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THE CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,

1956.

A FAMOUS MOVIE-MAKER AT 75 CAN DEMILLE STILL PACK THEM IN?

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By Les Armour

down to the station plat 159 a day each The Hons. in

form.

Jo

They took one look at the handful of logging sheds They

Lagnet

Na rainy morning made "Cleopatra," he hired 8,000 in 1918, the train stros because, he said, the pic-

ture needed "scope." made # request Now and again, he has be- μLop at Flagstaff, como acutely cost cousclous

perhaps that Arizona. A young actor remembering.

in any called Dustin Farnum and a 19y day hi Flagstaff

chise, he was once prepared to his life in order to get actor-playwright risk young called Cecil DeMille climbed vine frum 20 Bons he hired at The Sign the Cross, were supposed

hustle

of salts. didn't Their truer douirted that anyone would ever which constituted Flagstaff, make 1. DeMille glared, a chair and an axe, decided that scenery wasn't grabbed

look at the and header for the lion cuge what a husty atlas had led them to ex. He swung the chair, held the the axe ready, next siented at pect, and got on again.

of his volev, Top

The ternised Hons founded up the stairs as if they smejt Christian at the other end,

Anoilor tinie,

when it alming

T "The Story nearby Atljage exdied Illywood Wassell," a technician was about would suit the Turpre

to kill a moth DeMille stopped "He is the hams with a roar. only thing on the yet not under ciret," he explained after wards

The train was headed further west and They wel in with position

argue

Eventually,

They got 40

Angeles and

Lar decided t

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pany which DeMille and formed

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Ply Company

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£63.000

and Hollywood! was at its way

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In the 43 yems has made me than 70 pictures

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111s trouble, rather, comes from his ingrained belief that P. T Barnum was somehow behind all the great events of Itslory, to DeMille, history must move in custs of thousands and utilize all the sound effect: which modern machinery com produce.

Certainly, his customers have always received an eyeful--and an carful.

History, however, is, in real rather low #le. most often a bulget affair

At the moment, for instance, he in at work on a new version of "The Ten Commandmenta"..... an epic, billed as his biggest and #.a'est ever. which describes the night of the Jews, led by Moses, from Egypt,

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The Biblicat story gains its dramulle effect mainly by em-

the trials phasising

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MANTIL OF HESPONSIBILITY

Future

THE SIGHTS OF SUEZ

"I BEG TO MOVE THAT WE DEPLORE PEOPLE WHO THRIATEN TO INTERFERE WITH THE SACRED RIGHT OF STRONG-ARM BOYS TO WRING

OUR NECKS

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

EBRITAIN'S BLOODLESS REVOLUTION (2):

The Great Dictator In

A To-Tele-Tarian State

T

HERE is no doubt ++++

that television is the dominant HOW factor in the leisure Ha|m|ff|||||im

preserve

of events. He 15hours of Britons. pray

spared no expense in presenting

He landscape.

A

ak man," he exploded.

DeMile, he believes, is highly salable product and be sort of Viat every believes product sught to be advertised.

11 gft an an advertising man is probably only slightly bitored by Bis gift als #movie proever

A year after has thst picture, "The Man de ce este enfledt From Home" In st, istead of floodlighting the actors facts front, he turned the t th . lights t behind and it only

half a

face at a time.

Delta e unsisted that this was *ar{ lighting

Other people An rolles

things 11 other angur bed Goldwyn graphed 110m New York "You've run

Exhibitors will pay half- half price for

.

10%

only fighting

ilghting."

His success in advertising to doubt had its effect on his taste Extravaganzus with In movies

at all like his married

By JOHN MARSHALL

on tele?"

Pubs changing

r

the

309,119,000 in 1955. Takings (for same quarter) dropped from £28,040,000

£27,045,000 last year.

in 1950 to

Make no mistake, In slow

After a bad TV show z mil- on people may say

of year, is't it?" the open- Then there's the juke business you've got to be good It has become a chronic ing conversational gambit box. The Trans-atlantic to keep

with the tele, But to succeed, he must speed addiction for millions and a is: "Did you see So-and-so horror is becoming a night- what an advantage TV has, be

whether that's good or not-and history up and hustle a slow. relentless t

of strengths into permanent addition to their

If the answer is mare feature in too many cause you don't know how good contimeous flow of high weekly financial outgoings. positive there's dreary pubs rushing

£1

into oblivion is going to be (unless it is droma.

hets powerful, ever-growing argument; if negative, a the last faint echoes of the "repeat") until you see it. It is highly unlikely that

(138,529 of the influence

new drearier monologue. the Harust

art of conversation, with

cape Pritles. It will not be his fault, licences in January; total but the fall of his mortium.

now 5,538,612) has changed The man himself, however, is

the habits of the nation. Firly-six years ago he Constance Adams

the pubs of quetes He and all must play the tune, NO wonder played married ever since.

are changing spends nearly all his evening the churches and the pubs,

his home in

mansion at clubs,

theatres, More and cinemas, 2010 DeMille Drive, Hollywood. The mansion is joined to another sports stadia, and village coming recherche rendez- for the sports-car

Th eplain fact is that the thought rom Charlie Chaplin) halls in fact, every facet vous

trade, with wee little cock-dud film has had it, and so in which the omers of deMille of community life. Productions (his private movie-

tail bars called "The Snug" has the "Rea-pit" type of making company) are located,

or "The Cabin."

cinemu. Only the very best will lure out the tele zealots.

and he has

SUPER-COLOSSAL

Time seems to have affected historicul plots, thousands of him lille. Last month, he cele

brated characters and lots of noise ure his speciality.

Someone unce noted:

"Cell B DeMille

hin seventy-3th birin-

no clay-with

thought retirement,

of

The tele cidis the piper

It is the great dictator in the new to-tele-tarian State.

I went to an East End

Same story

"I bloomin'

fun.

Britain

more

ure

convince

ance into one bus.

the

WANT TO GO BACK TO SUEZ

I Like The Canal says Peggy The Pilot's Wife

BY

Peter Chambers

APTAIN RICHARD RUDDOCK in a Suez Canal pilot. He does not know if he will ever see Suez again. "I've just ar- rived in England on leave," he said, "I'm due back in Ismailia in November, but who knows? The way things are...."

We were talking in the Suez Canal Company offices in Bishopsgate. Then Peggy, another pilot's wife, walked

in.

"Dickle!" "Peggy!"

"When did you get here?" "Couple of days--How's Bli?"

"I don't know when he'll get out. I haven't heard. They say the rellot aren't going back.

It was like a wartime conver- satin. The unexpected meeting, the anxious inquiry after dus- hund, children, frienda.

Dickle Ruddock is EL slim, sun-tanned Northumbrian, He joined the Company eight years ago. Before that he worked in Irak for a British shipping line. Like all the European pilots on the Suez Canal,

holds the Master Mariner's Wicket.

ย

Ruddock said: "What they coll Egyptianisation' has been going on for years. Since 1930 there hasn't been one new Bri- tish

to

the pilot appointed Canal.

They've all been

Egyptians."

A NICE PLACE

He shrugged his shoulders. "All I'm saying is that if the out the European pilots pull Canal will stop working-at once

We

"Wasn't Peggy said: "Don't think As for "the pictures"

# awful?"-but anyway z mil- live in a cloud of sandstorms and went the other night. Not ilon people

flies. Ismallia's_a IL SOW

After

nice place. many years ago there were theatre first-night 500

lawns, flowers-it's laid people Trees, every

at say the same thing, the critics out like a garden suburb." evening

off comes

And the boredom? are acid, and

The this cinema. You could

have aching end that afflicts small play; only 1,500 have got that night's atten seen it.

people

British colonies

the hot lands?

"No boredom,” Bald Dickie Ruddock "I run

the Riding Club. There's a Tennis Club, a Sailing Club, a Rowing Club and the Beach Club at the Plage des Enfants. Besides, I work 00 hours a week,"

are all

OVIT- said Peggy. "Meals

Slumped

Time to improve

THE time to improve is now: TV screens--I have seen it in

for when colour comes to the

America and believe me folks,] worked,"

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men

somiany 'ways out Jeisure- climate do not!

the

The grills are prepare WEEK-ENDS he spends on hin

by lightning infra-red pro- I recall a talk in Holly- It's mighty One the compellare anyhow, and that keeps the DeMille wired back "If you

nearby (by American

pub the other evening, look ceas, French wines by the wood last year with film tion will be forcer than ever. wives busy. You've got to keep Ecl exhibitors

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Runcards) 1300-vere ranch.

running to stay in the same aftering for facts, Half a dozen glass; moustached, clegunt director Jerry Wald. "Tele- it's 00 Hembrandt lighting.

He rarely gels ap

And this applies to the Church plave." fault

mine Rembrandt

0191 or koes to bed before rugged East Enders were ex-officer publicans, now vision is a challenge," said (about which I will have more

Suez Canal lighting is very hard to get

His midnight.

working day arguing the toss something known BS licensees and he. "We've got to be better to say tomorrow).

In the south, pilot, eging in a

household at 5.30 a.m., Cioletwyn.

replied arts with glee.

about เก a.m. ends fearful. The Cup? The

are when impoverished gentlewomen than ever before, far better. nt

the suffragi

(Sudanese Exhibitors will abou! 7 "All is saved

lu between, much v

His National? A near-miss in waiting at table pathetically And

to church in the morning, servant) gets up and opens all double pay

for Rembrandt his time is spent reading.

a good film simply going rate, more people the must have a med story. We factor, certainly, is the fear

Tower in the evening. One the windows to let in the cool the pools? Not on your life. knowledge of history is prob-

trying to

of dawn air. At 10 am, the shutters Kibly unsurpassed among Last night's tele.

customers that it's all such can compete, but we've got missing

An- the start of tele.

are pulled down to

to keep out the amateurs.

to set our sights really high, other is the personality of the heat, The thermometer may go

Priest

up to 105 who Landlords

cannot

19 dry-ope provide plush and infra-red

img habita ere shifting, Tako

Captain Ruddock lives in a sport. are going out to

League football atten-

brick villa Live-roomed

in the Nol even the decline in "TT"S the

same all the steaks

dances were down 2,000,000 last work, leaving the missus to

residential quarter of Ismellin. time now, movie altendances has worried

HAT is in America, where the year comparty with the

falled French Town. 1 The htm. He belleves Army that

day: Tele is available on alternative before. At the start of this sea-official language of the

CAM- in New York) son, atthe only two leave he produces something beyond said the lugubrious landlord, mind the place all

Saturday panys French. Ruddock's two the scope of television. The "Half-past five they come in And to drag in the vanished charmeis (nisie

20 hoters out of 24. and four midweek programmes, daughters went to Ismailia's only the super-colossal extravaganza is and it's tele, tele, tele, with evening customers they are about

European school it is French, even In Britain, with our two pro- they were down 4$3,000) trying omething that TV budgets will one eye on the clock till they

grammes occupying compara-

too. Now the children,, are probably never run to and car-

In thepas Yew years 5,000,000 bilingual and they have moved that the TV rush off so as not to be late tele. Not that many people rely few hours, the need for tainly something

After that stay to look at it; not like sigh raising may not have been fans have dipped. A team to an English school in Caird. screen would have difficulty in for tele time. reproducing to any effect.

the pub's empty when it they do in America, where sufficiently appreciated. But the has to be doing well and play

NO PROBLEM His passion for hislerlent de Nevertheless, there are some used to be full."

no bar is complete without gures speak for themselves income personalities to get

Life big Terous. The fall is considerable, He once who say that the man who

a set and you are shushed

of this applies to county cricket, what is it lik for a wordan, In the first quarter ordered a script writer lo scrap founded Hollywood may yet

All over the country it is if you trip over in the year the attendance figures took league feticket, toda) a line in which George Washing- outlive il,

speak like plunging to a new

ving on the world busjest ton gave an order to a soldier The box-office

Even the inevitable dark or returns from the same story.

Perhaps Hire-Purchase is a pratemway? because the writer couldn't "The Ten Commandments" this weather has been supplant- above a whisper. No, in Here's how the January-March

figures have slumped: bigger ctor the TV in this Peggy, Brush plot's wife at boarding prove that Washington had ever November may be an indicator.

In Britain they want their tele 371,003,000 in 1960; 345,506,000 situation Fortwo reasons (17 with two cons actually given that particular if DeMille can still pack themed as the basic topic.

Istead of "Cold for the time at home.

in 1852; 325,064,000 in 1954; meg people are buying so many school in England, has live. In the Canal Zork for 12 years, must order.

in, Hollywood has a chance.

cut out some weekly

to

Rather against his will Was

persuaded .Moves Out of the Wars at

Roses"

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Actually, DeMille was prob- ably maligned by the author of

this orthow,

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year.

saphe

{ turg -ann (2)180 many of these banke. Sho wants to go

things this why that she

H.Pl-pormente are on cárs(ind motor-bikes,

which are talking of Bald "YOP CODE, SP put

after dark, but that's rinal in they Middle East. Housekeeping 120

proble

thelf now owners out and about normal instead of toʻjsport.

But repeat-afreally nótah perfomer will draw them

stili.

Other extreme

Meat comes from local farms. top-yes, firms, the Canal im alt

and--and vje niet vieálie ore - better than you: det i Lêndon, "

"I do my own shopping, just like any housewife at home,. Everybody has a car. We visit our friends.”

the mitted, say the British au- welcome to the Motherland for those proved guilty of crimes WILL, this tole-mania last? In Scandinavian as well as British

If

The

The

But

Friends in polyglot Ismailia include French, Dutch and ERIOUS though"

which you have been fighting" of violence against the person.

time, maybe, the people pilote, and their families. terms offered to the thorities.

Or will she turn her back on Freedom for everybody else.

20 The terrorists aro benten, erf will become more goiective as Greece will not accept them and say: “We don't want

Captain Ruddocle moices Cyprus terrorists are, they

them then, they will be put on you?"

know it. Their supplies are they tend to In America,

Susz trips a month, some of are wrapped up in a some-

trial if they are wanted for

terrorists must now be cut off.

Cypriots have we have not got to that point in them, starting at 3. um. Pay is what ironic smile and the crimes of violence against the looking anxiously for the reply. burned against them. They are Britain yet. We are still at the good£1,000 a year rising to a joke is on Gresco.

£10,000. And it may well be that some hunted and harried, and their other extreme. Not long ago

top-flight

to know the ships,” It there is any lewer charge of them will prefer a life in every hour is haunted with the a woman in financial trouble

Lanker By ac- through her husband's lines said. Ruddock, "The Greece has supported the against them, they will simply cyprus to a lito in Greece! possibility of capture, Cyprus

going to be very cepting Sir John Harding's offer appealed to the local Cluzone dippers are old friends. terrorists. Sho be detained until the Governor It is af

"Old friends, of the 'mên of Cyprus is satisfied that the emkarrassing for the Greek they can say goodbye to all Advice Buromu for help, has proclaimed them to be land, has returned to such a Government

that.

Payments on the television interrupted Roggy. "Wives can't patriots. Now she has the state of tranquility that he is "everything else aside,

go aboard. It's a bit like living And they can create a situa-

oneo again the eth were way behind. It was she should cut her

on a bus-route," chance of welcoming them able to declare the emergency the terms extend generosity to tion in which

• It je,ị thê world's most im=; Into Greece as heroes."

Desponsible citizens os Cyprus suggested at an end,

the limits. Tho terrorists asked for

portant ins-route, a Complete freedom for the can help to fashion, with the lowes by ending it back."I sho

Peany stall, waits for news, of If Greece will accept truce. Those are

her Eneband, and Captain Rüd- go to Grocco-and- them the terrorists can go which they can voterms on terrorists If they are willing to British Government a constit

self-

dodie, wonders ikki he will never Had to welf-gespoeling Will have them and Greece will, Lon for the Istasid which will pleadied What Will Greece do?.? scot free, no matter what he put out the Bere and "cry: If they prefer to remain in government, and, oventually, to

drop, anchor in the Crest Bitter crimes they have.com welcome home, you heroes; Cyprus, punishment only for self-determination.

But

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live without it!

Tomorrow! The Church and the People,

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