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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951.

FOR SHEER THRILLS AND SPLIT-SECOND TIMING

ANICAL

SCHOOL

The Army's Trick Cyclists

Can Offer As Spectacular A Finale As

Any Circus

Says PETER LOVEGROVE

For sheer thrills, spectacular daring and split-second timing, there is little to compare with motor-cycle stunt riding. And no one can provide them better than the Army's two crack display teams which I had the good fortune to see in action within twenty-four hours of each other recently.

JACK WARNER FLYING OUT TO KOREA TO ENTERTAIN COMMONWEALTH TROOPS

Going through the whole | Alderson, his pianist for has appeared regularly In an airman in World War One. Τα studied motor engineering gamut of inoculations and the past 14 years, and ven. flims ever since. vaccinations at the Queen triloquist Jack Rogers, who He was the Black Market at London University and was later apprenticed to the motor A in "Hue and Chy", Alexandria Military Hos- have just returned from a villain

Franco with the Royal Flying pital, Milbank, London, for successful tour of Malta, Cockney bus driver in "Holiday trade. He spent 1941-1918 in

Camp", a detective sergeant in

Corps and the RAF, and bo- the past few days has been | Libya and the Canal Zone It Always Ralos on Sunday",

come on observer, When the the popular film, radio and with Leslie Henson.

a football pool winner in "Exay

hostilitics ended, he took up a soldier of fortune music hall star, Jack War-

Money", Jack, who was born within who turns traitor in "Against motor racing and competed in a the sound of Bow bells, sprang the Wind", a hardened criminal number of International events to fame at the outbreak of

In "My Brother's Keeper", then the Coutinent, World War Two as the Cockney engine driver of Train of

catch-phrase Events", soldier with the

the policeman who in the BBC gets murdered I "The Blue "Mind My Bike" "Garrison Theatre" series.. The Lamp", and

Joe Huggett, the likeable factory foreman round whose family the Huggett series was made.

her.

of

ourse

For Jack, just back from Norway where he has been making the exteriors for his new film "Valley of Eagles" with John Mac- series was vastly popular and allum, is leaving for Korenlasted until April 1940, after by air on June 22,

which the show went to the He will be the first Bri-West End stage and then toured tish artist to entertain the Britain for 30 months. Commonwealth troops fighting around the 38th Parallel, and proposes to In the last year of the war,

month touring he scored a big personal success BBC, spend a units with his cheerful, as the Cockney prisoner-of-wor

the moving British film Although he so often port- down-to-earth humour and The Captive Heart". This Arstrayed the solid, reliable and vast repertoire of songs. venture in

Cockney cheerful medium | always With him are going Bobby sealed his popularity, and he soldier, Jack actually served as

SCREEN VARIETY

а new

In between all this activity before the sound cameras. Jack has continued to make regular appearances on the halls and is heard. frequently on the

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STAGE-STRUCK

He had always had a hanker- ing for the stage, however. Whilst still in the motor trade he had appeared in plays and entertainment's semi-profession- ally and made his first broad- cast from Savoy Hill in 1927. and eventually he made the stage fils carcer Jack recalls being interested in entertaining st a very carly age. He used to play

the violn In the family orchestra. His mother Bang, father played the banjo, and his sisters the violin and plane.

His sisters, by the way, are Elsie and Doris Waters, who as "Gert" and "Dalsy" have been

Ken Smith and John G Drummond SHOW TALKING delighting us for years on the

Will The Oliviers

Do

A Song And Dance Act?

HE late and

great greatest names in international and

Phineas T. Barnum,.

he

lucrative voyage.

The

balls and wireless with their homely, topical humour, They too broke fresh ground enter taining the troops overpens when they were the first to visit the "Forgotten Army" in Burma during World War Two. And their accompanist on both their war-time visits to the Far East-the second timo they went as far as Hongkong-was Bobby Alderson.

Jack Warner wit

not be long in England on his return from Korea. He is off again in

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PURELY

as a play it would be a negligible contribution to A whodunk

show business, representing every Hollow will be filmed, televised, of the entertainment broadcast, and for the next branch showman, never had any difficulty with his adver- DANNY AS HAMLET? Are" st.compiled for repertory

described

THE DETAILS tising copy. He

of the companies and amateur societies.

each of his

A PUZZLEI presentations

programme are still so secret that Danny Kaye

CONSIDERED simply, if not modestly, as sleeps with them every

night "the greatest show on under his pillow — and worries earth," and died worth about talking his sleep.

But our quess is that there the drama, but as £1,000,000, Since

be some startling perfor- (and they have been woefully the was

maniers on the night, and that a fascinating and intriguing ex- scarce in recent years) it is a greatest showman on earth, few secret ambitions will be hibition of sleight-of-hand on his "barking" was general-fulled.

of Sir Laurence and Vivien the part of the author. ly justified, but even the Leigh do a song and dance act. į There is just enough charac-

the characters fabulous Phineas T. is tor.Danny Kaye plays Hamlet and lerisation in be surpassed, outstripped, Bud Flanagan turns up as the give the actors something to do. sub-plot to Micado with a Crazy Gang of and just enough beaten hollow and 'general-Gondoliers we will try not to counteract the odour of red

herrings. And, of course, it i

is ly made to look like n bat ап сус.

will impossible to determine who did small-time beginner on In its way. this show June 26 at the London Pal-make theatrical history, and we do ti until it is time to go home. We are notoriously stupid at hope that the BBC will have the ladium.

initiative to record some of it the mystery-guessing game, but cven the clever onts were for transmission at a later date.

APART FROM the plea-puzzled this time.

IT SADDENED our sure the broadcast would

crtical

hearts to see the glve to millions, the or- cus-ganisers would be glad of the Clark, bumped off

-best-aclor on view, Ernest halt-way Ex-BBC fee to swell the takings,

for there is a practical necessity through the second act.

The occasion is the Sid Field tribute, scheduled to begin at 11.30 p.m. and to The Catterick Signals, in their dark-blue-red-faced uniforms-and-white- end when artists,” crash helmets, were delighting the Royal Tournament crowds with a polished,. tomars, or both are streamlined fifteen-minute display on their Triumphs. And on a football pitch athausted. Bordon, Hampshire, the stunt men of the Army Mechanical Transport School, in

It is being organised by Danny allied to the desire to pay tribute however, acted as battledress and wearing green and yellow crash helmets, demonstrated in just over Kaye, Bud Flanagan, Val Par- to the genius of Sir Field as others and with playing a half an hour on BSAs how closely they ri val the Signals in skill and showmanship, nell, and Jack Hylton, and the one of the great Britisk come- The trick men from Bordon, wholly on the keenness of Its who are just starting another members; all practice is done in successful

Яeason

which will their spare time, and displays 4ake

them to military tattoos are always given at werk-ends they do not interfere and sports meetings, carnivals when

working parades. horticulturat shows with normal and fetes,

celebrations and municipal

The team is in no way assis- ted by public funds; it does not The try to Essex ery Saturday even use WD machines.

суегу

pri-motor-cycles-eleven 350

the Isle of Wight

to 2- }

ham and from the West

the summer,

had

been

booked for this models, three 500 c.c.

but

sive concentration on training.

c.e.

A FILM STORY FOR

GRACIE FIELDS?

chief Production Associated British, Robert and Clark, has long made no Tournament. They drop- 125 c.c. Bantam have all been secret of the fact that he free of charge by the would like to make a film ped out when the revival of the lanned Aldershot Tattoo was planned. BSA Company.

starring Gracie Fields. this has now been called to the inten-

NO CONCESSIONS

The trouble, as always, cancelled owing

has been to find a suitable These

story.

Well, that difficulty may now be over.

Paul Vincent Carroll has written story bitled "Heart

Hire." for

If all goes according oritas a schoolteacher in Scot-

long-suffering cycles, Their fifteen riders are, with one exception, olBeers, warrant which have not been altered or of the strengthened in any way, sland ofcers and NCO's

The up to almost incredible punish- School's permanent staff.

and the show is the old man out is a National ment Serviceman, no less accomplish- zenith of the unorthodox.

ed or unorthodox a rider as his High jumping from twin to plan, Gracie will appear in

senlors..

tenance

"amps; Agures of eight

weaving patterns with machines and.

inches of each Meanwhile author Carroll has

WOE

FAROUK'S NEW DANCERS

Farouk

and

to

the

hv

the

in-

spur to Jeanne de Casalis

variation on Mrs Feather, supported by dians of all time.

Thorpe's mixture ΟΙ of Sir Field was stili a compara- George tively young man when he died charm and authority and last year, and did not reath his contrasting temperament of Joan peak until the Chancellor of the Newall, Beryl Baxter and Jessica Spencer, we had enough to satis- Exchequer reached his

By the time Sid was paying fy our appeilles.

WHEN

THE ARTS. a year into his bank £50,000

Club THEATRE account, the Chancellor

nounced a Festival play taxing it right out again at 105.

competition carrying a substan- of Mills and Phyllis Calvert - met

£. Bd. In the

cash prize, promoted to The only benotilelary under the tol again on a Alm set for the first

the Inland Revenue, encourage young authors, we ap- time since they played together will was In "The Young Mr Pitt" at and so the proceeds from the plauded a noble gesture,

re, it seemed, was a Here,

a talent- Shepherd's Bush starios in 1841. Palladium show are to be used with their best films to come.

Then, both were young stars to found a trust fund for his spotting venture that might, pro- from among the great children, Elaine, Dians and John duce

unknowns an embryonic Ratti- Now, playing husband and wife, Nicholas.

gan or Fry. But there was one they have the opportunity of

fly in the ointment of watching

girl a 19-year-old

IF TWO Spanish dancersuragement:

professional chance get her big ch

ak their

by the name of Rosario!

with successes to playwrights screen daughter.

and Antonio make an old their credits were also allowed Elleen Moore, an ex-RADA Irish gesture and offer to dance to compete. student, is the girl chosen for this at your wedding, turn them down Now the result has been an important role. Since leaving flat-and

quickly.

for Kinigunced a triple tie for firs the Academy she has appeared

They did as much

place and those concerned in three plays and one film.

and it cost that the photo finish have all had recently Also cast in the Aim at Miss merry monarch £3,000 for a previous plays presented in the Calvert's special request; Jack single performance, plus the cost May.

of a special plane to fly them west End. One is Enid Bognold,

after

"National Velval" we The School, which was form

Phyllis remembered actor May from Seville to Cairo. ed in '1040 frum the old RA Hussing within

at high speed; ten men something else to be pleased when he led the singing in a His Egyptian Majesty appar-would not have thought she was

much

In need of encouragement. Transport School and from the mounting a single cycle, or

the about.

for Edward Dowling, the public-house scene in "Fanny Byently thought them value

The Arts defend themselves by Infantry Driving and Main-

whole party clambering on to producer who presented Carroll's Gaslight." Hearing through money, however, since he im saying that out of a dotal entry School at Keswick,

three machines; remote control

"Shadow and Substance" play

Equity, who have been

them, helping plored

successfully, to of -1,000 plays only 40 were sit trains instructors in the driving, riding with a man directing his in New York some years ago, him, that he had been seriously stay on

and give publie per to be submitted to the Judges. and maintenance

administra- cycle with the aid of reins while has bought the American rights, the asked if he could be formances in Calro and Alexan Nevertheless, we suggest of mechanical transport, standing upright on the saddle of his latest play, "The Chuckey-given work in the new film, As drin.

"encouraging its doctrines by

for that

without head Story," matter,

to a result, you'll spres,

see him in a These cousins were to make next time

play compellor is organised It training Alms and

reins all; and a series

of present it on Broadway in the gypsy encampment scene,

their British debut at London's should be confined to authors travelling teams, and also tries elaborate tableaux with men

Cambridge Theatre. They began who have never enjoyed profes autumn. and new vehicles

One foot on angles or pro- lying at acute

American"cabaret by dancing in the streets of their slonal presentation, ducing

remarkable pyramid

With a unit of only four stars almost Invariably better native Seville, and now claim to the bottom rung of the ladder is effects are some of the gitrac technicians,

Lesile than our home produci? producer

The be the highest paid dancers in RIDERS tions this Team

provides to

Cardew has been making a film answer is twofold. First, in the the world. demonstrate perfect balance.

What price Fred Astaire? Madeira. He reports that the U.S. the night club performer is ko poise, and coordination of mon Islanders could not have been as mi

part of much

DANCERS theatrical

HERING breeds en- Bordon naturally

seems to be an expensive and machine.

mare co-operative or more pro-setno as a musical comedy thusiastle motorists and molor-

Secondly, American stars work business all round. Darvas cycllats. Among the crack riders

The star tura include riding British,

For one scene In the Alm-lt inrder, and take, more trouble. and Julia, who pro appearing in are Sergeant G.M. Berry, thu

a see-saw; a climb up a ladder

lunched Last week with Julie Latin Quarter at the champion Trials while the machine to which is enlled "Madeira Story," stars Inter-Services

the ex-model Miki Hood-be wanted, Wilson, who reluctantly must Casino, are to make a fim in rider for the past three years, it is fixed careers around

cene in which all the citizens leave the cast of "Kiss Me, Kate" Paris by day and stil danes in of a scene andarens; Staff Sergeant E. Amolt

precision shooting Ormesher, both balloons by Sergeant A

expert marksmen suddenly pull back their blinds at the end of August to fulfil a London by night.

The film will take six weeks club engagement night clu

in New turn on the lights. Gold Medallists in the Inter-

cycles: surf- and on fast-moving

To. tima and arrange

this York.

to complete, and £1,800 will be board riding; and, anally, operation

been would have national Six-Day, Trials.

Although Julie appeared at added to the production costs for death-defying race through three

REASONABLY 20-foot tunnel of blazing fire by complicated and costly but for this same restaurant as recently air.ckets. As a team these Southern Command Champlons, the whole team. And that, from the help of the local broad-s last January, she will retur new material

safe to prophesy that Ormesher, unfortunately, re- the scorched eyebrows I noticed casting station. At the appro- with completely

eventually almost every- of ravishing cently had a cartilage removed after the display, is definitely priate time, an anouncer broad- and a succession:

cast a request for all listeners to gowns for which she will make one in England will noc The following a knee injury and it

no plenia.

perform the hecessary actions. special trip from New York to Hollow, Agatha Christie's latest may be a little time before he

California,

whodunit, which opened at the Certainly this climax, which The response was universal. the W In

saddle again.

She will work for weeks on Forfune Theatre on Thursday. was a great favourite with the Music for the film has been

by John Barnes, her new songs because in Only a small proportion can fourth of the School's 85,000 spectators attending composed dold Medallists in shu Interna- Bugedway Test at Wembley last whose hobby is Judo. Ho should America you've always got to see it at the Fortune, even if:11 Honal Six-Days Trial is Cap-year, and the sixty thousand have no difficulty in dealing with do better than you did last time." runs there for years; for this lein D.C. Osmond, RA, the who crowded the Swindon Town aggressivo, mustalans, And that's why Americans are one of London's smallest

always us to Jullewin their theatrea-with 473 seats, captain of the Display Team, Football Ground for a military Samp which is entire run on volun- laftoo, in as spectacular anale Reporting for work on "Me fashion, of courock 12 May TV terutraja **- Arizona. Veosens de pouch, as anything solrom could on

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