THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961.
13
SUSAN BARNES ★ ★★★
Noel Harrison said, "the problem has always been my name. I have a terrible complex about it.
"FOR me,"
should have learned to live with it, but still haven't- although now, by the grace al God, the thing is getting better.
"Playing a guitar was prae-
that Lically the only thing couldn't be associated with TELY father That's why I chose t and went into cabaret
Exploitation
"Now that I've been success - have I feel i ful on my own.
a right to beeume an actor. (His The Bal of Enemies a Lont on canvi,
T
per
"Until now I've always tell bat uneasy that any got in the theatre would Ratly he en exploitation of my Jater's
nam!
up
Harrison's usually gay exPROS- sinn od suddenly closed He got out of his armchair and crossed the drawing om to get He moves swiftly a cigarette.
and gracefully, like his father
WHY I BECAME AN ACTOR
The serene domesticity of the Little Venice fat may be some- what new for Noel Harrison's wie as well. One time a model, time the wife of a gentle- man farmer, one time the friend
Duke
Sara of Kent. the
married to Tufnelt has been Noel Harrison for the last three yeary
and T her husbardiet While talked, she sat unobtrusively on
a sofa as unobtrusively as any one can who is very blonda, very, alender and very beautiful squarish while bundle lay on the sola beside her Inside bundle was baby
A
the
"Horses
à three-week-old
were
really Sara's world said Harrison But we met when she was doing a model job for a television commercial
They need pushing toothpaste
euth wete
ski
I
ed a man whose white and who could
used to be a professional skier My teeth are false, but that's peside the point "
He smiled the quick Harrison
particularly smile with engaging, syntheile teeth or na
Rebelled
-by NOEL HARRISON
'At last I feel I have overcome the drawback
of being Rex's son'
SHOW BUSINESS
biger aan has had no reiation- WELN up with a father. So at
anyhow," said 1'ase. IN VORH Harrison, turning to his wife.
much
Aly Arst husband was aider that me," she said. "Bil oner I got the father thing out of my system I found I resented being treated as somebody who was not an adult,
آن
my "He never took any
And he suggestions seriously was probably quite right not to! But I suddenly rebelled against I wanted to be with some- y my own age."
WIL
H
We were in his Dat over- looking the canal in London's Little Venice. The rooms large and the furniture is cent
Hoth of our parents fortable, and the sens of serene domesticity is striking. particu- divorced when we were young I think that's one of the reasons larly when one remembers that
mur Harrison/spent the formative we'll be inclined to inske
Well de shutting marriage successful of his life years between clie hotels in Europe, vote more time and thought to
fi
Hi mother Collecti Rex Harrison's Brat wif moved
of
The transient world national cafe society
1454-
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"And we like being hvariy e
Pri Sare is 26 Genernily a girl who marries an
inter-
sanie wge
time "We spend much more together than most people do, said Harrison. "I'm home dur- ing the day, and Sara comes to
nights the cabaret several week.
a
P
"On the other nights 1 wake her up when I get home and talk to her for an hour, saying I was great tonight' or '7 toas terrible tonight, and she listens
or at least appears let
'હું gel l that out of my system through talking with her That's why I don't have need of lots of people in entertainment world to spend
timne their non-working
with each other. I'm perfectly happy here with the children and the animals."
Conceded
SAY:
מסיי
"Where is
make tentative cries. Sundays you everybody?"
Harrison burst out laughing.
"I do talk nonsense, really," he agreed. "I know no one but people in the entertainment But I don't know many world. actors, put it like that."
"Darling!" said son reproachfully.
Mrs Harri-
Harrison pondered. know many young Do 17"
"I don't actors then.
For Harrow
re-
conceded Mrs "All right." Harrison, completing the wrapping of her infant son,
the the
actors," "Young Harrison, "are so boring.
and go on motivation drives.
went
[7]
They
On
about
their
"And I personally don't actors should go and sit
think
down
in Trafalgar Square.
John
"Oh, you do talk nonsense," said Mrs Harrison, picking up the bundle which had begun to
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certainly think Osborne should not. He's not E
He must be aware stupid man. that he's not จ popular 118D with the British public.
to
more
A if he lends his name cause, it makes the cause unpopular. If it means so much
GHE
HERE'S A GHOST WHO
Fiction
shelf
HE
Rev. Horaca
as
Elam is a St Paul's School legend: a clergy- men without faith, 2 schoolmaster who hated teaching, dirty, offen- give, cane-happy. He MR re-emerges OLIM (Cassell, 168.) in Ernest Raymond's re- miniscent novel, a debt of gratitude to the ec- usher who centric taught, besides Ray- Chester- mond, C. K.
ton, Compton Macken- zie, and E. C. Bentley.
Another recommended look at the schoolroom, this time French, but none the less brilliantly perceptive of Class warfare, is Jean Forton's TUE FARM IS DONE (Cape, 16s.)
In SUNLIGHT ON A BROKEN COLUMN (Chat-
to, 18s.) Attla Husain gives stimulating picture of
a
India before partition. And
in THE GAME (Hutchin-
18.) Hans
Ruesch diverts the eternal triangle, to Liberia to make an un-.
usually laut novel.
• For holiday reading, where avoirdupois counts. the reissue of JOHN CHRISTOPHER IN PARIS (Heinemann, 18s.) the third" volume of Romain Kotland's massive Edwardian classic is excellent value. Sb. is another heavy weight, Robin Jenkin's DUST ON THE
PAW (Macdonald, 18s.), about inter-marriage in an Asian state.
A
• More suitable for the beach, perhaps. are PEAK IN DARIEN (Bodley Head, 15s.), by Roswell G. Ham, a good-humoured New Yorkerish satire about the organisation inom at play and Charity Black stock's THE EXORCISM- Hodder, 256.) an intel- Eigent creepie set in the Highlands,
• NOME PEOPLE FLACES HAND. THINGS
·TICAT WILL NOT AP- PEAR IN MY NEXT NOVEL (Gollnner, 106.) is Well-evident title em- bracing a warward, worth" while collection of trag mden Pfof the Wolentilating
of Jam Cheers
ME
NEARLY HAD
BELIEVING ...
THE SCARLET BOY. By
Arthur Calder →Marshall. Hart-Davis. 165.
PERSONALLY,
never
I've
by RICHARD LISTER
of
HEAVENLY! THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL
SHIRLEY
Shirley Knight to an actress with a flair for the unusual. Before breaking into films break she bred
pige.
worked * a news paper reporter. sang with a dance
ever band, and tock a job as a disc jockey. Now with several Ims behind her-including Five Gates To Hcil and Ice Palace--she is
on her way up. her late film. Tennessee WP)1 a mx's Sweet Bird of Youth. she plays thr Part Heavenly
slay
And to him, it is his duty to
away.
Harrison removed the pug dog who had established herself on his lap, got up to get another cigarette, and then resettled himself on the middle of his spine.
ARTHUR CALDER- MARSHALL Even scepties
will enjoy this.
them, and deceive even the trainers.
оссиру of
the the
believed in It was a house he knew well is not going to stand any non- for he was sense from ghosts. Is not be on ghosts, and so am aller- in his childhood,
devoted to Helen Scarlett, who the committee of the Rational gic to ghost stories. Yet ved there in those days and Truth Society? He takes the in spite of myself I was a playmate
her son house, and his wife does it up Charles,
from top to toe, and in they
The complications arising found that I was being
from this plot Charles was an odd, perverted move.
All this is most engagingly undivided attentions persuaded to believe in ittle boy. fond, as some boys
told. tying-up games, and convincingly
The uninept Major Desmond Cook the one at the centre of are of those
gossipy atmos- throughout the brief length and, as it appeared at the time, down-to-eath
town of
this entertaining comedy- this new novel by Mr it was in the process of one of phere of a small county
ard around ithcm
accidentally is sharply drawn. The barrister thriller set in Je Calder-Marshall.
his healthy rationalism It is by this with
our racecourses. hanged himself.
of and that the house
his entourage
wife,
The Major is a sad, sporting He is such a cunning and be little boy
Hungarian a daughter and a
character pursuing a private gulling story-teller laat by the reputedly haunted. Time the ghost arrives on
The facts had been concealed help are lively, living creation; dream. All he wants is to clear
nar- fussy, bachelor 2 child, and and the scene you are ready to believe from George as
his dogs and his 230,000 to buy himself a little anything.
they only come out fully when rator
and his model house country house and end his days he bas already half negotiated books the sale от behalf of his keeper and a dreadfully hearty there. barrister friend. Sir Christopher young nephew visiting him is Everness.
excellently presented.
A PLAYMATE
the
that
15
The narrator. George, а George is not a sceptic about spinsterish bachelor who writes these things. He takes the paru- blographies, is asked by a high- normal very seriously and ig powered barrister friend to find the
more hetined to do So
him a house in the market town because Sir Christopher has where he lves.
young daughter, Maria, by his He discovers that 2 large, Spanish wife, and this girl her- rambling place called Anglesey self is a bit odd.
Sir House is up for sale, and might
Christopher is a tough realist who likes the house and very well do.
Tormentors in
the classroom...
By LAURENCE MARKS
TERM OF TRIAL. By James Barlow, Hamish Hamilton, 15s.
MR BARLOW is a profoundly serious novelist AL whose narrative is as fast-moving and tense as a thriller writer's. This sombre story is writ-
with
a
INTO ORBIT
We
a
are drawn la fact
actual thoroughly normal, world before the ghost of perverted little boy from past knocks the rational frame- work sideways.
into
the
the
We discussed the future education of his son.
"We're putting him down for Harrow,' said Harrison, "but when the Lime comes, we'll
situation. review the
Harrow is a relatively liberal school. It doesn't emotionally deprive you as much as some other public schools. But all of them teach you to live under a system That's that stopped in 1914.
why you have so many tongue- tied Englishmen about. It takes a good five years for public school products to adjust to the real world.
"Look at them at dinner parties! They don't relax until women are out of the room. Then they are at case and can tell dirty stories."
Harrison shrugged.
"You can come in it you're quiet."
"H'mm," said Harrison. "I don't think I'd like it either."
This last was addressed to two Both of them laughed. little girls in dressing gownIS--
Harrison once again removed now the Harrisons' daughter,
and Mrs Harrison's the pug from his lap and went 22,
oft to change for the cabaret, daughter by her first husband.
his black They made themselves cosy with When he returned, a book,
the pug dog resettled V-necked sweater replaced by a herself in Harrison's lap, the conventional jacket, he offered two cais by the fire returned to me a glass of wine. their dozing, the glamorous MTS Harrison continued to nurse her Harrison went baby, and Noel
D
on,
"Somewhat to my surprise, } find now can contemplate the idea of monogamy without £ feeling of horror
Honesty
Wine only
"I'm going to have a quickie before I go," he said. "But be- fore a performance' I always
wine. stick to
Drink
spoits timing. One only thinks it im- proves one.
open
"That is something I've taken from my father. He never "A relationship like Sara's and drinks before he goes on." mine is based on being com- For a moment the gay pletely honest, If either of us face closed up again. And then had to conceal anything from Harrison smiled and said good- the other a wall would arise. bye and closed behind him the And the relationship would be door of the warm room where spoiled.
his wife and the baby and the two little girls and the cats and the pug dog all remained.
"It was the public schools that
"And while an unconcealed promoted the theory that it's dual standard works with some vulgar to talk about money. I couples, it wouldn't work with don't talk about anything else are the -except sex! These only two subjects that everybody can talk about!
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He's a big punter; he's more than once up into the ten thousands only to lose it all In one plunge,
Little
who
Then, at the July Ascot meet- ing, he gets this tip-for the rank outsider, Yellow Silk. It
But the romps. home. battered Irish stable lad gave it gave more than a tip.
in a He gave information
form
before, rather cryptic Maria the daughter, always under the Major's very eyes a little strange, is pulled into
the head by a the dead bugs orbit and a couple of thugs and abducted.
when she crisis arises
But if the Major could only appears. Even the rationalist work out what he was trying to Sir Christopher has to admit say, he would know the winner that something mysterious is of the big race at Longchamp going on, and the fussy George and so make his killing.
dis-
own
banged
HIS CLUES
is called in to find her,
He knows from his childhood games with the dend bay where she will have hidden herself, and proves his part- With the pig-headed per- normal point by rescuing her. sistence of the very inefficient, Admirably written, Ingeni- the Major pursues his baffling ously worked out, and enticingly clues. They take him crawling told, this is a story about a into training stables at night, ghost which even the most posing as a racing correspon- sceptical of sceptles will enjoy. dent, spending a night in a ceil
ten with a button-holing compulsiveness. THE
The setting
is a secondary happened, he rejects her gently.
modern school in a tough slum She turns to the appalling MAJOR'S
area. Wier, # melancholy Mitchell in revenge and then idealist with too much imaging accuses the schoolmaster of in- tion and too little courage, is decent assault;
in charge of a class of back-
ward 15-year-olds,
KANALARMING
BIG SWITCH
His enemy is Mitchell, a pre-
re Wier is a truly contemporary cocious hoodlum who leads his hero: a sensitive man crucified DAUGHTERS
OF MUL
tormentors in the classroom and because of his passionate in- BERRY. By Roger Lon
wigs. Faber. 15 organises violence outside itvolvement with others. Mr Bar- His ally is Shirley, an inspeelt low makes his suffering pain an child still uncorrupted by the hilly real.
harsh world in which she lives. In the background is a MULBERRY is a stál-
Wier struggles hopelessly to alarming portrait of the lower
lion
and a week in Italy.
Gradually the puzzle falls into shape, or so the Major thinks, He has worked up his capital and worked out the winner, and he takes his ante-post plunge. of ten thousand to win thirty,
But, alas, in racing there are no certainties And Ironically It's his own quixotry that loss him the race.
And the Major is back where he started,
Mr Löngrigg has develope
'over
fire technique for putting. his own porn brand or ou and two of his comedy in inject a final antiblette of due depths of Industrial society: Vid his fillies. Yellow Silk dialogue
lent, pagan Ignorant, cation before his charges are ens all the more powerful and Larksong, are so for one demity spin a ally exposed to adult life-2
While he is trying to help her, because it is intended purely s exactly alike that it party and h
Doletnic Shirley falls in love with hhh description, not
proved easy Realising too late what has strongly recomciended.
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It works excileri
switch of the turf.
comedy bil
except
· little
Marks the real thing
us.
He picked up his guitar from the landing and shut the front door behind us and set off alone "I'd be livid," said Sara Harri- for the cabaret. son. "Absolutely livid."
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