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THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1956,
THE BOUNDER
by GILES
ROSSELLINI IS
IS NOT
T
MY SVENGALI
says Ingrid Bergman
'Before I ever met him I wanted to leave Hollywood........... but 1 didn't have anywhere to go'
HRONES. I decided Mies Bergman was at Elstree hd frequently been asked to
after my meeting with Studios, where she is
Ingrid Bergman, have become sadly devalued articles of furniture.
It seems they are not the most comfortable things to Hit on.
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Mi-s Bergman occupied one of
Jor the Hollywod klub years Then, In 1948. without even bothering to obdivute, whe kicked The theme freen unchan here--and went off into
with Roberto Rossellini. Today, eight years
t
tom, Miss Bergman is able 16
talk with di paton about hop- self and bor derison
NO FRILLS
Sting there next to me at the lunch table. I thought she kon
i like in uxcellent example of mextern Swedish furniture good. okrriy designed lines: the
wood-grain hoft naturi
141 varnished; and no buliwas frik OF ICTsmtry brunenentaton
She was sitting on a compa- She tively hard wooden chair seemed to be comfortable.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Lady Littlehampton ? **
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She had been making noturn, she said.
of money. 20th Century offered large suma Fox, H h the first flim for And she find been anked to make
Abr. fullywood company and Ameri- con release that she has made in Could this be un fight years. attempt
lost retrieve done?
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"No," said nim happy all on it "
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NORTHOTIC else
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k the im, Anastasia, hoving
denisty us tublished INT
by THOMAS
WISEMAN
daughter
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fire murdered Czar 4 Russia, rejects her litte and the 110.000,00 that go with it. All for love
Mass Herginan admitled: "Yes. Anastasia a e parallel nire chose the man she loves rather than her "Thisone"," In the cinemanetances,
it will be thetalt for crities to doubt the credibility
Auctstagsittites ton Mas Bergman's choled swiss saabyslaratially the same and She took the same decision
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No.
It
But Miss Bergman wanted to
that in her case Cenphuriser
was not merely love that had in. ducet her to give up everything that goes with being a box-ffice star. She had tired of her romance with the box- fee tuve years before she met Rossella. The honeymoon with Hollywed had beer o er long
She end. " is entirely wrong to think that he was a Svengalt ustrence to my life who mould- ex me aeroding to his will. This is not true. Thive years before I ever met Roosellini, I wanted to get cul. But then I didn't have [anywhues to go."
"I will admit it," she said, "It who mostly Independenta
askel mo to make ima-they were more prepered to take the risk It was risk, of course. No- body know how the
women's clubs wi act towards a film I um in "
9he old this, now, with a slight, detached sarcasm.
in
"And now we shall *Anastasin' will KT out Anicica and we shall see what the effort has been on my bx- office standing and who the ad Littude
will be of the women's clubs.
SHORT MEMORY
"If the reaction is friendly. I woulet not turn down an offer
to make Alen in Hollywood But I would not return to live there.
It is not that I feel any resentment towards America for the way I was treated. I have a very short memory. But I have no nostalgia for the place or the farm”,
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I said: "And the money -- you have no ruxstalgia for that? perhaps you had curgh money?"
"No," she said, "what money I had went on...well, it weni.
from scratch เท We started Europe. 1 work to make money. I have no ambition any longer,"
The ambitious Miss Berg- man has no plans to return to Sweden-they don't pay enough
there.
Although Misa Bergman pre- fern a hard wooden chair to a throne, it
seems sive
will not settle for one of these Swedish pieces which look like stationary space-ships--and are for looking al rather than sitting on.
In the eight years she has now As she said, Miss Bergman been away from Hollywood, she likes to be comfortable.
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"As that last smashing forehand drive lands in the far corner to bring him victory he leaps nimbly over the net to shake the hand of his opponent-Oh, dear! His toe has just tipped the net..."
While the corks are popping in the Kremlin...
MY! HOW
ROM
N
HOW THE POPPING IN
notebook
stuffed with won- derful
odds and ends from my China visit, let me give you these starter.... two items as a
China's 1-Chou En-li,
charming able und Promier, was due to attend
ut
the- one of legations (not
party Western
Britain's).
-By Rene MacColl-
LAST WEEK we told of the looning power of the new Red China and its determination to be independent of Russia. Today, as the masters of the Kremlin deal with a Kteral and political hangover aftor That (Latest) Dinner, Roving Reporter Rene MacColt opens his China notebook relate some highly divorting, significant, and for B and K-sobering information oya- witnessed on his recent tour around Red China.
to
an
POWER IS PEKING
deck for the railway. The eight hotels plers are 10,000 tons each and baskets. are already in position.
The river there is 40 decy and the current flows
110
the
there are practice
to
You see an hotel "floor boy" trot out in the middle of the yards
at morning, try a couple of dozen an average speed of six yards a quick throws, then go back
his job. second-in normal conditions,
I saw two French teams, one I FL
but. engineer,
men, the other women, go down Chinese have apparently used á
to ignominious defeat
the brand-new technique tri anchor-
stadium these piers in the river bed, packed Peking Indoor
reminded me of the Wembley (11 I know
Western diplomat (not British) who sent Pool)
The French gasped when the to his European Chinese male team came leap-
a report back
that one
capital about the pile-driving of this bridge caused a sensa-
into the ing
and away the
arena-nor did
tion among the engineers of his blame them, for they were far 1 was inter- own country. Back in Pelling A few days before the get- "Kou Pu L." Which means, in
of official
the together,
viewing the Chinese Foreign that self-deprecatory way whlen
Such the with Offee got in touch
the Chinese have, "Even dogs Ministry of Agriculture. legation and
O asked-ever
pay no attention," please could
and
smoothly if they
have a list of the guests,
also could they know just where YOU ALWAYS DO the food was being prepared.
the SOMETHING. The legation sent over Ruest-list, and said the cocktail canapes and sandwiches would
ND here are two examples be made in their own kitchens
Oh, then. A of the 1050-style Chinese by their own chefs. that was all right, replied the mind at work; was right at Chinese. Just a small formality.
the end of my visit, and I had д and ... One couldn't be too care-
spent a strenuous day
in and around half sightseeing ful, you know,
Hankow. 2-State
ownership
УСТБИЯ
most
I was quartered la a private enterprise? In China they often fuse the two systems attractive now guest house together, hoping that the com- Wuchang, across the river from
interviews are marathon affaire THUD-THUD,
a matter
of
and it is mostly separating from the formidable dross.
Along about the second hour. the official said,
the golden nuggets THUD-THUD
interpreter,
the PEKING is famous din
extraordinary
through "China has very
biggest Chinese they or I had ever seen; great husky, tall chaps, who proceed- ed first to embrace their oppon- ents
and then wipe the floor with them.
the HOW THEY TELL
for
which
long coast lines." I nodded and ils its streets from Brat dawn US APART....
notebook in hand, until after nightfall. walled, pencil poised.
The official paused and look- ed puzzled. He said something
wooden
Oh, very That is one of pleasant things
They laugh readily and
about
jest
A Bells, gongs.
"tap CENSE of humour? boxes," metal triangles, cymbals, ▷ much so, the interpreter, who glanced glass tinklers, jangle and click the
and crash as the street pedlars China. me and said, "Mr Lee wishes
themselves not draw attention have to know why you
and their wares (the pedlars, at the drop of a chopstick. made
a note of als last
re incidentally, say they want
But I must say I was a bit marit." mariL
to
nt
in Birt
the outstanding really significant
impression
promise will please everyone. Hankow. My interpreter-guide with which China 1950 has left
in asked me: "May I know your While I was there a shop Tentein, famous for its steamed plan for this afternoon?"
the past 80 dumplings over
years, reopened triumphantly us a "State-private concern."
the
to
to
man one
in
be formed into a "co-operative" taken aback when I was dis-· and of their
with as part of the cussing own.
difficulty which "nation-wide
trans- Peking the sociallst formation").
Westerners usually experience to
in massive drive
various me is the
distinguishing the But nowadays another sound Oriental races from one another. develop and improve-in agricul-
on almost constant "Oh," he said, "We often have The weather was nice, ture, Industry, communications provides
background to the sharper fore- the same trouble in telling view across the lake from the everything.
noises the thud-thud Westerners apart. But not the terrace beguiling;
I stood on the banks of the ground There were flags, fire-crackers, guest house
of basketball practice.
Russians we can always tell and 1 said: "Well, after lunch. mighty Yangise River at Han- and speeches. Also dumplings,
out kow and gazed at a huge new Basketball is Chirm's national them And to show that altough I believe I'll just stretch
Peking-on "How?" I queried. "By their sport, and all over The guide bridge. a bit " here for China is now Cominunist, yet a
affuir.
lots, down blind alleys, enormous paunches” he rejoin- "One It is a double-decker
vacantt little of that old-time floweri- looked terribly shocked.
for at 23 yards wide,
street corners, in public ed and screamed with laughter. be doing sonik- top deck nesa stil lingers on, the shop should always
of thing," he responded severely. lorries and pedestrians; under squares, and behind the various rtains its traditional name
PARIS NEWSLETTER
-by WILLIAM ROLAND
THE EMPEROR OWED IT ALL
TO
THE BOOTMAKER'S DAUGHTER
PRINOR LOUIS-NARO
¡HOW TO RUN
A RAILWAY
No
NOW over to the desolate and massive Chinling Mountains of Central China.
In a way the railway which the Chinese have built through those mountains is an even · more
achievement
than the
For tho
of
bridge. they have had tho beneft of Construction Pray for machinery from East Germany. Paris. Louis-Napoleon completed his He gave her a title and she regard neo Howard.
and
deal Hirotably a
good technical help. But for RINCE LOUIS-NAPO- revenge for his imprisonment by retired to a chateau on an estate her."
seizing the throno four years called Beauregard near Paris,
her the As a final insult to
rallway it has been a sort horeelt Countess For Beauregard and spent the rest memory the dales on her tomb of Pearl Buck effort, using
are wrong: 1822 to 1864 should mainly the
the ego-old Chinese be 1823 to 1800.
mothod: men with their hands. of her life until her death in 1005 with only her memorics.
A Western observer who was told me: there, not long ago
• MARRIAGE
in London in 1846 after Until now almost nothing has escaping from a French been known about the English prison. There every salon woman who made an emperor.
called herself in-Belgravia was open to him, and there he nursed Howard, er slage name. History his ambitions to make him- books dismiss "Mirs Howard" In self master of France.
Sho
Miss
A RUIN
of the
ได
one week's inspection: I saw
a single bulldozer out of action. Societe des Baina de Mer, It has been done by man-power Monte Carlo and enthusiasm."
rooms,
of the
has forbidden the Once he saw hundreds of
In
tho
supported
Today the Chateau of Beaure- men- - management.
при a few lines, According to a new gard is a grisly ruin. All around book by Simone Andro-Maurois, it beautiful old trees are being which runs the wife of the distinguished airthor felled to make way for roads casino, Such an ambition needed Andre Maurois, Miss Howard's and sowers, for the estate is to croupiers to talk slang among workers dangling together over
themselves
gaming a sheer cliff-face, hard cash for its fulfilment. devotion to Louis-Napoleon was become the 21st Arrondissement
elmply by ropes tied, round their middles The bulldozers rumble past other men (one of whom and it was a beautiful Eng- complete. She had lived with. (district) of Paris.
Idea of this is to prevent the They were busily chipping lah actress (her beauty provided her fortune) before she and more and more of was more remarkable than met the prince, but be was the masonry of the chateau crumbles croupiers from exchanging com- away at the precipice as they
to the ground. Two sculptured monts about the custoraers that hung and ewun her, histrionic, talent), aged only man she ever loved.
on the walls remain they believe (sometimes erront- She went to live in France to Broups 23, who provided it. For
stubbornly intact. One is on the ously), the zeven years between 1846 be near him. While he was theme Unfaithful love falces its understand.
presklent she had a house near
PEFORE I Telt Hankow the and 1863 she was Louls the Elynce within easy reach of light," the other a sundial
QUOTES
officials who had been Napoleor's mistress.
the back door. She hoped her expremes the moilt "Love
indo." MIG
showing me round urged me to Binger Edith "Plaff, who self-immolation would load to
go back an-ého autumn of 1957 marriage. But bouts-Napoleon, neglected Somb is in a comotory having tend for woeltli (he inter
Elimbeth Ann Haryott, und her husband, singer Jacques the Tennise bridge, al fetish
"You"lenow, I believe I'd like solt elected presidens of the taking a Spanish woman of noble daughter of a Brighton boot Pills are to divorce: "Mariage
is such a beautiful thing, that to. Those Chinese are chalking. wood republie etter revolution blood as he empress and puiting maker, y
But the inscripti on her one can think about it all ́one's urs-somme: Bratty, toppled the fibtone of Loui= ** Bowed" bawly out of tomb reads "Comtesse de Beau;, Bre.” Pallope in 1848, ---
REVENGE
customers cannot
With her money he got him- paid; her off) rowarded her by be, ditence away. She was recently announced that who to switness the. grand opening.of-