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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, - MAY,
HONGKONG. TALES BY HONGKONG WRITERS
Gilt Faun
By JACK EDWARDS
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ARRIVED late for the Minerva Society Luncheon so
It
me long to;
I that the only seat I could nne was next to remont, zet ready. I stood outside Milsa
Hobinson's door, my heart: "Sit down," he said, "and stop hopping around like a tounging like a steam-hammer. scalded cat. I am perfectly aware you would sooner be At last, she called. 'Y00000- sitting with your nolay friends over there, but as you нeе, HO0000.
I threw open the door. There there is no seat."
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the
i was terribly upset. At lost I tried to draw them out. Ieo'l there something special today?"
They both looked up with wide eyed Innocence. "Some- thing spectat? Indeed no.
Think you Mr Easton," I Imagine then my chagrin when aid, "but remain standing coming down to breakfast on because the President and our that morning, no one took an Guest Specker are just enter notice. My wife merely poured ing." Everyone rose as the cut my coffee, and my daughter Secretary carrying huge said, "Good morning, Pops." mice, followed by our President and the Speaker noved in solemn procession to the centre ible. All went well until, we were about ta sit down, the Sterotary let fall his more and knocked a plate of soup into the Guest Specker's lap. Attempt- Ing to retrieve his mace, he then proceeded to uproot the follow- ing articles in the order given; alsh of chickon In peple; the should come in carrying o yase Speaker's reading stend: the of roses but Mas Robinson, my Club muscot (a wooden figure of the Owl of Minerva): the President's wine glass. Never ki (1) the history of the Club had one man done so much
Mr damage in so little time. Ension sald It reminded him of Atla the IIun.
Unequal
in a blaze of light stood; my daughter, and" Miss wife, my Robinson. They were standing round an iced cake singing, Happy Birthday To You Then they stopped and stared at me. I've never felt so foolish in all my life.
(Mr. Easton looted at me arid {' shook his heath)
I was puzzled. "I don't get Mr Easton you threw ODEN the door, and key sang to you; I can't imagine anything nicer." So I drove down town with a
Mr Easton shook his head terrible lump in my throat and entered my office miserably, again. omitted, to say 1.was I sat at my desk when who alanding there clad only in my
Secretary. She placed them on my desk, stood back, smiled delightfully, and said: "Happy birthday, Mr Easton, a very", very luppy birthday."
Now up to that morning, MES Robinron was just the glxii who handled my correspon- dence, but now I louis time uit for nood look. I wondered how I had failed to notice those two laughing light blue eyes, and those golden curls Jaughter swept through the that jealously coiled to her
Trst we mai in shocked
then gales of
Aaffeace,
nk, ing for her to return.
dining room. I wished I were with my friends who were "Look, Miss Robinson, please howling with unreserved glee do not misunderstand me, but. at their ule in the for, corner, your klusness, your thought. Even so, I enjoyed myself and fulness, has fouthed a middle- that was mopping my eyes with my aged....weit getting on handkerchief when I noticed way....man to the heart. old Easton glaring at me.
"You seem to be enjoying this unfortunate situation," he said. "Oh, I don't know," replied, "everyone was hughing, so I just joined in." "Exactly." he shopped, "but what you, young men do not appreciate is the awful embarrassment bur poor Svetelary is experiencing,"
I Icoked over al
Celebration
"Only you have recalled the importance of this day. Further more, I do not feel like work, In short, will you
come out with me and celebrate?" Sho frowned little, giving me time to realise how beautiful she was, "Well," she said, "qa the it your birthday, perhaps a
Secretary's empty seat. He little celebration is in order,
Las left."
"Prcelarly." Old Easton eyed nie balefully he finds him
If you will excuse me, I will see that the Staff know what to get on with, and I will join You
self unequal to the situation." in your car in ten minu'c9,"
proceeded to cat my luncheon, but Mr Easton would "I hold a drop the subjec!. every man is permitted to make a dari foot of himself once in his lifetime."
day
anco
Ten minutes later she walked up to the car, "Everything is all right," he said, "but I must be back at seven, Sharp."
I shall always recall the
thai. anten Klory of September morning. For
the gods had it seemed that answered the prayer's middle-aged man. I drove the car like fury; and there was 1 naked: "Did you drop some- tling
Miss Robinson beside me, her rivalling the golden a fierce bair
No one challenged this, so he went on: why, it is only last your that I made just such a dars fool of myself."
Old Easton turned red, "Are you insinuating that sunshine.
Im Just another club-fisted, Now and again, we stopped
nwkward, knock-kneed, son of
a paralytle Rhinoceros, such as
our esteemed Seclary?"
Dream Girl
to admire the scenery where the red and gold woods swept down 10 The
briet river. For, o moment I held her hand, and then we were off agaia, stream- ing like the wind.
We had luncheon at a lovely "Why no, Mr Easton, it was ploce, miles from anywhere. merely that you said.... can't remember what I ate, He took a sip of wine to calm Ambrosia, I think, and we had himself. I was referring to the
mbarrassment accompanying a bottle of Champagne. In that misty Autumn afternoon mood, such a situation, rather than the all the excitement of an old actual situation." "Oh," I cald, dream returned. I began to
He gazed around the
table.
abic wonder what the dusk might
As our guest seems in no mood hold and if the night would be
to address us on "Little known wonderful. And the, enchant aspects of Greek Drama," I will
was
ment tell you my storying.
the more because which is, Miss Robinson would perhaps, 1088
but certainly more interesting, then not permit me to call her Hilda, and refused to call me Harry.
the address we might have there was an air about her that heard, and might yet hear."
seemed to Boy: 'Wonderful
It happened last year (said things await you tonight." Mr Easton)
on my
Aftieth
socks."
"What's the matter; Harry-sunstroke?"
INSIDE SHOW-BUSINESS
LBRANDO IN "THE YOUNG LIGNE! WITH LILIANE MONTÉVECHI
Brando's Row
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HE MAKES HIS NAZI HUMAN AND IRWIN SHAW WALKS OUT
By
· JOHN LAMBERT. ARLON BRANDO has always been
a man who gets his own way in an argument. But his attitude towards
his role in "The Young Lions" raises the point of how powerful an actor should be allowed to be,"
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For the way in which Brando interprets a young Nazi soldier in this screen version of the IRWIN SHAW heat æller is almost completely different from the character that the author wrote about. The switch was made on Brando's orders.
A spokesman of Twentieth Century-Fox, who made the film, said in London recently: "Brando
THE KILLER 10 CORNERED
decided that either the character would havệ tờ bở managed or he would not play it.
"He wanted the brutality of the Nazi to be toned right down and a more humane element to be substituted. As Lowe very much wanted Brando, in the film win agreed add
the script was rewritten that, way."!--
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What did Shaw think?
--Said the spokesman: "He dissociated himself trour:tão. film once he had sold us, the story. Brando called on Shaw in Paris to tell him why he had got the character changed. Shaw was very annoyed,"
Why? "The crux of the argument was Brando's belief that you cannot go on hating people" years afterʻR WIE. Shaw insisted that the Germans had killud millions of people--and that those people were still dend. They would not see eye to eye on the matter at all":
How hard should you
Hate?
A NEW flm in London opens 2 storm of controversy!
ta
Japanese prison camp tortures Yoooohoooo
JAP WAR CRIMES EXPOSED!
on
THE CAMP ON
·ISŁAWD
The film is called "The Camp on Blood Latand. and teits.the story of
British prisoners,
The first trenbie about the ploture came with the posters (pictured right), Thoumads of them have been banned from appearing in London
Japanese
birthday, in order that you appreciato the situation, you that no red- must remember blooded
ever sheds s Slowly and sadly, the day than youth. In fact, al Afty, a man shortened as I drove the car is faced with a strange paradox. away from the magle of that When he is young, a man wants stoten day. The thought because they are "too horrific." to find his dream girl, and re- returning to that prosule routine
drawn The vividly
main faithful to her for the rest we call fire caused me to almost coldler In the poster bas Jika
of his life. By the time he is weep. comforted 11yself by sword upraised as if to execute What Express critic
a nightmare. Now he wishes to be unfaithful, but she
your
then
IT'S GLOATING
into his were na
and Mist Robinson is by In the corner la reproduced, the
side,
And
it cover of the recently published LEONARD MOSLEY says: won't let him.
I jumped મ happened.
both mobook-of-the-film showing Perhaps that is the reason why every middle aged men right out of that night. As 1 executioner. and victim--a
dropped Miss Robinson
at her construction of a famous war 1lves int a mord of Autumn apartment and said "Goodnight" photograph of Jap strogitles. sadness. It is as if he is saying
said. "But to life, 'Give me one more chance. Let there be a second surely, but surely today, you
The London Poster Adverűs- Spring in which I can recopture will come in for a drink?" So
Association Censorship that joyous glow of youth, ca- the gods had not cheated. My Ing pecially now that I have the heart was beating so quickly Committee have blocked any money and a car to go with it. that I was quite dizzy in the display in outdoor positions in Jut Life won't play.
to
50
sho turned
elevator,
and
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-I LOATHE IT
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Moral ethics? Or could it be that controversial Brando to becoming commercial? . Ho insisted that "Sayonara," his Oriental escapade, be changed
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that he got the JapaneRO heroine at the fade out,,
It so happens that “The Young Lions will be getting a wido reitas In Germany where a nice, misgalded Nazi that office.
ground against which the River Kwal," you will know is more acceptable at the box- dramatic story of this fine film what I mean when I say
is told."Fine túm my eyel In these two stories do not tick my opinion this is one of the their heads in the sand when It most disgusting films of the comen to portraying a trium- year. If uses the background of phant Japanese holding the ship”“
Three left
war, and the afferings of the over a handful of defeated without
men who were, made prisoners Britons.
film team up
in the For Bist, as the excuse
But, these two alms-and these to sell madian torture, brutish- were fine films, and I hope Lord a nese, bealinity, and Harris sent Russell will see them to discover sationalism to the customers at the meaning of a wordtted the local cinema.
A the brutalities of war Into There have been,' other Alms *pattern, about the way the Japanese behaved in the Second World horror's sake but in order: War, and they have not stinted to demonstrate how, war VCARON, sid dirkétór ANTHONY
ILEMMA DOT DIRE.
They showed horror. not for. D'ARDE, LESZTE
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In their ran
demean, degrade, and dobasa, ABQUITH, pli rocent victimpus If you saw "A Town Like, and how the human spirit cari bf abandphed Alice, or If you have been ablo sisehoove it in resolved, all threo will to catch up with the Oscar- of decency even in the stinking together in George Boraank
"The Bridge winner
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What Lord
Russell of
Liverpool says of it
Shaw's
The Doctor Dileinmalt next month Caron Bloture “Afina” was cancelled, it Wha sald, because of the bally she expects in October. Bogárds and Asquith ware, to have Workok un "Lawrence of.-Arabla,” the -- £500,000, epic postponed the entertainments iux.
ALEC GUINNESS has parrol, Percy; that recitem Hamlet's siiloquy, what a rogup and per slave and I.” Hecipro one of párly jakén? la ah impi sonation of Percy.
Aleco
TT so happens that one of Japanese really behaved towards And the Bellish Transport Brush captives when followed Miss Robinson
got them" intò camps in the info
also decided Commission have her apartment which seemed a maze of dim fantasUc that, the poster may not be prisoner of the Japanese For lamps, weired art figures, andhown by her. This means after his outpost in Asia
But I do not. welcome I Sthis poured out total ban on buses, tubes, and was overrun by them in the Why, even that old joiser cosy divana,
I hate It, I ́hald "'it' just” be Pillway stations.
Second World War. over there (Mr Easton pointed the drinks in, this, enchanted
much 1 the crucitis and grey-bearded Professor gloom. She drank a toast to
⠀^. lentinfitles it spends so much of They ruined his life. They its time clinically showing, for Duncan) la probably thinking me, then poured me out another Colonel James Darriak of wrecked, a perfect physiqub and your entertainment and minan of Arcidian landscapes all the drink.
Her eyes sparkled flammer Films, who made the time he la masticating this, de- ́ roguishly up the split: "Now I ploture, intends to fight thế ban acidled a brilliant mind by ays-
Hand on their heart, the pro-
ORD RUSSELL, said: principles of the laws of nations, RANDELADER
D DANKWORKS temalle torture and starvation,
the custody/"and well am going to slip into that room: "This film is an exposure" of Áh
He hates them. And so do all ducers of The Camp on Blood think this is a concerning "Golden Incis and girls all must. Fromire you won't follow until what really did happens to Bel- those of his friends who see and proclaims the pure fine tim because it is. & and divilan Inverdeen, Brilondon
frontent of, prisjciers of war wits CELO LAI as chimney sweepers, come to I call, Y00000000000002" soldiers is Jap prison whof the enemy, did to a man minded Intentions, this is not factual account of the sort were murdered by booties (who directed dust.” (M2 Easton gazed, round I clutched at a flimsy table camps.
who was chce physically and just a story they say. "It is the table wistfully) Having for support. 1 repented; You sketched in the background, I are going in there, but I am gera of it. We go slots WHLH incitally on top of the world. band on the brulul truth of things that happened. Of cepilation, deewilt on other A wil now relate the eircum- not tó follow unill
"They go on to quote? Loxia course it is horrifying, - but keeg-know there are ading whot you cult, Lord Hursoil of Liverpool coin sppose I should therefore swell of Liverpool, une careat the Japanese did horrify take the view he fall this should, the stonces,
"YOOOOOHOOOO?" That the matter, when fin, men we welcome- THECAME ON As I have said, it, was my right;", she wold,
wing tiidės “you can say -forgive them -bili wo Bust 21.GOD ISLAND (London collator of the stallation fiftieth birthday, and usually, wash up in that bathroom while navor forges are those, words Pavilion), wischt mala out to human suffering, in war, de Grown Pearl Harbour onerazda, oro midiamente is (only rea there is much ado in my home you are walling. You will are on the porter list they're show in all filthy, bloody, and maying: I can vouch for the the Japanese flagrantly
be able to secure the future. "75 on the occasion of my birthday, ånd qvaything in there.” trying to sliding by the way?? kabi deepicable in detail visaw the quiirwillcity of the metaal back- garded 13s
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