THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1961..
SATURDAY MAGAZINE
JAK and I met the Bri-
tish film industry recently well, bits of it,
anyway-and
we
hasten to record our re- spectful appreciation of the keen, lively, deter mined, dedicated, enter. prising and self-sacrific- ing manner in which the whole of that industry is girding its loins to re lieve you, the British holiday-maker, of your £ s.d. this summer.
Let it ruin in Ramsgate, Jet war clouds gather over Clacton, or your wife Pun away with a band leader in Brighton.
This year, none of these in conveniences weed disturb your
amal Crape from the tread- For mi! and the trivial round.
how meusly hillings, you will
be and to get away time it wa
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fruthit, home-growa
Make no mistake. We Brith have tat eye on the ball.
WASTED
and
Ru-
While American a Mare waste their thine on space research, the artrut English - devista uripes in tooth-paste, tranking fountains for dogs, ant
methods
Kult urtziona
of Johnny Haynes at home.
While Hollywood squanders millions of dollars but making Cleopatra,
Elstree buckies
1)
with verve, arve and virility on hit cathed -mash ane-line Spell Have to Gin.
True, She'll Have to Go Poult finish up looking like an ice- #gn interval shoven Letweth two halves of a California mpir --but let us not underestimate If peential inturner on world opinion,
Persu and Homhoog are and auely making inquires, rune abst August, the warp and weave of its Intricate plot wil kav hven Rog co
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county of Briain from Bainauth in Felixstowe,
No Liz Taylor" No Yul Bryaner? We should wony. We
1 cult comes 1ke Bou Mon.- house and Alfred Marks. We cut a considerable amavant 1 all-real-g
stalled Jstile
Jachtree
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And we also got a candy plier
Danish delight
KNOWIN
Ana Karina, ciplured Reisart from Copenhagen. The
fashion
pages of a faris magazine, mid
a commercial for Coca-Cola,
Mi Karina,
1נסנו,
ta
inspiring woll-whistles 1.
FOULED UP
JAK and GEORGE
go in search of glamour at the film studios ...
TTIE JACQUES
Not a bikini in
sight-just Marks
and Monkhouse!
91s
describe as
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stills
ستالی
before we broke down the tw
doors, and they still hadn't got it right. That's show business.
Mr Asher kept saying: "Won- derful, gentlemen," but etreum- stances were against him. Mr Marks said, Erbert when he should have said Egbert; the Mr Monkhouse fell over a c jest: then Whiting set fire in Satne seenery with his elgarette: then Mr Marks Ignored a whole
line of dialogue: then av
crawled keress the microphone; then somebody misild the bll- Bards chalk: then an electrician named B vistruded a bald and plebeian
among the head patrician
of Dusits
Oberon Manor.
IN AND OUT
But not to worry, Mr Asher
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
diamontis,
PLAYING at four
ruffed the opening
with spade lead; drew trumps
a dub to two leads and led dummy's jack.
North won the trick with the
of king and led back the len hearts. Eart forced Sautie's are with the jack and managed to make his four diamond con- tract.
Werl romarked.
played,
"Nicely
partner. I had really hoped to push cur opponents on to four spades, so I éculd double them, but your play gave us
Introducing-
THE
£24,000 A YEAR
MAN
By SIMON KAVANAUGH
London,
THERE is one well- publicised fact that it helps to forget when you begin finding out about Dr Richard Bee- ching: that his annual salary, as the new boss of British Railways, will be £24,000.
It is admittedly diffi- cult. The impressive rate his job will carry is just about all that the world has yet gathered about this least-known of Top Men, since he stepped from personal obscurity recently slam- bang into a public row.
DR BEECHING
But if you stert from that be the proven results-man he la if he failed to reckon with so row of naughts, unfortunately, relevant a fncter as a Parli the real man behind it remains mentary row about his pay, ben Itustratingly disembodied; fere he even arrives on the symbol ગ the Conservative Government's bold, splendidis bread-visioned enterprise or of whichever way your sympathies happen to lic.
politically tricky railway scene.
Clearly it was not the money that enticed him into this troubled feld. He was getting
as much aiready in 1.CJ, as teclinical director.
And at once you are hope- Iessly awash in a oca of figures, computing that he will draw £401 a week for running those But, equally clearly, he finds Govern- railways; which is almost £66 no quarrel with the a day, or £2 16s. an hour ment's reasoning: that it is no waking or sleeping.
mare than good business to hire the best man for the job, and really must pay him that you
"Nor is "Who's Who" much help. He makes its pages for the first time this year, but only by two inches
his full market worth.
And that, although one would not want to spell it out in these terins to railway porter, there the
In the end there is really only one way of discovering Dr B.
£0,500 of is only about You just have to move in close, £24,000 left after tax anyway,
huge to the wrong skle of a mahogany desk on the sombre sixth floor of London's Imperial Chemicals House.
Burly
canuras, four sound experts, a Whitstable and idiotutry in the to be Seene 18. with Bob Monk- raid we could Isle of Wight, does not come of house and Alfred Marks in civan and wholeson, Jolly in publicist, a dresser a draughts-
four callors, a age until next September, but green tweeds at a billiards table. Rentous and far removed from Mab,
wardrobe cameraman, a nobody can accuse her of ward-
And it so happens that neither the rut.
Briety She'll Have Co signer and mistress, a make-up ness in carving a career or a Jak nor i vares all that much lar riving at True Love.
billiards.
plans to keep the los fans of marsivu, a hairdresser, a buyer However Mr Slomkhouse, the world in pop-eyed suspense and an ecountant-all sworn at is a patient man, in a shooting Rickenban,, Dulwich College and
for 95 trade union rates to the cause of schedule of seven weeks, be wil of Jaughter
Messts, seeing that Mr Monkhouse doni have had his aetors on location Me minutes, what true and Candid Camera) and
in a chemist's shop in Datchet Muris (Holborn, Petticoat La Marks and/or Menklowe work not miss Mr Marks's mouth.
cried, "Action" they
just and
on a railway station a: 30-point prefl as against plus and Carroll Levis's Discoveriv. out which of them shall mariy
Mesdam like in the movies.
Drucket Wood.
100 for setting three spades one nattader
trick." oozed a lot of elocution and gove and/or
However, you people mul as several gags with which tu Jacques and/or Karina,
He will hove fac Anna East had been fumtost all through column over whether Ar Asher decides to understand that a Ini of blool
murder the lot of them.
sweat, tears, the, and swear- Karing in and out of that silver the play and even though he was
cused by West's praise bikini,
as a successful And he will have hard dummy marking. All that nter play words go to the making
that bilards ball in and out et was wasted. We are going to show rictures,
Mr Marks's mouth,
Shaping up at 35-24-37, our Anna last 3 time at all putting over the old one-twe im Franic
i where she captured a husband) gighten up this and un Argentina (where she the next few months. Fated javes for her leading rate
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unforgettable opus called
Tonight or Never).
Karina's
Appraised of Mise tatenis, uk and I belted down to Elstree in the hope that we might prevail upon her to reveni all, as the saying goes.
Unfortunately,
They
REFUGEE
also introduced us to
a refugee from Stoke Newing ton named Bob Asher. He is the director of Shell Have to The Halson Go, but he claims that his púde, work got fouled" up, or maybe haunted appearance
Canit 19 the studiu switched schedules him quite curly in life, long be- deliberately.
what fore he met Mr Monkhouse Anyway.
should have been Scene 27, with Mr Marks. Ana Karina in a silver bikini We promired faithfully not to at a swimming pool, turned out reveal Mr Asher's plot, but he
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With two four-inch doors de- fying our escape, they sat us la Miss Jacques's chair and per- mited us to watch one of the most dramatle moments of the im that in which Mr Monit house hits a billiards ball inta Mr Marks's mouth,
BILLIARDS!
She'll Have Tu Gia will be complete
, all pristine
and proudly wrapped up.
patronage from Marks and Monkhouse play awaiting your ing hards In the library at Land's End to John o' Groats.
Jak and I heartily recommend they told us, According to what they call Oberon Manor, their Unit List, there is a east of would occupy the screens of the a visit, and why shouldn't we?
coing for 1 nation
than 30 We're no more producers nine, plus two director with three asistants, seconds,
But Jak and I are prepared to supervisor, a secretary, a con- tinuity gift, directors of photo swear that some 48 experts had been at it for more than an hour graphy and art, three men on
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And there is certainty nothing the burly, disembodied about
who balding businessman of 18
that sits on the right side of desk: who will soon be earning two and a half times 29 much as the Prime Minister (and the chairmen of most other na- tionalised boards).
He looks at and powerfully built. His clipped moustache could as easily label him, another of those memoir-writing gen- scientist erals
and
Government committee.
for
married
children.
of
howls about
no
the his
man with
There is no visible quivering
that neat moustache as Opposition "Himalayan" salary, and, about his lack of railway experience. Results come better withou! bristling.. Dr Beeching ጅን 3:3 always found.
Results are his line. He has been used to getting them fast, with formidable versatility, ever since he left Maidstone Grauner School to Lake a first-class honours degree as a physielst at the Imperial College
of Science and Technology,
Arena
Lurned industrial manager.
He served Grsi at the Fud He admits disarmingly
Research Station. Then, loaned charmingly that his rallway ex- during the war by the Mend perience adds up to title more Nicket Co. Ltd, to the Ministry than daily commuting between of Supply. he worked in the East Grinstead and Victoria, and Armaments Design Department, a few months' service on 4 and continued for a tine after Engineer of Armaments Design. Deputy Chief
He could hardly have chosen a better spot, a dozen years age, for learning about decentralisa- the heart of the on than at huge pawer-delegating cobweb of ICI
But there is one thing you notice right away about Richard Beeching. When the conversa- tion switches to his new job, and the strength of his convie tion that he can sort order aut of expensive chaos, his voice is suddenly steel-tipped.
be
'Not easy'
the
as
He also found there an arena to match his talents. Within
w unprecedentedly short time,
for a grunmar school boy who
"This is a difficult, challenge had not grown up inside the ing job." he says, "It is not organisation, he was swiftly and easy to forge a challenge of surely o0 the
to way up that mort. I expected crittolam eminence and high pay.
But I ihlak my performance His Best big job, after three may cause any controversy to years was in Canada; the de- dle down."
velopment there of the "Tery-
any price.
If it doet, Dr Beeching will lane" Organisation. Hu went cheap to Britoin at almost there as a vice-president of ICI (Canada) Lid he returned home after two years to
vision.
For his money, he will be re quired not only to run the rail-
ways (which are losing £300, man of the ICI Metals Di- 000 a day), but to chart a vast
Four years ago scorganization for an industry pointed to the
technical, director,
he was ap ICI board as
that is never left un-nudged for long by political elbows.
As chairman of the British And last year Dr Beeching Fransport Commission, and survived an earlier Opposition later of the new British Rail protest when, with other non- ways Boards, ho must master transpert Industrialists, he was
the whoje intricate appointed the
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St:deford complex of timetables, engineer- special advisory group on the ing, management, unions, and reorganisation of British Trans- finance.
port Commission operations.
quickly
Salary
He has five years' absence
Chemical
leave of trúum Imperial Industries in which
10 decentralize Britain's rail- my mystern, giving moro Authority to regional mange
A searching, highly criti- cal analysis in this capacity of the present shortcomings of railway administration manded serious attention In several quarters.
com.
Had tho Government found "Mr Railway" Was this pr ments and setting the whole ceptive planner, who showed
thim
to aliarply what พล thing humming profitably,
He chose his word well when wrong, also the man who could
put it right? he said challenge,
It has to come back to that The challenge was made, and salary in the end, of course. Dr Richard Boeching accepted Dr Tichard Beeching would not li
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