1953-07-02 — Page 4

HOLLYWOOD IN CLOSE-UP—No. 2,

People who live

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1953.

behind glass walls

ITOLLYWOOD is a wall-

H

ed city. The walls are *** made of glass so

the

inmates can see out-but the walls keep most of them

in just the same.

If I were asked to name the basic trouble with would Hollywood today I reply in just one word: Isolation.

Hollywood is a suburb within the city of Los Angeles which has a population of more than Lwo million. But Hollywood lives by itself.

Un its doorstep are oil men, aircraft manufacturers, frult growers, farmers. The inhabi-

by DAVID LEWIN

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The boss. My boy,

John Huston. who made Lants of Hollywood seldom meet "African Queen," is now quite The glass wall keeps content to live and work in 'them apart.

Britain and not return to Holly.

them.

A

He dries up

Wood,

It is not merely the bait of 18 months free of U.S. income tax that tempts

Hollywood people away from Hollywood.

The mental stimulation, the

MAN comes to Hollywood because rewards are higher there than anywhere else, the sudden contact with reality- elinate is calm, and there are a score of gadgets to uld physical especially in London--is a large comfort. He comes with a basie Part intelligence. culture, curiosity, overseas.

and standard of values.

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from when script writers spend their days in office blocks in the studios and their nights at hame miles from everyday Ufet

It came as a surprise when I told people in Hollywood that T. E. B. Clarke, who won this your's writing Oscar for "Lavender Hill Mob," travels by bus and train and talks to people in pubs, to get ha ideas.

If a script writer goes out for

a drink in Hollywood he meets other script writers and they tell each other sadly how frustrated they are.

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It even stranger to And that the men with real power in Hollywood are not even in Holly- wood itself. They live in New York. They' Wield supreme authority over the lives of the citizens behind the glass walls. There is Nicholas Schenck, in his sixties; when he speaks M.G.M. obeys,

At M.G.M. in Hollywood Dore bos but when Schary is the Schenck speaks to him he calls Schary "My boy."

There is grey-haired Spyros head of Twentieth' Skouras,

sometimes

of the lure of working Century-Fox, who

comes to England and shoots with Arthur Rank. Or Barney Bakban, the boss of Paramount.

Man on a peak They spend most of their time

thot

After a time every one of these becomes blunted, and the man has nowhere to go to re- ful. It is like putting a glass HERE are those who like the of water in closed

Juxury

Hollywood it for a month, and provides....but try to live some leaving

from 11. watching the level slowly fall of their lives away through evaporation.

They are liable to be misunder- stood both in Hollywood and out- It is because intelligent.men in side. Stewart Granger has built Hollywood feel hemnied in by his home un a hill-peak and the glass wall lite that the actually mixes with some of the exodus is beginning. The film “outsiders”—outside fims, that Mayflower today sails East. Joe is who live around. Mankiewicz who directed "All About Eve," has given up his He says: "I find you can dis- new contract. He wants to make cuss other things with them than Atras elsewhere. Hc says " the latest box office returns. They shall work in Europe or live in don't know about picture politics New York, I have taken my und that is why I mix with children away from school in them." Hollywood because I want them to be properly educated."

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In New Yorke running Hollywood by long distance phone.

"The East'

New York they talk with distant authority about things "on the coast." In Hollywood they talk with awed respect about "the view in the East." It is never California but the coast; always the East and not New York.

So the real "front office" ls 3,000 miles from the Golden City behind Glass. But the real font for new ideas and culture is still London or Parks, yet another' 3,000 miles off.

Hollywood today sees its way, to survival in new methods-an added dimension; a wider screen; sound that moves,

Had it taken more heed of the men who live around the aircraft manufacturers or the motor-car people-it would have known that retooling to take advantage of new techniques and scientifle aids should go on all the time if one is to stay ahead of one's competitors.

Ho

Fault line

TOLLYWOOD is peering through ita glass walls anxious to see how the new tricks and devices are being accepted. One thing more than any of the screens and focal wide would give Hollywood a vital push. That is a breach in the wall that keeps it isolated.

“I say, Penney-those people who think ctom bombs affect the earth's weather may have something after all . . ."

London Express Bervice

Sefton Delmer Newsmaps A Magical Isle

I Meet the Champion

R

Outcast'

of Bali

whispered Maler to me. "These temple riles are very effective. "And now if you like," said European doctors would call

"let's go Maier,

into the them psychotherapeutic—they vlilage and find Mädipigl. That's help the mind- to heal the

body."

Sourabaya, Java, Sunday. sallow faced, stub-nosexi What is more, half of what "Done her a world of good,"

EMEMBER the old man in his middle forties, he carns with his pictures goes

into drugs for his people. tut-tut tales of white dressed in rather dirty men "going native"? white shorts, Palm Beach And how eyebrows and shirt, and sandals. voices were raised in re- proof in clubhouses and resi- dences when such things happened?

Well, eyebrows are work ing overtime in the golf club at Sourabaya, for more and

Moler was at work. Was he my wife. She's gone for a kind

of beauty treatment," painting? He was not.

He was doctoring. The scene would have intrigued our own doctors with their surgeries full of Health Service patients.

In marched A villainous-

We found her in the local temple receiving the ministra tions of on aged priestess who was giving incantations as o

hair restorer.

An Honour

On way up wage head-

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

99 Women In Air Marathon

New York. N. ENGLISHWOMAN,

AN

35-year-old Mrs. Doria Robineau, mother of three, is to co-pilot a plane in ar all-wqmen's ́nir race 2,678 miles across America.

On July 3 she will fly from Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the Atlantie const, for

Long

Piper in

Beach, California, in a 135 h.p. plane. Co-plint this two-seater, will be Kay Brick, an Amerlepn,

They will be racing 98 other women in 40 single-engined planes.

Each plane has a sponsor. Mrs Robineau's is the Labora- tory for Electronics, in Bos ton.

slim

Should this

young woman from Kingston-on- Thames win the race, she will

(£265) get prize of $800 und have lunch with comedian Bob Hope.

BRITAIN is oh 60 educa- Ulona?!

Filly

schoolieachers have salled in the luer Georgic in quest of eight points towards their Master of Arts degree. By spending 18 days studying- social life of Britain they get this much academic credit from New

York

Unversity. They are

the politics, economics,

to interview lord mayorą, Schoolmasters, trado union leaders and a Journalist. They' will tour the Shakespeare country, Windsor Castle, and

so on.

Price, including a few. add!- tional days in France and Ger- many, $895 (£319),

SLEEPLESS Anthony de la Pena looked out of his bed- room window at the Hotel Bel-

West vedere, in New York's 18th Street.

He saw a man breaking into a shop. He called the police, watched them chase the bur glar out and catch him.

to

GREY-HAIRED Mrs Lilian Way, aged 71, to a New York. court: "I have

not long live, I hope my sins will be forgiven and I want to forgive my son's."

more Europeans are looking fagtotum in blue jeans, She stood on a dais blowing on on. Bricklayers were using the and the forgiven son

settling down on the glamor ous, magical island of Bali, just across the water.

his brown torso bare, with an old man, two women, and small boy.

His 'Bandit

Then

ከዩ

returning to ask for books on

tention on the TV screen."

o'd be "Insulted If pay was-) subjects brought to their at

Henry Way, jun, had taken. her life savings, $13,000, to put on Native Dancer in the Ken- tucky Derby, it lost by a nose. the way up we pused to

Without Mrs Way's evidence case, the prosecution had no The priestess was magnificent, man's new house was coming

walked out to freedom, bowl of holy water and clay soil from riceflcids in place How or cement. mumbling inconiations over it. of mortar

I asked, "by

SAYS Detroit librarian Ruth she threw in

a little are they paid any, or by the Ruizen; "When TV was

the hour, by bouquet of sceret herbs, I have just come from

mumbled some more, and then fob?" They're not paid any readers fell off. Now they are

sald

Maler. sprinkled it with sill further thing at all," spending "two days in Ball

Incantations on Madipigi's face."

It's on

for with the champion "out-

and hair.

honour cast" of them all: a man

them and a pleasure to build a Hench under the whitewashed Then Madipigi was given a house for, their feudal lord. But who settled in Ball 16 years wall of the loggia. "Last of the magle

looked rice with he sees they're well dish to eat; ago to paint pictures, and morning's batch. Tuan," he bits of herb, shredded egg and after, gives them food, lodging, murried a beautiful Balinese announced.

sprinkling of my favourite and a

protects them from -half putrified hundred-year- enemies." is what Maler old duck eggs with a top dress-

Well I wonder how old His little four-year-old calls him. The man had been ing of orchid blossoms.

George Amos back at Alpham- Imprisoned can bust the daughter is being brought for it. Anti-Dutch revolution-

n band and was

Then, after some careful scalp stone, in Essex, would like st up as a Balinese child. She aries released him and told him massage, the same bottle which if anyone suggested this

Mnier and other white men, any other language.

films

A geologist will tell you that Hollywood is bult on a fault lino-which can and does produce earthquakes. There occasional

crack-or the can be a sight shock of a quake place wide open.

If the present shock of bad business cracks those glass wall, and forces Hollywood to live alongside real people, people outside films, the City without Walls can still be the top enter- tainment duteline in the world in 50 years' time.

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HENRY KAISER, the Iman. who mass-produced the war- time Liberty cargo ships, has had two 200,000,000 dollars US Air Force contracts for trans- port planes cancelled.

The news was brought to the Industrialist and 73-year-old his son Edgar as they reated at a witness table fare Senate investigators. They, were defending themselves But, believe it or not,

against allegations

they toddy gin as an offering for the these bricklayers were working charged the USAF five times. as

was filled with what industriously and well, Mater's Balinese wife learned temple

and if much for one type of aircraft, Yes, Theo Maier has gone about it. So Maler sought out remained of the special re ever I've seen workers looking the C-119 flying boxcar, 08. just about as native as a the ex-convict and took him on storer.

happy and contented, they did, another builder. But it isn't as his private bodyguard and because he is a Swiss that general help. A more devoted

does not speak a word of 10 redeem himself by killing with her husband's best palm men.

Madipigi had brought filled arrangement to him and his

man can go.

I feel he is not letting down henchman I have yet to meet. the Empire.

First Glimpse

Majer poured me a huge glass

of palm toddy from a vast stono Jar, then turned to his patients.

Strictly, of course, Maler is not entitled to do any of this the new Indonesian Republic has 'ex-Guards' officer and a coincided with deterioration In -former-naval commander, the health of the whole of Indo-i who are the latest recruits nesia, Bali is no exception, to the Bali way of life, I

Medicines supplied by UNO would still say the same. or bought by the Government either remain locked, in stores, Now don't start throw- where they cannot be found, or ing

the furniture round, are sold on the black market, Listen first to what I have

IF he were as British as an doctoring. The pavent of

to report to you.

Nothing could have been

Magic-Powers

doctors

the Dutch, Gernian doctors now

COLONIAL

JUDGES-

that

CAN THEY BE SACKED?

A importance

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

Iltigants and

The law now says that they are mistaken. That boing so, the law should be amended, since Colonial peoples have is much right as the people of Britain' to know that their

London. Supreme Court in England hold partial between LEGAL case, of great and can only be removed by an

offler during good behaviour the government. in the address of both Houses of Colonies, has just been de Parliament. cided in the High Court. Questions are to be asked In the House of Commons about it and it is the sub- more like Maugham's "Moon INDONESIAN

This, in practice, means they judges cannot be dismissed at areject already of considerable are irremovable, Mr Terrel the whim of the Executive. and Sixpenco" than the first nelther sufficiently skilled correspondence In the Bri- maintained that the Act of glimpse of the Maier home- nor numerous enough to replace tish Press.

Meantime, Sir Harold Duncan, Settlement was so fundamental stead. An almond eyed being recruited frequently return

that I automatically formed, former legal adviser to the maklen, her black hair home after only a few frustrat-

Mr a'Beckett Terrell was part of the law in any new Colonial Omce, has joined the

colony. If it applied to Malaya controversy. twisted in Parisian top. ing months.

appointed a judge in Malaya he had obviously won his case, in 1980. knot, her alabaster body

In a letter to The He was due to The Lord Chief Justice-Lord

Times ho Maier, who has acquired some retire on reaching the age proposition,

Goddard could not accept this writes: "I think it can fairly be bare from the waist up, was medical knowledge, feels It Is

The irremovable said that, owing to the excep shaking yellow blossoms his duty to give what help he limit in 1948,

status of judges of the. High tional importance attached by from a tree. She put down can.j

Court in Britain was not a first successive legal advisers to the her basket and led me up

In 1942 he was on leave when principle of the British "Imperiol

of State for the Secretary Successful cures have given Malaya was over-run by the Constitution, but existed only Coloules to the principle of non- a steep and narrow path to him the reputation of being Jays, and since no other suitable where it had been expressly Interference by the Executive the house. And there, in endowed with magic healing legal post

could be found for. cod. It was, he said, wholly with the Judiciary, in.

In practice the vast studio loggia over. pewers. Peasants travel scores, the Secretary of State for inapplicable to Colonial fulges. Judges In British Colonies, Lu These, it is now ruled, hold discharging their judicinl dutica looking tho .magnificent frequently travels scores of the, Colonies abolished his office office at the pleasure of the and in reaching conclusions of slato-topped volcano and miles to see them,

and persioned him off. Tais Crown,

fact on Issues before them, are delicate green valley ter.

raised the quavilon whether

Just This judgment will come as a Executivo as is the

as Independent of the During the two days I spent Colonial judges hold office "at shock to many in the Colonies Judges raced with rice fields, stood

with him people kept asking the master himself.

this country him to attend their sick. Nover the pleasure of the Crown" or who have taken it for granted (Britain)"," I found myself shaking once did the man who camo to whether they are protected by that judges are virtually Irro-

• "Colonial: Judres - Fully hands with a floppy-haired, sell to years ago to devote him- the Act of Settlement of 1700 movable and that, because of

to painting refuse them. “ Undor the Act, judges, of the this, they can afford to be im *Protected”—See Page 1.

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