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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957.

INTERNATIONAL CYCLING RACE WINNER

British cyclist Eric Thompson, 29, winner of the Daily Express Five Mile International Trophy Race nt Coventry, England on June 11, here recelves his trophy from Mr Asher of the Daily Express. Runner-up to Eric in the race was France's Guy Cinus-Express Photo.

A Dry

Summer-

And Derbyshire

Should

Run Close

Says BRUCE DOOLAND'

London.

Whenever you try to assess any adde in English cricket you have to weigh It up against the vagaries of the English summer. That's why I name Derbyshire 28 fine a Championship prospect as any in the country-If we have a dry summer,

If the next few months turn wet the odds must go back on Surrey to make It aix Championships in a row; with Glamorgan the dark horse likely to upset any calculations the best sides in the country may be inclined to make,

The lople of all this is simple, shire, Yorkshire and then proposition well able to increase Derbyshire have a sound Fide Leicestershire in succession and their danger if the spinners with particular strength in the then go on to shock the touring wickets come along. scam attack with those old side-gives them excellent stand- faithfuls Clin Gladwin, Lesing in the race. I tee that they Jackson and Derek Morgan. It will be an even more dangerous tha

wickets remain hard and combination if the weather turns fastish these three can be to help the spinners, match-winning combination.

For in Don Shepherd and Jim The supporting bowling of McConnon they have two of the spinners Edwin Smith and skip-most hostile class off-spinners in per Don Carr is extremely use the country. And don't let any ful, while the fielding all round body kid you about the style of

I think most people in cricket were sorry to see Lancashire slip after their splendid start. Somehow the fooling seems general that it is high time Old Trafford had a return of sand of the old time glamour of muccess, and the club's centenary me for it to happen But year seemed the best possible Lancashire don't appear to have

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PINEWOOD STUDIOS ARE What's Best in Kowloon?

NOTHING BUT A DREAM FACTORY

By PETER DAVALLE

I stood outside the unprepossessing, slate-grey walls of an 18th century, Paris prison. Another 10 paces and I was in Marseilles circa 1934 (I could have sworn I saw Marcel Pagnol and Raimu peoping dole- fully at me through the windows of M. Colville, boulanger).

I took the first turning to the left and my shoes were up to the laces in the

red dust of an Australian gold rush town, period 1850.

And away to the left and right, as far as the eye could see, swept the Lentative spring greenness of the Buckinghamshire countryside—1957,

Two things were real, The Studios-is all this minute | Under Arms, director Jack Leg, green fields and the lowering detall necessary? Would It really Scene 45, Take 2" written on if skler. All the rest, Paris, Mar- matter one little bit if the chalk), the bollowed, "Quiet ecilies, Australia, were filce - Marseilles streets were not brilliant, solid, cunning, but fake, nonetheless.

now--all quiet please of the worn. If the Canadian Paciie man at the director's elbow. train lacked a nut or bolt and If

Watch make-up man Cum the window of the chemist's Sharp as he moves swiftly but shop in the gold rush town unobtrusively out of the shadows contained modern medicines as up to Welsh dlm star Ronald Lewis before the camara and

wenta mixture of glycerine and water,

Plasterboard realian is some thing you have to get used to pretty quickly when you visit Pinewood Studios, You must have a care which tree trunk well as authentic cures of 100 sprays his forehead with studio

you lean up against. It will have a heasian soul and three-ply ribs more often than not.

years ago?

With justinably astonishment you will ask why the work of

Watch how expertly Maureen hundreds of men, at a cost of many thousands of pounds, Swanson, in dome-red dress, Prod that massive prison wall should occupy perhaps no more moves from a last-minute, whis

pered consultation with her sharply with your pencil and than 10 seconds of screen time. director into the kind of love

SPLINTERS

you will let daylight through.

Try and scrape up some snow from that white mound and you will get a handful of splinters That is what you get tampering with make-believe,

Cynies have it that Pinewood

JUNGLE

And you will always got this answer: Elther a film is worth making well or not at all, You aro just about to argue that such and such a bit of technical

setne with Mr Lewis which you thought did not exist outside the French film,

KISSES

And watch that scene being shot again and again (you would have thought they could have that dispensed with Bir Sharpe's

is nothing but a dream factory detail seems to you to be super-

or n inboratory producing cellufius when you remember loid seruum one shot of which time you complained about a film spray!) until the director is satis

the because you spotted a contemned that the kisses are sufficiely porary dining table in film realistic to cam the film on "A" about the French Revolution... certificate but not an "Xh and you keep silent,

will transport you into seventh heaven of escapisın.

They are 90 per cent right. The end product nudges others aside for bottom place in the catalogue of life's essentials. It is shamelessly unimportant now and on to the vast sound

stages, to the nerve centre of Belinda Lee, startlingly lovely in except to the 1,500 odd men and women to whom the crea-film production with their jungle tion of fantasy is a labour off spotlights, tilectors, cameras, | FOCNEIZ" erected and scenery stern reality,

waiting to be erected,

See the technicians toil direc- Come from the open "dots" tor Brian Desmond Hurst to wait a minute while he steps up to

Step carefully around the power cables which crawl all about you like untidy, outsize

very low-cut period costume, and arranges a strand of hatr which has clipped an inch out of place on her bare shoulders.

Take the Pinewood carpentry shop for example, One hundred men worked six weeks to bulld a perfect replica of a Canadian Pacific Railway express. Every spaghetti. Feel the heat of the the 100-acre gardens look too nut and bolt is exactly proporre lights beating down from tlened, Examine the hinges on the doors; study the joints, the window frames, Everything carries the hall-mark of Use master craftsman.

Tako the dockside street in Marseilles. The pavements are worn as it by the tramp of mil- lions of feet over a hundred years The only feet that havo ever passed over them are those of the studio builders.

The 150ft-long street of the

is right out of the top drawer bowling of Don Shepherd, Hesthe reserve strength to be able Australian gold rush town looks

Washbrook.

of Statham

and

by any scrament, Add the the lad who started his county to keep winning without the fact that Derbyshire are not career as a fast-medium bowler, full power likely to be disturbed by Test ralis, that they cun knit into a kien, competent wilt match after match and you see why fancy their chances-lf wickets

remain dry and fast and hard.

But if the rains come I don't think their spin bowling is strong enough

to carry

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He had a fois measure of success, but never quite enough to satisfy. So two winters ogo Den, encouraged all the way by skipper W Wooller, turned from speed to spin,

THAT WICKET...

I thought Northamptonshire would have dona even better than they have but for all the

He found that he could spin | effort the club has put into its them the ball, and pitch it occurately attempt to get faster and better back- at a much faster pace than most wickets the furt remains

real right down to the hitching posts, the saloons, shops, ients and bank which line the dusty street are not just the output of a designer's imagination. Every che is reconstructed from old стел older photographs and drawings of the old bush cout- try town of Muggee,

FRAYED COVERS

In the window of A. Mc-

Morocco covers; their filles

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the

Then leave the sound stages and save an excellent coffee in the Pinewood reception lounge. Through the French windows, good to be true. But surely, no "fies," alive with the studio painter could have swinging legs of lighting men created those glories, no studio Listen to the hammering, the recording man could have put shouts of call-boys, the terze, that bird song into the trees. "Right ho, let's try it again," of Still, after a day at Pinewood, directors, the quick clop of the you must learn not to be sur- clapper-boy's board (Robbery prised at anything.

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Cam. Smith and skipper

I first full season of his new style I think Northants have the bater, the volumes have frayed merely make the point that they with the extraordinarily fine re-ling ability to get runs on liveller cannot claim quite the class of turn of 177 wickets at only 15 pitches. And if only their bowlers their faster colleagues. For de aplece. That put him on top of had liveller conditions on which I think the batting will stand up the Glamorgan averages by a to get the other sides out they to the difficulties of turning mile and

placed him ninth would get somewhere. I EM wickets well enough.

among all the bowlers in the especially sorry for Frank Tyson country.

who can't get any help at all from these conditions in his night to try to get back into the Eng- land side.

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Put what is one man's poison)

COACHING HINT

Now this is the point-because is the breath of life to Bus next he bowls at medium pace most fellow. With Lock and Laker people say he bowls "Cutters in their side and big Alec Bed- that is, that he runs his fingers ocr still on the spot with his down the ball, as Alec Bedser

We've had enough to say fast "cutters", Surrey just don't does, es he releases it, so that care how soon the softer wickets it cuts back off the wicket, But About wickets the other week, come along Their greatest that is wrong. Don spins the but I want to finish off by sug problem stems from the raffling ball and spits it hard. How he ing that one of the best hinte to any balaman is for him to well so fast and sorties of the Test Selectors, can do it so But as

surmounted pitch it so they have

accurately I don't study the wicket before he goes Instead of waiting till he gels thoce for the last five years know. But the answer to it is

Note how mitch there is no reason to suspect the reason why he is such a good to the crease. they will be found short this bowler,

the ball is moving or lifting judge how the bowlers are using year.

As Glamorgan seem to be it. This foresight leaves only Glamorgan's sudden spurt of}anding some batting form and minor adjustments to be made successes in recent matches-no are always top class fielding when you get to the wicket. menn feat to wipe up Lanca-side they ern be a dangerous

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