THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1959.
The man who gives
ERNARD SHAW
BEI
disapproved of musical comedy but he relished the cheerful jingle of a cash-register. He would surely have chuckled to learn that his royalties from My Fair Lady are
nearing £200,000.
now
The Vrble Trustre Fas
chat of 16in
Mitt
Bea" for the Shaw estate. Shaw
ante el 29 m on les executor
key an
his not Wh
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.. figures at Drury Lane
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away millions
FROM G.B.S. TO KING FEISAL LEAVE THEIR MONEY WORRIES
THOMPSON
He is al conducting a world- Sare He ist, some tha legal fletin-a mere handy label Wide
THEY TO HIM
putting the affairs in his hands Ja shrinking slightly.
"However 1 have abcul £50 million in equities,” hi said, "and about C200 million in trustee securilles. And there 19 £30 million in landed property.
Big business
Whe diaplayed, with empetiti: n. followed sty. :b penmarsup, on cards the for the Government department Shaw's wadis, to proste a new size of a table-top. Others were inhabiting a lean Edwardian hentie alphabet of 40 letters contened in a few all pages Mr Baukw.I led me into a Large or small. they are going to building T Kingsway. thave
hts agestant, Mr mean months of work before the Just encounterca min the room whừa
B. 1. M. Davies, one of the 30 winner of the £500 prize is million a year in incen flesh.
sodinters out his staff of 500, has chosen.
rips with spent on ny dags at Shaw's unorthodox will
He proved to be a grey-haired, mund-scelu ind saleitor with on whakably be rtl asher, whith very creditali méter nearly 40 years of handing they per she's treney worries.
He in ralt. Mr Reginald Biwik will-rolite an
lucky
11
fr romar m dedicated to carrying 11: Last Wills and
Testaments,
On guard
He told 374 faizty icid placidly, that standing und over Shaw's pretheanuts - Int was just the sort of unpredictable job whieh regularly cos his way.
At the moment, 50,000 tmisis e in tus care.
Anyella tan appoint him to be
his executor, al fer Sxed ing
namon-porodil
ruetas
w
Thos
basis. he turns at a nemens thac
nutie from investments * millonairela; estate to weighing the problems of a wider and opthen left with
a few paund,
distribute about £ 10
1
quite a big. way of business." Mr Baulkwill benned like any
In his But he wants the business to "Just nok at that cabinet." kindly family solicitor.
be big.or.
which is why he d Mr Davice stambrely, pont beds me dice a the burned
Krate. ing to a steel cupboard snag the
a flower-pattered launched a nudest advertising
Hr the floor. All carpaign the other day. Was "I absolv car, et the mur
with latives about ret his cesk anchairs were also taking on the management asked
deployed, ready for the Imily of pension funds. Show."
TEOPORRY ĮPENE
THE MORNING AFTER – BY JAK
UNCLE NIK SAYS-
LESS WORK
NO TAXES
MORE SWEETS
LESS DRINK
(KREMLIN KAR Wnt13].
Of course, you know they used up sil our alcohol sending up that flipping moon rocket."
**I
London Express Service.
The a there were the entris conferents so cica held there. I asked whom he had named But then we came to the only an executor of his own will, He hplier competition, which
Trustee's elupost ast nnth. Altogether eload the Public
"As it happens," he said. tries (including three behind the face of hot competition from the have mined the Public Trustee," 40 was retired from 25 couns sumy horize--the fact that, in
his confortable satile.
Iron Curtain).
The nunter at people -Landon Expitas Service).
batiks,
into
Jets fly
TROUBLE
But, a
nir
At last
THE golden glitter the
travel booms, use and long criticised. Bankwill cabely. Jet Age has brought to higher speeds inevitably create a new type is under test. But, the flying is sally turnished to hazards. Far too little again, un official decision yet,
“At one time I was da podiel of the Nowe :f the Word" wal Mr Riddell, company.
the charmin
wa!
Trustee his exerat
ut in change.”
month.
Accidents
Public this F
rod was strike the first two Ameri- [en jet airliners, the Boeing 707 and the Lockheed Electra.
Murdered
Amont, ins charges at
is the
property
feet the mant, From 35,000 600-mile-an-hour 707 drops "like on express B" to 6,9
a
fort
Ele
in Britain of King Feisal, nuncered in the freqi rivelt lus: suposer.
1 Le
3.
is being done to meet Uiem.
DISTRESS BEACONS. The Canadians Internationa! bickering, the
have
produced A distress bus con which would be The wearisome meanderings of
an apparently automatically released from a official process, higher regard for the purse crashing aircraft and enable than for life itself
.all are
rescuers to locate il immediately. disrupting the speedy introduc- No one has taken it to date.
4. OPERATORS LICENCE tion of wir-safety measures.
Top Ten
Instances,
Nearly a year ago the Brish Independent Air Transport As- sociation
a proposed
new
5. WEATHER
Social Climbing
in the
Alps
NOBODY, BUT NOBODY, CAN BEAT THE ARMY FOR SNOBBERY
I
by. SARAH
ROTHSCHILD
Winterberg, Germany. HAVE just spent a breath-taking week of social Not in some climbing in the German Alps. swanky ski resort or in the Alpine hide-away of the international set, but on the ski slopes requi- sitioned by the British Army, of two-way Family championships has made In case of Favourites fame, in Winterberg, Germany.
such emergencies the Army has 14 ambulances
ski slopes. Ambulance trucks placed at strategic points on the
social ready. At the Kurhaus Hotel and sledges always stand at tho for cfficers is a fully equipped
the atmosphere even more Winterberg, which is a mere 20 miles from the rarefied, and of course put Russian border, is both the British Army's only Winterberg, previously not leave centre in Europe and also its winter warfare climber's atins, right on the training centre.
Says actor Gene Kelle: "J
315 positive as Itcence to ensure the effeleney Was abadutely horrilled."
they are perturbing, are the safe operation of all British had a country hour at Staines one of the 114 who escaped, readily available. Here are my airlines, with constant cheeks by and several thousand pounds.
From an approach to New Top Ten. Troubles urgently a qualified technical staff and write.s Ferrous
Scan To
York's LaGuardia Airport, the needing to be tackled now?— heavy penalties for offenders, faveur tus services, The estates
Electra
1. AIRCRAFT SEATS. Rear- "It is still under consideration,"
At the cost of about £10 go to war against a coun- or Kipling, Armed Beanett, and 150-miles-an-hour
which has lot of more recently Algerton Bhek-phages into the swirling waters ward facing stats have been says the Ministry.
RADAR. T a head a day the British fry word and Shan, ensure ars his of the Bad River. Of the 12 established by R.A.F. medical
supporting now." pende aboard, few are saved. en as stfer. But the Ministry is instilled in the latest alr-taxpayer
Su many people wondered; of Transport and Civil Aviation cart, but there has been nu about a thousand soldiers in
retrospective atting of carlier this tiny mountain village. Is the Jet Age the dangerous says: "Discursions age? 1: ait travel only for tinuing."
versluns to give them its great
To the ignorant onlooker 2. ALTIMETERS. Crashes rm
- warning benefits the fonihordy?
it looks as if the soldiers not. Statistics have occurred through pilots expansive, it is raid.
the
G. AIR eampieated, elusively prove flying is ex- misreading
NAVIGATION. In spend their time happily ceptionally safe.
three-needle illimeter now 10
Montreal the International Civil ski-ing, but one is soon in-
hanth
But few have nv lved him b qu to such wid sinn as the
Shaw estate.
To this Mr Haukkwill not only Jound bent up 1 his wilch- chain in tricky points of ryal- ties and international copyright.
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Protocol
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map, socially.
the
has kept a
The Army very stiff upper lip about "Der Herzog," as the Ger- call the Duke, being
mans here.
medical centre and a resident speelalist In breaks and frac- tures.
Breaking the social ice at tha Kurhaus flotel is a spine-chill
to or experience. I managed get us for as the manager's office This without a security check. means: was I the
the right friend of
"He is very small fry so But the basic warlike pur far as we are concerned," a cheer?
Winterberg pose of
is
Aviation Organisation meets to formed that this is no ski. Covered in an avalanche of senior officer said to me do
pick a standard nld. Dritating but winter warfare.
backing the Decca Navigator, a briliant invention which pit-
points an aircraft's position by said to me, gazing towards means of
wife or girt runk.....on
Mr Mackinnon, the young Nna mannger of the hotel, wields more power than some of protocol which makes the fensively. "He is only
the generals the V.I.P. suites, snobberies of ski cliques in lieutenant, you know."' Invaluable," us a colonel St Moritz seem democratic. Bg fry the generals-are to
I found him pinning up a be found in the Everest for
notice saying it would not ba officers to wear accesary for social cllinbers in Winterberg-
evening dress during the forth- the Kurhaus Hotet for officers. During the war it was one of
coming week. "The Duke's ar- Hitler's Nazi youth centres.
rival was getting some of the Now a luxury hotel with officers worried," explained Mr 3011-deep Olympic swimming Mockinnon. pool and special Nanf prices, it is the bastion of the Amy's top brass,
a en traeing on the pine-shadowed Russian The presence of the Duke moving chart. The Americans border, "if we should ever of Kent recently at the ski are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effec- tive, but with big delar in- vestments behind it.
Decca says: "The conference resolves itself into a battle be- tween something that is right and is the only right solution, oppered to something that is being pressed in order to pro- feet un investment and with completa disregard of what is best for civil aviation. Fight ing and worrying words.
7. LANDING SYSTEMS. The Instrument Landing System used in Britain is American equip- ment with power fed Into it at a different voltage and frequency cycle to that it was designed for. A more advanced British I sume- system is available one will and the cash.
8. HOLES. Yes, holes exist In the floors of come modern airlines. In one recent crash it WILD thought a screwdriver might have silpped through and Jammad the controls. Not im-
possible.
9. AIRSPACE CONTROL, Joint control of civil and mill- tery fying to prevent collisions Is needed, Bui it is taking too long.
10, APPROACH LIGHTING.
It took three years of pressure
un im-
from the plots to get proved runway lighting for smaller British airfields.
Economics
Is there no argument on the other side? There in. Accident researchers are limited by the small number of aircraft neel dents of one type,
They have only n restricted simple to work on; in other fields it would often be regarded as Insufficient evidence on which to base firm conclusions.
ROUND-UP
THIS IS YOUR LIFE SHOW
NEWLY-WEDS and those who have recently celebrated their 21: birthday are to be invited to an exhibition at Enfield, Middlesex, in June and July. The exhibition; entitled "This Is Your Life," is by the staff of the borough countll to show how the district is administered. Stands will all every available room in the 17th-century Forty Hail, explaining local government services from antenatal cimies to flats for old people. Councillors will show visitors round the hall and act as hosts when tea is served.
RIVER CRUISE FOR LIFEBOAT
WHEN the new £30,000 Walmer, Kent, lifebont leaves
tho
betiders yard at Littlehampton, Sussex, in March it will sali straight to the Thames and be on view in the river for two days. The lifebout, which is provided by grants from voluntary gifts by elvil servants, is to be named Charles Dibdin, Civil Service Ne. the evening of 32. It will moor alongside Westminster Pier March 15. Until 2.30 pan, the next day she will be open to visits by parties of civil servants. She will then move up river to be Welcomed the next day by the Mayor of Kingston, the Mayor of The new lifeboat Twickenham, and the Mayor of Richmand.
will be piloted by her coxswain Fred Upton, twice winner of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Silver Modal for Gallantry.
HANDICAPPED SCOUTS' OWN CAMP ·
N
NE hundred London Boy Scouts, who will be camping this summer in the Scottish Highlands belong to a special brunch Scouts. Crippled of Scouting called the London Handicapped limbs, blindness and other handicaps do not get them down.
Thiat
a
is why these boys are the only Scouts to wear the emblem of
"To help a lame tog over stile on the back of their red scarves.
I
cut
a
Generals nip in and out in helicopters, which fand on the snowy lawns. Colonels' wives
children in park their bydlenie, vista-facing nursery. Majors and captains drink the bar-whisky Ls 4d, a glass until four in the morning.
Juke box
briet He then gave me a Kulde to etiquette Inside the Kurhaus Hotel ond in the vil Inge of Winterberg. "We have staying had up to 20 generals In
here at one time. At the mo- ment there is just General West, and soon Major- General Hopkinson."
Bul woe bellde any mortals who pass these portals who are not offers or their append- ages-wives.
The others
economy
on
Officers are not encouraged to take the entertainment out- side the Army vicinity.
Out-of-bounds (except to German Americans living
private in German Within snowinil distance of homes) la the notorious Milel the officers' hotel are threo Bar, which boasts a juke box hotels for those of lower rank. blaring Elvis Presley 24 hours u Thero is the Snow Inn for day, with 40 kinds of milk warrant officers and Eergeants; shakes.
Pleasure the Ski Inn for junior ranks;
the O.K. spots on
Bath, once the Dewdrop Inn, stronghold of list: the dauna
favourite pastime of the Duke one is beaten the of Kent, where
with little sticks; the Beer Par- lour, where one ih forced to between dance with a balloon enself and one's partner.
the Naaf.
3
Fraternisation between hotels is strictly prohibited. "A sergeant could ask me in for a drink or game of dratto though ho wouldn't ---- but couldn't possibly ask him backe here," an officer explained.
Tho 50mo applies to the officers' wives, One major's wife I talked to, who hnd beans
Hideous
NOT on the
O.FL.
д
list: the
in Winterberg threo monilis, Neaf cinema, where this week had not even heard of the near Tommy Steele's latest film, by lower rink hotel, "Wa stick "The Duke Ware Jeans," la pretty much to ourselves in the being shown. for
Kurlinus," she said.
the stile is the sim." eays Mr Leonard Robinson, London Com- missioner for Handicapped Scouts, "And the stile is a sign of
Now Mr Robinson has launched an appeal achievement." £2,000, no that the Scout can have their own camping equipment. A boy stricken Cricket is a favourite game for these plucky Inds.
instance, will bat from an invalid chair. After with pollo, for hitting the ball he will be helped to score his "runs" by a dent or dumb Scout who runs the batsman in lis wheel-chair to the opposite wicket,
Then there is the controver- ATOMIC AGE ENGULFS ROMAN CASTLE
slal yardstick of
economic
usage. Can expensive equip ment be afforded when it miny bo needed only once in A year, Kiva years-or never?
Bui the pilot and passengers whose safety might depend on it that once should have it.
INDER the shadow of Hutulae, the largest Roman fortress in Britain, on Kent's desolato Richborough marshes which have remained unspoiled for centuries, there is a nover-ending tum of activity as ancient Richborough is brought fato the atomic aga. A wired-in area, with lorries and men pouring in and out day and night, marks the site of a £2,000,000 power station to be fired by coal from nearby plta. Richborough Castle will be dwarfed by the giant cooling towers which will arise on the low-lying
-PETER WOON ground below its massive remparts.
Breakages
In
fashionablo
aki resorin Sherg
are rigid snobberies of dress-verlagets... socks Inside your trousers
polo
aeeks,...
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For the soldier in search of Here the soldiers, who look uniforms, glory, the next best thing to so murt in their being wounded in action is to wear clothes on the ski slopes take his leave ot Winterberg. which would give a sergeant- For every pair of skla on the major on the parado ground an
hideous slopes there is a pair of crutchies opliepile St
white in the sanatorium.
bolier sults, flapping off-white In fact, It is considered rather pyjama jackets, grubby dentists" un-chle here not to be wounded operating theatre costs words in action. Sprained ankles are cannot describe the acruziness the least chic eastialfies. A of B.ÂOR, on the ski sloper. good, clean, snapped fibla is "Camouflage" is the mure scelally acceptable.
explanation.
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