1955-01-15 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1955.

NO APPARENT MOTIVE FOR

WHAT THEY DO

EW crimes in the

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them

they discovered no traces of

tor WIS not satisfied.

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enormons category of The FULL, authentic any crune. The chief inspec

experience Interpol's notice, inside story of IN- want the man PACRP

brought to

And

the TI

And he Matis! TERPOL, the organi- me," are strange, explicable, com-

suspect was fetched, sation which tights mitted without apparent

"Loudly he protested his motive. Others reveal queer international

crime inorence of any robbery kinks in the mind of

the all

him with the over the world, linking wrongdoer..ike the

missing casket. While he amazing case of the Ger- which has been the spoke, the officer's attention man fire chief who secretly means of bringing became fixed in 21 large started blazra for his Own thousands ot golden-looking amulet dang- ling on his right elbow, criminals to justice. "What's that?" be asked stretching out a dinary examples of suede, Written with the full suddenly, mostly

The Julian drew away "Non-believer's from him. touch defile Holy Book" he hissel angrily Then, more cumposedly. ho explained safe, bat insisted on taking that his amulet was packed it to bed with her. He with leaves from a sacred allowed her to gratify this book, and not to be touched.

price. whim and they slept with at any

by n white

brigade to extinguish!

There

are, too, extraor

by rummatied

de

whose minds have co-operation of the Wonets

the staft of INTERPOL become deranged by sufferings of difficult chik!- birth, on the throes of un- governable passion or pression.

But

business. Here, presented with their fnetuni background, is

selection of

OWI crimes

let's

1.

try strange

The casket

secure beneath

A young Frat-

- price, al good chura,ter. Chought strongly romantic by nature, visited a but very highly esterined quarter in The Bonbazı district tf Cal-

hand

diamond mast them piles

of costly, scented pillows.

Next morning, when they awoke, the girt felt at once for

Called Thief's

Bluff

sure

her sparkling jewels.

But the pobhee officer fell Discovering nothing. she

I ground. flung away the pillows. "It's now not there," she cried, "You snatched at and grabbed the cuita. There he met a date. played a joke on me while I amulet, and in a trice had "'impossible," nad umplugged its wax stopper. slept ing girl, living m the neigh

the young

When he turned "Nu-

it upside husband. bourhood, and fell crazily un

body can have taken it. You down he shook out, not soil love with her, "She is mar-

holy parchments. mast have hidden it some-

but I waust

diam ads the of where."

stream To marry her." he told his relves. And to the girl's

stolen property.

You may think it a more and her family delight,

notable feat in burglary to he did go.

vellously beautiful,

Stick-Fingered Robbery

il

She denied having their loss to the police. done so. and they reported

The Calcutta detective steal B live lioness. When service knew that the whole this happened in Paris, three city held but a single cat- years ago, it was no mystery burglar agile enough, slick- act. At least eighteen fingered and daring enough, circus hands collaborated 10 to rob a bridal bed of its the theft. Through their At ther marriage, ce treasure. It was the sort of efforts, they pinched #1 braced with all princely burglary that would appeal lioness from a circus cage. formalities a sumptuous to his fancy as much as to The beast had been corvmany he gave her, as his greed. Could he have changed earlier on for two his wedding gift, a richly done it?

other animals by their

CX-

jewelled casket containing Through informers, al circus proprietor. But, not a glittering

willing array of dia- ways

Lo impart caring for the swap after a mundis. Overjoyed, she re- valuable information at a few weeks, he fell himself fused to let the precious price, the police learned of entitled to revoke the con- gift be tucked away in a and visited his hideout. But tract.

"The jewels aren't there!" she cried

The lioness's new owner confession. - perhaps the 2010.0 profeted. A lyz WH રા astonishing aspect of the case, deal, and you had to strund ** did not want to comtal » by it. So, feeling a little sin," he east, hut lately I have of all sore at the exchange's out

suffered from injure rome, the former owner look the law into his own hadde and, with elaborate organised the successful to my in, it kidnapping of the licuris,

1

and i was afraid of myself du merg any drought of com- inting cule defer Par sin idda 1. most evil sin. The vezore.

by nine DIE ON STARTANA And, to e manut a capital cruise thereafter, with Ume to repent before my execution. ! Kes

I should KO TU Heaven minagulate,"

that

he

the with

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confessed

Of crimes without muave, the must startling, a cast of strule by proxy, beeurred at the Theatre des Celestins at Lyons. A

respectably

So we come to the shoemaker fressed, middle-aged ma fireman pyromaniac, a German having bought a Beket for die chici, well regarded in his Franek. sellied villape the performance,

Upper stat in the uring the war, and a.terwards, be that charge of the village fre down in his

And yet, wi

when chargen stalls. Then, dramatically, brune

fire-raising he without anything in play provoking his act, he that between 1943 and 1950 he

starled had a knife and whipped out

* plunged it to the breas, of eighbourneod, all of which is brigade fought, himself working the woman beside him o

as anyone to put out absc'uty stranger to him. the flames. He ignited buddings

use of ghe dissolved in Hier husband ent

the by other side of her. As she certum chemical. slumped frward, dying, her killer did Hot move, but simply sa still waiting for the police to arrest him.

The

mysery was

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when Hairy revealed le 17

tan 17 bibitkess

1 curd, lar

tumily.

happly his pro marties, respected in de pub, fn wn for his kindness to chura. Everyone living an his neighbourhood spoke v nim Cat-fearing. thet Duguly

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1954 as a golden era

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the Inlund Revenue loves to Sir John Gielgud end Str Ralph wuch. His "Separate Tables" Richardson were immured in the shewed what craftsmanship and long-running

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Sir sex even in so unlikely a place before.

Laurence Olivier

Morley beating hia bund in "Hippo Dancing"

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A. E. Matthews making anyone under 80 look very aged, indeed, in The Manor of Northstead.”

as a most forgettable year.

ances, as a genteel hotel in Bourne- Michael Redgrave, and Richard Sifting through my memo- mouth.

Burton were busy filming. Only ries, 1 am impressed chiefly

Alee Guinness ventured into by the sheer volume of Perhaps the most heartening hours 1 have spent in the sign of the year was the number something new, and then it was

scen

only for limited run as the

Bildget Boland's gripping play, "The Prioner."

of

of new plays by unknown coldly, compelling cardinal in theatre and the relatively authors that managements were few moments of distinction prepared to put on.

Unfortunately their they bring back to me.

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The best actor's performance to drained away when it came have

the year came from Eric Although I

anything producing about 126 plays, I can dis- manding than a torce, a thriller major

more de Portman, as the bogus, broken In "Separate Tables," cover no trend, no dynamic, or a domestic comedy. Most of And, of course, there was Robert

nspired only to com- ño genius, to prevent this these

them got annual summing-up from petence, and fow of

there. The one exception WIE gounding like a budget for a "Murder"

Story," by Ludovic funeral.

Kennedy, who ruthlessly twisted Of

audience on an emotional

course, there have his

been some good plays and rack to establish his indictment

sumo exceptional" perform- ances But these have merely isolated flashes fad- ing almost as

of capital punishment.

however, British

play-

quickly as wrights wero unable to find they came, rather than inspiration in anything more brilliant explosions leaving important thun television and income tax, the Americans went

a significant glow behind. at life with a 'bulldozer.

Established playwrights have

had a particularly thin time. "The Big Knité" was so angry There have been no new plays at Hollywood it was almost this year by T. S. Eliot, Emlyn lynching party; ""The Wooden Williams, Peter Ualinov or Benn Dish" was movingly concerned Eevy. And among those thip- about old age: "Teahouse of wrocked on the rocks of critical the August Moon" was opaćon 'were J. B. Priestley, Licious satire on the American Noci

Coward, FÓTCE Mao Army and American democracy; Dougall, Chotham Streda, Dodie The Matchmaker", bubbled with Smith and Charles

ideas, silly and sane: "I Am a

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tom Camera”; examined. This erotic

Christopher Fry's. valve,The Dark la Light fears and fancies of a suburban Laugh failed to achieve more girl pretending moralist

to be a demi- than divided praise and, unli Kondaine;

But the Golden Boy of the dared to dlaci bomociuality,

A singularly barren feature of „West Boch). Teretion · Rattigany, the year was the Abadice

houses

My Medals

Best serious play...

Separate Tables,

Best Comedy~~~Teahouse of of the August Moon;

Hest actor-Eric Portman

in Separate Tables;

Best actress-Siobhan Mc-

Kenna in Joan of Arc;

Most disappointing evening

-Ingrid

Bergman Joan at the Stake;

In

Most promising prospect--n

Diane Cilento;

Most diMeult to sit through

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Wedding in Paris. -

The most exciting perform- however cume from actresses, Puggy Asteroli was chillingly malevolent in "Hedda Gabler"; Yvonne Mitchell was tensely pathetic in

Im- "The moralist"; Dorothy Tutin slunk bewitchingly through "I Am a Camera" Margaret Leighton suffered superbly in "Separato Tables."

But my accolade of the year must go to Siobhan McKenna for her compelling interpreta- tion of Shaw's Joan of Arc. And the just to show how difficult role would be there was Ingrid Bergman giving her version of The Maid of Oricans in "Joan at the Stakes and proving

Chat merely looking worried was not enough to conquer the English.

The year, too, turned up with for two fresh names destined much bigger things. Mary Ure suddenly. found herself in all the headlines after her appear- ance in ""Timo Remembered." And Diane Cilento has the kind of bursting personality that should make her the most pro- mising actress of the next few years,

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