THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1955.
OLYMPIC SITES TAKE SHAPE IN MELBOURNE.
The Olympic Gamess, to be held in Melbourne from November 22 to Decem- ber 3, 1956, will focus on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and adjacent Olympic Park. The MCG, situated within a mile of the city, will be the Main Stadium for the Games.
Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics and field games and hockey and soccer finals will be held there.
The MCG's capacity is being extended for the Games from 85,000 to 104,000. Nearby Olympic Purk, former headquarters of Victorian umateur sport, has been completely re-modelled Into Australia's finest sports centre to lit it for its 1956 role. It will be the venue for Games ---- swimming, diving, water-polo, hockey, soccer and cycling.
ing.
In addition, two of the three new uvals being built will be used for train- A further big Olympic project is under way at Heidelberg, seven-and-a-half miles out. Here a £A2,000,000 Olympic Village is being built to house over 5,000 international athletes during the Games.
Just outside the heart of the city. The Main Stadium, the Mell»urne Cricket Ground, with a new stand under construction, is on the left of this picture. Olym- pic Park is taking shape in the foreground. Richmond Cricket Ground, teams" assembly point for the Opening and Chasing Ceremonies, is at the right rear,
ASIAN SPORTS REVIEW
Four More
Athletic
Indian National
Records Fall
-154-Foot Discus Throw
India's giant discus thrower, Parduman Singh, the Asian Games Champion, has finally beaten the Asian record in the event held since 1910 by Japan's Eijin Miyagi. In the Indian Army Southern Command Championships at Calcutta January 28, Parduman reached 154 feet 5 inches (47.06 metres) as against Miyagi's 151 feet 61⁄2 inches at Dalay (Dairen) on May 19, 1940.
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Another Indian record went at the same Championships as Bhoudwe reached 198 feet 8 inches (60,55 metres) in the Javelin Throw to beat Govind Ram's 198 feet 1 inch sot rise at Culeutta on December 19 last year.
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AROUND HOLLYWOOD
WAYNE CAN STAR IN HIS OWN MOVIES IF THE EMERGENCY ARISES
By MICHAEL RUDDY
John Wayne, partner with R. Fellows in Batjac Productions, has a decided advantage over other movie producers in Hollywood. In an emergency, he can star in his own movies. This he's doing now in "Blood Alley," which became a sanguinary mess, according to Wayne, when Robert Mitchum disagreed with director William Wellman, the wrong man to disagree with at any time, became obstreperous, and was sacked by Mr Fellows.
With a $2,500,000 production altting expensively in San Francisco, Batjac desperately tried to get Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Fred MacMurray, Clark Gable, Robert Ryan or Cornel Wilde to replace Mitchum whose horseplay had die rupted filming.
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Getting $150,000 for the film, | $730 week. MMMM
gels every year from friendly souls co-starring with Lauren Bacall, $2,200, so the studio is saving awe met then," he said, smiling, you would have thought that little money. the droopy-eyed actor, In pre vious Merapies would have behaved himself.
No. sirec. So Wayne, Just finished In "The Sea Chase." and on his honeymoon with his third wife, Pilar, decided he'd
le do the job himself.
flew buck from New York, studied The script for three days, alter- ed Mitchun's wardrobe to fit, and he's now combining star- producer duties.
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Regis and hin wife mark announcement by Marlin their 32nd wedding anniverany
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Monroe Productions Ltd, a com- this week. the Pot O'Briens pany she formed a fortnight ago their 24th und the James in New York.
Cagney's, their 33rd
His ambition, Jett Chandler wants to be
Tenowned
Despite her dismal showing in "There's No Business Like Show Business Marilyn
ver popular. gets 30,000 letters month from her fans, and a few hundred a month telling her to behave.
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song-writer. He's now alm star and a recording artist,
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FORGOT HER ACCENT On a recent television show which happened to sec, 2sa Zsu Gubor modestly murmured, "We just couldn't waste any
Sat next to Regis Toomey at Pm considered by many more time." Wayne said to me the barber's in Beverly Hills.
one of the foremost authorities on the phone. "It costs $12,000"I'm playing Mickey Rooney's on nen.
his TV serien, 'Hey, a day to have a movie troupe father la sitting on location."
Mulligan' In which he stars, co- co-directs, and said the silver-haired
For the record: Jack 1. Warner, putting up the cash fur This Batjac Prodcution, did not
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This is the third time Wayne has replaced other actor?, He substituted for Glenn Ford "Hendio" and for Spencer Tracy Un "The High and the Mighty". As for Mitchum-no comment when he returned to Hollywood.
was
Toonkey's the
most talented young man I've ever known and to work with." very pleasant Toomey never forgets his tour of England und Scotland In IB25-24. "I get Christmos cards
Later. "A practien! joke Admira FC Off
exaggerated" He opparently forgot that William Wellman, the director, chose him for the lead in "G.1. Joe" in 1944, his first break
SHEREE TAKES OVER
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Ask for Marilyn Monroe Twentieth Century Fox Studio and you'll be told that Marilyn Isn't mund there any more. Her boss, Darryl Zanuck, suspended her when she refused to report for "How To Be Very, Very Popular, confection
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hail who runs afoul of the law and hides out in a girls' college.
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a dancer
Francisco burlesque
Austria Trim
Singapore 5-0
Only thing funny about that murmur WHE that she com- pletely forgot her accent. She wore her diamonds, Zsa Zsu always
remembers the essen- tais.
Take a memo to yourself soc "The Bridges of Toko-R). Tolling of an incident during the Korean conflict, it's a powerful Alm showing a civilian, William Hulden, at war and the tragedy of the individual at war.
Again GroCE Kelly, the ac- tress of the year, portrays the hapless wife and most poignant-
mos ky
Fredric March is excellent as Navy Air Force commander and there's a performance by Mickey Booney that you'll long ranember It was med Japan and off the const of Southern California,
Singapore, Feb. 2.
Shelley Winters co-stars, with The Admira Football Club Jack Priance, the popular heavy
Edge," of Vienna scored 21
Jagged con-in The Jae
Sierra," which vincing 5-0 victory in their make
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which opening match here against starred "By Bogart as the
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Louicy blonde, Sheree North, was pul on contract a year ago when MMMM belled at "Pink Tights', a remake of "The Bowery." Sheree Kols
doubled whose they were. fact, Atsuko
known WIN Manila simply as "The Legs."
who At the Second Asian Gameg new Bombay Suite record | Absuku won the 100 Metres 151 win also set in the 400 Metres 12.5 seconds in classic race Hurdles by Shanker Swami, with Singapore's Mary Kluss who clocked a
Promising vity
Trion's Christine Browl 55.9 seconds.
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Another estandin
Pinto clocked 109 and 22 formance at the Southern Comms | in the heufs of the 100 and 200 mamed
Championships WILS 1 Metres and 110 and 21.9 in the 149 secotris victory 11 the final. Metres High Burdles, by Chand Ratu of the Hagpatan Tutes. It was his third sub-15 zaconds clocking of the month and he is now hot favourite le beat the Asian Games Chan:-
The Madras State Champion-place second in the 200 Metres pton, Sarwan Singh, who has ships profund lisappointing of 140 results and about the best per- best of the sURSORI seconds made at New Delhi m
formances to emerge December
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after having set an Astan FC- cord of 25.3 seconds in a heat, second in the Long Jump and was a member of the Japanese 400 Metres Relay team that was su surprisingly upset by the Indian girls
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57.8 seconds in the 400 Metres At the same streting, Bhat Low Hurdles by M. Muthappa Smigh cleared 23 feel 31
and 45 feet # inches (13.82 aneties in the Long Jump, metres) in the Hop, Step and
is not generally known that mark beaten on the Indian all-Jump by Paul Jucoli,
Atsuko started in athletles as a by only Two other RUSSIAN SOCCER TOUR bigh jumper and is also une of
(237) athletes, Shudi Lat
soccer
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Asia's best in the 80 Metres IT Honey (23,0).
Indin startesi with two sweeping | Hurdles and the Javelin Throw.
All- victories--4-4) apabist an Inxhin Football Association team at Banaras and 7-0 against the Association Alt-India Football President's team at Hazaribagh. The Russian steadfastly re- fused to extend their tour Indla beyond six weeks
ploy expressed a desire to Ceylon. There were mixed feel-
chil, and sprinter Akira Kiyp- ings in Ceylon about this offer. Commissioner
former Ceylon's High
Naoto Tajima, fuji. in New Delhi, apparently on Olympic Champion and once
frum
the Prime world instructions
in the record-holder Minister himself,
A very definite Threat to the Indian Shot Put title, also heki by Pardurman Singh as well as 1he Aston titir. (A Panjat policeman Isbar Singh who at Pathsin on January 19 reached 46 feet 5% menes (14,15 metres) and also it Patiala, on January 28 reached 48 feet 9 inch (14.03 melets)
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the PEPSU utie. Parduman, appar- the ently concentrating on
the greatest discus, is inding difficulty this season in rench- ing even 40 feet (14 metres).
With the various State Cham- pionships on, truck and field athletics has been very much in in the the spotlight in India past fortnight and national re- falling right cords have been and left.
Midori Tanaka, who flashed by Atsuko as the latter turned around when
the finish in the 200 Metres at the Asian Games, in
also going to Manila in March. The other members of the small Japanese but delegation
Yoshinka Muruya, second in the 1,500 Metres to Koren's Choy Yun-
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WEEK-END
CRICKET
TEAMS
The following have been selected to represent their res- pective clubs in League cricket fxtres over the week-end.
Recreio
a Singapore Combined yesterday.
snow
"Guess I' gangster at bay. XI goo
a vacation in the after all," Shelley told me, "We leave for location next week in displayed the the snow-capped Sterras." The Austrians typical continental game of short
his friend,
What's best in Kowloon ?
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