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✅ THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, JULY 20, 1959..
LOGAN
GOURLAY
WHO KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKABLE WAY
WHO, for Pete's sake, is Li'l Abner?... And Daisy Mae?
London.
And Jack S.
Thoghound? Not to mention Moonbeau MurSwine. You don't-really- know. Yet they're probably better known in the United States than Mr. and Mrs Eisenhower or Marilyn Monroc. They've certainly more faithful and dedicated followers.
I'll explain.
Li'l Abner and his oddly named group are characters in a cartoon strip read avidly every day by about 50,000,000 Americans of all ages and types. They are the creations of Mr Al Capp, a plumpish, genial, Boston- ian with an artificial-leg, who might have stumped straight out of a cartoon himself.
Factally he looks a bit like Ich Hope. And, of course, he also has a highly developed bump of humour.
Here is a nail example of
Capp humour,
As we sat over lunch the other day on the open-alr terrace of Mayfair club he wavel to Doug Fairbanks Jun, at another tablo.
Thut reminds me," fald Mir C'app, "of the time I was being Interviewed In Leston hote
by girl reporter. She hated
THIS IS
ME-BY
THE CREATOR OF
LI'L ABNER
the idea of Interviewing me "But 1 never see the dough.
Instead of Gary Cooper or one
My manager takes all and
of the handsome movie stars, gives me pocket money."
tried hard birt I Couldn't impres that gal at all.
Finally, when we were leav
Ing the hotel, a good-looking
Basic formula
1 asked Mr Capp, who has
guy came over and said: May been drawing his dally strip
I introduce myself? Din Douglas for 25 years plus a full Sunday Fairbanks An
wanted to meet you. grow fun of Lil Abner usually do this, but may your autograph??*
Stunned
always page, where and how he got his I'm a inspiration.
1 don't don't know. I've got 1wn
I have asistants. They sten to my ideas at the story conference and then say: "We'll use this
. It's the least bad.'
"Well, that gal was stunned, A movie stay asking for my autograph.
Now she was for me all the way. But it was fee much for me,
"Deadpan I said to Fair- banks: Now you can gell it kk. You're good actor for Go back to work an amateur.
specially flown,
I WDS told
CUS-
I asked from the Continent, the leader, in Russian
freer. tume, where he was
The reply: I'
Johnny Franks in Charing Cross Road and hired the costume from Jack. Hylton.
OOOKI
"Ain't no one told Hank wo got company?"
London Express Servico,
China Mail writer John Luff digs up once again the famous case of 'The Winslow Boy' and discovers some new facts, about....
Among his souvenirs THE DAY THE ROYAL NAVY
Mr William: Hollin, manager
of the Savoy Hotel, has shown
received. Jetter be il
me
#cita
1
"Approximately 15 years ago
[ in
burst of boyishness
small deal-tasse purloined o spoon white dining at your establishment.
be
The basle formula is a mix- ture of sex, death, and money. Get all thire in one strip and, brother.
you're in buziness. They're universal.
"The strip is syndicated all over the world. Even in Japan I Everywhere except bete. think. that burns me up a bit."
As a fan it buins me up top, but of conse
It burns up Mr
PS. If you can't see L' "I told the girl he was a soda. Abner I offer the above drawing Jerk from down the street who done on the back of a menu. Inaked like Fairbanks. I said 11's supposed to be me, lait ve compltyed bim occasionally just come nut, leoking a bit like La to impress people."
Abner, whom I don't resemble. At that moment Doug Fair-
In any way. He's a hero-gund INTER-OFFICE baukts jun, came over to the and live and pure. table to shake hands. At least, I think it was Purbanks
d be careful with that lovely Capp much more.
hired hat,
When he left. Mr Capp took up the subject of his camings from Lit Aimer and Co. A srious subject for Mr. Capp.
#1 was brought up during the nie I don't wanna depression
Le poor again.
"I admit I like dough.
of 1.
the
Lots
J
COME who follow the fortunes of our local players might recall that two years ago, the Hongkong Stage Club produced "The Winslow Boy." I was sent along to write up the performance.
I
had the
to obtain a straight answer from a bureaucratie department.
In spite of the fact that Terence Rattigan is the author "Since my wife and I plan to
of the play, it flopped here, and in London soon It occurred
rows of to me that this souvenir would myself, depressed
for neighbours, empty chairs he of more the back with Its
wrole in my erilique that the rightful owners...."
The writer is a Les Angeles contrapuntal theme of the play architect. The spoon, an obsoleteis a matter of honour, "but such a code is at a discount these place of pattern, has now honour
ots - the desk of Mr days, wikitr offered
new I think Hella, pattern spoon as a souvenir.
my line was ironient, but song- one took me at my word, and. tion.
off for wrote in ticking me UNMO from Gourlay to Anne Scott-James-slighting honour so.
I met a new Engilah starlet SIGHTS OF LONDON: A young lady-an attractive one-harry- recently who tries to develop
down Park Lane with the Continental Bardot look, mink coat over her shoulders. They all try it nowadays, but than succeeds more High-heeled shoes, and nothing this one eine but a bikini.
The honest architect refused.
DISMISS
8
comed him She has changed her толь
I was afraid to ask her why, name
Ard I admit I do it for The Russian
dough.
Hell, there's
no
other incentive for any kind of
artist or creator.
Will
1 wen1 1 exotic, parties
one with
of these band
Chessman
10 Caryl Chessman is
S
to die after all.
I wonder
die?
By Ron Evans
fact.
do
a
DEADLY
They
GOT A
HANDS TIED
Next,
·By ·
JOHN LUFF
PASTING
young
What
doesn't
Osborne.
want
And
Oh, were they not? An M.P. or two had other ideas upon the
never be got Archer-Shee was missing. Car- about the rights of one insigni- to thinit could
som had a sense of drarna, and fleant boy, as Solleitor General, uver,"
Somehow, all England sensed, it seems that turning round to In spite of it all, Archer-Shee he had to represent My Lords of
what was happening. It was not the boy in Court, and shaking senior, bank manager, cleared the Admiralty,
Now there exists in England Archer-Shee alene, but some- hla youthful hand was one of his decks for action, and sciled
an anctent prlvliese, long how, enshrined within the com- the things he was looking for us saucily to the fray, as ever British frigate engege
neglected, and rusty from pass of the court was that most ward.to.
And, os in the play, young did an enemy. cruiser,
neglect. It is known as the inviolable Sovereignty the
Rights of the Individual.
Archier-Shee wasn't there. Later Petition of Right. The heartbreaking thing
Slowly, the fuels, so stupidly he called at the Law Courts to about the whole affair was that
Where had repressed by official bureaucracy thank Sir Edward. Idea Archer-Shee could not go to
the enemy. grips with
What Comon had to do was ten bied out, and how pathetical- he been? He had overslept. you say? He had of starting something. I thought hid behind their Invlolable posi to And a situation by which he ly forlorn they were as Carson What could
For the Navy, on paper, could invoke this Pellon, To picked them up and presented overslept!
There the play ends, but as I belonged to Edword the Seventh, do this, he had to establish the them to England.
First young Archer-Shee did sald at the beginning, I know and the King is above the law. notion whereby it could be
More to it then that, things proved that the King of England not need the money, he had one or two things more.
The first is, who is going to were not working out too badly had broken fellh with one of his ample eesh, and by merely
in this case with signing a chit, he could have pay for of this, and what are Let that be as it may, I had George Archer-Shee and entered subjects.
all the money n young lad could my Lords going to do abou
young
Archer- at the back of my mind the Iden Osborne from Stonyhurst, the George Archer-Shee.
Cadet compensating If this could be done, then the need. that "The Winslow Bay" was Catholic College, and they wel-
back, and accepted King could be approached, and Terence Back who reported the Shee? Two years have gone by, and he can't go back. Probably founded on a true situation, and
to return to I would like to know more about the boy's word of honour that Shirli
Scott-James It.
I asked
many people out he was not a thier.
But the father was backed up because, she says, after reading here if they knew anything,
Well, nu most of these huge bureaucratic of people who by his elder son, a major with
departments, the you, she thinks the nake Scot quite a number
G Mumber of
Navy had a bly dose of suiks. James is associated with clate
cume from Liverpool incidentally, DSO and
They had apologised, they were and quality. Are you failered?
but they could tell me only what Parliament also, and with this
not going to do any more. 1 knew already, that "The in mind, he decided to go the -(Londos Erpten Service).
so on. Winslow Boy** was founded on whole hog.
He suffered suclally for this,
unpopular His Majesty would write across loss of his postal order. Then, last year when I was and was extremely
"After all, the Petition, "Let Right Be did he do? He reported the loss home, I was in Liverpool for a in the best clubs.
to the Cadet Gunner and the subject, and in that typical Navy doesn't make Done." The King could then be week or
way of beating about so, and recalling the man, the
as any other Cadet Gunner reported it to the English play. I tried in
little mistakes of that kind. No, I'm taken to Court
the bush to get Chile! Polty
things going, Ciflcer, and the the boy did take commoner. not saying research.
Those who have dealt with Chief lelephoned to the Poal Mr Cave, Member for Kingston, While seeking about in the the money, but there must be
Government departments will Office-nd lo and behold, the proposed that the salary of the Picton Library, I met an old something to it."
readily appreciate that My portal order had been eashed. First Lord of the Admirality be man, end happened to mention
Miss Ana Clara Tucker was reduced by £100. Lords of the Admiralty did not casually that I was looking up
You know the But Archer-Shee, having de- accept Camon's suggestion with Post Mistress. the Archer-Shee care (the
kind of Post Office. A tray of cided on his course, refused to any marked enthusiasm. Winslow
a pile of I am quite sure the First Lord here, proper name of the
brck. He retained Sir turn man who
The barricades of obstruction toffer Epples Boy) and found he was not Edward Carson, then at the just thirty paces from
were thrown up The Admiralty magazines here: here a picture would have agreed to this & he spared what lived
only in possession of the Icets zenith of his career. It seems sheltered behind huge ales, and postcard, and there in the corner could have been
Mr Ramsay dath for eleven years?
followed. of stamps, which he supported with new-
the business powerful ad tried to the Carson's hands with all Che sun, small-time hood-
paper cuttings, but he knew of strange that this
to this red tape, but slowly and prin- letters, and telegrains taken over Donald soon to be the first Prime Minister representing the Win it? Or is this just another tum, was sentenced on June 25,
of that Hvocate is remembered the later fortunes technical
day as the man who brought the fully he proceeded. The case the telephone. used family. eleven shameful chapter in the fantas- 1948, on a charge of
So Mes Tucker gives evidence. welfare of the people, was the Oscar Wilde down in wes no longer local. It was dia exotic
heard championing the life-death drama of Cary! kidnapping.
At any rate, the play will tell
she identify the cadet? only voice The Could They
In Parliament. took
rules. Why not remember kim you this much. Late in the year for this for greater retion?
mall to get the Archer-Shee Quentin to die.
However, arst Carson wanted newspapers got hold of it, and Well, no, all cadets seemed alike the Navy. He said it was black- Parliament by Dut Chessman didn't die. "11800, Mr Murtin Archer-Shee, a bank manager in Liverpool, re-
George Archer-Shee and
She never had said that it was case heard in kept alive by reading the small
colved word through the Com- to satisfy himself as to the boys on all England was talising of to her,
Admiralty.
dennitely Cadet Archer-Shee, such teetles. print in law books," he told me
Well, the Navy got what Nel- mandant of the Royal Navel innocence.
Rattigan makes this one of the
Two years it took, two long But he had been to the Post when we talked in his Califor- College at Osborne, that My
son gave out so often, A real of the play us the
years of unbearable anxiety, Ofice that morning. ninn prison. ·
Lords of the Admiralty had de- big scenes
but on a hot day in July, 1910. deadliest exponent of the art of
Quite correck, he had, to eb- pasting. And real English con- He became world famous. cided to dismiss Cadet George
subjected cross-examination The prisoner la celi 2455, Death
iwo years after the postal lain a postal order for 15/0d, tempt for trying to hide behind Jegullsm. So they promised to young George Archer-Shee to
order was stolen, the case George wanted to send for
which they did, Raw, he wrote two best-selling
pay £7,120, the scverest going-over the
rame before a jury in the long-coveted toy engine.
and then went books about his experiences in
King's Bench Division,
But young Archer-Shee hid unraelously. gaci, had a film made from one,
child ever experienced.
Ife reduced the lad, to tears, then rose earned a small fortune, paid in-
withdrawn 18/- from dis savings away to sulk. But not for long. and said: "The boy
There was no war was not far off.
Mr Arther-Shee died come
to steal. is innocent, I accept the case.
that moming.
So upon this Now what Sir Edward had to
evidence My Lords sacket Cadet after the triumph of his son. And young Archier-Shee? Well, do was to get at the facts, end
Archer-Shee.
America, for Further The conclusion reached by the this he could not do.
Miss Tucker completely broke he went
although he seems to have been down under cross-examination. Admirnity WEG that Codet to that, the boy had, by becom- hed stolen the ing that strange creature, a cadet, Archer-Shee postal order, forged the alga- forfeited for the time being even ture, and cashed it. And as such such privileges a court martial behaviour was considered un-
might beslow. becoming to a gentleman cadet, That does not mean, of course, there was nothing to do but dig that the Navy Just threw him out in, cavalier fashion, but it does Archer-Shee was mean that during such proceed- informed of the decision, and ings the Navy Instituted, young was told to collect his son Archer-Shee was not represented George, who now, at the age of and could not speak on his own thirteen, bore a stigme that behalf.
This is the thought that erome
10 mind on learning that the His execution will take place Chessman, the Californian Supreme Court had "within 30 to 90 days," ordered rejected yet
another appeal by the Court. Cherman, 37-year-old gunman,
and confirmed the death sen tence
bim passed on
years ago.
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tax. fell in love with prison visitor-and thumbed his
use at the laws of America,
For eleven years he matched his genitis and feverishly-glean- ed knowledge against profes slonal attorneys. And he beat them, talking himself out of the gas chamber.
Time near
The judge and several of the him Jurymen who sentenced have since died. And 60 ather prisoners have taken their last walk past his cell.
"When they come to the cell next door you knew their time was ncor," he told me in his monotone. quiet, unemotional
Archer-Shee.
The Tex1501
for
ster
this action was, a five-shilling postal order had been stolen from the locker of one of the boys signature had been forged and the postal order cashed,
CONFUSED
miss him,"
Su Mr
"No."
cused
the
I realise I am becoming like Coryle in style, but it acems the best way to tell it.
ALL ALONE
Now Carson is on his feet. He goes straight into the attack. He speaks of Archer-Slice.
A да
forger, year
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a
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Muc-
She never did say It was Archer- real English in that he showed " son was branded sea...Shee. What she did say was, o mallee, as he grew up, he must thief and
A the boy who cashed the postai-have-seen-how badly he had boy thirteen
old order was the one who bought a been treaty!.
Now work it out. He was labelled and Hleketed, postal order for 15/-, Wha
thirteen in 1903, so that makes and has been labelled and
him nineteen in 1014. England ticketed for all his future life,
So be returned to Was she sure? Well, she had was at war. lot to do. Look after the England and joined, no, not the Army, in tho Fost Office, answer the 'phone, Navy, but the that disastrous resolt, neither boys were always coming in end Second Battalion of the South
as a thief and a furger, and in
Buch Investigation as led to
COLLAPSE
Xa earned a comerisaton. and as Breond Lieutenant George Archer-Sheo he fell at the Baille of Ypres, October 1914,
his father nor any friend was cut. She was always having to Staffordshire Regiment. Ever there to kear, one word go into the back room. Suppose what was said against a while she was in the back an- bay of thirteen, who by that other Cadet took the place, of one leftor, and by that one the one she had been serving? determination was absolutely Would she notice? No, all Cade's deprived of the possibility of looked the same to her,
There should be a moral to ali
would ruin him for any of the At any rate, Carson was hot the man to be put off by cheer professions for ever.
This piece of news struck the obstinale stupidity, bureaucratie family ke a thunderbolt, Mr or otherwise, and the case got Archer-Shee went post haste to as far as the Judge Advocate. Osborne. He got hold of George. The Archer-Stures were kept You heard the footsteps clatter
any future career eller fa And so on. The case for My this, but I can't find it, but when "Are you a thief?"
outside the room. This followed: Away 'down the corridor. Then
"...and My Lords desire mo
H[x] Majesty'. Bervloo, or Lords collapses, for on the fourth I consider how since the war. I it was quiet, very qulet-a
I that was the case, why did to say that the further enquiry
Indeed in any other Service." day, the Solicitor General an have been behind both the Iron strange quiet. When you heard
the officers of the Royal Naval is not one at which & repro-
Strong stud this, and the nounces that there is nothing to and Bambor Curtains, brei have been in over", so many places the wheel-cart come to take
Why pentative of your side in the other side sat up, remembering proceed with. away his things you know he College. think he was?
Carson must have given a bit where they shouted about free- Dense la which you use the word that their witnesses are to be was he being dismissed?
The poor confused youngster would be appropriate,”
cross-examined by the formid- of give and take, for after the dom I would like to know where added."
Will the wheel-cart ceme to did not know. Mr Archer-Shee By this time, Carson did not able Carson, and remembering collapse of My Lords, he siated in the world you would find the jeel 2435 this time?
no bad faith to whele State turned upside down Or will
He did not get very, far with ive's damn as to what was ap- more comfortably that they have he attributed
propriate or inappropriate, he the protection of Sk Rufus them, and that they had acted to entblish the rights of the
In a manner they cormidered individual-but, in England? Chegman Ond another loophole determined to find out. in the small print?
the aloof captain. With that was determined to get the caso Isanes.
The scound wontos me I don't know, but one Wing Olympian calm that distinguishes into court, and give it an airing. Carson Ares a broadside that proper, and as for Miss Tucker had been
quite a bit. The whole world certain. The final verdict in the Senior Service, he referred in publle-But how?
My Lords would fain dodge: "I (and how discatrous
to me to be turning 1-3 WYNDHAM STREET, HONG KONG. PHONE 20002 the cate of Caryl Chessman will Mr Archer-Shee to the Ad- And what made it worse was, proicet against that boy at that her evidence) Carson said she
into. one vast, bureaucralo Well, there Wod. mich
and the Lord help machine, Viders of 50 or more placed before August 31, 1959 will bend America guilty. It's leaky niralty, and as the latter is Sir Rufus Isaack, soon to become carly stage, a boy of that charac was not malicious but mistaken.
law hay made a sickening pan-crosanct,, Archer-Shee found the Lord Chief Justice, was on fer, being branded for the rest tomime of dealing with one himself in that frustrating the other side. No matter what of his lie by that one act, an handahiking in Court, and con- the pode individual caught up delivered early in December.
man's destiny.
situation known to all who try Sir Rufus's own feelings weno irretrievable act that I vonturb gratulations all round, but young
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