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THE CHINA MAIL,
TV FILM OF COLONY SHOWN
As Bill Holden
sees Hongkong
By ANTHONY FULLER
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1961.
On Friday evening, at the Foreign Correspondants' Club, Hongkong, was screened the 16mm Television film, "Report On Hongkong," with a commentary by William Holden, star of the film, "The World of Suzie Wong."
The original object of
the
I was Lo give the matti- million TV audience of United States of America an objective account of present day Life in Hongkong.
The method chosen was select three representälive is pes of Hongkongda residents. The persons selected were Mr Michinel Turner, Chairman and Chief Manager of the Hong- kong and Shanghal Banking Corporation; Mr Kan, a wealthy Chinese lawyer; and an Ini- pecunious refugee family.
The camera, realising it had a realistle job of reporting to do, eschewed all the beauty spots of Hongkong, save when it fasten- at upon Mr Hulden making his commentary from the upper balcony of the Foreign Corres- pondents' Club, when a distant view of the Kowloon Hills was seen over Mr Holden's shoulder. Hongkong
The border station of Lo Wu was shown, with its miserable refugees crossing over. but mostly the camera oscillated be-
provided.
William Holden
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Government
I am quite certain that Mr Holden regrets this emission as much as I do,
and he must
CHRIST WORE BLUE JEANS
TV jive-style passion play labelled 'ghastly'
London, Mar. 26,
A Government MP tonight labelled a television jive-style passion play in which Christ wore blue jeans" "degrading" and "ghastly."
One doctor
for 900 Thai people
There are five doctens to every 4,000 people in Thailand, according to Dr C. Kanasuta, of left for Tokyn Bangkok, who
by Air-Indla today.
Me
Dr Kanasuta said unit re- cently Thailand had only two medical institutes under
in Bangkok, university
He added that a new medical Institute was being set up Chingmal, North Thailand.
Dr Kanacuta estimated that beginting next year the med
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tween Mr Turner's home and have been disappointed that cal colleges In Thailand would the script gave him no Ixoduce around 300 doctors each
the refugee shack, or Mr Kan's home and the refugee shack.
Neither were the action shots varied much. The actor
opportunity of saying so.
3 Way
fugee killing a rat in his home."erately biased report, and years.
His family eating from batter-
of a
The average Hongkong re-
Dr Kanasuta, who has been siient would take the view that patvate penetice since 1946, Hongkong" is " is on his first vacation for 10 He was accompanied by his I wife. The Karmsutas spent three account
the utilities of mention in
preceding days in Hongkong shopping. paragraph, has given a false) impression of this Calony.
ed pots and pans. The refugee that My Holden, by emitting an huts going up in flames. A shot a hired truck taking the re- fugee from his hut to the now housing block, where, as the camera had it, he exchanged
Such a conclusion would be shanly squalor for brick squalor most unjust, for what greater: The camera then turnier to appreciation of Hongkong could Banking and Law.
Mr Halden give than he has already given? He is our most constunt visitor. He has made While these shots wert flims here. And he has in- screened, Mr Holden's voice vested capital in Hongkong's gave a non stop commentary. | prosperity. With the opening shot of Mr Holden, he reminds his audience that
. Colonialism is for
Breakfast on the Peak and ted with the Katus.
most of us a dirty word,” and to prove his point, the camera swoops down to the indescrib- able squalor of the refugee shacks,
As Mr Turner is shown leaving for work, Mr Holden Hays, "Mr Turner is driving his MG himself, leaving the Rolls Royce for his wife."
Now a person with a carping nie might assume all this was deliberately slanted, but Ij em sure Mr Holden Jind no
such intention, for did not Mr
Big theft
of gems
from U.S.
tourists
Turner place his home at the Burglars stole US$15,000
cameroman's disposal?
Unfortmately, the TV pro durer did not photograph the hospitals, housing estates, wel- fare centres, schools, canteens, i food distribution centres, and other amenities which the
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A Woman's
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The Hongkong Government office In London made 115 commercial introductions Hongkong goods last month, These cover, among other pro- ducts, paper kites, aluminum scrap, cashmere, terry towel- ing, rattan furniture, handbags, bed ticking, hand-painted wall- paper and bronze cutlery,
The MP James Dance, has tabled д protest motion against the play in the Houss of Common18.
He said "The presentation of the Last Supper among a lot of rocking and rolling youths was most unpleasant."
Excerpts from the play, wore shown on a commercial- television weekly religious pro- gramme for teenagers.
They showed
Christ's Templation, the Miracle of the Leaves and Fishes, the Last Supper and the Cruel- xion in o setting of Jiving rocking and rolling teenagers with Jeans, long hair and elde burns,
Hitler
In the play, which was writ- ninister ten by Presbyterian
Marvi and Ewan Ernest Hopper of the Bristol Old Vic, a pretty girt singer in a piece costume with " bace sing: "Gentle Christ, waist wise the good, we nailed to cross of wood,"
In a representation of the templation In the wilderness the devil off-screen, shid 10 Christ: "all these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me."
The screen was then filled with Anshbacks of Hitler rani- ang in front of a crowd and taking the salute of the Ger- man Army-UPI.
RUSSIA'S SPACE CLAIM
D
Jast
Moscow, Mar. 26. could have sent man into space August, a Soviet scientist said today in an article in the Pravda.
Ninety visitors called at the London office and all were in- terviewed personally. Discus-Russia sions dealt with trading prob- tems end Inquiries, requests for general information and en- quiries from people about to take up residence in the Colony or visiting It for business
reasons,
TRADE INQUIRIES
FROM AUSTRALIA
Professor N. Sisakyan, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, wrote: "As regards technical possibilites, man's flight into space could have been achieved in August last year when the second Soviet space ship was launched.
However, before a man was sent info space, Soviet scientists
Mr and Mrs George W. Block, The Sydney office of the wanted to and cut more about of Kankakee, Illinois, revealed Hongkong Government received the biological
consequences of this upon their arrival by Air-27 inquiries from Australian such a fight, he said. India today.
merchants during February. The Soviet Union yesterday Mr Block, who is a retired These enquiries resulted in 17 Iaunched into space and re- businessman, said that Italian commercial introductions cover- covered a dog and other ving poller and interpol (Internation- ing a variety of Hongkong pro-creatures her "man
space" programme. Neuter.
al Police network) were investi-ducts.
gating the burglary.
However, Mr Block added,
"they have not found my wife's
jewellery yet."
The Blocks are on
the-world trip.
to remain in
a round-
They planned Hongkong one
month "because we were
told
this is a fabulous place for shop- ping and sight-seeing."
dear sirs.
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For The First Time In Hong Kong KUKMIE KUHNS
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TV programme
of
On the front page of your noon edition of Thursday, March 23 the above-captioned item news must be of much in- terest to local residents, and Ist therefore wondered if the be
samo
can
programme shown here at some time in the near future. Logal TV viewers will
surely
want to see how they look as seen from on allen's angle. The New York Times has call- ed the programme "a graphile and fascinating study of area."
Wonder which area and
has caused the graphic cination.
the
what fos-
Let's hope It's nothing to cause us to blush the colour of an Easter Egg! What's so curi- Qua?
KURIUS KAT.
James Bond
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