1961-01-28 — Page 6

SHOW BUSINESS

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28,: ' 1961:

IS ALSO SHEPHERD'S

PIE...

DOWN

London. MORE than 1,500 young

&

VN the 18 wooden steps to the base- ment club behind Lon- don's Haymarket to lunch of shepherd's pie at 2s. 6d. with treacle roll at 10d. to follow and here is Show Business without glamour.

tha

and women will try

men an

to become actors

and

By

DONALD

GOMERY

Girls like Delphine Day,

She

actresses in Britain this This too is Show Business, year, says Equity, the profession's trade union, There are already 10,000 people in the business.

Is 22. small-part netres, quite hoppy, terribly ambitious,

You may meet some of the bigger names like Stanley Baker pub school, end Terry-Themas.

often.

Another round of

Rut col, billte beer, and Jutki in remem- bering the days when he was lorry driver, dish washer, ond altch digger.

The club is run by a com- rittge who, remembering their young days.

knows t many actors will and even the 2s. 6d. for shepherd's pie not always ency to come by.

But all are well dressed and well spoken, and as they ent they talk of shows they are in, or were in or hope to be in,

ACCENTS

This too, a mile away, Is Show Business, in the brightly lit ber with their tendid mirrors off Charley Cross-read. Here Emlyn Willam quis his lunch- time cher as he studies u script beside him, and rays carefully that there is still roem for the

newenner in Show Business he h the talent. And the koks.

With him is his wife, actrees Gene Anderson, who says "We

and married three years II, when we left the church we and only £7 in cur pocket and we slept

f # the Door friend's kitchen,"

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bar In the collec

at the iheatre club five minutes away the faces are younger, but the ambition is as intense.

Roy Sone, 21, does a mang-and-

dance with the Crazy Gang when he is not drinking coffer here. He is from the Elephant and Castle, and at seven yes of age he was singing and dancing in working-men ́s clubs.

With him, 22-year-old Sonia Fox says: "I've carned £23 a day in films-the hotel reeen-

"I'm Spank dancer and en Oriental dancer. I compose children's songs and love sonys, I sing. 1 play the fultar. I've been a cherus girl-£5 a week, with 3 to pay for digs. I've been in panto-even ridden an elephant in a circus,"

She cares about £600 a year- as much as a good London typist I spend £100 a your en Her my own dress." Hidden at the clothes, though I make a lot of end of a telephone are the ones not seen around the West Erd: the film cxiras, waliing for that telephone to ring to tell them they must be up at 5 am next morning for an eight-and-a-half- hour-dży nt the studio for E3 15%, n day (more if you wear extra-smart-clothes).

Some Alm extras half a dozen-earn £1,500 a year. Most round £300. Some 60, 70, and even 80 years of age-ear only £100.

The nameless, almost-fneciess ones. Always hoping, even at en

"I pad ta lcol; in the mirror tionist, the doctor's assistant, fer the world that lies behind the

and desaf."

On

Arun the bar. 10 yards away. the man in a macintosh says

"I've been

National Actplance Bree months. Went on the stage 25 years ago, I've tever carned more than £30 a week. And i'd be glad of half

that now.*

I could cam a thousand a year- all the year-I'd be happy, I've been out four months

now."

PATHETIC

This too is Show Business...

lights, behind the brighter Oliviers

Richard- and Ralph 2005. Where you have to grit cheerful your teeth and keep and dress weli and be seen in the right pinces, in the most heart-breaking Job in the world, and the Big Break is just round the corner.

Perhaps.

(The phrase "resting" is not used how says Equity. "Ther Bright young

playwright are either out of work or not.”) here. is Alun Owen

Over 1,500 young men and sayt:

There is always work. of women will enter the profession "There aren't more than five or

sort,

There

this year, says Equity. But as cix ea actresses today. Young course of

become too are

pathetic the

Bitle the hopefuls come in, the hope try actresses

in the stage less 10 cut. And there will middle-chs in their accents, advertisements

journals: "Men

for wanted

ill be 10,000 at the end of the and then they're quile hopeless."

always year. Edward Judd, newly arrived housework." You can

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Recession...

the most awesome bur-

I'd better not call them prob- den of responsibility lems, for Kennedy, in keeping with a general policy of accen- which it is possible for sting the positive, prefers to

By RENE MacCOLL

Kennedy feels strongly that designed to stimulate the eco- which has Ike's Administration repeatedly nomy," a statement showed needless infexibility in given rise to mixed feelings on its dealings with the Russians, Wall-street,

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One thing which Kennedy will So there we have it, the chal- certainly do--and fast-is to lenge and the man. On Friday build up a new military force Jack Kennedy succeeded to his well equipped to deal with any "high and lonely office." An ora form of warfare which the Com-, ended.. mumists might choose to start,

And in all the excitement and thus getting away from the El-

of the inauguration day parade, the senhower "one idea" concept of uproar, the daffy pageantry nuclear warfare only.

social battle of the three-ring Look, too, for better relations inauguration night balls, the re- with the Russion satellite na joleing and the singing, you felt Right-well, there are plenty tions. And for the end of the like sparing a thought and a last of opportunities. Some of them Foster Dulles proposition that hurrah for Ike. are old and familiar oppor- neutral was a dirty word and tunities, like Berlin and Quemoy. that "he who is not for us is Others are brand new oppor- against us." tunities, such as Cuba, Imos, and the Congo. Lots of menpe there. tho

any one person in our speak of "opportunities." world to assume.

Americans innist that the inau- guration must not only be done but must be seen to be done.

So the whole thing took place in the open air and It was mighty parky.

There was a heavy snowfall and the temperature was as low as a daelishtind's spine. MacColl, however, mindful of former in- augurals, was well prepared.

No doubts

He was snugly encased in fur- lined over-bents, known to the trade as "glastonburies," and the small silver hip flask which dates from the days of prohibi- tion contained a modicum of rum; in honour perhaps of the fact that Kennedy once served

in the navy.

And at home, in United States, the opportu nities include an increasing ly nasty looking recession.

Tax reforms

Salute

He has been around ta good effect and for quite a time now --the wor, the anxious early Indeed, although in Dean Rush, years of Nato, and now the two

Secretary his

of State, terms of his presidency, Kennedy has an extremely able

and intelligent staff officer, you He made some mistakes, Last month unemploment stood can be quite certain that Ken- perhaps, but he liked us at 1,340,000, which was 68 per bedy intends to be, on all mat and we liked him. So here- cent of the American labour ters of moment, "his own Seeret-

with a fond valedictory force, and the highest for any ary of State." December since 1010. Some ex-

salute to Dwight David perls think it may go as high

Kenendy's first budget mny, 9 0,000,000 by the end of the unfortunately, have to be a de- Elsenhower, 33rd President

Aelt one because of the reces of the USA

winter.

Kennedy has not got the ap- alon; but he promises "import- palling chaos and panic at home ant tax reforms in the budget which faced Roosevelt in. 1933. Superficially America still pre- sents a picture of the two- chickens-in-every-pot and three- cars-in-every-garage prosperity which has endured for most of the last decade,

Flexibility

The prize of power new Ken- nedy's is on a scale to daunt or dazzle all but the most supreme- ly celf-confident of men. But I did not detect the faintest tre- mor his demeanour, the slight- est sign of doubt or hesitation as he took the calli ns the 34th President and Commander-in- perly might be jeopardised if Chief of the USA.

But his hope for a period of calm to enable him to get his "measured aprpoach" going pro-

the recession does get worse.

How will Kennedy's presidency For Kennedy, the smiling

that of his pre- young man with the air of differ from

decessor, Dwight Eisenhower? I a gay cavaller and the cal think I can sum it up in one culating brain of a grand word-flexibility,

London Express Service.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

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Hud cidentally, once you have your fun with this problem an Is, you can shift the East and West heurts and clubs around so that South will be able to And end play West in hearts make him lead from his jack of diamonds to give South his con- tracé ngainst" any defence,

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PATENT JOFTILE

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unusual double dummy prob- lem. Specifically, the problem la: Can South malce his three no-trump contract?

antwer

Most people will "Yes" almost immediately. They will see that all South has to- do la to let East hold the frat trick with the queen of spades and eventunily South will wind up with one spade, two hearts and three tricks each in din monds and clubs for a total of nino,

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What do you do? A-Bld four no-írump, Your partner has confirmed a club salt and il should be apparent that ko holds not more than ana' dia=' end. Ito also inust hold at least two sect and you have no war- ries shosi aina

TODAY'S QUESTION :- Your partner shows three ac

-It never pays to ariawer auch questions too quickly, because by bidding five spades. What do

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'No, NO-wait a minuto! "

boot three no-trump, Here it is:

actually thera, is, a defence to you do now?

Aukwer On Monday,