WHEN AN ACTOR HITS THE JACKPOT CAN HIS MARRIAGE SURVIVE IT?
HAT happens to A
By Anne Sharpley
W man with great um- boy" stery-English version?
bition, looks
HE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1954.
And what about the "golden "We live really very simply in the country, and, of course, Six years ago Kenneth More a very nice to come and s00 and was debating whether he should sur chums in town. But after talent he believes in, who open his last tin of baked beans a really long hard battle like starves and struggles to today or leave it till tomorrow, mine you feel far too happy - at somewhere play success, fol- really getting One good succeed — and suddenly hite
lowed by 1 smash-hit 0lm and you have learned never to the jackpot?
"Genevievo,"
evo," put More into the take it for granted." gontract-signing class And brought him up to £200 a week. (Mr Purdom makes £500)
Few people who read the story of E. mund Purdom cad his wif“. 'T can have falled to feel the pamaney and irony in it.
--
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It is picturs que and romantle
the point where to the benes a gold-plated nightmare They had gombled everything o live and cruel thing
Hollywood success
one of them I'm re felther had krets in the days when A strugged and shared and were so close to one another that ond their might marriage, they would both have heard back for life in a small Enghra repertory company and Jet Holywood alone
Bu teens when it came was tere udden and overwhelming.
Tit
that underlage
adversity
Webcned
bea sedile pla
That seems to be the experi- etre of Me Edmund Purdon, but need it always happen"
Te the example of another couple wh
hear their
"raily
trugules" and went to fame in Hollywood, Mr Mrs Len
(
Strange Experience
The Gens, after "town-ti- when www.y-last-purny" povely
of work. WenH both were mul 14h the strange experiensen after remite 20 years of marring of the esbazar, at the age of 43. becoming a bobby-soxers
WON
To
I tried to speak to Mrs More. Lut it in Mr Mare who makes all the pronouncements in that family. (Tip number one, per- kapa?)
"Well I was lucky." he said. that was had a childhood I whunted by bills and buillits, so when I finally got some money light hold," Me I kept a very
told me. More
"It made lots of unimportant diferences like being able to be member of three golf clubs Dustcad of struggling for The subscription for one. But we're sill very cautious. And us for it coming between my wife and myself, the idea is preposterous
Basic Truth
These are some
of the waya two couples who might have failed rough soaring egos and bank accounts kept level and in love.
0
No two cases are alike but 1 think there
is one basic truth about all marriages whether in Hollywood or Hounslow.
1s
contract Amarriage where a couple remain together antoinst all outside influences.
of tragedy is little short two young people who have proved so loyal to each other in poverty are not now to enjoy together the success for which they have both worked.
MIRIBEL FIGHTS
ONCE AGAIN
BY JAMES IRVINE
Paris. needed her, brought NE time Carmelite nun, Foreign Office,
38-year-old Elizabeth de Jon the delegation.
ONE
he into
gave her a
It was the sort of thing Fliza-
always
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Miribel-right-hand woman bell de Maribel wanted. She
wanted of the fighting General de bad
ht•:1p Fanatically patriotic, Gaulle in the days of the
Bank the fact that Leo German occupation-le fight
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France.
nt de Gaulle's right he wa hood when The general rallied the first few helpers round him at their nation's fail,
31 was to her that he dictated his immortal message. "France has lost battle, but not a war."
Together they now the war WIM. She went with him lo y. She was with the French
Eliza annoured unit which re-entered
Parks. She was his personal Folhassador to Canada and sh went there with him in 1945.
really a mature-mun probing for France again. aly helped a great deal," says
The modem doen of Are has Mrs Genn. "Although there was
out of her convent fo never any quertion of him losing
follow a new louder. Prunet his Pead
Pena Mundes-France, to 150 "We Just carried on Hving the United Safes and Crnada same life as we always had--mer of delegation that with more money, of course, and hopes in restore to now he gas
But
he name of France in America. allyxurious hene, borty and no difference
Freedom-fighter, ranking diplomat, tired and sick of struggle, went Carmelite convent 42 to years ago, but later this year came out Into
still did a worki
In February 1949, at a cock- The husband to take But Eilzabeth
tall party just before she went meelf too seriously is theshe went to Switzerland to re-
to seek in a convent the rest and Hol greatest peril,
eaver her health, did, and re- ywood life
peace she had not had, she gave Premier Mendes- can either live up to orcently asked
"My admiration We do sort of halt and France "Is there unything for the general is just as com- ignore. half and I really don't see that can do?" it could ever break up a happy marriage-unless either want it le
"Although we laugh now about the time we neary starved, it's always with a sort of cautious Ary mine now, we'll be right back where we started.
"For
of you
Bghting
was sick.
So
The delighted premier told the most outstanding Frenchwoman of her age
that France
Bull
Was she in love with the man who loved his country as she
the answer;
plete as ever and Just as pure. in leaving him I do not lose anything. I shall pray for him."
And now she has corne back.
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U.S. REVOLUTION IN race
Mr Absalom Plans Some New Weather
THAT
He will start by making⋅ rain`—— not because more is needed," but to 100 whether it can possibly be stopped
By Mary Hewat
London, from crops for the Ministry of controla tho HAT all-season joke Agriculture,
about the Weather Men with its "wonderfully Instru
Meteorological Filght service, controlling Britain's weather mented" aircraft, has about 30
of the anonces does
Next year Met, scientists are alh-making is
la no longer wildly funny, scientists working under him. The ΠΟΥ research
He is a shy man, married, who pro belleves devoutly gramme of the Meteorologi- iden
In "the old elvil cal Office recognises, weather-servant.But his- control as a scientific pos- not extend to his staff. He sibility.
knows most of them well, per-
meets them regularly. sciting out to
one of the make rain
inment controverslai subjects In Britain. Not because they think Britain needs more rain. But 10 nobody can prove results,
the world," he says, "because
Rain
And out with selentine accurngy why rain falls, how it can be Increased and perhaps, how it can be stopped.
makers in America claim results from two methods:
dropping dry ice (pure carbon-
into clouds from air- blow of skiver lodido in smok: form smoke at the clouds, radar 10 Inn clouds from ground ganera-
They will use Dome strange craft; and blowing fine particles
devices: coke fires to
trace rainclouds, aircraft
measure raindrops.
to torr.
It will be
the most far-reaching rain re- search yet undertaken fr the world.
EXTREMELY HARD
"BUT....it is extremely hard to tell how much rain would have fallen naturally. No ono there was not some natural rain has yet produced rain where from similar clouds in the same
area."
In charge of the scheme is Mr Негну Absalom, silver- haired £1,700-a-year assistant director of research, a physicist who has been with the Meteoro- logical Office for 34 years.
Before he Joined the Meteoro-
Se Mr Absalom's team will logical Bureau, Mr Absojom served with Mel. section of the they try to make rain they will start from the beginning. Before
end up their smoke signala with some harmless chemical, then send an acroplane up to sample the atmosphere and and out how high the chemical par- tiales rise.
Royal Engineers during the 1914-18 war.
In his present job, he super
On evaporation
viscs recerch
RELATIONS
BLACK AND WHITE
W
WILL MERGE
By Jacqueline Engert
the
"Wo
tho
r
are not sure that silver iodide which some makers use actually gets high enough to work. It endnot work unless the temperature is lower than minus five degrees centi-
grade.**
come
Then will
the rain- making. And where will it come? Probably over Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire.
The ere used must be fairly flot, with useful prevailing wanda, and close enough to tile Dunstable radar etation so that The clouds can be watched.
Radar
can "see" thunderstorm 100 miles. away. They can pick up ordinary rain at a distance of 30 or. 40 miles.
The East Coast, could not be ralu made used, because any
热
would fall into the North Sea. "And we don't happen to have any gauges out there.""
Absalem, who draws sketches of clouds and raindrops and
ice
like Crystals on buslasile stage designer, ex- pects the project to take Ave or ten years before any tangible results can be shown.
Washington. Negroes
are still "last
hired, their public school systems, most inter-marriage between Negroes of the South awaits a further and whites. But despite laws, ITHIN a century Drst fred.
has been a tremendous The dual system is bullt deeply directive from the Supreme Court there or so the United
into
and social on how the vconomie
carter
the rices decision mixing" amongst States may be a ructure of America,
Chango should be
put
during the past 250 years. Today into practice.
Mr of the white not 10 percent of the 15 million "coloured" will not come without a struggle, The argument
Americans" Ho something like "dark
c'an claim nation. And the colour, say it in the latest steps towards Southerner
has this: "It's Ices than a century pure African blood. Probably integrating schools there the experts, will be light
But the since thy Nogores were slavel, by 1980 no Negro in America already
been violenze. brunette. They predict com- tradition of fegregation has been and think how much we have will be cf pure extraction.
given them since theni plete fusion of America's Lakding some hard knocks.
If they Another 15 136 million white and
any good at all, they RO example is the ere
Fres dant North to and batter work. It's by announcement million blacks. In the future, Elenhower's Attorney-General. the
ill-bred and potr
lazy they say, only
few "The time n
h said, Negrens who stay in the South, thousand blacks will be born "to declare unequivocally that Nobody' would want his children
TT is estimated that the average each generation. And any Negro is free to travel the to mix with them."
coloured American has length and breadth cf this they will have straight hair, country in the same manner as wife and I have a lot of coloured His race is a m'xture of African A Georgia farmer says: "My about one-third white ancestry. narrow noses and thin lips any other passenger"
in
for the American Negro will have disappeared.
under.
Already there is less colour
prejudice in the younger genera- tion, and inter-racial marriage among college students are on the increase. With the end of
rectri
has come
In Schools
Other "bonde
towards
Svates move integrating
LASE.
A Mixture
help at our farm, and there's American, Indien and Europern nothing we wouldn't do for them or Caucisten- mixture which or that they wouldn't do for We help them with their bills, akun colours from wh'te to deep produces the whole runge of and nurse them when they're black, the whole range of lip I'm one of those who are dimensions from thick to thin,
BL.
From The Top
Jares.
an
As any Brilon knows, it is almost impossible to say what t "normal" in British weather, except that it is usually abnor- mal.
SMOG CONTROL
That means the research men must have recorda
going back some 30 years, and statisticians
the
variation from must figure out how big
ctually means anything. combinations
1
America today is
average going a revolution in race relations which paves the THE National Association for all for letting the Nego make and unpredictable
Cost of the research will the Advancement of Coloured what success he can, so long as of other traits from all three way for this ultimate merger
probably be covered by the Poople has set 1903, contennial te stays in his place." of black and white. The of the emancipation of slaves, The complacent answer came
normal grant received by the Presidents have had "mulatio" U.S. Supreme Court's de as the date when all segregation from
Meteorological Office. good-looking young
There are Negroes
"We will need one man
In cision against segregation in and discrimination should be at coloured office
ekaner in New children
work," said York:
"Oh, my folks has nice live today, who claim the third charge in the fold State schools, announced an end.
Just like the things
President, Thomas Jefferson, as Mr Absalom, and a few peopleo white folks their last May, was hailed by
States and he does. Twenty-one
to take measurements, But we have three children and
groot-great-grandfather.
a lawyer, another will probably start with uno Negoes as the greatest step District of Columbia are affected they have white children for
I was retired nurse, a third a widow, generator, and use our own alt- forward since Lincoln freed by the Supreme Court decision ther friends in rcikol
The There are probably distinguish- craft and radar station. on schools. In Washington, the born in Florida and my follo is their slave ancestors.
nation's capital, 60,000 Negroes still there. They lives in their cd "white" men in America to Ministry of Supply will provide and 40,000 white children are district, and the white people colour."
day, who have touch of the chemists." "mixed" schools, they Üves in
Success in the scheme wil selling down at
theirs. An' my after noisy demonstrations and folks likes it that way."
The border cases between mean more than extra rain for protests.
black and white are so indis- farmors. The first experiment tinguishable that thousands of with blowing smoke into clouds may show scientists how smog Negroes each year pack up their segregated schools, declared slowly "unconstitutional"
bags, move into a while neigh-occurs and how to control it by the schools in some curas with ugly
Sampling of the atmosphere • bourhood and, if their history is Mothers have picketed results.
may provide useful information Supreme Court, there is a pro- schools. Children have displayed
firmly secret, #pass" 5 pect of even greater integration makeshift signs, Send them
VHANGES in the inter-racial
Their Ch
live for designer of high-flying jot between the races.
back to Africa, "Kick 'em out," from President Eisenhower, a and may never know of their
hd children aircmft seong stem right from the top normal lives as
as white
And weather control? Says "Back to the plantation,"
Brn believer in integration. A coloured ancestry. Thus, familles Mr Absalom: "If we find out Angry words greeted Supreme Court decision in the written: "In less than two years brother to sister, or from father bounds of scientific possibility
the Negro member of Congress has whose skin colour differs from how to make rain fall offee
lively, it is certainly, within the Deep South, where the real test in the White House, President
dt to son, are often tragically split to come. The Governor Eisenhower, has still
without
that we can learn READER comments mildly in of Georgia, who campaigned for tur
petitical
to stop it across the colour line.
falling, or make it fall in the started the New York Times: "...it is office on the "white supremacy rumoting has
quietly
right places." I quite possible when some among
a revolution, which, I firmly be- declared: The Ph the love, means a Negr of
greater the different races get to know
not comply will not each other to individual humen decision of the court. It
Negro cliizens." beings that they will
Eisenhower has declared: "There want
to take Favomi divisions of a promise
troops must be no second-class citizens THE inquence of the African marry cach other.” A genera-
down hemo ta
to police every school in this country." tion ago this would have been building in Goongin, and then
Negro on American life is considered a "dangerous" opinion. they wouldn't be able to enforce Until Elsonbower moved into profound, American jazz is almost There are still 17 "Jim Crow". We are going to do whatever the White House, no Negro had purely a Negro art form, and States in America where a colour while children in white schools a janitor
necounty in Georgia to keep been employed, as anything but the black man has had a insting
Iko Influenco or messenger. bar entorood by law,
literature of the on the In every phase of his 1o the Negro schools. School integration will
and coloured children in coloured installed the first Negro secretary country. Last year, an English
ng woman. To in there States is still
has aleo ap- photographer came to America segregated
lead to bloodshed."!
to important ndards of American pointed 47 Negroes to Americans.
∙and declared that the buxom beauty posts in the governmentt.
urants, cinemas,' hotels in the were due purely to the influence
"have recently, boen dese- of Negro women.
Segregation
from his white fellow
He is bon in a "coloured"
pkal, buried in a
Ocmotory. Throughout his life
he must walk through a separate
door at railway station, alt only:
New Directive
for
Foroca
Negro Influence
gated." White and Negro Concludes Ebony," the Ameri- children of Washington D. C.
0011 Negro | magazino:" "The to a ton of us, to THE Governor added he thought may now play in common play american) Negra 1: the most [special taxi, work, play and oot ♬ the courts' ruling would
Вовгорсть то being crazy mixed-up race on earth. in sections marked for coloured kad * to a
out. In "breakdown": la
Aby Presidential orders
The
system of racial only
sagugation which would inevit-
identification
In America Las Vegas, Novada
ably result in inter-marriage and All this is not without dinger trans
business. For Negroes must gamble at the "mongtelisation. of the politically. Commentator David N
the "coloured". clubs
*most: zaobí.
Lawrence. » 1
writes: “It is not too comedy of extors, for he can no shakneful of all, the Negro : ställ
uth early to way that the Republican longer be identified by his looks. must worship
od Party keze lost out in the South-by, his name, his address phill
for decades to come. But still actions. Eventhis, telestione the mónt"--popular-man fin, voice is deceptive, il \{\Very
· America has no mali «influence soon, there will #akri Ahor The goɛbublin uptstoffers voltandby ja no White; world? and?ra ? blackć
vwworld; but, one mitigaieiruly,
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