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MBER 14, 1957.

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THIS

CURTAIN CALL

HIS is the last of the conducting concerning the 1880s. read it now, but the sextet is

A few days later he came very different, it reqda: series I have named round to see me. He had seen "And so I knew that it 1000

well with you, Curtain Call. My Editor sure of Wilde's letters auction.

ed off in Berlin, he would not And that unprisoned, suggested that I say give me the originals, but he ploriously free,

a first edition of something of the did give me

Across the dark you stretched Dio Geschnichte elner un-

me out your hand sources from which I glucklichen Freundschaft mit

And all the spite of this have

besotted crew, gathered

my portrats u faksimiles.

(Scrabbling on pillars of

Eternity)

if not prepaid a booking fee material. of.50 cents is charged.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FUNG-Jung Me Ying. Fung Hon

cau ma Hòa H. Di To Hon Pon and Dr Joh Hon Yin and family útesN trends and relativas for tha

Well, I didn't gather it all. Lots of it belonged to my

to me.

A great deal more is from n large note book 1 keep. End have kept for years. It was

AlignELOCE As the tuners of the chit-chat 1 heard at home, for

into protine, Mes Fung Pak 190. god for the wresta condolences

And donations to Catholle church 起

of their deceased MEIDOTS

mother.

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Hook,

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Great Let-Down

From William Luft, who was

James Barrie's

This Sir

first ever

WER autumn 3040. I later thought I was the richest man Captain

ard

But on earth. Secretary

unfortunately, of the Green Room Club, came the only material 1 we could not leave Stanghal used to concdiet some materi] Nevertheless, I wrote all tapt Jast we used by present day writers on winter, and when at

were released, I came down to events which happened at the veginning of the century,

Hongkong with 200,000 worda of what I thought was original matter on Wilde,

for Keats.

nu mozo two"...horoafter. in better world than this...."

To Qualify

A Western, A Powerful Drama

And A Premiere...

MENSION, condlet and

TE

action are the key- nates of "Quantez," which opens at the Star ́and Metropole this afternoon. An additional attraction is, It is made by Universal- International in Cinema- Scope and colour.

This film has 'broken away from the cowboy-opera theme in that the central characters aro all bad eggs, and although they are banded together for safety, It is the attempt to prove there is no honour among thieves that given the picture an interesting twint.

The only character who ex- hibits any degree of nobility is Fred MacMurray, and he makes

fleva In, and eventually, “ character who wins your sym- pathy..

not address himself to the Social the character one you can be- problems. of his, day,

of

K

Even so, Shakespeare con- cerned himself time and again with the lat of the exile driven

om the court by intrigue.

the

a

types

dozen or

о

Dorothy Malane and Fred MacMurray in Quantaz" which is now showing at the Star "and Métropole,

Why Shaw should count this such a fault that a playwright It la interesting also to notice should descend the artistle scale the metamorphosis of Mac- call it to. mind as a picture Nevertheless, At thờ time, on that necpunt, is merely to Murray.

drawing

room with a great cast. Look at MGM's "The Great Sinner" was prove that Bhaw over-concerned character into the MacMurray it.

halled as a miniature master- Gregory Peck, Ava of the wide open spaces himself with Social problems,

plece, and I would sooner ste a Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, such Miss Malone alsó rings Shakespeare dealt with the change in this film, for the Walter

a reissue, than some of Huston, Ethel the stuff that is shown to us authors Well, over the years, much of

these problems. morals of the girl she plays are Barrymore and Frank Mor- today as unforgettable. this stuff has been lost. Bui

Hurman kind. Apart from that, not much better than the usual How small it seemat Love. Shaw should have known that type of brazen buzzy what was important, I had a

made me understand"

wo and gan.

* no play written in Elizabethan hanging about in the old West. copy of the original De

Of

I shall proceed to review the "LStream" will have ADY Precious family, and they made it over Protundis, or as it was called sornet is more polished on itself directly to Social reform. from the routine performance Gregory Peck, as the control ita World Premiere Preview

the published times would daro to address But the basic character varies fim on the basis of its stars. COLYSC in Germany Epistolp: in altogether beautiful thing that way

there Wilde's compares with Shelley's lausent: There were rich and poor in that characterises

male figure, is seen as a,man ut at the Roxy Theatre té of girls. ughing tile to mis letter,

-Shapedare's limo, that oes

ideals Instead of the

whose love for

AVA I have taken a long time to without saying, even if the shall say tell you about ources; now 1. problems were less consciously changes of dresses usually asso- Gardner leads him into the night. The proceeds of this

elated with, these about the formed than they are now.

Wild West temptation of gambling, a lure show will go to the Tung Flamour, Mias

which proves stronger than his Wah Hospital Fund. The Malone

Hoes will to write, or his love for the history of "Lady Precious through the picture wearing a girl. It takes a miracle of Stream" single pair of blus Jeans. Never-

18 quite faith to break the spell.

ia- theless, ale mukes the part Miss. Gardner,

as she seems more plausible, and

wearing the teresting. the boys

beautiful costumes of the 1880; as well known to the Wes- are just as wild about her. But Shakespeare BAW life

Summing up, "Quantes" is a designed for har by Irene, has tern world as to China,' differently from Shaw. Shaw,bruta). exciting story

of four a role which firmly established Isce,

It was first produced in Loza Tolstoy and ali who bandits and a girl friend. follow them, seo the earth as a

her NB one valley of

It's a story of doublecross and Donalities," F the screen's per- don in 1934 by S.I. Hsiung, and ran for three years, It tears possessed with a zeal to destroysters, Sydney Chaplin,

They are hatred, involving besides the

The colourful role of General caused quite a stir, and was Ostrovely, the heroine's father honoured by visit from the late or correct that part of suffering Larch, and Michael Ansara.

Is given to Walter Husion. which

Queen Mary and the Queen originatea Inhumanity to mar

Melvyn Douglas is a suave Mother. Nearly everyone who evil genius.

Was anyone went to see the The acting in The Great play in London. Sinner" is of a high order. As

"Lady Precious Stream" also Fedor. Gregory Peck offers a has back from

the distinction of doing probing, sensitive portrayal of translated into tirement. "The Great Sin- à man driven to his doom, with

Junguages. Ava Gardner a perfect choice es

revived in It was the magnetle Pauline who first eight times, three times during lures him on, then tries des- the last war when the London perately to save him.

Times said the play, "It has Melvyn Douglas is the polish- made a place in history." ed, urbane. and cynical De What the Times meant wos, Glasse, and Walter Huston adda that audiences sat through the a touch of humour as the in- nlay while bombers were over gratiating sorundrel, Gemeral head pasting London Town. Ostrovalty, who takes his sănă

The Alm has been made. In lightly.

Eastman Colour. The shooting Standing out also is the was done here in Hongkong work of E-hel Barymore as the and Dr Hslung selected the cast despotle matriarch whose dest imself.

De Profundis

The other matter I have to clear up is to qualify my state meat and to attempt to prove why Show is not greater than Shakespeare,

the

Now I hold it to be true that And as I walked past Kelly and Walsh's bookshop,

Arst quality of what we -SAW Hesketh Pearson's new call A great work of art is What might interest

you is blography of Wilde. And 10 my timelessness. how i came across the

Oscar horror, I found that Mr. Vyvynn Wilde material. First, at home and

possesses the 1909 copy of De we bad Profundis. It contains the pre- fatory dedication to Meyerfield

Dr

so that I knew the author of De Profundis had written this work while In prison.

What puzzled me

youngster was, how could a original

That

who

Although Shaw stands bead and shoulders above his con

by John Luff

typescript of

tray given me a sure

greater

Shaw was, in the main. a Speln) Reto mer, and it needed

*IT

Viewpoint

man's

John

*

ITERE is an

old-timer

Healed

-QI

They therefore get this view-ner," now showing at the point. All human effort that is Hoover and Liberty, is a

concerned wish Social prob...

Jema 19 insignificant. Their powerful drama, Looking yardstick is this. Does this back across the years, work further our cause?

does not, then it is useless.

But

perhaps you say, real proof fles In thai anstanl character, the great response that proceeds the

man in hearing of such lines as-

"To-morrow, and to-morTOLE,

De temporaries, do not think the man who could write with such Profundis had released it for present or the future can rup- I hold it to be significant that beauly be sent to prison?

pubileation, The copy in port his claim to be

recognise Tolstoy refused to have that copy of

De Wilde's

handwriting is all than Shakespeare.

Shakespearo's greatness because Profundi and also a copy of locked away 61 the British

it did not directly advance the the "Ballad of Reading Gaol Museum.

gospel of human equailty. here with me in Hongkong. I

This is no place to make a mention the letter because it is

i though I had beaten the just a bit of extra legisintion to detailed analysis of the plays of signed, "C.3.3. That we world by aboul, 20 years.

put his plays out of court either Shaw or Shakespeare, Wilde's prison number.

altogether. Some of them date but in the main, I would dare Authentie news at Wilde was Nevertheless, I do not regret all

was a disappointment. horribly even now.

to say that I have establish.d hard to come by. Douglas was the hard work I put in, for it

the first premise from which - St Joan and Pygmalion are argument must proceed. sill formidable opponent of any who dared to publish any-

grasp of made of stuff that shou'd that literary revolt we call the endure because they deal with thing involving him with Wilde nineties. But

humen as tho yeurs passed, he published his

auttblo-

universal species, and Own graphy, and as I have a 1914

his thousand variations. copy of his "Oscar Wilde and | Myself,” I could see that he had

But what was Shaw's (11-bit, contradicted himself in the later

was Shakespeare's whole theme. works he published.

The thousand and one emotions, the pelly vanities, the follies, the triumpha, and the sorrows, are as reni today as they were knew something of the incidents yesterday, and will be as real surrounding Wilde and Douglas, tomorrow. 11 would orikkiate when Lite followers of the two men were Hamlet still stalls this world somewhat mellowed by age, and and, tumeo not so bitter as they had been, forth their It is woven

kind of lovers meet. Into imaginary meeling of the Wide and Douglas on Parnassus,

Reading

Hotch-Potch

The manuscript to which I refered is a sort of holch-potch

Letter of incidents old by people who

I heard bits here and there from people who had known Robert Ross, and noted them down, but I knew I could not

t in the missing bits until had the original "Reading Gaol letter in my hand.

I

nad

tears

and to-morroto,

Cráspa in this petty paso

from day to day...............”.

Farewell

arque

I certainly should not with such a point of view, Juliot sigh This then is farewell to this wherever series. In general, I suppose.. I have just chatted away on my typewriter.

Social Problems for the Theatre and all that is

The Briksh Musewn would Perhaps this would be the allow no one near it

place to do a little Justice to Then came the War, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Most of when I left the Army I went you will be aware of that

The tyrant works his blocdy to-Shanghal. Here I had one wood.riul conn t waleh, when task, and the clown of the biggest bits of luck be published it in 1910, he gave goodness) still corrects and puts (thank possible.

the title, The Dead Poet.””” In place the strutting braggart,

Mr

For me, it has been enjoyable,

wonderful atu to me.

E

That is why I never sec curtain rise, even in our Attle school halls without feeling wonderful thrill. Just as if, for moment, the stage LE revealing some aspect of life, or facet, hitherto unknown.

n

some

Many people who lived in Shanghai will remember

The original Is rathe: Show admitted Shakespeare That is the way theatre should Heinemann of Western Arts. I different, 1 begins "I dreamed was a great poet and a great be. In my opinion at leest." And often used to go into his shop of him last night, I saw his humorist. But why Shaw placed unless you can share to some and talk books. One day I told fare...." and so on. The octave Shakespagre second him of the litle research I was

to Shaw degres that thrill, you just don't is then much the same as you Was because Shakespeare did belong to the theatre.

The Bolshoi

STEPPED right out

of Hongkong Anthony Fuller

this

morning, and finished up with a front seat at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The fact that it was the Queen's Theatre, and my host" was Mr George Rearden of the Rank Organigation had little to do with the case,

Furthermore, it was a

'Goes' To The Royal Opera House

་

In

Ballet Hongkong

ite beat."

NEW FILMS

ANTHONY FULLER

we

P.I. Elections

(Continued from Page 1)

As of the latest counting only 312.000 Mindanao votes have been tallied.

THE TREND

The trend, however, was still In Macapagal's favour, bealog Laurel in all other regions.

he at

LP sources said if the Pam- panga Congressman maintained his performance to dete should get a majority of least 250,000 vates over Laurel Meanwhile Malacanang Palace and other administration quarters

ap-

expressed jubilation as the Nacionalista Party parently retained firm control of the House of Representatives.

While reports from the pro- vinces were slow in coming re- turns 'received here thus for strongly indicated that the ruling party was likely to chalk up à majorityy of 80 to 65 seats.

This was more than enough to assure Garcin of strong support; in the 102-member Lower House.

SENATORIAL

WEIR

Were

without information an, what I This aim will perauit jou to consider, is a new landmark in jola

In the senatorial race six of the wildly cheering the eight top FUNDETS Aim presentation of culture al Andlancos at the Covent Garden. Nacionalistas while two

Filthed in Eitial colour,

from the opposition. Libera] What more can I add to thaty w Galina Ulanove, the war's Party.

SCALE BALLATIE looding the We tow sat eátliralled se wd reupe, you have the Boyal The Senate count as of 0230 watched the effortless case with Opera Hound Covent Garden GMT occasion, for I took my scat

I asked Hank's representative which these dancers at the chestra conducted by Yuri Just after Her Majesty the what, had prompted his gesture Bostral Bellet move. With what gui Quedz had left the Theatre. in inviting the publicity re- consummaté Retutry. Thi thử fell a story. Their personsMENG

It was superb, a creation of Iloyal artistic perfection.

How is that possible? Well, Just after the vialtof

presentatives.

He said: "Theróis without colourful atid vital reach OSH

tling: H, în a sentence, you „An, thắt by best in Ballet jille khought right here to

H. M. the Queen to neo the doubt a daily increasing interest to a from, debind the moliliitä, he wonder affres Bolshoi Ballet, Dr. Paul Czinner, in ballet in this Colony, not husband of Buzabeth Borgner only among the Europeans, but brought in bi multi-camera among the Chinese also.. With dist and filmed the whole per- that in mind, I have cured-an formance the same night,

"Ever”, minée à thứ

early release of this wonderful Diaghilev and Pavlová, HUMME Alm, fog: I consider Hongkong in balet had been recognlard By

whore it * place

will be critics the world over de 150 There is no doubl whatever oppyclitod bý“everyone, within hallmarie by which others fre that it is one of the greas events the Colony.”.

to be Judgod., . but it wiba),

in the cinema wotid. Had you "There „Je to be a khów later will the vhit of the Estatio been privileged to buy the most on for the Chinese Press; to London towards the end of expensive seat in the Theatre, representatives when I have got 1950 that Western, Europe, kad hou you could not have had a better out a. translation for them, so the opportunity, but WINE GEWRITE view.

thật pung la the Gelegg will bể ballet at his book

Bikiba di dawers, and crates

he Opera House.

lbst, the.

10:spack

trait

And

1. Gl J. Puyat, › Nacionalists,

705.197;

& Arturo1 Tolantaño,

1:59.543;

*. Eulogio Halas, NP, & Oscar

576.3061- 15. Aakhresto! Pázlie - Party, 672,8027;

Nr.

ovor

sixteen

London

gamble is also her last. And The whole cost were 100- the touching role noted by tensively rehearsed before any Frank Morgan as Aristide, the shots were talpen. Dr Hsiung philosophical professor

who personally took charge of pro- stakes his life on the roulette duction to ensure that the fl wheel and loses.

reached the high standard that That should jog your memory the play achieved.

bit. It is strange to sco The World Premiere wil tako personalities of the screen ap- place the Academy, London, pear that much

younger, and in 1988. So, with this preview, some who will never ro-appear Hongkong is ahead of the rest on the screen again.

of the world.

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,

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, Eddle Albert, and Julietto Greco.

STAR & METROPOLE: "Quantez."A Western with Fred, MacMurray and Dorothy Malone. HOOVER & LIBERTY: ""The Great Sinner."

A powerful drama. Re-issue. Grégory Peck, and Ava Gardner.

Lacson's Resignation Not

Accepted By Garcia

Mahila, Nov. 14. President Carlos P. Garcia, today turbed down the "Irre

vocable” remigration of Arsenio H. Laeson na Mayor ́of Manila às in Aftermath of the lons of some ad-

ministration candidates in the Cây,

Preddent aprels, who himself i direla sirih, his tradit enough was defeated in Manila; ssid he | ton ktáron kilók faz did not think the poll rollin

in the City indicated the eleQw

Howdyar, Lacson, was adamant-

torates repudiation of Lacson and praeitially,

President, 14. sabeut his resign de =

pálffed out that Manllà i tion "ad, ka hof