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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1959.
HOLLYWOOD ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE CHAPTER FROM THE REPORT THAT HAS STARTLED THE NATION
REVOLUTION
By WILLIAM FOSTER
THE old Hollywood no longer exists," said a famous film producer to me the other day.
"When I went there 25 years ago it was like a corrupt, mediaeval court-in Technicolor."
He grinned seda water into
a in
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you
Info he spliked have turned
respectable my glass, but businesmen and scem in mpend the was no mustaking 1 for more ime fretting over in- perigners of his voice. There come tax returns than getting in
samtenen--the frent of Vamera. it in 1 reason why you cal stay Ave
It is enough to make Hollyment without noticing how the old places has blood run cold if you can still remember how Rudolph Valen- cor dwn in the worl.
the slept in a golden bed shaped When
stopper? Hollywood resently on my way York, the first Back to New star I bump-info was Shelley Winters, doing her shopping in an old
mir of blue jam and with her in curlers,
have been a I mast And Except that her in
Whe 1 very
Mix se
tallet.
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Th
To
like a hout.
Is One of the citief fretters
former 11 Lancaster, Burt
bides his expere artist who bulging huzles in a pla-striped ba-iness suit, Every day Burt Lanester goes to work like any mer omsinessman and takes the lift in the thing new offices Recht-Bill-Lancaster 10-
are ench un inver-whe Quetins fuc. Challipe ongholdered in pouy kin
1e11 In the 1:1 226
years Mir Oh, Hollywood, what
Stre has made thirteen เบ awful disappointment
walloping Sins, most of them the glamour; are! Gone
bex lice succenses like "Marty" ar the slotus
and "Brelor Party." Last year rost Oster
datlars, he made a protit of more than a
million dollars,
Runt, gone,
that wirties quarter of a millio rach, And golag, too. are must of th slary-Oney're of the steadily moving aut film colony into the country. ief is the One who i sid No. 1.4X Rock Hudson.
attraction. 11.. hv in
chst two-bandtron
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a middle-class sub, tib, hi,
ally think there is an are and excile.48
The quit
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There is business tycoon Kirk Doulas whese Bryna Company
le that super-colossal Bhu Th· Vilings." It cost a super- celomal five million dollars to Thu has just Bake, but the
men voted a top box office at- Betion.
1. Beas
If
Shampor ter th..
In the 1
Douglas candidly.
"I am an actor who likes to make mother,"
says
Air
reduction
brelevards of prem
Two naga sibu Co- panies alone lave gone out of Sun in the land colipin of the only way this years and others en kamp, cpm »
Ellis for" making
televisio
<.1
dependent
in. yout
chance to make more have money than you can keep,"
hk this is probably the real reson for the Hollywood Item latica. The heavily-laxed the item rereen darhns of And they can make nasch more a per- ney by insisting on entate of the profits instead of working for a salary.
My bouge-1 stuck of all was when I caute pæd Twmiethe il well. Century Fox Warm
mentily on the were putting
British-born Cary Grant, for ficht hwn. I was only epalled example, hung out for ten per by the new tunt Columbia runt of the Pride and the Studios 1 t
a million dola zion and pocketed £500,000 even Tighty as a result. Instead of going to bet year and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer is having the tax collector, profits can be I. rent it deserted shelio
apread over the years and sunk but 1 I leaks! everywhe
in a wella, cirlines and dude couldn't find a single Bren
runches anywhere in Holly wean. Bryl
And if you are still not con. Zabuck.
trif
that Hollywood is not Twentieth-Century Fox. Deze ved Selary of M.G.M. and riided what it was, then you should Harry City of Cuba they know that when Jeanne Wood- heve all dipper.ed in the B1 werd had to accept an Oscar at II Academy Award presenta- few years.
out her They left behind them a que. tion, she canty Rot
and made her tha nu could answer. Who Rewing machine would replace Be disappearing own are..
Yes, I why thankful to get out the one wer imguls" Grasuliy
of Bollywood and fly on to New began playing: Tarts them-
York. In fact, i night a well selves wordd ke over!
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by
SUEZ Randolph Churchill
IT WASN'T
-because of Red rockets
IT WASN'T
--because of Left-wing clamour
IT WAS
--because
THE
America threatened the £ that Britain quit after 36 hours ...
Monetary at anticipated the American
Source, reaction.
International Fund was an cbvious
could the Government
but
HE news that Britain and France had agreed to the cease-fire called The
for by the General Assembly of the United Nations was greeted with incredulity both by the allied troops in Egypt and by the general public in Britain and France,
It seemed grotesque that after such lengthy and elaborate preparations and with the invasion proceeding so swiftly and so blood- lessly it' should suddenly be abandoned when total victory was not only in sight of the troops but within their grasp.
The Cabinet was far from taited in the inalter. There were Some who wished to gain time for further thought and regotia-
inda-
the and
SATURDAY: A letter from Eisenhower
the
world's money it can be seen that there were a let of nervous people about.
secure an immediate jar?
The Americase wore being
A cease-fire
the State Department allowing most unhelpful. Not only was the Feveral Reserve Bank to desista sell sterling, I was also raising Washington.
tiresome
difficulties
1:
PICTURE DY KARSH OP OTTAWA
sterling xmained steady at that cs for the rest of the crisis,
10 agreed The Americans buck the Government's request ter a leen train the International Monetary Fund (It mounted to 561,500,000 dollars), to walvo interest
the American WAS which to Britain Lotn o en December 31 (amuunt-
The zews of the cease-firo to was flashed
ing, with the Canadian loan, to over 100 million dolluis), and to he support forrowing fram United States on the strength of the Gove:nment's 1,000 million dollars* worth of
and U.S. Canadian GLcurities.
All this had been
con
whether Britain could withdraw That afternoon when the £ capital from the International har Monetary Fund.
slipped
to 2.78
dollars
and 9-32 of a cent, the Bank ditional en a cease-firo by Mr Macmillan hed been of Englund stepped In and midnight. among the most resolute of the members of the Cabinet in seck- Nasser's to counter ing ways theft of the Canal. He o
on the telephone The day before Macmillan through called in at the Treasury the to Washingien and sai that Federal Reserve Bank in New Britain crust have to immediate 1,000 million dollars if York releaned for sale rome of lean of
the E was not to be devalued. its own holdings of sterling
A condition
lun. And there was at least one Few were worried by mander of the Cabinet who Ruian throat of a rocket attack seriously considered resignation en London which was delivered on the Sunday.
in the early hours of Tuesday. It There were three. Cr four was rightly treated as a bluff.
01 (1 important other
Sone may have been swayed ential Minister cutside
in their judgment by the ugly Cabinel who cogitled
scenes in Parliament and the
made it- The Treasury discuss:d the same cou.
Lal- strident clamour of the wing Press. If so, they miscal clear that the Bank of Eng- celated, for it quickly became
Mr John Fester Dulles was at ajority land would now be unable to apparent that a large of the British people endorsed maintain the level of the £ that time in hospital, having Sir Anthony Eden's aelicn.
that day, unless it stopped been operated on a few days before for career of the large the oxchonge intestin in through
It TVL H mtscover equalisation account. Other about three or four in the mean- wise sterling would have to hy in Washington, so it took a
1le while to get an answer. bo immediately devalued.
Mr Macmillan Meanwhile,
Britain's ding financial straits,
These doubts about Biltala's moral position had aiready been the actively ventilated before final decision was taken.
Ugly facts
But it was certainly the third factor which counted most with Britain and Franst, however, the Cabinet as a whole. ostensibly went to war with Number 6, before going to the division within Governments. The British and Cabinet, the Chancellor of the Macenilian, French Cabinets cach contained Exchequer,
their
скеп,
two
On the rearing of Tuesday,
facts
an
Dollar need
Unfortunately, preceding
lad informed the Cabinet of
A little later, while
the
at the tame a number of hard- looked in at the Treasury. There
who he wo faced with ugly Tesulute headed,
He wan told that But, to stea in, the Bank having cold-blocdedly Grawn and figures.
en the £, which had needed the hard currency of Cabinet was still in session, the sword after to many months the us
end of October, gold and dollars at least 300
tho answer arrived from of deliberation were unlikely to begun at the
million dollars would be needed
that the loan theathe it in mid-agion without had accelerated to such
extent since the attack DA
for that day's rescue operations Washington campulsive tussen,
Egypt that the $ was now
alcae.
could be made only if Bri- near its minimum Three reasons have been dansrusly
during the rain accepted the cease-firo advanced m to what decided Irvel et 2.70 dollars,
three months. the by midnight. the issue-he Russian threat c
drain on
and Britain's geld intervention, the Opparent
been had
There seems little doubt that dolli
rezervis the hertility of sections of
unusually heavy, and the this bleak intelligence, which it British Parliament and public,
sheet and then run en the £
Gince August was Mr Mastnillan's hard duty which
attributed to the balanze This was
Instanta a less of 328 millica to convey, almost holders Monday and nervousness slar'ed
of showed on the
The reserves wire necrusly convinced the Cubbiet became Increasingly sterling. balances which
throughout dollars.
the cense-fle must se:i: us throughout Tuesday. the world which usually recon- down to so than 2,000 million that
prales th threat of wer; dollars. The rescue operation accepted. All thesu thriz
fatera nd since sterling frances half could not be perfonned unices
This was a drocdful blow to who had weighed to a vater crraller the world's fride and therefore there was a guaranice of more
the kitty. the Prime Minister, representa half the money coming Into degree with the British Cabinet. virtually
Nerves
of
JAK AT THE RUSSIAN ART SHOW
WHE MUNT
it says the artist was to have come but hot still in orbit,"
London Iran Seretse.
ROUND-UP
UNDER STRENGTH BY ONE ANTELOPE THE Firai Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment has moved from Northern Ireland to Norton Camp, Worcester, minus their mascot antelope Bobby. Bobby died from a brain hemorrhage a few months ago. lie will not be replaced before the Battalion leaves England for Aden in March. An olleer said, "We hear that there are plenty of antelopes in Aden and we hope that, with luck, one will be there to meet us on the landing tagwe alrendy have there un ofilcer who is making the necessary arrangements." The antelope has been the battalion's mascut since a Moorish standard with on antelo as an emblem captured by the regiment about 150 years ago.
20 YEARS ADDED TO LIFE
CHILDREN are tending to become
was
too fat, according to the Chief Medical report just published of Sir John Charles, Ofeer of the Ministry of Education, on schoolchildren's health to the malnutrition during 1950 and 1957. In sharp contrast commonly found half a century ago, more fat than undernourished children now altend Achool clineis for investigation. Boys and iris today are taller, heavier, better clad, belter shod and elcaner. They reach physical maturity earlier und may expect to live 20 years longer.
GLASS "STUMP OF ALE" FOR CRICKET
CENTURIES
nine
DATSMEN who make a century, or bowlers who take
wickets at Little Stoke cricket ground near Stone, Stafford- heshire, will win a "stums of ale" in future. A glass stump, with a :mall slip for the balls, which has been specially made for the club by a local gloss arm, holds about a pint of ale. "The idea la not skylarke says captain of the club, Mr Sid Jenkins, Players who get the award will be initialed flo an "exclusive brotherhood of cricketers who would occasionally meet in congenial harmony and be presided over by King Stumper himself."
"FOOD PARCELS FOR AMERICA”
MANY American visitors to Britain nowadays take home with
them big food parcels from Britain, according to a ritish airline official. The parcels contain "delicacles" which the Amerl- cors and difficult to get in their own country. Jellied eels, Kippers and grouse are popular. There is a fondness for British Jams, Marma- especially those of strawberry, blackberry, and cherry tade, honey and cheeses also go into the parcels. One American tourist recently took home with him a bag filled with brussel sprouts because he doesn't like the frozen ones sold in America. FIRST AID TRAILER
A
NEW mobile first-ald trailer-the fire! of its kind in the West London are will soon be seen in netion. Costing over £500, ambulance and it has been presented to the Ealing, London, nursing divisions of the St John Ambulance Brigade by members of Ealing Rotary Club. The trailer will be furnished and equipped by the St John Ambulance Brigade. In addition to being used in emergencles ft will also be seen at large ceremonies in London, Including Trooping the Colour.
FOREIGN COINS
OREIGN coins given by travellers at British airports and sea- porta contributed an increased amount to the revenue of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund last year. The amount collected 40 totalled £1,929, compared with £1,351 In 1957. Coins from different countries, including Russia, Ghana and Thailand were found in the boxes. They included an 1950 gold French 10-franc plece bearing the head of Napoleon III.
GOLDEN ROMAN DAGGER
•
AN old Roman dagger sheath, which, looking like a plece of "oid scrap," has been in Bridport, Somerset, Museum for years, hot rare gold inlay. The sheath, one of now been found to contain many objects found at Wnddon 11, near Stoke Abbott, between 1870 and 1883, has been X-rayed and treated with acid at Belstol City Museum and the gold workings came to light. Archeologist Graham Webster, who has inspected the sheath said: "It shown how magnificently the Roman Army was equipped in the first century. The soldiers would have shone in glittering array on the sun sparkled on the gold and silver work of their equipment."