SPORTING SAM
By Rég. Wootton
1 Estelle
STADIUM ADMISSION PRICES
GOING UP
First In 31 Years
Objection Sustained
In Feature Race At Royal Ascot
Ascot, England, Jufe 12.
Royal Ascot, which the British call the greatest race meeting in the world, opened in traditional pomp and splendour today.
Normally the crowds pay more attention to the people than the horses. But they got some racing excitement today when an objection was lodged against the winner of the £3.000 Ascot stakes and it was sustained.
Guerrier,
Reuter,
TUB-
ROYAL HUNT cup
London, June 12. Twenty-four probable hers und Jockeys for the Royal Hunt Cup, running over seven furlongs und 155 yards at 2.47
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1951. MA
W SEAT IN THE STALLS.
Orson Welles Talks About Rita Hayworth, Hollywood
-And The Life Of A Rebel
By JAMES DOW
I looked at Orson Welles across the lunch table. I tried to size him up. Was this tanned, bland, hund- somely ugly man a genius or a charlatan?
He might have been either, with his blazing eyes, his rough untamable hair, his formidable jaw. He looked exactly like his legend.
You could imagine him terrifying New York with a broadcast, setting Holly- wood by the ears, and pro- ducing the "Macbeth" that brought another furiouk
in England.
six - year - old | short of a mile. My Ley On, a ¡ing Snowdon and Shahanshah.critical storm on his head chestnut by War Lord out of Chinese restauranį proprietor, 1. Porilee and owned by M. sata he has been invlied to run Kingsley, was given first place Ki Ming at Washington Park and In the £3,000 Ascot Stakes Arlington Park In Chicago later Handicap after apprentice this summer. Jockey Tommy Mahon claimed that the winner, Royaliste IV. had crossed in front of him.
Was the
p.m.
William Woodward's Turco 11. failure in both the 2,030 Gulneas and the Epsom Derby,
ATE: first objection won its first race of the season made at a Royal Ascot meeting in the lost race of the day. The since 1946 und the first
son of Fighting Fox gained sustained since 1920.
head verdict- over Kameron photo finish in the £1,200 added St James Palace Stakes.-A530- einted Press.
one
T. I Carey's Mon Prince
was given second and Mohamed Pasha's Artaks was third in a photo Anish for the places. Time for the 21% miles was 4:24 376.
Queen Elizabeth, in lavender, Princess Elizabeth in grey and Princess Margaret in grey and in state in strowherry, roxie open coaches to the Royal en- closure and their box. King George was unable to attend herouse of his health.
พอม
In the first race of the day, Billy Ley On's Ki Ming beaten by the Begum Aga Khan's Neron in a race 85 yards
THE GOLD VASE
Ascol, June 12.
Mrs R. Foster's Faux Pas won the Gold Vase, run over two milos, this afternoon. Misa Dorothy Paget's Snowdon second und the Aga Khan's Shahanshah third. A held of 15
ron:
Sna
GMT at Ascot tomorrow.
Hig He began to talk. voice is controlled and powerful. He said:
Orson Welles as Cagliostro in "Black Magic."
"Yes, I'm a legend-- aren't we all if we step out- Hyperbole (A.
side Breasley),
the rut? Somerset Fastnet Rock (W. Rickaby), Maugham is a legend. so Kelling (Gordon Richards), Val
were Alexander Woollcott Dossa (N. Sellwood),
Rising Flame (E. Britt), Fair Judg and Bernard Shaw. So is ment (E. Mercer), Refund T. Rita Hayworth. Lowrey), Rodogat (L Piggott), Stromboli (Epli Smith). His- "And life is hard when you're
have some real integrity in al "What is the real Denizen a legend.
Orson paniola (P. Maher).
world that won't stay simple. Welles looking for? I don't want (F. Burr), Cabbage Hin (W.
"It's been hard for Rita Hay-
you to romanticise "Why do people regard me
this that Snaith), Persia (H. Greena -
Some of your as a rebel, a freak? Because the would be more legend-but if way), Dorogel (A. J. Russell), worth recently.
Walk (Doug Smith) papers have been attacking her work is becoming too confor- you must have an answer it is
Carson),
Free Yet I can assure you that Ritamist. Thirty years ago
they "God," Speech (li. Packham). The is a nice girl, a lovely, unspoil wouldn't have noticed me balf "I can't put it in any other
us much.
way. Half the world is search- Moke T. Mohon). Stafford-ed and very natural girl.
"It's happening everywhere. Įing for, God and the other half It's not only in Russia that the running away from Him. 's as individual is losing his indivi- simple as that. duality.
I camo It's the process of the
away slightly limp epoch, We're becoming mass- but sure of one thing Rita Hay- produced men."
worth, the girl he once married, He waved his surprisingly de-spoke the truth when she sald Micale brown band, oblivious of "You can't live 24 hours out of
24 with a genius.' the fashionable crowd gaping at Harry Lime and Citizen Kane,
could stop him talking. Nothing
Beaux was Hatchik
The betting was:-6 lo 1 Faux Pas, 20 to 1 Snowdon, 8 to 1 Shahanshah. King's Cotour was the 5 to 1 favourite.
Faux Pas won by a head with one and a half lengths separat-
TWO FOOTBALL
CANKERS
NEED
(A.
shire Blue (R. Reader), King Edmund (J. Sirett), Streatley
There's no harm in her, and
Amok), King Admiral (W. Riley). Bonnie Royal Re idea that she entered into
a serious, thing like (D.
marriage Greening) and Merry Rose (J. Jus for the fun or the publicity Mercer)Router.
NOT "DOCTORED"
he
of is a rubbish.”
SCANDALISED
same
"I'm not the only man trying SMITH & DRUMMOND to be
be myself. Behind the buikl- In fact, in many ways Rita is up Somerset Maugham has that Show Talking
simplicity. the epitome at something Ame-
"Bernard Shaw had ï, too. the Old World is riran that
10 react against sub- and look what they tried to apt.
make of
of him! remember him, consciously, I think-in a critical
walioing me
down to his gate way.
If she wanted her prince, when I was a boy, and talking with the greatest sim-
Ascot, Berkshire, June 12. The Comte de Brignac, the Why shouldn't she marry the cacing manager of the well-guy, even if he is an Indian known French owner, M. Marcel Prince? When she did that, you Boussac, stated today that the see, she was being thoroughly sallyn tests taken on Nyangal American. after the Derby had proved to be negative.
"This
what is just
we expected,"
said, "because there appeared no possibility of the horse having been tampered with."
Nyangal, M. Boussac's only runner for the Derby, behaved very badly in the paddock be- fore the race and tests were taken of his sweat and saliva Two football cankers need attention. One is scien- might have been doped by a because it was thought that he tific obstruction-elbowing, holding, nudging—as widely race-gang, exploited abroad.
The fact that he was heavily
ATTENTION
Says IVAN SHARPE
backred just before the race
Americans--the real non-con- to me
formist Americans would say: plicity as if I were as grown up
why the heck not?"
as he. The legend business But the Old World is scan- started with me because I really dalised, or is inclined to think didn't want to be an actor. I that it ought to be scandaliset. only took to the job in Dublin when the marriage breaks up. | because I was broke as ʼn pain- Look right through Rita Hayer. And I definitely didn't want worth's life and you will find to go to Hollywood. that she has always bren genuine
honest and and
IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS
I
Ivor Novello's Cavalcade To Be Filmed
THE success expected for the recently-completed. more-or-less British musical film, "Happy Go Lovely," "When they wanted me with Vera-Ellen, David I still admire her tremendous-made aft the most impossible Niven, and Cesar Romero, Jy,
demands and to my astonish-which you should be seeing He took a second helping of ment they thought I was ter soon, may trigger off a spate goose, explaining that he never rine. eats breakfast. All the time the So he wen: to Hollywood-tiv's of attempts by British film talk flowed out of him, ... man who was roaming the word makers to jump on
"AW I ever try to do is to and reading Homer at 11, play-band, wagon. remain simple, to be myself, toing leading roles in Shakespeare
A Technicolour version of the at 15, and writing at 16 an an- notation of the Bard that is now the recently published biography life of Ivor Novello, based on
The other is whether the goal-keeper shall be open to charging in the penalty area, or only in the goal-area, seemed to point to this possl- thoroughly natural.
•bility. or, as wrongly obtains abroad, whether he shall not be The Boussac ștable were, how- charged at all.
ever, quite certain of the time that the colt was merely upset. by the blinkers he was using and by the huge crowd and that no one hati "doctora" him.- Reuter,
!
Cheers for Scotland. They are by the award of an indirect tackling both,
free-kick. They say,
with
At the International Board Wales and Ireland, this is tou meeting Portrush, Scotland confusing. will lead the attack on England's proposal to penalise abstruction
BASEBALL SCORES
New York, June 12. Duane Pillette, traded away by the New York Yankees a year ago, got even today as he
Having just had a rough house in Vienna, during their defeat by Austria, the Scotsmen wont this obstruction and holding to be penalised by a full property free-kick.
Once again, the Scotsmen are right. The English Association is only playing kiss-in-the-ring with the Continentals in clutter- ing up the game with these unpopular Indirect free-kicks.
WORTH IT
pitched the St. Louis Browns the books may mean waiting a To got Scotland's change on io a 5-1 American League
worth victory. He held his former year, but that is well
Yank teammates to four hits.
while. An elbowing ban would football, rudely shake foreign
In the National League. but not before it la time. Philadelphia edged cut Chicago I hope Scotland will also stick 0-5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
to their guns in seeking to find a compromise in the vexed and Grabble-rousing situation sur- rounding charges on the goal- keeper.
RHE St. Louis New York
4 1 Winning pitcher Duune Pil- lette, loser Fred Sanford,
NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia Chicago
B 5 11
0
Associated Press.
Ong Chew Bee Loses First Round Match
Removing these two cankers was a prime reason for Britain's return to the world-governing 2 FIFA.
|
Louis-Savold Fight
Is Far From Being A Sellout
New York, June 12.
the
a textbook in U. S. schools. What does he think of Holly-sidered by Associated
by Peter Noble, is being con- wood?
Listen to him....
British
ictures Pictures, and Noble is at the moment preparing D screen adaptation. #1
"I couch have made a fortune in Hollywood but (a) I didn't particularly want to make foslune and (b) I didn't want
to be hired by anybody.
Walk I'm on my own now,
The Intention is that The Novello Story
should develop
into a cavalcade of the British
has taken me ten tough years. Theatre from the 1014-18 war
It
"But
now I'm
n capitalist. to the present day and feature
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I like.
"It's no use working to what the public wants, I don't think demands the the public ever right things, but it often likes
Labelled by sports writers as the "Battle of the Aged" and "Battle of the Over-age Destroyers," 10-what it didn't ask for morrow's Lee Savold-Joe Louls bout is likely to draw one
of the smallest crowds in history for an important heavy- weight fight.
Keep The Home Fires Burning
to Sone Day' My Heart Will
Awake.
Stars Galore
"I'm going to do what I want
STARS WHO MADE and I hope that the public
their names in Novello |likes it. I It doesn't, I'm dead.”
productions Cleely He chose a Havana with great Courtneidge, Peter
Graves, care, and put a second in his Vivien Leigh.
Mary Ellis and among them-
Savold, 35, holder of the British-style world title, meets former champion Louis, 37, at the Polo Grounds pocket. He smoked with en-Robert Newton Baseball Park at 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT Thursday, 11loyment. He had enjoyed every-will be enticed to join the cast. a.m. Hongkong time Thursday). Advance sales indicate talk as he enjoys life. I asked should play Novello?
thing-his meal, his wine, his But the No. 1 problem is: Who they are likely to feel lonely out there.
him about his foture in films. As all good anglers know,
He rald: there can be too many minnows
The probable crowd is cal-¡is confident that this price i
wasn't antific with in a stream. So a hundred com-
culated at 15,000 in a stadium unjustified.
"Macbeth," though it made petitors have been removed seating 60,000. The gate is pre- Bill Daly, Savold's manager, the literary men argue in pub- from the FA Cup and, before dicted to be about $100,000, said that when he and Savold į lie on the first night. So I had long, they may thin out 200
Louis gets 35 per cent of the were discussing the poor advance to do another Shakespeare im Bristol, June 12.
"The aim is to restrict the Cup net gate and Savold 25 per sale and whether the risk was "Othello" is my satisfaction. It Ong Chew Bee, the Malayan
with similar division of worth it, Savold said:
is the best film I have made. to Champion, lost his first-round
television ic cream
"If we win what's the differ-And it is of mine. of the country's the 15-rounder will not be ence how much there is in the match in the men's singles clubs, amateur and professional.
"Whatever "Othello makes when the West of England Lawn When that day comes there will broadcast
and television is house? We'll got all the money it will pay for my next film, be no "English" Tennis Championships WCTO
Cup-ties on restricted to a closed circuit of we want afterwards."
"Noal" village greens or minor grounds. selected theatres in Cleveland, Daly said this made up continued here today.
The Cup will be restricted to 14 Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, mind that Savold was ready and Football League clubs and some and Albany. 200 potential gianiküllers.
This sounds severe, but is ILT
He was beaten 8-0.1.0 and 0-4 by Russell Seymour, of
South Africa.--Reuter.
more.
the
a million-to-one chance.
the
revenue.
would win.
his
"Why Noah? There was just a moment when God, heflated about, washing mankind off the fans of the earth. He decided Pris to give Noah a break.
For the Arst time in years, Louis said he would win by a
International Boxing Club knockout. For all but afty of these com-will start the sale of general The former champion is alm- petitors, winning the Cup is admission tickets early Wednes-ing for another chance to regain
- MISTAKE, OR~? day morning.
the title from @zzard Charlestan't that something? God's Assoolated Press. A
mistake-or the start of a won |dentul experiment?
Perhaps we have forgotten
Sunderland Loses In Austria
*NO FEAR NOW They' used to be afraid that tickets would be counter.
Seems simple enough to us. Barry Sinclair not only re- rembles his former boss but bas deputised for him througb. out his career and knows more about Novello than any maa alive. But then, Sinclair is not a film "name" which may count for more than being the best man for the job.
was
KATHARINE HEPBURN being" gestored by camerameri for "just one more" picture of herself drink- ing a glass of milk at a recep- tion. She asked. what was 30 unusual about someone drinking milk and didn't we drink the stuff in Brain?
On being told by a patient pirl from a fashion magazine
TENNIS LEAGUE experien. We that it was rather unusual to
felted,
Frank Butter, a London
[are
HKFA MEETING A meeting of the Council of the Hongkong Football Associa= tion will be held at the A650- ciation's office on Tuesday, June 10, at 5.30 Dan. lo approve the Docounts for the year ending
too reatly 10 nocept it as Vienna, June 12.
The following postponed it is dood out to us, a newspapermen here for the May 31, 1950; to appoint auditors arki dx their remuneration; to
Sunderland lost by two goals night, said if it were held in League tennis matches, in the Tomalu this tremendous worth whiJO consider proposed alterations to to one to the Austrian Gras London it would have drawn | Men's “A” División will be play- experiment of the rules; to consider and approve team here today.
ed off on Friday, June 22303; every. Individhi who has ang's about $250,000.
Ham'!" she 'heard the' Report of Council for presenta Davis scored Bunderland's
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