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IT'S

LESONL

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1960.

OURLAY

THE PICTURE IN THE MAN'S WALLET WAS OF

HIS YACHT... NOT HIS WIFE

London.

IT'S not often I encounter a man who's made a small fortune from card- board milk bottles. In fact I might as well admit that Victor Farris from America is the only man I've encountered who's made any money all from cardboard milk bottles.

He invented the things. The idea in simple ane, like all good and kerative idens) hin back L+ 1M

of kind "I'm the

guy who entries a picture of his yacht in But. his wallet, not his wife, then, had the yacht rst. She's

beauty. Got every gadget you enn think of. A few are my own inventions."

camo 'thirties.

"The oby lous advantages," sald Mr

Farris,

ightress. "WxTe cheapness and disposability

While he has been here Mr toukis carta patent and

Farris has been investigating a bottles were put into position. British invention which he plans

"The iden caught où. 1 buc ins

to promote in America. It is an Incinerator fight a lot of infringement.

en burn which including which expired five anything.

rubber, the patent years ago. By that time Fd made without sanuhr or smell.

itseful for quite a. b.

"Could be very They sell int 5,000,000 of the things every day disposing of troublesome rela- In the States.“

tives. Or wives," he sotti.

HER DUTIES

If

"Or husbands,” suld Mr. Farris

at

what he has seen of London's les morat Retivities.

I fear he might have fainted dead away if he had come here in pre-Wilfenden days.

NOTICE in the window of London gent's outfitters: "Two soiled 11 notes given for 30s."

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Snag, of course. 1 dis- covered you have to buy suit or cont first. And you don't have to be a cynic to realise it may cost you 10s,

London Express Service more than it should. The result: Two 1 notes for two £1 notes,

They laughed and exchanged M been suffering from a great disadvantage for years.

louks ast affections. affection.

I don't presume to be

ther expret

subject,

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Mr Forris has other, weightier claims to distinction.

Starting bl career እና J

but mechanical engineer and inven- obviously they have the right tor, he now has about 200

recipe for happy, sustained Inventions and patents to his matrimony. A mixture of mutual credit, including disc brake.

respect and loving sentiment He is the multi-millionaire -with a healthy addition of 'owner of 23 companter which hantering Bungate that prevents range from engineering to pub the sentiment becondngg stodgy, 1hhing.

One of his companies

Plus, of roure, the damoni!-

is the Inrgest manufacturer of encrusted bread won by te safety valves in Amerien. He husband not the wife. also married to Celia Lapton, daughter of banfeder Sydney, who gave up a promising career as singer for him.

I met them in Wert Kord contemporary must have

hotel suite

style which

erented hy

designer.

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ISS SHARMINI TIRUCHELVAM, from Ceylon, has

Everyone who has cast eyes upon her (and that includes one of the many celebrated eyes) has said: "You are most beautiful women in the world," or words to that effect.

Tiruchelvain ("It's unpronounceable call Shartnini") luas survived stoically. She said in a cool valce not without its own beauty:-

ATISH

me

"Alärst i didn't think it was a disadvantage. But I realised I was ultimately. If people think you look beautiful they are convinced you cannot do anything else but look beautiful.

"They're so patronising when you try. They're so surprised that you can even tlak,"

One man who was not patronising was Aunigoni, who asked ber to sit for him and decribed her as the most beautiful woman he had ever painted, (1ix aestheile judgment has been shared by Kelolas Exon and the late Anthony Beauchamp.)

"It was Annigeni," said Sharmini, "whe first made me reaise that I might have other things less transitory than beauty. "He encouraged and bulled me-in the nicest possible way to develop any talent I might have.

Wolf Mankowitz the satile and other show busi- ness personalities, including been agent Leslie Linder, script lour-blind writer Denis Norden, and angel Gilda Dahlberg, are venturing into the night club and restaurant busi-m. I'm kill a "I've never ness,

HIS GIFTS

Mrs Farris said:

had a monent's regret since I

gave up my career

"I will always be grateful to close friend though I don't see so much of bm as I dll a few years ago." They are taking over

Sharmint dauchter Di ал four years London's Ward Room where ominent surgeon new living in agu when I got married. I'm business has been far from Malaya and niece of a former devoted to my old man and fas- good recently. I was asked Ceylon High Commissioner in chiated by his career.

Lention. first came here about new name. My sug- eight years age to study medi up for a "He's always dreaming

The White something new. Gels up in the gestion

cinc. middle of the night to sketch it. Elephant. It has been ne- I'm proud of it. I Brink he's

cepied.

a genius. Mind you we have our rows. Then stream that walking out and going; back show hitsiness.

I'm

"But I never get farther than the door with my suitenses."

Neither of them said so, but

It may be that he has invented

a gadget which trips her

when she gets to the door,

Mrs Farris Went

course he spoßs me

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Look ut these. That's Cadillac in value. And that's a Holix-Royce."

Was

I wish them luck.

LONDON LIFE

"I gave up try four years.

studies after

I wasn't prepared to saerlace inte and comfort.

I'm too selfish.

"My parents worn very un derstanding. I always be grate- ful to them lon,

"There was one mitigating factor. 1 bad started to write short stories and I was selling

SHOCKS AN ARTIST everything I wrote."

After about two years' work

Loy Neiman is an American she has now completed her first entitled "Kasharma,” here by Playhny novel artist sent

to paint which will be published shortly, Aygazine of America scenes of London life, particu- Jarly life in the night clubs establishments. and strip-tease

displaying She was

a die mond-and-ruby brooch (Cadil. He did this drawing of me while lac) and a diamonet-and-ruhy resthug in a restaurant between

sketches of strip-tease. braccict (Rolls-Royce),

"Put them away. Hide them," Mr Parris. "Valuable possessions just worry you."

I'm not sure if I should gm- sider it a compliment-though It certainly datters my looks.

Inspiration

She is planning to develop her career in another direction wiihout the direct encourage ment of Annigoni.

This time the favoured en- courager Is Indian dancer Ram Gopal.

"He has always told me

do something on

He then produced photo- Incidentally, Mr Neiman, who comes from Chicago, by no graph of his own most prized possession-an impressive dlesef means a primi, law-abiding city, engined seu-going yacht.

says he has been staggered by should

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narrator in his

programme of

THINGS TO COME

BY JAK

'And I bet this old - don't know whore Willesdem Junction in!"

The tortured hours of

the man with the dirty

| IT

Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.

is an ugly thing to watch a T man under torture. I have

stage. The other week I made no choice, however, but to do this, my first slaze appearance ጌዲ as I followed Colonial Secretary Indian ballet, It was a stimulat Iain Macleod on his merciless ng experience. He is the other pilgrimage through the Central person I'll always be grateful to

"Now I want to try to be an African Federation.

I'm studying with Д actress. dramn coach. I'd like to combine the two-writing and acting.

"But if I decide after about six months that I'm no gond I'll sive it up. And If I decide that my book's no good I'll give up novel writing."

Friends

If Sharmint

I'll be surprised has to make either decision.

Even if she does she will un- doubtedly und another carcer.

peers

Her circle of friends takes in well as འs

painters. weltors like John Osborne and Colin Wilson as well as Indlan dancers. Her conversations range intelligently from politics to poetry.

A wise old man once told me

that a woman should only be in- telligent enough to realise how intelligent her man was. If she was Intelligent and beautiful too be advised me to run for my life.

In the east of Sharmini

found

I

advice.

the

MADE IN BRITAIN.

"YOU EXPORT TO US RAW MATERIALS AND FOOD

SEND YOU CONSUMER GOODS

Lundun Ämplate Surefor

AND

it impossible to take his

-fLondon Express Survica).

WE IN RETURN

Dr. Macmillan Ln, Capetown, Februatų 3. 4964)

They call him "sell-out Mac" in the bars and on the verandahs across this enormous territory, where men do not mince their emotions. It is loathsome thing to write, but they hate him, most of the white men here, his "own" people.

public-

Així "Mr Macleod knew it. Everywhere he ventured in and began among the plane-load of African Europeans he flew out with he was circled by narrow glances and im- pudent silence.

He has courage and a terrier toughness. All those here he confronted with his "new formula" for Federation (by which, Nyasa- land becomes

Taillelty semi-detached under majority. African rule) have pald tribute to his ruthless plain speaking.

Pallid

Bul it is not hard to read the strala on the pallid, pursed face of this small

man, whose odri stiffness of neck accentuates the Impression that he is a man with

a gun in his back.

On the long flight out, sitting in excessive proximity immudi- ately across the gangway from him. I could nol help scrutinis- ing his mounting agony.

One could almost bear that rabot-like brain-a visible plate- layer's blister of a brow jutting over his dark eyes-evaluating the righteousness or otherwise of the probable sacrifice of those Kreen acres, hard won by his follow Britons. to political expediency.

Mr Macleod is

mon of alarming contrasts. They too are written in his face. Hard- ness and compassion. Self- thrusting and retiring.

His cyes are al once ponderous and sharp.

The lower lip thrusts up and viciously bites in, beneath tip-filled nose of almost absurd

humorousness.

of

POLONIAL SEERUTANY

MACLEOD

so for cast aside the faith of the Europeans without yet gaining the confidence of the Africans.

work to do

by

TOM STACEY

The refusal-er which he was Slowly a feeling of examera- personally informed on kis Hon eyed desperation.

Nalrool stop-by lust month mounted.

where he was icered by Euro-

peans of Mr Tom Mboya to

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So much that a few weeks

work with the Kenya Goven- 20 in a speech at Glasgow, he ment drove home that failure. caught himself abusing the

leader of majority European opinion in Kenya, Group Cap-

I have watched with unwille tain Briggs, for his "blinkered

foolLshness"

ing faselation Mr Macleod's carver

DE

Colonlat

from the start.

Secretary

Abusing

He never dares compare the race question (for it is nothing clse but that) to labour disputes loday.

Today, ho knows that Southern Rhodesia could pro- by a mere Act of its

In those early, innocent dava bobly.

by sccessiva,

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he would fancy to liken Colonial Parliament, destroy the Fodera- problems to the disputes he tion solved as Minister of Labour. Premier, "You can always find a basis for has recently threatened; agreement. provided you have

the patience," I heard him say in the context of Kenya,

Sir Edgar Whitehead,

Such are these tortured hours for Mr Macleod.

--(London Express Service).

GERMAN FILM STARS

FLEE THE

TAX MAN

From WILLI FRISCHAUER

Bonn.

#187,000 and £417,500; and the fortune of 321 was above the 5,000,000 mark (£417,500) level.

Aversion to income tax is 03 strong in West Germany as in any other country, and the num- ber of rich refugees from the Inland Revenue increases every month.

As in the case of reluctant Briksh and American tax payers, West German stage and alm stars are in the vanguard of the exodus which Igads

ALTHOUGH there is no April budget in West

Germany, money, income tax and expenses are land.

inevitably to tax-enry Switzer-

a major pre-occupation in the land of the "Economic Miracle" just now.

expenses.

Taxi fares are a good illustra-

Not far from the Swiss bomes

Particularly, of Richard Burton, Noel Coward,

Charlie Chaplin and William Holden, a number of thels West German colleagues have settled for the same reason.

Hardy Krueger lives in Lugano next door to the ravishing Nadja Tiller, who gained fame as Rose- Now Income tax legislation marin, the girl of ensy viriue in Telcel Herr Elzul's ex- the film which depicted, the more a rezult the West sordid aspects of the German

nih

reap economic miruche them.

tion, la Dusseldort the other day, Taking his family, to a restau- while I fumbled with my small rant the other work, ho was change, the taxi driver was shocked to be offered the usuvi He cares:

but he is deter-furiously scribbling away on a receipt. mised not to care so much that small printed pad: he is swamoed by awareness of the have he may be wrecking in the homes and hearts Europeans in Brush Africa.

But there was, I fear, more to his present torture than the foro coing This fortnight's tour was the critical phase in the personal struggle with Attico which Mr Mucleod inevitably undertook when he accepted the Colonial portfolio.

"Here's your receipt," he said will and thrust a piece of paper into perience. As my hand. It confirmed that I had German exchequer pald him the sum of three Ger- even richer [man marks (54) for his fore. hitherto

When I looked puzzled, he ex- plained: "For the taxman!"

The same sort of thing hap- pens sing in cafes and restau- rants.

POVEDUES

How wealthy?

HOW

OW real is the famous econa- mle miracle? How wealthy

Youthful tomy Schneider weid ranky Cart Mein Boehm (who I in Jane Masefield's Aim Too' Et To Etanxile) are oleo Swing: rcadents now..........to menilon only,

few.

Brouwr

This flight of the stars tegni It has been going on for years Atries may very well destroy because the West German Inland are the West Germans? There Germany creates serious o him after all this driving man Revonue only allows "tax-de- ere at the moment 3,502 West blems for the West German whom everyone necepts BR an ductible expenses" If receipts are demans whose personal fortune industry, but Arthur

exoveds one milion marks the Berlin producer, has found ultimate bair to the premiership { produced, of the Old Country,

(208,009), more than twice as the obvious sofulion, The only mon who did not many as in the years 1903-57.

He to buliding new studion hi And Mr Macleod known n seem to have realim how this. And 2.250 ciuzcus of the Federal Locaco Plenty of Germen alın

practice worked was Herr Franz Republle boast a fortune of be- Elzel, the Federal Minister of tween £83,000 and £107,000: sturs, very low income tax!

951 had to admit to between

-(London Express Persipaž. Finance.

this too.

For the realization has slowly nawod into him that he has