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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1950.
ON THE LONDON STAGE; AN THIS WILL NOT DO, MR RATTIGAN
HAVER T
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HERE and
By Beverley Baxter, MP
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It is well known that mea usually love one type of woman,
tingle, WAS A more than a In fact, one of the ludlerous tingle of excitement, aspects of divorce is the way in in the air when the first which husband geis rid of his nightera gathered at the wife in order to marry someone The Criterion for Terence Rat- who la exactly like her,
of the unfaithful has tigan's new comedy, "Who fidelity
nover been sufficiently acknow- fa Sylvia ?"
ledged.
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"THE BAD LORD | “STAGE FRIGHT" Farouk to assemble that cast,
BYRON"
Dennis Prico Mai Zetterling
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In
kaar's infidelitics, and you can imeaine how beautifully Athena Scyler, moppoi up everything when the arrived for the Anali scene. In fact we learn fromR her that her husband, who is now an ambassador, had a Sylvis in every port. He even found one among the Existen- tlaists in Paris,
long
It was at this amo theatre
But this is whero Rattigan, that he launched himself and a the sentimentalist, falls out with Ambassador in love cast of unknowns in "French Rattigan the dramatist. Without Tears," Today it cach act of the play covering a would take the fortune of a period from 1917 down to the present the diplomat has estab- and Mr Rattigan himself baz lished a different mistress in his become a trustee investment. borrowed fat, each one bearing a resemblance to Sylvia, An the Nothing could have been three ladies are all played (and better than the opening of the most amusingly) by Miss Diane now pleve, It was the year Hart, it is easy for us to accept 1017 and Robert Flemyng, who the theory and the perslatency was not only an cari but quite of the likeness,
swell in the Foreign Ofee, eals up
that institution and asks who is in charge of the Middle East Department.
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The wife know all
are
VET is it not a fact that men
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more fastidious than and I If that is no belleve that it is, then, how can
The telephonist will not tell him. Angilly he protests and women? reveals who he is. Back comes,
CD the piny ends with the ambassador phd his life- soldier friend, Roland Culver, being depleted as two silly old amorists in mourning for their lost youth, Apparently that was the play, although I if by that time Mr doubt
could havo Rattigan hurself explained what he originally set out to do.
Robert Flamynự la un notor of high intelligence, but in this détermined to play he secrna uphold the Corpa Diplomatique against the tainuations of the author. He was the ambassador
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Pretty Campaign Lassies
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JIMMY DURANTE seems very happy over the fine campaign material he has to work with In his guest in Hollywood for presidency of the National Dunking Association. The lovely lassies are Jimmy's campaign managers, and Jimmy is certain things are really shaping up for his battle against, Marie Wilson who is running on the opposite ticket. (Acme)
the answer how do they know the diplomat and pleasure in at times, the amorist hardly66
it It is really he who is speak- ing?.
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On the other hand, Roland Culver was first-rate as a two- He rings off.
battle warrior, with a lecherous again and ridiculous foreign accent is, put Mr Emlyn Williams is more eye, and I don't think he at all through at once to the head of honest in his play. He claims deserved the ambassador'a re- humour was the Middle East Departanest, that his, author hero demande buke that
form and even prop licentiouscom in squalid sur- fourth
accusation was roundings in order to write, Mr school. The Rattigan's ex-scultper and old true, but it should. have been
directed at the author. Etonian has only a memory as an excuse.
That, you
is will agree, excellent, it gets the key., Quite obviously we were in for a de- Ughtfully malicious evening of pointed satire, 0. blessed Rattigan!
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Croaky
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"Fool's
Call It
Gold" They
In Falkirk
By J. W. Taylor
örmer
They call it "Fool's Gold" up in Falkirk-the-$5,000,000 fortune and the four sealed chests of treasure left by Peter Taylor a Muiravonside, Stirlingshire, wealthy eighteenth-century merchant and shipowner.
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Eventually, of course, the diplomat is caught, out by als son, who is old enough to go 'to those orgies known as cocktail THERE are excellent isolated
Har Mr Rattigan is
moments parties.
in this comedy,
Latest claimant of these home and went to Amsterdam, if the fortune ever existed, it "van der was hopeless to cino All of us who and Mr. Rattigan's Indies aro VELL, you are wrong. We on sure ground;
Hulst" to his name. When he Holland, as the Dutch Law at were in for an evening of have sons now their capacitly more amusing than his men. It will-o'-wisp millions which where he added
us som juvendo it was a Orst play we would have caused the outpouring died he left, estates in England, Limitations disposed of all Un- high spirits and low wit, of 1or making
note its defects and muddled of savings of people in Stir- America, France and Holland, claimed estates in Holland after a certain lapse of time, which contrived situations that creak and irresponsipio,
purpose, but we would be pre-lingshire, America, Canada, Peter willed that his fortune was nothing like one hundred ed at the joints of half-hearted
Australia, New Zealand and be split into two parts.
The romance and immorality with-
On the whole I thought this dicting a future for the author,
South Africa who have revenue from one part was to his first appeared to have nut passion. If we are to have lad let his father off prosty sin, find there is a place for sin Ughtly. The only terms he But Rattigan has established
but
intervals - since there in the thontre, it should be demanded were that he should a level beneath which he must claimed relationship to the be applied to the maintenance
had founded in Haarlem, have been repeated claims either tragic or
amusing. Mr be allowed to become an actor not albumissing in certiter millionaire Peter, is John of 32 aimshouses appeased the fortine hunters,
of
he Middle inatend
Holland. With the exception from all parts of the world for or Foing into the the oxuberance of thexperience Oataway, diplomatic.
nor the technique of the tired Brighton, Victoria, Austra of £10,000, he ordered the witht Stirling folk describe as master. It was assembled, not
second part of his fortune to be "this fool's gold." They don't As a young mait, Beter run Existed and the event to be think much of the chances of At any rate the diplomat's written,
awny from hy Stirlingmire allowed to accumulate for one Mr John Oataway. In his early twenties he fell in wife, knew all about her hus-
hundred years, when it was to be divided among the next of kin on his father's side.
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Let us examing the noble earl who is the principal character.
love with a girl named Sylvia, who went out of his life and was presumably dead.
The young cari was a scuip- ton although Mr Rattigan docs not bother explaining why or how. It was enough that in the borroweż fat of his friend, Roland Culver, thero was a lead and shoulders of Sylvia which the earl had sculpted.
In the interval his lordship had married, but the quest for Sylvin went on. All he had to in was to see a girl with a face like Sylvia and he had to have explanation her an elegant
on my part but possessing the himit of brevity.
Perhaps sculptors Arc different from the rest of us but the earl asked nothing more from his wenches than a re- semblance to the lady in ques- tion. But how was ho to lead a double life without detection?
The way of a man
AFTER all Algernon had done Ait in "The Importance of Being Earnest and why should Wildo have the copyright on Bunbury- ing? There is also Mr Emlyn Williams, acting in his current play "The Accolade," who le-a Park but a vent in Regent's devil at orgies in Rotherhitho,
What was good enough for Oscar and Emlyn was' good enough for Terence. The oarl Was by this time a diplomat. and ve nil niree that a diplomat who cannot deceive his wife is not a man to be trusted with the nation's accrola.
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one questions the morality even the kelihood of All we Mr Rattigan's situation. nak, is that he justifies it dramatically.
-(London Express Service)
Crates Of Mercy For Korea
TRO
KOREA
KORE
1.
GERMAN workmen load a freight car at Munich with medical supplies for civilians in Korea. The International Refugev Organisation, a United Nations agency, is ending the supplies from its warehouses in German DP camps. Four welfare workers of the IRO are on their way to Korea to naalat UN officials in
giving ald to Koreans. (Acme)
Peter is also said to have left four scaled chests, the contenis of which were secret, with in- structions that they were to be opched at Haarlem 100 years after his death, but no one has ever been able to trace them.
Prince
Defends
Talkenhausen
**Brussels, Nov. 14.
At today's session of the trial of General von FalkenhausSCH for war crimes Price Albart WIDE CREDENCE de Ligne, wartime head of the The whole story gained wide Belgian Red Cross. Pald, the to crodence in the Falkirk district many Jews owed their lives 30 years ago, and altogether the General because he refust nine families at that time pool- to obey strictly the orders he ed their resources to fight their received from higher, authorl-
ties. claim to the fortune.
Peter
The Prince said that, in hin In other parts of the world genealogical trees were consul- treatment of the Belgian people
von Falkenhausen, wartim ted by hundreds of aspirants to the wealth of the fabulous Military Governor of Belglur
and Northern France, mada After 100 years his "descen-class distinctions. He saw vu dants" formed a considerable Falkenhausen regularly to an community of fortune hunters. range the liberation of Belgia At one Glasgow meeting, 100 civilian hostages or at least t claimants of all ages presented persunds the Germans to lighter sentences, The Prince what they, considered
said: "When I heard that vor proof of relationship.
One Falkirk family who cor- Falkenhausen had been relieved zasponded with the British Con- of his command I thanked him sul in Amsterdam lepreed that for all he had done for the Bol-
gian people."-Reuter,
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