THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1965,7
HIGHLIGHTS PROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
FILMS The Smart Set's Shop
(Continued from Rage 2)
- Lesilo French on the to-
between under suspicion wing
Everything about SaLas pects open and above bourd, Warna Paul of the Gestapo rald; but the agent is denied may finer feckings.
THE young peer a few O'Neill,
*months
ago in-
Proust.
the Oxford clusaics.
the sympathy of the audience. herited, along with his. This was shopping for books on a big scale; and Hatchard's title, a family mansion were pleased with the case they that contained a vast were sot. But at the other end of the scale, something else library. He went to its pleases them as much. A very fine scenu when shelves for something Irene Worth barely le a cold fury when Paul Mule breaks to read and found in it security. bitter lones she much of historical in- why, but to carry out orders. terest, but nothing read-
ST
Worns him his is not to reagon
To murder in cold blood.
James Robertson Justice,
H
03
able.
The office-girls and clerks who work in the West End, who not so long ago were scared by the fame of the shop, are coming in
Pulls In The
Browsers..
by JOHN CLARKE
1810 chief instructor of Live He went to Hatchard's, gents, secins to hold the the Plecndilly booksellers, theory, and with good purpine and asked their help. Now, that civilized men cannot be fought to murder if they re-on bare-looking shelves in a
human back room, 200-300 books now and browsing, and buying
are being assembled that will give the library a new This film has everything a look. flm of this
A kini needs.
young man's
Kard their victims beings. Think of this mar
a two dimensionai photograph in a le" he says.
The
ہیں
7
There is one famous puthor who visits the shops, anony - mously, onco a week, und arranges the display of hig Latest book to his king. The staff, unined not to discourage browsem, look tolerantly on.
John Hutchard set up his hop Hatchard's carry n stock of in Piccadilly in 1797. This 20-25,000 books. Thay range from books.
I think we have to thank the day?" he wrote in his diary on paper-backs to
scarce." books paper-backs," says Me
Alfred June 30 that year, “by the grace, such as one sold the other day Donati, Assistant general of God, the good will of my for over £500 and include many
friends and £5 in my pocket, í beautifully hand-bound books. done a choko? manager, "They have
Enest very good job in introducing have opened my bookshop." moments of sustained suspense, Hemingway and Mary Webb wi books to teenagers and people
No Hatchards work for Stefan Zweig, Lund Eugene in their early twenties."
fem now, but recently two pre gented themselves one- from Australia, the other from South Africa and said they were direct descendants.
splendid cast, brillant acting, collected works
desperate
the
but above all, and haunting doubts of men who are reduced to puppets once they cross the line between good and evil. Of such stuff 15 war 'made.
It
This goes beyond that. shows the ente seared upot the ; souls of men while the thought. Its crowds cheer the victory parades. It is more than a Alm. it is an experience from which no thoughtful person con emerge and feel quite the same about
war.
NOTHER film which
A deals with the
MACHINES CAPABLE
OF REPRODUCING
THEMSELVES PROVED!
MR
London.
aftermath of war, and its consequences for the innocent is, "Proud Re- bel," now on show at the Hoover and the Para- mount. The action of the film takes place in the western States at that time following the American Civil War, when bitterness was rife, and only organised felon fashion, and taking over war had ceased.
Alan Ladd is Southerne: who is seeking aid for his son (factual in this case) David Ludd, who plays the role of a boy who has been struck dumb during the battle of Atlanta, in which his mother died.
[R STAFFORD BEER, head of 40 scientists at the United Steel Company's research department at Sheffield, recently made this startling statement:
"It has been proved that it would be possible to build machines capable of re- producing themselves and, what is more, improve in an evolutionary manner."
In this fim is a valuable and highly intelligent sheep dog. "King" whose sale will provide the cash to pay to: Young Ladd's medical attention. An attempt made
Mr Beer was asked: "What of the dangers of these amazing machines running amok, science-
the world?
"Like srything else, this new development could be put to evil uses in the hands of the wrong people," he replied.
"As for machines getting out to realine of hand, you have that the abilly of a brain is strictly limited by its capacity to handle information.
Managers
"If you don't give it enough to steal the bits and pieces it can't go bo-
dog, and we are right back in yond certain limits,"
the rough and tumble of the
Mr Beer, a Londoner with
routine westem; fat fighlk, gun three children, is advocating nights; and no holds barred.
Government Ímanood repearch When all stems lost, up steps into cybernetiesa seientine dis the dauntless Olivia de Havil-covery which, he says, can make and this time as a hard bitten, automation and electronic-calcu- cussing, but tender hearted lading
farm owner.
The rest you can guess,
fushioned
He
machines stem ald-
claims that cybernetic Made in colour, with a fine machines, with mlads more in- cast, and a rival to the memory telligent than men, could man- of Rin Tin Tin in the dog. age on Industry or show how to
"King" you have a flim which run a country's economy. will provide your western fan with a thrilling evening's outer- lalament.
*
AST of the Fast
"LA
Guns," now on
show at the Star and
Metropole, is a variation
on
an old theme. The
the
Their names are in a visitors' book whose firel signature is that of the Queen Mother dated 1941, and whose let pages of are full of the signatures bishops attending the Lambeth conference, who have included a book-buying visit in their trip to London
The 'Aunt Sally'
Intchard's general morger Is a handome young Canadian, John Hoare, who, by what he calls "sheer luck," "bos had a meteoric rise to the top in the bookselling. World since he bought an old-established book- shop
In Montreal, after loving the Fleet Air Arm.
He has been with Hotchard's only since June, but realises: "We're the prinė Aunt Sally
Typical prices of these: the six volumes of Churchill's war his- tory, £56, Trevelyan's Social History, four volumes £23.
Exports, too
They believe in giving a fair weight of responsibilty to their staff, which
Giurige sales girls Ulice Janet Bowby, in 'charge of travel booies, an assiduous traveller herself in her holidays, who knows the merits of all her
weres; and Mrs Ecto Doubleday, whom book-buyings familles liv- ing outside London gindly allow to select the novels they buy.
Haichard's have a large export trade mostly to America; they are busy with plano_for_the_ future.
"The days when people drove up in their verrloges to buy books are a long time past," said Mr Donati, without apparent
"But just regret.
Jou."
look about
And he waved an am uhow off the ground floor. The shop was lunch-hour crowded with
with authorn. It they don't see young rete who had money to their books in our windows, they epend one who loved books-and Stafford Beer ring up and nak why,"
not only papaer-backs.
SALVADOR DALI'S LATEST WORK
SYMBOL OF
FATTER & FATTER SHE BECAME
quick on the draw, Jock & THEN... SUICIDE!
Mahoney, rides into a
small town, settles an outstanding
London.
brilliant
MAN'S Attainment Of Tranquillity
New York.
Spectacular Salvador Dali, who made the limp watch the symbol of surrealist art, displays a scale model of his latest creation, a 60-foot butterfly chrysalis-the insect's shell during the transition period.
two tims of tomato soup -- for lunch tomorrow," she lokt him. But she never had lunch the The tins were following day. with the milk bottles.
The door of the flat-No. 9 in the 110-dai block-was beited from the Inalde.
Forty-four-year-old Me Heriot crawing in through a 2ft-square hole, used as a refuse tip.
When he opened the door be asked the caretaker w John downstars.
*baloe
Mr Horiot told friends: "I
issue by DR CHRISTINE STACEY was a beating his quarry to gynaecologist. She spent her life ending the the draw, ignores the worries of childless couples. But she had a secret "I have locked up and will not conventions associated worry herself. Day by day she was getting becoming back." with the dead, is about fatter. to withdraw when he is
•
He has talcon his two sons. the other la ten-year-old offered another assign she put on weight.
She went on a diet, But still pital, arrived home with their Christopher-to stay with rola-
14-year-old eng, John, after a tives. ment.
two-week holiday in Norway, Then her health begun to fali, His wife had bom dead for had lived at Hightreen House The Harlots, matried in 1840, This film shows us a sort of and the had to give up ber eight days. She was in her for eight years, sanctuary for these crude bullel work
nightdress. On the bedside alinging thugs where they dla cuss the latest methods in kill- Iata ce nait last week $7- table were an empty pill bottle ing From
hideout, year-ol® Dr. Stacey the prace and a note. Mahoney emerges as the per- tised under her analden om---- Milk bottles stood outside die somincation of vengeance, if not was found dead by her husband door, but neighbours suspected law and order, and from then their dat in Hightrees nothing. They thought she too Surgeons,
was almond. Herlot
This
.
Dr Slacey, a former registrar at the South London Hopital for Women and Children, was s Fellow of the Royal College of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physdelarms, De Slicer was last seen alive and a member of the Royal i surgeon at King's College Hone by the milkman. “Leave me College of Obstetrieluns.
on we are back to the old House, Bulpam, S.W. 1 theme of fancy shooling and rough house stuff.
Alexander Mr
*
new
Called "Crisalida", the
work has as its theme mon's transition from anxiety to
· #jmbodie figures in the creature's vast interior representing the
tranquillity, with
process. More than 13,000 physicians were given a chance to walk through the exhibit and evaluate Dall's curoopt when the work was unvelled at the recent American Medical As- sociation convention lo San Francisco, California.
Tranquilliser
The project was commissioned by the manufacturer of the tran- quillisting drug “Mihown” dis- tributed world-wide outside the United States and Canada by Ladero Laboratories Divi- ados, American Cynemid
Company.
Dali explained the connection between the cheycalls and sho drug thus "The outer struc- ture of Mallown in that of a chrysalis, macizoum symbol of ibe vital nirvana which gaves the way for the direling dawn - of the butterfly, fi its fro the
symbol of the human soul." Below is a picture of his creation.
Page
VULCAIN
cricket
The new ladies' wrist alarm watch will not only become the indispensable companion of all active women, bus it will turns out to be the ideal gift:'
it will be received with delight even by women that are already enjoying everything that life can offer.
THE
WATCH
WITH THE
GOLDEN
VOICE
The new CRICKET ladies' wrist ularm watch combines within the tiny sửxa of a 8 3/o" calibre, the movement of a precision watch with an alarm device. The membrans la made of solid gold to give the melodious spand of the alarm and also makes it proof againat corrosion.
Classical elegance Shock protected EXACTOMATIC pivoting device
To celebrate
its Centenary Vulcain invents the Watch
of the Century
Fine watches since 1858
GRAND PRIX.
NEW Revlon DISCOVERY
for the
woman whe wishes she didn't have
to put lipstick? on 3 or 4
times a day!
Today...you can put radiant color on to stay... all through the day- without drying your lips!
"Now you don't have to put lipstick on...and on all through the
day! Revlon's Lanolite Lipstick is the wonderfully new and different non-mear type lipstick-longer lasting and creamy too. It puts lusoleus color on to stay - without drying your lips. It's the only non-améar type lipstick enriched with Lanolite, Revion's exclusive moisture-protecting Ingre-dient to give your lips the fresh, moist look! Choose from 20 fabulous Revlon colors soday.
Non-smeer Lanolite Lipstick, In luxurious Futuramacase,
Revlon's Lanolite Lipstick
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.