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THE CHINA MATE MONDAY NOVEMBER II 1997.

THE FIRST

It was a dull groy morn

Ing. We were paraded In the school grounds of a North London Grammar School. The break was over and we were in line ready to march back to our classes.

An old teacher, a real Mr Chips who had been called back from retire- ment was in charge of us. He was known affec- tionately as Old Bonk,

Suddenly a maroon crash. ed overhead. Then an- other.

Then the mir rocked with explosions. From the elms under which Charles Lamb

used to walk, the rooks rose and cawed loudly,'

A few boys began to cheer. Old Bonk held up his hand. I could be the Taubes (German aero- plane) had returned to bomb a school again, us they had done before. It could be invasion, it - could be anything. Peace had been too long in coming.

From

Alms House across the way came a little grey-haired old lady. She carried л Union Jack, and she be- gan to wave it, We needed nothing more.

BATH AND BUSTS

ARE OUT: MARTINE

PEOPLE who had seen

the trailers of "Action Anthony Fuller

xhot

of the Tiger" have been Tells You Of A asking me if that which shows Martine Carol Recent Interview rising from the sea, naked and unashamed, is retained in the full showing of the flm.

I do not know, but what I have to warn you is, there are two shots of the same scene. One, where Martine emerges with all the loveliness of Aphrodite the traller pro-

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{mises; the second where she wears a black bathing costume. Regarding these nude scenes, Martine says:~~,

"Bath and bušis...both are out from now on.

"You'll be able to see my Swan song in Action of the tiger, the film that made me resolve to glyé up dips for good.

"As D matter of fact, I'd already announced my decision 10 give up baths before the

1

I went into production

"When I read the script, all

bad to do was to dim couple of scenes in a swim sult and I didn't object at all.

"Imagine my surprise when al my press reception in Lon- don, someone asked me if I had scenes and our any bathing producer, Kenneth Harper, answered for me 'Yes, twol'

"For

BI I M

was quite urinoyed with him for changing the script

withou! around telling me. But Ken, who is very nice mon, got round me by saying, "Martine, no film in which you appear would be complete without a dip.

"OK." I Enid, "but this time must be the very last time."

"Don't think I'm contemptu- ous of a gimmick, for such it was, ' admit, that created a tremendous amount of publicity both for myself and the ple tures in which I appeared.. Far

from it.

"Baths and busts are very important for the girl who needs to get on and establish time

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herself. There was when I needed both.

But now.... and I say this with due modesty... I'm well- known. I've learned my pro- fession, the hard way via many Alm, some bad, tome Indif- férent, some good, and now I want to concentrate all ray energies on neting, not stunting. "After all, there is a paraliël in my career, No girl with am- kition wants to remain a short-

She

hand typist all her life. wants to progress and do zas ponsible things. it's the same with me,

"Today, more than anything else, i need good dramatic roles in a variety of different subjects. I think 'Action of the Tiker in which I am teamed

with Van Johnson, la a very pro- mising beginning Indeed: 1 want to go right on from here, away from baths and busts.

"When I told this to un in- terviewer the other day, she smiled sceptically and asked what my next film would be.

"I told her. I'm playing a cat who turns into u woman but still has the instincts of a cat,

"I bet you'll be taking a bath," she said

"Don't be silly,"

ARMISTICE DAY

by Trooper 7961338 We got dreseed in our

We defled Of Bonk and broke into a frenzy of cheering.

The Headmaster walked aut. He made a speech, and suddenly' tears be gan to flow down his face. And although boys are heartless, we re- membered his son, bace our profect, who had gone away to die. There followed a half-

holiday.

All the way home there

I

were flags fluttering against the dull Novem

and

ber nky. Then there was cheering, louder louder, and all London was one long cheer. But that was a strange

day for me. I suppose the carelessness of 3 schoolboy had made me thoughtless. I was in- dignant that our house flew no flag.

My mother sent me out to buy one, and soon all our street was an avenue of Allied flags.

I had forgotten that no felter from my father had come for weeks,

us

beat, but we did not linger in the West End: My mother, look straight to Waterloo Station, and we waited near the barrier where the leave trains came in. Not But he didn't come.

that day or any other day. He didn't home again,

come

I am years older now than - he ever lived to be. And when the time came, I 100 walked over the ground where he had once walked. The lessons this day have laught me are all the wrong ones,

How men'can hate, but on the battlefeld. Itself, there is little hatred. There can oven be a sort

of communion of suffer Ing which draws friend and foe together.

And there WOM oven D pledge, "That there shall be no more War." Yet today men live under a shadow of fear, such an never was before." I wonder when I think of

this, and remember that. day, long ago.

A little grey-haired old lady waving a flag to a crowd of cheering schoolboys.

CURTAIN CALL

mouth.

Birmingham,

AM going to attempt to Hull. sum up in this, the last Newcastle-on-Tyne, but one, of the present series have called "Cur- tain Call."

Bristol, and Ply

Amateur actors are never shy of a prestige plece, and it is due to them that Shaw. for in- We cannot say all is well with stance, kept his head above one water. And in no less a sense the English Theatre when

of the amatuer after another theatre is closing its is that true. doors, We call to mind the fuss stage in the States, about St. James' and the cry from the actors that they were losing their theatres. "But the truth is, there remains no valid reason for keeping them open.

The Answer

Do you recolleel that crack To blume Television or the in the nim, "Silk Stockings" Cinema is nonsense. Neither is The girl is asked something a real competitor of the Theatre. like this: "Do you know what

Sutton Vane wrote other nie interest. The action of the plays, technically superior to "Outward Bound," but he never repeated the success of that play,

Noel Pierce Coward 18 G mystery to me. My own memory Lekes me back to the time when he was a sort of leader of youth. The young were disillusioned. Tricked by the okt men and their Ideals which had demanded a mays blood sacrifice, they cocked the snoot at all the old false god. "The Vortex" was a ser lous drama.

It felled at one blow the facade that had been erected by a hypocritical idealism. Yot its reception turned Coward away from anything of a similor

nature. replies, "Oh I know! A picture

that loses money."

In the sense of people looking a prestige picture" ist" and she for entertainment, perhaps yes. But if there existed a real Theatre public, they could pack our Theatres every night of the week from now to eternity. What Is the trouble?

Long Sleep

This is not first time that Bri-

11sh Drama has fallen into a long sleep. There is a similar period In the history of British Drama

There is your answer about British DraZES,

But London is the centre of the Brush Theatre World. And no theatre in London plays night afer night a repertory of British masterpieces.

I admit we are rich la master- pieces, but not so rich that we can afford to neglect them.

True he has continued to laugh at ciferlahod symbols of British respectability, but he is by no means the fconoclast he

once was.

Spit Upon

I often wonder what wont wrong, Did success come too soon? If it did, it did not come easily.

Yet Coward has never been

Now once Shaw brought back to life the expiring body of between Sheridan and Robertson, British Drama a news the same since the night he had Then in the nineties there come dominated British playwrighta. Wilde and Shaw, and the latter

a play hissed und booed, snef Germany took over bestrode British Drama like a

Goorge perhaps with 11 dramatist's Colossus. A new virility was Bernard as once she had taken ilcence, he says

spit Galsworthy upon. manifested.

over Shakespeare,

he was

by John Luff

What bag kiled British Drama

the Commercial Theatre. I do not expect any. manager to go into the busi- ness to lose money, but it is obvious that if we cared suffi- cleatly. we should have had also, and Lonsdale and Noel

the Comedie Coward. Francaise, a kind of home for discovered masterpieces.

I replied, samething like

"Did you ever know of a cat that liked water?"

There is no need to mention

America. Sufficient to say that

His generation did not take him seriously, so in return he appeared to be the perfect cynle.

"Yes, this is the end of a long association

between Martine If thanks for survival are to Somerset Maugham, Harold But you must understand that Carol and her bath tubs. There be offered, they should te Brighouse, and Noel Coward, the cynics waspish tongue is won' be any going back, I tendered

Repertory all had ploys shown there be his protection. to the promise you."

Perhaps Not! Theatres at Liverpool, Glasgow, fore they appeared in England. Coward could not care less.

Yet

of his an examination Now let us examine a few

him as works reveals

men plays that came out of thas Ma

who can feel very deeply. perlad during which Shaw

China Mail Entertainment Guide

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT

KING'S & PRINCESS: “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,” Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the wildest gunfight ever.

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Symphonie in Gold" A frozen symphony of beauty. The Vienna Ice Revue,

ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Sun Also Rises." Hemingway's boldest love story. Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, and Juliette Greco,

STAR & METROPOLE; "The King and Four Queens." An unusual Wearter which gives the tough play to four women, and one man. Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, with Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols, and Sarah Shane

HOOVER & LIBERTY: “A Woman's Devotion."

Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule and. Poul Henreid.

dominated the Theatre World. easily wounded. What happen.

September 17 at Everyman Theatre came "Outward Bound," It was written by the actor, Sutton Vane, son of a play wright,

Great Theatre

Why do I include this among stuff of the great Theatre? Be cause it is great Theatre, «Look at act one. There is contained one of the greatest surprises of the Theatre. The first audiences lulled along. Everyone were accepted the ship for what I was. Then...the audience

vel Inside him that night in the But twenties, I do not know. he gave up the gift of prophecy, the commentator and became

Perhaps of life as he sees it. as it is.

play is confined to a dug-out. Yet, as o statement upon the scnseless horror of war, 1 cone sider it unsurpassed.

Its dramatic qualities are re- vested in its tindericnes, The kind of thing like, "you're next for the high jump??

Yet to the Anglo-Saxon world. were more those undertones vil than an hour of dramatic argument.

Risky Thing

Was

"What Price Glory?" the American play from World War I. 16 retained the American

formula which is used to this

day,, that no matter where the Army is, there has got to be girls. But, as I remember, IL had some moving moments, And thinking down the years, the scene I recall is the young artist-conscript who had lost His dog-tag. And the rough response of Sergeant Quit as

JOHN LUFF presents

Telecrit

THE very first local firm

to buy time on TV Hongkong is Whiteaways. On Monday night, in place of "Calling Card," White- aways are putting on the Aim of their Fashion Show.... The Commentator will be Major K. C. Harvey. This la certainly very interesting, but it raises the point. Does this mean a development of policy in the commercial direction?

I went

In to see Mr R. G Dunlop to ask what this might mean. Mr Dunlop said. "This does not mean we are brunch- ing out into Commercial Tele- vision, to any excessive degree. It is not our policy to do so. Our first interest is the viewer.

the Our object is, "What does vlawer want? and to get it for him as quickly as we can. But when a firm of the standing of Whiteaways conies along with a feature that is of such wide interest, and presents it in A manner which is in keeping with the highest standards of tele- vision, we are prepared to rent them time"

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I wont 10 talk about the aporing items for R bit. I thought inst night particularly good programme. In a quarter of an hour we saw the world records for the forty and fifty track ruce broken by the South African runner, Walsh. How find It was to alt in room at Kowloon Tong and. look in at Walton on a dull (it seemed) English day,

Next minute we were in Italy, There was Tom Mission of the Metropolitan Walking Club win- ning the International 100. kilo- metres (62 miles) race. If you call that walking, may I never run. Yet how fresh he looked al the finish. Did you get the time? 40 minutes and 3 seconds, the second fasted time in history? I liked watching them sweeping through those Italian villages. For me, that is TV at 1ls best.

A number of people have been on to me to ask k TV can put us on one of the big fights from home. I don't know. Can you Mr Sloane?

Last night's Darts Match was an unexpected event. In reply the to a number of enquirers, friendly contestants were Ser- geant Ston Pewelt of the RAF, and C.P.O. Jim Brocitenshire of

HMS Cockode.

I

I think the boys were real sporty to give the viewers such a treat, and dull writs to the camara-boy who chased the darta onto the board. I think there was the touch, cẻ nerves BECAUSE

he took his own, and gave it a practice throw, just before the to the young GI. The French camera took over, saw live out brought out a play. "The Un-of six darts off the board! known Warrior on the theme of "never again". But it did happen again,

But when the two boys got. into their stride, were they hot!

Such plays have a motive.

By the way, someone has rung A risky thing for a Play to up to say they would like to sec possess. No siriking characters a challenge match over LV with from them. They Brockenshire and Powell team- emerged would serve no purpose nowing up against all comers. Could that a bigger and better war bo very good especially if TV has come and gone.

could fit up a village fün baek-

ground.

Yo! to those to whom the

Flima again. Yes, they are first World War held poignant memories, they did create a much improved. And strange shall not now the Chineth › viewers en- feeling that, "this

And happen again."

having Joyed, "They flew by Night," served their done that, they purpose.

The Children's programme bas of got for certain, the series Much depends upon what we BBC filme:"Circus Boy," expect from the Theatre. "Jungle Jim," "Bengal Lancers," Those Bre and "Rin Tin Tini" Very good flims and they are on the way here, I checked on the invoice.

Own Vision

I can't give you many details

Every playwright has his own at the moment, but TV is start-

cooking course Il méans, vidon of life. Therein lies the ing attraction of the Theatre. But Atting up a kitchen to cook by- I can think of no recent playgas. that has put that before 123.

Few men of this age are more gifted, few have ever worked as

The Commercial Theatre has hand. Perhaps he will yet ro- had some no successes, but no duce the play that none has statement on life or of human seen, few know about, which is affairs has come since Priestley's

down sensitive Time Plays. the real deep Noel Coward.

Two Notables

The post-World War I years notable Iz smashed into attention. That brought one

or two

The lady who will run the George Orwell European programme is extreme-

"the" might have done it. 1984 was ly well qualified in both

and dramatized for TV with con- culinary siderable

how arts. But many realise that Orwell was

BUCCCAT

demonstration

not trying to be dramatic, and The programme will run like invoked no poetie licence when this. One week' European cook- he wrote that novel. And that ing, neat week, Chinese cooking. he considered 1984 a reasonabis reckoning until the things he visualised came to pass↑

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"Am I unid. That week, the Jonger nights have resulted in thean increase In the slumber of | applications from potential. TV b) vławcem. Certainly i this week'a I should place the sterile viewing. has been good. The present philosophy. The 10 the Chinese Alins has given End."

for Alde originally written Kingston Rowing Club, Thon Western world has no vision the Boglish speaking viewer What happens to our dead? the London Stage Society took it Its young men do not dream added interest, and what is more

So if all that wo important, longer viewing This play was an attempt to us, and to Sherriff's surprise, it detama. And an answer,

took America by storms cherished and still cherish la

mursory should be taken from Lots more to tell you, but my As a play it breaks all the as beossuse the glit of prophacis, aprop has gone, no unili next ruler. There is no direct feml="" has left us, who shall wo bläne,” werk "Ogod Viewing!

is Theatre with a capital T, but plays. They come within a de

when so few, and they are becoming cade

the world stood what aghast with horror, as if to say, ever decreasing, know

Fly Re Mdn't turn "Are we capable of this? This Theatrals.

senseless laughter, this in age. In another achse, the play human wasteful horror?" [was apt. The loss of millora.

et young men who had died on. Shorrif Have us "Youmey's nature of present drama along English titles, or caption rather,

the Continent was recent,

-Hot an orthodox ono, pechape,

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