MVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
DRIVING
INSPECTION
"I KNOW It's an isosceles triangle, madam, but what does it mean to you as a motorist?”
"I'm glad I'm not in business for myself,
I wasted the whole darn day."
New York.
THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1960,
MR Anthony Notting,
having made his stately, well-bred way across American to publi- cise Sam Spiegel's film Lawrence of Arabia, re- turned to New York re cently exhausted, but, I would estimate, far from poor..
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER
Suave Mr Nutting
strikes it rich...
(EVEN BY HOLLYWOOD STANDARDS)
Publicity men of high calibre (the well-dressed ones are
the at the regelving end of not less called "fancy facies" in American filed business) are twin £20,000. But whatever it royally rewarded in Hollywood, he gives you the impression and Mr Nuttlag, an ex-Minister that he has earned it. of the Crown (he resigned after Eden's disagreement with
without
11 policy
0,00 Suez)
superlatives, eigars or ulcers. has been regarded with in- credulous respect right across the country,
The big money
A Hollywood critic said; "It's Ice Harry Truman coming here Olle plug В
for
tn do Preminger."
And when I telephoned his Chicago hotel the porter, con- fused perhaps by his height, or the cut of his Foreign Office voice, or his suit, called him "Sir Anthony" throughout.
What is he being paid? "I've been accused of getting £30,-
"Ive given seven interviews a day since I started," he said, "I didn't have the time to see Marlon Brando (the likely star of the film) but in any case, I didn't go out to Hollywood to see him.
Later this year Mr Nutting is
to prove his usefulness to his unplayer, Sam Spiegel, by going out to the Arab sountries where the film is to be shot, smoothing.
in the way, and arranging troductions with his many influential friends.
'No trouble
Americans have painted out with some bitterness that many Hollywood film workers
"There will be no trouble," he says. "The King of Jordan says he will be delighted to see us? After a year, however. Me Nutting will be out of a job again. He has no ambitions in Hollywood, and only accepted the job because of his admira- tion for Lawrence of Arabia.
"Richard Aldington's attack
on him was the most prejudiced book I have ever read, apart from Randolph Churchill's book on Eden. And you can quote
me."
The clear implication of his remarks is that he would like to get back into the Govern- ment, if the Government would have him. But as the smoothest pubileist this side of the Atlantic. the entire American film business has made it clear that they would like him for their own.
on
D
*
by Jeremy Campbell
the film Exodus followed "But I loathe the stage, the book closely, "I don't darling." she cried, as soon as I know," he said. "But it ret out of it ever since I was sat down, "I've been trying to opens with Fred Waring's 16. I hate everything about it... band.'
sticking my hair under the drier and talking to 21 those boring people who come up to you, and the theatres are so filthy I spend half my time in the bath,"
A woman hovered up with an
She's back!
PROTESTING that there
is nothing she
At this point the producer rushed out to buy Miss Bank- head
she an aspirin, and touched briefly on the delicate subject of her age,
"I'm rbt getting any jounger," she admitted. "But Somervet Maugham said my bone struc- I'm ture Whe very good, so all right for a bit longer."
Miss Bankhead does not mix readily with theatre people (she had just come away from blazing row with an actor). She surrounds herself with priests, judges, authors, perhandlers, jockeys, baseball outfielders and politicians,
She lists her interests as: (1) poker and (2) politles,
A Democrat
"I'm a Democrat," she said All intellectuals are DemocrĀS, thank God. Last election I d I would be on the wagon until almost in- Adial
autograph hove likes articulate with respect. but White House.
Stevenson was in the
"This time I'm for Kennedy,
less, Tallulah Bankhead is managing to tell Miss Bankhead
that she looked just like her but I'm not actually giving up
coming back to Broadway sister. after a long illness.
plnk She came to lunch in trousers, smoked through all the courses,
waiter. called a "Darling" and talked incessant- ty for a hour and a half,
Her conversation makes you that you are feel al times drowning in very good cham pagne, and clutching vainly a the slippery sides of her metaphors; at others
that you
000," he said "And I'm faller Jews, and have been unable 10 GEORGE JESSELL, who are being beaten over the lead
ed,"
get clearance to work in Egypt The most conservative estimate with units on location among New York public rela- But Mr. Nutting assures tions men is that Nutting is that all will be well.
Crisis in Singapore's People's Action Party
THE BIG
QINGAPORE'S socialist People's Action Party is
now in the throes of a struggle for power within the party with the leftwing white collar group led by Mr Ong Eng-guan, suspended Minister for National Development, fighting to take over leadership from the moderates led by the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan-yew.
Mr Ong has already been relieved of his duties
as Minister for National Development and his ex-
with rolled-up newspapers,
I did get a whole sentence cul, once, over the coffee, but
there
them
may produce Vivien Leigh in the filmed life of Mary Todd Lincoln, was asked if
it wasn't a very long one.
SMEAR!
By GORDON BUNG
Our Correspondent in Malaya
pulsion from the party is still being considered by were described by the central ment but the statement accused the central executive committee of the ruling body executive committee of the party Mr Ong of being in no hurry to of the party of which he was a member as trea- as a direct "challenge to the do this as he wanted to relain surer of the party and former minister.
and ever since Mr Ong, a 35-
year-old accountant, was out-
voled by a very small majority
for the premiership post last year by Mr Lee, he has been try ing to gather forces to take over leadership of the party and government.
technical
ex-
Ribs broken
"God help your sister," rtsped Miss Bankhead, "if she's as ugly te I am."
"Ghad," she went or, "I wouldn't have come back into
drink for him.”
for
We mentioned the other candidates, and Ml Bankhead, who had been speaking nearly 90 minutes, unaided, laughed her laugh which is like muffled
gun-fire and said: "Humphrey's O.K. but he talks too much."
the thestre if I didn't need the money. I was flat on my back FOOTNOTE to Sir Victor with five broken ribs and Sassoon. Miss Bankhead says nephritis and I weigh eight and she sent you £10 to put on 3 ball stone. The newspapers
were too unkind, they made me St Paddy just before the She hasn't heard out to be practically dying. 1 Derby, was dying, but they had no from you since, right to say 50,"
-(Landon Ezsrum Service).
Roderick Mann:
They done me wrong, says Lucky Luciano
THE
Naples.
estice Bureau out of work, so maybe they won't do that."
He chuckled to himself once
more, and got up to go.
'IT'S DULL'
drill for contacting Lucky Luciano along the Naples waterfront is actually quite simple. party's collective leadership" and control over "the City Council merely "red herrings to draw empire." attention away from the real and Eventually, the Prime Minister
You pass the word around at the California restaurant that you are looking for him, and sure This political crisis in the party ever, received the portfolio of immediate issue-the rampant stepped in and took over the has been brewing for a long time National Development, remained individualism of one man." cotmcil and rural board, which enough, out of nowhere, he suddenly appears.
in control of the City Council At the conference, Ministers, Mr Ong had so far refused to
gang-ride. Listen- and .was given the job of parliamentary secretaries and hand over. It was then found Now what should one expect similar film about my life and from a reorganising the Singapore Im- assemblymen stood up and ac- that friends of Mr Ong, without of the last big surviving game show me in the wrong light, nobody ever walked back from provement Trust to deal with the cused Mr Ong of a whisper cam- the necessary
ster of that distinguished class too. Murders, and all that. So a gang-ride. Those rides ended such I decided to make 簇 deal in the river, I got called Lucky serious problem of housing in paign against members of the perience, had been put into of 30-which included Singapore,
Government and against his own senior jobs in the council and immortal names as Al Capone, whereby I got a say in the final when I was a kid because my Schultz, Blue-Jaw Alm. And that's what I done." real name was Laconia-see?" Meanwhile, many of the men colleagues in the cabinet.
that many engineers had resign-Dutch and women detained under pre- He was sakt to have accused ed from the various departments, Magoon and Buggsy Siegel?
He stopped smiling for a "Who's going to play you?"
moment and looked depressed. vious governments were released the Prime Minister, Mr Lee the statement said.
"Do you get bored here?" He chuckled An ordinary
"I want people to know I asked (Although no longer the truths about me." he said, under curfew, Lasciano is kept chuckle; nothing menacing.
"See, in the States they still under strict police surveillance). I admit that's "Well, now.
blame ma for everything.
"Yeah," he said. "But I'm Drug-trafficking: the lot. 3 now, and I don't wanna do easy, soe. They can't get the so much any more. Every now real people, so they blame me and again people come down "Listen, if they had that like Raymond Chandler, before
At the moment the moderates seem to have the upper hand in the present one-sided mud- slinging match now being waged in Singapore,
But one unknown factor in the prosent, crisis is the stand that
the
leftwing very powerful workers group led by Mr Lim Chin-siong will take.
sent row or lake sides?
Will his
Singapore who in doing away with the last "vestiges G
Powerful
علماء
work
is
now
оп
"If you had your time again, what would you do?"
"That's
say," he "The same sort of thing, unly I'd do legal. Too late. I learned that you need just as good a brain to make A crooked million as an honest million.
Some aura of теласе, Un- by the PAP. when they came Kuan-yow, of being pro-
Sour taste doubtedly. Some nostalgle into power last year, and one of colonial and being used by them was Mr Lim Chin-slong to British intelligence...
Mr Ong's Ministry was also souvenir of those carefree days gether with many of his leftwing the
chairman party
and put in charge of the housing when the boys went around
delicate filigree doing trade union Izienda.
deuply Prime Minister, Dr problem and asked to reorganise upon each other with the ald difficult. See, all them actors
Improvement Toh Chin-chye's idea of a the Singapore
of Mr Thompson's celebrated who were so good at playing
passe national construction corps and Trust and establish a new hous-
gangsters machine-guns.
people like George Raft and Mr Lim and his friends are claimed all the credit for him- ing mithority to provide more now holding responsible positions self said that in the P.A.P. cheap houses for the poor.
For in any Who's Who of Edward G. Robinson, George in the Government-reorganised there were three groups--the Here again, said the statement, the Mob, Lucky Luciano mast Raft was a great guy. I knew much on me"-he tore a snippet he died. But it can be dull" group remain neutral in the pre Trades Union Congress and also rightists, the Communista and Mr Qug did, nothing and in fact
on the rate considerable space. Albert him in the old Broadway days: from the newspaper of the engineers and Mr Ong is best remembered as hold political secretary jobs with genuine socialists...he was many
was table and held it up to me Anastasia, the Lord High And Edward G. Robinson the fiery P.A.P.
the various ministries.
in S.I.T. fesigned. Mayor of
Inc always ace-high in my book." "if they had that much Executioner for Murder
me they'd pull me in. But they This powerful leftwing trade the only genuine socialist in the architects
(who was rubbed out recently party branding the party as Then without consulting his fel-
"How about Frank Sinatra?"
got nothing, in a barber's chair) always union group led by Mr Lim has a pro- colonial...practised the low Ministers or even the Prime
among the
Bald: "Lucky colonialism" in the City Council, very big following done away with the mace, the workers and students, and it was personality cult... blackening Minister, he announced, to the Queen's picture, pictures
of only a matter of course before the names of the various mini- public his $400 million low cost former presidents of the City Mr Ong was sesicing Mr Lim stries and Government officials housing plan for which there
fellow cabinet were no funds. ... smeared
ALL SMILES Council, the Union Jack, and re- with hopes of making e
But this public denunciation ministers... attempted to split letwing fused to wear mayoral robes.
"Say, he's done all right, the party and disrupt harmony has left a sour taste in many During his 1-year-rule as moderates from power.
mouths and already two PAP. Alarm and despondency were huh? I used to wonder how
He had assemblymen have come out into widespread among
Mob he'd make out. the "Mayor in Whites,” he ruled Then came the sacking of Mt among its members and leaders.
so one? Ong for "challenging the party's
the open and thrown in their lot when Lucky was jailed in 1930 many chips on his shoulder and collective leadership and dis-
then ten years later he was always fighting. But I Mr Ong replied to the accusa- with Mr Ong. The PAP. branch and
of Hong Lim is still 100 per cent released and deported to Naples, liked him for rupting party unity" from his tong saying. ministerial position and suspen- "Mans MICRO and uniene behind Mr Ong, so much so that. sion
from the policy-making things have been spoken of me the branch has now been sus benevolently, for all the world
Yet there he stood, smiling Sinotra would be OK. body of the party until & by my comrades. They are all pended for "Bagrantly flouting like some philanthropic art col-
'MY HUMOUR' decision on his expulsion had Ites and there is no ntcelty for the party's directive on three tector.
me to repudiate them."
successive-bccasions."
the City Council with an Iron- hand and was accused on
many
occasions by opposition members of being a "pocket dictator."
Leaderless
of
beep made.
to
QUIL
united the
Schemed
the
the
of
"He'd be OK. I knew Frank too-but I ain't seen him since we was in Cuba together after
the war.
that
"It's the kids who do the crimes in the States now, There are no big people any more.. The kids get the drug habli, and they gotta have the stuff, so they rob and kill for
What's the answer to
"These days you apply for a licence to steal from the pubile. If I had my time again. Tá “Legalise drugs. Let drug- make sure I got that Hence addista be registered. That first. that, Yeah,
Then he grinned "way you'd stamp out the
and was crime, But it would also put gone. a lot of people in the Nar-
--(London Express Service).
"See, I want someone whoʻll show my sensitive side; my That's where
They made him out to be just #thug.
"Well, I'm no angel, trus., And they "gośća exaggerate things to make Toy story Interesting, Buk u theo murders and-- stuff—that's ridleuions.”
Since the jailing of P.A.P. Assemblyman, Mr Lam Chin- siong in 1955 under the Preser- His sacking came as no great He said that the proceedings If Mr Ong's expulsion is rad- Sliver hair; smiling eyes; valion
Public Security surprise but was the way in have been schemed in the most fied by the central executive crisply andered shirt; shoes Ordinance, after the student which it was done.
undemocratic way and although commitice he will lose his seat buffed spotless
by countless sensa humour. riots, the Singapore Chinese- A weekend conference of the he asked that the meeting de- in the Legislative Assembly and shoe-shines: a diamond is the Al Capone film scared me. educated electorate had been left party's central executive com- cided on his expulsion resolution there will have to be a by-finger. more or less leaderless,
mittee, assembly and branch by secret ballot, the vote was election in Hong Lim. Omg's frequent attacks executive met supposedly for a taken by a show of hands.
But there is only one person
A distinguished-looking gull- against the British. and review of the past year's activi But the amear campaign did in the P.A.P. who might be able tleman indeed. And one colonialism in general earned' ties.
not end here. A few days after to beat Mr Ong in the election-whose activities you are about, him a large following from Instead, the conference look on the expulsion resolution was Mr Lim Chin-slong. Even the to hear more--for he is now among this group of residents. all the trappings of People's passed, the central executive Prime Minister would not have a collaborating on a film of his His popularity with the valers Court with Me Ong' as defend- committee issued a statement charice in the constituency. Life: The Lucky Ludatio Story. was such that when he slood for ant
Isting "a few examples | pf But it is very doubtful. If Mr election to the new Legislative
The minutes of the meeting blunders which Mr Ong was al- Lim wants to be a chopping peaks in broad Brooklynese
"L-bell you," he said. the Assembly last year in the Hong were released to the pulls the leged to have committeed during block for Mr Lee and bla Lind constituency, which is part following day, in which it was his term in the office as Minister moderates, who would phuckle in but i will not attempt to repeat of Chinatown, he won his seat- seen that all party members pre- for National Development. i secret if he was defeated, telling it here), "I tell you, I been with the largest majority that sent except one stood up to tell
Fifty thousand," he echoed. The statement said that the themselves they had nothing to thinking about this film for a any candidate received in the of the "avil-doinas" of Mr Ong. facts were being revealed to tear from the left now.
"Now what would long time.
I do with entire election
The great smear campaign had show that Mr Ong's suspension
that kind of money? That's Mr Lim and his lefiwing trade *Boe, I seed what they did chicken feed. No, I want four Riding on this wave of popul- begun and by the end of the did not spring from a conflict of union hold the key to the crisis to my friend Al Capone in times that much for my story." arity, the only thing that scared meofrig ist – ovnference – un oersonalkies but "from a desire burn is likely that Me Lim win
fimt, pleitaro liby made of his. Do you plan that this flm to stop him from becoming animously voted to recommend to prevent him from infleting stay neutral in the present-dis- life. That was terrible. Al will correct the mistaken im Singapore's Arst Prime Minister Mr Ong expulsion from the further damage to the prestige of piste hoping that the present Who the formanty of a vote by party to the retrat executive, the government and the party, tots may harm the ridget Well that, I know him pearlone we all seem to have the ruling body of the P.A.P. committee,
swingers can take over control of netikuks they showed. A mittee of which he was a lated by his tabling of 16 resolu- When the party came into the party and them wyrernment. ménüber.
tions which had thai manimous power that yest, Mr Ong was the TOMORROW. Bat he lost the vote and pres backing of his spastikuncy, in simkied to integritte: the City
resolution sell into the tentral women. They Lort Thele Touchs
and the welfare of the
expect to make out of the Alm? "What sort of money do you Fifty thousand?"".
the central executive com-, mcking had been precipi-. Singapore,” people of so much, that he and his lett-Away beds,alie zabout you?"po
That's what I hope, Like how I come to be called
Lucky! The repas, always that I got called that
• LONDO), walled backc
MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*
* CLOG; ANYTHING THAT HINDERS MOTIÓN
OR. RENDERS DIFFICULT.
keeps to the left of the road
ha should make it nefer for those who want to overtake.