THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1958.
Lewis
Patricia Le
The Way of
HAVING met two writers Stewart had di cfted the dis
the other young in heart .I'm not sure that it isn't the Wits of this world who are trying most to say some thing Important, i
“I was the crazy-humour boy of the Twenties in
in the acle eyes behind the older 'man's rimless specs,
N.F.S.;
when you get to the pitch of not "What do you, do
being able to stand sight nor sound of what you've written?"
D.O.S."
..., those
the
Wits
you unless she has a personal. axe to grindk”**
*N.F.8.; "I suppose" not. Un- fortunately, must go now......... class is dun
D.0.8.: “Where do yšu teach?" N.F.S.: "Westminster College of Commerce History, Brid English. But 11 have to dash now, Goodbye!"
EXIT)
D.0.8.: (stirring coffee rumine allvely): "Interesting boyi good brain. I hate that Godot stuff and the couldn't-care- Icasers. But, the one has his
to see what
CURTAIN.
he
terrible doer. But they quite often don't. D.O.8.: "You inust beware of food in the right door. It'll be moments when you lose con- Docs 'It help to 'drink?"
becoming the central: darling of a cult. Laughter such Br ndence."
unfair mensure you
cank hear suspense or interest....
WHEN THE OLD HAND
Amorica, but it was born out of a blind-alley feeling- atlesporate beating of wings against
the bars," Baya Donald Ogden Stewart,
N.F.S. "I have that now," D.O.S.: "A good audience will
cure it."
N.F.S.: "But not if you only get 20 or 30 people!"
D.O.8. "An emply theatre
a 68-year-old rebel whose is frightful-that's play "The Kidders" is shak- ing the St Martin's.
Mr Stewart. shat me wry look and tugged at his plum brocade walstcant befom answer- *ing.
D.0.8. "Some people flad it a tremendous relief. Sometimes it gets you over a bad patch, hut it's not a good thing--that now better."
N.F.8: "When they cough, in certain spots know that bit's a fiflure,...
Stewart spluttered into his
drug Mezcalin counds glass.
N.F.B.: "Yes, I've heart it
interesting does
'I wonder!
there really in aroun...
Was it all a mirage? Was
THE DAY when Errol Finn's capped front tooth fell out and he flew 300 miles to the nearest
Pare
Stranger Aboard
bell bottoms and brown shoes
THE QUIET AMERICAN
BLUFFS THE NAVY
a six-foot American [OMEWARD bound through London, was Ho
journalist with a security-teasing story of how he joined the crew of Britain's newest aircraft carrier Ark Royal (43,340 tons) for a night in bell-bottoms and brown shoes.
It happened in Malta a fortnight ago to John Carruthers, when two British sailors in a bar overlooking Grand. Harbour, Valletta, argued that there would be no difficulty over a civilian, even with an American accent, passing unnoticed among the ship's 2,000.men.
Admiralty camen ent стра
have had mo report of any such incident; but wa cannot say it could not happen."
Said Carruthers:" "We went though he couldn't believe it. back to my hotel and somehow. We had completely forgotten to "We I got into one of their uniforms switch aboes,
with all the trouble that in- volves."
At 9.30 pm. they hired a
Tom, quick as lightning, said: He lost his" shoes In a brawl,
where tears injenslics everything - colour, many 'bellies, 14 wows, 20 dentist and back only to have boatman to row them to the air. He borrowed these from a
MEETS THE NEW BOY
get
time and you come in. You, really must et sound,
We should me tell you shoul tears some wonderful visions. time."
all havo o gland secreting it and anyone who saw the world as the drab
place it is would Mescalin de- be suffering from
clency."
"I give an audience nothing to hold no character, no story -only words .. and at the end they're on their knees with cerebral strain," says
N. F.
about (Wally) Bimpson, à 30-year- Stewart was thinking
"Smilin' scripted old newcomer whose first two when he playa, "A Resounding Tinkle" Through" but, warming to the and The Hole," are rocking that atmosphere, Simpson seemed to cradle of contemporary theatre, think this was a typical Ogden the Royal Court. The scene Is Stewart-leg-pull, Jurich-time in a fish restaurant
near Victoria Station. The old-
N.F.S.: "Can you be funny
hand ordera salmon, asparagus, off the cuff?" and chablls. The_young one settles for a quick kam saind.
D.0.8. "I must congratulate you on some lovely notices."
N.F.8.1
"They weren't until the Bunday crities told people it was meant to be funny."
If
D.O.S.: "In Hollywood they used to clock the laughter 50
and 'giggles,'
'Litters." you didn't get the right amount of "bellles' you
rewrote next day."
N.F.8. "Like at the Proms, the right You must laugh at
in the Carnival of place Animals'
D.O.S.: "Does
wile your think you're funny?”
THEY TALK OF TEARS,
"The omeer wayed us past. I was led below to a meas deck and here the secret was soon being shared among the 60 men there.
the selfors doss-house keeper. I fall out into his first Pernod? ahip. Jim, one of
when Darryl Zanuck hook-wearing Carruthers's, American cd n 100-franc note over a local chvvies, ton phead up the gong girl's g-string
confidently passing him In place of the way.
Edale self off as an officer returning original, leaf?... when Albert got sunstroke and had from leave, to be carted everywhere slung
'Look drunk' like a puppet over a palo? ...
and In Carruthers
the other And was there really
suilor Tom followed, Tom had Maroua...
warned: "Keep your specs out of Next morning Carruthers put THE NIGHT when John sight and your mouth shut. on his uniform with help, and told me "Moby Dick" Follow me and look drunk. And stuffed his civvies into a sailor's would pay for itself in time? don't forget to salute."
ptioche case. when Eddie Albert heard *"They had
borrowed drilled
Tom
ship's card
Hasion
mg
In
"Everyone thought it a great Joke. Someone produced black. shoes for me. Everybody called me Yank, and they could not do enough for me?
N.F.S.: "Yes, she rocks-andres, particularly a Hawalian saluting In the hotel," Car Identity not just to please me,"
D.0.8. "Good-she won't kid witch-doclor's, and felt much ruthers said, "and a glazed, marine corporal on the gangway
better next day?
drunken look wasn't dimtult on to
We all found that one emus- Ing.
thought
A
N.F.S.: "It would be nice to
#ulic- ooncert
by Saint-Saens describing all the animals in most amusing musical
Are they really still making "The Roots of Heaven"
Or have I had an overdose of
Mescalin?
D.O.S.: "Have you about doing screen-plays?"
K
"I D.O.S.:
belong to the school of Dorothy Parker and Robert Brachley--and when I was invlied to parties they used to sit back with a 'Here's-the- funniest man-in-the-U.S.A.' expression. Give-him-a-few- get one perfect performance terms.
It frozen forever in cellulold. A.
drinks-to-get-him-going."
it also di stage actor must inevitably give
emotions, that damp my prid
D.0.8. "If you can get often did. But people
to feel privileged in horrible things, not only to 1113 out a certain warmth, some Sppreciating you--you're made." kidneys but to my whole philo
N.F.S.? "But my next play won't be B0 terribly
concen- trated as there two the Budiences find them dimeult."
D.0.8. "It's dangerous to do that to an audience.”
sophy of life. Then I got to the style.... Did you like working. stave of dreaming things and awfully funny they seemed so I'd wake up and write them down, only...."
With a spread of hands and a crow of delight, Simpson dived
N.F.B. "I don't think they'll acrom the table-cloth. take it another time."
D.0.5. "Ever irled making
Hollywood?"
D.0.5. learned a lot about any craft-thry teach you not to care there, because if you care they break your heart."
11
N.F.S.; "Like it was in the old N.F.S. "I know! They're awfully unfunny in the morn- Elizabeth theatre,
1 lo that How strange! teach you ing.
too. And I find my own judg
then cry? I can
how in three easy lessons!"
Lenning across, Stewart
Mr Simpson laughed for the ment quite unreliable. I get so studied the thin, self-disciplined first time. Before, he'd sat ap- Involved-because I know what face of London's newly acclaim- prehensive and nervous while I mean. I assume everyone else cd wit.
TOP
BOSSES
DRINK AND LAUGHTER
to satisfy the
the lender and 10 minutes
WGS Carruthers
sately
.said: "The gallors told
I am very near-sighted without later there
eshore. my glasses,
He "At the head of the gangway the officer returned my salute, m "We were glad to have Then his eyes travelled down to you aboard because you're
Yank but you had shown my feet, He's
.wearing BROWN yourself to be nosy yqu weuldar
as have got anywhere." SHOES, sald, the officer
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