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THE CHINA MAIL, ` SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1980.

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

JAK AND

ANNE SHARPLEY

Get mixed up with the Method pupils

EEMS if you turn up your coat

SEE

a

collar in winter you must be English. And have an undeve- loped personality. And not to be developed is hardly to exist at all, when you take into account world dominated by such deve- loped personalities as Nikita Khrushchev. and Jayne Mansfield. Actors, too, like Brando and their per- Monroe, have developed sonalities to

they a point where don't really have to speak. In fact, thanks to the Method School of able to turn ucting, Brando is now

into a cash register and Monroe into u wustepaper basket.

·

They're branching out

Anxious not to cunfine this useful knowledge

the to uctors,

London branch of Method acting have now begun courses for business people. This will not enable them to turn

into cash registers and

wastepaper baskets, how panded legs from the ceiling as ever much they would part of the decor perhaps like to--but it will get rid they were some of the students. There Wad a Borzoi called

of those shifty national Misely. who was perhaps also

characteristics like

Lurn- one of the pupils.

ing up coat collars, We were met by Mr GooTEC avoiding other people's Martin, who established an awful to and embarrassing device known eyes and not wanting

#s Eye Contact with us at once, unother talk to one

on

This means simply gazing into trains.

the eyes of whoever you're talk- ing to all the time.

Jak, with his usual inadequate grasp of the situation said he would like to become a Brando cash register so long of he could keep the takings,

in

Mr Martin's great dark eyes hung like a velvet curtain front of us--and I began to long for the good old English habit of never looking at anyone for more than a second.

He also mumbled something about my personality needing shrinking, not developing, when asked to repeat the we were to have developed per romark sald he was practising trying to talk with his lower lip

chest stuck to the T-shirt like Brando,

but us. and absolutely necessary it

sonalities,

So smart

ان

his

The Method School we found was in a basement-one of those places so smart that they have, reverted to

nature and SLS-

"This." said Mr

Well, how do

"What aboul the Irish?" inquired Juk, whose mother was

u Murphy. No amount of rain had ever stopped the saticing.

His theory

do you turn up

your coat collar?

We were led before, the class,

to (whom the course was costing Two guineas an evening) and told to talk away at one another

Mr Martin, anxious not lose the

foundation on which his theory was bused,

ぢら学ぶ

Sul it was sincere, he told continued smoothly that in the simultaneously without losing the Jak and I soon tumbled to it sunny countries they expanded. read of what we were saying. characteristic gesture that all we had to do was not Their

what the other was was one of taking the coat off. listen 4D They were open and talkative, saying. Which is what happens In fact, Suré, talkative like a Texan, I all the time anyway. thought, or those totally dumb it was a good opportunity to say remembered a few things we wanted to say widte

1 men

cilmates the before witnesses. meeting in hot world over.

Martin, locking his arms light over bis chest, **is the characteristic gesture of the English. We make up This gesture when we turn our coat collars, This is an inhibitive taclor, It is because the climate is foggy, rainy and damo."

It was the rain and the damp that kept us cramped up and unable to talk, he said.

P

Mr Martin, sensing that our 100 were wundering thoughts far afiek, suggested a iration exercise.

concen-

A sad book-but how

many writers would be

as frank as this?

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

The Natural Bent. By Lionel Fielden, Deutsch,

LION

IONEL FIELDEN looks back on a life which, although by no means idle, has largely gone to waste. Sighing with self-pity, he traces his own erratic course from upbringing by a fox-hunting father, through Eton the point and two wars (with a spell of broadcasting in between) to where, having inherited a respectable sum he flees to Italy in a magni- ficent Rolls-Royce.

He is not satisfied with him- "Next morning I ran beside work, with endless frustrations. self and not in the least asham- her departing train and my heart

ed of himself. He wears fallure shouted that I could

with a kind of panache,

not lose

her. But I did."

He has that disdain which

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sometimes mistaken for

In his 30s, after some daunting

charm, that narrow prejudice experiences. Flelden gave (for instanco, against subur. Bek allogther. It has left ban accents, provincial manners, vacuum.

physical ugliness) which is a

F

Too tense

-

Mr Marlin agreed we were very-er good at this exercise except that the way we kept clunching our fists showed we were Under Tension.

We needed more Muscular Freedom. Jak said that if this was an invitation for me to mi him as well as shout him down he'd ruther

cash play at registers.

It was decided that Georgey and Pauline, two beautiful blondes, should show us how they did this exercise.

They began to shake their wrisis (for relaxallon) and take deep breaths, (to get their adrenalin going) and ctreled round one another, shouting. thear arms waving and eyes flashing.

Jak observed that their Muscular Freedom was certainly helping to develop his Concen- tration, Imagination, Initiative, Observation, Sixth

Emotional Range and Energy— which are some of the qualities that the course promises its students.

Next came a Gibberish exer- cise, This was to develop ex- pression-without the power of

speech,

A nice, typical Anglo-Saxon indy with all the reticence of her type was made to stand up and speak in no known language "Karim ma tala da lala cool" she uttered-aweetly, slowly and totally inexpresalvely.

Compliment

It was enormously worth doing, Fielden logged away at it under the spell of the Norwegian

"Wonderful," said Mr Martin, day he gut."I want to pay you glant until one

the very of saying I It was before the expulsion of sincere compliment Up

sex from his life and he had wouldn't know you for the same fallen heavily in love with a person who came in here at the blonde young American with {beginning of the course." large blue eyes and pink checks, Now he was going to show us When the loved one decided to just bow this exercise could be however, Would you leave for America, Fielden went done

1 show us. Kovin pleas0," 100.

A tall, loquscious-looking-Irish so frank may boy alopped into the centre of A confessioni

erillelam, but the Boor. "Jayorlasay boasting that he is a homo physical, coward. But when he serve le daarm sexual.

should it? At least we are wila?" he began easily, delayed marching off to the

Five minutes later he was still Was it the result of mixing, as 1814-18 war until candid friends entitled to ask why it Flolden a boy, with svonen older than and white feathers pushed him did not take himself seriously, at it, aut Jak said the problem

anyune else should do so? himself whom he worshipped to the barrackt gates, it was not Wee it, perhaps, congenital? He funk that had kept him back. does not know, and charming Dr

tions and lofty Ideals but hardly

kind of vulgarity.

dle is capable of noble aspira-

To America

Ho

of pursuing them with tenacity.

claims--although

without He claims, too, that he is a

ye

with Irishmen was not getting He squeezed past the shaggy them to talk but stopping them, He sold quietly, of course, eyebrows of Sir John Reith and

It was rather that he resented joined the BBC, rising to become as he know that Irishmen only

Jung at Zurich could only talk, the interference with his private Director of General Talks, But ever stoppet hiring to start

doutsfully, of margery,

His decision

Dhe warm day in Venice

existence.

the growing power of BBC lighting and Kevin was as tail bureaucracy Irked him and he as a Dublin lamp-post,

To describe his life as that of left to create the All-Indla Our personalities, doomed to

a rebel would therefore, be Radio, inaccurate. Rebellion implies a

stay undeveloped

Beever

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scoma, "were beginning to wilt and we turned for home.

Remember, personality brings

parting shot,

purpose, a conviction. But what Alas, at New Delhi there was soome to have Impelled Fielden more bureaucracy and worm. In decided that his love for Anh, to his various oota of rejection 1040 he returned to the BBC happiness," said Mr Mortin, os a

and now quarrels, was without any sexual bias. His heart sabit when Anzald, Was petulance.. S

This is a sad book. the pro- stretching herself in the sun de He was bought up by the duct of a sour after-taste of ile the wall of the Ataerial Gar- idealism of. Nabee laying to and of a genuine, it uncritical, Greek refugees dens: What I most wont is to pave Elve a dozen children;"

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from talent for writing, formbre. It was; heart-bresiding, (London_xpress service),

It was cold and wet outside. Jak pod I turned up the coliere of our coats in our maddening, Inhibited Begiak wiary" Martia looked diappointed.

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