AFTER THE SIMPLY SPIFFIN "PAS" ON THE PAKISTAN UMPIRE, THE ILLUSION OF LORD'S DIGNITY IS SHATTERED. IT IS OBVIOUSLY JUST A PALACE OF RIOYOUS FUN WITH COMMITTEE MEETINGS RUN LIKE THIS..
BUCKET OF WATER JAPE
Ha! Ha! Ha!!
EXPLOSIVE CIGAR Titter: Titter!!
ITCHING POWDER THAVING FIRST PUT "L" PLATE ON BACK! Gidge! Giddle!
JAM ON
TRIP WIRE BREAKS, MEMBERS (EG! Garooch chaps"|
DOORKNOB Ho' Ho! Ho!
BANG
Wow Fellers! LITTLE
DOES HE KNOW HIS SHOE LACES ARE
TIED TOGETHER!
I HAVE MY SAY
BUTTON HOLE SQUIRTS SOOT. Scream
PULLS CHAIR AWAY AND DISLOCATES SPINE !!!
Te He' How Haw
RAYÜLETT.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 6,- 1956.
Safety Mat Is Boxing's
Way
To Beat
Death
By HARRY CARPENTER
A new type of safety mat, designed to reduce brain injuries in the ring, is about to be tried out by the British Boxing Board of Control, after nearly a year's research.
The mat, which costs £120 and is an inch thick, will be used for the first time at Liverpool Stadium on March 8,
Present Board of Control regulations call for nothing more than canvas, with
a felt underlay, to cushion the wooden ringboards.
Junior Shuttle
Championships
Start Today
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In the past, many deaths have Fundoubtedly been caused
boxers striking their heads 4103 the hart floor while being knocked over or out.
Severe concussion and at the worst brain haemorrhage van result.
AMERICAN RULE
In New York,
Board's 1**
thick safely
experiment
Waterman, who got the dis- puted decision, is being paid Gavilan three times as much, twice As much us last me. "It's the most expensive ten- round fight I've staged for a long time," says promoter Solo- mons. The boxers are also stak- ing £500 a side.
Negotiations hung for a while
Waterman's when
manager, Jarvis Astaire, asked for a 12- round match
get- ("Peter was
end huang stronger towards the
The Colony 1955-50 Junior mal is mandatory equipment for Badminton Championships will boxing rings and it is from this
underw 1:ary 4:2 11 get Indian Recreation Club, Soo-grown, kunpoo with six matches down
first Kame
fer decision. The
Pieces of the material used in American mats were sent to the starts el 7 pm,
Huurd last April, The Board wil be The u
two men's took them to the government's singles, two mixed doubles and | Scientifle and Industrial who two men's doubles games,
search department, Following
starting tinues
is the draw andgested improvements.
DRAW Men's Singles
"George Ma thyri,
14192
of the last one), but it will be over ten rounds at 10st, lb., as before.
EDWARD GORING AT THE NEW FILMS
TIPSY-TURVY OTHELLO
Orson Welles stands on his head. Or, at least, that is how he appears at first. a normal position to Then, for a brief, reluctant moment, the camera reverts to ahow Mr Welles being borne upon a bier to burial,
The confusion is cleared up: It is Othello beginning at the end. This sombre, silhouetted scene depicting the funeral of a villain's noble victims ralaes the curtain on Shakespeare's tragedy.
But
БОЛ.
the
Afterwards, to trace the wob❘lian not, and the setting sun The father (Glenn Ford) E of jealousy and hoto that | In Othello's hair,
wealthy enough to raiso emmeshod them all, the flim Music, too, takes up the note half-million-dollar ransom de- follows the pattern of the play, of doom In an ominous Harrymanded by the kidnappers of
Both have much in common. Lime-like dirge.
his eighty Investment is for Mr Welles rums, the gamut
the The essentials of the plot and
there is no as much of its poetry as is pos- from hoarso sible in an hour and a half are voiced · rage. In moments of guarantee
But the
The odds against resem-climax such as the murder of his boy alive. preserved. blance is superficial.
Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier) him aro the same whether he Shakespeare takes a tale of his acting is harder to assess pays or not. treachery and turns it into a because he is nearly invisible, As a business man accustomedi classic drama
calculated risk he of character. From a blank, black screen to taking showing an evil mind working stares one surrealistic eye; or gumbles all for the sake of Remove the profl? destruction on a good. Defying at moet a head, the right way society. dramatic conventions of time
and kidnappers are out but disembodied.
motive up and
of business. place, he suspends our dis-
Mr MacLiammeir's brogue and blinds us to
Instead of paying the ransom bellet
Sta
melts the chill of his sharp- weaknesses by brute force. featured soulless satisfaction he offers the sum as a reward,
wifo Only Shakespeare could have and there is an air of blarney-
HL
(Donna Reed) and kissed got away with it,
mischler
him public opinion, not understand- about Here, the
Spell
breaks under rather than the vilo artistry in ing, turn against him, and he is the sirong stump of Mr Welles's evil of a demi-devil,
left alone to await the result of his visionary courage. seed of the
despair to deep-] from ht it will buy back
Individualism, whose heavy Miss Cloutier resigns herself
TEMPTATION
to
Resisting the temptation turn the play inside out, he delivers the ploin, unvarnish'd tole "Othello" into terms of cinema often turn upside down,
Michach Lawrence
But his efforts to transinterensondary and un-sideration
INTRUDERS
thr
tread crushca
role, and drama; the husk of melodrama to a handmaindenly
(Casio); The study of grief stalking a remains.
Fay Compton (Emilia), and once-happy home is dramaticol- Robert Coote (Roderigo) help ty sustained. Into intrudes the selfishness of others: The along a story which la here re- duced to a murky, gloomy schoolmistress whose only con- charade of
is to disclaim
tho police-chler ponsibility, worried
rried about his job, the Until now,
news-hound, kidnapping films, callous in the excitement of the chase, ghoulish sightseers enjoying have overlooked an important held day.
It 13 raised in question, Rancom! due for release next week.
Should parents pay blood- money for the return of their Underlying personal child? tragedy, as this picture shows, are deeper issues,
1
As an exhausting display of eine-aeroballes, Mr Welles's production is rival to Cine- It was produced and and is completely do- inated
by the grown-up infant terrible himself.
tireless Moor.
makes
D
Hurrying through five arts in 10 minutes he 1- scidom still, and to encompass his downfall (Michael Machlammolr) lago must quicken his pace too.
Since it is difficult to keep up with Mr Welies it is sometimes necessary for characters to bel- low their lines across many intervening yards, even when they are fortunate enough to be on the screen.
The camera follows tipsily, tilting
to every possible angle and once producing a castle in
the air.
All this phrenetic photo-
graphy, combined with restless cutting, distracts attention from Shakespeare's main business, which concerns the gradual en- clavement of the Moor in the clutches of a spirituni tormen-
tor.
PLUS MUSIC
Tony de Marco
Referee? He will be appoint- Beats "Bud" Smith
Not
He-
SALE-
YINA-
Firms were then asked to
all submit samples--and from this has come a substance called have Acro Jubicx, saich to shock-absorbing properties
ed by the Boxing Board. That Gavin's mactager, Yamil Chade, the mus! aggrieved party last time, cares who will be.
he
SIX
"We (sic) shan't need
Gavilan will referee this time. knock him out," says Chode.
COPYRIGHT
and
trang y B Tan; Lee Weng-fang v
Li
Hip-wing:
(bye).
J
ان بلاده
Men's Doubira *J Xavier and A J Muita
Кал (bye); Z. A Abban and M
Arculli and C. Yew, w B
Douglas Brown and
V Hon Ying-leg and Li Hin-wing: S X. Ng and C, K Chan byet . K Lul and Dr P H. Lau (ye); Yip Che-sning and Lam Salming v 1. C. Chau and S. Y. Wong: Wong Po-zay and Fei Lung E. M. Ribeiro and R. D. Nules; George Ma and Wong Wal-hung (bye).
Yuen.
Ladter singles *Cinder Blu (bye) v Chai Yuen- chun by: D. Madgest v Mis S.
Wang (bye) Sulva: at Doubles
*Connie Young and Chul chun (bye) v Sunata Kulkolmel and Mi Miry Chen (ye); Mr S. A Abbas and Heidi Lamally Mrs J. Yung and Mrs 9. Suvn: Mary Wong and Betty Yung tuye).
Mixed Doubler
D. KL. Lul and S. K. Hov Wong Wai-hung and Mrs S. Suva: Z. A Abbas and Mr Abbas V H. Areuil and Mrs Cotten; lion Ying- teatg and Miss W. K. Chan P. C. Chau
and Mrs Y Y Chung *George Ma and Mary Wong (Bye). Player with asterlaks before their names are seeded.
TODAY'E PROUILAMME At Inc.
7.30 p.m. Junior Bixed Doubles
or seven times that of ordinary
but still firm
rubber.
springy.
That is important, because
the big drawback to most safety Manchester City,
mals is the strain and drag they impose on fighters' legs.
For that reason, the new mat is not being tried out at Liver- pool's show on Thursday when British and Empire Flyweight Champion Dai Dower meals Frenchman Robert Meunier.
Liverpool promoter Johnny
"We thought Best 1063 me:
It would be unwise use it for the first time in such an important fight, in case it is not the success we hope."
THOROUGH TEST
Birmingham Joint
Favourites For
FA Cup
general
Mr Ford gives a terse, tight- lipped performance az the man torn between paternal love and his_idea of social duty.
should see it,
What's best In
Kowloon?