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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 8,· 1900.
Pop singer Anne Shelton
FIRST encountered Miss Anne
Shelton one night in a slit trench in Belgium. The gentle man with whom I was sharing the hole had a portable record player and one record.
I must admit that thanks to Miss Shelton's record it turned out to be a pleasant if unheroic eve- ning.
Eventually Anne Shelton became a Forces Sweetheart. A great many pop
and singers have come
justifiably gone since then, but Anne Shelton is Bull with H.
Now a matronly figure of 33, she
is 18 successful as she ever was und by careful management, a great deal richer. She offers a possible
explanation: "I am a singer not a showgirl. I
ximmicka.
have no
Willpower
"Gimmicks go in and out of Itshinn. And when your Kim- mick gets out of fashion you are out of work.'
Miss Shelton invited me home do lunch the other day, fod me Scotch broth and roust beef, but being a matronly gure of she horself hunched all a slimming bill and glans of orange juice. We talked about the ironies of Phow business. Said Miss Shel- ton: "By sheer willpower I have
to bring munaked
my weight down from 16 to fust under list.
Tempting
"Then what Kemp Welsh
happens? Jean TV producer
who knows It is my burning in
bition to be un actress, aves me my Best acting role in a TV play, "I am to play one of Samersei Maugham's Three Fat Ladies of Antibes for commercial TV.
"Having
shed successfully almost six stone 1 now - have tu to put them back-with pad- ding.
The play ends with an orgy of
"It's all su templ- cream cakes
"By Miss Shelton, who will heroically est property
cakes.
erram
ANNE
SHELTON
"I am not a showgirl. I
have по
gimmicks."
turns to acting
• by RAMSDEN GREIG
Her acting debut does not, easy lessons.
KK.
The TV people
however, signal the end of her will have to take me as they carcer as a singer. For the fullowing reasonst
Min Shelton is a shrewd busi-
#esswomen
line.
"Most Singe are natuz! cetcis anyway, I think, Look at
Crushy who knows how to Sinatra.
and Dean Marlin. lay the stock market,
She knows that singing pay: more than seling.
She will do her best but she knows she is nu second Sorah Bernhardt
"I have nut," she said, "dashed Academy of off to the Royal Dramatic Art for a course of 10
Reid. Mr Reid first encountered
Miss Shelton during the war, too--but in person.
He was young naval crer. Miss Shelton was doing a concert for the Navy.
When he was demobbed Me Rold becume Miss Shelton'a manager. It is he who reads the small type in her contracts. feeds her two dogs, drives her two cats and keeps the wolves from the front door of her large rumbling house in Dulwich:
Seven years ago Mis: Shelton and My Reid became engaged 10 be married. They still ure. The other day I asked Mr Reid he would explain this anoaren ositancy to take the plunge. He said: "A lot of people in show business meet yesterday and get married today. "These mariages don't last. Anne and I prefer to take our time and make certain."
Said Miss Shelton: "THENE right, dear.
Next time?
Singer Bryan Johnson came
second in this year's Eurovision Song Contest
Last year his brother Toddy
and his sister-in-law Peart Care
came second in the Eurovision
Song Contail,
AN
Johnson syst
suki! "Mother and father have
Into training for Lone
next
year."
I looked as if the TV and dance hall business In Bri-
there was Joe Loss arriv-
TUESDAY SPOTLIGHT by Cummings
MISSION
TO CONVERT
THE UNCHRISTIAN)
BLACKS
19th Century
WANTED
MISSION TO CONVERT THE UNCHRISTIAN
WHITES
20th Century
APARTHEID
London Express Dervice.
THE FRIENDLESS ONE
THE old man with the shattered fingers looked
out over his beloved trees and flowers from The Scoul is green-roofed, cream-washed villa. Sun made fire of the air. The scene might have graced the most delicate Korean silk print.
BUT FOR the soldiers, their khaki uniforms pale blobs of movement in the thin shadow, nervously unhitching their guns;
BUT FOR the rattle of gunfire beyond the wire-topped walls and the howl of the wounded mob;
"Come to think of it look at tala Anne Shelton. Any good Catho- Fr
was not paying too well. He like her who can sing My ng at the Hammersmith Patals
Jewish on “ Fiddisher Momma ut a
bicycle. "Ok, I sill run BUT FOR the rising revolutionary dust, the mob charity show and get away with the car," Mr Loss
explained
and wrecked buildings, the crumpled, overturned cars it must be a natural actress."
breathletely do this lark to the corpses lying like discarded rag dolls in the streets Wherever you #nd Anne keep down my weight." Shelton you find also Mr David
-(London Express Service)
When teenagers have the right to
MEMO for shopkeepers the world over-and parents too: Teenage credit, the American merchants' latest solution to the question of multiplying his already vast teenage market, is here to stay.
And the facts about levnuge credit are as outstanding as tire debta America's dollar-happy teenagers are piling up.
Credi managers from Port- land, Oregon.
Portland. Maine, are sudy patting their pockel books as they learn the irst result of experiments in credit extended to setwool chil- dren as young as 12.
10
ready to acerpt the responsi bildes of credit."
Miss Corinth, who conducted a
buy on
the
credit...
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
world, began
extending customers are school students
anees. baby-Eliting, rounds, etc.
paper
outside.
The small, grandfatherly figure frowned at the city spread out like a map below his hillside house.
Spreading
Perhaps he thought back half a century when the then Korean authorities had caught him and tortured him, smashing his fingers in their steel clamps." -
He still blew on those broken fingers whenever he was excited or worried. Watching the city, could ho resist blowing on them now?
Seoul, April, 1960. And Syngman Rhee, 85-year-old President of South Korea, kod good cause to be a VCry worried man.
It had been spreading for weeks, the sibilant, It had flared into riots-small, hectic disturbances among the 21 million people who cling to peninsular isolation from the mainland clutch of Communism.
survey of retail stores teenage credit to 14-year-olds six months with incomes from weekly allow urgent message: "Rhee the dictator must go," eredit plans, told me that 32 per ago, on an experimentel basis.
questioned 280, stores give credit to teenagers.
ENCOURAGING
eent of
While few stores set the For the number of credit cards lowest eligible age for teenage eredit 12, the majority of stores set it at 14 or 15.
ismurd
to feenagers is steadily increasing.
LIMITS
Most stores have a pre-deter mined limit to teenage accounts, ranging from about the equiva- Kay Corinth, merchandise lent of £10 to £25 a month. director for Seventeen magazine, According to Miss Corinth's tried
convince me that survey, the bad-dehts experience "enage credit is a right thing of the majority of stores has "Young people zrc more bech favourable, or the same as mature these days," she said. other accounts. "If they are old enough 10 Sears Roebuck, the largest marry in their teens they are general merchandising firm in
to
DEFENCE WASTE PAPER
BASKET
A Sears кpokesman told me: "Results have encouraged us to continue the experiment."
Eighteen of Sears's 734 stores now offer credit cards to teen
gers without requiring parents to guarantee payments.
Parents are told that the child
} PREDICT
Yes, the facts about teenage
The riots had jiggled aimless- credit in America are startling.
whirlwinds, touching with de-ly lik
upon first one city then another, partment-siore accounts. But they do not stop
Banko are now lasting loans whipping up fury and death, to teenagers on too and a half
Then clamorously the whirl-
lad danced into one.
tho
chant wag huge, "Rhee the dictator
is applying to open an account. per cent interest. "We feel they should know. I doubt that teenage credit winds
spokesman. said the
"Even will end in America. The world's not legally teenage are though they
consumer market is Now responsible for their children's vast too, debla."
And I prodiic!
deafening: that DOOT! The Sears Roebuck teenage department stores elsewhere in
must go!! credit plan allows its young the world, will be venturlig in- customers up to £17 credit with to junior charge account pro- monthly payments of about £2. grammes.
And the wizened, oak-apple Most of Sears's junior credit
faced -London Express Service.
man on the hill heard, blew on his fingers, and SWT- moned his ministers.
BANG GOES 24,000,000,000, PENCE
London agres eřabno
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by
SIMON KAVANAUGH
student demon- ment
office.
successful political climaxes of all time...
Nothing, that is, but a curious change of character.
The
was
actamorphosis frightening in Ite completeness. Here was the grand old exile slanging his old friend Hodges, glant nations which had never known openly seorning
and America), (e.g. Russia Rovermen! stration.
shovelling democratic principles Rhee became the darling of over the side, arresting even But prison and torture were
Western berals. His whole killing his opponents, defying body then fe was dedicated to his coun- the US. and the United Nations his reward. For six months they wracked his sturdy dung him behind bars for seven try's cause; his every movement, to challenge both Russia
matured he his every word appealed fran- China to mortal war, years. While he scribbled (The Spirit of Inde tically to the feelings
So that was what his people pendence") wanted.
Very well, then.
Sincere
It had not always been like
thot.
and
of the
What had happened? Sud- and studied the world. He was the Distinguish-
released megalomania? his ed Exile whom works of Christ. This was
every Foreign denly
every Sheer stupidity, such as when prelude to politics: Alone and lo Office, every embassy,
(in 1060/57) e conscriplad Korea International conference cham- darkness while outside
rezerve army, packed them into embroiled herself in the Russo- ber came to know closely.
compounds and simply forgot Japanese War.
feed them, killing thou-
Doors open
The war, curiously,
Frustration, hope, far-fetched to planning, torrents of words, sands? bitter arguments, rebuffs, snubs and opperis.
In this way his years crept slowly on.
In 1932, in Geneva opened
Not long before he had fitted his prison doors. A nationalist vainly trying to slip exactly the idealist clothing government sent him to the U.S. which Western liberals and on a vague diplomatic mission, progressives garb their marlyred There he met Theodore Roose foreign political exiles.
valt and at Princeton where he carned his Ph. D.-impressed a Sincere. Energetic. Eloquent, professor named Woodrow Wit they said. The tireless champion son. A new idealogy solidined of a small nation's deated rights, in his imagination: The ideology
Now they looked on him in of self-determination. disgust. Despotic. Wrongheaded.
in
tica,
the
a
(whon
{
Overture
1
Perhaps even Rhee, with his Korca's squinting, inscrutable amile, case into a League of Nations could not answer that one.
he met the Austrian debale)
when he was Rhee plunged on and on into woman who, nearly 40, became his wife. Sill the very pits of disaster. He the years crept on. Stil Kurea moyed like a man in a dream, Hr be- with desperate unconcern. was chained, remote. come sad. bitter and fired, wilt Angry protests from Elsen- ing in Washington, bathetically hower, Churchill, Mark Clark, .awash In the adulation of the UN General Assembly, Hiberal well-wishers of last bounced against his head and like moths around an electric bulb. He just didn't seem to care.
Amid the overtures fur on ead to the Korean War, : Rites's splenetic blasts echoed over the Communial border, "No pauco
ed, "unif Korea is one!"" To the Koreans, harassed by war, battered groggy by the old man, their President was on inex- piteable phenomenʊn. They put up with his elections, rigged by terrorism, because after all they had known no comparable fran- chise. And three times, in this'
But not all the people can be And
Frightening
of
Inefficient. Irresponsible, they Rut, while Rheo was slavishly causes, ignored by the authorl felt unaqtleed, cald.
elections, worshipping Wilson Manipulang crushing ble people's domocratie US, Japan's military heel was rights, clambering higher and ruthlessly trampling Korea into higher along the steep path to subserylence. Rhee sailed home. absolute dictatorship.
fitting about mysteriously as And the world turned its back resistance organiser. The thread of his life becomes lost in in- on The Friendlosa One.
Then, In 1945, when he was with the Communists," he well- No, it had not always been like dagger legend. It is sald he was
In romantic cloak-and- almost 70. trigue. ||that. Mass adulation and po-
Japan surrendered. And the Hucal success led tumbled along once smuggled in (or out) in a
coffin, the he played cut and climax, the whole meaning before him ever since, as a 20-
mouse with the Japanese secret his life, was at hand. year-old prinou (ão is a dences- dant of the Yi dynasty, rulers of pollee....
In Meout, Amerluan General Kocoa for five centuries) ho
produced Then, in March 1919, with the Hudges dramatically first entered politics in 1880 great Korean uprising bluadily Syngman Rheo from behind t {fivo' years before Sir Winston crushed, his name. reappears sermon to a vast menting of way, he was re-alected.
Churchill
solicy in history. Surviving Koreans The drowd stored The Royal Bebel, they called Korean nationallats gathered in dumbfounded, then broke into a ignorant all the time, hha. stopped in high-grade Shanghai to estabilali, as a brave storm of applause Their living hoo's erratle course is almost clamical Cliness education, yel but pathetic gesture of do- legend was horo. He was flest. run. grosping cogerly the libertarian fance, a "Provisional Govern He was the enibodiment of a Now, when he has been overi Western ideen offered him Irtment of the Repubile of Korea" new treedom, a new Kuren. whelmed and sense come at {Sepal's - Methodist Midson
10. that Schoo
Its president WAA Syngman For exile thee it nuw bo- last
unhappy Far Reform was his banner when Rhos. And in that office. for came a glut of glory. Ho be- Kastean peninsula, šungman Rhee may think back on the Eat 21 her dearly founded the next 20 years, he was to re- cane President of the new m- [Morenia Arut daily newspaper main-the exiled president of a dependent Republic of (South) days, manu pedra app, when he and, though already an Imperial reputale which had never known Korea. Nothing lay in his way treated ideals as valuabio per- Privy, Guungillar, led an anti- life and the herd of a govern- to one of the biggest, and most, sonal property.
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