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THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1956.
ELL me." I said
66T to Jack Cardiff.
"who worries most about the way they look-the women
th you have filined, or men 7"
Cardiff thought no longer than a second or two, "h.
the men of course," he said. "I dread the mornings when they've been out the night before. Those bloodshot eyes look so bad in a close-up."
But cameraren have methods that 1ght- of dealing with before look, Cardiff says the mogle drys trick."
in
The
that
I asked for information "Well, we have eve
drops
which we Kive them
Twe
the veina and make
three times a day which shark.
the eyes
Through My Lens **** JACK CARDIFF
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
CONTINUING THE STORY OF MARILYN MONROE'S CAMERAMAN ★
THE MEN WORRY MORE!:
JACK CARDIFF has filmed in colour the most famous stars in the world from Dietrich to Loren, from James Mason to Tyrone Power.
-WHEN THE CAMERAS
ARE TURNING ON THEM
keep out the glare from the sley,
easier "Ils casier--so much Today, in this series
with Tyrone Power
presented by DAVID LEWIN, he reveals more secrets from the film sets.
ve worked with when they've been out late
couple 1of it my think don't--that's James Mason Jack Hawkins"
them be
Con
Dietrich or Mor Shearer and are used to having spot- whe lights traued on them--do not and
worry.
"But Ava Gardner found the says Car- light quite painful," eyes
<4/7 "Firon out-of-door seune the by the sea I had to curves beach with yards of black guzze on her Lo stop any reflections
for Jemes Mason Anxi eyes. --IKT -star- not only
The women often have other
thri with problems
a dlm means a 1991- Shooting centration of hissing lamps and Often for sharp bright lights. a clise-up those lights have Klare right to the eyes.
Brepuse
of the set of his eyes you call put a light slap in his face and he doesn't complain.
"Power is one of the best to Professional-com- work with. pletely master of what he does.. I've seen him stroll on the ret his the morning putting on ww make-up without the ald of a mirror--the knew his face well enough for that,"
ins
Jo
had
1 rover the beach but I rigged
T
The stars who come from the or the halle! of torei
clear and bright, All the men I stake
up black net over his head to
ROW
MADE
TY FURIOUS
only thing which affects Ty Power is incompetence. On "Black Rose" the director wonted a certain look of anger on Power's face for a close-up. After several takes it still wasn't Henry director right The Hithaway beckoned Jack
I inte corner.
workout
"We
together,"
started a quarrel
take with
me XL camera crew about
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Cardiff.
during Bie of the one
the placing of a Gola light shield. It was 11 a silly rew
Power Wis furious. His face showed ปร anger. The dirvelor said 'Chit,' and he had got exactly what be
How I took it No. 3
. KAY KENDALL
⚫ draped spun-glass round her head and shoulders (it was quite painful) and then it the face softly from the front and used a sofi cross light to bring up the sparkle in the gines. I had all the face make- up takes of to show ber fine sklo toxture,
CONCHIE
WHY DYLAN THE CHANGED HIS MIND
D
URING the war Caitlin Dylan and
in livext
muinly London, in a Chel- Rea studio, in Chiswick- "never more than £1 a week rent," Mrs Caitlin Thomas told me. Dylan was working on documentary films.
I has been said that he was #conchle and a Communist, The truth is that he was an ardent pacifist on humanitarian grounds but had no political amliations.
According to Augustus John, he unce joined the Communist Party, but withdrew when he found he would be expected to make his work propaganda medium.
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JOHN MARSHALL
Dylan himself sold, after visiting the so- called peace COIL- Prague tercace in
of the raids and the (which nearly hatred after the wor wrecked his chance of a viss to folly and tragedy of death and America), that
he was "the destruction they brought. only non-Communist there."
"Why must they do it?" was usually
would cry out in rage am a
anguish-and it was clearly not of himself he was thinking.
For in the midst of the wiki
continuos the story of the most fantastic charactor of our time.
Un politics he frivolous,
"[ He said:
long
he
and
By the window that gave the the bost view in world, Dylon sat in the shed alone, wrestling for the words ho wanted.
To get real anger on lyrane Power's face, Jack Cardifi
** fixed" a row on the wat tho
trick worked and Ty's nyos blazed with roal fury.
and round the world Cardiff has been behind his camera, placing bringing people and his lights, events into focus. On the public face of 1, it has been a line of big pictures and bigger success.
"Not really," Ецуз Jack Cardiff with one of those brood emiles. "I've had failures too. Jilmest Michaci Wilding and made him go
always thought there was a bit too much red in colour photo- graphy the faces come out
red.
So I experimented with Wilding and used green Hghting and make-up. It didn't work.
REALITY OUT
"I
OF FOCUS WAS breaking the rules again. I always believe in
breaking
graphy.
"I trind mistakes.
the rules
JAMES ANDERSON tells one of the world's strangest stories
What Happened to Miss Canning?
Two hundred years ago all London was asking that question.
It was the subject of more than 30 pam- phlets and broad-sheets at the time and has since been described in detail by at least 20 authors
on to a
HE door of a mean escaped by forcing, open a wi-
dwelling in Alderman- dow pane, climbing
shed and then dropping to the bury creaked slowly ground, cutting her ear in the
open. Into the flickering process. candlelight crept the raggled figure of a girl.
bed- Who were the
women who young forced her into the darkened room? Elizabeth Corning could not say, but one who heard her
Walls'," he has been to Mother
She was as "black as a story declared; "A guinen to a chimney stack," with blood congealed on one ear, Round her head was an old hand- bawd who lived in a house u kerchief; on her emaciated repute in Enfield
Mother Wells was a notorious
Wash on
Eliza
beth was escorted tiyere and, pointing to a tall old woman huddled over the fire smoking a
In photo-body a dirty ragged bed- the Hertfordshire road,
gown. Her flesh was bluish to learn from my
as though from a beating. I Where
Very Was
Elizabeth Canning had WILS the business 1 young in working on 'As You Like come home, and in a weak, with Laurence Olivier 03 the faltering voice she told her she revealed herself to the in- wanted. Not even now does Ty star. The cameraman WIS 111
story. know I started that row on
I was asked to light a close- and
Olivier, 1 didn't think. purpose.
desert
On Black Rose"--out the
of French North Africa- remarkable group? was
There OUTOR
Was Orson the Cardiff log Welles, and
"Always try to photo- noted: graph him three-quarters pro-
That is his angle." ORSON DID NOT
SEEM TO CARE
"inconceivably
pipa, identified her as the woman who cut off her stays.
When the woman stood บท
vestigators AS
lite a hideous and swarthy. It is more than 200 years gypsy. Her name was
Mary since she blurted out what squlies, commonly known as
Mother Wells and Gypsy Squires were arrested.
im
"I put the light too high--and Olivier, who was in his twenties
she alleged had happened to "Gypsy."
weeks in the four
at the time, come out tooking like a cross old man. My fmilther Then the cameraman
They
enme following New Year's Day, appeared before novelist Henry
back, swung a tight or two around and made Larry like an angel.
"Sometimes my mistakes
1753, but experts still argue Fielding, then the Bow Street magistrate, and were mamed as over her strange story.
the persecutors ot Elizabeth
· Elizabeth Canning's hame Canning. Later, at the Old deliberate. I spent six fius in a tall narrow house Bailey, Squires was sentenced
in the hand,
sea
In D Hreboot at nuntha with Pat Jackson, the director. Binding the war picture Western Approaches," I shot several scenes out of focus to get the feeling of
grim realty.
Suys: "Orson JACK Cardiff
was either hyper-sensitive of had the air of not giving a damn
On Black Narcissus I went that the way he looked. While out of my way to make sunsets
worked on 'Black Rose'
WX
tugly for dramatic effort. People
he was shoot!iąg his own fhn, guid 1 was crazy when, if, the 'Othello' round, the corner in dawn light was red, I used the desert and at the same time
green shadows and if the sun was talking to me about co-directing Halten yellow, l'a 1150 bluc
Ulysses with him later on
shadows. Othello" has just been shown and his "Ulysses" hasn't been
started.)
And directing the picture was Henry Hathawaya director of the tough old Hollywood school. "We had an English cust well as Power and Welles the pleture," says Cardiff, "and idcas Hathaway had this about the way they should de- liver their lines.
which
Own
Ideas
on
had nothing in common with
the Old Vic style or RADA.
The Hathaway method which he asked English actors to adopt was to say every line so though they were adding
words 'you dirty rat' after it. So if the
the
line would be Pass the sall it
should not be said as though the word please followed.
his
"The Hathaway classic, though, was when he explained to Jack Hawkins-an experi enced stage actor-what attitude should be to Orson Welles in one scene, You're suspicious of the guy, sec, said Hathaway. 'Something stinks in Denmark stuit,"
In the desert on "Black Rose" In Africa .. in Mexico In London, Rome, Madrid,
"The effect was exactly what I wanted-cooliera contrasted with warmth. (He did not add that the railt won him a Holly- wood Oscar.)
'I HIT THE KING IN THE NOSE'
most embar- rassing mistake was when I was in the unit which filmed the 1937 Coronation in colour. We went along to Buckingham Palace afterwards to photograph the King.
"PERHAPS the
"1 ran out a tape measure
from the camera to get the rig
distance to fix The focus. 1 hit ran out the tape so fast the King in the nose.
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the
NEXT SATURDAY: The Secret of The Eyes
'near an old gate in London to dùnth;
j
Poor, innocent vletim of a dreadful crime-or hardened perjure??
Wells to be branded
But, fact by fact, the story of Elizabeth Canning was begin- ning to crumble. Thirty-six people came forward to say that on New Year's Day, 1753, they saw the gypsy at Abbotsbury,
Domel; investigators noticed- perhaps belatedly that there was no shed below the window through which the girl said she escaped,
and
people doubted that she could ve for a month on one loaf of breed and Д pitcher of wabor.
Sir
Lord Crisp Gascoyne, Mayor of London, "secured for Squires a free pardon, and a year later Elizabeth Canning stood in the same dock accused of perjury.
lleved Elizabeth Canning:
a contemporary portrait, Wall. There she spent the early years of her life before going as servant to a family nearby.
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Loudon was divided into two camps, the Conningites, who be- In Elizabeth, and the Gypsylles, who believed Squires, For eight days Elizabeth Can- ning heard the evidence for and against her. crown allege that she had ab- scorded to preserve her chur
acter"
She heard the
and told her story to She heard a man say that during the timo she
alleged she was held prisoner he and his wife used the room at Enfield Wash.
A complete nonentity cake money. yat the central figure in a "Did you have to do that?" "
mystery that soon set Lon- asked the King
"You could go to the Tower don by the ears....It asked
But there was evidence enough of for that, gaid
then, Baldwin,
students
on her side too, A William Prime Minister".
criminology do today: "Was Headland said that he saw Mary Elizabeth Canning a per Squires at Mother Wells' house jurer or was her incredible nine days after Elizabeth's dis- her mother sald appearance; story of imprisonment in a thas the girl could live a month dark loft with the threat of on one had for ગીર
"when thingo murder hanging over her were very hard sho existed in
half a toll a day." true?"
Twenty-seven people fustifled And if her story was that they had.
Mary false, another question mark Squires at or near the Enfield looms down the years: Wash house between December 18, 1752, and the middle of Where did the sawyer's January. daughter go in the month that people searched and
So for eight long days prayed for her?
honour of Elizabeth Canning The mystery begins at was argued. The jury retired, Ettle had changed, There were
nine p.m. on New Year's When they returned their vor- At diet of "Guilty of perjury but the china-dog ornaments Dylon
years Day 203 Only the compulsion of a debl
ago.
not witful and corrupt" was not liked, his books here and there, deluge sent Dylan to do "a bit
selection
of of
This would certainly be a that time Elizabeth left her accepted by the Recorder, as he described booming,"
Though he was novels, family pictures every broadcasting.
How would you like
Their second vordiot was just short desperately
of milk a visit at the corner of one word: "Guilty." Sho was where, jazz records, toys, and abominable about other appoint-pint of atomic milk? boon to the dairymen, who are aunt, to whom she had paid sad, sloppy old Mably, the dog
It's a possi- roundsmen Record supplies of promise to Don't laugh.
And there
D
conventional
written Some potms were
times before the final many
Hill," for, version "Fer instance, about 200 times. When told that Yeats wrote five lines a day, Dylan sald "That's fast. I do three at the most,"
ments-he
would
NOW ATOM
IS ON THE
MILK WAY
By EDWARD TROW
£
the
be named after a schoolmaster. speak at dinners and then fail bility. Top-flight scientists milk are coming from the daire/Houndsditch near the Blue banished for seven years to New
So treated, the milk keeps fresh and does not lose its taste for at least 10 days.
Figures so far are: January- 140.5 million gallons, compared with 133,7 at the same time last million year; February-140.5 gallons, last year-120.9.
Dylan adored bis family to appear just because he hated though he was hardly a model such functions he was punctillat Harwell research station farms these days, father, leaving everything in the ous about his broadcasts. Only have been treating milk with will be more. once he falled to report, at any radioactivity. schooling, way of upbringing, and paying the bills (when pos-, rate at the right place. terrific revolutionary-so
Mible) to his wife.
He was not
He wes due at Cardiff but as it doesn't come.'
always tolerant if they were. He hated Ho
violence and had
There was a formidable Hop' often said he would not join the side of his life, the harum noisy. At times when exhaust turned up in a London studio.
Jong hours of com- ed from
were made and arrangements Forces and fight, However, nr
Bearum, pot-and-bottle round,
position or late nights he would
Then for expensive relay. had to attend a Conscientious he would reveal himself a man retire to bed for two or three Dylan read poems not on the Objectors' Tribunal in Wales of deep compassion. A hang- estre
ing would affect him profoundly, days, fortifying himself with list and up went the royalties. ns a witness, and what he saw
I was one of the BBC's there modified his attitude.
Irrespective of the people in bread and milk which, oddly,
liked. Then would he roar downI volved or the circumstances of with that great voice of bis, costlier programmes. the crime. One of his most
silence from the "Sacco commanding moving readings was writes to his son," a poem by boisterous children,
Anguish
TACH objector, asked
his Alun Lewis, who was killed in
about the execution
grounds, in a "little, moun India,
volee," replied, "glous." Each, Sacco and Vanzelti.
asked what he was prepared to
do, replied, "In an even meaner
little voice" "Nothing."
Dylan left the tribunal deter-
mined not to join such a band,
Little change
of
ho
After the rest, reinvigorated,
he would stride up to the lonely shed where he worked, a bottle of light ale protruding from each pocket, nad nmple sup
And of cigarettes ply
sweets. From his bare working table, UBSEQUENTLY Dylan and still there, he looked across the lived. in Wales river and the little window to his right had the best view in in QUA
"Under the world-across to "Sir John's WILS really
and, when called for his med-Caitlin
cut, he signed for the Army, ngain,
A
stipulating that he must be Cardiganshire,
"nover-fighter." He was graded Mikk
New
where
Wood"
HBl" above the heads of the "holy stalking herons," the cor-
C3 on account of scars on the conceived as "Quite Early One lung, and was not called up,, Morning," and then at South morants, gulls, sandpipers, and Back in Chelsea, he under- Leigh, in Oxfordshire, and in curlews on the "heron-priested standably preferred the pub to Camden Town before returning
the studio when the raids were once more to Laugharno, ·
010,
and proved himselt an
aggressive pacifist, expecially. If
Here was the home that
there were any smug comments Dylan Bind
on the work
Call in loved the.
shore."
Hard work
beat, their last, the Boat House TE pot at Laugharne, remote, juttude would remain many hours
He would bang his pint pot from lift above the Taff, a
fn the shed alone, wrestling.
down and have a go at the blue-and-white house with a for the words he wanted
biggest man in the bir it, he
-quarter-deck veranda ---and
Genius, does not spout Eko a
tock soothing he said he stoop stairs with ropos los come fountain. Writing poetry is in
would never attack physical pan on ways.
| weaklings," He was no less and
no more seared than the read of
11a, ... but na bact a parafumate 15
fact, a fervalouy Yarduque
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Next Saturday t
The Last Years
Next week the Milk Marketing Board headquarters at Thames Dilton, Surrey, will be getting a full report on the experiments, for They have been going on some time, but only last week was it made known that they aro naar commpiction.
March, April, and May figures are expected to be up, too.
Ball public house.
*
Engiami.
Before she left the dock she said in a low voice: "I had no intention of
tho swearing gypsy's life away, what I have chono
was only defending my.
Hor lost bot
before leaving
This, according to Elizabeth
Is what hap Canning herself, pened thereafter
About an hour after who had left her aunt she was attacked England was to issue a late- by two men in Moorfields. They ment in which she declared: "I
her of her KOWNI,
remain at this instant of time stripped
stuck, hit and stunned her,"
fully persududi anki welź usnired Elizabeth lost consciousness. that Mary Squires wee the par- son who robbed me and that
was Mollier Wells!"
en
Dairy farmers have done a She was stalten, by what meara house on magnificent job. Through salec-aho did not know, to
ve breeding, careful feeding, the "Hertfordshire road. There the house where I was confined Now She was transported to grassland manage some women robbed her of her.. and good
England ment, herds have never be so stays and forced hot into
August 1754, there room when she refused to upper healthy,
to marry an opulent Qunker." lead on "Immoral life.”
She died in 1773 ut Weathers- In the room was a pitcher of field, Commecticut, and with her: three years
the dairy farmers water and a host of bread. On died the truth about was for more this meagre care Elizabeth said month in which Elizabeth Can-
"Don't pro- she lived until January 29 when, -ning vanished from Lyridon.
at four in the afternoon, she
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Observers in the low fore-
Scams odd that cost that within five year, or maybe three, malli will be left ago the call to the on the doorstep onco a week us from Waltoheli
Now it is; a result of tho scientists dia- milk. covering.
duce too much.”
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JOHNNY!
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RUN FOR IT.
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