1958-03-19 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1958.

"Another load of emptics. A plague on the Navy's undersea warfare.”

POLARIS

Benantional

EL

Admiral Rickover gave the Admiralty chiefs detalls of the most recent performance of the US. atomic

submarines and made it clear that all the lethal "Ironmongery" which will give the vessel its unprecedented panch already exists.

The missile to be Otted to the This is the equivalent of 20 us. submarines-called the RITAIN is to make

V-bombers fully loaded with Polaris has undergone success come-back Il-bombs, *Su only six sub-ful rings: Propelled by a stable as a sea-power with a Navy ar

in this way solid fuel, it is free from the difficulties which packing a punch infinitely would double Britain's deterrent "plumbing"

beset the launching of the greater than that possessed strength.

liquid-fuelled missiles.

and

by all the wartime navies 9 1.S. TRIALS of the world put together.

have shown that the atom-driven sub- marine can travel for many tven under Arelie ice, weeks,

con-

This news, given in a velee which seemed almost apologe, witheil surfaring or refuelling. tic in its quietness, war reveal- So it follows that only a small ed by the Admiralty's Financial force of submarines on Secretary, Mr Robert Allan, in tinuous patrol could exert im

mense deterrent power" against Parliament the other day.

Communist rities.

Presenting the Navy's. Esti- mutes, Mr Allan made thr696) disclosures with tremendous military and diplomatic plications:-

i-

THE BRITISH defence chiefs

are now convinced

that a new workable weapon has arisen which revolutionises

strategle concepts. This weapon

Air Allan mato It clear that Britain cannat by without this "ballistic sea-power" and hope to regain major nation with any effective

In Say

work! affairs,

Solid fuel

Is the atom-driven submarine mus is something of a turn- capable

of bombarding cities T

with 1-tomb

rockets

while

about by British Strakede thinking. Two months ago the

sately submerged far below, the fence chiefs were arguing that surface of the sea.

for Britain should not go in

submarines. EACH submarine fitted with Torket carrying

What has caused this change of of these rockets mind? a battery

the fantastic fire- power of at least 20,000,000 tons

will have

On sea-bed

of up to 20 Polaris rockets with e care that the old-time subs carried torpedoes.

subinarine With the merged, or even lying on sea-bed, the rockets will fereed through the water compressed

INTRODUCING .

Patricia Lewis

A NEW TALENT IN LIVELY INTERVIEWING AND AN EYE FOR THE NOT SO FAMILIAR FACES

Why

like that picks a girl like this

a man

NOW THAT THE CASTING COUCH IS DEAD WANT 60 seconds' silence. For one whole, pure, rounded minute The Show Will NOT Go On while we mark the passing of the casting

The "romantic" readings, the cosy "coachings," the "auditions" a deux―all, It seems, are lost in the leisured past.

Today the story is something to make the cynics squirm. And I am driven to this conclusion after looking into the ways and means used now by aspiring young actresses and their bossen-to-be.

I tell you now the hitherto Britain is to have six atomle untold story of Diane Varsh-the girl pictured here, cubmarines on present planning.unknownI The first, called the Dread-who has won an Academy nought, is essentially a copy of Award nomination for her first sub- the latest U.S. type and should screen part in the much-boost-

the be on trial within two and ed Peyton Place."

be half years.

by

This and inter cubmarines be atted with a special be British missile,

air. Then their rocket engines will take them to may their targets. which may anything from 20 to 1,500 miles away.

A simple method of cuttlag off the solid fuel at any stage has been perfected.

A new

guiding gyroscopic mechanism called SINS Ships Inertial Navigation System-19 DMIRAL RICKÖVER reveal- believed to give an accuracy of

a mile of large Jatosi atomic within half ed that the submarines will carry batteries centre.

MOSCOM

Ailantic Ocean

ROCKET MISSILE

Black Saa

RUSSIA

B-BOMB WARHEAD

I suggest it is the recent visit

Mediterranean Sea

of T.N.Talmost certainly more to Lention of Admiral Hyman than all the high explosive de- Rickover, the U.S. Navy's atomic tonated in the last war.

propulsion expert.

Punished without mercy!

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Director of the film-which nine has been Upped for "Oscars"-is Mark Robson, He is now in London to make "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" with Ingrid Bergmaat,

This is what happened when

ai experts

Farn Hants, are far pd vanced in the use of solid fuels. But it is more likely that under I had lunch with him. the latest work-sharing agres-

He arrived pink and excited nent. Brilain will acquire

a session with Robert America from Palaris rockets from

Donat "What a guy! He'll be for a start.

Whichever way it is arranged, great in the picture.....

island nation will once "Diane Varsi!" I prompted; this

Spre which will thinking how this round, again have a Navy command immenso respect.

Okhotsk

tacled 45-year-old father three la just the sort I'd choose as champlon against the wide boys of movieland.

of

08

And

Mark inhaled the steam from his steak-and-kidney ple though it was a cold cure. he pondered.

was drst "I believe Dinne spotted at a Hollywood joint called the Hamburger Hamlet," he said "She was wearing jeans. And she wasn't wearing shoes-

DIANE VARS): SPOTTED IN THE HAMBURGER HAMLET" having hitched from San Fran- SAVE ROBSON: "I COULD FEEL SOMETHING HAPPENING TO MY SCALP,"

Pacific

Ocean

cisco to join un acting class. I

Arabian Sea

The missile submarine and the targets it could cover.

Skate

was having terrible trouble at and tested her. I put her oppo- the time casting Lana Turner's site a very good young actor daughter in 'Peyton' friend asked me to me her. far nobody

and

This was brilliant. A and she So time I was rure the executives had seemed quite would think so too. Trouble was right for the part and I was I didn't know the studio had a grudge against the boy I'd used ready to try anyone.

and wouldn't look at a thing he didi

"She arrived looking a com- plete mess-threadbare ... hair like a bird's-nest. A real cuck."

thin

"Cuck?"

"Yeah! Cuck! A 'cuckoo'- New York slang for one of thos Bohemians from the Actors' Studio." "Ohl"

A

AND MOTHER

COMES TOO

DEDICATED mon, Mr

Robson.

And his views

echoed elsewhere

seem to be In the toWTI.

Bill Watts an agent who has

Then they started pushing an affected young actress called more pretty figures on his books

Susan Strasberg at me.

than' a bikini manufacturer- "I said 'Not Varzil

only interviews youngsters "Next move was to get Dlane their mothers come too. colour-tested. She was good—–

Val Farnell thinks that sort but nothing like the first time: of favouritlam "went out with Nervous. I guess, having been high-button shoes." called back 10 or 12 times by

Richard Television's

Afton now for this same part. And, eays he'll always use a girl ho although I only learned this loathes personally. If she's a "Anyway she struck me as a later, she was flat broke almost good performer." bright kid-only 19 and I starving-and living in some asked her to read a seene. She shock with blankets read it cold: she was so mar- vellous I could feel something

and be able to fire them from makes pin-point accuracy un-happening to my scalp. I asked beneath the sea.

InLow

not an

necessary.

"So-0-0-0

to test her, but the studio sald I had to try all the young con- That is one measure of the troet players first. Britain's Arst

atomic sub- significance

1 selected six of the submarine inarine, the Dreadnought, is Skate now lying in Portland of them for a silent shot-and Bely to

closely

stuck Varsi in the middle of the the Harbour after her "shakedown"

the design of the Skate, which Is

line-up so whichever way voyage. model, newest production

camera panned. she couldn't bo five-day stay out of the trame. experimental prototype.

During her

"When I got the dim I was atom-powered sub-

senior Royal Navy officers will And the squadron of Polaris- be shown. marine

over her and learn even more convinced this was surfaced off

armed submarines planred for details ker performance. the perfect girl, and I showed Portland, the other day the Royal Navy will be based These are secret, so there will it to an executive.

be no ordinary visitors allowed. and slid into the har on the same design.

The artist's drawing above Her

Commander captain,

AMERICA'S

windows."

Mark Robson absent-mindedly helped himself to my cigarettes. "After weeks of Vars! they were getting pretty fed up with me at the studio," he continued. You can't give her this big part, they said. 'Go home and think about it, Mark.'

"I did

"Well they said. "Vars! I said.

Impresario Alfred Black had over the no misgivings when daughter Susan Beaumont started acting "It's a highly-respectablo

And John Perry, of the, HIM." profession." Tennent Organisation, is afraid "ono simply can't afford a pro- action these days where the backer's girl-friend just standa scund saying nothing in low- cut model gowns."

When Ben Byon was head of casting for 20th Century Fox every casting "Then they started speaking he learned that to me very gently. Mark, may director is in a very vulnerable be you just don't understand. position. If a girl gols turned "Parton Place" is the most im down she's quite likely to make there's portant property this studio has her virtue the excuse: You can't use it to experiment been big trouble that way. with unknowns."

To avoid being compromised bour-after making a shows how this devastating James Calvert, who is 37 and

"S0-0-0-0 I went right on in this way in Hollywood Ben "Anyone, the executive said. the record-breaking crossing cubpation of atom-submarine 6ft 2in., sold Skate will

Was the always left his office door wide equal or do better than the But not that one I can't stand persisting that Varsi

only girl for the job until, one open during Interviewmont of the Atlantic in eight and -rocket will work:

Nautilus, which

travel her.

That one, of course, was day, they finally gave in.

gesture rewarded one hot_sum- days, 11 hours, sub-

60,000 miles on a single charge

'OK. You want her. You mer's day when Marilyn Monroo Varsi. of nuclear fuel. merged all the way.

"SO-0-0-0," Mark Robson got her.' 'I don't want her, I walked in. There is, of course,

"A fantastic creature," recalls on any ship, even en went on, sponging up gravy said. They went mad.

"Why? Whu? WITY? It could not have made

plece of

Ben. "Long golden Hair to her The rockets, with H-bomb angio

human with a malingering atom-submarine the will be

"Because you hate her. You shoulders...a cool print dress carried in

ple-crust, "I just went ahead its entrance at a more effee- werheads,

one. inskie

hate me for plugging her. So cut so It... ch, well! Stand- vertical tubes retracted tive moment. For the sub- the hull

if you see her in the rushes Ing there against the leaf-green

aho Wis ARTIE...

breath- every day you'll wind up hating paintwork marine Skate is the forerun

luking," the film as well.'

The classic caso of

star mate by looks alone?

"That," sald Ben, "Is never enough. Marilyn had a driving ambition. She'd turn up early every morning for lessons at the studio's dramatic school. Fene- Ing singing

dancing

Broadside

When the submarine reaches ner of the submarines that its firing-point the tubes will be will carry Polaris missiles pushed out into the water.

If the button is pressed a {stream of compressed air will drive a rocket from its tube with enough force to take it to the surface.

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Members of the Skate's praised their ship crew cleaner and roomler than diesel

unlimited with

hot subs, showers and air conditioning at a level 72 degrees,

Reassured

Chief Yeoman Charles Lanch

"Our Once in the air, the rocket explained:

wives know motor flames into action. In we are posiectly safe at sea in this way the submarine la pro- the Skala. They are taken to tected

from the del-thrust of films and lectures on the opera- the rockel motor,

My lion of atomic reactors, The rocket, powered with wife bis no fears at all about bold fuck, will be guided by a 1"

To Then most of the crew with pre-set- gyroscopic device.

caught the

first target could be up to 1,500 miles shore leave

train to London-for the first away.

look at the world on the surface since they left Connecticut,

The wkle area of destruction caused by the H-bomb warhead

UNDERSEA ROCKETS

FOR

NAVY

Mark, they said. 'Once we sign her we lave heel'

"And they cild. At the New York preview they raved

great new star ...ke the

liko Q tree!

wind..

'best young actrees for years."

"Now she's on her third big film and the studio quibbles if the park's not grand enough, *This is on, important property,"

they say."

Mark reached cigarette.

for

another

What was it about her that mado.you BO stubborn?" I askod.

diclton-sho made use of everything that came bir way.” Is the castlog couch really dead then?

"Well, if I had an obsession to be a star I'd drop the wiles and the amlles ..the xy dresses and the posings" at pro- mieres.. I'd just find me a Mark

**The big director blinked back Robson.

at me through his glasw05. "Be- With a man like that behind cause she had the dedication of you, you don't Paul Muni" ko

said.

And went on to play golf.

clao.

Except talent

need anything