1958-09-06 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1958.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

More Men Than Women A Mother

PETER EVANS Reports On:

The Most Surprising Trend In

British Entertainment

London.

TWO MILLION People paid to go to the cinema every night. Who are they? For the first time since films began, showmen have taken a close-up look at their audiences and in a survey out have come up with two pretty startling results. The first is that men now outnumber women,

In every 100 cinema- goers every night there were 52 men and 48 women. This in one of the big social changes in Britain in the past 10 ycura.

I always used to be the that their men to the cinema. women who went more often Matinee audiences used to be hugely made up of women. Now dos has changed.

Faces

Go To Films! Prison To

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THE

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Age-16-24

Age 25-34 Age 35.44

Age 45 64 Age 65 and over

00000

+

33.5% 21.2% 15.6% 23.4% 6.3%

Keep Dog Alive

A

London. YOUNG mother may

have to go to gaol in- {definitely because an Alsa- tian dog, Lassie, is still living.

An M.P., Mr Jocelyn Lacas (Portsmouth South) salch "The letter of the law is being carried There was Shirley Newton, aout ridiculously." These are the secretary of 17, earning less facts of the caso...

There are than £10 a week.

37 In every 100 illos her,

There are 10 like Ronald |

·Simpson, a 26-year-old clerk,

Ruby Bowring, 23, of Heads-wall-crescent, Bourne- month, owned the two-year- old Lassle. But Lasalo chased molor-cycles, and Botirne- mouth court ordered her to destroy the dog.

youngsters between 10 and 24 I went to a clema just oui- the solid backbone of the side London-the Gaumont nt elbenza audience (see chart), Wolford to see the flesh and showmen sec a big hope for the blaut behind the statistica. . future. During the next five

As the audience led out I earning less than £750. He is years the bulge in the birth-rate that follows any war will sweep picked these as typical repre- married with a three-year-old a powerful new audience of sintatives of the come groups daughter and is saving to buy a

elaemia recond-hand car up a

There are nine like Georgy Bartholomew,

Instead, she gave the dog to D 38-year-old business man earning more than the Ferno Animal Banctuary at There was Dennis Jacicson, a £700. He runs a car and is

Shaftesbury, Doreet, without woodworker of 23, who carns buying his own bouse, Over £10 a week, is married There are also and this la with no children. In every 100 the heartening nows for films- cinemagoers there are 30 like the million-plus of Tho Bulgo on

the way. Mr Jackson.

The second finding is that, more than 1,000,000 to the box-dience every night in every

which make

with the cophosis now on offices.

L

FILM CURRENT AND COMING

ing mistress into his wife's bord- room for her attention.

All very modern but none-the

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Apart from her "brother's Geath, the only cloud In less a tense situation for the Dominique's sky is the prospect participants.

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of meeting her future, mather... in-law. ein ambitious mother

It is possible to forget that possessive of her son Bertrand Brazzt is 1allan, his Continental who is 4 fellow student of Dominique's at the Sorbonne.

Bertrand enlists the aid of his uncle Lue (Rossano Brazzi) handsome philanderer with

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souefance is quite at home in Paris. Bradford Dillman, full of youthful exuberance to match Dominique's moods, is

equally ettractive.

A travelling newbat attracts custom by using is pretty and agile young daughter in his-act- aid she is coveted by harul- some scholar, Ll, whỏ docks to Pike—her aequaintance, m

With solen state the Bavoy arrives with an imperial man- date that 880 allractive young virgins are required for the Im- perin! Harem.

delightful wife, Francoise, who brilliant American screen debut shecked and marriage brokers

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mothers the captivating girl with warm sympathy and understanding.

To match Christine Carere's Joan Fontalne gives a portrayni of pure delight and tỏ my mind Bicols the acting honours.

Luc finds Dominique captive- ling too but kisses her in a different way, so she loses in- terval in Bertrand. Subsequently Bertrand is only pleked up and 667

to favour whenever restored

fatuation for Lue.

"HUSBAND

The Bragehow population is are her busy while efforts are nde to marry off eligible girls. Of course Be young bachelors are in demand and Li becomes the target of many son-in-law hunters,

town:--

I'm Not

Surprised

by

ANNE EDWARD

So the

more

men

film world seems taken aback Chang the acrobat is success over its discovery that Hunters" ful and marries Ld in secret to

his daughter Tsai, but the nowadays newlyweds are stated and than women go to the cock are pursued by marriage brokers not knowing their pictures.

Well, may surprise them- but isn't this the clue to making poople who already enjoy films enjoy then more?

showing at the Lee Dominique tries to resist her in and Astor had a successful gala preview on Wednesday ffer sudden capitulation and evening. romantic idyll on the Riviera (“t have never seen the sea" she says) is pleturesque and aesthe- tically beautiful. The account ing afterwards is dramatic and startling. Especially when remorseful Lue carries a faint-

This LR

colourful Fing Huang motion picture featuring lovely Hsin Moon with Kao Yuan and Li Ching in an his- torical tale of the Hangchow District.

marlin statua,

This is a payer Bim than the usual historical drama, there are colourful disguises and com- pileated situatioras, but young inve wins the day and a just- fable judgment,

LASSIE "Well-behaved now.", ..

about a neurotic 32m star, two war films, and one light comedy," It is a diel that clearly suita the men, It would sult women buster if the ratio were reversed to three light comedies to one problem picture.

that woman do not telling the superintendcal, Miss is no

Mollie Atherton, about the court care about political problems order. and mcial problems, and psycho logical prebrems, and delinquent! Miss Atherton grow fond of problems. It is just that we see Loasie and made "a pot of her. enough about them elsewhere. Lassie, in her new surroundings, At the pictures we should like aj became woll behaved. break.

More Peter Sellers, please,

Bournemouth, Last wook, at and ices Method, More of the Ruby Bowring was fined £80- Sinatra who makes slick, sexy £1 for each of the last 90 days musicals like "Pal Joey," and the dog has lived-for disobey- loss of the and Sinatra who ing, tho | magistrates order to made "The Kings Go Forth." | destroy Lassle,

Last week the four main né films were problem story Fewer crazy mixed-up kids, and.]

UNUSUAL PLAYMATES INTRIGUE PASSERS-BY

"Don't look at us like that," says four-month-old. Eenie the bulldog. "What's so strange about having Tubby for a playmate? She is only n Honess. Go away and leave us in peace while we wait for our mistress.”

But the passers-by were fascinated and gathered around Mrs R. G. Bills' car in a busy street in Melbourne, Australia. Mrs Bills who owns the two animals, says they are inseparable,

more crazy mixed-up comedians. I woud not cross the road to 50 Natalie Wood struggling with the Negro problem or the

ARTIE..

·Aris-

** i suppose you've been so i

the pictures again 7j”

Jewish problem, but I would walk 10 miles to see Judy Holliday laugh.

"What can I do?" she said.

Miss Atherton won't give me the dog back now. I can't carry out the order. If I go to prison. what will happen to my daughter?"

Personal pets

The clerk to the magistrates said: "You must deal with Miss Atherton yourself. Default of payment could mean imprison- ment. Each day the dog lives you can be find £1,"

Lassie is among Mirce dogs and 16 cals which elderly

Mis Alherlon keeps na per- sonal "pels, apart from scorta of others kept at her animal mancinary.

"No one la going to take Lassie away to be destroyed," gold Miss Atherton: "The police have no power to enter my sake- tuary to salzo Lassie,

"She is such a lovely well- behaved dog now that it is ridiculous her life should be threatened."

In March the court fined Ruby Nothing could get me to a im Bowring £26...106. a day for about drink, drugs and decline, 56 days. That fine was paid by or war and sadlam.

Nothing can koop me away

the Canine Defence Leaguo. · But

from a im liko "Indiscreet," a lengue offledal said: "Wo shall

about a beautiful woman dressed be paying no more fines"

In Paris gowns who le courted by a handsome man in a dinner Jacket, cajoled with diamonds and 'yachts, dinés élegantly in expensive places and zips around in a Rolls-Royce driven by a liveriod chauffeur.

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