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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1956. 7
"It says: "We were interested to read that your big drum blew away on parade yesterday.
You may remember, some time back.
one of our officers fell off his horse and the following morning some joker left a little pot of glue on the guardroom step. We enclose a safety-pin as we wouldn't like to see your big drum blow away in front of Colonel Nasser.... Signed: The Brigade of Guards,"
Pathetic! The copy-cat women
T
HERE is a wide losing a husband, losing a
spread myth outside man,
springs from.
America that the springs from show-business American from the flm stars who
average woman is assertive, assured, and a domiaunt force in and out of the home.
I believe that is n myth because in fact the great fear of the American woman is losing her tnam. To cover up that fear she gives the impression of being s0 completely certain and con- Adent of herself.
are also symbols.
A
Woman Rees Marilyn Monroe or Ava Gardner so there on the successful up
She sees her man screen.
them happily watching
fret: she begins to ti "Does he want me to walk with a wiggle like Monroe? Does he want me to look or Just before I left New behave like Gardner? If I my nan York to come for this holi- do, shail 1 hold day in London a large more easily?" American woman's magazine
1
I
see in
Britain
now!
into cheap those stars.
When show
imitations
business,
quite of him feel he is
u fellow and his happy about it, deesn't meta that
he want to be married to in As Gardner or a Monroe In real
reality in a marriage he would result is scared.
But would
by
DEBORAH KERR
S everybody 'should A glant mincer full of jagged
and spiker has been know by now we are lives
right in the middle of specially made for the job.
And, as if strikes wero not part of the silly season (they usually occur about this time);
the silly season.
In England, where we the sillest people in the coun- have severa summers but try have poked their noses into often get a few hours' sun- the dispute.
:
shine at this time of the You must have guessed that year, the natives, who have I am referring to the followere been in deep freeze for 11 of Oswald Mosley, who should months, wake from
be getting too old for this kind their
of nonsense at his advanced long winter sleep and go nge. happily nuts.
of
the
When we were both young
I had my own political with the simple slogan of A Sock On The Jaw For
party
Even in countries like Egypt, he had his strong-arm bullles where they are accustomed
to and heat, you find leaders
GB Lance-Corporal Everybody. people, such Nasser, going off the deep end, calling Americans llars because they won't lend him money, and then pinching the Suez Canal.
Over here our summer malaise takes a different form. Yorkshiremen have 0 reputa tion of being among the sanest Inhabitants of a country YU- But nowned for its eccentries.
In this way I hoped to settle all political arguments. Some- times in moments of disillu- alenment I think I may have been right,
Silliest publicity
Is there to son on s
what do we find going on in TS it the silly season or shee Yorkshire now?
of Press agents that bos changed I quote from the Yorkshire the line of publicity for Meri
stars (female)?
Post:
"Within one hour," he said. "I filled ten bowler hats with troacle. My actual time was 50 min. 10sec, I was helped a little by a following wind, but i owe everything to my trainer."
For many years vital measure- ments rather than ability have been the selling angle,
Bosoms have been bursting through the
of picture pages papera for 50 long that press Don't ask me why he found agents may have realised art so much happiness in Alling last that the publle, which cer- bowler hats with treacle, Ask (ainly includes me, can hardly psychiatrist. Don't ark me bear the sight of them any more,
and why he wanted a trainer
So what is the noo ne? Why,
it is maternity.
a following wind. Ask the Sports
Editor. I prefer to leave it as it brother,
aa silly season classic in its married film stars, of course.
ts
For
TALKING TO DAVID LEWIN
has
offered this
advice
marriage:
also
not
believe
the
this:
answer
and "Some young husbands wives need to beat each other to
own right.
Now they have either become Then there
the Glasgow mothers.
be or are going to clergyman, apparently under the mothers, or want to be mothers. talluence of the Dog Star Sirius (hence Dog Days in July and According to the news Olivia
has produced August, when this star is sup de Havilland posed lo give people funny baby. Lana Turner expects one
Vivien
is Leigh who in January. ideas-ask an astrologer)
on betting on December, and Google Withers is looking forward November.
to
be remove certain complexes. These
sloppings relieve tensions
Then a headline shouted
at
IC.
་། Wont A Baby, Says
and
Lollo
THE AUTHOR, BRITISH-BORN STAR OF BUCH HERE ΤΟ FILMS AB "FROM HOLLYWOOD
HAS THE LEAD IN THE FILM OF ETERNITY," **THE KING AND I,” COMING TO HONGKONG BOON
dents in unreality, 14e. If he were faced with such watches her man watching other the effort, the same worries will put couples more at case during
Tony
7
But fow neighbours There are I know that sounds crazy.
and they've get wordles 1oo. divorce an intelligent magazine- but in fact it happens. To
There is only the cinema-and when there are problems hundreds
now television. The woman cause, unless the woman makes showed mo many letters day you can see
which of American women--and from its readers.
A message from Paris report- into
be plain w
next marriage the first months of married life. of the women on the screen and goes arise
As I I know nothing about ed that Sam Goldwyn asked In those letters saw not only women in America slops over
this Way the
on worrying.
effempo.
women I am unable to say if a Lollo to be the star in a new thus So it doesn't mean
he where a part of that fear of trying to turn themselves
1 krx
know intelligent women in My husband
Bartley girl feels more at ease with a film, "The Boy and the Dolphin," usually fatal.
wants his wife to dress up in America married to handsome and I have been married 11 thick ear, but I do suggest that Lollo's answer was "to throw a In London now 1 see young
or try to look men-actors some of them. years. On our 10th anniversary the clergyman's advice seems glance at her husband and say: girls lottering along on loo-high 1ght sweaters
like a in star. Then other What do they do when they he gave me a gold medal which superfluous in a city embracing What I want more than any- heels, with their hair looking
might begin to inen
whistle see their husband eyeing an- I wear on my bracelet, It is the Gorbals, and their like an unmade bed
where husbands thing else is a baby,'” piter her and he'd hate that.
marked other girl?
"Distinguished busil ne exaggerated.
marthump their wives regularly not rage medal - for
but The way to hold a man is not
years' to remove complexes with such superficial symbols.
meriterious service."
keep themselves warm In the delightful I think I should warn His personality that counts.
That was a big joke when winter.
to me and They don't attack him.
gave it I have seen with the girl and they say
them make friends laughed about it--but I'm proud
to of it. her: "We're having some people
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Silliest people
to
Although this is all cosy and
the press agents that maternity as publicity angle is a dead
corning
A man has an ego, so feed it. They think that if they look
A man wants his woman to have like that they will attract men
mind-not just a pretty figure. and hold them. When I was a
Telling him: "Aren't you
And I have learned this about
A film star wanting to be a young girl, not so long ago,
to be married to mine wasn't a strict home
by lucky
in this evening. Do please come men: i have not held my hus- or shouting at him: "Look at
anything
OST of the year Mrs Shella mother is news. A film star bo- a mother is nows. If over-you'll make but would have
the evening band by being
else M Hughes, wife of a magician, she becomes any means,
but me. Self-confidence does not
a mother more been thrashed if I had made up all the washing-up I have to do
come from for you!" isn't the way to hold such a success."
copying any flm is sawn in half for the enter than once it ceases to be news. That over-assertiveness
of tainment of those who like to The same may be said about aman.
about star-whether it is the fre one of
What I have learned It iso silly because
is not the way to cover up น
mon makes me realise that Ava Gardner or the cool detach-see women sawn in half. the things have learned about
season Now the silly about those ex- handing never worried feeli
out advice is difficult ment of Grace Kelly. men is that you should
their dreams citing women he goes to see in because the situation is different
it comes from
understanding arrived she is going to be put interfere with about
And when a yourself and realising that your through a mincing machine, pre- film star or any other the cinema. Tial springs from In every family.
after the jealousy and I know there are woman la looking
four husband may think of other sumably for the entertainment places-remole places in America chRdren with no help at home women during the day but you of an untapped audience which has been longing to see a woman where it is difficult to get rid it is tough to keep a sense of are the only one he wants of that jealousy.
come home to at night.
put through a mincing machine,
woman
on
who appear surface to be so sexy.
Let a man wh 12 after the -it makes girl if he wants
DON IDDON IN HOLLYWOOD:
H
humour.
THE SARONG
THE
Té
to
GOES INTO
SIDEWALK MUSEUM
cupboard in jewels' prenouseed
to SCU
around
her vital measurements:
kas
Sillier and sillier
on their hands, two con- S of the police haven't enough
stables saved three white mice from sunstroke in a Derbyshire pet shop.
The latest skin cream women is made of fresh
banadas..
NA Mr John Kelley says he saw a flying saucer over the York- dhire gors. It looked ke a
grey moon 103
A grocer in Wales, standing outside the local favern, also baw a dying splicer, that looked |like "a: «Cheddar cheese! · As a grocer he trust now there are no real Cheddar cheeses in Bri-
exported.
POC
aluinen} fo
yoll
World Coprijaht)
Hollywood. There are a balcony and a Zsa Zsa has her "working is to the compset and modern, now than Grauman's conecte Lain, because they are mostly
"verking" the glass and proba ranch Walk of Fam OLLYWOOD is a refrigerated
most of the air-conditioned for previews, and her more houre, easy to run.
* This is stila ženy, lovin, for| Unless this one was export- Extravagance and eccentricity, extreme and elaborata: religioning itself the must have been complex of contradic rooms in the hotel, and, instead valuable diamonds, rubies, and tions. Bob Vogel, of a Bible in every room, there emeralds for premieres.
tre dwindling, but there aro: Almce Simple Macpherson's hot MGM's Foreign Publicity is a copy
of Conrad Hilton's
mistaken But the most valuable collec. still plenty of crackpots in
pel has many offshoots. Khota is Director, met me at Inter- blography: "The Silver
This swagger hotel has not tion of jewels belongs to Man Hollywood.
went I She will pour a hunk of
And “Life in man," Dorothy Vival Centre Sky Plot Re national Airport and, as we replaced the Beverly Hills Hotel, West.
Death Valley and hundreds o drove to Beverly Hills, said: which strenuously opposed Con- diamond into your lap and when Lamour-che's still
Vine "There is quite an economy rad Hilton naming his place the you say: "Aren't you frightened drop her sarong on the side Lint revival meetings,
Father Roberts, who calls wave here. Cameramen are Beverly Hilton because of the of losing some of them?" she walk of Hollywood and
in a stunt to himself "Elbot, Royal Priest says: "Every one has been photo the other day, being cut down, or just hired similarity of names.
But it draws the top store- graphed
instired."
concrete outaido Grauman's very Sunday: 1,000 laquelas, of " on a one-job basis, and a lot Frank Sinatra, very hot at the are all ty the FBI, and they counter the footprints in the of the Holy Church," gives away
You must not address this Chinese Theatre,
miracle oil for thealing prade. of little people have got the box office just now, despite his
tically everything, diamally dull latest nim, actress as "Mac" but always as gun."
"Miss West,"
Pavement shrine
This plood of unbundled "Johnny Concho" At this moment five
Barbara Stanwick-one the Incidentally, our pel Dors DY 25.00 Cadillacs in a flock passed aweten parons in the Holly should be more unapproachable. B Chiness Theatre is an
gossip and rumour and tha scandal magazine, Confidential, 8.50 us with a sigh of exhausts, wood jungle, Bogart, and As a fully fledged star she is fashioned barn compared to any is required reading. This sheet not wise in letting the hired Odeon, or Granada in the has been mied, but no one- hạt 25.00 and I said: "Not much eco Bacall.
Johnale Ray, for whom Marion hands chout: "H, Diang," or British provinces.
ever collected a substantial stum 35.00 nomy there"
Lamour, * suitably smiling, from it. Its expostes sto re- On the surface Hollywood and Davies, before her stroke, gave in careering around on a bicycle. Anyway, the Beverly Hilton is
werong into a garded as gospel by many of the 7.50 Beverly Hills, which is its satel a multi-sand-dollar rect
small lighted cubicle cut into fans. 7.50 lite, have never looked more ton, to which 000 were invited the latert, and perhaps the last dropped her ear
evidence 1,000
symptom attended to
of the pavement on Vine Street Iush.
Into the glass, of enshrinement Grace in disgrace No Bibles
appearing Mentor who is. Hollywood magnificence,
in the Diana Dorg film. The days when Gloria Swan-also want Harold Lloyd's R AM staying at the opulent "I Married of Woman," and who son had cars rather similar to glassless apoctacios, Cecil B. de TOLLYWOOD is full of
HOL Beverly Hilton Hotel, which Rys, that any man who has Lady Docker's are over.
black-megaphone
phobias, i fetishes, and 1.00
daat-green neuroses. It bitterly resents claims to be standing on the fewer than 100 pults cannot be As for houses the great 3.00 most valuable pose of real conriderod well dressed Dan sprawling, Spanish - typo
Fowler Grace: Kelty abandoning it for 1.50 estate in the world, barring Now Wynter and her husband, Greg mansions with patise
Bautzer
5.00
4.00
York's Firth Avenue.
– 1:50 KaThe hotel is full of wealthy
.90.
Ris and their glossy wiver.
30 Beverly
la that no one
'and'
Array of jewe
ANA'S A marriage
Teran can afford the DANA
Hautzar," "Hollywood")" most Morning MON icfnet! I, eligible bachelor
toast talk of the flim elty and touring Hurmalade, and the show how: han array
Id: Jewels - comparables
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pipe and a small several reputable, newspaper- six-shooter, losies on
Southern
ll-gold gramophone record from men have, awom to nie that Bing Crosby representing the Metro bavi offered Radnor half
recording of Bing's a million dollars: 1 he will pe
two portraits of sunde his wife sites returni
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