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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950.

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Stop Press--and Father Time, too-for. this study of the amazing old people of today and the implicit facts of the longor life we are all enjoying today.

WE'RE ALL LIVING

10 YEARS LONGER

THEN Queen Mary

W!

celebrated her 83rd

birthday On May

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26. Britain's grandest old By WEBSTER

lady set a new record. She

Phillpotts is still writing plays, and has just seen his latest produced by 70-year old Nancy Price

In her 94th year Dr May recently broadcast

artists of today. FAWCETT

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In the world of art, neither Rembrandt nor Bubens lived beyond 43: Typical of the however, 79- year-old Frederick Elwell, RA. had no fewer than six works Royal Academy nursing in this year's

exhibition. A rival artist, 87- Floreure year-old Dame Ethel Walker, And she still recently held an art show of

veteran

But what of that? 1 believe

still in aefive charge of be sences of them and detail-

tigre,

men and

old

has lived longer than any is being signed to conduct her ather Queen in British his the inaugural concert of memories of tory, longer even thun London's new Festival Con- Nightingale, Queen Victoria who had cert Hall next year-an has to celipse the record of her out always seemed so very old' undertaking of intense phy industrialist Theodore Thy-

and 14 years longer sical exertion. At 87. Eden lor, now 100 years young, that veteran artist George Lonit than the great Queen Eliza

who broadcast at 98, crossed is still buny painting at 89 Feth who notoriously lived

the Atlantic in search of This year's Acadeny as usual to be an old, old woman."

expert orders at 95, and is a contained pictures by 64- Charles Spencelayh,

Their startling fact openR

profit-sharing Yorkshire ed painting and close observi woollen mill,

And Spencebay umally a new perspective. At 83.

for model conductor Artura Toscanini Thorne

Bearly We're all Eving longer worn, a

hmself. Fand younges. The intuition of most people that the war years didn't really count. in their lives is no illusion. Medical statistics show that go The average expretation of I′ hern life has increased by 10 restrz took a wheek years since the start of the Charles Hart, sprinted

that veteran ruuner, 63-year-old

the At 70 today, one mutes from London to Sloth... to lay out of the Setman steel-eval pool plan until at any is no worse off than the 60- rate they know what it is enc-eldy in 1980. about.

'He speaks his mind energetically and without compromise'

was an M.P. at 23; chief leader writer on the Daily Express before he was 30; editor With the war of the Evening Standard at 32. he was called up as a trooper, and later served in Southeast Asia and founded SEAC news- Became editor of the paper for the Forces. Daily Mail in 1947. Resigned recently to write this column.

The poet an H (for

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THE onslaught of the poets continues i31 the London theatre. S. Elint and While T. Christopher Try disport themselves in the West

End. Ronald

Duncan pops

up again at the Mercury at Sotting Hill, W.

THEATE

by BEVERLEY MAXTER

Frank Owen

INTRODUCING HERE TODAY A NEW COLUMN BY FLEET STREET'S LIVE-

LIEST

L

PERSONALITY

Well"

The dence to make recompense to theek of 23. Bring in the charlow avath, for obeying itlers? Or thill we have a tww res the Tory Party unting Gravy?

Mardiall aid, ME

OVE and kisses within couraged. the Tory Party. This port time it is Uncle Fred Churchill' view was that puh Italy shows us

help the meaning of agreement

Woulton who is in the middle

of the rim o' roses.

atisl

neces to Tritan to recover.

But Mr Churchill is not like

to court-martial Lord Wool- OSE

From The Tiny to the Daily Worker, British newspapers up- Plose the Government's resolve

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COMES.

Britam wall air have to merre

Pentury.

day.

Lowest

ever

Decline slowed

even physical deciine has dework, Bath chair

when

when 4-year-old Joan Millen packed her emes for a. skiing holiday in the Austrian Alps. Menaire publisher Pemed Magfudden celebrated his at birthday by undertak- ing Bas Brst parachute jump. At 12 a curtain Mrs Susannah Wheelwright enes her dally

AWILI.

In fart. we're all much

its p: oper 73-

So Mr Bevan's stock The whlow of the deati Ger- mun has written to the King as a bot only with the Press.

E let's put It another way hund of the British Army an! His own old household troops,

familiar to insurance artu ked him to quash the death the trade unens, raise a cheer

nies, The death-rate of 108, per enterive,

ence me for Good Old Funli.

1.000 to lay compares with 148 Fu in that ramp the dwell in 1050 40 prieved higher Does Pavate Limet hap 1

that if

Everyone knows Younger Ban we think. Today's deep fear

Briton safety level

meristic and bastant olistérs that 1999 recorded the "lovval he to be reprieved? Is he to be mente herster] and oral tadu - aver infantile

rates, have reduced the phrase "Ton mortally Is anything at all ties with them of Europe, then Les farlar

a1 40" to Jardened"

atistical old? at the other end of the absurdity. Not long ago.

fyear-old cnnatting surgeon Sir that you equate, her wage war with sea- there of Prance, Belgiam, diving to be di has haprovel by Ernest Carting to the British the fuelle ae- 239 Pervonl Linee grandfather's Association that even Germany.

ceptance of old age at G0 and 65 lat bertany alupist con- The Prime Minter, Broth

It's astonishing to glaner venlien. Jus Press officer, puls outbackwards 321.1 realise thni

And perhaps the faels full statement to pay that, as far as hlut Henry VII died, old and

al 56: $1 Charles mio True focus if you remember he concerned, he never, ever, i kontle

Dickens

sil wore himmelf oot that 10-year bonus we've won wants to part company with his According to the Manchester

in Britain who bark, faithful Foreign Secretary,

59, at Shakespeare completed from medical relence and dis- This allotted span at 52.

Count 10 years from any calen-, Guardian he told a New York

dar aute. In Winston Chur- eting that only Marshall

Compare this with the hively (Hi neuzer 65 than his true was keeping the Sociale Gov

+1 enjoyment eif Kine 75? Surely Somerset Maugham croment in Britain from entling

Gustay of Sweden, #2 now, or should be reckoned nearer wave of unemployment.

the mental alertness of Berhard than his real 767 And violinist He offered seine inall con-

Shaw, the years his senior. Fritz Kreisler might tank for: the med that Labour had

Bearer 65 than his actual 75? made of the job would rerve as

There will not be lacking in

1-The prop cil new High

Monute emprions may summier light, faded a daruding warning of the folly America. Fur the two Chief Authority under the Schuman A

Comedian Dan and the searchlights shone be mitrading. lan shall not linh nor restrain of Socialin

administrators of Marshall act pla Lord Woolton say or may not Messrs Hoffinan and Harriman, the steel output of Italy. at the While City upon gladia- bone, for instance, died at 43. is still singing Woodcock and Savold George Robey be sempered it quite a number are due this

Depen -The Digh Authority shalt for

00. Sir mlerfere American: make him

with own before the Appropriations Com- not

The big entering the ring, a rather older buthely

ched at Irving 2 bed it has

BOUGH the King is 55. he Senate and Americat dollar plans, to extend warlor went

Garrick lived to be 63. Yet Thames-side sturiy

would pass for 45. Turnag ch a warning against the matter of the US. folly of paving Britain Marshall Mustify their labours and expen- steel plants In Italy.

actor A. E. Matthews celebrated cartwheels at 52, Gracie Fields 3-inly

the

the 10-year exemplifies

dr- He was Dean Inge, the most hi. 80th birthday in New York abolition

differential

Farming dollars duction. farmidable Sternry

Fifty-seven-year-old dean since recently, mill They weid buvo liked 10 rates for steel which might in-

Bing Crosby at old in The Chiltern Hundreds 41 Gary Cooper at 19-they all This way and the view of Me report to the Senate and V terfere with the domestic price Swift. He had si celebrated His perfomanen as a 19-year, Ivor Novelin,

bis 90th birthday. to the American 50, level in Italy

made it a smash box-office bil, scem as young they were Winston Churchill when he en- them

and had payers) that Marshall

bark. In 1949, itunes the job us intended and raved Britain.

of

d.

earns horrific)

t

for exceciling hs orders 1. the Schuman plon to pool the contrary, he will no the epal and steel of Western

doubt retire within bis fastness Europe scem to believe that Most formidable

of Chartwell Manor, pull up the Italy also approves, and is ready Dean Since

Uncle to join the arm.

drawbridge, and leave Fred to other hands or claws.

Jutures.

week to

Now their vehement Ivala

"That tient critics will may:

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t what Lord Woolton told

us. He said we had been saving the Labour Government."

As for the rank and Ble of the Tory Party, they may sing,

So the is. Con conditions. Swift is 90

Here they are:-

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approver any

f

He red with Professor L

F. Jurks four months jusler.

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harmony, what

ve us chuckled at the antics of lour Krandchildren, cheerftly 10- iterated "It can't last, can't last:

If that is approval, refusal.

If that as discord?

It was a Italian who said: "the bargain is not a bargain Or what was not a bargain is a bargain--just or you please."

sweet hne Bevin wins

"Hun

hone Keep Unde Fred at home.”

and because he bears the same That soldier tame as hingelf. Whereupon Must we wait

he shoots his son, choke his

wife to dent. and turn much longer?

to wr

wider support for quality

MAR ERNEST BEVIN. in bed in London nursing

07

Henty David

Zest of living

Cartwheels at 52

45. 43- Gordon Richards at year-okl runner Jack Holdeo, ballet dareer Temide Massine

it's all gone wrong, you know."THERE'S a charge, moreover, at 54...al equal the feats of

in the zest of living, and the inen 10 years younger.

dex-

Invited, though absent friends zest gives new spice to the extra were Bernard Shaw, 94, and the duration. At 80. author Al- In scientifle fact, a Cambridge

tripling: known as Smits, 80. gernon Blackwood begins research unit

de that men new ethver in television with under 30 me faster in separate It as the professors say, we

mare the gusto of a 30-year-old. In hand movements. are now all about to live to 160.ns 78th year, composer Ralph terous in tracing the mirror we had better set up a commil-Vaughan Willams is writing Image of digits. Yet people in tre of Four to study what to do fim muse with an exact and the 40-80 age groups takn ( with the last 30 years of this

typically youthful - under- honours in balance, precision. aru.

standing of its highly modern controlled achievement, maturi and technical problems.

ty of thought, thoroughness and Other wonderful octogenarians steadiness. include General Smuts, Lord

Don't you Samael Dame Eva Booth, Lord Horder and Sir Herbert Harker. younger?

Grst half.

than

--(London Express Service)

Suggested names: as above.

the young woman for lechcro COME days, ngo

Gordon Ken. home, wins a wider support for They all d fairly well in the

foreign policy reward, only to be mocked by

reth Lingell.

a private in bithio's

but barn in ever he did at his desk. hạn with a cruelty and equal the Black: Watch,

Romford. E-sex, stood to atten- tion in Dummeldort, Germany.

The court martial found him uilty of murder, The soldier convicted criminal. Sur Cory quietly IKE Shake-pere, our author became

thine is 23, and must die if the T-ruute v maths a choke a lady to death. Not thotaph Jimmie Agate muck- bad reing. you will

that divide

sanity from sentence stands. ingly referred to it as "Tum even if it was only a dream,

inarily Flut t at Shal Left for the Crematorium."

slowed the

tradi of his ance leg. asel to

aportent

It was at the same charming the little theatre t hr by more inister Way to the Tomb" dew the min Bratt

Lown

for nuny

It seemed to me thes that in

bis writing Honak! Duncan was

performing the frat dlung

puet hy erenting beauty

作

ven

ruse by Benga

In the kindress of his heart speme

Sir Cory and secure a livint in and misgivings

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Linsell was on sentry duty mediest R.A.M.C. terror outside of his murder- station when two Germans drove a von. Linsell stood on The running board to direct

shoved him them. The driver ol, drove o11.

his part of the country for an er win reas Duncim creates p in

there

afel friend who is a tipsy vicar.

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He was unocent of Goethe's of

change that modern poets

the

we have the personnel an

indian salar related to only in physical

drama. Respected normality mix father, Bentle wife, industrious desire.

to nice girl, and

And

tou nich water with the ink. son enfanted

Duncan knew that in poetry finally a dependent vicar.

that collection Duncan

because we

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The sentry

louted, "alt," three times. He fired into the Therefore

as warning, several més perience nu pity we feel neither fair

now horror. The more into the back of the vanish- sense lunk after itself, proceeds to create a chamber of detestation

crueting van. Later, they unloaded

you must look to the sound and from 그 입니다

for beauty its own meaning horrors which would bring the drama

and its own argument.

But in his new play "Stratton"

Duncan Brows beauty out いま

The window and Turn to evil

for his theme.

blush to Tussaud's cheek.

is there, stark, drains, but the author moureti * pain: hig WEAPONS,

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a dent German.

own

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✡

Willlam Devlin gives a re-

To

the THE buthor is in such a hurry mackable performante

10 make our flesh creep in of evil, almost compelling challenge, warn, and then shoot.

Stratton was one of the men

who condemned Charles I to

gave him a

as the THE SENTRY'S orders: believe the unbelievable; That is why they that be causes the tipy vicar us to

him ammunition, death and through the genera to tell Sir Cory that his kind-

once more Cicely Paget-gun, issued

as the Bowman

wife brings and told him to use it if cuspl- purposes of the news is only vanity and that he,

voice to claus persons of face and play, ench Stratton begut a son

disregarded his the vicar, despires him as charm who became a judge unul

soften the strident cacophony of warning. hate. Also we should take note of Stuart Latham as pro-

tions, for the

W rotten outfit altogether.

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come to the present with Slr

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411 Cary Stratton, KC, eminent

in

Sir Cory has

always sus-

accepts the vlcar with

it

The fundamental military Law: To obey orders, Br expect punishment, and I need be, It is not a good play because supreme punishment.

fails to nove us, yet its

obliterate the THE CASE that we have been in There is no Justification in the with a dramatist who soldier acting unlawfully,

respected landowner pected himself of being an evil ducer, the bar, a

Cornwall happily hurled creature and he and with a son who is already denunciation of the Attracting ritention at the Bar. almost malignant Joy. Now he defects

can be himself. He becomes a Julge so that, like his ances feeling lor, he can sentence a fellow touch being to dont even though he has

to show

down. his veins

flood.

cannot

for the detener;

The

an extraordinary sense of plen of superior orders is no the threatre and will some day defence, otherwise many of the war criminals would have got give us a masterpiece.

oft.

FEEL ten years

JUST

us, however, is not a king. that this was to be no The barricades are

OPINION of the legal adviser: BEAN INGE Was dressed 'for his party in clerical aroy. Ills) moments at a time, gently reminiscing. The desa oftar expped Bomby

Therefore let the onslaught of

In the ploture Above are Profesion: La pamby country house Evil pours through drama Mr Duncan has an un- like a relentles

Ho the poels continue, for even to the court martial: The orders face had a grey tone too, from the thick grey hair, the hand to his right ear. spoken prologue in which, sur- lusts for his son's young bride, their failures

virtue's were very drastic and nót välis- jabaray "eyebrows, and the grey stubble of beard. A walking | P.. Jacks and Lady Violet Bruce. Occasionally the dean walked

rested beside him. Guesta mi at his table for a few among hile guests. A slow progress ... bai be scorted ald: rounded by

factory... the sinister por- and hates his son for his youth aide.

lean to

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