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THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1980,
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Interesting News Stories
Show Special. PRESENTING THE FIRST PICTURES OF A MOVIE MILESTONE
Cecil B. deMille's Moses WITH MORE SCOWLS FROM
Charlton Heston as Moses
YUL BRYNNER
Hollywood.
SOMEBODY recently
in
usked Cecil B. de Mille why he persists. making biblical epies The shrewd, 75-year-old showman snapped back: "Why should I throw away 3,000 years publicity?
of
Now, in a year bulging with
πιονίας mummoth
like "Moby Dick" and "War. and Peace,' deMille meets the challenge of his competitors with a Lure which is colossal even by his standards.
pic-
And
SPECIAL Today SHOW brings the first pictures of its impressive turn; left, Charlion Heston as Moses; right, Yul the Pharaoh Brynnel
Hainese: 11.
It has taken deMille five years of research and two years of Teu Aiming to make "The Cominantnenia it has also g him more than four and hair million pounds.
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Yul Brynner as Rameses II
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BUT HE FEARS SPIDERS
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Guy is a gorilla, and one of the most dangerous hammals to the London Zou
More remarkably,
managed to boost the picture, which has just openest in New York, with publicity support from clergymen of all de numinations in America But, as usual, demille has
relied only on the Bible to attract the customers. He hus craminer the film with stars; the bald-beaded wonder Yul Brynner, exotic Yvontre de Carlo, Anne Baxter,
not
"He's 5ft. 2. tall, and the Europe," Cerilia in biggest keeper Bill Smith sald. "He's us tough as can be.
frites from
would
light Kun Just bounce off most parts W budy. If you pretend to throw something at hun be doesn't even blink.
tal
Scared To Death
Edward G. Robinson among spiders, mice, and snakes.
them.
For the rule of Moses, de Mille chase husky, 31-year-old he- man star, Chariton Heston, Some American crities
plain that Heston makes Moses more of a muscle-man than
mystic.
Towering above all else is the
But he's scared to death of The only weapons we have against him are a toy make and a toy spider.
"A couple of weeks ago I had to appear on TV with Guy," said Mr Smith,
I
cape,
had to stand close to his but I could never have done it without- spider,
frist our toy one under my spectacle thut hus become jacket 20 It wouldn't show.
know it Then I let Guy personal stamp on deMille's picture-making. He made his there
pent the whole time
own Red Sea 200,000 cubic
was
COS MOⱭ BISA NY
3/10 Mine
Gives 80 Tons A Week
Blackwood.
THREE SHILLINGS
and tenpence a week- that is all a plump- faced miner is paying
fect swimming pool-for the looking at the spot where the for a South Wales coal-
spiker wax,
trek
of the Hebrows to the promised land. He had 20,000 I moved, extras to walk across it.
eady to run away | mine with output figures
Mr Smith started giving Guy that have startled Coal
Board officials.
And the flight from the some clean, well-scrubbed poto- Pharoahs, flimed outside Cutro, toes And Guy showed he was became the biggest construc- tion job in Egypt since the building of the Suez Canal,
u rissy to the last.
Before he ate them he daintily peeled off the skin.
And 88-year-old Tudwal Davies, hefty owner of one of
the smallest private- enterprise coalmines in the country, does it with FIVE
HONGKONG CONCERT ORCHESTRA MEN A BOY, AND A
CONDUCTOR VICTOR ARDY.
CHRISTMAS
SUNDAY
CONCERT
RITZ
TICKETS: HONGKONG $4
MOUTRIES, TSANG FOOK.
DEC 16 9p.m.
TICKETS: - KOWLOON MOUTRIES, RADIO PEOPLE, EVERETT TRAVEL SERVICE,
CHRISTMAS BELLS, CAROLS, MUSIC FROM THE SHOWS,
OLD TYME DANCING, COMMUNITY SINGING ETC.
COME EARLY
DOORS OPEN 8pm.
DONKEY.
The mine, a black bole stretching 250 yards into the Bide of windswept Bodwas mountain, not far from Black- wood. Monmouthshire, had been derellet for 27 years when Tudwal took it over in 1953.
rent for the quarter- acre of ground which contains the mine entrance-only £10 a year or the price of a packet of cigarettes a week.
The
The National Coal Board weren't interested in nationalis- ing Tudwal's ming. It was much too small to bother abouË.
But they are interested in sulput. Eguresan average of over twe tons of coal a day for every person employed there.
Their own average for the area-nct quito à ton a man.
Earn £25 Wack
A Coal Bound spokesman said: "His output la surprising, but uf course, you can't compard it Wourg because of the vast
But now rend what the four bob a week" mince says: "I got the place cheap because nobody wanted to work. It
what "My output Agures show can be done fundere.. private enterprise. Last week we pro- ducod 80 tone of the best: house coal: It worked out at 134 tona of coal a day.
"Miners who work for earn up to £25 a week at the cool face.
I daren't go into a pub round
bere because I'm - besieged by
on
men seking: ma' for a work
The boy on "Tudwal staff is-17-year-old Terry Howell
In one day recently be
15 tone of coal" from the
the minex takes direct to Newport by lorry
Dontlet the Kiddies MISS-
From-
TOY LAND
THERE'S
A
BIGGER
SELECTION
THAN EVER
THIS YEAR!
FATHER CHRISTMAS HAS NOW TAKEN UP RESIDENCE IN THE "RED HOUSE" MEZZANINE FLOOR HE
WILL BE THERE DAILY UNTIL XMAS EVE.
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·
BRING THE KIDDIES
Lane, Crawford's
MEZZANINE FLOOR
ZA
Open UnUI 8,00 p.. To-night
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