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PETER

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JULY 1960.

prosents

The scene the censor cut

from 'Sons and Lovers'.

IT peped in London

last month-D. H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers." But British viewers will not see the bedroom scene pictured hère.

This

six-minute £8,000 sequence between Mary Ure, naked beneath a single clinging sheet, and a bare-chested Dear Stockwell, has been cut from the English version.

Rerson: Boldly adult dialogue. The other night censor John Trevelyan said: "Visually the scene gave us no problems, but the dialogue was rather 100 outspoken to let through in an 'A' certificate picture.

An X'? no!

"However, we agreed to pass

It intact if the company accepted en 'X' certificate.

"They decided to cut the

from sequence

the picture altogether and have the 'A certificate.

This sequence, which under- lines the curiously close uitachi-

ment Stockwell has to his

mother, was filmed in New York

The £8,000, six-minute scene the censor won't let Britons hear,

rest of

after the picture had been com- picture throughout the rest pleted in London."

A spokesman for the company the world.

Baid: "It

W09 decided Jack Cardiff, the film's direc- to add this scene afier, the for, was anxions. to have the. plédure was Anished in London, extra scene Included for Britain.. but by then Mary Ure was in He need not worry. First re- New York, in a play, so we ports indicate he has a hit, any

way. Plus a title that might have had to shoot it there."

The banned in Britain been created for the cinema box- sequence will be included in the office.

LORD ALFRED GOES.

Waiting for Marlon

PRODUCER Sam Spiegel Brando.

to begin filming his £4,000,000 "Lawrence of

Arabia" this sutumn He is already signed to play without Marlon Brando.: Clark Gable's old part in "Mutiny on the Bounty," as well as; the name part in "The Ugly American," And both these lang scheduled pictures must come before Lawrence,

Sul short of Brando's sign-

ature on a contract. Spiegel is. gambling that the Method man will sign after he sees a final script.

But

AFTER SIX years A.B.C. Studios have dropped John' Fraser. Said Fraser, who has just had the best notices of his career for his performance as Lord Alfred Douglas in "The Trials of Oscar Wilde":"They : offered to keep me on provided I didn't expect the full salary increase I was entitled to in my seventh year.” The censor, I promise you, would not pass his reply. he would play Lawrence.

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THE OTHER NEW BOOKS IN BRIEF

in Hollywood Brando, a man with a mind as well as a mumble of his own, has told friends that he is angry with Spiegel's announcement that

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Yet It Spiegel holds up his picture too long to wait for Brando, the Rank Organisation to the punch will beat him with its version of Lawrence,

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What the top means

ACT ONE. By Moss Hart. Secker and Warburg, 25s. THEATRICAL bio-

graphies are usually fairly thin reading for anyone but the stage-

• THE FRAUDS, Michael struck.

to

Moss Hart

For one thing: Scotch in the bath

contain such obvious homilles as "Never Give Up" or "Success is Success 38 Success" or "Being Poor Stinks."

Hastings W. H. Allen, 155. Sleazy, stereoscopic view of lost They tend to be collections of hopes, aimlessness, and life sweet anecdotal tit-bits and conversa- and sour on Brixton Hill From tional crumbs about Gertie, Noel .the tellymania to memories of Oscar, Jed. Binkle, Larry and

National Service in Cyprus, this other Christian-name only beside Shaw, Ibsen of Chekov,

What Mir Hart wanted out of the theatre was not a niche

is an authentic slice of today; characters which are largely but enough money to give us the but the conclusions are as cointless unless

da subway for ever, to sleep in blurred as the background is familiar with the dramatic unil noon, to hire masseure" to sharp.

● WE SAW THE SEA, John

Winton Michael Joseph, 12a, éd.

personae.

Sidestep

îné

1

relax his muscles in hotel rooms, to drink Scotch highballs in a bathtub.

"And he wanted to be a part of

The best part of this amusing, wry and discaming book is the description of how he collabo rated with George S. Kaufman on the writing of Once In A Lifetime.

The Navy as seen through the This book manages to sidestep the glitter and glamour of wrong end of the commander's the pit-fail because it is chiefly Broadway. And he made it all telescope, with every inflection about Mr Hart before he became and idiom of life afloat in 1960. a theatrical personality. Not quite as hilarious as the It is a typical American boot author's previous book We black-to-President success story Joined the Navy, but still' indis-In which the author describes how he found the crocks of gold pensable to every wardroom.

at the end of the Broadway rain THE COUNTRY GIRLS, bow by steadfastly following the Edna O'Brien, Hutchinson, 15s.viston in his starry eyes. Two Irish girls, their life in à "These annals are not for seedy town, and convent school, those unsentimental about the Excellent and highly unusual theatre," writes Mr Hart, and the weak scenes were re- blend of bawdiness and in- be certainly revels in schmaltz shaped and re-cemented to pre- up to his gold-plated collar vent the whole structure from nocence.

buttons

falling apart are relived for us. THE BOOK OF LIFE. C. 1. B. Klickin, Peter Davies, 164. The nearest thing the book with the subtle touch of a sure

story-teller.

The hotel room conferences. the frantic re-writes, the terroes of out-of-town openings, the nervous anxiety as step by step like some crumbling cathedral

A Dramatic

A smill boy's daydreams of ] has to a villain is in English personal glory involved with the director who humiliated an actor anobbery and emotion of the by gloating over the atrocious adult world. Sel In a seaside way in which he read his Unes,

One may conceivably doubt town in Kent in the Edwardian The son of a noor Adgar-maker" era. Highly readable,

In the Bronx, Moss Hart credits that all these witty conversa

tions, took place as reported here. imheory, childhood and to a

CELIA GARTH. Ohis obsession with the theatre to or that all these situations deve Bristow? Byre and Spotilde om Hou owed the lopet so demptically did!?

Hart curly a fape-recorder with him from the age of 123-belt

B Monty chunk of romanila, tense lice. I drug andet. history, with a heroine in the The fantaer world of the stage

Scarlett O'Hara tradition. In the bffered; then both an escape does it matter it, we can shar

American War of Independence from, the drah realities she plots against the Engilsh, povert

(ted-coats but black hearts to a

(man)

and wins they brave

nericans at the end of the waIE

Glamour

the enchanting and haze that хорош memory?

For

WHY ANTHONY QUINN HAS PASSED UP

£100,000 TO BE WITH OLIVIER

have

Ever tried to behave

like

Brando

DOZEN pairs of unfriendly eyes stared at mo unblinking from a dozen poker-blank faces as

I searched for a key.

I felt utterly foolish. Some- where, in the com, there was a key. And Thad, to find it.

It was not a bightmare. It was reality."

I was having my first unwill- ing lesson in the Method: Mar- lon Brando,Stanislaveky and. all that

I had gone to the Knights bridge headquarters of Method

MR ANTHONY QUINN, who seems to h

spent the last 20 years having his face punched international run by a real.cool into its present shape in a long line of Hollywood young disciple called Michael gangster films, is going to play Henry II opposite Sir Laurence Olivier on Broadway this autumn.

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Mexican born Mr Quinn b

not disputing that this 13 3

somewhat bizarro situation.

"Me an English king! I bet know that shook you I the way. I... talk ain't too eloquent or fancy, but it gets across my point usually.

"But you know something? This Henry, a well-loved guy by all accounts, he couldn't speak English either.

"Most of the time he spoke French or Latin. How d'ya like that? He couldn't speak the King's English."

Why hás Mr Quino, now

• among the warld's highest-paid actors, turned down big-money film roles to return to the stage at a fraction the tee he gets for filmk?

It's a sin

Pupil Quinn

You know, I don't live it up or anything I live in one the poorer districte in Holly- wood..

"My neighbours work in the aircraft, industry, and electronics.. Very nice people.

Joseph.

ASSURANCE

by

CYRIL

AYNSLEY

of a spotlight. It felt like fortnight.

When I recovered from my first fright I looked at my frozen audience and realised, that they,' The fact is that Mr Joseph were more scared than me. Be believes that the Method can be cause I was in the middle of my introduced into industry to make ardeal. Theirs

more assured salesmen, more comet- successful salesgirls, and better

secretaries,

was still to

When I had found the key, MẸ

Martin turned to Mr Joseph and

You might dismiss that es said: "What do you think of fanciful whim. Except for the

fact

that?"

that recently the North Western Gas Board-and what I stood there feeling a perfect could be more austere, than idiot while Mr Joseph replied: to "His Thought Square was pretty that invited Mr. Joseph their training college at Mere in good. I think he is a man of Cheshire, to preach the Method reeling but does not perhaps to its sales staff.

consider he should show it. His I was taken downstairs to Mr Thought Square is a little more Joseph's studio where young Square"

prominent than his Willing

actors train.

An audience was listening to YOUR FAULTS Mr George Martin, who is in the film business ¦ onda⠀⠀ burning

"Some of 'em don't work atzealot of Stanislavsky, and all. They're thinkers. They're Method.

He said: "I want to act with paid to sit at home, and think.

know, new ¿dens Mr Olivier. He's the greatest. You

the

He said how well

they had done with the North Western Gas Board, and went on "One of the four main principles of the Method is muscular freedom. There are several ways in which one can achieve muscular, free-

"I reckon I can learn a lot electronics. just being on the same stage" figure maybe it I'm lucky with him.

I might get confused with the thinkers and people think I'm a “Yknow, I figure with the real egg-head. I'd like to be a pictures I've turned down to thinker. It must be a nice life." doin. take this play I'm paying about £100,000 Just · for an acting lesson from Mr Olivier,

"And at that price he'd better damn well give me one." Whether or not he gets value for his £100,000 and I've who would pay Kiowh actors. that much not to act with Mr. Quinn, one of the most accom→ plished scene-stealers in the business-Mr Quinn's 'admira- tion for Sir Laurence is not Ilkely to be dimmed.

Egg-heads

What makes

Audrey happy..

THE KEY

Mr. Martin pointed:;to blackboard where three capitals TFW-were printed. And quares

We work on the basis of the three squares," he explained. "Thought, Willing, and Feeling..

"Feeling equals the emotional aspect

“Thought means control. "The Willing is nothing to do with will-power but simply the energy that one possesses.

"We have an exercise that de- velops muscular freedom." And I gathered that the way you his eyes. interise and bright, rest- act when your are trying to find.1 ed on me,

key in a room with a lot of un? sympathetic people. looking on "I think perhaps Mr Aynsley indicates to the Method, expert Finight volunteer for this demon- the approximate area of each Square. He can then work on Quote: "I don't think Audrey stration. (Hepburn) will ever retire. She's

Well, I thought desperately, if you to develop personality, really too involved, too much the North Western Gas Board Cradicate faults of posture anti love with the business of acting can do it, so can I.

gaft and generally make a better to completely throw it over. It

man of you. Or a better makes her happy and that's the Mr Martin explained that he gas salesman. O Or a better actor. important thing"-Mel Ferrer, was going to place key some Same eamest students testified where in the studio while I was how the course had changed their Sald be: "It's a sin the way husband of Audrey Hepburn,

outside. I would then be called that guy is underrated. Take

lives, Sald one boy: "Now, I “I AM neither a star, a pin-up, in and told to find itin silence read more, I'm more interested this Macbeth' picture.

not saying Meurice or a monster, but all three.

Out I went "I'm

in people, and I am no longer the devil that Evans shouldn't make it but Perhaps it is

""Right." shouted Mr Martin shy." surely if it's going to be made made me."--Brigitte Bardok

And in I came to face a frigidly And finally they brought in a Mr Olivier should be the guy

silent gathering-two men from presentable, tall, dark-haired to do it.

Hollywood director Richard industrial concerns, a man from Irishman called Kevin who did "I'm not a rich man. but if Brooks · answering Tennessee Martins Bank and half a dozen the key demonstration.

and ever he wants help in financing Williams's accusation that he unidentified young men his pictures he's welcome to butchered "Cat on a Hot Tin women. what money I've got."

Root": "He's made. £450,000 Off Which is a considerable offer, the picture so far. All I got for Mr Quinn is rated among was £23,000," the richest men in Hollywood.

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