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THE CHINA · MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1956..
From the film that will cause controversy
OLIVIER'S
the highlight of an encounter macabre
FOUR EERIEST SCENE LOVE
THESE ITALIAN GIRLS!
PAGE
By Henry Thody
W
Rome
THAT exciting creatures
these postwar Hallan: girls are! And I don't just mean the Lollobrigidas, the Munganos and the Sophia
Lorens.
Take
attractive,
raven-
haired Lillana Sereno, just 21, the winner of an hour. hg fight with an
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the
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African coast.
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wont be Algeria to help salvage a sunkia Laberly ship londed with
the day
she was “tyltet!!s
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by reidenst with ly minutes to sue Then the bout
battle with the giant netraps!
And Lana's favourite pastime
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N picturesque Modena Barry is
I lovely girl.
Mara Beleli,
who bears a striking resemblance
Pi Angril to Italian
except ihal Mare is a barbert
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THIS ABOVE WAS SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER-IN FALSE NOSE-OURING A
•IREAK IN SHOOTING THE FILM
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He rewrites Shakespeare
to add extra drama
by DAVID LEWIN
extended With Siri, Laurence Oliyler, also the director, helping out with the dinibus awards
OLIVIER and LAURENCE has changed Shakespeare to provide his Alm of "Richard III" with a drumatic and unex- .pected love scene.
and The
Olivier scene between Cinire Bloom is one of the most re- markable ever shot. I predict I will be the high point of controversy when the picture has its public showing.
For Olivier hax decided that to add "dromatte content" to the story he should make love to Claire Bloom ver the con of her dead husband --- murdered by Olivier.
Claire Bloom plays Lady Anne. and the way Shakespeare had it was that Richard II ucted by Olivier) killed her father-in-law.
The love
follows the scene that funeral has been specially strengthened
I TRAVEL
OF
Olivier, a hunch-backed Agure in black, looms up over the coffin as it is Then being borne by hooted monks. he asks Claire Bloom to marry him.
At first she refuses. Olivier takes out his sword and offers to let her slab him. She cannot,
He ofters to kill himself she stops his hand. And then the attrac tion of opposites--she kisses her hus- band's murderer.
It is an astonishing scene in a already created so pieture that has much attention that a New York TV It for $500,000 company has bought (£180,000) for one showing in America.
• The Alm
credit-tities GIRO List assistance from Colley Cibber and David Garrick, Iwo eighteenth- century actor-dramatists.
THE ROAD
DEATH
SUDDEN
Kabol make curtiuris clubbed together
ARRIVED here in a to send her try one for a Bun
snowstorin, dazed and Lest Mara reluctantly left her Rone. The
by the buttered Lid is Clastomers,
W us morning thre screen test arranged, she took the truth back roughest drive of my life.
to her barber's shup, litslind of the studioS,
"I'd rather shave my custrentus
kecond Gina
thaan be
brigida,"
LABO
she ns Marn Raid
her favourite
happily stopped cul-throati
uperi
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to tip himself
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By Russell Spurr
He stamped my passport, and fields. ached thoughtfully: "Last right a bli buck. got the Afghans
I ጊዜ፡ following Mesars Their frontier post was shot up." Bulgarth and
"By thr constabulary?" I Krushchev asked.
The clerk grinned: "I intu Afghanistan. They was shot up, that's al: I know." Bow I came by road..... Thirteen hours, 280 agonising
Peshawar, mijes fron Pakistan, bumped and bounced tracks most of the
woy.
In
constant
North-
30. There
been incidents
Blong the
since west Frontler
the dictu- trial Government in Kabul han been claiming a slice of Pakistan for Afghanistan.
"Good luck, anyway," mid turne Coughing through deserts of
"Wish I could wish MHS Cartongill, 42,
dust and pebble that might have the clerk.
I 8001 wife In North Raly, had
bern old atomic testing grounds; you a good journey," problem experienced by house-
precipice w why. rotune! Her husband shuddering wives eist whare.
cloud snereJuly the bends, with 112
1.000 1. drop for his contain the wine Last week, in below, dediging past cunels and effort to prevent her laten donkeys.
squandering her Mrs savings. wallowed the keys
housekeeping
Lucy and
desperate
husband from
housekeeping
Carbonelli
---
A constable lowered a chain
My truck Ulo
road, Aerose
into Afghanistan. roured TOŠN
Then-crash!
endert.
The Larmac Accelerating past surly, beard-
Ruts and potholes be tribesmen who seemed un- certain whGHET to shoot or to gan. They continued for 240 miles right up to my hotel door in Kabul.
to the drawer where the money. was kept.
Trying all the time-ouch!--- The doctor who opened up her
To appreciate the most lomante stomach to remove the bunch of
motor drive in the world, keys redhod
savings
1t Jookexi
easy S
from gesund us a less painful means
wasn't husekeeping Pakistan. The distance th of keeping
great. The British-built tarmac money su [t
road beckoned invitingly into the Khyber Pass.
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GERMANY.
The sun came up behind great brown mountains as the truck I had hired Jumbered into the Kipling country. Not an Afridi, not a Bengal Lancer in sight. Only a line of empty forest.
On the lower slopes there is a magnificent military railway. Carved on roadside rocks are the badges of departed British regiments.
No Milk
CHRYSANTHEMUMS are sull being grown at an old British frontier post-by the Pakistanis Tea is still served, but without milk and with too much
now.
sugar.
No Purdah
The
hid with rifles corner watch-
tud walls houses, while men mat lu conical towers.
Th
the most violent Bloott country in the world foods inst for centuries, and a keen eye plus u whetted knife are essentials to survival.
EL
This is loveless, brutal country where the bridegroom's first duty is to thrash his wife,
This is a no man's country of vultures and stunted trees and rows of roadside grave..... for deaths never far away,
This game, said to have been played originally with a human body as a ball, ended in a win for the team of bearded, blue- couted plants who twice hurled the calf against a foxstaff that represented goal.
Comrade Knishchev applaud- ed the winners and handed over u silver trophy.
It was after this that he and
went
the behind Bulganin machine-gun guarded doors of Afghan Premier Daud's palace to discuss the granting of in- creased Soviet technical aid and
credit of long-term
$100 million (£36,000,000).
This will the Afghanistan still
closely to mord
the Soviet Union.
A cold wind rustled the little flags that hung over the graves, The flaga took the place of big
would never last flowers that there.
a
A few word
Arable script across rough slate head- stones cumetimes reminded family that this death had yet to be avenged.
The truck tought its way along the track. The radiator bolled, springs squealed, and bolt joined in
AN Afghan sentry with a Bus every nut and
A
sin rifle directed me into a grubby border guardhouse. grubby official examined my passport, read the collection of visas, smoked a elgarette, chatted colleague, and finally to a deckled I could not go through,
protest.
im-
It
almost Afghanistan.
is France, a, portant country militarily. is a neighbour of Russia. It also Pakistan, Persin and borders both of them allied to the West.
It is quite a shock to see the that already Soviet influence exista in Afghanistan.
IN
No Quality
Kabul, the capital (pop. 300,000) a city of high mud walls and relied women--Soviet- bulit Pobeda taxis and Molotove buses rattle over the ruls. A Soviet I don't believe
trading company as opened an imposing headquarters in the main street,
The last 10-mile-an-hour grind up to the Kabul plateau lasted about a month; my watch
ald four hours.
11.
The
Lateband Pass topped feet, night fell, cloud in, and snow came swirling down,
My visa was for an air trip 10,000 to Afghanistan,
not for entry closed by road.
I explained that plane services were suspended.
The Afghan official grudgingly
through a phone put
call to Kabul. Half an hour later I was allowed to proceed.
Camels were coming down the with an end-of-season road export of grapca.
The
camola pitter-patted through the cushioning dust, oblivious to truck her or the sticks of the caravanecra
Women ran along behind the
No Salaam
BEGAN to wonder if my in- juries would be permanent.... then a line of lights appeared ahead.
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At this moment in the play as Shakespeare wrote it, Lady Anne (Clairo Bloom) is by the coffin of her father-in-law when Richard I
(Laurence. Qlivlár) asks her to marry
him. In the film as To-written by Olivier
it is her husband who is in the coffin.
BROADWAY SENDS
H
FOR
THE
DIVA
ELEN TRAUBEL, the Wagnerian soprano who threw her operatic dignity out of the windows of the "Met" to the night aing blues in
starts clubs,
her ninth career at the age of 52.
Bursting into musical comedy In Rodgers and Hammerstein's much-heralded "Pipe Dream,"
Broad- twelve stone plus-Prima Donna tour-came revolution. Mies the has just made her
Traubel is light on her feet and Traubel appeared in а night way debut.
previously done she is not self-conscious about club the Chez Paree of Chi- In her film debut In caro. Rudolf Bing, British of the Metropolian recordings, television, "Deep In My Heart" a year ago director recitals, radio, orchestral con- capering. supper clubs and a movie bo ahr kicked up her heels with Opera in, New York, thought sho sides opera. Now, after a four- Jose Ferrer in a pas de deux, had let the side and her; high
Ch
down week try out in Boston, she says Leg of Mutton.
He told her she need not she is enjoying her newest Job Why stuffy?
come back until she shook off
By EVELYN IRONS
Famous soprano Helen Traubel is putting gusto into a new musical production on Broadway. 'I can cut a rug like anybody else,' she says.
Russian goods sell cut-price In the bazaars. You can buy Soviet bicycle for £3., new It falls to bits in nine months. But the British product costs twice the price. And price more thazı quality in Afghanistan, where the average wage is £2 a month.
Serge-suited Soviet technicians are building noticeable projects all over the country.
means
These are the only electric lights in Afghanistan.
"Kabul," sald my "Allah be praised."
I was too tired to join him in $1,000,000
foam towards Mcccn.
A
Helen has
certs,
Each Russian venture-like driver, the new Kabul petrol dumpis designed for show. It gets for more publicity than the annual
dish-haired (£354,000) America supplies in her scheme for aiting under developed countries.
"We have been having a bit of trouble," said Pakistani caravans rounding up children,
Next day 1 sa Afghanistan's Customs clerk: "Afghan troops or checking babies, ducks, and
Twenty violent gome. most emong slung have been crossing the border chickens
horsemen fought for the head- here and shooting things up. The saddlebags.
less carcase of a calf, Frontier Constabulary has been after them."
PHOTOGRAPHS
by our Staff Photographers
L.R.C. Dance
Arrival of New G.O.C.. Rizal Day, at Filipino Club New Year Dance at K.C.C. Tamar Christmas Pantomime Children's Party at E.Y.M.C.A. Children's Party at Command Workshops.. Christmas Party of Senior School at St. John's Return of French Soldiers from Red China St. John's Cathedral Children's Party Return of H.K.U. Professors G.O.C. Visits Police Headquarters A11 Local Sports Local Presentations. Local Weddings.
etc. etc.
Available at
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Wyndham Street,
the
There is no purdah veil for these nomad women. But they The
riders, in two teams, with steel scowl as they look at you to lashed each other
and discourage any familiarity. It tipped whips shouting
In
E
Liebesbod
Is
those of
war
On the Hollywood set she met Karnous
.......
Bedroom piano More dollars Wagner, Brahms and Strauss. Stage stardom does not mean
Are
to
as much as any of the others.
That number was a long, long the supper clubs, Miss Traubel That is saying plenty, for she
from
Isolde .and the slapped down fils contract is a person who brings enormous way
unsigned. The
between gusto to everything she does.
"Music doesn't need to red- Junoesque, green-oyed,
be "Op" and "Pop" music was on. Miss says
Helen says she does not regret Helen which
Traubel, stuffy to be good."
that breach with Divadom, Traubdi. is whose husband, William Bass,
will not She fells anyone who her business manager, disclose how much she is getting shocked by her following Plaza ter Idols who are not
show and Melchior from grand opera tenors, such as Michael Wilding. 03 the star of a new
"I am Walter Pidgeon and Goorge Yes, those taxis, the 23 which boasts the biggest ad- to light entertainment:
in theatre history doing what I always wanted. I Senders. People stop her in ther bfcycles, and the pertrol dump vance sale
million and bal want to sing what people want street and address her as Helen. are the first taste of a Russian (nearly
al- to hear."
"They never did that when I In her views the songs of was in opero," sho beams drive with subsidised goody that dollars worth of bookings is going to hurt British trade ready for the Broadway pro
duction, which is practically sold Cole Porter. Gershwin. Jerome proudly. throughout the East.
Kern and Richard Rodgers are out until March).
#18 Important is best to keep staring straight marling as they dragged the
Afghen Prender Doud has ahead. Even a friendly "Good calf from end to end of Kabul given the Russian drive his
But she is probably getting She might also agree that sorne dieting away her operatie figure. blessing. morning" has sometimes cost a Stadium.
his But at least
a pretty comfortable foreigner his life.
Horses reared. Men fell in Foreign Minister has also salding about $5,000 a week more of the heroines of grand opera,I'm
taken person," she says.... હવ the Metropolitan Opera, "because it educational," are Always a bit of gouernet, abo Villages appeared beyond the the scrimmage. Both men and "We will continue our policy of than she got as top-rating diva to which children
neutrality."
Then her pay was $1,000 each no better fauna than the lady makes just a tow gestur ON Khyber, and a few half-hearted horses dripped with blood.
of performance.
tapy virtue Impersonates slimming. She, uses af saccharine In "Pipe ne she But it cannot approach the
substitute for sugar, orde $100,000 she got for four weeka She is the first American scimmed milk, and prefors leas and American- - trained meat to fat. Otherwise, her diet cabaret at the Sahara,, in Las born Vegas.
soprano to have sung Isolde and is lavish, with the accent
nt the oysters and steaks, In "Pipe Dream," which is set the three Brunnhildes
Mot. She Ja, too, the daughter Besides her New York flat, Fini John Steinbeck's Cannery
Row and is based on his novel, of a druggish in St. Louis, where there is a plane evers In "Sweet Thursday," Helen plays theme song is the
Missouri, "and her night club her bedroom, she has a show- St. Louis house with a new swimming Americana call
pool overlooking the' sou on the dis- THE secret of what gives the Mr Marler has proved this by the unpainted females had the what the
waistcoats on courage to hen-peek males and "dadam" WHO OWNS B
Her first pubile appearances California coast 60 miles from reputablo'\ cafe, and sells the
Hollywood, power over female chaffinches female chaffinches Immediately get away with it..
employed were in a local church choir. When the two lowest females charms of the girl
At 19, Helen married. Louis She loves moviestoing. ban has been discovered by Peter their social status soared both
# St. Louis car impassioned TV tán, devours Marlor, 28-year-old Cambridge, with the males and
other of a flock|were given pink waist theresa cumbustious part she Carpenter,
In this quickly became they scientist.
acknowledged leaders of hen- og as you would expect. She fleeman. They separated after defective stories she wrot
months and later whodunit herself, a crime novel By also dances in a rollicking only four
calypso number.
divorced. She married William called The Metropolitan Opera Cock chaffinches were far less chafinch society,
did not
"I can cut a rug Uke anybody, Bam 17 years ago, tekkis Murder, a painted birder bullying and spiteful; females
most of to lord it so decisively over the which had previously pocked sealse they were made up
:loves Helen made her operatic "to felse," she explains with one of dowdy, sparrow-lis females abeun, treated them with respect. look like znales but when they those hearty uninhibited "' goals, debut in 1987; and when Kirsten baseball. ·
At the sight of 'a mežele pink "S
How the
others treating them of laughter that procopy Her wingredient for Notway four Helen Traubel breat the nyéruga femalé
encouraged the painted with such deference they made rompa on television spoofing years, Later she succeeded her operatic sougano in the work chaffinch inmediately given ladlow, to aquabble with their the mat of their, chanyes, www.od
Jiminy a leading ** Winger- of Clerman to be a stockholde Hopera with
She once ow ground so that he gets first pick masterano puccessfully that they Odd, lo't It that the cock Durante, p
Browne, od nOW FAR WES of kan food Lite the best porch. : Won #37
the: (argu-
kula dife test nine and What we
SECRET OF THE BIRDS
By CHAPMAN. PINCHER
cock chaffinch his strange painting pink
It is the bird's bright pink "waistcoat" which enables him
coats
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Blues."
on