PRESENTATION TO SIR GORDON
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1954.
THE AVA GARDNER STORY
Sig Gordon Richards (left) recelves from Mr A. 13. Clements, editor of "The Sporting Life," a silver statuette of race horse Sun Chariot, on which Sir Gordon had on the Thousand Guineas, the Ouks and the St Leger. The presentation
was made at a luncheon at the Savoy, in London, to wish him good fortune at the start of the former Champion Jockey's new career as a trainer.-Reuterphoto.
PAY
UP,
GENTLEMEN
By HENRY LONGHURST
That worthy body, the Golf Foundation, designed a year or two ago, when golf looked like becoming short of junior replacements, to 1:4×1 the youngster generation to get started, presents its first balance sheet since it was incorporated as a company-revealing itself, like most of These good-will ventures supported entirely by voluntary contributions, to be short of funds.
Since then, term
It began by amling 75 schools in the Baxter term of 1953. by term, the Agures have been 108, 140, 171 and, in the summer term of this year, 200 plus a waiting list Altogether 6,000 boys and girls are now being introduced to golf.
"The majority of the “
12. murid neve, beam ; divider fat token up the game. The games | two terms sright Jot only to
CHI Candelest 17 full were available *
12.
The whnis Sung 1", Low Corting 17,000 *
full year
Why Champion
Hans Gave
Up The Ring
By James Irvine
11
The oral idea was that the Foundation ggest a schend goong. with 1h terval APMETER T coandrag i perhaps twice a week to give instruction, and paid the expenses for the Arst year
**
it has not proved surattival,” the report goes on,
to carry out this decision. A very gl proportion of the schools grammar and secondary schools who have no fund out of which W pay therefore the Fondation continued to pay."
TH instructions anel
APPROPRIATE
: Before making suggestions
to future sources
of
Coffe
al
has
D
Bonn, Dec. 7.
appro- the origina With those ballering-ram priate to examhe
The Foundation's present hands of his, stocky
fans Reinhardt
you've yes, remembered, the tough little German boxer who floored 212 of them in a would rather stir soup than suck them in the ring.
Iow
Hates, who could have bewotne really great, has got other pin. bitions And being isn't one of theni.
The biggest sangle iteo, is the Dolly Mail perds from the
Open Champion's Day" tra which Club golfers All aver the country pay half-n-crown to back their tet own course against the current
Champion playing Open
aruther
store o
their
0n
13
ants
theat hullers educater for netfang, carat pary halfsanerown
golf as ༢:༥༥k tars fr extra
Since we are talking of money not welfare
to whose tanelal interest is 11 that boys and girls should be brought inter golf as fulute mustomers?
The profesionals certainly and, in nay case, out of £8,203 spené last your they received no less than £4,097 in tuition fees,
Th
unseemly dinmer-table "vabbles between Mr P FI ("Atfler"} Taylor act his executive. atuk
Collonite the rebels, might with advandage to all be replaced by a cunetted effort to rise. say. £2,000 A year for the Golf Foundation.
THEIR LIFEBLOOD
Finally, and chiefly of course, that wide mœcellany of interests which we may call, with every respect, the trace." Here are
folk who e very Ufeblood is the golfing customer,
So let us, for a start, put down Messrs British Steel Golf Shafts, Dunlop. Pentoldi, Stazengers, and Spalding: for £1,000 apieces. ever expenditure were If they "beat" him they get a "wholly and exclusively" for the certificate.
uny case their promotion of their business, this is and as such would be from Hours cards for be a superin-half-crowns go to the Founda
Tion. In 1952 Bes amountert¦ of tax. tendent of a works calitern Not
to £3,040, 1953 £2,015. Pri- vite Individuals contributed
£772.
associations, etc, Kalf £400, and the trade £1,727.
n
work-star boxer, millionaire.--just married canteen chief
A
happily-
Respubes
his
handsTM
To raise
Ear !! The way they dashed
funds the Founda out from historky (5ft 8in) on tried in organise a "liaison body, crippling Bft 3in Bruce leer" with ench club, through Wells.
Hightclub cuptorių, but this was intddleweight champion?
the European
fuilure.
Thit
We
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BAPPIE CAME ALONG TO SEE THAT NO WOLVES NIBBLED HER KID SISTER
By J. M. RUDDY
Hollywood's Rolls Royce across the road from the
rare
Through the window came the roar of traffic on Wilshire Boulevard. Cadillacs, Jaguars and a parked beside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Beverley Hills Brown Derby.
were
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Smart, beminked and bejewelled women strolled casually into the
Opposite me sat one of the world's most beautiful women, She wore no make-up, no lipstick. The face was flawless-now sad, now gay and laughing.
cocktail har.
what is called forthright test.
1
Interview
Her voice low and incited; do we do with this corn-musi to be husky Hier laugh да They dcrided To give melodietis. She laughs at her- self. She 1 and frank.
'Yu s{{ til answer admits she cantot knows she has much to learn and says su.
of this.
spell,
the
R
STAV-
Me
tions, turn your head this way Hind that way, show the pro she is certain *fjale, smile, laugh, how your love Britam,
Banne the Teeth und your legs. kne ›-high British and when I do travel About ten days later again I want to spend a long Allman phoned. He sold they'd time seeing
Itked the test in Hollywood and country and welting to krtow the people." i he was rending me a contract lo she salt, willing
Sogn, and would I be ready to
to bollywood within a week Would I go to Hollywood!
Well. Bopple Beatrice said she'd come along to see that 1 strank my milk and ate my vegetables, and also to see that to wolves nibbled her 18-year-old, kid sister.
in Hallywood
Looker! round and found a little dat at the Mayfair House, 1 was get
og 50 dollars a week for three Months.
You don't have much
Her sale is enchantirut Clarice at the corTITS t ben flor. Renerous 141, then
zakios rendel her y and suddenly you are aware
chins, exquisitely,
dimpled
1
YOU CAN HAVE AFRICA "It's a long line since we've talked, Michael When was 17 Ah, yes, towards the end of The Shows of Kilmanjan,' ! loved that picture, and that' the way 1ke a safari, Th in Hollywood stage! You can have. Altya
She laughed and sipped her bourbon and water.
"Africa's Move in s
Sound-
movies.
we
simler
10 spare in Hollywood 1212 50 dollars after
Finive Lent
appointed, settled down again to study and work. She studied Volce and singing with Harriet Lee. drama with 14an Burns, a brilliant. understanding and sympathetle coach, and speech with Miss Fogler
YCLE
know,
Michael." Av. sik
me. "In those days I just didn't realise what benefits had. The best training staff of the world's biggest
studios, I was Jazy and often indifferent.
I
I was attending a school nf drama, voice training, dancing, fencing and thentre, that would cost me a small fortune where else. And it was all frem Moreover, I got a salary every weck
The only thing
actually worked hard on was my speech, I was kicked me much about any Dixie drawl that I dreided it had to go, quick. I was think. ing more of the social offerts rather than of work.
"It was too easy
In those the days for a girl to have fun in itut Hollywood I likel people.
I met lots of them.
The sull- shine was marvellous and tho | beeches golden. After I divorerd Mirkey, I had dates, night after night, Ciros, the Mocambo, the Coconut Grove.
the groe° 3° Å¢** ̧ Happie and I both like to cook, and we managed fine,
The Brst day at the studio to everyone rack 復 bright, wisecracking character. Milton Weiss, show. me around,
but this girl doesn't like dist comfort **** roughing it 1 roughed it when I was a kid. I can't see any point to doing it when I'm old enough to know Better"
We were sitting in Pruscatis, Ava Gardner and I, at a booth ; with o WHA of the Boulevard. Although site Wils testing daily fur wardrobe and up for "Bhowani
I
was pain durevet
On one sound stage said: Mickey Hootey,
Milion I want
| you to meet Ava Gardner She's just been signed by the studio. "It sounded as if I'd begged to meet Mickey.
LIFE BEGAN FOR AVA "He gave me the big bello, With and I watched han do a scene. I'm not sure whether the ple- ture was 'Life Begina for Andy Hardy. All I know is that
it could have been called Life Begins for Avu Gardner.
Next night NE rang ine, What about dinner?
What about 3 date? Mickey had dinner with Bapple and me at the Not unct we weol out together.
He
į taking lessons in speech with the studio diction expert, and
and oculationis getting shots for her for her trip to Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore, Rome, Madrid, Paris, London and possibly back 10 Hollywood. she had willingly consented to meet The for it drink—and to talk about the life of Ava Lavinia Gardner in Hollywood.
What brought you to Holly- wood" I asked. Is true you
Powers modern
were a
liked
is
"It
I would Irve
have to have been a Powers ani had the advantages of the training he gives his models. I think then I would
in have been better off
my Hollywood Drst few years in instond of having to learn the hard way.
which happens 10 be my way,
as I look back."
Ava said quietly.
الفت
What u waste!
Now, Give ne a few friends ta for dinner, Sume music and wine.
t
"Directors would niet me as
walked around the studio and
tell me I had posstollities. Naw get to work. Avn,' they'd urge,
and 1. sve you get a part my next picture."
WASTED YEARS
"Time
I
said
and time again, Lillan Burns
said 1 can help you. Ava. can bring out what you've got. But you've got study, you've got to work.'**
"I used to promise I'd start at eight o'clock next morning But that night I'd be out on a late date.
years,
I coll
"The wusted them now.
He
"He was fun, great fun. loved to make you laugh. was a dynamle kid and 1 was a very impressionable giri. stiil am very impressionable.
"Mickey had been in show business
life. I'd never known an actor before.
"We had a lot of fun, Mickey loves un audience. Bupple und
were a great audience. "He sen!
flowers. me sent
gigantic boxes
me
of
"I come to Hollywood in one candy. He sent me orchids by of thuse freakish ways. My the dozen. He loved my cook- Sister Beatrice's husband, Larrying. After we were married Tarr. took a lot of photographs cooked for him. We never had of me and sent them to a man
maid once the year we were
he knew at Metro-Goldwyn-¦ married." Mayer in New York.
liked New York. 1
Ava smiled, finished
was drink. ú kid from the Deep South, with an accent
all that WILS
It wp corn-pore and honey such a you-all.
never heard He dreadful. You've
and
her
"Then it struck me, and
It Wis
painful lesson: 11t
Hollywood, if you are a young player on contract, There are
people ready many
to help you. But they will encourage Then they
you just so long. stop.
I learned that the hard way. as I know 1 learn everything.
"Nothing comes easy for Ubis girl. I've never found a royal road to anything or anywhere. I have no complaints.
band, a horne and a family. 1 stil want the right hus.
haven't been very successful so fur, have I?
my
I don't regret anything that has happened to me In private life. You live and leara from
every experience. I've fearned from three marriages a great deal that has become part of my life, of music and books and travel,
And I remembered what I been told about Mickey's whirl- have clubmakers,
wind courtship of Ava Gardner. clothing, shon, and waterproof
used to ring her len and twelve times a day. He
once equipment makers; the makers
and people and concerts "It took years of burl work sent her one hundred roses. peg tees and the silly little "hats" that go on wooden clubs: speech coach, wonderful Gert- putlence by the studio
He took her to night clubs ray
"I want to travel more and for expensive evenings. He brewers and wine merchants:
more, doubl whether I'm to get rid of it. rude Fogeler.
hought her expensive dinners.
going to settle in Hollywood. needsmen, golf architects, golf Now it only comes back when He wanted to buy her expen-
There's a little house No, no, let us keep
In
In the I'm home with my family
sive jewellery, but she the Press out of this and, any-
per centre of Madrid I'd like to Noth Ca'olina. I had to drag suaded him not to
with Д buy and spend six month of Now the foreseeable income way, a whole host of ancillary | that urcent back
when I did
repeated: "I hardly ever wear the wift Bet be sufficient to carry smaller fry in whose interest f
year in Europe. Julie in 'Show Bont.'
it." She still hardly ever Hous
curly-headed on as in was
"I's a dream in bita the past.
is that the game should go on much less
When
started Beatrice, my wears jewellery.
bul wonder
ploces, boy then.
Nobody satisfy the waliing list.
New York What Between them they thould ac Hister, took me to a
may Mickey's wooing know just how the little fellows to be done.
together one of these who is to pay.
count without difficulty for studio, Alled in forms, then
whelmed her. He did bu he winning and how is the money to
£3,000 a year.
days." was asked to walk around.
America's top box-office star every one of his 212 ring con-
lid. I waited. What experience and he was used to getting his Tests.
had I had? Simple-none. Well,
way. Miss Gardner, come back when you've had some experience.
CAUTIOUS-LIKE
WONDER BOY
20
extrueledd"
That makes a grand total of The solution, I think, is stin-
£12,000 year, and quite pain- Yes, Haenul! have been a
ple. If I souls a little harsh, { i[ {{. from those who great #ghter. Sometimes heit is not meant that way. The have everything to lose. To i looked great. Hut he took his
anawer is "Let them as benellis | may be added contributions boxing only half-heartedly, 1 from it pay for It." wush what he wanted, Flans
them
Wasn't
down.
happy knocking
sets
over-
was
They were married 门新 January 10, 1942, just about six months after Ava cama 10 Hollywood.
All she did in acting that months were iwo "We WereO
DIDN'T BOTHER
froun parents whose coscience "Instead I went to 400 will not permit them to ne- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They first Very well, who does beneft? celve, golf "on the house" and phoned There
of people the from individual
me at Larry Tarr's walk-on parts In golfers who pupils, the professionals, and!
place. 'We'd like to talk with Dancing," which starred Norma continue tu back themselves, the trade. The puplis pre- and
and in "Joe Smith, you, they said, cautious-like, Shearer, their handicaps, against sumably cunnot contribute, but The Champion.
put on my best dress; it actually American." their parents 18 most cases
was my better dress, I only had still, of course, certainly can,
two with me then, and walked more especially – Better where they
paying are
no could all pay a fiorin a year,
to the office at 540, Broadway. school fees at all.
which would cover this und
AI "I talked with
Altman, every other known expend Mure
the talent executive, and Ben in golf-but that would be too Jacobson, casy or too much trouble for
"When
they listened to my
at each other as if to say what
We
Hans wanted to cook. So he was happy when got the job as a resit at a cycle works canteen at Neckarsulm, Next he married pretty 20-year- old Marlene. So Huns the giant-killer was well on the geting all the things he way
A nation that spende
million wonted which he couldn't get thousand from knockh people out, tobacco and pools cannot be those who ought to be doing Deep South accent they looked
so poor that most parents who 'something about it.
London Express Service.
Of
drink,
and
conte
Ane
Hurricane Hitting
By MCC In "Picnic" Match
Canberra, Dec. 0. The MCC beat the Prime Minister's XI, which Included to didn't bother "I
work
four Australian Test players, by while I was married to Mickey,
31 runs on the stroke of time in Ava told me. "I tried to make a home for him, but we were out one-day "pienie" match here
today. too much. He was always 'on
Some hurricane hitting cabled stage"
They were divorced in 1843, the MCC to declare at 278 for and Ava, disillusioned and disseven wickets scored in 105 minutes, and in the 130 minutes left for play they dismissed the Prime Minister's XI for 247.
Poter May scored 101 in two hours 10 minutes for the M.C.C. He hit 11 fours, Tom Graveney muda 50 in 41 minutes (une ex and eigh four),
WITH SCOTLAND
I'm here
Watcha
How
COMPA
to goodness
Jock Bach
港
PICKING
OOMPA Let's 7 get bitchin' a
GLOG
Bud
D'ye ken We're all here the
noo
COLL FOGAST
ANYONE
A WELSHMAN
AND AN ENGLISHMAN FOR THEIR RUGBY TRIAL
HE VISUALISE
THE EVENTUAL
"TEAM ARRNING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
Rieblo Benaud, the Test player, dominated the Prime Minister's innings with 113 în 90 minutes. He hi five sixes end nine foure, Scores: MCC 210 for adven wickets declared (P. May 101, T. Graveney 50; Hemels two for 34, Robin one for 29,. Backen one for 85, O'Reilly one for 41, Berzul one for 65, Johnson One
for 20).
"Prime Minister's X1 247 (16 Denaud, 113, 9. Loxton 47, K Miller 38; Wardle feur for 15; Hutton, three for 10; Edrich two for 41; MeCotton one for 52)♬ Reuter,
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MOTCR SPORTS CLUB HOLDS
A SOCIAL
The last social meeting of the Motor Sports Club of kong in the year 1954, which took the form of a seasonal Cocktail Party on conventional linen, was held last night at the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Some members and their guests pitended, among whom were to be seen many of the Colo- ny's motoring celebrities กรรม motor trade personnel,
Dofr
The Kucals were welcomed
Hubert by
E. Harper, Chairman, and Mears B. C. A Gates, W E. Barrett. A. D Stewart, and Capt A J. Loch, Members of the General Com mittee. There were about 40 ; present.
Trung, CSU). Deputy Conszerzameling. Pistrict Herding Cartera
Carl "Bobo" Olson Named Fighter Of The Year
New York. Dec. 8. Carl "Bobo" Olsun, world nuddleweight boxing champion, was named "ghter of the year" by the New York Writers Assu- Film Show and informal Setal Club of Hongkong will be e ion lis, night,
The next
social function te be held by the Motor Sports
Olson, who will defend his on Thursday, January 20-full|kƐs against Plorre Langlois of ¡ details of which whi be an France on Dycembor 15 in San
Franciscu, will receive the Asso ( nounced later.
Prospective members should clation's Edward J. Nell Memorial
B.
C.
contact the Hon. Secretary, Mr Paque, which is usually present- Flat 1, No. 8ed to the boxer who did the most A. Gates, The Peak (phone 28305) for to advance the spont daring the detalls.
year. Heutor.
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