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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1961.
THEY COPY SECOND BEST? MAYBE-BUT
ELISHA TO SAVE LIVES
LIFE-SAVING technique used by the prophet Elisha 2,820 years ago is to be taught to every
man in the Royal Navy.
It has just been used in the rescue of une naval frogman after an neeldent at Portsmouth. The technique is called mouth- to-mouth artificial respiration. of rescue breathing.
It involves blowing air direct- ly into the mouth of a drowned person. Ten or 12 blows U minute ore enough.
The second Book of Kings in the Old Testament records that Elisha "appiled his mouth to that of a child taken to be dund and after seven breaths the child sneezed and lived,"
Life guards in Australia re- vived the idea, Then, at a con- ference in Sydney Tad yor, Surgeon-Capiała Stanley MLS, Director of British Naval Medl-
cal Research, saw it practised and started experiments on his return to Gosport.
Navy dogters found it simpler than any known method. Air could be blown straighy into the hings of a man being towed to shore, or into a vietim hauled
into a bout,
Cod-liver
oil can protect the heart
TOD-LIVER
oil taken
regularly can improve a blood condition believed to be partly responsible for coronary thrombosis, report
doctors.
The
WORLD OF SCIENDE
by Peter Faitley
I proved more citetent than the Royal Life Saving Society's standard technique of pressing dawn on the back of the chest at breathing-pace.
Frogmen and divers have learned the new method quickly and now it is to become standard practice throughout the Navy.
Mouth-to-mouth respiration si
to being demonstrated 4,000
health experts at Blackpool this week on a wooden dummy thin enfled Horace-bullt to try out evacuation aboard Britain's first
casualty Dreadnought, ntomle submsritic.
In between blows fnto Captain Miles Horace's mouth told me: "Once people lose their squeamishness at the Iden touching another person's mouth with their own this should catch un funt
"It is simple. It can be I done anywhere Even the odd blow of air into a drowning man may be enough to save his live. Eighty per cent of learners con perform it successfully after only one lesson."
FILMING THE SUN
TWENTY members of the
Junior Astronomical Society will keep 24-hour watch for a fortnight from the Isle of Skye soon in an effort to take the first colour movie of the famous
"green flash,"
This vivid strip of colour is
dips or rises over the horizon
man's last glimpse of the run as
-during conditions of excep- tonal visibility. It lasts about
A team led by Dr Kunneth
Kingsbury 1 1 SI Mary's three seconds, Hospital. London, gave large daily dises at colliver
eight bealthy Student
valamivers for a month. The doctors found that the oil
redBerl the amou DE
substance Humm
called cholesterol circulating in blood.
TOO RICH Cholesterol is believed to induce
The youngsters the most Junior is 14 years old-have Dired a pair of crafters' rattages as a base. From these, and from
camp 1,000ft, above sealevel. they hope also to witness and photograph displays of Northern Lights. These may occur ay frequently as twice a week.
a
A summer boliday with a re- freshing difference.
blood clots toto in the FOOLING THE FISH
small arteries serving the heart muscles. Experiments were
also carried
in advanca,
now
POLOGIES A but science has this was intruded on the domain of American the angler. chemists are marketing the first "jet-propelled fishing
out with corn oil exactert from maize, but slightly less effective than end- liver oil, say the dectors-
The Lancet.
A diet over-rich in fats is be-
loved to be responsible for turc." putling too much cholesterol in the bloodīstream.
It is a torpedo-shaped, plastte The students hund to be kept on container which is filed with a a special diel during the chemical to react with water. experiments. Farther tests The reaction causes gas to escape are needed to decide whether from its fail," produces a buz- Uni-Javny oil could product zing, propels the fure and gives the arteries of people on the Ash the illusion of chasing a normal diet,
maimed minnow, *Lannten Egress Service).
-(London Express Service),
BERYL IS MAGNIFICENT!
WH
/HEN the Royal Ballet comes to town
next week, Hongkong will be able to seo one of the world's greatest ballerinas— Beryl Grey.
But Miss Grey is coming with a considerable handicap. She is taking the place of Dame Margot Fonteyn, who caused great disappointment among balletomanes when she said that she would not be dancing here.
"Hongkong always has to be satisfied with second best" said someone when the change was announced.
Beryl Grey is a freelance.
By
Sylvia Da Costa-Roque
onesented with a silver medal by ing roles in one-act ball bir of her schoul and had been After that she was taking icnd- Karsavina, danced in public with She celebrated her 15th birth- grea! success and no signs of day by dancing Odette-Odile in nervousness, and passed all the Swan Lake with Robert Help- examinations that it was pos- mann. By the time she was 19, sible to take.
she bad danced all the leading classical roles. Before she was 10, she was awarded a scholarship to the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. dancer who is at the very she gave accounts of her phenomenal, and in 1938, Ninet
Her progress at the school was top of her profession, along performances in Kiev, Tillis, ie de Valls new Dume) said with America's Maria Tall-Leningrad and the Bolshoi in a report to her parents, Mr chief and Russia's Ulanova.'
The book also tells of her and Mrs Arthur Groom: In the world of British al- experiences in rehearsals let, she is second only to and performances and of the Fonteyn, but at 34. she in many leading dancers and much younger.
teachers she met and work-
ed with.
In 1957, after having been with Sadler's Wells - now the Royal Ballet-for 20 years she break new ground. In her own felt the overwhelming urge to words, "I wanted to develop my own personality in the wider in- ternational field."
TOURS
An
enchanted
with
evening Mr Harold Copus
London,
FR HAROLD COPUS has seen "South Pacific"
IV 1,086 times. He is the projectionist at the
So, without the Royal Ballet her doctor irushand. and with
Dominion, Tottenham Court-road, and for three years he has sat, peering through a tiny porthole in the projection room.
the
se possible to bestow on a young "She has all the gifts that H lancer. Her behaviour is beyond
He has gained such an in- timate knowledge of the im- reproach and she is remarkably Sven Svenson, she made guest which has now inken £1,000,000 unspoilt. She must be kept back. artist tours of South and Cen- at the box office that he feels No public appearances or extro This ballerina is a very
strain thrown on her. She should trai America and South Africa. entitled to a showing on
Then came the famed Russian credit titles. THE STAR
have a remarkable future." great artist, and is the first
Beryl Grey has been danc- chance sooner than
But Beryl Grey got her big trip. Wastern ballerina to have
Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Saya Beryl, "There was no- danced at the famed ing almost all her life. She planned. She was summoned to
thing politie about my wanting Copus would be reasonable, he Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Was born on June 11, 1927 Join the company when an to go. To a serious dancer, the thinks.
arose and began to have dancing emergency
they tussian Ballet is something like whlie She danced in Russia in lessons soon after her fourth
were on four in 1941.
what Mecca must is to a Mos- 1958 and wrote a book of
So her professional life as a lem," birthday.
dancer began at the age of 14. Beryl Grey may be second this historic tour, calling it
By the time she was nine, For six months she was in the best to Margot Fonteyn bati "Red Curtain Up". In it she had become the star pupil corps de ballet of Sadler's Wells. she is a magnificent second best,
'Actually, that double somersault by the Umpire whon the ball caught his ankle was nothing to
do with the brighter cricket promised by the M.C.C."
de Valcis
London Extreme Boriish
Navy starts
a watch on the tides
Philosophy
His pride is in his practical knowledge of the film. One day woman walching the m asked him what scene would be on the screen at five o'clock, because she wanted to meet her husband in the foyer at that time,
"I told her that when Luther Billis said: 'Here, Mary, here,” it would be five. Actually it. was 15 seconds past," he says, with relish.
There are 10,000 feet, two
The cinema was bathed in a hour 48 minutes of singing, sort of bank-note green colour, dancing, gloriously
coloured and "old Rozzy" was doing his "South Pacifc," and Mr Copus it again as I left the projec- knows the whole lot back on room and went out into the words,
peace of Tottenham Court-road during rush-hour,
He thinks
of Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, and Rossano Brazzi
as old friends,
Have you seen the film?" said Mr Copus,
Isale I had.
"There's old Rozzy doing his nut again," he says as Brazzi sing passionately about what he gave
nearly was his.
"Did you like it?" I said not very much. And me one of those strange looks reserved for simpletons or nincompoopt--- enchanted
his years' people who,
NAVAL Hydrographors with the three yeen association evening, wre bound to go nuts.
that will last 25 years-the about having to see the same
developed his own philosophy -MICHAEL checking of tides of round things every working day.
the British Isles,
It is the first complete tidal
survey for 130 year
Answers
already
olong the south-west England are helping In
prevention.
'DAMMED UP
obtained
coast of
Seconds out
He doesn't find it boring, but, flood now and again, when things get Just a shade monotonous, Mr Copus Bkes to fiddle around with the sound.
The Navy observers have been able to tell engineers working on flood prevention schemes that unusual conditions exist .ut up the volume on the big some points.
"What I like doing is turning
#peakers during the scene when Tidal levels ineldə the har the airplanes are flying. bour at Exmouth, for instance, most amwing to watch the re- are much higher than cutside, action of the audience, The water gets "danmed up," and this, it is thought, may be the cause of flooding in the
Grch.
-London Express Service).
TALKING
POINTS
Heat not a furnace your foo so hot that it Bingo yourself.
"They always look up as if they expect to find a plane flying around the cinema," he sayta and grins.
When things orc running smoothly, he relaxes by hum- ming the times or julaing in the dialogue. With his back to the screen he can recite; huge chunks of it not funt, barrot- like, but with liming and in- flexion perfectly integrated with | the actors.
"People think I must bo mad, but I don't ming how long this for film lasts. I might have got fod do up with “Gone With the Wind,“ but not this 'fini,” he says,
**SHAKESPEARD
' (HENRY VIII):
"Why? Well, I don't know frally, except I like the mRUNK,”
PARKINSON
-London Express Service).
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