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Lauren Bacall on Safari

CONCLUDING A LOCATION REPORT

BY JOHN

LAMBERT...

BIG NAME HUNTING AT AMBER CITY, RAJASTAN, INDIA.

HE ancient Amber with nlee manners

THE

THE CHINA | MAIL,.

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1989.

and a quiet Next came the bullocks, bearing drinks and a crimson canopy of musiciona. Then the elephants, painted in rainbow colours, adorned with silks and lavish rugs.

never valce, He

So calm

Palace had been seldom smokes. stormed by a horde of 2.000 Indians for the third time that morning,

The sun blazed in the Igazen blue sky; the natives lay sleeping in the shade. But the 40 British film technicians in the dusty curlyard still worked in the burning heat. The film the Bank Organisation's "North-West Frontier."

Lauren Bacall tried vally to keep cool. She was wearing the crisp but heavy costume of a governess at the turn of the

cuntury.

suk

"Phe!" certainly see what Noel Cowed Ivani by writing that song Mud Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun!"

camera

Thea come the gulden empy of the goddess, held high by u froep of bearers iti cr.mion Yet perched on the

uniforms, At that moment a platform,

with The swarm chanting ress from the crowds moba ke a les elreus and seemed to echo Lo the below him, he bas enim, purple hills. The car-clad girls meliculous authority.

This film bowed low,

mystical marks & challenging switch in fever spread across the city. style for him,

R

He has made his reputatlon from the intimate suspense, and personality probing of time like Weman in a Dressing Gown" Ind "Tiger Boy,"

Now he dents with the crowded

of #vivlent CORTOS revolt In the India of 1909,

Marcel Heilman. the pro dice is everybody's idea of what a producer should be Big hat big spectacles, big elgar. And the broad accents of Buda best n his volce. Mr Hellman, the man Arg charge of the Mist Bacall bad news for her money bags, had some curious ald friend Mr Coward. "That problems to cope with. sung." she said. "s had less

"Dolfink, what are we going | refraing efter! than Red to to about the camels?"" the Riding Hood with the Hully-

"They are more fuct wood wolves. In

the ked once, British, bless them, now seem to temperamental than most of the think it's Uzeir duty to be itra have dealt with - and burned alive."

that in saying something?"

Followers

Mr Coward xitl not be xurprised to know

that

the

people of India can still never

Herbert Lom, the FARIVE, sinister villain of Sa ku.ly Bitish Alms, is standing up to the heat better than most of us. recently returned from le America.

Much of the location

work

understand it. Once the sun is was done on a scorching stretch way up they are way down. And of desert 15 miles from Jaipur. with Lemperature of 120

desolate scrub The

and dune

degrees trapped between the country is so rough that most towering 100.-high walls of of the journey has to be done by

fortress, their attitude is truck. understandable....

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Lauren Bumll fascinates the Indians. She is tall and blende.

with a strong, husky Most Indian women are small

valce.

Buzzards

?

and

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The dignity

None of us spoke. Bul later, after we had crossed the park where the sacred peacocks strui, Lauren Bacall refferled on this country to which she has come.

"TheTe are many things I shall ruơnember,” she said. "But most of wil I shall not forget the which leve L dignity with expressed here. 1 is something other people search that through life for: yet here It seems instinctive,"

Londor Express Service.

II must not

criticise Me Krushchev

I must not

Cestione

HIS MOSCOW CAMPAIGN by Cummings

Criticise

Krishda

must not criticise

* Krishchai

"Hello, Marshal Zhukov,

writing your memoirs too?"

"Only a few hours to go and still he hasn't Insulted Adenauer or do Gaulio!"

No wonder the Shah looks

until

you looked

You stayed in the pavilion until half time, when Jerry hit you for six, ilike the dog's

dinner!

Hurry, comrado Interpreters! Look up pavillon. look'up "Jagry,' look up 'dinner of the dog*..

"Just because hò cays British generals never die but retire to British Railwaye, British Canals, and B.B.C.--don't got any ideas Into your head, Marshal Sokolovsky."

over his shoulder

PROMINENTLY dis-

played

in

the

There is no relief from the archives of the Persian with soft, high voices. So ruggedness of it all. The vul- wherever she went a swarm of tures and buzzards wheeled Foreign Ministry is a

Indians followed.

remozelessly in the shimmering

BY

JON KIMCHE

They also try to Imilate the sky. Near by, a tattered tamil copy of the despatch but there are others who are far alily today is the Shah.

way she talks. It sounds bizarre to hear turbaned teenagers Dying: "Q.K. boys, don't crowd me, buh?"

Hottest

of Indians, who lived

bare walls without n scratched the sullen land to make a living,

This

been

"What a lovely day! I must go out and get my Hamo in the papers."

London Express Service.

HILALA. SP 1.

U.S.S.R.

TURKEY

Adasa

PERSIA

Ricauiz

CYPAUS

SYRIA

MEDITERRANE DA AJA

IRAK

What mattered

Jordan

to the Rusticas

was froh as the springboard Into

Pari

EGYPT

SAUDI ARABIA

who have been arriving lately. And the foremost Shila person- been armed) by the Shah's up- There apports to be On For once the Persians are Böt

porters In Perila, inside from the German Am- more directly concerned with

unmistakable nervousness among preccepted with the Shah's Persian rather than with Iraqi

situation has

the' rival adherents Already there has rouf,bassador in

that martial plans, Moscow, affairs.

been a

but with his exploited by the Persians loyal number of armed clashes, and the other side might strike first martial ability either to strike dated November 26,

to the Shal-and by the Shah. the number

And the of incidents

Shah's cbsence from rat or strike back should the The opposition to Kasem end Increasing.

home ht increased theso That is India al its most 1940. It sets out

to the Communists is strongest

anxieties. Without doubt, he is blow fall while he is away In Frightening. Yet before 1 left

Molotov's minimum

among the Shla, and it has been During the last few days there the cne mon who ensures Europe. we saw the mysticci apicodour

been aminous rumblings Perslan Armuces in the face of helped, enepuraged and financed have of the other side of life,

(and some claim that it has also from the Iraqi-Persian border. terms for a treaty with

mounting danger.

the One of the four basie

Underground

Among them are many young. able-bodied and trained Kurds It was the feast of the Love Germany.

who have been flying in steadily Billy Partielou, the make-up Goddess In Jaipur. She, the expert, kept his sticks of grease Goddess of Nivra, Is

In al transports. These ure con- mostly

reinforcements for 4 paint in tube of lee to stop them spirit of whom young girls als ditions which Molotov Kurdish organisation known inelting. Yvonne Camh, the help finding happy husbands. stlpulated was "that the

AFC PART, costume designer, used

which is in fact the 10,000 The big parade in tribute to south of Batum and Baku in the milltary and underground wing yards of turben material akme the guddess started.

general direction of the Persian of the Kurdish Communists. for the pleture. She also used

Gulf is recognised as the centre

the entire dye reserves in We watched from tower of the aspirations of the Soviet

Jaipur.

But the hottest jobs of all were thusL pr director Lee Thompson, Geoffrey Uisworth, the fighting cameraman, and the camera crew.

specially reserved for the Untor." malajal's guests. Near by. the maharajah and his body- ganed, in crimson turbans and white uniforms, stood stifly to attention. The maharance and other women watch frome own special enclosure.

Diplomacy

as

Their headquarters are east of the olfelds in Northern Iraq at Sulemanya, where there is now established a sizable force.

contact

They are conveniently situ- The other their

three objectives ated close to the Kurdish dis-

and been attained by triets in Persa have since Soviet diplomacy. The only between the two First came a camel, ridiculous one that has evaded them is continuous, Bamboyant character that most yet proud as it loped along in people Imagine a fim director to lavish

very

Lee Thumpon is a different man from the sort of

ilkan cust, with jade bc. He ly short, nest man bangles above Its bony knees.

this-the fourth. H RE not

for the lack of tying.

It

Hut now Khrushcheva

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Is lively and

Propaganda

-(Lonton Express Service).

DAVID CARRITT ASSESSES THIS YEAR'S ROYAL ACADEMY

ONLY A RUSSIAN WILL

FIND THIS EXCITING

Inlanders

are ad-

FTER casting my eye. Before an artist can ever inspired. Roberts belog Iridescent Marer to the achievement”of In the south, representatives hopefully over its 1652 afford to indulge in such ed to thot group of English mirable, but not his best and painters like Wyndham Lewis Notre Dame Vic, above.Can- this "focal point of Soviet of the Khuziston Arabs, who exhibits, I am sorry to have things he must have and Nevinson who shocked con- nes, gives only a slight idén of aspirations

Molotov pu want to secede from Perala and to report that this year's strength and courage. In servative taste in the 20a with Sir Winston Churchill's powers. Ambassador von party days and Schulenberg than any prOVEDUS

The portraitisis come on bot- Jola their all-rich land with Royal Academy-la-just-like-overs goneration of English des matided cubist-futurist

ruq ve Been kiready for

"18: Bryea" "Knete actually qu Sovlet effort. - His careful

painters only Fome months in Bagdad where last year's only less ad,

E handful style

ceeds in making Charles Laugh- circling movement of Persia is they cre the offelad quests of

possess elther.

No doubt the mathematical ton look what he is already, almost complete, and ready for the Iraqi Government.

Once again, there are

precision of Trooping the Colour several times inrger than Hfe. | »eilen.

shocks for both the old This is why the Quiet lends itself, to Roberts's geome Allan Gwynne-Jones showe All this is reinformed by the guard and the intellectuals. River: the Thames which the Russions have Once again, Bratby and Chiswick by Victor Pasmore launched for some time, directed Merton are the hero-villains. Is by far the most remark- For. it has ben évident for against the Shah and Persin'e But the shocks re less able picture in the exhibi

Time now that the Western connection, And It

shocking and less plentiful, tion. Soviet Influence In must be admitted that the

directly con Russians are not altogether disall Bratby's friends not cceed in turning Iraq

really shown decently if dirtily.

clothed, and there la not one.

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Iraq was

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roughest propaganda campaign

Julo simulating. They state, not even cugry.

are

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FELI

·IMPECCABLE

a

at trle simplifications, but it is number of official portraits of startling to see the Queen and prominent men like Lord Bave- ridge and Lord Ismay, and her Horse Guards reduced to a

proves that they need to pattern of huge clunky robots,

helther stilted nor flottering. Hanging opposite is one of

There are excellent busts by, John Bratby's portrait friezes, a

Nimptsch and McFall. frenzied coagulation of paint,

What elsy should the poo straight much of it squeezed

vizitor look for? from the tube into the canvas. Braiby, who has just been Academi-

DISTURBING ·

In all over the Trail ou For the Shah brutally snubbed scrap of gold leaf on the "An impeccable evocation elected an Associate

taking

Khrushchev when he suddenly | Merton, brcke of his negotiations with

The new of a misty riverside scene, clan, has certainly got strength

John Merton, of and courage.

course, six weeks What mattered was Iraq as the Russians some

As usual, the most de- it has charm and beauty in

Called 'Legend' of His pletures are as menacing Deles, it is really o porisult of the springboard into Persia; go, and sent the Soviet mission pressing feature of the ex- abundance. The delicacy of

daughter Sarah In Trag, The open finnk of packing, while Persia concluded

Greek 'murroundings. chain. Truthfully and eloquently ancient a new deal with the Americans.hibitions is English Good its tones, pink and gray and as a Teddy-boy with a bicycle- Merton's It was not the most tagiul kind Taste.. Intimate, charming silver, as well as the tran- they speak for an aspect of our The Incredible how-on-carth-is- well-bred, accomplished quillity of its theme cast time, even if we may wish to it-done technique, the contrast

Persla.

exist.

It was вста that the of diplomacy. Russian effort was corten-

is no sitting how many English artists a spell which is irresistible. Heaven that this aspect didn't between Sarah's fresh English trated from Kurdistan in

But the Shah the north to Khuziatan in the duck for Khrushchev. He has not have been killed by being all

and bewailed this and nothing more. south. It was here that the dis- simply watched

Iraq sentient minorities in Persia the open_frontier with resided.

which the Russians have used on their main buse of operations

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Frontiers

The Russian effort on this against him. front has been quiet And steady. It started within month of the overthrow of the Nuri regime last July, And it has mido substanti progrem.

ENEMIES

GRANDEUR

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face and the time-worn Greek But Fasmore was not

marbles, make this picture quite as disturbing as a Dall, which merely interested In casting

Is surely not what the artist spells. Beneath those ahim-

intended.. mering pastel colours, those

Stanley Spencer, also a power- Ruskla. Spear's

Strawberry few exquisitely placed lines, fui reallst, lo unfortunately Mousse, a horrifying joko la the Every year the Academy there ta a magnificent firm represented by three not very Angus Wilson manner, fat Interesting works. But there is old woman, with dyed hair and Labounda in Sickert-type 'ness of design.

one picture, the Liturgy of Good cheap jewellery is caught shov- views of 18th-century nian-

the Friday, which suggests that in ing a spoonful of pink moss Into I am glad to say that Vuillard-type sions,

in- Quiet Rivor has been bought for Norman Blomey we have a test ber kiss-proof mouth. Ughi

in the Gallery by the rate religious palater

Elliot Hodgkin's minutely Constable type the Tate

sun-res, Lowry's Spencer tradition. There is real painted Trustees

Chantrey of the

grondeur in his vision of three alum-scenes, Sir Hugh Camon's views of Dedham Valo.

Bequest.

・・・ priests prostrate before the model of the new plan for the or another who have arrived in of Begdad, are the mali holy about grace and charm, once strength raises a

Nijinsky, who know a lot An aggressive but -graceless altar, seen from a point some Zoological Gardens, hil: theso fraq since last August. But it cities of the Shla sect of Islam→→

number of where, above the altar itself. are excellent of their sort.

Most of the landscapes Bre But taken all in all ́this your's can be said with certainty that Najaf and Kerbela, said that they were the other exhibits above the level they number not less than 3,000

onemies of beauty. The of mediocrily. Trooping the too charming for comment, Academy is unlikely to medita and prasibly sa maoy as 7,000. Its adherents are a majority

Willem Roberts, since Piper, Sutherland,

excopi, i perhapk, Among them are 90 senior off in Irma, and they look i Royal Academy proves how must be the most glarming pie dleditch and Wirth-Miller have visitor from Soviet Russia. - | specialista

-London Express. Reprice), with 240anslatants holy men in Portia for guidance. Fright he was.

lure which this ceremony has chosen not to exhibit. Two

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Open frontiers can be crossed In both directions, the Shah to argued, and he has made the

most of this situation.

teriors, been diMcult

It har establish the exact number

of

Soviet "specialista" of one kind For In the heart of Iraq, south

Colour: by

Mamyone

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