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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1957.

Mahat

Thatwest "ACENT

Weffo

TALKIND

"Now remember I'll do the talking."

He made Brando imitate

OR Hollywood cele. brities and Broadway beauties the smartest place in New York now is not the Stork Club but convorted church hall

pro-

this

оп

the

a cash register

like professor's study. Somo of where as susan, already

bis beautiful 17-year-old daughter,

even

DO 17 YOURSELF

WESTRUCTIO

in а dollar duction and

Report from New York

gladly spends

tho

evening

by ALAN BRIEN

m personat- kawannommer

ភា

THE UNLUCKIEST PREMIER

BRITAIN

ERHAPS one shouldn't

PER

expect

luck in the

H-bomb age. Steel nerves

EVER

HAD

By Walter Terry

and nth degree skill are the The supreme irony is Industrial peace

and

pro-

essentials in nuclear politics. that Sir Anthony started duction were speckled with

His planning strikes. who off so well.

of the General Election 1955 was a masterpiece.

Maybe the man looks to chance for his for- tumes deserves to fail.

Yet who can blame any politician who dreams when politics are still made up of people? Even Krusthey hud luck. s survived

Stalin.

in

The Tories romped home.

Jobbica to support

sion Anthony.

For some the strain was great; they abstained.

stor

of

Strasberg at Arst wna

DAUGHTER SUSAN WITH LEÉ STRASBERG. Father can be rather frightening.

dingy West Forty-Fourth The other night I met the Street. It is up these gonius. bobina the studio. Strasberg. dusty stone slab steps and 64-year-old Lee

bar- great through

Beverelle lives in classical portico that the sacks of an apartment house where Bohemia shades on most famous names in into Harlem. His flat was paved show business pass today.

with black-and-white marble ules, and lined with bookshelves This is the temple of Actor Studio, fire Mecca the method. Hero no Press agenta nudge nor gosalp column- ists prowl. Here International of Picnic, and the Dlary stars give glowing performances hair for a party, and singing Anna Frank, was washing her before

audiences of a dozen.

to herself. At the Actor Studio Marilyn Monroe dare not be

Later at that parly we met, tute for a call. No one ever asks "I peeped through the sliding for her autograph, except on a doors," she confessed, "Did you

Marlon Brando still find him nice? He can be rather "That's just a gng. willingly takes the bare boards frightening.")

Then an Cut, Paul Newman, Eva Marie outsider gets hold of it and Saint and many other, takes seriously. But there is Strasberg emphasises that certain truth in the legend. the studio produces many styles alightly un- The paradox of an actor is of actors; they have succooded nerving: - that to bo an actor he must in musicals, opera, Shakespeare, David Kos- Arst be very conscious of him- Chekhov, Brecht and Sheridan SUNGARRATIONES MANAGEıl self playing self. Then to be a good actor as well 29 10 Tennessea ing a wax statue metting in the Cardinal Richelieu, He was he must forget about himself. Williams, and Eugene O'Neill, silent dur our long walk His job is to be able to become For the studio is

the Jack through

comidors, He immediately

NO FEELING anything he 19 Solomons gym for theatrical sat me carefully on a sofa, then called upon to become.

difference between champs and young white hopes, arranged his chair and 1219

Broadway ani Shaftesbury Here they can flex

the the acting lamp In

most dramatic "So wo asked our members Avenue, ho thought, was that muscles which

4o think about an episode in though British rarely poeliion

playa wero stretched in commercial pro-

their past. It was as if we were posing selves with

To identify thom- skilfully noted and skilfully ductions.

for a Victorian portrait of

symbol. To written, they Wene almost And

impersonate who have headmaster morting a

in Inanimate, entirely a headboy: object like a teapot, as long as temporary feeling. lacking

Đ aweated

off their CXC453 But he was delighted with glamour remain volubly grate my description of the studio as yet the right plich and

"When 1 go to a Lnogion ful. Says Brando of the time the gymn

intensity of concentration.” gymnasium, "That's exactly

theatre the world I see might when he was asked to imitate it. get so irritated when

be 1880 or 1920 os SVENGALI-LIKE

casily cash register:

1980. "You'd be people ask a member when he

Here you see America surprised how natural

A grea!

on the stage. With all ita Some crilles of the studio ellches, gel after a

and actor can no more stop training belleve, that Strasberg himself a while linking on is going to graduate.

badness, 真 ringing and punching yourself."

ourself." than a great athlete. Yet no ཐ་

Identifying today."

stupidities, It's unconsciously

#!]] Americs The studio is free and del tennis player to stop practising dominating his famous trainees Strasberg was more enthusiastic

one expects Bghter or a himself

with

Svengali,

About British actors Lea a hypnotist.

But the list There's a tremendous amount trained young talent Strasberg

by of really great talent there," he ta 12 roll-call of America's

glint in bls must stara Brando,

Individual Sad with

"Frankly, I just ached to get Monroe, Julle my hands on them." Harris, Rod Steiger, Montgomery

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voluntary gifts. Anyone can ask for an just because he has become a Sir audition:

the shopgirl who champion." boasts "My friend says I walk I asked him about the stories too like Marilyn," or the Broadway that method actors might be Star who complains, "My agent told to go into a scene thinking says I act like Joso Ferter? of ketchup and Sinatra.

And though it sounds fantas- tic, there were other Tories who thought more highly of their

There was

uld enemy, Mr Bevan. unemployment in the cur Industry, bad feeling with the T.U.C, Trinidad al had to be sold. There were a dozen little disputes among the All Tories in Parliament now prae- An- tically forgotten. But the sulks the remained,

Socialists despaired. over the country Sir thony was acclaimed as only man for Britain. In spiring cheers rang through He the Commons. The Gov. Nasser had luck too.

off with basks in world sympathy ernment

beaming today only because of mis a wave from calulations in Whitehall,

But Sir Anthony Eden

will be remembered as the

Prime Minister who had

none.

pilot.

zoomed

its

Shadows, His cupboard has

misfortunes, been bure during most of and the grumbles came just his tenancy at No. 10. His- a few months afterwards. torians will mark down his They began with rumblings Premiership as 4 fanastic of discontent within the

ranks of Tory M.P.s. run of bad luck.

affair.

own

No Prime Minister has been so beset with rebellion and dis- content from insigo his ranis. From the start he was beset by known as the "Sucz Rebels,"

powerful sector

underesti❤

TOMMY

Hike

О

LOVES

NEWSPAPER.....

S

of these

news

news-

The

HIS

and when

eye.

he can't get

it he prints his own

By GEORGE HOGAN

as

Sir Anthony made #

They demanded tough action bold

INCE the Army's troops themselves, brings "news nove early last year to end by Britain in the Middle East. listened to their East-West tension

newspaper,

the from home". by inviting Sir Anthony

Some Marshal Bulganin and

words. Maybe he Mr

news-sheets Cologne Post, printed

arc other influences in ita first number in 1919 for They carry

quito

ambitious efforts. Kruschev to London for folky, mated the But the good work was tainted

"hot" world party. For there...., weru

"Left Wingers," the troops of the British as carly as any national by tho Commander Crabb Moderates,

daily,

newspapers. Headings Bulleritco, and Macmillanites Army of the Rhine,

with the and support this

are in the heat of a tropical sun to back-

CK artistically drawn in and other keep up with a tough timetable, who Bre now

stories, features energing as soldier on

overseas service ground He had to answer in Parita- equally important.

and Illustrations enliven the lay-out. they, too, are thinking of world home town news sent out from has always found some way

Britain by

from Maps,

and sketches д special

even aftales and of what goes on at ment, 100, for the Burgess and

home. Maclean scandal, though tho

of keeping up with the service unit sponsored by the caroons aro published.

the British soldier, Almost Their sports pages wherever he may be, is hungry British diplomats disappeared while the

news. There was no radio War Omce.

isalated as the when World War I ended, local football team and, indeed, for news from home....and the pedition at Shackicion Base

keep Tommy in touch with his

Trans-Antarctic Ex- Socialists were in power.

in the BBC was not born until with all the latest results and British soldier does get to some The Weddell Sen, they cannot such nine years later. There

awkward, out gosalp in every variety of sport places where newspapers have unill they are well behind the way expect London newspapers were few aeroplanes, News- During the Olymple Games in

Melbourne special

never before pendrated and news. But, like their comrades papers printed in London were

where the mail plane comes in on the Rhino in 1919 and those published

but once a week, If that, done took days to reach the printed daily.

others in Korea and the Canal Govern- troops stationed along the

The men who complie these

Zone, they havo solved their will be Rhine. The Army knew news-sheets

airn to present One such is Christmas Island, problem in their own way what WAH wanted and publications u attractive as a liny dot in the Pacific Ocean. They are publishing a six-pago

蟲 news-sheet with

glorious supplied the

possible under difficult circum- deficiency -----

where a contingent of troops sounding stances and with limited means are preparing for Britain's first Pacific News. It is an excellent

name-the Mid- There has been bold legisla~ they printed 1 Forces'

The sheets are set out

bomb test early in effort, too. monopolies in newspaper

in hydrogen lion to break

on the spot in columns like normal full-scale 1057. There, while they" toil

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Cologne. ful use of atomic energy has been developed with a spirit of adventure.

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own

But what Conservative leader in Cyprus every peace at-

could have anticipated tempt has been confounded.

pressures among his When the Commons voted in followers?

of the favour

of abolition hanging, the Primo

Yot Minister

has been They couldn't quite ex- was confronted with a constitu- quietly by the Eden plain it. But they were tional crisis because the House ment which ona day dissatisfied. Frustration of Lords was

and far- bitterly opposed regarded as excellent

secing. canalised -- forgive the to a change.

At vital moments he has been deserted by both verb, but it was popular M.P.s blamed Sir Anthony be- friends and his health. then into a now political cause they couldn't have a rise Crises piled high even be belief: anti-Edenism. From in salary. fore Suez washed into his then onwards the spell was drawing-room.

broken and bad luck reign-

ed.

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Progress and reform on the home front has been clouded tion constantly by damaging inila- Mr Macmillan has been forced to introduce a series of credit squoCZEŁ

All this would be enough to make the most brilliant Gov- crument unpopular. Yet it all pales when compared with the crashing bad luck for Sir Anthony that followed his Sucz venture.

The most extreme pessimist.

could not have foreseen bow

much

}

Slum clearance goo, abead strongly for the first time since the war. And automation in industry has been encouraged.

In Malta, Sir Anthony's Gov- ernment has set a unique proce- dent by granting the island purmission to become part of the United Kingdom.

In other Colonies self-govern ment has been speeded.

At home (thore is no praise for this at the moment, but It was essential) the Govern- ment ettried work on anding the absurdities of rent control.

Who could assess the Eisen- 100 harshly towards his lucky hower mood, thủ Dulles snuby, stars. jand tw bitterness of MA Nehru's condemnation?

по

Since these

in early days Army journalism the radio has come into its own. Wireless sels are installed in all canteens and the BBC can be heard in all corners of the earth. There is

dearth of hot news in circumstances, but as normal

have communications improved the soldier has called more and more for "news from home",

STILL LATE

conditions exceptional In London newspapers are still late catching up with the troops. Then the soldier seitles his own

and

features results

of the

TINY DOT

THE BOTTLE AND MR K

-A SOBER APPRAISAL

JUST how heavily does Krushchev fean on the bottle? Are his out. pourings the result of excessive inpourings of alcohol or are they the demagogy of 4 man cockily sure of himself? Few people have had more chances of observing him with a glass in hin hand than this Fleet Street reporter now back in Britain from Moscow.

and under the ng Officer's authority. publishes his own news-sheet, Such

TIKITA the case during the recent Middle East crisis the Royal Army Educational

WES

By SHELLEY ROHDE

familiar

of Moscow receptione - and

KRUSHCHEV ings as the babblings of a man In Moscow I havo Becu raised his glass to the who cannot hold his liquor. Krushchev "merry!!

have Britain would be opposed by

New Year arid open- There is much more to the watched him closely at dozens her allies, her oli suppiles cut

Corps stepped into the breach LX$ his mouth. And the man than that. Yes, he drinks off and her good name assalted One hopes that Sir Anthony

and. published 2. foolscap Kremlin combination of vodka throughout the world.

can draw some consolation und

Once I caught him delalicly from these efforts and not feel duplicated newspaper of four to and vitriol exploded on 1957 quite a lot. But he can take it counted his driples.

DEDICATED clx sheets called The Musketeer, to the tune of popping corks.

tipsy-and tried to draw him Thus were the troops in the

TURN a blind eye to his cold, into provocative conversation. All true to form. Only one Fort Sald area and along the

calculated competence and But he is too maet a man for banks

tdng remains-the of the He has this much to be thank-touch with home and up to

Canal kept Western fairy tale that Nikith you ismoro a delicated

enemy that It was the only time I of capitalem, ful for: In the country to-day minute

A man famation ever found him determinedly world events. Krushchev was drunk.

in his delamination to bring with

bring slant, It seems impossible for 40 among ordinary people un-

For, in my view, after watch about world-wide Communism, many things to have

gone versed in the arts and cunning Similar sheets and, leed, full-

No speech is ever made pub wrong. The impact at home was of polities, there are thousands scale newspapers were published ing. Krushchev at cloes quarters too much. Sir Anthony's own to whom he remains

in World War II, and through- over many months, a fairy tale le kr the Baylot Union without

Some of his an ideal tr

out the Korean campaign and this decidedly in. Tory M.P.s, once so proud of and also an affectionate friend.

a purpose, And no words are noncest antie Western their leader, turned away be-

even to this day, with a British It is dangerously short-sight ever repeated in Pravda without spoochee were made during his wildered by disappointment.

He has one great stalwart at Commonwealth Contingent stilled for people in the West fa

a reason.

notorious four of India, a strict hig aldo still-Sir Winston serving there, the Crown News, regant this man po good TAW Nikita Krushchev is the voice po-alcohol country, Miserable au dejooled, they Churchill.

another foolscap duplication material for Alcoholics Anony- of Soviet purpose. And Pravda Yes the voice was as loud as forced themselves into the divi-

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complied and printed by the mous; to dismiss bis outpour is his soapbox."

over the voice, not of incrin- Lign but

The

• ригрово

JOHNNY HAZARD

WE GOTTA JUMP HIM, JOHNNYA EVEN IF ONE

OF US GETS ITAy!

UN-UN, SNAP HE'S

A PROL HEED A BETTER. OPENING WAIT MY

SIGHALL

· FAGE THE WALL.) LEAN FORWARD 200. [PUT YOUR HAND9 ¡·

AGAINST IT!

HE SURE IS A C. PRO GUESS THIS 15 IT JOHNNY

By Frank Robbins -

NO ODO MOWER, YOU THOSE HAVE TO FIND THE PROPER SIZE TRUNK TO HOLD YOU! THIN YOU WILL CARRY FT QYER PY TO THE CAR & VENT

OH,CUTE A PO-IT-YOURSELF

MUMPER KIT

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel

I. WATCHED NOTE - this

East gome of the threats to the West camo during the Bulganin and Krushobay tour of Britain,

Again it was not under the Influence of drint that Krush- choy rogie, I watched him,

The rudKY PODIS. was pleady the cold blue eyes were clear. The purposes to plant the needs of trighioned sospect for Soviet power in the minds of the British people,

Krahchev lg » mati visuguling do regain Kita-public, andja his positión..! Ha del mos dring lá by posting to the kettle.

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