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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1961.

An experiment in living

JUST

London. ST before nine o'clock this morning eight small children will make their way to a· modern. well-equipped school in the new town of Crawley, Sussex, and take their places in class.

There wil b few minutes of chaiter and play with the rest of the children In their class, and then they will all settle down to the lessons.

that should make

us all think again

fran? And why? And are they wise to do so?

To remarkable thing about most handicapped youngsters, mental or physient, is that they are remarkably easy to pet os Wh

J

Perhaps the right witi be a

The mentally handicapped FEEL slower

Willie more 10-year-old has the therriul keshant as they reelte their innerner

five-gearedil, jokes abotat tables or read mui loud. But not me thinks he a ve- they know very noticeably so allwugh year-old

and retain much of about them

them. they are, in fuel, handlrapped the worth and the trust of a chilkeru; spasties,

five-year-til.

Helping

As an experiment, those child TUR were sent last year to an on- dinary school, instead at bring given speetal clustes, in cal school, with special tech-

own

BY

DENIS PITTS

should be hidden away chiring childhood.

"It is all wrong to put them into 'homes," to keep them away from other children.

Cruel

Look at any school in London matics - because.

"It is just as bad to shelter. abolitely nothing or rminam or Ainchester normal children from their less

at are afratel if and you will find your black fortunate contemporaries,

Friendly

At a later age, due largely to the devoter work af n disgrace- fully small mauber of voluntary

There is no real reason why then MA work, mot of

* * **{H riter

our young cupaide of doing some kind

World. Job outside their

from usefu

the surrmazielenią

they know that Why shouldn't home

Nearly always the greatest smar children are different from to Ture Is themselves and that the same handicap they have

will

into grow up the total Jark of understanding childr fran their more lucky norinal different adults from themselves?

Children

burti without of al the medical prejudice. T my uind this i

tell the nicest thing about deem. people still

The Mira Was A 26 munch erluentional as serin) -- to help. brethren.

In spite 1th Regas of childern, spastici and normal, to raise that we propaganda. all live in the m

fatt difficult, wonderful wou,11.

The experiment

B Kredit Maste chiluren an not only happier, in sipe case there has teen narkos Improvement is the year of their

art their speech.

The normal children 1:t༤༦༢༤ ampled the "trators! Jane

ctly readily and rally, nud absorbed Cha us friends sumedines enetnies in the wwryday pattern of their lives. Consider then the care of the Villa Maria convent Ched at Bagerar, Suurk, and its awar neighbour, Safet Richard's Schood, which takes day and boarding pupils.

that

There was a suggestion

for mentally handi- capped children from the wants this Luton hospital should

he estaliud next door to these

Town

ME

are

and white

1 yellow, your cockney and Greek and Maltese, "They have to grow up lon — your brilliant, your dim, your and sooner or infer they come fast, your slow, your precocinus, face to face with samebadly and year handicapped playing diferent,

are furuta-

"They together. Chlidren

don't understand ដ mentally friendly animals. They they run or lauth or Phy-off. Have a compassion and a natural They behave cruelly, understundling which is way be- yond the comprehension of tool aluits

I talked about this to a Lon- clea pychiatrist. He said this: "M of the worst possible things for the handicapped child is the belief that he or she

HONGKONG

"There are Thousands of hamlicapped people m our so- elety, Let's accept them and enre for them. And jets størť trylog to understand them at the vari- fest possible stare-which is at Achnol."

-(Jondon Express Service).

MOVIELAND

TEET Rov Chiao Hung, the "Iron

in this piensant seaside Man" on the local screen,

The existing schools protrated And the Bognor Regis Urban District Council pheld their protecti

Reason

Mr R W. Chumberlain, chair- man of the planning committee and mannger of the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, expressed the council's attitude thus:....

of course.

He is MP & GI's Mandarin star husky who speaks excellent English with an Ameri-

can accent.

health,

In the pink of Roy is a ft 11 ins and

weighs a hefty 210 Bs.

He was cast as Jubany Sing

BY DAVID LAN

'IRON THE

MANDARIN

A long low cabinet formed an "1" with a plano the free end of which pointed towards a table which the Iron Man was just designing an iron tank.

A selice, a divan and a erny chair surrounded free-form table.

ર

OF

MAN

MOVIES

Earlier, Roy had followed his father as a boy travelling from Shanghai 10 Amoy and Chang- king in war-ridden China and, on VJ Day. back to Shanghai agalo only to leave it once more for Canton and finally to Taiwan in 1949.

A 16, Rey acted the title role

"We do not think it desirable | up. the "tough guy in Rank's In his outsin black sweater of the helty "Peking Man" in for suck young children they Forty le Bangkong are aged fran) five upwards-6 in 1950

be mrm to mentally handicapped | children."

Tha! was and

yellow khaki pants, the strong man lowered himself into Shanghai while still a student.

But there in tinelher side to

tough the movicland's

Buy

Quite possibly the sells character which 1 found when 1 the cranell have Ruod reason went in Interview him last Tues- for not wanting to have anything day. to do with these children."

Quite possibly the people of Bexhill had good reason, a little while age, to object to a scheme for n spastic children's home in their town.

Tutost it.

Instead of hatchets, battle- axes, and shrunken-heads, there hung on the wall a guitar, nud an abstract oil painting he paint- fed himself call it fire to

Symbolise light, warath

and

What are they sheltering their righteousness that destroys evils children and themsrives

H

in the world,"

NOW AVAILABLE

AN

an en-

the big chair,

"I could have been giuper. You see I like designing and I am making a true-in-life scale model of an army tank

This immediately cast shadow back to his early years.

Born in 1929, Hoy is the son of a physleian father and a surgeon mother.

The

His father, Dr Sun Yat-sen's right hand man in founding the Republic of China, died in 1950.

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Thoughtful quiet, and full of sense of humour, Roy is merried with two children: a girl, Ann, one-and-a-half years, and Boris, only a few months.

BE

CONFESSION IN TAHITIBOMUL

CAROL REED WADES

INTO

THE WORK

Sir Carol, thigh-deep in South Seas ia goon, directe camera for fishing scenu.

ECAUSE the Bounty wasn't built in time, because Brando wanted to make the Mutiny picture, this spectacular is now being shot in the South Seas rainy season with writers working sometimes up to 4 a.ú. preparing a suitable script.

Today a tropical downpour

M.G.M swamps

ouldoor location beside a lagoon near Paperte.

Sir Carol Reed, the director, sils next to inc. He looks gloomy. "This will put us back another day," he says,

Reluctant stor Tarita.

I asked Tarita if he had ever

seen a big city.

No, she led to live on the island Bora Bora.

Had she ever heard of Marilyn Monroe? No.

How about Brigitte Bardot?

She wiggle & violet toenail In black sand and sayr: Yes, she has seen a Bardot fit. But she dues not altogether approve of Bardot. in her alms she often falls in love for material gain. This is wrong. In Tahiti a girl puts no price on love.

"I've found the Bounty story fascinating. You know How Bigh sailed to collect breadfrult free plants and carry them to the West Indies to provide food for African sinves? When he reached the trees weren't ready. So he had to walt four the Island maths for them. Boris "When I was discussing this

That this within 7in. of the water, Bligh Hollyword Tablt! was sailed 3,810 miles in 41 days father and invest her money l

This agricultural co-operative.

Αλέξ waz the The MG.M. Pressman Jooks as this the surviving somewhat ismayed

eurinus philosophy of her am- bitions tumbles cut, but for Tarita It's only the simple things that matter.

"I named Boris after the great

bass singer. Hungarian Christopher. But the little thing i

the view expressed was hern so ugly that even his with Admirally historians they mother was disappointed. Borts lengthy

in slay then should have stood for Boris)

of life. Bigli's

lasa since without great nistake, Karloff."

seamen allowed the freedom of sequence could be shot But the infant boy has grown

in an Hic ashore

island para- Pitcairn Island, which cut of it since and has become dise with attractive Polynesian last

home inere and more good-looking-women will not conform with mutineers.

normal social conventions.

THE

HE Shaw's Organisa

tion will open up

THE SURVIVORS

"Consequently, Bligh's

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another front in its drive were softened and did not take

ان

own

"We shall show how they

found their attempted to paradise and how that parodise was lust.

on Tahiti

to launch into the world easily to the resumption of Ir THE CONDEMNED market when its Eastman-some discipline when the time colour super-production, came to sail.

"Eight Bounty stamen and 19 "The Kingdom and the We have a copy of Bligh's Beauty," will be released ing in our office here. There Is Polynesian women joined Chris- when ho left Tahit to in Japan in May together an travelble nature, but he colontse Pitcairn in 1789. Sixteen

no doubt he had a cousife tongue ton with the release of the used the cat-n-nine-tails les mutineers remained same picture in Australia than other contempurary cap and lived to regret it. and India.

"True to Christian's fears, the The film is being sub-

Pandora arrived 18 of frigate titled in Japanese in Hong- good family and was undoubted- months later and captured all kong.

ly an oicer with a strong sense but two. Though the ship was of wrecked on the way home, Len of Justtee. But the sell Tahill affected him like other mußineers survived to face trial three were renched a point where in England and NOTHER event of in-tul be

ม man-o'-war's ho could stond by no longer hanged from ternational significance while Bligh was dispensing yardarm." That was my first profes- sional performance, I forgot all and a source of prido for rough Justice.

Roy Chino Hang

talos.

"Fletcher Christian ene

of my lines, yet the performance the local film industry is "He felt also that he had been came off all right." he recalled. that the Editor of the wall-badly treated from the outset of

The Peking Man had only two known trade journal, Holly- the voyage. les to speak: Break open the wood door, and Follow me. i forgot

Brando's leading lady, Torito,

Did she want to be a movie slar? No che didn't. All she

Les rome wants is

home from her Asherman

10

ALAN GARDNER reporting from a romantic doteline -TAHITI.

TALKING

POINTS

Jealousy is not love but

-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

the South Sea Island girl who self-love. becomes Christian's mistress, is

brought across and told she will now be given her Arst-ever lu-

Reporter, advised "We shall show something of terview. She gives me a sexy the first sentence and barged in Hollywood to learn from the tremendous journey Bligh look and scents unimpressed

in made across the South Seas to with the idea. Sir Carol chuckles be with the seconl. But as they the Hongkong studios really followed me, it went down the matter of

whiel public rela-Timor in the boat in without a hitch.

Roy had

tions. ne socher foished studying in the Shanghai Ameri- can School than the Communists mongering fan magazines and heavily laden with 10 men to took over Shanghai.

He was once a prompter for a show in Taiwan. "I was more worried than the players them velves," said Roy.

Lashing out at scandal- "In

Christian cast him off.

a boat only 23ft. long.

and say: "This reminds me of a native girl 1 once used in film who wanted to be paid in bags of corn."

newspapers that kept on defam ing and belittling Hollywood personalities, Mr Don Carie Gil- lette, the editor, praised the way Hongkong aludios put out their Thereafter, he was a radio an- own fan magazines which even nouncer and Interpreter. In the children can read without harm.

atter capacity, Roy stayed in

South Korea from November,

★

1051, 1 1954 when he went to NISS LOUISE TUNG,

Tokyo

headquarters of U.S.

forces and resigned from the Motion Pictures, loft by Air

Jou.

While in Tokyo he frequented for Taiwan on Sunday with the restaurant of the Mandocin two stars, Misses Lun Teo film actress, Misa Pal Kwong, and Chow Man-huo.

Tin Ho" where he met the star lcrself.

Artist

The film group went to Tal- wan for the filming of a new production. "The Red Scarf.

On Monday, last week two staff members of the company He stepped into films in 1955 left by sea as the forerunnen of by acting an army officer in Pai the party. Mr Chitung Nam, Kawong's production, "Fresh director of the Bim left by dir Peony" followed by MP&G's last Wednesday. They will all "Air Hoster:" in which he was a return in late February, co-pliot.

Robert Chung flew back to Since then, he has starred In Hongkong Sunday before last about 20 films mostly for MP & with the newa for MP & GI's

recrulis,

GI.

An amateur artist, he paints in He had personally supervised water colour, charcoal and oil, the screen tests of ten candidates Though he has started learn- picked out of about 6,000 -ng- ing to play the guitar, he is not plicants.

following in Elvis Presley's steps, From the ton, three girls and in bad for the young one boy, were selected. The girls people. its beat represents un are all students while the boy, frestrained frenzy, and impulsive m

studofit modica,"

of on artist family. Tolly Roy prefer "long-hair maste" screen pathes have not yet been I that has “soul und "depth," " decided upon,

art

born

The worst

made of success is to use that can

boast of it.

-ARTHUR HELPS, -London Exprem Serulce).

"Why Eduh! You forgot my favourite

cheese."

,