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JOLE LONDON-GON BEN BOORVIDE

JUODA SAGE}• DEN KNES - ADIES BRIDE JA

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1959,

THE LOCAL SLANT

Leo Man-sang, Hongkong's 10-year-old deaf artist, shows Jacklo Koan some of his 10-minute paintings.

HE ACTED ON

THE SPUR OF

THE MOMENT

By GORDON HUNG

The "Mandarin Millionaire" of London and one of the "most eligible bachelors" there (according to one London paper) is not a person to act on the spur of the moment.

But just this oner he did and Hongkong's

one

in

Brighton Jackie's 10-year-old deaf hands are falt with the manag- artist, Lee Man-sung, who does | ing side of the business.

a pleture in 10 minutes, took a

rip to London with his teacher

to collect a £5 prize he won in

| an Externational painting com-

petition.

The trip and the subsequent ertertainment of the boy and his teacher Lost John Robert Koon (Juckle or Johnnie to his friends), the London proprietor of a Chinese restaurant chain, $20.000, but Jackle has no regrets.

"I enjoyed showing the boy Around town and we had great fun," he said ne we Lalked in one of his London restaurants near Paddington.

"We raised some money £700-at this restaurant for the school in Hongkong by auctioning off four of the boy's paintings,"

Big Plans

What are

the future?

Jackle's plans

for

GENIUS THROUGH PERSPIRATION

BY DAVID LAN

G. B. S. would have turned in his gravo had he heard what his old pal had to say about his ways yesterday.

to

"He pretended to be a.vers Produced on Broadway th

went from coast rude, Impollte, outrageous, extra- 1930, 12 ordinary and inspired gentur, const through 1937 and

1938, but actually he was none of bringing down the house and that," said Prof. S.1. Hsiung, bringing him late and fortune, author and playwright of "Lady Precious Stream" in pik Interview with the China Moll.

"He worked through perapit- tion rather than inspiration. But who doesn't continued the professor,

In horn-rimmed glasses and pongee gown, the former Cam- bridge professor was touching.on the secret of success as an author and playwright in his book-ilned study.

wort "Petegiralion Is Ra

he reiterated.

for

sort. It's for

thing

of the laymen only." Settling back in his chair be- ride a winelow overlooking mughiflecht harbour view, the Buthor of over a dozen books and plays told of his experience:

2

You Need To

Know All

The Answers

By JOANNE BLAIR have seen no many of them The Burmese student working. Inspiration? No-

entered the USIS library in Rangoon and stood before the, central desk. Mrs Zelma Graham, direc- tor of the USIS libraries in Burma, looked up from her work.

First you sulze upon an iden. Then you brood on fi until It germinates. The process is un- controllable."

Takes Shape

"

"Then It takes shape: Some- times quickly and sometimes slowly," ke went Ut.

always have an outline of the story in my mind before sitting down at the desk."

"My first druft is usually an awful mers. I rewrite many At 32 he has big plans, Heimes. You know a.B.9. re hopes to have £1 chain ofvised his MS very carefully, Ife Chinese restaurants throughout told me he worked very hard the country, but his most im- every day." He stressed that that medinte venture 15 to break was one of the major factors Into Mayfair.

contributing to terary succèso,

His recently opened restau- rent on the fringe of the working-clas district of Paddington defied all the talk of Jackie "having made a bloomer."

This restaurant now is the meeting place for London's theatreland and nobility.

"My Mayfair restaurant will be a very exclusive night club with Chinese cabaret shows from Hongkong.

"How have I stayed u bachelor? I've been working too hard,

"But when things get a bit too hot here, I go to Brighton," he said with a wink,

Presented Painting

"He gave mu the painting that won him the competition," he continued with a smile.

Asked how he came to hear @bout Man-sung,

"I'll be going on a round-the- ; Spoken 32-year-old Eurasian world trip next year before 1 bachelor said that one day think of settling down. And

this soft-

Visiting Hongkong

Born in Nanchang, Klingai, In 1982, the playwright-to-be

1 sraduate from the Teachers College of Peking National Univerity. Strong interest in Herature and drama lured him to England the winter of 1931, when he "just wanted to meet the three leading drematists of the day: John Galsworthy, Sir Barrie, and Show, Prize winners."

"If you pleasey" said the student hésitantly, "who is this person Pentagon?"

"How's that?" asked the be- wildered Mrg Graham,

The

pocket

student, reached in his and brought forth

Mr Zelma Graham

趄

James weekly library news sheet. On all Nobel it were written the words

"Pentagon saya

مطا

It transpired that Gals- worthy had died, 0.88. had gone to Chitis and Sir James www coufined 10 A nursing kome. "It was after a long white that

made acquaintance and became good friends with two of them and made up for the third with the friendship of H. G. Wells, As soon as he arrived in Len-

to

This tale was told last week tis longkong by Mrs Graham as an example of the sort of thing that happeris librarians in Burma.

A DIFFERENCE Apart from normal library the USIS offers facilities, photographle exhibitions, shows films, arranges painting and doll-dressing classes for the

few months ago he was in one I'll be visiting Hongkong," he don, he went sightseeing. By children and serves as an un-

ef his vestaurants when he sawi

or his regular customers

опе

not looking very happy.

"I've been tramping all over London looking for money," raid the lady customer.

Then Olga Matthews, who was the organiser of flie cdn-

added.

Although

there are

das, he enjoyed the scenery, now By night, he tried to establish restaurants himself penning away his first English play, "Lady Precious Stream," "on the advice of Prol. Allardyce Niccol of London University to whom he dedicated the book.

over 70 Chlori In London-A new one opening every month it may not be too long before Jackie Koon's one-man business be- cornea a million-pound cm. pire.

test, told Jackio about Lee Then he'll be a Mandarin Man-sung and the cost bringing him fỏ Londen

of Millionaire whichever

"I'll pay for it," Jackie suid on the spur of the moment.

The lady, organizer just open- ed her mouth and accepte Jackle's blank cheque with

conazement,

...; And that is how: Lee, Man-. sung and his teacher exine to England.

How did Joelçin, beremus, dube Tedhe Mandarin” Million- re? He assured me that - ho was not one of the selected few in Britain who can stil call

themselves millionaires.

In The Kitchen

"But I might be a millionaire

If I converted my wealth Into jok- Chinese dollars," he said ingly.

IC-

Although his father opened the first Chinese staurant in a London coz) cel- lur Just behind Piccadilly

half Circus bver

A century ago, Jackle only got into Po restaurant businers by cident.

12.0-

At the outbreak of the last war he was studying engineer- ing and because of Ute shortage

of labour, his father put him in liis restaurant's kitchen.

Then I was called up and

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+ was doing all right.

*Then in 1950, I became the nate owner of the restaurant by buying out my father and his partner.

*But I still worked on a walter! there and I enjoyed it."

And here is one of the reasons why he has been a success.

*I found that people were willing to speak 'to walters - il thers who abyihlis wrong. inition thish bother to talk to the zianager."

But with three-reslaŭtinta to run two in London and

you look at it.

way

On Broadway Staged in 1934, the play ran for three years und vived eight Umes,

WDS

ro

Prof. S. 1. Hsiung in his 2,000-book study.--China

Mall Photo,

POP-Family Tie

"E9]

IT'S MOTHER,

Ybe!

authorised information bureau.

In short, it's library work with a diference, The Bur mese child comer into the buliding with his younger sister, his parents, his grand- parents and his dog and usual- ly makes a day of tt. And sitice noise has rever beon known to bother a Rangoon citizen, nobody observes the low of silence. The adults calmly go on reading white the children create a happy din.

Last year the library gave a Christmas party for no less than 6,000 youngsters.

"We ran them off In bunches,

200 every hour on the hour. It was on

to experience be HEAVIEST RUNN Heaviest run on books though, occurs whenever a decision has |been made by the Burmese Par

liament. Interested and erger to get outside opinions on their country, they will to both the British Couricil and USIS to find out what both nations have to say concerning the particular topic.

When Mes Graham men- tioned to some of her mem- bera that she was making a trip to Hongkong, the ww présented with a Tong Hist_of iteme

The to bring back. biggest Interest lies in luxury and asme- Items gadgets, timer materials,

To them,” exclaimed Mrs Graham, "Hongkong is the "top of the World",""

And then she added, "And I'm not so sure they're wrong

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