JEAN SIMMONS
she
says
is
feeling blue
HOLLYWOOD. BEAUTIFUL young girl, at the top of her rofession, and pr married not long slice to a handsome young man at the top of his, sat in Hollywood and dream- ed wistfully of Gokters Green.
which she is waiting to play the Itonian slave girl.
"Just think." says Jean sadly, have been doing nothing for nine months. It's awful! I've never been lille for so long in my life before."
Second, she practically never sera anything of Stalwart Stewart because, na luck would have R, he is being kept as busy as she
She was Jeun Simmons Is not. (Ophelia in Olivier's "Ham- let"), who last December mur- ried British flm actor Stewart Granger.
So while Stalwart Stewart dashes up to Idaho to film "The North Country," then charges off io Sicily and Tunis to make In real life she is even more scenes for "The Light Touch," stunning thun on the screen. and is told that he is going to Her eyes are like twin fur make "Scaramouche," "Prisoner qualses but better than any of Zendn," and "Robinson thing you ever saw in the Cruson" in quick succession after jeweller's and you should have seen them dight up when that, Jean lias been walling for
something to do.
said that I lived for muny years in a house just behind the Bull and Bush, between Hampstead and Golders Green.
"Oh, that makes me feel so homedck," she said, "I lived In Golders Green and went to school in Edgware."
on
"Can't you see the children solling their boats
the White Stone Pond?" I asked.
"Oh, plénze," sold Jean,
Aurance,
the
As though seeking reas-
fondled she gigantic diamond ring
Customs one the British' unfeelingly borrowed when went home-given to her husband Stewart.
Horseplay.
the
ко
he by
WE were sitting at lunch in the R.K.O studio res- tourant-the inner
No parties
WHAT does she do with her W time in the 14-room house, which cost £50,000 complete with swimming pool, tennis courts, and terraced gardens in exclusive
Bel Air?
"I do quite a lot of reading aloud to keep my voice in practice," says Jean. "I pick up
a book or a newspaper--anything and read it aloud. It doesn'! matter what it is, it's Just to have and practice in changing tone rhythm."
"Yes, what else?" I prodded gently. "Do you sec many friends?"
- "Oh. we haven't made many. friends yet. We don't give pattles
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*THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1951..
MacCOLL in HOLLYWOOD
Today R. M. MacColl,
touches of his series on understanding Hollywood with a Personal Story-the frankest-ever-intervleu with the girl from Golders Green who left home to "become the bride of film actor Stewart Granger. •• •.
JEAN SIMMONS looks across Hollywood from the studio roef.
nights with Mrs Burt Allenberg. the wife of her agent. Fourteen rooms can get to seem like for too many when you are in them
all alone.
Groucho Marx, wearing a red sweater, came over to our table. "Oogie, boogie, woogle," he said, addressing Miss Simmons. "Will you have lunch with me next Tuesday?"
"I'll have to ask my husband," said Jean
"After next Tuesday he's not
Gabriel Ughtly. "Positively and absolute. pounded his chest ly in the first week of July," he said. "We had a little casting
trouble," he added.
endless
Outside the hot California sun streamed down on the rugged Califortan hills. The cars jammed along the broad boulevards. The Golders Green parade seemed an awfully long way away.
Rosemary
WHAT ST
GO NAGON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
M
LONDON. one-day beneßt for Middlesex opener JACK ROBERTSON at Stanmore--and was out for 11. caught at extra-cover.
RT. O. M. SOP.
WITH had glimpse of his old yacht Philante when she brought KING HAAKON, of. Norway
WOR
his official visit to Britain.
Now named the Norge, the 1,629-ton vessel the gift of the Norwegian people to their 78-year-old sovereign. Mr Sopwith found that even millionairea cannot nowadays afford to run luxury yachts.
How many are still owned by super-taxed Britons? Only four, 1. And, of the world's 35 yuchis exceeding 500 tons.
In the family
THE DUCHESS OF KENT is following the example of THE QUEEN and the two Princesses.
MOLYNEUX made her clothes Now she goes til his retirement last year. to NORMAN HARTNELL,
tary of the Society
MISS LILIAN HYDER, secre- Fashion Designers, tells me that of London
all her "top ten" members are out of town.
In "deepest secrpey," they are working in the country (in spring-like weather) on their
autumn collections.
t
Mr Bevin's: ashes
They are MR R. A. COLBY CUBBIN'S 60-year-old convert- ed holiday steamer Western Tales (1,420 tons). SIR BER-HE suggestion that the ashes NARD DOCKER'S Shermara of MR ERNEST DEVIN
(833 tons), LORD CAMROSE'S should be buried in Westminster Virginia (742 tons), and LORD Abbey came from THE KING. ILIFFE'S Radiant (550 tons).
Mr Colby Cubbin is a suc- cessful Isle of Man business man. Slr Bernard Docker is director of 17 companies.
He made the proposal to DR ALAN DON, Dean of West- minster, and asked him to put it to the politicians.
THE King always had a great admiration and liking for Mr
THE NAME Philante la Bevin. combination of the Christian wife: Phil (for Phyllis) and T (for Tom),
ames of Mr Sopwith and his Vivien's year
allve
THIS 1
year.
VIVIEN LEIGH'S First there were
He keeps the name through Philante 11., ex-Lady laurels here as the two Cleo- Helena, 155 tons.
patras.
A
Now her new American dim, "Streetcar Named Desire," wili be a great success.
Jet at dinner IRMAN as well as saller is shown to the American public. The pleture has not yet been Mr Sopwith. As chairman But some
reserved for the stars and their 1 like to sit and play back with a leer. "But then neither looked as though Jean might chester to mark the tenth an-
guests,
At the next table Groucho Marx and Willam Bendix in- dulged in some complicated horseplay.
a bluc blouse
gammon in the evenings,"
Drive? "I haven't taken out a Californian licence. It's so con- fusing, this driving on the wrong side of the road."
Hollywood is a place of vast
are you."
Enter Pascal
Dorably.
professional critics
sided a dinties At the Dee have seen it and report favour- niversary of the jet fight.
For
her part. Vivien Leigh world's first is reported to have got more
than £50,000.
SIR
FRANK Joy on Wall Street
seo something of Stewart. He was told to take ten days off to grown beard,
Guests-of-honour "But no," said Jean sadly. COMMODORE
Were AIR- 'On top of that, they told him! WHUTTLE, designer of the arst to report every day for fencing-st engine the Whittle W1, and
mouche. So I didn't see him director. even then. Oh, dear."
THESE are great
red distances and unless you drive a days' stubble on his chin rushed lessons in preparation for 'Scaro MR W. G. CARTER, technical business In Wall Street is very
Jean wore (belonging to Stewart), a skirt (from Italy), and EL tomato-coloured swagger coat (bought in California).
There were big circles of melat clipped to her cars, and one Anger was bandaged where she bit it too hard while watching her first bill-fight In Mexico the other day.
Now why on earth should pretty Jean from Golders Green have anything to feel blue about? Well, she is suffering from double-dose-frustration.--
Idleness
THE door flew open with a THE
'crash and a man with three car you are hopelessly immobil- into the restaurant: "You!" he Ised. So It Jean wants to escape shouted at Jean with mock from her house either her ferocity. "You gotta be up to sec secretary or a studio car with me in 20 minutes,
chauffeur cemes round for her.
DOES
Lonely
she garden? "No, I'm afraid it bores me. I like tèn.
nis but I'm not very good at it." Jean pushed aside her half- finished cup of soup and toyed with some anchovy-salád: {"I- mus! watch my weight. I'm eight and a half stone.")
While Stewart was away in
FIRST, there has been this Idalia Jean was so lonely that series of postponements of she shut up the big place in Bel Androcles and the Lion" in Ale and went to stay for a few
Dream
For
He disappeared. "He's a Texan called 'Shot gun," explained Jean. "He's a wonderful make-up man."
Then in sirode Gabriel Pascal, the producer-Wien it starts-of Androcles', his face as brown 05 cocon.
"Darling!" he cried. "Today You look wonderful. You look happy. Some days you look a ittle sad-but today happy."
"When does 'Androcles get started?' I asked.
Laboratory
By JENNY NICHOLSON
of
di Sanita
Inevitably the enforced spas- modle married life of Jean and Stewart has started the gossips Eoing. I was asked beforehand not to touch on the during our lunch as Jean was upset by them.
rumours
this time and that July will see Well, I liope Pascal is right Jean leave the ranks of the well. paid unemployed.....
Her line as Ophella, "Here's
for rosemary—that's
remem- brance," wrung all hearts. Hey, you moguls how about a little rosemary to remember Jean by?
-(London Express "Sorules.)
Comes True
Following his
in
Six marshals of the R.A.F., by Chief of Air Staff SIR generals were there.. JOHN BLESSOR, and five U.S.
was the aircraft in which the ALSO present in the ballroom first flight was made the Glos- ter E28/29.
B®
Chuter's rig
days for American stockbrokers. For
big; this spring it hit its highest peak since the phenomenal up- surge in 1949.
And nobody is more surpris. ed than the slockbrokers them- selves.
Fald
GEORGE BASS, pariner in one
"We are learning,"
of Wall Street's biggest com- panies, "that the American in- dustrial machine is so huge, so capable of vast production, that despite the country's transition. from civilian
to
defence economy, there is still plenty of
plenty of guns, and
POATING —enthuslost is 68
year-old Home Secretary MK JAMES CHUTER EDE.
of shares to be traded For him, no yacht. It is the every day." Paucy Brown Duck which corries THE him at week-ends up and down saw
beginning of this year the biggest turnover in the Thames.
stocks since 1929. And nearly £71,000,000 worth were traded
last month alone. A Jaunty in stockbrokers' commis-
His crew? Sometimes two deteclives. His rig? white yachting cap with near- navy-blue suit.
:
sions averaging one percent, Mr
Bass has a comment
are all
Setting
little
nt Ray. And it doesn't look ilke stopping yet, either. There is a constant stream of investment absorption that is buying stock regardless of whether it goes up two points or down two points.
"And for those who are in- vesting these days, including small investors, there is usually
share price apprecia
"We winning the for the past two years has been. Tectotaller Ede takes his boal- Nobel Prize, Professor Chain directing building operations.
ing seriously. He lunches was in Italy lecturing for the
river-side pubs, British Council. The Director- Although it is Kalian-spon- And drinks ginger beer. THERE is a wide road the time whom he will cure of General of the Institute disored, it has been given an in- Professor Domenico ternational favour by the World
Gave it away leading out of Rome this experiment follows where Sarolta, which
the takes him.
asked Chain If he Health Organisation, which will passes between in- "But I believe that any dis-
would mind giving an expert matice 12 fellowships and has NEVER
MILLIONAIRE who bas pressive monuments to covery in the field of medicine opinion an some medical sup-
owned Death and Life. On one belongs to everyone regardless piles abandoned by UNILRA in already begun to sumulate the NEVER owned
a yacht, a racehorse, vide is the gaunt-walled There will
of colour, race, politics or faith, a nearby yard. Professor Chain building of other centres like NEVER indulged
"Pots and it all over the world.
the typical good be a complete ex-pronounced them: cemetery of San Lorenzo; change of
millionaire's fancies, is 73-year- tion. Information between pans...out of date...barely a
old LORD NUFFIELD. He has
Does Mr Bass fear a down- on the other the stark, us and anyone interested-the beginning..." Then he spoke of
given his fortune away.
ewing? "It might be good for white buildings
results of all work done here his dream of what he thought
us," says ho. "Just before
ali medical
will be published."
ought to be begun. research centre
It will be officially opened by Those who know him best are
And is he still a millionaire? we stockbrokers get too gay," which is the first of its
the President of the Italian Re-doubtful. Their verdict: Prob- When ho had outlined his
Duke invited kind in the world.
public in project for a non-commercial
a few weelts but, al- From his temporary office in full-scale research centre "where ready, as if nobody could wait, ably, but only just.
the scientists have moved
OF WINDSOR Professor Ernst the tall while Instituto Superiore also research workers could
Nor will his title outlive him. THE DUKE and work has started.
He has been married 47 years of honour at the annual dinner has been invited to be guest Boris Chain
come and
with this
(itself one of the com
get acquainted centre, best-equipped research institu- chemical
the different methods
In the laboratories where But has no children. sponsored by the Italian
in Europe
of coloured liquids travel hither microbiology
WHAT will happen, for physics,
to the of the Book Publishers' Repre- and thither
nesentatives' Association. Government, is the realise therapeutic
along lubes, cul- last Nuffield million when chemistry,
training centre also for micro-
tures
He has not yet tion of an improbable, and chemistry,
accepted. malariolon
and logists and
come in trays looking dies? My guess that after pro- he mler biological
their life times for
It will be the first expensive dream,
bacteriology) he can look down engineers" he turned sadly toiko old Roman coins and ab-viding in
sorbed scientists make heirogly- his wife and near relatives
ho has attended in Professor Marolta and
functio upon his almost-finished pro-
chal- 'sur But of course phles in Utile notebooks. Pro- will find its way into the £10,-
Britain since his abdication. Hitherto, if a private re- the room reading
Jeet. Bouncing elastically round lenged him:
fessor Chain's wife, out hero you laugh?"
The dianer coincides with the a000,000 Nuffield Foundation. herself searcher concerned himself paragraph from
blochemist, held a white-coated
publication here of the Duke's a report, there
lest-tube up to the light. And with the isolation of some letter from some Canadian
through
WHETHER he illustration of
accepts this medical faculty, there again an biologically interesting sub-
the raison d'etre of the Research ROM
Invitation or not, the Duke. extract from an article in
the prolife stance, such as penicillin medical journal,
bat of It was Professor Marolta who Centre-one glimpsed indistinct- all at Incom- persuaded the Italian Govern- ly the elaborate tombs and the furies flow. But on the village DUCHESS in Paris, he sold he plans to visit Britain this year, DENIS COMPTON the cen-' House-hunting. with THE culture, he had either prehensible speed, he relates ment, to anance this expensive cypresses Angering to work
the low-green, less success. at some how the centre came to be venture. Professor Chain was slung heavens over the cemetery
would come over later for the but. with university
played invited to be its director, and across the road.
for Middlesex Festival and to small,
"altend: some against Stanmore C.C. in a ceremonies." inconvenient quantities, or commercial firm which could afford to pro- vide the processing equip ment on a useful industrial
join a
scale.
Professor Chain, a naturaliabd' British subject, was joint win. ner of the 1943 Nobel Prize for discovery of the chemotherapeu -ile effect of penicillin. He is a Marx Brothers conception of #scientist. His face is chubby. ́hair a' black - thatch, his moustache thickly dropping, his energy irrepressible..
ช
!
"You must, understand,!: be inalats, "I am no idealist. A "true" scientist does not think ́all.
NANCY
"I do not laugh-I say why. not?'
!
man
memoirs. Denis out for 11
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