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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1958.

THE MAN WHO MAKES TERROR HIS HERO

G

RAHAM GREENE "Another success?" He shud- whose first went to London's dered, the novellat

editions run to 280,000 copies, Wyndham's Theatre who has sold more film stories. and saw the triumph of his than any other writer.

"Do not call me Living

a success, 1 first play, "The

¤ Buccessful Room."

have never known man." ko

ho said. "Have you?" "Success," he said (and his turn china-blue eyes were bloodshot), playwright since Somerset "is the point of self-deception. Maugham --and the most knowledge. Point of self- puzzling. He writes about. The puzzle remains. How has chill misery, and he sells he made a sordid love-triangle like hot cakes.

as tener as a thriller?,

He is the most important English novelist to

Tall, gount, haggard-eyed, a man who wears sunces like a

hair-shirt Greene heard cheers for Dorothy Tutin, a newcomer of 22 with the heartbreaking of a lapwing in a storm.

Slicers for Frie

Failure Is

--

A Hollywood director says:} "You need loughs You need cheerfulness. That is the whole

A news profile of Puriman, and Graham Greene

By JOHN BARBER

dear old Mary Jerrold. And loud cries of "Author Author!"

The play is set in a decaying house which two Roman Catholic spinsters and their crippled reason for show business." Then brother, a priest, inhabit like why is the jagged pain of ghosts.

Greene-land so popular?

The answer is that the basis They keep most of their rooms of show business is not cheerful- shut because people have died in

It is excitement. And them. They then use, fair means ness and foul to keep their niece Greene is the most excited man of sin. She is a Catholic; and on earth. What exeltes him is ain. is heroes fear the police loves is married. she

the

מסנה

out

The plot turns on pity, the like the devil, but they fear the girl's for the wife she has cut devil as they fear God.

out. She kills herself rather Even as a child Greene lived |

dangerously, nerves on edge. than cause pain for others.

But the room she dies in la not duly closed. The passing of a girl so pure-hearted dissolves the aunts' terror of Death.

EERIE AFFAIR

A sad and eerie affair, with n disappointing end. Erle Port-

He went to school in Berk homated. His father was head- master, and the boy's time was cut In two

by the between squalid classrooms and the family quarters.

balze 'door

On one side, unholy little fly- torturers, aniggering, ink, dust.

man, the priest, acts movingly On the other, books and fruit

from a wheel-chair as a blighted and eau-de-Cous mind into the man who cannot rise to his It grew in

supreme moment: he fails to find clash between Heaven and Hell. the words that might save_dho-Hell avemed more real. Once girl.

he ran away. They caught him,' Four times he tried to poison himself. They sent him to a psychoanalyst. At last he found meaning for his anguish....in the Catholic Church.

Dorothy Tutin is a rare dis- covery. Her brief lighthearted ness made me cry, and her death-scene, praying, touched a tragedy beyond tears,

The writing is perhaps too THEY SIT UP stick. But as you watch, softly the doors of Hell swing open and the hounds of pain come out. For Greene, auccERS.

At had a creumieremtor and a diagram of the planetary aspects, & side table and a nocturnal. Made by an Eng lishon, flumphrey Cole, it naiind with one of the greaten of all Eng-- listmen, Sir Francis Drako.. And la also told the time within half an hour or D. (Reproduced by cowtesy of the Trustees of the Nacional Machiave Museum, Greenwich, England.}

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From the first, what made Greene's readers sit up was terror-the terror he has been in since his schooldays.

But although Greene writes about ain with an alarm that terrorises, he lives well. His flat is just round the corner from the Ritz.

Ring the bell, and he answers himself. Our leading self- lorlufer is 49; thin and shy, with

DRAMA ON THE CORONATION ROUTE

DENT ST

A RAKES PROGRESS

IT IS THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IN- PICCADILLY: LIVES OLD Q THE NOTORIOUS, DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY, HIS PREDILECTIONS ACCORDING TO POPULAR RUMOUR、 ARE PRETTYL3SDMEN AND MILK IS

BATH 5.

WITH A

SPECIAL

CARRIAGE OF WOOD AND WHALE BONE AND DRIVING A PICKED TEAM OF THOROUGHBREDS.HE EASILY WINS HIS WAGER -

ANECDOTES OF OLDQ)

HIS REPORTED HABITS CAUSE

A PREJUDICE. AMONG -LONDONERS AGAINST DRINKING MILK, FOR FEAR.

ITHAS COME FROM OLD. Q'S BATH

Piccadilly

T toprot

AS A YOUNGER MAN HE' mod vor RIDES HIS OWN HORSES ATZESS! HE NEWMARKET WINNING MANY?ng phon PRIZES. THERE HE BETS HE WILL DRIVE A FOUR WHEELED CARRIAGE NINETEEN MILES IN ONE HOUR.

He is AB FRIVOLOUS AT BO ASHE WAS AT 20. OLD Q. ENACTS THE

JUDGMENT OF PARIS. THREB WOMEN PICKED OUTAS LONDON'S MOST & CAUTIFUL ARE PARADED NUDE BEFŐRE HIM. HE AWARDS A GHILDED APPLE TO THE ONE HE CONSIDERS THE FAIREST.

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OLD Q DIES IN 1810, HIS BED, IS COVERED WITH LETTERS | FROM WOMEN. FROM DUCHESSES TO COURTESANS. TOO WEAK TO READ THEM HIMSELF, HG OXIDERS WITH

THAT THEY ARE TO REMAIN

YEARS THE DOCTOR

ITOKS 27.5OOVIN FEE SAM

EVEREST WIVES

YO L ́ONE L ́ JOHN HUNT will in a few days be launching the British Mount Everest-ex--

the face of a man who has just pedition on the steep and

walked into fattened and

hard.

brick

wall, riven slopes of the Khombu

HOW DO WIVES fare when their mon set out on the world's most dangerous mission'?

IN A FEW DAYS the British Evarasi Expedition begins Its attempt to mount to the earth's roof-top,

AN ARDUOUS task for the men- and for their wives no loss. There Is courago .too in watching and waltog...

Risk-it

rivalry

spurs on men

by THOMAS WILSON

After spent by the Swiss gulda,ärldsd Sherpa in slapping, each, piher to keep alive, they could climb no-higher-than 28,215,16 highest yet, but still nearly 3001t.

an appalling Light,

To risk or not to risk on the backs of all those short of the summit, to asbil

shattered by the glacier icc-fall below the that will be Hunt's problem, that have gone before. daily shock of a life lived too western precipices of the The real crux of his de- Each expedition has learned

"I feel shattered," he says. 29,002ft. mountain...

cision will be whether or from the past.

He sat up late, it appears, on a

new alm story, "The Stranger's Of the three times the not to allow international Yet the British way of climb- Hand." His days are given up ice-fall has been climbed rivalry to enter into it.

to a new novel, "all about the the only route has been

trouble

bring

ECCTIC

a man

tan

cause by

being well -meaning."

Sherpas to

Colonel Hunt must

plích a camp

expects a man to go to the Umit at the camp STZAMBER})

the assault party at least as Is the highest point yet

Then, it ho-has picked the ing is in jeopardy-the way that right men, and they are walling thopre Most British climbers re- but not beyond, to cajole and not under-or

works The bombarded near its top by gord this as the curse of inspire his porters into ever and the oxygen apparatus. is Indo-Chino, which frequent avalanches.

the weather hofds; and the great Himalayan peaks. greater exertions, but never to and Greene knows well. Title: "The

Everest's 80-me-an-hour wind Quiet American."

It began in 1934 with a risk their lives unnecessarily. Eric Shipton, in 1951,

has stopped, after blowing the calamity on Nanga Parbat, Tho

problems that monsoon snow. Greene's own living-room turned back. The Swiss

off the summit where ten men were far from squalid elegant bow-

Hunt lost Colonel

will face are pyramid, and there are no un out in a book* that foreseen difficulties in the last window, mountains of books. But year ago risked their own

the Ave British recounts Livid, is macabre;

scary lives and their porters by through a German expedi- brought

and 800ft, they will reach the topi tion overreaching itself. two Swiss attempts on Everest, Ferhaps. paintings on the walls. On a going on. table, a leper-white object in

the

shape of two upraised palms

cut off at the wrists: It is an (ush-tray.

It is here that he

dyer the pain and sin into his

magnificent stories.

HIS SECRET

:

"shall never write another Alm-script" says the birak author of so many. "This latest is just an outline. One does not enjoy all the rewriting and revising for the studios.

Ono prefers the theatre. Even in a novel, one never knows Just how well one is getting across.

In

a play, one can alter a line and see the effect on the next night's audience. One has already

next play." one's

started

wrig at last

verstor operator

then the brilliant new play- gives away his secret, and disentangles the slick artist and from the **If you excite an genius. audience first, you can put_on what you will of horror," "muffer- ing, truth."

What that costs him in un- quiet is signed in his face.

"THE THIRD MAN" 1 Great's most famous fim, Others: "Drigh= ton Rock" The Fallen Idol," "This Gun For Hire."

JOHNNY HAZARD

·LOCK, BUSTER, I'VE BEEN --` TARGET FOR A CROSSBOW ALL NIGHT AND GOTTEN MYSELF HALK KILLED FIGHTING 'A'HUMAN

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MBB

ABS. JENNIFEIL. HOUR- DILLON (above); "23- year-old wife of scientist- mountaineer Tom Bourdii- lon, finds it a help that sho too knows the Himalayas. I spent many weeks in. Nopal, just below Everest," she says.

*So I know the background

And

can visualiso what is going on.

"Do I feel there is any risk 7

Yes, of course.

But Tom is very level-

headed and I expect him to come home safely.”. And wistfully..." I no wish I

could have gone with him

"But_t caught typhus before and it would have been unwise to go again so sOOD. -What shall I do walla my

husband is away?

* Work, tench in. Bunday School, and look forward A to July, when the expedi-

tion comes homa“

A

other

The book of that expedi- adventures matching the story of

Captain Scott, tion ended: "Splendid as it must be to return home Ho will not know ivith the prizo of this mighty mountain, it is yet noblor that a man lay down his life for such a goal."

ten

inST and worst, because it is

uncontrollable.

is the weather. The climb must be made between monsoons and some years there is no gap,"

Acclimatisation to the rarefied

As this applied to men, including six Sherpa air is a problem. Colonel Hunt guides, British climbers

is handicapped by none of his have rogarded it as false men having been up to 28,000ft. sentiment.

In jeopardy...

The men he selects for the firml Assault may acclimatize badly. He will not know until too late.

Oxygen may help it the new Yet all climbed TODAY Swiss, French and apparatus works well. British are intent on the British who have

have gone without climbing Everest. If we fall highest

xygen and have given up not this year the French will for lack of it but for lack of

tă nobody ume. try next and would be surprised to meet

The Swiss pitched a small tent the Russians coming up, tho carried by the assault party to 27,59011; but even that was too other side,

low.

now

How absurd thin spirit is. The party that

The Story of Everest," by W. reaches the top will do b. 1. Murray, Dent, 154.).

AND ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR | JUVENILE, INFATUATION FOR A FEMALE DEMON! DON'T GIVE MAE ANY TROUBLE! GET IN} IS THE BOATUOR ELSE!

By Frank Robbins

VERY WELL! I YIELD. BUT ONLY BECAUSE OF YOUR THREATS / HOW-R

EVER, I SHALL RETURN/

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FOR

Mrs.

John Hunt

(above), wifes or the leader of the expedition/the biggest thing in life now'is'? the postman's knock Jord "My husband writes dfler!

and · gives mean the t details,” she says. 99 fan A But when the expedition - approaches. the stimmiaj: #{s..

shall have to go for weskait with no news at nữ, cultu * So I'm just a wallins wifebu looking after" my two! youngest daughters :"the other two are at bosrāing -school) and working in the

Tarden

·

“Of course, tam Opílmistio.uni Perhaps my husband will celebrate the Coronation,.. by reaching the summit - How

wish I could hate gone too! I bave mone taineered with him often enough bat this time ba had to leave me beblud.**

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