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THE CHINA, MAIL, WEDNESDAY, · JANUARY 25, 1061.
MOVIELAND
BY DAVID LAN
HE has rocketed her way to stardom in five years. There, with all the glory and glamour that goes along with being a famous film actress, she has found nothing but emptiness.
All the affection of her ador-
Log followers could 101 015 the | phanage "where a child eould Vacuum left by her mother velar and rome wrath.”
died when she was only twe
And her father, a heutenant-
And she has vowed. "One day,
general in the amy who fought I get rich enough, 1 stat myrelf to give the Sau-It panese Way, hann orphanages never been heard from sineo same homeless children as muc
was happiness as I can." Chun-ar-2 Da Chang
ix year old.
GORGEOUS
This gives a rare insight inst this luteus Mandarin zonyk star..
Any other follower
Juw ber from the screen as "The Most Beautiful Anim:1,"
" bepe i sh live and fow now that her heart is just
that someday I 14.5 trẻ hint að hesutiful.
again," she says..
Burn in Ieking Dianu
She looked Hageous, during travelled all over China durant our intervans,
cheenam the was her father maved
of coffer-colored velvet and a from ose 1, thehelf to another. dark brown Welt! mulder Jacket, topard off with a bet cream overett,
Through the dark yours of her childhood. Dian remembers with affection One
Following her slepenar ther, she
wen! to Changling where sho left ang midle sellasi t
join a musical e inservat qy
to As the kondire at eivil war drow
that bring bzele pattal nearer, the music institule move memories. Nostalgic liv Che end further away. Blana went speaks uf her years it an or to Twat in 1952.
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Diana's secret
promise
Diana--Warmuth in an orphanage
Fate went her into a movie reer without giving her time ven to change her real name. This provert a strake of luck, for by name sau on fest magazines and newspapers,
PERSUADED
In 1955, a friend of hers sick. ing a show in Formos, asked he tu play the title role in
Wild Rose." She refused at Arst, but was persuaded,
•
for two years over the period of 1900-01.
It is with Shaw's that her dream has come true at last. She will act in serious dramatic time with literary Bavour.
I've always dreamed of being
a serious actress," che said. "Bot the producers liked to cast me in such tille roles as 'Spitfire Girl. The Reinantie Creature'. and so forth....As a beginner, I had no choice,“
Last year, she starred in two Shaw productions "Twilight Hours" and "Lust Love," böth dramas, nd is now Alming a third, Mix-up." a comedy in ShawScope and colour.
She inly believe, that the seript is the most important fac- tor contributing to a good ple- ture, although direction, acling and techniques form the major factors in team werk.
Dana is collector, She col- perfomes, cute ile wing and liquor bottles and small on- jew gint, "I've got about 200 of then at home."
She likes cuoral music and Truls mextern and Ribssical
herature.
A
★
T the peak of the cold wave from Monday fast through Wednesday week, Lucilla Yu Ming ex- posed herself to heavy snow and artificial, of course) rain at the Yung Hwa Studio, where filming of MP & GI's "Song Without A producer of the Central Mellon Pleure Co. Lid in Words" has been going on. Formosa spelted her on the stage
Fraghe Lulu, in the role of
and fund came up with a contract,
shiverva mite girl "He offered me good terms arcul an ancient temple, lash- und me major roles, or by a trenching rain and promired bu was cured it," she nd whipped by a chilly gale, miis frenkly, "I had neither the ergattd inside the sound stage knowledge or the experience with 5,000 gallons of water, rain- to act on the screen."
making hores and palls, and two But a short training course giant electric fans. |helped, and the rne-year con- "After three days of torture, tract was renewed for another I'm going to Ile in bed for three three years during which Dlang more days just to recuperate," made only four films for the sald Lulu in the makeup roum,
company.
She still inks that her prst Aim. "Second Spring On Plum II. Is her best so far.
HER BEST Most of the time, while under contract, Ditma was and tom companies in Hongkong Land other
Asia,
hugging a hot water bottle and
gulping aspirin,
go
and
home Dag let us fight in peace
CONGO MISSION
CONTINUED
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Why do we keep
ISUP
QUPPOSE you were to read this
item in your newspaper: "The biggest cargo ship ever to sail under the British flag has set out on her maiden voyage this
1 can't help it. The script pre-month," scribes the rain treatment for me. in all but ten of the 70 scenes.
And Bobs (Robert Chung) has set his seal of approval. I hope movie crities will have n 11- the mercy when next time they start to say a flm is no good,"
* parts of Southeast
HAY
*
sent Lulu into
Three Sisters" her Arst film TTAVING produced in Hongkong by Aslo the rainstorm, Robert
Pictures Ltd, in 1957, brought new lease of life to Mandarin Chung, bins by restoring the Iidence of exhibitors in
Dins.
GI's for
MP con- General Manager, left
the Taiwan last Wednesday to deawing power ot Mandarin interview the company's re- It broke previous records by cruits from some 5,000 ap- playing 10 full houses for 22 plicants on the island. Idays on both sides of the har- He will also supervise the
bour.
shooting of a big battle scene Then the starred In MP for "Sun, Moon and Stor" in GI's colour extravaganza, Formosa. "Calendar Girl" This was fol- lowed by offers from the China
Thiwan.
Would you not feel a tingle of pride at the news? Would you not rejoice at the thought that Bri- tain's Merchant Navy, on which our island future depends, gaining strength after
its foreign rivals? years of buffeting from
That news items happened to be true.
Recently, the 87,500-ton Naess Sovereign were handed over to Ber whers. And the
was
our ships
in chains?
by
BERNARD HARRIS
I urges that our ships must be allowed to make full use of Bermuda and other Empire cod- tres; it wants the question of subsidies reconsidered; and it urges that powers of retaliation should ba taken against those countries which diteriminate on- fairly against British ships.
But is Mr Marpleit likely to
sailed a start to the advantages which set to wither away in a fight heed the appeal? Is he the man
over the agafast Impozrible odds? away to the Persian Gulf to load the fureimer enjoys her flest cargo of oil with the hard-pressed British shipowner.
For took at the result of the to stand up and fight for our
seafarers? Red Duster Buitering at her Consider some of the others unfair struggle in which it 19 It is true of course that as Many countries--and notably engaged: on the eve of the St Minister of Transport shipping Yet what is the full story?
1 the US-give their ship-cond World War Britain owned in one of his major responst- The truth is that this man owners subsidies to build
almost 30 per cent of all the bilties. new moth all tanker is Aging the Bel- ships.
stern.
route:"
shipping in the world. Today our But think for a moment of a fish dag for the same reason The American Government shore Is down to 17 per cent. few of the problems which lake that the ships of Mr Onassis and also gives them further subsidiga
In 1952 our ships earned £221 up his time--buliding new roads, (initexi Film Co., sin Hua MPG.GI will charter a Mr Niarchon by the flags of when they operate or routes des mittion to help pay for our im- Inventing Pink Zones and pub. Motion Picture Co. and nny VA locomotive and seven Panamu and Liberin. To dodge clared to be "essentint trade ports. Now of this critical time, Helsing safety belts for motorists, others, Diana had arrived.
the taxation.
when the cry again goes up that installing porking meters and to eight coaches from 13y the time her contract
Apart from the Bag and her Dil-except In the special case we are not paying our way in traffic wardens, improving slan- expired, she had larved in sen
Railway crew there is not much that of Cunard-British Kowloon - Conton
shipping is the world, shipping's contribution dards of driving, reorganising Abus produced outside of this weekend for filming a British about the Naess Sovere- completely unsubsidised.
to our balance of payments is the railways, looking after the "Song scone in-
Without Ign.
docks. More than 30 countries round barely £100 million a year.
The list is almost endless, How She has been built at Naga. Z was immediately Words," starring Lucillo Yu
world encourage the
Dramatic saki, in Japan. at a cost of building up of their own fleets
can he possibly give shipping the Ming and Kelly Lai Chon.
£4,300,000. And, so far from by reserving trade for their own
attention it must have? On top of the expenses,
forming part of our own Mer ships. film company ha to hire chant Navy, she is American about 300 extrus 10
awned. up the coaches as passengers. For the first time in the bistory of KCR, passengers will be palá for taking a ride!
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43 Which of us can be called
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the
the
His lament
The figures are sombre -en- Jut look at the more The worst offender, in the eyes ough of British
of the ship- shipowners, is the dramatic evidence She flew the Red Ensign be- us.
ping decline-evidence which is cause she has been registered in
All constal shipping In lo be found at creeks and inlels Britain's oldest Colony, Bermuda,
American waters is reserved ·round the country. exclusively for American ship:. At almost any spot where a action in defence of British ship
Not only does Bermuda levy no lacome tax-but her Govern- ment has given an undertaking that even if such a tax is intros duced the company owning the Naess Soverolga will be exempt until 1980.
Debarred...
When on previous occasions he has been urged to take vigorouć
No British ship can get a look- shipowner can hire a cheap lay ping against foreign discrimina- berth you will come tion he has found some reason
In on this important trade. And ing-up the same is true of trade be- across idle, forlorn ships swing- or other for doing nothing, tween the US and any of its ing at anchor.
Thus ko unce lamented: foreign possessions.
They have been laid-up be- "Britain has so few cards to Countries which have recently cause there is no work for them play. I wish we had more,"
mure and more
gained their Independence are to do. It is true there are fewer But what sort of excuse fa following the American example, of them than a year ago. But that? For reasons of national pride only because their owners, see- Britain is the world's largest of them are ing no hope that some of them Importer of Roods and raw This is excellent, of course, for insulating that their imports must would ever put to sea again, materials. If the purchase and Bermuda. It is splendid that this be carried in their own ships. have sent them to the breaker's transport of more than £4,000 sunny isle should increase her Many foreign shipowners are yards, prosperity by attracting foreign enterprises.
backed by millions of dol building rivers like the Clyde does not give us "a card to play." lars da easy terms from Ameri and the Tyre and the Mersey Marples wants.
I do not know what-more-Mr But here is the odd thing can banks, Insurance companies, there is other evidence of what The ships of the mother coun- and pension funda. And they are "age of convenience" try are debarred from sharing free to build new alips wherever Britain. in the advantages which Ber- they can got the lowest prices
muda offers,
The Government will not allow and the longest credit.
them to migrate there, Nor to
Panama or Liberia or any other
| tax-free havėn.
No matter what happens to the foreigner they must con-
The finest
British shipping is the tra
1inute to bear the full weight of dition of centuries behind it. | British taxation.
And along, the great ship-
mean to
You with And yards' threat ened with chasing because pri- lish owners cannot afford build new ships. You will On some of the finest workers (in Briláží out of a job and 'othërs on short time.
In our grant shipping industry
Our ships were ploughing the going to be allowed to continue That, you might think, fn a seas hundreds of years before to wither away? Or is there hope grave enough disadvantage for many of the countries now com- at last that justice will be done Britain's Merchant Navy. For peling with us were even dis- to our reafarers and our ship" If it profils are drained away - covored.
wrights?
million of goods every
year
eer-
The Board of Trade, in arrang- ing trade agreements with over-
tainly use our huge purchas- sean countries, equid most
ing power as a bargaining weg- pon to ensure a fair doel for Bri-
ish shipping..
So I say that responsibili for this most vital of all f dustries should be taken from the mover full hands of Mr Marples nisl elvah-to-the Pré-- sident: af the Board of Trade, Uhlens the Britiels merchant feet is put on terins of equality with the foreigner our shippingt will continum to dueline.
It excersive taxation How can We still have the finest railors These last few weeks the In there be enough money left over in the world. And the men who dustry's supreme policy-making And there is not a man, wo- 110 rival body-Its General Council has man, or child in the country to equip it with new ships to hulid our ships have biatch those of its rivala?
sent a grave warning to Mr Mar- whose life would not be affectcil
anywhere.
But freedom to fly tox-saving i Why, then, does the Govern ples of what must be done if by such a disaster.
aga of convorilence" is only mont allow this great national disaster is to be averted.
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