kneel down and kiss his wonderf dancing fect. He is like a god to me. There's no one like him in this world."

Linking

When this sort

of eulogy begina, Fred departs quickly for

the bookshop.

Both the man, the absoluta perfectionist, and the woman, and who retains much of the school- and girl, are annoyed

the gossip their sometimes Item."

The and whose

at some of columnists linking nomes t "i romantic

The man who known in Hollywood лу Quiet Millionaire." 30-d lms have grossed over $200,000,000

Astaire Bays: "Widowers like myself are in a tough position. If I go out with a young woman shy d quiet, and she's very attractive, very ilvely, very expable of making me forget sadness, then people If say I'm robbing the cradle. "I don't want to be falsely I go out with some woman of modest, but I have been tremen- my own age, then they say I'm dously lucky Look at me! concentrating on grandmothers Thin buny bedy, angular face, Very diculi jutting Jaw, 201 volce,

At 43 she has been married 1 Nixon 18 years, and always Here

#resides campaigns with him. The Mrs Nixon

Mr consisting of smears. "Look, there goes 24 household

in Time. He writes leisurely in although his clothes are some- thest V

Mes Horatiu Alger, Jor.," king-hand, and then phases the fitnes hold and loud. "Tricia which sometimen follow them, pages on to 12-year-old daughters,

unl Jus friend stu

The ignores.

Shipp. scuffing. ssistant, and Julie, hmisekeeper,

and the Tricky Dickey" und "the put in the commas and semi- Juls, several guldfish, dog Checkers, which agured white-collared Joe McCarthy." colons. the sesatural teleerst in 1954 Alto Nixon, his wife beide I appended to the public to clear his name of charges that areepied had wrongfully Campaign funds.

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The wumat who came from her ist Ph: E. term top and said, "Imagine me, a farm girl, consorting with kings kel queens," has developed petse and assurance.

it is Possible that slightly nervous about Lie funk and finettons In endins, but she will not show H. She rarely appeats auffled She says, "There are so many similarities between the Americans and The British that really feel at home."

Noxon himsel! is lavish giving her credit

JA

Wearying

was, for the sophisticated. mawkish formanet, but to 1llions of Americans a genuine, even hero, drame, with Nixon Littl the hers wife and his

heroine.

grunt the back Mi Nixon

It s potential as an actresR.

that sho renerally known

two tots ast walk-

Becky Sharp

Hollywood "Birns,

In 1935 ang Small Town Girl fra 1936. ad was tempted to ska a long-term movie contrael.

Today she has

regrets that she cldn't. Occasionally

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she wearles of the spotlight for his site of the Second Lady of the land,

ROUND-UP

109 YEARS' OLD ROAST

CIENTISTS who work for the British food manufacturing in- dustries as to sample a 109-year-old un roast mutton. They want to track down the modern counterparts of the Brm that roaned it

The much-travelted in, which has been to the Arctic and back, came into their possession as a result of publicity when they opened Uus of food dating from the Boer War earlier this nr. The tin was part of the provisions on the schooner Felix In 1860 when it sailed in search of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated cxpedition which went to seek a north west pakinge. The lin label carries a crest and the motto "Dieu el Mon Drolt" and the words: Lendenhal "Roast Mutton, by William and Thomas Cooper, 134

Association has Street, London." It is the second oldest in the handled. In 1938 they opened one which was 14 years old. "EXTRA INCH"

BECAUSE the number of recruits for the Coldstream Guards dropped from 520 in 1936 to 420 in 1907, the minimum height requirement for enlistment was dropped last year from 5ft. Bin. to Bft. Bin. The result so far this year is that 720 recruits have enlist- ed, say the War Office. Now the Coldstream Guards have decided So from now on It is 8ft, 9in, for to put on that extra inch again. all would-be Coldstreamers.

TURKEYS MULTIPLY

THERE are 120,000 more turkey's this year than last year strutting about Briti farmyards according to the Poultry Association of Great Britain. The poultry population, too, is increasing. In the last year the bird population-including layer has internased by ix million to 20 million. Turkeys this year will be sold plastič packed, graded, and ready for the oven.

FRONTLINE MEMORIAL

THE

E root of a war-time machine-gun post ls to be retained by Harwich Town Council so a memento of the town's "frontline* position during the war. The metal roof lind best turned upide A town hall down, Alled, with soil and planted with Howkes. Apokesnar says, "Councillors thought there was something apt about a guralis baiming a flower-bed,"

she despisen, but refuses com)- Pert

Planning

mi

much of

le hair sh, well."

and others Astaire has not been a happy don't want man since his wife Phylls died and

not

Often he is (1 four years 189. No dete lonely man, spending hours book-11's

bookshops Macfingdale's

Alter the woundlag blow tu Nicon's prestige and power and Astaire lelis

elections, the nume thing, "I future in the recent both the Nixors went into tem- a word altered porary seclusion and said Uttle. single line changed,

This 14 Today they are soaking up sun- ilons,

my shine and confidence in Florida.

The British will find the sun complex and absorbing poll- Ucul personality. And they will find the Wornan u inost lady.

Writing

fair

in

In

And Mins Chase uses the old worn words: "Nothing could be

Mr Astaire

old ller; enough to be my father. In fact, older than my father."

Resenting

me. I don't even know whether Hollywood, smart in his English Anyway, tweeds, his rakish semi-Tyro- his baldness, lean hat to hide

This latest of Astaire's ls Peel shorn, and aggressive list of gifted dancing partners wastecal,

cess on

long

want it sellised. it's only half Brished."

"What about your new suc

was born to the Hollywood show television, the

purple the Beverly Hüls man- which many say was the best Sometimes he dines with his sions, the swimming pools, the they ever saw on a TV screen?" new star, the red-haired Barrie horses but in her teens oban- with him doned the splendour to begin a Chore, who appeared "I still don't know. In fact, I

In the one-hour television show dancing career, don't know what it is that has which has put Astaire back on made me a

An inventory top of the mountain-and young

star

Three thousand malies away. of my face doesn't disclose any Miss Chase too.

45 the feature that can be halled Mr Fred Astaire what a movie

In his Hollywood garden, phenomenal

season.

the sunshine wearing this season, is also sitting in

hla memoirs. and writing Astaire with his television show, An Hour with Fred Astaire.

unanimously called the great est unique, and just perfect by The critics, is surprised at the fuss and the demands for

all

ог

uny

She resents being called unknown or a Cinderella, she han danced in night-club

an

and

even

or TV star is She knows that Fred could shows and on TV and before have chosen from his famous the Alm cameras. But she had tho the past-Ginger never partners of

approached

with sho reached Itogers, Joan Fontaine, Audrey heights "Of course, I'm flattered and Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Joan Astaire on his one and so far

Leslie Caron, Crawford, pleased,

Cyd only, TV programpo. Charisse. Instead he chose her,

Miss Chase (24) cannot Astaire is not only the master, da refrain from rhapsodising,

but the teacher,

and I do make the most meticulous preparations.

and "What are my plans? I'm going to Austraila

Well,

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