1961-04-20 — Page 6

Sunset War? I find the word for it is MOONSHINE

Mekong

River

CAMBODIA

Makong

GURMA

KURTH SYET FLAM

LADS

SIAM

cules

CAMBODIA

Man-on-the-spot DONALD SEAMAN reports from the land of rumour

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THE CHINA MAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1961.

Curageous

AH, the influence of small dogs on human de-

-Phu Vinh, (City of Pagodas)- SHE

HERMAN tanks crunch through the paddy-

stinies! One of the saddest and "silliest fields and my car driver, fearful of ambush, chapters in theatrical history concerns the way keeps his foot hard down on the accelerator as in which two particularly disagreeable little dogs, we burn up the road back to Saigon. Chunky by the names of Pinkie-Pankie-Poo and Moon- troops nervously finger grenades dangling from beam, were in part responsible for the decline their belts, or crouch behind machine guns, turn- and even death of the great actress Mrs Patrick ing each of the 60 bridges into a strongpoint, as Campbell. darkness falls in the Mekong Delta.

Hall million people in this southernmost province of South | Viemum walk in fear of attack from an army of Communist guerrillas known as the Viet- kong.

That their terror is real en- augh I do not doubt: tatted with a villager who claimed he had headed guerrilla and 1ed for his life still carrying the hend, for which he was pak HK$80 bounty.

n

But I report that after 18 hours' search in the Delta I found no fighting. I heard no- thing more frightening than the car-splitting clash of a temple gong.

I

Instead of dodging bullets camped

peacefully enough mong hundreds of storka (yes, and Gables too) in the City of the Pagudas, right in the heart of the worst terrorist area,

As far as i was concerned the guerrilla bands remained ob- stinately invisible, a ghoật army

in the swamps.

A lot of people told me a lot

of things which were terrifying

but patently untrue.

And I left the delta with a strong suspicion

had been "used" along with other corres- pondents as a gimmick to sway tens of thousand uf vates of Khmer tribesmen hi the current presidential election campaign in that aren.

I was seen off by President Diem's personal publicity um- cer when I flew from Salzon sauth to Phu Vinh.

With 10 New Colonel an Chau 3-year-old Director ot Psychological Warfare

South Vietnam Army.

So pretty

the

When we stepped off the pinne

we were met with cars and the prettlest interpreters I have seen in many a long day.

Storks

by the Score perched

high in the swaying timerlnd frees as we fled into the Gov-

erhor's residence for soft drinks

and welcoming smiles,

We were taken on a tour af

I cut short the sponsored four and headed as fast as I could for

Saigon.

I am not saying that there is no war, no threat to the security of this troubled country. But I 15 another don't believe

us.

this

Is she more than a misty nome today, even to the crowds who have seen "Dear Liar." the dramatised version of her eor- respondence with Bernard Shaw

Conspicuous

Mrs Pat's professional claim to fame and our remembrance theatre which to us now is oi- is as a hercine In a kind of

most unbelievable.

Or can we today envisaite a temperamental and scandalous actress running her own play-

Mes house,

Pat Bid the Royally, or touring the provinces in a production of a Belgian play. acting the laver of a iorelýn actress, as Mrs Pat did

Sarah with

In Bernhardt

not. Probably

Yet in her Edwardian heyday she was one of the most conspicuous, talked. about women in the land.

Certainly she deserves a full- length, critical blography, and now at last she has got one; MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL. "Pelleas and Melisande"? by Alan Dent (Museum Press,

Pinkie-Pankie-Poo 3.) Moonbeam barely

On the evidence I have seen the threat has been exaggerated mad multiplies till I has created a highly explosive situation.

I doubt if any one man knows where the truth lies here in this land of The Sunset War.

Let alone getting away with Bul maybe It is significant

of Shaw's and the creation

Eliza that kite-flying

deserve is the national

Doolittle In My Fair—sorry, pastime in these parts.

cemetery-but we will Pygmalion at the age of 49. -(London Express Service). come to them in a moment. and so triumphantly that not a

dogs

Par

WIDOW FIGHTS

IN THE

WILL

SHE WAS

CHASED. ACROSS

A GOLF COURSE BY AN AMOROUS G.B.S.

SHE MADE

HOLLYWOOD WILT

WITH HER

CRUEL WIT...

SHE FINALLY DIED BECAUSE OF

HER DEVOTION / TO HER DOGS

r's Pat...

PETER FORSTER

Mr Dent's book is full of good new Mrs Pot stories. I only wish he had included the rebuke to when Mrs Put a lesser actress. leaned up from the front row of

all the audience could hear: "Your eyes are too far apart,"

she soon became the leading woman star of her day.

Me at was eventually killed in the Boer War, fother (so one gathers) to everyone's sorrow

But now decay began, and she started to show that grand in- possible eccentricity which made her so difficult to cast, employ, live with, or work with.

single critic thought to mention door, but Mrs Pat did not hear, the stalks and whispered, so that and sellof, that she might be just a little old though she may well have been waiting hopefully. It would for the part

Mrs Pat's theatre involved hove been a cuitably comic titles ike "The climax to this duc) between plays with Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith," and tragie comedians,

The Second Mrs Tanqueray"-- this latter being her greatest success, in fact the most success- ful new English play of the last century Shaw' always spoke of her Tanquerudiance.

For she was both comic and tragic, and her other claim on our memory is for that devostal ing cruel wit which keeps her theatrical living legend In circles.

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Insult

Her relationship with him remains an enigau smothered by words, Was there ever ac- tually a love affair? Mr Dent reveals that there must have been a crucial moment in a I like

best the magnificent Sandwich hotel in 1913, after offensive rearguard action she the playwright in knickerborious fough! late in Hie had pursued the fleeing actress went unhappily to Hollywood- across the local golf course,

telling established stars that they had interesting faces and ought to take a screen test.

Climax

If I read

Mr Dent

when she

And when a celebrated young actor had to repeal his name to arlght, her at a party, she added insult there may have been a stage to insult by remarking: "Then when Shaw knocked on the why don't you CHANGE 17"

BEQUEST

OF THE

BALLET-LOVING MARQUIS

Paris.

NOTHING parts the curtains on a life more brutally than a will. This

has been shown once again in the few details known here concern- ing the will of the late Marquis de Cuevas, founder of a ballet company which bears his name, who died recently at 75.

the kindergarten and orphanage. Cuevas had been married for

I was joki: "The children are the past 40 years to a grand-Continent with the last ballet energy to killing fellow Mos- orphaned victims of the Com-daughter of the late John D. that Cuevas munist Vietkony."

I asked: "When were their Hockefeller to whom the great Sleeping Beauty. parents killed?" Answer: 1846. tycoon bequeathed a fortune on

I pointed out that some-indeed her marriage to the penniless most of the children were un-Spanish aristocrat.

dier 12.

Came the answer: "Well, some are foundlings the

parents

created, The

When Its run ends It may well mean the end of the company. TARGET No. 2

It was purt of this fortune, exempt from tax because it was were loo poor to keep them."

cultural purpose. Hours and hours of speeches devoted to a followed. It was magnificent, which kopt the Cuevas ballet Gaulle

company afloat.

A

lems than to killing French.

The rivalry between these two Nationalist movements expiatus the Chicago-like killings which are a daily occurrence in Paris.

The effect of this terror can- palgh against Hadj's followers has

influence in made his Algerin almost negligible, but has falled 10 reduce his in- fluence on the majority of the

Algerian workers

PART from General de himself, tho in but it wasn't war.

most eminent forget The Communists have been

Franco for on assassin's 400,000 working on the Khmer tribe- · The Cuevases seemed a happy men for years past, stirring couple whose inarriage was only bomb or bullet is the wispy France. disaffection. These Khmers are marred by the seeming eccen- boorded, 62-year-old Masali of Cambodian descent and triety of his wife's refusal when Hadj, founder of the Al- there Is no love lost between she visited Paris trom New gerian Vietnam and neighbouring York to live in his apartment Cambodia.

Alr the speeches and the

on Quai Valtaire.

mont.

Nationalist Move

His naine has just cropped up flaunting of International juur- Instead, she preferred to stay in the new again because the nalists with the offelül party in a hotel.

Algerian rebels have used the were aimed at bolstering up the

French promise to discuss Communist scare and also, no doubt, to attract Western aid for the present Government.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"Now, for heaven's sake don't any, "But where is Loos!~~kialwaystems out

Molusky," Lomtion Express Bertion.

In

Since 1858 Hadj has lived under house arrest in Chantilly but is allowed to give inter- vlews and receive his followers.

It is ironic in considering

revolutionary national-

ad's fate to recall that he

Was n

A STAR OF

FEW FILMS

--AND WHY

THE most

high-minded Blm star in France and posibly in the world is ún- doubtedly 22-year-old Pan- cale Petit. She has made few films since sho

first W16 launched in 1957 and the теплоц

ahe la that

la so choosey.

Why is she so chooser? It seems she has an wually high moral sense. Hero what alte says: "When i am

take Into

offered a part I consideration the effect it will have not only on me but on the public.

"1 hold strong political views (the ti, in fack, far to want my the Left) and 1 films to serve a social puri

pose.

My view is that a star has a major social responsi blity"

CASTAWAYS TOLD

'DON'T

SWIM FOR IT-FLOAT'

lat when the present head of De Cuevas's will shows that Algeria's future with Hadj as

the so-called Algerian Rebel shortly before his death he could well as with them as a pretext Government Ferlint Abbas, hly Qual Voltaire nt to keep for

Un

friend further postponing was n

! Tacur funds His only peace talks. himself in

Souatelle until even after the a villa l other property was

rebellion had broken out and a the South of France which was

believer in "Integration"_now a present from his wife,

the doctrine of the Euro- he get rid of them to help him to float? pean dichards in Algerls.

To secretary

a

This villa he has willed to his secretary and companion, dashingly handsome, Blond young man in his early thirties,

Horatia Guerico.

His widow, Margaret, is now contealing this bequest. She claims that owing to his pro longed illness Cuevay was not in at rental state to make a will

Hadj In a tragic figure. He is in a sense a combination of a premature Michack Collins and a Trotsky.

Wh

1 Had now a French stooge? About as much as Troisigy was

THEN

a sailor is shipwrecked in an icy sea, will his W redden clothes help him to keep

worm, or should

To answer this question, 12 young sailors volunteered

16th-chuttering immer-2 Here is the Hadj, story be

the undisputed leader of Algerian Nationalism until the Algerian rebellion broke out and tougher under younger leadership nearly seven years ngo.

an imperialist Lackey.

The temperature of the man who swims falls sion in near-freezing water much more rapidly than in a tank at Cambridge that of the man who merely FRANCOISE SAGAN is University while Medical floats. leading

a movement in Research Council scientista The scientists, teil by Dr favour of rugby, "Le rug-carried out tests.

W. R. Keatinge, found too The terror gen" is now the rage in her Their offorta produced that swimming also nullifles circles, and some ecstatic | two important and our tho prolectivo effect of

clothing. The Gent task of the ex-French phone is being jeritten on prising results:

So, from now on, the of

ndvice to Bermen into ley mens is:

and

who led the insurrection was to ward to the day when 1 water temperature in a ficial

corporals the subject. "I look for- Though clothing falls to

Like a play. Mrs Pat's own life fell into three acts. In the Brat. a half-Italian child named Beatrice Stella Tanner was born In snobbish, suburban Kensing ton in 1885.

At 18 she married a hand- sume

duffer young

named Patrick Campbell who gave her two children and then departed Bast of Suez to make a fortune.

Relief

In particular she acquired.the fondness for repellent small dogs like Piste-Pankie-Poo, whom Shaw described as "a cheese maggot under a microscope."

Act Two was magnificent, Act There was end end pathetick

employed bo- She was hardly tween the wars and 1940 found het still in France because she could not bear to submit an- other revchting little dog named Moonbeam to the stringencies of British quarantine Jaw,

In Act Two our heroine ces

She took refuge in Pau, near on the stage--a tate as shocking. the Pyrences, and gave her ment in those times, says Mr Dent, as ration

to the dog. She died of going on the streets.

pneumonia, trested by a doctor During her Londen debat her who was unaware that in his underpante fell about her feet care was one of the greatest ne- while she was speaking the line, tresses the English Theatre has "O God, may I never wake produced. The dog it was that Again" ("very trying accident,” lived. said a critic next morning), bul

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SUÐUNNZJBUCODONS

BARTLAM

“Of course I know what you mean when you have your hand up-f happen to be a school

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In

“I wouldn't mind sa fauch if they weren't falsies.”

Meanwhile the fate of the eliminate adj-then as now a ballet company he founded and prisoner of the French as a rugby replaces bullfighting few seconds, it continues to thrown on which he lavished so muen potential rival and to physically as a subject of enthralled retain the body's heat to an "Keep all your clothen and scholarly literary extent which could mean and keep still. You are reinatus uncertalu. At present That's why throughout the accomplishments.

the difference between aur than from drowning."

greater danger from cokl the company is making consider, course of the rebellion the re-. able financial succesE on the bein havo devoted much more

vival and death.

London Exprem "Zervice).

of his rather precocious talent atriate his followers,

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