MAY LEAVE BRITAIN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 11

MAY LEAVE BRITAIN

Smear Alleged By Pianist LONDON, June 30 The “honkey-tonk” pianist. Winifred Atwell, who made such a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand, is talking of leaving Britain for good, according to a “Daily Herald” columnist. Miss Atwell, he says, may be chased out by what she calls “gossip which is making my life miserable.” Miss Atwell will leave shortly on another world tour and when she returns she will decide whether to leave Britain after spending 13 years there. "In recent months I have become really miserable,' haunted by a growing smear about me," said Miss Atwell. “Living and working in Britain is not the happy situation it was for me years ago.” The “Daily Herald” says that the smear is that Miss Atwelffinances coloured immigrants to 'Britain and then gives them accommodation in hundreds of slum houses. Every week immigrants seek her out and say they have been told she can give them a home "In fact. I don't owh a brick.” said Miss Atwell. “It is all nonsense. It is making a nervous wreck of me. I don’t want to go. I still think of London as my home, but I can’t go on living here in torment. "After the last time I happened to drive through Notting Hill word got round that I go to collect rents dressed in mink and driving a white Jaguar.”

Ceasing Publication.—" The Bulletin,” Scotland’s daily picture paper, is to cease publication on Saturday, it was announced tonight. . Latest figures give its circulation as 119543 The publishers, George Outram and Company, said: "Continually rising costs and falling revenues have made it financially impracticable to publish "The Bulletin’ any longer.”—Glasgow, June 29. ' • /'