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THE CHINA MAIL; TUESDAY, MARCH 1 10, 1959.

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LOGAN GOURLAY

REPORTING AROUND-TOWN AGAIN

PAUL

ADAM STAYS

IN BED DESPITE

AM back-a shade

reluctantly to London,'

the capital love and some- times hate....London of the flick knives and the respectably furled umbrellas ...of the zoot suits and the City pin stripes, of the nyloned street-walkers and the galtered bishops...

It's at the city s knew it would be int s RUA with soclnt anobberies, rigid with class-consciousness,

And it's still in its para- doxical way, one of the lust capital bastions of personal freedom.

It's

A favourite

THE

PRINCESS

-to keep a date

·PAUL ADAM-BLEEPING FILLS FOR A

DATE WITH HOUSEWIVES

with Britain's housewives

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sleeping hours, lind changed his Ing, among other thlogs, "I've

went to his 1959 routine to be freshly awake for Got You Under My Skin." She opening night, and I want

about 8,000,000 housewives."

Cholee." It's

something of a test case for him because he has let the house- wives down in the past,

of

sent the following message to

time

also the home of the

Tie is a rucent compere of Mr Adam: "Pleurant dreams. I gentle Constitutional Monarchy, mit B.B.C breakfast Berial And the home of crown-tilters usewives'.

may hear you in the morning." like Lord Altrincham and John

many crunching husbands got So 8,000,000 housewives and Osborne. Esq

Mr Adam I must tell you

promptly on the intest

But at breakfast.

a Princess Incident Involving our malicable

On one occasion a couple had to do without him at her Monarchy in

gradually

after-midnight quid supper. years ago, when he was com- developing democracy.

Now you cop coll this U I happened just a couple of peiing the programme he slept nights ago when I was exposing The natural reason was that victory for the commoners.

he hadn't gone to bed unili just my faint suntan to the West before the hour when 8,000,000 End's dim Ughts.

throughout the land.

out

Into a Park Lane nightclub walked Princess Margaret with a party of three friends, includ- Jug Julien Byng, who is not one

of the chinless wonders,

On her record of fairly regu- lar attendance over the years the nightclub can claim to be the Princess's favourite. So I can reveal that it's called the Milroy.

It can also claim the band- Jrader who is the Princess's

alarm

clocks arc

He is determined

that the housewives

to say that though his band is smaller his skill as Neither is his infectiously a clarinet-blower is not.

gay personality.

A

O

Could you call this acntimental nostalgic plug Or for an old friend and you can call it a diplomatic bandleader from the pre- triumph for

The malirable rock tra? ringing Monarchy in our Budurlly

You could. developing democracy, this time I cannot resist add'nt fiat.

will hear the choice is yours. (Forgive CHOPSTICKS

his deep bass promptly of nine me if you can.) every morning.

So he had gone to bed that at 12.10 after washing

night

Your choice

I AM BACK and so is down two sleeping pills with a Harry Roy. Back to the

le champagne.

May Fair Hotel, where he Inst appeared 20 years ago in the days of the big bands and the bigger spen- falling ders. Adam, more

deb-dreaming as the debs' ho

slumber when his becalde, telephone rang. The head wafter, told him that the Princess had arrived and was inquiring for him,

favourite. He is the darkly handsome Paul

commonly known delight.

Test case

At

12.45 he was just

But when the Princess and party arrived et 12.30 .n. he was not on his deb-delighting stance. He was in his king-size bed #! his new home In Kinnerton Street, which is. Ave minutes away by fast Jagaar.

The news surprised the Princess, as it woult many mid- whisky and water.

Bulding his brown eyes open he said: "I've just taken two cep'ng pills. I couldn't drog myself out for the entire Royal Fomily. Anyway, I must remember my housewives."

The Princess drowned her disappointment

attle

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2.30

night ladies. Mr Adam, who is She danced gaily until usually at his liveliest in the an. the lenderless band play-

TREND

"

chop racy. They never ask for bird nest soup, but they like R if I serve it. without telling them."

The star customers include Franklo Vaughan, Terry. Thomas, and, Jnavitably,' Vivien Leigh, who usually gets herselt

in the vanguard of new trends.

(Personal memo to Mia Leigh: I think you'd look charming In a chrongiam, I

walters, who waï trained as a

Should This Widow

Help A Gaolbird?

By

TOM SHAW

OR ten years Mrs Beatrice Porter has carried

FOR

a wonderful picture in her mind... Perhaps, by kindness and Heathfield Road, Waterloo, example she could help un near Liverpool. artist-convict who has spent years in gaol.

cen,táll you that one of the And perhaps, one day, the dressmaker in Hongkong, witan would take the plate fun one up for you between of a son she lost in the courses)

war..

Mr Koon, who drives on American car nearly as long as

Her strange story began the Great Wall, admited in 1949. modestly that at 32 he well on the way to becoming millionaire mandarin of London, He told me about his unful

fled ambitions.

1. To open a chain of Chinese restaurants throughout the country and bring chopsticks to

the millions.

2. To go to China. London- born Mr Koon has never been. into his restaurants.

3. To get more Chinese peoplo

tinkling. Chinese-style musicals, and a heavy-bladed Japanese drama to Broadway, which has put kimanas and cheongsams in Westornise his food for our Mr. Keon, who has to slightly the dress shops; and which has palates, confesses that he has

cyc- very few. Chinese customers. They don't like the food.

rocketed the sales of slanting mascara-pencils,

yet you can search the of Plecadilly and

lengths As

Oxford Street without one I AM BACK to the frightening Tavishing glimpse of a cheong pile of unansweret letters, un neck, and the high, immodest, wood fan magazine with a cover Sam - the tight-fitting Chinese read hand-outs and magazines, dress, which has a high, modest On top of the plle is a Holly. thigh-level site on the skirt. picture of Elizabeth Taylor and

THE STARS ...

ihla bold heading

2

A magazine published letter she had written. The letter onded: "You cannot

always be expecting some- thing back in return for what you have given."

A Letter

It was from a convict. He A letter was sent to her. was serving seven years in Birmingham Prison. Would Mrs Porter write to him?

Widowed. Mrs. Porter sent him a Christmas card.

all

Was

Two years went by. And

the time she worrying about the man in

Was. Betrayed. Liz's Side gaol. of the Story," (You know the atory about her latest love,

and and Eda's Fiber.

his newly

are

Bul. But.... More more London tuste-buds being tickled by Chinese food. More and

divorced wile Debbie Reynolds.) I have only one thing to say Chinese to the betrayed Liz: restaurants are producing a tide Como of it, dear!

more

of bird-nest and shark-fin soup

that is spreading

Umits of Soho.

beyond the I AM BACK to the London

mo

I have been talking to a that often baffles gentleman called Robert Koon, and must mystify the least, he is the owner of the two which has a newish res who is partly responsible. At foreigners. The London biggest Chinese restaurants in laurant called The Marble accented English:-

He told me In Plecadilly Arch Barbecue. Where is it? Bang in' the heart of which

"Very few know much about Leicester Square, two-sqft-shood, the dishes. They all Osk for

unchanging London that trite to I am back to a changing, recent lifstory may be following another New York trend. which is creeping softly round the

I mean the Oriental trend

skyscrapers; brought three

THIS ALONE.

SAID

hps

town.

SIDNEY BRADFORD,

MAKES SIGHT

WORTHWHILE

BUT

-(London Express Keršícé).

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"I could not help feeling,he would be thinking we were a poor lot outside," she told me. "And I could not forget a letter he wrote me in which he said:

'Somehow or other, the old lags always go back"."

his release she decided to When the time came for

take a chance....

Sho asked him to spend Christmas at her home in

"He was then about 37," she 6. "He behtwed perfectly. He painted a picture for ms to show his gratitude. 1 felt like a mother towards him, For la months I received lettera from bit. He was working hard ond apparently going straight."

Suddenly the letters stopped. Through the Salvation Army Mrs Porter learnt that the anan for three years on a house- had been sent back to prison breaking charge,

New Start

What to do now? Give it up as a hopeless case? Mes Porter determined to persevere. When he wna relcased she invited him to her home again.

She told him: I was foolish enough in think that a woman's interest would make you realize the Importance

-living decently. Please try to make a go of it."

of

And so a fresh start was rade. Once again there begati the flow of letters.

And again--in 1957-they ruddenly stopped. This time he was in Wandsworth Gaol.

Mrs Porter wrote to the governor requesting him to ask the man if he wished to continue the correspondence. This time the convict replied: "I think it would be better for your sake to discontinue writing.

"Sometimes letters go astray. There are unscrupulous people here and if anything happened to you I could not stund it." :

Now Mrs Porter wonders is ' her picture spolled beyond re- pair Has she tried in vain?

OR SHOULD SHE KEEP ON FIGHTING

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SIDNEY

CONCLUDING A BLIND MAN'S REDISCOVERY OF SIGHT

and I set off for by MERRICK WINN

Portugal in a Super-

Constellation and there

J

home

in

said: "After it's all over I'll tell sight for him would ever bij He added: "The point is this Jou what I really think of important. I

I'm no happler for scelag. I sight."

All that day he was 11, but think I'm more miserable." next day he was better. I asked; Next morning we got up to him if he was disappointed to rest of that day, but when we He seemed fairly well for the ten the mintise and there) still was no sign at all of the I began splendidly. This man, selves at him and he did not seemed nothing wrong. He was as the carnival, and he said: got back to London he was sud-

"No." Neither was he. quiet, but I thought this was the afternoon we went up to back

In debly worse. And now, who had been treating sight like speak for a long time. that collapse

was a third arm, in the way and But later this Barne

Burton-on- evening

because bo was moved, and the hills and be said: "I can. Trent, he is still III. Though coming. I had not seen useless, used his eyes now, he said, suddenly: "Merrick, I've wondering.

wee much better now. He found recovering. him happier.

He loved the sun and the sky crurally,

changed my mind."! I sold,

Two hours later, I went to his 4 yellow flower, I don't know Someone who' his known him because this a piano and the people and, above all, tricky: "Oh, why?"

was room and it was in darkness. What It was, and he said: "This many years and sees him every before, or known what one the colours. Yellow was his

he was in bed and at first he alone makes sight worth while.!! day told me; "He has been se

So up there on the hill I overwhelmed by... seeing Ho said: "All this... IP's did not seems to know. I was looked like, and almost all the favourlic, which was strange, way he looked out of the win- because many bliad people worth seeing. This is beauty" there. His pyjamas, and bed aked, but not hoping: "Do you he's gone back to blindness for

mean that if you go blind again a while." dow, not ashamed to be excited, given sight like yellow least.

clothes were sodden, worshipping the clouds..

you'll try to sect”

He had not seen

Wo

Crisis

He said: "No, I don't mean

that. I've enjoyed all this, seeing it, but I'd have enjoyed

Doubts

that

Although he could not sco BO But next day in Llabon He knew now where I was well and had to wear dark saw a blind man. I asked him taking him to the carnival at glasses in the sun; he ademed to what he felt, seeing this maa, "Nothing." I asked Estoril, to show im things he me to see things more quickly. He said: would love, colour and bright. He was adapting more to that did not make him glad that he had a very high fever which don't think I've enjoyed it more salt "It's possible, and natural.

· I called the doclos, who said it bind, in a different way. I when I told a doctor this he ness and 10,000 people dancing, seeing world, though perhaps, he could now . to help

might be flu or "the result of for seeing. him decide whether he did not know it.

Ho said: "No. I've forgotten vaccination but he could not be "I'm glad to have seen it; and like living in a tempostelantil that I was over-blind." Then: sure. It was not easy to identity. if I can keep what sight I have, he gets used to it. "But if I woke up in the most

sight was worth while,

In the last few days, 'in Lan-

Sunrise

Kontakt. Seeing- gitar, 50 years. must be

I'll have the further operations don, ke had grown oven more

ing in darkness I wouldn't shod What neither honor I knew needed to improve it. I think emphatic that, if he wont blind

tears." We saw many things he had

then was that Sidney Bradfort sight is worth that much. aguin in eix: months' time ho

In contradictions like this he has had these "Gevers almost would have no more operations, never seen before, and he stared showed the confict in him. throughout his life and they

a boy with a Richard Gregory, the Cambridge, have umally been Haight certainly seemed and marvelled,

associated worse. He told me "The last pipe and a trilby,

scientist, was right; when he with some crisis of emotion. A ship. It was bigger than said, "This man must be very KELAKONTENAN oye, is packing up... It used to

Will he get used to 127:1 re call that one of the Cambridge. scientists feared, as I did, that he may bs. 「ね !'appalling tragedy; that giving him, "right Myrnay, have mucked up hired

No. Of them absolutely He poked with his finger at certain: Sidney Bradford whe

No happier

he bright and now it's all dull he had imagined and NOT tornater) The last bout he had lasted the yellow Rowery thinking coped so well with blindnem,

* Họ sesood, not to mind.: But pointed - at both ends. - The - The night before the carnival neatly Ave weeks, and that war, Thanh

will cope very well with slahti maybe he minded a little bem cleering wheel was upright "ing, he ate a whopping present, mys" immediately before he went into But 15 I go blind again, I'll He nuco (only timer cause he said: "I feel I ought stead of fat. There were enly ing "Meats them much smaller hospital for his are openstiche: stay tund: know they could All rights, ho doubts i¿ ® Bus la Want to toe, and perhaps this time shocks, got eight or nipo zow i can see them," He Now the carnival was cut. So, start me? All over again, frond 1 bei him another rip” la. paraiyal will help him to get The roa. He stood on the seemed all right, rifnos enige war the tune of decision, Bidney, the bartuning but 1912 00 Portal To date, ing Me

So this was the experiment beach, in the evening, watching. Hess was tyrenuriasty looking Bradford, would not, now" tal-Barth/her aidil the pain, the monthysundry interest? and I think, it nearly came out, the 'great' waves chucking them- forward to lie caraivar ama be÷myra know: Human,