1954-11-13 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL"^~ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1954.

Pago 7:

PUPPETS ARE BANKER'S HOBBY Imported from Holland!

This is a puppot show as you see it from the position of the audience.

Bachelor girl Yvonne is

talk of the town

the

Munich. UNDISMAYED by the

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Teutonic environment THE the SONOTOUR notes of Tristan and Proble coming over the play-back, Yvonne de Carlo chewed her stick of resolutely at Kum.

"Yeah," she said, "I guess I'm at the stage of being married 10 the famous, She was referring to her film roles.

She is

news playing the first wife of Richard Wagner, here in Bavaria, in the Bim "Maggie Pue*

(Republic Films of Hollywood um dollars me spending Klor:fying the life of the com- Bet Later Blows de Carlo go

to Egypt to play the wife of Money In The Ten Comunar- Hends."

But off-screen, s bether in the Havaran Alps, en Wunt Sinai, or in Beverly

Miss de Carlo remains at the stage of being married to nolxkly.

This state

uitaire has the keen interest of Much, a normally unexolted

avused!

town.

As a potential wife, Mies do Carlo has vital secondary qual- fiex wid she tacks nume of the primary qualities.

She

headed

strt

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banzas

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ing expenses

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Gregory

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tastisk-listed pluy-

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She

travaganer

expensive

she

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hutels

twas be tras to Day a bit hotel bill really suffers: and she will not do I before lunch--lt might apoll her ap- petite).

So far Miss de Cario has been un- able to think of a

beticalde

candidate

Aly Khan?

Just X.

a dinner date

as potential husband, but Munich is already making romtrarions

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When Aly Khan canc here, town not normally on 13

seracy, dined twice with Miss

se Culo and stayed as the same

tel, Munich gossiped.

de Carlo found in the Argentine and took to Hollywood,

Misa de Carlo's main rivals In the cast of "Magic Fire," Valera- ina Cortese and Rita Gam, have vol been having quite such a guy tune. Theke jespective hus- bands are in London and New Yurk.

But when Aly left ufter a

Usually, Mics de Carlo ani, couple of days, Miss de Carlo explained to me: "We're okd she would not have accepted a ends. I met him-before Geno role in a im "with all those Tierney-at મ purty E the other women in the cast," 12 South of France. Whenever he's int expedient. passing through Paris or Holly- wood and I happen to be there, we have dinner together. That's all there is to 1."

In these circunstances, com- petition for the Umelight And the camera-lens is flerce, So far Miss de Carlo seems to have come out top.

A day Inter Miss de Carlo had another visitor, a French friend who sat the day kong on the sel

Said producer-director William watching her aging and weak-

Diertels: "Whatever position ening of Wagner's neglected first you put ther in, before you wife. But the Frenchman was can say 'action' de Carlo has the wript-writer of Misg dr maiocured to the beat one in Carlo's inst Alm And that, fremt of the camera." apparently, was all there was to that,

And playing Liszt in the Alim in handsome South American

Carlcs Thompson, whom Miss

When I first learned that Miss de Carlo was to play Wagners wife I was surprised. Not a surprised, I now discover, as Misa de Carlo herself,

She told me that she had once been ruggested to Diertele for

Hongkong's Part In London Show

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URING the last two woeks A thousand actors and actresses, costumed and grease- painted, gathered in London performing straight plays, operas, ballet and "pan- tomimes for the London public.

But they etage folk.

were no ordinary

They were puppets

a

By

Gordon

Hung

In London for an exhibition sieged by the British Puppet Kwongkong Gulid member, Mr On. An enthusiastic Guild, and their plays only collector of traditional Chinese came to life when their masters puppets, Mr Kwok has over 100 - members of the Guild — different types, pulled the right strings.

Hongkong, not to be left out, had its representatives there

To

seven feet from the ground, elther behind a built-up stage or a curtain.

They not only perform Chinese operas but include old Chinese folk and historical iales au todir repertalye.

The staging of a Chincse ern with these polo puppets

opera

Is no mall task. The number

E

Bro

the

a dozen Chine röd and glove of "stage hands" needed makes

a miniature oper the show dressed puppets,

their in

There traditional

hand-embroidered company. Chinese costumes.

puppeteers, one to each puppet gathered These were sont to London by a troupe usually consists of 20 Chinego orchestra, Puppets thọ volera and wardrobe hands. The usual practice is for the puppeteer to be his own puppet's voice, but a good marupwar To Mr Kwok,. puppetry in a may not have a good singing of volce and so needs a substitule. hobby, and the performing one of his "pale" puppet shows Chinese puppet shows have — his speciality — brings him a never caught on in Hongkong, sense of t

enjoyment that is because ine Cantonine opera derived from every hobby. houses are cheap enough

Mr Kwok, who is a banker everybody. How Hongkong's pro- and youngo. brother ot the fessional puppetcers, number.. Hon.

Kwok Chin, WOR in- ing about twenty, make fcrested In puppetry when living Is

question for WIS child, but it has speculation, only been in the last five years that he has been able to pursue his hobby with gusto,

de Carlo QUOTE

TS Yvonne de Carlo at all worried because Wagner whose first wife she is currently portraying—19 often considered a heavy, unpopular composert

"Oh, I'm a Escal Warner

fan," she said, "I kaw The Ring and

And stuft Hike that. Oh, it's great, just great,

"Of course, to sit through it all-well, you get A bit stiff in places. And, though 1 shouldn't say it, I really go more for the popular stuff.

"How they'll feel aboul Wagner in Texas, 1 Junt don't know, but there's only half an hour of the Operas. WD do 11 In that those,

"After all, R'm the love

story hat counts"

wanted someone better known, suggested Van Heflin.

is

Three Troupes

usual his

Doing all his own carpentry work, he makes his own "polo""

Incorporating puppets, own Ideas, and he improves of puppels he buys,

Mr Kwok is now in the pro- cess of building his own theatre for his "poi" puppet shows, and will measure 12 feet across and 11 feet high.

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[[HAT I call a "pole" puppet is amply a three-foot wooden forso und head

a long bamboo pole. The puppeteer holds the end of the pole with one hand and with the other he the arms of the manipulates

ald of rods. puppet with the The puppeteer ean move the суса

and mouth of the puppet from the bottom of the bamboo pole. Some puppets even spit

blond the traditional Chinese stage effect. Indicating Rrief or 40

or unger.

extreme

in

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for

chgagements that Hongkong's Larce puppet companies get are performances By Cairese celebrations or at the opening of a new Chinese theatre ur family templa No human

actor will perform in a theatre

has until

been formally opened with a puppet show, is thị is zupposed to chase away evil spirits.

Recently the Russians put on a puppet show In London using pole puppets. This was one- but the thing new to Europe, Russian technique of manipula- tion was sunilar te that used by the Chinese,

The rod puppets used by the Chinese consist of 12-inch high puppets that are manipulated The stage from behind by reds. is a table, with a curtain as

The backdrop.

puppeteers work from behind the curtain, A similar stage is used for glove puppets.

These

dressed puppets,

Of these three types, the pole

is the most

popular- Chinese stage costumes-richly puppet

embroidered long gowns, cla- and if you would like to make a To get Badel he had to make | borate headgear and long flowing hobby of it, it ONLY costs $300

to Hifc some for one dressed doll! deal about the casting of beards come

women.

For the part of Wagner's third love, he wanted Valentina Cor- Lese. Republic Insisted on Rhonda Fleming Miss Fleming was cast. Then she had to go to Italy for another siun 80 Diertale got Cortese.

asked how he came to change his mind about Miss de Carlo,

You know the kind of woman Wager's Arst wife

carthy; she'd

another role In another was?" he said. "She was 0 fum. Ho had turned her down Inedlocre actress, fiat. lievable,

wanted to get married, and Mias de Carlo was irked, "So Wagner looked like a good hot. when Diertele asked for mo for We thought of Shelley Win- this picture that really meant ters,"

He didn't And her be had a few lov zra and now

something."

Then ho

10 was persuaded lunch with Yvonne de Carlo, Dierbele, whose ambition for He found the had what ho

20 years has been to make this needed for the part.

"A sculptor," says Diertela,

got to

tho work with the materials he can get. Do Carlo

fim, had

compra-

10 bas

on

BEP THE SET: make

Yvonne de mises

DAVID, And

nowest load the casting. He is good marble,but she is not man, English wanted English clay; you cannot mould her."

MOTOF Alkn

Hadippo-Opst

aclor Alan Ba-

ate in Munich's del as

Oetoberfest Republic

carnival,

Wagner. Thomas Wiseman

Films

THE DANCING MR DRINKWATER

THE amazing case of the

dancing Mr Drink-

water has left the good and sober citizens of Britain breathless.

of

By

LES ARMOUR

the right of employees to hold little dances upon the premises during their lunch hours and to sprend the dread poison of happiness among the smooth- running dreariness of their labour,

What man, knowing that it is right to do little dances in the public streets, will be prepared dubious pleasure of owning to sweat away his life for the refrigerator?

This Mr Drinkwater, it magistrate decided that there was are inclined to take a dim view

nothing anybody could do about of it. вести, calmly picked 4 it and sent Mr Drinkwater away flower from outside a hotel, with his blessing.

Consider the implications: Motorists, perceiving this then betook himself to Ü All very odd that it should be mystic rite of the ancient and atreet buzzing with traffic, possible to be happy though happy Briton, are apt. to stop planted himself on one of saber and that it should be the dad in their tracks, causing those little concrete islands Englishman to do little dances ing the wheels of a mighty in- law against this sort of thing?

right

every free-barn endless traffic jams and bring-

Ought we, perhaps, to pass a erected by a kindly govern- in the middle of the street.

we hope that the ment for the protection of But it is plain that not very

dustrial society to a costly halt. Or should

appeal dourts will cale

day pedestrians, and proceeded many free-born Englishmon Employers, studying "the decide that dancing on truffle to do a little dance around ever exercise this right-and Drinkwater case," are apt to islands constitutes à plain and it, waving his flower all the clear that free-born constables wonder whether or not it is also obvious breach of the peace? time.

Up came a constable who.cn-

quired as to "wots all this 'cro"

A Case For The British Sausage

was about and demanded his TN a world about to blow itself name, On being given the-in back to the dinosaur era, we from our experience) that the while another gets two

He goes on to explain" (rightly, a single great whacking sausage circumstances Improbabb

small hesitate to communicate the American sausage is a poor ones. And cooks wish fervently of Mr John thing, each of the same length, that the dashed things wouldn't Lockhart on the same shape, the mama un explode and spatter themselves of the British American lack of virility, the all over the pan.

same inevitability as ils neigh- bours."

"Drinkwater for the records, he recent revelations hailed the gentleman into the Macgregor Bruce police station and charged him the supremacy with being drunken and dissabog arderly.

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to

Butchers would prefer a The magistrato hearing words As he says "in the present

uniform job tending Itself to] "waved a flower" and confused state of the chan-

He might have adad that the fastoful window displays, "danced upon a traffle island celleries of Europe this is no American sausage, like hot dogs But to givo” in to them, of nodded knowingly to himself. Aime for xenophobic sabre- and Coca-Cola and chewing course, would merely ho

But the evidence was that Mr rattling."

gum, is on the advance.

pander to

the lowest in mass Drinkwater

had not been

It can be found in Franou. It fuafo, Nevertheless, Mr Bruce Lock- reigns supreme in Canada. It la trinking.

Bart is one of

A Tho· British · snurage,·la Britain's evon soen (now, and then) in distinguished diplomats and England,

reminder of the indestructiblilty what he says needs, indeed, to be And history is on its side. and essential individuality of raid reason why dancing about

Uniformity is the great watch the human soul; a symbol, (d) a traffic island and waving a The point is that, "the sizzling word of the twentieth century, you will of that ability to face rich popping, skin-bursting, in The queer shaped, unpredictable, the worst which has mane flower constitutod✨ dieorderly dividual momata masterpiece Kandividualetic: British mapanga

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Now a view behind the curtain. A good idea of how

pole puppets are manipulated.

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