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▼ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1965.

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WITH DORIS DAY IN THE KASBAH

Hitchcock tells James Stewart 'Boyer had us all fooled..!'

Cabled from .... Marrakesh,

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OME with me to the Kasbah," says Doris Day.

I mutter about it being rather hot,

"Go on to the Kasbah," see the

says James Stewart, "and mysteries of Morocco."

I say I have a date with a snake in the souk, which is what the local Arab market is called.

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"Don't worry about the Kasbah," says Alfred Hitchcock. "It's not all it's cracked up to be anyway."

Hitch is right. It isn't. The Kasbah (which means a fortified place) is just a spot where a lot of people live all jumbled" together and even the most sinister charac- ters have a smile.

"Charles Boyer has had us fooled' all these years." says Hitchcock to Stewart.

This heat

JOLLYWOOD-with British actors Bernard

to Frerich Marocco to Alm "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

So every day, in tempera car. "I promise in my next film tures above the 100 mark, I will be kind to donkeys." he James Stewart and Doris Day, says. "And I'll call it "The vas husband and wife on holiday Vicar of Bray."

in Marrakesh dash through the sweltering streets of the souk in

chase sequence.

down at us from guards

are

Looking roots and walls armed with rifles who have been tut en duty to protect US. There can be trouble in these parts and no one is taking any chances, In troubled Morocca min are killed every night.

That donkey

ORIS DAY, the bright sing-

Die star, is not so concerned

about men with guns. She is worried about a donkey....

"You see. Brenda de Banzie, the English actress, saw it in the bazaar looking miserable and went up to pat its head Then Brenda started talking to it.

"I was right next to her and she said to the donkey: Don't worry.. little donkey. I know it is bad for you here but one day you'll be where the grass is

and the green.

people are kind....

"And then the donkey started to. cry.

You know, tears came its upon

and he cried. eyes And I cried with him."

It is very hot...and Hitch- cock turns on unsympathetic

Doris Day is not put off. "I guess I am kind of emotional, she says, "First night I spend any strange place I just sit down and ery. My two men, husband and son, try me out of it but it's no use. just blubber."

to kick

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A whistle blows and the stars are on the run again. In the narrow lanes of the 'bazaar, just over six feet wide, there, is jostling confusion as orders are shouted in three languages.

That mystery.

HITCHCOCK sits away

it all the only man wearing a crisp white shirt

tie.

He says:--

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NOTE

THE LITTLE

* MAN WITH

THE

*TRUNCHEON

*

*

. Walking past Ja mea tewart in the bazaar, and

* note (right

the guards rines to the background as Hitchcock directs a loca

tion scene.

bicycle with a sewing machine on the back. That's Morocco.

SHOW SPECIAL

by

DAVID LEWIN

As the sun goes down we go to a cate in the Kasbah quar- ter. We relax, which is not so "It's no use coming here with simcult for James Stewart who, a bunch of actors and just put in nearly 20 years of being a ting them against the back star, he is 46), has brought re- ground. That wouldi belaxation to a fine art. from travelogue. You have to show

could put on a spurt and slug a man quickly or draw a gun fäșt. Now it is all right again and so I can play the boob and get away with it."

That bikini

HITCHCOCK explains

his

choice bf 31-year-old Doris Day this way: "You have to be careful finding a screen wife for Jimmy Stewart He is a star whom

family audiences love and they just won't Lake him being married to anyone.

"He has been in lot of pictures with June Allyson, $0 we wanted to avoid that com- bination again. He had Grace Kelly as his girl friend in 'Rear » Window, But Grace isn't, the... wifely type.

"I wanted a good, wholesome American girl and Doris Day is just "right."

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The good, wholesome Ameri- can girl la growing up fast in husband Darts. Marty Melcher, who is with her, says:

these

"Doris has never been out

of the States before and I think she is a bit shocked at what she sees here.-

bathing the

"But you know something- ste wore 2 bikini costume the other day for first time. That's something she never did back home."

This tinkle

is night now, and of lights spring up round story-tellers and dancers and snake-charmers in the old Arab city. As the crowds Bood by, tiny bells unkle, and the sound hangs in the soft, still air.

But the Alm men are full of

people back home what it's "I kind of, like to take it here really like, with details you can easy" he says.

and catch and understand. So I'm. I have specialised in

"I suppose problems: problems about light- playing ing in the bazaar, about the heat not having masses” of Arabs. the boob. I play a fellow who (nobody who is anybody comes "}

Just a few, like the woman on gets pulled into something he to Marrakesh in May it is came to Marrakesh be- the bike," cause, in this suspense story, an

can't really handle, and he just definitely out of season), about Arab has a crucial plot-point to

gels pushed on and put upon the local religious fast, all of make in kidnapping the little

by other people, but he finally which slows up production. muddles through. boy-the 'son' of Doris and Jimmy. Of course, you, can get an Arab.in Hollywood or Lon- don and bits of this bazaar look like a studio set.

This luck

GO off with James Stewart and his wife Gloria to mouth of the bazaar, where I have a date with a snake.

DORIS DAY, All-American Girl, walks in the All-Arabian quarter

IN NEW ZEALAND NOW

GAMBLING IS RESPECTABLE

By J. C. GRAHAM

bet to

111

TICK YOUR TACTICS

IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD

By JAMES BARTLETT.

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HE President of the Board of Trade, Mr Peter Thorneycroft, spoke up briskly at Olympia when he opened the world's largest display of business efficiency equip ment.

He praised the office machines on show, among them a £18,000 "electronic brain."

י,

Then he said: "We have not yet found a machine which will be able to

say 'Yes' or 'No" between two equally distasteful alternatives. It is nice to think that there is. a part left for humanity."

That is where YOU take over. For here is your chance to check how oficient YOU are- just by marking Yes or No to the following questions (put a ack for Yes, a cross for NO)

↑ Are you ofter up In the clouds, one moment and low the next?

2 Are you generally "unpunc-

tual?

2

aside Do you regularly put something for "a rainy day"?

that

on

Does other people's criticism upset your feelings so you cannot keep your mind what you are doing for much of the rest of the day?

5. Would you rather be admired what you do than for what-you-look-like?

for

6 Do you think that if a woman

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is better able to earn living than her husband she ought to take on the task?

Does your job bore you?

8 Would you lend a friend a

sizable sum of money with- out security, purely for friend- ship's sake?

of

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Have you ever looked around-

Auckland. plan was approved at a national AMBLING has gone referendum by a majority

more than two to one.

your workplace (whether all respectable The 55-year-old Hitchcock,

TAB stands for Totalisator kitchen, office or factory) to see New Zealand. Instead Agency Board the body, which it a new arrangement of the "Audiences loved the boob hands folded across his stomach,

He made "The of slipping a

a controls the betting shops. It is fittings would make your work before the war, and the films remains calm. the

were successful. Then the war Man Who Knew Too Much" in horsey-looking character, in run by the combined racing and easier? changed all that and for three Britain 21 years ago. It

cost a

bar, you now enter The State gets a share in taxa- trotting clubs of the country. "But what you can't gel is

years after the

war

people £52,000 then. This one the mystery of Marrakesh."

The gentlemen whip

charm wouldn't take a fellow who £400,000.

look like banks. and snakes are working with cobras wasn't definito

couldn't "Tell you.

old bean,"

says on the pavement. They have a beat anything.

My pictures Hitch. It's an Arab woman, few thinner snakes which for a flopped, veiled but wearing sun glassen few franes they will put round and riding

Birmingham your neck for good luck.

costs dignified premises. which tion and any proft is paid out 10 Can you keep calm if some-

He still says: "Don't Save the drama for the screen. Remember, ald bean, it is just

fuss.

a

into some Westerns where I movie.

There is no air of hectic gambling. Said housewives with shopping baskets, sober

to clubs for improvements courses and facilities.

to

The clubs are well satisfied. They say their profits from

one tells you to do some- thing when, you are just about to do it?

"-took myself in hand went movie we are making. Just alcitizens in business garb, trail totalisators are smaller, but the Do you agree that a man at

Why Bother To Send A Child

T

London.

HE other day, when I was eight years old, 1 sat for my first exam. I was enormously con- fident; being an innocent, if rather unsightly, child, I had believed my schoolmaster when he told me that the purpose of examination was to discover how much child knew — rather than how little.

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I flattered myself, even then, that I knew a good deal.

I was not, therefore. alarmed when I found my- self quite. unable to answer

a single question.

We are teaching them too much rubbish

says.

ROBERT MORLEY ·

actor, playwright and father of three

To play the game?

To School?

old ladies, examine the sheets afsplayed

round the walls. Then they quietly go up to a grille behind which is a row of tellers, buy their tickets, and

leave.

These are the very high class betting shops known as the TAB which run the off-course

the end of his day's work is outweighed by their share of deserves to take it easy for the the off-course betting profit, evening reading his paper or

Perhaps hardest hit of all is listening to..the radio...... the, bookle whose business smaller and often unworkable.

NOT HAPPY

12 Do you often

drear that you would like to live in a different country?

suburb

Meanwhile, the anti-gambling 13 Do you chatter on the tele- You can find a TAB in every town and village and in almost They claim the spread of the every

phone without giving

time or

cities.

already learned the secret of betting throughout the country; interests are, nut at all happy. thought to how much

relaxation

نہیں

I don't play footbali....I stand about with 40,000 of my

Don't attempt to coerce them fellow countrymen on Saturdays Emulate them Relax yourself.

of the larger TAB was not foreseen by those money is being spent?

who voted in favour at the and watch the professionals play.

After all what does it matter?

restaurant bills to see that It is the first system of its referendum-and they maintal14 Do you check shop bills or You I learned to touch my toes more

have something much kind in the world, and it has it has made betting far

you are paying correctly for valuable without bending my knees. I

give your been such an enormous success easy.

what you have had? child. Only from you can be that the churches are seriously can't do it now, and just as well. learn the secret life.

worried. For all its respect-

to

That way lies the slipped disc. Once he has learned it, all the able air, they claim, it has pro-

schoolTesters in the world can-duced a great increase in bet not make him forget it, how-ting in New Zealand and is a ever hard they try.

menace to the country,

What is that secret?

too

No one knows exactly whers, the TAB betting comes from 15 Is life giving you à aquare

deal for your effort? Some has been diverted from totalisators. The bookies have lost a lot. But it is generally What's your score?

We

would do well to close down all the schools for at least three years, give the children a

that a new class of holiday, and put the school-

NO BOOKMAKERS

has come into masters to work devising a new

existence-people who seldom

Now compare your answers. and simplified basic education.

Until a few years ngo there went to.

races and would not with this score-card: 1, No; 2, Put was only one legal way of bet bet illegally with bookmakers.No; 3, Yes; 4, No: 5, Yes; 6, Once a child Had acquired this down the paper. Go and find ting in New Zealand and that he could decide

Yer; 7, No; 8, No; 9, Yer; 10, your child's copy of Shakespeare, was to go to a race course and for himself unless, as is unlikely, you still put

Certainly the TAB shops are yes; 11, No; 13, No; 13, No: 14, whether he would like to go on have one of your own.

your monty On the well conducted and would not Yes; 15, Ter and learn philosophy or start

totalisator.

frighten away the most respect- Find Hamlet....the third We are spending more money

Bookmakers were entirely able citizen. There are no blar- than we ever spent or education ing for is one.

What the world is search- selling newspapers."

scene of the first act. ....There banned, whether at the course ing radios or crowds waiting for answers,

If you agree with all these child who can

you are certainly However,

will find the only or anywhere else. and the streets are paved with, prove that they're NOT.

our child

But for all results, and payouts are not efficient--but watch out! You that day Teddy Boys and Teddy Girls.

advice worth arrives, need not worry "education he really needs.

taking, the only that they flourished. In spite of posted until the next day. Finally are

likely to be' hard-hearte that Trusting that the examiner

The theory

once you

unduly if our children are con-

fines and prison sentences, It patrons can if they prefer bet by have taught a child the rudi-

This above all to thine was a religious man as well as

mail was claimed that the bookles or telephone..

** own self be true;" fail

Whatever the effect, to pass their a mathematiclan I neatly copied know how to teach children we ments of many subjects he will sistary bottom in their class,

took more bets than the total-

the exams or

If you disagree with. down for him a list of the 12 haven't the slightest idea what go on an explore the ones that caplain the school cricket team.

And it must follow, as the isators,

TAB seems to have come to than seven of them, you are Apostles and scribbled a brief to teach them.

interest him has, unlike the

night the day, We never had. theory of the isosceles triangle, note assuring him that he would

It may be either that their find them correct,

Have a look at your son and never been proved to anyone's minds are too fastidious to daughter next time you meet, satisfaction

absorb the mumbo-jumbo of the Imagine. my "astonishment How tough is it for them? How

or that they have.. when I found that I had received rough was it for you?

child rice pudding class room no marks at all..

every day and when he grows For many of them this is the up he will never touch it again.

It's not only that we don't

Give

I learned my lesson....I tinhappiest time of their lives... Let a child realise too soon never again trusted a school- they will never be so harassed, that there is no limit to know- master and forgot, at any rate unpopular, ill-fed, badly housed ledge and in self-defence he will for a time, the names of the again..

impose his own. Apostles.

And when it's all over, when

Teach him too much of what the last primer is shut, the last doesn't interest him and he will desk slammed, the mind closed, come to loathe all teaching

At this time of the year sealed in tradition and (surpris- It's not that we don't such nearly every child in Great ing when you consider what it our children enough, we teach Britain

is preparing for an cost) ignorance....what is there them za: too much....we teach examination of rome kind..

to show?

A school certificate them a great deal of rubbish. and a determination to forget. Schoolmasters and education all the things they never wanted Nothing I ever learned authorities have to be pipett« to know. ally reassured that they are not

warting their time or money, gum Logarithms

They want quick resulta grammar

at school, once I had learned to read and wríto, to add a little

Latin and to say a few. Frenki sen- co-efficients of fences, bones atood me in

expansion...poems by Walter much stead since... skip to be inspected, stuffed; the world, and - anubility All the nonsense I learned inspected, again, graded, string, shared with millions to prove on the playing fields and in the packed, inspected ince more, that the angles at the base of gym...for what has it equipped

A child for them is a sausage de iz Mare... the capitals of

and finally delivered.

ag kosceles triangle are equmli

until

We

· JOHNNY HAZARD

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HIS EYE ATTRACTED BY THE LIGHT IN.... THE BOMB BAY, RUPY LOOKS DOWNWA

Thou can not then be false

to any men. Farewell; my blessing season

this in thee!

too.

more

In view of the above situa- stay. And it had drawn Ineffkient-hopelessly inefficient tion, the government decided inquiries on as far afield as if you disagree with the whole tant the only way to stump cut the Australian States; Malaya lot. bookmakers was to make off and Ceylon, which are consider. course betting legal, and the ing the same system.

MÅND DISCOVERS SNAP'S HIDING PLACE!

Well, where do you stand?

By Frank Robbins

WHAT A CLEVER PHOTOGRAPHER! UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM,HIS LITTLE DARKROOM WILL DEVELOP INTO HIS PEATH. CELL.

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

: