THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1955,
MILTON SHULMAN CHARTS THE SLIDE OF THE FILM HEROES
From FAIRBANKS,
chivalrous
acrobat...
"E
AST OF EDEN
introduces a young
James actor, Dean, who is not only
to destined
become star but should be studied
sociological E
(LH
menon.
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phono-
He is another landmark in the the deterioration of hero.
Ideal
For Hollywood through the years has certainly changed
mind malc. He is no longer hand-
daring,
its
come.
suave.
about
the
romanile, aggressive, Inarticulate, inusclebound.
Via
VALENTINO, the panting profile...
and CAGNEY.
the cynical gangster...
DEAN, the Idle
Male, 1955
MARLON HAS A RIVAL
-IT'S MR DEAN
It was Dougins Fairbanks sen. who set the pattern for cinema dois in the early silent films. tho optimistic, chl- He was valrous go-getter with a Bush- ing smile, a guy somersault and 12 Geo Whiz for every emergency.
Ста
Arguments
the drooping eyelids heavy with emptiness, and the general air of languld vegetation with nowhere to go.
Then the cynicism and dis- Marlon Brando marked The illusion of the thirties ushered victory of the brusies, He in the pingster heroes James the truck driver with the come Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, hither musele. His shuffling Clarke Gable-with faces like bewilderment and numbling and a violent care mcoherence could be a symbol tempt for romantle values, of our times. and he has They won a woman. by push- restored romanco do the jungle.
her face ing a grapefrult in and treating sex as if it were a chip on the shoulder,
James Denn in East of Eden is of this juvenile delinquent has the douching grace of a tired cat and eyes that stare with the compelling magnetism of a deep and empty
and
and
this type But
of hygienic
After the last wor the male suilen, malo lost favour in the worldly, animal was pushed even lower school, He Now he s
and sophisticated atmosphere of the down the ovolutionary scale.
mid-twenties.
It was the cia The prewar toughs who had of the Latin lover. Exotic at least been quick-witted and
women will undoubtedly The debonair man-about-town passionate Agures like Rudolph
bo thrilled to have him in their cove been
the Valentino Ramon Novarro, and fast talkers were elbowed out
of popularity by
When he is emotionally dis- laps. dominated Gilbert Jeans John
ho In
view, turbed he falls his arms about Mitchum genre.
my Kiven
with way to cereCTR
their panting
likely windmill. They could be distinguished like a rubber
But pretender mos: isas tender as profiles and kisses rippling up
thrane the great jacket he comes out of the screen or long, draped of the by the the length process and down
tailored to fit a telephone booth, you like a hurtling panther, Brando himself,
has anthropoid Gallantry
replaced by
blue
hኳ፡፡
grunts, Love
1. 13.
iL
half-Nelson.
might be worth a short survey. heroine's arms,
the
the
Robert
Another Of The World's Strangest Stories
THE QUEEREST QUACK
LL London was aware
around 1780 bizarre
of personality
a
IN LONDON
By Crawford Snowden
dramatist); and his women as- sistants and attendants. But
In the to de- Emperor
he was in debt most of the his time, probably for some of. who moved with a sliding, were many wires, coils, jars, his Temple of Health - now expensive equipment;
trade fall away at shuffling gait, wore only conductors, glass rods, globe also "of Hymen"to Schomberg perhaps
Graham had
his been last. In Notvmber, 1782. and magnets in this Templo of House, linen clothes, and had i
in Bath AS # all Health
profoundly
property my fashionable
wag ozized, and in tho at sterious
following year sold at strange way of bobbing
to the majority in doctor.
had treated Callicrino muction. acquahtances. He was Dr 1780.
Macaulay once renowned as on James Graham, the genius
He Was only 37. and still historian apparently with suc- To spend a night on of the Temple of Health, an otherwise tuxurious couch cost
He lectured in -CSS. At
In enterprising. Aix-la-Chapelle
Georgina, Edinburgh in 1783. and got elaborately-decorated house the trusting and hopeful £60: 1779 he had treated
accounts say Graham Duchess of Devonshire. He is cross with the magistrates when in Adelphi Terrace that con- tomo obtained
much as reputed fo have
corated, while Graham were an had they forbade a repetition tained many wonders.
claborate wig. They must have testimonials
other the lecture. from
been quite worth paying to Perhaps this was his II Con- see.
£100,
He
this
Or
of
Emma Lyon (later Nelson's Lady Hamilton)" truly giganti Goddess of Health
and Beauty.
He
As for the clck and alling. aristocratic patients, Guarding its doorway, in
they could be treated with Born to Edinburgh, he had vito Amoroso, 0 serio-comic- cocked hats and showy Graban's Nervous Aetherial
studied medicine under noted philophical lecture оп the Rellglous onthusiasm had now liveries liberally ndorned Balsam, his Divine Bolm, his
at professors
Edinburgh Causes, Nature, and Effects of taken a hold on Graham. with gold lace were two out- Imperial Pills or with one
University but it is doubtful if Love and Beauty. It had been claimed in 1790 that he posted he ever qualificat, He had delivered in London
to in 1782. from Liverpool to Windsor size flunkeys who attracted other of his several elixirs.
settlod first in Pontefract where
but Edinburgh objected.
was the Prince of Wales that a lot of attention.
Lather's he had married,
ho would suffer his Little some to be known of Grahum was furious. He re- (Georgo III) new unless he his wife, or of two of three plied with Pamphlet 11: An married a certain princes. children, a son and a daughter appeal to the Public containing
The warning had been who survived. hun. He had the full account of the ignorant, travelled in the United States illegal, and impotent Proceed- lished in Pamphlet 6 in 1779: B9 OC
oculist and aurist, and had ings of the contemptible Magis- A clear, full and faithful por
certain for two
in strates of Edinburgh. He was traiture years remained Philadelphia. He was
for libel but fairly inprisoned
Round the doorway were hung disused crutches, steel trusses, car trumpets and other implements of the afflicted, said to be rendered
after
quite unnecessary visita to this unique establishment.
Non-patients,
LOC much
10
the merely curious, could be conducted on. a tour of Inspection for five shillings
anck impress them. Marble statues, noble vases, paintings, stained-
windows, ginto
and rich hangings In aresting colours
the interior.
One Rraced enteral to the count of awe- inspiring organ music. Perfume and incense, distilled through glass tubes, filled the alr
APOLLO APARTMENT
the
of 0
aznd 'spotless
Dub-
mcot
Nobody Worries On Rarotonga
D
But in this South Sea paradiso a woman must work... even the 'royal' wife of the island's
most prosperous wan
by ANNE SHARPLEY
was
London. One of the loveliest
half French, ID you ever dream of Marlo Peyrous,
half Polynesian, granddaughter Ilving in the South of
a chief, who, like all Seas? (Pale
áristocracy, gold Polynesian
could
years.
sands, mop-headed palms, trace her family tree back 1,000 deep sky hinged to a deeper blue sea, crlap roar of the surf outside the Ingoon). But, of course, you never of went. It was just one those dreama.
man who William Watson is dreamed and went to the South Seas. "And out of the millions who say they would love to live there I don't think I've met 10 who actually dared to come and Is the man who saya settle,"
for the
first back in Britain time in 30 years, a rich mon now-and a happy one.
He has had pearly 30 years in what he calls "the last re- Gort of real happiness," the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Island, South Pacific,
Lovely girls
He took one look at Raro tonga's mountain's and gleam- ing beaches and "I just knew I was home."
the
"Home" in actuality was small town of Kelty in Fire- shite, 16,000 miles away. But Mr Watson scarcely gave Kelty a thought as he reached for his "capital"-£ 150-ond bought a all building and opened a store.
Not that Scots acumen deserted him. He would keep his store open till nine at night storekeepers while the other
closed at four
true to his And, of course, dreams of the South Sens, there were lots of lovely girls who would come laughing into his store, quite often not to buy anything nt all but to sit on the counter,
and play guitars eing to him.
When she was 15 they were married with tremendous cere mony, and before the bride was 20 had two daughters,
And, of course, ovor the new dresses are always worn the traditional lein of flowers. For Rarotonga, where the tempern- ture all year round is in the 70s or 80%, le glorious with flowers, Ilibiscus, red jesmino, gard
and
the small, white
Flower"
Tahiti, L
of the islands-Tiaro
Worry and tension are simply not allowed.
"When author James Normon Hall said he had ulcers, islanders were horrified.
the 'You
can't have ulcers on Rarotonga, they said They were right," says Mr Watson,
Next stop
They worked hard to make
Now Mr Watson has brought
wifo and two pretty the store a success, Mrs Watson his
and worked as hard as he (and still daughters, Elizabeth, 21,
One store become two Jean, 19, to where the worry does).
and a clothing factory and tension really are. One gets stores employing 150 girls was opened, the impression that Mr Watson at
Each year he sends about didn't want to come back 100,000 articles of clothing to all. But he had promised them...
a world trip and it was a case New Zealand,
of three to one. Now they are in London, at Local skill
dressmaking and an sounds phenomenal object lesson to Oxford Street.
"All the girls make their own dresses," says Mr Watson. "I a visitor arrives wearing some- thing very up to date you can see the girls eyeing her up on down. By evening there are hundreds of copies of her dress being worn on the island."
Leading reporters the world over have spontane- ously acclaimed the amazing accuracy of automatic winding on a ball-bearing 1 "It is to watchmaking what jet propulsion is to aviation"?
And next stop Scotland where Mr Watson will show them the hills above Lochleven where he used to climb and the streams he used to fish in. "But I shall be really happy when I get hock to Rarotonga," says Mr Watson with the sightly anxious voice of a man who has found. Para-** dise and is afraid of losing it.
sound on hygiene, sleeping with Tolbooth could not silence him. Princess and a certain YouthfThe first self-winding watch on a ball-bearing
tha Hadskom window
water. vegetarianism.
He
dedicated to and Wales merely
the
apen. In 1787 he was confined to his Heir-Apparent;
of Prince and bathing in and drinking house as a lunatic but ocems to the
his release by wisdom of Solomon.
recommending cold
preached have obtained
payment of a fine. Inv following year he was lecturing in Paris, also in the Isle of Man.
in
FANTASTIC
the
ON COLD WATER
He was in Bath again in 1789 spreading hist cult of earth Graham's last demonstration But the faintretie proceedings
bathing Ho hact himself was subsisting for 14 days in Adelphi Occasioned Gome buried naked, in carth for 1793 cm cold water only, sus- ridicule. At the Haymarket eight successive days for
dx taining
Jifo meanwhile Theatre they were mercilessly Houts each day. It did him, wearing cut-arp turves against caricatured in an extravaganza, he claimed, a power of good, his naked Hotty which he had "The Gentus of Nonsense. The he
poet
cult to New andriod with his famous Ner- Southey referred la He carried the
castle where he and a Graham as
Ra Aetherial Balsam. young yous half have half Walpole,
into enthusiast. Horace
woman were buried standing in lived the following year, ther birthday suits, up to and died aged 40-ho who in visit, maid his Temple fater a
that chins.
advertised that young 1783 nd Health
WRS
most
of woman's hair was wonderfully could impart the secret There was the great Apollo
Impudent puppet show
dressed, powered and de lluing for at least 150 years. the ppartment, Z magnificent There was a High Priestess Imposition he ever saw, temple, sacred to health and the Heba Vestina, who road moumlebank himself being the dedicated to the Grècian god Grahtin's special lectura to dullest of his profession, except [
was the perfection of women. Her very name implied that he made spectators pay a youthful manhoodi Here the the power of restoring the crown apley High Priest, the bizarre Dr not-go-young to youth und
who
than
five
nhlilinga
on
The
From
bizarre Dr Graham, A contemporary print.
n's rosy,
the
was
Testured Graham,
he the
However,
bright the beauty. wonderful cures ha had
enough to bamboozle London effected: but A cost much more She was supported by the for more than three years. His to hear Goddess of Health and cauty. pamphlets, including a 99-page, about these iniracles of heal described in Graham's persua- high-flown description of his ing and partake of the doctor's sive words
athlete, Temple of Health said to have Ong who Infinite wisdom.
cost In another anet tuly gigantic.
him at Jenst '£10,000, this room, also impressively, ornate,
to have playou was said
could hardly be called dull. stood the Great Celestial Bai part was the beautiful Emma
Lyon, Laica
Nelson's Lady Ona would
lid think, ho on massive glass columns.
well in those thrto Hamilton in her early days of pretty This was no great a wonder poverly.
not. By truly gigantic years. Hn probably did anything to be found in Graham was presumably
slaft over much-tho Te pay his London, for those who elected feminig ret 10 her physical two outsize flunkeys who stood to sleep in this bed were proportioma but to the im- at his door; his Junior High
certain reller from mensity of her natural charms. Priest,
medical student to sterility. No doubt the siceper Batoro his picturesque days named Mitford (who was experience. mik alectric in the Adelphi Maxi in Pall be the father of Mary Russell ahocks for his monty, for there Mall, where in 1781 he moved. Mitford,
novelist and
19
promised
JOHNNY HAZARD
''AİY, POOR SHARK., WÂY DID SHE RUN AWAY FROM ME ALWAYSI [BUT PERHAPE THERE IS STILL
| BOME FAINT POPEL,GÜICKLY. WE MUST GET DOWN THERE!
THE CYCLE'S FLAME? ARE NEARLY SPENT WHEN THE MEN REACH ITAC
tho
-Tho
ha
ETERNA MATIC İ
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As the 10th anniversary of the first atomic bombing an
proaches, Dr Ichiro Tsuzuki, survivor of the Hiroshima
• "TO blast, has released some grim medical estimates. treat a single average victim of an atomic bomb, suffering from burns affecting 40 percent of his body", Dr Tsuzukl
"For says, two doctors and three nurses are needed." adequate treatment of each such patient, these two doctors and three nurses require 42 bomben of oxygen, 2.7 miles of sterilised gauze, 40 pints of blood, 34 pints of blood pingna and 104 injections." • Dr Tsuzuki points out that, to have treated with reasonable promptitude all the victims of the Hiroshima homb、 who were not' killed outright, a`total of 170,000 doctors and 8,000 tons of medical supplies would have been, needed........... There are only 100,000 doctors, in all Japan today.
By Frank Robbins
GENERAL ANTHERE ARE NO BODIES ANYWHEREL!)
WE HAVE BEEN TRICKED
IF THEY, ESCAPE US NOW, I'LL LOSE MY SHARI FOREVER... AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW
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