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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1050.

SUPER, SUPER -by- RODNEY CAMPBELL

New York.

THE British hotel, in the

American conception,

a dour, dank, cheerless, vel-less and usually soap- a paradise where

to ave

you

ank for iced rinking-water with your deously cooked lunch, and here manager and cham- ermnid

allied in are efarious conspiracy to ake bathrooms totally un- Vailable.

A

In any case, Buy the globe. otting Americans, they

uldn't be any good as they on't have enough gadgets,

So I thought it was high time catch up on the gadgets that Buch a ake hollday-time eautiful

ner

adventure

for

the

merican housewife. A super- lossni exhibition put on here cently seemed to fit the bill. There was a monstrous Uni- Nations flog in the hallway which meant that 24 Irish

jen, a few Latin-Americans

d I had been invited to join

5,000 Americans at the Hotel

pw. Five hundred hoteliers

s, and a taste of things to

peece

"Mum! Cyril's wrote a wicked word.”

Sondon Express Gorvica

I their suppliers were mine Sir Ralph Richardson has a new assignment. He is now getting ready to fly to me by the Ceylon. There he is to play in Carol Reed's new film "Outcast of the Islands."

Lar

e was granted

miditer This apparently

out wet wall-paper and

paint 35 percent faster

an other dehumidifers,

HEN there was the fresh- master, which froze 1,000lb. food in an incredibly thort me. the chopped leemaster, hich chopped a ton of Ice a ay at 15s, a trac, the rug de- rger, which deterged rugs at

e rate of 000 square feet an our, and the wall deterger, hich worked foster up-and-

bwn and clocked 612.

Farther down the flag-happy orridor stood the pump-it to-

uss, no fuss, no cuss")

self-closing

designed

C

ests

sugar

and

HERE is A

The Man Through

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Not only is his talk spattered

Who Looks Telescopes

by MILTON SHULMAN

put what the author has written and then add to it the results of my own observation and ima- gination," he said. "I feel that the I must breathe life into envelope before the character begins to come true."

an

rhythmically and automatically, and periodically emits a a care- fully

enunciated "Yes." When inclined certain he is conversationally

and hls manner type of Anglo-Saxon ls,

amiable face that instils

con- sweeping accompaniment to ato ketchup dispenser ("No Hidence and trust. It is generous outpouring of words

consequent thirst for knowledge

Perhaps the most puzzling in a frantic effort to catch up.

Ralph Richardson's aspects of By bowl, large, open, hearty, plain and ide

paying ten shillings a personality are its obvious con- for hotel and obstinate-looking. It is with literary and historical week and offering to paint tradictions. He looks like who forget to close usually accompanied by a allusions culled from his inces-

scenery. Richardson, at eighteen, extrovert and behaves like an sant

was given a job at Brighton's introvert, reading, but he likes to

He deals in under-. pipe.

ent Little Theatre. His theatrical statements and is consciously There was an electronic fire Stanley Baldwin had It, J. B. wrap his thoughts up into nent

that are career began literally below the confident of his own capabilities. Priestley has it. So has Sir metaphorical phrases"

He has a passion for speed both descriptive and apt (ground floor, imitating air rai Ralph Richardson.

yet can patiently while For an actor It is a face that like to think of myself as the bombs with a petrol fin under- and

jockey of literature. The

neath the stage.

the hours painstakingly dramatists write the play, we

painting a landscape, He loves to has some concrete advantages. Richardson needs practically no

games furiously and spends make-up to play Brutus, Blunt- try to make them run" Or. "An canvna La silence. A

most of his spare moments Small walk-on parts soon led avidly reading Gibbon's Decline

ecially

gor bowls.

Jarm, which was the same as

fire alarm by other

except hat it was electronic, ond. The foam rubber plllow,

Here at last was a feature or be all-American hotel which.

fould do for British Railways. schli or Bulldog Drummond.

appy the beart of the Ameri-

Feal,

actor's

But it

it also has definite dis- person coughing is like someone

-nor is he likely to

Д

ON: TOUR

away

Intest

in tourist who had slept on advantages. Richardson has throwing ink blots on a page.") to speaking roles, and shortly and Fall for the third time or se the night before the train never played Hamlet or Romeo There is no doubt that Sir afterwards Richardson joined a absorbing intently the

Ralph takes good deal of But if his physical features knowing. But his many friends have somewhat limited his range can testify to the ample rewards have not prevented him that await those who persevere. they BOUT this time, to the from reaching pre-eminence in background of some strange, his profession or from gracing

FIRST-A TOY ndeЛnable noise emitted far the English stage with a succes way by a restaurant pulvera-sion of varied and notable per-

formances. young

men and women rted giving me things, and products

monstrating exotic

the trouble-free

the parco peeler.

Was

This

Many of Richardson's wide range of interests can be traced directly to a boyhood that had relatively little to do with the

theatre,

the

anthropology nad com- works on Shakespearean repertory

sociology. pany touring the provinces.

In 1926, Richardson went to A clue to this blend of physi-

Repertory Birmingham

ory cal and mental action may be Company, and in the same year, garnered from д suggestion under the guidance of Sir Barry Richardson once made that Jackson, made his first appear- man whose vocation was scut -- ance on the London stage as the Ing and whose hobby was box- would lead an ideal exis- ing Stranger in Oedipus et Colonus.

Another four years of modern tence. The self-same ingro- of aggression, creation and classical plays and he joined dients the Old Vic in in order to

energy and sensitivity do more Shakespeare and seen in Ralph Richardson him-

his technique.

30

He was born in 1802 at Chel- dev the time war broke out,

HE PAINTS

Off-stage there is nothing to peeler, and the hook mark Ralph Richardson as an grinder

the grinder actor. He might be a bank hat was guaranteed to sharpen manager, a soldier or a detec- his father, Arthur Richardson, the glowing critical notices he my edge of any tool any time. tive.

Also at this stage I received

WILL

He dresses

tenham, Gloucestershire where,

a landscape painter, taught art at Cheltenham College. Because unobtrusively, he was a sickly child young he 7,111th glass of orango Julco shuns West End society,

re lives Ralph was unable to go that day, a poultrl-quietly in a neo-Georgian house gularly to school and his educa- spensed am" from a cable

and In- company near Hampstead Heath and caution

sporadic WAR elling me about a "honey-cured be found most week-ends either adequate. ird," and a salesman, from energetically playing squash in ug company mapped me hard Kensington or

terrified for

--

His decision to try his hand

whim or inspiration.

As

Clitterhouse

self.

HIS JOYS

can

he

in had received for his work such Rendered,

modern plays as For Ser-

But even though Richardson End, Eden Cornelius and The Amazing Dr of a great actor, it has been sald may have the ardour and ability proved that his that he logis too much like dramatic talent was as much at solld country

squite ever home in a lounge suit as in an attain the status of a Keen, a Elizabethan costume,

Garrick or an Irving. And in The war provided him with

IN THE AIR

the back and said he was ing in Kew Gardeny paint-

a self with another one of his He is married to lovely Meriel, at the theatre was not a sudden an opportunity to occupy him for "friendly, com- working

Forbes, the actress his first child he had enjoyed playing many interests. etent team."

the wife died and they have So 1 ran

with a toy theatre and he felt his first moments of drama treat outdoors, beneath scaring five-year-old son.

about "Beer and the Because Richardson is

man swinging a center as an altar igns. Hotel. Industry," "City Finds of moods talking to him can be boy. By fourteen he had read

either a delightful or a difficult all of Shakespeare. Danger-In Food Sauce."

stopped for the 7,127th experience.

When he is uncommunicativo lass of orange juice and for a ast tender thought for that last he stares vaguely, but politely lent, shivering, night chez Bri-at whoever is trying to engage

his attention, Railways,

noda nis head ish

voracious Incidentally, his reading appetite stems from an inferiority acquired as n over his lack of education and

One of the world's great philosophers links three words in everyone's mind RUSSIA:WAR: ATOM-BOMBS

BERTRAND RUSKELI

BALL NEW YORK. DHILOSOPHER Bertrand recognised

ho

boy

a

felt if the U.S. had Russell added: "It is a pity to Communist China get so embroiled in Korca, * Russell Earl Rus- to time as Britain since Russia Wants Western

did the Chinese would prob- troops committed in the ell in the British peorage ably have developed a regime East so - asked: "Do you think something like Tito's.

Far

the can have a -freb hand in the West

to

going that significant litmus test that it debars him from under

English

of tho

stage Hamlet, this may be true.

dramatic another masterpiece like his Falstaff,

However

and Richardson may prove that

As an cager amateur pilol he permanent fame can be achiev used to by his own Gypsy Moth..ed without attempting the Intro- and it was not surprising that he spective agonies of the noble should volunteer for service In Dane." the Fleet Air Arm.

Yet somehow one feels that In May 1944, both Olivier and the question of his significance Richardson were released to act m the annals of dramatic his- as join! directors of the Old Victory does not concern Sir Ralph Their three-season relembrought Richardson overmuch. He finds back to the London stage the too much else about him to magnificence of imaginative interest him. production and noble acting. He once said that one of his Since leaving the Old Vic.in greatest joys was "locking down 1047

has had one microscopes and up telescopes theatrical failure, Royal Circle, and pondering over what I see and failu

two substantial successes through both." That seems to

The the domineering father in The be a good place to leave him, Heiress and the mild-mannered bank clerk in Home at Seven. World Copyright Reserved-London

Express Servier). He has made three or four attempts at producing, but they have not usually been too happy "I will certainly take a shot at

again,"

rain," he said.

and

But to the large, general

in Britain public, both America, it was, through his post-war performances in the pictures The Fallen Idol and The Heiress that he achieved the clamorous popularity of a dim

an

THE ARCHITECT

Richardson has no snobbish war? with. Hassia in pos- Britaip, he said, was now a In a lecture at Columbia auperiority towards Alm acting. 1610 ??* replied. "Surely satellite of the United States, University, Carlier, hesaldi He belleves that it demands a

United "In the past "there word, many technique an exacting as aAY verybody does, do not depending upon the

States Army and Navy for pro- sovereign States, alry two of thing on the stage, hiActing on hey 7**

tection. And "We depend upon which might at any moment the screen la uko gefiag

allghtest

inovament two sovereign - Stateswe only Russia with Her satellites Recipline beta he very severe.

Bestura and therefore the die? the United States with her (The preances of seeing himse!! satellites."

He added:

Ephotos its preponderant, superiority Power * Can authority ove

He said: If Russia ́starts war the US. Sancially, to a very quarrel............ IDW kucha: 3 mildroscope MZESMAS ||

should use the atom-bob large extent.",

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Russell had a place of advies He listed acts by Russle that for the Western Fowers: Re-

“Would consider wartike, armi as "Cast na possible.”.

Te, "avoured agreement with Bumi. you could work? -one" out,****

*Vedrálek. Ráirope." * Some Ruellaria): he said, were

onthe Berlin japbably, banvipend that war

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