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NOBODY WANTS
THEIR
MONEY
TORONTO. CANADIAN rovolt
A against United States
silver coins is causing chaos -hora. One in every four coins in Canadians' pockets is American.
The coins have been trend here. for years altlugh the Canadian dollar is worth between three
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1960. -
Be glad you won't
Don Iddon's Dr
Dary
see an election like this in Britain
and five per cent more than the YXHAT a beautiful brawl the
American,
Recently Canadian banks on- nounced a d,wottai tn United States silver to drive it back across the border and Canadians are now frantically trying to get Shops, Bamcars, a bu are refusing them bas they a
The Camudina Tourist Assets fun is protesting about the bad effect on United Stator visitors.
rad of He coins.
still gain storm ch
W
New York.
American election is turning out to be. A few weeks ago it looked like being a stereotyped con- test between the new model, Richard Nixon, and the Lochinvar from Massachusetts, the rich and hand- some Senator Jack Kennedy.
And the Bartenders Associadad are in the ring gouging, kicking.
Today everybody and his grand-
Con has advised at.. embers nat
lo quibble over the eurteney of kidney-punching, and screaming
Hips,
Churches report that collecting | plotry are heavy with American Filver.
#
Even a blind beggar in Toronto] told me he had refused American dime. He said he could tell by the touch there was Queen's hund an London Express Service.
POCKET CARTOON
* OSBERTI LANCASTER
BAN BOMB
"Another £'kristovus, perhaps? won't think twice before) gising Aunt Ethel a cuchscrip tion to the New Yrarevinaan !**
IT
London Express Servtri
"foul" at the referee.
The entire political pieture nas changed in this spring-time for Henry, Jork. Dick, Lyndon, Adlai Stew, Rocky, zudl Hubert.
Governor Rockefeller is de-
strating the half-nelson by suddenly conning back into the night with a nation-witle sprvalting! tour after willairawing from the battle and leaving the Republiems nominar to Vice President Nixun.
Drafted
Band No
NOCKEFELLER <
STEVENSON »
KENNEDY
IT'S ON IN EARNEST—THE
UNDIGNIFIED SCRAMBLE
FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
I would refuse 1 would appear to be a draft evider."
Translated, this means: "Sure I'd lake on the Jeb of trying third time to win the Presidency they ask me nicely enough af Ls Angeles in July.
Neisen Hackefeller sill says, "Pru not seeking the namina- tinn," but when I ask. “Suppose you are drafted-nominated by neelain at the Chicago Stadiumit he says, " eres that bridge when I cun 16 it."
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Stockefeller 1 bridges like Montgomery's Eighth Army, and he's prepared
< kwin the Great Lakes necessary to get the nomination.
And Adisi, the intellectual, is back in the hout pretending to IN CAV.
"If I told you I would accept la draft it would appear i was courting a draft. And if I said
Why all this simpering, "hard-to-get" altaudat
Witty
this
Because the candidates think the bashful-maiden role of the girl who has never been behind the haystack is becoming and pleases the voters.
I went along to the Waldorf Astoria last week to watch, talk, und listen to Mr Slovenson,
He
was
lanted,
thinner, adroit. witty, relaxed. He had Just returned from a nine-week tour of Latin-America, and he said he wanted to talk Latin-America.
Mumblers
about
But fur anvel of the 50-odd minutes while he lounged in his chair, grinned, and spoke with easy eloquence the subject was the United States election.
Nu one on the horizon has the intellectual stature, the vivid imagination, the administrative experience of Stevenson.
He is a statesman, an oralot. The others are mumblers. The
GOURLAY
trouble is he has been badly thrashed twice by Eisenhower, and no two-time loser has ever been nominated again in Ameri- can history,
Still he is there now under the spotlight speaking with grace and fervour before univeraly groups, horling the well-timed Press conference, starting in the telovision Press panel.
Dislike
the
He does not like Nixon. (One of the fascinating features of this Buntagontem campaign is among the candidates, the feel- ings ranging from active dislike to open hatred.)
HUMPHREY
Stevenson doesn't want Nixon
In the White House. Ex-President Truman, now baby-sitting in New York, doesn't speak to Nixon and only nods to President Eisenhower.
the
Mrs Roosevelt, also in middle of the fight, but more as a second or trainer, doesn't want the millionaire, glossy Kennedy troupe at any price.
In debt
favours
She, at the moment, The poor man's candidate, fuber! Humphrey, but really supports Stevenson, Humphrey is playing the role of the barefoot bay convincingly that he announced; "I'm broke, Hubert Hum-
phrey has no more campaign funds and we are, in fact, in debl."
+
· ˇRLOHARD NIXON-playing safe with platitudes
Kennedy, scrapping the Cadil- lestant West Virginia where the Humphrey is battling Jack lacs and substituting buses and coal-miners are having a hard time and where the old Mon John Kennedy in the West Virginia shabby Buicks, and taking an- primary or preliminary election other look at the Hollywood L. Lewis has come out flatly after their Bght in Wisconsin. troupe, the Kennedy follies of against Kennedy, would
"I swear Humphrey
that Handsome Jack's chances out to pour 1980, shouts: corn on Kennedy's riches and 17,000,000 Americans go to bed the nomination. splash petrol on the rising fires hungry every night.”
Defeat would be bad, perhaps disastrous. of the election.
is
WHO KNOWS AND TELLS IN HIS UNMISTAKABLE WAY
WHEN I SEE TWO PEOPLE
WITH A GOOD IDEA AND
IT'S
THE SAME ONE... Naturally, I ask
needs the plumed, lethal pen of Oscar Wilde himself to do full justice to the present situation in British film studios, where two rival films are being made about his life and trial.
I will do my best with the equipment I have. One version stars Peter Finch as Wilde and is produced by Irving Allen, who descended on us from Hollywood several years ago, and who has until now shown scant interest in anything which could be described as literature.
The other has Robert Morley as Wilde and is directed by the improbable '. but solidly real Gregory Ratoff who claims that he was reading "The Ballad of Reading Gaol in Russian when he was a boy in St Petersburg. You nsk why two companies should decide to tackle the same difficult, somewhat esoteric, subject simultaneously.
The answers, which have But later Mr Allen withdrew heard with mounting incre- his writer and onnumeed he dulity, make me thankful that would make his own fim inde- I no longer devole all JmY journalistle time to the show business swaks.
As Wilde himself said. "Train is never pure and rarely simple." Here is the impure. complex
• truth.
THE REFUGEE
Dendently.
Maliciously it is said that originally he had heen under the impresion it was all about Marty Wilde,
may well
I assured him 1 wouldn't. Ho went on-
who
thought
of
it first
I know when I'm beaten.
"We welcome competition. We have a marvellous cast. So have they It is unkind to say how As yet neither of the sides Is can Peter Finch, who was on willing to odmall that it is. The Australian cowboy.
Diy Wilde, battle will continue unabated. As Wilde himself would say. He now KYN "I don't really He is a fine sclar.
"May the worst side win." recognize Mr taleff and his
"But 50 is Morley, and 1 fim. As far as I'm concerned it's Just a qulckle. Ours is a think he is the perfect choice. full-scale colour production cost- ing £300,000.'
Irial
"We are
not compromising The other night with the story. 1p the Mr Ratoff, a refugee originally from Bolshevik Russia and more at dinner, n he vigorously scene we have the clacale sustaining helping moment when Wilde is anked: recently from totalitarian Holly munched a wood, where he made a shoot of of chicken ple. Mr stof Did you kins the boy?" films us actor and director, was divided his sourched-earth face planning to make a television into a smile and told me:--- εστίου 19 which the trial of Wilde would be included.
But be divided that subject. morited full-length cinematic treatment, At
The
that
would have
"O.K. The bloody battle in on. I hope their budget includes the price of green carnations.
THE PERMIT
"Now
I am
an
American
time CETMORRĪĀLS banned a film about Whốe which citizen and the other day I am
"And he rupiled. 'No. he was too ugly.'
"Today. I direct for the Grad Hime a love scene between two men. The censor has approved everything.
Sammy
gives the message
I
"It is funny, but I have to
HAVE awry manage. ÉROED
hlo London debut next month
Theatre
cout not have mared the informeil that my Brillah work tell John Neville how I want a
line read. But I apologize and at the Pigallo
subject of homosexuality.
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decided to make the film.
permit may be withdrawn. Have
тов-
any, 'Forgive me, an old Russian, taurant. Recently in the more tolerant. I any comment to make? I soY for telling you the Hamlet of
Mr Davis, on he says himorit, the Old Wie."
suffere from the handkop of Aport from this rendering of boing a one-eyed Jowelsh Negro. Old Vie I love made no effor Hr he is also, in my opinion, attempt to accurately reproduce one of the moet remarkably
entertainers the English of Me Ratoff, which talented
I boliève in the 'tuaties of this кая
country. I have done nothing Na Irving Alken, who Was Wron so how can I logo the looking for n how subject, permit. participated. He sent n writer "Anyone can make "ho Dim to co-operate with Jo Elsenger about Wilde. You can acant one
preparing who wash
flie dub tomorrow, With Tommy Steele a Wide if you like."
Ápt.
He writes: "I will profits
In all this tremendous
He, with Harvard, Palm Roach, Newport, J. P. Morgan, and the Chase National Bank behind Vice-President him, as out to prove he's the poor man's candidato too, that his heart bleeds for the miser- able.
Too rich
boost
for
to-do Nixon, once
famous.. us the jugular vein nighter, goes smoothly to the sports stadiums handing out gold and silver cups and mouthing platitudes.
His strategy has become ไป infuriate his supporters as well as his opponents. The crowd shouts "Come out and fight,
His opponents shout coarsely, you burn."
Jack. Was you there,
"Hey, Jack? You with all the jack, was you there?"
Poor, beautiful Jacqueline Kennedy is finding it all rather thrilling and very exhausting.
There is a strong anti-Ken- nedy ide swelling all the time, Perhaps it's Jealousy.
Holding fire
But Nixon, who doesn't fear Kennedy, perhaps because of Jack's handicaps, but possibly fears Stevenson, is saying very little.
The man is too handsame, too He is holding back his Bre and fight until Inter. The fact from rich, too young, too popular, too
two charming. Kill him off is the ery that his popularity goes down of Senators Stuart Symington, in the polls and the forecast is Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Hum- that Kennedy could beat him in Obviously a formidable Indy phrey, with discreet murmurs of a traight fight apparently
approval from old Adlai and the grond dame, Eleanor Roosevelt.
have laddered not be going to South £25,000 to £158,000 Africa after London. years. J'm not suggesting they'd ban me because I'm a Negro. Or be- CAUSO I'm Jewish. But they wouldn't like my black eye- patch."
of business, but not frightening og most of them re.
She competes successfully in the male domain of board rooms and meetings but no masculinity mars her appearance and clothes.
FILM producer Ivan eyes as
Faxwell is pack
ing to leave for Hollywood. He has been invited to work there by Paramount Studios.
This is quite in honour. Most Hollywood studios would pay to keep some of our producers and store away.
Hard time
She is a decidedly So there is a gigantic serap
doesn't perturb him,
He has had all these thunder- ing endorsements from President Eisenhower, but everyone on the inside knows that Eisenhower is not exactly infatuated with Nixon, and rarely invites· him socially as friend or companion.
Nixon also has to contend with
attractive woman with hair and ping match among the Demo- dark as the latest crals themacives as the West stocking shades.
Virginia election 95 pc. Pro- the resurgent Rockefeller, a Now after stretching the sales testant rages, and the issue of mort engaging personality to the
en- public. by new methods of advertising religion becomes ("I stopped TV ads: the venomed.
weren't paying off") and colour-
Fortunately. Foxwell, whose ims the latest is "Touch of Larceny have set sistently high standard, will not But be gone for 200.
con- д
П
more
Cold fish
2
The Wisconsin election proved ful packaging, she is turning free that Catholics will vote in t attention to men's socks.
religious bloc on occasions. They "I have mumy ideas about voted in droves for Kennedy I confess to enjoying all thig tumult and shouting. If it had more attractive socks for men of whatever their party affiliations. all ages. Not necessary gaudier This in turn has produced a all been cut and dried between but more fashionable,"
Protestant bice, and the religious Nixon' and Kennedy i would battle between She didn't specify her ideas, Issue could become inflamed and have been
machines, a contest between men we men may have to cope ugly. with shades and games like None of the candidates them who beneath the surface charm those she's used for women. For selves bring up the religious are cold Ash, relentless, com- example. Las Vegas and bent question. All disavow It. But it petent, but opportunist, there all the time.
This way with all the circus Despite it or because of it, and Hollywood trbanks it is Joung Kennedy is at running more stimulating and certainly strong. A handsome win in Pro- healthier.
He will make one film comedy thriller, and hasten back to British studios and his two ochro Imposing houses un Belgravia and Wiltshire.
"I hope to bring back moro knavledge and skill. Also a fair amount of dollars for Brital and the tax man."
Fortunate Foxwell will not have to spend his considerable sultry when he sets up house in Hollywood with his wife Lady Edith and deb daughter Zia.
He has been given an expondo allowance of about 1,000 dollars a wool.
I was given this figure, not by Mr Foxwell, but by a Hollywood executive. He counded decidedly owed.
Or as owed as n Hollywood executive ever sounds.
Mrs. Ford
makes leg
work pay
HAVE been talking and
listening-to Mrs Ann Ford,
of any the director of a top horler y in overlaid with a rich mixture colour or creed ever produced firm. Since she joined the board of Russian salad.
by Aamerica.
then linh là clining the
She said: "the socret of working successfully with men, as I do to make masculine decisions when NOCENILTY, and always look feminine. Dut ever throw sex around like a
abekmping not.
"You eatch nothing except remarks like 'Hero's that bitch the boss's wife ogain-flutter- ing her oyclist.cm."
"I'm always careful
in busi-
ness hours to treat my husband Hke the 'guvnor.' I knock before I go into his room. I don't sit down till he adcę ma."
Oldside the office Mrs Ford I'm sure sita when sho fecin like it. And uses, the shrimping net when necessary,
ANOTHER fragment Fashion and Men,
about
I have received ■ letter from Mrs Tama Allay, who Ilvos in Malta, in reply to my recent reference to a dandi. fied young man wearing while glovke with evening drese.
" and my girl friends tong for a rebirth of the alova fashion bachuse all our dance
dresses have
a gray amudge on the back where we've been clasped by sweaty hands."
Nubber gloves would ob. viously salaguerd.
an even better ~Condon Expirate Cervica).
"if give a rulse to the man who can go the longest
without saking for one.”