THE CHINA MAIL,-- SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1954) 330

ASE

MEDITATION

SUPPLICATION

Curious Characters: No. 2

The Shyest Man In The World

ONE

NE thing you had to remember when talking to the Honourable Henry Cavendish-to keep your back 10 him.

For, noted as he was for his erudition among the great scientists of the 18th Century, the Hon. Henry was even more noted for his incredible shyness. If you looked him straight in the eyes, he would turn and flee.

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MELANCHOLY

WONDER

DOUBT.

DELIGHT

CONTENTMENT

ASIAN MOVIE QUEEN YU MING TELLS HOW SHE CAME UP THE HARD WAY

SORROW

Lulu's bitter-sweet success

AT 23, Lulu is on top of Asian stardom,

"Am I happy!' said petite Lucilla Yu Ming, winner of the best actress award in the Sixth Asian Film Festival. "I ac-

tually cried over the moment!”

joyed..

Lulu is not a silly girl. She cried not just because she was over-

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to

Modest

To her the award was and I am so happy about ing off with a bang. And it's This shyness, however, In fact, the Hon. Henry was bitter-sweet.

it," Lulu said with delight. Just the beginning of her two- year contract with MP and GI th! not prevent the world's terrified of all women. He was

For Lulu, rest of six in the under which she has to make a scientific elite from observ-nce found whimpering with

For the red carpet to the family, had three brothers and total of eight pictures, terror on the floor of his dining

two sisters. "I promised ing the Hon. Henry's extra- rum. It turned out that a girl throne of the Asian movie

By ever, Lulu attri- success of a sim to ordinary experiments in the had smiled coquettishly at him queen for 1969 has been help them study in Amerien if buted the

ever I got H contract," she teamwork in general. "It's al- laboratory he had built in from a essement window oppo-handloomed with six years recalled."

ways many-sided," as she put it. his drawing-roum.

With site.

of unrecognised endeavour their Jacks turned of And so it went on. In alin 21 feature-length plc-. costume 40 years out of date, tures that cost her studios be would shuffle from room to

over $3,000,000. own muttering shrill sound so this stuft could avoid racet.

COMPRE.

Cavendish's jetfor at siran. went further than that, il second Alakyease in

hee Chodam Laalum heare, g

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him. If he was out of

B 1 10 need nevar retinors at night, he walked along anybeity about the house. Any the middle of the road.

med Wh actidentally rnet bim In one place only was Caven-

Lulu won the laurels at

the Festival with her diffi-

cult · portrayal of a girl's inner conillet in "Her Ten-

there was festmntly dismissed. dist really happy. Plumb der Heart" where she is

He dFeas domestic mat- to with his housekeeper by leaving rates on the half table and bring round the rior to se that she read them. The Jentekeeper, for her part, hot The per raid another door to ayaid an encounter.

the centre of his lawn was a tatorn between her love for tree

which Do would climb, clutching a huge telescope. And in admitted father and her there, alone at lust, his knees affection for an alienated

mother.

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rapped around the topmost branches, he would sit in the darkness, gazing at the unen- harassing stars.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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US

16

ACROSS

1 Flexible (0),

7 Cambling-place (8).

B Moving (5).

10 Way out (43.

12 Frugni (7).

16 Card stake (4).

15 Couple (4).

17 Valley (4).

19 Mad (9)..

20 Ship (7).

21 Pleksan! (4).

23 Ape (9).

24 Fruit (6).

25 Carousal (8).

20 Sick to (5),

21

DOWN

1 Follows on (0

Fensible (8).

3 Angling accessory (4).

5 Chrek (01.

6 Customer (8).

9 Weapon (5).

1 Essay (8).

1 Twist (5).

13 Point out (8).

14 Produse (3).

Garb (6),

22 SIM (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD_Actors: 3 Carrying, & Nedaub, ♦ Re- potred, 11 Stiurted,. 12 Wine. 33 Total, 18.Illed. is Ache. 22 Diverger 24 Corridor. Weapon, 20 Loyalist. Dewa: 1 Abuse, Edits. Curator, 4 Abel, 3 Bload, Laford, 7 Gadget, 10 Polal, is Tunud. 15 Leverel, 10 Can eel, 17 Sherry? 20 Agape, 31 Uring, 22 Dis), 23 Vows.

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Maybe she acted partly from experience because six years ago she was torn also -between a school and a studio.

Born of a Roman Catholie family, Lulu, then attend

By.

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DAVID LAN

Broadway, beckoned to her "No one can monopoilse the in New York. For Lulu was credit. The script-writer, the offered & par la "The director, the casting director, Flower Drum Sơng" by the the actors and actresses all have famed producing team of a share in the success of a pic- Rogers and Hargmerstein, ture." She turned it down.

"Because 1 feared I might

have to stay on for two years

bit too long: And my por- trayal of Oriental life might be dificult for the American pre- ducers to understand," aho ex- i don't plained.

*

Her tastes are simple — a good book and a comfortable chair,

up on

A versatile actress, Lulu has During the shooting season, IV's, gol: Into my system, you no blas against any role the for instance, the studio works know!" she 'brightened script may call for, but believes on three shifts daily: 7 a.m. to her major interest, that somehow should suit her character and and worst of all, 7 pm. to 7 pm

the screenplay: 7 p.m., 12 noon to 12 midnight,

that it's always better to east "I have instod them all," she her in her own age,

sald.

Primarily an introvert, the atar has definite ideas of her own on various subjects,

Of her acting, she said: "It no trick at all. It comes by time. now how others go about it but each has his own *way. read books, are movies. "Besides, the Broadway play and savour life as it comes was a musical and I had tittie along-that's what I do when Ing Macao's Sacred Heart confidence in myself. Ол theant.of. School, was discovered by a other hand, Motion Picture and Lalent scout of Shuwa who proached me for a contract.

General Investment had ap- "Bofore going on sel, I study I the script by heart. When ae- know happened to

her thought I should not jeopardise tually on the set. I listen to the father, a theatrical figure in my career in Hongkong. So 1 director. And when the time Cantonese opera.

deelded to come back.""

comes for 'Camerat I live the And she made it understood rule I play, forgetting about, that all in u movie star's life is everything else.".

not roses and glamour.

"As if Fate would have it HO, I was practically dragged out of my clusa room into a

movie studio fone year before my gradua- | tion," said Lulu an inter- view that took place in an air-conditioned room.

"After a screen test, I signed on with Shaws for a. | five-year contract, which was 'Inter extended for one more year."

She knew she had work |ed hard in 20-odd pictures while all the time her com- pany had left no stone un- turned trying to make her a [box-office draw.

At the expiry of her term with Shaws, the con- tract was not renewed,

It was then she went on

A five-month tour of America, incidentally look- ing in on her eldest younger brother who was studying medicine with her support. "It was a promise fulfilled)

• BY. THE WAY • by Beachcomber

SUGGESTION

that there tank in a peculiarly therapeutic ham and made faces should be muale in every manner?

aquarium, to attract customers,

in Fun in the bank

at the

piccolo-player.

"The Girl from

a prelude to

Blagoveshchenak"

Then psychiatrlata will be able

stuck between railings are "ARE

released by Usually

is obviously formal dances and singsongs. ROYS who get their heads

there any Russian

u are ♫ musical comedica?" There

to note the effects of the rumpus brigade, but one can sympathise la at least one, which I wrote on the fish.

with the bank cashier who did myself. It contains the haunt-

not know what to do when ing "Song of the Cossack Maid.",

A

WBI the Japanese hoke have grown man got his head stuck Oh, I was brought up careful-

An attack of nerves? WILL

the Brille. The boyish

the Barbados mackorel sulk in gesture may have been

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prank, Is very respectable home,

But one day I decided to gu

oui - a bit

a

a corner of its tank? And if a but the difficulty is to explain spotted buce shows symptoms, of to othes, customers that the cap- piscariosin or fisk-hysteries, will divo la mot transacting business I started on my travels,

the curator be able to cloave his bui: merely playing, some child. And I didn't have far to rOGTE,

way through tho dancers in ishi game," "like the bored harpist timme to soothe his charges by, who gluck her head through the drumming on the glass, of the wires at a consert in Chelten="

Now I'm ona of the ruine

... Tulatoy - - Jenocked, about a

No regrets. Her decision was Justified. For here she is, start-

FOUR D. JONES

HERE'S THE BOY'S YOU ASKED FOR DAFNEWMAT/ SHALL I DO WHY TH

FERDINAND

PUTEM "TOWORK, I WANT TO GET THIS CHIP ALONGSIDE THAT HOTEL... MAY MY ORROS

·RIGHT, ANDI GAN MAKE | A PACKET OUT OF THỊS,

BRICK BRADFORD

DON'T GIVE UP -HOPU VIT) WS

MAY STILLLAND

ON VENUB

I THINK WE WILL! WE ARE CHANGING COURSE! WERK GONS INTO

ORIT AROUND

VENUS!

she has

Needless to BEJ many friends-boys and girls. Lulu seldom takes things seriously. But Lulu has one pal whom she loves wholeheartedly. It's Mimi, her three-year-old Pekinese.

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On films, for example, she To recuperale from a hard

Lulu and Timi get along thinks that "mories owe 11 to day's work, Lulu likes to retir well that they share the same the pubilo to educate, and re- rather than romp around the bed." Beet realities instead of merely town.

Like most stars, Lulu enjoys Though a star herselt, Lulu water-skling, swimming, driving,

likes to go to the cinema. playing the piano, singing popu "I feel like missing something lar songs, dancing rock 'n' roll. it I don't go to a new, pleture, cha-cha and calypso.

to entertaizi.”

THE "MAYFLOWER”IS | GOING TO BECOME A

PASSENGER UNER,

THATS BETTER

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KURIS / VISS CAN

MAKE A LONG YOU CAN DECKWASH VOLIDNÉ ENTRY

SPEED AND BIOP

AND LAND OF INTO THE ATWCSIVATE THE DAYLIGHT

THE PLANOT

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by MADDOCKS

ON'BOARDʻTHE HOTEL-PEOPLE ARE NOTICIND THINGS

DARLING

SIGN

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OF ANYONE BEING SEA LOOK, DEARÍ THE

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