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THE CHUNA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 1960,
Patricia Dewis
WHY I STAY SINGLE
by the
“MY.
dedicated
Idoll on
the couch
Y elder brother Benjamin had the brain. My other brother Dan had the personality. I had the looks, and my sister Alice had the talent," nounced the cool, long-limbed blonde stretched out on the floor of my living-
room.
today.
an-
"And boy!" she said, sitting the Slanislavsky school and up. suddenly and roking her psychiatry-that's Irene Dalley. hair. "Did she have talent She hummed the 'Blue. Danube' at six months, danced at three, Laughi Dan to dance at four, sang with the San Carlo opera company at 10 and rotired from life at 13."
MARATHON
"The theatre is my life." she states simply. "I did my first play at 20. Since then I've "How do you mean?"
acted, taught, believed in, lived "Well, she worked in 3 bank, and loved the Stanislavsky then got married."
Trouble was, by the system, lime I was 35 I was nothing like the girl I was at 20. I'd been
red.. broke ...
hungry
UNLIKELY
is
This unlikely family known as the Daileys, whose sister Irene screws up London audiences nightly with her tremendous performance of power-crazed career-girl in the play "Tomorrow-With Pic- Lures."
... and all these things con spired to make me afraid, and, if you don't slay vulnerable! you block yourself off and lose the very sensitivity you ม
as an actress.
"Funny isn't it?" she went on. "Alice had it all and then absolutely revolted against be-- ing pushed into show business, Whereas it's taken me 23 years working in the theatre to get my nome above. the lille. And I had to come to London to do It!"
need
of
"It's taken three years psychiatry to get myself free again. I've only just got back to being the girl 1 used to be
The theatre is indeed her life. I'm told Irene is in her dressing-room two hours before curtain-up every performance to get under the skin of her marathon role.
A wild, funary, straight- "I'm an idealist" she ex- talking, fascinating mixture of plained. "And that meins
I
Irene Dailey.
"Tomorrow-With Pictures"
must live the complete life of the woman I play each night. The Method? Well, Method acting is doing something truth- fully with a purpose-like the things you do in life link them- solves into a pattern of purpose from moment to moment. It's not only a method of work but it's also the method of life it- seit"
,
one A dedicated
is Miss Dalley, which-she freely ad- mits-is probably why she has never married.
FUNNY
"I don't think I should have concentrated absolutely every- thing on my career the way I have. It's not that I didn't want to get married, it's fast that the years went by and I became a rejecting sort of per- son-the sort that puls people ufi.
"Anyway, now I'm 39 and, as far as America is concerned, that over the hump age-wise.
But, it's funny, it doesn't seem to matter to European men
Maybe London will give Miss Dailey something more than stardom something like whole new refreshing look herself. She won't find prospect bad.
1 at the
I LIKED JON FERTWEE'S description of one of “his feast ambitions, colleagues:" "He's the sort of chap who follows you inte a revolving door and courses put frgi"
BULGE-BEATERS
So this is how the famous keep their figures. Elizabeth Taylor keeps a supply of hard- boiled eggs handy and nibbles them whenever she feels hungry. David Niven, at the sight of a bulge, stops eating altogether until the bulge has gone.
A NEW WORD.
MEN'S-WEAR manufacturer Morris Gilmore tells triumphantly he has coined a new word to describe the 18-to- 28 age group. It is "Twens," 1 oan Imagine what the Twens will say when they hear.
-London Express Service),
NEW USE IS FOUND FOR AIRPLANE EXHAUST
Scientists use a jet engine
to blow out fires
A SMALL jet engine is being used in fire-fighting experiments by Government scientists at the Fire Research Station, Boreham Wood. The engine-a Bristol Siddeley Viper, normally used to power the Provost airplane on which RAF jet pilots do their initial training-has been mounted on a lorry chassis. A tube directs its exhaust, mixed with water vapour, on to the flames.
By adjusting the engine so One is based in Los Angeles, that it burns up most of the the other across the moun- oxygen In the air passing tains in Canoga Park, Cali- scientists have famla, Radio through it, the
links them. created a powerful, mobile gas Their owners. North American
Aviation, estimate extinguisher.
that the
The World of Science
by
Poter
Parleg
Without oxygen, flames die. system is saving them about "spoken" by the And the "blower tube" can £92,000 a month.
.be snaked inside buildings
or into underground tunnels in The computers handle data the same way as a water hose- about the company's rocket
pipe.
projects. Their calculations
So far the prototype jet emerge 83
in this way.
spols punched A
computers
New oil derrick
32-year-old Cheltenham engineer has invented's new
fire engine has only bčes In magnetic tape. This coded tested for its snuffing effect tape, is then fed into a control type of derrick which, it is be
on lamps, placed at different mit which "translates the in- leved, can save all companies heights inside, building at formation into radio signals, and many thousands of pounds a
will heams it over the hill. research station. It
the
shortly go into bigger fires.
action against
Talking robots
A de-coding box at the other end then puts all the
year.
The Idea came from watching water being drawn, Up by bucket from a well,
facts back on to magnetic mining Loday is the speed
Two bure robot "brain" are tape
in
a mechanical
One of the problems, of wil
with which drill bits become now talking to each other language which the computer blumted. Most most have to be regularly across 40 miles of can country.
words
understand.
second 2
Some
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MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*
*CLOG: ANYTHING THAT. HINDERS MOTION
OR RENDERS DIFFICULT.
Bunny Appleby.
When Mr. Clogohead wants to turn right, be never takes up !
on the crown of the road like you do and of course hes
·wouldn't hays, the fun at seeing the chaógiá
£he did.
3000 changed after about 16 hours
of drilling.
be
Sometimes more than fre miles of pipe have to be. heaved up out of the borehole sections to reach the battered drill 13p.
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Derricks must be very tall And much time is lost 12 lowering the houting tackle down the derrick to pull up the next section. The opera- tion may take 24 hours.
The new system, designed by Cambridge gradante Mr How Fanshawe, does the same job in- about a third of the time. Two hydraulic lifte pull the pipe continuously instead of in jerks. The sections are automa- tically unscrewed and stacked neally as they emerge. Smaller derricks can be used.
"Mr.", Fanshawe “I used the · principle "that | the quickest and eudest way. to pull a bucket, up from a well Is to use a band-over- "hand mottówĄDZE
explained:
twin g 11its represent the bando:"
engineering,
ment Corporation is plunging money into the invention, And several big British and United States oil firms are keenly interested. So it looks though Mr Fanshawe has turned a simple Idea into a winner..
--London Exprena Service).
Pocket cartoons
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"It's rather beginning to; look, Colonel, as if the Congo's not the only place: where the Army's getting,
out of hand."
Galt'ms an old reactionary
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VERMONT
OLASKA
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S.CAROLINA
NEBRASKA
NEW YORK
WHICH D'YOU THINK LOOKS
MOST SCARED?
AMERICAN CIRCUS
Is IKE a millionaire now?
Washington.
WITH the end of the Democratic Party conven- tion in Los Angeles the American presidential election moved into its last vital, frenzied stages.
As Kennedy, the contender for the presidency fills the political scene, what of the ageing man who is to be replaced?
Will he go into retirement in January the Bame relatively poor mon as he was when he entered politics?
Or will the outgoing. Freal- dent rank with the contenders for his job 15.8 member of Ameries's millionaire fraternity?
The reports
by
PETER
VANE
hds
MOSCOW
PEKING
World Copyright dy arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
IN SIX MONTHS EISENHOWER RETIRES AFTER EIGHT YEARS AS PRESIDENT. HOW WILL HE LIVE -AND WHAT WILL HE LIVE ON?
salary
knowledge that. £170,000 was Every month - when his safely in his bank account ̧‹ cheque has been paid into the Now he is completing his local bank the cost of che af White House spokesmen eighth year on presidential pay these bonds has been deducted, blardly deny. any imowledge of of £38,000 # year, plus
what Only the bank knows Ike is reported to have told
a move to restore army two expense recourts: one, tax
.But his friends that in retirement he standing.
as But if seeras free, of £13,000 a year and the the total comes to now. plans to tuck himself away on likely, the offer is made, there other, taxable, of £17,000.
White after eight years in the House it could be substantial, Iris Gettysburg farm where he is little doubt that Ike would can "Just sit and rock."
But the real mystery. ploce-, of the Elbenhower Enances les In the predicİ- day value of that £170,000 e had in the bank when he ran for President.
From
the purely
financipl angle there is nothing what- ever to prevent him doing just
Ike-will not need to give evin a "moment's. considers-
tion to the lush offers of
directorships which will food
accept.
As a double pensioner he would thus be certain of 215,000 a year, without count ing the attendant, "perks,"
No worries
So far as income is concern-
So careful
Has he been able to saye anything of that? Ike has al- ways been careful in the management of his finances, Elis attitude towards money has been described as "prudent of that money to a New York but not tight."
Ike turned over
him.
the whole,
And though he has made investment "house to handle for Tiberately he did not in om him from big corpora- ed, be wil have no worries at sizeable donations to tloge, eager to have an ex- all. But how about capital? and entertained widely out of with it. He never wanted to be charily want to have anything to do President in their boardrooms. Will he be taking a comfortable his own pocket,
money from his pay packet.
it is reason in the position of knowingly "nest egg" with him foto re ably certain that he has saved taking a decision which might For America, where security tirement? in general is as unpredictable as: a. Russian promise, belleves at Jenst in taking good care of its ex-Presidents end. ex-army chlefs.
Tho one certainty about Some of the surplus has been affect the value of his own in- Eisenhower's personal finances devoted to improvements, to his
Two pensions?
Is that he had almost no farm at Gettysburg, 85 miles money at all so, lotig as he was from
Washington. Including
a serving soldPer.
the original cost it is reckoned When he married Mamle in that Ike has sunk close on 1916 he was drawing a lieu-2100,000 in this property in the tenant's pay of £23 a month. past 10 years, And fram, then until 1948, when
As a former President, Eisen- he resigned as chief of staff, he' bower will draw a yearly pen- had to live entirely on his army sion of £8,500. On top of that pay,
he will be allowed. £17,000 a In that year the Elsen- year for Haldes." There will" „howers, owned between them be free office space for him in Investments worth less thần Washington and free postage £10,000. And not all of, those facilities.
had been accumulated ost
But Ike is also a five-star of savings. Some represented general. As such, he is entitled siis made by Mamie's father to a yearly pension of £6,500, Ike, Indeed," was relatively so plus allowances and three miliard-up that he did not even tary aides.
blown -a- motor carita
vegiments.
Near-luxury
So here is the strange post- tion-not until January them
The polley of constant m. he siver up the cares of ice has also been his money is invested and how will Ike know precisely where „DEDYEMLERİ sided by gifia. Their value
sinon the President and Much it is worth. Elsenboger first went into the But this much can be said. White House is enthunimi ing. If his investment advisers have
£20,094,
Substantial
There have been antiques and furniture for Marie.. And for Ike prize cattle trees, tractors,
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He surrendered those privi-But his Ananeca were trans- cultivators, a greenhouse-and. leges when he ran for the prest-formed with the publication of two-storey dency in 1952. It was "the his war stery, Onuide to kilowa na Magi's, honourable thing to do," he Europe. That book brought adjains: the 218ji
+him, a lump sum of £227,000, 11 ARMENIA
But perssure le building up of which £57,000 was taken in Augusta, G In Congress to restore his come capital gains tax gmisión, zing" Thal, army
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done only moderately well his capital should at least have doubled over the last eight years. Its could be more than that
Even on the -Saskat tion, however, ther
that Ika, göse int
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