"Him and mo! That's what is so good about it.”
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1956.
MAJDALANY
MEETS MONROE
MARILYN BEATS
T
New York
HE talks which recently touk place between Miss Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier may have been of lean political importance than those occur- ring about the same time between President Eisenhower and Sir Anthony Eden: but they were more fun and, in the long run, may do more for Anglo-American goodwill.
The announcement that Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. would make- the film version of Terence Ratigan's "The Sleeping Prince" - with Sir Laurence and Miss Mouroe as the stars--was one of the more fascinat- ing pieces of entertainment news.
In London and New York, theatre, I have been looking into it a little more elerely.
In my ojanton," Sir Laurenge sat to mi in London. "Miss Monroe has a extimely extrudinney gift of being able to sugged one moment that she is
the nighticed little thing, and the next That she is perfectly innocet:!
The audience leaves the theatre gently tillated into a state of exelle ment by not knowing which she in, and This ability to enjoys it thoroughly switch from one mood to the other, and keep the audience guessing, could bo Believed only by comediennes
THE
Beginning the story of the most amazing deal in film history
MOGULS
As we talked, a boy wander- ed in und sat doodling. In due course we were introduced. His name мая Jay Kanler.
Tic muttered something about being Marilyn Monroe's agent.
Like 'Mr Greene, he 1420 seemed extremely difdent.
Later, I learned that the buy (I cannot call him anything else) is also the agent of Grace Kelly and Marlon Brando. He is sald to be one of the cleverest in New York,
Even with my limited arth- decompliated metic is not dificult to work Dut that ten percent of that
You will like my new boss," Mr trio should make it possible for Rattigan de before I left for New Mr Kanter to live graciously.
childlike quality York "There is 16
about her that is very touching."
Miss Monroe
"It is so incongruous, fed ne in New York. "Him and me! That's what is so good about if "i
STRONG-ARM BOSSES RULE HUSSEIN
SEFTON DELMER
newsmaps the situation in Jordan, whero King Hussein is now almost the "prisonor" of two am- bitious army officers, All Abu Nawar and All Hiari.
Amman
So RE
here Jordan witnessing the greatest run. fidence triek in his
For the moment he can
(vel
Abil
Usual shambles
THE offces of Marilyn Monroe Tess in New York
Lo
turn out be a photographic studio belonging to a Mr Milion Greene who is not only vice- president of the company (Ms Monroe is the president), but is also highly esteemed here as a provider
of cover-girl pictures the magazine Look, This is a branch of art which,
Appears in America,
to have mues the saine standing as the
but
专题
Royal Society of Portrait Painters in England. rather more profitable.
A means
She is also the son-in-law of the head of Paramount, It might be thought that Mr Kauter, who is lu nis moule 20% is a conspicuous example of th.. wisdom of wearing wisdom of
both belt
From Olivier and Rattigan in London, from the boy executives of Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. in New York. I was able to piece together the imckground to the story.
Kaw
OLIVIER
"It would be $ATA."
RATTICAN "You'll like my new boss,**
KANTER Buth belt and bracer,
Is
CREENE The Monroe Svengalt?
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Electronicably and dynanılcal- runs the effetal commeat, it is a most complex weapon, for it has a brain' to think as way to the target."
This saula like invaginative HODSENSE from one el Brass American 'comic' papers, The proprietors of which now Je- jord space-travel and supermen as commonplace.
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in use during the last wer. among others, Garbo.
nearly 90 percent of the torpe- mought seriously that it could happe
appearing together had got in whatever the air the ballet weni action.
on like
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to war.
Yel
Bismarck
the there
he would like to do it. Weeks And so it happened that while does fired by the British at the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the passed,
great
battleship panjandrums hest-German became interested.
tated, the infant
corporation missed her. The Ballet
the Stone- named Marilyn Monro: Produc Still, all these revelations faced Men ground
the tions Inc. nipped smartly in and about miracle weapons are not
to add off the played carried "Sorcerer's Apprentice"
They Holly-nonsense. prize. in double-slow time.
wood was holst with its own weight of evidence that William Wyler, another out- cageyness. The Knight and the could be no victors in an atomic
thought he Garter had Anally como standing director. would like to do it. So did
terms
General Gruenther has said goveral others. Weeks turned
that American atomic bombers tnto months. Then the red-
could destroy Russia's industries blooded.
John huccaneering
In a few hours. Who doubts
that the Dow Huston joined the queue.
Huston, now livingt-in feeland,
Russlans could retaliate in kind? who And, in view of that, divides his time between hunt- ing foxes and shooting pictures.
would start such a war? he foll Between stirrup cups into the habit ol telephoning
who wildly to anyone
would listen, to say that he insisted on directing this team in this ple- ture. As the team was not yel formally in existence GO one could oblige him.
It seems it all began about a year ago. Vivien Leigh
How to Marry a Millionaire" told her husband that and Marilyn would be perfect as the American girl in the lm of that through these two men he is the real rorumander-in-chief
"The Sleeping Prince." The studio Was The usual
had of thy. Its real marshui
rather bleak shambles of lamps. Although Misa Leigh
the herself played the part on For that is the crux of the cables, disorderly furniture, and
decided Huntion in Jordan
The young bits of paper. In the absence of singe she had already
that it would be better if an king has been convinced by
the president (attending classes tury?
American actress did it on the him--All FOUTH!
1 was those
at her dramatic school)
screen, Sir Laurence saw How The A trick by which the Nawar
mus! Important received by Mr Greene--a dim-
to Marry a Millionaire" and untidy along them--that to save the
Gent young mat with young king is belor led
in the agreed. believe he
establish country from the intriguts of black hair and dressed
informal clothes politicians
peculiar
looking "I am permanently himself as
do between 24 dictator ant rapi
Grivers, lim etmiclans, for a comedy to authoritarian 11. A hero. white
und in lead st national
band of his people.
eminent photo- Shakespeare productions + ship of
very
never Ånding one," he told me. THE months graphers. on the power of the army. reality he is being swindled
He is
is and I thought it would be fun Ballet of the Stone-faced youthful 34 and ม taly that way, he has come out of his throne?
out o
commonly credited here with to do this with Marilyn if
Meo was not to be hurried. to shove, enn he follow 21-ver-614 wallet
the could be arranged."
Hollywood does not do busines sensible but unpopular being the Svengali behind
who The offer
now outlined se new dependent Monroe
In the meantime, the
same like that. The ritual subilities, racer
Its place und skidding h
had occurred to other stailings. and non-committal ollen: to preserve Jordan's ties put Hollywood round ten nos in a Al-
people, and Hollywood begun to tentative demi-propositions with Britain Bnd Iraq, while formed her own company. Larp agamist his
show an interest.
to go their full course. palace friends. I wondered how pursuing a polley of Arab unity fuel he is less like a Svengali knew about in defence of his country's 400-than any Svengali I have ever going on at Ara nik armistice-line border with met
Israel.
Ax I
Klan 1ftened
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what was
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in down
Amman,
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But if his strong men should
Lieutenant Culonet All Abu play him false or oppose him, Nowar, ader of the young the king is lost. For opposition Arab to its plans is most formidable. officers group of the Legion, the slinky night-clubber ranges from: who, us the king's senior ADC.
him jule talked
dismissing Glubb, was making a supreme division of the spoils with his rivol for power,
the strong- chinned, soldierly Colonel All Hiari.
Taking over
They were splitting
their friends tween
up be-
Helped her
to
In
to
ROM him I learned some-
thing
of how photography FIRST, Nasser's Cairo radio had always been a means
film of becoming which together with Britain's the end
how he met Miss dictator has producer; surrender to the glven Nasser on almost mystle Mource when he photographed how he prestige in Jordan as in the her for his magazine;
had tried to help her in her fight rest of the Arab world;
SECOND, through Jordan's to use her talent as well as her pro-Nasser ecalition of above more visible assets;
about Sir ground nationalists and under-derful ground Communists who sup-Laurence. plied all the organized gangs for the riols of December and
the January; they are now rein- forced by the release of their ringleaders, imprisoned by
succession of the British office whom Sir Anthony Eden ha insisted on withdrawing from all operational commands over Arab troops.
Colonel AM Hiari who in a week-end
coup had taken the key post as chief of staff, has now moved up to succeed British General "Sam" Cook as Com
Glubb:
it was
how won-
Iden
The conclusion of any bus!- nesa deal with a Bim company is a proceeding fraught with guile and evasion. It is a ritual in which stone-faced producers, agents and lawyers go through motions as formal es a ballet.
Like champagne
Astonished
went by.
The
had
It was after about a year of this that Mr Rattigan, chanc- ing to be in New York, was told that Marilyn Monroe would like to meet him.
She said she wanted to buy the Alm rights of the play for herself
but did be any way; think there was any chance of Sir Laurence doing it with her? utterly She was
astonished when Mr Rattigan sald be thought there was,
"You meant With he really would do it? ME?"
CABLES flow like champagne, never rests. The telephone Bluff meets bluff.
I call it the Ballet pi the In New York Mis Monroo Stone-faced Men, and once the has since agreed that you could Idea of Olivier and Monroe have krucked her down
with
They're So Suspicious!
cured by dental treatment.
THIRD, Premity Samir Rifai and his present Cabinet, who resent the king's high-handed
DEOPLE are just natural cells, and something wrong in condition that could easily be fanel so for successful attempts suspicious. But it's one organ may give rise to signs to impose his advice on them.
"But what about my lack of The other day Mr Wheeler, not appetite and my stomuch symp fantastic how many just and symptoms elsewhere, Popularity lost
don't trust their doctor, appreciating that fact, thought tems? Can't you give me some mander of all Arab field units. Most of the popularity the
Leutenant-Colonel All Abu king had
from Backing "Gives me a bottle of red I was 38 goofy as a Walt Disney medicine for that, doctor?"
"That's what I've been trying brigade Nawar
gave up the
Glubb has been
"It's your lost again stuff," says Mrs Clever, "and spaniel. He had been worried which the coup had given him,
he refused to go because succeed the and moved in to colonel as chief of staff.
Anti-British conference.
chief
Won
to of course I just pour it down about his stomach, about heart to tell you," I said.
burn. indigestion. lack of gums. Over a long period you
of impure material and
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY that has given
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Cairo to take part in Nasser's the sink." Or: "He tells apprite, and being generaily off have swallowed small empunts Between the two of them,
If
he wants to rule or even me it's just nerves-calls himself a doctor-why, he they now control the army. For retain his throne the young
General their ranking superior,
king has to make sure the army doesn't know the difference Radi Anab, on elderly ex-police-
remains loyal to him.
between a heart-beat and a man and successor to Glubb, is
And that depends on the two ticking alarm clock," just a figurehead who, on every Men of Salt, as the two Alls are
Many are surprised by the occasion I have met him, has known. (Both All Hiari and referred to Colonel Hiari before Ali Abu Nawe were born and fact that they complain, say, of brought up in the Jordanian swellings round the ankles and giving an answer or decision.
Yet I spent half my dental treatment that will all And their commander-in-hillside towry of Salt, famous for the doctor listens to the heart.
Or they may complain about examinations shining a torch in clear up." King Hussein? He is hier the
the toughness and independence their hearts and he feels about his mouth.
"How did this ex
what-do- prisoner
you-call-t... gingivitis start?" "It's not up Has the king been deliberately in the neck. Fils, renoval of Glubb, follow-
A WHOLE UNIT
there," he pro- is asked.. tested. "The trouble is down by the British Government's manoeuvred into this corner?
How many times have patients here in my stomach,"
"The Bort of gingivitis we're refusal to leave him any British. Perhaps, to gratify the ambition
like:
speaking about le caused prima in "executive", com- of his officers or more sinister, sald. to me something places him completely at callusion
"There's no point in examining in
with
But he was wrong. The cause arily by neglecting to brush the Nasser's agent
I answered: am- who for the last year have been my eyes doctor they're all of his trouble was to be found in teeth regularly,"
"Who would have thought be bitious young officers,
he mercy of these two
eitning
to capture Jordan, and right it's my left leg that's his mouth..
sald, "that by not cleaning my card the king still The only
Its
worrying mo, army
think I suppose they must
"Do your gums ever bloed?" I teeth all the time I would suffer": has is the secret rivalry of his If All Abu Nawar and those
from heartburn and things: two strong men.
in the anti-Glubb coup had doctors dim as fused lights. asked..
"Yes,"
ething loads to another." the moment plotted
as 4 coup to put the Next time something like that
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