1961-06-12 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961.

THOMAS WISEMAN'S

Limelight

Robert Ryan talks about the problems of

portraying the villain...

OBERT RYAN is an often the sort of prople with people imagined the film would

ROB

actor who has taken the glamour out of vil- lainy.

Unlike James Cagney, Bun- phrey Hugart, Edward G. Robin- swho had the knack of moking killers Mikrobie - Me Ryan make his villains emin- ently hatenble.

Women, never write in him, m they did to dames Cagury, say- ing that they, too, would fil- he slapped around by him. Mr Ryan has taken the sexiness l of tastiness.

Jis performances have span ned the whole gaunt of vilikiny: he has been an auti-Semite tin Crossfire) a Negro-hater (la Odds Against Tomorrow), a kill- fact," sakl Mr Byant when I saw him in London the other day, "I have been in fins pretty well everything

to fightlag dedicated

in He For the table villain of the gerron is in private e a pro- minent campaigner for Negro rights, for racial tolerance, for nuclear disarmament.

he specialises

er in nunny tlms,

"In

On the screen

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in portraying tough, raw, neur moronle characters; in fact, he 15 university graduate, a Shakespearean actor he played Antony to Kutharine Hepburn's

Cleopatra at America's Strat-

ford recently,

A CONTRAST

He manner, on meeting Jim, is relaxed, pleasant, un-nemotte -a notable contrast to the man- ner of some prominent screen heroes that I have encountered.

"Some

of the most lovable actors on the screen,' spiel Mr Ryon, "are people who are In love with themselves. They are

ceivably las in love. whom mobody else winkl can-

"What is described as: a mag- netle ereen personality is often merely outward manifesta- thon of an intense and abiding self-love.

have. That may or may not be I don't "This is something

the reason why I am not and never have been star."

Despite this

romantic

acknowledged Brk of remantle appeal, Mr Ryan is a rich and successful man.

"I got paid 50,000 dollars for a week's work playing John the Baptist King of Kimps. i said, "and it is possible that 1 actually have more money th

of the idolised are being an idof is an expensive

because living up simply

busdress.

Some

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have to live ostentatiously, And "Not being an iced I don't

I got a great deal of work ber ther is an enormÐFRAM

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shortage of actors <1 around niy age - 50. They're all either 29 60."

This is #sonewhat exces- sively modest way of accounting for his success and it la cer- tainly not just because he is in the right age-group that Peter Ustboy has cast Mr Ryan in

his production rd Billy Budd

THE SMILES

"Lately," said Mr Ryan, "I have 1 in getting mare interest- ing ports to play, It may have start with God's Little Aere. Which showed I could do other things apart from playing psy- elopathie killers.

"Then I was asked to play Jahn the Baptist and that made a lot of people smile. Me play- Ing Julan the Baptist atırl Jeffrey Hunder playing Christ -

be a big latigh. Actually I thinic it has furned ont a very good sims."

Robert Ryan is in many ways an unusual actor have conte out of tollywood and one of 111 not unusual things about hin

is tin he bos beert married for 22 years to the same Woman.

Movie-neting especially in Anericntends to create pinost tal self-interest. And if that's

SAME LOOK

ch-

WHEN IT WAS nounced that Sir Alec Guinness, an actor noted for the infinite

variety of his faces was going to play o Japanese in A Majority of One, one ex- pected some remarkable

facial disguise. But of my picture indicates Alcc Guinness as a Japanese fooks just lika Alec Guin-

ness,

THE STRAIN OF

OF A

POOLS WIN

TO BE PROBED

By PETER FAIRLEY

WHAT happens in the mind of a boy when his father wins £75,000 on the pools? Or when he loses his job? Are sixth formers under

a special strain, Is day-dreaming good or bad for a person?

These are some of the problems

to be tackled by a new research department, the first of its kind in the world, to be set up at Bristol University. Its him will ve to prevent montat break- downs.

It will have a pro- fessor and staff of 11.

which

the case how the hell are you going to stay Interested In one woman for any length of time.

ANNE GETS A BREAK

THEN I met Miss Anne

W Aubrey in the past 1 had always been struck by her self-sacrificing dedica- tion to a film had

career that

not scomed to mo worth making all that many sacificos for.

Miss Aubrey bad to be cureful about what she ate because of a tendency to pal on weight, she had to be carefų) about what she and because her bosses Warwick Filing might *- approve, slie hardly ever went mit anywhere without a publicity man in utendance to chaperon. her and gulde her.

She had neither the me nor the opportunity to fall in love. this might sound like quilte * high price to pay for the possi bility of im stardom but Miss Aubrey always asserted that was the kind of life she wanted. Recently Miss Aubrey rc- veled herself in a new light Her contract with Warwick is being brought lo an end by mutun. agreement" very SUON and Miss Aubrey declared delightedly that at last she fell Sren.

SO DIFFERENT

"I always used to have to do what I was told," she said "but now I can do absolutely what I like, I can go to Timbuktu if i want to.

PRESIDENT KENNE-

DY has just an- nounced that America's battles are won on the touch football playing field Knowing the kind of of Hyannisport.

battles we have won on the playing fields of

De Stevens told me: "We de good or bad, nor what effect it not know enough about fociut, has

oli an ordinary person's envinguemat or farity stresses allity to withstand the ordinary

Cate mental stresses of life,"

Dr nes. For instance, is a strain

Stovens Added: "Mol olored ob eller grammar school psychiatric departments are, of Eton I have come up to

pils by the

system necessity, mainly concerned with dry What effect does sudden the treatment of established ill-see this strange and Work will start at once with a £60,000 grant from the Van reduction

income ness. This department win make salty terrain. Neste Foundation, of which Dr have?

nossible a research programme C. P. Stevens, director of the "We do not know whether into the problem of maintaining National Spastics Society a the considerable habit of day- mental health," trustee.

dreaming about the future is

-(London Express Service),

of

school

family

The ever-growing market

that welcomes Britain

Canadian trade 1960

IMPORTS FROM USA.

IMPORIS FROM BRITAIN

£1,317m

£210m

EXPORTS TO USA.

EXPORTS TO BRITAIN

£1,084m

HERE is the picture of

· Canadian trade with the US. and Britain.

It was outlined by Mr. George Drew, Canadian High Commissioner, apeaking in London. It shows that i-

CANADA has the largest 10- percentage population

of Grease

any industrial That nation la the world.

moans she is a largo nad growing potential markol

Bho imporia Lodny goods worth more than half of the TOTAL exports of Brlisin.

It would help both Britain and Canada if Britain sokt Canada large quantițies of producta at present bought from the U.S.

A

It could give Britain favourable trade balance

£330m

with Canade, and rontgro Canada's traite balance with the United States.

★

CANADA, after Bussla, bas the largest concentration of natural resources in Hie world. And the wall is capable nitimately of feed- ing 200 million people.

'London Express Dy rios.

For is as well that we should all know and under- stand the country the brisk young President halls from. 11 is as different from the Baby- lonic lowers of New York as Piccadilly Is from the Isle of Mull.

THE NAME

Anne Aubrey: After the strictures of being turned into a glamorous myth-freedom to do what she likes. See ANNE GETS A BREAK.

"AIL the time I was under were trying to contract they turn me into yomething I never was, into some itind of glamor mus myth. They would employ a make-up man le put a new face on me and they'd ght me in a special way and nobody ever recognised me vir the screen because the person they were totally different to me. presenting to the pubile was so

"And I've also got a big film. The Hellions to come out this year which I'm hoping will bring me in a lot of offers,”

"They tried to change every thing about me, the way I talked and walked and behaved.

"I hateri all that, I loathed Hut had to put up with it I had to put up with being told what to the and what to say to the Press.

While she is waiting for these offers Miss Aubrey is going to Work at Ipswich Rep. for a

£12 a week. salary of around

{! Warwick she got around £200 a week.)

a

"I shall not be going there as star," she said. "I shan't fake my mink and I shall expect everyone else to do whatever dres--even

the stage." sweep What has happened to trans- form Miss Aubrey? Somewhat bashfully she admitted to having fallen in love with an actor, and that it was "marriage-serious."

I had realised that something

There were advantages to being under contract," said Miss Aubrey, "1 made 19 Alms, I have security now. I've just bought pretty drasile must have hap- myself flot in Putney for pened to her. She had eaten o £7,000, I've got a per and a hearty lunch without once mink coat and enough money to couating the calories. live on for two years.

(London Express &erulce).

CAU

You'll have to stop this habit of siening your work, Halliday!"

Don

робочка

"Something will have to be done about

his short-sightedness!”

AMERICAN NEWSLETTER

To understand

first understand

Cape Cod...

FROM JEAN CAMPBELL

CAPE COD.

Kennedy

and plant the land but the Red crab apples and the Japanese Indians suan taught them to quince. In the bushes lurk oven turn to the net for their Ilveli- Birds, even the trimly swifts, One ind-eyed vertress and the

DUNES THE

Codders to import salt to pre- serve their sh.

A. canny man named John Seara invented u contraption which was called "Scars folly." It consisted of a wooden trough which fostered solar evapora- tion of sea water and saved the fishing industry. The windmills were used to pump ocean water into these troughs.

THE HOUSES

They specialise In hand-me- downs and after a whole family has worn pullover it is rip-

per aport, washed, dried and made into a rug,

This is Jam country, but do not expect to receive a jar of cranberry jelly from your Cape Cod friends.

The tart Ittle cranberry was once called a crone berry and it grow in the crane-infested The Puritans, wishing swamps.

to show King Charles their new repans of pleatitude, shipped

the king ten barrels of their red erane berries.

Charles King tasted one of the crane berries and cold with

smile. A SOUT

The cranes are welcome to the

resl."

THE SEA

This is the land of the hand- some young President Kennedy,

He was brought up with the sound of the Atlantic Ocean beating against the shore beside

him.

Cape Cod stretches out from hoor. the Commonwealth of Massa- So Cape Codders grew up bobolinks. Across the marsh- chusetts into the Atlantic for 70 with the sea. The most daring lands cry

He sailed the sly the Cope the whip-poor-wills

Cad Cat boats and ran down long miles. It is shaped ko a flaccid but flexed arin.

became sea captain adventurers and the wood peewees.

The houses are made of wood the pale dunes. He looked for to the East and West Indies, Here it is the custom to and curiously shaped. There giant whalen through binoculars The English

heromo navigator Bar. Others

whalers and plant a maple tres when your are three main kinds of Cape and heard the ery of the whip- thelomew Gosnold called it deep sea fishermen.

chlid is born, an oak tree when Cod houses, the half house, the

poor-wills neross the marsh- Shoal Hope when he first sight-

your grandchild is born and an three-quarter house and the lands as night fell. ed it in 1002, but after a few

elm tree for your months of fishing its waters he

first great. full house.

He ate fresh lobster and fried· grandchild, wrote in his log book:

Young couples started life scallop. He searched for shells, "Near

The jet black whales-enba- with a halt house (two win- He has the far-seeing blue cyas this cape we took great store of This is the land of Melville's laena glacialis 50 feet long, dowa at one side of the front of a man. born to the sea. Ha Moby Dick. It is a sandy land gumbol to the bay during this door) and built on as the knows the dark of the rocks on of wild, rounded dunes, kon- month. They are passing titans family and wealth increased. deeper reefs. dreds of feet high and miles journeying from Louthern So popular is the deep. looking ke pale shifting waters to

Newfoundland and reason here that Now Cape understand wo island people. moonscapes.

Greenland for a cool sumner. Cudder udd on Toom nfler

The country is dotted with room year after year all hig- THE CAREFREE windmills, for when we block- gledy-piggledy.

(3.2) DAYS..... eded the Americans in 1770 It Cape Codders are thrifty as become impossible for Cape fathe way of all sen people,

cod fish, for which we altered the name to Cape Cod."

Until this century Cape Cod dors paid the attention to in- land America.

They are ava people with sc3- It is the Innd of going ways. The Pilgrim knife-like grasies, and silver Falliers,

mostly farmers by drift-wood. It is the tond of ploe birth, had struggled to clear trees, sweet ferns, bay berries,

Just Fane's

[YSTERY:

That!

Who atole a palicewoman's bat

M Noventle-upon-Tyne e contral rolice station?

from

It

vanished from the top of a showcaso in the station- and turned up.øgnin in a nearby public house..

summer

should It scams he

well

STATISTICS are Ameri-

cons' best friends. They IRMEN Ak Finningley II-bomber station, near | must trust them with a Doncaster, have for months been painting and touching faith. The latest scraping to make the camp look liko new, even wearing statistics tell about the sad felt pads so that boots did not mark polished floors. summer plight of female Reason: un impending visit by Princess Margaret—now bookkeepers and secretaries. cancelled.

Although they are given sWO weekn' vacation each year they actually get only 3.2 "effective.. vocation days."

POLICE raided Branch 633 of the Royal Canadian Legion at Byron, Ontario, and carted off 69 cazen

The Statistles Tabulating Cor* poration arrived at this alarm- ing truth by discovering that VIE University of Witwatersrand claims the world of bear which the legion is forbidden to serve by local TE

Branch president William Dennis sent a by-laws.

Intenso presmire before and "bed-stacking" record from Oklahoma State telegram begging the Queen to intervene because

after the holiday ruined the College. Students packed 83 people on a3ft. we are being victimised by police action resulting loft but 9.2 sandwiched days for value of the holiday itself and dormitory bed during the weekend. It collapped under from political nonsense.” ita six-and-three-quarter-ton load.

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London Ekpress Kervice).

-(Landon Express Berofce).