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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1954.

"Ours'll be a handy old 'un by the time he's seventy."

FRES

London Express Service

Nathaniel Gubbins

B

“RED ROBIN HOOD“

EING a pantominie "Red Robin Hood" based on the opinion of Mra Thomas White, American adviser to the State Education Board, that Robin Hood was a com- munist.

The scene is a room in Not- Ungham Caille where Senator Jos McCarthy, the wickedl baron, is discovered instructing two hired robbers to kidnap The Babes so that Robin Hood, their protector, shall attempt a rosque, be captured and brought before the Un-American activities com-

inittee.

McCarthy: I understand this

Robin Hood

Is in the forest doing good ite robe the barons and their

chums

And glues the dough to lazy

bumis

To anyone who gets the sack Like Simple Simon, Idle Jack And lives in some deep forest

glade

With Jack's old mother and

a maid,

2nd Robber: And draws her the baron's kitchen, Kabin given Jack's mother some money and health insurance pay.

a mekful of modjelas botijen.)

MacCarthy: No wonder barons

all get het up About this communistie set.

If

we can't find some quick zolution We'll have a pol darned re-

volution.

If you can snatch the Baber

away

Boid robbers you shall have

your pay.

Scene: A glade in Sherwood' Forest where Maid Marion is discovered' powdering her nose and making faces at herself in a

hand mirror,

Dear Robin

Malt Marion:

Hood so brave, but cold Dear Robin Hood with

heart of gold With a heart as pure as pure

can be

Much too pure for a girl like

me.

(Idle Jack and Simple Simon enter.)

Idle Jack to Maid Marion: You

1st Robber: Maid Marion, it said it. maid she be.

2nd Rebber: Ha ha, ha, ha, he he, he he.

a

Maid Marion: Said what?

Idle Jack: That Rebin Hood's great sucker to toke any

131 Robber: She feeds the notice of you. Baits on violen pelt.

Maid Marlon: I never

said

2nd Robber: She's certainly anything of the kind, you big some babe horselt:

1st Robber: And Idle Jack la always miking.

2nd Robber: And Simple Simon's always striking.

1st Robber: While Jack's mother moans all day.

A Hollywood Star is Having Fun Playing The King

GREGORY THE GREAT TRIES A FAROUK LINE

T

Alexandria.

By DAVID · LEWIN

the

London-made

Two

escorted by beautiful women,

Says "King Abdullah" "I like women and flowers to sur round me, and I have a special uniform for every occasion

old

iramp, you.

Simple Simón: Don't insult my friend Jack.

Mald Marion: And you ought to have your brain examined. Are you on strike again?

Simple Simon; Certainly.

Robin Hood: There you aro, all of you. Enough meat for à; wook's feasting. Run along mother and light a fire for the pot. Idle Jack will help for once and this poor fool Simple Simon will gather wood.

(They all exit but Kabin Hood and Mald Marion who puts her hand on Robin's armi, but he tards away.)

Robin Hood: Where are Tho Babes?

Maid Marion: They sleep be hind yonder tree,

(As aho speaks the heads of the two robbers appear above a bush.)

Mala Marion: Dear Robin,

not that ice-cold stora Admire you not my cyes and

hair

The bloom upon my unspoiled

face

My figure and my girlish

grace?

Or does some dark suspicion

last Within your mind about my

past;

In other words, you priggials

swine,

Do you belleve the Baber

are mine?

1st Rebber: Atta, girl, you're doing fine.

Maid Marion:

If so, clear this mystery I found the Babes beneath a

tree.

2nd Robber: Ha ha, ha ha, be he, he he.

to

Maid Marion: When you're (The robbers cross stage out of work?

snatch the Babés. Before, Robin

Simple Simon: I'm always out Hood can intervene Idle Jack. of work.

Maid Marion: Then what you striking for?

Simple Simon: More employment pay.

1

and Simple Simon rush at the robbers and a fist fight ensues. are There is a flash of light and The Fairy Queen, resembling Dr Edith Summerskill, appears.)

LT-

い

Maid Marion: Mayoe you're not as simple as you look.

I

Idle Jack: Idle, ideal Jack am

Simple Simon: He never works and I never try

Idle Jack: They think he's simple

ti-ti.

(Idle Jack's mother entera.

Fairy Queen: Oh wicked men,

·' desist, desist You shall not box with glove

or fist Although you may

the pain

not feel

Each blow that's struck up-

sets the brain,

sin

And those indulging in this

looney

May end up in the

bin.

2nd Robber; Those that ain't barmy are a lot of dirty, com- munists.

Fairy Queen: Foollah robbers. These good people are not com- munists. It's Jee McCarthy who is the communist.

honour."- pronouncing debt like death. IE royal yacht

"Wrong,"

says his Russian- Mahrousso, that once.

Swedish

Simple Simon: I think I'm fly continuity scriptwriters, Rodney speaking brought belonged to King

Both: Hi, diddle, hi diddle, hi- • pyramids to Egypt for "Caesar Ackland, London playwright, girl, it should be deb-t" She Farouk, left the moorings and Cleopatra."

and

and the

1st Robber, pointing to Simon: an sounds the letter "" George St George,

Idio Jack: I lounge about the He's barmy already. below the palace for the first

American-Russian.

are attend final "t" As belts his station, Ratoft

Below decks in the 478ft. place all day time since the abdication, lunches

ing to that Ratoff is also

wilt. In the

Simic Simon: 1 dream my royal palace fer script when not acting and yacht, cameras are set up in the and set sail for the break every day,

had foolish life away but democratically

and on Egyptian royal bedrooms. Farouk water outside Alexandria has reduced the personal paluce delig

twowano, for winter and the Idle Jack: Drawing unemploy harbour.

staff he was given from six to officer adds his thoughts too.

In

starboard side. one. I joined him for a meal the film the king is always other for summer-both on the ment pay

The queen's Both: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, Aboard is a new monarch and used Farouk's gold cullery, including Kay Kendall and bedrooms were on the port side.

hooray. wearing his dressing gown. Gold Improves the taste of cold Italian star Marina Berti, who retire, and on deck the band "King Abdullah" prepares to He is King Abdullah, better fish considerably.

was in "Quo Vadis" known as Gregory the "I feel at ease in the palace,”

plays the national anthem while Great otherwise Gregory says Ratoff. "This king business

he takes the salute, Ratoff, the Hollywood- sulta me-I have always been a Russian actor who is making monarchist. Every day I like It a fictional film here with a king when I am away from the more, and I even behave like B

A 6 a.m. Start film. Yet every day brings re-

and With Gregory the Great in volution

my abdication Miss Kendall has been given

reddish-blond hair for the part, "It is confusing, but it is his royal 3,769-ton yacht is his nearer. That depresses me" court, which consists of Eng- He plays a scene with Kay and she says: "With this colour fabulous. I am 80 exhausted fish, American, Arabic, French, Kendall and Sydney Chaplin. I look rather like Danny Kaye doing so much work that if s Italian, Greek, Russian, and Says Chaplin: "This is quite a playing Charley's Aunt and I million bucks were put in front Swedish film workers.

part, but all I have said so far feel like it too."

of me at the end of the day I While

a band

plays some- is "Yes, your Majesty," and Raloff is having difficulty could not act anything more, where on shore and a bugler "No, your Majesty. I have big with some of his dialogue, "But," he adds, "nothing liko stands for ard, the yacht, ger scenes, but I don't know which he learns every morning this has ever been put on the manned by the Egyptian Navy, what they are, They haven't boglaning at six o'clock. He screen before. There can never to get my sick pay and my pre- children of her widowed sister.. puts to a with only attle been written yet."

says a line, "It is a debt of be another picture quite like it"scription made up at the And shamo on Robin Hood:for" more fuss than attends the de- parture of the Queen Mary, and just as many tugs.

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When Churchill

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By J. W. TAYLOR

:

Have that anthem cut in halt"

orders the king. "My leaning on a stick.) arm

is numb" Rateft completes the scene, says "Cut," and in the swirl of languages around him turns to me, and sighs.

Trembled

posterity

They were:

'Instead, of

speech in the Commons and one of our most orga" Proval and warmed to the young|

initial letters of Farouk's name January 27, 1901, to be pre- bugbe

bugbears, named Lloyd

Idle Jack: And there's poor rheumatic Mum

Simple Simon: Always

1st Robber: Joe McCarthy? 2nd Robber: Strike me pink. Fairy Queen: The cleverest communist of them all. By destroying my justice he creates sympathy for faith in democratic

sick communion, and hopes to be Commissor of The World,

she's

but she's not đumb

Idle Jack: Liko me always on the bum

Both: Ha ha, ha ha, ho ho,

hum hum.

Jack's Mother: Is Robin Hood back from Nottingham?

1st Robber, pointing to Mald Marion: She's been up to no good, anyway.

Fairy Queer; Again' you're ' wrong. Polson tongues have Idle Jack: Not yet, mother.

been slandering this honest girl Jack's Mother: He promised who has been caring for the

|chemist. - And, I hope he brings belleving otherwise,

plenty of loot from the baron's kitchen. I don't think I get enough to eat!

Mald Marion: You' get far too much at your “agt.”

slut

(Robin Hood puts his” arm round Marion.)

Jack's Mother: Be quiet, you Fairy Queen: Now all ta

sweetness, all flight Suspicion ended, wrong put.

right,

don't

(Volets off of Robin Hood * and me)··

Under the greenwood tree we

live

The cruise of the Mahroussa is all of three miles, but at Jenst 14 sailors are present to

PARLIAMENTARY young Winston "trembled in No doubt unaware that he haul up the gangplank, which

of sticks halfway and nearly lands

the Commons with a nervousness would be saving Churchill for note

that threatened the promise of political which has been passed over his future career." This of

and the one of the crow in the drink.

Maid Marion: You eat your- Ratait changes into a white without much notice, despite man destined

a country's leadership, Mr Bowles self sick and then want free to become uniform with enough gold braid its measure of significance greatest politician

the sensed the young man's dilemma medicines to put yourself right. to dazzle anyone not

of our time, and hissod

into vigorously wearing

Jack's Mother: IL. you don't sun glasses.

in these times, was that 63 twice a Prime Minister, author Winston's car words that should

out keep quiet I'IX tell' Robin Hood In the film "Abdullah the years ago young Winston of five Budgets, and always the attain Immortality. to complete Parliamentary tactlelan. "You might say.

about Ur Babor, Great," he plays a king who Churchill, darling of

In the speech, he gave an early making his violent speech with- likes wine and women, and is Conservative Party in the shock to his new

Mald Marlon: if you leaders by cut moving his moderate amend keep your trap shut I'll strangle finally forced to abdicato by a "Khaki Election" of 1900 as drily remarking that if he were ment, the Member for Carnarvon you. Listen, Tore comes Robin revolution in the army.

Member Boer he hoped he would still had better have moved his Hood and his merry men. "ID may

Farouk the newly-elected sound like in Egypt" says Ratoff, "and

be Aghting in the field. He was moderate amendment without for Oldham which had re- following a speaker Winston making his violent speech. use two Egypilan palaces and jected him the previous himself described as "a rising He did as he was bid, and an the Egyptian Army for the re- year,

his malden young made

Welshman, a pro-Boer appreciative House roared ap volution. But really Abullah

KYLEIS. Having thus thrown off Both en the walls of the palace and cise.

men: lice boeumo hi

embarrassment, Prime Minister at a yacht aro changed to "A"

Churchill

-on • to · give went simply by adding a stroke

He made the speech in a crisis in the country's fortunes. Parliament a

of that to

brilliant oratory he was so often the open side of the latter plate of high nervousness-his

remarkable to use with such And since Farouk morely had from a man who had been in the thick of a cavalry charge-at

in Succer

his public life. Omdurman who had been The trouble

Whatever tacties Lloyd George was that Lloyd captured by the Beers and George was, to have moved on had in ming, the effects of them escaped them and went on to amendment In the yacht is Kay Kendall, plunge into further adventures on South Africa and the Beer Churchillan attack; so much so during the debate were completely nullified by the the British star who plays a model in the film, and the only as Intrepid war correspondent War, and Churchill -*- had that Hi H. Asquith “was moved girl who says. "No" to the king and galant soldier; from a tower- memorised

particularly to 'remaric A

that it "ikis the" Arat ing, lighting gure on "Whom eloquent speech to counter the 'speech in a Barilamentary career. Golden Touch the Bocts,ecking his presence Welsh attack. But Lloyd George of the highest distinction

dead or alive (reward £25) did not, choose to move the {Thus He survived an Initiat after ca particularly audacious antendment, much to the 'dirmay deal to serve Parlament and the Also present la Charito escape Indicted the indignilly of of Winston and very nearly to nation for 83 years do dato Chaplin's on Sydney in an dealbhim out of his politica u Parlementify prien boan head shakkur and krulden centena during, which time there, have Egyptian Army uniform, with Bitz all, indiferent bulle, walks t thes Insignia only slightly with a comwant shop; pals, up- fedgling, or yes, the new wenste hints, that he would be resimler changed. Although he is suti, DIE

flabrownish””; hair, for Oldham, men pearance pared to be an officer in the small and hardly notionable begi Bandarlar: "Army is an Egyptian ramustaches) CRPLIES: MÓwa: hím: the correct

and cannot

a large chair to sit on for occasions, a special throne being built for Abdullah.

stata

•

supremo

Veteran's. Tip

tasha

o

We take from the rich, to

poor we pive Though poor ourselves.

we're

merry and free You don't pay rent for a

greenwood free.

For in my Welfare State we

live Where those who, have too

shail give, they won't, to help the

We'll take it from them bu

communism - cannot

thrive.. Because we

alive

keep the poor

And those who are too tired These idie men shall share

the spoil

While those who stuff until

they're ill

Shall have prescri lona and

4 pill

First Robber: Can wo join

(Robin Hood and 'men-enter) Our Gay Bre "long" and our your lo1?,,,

hearts are

Our dreams are 'sweet' in the

woodland night

In no `man's merry, and

free

And you don't pay rent, for

a greenwood ven

The rich man frets and the

rich man siche

His burden KOʻCOTTLE (URI) he

We carry no. merry; and

for

Fairy Queen: Certainly. You shall be my tax collectors

First Bobber. It's just the job. It's made, for me.

Second Robbor: Ha ha, ha bu he he he he

Faby" Cheong And so, thür In time to givé a bride away.

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