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Loss of Innocence (Columbia). "Hockey's all very well in its way, but it isn't really living, is it?" Joss speaking. She is 16, English, carefully brought up, and if she suspects that hockey isn't living she doesn't really know what is. This British adaptation of a 1958 novel (The Greengage Summer) by Rumer Godden describes, with delicacy, irony, passion, poignance, wisdom, melodrama, and all the charm and fragrance of a young girl's rising summer, how Joss begins to live, begins to love, begins to die among the greengage orchards...
...goes there on holiday with her mother, who falls seriously ill on the way and is rushed off to the nearest hospital. Joss (Susannah York) and the three smaller children put up at a pretty pension in the country-actually a small chaāteau done over. Drōle de ménage. The mistress of the establishment, a pretty spinster (Danielle Darrieux) of a certain age, is in love with the star boarder (Kenneth More), a dashing Englishman who instantly appoints himself acting uncle to the children, fighting their battles with the help and taking them for drives...
...hard time making a living, and his fine performance helps to keep the plaintive note running through the comic scenes (though it points up the fact that William S. Gilbert's Jack Point, constructed on the same basis, is a more interesting character than Feste). Richard Wordsworth (Malvolio), Joss Ackland (Sir Toby Belch), and the other comics play conventionally, with the down-the-line competence that distinguishes the Old Vic from American Shakespearean companies...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
Ghosts & Coffin Carriers. On grounds that the burning of joss paper constitutes a fire hazard and that the houses are a menace to health, the Singapore city council recently decided that the houses must be moved out of the center of town. But last week the perplexed council members were finding that this was more easily decreed than done. One new site proposed by the council proved to be so near a cemetery that professional coffin carriers would have less distance to travel, and would lose revenue. In the other new location proposed by the council, prosperous citizens were complaining...