THE CHINA MATE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1958. "Į
THIS WAS HOW MR. CHIPS REALLY A. SAID GOODBYE .... BUILDING HIS OWN
MONUMENT ON CELLULOID
No, I didn't weep
IT is not a pleasant
experience to watch
a man dying a real and
mortal death during the course of a fictional
film.
And that is what you see happening to the late Robert Donal in THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS, which had a world premiere in his memory in London recent- ly.
You will no doubt remen- ber that while this film was being made Donat struggleil for breath and for life every scene in which he ap pear before the cameras,
in
The moment Thr completed picture was at the cans, he went back to his that it London- t die.
An undertow
So when they showed EL for me privately in London, did { feel uncomfortable an 1 watched his ghost moving Duress the CinemaScope screen, and heard his lovely voive trying to break through the asthmatie fog which was inesorably strangling it?
On the conltury. I was moved to the point of tears, as I feet you will be tue,"
For Robert Donat knew, during the making of this film. that he was dying. He did not let the knowledge stop hin.
ARTIE
WALL:
TAKES
to see
Donat dying
by
LEONARD MOSLEY
BERGMAN THE HIGH NOON OF HER CAREER
Watching his performance is e Old Mandarin in this Alm, that this you get the feeling
actually using great player is the ebb tide of his he to give his acting un underlow powerful hidden current, whien even he has never been able to bring forth before,
He gives every scene a quiet- ness und dignity that is pain ful and touching, and yet some- how nover tragie,
There
comes
In
a moment the film when he line to Guy Hoodbye to Ingrid Bergman, the heroine.
дя
such intter-sweet still that you feel moved but not hattered, ruled rather thm siweked,
W
And, without belig; cynical in y way, 1 came a way tha}{ – Soldiers like to die with their botn un. What better Way for
actor of Donal's slature than to die with his make-up un-wit an trudience of mous to be cariched by the last burst of brilliant light From this fading stor?"
Incandescent
There
18
Incandesceal
quality in the other star of "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness," and she, thank heavens, will ha burning brightly for us for long time yet.
Ingrid
10
This was a
man fulfilled. Behind the
Oriental resignation
of this face was
the finesse
of an actor
resigned to
death,
happy to use that knowledge for his
art. This was Donat dying -dedicated
third-class fare, and then she villagers run screaming but A For Robert Donet's. gons to China on her own. trusted
п
friend, teacher, and nurse. Even the Old Mandarte falls for her charms.
war comes
There she joins forces with an old Englishwoman who has
And when rompte opened an Inn in village in Northern China. Japan she sets out on an
credible mountain Journey
orphan childre
Bergron's Perfurin- ance as the humble servant gir who becomes A dedicated She touts for custom among lead 100 missionary in China tu, I should the muleteers manning think, the tigli noon of her puck-ruules through the moun-
the safely.
world
premiere was quite an occasion, specially if-as happened in une of his best flims, "The Ghost Goes West"-als spirit is around for the occasion,
with
-
to
to
It must be a rewarding feel-
big to have such
career. This is the story, inins by proclaiming: "No Bergman's performance glows.
broadly true
nol In its de- bugs. No nies.
Plenty of food I is at once funny and moving. tails, of a little tweeny from
--anci staries with your meain," it only becomes mawkish when Liverpool who is turned down by the China Mission's hend offler in London when she applies for a job in the Beld.
that she is in-
They explain experienced and doesn't have the necessary qualifications.
for
What they really mean, missions have their snobberies
He is frall, and the band of too, is that they don't think death is on him, in Sction well as fact, and when he says: "Goodbye. We will never meet again," it could have been a Inacabre moment for all of us doen in the Audien
servant girl has the buckground for the job.
what
Phoney love
she is involved in some phoney love scenes with Curt Jurgens, a half-waste Chinese soldier.
The stories
for your last film.
a production
TARGET
How many
warda ol
four letters or more can yuu take From the
Square, The left in making each
Hword
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B
And if you sometimes (wel with which the that scenes are being deliberate- muleteers ore regaled are taken 1 played to make the straight from the Bible, in the weep, blame the director hope that they will take them not Bergman for that. from villago to village and thus act as unwitting carriers of the Word of God.
The old woman dies and the
on her work alone,
Too long
little servant girl is left to carry He lets the film go on half an She fights hour too long (it lasts two hours But at is just
she disease and prejudice and (car 30 minútes), have unshakable
faith, with indomitable unflinching
Courage,
and cheerfulness. unquenchable enthusiasm and
Sarkhe !: 1 handles good humour. She scrubs floors the line, and the mument, with until she has the money for a "foreign devil" from whom the it was, in fact, shot in Wales.
Yet it 1'. Donal
courage ond
Though
longer
the background "The of the Sixth Happi- a ness" looks remarkably Chinese
Lo
You would never guess it.
Why I changed to
good Eartha
EART
by EARTHA KITT
as told to JOHN LAMBERT
"ARTHA KITT slinked off her mink, curled up like a cobra in a pile of cushions, and reflec- tively nuzzled a nugget-sized sapphire ring.
Then, surprisingly, she said: "I am just a good
girl-a real softie at heart."
Contradictory? Perhaps. Miss Kilt, in spite of her coinage of £85,000 a year, used to be known as the girl who could hardly get into her mink coat for the chips on her shoulder.
But she ingleits that the Bad Kartha era is ended.
"I'm just a down-to-earth girl at home," she claimed, "I like to read, and reflect, and cook the odd ineal. I'm the last girl
'to want money wall to wall. I've rejected too many marriage pro-
posals from millionaires to really be like that,"
I
The so for savagoly sophis- "I was sented and resentful ticated pomonality of Miss Kitt of being owned by other people in public is also duo to o when I became a star. And I gweetened." She has just flashed found that if you are soft, as I hey neat dramatic role in Holly- rently am, you got trampled on. wood. It is the title role, oppa" thought the only way site Bammy Davis. Jun. in could protect myself was by "Anna Iscasin,"
being remote and demanding. "Arma may bo tornished," I was afrakt to be warm. Other- Bald Earths, with downessi eyen, wise even my maid began cali- *but she, la strictly on the side ing me Earikal But, it' didn't of the angels. I could undor teally work
I hurt becauso WIRDU het, and it was a reller myself too." not to be do tarily tinselled."
Then
had a demonstration Hi Viliki gotormed the real-life of the new, good Eartha. Her Earthta?. "I legmed how to live doctor called. She had crowded with-belhg'ol btor,"" aho answer, a dozen chores into the day. Mura Important, t'learned that she turned to the doctor how to separate the slar from and wald: "Had a hard day,
dear?" 11 wan almast Bornely..
QUOTES
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THINK men should be treated as the superior sex, but that they should be treated so that the woman is always the boss without the man realising it.
There is only one way to find out if a man is honest. Ask him. If he says "Yes," you know he is crooked.
-GROUCHO MARX.
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