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YOUR 10 BEST FILMS FOR 1958
Box Office Receipts Last Night's Exhibition Opens At St John's Hall
Tell The Most
Piano Recital By
Popular In Hongkong Freda Blank
By ANTHONY FULLER
CHINA MAIL FILM CRITIC
chose these films as the best ten of 1958. I do not entirely agree with your choice, but the answer is in the box
office.
which
pushed Alec | well made, but its bid for On top is, Paramount's award
world in which "The Ten Commandments." Guinness into the 'ector of the grand new
Teenagers neck in droves, with There is not the slightest year position is a good choice.
the drawing room lights out, put To correct a number of errors, it out of sympathy doubt that your choice is in!
with the line with the rest of the this aim is not a British Mim,
more conservative parents here. Thus 20th Century-Fox Bra world. "The
Com- although it employs a number of Ten
and technicians; among the also-rans. British actors mandments" has scored actors Alec Guinness and Jack everywhere, has broken Hawkins, with David Lean But it was made by many records, and is second directing. only to "Gone with the American company, and is herefore an American triumph. Wind," as IL box office
ANECERA,
While admitting that "The Ten Commandments" is a IO- duction triumph, I think it was 100 uneven a pace to rate so gh: for instance, the first halt of the Am YRS even laboured, whereas the forty years in the wilderness was permitted about Afteen minutes screening.
Good Choice
Lo
Out Of Sympathy
REDA Blank, who last I visited Hongkong three years ago, gave a piano re- cital last night in the Loko Yew Hall under the auspices of the Bender Ho Congres
of Youth Organisation.
11
and
The programme, clthough it contained some numbers familiar the writer, whe well-balanced one. It started with the E Minor Prelude and Fugue by Mendelssohn who was such an admirer of Bach, to whom we are so much in- debted for the resuscitation of a portion of Bach's music.
Then followed the delicate by Beethoven. Mademoiselle No. 27 Sonata R.B. while having her followers,The first half of the programme does not send the blood pressures closed with Schumann's Scenes
of Childhood, one of the local boys high enough to
ol which is the romp home with the placed "Scenes"
Camillar Traumerel." Alms.
There was a lime when Hong- kong would have placed its sixta choice first, but
Created
Third
comes Warner Bros "Sayonara. An extremely
50 "And God beautiful film, made with dis- Weenan," is number six on the tinction with chief credit to the
Brando
under-among
of
the
The second half invited
of its component parts, the Debussy's Suite Bergamosque,
"Claire de Lune" rather dwarls the rest of this sulle, but it was its entirety. short group which Included delicato trifles by
nice to hear it
Marion cameraman. performed excellently as the American ofleer whe Hoes a change of heart on the problem of consanguinity. Red Putions also scored in this tim, Lut permitting its casting and production triumphs, the River Kwai." This was not was altogether false in senti- British either, although Charles
Laughton steals the Aim.
Number zeven comes home
unplaced fim, After a the "Witness for the Preseration."
Many people In Hongkong make the same mistake as they do about "The Bridge on the
Also the trick photography was crude; the standing waterment. ond the magle fire were so crude as to be offensive hyper-sensitive people who hold th's legend with fundamental- ist tenacity.
Second is "Time Bridge on the Now you are River Kwal." talking,
Fourth comes the unheralded and the Parsion," The Pride and 20th Century-Fox have to walt fer "Peyton Place," to bring them la fifth.
"Pryton Place," was a Jerry This academy-winning Wald production, and certainly
1. The Ten Commandments 2. Bridge On The River Kwai 3. Sayonara
4. The Pride And The Passion 5. Peyton Place
16. And God Created Woman 7. Witness For The Prosecution 18. Don't Go Near The Water 19. A Farewell To Arms
10. The Bravados
Portuguese Gaoled For 8 Months
A TIGER?
POLICE
LOOK FOR
WOMAN
Good Laugh
Also we must rate excellent performance)
Tyrone . from and Marlene Dietrich. s a United Artists
Power The Alm iriumph
"Don't Go Near the Water," brings MGM into the picture. This film scored all the way with a good laugh ut Military absurdities. At last the States can look back and laugh, and that is a good sign Fred Clark and Mickey Shaughnessy stand out in my mind in this un,
Number nine, and Fox come Into the picture again with, “À
gramme
Cosella and Turing, the PEG- closed with Frank' Bridge's Fairy Tale Suite.
This was well played. There was a link with the past here In that the planist's teacher, was a pupil of Clara Schurmans and personally helped Frank Bridge 10 revise the proats of this very suite before publication.
After the technical fireworks
An exhibition of oil paintings by Mr M. Champion a St John's Cathedral IT:11 opened this morning. Here in this photographi laken by a China Mail cameraman ir a group of admirers (from left to right) Mrs M. S. Champlon, Mra 8. W. Chan and Mr Chan. On the right is Mr Champion who is discussing out of his paintings.
Resettlement Dept Report
POOR BUT RENT
DEFAULTERS ARE FEW
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Hongkong's resettled squatters, which include some of the poorost families in the Colony, have an almost exemplary record for paying rent.
The Resettlement department reveals in its latest annual report that of almost $5 million due in rent, only a little over $2,000 was written off as irrecoverable arrears in a period of a year.
And of a rosettlement area share have a rent of $20 population now topping 273,000, month. only 104 had their occupation This contrasts with rents of as permits cancelled during the much as $25 a month for a paying cubicle as small as 50 square feet year 1957-58
pald by the many squallers still rents.
Living in wooden huts in un- cleared areas.
for not
These huts, some of which house 60 or 60 families and are. two or three storeys high, bring in revenues in excess of $1,000 a month for absentee "squatter landlords."
of Monday night's piano recital, These permits can be cancell- there was an intimate fireside ed if the monthly rent-payable atmosphere at last night's con- in advance and ranging from $10 cert.
The musie was addressed to $28 a room-is more than 14 primarily to "students," an ex- days in arrears, pression which presumably, in But the Commissioner's report relation to a Hengkong concert, sold in fact permits were not meaus teenagers who are study-concelled unless, either the rent Total expenditure од the
musical instrument was more ing some
than 28 days in: resettlement scheme now ex- under the guidance of a private arrears or
creds the tenant was per-
$93 million. In the sistently more than 14 days late present financial year the Colony in paying his rent.
is budgeting to spend ment blocks depend on "bread-
Some families in the resetile $27 million.
tulor.
Farewell to Arms." This brought pianist to create any cheap emo- There was no attempt by the Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jonesonal value by manner or other in the lead, but the film did not come up to my expectatione, nor pianists are not chased all over wise, Still one would wish that to the expectations of 20th
and off the stage by little Century-Fox.
chlidren carrying bouquets of Rowers.
Way at the bottom of the Hat is "The Bravados," at number ten.
It Proves
almost
that
still
but the
The report estimates for casual labour or hawking is have to be resettled winners whose average earnings about 280,000 squatters often less than $100 a month. Agure is not reliable.
How It's Fixed
We are all 100 familiar with the anti-climaxes that occur to When the first multi-storey some people in local organisa- resettlement blocks were under flons owing to the lack of a construction four years ago, it little "stage manners”—for lack | was decided to fix the rent for a of a better expresslun,
standard room at a figure which Freda Blank is obviously a would cover all annually re- very experienced and musi-
and would also current costs clakly pianist. Her Beethoven
provide for the recovery in 40
the original capital cost
plus
What does Hongkong's choice prove? That Hongkong, in the main, is becoming a more dis criminating ience. Time was sounded like Beethoven. So years, with 314 pe interest of when Hongkong's choice for the did the Schumann, I think the film of the year used to send latter and the Frank Bridge $10 a sq. foot for land, even Hollywood laughing-1948, Suite were my favourites. She for instance, when Hongkong prefaced each woric by a few adults and two to four children Foted "Bathing Beauty' as the introductory remarks. outstanding artistic achievement need feel they were being Pay $10 a room of 86 square of the year
"aught" by this, I wish there was more of it. On a rather different plane, those of us who
Red Skelton was funny, and a younger Esther Williams, a fine
No one
So that a family of two
ject.
and three to five children.
A family of three were students at Edinburgh in pay $14 for a room of 120 sq. demi-mermaid, but I ask you. the days of Professor Six It. Olivier's "Hamlet" was not even Donald Tovey will recall his among the also-ans that year. Sunday evening concerts and A family of four adults
lifelong the
benefit which
and four to six children In fact, taking 11 by and large,
derived everyone
from his pay $10 for 132 sq. ft. and remembering that in every scholarly and informative intro- town of the world, where the ductors remarks before each choice is left, az It should be, work was performed. MUSI-
audience, Hongkong CALIS. The Police are trying to find Rogeiro Donato Ferreira, a 28- the woman
who is reported to audiences have selected well in year-old Portugues WAY have seen a tiger in the New line with popular choice. Rentenced to eight
months Territories yesterday near Talpo. Contacted this morning the
azol, and ordered to be bound) over in the Kum of $500 for
two years by Mr T. Creedon Police at Talpo said they had not
et
Kowloon Court this received any report about the
the to
Now My 3 Best
Now the Editor suggests that
morning. on three ebarrea tiger, but detectives had been my selection might be of interest, of obtaialog money by false sent to find the pretences.
woman who
Here goes then; the top three I claimed she had seen it near Man Kwal Kui (Fierce Ghost rafe in this order.
Sentencing the defendant, the Bridge), Talpo Market. magistrato sald he had taken
into consideration the fact that Press, the woman still had not
Up to the time of going to a hair been found.
defendant had been in Police custody for two and
months.
Ferreira was found guilty of obtaining a total of US$120 and HK$171 from Mr Chau Iu chu. by falsely pretending that he was a member of the US Con sulate and that he was able to help Chau. Wet travelling docu-
EMBEZZLER GAOLED
1. "The Bridgo on the
River Kwai
Ballet
A
Big rooms of 240 square feet for big familles or two smaller families wanting to
Group For Hongkong
FRENCH
the
ballet This is because the company
follows what it calls company of 25 with repertory philosophy" of the
stars are named and all artista
2. "Witness for the Pro-their American founder Moscow Art Theatro where no
Miss Anna Galina are are equal.
sccution."
It will be notleed that no
the list. British
Betting,
from
It has 10
3. "The True Story of Ah due to arrive in Hong-
Q."
The company specialises in the kong on Monday to give works of Michael Fokine and in their original British production features in three performances in presents them
actors, yes. Hongkong.
The company is called Art Its programme will be drawn Chiang Ying-chlt, 27, a sales, British producers, yes. But n ments for Chiu's mother to go man, who admitted embezzling made entirely by a British unit, lancere drawn from all over
classical production, Theatre of Ballet. complete British
romanile and works. Favourites like Les to America.
$2,430 from his employer and not
Sylphides and Spectre do La The offences were committed losing it gambling, was sent to
Europe. Its headquarters are in Rose will be included in the nine in June 1958.
gaol for nine months by Mr I. T. Why is this? Because the men Monte Carlo. Denying the charges, Ferreira Morris at Central Magistracy who now not film making have
different ballets they will per- The group is doing a Fir
form. stated that he was in Macao at this moming.
all the say in British Alms. In East tour. It recently favo the time of the alleged offences, in mitigation, the defendant other words, the man who puts | well-ravitwed performances le The performances will be and that Chau and his mother asked for leniency saying that up the money runs the show, | Jenni. Now it is in Mibila, elven at the King's Theatres must have wrongly identified he had to support his mother, and that doesn't pay in film or None of the company's stars Music will be provided by two
7 his wife and, a child.
alage, productions,
are featured personally,
grand planos. ›
him.
CONSPIRACY
AGAINST ME,
GIRL TELLS
THE COURT
A Story Coloured
In New York
STERLING SILVER TIP
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
HE work of erecting a
The grocent 1 fucius Hall will be comi- menced in Carolino Road shortly.
Hill
The work of laying the four- dation, which alone has cost 850,000 has been completed undi construction work on the build- ing fiselt has been ploerd in hand
When completed 12 months (hence the tripple will stand ax one of the most picturesque buildings in the Colony, erected as a place of worship for the followers of China's most re- vered sage and writer.
Mr Kan Hung-chso initiated the project by donating the slic of the temple. The hall ig erected under the patronage of Sir Shouson Chow, the Hon R. H. Kotewall, the Hon Mr 5. W. Ts'o and Hon T. N. Chau.
*
After altting on top of a 76-foot pole in Shanghai for. more than four weeks, "Smoky Bill", the world's champion flag-pelo sitter, was still "up" last week. He is out to beat his own 77-day four-hour re- cord.
From the
SCMP's 25
Years Ago column: Yester- day His Excellency the Governor laid the founda-
tion stone of the new south
wing of St Stephen's Col lege. He was met at the College by his Lordship Bishop Lander and the Rev. Mr Barnett, warden of the | college,
Following the dianppearance · of a Chinese clerk from the paint department of Messrs Dodwell and Company, in- vestigations have revealed em- bezzlements from the firm totalling between $7,000 and $8,000,
M
Scr
R Ireson of the Green Island Cement Com- pany and Mrs Ireson, two old residents of Macao, left STAFF REPORTER
for England. last week. Movie Director, Lowis Gil-Owing to the curtailing of bort, recently back from activities, the Green Island shooting scenes in Macao Cement Company has had for the film "Forry to to dispense with the Hongkong," this morning vices of Mr Ireson who, as described a newspaper re superintendent at Macao of port from New York say the works, rendered great ing the film crow bad service to his company. Mr becn gotting Chinese Treson successfully urged Communist propaganda the Government to impose interference, or "vastly,
an import duty on cement, vastly exaggerated," and He had resided in Macho for "taken in tho wrong
14 years.
fight
He added they had receivert good co-operation from every- body in Macho.
"All that really happened was that a Chinese barge passed by the waterfront. It turned on
A 21-year-old waitress who is loudspeaker and began to appealed in the Criminal play Chinese music. For a bit Court this morning against of fun, we turned ours on too,
New York office.
He called the cable appearing in this morning's paper "non-
·sente,” adding that the wrong view had been taken of IL.
NEW
GOVT OFFICES READY BY APRIL
☐ conviction of recolving and we all ended us, by waving
at one unother." stolen money alleged that
Mr Jerry Lewis, Publicity witnesscs brought pirector for J. Arthur, Ronk, throo
STAFF REPORTER forward by the Prosecution, explained that he had released a had conspired against her. story on this incident, written Construction work on the new Government office building at The waitress Yeung Kwan-1 a "light focular vein," to his
'the Junction of Queen's Rond nu alias Rita Yeung, alies Young
and Ice House Streek, Is, now Wal, of 6 Jordan Road, ground
nearing completion, and the floor, Kowloon, was convicted on
block should be ready for December 2, by Mr P, F. X.
occupation In April, about Leonard in the Kowloon Magis-
The New York spokesman, four months behind schedule. tracy. It was alleged she re-releasing the Information in Six Government departments selved $2,550 the property of New York, said, that as Lewis will be moving into the six- Chatt Kwal-ho, owner of the We Gilbert looked through his storey building, which will be Ching Cheung
carneras he was startled to seo niliy-air conditioned." where she was employed.
Red Chinese fag all over the The departmenta arc, But after the gave her ex-
waterfront on the Communiat Treasury, Inland Revenue, sakt: planation, the Judga
side of the border.
Public Relations, the Registrar There to ample evidence to
The spokesman added that the General, the Director of "Audit support the conviction," and he
border was gally posted with and the Urben Services Depart- dismissed the appeal.
placards declaring "Peace for ment blared forth martial music and February, 1957, when it was Formosa," and that loudspeakers
Construction began in political slogans,
believed the, building would bo | completed by' the end of 1930.
Restaurant
On her conviction, Rila Yeung was fined $730 and bound over
for two years in the Bum of $2,000.
Before Mr Justico Scholes this morning the cold there had been no evidence to support the charge of which she had beent convicted
what "I don't understand the Learned Magistrate relied
on at oll," she said.
Car Stolen
A private car was stolen from Mody Road between 9 a.m, and 0.20 p.m. yesterday.
$20 Fines
Summoned for mooring their U.S. Admiral Here
motor launches off the Praya wall in Connaught Road West Vice-Achnical John M. WI, without mooring lights, in the Commander of the United States early hours of January 4, two hilltory Sea Transportation, 3er- coxswains, Chan Kam-chuen and vices, arrived this morning by Kwole Kam-mech, wero eachmittary afreraft from Taipei for fined $20 by Bir C. Cairns at an overnight stay before flying
Ao Marino Court this morning, to Manila,
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