THE CHINA MAIL... WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER · 14, 1960.
HONGKONG MOVIELAND
TP & GI is going all out Eastmuncolour "Sun, Moon and Star" baied on Hsu Su's best-selling book which has run into 14 editions in eight years throughout the South- cost Asia and
"bos been pirated in certain cities."
M'filming the spectacular
On the set the other door, Director Evan Yang Have on idea u:f
Ong's try magnļfuck.
For want of, a tatton in Hongkong sabling a little Deld la China, he had own Formosa specifically to Add a proper sting. And he found it in Central Talent.
is edled Then King 1.
a mountainous region where th
BY DAVID LAN
2,000 IN SPECTACULAR
CHARGE SCENE
Bull, sheuler and tong-haired, Julle Yeh Pung alred her appres hemlons
waded through department tomes of history, Illerary elasides una.pectry of the dynasty. THEY
Mustrations toket for
the Colony,
ira
"Som Wang Loi and I will be doing bestion at Nois Tsen Wait paintings available in
Yuen Long. I shudder to think what it will be like duck- Ing under water to avoid Japan- se bombing and straling all that at this chilly time of the year."
PART from the story,
rise and fait of rider, remind. A cast, and direction, art
one of nailand Chiren.
Ho
Nationalki
a serne af
borrowed
Troops charik
of Thu sult is an array bentitiful, xotic and many-
once sun anly in the forbidden splendoured lanterns that were palaces.
AST
Wednesday the work is about the most im Champagne Room, Sun- portant element to turn ening House, became a star 2,000 film into a sparkling, scintil- spangled rendezvous when dang lating box office hit. Julie Yeh Fang, held her
birthday party there.
ACP & G1, however, hay, yet to mutes 2,000 uniform for them so as to turn the clock isck t the riod of Sino-Japanesa War.
To Bru a scend of; that-ands of refugees on a stampede at a railway station, Director. Evan Yang has deride! to make use of a deerted raft, terminal in *Farmasi.
The setting will hò filmed atal brought back to the sturli Hongkong to be used as a buck- drop for the scene.
Shooting of "Sin. Moon and Star will be even more trying for the stars, Lucilla Ya Ming Yel Grace Chang and Julle
The work behind the scenes ké uften staggering.
Take, for instance the palace
two Enst uniter in Shaw's
Kwei maneotosir eples, "Yung Pal and Empress Wu se-
prone on" currently under tion.
•
Over
hundred different kinds appear in the scenes.
They are the result of poink taking reach undertaken by LA Hag-balang and Delor Shaw's tri department.
These we ancient beauties lived in the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 018-913).
:
From: 7,j onwards, reporters and photographers mid siege t the entrance of the butting.
They were anticipating 'sume- thing more than a inere brth- day celebration.
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EDWARD ALLCARD REPORTS ON THE UNUSUAL COMPANION WHO TAGGED ALONG FOR PART OF HIS WORLD CRUISE
My pet passenger vanished...
just
Martinique. OR more than three months I
had a pet fish. No goldfish in
a bowl, I might add, "but a`fish swimming free in the ocean, and tucked up under the port quarter of my ten-ton ketch Sea Wanderer as I cruised from island to island in the West Indies.
J
We first met at Les Iles des Saintes, a group of small French islands off the South of Guade- loupe, which are inhabited by des- cendants of Breton fishermen.
I had donned my face mask and YEH FUNG - Enpayed?
sild beneath the surface with some waterproof sandpaper to polish the present that Among those events were flm actresses Lin propeller which fouls rapidly in the Dai, Lateilla Ya Ming, Chang, and directors Evan Yang and Wong Tien-hig, actors Lhi, En-chin, Hung Yang and Wu Chia-hsion and Mr Robert Chung.
"Grace Dolly Son Fung,
Warm sea.
The water was
see the anchor chain
clear that I could FLORA WAS FRIENDLY-BUT ALWAYS SHY WITH STRANGERS
transport?
I need not have worried. I never knew, by the way, whether she axed herself on to the anti- fouling paint on the hull or swam freely, I will never know
1W.
let my passengers feed her. leave me for her more natural lying in fancy loops on the coral slightly out of breath, perhaps skinned girl. Magnanimously, 1 favourite haunt. Would Flora sauti. And I noticed immediately and did I detect a wink?" au dd-shaped fish about 12
There could not have been I called her Flora because of inches long almost touching ihe hull. It had a long, narrow tail, much time to eat on the run the girlish modesty and shyness a banana she displayed in the presence of but its Ans were wide-rather down. I threw her
her fame TELEN Li Mei who is cur- ike butterfly wings--close to its skin, which she did not appre- strangers For, ns HELEN LMC who
ciate, and a rather state bun, bits spread people would come over of which she seized and carried from other craft to see her, independent producer in Tai- Now there are many types of back under the tall.
Yet on these occasions, Flora' Won for the shooting of "Hu odd-shaped sh in the tropics,
This manner of taking food did not relish the limelight. She Niu" (Tigress), co-starring and they have many names,
varied the mouths would stay obstinately under the Roy Chico Hung, returned to which can vary from island to ahend. She would tide out turn of the bilge, and could only However, it did not come bif. her assignment after a few island. I have caten snappers,, alowly grab the morsel. then be lured out if we dropped
two have days rest in Hongkong re-groupers, grunts, wattles, old streak back to the shelter of tithits near the hull. For although the
upa sharp wives, doctors, pipefish, blowfish, the hull, stirring been seen oul together for some contly.
water as she turbulence in the tumed. time, their relationship is stili in 1 "friendly stage."
red fish, butter fish, angel fish, and "de Laard knows what."
Somewhere, somehow they got En be windi thut ille was furinally engaged to actor Chang Yarig that evening,
..
Barring unexpected snags, the is hoping to be back in Hong- Nevertheless the turnout was kunj; for the Christmas celelang-
thons, art impressive.
We make the setting authen-
Land the Fong as the winter deepens.. tic, Director
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But this fish of mine fitted aune of these names. Al sur first meeting i must confess i scarcely gave it any thought, Little ald realise that a beauti- ful friendship would develop over the fallowing months at that she would even share my porridge for breakfast.
Two days later, when anchor ed of the south had of moan- tainous Dominica (pronounced. DOMMY-NEEKA. by the......way... I again spoiled a slim form- and was immediately interested.
Could it be the sume Ash? If so, she must have been kept busy on the voyage, which had been fast and turlons before s trade-wind.
By the Bine 1 reached Mar- Unique there was no longer any doubt. I splashed over-board soon after the anchor hit boltom Yes! There she was snug under
Kever
excres-
ATTRACTION
She could never resist snrdines
The second incident was more serlous. I was swimming back to Sea Wanderer after spearfishing (1 got nothing-1.am an awfu shel, but I blame my gun), and another as I passed close Le yach! anchored near by I was harrified to see Florn positively lurking with evil Intent under the stern.
On one of these slow glides I saw an unsual-oval
in all. The oil was at least part "You have pluched my fish!" cence an inch two long on top of her blue-grey head. This of the attraction, because at, I accused the owner, indignantly. gave me the clue to her identity night, when I bent over the side and 1 at once consulted my o clean out the frying pan, reference book on giant fishes, Flors would eat direct from the pat, 4 breach of manners she whales and dolphins.
would never perpetrate in broad daylight.
My friend was a remora or sucking ish-hardly a glant, but they do grow up to L, and ually attach themselves to nicks by this peculiar Sacker on the back of their head.
ENRAPTURED
"Oh,. Laari, men. Dat is de
boat wid Je feesh," laughed
he West-Indian natives,
But it was a false alarm. By evening. Flora was back, possibly hoping for mere sardines. in- deed, she had become distinctly fatter and longer during her sejonro with me.
3
EMPTY SEA
I learned that remoras' oxca- sionally &tlacit themselves to Then, after three montas, she swiniers, and that if you try did not turn up for her supper, to all them off by their tail Pieces of bread, delicious blous -you-whik-tear -yınır --skin. The of-porvliige, tasty fragments.uf. Suction Increases as you pull, sardines lay pathetically around and the way to get the fish of my boat in a su-empty ron.
to push it forward.
it my pet preferred Sen Wanderer โป 25 shurk, We obviously had much in common
Where had she gone? She and were going to get on Bne. But Flors never caused me hid teft me somewhere bolwuna any trouble of this sort. In fact, the islands of St. Lucia and And so we did. Up and down she gave nje only two awkward Marlinique. But why? the Caribbean Sea for hundredis moments in the happy three of milles, sometimes just the two months or so we were together, A friend remarked: "What do of us, sometimes with American
you expect? You force your rich Canadian charterers
The rat incident occurred off paying guests to eat hot pur- who
of Guadeloupe lige in the tropics and they VITA lirst incredulous then the north end
shark. It was do not complain. of a when I saw enraptured with the iden
You cannot fish. She became tume
more keeplug stailon
-(London Erpress Servic@).
or
close
to Sea
the port quarter as before photographed than any brown- Wanderer, apposite my friend's expect a fish to be to pollte."
MAN IN FRIDGE WILL
FLY AT OVEN HEAT
ODFREY AUTY is
going to fly the Flaming Pencil, a plane which gets hot enough to cook the Sunday joint as it blasts through the air at 2,000 miles am hour. But this won't worry chief test pilot Alify he will be sitting in a cockpit "fridge" of his own.
The Flaming Pencil's skin will reach the oven temperature of 350 de- grees Fahrenheit.
Only stainless steel and the ceramics used in the Flaming Penell-the Bristot 188-can
HIS PLANE WILL GET HOT ENOUGH
TO COOK THE SUNDAY JOINT
By PETER WOON
stand up to these super-speeds, radio signalling system used in Transatlantic upersonle airliner
Radio contact
Conventional aluminium alloys begin to melt at 1,400 tulles an hour.
To help the 30-year-old pilot
plasilo tests.
will come into service by 1979, The ground pilot will have a will fly at about 1,400 miles aul en hour and be made of aluminium, presentation before him
bling Wim to read off all he would know from a full cockpit unstrument panel.
In radio communication with Auly throughout the nights, his job will be to warn the air
By the research piano early in lot of anything he may mla
the New Year will be the ground through the sheer speed of pilot-probably his Bristol de chauging conditions.
puty, 37-year-old James Ilanion.
WII.
de The 100, powered by Havilland Gyron Junior engines, Information on everythint will be delivered from Its Filton, happening to the revolutionary Gloucestershire, base to the Dos- Aircraft 160
as it ploughs Into the Combe, Downs Royal
from Its Arst thermal thicket and is steadily Establishment,
directod taken up to three-times the dight, Trials will be speed, of sound will be tels- from there, motred down.to earth by the Experts bellove that the first
But research into the further future will continue, and the 188 flying programme is expected to go on for a number of years.
-THE THERMAL, THICKET: ONLY STAINLESS STEEL CAN CHACK IT
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