THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
FAME? MISS
BLOOM
DOES
NOT
CARE
By LOGAN GOURLAY
THE girl in the corner
T
A
of the hotel lounge who looked like well-groomed, pretty mouse -wasn't it Claire Bloom? Yes, it was,
And wasn't she the girl Charlie Chaplin discovered for Limelight? Yes again.
WAS NO
And the Kiri who wonderful na Juliet at the Old AB- Vie a couple of years ago" other you.
But what's she been doing re- trny Whatever happened to
Bster
timelight,
Such is short-mem med show bushiess Followed by too Uitle limelight
Too touch
On Holiday
JET Claire Bloom har
YET
герб
been lurking in a nunnery, All she has dine is take a long holiday, her first for years.
But, of course, before that she Spent two sousons at the Old Vie, which, by high-pitched Alm publicity standards,
recluded from the glaring Time- light as life in a nunnery.
Her
M
Juliet
brought her prestige and kirdies,
of course, but last season her
parts We shorter
Press nie bees sharply
♫
and ter
criticul AL the NRITHAY time
Flic co-starred walk, James Mason in a Carol Reed Alm The Мать Between, which wes cold- shouldered by eritten and cash Customer
Miss Hloom, passing from the Bist
phase, enterEd rup'airoas Phare No. 2-which is tougher arart rougher, First-perty
Paul been an rhijeet
für worship. Suddenly she was a target for attack. I Ins happened before. She has nevepted it all with a detached
ני"'
early-se
that
equanimity burned at RADA.
cannol
Philosophical
be
starts work in Laurener Olleler's
version smallish part
CHE
Alm
it
as Lady Anne.
chard
But it gives her a chance
net in ene dramatic
Misa Bloom is satisfied.
In
SCC, atte
f
She is the kind of actress who
dedicated
to
CLAIRE BLOOM
from rapturous Phase 1 she is now in the tougher and rougher Phase 2
The 23-year-old matured Miss Bloom ripped her Bourbon Old- fashioned (an American tipple made with Bourbon whisky bod Ice). "No, I didn't get to like Old-fashioneds in Hollywood,
"I spent part
of my holiday Dis summer in Switzerland at Mr Chaplin's house. And he Introduced የኔ to Ok- fashion.eds."
She owes much to Mr Chaplin (whom she never calls Charlle). I asked if Mr Chaplin had any new film plans for her.
No.
I'm afraid not. Llways looks for fresh coveries, doesn't he
Bloom
nethig ather
But Miss fashioned
category. has
than the pursuit of fame.
She said to me last week-
don't think about stardom and
that kind of thing
I hope Sir Alex Korda equally unworried.
Is
1954.
WHEN SHOULD
W
ago to have f
A WOMAN HAVE A BABY?
HICH is the best TWENTY? Thirty? Or any time? The baby? Aroun à disputo between the doctors rages. twonty or around "Twenty is too young," says Professor thirty?
Thomas McKeown. The argument flared
up
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after yet another professor • AGE is not the important factor, says had told mothers what was Professor W. C. W. Nixon. And, he adds, good for them.
"I don't think you can make rigid rules."
AND the mothers? They have own ideas.
the
Dr Thomas McKeown was
man Professor Social Medicine at Birming- ham University.
And he came out with the view that the best age is around 80.
of
's marriage 1 look back on "I don't think you can maka the people I nearly married in any rigid rules about the ago.. my teens and twenties and think I'm quite sure age is not the what a merelful deliverance it most important factor. It la the. was. Besides, I was far too in mother's health and well-being terested in my career and my that cou.... self to make a good mother. Increasing If I'd and my children earlier and America, where women like I'm sure
I would have felt
think it is on trend in Britain
had my fun and now I've got of 48 can have as easy a con was missing a lot of fun. Well, I to put their careers Arst and then have a family. A woman my family and I must say incensent as a 20-year-old. really more fun than the fun."
their
Summing up by Dame Hilda Lloyd, the first woman
to be
By ANNE SHARPLEY
"Tco
many young mothera are having their babies when they don't really want them. So many dogmatic” medical state- ments have been made thut it's best to have babies while. still Cathy: "We shall be just liko very young that young
wives sisters."
Supporting
and
". "But the best time
to have a baby is when the mother la
made president of the Royal healthy, happy, sure of herself College of Obstetricians
and her marriage, and when sho Gynaecolegiats, is that there is experience, is
wants a baby. And that, in my a "danger in wives in deliber any go roup"
not confined to ately not having their babies until the thirties."
Profesor Nixon has the right argument, I'm sure.
age of 20 and the result of wait- she's made her mark in
home, or even
NO RIGID RULES
- A woman will decide to have a baby not because she knows Professor Mc-
thero will be less pain for her, "The Keown are Lady Shawcross and
fertlity of a feel stampeded into having their
woman a fewer cconomic complications wonted my babies Cathy playwright Mary Hayley Bell, decretses very rapidly after the in the babies when they're not really and Julin so very much while who were, "arcund thirty when
because sychologically
tho prepared for I was very young and not they had their first baby. ing may be no children at all. world and now is a good time to motherhood."
because i knew it would be alt
it la far better to have your sint a family. easter "A woman of thirty is more the
confinement.
"I think it lu often too much family while you are young, or I wantert stabilised, mature,
because 1 was sure of for a very young bride who at Icast to have, one child ib She will docide to have better myself and my marriage and I still has to learn to
tha make sure it is biologically pos- chlid because she feels the time
in knew we could all be so very household to But what do the women happy."
the dr year
sible to have more it you feel is right. her like it." Twenty-year-old Lady Mel marriage," Boys Lady Shaw-
Motherhood, I belleve, in eund (formerly lady Carolin: STOES,
And Professor W.C.W. Nixon, spite of all the professors, is still Child-Villers) whose son was "She sull wants to
of University College, London, a Instinct. enjoy December last year, herself and the
of responsibility and formerly
Hongkong (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED ecoms too great.
University, belleves:
London Express Service.)
and
itted to be a mother."
think?
MUCH MORE FUN
"Not truc," say three young wives who all became mothers at the age of 19.
born in says:
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"We shall grow up together. I think it's a terrible idea to walt "It's much more fun for the enti
love being 30. I children
to bave
young mother and couldn't be nother,"
hap says Lady Savernake, pier." formerly Edwin Wills, whose zon David was born in 1962, and who also hos a daughter aged three months.
Huntington
run
have a baby
or so of
"I and the children keep m young. I'm
being always dragged
off on bicycle rldga when I'd for
rather read book.
"Perhaps
the ideal me to
Top model girl, Pat Goddard, who had her first daughter start family Is 25 ond then when she was 18 and has also there's plenty of time to have become the mother of another four babies, which I think is Bulle giri, rays that starting her the ideal number."
"I shall be able to see their point of view much more. When
early "was the most my son goes to Elon for the wonderful thing
ever did."
Mary Hayley Bell, playwright Best time I shall be only 33."
wife of Alm star John Mills, "And, what's more, it made me the
moment what the the other has at the Mra
evy of all Hartford, model girls.
carted Jind I started calis "a crushed nose" I the American actress, Murjoris the fashion for models to have while playing hide-and-seek Stevie, now appearing in Lobables and keep their jobs. It with her family of three. don, who has two bubles, says
has not made a scrap of dif- I'm sure what really matters of her four-year-old daughter, terenee to my career.'
to feel sure of oneself and
is
Here is an amazing story from behind the Iron Curtain the story of the men who make luxury clothes for the Commissars' wives and girl friends.
THIS SLAVE
CAMP
RUSSIAN FASHION
HE West may boast
Ife clix-
old- on
the Chaplin
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in the world of high
and calls for her to
makt
ww
fim contract with Sir Alex Kords which brings around
"I remember when I was 21 who looks at the thought that life was finished calm brown
I
Fur 11. train
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of its famous names
£10,000 a year fashion. Midinettes in Paris who
WILE
of
By Anthony Terry
IS A HOUSE!
HE'S BEEN 56 YEARS AT SEA
By V. C. F. LOPEZ
5
"F you want to be favour- time the ship he was in had to ed with longevity-not stop to pick up survivors of a vessel that bad just been sunk just a long life, but a
by a submarino. virile, healthy one join
the merchant navy in one The only real serious thing
capacity or another.
that happened to him took place only last year, when 'a certain gentleman
board Barring any excesses you struck him in the left eyo dựr- might get yourself into or ingen argument. That eye' 13 any fatal injury you might now the one and only thing receive in 21 waterfront wry in his system, brawl, the chances are that That is the reason why he fa you may wind up like Lam at the momcat on leave from Sai-heung, 72-year-old chief duty; he is getting his kys
treated.. Blandly, es if philoso of the ma Hai phically, he said it appeared he
first
steward Mong.
A 1
glance, the old
fashion magazines,"
of
man looks like
Bartram told me.
well as out-of-date coples Western
were
Was
from
thu
any old, rather "I suppose I've learned to be aims over the next two years.
land- "These Soviet women, some of small, work and milliners in London and clothes lead very different ter
on women's for ex-Soviet Foreign Minis- whom
Word philosophlew).
very
attractive, lubber of his Phileophical MISH Bloom, New York take pride in their lives from the seamstresses hand-picked for the job by and
ballerinas Vyshinsky. He
But the age. world
Moscow ballet, diplomats' wives withi
employment in the work of the Free World.
actresses. eyes and
way he Among was travelling by demurely
eyelids
them easy General Sabulov, who con- was Galina Ulanova, lowered,
renowned
the nat Tooma my birthday from greatly worried if those
Arst moves about, Hollywood to New York. I had tms will be commercially suc- Iron Curtain the system is "fashion house" at Krasno- slave-workera
future couturiera.' But beyond the the world's
Behind the barbed wire of trols the destiny of millions ballerina of the Moscow Ballet, without any most unusual of hapless prisoners and who was often seen in Stalin's undue stoop or just finished Limelight. There
cessful-it was nothing ahead
They will advance for me)}
her
little different, it would gorsk, which is situated near labour camps, and who was particular 'model' being cepler would
in
company at Kremlin parties. carcer and make her
оп their shuffling gait, I thought
"They all insisted I've grown up a Phose No, 2
scem. Dressmakers abound Communism's capital, Mos- responsible for getting up Yerk fashion glittering
betray cstubished stor.
there. but sometimes those cow, the fur-coated wives the "fashion house behind hot
from a London, Paris or New the fact that magazine, even he has ac- and girl friends of top Soviet barbed-wire" which caters three or four years out of date quired a
though the fashion shown wDS officials have "Paris models" for the socialites of the by Western standards. made for them by tailor- Kremlin.
They ged constitú- all came to me secretly and tion after prisoners.
offered me bribes
several
bit siner then "
a
in
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Astonishing
were
Soviet
revelations His Middle
me by
a
claven
suits."
of
rug-
hundred roubles not to make a more than 56 similar 'model' for any of my years at sea. other customera at Krasno. gorsk."
Frank Ladies
.
A veteran of
routine check-ups. Materials
market.
Wis gradually Krowing blind in that sore eye.
Speaking of philosophy, per- haps you got to be В
sort
of
Philosopher after all those years
gentle roll of a
of feeling the
ship under your
foot.
But
the old
mort
anan has Teason than that to feel philoso- phical and парру. Ho has four
sons, two daughtera
and nine grande children..
And there is more of the latter forth- coming,
most
Asked how a person of his ago could manage to cope with his duties and silil boʻas fresh 'at
LÀM SAI HEUNG made to former German prisoner- Bartram said to me:
countless Language dimculty and a cer- of-war, as he told me how "Vyshinsky was always
typhoons, hurricanes and storms tain amount of bashfulness pre- the smartly-dressed and very concerned that the cut
of all sizes, Lam has salled vented Lam from giving what under various flags all over the might have been jewel-laden "upper crust" of of, his suits should conceal
world. Yet, through it all he colourful account of life in the the Kremlin's women drive the fact that he is beginning
has been to see the doctor only open sea from the viewpaint, of out in their bullet-proof to develop too much weight the party leaders' wives were for the clothes of
faw times-and these for a steward. But the wrinkles limousines for fittings in around the middle.
his weather-beaten face and the the grim concentration camp was
"The measuring
supplied by a special section of
Lam is a native of Swatów pair of deep-set," thoughtful eyes _and_fitting the Ministry of the interior, and, has now served 31 years that had seen a lot, spoke for where expert tailors ( Sabuloy's
carried out In General and were far superior with Mcssra
flat ncar cluding
Brusgaard, themselves. German. Polish, Kremlin," Fritz Bartram
the thing obtainable in the
"rest of
and Co., Ltd, "of went Rusia. The result was Kisterud Rumanian and Hungarian on, "to which I wasn taiten under wives
He said with a wide grin that Norway. and girl friends of the
Interviewed at his modest he expected to keep on going political prisoners) stitch escort. In all Imade Vyshinsky Red
Leaders made 'pin-money'
Wurst Point away for twelve hours a day
flat, the old man many years yet, solling the cloth they did not burst into laughter when asked at the luxury clothes of the grimly reminiscent smile.
He paused, and smiled a need on the Moscow black to relate any outstanding.ex. Red dictators' wives and "Vyshinsky always ignored "Sometimes the Indies of the perience he had undergone. sweethearts.
In his halling English, inter- me completey during the new Moscow 'aristocracy were spered with Cantonese and the end of a day's work as say fitings," he continued. "He surprisingly never spolce, and never
and dangerously Swatow dialect, he explained Younger in the ship, Lem frank in their remarks to nie,” ihint offered me a
a cigarette or a tip as some Bartram said.
nothing untoward had smiled. of my other
happened to him during all big-shot Kremlin "One of them, the attractive that
He could not even
"No smoke, no drink,, no ellents did. Vyshinsky had to make on the Molotov's deputies, who always enough to give a clear picture Any remarks brunette wife of - one of remember tty carly days well
gamblo." suit or is it were passed to me
Before we parted, it occurred through an interpreter, although unived for fitings in the camp of his adventures.
in a big American ar
to me to ask if he was anxious He first tasted the salt sea I knew Russian by then.”
with chauffeur, told me she air in 1888, at the age of 10. ber of fils grandchildren were
to get back on the job. A num Though Bartram was allowed had
ors Soviet gorak, Today he is working Vys
Vyshinsky's
diplomatie German ship plying between and as his rough-hewn hande re- missions to under normal conditions, as workers who made the clothes jewellery
mainderings, the
"of the eighty slave- Francisco, She ward
tousled the hair on their heads, Many years later, after a chief cutter in a reputable for the Kremlin Leaders and wardrobe of Paris models,
owned a large ing in ships of various nations, window. West German dressmakers' their wives were never allowed
the Joined the prosent establishment.
"Everyone knows the Soviet pany." outside the barbod-wire.
regime is
and dis corrupt "Our women customers came honest, she admitted. In Russia Fritz Bartram to the camp bringing with them life is not too bad for me under have been in one of the many During the two world wars, "But he was fortunate enough not to was chosen to make suits a wave of expensive perfume as it, so why should I worry?'"*
torpedoed ships, but many a
Hand-picked
D
time.
My informant is Fritz Bartram, who spent over two years in the barbed wire "fashion salon" at this place called Krasno- out of camp to visit Moscove for had been abroad with her hue That was when he joined a focking about him at the time, Paris andSan here and Europe, 'as a mess be looked out the first door
JOHNNY HAZARD
I MUST GO TO WORK, SIGNORE BANJDI HERËS ∙18 FOOD ON THE TABLE PARTIMAIN: QUIETLY IN "
THANKS, ANGELA. BUT I'M RECOVERING RARDLY, THANKS TO
THEN LOOK THE POOR AFTER MELAND DON'T THINK OF LEAVING! THOSE MEN WHO TRIED TO KILL YOU LAST NIGHT MIGHT
NOT LIKE TO SEB YOU ALIVE TODAY?
and
Ware expensive
ין
By Frank Robbins
"HOW, FORTUNATE FOR SIGNORE BANJO „THAT HIS BETROTHED, THE CONTESSA, IS MY EMPLOYER! SHE WILL KNOW HOW TO HELP HIME
It was as it he was sniffing the pinch of the briny alr through a port-hole. Then ho turned once more to me, and said:" "You see, that is my life."
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