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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY

Roderick Mann

Mr. Burton heads for Broadway

SHE'S HEADING SOUTH

TO DATE the attractive Miss Beth Roran u better known for her social activities than her screen career. Now she hopes all this will be changed. This week she leaves for Spain to play a big part in a new film Mysterious Island.

BEST SELLERS

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GENEVA,

RICHARD BURTON was waiting for me at the air- port, and we drove out along the sparkling lakeside toward his house at Celigny, 15 minutes from Geneva.

It was one of those warm, still, Swiss afternoons, guaranteed to disperse any imported, city-bred tensions. A mantle of quiet lay upon everything from the sky- tipped mountains to our right to the while swans gracing the pebbled lakeshore,

We stopped for a pre-dinner drink on the terrace of a restaurant, and watched the Lausanne steamer ploughing its way through the middle of the lake. It was a good place to be, and it is a scene which Burton, the talented actor from the Welsh valleys, finds constantly refreshing.

time.

NEVIL SHETE

SINGING LESSONS?

I JUST PRACTISE IN. THE BATH.

.....

Know Your Dog

By HM. HOWELL

WITH the Great Dane, last we

fifteenth "most popular" dog

Kennel Club Registrations are

Cour local

These were in orger. Aisundi Tha Miniature Poodle was by | Cocker, reke, – Smooth Jauna, får the largest entry. In Cruis |Boxer, MinisLUTO repaid, "Wire--show, an it was in total Registra« red-Fox Terrier, Bun Terrier, tions. For the year 1950, there Caille, Scottio,. Mainier, Smectn-... were 22,000 of them. They [Fox, Irish Setter, American were" followed bỳ, approx „9,000

„Locker tireat Dane.

Pembroke Gorgla-7,000 each of And how does this compare Alsatiaña and Boxer and also with that glass of fashion and, the recently manufactured Toy mould of form of the canine Poodle (that is under 11′′ Words, Crutis Dog Show, and the height),

TIONE

London Kennel Club registra・・ Thon as sixth most popular ¡we come to the old favourite, For those of you interested in Cocker Spaniels, then "Labrador a well-bred good-looking dog. Retrievers, than: Pokingase, then “ the following indications in the amooth-haired Dachshunds and. | trend of popularity, may ne of with still over ten" "roglstræ," interest. We take our facts from tions every day of the year, the a publication the Kennel Gazette Yorkshire Terrier..

started in 1873 by the Kennel It is interesting to note: that Club, London and from a country of these 10 breede.", the admittedly the arbiter of dog Miniature Poodle, Coral, Toy breeding the British Isles, Foodie Cocker, Poke, Dach whosa mrat, dog show was in shund, Yorkshire Terrien are 1859.

are all small or comparatively, email'dogs and only the guards,

BIGGEST

In 1948, the 50 years old fix- Alsatian and Boxer, and the; ture by Grutte, was on his death, gentle gundog, the Labrador Pos taken over by the Kennel Club present the larger size doga and is still the biggest dog show only three out of 10.. in the world, which provides 50,000-spectators with « view, if

SAME YEAR

In 1947--the same year that newly born Hongkong Club, Inheriting the

they have the time in the two days to see 7,209 exhibits——aili They offered me the part of of some distinction in their the Christin King of Kings, I hundred odd different breeds. Kennel any event in the script I saw where brain not But it is one which he will shortly be leaving for a long milda't do it laugh and in There are also obedience trials mantle of Shanghai's China necessarily Kennel Club, was affiliated with Jesus had impossible lines like: beauty counts.

The Kennel. Club London, thị A prophet without honour

The Supreme Champion was, Committee there first considered you may think, somewhat sult. scheme for the encouragement ably, the tallest of all breeds of the export of dogs, which has an Irish Wolf Hound, named grown steadily ever since. |Bulhamstead Merman standing

Films aren't what's exciting, really a challenge to me any more. You don't have to be able to act to be a film star.

Stimulating

For soon he is due in New "It's a challenge. That's in his own home-town."" York to begin rehearsals for the blg new Lemer and Loewe musical Camelot-which will almost certainly do for him what their other musical My Fair Lady, did for Rex Harrison,

Violent

"I asked them if 1 should start taking singing lessons," Burton sald. "But they said No. All they want is an average bath time ten duur, the every time you take a bath, they said. So that's what I'm doing,

"You know, until this-offer came along I never realised what huge money a big Broad- way musical pays. I shall be getting £3,000 a week-which is even more than Rex got...

ALEC

:

--and the techniques that bring sure-fire success

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOL- ROOM, By Nevil Shute. Heinemann. 165.

THE last novel of the

two of his main pre- occupations.

by RICHARD LISTER

belong to Keith's adopted niece consultant's fee. But little things

to recover for her,

He knows where they were

seal them in.

No joke

المدر

centre of his weh trying to catch infiltrating Communists and the local nationalist plotters.

a

| Chihuahua.

RUNNER-UP

The Runner-up

to the Wolf..

the Poodles (Miniature, and : Toy), followed, as might already He queased by Peke-docker Yorkshire - Laboräder. —— Corgl. So there is your Populer Deg picture in the your of grace 1980. Once the Collle reloned supreme- once the Fox Terrier and once the Cooker aver a long period, and how the MiniR- ture Poodie, with the Toy variety. close behind."

Amongst the 4,500 pedigres $2" at the shoulder and weighing

"Look at Victor Mature. I once

"What happened to that tele- about 180 lbs somewhat leas in dogs exported all over the world last year (but chiefly to North vision play you came to London weight than a Great Dane, a heard him being briefed by

And the Continent) America to film-John Mastiff, a St Bernard or New; famous director. Vic, the direc- last month for said, you've just found your Osborne's A Subject of Scandal foundland the last of which can more or less the same order pra- tip the calma at. 250 lbs. a valls, with roughly a third being wife scalped by Indians and and Concern?" your children dead. Let me see "There's no news of it." hundred times heavier than that written on your face? Burton said. "Maybe it won't "Vie Mature looked at him, be shown. It may prove loo steadily. Listen, he said. I much for television audiences.

Iwee thing, called Pixletown got the expressions-looking You know, I considered Osborne wound on the other hand was a right foolish ou do agreed to do it without even Serenade of Hadleigh faty

and looking such an important writer straight ahead.

reading the play. And I'm glad little Pomeranian standing about -I did I was tremendously 8 in and, only 4 lbs in weight.

How on earth adludicats, be stimulating.

tween these two?-Well it's the "But I think Osborne's run same old story. How clone done out of things to be angry about each, come to the model, of per- now. These days he seems to fection in the mind's eye of the be more interested in moving judges two of them with an Bogie. reacted rather vio- ids physique. He lifts weights umpire standing by, should there lently to this but I asked every day, you know." Wider what he meant. It was dark. We finished our

he #1

you want???!

Burton chuckled to himself. "Once I was at a Hollywood party with Humphrey Bogari and we heard Billy Wilder," the director, say: Actors are a lot of useless bums."

| be disagreement.

Don't forget that during the two days, two other photograph Gregory Peck's face meal and Burton drove me down previous from four diferent positions to my hotel by the quiet lake, judges have decided on the Best of respectivə "Greape "and also and put them into a fim dny-

Felates me" he Switzerland

another single Judge obviously where I want and make them said. "You know, I used to an expert in ono particular mean anything I choose..

Impossible

Hit

fight people all the time.

breed, has chosen the respective them, 1. mean. If anyone made shining example of that breed. fun of my Welsh accent or any Our own local Kennel Club's thing, I'd slug them once Hon. Vice-President Mrs J. W. -nearly killed a man in the

Anderson was this year invited "Well, I hated to admit it, but R.A.F.”

to go to Grufts from Genade 'and he was right.

He was silent for a moment. Judge the Basenji breed. Mre "Deep down Bogle also knew The only sound was the purring Anderson, is also a recognized acting ally didn't for engine at the Cadise

Stars

today aren't suppose, now that I'm all-round Judge, and we hear actors, he'd growi They're financially secure, I'm a bit like has expressed her willingness to came to Hongkong next Spring superannuated gas-station attens John Osborne," he said "Not and judge our own local Show. dants. Drive on to any lot and angry any more. Funny,

We shall assuredly be looking yell "Fill her up", and every really.

forward to such an occasion, leading man in the place instinc tively reaches for a petrol hose.'

"Look at Rock Hudson. When The first started he had a scene to do in which he had to shake harks and say "How do you do?'

But

"Believe it or not he found it quite impossible to do the two things together. eventually, after dozens takes, he got it right. public didn't mow the differ- ance. Rock's a big star now. Sa who needs actors?"

Ridiculous

of The

а

Give the offfeld a younger and which, as trustee, he means like that are not going to spoil, security officer with an in we drove up to his house to

Keith Stewart,

.feriority complex and let him late Nevil Shute is

He returns to his frugal life in get blackmailed. In passing inspect this vineyard, which pro-

to a mysterious thousand bottles a year.

duces enough,grapes for an adventure story hidden on the boat. for he Ealing, busying himself with his information which nicely combines helped his brother-in-law to models, his articles and looking Indian.:

after the interests of his adopted

Then, as it got dark, we dined Give all the husbands unsatie- niece. A little more loosely con- filed wives with too much time or at the nearby inn on a dish new structed than usual but plausible their hands, and give all the to me Fondue a la Bourguig and highly readable.

wives unratisfactory husbands not, in which tiny squares of they really love in spite of their raw best are served on a plate beside long sticks so that you drinking too much.

yourself in a may try them Now give a good stir and bring sma siiver pot of bubbling oil. to the boil with.

"What's the nationalist

most important plot in the near oling, and you thing you've learned from the

pictures you've have enough threads to keep you going for a packed 500 cages,st this Burton said "If

Just you're going to make rubbish. be the best rubbish in it, I keep felling Larry Olivier that,

Shule liked nothing more

than to place the ordinary little

But It's no joke for a little

Superficial

man in a situation which brought man who's never poked his nose. out his latent talents and güls; outside Ealing to get so far and it technology came into it across the world with practically FUEL FOR THE FLAME. By too, so much the better,

no money. And this is where his Alec Waugh. Cassell, 181,

Ordinary

His now hero, Keith Slowart,

name comes in.

Because of it, a civil air-line Tulis easy, readable popular

passage on B

gives him

noval is on on equivalent freighter airplane to Honolulu, level of competence, compulsive, is the most ordinary of ordinary leaving him still some two and ness and, of course, superficiality

a half thousand miles short of to say, Emergency Ward Ten.

men with house on mortgage

in Ealing, a nice dumpy wife and his destination.

life.

all but.

A

Bad men

AMIGO, By W. R

Its Do

good playing Iminor role in

en epic like Take a working place which MI

Spartacus, which he's just done. no knowledge or experience of But in the harbour he runs brings together an asorted, Burnett, Macdonald. 12r. Larry had a dressing-room half

ross a lone hand with a self collection of easily reco

recognisable

the size of Tony Curtis's on that Ahm. And he got about half bullt schooner who offers to take types and then interleave each. But Keith has his own small him alone as crow. And the little of their stories chapter by

Curls's money car TALE of the American world of expertise,

AAAAAAN DE South-West after the pacie model man in a tennis shirt and braces; chapter.

ridiculous, engineering, and he has turned doggedly sits it out.

got to wanic Jo. Holly- his hobby into his living.” He

Here we have a small island fiction Indians whose wood.

1 go there makes his models in the base Meanwhile, his predicament in Borneo region, a kingdom, place as pubile enemies was taken demand two Cadillacs one for ment and describes them in has got out among the mininture but a British protectorate with by the bad men, my family and the best detailido sa trade Journal mechanic fans who happen to a resident povernor and pro Bergeant Desportes, dedicated dressing-room at the studio.

#include a couple of American important ofläc£4.

soldier and right hand man of Of course I'm not worth it, but millionaire industrialists.

"Have anys MOTH ambitious to realise that he is When at last he gets to eniti Give the semble, decent the Officer Commanding tatoes It Impresses them brilliant at this work; and that Keith Stewart, of 56 Somerset governors rather loosa little under his wing an attractive

youngster he has been able to your rescue from a near-fatal acci through it his in a well-known Road, Ealing finds a private step-daughter and a handg

"who, Idst a foot in Cyprus

dent, a tough resourceful young man with a bad history

Miniature Mechanics...

He is too modest and runs

and admired name all over the yacht put at his disposal. world. This will help him a lot in his great adverture.

Give the old leing un Etc From that base his business is educated crown pance, bring eally disposed of, the diamonds back an English girl to be The adventure consists in recovered and beat backs to bride, having to get to a chain of England nestly packed in the

gamp of a boat engine, and to - Give the manager of the har complete his latinmen her anda, delis: a young and afte

aluself being consulted by his second wife and andres on the detalle of en daghter, more rem cgineering project inyblying the other,

and brother been hipwrecked and drowned trying to "go" round the world

board they had E25,000

No one could be more surypción

of diamonds which now shan, ha to receiva, mswżacking:

moment Bid Looks Hice

Goiccome

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