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The new,

happy life of

Deborah Kerr

Klosters.

HE ski lift, as usual, was more solidly packed

THE

than the London Underground during the

rush hour.

There were the tough- looking ski fanatles who chare the show round the world, the 10-dny-u-year skiers sporty

who later appear, their nickn elegantly polsed, in the glossy page of The Tatler,

And there were the novices watching the #prehensively ground sink away as the cable var made its neat-vertical take-

ir.

Toreengnised among the lal- fer was Deborah Kerr. In any case, she would have been of lescer interest to these paru- cult people than the condition < the snow at the top of the montain.

And

was enjoying her tema yunnanymity.

During the part few months the ho discovered the wur taste of fame. Since the break- up of her marringe to Battle of Britain hero Tony Barty The has found the egriosity of the world dieult to appease,

In tears

· Deborah Kerr

life. Meeling writers and people like that and sitting artind an enfer, talking:

it's true I'm a

little bit of a chameleon. SIR, it: been very gout for me, this

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1959,

When Krushchev goes off the drink..

2

EAT MORE

SWEETS DЯINK LESS

VODKA

Dinner is served, comrades.

London Express Servica.

the AIR AGE

of the

DAWN of

in my way of living seems a far cry from Hongkong's modern airport at Kai Tak

In her wind-cheater and ski Blacles, quashed unceremon- rattus GAB by between

browny bad I'm happier than I have wen eve been before.

thren

men and two brawny and a dazen skis, he did not terk at all the the girl who had earned the nickname al Ductes in Bollywood.

And when later that morning, frst really Aller making her successful run down the nursery slopes, she art into tears wit sif hver excitement, all base. of the Duchess had gone. As fan as I was concerned would never pour tea in quite the same way again.

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We met tater, in the bar of one of the hotels, and it was elar that on or off skis Mic Kerr had left her Duchessy pst beliind her.

the

She said he wanted to cor- feet a certain impression that

bret givea about

marriage 10 bak-up of her Tony Bartley.

hack

TWOLN

Relaxed

"There is no antagonism be

Tony and myself. The whole busine. started off on the wrong fool, temper pot hot and words flew that per haps were not really meant. That may have contributed to ward, making the whole thing leok rather ugly.

to a day, sixty-eight years ago when Hongkong first became air minded. The day is January 3, 1891, and a vast excited crowd Fay is gathered at Happy Valley to watch the dare-devil aviators,

the Baldwin Brothers.

"My ide is no longer quite so ant narrow. Really straight

heart uthully, at soul, but sometimes you have to to be happy, through the toy I feel so much freer m lighthearted."

Always new

Miss Kerr complained that

ple

always writingg about the "new Deborah Kerr."

wire

Now when you come to consider all things, this was some show. The Baldwing ascended by balloon, and to add to the excitement, they did a few stunts on the rope ladder that trailed from the balloon.

Reaching the required height, the Baldwins descended by parachute while the goggling crowd missed a few heart beats. This is the way the reporter of the Hongkong Telegraph described it the next day:

was

When she thist appeared in a

were lucky enough to "From a spectacular point of who

thre

cxhibition

witness it. bathing suit in From Here to

view, screamed

"When almost a mile above Eternity, the papers

undoubtedly a prat success, and plout The New Deborah Kerr.

the exelted crowd, Mr Raldwrn indved we doubt it any more she is playing a

the from his rap made sesulionel fent has ever been Now when

Separate Taules,

trapeze and descended with plain girl in the papers again proclaim the complished than that of the daring aeronaut who ended

the speed of a meteor towards New Deborah Kerr.

elmost to the height of a mile the ground. get newer and "I sem to

the ht forecasting off from Wer as I get ulder Brad

balloon. The programme was older," she said.

opened by the younger Baldwin attempting by the surest means, to gain a 'pass' for the regions of the blessed by diving from the top of an 80-foot bamboo tower into a net, set a few feet above The ground to receive him

Professionally, she

told rhu was ready now to do seme- thing rally good. 1 feet ke fanfe that has been sharpened, an not interested any longer in just being a success with the pubbe

The Fort of prople I have been mesting lately have given titel to thy me a critical work. 1 want to be good. 1

tilo

whore people, would Onions I respect to think that may sound hackneyed but it's I'm damned good,"

"We are the best of friends now and atway, will be. That

11tte."

Then Miss Kerr talked about her fe during the past

Iow

No plans

Misa Kerr said

month. She looked younger

she did not and more relaxed than on any other occasion that I have rat know where she would be living In the future. She would have

het

"We cannot say anything of 1s feat except by chronicling the extraordinary fact that he is still alive.

*

گوتم

"When the hair

the spectators had once mure assumed its natural position, the great event of the day was pro beeded with.

"The pincers of inflating the balloon is

a patent one-raffled air being used instead of gaz, as was the case in the abortive de play of aeronuuling given some months ago.

"In a few minutes al was ready, and that she would spend much of

fie signal to cast “Yes in a way it's been a les time on the Continant-not lose was given. strt of floating cafe life without necessarily in any one place. raying much in any one place. Qate a change from the rather are conventional home 1 set to lead.

She 318: "I have lived a to her hease in Hollywood completely different sort of fe because there was no point now I have done things I never did in keeping it.

She thought she was becoming before. I've been to my first

European in her budi-fight and now Pm learning much more

she expected sting and

a whole nititunden, I've met now cawd of people.

and

Ste har no delinite plans and

Having no he was enjoying definite plans.

I have always liked Deborah Kerr, Lut in Klosters. for the frat I'me, I and her fascinating

"But I have enjoyed it enor rously. I feel now or the art lime that I am being mys-it. One of her new writer friends was nester the should be able to write a very Duchessy type though I admit I good book about her. nid give people the impression

Honestly, 1

metimes of being tile prim

and solemn,

"I'm not at all, you know, (

am really

rather my pertan

and I enjoy the port of infernal

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"For the space of some seconds not a sound was heard, but the soon flea and the parachute

CH the descent speed materially teened and finally, zig-zagging through the air. Me Baldwin cave down is gently us on early bird discending na LA UGAVPIY worm."

One ci hagine the excited chatter as the crowd dispersed, The talgan: smothering their excitement under the bitse ex- pression of men who had seen all this before.

Bu! once suated İn their carriages, they would break out into a chatter as they relivel that menent when a man first defied the air above Hongkong. crewd would have to Th walk along Queen's Road East In get back to Victoria, but on this ocension it was worth it

How the knowledgeable voung men would talk and discuss Jules Verne's flying romances, and the world of the future.

THIS HONGKONG

By JOHN LUFF

Lamebes and yachts manoeuvr-

could

at

of the balloon dynasty. Within aycor, the first "flying machino" would stir the air of the Colony, as ita crude blades ate up space nt the incredible figure of sixty miles an hour.

Even at this time, the residents were talking of events in France

and. He was brought to land cluas and England,

of courso cd into posiflun so that their to Holt's Wharves, none the America, where heavier than air In fact, machines had not only risen get # FEISENHers

worse for the duckding. glimpse

the "balloon he was quite self possessed, and from the ground but accomplish- considerable controlled while the paying customers in stopped to tell a lady addrer ed the field were packed shoulder that it is "quite wet in there," and oil was kindled near Holt's

le shoulder. A blaze of wood

Godowns, and gradually the monster ballcon began to stretch as the oir flowed The missionarie: mate a good red writhe point When they proved that into it.

tot intended to y, man wan otherwise he would have wings. countered by The Baldwins saying that man was not intender! otherwise he would to swim. have webbed foot.

The missionaries came back with the subtle paint that if the Baldwins broke the Sabbath by giving an air-display, they would break their in all probability necks also,

The

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Sean it was tugging at its ropes; so vast was it that the top at the gas case was level with the roof of the godown.

Meanwhile, the ballook, having emptied itself of gas, was flp- Hlapping down into the harbour, where it writhed on the water for all the world like a great fish. There was tremendous a plause as the aviator, walked

and had through the crowd, someone passed the hat around

would have collected thing.

Airlits.

contemporary viewers reckon ne Hongkong.

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fino

In actual fact, the South China 5007 to Was Morning Post publish an article which had the It Colony holding its breath.

of a formation proposed the

in fly lag company to teach

Whatever way you look at it, Hongkong become atr minded forty-eight years ago, and re- maritable foresight is shown in the the articles published at

The journalists of two Opinions vary as to the thre

the rapidly, the ascent took, but a contus eration ago foresaw

ot opinion reckons about two possibilities of travel by flying They knew that the minutes; and the height reached, machines. tiny speck about 1,500 feet, The parachute clumsy aeroplanes of 1910 would and that men woukl from the

about three improve, great dercent occupied

not be prepared to leave their powery 2112- potential flying

But this is better told in the

Everyone was on tip-toe with excitement, then two shouts rent the atr simultaneously.

off" and "Ee-yah!**

The balloon rose

"He's

The Ballwing went on with their display, breaking all their straight into the air, and soon previous records-and by derds the aviator, Mr Ivy Baldwin, was

no Diare than won the argument.

suspended balloon.

movements

could

time.

ninutes,

This seems much more likely developed. than the mile ascent reckonechly the Hongkong Telegraph re- next article.

the

Els

be seen, but within fcarcely Erconds. He had detached him- self, and the balloon turned over and began to belch porter, commenting upon smoke. Many thought the ascent from Happy Valley nine-

teen years earlier balloon had caught fire, but In fact it was only emitting some moke it had sucked in. The huge

So successful were there alr displays that the Baldwing soon attracted imitators, so that fu 1892, certam Sener Hernandez turned up in Hongkong. He announced that he would ascend from West Point on the evening of November 9.

A huge crowd uned out to watch this candi- date for breken neck.

tule held 15 the Senor Hundez's method of breath as argent whe via hot air. He it tiny gure bc- a fe near his balloon with the

to gan

fall, and sighed object of healing the cir in his

relief with

as balloon, thus causing his balloon

they

saw the to ris

waiting multi-

At last, to the excitement of parachute open the crowd, the balloon began like an to gut out and rise from the

The crowd Rave o crest cheer and Sener Hernandez waved proudly to the crowd.

The balloon left the ground I wonder if any looked aures

ground, at an extraordinary :gized, with the water towards Kai Tak, and

Baldwin haning to a yuuitg

saw in the future a great winged Hope ladder some sixty fees monster come sighing to Earth? From Hongkong, the Baldwins below it.

The amount of nerve re- want to Macao, and considering quired to Miccessfulty perform the old tre, the Litter the day, such a feat must be wonderful, the better the deed, they gave a

Can

in

thera were some

or perhaps It would be more duplay on Sunday, the 18th of ecevrale to say that the ma January, 1891. who

hang

mid-air

In Macon tethered to a reb-nway balloon American missionnales preach

And turning from the and go through gymnitie per- mg. formance has no nerve as all, crowd, the missionaries started on the Baldwins. The Baldwins "Mr Baldwin's foat doubtedly on: of the most sensa- termed to have been as good at #15 they were ut lenal sights ever witnessed and debating will not be forgotten by those tereneutical exhibitions.

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ROUND-UP

AIR-BORN BABY

IR-BORN" baby a bouncing girl, horn in an air ambulance

"Aane Chout 4,900 fees above Scotland is progressing

une

The balloon hovered for a moment, thru burst into flames. The crowd got out of the way

brella,"

um-. and

Ivy Baldwin,

descend ing waving confidently to the crowd's, However a sudden putt of wind blew

hin over the and

the crowd rushed to the

to better witness the roasting of Senor Hernandez. But the Senor had no intention harbour, of so entertaining the audience. He gave a mighty lep, and mingling with the mob, watched ile balloon perish in diamea.

Before the final

water front to ree the descent flame end in a duck- flickered, Hernandez athered ing his audience around him, and told them that while their show had gone up in smoke, so had his capital.

So what did this Hongkong audience do but open a sub reription list to buy him a new balloon. The Señor took the money, but he did not buy a balloon, so for all I know it was just a KOT. and burningt Я balloon might have been a better of raising money than actually Jumping from one.

The old century has gone, and the precent, ten years old, but it is still the balloon which calls out the crowds. It is Saturday afternoon, January 20, 1910, and everyone in Hongkong is making for a vacant pleen of ground opposite the Victorla View in Kowloon.

well in hospital at Glasgow. Mother is Mrs Mary Anne McLeod, 20, wife of the Co-operative store manager at Castlebay, Barra,

the Hebelles lalands. The plane, was taking Men McLeod way to Glasgow for special treatment. The baby was delivered by a Jumalean staff nurse from the Southern General Hospital, Glas- ow, Nurse Doreen Moo, aisted by traince Nurse Anne Brownie, from the sense hospital, who was making her first fight as ti "observer,' The plane was diverted from Renfrew to Turnhouse Air ambulance rushed aerodrome Edinburgh, because of log. mother and daughter the 40 tites to Glasgow. STAGE SWORDS

WORDS used by actor Sir Henry Irving in plays on King Arthur, Macbeth, Mephistopheles and Hamics are among 4,000 tiems the "archives" of Sir Henry which have been bought by an onangnious person and presented to the British Theatre Muscum Association, in London. There are letters ond documents pre curved by Sir Henry from 1855 to 1905 and other documents including progeemmes, playbills, photography and account books of the Lyceum Theatre, London. There are also his notebonit containing drafts of speeches and letters to Bernard Shaw.

The actual site is where the Peninsula Hotel now alandy,

The crowd, swarmed up Sign H uniil it formed in a dence maso, Hella, Godownt were like rookeries, the spectatora perching anywhere they could gain a foothold,

Baldwin 12ft

the water same hundreda

of yard from the shore. Tho splash could easily be aven, but he WAT promptly picked up by a waiting launch,

* And don't

forget to

write and toll

wo which log

you'vo

broken'

Everyone agrees that it was a good show, but it was the jast

JAK

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