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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1958.

By Galbraith THESE ARE THE MEN YOU SO VERY RARELY SEE...

WAY THEY MAKE A FILM IS AS PERSONAL AS A SIGNATURE ..

TM Ang. UN PAL. Det

"Your garden sort of went to pot while you were away, Edcould hardly find the tomatoes for the woods!"

ROUND-UP

GUARDS VISIT COLDSTREAM

BUT THE

MY FIVE TOP TALENTS

DIRECTORS are constantly bewailing their. anonymity. But the fault is largely the

public.

By MILTON SHULMAN

They have preferred to choose their films by an actor's face rather than a director's touch. Attempts to publicise directors have rarely meant famlet would have meant a fim their closest friends much at the box-office.

the quaint

falling to realise that a complete The Bouting Brothers--Only can tell over four hours long. But to John and Roy Boulting apart. the less exacting this was an only a einirvoyant would be But, occasionally, a director's Islands,

cockney impressive re-creation of a greet

Richard able to pry apart their individual genlus has broken through this exuberance of A Kid for Two theatrical experience. indifference barrier. A m Farthings, the spangled vivacity 1 was a superb interpretation contributions to the films they made by Lubitsch or Rene Cinir of the circus in Trapeze, are of this complex plot of majestic or Johri Ford was as recognis- subjects which tempt him malevolence, able and unique as a man's alg- rometimes with less than happy nature. Audiences came realise that such talents were a surer guide to good pictures than the presence of a star.

IMAGINATIVE

to results.

Before the war few British directors had achieved the dis tinction of public recognition. Perhaps only Alfred Hitchcock and he had to go to Hollywood to solidify his fame.

But the post-war years have been different. Opportunity to make pictures has been matched by a growing imaginative skill among British directors.

assurance

FOR the first time in 37 years the Coldstream Guards are back In the area where the regiment was raised over 300 years ago. The 2nd Battalion of the regiment formed by Colonel George Monck is spending five weeks in comp near Otterburn, Northum- berland. It is a fact that more soldiers join the regiment from the North than from any other area in Britain. It was a great day for the battalion when, as the Invitation of the Provost, the men visi- ed Coldstream, South Berwickshire. History records that in the winter of 1050-60, when stationed at Coldstream, the regiment marched to London to restore Charles II to the throne. It was this great march from Coldstream that gave the regiment its name. Two hundred-fifty men from the regiment were at the Newcastle names on the sub-titles Manchester United match on September 13.

FAMOUS CITY HALL

Today there are at least five directors working in British studios who have won inter national acclaim, ond whose mean

more to audiences than merely o few feet of flickering celluloid.

INTELLECTUAL

Bir

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His

camera use of the superb. A bouncing ball, a

STIFFNESS

venture into

stalking cai, a winding staircase Olivier's one

can invest a scene with more drama than a wealth of words, non-Shakesperean direction. The And his wizardry with a sound Prince and the Showgiti, re- track needs no better testimony vealed some awkward silffness than the haunting zither music in a few of the scenes, but with of The Third Man

Marilyn Monroe panting seduc- tively at his side it was success- ful enough at the box office.

CRAFTSMANSHIP

With his demanding Interest in details, hin films take a long time in the making. Having just completed The Key, a tale of tugboats and passion, it wil probably be close to two years before we see another pleture from him.

The news that his red beard is to be shaved off and that the projected film of Macbeth has been shelved for the moment is a sad sign of the times, but ane suspects that Olivier's prodding enthusiasm and resolution will sec to it that the postponement

But at the age of afty-one, his is not over-long. fair and craftsmanship have made him one of the few livlog directors whose name alone is enough to send millons scurry- ing to the cinema.

GLOWING

David Lean.-By climbing

have made together since they were 25 In 1938.

inde-

Itemaining slaunchly pendent, they have pursued a eratie, unique but somewhat Aim polley throughout careers.

PHENOMENON

their

Their early pictures-Fame is the Spur, Brighton Rock, Guines founded on a hard Fig-werc core of social protest which made them a rare phenomenon indeed among British producers. Even

their macabre thriller, Seven Days to Noon, tackled so ticklish subject as the con-

sequences of an atom bomb ex- ploding in London.

have turned to comedy with u But in the past few years they

satirical and topical bite.

Private's Progress dared to laugh at the Army, Brothers-in- Law took on the more ludicrous aspects of the Law, Lucky Jim made a benevolent swipe at

Bir Laurence Olivier,-A good from the ranks of clepper-boy universlties. The Forelgri Office part of Britain's growing up through the technical rungs is the next venerable institution prestige in the film world has of alm production to the role of scheduled to have a banens skin

David been due to the films of Henry director,

Lean learned silpped under its text.

in V, Homict and Richard III. Sir Laurence Olivier single-handed proved that Shakespeare can be as excitingly stimulating on the

ONDON'S historic Barbers Hall may be shared by a second or- gunisation when It is built-a! a cost of £180,000-next year. There is a possibility the hall may be used in association with an-

Carol Reed. There is other learnext body, sad Mr J. Trustram, clerk to the Company of Barber-Surgeons, in London. The new hall to replace the one almost an hypnotic compulsion destroyed by enemy bombing in December, 1940, will cover most about a Carol Reed nim. Even of the Cripplegate sile it has occupied for the last 608 years. But when they are unsuccessful they the company has been asked to move the hall 30ft. forward, and command attention because they screen as on the stage. negotiations are going on with the City Corporation for an ex-are forever promising excite- change of land. When I finished the Company's art treasures, ment. dispersed before the bambing, will be returned to it. One is the In Alms like Odd Man Out, had been considered impossible great Holbein picture of Henry VII, much admired by Pepys which has been in safe-keeping at Hampton Court, Priceless silver The Fallen Idol and The Third screen material. Hollywood pro- will also be moved Into the new hall, together with the Master's jcctual dimension to the or- Night's Dream and Romeo and Man he has brought an intel- ductions such as A Midsummer thodox thriller. This is largely Jullet had to be written off as due to the vivid visual strokes experimental fallures. fie uses delineate a character.

chair.

STUDY TOUR .

that good flims were made the cutting-room. His pictures have a glowing and articulate visual quality equalled only by

Carol Keed.

of

Until Olivier tackled our

They have, too, a sentimental greatest cultural asset, the Bard tenderness, missing from the.

work of most of his colleagues. The throat-catching pathos

enchantment of middle-aged in- and the lush Brief Encounter fatuation in Summer Madness belled the British fepulation for romantic indiference. -

RARE FEAT

CI+

IX Westminster Hospital medical students are leaving soon for There is a penchant for the

Yet in the more rugged the Belgian Congo on a selentific expedition, which will take bizarre in Reed's taste which

vironment of masculine courage 3 months and cover 12,000 miles. The students will observe delights in trapping the exoilc

less But just after the was he showed himself no bodily changes in people actually travelling to and in the troples and outlandish on celluloid. The

the Conditions will range from flooded areas near Lake Chad to desert eerie atmosphere of espionage Olivier's production of Henry effective. The sweating suspense in the Sahara. The parly will return through French Equatorial in Night Train to Munich, the chowed how it could be done. The Sound Barrier and

bitter irony of The Bridge on 10 enhance Africa to Nigeria, across the Sahara to Algiers, and then to sultry environment of Conrad's Using the camera

his the River Kwai show that Tangler,

the novel, The Outcast of the rather than clutter up

alent has hardened into a flex- poetry, taking advantage of the

ible and muscular maturity with Wide open spaces of the cinema to stage such magnificent the years. spectacles 03 the charge of horses at Agincourt, he achieved the rare feat of intellectual and exciting film, making.

PHILIPS

PHILIPS

The Records of the Century

MUSIC OF CHOPIN played by Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra, ficluding Vales Op. 4 No. 2, Nocturne Dp. $ No. 1, Pantale Impromptu Op. 66, Valto Op. 10 No. 1, Prelude Op. 25 No. 15 and Polonaise Op. 53 No. 6.,

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PAGANINI VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. And.SAINT-SAENA VIOLIN CONCERTO NO/3 played by Zino Frenosacatii with the Philiderohla Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormaedy and the Philhar- monie. Symphony Orchestra of Now York conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos

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MUSIC OF DADUSSY ployed by Hand Honkemarus, piano, including Deux Arabesques. I. Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin, Poison D'Or, Le Plus que Zente and Vals,

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DELIDES BALLET BUITE- SYLVIA and BALLET SUITE COPPELIA played by 1. Orchestre des Concerts LemmiresuX. GUONDO BALLET FROM THE OPERA FAUST" played by L'Orchestra, kha Theatre National de 1'Opera de Paris. Conductor Teen Fournet.

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BY

For the latter film he won an

ut Oscar as the best director 1957. This was a timely and itting, tribute to a man who, in spite of occasional failures, has always treated the cinemas as an adult and imaginative medium.

THE

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by Beachcomber

He is a bold man, Robur et cosy nest" makes me wonder Occa Triplex Circa Peches, if the owner ever spares a who comes between a star- thought for the less cosy nest of fish and an oyster, Off Long the wry-necked beercrest, This Island, I read, these two

delleacics fre at daggers songster has to content itself) drawn, and divers are trying with a mess of feathers, mud and bits of mouldy straw. The to separate them,

a bolled egg in the!

An oyster, when attacked, otler of our auch kitchenette usually its quietly behind the sis atmour et its shell, but the middle Arcadchen tribe often lose their bird-thoughts all the

of the floor, thinking

стои And if the cows The most have a particle of gumption, caddish enemy of the oyster they will neve come home.

tempers and spit pearls, but I come home, don't think

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He stumbled ashore

NTO Channel-swimming exploit

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by LEONARD BARDEN

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is heartening to have the two age of increasing conformity, 11 sensitive and adaptable minds of the Boulting Brothers concerned with the business of irreverence.

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