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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954.

The Stars Like Roughing With Les Armour

Youghal, (Elre). he im stars

who

T have come here to

ncl

Pelem

£1,000,000

It In Comfort

The "Moby Dick” town had never seen such money John Huston and company arrived.

hour. in

exterior for the

production

**Moby Dick" believe

roughing hotela,

it

itt

of

Filming rate

By

In

five-star

like New Bedford of the

of boats century. Four

The story

of the Blu Is one of hardship. But netors Gregory Peck, Richard Bonehart and Leo Comp were not putting up with f living in this The Ligours

all, run-down senside town

The pan, Te pa priduction per

nel and guests are more com- the for lily lodged in Cork,

oured bist town, which IA an Laur's journey from the loca

Every day a fleet of fust are take us 60 miles (cost: 1. 1. mile) to and from Youghal,

Tacked

He insists

apparently

Ne

Cork.

Sponding rate

behind schedule

MALCOLM

MATHESON

big-game other Hunton

last roulette or that which

huntingt.

locations

period are in the anchorage. have been known to provide. Nuthing like this has happened Time has had to be killed more

Pascal tonk

prosaleally than that. since Gabriel pyramid to Egypt.

The townsfolk heye Bever seen so much money. The cost of this fantastic location is about Tr hour. One hundred £500 and Afty of the local people ar carning 328. Or, a day as extras. The pubile-houses--one renamed The Moby Dick-are open from m. unul midnight, and doing a roaring trade.

Producer-director Huston

the

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help of a production super- production manager

visor.

But practient Jokes-putting freshly caught fish in producer Huston's bed and empty bottles in Leo Genn's-have been keep- ing everyone but the recipients highly amused.

Chefs fly out

Fliming is, of course, behind schedule. So in Fishguard, South Wales, scene of the next locu-

34-nm hotel with

th staff

of 30 is landing empty, aralatant director, a personal awaiting the arrival of the film sistant, a

secretary, al This hotel was taken over a personal

whaling. ndylser adviser on sea shanties, naval captain.

111

LIPS

to

of the neuchsitic

of life. Producer-director JJohn

Huston, reputed to

than 1,000 plumbers to

carn more the geet week. Install ¡E private bath and shower for tin at his hotel

That's something he always sists of having, wherever he 14 1*24

exulained his production

Fager

are

The people of Youghal still enthralled by the "Moby Dick" invasion,

Atl

and

But while Youghal la thrilled with the stars, the stars soon be come very bored with Youghal

No roulette

Gregory Peck

bas led 1 tk

16 London to escape from the

Like

The others Dry over-cager fasia.

bravely

with a coping autograph hunters, the amateur It has turnet photographers, the Irish whisky the town late temporarily and the British cooking. flourishing

tourist centre.

A

This is not one of those places 3. been where local colour and tole gran disused hart, r

a simulates mechy. dredged, the quayside cleared of are served

diversiona to look There are Krask, hizteres converted

Breath Of Life

Caused Blindness

OXYGEN IS NO NEW "WONDER DRUG."

life itself. It is life itself.

like

It is an old as

It has helped men to climb Everest; to explore the tent toorid betwrath the sea. It has saved the Bren people with chest and heart disratez,

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Counties

But it is also a major cause of biludnem in children today.

to the

A team of British scientista príblished the shorking proof

most Theter in the dramatic ending only this urnth, fantastic detective story in modern medical history.

It began in the 1930's when doctors discovered that nzygen used immediately after birth could give premature babies fresh hope for a normal life

NE

BY A MEDICAL

day

CORRESPONDENT

19.12 in by the Medical Research Council headed by Dr Norman Boston Lying-in Host- mixt

Ashton, of London's Institute of pítul, America, a baby was Ophthalmology, set to work. barn months before its

time.

It was placed in

oxygen tent--a routine pro- major cause

children

CONN used to help

until

£500 an of course.

Th

JOHN MUSTON

a private shower.

"This is like life in the Army.. You spend 00 percent of your time

and' eating. preparing. waiting for the few moments of action. And then if you're not ready for it at the moment of action, you're a dead duck."

Huston strolled pust us on the quby calling iris. He was look- for iris Ledebur, daughter ing of Sir Beerbohm Tree, now married to Actor Friedrich

In Britain Today

Let's Stay

Inefficient

4

London. loose a lot more citizena for ing corkscrews or designing THE revelation by Her productive work. As it hap corsets,

But the corner shop and Majesty's counters of pens, Britain has only 483 heads that Britain has self-service stores (with an the village store are much Ledebur, playing Д cannibal one shop for every hundred average turnover of £35,000

citizens would Huston, would you like to be an actress," make Iris Ledebur said she wouldn't mind being an actress. She had arrived the previous night from California.

indian in the film.

anld

and severe.

right colour.

tures.

there 14

There i

car

"how

Straight away."

Some imen.

Advice

doubtless each). On the other hand, more than "retail trading establishments." There are squirm we have 60,000 tiny shops respositories for the latest

com safely

to pressant the standard of living."

national

economists

an average busi-

information about Mrs were it not for the fact that which do

quirming is much too ness of less than £500.

Glotts' baby's cough, manu- human an activity for an

Tut, tut, tut.

facturies of misinformation about the future state of "All right," said

"economist. Huston,

By his second slice of the weather, and points for wani you to hand out Bibles na

As it is, we the men go aboard the Pequod."

mumbo-jumbo, the econom- the exchange of caustic com- Je turned to the production expect a learned pronounce ist will mean only that bar- menta about the eternal

"Have

of take ment by at least une Manager: Counters Leifur to wardtubre

Romething them to the effect that "the row boya, with no overheads "they" who run the world. dress her

The shopkeeper, undis- Black would be the prevalling inefficiency of re and often one eye on the tail distribution can only be nearest copper, pay little

clanging of the cash regis- That is how you get int pic-regarded as a marked de attention to "economic law." turbed by any very constant Their prices hop up and ter, has time to alt and by the "Moby Dick" company, made of a whale's jawbone and

down according to the look think, time to sift the sands reconstitioned und furnished at

a skull

below deck 1321 Two Con- cont

£15,000.

If the same economist on the nearest housewife's of a whirling world and tinental-trainst chefs are being evidence of progress,

# refrigerator, electric flown from London to look after found

In a few days' time the aim finds out that the nation face and the odds on unload- time to give every customer dressing- the cooking. The Blm-makers henting in the stora'

"street ng the barrow before the that pleasant feeling of 6,600

well-being which No- cabins, and will stay there six weeks.

radio-telephones. unit will move out of Youghal. Sports

And life will return to normal. traders," he will almost cor- law orders a move-on.

from being recognised as what will. And un engine-room. body quite known

Of wil it?

something more happen to Il after that.

than Where John Huston goes mainly add that "the high degree of potential mobility

potential purchaser ing, other producers go, too.

Youghal could become one of shown by a sizable section the boom towns of the modern of the trading community on talking until he is as old packet of throat lozenges.

in as King Tut without much OB location-rush.

tha muy Se u piece of advice for

district council. If you dicator of the disequilibrium Improving his chances of he is the colour and spice of rural

to stay here, normal when regulatory ten converting the average Bri- every want the stars don't forget about those private dencies are thwarted." showers and the foie gras.

of Hollywood These citizens like to feel at home.

uf

One-time barrister, Leo Genn, went into training for his role as frat male and has lost a fair

amount of weight,

Mf the Aiming at Flan- guard will take place on board a three-masted selling vessel which has been converted at a cost of

£00,000

19- to look like TI

He said wistfully: "My arbi- century whuling schooner This don is to play Lionel Barrymore is the Pequodt, now anchored at

Those you can do sitting paris. Youghal.

in a wheel-chair. After "Quo thin I have been over

ship Vadis" and "The Red Beret" I've metures. which must be one of the cost- hard enough of action Hest props ever. On deck every- I'm getting too old for this sort

The tiller is of thing. thing is in period.

B

MUSCLE MEN ARE

IN THE

MONEY

tremendous

bo taken

All very alarming.

But the economiat can go

Lon.

comes

of 23

As for the barrow boy,

corner - H street svemingly carefree soul who reminds us that, after all, we aren't inevitably bound by the chains of an yielding machine. a

No doubt a shop with an By the first outburst, he will mean simply that if we average turnover of under went in for the self-service £600 la not an economically

and depart sound employment for ++ supermarket

ment store game in a rather citizen who might be devot bigger way we could turn ing himself to manufactur- efficient.

H. DAY TEEZZZZZZZZZZS÷÷÷÷÷÷÷

ECAUSE milliona of some 750 movie folk in physicul 12 males trend the con- trim. His fat fee is $30 for

treatments, and for this sum he of lovely temp!

teaches paunchy stars to stand beaches and on their hands, blondes on

or hang from they swimming pools. shrink burs like monkeys, But from remarks like "i-ya, rarely achieve such ambillons in

12 flecting visits. frar and skinny!" parison with massive, blonzed he-men. body building in America is now also big business.

Com

Americans don't seem merely to want a sano mind in a fit body, as the Grecks did. What they seem to crave is a bulging bronzed chest, preferably with a sheen of oil on it, and billiard- ALF was the an By this tr

in ball biceps to attract the girls of blindness

that is, if girls really are in America it

attracted by such things. blindness of | *****

because of this idea! more than pre-school

two million men ench pay $50 a year to five thousand gymnasiums, to keep it! Only about ten percent do so from reasons of health.

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He claims to have rehabilt

ated the

of paralysed swimmer Georgia Coleman; to have made Robert Taylor tough enough to play the part of a prize fighter: and to have turned Frederic March Into temporarily.

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young inan..

Needless to say. Mr Hunt has ne lack of earnest students, for among his devotees are Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Louella Parsons, Walter Wanger and a Fees host of other celebritles. And are higher. of course, if mus- In. sage and bath are thrown and there are special, expensiv¢ treatments for directors, pro- ducers and other film moguls.

These Pose

have

un-

Long may we stay in-

A Chairborne Fatness

bichovca And It

all right-

A himself Frankly as the iden After all, if this thinking citizens to come to the

a

and they him no sympathy.

the But

dig

drains Saturdays; workers might tura

to

and

in

lics to

Trea-

in the will win

have This would also

that merit of ensuring

civil servants had at least a vaguo idea of what the real world is all about,

the

Revenue about

pre-ecounted for the maturely born babies to de- one-third velop into normal, healthy children. children.

With the sight of hundreds of

There are other high class tness schools scattered Through the windows of thousands of children at stake,

the country, like those run by the white tent doctors Dr Ashton started his research. He put a cat and six kittens into

Harold J. Reilly, who makes Joseph Pilates, o German, whose watched the tiny infant his incubator. For four days more than $100,000 a year, has fee is $10 a session; or Nicholas make good progress until they breathed different mixtures 650 male and 450 female clients. Kounovsky, a White Russian. of oxygen and air. Then they He is the only licensed Physio- who takes a few dollars for in- a few weeks after birth.

New York who dividual treatment. were

put The kittens therapist in Laken

Д health centre, were put to sleep and their eyes also examined.

though fow of his clients con- ault him because they are run down.

scorn.

como

The day might Even when the Department of Inland

realised that was not just made for the tax collector.

money

GENT who describes But there is something in

"chairborne civil servant,

man is driven to such des rescue of these poor devils.

The solution is not so dif- middle-aged, with rapidly perate lengths by his waist-

not unfair to ficult. Chairbome civil servants says line, it la Increasing waistline,"

might well spend two or three advantage, as 93

suspicion that days a week doing the appro escent of his customers travel he "would be grateful for cherish

Alto-genuine and reasonable sug numbers of his fellow civil priate kind of manual labour. the country for a living.

Mr Young's gether,

concern gestions as to how to reduce servants are in the same un Ministry of Works men could

on Tuesdays million

Board happy predicament. about n

of Trade Jurna over

it."

Boar dollars a year.

The biggest genuine strong-

Moreover, he has paid, by He plainly thinks that being Trafalgar

sell hand-painted man club, however, is the home

£3 for the a civil servant (chairborne) has and sell Square twice a wock famous

York Barbell our reckoning, of the

sury's men could report for Company, run by that devotee privilege of having this plea something to do with it. Other visiting Americans; the

henvy exercise und

big inserted in the public prints. wise he would not have squan- work at the Royal Mint and editor

dered seven shillings on includ- make an honest dollur now and muscles, Bob Hoffman, of Strength and Health. On his

It may be fairly assumed, ing the description. The words then. premises Live and work tome

that he is not are not popular 25 of the strongest men in the therefore,

vocabulary world-all title holders, Hon- being funny. man and

disciples hig preached the cult of the biceps And It is clear enough

not admission far and wide, and have tens of that he is not looking for

Fatness side cracks like "quit the surprising.

and civil thousands of followers.

to service have always gone to- If bureaucrats at the Ministry Civil Service and go

had gether though most people of Housing, for instance, work."

house or two they bavo assumed that the fatness built

might know that a house was Well-thought-out advice is a fatness of the head and not something you lived in and not There are two other famous such as "campaign to have of the stomach,

form you filled in. sirong-men gymnasiums, though the salaries of chairborne they cater chiefly for "mirror"

At last, however, it is part athletes-men who don't use civil servants reduced so their strength to lift weights, or that they can't eat so much" of the public record-there to wrestle, or indulge in sport, but will probably not meet with be pointed at with fingers of who love pusing and being better reception. photographed. One is run in New York by Tony Sansome, e handsome Latin with a classical figure, who, if his pictures are anything to go by, is the aver- uge female's dream man.

in Specialists

The other is ruled over

HUSBANDS Who am in larly, Chicago by buriy Wait Baptiste. Both understand

joba for a course about every eight

their One regular used to go along

consciously These are the specialists.

tists three thoroughly and mould graceful: collision with a jet plane conclude that she has been sub- uncomfortable about going out

their slumbering marauding rhinoceros. months each

muscular bodice. But they also during time he fell

Al Boon, proprietor lovel

New York gymnasiums, comes enrich themselves by anything hours ought to be proud of into a different category. His from $100-$500 before each of themselves.

Nevertheless, this sort of argu- Many business men are te premises, which include swim- their hundreds of glamour-

ment has its possibilities. gular cilents, but few can stand ming pool and bowling

alley

proteges is on the beaches

If a helpful thesis aug- the grim routine of exercises are valued at a million dollars. hypnotise women.

Husbands who regularly omắt suggest and soon gravilate towards the Anyone can attend his temple The cult of the body, with no geated by Dr Arthur Braith to as the fire in the moming household ought to go out and more expensive and exotic of health for 30 sessions by corresponding Improvement of

with equal

plau- mow the lawn. She will only he now they know that treatments, like oxygen bubble paying $100.

says the mind, is a movement also waite has any validity, this can explain,

a healthy growth of the cause of the baths, ultra-violet was

ray treat- Boon, "come thoseose figures responsible for the clothes worn grizzly sound is an Indica-sibility, that their lapra is duo, told that

hay sod weed in the yard is Soon hospitals all over dreaded disease, Thoy knew ment, and massage performed are their fortunes-show girls, by the American male. Thoso tion of the purest manhood. solely to a subconscious throw- back to primitive days when 'a

admirable cover should it bo the world were reporting why. But they still had to find [by gentle-fingered masseuses. models and the like. He has who have not the time or the

something like

the fire was a dead give-away to a 5,000

"The out how.

regular inclination to build up massive

theory," roports

mecessary to avoid advancing customers.

bodies, wish, of course, to give doctor, who sunks high among prowling enemy.

elephants, Doctors had two slender A drieged kitten was put into

that they, too, the mighty of London's Harley But the biggest body building the impression nssociation in the Associated are physical supermen, and to Street," that noen made that clues to work on; retrolental a small plastic box piped to

Health

(in cave-mad tarios, horrible Fred satiety their fastidious

noise Institutes, with take oxygen. Then, in the cream- fibroplasia usually set in a painted laboratory in Tavistock

the days) to keep night marauders Samuel Olmstead, who has Young as president, which runs the "drepe-shaps if not has become zoot-ruji,"

the away from the den," few weeks after birth; the Place, the oxygen was turned on. his health school on the roof of three successful health clubs on smaller the baby the greater Dr Ashton and Dr Charles Cook Grand Central Palace, New Ute East Coast of the U.S. and fashion in the States

And it is difficult now for Д He then goes on to crouched silently tear a micro-York, specialises in abdomens. a string of 18 others across the seemed the risk.

scopo so that they could examine "You should see these big, fat,

country. Each of his 20,000 girl to know whether a well- that the matter ought to be ex- members has the privilege of cut jacket covers her dream plained to complaining wives, The doctors tested all the the kitten's eyes as "It breathed lazy guys pussyfooting part the

the oxygen.

exerciso

tables into the steam sing any of his health clube man, or is merely a facade for "who might regard snoring as a

when in the locality. This is a axcept oxy-

a bag of bonest

aign of doep affection." ponsibilities

room, with their bellies crying Ren But none of their within minutes they saw the out for exercise," says Sam, theories fitted.

big arteries in the eye start to who was quite an athlete in his shrink. At let they had found day, and a tough sa barbed how too much-and sometimes wire. My

Dr

Then it went blind. Ophthalmic surgeon Theodore Terry examined The big normal arteries in the the baby's eyes and found ood clots. In their place doctors eyes were permanently sealed by the cause of blindness was w numerous tiny, abnormal a curtain of fibrous tissue arteries which would grow to behind each lens. It was make the blinding fibrous tissue. a condition ho had never come ACTOAN before. He called it retrolental Abro- plasin.

chocn.

So охудеть

bewilderment furid; ta alarm, to

.

runs

Torso Twist

in

too little-oxygen caused bind- His speciality is the Torso ness. In his report Dr. Ashton Twin, for which ha charges $15 warned hospitals: Don't

For like min10 give a znotath. They were barked, "AndɛtRule.

prematio

Mars, 15 Bables throws in stets baths, needle shorst showers, sun baking, the use of Re-rolental fibros minor Rif puried, nemtuary Volo Wisave the handball, pagdig, half #d

an anti-

as it came to be called --- with fire. He also recommended that squash court." în every room spreading at a terrifying rate. when oxygen, is used anti- are hung inspiring couplets, such

blood clotting drug should be as:

Not. unul 1951, nine years lych with it, This had actually after the first reported case, did oxygen become a definite prevented RLF in his animal ex- murpect. Then_the Americati by :perimenta,

PT. 8. Brewer's reported that the

jordan was too little oxygen.

Already the diecase is on the wane. It will disappear as sud-

In Australia, Dr Kate Campo denly as it started. But doctors

bell-suggested too much oxygu? will nevée. Forget it.

'wan to flame.

Three times each week, if Wu's

firmness you seek;

Work, every day to burn fat

away.

101

For many years of age and

arrestment

Take time each day for

health investment.

Who was tight as new 863 wiem nini mrsib about a lata. like. Terry Hunt, of Bever tes of British doctors, broked subriscoelas olajgan life itself.

JOHNNY HAZARD

ITALY

EARLY "IN" THE MORNING, POU'S SUC CHICUS CĂRAIN. APPROACHES

THE FRENCH-ITALIAN BORDERLY

to

Those Affectionate Snores

USBANDS who emit a

WHY SUCH A DETAILED BL, BIGNORE POULET CHECK, CORPORAL? WB || THERE IS A CONVICT

CAPED FROM A

·FRENCH PRISON«WE. ARE ALERTED FOR HARJ

· HAVE PASSED THROUGH

HERE MARY TIMES

The idea may not be particu- can assert that, with his strong

mistaken

В for

at night and leaving the cave unguarded.

Nor has the wife a chance I she should be so rash as to the that the head of

Abused for spending an hour or two too many, in the locni,

But it will all come tò nothing. the offending male can

justly

Woman, as alware, will have claim

old nocturnal the last word when sho explains that his

were simply that HER primitive, instincta are hunting instincts too much for him.

such that she is unable to ex- tend her culinary abililice Alternatively, it pestered to beyond roasting an ox whole on take his spouse to a movie, be a ̈spit....

By Frank Robbins

| ÂND THE "CONVICT" LIED STILL AS AN AROUSED LION PAWS ANGRILY AT THE FALE FLOOR OF HIS CADE!

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