1953-11-27 — Page 7

THE "FLYING FISH"

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1953.

FILM SHOP

By CLEMENT JONES

Norton

The "Flying Fish", the streamlined Norton motorcycls which recently broke the world hour record at 135 miles an hour on the Montlhery track, Paris, pictured at Earl's Court, London, where it was exhibited in the Cycle and Motorcycle Show. -Reuterphoto,

WHAT'S GONE

GONE WRONG AT NEWCASTLE?

By W. CAPEL KIRBY

What's wrong with Newcastle United? Plenty, it seems. “No leam spirit, no team," said the taxi-driver. "International players and the boss daggers drawn," said the railway porter. "Jealousy on the ground staff," said the barber who cut my hair.

"Staleness due to too much of the wrong kind of training, and to cheese- paring," said the supporters with whom I mingled on the terraces,

People whin take

In

lo

Women Today Are As Commercial As Cash Registers

Says HUMPHREY BOGART

"The trouble with women her over half the globe in their, lasted at least two minutes, and today," snarled Humphrey latest epic, "Yankee Pasha," the the audience would have had a Bogart, "is that they're asculting smack is going to make chance to study the expressions the audience know that the in the eyes of Jeff and Rhonda. commercial 21x cash rchase was worth the trouble. "But a lot of things have come gisters.

And the man

to this is along to change all that." Alm's

Joseph "Contrary to popular opinion.

the

dience

wrong

with

"They measure a success- ful marriage with a financial Pevney, who contends there's censorship is only a miner factor yardstick," Bogie continued nothing

movie in the change. The real change business that a Rood, old-bogins in the tempo around us. on a Columbia sound stage fashioned clinch won't cure. Everything moves faki, and where Ho la enacting the

"Toke

look at the record," there is time only for a cursory role of Captain Queeg in sald Pevney. "How many ple-

rentment

of any relationship. "The Caine Mutiny."

tures have captured a large au- including true love. Screen- "My wife is from the old the emotions?"

without

really stirring willers have caught the stream- lined tempo, and screen romance school. Sho still thinks

In Alaska, a polite nose rub has gelten to be a pretty casual after years of marriage that might do the trick, he pointed thing. happiness can buy money; clinch"And the screen lovers exceptions, of course, but by and out, but elsewhere it lakes N "There are occasional brilliant But from what i see around have to look like they mean it large this is the trend." me today women ¿Lre too commercial. What's happen- ed to the simple little girl who used to say two can live as cheaply as one and mean it?"

Bogart saldi

girl today

I took Pevney six attempts In Pevney's opinion this is all to get the tender scene he ex-wrong. "The pocted from Rhonda and Jet.

cowboy who pats the Between takes" he expanded girl's mune and kisses the horse his theory:

may be a great gimmick to force ontmeal on junior,” he said, "but there's an even bigger audience too old for oatmeal but just

TEMPO CHANGED "Twenty-five years ago we'd have shot the scene, then moved mouths that philosophy while in for a close-up, that would fill[right for the facts of life." she's engaged to the unsuspect- the screen. The klas would have

ng male, but then promptly

priceeds

so, prove it's impossible after the man's hanked

NOT A BAKERY

"She starts telling him about Tom, Dick and Harry, all of whom are making money hand over st as their wips reap the harvest with all the "good" things In life," he continued. "After while the poor guy begins lo feel like a miserable fallure. For the first time he gets a yeare of claustrophobin in his two- bedroom house. Suddenly, even the one bathroom becomes an immediate problem.

-{London Express Service)

KEN SMITH Show Talking

1954 WILL

BE A

RE-MAKE YEAR

It looks na though 1954 is going public demands o nim a week. So into the gap march the pletures of yesteryear.-

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And

"His wife has inferred that a going to be R-Year "R" two-bathroom deal is mark of meaning re-makes and re-

There is Top Hat, the famous success. From A happy-go-issues.

Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers the sides in prisons fotredticed for the sule decision only after receiving a lucky type husband begins Reason: The new wide- muzeal of the middle thirties,

that he these matters, and that means purpose of Haiting the amount guarantee

played In to change into a worrier, lic

first-class doing limited number

called which process of gives his wife the cheque and nearly everyone in Newenstle, fof time Brennan can devoje to only

buriness across America. have all got one idea or another [his business netivities.

matches.

lets her assume the Bnancial CinemaScope.

There are Forever Amber What ulter rot." Sald Mr

CALL ME STAN'

duties. And men, once you why the team which not so long

CinemaScope is turning and A

Sun

also Plate in the ard went back to Tyneside

On the question of alleged start Seymour. "Having realised

turning the pay cheque the industry upside down drawing crowds again, iriumph after winning the. F.A. lifelong ambition of rising from lack of team spirit due

over to your wife, that's the end Cinemas are being "retool- Others to come include Follow Newcastle of the whole Eali game. You're the Cup twice in succession the rank of player to thairman ehceseparing,

10W

The Fleet, The Treasure of has one of the most deplorable do you honestly think for ong chairman was most emphatic. a dead plgeon. You lose youred" to accommodate the home records

The

We have always treated our soul and your money." First morient I would let personal

huge screen, and Hollywood, Sierra Madre and Key Largo,

All these are in, or booked Division.

Issues jeopardise the club's pro- players well at St James's Park, From then on, Bogle added playing safe while this cost- for, American

cinemas. What is it all about? That's speets of Lengue or Cup honours We were the first to Introduce the man suspects he's marriedly job is in hand, is pinning that means, eventually, British what I have spent the past In my term of offer?"

subsistence, money when the 10 a collection agency. Instead week trying to solve.

"What about Alf McMichael?" lads were away from home, and

of love talk. It's now the price its multi-million dollars on cinemas, too. First,

the I asked. "Is it true he is being we dropped supplying their of steaks and the rundown con- old favourites. Breannn, big Scottish centre half,

han victimised because the club was mid-day meals only. when the

dition of last year's car, or a First, the re-maker. Anored out of the panic which hit been sorted out as a victim of not keen to release him for the food situation ensed and most honoy of a fur coat that's a steal them are The Covered Wagon Hollywood when TV dre slanderous tongue-wagging. It Irish tour of Canada?"

of the players preferred

(made as a silot in 1923); it Bald his position has

"Not at bren

replied! Mr cooking.

Ben Hur (Ramon Novarro's Seymeur. "When McMichael

"Regarding made Insecure because he open="

leam spici

triumph in 1920): fielen of ed a sports outting business and Tommy Casey were invited When I look over the chairman

Troy (1927); The Lodger (now in opposition

director to be members of the Irish shp 1 called everybody toaathir

called The Man in The Attic, marking time, turning back to in and said: Although I am now

and with Jack Palance in the the industry is geared manager Stan Seymour, now touring party we felt that,

the memories of the past, until up to tiring

South chairman, keep calling me Stan. club chairman,

of etur

role created by Laird, Cregar). the new system, UTTER ROT

African trip the previous close You don't have to knock twice Linked with this

But re-makes on this glgan. ridiculous senson, It would

the to see me. be SIX

Let's all hope the time won't tie scalo take time, and the if and unfounded allegation is the interest of MeMichael

be wasted. voracious maw of the cinema- assertion that players staleness refuse permission for hin

und is duc to

rescinde afternoon training travel.

Frank

מ!

view

wr

the

Should The Olympic Games Be Thrown Open To Professionals?

home

"The first player to knock on

at some sale.

"At this point," he said, "the wedding belis sound like cash register chimes.

"It's all right for a husband to be a breadwinner, but too many women expect him to be à bakery."

RETURNS THE AFFECTION to the door after that informol

Nobody

his seems to like chat was Alf McMichael, Did

ucting but the public, and John he ask for his transfer? Not

_the_nation's_top_box-. He wanted another house, pre- Wayne,

office star, returns the affection. ferably in the West End, where

While he's known as a deler- The and his wife had made

1 mined,

untractable man among lo: of friends"

with the players, 1 business and professional us- Chailing And their only real grievance is soclates, he's a pushover for his

back being hauled

for more fans, and anybody with a pencil can get his autograph and any- training after lunch.

body with a camera can snap his picture.

MR BRUNDage says "NO!"

Lausanne, Nov. 26. Mr Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee, in a 700-word document issued today dealing with 10C problems, strongly opposes throwing open the Olympic Games to professionals.

05

EASY ON EATS Leaving the ground just after ncon, one of the players said: "This business of coming back again is robbing us of a good mid-day meal. We work up a healthy appetite in the morn ing, but daren't let ourselves go sprinting in the afternoon."

al lunch because

there's more

Wayne proved his devotion to the public that has supported on his lecation journey to Northern California

him so loyally

where he starred in "Island in the Sky" for Warner Bros.

As co-producer and star of tho picture, he was busy com- mander-in-chief who wouldn'!

Match Play

Semi-Finals

At Fanling

The

has revolution

been

the

and

the first interest in 3-D away.

For cinemagoers 1

fell

means

GREATEST EVERT

who has Frank Sinatra, the critics raving over his performance as Private Maggio, the funny, sour, violent Itallat- American soldier in From Here To

Eternity travelled probably

greatest distance ever for a

the greates

screen test.

Но was

in Afrien with wife Ava

Gardner (who was filming

when Mogambo)

Columbia The semi-finals of the Royal cabled Him to report for the Hongkong Golf Club Match Play screen test. Championship

When it was completed he will be played over the Old Course at Fanling flew back to join her total of on Sunday morning. Starting 27,000 miles. times have been arranged as

9.20.m.

The

Chaste And

do with

What they will Axelrod's forthcoming P{{{{{{~~ The Heartwarming Chronicle of a Happy Divorce-ls anyone's

TITLE TROUBLES · follows

When George Axelrod chose 1.10 e.m. It. 'Small F.D. Hunter. the lule The Seven-Year Itch

D. Mackie v K. S. for his

of marital Kinghorn.

comedy brook any nonsense or soldiering

Mixed Shanghal Four- fidelity, he created a problem Whether the signing of Ivor umong the cast and crew on the somes against Bogey post-entry for the French,

10 have Broadls and Alan Monkhouse sot, but when Truckee school competition will be played over They always seem "A number of articles," he says, "have appeared

is the answer to Newcastle's children, housewives,

Course on Sunday trouble translating the titles of read the New recently claiming that amateurism in sport no longer lump is highly problematical workers, or denizens of the local afternoon starting from 1 p.m.. West End and Broadway hits

can be masterly or saloon dropped by to watch the handicap allowance being but this one really gave them exists; that amateur organisations should stop wasting Broudis

he is them make the

of one-half of combined, a headache. movie, Wayne 7/8 their time trying to enforce the amateur rules and that mediocre. In the mood

and strokes to be taken as shown It opened in Paris as Demeure one of the neatest and nippiest was the genial host. the Olympic Games should be thrown open to all."

All con- Chaste Et Pure Inside forwards in

on the men's cards, all four

THE PEOPLE OUT FRONT testants are requested to sign Pure Lodgings, Such stories, Mr Brundage, Mr Brundage added that he countries.

There is also a big query Nothing was too good for the the register before teeing off. states, "show in Ignorance of had been quoted recently

The following are the results Their hands were a stand against mark against Mankhouse, who visitors.. the philosophy of sport and the having taken Olymple movement,

sport pools money for amateur has only just hit the headlines crunched in his strong grip, their of matches played in the second

with this was "com- after five years

u Third backs were whacked, and he round of the Victory Cup: *No

very well be sport but that one can

Division club.

happlly posed with his arms & Swire 5/4. satisfied with existing condi- plete fabrication."

Aflar travelling to London

the giggling around "I have never at any time ex- tions but, on the other hand,

and the

friendly men. when one considers that the en-pressed anything but ecarmen- and Manchester for Newcastle's

new forwards,

This s

not

4 pose with the tire structure of organised inter-dation for the fine werk that is wo

star. He honestly likes people national amateur sport, with its being done in a large number of Taylor, club vice-chairman, sald

in general and movie fans in with funds me: "If you've found any- vast ramifications, has been crea-European countries

drastically thing

wrong with particular. He also appreciates ted from nothing in less than derived from sport pools.

been Newcastle you know a great "Athletic grounds have

the obligations of a celebrity to 60 years, and entirely by volun-

athletes

we do on the being deal more than teers, one can only marvel at provided,

concred

By signing Monkhouse the folks who have helped make and

and board,

him that celebrity. trained the accomplishments.

and other Farm 2/1. cre being

Lowe Bingham & Matthews beat answer about any reluctance to hazards were never permitted to tengkong Aircraft Engineering Co Mr Bramlage also world where sometimes every

dealt with spend money on securing

halt or even slow production on on 29th greas "Island in the Sky, the lowllest thing appears to be measured in the subject of "tale amateurs," biosd, and will spend more

ncestry. Our duty

students

Mr

So

"We live in a materialistic principles of amateught the and Broadls we have given the while storms

new

women

is to the visitor who wanted to meet bohn:

guess.

For East Motors lost to Butterfeld Peat. Marwick & Mitchell & Co.

CALAMITY JANE tort to R.A.F. Little Sai Wan 0/4.

Jane Wyman is working in Lines Just to Pacine Far East

her third role as a handicapped Cable & Wireless 2/1.

China Trade Investment lost to person, Medical Department 1/3.

In Johnny Belinda sho turned Union Insurance Society beat Dod-in an Oscar performance as a well & Co. 0/4.

In Bank Line beat Mesara Deacons deaf mute.

The Glass Menagerie she had a club foot. Afare Department beat' Dairy

Obxcam Now, In Magnificent

whito sion, her "props" are a stick and a pair ol dark glasses

dollars. It is all the more saying this question had bem customers-he best customer Wayne could well hold up the Wappinshaw At

consideration

by

amazing that such an idealistic under enterprise as the Olymple move- IOC for at least 20 years. ment has grown and prospered "Rumours have enched

in such an atmosphere.”

of course

on

the

in the world--and we are going to fail them."

not

Filipino Club Tomorrow

will

for her role as a blind girl..

SHORT TAKES Marlon Brando's next nim be tho Broadway and London stage þit, Mr Röberis,

Pzul Muni returns to Broad- way after four years as the Engileh bank clerk in R. C. Sheriff's Home At Seven, the role created over here by Sir

paid activo directors who inke a real when he sees a bunch of out game will be held at the Filipino Ralph Richardison two

interest in the club. In

the said, "That there are The Olymple Games, he statai, amateurs, who are as free from dollar signs as not amateurs at all, possible and "we intend to keep sides of the Iron Curtain. them that way."

Athletes Who are "It bad been stated that pro-d:ectly or indirectly for their -posals to reduce and simplify the performances are not playing;

Olymple programme were direc-hey are working."-Reuter, ted at "Iron Curtain" countries, but this WD8 Erroneous since many of these proposals were in existence before there ·was an "Iron Curtain."

FROM ALL OVER Proposals for simplifying the prostammo had come from all and they were over, the world still being studied.

fact,

ago.

A Wappinshaw lawn bowls

Club tomorrow at 2.30, p.m. Silver spoons will be presented by the President, Dr 'V. N. Atienza, to the rink winning by Another Shipment of the highest, aggregate, score.

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company moving and get tho both Association.

finished on schedule, "There are only about three pleture

always sinkes his head sadly we would like a Board of Trade siders bearing down on Wayne.

"He'll stop and pump every Inquiry into the running of the

body's hand," the assistant mut- club.

standard of football fered, "and hold up the com- being rerved up these days is pany for 10. minutes.

lot of our makes a of friends that way. standing. In fact, my Associa-And sometimes. 1 Agure they're

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Collon Bakes people out front, you know," IN CF M. Xavier, L. A. Peres, C.AB. in a rugby match against ? R.TH.

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