Birmingham Evening Mail from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 14

6 The Birmingham Mail Friday January 18 1957 The SHOCKandTHRLL Programme PATTI IS NEARLY READY FOR HER TV COME-BACK Citti Good evening! When dog bites woman news particularly when the woman happens to be glamorous Patti Morgan the daughter-in-law of slow slow quick-quick slow Victor Silvester You will recall that a precocious poodle bit Patti on the nose during a fashion and Patti was reported later to be suffering from delayed shock TOMORROW at greatest boob you have seen on TV? Well I can vouch for this episode because I was there The late Harold Warrender was appearing in a play televised from Alexandra -and dried up suddenly Harold panic even look to the prompt comer but went on miming mouthing the words silently The producer looked at the screen In his box and Immediately diagnosed a breakdown of sound Hs signalled the engineer who faded sound and vision While they were putting the right Harold picked up his script and Jogged his memory Minutes later he continued as though nothing had happened The only complaint came from the Press the next day It was high time they said that the BBO had less of these A WUENOUSE NOT I SHOP NO SHOT CAN SKA FOR LEM THAN OUR Oar orrWd art law bnat a aaattj malt KM snatMa mataudw mat myltm ara Mttttf I roa la tka tom at eraarty radacad trkaa PAY CASH AND SUY DIRECT FROM CITY CARPET WAREHOUSE At Half WILTON Price! BODYCARPET 27in wide In two-tone design Normally 3911 per yd sf ft CARPET BAR6AIKS1 19'h George sorry I know it was your You George Bums said you see my pictures on the said the man robbing a home do you think I stop to look at Ac 4 mRAVELLXNG with Mary A Malcolm I asked her how she was enjoying her life of independence She shared my view that security of position kills ambition Since she left the well-padded comfort of the BBC for free-lancing In the rough-and-tumble world outside she Is seeing something more than a view from an chair She has a regular spot on Woman's Hour on BBC sound radio a Radio Luxembourg programme coming up an advertising spot for commercial television appearances on Your and now the possibility of a series of 13 programmes for Northern TV Added to which her auto- biography Is doing very nicely thank you So only worry Is that bogy-man In the Income tax office 4 -OEOPLE ASK ME What In your opinion was the far he has bitten everything but my nose 4 4 4' a wry truth about this tale in our present economic position An executive of an international hotel chain left his New York office for an inspection tour In the kitchen of a German hotel he saw a most unhappy-looking dishwasher so he said to this character You know I started as a dishwasher and now the imaging director of this hotel chain America for you" The dishwasher looked even more unhappy I started as the managing director of this said Middle Europe for FOR those critics who have accused me of giving wrong answers on the BBC TV programme Up lor the Cup let me explain that the answer is typewritten on the back of the card containing each question 7 have no time to check whether they are correct However the point is taken to the producer's secretary 4 1AM a great admirer of Burns and Allen and this may amuse you McDonald HOBLEY'S TV DIARY wtdlhi mad kaadrada a dnlciu AS a Eumptmt I 71a arid AX MIN STIR 27ta wld grata run Contemporary yard dealiaa Normally MfM 251 1 ALI 291 1 1 4041a wide AXMI NITER MfewMl trees Cherry 4 trey Normally yard iff lr 4 29 II AL rB 426 1 Carpets Estimates Free wiifaaKU Robot CMV0E1L MARIAN CARR KATHRYN GRANT ft mm mm wtthTRi arTecmtcotat airmtmjTfto mr BRITISH LIOM COMMENCING SUNDAY BRISTOL BIRMINGHAM BING GRACE FRANK CROSBY KELLY SINATRA SENSATIONAL SALE OFFEKS in GOOD QUALITY AXMINSTERS BUY SAV SALE PRICE 7-10-0 9- 5-0 10-19-6 11- 9-6 13-15-0 15-19-6 It- 5-0 20-10-0 22-15-0 16-10-0 19- 5-0 22-19-6 24-15-0 27-10-0 25-10-0 21-15-0 31-19-6 Sizes in Yords 2x2 2x2i 3x2 2i 2 3 21 3i 2 4 21 4 2i 5 21 3x3 3 3L 4x3 VV 4 3i 4i 3i 5x3i List Price 9-19-6 12-10-0 14-15-0 15-10-0 17-19-6 20-19-6 24-15-0 26-19-6 29-19-6 22-10-0 25-15-0 30-19-6 33-10-0 36-19-6 34-15-0 39-10-0 43-19-6 SALE PRICE yard BODY SEAMLESS AXMINSTERS 3 2 yd Normally 111-19-4 Vig £10-19-6 3 3yd Normally ill-134 £12-10-0 3 3ayda Normally alU-lH VLA £14-19-6 i fJ 4yd Normally 14-11-4 K4B £16-196 SAVE UP TO HALF Ax minster Wilton Punt Ad rirn do an A SUJJ dnlaam Aha Indian Cotton Matring A Flnca Raaa Ftamplm TatMd Axmiaarar 2 lyd approx Normally BO 0-15-0 SALE PRICE 39 Catty Pda Rata Nomaroua 176 ladfea laWaaaad Raaa Half moo Normally QQ ca-iM sale price S90 Continental Carpets Exam4i 8ft tie £10-19-4 BALK PKia 7ft 2ts Normally £6-19-6 Riwsibli BMADLOOM CORD CAUPtT T- 24yd Normally mg I £6-144 SAUCPBICCXM I 9aD 27ii CORD CARPET imaaeaacly hard -area no Green cherry beige mat Normally 19 1 1 yard ALI 1311 SAVE 25 ON INDIAN CARPETS UmlraV aaaarify 1j yarda (approx! Normally (IP-IS-d PRICE 1 5 1 0-0 15CARRS LANE BIRMINCHAM la fAraa a ad TradHkraal rrdaead prim WILTON 2 In cbaTT Normally 34ft ALE rV WILTON Cherry ind Normally 374 ALE I Fitted (1 Cam (La Strada experience why Sylvia Peters had to stand In for Patti on television this week Apart from a very small scar on her nose where the and he was supposed to be a well-trained model bit her be back as good as new some time next month Now thinking better be careful Because Just bought a little dog a silver-grey poodle named Walter So KENTON CRITIC HITS OUT ILTON Mezzrow 1TJ- one of the finest white traditional jazz players who ever blew a note makes a strong blast against a current trend in music In a new book Concerning edited by Sinclair Traill (Faber and Faber 12s 6d) Writes 1 After what I heard on the radio the other night being expounded by Stan Keaton as being Jazz It is high time that someone exposed this stupid fallacy that is being forced on the people of the world programme was broadcast on AFN and can I believe be heard in England It came on around midnight and featured the misguided Stan In what was erroneously called a jazz session Kenton should keep the word jazz out of his programmes for when he describes such noises as Frank 4Yo as jazz and as being in the Idiom he is merely making himself look Idiotic! I would not care one lota If he played his music from now until the hydrogen bomb destroys us but I do care when he labels his music as Progressive Jazz Progressive it may be but Jazz it Is notl Mezzrow also has this pertinent point to make: have a terrible feeling that many Americana resent the fact that the only new art form that they can really call American was given to them by the Negro They are ashamed of the fact and want to crush it" PATTI recovering from a dog bite An American actor a member of a noted family once served a prison term for robbery His criminal career ended when he was caught rifling a fiat of a man who entered during the George Burns Bums recognised the actor and the man apologised specialised cinema which would do publicly what the film societies so valiantly do in private The reason I express these opinions now Is because the Clnephone does offer us next week a chance to see what I feel Is one of the most perfect films In its style which I have ever seen This Is which renews our faith not only in the Italian film-makers but in the cinema itself Poignant film I beg everyone who has not seen this film as a society and those who have will want to see it again to go along to the Clnephone next week Let me warn you that this is a poignant film it rarely rouses emotion which is exciting but to me It seemed the perfect fusion of style and matter Briefly It Is the story of a strange girl called Oelsomtna taken starving from a home by a wondering strong-man of the road Zampano feelings and behaviour are primitive she is a small lost soul whose only desire Is to please But her lonely misery deepens as she falls to create any sort of understanding with the brutish companion Only after a chance meeting with an acrobat and clown called the Mad One does she learn that everything in creation Is of some use and she stays with Zampano A Sol Siegel production ie TECHNICOLOR VISTAVISION CITY CARPET WAREHOUSE 1 door baton Cam Loo Chare! I Tet MID 1113 Lana rant Iroat Hied Straa to 1 Moor Reran Zampane the strong man (Anthony Quinn) and his assistant Gelsomina (Giuliftta Masina) who- play out the tragi -comedy of La Strada Commencing Sunday FORUM FUTURIST BIRMINGHAM li MIDLAND 22 Commencing Sunday January 20: Big Double Feature Programme GINGER ROGERS MICHAEL RENNIE A 19a CtMTUAT-PO Plu to (a) SUPERFLUOUS Permanently Removed by HAIR Diathermy or Electrolysis MEDICALLY APPROVED MOLES 75 Hairs Destroyed for 106 WARTS maw NURSE MAPSTONE SRN Telephone: BIRchfield 4169 11 3 Derry down Road Perry Barr B'ham 22b WELL as Jimmy Wheeler would say yer lot for this and for some time to come I regret to report Before I fade from this page I would like to tell you how much enjoyed writing for you each week and I only hope that some time In the not too distant future I shall be meeting you again through this column rare with a waddle wears the sad expression of a clown or smiles with a queer Inner Joy She has no physical attractions: one thinks at times that she wears the wrapped secrecy of a mute person seeking now then to reach out and share nihare1 avnaeianSaa To oVia a experiences Is she a young-old woman or an old woman with the simplicity of a child? One never knows Anthony Quinn as Zampano and Richard Base hart as the Mad One are good enough to stand up to the quality of her performance and the film as a whole This film may give you a new experience In the cinema It will certainly be a rare one Lost 1 1 1 II JIU-ULIU of Showing: Sunday at 30 and 80 Doors open 230 For Weekday times see local dally newspaper announcements AM I alone In feeling disappointed at the record of the Clnephone Continental cinema? When It was opened by the Lord Mayor last May he suggested that at last the city would have a public cinema at which we could see the pick of foreign films In effect we have had little else but a string of sex stories bearing week after week the certificate sign To be honest this did not surprise me greatly A Continental cinema like any other has to be run as a commercial proposition and it would be difficult to Arthur Steele on CINEMA find first class foreign films every week However I had hoped for a heavier sprinkling of what I call If fearfully movies of real together with a periodic revival of outstanding British and American productions The Midlands still need a 4'- IN THE DEPOSIT 104 WEEKS TO FAY OK NO DEPOSIT 38 WEEKS TO PAY NEXT WEEK'S FILMS BRISTOL: (William and Robert Campbell) CINEFHONE: FORUM: "High Society" (Bing Crosby Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra) FUTURIST: Rebel (Ginger Rogers and Michael Rennie) GAUMONT: and (Van Johnson Piper Laurie and Kelly the dog) ODEON: or (Martin and Lewis Anita Ekberg) SCALA: "Between Heaven and Hell" (second week) WEST END: (Anthony Steele Stanley Taker Odtle Versols) and All Week NEW STREET BIRMINGHAM ScalA BIRMINGHAM it MIDLAND M7I Now and Ail Next Week RETAINED SECOND WEEK iUbert WAGNEK Teny MOORE BnMckCUWFM) PLUS ARE IN (A) KILKOF-KONES handy pastilles for work or in crowded public places id a packet KILKOF 1110 and 3110 a family size bottle c4 Housekeeping for one for six amuiniiiiiiiiniiiniiiiitiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiui LIVING on my own and at business all day I allow 25s a week to cover evening meals and breakfasts for seven days plus lunch and tea on Saturdays and Sundays (writes a secretary) As I DINING SURE This Munificent Cocktail Dining Suit is beautifully finished in the finest walnut veneers The gracious bow-fronted 4 ft 6 ins sideboard features a full-depth mirror-backed cocktail compartment and crystal cabinet with sliding glass doors and is ideal for home entertaining Extending table with shaped panel ends 4 heavy chairs upholstered in the latest coverings It Is only after Zampano and the Mad One meet again and Zampano kills the clown who has made fun of him that Gel-Bomlna loses all desire for life This la a sombre outline but it is filled with incident which in every inspiration while there Is tenderness end pity in almost every scene which cannot be defined in words That is the miracle of Federico direction and the photography which matches to perfection the mood of each sequence What makes this strange story so real however is perhaps the performance of Glulletta Masina as Gelsomina Gelsomina walks 7s 6d fish Is cheese Is butter 2s sundries Is -total £1 Ss WE are a young couple with two children aged 2 Hi and 4 Vi years (writes a Birmingham housewife) Buylfig our house and having the luxuries of a television set and washing machine we naturally have to economise on housekeeping where possible But I do manage to keep four adults and my two children on approximately five guineas for food only All other requirements are put aside separately Budgeting Is as follows weekly: Milk 4 pinto daily (including two cheap Welfare) 12 3 Bread 1H daily 10 0 Grocery 2 0 0 Vegetables 7 6 Meat 119 Weekend shopping (from shops specialising in cheaper things) 1 0 0 6 4 9 My husband has an evening dinner myself and children eating lunch at midday and the other two adults eat only breakfast and suppers at home I buy chops and frying foods apart from being inexpensive my family prefer stewing joints and ready minced meat and at week-ends my limit Is 8s 6d usually shoulder lamb or chine beef at 2s lb We grow our own vegetables so I can save there My children see many cream cakes at 5d or have fancy teas but homemade cakes and plain teas seem to fit the bill with them both and the boy although not five till the spring Is 3Vfc stone and 3ft 10in so I think we lack much In our diet Neither has seen a doctor since welfare days and routine visits for weighing I have not been congratulated on my budget so perhaps even should economise although where I Imagine USUAL PRICK PRICE 49k 99 GNS WEEKLY ASK TO SEP WtS BARGAIN your voice? Corefy BEDROOM SUITE A very tastefully designed suit with beautifully figured walnut veneers Imposing 4 ft wardrobe and large well-fitted gent's wardrobe both bow-fronted end extra roomy Important dressing table with shaped mirror and plenty ef drawer space USUAL PRICE PRICE 413 GNS Take KILKOF before you cough yotu self speechless and spare yourself the exhaustion of long coughing spells KILKOF will help you whether you take It at the first signs of sore throat or when coughed yourself to a standstill Quick-acting KILKOF soothes and strengthens tired vocal membranes The healing medicaments In this pleasant-tasting mixture have a sure effect on sore throats coughs and catarrh Keep KILKOF in the house and take regular doses throughout the winter have only a light lunch I cook each evening Items such as Jam marmalade flour tea coffe and sugar etc are bought when required and amount to about 10s per month Breakfast is never more than two slices of toast and one cup of coffee A joint on Sunday usually lasts cold for Monday and up for Tuesday find a half-shoulder of Canterbury lamb at about 2s 6d per lb an economical but very tasty buy Best end of neck of veal boned rolled and stuffed is another favourite dish and very reasonable My evening meal Is prepared the previous day so that all I have to do is heat It when I return from the office Oxtail liver or stewed steak casseroled make very good nourishing meals Fish with cheese sauce and cauliflower Is quickly prepared and very good Frozen foods and vegetables are quick and easy but far beyond my budget except for special occasions Tomatoes very reasonable and I use them most dishes With braised celery and grated cheese they are particularly good Vegetables are all-important and I usually have at least two green vegetables per meal but never potatoes use a lot of Any one extravagance But New Zealand butter (now down to 2s Sd per lb) is very good I never buy cake and make It only if I have visitors I usually keep a few biscuits in store for the unexpected guest I keep a small store-cupboard vegetables meat and for emergencies Here is my weekly housekeeping budget: Four bottles of milk 2s Id three small wholemeal loaves 2s vegetables it: fruit Is 6d four eggs at 4d each It id meat ASK TO SEE fm THIS BAPGAIM A At BOOTS chemists and general store o4 supitWj eatfiMU 6-PIECE SUITE Comprises 3-soeter wing settee 2 wing easy chairs 2 largo stools and comfortable fireside easy chair Upholstered In hard wearing uncut moquette in latest delightful patterns jfer io 'PRICE 51 ck fa WEEKLY 0N1Y OBTAINABLE AT SI HARDY'S KILKOF PARKINSONS LTD MANUFACTURING! 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