1960-03-21 — Page 6

Part 6

JAK

and

GEORGE

.

(Whiting)

TAKE THE TRAIL THAT LED TO THE PALACE

No,

we'll

never look

same

the again

DESPITE

earnest

endeavours

a

with a box Brownie and some dark curtains, the most I ever achieved at snap-shottery was series of smudges and an over-large exposure of a girl friend's feet on I under- the beach at Brighton. stand, however, that a certain other photographer has done rather better for himself just recently.

the

You may have read about it a converted ex-mews garage on in the papers. Chop rallid Jun:

starboard uvarter of the first things In fact, the camera has sud- Claridge's and denly become ali uppercrust, * notice are a primrose front So much so that Jak and 1. who dcor

healthy-looking And do not normally associate with brunette called Molly Cute girl trade or the lower urders, felt recovered in a flash after an that we could now extend the initial but perfectly understand- hpression thut Juk was profession our patronage with- able oul loss of dignity or decorint, delivering the milk. One has to be careful, at cause, but one likes to help.

Quite Suitable

We

Mr Jones, unfortunately, was

However. not available. caused Inquiries to

made be and learned of a worthy young Mayfair tran named Thomas William

Hustler to Mostyn whom one might offer the odd profile.

Whereupon the young master turned up-and I do mean up.

Mr Hustler, rising, 26, is a slim six feet three inches, with a chimney-stack effect heighten- ed by eight inches of cigarette- plus-holder, Fawn pullover, dark grey slacks, slippers... Just like Mr Jones.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1060.

WINDSOR CASTLE

WORMWOOD SCRUBS

(VASTICAL RUIN

Jak wrapped himself round the burgest possible Dubonnet.

dit-

1 sportingly accepted a sherry and made out I hindu't noticed the lime carpet, the wrought

rom twirlybits, the three fent coloured doors, the minia- ture liqueurs, and the aggres- sively large volume of G. K. Chesterton.

Our faces

always offer

on ex-ex-duchess, but, first, he would like to take a good look In at our frees--pregmably Jol's case, so that he would know which pieces to leave out. Jak poor lad, positively preened under the examination. Most people look the other way when he walks Inlo 1 rocm. However, honest Tom Hustler ston wiped the smile off his face, "An obylous Italian type. said the expert, "Note the blue ehin, the crooked teeth. the eyes, the receding hair-

the

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LOAD GOUT.

HOM JETHEL-FNEW.

YOU MUST

HAVE BEIN BEAUTIF

BABY

also sald Whiting reminded him of: (a) Schnozzle Durante; (b) punch-drunk puɛs and (c) one of the bandita he had left for Bead the Malayan Jungle. He further mentioned the low- set ears, the missing teeth, the bags under the eyes, and other unmistakable, signs of a mis- spent youth.)

a hitiy clients drink," said Tom. "Gin and line, the wisted smirk.

mouth that goes down instead tonic relaxes tem no end.

Cars. of up, the insignicant "Women?" Al! I like to take

Look at the their portraits later in the day. Look at the sult.

Like a Teddy-boy gone to The iris look so much better tie. after lunch, Blossom. gradunit, seed. Very difficult to find any character whatever, However, Pou know."

we'll just have to do our best.

Jak said he knew we were going to enjoy ourselves as soon said "Have a as Mr Huller drink." Mayfair may know him as Diddy Longlegs and The durae, Despair but,

Eton of course, a cominission Deb's with the Somersets....damned there's good stuff in young Tom. good show in Mulaya....two years on the Stock Exchange ....look portrait studies of the Prince of Wales und Prines Anne last summer. Yes, quite sultable

So Jnk put his suit on and we went road to the stable. Well. studio, if you like. Anyway. It is

BDEL

A relaxer

We ascenkled Ulic ΠΑΣΤΟΥ white stairs on lae carpet, past kitchen where the garrel-like- Tom cooks the odd sausage and souffle, and into his at above.

"Shall we turn around and give the children a chance to visit?"

"I'm just bluffing. Here.comes my husband now,

to stop me from going home to mother!"

They really did try hard, and if Tom Buster marries a prin. cess some day it is no more than he deserves.

How sick

can

you get?

By STEVE DUNLEAVY

THAT'S a fair question in anybody's language ----especially after you have met American journalist Boye de Monte who has the simple distinction of being one of the few who can get sea sick on land and in bed.

But not everybody can that we would come across con-

linually. do it.

"It was bit frightening to have these huge monsters sidle up, to

"I took me 2,800 miles di the craft and give it a playful crossing from Japan to Alaska nudge. They were having great in an amphibious jeep which fum but it didn't appeal to us." took four months, before I could Baye says that after being at qualify for the sickness," Boye sen for four months and one day wild.

of

he nearly pomed out with reller Boye, who was in Hongkong when he saw the shorea Insi week for the magazino, Alaaien. Oriental Amories, is a much "What quieter chap these days,

"Getting too old

run about," he explains.

to

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moment -afier Thinking day after day that I would never make it alive — to finally sight one goal," he said.

But when Boye reached land he had new troubles all over agnin.

But there was a time when he was looked on us something of a legend in his own field.

Hongkong residents turned out "I could not even walk pro- In 1950 to see a strange-looking perly on land after I had got craft creep into the harbour, used to the bucicing,and jolting driven by a wild young Austra of the ship. To und wo in a lan by the name of Ben Carlin, shower I would have to hold the

It was an amphibious jeep wall to stop myself swaying. which, by the time it reached Hongkong, had travelled almost all round the world.

Skinny

Young de Menle needed no

When Carlin reached Japan in When iny turn came. of the 14-foot deep he needed a coure, they changed the gramo-partner for the last leg of his phone record to something more funious trip. dashing, more spirited, more in keeping with a silter of verve. elan and obvious distinction. prompting to accept the offer. Notwithstanding the fret that he (ANOTHER NOTE BY JAK: had st recovered from The actual tune was Hang Down pneumonia and was as skinny Your liesd. Tom Dooley).

as a ruke

fact a doctor told straight out that I'd be a dood man Inside a matter of weeks." Boye said with a smile.

"Strangely I ended up by bring the heaviest and healthiest Pä! ever been," he added.

The poses

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mc

But it's Boye's story of the actual four months' voyage that is literally spine-chilling.

Diagnosis completed, we descended to the studio, where. surrounded by portraits of the great and gracious, we gave our- solves up to the ministrations of Mr Hustler. Mr Hustler's

mother. camera. Mr Hustler's Molly from the front door and

I gave young Hustier a full another charming indy named Beatrice. And I would like to half-hour of my time, lel him state right now that the whole pose me against a portable back

no company spared effort to round of scurrying clouds across about his friend We chatted

make Jak look human.

the Yorkshire moors. and Tony Whatshisname: heard how

generally did my best to put young Tom had started as r

The glant camera resembled a everyone at their

The hybrid rostrum-cum-guillotine result. I feel. shows that the Dorothy Wilding student and eventually bought the business

Myself? I forget the exact and so did Jak. They played Jud has real promise in his for half the price suggested

but the kist of Mr southing mood music by Ella chosen field. (good old Stock Exchange train words,

they assess- Fitzgerald

Allered the Ing): admired his smash-hit nie- Hustler's professional

forget that ex- sofiened the 1ures of the

Mountbatten ment was that I had a rugged floodlights.

Full spoilights they urged him to As we left. I heard something perience as long as I live. The weckling, and eventually got honest open contenance.

of character. A photographer's Book intelligently al a volume of which sounded like "Thirty-four idea of jumping into the freezing down, to business.

the Waverley novels, and they guineas" and it came from sea dream

(NOTE BY JAK: The word told him to say "Spiffespume about six feet un was nightmare, not dream, He ins."

Tom said he thought he could

fit us in between an ex-deb and

A diagnosis

they

The rich Mr Ray

is so lonely now

|by RAMSDEN GREIG

IT is eight years now since Johnnie

Ray first sailed into London on an ocean of emotion, disrupting the traffic with his weeping, wailing followers.

If he wanted a drink (invariably a Bloody Mary) he had to have it sent up to his hotel suite. journey to the bar would have been hazardous.

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Mr Ray's fans carried scissors, and although coat buttons were all they jwere after, well, you couldn't tell what

would happen in a crush.

JOHNNIE

The Nabob of Sob is back In London again. As always, on arrival, he threw wide his arms, But this time only a handful of fanatics fell into them.

Unmolested

RAY The fans

have grown

I met him in the bar of the kindness." Savoy, where ho had walked

up

KIN.

'crackling Illco a cercal as he able to pick up a telephone and poured on the milk of human say to someone: *Look, man, open a bottle I'm coming over to chew the fat for a couple of unmolested from his suite. He "I cry because | singoroly hours." ordered 1 steady supply of feet lika crying.

can't Bloody Mary's and sold: "You're emote at will. Not liko

going to ask me if I'm slipping,

They ali do. But this is how 1 Shirley Temple could.

see It,

.

"I wish

"But I can't. So I sit in bed and read. I was ronding about * Abraham Lincoln

the

case

"And for four days whentver I went to bed I got sen-sick by- cause my stomach wasn't yndd to staying still," he added.

After the voyaga Boye's part- nor, Carlin, wrote a book on their experiences.

"I've read the book four times, just for old ikmes' sake.

"And every time I do I nearly kill myscy laughing........but it arn't much, of a joke at the time,"

Wanted:

a snake charmer

"On one occasion we had to (THE LAST TWO

hop over the side stork naked in early morning, Into the Bering Sea to repair the hull of the Jeep. And that is not all he's got. "I'll never

-(London Exprem Service),

£3000 a week

after recovering from pneumonia still seems a little strange even to me."

In the four months' vayagê Boye recalls that there was at least one emergency each day which could have bought an untimely end.

Trouble'

"Strangely enough, the moment we got outside the Japanese waters. the Todio went out of order.

"My manager tells me I can carm £3,000 a week. So I reckon "There would have been many that I'm a rich guy. He gives times when we would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble if we could have relied on the radio."

me around £25 a week for tip- ping. If I want anything, and he's not around, I just ask for it and sign the bill."

More cautious

Generally when you talk to Johnnie Ray about marriage you

get the impression that a gadget on his hearing aid turns the thing oft,

Either

St wasn't working CT Mr Ray hto become more forthright on the subject. He said: "As you grow older you tread more cautiously.

"I've made a mess of one marriage.

Shortly after they set out they ran into a storm that lasted 10 days without a let-up.

"Huge

continually crashed over the pint-sized craft day and night," Boye told 1 reporter.

Waves

we

It was amazing how stayed affoat. It was just like one big nightmare. It's hard to describe to somebody how it feels to continually be wet and · freezing cold night and day."

How about sleep?

"Virtually none. I was never really asleep or awake in the whole time.

"It was more to being in a

I'd have to be very coma, You'd cover yourself up in cold wet clothes, kalf doze off sture 11 was the right thing

- and then a wave would crash: before I tried the marriage

over you. state again.

"And yet I'm the kind of mon who ought to be married. I Con't cal and there ought to be someone around the house to see that I do cat.*

I hope Mr Ray finds his mate before malutrition sets in.

But please do not send your applications to me,

---{London Express Servico).

"After a whilic I got used to it but it was hard at first!"

And if there weren't hararda from the weather they would come from the sea.

"We saw every kind of aca life there was with the exception of sharks, but we had enough trouble with other kind of life. We were in continual danger of being iloped over by the dozens of whales and sea lions

WERE KILLED)

Cairo.

THE tourist season is beginning and an- cient Luxor, the "Pearl of Upper Egypt," is still without a snake charmer.

The once-famous capital of the aclent Pharaohs, 450 mites south of Cairo, has never been in such E predicament before.

The Egyptians insist that the last two of a long line of serpent-wooers, perished "purely by accident." But no one has been found who will take up where they left off. The lob has been open avor since a cobra struck down 45- year-old Mohamed el Kilhawy. Hs more famous predecessór Moussa Mohamed-well known to Servicemen on leave during the war-reached the ripe old age (for snake charmers) of

"betrayed" before he was

by one of his own favourite réptiles.

Both

'MAGIC'

relted self-

Mohamed and Moussa scorned such Indian devices as ting flutes and

their solely on

own claimed absolute power. Moussa Mohamed carried A bottle-shaped straw bosket into which he would entice the suspicious cobras with walking stick.

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He claimed to derive his power from words of ineffe vaid to have been passed down to him from King Solomon the Wisc.

Mohamed el Kilhawry relied on the words of Solomon" only when on angry cobra terrified scorpion threatened to strike.

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Some say that both of these last of the Laixar snake-chorwiers admitted in private that they were stung or bitten memly every time they touched a snake or a scorpion.

---{London Express Service).

Did Orville and Wilbur

Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand divi- THE other sion of the Royal

Society

chal- sooking evidence to "I called up a psychiatrist and lengo. Amerios's claim that sald: "Come over and tell me brothors Orvillo and Wilbur why I'm so damned lonely? But

"I've grown up (I'm 33 now). straight "People would get me night, You law, that guy was Acronautical

Sa have my fans. Most of them

Inald I would do my dest uña have outgrown the sercoming please try me. Blago. I don't expect to be

grected by howling moba any

more.

"Some day I'll write a booît

Consolation

aud explain. It all. Maybe if 1 Mr Ray said: "For a wlart I

lonely, too.

the first to hoavlor-than-air

this fellow turned out to be more Wright ware lonely than I was. So I gave up," Fly

а

said why didn't ho machine

at Kitty-hawk,

bar 17, 1903. do write a book people will get am just about the forliest guy while away the lonely hours North Carolina, on Decam to know what Johnnie Ray in in the world. People don't counting his money.

really like.

"I got a bit tired of seeing my self called the Prince of "Wolls

realise that I'm just on labio to

Mr Day wald: "Monty means walk into a church en into a bar to console myself.

nothing to me. I don't know how much I have. I don't ever “Sure, I've got a million people know how much Val Parnell,

ma TV show trying to incel up with the Joker around me during the day, Hue- paying me for -who described my volos os aromă miliniight Td like to be here.

or the Cry Guy. And I'm alá

make the first flight?

prečlised fast thoátng túhá ́ Íh-n feld, and then took his machine out on to the foundallons of a road to take off.

"Ho New in it about 100 yards and landed on 12tt.. high fence. We have interviewed several of the oldet sidents in the arga today who actually wit-

As this fight,

averyone

"At this stage we are not able to date the fight myselfcally, but we have spoken to agrees it was eatly in that yout. "Some, but not enough, evidence In charge of the investigation We are fairly certain that some- has been gathered that a New is G. B. Bolt, chief engineer for where throne is in existence.

photograph of the kirtikfi sitting Zealand farmer, George Pearse, Tasman Empire Autways.

"Our evidence on the hedge. That may give us made a powered fight in the Waltohi Valley en New Zealand's shown that only in 1003, Pearse the proof of the exact date we South Island, several months flow a horgemade airplane inland need" before the Wright brothers. from the Waitohi Valley. He had

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