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THE CHINA · MAIL,

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1961.

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Landon Kaptent Service.

MR HARRISSON TAKES A TOWN APART...

and comes up with some surprising facts

BRITAIN REVISITED. By Tom Harriston, Gollancz. 25s.

A SHAWL is black with four fringes. And it is very hard to come by. In the last quarter of a century, many things have changed in Worktown. The shawl is one of them.

Worklown was, and Is. Bolton,

In the days before the war Bolton men and women worked in the cotton mills (if they had eny work at all), supported a foolball team and

annual pilgrimage to Blackpool

In Wakes week.

by George Malcolm Thomson

made an tessen shop: Chinese, Spanish, Relentlessly they tracked down

Greek restaurants and a new ita elderly wearer. The shawl

krainian Society with 100 had belonged to her mother. members, These pro signs of "Nobody sells shawis -- any more they try to get me to take

a new cosmopolitanism.

Bolton Irurentemlered" with due pride but no reverence that It was the birthplace of the first But the local accent is still Viscount Leverhulme,

as obstinate es ever. Indeed in Tom Harrisson ninde Bolton the considered opinion of a local Into Worktown!! He and his schoolruaster, the standard of Mass-Observers des- speaking the Queen's English band of cended on the place, as spies has gone down since, 1937. So levelling life

and much for supposed habits upon the

influences like the radio, Idiosyncrasies of its people. Bolton wus to be the typieni

one of them travelling rugs but that's not a shawl. A shawl has four fringes.

TOM HARRISSON

Only one shawl.

Juvenile delinquency? A tiny on the front door. they are still Laelion is very tough Indeed, recognisably the same persist~;

saw the but the overall picture of youth ing, stoical lot who is one of increased seriousness Depression through,

They are critically Interested and intensity.

Church attendanges are in the Royal Family, although has Duke of Edinburgh slowly falling. TV seems to have the British industrial town. AS THE UNIFORM.

lost its frat Impact.

taken the place once held by it could really be typical of any-

On the other hand, clothes The dial impression left by the Duke of Windsor. And local thing except its own stubborn selt Last year larrisson, with have undergone a revolution. In these new notes on Worktown pride is strong.

of being -Tom Harrisson has produced a team of investigators, went the thirties, the older women in (which foll far short back to Worktown. What had Worktown wore the Black shawl. complete re-arvey) is that, a social study which, although the sundering years done to that I was their uniform, as it is in although its people may be far too miscellaneous, is a con- the portrait of butter off, more adventurous in tribution to individual. highly

pungently Greece.

and tastes, In 1900 the Mass-Observers holidays

with modern Britain, often, interest. Lancastrian community? To begin with, Worktown is nu saw only one black shawl. brighter clothes and gayer paint ing and sometimes surprising. longer dependent on one kind of work. It has a good deal of confidence in itself. It is basically happier town. That was not the only change that the Mass-Observers found. Look there--leaning in the gate of a house inrrisson had once known very well-a handsome Negro with a lively lie! He i no! the only one in the town. There is a world beyond even Blackpool which Worktown is becoming aware of, A delica-

Escapers from Colditz

--BY THE MAN WHO TRIED TO STOP THEM

:

is difficult for me to give on impartial criticism of COLDITZ - THE GERMAN this book, as if I were a stranger to the episodes STORY. By Reinhold

Eggers. Halo. 18s.

described.

What Shaw wrote to actress Molly

TO A YOUNG ACTRESS: Lotters of Bornard Show

to Molly Tompkins. Constablo, 63s.

H

TERE is a most beautifully-produced and scrupal- Lously-preciso facsimile of 125 letters and post- one of his cords written by George Bernard Shaw to many inamoratas.

is

This time it is a young Ameri- worth the expensive paper they can actress, Mary Arthur. are now printed on.

The claim made fe- this book married to Laurence Tompkins,

culptor, Shaw preferred to that it shows the dramatist-

"Moliytomp- philosopher in a new light spell her name kina," when he was not using a simply not true, mere endeeing form of address. On the contrary, Shaw folih- Photolithographed for ador- fully echons himself. He is still Sct-the-World-to-Rights, Ing Shaviana, the reverence of Old this compilation extends even the incorrigible phlianderer and

Hauptmann Eggers was the German security officer ot Coldlt-in effect, the detective,

remetimes the mastermind. by P. R. REID

sometime.: the dupe in the struggle which he led against the most recalerant prisoners and experienced escapers the Allies could produce,

Rodrick Mann

SHOW BUSINESS

Explorer Baker orders his rations of caviar

I HAVE just seen the intrepid Mr Stanley Baker off to foreign parts-Borber country to be exact, high in the Atlas Mountains.

He will be there for the worst part of two months, living in a village which, properly pronounced, sounds like a cry for help from a drunk-Quarzazate--and

Gomorrah.

"It is," Mr Baker insists, "the place where they send the Fore- lan Legion as a punishment."

Now Mr Baker hps learned- from long experience-that in

*

THE DAY A VITAL WAR FACTORY

completing work on his

strange-

faraway places with sounding names not only in the plumbing usually awful and the steeping accommodation inade- quate, but the food is quite un- caluble.

new film Sodom and

my two wives among tiiเค keroinen of our time, ranking with Nurse Cavell and Flor- enco Nighüngale.""

Hike

And, talking about baldness; "Are baldheaded men So before he left he made a Crosby, Astair and Hardwicke foray into a famous Piccadilly more virile then the hirsute? It store. And proceeded to order may be true, but it diminishes hundreds of pounds" worth of the opportunity of proving it," provisions.

You would have thought that Belated ?

Stanley was off to find another Livingstone by the amount he ordered, And a high-living

Livingstone at that.

Look the astrolion-prawns

G. K. CHESTERTON WOS

the first writer to

In aspic, тошо, partridge, point out the interesting re- caviar, coq au vin, tinned wild lationship between fat men drick In orange sauce, and and crime. come extraordinary stuff calf- ed Gentlemen's Relish, which is a paste made up from an chovy extract, vegetable-fav ouring, and risk.

He might have had Alfred Hitchcock in reind for burly fitch, with his pillar-box girth, has devoted lis entire Almi career to crime and attendant horror.

"You claim you deliver any- where," said Mr Baker to the

Despite his enormous success partment, "Let's see you get that in this fold; however, Hitch has lot to Quarzazate.”

BLEW UP manager of the provisions de-

A

WOJ

By HUGH POND

GERMAN aircraft drop- ped a bomb at random over the East End of Lon. "Let's see." said the man. don, on December 9, 1940.Today's Friday. It'll be ready by Monday. You'll have it easily It blew sky high a small fac-in a week tory: making

ac- #new,

the curate bombalght for RA,F, which was vital for fore. the war effort.

The

factory's

phoned

owners

Major Q Hution at the War

always privately resented the Unperturbed, the man sum- fact that his actors made more moned a minion

from his pictures than with a map, money Quarzazate

triumphantly he did, pinpointed.

Indeed, ho once openly moaned that Cary Grant had walked away with £250,000 from To Catch A Tidef --- wille he himself received only a quarter to that sun. So, for his last Alm, Psycho, Hitchcock engured for himself a large slice of the profits. And how has it done?

Exit Mr Baker-feeling rather less like an explorer than be-

tele-Crossed off

Clayton Office.

who hurried"to" "inspecti

damage.

the

It is the second most profit- ------eble black and white flm in the

He wen laterested in the factor/WAR RAOUL LEVY-the history of the cinema. The first)

VI Franch producer ro- was firth of a Nation. for another reason. It was sponsible for most of making tiny compasses which

Klms—is to stay at a gate

guest

were hidden in airmen's Brigitte Bardot's. clothing and personal be now crossed off her longings to help them escape list. if they were captured.. "What shall we de?" asked the

owner.

"Put the bloody factory

up

|

again," replied Clayton Hut- ton.

Because of his recent remarks

that she is on her way out.

YOUNG British starlet

whom I propose

ta keep annoymous-was gak- ed by a woman's magazine; "What are your pet aver. sions?”

"I haven't any," said the

"As I om such box-office poison,"

Miss Bardot states leby, 1 shall refuse to appCOF RED TAPE.. in any film that has the slight- "Easier said than done," replied est connection with Levy."

the factory oviner. He was

But Mr Levy, when I talked young lady. "I adore all thinking form-filingBim the other day, did not pete." bureauerncy and shortage appear at all upset. "I have not materials.

seen Brigitte since my remarks," He added: "I'd like to see old he said, "but I cannot belleve Beaverbrook's face when he shot as upset as they say.”

bomb- hears that his new

of

of

algirls have gone out of pro- What stung Miss Bardot was duction."

Mr Levy's claim that the box- Clayton Hution remembered office grosses of her pictures that Lond Beaverbrook was a have dwindled year by year--- man in Englanst who could while her own demands have be relied upon for prompt increased. and constructive action.

"She now wants nearly £200,000 plcuire," says Mr With the fagkry, owner, he went to the nearest tele-

"And she will get t blunt Levy. phone and dictated

to Lord but not from ine." four-pogo telegram Beaverbrook, the Minister of

Why does Mr Levy think that Aircraft Production, saying Bardot la on the decline? that only tho, could prevent a

in complete-breakdown

the dellwry of the vital sights to the RAF His companion forecast a 'court martial at least for sending Confidently the telegram. Clayton Hutton demised hia fours.

He called off the search cul- side to concentrate all efforts The book-a must fer escapo- within.

This halved his area logists is crammed with the

doubled and

his chances. techniques of escaping. Hundreds within a couple of days my ro everyone's amazement, the

of exapes are described, although I was the

reveals are new even to mon.

route was dis-

questioned Eggers

and theatre escape "British covered. Escape Officer, many of the I have aspeoly Hauptmann Eggers closely and 1 am satisfied that Here in one that interested me he believed that Romilly had, unwittingly, given something particularly,

away. I do not blame Romilly one foto, It to the sort of sarcasm all of us flung at the Germans on Very possible

Germans foxed

OCCESAT."

to exact copies of envelope- pedagogue that he was with his Search for the cxlt meant more."

superscriptiona and postage clempa.

FAITHFUL

following morning

а салуу

He says: "There is no long er any mystery about her. The pubtle knows too many inti- mate things about her life.

make Every time you

an actress's private Illa publio property you taka NWAY something.

"Brigitte sells newspapers and magazines, but she does not sell of trucks drew up outside the tickets at the box office. After blitzed site loaded with men someente has read the news-

and materials. In less the

and a werk the bombalghts

escape companses, were roll- ing off the production lina. THE DEBT

00

papers and magazines what is there left of Bardot to learn about?

which he describes his war- Heroines

tinho work no Inventor hundreds of different escape

"Ar the publicity gets higher and higher, the box office "re-" "The Beaver had once more ceipts get lower and lower." -

demonstrated his amazing Yet the Germans do not take

obility

GO organiser. I had sent four officern on the

What What his interventions, the BOX OFFICE NOTE: way to freedom by a route inside things always as we mean them.

Mr Levy's latest and factory would have been out of ile castle (under the theaire One begins to understand why military order to staro) which

of the production battle for presumably last - Bardot ple- had foxed the landing

ture "The Truli" It is doing are: "Give aptured prisoners

a long time." Germans.

Eers was at his wits end, name, rank and number and no his story is told in a new capacity business in France, 1.

book, "Official Secret"* by am told. other actress-contspondents,

dividing the camp into two I

Major Claylon Hidian, In was intriguing, also, to One Interesting question the book leaves unanswereil. Shaw areas the park outside the learn that a herole English

tougher thought his Molly had beauty castle walls and the area with woman, who harboured some of CLOGHETS in Greater supleton our Once again, we see Shaw and beams and temperament. in the walls.

was cast on the park because Warany, now liven quietly In But was this swan of his only

to. Allied Bexhill, not 20 miles from where taking his hob-nailed boots and

it was 'casler, the lichen-poker to bring a on way duckling?

Eggers reveals now, for the write these words.

personal In this compilation, we have femslo recalcitrant

fo her

But, beyond my hor. bully

not a single picture or letter of rst time that, Inside the castle,

1 was improbeech. by rengus. Next,

Glics Romilly reactions, fondling ECT

cafesses hers to crible us to aver that : accosted with

(Winston Churchill's nephew) the consistent accuracy that runs lighter and more delicato thon question,

date or a The correspondence started in who was trotting round the throughout the book. Oflen 1 the touch of a butterfly's wing.

have questioned The catooker is exhilarated 1021, when Shaw was 60 and ner yard a training,

24, and lasted for 20 "What does this mein?" he detail, 10 fund on checking that and the victim is charmed into Molly

'nsked Romily, who replied, Eskers is right and I am wrong. kepta diary, which, forgetfulness that it 1 all yours,

Since there is unlikely to be ironically: "When it la my turn

POHL WAT throughout him nothing but incomparable Irish

to go 1 must be supr anything opprunching a blamey.

Now Romilly,

pro vicisitudes, his wife faithfully This enables the render to plote, edition of Shaw's lettera

mtrente prisoner, never went congenied, endure much chronicle of small in our lifetime, we must, bo

For 10 years, from 1018 park. ŝto neng jaot beer, and these gially charc- grateful oven for a small natal teriale Shavian pericards of ment mich an this. mere rudery and citrontery, not -C. Q.L. DU.CANN:

1

cont-

to the

#

He

allowed to, Eggers read into verde, he was imprisoned in that the cacape the Russian,concentration camps exit was within the castle walls. of Torgma and Sechsenhatuum.

la stalement

rhake

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an

mon.

gadgein which were AudIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE

to Servicemen

extremely from prizop Céspe

And his camps and Journeys through amusing

book) A Victorian in Orkit enemy terchory easier.

tline --which

been, has Just He reveals for the first

that every safolj razor blade made during the war in Eng-published in America is jand was magnetloed.

as funny as I would have Sunpended on a piece of string, expected.

one end immediately apun

· ·round · to point. due mort I particularly liked his cum-

The Kettens nøver' mespecie | meals on marriages

nd the value of such a small | nose, domestic hern

Oak

Secret by Midyton. Hutton (Mar Partialı 14r.), ==={London, Bayram Kefulce),

and bakl-

Of marriage, he states: " have not beers Use: best of

fathers or hainbanda,

QUOTE from Miss Julie

ал attractive Newmar, comer to the screen-

new-

"In Hollywooti ali marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the trouble."

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