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OUTLOOK FOR THE UNITED NATIONS

Although the United Nations has convincingly shown its effectiveness in Korea, some critics are cur-

I WAS THROWN TO

MGM LIONS

I was thrown to the lions tho other day and the lons didn't

like It a bit

It

happend this way After, I was to be fed to leaving the Venice Film Festival which

By John Gay

maestro,

THE

Between takes I found Peter writing his second novel "Flight info` Fiction." · Hia Arst WAS published this year,

Judging by the news Oversons, inflation

-"Old ̧ Vick,`@losed re-open next month

Ay, there's tho rub.

the lions, Barbara wasn't kidding-the announcement I consi- cook they hired for their Romu

Peter, who a few years back scare-case. I travelled to the glant 118-acre dered very, inhospitable, "There's apartment was ooco chet to the produced a play at Notting HUI Alm factory Cinecitta, eight milos nothing to worry about," said the King of Italy.

London, for is has nchloved from the centre of Rome. film's

success in many fields in a big administration walked through the studio on producer Sam

When Aomona told Barbarn way, although he is still only 20 trance and found myself in Em-assuringly.

"Wemballet, ra

got 30 lions how wonderful Bob's leg looked But he losigin: "I don't want to peror Nero's Rome to see. the waiting for you, but we know in the rushes of the Alm, she re- be very succesful--autCCCAS can most colossal Alm gamble of all 'em all, so well now they're like plied: "Is that supposed to be a bo dangerous--yon are able to time, awarding even "Gone With friends of the

surprise to mat family."

When Bob rest on your laurels," Wind."

started to learn charlot riding, I pointed out that unfortuna-those good-looking knees of his Emperor's laurel crown on

And he wasn't referring to the price. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, using tely, I was no relation of his,

hend. frozen sterling and Italian lire, but found myself being lined up are spending the biggest budget with other persecuted Christians in screen history-nearly two and to be driven into the arena. a half million pounds on a re- make of "Que Vadis," which means "whither goest thou?"

The cast includes 35 principals more than 200 hit players, and

In we go

I felt a little better, when

I

who

discovered I was alongside Bud- 0,500 extras,

Although Holly dy Baer, brother of Maxle, Wood is fooling the bill and plays Ursus, bodyguard of De- Robert Taylor, as Marcus, is the borgh Kerr's Lygia. I remem Star, almost all the top roles gn bereti that Buddy once knocken

The fights lons-it's safer,

to

head, with Deborah Kerr Joe Louls out of the ring.

a list that includes Leo Genn,

Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer, Nora Swinburne, Norman Wooland, Elspeth March, Nicho las Hannen, and D. A. Clarke

Smith

of

The flamboyant old novel Noro's Rome, first published in 1895. has been filmed three times before.

But this is Hollywood's first attempt and naturally, it must course, in Technicolor.

Now

the

We were given our directions and started the trek across arena-whipped by hulking eft 2in, guards-while the cameras went into netion.

got. knocked about so much that

they had to pad the inside of the chariots.

Sald Bob, who really is a very modest young man: "I don't like being called handsome.. I pre- fer to think of myself as a red blooded man," But nevertheless

the prop man wasn't taking ane chances, he smeared some red paint on Bob's uniform just be make sure the wounds looked right.

Quiet beauty

I think Nero would have_ap preciated the way Rome is to be modern counter- burnt by his part..

I

years,

Down in Australia they buying It bị nhese at twlco

"Luk Sau-chun. was foun hanged by tomates of the san hut at 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon Maybe they felt the place w too crowdedt

Tiny piping has been threaded (-:

A Gustav regret swept, row through the framework of MGM's Rome, and, at the appropriate the world yesterday when t moment a technician will press news becamo lmown. a button electrically igniting pe- | trol flowing through the pipes.

And everything will go up in beautiful Technicolor amoko for the cameras!

Hoard at the bar: "Sorry,. man, but did you say she w pensive or expensive?"ever, MAR

•

Although nowadays she spends most of her time in Hollywood, Fast workers

"Though tension has cas Deborah Kerr is still unassuming.

somewhat with the local ally We did this | un-made-up, and un-Hollywobá Quite at home in his Petronlus still under care and treatment several times, and the lions Her quiet beauty is perfect for role was Leo Genn, for it's not he Government Kowib roared every time they saw us this role, She says: "After try. long since he was playing Marc Hospital." coming-I didn't blame them, Ing acting and ballet. I realised Antony in England. Leo is shoot- Somebody needs treatment would have done the same in that my faco was the only thing ing high now since "The Snake right, particularly some locals w their place.

I had to work with." Well, it Pit" and "Wooden Horse". Fow are only half alive. certainly is her fortune that people know that he was on the Fortunately, Mervyn yelled and real acting ability,

British legal staff at the German "Cut!" before the lions hud a

war crimes trials, and he Deborah has rented a villa in one of the man responsible for say our chops, and I happily Rome so that her husband Tony the Belsen

concentration camp two-and-a-half changed back into civilised 1950 and

year old inquiry. clothes,

daughter Melanie can keep har company.

rently asking if this very be bigger, better and also of chance to lick their, or I should f success has not shown its, fundamental weakness and inability to function accord- ing to the Charter.

The formation of an inter- national, army to combat aggression, they say, only emphasises the cleavage of the world between the Com-

Fabulous dream

63

was

Prizes are offered for the be name for a new American se drink.

How about Marshallade?

"An American Negro

Well, that's certainly sometti.

Leo was a barrister before D Takes no chances Inside the Cinecitta,

long-suppressed ambition for the which

As she was called away to the stage made him switch to acting) received the Novel Peace Pri during the war was Д German

arena for another scene, Deborah Army

barracka I walked

Everyone in this film city of added: "To think that during the after the war. He's booked for though in a fabulous

Babel understands English

war I worked in the RAF can-Vadis" ends,

a new Broadway play when "Que new to write home about.. through a milling crowd of thou ten

dream Italian, so language is no prob teen cutting up' bread and lob- sands of ancient Romans, through

except with the lions. and bing out gravy for hundreds of cheetahs. The animals come from hungry animals, and now they're } mammoth overpowering re

all over Europe,

pe, each with

its trying to feed me to the lions."

munist and non-Communist Production of Nero's palace bultown set of trainers, and each T

04 Invishly as the original 3,000 Italian workmen.

again.

от

by ceives commands in the language

of

A

It understands. It would be just too bad it somebody said the wrong thing to the wrong llon at

wrong moment,

the

Director Leroy is taking no He doesn't

want

Mervyn,

One day's payroll

•

Now I mot Leo coming out of one

I my allent watch of the projection rooms

after keep. seeing some rushes, It seems (The Customis mean was ht that MGM is setting up a spood asleep.) record in editing "Quo Vadis."

Film

起 loaded

aboard

"HK

to attend '51

BIF

British European Airways planes larger scale.

Times change

"How's your daughter gettin on in America?"

camps. In fact, only because of the fortuitous absence of Russia from the Security slimy,

I stood on the banks

Call sheet for extras in the big Council was that body able the River Tiber specially

green-watered replica of

scenes is a real eye-opener, dag

Here's a typical call for one of every night for speedy shipment People should weigh thi to act at the outset. At other outside the studio for a single

to London for processing at words carefully. the days I spent on the set: times has the Council not scene, and I even trod on a re- chances.

colour laboratnetos, Within $5 antiquated section of the Appian. been reduced to impotence? Way.

Twelve Salil Dancing Priests hours, processed film is back in

"Wealthy watchmaker giv Two miles of this now recurrence of an incident that (must be able to dance) 20 Ves- Rome for inspection by producer half his fortune, for medic asphalt-covered historic rond had occurred when "Quo Vadis was tal Virgins (must look virginal): and director, and the editing is research." There is much truth in to be camouflaged with dirt toast filmed in Rome in 1924. At 15 trumpeters (must be able to only three days behind the Must have a jewel, personalit this, but the answer is not make it appear sultably ancient that time, one of the lions,

no play musical instruments); 21 comoras. doubt

misunderstanding. Its cue, singing dancers (must have ad- one of despair. If UN pro

chewed one of the extras. ceedings have been ham-

equate volces). 16 choir mem~ Then, and most fantastic of "Our animals," says

children strung by the abuse of the stepped into a wooden full-receive their orders In English Guards

berg: 30

least (at

half

"Fine. Got a steady, Job with blonde size replica of the Emperor's Cir-French, Dutch,

nde Hair).

10 Practorian cus, and that's where the lens Czechoslovakian-just in case,"

Only

veteran Finlay Currie bridesmaid to a Hollywood star German, and ez

(at Ott 210,

Who is playing St. Peter, really to cavalry (must be obl and I became acquainted.

scems to fake this amazing Allm Myrtle is now eating drippli well): 80 Infantry (must appear spectacle in his stride. Finlay, in order to get slim. She re rugged): 48 standard bearers: 37

somewhere that constant drippi who

acared slave men (white): 25 coloured 2 years an actor, slave men: 30 "patrician" women Magwitch in "Great Expecta

the life out of everyone with his wears away a stonello 27 A hand touched me on the

Robert Taylor was sweltering 80 not-so-patrician women; 3,650 tions," made his first film in 1908. shoulder,

n the heat, and

spectators It

was in

his men director Roman warrior cutat when was Mervyn Leroy. a silver-haired, found him rehearsing his lines.

I spectators. wiry genius who reigns supreme Beside him, looking as cool as a

And that was just for one day The organisation, if it is to

over this kingdom. "One of our vou-know-what,

was his wife live, must have the power of Christions has wrenched his

Barbara Stanwyck, enjoying o

Nero Ustinov

and on bright mornings the cast growth and change.

were called from their homes by The Christian short for today's shoot. busman's holiday in Rome. Charter cannot be regarded Ing," said Merven, "sa how about

a studio knocker-up. Cracked Barbara: "This perspir- novelist

Playwright, actor, film star, perfect a

Peter document, helping us out?" -

Ustinov

"Stars of the Alm La ing will do Bob good: it'll coun- thoroughly enjoying

got two immune against alteration,

teract all

his Nero guineas a, day, extras Avo bob, Italian food.

fattening rich role, and is eagerly looking for their train fare, and a seven- a king here."

Bob is eating lik ward to playing a harp when penny chit cashable in a loca, Rome burns in three week's time changed," added Finlay lookin

pub.

Times

have certainly

at the vast scene around us. They certainly have,

veto, are not the majority of members bound to find some other way, within the four corners of the Charter, to achieve the purposes and maintain, the principles it proclaims ?

*$

All toga'd up

ankle which makes

US

It wasn't until they togred ine and steps are indeed being up in a toga that they told me taken already by, the anti-

Soviet nations to find a way of ending the present frus- tration.

Cash is

Regal, eating

this

1,750

women

tight in Nairobi

"There's a glut of carpets," he went on, "but trade recession or no trade recession 30s for 12 x 12 Persian carpet is a bargain."

Nairobi today are

Quickest selling lines in "Sale Now tickets printed in a score of a one-man-and-a-boy printing works in the warren of rutted With their sensitive fingers on the imposing concrete facades of are the Indian merchants in their nud streets which huddle behind the pulse of East African trade the business and shopping centre well appointed and over-stocked of Kenya's capital.

shops along Government Road, ป

Nairobi is in the grip of "Bale lever"

and Indian merchantai who overstocked and Over- 1948 are doing all they can ordered during the boom year of to clear their shelves of old stocks to a publle battling against a steady rise in living costs.

.

It cannot be denied of course that the term "United" is a misnomer On" placards and "Sale Price" when the organisation is fundamentally split in two, one half threatening the other, but Russian tactics have been so blatant as to leave no doubt as to whence aggression may be expected. The Western Union and the Atlantic Pact were direct products of this Soviet per- formance. Five years ago no one would have believed that such agreements could be suggested, much less realised. When the free world found that its existence was threa- tened, governments came together for defence, as they were bound to do, and exer- SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM cised their right of associa- tion. Those governments would doubtless have been glad to be relieved of that necessity, but it was a neces- sity. Very few people, how ever, would say that this is an ideal situation, or any thing like it.

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By Dudley Hawkins

Said Finlay, looking up at the to wait for the sun in those daya. cloudless Italian aky: "We had

No question

ment cheaper. I am paying 16s director Leroy about the point

Before I left Cinecitta, I aske for one dozen pairs very bad that particularly interested' me Japonese rocks. Merchants who watted are paying 11s-not good the question mark from the title "Tell me why you've deleted for me...

of the film?" I asked him,

to

Below cost.

Back came the reply: "W think it unnecessary--and, in any

"I must sell below cost price case, there should be no question

clear stocks.

Socks from about "Quo Vadis. It's got to be England, specially made cheap a success!" for African trade, cost more but

are selling better. I must have sale because today cash more Important

than

Оп

heavy stocics. Essence of business la turnover."

tho

broad thoroughfares of the

palm-Uned elty, an- With the index figure showing the Oxford Street, of Nairobi, how some of his European rug- other Indian merchant told me that the cost of living has doubled where barely half a century ago tomers were almost in Nairobi since 1939, money is Ares were kept burning at night they could go on holiday.

asking fight."

toward of marauding lions.

More than one of my cus- In the bazaars, and even in the A merchant who came to tomers." he said, "has In recent European-managed shops along Nairobi 25 years ago from Bom-months come to me and said, Delamere Avenue, street of East Africa, great red are anding that when they com- for a month as I want to go on and waste banners announce pare their pay cheques, with their holiday ? If I pay your bill 1 Bond boy said to me, "A lot of people Will you let iny bill stand over

"Sales" and "slashing redue bills that somebody will have to can't take the family away." tons.

That is why there are Recent figures show that

domestic

expenses "They are not spring, mun- cluding education and allowance mer, winter, rebuilding or clear for holidays for a family of four, ance sales, but a frantic effort to are £15 a week. Kenya has attract ready cash. Many of the always had a reputation for shopkeepers were caught in the lavish spending, but during thu Best examples of the fall in rush to buy Japanese goods. past few months the lavishncas prices and the tightness of money

hus been giving way. to B In

more The free, world must bow a whole, lot of second-hand Fer- burnt. They had to pay cash be

are auction rooms. I watched "Thoir. Angers were badly realistic outlook to the immediately inevit-alan carpets go under the ham fore delivery for these goods. able, but we need not on that mer the other day. Prices they and I don't think more than account.abandon-the ideal of fetched would make a Britlak half a dozen of them made a

profit."

!

·There are masses of goods from Japanese socks (guaranteed to last at least 24 hours) to the nest products from the mills of

Lancashire.

wait.

sales.

Another pointer to the short- age of spending money are the Motor Cars for Sale columns a world organisation for housewife,

›, gosp...

of the colony's newspaper. Every day there are long lists of cars peace. We must never, give Perlan, a little faded, but la rative area, among a milling of joy to the checks of o

I saw one carpet, a genuine Down in River Road, in the for sale which would bring tears up hope that It may one day perfectly good condition; sold for crowd of African natives, 1 salesman and make the

in British be achieved, even though at 30s. Others which would not heard from an Indian, luka motorist: groom with envy,

family present the prospects are bave been out of place in any (shop) proprietor Just what dim. We may yet hope that home went for less than 25. happened.

Chosen at random are Shung cross-legged in the oor- Vauxhall 14, 1989 model, good tier

or of his dimly lit shop, he said,

Inmated Brand Hegnsed

in time, if the failure of the

Prices slump

cruder forms of aggression can be demonstrated, a different mood may como to tioncer told are afterwards, my this is like before the war and Light, £10, prevall, and that the great pammers would have been still now we can sell cheaply, but nations of the world will raised at £20. During the last make good protec come to ace that more may few months prices have slumpol

by an muon 75 per conto we place orders, altho

When we hear Japanese goods Angla 2175; 1947-6 Ford |

Six months ago, the auc- can came to Kenya we think that £220 de offer, and 1:1936 » Morris

be achieved by sincero co Today hold into plect mult the price is the highe operation than by the for 244 which would have cash but, after the methods of the highwayman, "fetched at loshi 2100 a year: Mess Alled Japanema, (2013)

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