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· THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952.

Two Siamese Generals

Jack The Rice Price This is

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By RUSSELL SPURR

Two Siamese soldiers clamouring customers like pay, in dollars, are getting are today holding up Okinawa and Saudi-Arabia. top' priority. So are those Britain to ransom. Together they control the semi-Fascist military party which rules Siam,

Before the war they did willing to pay "premium"

not need to clamour, Burma

on their contracts.

The Philippines, for in- and Indo-China. helped to meot Asia's needs, Now both stance. The republic last And that means they rule, are torn by unrest, and Biam month bought 15,000 tons of rico-most valuable com- enjoye almost a complete rice at the time the Blamese modity in postwar Asin. monopoly of ready rice were tolling Britain they had salon. In a world where none to spare. The prica was As usual, but an Britain badly needs rice prices have gone up roughly the same for Hongkong, Malay and three and a half times since extra 37 dollars a ton passed

under the counter, - : Singapore. Without it there 1939, Slam is now getting will be hunger and dis. Len times as much for her content. India and Ceylon rice, and the deals are in

Siamese know that the rice is ure struggling to feed their dollars.

desperately needed and аге growing populations in the

The staggering profits lightening the screw. They face of the same pressing are reflected in streets full have a scheme for wringing problem. But so are Japan, of gleaming cars, shops extra money out of their cur- the Philippines, Indonesia, crammed with goods, smart fomers-Britain included, and 21 host of smaller, barracks springing up all

Presenting the Fabulous Life Story of gering, eigur-smoking offi

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

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-By-

COLIN FRAME

London. Charlie wore J turns when HARLES SPENCER they went on special errands.

CHAPLIN has come to London and is staying at the Savoy, With him are his fourth wife, Oona, and their four small children."

On his last visit 21 years ago he stayed at the Carl- ton; on his only other visit, in 1921, at the Ritz.

Before that his life in London was centred on homes like 3. Pownail Terrace, Lambeth.

They washed in an old tub standing in nearby stables. They made paper boats and sold them in. Ludgate Chicus. And the boys helpett their mother to sew. linings, into Jackets at a penny Chaplin's father is a a dozen. shadowy figure in these early dinys. But his mother bad,'ap- parently, all the courage und cheerfulness of the poor,

Mother's Stories

(CHÉ taught me all I know "HE

about acting." sald Charles.

And in that attic room, the the three sat sewing, Mrs Chaplin would tell stories of the stage, sint songs and net parts for the buys to copy.

FAMOUS FIGURE

Britain will certainly refuse

to accept such terms. But the

over the country, brass bands and uniforms. Swag-

Shipping arrangements, Unt clala complete the picture. til recently, have been left to buyers. The business' was Little of this prosperity largely in the hands of thrifty has got back to the farmer. Chinese, who worked efficient- The hard-working Siamese ly at low cost. Slam's military peasant receives GO US. clique, hungry for fresh dollars a ton for his rien tits, hos stopped that. Five after weeka of back. Bamere mushroom firms have prung up to handle rice ship- mants. And all other Reences are cancelled.

described as echoes of his own breaking toll. The rice miller past.

gets little more. In fact, his

the authorities to allow him recent angry protests forced

to pick up a few extras.

Etemember the dance he con-

trived with two bread rolls on

the end of two furks in "The Gold Rush"? That, no doubt, was Chaplin conjuring from the past memories of the clumsy clogs on which he clattered as n small boy to earn a precarious living.

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So far, Britain has shipped hor rice purchases through the Stam Rice Agency, an entire- ly British-rum organisation. The Agency's fee is only 7% dollars a ton. Tho Siamese are now demanding that the Britain is now forced to Agency be closed and the

The Kennington Kid left pay the milter six dollars i business handed to them at the Lancashire Luds and red ton "premium"-you would their own price. The British the West End stage. He was at call it a bribe-to ensure the taxpayer will thus, for the first the Duke of York's in "Sherlock delivery of grades of rice time, find himself indirectly Holmes." He played the page- boy Billy.

Slam has already contracted financing a foreign politicol

party. to supply.

By small parts in plays and music ball turns all over Britain Chaplin learnt the hard way during his early teens and when he was seventeen he joined 'Casey's Court"- group of knockabout comedians.

The two generals take have to agree in order to feed It seems cortain Britain will over from there. They put her peoples. There is no other up the price of rice to 140 alternative. dollars a ton-an increase of

Junior members of the more than 100 percent since military clique are already de- Brother Sydney, who seems to it left the grower—and none mending a larger shore of the "political have acted as his guardian in really knows where all the profits. They want those years, signed the contract money goes.

rice" annual presents 01. for him..

several thousand tons allocated for according to rank to sell their own pront.

Furthermore,

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"for

emergency

Garbage flowed along gutters of the murky strecis, paper hung damply from the walls of ramshackle houses with

£2 5s. A Week mental contracts. Britain, That is on inter-govern- their sightless windows stuffed

There came a day when young

the Ministry with sucking against the chill

Slam's biggest customer, is of Agriculture has a thinly winds blowing from the Thames Charles took over the role of en-

a new veiled scheme at

up and

to force HIS mother, never really well trying to negotiate and for ull

dwellers of tertainer-in-chief the

again after that breakdown, one at present. Representa back most of Slam's exporteblo world rice prices by holding Lambeth and Kennington during moments when the larder looked would make his

was often unable to help or tives of Hongkong, Malaya rice surplus the last decade of the nineteenth emptiest he

advise She was more or less an and Singapore are in Bang- use." century life was a bitter battle mother roar with laughter at his

From such gutter inspiration invalid the rest of her Impersonation of some neighbour. he found a destiny among the although against poverty.

"Brn policeman"or"a ̈cabby"

she lived to see her kok-holding back their tem- Yes, this indeed beats Senor younger son's Kreatness and pers, while Siam's hard bar- Peron's tough bargaining in There came a day when popularity and

to share in his gainers thump the table. The supplying high priced meat to his camie walk from a Kenning- all the 'shock and horror of the wealth.

British representatives are Britain. (London Express The contract Sydney signed being told bluntly that peo- Service). and that his mother boxed his world rushed in upon this wiry,

Lambeth Ind. His brought in £2 5s a week. In gave up the unequal "Casey's Court" young Charlie ple like the Japanese, who and was falten to for the first time found his wrote hospital with a complete break- laughter making feet. Не

Humanity In Films

THIS was Victorian London,

but not the London of the Galely and the Gay Nineties. It was more the London of Fagin and the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twist.

It is said that he first learnt

ton cabby who had rheumatism

stors.

cars when the yungest aping the poor old chap mother behind his back to a delighted struggle

found her sensitive

audience of urchins,

But others claim that the rig and style Charlie Chaplin made world famous was first used by Fred Kitchen, the music-hail comedian who asked that his be carved sn his tombstone.

down.

life

Charles Dickens died nineteen years before Charles Chaplin was born, but many of the scenes of which he had written with such knowledge and compassion were Kag "Meredith, We're in," should them up and in 1830 they were this lad who had been born into

still found in durker London.

And it ennnot be sheer LB incidence that Chaplin Alms have always shown a broad humour, with the poor and destitute as heroes, humanity ani com- passion, sympathy for the. under- dog, and an underlying message of revolt ugainst a system.

clowned and mimed to his heart's content und found that adults For mantbs Sydney

thought it funny just as his in Kennington Charlle ran wild. They begged chain friends They slept rough. They starved. had gone.

Then Victorian England picked

He was developing quickly. to Hanwell Institution near Ealing, and the workhouse such However, young Charlie-he school. was called Wagger, probably as

Lakon

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strange, hard world.

In the year of his birth men were busy opening up the con-

u derivation of the affectionate It was known as the Cuckoo tinentshich were to resound It no longer exists, to his name. Stanley was.ex- Cockney "Charlie Wag"-certain- School.

The State of But Charles Chaplin visited it in ploring Africa. ly became the local alley en-

thrown open to and fig. 1931 and announced himself as Oklahoma was tertainer whose dance

with their covered mine and sung held a group of "An Old Doy" and a few years settlers

And, four days after small boys nightly in the yard ago ho gave a donation towards wagons, near his home.

a memorial for other Old Boys Charles Chaplin was born an who were killed in action.

Austrian woman gave birth to the boy who became Adolf round Sydney was sent almost at Hitler.

The training ship Ex- once to takings before the mouth. Charile stayed nearly two the sort of stories Dickens would barrel-organist could catch him. years and was then-in the words of the school register-die- have loved.

charged to his mother who then had recs at 18 Oakden Street, Kennington,

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Many people have observed.

Sometimes he danced to the likeness between the twu

influenced barrel-organ and went Charleses. Chuplin, by his early environment, used with the hat. Then he was off the camera to tell the world with the

If it is true that the man Is

shaped by his first six years as ..:

a boy, the answer to the riddle

of Chaplin's brilliance must on

in those poverty-stricken London": days.

Sensitive Soul.

ND a penny probably went

that day on Baxter's the Dance Of The Rolls hall where a magle lantern show,

brought a touch of glamour to

This, the American Author Christopher Marley points out, is une of the best examples of Nature's law of compensation- that of an age with the man who was to prove the source of the world's greatest misery was the man who became the source of the world's greatest amusement. But Edwardian London passed

From the start-he was born the half-starved, sharp-08- on April 16, 1809-his life was agedies, tough file -0- VERY soon after, that the eight-young Charlie by sa he capered

one of movement, Ifis parents young Choplin became....

year-old made his debut. He and clowned at Collins's Music Joined The Eight Lancashire Hall at Islington Green or, the Lads" as a clog dancer and for Tivoll in the Strand which was were on the halls, living the

Not all that tough, it appeara, two years, he danced his way later to show his Almar. precarious, nomadle life of tour- ing singers.

His father, also Somehow he retained a sensitive round the halls of Britain in on Charles, came from an old stage soul. He has recalled the blind age when no one troubled about family: He sang baritone. His old man with matted beard who. child actors-the vagabonds of 12 Millions A Night mother, Hannah, was known as sold matches on Westminster variety.

Lily Harley

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No

THE

hear

Bridge and how he used to gaze at him, feel sick with horror and

more school? There music hall was generally is a recard rush away to cry.

that he attended reckoned "not quite nice." In Lambeth

Kennington Road School for a Thousands swarmed to And he recalls how drst he few weeks, then Sancroft Street Melba and Tatrazini in opera or became vividly conscious of the School nearby far a fortnight. to see Tree 45 Fagin and HB. BABY Charlon, with brother world of music which, one facet And in 1001 he went back to Irving in the Lyons Mail.

Sydney who was two, com- of his genius, he was to make his Barroft Street for another thort Who could guess that tumb

spell. That's all,

7 ling abput the music: ́hall pleted the family. They found own.

stogo was Hennington kid who lodgings, from town to town,

He was passing Kennington Those two workhouse-school in ten years time through the of the cinema father died and Mrs Chaplin Cross when he heard two bog- years provided all the orthodox new. medlun

from week fo week until the

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with two lively youngsters on Kurs. One played a mouth organ, editation he ever had. All the would be playing every night her hands, settled in Lambeth the other a clorinet. The tune kubwledge, culture and ariistry to 12,000,000 people?

"YOU bre. my honey shining through his later films. And that file 22 51 4 wack and began to take in sewing to Was

were. absorbed as he went would become honeysuckle." keep them

through life-a'self-made and contract? How poor they waro has been To the ragamuffin with a shock described by Chaplin. They lived of black hair and gring face self-educated man...

in an attic room with one mat It was the music of the masters. He has a prodigious memory tress on the floor. There was at. "OI Kennington Cross" he later and that helped, It is quila one time ond communal pair of rhapsodised "whore music!) first in study pleking out little teme shoes which his mother, Syd and entered into Spy soul."

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