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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1955.

STARTS INSTANTLY NEVER MISSER

SHEAFFER'S

SIR ANTHONY'S HIDE-OUT

Now they call i Chequers.. where the

Premier takes his

breakfasts in the sun

and his wife believes

in letting the rose-

bushes grow

Mr Hope Goes Straight

SO THE GAG-WRITERS (AND MR CROSBY) ARE LEFT BEHIND

BOB HOPE is coming to

Pinewood to make his first British Bl which could be called (but isn't) The Road from Moscow.

He will be travelling light without his usual gaggle of gag-writers. He will be accompanied only by his

masseur.

Crosby and Lamour, his fellow-travellers along those profitable roads of the past the last of which turned out to be a cul-de-sac--will be left behind in America,

A PARTNER

Instead of a dusky cutie in a South Seas sarong Mr Hope will have as a partner - in his new film a dialectica! Comrade in Soviet jack- Instead of Dorothy boots. Lamour, they are giving him Katharine Hepburn,

Instead of Bing Crosby in

a toupee, they may give him, by way of a competitor, Alec Guinness

with Russian hair-cut.

£1

All this is part of a during plan to put over Hope as a straight comedy actor.

KREMLIN

Instead of dusky Dorothy Lamour.

Katharine Hepburn

SHOW TALK

·

by THOMAS WISEMAN

it were William Holden, Cary wisecrack. Grant and James Stewari,

Then Hope, who was deter mined to go straight, expressed his interest, Producer Belty Box and director Ralph Thomas flew to America to discuss the film with him.

"It is like acting with Garbo," he said.

It occurred to me that Hope might be getting his own back on Bing for going legitimate in The Country Girl and nearly winning an Oscar.

I have read the film story and it looks to me like a winner.

In this new film, temporarily called Not for Money, there will bo no slapstick, no clowning, no They are now back in Lon- 11 is a political satire with Hope report to me that playing captain in the paycho- nonsense. You will appreciate don. They what on unusual role it is for Hope was so overwhelmed at fogical warfare division of the

stering United States army prospect of Hope, when I tell you that the with Katharine Hepburn actors originally considered for that ho Oven forgot .tà

SIDE GLANCES

1. M. SLX 2. Pa pet.

· Con 1296 by NEA Bervien, Ind.

the

By Galbraith

#Son, the first thing for you to settle with your bride is who's boss-no use kidding yourself!"

Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHAM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

FROM OUR

FILES

in · Ger-

To the Editor of the "China Mail"

many. Miss Hepburn is a Rus- sian woman pilot who comes down in the Western zone,

It is # variation Ninotchka theme.

Icottage

is a small thatched

shiro village, but the people of Broadchalke (pop. 661) are calling it "Chequers," For last week-end, when the BBC announced that the Prime Minister had gone to

Sir Chequers, Anthony the walking in cottage garden at Broad- chalke.

was

The Prime Minister's coun- try hideaway, officially named Rose Bower, is a three-bedroomed cottage, with rose-washed walls covered by rambler roses, flowering clematis wind- ing up to the chimney-pot, and a tiny quarter-acre garden.

Before it became the second Chequers, the villagers knew it as "Charissa's cottage," for Lady Eden bought it six and a half years ago, before her mar- riage, for

more than £3,000.

OIL the

over Hope tries 10 convert her to American democracy; she tries to con- vert bl to Russlun Com-

The story, munism.

very of democratically, makes fun Russian, British and American dolbles, And Hope and Hepburn fall in love, thus trotting-up the cald war,

She says to him: "Come with me to the Kreinlin."

TO THE PENTAGON

He says to her: "Come with me to the Pentagon."

In the end they achieve peace- ful co-existence on unspecified Reutral territory.

Hope will have to sacrifice more remunerative television jobs to do this film, In America £800 a he sometimes carme minute on TV. He will not earn £600 a minute at Pine- wood.

But while he is here, he will Ռո dwo one-hour iclovision shows to be shipped back, So he will not starve.

A GREAT GIFT

Says Ralph Thomas of his plan to transform Hope: "He has a beautiful speaking voice and a great gift for arousing sym pathy. In this film he will play a love scene in earnest for the first time. Without clowning. I think the new Bob Hope will surprise everyone."

Footnote. Katharine Hepburn is looking for a Petruchio to tame her in the film version of The Taming of the Shrew.

Mr Hope?

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Bright wallpapers She decided to change it from oil lamps to electricity, disliked a roof which was part slate-part thatch and had the whole roof thatched, and planned the re-decorating indoors with bright wallpapers, white woodwork and green carpeting. Said one of the decorators: "Clarissa did a lot of the painting herself. She's a great one for work."

one

Now the cottage is

place where Sir Anthony can relax. The villagers never intrude.

THROUGH

BROAD

The warning sign No Through Road' secures the privacy of the Eden cottage

The Prime Minister's Neighbours

Cardener Gerald Stacey, cook Mr. Stacoy, and daughter Ruby, who kalited the PM two jarsays.

with their five-year-old golden labrador, Bessle, Sometimes they do a little weeding in the garden.

Occasionally there is a mild dispute about that garden be- tween Lady Eden and gardener Gerald Stacey, who Ilves in the coltage next door. a great one for cutting- "I'm

back," he told a friend, "but Lady Eden, she won't have it. reckon that rose bush at

by MARY

"Let him have

B

little The

his

peace," they say. only way we know he's here is by the Govern- ment couriers. And it's the only time we get the newspapers delivered-he likes

with them breakfast." Usually Sir Anthony has breakfast in bed, with porridge as the main dish, but recently, wearing only a pair of shorts, he took his tray out to the warm sun in the garden. Sometimes the Edens take

walk across the rolling downs

ย

HEWAT

the back will fill the whole place pretty seen if I don't get it cut."

Lady Eden has no housekeeping problems at Rose Bower. All the meals are cooked next door by Mrs Stacey Baid brought over on a tray. If there is a shortage of drinks, Mrs Edward Bundy sends up an order from The Malt House, a near-by in sald to date back to the 13th century.

There is an electric stove for the afternoon tea, or the occa- siomf diêh of scrambled eggs, which Lady Eden cooks her- self. There are hine white leghorn hens to provide fresh eggs. And when she runs out Jamn or sugar, like any

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hongkong Volunteer Memorial Fund

Sir-This is the Tenth Anni-- versary of Liberation Day. A no more suitable occasion could present itself to bring to the attention, of the pubile the aims of the Commities of the Hong- kong Volunteer Memorial Fund: For some considerable time it has been felt, and these feolinga have been voiced, that the people of this

Colony would

wish we have some permanent memorial dedicated to those members of its own Armed and Auxiliary Forces who laid down their lives in the defence of Hongkong. Although there are and

#

number of monthing that

memorials, there is

the people of this Colony, and the generations to come, cau associate directly with the effort and sacrifice of their own forces, the "Volunteers". comprised men and women

force

This

of

Their

many races and creeds, blood was mingled in the soil of the land which they had made their home.

The Committes have carefully considered how best to Inter pret, and translate into action, the possible wishes of the com- munity as a whole. Government has been approached and Licen most co-operative anxious to help. It is hoped the that the Memorial will take form of a Garden of Remem- braice,

with

has and

suitable

In addition to this It 18 that our funds will be to asspelate the Govern-

in the centre of the

some

be

Memorial with ment welfare scheme, where its.

Volun other country wife, she tele-name will be perpetuated, and phones her neighbour and which will Desist both

teers and the dependents of borrows. She seldom entertains at the those who laid down their lives.

WIDESPREAD APPEAL The only guests in

Just how much can be done times, opart from Sir Anthony's son, Nicholas, have will depend upon the response be the Marquess of Sulis- to the appeals which will

Launched shortly through the bury and Mr Herbert Morri

Press and by Radio. These ap- Unlike another neighbour, Mr peals will go out not only to the but to Cell Beaton, the Edens take people of Hongkong

Malays the United no part in the community life, Macao,

wherever this though they sometimes go to Kingdom and

have community of ours may the Church of All Sakits on drifted, Sunday

mornings where Hare will be the golion oppor- they end up sign auto-tunity for men and women of

all races and graphs.

creeds in the But the villagers don't mind. Colony, and beyond,

to pay Of Sir Anthony, they say: tribute, in tangible form, 10 "He's a friendly chap. Always those who died in order that waves when he goes by in their land might be fairer. Here the car. And of Lady Eden, will be the opportunity to prove seldom called anything but that they have no lack of civic Clarissa: "She's a proper pride and that they have re- Churchill, and she has the tained that strong sense of duty which has already carried them temper, too,"

through adversity.

His Excellency, Sir Alexander They try to see that the two

prime villagers have every-Grantham, GCMG, has gracious-

grant

tod to bothe Patroa Volunteer Hongkong

While he is the

thing they want. When the ly consented Edens came back to town, Slr of the Anthony had a new jersey in Memorial Fund. bottle-green wool. It was Honorary Commandant General knitted for him by 24-year-old of the Royal Ho

Hongkong Defence Ruby Stacey, the neighbours' Force, his love of Hongkong daughter, the second she has and its people, can be gauged done for him, and she worked by his willingness to remain all day on Friday to finish it awhile with us. It is a pleasure in time.

to feel that he will still be with us when our plans reach maturity,

(COPYRIGHT)

-(London Express Service).

100 YEARS AGO THEY STUDY THE SECRETS

coun..

about

ding faith in his own dogmas merely the drynurse of a very a government, by entrusting rickety banting "raised" among the people who have a stake in the old hands wito elt Hongkong, 20th August, 1855. the colony with the management all with him. That there i

S-The late Rains and the of affairs. And we were the something discreditable

more confirmed in this impres- it, is evident from the secrecy unaltered state of the Parade

sion when we heard on all hands in which it is yelled. Ground induce me to call your that Sir John. Bowring expressed attention to my letter in your his anxiety and determination to

1854. The maugurate a system an paper of 15th June, Lieutenant Governor did nothing famity with the antecedents of about the Road from the Boat his political life, house to the Barracks of the 69th Regiment, do you think the Governor would give it a thought?

SAMUEL GULLIVER, Late of the Hongkong

Volunteers.

COLONIAL REFORMS

cod

to

FR

OF THE SEVEN SEAS

ROM the handsome houses whose grounds border a Ilane deep in Surrey, men set out in the mornings to work in the City, 40 miles away. Mingling with them, some mornings, are men you might take for commutors like the rest, but who may have appointments to keep, not in London, but in Antarctica, or mid-Atlantic, or in the Azores.

SUBMISSIVE J.P.'s

at all If the scheme were likely to be palatable the persons most interested in the success of the colony, but al-

They are scientists-chemists, and Empire grants that total lowed no say in its administra- | Siologists, physicists, mathe- £121,000 a year. tion, the substance at least maticians-from the National Up to this time, however, it would have been made known Institute of Oceanography, whose

known What anything to them. But

ww

NO EXCUSE

done

binetion on

never were

Government,

ac-

submarino

"That sounds a lut of money,"

the Institute's

covery II

The unknown

Director

THE COMMITTEE The Members of the Hong- kong Volunteer Memorial Com- mittee are:-

Dr The Hon. S. N. Chau, CBE. The Hon. D. J. 5. Crozier. William Eu, Esq. *

Lt-Col. H. Owen Hughes, OBE, ED.

Mr D. 1. Prophet, CA

Dr The Hon. A. M. Rodrigues, MBE,

ED. D. L. Strellett, MBE, ED.

Kingdom).

Mr H. J. Tebbutt, FRIBA. R. K. Valentine, Esq., (United

Service Representatives... Commandant, Royal Hongkong Defence Force,

Lt R. R. T. Smith, HKRNVR. Major H. de Botelho, MBE, ED, Hongkong Regiment

Me C. A. J.” V. · Ribeiro, HKAAF,

A. N. BRAUDE, Major,

Chairman, Hongkong Volunteer Memorial Committee.

Mail Notices

hood Bald I assure you that, the other is not

rod-brick, factory-like to that, in defiance of Instructions quarters, pass, I whatever has been day, when obliged to

mike from the sen, Dr George Deacon, "but money matters on a proper from the Colonial Omice, and rise stark and sudden on a hill- vanishes like smoke when you found it as deeply flooded as it place

Com-top at Wormley, near Godal-un an ocean-going ship." (Dia- was when I had to attend drill footing" and though

Was mitteo of Parliament, continues ming.

costs £200 a day Yours with an unpalatable duty was the recommendation of twelve months

ALL ago.

notural enough as long as the

ita Ordinances without obediently.

Here, a staff of just over 60 when she is at sea). Government was administered to pass

were first publishing draft copies, is study the oceans of the world

The Intes · times of posting by officers who

not likely to take much

shown below arm khung for u from the points of view of de- reformer count of distinguished

zegistered correspondance poste the

in fence (the undersen currents community

"Apart from the Udes," he Et C.P.O. Honghong. The latest since that Impediment has been coun

constitution; which, submarines may encounter, Johis

framing a

for sald, "no one had really studied porting times elsewhere which, Sir .. Donida gol

safely predictedmin-

re-instance, or the waves landing the eca scientifically until quite

In gañazal, are wartier than the Bowring's authority as it may be

OP:0, time, can ho racertained Craft Governor de facto, boen fully serves the making and

may meet), of fishérica,

recently, except as a kind of by enquiry at the 100t amics.

The least porting times for recognised, there is no excuse lstering of laws to the govern- navigation, coastal engineering, wet cography.

and

registered · articles are ment officials and lie norninees; meteorology A correspondent three weeks for father procrastinating a ment

oh hoursatiler than the tiesas "Now it la accepted that if shown nałów, Particulary regards, ago referred to the Colonial re matter with which his parlia perhaps enlarging ita Legisin biology.

Couneli by forms expected from Sir John mentary carcer

more was known of the physics

ing parcel malis can de kloorialm«' by the admission tive must have

ed by mentry at any post ellos,, say, or the biology of the eca, Bowring. We do not process to made him familiar, and which he of one or two more Justices of

recommenda

OENERAL HOLIDAY know how far they have ad- couot but feel has been strumed the Peace, whose

the But the scientists busy over we should be able to mako

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31. vanced; but believe the an off

By Alt nouncement in the China Mail great nk too long. There tion is, not interest in

by their relaborate

'N.' Borneo,' Australia, New Zea- a year ago, that the Home Ge- originated impression how Colony, but submissiveness to their books and papers and sur- better use of it?

we canbot may-the

Dr Deacon, a fall, business-land, a p.m. government, and being on rounded

oratory equipment here. to- Governor's dinner-list; taking croment contemplated the in- a scheme, having reference to Gove

man of 40, whose own Philippines, 3.p.3. and care, however, that oven such day, may tomorrow 'net off to atience was originally ́chomis“ | Britain, Europe, 6 p.m.

Tlfnd, India,. Pakistan, ¦¦ Ġirent troduction of municipal institu- the Legislative

Counell

join a whaling ship bound for cerrect; wholly pretermitting the more virtual nominoes shall be in the Southern Ocean, or to sail try, and who has salled many minority, lost they might at any in the Institute's own ship, Dis- thousands of miles over the carried a municipality, has

・peer 200 out by St. John Bowrog, we concocted and sent home for an astrous, determine to make the search:

or what would be equally disor nine-a-yeur voyage of sighed and said: The trouble about the sea as an object of saw no reason to doubt that he proval; but, curious enough, would emit so dfavourable an end of being the production deliberations

The Instituto came into being study is that there is so much | opportunity of practically evin- of Sir John Bowring, he is open to the public.

in 1949, and is 'run on Brith water!!

and when we fidence in the plan.

the

£121,000 a year

Iko

tion, wis tubs « con.práctically important matter pe carry a popular measure,covery II, on one of her eight oceans in the cause of research,

of the Council

Philippines, Op... Korea, dpm, k Hawa UBA,' 6 pām. Japan, 0 p.m.

Formosa, Okinawa, 6' p.m. Canada, 4 pm.

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