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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, - MAY 21, 1955.

TICKET

TO

TROUBLE

IT BEGINS TODAY

a thriller-

The

serial alongside the Film Festival at Cannes, on the French Riviera. story is told by Louise Fraser, a starlet who goes to the Festival-and finds she has taken a Ticket to Trouble.

E

Cannes:

VERYONE here hus been so kind

A few months ago my agent

me telephoned

and said:

"Hello, Louse. Can you bu out at Sheppertan studios by | and thoughtful to midday? I've got you a screen 'me since that hor- test. If it comes of you get a small part in Carol Reed's A KRE

for Two Farthings.'" "300" I said, "it sounds too good to be true.”

But it was trpc.

I was given the test and I got the part. It was only one scene and a few

rible thing happened that I. ought to be calm and col lected again. But I am not. I am desperately frighten- ed:

I know I'm being silly, it it was a start. Here I am, in one most famous resorts in the

of the

FEW weeks ago, after the world, surrounded by beauty A

Abre had been finished. I The Cannes and glamour.

'read that "A Kid for Two Film Festival has begun Farthings had been made the and I am in the middle of main British im entry at the it.

Cannes Festival,

Even while I was reading it Jee.

ין

Five feet away from the cafe table where I am writing the telephone rang. this, Van Johnson and Olivia de Havilland are talking 10- gether over a nightcap. Day has just valked by.

Doris

All this means that a dream

I

of my life has come true. should be the happiest girl in the world.

And I am scared to death.

CAN'T, get over the memory of that man's terrible facu when I saw him in my room. Every time I move 1 can feel the bruise his Ley hands made on my shoulder and neck,

The night is warm and the

round

It was

"Louise," he said, "my part- ners and I are going to take a gamble on you. They are of the giving a private view film in Luton next week,

We will go and see together. It. "O turn out to be as good as they say, we are going to send you to Cannes."

IN

We went to the private view of the aim, Joe and I, and we wailed for my sctime to come

on.

We waited and waited. The lights went up and we looked at each other in despair. For reasons of time they had eliminated my scene!

I went home and had a good

moon is almost full, and the ory. And then, in the middle

sparkle lights

of the

the night, I suddenly weke fabulous Bay of Cannes--and “

and up and knew what I was going oh! how I wish I were making to do. Next moming I drew myself a cup of tea in the safely of

my

Pimlico!!

suppose T

My name is Louise

my lost savings Omce.

out of th

from her starring rale "Doctor at Sea"; Nadia Gray, continous ors a carrying

different"> conversation in four languages. And Van Johnson.

Every time I passed compartment I could hear him singing. He sang all the time. (He has, in fact, been singing while he has been in

Aigu

Cannes

-and now I know why. HC has decided to stop smoking and thinks if he sings or hums it will prevent him from popping a cigarette in his mouth).

It was early morning when we arrived in Marseilles.

a woran on the I noticed platform looking up at me. She was quite young and pretty, but her expression was of someone frightened. Suddenly she boarded the train.

"Are you going on holiday?" she asked me.

"yes" I replied. I'm going to the Cannes Festival"

"Please," she said, "it would be a great help if you could do something for me when you get

to Cannes. What hotel are you

staying at, Mademoiselle?

I

flat in two days ago I boarded good hotel;

3g. better the

train, at Victoria for Cannes. explain how It all happened.

I left Paris in the Blue Train.

It was bursting with Lumous people the lovely little Brigitte Bardot, fresh

Fraser and I am an actress. Not a famous actress yet, though hope to be,

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TOLD.her I had not made up my mind. She reached into her handbag and scribbled a name on a piece of paper.

"Then let me recommend

Mademoiselle. It's and the close to the cinema sea. Please go there and ask for Madame Durand, whe is the proprietress, and tell her you come from Elsa."

I said: "It is very kind."

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TUDOR

Griler Friend

The face of Louise Fraser

His

enve-

"In reburn" she replied, "I would like you to do me one lope into my hand, favour." She thrust an enve-

"All I asked," she said, that

you keep this lobe and do not give it to any- one until you are asked for L Someone will come to the hotel and will speak to You English. They will ask for

Eisa. the package from

You will hand it over

SHE

"

written by

LEONARD MOSLEY

Hallan star Sofia Loren at the Cannes Film Festival

DRAWING

REBB

But I couldn't help it, I pulled my mouth away from his hand and I screamed again and again. He then threw his hands to my shoulders and throat and flung me to the door,

A Few Tips

Tips On

How To Flirt

ness.

by RENE MacCOLL

the

HE copious sunshine signs from the open window to was kindling the the young gentlemen that her family do not approve at, in spring day into A the wish to discover whether he " gentle explosion of happi- is going to a certain party,"

My only comment on that is I was cleaning out the that the paterfamilias of 1848 didn't know how lucky he was box-rbom and suddenly came that Alexander Graham

Bell across a tiny tome, whose hadn't hit on his

Tele title seemed deliciously ap phone device us, yet if only

pesky

propriate to the season. young womed of today were The Natural History of the angers, I might be able to con- Flirt," it was called; its trive

á smuggled call on my "Quickly," he said. "Where author,

one Albert Smith; awa telephone now and then, is the envelope? Give me the printed in London in 1848. envelope,"

The Spring and the Sun can connive to many purposes--but › what

better than flirtation? I do not have to remind you the slightly grisly

Before I could point to my handbag, where I had put the envelope, there were sounds from the corridor and footsteps my door, Then the voice of Madame

I looked around for the approached woman who had given me the came envelope, but there

was no Durand, sign of her.

name

I

felt the

pressure of the

I glanced once more at the

she had scribbled on fingers around my throat relax the piece of paper. Hotel Fantas- and I screamed again. But by tico, it said. I took a taxi to the time Madame Durand had pushed her way into the room, it.

The hotel was small and clean the man with the bald head had

himself towards and cheap in price. And, as the fung woman had sud, it was close to window and disappeared down the see. When I asked for into the courtyard below, Madame Durand there was Burry from the kitchen and out came a huge woman,

Д

HE looked at me as I hesitated

"Did you say that Elsa sent she laughed you?" she asked. "Then you and then although her eyes were

not must have all the best." laughing. "Don't be afraid,

She stood there smiling as the Mademoiselle. It isn't danger

maid led me to my room, ous I will tell you what is in the envelope. I have a friend rest of the day away.

I was tired, and I slept, the waiting for me in Cannes, but

dark when I awoke.

the

to sob began

as Madame Durand bent over me and gently lifted me on to the bed. "Poor child, what has happened? she asked. I will ring for the police, Who was that man? Tell It was me all about it," Outside

While she hurried

away to

of

content to

senal with

Her sparkle

BIERZEKERIJSKA FOOTAGER KEMASU

thel

background His passage seems to me to

gel at the. heart of all to life in 1955--strikes, and the warnen, Flirt or no Flirt

threat of them; bombs, and the

The quadrille finished, the threat of them; elections, and Flirt will not take any refresh- the certainty of them.

Her outlook

UT what

was

cooking

ment, but sits down at once by her chaperom, rather cross; until she sees Charley Lincoln of the Blues through the muslin the front

of

drawing room doorway as he comes upstairs. Now her eyes" sparkle core.

Tiaa

more! Way

well-assumed

There

in waltz begins, and the favoured in 1848, the "year when A. cavalier

Jale edges Smith penned his light-hearted the room, with pages? To the Forty-eighters unconcern, towards

too the outlook seemed grim is no need of introductions, be..

sore eight bars are

oyer they All Europe was in revolution are up together,

and having ary ferment, and in England a quietly and with great deter movement called Chartism was mination knocked a few lum- coming to the boil. (The Char- bering three-timers out of their

who

keep their tista were fretting about all the circlemen things which we nowadays take partners at aru's length, for granted, such as Universal

and girls who turn their heads Suffrage and the Abolition of Barst over one shoulder and then

MP3.)

they go off and ahead, and s0013 It was 10 o'clock in the even- ing. Only 200 yards away all

Everyone was so worried by clear their own way? the Alm stars, dressed in their the Chartist threat that 200,000 best, were arriving

the special constables were enrolled care of the Festival Cinema for the big flm in order to take

500,000 demonstrators who were of the evening.

And here was I, conscious of supposed to present a petition, only one thing that someone signed by 8,000,000 persons, on had broken search

I must not be seen arriving.” the traffic hummed along the the telephone I lay on the bed, Froperty Qualifications for over the other as they wakiz→→

She pointed to the envelope. front of Cannes, "Inside here is my address in the key to my Cannes-and apartment. Do you understand, Mademoiselle?" She laughed

"I

romantic

·again. intrigue. You will help me?" in my room.

ND then suddenly I was aware that was not alonu

I reached towards the electric

Before I could reply she had light switch and turned it on turned and made off swiftly

and then I screamed with 'horror. down the corridor of the train, For crouched back against the

envelope in leaving the.

cupboard beside my open suit hard. I did not see her again cast was a man. He was young

The train

the but he was completely bald, drew Into

He wore a black sweater and station et Cances. Olivia de

and he had a patch Havilland stepped off first and trousers was immediately surrounded by over one eye,

Before I could scream again photographers. Doris Day came

my hand and next and was mobbed by a he had gripped cheering crowd. Over in the far pulled me away from the switch

the turning off the light, director, and Sofa Make any more noise," Loren, the star of his latest said in a low voice, "and you film, were posing.

will not live to do it for long."

Corner Italian

Vittorio de Sica,

terrified out of my wits.

at

·

Her ensign

GREENILJETTAMENKBAARAMKALLECANS) KOM

HE" "military or garrison THE

Into my room in Kennington Common one even- of something so iming. But portant that he was prepared to never turned up, the "special" by expert Smith, He draws on were left to eye each other ugly scene in "The Officers' kill me in order to get it,

What was it he wanted a sheepishty before going home to Mess of the Tenth," where fa desperately? I reached over for supper. my handbag and looked inside. Yes, the envelope was there....

the demonstrators Flict" is held in low esteem

WHAT is happening to Watch Louise Fraser? he

for the next instalment next Saturday.

still

SCHOOLS GO ON THE RUN

EACHER came in and

Twe all stood up. Then

we sat down quickly and lifted" our legs as the drain. overflowed.

From DONALD WISE Johannesburg, Friday

So, like

Catholics in

16:21-

The teacher and I were century England when Henry the only ones with shoes, VIII broke with the Pope, they have organised an underground but none of us wanted wet of mobile independence" hedge face.

schools and teachers.

Σ

WAS

in a "hedge school," located in a stinking backyard, to relearn my alphabet from Br African teacher risking a fine of 250 or six months in "tronk" for holding class.

"My school today was located in the worst barbed-wire ess township among compassed Johannesburg's mine dumps of golden sand."

Chickens heged and pecked Tronk is Afrikaans for gaol at my shoelaces. The intimate whore Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, cheres of life went on about Strydom's. Minister of all non- us as we chanted: "One and European matters, puts teachers one is two, one and two is three, who oppose his Bantu Educa- two and three, is five.". tion Act.

..

We had already learned our There are 120 principals and alphabet for the day. We were some 5,000 pupils about this on our third Rthe second one, city, who dislike his system writing, is almost impossible to even though it is voluntary, put over when the whole faculty

is on the run,

My fellow pupils, by their in- subordination, have iscurred the penalty of permanent, barish- ment from all of them.

However, flirtation namairs cne of the charming links which

pure-minded young ensign" is being poisonously teased by his heartless fellow - officers dismay.

Over..

we in 1965-worrying about The ensign blurts out his at-.. what is happening at Yucca tachment in "a certain garrison Flats-retain with 1848 (when beauty."

they were worrying about what.

failed to happen in Kennington), "'"Why, dear old boy," laughs

ode, 'you cannot be thinking of

So let us examinė A. Smith's Alicia Flower? Hol bo! hol little book. For it is relaxing

to realise that they and we are pleasantly alike

a basic respect.

Her hand

And then the entire mess is convulsed with laughter at the. bare ideu. 'Astoon was spooney in that quarter five years ago, Kasps another, And "R

was neve: clearly made out why

Granam did cot marry adds a third.

"And then the ensign is told

By insisting that his 9,000,000 CMITH lists among the general, by the colonel to ring the bell voteless Africans send their children voluntarily to his

characteristics of the Flirt for some more claret, which

schools to prepetuate their in- of more than a century ago- stops this (to him) most un-

"She is very nice. She has a pleasant conversation,” feriority, Verwoerd has driven a barbed wire wedge into singular knack of driving young classrooms.

HIS FEAR

The

men 12-in-band; keeping them all together.

---She allows you to press ber

Her owner

Child bashes child. Teachers

fears set fire to other teachers after hand and has been known to AH, well. The vague

return it! Sometimes she permits may be slightly different, soaking them with petrol.

the approxineation of feet under but the basic witeries, tiger and

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ivi. ༄།

Headmaster Gordon Mago- binne peered through the broker the dinner-table--very delight now, are pretty much the same. And here is a nice touch. windows of his public school

The inscription on the By-leaf and wailed to me: "I am afraid

"She is skilled in saying with of The Nahrrad History of the to walk about. We have to

great coolness, “NO, I think it Firt reveals it to have be protection."

was the next when the slower kryed at one time to Professor

for.

Because be believed Ver Lot her admirers asks if it is not William P. Ker (1855-1923). woerd's way is better than no

the dance he is engaged to bez Feliow of All Souls and Profes-

sor of Poetry at Oxford education at all, Magobiane is a marked man.

Besides that, dry-writted, port "She does not object to walk sipping W. P. Ker was not only

a high a renowned mountain-climber out at the seaside in

but one of the most famous end: wind...."

determined bachelors to whom And just listen to this. "She Oxford has ever played offer. can talk with her fingers; and, tina host,

externe cases, has been Bachelordom and firtation know to make telegraphic perhaps the perfect combination,

So the Act, against which the Bishop of Johannesburg closed his mission schools because be They believe, and the Minis

The hedge school system is ter has conded this, that his

found it "morally indefensible," brand of schooling State being watched closely through has driven bewildered parents trained teachers working to out Strydoen's Africa, where to put their children into the rigidly controlled programmes there are sufficient schools for hands of violent thugs for whom Ats them

of all African my surly, for African society only 48 percent

suspicious master children,

of today works. only.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

GOOD NIGHT,NARDA, SLEEP TIGHT AND FORGET THAT WHEN

I WAS A SCHOOLBOY

I KNEW A GIRL NAMED ALEENAJ

I'VE FORGOTTEN

BUT NARDA DOESN'T 'SLEEP TIGHT

SHE HAS

STRANGE DREAMS.-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

| SHE AWAKENS, AS IF IN A DREAMTM- SEEMING TO HEAR A VOICE-

WAKE-UP,

NARDA,

DRESS.

PREPARE

TO LEAVE

TAKE PAPER AND PEN→

WRITE WHAT I TELL YOU TO WRITE-

TALK.

"ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

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