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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER IU, 1956...
SIR CAROL puts LA LOLLO on
a rope
Paris brieda had to go off somewhere,
T is all mest embarrass. I required the services of & ing. I um lufching in rude to find her again. To make matters worse, most of the
the open air at Pou- 60 show girls who were supply- quets in the Champs in the Interior decorations had Elysecs when a beautiful, modelied their hair-styles and от my lusivo dark-haired girl sits down deportment two tables away from me.
interviewee.
And they did not respónd at She has the sort of face all well to mis-addressed ques- and figure that completely tions like: Tell me, what do takes my mind off my lunch. you really think about sex?" I keep looking at her and While Lollo Number 3 was thinking that girl ought to spinning at the end of a rope
a trick known as the be in pictures. She keeps doing
Spanish Web-the original Lolio- looking at her magazine. brigida was ongagod on the
Suddenly, she glances up at nous me gives me a dazzling smile pictures of herselt. and beckons me to join her.
Obviously, Presumably.
her.
she knows
should
Vital clue
You
The
by THOMAS
WISEMAN
commenta all wore lively:
"She can't do it, she *muscles,"
Everybody else is nobody, Al- ways, Mr Roed, you put her in front of camera and you put in background..........'” La Lollo herself remained
around diplomatically non-committal on the subject of personal vendet- has no tan-except in the case of the income tax people. They, she à vendetta against said, have her.
"You want she should have muscles, too?"
"But it is such a simple rope trick.
wish she would do the Indian nope trick."
But in the end Lollobrigida
with
No Vendettas
She swallowi
the rope trick to pill and said: 's satisfaction. Every-
headache
I
"I do not have vendettas with That is all WYLA happy, Even the other setreasts,
invented. If an actress is better business of censoring baby chimp, who went slightly than me, I admire her. If she
berserk and ran around his ec, the legend must not nuditorium
periodle is not as good as me, I do not taking be diminished by the publication swigs at a bottle of Coca Cola, need to bother to have vendetta
with her. me, or unlettering
(or unrecognis
Sir Carol Reel and half
I am Why
successful? photographs. know abio)
this the film unit in hot pursult On
have great will to be success, La Lollo was showing occasion
Even
Burt Lancaster was an aptitude for the job that smiling happily up at Lollo Alto, perhaps, a little talent." would have done credit to the and an it is his company that
But this modest Lollo as not the whoje Lollobrigida. Lord Chamberlain.
is making the picture (at
When she becomes angry even Picture atter picture was cost of £1,000,000), he should
"Too sexy," or "not have
been
wenring
much producers quail in their boots.
"One rejected,
told me, were the more worried expression.
producer," the You nice" or "not Laila"
"he The photographer was
send mo expensive jewels le verdicts,
film the expect
moguls to make it up with me. I send becoming furious
look worried.
them straight back." But there wos une person: not looking happy: Sho Mexican actress Katy Jurado talented girl and, - highly like Lollo, fiery.
1 get up, go over to her table, Who is she? I am thinking desperately.
Then US 1 approach her table I are the vital Identifying clue.
Her magazine is open at a double-page sprend of pictures (I can ut Gina Lollobrigida read the name).
In a Hash i know. No gir), except L Lollo herself, would spend a whole lunch looking at plc.
of Lollobrigida.
most
ures
Sequins
Attendance.
0
a
ما
She said to me later when we were dining together: "That Lollobrigida” and nearly chok. ed on her food with, fury.
She gulped down a glass of
help champagne
compose herselt.
cage
scene
TONY CURTIS with LA LOLLO
Next week they will be Alm- ing
lion showing escaping from his
and breaking
one Elaborate prc- cautions will be taken to protect Le Lollo and La Jurado from the linc.
An sistent director come over and spoke to a member of the Lollobrigida entourage the normally has dialogue coach, two costume designers, a hair-
and $ husband dresser
"Please," he said, "can you the sec
that Gina does not son
she said, pictures of herself while she is tell Carol Reed: 'Mr Reed. But has any- the body thought of to leave working. She gets too interested please I want
back the protecting the in them--and it holds up the picture. I give you whole production."
money you pay me. I am nol lion from If said to me: "I happy. That Lollobrigida-she Lollo must control what pictures think only she is somebody. Jurado?
After all, I work appear of me. with my face und figure..
of
It may seem inexcusable not to recognise Lollobrigida,
nspect publicised Italian life since Nero stopped throwing Christians to the ions und a more remarkable sight than the leaning tower of Pisa. But I have an excuse.
So many.
There seem to be so many Lollobrigidas around these days.
Lollobrigida
At this stage, she was called upon to work with her faco und figure.
11
sequined costumo and fishnet stockings, she won t When I first met her this week quired by the script to revolve at the Cirque d'Hiver, the Paris in mid-air, hanging from a rope. circus, I thought I must have in point of fact she did not have wandered into the hall of mir- to do anything of the sort.
had been rors. There were six of her all identically dressed and all curved bullt for her. All she had to do was to stand on it, hold the Tope and revolve,
in the same places to the same degree.
Could 11 be that the Italian
was Koverrunent
now
ass manufacturing Lollos boost the export drive? Or hud I had too many Pernods?
to
Nerther proved to be the case. Lollobrigida is making a chris film in Paris called "Trapeze" and as she is a down-to-earth girl, in every sense, five doubles are needed to do the stunts on her behalf,
of
revolving platform
The chimp
A
Even so, they were all after-
the noon on the scene. Even ever-patient, ever-gentlemanly crecion Str Carol Reed began to show signs of exasperation.
"Gina,
darling," be kept Just is so simple. saying. watch the girl do it--and copy her."
This relay-team
Lollo- brigidas--including onc 717 and padded in the mado up appropriate places-will, I assured,
indistinguishable from the Lollo who performs else exclusively (and expensively)
be
on terra Areni.
i
But durling Gina was End- 172 Ing it all very difficult,
"You must get somebody to do it," she said. "I am not an acrobat."
The prospect of obtaining a «eventh Whenever,
Lollobrigida did not amuse anyone.
believe this. during our conversation, Lollo-
Coldo
•
Even the slightest cold.
is to be feared
Do not let it spread] Defeat it from the start by taking 1 or 2 'CAFASPINS'
CFASPIN
([BAYER
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at
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School for the Doaf
All Local Sports
Local Presentations
Local Weddings
etc. etc.
Avillable at
know,"
La and
YOU WANT
HAVE
SHE
MUSCLES
SHOULD
THE REBEL
(of the twenties and the fifties)
WEARS SPATS
M
A woman like this makes me feel so old says ANNE SHARPLEY
Her name Caresse - an chsurd, tender name. It used to be Mary until she met the. Harry Crosby and ran away with him to Paris from Boston.
Still reforming
the
tivities.
TOO?
MRS: CROSBY **Purpose and passion.”
Of Mice And Medicine
M
By TREVOR KNIGHT":
EDICAL.scientists can human afflictions, are the fate of now produce thou. these arómais from one genera-
tion to the next, without varia-, sands and thousands top. Į
of mice that are as alike as
Superficially, these Experi- identical twins. These mice ments seem to be cruel in the which, generation after extreme, but they all help in generation breed true to the vast accumulation of data type, are proving invaluable wir read towards
which doctors hope, one day, developing institutions cures for dread diseases
to
research
now
studying cancer, infantile enpeer, leukaemia and pollo- paralysis, yellowy fever, myelitis, which are as yet in leuknemia, the effects of curable, and which kill count- less thousands of human beings various
drugs, and year after year. many other problems which
Nature, as might be expected, cause suffering to mankind. does not idly sit back and watch Most people tend to think these thousands of identical
Ένα that all mice are very much mice being produced. allke when. In fact, one mouse now and galnin fact ap differs from another in almost proximately
for every"
Onco
as many characteristics on one three-hundred-thousandth mouse man differs from enother. To
born to one particular identical breed many thousands of mice strain-Nature throws up which are identical in every way variation, known as a mutant, is therefore no easy problem.
Scientists are always on a very the American scientists But
closo lookout for thoso who have achieved this remaric-
mutants.
are They
а very ablo modical feat have now
valuable type of mouse because renched a stage of accuracy where they know that only one mouse in 300,000 will not be true to type.
they are entirely now,
One
Eat More
such
mouse,
which
Why do medical research men require so many mice that are ns alike as pens in the same pod? appeared at the Jackson Laborn- The answer can perhaps best be tory, is what is known is given by mying that the mice biologically deficient, fat female, are used us measuring rods, or and cannot produce offspring in living test tubes. Because these the normal way. Only when mico do not vary one from the she receives hormone injection other. and are
constant
quality, it means that if a large can she produce egg cells, which number are given a certain drug, can then be removed surgically transferred to a normal and for example, they will all react
female mouse to be to it in the same way.
to be fertilised
in the normal manner,
Some natural deficiency in this fat mutant mouse prevents the the egg cell developing in
But there is normal manner,"
Constant Type
037
And, if a certain treatment is tried on one mouse, while identical one is left untreated, the latter remains as a perfectly reliable direct comparison, and the exact effect of the treatment can therefore be accurately measured. In practice, of course, largo
от
treatments are tried numbere of mice, and numbers are left untreated,***
These genetically and blolo
the
egg,
develops
nothing inherently wrong with
because It perfectly, in the "foster" mother. A sufficient number of these biologically inefficient mice hive Dow been bom to start Ex- periments on them, it has bee found,
for example, that these
pico not only cat more but vsually choose fatty foods. Thu
gically constant mice, as they leads scientists to the COD RTH called, are the "creation" clusion that fatness, or obesity,
of
the Roxoe B.
Ackson
Memorial Laboratory, in Bar can be inherited, Harbour. USA. Scientists at
This conclusion runs counter
this laboratory have created to modern medical Ideas which no less than 60 different types
300,000
cre that obesity is developed caling habits
through acquin..
und not
of mice which all breed true to type with, as mentioned above,
If this is applied to human a variation of only one
beings, as it might very well It might throw. some light tire these
60
onto the problems of people types. one type ot
who remain, fat no matter what identical individuals Cani be
they do to counta:act ther compared with other tes
ohealty. Not very helpful to them, identical individumis under ex- but it might help them to resign periment. Thoy art living themselves to their lat Latel.
of
material for testing new drugs
and ruralive chemicals, dew/ techniques and new ideas.
Role of Heredity
Experiments that are
Being
of mice Creating a pure strain of so that they will remain reliably
the
after made on special types of mice sume
generation
of idiocy and ohar
generation requires constant in are giving research doc-ors in. sight into the role of heredity Brother and sister breeding. mice are mated, and later with and uterine conditions in the their children and grandchildren,
are born. Mice of when they
for citizenship could be expressed that the particular characteris the A
example, which tic. or characteristics, for which
least Ave percent 010 ut Delphf.":
the strain of salve are pro- bom with cleft palates, aro
constant.
This ensures reliable heredity so Malformations in human babies
Group,
Submitting bill to Congress pagated,... remain completely throwing it ht on this
Predictable
un-
fortunate malformation, which is the cause of tragedy in 3D many-famules.
ntific and medical Inves Sciontige
the
RS
(Uncle, CARESSE Paris
Incidentally, things grey suede spat. This is Plerpoint Morgan), Caresse Citizen of the World. CROSBY is of that was 3.
banking was quickly exchanged
"I am one of the chief ex- still-young exuberant for Bohemia.
ponents of world citizenship, or generation of the Twenties
The Crosby home became the mondialism as we call it. Hall who make me feel very old.
place where "in one day the of my time since 1948 has been They were so rebellious they visitor might find Salvador Dali spent in following this idea,” left us nothing to rebel in one room, Douglas Fairbanks,
led Mondiallsm has
Mrs ac about. They were so un- bentor, mwinging through conventional that we have afters of another, and D. H. Crosby into the following
Lawrence summing himself by had to take up conventions. the pool."
Rening a 350-roomed castle that enabled buyers of US. neur Rone as "a centre where Goverment Bonds to earmark artists and writers talked about their money for "peaceful, con- the possibilities of world structive uses only.". "It. Was government through the
hu- thrown out for obvious reasons."
The strains of mice produced tigators in many parts of (Unfortunately the she EaYO
by scientists at Jackson Labora United States and elsewhere. nome that uniti,"
hought by castle was
the belonged to international Bolte Vatican "at a very high price"
Then she looked at me and try have amazing characteris find the 60 different types of
for identical mice invaluable in In ΟΣΙΟ strain, mtanism or cultured aristocracy
moved mondialism
else- sighed.
is 'cal bod the Ernst
example. whilch'.
search programmes. More than Prince 10 from Max
1,000,000 aro produced every Orleans-Bourbon (and throw in where.)
"Young people are very pessi-DBA Group, 80 percent of all 1,00
the Jackson Labora females will develop cancer of year by Lawrence of Arabia
no Fion
Buying the promontory in mistle. It Braun for good measure) and
of these are sold at a nominal Delphi, Grecce, where Socrates old as I am to be an optimist the breast, generation after tory Approximately one-third MI Crosby will have
generation. 2,500 years ago declared himself today."
fee to other research ·Institu➡ Other strains will also produce anecdote.
the first citizen of the world."
I said something to the effect desired diseases in definite, pre-
tions. hay Crosby (M
built
The
present we were a terribly old dictable patterns. The A Group health, and even happiness, of and 'futuro that "Cycladle circle thera with big
young generation. That
to a large extent stone benches where one can sit
were really right back to Boston female has a dive to 10 percent mankind is
chance of developing cleft dependent on millions of. and contemplate the future and
and all that. think about the past.")
palate; the 'AKR Group female humble mice which are snéri- will almost certainly develop feed on the altar of medical Leukaemia. These, and siinflar research,
In the early 20's the was $1 witc and Mary Peabody, mother. Her husband, Dick Prabody, was one
the altruistle family that interested itself in London's slums and founded the Peabody Trust
of
"It was a pleasant life but it unusual life I had wasn't the when I met Harry. Crosby," Baya the Mrs Dick Peabody who, after her marriage was dissolved becazpo Caresse Crosby.
Sun worshipper
Think
of
a
What a rich, rebellious life it was. Living with a purpose, a passion. Lucky Mrs Crosby to be able to call her autoblography "The Passionale Years." (I don't ice any of my generation being able to lay claim to 'such a title.)
When in 1929 Harry Crosby took his own life. Mia Crooby continued the publishing house he had started.
"He was amazing at spotting Harry Crosby was certainly things that were worthwhile
in the
recogniood unusual
way that my before they were generation
can't
vory clowhore. I shared some of that get
talent." enthusiastic about
So Mrs Crosby Ropt right on things, and after the spotted the Wo
fact that writers like Jean Paul Sartr and Moravia should be trane lated into English.
A poet, a "He was strange. sun worshipper, a self-declared *potting snarchist," she recalls,
1'11
She presented these and other writer and artlets in a portfolle "that was my private idea of UNESCO before UNESCO
founded."
New Caresse
WIPS
takes someone
Suing the Greek Government,
"You maloo mo Look who "didn't believo world young," she said,
WO
50
Lics.
Jungle Echoes Answer Atom Moon
Kuala Lumpur
KIB A mail. Come out."
TOM Moon called:
From RUSSELL SPURR
and other comrades of his old a suicidal bid to wreak terrorist
Justice on the turncoats. . The loudspeakers hurled sang to join him. his amplified voice into the Malayan jungle.
-Back bounced the echo "Come out, come out."
"
"I'm telling you Commu- nism is a fraud," called Atom Moon. "Now you havó a chance to come out under the amnesty.".
You are being duped by the Communists, Ismal" he called. "The people of Malaya will no longer tolerate terror They will destroy you." "Destroy you, destroy you" again, the echo.
em.
That is why we were escorted by troopa and armoured cars to this lonely talking-place on a weed-grown jungle track.
The 84-year-old ex-terrorist had told me about his strugglo as we drove into the jungle. He had stripped back his shirt and shown mo' four bullet wounds received from British troops in a Jungle ambunda,
He did not think the amnesty would do much good. Hard- corn Communists 'would'never · give in.
"We rebelled against Boston Wo went and its stuffy ideas. to Paris to be ourselves." (How.
Soldiers In Jungle green one thinks, that wonderful,
Crouched among the bracken Parls was so magnetic then)
and bamboo, that walled us in. 1 I was a most conventional
The armoured cart, gleaming Personal appeals like the ono In the Jungle gloom, he was making were the best piri until I met him.
cully moved their restless guns hope. became a rebel through him.
young men stood, around the 'curtain of vegeta- Walt a
minuto and
nervously, smoking under the tion
Once there was a shout. remember sono ines I wrote
Four weeks ago Atomi Moon Wing of the armoured, broad-
TEG
Atom Moon tried for the lait to him, says the woman with
FOT
the wonderful thing himself had been hiding in the casting truck. They 100 were soldiers stiffened.
terrorista wincod
tithe." "Istinit, old, comrade, In. He had been there comrades, of terrorist Ismail. enger tych and my hair, look about Cartese Crosby to thai jungle.
Someone had only spotted a the name of humanity wo mure to her Ing. brck, 30. years
Is still a rebel and reformer, seven years risen to the rank Atom Moon had coaxed them rebellious youth,
dored and tortured'; innocent lapos of political commissar in the out only two weeks ago. Bull deer dating across the truck. throo-year when she married:husband No. Iterrorist he had his doubts, Ho, Wae proving more'obstinato.
forcess
But being a It was a risky business. tamall
Atóm Moon kept talking from people. We cansed ⠀ hardship Yours is a music for no, y Hort Youn
Virginia Malay
the 'little steel-plated" combart- und imisery. Tako this chanco Instrtiment,
farmer who bred blue-blood sensed that Chinese Commus Together with your other half ment inside the broadcasting to forget the past and comp Herefords. That marriage was mists planned to dominate the starved gangsters he continued truck. Sweat trickled down his out? Yours a preposterous' color
dissolved In 1940.!.
country--and his people,
to wander uncally through the hard-set face as he went on unbäheld
Jungle country Katona of the daming, Carciso Bo just before, the amnesty mountainou
Kunja, Lumpur
Perkape by would make
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. he quoted shyly,
Although
Harry
(Bave One
ˆófá 2051 yun and we have the Wai déclared in het gavo `himsolf fringing Mar, desperate, · possibly be well treated).Why: continus: from the surrounding
Crosby, new Cartom, drowed in a gray, up! 3" Hà - immediately volunk bank "in tweed drew-ang wearing
Ali Jinnead to try, to persuade Kumail bitie
with his astraendor appeal. dan: "Come out, come out","But Come out Come out. You'll today only the scho came back.
this uneleon struggle?!
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