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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-9-15, Page 5Strange Beliefs Of 200 .Years Ago Look back 200 years and it will astonish you to learn Of the strange beliefs current in BI•itoin in 1754. The man or woman who drove a)ails into an Oak tree was be- lieved to be rendered immune from toothache, Nightmare could be forever banished by means of a holed atone hung at the head Of a bed. If You could Obtain a chip of a gallows on which half a dozen people had been hanged and wear it round your neck in a muslin bag, you would never Buffer from ague. A ringmade from the hinge of e coffin was said to be a com- plete cure for cramp, when worn continually for a week. When a mother wanted to keep witches away from her child she sewed a nail, or any pieceof iron or steel, into the youngster's clothes. HER MAJESTY 'RAINS' QUEEN REIGNS (TEARS) -Georgia Melia, 2, winner of a children's beauty contest, finds , ... that a crown rests uneasily on royal heads in these unset- tled times, and as it continues to slip.,. - Her Majesty's reign dis- solves in a rain of tears. "HARVESTER" FOR CROP OF SOULS Donald Schlicker, right, state supervisor of the Penn- sylvania Council of Churches, turns over "Pennsylvania Harvester No. 2," a station wagon equipped with portable altar and organ, to Chaplain Joseph Lopez. The "harvesters," 19 of which are already operating in 25 states, aredesigned to bring spiritual comfort to migrant farm workers, Movie -Making in Italy Exciting' Business When film scenes are shot in the streets of Italian cities, the traffic stops a n d everybody downs tools to watch — or, bet- ter still, join in. A location unit in a busy place in the United States often has to do its" shooting after dark, so as not to .interfere with traf- fic and norinal.life. Yet at the very height of the tourist sea- son, the ancient city of Venice allowed itself to be "occupied" for months by an Italian film director, who thinks nothing of putting a dozen restaurants Out of business for a. few nights or locking three trainloads of travellers in a railway station for hours. "The Stranger's Hand," re-; cently released, the first British picture ever to be made on the Italian technique, was shot en- tirely on location, and directed by, Marto Soldati, one of Italy's greatest and certainly most ,col- ourful directors. Venice got the. first taste of Soldati's unconventional meth- ods when he arrived with his unit at the railway station, where Trevor Howard arrives, A train pulled in, disgorging a crowd of travellers, who found to their amazement that the barriers were closed against thein. Before they could protest, they were told theirs was the unique privilege of being filmed but, as there were not enough of them, they must wait for more to come in on the next train. Soldati finally had three train- loads of travellers penned be- hind the barriers. When he did let them out, it was only to herd them up and down the platform until he got the shot he *anted. The gondoliers, however, were not so philosophical when the entire Venetian fire service, con- sisting of four high-powered motor -boats and three fast po- lice launches, kept roaring fiat out along the canals, causing tidal waves that threatened to wreck their fragile craft. A deputation of angry gondoliers rowed out and told Soldati just what they thought of him. While the inevitable screaming match was working up to its grand climax, another party of gondoliers on shore were threat- ening to drop the second unit into the canal. Much of the shooting on "The Stranger's Hand" was done from a very old and battered moor- ing raft, on which Soldati had a cabin built with a roof. "iCon- tiki," as the unit called it, was moored right in the middle of the lagoon. And it soon sprung a leak so that, to the already treacherous rocking and tilting, was added a fearsome list. "I'll give a gold watch to the first man who falls in," said Soldati, but no one fancied a swim in the- Venice Grand canal enough for that. But the really unforgettable day was when he filmed the scenes on the burning ship. "Three times through clouds of imitation smoke the firemen struggled to the rescue of young Richard O'Sullivan. On the fourth take, they were told to use their hoses and four ter- rific jets of water were let loose. Unhappily, the captain, who had ' only lent his ship for a couple of days, had left his port -hole open and the accuracy of the firemen's aim was deadly All his papers were drenched and the captain himself had to rush home and, change into a dry uniform. But such upsets never daunt director Saidati, the little man with the outsize personality, who is really a frustrated actor (getting it out of his system by directing, and playing small character parts in his own films, the more eccentric the better) and a born showman. For all his typically Latin behaviour, Soldati spent many years in the United States, both as student and later as professor of Col- umbia University. In Venice, he not only dis- covered all the best places to eat but developed a positive Passion for a local drink called Grappa, Without warning, and in the mosttense moments, he rect from inside the bath. Everything went magnificently until the assistant cameraman could no longer resist such a sitting target and turned on the hot tap. Of all the inhabitants of Ven- ice, the proprietors of the res- taurants in St. Mark's Square heaved the biggest sigh of re- lief when Soldati finished his film. For three whole nights running, from 7 p.m. until 6 aim., they gazed enviously (from the inside of the police barriers erected at Soldati's request) at the huge crowds who watched the filming but couldn't get" in to buy a meal. When peace returned to Ven- ice with Soldati's departure, even the pigeons in St. Mark's Square ceased to be disturbed. The blaze of arc -lights kept getting them up in the middle of the night. PORTABLE SAFETY LESSON—Motorists of Cherry Paint, are re- minded of the grim facts of highway life every time they pass this smoking exhibit of tragedy. The wrecked, late -model car, mounted on a trailer, is a safety project designed by the provost marshal at the Cherry Point Marine Air Station. Burning effect is produced by a hidden smoke bomb. would calmly down tools on the picture and wander off for a drink. One morning Soldati was suddenly moved to go in search of Grappa, but discovered, to his dismay, that there wasn't a drop anywhere on the water- front. The assistant director had bought up the entire stocks, hoping to speed up production by keeping Soldati at work. Soldati, however, takes a joke against himself in very good part, even when some somebody drops one of those small Italian cigars (lighted) inside his trousers _ knowing that he 11 - ways keeps his tummy well covered by layers of newspaper as a protection against colds! His taste in clothing is, indeed, as fantastic as the man himself. His idea of keeping cool on a blazing hot day is to wear his shirt hanging outside his trous- ers, with a waistcoat on top. He has a passion, too, fon variegated headgear and always borrows uniform caps. He worked on "The Stranger's Hand" in a Venetian policeman's helmet, a fireman's cap, a beret and, a peaked cap. Filming a scene in a hotel bathroom, Soldati decided to di. FREE WHEELING -- The two Miller boys, John, 11, left, and Waldo, 9, cruise about Lake Patter, in a paddle -wheel, pirogue -style boat b uilt for them by their uncle. The boat is hand propelled by two small sidewheels, and with identical prow and stern, moves forward and and with ease. He Doesn't Think He "Knows 6t All" When the apparent master of a subject goes to school to learn more about it, then others can learn something from his ex- ample. All the world now knows Ten- sing Norkay, the Sherpa guide in the Hunt expedition who with Sir Edmund P. Hillary was one of the first two men to reach the top of Mt, Everest, the world's highest mountain. Now Tensing - is winding up three months in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland at the Swiss Mountaineering School, Photographs show him and a fellow Sherpa, Ang Tharkey, a veteran of both the Everest and the Annapurna expeditions, prac- ticing the rescue of a fallen climber from 8 crevasse. Thus though they know what it is to fight for breath above the 20,000 - ft. level, there still are techniques to be learned on a peak of less than 10,000 feet, especially in a country where mountain climb- ing is as old an art as it is in Switzerland, Back in Darjeeling, India, in the region where Be grew up with the mountains as his con- stant challenge, Tensing is to be- come chief instructor in a Him- alayan Institute of Mountaineer- ing and Research soon to be opened. A prototype for this in- stitution is the Alpine school founded and headed for 14 years by Arnold Glatthard at Roselaui, . Switzerland. Emerson said something to the effect that, "Every man is my master in something; T will learn from him." There are many areas besides mountain climbing in which opportunities for great- er mastery are virtually unlitnit- ed, The greatest chara11 tern are those humble enough to keep on learning after the most conspicu- ous achievements, — From the Christian Science Monitor. 'Peter the Painter' is He Still Alive? London Is to lose one of its minor landmarks --- No. 100, Sidney Street, Stepney, winch leapt into the headlines' 43 years ago when it was besieged by a thousand policemen and soldiers. '"The Siege of Sidney Street" started when police tracked to the little house now to be de- molished a gang of Russian an- archists led by a man whose artistic ability earned him the nickname of "Peter the Painter." When the siege ended, with police and firemen going into the house the defenders had set on ,fire, two dead men' were fennel. One had a bullet through his head. The other had died of suffocation. They were Identi- fied as members of the gang wanted for the murder of three policemen. But neither was the man reputed to be the gang's leader whose name was on everyone's lips — Peter Plat kow, alias Schtern, known as Peter the Painter, The mystery of how Peter the Painter escaped was debated for weeks. Officially he was never heard of again, but through the years stories have come from Russia of Peter the Painter's activities as an officiaL Because of a confusion of names, these have only in- creased the mystery. Since the day yyllen London was plastered with posters of- fering 11500 for information leading to the arrest of "The Painter," there has only been one official mention of him, That was a year after his dis- appearance, when the Tsarist authorities published his name as "wanted." To -day Peter the Painter would be about 70 He is probably the only man who could clear up the mystery of his escape. Is he alive to tell the tale? Let us go beck to the known facts and then see what might have happened, writes Justin Atholl in "Answers." At 10 a.m. on January 3rd, 1911, the then Home Secretary, Mr. Winston Churchill, was in his bath. An urgent knock on the door and a shouted message told him that a gang of Rus- sian anarchists, who three weeks before had shot three . policemen, were at bay in a house in Sidney Street, holding off the police with revolvers. Would the Home Secretary al- low the military to be brought in to take the house and save lives? Mr. Churchill gave permis- sion, dressed hurriedly, and soon, wearing his top hat, then "uniform" for ministers, drove to Sidney Street, There be found an astonishing sight. A thousand soldiers and police, sur rounded by many more thousands of the curious public, were taking shelter in doorways and behind walls, "besieging" a house, Whenever someone ex- posed themselves, shots came from the upper window. Mr. Churchill thought of bringing up a fieldpiece to fin- ish the battle, but the besieged criminals set the house on fire and the battle ended. The public expected that the body of Peter the Painter would be found in the house, When they learned that neither of the dead men was Peter, they jumped to the conclusion that the picturesque- ly named anarchist had escaped. How could he have got through, not merely a cordon of po- lice and soldiers, but also e huge crowd? One theory suggested he had tunnelled his way through to a neighbouring building. An- other said that Peter had "cap- tured" a policeman's uniform and helmet and just walked through the cordon! By this time the anarchists were credit- ed with almost diabolical pow- ers, and nothing seemed im- possible. For weeks afterwards people were on the lQOk-out for a man of between 28 and 30, about ,$ feet 10 inches high, with sallow, clear skin, black moustache, dark eyes, and a reserved manner — that was the police description. 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