BIG
FEAR
School Cert is
near,
drawing
With tenseness I do fear, Will I pass? Will I fail? Or with flying colours will I
sail?
School Cert is drawing
near,
Almost daily I do hear- "Will you
study,
work, will you
You with brains that are so
muddy."
School Cert
is
drawing
near,
lo sweating panic I cry a
tear,
Can I
work? Can I study? Me with brains that are so
muddy?
School Cert is drawing
near,
Even those I do hold dear
Shout-down to my very
ear,
"Get to work and be off to .
school
Don't hang around the bil”.
liard pool."
School Cert is drawing
near, Examiners do not jeer,
Born in Cuero, Texas, Jo was lasted just three days when it No Briton has got higher taken by her parents when she was discovered she was sixteen than third dan without going was still a baby to San Diego, instead of the twenty-one, which to Japan to be trained. Geoffrey California, where her father had been assumed Gleeson is a fourth dan; he opened an auto repair business. She won an audition in Can't you see my future's went to Japan in 1952.
Jo's mother, a Texas beauty, "Invitation to Stardom" search at stake, had once been offered a screen being conducted by a motion
test Only one Briton-in fact, only down because of parental ob- quently given a small role in
which had been turned picture studio, and was subse- Those precious marks please
don't take.
dan.
one non-Japanese-has got! higher than fourth
That man is Mr T. P. Leggett who the Japanese section works in of the B.B.C. and is a sixth dan.
Second to none
jections.
She was quick to recognise potential talent in her daughter and warmly encouraged acting aspirations.
her
"10 North Frederick.”
She was then given a test atļ
exe-School Cert is Columbia where studio cutives were enthusiastic about
Rear, ber combination of natural
drawing
Jo studied music as well as beauty, vivacity and dramatic But let's go and haye soma dramatics, and was also no talent,
im- and plans were
beer, exceptionally good dancer. mediately formulated to use her And stop a bit our study
She proved the latter point in several new season pictures | 'Cause our brains are sa Why has judo become SO when she was hired as a Jo is an excellent swimmer, muddy. popular in Britain? expert dancing instructor at a local skig, skates, and collects dolls said: "In few other sports is the Arthur Murray studio. How as a hobby. She is interested in individual so thrown on his own ever, her term of employment designing her own clothes. resources at all levels.
An
cor-
"Judo, when practised rectly, is second to none for They leam that judo is very all-round extensive use and much concerned with balance strong development of the body. Most sports tend to emphasise particular muscle groups, throwing muscles ΟΙ kicking muscles, but in every part
and that by mastering balance an opponent's strength can be used against him. They leam that if an attacker moves to wards a judoka (judo expert), he will move back faster than
role to play."
judo
has an important
-Credit card to Peter Lee.
H.K. SCHOOL
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