THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1951.
SEATINE THE STALLS
WE COULD HAVE SHOWN SMITH & DRUMMOND Show Talking
MORE APPRECIATION
If Hongkong's convincing 5-0 victory in the Tennis Interport" against Saigon and our retention of
the
Interpe trophy for the in succession
SECOI
ear
spoke hly of our high ténnis standard, the disap- pointing attendance during games the three days'
the
spoke the reverse of Hong- Kong's ability to play good hosts.
Capping it all was the at- tendance
the Interoort Dinner
at the Jacobran Room, when only 13 were present.
Fan of them were the guts themselves. and conspiruusly among the messing were roma of the players who Tool: post in the faterponi miten
of the
i tri that the standard
La ses pd visitors is nothing to fare about, but little malised was the furt that Himekong were this time
rive the generous treatment
last year at Saigon from the Sagon Lawn Tennis Associa ins.
"Hongkong's Interport players, Ip Koon-hung. Tsui Wai-pul. George Chen and Choy Tin-fook, through their generosity were atro givm the chanes in take part in the Salgun Invitation Tournament. where they were to play
given the stars
against such
as Remy and Washer.
This year Some Live in November. the Saigon Tenuis Association will again be hold- tournament ing an invitation
and are attemuling not only to gel Washer and Ampon to tal part but also such world rank- ing players as Budite Patty and Drobny.
And again for this occasion. they have unofficially extended
This is the Saigon Mayor's challenge trophy for the Tennis Interport series between Hongkong and Saigon. Presented last year, it was first won by Hongkong, who retained it for the current year with a 5-0 triumph over Saigon. None of the four visiting players was able to give the historical background of the vase, which presumably comes from the Mayor's priceless curio collection.
their invitation to Hongkong's John Koon-hung and K. C. Dao.
It would be a great pity' indveel
it for Ananial crusaderations The Interport
spries between
Saigon and Hongkong should be discontinued.
Originally it was proposed that the Intervort games take place bi-annually, one at Saigon and. one at Hongkong every year.
to
This was eventually cut down played one a year to be alternately at Saigon and Hong-
kong..
Even then, unless greater support
Association's
already
meagre resources muy force the
Macadam's Column
TAX WILL UPSET
PEGASUS PLAN
Restored to the bosom of our sporting family, we were assailed by two violently opposed experiences one pica- sant, une not so.
forthcoming, the The pleasant one was the Chelsen retention of First severe drain on the Hongkong Division status by the thickness of a cigarette paper. Lawn Tennis
The unpleasant one was the intimation of covetous eyes. tinancial cast Pegasus-wards by that fellow of infinite pest, the Associa tion, which has done is best Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of this, first. to give the Colony some sort of International competition,
Rightly, much has been made no old meanies when it comes not only to consider discontinuing of the wonderful resurgence of to the use of this money. this interport series but to look the Corinthian spirit in with pessimism at any attempt Oxford-Cantridige Pegasus elub.
to invite international stars to Hongkong.
the
FA
Their winning of the Amateur Cup at the first time
BIG-HEARTED
I will be kicked back into the amateur game for the betterment of schools' Soccer, for the help of the obscure and the needy In
equipment.
of asking and practically before the provision of grounds and their ears were dry has sot the
matcur game ablaze with how significance.
ถ
B
-For-the-last-Interport-series, the net gate collection during the amounted to just three days ,over $1,000 leaving the Associa-
hearted, generous, long- sighted tion nearly $4,000 in the red.
plans are being for- Surely
ulated...but don't look round the responsibility of
Nor has the spiritual side of new. Pegasus are being followed promoting the gaine,
raising their success been swamped by by Hongkong's tenals standard and the Bnancial one. The top-runk-Treasury, who are apt to feel etir old friends of the bringing good tennis into the ing amateur club has gathered violently naked at the prospect Colony us as much on the up just over £4,000 in its short of on untouched £4,000. shoulders of our local tenais existence, and there's the rub,
The now prolts tax, applicable conununity as on the Associa- tion's.
"ARGONAUT"
The irrepressible Doctor at the rate of 11s. Bd. in the L. Tommy Thompson has let it will be invoked, and it is un- be known that Pegasus will be likely that Pegasus will have any more than £1,000 for the high-minded objects they have
HOPE'S HOPES WERE DASHED in view.
When Bromley won the same cup they draw £7,000 as their share of the scurl-final and Anal receipts. Offsetting tax de- mands were their
many com- mitments; they had such claims as local rates and taxes, staff wages, ground upkeep, and all the other expenses of a business
concern.
Yet, they had to kick back £3,500 of that £7,000 to the Treasury.
NO CLAIMS
Pegasus has none of these claims. The club has no ground to keep up, no staff, and по wages. The players even pay their own travelling expenses, Every single thing is done on a strictly hon basis and the only overhead in sight is an casional raincloud.
DC-
And the taxability of new mronts has risen from 9s. 6d. to 11s. Gd. in the Blace Bromley's ----win,
That makes it apparent that | Pegasus will be lucky Indeed to get away with something around £1,000 of thole £4.000 unless the Treasury can be induced to take a sensible sympatholic view of their intention to assist the game they
adorn with the money their skill and noirit has earned. Which is not only unlikely but
(also obgurd.
With Chaplin They Make History
London
Cinderella, whisked to the ball in her converted pump kin, could not have felt more breathlessly aware of the powers contained in a
than magic wand
Claire Bloom when she was whisked to New York in a Constellation test with Charles Chaplin.
Now the clock has struck twelve, the four engined pump- lein has returned this 20-year- old British actress to her stage role in "Ring Round The Moon"
with awe
that this charming, Į gentle, soft-spoken man is still, man of the Theatre. despile 40 years in Hollywood, a
Now it all depends on what the camera has done for her on that strip of film; and the comera can be cruel and un- generous.
*
ENTHUSIASTIC
TOO AMчITIOUS CHAPLIN'S METHOD is
CLAIRE, who has not to take an under-
clear brain behind her played performance und
wide. [awn-like
eyes, mornity I with the camera lens does not want to be a film star to a screen, but to take an the *tollywood sense (“My full-scale theatrical performance goodne for a screen
I am much too am- and tone it down by the bittous for that"), t
chanes 1 minimum amount necessary for in a Chaplin film is different. transference to the cinema,
"I would learn so much," she Will the get the job Chaplin says. "And besides, with any- was enthusiastic about her work one else you just make a flm. In the studio.
| With Chaplin you make history,“
at the Globe Theatre, and there she must wait the result of a test
inore exacting than insert- ing a slim foot in
#gloss slip-
per.
MORE EFFICIENT
IF THE prince who re- ceived her was grey of head and celebrating
birthday on the noble side of B0, he was none the less charming and ob! so much more elleiem than the pretty young man in the other fairy tale.
The Chaplin charm. Claire tells us, put her immediately at
and from the Chaplin
thness it was 500n evident Tirat it
was to be a trial at least it was to be a fair trial.
No quick takes from a page of rat of random script but three days of hard
rehearsal under the nreticulous direction of Chaplin himself, and working on seone from the forthcoming flan after having studied the entire seript and with every possible guidance on interpretation of the character.
in
abou
Three days, says Claire, which she learned more the art of neting than she had hoped to learn in three years.
Three days in the presence et genius which left her realising
Two-handed Beverley
MISS BAKER
Potential Wimbledon champion who has now made her first appearance on British tennis courts is 21-year-old Miss Beverley Baker, from California. She is seeded fourth among American women players.
A NEW JANE FOUND
FOR TARZAN
She is blue-eyed Virginia Huston:
Tarzan, that hardy peren-been adopted by the natives, nial of the African jungles, whom she rules as a queen. She is in for some competition. alike.
dominales people and animals
Sal Lesser, who has pro- Mr Lesser's "Jungle Girl" duced Tarzan films almost problem up to recently was two- continuously
He did not have a Jane ever since fold.
for Buster Crabbe appeared in Lex Torzan" Barker, who com
suple-muscled, broad, tall "Tarzan the Fearless," has pleted all his exterior shots of selected a shapely Jungle Tarzan's Peril," in Africa.
ihe latest jungle hero saga, Girl for a new series he has in mind.
BLUE-EYED
However, finally blue-eyed blonde Virginia Huston was selected.
Mr Lesser, returning from a trip to Europe, said. "We are looking for a girl who
Despite the fact that Lesser's is not only a good actress, favourite chirapanzee and Tar- but who must have all the zan's bosom companion, Cheta, qualities you'd expect from couldnt make the trip to his a girl wearing
home country a sarong and there was no June avall
for the filming, There has never really been able, the producer feels that such a character on the the shooting in Africa provided screen. We want to be care-him with unbeatable sets and
will
coft and flotic, yet
So enthusiastic is he about the African locations, that he has set up permanent camp In Kenya and he expects to inake all future Tarzan pictures deep in the real jungles.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NOTICE TO MEMBERS
SIXTH RACE MEETING Saturday, 2nd June, 1951
(Postponed from Saturday, 26th May, 1951) There are elev.m races, The First Bell wil be rung ol 1.30 rm. and the First Race will be run at 2,00 p.m.
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SERVANTS' PASSES
ful in our selection, since scenes. the whole new series be based on her."
Lesser is not looking for the Amazon wope. He thinks what the public would want would be a girl who is
Lex is not equally enthusias- *very*
He the.
He recalls the insect hordes recalls with horror the girl in that feasted on his loin-cloth-
and the bitter cold Servants' passes will be issued to private box holders only, he was looking for a female of the
regions. who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and Tarzan, proceeded to rip apart But he's game. It's small-enough to endorse their names on the passes. Holders of such passes are a telephone book with her bare pride to pay, he feels, for the
not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing hands.
privilege of enacting the longest-through on their duties and must remain in their employers' stands, The plot of the first fim will lived movie hero the world has concern a'white girl who has ever known.
England who, on hearing that clothed mountainous
GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE
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- Since she Was 11 Miss Baker has been training to GIVE become { champion. Her English-born father, who ཆོབ Director of Recreation at Son- ta Monico, gave her her first tennis lesson.
She is ambidextrous, pluyo forchand strokes with both hands, needs no backhand.
Ay ko the Rélier of Stamford Her father taught her to play Bridge the quiet
exultation that way because she is small, could be felt in the boardroom It gives her a longer reach. afterwards when It was Anally But she can write, only with known that Chelsea lived to her left hand Miss Baker
eats well, likes Tender of menti.
She never
another day,
congratulate us," said
ATS Joo Mears and mona-mokes, dritis beer and wine i
Bob Hope, the American film and stage comedian, ger. Billy Birrell. Congratu- "socially and to moderation,"
late the boys They found the accompanied by beautiful Marilyn Maxwell, pktured on,ghting pirit at the right time. the golf course at Gleneagles, Perthshire, where he They cud.It." practised for the British Amateur Golf Championship. They have decided not to re- He was eliminated at Porthcawl in the first round, two
name the pub nerass the road The Setting Bun.“ and one, by C. C. Cox---Central Proms, Photo,
(London Express Service)..
rarely takes o
pirits. Miss Baker has no
other ambitions. beyond her tennis Those who have set her. pf go far ni Wimbledon.*
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