AM a person who would love
to have been taken care of. have always felt a need of someone to help me when I have been wavering, someone to tell me what to do and look after me.
All my life I have managed to find some friend or other to help me along in a crisis, but my greatest tragedy has been that those people were always taken from me.
Elther they
died, or moved away across the world. or they simply turned me away.
1
Gradually I have, come to the sland conclusion alone. The funny thing is that people-all sorta of people come to me for support and I * always hapyy to give it.
Extreme
Practically all my leisure time I give in working for the wel- fare of young people, students and struggling actors.
THE CHINA. MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1960.
WHY I NEVER MARRIED
THE PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES OF SOME OF THE GREAT. UNATTACHED
by Flora Robson
TALKING TO SALLY VINCENT
How I find
cope
my
fulfilment
at the same time, so that I am forced to
with simul- taneous extremes of happiness und schness.
WHA
When I
awarded the D.B.E. and become Dame Mora Robson it was a truly magnit- time my which
cent time for me,
'Almost at the same beautiful boxer dog. loved so much, died.
It was nearly too much 10 take, I couldn't believe any- thing could be so unfair.
I am not
I
I do this work because enjoy it and gives me satis- faction. Only sometimes, when I am very tired, I have to force myself on out of a sense of duty.
Emotionally, I suppose. I must be on extremist. Like the line In Blake's poem, "joy and woe are woven fine" for me. When over sometiring wonderful hap- Des for me, something terribly sad has a habit of cropping up
lonely person.
And
Alone In my house I curious' exhillastation
the
prace of my own company.
I like my home, I like to write to the hundreds of people who write to me, even though it does give me writer's cramp. I like to watch the bigeons In my garden and to throw balls back to the children who play
USA declares war on a new
highway killer-pep pills
New York.
outside my backyard, L. like to for myself, to cook
play patience, to read nnel to hold open house Iar my many friends,
I have, in the past shared my home with other people, but frankly I would prefer to live alorie Two people can't live as cheaply as one. no matter what they say.
Lonely
old
In
"Ah, well" she said, "It's not so bad when seu cet over the shame uf."
My fulhiment I found in being able to express myself on the stage,
u subjective netress, I feel the character I am playing from inside myself, and every new portrayal Is andther very real part of mwelt. Studying a new part is very like perche-analysing myself.
Marringe and a family are not the only things that ena fulfil
woman.
When this is sug-. rested to me 1 always remember Title Scotmyoman I once met, joyed the most exclling year of
She was in her kitchen, berrin- workhig with ing steadily exhausted by a com- my life, I was
Donat and Gination of cooking and coping people like Robert
rather unattractive Frederick Piper, and there was with six
She turned to me and new, wonderful play every children. a
Baked: "Are you married?". week.
After
1 would rehearsals
"No." 1 admitted, wondering wander by the river, learning at the wisdom to come. my lines. That was when 1 met the rowing boys-lhe splendid tellows who waved to ne from their bouts and came to see me at the theatre on Friday nights, During that happy year, I belleve I fell in love twice. But
felt tuo I have become very
old for romance, st knew of late. I think it 27, and
that marriage matdish rather suits me.
would mean leaving the theatre.. The only loneliness I have So I did have a choice, and I ever known is the mood that made the only possible decision happens when I am alone in my for me. I still don't believe dressing room before a first that I could have made
and success of marriage night,.
Bui ibat
oli happens to theatre at once. theatre people and there is Porhaps if we had two lives I
Second nothing you can do to combat would insist that my
Once He was devoted to a good the feeling of desolution. the first performance is over murringe. but it is not always and the audience's reaction Is pussible to have what you want.
The art of Miss Tinu that there, the loneliness dissolves.
Although I have in
I played
The Aspern reminded ine of brought up four nephews, I do Papers"
myself at 15 years old. I my not having
day remember misz
handsome wonderfully children-far more thần nơi having a husband.
I suppose I had a shrewd idea I was not likely to marry when I was quite young.
-One day I decided quite
arbitrarily that I was not a pretty girl and that men were difficult to share even when you were beautiful.
Besides, my sisters were all much profiler than I was, they had first cholec on all the men in the neighbourhood.
When I was 25, an age when I might have seriously con- stage and my own kind of
The
fact.
car always discover a new memory of my own experience to use that I would never oiler- wise have believed was still in my sub-conscious,
Romances
a
when
i man
2
Mies
frard
Dame Flore at the wedding of her nephew,
Richard
and Robson, 24-year-old
Rosenberg. Marianne
Dame Flora looked after Richard since his mother died when he was 14. He is one of four nephews Dame Flora brought up, but she ways: ekitären far "I miss not having my own
more than not having a husband.”
QUOTE
by Mr John Parkes, member of the Official Board of Bali- room Dancing in Cardiff yester- day:
THE Teddy gang loader - Trend of basically excellent qualities with. * natural gift of leadership.. But wrapped up in the samo boy is frustration that comes from *bad home and lack of educa= tion,
-by the Chief Constable of Nottingham, Mr Thomas Moore, yesterday, reporting an "alarıb- ing" increase in housebreaking and burglary:--
THERE la nothing so up-
THER
setting as an intrusion of this kind into one's home especially to wo men. It is not so much what the thief steals or damages as the unsettling effect he has on home Hfe, particularly at night, for some time afterwards.
from a Derbyshire polico read safety bulletin yesterday:
MAN -drives as ha itres. Mis ear ratiszta, quite unconsciously, the pattern of his life. Tidy then have tidy, wellkept
and are
generally tmost efficient at the wheel.
cara
Why spies are
suddenly
spilling the
beans
by ANTHONY LEJEUNE
came to our house for dinner. TWO young. American hurt my other is single than commit murder, told us a
I knew that the plain. pig- failed child I was then could
Independence, both emotions
creature. bul I was is an important like and fronelai.
to sit and worship thing to have at some time or delighted other. I believe that a person him from afar.
When the family went into should learn to be able to live alone before she can expect to the dining-room he opened the paganda
In
And
BOOTLEGGED "pep pills" have been blamed for serod marriage. I had left the live happily with somebody cise. I want through the door like the sad another vista in the front page is resentialy the very good photograph; but the
the growing carnage" on America's high-people. ways in a special report issued by the Federal
I was not making enough money as an actress to
keep
Important
In
Mr
more
BOTIC
**
in this country. But about activities turncoats in Mos- there are certainly people spying Germany. Both were excellent f
Any code en catches to set against Burgess be cracked when you know it's and Macloon or Mitchell have no appeal to such a god-cow, reading statements for the Hunters
carefully prepared to a code. Any may can be eatifht Martin.
when you know he's operating. When the Russians discovered secure the utmost pro- But these people the undetect the tunnel full of G.P.C. equip
value, have able until they move,
ment which aperated under the Every spy story which makes East German border, it made a shadowy battlefields end of a say story, Bury and time had already brought us lady and then rushed upstairs
Maclean would be much
very good information, and had hysteries on my bed. of the espionage war.
useful to the Russians if they The U-2 trial made valuable You see, I hadn't expected Il
were still in the Foreign Office propaganda, but the U-2 flights Washington. particularly expected absolutely nothing.
Ailen Young people, Drug Administration. Lorry drivers and other myself and I felt I had relied
those going into the acting pro- That is the sort of person Dulles, head of the Central Mitchell and Martin would have had brought back invaluable ...
they had photographs. should
Miss Tina is and I know exactly Intelligence Agency, must be re been more useful if never
back from
are These
boy obrations motorists buy the illegal tablets to keep awake at on my parents for long enough.
Nobody For five years I did social work ession.
pect to be supported by their what it is like for her.
flecting ruefully that this is fod formalion
which done to ht Washington. I suppose I still think men simply not his year.
the extent of the- the wheel during long, tedious trips-particularly at a factory.
But in a new sort of war, knots I met a great many people families after their training is
But before chorling gleefully there are now sorts of victory to andration's wish to off in the at night.
there and learned a lot about over.
Americans If they discover they are not are the wonderful creatures at the idea of the
Espionage balles are dK; WE MAY HOW That they
out of the are very extensive. Price of the pills, also known During The past year the ille, but all the while I drenttied
Administration of the miracle that would one paying their way they should thought they were when I was now having their own Burges be won.
and Maclean. we English, should being brought as "co-pilots" and
Drug "bemies." Federal
day take me back into the take any job
for the a child.
remember that, as the two new shadows to make propaganda obtained 85 convictions in 32 runs about 48, a dozen. But an
quick to paint points and thereby perhaps to recruit new sympathisers and even higher price is paid for states for the sale of the "ben- theatre. I produced plays at the them and then walt
theatre, read books on lighting opportunity to get back to what
If they can And I certainly don't turn my cul, it's our wara Betish war potcnual agents. tablets, says the nies," Doctors accounted for the bootleg
Job In- make that temporary actress, FDA. in the increasing number only three of the convictions, wird hoped and hoped to be an they love doing.
Iteresting to themselves and to back on romance. On the con- their The remaining convictions were of accidents caused by
The miracle did happen, against chemists who dispensedmet Tyrone Guthrie.
the people involved with thei
trary have a great many on they will have learned sorge- the drug without prescriptions, cepted me into the Festival
about Limportant
my bands. roadside Theatre, Cambridge, where I en- and food store, and
Ilving. restaurant owners,
USC.
Convictions
*They have become a major highway monace," says the re- port. Their excessive use re Impairment of judg sults in ment, haliucinations and mental derangement."
The FBA Biso noted that while no evidence was avaliable that the "co-pilota" were being sold by large organised, crime syndicates, the trafic in the pilis was nevertheless a "highly profitable racket."
-London Express Service.)
ASTRO
YA! 800 KRUSHCHEY
WAN
who ac-
thing
very
X=
that supports
South DAME FLORA ROBSON was born in
in 1902, and made her Shields, Durham,
Shaftesbury Theatre
first stage appearance at the in 1921 as Queen Margaret in "Will Shakespeare." She was croated CBE in 1952 and DBE in
CERCASTRO
SER'S
FREEK COMMY
1960.
HOME
I am a great matchmaker.
BOO!
Friday Elaine Burton
Grill next time UNO meets in New York ...
defectors wETC
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its
The spy
game still has exotic James Bond side. We've been shown poisoned recently
Casualties
Nobody need. be shocked. It would ៦៥ much more shocking it the West
Even scores
were
o careles of security comfort Intelligence that we thought spying to match been Russian network.
prid
did
no
the
vast
ping. hidden microphones.
Mr Dulles can in microdota, and himself messages
the with that we have not
pistols in cigarette cases,
But the big operations have suffering an untitial number of Whether iL fentures Mata nasse für beyond that stage. defeats; we have merely
been. Hari or electrical computers, the
The scientist hes talten ove suffering them With unusuat esplorage war is tough, profes-
from Meta Hari, Mathematical computers (codes, for cracking) and supervenic aircraft have
publicity.
The score
sheel is actually
replaced the man who filches quite even.
the plans on the 'Orient Express.
sional, ruthless: there will be casualtios. But in spite of the not Russiay clamour it does lead tokeneral shooting war. Or the contrary, it is mare spy likely to prevent one.
The sex and the glamour — When the Russion never very animent to the Gouzenkro defected to the agent himself seem to have Canadians in 1945, he led to the is strong, nerves and a cool eye
gone, out of spying.
Seem to. Not really. of ourse. Behind the machines are human beings. They are the weak links, the points on whilch pressure can be exorted.
Sympathisers
The Brst thing an agent does in a new territory is to build up porsonal files. on people with information, Ales which can be uded for blackmatting purposes. Alles which certainly include detolis of their vices and wbalsesses,
2
The real roblem of the spy whr today, is not so much the methods as the new robtives. There are to tradi- tional kinda of agents the foreigner who comes in disguide to spy out the land, and the cizon who has been bribed to betray his country, t
But there is a third sort of asty's" the man whomokines S with the enemy,
These Third Men +were urumal thaiho: Told wars which were merely lobes of national inserent. They wetn unusual in Flist and Becomi World Ware, But they."ang, nớt Dribrahi today, wison "kao" comm fit which diyiden the world Krological. And that Yas counter-epidnoge much- kaederi
What we ere golost to need *
sunmasking of Fuchs, Nunn for really: For there will be May, and the Rosenborgs; who deferta, as well as victories, and had in effect gone, over to the increasingly the time" is going Russion side.
to be played in and out of the Petrov exposed the Soviet my shadows according to the system
Austrialla and dictates of current politics and Khokjov, who defected rather propaganda,
HARAMURA' JUBO SCHO
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