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SPORTING SAM

By Reg. Wootton

Spotlighting The Three-Year-Olds Of 1955

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1954.

THE AVA GARDNER STORY

These Arundel "Buys" Look Bargains

By JAMES PARK

THE BATHING BEAUTY CAN NOT AFFORD TO REMAIN

A STARLET TOO LONG

By J. M. RUDDY

Eight years ago, Ava Gardner, 24, had been in Hollywood about five years, had been married and divorced to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw.

She was slowly losing her rich Southern accent and learning the hard way "The only way I ever learn anything,” she told me, "that you have to work and study to improve."

I place the Duchess of Norfolk high in the list as shrewd buyer of yearlings feel guilty now when I realise The Killers Well, Michael, The patrons of the Arundel stable are in the fashion in that they like a quick return for their money. So it is mainly a question of buying yearlings likely to win their first season.

in

They are sou after they have done, and the money is ploughed back into another batch of yearlings.

Was

That polies has been adopted [ikistanez in the past few years but any thing that promises to train on is retained. Two who can be put

Major category but that General

Sir K

Randle

Feilden's Square Dance and the Duke of

are

Iver

ON

means

I asked him about the colt he Ter 100 CIL.

that was runnin

afternoon. Foxhunter.

With such stout blood on the "Don' be too critical when you of the pedigree, see him," said the trainer, "for maternal side

good- do not see why Square Patter he is by no should not stay a intle and n looking colt." I retorted that that Not only do 1 think he did not matter so much as long hair.

that he wan he could go. "He can do that will but

all right," said Hartgun.

There appeared to be plenty

behind [ confidence

Hugh THE WOR always Lupus, favourite,

continue to improve

It might not be fair to pass an He piples on Wordsworth on what he has accomplished so far.

will

Hulk's Wordsworth,

In the Free Handicap, Square Daner was given B. 7D, and Worleweeh dst, 2:b. 1 aw them the other day, and 1 should say

not seriously trained as cach has distinct pos bilife.

two-year-old and the staple wit Each ran three lines, so I can.

surprised when he rande's either was not be act

good fight of it with Yatie at raved. Square Dance ran Royal Ascot in October. Wordsworth Palm to half a length over

got the race on an objection,

the extended

furlongs at Seven

In terribly heavy going Newbury in October.

cult Anished his first season with The 1 sue was probably decided

an easy victory ni Lingdeld. when Royal Palm got first run.

Is Wordsworthi

1483 Imposing

ચીન-૪ washestnut hnd does not take I thought Square Dance finishing the stronger and ruight either of the parents in colour. have won at a mile, it was hise is by Dante, who is a brown, July, when he of Tidworth, a bay, birt the first race Alice beat Grand Statute by n length dam had previously produced and a half at 131.

X

Two chestnuts.

As Square Paner as to give The colour comes through the 716. to Grand Statule the ta-female line as the grandam Free Handlengi will be re-an great-grandan were chest-

gold that the former dis-20

improvement,

It was at the

l t Duchess

Rac Johnstone had ridden the rolt when he ran away with the race at the Curragh and I sup- pose he would have been in the saddle in the Middle Park had he not recently undergone e sight knee operation. But with Chartes Smirke in the saddle there could be no complaints on the score of jockeyship.

A

In the paddock I could not contradict the trainer over his description of Hugh Lups. full and rather leggy colt seemed to me that Hugh Lupus had been growing too quickly without having had the time te Curnish,

bo

whatever

means

he

the

"The only regrets I have aro | "And I'm grateful to Mark smiled, dimpled, and said one over the years that I wasted. Hellinger. I told you about word: "Zowle!"

When I came to the scene that it was nothing

but pure

I don't have the words to tell for her to sing to Gablo, Ava luck that took me out of the

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what it meant to work for was so scared that he had to film and with him. You

leave the fashion model hat-check girl,

hove

She sound-stage.

to and waitress parts." Ava sairi, the words. You say them for warbled her torch-song

talked of those days in me. Inspiring, you know what microphone-and 60 watching the

capitai when she I mean."

technicians. emerged from to the perlod career and its demands al necessities,

us

sho

the play-girl seriousness of

1

"I got what I deserved. "I think life is like that. "As I see it now, the things that I found dull and boring, like posing for hours under hot lights for glamour photographs, cheesecake and fashion stills, were part of the pattern, call it build-up that experts set for you and you don't appreciate it until years later,

"I used to invent excuses to get out of coming To the studios.

MAGICIANS

"Yel those photographers like Eric Carpenter Tyer's magicians. They made

look like a sultry siten Í hundred swim sults, even though I never went near the water in one of them,"

I reminded Ava that almos! every star in Hollywood been a cheesecake queen in her day. Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and dozens

And mare,

didn't Deborah Kerr rebel against her "nice girl" parts and jump inte "From sex and swim-suits in Here to Eternity"

ON THE OUTSIDE There was no doubt he was 11 yed much imp First Octoberant. If Wordsworth takes

This is an interesting point enough, but I could not help

thinking

that Newmarket they the the bottom line in his pedis alght accomplish that afternoon

of Norfolk Bought he has something to live up to,

wis by no Squ v D.nce for 1,500 guineas. Tidworth comes from

a family

finished article. That was a good buy,

from which the late Lord Astor

Hugh

routine. Lupus, drawn on the Lied many winners

extreme ouisido of the fleld. actd smoothly from the start k was not off the bit untä going into the Dip. It was my view that he went into the lead at once and did not lose it until the last stride.

The pedigree is of much in- turest. The sire, Big Game, was The best of his year up to a my brud a quarter. This, only defeat was in the Derby.

Leomance

FOXTROT

the

The dam is that grabil slayer. Foxtrot, who gave her best per:

when winning Ebor Handicap quite vasily as

1300 three-year-old with 78. That she stayed was Lost sur- prising as she is by Foxhunter, a mare by Phalaris.

mul

St. John Ambulance

Orders

The family goes back to the famous Sceptre and I think we shall hear qui e a lot of Wor.s- worth us a three-year-old. AIMS AT CLASSICS

Best

I heard Ume Hugh Lupus was when a friens Ireland in mid- returned from September and told me he had seen the wimmer of the Middie Park Stokes. Ile was very

The

No

nearly right.

ol

I asked for further informu- on and WDS

could

It was in every way a fair test and the margin in favour Very small of Our Bubu was one,

Our Babu and Hugh Lupus near one and the same are as

On two- us makes no matter.

Ava hesitated.

us she' her eyes memory -- warm,

memory

She

closel

delved into

On another occasion during friendly the filming of a scene in a rall-

O11

to

of a dynamic yet way station, director Conway gentle impresario

who look a remarked that he thought the chance on unknowns,

the seche was unnatural, since it seemed to him no man would quality in players and wis able to

to project it on the atop to kiss a girl on the plat

form between

when eurriages was my good fortune

the train was moving. do "The Killers" for Mr Helling- He died just when he was for setting a pace, fast even Hollywood," said Ava, "Whell- ever I feel hesitant about a part or a picture, I try to think of what he told me.

ег.

* 'Have faith tn yourself, when you are in front of the cameras, there are a hundred talented people and the direc- tor to help you."

"I miss him. It was through

1 first really under- him that stood the excitement of playing a motion-picture. a good part in

"Around Mark Hellinger there was enthusiasm. And you got charge of enthusiasm when you worked with him.

TONGUE-TIED KID

"Until then, I'd been rather scared of the stars and directors at the studios. I felt like tongue-tied kid when I say Clarke Gable. Spencer Tracy Lana Turner, Greer Gerson, Crawford and the others Jose names are in lights"

COULD WAIT?

until

Gard-

"The man could walk he got to the next carriage to klas her, sald Conway.

"When the girl is Ava ner?" asked Gable laughingly. The scone was filmed as origin- ally written.

Ava won personal acclaim in "The Hucksters."

was

"Acting with Mr Gable

me, she told great for me." "He's considerate and thought- ful."

"Once

we had ព difficult

sceno involving four of us, in- cluding Mr Gable and myself, It was about 5.30 in the afternoon and I was worn out and fluffing my ines.

"Taking the blaine for fluft- ing the scene on himself, Gable sold to Mr. Conway: 'Look Jack, I'm exhausted. I don't seem to be able to get this scene right. Don't you think it might be a arid good idea if we stopperi went. home? In the morning I think I can get it."

for Part of the build-up every star is the cheeseenko

and Papers

all magazines will invariably over the world

"Remember I was a former's prift a photograph of A

daughter, movie-fan at heart. pretty girl in a swim-sult. But Then one day I was called In the bathing beauty must to sea producer and director Ava. remain

starlet 100 long."

Jack Conway, "How would you Competition to Berce.

the part of like to do the Producers looking for the

nightclub singer in The Huck-

ho right young actress for a part sters with Clarke Gable?' can easily overlook the star- let right before their eyes

"That laughed.

was of her in they see too much

I can years ago, and remember it "vividly as if it were yesterday.

if

asked!"

Ava cheesecake and glamour stills, seven and not enough of her

screen.

acting

part of the system of player- development at M.G.M. is to have the young contract players do tests. The tests are run for producers as reminders of talent pool at the studio.

the fold that only a year-old running they are entitled be rated the best of the to top-class two-year-old

colis. The English classic races. have won as did Hugh Lupus at the Curragh The winning will be the main objective of Hugh Lupus next year and Rae margin was eight lengths and

Johnstone has already Included the opposition

booked to ride. previous winners.

Six

The opinion was also express ed that the cell was superior to anything in Paidy Prender- Orders issued by Mr Fung gust's stable. That caused me to Ping-fall, C.St.J.. Commissioner take notice, as I had seen Panal- of St. John Ambulance Brigade, ley, Ginger Quill and My Bau Hongkong District.

No. at York. 31/54. Duted December 23, 1954, Further Inquiries elicited that

Ambulance Duties — Hongkong. liugh Lupus

by was trained 20.12.05.-11.50. Kennedy Town Ab,

Hubert Hartigen and 231; 2,1.05.-8.1.54. Shauki won K.F.veteran Amb. Div. December 1954: Shauki elenged to Lady Ursuin Ver- WK F. Neg. Div.: January 1965: non, ม daughter of the late

Duties Kowloon-Duke of Westminster.

Chung Slog Neg. Div.

Ambulance

Order

27.13.64.-2.1.53. Mong Kok Amb, Diy 3 1.65,-0.1 66. Kong Wali & Tal Amb Dive: December 1904: Water- 100 Neg. Div.; January 1935: KYMCA Nr. Div.

One of the first persons I met when I went on the course for the opening of the Second Octo- ber meeting at Newmarket was

Hubert Hartigan.

Royal

seen.

been

TEMPERAMENT How the colt will progress during the winter remains to be It may be he is one of "greyhound brood." and will never put on much weight. i think it will bo to is advantage, if he lets down in his frame and fills out,

he

NO DIVIDENDS

tho

It took a few years for Ava to realise that playing around pays no dividends. There were few tests of her to be scen.

"Whistle Stop" helped her There's get quick recognition. The nothing like a lear-out picture for

If the

the role a young actress, has some meat on the bones.

"It was my fifteenth picture. Ava told me, and while the role of the bad girl in a small town wns not aesthetic challenge or a test of Hugh Lupus is by Djebel out my acting talent, I had a few of Sakouniala by Goya, who lines and for the first time I might inspire a stamina doubt. dia

besides drape

at (London Expreza Service)

myself ing

He does not want to grow any more. 11e appears to have the right temperament and

there is nothing the matter with his courage.

H.K. Defence Force Orders

Serial No. 51. Orders By Lieut Col. 0. ́ F. Newton Dunn, Commandant, Royal Hongkong Defence Force. Dated December 21, 1954,

Porce Orders

Commanding Offeer 11K. Real from

mosphere."

exactly

a cocktail as

an

And for the Arst time I tried to act and to behave like the village trollop I was sup- posed to be.

"At first I was scared. Then, as I was aware of them watch-

ing me, I said quietly that it would be won

wonderful and would I have time to study and work on the part.

Д

"I had to sing at the plane, alono at the solo act, microphone. I felt butterfles in my tummy. I did not sleep that night, and again I knew that help would come, and I'd work and work.

Harriet

"I went al once to

the singing coach. Lev would have gone down on my knees to her if it would have Please, Harriet, will you teach helped. But I didn't have to. me?" I asked. I know I should have been working with you year ago. Now I have to and learn fast, WBI you

"I cut, out all dates. We worked on singing and voice development ten hours a day. Then I went to Lillian Burns and begged her to let me study Her arms the part with her. opened to me and we worked.

GABLE HELPED

guess

"I suppose you can whom I wanted to please most

me

the

Penetration Squad Duties.-28.12.04. Christmas Holiday, cancel duty. 2.1.50. New Year Holiday, Canool duty

Orderly Builes for Mainland Aren tqts-2.12.54, Kowloon Amb. DIY:

Shamshtaipe

DW 24.12.04.

Jumb. 23.12.04. Mong Kok Amb Div. 20.12.04. Mong Kok Amb DIV 27.12.54. Shamshulpo Nag. Div.

"Almost to my own surprise Wah Amb. 28.12.4. Kong

DIV.

I became anxious, almost 20.12.4. Bhomishulpo Amb, Div.

RACO Dude-7.10.04. At Race

worried about the part. Was I

You sco, Clark Gable, Couro, Cauroway Bay Amo, Div

putting it over? Was I getting truth is that at first I was so At leadquarters, Shaukiwa K.F.

over the quality of the girl who scared of doing the picture with Amb, Div 1.1.58. At Race Course, Shsukiwa K.F. Anib. Div.: At

makes a big play for George

him that refused, and Mister ileadquarters, Causeway Bay Aunt

Rafiz

Gable himself helped DIV.

got After the picture was confidence to do it." Football Dates-23.12.54. 2.30 ptu. SCAA Oround: SCAA Amb. Div.;

reminded her that Ava 20.12.54. 2.30 pm. SCAA Ground: fenes Force. In memory of our Jockey Club, "This is to express to it one afternoon and sat through In Memoriam Royal ifongkong De. Sccrutary of the Hongkong Icased I went by myself to see

Gardner WOB chosen by n SCAA Amb, Div.: 25.12.54 230 comrades of HERNUR, TIKVDC and you the thanks of the Stewards for Club Ground: Chủng sing Amb. Div. all odier volunteers who died in de- the excellent performaner which the It twice. 20.12.04. 2.30 pm.

"Yes, it was progress. I was national magazine after a poll Club Ground fence of the Colony in 1941, and as Band of the Hongkong Regiment mit Kennedy Town Amb, DC Prisoners-of-war, and of those who up at the faces last Saturday, They learning. And, there and then of its readers as the most pro 220 Pm. Club Ground: "HKYMCA (died on service on other trends. are looking forward to io Band 'I determined to Improve, to mising young actress of 1947.

Complimentary, The folowing coming to play for us aalis on

and more about

didn't see how I could Strass Sierpers Shelter Society Imessages were received from Colone) March and Apeli 11. "Yours sin four more

com. Dutles ---Shamshulpo, — 23.12.4-1. T. RIN, CBE, FD Commandant | cerely. H. Maa"

noting. 25,13.54, KYMCA NI, DIY. KARM- 1.I.K.D.F. and Major F. Filppance

Land Forces Army Squash Racquets

"I rend plays and studied and possibly live up to it,"

mented Ava, 31.12.04. Shomalalgo Neg Dly.

Championships, The Army Squash

It was while she was doing shelter Society formerly O.C. ASC Coy, IKVDC." Street Bloopers

Racquets Championships for which analysed characterisations with

she had to Dulles Western DistDecember 1954: to take this opportunity of wishing all ranks of the Fores. Navy

All Army personel are eligible will Lillon Burns, the studio drams The Hucksters" Central Ner. Div.

be held during February Entries coach who, seeing my sudden spend a day rehearsing and Mong Kok K.F.W.A. AND, Cilnis Army and Air Force, a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New

should be forwarded to the Army

encouraged me-no, filming a romantle scene which Duties 24.12.04.-24.19.54 KYMCA

interest, Year, I wish to thank you for all

Secretary. Captain B, 1. Nz Div 27.12.04.-26.12.64, Water

a kiss from Clark your services in the past, and hope

more than that, inspired me.

endy with 100. Neg. Div: 20.12.84.-30.13.84.

that in the coming year you will

Gable. When it was over one DYNAMIC FORCE

oaked * AvÁ: Closing date for enteles, will be 17th

upon, your high record."

"I think that every -Jamiary 14, 1955, Cheques should be “ducts Dulk-493,12.51. Central Amb." "Commandant RNKDF Hongkong

does it feel to be kissed to Holly Contral

Amade payable to "The Army Com-actrees who' comes Div, & Neg. Div.; 24,12.54,

Seasons greetings all natiks.

mand Sports Fund." Amb. Die, & SCAA NIE. DAV Coy. Filppance

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During 1947 and 1040 Ava When "The really worked. Hucksters" was half-completed at "Singapore" she began Universal.

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that I could make the grade," she added.

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