1959-01-08 — Page 4

DON IDDON'S DIARY

TUESDAY

So THIS Is Hollywood!

By Norman King

THE CHINA MAIL, - THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959.

NEW YORK

Mr and Mrs Cary Grant!

"We

movie-making business? Doesn't MIS

Tell, what do you think of this

it bore you to death?”

The question came from Cary Grant, whom 1 found waiting around for a call at the Metro- Goldwyn-Meyer studios. He is playing the lead in a new Hitchcock thriller,

I could see why working with Alfred Hitch- cock might be tedious at times for the actors.

on the screen have all the

These wonderful sims, which and eight-lane mator Treeways,

e bull speerally to cope with the mesele suspense of a Uelong radh ris, are jammed at time-bomb, are achieved by most solid

lamineundous

1

in

Everything must bellutely 1ight before Hatebrack shooting Time, it seem, is to object.

But I wasn't bored to death,

chelt, 13

In Jaci understand how boredo

exist at all t

uff Such a state ut

111 take to the minty wealth. fact the far raputa inetur heir more than the be 25 per cent foed States averag

Ant thoaith Los Angeles rtili -

among citu di terms of populas

berd nly

lo

tanks

the

this sprawling community. dess 1 be as, Telem h

un an alleled pare of Hying.

Behind New York arul

MISS HORNSBY.SMITH: IT'S ABSURD

'I'm upset, says

Miss Pat

'OF COURSE BRITISH WOMEN

[ISS PATRICIA HORNSBY SMITH, who has been de- corating the New York scene, is always doing some marathon work in the United Nations. Her hair flying, she strode across the crowded room of a cocktail party I dropped into and bore down on me.

straighten it

DO MORE

FOR THE

COUNTRY:

"Very upset by some London has been given harder [this is truel. of the things which have the impression that it's Please appeared in the British all been a round of plea- out."

Justice of the United I explained that I had not States Earl Warren, Mrs Press, Bone to pick sure. You know no one

have worked written a line abett her and Warren, and their three with them, with you. could

Was not responsible for

ROUND-UP

the retail sales from GOOD SOLDIERS?

other people's dispatches, honey-blonde, extremely Miss Hornsby-Smith, molli- photogenic daughters. fied, continued her jogue:

mono-

21

"It's absurd to think that American women play bigger part in the nation's affairs than British women. We do far more in Britain. TERRITORIAL. Army unit at Sideup, Kent, hi pea to persuade

We have more seats in the train-ppe trousers and Teddy Roys to exchange the:

hold There isHouse. we

junior italton-style shoes for khaki tamifers and black boots,

Charengo Hp Shopes are now ahead of the Chicago fature, and still soaring.

Leve Los Angeles may The city of Los Angeles itself

the mt City lo 11% Datu neruples 455 square miles, uzsk

4 The 32.000 Morringen no doubt about Teddy Bays make good soldiers," said Major Ministerships, we have had inn Angels spills over noticeably

14 As Angeles County Isl A. W. George, who communds Battery of the 458 (Kent)

Cabinet rank, we have neighbouring communities

were almost

matched by Light A. A. Regiment, based at Sideup. "If you put them in

said the fought for office in munici- produce a metropolis of at least your

But It is uniform they become obedient and well-disciplined, The 31,000 divorces twice that area.

certainly an El Dorado. Though Major, "It gives them an important interest in life and they havepal affairs. endy a

thousand dollars all the comradeship they are obviously locking for in Teddy Boy unit by ward at worthy of actunt gold are pro- | gangs." Local "Teddies" are drawn into the

One or two enlist, then tell their friends that they like it. med each year, it is a place muth,

literally strike "Recruiting is going well for the battery," said Major George. where one can where vil in one's bark garden,

Evers in the middle of ane of WEEK-END AIR BOYS

A spread outwards instead of been terrier. Ted upwards hus by an only recently modified or dinance forbidding buildings of nwre than twelve storeys, bo- cause of earthquake damages

rt

One ustially seems to be. least ten miles from where One

answer to living in such a salun tion is the motor car

few

runs into hundreds,

bols

in

the big Hollywood Elm twenty i wells are producing LL the 50 Chipmunk two-seater light pinnes allotted by the day and right. And un the

Air Ministry to the Air Training Corps are now in use. fabulous Signol HA Log good weather at week-ends, they each average ten Bights of 30 wants to be next And the aly Beach, the number of deities minutes a day, which will increase as the days lengthen. Biggin 3, Kent, with ten machines, has the largest night. Others are centred in Southern England, at Humble Hampshire, Fliton. Bristol, Exeter, Devon, White Waltham, Berkshire and Cambridge. Most of them were All pilots are members of the R A.F.V.B. Annual production of petro-war time pilots, with the R.A. F. or the Royal Auxiliary Air leum in the area Is valued ni

Force. The flights are primarily to give flying experience to the about 250,000,000 dellars and cadets who went parachutes, and are briefed on emergency drill. practically

goes to

Last year there were 2,737,530

registered

the

Cory

in

105

Per

Angeles metropolis area. That

gure is equivalent to one family.

with more than half-a- million left over.

In the rush hour one would swear that they are all out at unce, and even the new six-inne

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"This is our finest hour! At long last we've got the chance of asking 'And what exactly is amer

hula hoop?'**

of

holisty the community's own BOUNCING CADETS preda! The export of

leum products from local ro- fineries is just about halunced, 11 (Brooklands) Air Training Corps Squadron, of the Surrey

petro-

by additiona!

crude petroleum

from outsicht

Other industries

uro many and varied. In average brow duction.

Wing, wanked a trumpe-line-a bed-like frame of sprig bounce high. But the canvas from which athletes an comedians rost nearly $200 was more than they could afford. So, under Flight Lieutenant M. May, their C.O."they sel to made one instructor C. Harris, learned the mpolining in Lust for £30. The PT Angeles lends the United States. the R.A F He, with the C.O. and the adjutant, Pilot Oficer At the Douglas plant at Long John Mugford, train the boys, who have reached such profielency Bench, I watched work in pro- that they have formed a display team.

Itar instance,

Kress on the new all-aluminium

jet-engined DC-6%, elu to go TRADE FERRY

Inlu service towards the end of

this year.

These tremendous planes will A FORMER landing craft, the 4,262-ton Empire Shearwater,

be able to curry

about 130

passengers ut jet speeds over

up to 5,000 ranges milca As

examined the

to

De-

which artives at Dover this month has been converted carry ready Inden forries between Dover and Calals, and is ex- pected to begin operating this month. The ferry means that im- or 6,500 parts and exports from England and the Continent can travel by

rend direct from maker to distributor without other handling. construction of Ce fuselage, livery times will be speeded and costs cut And cargo truc designed for stratospheric

port will heights, my guide freely offered through Dover-already the world's busiest passenger

increase. Just your nearly 100,000 tons of cargo were handled- seven per cent more than the year before. The Empire Shear- water can carry up to 50 lorries,

tut

com- very

the comment pany's designers owed a greal deal lo the British Comet,

Tomorrow:

CARVED FROM THE DESERT

DOCKERS TO OLYMPICS

B

DERMONDSEY, Lendun, dockers are planning to spend a fort- night it the Olympic Games in Rome in 1900, The Surrey Dock Social Welfare- A scelation have been asked by a number of facir members to organise the trip-for two weeks in August or September. While the association are trying to cost the trip the dockers have been advised to join a savings group.

ODELL

HARRY

PRESENTS

LE THEATRE

AT THE

KING'S

THEATRE

Artistic Director and Ballet Mistress:

TATIANA PIANKOVA

Musical Director and Conductor: NICOLAS KOPEKINE

Anta Galina

#

Tabelle Warnier

*

Artists:

Monique Josephovilch

Loubs Debeljavio

Nice Leilo

Teresa Kufuwk

·Kiafan Wanta

Nicolas Petror

1/5

Carman Valeron

Francoise Net Lillans Greff Marie Petrov Any Dolbo. Melone Longnei

Conrad Derevsky. Dragy Pantan Wiadisław Wroblewsky

D'ART DU

BALLET

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 14, 15, ÁT 9.30 P.M.

to

make

WARREN: IT'S DUTY.

Vice-President's success in ren seems unmoved by the London.

pleas of his friends or the "Apart from Warren, all persuasions of his family. the others -

Nixon and

Sheet Anchor Rockefeller for the Repub- licans and Humphrey and

HE recently wrote to a

who nephew urged him to try for the

Kennedy for the Democrats not Presidents, to me," Ber-

look like Vice-Presidents,

fard Baruch said this week.

Democrats, The

knowing

had

Presidency: "The court what a formidable candidate is now looked upon As Warren would make, are the sheet anchor. Will not it be if its Chief Justice is placed in the political whirlpool?

come

with

saying: "Earl should step down from the Bench." They are also saying: "We

has "The

office Warren's fight to impie- might be able to lick War.

down to me covered that family?"

honour. ment his court's decision to ren, but how could we lick

When I nccepted permit coloured children to is white schools attend

They

mean the three it my duty was not to won as the Warren slowly being

daughters the make it a stepping-stone to Segregationists grimly give Californian princesses Vir- something else, but to pre- All appeals, diver- ginia, Dorothy, and Nina, nerve its purity and make ground. sions, manoeuvres by while who are worth several hun- my name as honourable

per- possible as my predeces- jected by

Justice haps more, to their father. sora." Warren and his eight co- the Supreme judges Bench.

Southerners have been re dred thousand votes,

Chief

on

www

as

1

I know Warren has achieved such a daughter, Virginia, la Vice-Presidency ten

Chief Justice Warren has Two of the daughters are

This certainly done this. married-Dorothy to Dr

gregarious Carmin Clemente and Nina big, smiling,

man, three times Governor The Denounced as a "pinko" to Dr Stuart Brien.

of California, long-time third by the die-hard Right, engagement of the

the ran for lawyer who ex-

years into

to be announced

Nina,

known to every-

ago, has been lured politics again.

He became world-famous

of

"I've got to go now. should have been sailing, but instead I'm going to catch the Comet. you'll make things clear for success as a great judge and pected

that soon. enlightened Liberal me,"

the several members She sped away, a dynamo, Republican high command

more speeches, are trying to persuade him body as "Honey Bear" War- not overnight but in just

which ed down the decision attend more meetings, ready to run for the Presidency as ren, has completely recover- 28 minutes, when he hand- to help America as well as did Charles Evans Hughes, ed from the pollo

crippled her a few years coloured children should be another Chief Justice.

white ago, She has thrown away permitted to attend

schools. It is known that the her crutches.

Now he is adamant that would Republican Party

The girls would like to see the decision should be car- prefer Eisenhower's succes-

rather their father President of ried out however fiercely the IT should be an interest- or to be Warren

ing 1959 for Chief than Nixon, despite the the United States, but War- South shouts "No."

Britain.

Warren.

IT

?

IT'S SO EASY

YOUR FINGERS

DURING

TO

GET

BURNED

In this tricky business of buying art

the past few years pictures have be come as popular a form of investment as Standard Oll. prices The general level of has never been higher, even in the great days of Lord Duveen. Pictures of almost every type and period sell well.

By

DAVID CARRITT

The chances of getting a sale- bought only a few months ago room bargain have become in for high prices today sell for finitesimal. And pictures even higher.

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Everything enocurages collector to regard his pictures

that

For instance a splendid family group by Romney was sold at Sothebys last week for £3,400.

Collectors who imagine that the works of more recept artists are bound to appreciate in valua would do well to remember the pictures from Sargent's studio, 1925. sold after his death in Sargent was then considered a major genius, the equal Manet and Velasquez.

0:

over

In 1902 one of Sir Laurence

frigid

fancy- Abna-Tadema's dress pieces enlilled A Dedien- lion to Bacchus was sold for

Lord Duveen pald 25,560. Today it would be worth £3,000 for a mail view of the one-tenth of that eum, Collectors Vatican, and, stronger still, Like Cornellus Vanderbilt would Agnew paid £1,095 for pay up to £20,000 for a lande- Bargent copy after Velasquez cape by Theodore Roustcat"

Today only a few of Sar-

Important Iorge Rousseau

Was

as a bulwark against Inflation. Last week at Sotheby's an gent's portraits are admired,

Rubens and Tiepolo sketches,"

and Post- Impressionists. Impressionists, Dutch and Eng Hat: landscapes the saleroom prices for all these have soared

ince the war.

and then for their period charm sold for £250, A few Vic- rather than their technical doxe torian and Barbizon pictures terlly,

rest may still be worth, thousands, but only the finest. The are simply a drug on the mar

And so far there has been no ket. sign of them sinking.

The risk

Every day we read of senisa= In the twenties, 18th century tional increases in value; for I should like to believe a English portraits cost Цр to ail the rich man now investing 100,000 aplece. in pictures stand to gain by Duchesses their Eurohimes, But looking back over

priced saleroom churing the past,00 years, I can BOO わか grounds" for optimism.

Price cut

Not only instance, that a Vlaminck land- scapo sold for E14 in 1913, hos by" Gainsborough been resold for £5,400,

painter who was s

of genius, but elegant Inalgklities by of the sensational decreases

bear.

nothing, almoat oilera liku Hopper, were sought .we after as eagerly a "Cezannes Sargent's View of the Vatican today. The reason was sociolo would probably slip through the

·salstvom unnoticed. gical, not artists.

The Americans envied our aristocracy. its ancestors, and

portraits

I'

The owner of the Vlaminck,

On the contrary,† the sale- derived a gobbisis satisfaction Clive Bell, was Interested in room proves that only a handful, from hanging their walls with pictures, not in money. Colles- acquired fors of his calibre are bound to

do well, of supremely great masters are ancestral

way of andere Immuno from the vagrant from needy, or merely greedy

oblemen, fashion and the stock market.

that the American, rich who battle for the fashionable "At the tum of this century, have become ari, independens painters may well be in for some bitter" diauppojistereiste. It Engilsh and American million, aristocracy, they no longer, feel ever there Mould be? “manefsi aires, competed an engerly the need for auch things. Which depression, um dos will want to for paintings by Victorian and 'mesnia British collectors, voliererükencat @thair depress Barbizon School master sa they can orice again buy Englisë kryesimine oplegtionst

dia for Hamstrandte.

„portraits for seasotiable