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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1955.
Cummings
REMORSE ON CAPITOL HILL: Englishman, overcome by the iniquities of his forebears and ashamed of his nationality,
hides hin umbrella and tries hard to look like an American citizen.
THE HIM
Buchanan Becomes The Rage Of Paris
(with some help from the x-girl)
Ο
In the last fow British censor
Paris Europe, she has had more feet subtle, obviously more true, and NE of the least likely of nim displaying her artistic have given the French enormou screen marriages of development cut out by the masochistic delight.
Yes, oh yes," said Preston all time has been yearn than the average home- Sturges about two hours inter contracted in front grown actress eces of her well- when Buchanan's ordical was dressed sell on the screen in a over and we were back in the in of the cameras
D life-time.
studio. "Yes, sure, I've written rambling French studio
the whole script, French and about three miles from the
English. The French dialogue si particularly good" Arc de Triomphe,
Mr Buchanan has always been a man for the masses. Mille Carol is Indly whose most I discoveret later, that when
smile takes in an X
Buchahan Focs out hunting It is between that tall innocuous certificate.
foxes with the Pytchley in the Scot Jack Buchanan, playing the ultra Englishman in the She was, at the moment I first Alm he is perfectly dressed for genius is about detalls aufET. film of the French bestseller, aw her, standing confidently by hunting stage in France. When
And actor. "Major Thompson Lives in
On a blackboard by the for Perhaps such things are inevi- France" and Martine wall were chalked the words: teblo once Alming becomes
"You darling: are you coming internationalised. Carol.
Mr Buchanan we know of old. Martine Carol is not so familiar. For as the most constantly and completely exposed film star la
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PROPHETS TOLD HE WAS CRAZY
By LES ARMOUR
F
all
man
first
car.
WU3
married men,
£50 for single
In 1899, when Nuffield hud It took him two years tɔ build Up to date, he has given away
Bu it from
£25,000,000. WAS Just over graduated
making that
It weal bicycles for Oxford under a nearly fool-proof car.
His employees
have received London Meanwhile, in the Oxford graduates to making bicycles fast and it went quietly, and the biggest share. In 1926, when there wasn't much that could go the Brilish economy was shaky, enthusiasts, racing the gloomy "suburb" of Cowley, Vis for
policy-£100 for fix with a wrench, and a pair of up insurance prophecies about the count Nuffield was celebrat- Henry Ford had just built wrong with it that you couldn't he gave every employee a paid-
Four future of the British ing his seventy-eighth birth- his first automobile.
pilers. motor industry were day. There were no tears at years later. Nuffield started
Furthermore, thent Ford The
who making motor bikes. strung together, they would Cowley. make the Book of Job look pioneered the mass-produced started mass-producing au- William Richard Morris-ho was like a comedy.
automobile in Britain was tomobiles the same year. In no Viscount then there in his Last week. AN
the in- hard at work, thinking of 1912, Nuffield built his first Oxford shop ready to put thing By that time right if something did go wrong. dustry prepared for its new ways to give away his automobile.
Morris cars have changed in Ford had a strong hold on
appearance, the British markets.
power, dun, the prophets of gloom
since then... But the principles were hard at it again: Aus-
uchind the contemporary Morris he AB
worked in
behind tralian import cuts, falling
his are sull the principles dollar sales, rising German
cramped Oxford shop pains- the first Morris.
And Viscount Nuffield is sul He was probably remem- takingly putting his exports, Mr Butler's squeeze on the home market the bering that the gloomy together, the prophets told there at Cowley if anything goes prophets remembered them prophets had been around a him he was crazy. He could wrong.
long time.
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he
by
the bed.
home soon? I have a great need
to take you in my arms,"
These were yesterday's words. Today "He" was home,
The martital bed in the marital bedroom
very elegant, gilded, canopled. It had just
peculiarity. one
Above the
pillows, draped with musiin, was the very large head of a long- dend water buffalo!
Immediately below the hend
by DEREK MONSEY
of the water buffalo was the Martine Carol
was already
head of Jack Buchanan. Even dressed; in gingery, tight, In striped pyjamas he looked
cardurty trousers which mord
his own elegant, Indestructible or less matched the pink auburn self.
He looked comfortable too:
of her hair. She is a rather he looked with obvious pleasure short indy with an undemanding face. It is a tributo to the on Martine Carol. And yet he r
French cameramen, whom all
inoked worried.
A bad egg
British actresses rightly consider to be miracle-workers, that Milo Carol is more Important to Europe than Marilyn Monroo
FIRST there had been trouble and one of the three landmarks
with breakfast. For
of Paris which Soraya, Empress "typically English" breakfast of Persin, asked to be shown the French technicians had when she was there. provided a huge silver dish sald "There is," said Buchanan, “G to contain kidneys, a bad bolled kind of consolation in the fact
Martino cannot can, some excessively long Chip- that
speak
polath sausages and a targo plate English Although," he added of smoked salmon.
Buchanan and Walter Goetz, the English artist, had done their best to disguise
smoked
the
salmon as crisp fried
bacon and remould the
Chipolatay
to some-
nearer
A
to
thing banger. There had been trouble,
pork
however, in
n
shade wistfully,
means we don't become
very friendly off the act. "You see, we do each
I have
with
scene Brat in French,
In English. terrible
trouble the French. The endless confusion between cect and cela for instance. It's something of a nightmare. But then we
getting the kidneys re- The Original night in English, and
No
Major Thompson
A
On the occasion of the 40th International Motor Show in Britain, it is well remember the man, who, probably more
moved: a major opera- the tion apparently against than
individual, laid
that's fine. Martine has any other
read it off that black- the nesthetics of the
to car industry. French technicians. and price foundation of the British
board. And I relax." Preston Sturges, bullish, But this was not all Buchanan's
con- visitors," said Adent, abrillant, greg-haired Worry. nien). Then
Introduced Next to his employees, Oxford Preston Sturges, the heavily- egotist with his bow untled and holidays with pay.
University has benefited most.
suede jacket American director of this Anglo- tear in his A self-educated man himself, French film. Finally, in 1036, he distributed
The bells rang. mended with sticky tape, puł maintains 时 more than £2,000,000 worth of he
official---but
soda into Jack tall brandy and tal mock-contempt
The red light went on. for shares to his employees. Since Jovial
Buchanan gazed up at the water Buchanan's hand. then, he has gone on distributing universities. Yet universitics buffalo, agonisingly resigned,
Nuffield Motors principally Oxford, London and shares, making employee-owned"
Martine Carol hliched Д
"A fine day's work, Jock. He has always reasoned that, the biggest
he said; and to me, and radiated bedside confidence. Splendid" The am--have benefited hand- it you build comfortable, flm in
*
world. the
from his generosity. "Poor Jack," Walter Goetz "Yes, after 40 years I find i spoody, trouble-free automobile employees, of course, are still a
He spent £1,000,000 building
sald
as we left the studio and can still speak French, and write reasonable price therE would be buyers for it. So to long way from owning the whole Nußßeld College at Oxford. The went into the canteen for
thing. But they own a large College is devoted to post-
nourishing tea-time glass of The Buchanans are provided his reasoning has not let him slice.
graduate work in the socini Beaufolais. "Poor old Jack-It's
I sulte at the Hotel sciences. Originally, he wanted his turn to speak French.
He with
Plaza Athenee which is highly that men work to build a college of applied en- doesn't like speaking French."
exclusive and in the very best beet when they have & share i gineering; but the University
insto
Angials It has a Bar the firm, and he reasons that baulked and he gave in.
Instead of an American Bar, there 13 no substitute for employee interest in the business. He has an instinctive feeling for authomobile is more
view that an the Englishman's
than 3 It is a friend to be machine. endowed with the qualities life.
at a
down.
was
But the story behind Viscount Nuffeld-he
awarded the Viscountcy in 1938-is mcre subilo than that,
He wanted to be a doctor. But family finances would not permit Instead, he was apprenticed to an Oxford bicycle maker. That sated just nine months. He decided there was no money in being an apprentice and set him- self up in business as a bicycle repair man.
His Capital
He
He reasons
Lives Quietly
Not so funny....
a
66] [【AJOR THOMPSON" started
life
it."
"Would you mind if we eat as a book and bas in tonight?" he asked Goetz and made publishing history already me in that fascinating voice, like and grit, which in France. Half a million coples cheese souffle
humbled women and sold in its first year is a record has as well as something of a com- astonished men into imitation for
Since then medicine, research in the care of aged, and a scort of other projects have received pliment to the French character, decades. "I'd love to take you
of
a
his attention. The biggest grant went to the Nuffield Foundation,
w
For catured,
So ho has always had healthy distrust of too much mase production.
He has had to compromise, of course, but he still insiste that every car on the production line be treated ពន an individual unit remembering that the
All the women in the bar kept
Buchanan.
This
"the Major," Д carl on the town but I've got to be up
honourable,
retired early." 1. which got an initial £10,000,000 Indian Army officer was created
for research work in applied
in words by Pierre Daninog and social science-evidence that the drawings by Goetz with a very looking at time all over Oxford dons must have been ulterior motive. Major Themp happens all the pretty persuasive when they
son tells the French the truth Paris. tidked him out of engineering about themselves.
Once he put £100,000 into a
was not quite seventeen, buyer will not be interested in Red Cross collecting box. The As a kind of pop (vinnigretto) and his total capital was four the fact that a high percentage woman holding the box was so he also lets out a few things
No nostalgia
guincas Kis woritshop was the of Morris ears work well even surprised that she forgot to give | about the English, which natur- pericetly dressed Anglo-
basement of his home.
1f his breaks down.
him a flag.
for As
Saxon of 64, with the casual ally are not so funny,
grace of another age and the himself, he lives Не still wonders about the
Such as: "The French devote Irrepressible soul of a man of Soon he was building bicycles.
has onoo ngain become He sold the first one to a clergy-factory floor checiding cars and quietly. He once remarked that to love the care we bring to, 40,
his workers. A he found it difficult to sperid making tea." "And"If only something of an idol. ten, a transaction which gave talking to
could have. dlá- Englishmen cheerful, informal atmospher £2,000 a year. He still hates him a great deal of pleasure: a
Dressed as the Major Thomp Numich holidays, has never owned a covered some way of bringing plant. bicycle that was sound enough, pervades the for a clergyman would be judged insists that no man should work yacht, and prefers to eat simply. children into the world without son with his pipe and umbrella, So be will go on giving away having anything to do with his regimental the and bowler sound brough for anybody,
under conditions to which he himself would object. And money until he stops building women, they would have been hat, and the military moustache he doesn't seo that the happiest people on earth." glued along his upper lip ("Like Major Thompson's strictures a piece of horrible old mouse,"
He was right, Soon he was flooded with orders.
He made
racing bikes and meed them himself; it was good advertising. Then he moved to motorcycles.
He used no plans for his carly creations; he had read no books He on mechanical engineering. worked by instinct.
Those were the days of the Arst automobiles. And the first outos were pretty shaky. When things went wrong, Oxford, motorists came to Morris. He the best mechanic they
Vag know.
happening.
that is more than a formal ears. And principle. He sees that it is carried out.
Screen's
First
(COPYRIGHT).
on the French character are more he complains), he dominates the
Glamour Queen
From RONALD SINGLETON
French magazines.
Wherever he
Focs
the is
[known), "I don't like it," he says with complete sincerity.. "I've always hated being re- cognised in public. Never got used to it.
"We've been in Paris almost three months," ho" went on. "Great fun. Don't know what I'm going to do next. Oh, yes.
television.
New York Alice, long since forgotten but she was always the Going to New York, for some. CTF I were to die and go oven by Hollywood, died the rage,
wave to and go
It was sound which · entled "Of course I'd like to do a her career,
musical again. The difficulty fa There were men through- The old alient Vitograph and finding them. That way he was almost forord sit for would be to be made
"No.. I've no nostalgia at all into the motor car business. The like Alice Joyce," "suld an queue of broken automobiles enraptured admiral in the out the nation who once Kalem Studio had made her
again remembered their the star she was. Then she tried for the twenties and thirties, to move with the times and go I never think of them. What's outaldo his shop was growing flickering, silent film days scrapbooks and recollected into talkies. Her beauty and fier done is gr. What matters is oo large that he thought he ought of the early twenties..
Alice as she was in those grace were there na before, but today and tomorrow, They
a beautiful legend died. Her matter a lot.” voice was no good"
to do something about it.
Never Back
Allco was Hollywood's days.
first real glamour' queen--
She went bankrupt · Holly...“ "And tomorrow," his wife graceful, dark-haired and.
It's dark-eyed. Sho filled the She was 5 ft 7 in and wood let her drift into obscur broke in, being at 7.80. Learn
And she never mado Aty.
a ing your French lines.
midnight now."\" He thought he could make a scrapbooks of the film fans became a model for men's comeback.
She married three times and
left Buchanan his sounder automobile than those of that day, and she made wives, for she kept her he was repairing. And ho
never seemed to regain tha Surlo stonding arm in arm at thought he could do it for about the American box-office con- weight to 185 lb. by diet was divorced throu sick. She lovely young anomale £200 far less than the going scious for the first time of and athletics. She was a happiness which once she had the foot of the stairs, looking as But ovan when sometimo go they were taking just ond price of those he was repairing, what an industry Hollywood screen sweetheart, wife and she, born to suffer from a heart or stain call. in d. Hugoly would some day be. They mother, and sho also became complint who was always the expersive production that might Ho did.
flocked to see "Womanhood, something of a national me picture 162....... hazel-ayod And he has never looked back. "The Glory of the Nation" symbol of a good woman
charm she was in one of har run for every AON
I suppose în à sense they were. One af bir problems; how. Been
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poor girl scrubbing floors,