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FESTIVAL IN KUALA LUMPUR (3)
THE_CHINA✨ MAIL,・ TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1959.
Eat, Drink, And Be Merry
I liked Kuala Lumpur very much. Everyone
seemed so kind and most solicitous regarding my welfare, chiefly concerned with my enduring the temperature.
They were most surprised when I told thern that I found the temperature of Kuala Lumpur more kind than that of Hongkong at the moment. The reason is, no matter how hot Kuala Lumpur gets, it cools off in the evening; and no matter how hot it gets during the day, the shade is always cooler.
The third reason is that Fortunately they had a sense of one moved from one air. humour. They laughed bitter- conditioned building to ty and then gave us the bird. another, and somehow, nir conditioning seems to work much better there than here.
the
The bird or the raspberry is humiliating in any language. But in Chinese sounds worse. It is mid-way between the Bronx sereninde and the cry of 1 all the way to the entrance Indien euckco. We had to endure to the hall, and my dianity was not restored until I found the jurs had been given special rents fieing the audience, Then I began to worry if this was
By JOHN LUFF
hove a car each to ride in and seen me
rescue beautiful slave
their awards. Five times Hong- kong covered Uiat envious' diğe tence.
one each to carry their handbag, girls from golden dungeons; had Bros, stars all silke, proceeded
Back at the hotel, the kids were waiting. But as the stars had gone art, the crowd was
But, the two great occasions were when Miss Yụ Ming of Hongkong walked in splendour to reosive the coveted award of Best Actress; and when. Shaw
me listening to sweat wonts in, down the stale to receive the the gardent of Ind; waving miniature gongs and the Golden farewell to fair handa beride Gong for Best Picture of the the Shalimar; but truth to tell, Year.
Then all grew quiet. Before
tered planes swept down on Kuala Lumpur airport, and the stars alute silently from the dance; and soon the band played alone to the fow who lingered around the bars.
I was introduced to her in the garden of the Summer Palace pt Morib. In the back- ground, deer were pleasantly grazing, and nearby the calm shore. sea mildly lapped the garden
somewhat diminished.
Next day M had luncheon I could never afford the fore with H. A. D'Connor & Co. Lid to have dreams about princesas two hours had passed, two char This was a small luncheon of a fax East as this fourteen
Including shark's fin soup. Before we ale there was an hour's drinking.
I swam to my bedroom and had just hit the bed when the received by the Municipal Coun bell rang and wo paraded to be cll. This fiepped a bit becausO another regiment of kids aleged the Majesc Hotel endangering the Cathay stare, in their hysteris, were actually
be- and
We left the Municipal Council and went on to be entertained by the Government of the Federation of Malaya,
I aid earlier that our Art days were entirely taken up with looking at Mims, On our eighth day, the important people ie arrive. It was a Sunday and two chartered planes carrying
The was in the gardens of the Hongkong's beauties few nut in este
the disappointed, Ofelal Guest House where Had I noticed it, I should have stars could not better identify usually V.I.P's are entertained, seen the CHIETI banners going for special treatment. up. Such. Ime I had spent In my hotel, I ack noticex i haamering and vaguely per- celved at something was hap- pening outside the hotel.
Then, on the Sunday even- ing, on leaving chema. I walked across road to my hotel, and myself unable to enter.
Nevertheless, it was all free and casy but this time I met my Waterloo.
I half-heartedly tried the barbecue, pecked at some Salay, After the opening ceremony, firvoured the cold buffet, nosed the pre-view there was something they called around the few tons of pine the cocktails. There was a reservoir apples and oranges, gave up and took my ravished throat to the of another found of whisky,
gin, oceans of lemonade, a sen of bar.
and soda water,
barrels DI of oxen shurry. A whofe herd must have been slaughtered make Satay,
and a Bock of weep and one or two poultry Into small yards were turned chow.
Thounds of Teenagers blocked the entrance, They
evertlowed across and town the street. They had forced their weny Into
the Junge; they swarmed Jula the reception
ruins and bad taken over the 111 and stairs in search of the detresses' IOMY.
At last the
police made a narrow lane through the solid crush of youngsters, and 1 was able to enter.
This happened every day the Festival proper lasted. It ceased to be funny, and as we always preeeded the stars as kind of outriders, it had considerable
drawbacks.
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I will not speak of food again. 14 was like that all the time, three times a day.
Next day we went on un ex- cursion. It has been our inten tion to go to Port Dickson, to have a swim, and then we were to be entertained by The Mentri Besar, Selangor
and Isteri Maris,
X
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As we ate and drank, the stars paraded up and down in kind of avenue we had form- ed. Their heads were high in the air. Their eyes were un- focussed: 1 love that term be- cause I think 1 Invented It to the kind of look nn Asion beauty en adopt. cxpress
seeing: They saw us without the accepted our gianees as a right. Personally I did not du but the police arrived, form- mites
Port Dickson. We arrived at but the ewim was off. The gar- den in which we sat was ogulu besieged. Then the kids broke
She asked from whence I came; her accent was definitely Cheltenham Ladies College.
We spoke of Bima and I asked If she ever went to the pictures. She waved a delicate hand in the direction of Village. Sha did not actually call the local all a fea-pit, but I gathered a Princess could not go there.
That about exhausted my conversation, I asked des- perately if she was fond of erickch
A prefect of Cheltenham answered, and it too slow." I was a bit metlled at this
and was Icply
about to shu said sho chailenge it when was extremely fond of football. I asked her if she had seen between Когод the cup fro and Malayo. She said she had not, congratulated Korea upon their win, but speculated that
next time Malaya would show them the way home. 1 told her I had seen the match, and ven- tured the opinion that Malaya had thrown the game away by missing penalty.
Warming to my task, I show- ed just how the penalty kicker had kicked, then changing my role to that of Korean goal- keeper, I showed how he saved. Looking up, I saw that a gathered kind of guard had
The Princess looked up
She
me?"
sald, "You will excuse
it was the Then she fell In with her re-
ed an escort, and off we went. looking. bul I saw younger me
the Chinese film round. Now while looking raplur- Dusly; all the women were look- stars were the centre of interest also ing envicusly; and some men of of the bugs Chinese community. my own nge were looking leer and ineldentally, the cause of all For instance, Monday, May 4, ogly. For the truth is, men of the excitement, Inw the Festival opened at my age fall into two categories; the Tunku Abdul Rahman Hall, you cre either on the way to by His Majesty, The Yang Di- becoming nosiy old man or a Pertuan Agong. We had to be cynicht old man.
in our seats by 6.30 p.m. and
as the Jurors did not finish
viewing until 4.30 p.m., ihis was a bit of a rush.
*
Outside the hall, the young- sters had assembled In their And during this parade of the thousands. They were Chinese beaufles, I was talking to a film teenagers in the main assembled producer. Now while film pro- to view their favourites from ducers are human, they have none of the frailties of the flesh. Asia's Hollywood, Hongkong.
We were in the leading car. This is due to a diet of whisky We discussed The stars had not yet left the and elgarettes. hotel. The Festival flag waved women and I gathered this par- bravely from the bonnet of the ticular producer did not think Yet I enjoyed ced the kids cheered wildly much of them. as we drove through.
this parade for It took people away from the dozen or so bars, und as our group had now grown to about twelve men, we were able to issue Invitations on our own recount.
The car stopped. The crowd moyed in thinking we were Blm stars. The pollee staggered before the onslaught. Then the doors opened, and out stepped
As we drove off, this time in three other men and myself.
For a moment there was en reverse order, we men unearthly silence and I thought crushed in about forty to near we were going to be mobbed. in order that tho stars could
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Japanese cars in their beautiful tinue.
I was very worried, I had
kimones who attracted universal admiration,
They were followed wher- ever they went. They were watched as they ale, na they drank, and they must have been heartedly fed-up. If they were, they did not show It. Never for a moment did they loose that look of frozen beauty.
suld some hard things about the footballer who missed the penalty shot.
not
But Malaya is very democra- tic. But I have no doubt that a hundred years ago, the Royal elephant would have dealt with him at sundown. It was until the Thursday of the I followed them into the holel second week that I was able to day. They were pushed meet an old Hongkong friend,
shoved,
and
autograph Brig Young albums were thrust under their noses. Never did thut screnc book disappear from their faces, I marvelled at their patience, and I did the Sir Walter Raleigh act for them by getting them into the lift.
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and
Every Lime he telephoned me,
Tomorrow! Distant Clouds
The Japanese beauties were followed everywhere
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An Unbeautiful
Enmity Ends
The world of Paif? Adom revolves unsteadily round May- fair night clubs, debutante balls, cocktail parties. It is a half- world, dimly lit and semil- ventilated, lubricated by cham- pagne that's not always vintage.
It simmera with petty fetches. blichy gossip, and occasionally, It's enlivened by a major row.
Like the row between Mr Adah himself and night-club boss Harry Morris.
This started more than five years ago when Adam, who hed been working for Morris, sued him for £5,000. Adam claimed that he had been wrongfully! abcked.
Morris sald that Adam had broken his contract because ha was a bandleader who seldom led the band, and spent most of his time hobnobbing with the customers.
I was at the cinema. In the and I wrote him a letter, but coincidence arranged that his And then one spoke. She Rotary Club gave us luncheon at desk of Colin Davis, director of one Last week a letter arrived on the spoke with that fluted bird ac the Luke Club. cent. She sang her words, and
Brig is Sergeant-at-Arms, but of Britain's largest mail-order it seemed like the tinkling we managed to find a
few houseB. bells of some ancient shrine. It moments to visit
air- the
It came from the Russian Em- sounded like that, but what she conditioned Orchid Room, and bassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, and it en- said was not that, I think. For extremely pleasant it was. her companions eyes opened Between that event and the closed an order for ladies' nylon fur and wurmed. I think she spoke next, Brig took me around coats, raincoats, slippers, blouses,
about in general terms
war Kunla Lumpur: showed me and one beaverlamb coat. days, grubby hands, and na- Watson's rapidly developing
The battle in court was long tional dress. However, Wo factory; and toolt me to his new There was one additional
"Nothing. They might also send a do-
I am married to and bitter-und finally costly way to meel house in the suburb of Kuala item: One pair of British it-yourself sweep Kit for the Mylene. No. I'm not her for Adam. He lost the case. Hoyally. We left Port Dickson Lumpur, A most delightful without our swim, and drove to and spacious dwelling in charm- binoculars
manager. I'm her husband. I Об previously Kremlin chimneys. Morlu.
am busy." There had a strange Ing surroundings.
supplied to Mr Nikita encounter. Myself when young Next day saw the closing Khrushchev.
She Only Looks It's only fair to add, as his was somewhat romantic. And ceremonies. I suppose there
wife explained, that he was such visions. I entertained were were.many delights and many A balling Rem. Mr Davis Like Bardot
cameramanuntir their inspired in part by the Western disappointments. Eight times checked the records but coult
marriage, and that they are the Japanese walked gracefully
planning to form a film com- Starting somewhere In the down the vast alsle of the Tunku and no trace of an order from Mr K. Certainly the Arm
the pany of their own. East, my dreams had Abdul
She's French. She has Rahman Hall to receive received an order a few months unusual tongue davating pamas. She gald, looking at Mortis said I wouldn'tTM previously on the Futafait of Mylene Demongeot. And she warmly and calling him by his employ Embassy in Tel Aviv for a pair has the usual pouting resem pet name "Coco": of binoculars. But there was blance no mention of Mr K.
were on
the
Idea of the East.
Middle
£30,000 man' has
'taxi his
own chauffeur
A
New York, CHAUFFEUR who has his own chauffeur is the latest chapter in the "rags-to-riches" story in America. The hero of the story is 43-year-old Roosevelt S. Zanders, a chauffeur with an income of £80,000 a year.
to Brigitte Bardot. 1 met her before she left London for the Cannes Film Festival.
'Never Again'
He took his band.........and, his
devastating
charm to an other club, saying: "I wouldn't work for Morris again if he had the only club in London.” ...«
over
that swollen-headed Adam again if he had the only "You know we have only band in London," been married for a few months. So the intriguing questions
So started an inbesutiful But I have known him for six enmity which has laried pre: Were these Binoculara She told me quickly-
years. He was my first lover. the years. until the other sent on trum Tel Aviv to Mr K. "I don't try to look like And he has been my only lover. day. in Moscow?
Bardot. This is just the way 1 And I hope he will always bo And why would he want am. I can't help it if Bardot my only lover." looks like ma”” British binoculars since the
Definitely a Bardot in looks Russians probably claim they Miss Demongeot is a young only. And definitely an untra invented them?
lady of spirit with a philoso- ditional specimen of French phical view of life and films, femininity. Unhopefully I asked or official in the Soviet Embassy She sold:— in London if he could help fo
"It fo an accident solve the mystery. The answer become a film actress.
Then Mr. Adam told me with guitar wide smile that he had for Harry Morris again." just signed a contract to work
Said Adathy want to mako it clear he come to me with the contract. It's quite
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that I BEFORE voting recently in victory for me." A pro of course was "No." Mr Davis ducer see my photograph and the borough council elec. str. Harry Mortis said: [ "It's (educated Marlborough
offer me a part. Vollz. Cambridge), is now treating
the mystery with typical Eng-
tion I read the pamphlet: business, I don't have to love "It will also be an cecident which had come through my him like a brother, do 17" lab understatement: "I suppose of fate if I become a famous fatter-box from the two Mr. Adam and fir Morris,.
ly."
the bitter ez-ensimies, shook
The Bevan Technique
is a bit odd. Buit we're star. If it do not happen then Tory candidates. accustomed to strange orders I do not commit suicide.
It sold (among other hands and drank a toast to from mexpected people.-
Their He owns aaliver, custom- Born in poverty in Youngă-
The fim business it is too things): "We will samostly their now partnership.
brotherhood, Thein bullt Rolls-Royce that boasts town, Ohio, Zanders had a priordered
"Not so long to a armies obsurd 'to. be taken too serious to concern
ourselves with business
expedient friendship, door-to-door
a guitar. 14 "better fur
and vate dream to sustain him during not say who she is. She paid rugs,
the many activition of the two hi-fidelity sets.)
the years he workat in hotels,
borough council, London She has been in
I decided not to careatly For 630 a day, Mr Zanders country club locker rooms, and the Instalment system. promises to : -"drive anyone, restauranta.
"Our biggest wolder
making a film for the Rank to concern myself to vote for months ago were
Organisation titled "Upstairs anywhere" fr his £8,000 Rolls-
the guitars Downstairs," Royce that has been known to
Thousands a week. But at the stop Manhattan traffic.
moment: It's : do-it-yourself chimney sweep kite."
Meantime
Steady Customers
His dream was to own a "big car", and by 1040 he had saved enough money to buy his first Cadillac:, ka
Five Cadillacs
a Low
'Coco' Keeps Busy
La Politesse
Aneurin Bovenant, directly in front of me at the first night during the week of that dopress- ingly bad musical by John Osborne. The World of Paul (Slickey, "
the Devia.com- He then hired himself out as pany is packing the coata, Mr Zanders steady
she brought the largest port- The small boy was standing'
He didn't, boo. But towards cu an expensive, exchisive chauffeur blouses--and binoculars toe able make-up creo I've ever si a street corner in Kensington the end, when the world was tomers includo famous
ac to the rich, the famous, or the despatch to Israel. They expect seen and her husband, Henri studying he toy platol. I asked disintegrating noisily, he bowed trasses, models, Aid dipto- merely flamboyest. Tudta a who
csafi payment.
Kass, p. handsome young man, him it he could direct me to the his head,“and put u žum, hunda frequently cable Within a few years, he owned Thim from remote, parts of the five, Cadillacs which were joined.
Persian Embassy. He suld with over his car of 30. (She is 22). 1 - suggest they send the...
grava, politenes #02 course. A technique, he has obviously world to moke certain that be by his "droam Rolls-Roro 2ast binocular direct to Mr K In Içasked tim what he did for Follow me, "air will be waiting at the dock or December. --- London-Express Ifuscow. As a gift from Britain, a 'living." He wild with Gallie When we got to the door or speecharge
foarned in Under Kidume: Caring airport.
Service.
For uro' on the Gummit.
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