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RIBOT IN TRAINING
THE CHINA (MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1956.
Ribot, crack Italian racehorse which won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on July 21, is led by a stable lad during exercises at the stables near the racetrack. Following Ribol is stable-companion Magistris, —–—– Express Photo.
SPORTS ROUNDABOUT
SHIRLEY FRY RANKED SECOND IN UNOFFICIAL
WORLD RANKING
RANKING LIST
Angela Buxton, losing finalist in the Women's Singles at this year's Wimbledon, has been nominated by the LTA for the American Championships at Forest Hills next month. Shirley Bloomer, who took a set off Louise Brough in the quarter-finals, makes up the British women's team.
Beverley Fleitz, this year's number two seed in the Women's Singles at Wimbledon who was forced to withdraw from the championships after the quarter- finals, beentrse she is expecting a baby, is ranked first in noticial world rankings published in London this week.
year,
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Winner of the women's titles Johnny Haynes Pulham and lug and # always willing
with England inante-forward, will be Shirley Fry, is second.
"have a stap with bigger boys.” Loube rough third, Britain's Tratisfened
neighbouring 10 losing inalist, Angela Buxton, Chelsea for around £34,000. So Emil Zatopark, Czechoslovakia's in Bumber five,
rumours circulating | 33-year-old triple Olympic gold MY MACO along the Fulham
Rod Says medailist, has had an operation Russia will probably pumpele Ted Drake, manager of Cholseng to Pragir, which sports offiefals
the Davis Cup next
| t
nothing
I say will serian ly endanger his and also at Wimbledon. This Fulium Chainman, Charles 1žem
training plains forr to be faced Games, Derfor have said it will follows their admittance to the "We would have International
Trods with liqulation belongs we k
will Haynes go." Mennwhale. Haynes Invitations Federation,
holiday in South Athen el o be issued to leading
[l vi tlue back Liestal to take part in major tourna Jana neela in the Soviet Union. A August 3
of even officials delegation
and ten players recently visiteri
London
where they
wutched
Juck Gardner, former Britisk
the
1956
be six weeks beture he can re- sume radhing.
athletics
USSR
tem which meet Great Britai At the White City, London, next 29-year-old | month, will be invited to visit Havyweight | South Wales for exhibition
The Wimbledon Championships | Champions has had his Hecticel meetings at Swansen, following and gained thr fret experlative
of play on gruss courts.
PLAYER-COACH
The
Im
wilinirawa
by the British their wam engagement,
RUST Boxing Huart
of Control. Gardner was the mumber one contender for the wife vacat
by Don Cockell on his retire. Last week. As a result. of the board's action, Južney Welioms is now in direct line of successdon to the title that ** | Cockell took from tum in 1953. Don Corkel, British and Em- Chumpton, Heavyweight has retired. But there may be
Cockell,
Don's young
19-
Arthus Rowe, one of greatest football manngers of the post-war era, the mair whe pilated Tottenham Hotspur Luck to the First Division, who tireri from management 10
because of health, has been offered a post pire with West Bromwich Albion, Before the war, Rowe skippered another the Spurs side that included Vie son Peter, in the Buckingham; now manager of years time. That is the Jong
made by West Brom. When he returned range forecast
Mrs Irene Corkell,
That! who says player-Peter, now four and a half,
to White Hart Lane ns manager, Buckingham was
coach fur á year.
Sing In 14
| showing a keen interest in box-
LAKER LEADS
England beat Australia in the Third Test Match: at Leads by an innings and 12 runs Picture shows. Jim Laker, the man who took 11 wickeja in the match, leading the English team off the field. He is followed. by ler May, captain, and Tony Lock Central Press
Photo
NOT WATERED
Peter Thomson, British Open Charnplun, blan's home golf COUTSCS for the fallure of British golfers at Hoylake the other week, Says Peter: "You
hope can't
good to produce golfers until
the YCHI water greens at tournaments, as they
America, You play od bold stroke to the pin and, i on these arm greens, finish up in the rubbish at the back.“ Thomson SQVE
doubts Be whether he could stand up to the strain of constant tourna- ments
courses 10 Britain.
inferior
Keith Miller, Australia's Test all-rounder, has been offered £2,000 to sign as professional for Radcliffe, the Central Lancashire League club, next summer: This is the highest fee ever offered by a league club, but says Miller: "It is a magni- ficent offer, but I doubt if I shall accept it. I have tele-
vision contracts awaiting me on my return to Australia,"
Arn Haydon, the 17-year- old Birmingham schoolgirl, has been awarded the Victor Darna Trophy by the English Table tion of her performances during est season, during when she wen the French Championship.
--(London Express Service).
Tennis Association In recogni-
CHICAGO TENNIS
WHEN IT COMES TO THE MOVIES
JAPANESE FANS ARE JUST AS ENTHUSIASTIC AS THOSE IN AMERICA EVEN MORE SO
Says RON BURTON
Hollywood.
Reporte filtering In from MGM spies indicate that perhaps motion picture fans in Japan are just as enthusiastic as those in the United States-maybe more so,
The whirl is over now, but for a while MGM personnel were holding their lats and their heads. It was a chain of events leading to the "Guys and Dolis" premiere, and the Japanese proved they are every bit as staunch as the American film follower.
The cycle started when Glena Ford and Samuel
Goldwyn arrived at Yokohama on the, President Cleveland, The two censed they might be greeted- maybe by severni reporters— but they were not prepared for ceremonies right then and there on the after deck of the liner.
The visiting film celebrities were flabbergasted at the lavish
ho, pitality.
NON-STOP EATING
They
with were presented flowers by Japanese stars. There was the usual but stem- ingly 1107T vast Tray of newsreel photo- Untied States even gut into the
cameras appel
graphers
Army tank
net
tu
A
A special escort was provided Eristyspart the eclebrities to [Tekyo, and thth cihne a round! of press atset mugizine con- fr nees. Asul
the Jaguanese did not forget the MGM inner mon
"In five days aing up fo DA premiçer, we went to se many dinners and receptions I have trouble remembering Just how many they were," ne villor said.
The schedules also involved calls N government officiels who
10 have werner Deporteel made the travellers
come
This apparently small bit of | action took one full day to shoot and required the services of 70 children.
WONDERFUL BUT TOUGH
in
selections, Fellow performers were delighted at the way which he co-operated and gave his all to the part. Some of them admittext they lost beta on the "new" the deportment Lanza,
California Jaw permits children from two weela to six months old to be on a lot for
Lunza hept his voice in trim two hours of which they may
during his three-year absence, work
but the sume couldn't be sald hour, one
They can be under lights for no more
for his physique. Always a **** | barrel-chested 20 seconds than 20
ttt a ime.
type, he added With children six months lo
le too much poundage and had to two years old the lot time is take it off before shooting be-
for "Serenade. to four hours with increased
Studio executive
Jack two hours actual work and two
Warner hours rest, Kids from two to
analysed the whole situation and decided Lanza is MIX Arc
the lot for six
off to a new and shiny career. but only three hours are hours
He said that was why the film in sehnl
work.
was dusen
an Faster The potato-sack race children,
attraction At New premiere can work an eight-hour clay-
York's Radio City Music Hali "I wam't worried about him, Wamer said. "He's been want- ing to make up for lost time, all think he's done a and we fine job."
on
Lut there's An hour off for
Lunch Rnd thre hour's for school on the lot in minimum sessions of 20 minutes,
and
A teacher-welfare worker in 10 children assigned to every
Cs that the Lay observed.
This appiles 150 during vacation periais when the young thesplans are similarly protected from overwork,
"It's wonderful the way the state looks out for the kids director Mervyn LeRoy said. "It's wonderful even if it does result in a very tough road för
director." very wel-
4011-
publicist was particularly
the fntrigued by
press Terence set-up.
the United States, W figure on maybe a dozen or so fe a fair-sized press conference, Le Airl "But in Tokyol Why, the deal Just isn't fop drawer unles there 1*! about 125 reporters and
,"
photographers
There's child labour in Holly- wood-angl if all children were us enaefully regulated, sociolo- girls would be ecstatic
California law is very strict In the length of time a minor Is permitted to spend per day on set, and oven that time 1 clivided as to the amount of it which may be spent in actual work.
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A dancer-singer was cast straight dramatic role, and all the dancing and singing done in the flim was by Indians who were not thought of as dancers
and singers,
she
the best
This apparent switch Was to the liking of the young woman who really can sing and dance with
Pat of them. Crowley. It's been going on for a while now, and she's con- Mario Lanza would like to vinced herself that It's good.
She has straighten out a point about this
Iwo
reasons-first. business of his having received
likes steady employment this voice from Providence. He which isn't always assured here
admits he
suid his volee is for musical performers, and, İAXINIK her self- "God-given" gift but he thinks second, it
successful that maybe it would be well to esteem by showing
versatility, explain a
a little.
"Hollywood just doesn't turn "I am merely the keeper of a Hizven-sent
To keep gut,"
said. out enough musicala This gift belongs not to me but to the world. I am in charge of seeing that it is shured with all who care to listen."
he
Lanza yald he thinks of caring for hils voice us a sacred responsibility In three yearTS" absence from the screen untl
for Worners' returnin "Serenade" he devoted several hours dally to practising "His coach,
Glaccomo Spadení, re- marked that he never had seent a singer take better care of his voice.
The laws protect the fledgling pelors and also give film direr- tors schedules that
probably have brought on more than one nker. There's a good example in point from Warners where The Bad Seed" is being shot
Here's about one-seventh of one page of the script describe ing some netion:
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race.
"On an area of lawn back of the estate the children watching
potato rack wildly cheering and yelling They
the foreground, backs to camera.
Among them is Rhoda (Patty McCormick). She loses interest in the race anal culmly looks from left to right past camera Sudduily the sees something, looks to se if she's noticed and darts off ACTZEN.
Lanza thinks he guarded the voice equipment very well.
"And 1 should have," he said. "After all, you see that a piano is timed or a violin, for that matter-so why wouldn't you
with concerned
valtmable volcu?”
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singers and dancers busy" she sald. "That's why I think this frenet-this is my third drama-
the part-is o damn good thing
for me."
NOT LIKE WORK NOW
MI Nonetheless
Crowley was mighty amused when she found out she wasn't to sing or dance In Universal-Internation- al's "Apache Agent" while the Indians were to do such work.
for
"I used to believe that I had to sing or dance exclusively in erder to make a carcer myself." Miss Crowley ધાતુ. "I've
never been so happy about being wrong
"And. the working out,
U-I's talent keep up dancing."
way things
gr time to workshop
arc
to
my singing
and
Miss Crowley,
New York
ON THE BEAM Lanza himself was in tune, drama student, began her career also, according to studio, per- in a vacation-time role in the sonnel who were braced for Chicago company of "Carousel,"
outbursts
for Her temperamentaĵ
nim debut Was In the the which
tenor has
been; musical, "Red Garters," and she Prown in the past. However, also held an ingenue lead in a nothing like this
happened, West Coast stage production of and he was right on time for
"Kiss Me Kate," work every day both here and on location in Mexico.
His role called for him to sing
dozen difficult operatic E
Britain's Basketball
Stays Amateur
By ERIC NICHOLLS
Way back in 1891 n doctor gent by the name of James Naismith, a student instructor at the YMCA Physical Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, hit on bottom knocked out, at either end of his gymnasium, and great idea. It was to nail up a peach basket, with the
then throw a large bouncing ball into the basket so that It dropped through to the floor,
She thinks there's ano.her advantage to de-emphasising her dancing at the moment,
and it's "I can dance now, not like work," she said.
The trenchcoat has become the symbol of the secret agent, but It's na secret that the market for the garment is in the middle of a huge boom.
Market sources say unoMcial- ly that the trenchcoat craze was only a boomlet until actor Robert Mitchum wore one in various places in Europe ter several months during Alming of United Arlists' "Foreign intrigue.
The rage spread from Europe to the United Salates with the
all the credit. intriguing effect on the market. However, Mitchum doesn't get Sheldon Reynolds, producer of the film, really laid the with groundwork
carlier television series of the same Forica was just full of spies and counterspies coming and going anything in trenchcoats. or
ол
Whether or not Dr James Naismith possessed an acute sense of humour, or whether it was some new gim-name as the film. The mick for gym work, we do not know.
Althea Gibson Beaten Again By test.
Shirley Fry
Chicago, July 23. Mks Shirley Fry, the Wimble. don Champlon, beat Miss Althea Gibson 7-6, -1 here today to win the Women's Singles in the Hard
Courts
Lawn Tennis Championships,
The turning point came when Miss Glisson leading 6-3 and 40-30, 'nelled the set point,
But "Operallon Peach Basket", pense eccounts became one of the most popular slightly "shamateur," Indoor sports, and ene of the Players travel millions of miles to perform, and some by reason of being much more accomplished in the art. of dropping ball into basket, are able to earn considerably more than
necessary to keep them-- selves in Cadillacs and their
wives in mink,
hovo
action.
watch
in
WORLD WAR I ITEM
In fact it is thanks mainly to the YMCA that the game is Soon the coat was to a secret played at all in Britain, agent as a certain type of hunt- There is hardly a YMCA ing cap. was to Sherlock Centre In the country, with Holmes. gym spice available, where basketball is not played.
The garment itself, according to Reynold, had a strange origin.
Balevo
It or not, it was a coat which was to be worn in a
ho saleb. "It
Wag
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Herb Flam, Champion in 1950, won the Men's Singles title, beating El Moylan 3-0, 0-8, 1-6043, 0-3
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