THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1952,
★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★
ALWAYS A SCENE OF PHLEGMATIC LEISURE
as
By DILYS POWELL
Welles. is trying to lure into the catastrophe picture with largesse of fish.
pursue them
Whenever I visit n m one of
wherever they go. In response studio the scene in
"Look at the silly pronks, all to n telegram from Welles, phlegmatic leisure: stars dying away out of the shot! MaeLiammoir flies to Africa, but bored Hey! Come back, you great big three weeks too early. The com- hanging about with ochre faces, director plead-overfed Jezebois hey!
Here pany's Luggage is lost, the actors ing in honeyed tones with a they come again! Actiont Fisht are in the wrong train, Mac- Quick, tell those Arab cretins, Liammoir burns his back on a knot of extras, and an elec- someone, quick! Action! Hey! hut- Welles has a finger
pipe, trician fiddling amiably Fish, Goddammit!"
hut-air poisoned by a scratch from an with the model liner which, To Micheal MacLiammoir, from admirer: Othello must say "All's has
well
now, sweeting, come away to once more,.
it whose new book "Put Money in wobbled into its model har-Thy Purse" (Methuen, 155.) the bed" to a Desdemona who isn't there because Desdemona hasn't bour, managed to turn off imprecations are quoted, we owe there
of faith in the been cast yel, The murder of the restoration all its lights.
divine
lunacy
ng. Roderigo has to take place in of film-making.
els of steam-bath
because the men's Lillian Ross, in a recent series of How different from the shut ferociously sardonic articles in costumes haven't arrived. ing of Orson Welles's "Othello", the "New Yorker" about "The
The intervals production stops be- use there is no money. Yet (which we must all pray to ker Red Badge of Courage," took us The passage is Act IV. behind the screen Indeed. But
Welles, cursing. soon)!
quarrelling, Scene with a concealed Othello Misa Ross is a journalist and an embracing, roystering, goes on. mistaking references to Banaobserver; and it is the battle of "He will win through and alt at business and executives rather the end will fall into his hands, Desdemona. It is being played than the battle of the artists the bright-winged old gorilla," at Mogador, on a beach used for | which she observes, Mac- hunting and hygiene by Linnmoir is an actor. And he multitudes f seagulls which | 18 a
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writer, with ex- The portrait of Welles alone ceptional gifts of wit and would make the book worth mogination. When he tells us while. And there are scores of about the making of a film he other portraits: Suzanne Cloutier, is himself part of the lunacy, yet the French-Canadian Desdemona artist enough to draw back and whom We
Welles
calls
that Iron look from a distance.
Butterfly; the beautiful, Fay Compton: Hilton Edwards, Mac- Liammoir's willy and dis- tinguished colleague ot The Dublin Gate Theatre.
میں Othello
"Put Money In Thy Purse" has for its sub-title "A Diary of the Film of "Othello" "; the book is a day-by-day account of a gigontle But over all there broods an fantasy in which for over a year other portrait, the portrait of the its author, in turns exhilarated, actor; not an actor but the mnody, exasperated, enchanted generic figure of our imaginings, and wretched, was caught
up. the excitable, impecunious, was cast to play Jugo to the generous, gossiping, flamboyant. his frien Orson belligerent, nocturnal creature of Welles.
He had not, he tells us, our insatiable desire for romance. worked in a film studio since he Life in MacLiammoir's book is mude "Coming Thro' the Rye" turmoil, but
enjoyed
turmoil. with Alma Taylor; over-
Nobody has any money, but familiarity with the business of everybody travels by plane, cun- acting for the cinema thus never verses by long-distance telephone mists over the bright surface of and dines at the Tour d'Argent. his writing.
Everybody is exhausted and ill, bul strength is found to argue all (or at worsi to follow the
as lago ning-match "with eyes like
Not that his part involved him in much studio work. The fantasy took its cat following strenuous game of players more than half-way
way ping-pong") and to note in some across Europe and at any rate Bashing phrase the appearance part-way across Atrica. They of a city approached at dawn are in Paris, they are In Rome, from the air. The actor's stamina they are in Casablanca; they act it
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in an which Palace,
which lends vitality to - century eleventh
church in
Money
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BROOKLYN DODGERS CLINCH NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT
New York, Sept. 23.
The Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the National League pennant tonight by defeating the Philadelphia Phils 5-4 in the first game of a double-header.
The Chicago White Sox dealt the Cleveland Indians' pennant. hopes a near-fatal blow, defeating the Indians 10-1 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
The defeat dropped the Indians struck on the pitching wrist by a game and a half behind the a pitched ball while at bat in first place New York Yankees, the second inning against
whose game against the Boston Washington's Walt Masterson. Red Sox was rained out. Now Shantz was scheduled to pilch the Yankees have six games to
play and the Indians only three.
One
more
the game against Yankees, whom he shut out 13
The White Sox battered the his last appearance.
Indians pitching асс. Mike
Bobo Newsom relieved Shantz
Garein, for five runs in the first and went, the rest of the way to Inning and that was enough to gain his fourth victory. Gus win, as Jue Dobson pitched, a six-hitter for Chicago to notch his 14th victory of the season. The defeat ended a six-game Cleveland winning streak,
The Indians scored their only run in the third inning.
Zernial blasted a three-run homer for the Athletics In the Orst inning and they got their winning margin in the fifth on Eddie Joost's single, Ferris Fain's double and on infield | out.
The scores word:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R H
The Athletics bent the Senators 4-3, but the Athletics star pitcher, Dobby Shantz,
Chicago suffered a wrist injury and will Cleveland be lost to the team for the rest Washington of the season. Shantz was Philadelphia
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United Press.
Cricket Writers
Award Trophy To
Fred Trueman
London, Sept. 23.
such
F. S. Trueman of Yorkshire and England, the 21-year-old fast. bowler who hod astonishing success in the Test matches
against
India
this won the
Says Ladd: "I'm not conquering anyone or any place. I'm playing an American who came to be taught how to fight."
I said the sparks would start to fly when I saw-
ALAN LADD IN A RED BERET
ALAN
By LEONARD MOSLEY
LAN LADD, from Hollywood, put on the red beret of the paratroopers and pre- tended to be the hero of Britain's air- borne army.
Up on a Welsh mountainside at Traws. fynydd. Merioneth, director Terence Young made the opening shots for his film Red Beret. the story of Britain's paratroopers in Africa, Normandy, and Arnhem,
from the Army) at
tho
troopers (borrowed
mobile canicon,
He got down into a ditch alongside Leu Genn while director Young arranged the 'bodies of the Germanis Ladd was going out to
"kill."
: Smoke bombs began to explode, and real bullets zipped across the mountains as the real paratroopers went whooping into action.
Then the cameras swung down to Alan Ladd. He lumbered out of the ditch, gan under his arm.
Dil Mr Ladd feel unensy as the only American (and the chief character) in purely British war story? You would never have guessed it. He showed no signs of discom- fort when he joined some real British para- | Starring Aian Ladd.
And the film "Red Beret" bad started,
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ALAN! LADD LEO
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CONTINUIT GIRLS
Real bullets zip through the air, real paratroopers go into action-anit so does Alun tadd on his first day of wearing the red beret.
Spotlight
New STAR FOR FLYNN?
Czechs Win International
Motor Cycle Trials
Bad Aussce, Styria, Sept. 23.
Czechoslovakin won the International Trophy in the
six-day International motor cycle trials which ended here
today.
Austria were second and Britain third. slovakia also won the Silver Vase event.
Czecho-
Other placings in the Interna- should have made, his speed tional trophy were: fourth-test and he incurred 60 peñally Sweden, fifth-Germany, sixth points.
Members of the Czech team Italy.
stated: "We have no pleasure unofficial ro- in winning the cup under these According to ports, the points in the trophy race were:
the victory by their Czechoslovakia
penalty magnificent driving throughout points, Austria 600, Britain 700, the race." and England Sweden 058, Germany, 1,407 and The Czech tcom also won,
(These are still sub- the factory
hos
Cricket Club trophy for the
cricketer of 1952. He defeated D. Sheppard, the brilliant Sussex
"best
bataman, by eight votes.
'Avo
Italy 2,080 confirmation).
BAD LUCK HITS GRUMANS
Trueman's Bowling swoord for jeet" to'
season was 282.3 overs, 57 maidens, 841 run, 01 wickets, Average 13.78,
Gruner, The BMW team:
leam race
their AWÁ machines,
with
Last night the Jury decided
by EVE PERRICK
London Express Service
New SHOWTIME PLANS FOR JOSE FERRER
THE BIAL FROM THE EAST
GOES TO A PARTY...
8 this Mr. Flynn's new part
ner ? For his next film, “Fire Over Africa," the intrepid Errol Fun will Jain the Foreign Legian. And negotiations aro golux on to get Indian star Nimmi to play opposite him.
The two have met before. You see them together at a cocktaŭ party in London. And in the smaller pleture-ilie same girl who is in that Oriental TeM(!o-lah_frolio " Aan,”
The Czechoslovak team had ato annul the dretch of the womo than permitted-im measure of fortune in the Silver race yesterday afternoon which rules for the race,
the
'I CAN SING IN TUNE, I GUESS-SO
A MUSICAL "GOES ON THE AGENDA
ALL
that
most of
us know about
Jose Ferrer is
(a) he walks on his knees; (b) he is
human dynamo
-the busiest
man on. Broad-
way last year presenting...
-and inclined
to rush around like-mad-in search of his theatrical Utopia.
However, when I met him recently he Was (a) on his feet, and drawn up to his full
5 ft. 9 ins.; (b) very tired.
Cyrano de Bergerac Donny Kaye
role
En
and the.
"Let's
Face It"):
"I don't really know. I can sing in tune, I guess, but I'm not sure if I con sing real loud.
"As for dancing, I can just about manage the routine steps. Let's hope it will be all right on the night."
2d. queue
J
SHOTS FROM THE SET (tho Gene Kelly "Invita- tion to the Dance" unit at Elstree):—
The Ascot-reminiscent scene during one of the breaks as the elegantly dressed (from "Ward-
The tiredness was under- | 10be") 'extras queued up round standable. He had been spend- | the tea-trolley
buy
ing the day scrubbing around pas" at 2d. a time.. the studio floor, doing his
"cup-
chores for what, I imagine, is
man
the
going to be the most famous,
The harassed-looking permanently spraying
und certainly the most publi-rapes with water to keep them
pictures hanging straight..... elsed, freak in motion
next to the Hunchback of Notre Dame. (The character ho doubtless is playing, you will recall, ist painter Toulouse- Lautrec).
Actor-manager
But h's mind was mainly on other things.
con-
Director Kelly himself stanily taking off his baseball cap to scratch his surprisingly semi-bald head.....
10
And my congratulations ort director Alfred Junge, who got an Oscar for his work on "Black Narcissus," who created the castle in "Ivanhoe," who excels himself with
but
tho
Mr Ferrer, now aged 40, is beautiful plastic wine-glasses joining the.
actor-manager, he has designed for this film. school. If his dreams of glory come true, the label "Jose Ferrer Presents" will soon seen everywhere around town. Items on the agenda include:
be
Name to noté.
THE NAME
is Rosemary
Clooney. Age 22. Colour- ing, blonde. Eyes, blue. Occu- A prisoner-of-war comedy,pation, singer-but any moment
"Stalng 17,"
to be produced now that tag is likely and directed by Mr Fi
changed into "nim-star,"
to be
A play about a mentally Miss Clooney first made deranged man and his vicious mild mark in show business wlic, called The
'Shrike" | with a record, "Come on-a My (which a particularly "nol- „House,",sung in a sexy squeak. some sort of bled of prey), in which Ferrer starred in New York, but of which he only in- tends to be the guiding spirit behind the scenes in England.
part in
Now she is likely to get the original Betty Hutton the film about the Dolly Slaters, "Topsy and Eva," and is ung der consideration for the next
A musical play with an all- coloured cast, "Cabin in The Bob Hope film.
star Jazz-singer Peart Sky"
She has signed a long-term Bailey. andTM with Katherine Dunham doing the staging job. promises to give her the nort contract with a studlo which
transformed
A new musical-yet to be of build-up that written with the songs of the Doris Day from a radio anger. late Geore M. Cohan ("Yan-into a Hollywood personality.
"Over Dandy," kee Doodle
In the meantime, Rosemary There"), in which Jose hopes has a now record in the Top Lo play the singing-dancing
Ten-or whatever is the 11st load.
that gramophone companies are always issuing.
This ong
Is "Botch-a-Mo, whalely was introduced to Bri- About that mustent, Was Linh audiences. via - the usuni Ferrer able to disc jockeys, and is another at
Lot's hope
#
In the Tests, bla Ogures Vasc. Bad luck hit the Gor-brought so many riders penalty Today's coureo, was run ini miracle-man were: 110.4 over, 28 maidens. man team during the speed points. It was held that awing two sections and was also very tackle singing-and-dancing those tantalising trifies, which, 29 wickets, average tests. Hans Roth's BMW ma- to the constant heavy rain difficult Many riders gained | role? - Baid he (who had played pretty soon, is going to drive
the course was penalty points, Reuter.
Charley's chino, did not start when to this part of
Aunt,us ali mad again.
280 runs, 13,31/--Router,
Ingy
and