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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1958.
The first of a series of three articles by our film critic
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THE TITANIC MYSTERY THIS IS AMERICA
IT is now more than
forty-six years ago since the icy waters of the Atlantic closed over
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TENDERS
GOVERNMENT OF BRUNEI Brunel Town Water Supply Scheme
Britain had sent to sea, yet the memory of the Titanic is as fresh in the minds of men, as it was the day when news of the
appalling disaster reached London and New York.
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Since the night of April 14, 1012, we can say that nothing but a seri nr dinosters con stitutor the history of thia oge, Why then does the sinking! the Titanie stil! grip the im aginations of men? Why does that particular incident, imong so many that have followed, stifl formy a repository for journalist, author, playwright,
and film producer?
Two years after the sank, the Empress of
preacher,
Thanke tretand
| foundered in the mouth of the
St Lawrence three years after- wards the Lusitania_suffered a fate, more shocking in catte and almost
as terrible in conte- quence, as the Titanic, Yet it is the Titanic that supersedes at ather tragedies In the pitiful sagn of this century.
Apart from all <ther aspects of the situation, it is. my opinion that is becaine much that Is a mystery
allowed Wis
to emerge de a mystery from the mormonal the rescuing Carpathia refused to give the inpatient etitors wailing [F] New York:
y information. The news- papers, condide to glean news, invented it, and so was bran much that is aporinyphal, till held as fuet up to moment.
this
Mystery there is, Pacts they are, But none úts driven these feels to their logical conclusion.
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The most dramatic moment of that Night to Remember. Andrews, builder of the Titanic is working out a mathe- matical problem: "If the Titanic takes in fourteen feet of water above keel level in the first ten minuten following the disaster, hore long will she take to sink?" Calmly. Andrews turns and says, "About two hours" Andrewnia Played by Michael Goodlife; Laurence Naismith appears as the tragic Captain Smith.-J. Arthur Rank Or ganisation photo,
The
D
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New York, Monday
THE sick man lay in the hospital bed, flat on his book. Hour after hour, scarcely moving. Sympathetic nurses moved silently around him. Only the flicker of his eyes staring upwards betrayed he was alive,
Mra
On the ceiling above him
Clements alleged she bullets whired and horses suffered a back injury when she thundered across the Western and Jones dashed for the same plolos.
chair at a Hallowe'en party.
Bus driver Lloyd Greenwood wasn't seriously ill. He was u
Western fan, and the TV screen MOTHER-TO-RE
Afted
Mro
Nor-
men Garvin went to the
In the hospital selling above him held him fascinated races in Cleveland, Ohilo, and -hour after hour,
chuse H Due in the Arst ruvo It is jus
In the small part of the and I'm Expecting Incities offered patients in the second. new Memorial Hospital wing at Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Both Won). Mrs Givin received $108 (HK$64R) [or hur
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"I used to
die of boredom 32 (HK$10) Lui, every day hospital," says Mi Greenwood. "Now I'd like to stay for ever,"
SERGEANT
John W. Hom- mond, aged 37, went drink-
"IL fast over $2,000,000 (HK$12 million) to build that ng at his Monterey, California,
When the evening was far then advanced he suggested a game
nothing-barred wing 10 the army base. hospital. But both patients and stof say it was more worth the money. Among the comfort
convenience
ideus:-
and
of Russian roulette with his dijaking mate Corporal Jamua Brennan, You know the rules: bullet In L six- the turns--
Electrically operated beds Pince one that change position at the humbered revolver, spin
Lake chomburs, then push of a button,
each holding it to his head and Microphones by every be pulling the trigger. connected to the sister on Hammond duty, Electrically driven food play, Brennan fold a military wolleys with built-in refrigern; inquest at the base, tian.
A
lost on file first
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Rumate-control background mude and air-conditioning. COBER and reverent, the pro- Hospital offcials elatin that cession of Fellowship men- devices like the patient-con- bers fled into Galilee Episcopal trolled bed and the mircrophone Church at Vingbia Beach, system with eave their extra cos! Virginia.
-for an automatic bed, $400 But in the tho was 17-year- gainst $200 for the ordinary old Marshn Jean Meredith with ty-in doctors' und murses' very different feelings in her crrands within two years.
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beart. Hur boy friend, Peter Smither, aged 15. had brought
new girl friend to the servle CROCIOLOGISTS put the ques- and had chosen to walk beside
ilon to 300 teenage boys and her. gilla in New York; "What does In 1 it of jealous race, the word Germany make you Marslis suddenly drew out think of?"
German Second World War It is asy to understand why
person in charge of a ship, the purpose, meticulous in judg- They were.
the ship, and claimed the right
From four out of Ave the dagger she had concealed in her 11 was permitted in the carly
and ment, rigid as a commander, a They had to be impressed by of a passenger to escape in
answers were "Nople....Hitler church robes and stabbed Peter, duys of the disaster. The tartly inter. He is completely
absolutely
unquestioned man of decision, In
und likeable her speed. They were.
Ilfeboat. Most of the male Arst
concentration comps.... the Reverend Edmund Berkley the authority. handing out of the newest
for it all, He was not a man They were also impressed by class passengers and some of the
falling bombɔ,”
told police. Peter dled sooa dreadful mocking banner head-
The scennal question is, need who would hazard either his re- her Commander, Captain Smith, women: and more of the male
This is 13 years after the war. after. line of New York's "The Eye the Titanie have sunk? The putation or his responsibility whe gave all his dignity und and female second-class passen-
Most of the children were ing Sun' or Monday, Aort anewer is "No." She received for a whim or a gaudy success, authority to this new ship, And gers, and almost all of the steer- and children.
scarcely alivu when it ended. nge men, women 15: All Saved Frum Titanic Ave jee winnings on April 14. How come then that he did all Ismay was well content. Every- After Collision," an example of the day she sank
But bitterness remains, thanks! this in racing the Titanle thing was going fine.
drowned. To finish this dismal an editor making news, er print-
to war alms and the talk of Lemay threw in his Then everything went wrong. incident, facts established are, through an leebound sea after
their parents, They still link Ing unconfirmed reports. 10 Captain Smith: mux! he held receiving ave ice
TESCUE, warnings? With the Blue Ribbon in eight, hand soon after his
of the Germans as enemies; * Jight is so great a Kriel responsible for the Titanic First Qflcer Whore Murdoch came the irritating ice warning, spoke to no one, became a re-
Peter 'ul things pssociated following so prolonged an striking the sceberg and pro was an Embitious man, and he The obvious, the sensible. the cluse, and died on his estate in
with Germans by the minority: anxiety, it is easy, I reaffirm, eceding at an unreduced speed was extremely upset when be only thing a Commander could Ireland in 1937,
Prussian strict- to understand that the author-
TC- was superseded by First Omerz do, was to slacken speed and
There was a report, following "Intelligence, ties oft-pedailed when the
Wilde, nor did he keep his increase the watch,
the enquiry, that both Captains, beer, pretzels, cars."
What do the children think of | ândings of the Courts of En-
Captain Smith had every Smith and Murdoch canumitted
when
hear the word they quiry were made known to the
grievance to himself.
Lord briefly The third factor is the strange confidence in the Titanic. he suicide. Walter
Like Japan? "Borbarism. .. war nature of J. Bruce Ismay, he was sold as we now say, on its mentions it in his book.
unsinkable qualities, but at the many other incidents that have our...hara-kiri....silt eyes." land. 3 p.m.
.encaks
Peari end of a distinguished career, he become legendary around the
The But only half of them. was not going to chance even an Titanic, this report is absolute. accident. He was convinced the ly without foundation, Certainly other half spoke of the gentle,
the Blue Captain Smith was not thet kind
artistic alde of the Japanese Titanle could write
"Flowers, Ribbon just when it liked.
of mon. And had he survived character,... But when it liked was not and appeared at the enquiry, he spoken, toys, serenity," necessarily the occasion when was the kind of man who would the Astors, the Strause, and the have thielded himself behind colourful American heiress, Mrs none, not even the Chairman of J. J. Brown, and all of their ilk his company. This much is cer-
nil were aboard, with
fain, Captain Smith went down capital to invest.
tragic with his ship, however the circumstances of her loss, in the true and fasting tradition of
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through an ice field after eelving ample werning of ice. The mystery is, why did he do ifere are the tantalising clues The greatest mystery of all you will see in the film. about 280 ft. containing | ir, why did the unsinkable Kenneth More, as
Second approximately 80,000 cubic Titanic sink at all! At Brst, 4 Ofleer Charles Herbert LẠN overwhelmed, shocked was taller, is asked by his wife i Ancillary yards of material.
the world. that these questions he minds accepting demotion works include Diversion and
did not assume the proportions to serve in the Tilanie. that they have assumed with answer is to this etred: the passing years. Certainly, the don't mind, First Officer Wil- Bret enquiries were not conduct liam Murdoch is the ambilluus Tender Documents may boed with the scaring inquisitorial one." The second clue is when inspected on Dr after the
Overlow Tannels, Stilling Pool and Access Roud.
27th October, 1968, either at The Office of
grilling, a modern
would establish.
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"Who's
Thumday: On
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
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W. Australio. Parcal via Freman tle, 3 p.m. Hur-hulppes, Australia, New Zea-
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MUSICIANS of the New York Philharmonia Orchestra, ap- black peured In new uniform! tales buttoned up to the neck Uke the old British quite policeman's tunic,
Conductor Leonard Bernstein felt that white fles and tall were fussy and over formal, no
afler Toscanini's rehearsal dress.
Chaltman of the Company. seems to have been a very small mon in so great a position. He was the kind of man who osten- The facts remola where they British sermen.
The sibly belittled himself, fin front did, forty-six years ago. of the right people who would Titanie proceeded into the ice
feld at twenty-two and a half who in "A Night to Romom-he designed the new uniforms make the right remarks),
You will see him take the lec knots, with more to come.
te ber." Was Captain Smith warnings from Captain Smith et marrow,
Actually, I was at over-ruled? No, that was im- io luncheon, and he kept them in possible. Was he influenced his pocket, and flashed them at proceed at that alarming speed the time he could produre the in so dangerous a sea against his desired effect. This is not shown better judgment? As I have t
CHILE THOUGHT
FOR TODAY. •
QUOTE, by Edward D. Stone, architect of the U.S. pavilion at
"American the Brussels fair:
week-ends should Icarn to dress properly. As the moment they look like an unmade bed or a one-man
men
relaxing st
enquiry Frank Lowton as Bruce Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star At the It is as it amet
collectivety Line extends his hand axtimed heir portion of pull, dinner table to study some lee und Indvikanfs escaped in warnings Capain Smith bus The State Engineer, vidund Bane in sharing, more received. Brunei.
or less in the collective blame, This is the peet 1 gain from bi Messrs. Binnie, Deacon Walt Lord's book,
Your third clue is when lamay PA Night the Hals interferes with the lowering et & Gourley, Artillery to Rememper," but
that the boats, and is unwled out by flouse, Artillery Rowanisation's
dinner but draws Kenneth More; in reality, it was Home Res further, London, S.W.1.
no conclusions, it is not meant ath Officer Lowe who told Ismay S to do, but nevertheless, fol- to "get to hell out of it." Firms desiring to tenderowing the huge research con
Very slender clues. but ex- ducted on behalf of that fim, Tremely significant if one knows may obtain copies of the
he was. Documents between the 27th mostly all de plus are there what was behind these trifling in the film,
For instance, the afternoon of And the officer who threw in October and 17th November,
The audience detalls. for you to see.
Captain Smith was not only a ore kind of Jury, and every-
April 14, 1912, lemay walking in his weight with that of Ismay 1958, (both days inclusivo) mon's verdiet is his own. fine seaman, but an extremely front of some ladies knitting his was the ambitious Murdoch.
He heaped up. riches dum." the brows
and frowning at I is with the object of help- popular senior captain of
the Captain Smith's loyalty upon payment of £5 by cheque
divided. He had loyally to his and knoweth not who shall from the Crown Agents for log out those who are unaware White Star Line. He had almost Oversea Governments
of some of the more obscure forty years of service In with
Lady: "What was the wireless ship, and loyalty to his Com-gather them.-Psalms 39:6. YOU PLAY musical chairs at
give his order to If riches are an end in incidents relating to the White the line, and was on the point
luncheon: Ismay: Administrations, 4 Millbank, Star Lane and the Tante, that of retirement. He had a follow message the Captain received at pany. About
don't lacken speed, he was reminded themselves we are ཡ1
beaten These moles are written. The ing of wealthy and Influential know (flashing paper). I'm only of the Company's gamble, and
who solfed
before we start. We will find In his the Chairman of the Line, a sort first question is, who is to blame passengers
his needless feare for the for the Tilanie striking an ice- ship. In short, he was an in-
of office boy."
sinkable ship.
at last we have been collect- Of the three, only Ismay suring ashes. Lady: "Oh, everyone knows Permission to tender mustberg Well, anyone can answer stitution. He knew every inch of He was Arm in
vlund. At the last minute he It's your ship... that question. There is only one the crossing. first be obtained from the
decided he was not master Crown Agents or from the State Engineer, Bruncl. Tenders must be submitted to the Crown Agents by 12 Noon on the 27th January, 1959.
and
London, S.W.1.. or from the State Engineer, Brunol.
The Government of Brunei does not undertake to accopt the lowest or any tender and will not defray any expenses incurred by tenderers who will, nevertheless, be 'pro-SAILS: sumed to have acquainted themselves fully with the sito and conditions of the work,
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Isnay delighted at producing the psychological moment he has built up, explains The ice warnings.
Not the actual words, per- haps, but that Incident in the manner written, retually curred,
23
A further clue, worth mcn- tioning here, which supports the Friday,
October, 12.00 conclusion, is shown le the Him: Kenneth More is asked if Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM, the Titanic is going to make ita
Singapore,
Colombo, full out run on the next day, the Penang,
15th. He does not comunit him- Bombay, Aden & Port Said.
self, but it is no secret that the Passengers are requested to send ALL Titanic was after the Blue Hib- bon. You will see the incident &tion,
Michael Goodlife "BAGGAGE to the Hongkong
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Nelther the film nor the bookt SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages of "A Night to Remember men- ten the polities of the Trans- carried by passengers themselves. Allantie Salpping Lines, but the ALL BAGGAGE must pass through facts are, competition was very the Wharf Company's Godown for keen, and the White Star Line Into the loading on board by ship'a slings only. ad put everything
Titanic. She was a vest gamble, and she looland like winning, and aboard was all the capital Americe 4 only thope wealthy Titans could be interested in the While they wowto Star Line. were on board they had to be
by Impressed
The Titanic's Juxury.
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