Gutierrez Shield American
Final On Sunday
The Gutierrez Shield Final between Switzer- land and Malaya will be played 07 Sunday, November 11 at Recreio
at 2.30 p.m.
Delta Wins The
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne, Nov. 6.
Swimmers Optimistic
By CONNIE RYAN
New York.
American Olympic
officials have nothing but optimism e scerning the
USA's swim ing chances at
Helsinki in 1952.
all the
1
"The team is young and In one of the most dramatic races in the long it is improving
time," said
one official. history of the event, Mr A. N. Asser's 10-1 chance, That is, the swimmers, Delta, won the Melbourne should say. The team won't Cup. blue riband of the be chosen until official try- Australian turf, today. outs in 1962, and it is the truth when we say we don't know who will be on the squad."
Morse Code, the 4-1 myourite, fell when about to take the lead in entering the straight, but the horses miraculously
D
other avoided him.
With smoke pouring across
from the course
nearby brush-wood fire, topweigh:
by Neville wood, got up in the last sirides to win by three quarteri
from Mr N. J of a length
Delta, ridden
Sell-
Lew
Hamilton's Akbar, who had ap- peared to have had the race well wom half way down the straight. Doublebank, owned by Messrs
N. Spencer and G. Lewis.
Wa
a further three lengths away, third of 28 runners.
The two-mile cvent was worth
A £11,000.
Delta, who carried nine stone Mii-stream
five pounds, is by
out of Gazzi.
A crowd of 85.000 watched the race in Are weather The going was good-Reuter
SITTING ON
THE FENCE
(Continued From Page 4)
Brushing the cake crumbs from his mouth, he pressed on til his nose smelled out a better lunch at Farnham.
He writes "I threaded into Farnham," which is an odd way for a man so full of cakes to arrive anywhere, unless was also futi of use.
he
At Farnham, he RO! hiz knees under the table without delay and was soon munching His way throug): Soup, liver and fried -onions, blackberry and apple charlotte, blue cheese and celery.
He does not seem to remem- ber much about the dinner, <xcept to jot down a sulky Sitthe note criticising the
Duffle
Maybe it was "so plenteous" that he was too tired to write another line before he "thread- ed off to another county, nose, like the monstrous nose
his
of Cyrano de Bergerac, march- ing a quarter of an hour ahead
of him sniffing the air for rext meal.
the
-(London Express Sørvice.]
Don't let MORNING
MISERY become all-day misery
Based on the performances in the National Ama cur Athletic held last Union championships
standou s arc July, the men's Ford Konno of Honolulu and
Wayne Moore of Yale University
Konno won the 800-melre and 1500-metre freestyle races, and Moore won the 200-metre and
Among 400-metre races.
the also-runs in these races was John Marshall of Australia, world record-holder at 400 metres, 500 m.tres and 440 yards. Konno js 18 years old, Moore is 19.
THE WOMEN
The
Among the women, 16-year-old Carolyn Green and 17-year-old Mary Freeman paced swimmers, and 21-year-old Patricia Keller McCormick dominated the diving.
seen.
"The fields in both men's and women's divisions was one of the most evenly balanced I ever have suld UP Sports Writer Northard, "and Lloyd much
younger and quite a bi! faster than the 1948 group which participated in Olympic trials in 1948 at the same pool.
it was
"I didn't see Konno last year when he lost to Marshall in the AAU finals, but those who did say he has improved greatly in the last year."
"Konna will be even better in 1952, said his coach, Yoshito Sagawa.
USA
One veteran swimming writer who saw the 1951 AAU meet said hat he was most impressed by the youth of the contestants.
So many new faces It's complete turnover in the
"All these swim scene." he said.
stars have come new
up so So it is reasonable to suddenly expert that other new stars wil arise before the Olymples at Oslo. It would be
to hard predict the makeup of the USA :cam.
are Will
Most of the swimmers college studen's, and compele during the winter in collegiale indoor meets. The non-college swimmers will keep in shape at club pools.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1951.
Hollywood Stars For Royal Performance
Fred MacMurray (left) and Dan Duryea, two of Hollywood's stars who are to appear at the Royal Film Performance, seen seriously studying a guide to
London at the Savoy. - Central Press Photo.
The Rise And Fall Of The O'Sullivans Is A Chapter In Britain's Boxing Story
Says ARCHIE QUICK
The rise and fall of the three O'Sullivan brothers provides a chapter of its own in the British postwar boxing story.
A SEMI IN
THI
STALLS
CELIA JOHNSON COMES BACK
BA
-without the pilot
ACK into the arena steps Celía Johnson -the beat actress our film industry has known in its chequered history.
Miss Johnson alters the star values of British studios overnight. In any assess- ment of our own screen stars those who are left-Celia Johnson is usually omitted. She acts so rarely nowadays--just two pictures in the last six years---that studios have come to regard her as a "guest-star." Looking after a husband and young family takes up much of her time
Now, suddenly, Miss Johnson -43 in December--seems to have decided on making 1951 her big working year. Through the summer she graced the all- star cast of Chekhov's Sisters on the West End stage.
She has started Ealing Studios
Harold Conway's SHOW TALK
Back to the studios: Cella Johnson with Ceel Parker in her new film Une Singer.
Three taking good money for parts anti-climatic second night,
which seem bad to me.
the Jamaican Hurricane Fund. Such charity shows are fre- quently publicity affairs, useful to ensure a full house on the
Mr Coward's charity gesture is publicity stunt. He has good to be sincere: On at actress to bluff audiences when reason a proba-1 don't believe in the character Jamaica's North Shore stands the Coward winter-sunshine officer 5n One
Sinner myself." -based on Cyril Stokes's docu- mentary-book,
tion
as
work
"I'm not A good
enough
no
one thing different retreat, where he thinks up the the plots of his new shows, Includ-
OUR BEST GUY?
There is Court Circular. about this star's return to Then, with only a week's inter-studios. All of her four big filming Relative Valucs.
Korda successes-topped by the much- val, comes a film for
Brief Encounter the role of the clergyman's self-honoured
in
The were written by Noel Coward. sacrificing daughter
She had come to be accepted as Holly and the Ivy, which ran a year on the London stage.
the Coward screen heroine.
Mr Coward has nothing to do with the two pictures Miss John-Formby before tonight. But Bon is now tackling. It isn't a now Sid Field is dead I would case of dropping the pilot. The rate him as your best and most pilot has been too preoccupied characteristic comedian." elsewhere to come aboard.
BLUFFT NO
OUR No. I ACTRESS-well,
in the theatre she shares top place with Edith Evans-has not done so much concentrated work for years. It means a big Lift-up for the reputation of Bri-
COWARD AND COOPER One of Noel Coward's pre-
QUOTE from Oscar Hammer- stein after the premiere of Zip Goes a Million;
"I'd never heard of this guy
tish screen acting just when it occupations has been the pro Mr Formby should welcome this
is most sorely needed.
.
duction of his comedy, Relative Values. This is his first new Ör, to put it another way, straight play for nine years, Danny, Dickie and Mickie are as Cockney as the sparrows; although their cynis Johns and Margaret It will present Gladys Cooper Mr O'Sullivan was himself a Leighton parents, living in London's Finsbury Park, are Irish.
no longer have the as a hostess whose maid-servant field completely, and arduously, inconveniently turns out to be boxer of some note, and his sons have met with mixed fortune in the same sport.
to themselves.
the sister of an English-born Dickle was the first to arrive was boxing's representative al these days, and is likely to be "Not that I've been staying at Hollywood star-expected for a in the fistic limelight. In the the Royal Command Variety sluggish at anything over home on purpose though my week-end visit. Royal Navy during
When Relative Values opens 19 having the thirteen stones, Len Harvey family is the major attraction,' difficulty he found himself Australia, utmost
In making and Jack Petersen
"It's in the West End, the second per- were two Miss Johnson tells siones seven got himsel paid for putting on twelve
pounds others similarly handicapped. simply that don't believe in tormance is to be given over to the gloves in several contests in Sydney
and was quite #
success
the war.
Demobilised, he climbed the ladder sufficiently to fight!
O'Monoghan for the Rinly World, European, Empire and British flyweight titles. Since then he has retired from the scene, lives modestly, but com-
in
London fortably.
a West suburb, and has a trade.
Danny came next. The eldest of the three, he was persuaded by Dickie to take up boxing,
afier and.
an outstanding amateur career, not only turn- ed professionəl, but won the British and Empire bantam- weight titles.
Then came disaster. Chasing the European Crown he went; 10 Barcelona lo fight the The competition next year at Spantsh champion, Luta the Olympic trials will be as Romero, and
Into an tough as the Olymples them-
Taweel for the world tile selva" sald one observer. Johannesburg. UnitePress,
Boat Race On
March 29
London, Nov. 6. The boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities next year will be rowed from
Putney
to Mortlake on Satur- day, March 29,
Cambridge, whe
સોન
Vic
in
has never
up
been the same man since--noi even though he moved into the featherweight class.
Youngest brother Mickie
has been a successful amateur, has boxed for the Army and is now making his way up the professional ranks.
After beating Albert Sin- neave, of Belglum, on points at the other night, Brighton
said: "I
ut Danny
am one those unfortunate chaps just too heavy to be one weight-ban- tain and too light to be of danger to the top feather- any
won the weights I have always had
last five races, will have three weight troubles, and the Romero members of last. season's and Toweel fights were the last brillant crew available J.C.
straws."
Crowden, R. F. Sharpley and One
J. K. Hinde.
remark of O'Sullivan's
Cambridge's main problem held great significance: "I am atraid Don Cockell will have a
than
will be to find a useful replace- ment for David Jenners, their similar stroke, who has now left the University.-Reuter.
worry." That is more who possible. Cockell,
Performance,
me.
India's Great Lover Plans Films
Mr. Ashok Kumar brings gropes to his ipije, Shoba Devi. convalescing after an operation.
For
London
NEVER A KISS ON THE SCREEN
INDIA'S
199-year-old
From the decidedly un-Lon- castrian author of Oklahoma and South Pacific-as well as dozens of pre-war American musicais-
as high rating indeed.
JAMES MASON, CROONER
When I saw. James Mason in Paris last year he was
full of plans for his first independent dlm production-entirely under his own control.
"Let the public judge me on this picture," said the much- criticised Mr Mason. "It will be made as I want."
Well, the Mason Opus No. 1 arrives in London a month from now-hot on the heels of his part in the controversial Rommel film. Title: Lady Possessed, adapted from a novel by Pamela Kellino (Mrs Mason).
In this, his very own produc- tion, Mason plays a vaudeville · singer. He sings-or, rather, aroons three Songs entitled It's You I Love, My Heart Asks Why and More Wonderful Than These.
performs a
He also
calypso number with a native
"Clark Gable," kissed a woman on the screen.
THE CENSOR'S RULE Ashok
"It just wouldn't be allowed Kumar, star of 40 films, is; by the censor," he said. "We singer.
So this is the kind of thing the bring Indian can show a shadow of two people planning to films to London.
Jeissing, we can show them with earnest and aloof Mr Mason has "Our filme are already their lips very close, but not the been yearning to do. I should than 430actual kiss. Don't think we don never have suspected it. I await Been by more
kiss in India. But we never do with interest the judgment day
he invited over that Paris India, so in public." million people in Pakistan,
The film industry in India is of tea.
cup
South America and South Africa. It is time 21 years old and Ashok has been
FOR BOOS READ CHEERS 8 star since 1935. Britain saw them," he said
Ashok and his wife have a Who won warm first-night at the India Club in Craven boy of Ave and two girls of 11 applause for one of the best "It and 8. But they are not likely performances in Orson Welles's Street, Westminster.
Othello production? South Aftl
will make for better under to go into films. They will prob-
standing between
ably follow his other business our interests.
countries. 1 plan to have
English sub-titles, as you
-(London Express Service)
can actor John van Eyssen. His Cassio
was both dramatic and intelligent.
Who, a few months ago, was
do for French and Italian Noted At Randomguyed by the gallery, and
films."
Recently he has been in Mos- cow for the Russian film festival
completing his part only with
There are five stars in David difficulty-during that embar Lean's "The Sound Barrier rassing first night of Storka as a guest of the Soviet Union, Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick, Don't Talk? John van Eyssen. Moral: don't blame the poor He flew back to London to be John Justin, Ann Todd and the
with his wife, Shoba Devi, who Vickers Supermarine 535 swept-actor he is usually doing his recently
had a lung operation. wing jet fighter... Hichard best. To Mr van Eyssen him- "Russian films are good" he Burton has been given an eight-self the up-and-down extremes said. They should be. Every year contract by Korda, He'll of show business have been. thing is provided by the state. A make one picture a year for the illustrated in one season.
maestro Nat Jackley has
Most of the old-timers found
director has only to demand sored his neck for £20.000 it out long ago; the boos of one
many cameras and they
are
supplied. But the films are which makes him some chicken premiere change into the cheers spoiled in my opinion by always ... Farley Granger will dance of the next. And, of course, vice having so much propaganda." in his next film-and with versa.
Ashok is the great lover of Moirs Shearer. "Well, I'll prob- (World Copyright Reserved-London
But has never ably lift her up," he says...
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