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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1950.
"I MARKED
TIME
AS AN ACTOR"
JAMES
MASON
#
returned
to
Europe with a Keep Out" notice on his hotel door. But CONWAY, the
to
HAROLD
British star now waiting for an American passport speaks frankly about his past and future ..
PARIS,
"But in
20h
rated with his wife three years UST off the Champa go on a most intelligent pro- certain duction called "The Upturned studios Elysees there is an Glass."
hotel unassuming which is a recognised haunt for American visitors to Paris.
Paris taxi-drivers call it "I'hotel des Americains."
there, and it Was
ap propriately, that I took ten with a visiting American-to- be, James Mason after what he confemed was his "three years' stand-still as Auctor."
BUCCCES
For my the
JAMES MASON
I wish James "Are you satisfied that Any Century Fox, for instance-you of that promise or your formier are now getting perfect sym- Mason
and co-ordination be in his new ven- personality, has been allowed pathy
cope in Hollywood-enough to tween the heads and the actual tures. justify your hopes in leaving picture-makers: and outstanding part, England?" I put to him.
ohms are the result."
Mr Mason curamed up: personality can "Well, you know, I've never
be much of "Now, I have thought particularly
nearly served certainly American
apprenticeship. teft in its cellu- myself as ca nein. The picturen my
archives. themselves-new ideas, Imagina. Directly the Spain-and-England loid
"Pandora and the But high; threction tive interested me
more than own performances,"
"Wicked Lady"
have always Dutchman"-is finished, time that Bri-1
ערנן
NOTORIETY
Kalp of tea, hiz
for wife
looke:
"A Lady
former tala's my wife an I will begin woduction of our own in Paris, No. 1 star stops- with private backing from the ped contenting States. Then, I hope, we shall himself with a
in place
the nyctollywood do another one, with
producing, in Hollywood C
ranks--and, In- It was a strange ten, and MASON took a an unfamiliar. Mas-green, at warned up to itzela."
The Parts picture in to be bag. stead made pic- ngain though we I found per- the subject.
"Anyway, what is all this ed on one of Pamela Kellina'n urra
Pommersed," which are in- sonally more likeable than
about my great promise and novels, of old.
reputation before I left Eng And it will, says Mason, be the portant,
since he left Even 14 he land? Why, some of the critics st production
do his who have Leen lamenting about England of witch he can say: doen
I have been future Here is what
travel- the last Mason' of a few years
But 0 12 an aga are the very ones who red planning to do for three years,
been content to suffer American pass- to be most creatic about my m
all that
port. work.
criticism for wolting time. This is the real screen
(World me whatever you thak, 1 like Tight Hearned
SO SUBDUED
WUS the INDISCERNIBLE
Nu, i British sercen per ape a few years sonality of
(at perhaps the provocative prevoked) individualist who had haken the dust of our ladies favour of from his shoes in Lollywood's freedom.
In his place, I talked with a Mason who has just taken out naturalization Uniter! States papers, whose light American accent is coining on nicelyb who seemed more subdued, and with fewer hutan, than any film star, British or American, 1 have met.
As subdued, in fact as he has appeared in all his Hollywood pietures which was one of the to ask tires I We curJUS Mason about.
or
Service).
Copy.
"Don't you make any mistake
it: in England I w it this way-and the credit, or London Eas about never neroited an outstanding blame, is mine." retor. What you are remember- Է -4 . was not my accers fame, is was my notoriety-
eled becaure I spoke my mind about British
studio methods, Part/eularly Me Rank's method:
His Hollywood film? James Maron admitted that, while he quite enjoyed making them, his satisfied
not really ports had im-with one exception.
"That was 'The Reckless Moment,, with Juan Bennett. Tout picture was good."
REPROACHES
What have two and a half to that years absence done
orceful perscnulity which made
RE-BROACHED the subject him our inost distinctive star?
Personality. of the Mason) Sa, over the lea-cups, James Masun quietly and intelligently Well he is cony if it horn't been cast up the ledger of his Holly coming through--though not so British cinema-goers word career to date and strucks sorry if
merely want to be reminded of balince a modest one.
filling the large Mason "The Wicked Lady" and all that suite were
navelist wite went with her. hig Pamela Kellino, 17-month-old Portland, just put to bed she's been keeping
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SHAW
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Mr. Buller considers ways and means of winning voters to Toryism.
THE
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Mr. Morrison considers ways and means of winning voters to
the Guvernment,
Sitting on
Fence.... by
A woman complaining to one ut the newspaper doctors, who Are now twe up on the clergy- men writing atened colimny in the Prem, Kaye her husband grind his teeth at night. Sho fan bren told that "in the world of dreams he may be symbolically caling homebody he tslikes."
ROM nine nam. to six NATHANIEL
p.m.
Recute
tion.
GUBBINS
I hear the bosses cull-
Their descendants now per much. Didn't we have twopence
Canadians the
by in our waistcoat pocket?" Ing
through the "How can I tips anybody two-
I'm not a woman." Do that, do this, do this, do parading naked
streets at the slightest provoca- pruce? that,
"Aren't you?" "At least, most of me i't. If they don't like paying rutes Not when
doen?) Canel who
I'd rather give him Boukhobors of both sexes and stark naked
give him nothing." at age appear before the town hall and sing tude songs in Itussion about the town clerk.
"I am not a case of a rich I'm weary of their bawling. star being taken for a ride by They ring their bells, my gorge Hollywood," Insisted-and noddei Pamela Kellino-Mason
taxes rather irregular
he
on the way over"; his mother-in-law, Mes Ostrer, and a vigorous agreement. "Some other relatives-in-law who had
of the artists from this country from England for
who have been suffering an come over
glimpse of their first
young eclipse over there had been für Miss Mason.
English typed ac frat hus- too much Also Mrs Mason's band Roy Kellino, he has re mained a
close friend family and she still name professionally. Plus come business vegociates.
characters.
"Now Hollywood of the uses his trating, more and
'READY TO LEARN'
is concen more on lis
own national-atmosphere nie- tures, and the English colony of ectors and actresses are feeling the draught.
"But not me. I haven't been
jhen i uke Eliud typed as an Englishman; in fast, Bri limon was WAD have let myself be inerged in
seere--which the set noon of leaning a to the American
productiva was, I think, the sensible thing Hollywood
couma pepare to do. It was never my inte methods, 20 that myself to emuark on hun- tion to export my costume film.
about
שג!.
It swells, I'm scherning how to cheat 'em, But things come right in bed at
night,
At ten p.m. I eat 'em. Munch,
munch in inch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
At ten pa. I eat 'em. From nine aun, to six p.m.
and
I don't give satisfaction, I'm late with this. I'm late for
that,
The bosses want more action, They do me dirt, my feelings
Hart,
By day I can't defeat 'em.
screanis,
and
10 on my own," Mason wid or even Seventh Veil person. But in my dreams I hear there ne. "Alse to say acang for a ality from England. wider. In.
"I don't public-
why 1 should
At ten p.m. I cat 'em, a.ernational
constantly
reproached for Lunch,
munch munch, yes, I'm always ready to earn
losing that personality-having!! crunch, crunch, crunch, nore about acung
"I have no illusions about its memory lung in my face. 50 far as my work It wasn't sacrosanct-au cer- that period, is concerned it h.4
been a 1inly isn't my Idea of a stan course of learning and assimila ard I must live up to forever: tion for me and I realise that in after."
the time since I left
I have stood
Enand,
At ten pin. I eat 'em. Some folks they wonder why I'm
tired
FIERY CRITIC. still as an actor.
In fact, my
career has been marking time..
"But, good gracious, I'm not
out getting anxious."
And go to bed so early,
if I'm kept up much after ten I'm hungry and I'm surly,
oh
mny
TASON, who was so fiery a For those I hate are MAS
critic
Alm of British
pinter
сли
nine till six,
and
Saint Cripps for Merric England is lucky that only and tho modesty English
get climate moke similar protests impossible over here.
it comes
to the
London Express Service
the
old-
Aren't you rather un fashioned reactionary, mum?
You mustn') Really, dear. peak to your mother like that.
If I can't speak to you ke that now, mum. you're putting up a barrier between our two personalities which will be more difficult to break down In the I think it's time you went to years to come. bed now, deer,
Don't dodge tu
argument by putting me to bed, mum. Face three Here Ara the facts, people and three bags of wool owned by Baa Baa Black Sheep. The The Master gels one. Dame gets one. The 1tle boy
1 pod ke
to do it
gets nothing, What's going to
yourself?**
"Certainly I will"
And
happen to that lille bay, when he grows up?
I really couldn't say, dear. All his fe he's going to
and develop suffer from a sense of injustice inferiority complex.
ал
"No, you won't. Not while you're wearing my trousers."
"Do it yourself, then. swopence la quite enough."
"What are a few coppers here and there?"
"A few coppers here and How would he like Downing
up over a year, Street filled with naked Income there, saved
who have been would buy me a new handling." taxpayers
"Whatever are you saying,
This nursery rhyme is a clear swindled out of their postwar
case of the exploitation of the Or naked
which women Aum Natalie?" credits?
madam," "Thank you,
paved says underprivileged taxi potesting against purchase tax?
driver, giving your the way to the social revolution. Or, worse still, 10,000 stark the naked publicans, distinguished Uncle the queerest look as he Baa Baa Black Sheep was the
their TOOK!
naked dummies. protesting they are being ruined by taxes on beer and tobacco?
by the gold watch-chains tied pockets 39. 6d.
Aunt Natalie
"Nobody 19 enurely of one nex. However manculsie a man may feel himself to be co- xelousis, there is always a layer of his mind containing femininn atlitudes."-Ernest Jones, prost- dent of the International Psycho- Analytical Association.
Well, I can't help it, dear,
capitalist, The Master and The Dame were the shareholders in
Baa Baa Black his business. The little boy was
Sheep
hear a "Listen
Four-year-olds who programme B.B.C. With Mother are conscinay at living in a Welfare State that they are now questioning the :- ethics of nursery rhymen, cording to a correspondent of the adio
Tunes, one of the children asked It Ban Da Black Sheep has three bags full. why none for the little boy who Itves down the lane; and what happened to the third bag?"
tho
us explains why your Uncle Nat is always arguing with 41 until next month-curely 1 methods, reasons with modera- Mat's where I like to meet
his other self, Aunt Natalie, TUHY didn't little boy Y down the lane have a bag It's a placo where there is They've played me tricks from when paying off a cab driver. W FINGERS" have come time to spare with- tion about Hollywood.
Whatever are you doing?" of wool, mura? This was far removed from superb organisation In
asks Aunt Natalie, who once had the branch of film-making and you the actor
"I'm giving him 2a, 9d." says have to rely on improvisa-Munchi, cf being reputation. Liudio
Uncle Nat. he said. "high-hatted,"
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It was even further removed
The biggest trouble in Holly- who, only a wood and the from the Mason few days ago, locked his cabin sults in a number of bad pic- door to reporters at Plymouth. tures, is that a studio's tone and curtly refusing to be Interview level of artistle intelligence is
At ten p.m. I eat 'em.
munch munch, crunch, crunch, crunch. At ten p.m. I cat 'em.'
Strip tease
ana
ed.
oet by the top executive. And IF you know nothing at all about the Doukhobors, they asked Mason whether he there is too often a stone wall
and the intelli-fare a Russian scet who fled to was sure that it was only a between him case of a career marking time gent writers and directors em- Canadia more than half a cen- Iployed under him, More than tury ago to escape persecution and not going backwards?
the outlook is by reminded this rebel from the wall, their mental
polico. Rank studios how he collabo poles apart.
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"But the fare's only 2s. 3d." "There's the tin, isn't there?" "A sixpenny tip on 29. 3d.7" "You can't give less, "Why not?"
Well, just because you can't, At least I can't."
Well, dear, perhaps he was naughty.
Should he be penalized be- cause he was naughty, mum?
We are all penalized when wor are naughty, dear,
Suppose he was naughty be cause he couldn't express his personality in any other way?
Lude boys shouldn't express
by personalitica
"Threepence is quite enough." "Rubbish." "Don't answer me back like their that. In fact, threepence is too naughty, dear,
By Ernie Bushmiller
BALD SPOTS!
being
the underpaid worker.
.
Bed now. All right, dear, And what happened to the third bag of wool? Instead of being paid to the little boy, It was handed out in bonus shares to The Master and The Darne, Cheating the worker of the fruits of his own labour.
Mighty unlike
a
rose
"Ruth KhamTLD ́A baby girt Jacqueline
the image of observer
her father."---Koen
AL Berowe,
"She looks like nothing on observer kezner card."-A
(her fathers.
Nothing like her daddy..
Nothing Uke her mum, Just another baby
With a little powdered tumi Nothing like her mum, Crying for her bottle,
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