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MY WIFE IS STRONGER
/ THE CHINA MAIL"," SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956.
THAN A MULE
"Y
says MISTER LOLLO
OU'LL Bever do
it, dear." I was warned when i set off to try to interview Dr Skofic, better known as Mr Lollobrigida. "After all, there is Lollo- brigida in the way. Why don't you pick on someone your own-er-size if you're hus- going to kidnap EL band?"
Lollo
appeared,
snow-clad in organdle except for those
fabulous
melting
the photographers their ritual dance,
by
ANNE SHARPLEY
www going on where his wife суч
won in the thick of camera-fire went Into
J and questioning. Mr Lollo difficult to spot behind his wife as everything about him was duel-suit, hair, сусн
and
akis. Muntanned
Fighting my way past the photographers, I invited Lollo's husband into a corner,
Не
Frein
虍
Tuned in
Mr Lollo was not really with IIM* His handsome eyes kept fucking over to his wife Da though they were operated by clockwork. One ear seemed to be working independently, pick- ing up the wavelengths from
peross the room.
Otherwise we were having a very nice cosy chat
ex-
switched on and shot a message
110 the dark
corner. Ffc received her loud and clear and looked happy.
I
A
bodyguard"
"Well, then, suggested, is the wall of backs closed again.
"Oh, she never needs a body- stuard," he said, re-charged.
She h I the port of beauty that inspires respect.
Her admirers "She is not just sex appeal actresses who get like sorde their dresses torn by crowds of men," (we both knew of whom he was thinking)* "They re- spect her and women like her. So many of her admirera are women, you know."
The
"Why is that?" I asked. thought of Lollo as a woman's woman seemed very original indeed.
cause
"Because of her sweetress and goodness They love her be- Be.. enuse she is a real wife.
her home is her life That dress she is wearing-she
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sald herself," he If all che fails Lola proudly
able to turn will certainly be ber hand to dressmaking-and the thought was clearly coin-
"I am sure she is somebody Really an exception. I know so many girls but she is not ke them. She is like a with all the right planoforte keys she cunnot make a wrong note."
forting
You know we're both like a lamb this peris un Lollobrigida, my wife inade came
"We know they said never left his 2nd 1” he told me. wife for a secundi. I was under- exactly what sort of sims she estimating Doctor Müko Skor, should appear in What sort What for no sooner were we in nur of words she should say.
Even than he switched clothes she should wear, dark corner
his
control the muste, too. I used to study on
remote and was obviously the piano for nine years, so I special mechanism thoroughly luned in la what
know very well what the must- should be like,
"We have very much ex- perience in this and so
we help the directors who do not under- stand how my wife should be Filmed
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The im we are working on now in Paris it is excuse me to say it, the hell." His charm ing smile of apology made most of the screen charmers I've met scem gorillas "We keep on making recording after records atug out still we are not happy.
One boss
Brightly
"You said you knew so inany giris,” 1 said, picking up a cue brightly and ignoring the piano- forte stuff.
are
The arrow-straight nose, with the dimple set in the tip, quivered slightly,
"We
01 exclusive business, my wife and me, We don't bother with other people. It 19 just right It gives us
Bood
cumpletely." "What aboul the good- looking belors
ors she stars with?"
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(two members) there is clearly trust one another" "how we
JAM
In the Lollo Advisory Board
bons: Mr Lollo That elegantly chiselled upper lip had a way of clumping down that reminded m779" oľ safe door swinging sbut.
Dr Skofe couldn't have look- ed more unconcerned,
"They rave about her before "But always she wants to be they make the film together. Вона дужкі She is never sults Then they play opposite her feel with herself I have to and she is such a good actress to do things which now that they become jealous force he
And the she considers are not yet per- of her professionally. feet There is not always fime big sympathy is over," he said, I have to tell spreading his for perfection her
widu For this picture we are making now she has a dance shoulders
for her, by Leonide shrug.
invented
Massine, and every evening for weeks now she has been re- hearsing it for two hours after her Almbur."
"Then i's torky for her that she married a doctor," I sup- plied
Remote force
"Oh, she never needs a doctor, she is stronger than a mule, he said, his eyes probing at the troup of men around the world's prettiest mule, until by some remote force of his own he managed to make a
gap in the will
backs of
Lollo's Hoogkong & Shanghai Bank Bajing grave brown eyes spotted him,
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away the dead photographers.
Dr Skofle slid shadow-wise from the comer and took up It is position
wife's by comely elbow
"What's he like us 11 hus- band?"
the challenged wondrous Italian,
"He's the best husband I know, she sold in French.
"Jolly good." I answered, not in French.
(COPYRIGHT) *Sophia Loren,
For sheer elegance
-get behind
the flying
A
ADO - WESTMINSTER SIX
BADER
AS BADER (LEFT)
AND KENNETH MORE AS BADER (RIGHT).
see it?
Fit were the world premiere of a film about your life—including all the intimate details at a great cinema tonight, would you go to
of Or would fear-fear seeing yourself in a mirror, fear of finding out how other people see you-keep you away?
t
It is a problem that famous man faced the other day.
ie name
Douglas
His Bader.
They made a film about incredible, his fantastic. heart-swelling heroism. But when they sent two tickets to Douglas Bader inviting him to be guest of honour at
the premiere, he sent them back. Why?
tried I
To ask
Istil him, Douglas Bader was "not avail- able He had climbed into a
car
NO MAN,
SAYS DOUGLAS
BADER, SHOULD SEE HIMSELF AS A HERO
IN HIS OWN LIFETIME
I DON'T AGREE
them
my old flying sat down umong titing,
seeing and comrades.
such a hero of me up moke there on the screen."
Anci
to Kennell More, the man who portrays him in his film fe-story, Bader sald;-
The only thing that interests is whether. this after it has been shown, I can still look my old comrades in the eye."
ine in
SUSPICION
BY LEONARD MOSLEY fe
to watch this film with a horrid feeling that I But wusn't going to like it. long before the two hours and 10 minutes which it runs were over, my built-in prejudices and scepticisms had crumbled like sand-castles before the lie.
Prejudices? Scepticisms?
Well, mechanism
It
"Reach For The Sky" is the story of a brave man as only the British could tell it, underplays from stort io
It finish
uses the Battle of Britain
as a throwaway line. the pain of the It looks at the
He human body and the agony of
the human spirit, and apologizes'
a
Now this is wonderful, but ho
accepl going to critic character like Bader on vereen in a humen being. is a phenomenon. Or a monu- ment to the inherent gallantry for intruding,
indomitability of the und
Briton.
the
200
It is never sensational. It is rurely over-dramatic, except in 11g surgical and flying sequences,""; Bul who can possibly go lo
But it touches the heart, and Alm ย
about such an absurdly
makes and
you
#It chuckid. exaggeratedly it gallant man, and expect to find brings Bader alive; before he 11 him mode of human gristic, was a monument to human in- Bader there hone, and spirit-flesh and blood destructibility: this Olm makes him Into an indestructible like you and me?
of is
port of n good critle to be suspletous, particularly of
such And publie herock.
hero na Douglas
has never been before.
the
DOY
LOVABLE
human being.
It also lifte such players as Kermelh More, Dorothy Allson, Muriel Pavlów and Sydney Taßer right to the top.
screen
Bader) that I found myself for- and hended north on
shing holiday.
2
To the producer of his film, Major Daniel Angell, he tried to explain his reluctance by saying: "No man should look
st himself on the screen as 請 hero in his lifetime. I don't think I could stand it,"
To TV audiences he has said: ...I Should feel emborrusseri,
In the prewar days of BAF. he was a gallant, good- looking, fearless (not to say
pin-up WELL, let me answer that last boastfully reckless) W
He did the Bir arm. problem for Group Captain of the Dougar Bader I have already
best aerobatles at those famous air shows. He piled seen his new film and I can tell Hendon
plane him that he can look at his old up his
showing how friends without a blink. He daring he could be, and both need fear neither their ridicule his legs had to be amputatel. nor their irritation They will But did this stop him? undoubtedly give
He was invalided out of the congratulations
R.A.F.. but learned to walk and became un on "tin legs" "Reach For The Sky" is the
He wangled his expert golfer, kind of film which divests an
into Fighter Com- way back honest critic of his defences and makes him feel silly, mand and turned out to be one
of its most brillant aces. inadequate, humble.
He
shot was
and caught by the Nazis, and made
ur escape áltempls.
him their
Like Bader himself (though for more Impersonal reasons) I
down
my
T says a lot for "Reach For
Dougles Bader should not be The Sky" and particularly
Mere (who plays afraid of seeing himself on the for Kenneth
The picture in the and cinematic mirror is just, firm, getting
prejudices
and Intensely only sympathetic, preconceptions, and not
human. ft netther foreshorteng liking but living with Bader as
him
nor elongates him, but he is portrayed in the film.
presents a portrait strielly from If ever there has
п heen
He deserves to see himself and understand-
For they have on the screen. sympathetic ing study of a empleated, 10-
done him, In- markable, exacerbating,
comrades, proud, and yet lovable man furlating
well this is it.
One Of The World's Strangest Stories
more
te.
und
his wartime
#COPYRIGHT)
THE HELL-FIRE CLUB
has falled
The Golden Ball
to
ever in."
eight
come
By Ivor Herbert
Weird Rite
was
course wap
NOME with me, then, Come and see, my friend. We "the best globe lavern I was (sent by the Governor of Ben- This pool was called the Styx,
gul) as the Devil, and High
had after that black river which the unless you fear the will travel by train to
hidden it in the chapel.
Greeks believed encircled Hadca, Wycombe for the long creep of dark. But there can be that journey will make you re-
Beneath these edifices extend
Some 20 members of the club dark of the In the middle the caves, to darkness,
symbolically carved that it might have been my markc
out to be the last meeting place rites he released it. In the dim used to dine here in the Ban- with a shriek queting Hall, grouped In their friend, than day's simple accomplished more swiftly and
light sprang -less
the discomfort in
of that sinister association.
He and brown habits round a'rich table departing, the unfurling of with
upon Lord Sandwich, phactons and curricles in
which
was first known the other Brothers, convinced at whose head sat the Abbot, The society natural night. The heart can the Hell-Fire Club whirled
as the Monks of Medmenham, that their evil master had now Lord le Despencer, elud in red.. be black, the spirit blacker. down to their fantastic pleasures for it was at Medmenham Abbey
last When the S to take their bodies else the clumsy by Hell is dark, my friend, and But whatever
the Thames,
miles well as their souls, ran scream- served the port was circulated... despot Progress the Devil is worshipped and improve, at least our administra-
Deross the Chilterns from the ing like lunatics into the sur- and reverently the Abbot pro- caves, that the club first met.
posed the toast to the Devil. In rounding woods. God profaned in the Black tors no longer combine in the
an uproar of blasphemous sing- Mass.
worship of the Devil
The Abbey's ruins lle quiet
ing the 12 inner members pro- now, but it was there that the
gressed to the chapel; the others. We need not, you and 1,
tho into club Arst held their nauseous
moved
surrounding to cells
start their indulged in every journey
fur
ceremonies,
West private down
So the club came
"devotions." twist of fleshly wickedness, and history's long tunnel as the
Wycombe Hill Here, half way A straight road
Devil westwards worshipped the
in a
entrance is the
The chapel up,
is this narrow Middle Ages, nor travel 10 leaves High Wycombe's tenuous chapel dedicated to God.
25 a caves, built symbolically
chamber running east and west. the heart of Africa to seek township. This stretch was built
church without a roof. The low, That large raised slab at the mined the scene of these flesh- 1752 with the chalk
The better to please Satan, vaulted passage tunnis into the western end was the altár ΟΙ the bowels of West creeping orgies. They were wycombe Hill by
the members clothed themselves chalk, and this small chamber the Black Mass. At the opposite
called Sir Francis as Franciscan monks,
on the
the
the Robing end to the Cursing Well
trom right was regular events not 200 years Dashwood us he excavated the themselves "Brothers, and ap-
Here the Brothers ex- which the Monks drow their ago not 36 miles from Lon- Hell-Fire Caves, There is the pointed an "Abbot." They were
the silks and veivets of unholy water as they chanted don.
hill now dark against the abetted by genuine monks gone western sky, crowned with the
their normal life for the rough their profane psalms and hymns. renegade
by unfrocked brown monk's habits of their circular, open mausoleum, and priests whose knowledge plumed with the tower of the Christian rites facilitated that perverted "religion." From the Robing Room, too, they took the wax-tapers to light them to their dark "devotions."
B
A Prime Minister
Nor were their practitioners
in the light of their normal fo savages, criminals, or lunatics.
from
and
church St. Lawrence, on the exact travesty of black and
of which
which point
glitters the white, right and wrong,
is the basis of the horrors al the Black Moss,
Golden Ball.
was
Dressed as Nuns
to
to the
Inner Temple
At the end of the passage,
quarter of a mile from daylight, Loul is the Inner Temple and.. though the rites in the chapel were, it was for this unholiest of all unholles that the worst
This giant pillar in the middle of the passage was also sym- bollcal and used for some weird rite, Circle it now and then look up there at the Devil's wickedness was reserved.
You do not look yourself, my numerals friend. Perhaps the atmosphere
This strange mausoleum The membership of The Knights erected in 1704 to house, to- of St Francia of Wycombe,
gelber with the bodies of the called also with less sacrilege Dashwood family (who still live and more truth-the Hell-Fire at the hill's foot), those of the As a necessary part of these heads fashioned in the chalk and Club, embraced some of the members of the Hell-Fire Club, unholy rituals, the women intro- thes
mysterious greatest of its day,
In it
it the heart of the club's evil duced into them (and the local XII F" This sign is believed Intects you? Or are you; par- The ranks of this hideous steward was ceremoniously en- wenches went in fear of seizure) to hint at the whereabouts of society included a Prime Minis tombed in 1775 for he had left were dressed as nuns.
haps, reflecting how short A poot
undiscovered secret while is 200 years blink of Iter, a Chancellor at the Ex- 18 10. an early Dashwood, Lord member of the club, the Satan- passage strikes off some time's eye-lid in the history of
a First Lord of the le Despencer, "as a memorial of 1st Charles Churchill, wrote de-
Cazy Admiralty, and a Secretary of dis owner's warm attachment to licately:
Among its "Brothers" the Stato. Wero a
Postmaster-General”. of dubious Ireland, a Governor of Bengal, a 1830. Sheriff of London Oxford
un profesor, and
The hollow golden ball was a general. cluded, too, were two Peers of as close to Heaven as the Hell-
chequer,
Noble Founder,"
relle disappeared in
Thro
..."whilst womanhood, in
habit of a nun, At Medman lies, by back-
wood monks undone."
Which
from the catacombs. Beyond these vaults there is mankind? It would be
to be then, you are thinking, the Banqueting Hall, thought to whirled back here into the heart be the world's largest artificial of the Hell-Fire Club. Is that chalk cavern. Deep in the heart noise you hear drunken singing.. of the hill, it is 40 feet in the shriek of a woman, the ugly diameter and 80 high, and mutter of a twisted psalm? the Realm, three other Members Fire membore could expect to
Is that a brown monk's habit from that hook in the celling a
just there-in-the of Parliament, as well as poets, get in this life or the next. One due to a prank. Before a Black great lamp was hung.
· John Il once could be reached only darkness painters, rakes and unfrocked of the members,
at Medmenham the notorious Mass
(COPYRIGHT) John Wilkes, described It as Wilkes had dressed a baboon by, boat across a pool of water, priests.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHY'D MUBS GIVE HIM THE GUN? WHYS HE JUST. STANDING THERE? SHOULD I SNGOT,
THE OTHER MAN'S HIDDEN SOVEPLACE --WATCHING-- HIS BUN KMED
AT ME
BUTou WHERE?
The removal to the caves was
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
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