THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1954.
THE WAY TO GET FUN OUT OF BEING YOU
Film star KENNETH MORE gets fun out of being himself. His secret, revealed in today's instalment, adds up to -
That Champagne Feeling
66HAMPAGNE feeling, natural stuff. But when you "Co bay 7" said Ken- a an unknown and you do neth More. "Me? I've never that the producer will shout at
*Stop trying to create at thought about it really. But you.
you are being quite natural."
If it comes through on stage tention,' he'll say, even though or in films or private life then it is because I try to
Because of the "natural" nie
those coloured waistcoats things for film parts.
and
"I'm not a minn for dressing up. 1 takes a lot to get me into a dinner jacket."
It's Fatal
THAT all its into the pattern of getting that champagne feeling. "Do what you feel like
be keen: I try to be natural producers press to have more of not what is expected of you," and hope i have a sense of More in pletures. He is already s 19 not a question of trying
fun.
used for
booked
from 110W until spring next year.
"Having a sense of fun is the Best Important champagne freting. Very of ferent fran having a -tise t humour: that can be devejoped, Bud
may Spare time? Any of that will be whited away with his wife five-week-old daughter
Jals hous A serie of Fun hues to be with Satah Elizabeth at
near Henley-on-Thames, you
Kenneth More is a small. round-faced, bubliking 35-your-
mort than
When he is working he has a fat, overlooking Hyde Park, in vid, who after
11 101
At ether place he is yours trying has the champagne canal about clothes, taste of sCERS,
Ine My career engineering to being
com. to
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"It
More.
to be the life and sput at the party. That's fatal, old boy. The danger of having a repain- (on for good spirits is that some people expect you to bubble al the time.
1 is like champagne. Finc for a party, old boy. But the rest of the time I'd rather have a whisky und zoda."
Champagne
ideal for the rejoicing moment. It is not a continuous contribution to that aparkiing feeling.
TOMORROW:
Tuns
from
"Despair of my wife, out boy," he says happily. "I leave all
The
for Cus Chevalier, the Wind- mill
£$-a-week actor In
Anally repertory and fame and £10.000 a year lu star siteriu
like
"Cienevieve" and, "Ductor in the House
"Let's face it." he salt. Wisn't always like this. to
"1
1 ed
** weler Not alert parts or anything like that.
"In work 1 have found the thing to do s Slot to worry. Something just as gond or even better than the thing you mised is bound to turn up
WorryK
that Beting business, old boy, would put you under the soil.
"M
No-Nonsense Star
PRAGUE
A
MONG a collection his post. For the regime of old diaries and needs doctors although it address books that puts them under constraint. get mustier every And those who endure the year, there is one that I regime need doctors too, for shall always retain my the mind as well address book from Prague. body. Karel's worries
the kept no diary in Czecho ment
#314 sympathetic Just after slovakia they amal things
were apt words
Small Things
were over
the war sank my gratuity into to be too widely read - but tonic. new clothes, When I “'k ។ with so friendly a people I travelling to London someone pinched the bag with my wad-bad rube.
1
"Then the next day the police picked up the thief and a bog
10 bave
of clothes. But just the sumie | my concern. worried for there dạjn,
{12}
address
were
£5 the
encourage-
A necessary
Slies
"You're late, darling--and you've still got about 075 of a pennyworth on your forehead."
Jan Bartak's
ADDRESS BOOK
Jan Bartak, a Czech who sought refuge in the West, is an educationist and journalist. His knowledge of conditions in the satellites enables him to analyse new developments with understanding.
valuables of those who hack You explained your escaped. methods of detaching those who wanted to be detached from the closely watched group at hotel. Others have done you did, and therefore I can speak of it. Your passport has long since expired.
Where
the 25
After the secret interrogation
which
me even When I got home I was book. I cherish it because of
he told
as worrieal as though
I feel that that part of my though they apologised and sald was bli a mistake, he has heard my death sentence
life is not yet over; the surely been watched, What friends and acquaintances his happened to you Karel? (1
to be still often ask myself) I wonder mentioned seem
you still dare to tell the authorities that workers are 111 when they are 111. I wonder if the factory pry-grups that come and to see them in bed dispute your demands are
more than those of health.
thing is to mun Jubour force n
Everyone you will not have altered too It. who con stagger to work, even much by the time We meet the old-age pensioner, has to do again.
TO
Was there, I asked, anything
Consequently.
often
10 # The Just NOT turn the pages of this book, worrying? More lit à cigarette and remember. I ask myself "I suppose 11 as knowing your professiont hats Peggy Ash-questions, too.
ereft, with whom I appeared in
play, used to say to me. Why
don't you go to Stratford and
play all these won ferful Shake- sprare parts But 1 couldn't, old boy. Pr mot a doublet and hase actor. I'm + roodern puris
diagnosis,
for
have your optimism and indiscretions led you? You were tolerant, easy-going, good- Russia's tempered, courageous and com- Are you these things Insistent petent.
and the stil? Perhaps noi so tolerant kerp the and good-tempered, but I hope
for
to do
to
On
SU. I can scarcely believe that You never do what you often
the Nazis, word a Let me mention Karl. for did under
certificate generously. took instance, who
such trouble to learn English You weren't very discreet,
H
Have you ever regretted your stand
for democracy, Milada? Have you still the same portraits on the walls? Are you a good Russian teacher?
Do your children still retain thoughts of their own, or have they become Farly puppets?
I
who
so, what are their current views like and attitudes,
CX-
There is "Novak". for ample, He is a waiter, "is", did
of say cannot,
course, vouch for that. For all I know he may be breaking stones, or howing the coal of which the Soviet empire needs such huge quantities for industry.
Party
vainly
members trying to follow the "line". Docs he still serve, I wonder, and in what sense? Have they taken uway his smile?
Novicky's name follows Novak's in
book, my address Evasive and sardonte as he was, I could not admire him whole- armaments heartedly. bul F
with him.
the Is
Yet, however much economy of his native land
led to that of Russia, I am sure that Novak will jend his ass)s- tance for not a moment longer than he can help. In fact, if he is still serving caviare the cursos ha breathes
over would, If audible, draw Instant and savage reprisal from Party ellent,
son,
any
un-
and
been
to
are
sympathised
EXCLISTS
But
miserably under-pald, and
He WOR a civil servant, yot he persisted in making for the regime. Conditions had very bad in some parts of the world where the Coni- munists had seized power, ne another Wis Vaclav
used to argue. Very true. the stood above
Red storm Several ilmes A weck
I can one
evil bo righted with Unlike Karel, he was discreet, Junched at Novak's restaurant,
another? Must people eat only but oven more of an optimist. Between the courses he told me
toil? Must they enter the **Surely it can't last much of his imprisoned
magle gateway of literature only longer," he would repeat wearily. luckily caught trying to escape. 10 read Marxist propagande?
Weeks and months were
his At regular intervals Novak
Must they remain isolated in time-units. I wonder whether visited his son in prison
their Communist paradise from the years of silence and tribula- 't often allowed to receive him parcels, which he
the rest of the world? These tion have worn him down.
questions Mr Novicky All the rest of the month Novak declined to answer. They followed you, Vaclav, worked away in
his ancient, remember. Or take Milada, She was, and
Twice you were baggy sult, smiling at customer's He was, and no doubt is,
A by
plain clothes no longer permitted to offer well-intentioned. For econo- risks am sure still is, a good parent stopped You took
detective who tracked you to a tips, and trying not to get too mical reasons alone he and his because you were confident that always interested in and often
suitable lonely place from a thin.
wus Nearly everything foot English would serve him Kremlin misrule would soon be alarmed by the activities of her suit
wife had to hold
on to their an entrance how anywhere.
few jobs. Novicky did not join the Where
tuid people ix he over. You
about two young children. Passionately foreign reading room. Why did rationed then, although a
often did things fetched democratic you go there?
How about
it activities.
Your faithful
astronomical Party; he was enrolled in tradition, she
Pointless to le trips abroad with delegations, Czechoslovak
prices on the free market. the producer will let me. That's now? In spite of his inten- your
you go there?
with the rest of his department;
old More,'
the ‘good, tion, I suspect he is still at taking
small allowed the portraits of Benes when you were unaware of the
and, once in, he drowned and Masarykt to remain on her extent of his knowledge,
Ада
voice of reason with the con- walls when others, not less matter of fact, you went there
soling argument that, after all, patriotic but less bold. were to read) Punch, an English
the Party was not such a bad removing the tell-tale evidence. humorous weekly the
Com
thing. Yet he was trapped munists could scarcely be ex-
and he knew it. You, Milada, taught your
pected to understand, This you children to respect the ideas of insisted
at police head on Justice and freedom Benes and Masaryk stood for. How long is quarters, where the charge that it since the school told you that you had been criminally con
spiring with "Fascist beasts," you were unfit to have charge absurdly improbable though it of your children, because you were teaching them to be anti- War, was taken for granted,
"Success makes it easier thoroughly. He wanted to Karel, and they might have put
do what you want
stope, you know. If I want to escape and he knew
shut the door with
when I make
or pull up my rocks
2012
my
on stage
say,
ery aspect
Gold
nów
that
mway.
with
you the
to
the
social. "Who is the greatest man
Now there is one market, and not even rations
bad to be cheaply. Novak's customers
Iew since must now be
reform currency
not changed the valuc money but look it away. of
THE ROYAL
ACADEMY
PENURY TO SUCCESS
By J. W. Taylor
ON
NCE again Burlington House in Piccadilly, graveyard of so many works of art and pinnacle of suc- cess for the creators of others, stages one of the outstanding events of the London season the Sum- mer Exhibition of the Royal Academy, in which £50,000 worth of exhibits may be expected to bring to the artists concerned something like £15,000 in sales.
To get "hung" here is to the artist what Q Wembley Cup Final medal is to the footballer or an Oscar award to a film star, although there is often better consolation for the rejected artist, for fume aften comes to the painter of a work spurned by
Hanging
Committee which subsequently catches the public fancy.
the
Burlington House and the Academy are as rich in history two ckd masters. This Academy hom is on an historie site. The 1st Earl of Burling- ton built 11 for himself in the reign of Charles II, and it be- came famous for its fashionable amblies and parties, where to be seen one was considered to have entered society.
Spiv Haunt
The house was then a red brick mansion sheltered from the gaze of the common people by a long wall from Piccadilly,
more
then but little
than country lane infested by thieves and carliest known
"spiv.
footpads and probably the haunts of the
There was nothing commer- cial about the Royal Academy when it when
was first established. Exhibits wero meant to be mere examples of what painters could achieve and the sale of picture Wes never attempted, this in contrast to the moderni emphasis on sales, which have rarely totalled less than £10,000 In more recent years.
Oniy
130 pictures from 50 artisis were hung at the first exhibition in those early days, but by the year 1792, when Sir Joshua Reynolds, it dies pre-
sident, died there were 780
pictures and the Academy r ceipts rose from a mero £700 to £2,000. Thus did it become zelf-supporting after a period of trial and error, during which it became
to necessary
accept
Royal guarantee for an over- draft, Indeed in 1799 the Royal Academy was able to make the extraordinary grant £500 towards the expenses
of
of the war with France atid the Ireland quelling of trouble in and in India,
Founded 1768
in
To give it its full title, "Tha
of Royal Academy Arts London" was founded in 1768 for the purpose of "cultivating
of the arts and charitably
Improving shall suppose I
that the however,
Novicky must painting, sculpture, and architec- ture," but the idea behind the many in danger only have helped
Academy originally cropped up their from the
of small minority Communists or un-
in 1017 in a scheme laid before convinced
James I which was baulked by scrupulous carcerists. He would
the death of the Sovereign. I remember that Novak's fat not dare to speak of this help,
It was revived when Charles I established a chool for in- struction In
ants, sciences thd ants, and "Dihor complishments. T under what
iron the
Tule ot Cromwell, who soon put a sloy, ajboit
to what the as "this toni- "But the supporters of
feet took him on marches, too. of
course, but as a man funda- demonstrations of mentally kind and considerate, enthusiasm and he would recoil from the virus of hatred that the Communiste
A pink-checked puppy with antar
friends
your brain living abroad
The names of
were
out of this
01
god on the highest hill In Prague wanted. Finally, you were told Krounds, with his feet
If the people will not bow down? That was the line master took.
standing,
of modern times?" an unfor- tunate assistant teacher bad been obliged to ask; and one of your children, Milada, replied, loyalty, the Party ugilators and innocently Eut disastrously manners pried into your beliefs ces called these; but every unremittingly seek to inject. If "Masaryk" instead of "Stalin".
I to "clock in" first I had stayed on in Prague, * and your business, He then his place of
one had News of the heresy leaked out
employment, to should certainly have done no vin the one Party-captured pupil shouted warnings and Jargon at give proof of his reliablity. better myself, In the form. What is the use of you until
was Normally Novak would have erecting a monster statue of the fuded.
your or got
medical and groggy cart. Because of his the head- not to speak of this interroga- precariou
political tion, for it "had not taken however he decided to co
I remember many such place."
through. As I reflect, I sympa- "radishes", red outside and This incident occurred some
thise with him in his invidious white within, without As a teacher, you were the three years ago, and I wonder
whom As an position, for I was once
both life would have been harder, what headway the Party has Party's special concern.
and bullod into They saved made
were charmed against your children, enthusiastic teacher you
long Communist, well knowing his Milada, or you and they against often in a dilemma. Thrusting marching myself. It is n
way early in the morning to views
(ther
mostly), yourself forward meant being the assembly-point, with
becoming part of
no from destruction. To the true of trems to carry you, and a long red comrades they could leafy the
That wait until the cheer-leaders, the that So-and so was "all right" textbook you were
marshals, and then the Party Dealing with So-and-so in helping with -led you a rare chieta on the rostrum are their offices, they could usually dance, I remember. Did it ever grady. But longest and Shortly after the incident, appear, and if it did, how much trying of all to the trudge home and an intelligent
pretend not to know his views, man would officials from the Flats Omice of your non-Party treatment was after the parade is over-for take what they had to give and
there are still no trams. called unexpectedly to measure allowed to survive?
say nothing to embarrass them. the rooms occupied by Milado She was then
Tho and her family.
We arranged to renow
tips and warnings that came from their desks helped given a wock to And other friendship and when that time accommodation.
many to go on living, and many to escape.
the Party.
on
Det machine,
our
A day or two arrives there will be much to later her husband was arrested, tell,
at five o'clock in the morning. For some time she had no idea where he was.
Good luck, Vaclav. May the
Then after a long night soon be over,
despairing and humiliating walt
at police headquarters she was
given the address of a labour camp at the Russian-owned
uranium minos, As a "reaction- As I turn the pages of the ary" Milada's husband had been address, book I kept in Priguo
I
most
Д many
own,
non-
Puritans garde
foolery."
AC-
some-
the schome anally won through and the first pubite art exhibi- tion held in Britain took placo. eight years before the Royal now know it Academy as we
founded The following year two ex- hibitions staged by rival artista looked like developing into a riot until the authorities stopped in and took appropriate action.
Rivalries
Art circles wire rink by equabbles and bitter rivalries, until the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, and other leading artists decided to estab- Uah a new Aosdemy, the chief, object of which was to bo educational. The petition, to George III on the subject mat generous response and
ge; His Majesty not only ;
can also remember On
There unthanked, and often occasion when Novak and his unknown, warriors, of the col
to the idea, but offer. friends managed with some war may well have included
Novicky. The main hope for overdraft acering
ing to stand guarantor for any difficulty to leave a banner in
in the first doorway before the
those millions who remain sub-tow march
years
Ht honoured his Veople,
It carried the slogan: ject to the Party, however, lier pledge by paying out 25,000
outside the free vigilant and,
world. I over a parica of 12 fortunately the Party puppets
am reminded of this by the
"sentenced" without trial or the names acquire personality in the vicinity were not. On names in my address book and the new Institution
there was in These are.
muddling
thrived,
The scheme was charge to a year's forced labour. and I picture their owners as another occasion there was som
dre scored through.
first under Sir Joshua Reynolds, they were when I know them
guileless
the fortunate em apparently Rumdan being a compulsory only three years ago. They of slogans Novak and bli com- who escaped, and for the most his successor, Benjaming
the initial president, and then language in all shople, there was have been engulfed by the tide panions were required to cftant, part, I do not every know where who always directed that t a shortago of Rumian teachers, of fanaticisms and class hatron kalorin. As for Novaliche than 1, whii, forget, what,kaid. 'owne on Deestonsal:.ocoRE008.
In such
such deviate "rebels were are but they no more portare no Milada Improved her knowledge called Communion, and of the language, and was, thus wonder what has become of always stood on his fest, how, whom they have left, beniad; fed multom able to earn bread for herself men whether they are all a baths They cannot speak out more numerous me and her children.
alive" and "at liberty, Dandy (IP, might be, and not on his hand, speak for them..
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