1960-12-29 — Page 6

HONGKONG

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1960.

MOVIELAND

TODAY this column

takes pleasure in in- troducing an up and coming young star petite Miss Ann Chang, belter known, on the screen as Lun Tee.

A 1, she has already nine #ors in her credit, playing the tending roles in them all.

Verratile and talented, Lun Tee is a ther-in-one combina 100, be a trainel ballerina. Taster and solrass,

-1 in Shrug, she receiveil bry maddie zelan edsteation. Her

A budjet fersons came

Sapore

Hey Jather,

Chang Paasching, freirens ani,

Devup inche was zerosted by the Japanese and has never been

since. Her mother,

ale passed away in 1854,

BY DAVID LAN

Ann is a rising star

ANN CHANG

Or the films produced by Louise Tung, the underwater ex- travaganza, The Red Lotus," and the dramas "Bloodshed on itze Green Hills," and "The Blades and the Heroines," have been outstanding box-office hila.

To cater to public taste, she has produced "Kulghts of the Mauroleum" and "Midnight Herror." the forme being an reton Blu and the latter, horror picture..

In an interview, Louise dis- efo-ed that sin Hua will pro- doce eight aims in 1961, four in Mandarin and four in Cantonese dialects,

ALGÉRIE FRANÇAISE

DE GAULLE TO THE GALLOWS

★

*

HAW BROS here has been ostir since the

of Runmo arrival

Show

"TO THE BARRICADES! WE'RE IN DREADFUL DANGER OF PEACE...!"

LOUISE TUNG Her elder sister, Chang Laj-laf. ucreviled their father by taking

Although mostly an extrovert day is Louise Tung who the troupe's leadership

on screen, Lun Tee is really a has turned out 20 films from Singapore on Monday Whenever possible, Lain Ter

quiet type, She prefers films, since sho took touk turut from school to jot and music to sports and is cur-

over her last week. F in the performance of the Lai Lal-rently taking violin lessons from late husband's film con- Ilume, brother of Ron Run Recup which travelled between Prufer or Arrigo Foo and ballet corn, the Hain Hua. Motion Show, is here with his family for Singapore, Malaya and Sarawak,

New Year the Christmas and " joined in just for the functons from Azalea Reynolds h Picture Co. in 1957.

KowInon

holldays. his death.

of it and took part in singing

pradar songs for their musi- She speaks English, the Man- cals," she said in an interview of the Miramar Lounge st www.rk.

darin, Shanghai and Cantonese dialects in addition to Malay.

Standing five-foot-two and

in 1956 she came along with weighing slightly under 100 th,

the Sum Chant Poo Circus for

le performance in Hongkong.

Hsin Hua Motion Picture

oticed her talent.

the life starlet wil de leaving

in mid-January for Taiwan to do

upon

Miss Tung started her stage career at the tender age of 19 as a Peking opera actress and

later tuned into a stage actress,

She married her husband, the Inte S. K. Chang, theatre turer,

As Run Ian and Kune are the two key figures of the Shaw Organisation, the meeting of the two is probably more than a mere family reunion.

He

London Expraro Service.

ONE BIG LESSON FROM ALGERIA: TIME NOW TO END THE POWERFUL 'CULT OF THE PARAS'

Algiers.

IT is lunchtime and I am sitting in

For Run Run has just return-

the bar of the Hotel St George, cd from America where he made the first real stride towards watching the smart people come in It was then that the tale Bloration work for her new in in 1932, a year after he had or marketing producer. Mr S. K. Chung of the Red Sear under the pro-ganised the Hin Hua Motion the American market.

Honghong Alms on for their cocktails and lunch. to ducer. Miss Louise TulE, Picture Co. in Shanghat.

14 contacted "art Outside their

cars, including Manager of Picture Co.

Since then, sin Hua has been theatres" in USA which are in Jaguars, are being parked along- furning out pictures for 20 years terested in showing foreign films

art has and with 500 Aims to its credil, of

value 30 American side the beautiful gardens. the company has become the audiences. eldest in continuous existence in As a result, the Shaw's East-

mancalur production, Chinese movie history,

Is

After Mr Chang died. wife, Louise Tung, feok over the

Hsin Hua Mation

LA Tee, incidentally, already cut i score of records for the Pathe Company. primi

en company and signed up Lun Tee for a three-year contract,

was cast as the She ballerina in her first

picture,

The Phoenix Dance" and her last picture, "The Three Smart Civin" was a box-office hit when screened in Hongkong on May 27 this year it packed the theaire

two consecutive weeks despite Typhoon Mary.

for

PROBABLY

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the successful lady producer in Hongkong

major

"The

At the same time they are Atill carrying out people who have been heaten up and injured in the Casbah.

There are rumours there muy be

unable throughout some dead there, but I am

confirm this,

At the peak of production, the Enchanting Shadow" will be the company employed a staff of first Shaw film to be screened in

city over 3,000) and owned Ove every most private studios, churning out five America in Spring, 1981.

Runme ny take the oppor- film pictures month for the giant

murket of the Chinese Mainland unity to discuss with Run Run fo- and cities overseas,

the plans and problems of unter ing the work markel on which the Hongkong Blm industry muy have to depend for survival and future expansion.

London: magnet to girls

W like

does London oct

a magnet to the

unmarried girl expecting a baby? What can be done to case the burden on the Bri- tish taxpayer, forced to help care for illegitimate babies conceived abroad? Can Lon- don's rising illegitimacy rate -double the rest of Bri- tain't be checked?

These were questions 1 put to oficials, docters and wel-

fare workers,

i

THEIR VERDICT: -- There

no simple, quick solutiun hort of examining all im- `inigrant single women and bar- ring them if they ure pregnant. And that drastic step would only scratch the surface of the problem.

For the gris from the pro- vinces, Ireland, Europe ated The West Indies who have their babies in London form only alf the total of unmarried mothers; and two-thirds of

those are NOT pregnant when they arrive.

Only 638, out of a tofuj 5,705 illegitimate bubles last

year were born to girls who came to the Big City specifically fur the purpose. Landon's standards of mutality are to blame for the rest,

come?

Why did these giri Three main reasons de given to wedfore workers to whoan they turn-

at

-They want to avoid scandal

ur harsh Irratiment home, and Londen is a city in which it is eary to "díruppear under pretext of Anding work. 9--I hus the reputation

of

having the best hospitalo

ante-natal clinics. 2- has five big church wel- ⚫ fare ussoelations ready

give active help,

Persuasion

There Hes the nub. The wel- fere organisations cannot bir thent. It would be against their ethics. All they can do is to contact moral welfare workers In the girls' home districts and try to persuade all concerned

to arrange home canfinement or a returns home afterwards.

In IRELAND -- which pro- vided the second larges: hatch of incoming expectant mothers In 1950-much is being done, Half the girls were persuaded to return home to have their babice,

The time a girl must wait to have her child adopted has been cut from two years to two months. And London-Irish organisations

Improving are their relations with each other.

in trouble

By PETER FAIRLEY

WEST INDIAN migrants using a campaign to persuade are leg of a problem. Out of householders

*

to

What is sure is that there have been demonstrations throughout the night and during the morning.

Difference

It is this complete dif- ference between one area of the city and another Shaw Organisation that appals one. celebrated the Christ- mas season with 0 giant

THEO

I can see people walking party at the Faramount on through the gardens. December 24 when stars

and staff gathered for

jolly occasion.

The

о

gardens are very beautiful-perhaps we Can take credit, since they were

On Now Year Eve, the organi= {made by an Englishwoman

of picture-

8,210 West Indian women who tably.

to offer hospiration will hold another party at who married the proprietor

the Shaw villa in Island Road of the last generation. arrived last year 64 had The object is to conquer une af another year

to mark the successful ending illegitimate children--less than of the biggest causes of itleriti-

macy-lonelines and to foster making. the family spirit."

But the welfare workers *

one per cent.

Loneliness

were

As if the Guards to fix who should be the

in No. 10

man

from DONALD EDGAR

five are living their life, minutes away by cab.

It is this dichotomy which de Gaulle has trying to resolve.

been

Storm troopers

They have played too

bit part, both in France and in Algiers.

They have become a cross he tween the Praetorian Guard and something approaching troopers.

storm-

They have been themselves,

a low vinto

I grow them in operation in and adtfred their

1

admired

There are encouraging Bigno that even among the Ultras of the French here there is a cer- tain sense of shame that 118 propje have died in the last few days.

..

The army itself has come out of it very well.

I have learned, this trip, how Important * position the briny has here.

It is a little difficult for am

understand, Englishman to

al first,

When just over 130 years ago the French took over Algeris, it was the army who developed It first. The colonists came later.

And, since de Gaulle has been In power, the army has once again taken over this traditional

He has so much against him. The avarice of the Port Said There

efficiency. are palm trees, colonists. The ambition and combat

their couragu. tamarisks and the swallows, the fanaticism of the

But there is a decadence in a task. who probably spent the tional movement (the summer in England, darting FLN).

country when any body of troops Most !timtierant girls are

General backwards and forwards until MR Robert Chung. met al London railway morality in the iris' home sur- Manager of MP & GI, play among the olive trees. terroint by welfare workers, roundings-and particularly in ed host to the company's stars who are opening

up advice

London-insproves. Experience und staff at a Christmas

Contrast kiosks.

this with the has shown that it is an uphill

party that lasted unil the Many London churches hold struggle.

smati hours Christmas shacks, "les Bidon Billes," in "Hariger's nights" and

-(London Express Service). morning.

which thousands of Arabs

Pleas

are

admit that the rate is unlikely to decline

very much

AFRICA

ef

CUBA

Eve

is able to have political Influence. The events of the Just It is as it the Brigade of few weeks have proved one Guards were able to drelle who thing: "Le Culte des Paras." would be ruling from 10 Down-

Ing-street. the cult of the paratroopers, should end.

"Splendid news for you, gentlemen! I've persuaded my

colleague not to blow you all up-butito carry on as at present!”

Cummings

London Rayram Baryton,

TALKING

POINTS

Eminent posts make great men greater and little men less.

-LA BRUYERE.

A man's qualities are not divisible among his heirs, -OLD SAYING.

Envy, has no holidays,

-FRANCIS BACON.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and crime,

—DENJAMIN disraeli,

The whisper of a beautiful woman enn be heard far. ther than the loudest call of duly.

JOSEPH JOUBERT.

Hypothetics, the science of what might have hap pened.

-HENRY MAINE,

Take away leisure Cupid's bow is 'broken.

and

-OVID. -(London Express Service),

ננו

Selfless

Many of its officers and

men

are selflessly giving of their best villages and small towns throughout the country In order to establish order and bring civi- Hnation. Algeria for France is & strange cross between India and, say, Rhodesia or Kenya for

US.

What is absolutely sure to that France under de Gaulle in in- vesting tens of millions of pounds and much talent in try- ing to make this Algeria p.civf= lized country that is willing and able to live with France.

J 13 a tremendous expert- ment. Only with good will on both sides can it mucceed. And if it does, it will be some- thing approaching a miracle,

-¡London Express Servient.

| POCKET CARTOON

BY FRIELL

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