1961-10-26 — Page 6

OH YANG

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1901.

SUMMER - ENGLAND

*I wish Maria Velasco luck. *

THE

LULLABY

ΟΝ

CURE

FOR

WORRY

Deep

Sleep

bij

JOHN LUFF

Symbols... naughty words

IN order to get my finger on the pulse of

the theatre, I thought I would try and work out for myself just what Jean-Paul Sartre is trying to say, and as a good cast were performing "Altona" at the Saville Theatre, it seemed a good opportunity,

The cast included Claire Bloom, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Haigh, and Basil Sydney.

The theaire was reasonably full for a hot June night, and

In other words, a man will once again I wished that Lon-exercise power authurity as he don's theatre savners would re- is shaped by his secial role. Hard air conditioning, na so

This question of power is an

and a

haunted house

much as a luxury but n ancient one, and I am noi satis- necessity. It is difficult to enjoy fed in my mind that Sartre

brings much that is new to the with what seemed a diplomatic problems.

a play with hundreds of perspice ing people around you.

ailment.

However, Lo Sartre, It is 1 have never heard it put as Peter Hall produced the play

about hanging

around outside

beautiful Georgian house design- ed by Basevi, the architect who fashioned so much of Belgravis. Mr Baker showed TTLE all over this house. The beautiful rooms are as they were, the Ano replaces, Bach worth several hundreds of pounds, are preserved. It is strange to see the pop artists enter- ing rooms which retain their

exquisite form, furnished in the Georgian, period, even to the grand pianos which have the form and design or spinets, The desks are built to har- monlse with the surroundings; beautiful carpets cover the floors, while downstairs in want WIN once the servants' quarters, huge ranges shelves hold piles of popular

Haunted

ان

Bing says he hates stage music. It was certainly Alice appearances and avoids in Wonderlandish.

Mr Baker's only concession them all he con. He must to modern art is a wonderful dimeult to understand Sartre.

such, bul Sartre's hatred of and a jolly performance it was. chießy because he does not

be worth some money for collection of pictures by Europe's nower seems to be a revulsion Dorothy Tutio was an awful

leading Em Been to understand himself. He

the amount he turns down and America's thesis of good sport as Jullet while Brion against the Nietzche Makes statement, he farms Beyond Good and Evil." But if Murray who took over Itomeo from TV contracts would temporary artists. premises, but bu: ignores the pro-power is to be removed from the realised that of this nonsense ny off Europe's national cesses of logie. No conclusions earth, whence comes that power

debts! are drawn froen his red which is to remove power? syllogisms, and It seems to me

Sartre does not speak of the that Sartre is trying to work

misuse of power. by the way, out the problem with, not for, bat of power per se power. Mix- his audiences.

ed up with that is the tribunal of history. Sarire is saying that a man and his age are never judged by the standards of his own time, but by the standards of the future historian.

Power

He speaks of power. that power is derived from man in his environment. And according le the particular environment In which man lives, he will exer- cise power accordingly. accorting to Sartre, the factory manager will wield his power at home on his family, because he does in his factory, and so on,

Thus, in

BY

DONALD

SEAMAN

business

life:

little things his mind loomed giant size in

10 escape from

and he longed

it all.

"hack H

duy

in bed 10

Symbolic

his plays, it presenting seems to me he projects his mind ahead, and reveals his characters as he thinks history will view them. Again, he is up against enormous difficulties. But it is a brave and bold attempt.

His plays, while they have certain conventional aspects, are not. in his cuse. "the play's the thing.

Although a certain amount of plat is there, and a story of sorts, the play itself is symbolic, su that it possible to see li just as a play, many do, without taking into regard the symbolic meaning behind It.

girl's bedrooms Just dues not dig these days.

So it was left to Edith Evans to show the young Shakespear

Just what

cans

Shakespeare

is. Her performance as the nurse was the only real performance in the play. Obviously, with all the publieify the Lady

Funny how the old tunes are the really popular tunes, Bob Hope brought down the house with his "Two Sleepy People,"

At Phewood, they are going in for the International market with what they reckon is a flm which will have the teenagers

There is a tremendous atmosphere of being in 1 congenial company, an was much surprised when after discussing muste, art, Cyril

,business, and Chatterley stampeding at the cinema doors.

irinl received when Penguins were prosecuted for publishing the book. It was not quing to be thrown away.

Naughty

The Arts Theatre brought out a dramatised version of Lady Chatterly and a good giggle was had all round.

The picture is "All Night Long," and is a kind of jazz festival on velluinid.

I went to Pinewood to see them shoot a night club scene Patrick McGoohan in which takes over the jazz drums. Con- sidering he had to tearn them to fit in with a band formed from the world's top jazzmen, he has accomplished marvels. But while at Pinewood, I came across Marin Velasco, a Philippine girl whit features in the im.

Maria

1

Baker snid quite solemnly, **There Is of

course. ghost in the place. None of the stuff like working late alone."

Out-

These seemed strange. side the sun was shining bril- Bantly; inside all seemed bright and beautiful amid the perfect austere lines of the room.

"Sheridan died in this house," continued Mr Baker, "we will go up and see the room." So we went up. The room looks onto what is now Regent-street, in those days a country road which led out of London.

Is it Sheridan's ghost which Maria is no stranger to British haunts this house," I asked, nudiences as she has appeared Mr Baker shook his head. in cabaret at London, Manches- "I am not sure, but 1 must ter, and other places.

any he is a mosi congenial This flor will place Maria ghost. I do not mind a bit,

the Velance Iri

international But he is exceptionally cur- bracket. We had a talk about jods, and when we are working Manila, Maria's hometown, and late, we find him staring over Paris where Marla has lived for our shoulders. the past six years, and I wished lier fuck in her first big fim.

Talking about jne and all that goes with it, 1 met Mr Cyril Baker, brother of Mr Ken Baker of this Colony.

The four letter word was trotted out, but having tet that go, nothing was left. For after all, they won't permit that there 'ere' on the London

stage, Arts Theatre or not, so apart from a decreasing nudience of

provincials. naughty 50 in "Altona," which has

nothing much happened. former Nazi officer wall himself that he has

However, the boys in Fleet up. 31 fa revented committed during the war nome street had a good laugh, for hav namelesa horror. Afterwards, he ing read the book sometime in acclimatise myself. Next mom has walled himself up. literally, their schooldays, they were de- ing I had a pill. After that for his father's house. The plot lighted to flad Lady Chatterley in her bed with a pink nightle me there was nothing, a dream-work uut from there.

But the whole is symbolic. on. less blank, a vold, nothing, no These situations are happening This, as they knew only too sense of being, for Eve days.

all the time. The fact that Sar- well, he self-respecting game don't remianbur esting, taking tre chouses the Nazi regime is keeper would permit, and they pilte, talking, or the times I was merely because Genet had chosen said so, and what is more, thei

Tin Pan Alley de luxe. which Sartre Intended wrote jo. physleatly supported when I Algeria

So the next time Lady Chai who handle Elvis Presley's mus- And there sits Cyril Baker knowledge 1 lost no weight,

"Those five day's WTC une

terley appeared, it was without besides quite a number of making trans-Atlantic tele- long. blissful blank. When

her nighile, and the provincials other people's songs, and repre- phone calls, while the ghost caught their trains back to their tents their interest. got out the improvement was fantastic. I was able to cope

was one with the Cities of the for a very entertaining Univer- ing in.

sal-International Alm which will In business, We were happier,

Plain. much happier, at home."

September."

I

the morning that George Williams, a hard-headed London business out of bed. To the best of my man of 47, woke up in a psychiatric ward of a famous London hos- pital, he discovered that five days had been painlessly removed from his life.

Where there should have

They

modern do not

put the patient corn letely out, but relax him com-

been Monday and Tuesday ward tu shmber nway the with no harmful effects, and the other days of the mounting pressure of week, with a wife and two wanmercial life.

Life-saver

Bul in the 1960's mental pletely." children at home and an

strain hit: the Pullents are roused, usually the City to work stress and

plumber just as hard as the every five or six hours, for their WAS a permanent

office in

in, there was nothing, not pop-singer even the haziest memory.

and lay low

Eailor as

eure? caso,

in my own "Well. the meals. They can sit up (with after two days, worries started

nurse attendonce), use a to come back. But I felt equip knite, furk, and spoon tackle je to face them. I suppose I

normal

waken meal and

to use.

Cyril Baker is a director of Belinda Company, the people

Maybe it is Sheridan. For what could be more curlous than to And this house Bt to enli. which Sheridan used

(for he was a neighbour) en- aged in turning out pop music and booking International pop Fingers?

The difficulty, as I nee it, in in Sartre selecting pri- vate symbols. For I hold towns convinced that Londen He is also handling the music of Sheridon stands by listen.

that if a symbol is so alien that it cannot be inter- preted by an audience, then it becomes meaningless.

Weakness

Nothing much was happening teen in the Colony, "Come TOMORROW: —

In the m world. I went down to the studlus, and found only two films going full out.

Georgian

'Songs and Snatches,' Bing Crosby and Bob Hope arrived to make at Shepperton, "The Road to Hongkong. They Like most people engaged in the last of John Luff's

quille an amount of taly flashy tinsle world of jazz Sartre choses the crab as the received often f tinker and

not only in publicity, not so much for their and pop. Cyril Baker is a seri emblem of harcor this play but in another of his Blm as for their golf.

cus person with ar extremely Summer in England' But, warrier hy nature,

However, There are twe toms of Sleep a

Bob Hope played cultivated mind. works 1 cannut for the moment weeks inter with no recollection if I needed it, i would have no recall. The point is, to the un up well on the ITV at their Sun- He is housed away from Tin and has his head- the same initiated, the crab might be the day Night at the Palladium Pan Alley,

series hesitation la laking Que uses barbiturat drugs. at all of the treatment.

It could be a Mr Williams know what he treatment again. *T***

emblera of succulent delight, or show, and Bing made an entry, quarters la Saville Row, in which

poisonous. #ru weeks is the maximum the for was facing when he went into ever."

merely a curiosity. The man who had lost five stoppest hospital. For hin life had be against a tervous them-often they are

after week.

come almost impossible-"every days went back to his desk

He had found something you The other uses tranquilisers, inolehill had become a mou-

cannol measure in time. "How He could not copo with the to live again. chiese," sak the psychiatrist,

elementary problem in

London Express Service). "leep can be indue.d for month most

Mr Williams-hat is nut. his any tycoon. real name-bad just recovered frum ve days Deep Sleep frentment. Treatment, taken on the doctor's advice (and paid for under tho National Health Service) after a long fight break-dawn.

RIY

Fashionable which are less poisonous. "With taln, ridiculously so."

inos!

ente

to

"t naver felt so wonderful in whole life." he said. with -the blissful, restful feeling imaginable....I felt three, four or even five times better than 1 ever did after the annual holl- day at the seaside. Odd though, I have not even the vaguest recollection of those Ave days."

Deep Steep, the lullaby cure that was 50 fashionable quarter of a century ago, is

A

Foming back into favour all

aver the world

A

Is

H

this the

end of blind

dates by phone?

Moscow.

famous Harley street ER voice sounded huski- Psychiatrist, Just returned from ly attractive over the

a long lecture tour in the United States, said:

700 miles of tolephone from

Kiev. She was, too, with with

The Russians are using it along fair hair, morry eyes,

Increasingly and an Impish laugh.

lol. So are the Americana, and

It is becoming

fashionable again hern."

That I could see for myself world's first video

Acture and actresses, atte pup-singern and authora aeck ....on the

the negative of sleep in a grow-telephone service. ing tumble of star-studded Names.

Jour

private clinic In

By Stephen Harper

WOA O

GOODBYE

I find the same weakness in the works of Kafka in spite of the fuct that his writing is powerful. mysterious symbol gesture, is merely an esoteric

full of meaning for the initiated,

a

A NEW LIGHT ON

but meaningless to the outsider: SOFT lights and sweet

1 wondered as I saw the ac- lors give a powerful perform-

music, the cliche

ance, if they had been initiated goes. And every Romeo into this business. There is no for years has sworn by reason why they should have

been. The play can go on with this simple dictum for

out an explanation. Just as in certain societies, symbols are

merely symbols, and remain

Buccess.

and

Make the lighis sofo-soft, and such, without any attempt to the music woony-sweet, relate them to morality.

you will capture à female heart Mermaid for without a murmur, or so they Back to the Tis Pity She's a Whore." This say. Justy

drama of John Ford's And now you can call in the written for the "Queen's Men," aid of automation. and performed at the Phoenix in

The old days of feverish pre- paration to make sure the lights were as soft as they could be I never thought to see it without actually being OUT, and andzie suitably swoony performed, for I did not without actually betraying your think it read well, besides motives-that's all over. which, I never thought the would Lord Chamberlain allow it on the singe lu pro. sent times.

Blushes

the

Switch

LIVING ROOM ROMEOS

atc.

By CHARLES DOUGLAS-HOME

They call it Colorsound. And Hill, a director of the British Colorsound sweeps all potential Arm Homeos Into the push button "We hope to introduce it into onies with juke-boxes, and maka the lights go very bright when should the music stope-that keep the juke boxes going.

“1 soo it as a replacement lo the flickering of a fire.

"Peoplo still long for the light of a fre, but there ir ofich no reside around which the family can collect. Those lamps will have the some effect."

The system. If incorporated in

record player,

add would about 12 per cent to the price, said Mr Trail-Hill, ́A unit ori ils own will cost about £25.

A problem

Is trying to A British firm persuade British record-player an English-speaking In- Ing and afternoon when there Drury Lane in 1838, had existed

for me only in a book. ure no television brondenats.

manufacturers to adopt it, tourist guide.

A amali "black box" in a rË~ On the small round table lu

cord

receives all the player And

mr! thin! was how i

sound frequencies from the muste Kirl who has front of me was a microphone, Valentina

and translates them Into elec TV net o which I

irical impulses, which light up travelled no nearer to Moscow Facing me from the far corner

Coloured appropriately watched Valentina,

buils I have to Kiev.

mounted in standard lamps. I could clearly see her coy

Put on Elvis and the room a Today it is just a matter of The sec-ns-you-talk service inbarrassment when I told her Come

goes shrieking green. Try the a single switch.

Mars movement from the FRANCOISE SAGAN ("Boa-(the death knell of the blind how pretty she looked.

Switch on the record player pinnets Sulle" and you alt in a Tristesse") entered adate) was brought into pubile colour TV and the blushes will

Above the screen, a camera-

and the room

auto- will go

or blue, or flickering fimbo of reds and May to sleep use here today. Now hundreds ona over too.

man operated a hand camera to

mailently pink, of Muscovites are queueing up She wanted to know what away the cures of success and

trammelt my pleture to Valen-

or whatever "colour" mauves. Relax to a sweeping the room six-phlilingn--minute Moscow to make

like Was

and told

the Mermaid did orange, wenith.

However, tina in Kiev. A single studio

airing orchestra and

Mr Trail-l admits he is not MICHAEL HOLLIDAY. Theseo-and-talk calla to felends nad

put on this robust play with the muske la

Play a high note and the is pale, pale blue,

ofter the more serious inusic historic noment.

deals with unnatural brother and

The theory of coloured inter- crooster, followed doctor's orders relativen in distant Leningrad how lucky I was to be here light blazed down on me.

frequentis close loyers who fond far-off Kiev.

Valentinn was, of course, refer- The video telephone Buper-irier carnal love, with asides room ges steely bright.

Play low, and

light protation of music is quite on The thant me

their eyes while listening. He willing to the Twenty-second Con- visor signalled

ay that had some of the audience grew of the Communist Party three minutes were up. Valen-blushing. The prope had a bit of nollow into orange or red for old one.

The Rublarta lemonstrated admits too that "you either like

It or loathe il,” "Golbye. perhaps in opening this nag-decked tinn anic!

Play a full orchestra and all their system ol the Itusion

Now there'a a problem for capital.

Rome day I minil cone to Mos-fun, but I was not over imprec- the deep, deep be

led by the presentation. The cast

do on in varying Trade fale at Earis Court. But Reamed, Suppose Juliet tikes put enormoUS energy into the the Bghts Innt in the corner of a mali cow and we may meet."

the port mutla ́bul'enn't aland wood-panelled

un the

I moved out of the studio to play, but you could not havo strengths.

An American firm in respon that involved a big screen,

This is the dent time the theory those coloured lights? Dut onsible for bringing "colour Inter- Biratford-on-Avon

bron brought down to

Ho will just have to roll up Romeo and Juliet, but Mr Zia pretation" of music right into

his sleeves, and light a floker» they And now

the start of ing, old fashionigl. fire. Mohyeddin, the brilliant Pakis the home. tani who was to have taken ovör] are offering to ining it into

Fald Jim Traill-

(Lendon Expreet #ervine). the role of tomee, left the cast British herios.

-and fool m enforced real.

BOD

Pressure

Later other big town

be brought into in service.

the

LUCKY

MONKHOUSE, comedian with the cheeky grin, went into a nursing home re- cently for 48 hours "padatlun," tired as never balure from the effort of making people laugh all summer at the seaalde.

nt kuch

ground floor of An ordinary make way for the next see-as-called it a hit by any means, I was the first foreigner to apartment block close by Mon you-lak ellent,

call cow's television centro, use it. When 1 took my

horo In Moseow I did not know The video telephone calls dra Then 1 pold my two roubles

Ines 25 Kopecks (16.) for the call, n soul in Klay, capital of the put over telovinson land

-(London Espratu &eruice). Lalk and operated unly in the morN¬

Many a big business marį kan gone into a clinic or privato | Ukraine,

Do I asked to

has

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