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SHE'S

THE CHINA MAIL, 1ONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1960.

21 YEARS AFTER THE WIZARD

The Wizard Of Oz' days

OF OZ...

Judy Garland

finds the end

of the rainbow

William Hickey

"HE'S 38 and she's not plump. She's fat and jolly.

She arrived in London recently and told me: happy in my life. My children-three of them-are marriage is just perfect. My voice is just great.'

Judy has found, with her third husband, producer Sid Luft, the end of the rainbow she followed

the fim "The Wizard of Oz"

Feathers

Judy doesn't care about a thing these days. At her Press conference she was just about the only calm person present.

$1

She's Judy Garland. "I've never been so well integrated. My

cakes.

at

Judy, the girl who onco sang “Somewhere, over the rainbow," is now a happy wife and mother.

old tine all the time-to highs, divorce papera," is on again. "À sense of humour helps a analysts Maybe it was seeing .no lows.

Proudly she talked about the lot. After the sort of smash- how mixed-up they were made stereophonic sound device he ups Sia and I had, the memories me realise how well integrated has invented for installation in hurt for years afterwards. Then, I am airplanes.

"I never lose my temper any more and I never throw tant- rums. When something hap

away and forget it

Her black dress was slit up children reserve for a plate of pens to annoy me, I just walk the back to her thighs,

Her turquoise satin bugle. beaded jacket

like was maternity coat And what she locked in her own dark hair, the made up for in a smatber- ing of black feathers at the back of her head.

For two hours she chatted, smiling the sort of smile

CHAPTER FOUR-

THE STORY SO FAR: It is Edwardian India at the turn of the century.

Tribesmen in the North West Frontier have rebelled. Captain Scott of the Indian ormy and Catherine Wyatt, governess to a young Indian prince, are trying to take the prince to safety across 300 miles of rebel-infested country, by train. An antiquated train drawn by on antediluvian engine called The Empress of India. In the party also is the wife of the Governor för the province, a Civil Servant, an arms salesman, and a journalist who Scott holds Blipect. The train emerges from a tunnel to find the line ahead is torn up. To go on they must take up a section of rail from behind, to replace the torn one in front. And it is when the train can go neither backwards nor forwards that the rebel tribesmen attack again.... NOW READ ON:

WITH the threat of another attack to spur them on, the little party that had turned itself into a platelayer's gang moved more quickly.

But the men, all unused to such heavy work, were exhausted. Gupta, on Scott's instructions, got a great can of paraffin and poured it by the side of the line. Normally the paraffin would have been used for the lamps of train carriages.

Scott elected himself as responsible for fixing the last bolts in the rail. Although the men work. ed as quickly as they could, it seemed that they would not be quick enough,

For the brown figures started Anci as they sliding down the hillside, guns Victoria

at the ready, and taking

positions

boulders.

ever got

retreated, old gruated intu life. up Slowly al Arst, but with behind convenient increasing speed the train

under way, the Maxims Bring Two bolis yet remained to be to the last and Scott using his secured, when the tribesmen, revolver with telling effect on confident that, by sheer weigh such of the rebels as dared. 10 of numbers they could

over- follow,

come resistance, opened fire.

The besieged party dashed for

Relief

elief, Scott Cupia,

cover. The women and the Laughing with

Afterwards, in her room the Savoy, she made churches and steeples with her Angers and talked to me about the new Judy Garland,

A long time "It's taken me a long time to that's get this way, but then the only thing that can help a person like me-time."

"I'm so darned calm these days, I guess I'm a pretty dull Her marriage to Sid Luft, person. I go along the same after those years of battles and

"He couldn't come with me," she said, "because he's working so hard on it.

"Our marriage won't ever go wrong again. I think I know about marriage now. It takes lot of love on both sides and a sort of ageing together.

"When you feel you are growing old together you find you can't do without each other.

when they stop hurting just a little, you find you can' gligie over the old troubles. Then you know you're winning."

My illness

"A lot happened to my think- M for five ing while I was "I don't know exactly what months at the end of last year. it was that has changed me except perhaps the fact that I'm it just happened in a sort of I didn't try to sort myself out- 38. It certainly hasa't been subconscious reflection. psychiatry.

"I had four dangerous years of that nonsense, and I've never met crazier people than my

was in crashed or carried right on-only this time I was believ- ing myself."

Judy Garland gazed out of her window at London and said what every American tourist always says: "It's just wonder- ful to be in England." Only this tourist seemed to mean it.

For most of her visit fr

the

England she will be staying at Chalfont home of "By the time I came out I Dirk Bogarde, who once said of was selling myself it didn't her, "Judy Garland is the only matter whether people liked me really enchanting woman in the or not, or whether the plane I world."

NORTH WEST FRONTIER

little boy in the coach crouched turned to congratulate low as bullets ripped and thud- the engine driver who had per- ded into the woodwork of the formed, so well under fire. coach.

His emile turned quickly to Scott tried, time and again, to concern. Gupta had been shot venture out into the open be- in the leg and arm, and was vond the cover of old Victoria obviously in some pain,

Scott explained and went on able to get out and stretch their He had turned the steam pres

to sure full on. The wheel was to bolt up tight the remaining

But Gupta would not relin- "There's a jolly little song to go legs. They were recruited bolts. Every time he did so a quigh his job, as driver. The with it all."

af tremendous get hold of any container that whirring round only concession he would make He started humming the Eton would hold water and help teed speed, was to show Captain Scott how Boating Song and then burst the thirsty Victoria. to manipulate the controls. -out with some of the words:

The water pump was operated

ABOVE: Catherine (LAUREN BACALL) raises her rifle to shoot Van Leyden (HERBERT LOM) as he prepares to kill Scott (KENNETH MORE).

bullet whined over his head.

Command

ed to carry water.

was

**

Grimly

↓

peace and even told Van Ley- "Come on,"

called Scolt

den that he had a lot of friends urgently. "Stretch out your

"Oh no you don't," Scott was really angry. "I not letting you go. You're a

Moslem, in Haserabad who were of arms-stretch them out.” "mixed blood;"

Still Van Leyden held the boy Boen't you? The men who want back,

10 kill this Uitle boy are Moslem. You're under arrest."

I think Mr Peters was wrong, very wrong, to say the things he said to you," Bridle told Van Leyden

It is of no importance to me.

I do not miud."

"You looked as though you minded. You still do."

Van Leuden smiled bitterly "It abean't matter, I have pinoer. I am not ashamed to be myself."

Steady

+

With Bridle to hold him steady, Scott reached danger ously over the gap and grabbed Kishan, swinging him towards him..

The boy lost his balorice and would have fallen had not Scott, sweating and straining held him and swaing him to safely.

Sentt did not say anything has until Van Leyden

was across. Then he rounded on the jour- nalist.

"I don't think power anything to do with it."

Van Leyden regarded Bridie with bitter pily. "Oh yes it has. It is vital. If people know that you can hit back they are careful how they treat you"

It was on his note that the trak reached Kupre Bridge-a momentous phase in the jour- ney, as it turned out.

Kupra was a girder bridge spanning a deep gorge. Brick- built pillars carried the girder steel work.

Could it?

The dibp to the fast-flowing river below was terrifying: And in the centre of this bridge an attempt had been made to blow up the bridge.

A gap about six to nine feet had been blown in the steel- work. But the rails were - tact. It was the supporting girders that had suffered

The question was: Could the train get across this weakerled

who made ⚫gap? Scott,

the examination, was determined to try. It was the only thing he could.do.

But he ordered all the pas- out of the sengers and grew tram and posted guards at either end of the bridge in case of a surprise attack.

Each member of the party in furn would have to do a tight-

So the train plifted gamely wing, swing together, with by an enormous spoked wheel, The horsemen and other re-

Van Leyden's face was work rope walk on the rail across the bels, at a cry of command from on, leaving the hills behind. Il your bodies between your knees, driven by steams. Despite this ing. His hand tightened on the she missed a step, of a fall to gap with the prospect, it he or "Now all together he called was not long before water boy's shoulder. He began to the dizzy depths. their leader, came sliding and entered a wide, lonely rock-

stresa plain

to those listening in the coach. slithering down the slopes of the

Peters was the first to go over hill in a frontal attack.

To Scott watching the digis Some of the others joined in the was gushing out of the broken, push the bay nearer to the

Wheel

With aid from Scott he made Kishan Come away from the walk and helped others to of the old engine, they seemed catchy chorus until Van Ley: pipe and all hands were call- Bridie, Peters and Van Leyden to be the only people on earth. don, still not used to the F- made for the cover of the train. But Scott nusions. They fish, was shovering and staring Leyden. He scerned to have it was Scott, standing grimly in 8 arose,

All responded--except - Van that wheel You'll get hurt." The guards manning the Maxim were by no means beyond the and wondering if they had a vanished. Nor

Lady Windham, then Bridle, Prince the doorway of the little power guns opened fired with a steady, range of the tribesmen.

gone mad.

· Kishan --lo... · be- stoical calm that was an in- The locomotive was in need

seo Even house: His eyes were not chess Catherine tried to Catherine for once failed to nole Kishan, but on Van Leyden. Journey. But He was frighten- persuade Kishan to make the spiration in itself.

Deserted of more: water. Gupta, who

that Price Kishan was missing. But he held his fegue for the Suddenly Gupta, grabbing a new everything, said that the And indeed it must havé ap- The two of them were in the time being

Pedant das shovel, got a load of live, glow nearest elation was ing coals from the engine fur-and was 20 miles away,

Jamahara peared a curious sight to any little power house of the water Everyone climbed on board on-looker that tiny train with pump. Kisban, with a length the late again, it moved on nate and scattered them beside He was suffering from heat, the creaking, leaking locomo of wood, was poking at the once more. The Jamara in the track, where he had poured, for the train was not going fast tive, paffing valiantly through great revolving flywheel At cident was the prelude to an into a gully, a drum of paraffin. enough to create a breeze. To the great, lonely, rocky plain times he was dangerously class, other. Van Leyden admitted

The effect was magical. A shade the wounds, Lady Wind with most of its occupants But Van Leyden did not hold that he was a Modena fan wall of stolty red flame rose, a ham sent out her parasol, singing away for dear life him back. On the contrary, of "mired blood.": solki sentiral of fire hitting dainty, gay afer, and Scolt, The leftghter, died when they the man, his face working with "A half-ce you all de Van Layden." the rebel guernen off from the grimming as broadly as Guptes came to Janitara. The station fanatical excitement, was dry spies so much But I am not And it was then that Yan

opened it for hiiri.

hat... been sacked, * phlaped "ing the child bearer and neater, auksmed," Ven Leyten said Leyden diy Hevealed his time The wall faced along the "Now, you look as though you Sumed. It was a tatter of When Price Keğer died of stienly. He glared at the rest colours. Instead of holding track, and names marched for- afe at Henley Regatta," he told - chance whether they would be the game of “terging" with the af wärd on the advancing tribes, Gusta,

able to make the water pump, wheel, Van Leyden got inniher men untit, screaming and panic. The Indian's white teeth work

drukkyajnd, knselling down, with sdclicen, the men hetzeated from Bashed. - "What is Henley - Res hot at least the place was dies his hard? on the ho? E Back

gatta, sahib

ried. - All the panengers were urged him to renew the game.

trak

To kill his fright, Catherine Lack. It's quite easy. I'll show you If I can do it, I know you can."

she walker conndently across. then Scott went, across to re- ceive. Kishan from the arms of

Kishdir): at arm's lángth, the

"Fid, piedodd a' quarry!: Holleby held him to Tay Booth Feldek, the arms salesman. Laching out from the other Bridle, in his gentle, dour-Hall, just could use bhi hold of Hous" way) tried to make the thy boy,

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"What the hell do you think you're up to?"

11

"Please .... "You held that boy short," "You nearly dropped him." "That's how you wanted it to look. And what was going on in that pump house with ruddy great fy-wheel?"

Scott held the other by his wrists. Van Leyden tried to

break free.

that

"You do that, Captalii Scott, and I'll put you in every news- paper from Calculla to Berlin." "That's a risk I've got to

Lake."

Scott thrust Van Leyden Into the aims of the guards who had been sufrithoned. He turned als attention to the job of getting Victoria and the carriages she pulled across the gap in the bridge.

If the rails stood the weight, his troubles were over-per haps, 7 the weakened bridge would not stand the weight when he and Gupta and Vic- toria would go hurtling dow ...down...down into the

gorge...

TOMORROW:

A HOPE

IN HELL

MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*

*CLOG; ANYTHING THAT HINDERS MOTION

OR RENDERS DIFFICULT.

Patty Applely

Do make sllowance for the errors of others; 80.00% -

is perfect.

DO keep your windscreen--and your cón Do make your intentions clear: mal

⚫indicators work and that they are cance