THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 6, 1961.
ON THE DREAM ISLAND OF THE PAcific i see THEM REMAKING MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Brando picks a hula girl
HE SAW THE FISHERMAN'S
Take a letter to the
manager, Ave Window Cleaning Company ...
"Best bait 1. ever
psed!"
DAUGHTER
DANCE-AND
NOW SHE'S
DOOMED
TO FAME
From
ALAN GARDNER
A
TAHITI.
WAVE slides gently over the coral reef then nudges the black volemic sand.
Beneath a coconut palin on the lagoon Murlon Brando is surround- ed by 15 Tahitian beauties, their - dark hair cuscading to their waists. garlands of gardenia, hibiscus, and jasmine bobbing merrily as they chatter and giggle.
Men driven to mutiny by the hardships of the sea find that it has flower-decked consolations in a tropical lagoon,
She 19 and until a few He moves closer: "You are weeks ago was living the imple lovely." Sall closer: "You are fe of a South Sta native on beautiful" Aat he is obout to the island of Bornbora.
take her in his arms she takes
The Brando saw her dance,
lels-wreaths of flower-from
her shoulders and places them oer Christian's head.
The actor whom Sir Carol Reed calls the most exciting in the world is remaking Mutiny on the Bounty and enjoying every minute. Brando and
The 1981 Fletcher Christian Tarita-latest has a caress for ene Tahitienne, kies on each cheek, and example of his preference fashion, for another, a slide: sured and she is doomed to tatedly: "Mr Christian.
civiliza- #spell of Hollywood around the third and
tion. She speaks ro English. only
Tahitl French, which Brio also speaks. He is show- ing her how to court him.
and that did it.
Exercising on unusual clause in his contract the lender of the
She kisses him, Christian re- Bounty mutincers appointed
Captain Bligh her on the spot as leading lady, sponds castig
In one stroke fame as the embrace and supa irri- Maimiti.
for the
cxotic...
Sucking in
11
an arm
loveliest Polynesian girl: 5 striking Agure called Tarita.
CARE
"Of course I have a suppressor -- we're been married 11
Keats,"
- fon'
dure
you
eat tho rice pudding that's in there! It's for your dud's supper."
"Sorry, dear, I thought this was your umbrella,"
He gestures expressively with his sensitive hands, puzzles her raven hair, and whispers into her delicately shaped car.
This was the seine before Shy Carol Reed was taken ill and flown to Los Angeles.
New Bounty
Offshore is the three-masted Bounty, built for £250,000 by M.G.M., which sailed her frem Nova Scotia in 38 days.
Carol Reed, portly and bene- volent in a straw hat and sin Fuit. consults the script and sigals Brando.
Tom-toms
Christian hesitates a moment, draus muy from Mainiti and turns to Bligh who continues: That is the king's daughter po are with. Be careful to mullsfy
Inal clacthere. King Hitikia will tolerate so tampering with this woman, nor will 1."
Christian: "Dors that mean
*?"
Bligh: "Acknowledge your order.
Christian; "Lust to be satis fied elsewhere. Ape, sir."
End of scene.
It is 83 degrees. We. the -mutinerra. technicians, and The seript Tenda: A he principals are hot, dusty, and comes close to her, Maiili, in sticky. Bligh, England's Trevor Tahitian and posturing. says: Howard making his Arst Holly "You come along with e; we wood spectacular and not sure will go to a title island past the he likes them, gratefully leads revf." Mir Christian, half the trek home to the thatched understanding the gestures, bungalows. moves closer to her. "Anything Three hours pazs and we have you say. Anything you want." rested and freshened now at
Brando's bungalow, one of the largest on the island.
They are dancing the Ginoo everywhere since this is their
party and the film unit brought theni undreamed prosperity, and the native girls are ex pressing their thanks.
First we have drinks and the girls hang us with fewers, then
fronds they lay
of coconut leaves on the grass. This 15.18 table en which we are to eat raw frh and exotle South Sca
inland dishes of meat and herbs, As the tropical night wears on we are promised the entertain- ment of the wild, abandoned Tamure Dr love dance.
1 should be the sensation of the
Bounty picture.
It is the fastest slimmy from the hips, performed to rapid fire tom-tom beats and punctu- ated with slow, deliberate belly dancing. It is as old as the islands and is passed on ·from mother to daughter,
Favours
Now the tempo is increasing and cach gyrating flower-gar- landed insiden grubs a man of her choice from the circle, and he keeps time ag best he can without ever touching.
The 1061 Bounty
It is a big test, of motor- frarourite, was showing at the craftsman Reed, making his lempit. Brat £4,000,000 spectacular.
ent There is plenty to
and drink, plenty of time le make suit of pleasure. Work is not snakes or wild animals, the Tabit is devoted to the pur- tove, lagoons for swimming, no
considered legal but is
spiders don't bite, just eat moo- peculiar way of passing the quitoes, and the only threat to time.
life is the danger of coconuts falling from the swaying palma M.G.M. have made a bigger like cannon balls.
than ald the impact here Bounty 172 years ago. The A boy has been employed to colonial French find the occups- climb them on the sel to plek tien disenchanting. They allege the most dangerous since a focal that the no-tipping rule has was killed last week. been broken and that hotel prices have doubled and that there are no rooms for tourists. The local ladies are begiming to set prices on their favours.
Already on islander has been beat out a fiery huh. fined for writing on walls: "Go Home, M.G.M.," and there are
Brando's proteger, Tarlin, several notable laizons between and is being taught English. now receiving charm-schooling members of the unit and local She will then go to Hollywood beauties.
and tour
New London and In this land the Polynesian York, dedication to a good time
This Asherman's daughter fearsome to behold. Money is has a seven-year contract, but fun, so they are
it can be broken at the end of unimportant. Making movies is
pleased to each year if no dusky South co-operate, but when it becomes Sea maiden is wanted. Tho bure the kindly people gently thoughtful, here are wondering disappear.
if she will resettle in paradiise after her big-city life.
Brando gave a dinner party, Brando, hero of the native and, although millions of dol girls. watches the pulsating tor's worth of Hollywood talent crowd and says: like their was agentuled ut lable, the altitude. They refuse to take cooks deserted during the meal anything even love - 100 when they heard that a 20-year- seriously."
old picture, 22 South Sens
The big British contingent in the Alm meets frequently at Quinn's Dar on the waterfront and dances ride by side with the Tahitian beauties and their swains around the bamboo be while drums and steel guitars
TOMORROW:
Bounty blazes....a desperato half - hour,
No wonder the farmers
are
worrying Mr K...
AS 1961 gets under
way, the economic prospects for the West look grim. There are 4,500,000 unemployed in
COMMUNISM'S BIGGEST FAILURE: FEWER CATTLE IN RUSSIA THAN BACK IN 1913
the United States. New tary and cruelal problem: how One significant statistle sums munist doctrines, by suspending reasonable prices-and leave the
up the record of forty years of collectivisation and abondoning rest to him. threats of austerity in to produce enough food.
In Moscow Mr Khrushchev and fallure: there are fewer cattle in central controlby, In short, This may seem an elementary Britain. In Canada, more his Central Committee have been Russin today than there were restoring the market mechanism truth. But Bles in the face and allowing the peaaunt to of every Communist dorma about than 10 per cent of the forced to admit, once again that in 1013.
collect hard cash for the fruits the nature of man and the or- labour force is out of ruins. The wretched Minister. their agricultural policy is in
of his laboura.
ranisation of society. It implies work.
olrcunstanton, flat, in certalo the individual knows best.
Here, then, ls Mr Khrushchev's dilemma. If he clings to his doctrines, and continues to screw down his pennants, the food he needs will remain in the earth. Communist At-
China, whose revolution was Vladimir Matskevich who based on a peasants' revolt, has
dir- merely carried out party
fored. na bolter. Phenomenal Meanwhile, the Communist ectives-has been ignominiously food increases were elnimed two world continues to
years ago. Last year, they had to fred. publish re-
be drastically revised. cord figures for industrial ex- pansion and investment. Apnel from West Germany and Japan, no other free enterprise coun- tries can begin to match Russla's phenomenal rate of increase.
Not news
At its meeting, the Com- mitce, discussing agricul- ture, confessed to "serious short- Does this mean that Mr Khru- comings" Communist jargon shchev will make good his bonst for utter failure. to overhaul the West? Are we within sight of the day when Communist Iving standarcis will (equal, or even surpass, our own?
Forced
The answer is simple; NO. And the reason is equally simple. It can be summed up in one word: agriculture.
The "shortcomings" were attributed to all sorts of causes, human and divine. Their offect
be briefly could
stated: not enough food was leaving the farms.
Indeed, the manager of .one big collective apparently sent his
A moral
There seems to be a moral of fundamental Importance here.
And a month ago, Peking was obliged to admit that its whole
In the industrial field, Marxist His vision of agricultural policy was in ruins, economic theory can be made to Auence will recede into the dis-
Admittedly, natural causes - work-nt an Incalculable human tent future.
cost, of course because all the But if he throws over the flood and drought played a major role in the disaster. But factors involved in planning can dugma, he will be taking a de- the nignitude of the crisis in- be calculated in advance.
cision far more momentous than dicates that political errors made Vitimately, after years, even his famous "Do-Stalinisation" mutters worse.
decades, of privation, the plan apeech at the Twentieth Party will begin to work and the Congress. masline-tools, the tractors, the
Far too many peasania had been conscripted to industry.
Desperate
agents to buy food from the city In the desperate attempt to shops in order to convince of produce food quickly polletes fleinis he had reached his quola. had been adopted
that Jou lo For the Russians, the admis- soll erosion and exhaustion, and Communism has, by and large, slons of the Central Committee which actually Increased the proved itself a successful formula were scarpply nowe. They can effects of drought. for the expansion of heavy In- see the cpraequences of failure The other Communist coun- dustry. It has also scored im- for themselyss. pressive successes hi several ad- Food queles aro still a perma- vanced fields of technology: in nent tenture of te. On many nuclear power, In agra and days, mlik, buiter and eggs are rocket engines, in electronics, still unobtainalito in the heart But it cannot solve one elemen- of Moscow.
-
guns and rockets, cars and TV He will, in effect, be nd- sets will roll, of the assembly mitting that there is a vast
fines.
But in agriculture, the elo-
ments impose strictly finite limits sector of human activity on planning.
where Communist theory Buccess,.. as overy farmer knows, depends on à continu-
ous series of minor adjustments does not work. to meet the continuously chang- ing challenge of the weather.
No pystem of cantral control, however efficient, can take these sleeisions. They must be made by the man on the spel. And this has been achieved by The only way to get enough breaking utterly with Cora- food Into the eflies la' to
tries are also in trouble. Indeed, the only Communist state that has significantly increated its food yields is Yugoslavia.
pay
PAUL JOHNSON
~~(London KEYTEN STEVILO,J