NO MORE
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1960.
The Garrison
Players
WITH the succesful launching of the drama season by the Garrison Players, and with particular attention paid to their selection of plays, expert production, and considerable action ability it is time to consider the future of this talented group.
can be For I such talent mustered, and such audiences can Le
the pulled througli theatre doors, this pretent group should hold together, not only for their own sake, but for the best interests of drame in the Colony.
Interests
by John Luff
BD
My reason for suggesting this change of name is that in way are the Garrison Players meeting the objects for which they were formed.
This is the positions. Follow- the DAK the re-occupation of
Colony in 1945, Immediately the utilides were functioning,
But the time has come when the committee and the actors should meet with the serious Intention of discussing whether their best interests are served by retaining their prosent name. and whether the selection of a new name might not be better the problem of restoring socia! in rallying might be put off by thinking that Garrison Players is repre- sentative of the Garrison; and
whole was given attention. newcomers
appealing to the public wha night imagine that the Garrison Players represent the Gurrison, For in spite of the title, the Garrison Players have had only the slightest relations with the millary or years. The General Ofleur
PreK- Conununding is dent, and this Bouson there is une Services Member.
The past
the
of Colony
the futuro avoided falling into cilques and the multi-national sels, and communities were led to form one community by finding in- terests in common endeavour, the future of the Colony would be better served.
Intention
So it was that the Army was directly responsible for forming Iwn societies, ond. It was the declared military Intention of naintaining a maximum coll- tribution to these societies.
of
The Garrison Phyers, un the two societies, was to be a
company Servlee
of players.
He In looking ahead, a looking over the shoulde" was performed also, and in trying to obtain an appreciation of past events, it was felt that some uspects of the pre-war purforming for the cnterlain- Colony days were undesirable ment of the whole Colony, It for the future.
was felt
that much could be by showing that a achieved
tulents were not soldler's
While this is no place to dis- cuss morale, it was felt that if
Mr. Fleming
escapes from Belgravia
MR
-THANKS TO JAMES BOND
IAN FLEMING, gentlemanly chronicler of the bizarre and ungentlemanly adventures of James Bond, secret agent, did something very unusual recently: he went to one of his wife's renowned luncheon parties in Victoria Square at which the guests included Mr Somerset Maugham, Mr Cyril Connolly and Mr Angus Wilson.
Normally Mr Fleming flods such occasions an unmitigated bore. He much prefers to be in a-low-bar-in-Hamburg
It is possible, too, that in the presence ní ruch august literary celebrities, Mr Fleming feels trifle intimidated: a discussion of Mr Fleming's literary tions, such as une lady wears nothing but a leather belt. might not be exactly
St
crea-
who
apposite
you
"That Belgravia crowd, 'would need a lin-opener to get at them. They may, of course, _be_just_as_interesting as anyone else underneath, but it would
take years to find out und then, of course, they might turn out
to be as boring underneath un the surface.”
RU!
mited to performing his mili- tary duties. The British soldier's place in The commu- nity, in those days, WIS phasised by a pamphlet which bore the title, "The Citizen Saldler."
Six years
Unfortunately. these high motions, born from the success- ful conclusion of six years hard fighting, have come to nothing. Garrison and the civilians are as remote as ever they were.
So the namic, Garrison
Players, has become meaning-
less: lis objectives not at-
templed; Its intentions un-
leeded.
Better all round that The gallant troopers who now froop under the Bag of the Garrison Players, And name for themselves, one maro de-i finite in describing who snd what they are,
This
GETTING
"NOW, WE MUSTN'T ́ HAVE NATO DISRUPTED BY-ER-FELLOW-TRAVELLERS, YOU
KNOW!"
dying art THINGS DONE
NEW generation of "Founding Fathers" has emerged in the US. who to the American mind are as vital to the cause of freedom as were the men who produced the Declaration of Inde- pendence.
Fr
I met them
Must Americans frinly be Reve that their freedom
de
The creation of James Bondpends on the continued ability
Mr
such Fleming-of has provided
Where?
at
I have the secret
by
Chapman Pincher
TO MITCHELL, inventor of the Spitfire.
men,
FOR PREPAREDNESS
I can suggest only one quick solution for this national debility set up the "Founding Fathers" gystern" here.
A start
London Expresa Jurricu.
The frenzied
panic
the name of Monckton
has inspired
by DANIEL MCGEACHIE
THE
woman
Salisbury. what it was all about. But they got 'caught up easily recep in the mase exektement. And tionist-at-my-hotel in nine months as the one- "tom Report" got father the The African crowds have got angrier which, Defence house-girl didn't come day has arrived and the Fodera- The long-awaited publication
29
for
said:
Best known of these outstanding men are:-
Admiral HYMAN RICKOVER, seven years. While the British "Father of the atomic sub- stifi consider that 10 years is
Admiral WILLIAM needed to produce a misstic, not caring so long as his pro- RABORN, "Father of the Poinris Reborn delivered the Polaris fect was ready in time for the missile," and Professor ED- for launching from the atomie Inevitable Baitle of Britain, WARD TELLER, "Father of the submarine In less than five. H-bomb."
Against resolute political and There are many other publie- uncial resistance Teller y acknowledged "Fathers" of pushed for the H-bomb when To WHITTLE. who not only similar projects.
the Russians
Invented were already
the jet engine but -work-on-it-and-got-it-in-time through stubbornness bordering
The drive
Let us start with the TSRZ of General BEN on eccentricity got it made, To SCHRIEVER produced the Thor BARNES WALLIS, who knew the "all-ringing, all-dancing," rocket in three years when most he could breach the Ruhr dame bomber of us believed such a ime-scale Since the days of these great Minister Harold Watkinson has in today. She has stay on is nearer to boiling over impossible,
apathy, Indolence and announced, is now to be built incfficiency have invaded the for the RAF Let the Governed at home. Scared to than it has ever been.
A member _of_Federation appoint a man to be system-THOUGH THE NEED ment
go out."
Prime Minister Str Roy Welen- 11 responsible HAS publicly
'sted Scared to go out in Salia- sky's
told me: "It' NEVER BEEN SO GREAT. success and dive him the powers bury, Southern Rhodesia. ample case where a Toup. of interfering busybodies have Homely Salisbury, with its stepped into a peaceful, thrly- Projects like the Blue Sirenk
It is forelca) for Mr Watkin-pink and white miniature Ing rocket costing £100 million
country and upset the have foundered with Ministerial son to claim that he is respo skyscrapers and its purple least." Co
The taxpayers have hari shrugs and no one called to sible.
jacaranda trees. The
tig contrast between
uf order. Sea-Slug, the Navy's enough
face-saving
Nine months ago you would Bond
A published life of James
Not one name comes to mind, major guided missile s
must acvion protocol.
is idle doubt that his always and instantly available, the results of their tremendous And it is no coincidence that years late and now as obsolete avold burdening himself with have been laughed at here had
fiendish foreigners enterprise.
you suggested the likelihood of Che trouble-making ginger herdly any
to as the Tiger class cruisers which details, yet a project chief mus startling. Fleming in which
weapon comes
Yet know them all to eliminate the league meeting on
anything as violent as a womens group of the National Demo- mind either. Britain has endured are in so much trouble,
a Sunday cratic Party has started all the succession of scandalous who is held responsible? fallures
trouble. In defence with NO ONE NAMEABLE FOR THE
Besides, a tough project like Blue Steel, the RAF's flying BLAME except politicians, who H-bomb, should have been in the TSI needs a resolute boss-
service two years ago, can always escape under cover
The man with fire in his belly, Australans are buying a French of unctuous half-truths,
U.S. Aghter
Such ren are unquestionably, because the British Lightning · Is so late available from industry or from that it could not be provided in the Services. So let one be modified farm in time.
named and give him delivery date.
in this setlist.
Startling
and The private crvalor
13
Rothermere,
Life
of
now one
the
men 10 produce only In fantasy-with an escape weapons effeelive enough to route trom Belgravin. In
his keep
The Russians scared of smartly decorated office off Fleet- altacking them.
its green-striped
paper-bucks, Mr Fleming
street, with
Cen
Britain faces perhaps
a
wolls and shelves of garish I proved to myself that these greater defence threat than the U.S. Where, then, are OUR transport himself into the world character and the way they Founding Fathers? in which James Bond operates: operate
therm meeting
are exceptional both La
by
n world in which blondes are recently in the U.S. and seeing
is the son of a Tory MP, the inflict unimaginable tortures on husband of the former Lady unimaginable heroines, in which of the blood is spilt as cheerfully as a
dry-martini. leading hostesses of London; triend of Sir Anthony Eden; he educated at Elon; and until recently occupied
Was
porlant executive
A
-
Such a cad
position on
one of the posh Sunday papers.
As the author of James Bond'a
Each is ruthlessly dedented
to his task, realising that their reputation lives or dies with it, they override all opposition.
By calling in the newspapers r raising heli in Congress they expose industrial Ineffielency, Mr Fleming Government muddle, or political is not sure that he likes James skulduggery wherever it crosses
Upon reflection,
adventures, Mr Fleming has been responsible for a series of Bond very much. "He is really their purpose.
the
Jess
o frightful cad," he
admits,
best-selling novels which, to put "and, apart from the fact that
of the he wears the same clothes that
wear, he and I really have very
it mildly, emphasise refined relationships sexes.
little in common.
but
It is mistructive to talk to Mr
I do rather envy him, fils tlıla Fleming about
apparent
blondes and his efficiency, spilt in his personality: for one discovers, him to be a kind of I can't say I much like the chap. "His Ruccess with women 13 Inverted Walter Mitty; man
my living the high life, and hanker- are wishful thinking on
part.
Ing for the low life.
"My wife,” he explains, "fully
"Ail Englishmon are shy with understands my attitude, that I women and I am just as shy as don't care for her parties and any of them. I suppose literary friends.. For one thing, projects one's secret fantasies in this sort of fiction. That 1
you know, if you are married to
onc
might
u hosters, you find that she will suppose is why male readers
like my stories; peat the most interesting en
they express next to herself and saddle you what every man hopes with their boring wives. So happen and tolly well knows whenever possible I avoid going doesn't happen.
to my wife's parties.
Not sociable
"The reason women like the alories? Well, women are all masochistle and I suppose. they the way the female characters are bashed about."
lice
"I am, anyway, not # very Dociable person. Of course, my He accepts criticisms of his wife hates the whole James writings that it is sadistle,; Bond business. I think she crotic with equanimity. father wikites were a Cyril "It doesn't hurt to raise the Connolly or something respect- blood pressure of novel readers able to that. She would like a bit. It could do with a bit of the to write on a much higher raising. I don't think my books level. I have to tell her that I do any barm, It's all good, am not capable of writing on a healthy fun." higher level. I've got nothing, Only 'the' suggestion
that
to say on that level. I am not James Bond is something of a amblilous.
mob about food and wino aach
ceeda in momentarily ruffing
"I and the people, ene meets Mr Fleming
in a low, strip-lessa joint in "You can't call a liking for
Hamburg Infinitely more in caviare mobblah," he protests, teresting than
would meet at a Belgravís ca«?
angone
one
its just bloody good shift.”
Thomas Wiseman
her party. Claw - roma chanz
1gint any day.
Radar
DT
lo ensure it.
Minister
tcelinien) bottlenecks,
a firm
afternoon.
The country's police were the Irish army of Africa-peace- loving as a London Bobble. They hadn't lifted a rifle in 60 years.
New role
bere
'Freedom"
As a local politician put it: "There are a few men with rod ties in the party and they have nd difficulty in stirring up trouble at the slightest excuse."
I was no car accident that' started the Berce riot here But that was nine months ago, Today the local papers that used my -Tho toll - geven to be alled with garden partim Africans shot tead, 100 Anti- and beauty contesta devote their cans injured. "Founding To discover any
Mony other projects have
The Car
the Fathers" worthy at the nanie been
was merely cancelled at colossal He wil get ulcers. But the ages to riots, listing the dead
spark that exploded a row that and Injured in little black boxes we must go back to the war expense because they fell so far taxpayers will get the planes at the side of the main stories. had been brewing for an hour years, Το WATSON-WATT, behind schedule. Even the ex- instead of another obsolete
The police have taken a new
- row that started at a meet- Rickcover produced the 12- who pushed radar ruthlessly cellent Rotodyne now seems machine
disgraceful role and shot dead 17 people so
ing of the Youth League of the volutionary atom submarine in, making numerous chemies but headed for the scrap-heap,
far and injured around 800.
Nation Democratic Party." And anywaśc Europama
After the incident 20,000 -tennis-joying bank clerks, Africans in Harbre township popata - salesmen, ang school- ran through the streets scream- „matmas-have- had to be held ing "Kwacha," which mesna back by the army from march Freedom. ing on an African township to revenge a band of looters.
They make enemies in the process-BUT THEY GET THE WEAPONS OUT ON TIME,
谢
HOW TO SELL THEM:
TAILOR-MADE CARS
TO FIT
THE PEOPLE by Cummings
RALLY OLANS : Summit"
twwaken, fluomaté
cancellation.
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Document
!
They tore "down everything that stands for. European development-electric Uglis shops, even their own has provided by Europeans.
Blemish-
From peace to panic in nine months dad, why? Because. ways a big section of the popula», tion here, 24 men and one There
woso. „National woman sat down in the lounge Demperatic Party, mering just of the splendid Victoria Falls before the Bulawayo riots in Hotel on February 19 this year July, Toll-10 Africans shat
and begin to create an historie document.
dead.
There was a National "Demo
They called it the Monckion Report on the Future of the cratic Party meeting just before.
and the rotor at Checko, 2011 4 Federation of Rhodesia
14 African's Nyambier A
with gunshot The pencilob was sudden. A wounday two European and for err Bew. African landars for the African homes burnoy down. Aan National Dehocratic Party "There was a National Demo». quickly realised Moncleton's men, crile Party doing just before (and woman) were going to re- a big row at Bulawayo recently commond sweeping changes. which is expected to blow.up.
Something must be wTODE at any moment. |with the 'Federation, Pathape.
As a result. 2,000 Africane in they were not really getting Bulawayo have gone on strike fair deal after alt. Perhaps it for morb pay, they; bored a lttip-if they save
n. dow,cof · bokkar, “uniloppy, Ja
It is an imprézve list, The
oppressed people the Mamellen Africorin Bouthern Rhodesi Commission would offer them 16 particularly have seen the larger slice of creem pake, y
arrival or thà1Monckton,Visitors
The Pearly started shouting • #6 '; Mign that they must be Freedom and Independence, and ready for their freedom, bigger pay and all the words and arther ugly, blærtilifi Tiao Bhatwo with political plations, dupeded on the troubled daom
The average African, Kam" DE ALYŽOK