THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960,
Page
About Presidents and campaigns 3
and
+
"The Wilsonis? Oh, they moved out of lère about" there weeks. #go.”
"On the other hand, the reason they may not be growing
is because you planted the seeds upside down,”
Hitchcock,
I think
have
you
slipped up!
By RENE MACCOLL
New York.
HAVE just seen one of the most vile and dis- gusting films ever made. It is entitled "Psy- cho" and is showing at the de Mille Theatre on Broadway. The shocking thing is not only its repulsive contents, but the fact that it was made by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock.
The story concerns self with thing quite so revolting us these
a murderous transvestite ( shots.
one who obtains unhealthy
the
kicks by donning the clothes of Now look here, Maestro the opposite sex).
Hitchcock, just what is In the course of this unwhole- game? I saw the maestro's last some two hours we are shown effort, "North by North-West," two close-up murders in which three times, because I found it the victims
repeatedly so enjoyable and I remember stabbed in the face and body remarking to my wife that It while the
camera lingers on way so splendid that "Hitch" every convulsion and gasp and seemed to be right back in his apurt of blood."
old form.
ar
WHY?
What can Hitchcock possibly be thinking of le come up with this nasty little offering? Why
doos he have is contributo `his
Then, as the climax, we get personal donation to the morbid
About British women
Mummy
About
m Sinatra and
well, women
Don Iddon's
Election Diary -time-honoured time-waster..
WHAT the Americans should do now
is pick their President within the next few days and hold the election SINATRA and PROWSE-who's terrified of whom? itself within two to three weeks.
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COULD SINATRA
CURE BROADWAY?
DESPITE the end of the theatre strike Broadway is in the doldrums. Producers say it is hardly worth while at present astronomical prices to stage shows, particularly musicals.
One production, Girls Against the Boys, starring two very big names, Bert Lahr and Nancy Walker, lost £150,000 in 16 performances.
Nearly $500,000 (£170,000) assistance of his clan or rat- was spent in staging The Sound pack who have reorganised their of Music.
And even At the Drop of a Hat, with only two performers, lost $20,000 despite its six- month run.
Subsidies
Brooks Atkinson, the chief butcher of Broadway, who seems to be delaying his retirement as drama critic of the New York
Times, says:
ranks.
Sinatra will make $4,000,000 has in- alone this year and terests in Las Vegas casinos and malek, Texas of wells, Miami Beach palaces.
But he is still more interest- ed in women,
The new President could take over the White House by midsummer and Mr. Eisenhower could gracefully step down loaded with honours.
oul
This would be much the best Press Secretary, to one of the way
of the American many £35,000-a-yenr jobs Venuna.
which have been offered him in The
United States cannot private Industry and public forever go on wasting a full felations.
year in every four picking a
It would mean a new Cabl President. Will the Americans net, a new Corps of Ambas- adopt this plan? Not a chanec. sadors, new realistic foreign Constitution, which they regard
They are hidebound by the palicy.
It won't, happen whatever the as holy writ, and they are using mounting crises.
the same archaic method of
electing a President that they
honed when the Republic
was born.
Ordy a handful of obscure Congressmen have urged mod emising and streamlining the antique
system of primaries, conventions, November elections and the inauguration three months after the election.
New team
Old struggle
We will struggle and sweat conventions, through the July attend the drawn-out debate through autumn, elect the news President in November and then
the inauguration nex watch January, What a waste, what an anachronism.
The Americans are escaping the crisis in a spree of spend-
beach ing, buying
cottages, ordering the new 1961 motor- After the success of the Bri-
secretaries by cars which are being furtively tish. previewed, taking
European offices comes the success of the and gambling rather British models. jaunts
on the cratic slock
The crooner's If the Iddon jet-age plan of newest girl friend is a South electing Presidents were adopt- African dancer, Juliet Prowse, ed we could have an entirely reciclessly
to lead the West now co-starring with new team Elvis Presley in a new film and within a month or so. might co-star with Sinatra next time if he gives the nod.
who is
takes
other evening.
I now anticipate a Democratio victory. Certainly if the election were held soon.
market..
Just ghastly,
That would mean the depar- my dears...
"The cast of putting on pro- ductions and operating them and the cost of tickets to the public are appallingly high. At 23 Miss Prowse is sensuous They would be prohibitively and startling. Sinatra high in a sound business. If a her out every Broadway theatre were a busi- They first met
TURIOUS ness it would have to be de- Can Can, the show
British scribed as a sick industry." Khrushchev called "ascivious badly muffed matters and
women, or Europeans Soine
Government and lecherous, suggest
quite married to Englishmen, have subsidies as the only answer, Juliet says: "At first Frankie wrongly.
Frank I suggest
a perpetual love affair with -And Sinatra terrified me. Now I think I
would mean the should take over with the terrify him a little.
parture of Jim Hagerty, the New York City.
on the set of ture of Secretary of State
who which Christian Herter,
vised
the President
has ad-
de-
NOW THE BIG HEADACHE...
Castro
Can
them
how
keep dancing?
Havana.
THERE is music in the streets tonight. And dancing in the public squares. There was last night and there will be tomorrow. But tonight the rumba bands seem to be strumming out the beat a little faster and the large, good-natured crowd in low-cut dresses and shirts hanging loosely outside trousers is clapping hands a little louder as it matches the beat.
For now Castro has done it again. Without a band, without even a whimper, he has seized two more multi-million oil refineries belonging to the foreigners.
JESTLED
for
That La celebration among the Cuban people-it is good dignity.
by Michael Wolff
Havana's lush hotels for good" was a frequent com
and mall dance don't take over the refineries
mont I heard today.
for thefr
Dignity. In that funny old ballrooms a study of the decomposed unhealthiness of curlook and fashioned word lles the clue to foors of corpse of an old woman sitting interest which at present dis- the revolution's in a cellar,
suocess The first of the figures so much of the American Castro's ability
and and clubs are reserved. nurders, in which Janet Leigh, scene?
to retain sup- playing an absconding secretary,
plart and even considerable gets done to death while stand-
affection from his people, *ing naked in her shower,
After the patting it got ir from all the London criticu A
especially stomach-turning. was careful to steer well clear
In nearly half a century of m-going I cannot recall any-
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
darling the
Was it roaring
of something called "Peeping Toni" not Jong ago--but 1 cannot believe that even that could match "Psycho."
Oh, yes of course, "Psycha" is brilliantly directed.
But what a sad prostitution of a fine Lalent! Also in this one are Anthony Perkina play ing the murderer, Vera Lilies is luckless Janes Leigh's sister, and John Gavin is her lover.
TOO LONG?
Now please, please Mr H.. do cut out the nastiness and get back to the familiar light"| inuch.
You know perfectly well that you can give us all so much.
pleasure without having
resort to nightmarish dirt. get back to being wholeso
to
Could it be that you háve
It was made to me by people The Lights continue
to with plenty, of dignity-taxi- twinkle romantically as they driver, typist, clerk, messenger.
Saturday night, in some of the provinces.
To instil dignity into the countrytbik 1960 has been pompously named the Year of Agrarian Reform
THE TEST
To make the countryfblk are reflected in the huge bay. Each was afraid of the one aware of it, they are being The nightclubs are as over thing that would deprive them made to velebrate a Besta later
COSTLY PASSION decorated and the showgirls an of their new-found dream of this month to coincide with
"Welcome to the President" proclaims te banner across the street from my cable office. "Ambassador of our dignity." For a people born in slavery, brought up under the tutelage of foreigners and, which free dom-so-called came, still put upon by dictatorships, dignity is a noble aim.
under-dressed, as eyer,
But the big boys are losing a fortune. The little fellows the waiters and commissionaires and taxi drivers are losing their livelihoods.
dignity Communism.
PROVOCATION
the second anniversary of the revolution.
50 Castro faces his biggest | headache: to keep the people dancing, and in the dignity to For all the provocation that which they have become accus- Only, being dignified sort of Castro claims he May have tomed,
the oil COM- As the first Russian tankers chaps, they wouldn't dream of received from mentioning it as they stand pantes, for all the alleged chip in their crude oil, he has about the ghostly, empty hotel fronts to national dignity, rashly promised the people dig- Jobbles and restaurants,
there are plemnity of people who, fed first-grade petrol at the on second thoughts, fear all this old price. may have been just another: But the passion for dignity
It is when those engines start can be costly. While people however. Beneath the show excuse by the Communists in coughing in the rush hour that dance in the streets, the grand there is concern," "I hope they the Government to Lake over dignity will receive its severest
enterprises which are prodíable, tent, and foreign,
The dignity is only for show
Just Fancy That
The poople" of Havana know enough to fealise that Com- munism or Soviet domination being no port of dignity,
That is why I predict thone By cleaner Alfred Lee, heading home along Knights-ringing, danging crowds, in
bridge with 100 blankets stacked in his car the streets and public squares will other night, pulled in to the side of the road when police vanthus sudden as when, hadled him.
a tropical thunde
Day
over Havan
fived a little too loot, ka the "What are you doing with those blankets?" they allowed too great lund where the psychiatrie, is asked,
king and hideout violence f
canally scriptin as you
the daily ration? If so, why
a long holiday back in Br
to refurbish vickie: gizon values and sense of hatings
[London Expris
"I'm taking them to be cleaned,” replied Alfred,
They've come from Peel House.”
:ớm, sir," said the police...
Peel House is the Metropolitan Police/
TALKING
„No= "people":"do sol much. harm as those who go about
LL CRET
-MARTTAL"
JANE. BLACKBURN Startling
American
An outstanding hit, even chal- lenging Suzie Parker, is an Engish girl Jane Blackburn,
IT'S ALL TOO
FAST FOR DONALD CAMPBELL
THERE
THE
are
almost
a
many British visitors in New York as Amaricane in London or Paris.
to
I have been showing the town Donald Campbell and his blonde wife Tonia. Though the Campbell's were here only a few months ago they scarcely rebog- pise the place and keep getting -- lost,
There are so many detours and demo- litions and new construction just now that Manhattan is a laby- rinth.
Donald Campbell finds the Americans restless; "I'm rush- ing around organising the re-
cord attempt later in the
I don't blame them.
year. but I
feel a darnn-
ed sight more relax- in the of
She often works a ten-hour ed day including television. With cockpit dead white make-up, dark red the Bluebird. hair, tinted glasses, tall but ele- either the gant she startles the dinery at boat or the 21, Morocco, The Stork, Trader car.
is no re
Desperate
Jane, who didn't like the place at all for the first three months, now says: "New York is fabulous. And Beverly Hills gorgeous. And at first 1 thought everything was going
not
going to be
easy this time, as the Američani have a full jet automobile which might go faster than my car.
"Strictly speaking, the Ameri- Can jet does not adhere to the international regulations, but I don't want to see anyone but
to be ghastly. I hope you rang the British get over the 400 Up Mummy in London and told m.ph. mark,
her,"
"I wish the course af Utah
I find many of these delight- Salt Flats were longer there's ful dolls with as strong a mother not a hell of a lot of space to complex as sons have for their pull up." famous fathers.
I sometimes think that Donald has the death It is "Mummy this and He showed me the filmed record Mummy that which can be of John Cobb's fatal crasti AS tiresome. The accent is also too the boat blew up under · him: affected, the draw! drawn out, His wife shuddered and fue the manner too languid, and gulped a whisky. behind the facade is often an It is Donald's bellef that astonishing naivele.
being the son of great and
can
I shouldn't think that Ameri- famous man, while a precious women, the great pursuers, honour, is also a terrifying re- are too happy about this sponsibility and even a burden, invasion of British females. The lively Mrs Campbell tries
Today there are more than to calm her husband.
American 21,000,000
She adores New York, and
women
single, divorced, or widowed would like an apartment here.
They cannot get a man and Her plans for the
worli they try desperately. In the speed record land attempt? To US. 41,500,000 adult women are be 100 miles away. And it la
maried, but more than half my job to telephone her the are women without men.
news from the course.
Friell
BANK
RATE
PERS
"As I understand it, the economic danger at a too rapid expansion to an Affluent Society
wecessitated a halt at the Flatulent Skote.”
KO) coarse you dirays out some Leit,
who bring digèredit off the good name of