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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1953.
Gregory Peck winds up the story of his life.....................
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ON
HOLLYWOOD
conceals only
tho richies
with of their entanglement
Louis Bum facade ho ET'S take the lid off herita
fathers, and the newly rich in Mayer, one of the most colour santly a very fresh and lively
band of Hollywood. Have a
dustrialista, pour fortunes over ful of that eccentric
brain that how grasped look at those fabu- the green tables, That might Hollywood big shois.
cantials of all of puenapa ten lous orgies, listen-in have happened in the Holly
scrip with which hè la disaling. to the wild parties, gamble wood of years ago but not today.
The strange thing I remember
1 him about
tila uncanny away a life-time's salary on Not anyway, since 1940.
Comparatively peaking
memory. Ho would roud those dizzy roulette wheels in glittering homes of the Hollywood is the hardest-us
scrips and remember llocs like an veprant. I have rung nim at mad men and wild women of rich town & America,"
ail umes of the day and night the film city!
to question
a script, and over the telephone, without a copy before him, he has quoted from the
Unca script and altered without a single reference.
Loula is a notorious crier. Ho breaks Info tara when J emotions are stirred, and that is pretty often. He ories over one of his good pictures because it is good. And he crits over a bad one just as coplously because
Bui ish's good.
those
tears don't mean anything more than omotional atops and comma In his eccentric idiom. The ap- The
bulk of Hollywood's praising and dissecting brain of riches goes back to Uncle Sam the true artist and the hard
sense
of tho administrativa k I carned $125,000 financier are unaffected by the
curtain of tears.
Short Lifo
You're going to be disap- pointed. Hollywood is so,
outside homely and duil the studios that Queen in taxes. I should know. Last Victoria would have found year it unexciting. She might and I paid back 82 percent in oven have liked it...
The truth is that, out- side of two night clubs, Hollywood has no night life. The stars, when they have time, for a night out, go to each other's houses and have a
old- good fashioned party round the piano.
They're good parties, 109. Danny Kaye will give one of his intimate and entirely tad ie nets that would command 20,000 cabaret, Sinatra eroons in his 300-dollars-a-note volet, Crosby, minus toupee, and Bob Hope, without golf
clubs, sing old favourties.
dolara
Simple Souls
We might have a barbecued
steak. In the open air and, por- haps, almost certainly we swim in our host's pool; and let me here kill any Idea that you may have that a swimming pool is an index to the lavish lives of
Blieve Hollywood stars,
มณ
mc. you can have a swimming pool for the price of ear. Aid An our glorious climate a pool almost as necessary as a refrig
Swimming practically my only recreation,
erator or a cor.
No. When it comes to their own entertainment, the stars can be simple souls and, with so much talent concentrated among them, it is easy to put on a par- lour party.
taxes. Most flim štars pay over
00 percent.
Louls wanted me to star in a True that didn't quito leave pet picture he had in mind, and me to sign a ho also wanted me as the bread line, but a Blm dong-term contract exclusively star hing to budget for a short M.G.M. life and not always a merry one. An accident could put him out
Three successive. of business. film flops and he is ng cold as a dead duck.
"My boy," he said, "think of these stars" and he named great naines-"I made bem and I will make you, too, Will you sign for seven years with M.G.M.?"
"No, thank you," I Bald politely and pleasantly.
Louis B, just broke down and cried like a child.
Top Line Boys
I suppose the top line boys lif Hollywood can be put into one cins Louis B. Mayer, Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and David They are the czars Seek.
I have Zanuck,
+
of the film industry, played for Mayer Warner and Selznick,
Selznick is one of those men who gamble heavily on their films. He puts all into a chance. Just at the moment he is having But one of his low periods.
and the gambler such is the arust that he is bound to come with a smashing out on top
that may be
were on
Whoa I first went to Holly- wood I vowed that, if I became a film star, I would hatch my- self to a bank bajones and keep it To safeguard the future of
and my children
my wire began an insurance programme.
the past During
ion years I
"I never thought you would have worked up this programme say that to me when I feel so success. And so that if I con last in films for strongly that Meiro could do soon. another ten years I shall have
your career so much good, and ensure me a 1 personally
He is a gambler in real life enough saved 10
would look after
as well Once, when we, were nice monthly Income for life, 1.
carcet your
like your
OWIŁ don't want to dep.ni
on any father. It makes me cry." And shooting "Duel in the Sun,"
Tucson location at am old. boly when
he did.
(pronounced Tewson). We were As a kid of 10 I drove an oll
In the desert for works. It got
Ono truck wonted to be an oll
very depressing.
night Well, I have achieved my tuen-oge ambition. Along with
Selznick said he would like a gamble. Jack Benny people, including Lewis, and A number of business people-a syndicate of about 20 of us altogether own an oil company which has been
is Goldwyn
another Oklahoma, prospecting In
. "Right," said Selznick, Ile of the KIN Kansas City, and Texas, and at curious member the moment we have four all-ity.
rang the sheriff and tho conver- These days, money
went this way: ention
"Say, gvesn't mean anything to Sam. sheriff, they tell me there's no fields producing,
Tucson....No?
show some
Martin and
Business Man
That is Just like Hollywood. Tears and tantrums and terms, us muen beting off the set as on it.
Goldwyn's Guest
Sami
he is just he
alust who
makes
ס"י
gambling" suld one of
"The our people.
sheriff has ahut down every gambling joint In the place."
gambling in
nfim every year or two years.
Yest The pleure is the thing. He Well I want to gamble....
..there's a joint outside the loves story,olling. And when he city that isn't closed....Some is interested ho_ca:a, lives, and
body give me a panell...yes
..Thanks, sheriff
Apart from that. I haven't siceps with his idea. He comets time to indulge in big business, and pets his artists, and this But in my own film work Ila where I came in. have tried to be a business man as well as an artist. I have always insisted on being
these
Change Of Luck
I SEE
A TOUGH TIME for BRITONS
SEFTON DELMER cables an on-the-spot NEWSMAP to analyse the Sudan poll
KHARTOUM. 'ES, it's true all right. The victory of the Nationa
Unionist Party in the first general election in the Sudan means victory for Egypt. Don't listen to anyone who says differently.
True enough, the National Unionist Purly includes many Sudanese who really want independence for the Sudan. But before they can assert themselves the pass will huve been sold..
For the Importance of the NUP's advent to power is not so much in what it is actually going to do--though from the point of view of those who are laterested in secing that the work begun by the British is carried on that will be disastrous enough.
The importance of the
NUP leaders los in what THE MAP WILL SHOW YOU they are not going to do. They are going to JUST WHAT IS AT STAKE
do nothing whatsoever 10 stop the continued pene-
SUEZ CANAL Iration of the Sudan by the army of agents and bribemasters sent In by Major
Saleh Solem, Egypt's dancing propa- anndist.
in fanallen op-
They will carry on power in position to the British administration and under- mine the disciplino
and sceurlty bullt Up σπ British prestige and fair- ness during the last 50 years.
They
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will Inevitably permit the country to fail prey to Egyptian gre:U and corruption. Disorder and chaos will take over and the later, Communists, tooner or will reap tho pront-just an I prophesy they will to Egypt t Naguib's Incompetent colonela Let's be franks about it. There
| reign there much-lenger, He wanted me for one of his" are people in Hollywood who
Then I demurred pictures. seek the headlines and cultivate
And with this triumph in the the columnists. But they are lance. I have solidly and con--
followed a strange tew monais.
As you can imagine we. Sudan to boliler them up they At lunch nad dinner nearly gambled. not the real top-liners who are
We went to a little | should have a good chatice of are sistently refus:d
become a to
every day I was his guest. far too busy, and far too tired star for one producer.
spot outside the city and played that. mit famous people at when they have finished their
don't like monthly pay amazing gatherings-beauuful
raulette. My wife and I did not
brcome
their binding Mariene Dietrich, Hobert Bner- Rumble much. Along with Jos and
Cotten and Jennifer Jones we news. tapes. They It's not fair to judge the many ideas,
$100. As it is, I only makes lists are a catalogue of the But the limelight by the few.
was one picture at a time, and I can
aristocracy of the stage, the Selznick, who plunged choose my pictures.
heavily Hollywood a fabulour, wild gambling hell
Aim magnates, and big business. I was Chips sentiered the green cloth.
enthralled.
I still said
with city is as far from the truth don't like this free-lance idea. "No, Sill Sam kept
luck went Al first the as can be. I have seen more They want to tle the stars to a my wife and I met more and the little man who owned the on, and Selznick, and we felt sorry for jewellery, more wealth, more studie with agreements and more new people, and wo ate rout glitter, and sophistication at St contracts, bui the would Morita in the season
table, Hollywood,
thing. And on the Rivieru I have This "contract claustrophobia” reem. the song wito have in- of mine once got me into an
with
day's work, to hit the high spots cheques All Initintive and wood, Irving Berlin, e.e. Sam's invested and lost about
of
unsavoury
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replace the party, are available to couldn't UMMA (independence) felt the poor devit
which made it clear to no that his British a point on We became "Sam" and "Greg" afford the racket.
party Intended to take a whole UMMA declared itself rendy to to each other. He would ring
Then the scene changed. The series of immediate measures to negotiate. me up at add times of 1410
You little man began to win. We felt prevent Egyptians continuing
No. NUP is determined that, day and night to
Chief among chat, couldn't imagine a cosier set-up was our boss
Uko cheering, although Selznick their penetration.
come He drew level, these intended measures were→→ officials
what may, all British Then one day Darryl Zanucic
10 be replaced by cheer. At five anaounced a now film "Gentle then we did
Departure from the Sudan Sudanese within the next three
are
man's Agreement," with myself o'clock in the morning he was within the next 12 months of years, and that only when this
in the lead.. Poor Goldwyn-
Zanuck had hit upon the kernel of the very story he was plan- ning and had killed stone dead Sam's Him.
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winning $3,600 from our chiet Wages not, we were happy.
all
But the pay-off was to come, "I'll pay you," said Selznick, It was poor Peck, too, for the "but first of all show me the
wheel"
the British and Egyptian garri has been done shall the garrisons. sons, and voling at the earliest leave and a self-determination possible moment in a so-called vote be held.
To self-determination prebiscite-10
what,. apart from their
their triumph? of decide whether the Sudan should money, do the Egyptians, awe be completely independent Egypt or, if not, what kind In the first place, to the enjoy deplorable apathy of the British Patiently the little man un-relationship it should a hot coul. The name Peck was screwed the roulette wheel and
with the pashas and colonels of Government which, for the sake struck from the Goldwyn Invita laid out the component
of the Canal base negotiations, parts Cairo. don list. Any Goldwyn, who is along the carpet
allowed the Budáncse to belleve There were Hollywood's No. I hostess, just no wires, no electrical contact.
Invitations from Sata ccased forthwith. I was dropped like
amiled at me.
More Colourful
Grinning broadly, Selnick wrote out a cheque. And we wont home..
One thing I have learned But I am
sure if Bam gets about Hollywood, the star must another idea that would sult me, look after himself. "A drop in "Sam" and "Oreg" will get to- favour, an accident, a gether again and thoes dmaz- these can all ring the death ing lunches and dinners will knell of a star. start all over,
These film: kings aro, a story On Percentage
and a fim in themselves. Why
doesn't someone put them on the
J
of
pee
To prevent Egypt continuing that Britain had given up, the to send money into the Sudan Sudan and was content to with which to corrupt officiais the Egyptians as now master.. and influence chiefs, UMMA leaders had decided to create a how Sudanete currency at once,
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TOUGH JOB
¿VERYWHERE 1-håve been in: The Egyptian pound, which is
the Sudan during these last the currency circulating in the Sudan at present, would be three weeks. I have found replaced by new Sudanese Egyptian agents spreading this pound based on sterling..
powertul propaganda ng "The British masters are unished and All new Egyptian economic masters are
dond with. New and better 3 agences, which hayo come in
coming in from here since Britain negotiated the Egypt. You must got in with soreen lice the poor. mortais And so, in my own way, I am disastrous February agreement them. They will treat you well. they employ
Egypt They cán act. looking ahead, I am also con- with
On top of this there was the concerning the usual fatigue of the elector with Trouble is nobody would ballavolous of television's throat to Sudan, were to be banished at the Government that has been 11, like, a Turner sunset or the the box offico takings of a film | once. fish wo.caught when we hadn't star.
and power. a readiness, to got a camera. They are far more colourful" and picturesque than
Nowadays I am pushing for a4 The Sudan was to have a flag believe in anyone promising
of its own in place of the glorious changes. the men and women they star. percentage take-off in my nego~.| Egyptian - Dag and Union Jack,.. UMMA fenders have for some
Hations with producers.
which now fly together over-all time been co-operating with Take Darryl Zanuck, för ex-
I ask for a smaller salary, but | buildings.
the British
the Sudanese ample. There is a man who is I want a percentage of proats.
Assembly tho very caricature of anim This means that if I make a "'STRICTEST
Athir
third factor is the.
antor in the distrust executive...dynamic, fast-talk successful picture and don't
of many Sudanese who are not fast-thinking Hollywood forget the record-breaking run
of Dull in the Sun,
ing.
producer.
in
Carrying out of the Anglo-
7
I do not envy British officials Egypten Aardement, 40
Ла Agreement de dictat, left the Sudgn the, job that Egypt
the fates, them in the text three d
which NONE of this is to be. Instord, followers of the Mahdl of
A Way Mirghani Hamza, next to roligious Intolerance and his
· He goes ́ ́ ́Into. ħils. gigantic rossed $10,000,000t the box Hollywood oflce on a bright office draw part of the pro-Sayed Azhar the most in- reputed aspirations to kingship. Ruential leader of NUP, explain. He repudiated these expirations, sunny morning, dressed in ex-nts as long as the nim la showed to me the new party in but his repuúlation came pensive spotta cost and alles, whether on cinema "cirusita, 95.1 Dower will insist on the strictest date.
short, vigorous figure. He a ro-istue, or on the television. pulls of his tiny takes-opan, nla. I am not mercenary. But 1. collar, pulls down the blinds, don't wins to be asking anybody and awliches on the mais light, for mything in 25 yelta' time, ed by tu damn the sun! Then he By then I want to be independ- There will be no question of years, it will be tough Ughts foot-long cigar under-ent, 15 healthy as my Esther is giving in to the wishes of the morts trying than anything sur thin motike nd he is 37 ming kay Join and Southern tribesmen that British mes have ret had to put up readyAM production confte hitung/under the dghum at district commissioners should with at any me anywhere, ende, in kit swart rooms he riridos Hol CO BANDA, continum, ruling over them until up and down the quarter-mile And I'd like enough so buy me
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| MARGRŐ EDWEG wiikka staba krom.
Jobbtle:
The Mishaj: dioptton-growing
the
The Egyptian will try to take downwards, ovary time there. If a bun with Sues. Canal bara 15 | QUESTERAD inant of The MRU MAN MAKORVA
it out of the Briusb, From the Governor » General