1959-01-31 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY

HTS FROM THE

MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

P.O.W.'s 'Casino' Amassed £75,000

Then

Banker

Leading A Duck To Water...

'P. Page 3

THIS is the Gim

Gave

Takings Away

A

By OWEN SUMMERS

London.

TV producer dropped into a London theatre Jast week and recognised the face of the wizened little man playing the parl of 41 captured Japanese prisoner and so revealed one of the strangest stories of the war.

The story of how diminutive 44 a week donkeyman on British cargo ship amassed £75,000 fortune in his own private "casino" while in Germun prisoner of war

camp.

Wonderful

Milo

The producer - ITV': Iwts, who was a prisone a the same camp-told the Royal Court Mestre management: "You are employing one of the most wonderful men I have ever met.**

And,

by questioned later other members of the cast of The Long and the Short and the Tall, 55-year-old Japanese- born Kenji Takaki, how naturalised British subject, ad- mitted;

"I was the gambling king of Germany."

Last week, in dressing-room No. 3, Takaki who combines his acting career with running n £5,000 business in Blooms- bury, manufacturing Inmp shades told for the first time the story of his off-beat war.

With a smile that split his nut-brown Ince, Takald shrugged; "Sure I made a for- tune-but I gave the whole dam' lut away."

'I skinned 'em'

The story starts in June, 1940,

T Duck.

Is is the story of Peter and the When Donald arrived at five-year-old Peter Smart's Plumstead house in Britain, he was destined for the

Down the lane to the ponds.

Can a duck swim? Yes, even on a lead.

pot. But Peter preferred Donald outside to in. Now Peter walks Donald to the bus stop, takes him for a six-mile ride to Keston ponds, and there lets him swim,

Film Censors Are Letting

Us See More And More

By ROBERT MUSEL

London.

INCREDIBLY, few people seem to have noticed that film

has

relaxed

to

an

censorship all over the world astonishing extent in the past few years.

try to take Subjects, situations andago-in the unlikely event they opportunista may when Takaki's ship was cap-dialogue are being Almed today survived the blue penell and advantage of the new freedom. tured by a German destroyer of

producers fec) The legitimate have had their the scissora. Freetown. Takaki was taken to

Most good producers are they are being Elven Keance F producers and authors picketed

appeal few last to Д by the puritans not very long delighted, even though

inle Ugence.

a transit camp at.Bordeaux, en route for Germany.

It

The destination was Milag Nord Camp, near Bremen. was packed with 0,000 merchant

zeamen.

→

Takaki arrived in this sprawl- ing cosmopolitan city behind wire-and took on a bunch of Americans at poker, With his

smile

Taknk! weck: "I up Inst

permanent

Bummed

skinned m,"

Takaki persuaded the autho-

rities to lend him one of the jus,

Then twice a week-the

games were started.

£1,000 a night

Mag Nord was transformed

That would

"Prosecution Phobia" Against Motorists

London.

are

1

Adull to

Reluctant

3

Hard Times Have

3

Hit The

East Germans

Frankfurt.

political interference, laced with musical comedies and consumer goods offers, emerges from the want-ad columns of the East German press,

A PICTURE of hard times and

Yet it is a development they

While other Iron Curtain Il poems East Germany has an 10 talk about. reluctant

techni- Afler 1 had listened to several papers generally fill their pages unending demand for

skilled workers and dis-i with

grey party matter and clans, prominent movie makers

frown on advertisements, the typisis-small wonder in a land cussing it recently I asked one

where hundreds leave good jaby could use his East German Press still carries of them if I

a fair amount of ads. They are

every week to flee to the West, name.

a fine source of enlightenment en

Why they Bee is made elear fe under Communism.

the Take

"help

in one ud: volumn, for instance.

"No," he said. "I don't want to be a target. And I don't want to Jeopardise this broader. can give storica

police chief treatment RETIRED

A trafic police against developina pro Brition Women: we can give stories.

phobia" against motorists.

they are all The warning was sounded by, ponders whether former deputy Chief Constable worth while, occurring us they clock-like H.S. Kemble in the magazine | do

with

Three or four hundred sailors at Police Chronicle. Не sald rhythm"-UP.I. n time crammed into Takaki's Britain's Policemen could be hust-playing roulette (enade losing pubile esteem,

from an eld ulaycle wher). 1 is hard to turn very housey-hausey, crown and young, or even older, policemen

at once," into jurists all

he

ancher, and poker.

Then Takaki run "dog racing";uld. "But I submit that it is throws of the dice controlling the possible to develop a prosecu- Ilon phobia and that can go progress of wooden-dogs.

"We were maiding sometimes further end become £1,000 night und another sccution mania." time I dropped a couple of thousand," said the man

dressing-room No. 3.

In

was

SUFFERED

Kemble elted chd of the At the prisonern who had spent their which' a

an

a

per-

auch

COURT NEARLY SUFFOCATED

I remember too well a European producer

cering:

where we were.

"Isn't it's pity that in the

to

wanted"

CONVICTS

United States adults have WEREN'T

soo pictures made for children.'" London's West End is typical

of

of what is slipping into los no gradually that a friend mine only realised after he had left a theatre that he had seen full-size time a for the first nude actress on the screen,

a French Sim. Yes, it was But it was being shown London and Aylesbury,

New York.

is scheduled for

Debutante

In another West End elnema Anglo-American there is an

CITYM

PAID

UNION

RATES

Plymouth,

Progressive

re-

"Wanted immediately llable driver. Progressive out- look essential. Apply to..."

So under the Reds you cannot even drive a truck anymore there days unless you are "pro- gressive.

Autos are scarce, too, and Jalopics Letch prices that would TOU

American college boys of one of their greatest pastimas.

A-war midget two-scater Fiat, for instance is offered at .JUU marks which.. at the ofcial rate of exchange, equals $4,080, New cars oro not ad- vertised.

The ads span all walks of

Clouds of black smoke pour ing Into the court room at Ayict- bury. Bucies, from û nearby

NITY officials cancelled life. iu chimney led to a 90-minute ad- one 'ense

the silthy of

plans to buy floor mate convicted of journment of

a father has made by convicts on grounds suffered Bucks quarter sessions appeals feature in which driving camp murks had the amount dangerous

a tender moment with his the prisoners aren't poid stepped from their accumulated because a similar offence ho committee.

Within 20 minutes the court committed 30 years earlier was

He room was thick with smoke and debutante daughter. It WIS then that Talcaki brought up against him.

said people should be allowed members of the bench and barri- started his Nothschild net.

Milo Lewis took up the story: to live down their pant.

buck-pay.

"Endless

prosecutions

for

siers were choking and cough- ing.

"In order to avoid suffocation, an asphyxiation or anne other un-

What was dear daddy's union ratos. Brst romance?

A French girl in a hone in Paris.

"Did she live there?" asks daurliter.

Young Love

the Young Jove "Volt Behrens Casino-old-fashioned Germán ball. A telephono on The Plymouth Corporation's every table to call your neigh- atorca committee, which, was bour...."

on

gold: Marriage "Genuine "He went round giving thou-

the point of accepting a Batuls upon thousands of these obstructions with caro ore

tender from prison nuthorities, wedding rings, at 212 marks": camp marks to men to that they epidemic in some parts of the pleasant death, we had better

changed dis mind after noung (HK$300) facts adjourn," commented the chair- would not lose their back pay.country," he said.

these obstructionsman, Mr G. H. Smith--China Me too. He left several thou-

and one Mall Special. are purely academic, sand for me."

of some of

The

THERE WAS TOO MUCH REALISM'!

Merifer.

REALISM ran away knit grack AV in a ohildren's play whichs called for engborg · of this local but so loud a dokon | baunda sorom the siege, "Don't worry about the dogs," producer But Jolkowo21, 2004 fold | Mikey'so

well-

afterwards he "nearly died laughlyg."

Nevertheless the production of ¡ Jolinson said

the Wood" will "Babes in fish the week without the bounds.

The dogs suened the dress re-

hekrsal into a comedy, They charged on slage, bowled ovor half the comź and psiakes ihrough

sockery they didn't who na Kamp PORĖS,

the

"Bat the backroom boys were a bit upont as they had the clearing-up io do.”

An

Not exactly, say daddy. She sort of worked there.

thnt the

proposexi one-year prison contract lacked In an America comedy film,

overstimulated husband wages clause,

The solitude and resignation

a fair of old ago under a rogime that

favours the fit and YOUDE "Elderly man looking for simple.

keeps trying to entice his busy, A spokesmen said the come woman, around 00, who w elvic-minded wife into the bed-litee would iscömmend that cook and look after him it an Kom or away to a hotel. is the contract go to the South apartment-sharing partnership."

clear to Intentions aró made

Devon and Cornwall Institute East Catinan salaries average possibly

excluding for the

Blind, which everyone,

alno | HK$180 a week for a skilled the two-year-old child actor tendered. who plays in sen.

worker or a marfled male office clock

These subjects and rape, A Home Office official dented

Fut iquor advertisements the sadiem. and

rost

prison commtioners appear to be taboo. of that o

to undercut other

Alcohol in only meniloped in devious catalogue-have always sought

do not pay an ad for a tooth pastę called But tenderera, "Wo baen hinted at in films. the hints are blossomlag out trade union rates,” bo aid. Baxodonty which, the sid Boyz, into blueprints.

"but when wo tonder wo put contas dicohol to intense the

Bald the produseer;.

In what wo consider to be a refreshing qualities" of the guste

Said bantamoso Jahn lipflownY!

ve soen worde fims recent fair trado pelos, and it is "Thor sust have had sin fright, Morally they'ru.wpy that could give lessons to absurd to say we are exploiting

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