1947-03-08 — Page 4

NEW PLAYS, FILMS, BOOKS IN AMERICA

By Virginia Young

BROADWAY has ceased to resemble

A MUSCUM,

AS

it id early this season, when there were far more revivals than now productions, and is fulfilling earlier

promises of "the biggest and bestest yet."

more classic of the

Lillian Hellman has written one modern theatre in "Another Part of the Forest."

BRILLIANT, POWERFUL

This brilliant and powerful play deals with the earlier activities of the fierce Hubbard clan that battled its mur- derous way through "The Little Foxes,"

It you encounter that evli trio, Ben, and Oscar, when Regina, they are young but, rather than happy, showing every tendency to develop into a family of cobras.

Ben is 35, a frustrated clerk for his father who already is plotting to grab control of the wealth his pareni, Marcus, has acquired by vicious means,

Regina is 20, already cold, selfish, voracious, and Indulgent. (Tallu- Jab Bankbend played the role of Regina on the stage and Bette Davis in the Elm).

Oscar is 25, an impulsive weakling and "a proud Illiterate."

Birdie, the secret drinker of "The Little Foxes," now is a frightened, alliy girl.

A

Lavinia, the mother of this evil brood, has converted her disgust into

religious mania. With this flock of vultures and wraiths, Miss Hellman has woven a tale of over-Impending horror in which the characters skin every de- rent instinct off each other. It Is, according to an eminent critic, one of the most Important dramatic and literary investigations of a section of American soclely,"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1947.

THE PARKERS

Even

More

INDUSTRIALLY, Britain to- day seems to be at the part-

ing of the ways.

Downhill we sees the enveloping fog of lighter restrictions, the

general

the

by HODGES

than more

men, Britain needs

manpower hours

by

SIR

Vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organisation

MILES THOMAS

The trade unions must not allow themselves 10 become swollen bureaucracies, constipated in dealing with the day-to-day, adjustments in relationships bebwveen employers and emplices and, Indred, between the working publie and Ve

Stale,

CORNEL WILDE HOPES TO MAKE OLYMPIC TEAM

Cornel Wilde, who bas nchioved nfluence as well as fame on the screen during the past 10 years, has announced ho will try for a place on the Ameri- can fencing team to be sent to London for the Olympic Games in 1948.

Wilde was a member of the team in 1930, but could not go to Berlin because he lacked money.

"I and to take a stage Job bo- cause I needed funds." he explained recently, "but now I can afford to make the trip, if only I can qualify for the tenm."

Wilde will study under Fred Cavens, an outstanding fencer who in recent years has coached fencing scenes in pictures.

In his Current Mim, "Forever Amber, "Wilde Aghts a duel with Actor Glenn Langen

over the affections of Linda Darnell, who playa Amber.

Wilde once studled Budapest, and at one time held the fencing in

of inter-collegiate fencing champion of the United States.- Associated Press.

the raised school-leaving nge, and THE greatest hope of improve- the diversion of effort

to essential "

ment for this year cf 1947 rests, rehabillatin services such

I believe, in the very dawning of title 38 housing all these things have put realisation that all is nut

well as high premium on the services of it stands at present, the individual.

Let's look on the bright side Before

the war, 1 recall, there was a natural hesitancy on the part of Industrialists 12 mechanize their buziness because, by the installation of the machine, three or four men might be thrown out of employ-

it peers into the frightened turmoil of a 12-years-old boy's mind and tells of the child's imagined fears as the centrul Agure of an Inevitable bureaucratic dampening of enter divorce.

prise, coupled with strikes and a By employing

corroding lethargy, the now familiar; reasons for which we will examine much longer to recover our balance theatre trick of presenting the in a moment. drama on two planes-realistic and

and rogain the accustomed rhythm fantastic, after the manner of "Lady vista of glorious opportunities, bulk-

Uphill we see a much

of industrial output. brighter

I do not believe In the Dark," Mr Hart

that there will presents Christopher

'ba a serious as a shy, almost in order books and growing prestige

crisis in our affairs, articulate child who is

with overseas customers.

as long as we do not each Ind completely crushed by his parents' wrangle over

vidually try to take more out of his custody and the necessity to

the economic system than we put addition to this, it is said that make the final decision whether he

we are all suffering from Whe Nationally wonks to silly with his mother or

have

weariness, to realise his father.

that political principles are good

True it is that when servants but had masters. Individual- ly we must understand that we can

abroad to America or. Switzerland and lives off the fol of the land and become more prosperous

eats what I call "sunshine foods'-- we work harder. There is no other way. (And

plenty of fresh fruit, orange juice, salsfying forms of happiness than In parentheses let us remember that there are few

incions, and the like one feck an the

uplift of bodily well-being. that which comes from pride in a But the jub well done).

of

The drama actual events is deeply moving. But the depletion of the boy's divorce, his frantic efforts to prevent mental rejection of the It, bore a hole, with an over sized brace and bit, in your heart.

"A Family Affair" Is a bit for about an orderly, contented couple who find that their non has portrayed them as dull dogs in a play. Their lustler instincts chal- lenged, mother bounds aff with a psychoanalyst and father follows suit with his little Recretary. Sig ter marries one of her boy friends und spends the night worrying about all the others. It is loud but not

"Christopher Blake," Moss Hart's new play. packa terrifie wallop. funny.

REHABILITATION FILM

"The Beat Years of Our Lives" is an American film, made in America, by America, for Americans. It's a fine picture of Americans returning froin the war, filled with love and pride for America and American people.

BUT

WHICH way shall we go? We ourselves can decide. If we are going to slack and slide down hili then we can say good bye to all our hopes of a return to even half our prewar good fortune.

steadfastly settle down to a hard job But if we keenly and happily and of work then I see no limit to our properly: no limit to the prosperity of each one of us as individuals no matter what job we are in or where we may be working.

I think we shall chose the right road..

CAN see stars, only faint at the moment, but sure indications, neverthless, of a change of heart and mind, not only in industry but in other spheres as well.

Admittedly, the industrial outlook is still clouded

by shortages of materials and the hangover of war- time destruction.

a

There is much noisy complaint to be heard. and a general surrender to escapism expressed in terms of absenteeism trom work and wholesale Hosting to sporting events, I think that is a natural reaction after our experiences of the past who go most seven years. Those ardently to battle Like longest to recuperate fran its ravages, mokes Britain put more effort into war- fare than any other nation-with the possible excoption of the. Axis coun- LITI unfrocked irles-and it is taking us just that

DUT that a no reason why any successfully married-off her three

audience, anywhere, should not sons, she will have a room of

her throughly enjoy, share in and re-own-and selects concubine for Sam hifn.

pictures

joice in the story It tells. Goldwyn maktes very few but when he makes them they good.

оге

"The Best Years of Our Lives" tells the story of three just returned servicemen and their families. You first meet the three veterans when they are awaiting flight home to the same mid-western cly,

3

That much of the story good reading, but then, for some un~ fathomable reason, Miss Buck hauls in Brother Andre,

Italian frine. Brother Andre dies, and Mme Wu discovers posthumous ly that she has been holly in love with him. I don't quite get what Bliss Duck meant after this point. inasmuch as her children suddenly indulge in same highly improbable Tolstoyan enterprises, Induced participate

me Wu's recital of Brother An- dre's teachings.

Frederle March is the middle- aged solid citizen whose forthright ness compelled him to

in the wor directly. He came out a sergeant in the infantry.

Dana Andrews used to work be- hind a toda fountain: he's a cap toin in the Air Force now.

Then there's Harold Russell: he was the big-time, amateur athlete. bu be's just an ex-sailor who has steel hooks where his hands used

to be,

The flm fully reflects the grim anxieties, gnawing despairs, experi- entred by the three as they attempt lo adjust themselves to the "new

life.

5

After years of fighting a one-man war in Norway, Burma and points cast and west. Errol Flynn is back fighting off the girls in frothy, nonsense pices entitled "Never Say Good-bye. It's a stupid tale about the

precocious attempts of a little girl to reunite her divorced parents, played by "The Fighting Irishman" and Eleanor Parker.

of

by

Jules Romain's literary murathon grinds to a stop with the publication of "The Seventh of October," the twenty-seventh volume

the French edition, fourteenth of the American edition, of "Men of Good Will. The title is taken from the last day in Romain's logbook, Paris in 1933. And, true to the author's announced intention to "reflect

វា

As

in.

only

-We

more

we do

of

few

One

Raes

ment.

To-day, with the shorloge manpower, no such hesitancy need exist.

remember, too, that we were sways willing to spend £1,000 on French, whose supply. Is far from prolifle, are going if by so doing

food installing a piece

at mazinery up from a 40-hour week to a 48- un

we could save id,

portance of hours hour week; they realise, the im- involved.

the productive operation worked when man-power is short.

Other European countries less they doing the same instead of working

are working more, these people, let us remember, will soon be serious competitors for the overseas business fortuitously enjoying.

are

and

We have never been a people to it in the task that lies ahead, of shirk hard work. We shall not irk that I am convinced. What ing of our inborn good sense need, at the moment, is a reawaken- self-discipline and responsibility. weeks will have disturbed quite n.

The rumblings of the last few complacent slumberers.

Once a few are wide awake, the others won't take long.

Let's be fair to ourselves. try to analyse the psychological disability that seems to be sapping the energy and enterprise of the us and believe our natural in- working public.

stinct

Let's

The country.

re told, is chort of mun-power. Whereas in 1030, there were $17,000 young men who attained the age of 18, in 1946 the figure was down to 335.000, In 1950 it will be only 295,000.

more

we are

PART from this

malingering which

now

when

50

our

Bright Red Suits

To Pep Men Up

Men don't have the nerve to wear loud clothes, says the pre- sident of a clothing designers' association.

even an

Carver concluded: "Men have been taking out their colour frustration too lung on loud socks, ties and palamas,"

United Press.

"There's nothing like a bright red sult to pep a fellow up." said Ralph Carver of Los Angeles, president of That atlude in even incre wldc-The Merchant Tailors and Designers spread lo-day,

many Association of America, speaking at civil use the technical development industriés ale busly

turning to a convention In Chicago.

He dured to and scientifle discoveries made dur-orange or purple sult can put over

Buy that the war. All this will give us the

a personality, Women, he said, do opportunity of making what they please and get away with businesses still

more productively it, so the men should do likewise. efficient, thus benefiting the com- munity. malaise of

threatens HERE is

THE

growing realisation that managers and men are all co-partner, in prosperity.

The bleness

that has existed beween bosses and workers is dying out, and there is a growing appreciation day, most bosses are men who have of the fact that, 10- earned their promotion

by sheer merit in modern Industry, direc- tors are made, not born.

The Finn Ronne research expedi The possibilities for progress are bring back to the

tion to the South Pole plans to there, then.. In fact, I think is

United States s a year of great possibilities. Our

some Antarctic snowflakes. Immediate task is to

The expedition took along_equip- Implement them with the utmost speed.

ment and instructions from Vincent for preserving species of J. Schaefer, "snowflake scientist," crystals for observation and study.

Schaefer has developed a plaster replica method whereby flakes are am benvinced, too, that it redue-caught as they fail in a quick-drying tlon in income-tax o the lower liquid plantle solution. The result wage levels would give more joya perfect reproduction of the flake In working and believe that the in plastic-United Press.

for "doing the right thing" wil ward off the danger-apart from this, what other handicaps are likely to binder our recovery?

There is space here to mention one-the possibility of a breach, misunderstanding developing, be

the permanent officials trade unions and the representatives of the workers, the shop stewards and district secretaries would

tween

But what we lack even than men are man-power hours.

The impact of the need for more men in the Services, the reduced intake into hdustry by reason of deplorable.

RED LETTER

BIRTHDAY

BY QUIZ

S Juntor and Duddy and I stood all performed with just the right whole generation." people rise, go

on the doorstep and

waved kind of comic touch by that 'boy at to work, visit lovers, discuss polites Condbye to the departing guests, heart,' Junior's Daddy.

excited childish voices were wafted

and the fact that Hitler is kicking back to us. "It was a lovely party," up a fuss in Germany.

We could

seen super

still

ace

be

Junior.

I believe there would be an im- medine response in

terms of her der work if there were more goods for us to buy in the

British

Tollef

ther

shops,

housewife deserves complete from any exhortation to fur-

her sacrifice.

Farew

·

SNOWFLAKES FROM ANTARCTICA

snow

Nylon Pants For Footballers

The

of

If those who glory in power of the spoken word to sway multitudes need subjects for their exorcise, little madcaps, but having a wonder householder to accept less and foss, instead of dragooning the wretched ful time!

they

would

American Institute In my submission, do well to

do Chemists reports that the weight of Their Lip trembling, but important, as he cut courage a notch

moral uniforms worn by football players his red letter birthday

higher and per- will be reduced from "Mummy, Peter was a very greedy WHEN Daddy and I had

cake-a suade the rank and file of their pounds. Dr Gustav

18 to 10 "The World of Idella May, by boy." (Thal must be Anne telling

postwar cake, made of all followers in mino Junior safely tucked up in bed, the things we could'nt get for most produce more and more.

and factory to sident of the institute, says

Egloff, pro- Richard Sullivan, is a mordant portales on her small brother.) And asleep and quite anglic, hi, life of Junior's birthdays: sponte, cream,

future female who never progressed beyond older traiture of a small-time, small-town from the nine to twelve year old long companion aged and wou end preity pink and white icing, guide to prosperity.

gridiron heroes will wear Abre glass Coat and hard work are our sure jerseys, nylon pante and foam rub- was wizard". "A teddy bear-cuddled in his armis, we with seven lighted candles brightly

ber padding. a blatantly infantile egotism. It is bang-on show." All testifying that went downstairs, where the rooms heralding this seventh birthday. never outgrows a childishness, who a strong novel about a woman who Junior's seventh birthday party bad were still charged with youthful

been a social triumph.

vitality. We could still hear the becomics a dream addiet, who wrecks

1 got the very fired and exelted squeals of delighted childish laugh- the life of every honest person that young host bathed and abed and ter and chatter that had filed the party is almost as enjoyable as sets in her way.

isloep before over-fatigue could place a short while before.

tue party iiselt-so different from its spoll his birthday with an climax of tired tears.

We could still see excited Hittle climax

artuft counterpart, with the anti-

of sinic It was a red letter birthday for girla darting about, curts oflying, heel-taps, and the hangover in the cigarette smoke, daddy, too, it being the first he had frocks no longer spick and span, grey dawn, or the depressing clean- been able to attend since

transformed from party dolls

and soul of the party; his talents was three. Daddy had been the life ranged from animal impersonations (very popular with the youngest set) tɔ conjuring and a ventriloquly not-

In Publishers Row, Pearl Buck has deserted her peasants to tell in "Pavillion of Women" the panoramic If you like your murders against story of Mme. Wu, a wealthy self- a background made widow at 40. The scene

of Internallonal in-. of trigue and lovely ladies, "The Sai- the novel is a great Chinese house, broken up into a series

gon Singer" is recommended read of one- storey apartments inhabited by three his job of counter-espionage in the g. Major Hugh North is back nt generations of Wus.

When Mme

Philippines. A slam-bang, slap-dash Wu is 40, she an- nounces to her husband that, having notes and mistresses.

tale of brawis and boudoirs, mag-

DOES

How to beat the

by AN INSURANCE SURVEYOR the average house- The fixing of the bolt

Bocket is holder take sufficient pre- Important, too. It is preferable to cautions to keep out the bur in the door post or the floor.

let the bolt shoot into a holo drilled

Warped windows

gar

My experience as a burglary insurance surveyor is that he doesn't,

Here are ten of the most common weaknesses in the security of houses and flats-and the remedies:-

3. Do all your window fasteners fit properly?

Ótten, owing to bomb damage, the frames have warped. Overhaul them so that the fasteners engage

1.. Is your front door fitted with n', properly. self-locking type of fateh only?

If so, it is the easiest thing in the

burglar

anti-

Junior

Not only do you want to pre- vent the thlef breaking in. but. should he gain access, make it hard for him to get out.

That is why the keys should be removed. Delay and discourage him, don't let him walk out unrestricted with a case full of your goods.

the

7. When you leave your house, is obvious places where your

jewellery and cash left in the a thief would drawer or burcan? look, such as

dressing table

places, such as

Hide them in the not-so-obvious saucepan, the grocery cupboard, behind the bath. 8. Do yon tock your bureau, cabinets, and wardrobe before you

4. you have sash windows on world to force it open by the old the ground floor or which are acces.

sible, are they fitted with thumb do out?

trick with a piece of celluloid ́or-a knitting needle,

Jercios In

The mortice lock patches?

Fit a mortice dead lock as well (with four lovers if possible), the sort without a handle, and always use it when you go out.

G

addition to the usual Then you are advised NOT 10. A thiol carries a Jemmy which furniture. makes easy but drastic work of your

To prevent the popular dodge of allding back the catch with a knife, ensure that all sash windows Otted with thumb screws which through both of the meeting

go

rails

af

So don't louve valuables in these aro ped.

and leave your furniture un 0. Do you

close all accessible windows when you is a goods ift eliich passes through

5. If you live in a fict and there night time?

go out and your kitchen, is the door to the shaft glars don't like breaking or cutting

This is of prime importance. Bur Alted with two stout bolts?

Bass-It usually makes a noise, and they have no wish to be disturbed.

Other outside doors should have when the windows ate closed. a mortice dead lock or rim dead Jock, too, It is advisable to remove the toys when you leave the house empty.

2. Have you pat top and bottom bolts on all outside doors, including both leaves of double doors?

break

ride in a service lift and

It is not unknown for a person to through the hatch door. Make his work difficult-you may change his

The strength afforded by substan- tial bolts.

generally under mind. estimated, but see that long screws 6. Do you lock all internal doors are used to at them and that there when you leave the house, unoceu fa none missing.

pled?

10. Are you suspicious of all un-

known callers?

Check the credentials of all people pose as surveyors, sanitary Inspec you don't know. Very often thieves tors, or "the man who comes to read. the taeter."

SIDE GLANCES

THE aftermath of n children's

to up that walls the morning after.

BABERODE, DO V. M. BEG, UL B. PAT, OFF.

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