THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY
HTS FROM THE
MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
P.O.W.'s 'Casino' Amassed £75,000
Then
Banker
Leading A Duck To Water...
'P. Page 3
THIS is the Gim
Gave
Takings Away
A
By OWEN SUMMERS
London.
TV producer dropped into a London theatre Jast week and recognised the face of the wizened little man playing the parl of 41 captured Japanese prisoner and so revealed one of the strangest stories of the war.
The story of how diminutive 44 a week donkeyman on British cargo ship amassed £75,000 fortune in his own private "casino" while in Germun prisoner of war
camp.
Wonderful
Milo
The producer - ITV': Iwts, who was a prisone a the same camp-told the Royal Court Mestre management: "You are employing one of the most wonderful men I have ever met.**
And,
by questioned later other members of the cast of The Long and the Short and the Tall, 55-year-old Japanese- born Kenji Takaki, how naturalised British subject, ad- mitted;
"I was the gambling king of Germany."
Last week, in dressing-room No. 3, Takaki who combines his acting career with running n £5,000 business in Blooms- bury, manufacturing Inmp shades told for the first time the story of his off-beat war.
With a smile that split his nut-brown Ince, Takald shrugged; "Sure I made a for- tune-but I gave the whole dam' lut away."
'I skinned 'em'
The story starts in June, 1940,
T Duck.
Is is the story of Peter and the When Donald arrived at five-year-old Peter Smart's Plumstead house in Britain, he was destined for the
Down the lane to the ponds.
Can a duck swim? Yes, even on a lead.
pot. But Peter preferred Donald outside to in. Now Peter walks Donald to the bus stop, takes him for a six-mile ride to Keston ponds, and there lets him swim,
Film Censors Are Letting
Us See More And More
By ROBERT MUSEL
London.
INCREDIBLY, few people seem to have noticed that film
has
relaxed
to
an
censorship all over the world astonishing extent in the past few years.
try to take Subjects, situations andago-in the unlikely event they opportunista may when Takaki's ship was cap-dialogue are being Almed today survived the blue penell and advantage of the new freedom. tured by a German destroyer of
producers fec) The legitimate have had their the scissora. Freetown. Takaki was taken to
Most good producers are they are being Elven Keance F producers and authors picketed
appeal few last to Д by the puritans not very long delighted, even though
inle Ugence.
a transit camp at.Bordeaux, en route for Germany.
It
The destination was Milag Nord Camp, near Bremen. was packed with 0,000 merchant
zeamen.
→
Takaki arrived in this sprawl- ing cosmopolitan city behind wire-and took on a bunch of Americans at poker, With his
smile
Taknk! weck: "I up Inst
permanent
Bummed
skinned m,"
Takaki persuaded the autho-
rities to lend him one of the jus,
Then twice a week-the
games were started.
£1,000 a night
Mag Nord was transformed
That would
"Prosecution Phobia" Against Motorists
London.
are
1
Adull to
Reluctant
3
Hard Times Have
3
Hit The
East Germans
Frankfurt.
political interference, laced with musical comedies and consumer goods offers, emerges from the want-ad columns of the East German press,
A PICTURE of hard times and
Yet it is a development they
While other Iron Curtain Il poems East Germany has an 10 talk about. reluctant
techni- Afler 1 had listened to several papers generally fill their pages unending demand for
skilled workers and dis-i with
grey party matter and clans, prominent movie makers
frown on advertisements, the typisis-small wonder in a land cussing it recently I asked one
where hundreds leave good jaby could use his East German Press still carries of them if I
a fair amount of ads. They are
every week to flee to the West, name.
a fine source of enlightenment en
Why they Bee is made elear fe under Communism.
the Take
"help
in one ud: volumn, for instance.
"No," he said. "I don't want to be a target. And I don't want to Jeopardise this broader. can give storica
police chief treatment RETIRED
A trafic police against developina pro Brition Women: we can give stories.
phobia" against motorists.
they are all The warning was sounded by, ponders whether former deputy Chief Constable worth while, occurring us they clock-like H.S. Kemble in the magazine | do
with
Three or four hundred sailors at Police Chronicle. Не sald rhythm"-UP.I. n time crammed into Takaki's Britain's Policemen could be hust-playing roulette (enade losing pubile esteem,
from an eld ulaycle wher). 1 is hard to turn very housey-hausey, crown and young, or even older, policemen
at once," into jurists all
he
ancher, and poker.
Then Takaki run "dog racing";uld. "But I submit that it is throws of the dice controlling the possible to develop a prosecu- Ilon phobia and that can go progress of wooden-dogs.
"We were maiding sometimes further end become £1,000 night und another sccution mania." time I dropped a couple of thousand," said the man
dressing-room No. 3.
In
was
SUFFERED
Kemble elted chd of the At the prisonern who had spent their which' a
an
a
per-
auch
COURT NEARLY SUFFOCATED
I remember too well a European producer
cering:
where we were.
"Isn't it's pity that in the
to
wanted"
CONVICTS
United States adults have WEREN'T
soo pictures made for children.'" London's West End is typical
of
of what is slipping into los no gradually that a friend mine only realised after he had left a theatre that he had seen full-size time a for the first nude actress on the screen,
a French Sim. Yes, it was But it was being shown London and Aylesbury,
New York.
is scheduled for
Debutante
In another West End elnema Anglo-American there is an
CITYM
PAID
UNION
RATES
Plymouth,
Progressive
re-
"Wanted immediately llable driver. Progressive out- look essential. Apply to..."
So under the Reds you cannot even drive a truck anymore there days unless you are "pro- gressive.
Autos are scarce, too, and Jalopics Letch prices that would TOU
American college boys of one of their greatest pastimas.
A-war midget two-scater Fiat, for instance is offered at .JUU marks which.. at the ofcial rate of exchange, equals $4,080, New cars oro not ad- vertised.
The ads span all walks of
Clouds of black smoke pour ing Into the court room at Ayict- bury. Bucies, from û nearby
NITY officials cancelled life. iu chimney led to a 90-minute ad- one 'ense
the silthy of
plans to buy floor mate convicted of journment of
a father has made by convicts on grounds suffered Bucks quarter sessions appeals feature in which driving camp murks had the amount dangerous
a tender moment with his the prisoners aren't poid stepped from their accumulated because a similar offence ho committee.
Within 20 minutes the court committed 30 years earlier was
He room was thick with smoke and debutante daughter. It WIS then that Talcaki brought up against him.
said people should be allowed members of the bench and barri- started his Nothschild net.
Milo Lewis took up the story: to live down their pant.
buck-pay.
"Endless
prosecutions
for
siers were choking and cough- ing.
"In order to avoid suffocation, an asphyxiation or anne other un-
What was dear daddy's union ratos. Brst romance?
A French girl in a hone in Paris.
"Did she live there?" asks daurliter.
Young Love
the Young Jove "Volt Behrens Casino-old-fashioned Germán ball. A telephono on The Plymouth Corporation's every table to call your neigh- atorca committee, which, was bour...."
on
gold: Marriage "Genuine "He went round giving thou-
the point of accepting a Batuls upon thousands of these obstructions with caro ore
tender from prison nuthorities, wedding rings, at 212 marks": camp marks to men to that they epidemic in some parts of the pleasant death, we had better
changed dis mind after noung (HK$300) facts adjourn," commented the chair- would not lose their back pay.country," he said.
these obstructionsman, Mr G. H. Smith--China Me too. He left several thou-
and one Mall Special. are purely academic, sand for me."
of some of
The
THERE WAS TOO MUCH REALISM'!
Merifer.
REALISM ran away knit grack AV in a ohildren's play whichs called for engborg · of this local but so loud a dokon | baunda sorom the siege, "Don't worry about the dogs," producer But Jolkowo21, 2004 fold | Mikey'so
well-
afterwards he "nearly died laughlyg."
Nevertheless the production of ¡ Jolinson said
the Wood" will "Babes in fish the week without the bounds.
The dogs suened the dress re-
hekrsal into a comedy, They charged on slage, bowled ovor half the comź and psiakes ihrough
sockery they didn't who na Kamp PORĖS,
the
"Bat the backroom boys were a bit upont as they had the clearing-up io do.”
An
Not exactly, say daddy. She sort of worked there.
thnt the
proposexi one-year prison contract lacked In an America comedy film,
overstimulated husband wages clause,
The solitude and resignation
a fair of old ago under a rogime that
favours the fit and YOUDE "Elderly man looking for simple.
keeps trying to entice his busy, A spokesmen said the come woman, around 00, who w elvic-minded wife into the bed-litee would iscömmend that cook and look after him it an Kom or away to a hotel. is the contract go to the South apartment-sharing partnership."
clear to Intentions aró made
Devon and Cornwall Institute East Catinan salaries average possibly
excluding for the
Blind, which everyone,
alno | HK$180 a week for a skilled the two-year-old child actor tendered. who plays in sen.
worker or a marfled male office clock
These subjects and rape, A Home Office official dented
Fut iquor advertisements the sadiem. and
rost
prison commtioners appear to be taboo. of that o
to undercut other
Alcohol in only meniloped in devious catalogue-have always sought
do not pay an ad for a tooth pastę called But tenderera, "Wo baen hinted at in films. the hints are blossomlag out trade union rates,” bo aid. Baxodonty which, the sid Boyz, into blueprints.
"but when wo tonder wo put contas dicohol to intense the
Bald the produseer;.
In what wo consider to be a refreshing qualities" of the guste
Said bantamoso Jahn lipflownY!
ve soen worde fims recent fair trado pelos, and it is "Thor sust have had sin fright, Morally they'ru.wpy that could give lessons to absurd to say we are exploiting
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