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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

MISS KERR IS READY

FOR MARLON

D

'I shall have to convert him to normalcy, shan't I?'

moved up

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EBORAH KERR has How has this extremely trieky into the subject been transferred to the serven? Said Miss Kerr, who Brando class. The first played the role on Broad- English girl with way and then at the

The the Duchess personality has studios:

story been given Brando, of the been spoilt. The author of the and play

has written the film waterfront charm, as her done a beautiful job of it. But leading man in her next there is no suggestion in the film film. "Heaven Knows Mr of homosexuality.

The boy 'sensitive, shown

rather Allison,"

mmunly you know, the non- uthletic type. The situation still Directing her will be John holds true. In an American Huston.

college such a boy is liable be persecuted as u cissy and could easily be warped for life because of this."

19

10

Both these brilliant men are known to be moody, eccentric, unconventional. difficult -- and In the lm the master's wife, savage perfectionists. It is the played by Miss Kerr, still makes

mbition of

very actress work with either

+ both expect to

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Kerr's

new role brings her full circle. 21311.

by THOMAS®

WISEMAN

She plays

Brundo is a marine, They

have a strictly emotional rela

the same scri- ILS in the play to convince the

of his boy manhood.

But in the film she has to suffer for her

trans- gression. Ал epilogue

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adde d

อร

почу

wirich shows the schoolboy

a grown man who

happily married and has child-

bonship. "IL зад the sort of ren. Il niso shows an older. relationship there was between Miss Kerr, suffering. Bogan and Hepburn in Tho

African Queen,' says Miss Kerr

A nun

Said Miss Kerr: "We have to conform with the Code. It says adultery must be punished. So I have

LOW

World Copyright dy arrangement with the Manchester Ouurdlan

DEBORAH XERR Start being sorry for me...

about asked her to tell me why 50 Hollywood stars are

to be shown unhappy. tion, there is, no gossip One of her earliest successes We wouldn't be allowed to show Miss Kerr. Everybody likes her, many was in the Brish im "Black a woman committing

adultery

Narcissus." She played a nun. It and be happy about it, whatever are supposed to be difficult have neurotic.

She said: "All the people who abnormal, unbalanced and

was just a performance. But it the circumstances.” took her years to lose the aura purity--which is not the most useful auro for a girl to

been perfectly sweet to me. On Miss Kerr does not object to

yes. I've had leading men who've the Code, even though it may the first few days in

for Publicity," called out 'Hiya Duchess," be slightly absurd? Miss Kerr

not too

their

"May be they believe

sald Miss Kerr.

been "Perhaps they've

spoilt, wrong sort of upbringing. If you've on of adultresses, Miss Kerr a way of being accommodating not to get annoyed. I just reply: been kicked around the side- Hiya, Lordship and they love walks, like Frank Sinatra, well, presumably considers safe to and seeing the other point

that and we're friends."

it's bound to have an effect. Or

have in Hoyinyed a succes- does not object because she has pleasant way. But the secret la Perhaps they had the

Now, having

return to innocence.

view.

She has just

Just completed the

film. Ten and Sympathy." The play, which is to be done Paris by Ingrid Bergman, is still banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain.

Nice girls

She

has

# technique

for to get on with who is wrongfully suspected of people who have a technique of havlug a homosexual reinilon- not being easy to get on with, ship with one of the masters. She has proved that nice girls MLs Kerr is the master's wife can also succeed in Alms. -who conclusively proves to In Hollywood, where gossip is the boy that he is normal. the principal sport and recṛca-

It is the story of a schoolboy being able

and yet.

I asked how she imagined sho if you have a background like would get on with the moody of course there is Monty Cilt:

Ava's,

a's, well, it's inevitable. Mr Brando. She said: "I've met him. He was... and sho he had a very normal happy

home life made a scowling face " like don't know, really," that all the time. I shall have

sald to convert

to normalcy,

Miss Kerr, "but you know brim

the most brilliant and successTM shan't '17"

ful people seen to be neurotic The Deborah Kerr life in these days. Perhaps we should Hollywood is the epitome of stop being sorry for them. And normalcy. From the standpoint start being corry for me. of a normal, balanced woman, I being so confounded normal."

all

For

Days Of The Pilot Are Numbered

THEN a British pilot

WHEN

recently flow at 1,132

By EDWARD 'OAKLAND

means

diminishes at such. a rate that before the pilot could possibly identity on would be too late to fire his enemy plane, It guns-unless he had automatic equipment.

And that is what ́ ́ aircraft

1

o

miles an hour in a Fairey writer in n New York news- Even's have moved so rapidly Delta II and set up a new paper declared that at 575 in the last few yeras that few world air speed record, the miles an hour the air re- people have any idea of the same old question was posed; sistanco was such that magritude of these statements. no To say that future aircraft may "What next? Is there any engine could make headway travel at 2,000 miles

et 2,600 miles, an hour engineers are working he limit?"

against it. He spoke of the miles an hour. faster than a plot of the future will do "turriffic speed of 440 miles bullet from a 30 calibre ride. little more than press buttons Almost in reply to the

an hour," which an Italian The expression "he went like a Engineers are gradually turning question came details of a

airman had achloved in eot- 'shot from a gun" may well have over his job to cool, collected heralded as 'America's most

within the next two decades, equipment. His plane will be

All this adds up to one fact, steering,

equipped with computers for the world record. It is the That was just over 20 years The days of the aircraft pilot, in missalice

releasing stulded and 00: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, ago. Today aeronautical en the true songs of the term, are credited with a performance Finers talic glibly in terms of numbored. His reaction time"

*And"

according to Dr N, E. 2,500 miles an hour for aircraft,

North American Aviation: "Tho craft Company engineer has the path of progress. The dis- man in the plane won't nood to predicted that aircraft able to tance between two aircraft know any mỏng about » how Is there any limit to spood at 1700 miles an hour may traveling towards each other at computer works in a house in the air? In 1985 a science pe feasible by, 1900, 8 daven 1,600 miles an hour, wife khowa Jabotiè· her radio,”

new aircraft which la ting up the 1984 world air lost its power of exaggeration robot "brains" and electronic likely challenger, to regain c speed record..

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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD. the 1,200 miles-on-hour of the future. A Douglas Air has become a stumbling block in Balefeen research ofcial of

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KOWLOON

DUNKIRK:

AN ASTONISHING

FRENCH CLAIM

By ROBERT J. EDWARDS

LEVEN years after How can this apparent con- Dunkirk an extra- flict of evidence be resolved? ordinary claim is Very casily. If Auphan Ja made by a retired French wrong, he should be corrected, Admiral about the part if he is right, Britain should played by his country in the France her due.

amend the record and give

withdrawal that saved Bri-

tain. Universally it has Fifty thousand more PC- been accepted that Dunkirk soners might well have de- cided Hiller in favour of in- was almost entirely a Bri-

vading Britain. tish feat. But the French- man-Rear Admiral Paul Auphan, Assistant Chlef (Operations) of the French Admiralty General Stuff in Admiral Auphan docs 1940 tells " different that at least one branch of the story.

HIGH MORALE

not rest his case on this evidenco

French services, the Navy, kept ita morate high even when de- feat was certain.

while the sued for

On May 21, 1940, he vnsited Dover. It WILS obvious to him, he writes in

He lets how the French Navy the official U.S.

strained every resource to cheat navy Hitter

of plunder magazine, Naval Institute Parts Government Proceedings, that the British peace. were planning the immediato evacuation of their troops in submarines swarmed the Medi- France. Promptly he gave orders that the withdrawal was to be backed with every French life available.

VAST ARMADA

One

hundred Italian enemy

terranean. Yet the French sent many shiploads of raw materials across the sea to Algeria, and everything of military value Lat could be moved, A mullRude of airplanes flew from Goering's grasp.

At his command nearly French

He tells how on June 10.

Navy Chief Admiral everything afloat in the Darin met Britain's First Lord French Channel ports was of the Adiniralty, A. V. requisitioned. A vast Alexander, and Adiniral of the armada, manned by French Fleet Sir Dudley Pound. civilians and fishermen as well as the French Navy, joined the little ships of England that were shuttling across the Channel,

By the end of the operation, clalms Auphan, France had lost almost us many ships ns the British Navy. Over a fifth of her Dunkirk force was unk Including two destroyers, five torpedo boats, 14 transports, 27 #ming vissels and two tankers, Many lives were sacrificed,

that French ships would

Darlan gave his solemu Word Dever sull except under the orders of France, They would remain French. Or they would be destroyed.

This pledge was kept. When the French surrendered, many of her shilpa salled to Britain. Many more salied to Africa. Many were scuttled.

THE COURAGE

The French admirat asserts

There was none for Hitler. that of the 330,000 soldier» And no gold either. Treasury brought home from Dunkirk, nuggets weighing altogether 50,000 sauled in French vessels 2,300 tons were loaded under French protection.

abet the

DUNI

on

erulsers at Brest and Bordeaux

shipped

U-beat through In that case Britain

nosta to Dakar, They were free world owe a great debt to buried France

deep in

of the heart that has never been acknowledged. For neither

Africa,

In

the Churchill memoirs nor in the offeia war history is any such major contribution by the French reported.

FINAL PHASE

Chillchil says that 40 French and Belgian craft took part in the final phase. But nowhere docs he mention or hint that French lost almost as ships as Britain.

many

The officlul war history says! "French

ships and French sailors also played a part. It was a very much smaller part, but in playing it the French Marine paid its inevitable cost."

One

more story, told only now by Admiral Auphan. Hlustrates

the

courago of Frenchman during these warm, sun-drenched days of humilla- tion and defeat,

Parks

the

was bombed by Luftwaffe. On June 7, Franco retaliated with the first raid of the war on Berlin. “A fcrmation of naval aircraft," the Govern- ment announced, had bambarded the German capital.

Now we know the truth. The "formation" was just one air- Plane, an unarmed commercial aircraft commandeered by the Navy for sea reconnaissance.

No one reading this would How it survived, its czew Imagine that 50,000 men, mostly never understood, The "bam- British, were brought across the bardman!" was militarlly use- Channel by French sailors, and less, of course.

But it gave that over 30 French ships were France pride for a moment in destroyedi

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