1951-10-24 — Page 7

I DO 112 m.p.h.

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951.

it was out of this world. We seemed

to be neither in the air nor on the water'

WITH CAMPBELL IN BLUEBIRD

The Bluebird skims-at speed

With Basil Cardew In

The Passenger Seat

Coniston.

It Is this swaddling effect, 1 think. that gives speed on water 11 thail quality of its

own.

As we skimmed past the at- .endant Jaunch edged my goggled head round to see our

ail of spray rising 40 feet.

SMACK!

A SEAT IN THE STALLS

Oh, To Be In England! Says Happy.

Rossellini

Out

أن

By JACK DAVIES

Rome.

This is movie-crazy land. the Continent's 24,000 cinemas, 8,000 are in Italy and, in addition, there

are a further 3,000 charch halls. assembly school rooms where commercial films can be shown.

INTERPORT rooms, and

SWIMMING

TRIALS

From the point of view

I am a bit sore-mostly round the ribs and in the back. My forehead has a deep red ridge where flying spray hit my goggles with the force of airgun pellets.

I have been skidding over the waters of Lake Conis they looked this October day of the performances turned ton at nearly two miles a minute-112.5 miles an hour.

Object: Tu "road-test" with Donald Campbell the £60,000 speedbout Bluebird with which he hopes to win My point-by-point world record. American-held the

check:-

Point No. 1: Comfort? it does not exist. The cock pit seat is unsprung, and the back of the scut delivers a series of clephant kicks.

Point No. 2: Acceleration "--We

an hour in a quarter of a mile.

reached 100 miles

Point No. . Quiet-running-1 shall be deaf, so Len Villa, Campell's brillant mechanie tells me, for at least two days.

of the deep In the middle lake waters-low dark and cold

Bluebird

what felt like Atlantic rollers. Actually they were only a boat's wake.

Bluebird's

smacked noem

and gawn and breathlessly up stuttered blows on my back like La padried road hammer.

How I envied Campbell, his wheel to steady him. It's curious) that one loves fast driving a lot more if one is actually driving.

I noted Campbell's touch on he wheel-sensitive as a Ünger- Up and down the four-mile

m: feugie ehma

in, yesterday's Interport swimming trials at the Vic- toria Recreation Club were not disappointing, but the attendance was not encou raging.

"Sonny" Mon.ewo was unable to swim in the 100 metres free Myle and Cheeng Kin-man elected

not to swim the 1,500 metres.

Cynthia Eager swam the 400 veres in 5 minules 40.4 seconds and can be regarded now as con- en, under 5:50 far he distance.

"What end your expect," he said, "when you | ake we raced turning in sharph: had won the Cokny Cham

'I envied Campbell– he could CLING .

have * 2,400 hp k gine roaring its head off only a foot from the back of your neck?"

AL 1:

Villa

was S. M..A bell's

years it as hig

propeller f

ning Lau

up with foam, a vet

the ear

$14

23

1:2 18

Campbell and Vingale

Iwo Xa'

disappearing.

scream of

autumn mot

Then ane any

MY ORDERS

By 6pm. the cang sed

air had been pompestat the engine

for

stat g

Campbell hat taken his place in the driver's cock- pit and I climbed into th

THE NEW BLUEBIRD. Cardew on the left, Campbell at the wheel.

starboard mechanie's coal abinus!

of him the HI-wide speed-

Carpor found th Bouni rose 11

eus beneath the hall

Villa had given me my cateri

| 1.

I had to puron

The rompir s

::

air four times and turn

nat

by my left rar Tha prome

the engine.

an hour, th

strength.ircles at 6 miles

gcal engine gulping fuel

my gallons a mine

TAVO S

fer the ten was delight be weer |

and the boy'

PORPOISING

A 60 miles an hour began to porpoise, only slightly. then the hull rose a foot off the were planing th water and we

square than eight more

TI

The Catsbel' cased his foo

the agreleratur, slowed down. mat with a final

imas! resentful bellow

spemen

> chip in the 440 yards in 5:49.8

One ct the best performsnete -- was Wong Kwa -chee's in 22 minutes 9.2 1500 nie:

rconds, Tang Yook-ming.

rectal unn-up in he

JC, borg second

These are b perfaces jus

In the capital, where I

ny

shooting in a few days' me "s that I insisted on doing way or not at all."

Ross:n's way is unique.

He has no script in the accep- ted sense of the word--merely a chronological list of sets, props, actors and extras required work on them, and the number of days he requires to work en each sel

30

Another script, telling the story

um staying, there are 200n narrative form, is on hand as a reminder. But most of it, in- but only five cluding the dialogue, is in Ross:1- cinemas, theatres, in what a good int's head. many Europeans regard as the the cultural centre of Continent.

So is not surprising that this country is producing more films) year (143) than Great Britain and the flim industry is thriving.

And anyone who still harbours Alims are ht idea tha: l'allan made on a shoestring amid con

in for a de abi difficulties is suprise.

At the Cinecitta S.udius, which Mussolint built just outside Rome before the war, there are seven films in production and it is like- ly to remain equally busy for the

es of the year.

No British studio can boast -uch a record.

THE TOP TWO

the

Except for a handful of sars barbour

outside Italy, mos ly unknown 22:22.6

he two best-known naMKS he Talian cinema bath locally internationally belong and

Roberto Rossellini "Open City")

one

hort of international standard.

Cheong Kin-man won the 100 metre free style in the not tou fast time of 1.6 seconds and the ther participants in the race were much slower than would have expected them to be. Hongkong should by this time The capable of turning out four wimmers under 62 seconds for his distance, but the runner-

's time

better was nothing an 63.8 seconds. The thals conclude on Friday evening.

01

THE RESULTS Following are the results

night's rials: Men's 1.500 metres free-style.-L. Yong Kwai-cher (CYMCA) (22

1/5 sec.). stos

2. Tag Yook- alk Chung Sing) (22 mins 22.3/0 ees 3 Wong Kam-wab (CYMCA 23 mins 55 sees).

nung (CYMCA) (1 min. 382/5 seca), Chan Ching-mul (Chung Sing}

Women's 100 metres back-stroke.— Pung Ying-chee (CYMCA) (1 The min. 31.6 secs). 3. J. Eager (VBC) The engine switched off, stre

Agh while spune chased admin. 32 4/9 sees), 9. Kwok Ngan-

Then we stopped in waght us.

what in wasting silence or ur deafness seemed like silence Our run had lasted only four minutes-uncomfortable, exciting ad for me. exhausting minutes THE HARD WAY

I was sitting wil my legs in

me a semi-iving position and thick, s

life jacket steel-braced was pressing on my ribs Af e two false starts the 12-cylinder inches of s'ep on either side.

ONE HUNDRED MILES AN experience quite out of this world. scrmed in be nether in nor on the water.

Rolls-Royce engine-beloved be the late Sir Malcolm-bellowed | HOUR-İ. like a gian'.

was 1

- min. 41.4/5 secs).

Men's 200 metres breast-atroitē [1. Yeung Ying-chak (CYMCA) (2 mins. 59.4/5 secs). 2. Leung Flo- kun YMCA) (3 mlus. 2/5 sec.). Kwok Wing-kwok (OYMCA) (3 mins. 5.2/1 sec).

1.

W.

Cheung Kim-ma he air

As they towed us back to the Then Bluebird jus danerci

erhead Donald from the other away. In quicker tume than I

called out: As the craft went fas.er sill side of the boat could write the paragraph, the

That was cruising old fellow 5.000 plywoon speelboat had it was like half-flying-like that

helpless moment I suppose you can count the SAN Bured but risen almost out of the water

As the 2,400 horses

touch down people who have travelled more of the just before you

han 100 miles an hour on wate engine fed by the great super-half--ka ing and madly skidding.

this country on your two

JOHN MACADAM'S COLUMN

CUT

OUT THAT

OLD PALS ACT

We are pleased to note (by courtesy of the Cunard Steam Ship Company) that accompanying the British Ryder Cup golfers in the Queen Mary, was one, R. D. Ryder, described interestingly in the ship's hand-out as "leader of the Machine Tools Metal Working Anglo- American Productivity Team.”

in

hands.

"Our job," he said, "is to g her up to 165 miles an hour."

A final word about his bid. The 30-year-old Eon of Sir dulcolm Campbell is trying the

ard

Men's 100 metres free-style.-i.

(Fortuna) 1813/8 secs). 2. Wong Kwai-cher (CYMCA) (63.4/5 wecal. 3, Lau Yue wai (Hợi

Women's 400 metres free-style-- Cynthia Eager (VRC) (5. 402/6 sees). 2. Kwok Ngan-hung (CYMCA) (8 mins 41 secs). 3. Wong Yuk-bing (CYMCA) 16 mins. 49.4/5 seas). 4 J. Eager (VRC) (6 mins $1.3/5 kers).

Men's 3 x 300 yards medley Re- Jay.-1. Chan Cheuk-Woh, Leung fm-kin and Wong Kwai-chee tä mins. 27 sets), 2. Ng Nin. Yeung

(3 Ying-chak and Lau Yue-wat

tns. 9.2/5 secs).

The Fortis Diving Team gave way, learning by expen-an exhibitions as an added item of ive experience to make Blue-interest

Hird again cworld-beater.

He has spent 215,000 of his

the speedboat,

most of his Snooker League

three years.

own money on and with Villa waking hours for

If toughness and de'ermina- In a George Younger League Lion still count in these world snooker game played last night, will Eastern Athletic Association ""T

defeated Prison Officers" by five matches to nil.

bids, then the record we call "Britain's" will be truly

:heirs.

-(London Express Seruime)

It was not merely the coincidence of the Ryders Maureen Stops

that caught our eye. It was the amiable organisation of which Mr Ryder-not to be confused with the late Sl Albans seedgrower who donated the cup-is the reputed head.

Thot Anglo-American pro- are gelting nowhere very fast ductivity line caught the eye Indeed." This was the violently, and it is devoutly to

of Mr Lacey, who then

ceeded, with great clarity,

voice

be wished that our old friend and mentor Arthur Lacey, who sails as monoger playing captain of our

pro- to

and

non-

get our figures down to within the 180-mark.

or

his

Hurdling To Model

Churchill's Memoirs

Club

(Continued From Page 4) We had

to be every reason content with these results. There had been a soothing of many

London, Oct. 23.

points of friction, practical steps for further co-operation had been Dyson better perhaps

Maureen taken, the way had been prepared for an early meeting of the heads

Maureen

We want him now to eschow known team,

believe that this British tean can win if it puts some devil into its golf and to blazes with the Old Pals Act.

up

ns

מן

will have no part of either this gentility and get his Ryder Gardner-is not worried by the of the three mujor Allied Govern- this present Mr Ryder's metal-Cup toum right on their toes thought that she will relinquishe

Anglo- breathing Dre and brimstone on her amoleu status by taking ments, and the mounting dead. our werking with the all and everything American. a poshion with a sports Soviet Union had in part been Better judges than ourselves It is a pity that the golfers frm to be photographed for removed.

In the advertising purposes. could not have taken

Those who took part in the Mrs Dyson, who married the Conference sensed a far more Cockell-Finch fight before they

chief Amateur Athlotle Asso-friendly atmosphere, both on and sailed.

coach. Was There, in Cockell, they would clation

narrowlyORY

off duty, than had ever existed Fanny befere. just how

much beaten by Holland's

One of the best-known have seen

British Blankers Keen in the 00 metres Russian painters was commission. primitive savagery a

the 1948

Olympiced by his Government to do a athlete con unleash if he has a hurdles at

Games but was

that conversation piece of the Con- mind to.

Merey bel He has brought a she was credited with the same ference, and he had made

sketches of various new spirit inte British sport-time, a new Olymple record of limiteary

members cf the British fair- or, at least, restored a lost one. 11.2 seconds. course He should be sent around de- Now, a mother of a two-year- Americon delegations

It is for Mr Lacey to inspire them to that devilty although, looking back across the years, it is a little difficult to see him In

role of re-enter.

the

First time we met him per- sonally was on the last way of his Berkshire

of

RO OBE

"Pais Villorio Thieves").

as

"The film," he says. "must be 1 is made. It would created

to write be unpossible for me Jown what I am going to do b:-

I have done " fore

"Europe 1," which will star Ingrid Bergman and the Cana- dian actor Alexander Knox, is #1a sccial Rossellini calls whe: document of our times."

If the him has a message, it sihat 1 am agains: material- im." Most of the pleture will be

in English and as usual Rossellini will shoot almcs: all of outside the studios.

"I have made so many films in houses In reels. alleys and that I no longer feel comfortable

na studio," he explains.

KILLING THE CAT Rosselin has made twa Aims much since he completed the

which, "Stromboli," publicised neidentally, was not a box-office

success

"a business harmed it, you and know.

be said, referring to the

di Slea ("Bicycle adverse publicity he received at

The

calls "a The

he time of the Bergman divorce. I

St. They have become big names

irst, the story of ro only because they have made Francis (played by Italy's loading 3:ca pictures, but airo because character actor Aldo Fabrizi), he Italy, being short of s ar attrac-

study of humility. second, a scetion of ens, cften bilis the dircolor of the fim in larger type than that group im on the Seven Car-

the stars.

o Sins which several direc- ' ors are making together. is en- Hird "Envy" and is based on a he story by Colette.

Rossellini has also become welt known for other reasons.

me: both in Rome this week.

The Rossellinis live in a large

It relates how a newly-married fiat in one of the most fashion-wife unable to pierce the barrier able suburbs of the city.

between herself and her

much

Mis Reesellini (ngrid Berg-elder husband, becomes envious men that is) was away in the of his cat and tries to kill it

"Very difficult making a fim country when I called. But 1

with a cat," says Rossellini, with was constantly reminded of her

feeling. husband's while I sa: in her study.

For displayed co bookshelf

а

'I AM MASTER'

The rumours that Rossellinis wire the many awards presented are unhappy together are without to her by film and other organisa-foundation,

On

"Like all Italians, I am a mão, the mantelpiece were he says. "And 1 insist on being several pictures of her; as a master in my own house. That schoolgirl impersonating a work- is how we are. ing man with cap pipe in mouth; with Ann Todd; two pictures of her daughter Pla; and one of the late King of Sweden.

snap

head and of her

And the amiable French bull- dog which stretched itself at my fret answered 10 the name "Stromboli,"

'GOING MY WAY'

ΟΙ

is first

a woman

"My wife and second a film star. She is home, ir her more interested her son, her animals and birds than she is in filming.

"No, I would not try to stop her making a film for another director. I have no intention of spending my career directing Alins starring my wite. Obvious- ly, she does not want to appear

Rossellini is good looking, in-only in mine," tense, and a man of exceptional charm when he feels like exerting

1.

Will Ingrid ever return to Hollywood? I doubt it. But it is by no means beyond the realms of possibility that they may one day settle in England.

He makes no bones about the fact that he considers himself an

It is our dream to live and arist and the films an art.

,"One of the reasons I have work in England," said Rossel-

"I consider it the had to wait three years to make lini

Most

fais," he said, sapping a script educated and intellectural country

of Europe 51" which be'll start in the world."

Give me

BOOTHS

and

FINEST

It is rol We had a half-hour's relief monstrating it to our foot-aid son and expecting another known whether the picture was and, bailers, our athloter and baby early next year, Mrs ever completed, but it has not yet. from winning the war with a No. & iron, we were golfers; to every one

upseen the light of day. the Dyson has decided to give dileepating It in hitting half a sporting gents who sport Bri- competitive athletics. Her new balls to the home geschtain's colours against foreign Job will not prevent her looking dozen

opposition

after her home and family ENTER, LACEY

Dan has given a new verb which might have been the We had hit four of them when the back swing was Into the sporting dictionary, Coccase had she decided to con

tinuo Th athletic career............ terrupted by a mild voice in kelline the lot

ryou the background paying:

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