· THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 19, 1955.
Why Do Men Believe
In These Dream Girls?
SK any man, what-
Today there are signs thnt tiring of the
A age or An evening with Marilyn Monroe
men are already his ever
status, whether he
would care to meet or Gina Lollobrigida could
easily
Marilyn Monroe or Gina Lollobrigidn, and sure enough a gleam will come into his eye. What more natural, you are probably thinking, the Misses Monrod directors, their every move re- and Lollobrigida are enough hearsed until it adds up to pro- to send up any nun's blood vocation. Film editors carefully eliminate any move, angle or pressure. At the risk of a inflection that might show these big mee-ow I disagree. I bu young women to a disadvantage, lieve that an evening with For every foot of film that is a mini- any professional pin-up, the mum of ten is thrown on the Misses Monroe and Lollo cutting-
finar.
Scot probably brigida included, is as likely r
one of his as not to develop into one spent less time on
Misses longer novels than the long yawn.
Monroe and Lollobrigida spend The
every with
filters, dress-designers, is hairdressers and make-up men. woman
These pains.. Tukin-1
labours
develop into one long yawn.
fact is, knows,
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shown on the screen,
BY JILL CRAIGIE
current beauties, Marilyn Mon- Toe need have no fears that she
will not be allowed to net. Be-
fore long she may be forced to do so.
I seem to hear men saying What about a plain girl for a change?
much time on her appearance. I can almost hear the petulant, Lollobrigida,
for heaven's sake stop fussing."
As for
Before we can say
Jill Benneti will
who
probably have taken her place. She will be put over as the girl Miss Monroo's utter- ances, they seem to be restricted who is different-the girl
to be has something other women to an everlasting plea
of course, allowed to act. She wants to act have not, menning,
life sex. more than anything In nothing is quite Important to her, certainly not sex. Time and
is again she has said that she tired of playing sexy roles.
Desirable
Anally nchieve But these women,
the desired re- say, are nevertheless
seem
What nonsense it is. I am not saying
that
stars Gim deficient in sexuality, I do say they are as much of a mixture
Where as most women.
they differ-and is a big differ-
are
I
ence is in their priorities,
any label should be tagged on may do a professional beauty, par- beautiful ticularly one who lends herself
you
A dynamo
lt. Gina Lol- and therefore desirable. Then to the exploitation of sex, it is lobrigida #n why, I ask, are men never that of CAREER WOMAN.. Marilyn Monroe satisfied with the idols they
be a fairly She is likely to Enticing create? No sconer is one of them egocentric one at that. That is beyond dreams. safely ensconced on her pede-
an evening with for why I say own creation, stal than another is sought she really is. He re. Surveying their
Marilyn Monroe or Gina Lollo- men then begin to believe in it, in her place.
brigida could easily develop into gards her rather us # symbol, more like a creature But the plot creaks. Having Last year it was Audrey Hep- one long yawn unless they are commonly in advertisement, and lent themselves to this treat burn, the year befere Jane exceptions to a rule labels her accordingly. Taus ment, Marilyn Monroe and Gina. Russell, the year before that Jean accepted in film studios.
Lollobrigida. to their credit, Simmons and so on and so on. woman *is Sex with a rofuse to play in real life the Ask any man today whether capital S, Mother with a part allotted to them.
he would
Jane care to meet Russell and the gleam in hls enpital M, The Wife, or,
If Miss Lollobrigida is in a
eye is not at all the same as more odiously, The Missus. temper, Is it the fury of
for Gina Lollobrigida.
Whereas # tight lipped, Not at all. scorned? Sometimes she is the Ideal woman
Yet only yesterday it seemed freckle-faced secretary typing Woman, which
Someone has published a photo- merely sph of herself not to her lik- that Jane Russell was the furiously in an office. might be to the masculine a'positive dynamo of passion, means she is unobtainable. ing. Engage her in conversa- answer
Did she let down her For those who do not fit tion and what does she talk prayer.
priority. Yot even she would
for recognition into these categories man: about? Men: Certainly not. She worshippers by talking too much sex may well be her particular
adopted hope
of the is worried about income tax. If of Bible classes
of has a further series of tags hair is tousled it is careful children? Or did the final dis- maternal and cincient side
come when she her nature. -The Career Woman, Siren, ly disarrange for the benefit of illusionment
that left to herself she If only men would take off confessed A hairdresser Blue Stocking, Outdoor Girl, photographers.
combing dis- was naturally rather shy about their blinkers and see women as Hockey Girl, Slut, Shrew, is always within
her figuro? The point is that we really are-complex crea- Gamin or Rake.
flm stars, like any other women, tures of infinite variely, cap- of development—they Indeed, wherever she travels, resent being labelled, and once able there
find us so much more hairdresser, they are established refuse her goca
to men's conception fun than their absurd illusions. dressmaker and beauty expert. live down
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man
realises Intellectually, that woman may be a mixture of all these attributes, but his heart rejects what reason · tells him. If the creature he has cost as Mother proves Oscar Wilde's contention, that "every woman is at heart a rake," he is flabber- Casted,
A fiction
This brings me back fo the Misses Monroe and Lollobrigida. delectable pair This seemingly
is largely o fletion of the male mind. For, falling to see woman as she really is, man then does his utmost to turn her into what she is not,
Impresarios, m script writers, movie
editors, publicists,
directors,
camera-
tance.
and
lo
would
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LA LOLLO –– LEARNS
то HOW
JUMP ON THE TRAMPOLINE FOR HER NEW PICTURE "TRAPEZE."
With Restraint... But With Hope
To Be Read
LINE OF
NEW
ATTACK - PERHAPS FOR CANCER
THE KEY TO A CURE
W
HAT is probably
the most hopeful news yet recorded
By Chapman Pincher
the
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RUBY M.
AYRES HER TOUGHEST
T
CHAPTER
by Nancy Spain
newe
I can't describe scenery.
So
HE
of Ruby M. Ayres, ill with when my characters get out-of- pneumonin at a Wey. I make it rain and laring
thom in again, bridge, Surrey, nursing I never write to please my- home, is that she has had zelf. I only write for money.
She hates time-wasters too. "a fair day."
"When I was young people A fair day....but the used to stop me and ask me if toughest chapter in the life I was Ruby M. Ayres, and of the 72-year-old novelist, used to say 'Yes' and gas about Hor writing life so far has myself for hours
"Now I soy
and walk been 57 years, for at the away.
No moods
hnd
'No'
age of 15 she was expelled from school for writing an "advanced" love story. DUBY is proudest, I think, ot sald the head the fact that somebody's "Disgraceful," mistress, "Every girl in the husband
once written school has read " "I realised to her after he had read an then," said Ruby Mildred article of hers, upbraiding The Ayres, "that I was on to come- Unromantle Husband. thing really good."
Since that day Ruby has nover looked back.
She was born in January 28. 1803, daughter of n successful mchitect in Watford.
Sho was briefly engaged to nevr looked back.
"When finished your words,” he wrote, "I went over and kisse my wife, just as I used In the good, romantic days,"
said
Which is so odd, you know, for among writers Ruby M. Ayres hag a reputation not for romance, but for common sense, three young men. She said that She once took part in a she couldn't hear them when lernry discussion with Sir they got sentimental."
Compton Mackenzie who Then, at the age of 25, she ho
"'arter only write could published her first professional dinner, and in the mood" work, a novel called "Richard "What utter rubbish," sald the price. Chatterton, V.C." It sold like Ruby "First I fix hilly. So he wrote others, Then I fix the title. Then I books with titles like "The write the book."
Ring Lillest Lover," "The That Fettered Her," Shouldars,"
No fuss
"Young YOU YOUNGER-. . .
QUBY sometimes wrote 15,000 to 20,000 words a day (most authors write 1,000), typing with two fingers on an ancient, upright, officë machine, “A man offered to teach me touch-typing ones," who said. "But it would put mo off. can't stand fuss.”
By the Ume she was 30 Ruby was earning £20,000 a year, referring to herself with 日 happy grin as "Queen of the
to
A
Tripe-Writers." and happily married to Reginald Willam Pocock, an insurance broker,
They lived in close harmody. until Mr Pocock died, seven-bedroomed house entled Rest Harrow, in Woybridge,
Ruby occasionally darted off Egypt, South America, Indeed, it was the marked
Africa, New Zealand, or New effect of this substance York. But just for the ride. "I Following up this work, first made by the British can't work on a journey sho mon, still photographers, fim in the fight against cancer may hold "the key or one of that simply by changing the great Swedish surgeon, chemist Sir Charles Dodds sald, "It gives me the creeps,"
Copywriter has emerged from a meeting the keys, not only to the this gland balance the lives Professor Herbert Olive. that put Huggins on
No family dress designers,, gossip Ters
de of eminent doctors at the control of the disease, but of some patients suffering crona, has tried removing new line of inquiry. (mostly men, please note)
from breast or prostate the pituitary gland, which is vote their energies and talents, Royal Society of Medicine even to Ita prevention."
TER 150-odd novels, which lo HER I must stress again that cancer can be prolonged. located on the underside of cures have yet been achieved 10,000,000 copios arc, alas, her clato have sold about
This
be the brain, with equally sur- by any of these methods, and only children I met her once, change can achieved by removing cer- prising results.
the Improvement they can bring at a surprising lunch when I The new findings strong- tain of the glands surgically.
usually lasts for only a few sat between her and another have been attacking the ly suggest that cancer of the
months. THEIR IMPORTANCE remarkablo woman, Frances stubborn cancer problem breast in women and of the
LIES IN THE NEW HOPE What a lunch it was. along a new line believe they prostate gland in men
They have at last achieved what caused by a disturbance of alleviation of the symptoms
spent the whole of the meal operations
aver the papera, perfectly happy they call a "break-through." the balance of the various to a most remarkable severe and have to be under-
studying form and Semi-salacious dialogue, lines To quote Sir. Stanford gland-secretions of the body. improvement and restora- taken on the off chance that
This hope is high because the ting money on horses, they would be incapable of Cade, ⇓ leading cancer
Ituby wore severe thinking up for themselves, aro
There is clear-cut evidence tion to a near-normal state they might bring benefit, operations have brought sub-
stantial benefit to some patients suit and hat to match, with a put into their mouths. Their specialist who spoke at the collected
from hospitals of health," Sir Stanford because for some reason 88 who were so 11 that no pre-fine white froth of lace at the deportment is corrected by film meeting, the new advance during the last five years Cade reported,
yet unknown not all patients viously known treatment could throat. I remember thinking respond to them.
what an old pet she is, have helped. So the doctors are search- ing for methods of correct-
their life's blood, you might say, in London. to putting over these two young
seme of ecxual women as the ospiration.
Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida are photographed from every conceivable angle. For every photograph released at least a dozen are rejected. Not sexy enough would be the studio pronouncement,
No curative treatment is yet in sight, but doctors who
Marriage Is A Business
-And It's Booming!
By GEOFFREY ` JOYCE
"The degree of improve- is ment varies from temporary
These
THEY RAISE FOR THE are FUTURE.
The man mainly respon- ing the gland-balance by sible for this advance is giving gland extracts by So for the new methods have Professor Charles Huggins, Injection or in tablet form, been tried only in cancer of the a Canadian-born surgeon
University,
synthetic
black
She had a grey parrot called Benjamin and she mid she hated "the ballet and affected
young men."
No lies
broast and prostate. But they | ПLUE-EYED, fair skinned, now working at Chicago Claims that some success may prove to be of value in with a jaw like the prow can be achieved by feeding other forms, for the adrenal and D A battleship, I don't think thyroid gland extract were pituitary gland exort a profound tho has ever told a lie in her life. She certainly never uses Ho has shown that by made by British doctors at cffcct throughout the body.
make-up and she says that removing the adrenal the Royal Society of glands two small organa Medicine meeting.
The doctors have a long way women authors are terrible,
άξονα you London. increased tax allowances for the as fail as his form Indicated, or near the kidneys-cancer of
to go before they can claim any she asked me, "sitting round at over seen them,"
kind of victory over cancer. THE marriage business in married.
perhaps in 3ttle balder.
those literary luncheons, Α
chemical But now, after probing hun-all All four work to a pretty, Britain
Most bureaux manage to strike the breast and prostate can is booming, standard formula. They collect' a fairly neat balance among ther be brought under control, called stilboestrol, which dreds of promising leads which looking as if they'd just written Yes, the marriage business. name, Income, nationality, clients. Men and women are though not cured.
nets like a natural gland petered out, they, soom to be on the Bible?" London (the centre of the occupation, height, age and about even in numbers.
In Britain, Bir Stanford extract, is already being an open trail which may end in things too:
1 successful treatment for at marriage trade as it is of description of dream man/woman,
But they suffer from too many Cade and others have con- given to patients as a stan- Icast some forms most other trades) has four charge a fee, (between four and
six gulness), and then supply young men and too many oldish firmed his findings.and are dard treatment for cancer of feared disease. marriage bureaux, all of particulars of approximate dream women,
extending them.
the prostate. them the acmo of respec- man/woman. tability, and all of them If party A likes the part!- doing a growing business. eulars, party B is contacted. If
Between them, they have. arranged.
he or she agrees, a meeting is country has a surplus of women That is inevitable. For the
close to threo thousand
over 30 and surplus of men After that the couple are on under 30. Was thinned the ranks Or on their own of the over-thirty men, but
there are naturally
WELFARE STATE
bom
people on their books and uncir own, considering that they marry unless they patronise the super-
-mono men them off at about the rata exclusive agency which charges than women
While of 20 n
week while the another 20 guineas from each more boy babica, used to die,
pariner number remains constant, this one claims "a number of ational health scheme
morried, thus evening the successfully
score, there is little doubt that Members of Parliament among slopped that. there is a market there to its successfully married clients.
# The grşival af large numbers bo filled.
THEIR FORMULA'
..
JOHNNY HAZARD
YEP, JOHNNY, I FIGURE IT'S TIME
I HAD SOMEONE TO COMS HOW TOS
I MISSED OUT HARRYING SHARI YEARS
the has
| ABOWLAND I'M NOT GOING TO LET HER
GET AWAY AGAIN!
-pro-
For the fee, the ellent is convinced the bureaux
of young men on the lists has entitled to as many introductions prepare that there may be some 4 ho Ukas unless someone thing In lodges a protest about his conduct waare stato has been having the theory that the While other businesses have when, after investigation, he is in effecta. lately been emtly throfied by usually struck from the books.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Buch complaints, however, are starts almost every other kind the marriage trade got a boost few. Most complaints are that of ventum. by Dhing in a form. in the spring budget with the the proposed partner im't quite Why not marriage?
-¿OF COURSE, YOU STAND
| UP FOR MEN MY BEST
PAL HAS GOTTA BE HY
|- BEST MAN 16) BAY WHY THE .
LON FACE
of the most
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- DON'T MIND ME, EMAP.....I'M JUst LOOKING FOR A HOLE TO CRAWL
INTORY
She
said plenty of other
Everything old-fashioned is that have. best. Four things gone off are fashion, architeo- turo, the Government, and girls.
By Frank Robbins
YOU SERI CAME HERE TO TELL YOU...Z HAVE THE GAME IDHÁÐ’ABOUT SHARI, MYSELFŽ-.
WEEK-END
WOMAN
RUBY MAYRES
GENERATION
Love Without Wings
RUBY M.AYRES
ASK YOUR MOTHERS
WEEP FOR LOVE
ABOUT THESE
AYRE
his situation calls for a
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