1960-07-22 — Page 6

AVA

GARDNER'S SHOE:

WHY I TOOK

IT HOME

with the

the milk

AVA GARDNER took

THE CHINA MAHIS FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960,

GOURLAY...

AND TELLS

OWN

WAY

IN HIS

LAN AMISTAKABLE

Every woman should be a bride --it she can find the right guy."" She tossed off a toast to Bappy the Bride in Old Grand dad, a powerful blend of hour- bon whisky.

"Every woman should be a bride. I might be again. A hus- band and kids. That's what makes a woman happy. Not the rat race, the big movie star bit But where do you find the right Buy?"

She laughed and said: "No- body sings like Frankie. But t hell with a that. Let's drink. another toast to Bappy the Bride."

The censing laws said no more toasts. But Mr William Ofner, licensee of the Stork Rooms and stal- warl friend of Miss Gardner, The look over as host. He presented from his own bottle of toasts Old Grand-dad,

So no laws were broken. Miss Gardner looked sad.

Through the smoke-haze they seemed to be watching with one her shoes off and put expressionless black, eye. them on the table.

The right Cyclopean shoe- The three-piece band played It was past midnight beautifully fashioned by Fon- "All The Way" and other tana of Roma who adorn the emotional waxy ballads asse- in the Stygian darkness most expensive feel in the ciated with ex-husband Frank of London's Stork Room, world-had a large oval slightly. Sinatra, They also played which makes it difficult red hole out above the small tedy Is a Tramp."

toe. to distinguish film stars from hostesses.

Gardner had arrived Miss incognito und was hostess at small but rumbustious party. She likes to relax at her parties, She likes to dance without shoes. The barefoot coftessa. The beautiful hedonist. The irresistible iconoclast. The sleep- defying let's-have-a-bell, another there's-no-tomorrow, for-the-roud sybarite,

Explanation

The shoes, covered in satin which was off-white like driven snow, sat on the table regarding their owner's dance with high- heeled indifference.

I

Miss Gardner explained: "I broke my small toe and it sticks uut a bit. I'm getting treatment for it while I'm here,

"Until it's better I'd rather wear a shoe with a hole. To hell with elegance, I'd rather be comfortable,"

The broken toe did't stop Miss Gurdier dancing. In fact, whirled through a few she

steps as though she flamenco were winged and toelker,

She came back to the table and called a toast for her older sister. Beatrice (pet-named Bappy), who used to be her constant companion,

"Right now she's getting mar- ried in Las Vegas Isn't that something?

bride. Happy's a

Mumbling the words, Miss bongする Gardner took over the drums. She beat them gently and lovingly: banged them

savagely; loudly and

finally Angered them

and quietly nostalgically.

The orchestra had to leave so Miss Gardner telephoned her friend Dick Jones at his hotel. She told him to join the party.

Dutifully, Mr Jones came over. He is an executive of the Columbia Record Company, and an accomplished planist.

As he played she leaned over the piano, her long hair tickling the keys. She sang some of the songs lingering over the lycles feelingly. She sang others parodying the lyrics unprintably

Vicky

in America...

She merely brushed Old Grand-dad with her lovely Ilps before she returned to the dance. More flamenco, Repeated rumba. Continuous cha-chn. "Not bad," she shouted at one stage "for an hillbilly from old flat-foot North Carolina,"

was

she

At nine-thirty a.m. she still defying sleep and conven- lon, Gardner the indefatigable. The insomniac. The Indestructi» ble. And still-even when emerged shoe-less and unrecog- nised in the revealing 10 am. sunshine of Piccadilly-Gardner the beautiful, Hardly a trace of non-stop celebrating on that finely-moulded face. Not even

.. AND TODAY HIS FIRST REPORT IN WORDS AND PICTURES COMES FROM THE CONVENTION-CRAZY CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, AM in the land of the Donkey and the Ele- phant-that is: the United States of America in election year. Let me explain: these worthy animals are the official symbols of the two parties: The Donkey being the emblem for the Democrats, the Elephant for the Re publicans or GOP (Grand Old Party).

For many years now I have envied my American colleagues-just think what fun `we could have if we had comparable animals re presenting our POLP (Poor old Labour Party) and the CCP (Complacent Conservative Party).

-THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

How easy it is for the American cartoonist to put everything into the mouths of his symbols without much bothering about the human përsona- lities who really run the parties.

Recently the "Great low would sooh bề án everybody's

on Earth," the "Democratic Coli- lips.

vention, started in this

sprawling and hideous city of RULED BY

Lau Angeles with all the TWO MR K.

ballyhoo only Americans can provide.

The

IKE'S

Vicky

Los Angeles

FAILURES

MURKY

The Elephant is trying to forget.

The hole for Ava's broken toe.

the lines testifying to 37 years of just living.

The Cyclopean' shoe watched her go incredulously, P.8. to Miss Gardner: One of the cleaners who arrived be- fore the party finished put the shoe in my car by mistake. If you insist I'll return it. But I'd like to keep it as a souvenir, a tangible reminder of an extraordinary night and morning. I'm incredulous too.

MEMO to Lonnie Doneran listed the other wreck sai one of our ten best-dressed men: En your photograph with your crocodile shoër and litar- thaped clit links, you look real sharp. But I stines shy that it one of Lokūön's Best- you're dressed men then my old man's

dustman.

elegance is savagely sacrificed for comfort

JUST THE CLOTHES

leopard-skin

(imitation, I

think). On the pavement beste SO DIPLOMATIC...

her there sat a middle-aged man In cloth cap arranging playing

cards in patience formation. I have on my desk a copy of On the opposite pavement there the official US. Note of protest was n paileeman passing and to Cuba about the seizure of the arranging to look the other oil refineries.

Mr D. F. Karaksa, chairman and editor of Current, a Bombay news magazine, is now visiting London. He interviewed Hugh Galtskell the other day and ask- ed if the Conservatives policy had changed. Said Mr Gaitskell "Oh yes, they've stalen a lot of GOOD TASTE

our clothes."

But Mr Gaitskell did not say he was looking for a new mas- ter tailor.

way.

In that old, double-talking diplomatic language it starts: "I live the honour to refer to the recent seizure

WAS

WONDERS of the Jet Age: I airmailed a letter a when I

passing through Mexico City five weeks ago. It was di livered in London the other day,

My 10-year-old son labeurs under the same name, but has good plebeian tastes like fish atid chips. He came home recently with his chips wrapped in page of this newspaper. My page, of course, into Piccadilly. At 11 p.m.

the other night there He took it like a brave little was a woman stretched out on it man. In fact, he laughed his fast asleep, covered by a coat of litle head off.

SIGHTS OF LONDON: There is a stone seat at the bottom of Park Lane where it narrOWS

VILKUY

LOS ANGELES July 1960

SENATOR KENNEDY PRAWN ON THE PLANE NEW YORK-LOS ANGELES

AND SIGNED BY HIM

---{London Expresi Service).

I got the sack in Moscow

A

By JOHN REDFERN

YOUNG African who went to Moscow two years ago to study medicine has been dis missed from the university because He refused to co-operate politically and become a "stooge" of the young, Communists.

Back in Lontion he sald that African students were being badly treated. One friend of bis, a Somali, was beaten up and left unconscious. His "crime" consisted only of danc- ing with a Rüssian girl,

This man from Moscow is Mr Stanley Omar Okullo, aged 27, from Lango. in Northern Uganda. In a quiet, uni- emotional voice, he told me of insults and assaults suffered by African students. Some had "monkey" and other deeply wounding expressions shouted

at them.

The university rooms were flooded with circulaes saying that the Airloshs came from very poor homes "but were get- ting too big for their boots."

was dismissed from the university," he said. "when the Kremlin-rtin Afro-Asian Com- mittee realised that our African Students' Union, à cultural or.. ganisation, was not prepared to be used for propagaada pur- poses.

Tense months

Komsomol (the young Comi munists' organisation who used the opportunity to weigh up the students and to report od their political idens.

"They were the watchdogs, out to use the Africans of divide them."

Mr Okullo estimates that there are about 600 African now studying in Moscow.

No recognition

They ran into trouble when the Komsomol elements at the university resented the setting- up of an African students oỀN ganisation:

This union never obtained official recognition, and began to be described as the “ariki+ Soviet group." "We were represented to the university, authorities as Western spies"

Things got to such a pass that Mr Okullo took the der perate step of going up to the Kremlin to try to Bee Prime Minister Khrushchev. He was shown the door

So he wrote a letter summing

the "This carte after months of up.

Incidente. He told between the two Khrushchev, "We have come to this country to study, and, bot

tension

refugees, Therefore, w

a "Crush on Khrush"-alterna- "Rock That Feller" buttons in For the cartoonist the election slightly bewildered Ike, than becomer a "Lathe Drick After the intervention of Mr tively, the candidate who will Chicago later this month. And a 'of a new President (or Prime he Khrushchev in the election we be tough to the Kremlin will be lot can be made with the fact Minister, for that matter) is, of President," and a new charac

brganisations." ter is about to appear. that if Mr Kennedy, is elected course, a serious busittem, publicity boys were can expect anybody who is aus- the one to "Crush Khrush.”

After his dismissal, attempts as No sooner have we created working overlime on the pected of being "soft" to Come I would not be surprised to the world would be ruled by

our pop-eyed, soll-playing, A PERIOD OF

were made to persuade him to consider that we should be slogans which they hoped munism to be accused of having see "beat NIK with Dick" and "two Mr Ks.":

LABELLING, UNLESS

go back. He refused. They put accorded normal human re-

spect." He got

Rck- And what can one do with "agents" to work on him.

When that did not work, he nowledgment. those handsome boyish features found great difficulty in getting

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of the

Governd Rockefeller?

of candidate Kennedy, or the a seat on the plane to London Why insult? solid, dullish faces of losers from Moscow.

Mr Okullo sighed. "Some of Lyntion Johrison and Stuart, "They offered me all kinds these Fussish Communist Symington, or the charming of other flights," said Mr youther are so facaatical that if Okullo, but tried to keep me you don't agree that Moscow is the biggest richest city in the A long period of labelling away from the London plane.

"Eventually, by paying 230 world they immediately· call: these gentlemen on their coats roubles (about £8) from my you a filthy spy for the Western He's in front of us (and what more dimbing admission of own pocket, I managed to get a capitalists!""/

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worded complaint to the United stance, that the standard of Nations secretariat in New living in Britain was much

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