MR WINTERBOTTOM
OVERLOOKS ONE IMPORTANT FACT
Says ARCHIE QUICK
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1954.
HER PRIVATE LIFE TO BE ́PRIVATE
com-
"Although we did so badly on the Continent and in the World Cup. we cannot go into the field at Wembley against Germany with a pletely reconstituted team,' said FA team manager Mr Walter Winterbottom. "I wish the critics who are so destructive would settle down to pick an England team and see how difficult a task it is."
Who Wears A
The Star
'Knuckleduster
By MOORE
Bracelet
RAYMOND
"If you asked me how my mother, was," said Eva Bartok, “I wouldn't tell you.” She is sticking to her recent resolution never to talk again about the Marquess of Milford Haven, or German actor Kurt Jurgens, or anyone else in her private life -until.
Yes, there's an "until" about it all. Until 'sho makes a hit as an actress in Britain. Then maybe she'll relense some news about private affairs,
SHE WAS BUBDUED "By speaking too frankly and "I got talked about far too much And that spelled some marvellous chances of getting some wonderful flm partă. Pro- ducers don't take you seriously if you: private life gets talked about a lot."
Quite true, but Mr Winterbottom overlooks the fact that we have had seven post-war seasons in which to build, while Germany, In four seasons, have lifted the prize.
trado in Mr Winterbottom's excuse is The only trouble is that it does enter the leensing
Brighton. that several new players who not always work out that way. had been relled
Trottler, too, has given up lee Mr Dodgin argues this way....... upon have falled and he blames Junior as if all managers did not "We hockey and the "Tigers" will be recly in the past," she told me,
And adequate were relegated Last season, but hard put to it to we beat all the teams that finish-replacements.
Loeni ed in the last six. Come after
talent is
going to be rome was drawn when it should encouraged but the basis of the have been won Elght times we new "Tigers will be top grade conceded a toang cai In the Canadian players. last ten minuter, Those points would have steered us clear of danger.
Therefore, we feel that we shall be too good for most Third Division clubs.”+
Hope springs eternal and I would now to Mr
Dodgin that clubs like Walford, Coventry and Brighten are slouches either, speaking strictly on a
coaching.
"I had my eye on a young goalkeeper of promise," he said, "and he turned professional with a lengue club. They have two other "A" team goalkeepers, so the lad gets only one match three weeks.
is
every criminal."
CIIEQUE BOOK SOLUTIONS
Mr Winterbottom went on 13 blano clubs like Arsenal and Nowcastic. "They have never attempted to find and train their Own young talent. When they have had a weakness they have Third Division basis,
zmiply wave Cheque book."
Everything. ho says, is re- Begated to the League system. Jee
pponents, when
Our overscTA
REVIVAL EFFORT
hockey, like speedway raving, bas host rome of its im
they have an important Inter- mediate post-war appral in Eng- national pending, simply suspend |
buf at least Mr Tom
their League programme. That! Arnoldh theatrical Impresario, intends to keep the Bicker of in- let us not terest nlight.
is not possible in England.
An Icon Bay is
play International matches then | A Chairman of the Sports
and
shatter our prestige.
in
But Stadium at Brighton tre has de-
that the "Tigers"
an astoundingly frenk self-elded
ice
castigation in its own Bulletin, key team WEI continue to
the Football Association infurms operate. us that in a progressive world perhaps some of its icons are bul-dated
#
Moreover,
he will bring over from Caneda some
the
This, mark you, is the sune Dominion's strongest players to Football Association which re-revive a club which felt on hard lunes last season, but which in cently stopped at half tune private practice match between the port has been one of the Brentford wand Leyton Orient st successful and attractive "because it Was outside the teams in the country. scheduled season for competitive play!"
As a result of last season's poor results and falling attend-
agreed
that
Mr Winterballom, when I met ances 16 Was him, was returning on the open-Brighton would see ice hockey Ang day of the seacon from no re, but now the "Tigers Wolverhampton where he had will compete in the newly formed been impressed with the granite like defice f Champion Walves. He was pleased to hear from me
British League of twelve leams -feur English and eight Scuftish. This will give a greater variety
that on the day's play at Villa of opposition.
This has been
Park England had a ready-made lacking in past seasons and has left flank club wing in George been the cause of the falling of Robb and Eddie Baily, of the in public enthusiasm.
Spurs. They ran Villa dizzy and could be the answer to a national problem.
The "Tigers" have in the past eight years twice won the National League and once the Tottenhum were back to near- Autumn Cup, and they will now championship form but Managerne up with Wembley, Streatham
13 Harringay Arthur Rowe's
was: und comment "The machine was creaking a Scullish invasion.
do better." This
bit; we can perfectionist is never satisfied.
As for Mr Erte Houghton, of the Villo, he said: "All four Spura' goals should have been mised four prevented, and we
How very like a open ones."
football manager- a golfer
resist
the
#
Balancing the English decrease
been there has in support, revival of the sport North of the fact that the Border. and sight clubs have entered for the new British League thows that Scotland arc akin to their in Canada
their in Mr Winterbottom thinks we brethren shail beat Germany. So do I, if liking of the game. the problem is fackled naw.
"FREE TRANSFER"
Sell a footballer for £30,000 and it is the equivalent to giving him a free transfer. Such is the economics of present day sport. Mr Frank Who says 50? Osborne, Managing Director of Fulham FC himself an English International and one of the
knowledgeable
most SOCCET,
men
in
Bubby Lee and Lorne Trottier, both of Brighton, and two of the leading goalscorers last season, say that it is a natural thing for Scotland to take to icz "Canada's national hockey. game" says Bobby "was built up by Scottish emigrants and de- scendants of Scottish emigrants."
He intends to
Lee has been Brighton "TigeTE" manager, cooch and star player for many scarons now, but he tells me that he has definitely Mr Osborne fooks at it this retired from the game after an carcer covering Over way. "I sold Desmond Jezzard active
the sum" he twenty years. domorrow for Bays, "it would be just a figure in cur assets and profits. Income Tax people would swoop and take almost half of it, and we should still have to find a replacement as well ns give Jezzard his cccrued share of
benefit.
The
"In addition, there would be a certain loss of 'gate.' It is better to jog along on an averago £5,000 a year profit than boost it to £35,000 by the sale of a valued player and sco tt all dissipated away."
are
Ong Chew-bee
Wins Malayan Tennis Title
D
Mr Arnold ka also hoping to induce one or two Cutstanding in London to leave performers
He the capital for the seaside. also hopes to get the best coach available 15 succeed Bobby Lee. It will be a difficult task.
(Only a month ago Shelley Winters made the same remark to me. I wonder if it's true.)
Eva is in England to star with Forrest Tucker in "The Break In the Circle," an Exclusive film
EUROPEAN CHAMPION
Veikko Karvonen, the Finnish postman, photo- graphed as he won the European_Marathon Champion- ship at Berne. Ivan Filin, the Russian, entered the Studium first-but went round the stadium the wrong way, which cost him the race.-Central Press Photo.
These
Twins Can The Boxing Game
Heavyweight
Boost
Says HAROLD MAYES
about the international gling of atom their secrets.
on
smugas wo ant and drank Scotch in scientists and her flat,
I missed aceing it
that slim wrist. I'd always regarded it as characteristic of Eva her- self-something beautiful that could become something forceful when the arose.
I've never seen her so sub- dued. Chastened by elreum stance, she seems to have lost a lot of the galety and spirit that character" to her gave such charm and beauty. Oh, sho's but still as attractive as ever, there's a sort of wary look in those big brown eyes.
They narrowed when I asked if it was true that one of her pictures, "Carnival Story," was boo: at the German Film Festival in June.
"The arena was filled with teenagers who thought they
were going to see a circus pic ture, sho explained. "Every thing was fine till the love ezenca started. Then laughed and someone else boord and then all the silly Leenagers took it up.
somcon?
"My pictures pro really very popular all over Germany. That Berlin incident was an excep- tion.'
NOT WEARING IT
For once Eva wasn't wearing her protective bracelet. This is a broad studded bangle made of gold, and it embraces her left wrist whenever she appears in pubile.
Sho can ally it on to her hand In a second, and she calls it her knuckleduster. She did in fact once use it as such to deal with an over-friendly character she met at a party.
"It doesn't go with this T- shirt and jeans,” she explained |
very
occasion
There was no lack of force in a retort she made to my com- ment that we still had to see proof that sho really could act on the screen,
T'a sold that in her last British film. "Front Page Story." all we'd see her do was stand in the dock and look and.
צחי שותיי
"If they make a zither out of me," she said.
you expect me to produce the music of an orchestra?"
•
Emlyn Williams was booked to give his famous Dickens read- ings at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, September 12, but the show has been cancelled because the Sunday Observance Act bans the actor from putting on a false beard and dressing like the author.
| Murder and lust on the Sunday
встесла-
The cinema or TV-
e quite O.K. in their jolly
way.
And it for us all to see, But the
law, thank heaven, protect us from
A stunt that shocka and
rickena
The blasphemous sight
Sunday night Of an actor dressed
Dickens,
a
on
like
THEY CALL HIM "MR MOVIES”
By ROY NASH
"From a story by Franklin D. Roosevelt." We might have read that among the credit titles and the film, based on a script by the friend of Britain, would probably have brought protests from the British.
If, that is, the scenario department had taken a little more care of its manuscripts.
As Acristant Secretary to the not admitted without an adult U.S. Nayy during World War I and the man In the box office Roosevelt used to chat about thought she looked under 18. Aims to a juxur member of lis She went on playing "little Washingtons staff Eugene girl" roles for her adoring pub- Zukor, con of Adolph Zukor, lic until she was well into her of Hellywood's founding 20's. Under her ringlets lurked
one
fathers.
a sharp business mind, She was Zukor, sundor, tells the story "the first of the great star's." of the Roosevelt film that might Zukor comments on some of have emused Anglo-American the others: Rudolph Valentino: triction
"The Public Is "His acting Never Wrong" (Cassell, 156).
was largely con- fined to protruding his large "In 1920. Roosevelt
eyes until vast areas of white was stricken with infantile paralysis.
were visible, drawing back the To occupy himself during lips of his wide sensuous mouth fight for recovery he studied to bare his gleaming teeth and naval history.
flaring his nostriis."
Gloria Swanson; "She was no great beauty, but her face
"His particular horo wris John Paul Jones, the American revolutionary commander, who, when little more than 30, out-photographed well. The public fought the British on the high wanted glamour and Gloria was
happy to fill the need."
Beau
HAPPILY LOST".
"Roosevelt
prepared
of
hom
Garbo: "At first the Swedish actress had been co-operative ain publicity stunts, but grow- of Jones's life anding popular had insisted that went it to us. Eurono road it sho be unaccompanied by # through. The form was not publicity man during inter- suitable for screening, but he views. The result was the be
for ginning Hollywood
of the legend sent it to
Garbo's silence.” Cricket has its Bedsers, swimming its Wardrops. evaluation as a
a story" however, Make way now for boxing heavyweight twins the Cooper grip formidable document Marlene Dietrich; "Marlene brothers, from Bellingham, Kent, 20-year-old big boys measuring two to three inches threw our publicity staff into a who have just completed their Army service and elected thick was lost by the scenario dither immediately upon
Farrival In the United States. department
picture and the to fight under the banner of Jim Wicks, whose stable
Here was a glathorous and (on was never made,
1
the screen). already houses three champions in Jake Tull, Joe Lucy
dangerous' woman "Roosevelt was an excellent who in her first interview talk- and Alex Buxton.
Zukor, ed almost exclusively of her historian,"
comments At present there's just half an inch of difference in "But nations differ widely in baby and her husband." height and a couple of pounds in weight between this their views of what happened
Gary Cooper: "At the begin- ABA Cruiser and I am afraid that had his
boen sommario
of professional ning he was not much of pr auburn-haired pair; Henry, who was Champion at 17 and 18, and George, who at 6 ft. 2 in. calibro and had we screened it setor. But he was a plugger. and 13 gt. 8% lb. has the physical edge on his more a terrible
would havo His determination enabled him to climb to greater heights than arlsen in England.” - accomplished brother.
most of the quicker talents ever attained.".
storm
club they approach want an Good Kok-lem on Saturday the clever boxer, and at present aghting shy, Tull will be eagerly whom Hollywood
crown
*
calls "Mr
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Petula Clark Leaves Rank
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 30. A big effort by Coylonese player to capture Mr Osborne's words are the Malayan tennis title was absolute logic and 99 pit- cent of the clubs ard realising foiled by Ong Chew-bee of In the Singapore who won com- that the two-way traffic
market does not pay.fortably in 6-4, 6-1. transfer The point so far as Fulham concerned is that they want a Ceylon's Rupert Ferdinands,
George is the puncher, Henry bright little men have boen Adolph Zukor is the man wing half defender, but every whose easy victory over Malaya's
Movies," He knows all about
GIRLHOOD AMBITION exchange deal one of Fulham's placed him as a hot favourite they are getting down to it in sought.
Terry Allen tries wrest the that fabulous town from A to bright young forwards for a de- for the title, played much below an Old Kent Road gym in the
Mae West, to satisfy a girl- from Italian Z. Fulham will not form
when he faced hope of being able to make European fonco man.
hood ambition to be a lon Ho arrived in America from tamer, deeldes she would like to the Nazzarena Gianelil in Milan have it.
At 21 Potula Clark is going to be her own boss. Her "What we have we the Singapore champion their professional bows, to
next month, and after that is his native Hungary at 16 "an make a flim about a circus and keep," says Mr Osborne, "and whmt we want we will buy appeared to be feeling the effects pubile next month.
seven years' contract with the Rank Organisation has Another heavy in the Wick due to put his British title on orphan boy with a fow dollars then, to Zukora horror, Inslets his two-hour doubles semi- final in the morning. The Leam is
on stepping unaccompanied into come to an end and Miss Clark won't be signing up again. Ceyloneso
Walsh, DS however, man player,
raw as the St Helens sapling who failed
NOW PAST. 80
a cago full of llons, · come" six weeks ago, so unluckily when the pair last
Bob Hope rides through the This could be an important, jage'parts though I found some of prosperity, like neighbours | Ha
from then on game but
the according to his manager, but mot.
After a highly succerful spell studio, grounds on a bicycle chapter in the story of Pat's Pro producers didn't always realizo Chelsea, - and they can quite Singaporo ace
apparently could
DOWER BUSY took over and one who
in the fur business the orphan labelled "Bob Hope available greas, When that contract was it. easily win promotion back to smashed his way to a perfect develop into a good prospect. In the meantime, the pride of Division One this coming season
ion victory.
Manager Wicks in at present South Wales, Dai Dower, having boy helped to found the film for parties, clubs, weddings,hre In Manila, where his cuddly been promised a Gianelll match repunt Today, 10 years or so the Cowboys,
rigned she was only 14-tho.imp company now known as Para- William S. Hart, the King of a lip who was Bid
"Now I feel I may get w/ from a mediocre Second Division
The Celyon It is a different tale down the
pair,
fingües Rupert dou Zulus habter Tull hopes to if he disposes of Allen: will be ter Zukor is 111. a. power at in a way bowls and licks Field's diughter in London chaned to play a greater variety with the other two West Ferdinanda and R. L. Pinto,
postage nearer his long-keeping busy against another.
Paramqunti-
of roles by striking on my London clubs.
Brentford have qualihod for the men's doubles delayed & world; nyweights (itle Italian, Franco Lombardoza),,
A gravy on his waistcoat before Town." (Zuking, la" now part 89.1/met | selling out, for a swagum prój dropped morn Division One to that by downing the Selangor.
ha came to London may public Two to Division Three State champions Good Kok-lam Quest's Park Rangers have and H. A. Shiller, after Life
ike peclame to loo RUGBY ipped back from Division Two wall contested sets which insed
Sed are there exactly two hours, to the Third
will meet the si days down the Chinwick Road, pair
But there is hope for Brentford, Singapore combination or Ons Manu Bul Dodgin says he has Chew bee and Lim Bee-thin in
Indra, Division the final match-to-day
we are allowed to."
"
Fulham are on the flood davelled at four-all in the first the 21-year-old Irish the line against Eric Marsden, sown into my waistcoat"
contest
Shire
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