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THICH of the two
chairs is comfortable, that of a movie executive or that of a movie director?
Clung.
Robert
Managing Director of the Motion Picture General Investment Com- & pany, who began directing his irst Dim. "Education of Love," on April 22, said on the set the other day, "Both chairs are bip, unwieldy, and uneasy to sit in.
But apparently Bob feels none the were for straddling both of them.
I 1+ sheer for learning all interest and aspects of movie-making."
Jeanette Lin Tsui, stor of the Alm, remarked: "My new direc- serupulous. lup is ext: emmel v
1ok at the way he improvert zi scene in which a penitent block- smith father embiuced a wrong- ed student som.
Open
"The father closed his eyes in a Sentheptal hug but cut him short and instead askerl him to keep his eyes open and to grip his son in his powerful hands as a blacksmith would do with a hammer in his profession! " in hitely more expres- tive and characteristic of n Blacksmith!"
Who is Bob Chung anyway? He is a many-sided man at the helm of a multi-million-dollar show business, a man who ap. proaches the movie industry like
security-minded banker.
In short, he to a banker- investor, udininistrator, producer, diplomal personnel manager, organiser, colour-photo techni- clan,
BY DAVID LAN
Man of many facets, Robert Chung
pm when
Star Jeonatto and boss Bob Chung
I may leave for the studio if work re- quires me there.
artist and now a movie until 12,30 director-all rolled in one.
Let's take a day out of his calendar
haw ha Just to pee plays the parts.
ewference
"In the afternoon, mere che ques and replies, more people to Up at 7.30 3m. the film see and production schedules to executive busles himself with look up for deciding on shont- morning
("headlines ing priority. papers
production "A Grst"), walks his three daughters ("Nancy, 9. Peggy and Patricia, takes place from 3 pm to 6.30 twins of 5), takes a bath, has pm about once a week. Other- breakfast, and reads the papers wise, more correspondence, both In between, ngnin
loent and foreign. His luxury fat in Broom-1ond I walk in and out of the office, modern vingt keeping an eye on the staff for hann spacious 100m decerated In an elegant future promotion as encourage- colour scheme of grey, and a ment where merit warrants it, dining room in modern Chinese decor,
faults pop up.
Then he set up his own
her understanding In 1947.
inboratory In glance colour-photo
met his happy smile at T.
Lee. Younglong. Mr
the end of their story.. Managing Director of the Yung him to 20th Hwn Studio, sent Century Fox in Hollywood, for a year of study and made him his studio manager in 1910.
* * * 667ŢIKE Legend of a Ming
Priestess,"
Cos- a tumed
and the mystory film of third
Mirando for Motion Picture Productions, for its gala is scheduled premiere at the Metropole and the Zenith on May 17 at 9.30 pm.
Froni 1952 to 1954, Bob was Filt East Representative Eastmon Kodak and was sent to Kodak's head office in the US for a six-month course in colour technology,
Since 1058, he has been with MP & GI as Managing Director. "I'm always vigliant on the
Speaking of the Cathay Or effelency of our system and seck improvement whenever ganisation, the parent company of MP & GI, he said, "We have Bob belleved 0 manager roots in rubber, tin mines, estate, understand the back- hotels, finance, cinemas and film Leaving home at 9 sharp, he should
We do not put gets to the uffice in half an hour grounds of his staff, "It works production.
ways I work for them all the eggs in one baskri,” and they work for me!"
Investments
by his black-and-white Stude- both baker and the Star Ferry.
"First I look up the day's In the evening, he either Banking
A GREAT EX-EDITOR TELLS MIS HUMOROUS STORY
The young man who
came to Fleet-street
LOOK at the bespectacled,
younger man with the bland, cheerful face in this picture.
Now imagine the same face pale and damp with panic. Imagine the man staring at his bedroom eciling in the long black hour be- fore daylight.
A time, of course, when we have all known irrational despair. Suddenly the fear of ill-health or ruin pulls back the coverlet with cold fingers and nestles down beside us.
But there was nothing irrational about the panic of the man in the picture. A few hours before, ns cultor of a great daily newspaper, he had been on the phone to his chief cor- respondent in Paris.
R
The correspondent had sent in n brief, vague report hinting at scandal involving British officials. How certain was his information? Not certain at all, the voice from Paris explained; even the names of the officials had been given to him phonetically by a French informant- they could well be wrong.
Yet there was something mys- terlous in the air, the reporter's volte went on. For a whole day his official vonipets had been
curiously reserved and curt to him. He was convinced that he was on the trail of something
ble.
Promptly the editor made his decision, After some shrewd checks in London he spread headlines across the Paris re- port and pushed it on a front page which was already crowd
ed with news.
was. A lew machines
ruin.
milen
by ROBERT
PITMAN
"Here is Mr Christiansen, the pletely cut off from the world who edits my chief outside Flect-street and outside foreigner
London. Newspaper."';
He judged his newspaper by the test of whether it would
At 12 little Arthur was already for scratching away at articles the Sunday Chronicle, using the
The the people in the drab Northern family plato as a desit. articles were always rejected. back streets,
But DACE, Instead of the
- Actuur
Christiansen, then Editor of the Daily Express, with Lord Beaverbrook
on
It was the SABC Canadian valce which he had heard the telephone on the morning after the R101 crash.
bring warmth and meaning to 'Foreigners...'
ness.
Dr
That did not make it a less And on war-time anecdole printed rejection slip, Arthur intelligent paper. Far from i he reveals the thing which- was thrilled to receive a brief Intelligence is the quality which despite the abuse of crities A reckless decision? In the personal note of rejection signed can break down complicated the smiles of sophisticated daricness inter he belloved it by "J. Mears, Northern Editor." issues into lucidity and terse friends has given that volee its
later, Years
when J. Mears the away
power! out sought a job from the Express were pounding
Christiansen does not forget
"We stood on the terrace of those headlines. For him they group. It was given to him by those who helped him in his Cherkley Court (in Surrey) one could also be pounding out Arthur Christiansen.
aim Journalism's back-roam Saturday night in September. humiliation unct professional
nich, whose names may bo The horizon glowed a deep pink unknown to the public but why as helpless London burned. have served their country with
y am a foreigner,' said the quite as much skill and burning Minister of Aircraft Production, devotion as any illeti fellow in his arm around my shoulder. Whitehall. Men such as J. B. And you're a foreigner too. By a Wallasey newspaper Arthur'a
Wilson, veleron news-editor, or that i position
that I progress authority was rapid.
W. A. Crumley, fercely patriolle. Canadian and you are a Dane He now
the paper's own war - time on your father's side. Therefore, censor.
London we can both look at tonight with a degree of detach- ment.
Then at dawn he looked again. at the fruit page which was already propped up on millions of breakfast tables. It said:--- "Scotland Xard officers and French detectives are hunting
A phone call
From being an apprentice
to
A
for two British Government recounts the big moments employees who are believed to the way up.
have left London with the intention of getting to Moscow. "According to
น
friend they planned the journey to serve their idealistle purposes." "One reperi says that the two
men were employed by Foreign Office."
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"Did you ever-did you ever Inow such a magnificent people as the English? Did you ever
now such courage?
Once, during
of a period R.A. atrocities, Wilson
Such was the moment, late on » Saturday, when the nlrship flames in R101 crashed in France. Christiansen, then As- sistant Editor of the Sunday Ex- press, rushed back from hin house in Pimilco to lead the reporters who, by tuck, had harrying his crime reporter for slayed on to play pontoon ot With those words the Burgess the omee and who put the and Maclean scandal
burst Sunday Express veralan of the upon the world.
Campaigner
tan, 25.).
the
W83
"Having
adopted London source of the clues about the
ainee I arrived there in 1825, The 1.R.A. bombs.
reporter replied:
I've got some I Interjected, You mean the "J.B., disaster on to the streets hours bad news for you. They're be- Londoners, the cockneys?"
"No. I don't. I mean the ing made in your own cellar.
* before any other newspaper. The Special Branch are there English. They're all the same.
The next morning at 9 am
-and your butler."
was an I.R.A. mon.
таке оп
earth. There's no one to touch them. And you, as a foreigner
The butler, it was learned, like me, ought to knơw 11,"
Recurring
А
a telephone rang and a Canadian now, taking away the explosives They're the greatest
"you voice told him:
have secured wonderful Jeat of In a sense that incident makus
proud to be the climax of a brilliantly journalism. I am Interesting new book, READ BROociated with a newspaper ON LINES ALL MY LIFE, by which you work. Good-bye to There are some splendid pages Marle on Carl Giles. In 1049 Arthur
(Helne 09." Christiansen
It Was Christiansen's first Slopes, the birth-control pion-
Christiansen odds:- Countless readers of the Dally message from Lord Beaverbrook, eer, wrote cancelling her Daily
After Christiansen had spent Express so long as
This was no affectation. Express, the paper which Chris-
10 pot- tlanzen edited for 25 years, a spell in the Express Manchester sou it with Giler's productions fact, it was a recurring theme, wil barely recognise his name. oflice. Beverley Baxte: then. They denigrate humanity In the peace and sunshine of Yet that does
the Bahamas years later, when take away Editor of the Daily Express-also and are very seldom funny." not
hia
broken motor-bost had from
Christiansen writes:- the name's importance. received a message from Beaver- There are Journalists who rank brook, The exchange which fol "Next day I received a letter down because of a defect in
Northelle It only after
and lows is well known in Fleet from Giles,
manufactured accompanied by a somo machinery Beaverbrook in the history of street, but deserves a wider au- drawing of a father and his in the U.S., I heard him say
dlence:- British newspapers.
11 children Giles's letter read: to the two Bahanians who The Burgess and Maclean
осу BEAVERBROOK:
want Very well, Marie, if you're not were the crew:-
"Now, you boys, let ma Christiansen going to take the Express an episode in a key chapler in that you to know that
tell you history. It marks conclusively is
that this shaft would London coming to
as more because of my cartoons,
If I had the superiority established in Assistant Editor of the Dally I'm not going to read any of not have broken
come from a British engineering recent decades by the intelligent, Exproes."
your little books,"
shop. The British org the most BAXTER: "If that is to, then campaigning popular newspaper.
Yet along with such anec- thorougli-going, reliable, pains- I resign as Editor". over the grey minority Press.
dotes, trivia or grave, Christian taking nation in the world. BEAVERBROOK: While the minority Press hung
"Just the sen inakes no secret
of what There 15 Bothing shoddy back and the Government Barne, Christiansen Is coming vulce, in all the Express team. their work or their characters.
the locked its doors,
Daily to London as Assistant Editor. Iwas the most insistent, the You should be proud to be of Express, with Christiansen 03 BAXTER: "In the case I most stimulating. the most British stock.'"
chiding the most authoritative,
Editor, cut relentlessly into the scandal
vilof with all its political and social implications.
Rejections
The pointer
Arthur
withdraw my resignation,”
Not long later, Baxter did in In his fact leave Fleet-street. place Beaverbrook put Christiansen, aged 20.
To appreciate the intuilion be- bind that decision rummage around,
altic in your aunt'e Christiansen became certain Mira Miranda Chung Ching. that Mrs Melinda Maclean, left
perhaps or in a local #brary for the Mandarin screen's "Little benind in Britain
a newspaper-any newspaper- by her hus- Wild Kitten" and star of the film, hand, had Soviet
of before 1933. Then compare- will malce personal unpearances Heaverbrook himself, Joining the paper-of today.
contacts too. with it a newspaper--any news- at both theatres.
hunt, discovered that £1,000 She will go on plage at the had been sent to Mrs Macfcan Metropole al the beginning of through a Swiss bank. the show and at the Zenith at
Such folk the end of the
as Lady Violet show on the
Bonham Carter held up stald same night.
hands in horror. Here, they sug- Much of the change, in sim- The film was released through rested, was on innocent, sorrow- plicity, in personal interest, in MP & GI.
ing woman, deserted by her brightness and zest, is due to hunband, being hounded by Christiansen. And Bob, who look many
Christianson. Неге wan intru- For he had something which
grich. sion lato private
The Baxter, Bros
him cultured sophisti- sensitivn Spectator bared its cated predecessor, lacked. college days, has made good une
Clearwater tiny. tecti of his mowledge in steerine a
and yapped. A Christiansen himself gives safe course for MP & Gt here. Bay are at prosent dagegen boying came from the Observer. incident from his pre-editor sound of outraged, cultured the pointer when he relates an He bas keen interest in col in grinding out 11 films, of eling cameras (six so far which many ara in
Then in the midst of all the days. Airendy prosperous nolan Mrs Maclean slipped away young newspaperman at £3,000 and pretty girls ("for my Com-
to Ruaxis, Dol always goes through with pany")!
a year-riches indeed in 1991- What was the man like who he paid. what he has started and "never" Bob married his wife, Row, The big threr, "Empress Wu
a surprise weekend "By then, my necountant will bites
off more
the outcall on his parents in Wallasey, than he con In America where they were Tse-llen" (Li Li ilus and Chao was at the centre of
schoolmates. What is life with Lel), "Yang Kwel-fe" (12 RA cry?
lle found the have brought in a ple of chequen chew.”
furniture being for me to go and I have to Born in 101D to an American- the, wife of a 'movie men? Hun and Yen Chun), and "Takes Arthur Christiansen's father packed.
electrkal reply to all correspondence by educated father, an
gold fose plaintively,
was a Birkenhead Te Chio-chuen" (Lin Dai and Cheo
shipwright. Everything in the little housA? never comes back early at night Lel), all costumed historicale, His grandfather dicating to three accularlett, engineer and a professor-cum-
was a Dähe, had been saiti for a low-shillings (Deaverbrook would ainetimes to pay for the debta caused by two in shorthand and one on a banker, Dob obtained his B.A. but always comnew home early in are worth over three million. typewriter,
In Economies in 1944 and M.A. the mominu. He seldom has All three are diferied to Már | introduce ·Giftätianam to his his father's unemployment. "At 11 am, more, people tumo in 1945 from the University of dinner, at home' but that's: Am Han slang Li, the Ciet do quente, especially if they were Christlerven my other words, So tu seo me. This gueg un Cinclunati.
business, I can't complain," Mille of the Mandarin' szerce. Į paitióite British" farmers, with; could never for long be comi
schedule and call up the Stock watches shooting at the tuillo or Exchange," he said. "We invest reads Up on new acripts from
★ ★ Shaw
conservatively in stocks for our 9 pm to 1 am ("I can't rend in courses in banking during his Medios at
staff's provident fund."
Then director, stars, mes-` sages arki reporte studio takes him up filly. Next,
the office,"}
No wonder, Mr Chen Li, kis rome PRO, described him as "a man of great drive with an analy-
he confers with the editor of teal, gysteinails and methodical
the
International Seren, the mind."
house organ, and the head of distribution department.
and Showscope.
now
colour
CRANKS
"RIDGWAY"
(London Express Service),
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