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THE CHINA- MAIL, SATURDAY, - DECEMBER 24, 1955.

FEAR (when it's over) is

more relaxing than ROMANCE

Paris

IR ALEXANDER KORDA once said that there are only three ways of making a successful flim

"Make 'em laugh; make 'em try: make 'om

alt

forward on their seats."

It is the third of these techniques that has

-says H-G Clouzot

蠢

THE NEW MASTER OF MAKE-'EM-SIT-UP'

By SYDNEY SMITH

made

the biggest Impact on

the

bushy black eyebrows, and

postwar screen.

a rather jovial face behind

And the new Master of an elaborately carved the Make-'em-Sit-Forward in cherrywood pipe. There is the

beside

man who is pulling a whisky and soda Londoners in their hundreds him to complete the picture to see a French flm: the of ease.

man who made the clec- Here is a tranquil man. trifying "Wages of Fear” and has now inade the diabolical "Fienda,"

This

ін man Georges Clouzot.

SO SOOTHING

An

VERA CLOUZOT FOR THE WIFE A STAR ROLE.

thing that gets you labelled as a bully and a sadist."

of "The Flenda" Clouzot Boys: "It is just a thriller. There is no special moral to ft-it is not even what I'd call serious piece. I just produced

a

it like I would play a game,

"I took an ordinary detective novel, transposed It into a different selling, even with different faels, rewrote it four times in a year, and then filmed it in 11

wooks," There the acene

the bath is running ready for the drowning. Tension and horror

and silence in the

cinemas,

13

except for an occa-

sional nervous giggle, which Clouzot says is a real sign of success in a horror film.

to

HIS 'GAME'

a

in

IJE told me: "I had to get the right gushing sound-it had be kind

sinister, We tape-recorded all the baths the homes of my staff, in hotels all over France for д year, until I got Just the righ! noise.

That

la what 1 mean

some he's rough and tough but with me he's all sweet- making

Clouzot hus been night- club crooner, journalist,

to private secretary Henri- M.P., and then spent five years in a lung sanatorium before he recovered com- pletely and took a job after the war in French radio, which led to film writing.

Five years married

h beautiful Sweetness? Says Clouzot: You have Brazilian. She never trained "In one of my

films, best efficient."

Now 18 an actress. Now she 'Manon,' the star little on appears as the more wicked of the two "Fiends."

Clouzot made actress for this

THE man who has set

French and British film- goers packing the cinema to see two women drowning a drugged man in a bath sighed terror, suspense they are far

relaxing than

more

romance, tears, or laughter.

ugo

he

ness."

a horror im ja JA game. You don't have to bo morbid

BETHLEHIM FROM THE BILL TOWIN

OF THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

Pilgrims Crowd

what we Into Bethlehem

or andistic or brutal.

1o be

like

ot

By MONICA DEHN

Clouzot

is working now "gom" the

Alm which Cecil Aubry--made me slap scenario for and said: "Fear,

her face to work up her the moment

is to bo called "Death at the Lido." her

Frankly an emotions.

Jerusalem, organised Church groups from you

But he says: "I have only THE Star of Bethlehem tain Arabe from all over Jordan

France, Italy, and Spain, Chris- film by have to hit that girl.

rewritten it twice 60 farmand by the time I've faished it

hangs every Christmas held Palestine, from Damascus like the lamp of God and from Jordan's capital of may not be Death, and per- mings we changed the Lido. over the little white, stone Amman. About 2,000 Christiana

But one thing

for Clouzothouses of the town where are coming from the State of remains unchanged: he suffers Jesus was born. And those Istad, where the barbed wire and the dragon's teeth tank terribly from insomnia. As he who see it, as they make traps dividing Jew from Mosle

"Fear, when it is over, is

the most soothing emotion

of all."

He looks relaxed and calm himself, this 48-year-old Henri-Georges Clouzet, the man who

made the bone- chilling film "The Fiends."

In France the film is called "Les Diaboliques,' and more

than 5,000,000 cinemagoers have watched the planning and detailed execution by two pretty women of a fiendishly cold- blooded, gruesome murder.

A SADIST?

IS Clouzot, this spine-

twisting master of sus-

pense,

really sadist? That wondered when

is what 1 went seo him. But - not a bit of it.

eight months of deadly training-she had to read plays aloud to him for three hours every day, mostly in the early hours of the morning.

"No," she says, "he is not difficult to work for really, He just knows how handle his characters. With

to

"In "The Fiends,' my wife had to do some crying too. So I used to console her and become very sympathetic about some trouble that didn't really exist,

"That worked up her tender ness and emotion and she cried -24 times for retakes, It is ment--but just a difference of tempera-

it is the sort of

haps it won't be

"The only thing says: rolaxes me and sends mo of to sleep

2 really thriller."

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HOW TO DODGE

5 O'CLOCK SHADOW-Official

B morbid

I

to

BEFORE OR AFTER BREAKFAST? SCIENCE TACKLES THE SHAVING QUESTION

He is placid, little (5 ft. 6 in.) thick-set, with cropped iron-grey

hair,

For Christmas.

He'll never want to shave any other way

Complete in attractive case. On sale at all leading stores and electrical dealers

give him

a

RONSON

Electric Shaver

$138.00

RONSON

ELECTRIC SHAVER

NILEON MAKERS DE THE

BEFORE breakfast

Poor shave- your face is still asleep

MEN

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

AFTER breakfast

Good shave- weigh your whiskers!

have again been temporarily pierced in the spirit of the faith they both respect,

☆

that their pilgrimage on Christ good mas Eve to the church built on the site of the inn that had no room, cannot help lowering their eyes in shame

TN the evening, as Midnight after the first exalted Mass begins in the simple glance. Its vivid brilliance Church of the Nativity; the pierces the heart with its congregation will represent the ignored message-peaco on millions of the world's citizens earth and goodwill towards who, if they could, would have

come to pray for. peace, A

Black-hoodlock nume from In the lifetime of most of us Czarist Ruda-very old and there has been little peace on trail now-ieel adde by side earth and tile goodwill towards with the women of Bethlehem men. Only at Christmas, for a their wälte colts--dating brief twenty-four hours, have from the days of the Crusaders. hatreds and suspicions faded There are men in lounge suita into a bonhomie which one look

full diplomate at the Star has

forced honest dress with silver swords at their ceremonial at best, side; 05, men to recogniso

consular officials temporary,

men.

►

Those who have been preparing worn work clothes.

morning conta labourers

The light

for Christmas expect a flood of of a thousand tapers filckers on pilgrims not only from all over

the pale faces of Europeans, on. the Middle East but from Europe the darker, olivo, shades - of and the United States well thort from the Middle East, the all eager to give thanks to the black skins of Atrics and the Son of Peace for the long-

mahogany of delayed hope of Peace.

Inila the service progresses, with

the Latip Patriarch, resplendent in purple robes with jewels, and the

An

DETHLEHEM has not a single fresh young choir boys

room to lot over the Christ leading the congregation in the mas holidays. Until the Great grand liturgy of Christmas

Powers began their talks in the

quiet Geneva setting, there were music worshippers feel the 1

ceremony.surge signs of just the normal pilgrim tensity of the

through them on this speclai age. Afterwards, the Bethlehem

night, postman's sack became heavier and heavier. By late summer, there was not even stablo space to spare.

Those

secking

¡IDNIGHT 'approaches and Patriarch holds aloft the figure of Jesus before carry-

The with a

Now tourists shelter

in schools, convente, ing it to the grotto and placing hospices and private houses. Many Bethlehem families aro it reverently in the manger. sharing rooms to make way for The packed congregation hold them, but some of the families, their breath. Even the candice too, will have to sleep on the seem to stop spluttering and for a moment there is a great TEN who shave after they aro embedded in the Furthermore, Dr Veral found cobbled stones of the main

breakfast, instead of puffed-up skin.

that if a man shaves last thing square. They will lo restless silence, as soon as they get up, look shave, but as the fuld slowly puffy, he

Ho thinks he is getting a clean at night, when his skin is leastly on borrowed carpets or with

is almost no clean- their heads on the bellies of clarion the bells of Bethlehem

that better groomed for the rest drains away from his skin-as shaven the following day as he their

out the joyful news sprawling donkeys another tired, And camels.

Christmas he begun, of th day-because they get it does when he gets up the is if he shaves immediately on

emerge rising. a much closer shave. Dr bases of his whiskers

fucky enough to have in Jerusalem and Nazareth and from

their hiding places as mid-

a roof over their heads will by the Sea of Galilee and bo David Verel, lecturer in morning stubble.

The reason? The amount the and their new homes primitive, the Mount of Olives-wherever medicine at the London That is why a

A man's

beard average whisker grows in eight but in keeping with the Christ Christ walked and presched Hospital, has proved this by seems to grow twice as fast be hours le almost all covered up mas spirit. The mattresses are and men have built a church to

tween 7

am, and 11 am, as it by the puffiness of the skin stuffed with straw and are as commemorate Him--the notes or carefully weighing his whis- docs between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. which develops during sleep. So

-ye prickly and sweet-smelling as O come

faithful bregle kera after shaving them as Dr Verel abowed with the amount he could remove by that on which Mary laid the the quietne ut night,

the off at varying times.

whisker-weighings after mid shaving again in the morning is Infant two thousand years ago.

But it is in Bethlehem, wh 2014 mid-afternoon negligible.

Washing is done at an outside the Star hangs low vivid as a And he has discovered the shaves.

beacon reason for the difference:-

pump which draws water from warning of danger of The doctor confirmed

So there it is. The best way the same well from which of hope that Christmas means When a man has been lying findings by watching what hap or at least reduce ItDr Verel to Mary after her travell

to avoid "ive o'clock shade Joseph doubtless brought water most, down for more than an hour the pened when he grew a slight skin of his face becomes slightly stubble and then lay on a couch. puffed up because fuld collects The stubble became shorter researches is to have as late Crowding into Bethlehem this mes will live a little longer in it.

because his skin slowly pulled a possible before setting off to Christmas Bro Britons from throughout the world than His razor cannot reach the up and burled the bases of his

Cyprus, Americans from the has in recent times, bases of his whiskers. because whiskera.

oll-fields of Arabia and Iraq,

(COPYRIGIIT)

morning

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MANDRAKE,

• YOU LOOK WORRIED.

I AM. WHEN THE. - CLAY CAMEL KOM BRAGS ADVANCE THAT STEAL UTMEANS HEUE

YOUR JEWELS HAVEN'T BEEN OUT OF MY HANDS SINCE WE GOT THAT NOTE, PUT THEM ON-- «ORTECTIVE KIGOING WILL

· ESCORT YOU TONIGHT.

his

advisos his report en hia

work.

And this year the pilgrims. But the pligrims won't mind. Bollove that the spirit of Chrliga

(COPYRIGHT)

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

HIGGINS -- Bur AREN I YOU

THE CLAY CAMEL KNOWS ME. I'LL BE

HELLO,

HELLO, DON'T TELL.

CHIEF

WATCHING FROM:

HELLO

THE SIDE LINES, IN. DE CASE ANYONE APPROACHES

HIGGINS

YOUR

ME THAT BLASTED

· CLAY CAMELIS IN · TOUR HAIR AGAIN. LET ME SE8 THES

•NOTE.