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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956.
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Hollywood mogul Jerry Wald has called hits "the actor's actor's actor." That mny help to explain why it
is that, if you think Very bard about it, you will fad it very difficult
decide exactly what Guinness looks like.
To
He looks like whaleyen
the part demands: the
ascetic scholarly Cardund
ALEC GUINNESS
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from The Presoner. Whe The Old Vic, to which gentle clerk Trope The applad for at, decided the Lavender Hill Mob," and all sine thing An American news
craigtase has alleged that anvel Patel !m.de eight members.
Vie manager told hlan: female) of the aristocratic "You're not an actor, buzz off,”
who These
know Old family in Kind Hearts and
Vie managers tend discount the Coronels.
phraseology, but the effect was the sine
Eventually he got some bit parts on the London stage, John
ren life far otten Bloms unnoticed esp the sheet That, len, in because he plays his real life part tie
sober, quart. amiddle-chies Baghelimen with a faster Jor philosophy and theology.
He puts on no aurs. He is not Jony offstage. After all, he reasons, no one expects a bank manager to spend all his leisure time Balancing books. Nor should anyone expect a comedlan run about cracking jokes.
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Lake everyone else, of course, he has his great conversational moments. There was the time during the war when, as com- mander of a naval landing craft, he wound up beng the Brst man ashore in the invasion of Sicily,
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The Admiralty had no ex- pected it to turn out like that. There had been a bungle. and Guinness had to wait pallently for an hour while the war caught up with him.
Afterwords he turned on the Admiral and said blandly: "This sort of thing may be all right in the Mediterranean theatre, but it would never be tolerated in theatre in the West End,"
These moments, however, aro rart.
His stage sense of comedy and timing have been painfully acquired. His ability to step into someone else's choco so effective- ly that no audience can doubt his authenticity in part of his natural endowment. He does not trade on it except professional- ly. To him, it is a sacred gift not to be trifled with.
MY DAY AT THE RACES
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By T. E. B. CLARKE reporting from Hollywood
URING the summer
racing Season Geosegirl will
daily presiding over
Shades
English
of Ascot, what on earth now is this? Open landaus with red-curated postillons drivers In morning dress.... "Your
national costume." points out the mon 1 quole from
just advised mo lo list of who has 2
"play Count Chic for a show" attractions of one of the Los which menus backing it to finish Angeles racetracks,
the first three.
her flock."
Tacegoer
WHAT VALUE! INTO there carriages step the Γ
Track offeinls who will be watching the race from crowat nesta set at vantage points all round the course.
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As П reguar Britain i am aware that much could be done to unprove our mercourse amenities, but never, must confess, did I think of a Covergirl ar u posible means of raising attendances
The ponted have now retired Seriously, Through, File into the background, the horses
for a alt stands pronto
nd Pave been clamped to their Such
Its Whe American starting-boxes, and the te la tracks provide-and the sort of
clicking up last-minute beta. recently at Sonia To compensate for the absence Anila.
If any West End hotel of bookies--illegal in America— can provide better, then an electric indicators show, minute no longer a mug punter.
by minute. the exact odds But let's be fair A race against each runner. meeting in Atserien uns Ave
Not enough,
you think, days a week for three months, make up for those decorative making it posible for the truck fures who lay coc a price 171 10 employ a staff which Son-
Britain with uch cham and down Purk or Catterick Bridge couriery? Then just consider
---with
there than two nover
the fael that seven-eighths
of clays* rucing al stretch- all
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dollars wagered at rouldn't hope to rival,
Santa Anita are returned to the All the same, it Wi reve- pubile, aunt the misticy relined Fations 10 learn Usat Samus by the track makes it possible principal for every rice to be worth more
stat then 1.000.
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now Just time." announces the commentator A pause, then the gates moment's fly open and s "There Than go" (Amerienn гот "They're INT!")
Anita, California's
ruercourse
bonsis
exceeding 6,000!
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After that cure the best rolicking comedies which made
ACTANT SIX
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Loven by Hill Einst Mob." "The Man in the White Sout," The Cart," "Hiver Twist," "The Captain's Para- dise" "A Run for Your Money," and, of late. "The Ladykillers."
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His audiences loved him best as the shy litle man with Q touch of the devil in fim-the qulet, sober Englishmon who suddenly, subtly. shifts *Took ot Just 1 plain old- Anghioned gay dog.
into a
on
In between he appeared the stage as the psychiatrist in "The Cocktail Party" and 1/1 "Richard II," "St Jan, aud
The Government Inspector."
In the His stage parts filled Raps left by his film career. Be- tween them he has run the umut of human aclivity-rich
By LES ARMOUR
the devil incarnate in the perso
T tres Communist inferiegator
Subtle playing made the ran- dirani u mont beaten by his own vesale messa
a seret fevent
the sin of spiritual price which Just reduced him to something less than a whole man) Bitted against another whole. ||| twisted by a machine of his own making.
His preparation for the part is of the man. another indiention
the He spent monthis studying works and the documents which would have determined the car- dinal's outlook on life.
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flea Tea I
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here aren allowed on the truck itself, but they line
Two's in their duzela,
each wearing a brightly painted in heimel and a cod on his announcing his identity
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Now that the race is on, might be a race anywhere
But he eita uunil aprint, which cumble, one to lose
mote more quickly. A SMALL PROFIT DUT day, what's this? Coun: B Car
word My friend was
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