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THE STORY
SO
-FAR
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1957.
THE ACTORS ere James Mason, Michael Rennie, Jean Collins: starring at. Elstree in the film of Alec Waugh's novel, Island in the Sun.
·
THE VISITORS are Mrs Harriet Mary Mackintosh, an American tourist; Joseph Baker, a Yorkshire manufacturer; Louis Coltz, South African diamond merchant, and Alvin Melville, a New York public relations expert. Joy Raymond, of the publicity staff, is showing them round the set. They so0 James Mason-in a scene staged on a rostrum-quarrel and fight. In the middle of the scene a scream rings out. On the studio floor, Mrs Mackintosh points beneath the rostrum at- THE CORPSE. It is the body of Joseph Rapperley, crooked Inquiry agent and former scandal sheet reporter wro bribed his way into the studio after being refused admission.
Violence in the
ETECTIVE INSPEC-
DTOR BELLOWS
Wis
not an imaginative man. This is not always a defect in a police officer, as may be imagined. On the con- trary; a little imagination is useful, but too much almost certainly fatal to successful police career.
is
a
Inspector Bellows pro- ceeded always on the sup position that what WIS obvious was also true, and generally he was absolutely right.
"Now," ho said to Gerry O'Hara, "You are the first es sistant director on this produc- tion, I understand. You say you have charge of what goes OR during shooting. But then, what about Mr Rossen?"
Darryl Zanuck broke in. Un- der the stress of events he had stopped eating his cigar, and begun to smoke it, "Will it help Inspector, it say that I am in charge of producing this film? Mr Rossen here is directing It. Mr O'Hara is in charge of all the technical staff on the floor,"
The Inspector was a placid, pipe-smoking man in his forties, "Thank you, Mr Zanuck. You tell them where to go and when to be quiet, is that it, Mr O'Hara?"
Gerry O'Hara grinned. "More or less,"
DUORS LOCKED
"At ve minutes to three shooting started, and you press-
cause
a
props room
A true-to-life murder set in Elstree. The back- ground is the shooting of an actual film (Island in the Sun) now awaiting
release.
you, I understand the deed man was not an invited visitor, I should like to talk to anybody who has any connection at all with his presence at Elstree today."
U13
Darryl Zanuck.
"Inspector Bellows." This was
"I
appreciate that you've got 0 crime to investigate, We're going to help you every way wo can. In the meantime we've got a Aim to inish, and if you can help I'll be grateful. Can we come on set and work tomorrow?"
"I don't
see why not, Mr Zamuck."
"This Rappericy was a pretty unsavoury character," the in- spector said to Joy Raymond, "Served a prison sentence for fraud as I remember. Then that scandal sheet of thin cloned down. Why did he usk to come down here?"
"Said he had some sort of free lance commission, I be- lieve, Spun a hard luck story." "And you refused. Did you consult Mr Zanuck Or Mr Rossen?"
But I talked to some of the actors. Joan Collins sald
she didn't want him, but didn't ƒ 66
like to be stuffy.
fused to have him on the set "James Mason positively re- while he was acting. I told that to John Wore, the publicity director, and he told Rapperley, How Rapperley got in after that. I can't tell you."
What wore
fer
ed this little button here which automatically locks the outer doors.. We know the time be-
Miss Shipway makes note of everything like that her book. A very useful habit, If I I may say so. Then the body was discovered
Mr Mason's at ten minutes past three. And
have refusing to the doors reasons weren't unlocked until I arrived. Rapperley on the self"
Jay Raymond rose from her Very thoughtful, that was. Now,
"Hadn't you better osk I understand that there is a chair.
the him that yourself?" set during guard on the lunch hour, and at other times when nobody may be here."
A large ox-like man touched his forehead, "That's Inspector, Charlie Hinton,"
"that
me,
"I conclude, therefore,” the Inspector went on inexorably, Mr Rapperley gained access to the set in some way, and was killed here." He added, without any particular emphasis, "Killed by somebody who s hero now."
O'Hara.
DISLIKE
reason."
This "Very dramatic, sir. Rapperley had written
some pretty nasty things about you in the past, I understand."
"Just
**Inspector Bellows," said Darryl Zanuck,.. "I appreciate that you've got a crime to investigate. We're going to help you every way we can.""
It's the craziest festival of all
—that's what happens when the Irish discover that tourists will pay £32 million to be in on the
local shenanigans.
HE wants a bottle of poteen now! She downed the first glass S a
the
bad as Chinese whisky," said the shattered young man in Tourist bureau,
Such are the exigencies of the tourist industry in Ireland--having to supply things that are entirely mythical (like fairies) or illegal (poteen and guamen), "Bull, if she drinks enough poleen (illegal irish whiskey) she won't And one American lady be worrying me for a leprechaun now, will she?" with an inexplicably reinforced inside presumably got her Irelandsworth.
The Irish with lazy humour and considerable self-mockery are trying to get tourist conscious ever since they were mildly startled to find it is their second money-spinner (£32 million last year). Agriculture is just first 1 year. but as tourism is easier they'd be happy enough to let it be the winner this
So in blizzards of words, downfalls of drink and with the bowildering loveliness of the Irish spring to do it in they have disorganised themselves a festival the like of which has not been seen and at which only the stone-cold culturally sober will be able to soe, An Tostal (At Home) is the name they give their spring
VALUABLE
(the
The discoveries have been
ago,"
by ANNE SHARPLEY/
for Chase understandably disincliard, lo maad, Anan Sharpiny Swrites Anne 1ḥuipley) jak has drawn his guide to An Tostal. The dance galite reads Loush a. Rawık, batter, known in London as Roch w Rall, The television serial is a cutte referance: to the Fuch that in Ireland thara Ara reputedly 50,000 Pilavielon sats picking up programmey free from thà Delibes transmitter, and the pits and the plaing are known having grand Ümumes meal,
Atlantic and the ballad singers drink, the talk and the scenery." through the crowds. Bare bloody No mention of food, you notice, feet climbing Croagh Patrick on and apart from the best places Reck Sunday. The Aran Islands you can give up hopes of composet with the
the commcrakes rattling cooked meal in Ireland.
.
LOVES SILENCE
a
well-
"I didn't wand Rapperley on the set for a simple
this year's festival and James Mason said. "I feel un-
nrth) has a splendour and inter- clean when I'm near keyhole-national ring about it that has peepers like that."
the
wayward heart passionate, Ireland half-appalled and half proud.
better known o us, as Green It was remembered that sleeves, The Irish say It is one the country houses of Ireland, of theirs. "It was stolen from us "Some uma ago, yes," Mason now dropping exquisitely to bits, by an English king 300 years spoke deliberately. "He had there were bound to be paintings.
cries Irish been as offensive as it is possi
Eammon "Not necessarily," said Gerry ble to be about my public
O'Gallagher which is the brilliant grass and the island But for those who have to be his way
of saying that James men in homespune and silent dragged across there to discover career and
ser and my private life
the First had an Irish harpist. cowhide pampooties on their feet these things, with promise of He was strangled. gratifying-Rembrandt, Vencer, go now 50. The Inspector looked mildly you know. The chap you were Giorgione, El Greco to name a
we are going to re- leading not driving their gentle concerts, theatres, parados and surprised. "Is something wrong killing in the film was strangled, sew.apa most needing a buck- possess it."
bulging cattle to Kilronan for whatnot, An Tostal offers a good with my reasoning?"
shipping to the mainland. *
inducement. Collectors of the 100, isn't that so? Bla of
ashee clean. But the claims onte Brendan Beban, the roaring coincidence that,”
Incongruous at least will be in- terested "I don't know
the Irish caught on to the Old writing wonder of Dublin and about that,"
to hear that Mason was changing from the Master stuff have been
three O'Hara sald hurriedly. "But you tropical clothes he wore in the roarious. "We must have Bunny's singing Land of Hope and Glory Siobhan
up- the West End, consoled me by Ireland is a place of silence. American Negroes with Irish McKenna loves this names have applied to take part see those
Не scenic doors."
film into sports jacket polated to the enormous wooden trousers. Now his head emerged dubious."
and Goys." "You know very well it's at the top of his bullock's tenor silence so that she says "I'd like in the currach-racing display on "It' not dubious voice in gratitude for the fact it all to myself." But for me the Liffey. (A currach is a wisp doors at the end of the stage, from a pullover. He said. In- Didn't it come
feet high
there is nothing some thirty
better than of canvas and a few sticks of and credulously: "You're not suspect | Armada?"); twenty feet wide. They're used ing me of killing him, by any
ment for IRA activities
"saved
Ireland's of props. chance?"
extraordinarily have the nerve to regard as 'O But with the greatest possible articulate country people whose boat - they cut through the Well sir, somebody
respect to An Tosial--it's not my silver turn of phrase makes our Atlantic breakers like black Imported festivalla will
be idea of Ireland at all. Ireland use of English seem like turning dolphins.) I'm not going Dame Margot and the Royal to me is a place of the sort of words with a spade. ("Ah, let So one way or another a fine,
that at the Sadler's Wells, a production of
The Importance of Being Earnest acep, sweet" coloured peace you, the sun go shine where they're fantastic time should be had by
con get nowhere else. It is a not so happy," is my favourite, dll. (with Margaret Rutherford, etc.), place of velvet horizons and soft, mid to me by an old woman in Message from Brendan Bahan hundreds of Inter- siging voices. The country with Mayo when we were talking to the million visitors they are folk dancers, singers Innumerable sweeping golden about rain.).
expecting this summer?" "Now "You do suspect me," Mason ad so on-and the Rome Opera bays like the rims of harps. Ask the Irish what Ireland you can all of you just keep out.
Company.
Irish aro wild Point-to-point meetings by the offers and they will say "the of my way," out (1,200-at
about opera ned the six weeks
theatre)
to
bring in all sorts
The
over with the that his eight years' imprison having the silence broken by one, wood that the Irish in the West
killed the sults will be seen--260 mu from my mother'a cook and It's im- hlm. And it was somebody in { G210m-in the Dublin Municipal
They often stand open for on
hour at a lime
possible to watch them con- these studios.
Linuously."
"Were these scenic
open this morning?”
spector asked Hinton.
"Yes, sir. About
doors the In-
half past
twelve to one, then they were
opened after lunch again, two
o'clock to half post'i
"Did you watch them all the time?"
further than moment."
SUSPECTED
began to laugh.
The Inspector knocked
his pipe, and pointed the stem
WIL
che
at Mason. "Far as we can tell sold in A flash seats were
at the moment, nobody know
his chin, Rapperley was coming down now reserved for visitors;
Probably the best Himon scratched"
Now moments will be the intervals, "Wouldn't say all the time. here. Don't forget that,
when
it is not unknowa for Couple of times I was called this is what could have happen- tenors in the Gods to oblige with away Mo the telephone, right ed away at the other end of the.
about here and, there--"
and zada himself Theatre in Dublin has always stage, and then I was dodging bodo perley approached some an aria of their own.
extremely objectionable-appar been spellbinding, but there has ently he did that naturally been a change of emphasis from They quarrelled. Perhaps this the steady glow of the Abbey to FORMALITY chap knocks Rapperies down the wild sporadic firing from
Mr Rennie on
the what they Gerry O'Hara Interrupted. Bet, remember? Then be loses thontres. "The fact is,. Inspector, that the control, and wirangies tim. boys working on the set very Hadn't
soon notice any strangers, that for the most part
guard is a bit of a formality."
that?"
Like
20 About 49 dead lơng.
round
an
*
call their "pockel"
50-SEATERS
A
SHE TYPES
HER WAY
AROUND THE
YOUNG girl can see quite a lot of the world with no capital if she has the initiative of brunette, Inzel-eyed· Avis. Rose,
Avis took a secretarial coursd when she left school, bought Eerself a typewriter, and so far has typed her way through 20 countries, working and lving
in 14. to fro was with the Olded, and during the
WORLD
blow the whole of her Arst week's rent on a new hat.
In Algiers Avia's office was built on to the bridge of o̟ ship; but she lost this when the next- door ship blew up.
From her typewriter in Naples she could gazo straight acros8 the shimmering bay to the Island of Capri, visited It twice in blossom" time!" sho. told me "and, had two attempts
climbing Vesuvius
SNOW AND SUN
These are converted coach- should say the set What We Magon
houses and hold about 50 people were you doing then,
and you need to keep your wonder, "I sea" The Inspector turned Before Mason could reply elbows to yourself or you'll come out with the wrong pair. They abrupus to hire Munciintoal of agitated Sergeant Tackson put put on new plays, venture now understand you came down off his head round the door.
bald info-night · revues author the rostrom. Why did you do knocked out the chief of the miniature but far more dathis
"Inspector, somebody's just and generally behave Like a Foreign, was sent to Gibraltar: At the British Empatry, in Property Department and tried West Abbey, rebuliding of ay was feeling a little faint. It to burgle 12 hrs
The pewas 'no, roɑllatie« up · there, if jus
the Props Depart which is in "Burgle
what known as made me quite nervous. I camel ment," Mason said, "Whợ, Linde, he Irish continuous present" down and wanted to leave' the atillo, but couldn't because the doons were locked. So I stood over there and, then, sow, Bach- donly, at my footed!
Mira Mackintosh, stili, sounded attle hysterical. » The Inspe tor-broke 2. In
TOMORROW
("they're always talking about but the divil a brick will they lay") carries on in a borrowed theatre
But mall rude shock awall the higlish (who, after all, form TO percent of Trajendra tourista).
"I
Wa WANS uniform, WAS she recalls, and the
board the Catalina woman flying-boat, I remember, being fascinated with the young RAF man who settled down, to sleep on a plio of red, and yellow bomba
ABOARD SHIP
Her next job was in, Algiers, where, he was billeted with Kwelaki" in Wyanth lady, Vowball
Teheran she worked for year in a converted stables, and here, she acquired • hor first dog, the ability to swim in icy water and enjoy fand thres fide Peredari mugs. Next job was will an oll.com-
pany in the Lebanon
one
AVIS 'ROSEIZO
She lost her office when a ship
bosch ln the game afternoon?”
A Umber firm in Africa took her to Nigeria and the Gold Court, Next fob she hopes will be in Slam of South America. "How do you gut
glamorous, Jobs); asked. Avai
cof the most versatile, countries mūzaimpla
in the world.." Where else cann one pickpelstromen in the maw and munkatha Dra
very.ilitie and
t