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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1955.

BUSMEN - HOLD OFF KITCHEE RAID-

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Hung Hing-yuk, the KMB right back, heads away a centre from the left wing during a Kitchee raid in Saturday's CAAF Cup match between KMB and Kitchee Others in picture from left to Caroline Hill KMB won by two goals to one. right are Szeto Yiu, Wai Fat-kim, Chan Fai-hung (all of KMB), Kwok Yau and extreme right Tang Sum-China Mail Photo.

Don't

Underrate The

Springboks, The Australians Made That Mistake

Says DENIS COMPTON

THE JUDY GARLAND STORY

"I WAS JUST ANOTHER GUMM... TILL A STAR NAMED ME GARLAND"

By MICHAEL RUDDY

"It's funny to talk about yourself as a little girl when you have two daughters growing up and a baby son to look after!"

Judy Garland, eyes sparkling, settled back in her bamboo lounge: chair as we talked about....Judy Garland, the star whose come-back is the talk of Hollywood-and the world.

She began to hum "Over the Rainbow." I think her mind was going back to a snowy Christmas Eve when she was just three years old......singing and dancing on the stage of a small music hall in a Midwest town.

That night she piped five she was doomed to disappoint choruses of Jingle Bells"Andment. For months she bung I'd have kept it up all night if around the studios doing ab Dad hadn't picked me up and rolutely nothing carried me on." A born trouper!

"I arrived

when my sister her Suty was seven and Jinny was Ave." Judy told me.

"My father (Frank Gum was his name) bad prayed for a boy and I wasn't even a tomboy, I hope he wasn't too disappointed.

But I don't think he was, somehow we were always such great pals

Every week when she drew she had an uneasy feel. Pay ing that it couldn't last By the time they found a part for her she was nervous as a kitten.

The first day on the set of Love Finds Andy Hardy sha overracted terribly, fuffed her lines and nearly burst into tears.

It was

wis

fluenced-easily encouraged and easily discouraged."

How lucky for Judy that she holds

days....her husband ads five top cards in her hand Johnny Luft, her children Liza, Lorna and Joseph, and young Johnny. Luft's son by his first marriage.

However tired and despondent she may be, a few minutes' visit from one of the kids will send her back on the set like a girl Mickey Rooney, says] Inspired.

Liza's seventh birthday Judy, who really put her at her "Fe used to sing me to sleep ease. Taking her aside, Mickey came round Judy organised a every

night

and he lived to who had been watching her care- grand excursion and party for

he

had been

thirty children.

She hired, a know that I had got my first fully all the while

in his usual bus and look them all to the Hollywood contract.

around bbed her hands and Ocean Park Amusement pisr.... watch her going on the whispered, "Lock kid, you've and

divebomber Acting is coaster and the got to believe this..

singing. Make believe the dipper and everything else, like

you'd have thought she was one you're singing all this,"

of the kids herself.

"But he never saw any of my pictures. He died a month after I signed for M-G«M.

"Father was a wonderful man, with a terrific sense of humour and a temper like a bomb.

NO LESSONS

OBSESSION

the

But relaxing before "He met my mother: Ethel camera is different from relaxing Milne, when she was the pianist in real life.

toured

and

Then back home for ice cream and cake, and for the rest of the evening they all played games.

SPEED-UP

And that week Was the

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in a Wisconsin theatre where be "When you're in Hollywood Wherever I go I am asked whether this is to be my last season in was singing, and for years they you think there's nowhere else

fastest-running week of the halls as Jack and in the world,” „Judy told me. first-class cricket. Let me emphasise that I have no intention of retiring. Virginia Lee. Sweet Southern you love it and you live it whole eleven months that it took

The truth is that I very much want to play a good deal more cricketSinger when Suzy' arrived he/ yes, your life is nothing but a to shoot "A Star Is Born."

1

"Then

motion picture.

Judy was so happy and busy in England after this year.

bought

a little cinema in Grand

"It was my misfortune that over Liza's party she just didn't a little white My first thoughts this season are to help Middlesex to a higher place in the Rapids with

I didn't

have any other interest. have time to worry about herself. big garden. "You look at everything and There have been people in Championship, and, if wanted, to be at England's service against the South wooden house in

"My first two Christmases

that if she saying. wonder will this be good for Hollywood Africans.

In theatre dressing-rooms, my career? Before you even didn't get an Oscar this year. And just because the South Africans have made an indifferent start to the practically in the travelling

go out on a date, you ask-is she would never, make another four, don't underrate them. The Australians made that mistake two years ago. trunk, and

I was four, this man OK. when

for me, profes-alm.

That would be a great pity. the Two Gumm Sisters became

sionally? After they had been in Aus- coristrued as direct insults, fust I wonder if those who made the Three Gumm Sisters.

Fer one thing is certain; after a. fuss about this even tralia a month, Cheetham's men o England's captain, Len Hi- such

"I was never taught what to

her great fight-back, the whole world is rooting for Judy. were being told that veterans ton and secondly to the man- begin to understand what it is do on the stage, I just DID. I've always like Dudley. Nourse, Eric Roager. Charles Palmer.

like being in Len's shoes.

I Learn still can't read music. wan, and Bruce 'Mitchell should The first came after Len had Here he was, fighting desper-songs by listening to the melody be flown out as replacements invited close personal friends to jately to build an England inn-then I phrase the lyrics my

ings, looking forward to his tea own way. of watch the Test. for inexperienced members

break to relax, rest his eyes

"In 1927 we took a step in from the glare of the Carthe direction of Hollywood-in bean SUL. and to regain his Strength and zest.

the Alm business, too. -

TOUGH LIFE.

the party.

A few weeks later." und without the need of those re- placements,

"GET OUT":

Len had a tremendous amount arrival at the *the Springboks to do and on

at ground he asked me to look

after his guests.

were humbling Australia Melbourne,

I know that the early form of the South Africans has been disappointing.

L

I know that a side with their advance reputation should have

cut a better figure at Worcester

No

sooner had Jescorted them to seats reserved, for the MCC party than an official, who knew me well rushed up and ordered them out.

He would not listen to

my

and Derby. Yet, besides remem- protests that they were guests bering the Australian lesson, of the England captain!

remember that-

It he stopped to speak to

everyone who patted him on Grand the back or said anything to

he would

never have him

reached the dressing-room.

AS WE ALL DO

...

"In other words, Dad sold our Rapids cinema and bought another in Lancaster, a little town on the the edge of

desert, the Mojave

about 70 miles away from the film city.

"We lived there for nine year In such circumstances Len and I can't say I was happy.

He bent his did as we all do."

was so dusty and hot and barren. head a little, and went straight But we didn't spend through

his thanks to con- murmuring

turned out. Dad's health was and

perfunctory breaking, and with that and gratulations answers to all other remarks.

wels

pression we needed money badly. So as caten as not; The Three Gunma Sisters were away on the road, with Mother playing the piano for us,

The same official ejected pitch, guest taken in by Charles Pal- thismer, even though the MCC his

a

I

Worcester (1) The normally plumb and easy, season lock spin on the second manager was sitting with and third days. On the last friend, a host o the MCC team afternoon, particularly young on many delightful occasions. Martin Horton, made the ball turn abruptly.

(2) Derbyshire have one

the strongest, and certainly, the se of bowlers most accurate,

in the country,

"Show business was all I knew when I came to Hollywood. And

been easily in-

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Strike Downwards For Jump ZORIC DRY CLEANING

I think the reason the Billiards Association once considered ruling out the Jump stroke

to the dressing-room. of our time at home, as fc/ altogether was that they were doubtful whether

Don't think I did not enjoy the West Indies tour. I did, and made many close personal the friends there. Moreover. The words used in each case

West Indies cricketers are de were clear enough: "Get out!"

Then the Bustamente incid-lightfully jolly fellows ent. Hulton wms accused of play cricket the way I being rude to Jamaica's Chief eiate. Minister when, on returning t

who

de-

"It was a tough life. Managera

appre- were a hard lot, and often they swindled us out of our money But we got by: Mother never

My sole point in enlarging on Visiting Derby the pavilion at the tea break isolated incidents is to prove how easily an international the critical Fifth Test, he didcricketer can be misunderstood.

-London Express Service:

so early in the tour would be a tough assignment for any side.

after all day at the creasc

Furthermore, the South At-not stop and talk with him.

cans have run into icy winds

and rain-soaked pitches.

With sunshine.

firmer and pinches runs will start flowing from their bats,

DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUE

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If the summer remains damu. however, they will have tighten their defensive

techni-

que against the ball that "stups" and lifts and runs. Otherwise

more trouble awaits them.

my

There is one cloud on cricket horizon. It is formed by thas. Eng- .. implied suggestions

Lish cricketers abroad ате по always such good ambassadors

for their country as they might

be.

Now MCC conditions prevent players from commenting un the events of a tour for 12 months.

The last visit to Australasia. comes within that. ban-in any case this was a tour almost en- tirely without incident-but am free now to talk about some of the events in the West ID- 'dies a year ago.

I do so reluctantly, not revive old quarrels,

to

but in a Arm bellet that an unfortunate impression of the behaviour some of my colleagues in the West Indies remains in 100 mary places in England.

Twice in Jamaica incidents occurred which could be only

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The big, 29-year-old hander appeared in six games this season, winding up with an

0-1 record,United Fress,..

ALL SET FOR A SET

Elizabeth Franks, 18, (left) and her opponent, the young South African player, Jean Forbes, seen before the start of their match at the Herga Open Tournament at Harrow Central Press Photo,

once wrote home for help.

"In Chicago they billed us as The Glum Sisters, George Jessell happened to be on the same bill at the top, of course! and he told us straight out that Gium or Gumm, that was no name to be a success with

"He suggesed we call ourselves Garland after garland of flowers. My first name, Frances, didn't seem to go with that, 10 And we changed it to Judy. that's how Judy Garland was borh

It was es Judy Garland that she went to. Hollywood where an agent named Al Rosen began to take her round the studios.

She had got in introduction through

azong-writer Brown, who had heard her sing at a Lake Tahoe club and tried to get her signed up with his studio, Columbia.

Lew

Judy tried one studio after the other

the talent experts but didn't seem to know what to

do with her.

Was

000

They knew all about child

Judy wonders

Temple. She was, a and teenager with

voice, nobody had ever thought of that

of film-star before

a

Then came the night at Lake Tahoe when middle sister Jinny left her hat box in the club when their mother

waiting to Judy was

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drive then home, sent back to fetch it

She was just coming out the a friend went by lobby when with an agent who had connec tions at M.G.M. The friend in- troduced them. For Judy, it was an introduction to stardan. PHONE CAMP

A month later, when the girls were home in Los Angeles again.. there was a call from M.G.M. Ice Judy.

Cather

her to the took studios, and there she sang-for Louis B. Mayer himself. Song

Her

atter song while Mayer's eyes

shone with pleasure

She walked out of the studio an hour later with a

contract in her pocket. She was Just 14

But if she had thought that fame was coming

the cue ball struck the bed of the table before making its leap or whether it leapt into the air straight away. If the latter, of course, the stroke would automatically be a foul. But in practice no official ban on the stroke has been made, it is perfectly legitimate as long as you don't strike underneath the white ball to make it jump. Strike on top and so avoid damaging the cloth. stroke is, of course, only possible when the cue-ball is about 2 ft. from the snookering ball.

The

Now look at the diagrams. In Diagram A you see

the position I found myself in. By beginning with the Jump stroke I was able to clear the table, as you can see in Diagram B.

BROWN

"DIAGRAM “A”

DIAGRAM “

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With my bridge-hand upright,

only the finger tips pressed on the table, I first raised the butt and then struck down on top of the cue-ball with much force. The white-ball leapt

over the

pink to strike the red lying over right-hand corner the bottom pocket. The cue ball came off the bottom cushion and finished on the spot, XI.

The rest was straightforward. But it's werth following the suckes I made for the sake of

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