THE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956.
IMPROBABLE MARRIAGE.
Begin it today the story in detail
HOW THE HIGHBROW DRAMATIST WOOED AND WON THE WORLD'S MOST DESIRABLE GIRL.
HE long, en, hand- This
T
Bone
series cabled
man picked from New York by
his way across the littered studie,
lit
chatted with the producer. CHRISTOPHER
the director, waved to some
friends, watched A Scene
being played.
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When the scene ended he Was introduced to
<f the players. She Was well-built girl with full lips and long blonde hair. "Hello," he said, "Hello"
And she.
They chutted about the film for a few moments then he moved on, just another V.I.P. visiting a film set.
And that.
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DOBSON
1961 when he was already established playwright with "Death of a Salesman.
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a roaring success, and she a starlet making her first real impact on Holly wood in the film "Asphalt Jungle."
Marilyn เฟ
Well, they met and there Monroe's first meeting with was no spark. They went Arthur Miller. It wus in their ways,
Miller returned to his wife etual friends in New York and two children, his intel-
and the intensity of his work.
To
Monroe rushed headlong
silent man. They spent their sion. evenings staring at televi-
Di.
Marilyn divorced Maggio and divorced Helly.
THE
GIRL
SHE
WAS
Marilyo
at 18
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THE
WOMAN SHE IS
Just
a shy exhibitionist
Marilyn muide
iL string
dentals. Wats
In April she told me "Reports Arthur Miller pixt
Tante and riches nud Wood at the same time. She spite their constant contact have any inten-
marriage to Joe DiMaggio, the Denis Compton of base- ball.
This
her WILS
second marriage, the first being dismal affair before she was 16.
น
was
With DiMaggio it different. She was 27, enger- preening her new found fame. Joe had lived with fame for a long time. But that marriage failed too.
They had nothing to say to one another -- be is a
WHAT ARTHUR MILLER'S PLAYS SAY...
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By JOHN BARBER
46WXILLY
"W was a salesman.
EL
salesman there
bottom to life.
And for
is no rock He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law, or give you medicine.
"He's a man way out there in the blue. riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not sufling back you're finished."
That speech is from "Death of a Salesman! It is the play I think of first when I think of Arthur Miller. i think of poor Willy Lonun The sulestron who at knows he is nutshel And I think I am right that play is central 10 his work
It was an astonishing he during its twe yeur New York run tin London, with Paul Munu, 1 [+} only 204 performances datounding t. because American dream
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An
The
it told a man who suddenly felt old ta: Ured and disappointed, who suddenly could m
go on slapping backs and cracking racks
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Problems
TOT because he hadn't un- Handled all the merchandise
he said he had. But because he had suddenly four out that selling merchanelise was the
whole of e.
LIFE
WITH
ALLEN
courage m
He had falled his hour, yêu
also his sons
But
wife
Now
Also, himself.
Al Is
# takes America to say money doesn't matter so much. The kind of courage that sent Miller inlo fuctory
Wan
earning week-so us to keep in touch with ordinary people.
ing him £1,250 A
THE DRAMATIST
decided she
wanted to be an actress, that she wanted to nequire some "culture."
She came north to New York in this quest of cul- ture. She was introduced to a life of comfort and talk. wonderful talk about ideas and words and plays and politics.
HE
COURTING
ERE she was allowed to use her brain and be treated like an intelligent being, not as just a bosomy beauty with a wiggle in her walk. She was a little lost at Arst, Some of the words were long and she had never heard of some of the people her new friends seemed to But she regard so highly. learned.
grew stronger and stronger. What they fhally decided. one of them told me, "that they are both com- pletely unsophisticated. De hat
the
sophisticated with world they have both mnined wide-eyed and spoiled." Arthur looks at life with an idealist's eyes and Marilyn is naively curious about everything.
re
tim to marry are untrue
ridiculous. "
But
true.
and
u "quickie
it was neverthe. Early irt June Miller hurried down to Russo and obtained divorce" on June 11.
He charged his
wife
with Under the extreme cruelty." divorce settlement Mrs Miller gels their town house, an old- The hioned
brownstone.
Of course, there is some mutual flattery tou. She is flattered that this in tense, thinking man should he interested in her. And he Is faltered that this Brooklyn Heights, overlooking famous New York Harbour, and she is Woman of beauty,
shildren, Jome, 11, and Robert given the custody of their two
in her own right, should be interested in him.
Quite 2 change from Tele- vision with DiMaggio.
Pourled They
000 another quietly Miller
was still married-and it w'us not untit early this year that rumours about them began to seep into the American; newspapers
Spring came and pVLIV one knew they were in love.
out
of
She met people who fas- cinated her and
They could be seen holding were fas hands in small Eest Side res- rinated by her. There was thurants, The only time their Elia Kazan. the director. courtship stepped Lee Strasberg, director of churacler was when Miller took her to visit his parents, Mr the actors' studio, and there and Mrs Isadore Miller. was Miller himself.
Brooklyn,
York's End.
No one now seems quite sure where and when their second meeting took place.
One thing is certain. The meeting seemed important as their first.
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Gradually they began to see more and more of each other.
New
dar
East
Arthur, 9
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The stage was set.
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TT finally broke on June 21 when Miller was appearing before the Un-American Activi- ties Committoo which
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WHO THE
William Hickey
WHO
or
ON
are
COLUMN THU
the monocles Anthony Eden at Marlborough
men of 1956? Opticians House. He was a V.C. tell me that only a thousand
Mr Sidney Hughes, 65-year- monocles are now old veteran of Mons, stood alone was made each year; that half at the rear of the little crowd elving into his political past the wearers have one weak in Washington. Yes, he fold reporters, wo will be married before July 13.
That is the day Marilyn sols out for England to make "The Sleeping
Prine" wih Sir
Laurence OliviT,
and
eye, half wear for effect.
I approached the dashing 34- year-old Major Julian du Parc
You Braham
Oce him at fashionable gatherings.
He lights cigarettes in a gold
in
He hopes to get a passport... holder with a gold lighter, and held up because of his political perches a rimless monocle activities
this left eye. travel England on honeymoon.
So Murlyn Monroe, the waif who has grown to be filmland's Marilyn Monroe is here" and queen of sex, is setting out on the third stage of her marital the house was besieged.
career
Soun word went round
After that they took care not to up
D
watch Sir Anthony leave. which had gathered outside
to
In
his lapel: a strip of five ribbons, including the V.C.
"I was told I had to have en Invitation to get in," he told me.
"I came down from Bir
the mingham specially to see exhibition, wouldn't let me in
But the policeman
"I don't want to make
to do or anything. They have of their duty. He walked away.
A pity some of our polleemen don't know the colour of a V.C.
ibbon,
It has no visible means gold wire circle that fits support. Neither a "gallery" the under the eyebrow-nor a cord.
He told me: "I have short The Aryt sluge could in pubile togkither.
be sight in my left eye, of course, labelled security, the second but girls always ask me to put fame, and the third? There were no extravagant be labelled culture?
W the monocle way--t embar- presents.
Or Love? rasses them." And they did not flaunt their love.
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she
ON MONDAY: THE
MAN HIMSELF
They visited friends. The unlikely attraction and they listened to her wise. listened spellbound to their talk of these complete opposites crucks.
HOUSEWIFE'S
"I couldn't do worse, and don't visit her. No one in my
family could
othe
of
"And
Everton?"
blamed for
CHOICE
-By- Gerald Allen
were always stationed in queer the Saturday evening paper. places."
ion of Molly's selections I looked at the list again. won away from hore!
allowing for "May
beginner's I ask what womanly
the thing was staggering. intuition suggested Crystal asked Palace?"
I don't pretend to know thinking my husband was in pri dressing-room secrets, DI"
son, or some kind of hermit; no- study form."
body ever sees you. And, you've promised to take me to the Derby "Have a go," I said airly, this year, so I've put them in throwing the evening paper though I don't expect you'll take forecasts over to her. "Start me when the time comes. We've BOUT time you won with
Ascot for years the simpler and never got there."
been going to that seventy-five columns. Pick ten winners. thousand pounds," My usual plan is to pick said Molly, a little snappish four first division clubs, and smoothly, doing my best to get Willy is a typical Miller bero. y. "The weeks are slipping two from each of the other away from vexed subject,
by.
sections."
"Just thinking of toffee. Since you've given up sweets, i never "shali use my own methods get any; and Bury, because it's and initiative," neptied
Molly, such tapping the butt of her fountain
a delightfully depressing pen against her tooth in an im- pirasive manner. waited while she stared alterately at the cell- question of ing and the paper. At the end of The selected teams playing about hve minutes, she frenzied- to form....
He is Mr Suburbs trapped in a modem problem. All Miller's heroes are like that. They are not Just individuals with private problems
JJ
I looked up from filling in my football pools coupon, They have political and social my expression one of quiet problems that millions share,dignity. The question his plays ask is: How are we to live?
"Time is money," he says. "There is a world to make, a civilisation to create,” And he writes to expize wrongs which dishonour that world.
"it's just
ly jotted down ten names on a scrap of paper, and passed her selection back to me.
"Save the speech for the Black Lion." suld my wife, "But you've picked all away
toams," 1 objected. tartly. "Your friends may be impressed by your know-
"I've picked those I think will 40, Marilyn ledge of form I'm not, win," she answered, without So, you can see that Mr. So far, it's cost you, seven- batting an eyelid.
Sincerity
HC wrliks against hn-and-six a week for the last "But each one has a most dif- Semitism in his novel "Focus" three seasons, and you've ficult gamo," I went on, study He writes against McCarthyism won one dividend of half-a- the names on the bit of
in his play "The Crucible”.
purt on 'at London's Royal Court crown."
Theatres
He
ht the persecution
tremendously.
paper. "You couldn't have pick- od ten more difficult matches for away teems. What makes you think the Wednesday will beat United?"
"Wednesday's my lucky day,
of homosexuals In "A View From the Bridge," is latest play, in which a man accuses another (talsely) of perversion.
I admit I was
[ trifle according to my horoscope," she The
Chamberlain Lord
has piqued; one's nearest and answered blandly. "A good day refused to license it for per-dearest can be very hurtful for investments.
And I picked formanco in Britain,
times. at
the Wolves because of that nice Many wives Alsatian dog next door but In all the causes he takes would be justified in tak it always makes me think of ted one; up/ Miller sinoere, and in the theatre ona ing the same attitudo that Riding Hood. Isn't it wonderful of the most
thrilling writers mine was taking, but it so to think of the darlings carrying alive.
happens that I know quite. In the snow-or is that another benedictino to the monks lost one of, the finest LA theatrical craftsmen alive, you a bit about the game, and kind? clutch your seat every time. it is just a run of bad luck And you think heaven (at and freak results that have Jest, do) for his serious provented my caphing in
In modern inryon," he is; an engaged? willer.
this season: mayi ho takes on the big Issues, He,may, not always win......... Bui you got a too-to-log: batilo,
would
"If you think you can do better
It didn't seem worth pursuing the point.
"What about Middlesborough?" I asked aggTOOSVÕIF:
"Aunt Mmad liven there; sho's hlways writing to ask why wo
name.
N
"I remember its being burned down," she answered simply adding hastly, "I was a baby in arns at the time,"
"You must have been a УСТУ heavy Lnd backward baby. You were ten years old, at least." I was becoming a bit soured. “And what beautiful
memory made you select Torquay?"
AH, THAT TIE!
TIMOTHY HORN, a 24-year- old Old Mariburian. stood of the middle
A cheap
His worst monocle moments? helplessly iri He said: "I was having lunch Belgrade during with Lady Somebody-or-other holiday. ut Sunbury. My monocle feli into the soup. Thick luckily it didn't get broken.
coup
"Once, I was dancing when It popped out and fell down the my partner's dress. | She ouch-ed. It felt cold."
front of
How long does a monocle last him? "Two years," be said, and nowadays I hardly ever drop 11"
EATING OUT
PRINCESS Chural
Senakul
He had to wait 24 hours for his tyres to be mended
Night fell. He had no money, no bad.
A man came darting out of a doorway. Under the street lamp Timothy recognised the Mari- borough tic.
Lis wearer: Edward Herbert St. George Moss, First Secretary, at the British Embassy.
Timothy, who told me the story at Cambridge's Trinity May Bull, got his bed for the night,
All cousin of the King of Slam A PROTEST had and mother of two boys at Even Harrow, now owns a restaurant
THE Marchioness of Winches- luck, in Kensington High Street.
ter, formerly Babsy Pavry, She chose opening day by her daughter of a Parsoo high priest,
And the business has protested hardscope,
to Lord Howard thrives.
de Walden, a steward of the The tiny (4ft. 10.) princess Jockey Club, ebout the name of told me: " got the idea when
an Ascot winner. my husband and I came here
The horse is named Zara- on a tour last year.
900 are
is owned by Mr Slamese thustra and who
T.JS. Gray. want national dishes, I gave a curry party
Said the marchioness: "Tho
Pausing only to give myself Örst ald for shock from the brandy bottle in the sideboard, I staggered out to the kitchen, where Molly was washing up.
"There students
for 430 of them-but I couldn't horse is named ofter OLIZ
from
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Lady Winchester, who married the 93-year-old premier marquis
"I suppose you remembered, to
pools coupon?" go on doing it gratis, post your
prophet. It is blasphemous. Lond decided to have a restaurant." eroaked, with a weak smile.
Howard de Walden promised The princess offers more than me he would draw the attention "Oh, I didn't actually send it 60 dishce ranging
rice of the owner to this fact.". in," said Molly brightly. "I just gruel with chicken to brown wanted to see how many I could with tamarind and mut sauce, got right, It was just a practice She has only one worry: attempt, really. Why? Did I do don't think my king would of England four years ago, toid well?"
entirely approve—wo are very me: “I am occupying my time conservative in Slam and these days being the premier "He's the paper," I said
princesses don't run restaur- marchiones of England. to remember trifies like that hoarsely. "Check the coupon for
ants,
never get bored with yourself."
social e--I had to do. It as a course."
high
priest's daughter, Suat
"Grimsby?" I inquired courts both feet right into it, Too late, 1. realised
I'd put cously. quite fascinated by feminine logic.
"Just that we spent our honey moon there. "We're having fish tomorrow,
My dear wife's lone was frigid in the extreme, And I picked-what's their name as sho matched back her ten
I don't selections. Scunthorpe, because
"I don't expect you really believe there is such a
"That makes all the difference, of course," I said ironically, "A a matter of fact, I was stationed near there during the war."
"That's what I mean," Molly chuckled triumphantly. "You
place."
With a debonair but pitying the paper away, "I don't really v.C. KEPT OUT
can't do that." Molly waved smile I watched her all up the "Friends" coupon I gave her.
understand these things."
My attitude of amusol resigna- she was to winning a fortune. O
I haven't told Molly how near
tion lasted for two days, to be need all the brandy for myself. rudely shattered by a perusal of
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
PRINCESS NARDA RECEIVED
THIS LETTER TODAY,
I TOOK IT FROM THE
WASTEBASKET.
GOOD
WORK
"DEAR NARDA,
SOME MEN ARE TRYING TO
FORCE ME TO STOP-
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO WRITE HE WOULDN'T SEE HER AGAIN!
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A TRANSOCEANIC PHONE CALL.
DON'T LIE TO
ME, FOOL. I'VE GOT THE LATTER IN MY HAND!
BUT, SIR --
I SAW IT--| MAILED ITY
much.
I asked the 52-year-old mar- chioness about NE man
fier husband. - was turned oway
Sho said: "He has never been from the V.C. Centenary in better henith." Exhibition opened by Sir
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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
DON'T ARGUE, IDIOT!
EITHER. YOU'RE
LYING OR YOU
WERE TRICKED! TAKE CARE
OF HIM! OR NO MONEY!
CONTINUED --
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ABOUT
MAGIC!
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