The Birmingham Post from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 28

AT THE FILMS HE film-image of Gerard Philipe lingers tantalisingly in the memory. For me. It is the grin that remains most vividly: the grin that flickered challengingly at the corners of the mouth when the eyes were serious. Or the sly, oblique grin in the eyes when the mouth was serious. Together they acted as a witty, cynical commentary on the romantic roles his looks and bearing called upon him to play.

Unfortunately, this natural talent for satire was not often allowed to flower so richly as it did in that brilliant Franco- British film Knave of Hearts. Alas, the grin is absent in Republic of Sin Certificate, Berkeley), Philipe's last film before his tragic early death last year, and he plays his all-too-solemn role like the stooge of a comic duo, hamming on after his partner has the stage. Still, this is no grinning matter. Neither this title, nor the one originally proposed (presumably for the X- Sex of Lustconveys that this is a serious study, by the great Luis Bunuel, of tyranny and liberalism in an Imaginary Latin-American State. Philips is a young Government omcial.

fed on liberal ideas as a student, but now secretary to the corrupt governor of an off-shore prisonisland. The governor is shot; in the brief interregnum Philips sees a chance to promote his liberal notions; but a new governor (Jean Servais) arrives. tyranny is reinforced and Philipe again finds himself a minion of a dictatorship. Helped by his mistress (Maria Felix). he uses a mutiny of the prisoners to ruin the new governor, la rewarded by the Government and returns himself as governor, determined to institute liberal regime.

But his past double-dealings catch up with him, and he is forced to a last. self-destroying act of defiance against totalitarianism. "One moment of courage does not make up for years of cowardice." he ruefully observes. Bunuel tells this moral fable against a lively, thrumming backdrop of heat, palms, prison plantation, swamp, fever and the white-suited hypocrisies of the President's palace. There is plenty of melodrama: the The Last of Philipe By Keith Brace Fire Ways tore Opened Mr.

Lawrence Neal chairman and managing director of Daniel Neal and Sons, Mrs. Neal. and Coun. D. S.

Thomas, chairman of Birmingham City Council Public Works Committee, photographed last night after the opening of Donne House. a store, at Five Ways. Edgbaston. Coun. Thomas, who performed the ceremony.

said that his committee was pleased that private developers were solving the problem of finding new premises, caused by the redevelopment of the city centre. Donne House was completed on the exact date planned 12 months ago. It is owned by Daniel Neal and Sons, which recently acquired the Birmingham firm of Thomas Donne, and is designed as a store for young people. There is, however, a men's wear section. To-day, a coffee bar at the store will be free to customers.

The general manager. Mr. K. Darlaston, was horn and educated in Birmingham. For the past five years he has been general manager of the company's Cheltenham store.

Mr. and Mrs. Neal entertained several hundred people at a house-warming party last night. Mrs. Neal wore a crimson Dior dress which she bought specially for the occasion.

George Sanders tries to make human contact with one of the strange, sinister children (Martin Stephens) who have been foisted upon the village of Midwich. A scene from Village of the Damned. wicked governor demands the extreme sacrifice from Philme's mistress in return for her lover's safety. And there is plenty of self-conscious symbolism. The betrayal of the governor is counter-pointed by slow-motion shots of a bullfight.

not too successfully considering the promising film material of the book. The Cuckoos are a troop of ghastly children, fathered 'Allyn illy one hot day on the village of Midwich. A belt of nonconsciousness lays every animal For all its virtues. it is rather a film et these than a film straight: an overburdened intellectual argument about power and corruption embodied in a minimum of rather tawdry dramatic material. What we remember is not so much the Jungle and the passion as the needle-sharp satirical scenes among the political chiefs: the President in military uniform priding himself on his workingclass origins.

telling Philipe that he needs men who are upright and loyal another Minister urging the necessity of dirty deeds to preserve the country's peace" and "freedom." As it is. the film falls into the category of those that at first seem important because they are about important subjects. and human flat and knocks the probing constabulary in the frontal lobes. Later. pregnancy stalks the village.

The children are born, beautiful. golden-hatred, strange-eyed, and grow up by physical leaps and mental bounds. They begin to exercise odd, vindictive powers over the villagers. A man who grazes one of them with his car gets a Nasty immediately drives himself and car into a wall. Another, who is thinking of shooting them, ends up by shooting himself.

Artificial insemination? Mutation? No. A take-over bid by another planet? much more likely. Their origins ani purpose are never made quite clear, but their menace is. Philipe is intelligent as always, but rather jaded: Maria Felix as beautiful as an Inca princess and as ruthless: Jean Servals, of the pebbly voice and hang-dog face, an excellent villain. The anti-Cuckoo squad is led ultimately by Professor George Sanders.

who at, first believes it possible to get through to them by education, goodwill and other old-fashioned liberal ideas. Finally. recognising that they are a threat to mankind as well as to Midwich, he chooses a desperate solution. The thoughtful. serio- comic book has become a much watered down, rather mild 'error film, as thick with cliches as the Midwich hedges with sukebind.

It is sad to see Sanders. who usually plays the type of man more likely to cause the Midwich dilemma than solve it. greeting his wife's pregnancy by looking a bit faint and ordering her to put her feet up! VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED Certificate, Ritz) is John Wyndham's fantasy, The Midwich Cuckoos, filmed NEXT WEEK IN BIRMINGHAM TirHO WAS THAT LADY? star and Jane Fonda as his girl Fr (Odeon Tony Curtis, Basketball. politics, bribery, Dean Martin and Janet Leigh divided loyalties, are well above their usual RUM CRAZY (Critunaonti, form in this really bright Holly- Film-biography of the great wood farce. Curtis.

a chemistry drummer. Gene Krupa, professor no is caught by his wife kissing a pretty played by Hal Con- His friend (Martini, a television enough: rise to fame, writer. and clearly a bad one, fall from fame, skids, return to suggests they tell her they are fame. The jazz sequences are F. 8.1.

agents and that the kissing first-rate, but the actors ail But, the children really are was in the line of duty. The look far too young and un- horrid and lend a genuinely F. 8.1. hear of this and have the touched. With it Is Con- sinister mood to the latter end greatest difficulty In disillusion- leastons of a Counterspy, a of the film.

Blonde, solemh ing the loyal wife. Brisk satire long. sluggish melodrama, with at the expense of everything, realistic trimmings, about un- condescending, with pupils like especially television and the earthing a Soviet spy-ring. The poisoned brandy-balls, they 8.1. Science Fourth might enjoy It.

stalk about like well-bred With Ernest Borgnine. zombies. Their resemblances SERGEANT RUTLEDGE AS LONG AS THE HEART to and ghoulish di ff erences (Bristol), John Ford out Pi BEATS (Cinephone). A from other children are well West again, this time with a German family-drama about a brought out by director Wolf Negro cavalry regiment after middle aged surgeon in a Rilla. the Civil War Is the heroic pas rovincial town, who finds he sergeant a sadistic killer? Will a fatal disease and has to "If you didn't su ff er from the lootanant get the nice slur reconsider his life-values and emotions and feelings you could Will the platoon intercept the family relationships A sort of be as powerful as we are," Apaches in time? The lot: court- Frau Dales Tayebuch.

I found A min love, mystery, violence, it all very Teutonic. With it a one insu er- Sanders is told ff action, scenery Not the best re-issue of The Market in able, gold-mopped, cold-eyed Toed but enjoyable if you don't women, brat of fully eight. Grr! I was mind the naivete. The Forum retains School For glad to see the lot of them With It is Tall Story, a light Scoundrels, the witty Lifeman- American college story with ship film. The Futurist retains return to their native element Anthony Perkins as a basketball the Royal Ballet film.

at the end. ONN WARD ow bawd I Low 411.. Why do more and more busy people travel to Australia by Lines? Good food good company good health good business Time to work time to prepare time to think! These are the reasons why more and more busy people travel to Australia by dt Air-and-4es If vou're in 1 hurry, you have the best of both worlds by flying part-way, sailing the rest. Or flying out, saihng home. hatever combination of air and sea travel suits you best can easily be arranged with your travel agent.

More and more busy people are realizing the tremendous value of the restored health and new business associations that only sea travel can give them. Good Food Menus to astonish the gourmet and cater for the ascetic. A quite impossible choice of magnificent food every mealtime. make the trip to Australia a memorable culinary experience. IPacille Outlets lines are not only a great Commonwealth lifeline, with all the traditions of the British Mercantile Marine, but a magnificent outlet to the Pacific too.

Services extend from Australia to the Orient and the West Coast of North America. Good Company Military men Stockbrokers Scientists Authors Surgeons always meet .14 4 someone interesting on a ship. And there are so truiny pleasant places to talk. Good Health Sunshine sea air complete relaxation. see that you arrive fit, tanned, refreshedready for some really hard work.

Good Business It's ram that you don't meet someone in )our own line of impossible not to meet someone who can give you valuable information advice contacts. A voyage on is always a first-class business investment. PRO-ORIENT LINES DotirT FOROZT YOUR WWII fond for you is good for your wife and family too! kev'll er.joy a voyage, even if they follow .0 later There are nurseries and trained children's hoar on every ship. Incidentally more and MOM men 4 00CIMPLII LONDON, S.M.I. WWI 4444 err 'along wives with them on normal business trips.

lie teADINHALL LONDON, AS! loco 0-ORIE FIRST CLASS TO AUSTRALIA IS AN INVESTMENT THE BIRMINGHAM POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1960 WOMEN LOSE APPEAL Balcony Signals Can be Soliciting Dismissing the first appeals under the 1959 Street Offences Act, three Judges in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court ruled yesterday that women who attracted the attention of men passers-by from behind the windows of a house or from a balcony were soliciting in a street and guilty of offences against the Act. The Court rejected. with costs. appeals by Christine Tolan and Marie Theresa Smith. both of Curzon Street.

Mayfair, against their conviction at Bow Street court last February of soliciting. Tolan was found guilty on four summonses and Smith on two. Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice, who sat with Mr. Justice Hilbery and Mr. Justice Donovan.

said: This Act was to clean up the streets to enable people to walk among them without being molested and soolicited by common prostitutes. It can matter little whether the prostitute who is soliciting is herself in the streets or is standing in a doorway, is on a balcony, or behind a window. Taps on Railing "In each case her solicitation is projected to and received by somebody walking in the street. The magistrate came to a correct conclusion." For the women. Mr.

M. Beckman said that the magistrate had found in one case that Smith had attracted men's attention by tapping on a first-floor balcony railing with a metal object. Having attracted their attention she invited them into the premises. Tolan had been found to have solicited from a balcony. Counsel submitted that the woman must be in the street for an offence to be committed.

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WolverhaniPten G.S. St JohnYi II Se Young. Rugby and Clare IJ Whtuker, Briton and Cams. In a letter to Redditch Urban Council Parks Committee last night asking for permission to do this work, the society said gravestones had been smashed and parts of the masonry of the abbey uncovered and smashed by children and youths. The police have promised to give as much attention to the site as possible, and the Chief Constable of Worcestershire has raised no objection to the patrols.

The society, formed a few years ago, consists of enthusiasts anxious to learn more of the history of the district. BOY RESCUED FROM LAKE Two 10-year-old schoolboys leapt into nine feet of water at the sea bathing lake at Southport yesterday and dragged out, unconscious. Jimmy Cooper. aged seven, of Davidson Road. Liverpool.

Jimmy, who was with a party of 61 children on a day trip from St. Roman Catholic School. Liverpool, was detained at Southport Infirmary. where his condition Is said to be satisfactory." Mathematical Trims. Part I Clans I Alhods Rrnarmar and Querns': Coot Kam Edward VI (i Stourhrtdae and SI.

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TRADE UNION Application by- Producers of I'm All Right, Jack' A Queen's Bench Divisional Court was yesterday told that while John and Roy Boulting were making the film. I'm AU Right, Jack. Which has been criticised in some quarters as anti-trade union, a shop steward of the film technicians' union told them that they each owed £97 in subscriptions to this union. and that if the arrears were not paid he would tell union members working on the film to stop work immediately Counsel for the Boulting Brothers said that his clients did not think it was a coincidence that this happened during the making of this particular Sim. John and Roy Boulting were bringing proceedings alleging that the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians had taken action designed to frighten them oil" an action which they had begun against it.

Applying on behalf of the Boulting Brothers for writs of attachment for alleged contempt of court against the union and Mr. George Elvin, its general secretary. Mr. L. 0.

Scarman. Q.C., said: "It is my submission that the facts reveal an undue interference with the administration of Justice." The application was heard by Lord Parker )the Lord Chief Justice). Mr. Justice Hllbery and Mr. Justice Donovan directors of Charter Films and producers of that company's films, were employee producers." While the Boultings maintained they were outside the ambit of that term the association contended they were eligible for membership.

In their action, continued counsel, the brothers claimed a declaration that their former membership of the union was suspended and an injunction restraining the union from compelling them to become members. Mr. Justice Hilbery: You say these actions were taken to force your clients into membership or go out of business? Exactly," Mr. Scarman mimed. He said that the brothers had Joined the union in 1941, but in 1951 and 1952 their subscriptions fell into arrears.

In 1953. by agreement with the union, their membership was placed in suspense and they paid no more subscriptions. In January. 1959, while producing the film I'm All Right. Jack they were asked for £97 arrears each.

The next day the union organiser told them that if the arrears were not paid he had instructions to tell the members working on the film to stop work immediately. Work was halted for a considerable part of the afternoon. Circular to Members Mr. Scarman said that since the issue of the writ in the Boultings' action. the union and Mr.

Elvin had issued a circular to union members and had written a letter to a third party who had close business rela tions with the Boultings. He submitted that both communications were calculated to force the Boultings to abandon their pending action. or at least to put pressure on them in the conduct of their action. Mr. Scarman said that the Boulting Brothers were managing directors of Charter Films and produced and directed films for that company.

The dispute between the parties, he said, arose from the construction of the association's rule which provided that membership would consist of "all employees engaged on the technical side of film production, including film directors and employee producers." The issue was whether the Boultings, as managing The Boultings had since resigned their membership in so far as it existed." Letter to Studios The circular of which complaint was made instructed members not to work for the Boultings or Charter Films after the current production. Also a letter was sent to Shepperton Studios requesting them not to allocate association members to the Boultings. and adding: Should you do so we would consider ourselves in dispute with you and take appropriate action." In an affidavit read. Mr. Elvin said that the acts of which the Boultings complained were designed to further Mr.

G. H. Elvin the union's policy and not to hinder the presentation of their case to the court or put pressure on them in the conduct of the action. Other Producers Mr. Elvin agreed with Mr.

Scarman that Michael Powell, lan Dalrymple and Herbert Wilcox were all non-members of the association, and were producers against whom industrial action had not been taken. Lord Parker: Why did you pick on the don't think we have picked on them. Mr. Justice Hilbery: Wasn't it because the offence that was given by All Right Jack no. It wasn't anything to do with the theme of that 111 m.

The hearing was adjourned until to-day. CROSSWORD PUZZLE No. 9,419 ACROSS shire river breaks in upon the see-1 Should this eonttinthestory of the fight? (9) 9 FamilLar In th. mouth. 16) 10 Nearly produces sion.

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(9) 15 Self conscious attempt to make a hit. 131 IS Not there though seen In the jut muddied oafs." maybe. (6) 37 Finish in the midst of attendant circumstance. (9) ience of the Arab sentinel. (61 19 Best part of the way to peace.

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Hancock CORK QUILL IN a letter addressed in the spring of 1639 to his worthy friend Izaak Walton, Sir Henry Wotton, Provost of Eton College, concluded: Hoping shortly to enjoy your ever-welcome company in this approaching time of the Fly and the Cork." Wotton, more than 20 years Walton's senior, was 70. This was to be the last season they could fish together, for Wotton died before Christmas. Apparently the hope he expressed was realised, for when The Compleat Angler was published years afterwards, it contained a set of verses by Wotton entitled "On a Bank as I sate a-Fishing; a Description of the Spring." Walton says: "I know that when he was beyond 70 years of age he made this description of a part of the present pleasure that possessed him, as he sat quietly, in a summer's evening on a bank It is reasonably supposed that Walton himself was the friend Wotton described in the second The Jealous trout, that low did lie. Rose at a well dissembled file; There stood my Friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill. For all the difference in their ages.

Wotton was a man after Walton's heart: a devoted angler and--almost equal undervaluer of money." The hypercritical will note that if it was Wotton who was fishing the well-dissembled fly, his fly-fishing was as sedentary as Walton's float-fishing. And the float in the poem was a quill. not the cork forecast in the letter. In Thomas Weaver's verses. too, prefacing The Complent Angler, The treacherous quill in this slow stream Betrays the hunger of a bream.

Poets prefer quills. Did Walton use either? With him an angle implied the whole outfit of rod, line and reel, of course, that strange device which, he said, was to be observed better by seeing one of them than by a large demonstration of words." He gave instructions for painting a rod and for twisting and dyeing a hair line. Hooks he mentioned because Job and Amos did. thus proving the antiquity and virtue of angling. But there are no floats in the Bible, not even quills in the goose, crow or porcupine and certainly no corks.

Nor do I recall a mention of floats in Walton. unless one counts a bladder or live goose used to carry out a live bait for pike. We must accept Wotton's word for Walton's quill. Charles Cotton, In the second part of The Compleat Angler, is more explicit. In angling at the bottom for trout, he said, a cork or float was used.

In several references his words are invariably a cork or float." When he came to worm fishing for grayling alone, however, he wrote with a cork, and a foot from the bottom curious indication of the grayling angler's preference, still stubborn, for a tubby cork rather than a quill float. From the distinction a cork or float." I suppose that float means a quill. When did the fretful porcupine first enter the service of the English angler? "Corks are a thing of the past," a fellow fly-fisher remarked to me nostalgically at a dinner not long since. He oddly ignored the fact that he and I had just jointly ordered the drawing of one. Indeed.

the tables provided a wealth of evidence to refute him. Yet it is true that over a wide field of potation the crown-opener has ousted the corkscrew. This must have caused a revolution in Irish float-flahing, for the natives asked nothing better than the cork used in bottling a certain brew of better, that is. except the contents. Whether their worm was fished for perch, eel or salmon, that cork was the universal float.

Ichabod! The English are a more poetical. less matter-of-fact race, and English anglers delight in gaily coloured floats. We have no monopoly, though, of a pleasure that is almost world from Russia to Ghana. If Joseph had been keen on fishing, Jacob would have given him a float of many colours. There is less general sympathy with the practical Bickerdyke, to whom the float was a necessary evil." than with Hugh Sheringham.

who found a float a great dispeller of ennui." "Once or twice," Sheringham said, I have seen a pike or perch assault a fat cork float, which is a cheery spectacle." Nowadays cork and quill alike are largely replaced by synthetic materials. In their favour it is to be said they possess the advantage, at once practical and poetical, of being obtainable in almost endless variety. To many anglers the temptation they offer is as endless. Some men accumulate boxes full of floats, as some have drawers full of neckties. What happens to all the ties and all the floats It is as unanswer- able as the question what happens to all the pins.

OBITUARY Mr. Cecil E. Barwell The death occurred yesterday in his 82nd year of Mr. Cecil Barwell, a member of one of Birmingham's oldest families. Mr.

Barwell was educated at Malvern College and entered in 1896 the business of plumbers brasafounders of James Barwell, founded by his grandfather and dating from 1784. He had been a director for 54 years and chairman for 29 years when he retired last March. Golf Club where he was a playing member until a few years ago. He was for many years a member of Edgbaston Debating Society and the Birmingham Rotary Club; he was also the oldest regular member of the Clef Club. Great changes had taken place in manufacturing processes during this period and it was as a result of his technical skill and initiative that the company's premises were largely rebuilt and which enabled the moat modern methods of manufacturing to be introduced.

Mr. Harwell served the National Brasafoundry Association on its council for many years, being chairman of the Midland branch from 1945 to 1947. Besides being a member of King's Norton Golf Club for 40 years. he was the oldest member of Harborne Golf Club and was also a member of Edgbaston Mr. Barwell leaves a widow.

a daughter, Mrs. Jerome Jackson, and a son. Mr. Bryan P. Harwell, now managing director of James Barwell, PIN-MONEY' WOMEN'S DISMISSAL DEFEATED The most heated debate at the conference at Brighton.

yesterday. of the National and Local Government Officers' Association was on a motion demanding that married women not responsible for the major household expenses. irrespective of length of service, should be dismissed before other staff when there was redundancy. The Executive opposed the motion which, on a show of hands, was declared defeated, though it was supported by many delegates. South Wales and Monmouthshire sponsored it.

In moving it, Mr. M. Lloyd said that reorganisation of local government could well mean in many places more staff being available than was needed. "We would regard as foolish any trade union which allowed women to remain at work on a pin-money basis while married men and young men willing to make the Service their career were dismissed." he said. Who is to Decide? Mr.

J. E. Oosney (Staffordshire), opposing the motion. asked: Who is to decide who is working only for pin-money? Is a woman buying a house and not bothering about a subsidised council house to be victimised?" Many women delegates opposed the motion. Mrs.

K. Jones (Monmouthshire Health Service) said: "The motion must be opposed by every female member of Nalgo and any man who has any sense of justice." Britannia Home To-morrow The Royal Yacht Britannia, which left the Thames on May 6 taking Princess Margaret and Mr. AnLiony Armstrong- Jones on their Caribbean honeymoon voyage, is due back at Portsmouth to-morrow with the Royal couple. The Admiralty said last night that at noon to-day the yacht will be approximately 275 miles south-west of Bpithead. Portsmouth, where she is due at 11 am.

to-morrow. Crusade to Go to Belgium After its final Birmingham meeting at Villa Park on July 2. the Eric Hutchings Crusade will prepare for a three-week crusade in Belgium. Mr. Hutchings and about a dozen helpers will be in Brussels from October 15 to November 6.

The chairman of the crusade committee in Belgium will be the Rev. Col. W. Marichal, Protestant chaplain-general to the Belgian Army. In the Country Walk in the New Forest By R.

S. R. Fitter pERHAPS the most famous 8 bird-watching trip in the short history of birdwatching as a pastime was that undertaken by Sir Edward Grey and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in June, 1910. After spending the morning in the Itchen valley, they walked for seven miles through the New Forest. clocking up 41 species en route.

Recently the Nature Conservancy made it possible for a couple of dozen British and American, including one Canadian. naturalists and con- this occasion by traversing the route taken 50 years before by the British Foreign Secretary and his distinguished American guest. We started at about halfpast two on the barren heathland around Stoney Cross, walked through some plantations down to the valley of the Highland Water, and followed it all the way to Brockenhurst, where we arrived about four hours later for some muchneeded refreshment. Since a rout of 55 naturalists and Pressmen together could hardly have been expected to see anything worth while, we were split uP into smaller parties, which between them managed to see eleven more birds than the two statesmen. The party I was with had a fine view of a buzzard (incidentally not mentioned in the Orey-Roosevelt list), glimpsed a deer and saw and heard a good selection of woodland birds, including blackcap, garden warbler, chiffchaff and long-tailed tit.

Though our route did not lie near any of the localities for the New Forest rarities, I also notched up 124 different flowering plants and ferns, including heath spotted orchid, hard fern, pink bell-heather and yellow pimpernel. Altogether the Forest lived up to its reputation of one of our finest open-air reserves, and several American naturalists, will, I am sure, not easily forget their introduction to the English countryside. Byrne Appeal on Monday The appeal by Patrick Joseph Byrne against his conviction for the murder of Miss Stephanie Baird at Wheeleys Road Y.W.C.A. Hostel. Edgbaston, Birmingham, will be heard in London on Monday.

Byrne, a 28-year-old builder's labourer, was sentenced at Birmingham Assizes on March 24 to life Imprisonment. The defence had asked for a verdict of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. It is understood that Byrne's appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal will be based on misdirection of the jury by Mr. Justice Stable. Solihull Site for Methodist Church Solihull Council will be asked next week to approve a recommendation that land in Mill Lane.

Bentley Heath, once part of a farm. should be sold as a site for a Methodist church. Princess Alexandra Much Better' Princess Alexandra, who has been suffering from a minor infection of the ear at her home. Copping, Iver. Buckinghamshire.

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