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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

This is official...showing which British star has drawn what money in these past three years

THE STAR-METER

K

BY JOHN LAMBERT

ENNETHI

MORE

This year, KENNETH MORE is Britain's top star and still going up!

Kenneth More

Alec Guinness ★

91

11 X

John Mills *

Dirk Bogarde ✯|

Peter Finch ✯

4

Norman Wisdom ★

Alastair Sim

71

Jack Hawkins ★

Anthony Steel ★

91

Richard Todd ★

6 I

Virginia McKenna ★

Glynis Johns ★

Diana Dors ★

ia

The men who give him that rating ure 4.182 shrewd British cinema showmen. They voted in the poll for the stars who brought the most money to their box-offices.

named top film star makes in Britain. He reaches test: What is

the toughest puwert

that peak in

It is pulling power

Jits

has lost aad he section place on the international st But, despite this, the points he has notched up in the poll during the last three years show that he la stili The most consistent star.

But the starmeter above

even tougher The Arrows on the meter a slar's staying indienio the upward or down-

survey of the

ward trend of the stars, based of 13 British on their positions in the poli test of stardom-it cool, stars who have been placed in during these three, years.

Motion Pleture Herald's of the assessment

thk year: poll during the last three years.

British alms: More; 2 Jack

Dirk McKenna; 5, Norman

hard cash

star value.

.He tops

More Puckish, 41-year-old

rocketed to top place in other has every

1950 with the success of "Reach atar-British or American For me Sky." But the meter -in the annual star- shows It takes tenarity

and business pool conducted by consistency to stay there. the Motion Picture Herald, the American cinema trade journal.

Dirk Bogarde was first in both the British and interna- tional sections of the 1955 poll. He drops to third in the British

Placings stary in Kenneth Hawkins; 3. Virginia

British

22 1

22 I

24 1

27 #

THE TOP BRITISH FILM STARS FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS

Points awarded:

TEN FOR FIRST PLACE MIKE FOR SECOND PLACE

and so on to

ONE FOR TENTH PLACE

1

UR DOWN

Arrans indicate popularity irmand

STAR-METER BY MICHAEL RAND

1957.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

INCE the Suez crisis Building an Igloo would Only a people of genlus could

the question, "Are we certainly warm them up cime and punishment.

make suela dlatinctions between

Power?"

Our friends

now a second-class for a time, but if they can been sit in the snow for a couple frequently asked. The of hours without clothes answer has usually been, "Yes," but I am going to and still laugh at the jokes ❝UR American friends” is a cheer you up by answering, in Christmas crackers they writers when they are about to "No." We are still a great are great peoplo indeed. say something unpleasant about people.

Then there was a stern

66OUR

phroso used. by leader

Ainericans.

Ono of the cautious ofles wrote recently: "Our Americaa

In the middle of the character in the North of world's worries only a great England who wrote to a friends must understand that people could produce newspaper demanding that Britain, which has been a world all those guilty of petrol Power for so long, does not

take kindly to American leader- ship."

nudista who cat their

Christmas dinner naked in offences should be flogged.

a field.

a

There was also the ob- As Americans are supposed to servation of a magistrate in like plain speaking it would Flintshire after he had have been better appreciated heard evidence about

both in Britains and overthero if When asked if they would jealous Italian who had al- can leadership, political, naval, he had said bluntly that Ameri.. still ent their dinner that most bitten his wife's nose and military, is scoring the pante way in the event of an old- off, He said: "Latins re off us. fashioned Christmas with act differently from the Bri- foot of snow on the ground a spokesman said they were looking forward to wintry conditions.

"Snow," he said, "is warm, as any Eskimo will tell you. We might even bulld an igloo, which would be rather fun."

Our American friends must tish to domestic troubles." understand that, as we have been at war on and off with So you can see that, al- romebody or other for about though it is regarded as un- 1,000 years, we regard British to bite your wife's selves is professionals, nose if you suspect her of infidelity, one Briton at least considers it quite proper to flog anybody who has wangled a gallon of petrol,

Intelligence

IKE'S BAN

Bogarde: 4 FIZZLES OUT

Wisdom; 6, Anthony Steel; 7, Peter Finch; 8, Alec Guinness; 9. John Gregson; 10, John Mills, Kenneth More is niso named as top star in the international section. No other British staf is placed in it

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| BEING OVERCOME,

with the Soviet and

put

his

trust in the US.; (2) To adopt I more Co-operative attitude over the Suez Canal

would In return Washington

the loan grant Nasser not only

Aswan Dam, whose for the

to en-

to

Report

Conducted by

Therefore, right or wrong, we

shaft never be able to regard our American friends among U.S. admirats and generals, who will probably communi ONE foreca in the future, Le any- thing but plucky and enthusias..... tic amateur.

And as for Mr Dulles, de scribed by one of his own countrymen 23

"the poda- guided missile," we are mone

scared of him than all the American admirals and generals put together.

Here is another reason why. I maintain that we are still a great people. Only a great could be so frightened people of our Americas. friends, and our famous sili still maintain

upper lip.

I hope

my American friends

will appreciate

our courage in the circumstances. That is it

I have any American frienda

after they have read this,

SEFTON DELMER |r.

Great and rich

TN this short summary of our eternal virtues wo mist not forget the brave, rich Britona sunbathing on the beaches of

down to an excessive use of the Ja must have heard by

drug benzedrine,

They

NE OF THE WORST RESULTS OF THE SUEZ CRISIS, THE cancellation by Secretary Dulles precipitated the Suez crisis, but INTERRUPTION OF THE enough further dollars OLD INTIMATE COLLA- able Nasser to disentangle him- BORATION BETWEEN self from his commitments

Moerow and overcome the BRITISH AND AMERICAN economic crista now facing GOVERNMENT Egypt OFFICIALS, IS NOW Nasser would love to accept. Stopping him: Khalid Mohedaln

fellow an army major and When Britain bombed member with Nasser of the SOVIET RIFLE

old revolutionary commlitee Nasser, Eisenhower abrubt that threw out Farouk, Mohed- A JUMP AHEAD ly stopped all contacts and din is firmly planted

AMONG the arsenal of Soviet exchanges of information. Moscow side and growing big-

and popularity weapons captured from the Now things are gradually ger in power

every day.

Egyptians the new Russian rifle back to coming

normal.

thas excited the envy of our More and more American it Nasser makes a false move,

men, few of whom have Fet Eden broke down. It is an open According to a report, most officials are fixing clan- Moheddin will rise against him.

he had tried, by missiles fired from Florida traym And the odds are he will win.

means of drugs, to whip him-southeast and pass over the destine meetings with

self up to a performance to West Indies." Fortunately for British opposite numbers,

Accurate range for both Is which he was not equal wither the brave, rich Britons on the about the same: 600 yards. by stature or by nature."

beaches, this errant missio Maximum range is 2,000 for

I don't know how the Prime didn't drop on "their" paradise." both,

The FN rifle holds 20 Minister feels about being call- Soviet carbine only 10. So the object to

the ed a drug addiet. But I strongly rounds in the magazine,

being called Soviet rifleman has toanload chief, more frequently.

WHO GAVE

on the

First task for Macmillan and THE TIP-OFF?

Selwyn Lloyd should be to get

These clandestine meetings back

on the old official basis.

THE DOUBLE

NASSER

who

the ploiter successfully double-crossed

I

HAVE been reading the of Lord Strang, memoirs head of the Foreign Offico until 1953.

Maclean that M.15

been issued with our own new Belgian-made FN carbine.

first his king. then his leader official in the Foreign Offee who I HOPE EDEN General Naguib, then the Brie informed

were after him?

IS AS ANGRY

dish and the Americans, is now

4

J

We

B

Reports Der Spiegel: "In now of another misguided seven-ton, order not to drown in the flood missile the of work ... Eden had been 300-m.p.h.

Focket with steadily taking benzedrine... tenge, of 3,000 miles that escaped a stimulating drug which is ob- control when it was Inunched

in tainable

only from Patrick Alr Baso, Florida, against a medical

sccret

that

Gerescription. by their American Frienda.

0

spy

But they know that missilce are going to travel over their unburned hearts for somo, tima yet, and they never know when their American friends aro

tho

the

trying to screw up his courage It is fascinating and im- THESE German weeklies are fire town posting stickers on palm trees, and the brillian

For the Foreign enviably

told Moclean

But moat important: the A RUMBLE DOUBLE-CROSS.. Why does not Lord Strang tell Russians have their rifle.

us about that fateful Interview are still waiting.

in going to let more get out of diplomat

NTI-FRANCO students between Left-wing

control. Another took A Barcelona hive been using contr Donald Maclean and a top-

rning in California. wrong turning Hungary's anti-Communist and So far thero has been no anti-Soviet rising as cover for a evidence of panie in.

in Jamaica. demonstration of their own.

Behind the cocktail parties, They have been going around dimers, the idling under the walls with chaiter there is the dogged Light-hearted-or doors and house

with Dictatorship"

British spirit determined to face the Russland. But he 100ice to take some leave and go abroad should I say trigger happy-"Down

with their allegations.

printed on them in largest type. anything that may come with a like being double-crossed him- and promised him that nothing

Underneath tiny lottering," sa would happen to him providing The illustrated magazine Derf

Rich they may be but in-n he sent in his resignation from Stern publistics a picture of me an excuse just in case the police glass in its hard.

different to Their fate. with the libellous caption "Spr should catch them at it, the Over the last few weeks the service, before Teturning.

had written students Chief Sefton Delmer..

Am

The Champagne Charlies Nasser has had four long meet- ings

well with

Ambassador No one,

"that"mada "Britain prsát. informed Hungary.” U.S.

I understand, loa the usually

But everyone knew what was Raymond A. Hare, who has been greater authority on this inter- Spiegel calmly attributes Sir

Anthony Eden's nervous break meant. | urging him (1) To shed his ties view than Lord Strang.

for the biggest double-cross of portant story. all. He wants double-cross Office high-up

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