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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1952.

★★★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★★★

Far Eastern Spotlight goes to Paris on location with BING CROSBY

Boxing Centre

肖 Manila, Oct. 1.

The Chairman of the

Philippines, Games and

Amusements Board,

Valerian Fugoso, who re-

cently visited Thailand, said boxing is a national sport in that country and "Bang- kok is a potential boxing centre of the Orient."

Fugoso said boxing "is run on a bigger scope than 1 had Arst imagined" Thailand. Fugoso sold the crowd which saw the October 13 Aght be tween Chumroen Söngkitral of Tholland and Speed Cabanela of the Philippines in Bangkok was "far bigger thou any I have Been in Manita,"

The GAB Chairman said that during his Bangkok visit he held preliminary talks with That boxing authorities on the formation of on Association of Boxing Commissioners in the Orient.

Such an Association,

down would lay

he said. rules and regulations governing prize- fighting in this part of the world.-United Press.

THE NAME IS CHRISTIAN Little Boy Lost.

ON THE RECORD Who Was The World's Fastest Ever Human?

Now that we have just had visit from the World's Fastest Feminine Human, the whole question of fastest humans Is of some interest.

It is quite certain whether the fastest wasn't a Mr Ponic who on Thursday, November 28, the Magdalen College 1801; at Cricket Ground in the frat of

with a following wind in Texas and in 1940 Telford Neely also diel 0.2 for the distance with a following wind at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Melvin Pation brought the

9.3 down on record world seconds at Fresno, California, on May 15, 1948, and the following year, at Los Angeles, ran the 100 towing wind.

It's WORDS without SONG

-well, almost

by DAVID LEWIN

PARIS.

T is a confusing day. After breakfast Bing Crosby is a man who has lost his wife. After lunch he is at a village church 30 miles outside Paris being married to her. And in time for tea he turns up with his eight-year-old son to take him for a ride on the "Enchanted River" in the Bois de Boulogne.

Bing Crosby is making a picture here to start what he calls his "new carcer." And he is whirling round Paris like a musical top.

The film is Marghanita Laski's story "Little Boy Lost," which has been suited to the Crosby style.

In the book, a worried, In- tellectual Englishman scurches through France after the war for his son, who was swept-up in the Nazi invasion.

In the im. Bing Crosby, an American

correspondent

war

ROCS

with the French Army, through similar anxieties. "But we have straightened out the Euy's character

says director

George Seaton. "In the original he was so much a case for u psychiatrist that We actually got one to read the book be fore we wrote the script."

* S-O-F-T-L-Y

Now it is up to Crosby, Says he: "I have two ways of acting --loud and soft, I played loud once in 'Emperor Waltz,' and it was not good.

"Aler

that

just acted Crosby every time and went through seven or eight songs a picture. They usually take up 35 minutes, so there isn't much time left for me to worry about acting."

In "Little Boy Lost" the songs are down to two, with additional snatches of a · nur-

sery rhyme for the boy. That an hour of means more than Crosby at work as an actor.

The rest of the cast is French. Nicole Maurey,

a 25-year-old second actress who once played lead to a rabbit in "Harvey," follows in the line of unknowns who star with Crosby In the hope that fame will follow. Nicole has dark red hair, full mouth, and a husband who to avoid being parted from

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH RED HAIR

problems,

THE NAME IS NICOLE Age: 25; occupation: actress ; ambitiom; fame.

Most important member of runken checks. the company is the French "I have weight little boy lost himself-eight- ico," says Crosby. "The only year-old Christian Fourcade, a practising I do for any part is veteran with three years' stage keeping my weight down to 12 and radio experience.

$1. 2 lb. So I just have one meal a day here in Paris. What a waste!"

Crosby met seven other little boys who wanted to appear in the film. Said Christian: "Don't worry with the others send them away. I'm going to be your son.

Besides,

1 have road the book."

So here he is short trousers held up by string, a straggly torn coat and patched gloves.

The only worry about Chris- tion is that he is eating too much. As the boy in the story

At night Crosby goes off to his hotel and writes to his real-life wife and four real-life sons..

WHERE'S EITAZ

In the corner of his hotel room .I notice a book of Christopher Fry's plays Shyly, Crosby admits that "Venus Ob- served" is д favourite with

THE NAME IS BING

Two songs only

will get together again in *White Christmas. We'd like Bita Hayworth for that."

Miss Hayworth is here in Paris, but Crosby cannot find her. She has moved out of the Aly Khan home into an hotel. And Miss Hayworth is often in a hurry.

THE RECIPE

I know. I saw her the other night being taken to the latest smart night club (aptly named the White Elephant). There she found her

husband in another party. him dance and then swept out. She watched

Bing Crosby will have to wait to talk over his new nim plan with her, he pace they are Alming "Little Boy Lost" leaves him little time to talk, even on *set."

shot without

sound.

This part of the plcture is Noises off will be added later being

in Hollywood, "Fancy me In a silent film," says Crosby, as he changes his clothes for the seventh, time in one day. too, looks a trifle lost because Although understandably he, pt these

changes mood, Crosby at 48 has a life-

He says: "When you've troubles, mister, just walk away got from them. Don't broad. I puff my pipe, swing my golf clubs, and hope. I look happy."

quick

of

the Oxford University Sports Yards' in 0.1 seconds with a fol- has moved into show business without parents during the war him, and hastily changes the long philosophy to support him.

100 Yards performed the dis- tance in "somewhat under 13 seconds"1

The first 100 Metres in 10.2 seconds was run by Charles It is not known today whether Paddock at Pasadena, California, fifth-of-a-second stop watches on June 18, 1921. The record had yet been adopted but other

was accepted as the American contemporary reporta

national record over 110 Yards amateur running do not run in the actual distance the race to fractions in reporting the was over. It apparently never 110 Yards struci

that anyone

time.

оп

At any rate, that is the first was a slightly longer distance recorded instance of even time than 100 Metres and no appli being broken for the 100 yards.cation was made for the metrie

first man

world record.

ran

It wasn't unul 1032 that The

to run 100 Ralph Metcalfe at Chicago re- Yardain 9.4 seconds was turned the first-accepted 10,2. Berney J. Wefers of George- seconds. At Guayaquil, Ecuador, town University in 1895, Five on October 7, 1050, Lloyd La-

of of six, time-keepers caught him Bench Panama

100 in 9-2/5 seconds.

Motros in 10.1 seconds for the Wefers' record, which would current unofficial (not applied have been acceptable under the for but generally accepted as current record rules, could have authentle) world record. stood for 35 years until equalled by Frank Wykoff in 1930.

None of these men was the

It was never accepted for the fastest ever human. The fastest reason that Mr William Curtis, ever was the first and only man then President of the United to run faster than 25 miles per States National Amateur Athle-hour.

tle Union, pronounced himself as He was also just about the

of the opinion that no human greatest sprinter who never ap- being could run so fast.

peared nt Olymple Games.

Bill Curtis word was law.

(le was Harok Davis, who

The world woited eight years burned up American tracks be- for another 100 Yards in 9.4 tween 1938 and 1944 when there seconds when the identient time, was a World War on and no was returned by a Japanese Games. Minoru Fuji. Those who saw

Davis is a co-holder of the

Fuji

Tun

and timed him were

were world record for 100 Metres at some of the earliest Japanese 10.2 seconds. In the American athletic authorities and some National AAU 100 Metres Anal American missionaries who had of 1043, Davis, notoriously heard about him and wanted slow starler, was three metres

see if he

really very down on Norwood Barney" fast.. It was never put up as a Ewell, later runner-up

at the world record. In worl

In any case, London Games in 1948. was only an exhibition run and Over the final 50 metres, with are not acceptable for devastating burst of speed, he

these

WOR

world records. Fuji was clec-closed to within a single foot. trically timed the same year in Ewell won in 18.3 seconds and 10.24 seconds over 100 Metres. mathematicians agree

that

In the same year, J. B. Duffy's Davis must have surpassed 25 100 Yards in 9-3/5 seconds was miles per hour. accepted as a world

record.

Movin Platton, running a 100

In 1912, the South African Yards leg. as the anchor of 0 professional, J. Donaldson ran rely team in May, 1949, was 100 Yards in 9 seconds at clocked in 8.3 seconds off Johannesburg,

which

flying stort, which was calculat- equivalent to 100 Yards in ed at 24.04 miles per hour. faster time than 0.325

Ralph Metcalfe, for the mum- seconds, Donaldson was probably the ber of fast times he has re greatest sprinter ever, for his turned, should rank with 180 Yards in 12 accords the Donaldson as consistently one

before represented just of year

going about the fastest

on straightaway course at Toronto record.

on September 1032, he ran 1029 that 220 Yards in 19.8 seconds with Plowing wind. is still

It was not until

George Simpson, who ran in a. the 1932 Olymple Anal at Los Angeles,

That

ran the

the

fastest ever.

Ол а

considerable

next 100 argument as to how much n

Yards at Chicago in 0.4 seconds. following wind helps sprinters was not accepted as a and two countries Iceland and world record for some years Poland - accept #print marks until starting blocks were re-with following cused, as legal.

wind

national records. next

xt 100 Yards in 9.4

The fact remains that the seconds without starting blocks

not leave was run at Los Angeles on May printer does

ground and fly, no matter be it cyclone or typhoon wind fol-

10, 1030,

who

by Frank Wykoff, A

Olympic finals

+

the

was to figure In the lowing him, and marks made of 1032 and 1930. with a following wind are not. outside the bounds 'of possibility even had they been made with- Jesse Owens ran 100 Yards in 0.3 out oneSINOS B

In 1934, at 1

Wisconsin,

na Madison, soconds "with-a-following wind

In 1941 Carlton Terry dit : 0.2

—“RECORDER”

her,

*Those for whom it did in- cinde: Dorothy Lamour, Nancy Olsen, Martha Raye.

won, eyes.

his

at

he must appear pinched and

with rings under

But he tucks into cakes tea, and the make-up man waging a losing battle with his

Dianne Foster

起

subject.

He talks about his career. In future there will, he hopes, be better but fewer Crosby ple- lures a year. He says. "After 'Little Boy,' Fred Astaire 'and I

(London Express Service)

HAS WALKED OUT ON Alan Ladd

So now one of

the Little Women

THIS ONE

has walked in

And Susan again

without the

:

STEPHEN, a

19-year-old daisy-fresh youngster not-long-out-

of her acting school, has .walked into a starring part in Alan Ladd's film about Britain's paratroopers "The Red Beret."

She replaces Dienne Foster, a 24-year-old

In from Alberta Canada, who has been held up finishing another film, "Isn't Life Wonderful," with Robert Urquhart,

ALL SET, BUT-

Susan Stephen will work with. British director Terence Young and a British cast including Ico Genn und Lanà Morris,

Sald the picture's Hollywood- producer Irving Allen:

We were all set to shoot

with Miss Foster, but we could not arrange the dates,

"Slie

came down to meet Alan Ladd and the rest of the

when we were company

in North Wales' last month, and we should have shot a bathing costume love scene with the two of them then.

"But the weather was too cold. Just as well, Now we shall, not nood a retake,"

Susan Stephen...

If anybody-had asked Amy what the greateni- trial of her life was she 'would have answered.

All at once *My nose." . the pinchlag in the world could not give it ап aristocratic point.. Amy felt deeply the want of a Grecian nose. FROM Louisa, M. Alcott's "Little Women”. And the girl who, on TV recently. played the part of Amy (wlio always wore a clothes pep on her nose when she went' to hed-was Susan Stephen.

RHYME

'DON'T TIE ME DOWN

Dianne Foster said: "I

hadn't signed the contract. Beside the délay with the "other film the company wanted me for a picture a year for, the next four years.

didn't

want to be tied A NEW song, prompted by down like that."

a melody hummed by the Last

Dianne Foster made troops in Malaya, is to be pre- her. West End stage appearance sented in Britain, .** in the Agatha Christie play Sung by Jimmy "The Hollow." She was in the Young"),

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Orron Welles film

and has acted in radio?

tho

("Too title,

"to its topicality,

"Othello," holding tights,

is "Moon Above Malaya."

The traditional, melody fa Susan Stephen has been play-

pleasing. ing small parts in filma

I wish I could my the same about the Britain and in Italy as well as (added in London). They in- words appearing on TV since she left clude the crudest couplet sinco R.AD.A-(London Express Ser- vice).

Lancashire Rugby League Cup Final On November 29

In

Juno wás chymed with moon. The lines go; "She's all that I. adore. "From here to Sings- pore.

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