1959-03-21 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1959.

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

Dream-World Colin Stars At Last

'Audition 'Offer Lands Him

In The Dock

London.

IN his fantasy dream world 19-year-old Colin Coe lived the parts of film star, pop singer, circus clown, policeman, and a fireman. But most of all, he was an impersonator.

By

LOUIS KIRBY

MOTHER KNEW SON WAS GOING

TO DIE

London.

That word was printed

on his ornate visiting cards, though the only time he had

stood in the limelight was

at children's parties, where

he appeared free.

But last week his

Wolter

Matty existence made him the

central gure in an Old Balicy courtroom, where he was sen- tenerd to Borsial training.

For another of his pretences was that he was a talent scout for n Alm. Its tille; The Great Pretender.

4

IN VAIN

He cried us the parents of 10-year-old Frank Golding, at #tham, S. E., and said he could make their son a star,

On the way to the "studlo

A MOTHER'S pre- Rudition, where all the big stars

monition told her will be." Coe had to say tho die. whole thing had suddenly been called off. So he produced his

that her son was to

She kaut by her bedside and prayed. As she prud

knocked at policeman door,

the

-

| imprastve visiting curl at a einen in Lee Green, announced he was in the film then showing Plekwick Papers-and got free seats for himself and Frank.

*

"Your non i den," he told

By the time Frank got home her.

"Kllied on the railways" his father had told the polles Frank Hegarty, 32, elled with about the "imprecario." They two other men, George Perry 20, visited the cinema, where an and Stanley Fry, 35, father of usherette was so convinced that four, when they were hit by the Coe was in the film that Delec- Liverpool Street to Ipswichive Inspector George Feather- dlesci-electric

signe not for an hour..watching

UXOTUSE US

it

passed through Manor. Park Pickwick Papers and waliing in Station at 65 mph.

vain for her to pick him out.

With ave others the men were working on loddrs ncross the centre of the track when the train rounded a bend and run through them,

I PLEADED

Mrs Olive Holarly, 50, said ut her home in Churchi Eim Lane, Dagenham, Essex: "I had known for five years that this would come.

"I pleaded with him to change ble job. Ho Just used to laugh.

shift.

"This morning he was an hour Jate coming home from his alght know what bed happened, I got out of bed and prayed my tears would be proved wrong. I was still on iny knees when the knock came

at the door.

STEALING

Then the monageress remem- bered Coc's visiting card. It listed his show-business activi- ties and also gave his trục address-p council house in Boward Road, Dartford, Cont.

There, deted!ivos uncovered the dream He of Colin Coc. They found that once he had applied to join the poller force and was turned down--but ever since he hud walked about in dark trousers and polleeman's blue shirt and black tie,

He also worshipped variety star Max Bygraves, and at Christmas telephoned Local schools, arranging free personal úppearances Bygraves, pre- tending he was his agent. Then, "I said to the policeman, saying the

stor 'Frank is dead-my boy has been killed. I knew it would happen from the first day he took the jab,"

would turn up to sing in his

place.

lan with the boys at his L.C.C. primary school,

H-Bomb "Lakes"

For The Inland

Sydney.

Was ill, he SCIENTISTS in Australia are making an exploratory examination of a project which could change the economic future of this country.

At the Did Bailey he pleaded George PIMITY of Meadow guilty to taiding Frank Golding Road, Push Green, Tssex, knit by fraud with intent to deprivé decided to give up his job just his parents, et possession, and The starlier er is the up before he went un day. His attemping the same offence of "clean" "H-bombs to gouge brother Stanley said:

with another boy.

| hugo cavities to hold billion gallons of water.

"George oflen laughed abouj

He heard the court told of five the Barrow squeaks they had "16701% How they man to proving convictions for false jup clear of pasing tesias | cretences, taking away a car, while working on the over-and stealing a policeman's tunte head cables."

from a cloakroom,

up to a

"Sadri tome" "lukes, Sünte believe, could contain the great floods in the Murray Basia, pre- venting them from ruining wide

sentence:ning wastefully to sca

The third victim, Stanley Fry, And he heard Judge Maude areas of country and then-Gun-" come from Stapleford Avenue,

Woodford Greeň, Essex.

I

say as he passed “You are a humbug.**

Just Fancy That

London.

was really nothing, but it was still more than Basli Sharp expected for having his numbed drawn in the state-run

Jottery

1

A letter from the National Savings Movement informing Sharp

he had won was accompanied by a signed blank cheque,

A

He returned the cheque. P. I.

Other massive explosions In the so-called "dend heart,” could perhaps CODSLIVE the flood- waters which sometimes fill dry river beds.

JACK PERCIVAL

SIR WILLIAM COOK

will be a world-wide demand for

sferie "dynamite."

'Australian walkontists saki last

week that Britain is fully alive into the peacetime use of atomle

blasts.

ground, thereby forming mense waterproof tanks, Problems which the scientists are grappling with are

10

'Ere (id)

I've Come About

That Film

London,

I an

TINE-YEAR-OLD

N'Neenahan kicked

Д

stone across his school play- ground and said: "Me an actor? 'Aven't thought about it." But n alm starring Lan, a boy at Stoke Newington, London, primary school, may repre- sent - Britain at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

If it doesn't It will have its world premiero in Moscow.

And all Ian could say about it recently

"Watn't bad doing the Aim.... Don't mind if I do another." His mind was really on the stone.

It all began in the middle of last year. Producer Kevin McClory had decided on his new tim, The Boy and the Bridge. He had picked the bridge- Tower Bridge, Now he wanted the boy,

He Interviewed 3,000, Nona fitted. Then Ian walked into Mr McClory's Belgravia home.

"Fre" he said. "I've CONTE about that bridge film." :

A seagull

"I knew at once I had the boy I wanbod," said Mr McChry, “Á

natural actor."

Ion plays a boy who runs away from home and lives in a turret in Tower Bridge with a scagull as his companion,

The 95-minute film is on a short list of three for Britain's extry at Connes,

If it is not chosen 800 t actors and actresses and a host of London's society wit ba flown in a doet af TV 104's to Moscow for the film's premiere. Tan's mother, Mrs Irene Me- Lemahon, said 'at her Lordship Foul, Stoke Newingum, council home: "Wherever it is wo all want to be there,”

All includes lan, his father, who upholsters seats for Comet airliners, brothar Keith, 11, and sisters Jean, 13, and Janet, five, Keith, Jean and Janet apFEAT In the film, too.

Yo-ho-ho Upset The

Pirate Chief

London- QLACKBEARD, the

BL

bold, bad pirate "Ienter, lunged with his gleaming sword and alashed Robinson Crusoe's thumb.

An accidenty

"No,"

gold. Robinson They said that this is one winger David Whiteid. "It was Crusoe -- otherwise of the reasons why the Brillas all because he couldn't take a wefentist, Sir William" Cook, was in charge of the

who

recent atomic explosions 'on stored

The water could be and pumped over long distances

Lo where it is most needed.

How to stifle the atomic "dyeminite" with blanket of absorbing chemicals and therefore stop the

railation clouds of

Bource.

dondly

at thefr

becu

WELDONE

joke.

"Yes," Bald Blackbeard otherwise actor

and singer | Osborn. Whitaker. “It's childish and ridiculous to think I did it on purpose.

Christmas Island, haz transferred from research to Industrial devo- The men making the proli-

lopment of H-bomb forces, mulnary examination before

How to control hundreds

The archearsed incident parting anything officially

Recently u London newspaper which left a quarter-incți eng on of thousands of tons of before the authorities beliove debris flung into the icy."

said that Britain could well Whitfold" right, thumb-esinG that the terelle heat of the

afford "to morilee at least une during the last show of the explosions" would fuse the Because there are large un-weapon from fie atomic stock-pantomimo. Robinson Crusoe at

populated areas in the interior pile to test the water-storage | Birmingham Hippodrome,

believed that the latter project in partnership with tho problem

comparatively Australians to whom it could iminor one.

bring such benefits."

Mental Influence On Dice

Stockholm.

perimental confrmation

of the polychokinetic effect" and dealing with the influence of mental

power on Inanimato ob-

breakers, carried out his experiments with dice. In| the course of these ex- periments, which

were repeated more than .. hundred thousand times, six dien were mechanical

Jecte in motion has earnedly elected on a horizontal

a Bwedish, engineer, Mr

surface......

Haakon Forwald, a $1,000) By merely wishing the dice

reward from Duke Uni- versity, Durham, USA,

Mr Forwald, head of the Swedish" Asen: Company's consulting department for high-fonalon circuli

to fall to the right or the left on the furfarn he found that the dice generally fell towards the side he thought of with an average difference of about two inch in his

Controlled

Some local authorities also favour. The influence was believe that controlled under-

H-bomb the stronger the

explosions more round

could be tased to melt out

heavily the dice were

covered with metal, which oil far below the mar

face.

For the Alaskan harbour ex- plosions is planned to move focal inhabitants about 15 miles from a village near the alle.

Confident

NO- JOKE

David Whitfield said at his Hall home; "For ten weeks I've appeared with a map tatooed my check. For a joka I had Blackbeard's, faos painted. on instead.

"During the thaw Black" beard had to rip of my skiet. Tula immo bu cama tano te fron

“Everyone in file plaće rośred i-except - Blackbeuni... I coLLI- ser he didn't appreciate the Yolor. The American scientists are certain that they cần In the duel, we fought für A blast out 300-foot deep while sa reboureed, then up went basin and a channel to the his sword and down. It paine- cccan without using aye Whiriaker maid at his house

right on my thumb, bed contamination in Casysion: "Why didn't; 1

That those in charge of the project me confident that they makes Mr Forwald believe) The idos" has been planted will be able to move them back that the atom nuclei play in sclarifie ofreler here by to their village within two an important role in this America's decision to bisat out works.

millions of tons of rocks to create context.

a new harbour. Mr Forwald, who had his Bibs of the proposed H-bomb treatise, published in the harbour is Hotmabue Sound, Journal of Parapay: Alaska chology, will leave for goed out and a charmel is ...When the earth and roele, are the United Statps://this out to the sea with "baby" H-Australian scientiate Intersind apologies: Boosung I was Bake autumn. The experiment" bombe, it is propound to spend (i) the plan believe that 2f-bohb|noyed: Blackispard's a tarpcióur will then be filmed. In another £40 million on the "dysamitis? car, bo, used tera, io chiumatera Bat & couldn't as on budding of harbour istallations, cenale water zioengo basina ut, a belog.–Saronione. — The whole slow-motion, at the link:

LR-thm in plany wodas an out" pris conchauble with the cast scene was ruined. veralty of Pittsburgh. selendig bollays that there then of Watrapitube Livery.

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