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ON THE RECORD Boys Will Be Boys

On Saturday morning in the fancied himself as Jack Dempsey, Gloucester Hotel lift little however, so we got together mite of a boy, just about did once more with the puller. used his two) One morning we told Johnny enough to have pega comfortably a bare few that If wo started for school montis, had a row with his earlier the result would be that mother.

we would locate a place where we could have a bumper fee Apparently there was orig-cream sundae for five cents.

nahy a choice of two Ufts and the mater picked the wrong one. So the little-lad opens up the teur box and begins howling

ke a banshee.

The rickshaman took a long detour to the Wayside aren — that was In Shanghai and, without searching unduly

long. who Wan Mater takes it all in stride found a lone little boy

Johnny's size. Johnny promptly and suggests that another little knocked his hat off. The little boy in the same lift la joing up boy side-stepped Johnny's first without a murmur and that swipe, put both his fingers in his her own dear would only behave mouth and gave that famous in as much a big boy manner whistle then known as the Way as the other the boy was he side SOS. would be the dearest little dear of them all.

In no time at all a lot of other little boys appeared and they set upon Johnny. Both his Now, that attitude is dynamite, eyes were blackened in a matter In this age of supersonic planes of minute or two and by the and ta that leave your stomach time they had torn his coat off was ume to go behind you somewhere between we decided it the recond and third floor there home,

io no con left for building up Little Lord Fauntleroys.

The little boy's mater saw the light a little bit late. He had a big boy's size toy train in the hand she was not clinging on to and he let her have it. He bushed her well and mightily. In time he was whisked out of the lift and, for all we know, may have received a man-sized dose of the slipper, but not be- fo.e he had bruised his mater more than once,

Neither of went to school that day. Johnny had a tale to tell his mother of how he took on about two dozen boys of his own size and larger and how, with our puny uld, he had dis- persed the lot. He had even a kind word to say for the rickaha- putler. He never fought again.

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Johnny was non-scientifle time.

In time we come across one that was. He never picked fights but he had a way about him of asking questions, Who does the sun shine,

why does smoke come out of a funnel,

The new Itte boys' attitude is quite apparent. Going into the Dairy Farm one day for a ete? quiet cup of coffee, the Captain apologised for the lack of room ond asked us if we cared to sit with a lady who had a lttle boy with her,

could

If you insisted that you didn't know the answers, little Adrian would put a wide smirit across his face. Irom car to ear and The lady had no objection, describe all the processes of The little boy said "No!" His science.

be boring mother told him to be quiet and enough when you were strug

krep his mind on his orange gling with elements of electricity squash. The little boy was ex- and magnetism, heat, fight and perimenting and had discovered sound, that weren't at all amusing some of the physical properties or palatable. of how a liquid reacts to the

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER – 29, 1952. ”

★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★★

As Humphrey Bogart Said To Richard Burton

IT IS SUCH A

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CHANGE TO MEET A

IN HOLLYWOOD

TRAINED ACTOR IN

By DAVID LEWIN

London,

·OLLYWOOD prepares to put out more flags to honour a new star-Richard Bur ILM ton. He is British, although in British films the Burton name is hardly likely to cause more than a ripple of acknowledgment.

Yet he has just finished playing opposite Olivia de Havilland In Hollywood in My Cousin Rachel" "There isn't another leading man like him," said Miss de Havilland) and he returns there to star in "Desert Rais," the story of the 8th Army and Tobruk.

Last week Richard Burton,-28-years old, hand- some and husky, with a busted nose, came to London ofter visiting his family in their Welsh mining valley home. He is the son of a miner, and one of his five brothers still works in the pit.

I asked him: "How do you feel about this sud- den Hollywood fame?" He said: "I'm surprised-but not put out."

He has had rave notices in the theatre here ("The Lady's Not For Burning" in the West End; "Brilliant Burton, they sald at Stratforti),

In Hollywood Humphrey Bogart became his great friend, "Trained as an actor, eh?" Bogart sald to him. "Unusual, out here. Mesl of these young glamour boys in

used to Alms today

work in If you go TIẾN OBe garages. major studlo and shout Till her up' all the young stars come running."

Richard Burton's summing up punches out his own personally for long "A disturbing ploce stays. You would forget there were any poor people In the world. You would also forget how to walk. Even to go 20 yards from one studio-set to an- other people take their cars."

Even at the start of his knows what he career Burton

wants. No more than 16 Helly- wood weeks in any year. Then

On the Hollywood set: Burton and de Havilland

man like him," she said.

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tu Britain to work in the thea cinema it, was to be noted the

He gives a frank viewpoint: "Half the fun of playing other parts is getting away from your own disgusting self."

One day we had the happytre and film for Korda, pressure of gas in a confined experience of coming across one of these little concrete huts that getting worried and eventually put the the city's Sanitary Department used to bura garbage. Sure suggestion mildly that if he insisted on playing with his enough, there was smoke bellow-

Ing out of the chimney. orange squash instead of drink- Ing it, he would have no orange:

The door was ajor and little squash to drink in the future. Adrian saw a golden opportunity

That was an

infuriating chal- of showing us how the smoke lenge and was again a case of found in way up the chimney. naking for trouble. The little He went in first and we closed lad filled his straw once more, the door behind him. painted the end of it that should have been in his mouth at his mama and let her have it all over her new frock.

HUSBANDS ALL

MORE and more And fums becoming B family affair. Consider the latest sign.

MOSLEY

the critics at As they came out of the Limelight, to

In one of them Chaplin sings Odeon,

Leicester-square, and mimes en hilariously vulgar was an extremely emotional ditty called "Walk up. I'm the that everyone was crying,

occasion. It got those tears and greatest show on earth!" about Not surreptitiously or lots of applause too.

an ex-circus master who loses and turns, guiltily or sheepishly, as It is my guess that its down his lion and tigers they often do when they right simple, tears-and-laughter, perforce, to performing deas.

It has zest and belly-laughs emerge from a weepy Bar-hearts-and-flowers theme will bara Stanwyck or a hot-and- work the same effect on all the and its touch of pathos, too.

other British audiences which strong Joan Crawford-but see it from now on. openly and unashamed.

For when you dry out "Lime-

SENTIMENTAL

a

There is s' parody on modern crooner with ditty which consists of nothing but "Love, love, love love...." repeated from beginning to end of the chorus, and a rollicking turn with Buster Keaton that is the purest and most rewarding style.

It is the unabashedly senti-pantomime in mental story of a man who has once been great, fawned-upon,

In some ways it was light" to its real shape, it turns rather like the climax of one out to be a study in self-pity. Ida Lupino prepares to come back to Britain to work. Whom of those revival meetings does she want us a co-star? which has not only given an Louis Hayward. He was her upsurge to the spirit but Arst husband.

cured a cripple in the au- codlence as well.

And, as Charlie Chaplin came hus-down the stairs

to receive thn acclaim of the throng waiting for him in the foyer, he had tears coursing down his large checks too.

Some 10 seconds, we consider- ed, was more than enough and We opened the door to let little Adrian out. He coughed and spluttered and tears streamed

Ho out of his eyes. "There, there, Now, curiously enough, we Adrian," we sold, "Now come have had a lot of experience and tell us where that smoke with little boys. In our school- days money was not so plentiful could do the chimney so that it

come out from that hole at

as it la today and if any kind the end of that funnel on top?" Indy offered us a dollar to take to school for a

Adrian told us once more, we jumped at the going into considerable detail. That-was-the-last-time. He-is,

her little boy whole

chance.

A dollar in those days could today, quite a brilliant engineer five packets of good cigaret- 011 the electrical side with

Who would bo her producer? Collier Young. was Ida Lupino's second band.

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Whom would she like another star? Howard Duff. He is Miss Lupino's current hus band.

–JUDGE'S - STORY

EMOTIONAL

"Who's sneering at the Ameri- with cans now for weeping Senator Nixon?" asked a wicked American friend in my car as we watched. But his tiny hand was damp, too, as the wiped a

MELODRAMA

.

I was a bit ashamed of my-

wooed and flattered, who has fallen on bad times and hasn't Every so often through the the will-power left to fight back. two and a half hours of "Lime- Younger and less disillusioned Ight" Chaplin pauses to throw people shoulder him aside, and in an odd bil of his old panto- elbow their way into his place, mimea flick of his hands, d In my opinion there are too juggle with his feet, and shake- of his face, which made me many tears in "Limelight"

upon and

laugh until was purple. they go on far too long.

I

the prefer

laughter. It comes frequently and happily self-for blubbering at-the-sad It was so outrageously enough, thank goodness. Amid parts,

melodrama old-time melodrama. As, for the chunks of heavy one the father and mother of a walls. But he has no more use story of Raymond Massey's

about the poor little girl (Claire instance, when the ageing and

who

saved

adoring Chaplin overheats his loss of appetite that might be for combustion processes of any play, The Hanging Judge drop of what might have been Bloom) considered good enough to keep kind and from the day he last Why, It showed a respectable perspiration from his face.... suicide by the tobogganing old protegee responding to the love young man one out of school for a whole

it all to us he stopped judge, played by Godfrey I am emphasising that the music-hall pro. (Chaplin) there overtures of

(Sydney Chaplin), questions, He went into Tearle, going off to Norfolk showing of Chaplin's new alm, are interludes of fun. One of our first bad cases was books for them instead and his cottage to week-end with an 4 lad named Johnny. He had contemporaries say that you attractive servant-girl.

curious tricks up his couldn't get a word out of his sleeve, of some of which we sideways in the physics or chem heartily

approved, even abelling labs.

buy

tes or enough popcorn to give enough diplomas to line all his

dayn

many

him of an odd occasion.

In his bag of tricks, too, were He didn't even trust the mas-

ters.

One

must admit

some nasty ones, He was a fight-picker.

that he picked on his own age

frone

or slippers

and didn't mind an occasional Endearing words black eye, but black eyes had to were of no avail even 20 years be explained to his mother the ago and it gladdened our heart

he came.

home from on Saturday to meet the new and Johnny had a a way of attitude that the Gremlins' goal- i to mama that we were keeper, Marjorie Muir, takes onsible for his shiner, His with her well-behaved trio of: mother, who knew him, took his in

minots:

schoo

stories with a grain of salt, but "Dicky," she told us, "has just

QUITE improbable, sniffed some of the critics at the

It just could not hopper. some people thought. This week Ute solemn Solicitors' Journal shows that it could happen ---- and DID. Reports the journal: "Indeed at one period between the wars it was an open secret that one of his Majesty's judges maintained in Norfolk just such a retreat as solaced the vaca- tions of Mr Justice Brittain in the play.

WHO?

THE actors were on tho bridge pretending to steer

and

she was always just that little been to the dentist." Dicky put the frigate into harbour. Jack bit auspicious as to whether this both his fingers in his mouth and Hawkins, Donald Studen, time he wasn't just crying wolf pulled his mouth out to a size the rest of the film cast

to match Joe E. Brown's. Re "Cruel Sea" were there while

as usual.

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was distinctly proud of the "Now, uncle has seen was taking it into his little head enough," said Marjorie, and little took the cue at once and

Another of his nasty habits filling.

sas.

that he was a charioteer and the went off over some other bust

· ricksha-puller who took us to school every day was the horse

So we told Marjorie about the arrangement.

He would day the boy in the lift and it the

poor man with his fow schoolbooks led at the end of a used her. She told us about strap and then he discovered that Dicky's latest exploit. this did not work and started Jucking him as well.

It appears that the family had noted that the ten at home had

of

the real saliors ducked out of sight of the comeras.

At the critical moment some-

lided with a destroyer at

thing went wrong and they col- chor.

011-

The actors had more regrets than Miss Quis. Then a stoker stuck his head out of a port- ed: "Who's driving your dam- hole in the destroyer and yell-

One day we had a brainwave- an odour about it of all the ing bus-Errol Flynn?"

We suggested to Johnny that the flowers of all the heavens that

best way of driving a recalcitrant prophets have promised their horse arrangement that refused

to budge any more was by gel-flock throughout the ages,

carried

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ling behind it and pulling in the They thought it might be other direction until the puller new brand of tea, specially scent- got fed up with the show and ed, but discovered in time that

if

there on

was no sugar in it there We suggested to Johnny that was no odour of the gardens of he Lie one end of his man-sized Heaven. Talo little piece of scarf around his body and the observation led to an examina- other to one of the hooks in the Hon of the sugar bowl and it was charlot. He took the cue and also discovered that little Dicky had started on his heave ar- had poured mother's rangerment with a crowd of now Solt de Paris into

probably several hundred look-

best

Historic

ing on when the puller, tipped sakti, “was a

Sho saldi

It

in advance that this was going to with pride, too, and we left fully

happen, look him for a longish satisfied that little Dicky is going

ride backwards.

Johnny got back into the ricksba and he never again bothered, the puller. He still

to get a chemical set and will some day fuse the neutron into the proton and retire the Nobel Prize once and for all,

-"RECORDER"

--{London Expřaže Servión)

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IN PLACE OF THE BOWLER, A TOP HAT

THE GAMBOLS

BET OUT OF 11 =~IF | CATCH YOU STEALING MY APPLES I'LL HAVEJ WE NIDE OFF YOUR BACK, **

REALLY, GIR, I THINK THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE - HEY ALWAYS BEEN TAUGHT NEVER 12 STEAL "NOT EVEN AN APPLI

bry

from

Claire Bloom helped a lot to make

these lumps of well- pickled pork seem like palatable theatrical ham. She is quite a girl, full of heart and spirit, and as lovely to look at as a hidden pool in the forest.

Even the most obvious tugs at the heart-strings seemed like the gentle strokes of soft fingers on a harp when she was present,

PLEADING

"Limelight" id, in its way, a piece of special pleading for Chaplin. Its story seems to stop, every so often. while he makes a remark that has nothing to do with the story but seems to

have a

a lot to do with his private life.

There is the moment when he talks about the masses who

applaud him. "The public is

strange.

I love them, but I don't admire them. They are a big-handed monster that can be prodded in any direction,"

And the remark he makes in trying to sum up the meaning Life is wonderful. of his Alm: "Life All it needs is courage, imagina- tion and a little dough."

A strange film-put a flim that only the great Chaplin could have made, und well worth the walling for.

-{London' Express Servion.)

Barry Appleby

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LATER UNCLE OTORGE, CAN

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IWELL, PERHAPS

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