1960-12-02 — Page 6

HOW MUCH ABOUT YOU

DOES YOUR FACE GIVE AWAY?

TAKE THIS MAN. FOR INSTANCE

PSYCHIATRIST Worried eyes, but I would say the syse of a

balanced, ambitioue 'type of man."

POLICEMAN" Honest eyes, but they could be shifty, I

suppose. I can't read anything in those." PERSONNEL"! could only judge if they were looking

MANABER tight at me,

1 can never read anything into a man's hose PSYCHIATRIST it's so big or small or ugly that he's

abviously worried about it."

POLICEMAN" Never Judge a man by his nose. Some of the

raddest notes I know belong to teetotalers.” PERSONNEL" A good, firm note, this. A bil cocky, though."*

MANAGER

PSYCHIATRIST" A warm, open-hearted character with

intelligence.

PELICEMAN" I would any quick tempered," PERSONNEL" I would say that this was a very,

But there is some temper here." MANAGER

Recognise him?

honest month.

by

Denis Pitts

POLICE at Doncaster

are convinced that

THE CHINA HAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1960.

I talked about eyes to A Palloman. He said: “T'distrust.

Tha people with narrow eyes. widor open they are the more I am kely to ballove."

THE LIPS according to Mr Penry hoyo a lot to do with It. A man with thin Hps la usually in and decisive." Often suppressing warmer feelings and emotions.

The Personnel Manager I saw said: "I don't go on them. I like to talk to someone with a good, full mouth, Tight mouths and thin lips go too often with a sqorative nature,"

Important

L88ONLAY

ON SAFARI

Swizzle sticks in seas of champagne- normally that's my type of fishing, but...

TODAY I WISH

Nairobi.

love THE warriors or

THE

THE NOSE, according to Mr few people can recog- Pentry, is important too. A

retrousse nose suggests a nise the face of a man

of ease, they want to interview from one picture.

To make sure they get the right maf they issued of him - five pictures which showed how his face had changed from 1952 until now.

Now just how can you learn about some. one from looking at their face?

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A concave nose, with an out-

the best sort of nose to have.

Its owner, he mys, is positive, tentous, and determined,

ward curve or bump, is clearly

"morans" of Ken-

arc

TO BOAST!

ya's Masai tribe usually handsome, often indolent, and frequently pouring money homicidal.

The Psychiatrial thought this was nonsense. "A nose is a

"It's for fully nose," he said.

blooded

breathing with.

Just met were The two I've

trmed with eight-foot and dented spears but they were fortu

The arsi much

grét face.reader shields. was none other then Aristotle,nately non-homicidal, He had altogether fixed

about In fact they looked The human opinions

the happiest and best adjusted proboscis. He suld: "A thick pair of "morans" in the Masai. bulbous nake Roc wilh I swinish, insensitive

person.

According to the noted expert Mr physiognomy Jacques Penry you can tell a person's complete charac- ter by a study of their eyes. nose, and mouth, Wrinkles, be says, are another good

ruide.

Conflicting

Mr Penry's theories were put, to the test by me--with a ple- time of a well-known actor.

As you will see from the sectionalised face alongside, a Psychiatrist, Policemen, a Personnel Manager, and MT Pairy all of them full-time face-watchers have conflicting views on what sort of man this might be

Now, according to Mr. Penry, YOUR EYES slope down- wards at the corners you likely to be, suuve-sometimes of the expense of truth.

bre

"Thone with sharp, ipped noses are irascible and ously provoked; while he with

obtuse nose is rundert, large muguanineus,

"The slender hooked nose suggests I grasping person, eagle-like."

Having an O.K. nose myself according to Mr Penry- think we can leave it at that,

WHO IS HE?

Albert Finner (24)

actor of ar tinetton, barn Salford, Lan shilfe; currently starring

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London Express Bseries.

Boldly-a country puts its problems before the world

IN the days when the

paint was still fresh in Tokyo's film studios, a young director suddenly found himself under in- vestigation by his studio.

Not that Heinosuke Gosho wasn't one of the really bright talents at the time,

But his employers were esa- llous mon in an industry stil hypersensitive to public critic- isan. Young Gosho had been showing a dangerous tendency. He had been filming too many Juve stories.

That was almost 35 years ago. This year Japan's entry at the Cannes Film Festival was a love story that raised eyebrows even among that worldly throng on. the Croisette-it was so daring. But the march of the movies

In Japan is like thint.

It is a story of startling about- turns, ironical changes of for- tune, Immense resourcefulness and unsleeping zeal to please and to turn a profit.

In slect out- put

Japan

leads the

world, Over 530

features

spilled out

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BY ALEXANDER WALKER

her studios last year-over

thousand million tickets were sold at her box-offices.

And this in a land where two hemen in five have TV.

dicted to dark glasses and foet who had sprouted speedboats overnight In Japan following the publication of a novel that sat the fashion--much as Fran- coise Sagan's novels created the St Tropez set,

Some two-thirds of the Bims row flooding out of Japan's s'udios-especially those of the Shochiku Company-are about contemporary · life.

They speak frankly about ser relationships-like the love afair between the young girl

Japanese filma speak frankly about

sex. They are harsh and realistic

and the mon she lives with it the hills in Heinosuke Gosko's When A Woman Loves,

They have the job, which is by no means exhausting of opening the doors to the grounds at the Mount Kenya Safuri Club, greeting the visitors with shakes of their leathered head-dresses, and smiles ns broad as Lake Victoria.

Judging by The opulent standards of the club they are probably also the best-paid pair of "norans" in the Masai.

Fabulous

Before I left London William Holden, who is one of the three millionaire owners of the club, sold to me: "It's a fabulous place. You must visit it what- ever else you do in Kenya."

The Mount Kenya Safari Club, I would now say, is about the most extraordinary place in the whole of this extraordinary multi-shaded continent.

into their club had just been frightened by a as though they believed Stanley lion, had just met Livingstone and all was well under the Colonial sun,

Perfect

the

A charter plane flew me 140 iniles further north from Mount Kenye into the rugged country of the Northern Frontler district

to stretching the Abyssinian frontier.

They bid premises, originally ingov Hotel. To dute they have spent another £50,000 on im- provements, and when they are nished they don't expect much change from an

additional £100,000.

£50,000 for

I landed at a fishing camp cas the shords of the Muw-

Late Rudolph, which is surrounded by extinet volcanoes and cliffs of Black and greyish hardoned lavu.

They have chosen a perfect setting for their spending. The club stands in the beautiful wide red-earth country, about 150 miles north of Nairobi and at the foot of Mount Kenya, which looks down from 17.000 feet with cloud-capped majesty. 1 spoke to Carl Hirschmann, the treasurer of the trio. (Ray Ryan is the third partner).

Hirschmann said: "We intend to make the club not only the best in Africa but one of the best and most luxurious in the world,

"No, we are not worried about the political future, The club has a multi-racial policy. No one will be barred because of colour."

Ordinary members from While South Africa simmers, while the Congo glowers, while America pay 1.000 dollars (£367) Kenya shivora uneasily on the a year and the locals get in for black rim pit independence. £25. Holden and his partners are

Keeping the

screens

filled

в

I could be a setting for lunar diama-eerle, windswept, not of this world.

Only a few flat-topped acacia up through trees have pushed

like the rocky soll, looking umbrellas stuck realistic map.

In P SLIT-

But, miraculously. & natural

from the spring

mountain nourishes an oasis of palm trees and provides the sila for the comp.

My "suite" WGS B bare Thatched hut or banda, with a narrow bed and an army of anta on the bare floors as fellow zuests.

My hosts were Harry Selby, the celebrated white hunter, Robert Ruck, American author and hunter who now deserves to be called the rich "mon's Herm- V. Ingway, and Mr and Mrs

the Howard Ashley, who run

camo,

Hooked

The charter llet is a mixed bag, highly impressive: Here is a sectio Prince Bernhard, the Duice of Manchester, the

Mrs Ashley is the only white Earl of Portsmouth.. Bing Crosby. Bob Hope. Lord woman in an area of about 300 She sooms to Delamere, Lily Pons, U.S. square miles. Treasuer Ivy Pricat, General enjoy har scarcity value.. : Lemay and Joan Crawford (who as far as I know does not hunt big game)...

Rugged

While I was looking over the place, the native-dancers, who double us waiters, started D performance

honour the rrival of lialan fim star El

EVERY big studio that is left Martinell!.

In Hollywood has at least a

The dancers, dressed in straw

couple of cowboy townships kills, banged drums, chanted, standing year in, year out, on and blew police whistles as they its buck lot.

gyrated,

pair

It looked at me with a of yellow, reproachful pop-eyes.

I almost felt sorry,

I also tried to shoot one of which lie the huge crocodilas along the shores looking like- a few gentlemen have seen on the beach at Cannes.

I

indebted to Felix Fension, the property tycoon of London, for the use of his gun.

Fenston, who has spent SU much time on safari that the monkeys probably nod to him, had lent the rifle to Harry Selby.

I must confess to Fension that #though 1 think I hit a volcuno instead of the crocodile it is no full of his

un- steek 244 Holland and Holland, with remarkable telescopic sights.

Selby took the gun from ma and immediately got two croca with two shols.

-One he caught in the vital spot In the jaw, and it sink to the bottom.

Failed

The other, fatally wounded in the hend, attacked our boat, turning over and over in the water in a oxaddened frenzy, It looked as big, as lethal, and much ugller than Polaris submarine.

Il sank to the boltom before Selby could gaff it and drug it into the boat. I'm not sorry he failed.

Solby promised to rid me the skins in a few days, if the crocodiles float to the surface- brfore they decompose.

As Africa's leading white Selby and Holmberg Safaris hunter Selby is not only a dead Ltd., who own the camp, may be shot who makes the TV conv selling

Interest to the three boys look like myopic amateurs... millionaires of Mount Kenya who want a place to send mesi-

He has also to be a naturalist,

botanist, a geographer. bers cager for a few days of

mechanic who can mend the rough contrast.

vehicles, a leader of men, and a diplomat with diresome million- aires and their frustrated wives

or mistresses on safari.

I wish to boust that the fish caught wore considered big ones 1001b, and a 85b Nilc perch,

I have to add that I have never done any fishing before —

tadpoles in ponds except for

of

a

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I am sure that Selby, a hand- some 35-year-old who has never run away from anything except a frustrated wife, is all of these things. Particularly diplomat.

and swizzle sticks In seas champagne.

According to Robert Ruark, the 100lb, perch was nearly as the

but I hooked in peaked heavy as I am,

Miss Martinelli, bush cap and khaki trousers,

He told me I had hit one of

crocodiles — though

But the scale of flim making in Japan means that the studios can muster at almost any time

and boated, the brute without exactly in the right place. over 60 permanent replicas of

Ginżą -- Tokyo's Fifth-looked like a slim gazelle that his assistance. the

avenue for Their money. spinning alms.

There are six main studios. Some own chains of cinemas. To keep the screens filled each company must turn out on an average two films weekly.

Most prominent among the "Big Six" is the Shochiku Co. Lid, which begun making Bles in 1920 and now produces some hundred pletures a year in its two fine studios.

'FIRSTS'

It has several "firsts" to ita credit. Japan's Arst "talkic," made in 1931 and entitled The Neighbour's Wife and My Wife. And Japan's ret colour flim, Corynen Comes Home, in 1951.

Typical of the thoroughners of Japanese studios, Shochiku for Date:S

factory oven a manufacturing the spare parta for imported equipment.

In addition to owning cinemas pnd making pictures, the com- pany presents Kabuki-Japan's 10 classical dragna--and

the purp pet theatre known as Bunraku. It also run the world's larg- est troupe of dancing girls, over 300 of them.

They open one's eyes

Like that of the seaweed and abalone divers in Black Nols. The wild. savage, lyrical

At their most human power of Rashomon was such a

the West realistic they can speak more storming success in that Japan WIS soon latching truly for today's Japan than

any other form of art.

the advice of the Italian fim strange places and livelihoods- representative.

Л For the greatest spur to pro- on to its popularity period plo.

duction was the post-war re. Lures for export. gime of General MacArthur which encouragod

In terms of quality, too, Japan is u great Power.

film-makers

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Like all the big Japanese condos, Shochiicu's produc tion falls sharply into costume dramas, and modern subjecta.

are The two studios

equally

Such, I am told, is the aim called No Greater Love which distinct. At the same tine, opinion at

London

show soon in it is hoped to

to look critically at their coun- home was not entirely plenecd, try and also exposed that "Coloured exoticism," ninkifed

Es never the critics. country to the West

bolors.

And one of

them

wrote:

The one at Kyoto is located in the micri of Budizisi tom- 2003, Shinto shrines, gardens, It ruma over three hours and rivers and hitla-an, kicai aviting

is set in war-time Manchuria to for period films.

a prisoner-of-war camp-toolt The other studio, on the outs

4 point worth noting where skirts of the capital, is known

. With Westernisation flooding "Foreigners forever hunting No longer need Tokyo pro-

in, it seemed a good time to souvenira forever pick our ducers take space in the new launch ims with. a modican Pent to apologise when their soting that gave them a ready paintings on silk instead of our the manager is a Japanese paci- as the largest in the Orient. festival

entries come home made appeal without a prize. They have car-

different Europo

riad of nearly awards since 1951.

40

Queues

Now even the time made for the homo imirkot draw queues

abroad. Japan is in the world! market to say,

How she broke into it in

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story of her producers' knack of potring time opportunities that Fate presenta.

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In America and

Then the unforeseen happen-

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olls on canvas.”

Thus not 1411 relatively recently have alms trickled into Britain which show Japan's film-makers at grips with modera problems in a way as The Venice Film Festival of the post-war Hallon 1961 awarded Its premier prize directors. to a Japaneso costume Blm with a feudal setting.

It was the famous Rashomon of Aldro Kurosawa,

'Exoticism'

A naar: flớp në home, 11 had

Venion on

There is Street of Shame-to 190 its British title--which turned a harch and realinile eye on Tokyo's red-lamp distelet,

There is Juvendo: Prestony which featured in “uuri tribe) of today's Jupons.

mbeguous... goma. De

fist whỏ là driven by coniclence to side with the captives.

War rolę

Orities who is the Amat this year's Venice Festival call- od its impact "Wagnerian," and "Titonte."!

It is the first herdselt. appraisal the Japanese cinem has made of a copy's role in the war.

Its modern subjects cover a sumprising range, from a pro-

of a Joctod seven-hour version ah-valtime novel-to; be made mn. threa parta-ig a .comedy about. Japanero rusky tonen.

Romantic stories are the most numerous and successful, as in almost every other film studio, 100, In the work. And here, Shochiku con slot to be 26 notable pioneer.

Until went into production men had played female roles on thypogeen, is in the Kazuki Chondro

Proof, auraly, of Jacey's hooktica was the Arat.Japan- quality : le lepenk up, vividly, son company to put women

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