T
WHAT, MR MASON
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956,
DON'T YOU LIKE ME?
By LOGAN GOURLAY
was not gruzding interviews. Press alone.
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wns the night Mr James Mason dropped a brick. Or threw the masonry at me. It started like any other Press recep-
They shook hande tion with cocktails and and said: “Nice to things to nibble, including Politely. small sausages on sticks, Mr Muson and wife Pamela Polely arrivexi about 20 minutes
Mr and Mrs Mason had to cope olone.
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sald: "Welcome
with me you."
back."
The Press agent wilapetti to lato. Without daughter me: "He's much mellower now, Portland-Portland the pre- you know."
cocious.
But eurer she had been cavorting in the holei suite for the photographers. She had posed in her red stole Turkish and kicked her slippers in the air.
That night, however, Portland --who has ben energy! to consider herself an autistic actult
at the age of seven but has not yet directer her father in a
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
Hebut never, never forget that in any Internationa! dispute we are always gravely handicapped by a temperamental rejuctance to resort to force!"
lan
I said: "s he?"
Mr Mason startext to
ngent intervened.
Mr Mason allowed himself to ushered out hurriedly. Pity.
I report this incident because it in so characteristic of Mason. I am not by any means his first target,
HE ONCE described his ex- T "the boss J. Arthur Rank wore thing that has happened to the
film industry. British He bus no apparert talent for cinema or showmanship."
Answer moKUČI
question with a patient, slightly patronsdag afr-n though ennuil was just behind him.
Yes, he still had a lot of cale, Eleven in ad
Yes, he was planning a film- new version of Jane Evre the s been for some time).
HE ONCE slapped Buthor William
the Saroyan acroes when they were sitting cinema. Ho wis angry Saroyum was talking because loudly during the performance.
HE ONCE said when he was
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settle ini quilling No, he wouldn't be retiring Hollywood and take up Ameri- a for a while. (He has done can eftizenship: "Why should! 1 around to help with the this frequently
smi stack and once
This little churo tip acting for export trade?
do with the has nothing to
he has (Incidentally, artist." mevor completed the procces of corning an American citizen.)
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giving wul litigation.)
No, his many fuwsuits had SVET included one against Con- ential, the dirt-raking Ameri- Mart magazine which sees He particularly 1” in Hollywood boudoiry through a distorted keyhole.
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It was then thiet asked thera cally if he knew that was talk of a British edition of Confidential.
And was then that he threw the masonry by replying. --
+Y And you stinkt be the exliter."
ubjectest to the remark. He wad, scowling at me like Siaturese cat that has been offered inferior fish-
"I mean H. You've smeared nil my friends in Hollywood "
#askert which frierul.
I don't remember off-hand,"
anken if he had ever been smeared, as he called it, by me. Brief dagry pause for Miezde Letfcctions
"No."
"But I think I should put your name up as British editor At this stage 6 Confidential."
HE ONCE said that Holly- wood leading ladies had nothing to offer except "placid pulchri tude." (Ho has
h Luste aliteration, )
Lives
for
an
Obviously the iconoclast. A rebel. It's (UM- cult to say whether he's a con- genital case whether he was chip on the born with shoulder 47 You' Buildersfield, or whether he de
kind L WIN awwws-making thing for ny actor to wear like
Astrakhan collar.
Anyway ho romans spoker, provocative, and
Th
ou!- ruke
If he Wasta't adex sharply ani Intelligently talented he'd prob ably have been ignored ami left En wither. Or quietly murdered,
say he's Sun. } hypocrite.
no
He'll rever pose, like too many stars, as a tuenly- mouthed, sinpedog diplomat.
I can depend on him saying what he thinks about me even when it's insulting. And I nake him a promise.
I always do the samNE
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"We're not exactly refugees from Egypt, madam - we were on our way there for a holiday."
THIS MAN NEHRU
A
He is always found leading the critics of the Commonwealth
By DOUGLAS CLARK
LL over Nehru's In- And in the diplomastic See who is talking! This dia laxt week the manoeuvres which preceded is the man who plays blatant his own Lanners Buttered. that crucial gathering Mr power politics on Mosques, temples, Nehru succeeded in pitch frontiers. This is the man been trying to and churches held thanks- ing his stand bang in the who has giving services. In the big centre of the international intimidate the Portuguese towns $be shops
were spotlight. His envoys had out of Goa. This is the man hoarded up against the been scampering about the who sends 100,000 troops to capitals London, occupy and hold down Mos- exuberance of the holiday crisis
Cairo, Moscow lem Kashmir. making crowds. Everywhere Paris, processions marched to the busily pouring Mr Nehru's raucous rhythm of bugles obnoxious brand of oil upon wake the waters.
and drums.
In this growing crisis Mr Nehru, more firmly and
Mi Nehru further tells us that preparation*** 31 Britain and Frince Iza the Middle Eat have arred Asta
And in New Delhi the lucky multitudes were en
By what right does Mr Nehru tertained to a special treat spectacularly than ever be presume to speak for ull Asia: carmarked for it is a claim he makes over and -the smiling spectacle of fore, has
Mr Nehru in person on the himself the part he loves over again. ramparts of the Red Fort, most to play.
rewarding their plaudits Observe him with with a toplofty speech about hund on his. heart.
Anyce might forgiven
that he fr thinking was the accredited public rela- his trunk officer of that continent's
teeming millions.
But, fact, there has never
the high moral role that lic is the archetype of been any truth whatever in the
India now plays in
world
Marthi
HE ATTACKS British rule in nection for ever. Why should he
to go it alone? Kenya ús a "reign of BEVSTU affars under the beneficent sweet reason, the prince of claim. Its arrogance is exceedext
not only As a member of the Cominon apprezakm the great only by its utter lack of sub- prefer instead
against Does Mr Nehru evr
Mau Mau but against leadership of Mr Jawaharlal peace-makers,
wealth he gets lush pickings and the neutral. And, as usual, the stance.
speak for Pakistan? For Japan?
of innocent Afri- Nehru.
perquisites. In the existing sel- "thousands" way he interprets the part For the Philippines? For
Korea?
up the deadvantages are all to cars. is to apply a school-masterly For Afghanistan? For
the rest of the Commonwealth. HE ASSAILS British policy in ruler to the knuckles of Dues he even speak for faraway
all to Mr Cyprus, advantages are which is now showing Nehru.
HE RANGES himself against Britain and bend unctuous Tibet,
Just what thinks of its Red
Examke some of them. ly backwards to soothe
Chinese masters <t whom Mr
First, for Mr Nehru, the
CRITICISES HE BITTERLY Britain's enemics.
Nehru lavishes so much admira- Commonwealth is a most fruit- the Baghdad Pact
HE ful clearing-house of informa-
CONTEMNS NATO 09 What Asiatic countries, Indeed, tion. He is kept in intimate a powerful protection for dues Mr. Nehru ever speak for touch with the views and plans colonialism." was except those which are bitterly of other
What is it all in aid of? On Wednesday last India celebrated the ninth anni- versary of her "liberation" from British rule.
HIS ROLE
than
that
tron?
THE PICKINGS
member-Governments.
SEATO.
Whenever and
wherever the erects do- He is made free of their precious Commonwealth strategical secrets. He knows a fences to preserve itself Mr hundred times more shout lop- Nehru is to be found leading the
level
And
Is it not an amazing piece of impudence?
More
a piece of hostile to the British Common WELL, of course, it will there ever such
not be long now before humbug? Whom does Mr wealth and its allies?
British policies than critics, the people of India emerge Nehru think he is fooling? the self- Just look at
Maclean and Burgess ever did.
now, in the most dan- from their pipe-dream. With
And if, mmed with all this gerous crisis that has threatened production falling and righteous language he rolls
crucial information, MA now ita interests since the war. national income down since out to rebuke us for daring
ambassador in Cairo
past has Anally behaved
all VET Mr Nehru is still per- sends hir an Y
off
for for toleration. repeatedly the British left, their cheer to take precautions in
milled to stay in that Com Fourrying
Does Mr Nehru really think ing has little indeed to feed area where Nasser's grab
monwealth. By a legalistic turn private audiences of Nasser
The rest of that even in a dispute as grave on this threatens the standard of of phrase in a single brief Act well, what then? But certainly
the Commonwealth may fcol which exempts
as this he can coolly continue to Parliament,
anxiety But particular Independence Day living of every family in of
for MA
sit on the fence and lecture us? India even from the need to give some Mr Nehru himself had & Britain.
If so, let him learn that such new and special reason to
an emergency as the Suez crisis puts members of the Common- celebrate,
wealth to the
supreme test. Let
on.
He declares that "at- allegiance to the British mon- Nehru it is a Ane and advan-
we are still stuck with tageous situation. archy, tempts to settle the dispute him.
For just 24 hours later by force are the wrong way
was and do not belong to the Suez Conference
age."
opening in London.
of
Mr That,
course, sulta this Nohru.
If it is left to him, he will cling on to the Empire con-
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From JAMES COOPER
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IN THE CLUTCH im study the response of Mr
X
оль
Holland, Premier of Now Zen- land, who declared:
"Where Britale stands, we stand, where Britain goes we go that's the mood of the. Now Zealand people."
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WHAT NOW?
to what should be done about
·him?
THEN, of course, there are the immense economic benefits ho reaps from keeping a firm clutch on the Commonwealth's
Watch the bales of over there was a situation coat-tails, cotton
into which proved Mr Nehru's lock rolling merrily |Britain from India duty-free of good faith towards the Com- while Mr. Nehru continues to monwealth, this is it.
I over, there was a moment make Lancashire's textile ports to India pay duty of 25 when he showed himself utterly percent. Taking India's exports unworthy to wit any longer at conference main as a whole tą Britain and the the Commonwealth
rest of the Commonwealth and table, it is now. New York try to bring the rival gongs to attling
grievances:
Empire, she enjoys tariff-free WHERE A hundred gether, W policemen failed, woft
Neither side feels sate entry or tariff preferences They achieved this by send-
turf about 2200 million worth of the members of the "walking through the drinks and potato crisps ing
gangs' neighbour-goods each year.. ал 1 free "Dragons"
motor (the other have
At home too she gets succulent in succeeded
coach trip while they induced hood.)
material ald and expertise from establishing a temporary the leaders of their enemies, the 2. Each side accuses the other her Commonwealth colleagues to Has this man hardened his truce in the teenage gang "Enchanters" to attend a mid- of planting "sples" In Its gang, prop up and expand her economy. heart for over peminat the rest
Look
at thist atomic reactor of the Commonwealth family? warfare that was terrorising night meeting with the promise
India's first-which went into Are there really” nò "circum "Hells Kitchen," the seamy of free cokes and potato crisps.
3. Neither sido likes the way.
two weeks ago,
Who stances, however grave, in which lower. East Side of New
the other gang "poks at their
the entfal enriched ho to reciprocata' York.
girls,"
uranium elements for it? Why the rich
generous loyalty Dozens of drinks and piles of
Britain
And who will finance it shows towards him? welfare workers arb The Appalled by the minings and crisps, disappeared in the three
of India's second the
11.005 chootings of the last month, hours before 3 a.m. when the anxious that there should be a
Under Colombo advice
the mid-19687 Pulice
Commissioner Stephen Enchanter" finally agreed to peace treaty at the first meet-reactor, planned to be reads by
rumblings Kennedy drifted a hundred vend, six tenders: to meet an ing. For there aro
number from the that two other gongs, the Plan a large the tendered to extra policemen into the area equal
bill will be £5,000,000
enothor point of crisis to in "Ambawadores and the
de coored by" at "
British history, philan with no other task then to keep "Dragons,"
Canada, "Diplomata" threaten trouble. the warring cydon
Now examine the reciprocal You have, aut here too botig tecrindary, d
Seventeen-year-old William
Volnaquer, still row They think they are losing aid that Mr Nehra extends to for any good you have been But welfare workery decided covering from a bullet wound, cote because of the attention the rest of the Commonwealth doing a Départ I May; and lab this could mean only a will lead the Enchanters" in being paid to the warring See what he does to champion have, dóna with. ( you temporary. Jull, sod? dockied to the fallcn' whichs//are? almed at "Enchan are" and "Dragoty."
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