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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1950.

THE PUPIL AND

THE TEACHER

By JOANNE BLAIR

was late 1946. An attractive fair-haired woman sat in the fourth row at Covent Garden watching the first post-war production of "Sleep- ing Beauty."

On stage a world famous ballerina thrilled her audience with wonder as she danced the last steps before the curtain fell,

Back stage after the per- King and opened the Bateman- formance the star and her King School of Dancing. It delighted spectator greet each was then that both Margot other warmly. But it wasnt Fonteyn and June Brae antudied the first time that Miss Carol under

her before furthering Bateman and Misa Marg their dancing in Europe, Fonteyn had met since their In between teaching and teacher/pupil relallonship had developed into friendship.

giving dancing exhibitions, Mias

remembers Indeed, ever sinco

Baleman Miss China Baternan taught Margot FooLugn

a centre for famous as a young girl of 11 in Shange people. She rocalls meeting hal, she has followed her pro- Sun Yat-sen Just before his gresa engerly and has had the death, Victor Satsoon in the antisfaction of knowing that she bright days of Shanghai and contributed to the ballerina's was a guest at the wedding of greatness.

Chiang Kai-shek at tho While the world la treated Majesty Hotel

to every minute detall to the When the war came, how- lives of the famous, it seldom i ever, Miss Bateman was caught

Miss Carol Bateman with Mr Michael Bomes and Dame Margot Fonteyn.

SLANT

HE WILL GROW

FLOWERS

AND SALADS

WHEN RMS Canton sails tomorrow she will have on board one passenger whose future plans for "a life of leisure" will begin on that day.

Thirty-one days later Mr B. T. Flanagan, re- tired Managing Director of MacKinnon, Mac- Kenzie and Company, will debark at London and set about his plans seriously.

High on the "must" list will be a small house in Buckinghamshire where 30 years of gardening ex-. |perience will be put to prac- tlee growing flowers and vegetables or "salads" AS he calls it.

And then?

Music. Over the past five or six years Mr Flanagan han accumulated a record

leprna anything of the people in Hongkong and interned at collection which amounts to who assisted them to stardom. | Stanley, In this particular case, the fe

of one of Margot Fonteyn's teachers has been every bit as exelting as that of her pupil. It merely lacks the' some sort of publicity.

London-born Carol Bateman might have been a great dan-

cer herself if it hadn't been for parental opposition. Instead, She chose the next best thing: teaching.

versity of she studied

approximately 450 listening

After a few months of P.O.W. hours. And equipped as he life it became necessary to pro-is with a first rate hi-f set, vide come means of keeping the he feels that this is the ideal Internees' minds off food. Ал

way to relax after the entertalument committee wae

Missonions and the radishes have promptly formed .and Bateman offered her services to been planted. the camp.

MR B. T. FLANAGAN "Life of leisure”

Discussing this handsome collection of musical enter- tainment, Mr Flanagan remarked that the vast majority of his records are instrumental.

"You know," he said, "symphonies and chamber music and so on. But very few vocals."

"To be frank," he added, "I dislike the sound of the

On scraps of paper site set about writing ballets. Two ma- Jor ones were "Esther" which she adapted from the Bible and After three years at the Uni-Temulen" taken from the book

"The Earth is the Lords." Manchester where Aris, she returned | Carol can tell vivid and human voice." 10 London and entered the amusing tales of eager prisoners Cones School of Ballet-now making costumes out of the Arts Educatioant. Finishing mosquito netting and the course in record time, she them bright colours with graduated a year ond o hall Acrafiavian, brilliant later with a solid grounding in gentian violet and Greek, Ballet Ballroom else could be spared from the dancing.

and

Married

In 1025 she morried and went in China where she studieri under Sokolski who had a Rus- slun School of Bullet in Shang- hal. Four years of hard work and valuable experience follow- ed before she returned to Eng- Jand

It is interesting to note that this trip was made via Siberia. She was to make this journey throw times altogether, the last time travelling hard class or for as Berlin,—ar experience sbu_will never forget..

As a man who has lived 30 years in the East, Mr dying Flanagan thinks there's no place like it.

"However," he said, “I think everyone ought to leave green, Hongkong by the time they're 55." whatever

takes two years off your life."

"After that," he added, "every year spent in the East

medical supplics. Grown men who, had never even acet 4 stage were trained a ballet dancers and billed as star" while more inhibited members of the group: served ns ringio hands.

Success

But by all accounts of the surviving internees, the ballets proved tremendous successes2.

A few years

after the war Miss Bateman opened her present school,, the Carul Bate- hun School of Dancing. Joined by Mrs Joan Campbell In 1854. the school now has some 250 {pupils, 90 per cent of whom aro "It ved right up to a bill-Chinese youngriers. ing." luugha Miss Bateman, "and could be made for the enormous sum of £17 sterling"

In 1920 sho returned to Shanghai with her sister Audrey

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Always active in the Hongkong business world, Mr Flanagan was chairman of the HK Electric Company, deputy chairman of the HK Bank, deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and past president of St Patrick's Society.

"I owned a horse called "Jants Bld" at one time too," he says, "but never had much luck. "In four years on the track, the best he ever did in a race was to place third l"

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