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THE CHINA
The HANDSOME Young Man-
by LEONARD MOSLEY
THE good-looking young
THE
man leaned languidly against a pillar in the res- taurant lounge, and could not, help hearing practically everyone talking about him.
It was the kind of party at which no one bothers to lower the voice, and nearly every remark is carefully squirted with malice before delivery. But the things they were saying about the good-looking young man had more than the usual smear of spite on them.
"Wasn't Laurence Harvey awful?" piped a bright you THE woman. "Who ever called him un acter?"
"Farley choosing Harvey for the part!" boomed a fat, red- faced man in tweeds. He began
10 purple with indignation. young man
"What a dreadful
he made Romce seem!"
The object of these Ul-bred
remarks glanced momentarily
at the authors of thern, and I
caught a flicker of resentment
in the cool,
grey eyes.
thought (and
1 cimit
hoped) ho
was going to
bite back.
Instead, Mr Laurence
Harvey took a deep draw
on his ciga-
rette
looked as
since.
und if
| Am 11). Toona - Wi
boy! Thuat. (Vaneo (Cadirete Harvey)"te
* THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1954,
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THIS IS A CITY OF SOUTHERN PREJUDICES, BUT-
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he hadn't heard. But I couldn't his knuckles with anxiety about was giving a couple of young career. his performances, men the bencht of his know- help wondering whether he was his
crowded U.S. Route dramatics. later in
There is no segregation distinguished spokesmen world's capital. Yet today and his future.
ledge of William Shakespeare. hurting inside....
But,
in the streamlined tram- and the spark-plug behind has only one morning news no matter what the Bebind him an elderly woman
1. I saw the signs year.. "My dear, the For Laurence Harvey, only crities say about him, Laurence was saying:
outside the cabins, "Motel
wallowed up Colonel What will happen when Pennsylvania Avenue,
cars which clang along the National Association the Washington Post 12 months ago acclaimed as a Harvey does not need to worry, picture was spoiled for me the for Coloureds.” The man
but for the Advancement of McCormick's Times Herald. Woolf, one of the moment
Laurence BAW
coloured John
boy asks # coming actor, a budding Olivler
with me said: "I thought "
as soon as a Negro enters Coloured People, says "The This compares with and Burton rolled into one, has
ten morning, newspapers, shrewdest
in films (his. Harvey." men
they'd ended segregation in white girl to dance with a train to go South he is on reformation is on.” been taking a beating ever company mado "Moulin Rouge"
* Jim Crow basis. Critics of his per and "African
has The bright young woman who Washington," I said: "No, him? The obvious Queen")
The success of the antl
Powerful men formances At this year's signed him
him up to a fat, long- had denounced him earlier now! Stratford season of Shakespeare term contract, and will shortly came up and asked him for his only in the schools." swer from the girl should be yes, strong- "Julle
separate segregation programme in Wilts
Actually they have gone by Southern this with all stations have certall the schools is one of the most powerful men autograph. "It's for my 'anali dictionary of denuncia- bo starring him threw tion at him.
Harris in that flm about
brother," she explained loudly. brone Wood, shrugging: Any further than that. I be the deeply rooted prejudices them that) for white and Washington's main topics Comes the London premiere war Berlin, "I Am A Camera"
more coloured, and there are
just now. McCarthy has Washington at the pre- pakis time, with, the President "I don't know why he should way, the fans Uke him. So do lieve that the Negroes here of the South, and of his latest film, ROMÉO, AND
(Odeon Leicester worry about what people write the Americans. And mark my are slowly winning their than 36 percent of Washing- separate sections for colour subsided as a focal point of and most of his Cabinet way. Square
His is the role of
about him," sald Woolf,
words, one of these days even fight against the Coloured ton's 800,000 people are ed and white on the ferries hot-tempered discussion,, al-are J. Edgar Hoover, head of he played in King you are going to hall him as a romantle young Romeo; which
Negroes,
and on the buses that link though the Senate report the FBI. Loe the past 13 to plays, as I sold when I first Richard and the Crusaders' great actor,"
in
the other day put him back yours and Scott McLeod, of the I told him that would not
Gjate Departments y alm in Venice, saw the nin
The experiment of mingi
up with the trains. the
in the news briefly,a and coloured Jim Crow cars
J. Edgar Hoover, who became surprise me at all. For though I did not like bumin Romeo ing white He can
Several coloured lead- The capital now is rather chief man when he was 20, him school-children and school- (in which I considered woefully
miscast) I, too, think teachers has been a success NEGROES have in the past ers, while battling
a parochial town, immersed is encromnet. No one, Demos year or two entered the roadblocks, tell me:
"We in its own problems, and crat, Republican, Independent Lourenco Harvey is a fine actor.no doubt about it. There
lunatic-fringer, or rock-ribbed And just in case he is feeling has
been an white men's, churches and have gone further than with Congress and most of hardly
Tory, dare say a word against critics, I remind
The the Cabinet away not as him. His word is holy well b that they can say nice incident, no demonstrations, chapels. Their children we thought possible. things about him, As, for in- and scarcely a scuffle in the have just entered the coloured man used to be absorbed as much as usual
Hoover, who gets a moders white schools, but the Negrp treated as an uppity nig- in national politics.
$15,000 a year and has turned stance: "Mr Harvey is a vital playgrounds."
But the teachers tell me himself is still barred from ger in Washington, DC, Most of the politicians actor and a rising star."
Which is what I wrote about the big test will come at many hotels in Washington only a short time ago."
from big business and in- him when he appeared with
Walter White, one of have departed, but the Margaret Leighton in "As You the school dances, picnics, and some bars and restau
conference. Like I".in 1953.
social teas and amateur rants...
the coloured people's most economists are here in huge country, rarely holds a press
numbers. I had to phone six bigges
... He' is probably : Wachington's hotels before I finally got most eligible bachelor and in accommodation and I am this city, where; fernales - out- being charged $15 a day for number mates by ten to nine, a double room (with televi the hostesses have almost sion set and radio) in, a up trying to enere him; mediocre commercial hotel,
like Hollywood, "a nervy neurotic." He helps to America have been coming in make this beautiful film a film practically every day.
his own ticket in Holly
without a
hear
Does Laurence Harvey word ond could have made
A
him
about the back-handed compil- fortune there this summer. ments he is always getting from "Instead, he went to Strafford
sour about say to add to his experience as an the critics? His friends he does. Though he looks cul- actor. And look what you chaps wardly like a confident young said about him as a result?”
with
self- a load of
Laurence Harvey had moved sssurance, in private he gnawa across the room this time and
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YOU DON'T
By J. W.
TAYLOR
inhabitants of the otherwise the fields-some say his "Tally
ken
bishkrunda
these
John
",
down calariés a high as 375,000
Hoover walks alone, and usually he walks to a resti ant every night for two this
whiskies and a state or lobster.
Butler impresses
His power je prodigious, DRITAIN'S Mr R. A. But When, breaking his rule be ler has been staying at came out for Attorney General Brownell, and against ex-Pres!=/ versions of "D'ye Peel?" sung beyond their boun- the British Embassy with dent Trumans in the Harry Da daries. Such errors as "coat so Sir Roger and Lady Makine, ter Wille case, he swung public. please-topping corduroy leo gay (should, ba "grey"); "he but most of his team and opinion, heavily againal rumm quiet Cumberland village of ho's" could be heard for miles breeches and long stocking, lived at Troutheck" (Caldbeck); the teams of the other 56 His championship; of! Seriator. which were ocset by u tall, and "Ranter and Ringwood, countries here for the Inter- Joseph McCurity-be calls him light-coloured-battered
beaver hat, nor Bellman and True." There never national Monetary Fund a fine, nighting Triatomsun Caldbeck, when they cele was a greater huntman then
and has been a bound with a name
han volatured :ther 3 Senator'm. brate the John Peel Cen- Bowman of the Ullswater, mally
kere huntman nor meeting are scattered all prestige when it has looked libe Dobson Tommy
or Wills weathered after a long day's tenary along with thousands peter of Eskdale, John Crozier hunt.
And, of
two over town, course, the mally gives
#agging Badly. of visitors.
of the Blencathra, or Joe Wear Lamdiar twined hunter's hom. syllables to their names, so that
betterMr Butler, with his earnest,
meticulous manner, his obviou There will, of course, of Patterdale, still to be seen in like a child's bugle, which did the sound will cRTY
not resemble the semi-circular across the follside.
sincerity, and his occasional the hunt,
Graves first wrote: be a mass pilgrimage to
tione, shown in a famous painting
Ewit has impressed. the 'the quiet corner in the But Peel was a different sort of Peel,
"Aye, I know'd John Peel and
He is nothing like a THE other tiny Caldbeck churchyard of huntman, His pursuit of the
his Ruby, too; yder This instrument was only one
with the security chief" of wherelle the remains of fox was not the society sport of my
Ranter, an' Royal an' Bellman
looks, charm, and debonair Department. A few by-an true! the famous man of legend the zhires. He did, most of this of a variety sald to have
saab, but he has made his peti he was an F. B, Lago and song the man of hunting en horseback, whereas belonged to John Peel which but he later revised the stars, morality test at the Treantry o sire, but he all the thousands of great the others followed the prey on and again. One of the genuine this version:
come into the market every now and a signed manuscript gives $8.50 men which Cumberland foot through the mountains,
15.00 has produced whom the mainly in the low country north as was bought three years ago
By a Chrift, provintóni ́merchant' 25.00 world knows best. Here of the Lake District. His for £000; after it had reled 30% 25.00 his grave, topped by a hounds sometimes covering as years in a Guildford Hotel, they 35.00 sculptured hound and two far as 70 miles in a day's chase, owning company of which went 10.50 hunting horne, lo still kept
into liquidation,
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