THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1965,
Step back, Casanova
-here comes Signor Brazzi
W
JATY uninhibited, "You see, I am more in- character who terested in percentages," he explained. "In Italy I get 50 percent of the picture's pro- fits. I also get big percentage of profits in all the Western Hemisphere."
THERE women are He is
concerned Cusa roisterous nova was a mere might best be described as novice. Dou Junn a male Diana Dors. With was just small-time. And his blue eyes and made-to- Rubirosu is only a layman, measure nose, he would be a bit of a pretty by were Let us not bother with he not saved by the grey such small fry. Ladies, let hair and the lines of
me introduce you (after maturity on his face. appropriate cantioning) To
off
the maestro---Signor Ros On the screen he has be sano Brazzi, a gentleman of come the matrons' delight,
the 38 who has no hesitation in But
screen, he describing himself
a intimates, he is the delight
of womankind at large.
QA
rouge, rascal and a cad.
IN
If his conversation somewhat Rabelaisiap and his opinions of himself seem conceited,
you must excuse him on the grounds that he is un Italian and that he lives in a country where the Bun and the women are warmer than in England.
I BLUSH ...
no
by Thomas Wiseman
women
NEW TREND
In America he will stor op- poste Grace Kelly in "Inter-
Janut Mezzo"
opposite Wyman in "Love" Affair."
Jone
Ile Katys: "There is new
fevnd in movies now. The publie is getting sick of the tough guy Heading mwn. They are going back to the romantic hero. Bul this time he must be romantic und manullas. Women, let me tell you, they do not like to be treated to gently. They want No inat to be masculine toman has ever slapped my face
She kis I would stap hei tight back
About women, Brazzi can talk
abou them
thom Dr
"Women," he says, "are much
Only
man
DUBI
Commwvoo.
would take Cyd Charisse. And Greene film. "Loser Takes All," would take Marilyn Monme, te has imposed his, pormonality because she is molto sympatien un the script to such an extent
and for other reasons also." that it is now quile
he than it was when Greene wrote I expressed horror that
It slid havo omitted from his
ist his compatriot, Gina Lolk- brigida, and his co-star of H previous es, Ava Gardner
who
It was an unforgivable over- sight, I said, for claimed to be such a connoisseur of womeEL.
an
ROMANTIC
different
One Of The World's Strangest Stories FIFTY THOUSAND WORDS OF LOVE
T
By JAMES A. JONES
(Auther of "Courts Day By Day")
Ho
Edith
HERE is no stone often happens with. men who are Frederick Bywaters, of course,
over the grave of murdered, is the most indistinct hed no possible defenco,
of the three. He wan a clerk tight have pleaded that the Edith Thompson, ut 30, honest and faithful and woman templed him and he fell, After they had paid and very dull. There but even in the shadow of the hanged her they buried her is really nothing else to say about rope he did not plead it.
Thompson, he said in a young handsome body and
her lim.
awkward volco, know nothing romantic mind In quicklime And Frederick Bywaters was cbout It. IL was---er---soli- behind the walls of so immature that he is shadowy, defence. Holloway Prison and too. Good-looking in an ordinary
Ro
And way, with a smattering of ex- cross marke the spot. But perience from his job as a ship's her name will not die.
steward, ho remains otherwise blurred.
when the absurdity of that excuse was made plain 10 him he simply shuffled, and went on saying that Edith Thonpaon was innocent.
A play has been written
But Edith Thompson is vivid, about her. Laymen and because of the letters she wrote lawyers, in print and in to her young lover while he was private, still discuss her as on the high seas. She was a crowded that people were offer- though she held all the mysteries of an Othello.
Was it right
to carry her to the scaffold? Som + say
"Yes." Others
angrily Fay "No"
Let us (as M: Justice Shear- mat unzed at
her trial) com alder the facts.
In the
me
1921
pr Edit: Thanp 603, who
Was
UTI holiday in
Isle the
of Wight with her husband, fell in love with Д lad called Fre Frederick By
And Edith Thompson herself? Her counsel urged, in a court so vid reader of lush novels such ing five pounds for a cut, that as "The Garden of Allah," and all her remarks about murder she poured out something like were so much make-believe, that
50,000
words her mind was so stuffed with pasalonkie, things like The Garden of provocative and Allah," that she thought in highly colour fanteries, that she would havo out devotion to written anything to keep her Frederick By.
young lover's love, waters from he respectable bul
Had
not Percy Thompson's tedious body been examined by the doc- home in a street luts-even by Sir Bernard Spils- D al Trond call bury himself? And was it not Kensington a fiel that there were no traces o polson, broken glass or any- cisc mentioned in the
cut
Gardens
Those latters thing
wers, to say the letters?
lost of 11. read-
dbic, Any move-
list would have
'She is Innocent'
them. YES," said the prosecution.
"But here is a steady in- chement to murder, Read the read, luiCTS Shc wasted her wish band killed and said so.
been glad
Busi
through
By-
EDITH THOMPSON: Hor of mind in "The Garden
Allah."
them.
Jike
seprict
ran the
"Z
20. Edit
eight years older, for starving
waters,
He shrugs this off with dlessly and with the enthus unconvincing modesty: asm of in adolesent, He knows "Well, I am not a hunch back," he says.
"What do Kinsey and be does not need to Tuke u poll to get his informa- According to Brazzi,
The Bruzzi role was orginally see in me? I have to. Knowledge has made him
intended
WD Englishurun woman has ever been able never thought about it."
mical
and was written in the anti- to resist him if he set out Hollywood has fallen com-
romantic Graham Groeng voln to charm her. "If ever that pletely for the Brazzi line. harder than men.
but when the producers dveided waters was only "No," he said, "it is not
k gel Brazzi instead of their happen," says the maestro, They see in him a
Thompson, Bover can get all twisted up by love, oversight. Ava Gardner-to me previous choices-Trevor Howard "then 1 retire and ask the and a Valentino rolled into To
she is sexiess. Lollobrigidn? To
Echnund Purdon the
1. Eramatice ns, me she has the sex-appeal of a character became Italian Government for P
man Us one. "They pay me £100,000 who he is, how much he earns,
waxwork. 1 make love to Ava talan, without more than and what positum he holds Exa pension." He adds that he plus a percentage of the pro- the world.
Gardner No wonшan can love
From deren Ines of the script being on the screen prospect of a fits
play in "South for Enger than 15 days But her 2
L. think, pet nothing..
altermi. I think. But I am not in- I do not complain. They are all maybe she is tired.
Or curse if I play him, he kybe, she make to much love must be romantic," terested really in cash. Or { delightful creatures,"
says Brazzł. on the screen.** could ask for any amount. I
can
нее по
State pension for a long Pacific."
time to come.
"Rubirosa," says Brazzi, could ask for the with the lofly contempt of studios. They are
a muster for a fledgling, "be about me
is nothing. He is stupid. He strongest
MGM saving
SAJETKOJA what mutters
SEXLESS
is
You will have gathered that the Brazzt personality is fairly positive, In fact, since he was that I am the I waked Brazzi, sunce he was signed up to star in the Graham
for charm- such as authority on the subject,
chase after a woman, and personality on the screen." what three wonnen he wereld
she run away. 1 blush with
humiliation, to run after a But because Signor Brazzi
take with him if he were cast
JeWay
11 1 desert island.
+
woman and be not success is not really interested in "That is very dieull," he
ful to catch her."
cash be is now making a sak gravely, "if one is united film in England. "Loser to three. But would take With her Katharine Hepburn I doubt if Signor Brazz: Takes All," for
the sex-appeal comes from the has ever blushed in his life. £18,000,
artet. Sometimes this is good. I
mero
HAS NASSER OPENED THE
BACK DOOR TO MOSCOW?
A
proval, the comment of the Syrian newspaper Al-Faiha. "Brypt," it said, "has open ed the door. Now, Syria, the
and Lebanon
free Saudi Arabia will follow Egypt's example."
By JON KIMCHE
more violent
<-
pro
་།
I say: "Somehow you do not strike me as a Graham Greene character. You do not much sense of sin."
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have
nature
One day Edith Thompson saw Frederick troubled, "What's the matter?" Bywater! looking
she asked.
"You know what's the matter.“ "Yes?" she encouraged. "I love you."
And the tragedy had begun. What kind of people were Brase the wife, the husband and [the lover? The husband, as
LIKE TO BE A SPY?
-READ
A ON
By J. W. TAYLOR
A
1
1
hus-
Her
that her hus. husband was killed. Is she not band was deed as guilty as the man who struck More than that. She talked the blow?"
She about ways
She of killing described, ruther
The defence argued back. vaguely i Que, an attempt to potion her
"Hurve you ever read morO husband's
porridge. and even beautiful language of love?" sald zure vaguely an experiment in Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett. "Such broken glass in his food things have seldom been put by vang She asked Frederick Bywater's
pen upon paper. This is the advice about polsons.
woman you have to deal with, Sho
Drip by drip she distilled the thought of death.
not some ordinary warum,
one of "Yes, darlint,"
those striking per- she wrote, "you are jealous of sonalities met with from time to
m-but i want you to be-he time who stand out for Is the right by law to all that vason or other." y have the right to by nature
bud love-yen, darlint, be jealous much that you will do som- thing desperate."
F.
KOTO
Mr Justice Shearman was an nuster judge, not liable to be swayed by emotion.
"Come home to me, darlint," "By all means," he said to the she wrote, "come home and help Jury, look at the atmosphere It's so much worse this and try to understand what the
latters mean.
But you should not forget that you are in Đ court of justice trying a vulgar and common crime. You are
titre,"
"You will do what is best."
"Your love to me is new, it is |something different, it is my life |and if things go badly with us I shall always have this past year TITH the story of the white socks from a drawer con- more than 2,350 milion people look back upon and feel that the world, there must be "Then I lived. 1 never did be- Burgess Maclean taining four socks of each colour. In skip
How many must you remove to Feveral thousands with exactly fare, I never shall again." be sure you have one complete the same number of hairs ol
the head
behind the
Iron Curtain still in
the pair? (One minute). news. quite a bestseller of Q. 4. The normal head of B. Fred was 12 when John its kind these days, parti. hair contains 80,000 to 100,000 was Fred's present age. Fred's cularly amongst youngsters, two people in the world with 24
individual hairs. Are there any present age must be less than John is now 24. Therefore, is Lieutenant-General Oreste exactly the same number of Fred's present age must be mid- between 12 and 24-ila'
candidate Winning
Pinto's "Boys' Secret Agents."
Book of hairs there? (Two minutes), way Q. 5 At 24 John is twice is 18 ns old now as Fred was when
of
do-
Frederick Bywaters, the 50,000 words of Edith Thompson's let ters lovingly preserved, came home from his last voyage in September, 1922.
Ho
BYWATERS: So immature that he is a shadowy figure.
Stabbed in Back T the week-end Cairo's
But by the end of last year a He had lost the support of the "Voice of the Arabs" change come over his leftist friends of General Naguib, the broadcast, with ap- colleagues. They urged strong former President. Then be in- In it the reader, young and John was an old as Fred is now. liberately waits until the other JUST after midnight on Octo- ber 4 Edith Thompson and Measures and
eld, who fancies himself a likely How old 18 Fred? (Five two have answered. The first
her earnest, humdrum husband stairments against the Turkian curred the enmity of the Mostem candidate for the exacting work minutes). Work out logically; no (A) sees a white diso on each walked back from a visit to a Iraq. Pact proposats; they
and the In Brotherhood
of spying the Colonel, who has guesswork
of the other's backs. He cannot
theatre Out of the shadows sistext that there was no in Westerners (during the Iraqi had 40 years'
experience of
work out his colour, so says: came Frederick Bywaters.
**1 row). In the end he had to rely | ceplonage, has for compromise.
a lot quite
don't know." The second (B) stabbed the husband in the back comments on the Q. 6. his informative
Three candidates for a sees two white discs. He knows with a knife, and the husband not listening to a play from the Jeftists for the four
school's Intelligence test majority on the Junta and his here to answer ure shown five dises-two black A would at once thought his
prize
that if A had seen two blacks, fell dying.
stalls of a theatre," them In the tima allowed, and three white. A white disc disc was white. So B realises Abruptly, as though by a flash Edith Thompson and Frederick
work is pinned on the backs of cach
hom the Colonel given some hope of
scented words ugly sentenced to death. They waited Candidate C seen a white dise facts. a future in the work of a secret of their own disc. They are told
for death in their separate cells much to move around and each works agent, although there is
the others' backs. He realised on more to it than that. You try: out logically which
coloured that if either of the others had that Eaith Thompson appeared Bywaters
It is agreed by everybody in separate prisons. Just before on his own back. State seen two dise
black discs, one The only articles found which candidate answered car them would have at once known, "Oh, don't, oh, don't" governor,
utterly horrified. She was heard on man fatally shot through rectly and show how he worked that his own disc was white. And to the first passers-by she
No figureheads
They also convinced Nasser that, despite the assurances
American Ambassador
influence with the army.
If reader is able
But logically and not by gues without them seeing the colour that his own disc could be either of lightning, romance changed Bywaters were found guilty and
the conclusion of the
On the following Monday, the Soviet Ambassador Solod Cairo, it had become Angio Turkish-Iraqi Pact they began to
said in Cairo that his coun-
try was prepared to give the Arab world any help it needed military or econo- mic,
American
Lo
of
They bided their time.
to after
work on Naseer,
policy
isolate even secretly en- Never und
those
worked who courage against him the Moslem Brotherhood, the Iraqis Funk the Israelis.
They had no need to produce But while offelals in London
Washington and
still secret intelligence documents to were up their minds about convince Naiser. They could making
this him statements to Daypt's open door, four men in show Cairo were congratulating them- effect mixte by American diplo selven diminishing British mats, quoted in the New York
Times. and American Indutrice Egypt, in particular, and the Middle East generally,
on
תן
At this point the background of four of Naser's key men in the Junta assumes considerable Importance,
1.
the heart in newspaper,
loose
colour and gives up,
of
to
the hangman came for Fredericks to the he spoke
He was being pushed into the background, itwy told him. Ikuq
wood were a WDS teking over the Arab
it out (Ten minutes). spectacles, wallet
"Do you think they will hurt Therefore, eich must have seen change, leadership and was getting the
cigarettes,
And here are the Answers: either a black and a white or could and she gasped, "Oh my her, sir?" he said. "I am always
God-will you help me? My 1. It must have been murder two whites Was arina and equipment, not Egypt.matches and keys on ring.
I wish I had it accident, munder or
husband is he is bleeding" thinking of it. #uicide? because no gun was found by
never done it. I must have been It was true.
the body
mad. But I loved her so much. (Two minutes).
A doctor was lotched. 2. If the story were true, the
Floro sce they do not hart her. If C'a disc was black, then B man died in his sleep and would could have calculated that his
"Your husband is dead,
It im
in my fault. She is innocent, Q 2. Failing asleep during not have been able to tell any own (B's) disc must be white,
adam."
She never did anything" a sermon a man dreamt he was one about his dream, so the otherwise A would have septi "Why didn't you come sooNET about to be guillotined in France
"three
for murder. He was so Odgety
story cannot be true,
answer 3. The
The governor said what ho two blacks. Therefore B could and save him?" cried Edith could. Ho mld: "All right, my bay, we will try to save her is But it was too late, and the much pain as possible."
The Israel reprizal attack on Gaza in February could not have come more conveniently for the purpose of the Jurta leftists. Not interested
In his sleep that the person in sock" Soy that the first one not have seen a black dise on Thompson, distraught, the pew behind tapped him on removed was black. The second C's back, 30 C works out cor- Throughout this time Soviet the back of the neck. In his might be white. But the third rectly that his own dise must siodows of real life obliterated Ambassador Bolod and Coun- aloop the man thought it was would have to make a pair with They had succorded at last in
four, who had strong sellor Sobolev
busy the were
the guillotine blade descending one or other of the first two. Intelligence chief under Genel persuading Colonel Nasser, the leftist sympathies and connet- making friends with the Junta, upon him. The shock killed 4. there are eight people in, Eenhower during the war in Egyptian Premier, to do some tions,
figureheads. In the end. Numer agreet and him. Fact Action? (Two a room, then at least two of Europe. He has written about thing he had resisted and fear- There was the lanky, nervous, the arms agreement was con-minutes),
them must have been bom on a wartime casos in the best ed for year. For Nasser had deputy-Premier, Wing Comman- cluded.
Q. 3. Blindfold, you are to the same day of the week. By seller "Spy-catchor. told friends who visited him in dor
toke a pair of either black or the same analogy, as there are
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Goodbye
All
30
Camal Saleman avowed
But make no mistake! The Cairo that if he had to embark Marxist; there was Egypt's Chief
the Russians for or an arma race, it was good- of Intelligence, Zakaria Mohled Czechs-or
hot interestcá|'. bye to his social reform plans din; there was Wing Comman- that matter-ro der Bogixindy,
former War in the Arab League depute. and the hope of social peace Minister and now Minister for They are interested in the open "In Egypt.
Affairs, who is noted for door to the Middle East. He had all the time opposed his violent anti-Britis вель
The arins supply to his colleagues-on-the-Willtary timent; and there was Educ (and posibly later to Syrin and Egypt Junta who wanted to put anna tion. Minister
Khaled Ecklin
Saudi Arabia) and the oner of made no expenditure above social reform. Hussein, who has For the last two years they had secret of his strong. Soviet massive economie ald will make maintained a compromisa Kolu sympathies.
tion, and Nosier had beon Small group
satied
notecno of Anglo-American policy of "niling the vacinim.** Inhuenes will follow trade. and the Mukio East today, 18
Howdy then still able to As Nasser fell out with his the Industrial Achilles her or count an live support of a other colleagues on the Junta, Western Europe, including. Drie-
· majority, during the long de-, the influence and power of this felt. Almost the whole for the bates · with the right = wing mall. 'group steadily increased 'crude oil usedt, by Britain and extremists. In particular, the until by the spring of this year- Western Europe-.-.- £1,009′ mullin Landevena. Settinha veten withs hini Narwar, kid /become-¦ wholly worth a years-comed from“ ütl
kn,kla claim that mucial reform, dependent, on them, against his Middle Materialqui
We more Hdplatint than kha, mane opponents,
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or
JOHNNY HAZARD
COVER THE TWO OTHER: EXITE......WHEN I- BHOOT KOLM. {}{WHILE ERGARINE, YAS GRAB *THE TWO AMERICANS'ANDRA.
GARYJĄ
AS SOON AS THEY TAKE THER.
STATIONS
be
while.
Oreste Pinto wae Counter-
קנית
*"Thank you, sir.”
the hoctie flame of the novels.
police found Frederick,
Frederick Bywaters, and Edith Bywaters-and the letters. And
were hanged in Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson Thompson were put on trial at seperate prisons at eight o'clock on the morning of January 9, the Old Bailey for the murder 1923. of that blurred figure, Percy Thompson of Ilford.
IF WE'RE GOING TO
By Frank Robbins
SEE THE MINISTER OF |JUSTICE, MIGHT AS WELL. PRETTY UPWGASP!)
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this situation
for
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