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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957.
MISS PUCK OF POKFULAM
TEN-YEAR-OLD and a very full
says:
Larry
from his lines and
"If Mama had had quads instead of just Nelly Jane I'd rather
University Year
"What is your name?" I date from
not have been born. began the journalist's sad Corps in
One sister like her is as much as a man can stand. Four would be just terrible."
This industrious und very self-assured young man was sitting at EL Aquare table, beautifully carved, and looked up to make his remark, as an afluent bunk manager might do from his desk. The table was strewn with exercise books and had been specially brought into the drawingroom 30, that its ten-year-old oceu- pant could préside over the family conversation and do his homework at the same time.
He did both with great energy, conducting most of the conversation himself, and covering pages with neat lines of writing.
catechism.
"Which one?"
"Well, I suppose Wo ought to have the lot."
"Shuen Chu Helene Nellic Jane Tchou Chin-yui."
the Diplomatic N age of con siderably greater elégance and leisure thun diplomacy bonsts today.
It somehow contrives, because of its visitors, to bo in the centre of things still. Conversation, as in the best, (It was also at one time English drawingrooms 100 "Yi-fuu" ... because that years ago, is rather ahead of than behind the latest name was considered one that would bring good editions of the newspapers. fortune, and special cards And it is laced with roars were circulated to
of laughter — usually after nounce the change. And allies from Miss Puck her- of course it did bring good Helf, or from the man of the her father, whom she had busy committing to memory luck because it brought house, when he is not too not seen for seven years, the names of places at La back from the United Salle College in which he is States for a visit.)
not supposed to talk.
an-
Dividing the names up. and dealing with them one at a time, we get:
SHUEN
the pile Was
of
power
Up to date in tone, and blessed with auch Western necessities as a five horse
air conditioner capable of freezing one's marrow. in midsummer, it remains a Chinese home... The Bronx, or Little Rock.
and, my word,
by William
Smyly
Hongkong's own Francoiso Sagan CHIN YUI is not
just a gifted writer.
Sho is
gifted
film
actress too.
French." So the new pupil if she might like to "sound
christened Waw "HELENE TCHOU."
But it was rather as a Motion Picture and General
writer of Chinese than Eng- Investment Co. who expect
lish that this Puck has ex- celled during the year. For To do her justice, Helene the main part of the year's did her best. The name, work was taken on by the
with
accent last girl that shares this complete have set a highly split personality
(which must horrible problem to the printers-it has given me a headache already in this numbers article) Was printed in of University
CHIN YUI
her to double as actress and script writer.
One of her scripts is in production at the moment in Japan... The Scarlet Doll", starring Lin Dại, The Scarlet Doll, in technicolour, is to cost the unprecedented sum for a Chinese film of Elaborate pre- $600,000.
der an underhand trick very white (one might say not a fanciful imitation of theatrical programmes, ties of all the other charac. parations are already under
A glance over his shoul that led to a drawingroom air condition. bleached) incident showed the lines
to read....
"I must not talk in line
I must not talk in line
I must not ...
arts and legs lying on the leather sofa, and has already been introduced. This was
what a cook!
Puck at home. She lives HELENE
in A busy drawingroom, backed up by one of the best
chefs in Kowloon, and she The second girl on this can meet nearly everyone list doesn't really exist. worth meeting in the She is a fanciful invention Chinese film and academic of Professor Blunden. world without leaving her leather corner.
True to Chinese tradition, Fuck decided that Professor
mate ....
Leaving out all the activi
Cards with the spelling ters
way to give the film a world- that Puck hus
wide distribution. were circulated to announce portrayed during the year the change of personality.
the University finalist These preparations may But when I rang up Lady stepping daintily from the include dubbing an English Ho Tung Hall one day, no Star Ferry in the blue dialogue with English one-not even her room blazer and skirt.... the voices, apecially contracted lady at ease in the boister and trained...and some of the room mate incidental-ous salon.... the amateur them here in Hongkong. The elder sister who has
ly was another star of actress rushing to rehear been so rudely introduced
But talking about her the Hongkong University's sals and waxing "arty" with was lying at the time, some
theatrical heaven-that other students in grease film, this pile of alabaster thing between sprawled and
exquisite Viola of its last paint and tights, and calling legs and arms in the leather eurled up, in the corner of
12th Night: Anne Choy. for the attention of Father sofa dismisses it casually as
Sheridan the sofa. It was a bright
To say why so many in- Blunden was the most dis-
... apart from
"Oh! the usual recipe... not oven Puck's face and a very de- teresting
tinguished Englishman who influential and
Anne, all these, this same Chin
love, attempted murder, had was ever likely to teach her who corative pile of long white people gather in this room
appeared in Yui has published a transla same arms and legs flung down would be to hazard a guess. anything, so she asked him the
programme tion into Chinese (very well sweat, and vice: Naturally to give her a name. Pro with the impostor, had the reviewed) of a novel by aimed against than sin- haphazard (it seemed
But to give the perfectly fessor Blunden analysed the foggiest notion who this Henry James; starred in a independently) upon the unenlightened guess of a
ning!"? 沪 problem with the greatest HĚLENE TCHOU was. A film with Lin Dai (the leather upholstery.
foreigner:
clarity. The family name lengthy description, and shooting took place at Lin Dal herself, she assured The time was
"Chu") 7 p.m. It is an obviously old (pronounced
is mention of the programme Eucliff, overlooking
mo (rather to my disappoint- Sweetmeats on a side table und Aristocratic Chinese spelt in the astonishing and the prologue, at last pulse Bay, and occupied the ment) preserves Q spotless
romanisation brought the cry, "Oh! You last at her elbow showed that family, and shown every French
month before the character in the film. she had just had breakfast, sign that it has not forgot- "Tehou." Her common name mean
University final examina- and that the very brief ten its place in the world. was Nellie. "Nellie", I sup-
tions); written two full The Alm is a social satire... costume which she de-
pose, must be the short for "NELLIE JANE film scripts under her con- a satirical comedy. curated (there was consider. • It is presided over by Helen. And "Helen", with
tract as a staff script writer, ably more of her than there Shuen's extremely dignified some kind of accent on it TCHOU!"
and published several long lady
articles whose somewhere, sounds French.
in - the was of it) was probably her mother a
Chinese memories, even of Europe, And Puck, anyway, looks as pyjamas.
magazine presa.
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it is about someone more.
How much moncy does abo make?
"Let's
miss that question shall wel" she says. And the look that went with the answer
It also made me forget to ask
And this third person in the list is at last getting somewhere near the heart of And of course she has broke my penell and made a bolo the story-for she trots up been frequently written up a the paper. to get her degree at Hong- herself in the game kong University on Monday, magazines.... "one of the with second class honours in most exceptional young English and Chinese Litera- Chinese writers today." ture. But how she got her degree is 1 mystery, I think, even to herself.
Where does she get her material
from....
... this Hongkong Sagan aged 221
This same Nellie Jane was once accused by a heart headed lecturer of being lines, she is an expert and Among her other side- All she had done renowned reader of hora drunk. was to turn in a most beautiful essay about Pope, copen. When she is in the mood to rend visitors crowd RM personally pre to her home. They come pared to vouch for the fact "people of all classes", she that it was a masterpiece claims. I can only vouch for I wouldn't have minded the fact that they come in putting my own name at the all shapes, sexes, and sizes, and all in their Sunday best. Sho has only to say sympathetic word, after working out a few signs and patterns and looking up clues in the mystery book, and they draw
bottom:
(Honesty compels me to state that Nellie was not quite as impressed with it as I was. Humility, per- haps.)
POCHET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
INFANTS
"I told you: Dorem wwan's going to fet aneforged, chat the seat ance chucked under sầu. Theo bài thi nen
Mr. Mulankov,
Д
for "vital statistics-but they're pretty good.
The kind of vital statistics I dld get go like this:
Sleep-4 hours a day, normally starting Ground
B that the
Reading speed(English or Chinese) 80 pages an hour.
Writing spted~~~{rationed} 5,000 words a night.
Letter writing-never,
Ambition—to write and act her own play, and write a play in English.
Ideal okkragter~~""Straight characters are too difficult, 1 woat something nice par cvil"
Heart?
& deep According to her doctor breath; their eyes shine; she's got a hole in it. According and their whole life story to her, she's got nout.
pours out before her in a flood of oratory that is attributed entirely to her. mystic power and used to spread her fame.
Boyfriendı?
I didn't risk asking about that, but the young brother Larry got $10 for a magazino which helps out.
He writes:
The only wonder, after article recently listening in to a session or two of this, is how Puck has managed to confine her- self to two scripts, instead pleo of producing them
... five treate at the end of every horo scope evening.
What is she doing now?
"My sister has lots of very boyfriends whom ske disgracefully. But 1 don't mind. They all (or most of them) buy me fee cream"
When I rang up the house recently there was nolae over the telephone, I asked “What's that Ber cousin replied, "Oh Apart from going up to that's Shuen - playing the get her honours degree mandolin Angle day de (picked up as a kind of side was taking singing lessons, And another day, the war, dancing, Une, but don't most students. Perhaps that is dough back- do the same? Ona mpu rowa ground on quis of 156, girly petičn for Jesus. Another plays for collects her desine en Mankakan. England. This girl just omstow, a shine, we med hemen quietly made a fortune) she course will erg beer, nigra I under contract to the mat n
ZANIES
STOR
Larry.
** Isn't there some gema
you can teach us now?
WITCH DOCTOR
Bill Tidy.
"Ethel, bam many times bara I told you not to phase me
· during working. honza 2”....
** You shouldn'i tavo waited:
up for me, dear."