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THE CHINA ̈ MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956.

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ELL, of all the hopeful starlets

who thrust

the

their way into the slave

known as market Cannes Film Festival, which of them this year emerged from the melee with the biggest chance of success?

To help me pick

guerasor

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to Brigitte Brot, last year's win- ner, 1 called in the nd-

vice of

three

famous

Hollywood producer-

directors: ya pert,

Darryl

Zanuck,

Anatole Litvak.

mudi

LEONARD MOSLEY TELEPHONES FROM CANNES: WE SAW ALL THE - FILMS- WE SEARCHED THE BEACHES

WE TALKED TO ALL THE GIRLS WITH LOOKS AND TALENT

AND ... FINALLY `THE · FILM~~ BOSSES "AND I AGREED.

The 5 'Finds' of Cannes '56

BEATRICE ALTARIBA

We saw all the fans at cultured

the festival.

-BIULIA RUBINAD

ISABELLE COREY-

ELISA LAMBET!

Lello-

chong? from Tarigi and Loren. She speaks We searched feur aanges, in the daughter

BEL

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

the beaches. We talked to of a millionaire manufacturer,

touk firama 10 sons all the girls with talent and and looks

Poris.

Says Bya Lopert: "She has a And from the ambitious gure and the right messure- would-be stars of Europe ments tal nn education lak). congregaten here, we picked Whet more could you ask?!

five clever, benutiful girls. Bet Number Three: Isabelle who-

are going Corcy, from France, isabelle is We bet

to the top.

at prevent making a flim with Hrgile Bardot, in L petite Parisienne who take worked as from Sweden, receptionisi at a Bournemouth

hotel. who has already made one

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Bet Number One: la Jacobson.

success called "A Sumner's Hel Number Four:

Alinr|b", 0 10-year-old

Beatrice

Night" and is now looking Marellies. She is from

round for

an opportunity

outside her own country.

Sk-18-

She has sparkle, awe of hmir. and ET BIBIOUS Assurance.

invak

1

1 have a part for her myself in my next fil haven't any doubt about her

future success,

Ulle

"In

herself Sweden all they expet a young actress to du in ime i fak

those nude 11011 11

I am red with my

10

battung sequence:

of this. I ca

clothes on too,**

• Bet Number

Rublna, fren Halv.

Milan, is

from

11

Two:

Giulia Giulia, 20, snart

k

Aim Spain.

off tu muke

Of both these Franch girl Darryl Zanuck

Hyx 'salting their 10049,

ងឆ charm. and talent to all my producer friends. Is there any better recommendation I could give""

Bet Number Flve: Elisa Lambeti, au eetress from Athens who made a hit here in a Greek Almelo The Girl in Black." Elisa ha. bren described as ta She has young duna Magani." great bensity, enormous fre

Mark the names of these five inlented beginners and don't be Furprise if, a year from now, they are well on their way to being numes

the elnema hoardings of the world

A watch

"How would it be if we were to say the whole thing was the work of visitors from Outer Space?"

ULLA JACOBSON

"I

SEE,” said the Old Age Pensioner to his wife," that I may soon be able to earn another 108. a week with out having it deducted from our retirement money."

"Well, don't let it go to your head," said his wife, "You always were a wild one,"

the

"Considering," sald O.AP., "that the pound is only worth 78, and 10s, is there fore only worth 39, Ed.. I couldn't go very wild on that, Perhaps an extra pint of beer on a Saturday night.”

"More Ilkely two,"

Baid his

a.fot

of

"I could do with things, such as a new suit and

pair of boots,"

A

180 could I, but we don't want to ruin the country with that inflation, What was it the Chancellor of the Exchequer Eaid? Save to be great?"

"I'll tell you what we could do," sakd the O.A.P. "We might be able to buy one of thost Premium Bonds and perhaps win £1,000,"

"We should only annoy the Archbishop of Canterbury," said his wife.

"He's 4 nice one to talk. I don't suppose he goes short of much with his £7,600 a year."

"He was talking about gam- biing, which is a sin. And don't be

rude to the clergy. My mother 'always

sold it was un- of lucky"

"Lord

"You could have a gloss stout. We could run to that,”

"I'd rather have a pair of stockings. And you could do with some new socks,"

Hailsham hog been

rude to :”

"Lords

can be as rude ng they like. But it's not for the likes of you to criticise your betters,"

Lord Hailsham said there was nothing In the scriptures and drinking

and that they couldn't be treated in the same. way A adultery"

A famous British secret agent examines the evidence in the case of Frogman Crabb Colonel Scotland is perhaps the most famous living name in British Intelligence. against betung He has served in the German Army; he has been gooled by the Germans for spying. In the World War II he directed our entire prisoner interrogation service. Later he was G

War leading member of the

Crimes Investigation Unit.

plain who Lionel Cróbb really Wps, and what he was really doing

We cut dismiss al once all those curious Admirnity state- ments about underwater tests, Nor need we necessarily assume that Crabb was recalled for 201 Decastonal Job by tome shadowy group in the British Secret Service That is not how these things are usually done.

that it is at all harmful or incftelent to employ lance agents in such a way.

Nevertheless there is a real ksson behind this disaster,

That Crabb himself should jose his ute, though a sad end R gallunt career, is not ominous for the nation,

Whol

is ominous is the way in which the political dangers were dis- regarded

And, more startling

"Don't talk about things like that," said the OAP's wife, "You'll get into enough trouble Do it is with your 3s, G. a week and your extra pint of

beer,"

Cat in heaven

VOU may be one of those past this pieco You

fortunate people who have oľ the Secret just won

a sweepstake. You

Thus, whiic 1rying to do

Air Force, tho Foreign Office, exactly the opposite, the Ad- each has its own small array of miralty

succeeded in experts. nemitting

open responsibility for the whole affair. They Int 100

created a public crisis for Sir meal Anthony Eden by making it im- Service pos ibe for him to disown the emburrassing Delivilies of Frogmên Crabb.

So one lesson is immediately cuggested by the Crabb affair. Plainly an inquiry is needed at

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SECRET

SERVICE?

By Lieut.-Colonel A. P. SCOTLAND

HAT lesson is left behind for Britain after Lionel Crabb' last tragic plunge beneath the cold, grey waters Portsmouth Harbour?

of

For Lionel Crabb was not on recall from the Navy. He was say this with certainty-a straightforward freelance spy.

still, the way in which Crabb's the Admiralty itself, Plainly

tragedy has boen

discover whether the personal

we must blurted out to the world.

dithering and inefficiency 19 merely a momentary lapse or must whether it is a defect which of threatens the whole Admiralty structura from top to bottom.

Heru

Admiralty the tako the full

food

Evidently the friends of Crobb were beginning to gossip. Evidently there was a panic in Naval Intelligence when it was realised that Crabb had been

When Crabb waded out into deep water on that bright April guilt, morning he believed that he would bring back a

haul of information which would be In his final swim through worth a lot to him in hard cash. those sombre depths he has already stirred up all kinds

about of doubty

the efficiency of our Secret Ser vice.

Is the Service controlled by

who men

vast commit сап politien? blunders without blinking? Is it ill Inspired by the oki ideals of Buchan's dashing heroes?

Let This fuc! reflect nu dishonour on Lionel Crabb, He

was a hero, a man of splendid courage who was bent on using hig latento as a frogman to

for his country.

THE 'COVER'

killed while

absurd announcement Crabb had been terting equipment in Stokes Bay.

WHY?

division

has itd

to disasters

In them elves than the case of Frogman Crabb.

will.

which were far more important have had a windfall in a If so you will understand the Joy that came into the life of a IT ALLOWED Fuchs to mangy cat with halt n tail that

through pursue his unhindered career ofwandered

the open spying

for four

extra years door of our kitchen and found because no one noticed that his a freshly grilled cod cutlet name had been mentioned at the floor. the Cenadion spy inquiry.

Stump. If I must give this homeless cat a name. is well

on

IT ALLOWED Pontecorvo to known in our district. Like the hop the Iron Curtain because

the Harwell recurity men forgot

10

priests of Buddha should food and

he bed hla have been

tell anyone elso that given lttle begging bow) to Pontecorvo had overstayed his hang beneath his chin.

leave.

As we are friends, he took no notice of me when walking ABOVE ALL, IT ALLOWED through the garden, his Donald Maclean to because the

Foreign

nose

escape held high and twitching, trail-

Omeeing the delicious smell to

Ila

experts forgot to tell Scotland source, His only potential Yord that Maclear was probably enemy in the house was Lottle a spy.

FRIGHTENING

the Devil Cat, sitting under the kitchen table with folded pawa guarding the cod which was her.. supper,

But for once the Devil Cat

FTER each of these scandals, was in a benevolent mood. To

she and I watched the pubile demanded more gother co-ordination among the experteproached the the feast, looking Stump as he cautiously При Finally, in December 1954, D Central Intelligence Agency was set up.

We were assured that the day of the small isolated intelligence department was

SECOND and perhaps more over.

urgent lesson follows- leeson which affects the lives of all of us, Why, in this H-bombs and guld missiles, self, of.

Dige

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the

Pravda

anxiously at us both, plainly asking:

His

even

eyeg be

creep

д

own

Was

and

his "Can this for me, poor, hungry me?

Then wa .....

saw him slowly towards the plate, shift over the food, lick it luxuriously, Yet now we have

the first warm, the and gulp

down helped by an Admiralty officer.

Portsmouth incident. By it exciting morsel. So comeene at the Admiralty

will not courte, 11

eyes closed in ecstasy. He decided 10 Blanket these

peace. Whatever

tried to curl his pitiful carry out some valuable work smouldering rumours under the when the survival of our nailon disturb the

it may say,

won't alump round his legs like can hang on one small secret, is that c

cat Incomfortable our Secret Service cut up into offend the Russian leaders.

ir such small elf-contained their part of the world spying home,

0 traditional naval is

Inrge-scale All the segments

unkind world department which handled the industry. They themsulves have lost to him as he chewed Portsmouth incident?

a more efficient Secret Service swallowed and Bucked in

At the ' samo time comeonu

than any other nailon...

whiskers. The scraps in the with one or two elso decided to make matters Espionage is professional work

gardens and the dustbin nights dividuals in Naval Intelligence even worse by contacting the which requires many years of But the incident 19 still were forgotten, This was his who informed him how much local Portsmouth police, The training.

We have never had frightening. It teaches us that sweepstake, his windfall, his wi- they would be willing to pay.

enough! contact with theo although we spend £1,500 expected, good fortune. And one of these contacts may from their own Special Drach.

In the past. million each year on, defence we We saw a lost eat in paradise. have drelded оп his Own

pt the Admiralty's We certainly do initiative to act

Yet enough now.

for we spread £5,000,000

Somret learned the reason for the Devil some official "cover" during the operation,

She Intelligence out their service among a mul- Service is spent far more wisely. Cat's benevolence. business had gone amiss and titude of little independent It teaches us that, as far as that Just stolen a leg of chicken This is the pattern which they proceeded to make it seem forcte. The Army, the Ministry Service la concerned, our lives from the larder and couldn't. In order to answer these vital Western espionage has invari- still more official by sending a of Supply, Scotland Yard, the are stilt in the hands of divided eat another thing.

ably followed. Nor do I think - delective to Crabb's hotel. Navy, the Defence Ministry, the and ineffective: men.

John

Are such fears about the

Secret Service justified? And will they lead-after the successive

fovolving Fuchs, Pontecorvo, Maclean to a new outery for a reshaping of cur national esplanage and security system?

questions

must first

UNDOUBTEDLY he was

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police did not get the full facts wined professionals "not have will never be recure until the It was only afterwords that

Crabb's Uning they assumed that

the

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