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"HEY, WHERE'S OUR CRYSTAL BALL? "SSH! THE OLD MAN'S SITTING ON IT "
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1954.
THE OUTLOOK FOR SIGNS AND OMENS
BYDELEETHO FIGIME!
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World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
STOP WORRYING! KEEP FIT THE CAREFREE WAY
By DR A. CHESBY
thing to pep the patient up. Today the corresponding
quirement is a sedative, camp folk down,
TC-
ta
T had been a hard day,
I put the
car away, savagely, went in and took an indigestion tablet. "It's these blinking
"I thought. worry mo." And, as my in, but that is its 1964 rating.
Make no mistake. During the ward seething ceased, I had lost four years worry has bow the answer to a considerable come a major industry. It has
cons,"
puzzle.
In such a little while trivia), ben, silly worTY þan grown into a It is a hard, word, "They calamity.
The puzzle: Why is it that, with all the wonder drugs, hospitals and doctors' aurgerica are overflowing with customers?
Answer: WORRY.
Crown really menacing for 10 on magnity little, Unimpor- tant symptoms into real All-
It can sauso kigh blood pres- sure, coronary thromboely, neuralgias, with
host of other miseries. Yet it is still only silly wowy.
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See how it snowballs, An old- fashioned Joolt from your bosq
It is an important ob- and sleep goes haywire for a servation.
I thought I would check up on it in the latest medical tome, but it was not listed in the Index.
Before the war the universal tonic was "a booster, some
There may not be slaughter and violent death, but---
A CIVIL
IN
London.
may not be so record.
ed in history but It the present time there
WAR WAR RAGES
TODAY
BRITAIN
By Beverley Baxter
that satirised and
man.
It was
night or two.
About Sleep
That, in displf, is nothing, But then you start to worry about not slooping. Now you have got something to be con- cerned about, especially when some know all montions the word' insomnia.
Up gom to sale of phenobar« bitone and down gock your personal stock of glagt.
Say you havo a touch of ire- digestion, as I had. That is a local chemical upset and any que of 14 remedies will fix it. But, if you are that sort of goose, you com worry about your middle bits until youL have a full blown ulcer.
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Then it is not funny, You have worried yourpelt into tiresome illness and, if you do, not talke a hint, thero is
for
It glamorised surgeon waiting
you. the smart set at the same time. is worth while to understand
Yet believe it or
The brain not when how worry works. Bernard Shaw, second only to the field-marshal command- dying words and soy! "Good cause a dramatist could write vantage on television as serions Shakespeare in musicianship of ing your body. It has a systom electricni London his now of signals, probably Rave is a civil war raging in night sweet theatre, and fights for a limited latellectual public and especially intimate drama, words,
which it of autels ging thee to thy rest. at one thentre, whereas
the nature, through Britain. Fortunately it is not
the Comedy needs the laughter al play "Heartbreak House," However, the theatre did not film niunt sprawi Itself over the an audience, which cannot be critics (and the pubile) ridiculed works. war of laughter
and die.
of the ignorant, the supplied by two or three people it as the dodderings of an old That is how the body is in- violent death, but there are the except in the suburbs and minds
But let there young, the morons (as well as in a room. Wit. however,
was a thrilling but slantly mobilised for emergen- heavy casualties just the bon mistake about it. the the nlee people in their millions) another thing Wit goes to the exasperating period
At that time the
theatres was and must be nimed at the level mind, whereas humour goes, to a thre shrinking and the process could of mass intelligence.
the abdomen The struggle is
and earns the re- opened at 8.30 p.m., and it was ward of
a brave man who would sit in never be reversed. More and That was five months
the belly laugh.
The cong the brain takes of cornered one in which allies more it centred in the motro- Today I am astonished "ht
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Therefore broad
the orchestra stalls comedy
without us ie quite amazing. If you are apt to fire on each other, poils and fort the lesser cities vitality of the cinema, 1 am usually fails on television unless being in evening dress. Going have painful pleurisy It Im- But
the picture palacon there is no to
organises stooge studio audience to the theatre, liko going to the mediately that amazed at the excellence of the there is
quick, and | shallow breathing, to keep the doubt which is the aggres. showed the same array of stars acting, production and writing, to do the laughing for you. On opera, was a social event,
as New York and London. Certainly there are
the galleryites liked to see the pain down as much as possible. other hand, wit will poor Hor or how dire the con-
nobs dressed When I I was young fellow in pictures, which are an insult to the oppraising chuckle hoc se
up sequences if it achieves 25 Toronto wo
WO had five theatres human taste, but they are few it is Individualistle in its
On the evening that we con- decisive victory
gratulated Maugham at his party its the Princess, the Toronto Opera in number.
House, the
house
same,
even so
opponents.
over
the
small towns.
kingdom
of
the
theatre
Royal
Shea's and a
urlexandru,
eest De
the Royal Alexandra I
Robert anch
brain my The Warning
was
the
the
carn
peal.
was
I will be a sad day in
thr fe of England if the dwindles to a condition Wi It can only offer musicals
2
2
?
tho
I hoped that Coward and Lons- dale would be there, but If they. were I did not see them. I foit that Maugham must have
Those strangely
One of the first films I had to Let us cIRTIE
point. cuted, I think, the Star or the
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eritle was "Jultus The aggressor is television--the ately-or both. At the
Caesar." This, of course, Prin allies are the living thoutre and
gangster play always the best the cinema. And it any one
saw Bernhardt, Forbes Robert ever written, and it is astonish- ported from Broadway, or home General doubts that
Sherman Aw
took the picture made plays that involve Sal was right when he
that su
Lorraine, ing that it
makers so long to recognise that minimum of production costa. while
fred war was hell, let him talk Brst
elemental truth. Bul how with
geutus splendidly Hollywood did its of Shakespeare, the stimulus job! Shaw und Lho per. fumed wit of Osear Wille, those were the years of dark ness before Hollywood had ex tended its frontiers of culture.
the curreni Rodgers Hammerstein hit on Broadway ("Mu and Juliet") there Song which has refrom.
to the hard-pressed garrisons of the living theatre.
and
of
is
This
as
"The theatre is dying The theatre is dying The theatre la practically
dead."
Capacity audiences
loudly
CHALLENGE
Bul
madref, alone in its glory save
its
THRILLING
reception
cles. That is how natural func- tions are controlled.
Short Circuit
places
say, the left. overload on and orders
Further information folt the trouble on, Jonely among $13. tremendous contem- The brain puts an poraries of his Galsworthy, to the right lung,
a go slow for the left side. Drink Bennett, Shaw, Barrie, water—had been gathered to That is why a doctor Joples their father. Not even the carefully at the chest he is
"From Here A FEW weeks ago I went to a Discount Maugham, former examing, to see if both sides
to celebrate the Chancellor, 'could
Somerset the vold. of
theatre is
come t
to
Then there was to Eternity," which many of us felt should
never have been 80th birthday made because of the
terrible Maugham. He had arraignment of the morale and London from his home to the thing. If there had
Trante discipline of
American South of
because soldier
but how passionately wanted to spend his
the
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was
birth-
still
The
former Lord move equally. If they do not, have fled he has an immediate clue to
your illness,
You get excited and your A precious
been no heart goes off at the gallop. The such invention
brain has ordered that, to give as а printing
would not you higher compression. only be the custodian of Our
Galsworthy was half succeed- clal cities the struggle will be At the back of every worry
and brilliantly the story was day in the great town Press, the theatre
But, when the emergency Is NOW the Royal Alexandra re conveyed on the screen!
where he worked as 題 young And since we can never leave doctor in the East End and then speech and manners, but would over, down comes a slow-march order and your heart beat is toli our continuing story as applaud the number, and If any for some brave minor league out the ladies, I must commend wrote those witty, mordant, people through the centuries,
back to normal. For the brain further encouragement were attempts at neighbourhood re- the patience of Hollywood for rebellious stories which Were
has an decelerating and retard- and nectie Doctor Hummerstein and pertory theatres. But not even putting Marilyn Monroe into so the prelude to his wealth
ing mechanism, Just ke STRUGGLE
♫ Ductor Rodgers can look just the setting up of Stratford many pictures that finally, in immortality.
watch. across the road where "The Theatre in Ontario, to challenge "How to Marry a Millionaire." Those were astonishing days'
Naturally, in the London theatre after the TODAY the shadow of sale delicate. One thing it cannot King and I” is sull drawing the the supremacy of the Memorial she showed that she could acti
such machinery la vision is deep upon the living abide is a short circuit. And Inn
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, lown.
Wis war. Kipling The theatre has
alive and Barrie was enjoying a theatre. Shakespeare will hold that is how worry works, pip- beon dying can Alter Che fact that ini WELL DONE
theatre. his own, and the latest success Ing off vital forces, creating for
Anal Canada the theatre has shrunk
goldon Bunset In the centuries, but its demise is always postponed by like R raisin from
faltering from Broadway will get a bear shortage for essential services. were the British studios Grilliantly as a playwright, but ingi
Arnold Bennett pre Ningging bebind "Malta Story"
London will make a the arrival at the bedside of cinema days.
I do not allow worry into my there
Abo was a
theatres Shakespeare, an Irving, a Barry- However,
intelligence struggle to keep ite boget was hot as good as “The Cruel there conquerors
mind. But how la such a habli open, but in the smaller provin- of mind induced?" mure, a
even in his failures. Shaw
Gilbert conquerors, and the kingdom of Sen," but it had or
enormous complete with Sullivan.
the cinema
eventually str WIE
the grim indeed.
there is a the ing in his attempt to use challenged by television. What strength, "Gilbert and Sullivan"
had a poorish script, but
the theatre
problem. I deliberatø Somerset Maugham may feel jy refuse to allow my conscious now?
modlum a price glory
music was well done. The fact awakening
for The Alm. which had taken so much away is that the
the sluggish social that the weight of yours is mind to deal with picture British EN the first flicker pictures from the theatre, was going to longer begs for its place on the conscience of the nation.
upon him, but he was The conundrum le then passio An rascal called
that his gonlus came to better actors impudent young
Coward Noel cwn home. No wonder Louls B. hero then
was
full tide in a period when the Vr to my subconscious mind, pestering
which never rests, the characters on the screen. Mayer and his fellow magnates have thrown aside tho in- Here was a form of
toda entertain- muttered ment which could!
Night or Blucher" feriority complex of the early of the many plays which he had new play, an event and not only But in their hearts they did not years of competition.
written. Freddie Lonsdale had vision was a dream in a mad- undersell the theatre but bring believe that either could save
struck gold with his comedies Jay's bead. world
back to our we come start to your them. hood. Thus the people
Against the pro- "I" have already written about argument. suburbs would no longer the struggle in Britain to phecies of all the soothsayers, it converge on
on the centro but take
is not the cinema that is suffer- pose commercial sponsored pro- ing most from the onslaught of pleasures nearer home.
the theatro all bed grammes on TV, and I do
not television. I repeat that, un- intend to dirouar that
inse happily, it is the live thestre ngain unto wo have
IT SURVIVED
shook almost as violently
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Wappeared, the living theatre be faced with a screen in your screen. We wood, and we managements to put on any one London theatre was vibrant,
in the
their
However,
n monopoly of the human voice,
So
In
a chance which is bleeding alarmingly
whereas the twittering shadown to study it in action. But al from 1g wounds. on the screen could inake ready we can see that, contrary So the theatre to every prognostication, it is sound at
011.
The cinema can command the survived round ono.
Then came the "talkies."
the poor eldi ve lhoutre which sea, the sides, the town and the can remember going to the Arst in taking it on the chia rather desert for its settings to a story.
I
In
The live thontro can only offer than the cinema.
from a couple of changes of scene at When 1 returned fron
showing of this miracle London. Most of the aim was Canada lost autumn, I arranged most, and usually there is
only
the
Art
wod
old
no
change at all. Therefore, tola- can approximate the
Newell Rogers Reporting America THE PRINCESS AND THE CHEROOTS
A
I
difficulting.
Big Cheat
It may be a low hours or o few days, but the right answer to my trouble duty arrives in my, mind. "There is a dividing line in every tiresome 'situa* tion. You can cross to the other sido and worry, or you can it on the near alde and wait for the solution.
We all have trouble, and difficulties minus worry do not plus [harm us."Buţ” diffculties
How can we strip worry from trouble? The answer is common
to u all. Worry is just a big growing larger with cheat,
Oulface it post shrinks to every step taken in retreat. nothing
Go boldly the stance will vanish.
New York. faces ruin unless taxes on cigars worry spall lilness. still slient, but there wag a with my
Lord vision friend, where Al Jolson not Beaverbrook
REPORT that Princess are lowered. sequence
to reduco spoke but sang.
my stage of the normal theatre, "It will dramatic erlucism to something
Margaret sometimes Senator Eugene Minikin: hurt the silent film," was
the ke
What is more, the televiewers
Was Ford in a paper that Printers o watching brief, because
cheeroota reneral verdict, "but on tho
In their homes occupy the best smokes other hand this bastard pro from the
the focus to set seats from which they can see hastily suppressed in the Margaret ir moking chorpots,
Carlson: I haven't som duct, although it will not satisfy from unse of commons in and hear everything clearly. Congressional Record Will that start, a trend? the car, will kill
Banke not have to climb to (Washington's Hansard), articio. They do mime on which films are bused" take on the cinema becpuso the the gallery and gaze at the possibly on the ground that
and income-tex chape sre The Sensior: Oh, you should now, films are shown to crities distant stage or strain their care Whereupon the scientists con in the morning.
and great surveyors of worTY) Go along affect your whole and we the high priost himself. the fast two or three it could damage Anglo- This might tinued to improve matters until
by industry/l The Princess, ka 1 the illent flim stolo away into
understand it, snoices mild little you, the criados sort obscurity from which it
me it was a compromise pence or a hiking for a tiny Not that the report contained cigar You might put but a He may the talkics were in complete forced by the duplity of mor programme which interes theta so much
life mud in my heart. I felt it in that the part of MS approval-quity the contrary. control.
out in
theatrical magnatos knockod so For a long period I had not, the dotion takes
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Snooks and that
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At that point the knees of the be a descont to a lower plane, pinyód by Baltice in 'the · Ani sinos, the news came out. Yes, establish va « wohls; new oulog, you will And that?" H.
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