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LOGAN GOURLAY.. on Broadway.. keeps a date with
T
roc.
MARILYN Incorporated
She is not constantly on view, of course, and she is not easy to recoise when she does ven- Euro Into e sirceta,
The Universal G.: What about all these re- Symbol weighs up adim version of Dostolovsky's the risks and the your rowards
ports that you want to play in
un
The Brothers Karamazov?
Do
M. Why not? Did you ' read what Sam Goldwyn said about me the other day?
Possibilities
10 the celebrated show- pieces of New York, like the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberte, add Marilyn Mon-
has Sho
been resident
when there since she quarrelled of crutches you'd used
a leg injury and with her Hollywood atudio you'd had
demonstrated you walked with and walked out with both
the scme swing even hips swinging petulantly. eru'ches,
She produced the cutting and M.: Did It well 1 probably I read, "What her studio ham's
you then there's realised convinced
ver to that Marily nothing phoney about my walk. Mourne is a really fine actress. It's sort of anatomteni. Just the way I'm made. I've gut sort of An incidentally she'd be per-
feet. swivel hips.
in If we weren't
1 hadn't realised Mr I'd show this res auront
You Go'dwyn was an authority way.**
exactly what I mean.
Putolevsky. Milion is Milton Greene, ex- (us' mure whether it was
M. Nel her had 1. I was photographer who has become lucky or unlucky for me
lee of hier, wasn't it? in a restaurant.) her mentor, friend, and leading De toere in
Very nice. Tell me, are |extrutive uf
Alood Marilyn Mouroo She
up, slipped out of
Method," studying "The Productions Incorporated.
ker white fur stoir, smoothed The However, for social occasions her black dress down over her style
ul neling practisel by doum Mar con Brando). Mr again. Several people. stopped M.: ' not exactly u full- Mis eating.
But I've looked in ume pupil. al a few classes,
She dresses unflamboyantly, jond wears no street make-up...
because
Millon prefers li that
like
Bros nim premieres and solvel
first
mad
sar
'Still true'
that
very 1.
Yutz
Greene wisely permits. Monroe to appear fly made- up as befits a Hollywood queen,
It want t a Broadway Mrst night that I spilled her. Most of the authenes spotted her
G. Do you get embarrassed and before the plays arted they
publicity errewded round her asking for by the fuss and 12 uslegraph
and just staring about your sex appeal?
M.: Fecr ainly do. if I've
to.
Monroe
{ ! Inter
{KHI
restauront
I'm never sure
on
fashionable raluralistic
G. I'm tolet that beginners mily be asked
to do odd things table. Or a pimple, like net a
M. Well, I certainly haven't been sked to net a pimple.
Congratulations. What
ut psychiatry? Every other and t:Lr:B; 1 moet over
When J encountered Miss t 11, irus I'm Juelty, but Bere is taking psychiatric treat-
what it is ex- actly. I can't just turn off ment. Are you?
M. I'm not taking a full When it hit on like a shover. director says, "Marilyn, give us ychiatry.
Bust course.
I don't scoff It's very useful to some of that oki Monroe sex
know what
tick makes you in this scene." I Just don't know what to do. 1 really
when you come up against un cooltonal crisis,
she said: "S down in front of me and help block the view a bir. I don't want to be mared at ang more tonight. I suppose I should be used to it by now, But I'm not.“
Convincing
I sat down and the following conversation took place:-
Gourtay: 1 don't suppose you remember the first time we met about two years ago in Holly wood?
Monroe: Of course I remem- ber. Never forget a face.
(I didn't bellene her for a moment, but it would have been churlish to say m.)
6. Your face has become even better known since then.
M. Not only my face.
riozi
't.
G.; That's what you told me I wo Years aNO.
M.: It's all true, believe me. G.: I believe you. M.: I get very fed up will How would all the sex stuff.
you like to be called a univer- sal sex symbol? Makes you feel uncomfortabic, as though you'd done something wrong. rother be known as Just actress.
I'd
Atl
G. Will you be making un other film soon?
M.: Nothing's definitely fixed, G. How about the
quarrel with the Hollywood studios? 1 was about salary and choice of pare wasn't it?
No shoes
G. Have you come up against many“
M. A few, but let's change the subject. I don't want to talk about my divorce. Or about Joe
Maggio.
MARILYN MONROE "I get fed up ...."
"RACKET WITHIN A RACKET" POLICE SMASH HONGKONG DRUG RINGS
D
By GORDON HUNG
URING the past few which can be very deally con- months many nar cealed and carried around. This gives the smokors`more cotics cases have been kick" than opium. Intravenous reported in the newspapers, Injections are negligible in the especially cases dealing with Colony, result of this, drug ad-
A Illegal
and importation manufacture of drugs in the diets have become complete in- dividuals, and have found it Colony.
unnecessary
to take their drugs can smoke This is by no means a new in divans. They
the streets, trade, for ever since Hongkong their heroin in was inhabited there have been alley ways and on staircases. oplum smekéts. And as Hong- For this reason the Pallca are kong did not produce the "papanding it more difficult to de
somniferum”—the poppy toet offenders, but despite this from which aplum is obtained the anti-narcotics
measures the drug had to be imported by have shown very good results.
Most of the narcoties como legal or illegal means.
from places in the Middle East end Southeast Asia by plane or In the past few months ship.
of oplum and large quantities
together with some morphine, herein, have been seized by the Police in Hongkong
on arrival by ships and planes from India
ver
In the past few years, how ever, there has been a definite Increase In the smoking heroin in the Colony.
of
Oplum and its derivatives morphine and heroin-spelt un told millions of dollars to drug traffickers just as they brought misery and ruin to addicts who did not care whether they wasted away into nothing so long is they could have amoke.
their
Then all of a sudden our nar- colle gangs with their inter- national connections-got jolt out of the blue,
of
a
The Hongkong Poilce set up 'a Narcolles Bureau last year. The work of this Bureau, in stated in the Annual Department Report the Commissioner of Police, was "for the collection and dis semination of information re- lating to nareoles, to develop the exchange of intelligence and to co-ordinate the measures to
suppress the Hillelt narcotics traffic."
W
Syndicates
and Slam.
On The Move
THE larger quantiles
arc
usually brought in by ships and concealed in all conceivable places, while smaller quantities Le brought in by neroplane.
เล One woman tried to bring in morphine concealed in two Thai while a seaman art statuetles,
con- tried to bring opium ashore ceated beneath a live goose sit- basket. More tg in a raltan eften than not the carriers are women and the means of coN-
ingenious
cealment VRrjed
аге
and
Apart from oplum, morphine and hercin, no other drugs are
muggled into the Colony.
Because
as
ង
cer:ain
1 hard to
ati Police
of its geographical used position, Hongkong is
transhipment WEWORKING in close co-opera-
mainly point in the International tion with narcoties suppres- narcotics trade, but a slen agencies all over the world, amount of processing of optum our Follee, since the beginning to morphine and heroin is done
although of this year, have been able to here.
the mant- And a number of narcotics facturers making up for the education
Ismach
in
the the operate syndicates working
with missed as a kid. I am beginning
| Colony. People concerned In their talis all the time. to catch up now, though.
either Police
mude G. All right. Do you
these syndicates have still
pressure has [ G. I'm told you like poetry.
Hongkong OX- like to kick off your shoes when ML.: I do. Don't sound
been brought to court for trial
processing In tremely difficult, and the pou get the opportunity?
surprised. M.: YCH. I've got them of es from
The lines
syndicates try operators have to be always on One day a group now under the table,
not to step on one other's toes. the I always Ballad of Reading Goolt get worried in case I lose them. And all men kill the thing they Some look after the smuggling may be located in Calne Road.
of the drugs Into the Colony, ht find others look after the processing
G. What else do you worry about apart from losing your shots?
I
I'm the
Love
50
Do you know these or deportica
Wilde's Oscar
By all let this be heard,
moyo,
Two or
heroin, while third group while
three days later you
the same people Kowloon Tong.
Some do it with a bitter look, of the opium to morphine or operating in M.: My career, I guess. And Some with a flattering word.... tends to the business of getting my worry about being late.
M.: Think of all the guys in 500 very unpunctual. I guess
bho the world who are supposed to Gay psychiatrists would
We love me. I guess I'm in danger, but taking revenge on people
for Better may a little prayer for me. of the tough times I had when I
G. I'll do that. foster In worry nbout
few days later they have transferred their drugs out of the Colony to headquarters and apparatus to
Repulse Bay. their various destinations,
Then there is the difficulty of not only The syndicates pro
the international finding a qualined chemist involved in narcoties
also cater willing to take the risk for some trade but
In fuel so much fuss is made about the rest of me, I begin to
Yeah, mostly. M.: wonder if anybody ever looks at Gi Two years ago they were
only my face.
paying you #bout Interruption by a waiter who dollars a week. asked her
fix to autograph She dust above the plats du jour.
0.: 1
sun suppose you've pestered by questions about the why you walk.
M. Yoult. People won't be Heve I just walk That way naturedly.
G. Last time
ww 21el in
Hollywood you produced a pair
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BRITAIN'S TREASURE IN
A WARTIME GAMBLE
By J. W. TAYLOR
and securities to a anxious IF you were to compute all our gold
the wealth carried by the safe place depended Britain's reached treasure ships of Spain in 1 abilty to fight alone, for this July 1.
before Least-Lend, and years of visits to Mexico; all that was shipped from material from America Peru in ten years; all that cash-and-carry basis,
How without loss was amassed in the fabulous
cumulated wealth of gold-rushes of California tions of British trade and in- and the Klondike, it would vestment
was crated
One of the vessels
On
고
the ac
genera-
and
Cargo
moments, Emerald Canada safely On
free-lorze
a
for the local market. Here the fast cash-to do the processing. The chemist must have good has operator
working knowledge of the drug, chance. If he is able to smugglo or the morphine and heroin' he the drugs into the Colony he makes will not be suitable.
a tidy profit can still make
although he is competing with
The free-lance operator brings
the syndicatos.
In ema
ema
Smuggled Gold
quantities of drugs and MANY devious ways are found
seils it to contact men, wha
to smuggle the narcotics out pass the stuff to brokers. The of Hongkong. One way that was brokers break the drugs up into used with soma succeSS
More Heroin
was
and
very small quantitica and seit
sell concealing the drugs in the hol- the packages to pedlars who low bamboo of rattan furniture pass them on
to consumers. destined for foreign countries. Everyone
dome makes
money A method that is believed to be except the addict, but he is quite used by drug operators in deal- zmoko. ing between Hongkong and other Britain could only buy war Special trains, whose secret satisfied to have his
was being moved under The syndicates the whole Far East countries is as follows: salers of the business-brin-gold is smuggled to some country the code name of "Fish" took their drugs into the Colony in in this part of the world the shipment to Montreal Thuy
bulk and, being well-established sold for a high price, the pro- wor met by Canadian officials,
go to buying and well organised, derive far ceeds of which all sworn to secrecy, and the
profits than the free- oplum which is then smuggled Was treasure
removed under greater
back into the Colony for pro- armed escort to the subterranean lancer. be nothing near as great as shipped in boxes across the sub- vaults of a well-known Montreal
cessing. local consumption or transhipment. TAID IN A very the $1,800,000,000 worth of marine-infested Atlantic to the
building.
profitable venture both ways if Seven days later five more national gold and securities safety of Canada is revealed by
Leland Stowe, American ships left Britain with the great-TN every racket, there is al-
it comes off without a hitch. secretly shipped by Britain cign correspondent.
Hongkong is one of the most est combined cargo of treasure WAVH a "racket within 3 during the war to Canada
ever transported by land or sen. rackd and this holds true for difficult places in the world to for safe keeping.
Throughout the summer, the the drug trade. The retailers suppress the narcoties trade an Royal Navy transfer went on. Not one ship or the pedlars sometima it is on the hub of international It was revealed early last
the battleshipment was lost, although between adulterate
trade routes in the Far East. year in the history of Martin's Revenge, carried more gold then June and
pione,
the drugs or try to August 134 other palm off bogus products to the have made it extremely difficult However, the Hongkong Police Bank that the bulk of Britain's
was produced by the Spanish, Allled and noutral ships were addicts. retrves were stored in Peruvian, California and sunk in the North Atlantic.
for One
all engaged in this illicit of
the the results of the vaults of the bank's Head Klondike Eldorados combined.
intensiva Police pressure
trade. or Offee in Water Street, Liver On June 24, 1940, the cruiser
But the "busind stil and
of pool, during their conveyance Emerald sailed from Greenock Ironically enough, after "sur-
operators
all, the narcotics is
noticeable crulls fresh of darkness with viving the perils of war and changeover from oplüm con-
mainly DIC Ume
because high from the Bank of England to under cover
high Canada.
the Arst shipment of treasure, Atlantic gales and duly any of sumption to heroin consumption quound, while secret and heavily.
$1,400 high guarded the securities narrowly escaped in the Colony. The terrif
heroin trains having brought it to the being reduced to pulp in the a
pressure on opium divani has for around $0,000 a pound.
has grade morphine and This fantastic shipment wo
Clyde from the Marsey side underground depostlory,
A thunderstorm deluged Mon-driven them to rooftops and
have made reasons that decided upon as the armies of depository.
after the squatter huts, and even
there business a very profitable France tottered to defeat and The cruiser soon ran into un trebl one day soon
the Police make it very un- trade is that the drugs are easy Britain braced herself to meet
Allantic
the pleasant for them to operate; to transport seepage through
and amount of
conceal; they the escorting destroy heavy the threat of German invasion speed off. This cut the treasure's arrival. There was a
can be broken up and reduced cre commanded by Caplam building's side walls, and it was with their large
found that water was lapping paraphernalia.
in strength, almost indefinite- Hero Mr Winston Churchill' Vian, later to win fame aboard planks on which the treasure There is no obvious parapher ly, and still be sold for a lucra War Cabinet took ono of the Cossack. Emerald was obliged chests had been placed, two fect palla for heroin amoking. iive profit; and addicts 'wili most momentous financial đen tù. Hồ on
cab alone through the from the floor, Emergency pumps Smoker
put, the drug on even resort to petty crùmės· ·to cisions ever made by a nation. glant sens et 22 knots." After were got to work to clear the their clearettes and inhale, or buy their smoke. Upon the successful" transfer of much. buffeting and many danger only just in fine.
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