FINISH OF THE 800
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1956.
The finish of the 800 Metres Run final at the Olympic Games at Melbourne from left to right are Michact Farrell (Great Britain), sixth, Lon Spurrier (United States), fifth, Tom Courtney (United States), the winner, Audun Boysen (Norway), third, Derek Johnson (Great Britain), second, and Arnold Sowell
(United States), fourth. — USIS,
PENALTIES? PLEASE DON'T
ASK ME TO TAKE THEM!
I've
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To
1
Joke! urbitten penalty kicks, I've never taken a spo kick in my life. know that those who give the "hammer" to anyone missing a pralty frequently do not realise what it entails
In the last three international nt Wembley we've had three England penalty masses. Several people have asked me why I don't have a crack from the apot myself. But the truth I've never been needed.
Lo
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AL Wolverhampton I had John y Sabre 14 years
eruckling them home from spot like an automatım. We have Harry Hooper
Wolves' penalty expert
the
as
By
BILLY WRIGHT (Captain of England and Wolvos)
What's
11.0 other werk'a match ginst Preston North Etaxi,
With only 22 minutes left, ant Presteg lending 3-0, the flood- lights were switched on. That seemed to net as a spur to my New colleagues. They ecasted into top gear, goals begun to flow, ak we ended the game 4-3 For England I've been Jo į whiners, #ides
penally containing such
the rencon
for our Kings as Huich Carter, Tommy | success beneath the Molineus Lawion, Bobby Langton, Toin lights" Are we Wolves really Finney, and, of course, the spreat footballera who prefer The Alf Ramsey,
bright lights to the daylight?
Of
not. COUNSE
Uhis instance the fans who pack the itTracts and grandstajuls entirely
responsible for any survest which might rome our way under the lights.
That's probably why ve never had to think about taking epot kicks when they've bron awarded us.
There is one thing, however, I cannot quite understand, old it han always puzzled ine
TELL ME
Why aliould defrauden « often prove to be better penalty experts than forwards?
ll, it is the job of a forward to score goals!
|
fre
Jun as Hampden Park has It's famous roar, so do we have Cour Moline
Mux roar. The only difference is that our fans seein
AROUND HOLLYWOOD
BOB HOPE GETS HIS
FIRST CHANCE AT AN ACADEMY AWARD
By RON BURTON
Hollywood.
Bob Hope spent two months studying old film footage, and Paramount thinks the end result may constitute his first chance at an Academy Award.
Hope previously has been ineligible for Oscar competition because comedians have been disqualified-for some mysterious reason. Now he is at work in "Beau James," the story of the late Mayor James Walker of New York,
comedy
Frank strange, said
King, Maury's brother and co-producer of the film. "The kid really throws me. 11 speech Is adult but not wish to be a film star stuffy. Once he told me, 'I don't unless I'm the tops, although I must thro admit I thoroughly enjoy work. This from a 10-year-old!” Michael actually Is friendly and boyish, Maury King sald be polished, ans phrases may
but he's definitely not preco- cious.
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the about
most masuremenŤA SCCA dramatic role I've ever al- that's because they're model lempled," he said, "This doesn't statisties, not movie star figures. mean we don't try for comedy, but It's a different type becoming a model should look "Any girl who's serious about essentially a serious ucler hero
are first in her mirror," Dovima and not # comedian. Sizre
De said. "Itraight save there'
some You In It,
time and effort if she finds sne can turn two pares of the
doesn't have the usual qualifica- script
without finding a good honest laugh that is authenticons. She should have wide-set This is 50 different,& straight nose, long upper that may even make an aelor 1p, small ankles and hands
ndaptable hair.
"It also helps to be small in the bust,"
humour.
out of m**.**
The studier believes Hope delivers a "strong" performance as the jaunty, brilliant and un- predictable Mayor of New York
from 1925-32.
STUDIED FILMS
*
Betsy Palmer USNÍ to be strictly an indoor type. Now she's found out that fresh air is Just as benefcial to her com- plexion as the air-conditioned air of studios so she doesn't Hope's semi-serious charac-worry about going on location terisation la designed to present in rugged country. It really does spur you on to
Walker mighty efforis,
accurately and although
- a willy, moody slalesman who found The new outdoor girl is get I've played before crowds elre-
Heting a little dirty and enjoying where in floodlit matches, I've much time for diversions.
more. She is on location in horse never experienced anything once admitted he spent
than country about 100 miles from approaching the tremendous time at Yankee Stadium
here for at City Hall.
"The Tin Stor," & erikusiusin our crowd whips up.
Paramount western. -(London Express Strutor),
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I Can Still Take
All Kinds Of Play --Rough Or Smooth
Says STANLEY MATTHEWS
Tough tackling dvesn't worry 1334* I am still fit enough to Iake my share of knocks and, even at 41, can take all inds of play, rough or smooth, us it
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Maybe those Yugoslav lacties Wembley weren'i strictly according to rule, but I never fet them upset me.
stop rough play."
I ald sense an angry feeling among the crowd when friend Sturkovic
made- thal rugby tackle but my motto is "Why to get cracking when the lights work
worry...the ret is there are switched on, Aller
How m the plich, as my
don't let my mind wander, colleagues undl I can testify I stick to tho cardinal rule of football keep the game going Maybe you have the answer after the other Saturday's game. the crowf reaction when the to that, and perhaps you
outwit your rival. DIL
fer same lights go
be has
The rougher they come, ibe ht fully easier is
is your task, A player only uses foul tactics when he can't beat you by his skill us a footballer.
deli
tell why
rhap
Can
penalty afler penalty during experienced practice and then drive the bail appreciated.
raight at the keer or wide
of the goal when the read thing
comes along.
The Wembley patelt was in plendid evention on November gk for the Yugo day mateli, far less slippery than
played Wales.
when
We
THEIR BEST FORM
No Opponents
#t
Dover Park Juniors 1. mumer. khemselves TOTO
"friendly"* frobot club in the Davyhulme (Manchete) area because they Se del n
i could not obtain admittance to the lights Molineux and the Wolves find | my langue. They have full That's what playing kit, a good ground and their best form the fans are saying. To prove 24 yg menibers, as well as their point they refer you back # of oficial. They are alt
under 15 years of age. પ Just one thing wrong-they just cannot find any opponents,
Different Fortunes
Arthur Rowley bas scored 22 goals for Leierster City. He is the League's leading marksman, and Lelcester
Jack is
ان
TEAM SPIRIT
There
and
Hone likes the assignment. Not just because it's different,
of
he said, but beenuse the nature
the story--political chicanery and the bitter over- Lomes of the playboy mayor's
with romant
actress Betty Compton, portrayed by Vera Miles,
"I spent two months looking at old newsreels of Walker study his manneriams," Hone sold. "I watched his facial expressions and other characteristics.
Restures and
that I could
"I've been working in such clean, easy surroundings for the past three years have been spoiled, she said "Now I'm getting my first asic of runchyard diri, urut don't mind it at all."
The location area is really one that might bother city dwellers who are fortunate
enough to spend much their lives in air- conditioned rooms,
There's 4 dust dust which settles dally on to enter
"We had to get used to seemt him carry off something very dramatic and then, after the scene was over, see him run off somewhere and climb a tree or heave rocks at something." he said. "A very talented boy but still a boy."
M-G-M successfully negoliat- ot with four railroads and won their
realistle cooperation for footage of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train In "Raintree County." The Baltimore Ohio supplied an 1850 wood- burning engine, tender and three
passenger care of the Civil
War period. The Louisville Nashville ongnisation permitted Itse of + roadbed which is an infrequently used
branch line near Lancaster, Ky. The Mary- In ad
Pennsylvania Iine furnished two additional Cat's Southern to complete the train, and the
Railroad lent essential prop in the form of an old-style baggage truck.
ап
Sleeper: Russell Potter may I found thing and seems everywhere,
certainly have a "sleeper" travel Alm he was very much addicted w nothing like the atmosphere to which
can becom quite a M. Cohan und aped which Miss Palmer has become moneymaker. George
He shot im on unernsciously-Cohan's sperch.accustomed In 4lm and TV
try to get some of that into studios. my characterisation."
thought
Hope said he hadn't about an Oscar until someone mentioned it.
SNEEZES
a 10,000-mile trip in the Soviet Union. Potter says the colour fint was not censored and was, In fart,
In developed Angeles. Many of the 39 ciltes United States where it
"The truth is that I really wanted to do a western just to In the get the feel of acting outdoors," will be shown report sellout. "I can't think about awarns the blonde actress sald. "I don't | Patter, namctated with the when I'm so tid up in a mind the dust, but it's hard on annuel Laguna Beach (Calif.) dramatic role," he said. "It's the make-up mi<«). Makes their Art Festival, didn't have too like a pitcher on his way to a job hardor."
much overhead in making the This observation drew a com-full-fength documentary, "Russa
make-up pliment from
ITFQa os I Saw I." He was producer, Harry Roy which Miss Palmer director camerama71 and won't forget for a long time if ever.
-hitler, I'll wonder about my Lehanera for an award after we're all through making the picture.
The cast includes Jack Benny
who and George Jesse),
play themselves as Walker's friends.
Carned cun-
ir
dust,'
narrator.
A
Jeanette
"Belay doesn't have to worry
Actress Escape: about the dust or dirt,” he said. "She has the kind of beauty that Nolan said she would go on her When Dorothy Virginia Marie Comes through. You see it even annual escape from civilisation Margaret Golden
rolo in she's smudged or costed with after completing her
"The Guns of Fort Petticoast" siderably less than she does Well!" sid
for Columbla. Sho and her Miss Palmer. afford chThank you," Bow, she couldn't
husband, Retaliation is useless,
It gels foods.
actor John McIntyre, Now that she makes nowhere.
The pretty actress, a former and their three children have You drop
to $100 per hour abe stilt stays your opponent's level and away
order Chicage stock player, has been been going to a mountain re- away from them in
on many top TV shows includ treat in Montana for Reven goes your skill too.
keep her model model's figure ing "Studio One." "Kraft Play- months each year for the past -and her salary.
house" and "Alcon Theatre," All few years.
you
OVER-ANXIOUS
I don't think for one minute at the Yugoslav left-back is a dirty player. Far from it.
Stankovic came to me with a smile at the finish and i I think much of his enthusiastic play was duc to being over-anxious,
One other point. I have been asked why I have changed my style-why 1 have adopted the low centre and ground ball Instead of the varied high
centre.
High
acrobatic
centres are useless Continental sides, Their goalkeepers play a
There are only 20 members of Division Two. Arthur's brother Tonyrefail Rugby Club in South sort of third back game, They manager of Plymouth Wales, and, of course, only 15 ut come out to collect all boils in bottom of Argyle,
Division them can be chosen each Satur- the penalty area. And South
Arthur's day. But Tonyrefail are never The high ball becomes
player, for the five wasted effort, goal aggregate is bigger than short of a
Plymouth not selected always turn up
"Just in case", or to cheer.
Three
the whole of the
team's tolak.
PAN GREAL
NAMESAKES
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1 These lines
3 A turn
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8 Big bindo
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have been made for the most
profcasionally
Virginia Marte, etc., is known part in clean, alry studios.
Holly- "We've been leaving as Dovima and
wood like this and think it's a is the highest paid model in the "There was
оло only
real perfect escape from civilisation." United States. She camo to hazard that I discovered on loca-she said. "Sometimes we're tation," she said. "One scene was snowed in for months at a time. Hollywood from New York the flm business in a whirl. Now delayed while I sneezed about a It's wonderful." United Press. she's at Paramount for a role dozen ilmes after a buckboard 1 in "Funny Face,” starring Fred was riding went through Just Astaire and Audrey Hepbum.
about all the dust we could find.
"In my line," she said, "the "That--enetzing-just doesn't thinner you are, the better-the happen in television." more emaciated, the better. And in New York a model has to be thinner than anywhere else."
"This isn't a particularly easy thing for her. She eats things like cottage cheese when others are downing steaks and straw- berry shortcake. This is neces- sury for the 110-pound, five-} foot-eight modet.
LOOK IN THE MIRROR
RKO producers were so Im- pressed when, they_saw eight- year-old Michael Ray in his first picture that
they negoti- ated by telephone to have the English_youngster play in "The Brave One,"
Actually Michael appeared two years in his first picture ago, so he's now 10 years old. Maury King saw his first film, but wanted him for "The Brave
ORG when he found that
| Michael hadn't changed radically
"I don't really know why anyone would want to become in two years. n model," she said. "I'd never even
Now King thinks he has the
Thought about it. Then finest child actor of today.
one day a woman asked me If
she could falco ay picture. I "We never saw him in per- Was in the lobby. of a New son but arranged signing him by | e York office building. I said it phone," King said. "We knew was OK. The next thing I he was our boy after we'd seen know it had been published, The Divided Heart. He already and I was a model."
spoke English, French and Ger- man. Before we knew it he Since then she has appeared | was speaking Spanish--and only countiens, times in publications a short time after we'd gone to which include Vogue, Harpers Mexico on location." and the Ladies Home Journal. King said: "The story 'is' a mov-
Now she has to watch her diet
carefully to keep her 22-inching exciting tale about a boy waist so stra can keep her top who becomes fond of a bull esir rating. She has a 32-inch bust on his father's ranch where and
36-Inch hips, If these bulls are brod for the bull rkig.”
STILL A BOY U
Although Michael is English,
Saved ability to assimilato," Latin Ashleigh
FC play in the mannerisms make han convinc Manchester Amateur League,
kho) Mexican 3. boy, The other week they were; a IGIT » Whor) | Arminst, Walkden Town, *# Tommy Morgan furne Walkdon were defen
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