1961-08-07 — Page 5

Thomas Wiseman's

ARNOLD WESKER,

the most consistent- ly praised of the new young writers, is also the one who has made the least amount money.

of

Soon we shall see the m version of his play The Kitchen, now running at the Royal Court, Though this play has been extremely well received-one favourably cumpared it critic

with some of Euttene O'Neill- It is unlikely that Mr Wesker wil! be able to move out of - North London on the proccetis.

Unlike John Osborne, She- Ingh Delaney, Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse, who have all 'made large mumu from selling the lim rights of their plays, Mr Wesker has much nothing.

THE. CHINA, MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1961.

Wesker abandons

the kitchen-sink

for the Stately

LIMELIGHT

Homes of England

But he assured me we had no ready for searching intellectual

UNPERTURBED to feas that he hatt suld questions, but was rarely asked with my sien, huncat face,

out to Mr Rattigan's Aunt them. Edna. The theme of his play

This is partly due to the fact was, he said, the way in which that he hus niways refused to English Society destroys ta

sell his plays unless he was given complete control over how They are moved. Pow Blm pro-

fusers are ready to accept such

terms.

rebele by absorbing theat

As a rebelitous young writer who has succeeded in resisting absorption. Mr Wesker is well

Tu ke The Kitchen Almed-quafited to write this pluy.

the way he wanted--he agreed

to receive no payment at all,

taking instead 29 per rent uf nty pssible proflis.

sue-

When I talked to thn, Mr Wesker was unperturbed by bl Jazk of Anancial ceas.

have inde enough money to support a family," he sold, "and thất I feel is à con- siderable achievement,"

"}

wrt

Searching

Directur Kenneth Hughes who male the highly praised Trials uf Oscar Wilde, was ult 19 Moscow where his tim WOS entered at the Suviet im fes tival.

Also gone was Miss Shirley Ann Field whose im Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was shown there out of competition.

He has now completed a new play. Chips With Everything. which takes him tale unfamiliar territory. His hero aristocrat, a member of the land. ed gentry who comes from one of the Stately Homes of England,

For Wesker.

Mr Hughes, who has been to Identified with working class Russia before, warned Miss Field characters and the kitchen-sink to be ready for some searching school of play-writing, this is a intellectual questions. Miss Field drustle departure from the norm. replied that she was always

who has been

"My dear chan," he said, Just couldn't get away with My trouble is that I'm likeable There's just nothing you can da

GREEK Actress Meling about that" Mercouri arrived in London to make film which is THE LAST WORD' based on the classic. Phedre. In keeping with the fashion for bringing classle stories up to date, this one is now set in international big business eireles of the present day.

SUPPOSE At was bound to view of the enormous success happen sooner or later-in of flair with biblical themes. Now Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis has announced rathe magnificently that he is

More heroics going to make a film entitled

The Bible on which he will Kenneth More, How recovered spend £8,000,000, Christopher rerent operation. Fry will write the final screen- after his planning to make a flm about play with help from half a the man who founded the French dozen other wṛiterà, Maquis.

I will be the kind of hercie rule he has been pinying suc cessfully and continuously ever since he started in Ams

I asked Mr More the other day whether he ever had a so cret desire to play someone less virtuous and noble,

THE Gina Lollobrigida film, Lady I delayed because of script trouble, has now been shelved. It is estimated that MGM have spent 2,000,000 dollars on preparing the film without having foot of celluloid to show for it.

EX

--(Landon Express Service),

ARRIVING SOON: 1,000 THREATS

TO EVERY IDLE TYPIST...

IDLE British office-girls, beware. There's an Australian standing right behind you. Not a tall, handsome Australian man, but a hard-work- ing, efficient Australian girl.

And any day ΠΟΥ your

to England

long suffering boss he has She plans to ship 1,000 Aus- to be long-suffering because tralian secretaries there's a shortage of 50,000 this year. office workers in Britain- "These girls are workers who moy decide to

give her believe in putting their backs your job.

into a job," she says.

"Employer kave suddenly Mrs Hurst hos just returned gone mad for Australian girls," from Australia, where she has said Mrs Marjorie Hurst," head opened a bureau for alcking of a big employment bureau, staff for this country, and inter"

By

Ann Buchanan

GEORGIA BROWN: When Mort Sahl, the razor-

shorp American comedian,. makes his British debut later this month on BBC television, ha will have on his programma, en English girl whose tongue can be as sharp as his own. She is Georgia Brown, the East End girl who stars in the Lionel Bart musical, Oliver. To the public Miss Brown is known only as a singer who has a way of putting over a number as if her life depended on it. But Miss Brown has none of the demurenoss that seems to bo characteristic of other musical stars. Her conversation is salty, tough and uninhibited. She and Mort Sabt should, maka á fascinating combination on TV.

PICTURE BY MICHAEL WAND

I arrived eight months ago,

think RO They

Australian girls come here to steal their jobs or thelr boy friends."

Her friend, 18 -year-old Muxine Charleston, from Mort- dale, Sydney, laughed."

"There seems to be plenty of work here, although it's not well paid as equivalent jobs oro at home. "But

friend my

and 1 managed to buy a car for £15, which we toured around in until it blew up in Dublin."

"That's crazy," she fald. strong in Australian girls, Thava year because we

The spirit af adventure is very "Most of us come over for only

can make And Brush girls tame.

much more money at home. "English giris don't seem to "Stealing their boy friends? have the same wanderlust," said No-Pommies seem pretty soft Dianne Hodson, a 20-year-old to us.. shorthand-lypist from Hurstville, "British men give you all the "Next year I hope to gel 5,000

nounce opening doors, and over, and the following year the "I saved us four years to come "They think we're mad to raising their hats but they're shy's the limit."

to England." Elizabeth Russell, come all this way for a job, just wolves under those Some Arms are so delighted a 22-year-old schoolteacher from They have resented me in most bowlers." with their Australian shorthand- Hawthorn, Melbourne, told me, of the offices I've been in since -(Londen Express Service).

viewed parents of hundreds of typists that they have promised girls anxious to work in Britain, the girls their jobs back if the

E100 these want to take time "For less than

off to tour girls will be able to get a passage Britain or the Continent.. to England, a guaraniced job on arrival, and free accommodation £15 car' for the first fortnight.

Paris Newsletter

Paris.

T this time of the

AT

year people race from Paris to form

camping sites in the south as sinister 08 medieval battle sites. The caravans are roll- ing south again.

Plorre

So what dues Count ¿'Estrees dot He parks his caravan outside his Purls apart. ment and proceeds to live there detached from the world with his wife. mald, typewriter Hght luggage.

and

This has alarmed A member

neur Sydney.

The Count brings his caravan to rest-in

a Paris boulevard

The caravan has a shower, puff of smoke drifts round her

of the Paris Municipal Counell which many Perls hotel rooms mysterious but beautiful head.

who has waked the Prefect of clea't

Police what

The French Flim Selection

Count d'Estrees believes caru- measures can be taken to prevent Parin streets vanning has a future for the Committee for the forthcoming being invaded by these bestle centre of towns.

Venice Festival is hesitant about Mauvais shaped arrangements.

"Other countries in Europe are sending her thn Les

Signoret much beller at this than us," he Coups because

MIAS

KNOCK GENTLY sald. Stockholm, for instance. was one of those who signed an

Gne

In Paris there is only one spher appeal headed available for caravans, but at Sartre last year

by Jean Paul appealing La in Algeria

At the tenent there is only this time of the year the atto at French troops

caravan parked in Paris the Bois de Boulogne is full. "I desert. strarts. The count's les in a feol I have the moral right to She has yet, as a knowledge- placid avenue behind the Russian camp in front of my own house." able Frenchman says, to be "re-

Somehow I don't think that habilitated." To gain admission you have the Count would make him- te knock gently on the side of arif very popular with

Einbassy.

Mr

this monster white, beetle and Marples if he tried this in

if there is no reply the chonces London,

are the count will hear you if

you shout and shake it violently,

He keeps tha

Avold stares..

shutters up

to

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

RETURN TRIP

FROM JOHN

MOYNIHAN

เง

ALL HIS LIFE Liborio Nerdone modelled for sculptors. "They say great sculptors are immortal," he once said. "I have burled them all." This. week Nardone died aged 94. Ho is most famous for modelling the man in Rodin's The Kiss, which he is seen beside here. This celebrated sculpture was the age London Transport saw 6t to ban when reproduced asia-poster.

She has been invlled as for 'as more boring than in Britain. The desiruction of the Khan Siberia.

Their curtains go up at 0.20." villa will end a nostalgic ers in the life of the resort. It Marle Dell has recently been

Deauville, which a huruired was here that the Aga's father ! to Russia where she acted in Leningrad and Moscow and her years ago was turned from a Aly Khan, drifted through days I hope reason will prevail and performance so delighted the scruffy Norman port into a of ostentatious pleasure. MI ignoret will travel to Russians that they

Awank resort by the Due to Marny, half-brother of Napo

decided to

"I would like to be Khrush. Venice In celluloid. To bat her ask her to go furtħar esst on her. Jeors 111, is to lose une «f, ita ing, hike land on the sea front

would be an insult to the pro- return. visit,

The unique thing is that the cher anit' do everything tension she gracen na queen, count, a French businessman, is Kennedy asks me." - Gina unable to get into his rest apart Lollobrigida. ment because this is let. Ite

Į

Another distinguished French matress is in the newa. Afiae, &

SELLING

The Aga Khan Intenda:retain

which la Int. 1o the Pony Club

mort precious assets.

of Deauville, and a mininture From Denuville I hear that golf course. But I should not His young Aga Khan' In seiling be surprised if he dreiden to his villa on tho, sea front for merge, his stablen at Denuvilio

prefers to live in Paria and While actrom Binone Bignoral tanning holiday at her villa in travel on business in end of playa gin rummy on holiday in Monaco, Marie Dell is going to The hospitality was wonder- £80,000 to a, building company with his headquarter stablos at these contraptions rather than the south with her husband Iturals to performs in Racine, but ful" ahe told me, "but their who latend erecting a block of Chantilly.. stay in twinĺs.

Yves Montanú, • problematic her iept stop will not be. Monzow, theatre opening times are even flats on the site,

London Express Berbios).

Hop-up heliport

24

-HOW-YOB`MAY DO IT IN LONDON-

-Eight

Deck

This could be, the shape of London's heliport In the sky.

Pinus for it are outlined in a report to the Government. published yesterday. I would be up to 200 feet high and cost about £5,000,000,

Three possible sites are named Nine Elms, Batter- sen; Cannon-strect, station: und St. Katherine's dock. near Tower Bridge. 'One hellport, covering about, 12

·Hangarsi

Passenger lifts to

Flight

Deck

Administration Buildings

acres, could handle traffic well into the 1970's, says the report of a 15-man com- miitec.

But it will not be able to cope indefinitely if the hell- copter is accepted means of mass, travel.

G

The particular site for London's Best heliport is not specified. but : Govern. ment is urged to push ahead. with studies into the noise problem.

Born abroad:

one in three of the men who walk the

hospital wards

By DONALD GOMERY

WERE you astonished-and alarmed-to learn that a nurse in Yorkshire gave a patient the wrong medicine because she could not read. write, or speak English?

The nurse was Spanish, and Instead of medicine she gave| There are more than 0,000 her patient u #poonful

of West Indian nurses in our hos- catarine lotion. The patient-pitals; about the same number died. The coroner cleared. the from West Atrien; 400- frum nurse of all blame, and said the Hongkong; 100 from Kenya.............. lolion did not cause or hasten. Then there are the nurses death.

who come here from Germany, This incident shows just how Italy, and Spain.... much Britain depends on The matron of a Newmarket foreign and Commonwealth hospital, desperate for nurses and doctors.

FIFTY-FIFTY

stuff,

went-to Spain herself looking for girls.... and signed up 26. "They are kind, consideratë, and eager to learn," she said.

Sometimes there are difcul- If you had to have your ap- ties, of course. pendix out in a Newcastle,,

Miss Kathleen Daly, a re- Sheffield, or, Manchester hos glonal secretary of the ConTM

pital tomorrow, for instance, 1 federation of Health Service Afty-fly that the doctor in Employees, sald that ut ono charge of you would be from hospital in her ares the senior nurses had to stort learning Of 9,500 doctors in the junior Italian and Spanish to mako grades in hospitals, 3,000 were themselves understood by new-

eversex.

.

born outside Britain,

The position with nurRES much the same. One dut

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comers to the staff,

And among porters, cleaners,

of and kitchen staff in hospitals,

Commonwealth,

every three girla entering the about 60 per cent ore from the

nursing service is from abroad.

- Mr W. J. Jepson, general secretary of the Confederation Lot Health Bervice Employers, Ando the position disturbing.

POCKET CARTOON and in urging a royal commis-

by FRIELL

Arts Theatre

Lady Chatterley

ADVANCE BOOKING

"I'm afraid wớll have to ask you to leave your pun in the cloakroom on- tiles first night, Mr. Mellora)**-

London Exprata Marudod

sion to inquire into saforles and Teondlitons of service among our

RUTECS.

DANGER

He emphasized to ma that 'It this flow of people from abroad | stops -- #a li mhy when foreign

and

Commonwealth hospitals

develop-Brlialn's Health Ber- will take n:tremendous

vice krock.

The

same point has been made about doctors, by An official working parly under the chairmanship of a distinguished physician, Sir Robert Platt,

“Is repórt pointed out that many of these doctors are 'over here only temporarily.

A facilities for training develop in their own countries, the flow of doctors to Britain will begin to dry up. And there are not enough" British 'doctors to take their places,

Both in nursing and in due. {toring... Britain .... S, frighioningly dependent on prople from ověře

tean.

Without them the Health Service just could not run,

AmfLondon Express Birmied),