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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1953.
The Ice-Girl thaws
· Goodbye to coolness---Margaret Leighton and Løprenen-Harvey,
DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight on a changing star Now Margaret Leighton joins
the Cleopatras
is a better
that even a woman Friend to men thak a horse. It is not that I have been
There is a new name in the Cleopatra queue, After thrown-except from a wood- Vivien Leigh and Peggy Ashcroft coines to the most en horse in my tailor's when I unusual casting of all, Margaret Leighton. Why un- went for a fitting.
"At the riding-school my usunt? Because for most of her screen career 31-year- horse looks a trife upset when into the old Margaret Leighton has seldom come into close contact I hoist my 15, 10h.
saddle, but I console it with with film passion. She is more often the icy blonde.
the thought that the Prince Coward for a few scenes in Regent himself was 17st. at my
The Astonished Hearts.
It is the first time I age [32]. "Now I have more confidence have played a character larger
i and have shaken off my hidden than I am.
The horse and get on I can't walt fears of filming.
together on the to play Cleopatra, How they'll reasonably
the horse basis that whatever make me voluptuous, though, I don't know." We pordered the dors-well, afterwards I decide problem. But on screen any-hat was what I wanted to do in the first place. The Sperative Uning is possible.
word being afterwards."
Now she has been invited to play Shakespeare's "Egyp- tian dish" (per, Shakespeare's description) in
new film version of "Antony and Cleopa- un." to be shot next year in Michael Italy, Antony would be Redgrave, who is already es- Lablished on the banks of West End Nile in the play.
糖 limbering-up Maybe as exercise for the display of pass
a new
Anyway, considler
those
"Good Die Young" love scenes,
T.S. Eliot play "The Con-
ion that "the ass unparalleled""Myl" said Miss Leighton. I'm must have, Miss Leighton is learning things in that picture completing some love scenes In the Old Vic never taught mel"
Alm, The Good Die
CALL FOR JOAN Young." Striking scenes they
THERE was to have been an acted are too,
with the flim all-American
wan east
the "Romeo" Laurence Harvey,
Hdential Ciork" opened en Broil- THE FEARS GO
Now there will be way. "Qulte a change from como
exception. of the refrigerated parts I have had in other pictures," Margaret Leighton,
"Until now
wald
I have been pretty inhibited in my im act- Warried ing. Afraid to move. by everything. Sometimes 1 drooped around vicar's houses
Holly and the Ivy" or gen erally stood about while others dashed ["Elusive Pimpernet] Or I wore aprons and things.
The nearest I came to show ing any passionate appeal on the screen was being glued to Noel
one
Henry Sherck, who presents the play, phoned from New York to Joan Greenwood and invited her to star with Claude Rains.
to
Miss Greenwood will fly New York to act the Margaret Leighton part in the play.
USTINOV RIDES PETER USTINOV has been learning to ride a horse for his part as the Prince Regent in the film "Beau Brummel."
on the
Here is Mr Ustinov Equestrian Art: "Now, I feel
HKFA COUNCIL
MEETING
The-Hongkong-Football-Association Council_yester. day refused permission to 18 Chinese footballers and
visit. -
"The only trouble is I cannot conquer my fear of heights in the saddic-a fear I never had in the Alps.
"Now I'm Just a litle stiff, of my and take the rehearsals
of the play new
("No Sign Dove").
"My future? It is definitely nut in Westerns."
'COWARD' QUOTE
In
New
Terence Rakigan, York, has been talking about the consolation offered to him by Noel Coward on the poor play, notices for the_Rattigan "The Sleeping Prince."
"Don't worry," said Coward, "I not only muck up some of my plays by writing them but I frequently muck them up by acting in them as well."
IN THE FAMILY
Disguised by a beard and the smoice from a long cigar James Mason appears on screen introducing his own "family affal film, which has opened
THE STYLE FIXES THE TREND
• Margaret Leighton we are a tent-style nightdress. toth a Victorian look-white cotton embroidered with
velvet ribbon-in her film with Laurence Harvey, But the nightdress has a 1953 touch that very-off-the- shoulder neckline to match Miss Leighton's new-style acting.
BEES
By
IN BONNETS
HENRY LONGHURST
Noting Robert Harris's theory that it would be to the benefit of all if the game of golf put the clock back Instead of forward, I had the idea that this would be taken as the ravings of a dichard reactionary, unworthy of serious consideration.
Correspondence shows, however, that he is not alone
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Iis theme, It may be remem- bered, was that golf had be
rather too much of a come good thing, and that in gradu- little bit of tin in the hole it
had been ally adding the expensive trim- self
extracted by mings-the sets of matched some light-fingered gentleman clubs at £50 a
time, the cabin overnight and melted down la trunk bag plus £1 a day port- make a spear. unheralded in the West End. cra to lug them round, the Nevertheless, the golf was in 65-67,
"Charade" is its title, and supercharged balls and 7,000 Mr Mason can bang up the yard courses,
the
manicured sign "All My Own Work". He faleways
and billiards table produced, he stars, and he put greens and the outsize staff re- up the money.
quired to maintain them-we His wife Pamela wrote tho had lost sight of the
PERSIAN LADIES script and ucts. Her first huse purpose of rot, amely ging
So it was on the now-presum- band Roy Kellino directed. vide innocent fun In the pro-
Judicrous enough to out- ably defunct course in the all- folds of Persis, where the referees to leave for Formosa on Thursday for a 10-day John Monaghan, friend of thos, of hitting a little ball'
family and sometime the
was taken with great Masons' baby silter, has a part. Into 萌 little holo in fewer Eamo
coriousness, and the club A selection of ezolusive Alm company And the
fa strokes than the other fellow solemnly affiliated to the Eng-sketches of Hong Kong named after the Mason daughter taking the rough with the lish Golf Union, but where your scenes in
smooth and getting round the bail might pitch on a rock in Portland.
various hazards of nature
to On mid fairway and bounce. the way.
BLACK & WHITE and the pulling kingdom
come,
EMBOSSED GOLD LOOKING BACK
might be held up while a pro- Looking back on some 33 cession of black-draped indles,
on RED years of golf-in itself a sober balancing pots on their heads, 4 COLOURS PRINTING ing thought-I come. to the Aled across the green. It Lar quality of
this
primitive conclusion that the more "pri-
ness or originalness" which, 14 selected photographic mitive" it has been, the more I have enjoyed it.
when you come to think of it, views of Hong Kong &
at No thrill will ever, for in has enabled the Old course
the
St un
to almest alone, stance, equal that
Andrews, official three-hole course on the defy the modern
ball: common at Yelverton on
which
You cannot "buy" machine
At its monthly meeting last night at the Hongkong Football Club, HKFA Council rejected by a vote of 8-4 the application for permission to go to Formosa of the 18 Chinese players and referees, including Lee Yuk-tak and Ko Po-keung of South China.
The picture is an amusing
ironical, Affair of sometimes three short stories. Mason, as Clants of the First Division, The match will be of 45-minute the producer, is the link, and his wife looks at hini (in the will meet in the second round nives, of the Challenge Shield (Senior) Ou-January 10, teams repre- film) and says: "You're not a senting the HKFA and the producer-you just look like Chincte Amateur Athletic an actor wearing a beard and Federation will meet in the first smoking a cigar." match of the Governor's Cup, The match will start at 3.30 pm., at Carolino Hill.
on January 9:
Th: draw is:
Kitchee v South China;
Army v Kowloon Motor Bus;
Navy v Sing Tao;
Kwong Weh v Eastern.
The draw for the second round
Council The HKFA
selection
of the Chatings Shield (Junior)ing yesterday also appointed a
is as follow:
Tamar v Solicitors:
RAF
V
London Express Service,
met Ladies Interport
Hockey Trial On Sunday
sub-committee of six teams. to plok representative The six members, consisting of Messrs L. G. Young, C. S. Wong, C. K Woo, Henry Fung, FI It Hides and Captain George will choose their chair- man by rotation. (8)
CAA: SOAA
v St Joseph's; Club v Little San Wan: Yard Poblet v Army: Navy v KMB or Kitcher: REME Eastern; C & W v Western.
3rd round-Winner of winner of (1); (5) v (7); (2) v (8); (3) (4).
INTERNATIONAL CUP Great Britain and China will meet in the Arst match of the three-game International Cup series on Boxing Day at 3.30
tho pm. at
НКЕС stadium.
TURPIN-MITRI
FIGHT MAY BE IN LONDON
London, Dec. 14. The European Middleweight Championship fight between
·Italy's
I and the other two members made strokes out of the pro's of the club started our golfing shop at St Andrews. You have
a with careers,
to manufacture them for your cut-down mashie and putter, while wail- self. ing for the grown ups to come down to breakfast.
We had no flags, no rules, no
o
13
and no
ecors-ce
:
also
Kowloon including matching envelopes
These carda
may be overprinted with personal greetings.
Obtainable only from:
Modern golfers, softened by lush fairways, pudding greens, numbered irons and little signs | SOUTH CHINA MORNING
no on the edge of the fairway to tell them the distance to the
It was the "original" golf. hole, tend to think it is crazy.
thing. It is all the others that ard out of step.
The following players have Been selected to take
part in the
nexi Ladies' Interport At the request of the Hockey trial
on Sunday, Dec. Play the ball where it lies-it It isn't, though. It is the Y ...] SCAA roprestalelive, Mr 20, at 2.30 pm, at the Kings Fung. the Council Park Pool Ground: Henry Chairman, Mr Skinner, reiterat- ed the Council's ruling that children will not be admitted booy: Alonco, Ramsay, Ferreira;
Probables; Lim; Read. Lam-
you can find it-and the fellow who holes out in the fewest strokes is the winner.
It is impossible to recapture this original thrill on the ultra- though it can still be done in outlandish
to matches at the two stadia Hall. Hewson, Hale, Adams, sophisticated courses of today, unless they also hold tickets. Correa. He also directed the officials of
the
of
two FC
some of the more parts of the world
.
Possibles: Reece; Silva, Mr LG Noronha; Bones, Roza-Pereira,
for in- Young
Mr
My mind wanders, Wilson; Calverly Fung of SCAA
consider to
Werner,, stance, to the province of Dar Richards, A. Oei, Y. Oel. the question, of setting up a
fur in the Sudan, where the El Selection Committee Fasher course cons The children's enclosure charging
consisted of nine admission at half price, as is feels that a number of good holes but only one flag, o huge. hockey players have not pre- the practice in. England.
rid alfair carried scnted themselves for selection
by & very small, very black boy, who The Council Chairman's rul-In order to give the Committed waited ull, you
sycro near ing came in the wake of a further opportunity of selec- enough to putt and then doubiid British holder Randolph strong
protest from
requested that all who off through the camel thorn to the ion it Turpin and
Tiberio SCAA representative, Mr have taken part in trials and Mitri, who was nominated BB Fung, against a report in the any others wishing to do so plant it in the next hole. challenger by the Europeah Sing Tao Jia Pao criticising an will be present at the King's Boxing Union, may be staged SCAA off caff for
Paric Pool Ground on Sunday refusing a 2.30 pm- in London.
to admit a child without a ticket to last Sunday's malch at The first gainer will be bes .....Promoter Jack Solomons sald | Caroline H00.
tween the Probables (white) today: "Naturally I am in- terested in the fight and wli Another Counali member, Me and Possibles (colours). Follow- try to get it before it comes to L G. Chanaing, remarked that ing this all other players who
Leeds, Dec; 14.3 purso
offers."
some South China plagers ware, turn up will be given an oppor-
tunity to prove their worth, Wally Thom, tho British is 27, relinquished in the habit of bringing their All players are asked to wear Welterweight Charoplob, Mitri.: Who
*knock tho European title in 1950sweethearts" into their stadium
white and
ed out the Scottish Welterweight when he went to the United without Uckets...
Jumper
WAL BEAU Champion Danny Malloy, Art' States. He has never fought Turpin but has twice fought Fungaid that he had on Interport potion of the the third round of'a #chociated":
In reply to Mr Channing MrThe final c
will riot beton-reuid contest hero tanight.
punch was a hard
Wally Thom KOs Danny Malloy
Randolph's elder brother Dick, several occasions turned away decided until after the quali The first meating in: 1948 ended South China players"children" triolus loft to the ; solar plexus, which in a drew and Mitel won the who had no tickets: “1 @can. The umpires on Bubday will antosis suits Malloy out of the second on points in the follow- | say, this?" without fear or bin Mr. Khan. and the ringe He was one full !iminutes ing year--China Mall Special. I favour
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