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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1985.
ANITA EKBERG
THE SUGAR
W
THEY BOTH LIVE UP TO THEIR NICKNAMES
The Iceberg And
ΝΤΟ
The
London. on
town And
to my opulent beat
Angel
By THOMAS
WISEMAN
carefully, presorverk She looks 10, 14 In fact, 23, ard'a mother. To Miss Angell, Hollywood is u. kind of super welfare state.,
An un- never mitt сате two absolute- "It is not a gift and, anyway, warmer climate; I want to se She has
patson, she,ys. Sho ly #beautiful
pleasant girls, I'm not going to tell you who Pier Angell..
gave it to me," Sald Miss Miss Angeli is a star-namo- has never disliked anybody sho both of whom have been Elbert.
she is getting £30.000 for her has met. The big bosses of the described as the most beau-
British fim Port Afrique-but nim ludios are all like fathers tiful girl in the world, a I contemplated the back
he has not yet acquired the to hor. Hor bow was the socand person (after her mother) to be distinction which they mustle more and I enquired about Ekberg manner.
her background, thinking this
Perhaps the answer is that fold of her wedding plans and for "His blessings. share with about 20 or 80 might produce a few utterances Miss Angeli la happily married to be caked others.
which would not actually freez (to singer Vie Damone) whereas He led her to the altar. solid in mid-air.
Miss Ekberg is not even un». Miss Angell does not believe From Rome came Anita
happily engaged.
reading pessimistic books or in to Miss Ekberg, warming up Ekberg, known as The Ice-
Misa she bod
Angell in a delicious looking at unhappy pictures. Worldll- her subject, told mo berg, and from Hollywood been a beauty queen in Sweden creature with eres ilke mangoes. Perhaps this is wine.
would spoil her present came Pier Angeli known as find a leading model. Then she and she exudes such innocence ness
where slie that her presence stops mon appeal. The Angel. I met them went to Hollywood
even on a film sot,
extent of har innocence years, swearing, both on the same evening, hung around for several
never and compels anyone speaking to is sometimes hard to bellove. always very broke, but
bry
she was 21, the old me, a Until und they
depths her to lower his volco both live up to actually hitting ch
she had never gone out on an their nicknames. It felt that
When the she would
been couple of octaves. lessons llow has she preserved her unchaperoned date. rather like going from tempted to join droma
innocence and ingenuousness in had to kiss her leading man in or learn about acting. Siberia to Shangri-la non-
Hollywood, a place which does the film Teresa she was terrißed stop.
not normally show much respect and sick. in Hollywood sho for either quality? Miss Angell went out with pecple Uke Kirk has done it with the help of a Douglas and James Dean, but
Italian strict
mona ind a her mother or sister always natural shyness that has been went too
have
My first call was on Miss Not in danger
vy over live balustrades.
"Aysuit Miss Ekberg. "I
CTING Just comes naturai-
Ekberg. 1 knew little about her except that she had been photo- draped, most extra- I had also heard that, as 12 don't want to spoil it by having sequel to this
demonstration, lessons." she had been playing Helen in War and Peace.
On being introduced to her ul her sulto in the Savoy, 1 ex- tended my hand.
Miss Ekberg looked ot mo with those frost-bitten eyes of hers.
I began to feel like Scott of the Antarctic.
I said she certainly mustn't dream of spoiling her acting. although, strictly speaking, she did not seem to be in any greet
of danger
becoming educated on the subject.
over
That handshake play in Indian girl against
WHEN eventually she did W
shake my hand it was with all the warmth of Nanook of the North welcoming me 10 his
Igloo.
Trying to move on to a site tiple, brought up the now alm for which she is over here. Zarak Khan, in which she is to background of Spanish Morocco. Miss Ekberg sáld, Indian girl or not, she wasn't going to dye her blonde hair: If they could have 14 India in Spanish Morocco,
could hive H reemed they blonde Indian giri, too.
She sat down with her back Miss Ekberg is the only ico-
10 me facing #h enormous berg I know who is all above mirror, and proceeded to do the surface. things to her face which I would,
have thought
superfluous.
were
totally
A scrutiny of her back re- vealed that there was nothing whatsoever wrong with it.
I said: "There is nothing the matter with your back."
Miss Ekberg's frozen amlie bounced back to me from the mitror "What do you want?"
she said as sweetly as a Public Prosecutor. Despite the contral heating, the temperature drop ped several degrees.
Miss Ekberg. I should
say, was wearing one of those skin- tight black dresses that usually send the temperature
up; but her snowman's gazo kept lt down.
Conversationally, I admired her solitaire diamond which in its cold, dead splen- dour, superbly matched her eyes ond general demeanour. She is such a harshly beautiful girl felt she had not so much
born
one
bean
place,
ring,
Fron
the
Ekberg.
toy slopes of 1 migrated to
Д
PIER ANGELS-
The treatment
MEN she met at parties were
put off, when they sub- sequently telephoned Ear, with the words "But I don't know. you. And anyway, I'm busy," This is the treatment she ád- ministered, to Vic Damone..
How did he got near enough He used to take to propose? out her sister in order to get near to Pier.
With the help of such compil– rated? manoeuvres and 35 lcs- creams, he eventually won her. The ice-cream ware for Plar's
When Vic asked for her daughter's hand, he produced the ice-creams. Mrs Angeli ate 15 of them before giving her
Maybe I should have trieci" Ice-cream on Miss Ekberg..
(COPYRIGHT)
THE TIRELESS TITAN OF TUMBLING STRINGS
IS
MANTOVANI A MUSIC MURDERER?
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To Mantovani the question is The musical phenomenon known as:Mantovani is back in London after a phenomenally) successful tour of North irrelevant. He is not concerned America. Successful, that is, save for this critical solo in to bring to the public the work of particular composers. - "My When he had object," he says, "when record- the New York Saturday Review: finished making Handel's Largo, Stephen Foster's ing or playing a piece, is to
and Dreamer,"
Richard Rodgers's 'Some make the audienco sit up and 'Beautiful Enchanted Evening sound all alike, he made our own say, "That's Mantovani...... pretensions to automation seem second-rate.". Does this
ke
as mined in some bother Mantovani? Does Mantovani bother you? Well certain kinds of music,” he sayu.
"Yes," the said "It is a gin ." referring to the dia mond.
I said that it was ปี pretty
fine gift to have been given.
"It is not a gift," sald Miss Ekberg.
"I thought you just said was," I said.
it
COUNTESS
From SAM WHITE
Christopher Hall
"Many people do not "But they like them played my way."
There is no kind of music, it Keems, which cannot be played.
One Mantovani way. the
included American programome
a Verdi aria, It lifted Mantovani out of the Strauss waltz,
songs, by,
be
in smooth lin
the
F there is a title "Mr. in. 1930 by Mantovani's one-time
Musical Success, 1955," arranger, Ronald Bingo. it will surely go to cory rut he had occupied for Handel's "Largo." Annunzio Paolo Mantovanf. years in British musle, and Rodgers and Cole Porter.
the Mantovani gestures ex- boosted his American record
They all go through sales into the millions. citedly, his hands going
machine and come out at the 'game Mantovani is 50, and he has other end bearing the over and over one another like jet-propelled Cog
been playing since he was 18 stamp. If you like your strings years of Palm Courts atta re sweet and sugary it is Bue-you wheels, as he tells of his 34 gular broadcasting engagements can listen to any kind of music.
magic rubs out- concerts in the United Comfortable but not spectacular. Mantovani's
those annoying, differences His greatest hit the waltz tween composers. Paris. Alfonso XIII's Arst son. He colts The Countess Carmargo, who States and another eight in
theCanada.
"Charmaine," has sold a million
Add to this musical'• masa» › rocords, yet it was written in Paris's mer out to his sister a dally income live in a Paris hotel, is THO is
which fluctuates according to the terror of Parisian head waiters.
H conversation is bursting 1927. It owes its current popu production a riest widow at the state of the suger crop. As the She just does not wish to be!
. at the seams with talk of full larity to the Mantovani sound. propaganda and you have moment? I nominate result it varies from anything taken for a tourist--especially
homes, packed tourist. £1,000 and £2,000 a wealthy
houses, and This is how he describes the key to success. the 76-year-old Cuban hos- between
De ene
occssion. she up-hour-long autograph sessions.
Saldom does British artist sound. "It is like bringing your tess, the Countess Maria day.
braided a head waiter in a Paris
with you," such. make
impact on owa cathedral Sum of merium halght with restaurant when, after a dinner Carmargo, whose Spanish
people, she was America. "Nobody else could do says. husband died 85 years ago. guy-blue hair, the countos is party for 20
teputed to have the best jewel charged for a box of 50 cigars. 10" says Mantoval.
The trick involve using an *****nı
with The Saturday Review plece?
an unusually It would be a mistake to call
collection in the world. She She pointed out logically enough
were true all my orchestra ber Cube top hostess Accord buys jewels in Paris on a scale that even if her women well "If that ing to those who have visited, with which
the richest is the
the man guests smoked, it was audiences would be automata. Culta, "she is the only one women buy clothes. She is hardly likely that they would But nobody ever gets up
two cigars walks out of my concerts." have got through Now no doubt bored by her highly regarded in Jewellery ha lonely Cuban pre-eminence she circles in Paris that she is seen apiece.
challenging
all comers off on her bl-annual air trips. A fabulous tipper of hotel LIKE a cascade
back to Cuba not only by the staffs, she goes through her com (millionaire: class) Paris.
but alro by the plicated hotel bills with a lynx What has the countces got managers
of three leading eye. Her personal maid, Mile. Above proprietors that the others haven't? all almost all the sugar in Cuba. Faris
Diane Chambon, who is French
Her Income is administered by
Jewellery.
qven
an
1100
Mantovani's American
he
FLICK go his eyes
and
high proportion of strings. In 66 Italian name goes down
"M using
woll in the States," America Mantoval was
"They 31 strings to 12 other instri Mantovani.
He is, monte. The entrances of these Macairo."
made to
but strings ara
overlap Italian-born.
naturalised fractionally, and this produces British, His father went to work the cascading effect.
in England in the Edwardlan Mantovani is
busy era, kcept
the sult scoring and arranging works he plays "to mechanically precise methods. dood the How
public font
says
mts
L
taot
the
He
baton
Mantoval stresses his musical WHAT is his sccral? The
his upbringing. His father led the I have witnessed one of those must be one of the highest paid Wire trick outsical
Covent Garden orchestra, She gets technique harnessed
to a slick her brother, Gomez Mona, who farewells at Orly Airport. It malds in the world.
treasures conductor's the Spanish makes an impressive sight to rea £3,000 a year. also married into
the almost dignified jostling for
"Cavalleria aristocracy.
Among her dulle is to escort publicity, myth,.
The trick
the famous · them.
It has its favourite given to his father by Mascagni, kissing the her mistrow to m. after-lunch
composer of His wife was the former first the privilege of
cinem Chron times a week. Humbling strings effect invented pieces tricked out by Mantovani? Rusticana. wife of the Prince of Asturias countess's hand.
JOHNNY HAZARD
LEAVING THE STALLED CABLE CAR,
VON SCHNECK ATTEMPTS TO REACH SAFETY HAND OVER HANDZ
By Frank Robbins
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situation.
for
Miguel
Ho tells how Bir Thomas Beecham once sent tilma hote
congratulation,"
of
emphasises over and over again, with quick Italian gestures and a fick of His brown eyes, he love and respect for the cinis -- esl composers of the parito
40 qourse it is foolish that the great compos everything le
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