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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY JULY

An exploration into the deriver roNERUSZ

of human behaviour..

into the quirke and capac

of emotion running off the rails ...into THE

PERHAPS the most frightening! thing about the talent of Tennessee Williams is that al- though he frequently takes dark and unsavoury themes: for his stories, they are never-

WEIRD

WORLD OF

TENNESSEE

WILLIAMS

Hunt for atom fuel the Pennines

under

URANIUM-the precious atomile fuel-may lie under the Pennines. So may tin and copper. And the deposits may be rich. To find out British scientists are going to bore a mighty hole down through the mountain range, pull out cores of rock and study them.

The work is expected (to take two years

But then, geologists-should- bave a clear picture of the base of the Pennines and be. able to pin-polzt likely mineral deposits.

5,000ft, drill

Drilling will go between 3,000 and 5,000, feet down more than

rytos

The World of Science

by Peter Fairley

lake is nearby are

three times deeper than the tal nurses, chairs spittoons fighting can be achieved deepest Pennine dead mine. drills and Instruments. Experts believe that granite may In Canada a device has been He there. And in the only other invented to allow lake-based. area of England where similar, airplanes not only to spot forest rock conditions occur-Cornwall fires, but to fight them.

all those valuable metals have been found.

The operation will be super vised by Professor K.

•

For spacemen Spacemen's dark glasses ar the latest product of the optical- Industry. They contain: filters, It consists of a scoop pipe extremely sensitive to light, and two six-foot long drums: fitted to the airplane's floats. As which automatically and rapidly shut out High The reason? the airplane takes off from the swinging from the earth's black

geologist. So important does the with. 80 gallons of water

the sun, the astronaut's eyes will Department of Scientific and

By pulling a lever the plot be unable to adjust themselves Industrial Research consider the. How has this

can upturn his load of water to fast enough to prevent damage: work, that it is backing it with quench the fire. Repid fire -(London. Express Service). £38,000 of Government money.

sure

theless compelling. You may

cannot be shirked when the sensitive hand of Williams is drawing them. and penetrating skill evolved? To really find out, the China Mail presents this painstaking at close-quarters of Williams at home and at work... as yet another of his disturbing films about to be released.

IN

.

His fears,

of a hit: 2

ap

his jealousies...do Anatomy

they explain it?

KEY WEST, Florida.

... a fear which until the heart of Tennessee. Williams there is a fear now he has kept buried and a secret, But it is a fear which dominates his thinking and his actions. He said: "It comes to me every night and again when I wake up in the morning. This fear is that I shall not be able to write when next I sit at my type-writer. All that I would be faced with would be the debris of the past.

"There is nothing I can do to get rid of this fear. Not even psy- chiatry can help. I drink to enable me to live with it.

"That is why I carry a hip

flask (of Martini) with me. drink, got because I am an, alcoholic but just to ease the dread."

Music

We were sitting in the evening

I

I

By DAVID LEWIN

"But I need friends, although "When he got an office job am difficult to live with in St Louis he took to drink as because of my moods and my a compensation for standing bouts of depression.

still la one place. It was a fatal move, for there was a clash "Even when I am waiting I between my mother, who was a on the porch of his house and

and inside the hi-A set was playing a sometimes get to thinking that puritan by background,

concerto, the good work is past and there my father, whom you might Tchaikovsky pláno

As the music swelled to its is so little time left in which call a cavalier-but not in the

'best sense." climax we were silent, and then to do more," ~Tennessee said: "There is real.

He poured me, a drink and

As he talked of his past there. sex there. Feally deep and true, took a Marlin for himself and was no happiness in his voice don't you think?"

then he went on. "But that told the analyst all this in. When the record was finished

I suppose, lo, shock I said to him: "And what psychiatrist made me face one an effort

Important truth about myself him, because at heart I am a would you do if you suddenly which I had always kept hidden. puritad too." found you could not write again? Just listen to music, The truth is I am jealous. Yes,

jealous. Of other writers. perhaps?"

"Not of the ones who write He seemed to cheer up for a.. moment and then laughed. so beautifully like Arthur Miller

"Oh, I'd stop drinking. I guess, or Jane Bowles

(an American

Brutality

I must have looked surprised

and then go into a hospital and playwright and short story and I mentioned the evil and

dry myself out. Then I'd rest,

and then I'd either go mad-

or I'd start work again.

writer)

or Carson McCullers, the horror in his writing. But who wrote Member of the he said: "I am a very moral Wedding I am jealous of person. I have remarkably few "My psychiatrist gave me people like William Inge, who villains in my plays. I show the. some advice on this. Advice I had such a success with Pienic blackness because there is s0 did not take He said: Stop and Bus. Now I face that much about,.. drinking and stop writing. But Jealousy in the open and it may obviously I can't. He also become easter." wanted me to give up some of

study

is

I

Under the ice-cap

One hundred American

the Polar ice-cap summer, with an atomic reactor.

soft will be down UNDER

Their behaviour will be

watched with unusual interest

BY THE WAY.

by

Beachcomber

HA

case. Are they diminies by scientists. For: they believe TAVING grown accustomed "every cas Now he is a wealthy man. His I thought he must be joking. that similar bases will have to to reading, from time to Or has there been some gigantic earnings since the was have couldn't see how it could be be built under the MOON'S sur-time, that St. Paul's is slowly merges of hundreds of big been £500,000. He plays and done with the censor, I had not face within 10 years, when man moving down Ladgate Hill at buskienest he rate of say, half an inch a Interlude his: Alms bring him £1,000 a met Elizabeth Taylor at the gets there.

The Groenland base has been year, I was interested in a UE man who is reported to time, although she had been in week.

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," which carved out by US Army Corps new discovery.

be keeping a lion in his Apart from the advance from garden is said to have his was my least favourite movie, of Engineers, The "portable" Then I met her in New York roactor-weighing 310 tons will Fleet Streht, St. Paul's is also own reasons for doing so. Per when "Suddenly" was finished be installed bit by bit, during "sinking and rising" As the baps it is an advertisement for She is adorable and way,"wây

the next three months. I wiplers settle more comfortably the new unbreakable; biscuit, out (a beatnik term meaning she supply power, light and best into the clay subsulthe which can be jumped on by

and make steam to purify the air doesn't behave like Auntie

18 forced

upwards." anyone who is inclined to jump in tunnels and rooms under the done Ethel). I went to see her. In

Unless the majestiepile can be on biscuits.. hospital some time later and I fee

The Corps is at present carry persuaded to make a sudden said: "Can I have, a drink from

connection, PIN A

“Certainly, if I can have one

earnest studles alimed at design site, it will burst, Even If this - Myself: That is what the man too. They don't let me drinking the moon bases. One plan is does not happen the appear said, when he changed trains at to send up prefabricated units ance, half-way down Ludgate Crewe Junction and was strand- in here not even beer for

by cargo rockets, which will be Hill, of a stunted St Paul's red for eight hours, Afg of lunch."

buried to insulate and protect with an elongated dome like Smyrna for you, and your pre- them from damage by meteor a ridiculously small bat on a rise mind! The new biscuit is

huge head, will provide archi- called Leo made Another is 10 use inflatable tects and engineers in time to A sense of urgency buts. A small atómic reactor 1s come with a pretty problem. Ideal for any remote base wonder andere some Arelle stations, up to 80 per cent of the supply effort THE photographs in The been making a lightning Investi- goes on transporting fuel oll forms of boards of direcgation into the waste of money

on Government scientific re POWER, druge on tors in session, are worth study search produces is report next ing To an unjaundiced eye, all month, it is expected, to advise

in which. Williams des-. my hip flask.”... And !! sho: sala |ing, out a series of official and sideways, movement do another - Prodnose, I don't ree: the

cribes how he wrote “Suddenly, Last Summer, the Alm pre- miered in London recently.

one

I got the idea after a trip to Europe. I saw so: many Sebastians there, and then She has a night at a restaurant near the beach I saw the scene with the hungry children. They were kept from where people were eating by a barbed wire fence and they hrast their thin arms. through and they cried for

broad..

The monalogue in which the girl (in the film she fa Elizabeth Taylor) described how, Sebastian is devoured by the children - I: wrote at one sliting.

When Sara Spiegel, the pro- ducer, sild he wanted to film it

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"I spent a ni in a Florida. There is no security for jail once, It was stifling-and-1-125-

my friends-he said they acted Tennessee Williams. The past unpleasant and I was there. As a buffer between me and was a pit, the present a strain, because I had been driving other people.

TALKING

POINTS

Totál abstinence is easier

than perfect moderation.

ST AUGUSTINE.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising yourselves.

ANON

People are either, born hosts or born guests.

MAX BEERBORM.

HOSTIDE

and the future a blank..

without a tall Hight on my car He has a day woman, an and I had no licence with me." old Negro servant from the Bahemas who tidies the house He paused as his memory went back. Then in the

and cooks a bit, and who alone middle of the night they rafted in Key West calls-him "Mister Tom." He was born Thomas a Negro house of ostitution Lanier Williams, and now only and they brought the poor girls his mother and this old servant in kicking them and beating them. It was horrible and I did seem to remember.

not have my hip flask with me.

Drink

"I think it was after that that I got my plantrophobia: I cannot bear lifts or any con- "It was a nice enough name, fined space, If we go out to Lanier a coral reef in a boat be sure it Thomas I suppose. Willems....perhaps attle is a big one because otherwise I too nice," he said to me when cannot take it."

There is another reason for asked him to take his memories back. It sounds it the harshness of his work. It might belong to a writer who ino, comes from Ins

in St Inds.

I

turns out sonnets to spring,

sense of humourites. about herself and she knows how to bargain hurð "and" be good at businem. And she is becoming a much better actress. All this torment she goes through. I guess.

NEXT WEEK:

The battle between Brando and Magnani

---{London, Exprese Serpice).

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