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"I copped this shinee fighting for a popsie's good ante-er wunted 10
kerp it!"
"I joined the Foreign Legion to forget a barmaid in the British Legion!"
HONGKONG
THE CHINA MAIL, - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1961.
A PRINCESS VISITS THE COLONY INCOGNITO FOR TEN WEEKS
AND TELLS US WHAT IMPRESSED HER MOST......
This wonderful bond of charity in Hongkong'
"No place on earth where so much is
done by so few for so many, con compare with Hongkong.” Princess Irene of Greece expressed this view towards the end of her ten-week incognito visit to this Colony.
She sailed on the ss Hessenstein on Wednes- day for Denmark where she will meet for the first time her 22 adopted sons chosen for her by the Dalai Lama.
rather
the
Prince Peter, her husband, to learn electronics, and she were deeply concerned formidable task for boys who about the people of Tibet during have not yet mastered English.
recent upheavals, They While
Hongkong decided to help by giving Princess has walked in feng- specialised education to a num- kong's back streets and alleys. ber of young people. The Dulu! She has seen the Chinese New Lama wishes some of the boys Year flower market watched eoel welfare agencies at work, islands, Journeyed to outlying talked with drug addicls through un interproler, visited prisons and mental hospitals and dis- cussed Hongkong's problems at Government House.
MOVIELAND
THE iron gate clanged
open. There at the entrance to his
-
flat
istood the journalist. turned movie - director in a grey woollen vest, grey slacks and grey woollen slippers, ex- tending 2 welcoming hand.
living-
In the green-walled dining room, cream upholstered sofas bordered a moroon Pek-
ing carpet.
met West
where
The East Chinese cralis hung on the walls side by side with All paintings.
Amiable : unarsuming, Director Evan Yang settled back to tell the story of his
from transformation journalist to a movic-maker,
He was a reporter n the Ta
Kung Pau (Dongkung, 1941). war correspondent and editor for the Sau Tang Pac (Chun- king. 1942-1944), editor of the Pence Daily News (Shanghai, 1945-48), and an organizer and features editor of the Hongkong Times (Hongkong, 1949-52).
However, while on the staff of the Peace Daily News in Shanghai, he started to free- lance writing scenarios for the Central Motion Pkture Com- He hanaged to write pany. three films in three years.
During the four years with the Hongkong Times, he wrote four more scripts for various studios in Hongkong. This in- cluded the "Socialite," which he directed for the Freedom Film Co.
This film attracted the atten- tion of Asia Pictures Ltd. which persuaded him to quit journalisin altogether in 1953 and engaged him
Indi-Lime il
writer- director. In little over
scripts and year, he did six directed two films for them.
A
BY DAVID LAN
Why he turned away from journalism
EVAN YANG
about to Baish shooting in the
in 1954-55, Mr Yoog wrote first half of this month,
Deven
scripts and directed 12 ning for Ilsin Hua Motion Pic- tures, most of which starred Li Li-hua.
Since MP & GI signed him up in 1930, he has written 14 scripts and directed 16 Mms up
10 now.
So far he has 34 screenplays and the direction of 31 films to
He works some 10 hours in
"Ilongkong is not only bix business but big charity" is her conclusion, "People vo not realise the immensity of the I work being done here by de-
dicated workers, Christian. lernational, secular,
inter- denominational organisations and ordinary men and women trying to help the flood of humanity in this place. Every thinking per- Bon here seems to get the urge to do something about the need so apparent.
Lovely women
us ( cluced
in
DRINCESS Irene of Grecce approaching the Buddhist Temple In Macao where I
she consulted a fortune-teller. Left to right the Baroness do Galftiet d'Hestroy, Princess Irene, Mr David Laurie and Jill Doggett,
By
JILL DOGGETT
CHINA MAIL WRITER
No preference
22 years and the youngest, three I asked her which years old. of her husbands she preferred. She looked at me sternly and said I am an honest woman, I have no preference"".
Before leaving this Colony the Princess spent a weekend in Macan with the Baronesa da Galffier destroy
and...
Princess Irene said that her husband measured more than 5,000 Tibetans 10 And
out tickets for charity drives, be wards I thought I would have their racial characteristics. An electronic brain was bought for cause they think all helps, is to carry the horse."
the Royal Library in Copen- the wonderful bond of concern Prince Pete made an ex- hagen as IL was estimated it for others that encircles this haustive study of polyandry would take ten years to com- "I have sten lovely women Colony."
among the Tibelens. I asked puto the information gathered, working among sufferers
Princem Irene lso praised what this meant and the Prince Peter is the cousin to the tuberculosin hospitala, patient the prison system here and the Princess explained that a woman Duke of Edinburgh and the men helping drug addicts and goodwill existing so that prison- marrying into a Tibet:n house Duchess of Kent. the sisters who give love and ers can be kept under helpful hold would have as many hus- protection
ર young girls re- supervision without being locked bands her husband had scued from brothels.
up. "Al the women prisoners brothers. She became the chief Tourists arrive in this place I saw had a friendly approach of the household and all the and wonder at the marvellous and the treatment here is dif- money' came to her. things in the shops, the work of ferent from any I have seen. craftsmen, of children and pro- The Governor of Hongkong
under conditions that Prisons must
wonderful be a make the end product even more mon.
"The mental eases too were
"I spoke to one such woman" quiet and well-behaved. There the Princess continued, "and were not outward signs of agita discovered that she had married
or aggressiveness, There, too, was a feeling of no bars, seven brothers, the oldest being no padded cells. In your clinics potal and others assembling I have seen expensive anti- the flower, leaves and stem. tuberculosis drugs being given MP & Gl's Lucha Yu Ming
to destitutes from the streets. The German film unit consists will play opposite Akira.
"HOW
we realise can
the This place bas broken down so 23 members Ineluding the
feeling to be one of a nation of many barriers." which tells the 200 million. The picture,
The director, Mr Hans Peter Wirth.
Taco for She said it amused her to see about the love
survival, the necessity 10 There will be six days of stery
get the tourists dashing 10 the studio shooting and 12 days of Japanese newspaper correspon ahead. To try to understand shops where addresses have dent (Akira) for a Hongkont what one's reactions would be been given to them, as cheap The first "rushes" of the East- girt (Yu Ming), will be shot
in similar circumstances gives places for bargains. is on man colour widescreen feature in Hongkong, Macao, Tokyo and
one almost a gullt complex for entrancing study in itself to see is expected to be completed Hokkaldo.
having been born imperialist them toying to beat down the curly in Muy and completed by
odd $5. Why should they? $5 doesn't mean anything to thom
Nebenzal or Nero Films, the Japan will commence picture will be dubbed in Eng- soon as the Japanese con incredible. ish. French and Italian.
11 stars three
Aim tingent arrives from Tokyo. German
"This case of the artificial actors: Hel Muthgriem, Hanns The Japanese unit will in-flowers is very sad. It means Lothar, and Peter Carsten, a etude director T. Chiba and tragedy for many who sit by the Japanese actress, Akiko Waka- Toho's cucing actor Takerala haur, one turning a leaf, another bayashi and a Chinese actresa Akira. (from Shaw's) as a Hongkong
girl.
ol
location work.
the end of July.
of
Last Saturday, wo of the Tobo board directors, Mr K.
De Schwartz arrived here on Kiluto and Mr Y. Kosaki, ar- February 28 and the rest of the lived to thrash out preliminary party, last Wednesday.
The film tells of a love story preparations for the production, between a German sailor (tel Muthgriem) and a Chinese junk
Kirl (Akiko).
Their best
tion
and there is no margin of pro-
ilt for the craftsman at this present pressure of competition.
Honest
"To people who come here and suggest that the work of the British administration lacks something, I would say, 'Here MP & Gi's "The Greatest working day and night to cope mate, I ask the Hongkong tat
are o handful of Englishmen
"I order anything to be his ship pulls in the harbour Civil War on Earth" turned with the ever-changing situ lor or shoemaker to add $5 to the and filling in love with her out to bo d box-office tion and to help the people in brings her to Europe.
bonanza by packing in au this place.'
He gets to know her when
because
♫
"How
realise many!
Betty Church. Stopping at a Buddhist temple the Frincess spoke to a little monk who said to her, "You stand beside a royal figure and are of noble Eirth, People respect you
пот only for this, but for your en- quiring mind and desire to serve others."
BREATHE OUT TO FIND
YOUR 'RIGHT' FOODS.
Do
some foods "disagres" with you? Are you a regular victim of indigestion? Do you avold cucumber, pickles, onions, new bread and a dozen other spices to life simply because of their reputation?
Scientists have now devised
a way to tell exactly what
not
.
Improved beans
They were able to teh Indi→ viduals: "You digest foods A.D. and E best, but not B or C."
foods, and how much of them After each, they told them to cause indigestion in different blow up a plastic bag. They measured exactly, how people. As a result, some foods then
much hydrogen was present "In are already being made mere the breath digestible.
of each voluntier, and so arrived at a "scale of price. They are honest enough Our digestive systems are as indigestibility" for the foods. At first there are difficulties diences on both sides of tho
to give me better quality, Individual as our Angerprints, the sailor lives on
the have never been overcharged in and what upsets one may small island in the North Sea. harbour when screened over numbers of refugees that have this place."
affect another. her visits to Chinese They stay on the island for a tho
Asked about Now Year been absorbed into this com-
Tibet, ume and later go to Hamburg to season.
the Princess told me
Inside each of us in the smail munity and that are still
about the 2,000 miles she once intestine, colonies of tiny, harm start a new life together.
arriving daily. Of course there
mada into the Himalayas on less organisms Re in wait for People queued up and bought are beggars. They are all over
horseback.
we any food which
cannot Using the test as a standard. tickets days in advance. The the East but where else is so
"I became quite attached to readily digest. They devour the experiments were begun to find Blm ran into weeks of showing. | much being done for them,
that horse" she mused with a remnants, creating hydrogen in out if the digestibility of beane "The Governor and Lady whimsical smile. "As we reach the process. The success was attributed to
could be Improved without the fact that
dlm is a Black are doing their utmost -- ed the higher ailltudes I noticed
spoiling their taste. Success comedy on the bilingual mix-up and sometimes pay with their that the sherpas were Blitting This gas finds its way, vin the followed. Improved beans pro- They go out of their the nostrils of the horses in or- bloodstream, into the lungs. We duced considerably less, hydro- the Cantonese and Northern-health,
gen and methane. gas in the rs in the Colony, hence attract- way to meet human problems. der to facilitate their breathing, then breathe it out.
com. So, from the top is the women I refused to let my horse suffer The scientists asked volun- human guinea-pigs.
who alt at the ferry selling this treatment, but shortly after- teers to eat a varlely of foods.
(London Express Sarotce),
The theme" "Love overcomes #11 Ufficulties."
(HOOTING of "A Night
in Hongkong," a joint
cach shooting day and does two effort of MP & GI and the
to three hours of home work in Toho prevaration for each shooting sequence,
There are ho weekends and holidays, but there are breath- ing spells between plctures, He spends his leisure time think- ding op new Ideas for Alms or
hla credit-all in the last 10 occing foreign movies. In short,
years.
Some of his box-office kits are: "The Sociallte," The
ho lives in a realm of celluloid. Опе ovident change in his why of
of life after his
his switch from Heroine," "Lady Little Ond- Journalism to the movies, is that bage" (tremendous success in he now drives to the studio dally 1934), "Blood Will Tell," "Manilo Girl," "Air Hostess," in un opulent-looking Op] ... "My Darling
paluted his favourite colour, "The Spring Song" and "Loving res.
Sister,"
move in his career from nows-
Couple" (one of the 10 big hits Mr Yong explains the sudden in 1000).
The bespectacled director was print to the screen by saying, barn in Peking in 1920 and ""The mavlen are A better graduated from St John's Uni- medium or conveying versity, Shanghal, in 1941.
Mr Yan Specialises
directing dramatic ilms ol
moving human interest.
message to the publie.”
your
He believes that as a dires- VET anothor film to bo
know actors and netresses bet-
YET
for it is csential to got to made in Hongkong_by ter, and through long-standing firms from abroad" is "Till 00-operation attain a mutual the End of Time," a German understanding of each other's production tot in Hong- approaches to a film, Thin kong.
cults in better teamwork,
and bolter filno.
Co-produced, by Dr Wola Currently he is dirooting "The Schwarts of the Neue Deutsche Shan, Moon and Star," and Film Corporation and Mr S..
Motion Pictures
ing film-goETB of munities.
Cummings
the
of both
man
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