A
SEAR
**Wakey, waker!***
"Shut the door, deur. There's a
draught!
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1961. ;
JAN PICKSON
**That's the last time I throw a stick for you! “
Taking shape now filmland's latest 'life'
t
THE MAN WHO MADE SEX A
JOHN HUSTON
hos
taken the movie camera into all the ex- peated adventurous places---between clash- ing armies, into African swamps, aboard a whal- ing ship.
14-LETTER WORD
by DENIS PITTS
I
1
Now, in his large, friendly Reinhardt, who had
read he naked a reript writer to Galway, he is Fread as a student and whose prepare old house in Co
"ilrewtment" of I new adventure father know Freud well, spoke Freud's life mapping out
of Freud's discovery of the for it. a journey into the darkest tibido and his struggles to gahr nnd least-known territory his theories about the sub- the human mind.
The
explorer
whose
route
conscious accepted.
You know," said Huston, ot à
he is following is Sigmund "this could be one hell Freud, psychology's father- fim." figure, the man who tracked the libido to its lair, who named the Oculipus complex, The man who made sex a 1-1-lolter word-psychannalysis.
His
legend
Over the years he might well have forgotten the iden. Dut in This month Huston goes to 1945 the American War Depart- Vienna, where Freud worked, to ment asked him to make a Bim spend several months and about the psychiatric treatment millions of dollars making a Alm and
of cure
war-shocked in which he intends to convey, Servicemen.
It was to be used visually and dramatically, to persuade
einployers to hire Freud's. discoveries about such men. sexuality in chifktren, about the meaning of dreams, and all the oddies that make Up the human mind und also tell Freud's life story.
Iluston belleves it will be exelting as any detective story.
The beginning
CO
Let's
back, in the best Freudian manner. to the birth of the idea, hack to a hot July day in 1938 when Huston and Wolfgang Reinhardt now his co-director in the now Freud film-were drinking coffee and iniking about psychiatry in a Hollywood studio canteen,
FAMOUS SONS OF FAMOUS FATHERS
To this man a title makes little
"I agree for you to go to the university," said his father, "but I think it will be a waste of time, unless you read for a pro- fessional degree-like Jaw or medicine,"
His son chose medicine. And that is how he became a doctor. he did not get a
Unhappily, Blue,
difference NO FUTURE?
BY TUDOR JENKINS
LORD WAVERLEY, 6ft. 1/2in., towers high
above his Jaguar car. No one who knew his father could mistake his identity.
The face is a replica of that
uf the Shelter-who Viscount Arst
the
The father.
i, Lord fael. has made his own Waverley
The carcer.
Lie,
which he
don Authority; and Member of the exclusive Order of Merit.
These make a glittering array of personal successes. But when ho died in January, 1958. Lord
-1 puny amount
This regard for security was a traft that the first Viscount had Inherited from his father. As n young man he was a brilliant scientist-he took the degrees of MA and DSC, al Edinburgh University and intended to make his career in
Waverley left only for research work.
matt
Buch a
look A
course
In
Ilusion psychiatry, Then, for months, he watched and meti the psychiatrist at work the prac ilcal, successful application of many of Freud's teachings.
The film was never shown. I is sill under lock and key in army fles U.S. brasshats found its brutal realism to harrowing, feared it would cut recruitment.
Huston did not forget what he had seen; the astonishing remilts achieved by Freud's followers. He got on with the job of creating his own legend "The altese Falcon". The Red African Queen" Dick"...and than
made
When it was finished Huston handed it to the existentialist playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. who turned it into a script "more brillan than I can describe,"
said Huston.
it.
"But it was 500 pages long and the average movie script is 1-60 pages."
Bartre was asked to 'eut When he Ind finished trying, the strtot was 700 pages long. He irted again. The result was the 1,000-page work now being carefully pruned by
and Reinhardt
Huston
"It was so obviously the work of a genius," sald Huston, that I considered making two films from it.
"You
Dream-horror
Itnow what I should like 20 see from this Alm?" Huston gazed 11 mc. Сусь screwed up.
"P'd like it to cause people to leave the theatre doubling that they are quite the free souls they thought they were.
"I'd like to make them a little less sure of themselves, to make them see that their prejudices "Moby are not always the result of suddenly, Jogical thinking.
Lord
Waverley-
he sees
his duty
among the
sick and
the weary
He likes going to the Lords Fields on those on this earth But bis enny father said,
when be tan get away from whom we love and rejoice in **Research? I don't see much The explanation was that he future in that." And that was Waverley
his professional duties. Lord their success. had given most of his life to how the young Anderson went speech in a debate on the hos
his maiden public service, where the re- into the Civil Service.
pital service in November. last wards were small. To his son he left £2,000. He also left him
This was wo other precious
attributes:
of Sir Juha Anderson - An-1 derson became Waverley.
When a distinguished man made De difference to this ponsibility. dies there are many things he man of the Serond. Generation.
A BIG BREAK
the
more than half a
year.
century ago, The outlook for inherited three years ago, has discipline and a sense of res research workers a very differ- A TRIBUTE.......
Looit first at the brilliant
Permodent Secretary at the Home Omre;
The present Lord Waverley,
ent today.
held that
C
"I want to give them clearer understanding of human relationships-mother and non. father and daughter-and on explanation of their Own strange, aggressive impulses, I honestly believe that the cinema is the best medium for doing this,
"There will be nothing hurri- Be in the im. No twisted mon- trosities, horrible figures and all that,
"There will be horror In our dream sequences--but it will be in everyday things. Some people have a morbid fear of catà, or of walls, or of being loo near a fence.
"It will be an unusual Alm, because to deplet hysteria, for instance,
actor shall put an under hypnosis I can hypno- tise and create la him a coin- pletely real hysterical state."
Uncertain
grow bigger than they are and smaller than they pre, Things happen which frighten come people immensely,
"How will we do it? I think colour is out, Colour takes away The concentration of the audience. Perhaps we will mix black and white and colour, perhaps not. I don't know.
"Through the medium of film I think wo can transmit the of dream-the censa= feeling
lons of falling ur flying, of blows that have na weight."
"The climax of the film' will be the climax of Freud's ille- the attribution, of sexuality to children."
Prudery
Freud brought up his own children in a remarkable strait- inced manner.
once ተ. go skating because fused his daughter permission to have to link arms with a man. she might
He was very upset by his own revelations of child sexuality, end the fact that he published them and fought for them shows, says Huston, what an extraordinarily courageous man Freud was.
Huston, Reinhardt, and Sarire
"He was a complex character. are making a serious effort to
I shall show some of his prudery reproduce their own recollec
In the film. but the overall tions of dreams, but "we are uncertain of the answer.
picture will be one of a god, devoted, single-minded Kenlus "You see, no one has ever and scientist who possibly has more influence on the advancement of living and happiness than anyone else in modern Umes. '
seen anyone else's dream,
"Some people seem to dream in vivid colours, some in black and white, And what happens one Individual's dreamy is quite different from what happens in the next person's.
had
I asked Huston whther ho had ever been paychoanalysed. "No," he said. "I value my for to highly for
"In some dreams faces scem uturosen to change. Things move which thai," don't normally move, things
-(London Express Service),
HEART ATTACKS-NEW
'JAB' SAVES LIVES
By PETER FAIRLEY
BRITISH scientists are about to launch a new "emergency action" treatment for heart at- tacks. It is a drug which can be injected by a doctor immediately he sees a case of heart failure. It acts instantly.
Already in clinical trials.
on more than 2,000 Britons, pyrimidine-storied nine years lives have been saved.
'11:50, It belongs to a cheżnieni group ever before used in
These have been cases to medicine. which the journey to
Now It is being prepared in hospital for treatment two forms—a bright green liquid would normally have proved for injection, or a small orange
pili. fatal.
The plls can be used in long- Lerm treatment 'No side effects'
after the emergency is over. They have The drug acts by expand- also proved beneficial during trials on people suffering from 'arteries which lead angina pectoris.
So
"If Aristotle be right, then ing today one of the greatest orna- ments of this House, one of the directly to the heart.
I was told today:" "The drug greatest servants of this nation, extra blood and precious can be injected, for rapid effect, is looking down on us and sees oxygen can get through to with complete safety. After a that the torch which he lit is Tueing brightly carried by his an area which has been coronary attack, minutes are
precious. dangerously starved since the coronary attack.
may leave to his heir money,
It was when he left public He was followed by another son," 50 next February, lives with his service after the porition, character. The Orsi
defeat of physician, Lord Cohen of Bir- wife and three young children Churchill's career of the father. Son of a
An elegant tribute to both Viscount left his son the litle
Government in kenhead. In congratulation Lord Whitchurch. Each day he 1945, that,
But the son and character,
Scots publisher he entered the at But
Lord Waverley be- Waverley on his maiden speech, father and son. Civil Service. He became: drives the dozen miles to Read come chairman of the Port of Lord Cohen hald: "One of the seca no path leading him to the Inuncy.
ing or Newbury in the exercise London Authority,
noblest of ancient philosophers heights that his father trod. He of his profession.
when we pass on, aces his duty ainong the sick He also joined the boards of we look down from the Elysian and the weary. Father and son were cluse
several
As other companies. Governor
Bengal, who friends, of
especially after survived three attempts at as- boy's mother
the chairman of Covent Garden, he died. sassination;
An aunt had a box at the Opera House, then moved in to look after went frequently to watch opera them. Father, recently knight and ballet. ed, commuted between White- hall and his home at Sutton, in Surrey.
What has the son made of his inheritance? He is a doe- tor, consultont physician with the Reading group of hospitals. At first, this seems a big break from the line pursued by his
Home Secretary; Chancellor of the Exchequer Chairman of the Port of Lon-
Museum's three fake warriors unmasked
THREE warrior figures that have stood among the priceless collections in New York's Metro- politan Museum of Art for 30 years are revealed now as fakes.
What kind of a father was
THE ATTACK
he? "Stern, like most Scottish The present Lord Waverley fathers," says the son. "But was there with his father the never unjust."
night the Israelis, attacked Nus- Fer's men. Lord Kilmuir, the:
Father had two instruments Lord Chancellor, was the chair-
of retribution: the slipper for man's guest. They heard the ihminor offences, the strap for
more serious transgressions,
|HIS 'CATCH”
news while eating
supper in
the ante-room. It Alled every- one with foreboding, but no-
body could guess the extent of the Suez Dasco that was a di- rect result of that attack.
Lord Waverley recalls an in- ciderit after he and his sister, In 1941 when he had been a Ave years his junior, had been widower for 21 years, Sir John “laken to see a rodeo when he Anderson decided to marry was 12. The next day he lassord again. He was then Lord Presi- his sister In the garden and dent of the Council. His son was a Squadron-Leader ́(Medi- badminton post when the nunt eal) In the Royal Air Force. Kin intervened. That evening she daughter, then 24, was in the reported the affair to his father, WRAC.
museum regarded it as a "fine was about to tether her to a cotta
The warriors, in fearsome Bahting stance. were supposed
terra to be Etruscan figures made in 500 B.C.
Through apme experts have doubled their orliih" all along, the mustunt authorities insisted
they were genuine.
How the mistake was finally
plece,"
And now the fate of the three figures? "They are such good kes, we are leaving them on the
display — at least for
present," said Mr Horimer,
Express Art Reporter writes:
Before taking the step. the
"Go up to your room, Alas- tair," said father to his son, father told his children that shall come to see you present- while they were young he had
ly."
no thought of marrying; Now that bath had reached maturity, Hallway up the stairs, the day he proposed to take anollier
discovered is not revealed, but The British Museum has also turned. "I know I did wrong," wife. I understand the evidence hhd
ita share of forgery ke sald, hoping to cool the come from Europe,
standals, most notable being the paternal ire. "I think I deserve HIA bride was Mrx Ανα The museum's, director, Mr Cervetel Sarcophagus,
The slipper."
Wigram, a widow, "I was do- James J. Rorimer, atid today: This work was believed to be and under-rate
"You should not be so modest #ghted," says her stepson, "tor "All I can say is that we are of about the same alleged period father. Alastair got the strap man."
yourself," sald father was becoming a lonely slow certain the figures are not ah the New York fakes when it that night.
This happy marriage genuine,
made a great difference to him. was brought in Tragments from The boy went to school at Exports call it a "gigantio" a denter in tome in 1873.
Malvern, where he was a first- Because of his Civil Service forgery, because of Its
the class goalkeeper and was given background,
feet Lord A year later it was denounced his colours at athletics. He Waverley was never a politi Importance in archaeology and as false by an Italian expert. thought he had a good chance plan. He belonged to no party. the sizó..
But it was not until 1936 that to get a Blue It he Went to in the Lords" che sat on the The biggest warrior in aft, din.: the "marcophagus was finally Cambridge, Alastair: put the crow-banches. There now alta. tall and weighs 000lb Tau confituired and seinaved, - Į point to hia. Father,-
la son.
AFRICAN COMMENTARY,
Cummings
APARTHEID
"A doctor will be able to carry this ready in his bag and slap it It has no effect on other blood quickly into any part of the vessels in the body.
patient's body, Side affects have hardly ever appeared. The worst The search for the new com has been a slight giddiness."
known as pyrimido
-(London Express Servics).
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