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LORD RANK
REMEMBER Pine- wood when it was a house great country known as Heatherdean
If not propald a booking Too Hall. Even today, it has not altered much. It is still set in the green ountryside of Bucking- amshire, and it still retains ita quietly digni- ficd entrance almost hidden halfway up Barrow country lane.
But whereas, a quarter of arentury ago, there was little hustle and
bustle, there is now
POSITIONS VACANT
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ACCOUNTANCY, ROUK - KEEPING Secretary: hip. Costing. Company An Iriensive Muthiod" Course, Chor award of Diploma as haruciale or Fellow! will as you to higher
a constant station and better anlory. Interesting spare-time Portal Study with expert coming and going, as all the
Ciaranteed Courses for
Commerce film world, at some time, makes its way to Pinewood.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1957.
From the Files
Quarter Of A Century 25
He Has Built An Empire
OUR WRITER ANTHONY FULLER TAKES YOU ON A TOUR OF IT
and
Included all the faelitics eomplicated equipment neces- sary for the production' of a modern 13m.
Historically, in the picture rense, Pinewood is just over Zi years old.
The
inspiration Behind Lord Rank, then J. Arthur Rank, was not only to enter the film industry, but to show that in atest entertainment to
Stre
the world, pletures could be both entertaining and worth- while.
From its opening in Septem-. ber 1936 until the outbreak of the war, Pinewood became in- creasingly important to the British film industry.
The early outstanding pro- ductions were: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller In "Pyg-
with
mon." "The Mikado" Kenny Baker. And Alfred Hitchcock's Young nocent,”
and In-
Want Power?
Then came the war and Pine- wood had to join up the same as everyone else.
such Alma Since the war, beginning with "Allthe Spirit," "The Red Shoeg" and such ra- cents as "A Town Like Alice" and “The Baltic of the River Plate," have put Pinewood back rm and hard upon the map.
Pinewood Studios works each thy enough worders to put ali the magicians of history to sh:one, Without wands, with- out spells, or the paraphernalia Regularly pro-
about 82 of wizardry
it
Ask for anything from zine bath to an abacus, "props" haven't got it they will make it.
USED PUSTAO: STAMPS WANTED ures, front the sprawling bed the impossible.
Before slutity up on ung side Prompt cam paid for used (kartips. Sind 300
stanga. Daylofor the beautiful ult-world ruit Stamp Company, 1x 2 Fue fijs
pardetes on the other. Ohio U.S.A. Banda, Dogton D
To itself is made up of 20 herrs of steel, contrale, bok mid asphalt in which wer
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RADIO
Hongkong
5.30, Arian Club: 4, Time Signal. Popularity Ioll presented by Ted
• Photoang 03, **Junior
minutes for tecñagers Introduced by
Detali
Burial; 9.50. Weather
Lord Rank, Mr John Davis and Dirk Bogorde by the guillotine on set for "Tale Of Two Cities".
Wigs, whiskers and mous- taches out of moth proof boxes turn close-cropped clean shavea actors into Regency Rakes.
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Carpenters run up anything from pulpits to porches in matter of minutes. All you have to Pay 13, "Coll the Chippies."
The Runk laboratories are
Enough 1MH#i* to light * town of 85,000 people? Easy! the largest film processing or-
are
full-length
years
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NERIOUS injuries were suffer- business ed by a married woman
in-
can feature prints
Until 25 years ago, the name be handled
Rank was well known in Hull, Additionally, they process for the late Joseph Rank bulli cach week half a million feet up his colomal flour of am for pictures in produc- there.
and a mul taal when a girl fell tion, also many hundreds of One of his sons, J. Arthur from the upper floor
Into the short feature Alma and two Rank first became interested in street on top of a group of per- twice-weekly nowa Blms. Not Alma through religious
sons who were sitting an the many will know that the Rank fluences.
|edge of the pavement, Chan Organization ht ulways The Ranks were great Fuk, 18, the ut taal, was col- played a leading part in televi- Methodists, and J. Arthur Rank lecting clothes from a bamboo saw the enormous influence the pole on the verandah of the film
had upon the ma3205. second floor of 66 Second Street, Therefore, why not use the film when he averbalnnecd and for evangelical purposes?
dropped into the street, land- log on top of Chon
38. re- siding at 04 Third Suvet. Both were reinoved to the Govern- mut Civil Hospital in an un-
sion films.
Extensivo tesis and research have been carried out in closed circuit TV in the laboratories to discover the tonni contrast possible in this difficult medium. In addition to the flani p.o- duction side, Bank Organisati has also built up a gifba dili tribution notwork for British filma.
Experiment
From there, the next Be conscious condition.
Why not make was obvious. Aims that are entertaining, and
The Rank Orgentration's yet at one and the same time, wholly-owned
Canada cinemas.
circuit comprises some
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The number of radio licences
in keeping with the higher) issued in Hongkong passed the
entertain 120 aspirations men
of 2,000 mark for the Arst time themotven?
this year.
un
In Australla there Is equal-partnership in the 138 theatres of the Greater Union Group.
Synonymous
In New Zealand similar as- sociations with the 122 cinemas of the Kerridge Odeon Group. In the Irish Republle the or Kanisation controls 10 cinemas and has another 23 in Northern Ireland.
An carly experiment was "The Great Mr Handel," -it
good filin bat it fell betweenȚEAVY losses in the typhoon two stools. The excerpts from that hit Japan are revealed Messtali were insufficient for then the ometal figures that have Tokyo and music lover. The
biography been published. In
slx neighbouring, prefec- was too patchy for the keen
tures there are 53 dead and 40 observer.
Nevertheless, this Bim set theported as missing 4.792 homes
Injured, wille 82 people are r standard from which the or-were destroyed, 16,287 partially ganisation has never departed.
Among the films being made destroyed and 32,943 flooded. al the present moment is tooney" a lovely story of Ire- land with Barry Fitzgerald playing on his home ground.
"A Tale of Two Cities" nude
In Jamaica the organisation as it was never attempted be- holds controlling Interest in the fore, with Dirk Bogarde taking Palace Amusement Co (1021) the lead. Lid that is owning 12 cinemas,
Lisbon, Hamburg, and Brus- sels al have a modern Rank Cintro,
A Prophecy
The Rev. E. L. Allen spoke on "Idols of the Cave" at the local Y'a Men's Club tigin yesterday. The meeting was presided over by Mr Tang Eng-hoot, President of the Club.
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Stubbs
Two motor-cars belonging to "A Night To Remember," I
Messrs 5. C. Waddell, of the Public Works Department will make an attempt at pro- ganisation in Europe. There
Overall policy and control phecy and say that this im, and G. H. Bond of Messra Denis, twu of them, one at making for the world is carried made on a scale tlist pays tri-am and Gibbs, were complete- Denham, and the other in aut in London Arom the head- bule to this mighty eple of all ly destroyed by fire. They were
parked in a recess an North Acton. Both are quarters of the Rank Organisa- times, will make film history. Road between Magazine Gap
The three situated within easy reach of tlon.
Bins I mention the London
and Wanchai Gap, Just above Airport, so that Behind all this is Lord Rank, gre taicen from the Itst
533, the Peak where the own- British Ohms of fourteen I have in' front of me. ivho be rushed to ally films can
Mr Waddell drove Well, look at it any way you
ern reside, place in the world direct from prestige synonymous with the
his ear hème and parked it the laboratories,
Mr next to
Bond's vehicle. While parking he anell some-
Here, over 5,500,000 feet of film weekly, equivalent to 650
made
J. Arthur Rank Organisation. Hke, the Rank Organisation has Films were not originally his put British films at the top, business. In fact he climbed and the present polley will keep thing burning and discovered a
their there.
Into Hims rather late.
'NO DOWN PAYMENT MAIL
REVIEWS ON 'NO
AND ONLY THE VALIANT'
NO Down Payment,"
** NO HOW
Fox
at the Roxy Fare and Broadway, introduces you to eight young people Report, 7, Time Signal. Nowe: 710,Twentieth Century Commentary: 1.10, Your Weekend seem anxious to push along. Anterien Symphonic Band at the Fair enough, you cannot go Air: "We Write Novels leading relying on fading stars all Brith writers discuss their work the time.
prevented by Ted Thomas: 7.30.
with Waller Allen and Joyes Cary:
Some of them you will know,
0.13. Songs of Stephen Foster- Nelson Eddy: 8.30, London Betongs you have seen them, and some 143 Lic-."The Fronl
Line" by have given excellent accounts Norman Colima, Final Episode the fof themselves elsewhere.
peat of lust Sunday's broadcast); What they had to do Was 8.58, Weather Report; 9, Timo And a story that emild in- Signal Newe and Home News from Britain: 9.15. Music Lovers' Hour-
Classical Requests presented by Aileen Dekker; 10.13. Take It From Here, with Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield (Repeat of tast Tuesday's broadcast): 1040, A Book At Your Bedside Three Men in Bost" by Jerome K. Jerne, Part 10, Read by David Lyilis 10.00 Weather Report; 11. Fire Signal. Radio Nowateel: 11.15, "And So To Bed"; 11.30, Close Down,
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troduce them all at one time, and probably they will be able la judge their respective merits as they play agakist one All- other.
I tell this for the critical cinema-goer, and perhaps you will find an added interest in Judging performance by per- formance.
Perhaps you would. Ilke me to give myy opinion. Well, I select Joanne Woodward. Per- haps that is unfair, because I have "The Three Faces of Eve" us a convincer. No, it la nol that, i have seen Misa Wood- ward progress SUNDAY POST-HERALD
from short TV films, and what causes me to Врасн
3 Muzical Maliose: commercial Stick Up The Bund; 4, De For
select her is the rapid progress advertising should bo Two:
A.B.C. sho has made. booked
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Songs beginning with Letter than Children's Corner-Presented by neon on Wednesdays.
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The other stars ure, Sherec North, Tony Rondall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Barbara Rush, and Pat Hingle.
Joanne Woodward and Cameron Mitchell in a scene' from "No Down Payment" now showing at the Rozy and Broadway.
bour's husband, nicely played citement, and one that lifts by Jeffrey Hunter, Patriels the audience right out of Owens, and Cameron Mitchell,
their seats. also the man with an There overweening opinion of him-
You want a brawl, here it is. self, whose wife stands by him Steve Brodie and Neville Brand until she is sick of it all. This fight to death at the foot of the calls In Tony Randall and great sandstone cliffs, watched by the massed array of Indians So you watch them, couples who have captured them. at a time, letting the story
You like a last-ditch stand? resolya itselt.
Then you can see Captain The theme with Hollywood at Gregory Peck and seven rügged the moment is realism. This
Sheree North.
What you will be seeing is flims claims to show just how annature: 120, Eddie Fisher with young newly-weds,
o kind of suburban drama of film claims to show just how Interlude; 7.18, Concert
and their business of setting up home. Axel Stordahl's Orchestre: Harry James, and his Orchestra; 6,
144 | struggles, and hopes, and dis- If you like the just-exactly- Personality Parade Louis Ahn- appointments, in seeking a so, this-could-happen theme, alzong: 0.15, Tupe In Popular Mone better life for themselves" and think you will find this is your Presented by Nick Kendil; &,30, The Lawrence Welk Show: 8. Cafe
their families.
pletira,
Continental-French Music presente I suppose the novel, written But remembering, this is a by Jeannette Firy; 9,50, Omela by John McPartland, and kind of rial canter for Detective Episode 21: 10, Reditu- sien Spotlight: 10.10, Songs of the
adapted to the Aim script, Twentieth-Century Fox stare, Islanda: 10.30. Andre Kostelanets provides a good story for in- try and pick the winner. ghd bis Orchestra: 31. Dale With troducing these young people. Dreamland: 130, Prejude night: I midnight, God S
There is the couple whose queen.
Down
We in attacked by a neigh
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Apm. Cyldren's Ilour-cărldona: 2.13. Puppet Theatre: 30, "Cleop | Kid"; 6, Liese Down.
7.30. "Meet The Star Presented by Elizabeth Chwang: 9.46, Newsreel B. CentonTIS ||Fiúnte Vanity of Wealth" (Part 4, conclusion); 839. "Watch The World"; 340, Sports Hax-Presented by Jock Moek) *
"Black
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mail" Catarring Maria Marya and Leif Erickson on Paul; 1,30, Cantonese Opera: 19.30, La Night *pinal!--NowE 21:nes, Wagner Report and AnnounOREZENDĀS. CRBI DOWE
I repeat, Joanne Woodward, a quiló mature performance. It is her husband who is supposed to attack the neighbour's wife
Miss Woodward Is good in the párt. A Southern, uneducaled, but more mature woman of the group. I say: ágain, she is really good.
time, see. Now
Gregory Peck is all over Hongkong. Here's an other vintago picet Only the Valiant which opens at the Queen's and Alham bra this afternoon 'in 'n' d=" issue, but one that is worth seeing. It is packed with action, and sustained ex-
cavalrymen hold off the Apaches.
You Ilke strong intense drama? Then all these cavalry- men hate each other like pol-
son.
It is only fair to say that this was the picture that pointed the way to these strong mixed up inner tensions that explode among the men sp that we get the these private feuds within drama of whatever war is going
on.
The suspense angle is shot off when Peck is assigned to take off his troop on a forlorn patrol. Barbara Payton is the feudn- ine lead in this picturisation of Charles Warrens' best selling nuvel.
Gregory Peck in "Only the Valian"".
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the wildest gunfight ever.
QUEEN'S &
ALHAMBRA: "Only the Valiant." Gregory Peck and Barbara Payton. A story of the U.S. Cavalry making a lust stand against the Apaches.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "No Down Payment." Joanne Woodward and soven young stars in'a éuburban drampa.
STAR & METROPOLE:
"Quanter.” À Western with Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Great Sinner."
powerful tirama. Re-lastiv, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.
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small area of the scat on fire. The cushion was removed and taken into the house after the smouldering had been extin- guished. He did not notice that the upholstery was also alight and as a result the car caught fire and the fire jumped, to Mr Bond's car, destroying it aleó.
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EMBERS of the Legislative inst of the Colony's trading bankers and many distinguished Chinese gathered in the first floor lounge" of the Hongkong Hotel yester- day to bietan omelal farewell and make a presentation to Mr A. H. Ferguson, the Hongkong of the Chartered manager Bank of India, Australia and China,
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