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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1960.

Algebra of a Joke

TAKE THIS FORMULA BY FREUD...

Joke

Work

ALLUSIÓN:

A woman is like

an umbrella-

sooner or later

one takes a cab

funny-men). Incongruity

LET us be very serious

119

and consider Jokes. Let

ponder "The of Jokes," Technique "The Purposes of Jokes," and "Jokes as a Social Process."

}

Mechanism

That

of Pleasure

the

horse

laugh

with

That was no lady,

FREUD

Thus her story is fittingly told

who grows up in Maycomb Perhaps the truth is that in County, Alabama, and shows us

Would you

expect

Yul Brynner to be Flynn's successor?

RON

by THOMAS WISEMAN

DONALD NEAME-who has just finished directing Alee Guinness in Tunes of Glory-has decided to desert the cultural path himself and go into the big-screen, spectacular business. He is planning to re-make the pirate film Captain Blood-one of the films that helped to make Errol Flynn Hollywood's leading swashbuckler.

Yul Brynner-whom one would not immediately think of as Flynn's natural successor-will play. Captain Blood.

Explaining his change DI direction, Mr Neame (ather past prestige picturus include Brief Encounter, Oliver Twist and This Happy Breed) sald: "I feel that I have been in the art house too long,

"I would like to get into this

shows and big budgets.

(his But thore la a massive was that lady I saw you

about Freud last night? trousers don't ft) and geeldent humourlessnes (slipping on the banann sidn), himself and his idiom. To crack Mr Freud, that was your wife. by an eight-year-old giri, Dill,

As might be expected the man a joke is to him "oke-work," who laid so much emphasis on and there is much talk about

of pleasure the last resort Jokes dety rallon- the town through a child's eyes,big screen business with rood of "the mechanism the sexual conditioning character Is revealing about in connection with jokes, which al analysis, and the joke ex- prejudiced so differently from

never funny. The adults." amutty jokes, painting out how puzzled me exceedingly until it plained is

joko must capacity to make and see

Her father is n to me that he

tall, laconic, they induce cheerfulness and occurred

is, like the moral law within hickory-hewn

the lawyer, оп depend

the element of mean a laugh.

and the sluss above, among the Linesin-like figure beloved of relished outrage. Max Miller,

Rublime Inexplicables.

the American imagination, and for example, is funny because

here for once as right_as_a_ we expect him to go too far.

character as he is in court.

The Jokes quoted are analyzed—zo literally that-- began to think it would scarcely Also it is fascinating to Rnd have mattered to his method I

denying children an he got them all mixed up.

child, appreciation of jokes: a according to Freud. laughs at Have you taken a bath? Well,

fall how much can

A fly drink? an aduli pretending down only from u feeling of Walter, there's a fly in my soupi Oh, is there one missing? Who superiority.

-Ixius-in-fret_wzado, resolute and unsmiling, through the new translation of Sigmund Freud's JOKES AND THEIR RELA- TION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS Freud (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 25a),

joke You thought simply something you laugh at A funny thing must have hap pened to you on the way to the psychiatrist.

a

"WILD

The other. Deep South

For

Touching

the

TBIRE by Harper Lee comle, touching incidents of

Humour Make more room the American

1

It is a fascinating subject. Why are certain acts, words, and people funny? Why do some laugh at one thing, others

at something else, and some not

atoll, like the bid story of the French nobelman asked if he who had a sense of humour, replied: "No, I never zo Ha Ho"

person (Definition of a without a

scrise

humour: somebody who does not lough at your jokes.)

of

As pioneer of the idea of the subconscious mind, Freud was concerned to analyse the nature of jokes in depth.

for

O'Casey

SEAN O'CASEY. By David Krause, MacGibbon and Keo,

30s.

OWN in Devon, where he has lived in exile for over

Dwyers from his Trish homeland and his kingdom of the stage, one of the greatest living dramatists--Sean O'Casey-has just reached his eightieth birthday.

anger

The lonely old Green Crow, me remembered poverty, illness and he calls himself, has been landed injustice with a blazing He decided that in particular with tipservice in recent weeks, and pity combined that bu

Yet it is a mockery to pay for ever in his best plays, and they are based on the principles homage to a dramatist without in bits of his marathon auto- of Condensation: Rothschild stage, and O'Casey's work is biography. talked with me famillionairely.

scandalously neglected by the

never

O'Casey's reputation rests And of Dispinterment of words: theatre.

upon the three minor master- "What would a cannibal be

funny and None of his plays is on view pieces-wonderfully who had eaten his father and

And in Britain now." Most people deeply moving theatre-written mother?" "An orphan,"

he turned vintage in the 1820s before scen of Indirect Representation, or have

back on Ireland: The allusion: "A woman is ke an O'Casey (worth a dozen Behän his

Shadow of u Gunman, The umbrella-sooner or later one extravaganzas).

Plough and the Stars, and Juno and the Paycock.

None

takes a cab."

gag-book

But now

that

this

of his later pinys, it those tragi-

HIS ANGER (Freud, I should warn you,

I hope was working from a that must have been discarded acute and comprehensive study seems can match in the time of Vic Oliver's by a young American grille may comedies. Yet how can we be some of our sure, until we've had the chance grandfather. "Have you taken a help to prod bath?" "No, is there one miss theatrical tastemakers to make to see them for oursives? Like ing?" How we all laughed.) room for O'Casey or the stage many great men of the theatre,

where he belongs.

O'Casey must be seeri and heard in action, not judged in cold print.

Smutty

.

When he began to write, in his early forties, he was work- ing as a labourer on a Dublin

There is also deep Germanic road-gong. analysts, of the Jokes Innocent and Tendentious, the Double- A bitter product of the dty Entendre, the factors of slums (eight of his brothers and short sisters died in infancy), he exaggeration (tal! and

How about it, Messrs Miles,

Devine and Littlewood?,

Richard Findlater

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Bike Captain. story vonture half-way through

Blood that it has, to be like so TO KILL A MOCKING tenor of the story changes-the

with many oples that no one any intelligence would want to (Heinemann, 168.): Here is Dill's growing-up become over-

see. They can be done with a marvellous first novel, set shadowed by a case in which a

style and quality, I would ke Negro is accused of raping in

Decy a wite girl.

100 create some character." South.

Dill's father

Mr Then

Neame added defence, and there is a breath-hastily! "Of course, That beautiful and troubled lessly exciting scene in which really be too serious," area has inspired much black the child's innocent and uncom- writing by white cuthors, trug prehending intervention helps Erskine "Caldwell and God's little belly-achors to Tennesses The verdict goes against the Williams moving among the him fend off a lynching Mississippi mud like a death- Negro, though he is plainly wish beetle, ',

innocent,

the trial Seeing through Dill's eyes in the public the Harper Lee nees gallery, we realise that in fact differently. For her if it is the White South that lon South there is often funny, many triali no less than the unfor- people are kindly, and tragedy tunate man, Tom who later is is more a matter of prejudice shot escaping from prison.

deep-

A rich and remarkable novel, and Indifference than rooted sinfulness.

-(London Expresa Service.)

Miss

Lank

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No adventure. No No nostalgia. No pictures. plat. No xeT.

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And it was written by a men

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Papers help

Mr

JULIA LOCKWOOD, plays the part of a rather wicked She appears young lady in her new film No Kidding (above). to be following in the footsteps of her famous mother, Margaret Lockwood, who was the wicked lady of British Alma during the forties. For Julla, however, there may be a change interested in her, Columbia of direction. Hollywood are have offered Juila a long-term contract.

I should add that Mr Shen- Needless to say Hollywood is son has been preparing the planning more Verne pictures. Alm for some months.

planning

They are also

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Excited

Producer Walter Shenson- who made the, Peler Sellers picture The Mouse That Roar ed-is to make a film over here USAN Hayward is the latest.

star who is Hollywood called A Matter of WHO.

America thinking of quitting In the film Noel Coward will to live in Europe-but not m

Jack Hawkids” has long re- appear as a Ministry of Health the tax paradise of Switzerland. sisted the lure of Hollywood. official (the WHO of the tile she favours Ireland. refers to the World Health Organisation).

"We love it" says Miss Hay- Now he is to make his first picture there. The Spinster, with ward enthusiastically.

He is excited about the

The story concerns the arrival husband wants to buy one of Shirley MacLaine. at London Airport of a man those, inland islands near Gal- from the Riviera who is found way Bay and build a house for picture, Jess excited about Holly- to be suffering from sunati-pox, us." It is Noel Coward's job to track down the germ carrier.

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mom settled down here with has Jules Verne who

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really meant disposal-but we don't need Films made from his books

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