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LOVERS LEAP
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1901.
AGREEMENT OW LAOS
TÁLKS
"I recognise the little guy, but who's the follow behind him?”
Buduaaren Mercer
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER
Ironic-when the doctors' enemy goes into hospital
New York.
HE baiter-in-chief of
THE
the American medi-
cal profession, lawyer
FROM JEAN CAMPBELL
NEW
So lonely
TEW YORK must be the loneliest city in the O sense,
PHONGKONG
MOVIELAND
"DING-dong ... ding
dong
I hear
that bell go ding-dong, deep down inside my heart...
The melody of the theme song
in "The World of Suzie Wong" echoes on in homes, vates, res- tourants, bars, ballrooms, night- clubs., zalany the streets In almost every elty of the world,
While the world listens, dances and works to the refrain of this sprightly tune, its coin- poser, Mr Yao Ming, plods on at his piano for more movie muste for Hongkong.
Twice Winner of the rest music awards at the Asian Flim Festival, Mr Yao has composed more than 1,200 plues of muale in the 27 years of his career.
Mr Yoo, 45, now a composer of Chinese music un the stoff of the Columbia Records, has done over a thousand records which, to date, have sold 2,480,-
·000 copies (worth about $12,- 000,000).
The tune of "The Ding-Uong Song" was taken over from "The Second Spring" the thome sung he composed for the mandarin film, "Bünd Love," produced by the Hain Ilua Motion Picture Co. Hongkong
in 1950.
Walked off
Harvest
He won the Golden Award for best music at the
for
BY DAVID LAN
INSPIRATION COMES TO HIM
AT THE ODDEST TIMES.
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Yao Ming
Lulu Yu Ming and her Japanese ep-star, Yoko Tsukara.
"But then it is a question of production Lucia Yu Ming, finance," he shrugged. “Nobody Akira Takarata, Yoko Trukust, in Hongkong likes to sink a lot Wang Ying, Yu FujMo, Ken of money In a big oighestra, So Uehara, Ma Li and P. C. King, there you are..."
and the director, Yasuki Chiba,
Mr Yao Bves with his wife, tielen; daughter, Alice, 19; and Ius methods? "I first feel the sons, David, 13, and Robert, 8, mood of. Tize lyrics or the in a Kimberley Mansion flat,
im story. The tunes come He drives to the studios of by, inspiration
ut any m and record companies time
anywhere."
which keep him busy all year "Sitting at the
piano dúer round-because there is a lack not necessarily yletd good of composers in Hongkong.", results", he mused. "Sometimes For the second time during a melody is born while I am
ther interview the telephone cafe.
rany. Mr Yao answered and "Sometimes it come la a turned back to say, "There it car ride, a bath-or even in bed goes again. I'm wanted at the late at night when I get up studio, What else but for
ametilately and lot it down. recording:"
Eighth Aslan Film Festival (Manilay this year with his compositions and scoring
"But by far the best place for "Les Belles." These included creative work is some remote, The Great Wall Song," "Malay quiet spot in the countryside "Japanese Song" where inspiration asserts itself
Song." "Flower Drum Dance Song," "Spider Web Song." the rear- ranged "Can Cau," und the theme song.
In 1959, he walked of with the Golden Goog Award fur best musle at the Sixth Aslan Film Festival (Kuala Lumpur)
melodies Oll."
most strongly."
On the average, it takes him a week to complete a melody, But there are exceptions.
A jinx
for his creation of some 20 For instance, he composed in "The Calendar the theme songs "The Lonely Boudoir" and "The Crow and Born in 1916 in Shanghal Phoenix Match" in 15 minutes into a business family, he let for each. These were for the school in 1934.
film, Ching Plig Mel" in 1952, actress, starring the Japanese Shirley Yamaguchi
"Wine is a flux to me," he disclosed. "The moment I Est.
my inspiration is psy, all
"So I can have drinks with friends only al the happiest Music moments, that is, when I have finished a song," he said.
At 18. he organised a band in Shanghal with his sister, Yno Lee, us the vocalist, for radio broadensta Melvin Belli, has been 100 annuol eheck-ups. Every Heifetz are all bearing witness world. This, in
had they is its fascination, for here tuition from a Russian musician one
his early musle rushed to New York's self-respecting citizen moves to the genius of a man
Beside Anna Loo you may live undisturbed. and Mr Youichi Hatori, who is it Kapell's little puzzled, a little troubled by the court proceedings.
to your door unin-Composers' For it's considered a While Bell, who master vitod,
pital bed.
Doctors' Hospital with into hospital for two days each have loved. two children, Nobody but the postman now President of the
acute hepatitis in the middle of the strangest case he has yet fought.
Best i the United States export on malpractice ortions,
Told of a broken stitch or a dily swab, an untimely death, ton-experimental drug, he
ちょで
is ady to Sght and he fights hard. He is the patient's pro-
in country rector
which is danously doctor-ridden.
Because of his ability he is bailed as the "King of Ports" and now Ironically he ten at the mercy or the men he dial Jungges at the
t vital moment in his career.
POWERFUL
Lawyers ke Dell who specialis It percorul Injury cases are desperately needed in this country Lur doctors have here sway power and than commissors.
more
to hee
You have
a doctor bere you can qualify for
certificate d you amurringe have to see a doctor before you fake an office job.
Blood terta are a booming business. So, too, are head-to-
years to be Lvisted and tested Gnide and out.
X-rays, heart
Harlum tests,
comes
Association
His activities soon
Japun.
of
THE film unit of "A Night Д In Hongkong" spont the better part of o wook doing location work in Macao towards March.
While
Lulu sprang # surprise on director Chiba,
Originally the script called for dubbing where Lulu was to speak in Japanese, for Lulu knew not a single word.
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However, shortly before went on aut for the first scene, Lulu picked up the Japanese script and, with the help of а Japanere, memorised her lines.
Director Chiba found her pronunciation so good that he decided on the spot to dispense with dubbing.
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MPGI's new And. Hung Yang who speaks Japanese jike Japanese, Is Lulu's tutor. Hung was brought up in Japanese- occupied Formosa.
the end of JULIE Ych Fung started
work on
"The Girl the Portuguese With the Golden Arm" at
took in such territory they scente spule as the ruins of the the end of last month. facient church at Patio de S.
lu the new fim, the MPGI Paul, Colina da Penha, la queen of comedy, will act the do Monte, the Macno-Hongkong role of "Queen of Pickpocitels" terry wharf.
at the head of a light-Ongered In the movie contingent were gang in the comedy costarring stars of the MPGI-Toho joint Roy "Iron Man" Chizo Hung.
Just Fancy That ! -
minded the case, lies in his hos- grave social error to call the attention of Columbia who desired.
attracted in Hongkong leaves much to beINKLE-PICKERITIS they call it at an Army camp four upon people without worn
teals, cancer teste, the hospital hurdles are horrible. But Améri- cans pay up and le down 5 miles away, asking the doctors ing.
trapped, some
ú matter of casual cource. They for an ambulance to carry him obey their doctors as we obey to the court,
respect They our policemen. their doctors as we respect our Privy Council.
With so much power in se hands the Tow rubber-gloved Bellis of America have to be brave men,
Belli's present case is RGW J5oing on In the New York Federal Court but this theme it is an airline and not a doctor that he is suing. Belli's client is the beautiful Anna Loo, from Portland, Oregon.
She has red hair and the car- rlage of a wonen who has climbed any mountains and long known the smell of pine in the high words. Her husband follows her with his eyes as she moves about the drawing room. He is much older than she is. He is her second husband. wears check coats and makes perfume in New York--good perfume.
Aunn Lon has a dulcrmined and generous mouth and a kind of intelligene that watches and waits. She and the lawyer Bell have been planning this case for eight years.
POCKET CARTOON|| A GENIUS
BY FRIELL
BRITISH SOLDIERS BUBICINALE
* hear that Private Dodgem hakaiready got a publisher for his memoirs on 'Irino I Bent the Wahrmacht simple franded"
London Expgan datuke.
In 1953 Arria. Loo's Arsi husband was killed in an air plane crash with 18 other passengers just outside San Francisco. She received £2,000 compensation for herself and ber two children.
But Anna Loo's first husband was a genius and she knew that the lost was too great fo the world to allow the nccident to PESS and be forgotten and unquestioned.
Naw, after eight long years, and with Bell as her advoente, she 14 nuing the British Commonwealth Pacino Airlines for HK$3,728,000-accompanied by the sound of planʊ music,
For Atma Loo's first husband way William Kapell, the dark- ered American pianist who the for musical world worshipped
11 2 is 31 years.
Ruw Belll he insisted tint records of his work should be and played in the courtroom · Hinnta of music, Jonu Iturbi Leonard Bernstein and Jascha
So far be hos syked in vain.
SAID onc psychia trist to another pay- chiatrist as they met at the bus stop, “Good morning, how am I?"
In his view, the musical feld
und
VV in
Shropshire, where Oswestry, teenagers suffer from cramped toes. Now the C.O. has installed an X-ray machine to check thoir, walking-out shoes.
too
mony
took him on their staff,
WC. the composers Columbia also assigned a musicians, are relatively un
should Now in hours of great work tutor to teach him music theory protected. We
bond love this is
and composition. a niost
ourselves together to form an or great pleasing custom, bul In the
Throughout his rise to fame, association for better protection he has worked for more than of our rights. Bimbo hours it is a sadness to
dozen film companies
"This will al In
to our incen- know there will be no unsuis-
Shanghai and the
Horg:kong stair,
and tive for greater creative effort," pected step on
com- he stressed,
WEDISH paratrooper Goeran Petterson, aged 20, fell such win
recording stone at the window,
"Also I wish to have bigter
open-and 1,000 ft after his parachute failed to panics as RCA and Pathe.
Hundreds of film stars and orchestras, inute and singers have sung his songs on players at my disposal for re-lived. Ife lunded in deep snow and encaped with minor
injuries. Suid Petterson: "I will jump again soon."" the screen and on records.
a
no
So diferen; is this from the cosy comforting calling habits of our way of life.
(London Express Servics).
cording the music."
beller
Fascinating suggestion in the papers the other day: "Husbands! Why not give your wife the surprise of her life by saying tonight: 'We're going on honeymoon again'"*
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