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Lord Aberdare Follows Henry VIII On Court

By LISA MOYNIHAN

A

THE CHINA (MAIL; FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1958.

LIMELIGHT

Sheriff More tilts his bowler to the Indians

BUT HE STILL HAS A TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE

WESTERN ghost town called Fractured Jaw- prefabricated in Hollywood and shipped item by item to Spain-is now rising out of the hot dust in the plains

of Madrid.

by THOMAS WISEMAN

Out WEST: with Kunnath More and Juyne Mansfield,

Кенок Пискелей

thir contraption because ho crushed one of his vertebrae.

He does not want anyone to get the idea that an Englich actor faced with the unusual prospect of making love to Jayne Mansfield on the screen, has felt obliged to don a steel nower or a ladies' a") and performance. That is why Maria be an opera singer who becomes belt for the occasion,

proclaimed on their posters: Cullas refused to work there. Mr Oreste Kirkop is an opera remember the name; you will "She mid, 'I do not sing for

1,000 dollars.' g two genuine Red Indians and came back on opera singer.

THERE WAS A TINKLING OF A BELL AND LITHE FIGURES KEPT CHANGING ENDS AT THE DOUBLE...I WAS WATCHING REAL TENNIS

just. north TENNIS," said Lord Aberdare, "was probably

first played by monks in the cloisters in Catering for all contin- mediaeval times."

gencies, it has a saloon, a We were talking about Real Tennis. Not that church, a gaol und, most necks and we are import- singer who went to Hollywood comparatively new-fangled game they play at essential of all, a cemetery. from Canada called Joe Buffalce Not a crooner. He is now sing- The local inhabitants if they rnd Moonfleet (absolutely the Ing at Covent Garden, and by his voice has not Wimbledon and elsewhere.

to are going be played by rich California almosphere, Lord Aberdare is one of nearly 1,000 enthusiasts of are not to be found in the real thing, you see) to play the all accounts

A tow gipales; put Spanish this intricate and intriguing game. He has played on alone will be found in the Indian chiefs, The other braves suffered from exposure to the

feathers in their hair and you Every day, by special delivery can't tell them from Apaches.”

strange consigament;

from

English his Apart rive totem poler, tomahawks, neatly scalped scalps, bows and arrowa, aplomb, Mr More as the sheriff hend-dresses, six with the leastest does have a

After a year in Hollywood Red Indian shooters. Everything you could more conventional-and lethal-

horse-riding, and Expect or want a lawless weuple up his sleeve. Laterally devoted

put into his Arst fin. The Western township will be to up his sleeve, It is an ingenious sword-fencing. Mr Kirkop was is on the device invented by a member of Vagabond King. Paramount and the Magicians' Circle and con launched a publicity campign hand: a stage coach

from Los Angeles WHY Jayne Mansfield will be coming sists of a small pistot connected sell him to the general publie from London, Wyatt Earp to a device strapped under his

sleve; whenever Sheriff More as another Mario Lanze, extends his hand even it only

They shortened his name to

but ane of the 12 recognised courts. Three are in London-including the one at Hampton Court where Henry VII once bounced a "chase" with the best of them, We were sitting in the study of Lord Aberdare's elegant house in Eaton Terrace, S.W. Five silver cups he has won for tennis at Lord's graced the mantelpiece,

Aberdaire, lending A prize from Oxford days Lord was a tennis racket with me down his hall lined with A REAL old prints of racket-armed velvet handle.

course, gallants. tennis racket, of Muelt smaller than the ones you and I use and looking 18 though someone had traden on the shaped end of it.

A little later we sat, very much in the present, behind the net that separated us from one end of the Court

"1 quite like LAWN at Lord's.

with

iz

others.

couldn't ask for more.

British-made?

Al this special equipment, animale und inanimate, is for first Western, titled Sherit of Fractured Juw. -

Angel is re- Arizona in Spain

creating

Or

Short name

All that has suffered-a little is Mr Kirkop's pride.

lo

never forget the voice,"

Unfortunately, the film public. which is notably amnesic in this respect, has forgolten both the name and the volce, though the voice was worth remembering

"Any pɔp singer can earn six or seven times as much as en

pero singer,"

It was beenuse he refused to let Paramount turn him into a pop singer that Kirkop had to

his ubandon career.

profitable

boxer.

"But suddenly everybody was saying that eperas are not box- lee, not even when limited to the aring. So I suppose if I had stayed on, I would have become 11 rock 'n roll singer wha brevines a baxor,"

But Mr Kinkop did not stay filo on. Στε returned to Covent

Garden, I congratulate him.

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want ine

10

Mr Kirkop, his film contract terminated by mutual agree- ment"-came back to London to a job that pays about £50 a "They did week and a house in Shepherd's sing any operatie arias in my Bush. In Hollywood he had nimis. They just waned me to sing ballads. I thought it was been carting £200 a week.

stupid for an opera singer not to sing opera, so 1 turned down many seripts.

Small money

"You can never," he told me, "make a great deal of money in The Metropolitan pays opera.

to shake somebody else's, a Oreste ("made me sound like a a maximum of 1,000 doliais a bullon is pressed which releases a powerful spring and shoots a pistol down his sleeve and into his hand,

From thin air

temis," Lord Aberdare was Lithe figures in shorts and Britain's saying, with a lough of con- shirta darted to and fro The despension, "You get good hitting wildly at a hard ball. Producer Danny

WDS Sprin

"It works," maid Mr More, volleving practice from it. The wet in the middle ap-specially for it.

chosen because It looks more "ce the same principle as those But of course it's a short peared to need tightening.

than does Devon trucks in which conjurers pro lived sport compared

There was a cry of "Chase ke Arizona

Somerset. Also, In some duce eards out of thin air. Only from

Works tennis. My father was still Number Two"

mysterious way, a film made it is my case it's a gun.

split second. very diflicult to beat at 70. stern-jawed mun at the side. Spain can qualify as a British beautifully-in

whereas one made In And it makes me the fastest gun It's a game where you enn "The professional marker." picture,

Just Imagine. If replace agility with cun- whispered Lord Aberdare, America would have been con- in the West.

If the logic somebody bad actually invented ning."

"highly skilled job."

one of these contraptions at the time he could have outgunned Chem all-Wyzil Earp, Mat Don, the lot of 'em. Amazing that nobody thought of it,"

In costume

There were the tinkling of belt and the the figures kept changing ends at the double, Lo Aberdare tried to

in know plain. You

you

ex- kawn

sidered American.

of this escapes you, then you do not have the maitings of a fim producer.

Of all the strange props now thu through CAL their way

shot ut

connect with my

Deeper

* Anna Massey, one of the gas the London young things of Tueatre, takes a step into pro- founder things, She is to play "There was an idea that. opposite Poul Rogers in the should make a new version of Edinburgh Festival premiere of

Eliot's The Gulden Boy. Instead of being a T. S.

Elder violinist who endangers his art Statesman. by becoming a boxer, I was to

-(London Express Service).

PROFESSORS FIND AN

A MILLION young Germans starting school

this term are being provided with an alibi for Hitler's crimes. The alibi's theme is: If only Britain and the other nations had stood up to Hitler and so encouraged Germans to resist him he would never have set out to grab and plunder across Europe.

ALIBI

FOR HITLER

•

Those convinced that to the West which fell off,"

☆

The alibi crops up in volume after volume of Moscow wants to conquer which in exactly the posi lie passed me a batch of

new text books reaching the schools all over all Europe for Bolshevism, tion in 1958 when the Ger photographs. "These were

Mr More is apprehensive

Germany. Their authors taken at Hampton Court," ferais if you let a ball bounce Spanish customs, perhaps the

are and make this the basis of mans, fearing a new alump, more than once strangest (in the circumstances) about only one aspect of his Adenauer's

for a new are stepping up trade con- Lord Aberdare, who is tall, the ground

present venture: the business of coming from England: lose the point? Well, inte

professors who are not anxious to bring late their claim

tracts eastward. clear Wehrmacht. dark and handsome, looked fennis if you see your opponent selection of bowler hats and having a lot of arrows

far corner,neatly furled umbrellas. The him, which is obligatory if you honours to the Fuehrer, but want to assure new just right in Tudor estuine has served into a

Those who feel, come

The Allies' demand for generations of Germans: "You are not responsible

democracy.

surrender, But were doublet and hose you don't make a mad dash to explanation is that the Sheriff are in a Western.

or unconditional monarchy, You just leave 31. of Fractured Jaw is an English-

"I have been assured," sal for Hitler. But neither were your fathers." and that plumed velvet hut it it back.

That's called beaking à chase." nan played by Kenneth.More,

dictatorship, that the Ger- says another history book, really necessary to the "And where it bounces the and everybody knows that mad Mr More, "that it is all per-

there This is the kind of com- of the others to give way mans and Russians have was "an absolute gift to neon time is called out by the dogs and Englishmen when they fertly safe. Apparently Kome?

midday out in the

something chummy to say Goebbels," for it enabled sun. are little loops altached to the "That was just for a TV marker. You heard him say e

to each other at every stage him to call on the German wires and books: "Hitler found many programme," he explained. Cha Number Two? That was whether in Arizono or Spain, arrows by which they are con-ment found in the lesson stopped it.

were of their histories.

people to resist to the very The theme: "We World always wear a bowler and carry nugted to invisibir two yards from back wall.

these lend to points north, south, foreign admirers.

last. Once more the result "Good heavens, we're not Then they both changed ene's an umbrella.

east and west of my anatomy, statesmen treated him much not to blame," runs through

was that German resistance that odd! In fact, you het servies and the chap who'd

From Mr More I learned that but ensure that the arrows do better than they treated his chapters which describe the

has

been considered to netually not

groups who were planning a couldn't play a real game in 'made the chase was trying to so that the ball would

Victorious persecution of the Jews; It sounds all very predecessors.

rising were put off. all that regalia, Henry bounce twice.

And his second necessary for him to have let matomy

In gun-slinging or horse- well in theory. But I'm goingPowers made him consider- peraccution "which began

It was Nazism, says economic dressed more sensibly. bounce should have been nearersons

He is not meant to to see them do it to somebody able concessions, strengthen- with Listen to this."

the wall than the other chap's ifmanship. he wanted to win the point. Got be the sort of sheriff who relies clac first. I would hate to be thoing the German people's went on to the wrecking of professor, that made the He thumbed through a

on such linckneyed accomplish man who-proves that American in that in Hitler they shops and synagogues and Russians suspicious of Ger- Until then all was History of Tennis. "The There's ghe major snag. Imenis,

found a genial and success- ended with the killing of many. Venetian Ambassador wrole suid. Real tennis could never "The whole idea, sald Mr

ful arbiter of the German 5,000,000-atrocities which going well with political and

the majority of Germans Trade tie-ups. this about the old boy. He rival town tennis becnie 1 had

destiny." single picture, or

first heard of after the in extremely fond of tennis

heard a single word about at which it is the prettiest woman player.

Another quotation: "Wei- war." thing in the world to ясс "Oh women DO play."

mar (pre-Hitler Germany) him play, his fair skin Aberdare protested.

tried the method of negotia. glowing through his shirt of

tion. Hitler's way was the finest texture","

confront the victory Powers with deeds, then seek their

Ho had consent.

not

seen a

SL

Lard

know-how doesn't work."

Wary of arrows

4

Mr More Is all suffering from a splual injury sustained lit a skiing accident,

and

More, s that I should be typically English In an all- American Western. And un- must admit, la singing, you really rather un-English Not We have exactly cricket. No, I face the two nt the moment, A con's Indians, the outlaws and Jayne foing to be very wary of these wife in Pangbourne and another Mersfield protected lady in London I haven't met. English aplomb of which I 1t all sounded very I should think they'd be quite have got a lot. romantic, I suggested, but good-playing

singles." what WGS it like today?

The Implication was "Come and see," challenged crough.

The

together

ไ

by

ny arrows.

Because of his Injury, he has to wear a steel-framed corset "It's all going to be terribly over considerable portion of clear realistic. We are getting genuine his body. He is anxious to make great successes."

American heavies to play the it quite clear that he is wearing

ng

P TROTTER

FAMILY

BUTCHER

1400

FAK

"WELL YOU DID SAY YOU WANTED IT FRESH, AND THAT YOU'D 'AVE YOUR OWN TRANSPORT BACK TO LUNNON !”

London Expeza - Farvion

to

boycott.

Here again, according to "the books, many the history

world looked on shocked without making use of its Germans held their right to intervene." breath, says another ex-

tract, when Hitler marched Nowhere in these latest into the Rhineland, which history books can you find had been demilitarised by a real attempt to assess the Allies.

never in Hitler. He was the front line,

pro- fessor says, although an other concedes: "After all, he did win the Iron Cross." Britain and France were pledged to intervene, but Summaries of Hitler's they "never got beyond the career put emphasis on his stage of paper protests, al- little-man origin, but many though the German Army books disclose a sneaking could have been turned regard for his diplomatic hack by only a small show successes. force."

German schoolchildren are being taught to read that at

the time of the 1939 Munich

There in this comment: agreement-which delivered "He achieved what his suc- the Czechs up to Hitler-it cessors failed to do-make WAB "readiness of other a pact with the Russians, countries to give way" that so that at the beginning at olever caused important people to least he proved cancel their own plans for a enough to avoid the night- mutiny against Hitler.

mare of

German the generals--the need to fight This rising against the in the east and the west at Fuchrer-who was going on one and the same time.” from strength to strength

to whom world atatesmen The professors who are were making most signifi. writing the history for the cant concessions would not next German generation to have been opposed by many study reflect the disunity of Germans, say the writers all GermANS over Russia. for schools. The readiness The two groups are:--

one

prising

There is at least one sur- attack on the Nuremberg trials which sen- tenced Goering and other top Nazis to death. This alleges "perjury by prosecu world on witnesses, ill-treatment "Even In the cconomic crisis German de- of prisoners, and difficulties liveries to Russia increased; put in the way of defence." it was only the shipments Express Service,

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