1961-10-24 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1961.

SUMMER ENGLAND

At Ease

WHEN newly ar-

rived, the greatest thrill I get is wandering into Lords Cricket Ground. There nothing changes, except after much discussion, when a bit of a stond is altered or a score board is amended.

But the types do not alter. I mean the types who should be at the office on

Monday morning. but somehow manage to sneak out.

We have met over the years. yet un meiter how Jung Tum away, they are always

there When get back, and after a urt glane or two. I get a frusty then one will "Good morning." say, "Hayn't seen you around Tately," them later. "Of course, you live abrund now," and we are back where we were.

1 prefer Montley morning at Lords when an ordinary county match is being played. We stand on the tavern steps; we deride the ne In the field; there is not a man jack of us who would not do better out at the wicket thon the present Doctant.

We recall the cricketers of former days when there were giants in the land. One frosty moustached type remembers William Gilbert Grace. He in our oracle and so far, I cannot re- member any member of our exclusive community con- tradicting him.

You he Is a mild marwered man except when it cornes to the faris and Agures of cricket, and if some unfortunate should vetstore an opinion which cannot Lu substantiated, the oracle bowls him out with all the grace of a hungry wolf,

Mr Lord's Cricket Ground at St John's Wood must be the most penceful spot in the world. There was plenty of Sun this year, and to go into the ground away froma the mise of the traffle and see that egil menikowe,

lush green, enclosed by high ivy clad walls, is just heaven.

The Aussies

that Something

really England is enshrined there, Something kindly. sunething decent, something reminiscent of Ruperi Brooke," "long twilights, and tolerance. However, the Australians were

They

over. always choose the year I happen to be a name.

In spite of the fact that the press had tried to work up as rauch bad feeling as possible

FREDDY-he was getting us out!

It was a stroke of geaius when to join the BBC Invited Jack their panel of TV cricket com- mentators. His rendy wit and

equalled startsmanship fair comment kalned thousands of "fans" in England.

and halmo

The Yorkshireman returned his tekets to the Oval ground with the comment that he was not aware that Englund was playing her second eleven.

Another nice touch about this summer jorts scoson occurred of the the Saterday Leeds Test match. It happened to be the final day of the Wimbledon Championships and Freddy Trueman and Christine greetings. Truman

For bustance. the TV panel during

and Jack work ut! screens Flagleton apart from doing his chores wilfr sound radio for Australia, put in quite a time with the BBC Television, as well a cabling off his comuments on the game

to Australia every evening.

The TV panel work ol acreens, and as you probably know, when the game slows down, the Camera scans the

for ground

some Interesting shots.

One of these brought ginmorous policewoman at Leeds into forus. Cracked Juck, "My....I'd like to be taken in charge by her."

Jack Fingleton told us a lovely story. Most cricket fans know that Freddy Trueman of York- shire very popular in Aus- Trutin, his blunt Yorkshire manner

Koes down very well

there.

TOMORROW:- THE THEATRE

For a Yorkshireman, Freddy He will talk is very talkative.

10 anyone at any time, and on une occasion, he had cornered and MacDonald of Australia, during the course of the con- found MacDonaldi versation,

time to tell Fredly that in his, MacDonald's opinion, Freddy Trueman

bowler in the world,

The moral to that is, Freddy has never bowled MacDonald a bumper!

The reason

exchanged Freddy ran through the Aus tralian side but poor Christine lost to Angela Mortimer.

in this match the Spurs were classy and truly super. But in the ensuing League games they have fallen by the wayside.

1t was worth a trip to Bourne- mouth to see stap-happy Hamp» shire win a cheeky match that made them Cricket Champions for the first ilme. I also return- ed to Lords to see Middlesex defeat Yorkshire.

The sun was low in the sky and this summer was almost auf. The shadows on the grass were long. Suddenly the speriators rose to cheer as the teams went in. The players were going off the field

. the crowd was

going home, the covers

across the were being drawn be pitch

the first chill

Which reminds me. The Wimbledon crowd who Imagine themselves to the elite of English sports- manship behaved la # manner that would dis- grace a South American partisan mob.

Chrisline Truman is young and Wimbledon favourite, but during the long disill years of English tennis, I was Angela base line Mortimer, steady player, who kept the English Women somewhere in front.

Chrisline is o bold player who dashes up to the net. Angela relies on accurate returns which wear her opponent down. Chris- tine is much more interesting to watch, but on the other hand, It was Angela who had already beaten the favourite, Sandra Reynolds of South Africa.

In the

Spiteful

Anal Christine

had

won the first set and Angela had Just drawn ahead in the second When Christine slipped and sell.

It was not a heavy fall und she did not hurt herself much, but Angela Mortimer went ahead to win that set and the next

The spiteful Wimbledon crowd

autumn wind blew down some

leaves.

It was all over.

by JOHN

LURF

The scene at Bournemouth when A. Ingleby-Mackenzie, captain of Hampshire, spoke to the crowd applauding Hampshire's win over Derbyshire which gave Hampshire the 1961 Cricket Championship.

SHOW PAGE

IT'S ON: THE BIG

RUSH TO JOIN

Mr COOK'S CLUB

do

THAT "W think of

you

loodicrous," "It's

sald Mr

GOOK

Conk, spreading his hands in of whose face hangs on his it?" horror, forgetting the £8,000 office wall. "I'm no more un-

back,

subscription money. "Over 4,000 kind to him than he is to me people from S.W.1-that's what annoys me. The only healthy and he has his chance to fight sign is that the stage staff and

"For not the cast of My Fair Lady

Some extraordinary. have joined. But we've hađ reason people suppose that lots of lords on the telephone. because people are at the top they are important. In fact they are as ludicrously inode- quate and stupid as the rest of

2

Teporters: Gorard Garrett Maureen Cleave

QUICK TAKES

ANOTHER big stur to play a bit part in

Am The Road to Hongkong · la

• British Lion, the ETER SELLERS as an Indian.doctor.

• prestige company, release a monster fire, Gorgo, this month. Producers the KING BROTHERS describe it "A warm story of togetherness. Our monsters are lovable." Actually they eat up much of London. • JAMES LAWRIE, founder of the 50 Theatre which had an artistic. success but a anuncial failure at the Lyric Theatre, Hammer- smith, over two years ago, has revived it. First piny Aus- tralian drama, The One Day Of The Year, JACKIE LANE is TERRY-THUMAS's leading Indy in Operation Snatch.

• PAUL NEWMAN took trombone lessons for his Jazz Alm, Paris Blues,

A bad memory

catches up with

Dirk Bogarde...

was the finest fast one, which gave her the match, asked Peter Cook, sur

veying the hunting pink did not hide their disappoint-portals of his new night ment. Mortimer left to a frosty club. silence, but was not unduly put The Establishment' goes in Dut.

lights down that way, and the words London's First Satirical Night Club' go along the bottom. Underneath I'd like to add 1

Deat fali?" You Can't Join Them.

"The fact to get across to the humanity," said Mr Cook stiffen-

worried. Not on be- Them.

Peter Cook is only 23. He is public is that i am fundamental- ing his features in a hideous half of his controversial toli and handsome, ment and ly dull. They find sne funny simper, "when they have Bingo film Victim, which has tidy in appearance with a pretty conventional background for a rebel.

press

His father is retired Colonial

'IN MY WAY'

"I shall finally despair of DIRK BOGARDE is

because they are fundamentally on television." duller.

only

She was Interviewed almost Immediately by the Press, and to the question, "Did Christine any anything about her thought the

she answered, "No, Chris is too coverage of the test series good a sport to make that an pretty poor, so perhaps you excuse. don't know why Freddy Trueman was dropped for her interview. She is young. Christine Truman arrived for

look on The Establishment close we will be closed quietly" first week of its London "I have a feeling that if we broken records on the the Oval match.

easily impressed, and by this

as a group of toodicrous (3 You probably recall the feeble time her disappointment was Service and his family lives in a

word Mr Cook uses often) "Nobody will take us to law release. before the Australian Team Old Trafford match with Eng- greater than her wisdom, She nien ivy-covered house in Lyme lots who get in my way. for anything we any-we're not

land's batsmen scratching away spoke of giving up tennis, and Regis. He went to Iladicy and

Insured for £50,000. I

Not on account of the part "What we will be getting at said that for a joke-but if we he plays in his current film The

Parlament and judges —— Beyondl the Fringe made is

cause mortal offence to anybody, Mullicers-03 a sadistic and Peler Cook, Jonathan Miller,

there's always some idint on the

an un tyrannical officer of the old

Women did for Sophia Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett Bench sounding off the they will whisper in Important word

un- British Navy. an The Press got to work.the darlings of critics

road the smart Important ear, and we will get and people who

Loren. She plays a peasant glossles and the Bow Group. If Angeln Mortimer had sophisticates. Four thousand of They're SHOCKERS!" would

closed down on some addling

Mr Bogarde is worried be- woman. A grubby tart in Spain pretext. tripped Christine and bat- these have joined London's First

cause he has heard that his Alm during the Civil War. Mr Cook

"She really put her heart has something "That," said Mr Cook darkly, The Angel Wore Red may be tered her with her tennis Satirica) Night Club, and they're

few knocks when it approaching a vendetta with the "s the way some things in this seen soon at the Coltseum. And into it. I think she was anxious racket, they could not have in for a

Prime Minister, a plastle replica country still work."

Dirk Bogarde would prefer us to be more selective and make heen more savage.

not to see the film at all.

beller pletures. She played · It without make-up, without Д bra. with holes torn in ber dress.

arrived in England, their vicious effurie were entirely unre- Wardeil.

For the whole series

Was played in an atmosphere of good sportsmanship, with the Australian Teom in particular upholding the spielt of the game, und play!nt

cleanly

yet We

Oggressively in

a manner

like to dub "British."

In particular, I recall the

nl the wicket like a lot of old hens,

us all The day began with wondering how many England would win by: then Australia save the gume.. then would England sove the game

how ..then many runs England would lose by,

But something happened

Subba Row and RN. Harvey earlier during Australia's last Incidents. Harvey is great l the Held and on twy vecasions innings, and the longer Freddy Trueman bowled, the brighter

when Australia badly needed

hid what seemed to be catches taken at the dive.

luty

Subba Row'n wicket, Harvey Krew Benaud's fare. For Freddy was cutting up the wicket his end like no one's business. During an interval, Benaud had lole at it and he evidently liked what he saw.

It was Harvey who signalled "o catch" on both secasions,

Neither did the crowd permit auch sportsmanship to go unnoticed, and Har- voy's enra murt still be ringing with the applause that greeted him ns he came in.

Genius

Then there was the and oc- casion when Subba Row DKA- nounced his last innings in a

Tho

the encouraged by

repurters, Cambridge. too vocul about the she was elrcumstances of her defcal.

The sympathy

opens.

Coming up-the

HAVE had the most suc-

They described Angela 114 "The old maid of tennis," and then Angels lost her tempor. have the sympathy so She returned, "Chrisline can

culent meal of cod ateak, long as I have the Championship.

roast Scotch beef, peas, Even the alald Observer Join- | carrots, potatoes, and rasp-

in with u letter from

exotic menu, I agree. berries for dessert. Not an

rot started with May. Benaud had himself reader, who recalled a Cham on to bowl and dropped the pionship match sunetime

Jr

ball In the rut that True Edwardian days In which be But this fact should raise on man had left. Never have I had seen a potential champion ayebrow or two: every item i scen a hall come back like throw away a match rather than

the one that had May. It came back from behind his lega and bowled him good and true,

The Tru(e)mans

Test. That was at the Oval, Then started the procession.

defest an opponent.

had to eat was two years old

and before it was cooked the whole meal fitted snugly into a Which meant, I suppose, teacup. that Mortimer had to I swear that favour, mmell, double fault through thejakt nourishment value wure as

joint in

teacup

by

rent of the set at which she good an anything in the drops EDWARD TROW

A banketful

This is the picture he made nearly two years ago in Madrid with Ava Gardner as his leading lady.

MAGNIFICENT

"It wa

a magnificent part

Two

BOGARDE

"Then word came from the front office in Hollywood. This wouldn't do. They wanted more glamour. They put a corset on her and tidled her up. The life went out of Ava after that, "I won hoping that we could

for Ava," said Mr Bogarde. "It bank the money and then quietly could have done for her what forget it ever happened."

Top parts only for Kamala

XOTIC Kamala Devi

Ex

born in Indin, educated

of carrots can in Hertfordshire, until re be processed down to only 2oz. contly resident in Rome, roconsiliuted in water and there and now on her way to Call- will be enough for 18 helpings.fornia is a starlet with More than 8015. of cabbage à difference. Her face is not can be shrunk to less then the her only fortune, she has size or a more flat. A cad atcok big money in the bank. can be reduced to the weight of one cigarette,

that

DEVI

down the High-stret that it Atood 4-3, and carry on doing so through the last was be satisfying as 70 per cent

of the menis served in rv AFD. for short-le an entirely net. I have rarely seen attronis.

now development for the

After being discovered in more stupid lefter publish-

food

had

was dehydrating of any foodstufe

talent! Accelerated ed by the press.

Freeze Dried from fruit to is,

The process, I understand, is Rotne by Hollywood and how the Australlana ap-

revolutionary procem that is go-

Borne Couth and introduced to the No taste or goodners la lost now po advanced plauded his century. For he had

ing to affoot every larder und from the food: It is back to manufacturers are even freezes world in Harry Black Jungle no need to work at all-which begun and ended lila Teat career

pantry in Britain.

normal in size, Age, and shell drying whole pre-cooked diu-im-ake is now to settle in the places her at an advantage over

diferent port of jungle of with a century.

Ela thin lovely summer

The mean be on to got the with a dip in cold or hot water.

Miss Devi-now 22-old me Jack Fingleton, Journalist and

sport passed try. The football food into the shops. And I A Jaint of bent will shrink to

The best can be brought back Beverly in and organing her es wentthy competitors, 1

she would only take top parte, former Text erlukoter, was over Yorkshire in general and ono season opened and i went to understand the fret conslu- t into an ordinary leacup with to normal simply by pouring on

She has a substanital allow. Otherwise she would give up on behalf of his paper and the Yorkshireman In particular eve Tottenham Hotspur playments will be on salo let the the A.F.D. procese: soak the hot gravy. Vogeinblca are ready

ance from her father, a surgeon acting, or buy her own swty. Australian Broadonsting Cor. Were

in seconds. very Indignant when against an FA XI. The game and of the year.

meat in water and in secondle it

in Bombay, and tells me she has

London Express Bärvida)," Freddy Trioman was dropped, was played in terrific heat, and Accelerated Freeze Drying- is back to its normal size. poration.

Benaud was simply unplayable, The crowd rose to him. He was cheered off in a manner crowd used to cheer the young Brndman,

the

of

Cra.

(London Express Service).

carcer