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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1951.
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SCARE ME
by KENNETH TYNAN
Hon
FEW weeks ngo permanent repertory company of 1m actors; recently he has Charles Laughton re-
taken to solo dramatic recitals. turned to England,
In a two-and-a-half-hour pro- prodigal
bearing a gramme he reads excerpts from Bible, Diciteru, Thomas strong resemblance to the the
Woolf, and James Thurber, and fatted calf.
the success of these monologues hos Inspired the idea that he should read the whole of "King Lear" with the movie cameras curning.
Laughton, 52-year-old son of Scarborough, has not appear ed in Britain aimez 1836, when
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He will probably never appear West again on the commercial Hardwicke
rent hankering to play a season End stage, but he has a rezur- at the Old Vic, as he did in 1933-34, especially since his old
Guthrie, producer. Tyrons back.
"Peter Pan" at the Palladium.
Now, in company with Agnes Moorehead, Cedric and Charles Boyer, he is our
Show's ing the provinces In "Don Juan in Hell," playing the Dovila study in sly villainy which differs from Hock only in being mellower and more dis- Illusion:d.
Laughton has spent the prime of his life in Hollywood.
There exists a photograph of bla arrival there: on the foot- board of the train behind him are written the words: "Watch Your Stop."
During what pro- mised to be the mosi productive de- cade of his career stayed, watch-
he
fully on the same him step: meeting today, one is amazed that he still feels responsibilities any
all towards the theatre.
is
I'm too old for long runs," he said. "I only wane imited engagements."
He has been told that Alge Guinness is the only contem-
classical porary
aclor whast approach, is thoroughly modern "They tell me he does the one vital thing be
At 52, a mere boy. of 40.
brings old plays touch with what's happening right out- side
the
theatre. You've got to bring Shake- today into
speare. That's what Olivier never does: he's the apotheosis of the ninteenth cen tury romantic actor." Richly sour, his Voice
OISIR JUST LOOK, AT
· THESE ADVANCE MODELS TILE SOCIALIST STORES ARE WORKING ON FOR NEXT SEASON'
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Korsan Peace
TORY STORES LTD
CHAIRMAN-LORD VELVETEEN
(fresh from buying up all bussenero rywale di sigil ki,
SALE-TIME PRE-VIEW
Maria Cosmaks By arranennt with Dáite tirinta
· Seven men marched in-all the same size, all dressed alike; and
in 20 minutes they stole 1,270,000 dollars. They have never been
caught, in spite of a dead-or-alive reward offer. Now-
London insurance firm
pays
LONDON.
BRITISH insurance
company Commercial
continued. I “Union Assurance, · of reflected how much London--has paid out more the London theatre than 1,000,000 had missed it's odd (about £339,383)
affectations
and its
special seedy kind American armoured
He was rushed to fame in one sudden starticd Jump in 1020 a student, In 1928 playing leads West the End.
He had a gift-rare, in young actors for seeming to be 40 on stage; youth and old age, the juvenile's usunt province, were both beyond him,
At the age of 28 he was using this gift in a plas, called "The Happy Family," when the New Just Peter Pan
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He was
dollars
to an
car
of pomp. Though it strikes service, which was robbed drily on the ear,
he salivates last year. prodigiously to produce it. You
AUGHTON today looks the
dollars
million dollars
by
GEORGE
HUTCHINSON
Whoever they were, these robbers added more than most to British Insurance losses.
How much do our companies lose abroad?
They pay out in claims more
other
13
risks with Arms In countries. So when there catastrophe, such as the destruc- tion of a town, the whole loss does not fall on the insurance companies of one country.
It was a British company that insured the American atom bomb plant ot Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
IT MADE NEWS
IN JULY
If you enjoy a cigarette
thought for PEACOCK
sparo ROBERT GLOAG, ' who introduced cigarettes to Britain years ago..
In the Crimen he saw Russian soldiers rolling tobacco
paper and smoking 1.
So Gloag built a shed in his garden at Walworth, S. E., and 10
taught cockney girls how make the now smokes.
They were twice as thick and half as long again as today's. and they cost three for id.
It happened in the rat fort- night in July.
He fell out
of a balloon
ON July 13, 1840, the world learned of a strange flying accident.
A balloon
was discovered
in the grounds of Godney Manor, near Glastonbury. în the balloon car villagers found
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t Jackei, pair of boots,
and a neckerchief—but no oc- cupant.
Five days later the body of a man named. GREEN was ré- covered from the Severn,
He had taken off in the bal loon frem Cardiff and fallen out.
Also on a July 13-in 1911 – the Duke of Windsor was in- vested as Prike of Wales at Carnarvon Castle amid scenes of great rejoicing. He was 17.
On the plate
We insure whalingA
was an image. HUNDRED years
ogo
stations from Greenland down lo the world saw the art of South Georgia, in the Antarctic. | LOUIS JACQUES DAGUERRE A camel caravan carrying rugs who put photography on a com- from Teheran to the Persian mercial basis. Gulf was insured in Lontion. So His "Daguerreotype" - portraits was a fur coat that the Emperor are still kept in British homes Haile Selassie of Ethiopia gave little brass frames invariably serimental reasons. The his wife.
contain pletures et great-grand- parents.
get the impression that butter The robbery was the is for ever melting In his
most lucrativo in the West- mouth.
ern world for a long time; the bandits took 1.279,000 than half of what they earn Gilbert Miller York producer
and from foreign customers. This (£426,388), cabled 10 London: GET TOUCH WITH MIDDLE-AGED
they have not been caught, earning is about £350 million reverse of tired and disen-
a year. So the "os" abroati AMERICAN ACTOR NOW. AP- PEARING IN PRODUCTION chanted; Captain Hook has re-
There were seven of them, can be put at something more Mills in India, a collection of tumed in the character of Peter and they moved in single Ale than OF HAPPY FAMILY.
£175 million, half the golden relies in Colombia, live Pau. The man of fly Ironically. Miller was a pro- like
looks into the Boston counting house premium Income from overseas video, Nigerian groundnuts (not penguins in transit from Monte- boy of forty, of Brink's 4 mere
Inc, one night in phot: no successfully naturalis-
lordly urchin playing a hard January 1950.
policies. Just what it is, nobody become a hes
They were all
to be
with confused
Mr ed. Laughton
game of marbles with his own the same size
knows. But I should say it is and they were
Strachey's); Edgar middle-aged American actor.
Bergen's talents. He is
around £250 million. ageles ap
as dressed alike.
dummies, minks in Canada--all Frem his early thiriles, πιονίες
Humpty Dumpty.
these
in have been insured have captivated him.
Even so, insurance is one of The secret of his freshness They tied up the cashlers and constantly being spurred to
lles in his boredom took 20 minutes to scoop the
our most valuable Invisible ex- Britain. make the stage his home; but possibly
Carrying money overland is a with
ports, a great earner of foreign anything that has frequently of the
ever money into bags. Darts most
currency.
And it has another risky enterprise in Malaya just been done before. suggested to him. Doc-
The bandits were hunted by value. another importance; it now. So some plantation owners Lor Johnson, Cagliostro As actor, he goes to fantastic 8,000 police, Brink's offered heightens our International are having wages dropped by Falstaff, Columbus, Pepys, and lengths to avold the cbvious; 100,000 dollars (£33,333) for prestige. It is good for Britain's aeroplane. The pilot serves six the Devil he has played only called upon to express simple them dead or alive. To this the reputation that so many people or seven plantatione on one trip. tho last..
love..or hatred he will offer insurance company added five abroad-insure-with-our-com- And here-in-London men insure instead lechery or disgust. His fim triumphs "Henry
percent of any money recovered. panies. They do so because they the money he flies, "Ruggles of Red Gap." VIII."
and His style is circuitous,
trust us. and rarely stops on to the diret "Mutiny on the Bounty"
The
Barretts of Wimpole highroad to an audience's heart.
We do business with all the Street" were all finished be. In this he is Hke, the mare In
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the world. Even with Russia and fore his fortieth year; and in Chesterion's poem who would Federal Bureau of Investigation, the other Communist countries,
last decade his reputation travel to John O' Groats by way has suggested that the the
do The men
Communists
not of Bruchy Head. has suffered a slow sag.
might have been Communists. patronize us very much, but Laughton arrives at his char-
obviously there are more than acterisations
Some detectives have claimed financial panung, having
advantages in no- plcked up a hundred assorted that the Communist Party in cepting what business
they odiments on the way; and the one of the few bodles able to offer. result is always n fascinating muster enough men of the same and unique mosaic.
I
"Terrified'
ASKED him why he chose Hollywood. From the depths of his face he said: "I'm far less
height, build and general ap- If our premium Income from scared of the camera and
He took leave of me in the pearance. These theorists say, abroad is £330 million, what is American audiences than I am of
manner of a buller begging on too, that the party could provide the value of the property this English ones. They terrify ma.”
afternoon off. As a friend of the brains to plan a difficult sum insures? It is so great that He eat slumped in
bia his hotel once commented: "Conal robbery (without maiming any it cannot be assessed billions of his buc dering he's a Creat room; the collar
man, one), and the discipline to keep and billions of pounds, shirt protruded unmanageably Charles makes his voice do an quiet about it.
The awful lot of bowing and scrap- sports-jacket, hta chasm between his jowls is ing."
over
Hoover's reflection: "It would bridged by slack, surly lips, on (World Copyright Reserved.—Landon | be a fine sum of money to have which words sit lovingly.
Exproan Service.)
for subversive purposes."
no
His voice, which has trace of Amerlein accent, flabbly nudges your ear; it has acquired a pedagogle note, the dry authority of a teacher.
"Have you ever had any in- terests outside acting?" I said, "Acting." he murmured, and smiled. His site is that of a small boy Jovisily proping at life in a nudist colony.
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The Angel-fish
TN repose his face, is a blank; it belongs to à mooncak, perhaps to the moon self.
You might
Big insurances are nearly always spread among'a number of companies, The spread is international, too: we share our
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DRITAIN is being urged who refuse to pool 1051 grein BRITAIN is being urged who re
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The Admiralty is to release more ships from reserve to meet overseas commitments."
At least one battleship will be commissioned,
America is financing the pro- duction of uranium, cobalt, coppor, tin and manganeso In The decision will be postponed the Belgian Congo. till three Anglo-Iranian experts
Pollah ships in recent Baltic cast him, on its have reported on the feasibility Sho has agreed to build three exercises were refused entry lo evidence, as Choien in "Cym of producing all from tar sands power stations on the
Congo Leningrad Harbour. beline," or, more appropriately, there.
tireless organiser of as that. amatour theatricals, Battom, In a "Midsummer Night's Dream', 000
Caliban in The over as Tempest," for with bis large watery eyes, he sometimes has the look of an undersea monster aground on a fishmonger's slab.
or
when it scents trouble.
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Russian security officers had America is spending £80,000,- China has protested to Russia reported careless talk among
surveylag Alberta and over non-deliveries. of arms, the crews, Saskatchewan oll deposits, planes and tanks promised In --
March. Lwow is fast becoming a-ma- for Russian oil centre.
Daguerre once left an under- in a cupboard, exposed plate and forgot all about it.
When next he went to the cupboard he found the plate contained a perject image--due to action of vapours from a dish of mercury.
That was how it at began,
Stole the bell and perished
ROBERT
STEVENSON, of
Glasgow, who bulk many of our light-houses, died on July 12, 1850.
In 1807 he
Bell
He's
off
re-
In one of Africa's national built 4 he parks it is always possible that famous
Light- you may bo enten by a lion. Rock Wise administrators admit the house.
take out publle 12 miles chance-and
the lability polleles in London.
Firth of Tay, and Many foreigners resent the placed & bell.
Insurance of British Fuccess
Legend says abroad. They try to damage us the bell, which
Uversellig business is
was maintained prospering. Our companies are carning more money
abroad than they have ever carned be-
But our
fore,
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putrain Chinese submarino crows la a now technique based on still reminds me of an angel-ishtina.
Britain is to ask Iraq to`re- Anglo-US. exercises. If that is the, one that intales Stewardesses
open the Halfa pipeline, and A walter brought his break Gaulle's representative in Mad-000-ton
France has agreed, to meet Do hopes noon to put Halla's 4,500,- A legal advisor has informed
into service. fast
refinery
the Foreign Office\. that "there Thank you," he
he said, with rid for defence folks.
can be no proceedings against the air of a man quietly closing Sweet rationing will end in Eisenhower's offer of deputy mats, should they return to the General Jula will refuse the two missing British diplo- a distasteful subject
September.
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