1947-06-23 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1947.

Miss Echo repeats what you say

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ZONIA MEIA-ZONIA MEIJA

BY THE WAY

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By ARTHUR COOK

HE waiter came back to the table, menu in hand. He opened his mouth and two voices said, "Sorry, sir, the chicken is off now."

He looked oddly at the tall, dark-eyed, girl beside me and tried again: "Could I suggest ." ho started, and at that precise moment she said with him. "Could I auggest

some.

· Rome.

It was time for me to explain, and two velces sald: "My friend is al- ways ke this, she talks at the same time us somebody else and says the rame things as they do."

"Amazing." murmured the waiter and at the same time the girl's lips Inoved. "Amazing." she said.

Seventeen-year-old Zonin Mella does not remember exactly when it all started; she just grew up ilke 1, che thinks.

At her convent school in Little- hampton the other girls got used to hearing her take the class with the nun leacher.

They got used to the occasional reprimand. "Please be quiet, Zonia," and hard Zonia say at the same time, "Please be quiet, Zonin," "be fore she was quiet.

"But then I found I still talked with the leacher, quietly to myself,"

ONG-EARED spokesmen in an caroglous folly white "War she says.

touch with abominable and Poiso hard to obtain, i And it is not only in English that

foreigner,” writea the circles characterised as "The

Dalrymple Professor of English Zonia does her shadow" talking, height of folly”. a suggestion Literature at Swindon

University, although that is the only language tha Vol. 111. of the Hunting- "may get some idea of our culture she understands. For back in the donshire Cabmen should be by reading this and similor lists, Daily Express office the stait had her translated into French, and but we in England take such things inking a dozen different languages

for granted. The compilation of as many minutes. issued in France.

lists of names is too much akin to

It was pointed out that the French that regimentation which no Briton:

moment. Nor is cannot be expected to show much will stand for a Interest in a list of English cabmes, this list literature, In the best sense without even blographical details, of the word." and an expert with a wide know-

ledge of France and her people Good news

In Welsh, too Wrat

WELSH-BORN Trevor Evans was They sold together: "Ydych chwi yn cyfarwydd a'r faltis cymraeg? Ocs rhyw un arall wedi

Summed i Mr Evans: "The best Welsh I've heard by anyone who is not Welsh"-and she said that with him too.

Leslie Prait, lingulat, tried "Co mai faceti?" Rumanian for "How do you do?" and Zonia said with him, "Ce mai faceti?"

"C'est formidable" ("Amazing"), murmured Basil Cardew, and with- nut looking at him Zonia was saying, "C'est formidable.".

George Stroud, photographer, was listening in the background. 'Cor

stone the crows," and he--and Zonia together.

Is it practice?

THAPMAN · Pincher, selence re- porter, said nothing at the time but was busy on his theory:-

"Miss Melia's strange ability is duc-solely to the speed of her ner- vnux reactions to the spoken word.

"She cannot influence the time it takes for the sound to reach her

A

POCKET CARTOON byOSBERT LANCASTER

MERR Wms? Fan!

CAFORT

**Crackenthorpe, I'll thank you to bring me a large dollar exchange with very Utrle soda."

DIFFICULT

TO GET IN HERE

By DUDLY HARMON

NEW security system has gone into effect at

cars from your lips-1-200th of a second, if you are standing five feet atomic energy headquarters in from her.

Washington which officials say "But the time taken for the sound) is the tightest in town. to pass to her brain and be trans- lated into words is much smaller than in a normal person.

It was easier to en' American Army Headquarters in Frence at the height of the war than it is to pene- trate the marble Insiness of the public health building to which the Atomic Energy Commission recently

The normal speed at which im putse travel the 12 inches between car, brain and vocal chords is about 100 feet per second so, in theory, moved. anyone bould be able to repeat a

a time word with

lag of only

All employees carry A special mmper-proot'

wth their 300th of a recond.

"Normally, it takes much longer, | photograuh. The pass is covered but the time could be reduced by s 12 untearable, uneuttable lot of practice."

thermopinalle material. If anyone tried to engage the photograph the raper would disintegrate.

2.

Her career

Mr Thomas Rider Hearn, of Low- ther-mansiona, Barnes, SAV.. who adopted Zonia when she was three, is worried about her future.

"She wants to take up a career in films or on the stage," he said recently, "but she would be speak- ing everybody else's part.

I think she will have to carry on as a photo- graphic model for hairdressing, she does not have to talk in that."

And from the other side of the Zonia room finished the Sen- tence with him,

said: "There is nothing to translate. THOSE who have been disappoint-siarad cymraeg gydach chw!?” Moppett, E. F. can only be trans- Jated Moppelt E. F. The same is

ed at the slow recovery of the It meant "Are you familiar with true of Owle, P., and Oxhall, D. world from the chaos of war may the Welsh language? Has anyono. "...she does not take heart, as I do, from reading else spoken Welsh to you?" but have to talk in N. 8. There translation by which the nammes that in 1940 tourists will be able Zonia had not understood at all.

that." could be changed. It would be to drink cocktails while flying over just as sensible, and just as idiotic, the North Pole. What

is no

nuance

of

to translate into English a list of one the tram-drivers of Bordeaux. As for the suggestion that "Monsieur should be put in front of each name in the French edition of the work, it is too puerile to discuss. To call Nugstraw. T. R.. Monsieur Nugstraw, T. R., will not improve Franco-British relations."

-Is-it-literature?

MEANWHILE there ure earping

who suggest that even the publication of the list in English

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At the heavily guarded Nuremberg courthouse where the Germuin war criminals were teled, an Army officer showed a guard a pass in which he had subsituted a picture of his dog for his own. The guard let him

through.

But that couldn't happen at atomic Em- headquarters in Washington. ployees entering the building must exchange their pass for a badge. The guard carefully examines the pictures on both sides to see that they tally. Passes and badges are, counted at night,

Employees and visitors must wear their badges every_motient they are in the building. Only visitors with verified appointments may go beyond the roped-off calrance. They are They under escort at all times.

(Continued on Page 3)

PROMISING YOUNG ACTORS

IN BRITAIN.

•

by UNA LASCOT

at

ONE eventful night in Aprit possible to the the cat tage

1856, a fair-haired little girl. only nine years of age, walked on to the stage of the Princess's Theatre in London to play her very first part--and before Royalty, too, for in a box sat. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Princess Royal.

possible to those who have courage tors in England. Peter has played and hope and youth." This beauti Robin In The Years Between"

Imprinted Wyndham's Theatre, in "The Other ful, message must have itself upon the young actress's mind Side" at the Comedy Theatre, and perhaps helped her on the dif- the part of 'Erble in "Peac

Lo Peckham" p. the Embassy cult road to success.

Theatre.

and

*"ames

To achieve the dizzy heights of fame is a dream which only a few He manages to find time, in be- rehearsals, for ever realise, but Ellen did it, and tween school and

his favourite hobby-cycling! Derhaps some of the fine young

the

actors and actresses who are begin- Peter has the right spirit for

: ning their stage careers today will tough road to stardomi do it, too.

BROADCAST AT SEVEN

Daughter of an actor and actress though she was, and surrounded by the atmosphere of theatrical life Tram babyhood, it was still a great

One of these (who liko Ellen ordeal for such a very little girl.

Little Angele Glynne, 13-year- Terry, was born in Coventry) 15. In the part of the boy Mamillus David O'Brien. At 11 years he made old actress, appeared in a film when of Shakespeare's "Winter Tale."

anime for himself almost overnight she was only n-year-and-a-half old, a little red and sliver in "Tomorrow and wearing

the World." Pro and at seven years of age broadcast tunic, she had to play with a smail ducers who previously had refused has played in Alms and on the stage sed in a programme to. America! She go-cart on the stage, and it is not to book him began to offer him

to surprising that in her anxiety parts in various plays, and it was shine on her first appearance she finally decided that David should ram about 100 eagerly, and alas, play

Stratford-on-Avon ut tripped over the go-cart and fell, on Shakespearean ports. her back!

number of times since theomur-

She was seen in the play row the World" by the comedian, in Bud

who admired her sense of

πάν

landy, and she is

him

special

He is one of the youngest actors partnering at the Coliseum, Lon- A GREAT CAREER

who has played a whole season in don, in "Night and the Laughter." Shakespeare's birthplace, and his She goes to school in the day time, Nevertheless, this was the begin parts included Ariel in "The Tem- and on malinee days han a

educa- tutor at the theatre, so her ning of the stage career of one wha pest," Moth In "Love's Labour breame a most distinguished and Lost," and young Macduff in "Mac- tlon in not being neglected.

well famous English actress-the great beth?"

Another 14-year-old who is Dame Ellen Terry, whose centenary

on the way to stardom is. Michael has been remembered

in recently

David is now finishing bla educa- Newall, born in Greenwich, Michael Brits. The Hitle Ellen played tion at a school in Dorect, but we goes to the City of London School, many other child parts before she sin no doubt hear more of him but was allowed time off to rehearse.

for The Winslow Boy" at the Lyric very when he continues his stage career. Theatre, play that has had a long-

was 16 years of age, and quietly developed the wonderful natural gifts that she possessed for acting.

OUTSTANDING

run in London-where he takes the name part. He has several diMcult Fourteen-year-old Peter Scott, a own great enthusiasm and the splett- speeches to make, but thanks to his In the story of her fe, Ellen Londoner, was told by a school of did conching of the well-known ac Terry mentioned a little note she acting that he would never be any tor. Emlyn Williams (who is also once received from an old friend, good

Peter acting in the piny), Michael gives a which rend: "The longer one lives, thought otherwise. and proved magnificent performanco, and a great the more one learns not to despair, himself correct, for he is now one future is predicted for him.

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