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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1960.

BY

JACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendelson) Some of

IN SCHOOL LAST WEEK We hadda make

a VALinTiNe To Bring Home to our MOTHers of PARENTS,

Age 32%

is Like

AVALINTINE a HeART ONLY it's made Ourta Red Drawing Paper

instead.

The Kids MADE REAL

SERIUS

ones. For in- STANTS This is THE ONE

DEAR Mom:

QS YOU CLIMB The Ladder of Suksess Remember ME

MUR Son,

BERNAR

Some other Kids MADE FUNNY ONES, CRAZY Freddy

| Drawed THIS ONE for Selma,

Whose his SweetHEAT,

Selma

is A

DRiP

BULMER'S

WOODPECKER

CIDER

30: FETO BY THE MATERI

BUSMER&Co Lip Hanerone (MELINE]

Think of

refreshment- think of Bulmer's Woodpecker Cider-pure bubbling delight -exactly right for long summer drinks.

BULMERS

©1960 Kim Friumf Sindicato šnt, World rides Resuvel,

All of The GIRLS MADE

real Mushy ones with ROMANTIC POULTRY on

Dere Daddy:

♡

Them

I'm glad YOUR MY Cupid, OTHERWIZE iWOOD BE STOOPIA,

FROM

Your

Dautter

LINDA.

DEAR Daddy:

=♡-

i'm glad You're my CUPID, Other Wise Would Be Stupid. from Your Daughter, Shirley

SHIRLEY Copies a Lot, but she's a good Speler

P

2-14

Which

BERNIE

made

I in case you don't know, Gupid

is a Little kid who goes arounD SHOOTing PEOPLE

Who are in LOVE

Oh. why do they have

to give

HOUDINI. By William

Lindsay Gresham, Gol- Jancx, 27s.

WITH the telly on tap,

satellites in outer

Houdini away?

By GEORGE WHITING

goggled

His credit

buill

space, submarines under Britons, Australians, Russians, River becrhalls, Houdini the ice, and the moon even Fiji Islanders, gaped and up sufficient credit to buy i 61 the "impossible" "magic_box" originated by Eng- just around the corner, illusions contrived by a bushy- innd's John Nevli Maskelyne.

With this contraption, plus a it is doubtful if the huired, bow-legged, ghetto-born

son of a Hungarian rabbi. few pairs of job-lot handouts, a modern

flair for publicity, and a show- world would

man's insight into the human take much notice of such

desire to be hoodwinked, Houdini built his fantastic ro simple experiments as walking through a brick wall, escaping from Isteel-riveted boiler, or making an elephant dis- appear into thin air.

a

He began in Budapest 05

rich Weiss, emigrated to New putation before our very eyes.

He escaped from ropes, chains, munneles, a police van on its way to Siberia, strait Jackets, Harry prison cells, boilers, boxers, |

packing-cases.

bolted

But

Didn't have any of JONLY MY VALIMTINE

THAT 'Mushy Stuff,

T WAS JUST PLAIN One Which SAID,

Mon

DeAn

Love YOU VERY MUCH

With Lots

of Love

from Your Loving Friend Jacky

Ha HA from Freddy

i dont think she liked my Valintine so much, ON A- COUNT of This morning. When Gave it to Her She

Started in To CRY

(Boo Who

Maybe next Year make a Better on

Roderick Mann

Why Niven turned down his role in Lolita

SHOW BUSINESS Among the Roat

that wander fres

Rhodes.

I have been JERE, on the Island of Rhodes—12 miles off the wild, sun-dappled hills of Turkey HE

watching a most expensive film being made by a most expensive cast: Carl Foreman's production of The Guns of Navarone.

The leading actors are Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, and Stanley Baker. And not since Cleopatra nipped down here for a week-end with Caesar has the island known such excitement.

York, and cut neck-tie linings for a saniy living. He ended, 55 years later, Houdini, the most talked-no escapologist of all time.

earth, They buried him in From a pack of dog-eared dumped him in rivers, In the earlier days of the playing. cards, painstakingly him and barred him. century. however, Americans, manipulated in bloway East Harry always got away having first assured himself that half the audience were in hysteries.

We A foke? A phoney?

It has responded nobly by Guns of Navarone, and he sold "It is always the same, I did my offler was 6,000 miles away refused to believe it. To us,

man putting an entire hote at the he liked #ne, especially as it in England a few years ago, in Hollywood," Houdini was the miracle from America, defying

the Bought a rumbling great warren alt unit's disposal and making pro- his was the best part in known laws, showing us the im-ducer Foreman a freeman of the film. It says lot for pro- In the heart of the countryside possible, and keeping us up at City

of Rhodes an honour, I ducer Foreman that every star the full thing, with a private night wondering how he did it. gather, which guarantees him here is convinced that his is the pew in the local church and all

Immunity from arrest for all part;) crimes cave setting fire to the local cinema.

Could it be Roundworms?

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His pals

And now, without so much as

by your leave, this man Gres-

1

gives the show away In a

pedestrian biography.

Our hero, it seems, was mor~|

tal-relying to a large extent on night,

Tethered...

("Eyền: then," Niven said, "I for a long time to make ́ up my mind to do it, I am a ter- rible coward when it comes to making decisions,

that jazz.

Disaster

"But it was a dieasier. Every time I came home Jao house

A mistake

The day's work over, Niven's cidest

son Came 10 drive back to the hotel with his father. Niven looked at him, chaldey his head.

"It was a great mistake call-

"When he was young, he was

Nothing much happens here at

"I was offered Lolita, you was full of people I didn't knowing him David too," he said,

thought for weeks who had dropped in to see what The food Ls awful, chow, and trick apparatus, mirrors, false everything shuts up early and, before deciding I couldn't do it. kind of a mess I had made of Little David and I was Big bottoms, confederates, pals in unlike most Greeks, the island- It would have been a tremen- the decorations. the audience.

стя tether their daughters and dous challenge but I honestly Next thing you know, they'll let their gasts wander free. So lacked the courage to do it. be telling us Mary Pickford the chief divertissement among wore a wig,

the stars is playing chess,

And for

your bookshelf

David. Now he's grown up and tollce than me he's Young "On top of that, the local David and I am Old David."

'hunt always seemed to be meet-

"The truth is, I suppose, that ing on our frond lawn. You And wita that, Niven 1 am associated with certain couldn't aco out of the window stumbled away, bravely, herole. When I arrived, they were all sorts of parts, and audiences for hounds and gentlemen with ally, to face the unknown perfis Hurd at it and the only man might have been shocked to see horns. And, of course it wasn't of a Greek pupper. who wasn't walking about with me in a film like Lolita,

-(Lorden Expreis Carvice). fistful of pawns was the airector Mr J. Lee Thomson,

After being installed in the chalet occupied by Mr Yul Brynner when he was here month or so back making on- other im 1 lmnew it was his chalet by all the old razor blades TENSION, Huz hidden under the bed), I drove

• INGH Balitie. Worner Laurie, 21. Cut to a

nearby ravine to find "I saw and heard all this stumthe stars. myself," writes the Los Angeles

Curious

"Audiences reazi curiously, you know. After 1 made Happy Anniversary in which a an admitted that he had had an affair with his wife before he married her, 1 go! shoal of angry letters from fans saying "How could you?""

"You think Lolita will be

Almed then?!

reporter who became head of There were lots of bangs going Unlled Press, the American, off all over the place the story, newn agency. He has travelled in care you wondered, does not the world interviewing the concern a chess championship in

"Oh, of course. And I expeel great and was in a good cross-the Egean but a near-suicidal it will be very good. They won't section of the trouble spots of attempt by a band of cam-

use an awful child for the port, the Inst half century.

mandos to silence a German you know. It will be someent buitery on a Greek Island --

• THE

who looks like Elizabeth Taylor BOUND OF THE and hunks of rock were crashing did as a child WALLS. Jacob Twersky. Jen- { all around us. kin.s 100. Artlessly nimost naively the author describes the appalling difculties he raced

as a child when he lost his sight

and had to adjust hinscit to” a

now world in more senges than

Cordite

"I remember Liz coming into the studio restaurant in Holly- wood when she was about 14, and she looked absolutely grown

up and absolutely dleby.

As the smell of cordite wafted one. The son of a Polish rabbl, | towarda 15, Stanley Baker "Lolita will look something he emigrated with his family to locked up, sniffed, and cai, like that."

Americe, where he has settled "Ah, that takes me back? down, as'n teacher,

• PAGAN SPAIN, Richard Wright Bodley Head, 18% An American Negro vidis Spain, aces far more than thạ average, tourist, and makes for anore of what he sees. A vivid, dramatic book, far-fetched In

His symboliem, but always deep

ly interesting.

He gazed for a long time at "To the war?" sald Anthony the stream which gurgled nad Quan, "No," said Baker, "to splashed its way through the my last film but, one."

* rovine,

I sat down with David Niven probably the wildest and best-

"It's plce, Isn't it?” he said. 4

liked actor in the business- You know, every time I about playing a caporal in The ckie I would like to livé lieraz ond asked -- him how he felt come to a place like this, 1 đâu.

really too convenient because

The Mortons have quite a crowd" tonight!"