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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1951.
BOATS for HIRE
"This type of craft, str, is very simple to handle-from the look of things it need be."
London Express Service).
Tough? He'll woo
the big Lost
66
HOLLYWOOD. TES, there's Д great big Lost Tribe of film- goera-and I mean to get 'em back!"
Speaker?
Kramer.
Significant?
Stanley.
whom..
R.M.McCOLL
IN
HOLLYWOOD
-and it gave Marlon Yes very. Brando his movie bow. Mr Kramer is the sort of
The point is that he กาล
Hollywood
made "Champion" in just 'could do with a whole lot 22 days of shooting time. more. The industry has And that, by normal Holly- come a long way-much wood standards, is like run- far-from its early, ning up the Festival of carefree, rollicking days. Britain buildings while It seems to have slowed you're shaving. into a gentle, middle-aged jog-trot.
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The two-reeler comedy which used to lay us in the aisles years ago has given. way to the gentle rustle of the balance sheets and
Tribe
face the challenges, TV and the rest of it, we
€
STANLEY KRAMER
"What's the common de- nominator of all these?" aska
IN ROME THEY LIVE SO
THE
WELL ON DEBTS
By Robert
ROME.
Shearer
Debt is the
answer. The
Tthe avant tourist of the taller. Itallons make jokes advance guard of last man ever to get paid is vasion of Rome has already the bill now, another quarter next year and the rest who arrived, fair percentage knows when? Meanwhile, the of them being British customer wants Barnething visitors.
now. So the bill never really enda
Practically without ex- There are hundreds of mag- ception they express nificent Alfa Romeo cars on astonishment at the scem- the streets of Rome. Yet it's ปี fair bet that, not one in a ing prosperity of the hundred is fully paid up. Italian capital.
Dealers are prepared to com- promise, because they couldn't do any business if they didn't.
"Look at all these food shops,"
And there's a lot of gentee!
poverty, too. I know men and women in their Aftics and sixties living on pathetically small fixed incomes who would die if they could not present a brave face to the world by wearing a clean collar or a new blouse,
to one man said me. "You couldn't get another article into the window with a fine knit ting needle.
And the way people are dressed, especial ly the women, is a sight for sore eyes. How Is it done ?"
But they have to sacrifice They something to get. There are a lot of fake it out of their momachs. answers to that question, Lunch frequently will bea little thin soup,, bread, ond all of which have to be
fruit. taken together to make any sense out of the Italian social scene.
The average Italian, for
shall be throttled, that's Stanley. "They all have a Point example, pays no rent, or at
all there is 1ơ it.
of View."
How does this man cut his flim-making costs?
1
go
best a very nominal sum amounting to a few shil- lings a month. Wages on food and clothing. There is no margin for
"Business bad? Yes, and I'm prepared to see it get twice as bad
"I use half sets and quarter when the number of TV cats doubles. You sets. Why build three walls anything else. hear people say, 'I haven't been when one will do? Maybe some to a movie in six months." day, I'll have an eighth of a set,"
If the Rent Restriction "Well, I'm going to get those Kramer rehearses his cast Act were repealed tomor. the movie diligently. Then, when they row-and, by the way, the people back into theatres-and 0 whole
new start shooting they are able to Act itself goes back to the audience as well.”
whip It through with little or no time of the Mussolini re- fumbling, and a minimum of
gime-the national economy false starts.
would literally fall apart.
Butchers are eager to sell meat, but only percentago of people can offord to buy it. Certainly there's no shortage of this commodity,
irony
which is currently such a core point with the British public
But surely there is in the Italian situation,
too, In that they produce an abun- dance of home-fed steak and veal which many housewives can only glance at and pass
on.
Restaurants where British lourists go are
generally
ま
The
the quality bracket. Italian they will meet there tion of the population, and, of represent only the tiniest por- course, many of them are making a lot of money either in industry or in the cinema
business.
No message
So far as impressions gather- "Another thing, I don't buy
It is true that many Italian ed on the streets go, there's a STIMULATING STAN goes on:
"My work doesn't carry a high-salaried people-I can't men and women are sur lot of trouble and poverty be- message'" (three long and afford them. I bring in people prisingly well dressed, con-hind the facade. It is perhaps are not the least admirable charge- for cheers It cost around 500,000 hearty
thal, Mr
on small salaries and give them sidering the number who
the Italians that dollars. And while 500,000 Kramer), "but the picture's got
Iremendous responsibliitles and complaining about hard times. teristic of Just
And it is equally true that they will put on a front until dollars may sound a lot in to say something. vital.
making
moderately 0
good opportunities.
there is a great deal of chica- the very fast minute, nery involved in making ends meet at all,
devalued pounds (to be picture is the kiss of death. "Spending four or five million exact, £178,571) to the
"Good pletures are just not bucks on a picture and taking They've got to be years to make it-that's hopeless: good enough. moody men who play with
And celluloid, it is-or 'was, fine, wonderful,
more speed. new, exciting. Speed and
more ideas." because young Mr Kramer and vigorous." pontificating statements is fast changing people's from boring old men.
ideas-about what you'd
The uniform
When movie men start spend on a couple of golden talking
about bath tubs for Mr deMille. gravely Social Significance at 21 cocktail party (referring to their products, not them- selves)
dience, have had it.
Now, what new (and wonder- ful and exciting) dims may wo expect from this young man?
He had the list right there. First a story about six convicts. There have been plenty of Big Housers before, but No. 2 Is different. It is a study of are adolescence called The Happy then we, the au- WELL, here we
in the private office Time," which should be fine. of Stimulating Stan, Then there is the adaptation But .amid the snall the ideas mar He is of a Broadway play, "Member of which is about tracks they will have in his thirties and he has a the Wedding,"
are neglected by Sunset Boulevard on good, rugged face, rather children, who
thefr wealthy parents and crutches any day now-we Spencer Tracy-ish, und dark brought up by the servants, suddenly encounter young brown, striking eyes. Kramer. And promptly we He is wearing the Holly
feel a lot better.
"This brings something really new to the screen," says Kramer with enthusiasm.
Next there is another with a child theme what goes on in a chlid's imagination.
As Stanley Kramer says, it's a point of view. It will be a good thing for plctures when more people share it.
(London Express Service.)
Vio
ad-
They have centuries of Veneto on a Sunday forenoon vocating "Pazienza, Aglio mio,
walk along Rome's
philosophy behind them will give you a display of con-
forza,
tutto passera centrated elegance and fashion, tience, my son, courage, every-
(Pa which probably no other Euro- thing will pass). Much no wonder that British visitore based on that premico. Is
pean capital can rival. It to
the
are inclined to think there is some nigger concealed in woodpile somewhere. There is.
He'll Stay Under King's Blanket
From ARTHUR MAPLESON
MBABANE, Swaziland,
Government to taice over his
pendent on the
Union's tron-
wood uniform of open
THE paramount chief of the sport services for access to the necked shirt (his is alaty
Swazis, Sobuza II., has de-. 203. There are the Portuguese
East African ports, blue) hanging outside the
fled Dr Malan's South African No gold tubs
gent's natty trouserings.
He was emphatic that Britain He talks fast and
The Afth is to be a study of homeland, mysterious Swazi. would not let the protectorates go. He said: "Britain has pro- THIS man is terrific. He
mised. breaking off the sex killer, "told from the land, a British protectorate.
And Britain know, incisively, is the one, you'
always point of view, and who made. "Champion," every so often to answer the killer's
"We stay under the King's keeps her promise." house telephone, which, showing where society falls down which
Kirk discovered
In its treatment of these unfor-blanket," he said, him like a lunates." Douglas as a welcome by buzzes product. He also made peremptory grasshopper. Personally, I
go 150 men, has 60 wives. He receiv- The Men," which was all "We're up against tremendous miles not to see a flim about a challenges tremendous," he sex killer, but you must give about paralytics -rattles, walking round to the Kramer full marks for his ex- courageous theme to tackle front of his desk. "Unless we periment,
FOR
at
would
Can't you sleep? Just
try rocking
an
ever-growing
army of insomniacs,
by.... JOHN POMFRET
who regularly rely on "the Httle pill" for at least one motion good night's sleep now and again, there is welcome news from group research
hypnotic brain.
has
effect
on
near- the
minutes within their Individual repertories of sleep-patterns: i... back-sprawia kitten-coils, starfish forms, and "knotted" postures.
Sobuza, ruler of 200,000 tribes-
ed me in his council chamber bungalow a modern type.
In
which contrasts with the wood, thatch, and clay of tribal huts,
Ho wore a light blue and yellow garment slung over one shoulder. Round his waist was a leopard skin. On our right sat four counsellors in nondescript European dress.
Tall, the, and handsome Sobuzo, bearded after the fashion of his race and with
Ho lively sense of humour,
.in good When one position overtires chuckled as he said Joints or muscle areas it signals English: "Dr Malan says he the brain for a change of posi- claims the protectorate under the tion.
Yet by his BUI Act of Union. disenfranchising coloured voters Children, it has been found, he has torn up that Act." are more restless than adults, on the subject in America. The rocking bed was firat uséd men more restless than women.
The counselors approved to stimulate circulation in people
Similarly, it has been found these words in a drawn-ou! Investigators at. Pitts with diseases of the blood vessels that certain "guard" areas of the sound, something like mmm~ ald brain remain active while the mmm, But Sobuza's bodyguard, burg and Chicago simply and then as a respiratory
body sleeps.
two ferce warrior types, just advocate the rocking bed. for polio sufferers."
glowered
from under their It worked so well, and the The same areas insulate a fuzzy, blendish it soothes the sloopless
hair -- many like the child in the cradle patients rested KO well, that sleeping mother against a loudSwazle treat their hair with A
doctora tried it out oa the train whistle but rouse her im-bleaching clay. or rocked in its mother's sleepless.
mediately with a faint whimper from her baby,
arms.
Insomniacs twist and turn all night in an effort to shift weight off a tired body.
.
..
say
Sobuza crossed his long, un- rousered legs and said: "I know Britain will not allow the pro- poctorate to pass to the Union. It would be betrayal.”
Half an hour's rocking at most should pacify the most About the merits of the double
bod sleep.. researchers axiurate sleep-resisters.
For the normal person the in it by yourself."
"Excellent, providing you sleep deepest sleep occurs an hour after retiring, when partial Beds should be neither tos
We diersod other aspects: Weight is redistributed three hours the gradual awaken and warm
consciousness, occurs,
would happen if the After soft nors too hard; light encul What
economie pres- baths are good Union put on periodically in a rocking ing process begins.
soporifice so too, is dui com- ure? Could the prośbotarate bed requiring little or no effort from the sleeper the fact that most sleepers
Cino-cameras have recorded any for a dull book before resist? A
retiring.
Yon, mid Sobu. Swaziland Also the gentle to-and-fro chunga position: every ten London, Ken_Rentes). (could rent tóc, con tinh d
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Certainly visitors are entitled to say by the look of things that Italy appears to be very fortunato country. And it is not hard to understand u certain amount of criticism from Britons for the abun- material amenities dance of here which have been denied them for so many long years at. home.
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