THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956.
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VOLTE-FACE IN CEYLON. By HAROLD JAMES
Bandaranaike's Bark Worse Than His Bite
London. Zealand. Moreover,
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In other words, it is only by frequent assertions of quality that they can get rid of a feel- log of inferiority. The same symptoms can be discerned in Malaya and Singapore which, are likely to tako in the end.
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Nationalisation of Industry is
Inevitable under
avowedly Socialist vn by economie
menn the MMEDIATE reaction rience of colonialism' makes development at Kilindini on the Diem all the koener to East African coast, as a base for among British polit emphasise their independence. our naval forces in the Indian clans to the result of
Ocean election Ceylon's general was one of anxiety. Ceylon, it was said, was set on leaving the Commonwealth: 24 new government of the extreme eft, led by Oxonian Mr Bandaranalke, would oust foreign capital in
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the same road.
no doubl, government and spurred nationalism
I fair compensation is paid to plantation and commercial in-
It would be a pity if Ceylon ferests which are taken over, no were to leave the Commonwealth great harm will be done... excepi interests themselves, since she can, as Mr Bandara-to
She
profitable under Stałe owner- hip than they are now under
the plantations: nationalise ake has said, serve as a bridge which are likely to be for less the banks and insurnace between East and West companies, with inadespunte already compensation
served as a meeting plate enterprise.
uf in
of the WOL alwww. e mesmetalest rands will
the Colombe
if indeed, place for the
Commonwealth with any at all; and fear up the agreements
whereby on Britain uses the naval bar Plan
at. Trincomalee and keeps an R.A.F. unit in the islamul.
rout F Su The exemplute John Ketiawati and lus Unitesi National Party was unexpertest, was purtans that, if although it
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But even if compensation pakt
the fairest terms,
Industry, natknelisation frel, will do no sad to Ceylem. Socialism
do many things, but it CHA compel outside a country capital to invest in
Bild by Sortalis. And the izrevitalife result of nationalisa-
will be Ceylon It will be equally regrettable, on bow Cryla's peint of view, if frighten off capital.
Burn In derles
Its Brst thusly of lac
it alone From her
with the independener rushed to nation-
also industry.
I has been re- ste derives M which she would love gretting this action ever since.
must fearn if she reinamera
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Lengthen British All in all, it is probably too
arma leper ang relarinig at Cyprus,
control early to see the future pattern ber
Archbishop of Ceylon. It is one thing to Meat and the Greeks com- take promises in the bustings; adfered that Britain's obligation rather la carry them out.
could be met by
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ponted it that greater realism in lee than mange nt that he has clown on the platform after by Ceylonuma prite what the Greek government. So
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wildn 10+ reunatus Anita mernhers, of the Commit hely to be taken in the dis- Keylon
and whether wealth are not inked to the earsons gong on now between Caunenwealthi
other pountry by ties of blond. Vor mat Secretary Alan Lerix the Duke of Edinburgh pays a on his way to the ford Mr David Marshall, visit there religio, ustem on ruditions as
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VERDICT ON THE FILM CITY
by Thomas Wiseman
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his decision was
the right Self-confidence
Invariably it comes from any- except
HAVE come out of about hintself and unhesitatingly believes all the gossip about the anesthetic. atmo-
everybody else. sphere of Hollywood
You would boggle at th with most of my worst number of contradictory storless to be bought illusions shattered. It was told with absolute authority (by like setting out for cannibal ye-witnesses) about the activi- xxly
iny major star. One yourself. Trus! territory unly to find that
comes to the conclusion that in your DWI
Is the
either are all vege Hollywood nuitives
full of Judgment comes schizophrenies or Hors.
Anybody so gauche as not to knowledge that
story
the of
A dozen other have the inskie
The Kelly is people trust private life of Grace doomed to social ostracism. To Kossip is n condition of survival In Hollywood, and if you have 210 stories to tell you TE obviously not "In the know" and therefore not worth knowing.
Inrians.
The Dandiest Sins of Holly wood ure the least probable tand the least enticing) that you cold think of.
You
may
have heard that place where Holly wood is u
ves start at breakfast, every dog-kennel Is air-conditioned and L: livr Bike Oriental potenties
You may have heard that they seven-your-old duughter of E cert: An slar has her own chouffeur- mink coat, her own driven Cadillac and he psychiatrist.
Own
only from the
100.
And shop-talk
It
Money next
The second deadliest
money mobbery.
sin
Tho feath
deadly
Itellywood
shop-talk.
Bin
of
To
Whenever fall If you should
urder people switch off caviare one evening or if you their TV EX:13 cut your staff of gardeners from and indulge in fee to four, it is a certain sign the luxury ol that you are on the skids, that You may have heard that it your contract is not going to be renewerk, that your last film is is a vily of sin and deendence
flop and that your fifth wife and corruption compared with
Con- is of which Lira delinquencles
suing for allmony. Nero were definitely juverdle.
sequently nobody can afford to
u
ccunomise.
A person's worth is judged by
The myth has died how much he earns and that is
Much as i hate to be a spoll spurt, I must tell you it is not
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That particular Hollywood, if it ever existed, is dead. The truths about Hollywood (which Is for more prosate and, I sup- post, in the long ru, dofama- lory) is that it is a nation shop-lalkers and gossips with a middle-class morality and an upper-class income.
of
That the Hollywood myth should persist after it has died a naturel death is not surprising.
And
Gossip first......
Judged by how much he spender. There is no such thing as something money cannot buy.
Peopio in էմ high income
bracket do not care to be seen around with people in a lower Income bracket. If a £2,000-a- week star is habitually with £500 feature players studio chiefs may one day de- cide that maybe he is worth only £500 a week.
Then flattery.....
the
The third deadly sin of Holly wood is sycophaney.
There are many vague, undefined
people talents who
of
DURING
This tour
Hollywood
Thomas
Wiseman met many stars -among
Kelly.
them
Graco
Miss Kelly was making the film "igh Society." Wiseman interviewed her
Ket-white the
the studio hairdresser made Jast-minuto adjustment to Miss Kelly's hair.
on
Illa verdict on Miss Kelly:
A go-getting Cinderella.
Hollywood has four
deadly
conversation, they talk
Alma.
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sins
about anywhere in the world, Every John Wayne and a dozen more, There is
other year It produces half a dozen all have their own companies, topic of conversation. The out- films which are every, bit 45 work for themselves. side world might not exist. artistic as anything you will see
No
one 'mon longer does In the Broadway or London When prople mention
the theatres.
dictate what should be done and President they are usually re-
what should not be done. Holly- It is a town full of frustrated occupy positions of power.
ferring to the chief executive The idea that The theatre wood is becoming democratic. story-tellers. Understandably, You will hear all sorts of ex- of MGM, not of the United stands for culture and Integrity Anyong with reak talent cần those who fail
to get their planations of how they have States.
whereas Hollywood merely work on his own terms. stories on to the screen, need to achieved their positions-that
Art licrature, music are only stands for vulgarity is an out of απ alternative outlet for they knew somebody's wife or discussed as commodities which date as the Nielcclodeon. Fro- Both Darryl F. Zanuck, bosa their overworked Imaginations, somebody's daughter or where can be bought and adapted into quently, films are better than of 20th Century-Fox Studios, Alm scripts. One thing Holly plays and sometimes better then and Don Hartman, boss of Para- morning and have it rotol to The truth is simpler. Usually wood has in common with the books. So it is totally untrue to mount Studios, have given up
the world is on suggest
their jobs to become producers. you as an absolute fuct in the they owe their positions to their abscesional interest In Holly verts and ruins everything that it There is no longer much money ufternoon. Though none of innate talent for faltery. This wood.
or advantage in being a boss, them state it in their potted is a real and necessary talent, blogrophies, tho Blancard
But there is also much to be
Hollywood is a tolerant town.
A quiet revolution has taken recreation of the Hollywood' Every person entrusted with said in favour of Hollywood.
Anna Magnani, who said some place. citizen is gossip. He is invariably the task of making decisions has It is still the greatest concen- very rude things about the place, once functioned like totalitarian The big studios which
contemptuous
gossip to have someone to tell him that tration
to be found receives its highest accolade-
an Oscar. Playwright Clifford will of the people, then at least states must submit, if not to the Odets, who wrote a vicious al-
You can start a rumour in the
of any
some skeleton is buried.
rest of
of talent
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Teenagers have been stabbed, for helping agents to recall
the details of hush-hush missions. XAR on "Rock 'n Roll" trains wrecked - and
declaration
oul: "This - tho
repetitive rightmare in rhythm must be CAR park owners in Washing- rhythm that has sparked off banned."
a wave of riots by tecagers --has been declared.
Welfare workers call for
a ban on the "theme music of juvenile delinquency,"
Radio stations say they will no longer play records
beat.
AN
goca
ton who offered free park- ing to anyone attending church
that report
10,000 drivers
ND a mask of that portrayer accepted the offer ench Sunday,
of juvenile delinquency ori
touches.
that Hollywood
per
tack on Hollywood, "The Big to the will of the stars. The Knife," is now working for a
and tough guys have
cuties
high salary as a script-writer in fought and won their war of Hollywood.
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once
who James Mason, wrote an article "Why I Am Scared To Go To Hollywood,'
a no longer scared. He has been forgiven for his attacks and now a respected producer
20th Century Fox.
Independence
independence.
Smash hits
Flms (ke "Marty," "The Moon
can and aro is Blue") made in defiance of the. Ilolly- at wood
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code, commercial and morat, and are smash hits at the box office.
With TV providing all the
During the last few years, one routine entertainment the publie can stomach, Hollywood 1# conscious that every nim It makes must be special. The old dictum that all a film needs is heart, sex, Esther Willems and spiritual uplift, b now. joke..
of the more distastofat features the screen. James Dean, killed UNBURN pills are being of Hollywood life has begun in a car crash last year, is to developed by the University disappear. The all-powerful be placed in the Hall of Fame of Oregon to let fair-skinned tycoon la a vanishing species. at Princeton University-along people tan without alonsatul side Beethoven. Thackeray, and Kents.
of the music with the jungle TURST attempt to Jandan airplane et the South Pole Cinema managers refuse will be made next October by the US Navy, which hopes to to show "Rock Around the baso 14 selontists there, Clock," which features - bands playing "Rock 'n HYPNOTISM is to be tested
HYP Roll"
by the US, secret, sorvico
burn,
There is no longer any
one
Individual. left In Hollywood
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BING CROSBY mys he is to who is so powerful that he can viadt Britain this summer to make the stars tremble in their
men who used to be shoes. Nowskinys high-heeled play golf-"but I'll never retiro
Itushes have been overthrown, tycoon more often than not does the trembling. · ·
aid the system that operates from show business as long as the artist is the boss-and the known as the Tears of nil the
in Hollywood there's an audience.""
today Is CONSCIENCE money of $2,500 Vory dow of the major stars dictatorship of the proletariat, received by the income tax are under contract to anyone. And it is the richest, most com» office in Chiengo was marked as Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, fortable and most aristocratie, sons by: I. O. THISMUCH. Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, proletariat in the world,
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