THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1981.
THE BIRDCAGE THAT TONY BUILT
LONDON ZOO PRIDE
OF ACHIEVEMENT
PHOTOM NEWS
By SALLY VINCENT
FOR THE PAST six months Mr Antony Armstrong-Jonos has devoted his week- ends and evenings to designing an aviary for Regent's Park Zoo.
The other day members of the Press and other interested parties were invited to the Zoological Society of London's offices to be introduced to the fruits of his labours.
Mr Armstrong-Jones himself was to be there to explain his endeavour.
AL 11.16 his audience is being politely dry- martinied. About 30 people sit around on moquete lecture-hall seats.
A genuine interest
Some were zoological people, earnest, gentle-voiced men in baggy herring-bone; women with white, peaky. faces and astonishing hats, and young boys with · hair like Prince Charles, all genuinely interested in the de- aign of avinries.
All around the hall the walls are lined with heavy, musty and gold-lettered books with titles like "Bull Fish Rex. BD Can," and "Publ Seto Mar. Biol Lab," and "Boletim do Musco N, A. C. Rio de Janeiro."
There is a blackboard with chalk along the easel Jedlire, and a platform with table on which
mysterious bulk in covered with a blue cloth.
We wait for Mr Armstrong-Jones. He must have heen there for five minutes before anyone noticed him.
His hands are shaking, and
when he says "Good morning" "In order to make the maxi- nobody hears him. So he says mum use of the land available," "Good morning" again.
he reads, "the aviary, at ground
Three zcological men unvell level, becomes a rectangle, with Mr canal. course,
the mystery on the table.
Which 19, of Armstrong-Jones's spare-tne venture, a pretty little structure made of wire and tubing which is vaguely reminiscent of the unknown political prisoner.
Nervous
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Mr Armstrong-Jones gives it one hervous look, leans his hands on the table. bends for- ward to present the top of his head to the audience,
and engrosses himseit in the Zoological Society's hand-out,
the long sides parallel to the
"It is proposed," he goes on. new, looking up towards the back of the hall from time to time, and Waving A shaking hand in the direction of his mode), "to encies the aviary: with mash... The tension cables are initially stressed and are anchored to the steel tubular end frames which, in turn, are tied
MODEL OF ARMSTRONG-JONES AVIARY UNVEILED THE OTHER DAY
80 ft. HIGH. PUZZLE: HOW ARE BIRDS KEPT IN?
150 ft. LONG,
firmly, "that is 指 highly rivant question for a Press conference on a bird aviary.”
"Do you keep birds?" asks a little woman in à hat.
"No," says Mr Armstrong- Jopci.
'Aviary man'
don't want to be known as an aviary man."
much do they pay you' for. this?" Mr Armstrong Jones smiles and pretends it wasn't a rude question and explains that one is not necessarily paid at Dll.
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A gslp writer puts his nico- tined fingers en the wire struc- ture. A very old lady says she thinks the design is charming,
Mr Armstrong-Jones doesn't "Are you going to design more hear. He is explaining for the aviarica?
doubt it, I 19th tine that her la a bred ouriain that raities sa that the birds don't want to My "There are many triangles in through it and here is a path | the design of the aviary, is there that you can walk along so you
rasson for this?" and actually in the aary. With ] '. any "Telangles
basic struc- the birds, 1ures."
Everybody gathors round Mr Armstrong-Jenes and his work up now questions, and thinks "Are the birds going to be kept in winter?" "Haven't and warm
your got any birds at home at ali?" "Are you sure they can't dark?" "How fly off into the
Having given expression to the typewritten technicalities he Invites questions.
A bold fellow asles "Mr Jones, are you returning 10
It's all here really," says architecture?" Mr Armstrong-Jones to the sheets of paper. "I just over a few points.
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"I think," replies Mr Arm- strong-Jones, politely
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President Kennedy gave the orders to refit the Northampton
Civilians
defence
vive an attack. And he is also
seeking ways of concentrating military command in the hands
part of his "crash pro- The plan is part of a general of well-informed civilians.
America's scheme gramme" is reduce
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As he is about to leave. the building a little man gets him in a corner.
that smell'
"A redhead, should have a fairly lah perfume. A brunette
a heavier one, and .0 blonde the lightest of all."
Ho added this plece of
Continental wisdom.
"It is important always.to
give your wife the same perfume
as your mistress. It avoids trouble,"
WHO KNOWS
AND TELLS ALL...
He did not explain what you At 1 time when the
OOKING along a size your storehead and papers were dominated by
able
mistress is not.
no particular the
conversation
Was
the
Greatest
headlines. “Man's
Achievement reason Flight Into Space," wanted to award
Gourlay
and sensitive "Ons moment, Mr Armstrong-
Monsieur Alfred FOR Jones," he says, "I forgot to ask. nose,
"How are you going to keep | Amand said: “Everyone except that dinner table the sparrows out?"
flagging, a distinctive smell. told has
jady that I had one Garlands to two men for With my nose, which is thing in common with Gary non-flying achievements.
Grant. The ERIO barber. sometimes a nuisance, I whom he visits regularly in 1. To John Walsh, the can tell people by their Jermyn-street when ho'a In stalwart farmor in' Co. smell."
Puzzle answer: aviary meshed in
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He made a quick nasal survey said: "Could you de .me 劭
of his hair?
Mayo, Eire, who just fathered his 22nd'child. He
I'd he says: “I want more,"
of his immediate neighbours in great favour? Could you get is in his 86th year. And the residents' lounge of the mo a lack Savey Hotel and found nobody be eternally grateful" he knew.
Bke la lady of miera M: Amand Belgian-born, has yeare. And otherwise MESTO.
a professional Interest in the
subject. He is one of the
world's biggest manufacturers of
perlumes. He was 17 factories
Charmers
2. To' Bernard Brown, the coloured Manchester resident, who has won 踱
of place in the finals
find to competition
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Beaterza all ever the world AN. advärtisement in a best-dressed IT EL TE in
from South America to Sweden. He said: "Even when you add
London
magazino Britain..
perfume it changes pecording to offers the servicea of "tact- Mr Brown has been
once asked a fly ful, charming wall-spoken, living on National
the wearer,
what Eertunt, she was wearing.
Ausis-
to
tance for 17 years.
And
clubs,
a3's: " could get" driving job but I've lost
I knew the name when she told experienced judo-men me. It's one of my mest famous prevent violence in pericnca. But I didn't recognise restaurants, dance halls." it on her.
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In an excEKS of refinement my licence." they call themselves "Pleasant
of Minor achievements, Well-spoken they may be, but course, but in the circum.
"You can place a lady into a peace-keepers." rough category of smell accord- ing to her hair colouring. And it is essential that you give her the appropriate perfume.
I still call them bouncers.
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