1959-10-20 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1969.

A Marx Brother The loves

obeys the "oige" to

MARX, the one

C who plays the piano, act again

the one who gambles, flew

Into London from Hollywood

recently, bent, weary, and By JAMES THOMAS with this one crack:

"Groucho and Harpo are rich men but me, I'm in England."

At 07, the eldest of the Marx Brothers is here to work. Last time was in 1940,

He it has the pert, twisted, slow mile, but his speech is kw and slow and it still ha

trace of the New York back- street,

His losses

Hi

Hollywood.

RROL FLYNN was a 20th Century Casanovn

love but never finding it.

Sure, he was loved for his charm, his wealth, his dashing virility. But the self-assured, self- admitted Lothario sought a deeper emotional response from the females in his life. And only occasionally did this facet of the inner longing express itself.

Two years ago, when his marriage to third wife Patrice Wymore was wavering, he unexpectedly Gold me, "Love is a strange thing. If you hold it too tight- ly, cherish it too dearly, it will die. Yel, If you regard it Loo lightly it will escape you altogether."

He sincerely believed he loved all three of his wives. His complaint about his first two marriages-to LI

wives Damita and Nora Eddington-waa that his attempted to reform him."

standa cash other way' present wife is his third." Soon Chico, will be back on

But even though Groucho and the boards in variety in Brud- Harpo

After marrying Miss Wymore. he said, "I've found don't hove money

So my ford.

story has lic

radio show worries, it looks as though the la woman I love, and who loves me. bas u Hired up for the B.1.C., and a three brothers will be back a happy ending. Pat never tries to reform me." TV programme on Sunday.

together nenin soon for the first

But no one woman was able to All the actor's time since "Night in Casablanca" insatiable appetite for excitement and at the same time 12 years ago.

provide the security that Flynn sought in a marriage.

Slowly, the veteran of those rowdy old movies, said: "Once In a while I get the oige to net egein....nothing thrills 3011 like having an audience in the palm of your hand."

Chleo has tremendous dignity,

sensitive about

isted halt.

1 brothers saved their cash. Chilo did not.

เ

Saved

Before, during and be. tween his three marriages

"Maybe just sometimes I wishFlynn had his girl friemis.

yet.

he has beautiful hunds. If he had saved a little more money. They were a diversion, hardly ever takes off his grey But gut an oll mine, and I'm

one dollar 80 cents means of living up to his Willk because he is drawing

Maybe reputation as a great lover. his thinning, every month from: It.

there's time to make a furtune But he seldom spoke of his conquests, and only smiled "The other night all five of when friends and acquain- alluded to his Us Gumine is still around as tanres Groucho's manager-had dinner romantic flings.

Hollywood, and wo tutether talked about making a movie on the life of the Marx Brothers.

ut where could we find ve ro-and-so's who look like us?

And he admitted to me before ke went to bed at tea lime: "}

have lost. MU

around Two milion dollars gambling 1 had money. I Jo it-tas Vega, the riets, women.

"he art crap game 1 played I Just 47,000 dollars in one night. Bu learned as I went along, In me I was able to lose more than that

Comedians nowadays have changed a lot. Today they Just stand in front of a TV camera and tell the same jokes.

Clean-cut

In this respect he was a better man than many of those who criticised him. stars were--and Scores of still are leading scalawag "Now Groucho is rich IIe "Maybe that's why Westerns lives, but deviously

with phony piety. never went to Las Vegas. But here su popular."

Skull may be clue to origin Found of man jungle

A

London.

STRANGE brown skull which may at last solve the riddle of man's beginning went on show before a distinguished scientific audience recently.

It was the first time the skull-between 600,000 and a million years old-had been seen in public

The

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of Errol Flynn

Today, Page Four presents the first of a three-part series on the "life and times" of Errol Flynn, who suffered a fatal heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week. The series was written by Vernon Scott, veteran UPI Hollywood correspondent, a long time

acquaintance of the

late actor.

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In 1940 Flynn "fell in love" le wes gayouthful, daring, like 1," he often said. "I make with Irene Chico, whom he gallant and. bishiy bold. When no apologies and I judge no identised OG

Refonian he looked at a wuman, there

was a would

twinkle in his cye, one else. If anyone is hurt by prinosa claiming they my behaviour It is only, my, be married, but the romaner aunting, flattering challenge.

faded whom the

And he was handsome. Until And I'm not complaining."

dashing star trok off or location for a movie.

Dr Leakey and the 600,000-year-old skull.

who brought the Mr Nutcracker was probably a

since it was unearthed in the African jungle last skull to England Jo or Louis youth or about 18 with a brain

July.

For the privilege of seeing il, 500 well-known scientists packed

a Piccadilly lecture hall.

Nearly half of them sicod, un- able

sca15, to get

as the enthralling story of #he skull was unfolded.

Having sifted the evidence, the experts then looked into the

eye sockets of the slightly bal- tered object, and described the discoveries as "remarkable,'

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Many said the theory of evolution expounded br Charles Darwin

ceniory agu had now been conclusive- ly proved and that this finally was the missing link.

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Leakey, curator of the Croydon half the size of a modern man's. Museum at Nairobi.

After he died, his relatives He is one of the world's left his body in the family leading anthropologists.

No forehead

**Me Nutcracker" nickname scientists to the creature to

skull once belonged,

is

the have given

whom the

cave.

The lake repeatedly flooded end the sediment descending on his bones solidifled into stone.

The tomb was a 22ft depth of rock overlaid by deposits of other material and volcanio lava.

This was let into the steep

Mr Nutcracker was short, side of a 300ft cliff.

probably under 5 feel.

He had practically no fore- 30 years work

hetd and an enormously

clongated face.

To reach Mr Nutcracker's re-

He was bull necked, but mains, Dr Leakey and his wife walked more completely erect for 30 years worked with

than the man of 1959.

a

plek and tiny paint

He was barrel-chested with dental huge collarbones but ble limbs brushes on the rock face. were slender,

Agile, fast

The doctor's Arst And was a milk tooth.

He realised he was about to uncover something more drama- lie.

Because he had no weapons To silence replies, he engaged

The depended for his safely from cameramen to record proof of

the roving giants of the jungle his search.

on his agility and fleetness.

often

Before

The

new

Flynn's special charm for women?

What was

Debonair Flynn seen here surrounded by a boxy

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of pretty debutantes during a dress show a few years ago. Shortly before his death he had this cynical comment to make: "There is such thing as a happy marriage.....Believe me, I know,"

break into an hilarious chapter lope I managed to fee it with from his past life,

brave front. That's in- He had a cultured voice with portant. You shouldn't distress just a trace of Engilsh accent, your friends have them feel Proof of Flynn's great charm sorry for you. The worse the was the high regard in which disaster, the braver the front." he was held by his wives after he had Jilted them for other women,

His last

*pouse,

It was behind this front that Flynn feed his friends and However, as he Patrice fans.

grew Wymore, spoke for all when older the tragedy in his eyes she said, "I wish I could hate could not be erased by his nask- him, but I can't. He's the most ing smile. Joytble man in the world."

"I'll never marry again," he fike Flyn" became a na said 7 week before his death: tional joke, and like all stories "There is no such thing as a and anecdotes surrounding him, happy marriage. Belleve me, I Errel took it is good grape.

know."

Open as he was about the This time he did not say it a smile. There was a superficialities of his life, Flyna with rarely confided in anyone. When heavy nate in his valee; the note he was hurt most he put up a of a disillusioned man who gay, bon vivant front lo

chased an clusive love through- his real feelings.

mask

the last 10 years of his life Frynn had a clean-cut profile, a belly undi muscular flat choulder. An dle of excitement

his prcamice, In redlater from

the face of emotional out the world for more than a

quarier century but idol Other men felt the magnetism, turmall the flashy screen

found it. turned in his best acting per- too.

When Errol was around no

formances. Thore who knew him best ottributed his attraction to one could be sure when a fight "I've had my share of human

or i he would disaster,” charm.

he said recently, "I

"I have no idea, Old Bean," he was fond of saying. "I never question success,'

the cameras arrived.

A

In his world, it rained very his wife picked up A fossil

palate.

kad doctor knew he

connecting link between the South African "ape men" and "His meals were mainly of

trun man. snakes, frogs, rats, mice and To sww the skull recently

Probably, he was one of a large family living beside a lake infested with crocodiles and fulf of Ash.

birds.

would

start

TOMORROW: FLYNN'S CAREER

This is how I would plan

University Colle

London University

·Euston Stofian

London School

Hygiene and Tropicon

Medicine.

London.

PLAN for the expanding needs of London University in Bloomsbury has been prepared

by Sir Leslie Martin, professor of Town Planning at

St. Poneras Station

New college,

New college

never

Touthampton Row

By FRANK HOAR

Russell

discovered the remains of the Cambridge University, and has now been adopted. no place in a great and con- with skyscruper colleges and Various colleges and institutions of the gested metropolis where bulld- wide, unimpeded open spaces. University have long been spread over London, but ing sites are of high value and

tree and open space a The open space area is in fact many have now been rebuilt around the great matter of great concern to the increased by inclusion of a

Centre in Bloomsbury is now taking shape. Senate House, and the conception of a University health and convenience of the great university campus or the

Dr Leaker walked into the lee probably were changing from a box which nobody else had been In Mr Nutcracker's day, men ture-room carrying a wooden vegetarian to a meat dlet, but he permitted to handle. was incapable of hunting the From it he carefully pulled huge creatures whose remains three plastic bags, each contain have been found nearby.

ing part of the skull.

Just

Fancy That

OVELY SARAH; a two-year-old filly, canterbd up to the start ing tapes at Ayr the other day with jockey Tony Rawlinsod

on her back.

Up want the starter's - flag--and up on her hind legs went Lovely Sergh. Down to the ground went her Jockey,

Tony chased her for four furlongs, then spotted a taxi parked.. at the track-side,

He leaped in and chased Lovely Sarah right round the courao, He caught her and got her back to the taper for the start, She finished East.

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every

population.

Nothing therefore, should be The university area' extends of Londen, although no detailed done to interfere in any way from Tottenham Court Road on plan was suggested..

with these amenities and the the west to Southampton Row

positioning of the blocks and the Now that the number obstruction to the views of these on the east, and from the British Museum on the south to Euston: of students and the need fine, green spaces must to Roid on the north.

for university education regarded as a major fault. has increased, a scheme

As a great centre of learning: it fills a tremendous role and its... growth and developinent as the Commonwealth University, which' includes every rape and colour- among its students, is a matter of vital importance to the British family of nations.

Urgent

The idea of a precinot ex- eluding all through traffic was first suggested in the Forshaw

American model, and all through motor traffic is prohibited.

-(London, Express Keroles),

QUOTE

Through mater. traffle is to for development has be be permitted to bisect the come urgent.

university area, This should beby Earl Attlee at Dover re- reserved as an unimpeded way cenity:

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TT is no good, trying to make a

nice little heaven in

Great

The Martin scheme, however, for pedestrians, whether students suffers from a rigidity imposed or otherwise. by low height of the proposed buildings and the consequent The scheme is in block form Imitation of accommodation. only, and the type of architecs Britain if there la' going to be kell outside. Armamenis are ture proposed a matter for out of date, yet countries The idea of the low enciqued conjecture.

The home

.

| still ́uponskima billions of pounds Cambridge College in small KOWLOON

shown in the /piling up armamanís they, know country lown with the country- Abercromble plan for the County side, readily accessible, can find drawing shows an open plan they will never st

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