1960-02-04 — Page 6

What I

could secretly tell the girl with

those

scars.

by

FLORA ROBSON

IN LOOKS a women is at her must winning and her most vulnerable. On Tuesday, in the China Mail, it was reported that actress Valerie Hanson, at 32, had been awarded £7,850 for injuries to her face in a car crash. Here Flora Robson, one of Britain's leading actresses, whether tells JOHN CRUESEMANN how scars, seen or unseen, can be healed by faith in onself.

WHEN I was young I

then pro-

I began to produce amateur theairleads. One day Tyrone was always being Gure come down to Judge turned out of companies e plays. He was tucing at Cambridge, because I was not pretty. I was always being told

I was too plain.

In their rs j all young Birks year to look pretty. Many course. Yet there are some things that you have got to ac-

And repl.

as a girl? desperately conscious of my un- prettiness.

was

I knew I could Juliet. Instead, I used to be told that a 30 1 could get character purts,

"Do you want to go back to

the singe?" he asked.

01

It was as it

1

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1960.

From out of the jungle

a feat to

make you gasp

I

REMEMBER Durgapur. It

wag

almost be commute between his

The jungle is gone, the village lost. Part of the steelworks being built at Durgapur.

the name project, now ISCON's managing

ilirector.

Mr Hindson may the Calcutta-Delhi board on a station on

is Irrigation, in agriculture, this railway, one of scores of village stations whose said to

office near Victoria station anch surroundings were jungle and paddy-fields,

re the works site at Durgapur, and Funtry of 356 million people is Kourus a long stirring Itself to do, as it were membered when others are forgotten because the the journey

one he can polat out that once he was drinking ten on the site overnight, what name was easier to pronounce than some.

Airport.

Europe did in after the Ba-

dustrial Revolution,

the long years I should not recognise Durgapur today. For 16 hours after leaving London Huge Says Mr Hindson of Dur- it has grown up in spectacular fashion. cooling towers, blast furnaces and coke ovens rear capur: "The significant thing is into the hot skies of West Bengal. The jungle is that everything is on schedule, gone, the village is lost in a township of $3,000

working on one of the most remarkable engineer- and that's a pretty tremendous ing projects in the world.

By JOHN CLARKE

For in Dun Hapur, the In- dian Steel- works Con- atruction Company USCON for short) is building an integrated £105 million steelworks that will, when it is finished in July this year. produce a million ingoi tons of steel a year, Ba tons of pl well as 300,000 Iron. and 100.000 tons from a rolling mill and railway wheel

and axle plant.

Russia, too

Durgapur Is not thely 10 And Steel! Indian village transformed into the centre of a

vast industry.

as

is matched by achievement envisaged in a series of Five- Year Plans, of which the second is now in its fourth year.

All plans look good on paper

Eighteen commodities

ure

listed as India's principal ex- poris, and topping the list is que that will cone us a suprise to no one in this country-lea

In 1958 India exported more 330 than 500 million 16 of tea, million lb of it to Britain,

As 4 lb of green leaf is needed to make 1 lb of the ten you put into the pot, and the average

effort by any standards, I doubt If anything of this magnitude in steel has been on time before, "I don't think I would have dared to forecast, three years annual yield or a ten-bush is ago. that things would go So I of manufactured ten, it is well, India really deseryez

a estimated that there are in India bouquet."

about 3,000 million tea-bushes which have reached maturity.

Big problem

There are 33,000 теп

The capital invested in the indian tea Industry is 290 million and in 1958 7,000 tea and gardens produced 708 million b

or they would not be presented. women working at Durgapur, of tea-early half the world'

is when you see them being which will become the Shefield total

they

In Dritain, we used 10,2 lb of Indians are ten per head in 1968.

used only 1b per head

13ke this extract from a high

essay tehnol

competition, in which 18-year-old Bhimrao Hari Washtim, Akola, Avachary of wrote of tea:

carried out that

become of India, of whom 3,000 trained

foremen truly Impressive. As at Durga engineers and pur, whore steelworks is being Indians, with 350 Britons fri bait by a Consortium of 13 supervisory Jobs. British firms, all leaders in their

Once the works starts operat- the itelds, working closely with

ing a major problem will be the Government of India.

Two days after the contract training of Indian operators, and

1950, the British iron and steel indus was signed in October. ISCON moved into the site with ry will play is port here by

men Last Joining skilled earth-shifting machinery",

A month, the President of India, staff.

10

train

"In India, tea is known as a thirst quencher and that is why you get rid of tiresomeness even

toa.

Woman stroll beneath the giant cake oren plaat at Durgapur.

Russians At Bilha, the building a steelworks of similar Dr Rajendra Prasad, attended Steel is the biggest single in summer after taking a cup of

ISCON's: t'o

As the standard of living rises on the home market is a dermand capacity

first the commissloring of its

programme to the "The excellent quality tea is in Indin, it seems certain that for the product that is rising and Rourkela, West Germany is blast furnace. The whole should production

by Imported

nations like more ten will be drank in the will continue to rise. building a third nearly as bly. be completed by July 1981, and from complete

Government of India's great America and Russia and they country where O much of it All this immense upheavat the work is on schedule.

For India today is like a giant darkness a light had gone up in

in make use of it to drink iced tea, originates. The market is vast, just beginning to be aware that, In overall charge of the work plans and endeavour is part of India's

for expansion. But I was unafraid. again.

In fact, in India we should take

To reach it, Brooke Bond have tremendous effort to build and is a 30-year-old North country- was full of fight, and I was

and develop indus- man.

William Mir

Hindson, almost every field, in industry, iced tea because our country is 2,300 salesmen ranging the coun- as well as a long history, it has desperate to stay un the stage reconstruct

try, using every forms of trans- a future of almost mitless this time.

port from motor-vans to camele, possibilities, bullock-carts and selling-barger And giants from the beginning known as country craft.

of time have needed to be re- The end result of the labours freshed. of the men who sell indian tea

And so to Cambridge I went. The audience, mainly under- berne plagiduates, f

Course made a 1 was virtue of my plainnes able to express what i was feel- Ing. I forgot my looks because of this, I gained a tremendous Following and became very I was back where 1 popular.

When you are young the sense of glamour is necessary to you. And when you first think of the

stage it 19. inevitably, all the had always been, outward things that count, such

as glamour, fame, rewards. These can be wonderful. But they don't carry you along all the time.

on the Everyone who goes

nul stage is told that he is

wanted. It is a cliche to say

acting is an overcrowded profes sion. This truth really means

that for each one there is a terrife fight for each part.

Here it is that you have tot

Within

The French as they so often do know abous this problem of

being plan so much better than we do. They are at once more

helpful and my honest. They

call such wemon "belle-kalde" — pretty-ugly.

trially unul her buge potential originally chief engineer of the

hot,"

I'LL NEVER RETIRE!

IN an elegant lounge

with busts by Epstein, The Red Dean

I

many pictures and magnificent books, heard the other night the news that will cause rage in the rectories, vexation in the vicarages, and diocese. peak blood pressure in

says

• •

He looks forward us years of work as Dean of Canterbury. But it soon becomes clear that his iden of decanul duties is not limited to services and sermons. "I left the great city of Manchester for this quiet litle town for something more than that," he says blandly.

here came

because of favoured by the clergy in this pledged reward unto them who Canterbury's importance in the Serve the Lord," with fervour Anglican communion throughout Here I can help in His nose was like a prow. as though it had been written the world. that fight

in against poverty How hard to

this for him.

which all the Church should be striking figure as 11 man

In church, an altogether can engaged." going known as widely in Soviet

Red China as in formable and impressive figure. Dr Hewlett Johnson taps the to keep at his post as long as Russia and

Outside, a puzzle, a provocation. pectoral

Worn croso

over his "You know, I he is able-l he is 95 or 100, Britain.

A mat he hopes.

whose repeated That is this "Red Dean," with robes and adds: Recently, 11 was the Beth political wonderings have often the beautiful manners, and the believe that some people who birthday of the most contro- heen misunderstood abroad beautiful home. versial cleric in the Church (where he is confused with the of

Very Rev. Archbishop England-lbe

Canterbury to Hewlett Johnson, for 20 years that prelate's great displeasure)

and resented here at home. Dean of Canterbury.

to learn some self-confidenter, That is a bad translation. But the old and crusted clubs.

A

however shy you may be,

very roughly what they mean is Being pain I suon fearnest he this you can make u. woman

Woman distinction between sex-appeal read

whatever her and love-appeal. And I realised looks. They eat make you feel that teould extract freen my wanted. Therefore you exude a own suffering (and not just pn- positive femininity. And you are happy loves) something to endow a Woman. my own acting.

An asset

In this way personal misfore tune was transformed into a professional asset. So that I enn make an audience feel and listen and it is with ine,

English

prople

are pt/tel»lp

and inhibited.

The "Red Dean" is

of

see

'woman

His book

Tierhaps in their time have destroyed churches will find themselves on the right hand of God because they fed the poor. *Inasmuch as ye have done it unia one of the least of these my brethren_***

Silence

Ready, you know, can become n hindrance, espeelatly when it is fading Then they say of on

Scated I watched, fascinated, as he

the choir I had actress: "Oh, she can't play that

The

at walked from the cathedral after watched him at Evensong and

warm lounge the part. Her looks have gone.

heard him read the lesson. I Deanery is dominated by his The sense of imparting love-clating at Evensong.

His strong-boned face was heard every word, although he portrait, painted 20 years ago by wife, an attractive finess comes from within, to do

ruddy Ds a sailor's, his pace had forgotten to switch on the his second

lectern microphone.

and an it becomes an art,

accomplished brisk, his bearing dignifled.

The white hair fuzzed out And with what zest he joined printer. Underneath the pr

He sang trait, medalions of the Johnson

dean resolved special from under his Canterbury esp, in the only hymn!

of

wishes the family. The dean, his wife and messages line,

good 3 snug square cupped number the

their daughters, Kezla (20), who from the choir arki the is a medical student at St vorgers. Не did not TO- Thomas's Hospital, and Keren, ceive many others, but for this who is 17, and coming up to her he blamed himself, He makes

Inte A levels.

of his birthday, tries to thu datu Ou1 of mind In this domestle" atmosphere keep

"One day

I myself never called Valerie very Hanson a startling beauty. But Its always felt that she achieved in the theatre that both actors beauty from something Inside and audiere, can allow pent-up and that this was imposed on and also on her. emotions to come tumbling sut. the audience

ilow often do you hear someone For is aetine knowledge of an

say she has had a good cry, an audience becomes instinctive,

how well she feels for it too,

more real than real life. For it

After a time acting becomes

is wrong lo think of the mage

as make-believe. It is life.

Morale

Vaterlo Hanson says she can

Twice I have left the stage, never not gain. I do not belleve And each time in my heart 1 this, although I can well appre- knew that secret hope of success clate that this is what she really had not died. First as a chlid helloves now.

"Boundless

is

New giant airliner will be built 'like a ship'

Weybridge.

The

the dean, still in his robes, because, as he says, made his declaration

"While follows another.

1 can do my work properly I

shall carry on.

There was no message from

I have no the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Fisher. "How could be send intention of retiring."

He

have would As a matter of fact, Dr How- one?

this line. The howls of rage Church dignitary

to

ASSEMBLY of Britain's largest airliner, the steel were away the ben ten baits of every I had to give up becnie I was Already she is helping other Vickers VC.10 "super-jet," is about to begin.arovoked by his statement about once began," said the dean, well appallingly overworked.

by many other words skiing with had no special significance, The second time came at the people at drama school. I hope The 600 m.p.h. aircraft-Boac has ordered a fleet.S. germ warfare in Korea and assured that Dr Tisher's silence

that presently we may hear her

Dr Fisher has publicy end of an unhappy romaner. The in radio tirama, where her of 35, costing £60 million-will be "built like a the Reds mean nothing to him.

I do not think that he has repudiated the political activities thought that somebody could ability enn be felt and that this battleship."

ever really heard them.

of the dean, and the two men's And me unlovable scarred me so in line will bring back her

He brought from a side table relationships are correct rather deeply that I lost the inner feel- confidence,

But Dr Howlett he and Mrs Jolmson rocently Jobneon's complaint against hils

beautiful book presented when than cordla

a two-month tour of archbishop China.

ing which makes an actress.

In the vast Vickers works

I was 23 at the time and she really needs. It is morale.fting

"An increasing part of the Money is not the compensation here, home of Britain's best atreraft is being made in this than from Theou Viscount airliners, the way rather

Look u Job as n welfare officer

at a Welwyn Garden City fac tory. I stayed there four years.

A light

made lied

(London Express Service).

Mid Week Selection by Friell

"Of course, whether the Almighty has also given General de Gaulle a special task to perform remains to be seen."

MONTY

"He says he thinks much better on top of mountains, it's a pity he talks so much when he's down below."

W00.

mlid

ore:

asked me one

ALES

AND

For her the light seerns to have VC.10's assembly Jigs now stuck or riveted together," a pore cut. It in only dimmed nearly completed, look some- Vickers official told me today. fat book, full of superb draw word about my visit to China."

thenith. She has that golden

touch to be able to move people and i will blaze forth again.

what like a shipyard's stocks. They are the biggest in Europe.

all

200 passengers

And now

He looked across at his wire

hla cat Olyn. curled

On

a chair below his

It's been a happy life," the

Il ambition now?

It was a lovely, "He has never

Ings and impressive - photo graphs. Ho carried. It reverent- The giant jot, its four jetly. He was delighted to look at A Jarić part of the wing engines at the tall and, leaving it with me. I remember once a producer structure and parts of the fun- the wings unhindered, will get: Then he falter about hla During those years I wat par- saying: "you look lovely whenlage where strength is needed off the ground easily from health. For, many years he and

le might so easily with the you maile."

throat trouble, Up - 1cipating In fe

are being mischinèd from solid existing runwayn at most of the suffered, from carver off. I constantly had to have asid: "Don't frown." His plans of alloy. This pre- world's airports. It will carry "It made taiking dificult and own portrait.

mado

after-dinner speeches agony. take visitors round. And I con- saying this

the tice has been used by Vickers up to 150 people, atantly had to listen and get on difference. I hope for Valerie

"But really It helped design teams under Sir George But Sir George Edwards har

me sild. factory

it made no turn from workers'

complaints. Janson this will happen to that Edwards in bulking the big plans for a Super VC.10, carry- Vecause There were squalls. I noted as in time those outward scars will turbo-prup Vanguards for ing 200 passengers, for use on any ideas of becoming a popuAt ance this remarkable an go-between.

never even be noticed.

British European Airwayn, the Atlantic run between Lorlar preacher and drove me to of 0 anawered: "I want to soa giving 'doni Adrport and Now York's study and to get knowledge of China recognised, and Idłowic which have longer-the way people live In other her gifts to the world. And that 1han-mbat- runways.

ports et the world.""

-will happen-before I am 90!".. First flight of the VC.'10 Is to Now let the dean's enemies be in the summer of next year, observe well-he is enjoying the

London Kapress, Reveido, best isepill over.

I became a person in my own Despoir is the worst of all. right because I gave confidence ains. I would like to say to to people by dolog a job which Valerle Hanson now: "You have I didn't really want to do. And had your tragedy. Now have I had done it well. That bullt your life."

Lahden Kaurie Barwice),

me up.

The metal planks are 25ft. 100s. and welgh two long Special cutting machiner "sculpture" the "wing and fuse ¡lage sections,

by JOHN REDFERN

(zadnails #baráta sérüles),

GAMBLIN

SALDONS

"Next, I suppose, that for will be doing themselves" up in their decolletage like the dancing girls in them thara Western films i "