The Seaforth News, 1954-09-16, Page 7Anollorn
Strange Setlets Of
200 Years Ago
book back 200 years and it will
astonish you to learn of the
strange beliefs current in Britain
in 1754.
The man or woman who drove
nails 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,
xf you could obtain a chip of
a gallows en which half a dozen
people had been hanged and
wear it round your neck in a
muslin bag, you would never
suffer from ague,
A ring made from the hinge of
a coffin was said to be a com-
lplete cure far cramp, when worn
continually for a week.
When a mother wanted to keep
'Witches away from her child she
sawed a nail, or any piece of iron
or steel, into the youngster's
clothes, T....�—
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 -
tied 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 "Penn sylvania 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, are designed to bring spiritual comfort to migrant
farm workers.
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Italy ironing
Business
When film scenes are shot in
the streets of Italian cities, the
traffic stops a n d everybody
clowns 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 normal 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 Mario 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
then!. Before they could protest,
they were told theirs was the
unique privilege of being filmed
but, es 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 clown the platform
until he got the shot he wanted.
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 flat
out along the canals, causing
tidal waves that threatened to
wreck their %ragile 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 en "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. "Kon-
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 Soldati, 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 Pilins,
the more eccentric the better)
and a born showman, For all
his typically Latin behaviour,
Solciati 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 most tense moments, he
rest 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
a.m., 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 Point, 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 al-
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, for 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 seene in a hotel
bathroom, Soldati decided to di-
F11EE WHEELING — The two Miller boys, John, 11, left, and Waldo, 9, cruise about Lake
Potter, in a paddle -wheel, plrogue-style boat b uilt for them ley their uncle. The boat ishand-
propelled by two small sidewheels„and with identical prow and stern, moves forward and
backward with ease.
He Doesn't Thhik
He "Knows d ,w1NO”
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 a 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 he 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 Roseard& soon to be
opened. A prototype for this in-
stitution is the Alpine school
founded and headed for 14 years
by Arnold Glatthard at }insolent,
Switzerland.
Emerson said something to the
effect that, "'Every man is my
master in something; I will learn
from him," There are many
areas besides mountain climbing.
In which opportunities for great-
er mastery are virtually unlimit-
ed. The greatest characters are
those humble enough to keep on
learning after the most conspicu-
ous achievements, •- - From the
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