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"Piprat Ya know bɔnny Chartly who gang awa? Well, he's back again”.

SALO ADAT

"You~| Believe we could

UTU

a good man in the

Midlands."'

BUREAU OF MISSING PERSONS

We

Don't worry too much about your wife. don't always find them. you know."

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JULY 17, 1961.

Thomas Wiseman's

LIMELIGHT

Shadowy Mr. Lewenstein

in the theatre

a power in

WHATEVER

else Finney. In addition he has under, contract and brought have always put on plays that

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three ploys already running in him tỷ London. may be said about the west End: Sartre's Altona,

LJur

"[ Celebration. Billy

and Wolf

Mankowitz-and

And he has big plans. what hasn't been said about him?-there is no doubt that he custs a huge shadow.

Whatever may be said about Oscar Lowenstein and not much has been said about him to date he is easily obliterated even by small shadow.

It

senreely surprising therefore that during the five- and-a-half years these two men were partners la the bust ness of puiting on playe we heard a lot about Wolf and very

e about Oscar.

FORMIDABLE

I was only when the partner- ship broke up and Mr Mon- kowitz moved his vast shadow elsewhere that one began notice the existence of Mr Lowenstein. And to realise that

-ppented to me. When I pre went Birmingham,sented The Threepenny Opera I was ahead of public taste and recals Lewenstein, "to sto lost £700.

Lasic Now public Finney playing Macbeth. It was hat cought up, and I make a At prezent he is looking at a very whiskery production, profit." striptease clubs which may und Finney wasn't really very have to close down because of good in it. Hut when I got to recent prosecutions: he would his dressing-room and like to turn one of these places started removing the whiskera inte a medium-priced night I saw this marvellously inter- club where sathleal cabaret esiing fare underneath. could be launched in London.

he Five girls....

"offered Finney a role in He is also looking for a place The Party with Charles where he could start a Negro Laughton-and a contract 10 theatre. He has commissioned to two other plays for me." Christopher Isherwood to turn

When Flaney was taken int his Berlin stories into a musical during the first week of for which W. J. Auden is rehearsing The Long and the writing the lyrics. and is to short and the Tall. Lewenstein present another musical based replaced lihn with another un- in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodles, known actor he bad spoljed In the provinces: Peter O'Toole.

It is evident that Mr Lewes - stein has been very active in the shadows. De snall, frail bird like man of 44 who looks as though he could be devoured at une'swallow by any marauding Wolf in the theatrical Jungle.

But this Is not what has It is the Wolf who happened. has suffered a grievous blow since their spp the lost around £20,000 on Belle) while Oscar has flourished-his pro- thuction of Billy Liar has earned £70,000 for himself and his backers,

"Finney started working for me, said Lowenstein, "at a salary of £30 a week. In Billy Llar he was eventually making £274. And now he has become such a big traction that in Luther he works for 1 centage of the gross. His per- centage isn't quite as big as the one Olivier gets--but in his next play It will be

INTO FILMS

TOO CAUTIOUS imprudelions. He has joined

"When Wolf and 1 went Into partnership,' he said, " was on the basis that he would provide the ideas and I would' de the actual work of pulling on the plays. But when he started taking an interest in The actual productions didn't see

He eye to eye. thought was too slow for hin, formidable too cautious."

OSCAR LEWENSTEIN Out of the shadows,

London Express Servic

he had become force in the theatre.

Recently

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now emerges that, incon- Mr Lewensuin- spicuously and without much in conjunction with the Engado, Mr Lewenstein has been fish Stage Company-presented exerting a considerable imluence John Osborne's much awaited on the theatre. It was he who new play. Luther, with Albert found Albert Finney, put him

Last week, Eric Syker tef for Rome to star in a new M-G-M production. Vill age of Daughters. He is thus following in the footsteps of his fellow Goons (Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Splke M- gan), who have all gone into films.

But Mr Sykes has been more adventurous and daring than any of them. In his very first dlm he will be amorously entangled with live lush Italian girls.

When I saw him the other day he was extremely worrieri about such a drastic departure from normal Goon behaviour,

"In the Goon show," he ex- plained, "there were never any love scenes, girls were hardly ever mentioned and there were no sex-jokes,

"We all knew that we were not cut out to be lovers. I have always had a dread of playing love scenes, I mean, it stands to reason-just look at me. It'd be ludicrous."

Now Lewenstein is broaden ang bis activities and going into

John Osborne and Tony Richardson 012 a director of Woodfall, which mode Satur- The trouble according to Mr day Night and Sunday Morning Sykes, is that audiences do not und häs just completed A identity themselves Taste, of Himey.

comedian,

to

Mr Lowenstein became an impresario without having any private financial resources draw upon.

He got his first show-business experience as a sergeant in the Army putting on

concerts.

with

a

arc you

D William Holden. he sald, "everybuty tllt there in the audience is

rooling for you to get the girl. But if you're me, they want you to fall at on your face."

Mr Sykes. is dreading his with 1 Miss first encounter

whom he des Scilla Cabel, cribed, unhappily, ps a “luscious Italian creature who looks like He considered the question Sophia Loren.” for a while, then he said: "I

I asked Mr Lewenstein to unflamboyant, success. account for his remarkable, If

--ondon Express Service),

PIOTURE BY MICHAEL WARD

MISS STEVENS IS PLAYING

A JAZZ-SINGING DESDEMONA

TISS MARTI STEVENS jealousy by means of the

MSS, MARE SUE ROW (amous incriminating

York to play a some- what unusual role in a new British film, All Night Long, Miss Stevens will play a jazz-singing Desdemona in a film that follows the plot of Othello, but trans- poses Shakespeare's story to

a modern setting.

Desdemona's lover is a Negro band - leader, and lago is a drummer in a rival band. Instead of arousing Othello's suspicion and

handkerchief, this lago uses mare up to the minute methods. By artfully joining together pieces of magnetic tape, ho produces a record- ing which convinces Othello of his girl friend's unfaith- fulness.

But All Night Long goes only so far in following the Shakespeare original. There is a happy ending for the modern Othalia and Desdemona,

**George ...

Let me handle this my way!"

брашно Вавил

"In future you'll do yout

own homework!"

SET

"If you're playing Lady Godiva, dar, don't lat the horse steal the Acena!"

*00.790 JAVs to slam and goo

AFTER THE PEERS DISCUSS BIRTH CONTROL:

A MOTHER REPLIES

There's one thing

DEAR ME, dear me,

Lord Brabazon, what will the children think? Last week in the cloistered cool of the House of Lords this noble gentleman propos. ed, as near as makes no difference, sterilisation for every Dad who had fathered up to four children.

veryone seems

to forget.

By PENELOPE MORTIMER

add fuel to the flames seems What prompted this curiously if Lord Brabazon will forgive savage and psychologically ch- surd solution to the problems me-a litle naughty. of over-population, heaven and Lord Brabazon only know.

To his mind, the whole busi- neas of birth regulation is the responsibility of the man and (I quolo) "Any father of three or four children has enough."

had

If there was ever a bad arga- ment to support a good cause, this seems to me to be it.

Imagine the situation. Things are a bit strained one evening. Number one's school fees have just gone up, number two has buried # dend frog in dad's briefcase. Number three keeps falling out `at bed.

It's almost a week since you had your

dono and its bair macaroni cheese for supper because the children like 11.

Commanding

"I'll have breakfast early," he says in commanding tones. "I've just got to nip Into the doctors."

The motion he was moving

that. There's this business, as ly

But nothing is as simple as in life. They, he salú (vague- Indicating Cornemure, Lord Brabazon says, of educa- County Kildare, and the Blar- ney Stone) are able to wall so long for the joys of marriage because they have education In chastity and self control.

tion.

was that the further develop- You've Fol to tench people ment and education In the not only to want a higher standard of living but to enjoy regulation of birth would con- tribute to world peace and this, when they've got it. of course, makes sense.

You've got to teach them that So acute is the problem of they will be better off if they

turn all their instinets Inside over population that there are only two ways of dealing with out. it: you've got to build on to the work, or drastically reduce the number of people living on

1.

Principle

Invaluable

Perhaps this invaluable in- struction could be given by moblie units to the ignorant Arlons, who are obviously in need

11.

You've got to teach them thal roly-poly kittens turn Into large hungry cats and that the

It is more romantle solu- very excellent desire to have tion that Lord Brabazon's, but bables bears no relation to the possibly a tle unrealisile.. welfare of the human race.

You've got to turn them from There are various cunning sentimental fatalists Into intel ways of destroying the living. ligent sensualists, and If that but even the most ruthless sounds complicated it is. methods don't, in the long run, have much effect. The only practical thing, obviously, is to thin out the future.

You've got to drum into their heads that having children is the result of wha! Lord Broba- zon so sweetly calls "the cle- mental pleasures"-but not the

Very few people nowadays arg against birth control In purpose. principle. It is the methods they argue about.

This may seem to many of us ilko urguing how many Chin- ese can stand on the head of a pin, but it raises an enormous had enough," he says amount of hol argument and hot air.

"Not well?" you ask.

"I've Daily.

Well, it was only you, after all, who had the idea of a round half dozen.

Hungry

This solution cannot, I think, You might think that it is be taken seriously. The whole the businem of the scientists to problem of birth" "control is, as produce the pill and of the in- Viscount Hillsbor rezarks, dyldual to decide when and such an explosive" insue that to why tỏ take.

Tidy

We all know why birth con- trol is vitally

necessary-the question still remains how It should be done. A slight opera- tion?

Marrying at 50? The magic pl17 The only thing that seems to escape the eager minds of the planners is that for every cane individual on this teeming Earth, down to the humblest Clanese coolle or British_peer, this raust be a matter of cholon. There are people who don't

of how mucha

And all this has got to be like children, and people who presented not to us, the tidy Gambols of the West with our do-regardless three roomed fats and free pollo Injections und nowhere to put cercat they've got to feed them the pram-bul to the other half

on. Socially and eccmomically of the world population, the millions to whom ali the this theories of birth and death boll

This may be disaster, but it's a down to a bowl of rice.

fact far beyond the power of

The Irish, onid the Earl of any politician. Iddesleigh, have solved the whole problem by marrying late

-(London Exprein Bervicm),

POCKET CARTOON BY FRIELL

3A WEEK

FAY RISE

EUR CONTACTS

"I see they're offering us Inducements slow to get us to stay on in!!

London Espreji Sesztes.

POCKET CARTOON by OSPERT LANCASTER

"Lord Brabazon, I are, prefers the old, tried methods"

London Express Bervice.

RANTING WIVES MAY HAVE TO PAY FINES

TXTIVES who rapt, hua-

bands who yell, chil dren who shout, and

ovon

mothers of babies who cry may face prosecution under a new by-law that has given a shock to the county coun- cillors who approved it now that all its implications have become apparent.

came into The law, which effect Jast week in Kesteven, Lincoinshire, was elmed AL Chilef target: "noisy animals," dogs that bark in the night.

But the way It be becn framed could mean that "nolsy animals" would, legally speak- ing. Include any human beings who kicked up a racket,

States the by-law: No KIT-

SOR shall keep within any house, building or premises opy noisy animal which shall be ör cause a serious nutsanco to residents,"

Excluded

The big issue is: Does it in- clude human beings? Sulď a councillor, Wing-Commander' A. McCreary: "In the dictionary definition a human being' Is an animal--and a lut of them in our area act like it.

"The worst unitual on our the human housing estates is wall If this by-low is used half the householders will have to abate the nuisance caused by their children."

Commented

Kosteven county council official! "The only place the by-law could: be Interpreted Je in court. The by law was not meant to luclide humans."

London Express. Service.