GE.C

GUARANTEE

GEC

GUARANTEE.

THE CHINA MÁIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1952.

For

GOODNESS

sake

IGUAT

The

சீ.டூ.C.

Pedestal FAN

elves a tremendous movement of vir, it is also remarkably silent

GUARANTEL

OUR

EGUARANTEE

DETERMINATION OF THE BRITISH TO HAVE THEIR WEDDINGS AT EASTER

-(London Express Server)

Buy

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

ENRICHED*

BREAD

* GOOD BREAD. MADE BETTER

GRANT IN THINK.

For everything electrical

Consult

THE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.

2 Chater Road

Tel.

JAPES

birr

BEER

is now availablo

in Hong Kong, it is a fino Light Export

Bear -

a product of the

Union Brewery, Dortmund

the largest browing

establishment in Germany,

*

31131

TAUNDERBAY

Solo Importers: L. RONDON & CO. (H.K.) LTD. French Bank Building.

Tel: 36031

ADD GLAMOUR TO YOUR DESSERTS

with

REAL WHIPPING CREAMI

You'll love the way Avoset pure dairy cream whips quickly and stays firm for hours and bours.

Luscious whipped cream glamour ... pore, safe country-fresh Avoset Whipping Cream is perfect for pies, cakes, and pud-

AVOSET (Ufüipping

ILIZED CRIAN

dings. Alto delicious on hot chocolate kaps Sweet for Months/

or cocon. Use the economical quart-"

alse for particu

* Also try AVOSET Table Grade-

‚ for coffee, corsola, and frats,"

AVOSET STERILIZED CREAM

Whipping

· BOTTLED CREAM THAT KEEPS FOR MONTHS

Sole Agents:

LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.

TWO TECHNOCRATS SHOW HOW TO LIVE IN PUBLIC

66 A

LL this Luntery,"

as Cecil Beaton would (and did) say "Is going to

be wildly exciting" and there is no reason to doubt his word.

by

KENNETH TYNAN

Broadway, and

:wo

years

tour In. Ameri- Long run,

ca.

which make

most actors' drowsy, stlaw- late the Lints, and it is fact that, after

the

final matince on the last day of the Broadway run of "Love in

Idleness,** Lunt, look'ng deeply

concerned, call-

ed a full rebear-

แช

to smooth out

a

delicate piece

aupreme technocrats, muscle- This summer Beaton will Bound by Excess of technique be working with Lynn Fon- The prompter searched for the line, and had hissed it thrice in tanne' and her husband mounting horror before Lunt's Alfred Lunt ол Noel voice came whispering hoarsely of Coward's new play, "Quad- back at him. "We know the which had been

line, dear boy," it said, care o

business

him.

rille" its action takes place fully, "but we don't know which fels

during the 1870's in London, of us says it,"

in a railway station at Bou- logne, and on the French

Riviera, and the Lunts are

Their technique

Both the Lunts are crowd-

ing 60, from one direction or an-

"Tha Luula' in typical slage informulliy.

serve,

their

ane

in love both with and in it. I their highly personal method,

UNT is quite unable to dešine other, but such is their vivid then the most remunerative con- geniality that you might think trect in Alm history, 925,000 60 were an casis, instead of a dollar.

for Boven pictures. Beaton, who will design the as he realised with a jolt when

milestone.

Almost without pausing to settings and costumes, is already a student asked him what, in fact, was meant by "stago

refcat 20 toothbrushes

they turned it. down. agog with research into

the technique." He passed the ques

Like John Gielgud, they dis- exact dimensions of mid-

tion to his wife, who replied YNN Fontanse, sly. sereno trust cameras, and regard them, Victorian bustles. The Lanis

imperturbably in what is known und catlike of tread, retains superstitiously, as death, rays, confidence is quieter, but equally as her "knitting volte"; "Techni- at 04 a debutante graciousness, designed to nullify the glamour unshakable; their previous col-3

·Jives + laborations with Coward (not que, Alfred, means being able and has preserved her compact which ably the 1933 Broadway produc- to cross a stage talking at the elegance with no recourse to punctiliously organised to con-

Her only totems are tion of "Design for Living") top of your voice without bump alchemy.

a fantastic parade of 20 tooth- have been promperous enough to ing into the furniture."

All labelled which she takes every- ·· brushes, purge anyone's quaims.

The Lunts story might be where, and a home recipe (based THE Lunts are, above all, epitombed as a long and un- on milk) for her hands.

organised to endure. They erring avoidance of the furni- The Lunts exercise is farm- have adopted a provident, steady ture; the explosive, furniture ing, and on very little excuse rhythm of living which antici composure wrecking jamborees inherent in THEIR

all obstacles, conceals, as it always has, a the stronger, rhetorical kinds they will join antiphonally in pates

of praise of thek hens, and leaves them constantly astir perpetual inward chuckling at drama are not for them. In the explain how, when emerging and astonished when obstacles the variousness of events, and red

you might say, they are from the coop, they look exactly

may appear positive revelry in the contem-

Intruders; in like a matinee audience filing It is characteristic of them plation of work

twentieth-century comedy-drama out of the Broadhurst Theatre. that, three weeks before they they practically hold squatters The Lants sophistication is sun- left for England, every suitense rights.

burnt, and not the hothouse kind was packed and labelled.

It has survived without any fact, it would not surprise me

'Mystics'

external

""They're mystics," my Beaton; "hardworking mystics." And in spite of Lunt's statement, In appearance Lunt resembles

HERMES Ambassador

OF GOODWILL

Goodwill starts right in your office with the Hormas Ambassador.typewriter, for here is a machine your typist! can really take a pride in ................ and of the work sho doos on Hii

Its many new ideas for easter typing automatic carriage, return, automatic paper Intake, lightning margin setting, com bined automatic and decimal tabulátors enable her to do! more work with less physical and mental effort, helping to make crisp, error-free letters that create a good impression of your organisation; wherever they are sent.

and yet

Costs no more than

ordinary machines.

In

FULL

a few years ago, that, "Only a bulky polar bear, a giant pet help from Hollywood, except for to learn that somewhere in British, French

belef excursion in 1931, when London a painter was already and Russian with lively, commiserating eyes; actors can play in costume you would not take him for an they filmed "The Guardsman" busy on a large signboard bear- playa," the end-product of their actor, but perhaps for a mature moved to offer them what was HOUSE.

for MGM, who were Instantly ing the inscription: inbours will probably carry their and mannerly tycoon. Grey bright meridian hallmark of middle-age has ripened his urbanity, authority and tact. candour and his bayish unbend- ing, instead of stiffening them

For slightly less than three into stateliness. He is now 50, decades, skittishly or sombrely, and was born (like an oddly the Lumts have been conducting high proportion of good Ameri- their private life on stage, with- can actors) in Wisconsin. cut once being accused of ex-

hibitionism.

Their special skill

La intramarital high comedy

The Lane, 1905

rather than the profounder sorts TIS

of theatrical exultation, among His wife, Ave years his senior,

which tragedy is numbered.

out

Private joke

- cf ad

11 comes from

Woodford, in

Essex, and was walking on in the Drury Lane pintomime of 1005 whilo Lunt's parents were

HEY have enthroned on the still happily predicting an archi

stuge their own whimsical, tect's career for their son. She sensible, rel ixed, champagne travelled to America in 1913

carpet slippers

the Inte arid fitfully stamp of sophistication; since with their marriage in 1923 they glorious Laurette Taylor, and have always acted together, a met Lunt on a backstage ata.I self-imposed restraint which has case, soon after the war. Nuel curtailed their range (since Coward strucic up: acquaintance many of the best plays have but with them at about this period, one central character), while at the same time magnifying their when (as he has since phrase legend.

It) they were "courting, to pit It mildly.

There is a wonderful, hard- carned complacency about the.

This is the Lunts" fth pro Lunts style. Their intricate fessional trip to London, the interplaying with its apparent last, of course, being that falso starts, Interruptions, and Incessant mutual mockery, is a generously protracted wartime

public private joke on a

scale sojourn from 1943 to 1945, when Only once in recent memory they appeared in Sherwood's has the machine seized up. The Fulllzer Prize winner, "Thong Lunts were playing in their Shall Bo No Night", "ond Rati¬ customary at-and-away-from- gan's "Love In Idler.com"?" "The the-refa manner, a particularly Fattigan play occupied them involved two-handed rally, when

suddenly and simultaneously continuously for over, Aivo years, "both" "gro15" in" their tracks; two sonson in London; another on

Give me

BOOTA

FINEST

BOOTH'S

for choice!

Spalingess

OFFICE EQUIPMENT, DEPT. 3A Wyndham Atɛook. (Next to Baula China Morning - Past.) - Tel: 32789.

By appointment

Kuig George VI

to the late

Here is a recipe from. the Booth's Cocktall Booklet which is obtainable from your. supplier:

ALEXANDER NO. 1

Booth Gir

34 Creme da Tacão Fresh, Cream

Mix in Shaker

܃

THIS REMARKABLE GIŊ.2. ka supplied to the House of Lords, la the world-renowned Gla which every connoisseur chooses us the essential ingredient for a Pink Gla, or in feet wary andoth and really dry Gin drink,

Tuli la boceuse Booth's Blends better;' so choose Hooth's'und, ülways ask for it by name."

POOLE DISTRIBUTORS: GILRAH' COMPANY LTD, HONG KOI

Page 5Page 6

Share This Page