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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-03-24, Page 6A Royal Birth Excites Japan The obeeial`s voice, to wheel all Japan was listening, was flat and dry, his words formal: "This afternoon et 415 at the Imperial Household hospital, Her High- ness the Crown Princess honour- ably effecting delivery, the hon- ourable birth of a son occurred. The exalted mother and child are honourably healthy." Thus, over transistor radios and television sets, in offices, sushi (fish) shops, and homes, did the Japanese people learn last month of the birth of a First-born, 5 -pound, 9 -ounce princeling to Princess Michiko, the miller's daughter who mar- ried Prince Akihito last April 10, As a male child, he would be second in line to succeed to the throne (as is Queen Eliza- beth's new princeling in Bri- tain). All over Japan, the common people bowed low to each other and uttered "O-medeto gozai masa" (Congratulations). Hun- dreds gathered at the great Ni- ju Bashi. (Double -Bridge) en- trance to the palace grounds where some knelt in prayer and others shouted "banzai" for the benefit of newsreelmen. At the Kabuki Theatre in Tokyo. lead- ing actor Ennosuke changed into formal haori (knee-length man's kimono) and announced the feli- citous nyusu (news) from the stage. Nearby, et the Asakusa Kokusai Theatre, chorus girls, wearing sequins, high heels (and little else), led the audience in banzais. A sudden sharp earth- quake added to the excitement. During this period, Prince Akihito behaved as tradition de- manded. Before the birth he had left his wife at the hospital with an admonition to "be brave" and then had gone to his temporary Shibuya residence 2 miles away. His first paternal duty was to participate in the ceremonial presentation of a 7 -inch dagger (which symbolizes the infant's ability to defend himself). By then some newspapers were "irreverently" .:alling the Prince "Oyaji" (Daddy) and only then could he visit his fa- mily. Newsweek's Tokyo bureau chief Ray Steinberg reported that "the Prince strove manfully but unsuccessfully to suppress his smiles of pleasure as he was driven to the hospital. And there, live television caineras trained on the frosted -glass win- dows of Michiko -sap's room, picked up a man's shadow. The shadow bent, as if leaning over a bed. Never before in the 2,600 years of the Chrysanthemum Throne had the people been so close to their royal family." Easy Sun -Style Sundress or pinafore! It's easy to sew of crisp cotton — opens flat far speedy ironing. Ruffles and colourful embroi- dery, in running and single stitch, delight. a little girl. Pat- tern 599: transfer of bands, pat- tern in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly FAT - TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. 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Partner got a call Thursday night to look after two little boys whose mother had been delayed getting hoarse and there was no telling when the father would be home. The mo- ther finally arrived home about eleven, half frozen, having walk- ed quite a piece from a stalled car. The father didn't get home until three -thirty in the morning — stuck eight times coming from Melton, a distance of fifteen miles. Next morning everyone was having a great time — snow shovels and tow -trucks being the order of the day. Partner was helping here and there but I was quite content to watch proceed- ings from the inside of doors and windows, thankful I didn't have to battle the elements. We didn't get any mail next day — for the first time in three years. However we don't know even now whether the mailman couldn't get through or if it was the morning paper that didn't come. Now, of course, the storm is a thing of the past but it will be some time before the snowbanks show signs of deminishing, so the men of the family will have plenty of opportunity to continue exercising their muscles. One thing I must say, our township should be congratulated for its prompt snow -removal job. When we got up Friday morning the streets had been ploughed out. In the High Park district where Dee lives the streets haven't been ploughed yet and cars are still getting stuck. But all the news has not been of storms and disasters. Like a burst of sunshine through the clouds came the news of Princess Margaret's engagement to Mr. Antony Armstrong -Jones, news that will please people of the Commonwealth just about as much as the birth of the Queen's third baby. Margaret has had her own special place in the hearts of the people ever since her mischievous "little -girl" days Later there was sympathy and admiration for her because of her unfortunate love affair with Peter 'Townsend. A good many people felt she should have been free to follow the dictates of her own heart but many won- dered whether Townsend was really the right choice for our lovable and fun -loving princess. Now that episode in her.life can be forgotten as we look forward, hoping thet Princess Margaret has made the right choice this time and that she and her fian- cee will share a lifetime of joy and happiness, unhampered by shadows of possible succession to the throne. During this past week I have been reacting a most interesting book and it just makes me won- der how any of its can imagine we have nt Mind of our owns It is called "The Hidden Persua- ders" and deals primarily with ways and means of advertising. It shows how advertising agen- cies go to work persuading the public to buy goods that are of- fered for sale whether they want them or not. Psychologists go into supermarkets to study the buying habits of customers. They find out what kind of packages have the best sales appeal and why it is easier to sell "2 for 29e" rather than 150 straight. They have discovered that a shopping list is almost a thing of the past only about one in five carry a list. Instead women methodically go up one aisle and down the next, trusting that the goods displayed will remind them of things they need. Thus most shopping is "impulse buying" and makes the packaging of goods specially important to the manufacturers. Eye appeal is a main factor in selling one brand more than another. In furnishings and electrical appliances advertisers deliberate- ly set out to make housewives discontented with what they al- ready have. New models must therefore have that little extra something to make it a little more appealing than what our neighbour has next door — re- frigerator, washing machine or what have you. There must also be a pleasant association of ideas connected with the product that is advertised. And you know those child -size shopping carts? They are put into stores spe- cially to encourage children to shop on their own, to collect toys and packages that appeal to them. And then you know what happens , .. poor mother gets to the cash register and she either has to pay for what lit- tle Johnny or Mary has "bought" or risk a scene in the store! Well, I leave you to think it out for yourselves. When you go shopping do you really buy what you need, and what you know is good, or is your choice influenced by advertisers telling you that "this is what all mod- ern housewives should have in their kitchens". In other words do you shop with an open mind, considering only the needs of your family — and the contents of your purse?" It is en honest question — dare you give your- self tin honest answer" Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. just how does a girl ero- perly refuse a date with a boy? A. Above all, be polite about it, Simply say, "Thank you very much for asking me, but I won't be free that evening." Even if you ARE free, there's no need to make up an excuse. You can be very cordial, but vague. Q. If a double-decker sand- wich seems tote big and unwieldy to handle with the fingers, isn't It all right to eat it with the knife and fork? A. No; this type of sandwich must be picked up. Only on the "open-faced" type of sandwich do you use knife and fork. A New Cure For Boyish Shrillness Like moat other boys his age, when Winston Mallory was 14 and a high-school sophomore in Gloucester, Va., his voice began to change. The trouble was that, instead of becoming rich and masculine, his voice turned into a shrill falsetto. Ile consulted doctor after doctor, and they all told him: "You'll outgrow it." He never did. Finally Mallory, now 21 and working as an interior decora- tor in New York, visited the small National Hospital for Speech Disorders. The hospital's Dr. Roy W. Franklin, after about an hour's conversation with the youth, began to manipulate Mallory's larynx with his hand -- simply applying pressure to it, during which the sounds that came out were pitched lower. After a few moments, the doctor took his hand away and asked Mallory to read aloud from a magazine, Mallory opened his mouth to speak, and the words rolled out in a sonorous, deep baritone, "It was never very real, any- way," Dr. Franklin commented last month. "In eases like this, the problem is to convince the patient that he really has a nor- mal voice. With larynx manipu- lation we help about ten patients a year, but no cure has been as rapid as Mallory's." As for Mallory himself, be was back on the job fairly brimming with new confidence and self- respect, "My old voice had no strength to it," he explained in full, resonant tones, "Now when I go into a showroom and ask for something, I get it." Paint Your Own Masterpiece! The ultimate in crazy art is on the way. M. Jean Tinguely, a thirty -four-year-old Parisian artist, has designed a machine with the aid of which any mem- ber of the public can paint pic- tures by the dozen. It works on the coin -in -the -slot principle; electrically controlled brushes dip into various coloured paints, which may be selected on a push-button panel, and then smear the colours over the can- vas to produce the "picture." Many a so-called connoisseur has been fooled by the automatic art, and already its Inventor is meeting stiff opposition from the struggling artists who are now finding it increasingly difficult to dispose of their own "modern" paintings. "What is an economist, John?" "A man who ]snows more about money than the people who have it, my dear." FALLING HAIR — This caught - in -the -rain look is the newest coiffure by . Rome stylist Ricar- do. Wispy, ragged bangs, side tresses formed into "earmuffs" and a high crown, Ricardo says, were inspired by por- traits of painter Modigliani. A Press Agent's Confession, Or Money's Affair With His Eair Lardy by Richard !Raney Written for Newspaper Enterprlse Association New York — Grace Kelly was single, the Dodgers were in Brooklyn and the sputnik was only a doodle on a Soviet draw- ing board whets "My Fair Lady" opened in New York, March 15, 1956, About to round out its fourth year at the Mark Hettinger Theater, the Alan Jay Lerner - Frederick Loewe musical ver- sion of Bernard Shaw's "Pyg- malion"' has been seen there by approximately 2,600,000 souls Among them were Dwight D, Eisenhower (it's the only show he's seen since he's been in the White House); Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India: King Mahendra Bir Bikram of Nepal; Sean O'Kelly, when be was president of Ierland, and Harry and Bess Truman. Collectively kings, commoners, poets and peasants have forked ug $14;000,000, including $180,000 from 60,000 standees, to see a show without kiss, carese or dis- play of the female pelt, a sum far in excess of any ever totaled by a stage attraction in New Yorlc, regardless of length of run. The touring company of the musical, three years old on March 17, has played 66 weeks 'in Chica- go, 16 in Los Angeles, 11 in San Francisco, and has enriched the lives of the theater -starved in such outposts as Little Rock, Calgary, Houston, Seattle and Winnipeg, The London copy completes is second year on April 30, and the Australian and Swedish companies are in their second year. Other lingual duplications are dazzling the Danes in Copen- hagen, the Finns in Helsinki and the Norwegians in Oslo. Further proof that "My Fair Lady" may be our most popular export will be manifest In mid-April when, with the blessing of the State Department, a company flies sto Russia for a six-week engage- ment in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Tiflis. Many authorities, including this partisan, think "My Fair Lady" is the greatest musical comedy hit of all time. My quali- fications as an authority? Over 40 years in the theater and expo- sure to hundreds of song -and - dance shows, from "The Merry Widow" to "The Sound of Mu- sic." My qualifications as a par- tisan are even better: I'm the press agent for "My Fair Lady," the envy of every brave in any tribe. The show has been a press agents dream from the start. So hysterical was its reception in tryouts in New Haven and Phila- delphia that producer Herman Levin, fearful these hallelujahs might boomerang into a "this - had -better -be -good" resistance in New York, suggested I muffle my drums. This was a startling switch. Conventionally I'm urged to clash the cymbals. So frenzied was the clamor for tickets following the New York premiere that the thwarted went berserk in their efforts to escape charges of being socially un- touchable. Press agenting "My Fair Lady" has been a luxurious assignment because I've had the unwitting assistance of hundreds of . vol- unteers. An obscure Russian named Victor Louis put "My Fair Lady" on Page One when he announced in a letter to Lerner and Loewe that he would like the full orchestral score to the musical, gratis. He already had translat- ed the libretto and intended to put on the show in Kiev and Sverdlovsk, he said. For this bravado 30 -year-old Victor was blasted editorially all the way from Miami to Moose Jaw, Julie Harris, one of our top actresses, recently puffed the show's publicity when she con fessed to a columnist that she had auditioned for the role oe Eliza Doolittle two years age when the management was look- ing for a successor to Julie An- drews. For almost three years "My Fair Lady" enjoyed a free ani- mated outdoor ad provided by the hundreds who lined up at the box office each day before dawn to buy one of the 40 stand- ing room admissions sold for each performance, These fanatics were equipped with sleeping bags, bridge tables, lunch bas- kete and, in cold weather, splits of grog. And this seems as good a time as any other to thank Steve Allen, Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers for their service in my behalf — all devoted one of their TV shows to the ordeals they experienced getting seats for you know what. For Half -Sizes PR INTED PATTERN 4838 SIZES 141/4--241e -rnalts3 Smart Winter -to -Spring com- panion — a suitdress with trim, slim lines to make you look taller and narrower. Choose tweedy rayon, cotton faille, wool. Printed Pattern 4838: Half Sizes 141/2, 161/2, 181/2, 201/4, 22ve, 241/x. Size 16''A jacket and skirt 41l8 yards 35 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. 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