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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956.

AND ABOVE ALL, COMRADE CHILDREN, BEWARE THE CULT OF PERSONALITY

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Hollywood mogul Jerry Wald has called hits "the actor's actor's actor." That mny help to explain why it

is that, if you think Very bard about it, you will fad it very difficult

decide exactly what Guinness looks like.

To

He looks like whaleyen

the part demands: the

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from The Presoner. Whe The Old Vic, to which gentle clerk Trope The applad for at, decided the Lavender Hill Mob," and all sine thing An American news

craigtase has alleged that anvel Patel !m.de eight members.

Vie manager told hlan: female) of the aristocratic "You're not an actor, buzz off,”

who These

know Old family in Kind Hearts and

Vie managers tend discount the Coronels.

phraseology, but the effect was the sine

Eventually he got some bit parts on the London stage, John

ren life far otten Bloms unnoticed esp the sheet That, len, in because he plays his real life part tie

sober, quart. amiddle-chies Baghelimen with a faster Jor philosophy and theology.

He puts on no aurs. He is not Jony offstage. After all, he reasons, no one expects a bank manager to spend all his leisure time Balancing books. Nor should anyone expect a comedlan run about cracking jokes.

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Lake everyone else, of course, he has his great conversational moments. There was the time during the war when, as com- mander of a naval landing craft, he wound up beng the Brst man ashore in the invasion of Sicily,

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The Admiralty had no ex- pected it to turn out like that. There had been a bungle. and Guinness had to wait pallently for an hour while the war caught up with him.

Afterwords he turned on the Admiral and said blandly: "This sort of thing may be all right in the Mediterranean theatre, but it would never be tolerated in theatre in the West End,"

These moments, however, aro rart.

His stage sense of comedy and timing have been painfully acquired. His ability to step into someone else's choco so effective- ly that no audience can doubt his authenticity in part of his natural endowment. He does not trade on it except professional- ly. To him, it is a sacred gift not to be trifled with.

MY DAY AT THE RACES

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By T. E. B. CLARKE reporting from Hollywood

URING the summer

racing Season Geosegirl will

daily presiding over

Shades

English

of Ascot, what on earth now is this? Open landaus with red-curated postillons drivers In morning dress.... "Your

national costume." points out the mon 1 quole from

just advised mo lo list of who has 2

"play Count Chic for a show" attractions of one of the Los which menus backing it to finish Angeles racetracks,

the first three.

her flock."

Tacegoer

WHAT VALUE! INTO there carriages step the Γ

Track offeinls who will be watching the race from crowat nesta set at vantage points all round the course.

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As П reguar Britain i am aware that much could be done to unprove our mercourse amenities, but never, must confess, did I think of a Covergirl ar u posible means of raising attendances

The ponted have now retired Seriously, Through, File into the background, the horses

for a alt stands pronto

nd Pave been clamped to their Such

Its Whe American starting-boxes, and the te la tracks provide-and the sort of

clicking up last-minute beta. recently at Sonia To compensate for the absence Anila.

If any West End hotel of bookies--illegal in America— can provide better, then an electric indicators show, minute no longer a mug punter.

by minute. the exact odds But let's be fair A race against each runner. meeting in Atserien uns Ave

Not enough,

you think, days a week for three months, make up for those decorative making it posible for the truck fures who lay coc a price 171 10 employ a staff which Son-

Britain with uch cham and down Purk or Catterick Bridge couriery? Then just consider

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there than two nover

the fael that seven-eighths

of clays* rucing al stretch- all

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dollars wagered at rouldn't hope to rival,

Santa Anita are returned to the All the same, it Wi reve- pubile, aunt the misticy relined Fations 10 learn Usat Samus by the track makes it possible principal for every rice to be worth more

stat then 1.000.

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now Just time." announces the commentator A pause, then the gates moment's fly open and s "There Than go" (Amerienn гот "They're INT!")

Anita, California's

ruercourse

bonsis

exceeding 6,000!

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Loven by Hill Einst Mob." "The Man in the White Sout," The Cart," "Hiver Twist," "The Captain's Para- dise" "A Run for Your Money," and, of late. "The Ladykillers."

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His audiences loved him best as the shy litle man with Q touch of the devil in fim-the qulet, sober Englishmon who suddenly, subtly. shifts *Took ot Just 1 plain old- Anghioned gay dog.

into a

on

In between he appeared the stage as the psychiatrist in "The Cocktail Party" and 1/1 "Richard II," "St Jan, aud

The Government Inspector."

In the His stage parts filled Raps left by his film career. Be- tween them he has run the umut of human aclivity-rich

By LES ARMOUR

the devil incarnate in the perso

T tres Communist inferiegator

Subtle playing made the ran- dirani u mont beaten by his own vesale messa

a seret fevent

the sin of spiritual price which Just reduced him to something less than a whole man) Bitted against another whole. ||| twisted by a machine of his own making.

His preparation for the part is of the man. another indiention

the He spent monthis studying works and the documents which would have determined the car- dinal's outlook on life.

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here aren allowed on the truck itself, but they line

Two's in their duzela,

each wearing a brightly painted in heimel and a cod on his announcing his identity

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Now that the race is on, might be a race anywhere

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