1961-08-05 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1901.

PRACTICAL

AT HOME:

Benn Levy

and his wife,

Constance

Cummings-

'Not for

them the

modern trend.

towards

innocuous

colour

schemes.*

WITH an orchid one might mistake him for

Gulbenkian, With a cloth cap and muffler one might mistake him for Keir Hardy (an analogy which would be nearer the truth for it goes deeper than the beard). He is, in fact, Benn Levy, ardent socialist,

playwright (The Rape after

escaping from Hiller's

of the Belt), long dis-delusions.

repugnant political, and artistic tance walker (Alder-NOT IN ANGER

maston to Square).

Trafalgar

His lovely wife is the equally famous, unmistakable, Con- stance Cummings star of in numerable plays and @lms (most reconi, The Battle of the Suxes and The Rope of the Belt).

ALTHOUGH the house is 25 A years old, it stands up re- markably well against most of this country's so-called contem- porory architecture.

I asked Mr Levy what it was like to work with one of the They live in Old Church world's few great architects. atroot, Chelsen, in a house de- " loathe to ask him for any signed for them I 1930 by alterations," he said, “because Walter Graplus, founder of the I know what surt of a reception famous Baukong

of -I would give anyone who want- school

architecture In Germany, who ed io juggle round with my spent two years in Englund plays. But he is a very under

WHICHEVER WAY

YOU LOOK

AT IT

"

Shelltox

with dieldrin

THE

HOMECRAFT

BEHIND THE FRONT DOORS OF PEOPLE WITH A FLAIR FOR INTERIOR DECORATION

A LIVING ROOM – AND PATIO WITH A VIEW.

When stodgic meets logic someone

alter-

standing man and our cations were performed more in sorrow than in anger,

"He wanted some of the balustrade posts. 011 the balcony to curve slowly up- roof, wards and foln the

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has to give

based on the theory that they 'embraced cubic space.

"I'm sure he was right, but I believe that art comes from and I the loins, not the head, didn't feel any irresistible urga to embrace cuble space. But I did find it somewhat disturbing to sit in the bedroom feeling that I had on elongated eyelash which protruded in a gentle curvo through the plate' glass,

'DISSONANT"

(WIE had a little trouble with

"Who Chelsea Art Club"

said Mr Levy with a wry smile "they felt we were introducing a dissonant note to the district but they finally overcame their qualms." How one Introduces dissonance inta dissonance seems an unanswerable conundrum.

The house in foced with while cement, not from choice because the Levys wanted brieks, but as the ground landlord so percop- tively pointed out, the other three houses on tic estate were while so this

had one

"LO match."

The equally perceptive Mr Levy also ventured to point out

way...!

When a woman

has a child like Mai Britt's

By Sally Vincent

THE little, calf-eyed boy sat on the carpet and appiled his intelligence to slotting & pyramid of discs on to a rod. Half way through the task he became bored, tipped all the disca, over the carpet, looked at his mother and laughed.

Glen Sutherland, just coming

up to his third year, is a social

His

problem. He is coloured. father is Jamaican. His mother is a preity, blue-eyed English girl from Luton.

new

oro

Thoy live in a little house in the tight little suburb of Barnst, where coloured people rarely soon. Glen, it seemed to me, was in for a difficult Ho.

Like Tracey Hillive Davis, the daughter of Negro singer-comedian Sammy Davis Jun, and blonde Swedish actress Mal Britt, Glen will grow up in a world in which the children of mixed marriages aften face a special problem - coloured people.

Colour In the Levy homestead "Our taste," said Mr Levy, non-acceptance by whites or

is unrestrainedly colourful, with with

"

delicious rumbustious vibrant combinations of sage laugh, "is what our friends cail green, sky blue, Prussian blue, exuberant and our enemies call and occasional blobs of red,

Not for them the modern trend towards innocuous colour schemes done in the name of that irresistible balt "good taste," "I read somewhere that colour is an expression sensuality," sold Mr Levy. "So what is happening to our sensu- ality

vulgar,"

Barbara Anne

Taylor

-(London Express Service).

Cooking to please

ALEX SIMMONS

that the only position From TRY POT LUCK FOR A CHANGE!

which one could see all four houses at once would be from an airplane. But when stodgle meeta Jogic something has got to give, ao Mr Levy did.

All the furniture is antique! because most of the furniture being designed in 1926 was what Mrs Levy aptly describ- "airport, waiting room

ed

style."

They have some ploces of Victoriana but they both draw

the line at Victorian architec- ture, although Mr Levy thinks even that will be popular in 25 years.

"Oh, I think you're wrong there," said his wife. Mr Levy raised his bushy eyebrows in amazement.

COLOURFUL

It's tastier than you think

SM

MALL families often find it isn't worth their while buying a large joint of meat. They get a small roast-and then find it looks rather pitiful on its own in a large oven.

There are the people who should try a pot roast for a change. They'll find it much tastier and succulent than an oven-cooked joint...

For the first recipe, choose a plece of topside beef and place it in a saucepan, fatty side down, over a moderate heat, Keep the fild" on "as this will conâng the moisture—a difference from the usual roast.

Cooking time is also different. ❝ MAY have my faults, but for instance, a 2 lb. Joist needs I'm never wrong," he said 14 hours in the oven, while pot convincingly, "What Mr Betli roasting it will take 3 hours. man defending now, others However, as soon as the pot be will defand in a quarter of a

comes hat, the heat can be re- ceptury." Which puts Mr Bet-duced to almmering level, jiman in the curious position at appearing to be ahead of his be added to the saucepan and d' Eimo.

Ah let's pick a Pack of

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for our dinner

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One or two whole onions can

lille mit and pepper will add to the taste. While the meat is enaking you need only glvo, an Occasional shake of the pan to 'prevent' slicking.

Remove the lid

In the arme way that the hot's melled fat gives the brown crisp- Inese af, an oven, roast, it is the mallure which produces the softness of a pot roast., You can dispersa this when the joint is cooked by simply removing the it

If you then want to brown the joint, you need only continue to (cook the Jaint after the moisture

kas évaporated.

A small chicken or boiler, cùn also be cooked this way using 2 sz. of butter to replace the lat on the beer.

When the chicken is simmer- ing, add 1⁄2 cup of good look and cup of wine or 'elder. Replace the lid and continue to simmer for approximately 14 hours, depending on the age of the bird. It is properly cooked when the fleaf comes KAI"-"- ensily" away from the leg.

This is the time to take oft | the lid and allow the mola-. ture, to evaporato. · Then creuse the heat alightly, so that the chicksa brown lover,

AUSTRALIA

PUMPKIN PIE Remove the skin from one, mediuzi-. alzed pumpkin, but it into slices and remove the sèsis. "Put the slices into quarter of a cup of water addi· mini- mar uier in an evarnel saucepan, unitil they øre Lander.

Pass the pumpkin through a fine sieva shu measure off-half a part of pulp. To the add 201, of sugar, 2 beaten egg 'yolks and a pinch each of mace #17:1 nutmeg. Mix them together and then fold in 3 egE whites whisked to a stlit, froth.

་ ་

„Lino a pie dish with a rich short peale and empty, the pumpkin into it. Put ai covering af posle over the. dish.

''

Bake in a fairly shoiri aven of 120 degres T, or regulo é for between 10 arid - 20 minuter, The ple can be'i served either hoi, og cold, whichever you prefer.

MAI BRITT

But Doreen Sutherland lold me: "Prejudice just seems to be dying out. People simply don't seem to take any notice of the exactly what is worth, and it fact that my baby's coinured. won't make him unhappy."

"Sometimes women ask me if She got us to get a knife ho's adopted but they don'l from her klichen to seel an seem surprised when I say he's opple for Glen, "You won't eat not. And once, at the baby It, you know. I don't think elinie, I heard a litle girl ask you really want it at all." she her mother why Glen was a dif- told him.

Her ferent colour from her. mother told her. 'He Just ls, darling. That seemed like a pretty good answer to me.

EDUCATION

TOLERANCE

Then, in the same tone, she said: "It's strange to think that he's too young to know he's a coloured boy yet, I suppose in about two years' time, he'll start asking questions, Abd then we'll teach him to bo tolerant.

"I was married for nine years before I finally decided to have a child," she went on. "I seemed i problem then, a very

"Thave a strange thought for persong one that you couldn't me too," she said. "I suppose ask other people about. My Td married a white man and while children, it would husband and I used to talk it had over a lot and I always sald I never have entered my head to wouldn't have a baby if he was teach consciously the importance going to be unhappy.

of tolerance," "Now I wonder why I

Mrs Sutherland was clearly worried. We decided that if bored with the idea of talking Sile morringos. We had a

and about mixed happy, home

about a subject brought our child up to under- began to talk stand things properly all would she knew more about. She told me how big her son was for his be well."

age, how quick to learn, how mischievous, how funny.

The Sutherlands' ambition now is to give their son the best education they can possibly afford. Primarily because he is u boy.

Mrs Sutherland said, as an afterthought: "And also because he's colouredi,

"When he meets prejudice, he will be able to understand

"You've seemed surprised by say," she said, ↑ "because what I don't have great problems with my family. But there's no grob- The lom for people like us. problem. If there is one, is in the minds of people like you."

-(London Express Bervice).

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MALL. HOROSCOPE

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

AQUARIUS (January 21- feeling February 19): By obliged to return Hospita lity, you would only pro- long an unwelcome associn- tion.*

PISCES (February 20-March

20): Your partner neods. your whole-hearted sup port, and you ought never to withhold it from him. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your wide. „Bótiaľ ex- perience will help to make n success of a gathering of rather mixed company to

night.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20); If no one seems unduly f pressed by your new Idea, consider the possibility that it may not be ná original as you think. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A person born under Libra will be able to stimulato you to afforts of which you never thought yourself cap- able,

CANCER (June 22-July, 21); You will have reason to bo

to a problem which neither your family nor friends can help you to solve. VIRGO (August

September 22): Your strong nerves enable you to ig noro irritations which your colleagues permit to inter- fere with their work. (September LIBRA

21- Obtober 22): Don't let a the persuasiva person of opposito set influence, you, to act against your better judgment. SCORPIO (October 20- November 21): Try to be more restrained than usual at an office party: whère your axuberance may Do considered somewhat exces- alve. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December: 21); ·Your sometimes frtonda amused by your lack of pre- dictability, but they could," And it a source of anney- ance, tonight.

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CAPRICORN (December 22. - January 20): A sucessful shopping expedition today grateful to a woman friend,

will save you a last-minute. for the help she can give

before your holiday. atau awkward LUCKY ENCOUNTERI

runk you

moment

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