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SOME THOUGHTS ON HAN SUYIN'S A MANY SPLENDORED THING

'Love is a Many Splendored Thing'

PETER HALLIDAY

255

As I have said before, I believe, generally, that editors should edit, rather than write, but I should like to share the following with you all.

A few weeks, or so, after I arrived in Hong Kong in the fall of 1967, I was taken to the movies by what had now become a new friend. The motion picture we saw that Saturday afternoon - I remember the circumstances with undiminished clarity - was Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr., 17 April 1918 - 16 November 1981) and Jennifer Jones (born Phyllis Flora Isley, 2 March 1919). For a reason that is not central to this Note, the movie made a very deep impression upon me and I have to confess that, as we filed out of the movie theatre, I wept unashamedly.

In 1972, or thereabouts, I was contentedly idling away an hour or so, browsing in the old YMCA bookshop in Salisbury Road - to this day still a particular pleasure (browsing, that is) - when I came across a book entitled A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin (born Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou, 12 September 1917). Memories of the old motion picture came flooding back. Could this be the book behind the film or vice versa, I wondered?

Han Suyin, circa 1950

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SOME THOUGHTS ON HAN SUYIN'S A MANY SPLENDORED THING 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing' PETER HALLIDAY 255 As I have said before, I believe, generally, that editors should edit, rather than write, but I should like to share the following with you all. A few weeks, or so, after I arrived in Hong Kong in the fall of 1967, I was taken to the movies by what had now become a new friend. The motion picture we saw that Saturday afternoon - I remember the circumstances with undiminished clarity - was Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr., 17 April 1918 - 16 November 1981) and Jennifer Jones (born Phyllis Flora Isley, 2 March 1919). For a reason that is not central to this Note, the movie made a very deep impression upon me and I have to confess that, as we filed out of the movie theatre, I wept unashamedly. In 1972, or thereabouts, I was contentedly idling away an hour or so, browsing in the old YMCA bookshop in Salisbury Road - to this day still a particular pleasure (browsing, that is) - when I came across a book entitled A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin (born Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou, 12 September 1917). Memories of the old motion picture came flooding back. Could this be the book behind the film or vice versa, I wondered? Han Suyin, circa 1950

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SOME THOUGHTS ON HAN SUYIN'S A MANY SPLENDORED THING Love is a Many Splendored Thing' PETER HALLIDAY 255 As I have said before, I believe, generally, that editors should edit, rather than write, but I should like to share the following with you all. T A few weeks, or so, after I arrived in Hong Kong in the fall of 1967, I was taken to the movies by what had now become a new friend. The motion picture we saw that Saturday afternoon - I remember the circumstances with undiminished clarity - was Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden (born William Franklyn Beedle Jr., 17 April 1918 - 16 November, 1981) and Jennifer Jones (born Phyllis Flora Isley, 2 March, 1919-). For a reason that is not central to this Note the movie made a very deep impression upon me and I have to confess that, as we filed out of the movie theatre, I wept unashamedly. In 1972, or thereabouts, I was contentedly idling away an hour or so, browsing in the old YMCA bookshop in Salisbury Road - to this day still a particular pleasure (browsing that is) - when I came across a book entitled A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin (born Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou, 12 September 1917). Memories of the old motion picture came flooding back. Could this be the book behind the film or vice versa, I wondered? Han Suyin, circa 19502

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SOME THOUGHTS ON HAN SUYIN'S A MANY SPLENDORED THING

Love is a Many Splendored Thing'

PETER HALLIDAY

255

As I have said before, I believe, generally, that editors should edit, rather than write, but I should like to share the following with you all.

A few weeks, or so, after I arrived in Hong Kong in the fall of 1967, I was taken to the movies by what had now become a new friend. The motion picture we saw that Saturday afternoon - I remember the circumstances with undiminished clarity - was Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden (born William Franklyn Beedle Jr., 17 April 1918 - 16 November, 1981) and Jennifer Jones (born Phyllis Flora Isley, 2 March, 1919-). For a reason that is not central to this Note the movie made a very deep impression upon me and I have to confess that, as we filed out of the movie theatre, I wept unashamedly.

In 1972, or thereabouts, I was contentedly idling away an hour or so, browsing in the old YMCA bookshop in Salisbury Road - to this day still a particular pleasure (browsing that is) - when I came across a book entitled A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin (born Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou, 12 September 1917). Memories of the old motion picture came flooding back. Could this be the book behind the film or vice versa, I wondered?

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