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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1957.
Mahat
Thatwest "ACENT
Weffo
TALKIND
"Now remember I'll do the talking."
He made Brando imitate
OR Hollywood cele. brities and Broadway beauties the smartest place in New York now is not the Stork Club but convorted church hall
pro-
this
оп
the
a cash register
like professor's study. Somo of where as susan, already
bis beautiful 17-year-old daughter,
even
DO 17 YOURSELF
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Report from New York
gladly spends
tho
evening
by ALAN BRIEN
m personat- kawannommer
ភា
THE UNLUCKIEST PREMIER
BRITAIN
ERHAPS one shouldn't
PER
expect
luck in the
H-bomb age. Steel nerves
EVER
HAD
By Walter Terry
and nth degree skill are the The supreme irony is Industrial peace
and
pro-
essentials in nuclear politics. that Sir Anthony started duction were speckled with
His planning strikes. who off so well.
of the General Election 1955 was a masterpiece.
Maybe the man looks to chance for his for- tumes deserves to fail.
Yet who can blame any politician who dreams when politics are still made up of people? Even Krusthey hud luck. s survived
Stalin.
in
The Tories romped home.
Jobbica to support
sion Anthony.
For some the strain was great; they abstained.
stor
of
Strasberg at Arst wna
DAUGHTER SUSAN WITH LEÉ STRASBERG. Father can be rather frightening.
dingy West Forty-Fourth The other night I met the Street. It is up these gonius. bobina the studio. Strasberg. dusty stone slab steps and 64-year-old Lee
bar- great through
Beverelle lives in classical portico that the sacks of an apartment house where Bohemia shades on most famous names in into Harlem. His flat was paved show business pass today.
with black-and-white marble ules, and lined with bookshelves This is the temple of Actor Studio, fire Mecca the method. Hero no Press agenta nudge nor gosalp column- ists prowl. Here International of Picnic, and the Dlary stars give glowing performances hair for a party, and singing Anna Frank, was washing her before
audiences of a dozen.
to herself. At the Actor Studio Marilyn Monroe dare not be
Later at that parly we met, tute for a call. No one ever asks "I peeped through the sliding for her autograph, except on a doors," she confessed, "Did you
Marlon Brando still find him nice? He can be rather "That's just a gng. willingly takes the bare boards frightening.")
Then an Cut, Paul Newman, Eva Marie outsider gets hold of it and Saint and many other, takes seriously. But there is Strasberg emphasises that certain truth in the legend. the studio produces many styles alightly un- The paradox of an actor is of actors; they have succooded nerving: - that to bo an actor he must in musicals, opera, Shakespeare, David Kos- Arst be very conscious of him- Chekhov, Brecht and Sheridan SUNGARRATIONES MANAGEıl self playing self. Then to be a good actor as well 29 10 Tennessea ing a wax statue metting in the Cardinal Richelieu, He was he must forget about himself. Williams, and Eugene O'Neill, silent dur our long walk His job is to be able to become For the studio is
the Jack through
comidors, He immediately
NO FEELING anything he 19 Solomons gym for theatrical sat me carefully on a sofa, then called upon to become.
difference between champs and young white hopes, arranged his chair and 1219
Broadway ani Shaftesbury Here they can flex
the the acting lamp In
most dramatic "So wo asked our members Avenue, ho thought, was that muscles which
4o think about an episode in though British rarely poeliion
playa wero stretched in commercial pro-
their past. It was as if we were posing selves with
To identify thom- skilfully noted and skilfully ductions.
for a Victorian portrait of
symbol. To written, they Wene almost And
impersonate who have headmaster morting a
in Inanimate, entirely a headboy: object like a teapot, as long as temporary feeling. lacking
Đ aweated
off their CXC453 But he was delighted with glamour remain volubly grate my description of the studio as yet the right plich and
"When 1 go to a Lnogion ful. Says Brando of the time the gymn
intensity of concentration.” gymnasium, "That's exactly
theatre the world I see might when he was asked to imitate it. get so irritated when
be 1880 or 1920 os SVENGALI-LIKE
casily cash register:
1980. "You'd be people ask a member when he
Here you see America surprised how natural
A grea!
on the stage. With all ita Some crilles of the studio ellches, gel after a
and actor can no more stop training belleve, that Strasberg himself a while linking on is going to graduate.
badness, 真 ringing and punching yourself."
ourself." than a great athlete. Yet no ཐ་
Identifying today."
stupidities, It's unconsciously
#!]] Americs The studio is free and del tennis player to stop practising dominating his famous trainees Strasberg was more enthusiastic
one expects Bghter or a himself
with
Svengali,
About British actors Lea a hypnotist.
But the list There's a tremendous amount trained young talent Strasberg
by of really great talent there," he ta 12 roll-call of America's
glint in bls must stara Brando,
Individual Sad with
"Frankly, I just ached to get Monroe, Julle my hands on them." Harris, Rod Steiger, Montgomery
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the shopgirl who champion." boasts "My friend says I walk I asked him about the stories too like Marilyn," or the Broadway that method actors might be Star who complains, "My agent told to go into a scene thinking says I act like Joso Ferter? of ketchup and Sinatra.
And though it sounds fantas- tic, there were other Tories who thought more highly of their
There was
uld enemy, Mr Bevan. unemployment in the cur Industry, bad feeling with the T.U.C, Trinidad al had to be sold. There were a dozen little disputes among the All Tories in Parliament now prae- An- tically forgotten. But the sulks the remained,
Socialists despaired. over the country Sir thony was acclaimed as only man for Britain. In spiring cheers rang through He the Commons. The Gov. Nasser had luck too.
off with basks in world sympathy ernment
beaming today only because of mis a wave from calulations in Whitehall,
But Sir Anthony Eden
will be remembered as the
Prime Minister who had
none.
pilot.
zoomed
its
Shadows, His cupboard has
misfortunes, been bure during most of and the grumbles came just his tenancy at No. 10. His- a few months afterwards. torians will mark down his They began with rumblings Premiership as 4 fanastic of discontent within the
ranks of Tory M.P.s. run of bad luck.
affair.
own
No Prime Minister has been so beset with rebellion and dis- content from insigo his ranis. From the start he was beset by known as the "Sucz Rebels,"
powerful sector
underesti❤
TOMMY
Hike
О
LOVES
NEWSPAPER.....
S
of these
news
news-
The
HIS
and when
eye.
he can't get
it he prints his own
By GEORGE HOGAN
as
Sir Anthony made #
They demanded tough action bold
INCE the Army's troops themselves, brings "news nove early last year to end by Britain in the Middle East. listened to their East-West tension
newspaper,
the from home". by inviting Sir Anthony
Some Marshal Bulganin and
words. Maybe he Mr
news-sheets Cologne Post, printed
arc other influences in ita first number in 1919 for They carry
quito
ambitious efforts. Kruschev to London for folky, mated the But the good work was tainted
"hot" world party. For there...., weru
"Left Wingers," the troops of the British as carly as any national by tho Commander Crabb Moderates,
daily,
newspapers. Headings Bulleritco, and Macmillanites Army of the Rhine,
with the and support this
are in the heat of a tropical sun to back-
CK artistically drawn in and other keep up with a tough timetable, who Bre now
stories, features energing as soldier on
overseas service ground He had to answer in Parita- equally important.
and Illustrations enliven the lay-out. they, too, are thinking of world home town news sent out from has always found some way
Britain by
from Maps,
and sketches д special
even aftales and of what goes on at ment, 100, for the Burgess and
home. Maclean scandal, though tho
of keeping up with the service unit sponsored by the caroons aro published.
the British soldier, Almost Their sports pages wherever he may be, is hungry British diplomats disappeared while the
news. There was no radio War Omce.
isalated as the when World War I ended, local football team and, indeed, for news from home....and the pedition at Shackicion Base
keep Tommy in touch with his
Trans-Antarctic Ex- Socialists were in power.
in the BBC was not born until with all the latest results and British soldier does get to some The Weddell Sen, they cannot such nine years later. There
awkward, out gosalp in every variety of sport places where newspapers have unill they are well behind the way expect London newspapers were few aeroplanes, News- During the Olymple Games in
Melbourne special
never before pendrated and news. But, like their comrades papers printed in London were
where the mail plane comes in on the Rhino in 1919 and those published
but once a week, If that, done took days to reach the printed daily.
others in Korea and the Canal Govern- troops stationed along the
The men who complie these
Zone, they havo solved their will be Rhine. The Army knew news-sheets
airn to present One such is Christmas Island, problem in their own way what WAH wanted and publications u attractive as a liny dot in the Pacific Ocean. They are publishing a six-pago
蟲 news-sheet with
glorious supplied the
possible under difficult circum- deficiency -----
where a contingent of troops sounding stances and with limited means are preparing for Britain's first Pacific News. It is an excellent
name-the Mid- There has been bold legisla~ they printed 1 Forces'
The sheets are set out
bomb test early in effort, too. monopolies in newspaper
in hydrogen lion to break
on the spot in columns like normal full-scale 1057. There, while they" toil
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Cologne. ful use of atomic energy has been developed with a spirit of adventure.
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own
But what Conservative leader in Cyprus every peace at-
could have anticipated tempt has been confounded.
pressures among his When the Commons voted in followers?
of the favour
of abolition hanging, the Primo
Yot Minister
has been They couldn't quite ex- was confronted with a constitu- quietly by the Eden plain it. But they were tional crisis because the House ment which ona day dissatisfied. Frustration of Lords was
and far- bitterly opposed regarded as excellent
secing. canalised -- forgive the to a change.
At vital moments he has been deserted by both verb, but it was popular M.P.s blamed Sir Anthony be- friends and his health. then into a now political cause they couldn't have a rise Crises piled high even be belief: anti-Edenism. From in salary. fore Suez washed into his then onwards the spell was drawing-room.
broken and bad luck reign-
ed.
Yet, 114 Doolittle the the Dustman sings in
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Progress and reform on the home front has been clouded tion constantly by damaging inila- Mr Macmillan has been forced to introduce a series of credit squoCZEŁ
All this would be enough to make the most brilliant Gov- crument unpopular. Yet it all pales when compared with the crashing bad luck for Sir Anthony that followed his Sucz venture.
The most extreme pessimist.
could not have foreseen bow
much
}
Slum clearance goo, abead strongly for the first time since the war. And automation in industry has been encouraged.
In Malta, Sir Anthony's Gov- ernment has set a unique proce- dent by granting the island purmission to become part of the United Kingdom.
In other Colonies self-govern ment has been speeded.
At home (thore is no praise for this at the moment, but It was essential) the Govern- ment ettried work on anding the absurdities of rent control.
Who could assess the Eisen- 100 harshly towards his lucky hower mood, thủ Dulles snuby, stars. jand tw bitterness of MA Nehru's condemnation?
по
Since these
in early days Army journalism the radio has come into its own. Wireless sels are installed in all canteens and the BBC can be heard in all corners of the earth. There is
dearth of hot news in circumstances, but as normal
have communications improved the soldier has called more and more for "news from home",
STILL LATE
conditions exceptional In London newspapers are still late catching up with the troops. Then the soldier seitles his own
and
features results
of the
TINY DOT
THE BOTTLE AND MR K
-A SOBER APPRAISAL
JUST how heavily does Krushchev fean on the bottle? Are his out. pourings the result of excessive inpourings of alcohol or are they the demagogy of 4 man cockily sure of himself? Few people have had more chances of observing him with a glass in hin hand than this Fleet Street reporter now back in Britain from Moscow.
and under the ng Officer's authority. publishes his own news-sheet, Such
TIKITA the case during the recent Middle East crisis the Royal Army Educational
WES
By SHELLEY ROHDE
familiar
of Moscow receptione - and
KRUSHCHEV ings as the babblings of a man In Moscow I havo Becu raised his glass to the who cannot hold his liquor. Krushchev "merry!!
have Britain would be opposed by
New Year arid open- There is much more to the watched him closely at dozens her allies, her oli suppiles cut
Corps stepped into the breach LX$ his mouth. And the man than that. Yes, he drinks off and her good name assalted One hopes that Sir Anthony
and. published 2. foolscap Kremlin combination of vodka throughout the world.
can draw some consolation und
Once I caught him delalicly from these efforts and not feel duplicated newspaper of four to and vitriol exploded on 1957 quite a lot. But he can take it counted his driples.
DEDICATED clx sheets called The Musketeer, to the tune of popping corks.
tipsy-and tried to draw him Thus were the troops in the
TURN a blind eye to his cold, into provocative conversation. All true to form. Only one Fort Sald area and along the
calculated competence and But he is too maet a man for banks
tdng remains-the of the He has this much to be thank-touch with home and up to
Canal kept Western fairy tale that Nikith you ismoro a delicated
enemy that It was the only time I of capitalem, ful for: In the country to-day minute
A man famation ever found him determinedly world events. Krushchev was drunk.
in his delamination to bring with
bring slant, It seems impossible for 40 among ordinary people un-
For, in my view, after watch about world-wide Communism, many things to have
gone versed in the arts and cunning Similar sheets and, leed, full-
No speech is ever made pub wrong. The impact at home was of polities, there are thousands scale newspapers were published ing. Krushchev at cloes quarters too much. Sir Anthony's own to whom he remains
in World War II, and through- over many months, a fairy tale le kr the Baylot Union without
Some of his an ideal tr
out the Korean campaign and this decidedly in. Tory M.P.s, once so proud of and also an affectionate friend.
a purpose, And no words are noncest antie Western their leader, turned away be-
even to this day, with a British It is dangerously short-sight ever repeated in Pravda without spoochee were made during his wildered by disappointment.
He has one great stalwart at Commonwealth Contingent stilled for people in the West fa
a reason.
notorious four of India, a strict hig aldo still-Sir Winston serving there, the Crown News, regant this man po good TAW Nikita Krushchev is the voice po-alcohol country, Miserable au dejooled, they Churchill.
another foolscap duplication material for Alcoholics Anony- of Soviet purpose. And Pravda Yes the voice was as loud as forced themselves into the divi-
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complied and printed by the mous; to dismiss bis outpour is his soapbox."
over the voice, not of incrin- Lign but
The
• ригрово
JOHNNY HAZARD
WE GOTTA JUMP HIM, JOHNNYA EVEN IF ONE
OF US GETS ITAy!
UN-UN, SNAP HE'S
A PROL HEED A BETTER. OPENING WAIT MY
SIGHALL
· FAGE THE WALL.) LEAN FORWARD 200. [PUT YOUR HAND9 ¡·
AGAINST IT!
HE SURE IS A C. PRO GUESS THIS 15 IT JOHNNY
By Frank Robbins -
NO ODO MOWER, YOU THOSE HAVE TO FIND THE PROPER SIZE TRUNK TO HOLD YOU! THIN YOU WILL CARRY FT QYER PY TO THE CAR & VENT
OH,CUTE A PO-IT-YOURSELF
MUMPER KIT
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
I. WATCHED NOTE - this
East gome of the threats to the West camo during the Bulganin and Krushobay tour of Britain,
Again it was not under the Influence of drint that Krush- choy rogie, I watched him,
The rudKY PODIS. was pleady the cold blue eyes were clear. The purposes to plant the needs of trighioned sospect for Soviet power in the minds of the British people,
Krahchev lg » mati visuguling do regain Kita-public, andja his positión..! Ha del mos dring lá by posting to the kettle.
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