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SHOW BUSINESS
• ACTING IN HOLLYWOOD, s me stars will tell you, is just like walking a tight-rope. Here's one young actress who walks it so well she's played a high-wire artist in two films. Pier Angeli first walked the high-wire in The Story of Three Laves. She does it again in Merry Andrew, as co-star with Danny Kaye.
A REVOLUTION IN
FLASH PHOTOGRAPH
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1958.
Roderick Mann
discusses life and Jayne Mansfield, with the star in a steel jacket
SO Mr. MORE MUST
WATCH
HIS STEP
HE block of flats by the park was suitably
Timposing and the butler who answered, my
ring suitably imperturbable. Did Mr Kenneth
More expect me? He did.
Would I follow him? I would."'
He took my coat and led me down a hall the length of Oxford Street and ushered me into a study lined with books and trophies.
And there, sitting before a tank of tropical flah, was the Old Boy him self, taking time off from his prepara. tions for an Easter holiday in Las Palmas.
He gave me the Big Hello and then stood up to show me the steel jacket he has worn since his skling occident last month.
"It prevents me," said More, doing almost everything that's Interesting-bul it's st n lot better than the thing, they gave me in Switzerland.“
NOT THE END.
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He led mu to the french windows and pointed to the balcony. Thore, heaped in one corner, and looking like a souvenir of the Inquisition, luy a great plaster-of-Paris
cost.
"Of course,"
he added "I'm not entirely unknown there, When I was in Miami last year I saw an outdoor show where a Red Indian wrestled with on nigator In the mud.
"I
was very
Impressed especially when the Red Indian sidled up to me after it was all over and husked In a strong Brooklyn accent: "Say did Kay Kendali really play trumpet in Genevieve?"
are war stories. Now tell me why is that?
"Dammit, r
choke
have to look at another Ger-
ITZER helmet on the screen, Didn't we have enough war? just don't understand it, old
boy"
I told him that there, old boy, he was not alone,
THE NEW SLIMMING MOOD WILL PAY OFF
And
never we3
by RICHARD O'SULLIVAN COTTON is still a $400 commissions
million a year shop an industry by these politicians window industry for to face up to the fierce blast of
world competition. Britain-human, colour- ful, alive.
Never believe the critica who say that because some mills have shut down the industry is on the way out.
50 little practical ald given to
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The warning "Modernlig er Bust," echoed at Cotton Boerd Conferences, has not been heeded. The industry is group- ing into compact units. More thin £160 million has been spent on new machines since the war, and more than 100 "Arms are now carrying out both spining and weaving.
The unions are behind the
It is slimming down to fighting weight. There Is a streamlined, compact look about the mills which have busy and attend of some in this production drive. nut in new automatic "Menight shits" (night work) machines to beat, the chal- and double day shifts are being lenge from Japan and the worked in modernized mills. Eastern nations basing their economy on this primary industry,
Shifts
A human industry this, EXPENSIVE new m:chines He got to his feet and walked
not a dust-dry record of the must be kept running longer down the long ball with me.
lounge and 1.710 million sq. yds. of to match up to the round-the-. past the elegant
clock working of the cheap- more the dining room, and the framed cloth, worth
than fabour countries.
Here is the prints and pletures,
£200 million, or the millions b of
The the problem. of lb of yarn the mills Factory Acto do not permit mill-girls to work at night. The turned out last year.
evallable labour 'force," 285,000 Human-because the cobblert in planing, weaving, and finish- mill towns pulse with a life of ing, is not sufficient for Intersivo
shift-work.
At the door he paused. "I don't grumble much, old boy, as you've noticed. You see - never forget cno thing. "Do you know," he sold, Eight years ago I couldn't pay
out of 10 scripts I get the rent....
I asked More shout, future films: He seemed depressed.,
"I had to wear that all the way home," "eight said More. "I looked like something out
of an 'X' film."
MECABLITZ 100'
Does this mark the end of More, Phantom of the Ski Slopes?' I asked.
"No, indeed,"
More.
"Though I'm afraid there'll be
no skiing
ROUND-UP
clause in my contractPresent For The Pope
from now on.
"I took up flying after I made Reach for the Sky, and had a slight
accident. They insisted on D no-
flying clause after that.
VATICAN CITY.
The portrait was commissioned by Charles Forte, à milk bar and restaurant owner, who wanted it to hang in the Scho church, which is the mother church of Italians in London.
their
own centred round the rall and the "gaffer""; where sirikes are rare, and comfortable bank balances have, been built up on the thrift and nkable skill of the workers.
Genius
HUMAN-because it
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The Colton Beard la backing ble drive to make catten a Career Industry. There are some. good jobs In the mills, tho fashion and design centres, the research laboratories.
The Bow of boys and girls fri- to the mills from the secondary modern school is being stepped up in the coften towns.
• Future
glamcur HE priest and congregation of 51 Peter's Roman Catholle
Industry, and
youngs'ers- cald
Church in London's Soho district have offered Pope Plus cotton is now the lops in high Last year 1,300 to Danny Angel, my
Kathlon. For ballroom and 11 percent of the school- producer: "You know what? You'll XII a portrait of himself painted by a London artist.
What makes the after exceptional is that the artist, Leonard beach, for cocktail party or leaves-went into the mills, the stipulate. no flying, no skiing, no .under-water
what'll Boden, 47, is 'n Presbyterian and, according to the Vatican, he is Continental holiday, collon is highest figure for three yells. fishing-and
portrait of the still a go-gay winner in the happen? I'll walk out of my fat the Brat Protestant artist ever to have painted
smertest styles end designs. one day und get run over by a bus. Pontifi What'll you do then?' 'Eaty, mald Danny. We'll stipulate no buses.'" At this point More's little daughter Sarah walked into the
study. Followed by her nanny. Followed by her mother' Bill. ("My real name," says Mrs More, "Is much too terrible to be used.") Followed by the buller, with ten. Followed by Actor Peter Graves,
The first electronic flashgun equipped
with TRANSISTOR
"Ignore them all,** said More pleasantly. "Especially old -'Gravy. He only comes here to play with Sarah." Everybody, dutifully ignored, disappeared through another door.
GREAT HOPES
"What," antd More, "do you think of Jayne Marsfeld?"
I told him what I thought of Jayne Mansfeld, Even the iropical flah seemed startled.
Really?" said More, "Really? You know she's my co-star in
my next fim The Sherig of
Fractured Jaw? I have great hopes.
"For Jayne?"
"For the dim," said "It Incans. I will throughout America.
More. bo, seen
However, the Soho priest, having heard that the Pope liked his portrait so much, offered it to him in commemoration, of the 10th anniversary of his coronation.
Boden made three visits to the Pope while he was painting the portrait
he portrait meosures eight feet by five feet and shows the head of the Reman Catholic Church sitting on the Papal throne.
"Keep Present Sea Limit” -
GENEVA.
CHIE United States has made it abundantly clear that it does not THE
favour an extension of the present three-mile limit to terri- loriel waters around a scuboard country.
Arthur H. Dean, head of the United States delegation to the current conference on the law of the sea, told delegates here that his country was fully In agreement with a three-mile Umit"and" was against any Increase of that limit, as demanded by several countries, Including Russia, to 12 miles or more.
He said: "There is neither logic nor tradliton in demanding a 12-mile Umit, Carried to its logical conclusion ... the freedom of the high seas will vanish entirely."
Ha quotest Queen Elizabeth who sold in 1560: "The use of the seu is common to alt; neither can a titie to the ocean belong to any people or private persons for as much as neither nature nor public use permit any possession thereof."
U.S. Know-How Mission
THE
AUCKLAND. N.Z.
HE United States has offered to teach New Zealand "for troa"
How to harneza nuclear energy.
A six-man American misión, are to make a 12-day vidi. They come under America's "Atoms for Peace" programme.
Humen for many other reasons. For the inventive genfus of men like John Kay
COTTON firms who, tre opt flying shuttle, 1733), Richard afraid of the future have Arkwright (water-kame, 1775), invested £200,000, on scholar- Sam Crompton (spinning mule, ships for textile counies to rope 1779), ed. James Hargreaves in the bright, boys and giria. who Last year 34 major awards were spinning joy, 1704) helped to cradle the world's made, of whleb 20 were mass production of culton gooda university entrance scholarships two centuries ago.
at Manchester and Leeds. The cotton industry takes
A long-term investment this: heart from the past, and moves that will bring reward, on to a new phase in its long Remember the industry Intende story. Modernised mills are in to boem again, It la still selive. the front line. These infected with 320
'weaving sheds, 340 and dry-not have spinning mills, and 320 Anishing with decry
works. fallen out.
Drawbacks
WHAT
The Industry has the work's finest collon research centre, the Shirley Institute, with 450 scientists and gridustes. It is THAT a resilient Industry this one of the largest of Britain's 15. It shows the world how 44 research associations, spend- avorage of £400,000 a do to things--and gives them the ing n machines. It Invents synthetics year, Brazced by a leyy on the to rival its own basis products, industry and Government grants. and then starts up new pro- cesses to best of the challenge.
Cation is on the move egɛin, How vital to Britain' this shop-
In the clubs and the pubs of window industry, which sends the cotton towns they say nearly 80 per cent of its produca
bosses and the
workers--that tion Into the home shops and is nover was an industry to be styling to meet the top-quality devilled with so much talk by demands of a world that has polificlans and fact finding more to sperd.
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